Ryan O'Connell: The Real Housewives And The Olsen Twins

Ask Me Another

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ryan O'Connell, creator and star of the Netflix series, Special, talks about the challenges of writing about his cerebral palsy for the first time. Then he plays a game that combines geography, the Olsen twins, and Bravo's, The Real Housewives. Love About Town podcast hosts Kenice Mobley and Rohan Padhye guess which came first: Sliced bread or the electric toaster? Plus, childhood friends actor Micah Stock (Netflix's Bonding) and comic Beth Stelling (HBO Max Girl Daddy) play a game about their home state, Ohio.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from beautiful Brooklyn, New York, its NPR's hour of puzzles,
0:09.8	word games, and trivia ask me another.
0:12.6	I'm Jonathan Colton.
0:13.8	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:16.6	Thanks Jonathan.
0:19.6	Hey Jonathan, I heard that you just finished working.
0:24.2	Side hustle for a television show.
0:25.9	It's true, I did have a little side hustle, I did some television scoring work for a show
0:31.3	called The Bite, which is a show about zombies.
0:34.5	Is it fast zombies or slow zombies?
0:37.0	There's sort of regular zombies.
0:39.5	Regular speed zombies.
0:41.2	Okay, regular speed zombies.
0:43.6	Oh wait a second, so you're scoring a television series?
0:46.8	That's amazing.
0:47.8	Yeah, it's not a thing that I've ever done before.
0:50.1	You know, I'm a songwriter.
0:51.4	I write songs.
0:52.4	Sure, lyrics, so this is a whole different thing.
0:55.7	I have friends that have done it for years and people have always said, oh you should
0:59.5	do this, but it's never felt like a thing I could do and then somebody asked me to do it.
1:02.6	I said, I can't do it.
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