Episode 142: The Duplass Brothers, Val Kilmer-Twain, and the Oysteress
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2012
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week: Filmmaking brothers Mark and Jay Duplass, who nap in trailers… Val Kilmer resurrects Mark Twain… Grandmaster of flash (fiction), Etgar Keret… Oysters take over the mainland… Poker stud Chris Moneymaker on turning friends into debtors… Guillotin’s “enlightened” machine… Plus, the sounds of Howlin Rain, a pizza panic-button, and a seeing-eye joke.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:02.0 | And I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and you may know that every week we record our radio show at the Marketplace Studios. |
| 0:07.0 | Yes, that would be Marketplace Public Radio's business show, the numbers, Kai Rizdal. |
| 0:14.0 | That's right, the man himself. |
| 0:15.0 | And every day when they finish recording the show, Kai leaves his script right here, complete with his notes. |
| 0:21.5 | Well, we are in the midst of our online fun drive. So we're reviving our listeners' favorite |
| 0:27.3 | premium from last year. We are giving away Kai's notes in exchange for cash. That's right. He |
| 0:33.6 | already shares his studio with us. Why not hijack his scripts? That's what we're reduced to. |
| 0:37.8 | Because we know that any public radio junkie won't be able to resist a piece of paper that has been touched by Master Rizdahl. |
| 0:44.6 | Master, we call him. So look, everyone who donates money this week only to support online services of American public media like the podcast you're listening to. |
| 0:55.0 | We'll get a page from a recent marketplace script. |
| 0:58.2 | Just head to dinner party download.org, click donate, and then send us an email when you're done telling us where to send your 100% authentic page. |
| 1:08.4 | And please don't tell Kai because he can have us killed. Powerful, powerful man. |
| 1:12.8 | And now on with the show. Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 1:19.9 | A blind man walks into a J.C. Pennings and he's got a seeing-eye dog with him. And he grabs the |
| 1:25.6 | seeing-eye dog by the tail, lifts him up over his head and spins him around really fast. And a clerk comes over with him. And he grabs the seeing eye dog by the tail, lifts him up over his head, |
| 1:28.2 | and spins him around really fast. And a clerk comes over to him and says, sir, can I help you? |
| 1:33.9 | And the man replies, oh, I'm just looking around. |
| 1:40.4 | I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Brendan Francis Noonum. and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, |
| 1:47.6 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 1:50.7 | You just got a joke from Nick Thorburn, the man behind the band Islands. |
| 1:54.4 | They're on tour for their new album. |
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