Padma Lakshmi: Taste The Nation, From Your Couch

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Society & Culture, Leisure, Comedy

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Padma Lakshmi talks about her series Taste The Nation. Jenny Hagel, Amber Ruffin, Margo Price, and Jeremy Ivey play games about long things and events in history set to the tune of Billy Joel songs.

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0:16.0	This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.
0:25.1	Okay. is an encore episode of Ask Me Another. Hi, Jonathan Colton.
0:26.9	Hello, Ophira Eisenberg of NPR's Ask Me Another.
0:30.5	So I'm not going to ask how you are.
0:33.1	So here's another totally ridiculous question.
0:35.8	What's new?
0:37.2	That's a good question.
0:39.0	This week I did a couple of home improvement projects.
0:42.9	That's excellent.
0:43.8	That is so, I mean, that involves so many things I don't have.
0:47.6	Energy, focus.
0:50.1	Yeah.
0:51.0	Listen, I'm not an expert at this stuff.
0:54.1	I'm relatively handy in that I can figure stuff out. Yeah. Listen, I'm not an expert at this stuff. I'm relatively handy in that I can figure stuff out. But I feel like every time I approach one of these projects, I'm terrified that I'm going to do it wrong. And it usually goes the way I think, which is that I'm missing a crucial tool.
1:11.9	Or I don't have the skill that I think I have.
1:15.7	Or it just doesn't go the way it's supposed to do.
1:18.8	I think this is how it is for everybody.
1:20.2	I think you just learn how to work around all these problems.
1:22.0	But for me, I'm like, all right, I have a shower that has like a glass, two glass walls on it.
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