Episode 165: Junot Diaz, One-Shot Wonders, and Orange Wine
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, Pulitzer-winning author Junot Diaz bares the soul of a cheater… Actress Emily Blunt explains dolphin romance… Music video director Natasha Pincus picks some one-shot wonders… We toast the peaceful fallout from the only wartime aerial bombing of mainland USA… Financial etiquette from Marketplace’s Paddy Hirsch… Orange vintages add color to wine stores… And the unsung heroes of Fall TV. Plus: a new Grizzly Bear track, laffs from artist Wayne White, and lap dances in the high courts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, you ready for the joke? |
| 0:08.0 | How can you tell if someone went to Harvard? |
| 0:12.0 | They tell you. |
| 0:14.0 | Da-da-da-da-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Rico Galeano. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, |
| 0:26.6 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:29.6 | You just got an Ivy League joke from artist and peewee's playhouse set designer Wayne White. |
| 0:34.6 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:35.6 | The new documentary Beauty is Embarrassing about Wayne's eventful life comes out this weekend. |
| 0:41.3 | Later, we'll hear Pulitzer Prize winning author Juno Diaz read from his new collection of stories called This Is How You Lose Her. |
| 0:48.8 | Also coming up, actress Emily Blunt talks dolphins, and we hear a new song from Grizzly Bear. |
| 0:53.6 | Lots of culture and lots of animals. |
| 0:55.7 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:01.6 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:04.0 | The Democratic National Convention kicks off. |
| 1:06.7 | A powerful earthquake rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday. |
| 1:09.7 | The National Park Service may expand its warning about a recent outbreak of hantavirus at Yosemite. |
| 1:15.1 | Now for something you haven't heard, we turn to Rahan Harmanci. |
| 1:17.8 | She is an editor at BuzzFeed, a news and entertainment website. |
| 1:21.6 | Rehan, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
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