Let's Do Lunch

On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, co-hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild welcome actress, director and passionate foodie Heather Graham.  As the show writes, “Graham discusses her journey from being the self-professed nerdy daughter of an FBI Agent to the stunning movie star in films from License To Drive to Drugstore Cowboy, Boogie Nights to Bowfinger, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me to Hangover.”

By the way, not only was her father an FBI agent, but as she adds later, so extreme religious that he sent her a letter that said, "Now that Hollywood/Satan has claimed your mortal soul..."  Not surprisingly, she explains that she's estranged from her family.  Discussion of this comes in around the 25:30 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFWtmstb8tw

The Weekly Stewart This Week

On this "The Weekly Show" podcast with Jon Stewart, the guest is Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.  As the show writes, "As the Fed's new leadership navigates persistent inflation and economic uncertainty, Jon is joined by Austan Goolsbee to better understand how America's most powerful economic institution actually works. Together, they explore the Fed's origins and mandate, examine what the Fed can do as prices remain stubbornly high, and consider how the economic operating system Americans live within can work better for everyone. Plus, Jon takes listeners' questions about fact-checking Trump, understanding Fetterman, and farts!"

I'll add one thing.  In the User Comments someone wrote - "Ha, I have zero interest in this topic but I'm enjoying this because these two are so into it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9AO0t0zrQ&list=PLIti_J5fVo4IiJWQluYFpz-DbWOF0mK3o

Wait, Wait...

On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest contestant is composer Bobby Lopez.  He not only is an EGOT winner – but a double-EGOT winner, most notably co-writing the score for the Broadway musicals The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and the movies Frozen and Coco.  (In fact, he’s one Oscar away from a triple-EGOT!)  In his conversation with host Peter Sagal, he tells some very funny stories about the writing of The Book of Mormon, especially how the words of songs on the page read differently (in ALL CAPS) than they sound with the music.

This is the full Wait, Wait… broadcast, but you can jump directly to the “Not My Job” segment, it starts at the 21:45 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGZW4bg24dI