Robert Earl Keen: Texas Troubadour

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Musician Robert Earl Keen shares how foosball led to a career in music. Then he demonstrates knowing every U.S. president's birthday. This episode originally aired November 22, 2019.

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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:18.4	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Aztec Theater in San Antonio, Texas.
0:25.7	It's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia.
0:29.0	Ask Me Another.
0:30.4	I'm Jonathan Colton.
0:31.6	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:40.4	Hello, everyone. Ira Eisenberg. Hello everybody.
0:43.2	This is so exciting.
0:46.0	We have an amazing show for you.
0:49.4	We have four brilliant contestants.
0:52.2	They are backstage.
0:53.5	They just told me that the Alamo is not where I
0:56.1	return my rental car. And they will be up here playing some Grains with us. And one of them
1:02.1	will become our big winner. And I got to say that we are here to mess with Texas.
1:08.7	Right, Jonathan? Are we messing with Texas
1:12.1	we're going to mess it all up
1:13.4	I was actually surprised to hear
1:16.5	like I think it's kind of a tough guy
1:18.1	macho slogan don't mess with Texas
1:20.5	but it's from an anti-littering campaign
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