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Ask Me Another

Roy Wood Jr.: Puzzle Banger After Banger

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. shares the struggles of raising his son in a world with racism and $9 smoothies. This episode originally aired on Feb. 17, 2017.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here.

0:03.0

These days I feel like I can't make sense of the news until I've talked it out with

0:06.3

my friends.

0:07.3

So I made a new show where we do that every week.

0:10.5

It's called It's Been A Minute.

0:12.5

That's my way of saying let's catch up.

0:15.4

Find It's Been A Minute Now.

0:17.3

On the NPR One app or wherever you get your podcast.

0:20.4

Thanks.

0:31.0

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,

0:39.0

it's NPR's hour of puzzles where it games in trivia, ask me another.

0:43.0

I'm Julian Valard, filling in for Jonathan Colton.

0:45.7

Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:49.4

Thank you Julian.

0:57.4

We have a great show for you for brilliant contestants or backstage waiting to play our

1:02.3

nerdy games and put their public school education to good use.

1:09.1

But only one will be our big winner.

1:11.1

And our special guest is comedian Roy Wood Jr.

1:14.6

He's a daily show correspondent who actually got his start in radio doing hilarious prank

1:19.6

phone calls.

1:20.6

Don't you miss prank phone calls?

1:22.7

You can't do them anymore.

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