Retta: Tweet Yo' Self

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Actor Retta reflects on trading her career in chemistry for one in comedy, her "crazy" audition for the role of Donna on Parks And Recreation, and what she loves about portraying a fully realized character on Good Girls. Then, she revisits some old TV-centric reaction tweets in a game about shows she used to watch. This episode originally aired on April 19, 2019.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:09.4	its NPR's hour of puzzles, word games and trivia, ask me another.
0:13.9	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:18.9	Everybody!
0:25.7	Look at this.
0:29.1	How many people are here for the first time at a taping?
0:32.3	Yep. Good.
0:34.1	Good. I like that you clap.
0:35.1	A couple people went for the raised hand.
0:36.5	That's how I know you are public radio listeners.
0:39.8	You're like, there is an answer.
0:41.6	I will answer.
0:42.6	Like I did in my academic classes.
0:45.4	So there's going to be some jokes about Easter and Passover.
0:51.0	I feel like with both of these holidays coming up so close together, I feel like between
0:56.9	not eating bread for Passover and decorating eggs for Easter, we're all going to be accidentally
1:03.0	doing the whole 30.
1:06.3	Unless you're celebrating 420 in which case, you're eating everything.
1:12.8	And Eastern Passover both have a little scavenger hunts for kids but very different tones.
1:17.0	Right?
1:18.0	The Eastern one is like, hey kids, go find some decorated eggs.
1:22.4	They're like blue and pink and colorful.
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