The Daily Show & What The Constitution Means To Me: Kids In America

Ask Me Another

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🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Daily Show correspondents Ronny Chieng and Michael Kosta play a game about Elvis and The Lord of the Rings. Heidi Schreck talks about her play What the Constitution Means to Me and audits the cutest civics class ever, where kids read the Constitution. Plus, comedians Danielle Perez and Madison Shepard win the "good sport" award in a quiz about mascots.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Jonathan Colton from NPR's Ask Me Another.
0:07.0	Hi, Jonathan. This is Ophira Eisenberg.
0:09.2	Hello, Ophira. How are you?
0:11.0	I'm all right. You know, fall is nice. Happy fall to you.
0:14.5	Happy fall to you. It is an exciting time of year.
0:18.2	Are you celebrating the fall in some way?
0:20.0	Well, I guess so. We're looking for some outdoor activities to do to
0:24.8	just change things up and enjoy the nice weather.
0:28.2	And we took our son to a farm that has a pumpkin patch and picked pumpkins.
0:33.7	Oh, yeah, pumpkin patch.
0:35.6	That's one of my, that's one of my favorite things to do in the fall.
0:38.2	And one of the things they did was they took, I guess there was a pumpkin slingshot.
0:44.8	Oh, yeah. That's fun.
0:46.6	Okay, I've never seen this before. You know this.
0:48.9	Yeah, pumpkin trucking. Pumpkin trucking. So you take very small pumpkins or apples.
0:54.2	And you put them into a very big slingshot and you can just shoot it into this big field.
1:00.2	And if you hit a bell or get it into a barrel, you get a prize.
1:04.6	But the whole field is littered with all the pumpkins and apples that have not made it.
1:10.4	That seems a little wasteful.
1:11.8	So I said to the people running it.
1:14.0	First of all, why are there pumpkins and apples that we can slingshot into the fields?
1:22.2	And they were like, well, usually it's the ones that are bruised.
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