Episode 106: Errol Morris, Mammoth Cheese, and 4000 Years Of Food
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4.5 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2011
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This week: Documentary auteur Errol Morris reluctantly joins the party… A half-ton cheese rolls up to the White House… and we dig into millenia’s worth of food with culture critic Lewis Lapham. Plus, a joke from author Ransom Riggs, and a new tune from The War on Drugs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm partly Irish. That doesn't really make a difference, but... |
| 0:07.0 | Um, who's Irish in losing your backyard? |
| 0:10.0 | Padio Furniture. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, the show that helps you win your next dinner party. |
| 0:25.3 | Our icebreaker this week came from Ransom Riggs, bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, kind of like our show. |
| 0:33.3 | And coming up, Director Errol Morris, a big cheese for the big cheese, 4,000 years of food history with Lewis Lapham and the War on Drugs. |
| 0:41.5 | But first, small talk. |
| 0:46.9 | So, Brendan, the headlines this week for me were all about blazes of diminishing size. |
| 0:53.1 | Sounds like my past relationships there. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm very sorry to hear that. |
| 0:57.3 | It's too bad. |
| 0:58.1 | First off, there's the blazing heat wave, obviously, engulfing a big chunk of the country. |
| 1:02.6 | It's terrible. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah, you can't even go into a pool in some parts of this country without being cooked |
| 1:06.9 | sous-vied. |
| 1:08.0 | It'll be cooked perfectly. |
| 1:10.0 | It's actually so hot. |
| 1:11.2 | You can't cook an egg on a sidewalk because it would just burn. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.8 | It would just be incinerated. |
| 1:15.5 | Disappear. |
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