My Minute With Andre

By Woody Battaglia

A twice-weekly chat exploring in greater-than-necessary detail each minute of the classic 1981 film My Dinner With Andre from start to finish. Hosted by comedian (not a film scholar) Woody Battaglia. ... more

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My Minute With Andre episodes:

October 08, 2018 Episode 29: Clearly Everyone Danced On Top Of Yellow Cabs with Suzy Buttress
HOW TO WATCH MY DINNER WITH ANDRE:

Library access to stream/borrow the movie (not comprehensive):

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http://www.worldcat.org/title/my-dinner-with-andre/oclc/910115906/

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MINUTE 29 TRANSCRIPT
...today I think there's a very fascistic thing under "The Little Prince", you know, I...well, no, I think there's a kind of...I think a kind of S.S. totalitarian sentimentality in there somewhere. You know, there's something, you know, that...that love of, um...well, that masculine love of a certain kind of oily muscle, you know what I mean? I mean, I can't quite put my finger on it, but I can just imagine some beautiful S.S. man loving "The Little Prince". Now, I don't know why, but there's something wrong with it, it stinks. Wally: Well, didn't George tell me that you were gonna do a play that was based on "The Little Prince" Andre: Hmm. Well. What happened, Wally, was that fall I was in New York, and I met this young Japanese Buddhist priest named Kozan, and I thought he was Puck from the "Midsummer Night's Dream", you know, he had this beautiful, delicate smile. I thought he was the Little Prince.

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45min
September 27, 2018 Episode 28: Back To The Treacle with Charlie Wildey
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WATCH MY DINNER WITH ANDRE: Library access to stream/borrow the movie (not comprehensive): www.kanopystreaming.com http://www.worldcat.org/title/my-dinner-with-andre/oclc/910115906/ editions?editionsView=true&referer=br https://www.hoopladigital.com/

MINUTE 28 TRANSCRIPT Derain, the third was André...I've got it written down somewhere...it...it's not Malraux...it's, like, someone...another of the surrealists. All "A"'s, and the fourth was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who wrote "The Little Prince". And they'd shown these handprints to some kind of expert, without saying whose hands they belonged to, and under Exupéry's, it said that he was an artist, with very powerful eyes, who was a tamer of wild animals. So, I thought, this is incredible, you know. And I looked back to see when the issue came out. It came out on the newsstands May 12th, 1934, and I was born during the day of May 11th, 1934. So, that's what started me on, uh...Saint-Exupéry and "The Little Prince". Andre: Now, of course today

OUR GUEST:

Charlie Wildey is a writer and comedian twitter.com/charliewildey IG: charliedw.poems

ACTUAL RESPONSES: Thank you to J.J. Voicemail: MMWA-61-MUST (669-261-6878) [email protected] with any questions/comments OR: Join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/myminutewithandre Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mmwapod Be kind to each other—that's all we've got.
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35min
August 10, 2018 Episode 27: That's A New York Thing To Say with Charlie Wildey
MINUTE 27

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https://www.hoopladigital.com/

TRANSCRIPT:
words, so, finally, I took my hand, I put it on a piece of paper, I outlined it with a pen, and I wrote in the center something like, "Your heart is in my hand.", something like that. And then, I went over to my brother's house to swim, cause he lives nearby in the country, and he has a pool. And he wasn't home. And I went into his library and he had bought at an auction the collected issues of Minotaure. You know, the surrealist magazine? Oh, it's a great, great surrealist magazine in the twenties and thirties and I...never...you know, I consider myself a bit of a surrealist. I had never, ever seen a copy of Minotaure. And here they all were, bound, year after year. Andre: So, at random, I picked one out, I opened it up, and there was a full-page reproduction of the letter "A" from Tenniel's Alice In Wonderland, and I thought, that...well, you know, it's been a day of coincidences, but that's not unusual that the surrealists would have been interested in Alice and I did a play of Alice, so, at random, I opened to another page and there were four handprints. One was André Breton, another was André Andre: And then I went and tried to write an answer to her letter, cause she'd written me a very long letter. But I just couldn't find the right
OUR GUEST:

Charlie Wildey is a writer and comedian

twitter.com/charliewildey

IG: charliedw.poems

ACTUAL RESPONSES:

Thanks to Kristina, twitter.com/spidershins

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29min
August 03, 2018 Episode 26: I Don't Believe In Grown-Ups Either with Jason Klamm
MINUTE 26

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TRANSCRIPT:
the highway and watch the lights go from red to green and think, "How wonderful!" Andre: And then, one day, in the early fall, I was out in the country, walking in a field, and I suddenly heard a voice say, "Little Prince." And, of course, "The Little Prince" was a book that I always thought of as disgusting, childish treacle, but still, I thought, well, you know, if a voice comes to me in a field, I mean, this was the first voice I had ever heard. Maybe I should go and read the book. Now, that same morning I'd got a letter from a young woman who'd been in my group in Poland, and in her letter she'd written, "You have dominated me.", you know, she spoke very awkward English, so, she'd gone to the dictionary, and she'd crossed out the word "dominated" and she'd said, "No. The correct word is 'tamed.'" And then when I went to town and bought the book and started to read it, I saw that "taming" was the most important word in the whole book. By the end of the book, I was in tears, I was so moved by the story. Andre: And then I went and tried to write an answer to her letter, cause she'd written me a very long letter. But I just couldn't find the right
OUR GUEST:

Jason Klamm is a podcaster and actor:

SEE HIM LIVE:

Jason Klamm regularly appears in the live comedy stage show A Drinking Game:

https://www.adrinkinggame.com/

Woody appears on Jason Klamm's fantastic, popular, and long-running podcast Comedy On Vinyl, a personal dream come true: http://stolendress.com/comedyonvinyl/episode-262-woody-battaglia-on-dana-gould-funhouse/

He also has this amazing News Radio podcast Dispatches from Fort Awesome:

http://www.stolendress.com/wp/podcasts-2/dispatches-from-fort-awesome-a-newsradio-podcast/

ACTUAL RESPONSES:

Thanks to Jake Haller from Love Y.A. like crazy and other fine podcasts for his great response.

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44min
July 26, 2018 Episode 25: Where Are The G-D Bottomless Breadsticks with Jason Klamm
MINUTE 25

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TRANSCRIPT:
George...uh, told me he'd seen you around that time. He said you looked like you'd come back from a war. Andre: Yeah, I remember meeting him. He...uh...he asked me a lot of friendly questions. I think I called you up, too, that summer, didn't I? Wally: Huh. I think I was out of town. Andre: Yeah, well, most...most people I met thought there was something wrong with me. They didn't say that but I could tell that that was what they thought. But, you see, what I think I experienced was, for the first time in my life, to know what it means to be truly alive. Now, that's very frightening, because with that comes an immediate awareness of death, cause they go hand in hand, you know, the kind of impulse that led to Walt Whitman, that led to "Leaves of Grass", you know, that feeling of being connected to everything means to also be connected to death. And that's pretty scary. But, I really felt as if I were floating above the ground, not walking, you know, and I could do things like go out to
OUR GUEST:

Jason Klamm is a podcaster and actor:

THIS WEEK SEE HIM LIVE:

Jason Klamm is appearing in the LA stage show A Drinking Game (the show where he sometimes play Wally Shawn) Saturday July 28 2018 at Acme Hollywood. They are performing a live staged reading of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and Jason will be playing Phil Hartman's reporter character among others.

Woody appears on Jason Klamm's fantastic, popular, and long-running podcast Comedy On Vinyl, a personal dream come true: http://stolendress.com/comedyonvinyl/episode-262-woody-battaglia-on-dana-gould-funhouse/

He also has this amazing News Radio podcast Dispatches from Fort Awesome:

http://www.stolendress.com/wp/podcasts-2/dispatches-from-fort-awesome-a-newsradio-podcast/

ACTUAL RESPONSES:

Thanks to Jake Haller from Love Y.A. like crazy and other fine podcasts for his great response.

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51min
July 19, 2018 Episode 24: Ahh, The Pleasure of Soups! with Katherine Fusco
MINUTE 24

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TRANSCRIPT:
of candles and torches, I mean, no church could have looked more beautiful. There was a simple ceremony, and one of them played the role of my godmother, and another played the role of my godfather, and I was given a new name. They called me Yendrush. And some of the people took it completely seriously and some of them found it funny, but, uh...I really felt that I had a new name. And then we had an enormous feast, with blueberries picked from the field, and chocolate someone had gone a great distance to buy, and raspberry soup, rabbit stew, and we sang Polish songs, and Greek songs, and everybody danced for the rest of the night. Wally: Hmm. Andre: Oh, I have a picture. See...this was...let's see. Oh, yeah, this was me in the forest. See? Wally: God! Andre: That's what I felt like. That's the state I was in. Wally: God. Yeah, I remember
OUR GUEST:

Katherine Fusco is an author and associate professor at University of Nevada, Reno:

https://twitter.com/fuscowrites

Katherine Fusco literally co-wrote THE book on Kelly Reichardt:

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/23xbe2zy9780252041242.html

Katherine Fusco has an article in The Atlantic on creative mothers portrayed in film this week:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/hereditary-and-the-monstrousness-of-creative-moms/564815/

ACTUAL RESPONSES:

Thanks to @taradunderdale for the Royport!

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45min
July 12, 2018 Episode 23: This Is Just Like Burning Man with Katherine Fusco
MINUTE 23

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TRANSCRIPT:
...to go off together in the forest was much more important than any kind of experiment the group could do as a whole. So...uh...about halfway through the week, we stumbled into a clearing in the forest and the two of them were fast asleep in each other's arms. It was around dawn, and we put flowers on them to let them know we'd been there, and then we crept away. And then, on the last day of our stay in the forest, these two showed up and they shook me by my hands, and they thanked me very much for the wonderful work they'd been able to do, you see. They understood what it was about. I mean, that, of course, poses the question of what was it about. But it has...has something to do with living. Andre: And...and then on the final day of our stay in the forest, the whole group did something so wonderful for me, Wally. They arranged a christening...a baptism for me and they...they filled the castle with flowers and it was...just a miracle of light because they had literally set up hundreds
OUR GUEST:

Katherine Fusco is an author and associate professor at University of Nevada, Reno:

https://twitter.com/fuscowrites

Katherine Fusco literally co-wrote THE book on Kelly Reichardt:

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/23xbe2zy9780252041242.html

Katherine Fusco has an article in The Atlantic on creative mothers portrayed in film this week:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/hereditary-and-the-monstrousness-of-creative-moms/564815/

ACTUAL RESPONSES:

Thanks to Jacob H. and Cameron Tiller!

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32min
July 05, 2018 Episode 22: A Bit Of A Snoot with Tara Dunderdale
MINUTE 22

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TRANSCRIPT:
drink a lot of beer and have a good dinner. Oh, and there was one girl, who wasn't in our group, but who just wouldn't leave, so we took her along with us. Wally: Huh. God. Well, tell me some of the other things you did with your group Andre: Well...oh, I remember once, when we were in the city we tried doing an improvisation, you know, the kind that I used to do in New York...uh...everybody's supposed to be on an airplane and they've all learned from the pilot there's something wrong with the motor. But what was unusual about this improvisation was that two people who participated in it fell in love. They've, in fact, married. And when we went...yeah, out of fear...of being on this plane, they fell in love, thinking they were going to die at any moment. And when we went to the forest, these two disappeared because they understood the...the experiment so well that they realized that
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Tara Dunderdale is a Podcaster and one of the great human beings:

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ACTUAL RESPONSES:

Thanks to Jeremiah Parry-Hill for being our very first call-in actual responder!

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32min
February 07, 2018 Episode 21: Wallow In The Musk Of This Day with Tara Dunderdale
MINUTE 21

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TRANSCRIPT:
Andre: Then...I remember a very, very beautiful procession with the sheet, and there was somebody being carried below the sheet, you know, the sheet was like some great biblical canopy, and the entire group was weaving around the room and chanting. And then at one point, people were dancing, and I was dancing with a girl, and suddenly our hands began vibrating near each other like this...vibrating...vibrating, and we went down to our knees, and suddenly I was sobbing in her arms, and she was sort of cradling me in her arms, and then she started to cry too, and then we...then we just hugged each other for a moment, and...uh...then we joined the dance again. Andre: And then at a certain point, hours later, we returned to the singing of the song of Saint Francis, and that was the end of the beehive. And then, again, when it was over, it was just like the theater after a performance, you know, people sort of put on their earrings and their wristwatches and we went off to the railroad station to
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Tara Dunderdale is a Podcaster:

http://www.prattlepod.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/gh/podcast/death-prattle/id1142393342

www.twitter.com/prattlepod

ACTUAL RESPONSES:

Thanks to Jake!

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Thanks to Jeremiah for the iTunes review! Review us on iTunes and tell all your weirdo friends!

Thanks.
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37min
January 31, 2018 Bonus #3: Rashomon with Tara Dunderdale
Bonus #3

In this bonus episode I talk to Tara Dunderdale of Death Prattle who provides her own unique perspective on the MMWA pilgrimage to Cincinnati Comic Expo to meet the great Wallace Shawn, and I seek advice on what to do next.

OUR GUEST:

Tara Dunderdale makes Death Prattle:

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https://twitter.com/prattlepod

Next Up: Minutes 21 and 22 also with Tara!

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40min

FAQs about My Minute With Andre:

How many episodes does My Minute With Andre have?

The podcast currently has 34 episodes available.