Robert Earl Keen: Texas Troubadour

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 53 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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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio, Texas,
0:09.8	it's NPR's hour, Puzzles, Word Games, and trivia, ask me and other.
0:14.8	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:19.4	Hello everybody!
0:27.4	This is so exciting.
0:31.1	We have an amazing show for you.
0:34.0	We have four brilliant contestants.
0:36.9	They are backstage.
0:38.1	They just told me that the Alamo is not where I return my rental car, and they won't
0:43.8	be up here playing some grames with us, and one of them will become our big winner.
0:48.4	I got to say that we are here to mess with Texas.
0:52.4	But Jonathan, are we messing with Texas?
0:56.8	We're going to mess it all up.
0:59.5	I was actually surprised to hear, like I think it's kind of a tough guy, macho, slogan,
1:04.0	don't mess with Texas, but it's from an anti-littering campaign that is so adorable.
1:09.7	But it's so sweet.
1:12.4	Does the banster down the street with that tattooed on his bicep know that?
1:16.1	Does he know that?
1:17.6	No, he doesn't know that.
1:20.4	Are you sick of talking about the Alamo?
1:22.6	Are you sick of it?
1:23.8	No, you're okay.
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