Reviewing the Trendy New Lexus-Sponsored Restaurant with Comedian Aparna Nancherla

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News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Comedian Aparna Nancherla and Dan hit up Danny Meyer's new restaurant: The Intersect by Lexus (yes that Lexus), to find out just how much Lexus there is in the brand new Union Square Hospitality Group restaurant. Follow Aparna on twitter @aparnapkin and insta @aparnapkin, check out the second season of her show Corporate on Comedy Central, premiering January 15th and watch her half hour special, part of The Standups, Season 2, on Netflix. Do it all! Hosted by: Daniel Geneen (twitter) (instagram) and Amanda Kludt. Sign up for Kludt’s newsletter here and complain to us [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eder Upsell a podcast from the Vox Media
0:08.0	podcast network. My name is Daniel Janine. I am a producer here at Eder and
0:11.8	today I have an episode for you that I am really
0:14.8	really excited about. I was joined by one of my favorite comedians Aparna Nancherla
0:19.5	to review a brand new restaurant, The Intersect by Lexis, the car company, and Danny Myers Union
0:27.8	Square Hospitality Group.
0:29.8	You may have remembered a few weeks ago, Amanda and I argued about how big of a sellout move
0:35.3	this restaurant was for Danny Meyer who is one of the most respected restaurant tours
0:39.5	in the game to take a bunch of money and set up a restaurant sponsored by a car company.
0:47.1	I thought this was a huge step in the direction of selling out.
0:50.5	Amanda thought that he's done a lot of other corporate things.
0:54.2	Anyway, I brought Aparna who is absolutely hilarious.
0:57.2	We met outside for the first time, as you will hear.
1:01.0	We had five courses, including a couple desserts on the second floor of this restaurant.
1:07.0	We came back to the studio, the Vox Media Studios, and recorded for about 40 minutes discussing our experiences and I cut it
1:16.0	into a podcast.
1:17.0	I really hope you love it.
1:18.0	I think Aparn is hilarious if you want to see more of her check out corporate season two. Her hilarious show that is coming back to Comedy Central on January 15th or
1:27.0	follow her on all the platforms at A-P-R-N-A-P-K-I-N-N-A-N. napkin a p a p r n a p k i n and here is my very long hang out with a p n n n n t r n nrr l a nr l a nr l a k i n k i n andhr l n k i n and hr n hr n n nr l n n n n nr n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n Hi, how'd you know? This shady guy standing outside?
1:44.8	No, your email I think had a little photo. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's great.
1:51.3	Yeah, so we met outside for the first time for the first time. Yeah. I would say it went okay. It was great because you are your way I I'm by far the more awkward person of the two of us. Oh no I think I'm just well I told you I had been up till 6 a.m. This morning and I just woke up shortly before our meeting
2:13.0	So I might have also not been at my best.
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