Episode 260: Audra McDonald, Thomas Jefferson, and Haggis in the U.S.A.
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
She may perform fearlessly, but Broadway star Audra McDonald tells us which party decoration freaks her right out … Thomas Jefferson (well, scholar and radio host Clay Jenkinson channeling Thomas Jefferson) expounds on patriotic decorum … Get ready, people, for a playlist from indie-supergroup People Get Ready … A scoop of new Spoon … Blankets that […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Here's my joke. What washes up on tiny beaches? |
| 0:12.0 | Microwaves! |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from AP p.m. American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party |
| 0:24.6 | Download, the culture show that helps you win your weekend dinner parties. |
| 0:27.6 | You just got a joke from author Tiffany Yannique. That'll help break the ice. Her new book, |
| 0:32.6 | Land of Love and Drowning, comes out next week. And later in the show, we'll speak with actress Audra |
| 0:37.1 | McDonald. |
| 0:37.9 | She's on Broadway now playing Billie Holiday, a role that won her record sixth Tony Award. |
| 0:42.6 | She's got a whole cabinet just full of a word polisher. |
| 0:45.3 | That's true. |
| 0:46.0 | Also coming up, the band People Get Ready, DJ your dinner party. |
| 0:49.5 | Also, I confront my deepest fear, Haggis. |
| 0:52.3 | Sorry, friend, was your turn to do the food segment. |
| 0:55.0 | I'd do what I must. |
| 0:55.8 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:01.7 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:04.2 | To the World Cup, the U.S. is going home. |
| 1:07.1 | The Federal Trade Commission is suing T-Mobile. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm beginning a new effort to fix as much of |
| 1:12.5 | our immigration system as I can on my own. Now for a story you might not have heard, we are speaking with |
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