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Rachel Bloom: I Want To Be Where The Normal People Are

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom joins to talk about her new book I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are, and plays a game where Ray Bradbury stories are turned into amusement park rides!
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom joins to talk about her new book <em>I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are. </em>

Before Rachel Bloom's interview on NPR's Ask Me Another even started, the show's house musician Jonathan Coulton stopped to express his admiration of her "songwriting talent that makes me angry and jealous."

"You know that somebody's good when you kind of can't stand it," Coulton said.

Bloom made her name by creating hilarious songs, like her breakout hit "**** Me, Ray Bradbury" and "The Sexy Getting Ready Song" from her CW musical comedy series, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

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