Episode 106: Errol Morris, Mammoth Cheese, and 4000 Years Of Food

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 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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