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The Dinner Party Download

Speakeasy Special: Depeche Mode, Margaret Cho, Flying Lotus

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6821 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Folks! Instead of reheating an encore episode, we’ve carefully baked a brand-new Speakeasy soufflé for you! In this episode: Margaret Cho tells morbid tales of graveyards, murder, and (gasp!) Norman Mailer. Flying Lotus shares how getting into an *ahem* higher state of consciousness helped him direct “Kuso.” “Strong Island” filmmaker Yance Ford recommends a few […]

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0:00.0

Are you ready? I have my coffee. So I'm jacked.

0:03.6

I had the stupidest coffee this morning.

0:05.6

Hmm. Did you get... But so you didn't get it from intelligentsia.

0:09.1

That's fair. Get it?

0:10.5

I went to G&H. They have a whole different vernacular around coffee. They can't just, you know, stick by the standard.

0:16.0

Let's be fair, Starbucks started that a little while ago. And that's bullshit, too. Mm-hmm. You sounded a little stressed out.

0:21.2

Are you sure you had coffee?

0:22.4

Well, that's, I don't even know what the hell I had because I was like, can I get whatever

0:25.0

an Americano is?

0:26.1

Yeah.

0:26.3

Then I got something in some glass-ass carafe, right?

0:30.3

Oh, wait, that's practical.

0:31.8

A hot cup of coffee in your carafe, that'll burn your fingers. So you know what you do then? Well, no, yeah. Then you get a denim scarf for your glass carafe.

0:39.9

Wow.

0:40.4

And then you serve someone a glass, a hot glass carafe with a denim scarf.

0:44.5

You don't know what it is.

0:45.9

Probably an Americana.

0:47.0

It could be coffee.

0:47.6

I don't think you were going to a cafe.

0:49.4

I think that was an art installation.

0:50.7

Yeah.

0:59.0

Let's start recording Speak Easy. We're recording it.

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