Episode 117: Etiquette with Jackie Collins & more from the DPD Test Kitchen

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2011

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This week: 28-time bestselling novelist Jackie Collins drops by to give Etiquette lessons… and to dish about Michael Caine’s birthday bash. Plus, more experimentation from the DPD test kitchen, a call for your calls, and a track from phenom Luke Rathborne.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rico Galeano.
0:05.0	And I'm Brendan Francis Noonum, and this is the Dinner Party Download, the show that helps you win your dinner party.
0:11.0	We are in week three of renovations here at the DPD.
0:15.0	I'm sure we've been living at the Travel Lodge.
0:17.0	It's weird.
0:18.0	In a few more weeks, our show is going to expand to an hour. So we've been trying
0:21.9	out new segments and sharing them with you, the audience, to get your feedback. Yeah, we've
0:25.8	basically been trying to build a skyscraper, but without that big plywood wall to obscure
0:30.0	the construction site. Right. And we're asking random passerby to comment on the blueprint.
0:34.8	That's right. Steve Jobs would not approve. No. But anyway, this week we have two segments we'd like to run by you.
0:39.7	The first is a new one that's going to be called something like
0:42.8	Zykegeist Dinner Party Fantasy.
0:45.6	That's right.
0:46.0	Rolls off the tongue.
0:47.1	It's not a Pedro Amadovar film.
0:49.2	It's a new segment.
0:51.1	But the idea is that we would dramatize the dinner party conversation we wish was
0:56.8	happening somewhere based on the week's events. And this week, it might have sounded something
1:02.3	like this. Recently deceased, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to heaven. Enjoy your inaugural dinner party
1:10.2	here in Paradise.
1:11.5	Please note it.
1:13.1	Oh, M.G. Are you Steve Jobs?
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