374: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ottessa Moshfegh, Beer Porridge
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Lin-Manuel Miranda talks about his latest work in “Moana,” and reveals how a cross country trip helped him perfect his freestyle rapping… “Nerdette” co-host Greta Johnsen proves why Virginia is NOT for lovers… Rapper Kevin Abstract gives us a dinner party soundtrack for time travelers… Writer Ottessa Moshfegh shares her favorite characters nostalgic for other […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, what is the difference between a hippo and a zippo? |
| 0:09.0 | What? |
| 0:10.0 | One is really heavy and one is a little lighter. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:24.6 | one hour of culture, food, and humor to fuel your weekend conversations. |
| 0:28.1 | You just got a joke from Greta Johnson. |
| 0:30.1 | That'll break the ice. |
| 0:31.4 | She's host of the excellent podcast, Nerdette. |
| 0:34.0 | Also, we wrap with Lynn Manuel Miranda. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.8 | The man behind Broadway's Hamilton joins us later this hour. |
| 0:39.3 | We'll talk about his work on Disney's Moana. |
| 0:41.3 | Plus, star Danish chef Klaus Meyer tells me about a miraculous berry. |
| 0:45.3 | Which also sounds like something from a Disney film. |
| 0:48.3 | And if all that sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we first out in February. |
| 0:53.3 | So cast your mind back to a time when we were hoping for some hot weather. |
| 0:57.6 | And when, as at any party, we started with Small Talk. |
| 1:03.1 | We were speaking with our friend Greta Johnson. |
| 1:05.8 | She is host of Weekend Edition on WBZ in Chicago. |
| 1:09.4 | She is also co-host of the wonderful Nerdette podcast. Greta, what story are you going to be talking about at parties this week? We're going to talk about lovers this week, guys. That's appropriate. Yeah, you know, Valentine's Day coming up. So, yeah, this is actually a little bit older of a study. This came out in January 10th. Okay. The question was, is Virginia really for lovers? A play on the state motto. |
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