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Ask Me Another

The Final Round

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Series finale. Ophira and Jonathan look back on nine years of puzzles, word games and trivia by playing puzzles, word games and trivia.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is uh, I mean I usually supposed to be makers of it. This is four roses. Nice.

0:07.0

It is a bourbon whiskey.

0:11.0

Oh yeah. That's not too much is it? What is too much? Yeah that's what I said.

0:20.0

There we go. All right. Okay. Well my friend, to the last one. To the last one.

0:29.0

From NPR.

0:36.0

From NPR and from NPR and from NPR and WNYC coming to you from the...

0:43.0

It's not as smooth as I thought it was going to be.

0:50.0

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from beautiful Brooklyn, New York.

0:54.0

It's NPR's final hour of puzzles, word games and trivia. Ask me another.

0:59.0

I'm Jonathan Colton. Now here's your host Ophira Eisenberg.

1:03.0

Thanks Jonathan. You're welcome. Oh so you know just for to let everyone in.

1:08.0

We would do a shot of whiskey. We would do makers mark usually before we went on stage.

1:15.0

That's right. Before every ask me another show. Before every show.

1:19.0

And the reason I'll tell you where that came from for me is that I had the opportunity to go on the road back in the day with radio lab.

1:28.0

And they did that before their show. And I was like why does everyone take a shot?

1:32.0

And they're like because you just got to remember that like you know you're just here to have a good time.

1:37.0

And I was like that is great. Yeah. It's a nice way to set the tone.

1:41.0

There is a lot of hard work that goes into the show but it's supposed to be fun.

1:45.0

At the end of the day you do the hard work in advance so that when you get up on stage you can just relax and have a good time.

1:50.0

Right. And if any time you go wow this is really serious or there's stress or there's problems then you have a moment to reset and remember that you're about to do a trivia comedy show.

2:00.0

And for those of you who have never been backstage at the bellhouse.

2:06.0

Oh you know I really do miss the bellhouse. It's the greatest.

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