Episode 194: Taiye Selasi, Andy Cohen, and Alt-J’s Pagan Playlist

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week: TV personality Andy Cohen – the man who launched 1,000 “Real Housewives” – tells us how to behave… Rising literary star Taiye Selasi on making novels and dresses… British prog-rock phenoms Alt-J throw a party in the woods… Satirist Sam Lipsyte on the joys of fatherhood… We tiptoe into “Room 237,” a film about “The Shining”‘s fanatical following… And Rico tastes the secret of panuchos. Plus, a drink born from cold fusion, new music from Mikal Cronin, and a monstrous joke.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker.
0:05.0	Oh, this is a two-part joke.
0:07.0	What do monsters eat?
0:09.0	I don't know. Things.
0:11.0	When a monsters drink.
0:13.0	I don't know.
0:14.0	Coke.
0:15.0	Because things go better with Coke.
0:17.0	I'm Rico Goliano.
0:22.1	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party
0:27.1	Download, the culture show that helps you win your next dinner party.
0:31.1	You just got a joke slash soda pop ad from filmmaker Rodney Asher.
0:34.9	That'll help break the ice.
0:36.1	We will be speaking with him later about his new documentary, Room 237.
0:40.2	Named after the room in the movie The Shining where...
0:42.8	Yeah, all the creepy stuff happens.
0:44.5	That's the one.
0:45.3	I'm going to close my eyes for that part of the show.
0:47.1	Do.
0:47.4	Also coming up, author Taye Salasi talks about her new novel.
0:51.1	Bravo TV host and producer Andy Cohen answers your etiquette questions,
0:55.0	and rising Brit band, Altjay, throw a party in the woods.
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