Episode 278: Audra McDonald, Thomas Jefferson, and Haggis in the U.S.A.
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Broadway star Audra McDonald is about to launch a national tour; here’s how not to decorate for her welcome party … 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 … […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. |
| 0:04.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Here's my joke. |
| 0:08.0 | What washes up on tiny beaches? |
| 0:11.0 | Microwaves! |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:23.3 | This is The Dinner Party Download, Culture, Food, and Humor to Fuel Your Party Conversations. |
| 0:28.1 | You just got a joke from author Tiffany Unique. |
| 0:30.6 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:32.1 | Her book, Land of Love and Drowning, is out now. |
| 0:34.7 | Later in the show, we'll speak with actor and singer Audra McDonald. |
| 0:37.8 | She's about to head out on tour after having won her record sixth Tony Award. |
| 0:41.8 | She's got a whole cabinet just full of Tony Polisher. That's true. And people get ready, |
| 0:46.6 | because in a few minutes, the band, people get ready, we'll be here with a party playlist. |
| 0:50.8 | Boy, if that all sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of an episode that we first aired in July. So cast your mind back to a time when your sweaters were still stowed in the back of the closet. When, as at any dinner party, we started with small talk. |
| 1:06.3 | Now for a story you might not have heard, we are speaking with Aaron McCann. She is assistant news editor at The Guardian. Erin, what story are you going to be talking about this week? |
| 1:15.3 | I am here to talk about air travel. |
| 1:17.6 | Air travel. So this is an uplifting story. |
| 1:19.6 | Aw. |
| 1:20.6 | Aw. |
| 1:21.6 | Oh, I didn't mean that as a fun, guys. I meant that as a sarcastic commentary on modern travel. I only half believe you. But, |
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