Episode 140: Ewan McGregor, Pretzel Dumplings, and Happy Endings
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2012
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week: Actor Ewan McGregor, in three dimensions… “Happy Endings” star Casey Wilson’s (semi) happy endings… Youth Lagoon’s dinner party soundtrack… A ‘psychic’ reading from Heidi Julavits… The best sushi chef in the world… Pretzel dumplings… How “Uranus” got its name… And next-gen Posts teach us about table fairies. Plus: drinkable pancakes, Irish jokes, a w-h-i-z-k-i-d, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:01.9 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and before we get to this week's dinner party, we wanted to quickly ask if you could maybe help pay for it. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, it's been an entire year since we asked for your support. |
| 0:13.3 | And in that time, we've hosted almost 50 of these parties. |
| 0:16.3 | 50. |
| 0:16.5 | They've been a lot of fun. |
| 0:17.7 | And although we really enjoy your company, you know, it'd be great if you could kind of chip in so please donate the equivalent of a bottle of wine or a bottle of gin sure |
| 0:25.9 | or a bottle of wine and gin and maybe a little something for dessert yeah and if you've been |
| 0:30.7 | listening you know we will not spend the dessert money on cupcakes no way we have values yeah weird |
| 0:34.9 | ones but values honestly any amount is appreciated. |
| 0:38.4 | Head to our website, dinner party download.org, and click on the button that says donate. |
| 0:43.1 | Your contribution helps fund public radio. |
| 0:45.5 | And it sends a message to our company that you think the dinner party is worth supporting. |
| 0:50.0 | We know, blah, blah, blah, but it does make a difference. |
| 0:52.7 | Please donate. |
| 0:53.2 | Truly. |
| 0:53.7 | And now on with the show. |
| 0:56.3 | Well done. |
| 0:57.0 | I was going to say that. |
| 0:59.2 | Welcome to the dinner party. |
| 1:01.1 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm partly Irish. |
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