RZA & Busy Philipps & 'Woke' Creator Keith Knight & A Lizard

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Wu-Tang Clan's RZA talks with Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton about his latest movie Cut Throat City, and the process of writing a new song for Good Humor's ice cream trucks. He also plays a game where he answers the question, "Is it a lizard?" Plus, Busy Philipps and comedy writer Shantira Jackson work together to make celebrity cocktails, and cartoonist Keith Knight and his sister Tracy geek out about The Brady Bunch. This episode originally aired September 18, 2020.

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0:16.6	The episode you're about to hear was taped back in September.
0:20.1	We'll be back next week with a new episode. Enjoy.
0:27.6	Hello, Ophira. Hi. Hi, Jonathan Colton. This is host of NPR's Ask Me Another Ophira Eisenberg checking in.
0:37.1	Yes, I know. That's why I said hello, Afira.
0:39.4	I know.
0:40.7	I'm just thinking about you.
0:41.9	What are you up to these days?
0:43.2	I'm up to about 10, 12 pounds over my standard weight.
0:48.8	That's what I'm up to.
0:49.9	Oh, this is where we're at.
0:51.7	I have taken the strategy of eating whatever I want and drinking whenever I want.
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:01.4	And it has not worked out so well for me in the weight department.
1:06.1	And so I have just, as they say, diet starts Monday.
1:09.4	Just this week, I started taking note of what I eat.
1:13.5	That is a very small step. No, that's huge. The first step is to acknowledge, to notice.
1:19.0	And it's, frankly, it's a nightmare. Once you start, once I started taking note, I'm like, oh, no wonder.
1:25.3	Well, I have to say, I too have just allowed myself to eat whatever I want and drink
1:31.8	whatever I want.
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