Yo-Yo Ma: Civic Duty

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4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma (Words + Music) talks about performing at a COVID vaccination site. Then, he's quizzed on classical music pieces quoted in pop songs. Chefs Sohla El-Waylly and Stella Parks help Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton create dishes from random food items in their pantries. Timothy Simons (Veep) and The Pole producer Theodore Bressman listen to hair metal parodies about characters with little to no hair.

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0:00.0	This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.
0:05.0	Previously, on Ask Me Another,
0:07.0	famous Canadian O'Fear a Eisenberg
0:09.0	was about to take her US citizenship test.
0:11.0	This is the number one question on my study materials.
0:15.0	What did the declaration of independence do?
0:19.0	Uh, I mean, technically nothing.
0:24.0	This week, the exciting conclusion.
0:31.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:37.0	its NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:42.0	I'm Jonathan Colton. Now here's your host, O'Fear a Eisenberg.
0:48.0	Hello, fellow American Jonathan Colton.
0:51.0	Oh, come on, really?
0:53.0	It happened.
0:56.0	Went this morning.
0:58.0	Went this morning and I was tested for my US citizenship exam.
1:02.0	And you did it.
1:03.0	You know, you waited in line and all these things.
1:05.0	And obviously, it's also COVID on top of that.
1:08.0	So everyone's very distanced.
1:10.0	There's still a lot of people there, but it's less people.
1:13.0	But it is very much a government process.
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