Episode 234: Best of 2013
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, we ring in 2014 by looking BACK at our favorite interviews of 2013. (Because, yes, we’re punk like that.) You’ll hear “things you didn’t know” from Daniel Radcliffe, Margaret Atwood, and many more… Sounds big and small from reggae legend Jimmy Cliff and They Might be Giants… Writer Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. |
| 0:03.8 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.8 | He's a joke. |
| 0:06.8 | I was raised as an only child, which kind of annoyed my sister. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:22.3 | the culture show that helps you win your week's dinner parties. |
| 0:25.1 | You just got a joke from filmmaker Baz Lorman. |
| 0:27.5 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:29.3 | And believe it or not, our listeners voted that the best joke we aired all year. |
| 0:33.6 | It's true. |
| 0:34.6 | I don't know how it happened. |
| 0:35.6 | And this is our best of 2013 show, just in time for 2014. |
| 0:39.4 | Don't worry, the show gets better. |
| 0:41.0 | Coming up, the best bits of our conversations with folks like Daniel Radcliffe, Laura Duren, Lars |
| 0:45.7 | Ulrich, Nick Kroll, Dan Savage, Margaret Atwood, William H. Macy, and many more. |
| 0:50.5 | Plus, song selections from reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, a story from Elizabeth Gilbert, |
| 0:55.0 | and the odd news of the year. It's like a filet mignon except free. |
| 0:59.5 | Or if you're vegan, it's like glazed lentil walnut loaf. |
| 1:03.5 | That's right, at the side of yoga. And as at any dinner party, we start with small talks. |
| 1:09.0 | This is the part of the show where we talk to a journalist about their favorite odd news story of the week. |
| 1:16.2 | And there were many excellent examples, but here's a few of our favorites, starting with one from Rehan Harmancy, senior editor of the food magazine, Modern Farmer. |
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