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The Young Girls of Rochefort
Offered as the natural next stop after Fanta commercials on the Eurotrash pipeline.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Produced as evidence that yes, you do know who Tim Curry is.
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Curry as the Plaza concierge, the role that finally jogs recognition.
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Chez Panisse
Fifty years of unimpeachable produce and absolutely no funny business with the pepper. Dan Rosen
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Hell's Backbone Grill
Two women opened a farm to table destination in the least possible place on earth. Dan Rosen
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Bryce Canyon National Park
The most hoodoos in the world, visited on a strict optimize the transcendence schedule. Dan Rosen
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White Sands National Park
Swedish tourists taught him to see the desert he grew up beside. Brian Park
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Zion National Park
Where the podcast discovered it has reach, in the form of a park ranger.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
The Wikipedia article unfurling in front of you, the biopic's cardinal sin.
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Kitchen Confidential
The book that made him, written by a man frank about not being the best cook.
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Cited for the through line of imposter syndrome across an entire mythic life. Brian Park
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Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Flat until producers realized the show was really the muttered asides.
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
The West Bank, Cambodia, Kissinger: curiosity that never curdled into extraction.
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Ocean's Twelve
How Clooney became unofficial mayor of Lake Como: the cast all stayed at his place.
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Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead
The manifesto that somehow led to Ross Douthat officiating the author's wedding.
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The Disaster Artist
Brought up on whether the maker's sincerity matters once the audience is in on it.
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Frindle
The kid who invents a word, remembered as an early lesson in going viral.
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Hank the Cowdog
Discovered in college to have been a Texas thing all along.
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The Boxcar Children
Named in the roll call of elementary school reading that actually stuck.
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Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
The last name tossed into the childhood detective canon before signing off.