Matthew McConaughey: Commerce And Vanity

Ask Me Another

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Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Ask Me Another hits the road! Matthew McConaughey chats about his love for Austin, Texas and his new role as the University of Texas' Minister of Culture. Then, he reflects on why he still loves the first three words he said on screen, and he's challenged on unusual laws in Texas and some college mascot history.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas, it's NPR's
0:10.6	hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:14.4	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, O'Fearah Eisenberg.
0:18.8	Hi everybody, this is amazing, I'm so excited to be here.
0:34.4	You've been to Austin before, right?
0:35.7	I have many times, yeah, I love Austin, yeah.
0:38.4	So yeah, I've learned so many things, you know, we do a little bit of research as we come
0:43.2	to any city, like we both know Austin a bit, but I found out new things, obviously, I know
0:48.4	this is a great place for music.
0:51.2	Also the O'Henry Panoff competition happens here, and you have no professional sports teams
1:00.3	except soccer.
1:01.8	It is like ask me another if it were a city, basically.
1:08.2	And we have a great show for you, we have four brilliant contestants, they are backstage
1:12.7	right now, bragging to each other about how much they rent their places for during
1:17.2	South by Southwest, and soon they'll be up here playing some nerdy games, and one of
1:23.1	them will be our big winner.
1:25.3	Hey, so yeah, our special guest on our show is Matthew McConaughey.
1:35.4	You might know him from being extremely famous.
1:38.7	You know, people talk about the McConaugssons, right?
1:43.5	That's when he just was in a slew of highly acclaimed movies, televisions, one in Oscar,
1:50.2	but he's folded up with the McConaughey.
1:53.0	How did we get him on ask me another?
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