Episode 64: Sam Taylor-Wood, Unhappy Happy Meals, Inventions that Suck
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Icebreaker: Taylor OrciTaylor Orci, comic and contributor to Huffington Post, jokes about one or two things.
Small Talk: John Letzing MarketWatch reporter John Letzing tells Rico & Brendan about San Francisco’s war on the happy meal and explains the role of a McDietician.
A History Lesson With Booze: the Vacuum clear & The “Suck It Up” Around this time back in 1901, Englishman Hubert C. Booth patented the vacuum cleaner. But it took another few years (and ditching the horse-drawn cart) for the dust-busting device to take off as a consumer product, thanks to an Ohio janitor and a business baron named Hoover. Hear the story, then toast the spirit of invention with a cocktail that doesn’t suck:
“Suck It Up,” as concocted by bartender Melissa Venditti of the Main Street Grill in North Canton, Ohio — Hoover’s former hometown:
In a mixing glass, add:
- 1 1/2 oz. Canadian Whiskey
- 1/4 oz. amaretto
- generous splash of fresh-squeezed lemonade
- splash of soda water
Chill, pour into martini glass, serve it up, hoover it down.
Guest of Honor: Sam Taylor-Wood Sam Taylor-Wood, one of the Young British Artists who took the art world by storm in the late ’80s and early ’90s, has directed her first commercial film: “Nowhere Boy.” It’s a John Lennon biopic that focuses on the iconic rocker’s troubled teen years. Taylor-Wood talks about the anxiety around fictionalizing a hero… and reveals, for the first time, a secret she shares with her husband.
One For The Road: “Helicopter” by Deerhunter Indie-electronic group Deerhunter just released their LP Halcyon Digest - a brilliant collection of sounds that burble, pop and fizz in mesmerizing ways. Case in point: “Helicopter,” best heard while falling in love during an apocalypse. The video’s a trip, too.
** Music On This Week’s Show:
Sea & Cake - “The Argument”
Aphex Twin - “Boy/Girl Song”
Tipsy - “Liquordelic”
Winnifred Atwell - “Britannia Rag”
Thomas Newman - “Welcome To The Suck”
The Beatles - “In Spite Of All The Danger”
