Yo-Yo Ma: Civic Duty

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Yo-Yo Ma (Beginner's Mind on Audible) talks pandemic performance, chefs Sohla El-Waylly and Stella Parks play "Food Jazz," Timothy Simons (Veep, The Pole) & Teddy Bressman hear "bald metal."

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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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