386: Damon Lindelof, Phoenix, Farewell to Frank Deford
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Showrunner supreme Damon Lindelof (“Lost,” “The Leftovers”) hops into Rico’s hot tub time machine, then considers the paradoxes of fandom… The band Phoenix toasts a purring Bryan Ferry, video games in Japan, and the sounds of le cinema… We pay tribute to late great sportswriter Frank DeFord, who throws us some etiquette curveballs… Musician Lynn […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party download. |
| 0:04.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, guys, I got a joke for you. |
| 0:08.0 | I think it's funny. |
| 0:10.0 | Why does a moon rock taste better than an earth rock? |
| 0:15.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:16.0 | Why? |
| 0:17.0 | Because it's a little meteor. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. I'm Rico Gondon. because it's a little meatier. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:31.9 | culture, food, and humor to fuel your weekend conversations. |
| 0:36.5 | You just got a joke from Titus Burgess, star of Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. |
| 0:38.7 | That'll help break the ice. And later we'll speak with Damon Lindeloff, co-creator of Lost, and the acclaimed drama The Leftovers, which has its |
| 0:43.9 | season finale this weekend. Also coming up, the band Phoenix stops by to DJ a cosmopolitan party. We |
| 0:49.7 | learn about Gertrude Bell, the most important explorer you've never heard of. Also, we say goodbye to late, great sports journalist Frank DeFord. |
| 0:56.9 | But first, let's start with small talk. |
| 1:01.3 | All week long, you've heard these headlines. |
| 1:03.8 | The president announcing the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. |
| 1:07.0 | The president in a small group of people know exactly what he meant. |
| 1:09.3 | Jared Kushner asked for a back-channel communication between the Trump transition team and the Kremlin. |
| 1:15.1 | Now for something you might not have heard, we are speaking with Sadie Stein. She is a contributing editor to the lovely literary magazine, the Paris Review. |
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