370: Mike Mills, Weyes Blood, the Crazy Cat Behind ‘Krazy Kat’

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🗓️ 6 January 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Filmmaker Mike Mills celebrates his mom and other “20th Century Women”… Multi-instrumentalist Natalie Mering a.k.a. Weyes Blood takes us to the opera (inside her tiny apartment)… The Posts bring etiquette gifts that never expire…We learn about the secret that brilliant cartoonist George Herriman (“Krazy Kat”) kept ’til his death… Rico samples guarapo, Cuba’s signature street […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party download. This is your icebreaker. All right, here's a joke. So,
0:06.7	Mushroom walks into a bar, right? Bartain that goes, oh, whoa, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, brough, brough, brough. No mushrooms
0:11.9	allowed in the bar. Mushroom goes, oh, but I'm such a fun guy.
0:19.4	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:21.1	I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM, American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download,
0:26.4	the arts and leisure section of public radio.
0:28.7	Welcome to the New Year, everybody.
0:30.8	Yes, if you're hearing this, you survived your relatives and eating all that cheese.
0:35.1	Well done.
0:35.6	Nice.
0:36.0	You just got a joke from Barry Jenkins,
0:37.7	director of Moonlight.
0:38.9	That'll break the ice.
0:40.2	That movie's up for a bunch of Golden Globes this weekend.
0:42.7	And coming up, we'll speak with filmmaker Mike Mills
0:44.9	about his nominated movie, 20th Century Women.
0:47.6	Also ahead, singer-songwriter Natalie Merring,
0:49.9	aka Wise Blood, DJ's a party full of pillow talk.
0:53.2	We learn about the cat behind the classic comic Crazy Cat,
0:57.1	illiterative. And Brendan and I went to Cuba,
0:59.5	and all we brought back was the story of Guarapo.
1:02.2	It's a drink, not a folk hero, but first, small talk.
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