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Michael Ian Black Is Back, All Right!

Ask Me Another

NPR

Comedy, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Michael Ian Black talks redefining masculinity and hosting his podcast, Obscure. And therapist Esther Perel chats about relationship statistics. This episode originally aired Feb. 15, 2019.

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It's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia.

0:28.5

Ask me another.

0:29.7

I'm Jonathan Colton.

0:30.9

Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:38.2

Hello, everybody.

0:40.8

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

0:43.1

We have a great show for you.

0:44.6

As you may know, we have four brilliant contestants.

0:48.2

They are going to be out here playing nerdy games with us, but right now they are backstage.

0:52.0

They're all sharing their hot takes on the movie Green Book,

0:55.6

which none of them have seen.

0:58.9

And one of them will become our big winner.

1:01.0

And this is our Valentine's Day show, everybody.

1:04.2

Yeah, I know.

1:05.9

I know.

1:07.7

So my husband and I, we've been together 10 years.

1:09.5

We met offline, not called real life anymore, offline. But I did a lot of dating when I moved here. I was on J-Date. I found it very hard because on J-Dade at the time, so you had your picture, you wrote your profile, and then you were supposed to put like a couple words under your picture, like a tagline to get people excited to check you out. you out and I did not know how to describe myself in a couple of words, you know, at the time I was like,

1:31.4

I'm in my 30s, I've kind of been around the block, you know, like, what do I put?

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