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The Dinner Party Download

395: Shania Twain, Sterling K. Brown, Cheese Tea

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6821 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Shania Twain explains how a vegetarian can survive a country bbq… Musician Emily Haines challenges you to pick difficult music for your dinner party… Erin McCann makes a case for the mosquito emoji… The filmmakers behind “Battle of the Sexes” reveal why there was 40-year-old underwear on the set of their film… Rico drink tea […]

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0:00.0

All right, a quick heads up, everybody.

0:01.6

Stay tuned after this episode for a special preview of the podcast,

0:04.9

The Hilarious World of Depression, featuring writer and sci-fi polymath Will Wheaton.

0:09.6

All right, this is your icebreaker.

0:12.4

Okay, here's a joke.

0:13.7

All right.

0:14.5

What happened to the blind skunk?

0:16.6

I don't know.

0:17.3

Never mind. That joke stinks.

0:22.4

I'm Rico Gagliano.

0:24.2

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party download,

0:29.8

the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations.

0:32.9

You just got a meta-joke from...

0:34.2

Shania Twain!

0:36.3

That's right, producer James Kim. Country pop megastar Shania Twain! That's right. Producer James Kim.

0:38.7

Country pop megastar Shania Twain is here.

0:41.1

And our staff is a little excited about it, apparently.

0:43.7

Later, she'll answer our listeners' etiquette questions.

0:46.2

Plus, we'll hear from newly minted Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown.

0:49.3

He stars an NBC's hit drama, This Is Us.

0:51.7

Also coming up, the makers of the movie Battle of the Sexes,

0:54.7

tell us what was going on beneath those 1970s costumes. Emily Haynes of the band Metric shares her

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