Episode 122: Sir Richard Branson, Jonathan Lethem, and Masters of Etiquette
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2011
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, Sir Richard Branson drops the ‘sir’ for us… writer Jonathan Lethem squeezes Gertrude Stein, Jack Kerouac, and Drew Barrymore into a hot tub…. why we wanted our MTV… the (non-Portland) trailblazer of b-ball backboard-breaking… “Extreme Makeover: Urban Food Store Edition”… and iconic singer-songwriter Judy Collins muses on being a muse.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Dinner Party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | What's brown and sticky? |
| 0:08.0 | What? |
| 0:09.0 | A stick. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Rico Galliano. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:24.8 | You just got a joke from Craig Marks, one of the authors of the new book, I Want My MTV. |
| 0:29.5 | It's about MTV and wanting it. |
| 0:31.4 | Is that clear to everybody? |
| 0:32.8 | We'll be speaking to Craig about that book later. |
| 0:35.2 | We'll also learn some things we didn't know from Sir Richard |
| 0:38.2 | Branson, the only guy to bankroll both an airline and the sex pistols. Also author Jonathan |
| 0:43.8 | Leitham fantasizes about Drew Barrymore, Judy Collins tells us about songs she wishes were written |
| 0:48.5 | about her, and Emily Post, great-grandchildren, answer your etiquette questions. It would be rude to miss |
| 0:53.5 | that. It would. |
| 0:55.0 | Plus, a new track from the band Tennis. |
| 0:57.0 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk. |
| 1:00.0 | All week long, people have been talking about these cultural headlines. |
| 1:06.0 | Eddie Murphy has announced that he will no longer be hosting the 84th annual Academy Awards. |
| 1:11.4 | Julie Tameor, the fired director of the Spider-Man musical, suing the producers for continuing |
| 1:15.9 | to use her ideas. Smoke and Joe Frazier, legendary for his fights against Muhammad Ali, has died. |
| 1:21.5 | Now for something you might not have read about. We're talking with Richard Lawson, his senior |
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