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Ask Me Another

Tom Arnold And Jill Sobule: Nostalgia Kills

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ask Me Another relives the 1990s with two special guests: Comedian Tom Arnold discusses his early job at a meatpacking plant, breaking into comedy, and his new Viceland series. Then, singer-songwriter Jill Sobule joins Jonathan Coulton to perform a music parody game.

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0:00.0

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York, it's NPR's

0:10.2

hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia. Ask me another. I'm Jonathan Colton. Now here's

0:15.8

your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:19.0

Oh, everybody. All right. So we have an incredible show for you. We have four brilliant contestants

0:31.9

coming up soon to play some nerdy games with us. Right now they are backstage experimenting

0:37.2

with natural deodorant. Just to remind themselves that none of them work. But soon they'll be

0:43.1

up here and one of them will be our big winner. And you've come to a pretty interesting show.

0:48.8

We have two special guests. One is singer-songwriter Jill Sobule. Very excited.

0:57.9

I discovered Jill in the 1990s. Her hit Supermodel was featured in the movie Clueless.

1:05.8

Yeah. And we have another special guest. We have an amazing stand-up comic, amazing

1:16.5

comedian all around. Tom Arnold is going to be up here. Tom Arnold right now has a show on

1:23.9

Weisland called The Hunt for the Trump Tapes where he tries to expose incriminating recordings of

1:30.9

Donald Trump. Yeah. The guy is like a walking talkie, controversy, Renaissance man. Basically

1:37.9

everything he touches turns to scandal. So I'm excited. He's going to juice up my profile by being

1:43.3

on this stage. Because right now if you Google me I'll tell you what comes up. Books, Bangs,

1:48.9

and Facts about Canada. All right. So help me Tom. Help me make it better.

1:55.1

Tom Arnold also became a father way later in life. Like me, I became a mother way later in life.

2:02.3

Which it's a little bit different when you become a parent later in life as a woman of course

2:06.0

because you were treated pretty interestingly by the medical community. When you get pregnant at

2:11.5

a advanced maternal age, I remember being told that I was both high risk and an inspiration.

2:20.4

So that was fun. I'm impressed that I actually had my child biologically. But we're raising him

2:28.0

adopted because I want him to feel chosen. I want him to feel chosen. This show somehow actually

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