Sonia Manzano: These Are The Muppets In Your Neighborhood

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🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week it's a classic episode from 2015. Actor Sonia Manzano talks about retiring from her role as Maria on Sesame Street after 44 years. Then, she and her TV husband Luis, played by actor Emilio Delgado, think back on all the Muppets they've encountered in their neighborhood.

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0:00.0	This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.
0:04.0	From NPR and WNYC live from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York, it's NPR's
0:15.9	hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia.
0:18.6	Ask Me Another.
0:19.6	Here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:22.6	Thank you Jonathan.
0:30.2	You know our VIP from your childhood, starring in one of the longest running kid shows of
0:35.6	all time, a show that started with a question that never got answered.
0:41.7	Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
0:48.7	And we still don't know.
0:51.2	Has it been asking this question every day for decades and they have been completely
0:54.4	ignored?
0:55.4	Well let me tell you something that ends right now because we've got the woman on our
0:59.2	show who can tell us and we're going to get it out of her once and for all.
1:11.6	You know her as Maria from Sesame Street.
1:14.0	Our VIP is Sonia Manzano.
1:27.3	Let's welcome our first two contestants to the stage for a game called Use the Force.
1:32.5	Steve Rewinsky and Dan Rodriguez.
1:39.7	Steve you work for the electric company.
1:42.8	One of them.
1:44.8	I keep the lights on.
1:46.1	You keep the lights on.
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