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2021-12-11 12:17:19 “A juicy book! How delicious this book is!” Today, I want to tell you about books which were the most adorable for editors and journalists from the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour. I’ve already written about this program. Produced by NPR, Pop Culture Happy Hour usually serves its listeners recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, books, videogames, and more. It’s not so difficult to comprehend and the show has transcripts on the website.

The 2021 year is finishing and everybody started to summarize its results. I’ve chosen the episode where Linda Holmes with her colleagues discussed their favorite books from 2021. Though, as for me, their choice was extremely bizarre, (let’s blame diversity), but anyway, among all recommendations I’ve eventually found one decent book – “Who Is Maud Dixon?” by Alexandra Andrews.

“Who Is Maud Dixon?” is Alexandra’s debut novel. “Dark comedy meets twisty thriller…Couldn’t be more fun.” (People Magazine). The main character Florence Darrow is a small-town striver who believes that she's destined to become a celebrated writer. She stumbles into the opportunity to become the assistant to “Maud Dixon”, a celebrated-but anonymous-novelist. But a dream job leads to a twisty nightmare…

Long NY-holiday lay in front of us. So I think we can follow that perfect advice from podcast’s lady, “You really should read “Who Is Maud Dixon?” on a day where, like, whatever your cooking is supposed to sit on the stove unwatched.”

Source: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1061068109 Открыть/Комментировать

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2021-12-09 16:09:45 Let’s today write a formal letter to McDonald’s. And this is Stella Liebeck, a famous American grandma, who will help us with it.

I don’t know if you’ve ever heard this story or not, but in the US it’s pretty well-known. A 79-year-old lady from Albuquerque bought coffee in McDonald’s, spilled the hot drink accidentally on herself, and suit the corporation on 2.9 million dollars. It was in 1992. Since that time Stella became a comical character. For most people, her complaint sounded frivolous. It seems everybody around asked: “How hot is too hot?” Honestly, I’d had the same thought before I’ve listened to the podcast You're Wrong About.

You're Wrong About is American history and pop culture podcast created by Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall. Mike and Sarah are journalists obsessed with the past. Every week they reconsider an event, person, or phenomenon that’s been miscast in the public imagination. And they told a whole story about poor Stella.

After that careless spilling, grandma was severely injured. She was burned over 16% of her body and had third-degree burns on her groin. When Stella became a bit better she wrote to McDonald, asking to compensate her medical expenses. Fast-food giant offered her only 800 $. After that, the elderly lady decided to find a proper lawyer. And that man discovered that McDonald’s had received nearly 700 complaints about hot coffee burns in the almost 10 years before Stella’s trial.

In The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case episode Mike tells Sarah how a tragic story became a national punchline and a decades-long moral panic. Nowadays suing each other is a national trait for Americans.

Listen to the whole episode. It’s not so difficult to understand and there is the transcript on the website of the podcast.

Words:
cup holder
lid
yank
flip over
sweat pants
soaks into
she starts to get nauseous, and she passes out from the pain
lawsuit
skin grafts
we profess
spilling.

Source: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/9179249-the-mcdonald-s-hot-coffee-case Открыть/Комментировать

2021-12-07 16:02:02 The whole episode Открыть/Комментировать

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2021-12-07 16:00:18 Anglotabla pinned «Sorry guys, I’ve just decided to change the language from Russian to English. If you need Russian, please, go to VK-group: https://vk.com/anglotabla. It might be that after a while I’ll change my mind once more and go to my mother tong again, who knows. Please…» Открыть/Комментировать

2021-12-07 15:59:38 Today I’m going to tell you about The New Yorker Radio Hour. It’s quite obvious that this podcast came from famous The New Yorker magazine. They release a new episode every week and usually, it’s a sort of mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors (last part of the sentence I just write off from the website).

Here is a small part of an interview with Dave Grohl. Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana and late – the frontman of his own group – the Foo Fighters. He told about his new memoir “The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.” Unlike me, Dave is really great storyteller. He recalled his experience with Kurt Cobain and how devastated he was after Kurt’s death.

I was always wondering, how some people can make such cool stuff like Nirvana’s songs. And Dave Grohl shows us the process of creation.

Overall, the podcast The New Yorker Radio Hour is easy to understand, at least with B2 level of English. Listen to the whole episode. Enjoy! There is the transcript on the website of the show.

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SNL kind of band – Saturday Night Live Band – The band consists of mostly jazz, R&B, and some rock musicians and features a strong horn section.

Source: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/episodes/dave-grohl-and-aimee-mann-give-thanks Открыть/Комментировать

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