Rachel Bloom: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sane Current Guest

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🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom talks about her book I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are. Plus, Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Karen Chee and illustrator Jonny Sun decipher kids' readings of song lyrics, and Orange is the New Black's Alysia Reiner and Beth Dover hear Dolly Parton songs re-written to be about dolls. This episode originally aired November 20, 2020.

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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:16.4	In honor of Mother's Day, we're revisiting this episode that originally aired in November.
0:21.5	It is chock full of mom content, and we'll be back with new episodes next week.
0:30.0	Oh, hello. Hi. Hi, Ophira.
0:32.4	This is Ophira Eisenberg from NPR's Ask Me Another. Is this Jonathan Colton?
0:36.2	Yeah, this is Jonathan Colton from NPR's Ask Me Another. How you doing?
0:39.5	You know. Yeah. You caught me right in the middle of something. Oh, I'm sorry. Should I call back?
0:44.6	No, I was playing a video game. It's actually fine that you interrupted because I have already spent too much time playing this video game.
0:54.5	Is this one of these video games that goes on forever?
0:57.3	So it's called the Last of Us.
1:00.0	Oh, I've heard of this.
1:01.7	People are talking about this.
1:03.2	Yeah, it's a great game.
1:04.4	It's the Last of Us, part two actually.
1:06.4	It's the sequel to another game.
1:09.8	But it's one of these games where you're in a sort of post-zombie
1:13.7	apocalypse world.
1:15.6	So you're wandering around all these ruined cities and trying to kill zombies and not
1:22.1	be killed by zombies.
1:23.2	This sounds not relaxing.
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