Episode 153: Patti Smith, Bryan Cranston, and Drinkable Shrubs

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week: Punk icon Patti Smith dreams of little black dresses… “Breaking Bad’s” Bryan Cranston builds green houses, not meth labs… Zosia Mamet (Girls, Mad Men) picks other ‘against-type’ actors… we inhale the tale of the original “smoke-filled room”… and novelist Nathaniel Rich finds a rhino with all the answers. Plus: drinkable shrubs, a new track from Odd Future’s Frank Ocean, and the fastest road in the USA.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker.
0:04.0	Okay, there's a knock at the door, and this man opens the door, looks around, there's no one there.
0:10.0	He's about to close it when he notices the snail.
0:13.0	And he looks at the snail, what the heck is this?
0:15.0	He picks up the snail, heaves it out to the street.
0:18.0	He closes the door.
0:20.0	Three years later, there's a knock at the door. He opens the door. Three years later, there's a knock at the door.
0:22.8	He opens the door. He looks down and he sees the snail. The snail says, hey, what was that about?
0:30.7	I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. I'm Rico Gagliano. And from APM American Public Media, this is the
0:36.8	dinner party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations.
0:41.4	You just got a joke from Brian Cranston starred the TV show Breaking Bad.
0:45.1	That'll help break the ice.
0:46.5	We'll talk more with him later.
0:48.1	Also, we chat with poet and rock and roll hall of famer Patty Smith.
0:51.4	Plus, Zasha Mamet from the HBO show Girls is here, and you will hear me drink
0:56.4	vinegar.
0:57.4	It's a living.
0:58.1	Yeah.
0:58.3	But first, the news.
1:00.4	But you didn't download this podcast for old news.
1:02.9	So on with the new fun.
1:08.9	I'm Rico Gagliano.
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