#90 Matt Lieber Goes to Dinner

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is Reply All.
0:06.2	I'm Alex Goldman, and I'm PGVote.
0:13.5	This week, Fia Benin, Reply All Producer, she's in the studio with us.
0:17.6	Hi Fia.
0:18.6	Hi.
0:19.6	And what have you got for us?
0:21.4	Yeah, lay it on us.
0:22.8	So I don't know if you guys remember this, but last spring our boss, Matt Lieber, went
0:28.1	to a dinner and sat next to the sky who told him that this thing was about to happen that
0:35.5	was going to change civilization as we know it.
0:38.8	Do you remember that?
0:39.8	I don't remember that.
0:41.8	Matt Lieber goes to a lot of dinners and has like, he'll be like, he'll be like,
0:46.0	what are you?
0:47.0	Matt, he'll be like, I was at this dinner.
0:48.6	I talked to a very, a very unique man from a very far away place and he told me a very
0:54.0	troubling thing.
0:55.0	Like the details change, but like, right.
0:57.2	The man goes like dinners with thought leaders.
0:59.3	He goes to dinners with chicken little every night.
1:01.6	Yeah.
1:02.6	Just like, this guy is falling.
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