Roy Wood Jr.: Puzzle Banger After Banger

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🗓️ 7 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:16.4	Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here. These days, I feel like I can't make sense of the news until I've talked it out with my friends.
0:22.5	So, I made a new show where we do that every week. It's called It's Been a Minute.
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0:50.4	Coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:54.2	it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia. Ask MeC. Coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York. It's NPR's hour of puzzles,
0:56.0	word games, and trivia.
0:57.3	Ask me another.
0:58.4	I'm Julian Vallard,
0:59.4	filling in for Jonathan Coulton.
1:01.0	Now here's your host,
1:02.3	Ophira Eisenberg.
1:10.3	Thank you, Julian.
1:11.6	We have a great show for you.
1:14.6	Four brilliant contestants are backstage waiting to play our nerdy games
1:18.6	and put their public school education to good use.
1:22.6	But only one will be our big winner.
1:26.6	And our special guest is comedian Roy Wood Jr.
1:29.7	He's a daily show correspondent who actually got his start in radio doing hilarious prank phone calls.
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