The Penultimate Puzzles

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This show is packed with returning friends of AMA! Comedians Aparna Nancherla and Joyelle Nicole Johnson are subjected to Kidz Bop, Welcome to Night Vale's Cecil Baldwin and musician Julian Velard decipher poorly-researched podcast ads, and Wandavision song writers Robert and Kristen Anderson Lopez show off their theme classic TV theme song knowledge.

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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,
0:10.8	word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:13.8	I'm Jonathan Colton.
0:15.2	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:19.0	Thanks Jonathan.
0:21.0	You're welcome Ophira.
0:22.1	I don't usually do this, but I've been treating myself recently with a bagel and I will
0:29.4	say that I don't generally eat bagels because they're huge.
0:34.5	It's like a cake.
0:37.2	So I went to the bagel store and I said to them, which ones are hot?
0:44.6	And the guy said everything.
0:46.4	And I was like, don't come on, man.
0:52.8	Like I'm not looking for the sort of like everything's good here.
0:58.1	It's your best thing on the menu, everything.
1:00.4	Everything.
1:01.4	Everything is fantastic.
1:02.4	Everything's fantastic.
1:03.4	I love all of it.
1:04.4	So I side beneath my mask and my eyes turn sad and I said, okay, I'll have a sesame
1:11.4	bagel.
1:12.7	And he said, why are you getting a sesame bagel when you just asked me what's hot and I
1:17.8	said everything?
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