Episode 127: Patton Oswalt, Dinner for Breakfast, & Pre-Holiday Post Etiquette
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American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2011
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Patton Oswalt rocks our public radio world… A travel list from essayist Sloane Crosley… A shot-less heist inspires a shot-full cocktail… The “Rules of Regifting,” according to etiquette royalty… Author Jay Kirk tells the tale of Barnum versus Britannia… a dinner party soundtrack from Kathryn Calder of the band The New Pornographers… and Rico gets a brief history of breakfast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:04.0 | So here's the joke. There's a guy sitting next to a janitor on the bus and says, |
| 0:08.0 | how do you like being a janitor? |
| 0:10.0 | It's terrible. I work at Paramount Studios. The bathroom's always broken. There's garbage all over the place. |
| 0:15.0 | It's ruining my marriage. The guy says, well why don't you leave? |
| 0:18.0 | He says, what? You quit show business? |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:34.7 | You just got a joke from Adam Spiegelman, host of the cult movie show |
| 0:37.9 | Proudly Resents. Yes. That'll help break the ice. Later you'll learn things you didn't know |
| 0:42.2 | from actor and comedian Patton Oswald. He's in the new film Young Adults. Which is not for young |
| 0:47.3 | adults. Not at all. It's rated R for restricted in fact. Sorry kids. Also on our show this week, essayist Sloan Crosley, Catherine Calder of the band New Pornographers, and author Jay Kirk. |
| 0:57.9 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk. |
| 1:03.8 | All week long, you might have been hearing these cultural headlines. |
| 1:06.8 | Howard Stern is the new judge on America's Got Talent. |
| 1:09.7 | Writer and Order Christopher Hitchens has died after battling cancer. |
| 1:12.6 | The silent film, The Artist, earned six Golden Globe nominations. |
| 1:16.6 | Now for something you haven't heard, we turn to Jake Silverstein. |
| 1:18.6 | He is the editor of Texas Monthly. |
| 1:21.6 | Jake, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:22.6 | It's very good to be here. |
| 1:24.6 | What story are you going to be talking about this weekend? Well, this weekend there's going to be a big rally at the Henderson County Courthouse |
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