Episode 102: John C. Reilly, Lady Umpires, and the ‘Buch
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2011
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week: Actor John C. Reilly fights the meanies… A housewife breaks through baseball’s grass ceiling… And Brendan fact-checks “magical” drink kombucha. Plus, a duck-duck joke from Pulitzer-winner Jennifer Egan and a new tune from Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. [sic]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. |
| 0:03.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | A duck walks into a bar and he says to the bartender, |
| 0:08.0 | hey, bartender, you got any grapes? |
| 0:10.0 | And the bartender says, no, I don't have any grapes. |
| 0:12.0 | This is a bar. |
| 0:13.0 | And the duck says, okay, so he leaves the bar, he walks around the block, |
| 0:16.0 | he comes back, and he says, |
| 0:18.0 | Bartender, you got any grapes? |
| 0:20.0 | The bartender says, no, I don't have any grapes.' |
| 0:21.6 | And the duck says, okay, he leaves the bar, he walks around the block again, |
| 0:24.6 | "'Hey, bartender, you got any grapes?' |
| 0:26.6 | The bartender says, look, if you ask me that again, I'm going to nail you to the wall." |
| 0:31.6 | The duck says, okay, leaves the bar, goes around the block, comes back, hey, bartender, you got any nails? |
| 0:40.8 | The bartenders says, no. And the duck says, huh, you got any grapes? |
| 0:51.1 | I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, the show that helps you win this weekend's dinner party. |
| 0:55.0 | Our icebreaker this week came from author Jennifer Egan. Her book, Visit from the Goon Squad, |
| 0:59.6 | won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year. Not the Pulitzer Prize for joke-telling, however. |
| 1:05.0 | It came from her child, she said. Oh, really? Her son gave her that joke, yeah. |
| 1:08.5 | Well, that's nice. He didn't write the book, though, as far as we knew. |
| 1:12.6 | And coming up, we chat with actor John C. Riley. |
| 1:15.6 | Also, Birds Not Bombs, umpireesses, and Dale Earnhard, Jr., Jr. |
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