QuaranTV: Ramy, Space Force And Lady Dynamite

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🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Actor and comedian Ramy Youssef chats about the new season of his Hulu series Ramy and working with Mahershala Ali — plus he gives some tips on persuading your dad to buy you Pokemon cards. Plus comedians Jimmy O. Yang, Roy Wood Jr., Maria Bamford and Jackie Kashian join as contestants and bring the brainpower. This episode originally aired May 29, 2020.

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0:17.8	Hello. Hello.
0:19.5	Ophira Eisenberg is Jonathan Colton, your friend from Ask Me Another.
0:22.8	Hello, friend from Ask Me Another. How are you doing? Hi, I'm okay. I just got a reminder from my
0:27.9	calendar that I'm supposed to call you because now I have to have reminders in my calendar to stay in
0:32.8	touch with other humans. I understand that because everything is, yeah, you can't remember anything. I actually put a calendar reminder to call my brother, but I switched the AM and PM, so I called them at 4 a.m. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure you appreciated that. That's nice. He was up. He was up. He was up. Yeah, so it worked out fine. He's got terrible insomnia, like all of us. He's like, is it light out?
0:55.1	I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. It doesn't matter. But it's good to hear from you. It's good to hear from you. You too. Yeah. So last night in the middle of the night, I was worrying just about dumb things. And then I am, I left Brooklyn. I am in sort of the woods, not too far away, a couple hours away
1:13.8	in the woods. But I heard, I think, the sound of a coyote. And I will admit, I don't know if I've
1:20.7	ever heard the sound of a coyote before. It is creepy. Was it one coyote or like a bunch of them?
1:26.2	It sounded to me like a bunch. It sounded to me
1:28.5	like four were freshly tearing apart a human body. That's what it sounded like to me. That's
1:35.8	coyotes. That's definitely coyotes. No, it's a terrifying primal sound. It's awful. It's like
1:43.2	they're coming to get you. It's like they're sending you a warning to you specifically.
1:46.8	It sounded so close to it. And I was like, what do I do? And I was in this frozen state. And I was like, what if it isn't coyote? What if it's a weird type of owl? And I've just lived in a city for too long. And I don't know how to identify anything outside of, you know, like the, I don't, what do
2:01.9	sound could I identify in New York, basically, I don't know.
2:05.6	Car alarm.
2:06.5	That's it, car alarm.
2:07.9	Like, no nature.
2:09.2	So I took, I was like, oh, I'll just take my phone and I'll record the sound of these,
2:15.4	these animals, and then I'll upload it and hopefully people could help me identify
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