I'm So Excited! JULIAN VELARD: From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from The Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, N.Y., it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games and trivia ASK ME ANOTHER. I'm Julian Velard. Now here's your host Ophira Eisenberg. (APPLAUSE) OP...
Help Me, Google OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: All right, let's check in with our contestants. Jake, what is the most embarrassing thing you've ever had to Google? JAKE TOFFLER: Well, last night, actually, after I ate some pork, I googled what undercooked p...
Contents Under Pressure OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Let's meet our next two contestants. First up, Ross Freilich. You work in mergers and acquisitions, and you just got back from a trip to an island north of the Arctic Circle. ROSS FREILICH: That's corre...
Celebrity Sayings OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Ross, since you've been north of the Arctic Circle, you strike me as a bit of a daredevil. ROSS FREILICH: I guess you could go with that. EISENBERG: You think? FREILICH: Yeah. EISENBERG: Scott, are you a dare...
EZ Does It OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Now, it's time to crown our big winner. Let's bring back our final two contestants Jake and Ross. (APPLAUSE) EISENBERG: Puzzle guru Art Chung, take it away. ART CHUNG: Ross and Jake, your final round is called Easy...
The Unsung Heroine Who Helped Shape 'Suicide Squad' AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The summer's final big comic book movie opened today. Suicide Squad is not an ordinary superhero movie. For one thing, it's about supervillains. And its original story was conce...
Born In Custody, A Girl Finds Answers With Someone Who Knows Best: Mom STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's Friday, when we hear from StoryCorps. And today, we have an interview between 8-year-old Savannah Phelan and her mother, Kellie. Savannah recently came a...
Insurance Rules Can Hamper Recovery From Opioid Addiction STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The roadblock to attacking the drug addiction crisis - it is hard for people to get medications that help them recover, hard even if they have insurance. Drugs like Suboxo...
Olympic Rugby Returns For Men; Women Make Their Debut RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And 92 years of missing out on the Olympics, and rugby players are back. The return of rugby in Rio marks the first Olympic appearance for women in that sport. It's also the...
Anthrax Outbreak In Russia Thought To Be Result Of Thawing Permafrost STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Russia is fighting a mysterious outbreak of disease. Dozens of people are hospitalized due to anthrax. Yes, anthrax, the bacterial infection so deadly that cer...
C Is For Contract: Longtime Actors In Grown-Up Dispute With 'Sesame Street' AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Sesame Street has been a constant presence in children's entertainment for nearly 50 years. And while the most popular characters - Big Bird, Elmo, Oscar...
More Than Birdies And Backyards: This Olympian Will School You On Badminton STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: That let's talk about some of the other Olympic sports, not the ones that suck up the attention, like swimming, gymnastics, track and field. There are a...
Will The U.S. Extradite An Elderly Turkish Cleric? RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Turkey is ramping up the pressure on the U.S. to extradite an elderly cleric living in America, a cleric that Turkey insists was behind a failed coup attempt last month. Several...
Detroit Bookseller Picks 3 Nonfiction Books For Your Summer KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: There is nothing like a good book recommendation, and we have been collecting recommendations from booksellers across the country for our summer series, Pack These Pages...
'The Fire This Time': A New Generation Of Writers On Race In America AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In 1963, James Baldwin gave voice to the black American experience of his generation in his essay collection The Fire Next Time. Writer Jesmyn Ward first read t...
