Sonia Manzano: These Are The Muppets In Your Neighborhood (R)

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🗓️ 15 July 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sonia Manzano talks about retiring from her role as Maria on Sesame Street after 44 years. And Emilio Delgado, who plays her TV husband Luis, joins for a game about the lesser-known puppets in the show's past.

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0:21.0	From NPR and WNYC Live from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:32.0	it's NPR's Hour of Puzzles, Wordgames, and trivia. Ask Me Another.
0:36.0	Here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:44.0	Thank you, Jonathan.
0:47.0	You know our VIP from your childhood, starring in one of the longest-running kid shows of all time,
0:53.0	a show that started with a question that never got answered.
0:58.0	Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
1:05.0	And we still don't know.
1:07.0	Kids have been asking this question every day for decades, and they have been completely ignored.
1:12.0	Well, let me tell you something that ends right now, because we've got the woman on her show
1:16.0	who can tell us, and we're going to get it out of her once and for all.
1:21.0	Find it on your App Store, where will we end?
1:27.0	You know her as Maria from Sesame Street.
1:30.0	Our VIP is Sonia Manzano.
1:33.0	Let's welcome our first two contestants to the stage for a game called Use the Force,
1:40.0	Steve Rewinsky and Dan Rodriguez.
1:52.0	Steve, you work for the electric company.
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