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The Dinner Party Download

Episode 11: David Heatley, Killer Fog, PB&J

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6821 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2008

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week: Cartoonist David Heatley literally tells all… we inhale a glassful of London’s killer fog… and star pastry chef Adrian Vasquez makes a peanut butter sandwich that’ll make your brain hurt.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the dinner party download.

0:04.0

This is your icebreaker.

0:06.0

It's my favorite joke of all time.

0:08.0

How do you turn a duck?

0:10.0

Into a popular soul singer?

0:12.0

How?

0:13.0

Put it in the microwave until it's Bill Withers.

0:19.0

I'm Brendan Francis Noonam.

0:20.0

I'm Rico Gagliano, and from 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles, this is the dinner party

0:26.0

download, the show that gives you talking points and bamos to help you win your next

0:30.5

dinner party.

0:31.5

This week's icebreaker came from pop maestro Ed Harcourt.

0:34.1

Thanks, Ed.

0:35.1

And later we'll be talking with our guest of honor, cartoonist David Heatley.

0:38.5

But first, as with any dinner party, we start off with Small Talk.

0:46.3

You're going to be talking about the week's news at this weekend's party.

0:49.7

Who better to tell you which news is worth bringing up than the people who report it?

0:53.5

So, we hofted across the lobby to talk to our colleagues at Public Radio's business show, Marketplace.

1:00.4

George Jutson, managing editor of Marketplace.

1:02.9

When you go to a dinner party this weekend, what's the one story you're going to be talking about?

1:06.6

Well, I think it's an accumulated story.

1:08.3

It's not a single event, but I think this is the week everyone is figuring out what really

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