5 Things with Lisa Birnbach

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EP 90 – RAGE BAKING with cookbook authors Katherine Alford and Kathy Gunst Mar 27, 2020

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Authors Katherine Alford and Kathy Gunst join Lisa Birnbach and discuss Rage Baking - their new cookbook that helps funnel all those feelings we have about Trump, Corona Virus and the lack of ventilators in the USA into something sweet.

Lisa’s 5 Things: 1. Governors Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom, 2. Her mom’s team of health care aides, 3. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, 4. Rufus Wainwright, 5. Religious and meditation leaders on Zoom.

Kathy Gunst’s 5 Things: 1. Family, 2. Friendship, 3. Outdoors, 4. Food. Baking. Cooking. Chopping. Eating. Repeat. 5. The written word.

Katherine Alford’s 5 Things: 1. Being by/in/or on the water, 2. Quaker Meeting, 3. Cooking with/and for Friends, 4. NY's Chinatowns, 5. Spa Castle Korean spa in NYC.

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Ep. 89 – Lisa Birnbach - CoronaVirus Update Mar 20, 2020

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In the face of this unprecedented global health crisis, Lisa has abandoned her usual format and instead is offering her advice and good cheer while we are all self isolating. Stay calm, keep healthy and act natural.

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Ep. 88 – with Jesse Kornbluth - Sex, Lies and JFK Mar 13, 2020

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Lisa Birnbach is joined by author Jesse Kornbluth to talk about Jesse's new book "JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story" and the 5 Things that made their lives better this week.

Lisa’s 5 things: 1. Screening of spam calls 2. “Inheritance” on Broadway 3. Her encounter with the Buttigieges, 4. Writing assignments, 5. Two of her Exhibits™ birthdays.

Jesse Kornbluth’s 5 Things: 1. Driving his17 year-old daughter 20 blocks to school, 2. Reading real books - not kindle, movies with subtitles, movies in the theatre and Turner Classics, 3. The off-season, 4. Whatever he’s writing now, 5. Whatever he’s about to write.

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Ep. 87 – with Joe Lockhart – Lisa Birnbach’s Five Things That Make Life Better Mar 06, 2020

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Super Tuesday, Impeachment, White House Press Conferences - Joe Lockhart joins Lisa Birnbach to discuss all that and more (including the 5 Things that make their lives better).

Joe was Bill Clinton’s Press Secretary during Clinton’s last two years, he worked with John Kerry, the NFL, Facebook, and his own consulting and lobbying firm, Glover Park. These days Joe Lockhart hosts a wonderful podcast, “Words Matter” and is a contributor to CNN.

Lisa’s 5 Things: 1. Pete Buttigieg’s speech about withdrawing from the presidential race, 2. Cooking with Ghee, 3. The New Yorker, 4. Community in tough times, 5. Youth.

Joe Lockhart’s 5 Things: 1. His family, 2. Maine, 3. Political passion, 4. Friends, 5. Cold beer.

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Ep. 86 - With California Congressman Harley Rouda Feb 28, 2020

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He was doing fine. Successful businessman, father of 4, then he decided that he needed to run for congress, and change the Orange County electoral map from red to blue. Join Orange County California Representative Harley Rouda and Lisa Birnbach find the things that make life better, even in the times of Donald Trump.

Lisa’s 5 Things: 1. My Name is Lucy Barton play, 2. Democracy, 3. Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, 4. Harvey Weinstein’s guilt, 5. Lisa’s friend Heidi.

Rep. Rouda’s 5 Things: 1. Kaira Rouda and their four amazing kids, 2. Dress sneakers aka cool shoes, 3. The iPhone, 4. Nespresso (Red Bull), 5. Food delivery apps: Postmates / UberEats / GrubHub / DoorDash / Caviar.

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Ep. 85 – with Richard Kind - Actor and professional funnyman Feb 21, 2020

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Lisa Birnbach and Richard Kind talk about his love of entertaining and how lucky he is to be a working actor living in NYC. They also share the 5 Things That Make Their Lives Better.

Lisa’s 5 Things: 1. Happy Returns service, 2. Director Paul Mazursky, 3. “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” in previews at The Group theater, 4. Olivela, 5.Lemon Zester.

Ricard Kind’s 5 Things: 1. His children, 2. Love of his vocation, 3. Golf, 4. His friends, 5. His modicum of fame and his drive of ambition to keep working.

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Ep. 84 – with Daniel Jones - Editor of The New York Times column "MODERN LOVE" Feb 14, 2020

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The New York Times editor of the "Modern Love" column, Daniel Jones, joins Lisa Birnbach to talk about Love and Dating (not necessarily in that order) ! And of course they couldn't leave out the 5 things that make their lives better.

Lisa’s 5 Things: 1. Lunch with Friends, 2. Cindy Otis’s Twitter Thread, 3. Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, 4. Listener feedback, 5. Resistors

Daniel Jones’s 5 Things: 1. Google Earth app, 2. Ben & Jerrys Pumpkin Cheesecake Ice Cream, 3. Fort Tryon Park, 4. Open office plans, 5. Metro North New Haven line

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Ep. 83 – with James Poniewozik – Lisa Birnbach’s Five Things That Make Life Better Feb 07, 2020

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This week's guest James Poniewozik, the Chief TV critic for the New York Times joins host Lisa Birnbach to talk television, impeachment, and The Oscar Awards. His new book is Audience of One – Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America.

Lisa’s 5 Things: 1. Cooking, 2. Central Park, 3. Exercise, 4. Adam Schiff, 5. Nancy Pelosi

James Poniewozik’s 5 Things: 1. Escali digital kitchen scale, 2. Tivo. 3. March Mammal Madness, 4. Bob's Burgers, 5. Epiphone FT-85 Serenader acoustic 12-string guitar.

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Ep. 82 – With Molly Jong-Fast – Lisa Birnbach’s Five Things That Make Life Better on January 31, 2020 Jan 31, 2020

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Molly Jong-Fast joins Lisa Birnbach in a lively conversation about her life, her, activism, her kids, her famous mom and how all this makes her who she is today.

Lisa’s 5 Things: 1. Adam Schiff, 2. Democrats who don’t engage in the same kind of personal attacks that Trump enjoys, 3. Sole meuniere, 4. Randy Rainbow, 5. Listening to music

Molly Jong-Fast’s 5 Things: 1. MSNBC, 2.The Daily Beast/The Atlantic (subscriptions), 3. Olaplex, 4. Venti Lattes, 5. Enormous portable phone batteries.

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Ep. 81 – with Lucia Evans – Lisa Birnbach’s Five Things That Make Life Better on January 24, 2020 Jan 24, 2020

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The courageous and brave Lucia Evans- one of the original women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct that ignited the #MeToo movement - joins Lisa Birnbach in the studio for a lively conversation about the movement, her branding business, and the 5 Things that make her life better.

Lisa’s 5 Things: 1. Getting better at cooking, 2. The New York Times Cooking App, 3. Congressman Adam Schiff, 4. Fairway Market, 5. Spending the day with Exhibit C.

Lucia’s 5 Things: 1. Lacrima del Morro d’Alba wine, 2. Her dogs, Alfred and Georgia (who are her children), 3. True crime - podcasts/shows/ID channel, 4. Potato chips from around the world, 5. Creative problem solving // working through a crisis // that feeling you get when you don’t know how it’s going to work but you just know it’s going to (e.g., writing).

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