Traveling Back In Time For Coconut Cake (Reheat)
The Sporkful

Traveling Back In Time For Coconut Cake (Reheat)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 18, 202640 min

Dan goes on an adventure around Los Angeles, starting at the airport. Where is he going? He doesn't know. He doesn't have a plan. The one thing he does know is that he's going to attempt to travel through time to eat a piece of coconut cake from Patys Restaurant, which he should have eaten three years ago. With an Atlas Obscura article as his guide, what could go wrong? This episode originally aired on July 16, 2018, and July 25, 2022, and was produced by Dan Pashman, Anne Saini, and Aviva DeKornfeld, with editing help from Rob McGinley Myers and...

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This sporkful episode that we're about to reheat is truly one of a kind. I mean, we've been doing this show for 16 years, hundreds and hundreds of episodes. There has never been another one like LA story. Why?

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Well, first of all, it involves time travel, which is very hard to pull off. And that's why we've only done it once. But also, yes, some of our episodes are very planned out. Some of them are more freewheeling.

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I don't know that I've ever gone into an episode with as little of a plan as I did for this one. So in this episode, in addition to contemplating time travel,

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