Sara Bareilles, American Ninja Warrior & Rugrats

Ask Me Another

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Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Grammy-winning artist Sara Bareilles talks about how the musical Waitress changed her life and the harrowing experience of over-dressing to sing the national anthem at a Dodgers game. Then, the self-professed Golden Girls superfan puts it all on the line in a true/false trivia game. American Ninja Warrior hosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila plug in for a game about video game controllers. Plus, voice actors Cheryl Chase and Bart Simpson herself, Nancy Cartwright, talk about the Paramount+ reboot of Rugrats.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from beautiful Brooklyn, New York, it's NPR's hour of puzzles,
0:09.1	word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:11.8	I'm Jonathan Colton.
0:12.8	Now, here's your host, O'Fira Eisenberg.
0:16.8	Hello, Jonathan.
0:18.8	Hey, Fira.
0:19.8	Do you notice anything different about me?
0:23.8	Oh, O'Fira.
0:24.8	Wait a minute.
0:25.8	Yes.
0:26.8	You're wearing glasses. Why are you, why did you just put glasses on? You don't wear glasses.
0:31.7	I'm wearing glasses because it turns out, remember when we were kids and our parents might
0:38.3	say to us something like, don't sit so close to the TV because you'll ruin your eyes?
0:43.1	Sure, yeah.
0:44.1	Yeah, so I've been sitting pretty close to the TV quote unquote for quite a long time now.
0:51.4	Now that you require your glasses, here's the exciting thing.
0:54.8	You have a, no, you have a whole new like fashion accessory.
0:59.1	It took me a long time to realize that you could do this with glasses, but my strategy
1:05.3	when buying a, when shopping for frames is that I have discovered that if I look at frames
1:11.9	on the shelf and I'm like, oh, God, those are too gaudy.
1:15.5	Those are two.
1:16.5	Yeah.
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