Episode 252: Marc Maron, Philippe Petit, and Soylent
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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This Week: Marc Maron gives etiquette AND time-travel advice… Graphic novelist Mimi Pond lists criminals, spies, and other bohemians … “Man On Wire” tightrope-walker Philippe Petit explores creative chaos… “The Descendants” author Kaui Hart Hemmings tells a new tale… load up on Kleenex ’cause here comes SADvertising… the history of the least respected trophy in […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | There's this old guy. He's sitting fieldside at the Super Bowl by himself and there's an empty seat next to him. |
| 0:12.0 | And some guy behind him says, why is there an empty seat? Why don't you sell that seat? You could have made a lot of money. |
| 0:17.0 | The old guy's like, that's where my wife usually sits and she's passed |
| 0:21.6 | away. And then the guy goes, don't she have any friends that could have gone with you to the |
| 0:27.6 | game? And the old guy goes, they're all at the funeral. I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Brendan Francis |
| 0:37.0 | Nuneum. And from APM, American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, the culture show that helps you win this week's dinner parties. |
| 0:44.3 | You just got a joke from comedian Mark Maron. That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:48.3 | The new season of his TV show, Marin, launched this week. He'll come by later to offer life advice. |
| 0:53.3 | If you can believe that. |
| 0:54.6 | Also coming up, French Wirewalker Philippe Petit, cartoonist Mimi Pond, and more. But first, |
| 1:00.5 | as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:05.4 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:07.6 | The spotlight shining on Nigeria now to bring back our girls. Veterans Affairs |
| 1:12.8 | Secretary Eric Shinseki is refusing to step down amid criticism of the agency's health care |
| 1:17.7 | record. The NBA's new MVP, Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now for something you |
| 1:23.0 | might not have heard, we are joined by Sadie Stein. She is a contributing editor at the Paris Review. |
| 1:28.5 | Sadie, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
| 1:31.1 | I thought we could talk about sadvertising. |
| 1:35.8 | Sabvertising? These are like Craigslist ads for lonely people? |
| 1:39.1 | Not even. Well, I don't know if you watched the Super Bowl this year, but, and this is something |
| 1:43.6 | which was recently chronicled in an article in the magazine Fast Company. |
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