Episode 266: Kevin Spacey, Ruth Reichl, Todd Snider and Elephant
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week: Stage and screen star Kevin Spacey channels Richard III (and Bill Clinton)… Food icon Ruth Reichl has us eating her words… Folk-rocker Todd Snider meets Tony Bennett in an unlikely place… English pop duo Elephant come together to DJ a dance party… Pluto gets discovered, gets a name – and then gets demoted […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | What did the grapes say when the elephant stepped on him? |
| 0:10.0 | He just let out a little wine. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Rico Galliano and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:24.5 | the show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:26.8 | You just got a joke from Food Writer, Food Icon, Ruth Rachel. |
| 0:30.5 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:31.9 | We'll talk with her later about her new novel, Delicious. |
| 0:35.1 | Plus, we chat with actor Kevin Spacey about Shakespeare, House of Cards, |
| 0:39.3 | and Bill Clinton. I love that House of Cards. Oh, no, it's good. I'll tell you why. |
| 0:44.1 | Crazy. And if that sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show that |
| 0:48.3 | first aired in May. So cast Remind, back to spring, when, as at any dinner party, we started |
| 0:53.9 | with Small Talk talk all week long |
| 0:58.3 | you've been hearing these headlines l a clipper's owner donald sterling is out disney has announced |
| 1:03.9 | the cast of star wars episode seven an extraordinary wave of violent weather unfurling across the eastern |
| 1:10.0 | third of the country. |
| 1:10.9 | Now for a story you might not have heard, we are speaking with Stacey Vanek-Smith. |
| 1:14.4 | She is senior reporter at the excellent public radio business show Marketplace. |
| 1:18.9 | Stacey, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
| 1:21.8 | Well, there was a big feud in Hawaii over what the official state instrument should be. |
| 1:27.0 | Was it like a ho-down? |
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