Episode 226: Toni Collette, Bill Callahan, and Oil Balls
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week: Toni Collette grabs the wheel … Rob Delaney takes us to a dark, dark chocolate place … Ben Schott shares speichelgleichmut … Texas singer-songwriter Bill Callahan remembers the Seventies … Celia Rivenbark smuggles in the sauce … Poetry among thieves … And savor-ish dough balls straight from Amsterdam.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | So here's a joke. What's brown and sticky? |
| 0:09.0 | I don't know. A stick. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM, American Public Media. This is The Dinner Party |
| 0:22.0 | Download, the culture show that helps you win at this week's dinner parties. You just got a joke |
| 0:26.5 | from writer Ben Shot. That'll help break the ice. We'll talk to him in a minute about his new |
| 0:30.5 | book, which is slightly more sophisticated than that joke. Not hard. Not hard. Plus, we'll speak |
| 0:35.6 | with actor Tony Collette. She stars in the TV show Hostages and is in the recent Nicole Hollif Center film, Enough |
| 0:41.6 | Said. |
| 0:42.6 | Also coming up, singer-songwriter Bill Callahan shares his dinner party soundtrack, and humor |
| 0:47.1 | columnist Celia Rivenbark stands proudly for ketchup. |
| 0:51.0 | Plus, comic artist Joe Sacco, and for dessert, we go Dutch. |
| 0:55.1 | Because it's only fair. |
| 0:55.8 | Tis. |
| 0:59.0 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk. |
| 1:05.3 | And joining us today is perhaps the king of Small Talk, Ben Schott. |
| 1:10.0 | He is author of the best-selling trivia compendium's Shots Miscellany and Shots Almanac. |
| 1:14.6 | Basically, if you memorize either of these books, you will have something to say at any party. |
| 1:15.0 | Indeed. |
| 1:16.9 | His new book is called Schadenfreude. |
| 1:22.0 | It's a dictionary of German words, including newly created ones, that describe actions and feelings for which there are no other means of expression. |
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