Episode 298: Aubrey Plaza, Laura Marling, Scharpling & Wurster
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Actress Aubrey Plaza needs no introduction (because she’s got it memorized)… Singer-songwriter Laura Marling has a soundtrack for evenings warm and chilly… Writer Jon Ronson looks at shaming on social media and sees our modern pillory… The comic duo Scharpling & Wurster take our etiquette segment to the strangest of places, which might be a city […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | So here's a joke for any five-year-olds that might be listening. What do you call a ponies cough? |
| 0:13.0 | A little horse! |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party |
| 0:25.6 | Download, the culture show that helps you win your week's dinner parties. |
| 0:29.7 | You just got a joke from essayist Megan Dom, her provocative new anthology, selfish, shallow, |
| 0:34.2 | and self-absorbed is out next week. |
| 0:36.2 | It is better than that joke. Later, |
| 0:38.1 | we'll speak with actor Aubrey Plaza about starring in the new Hal Hartley movie Ned Rifle. Also coming up, |
| 0:43.5 | comedians Tom Sharpling and John Worcester provide cheese steak etiquette. Singer-songwriter Laura Marling |
| 0:48.7 | suggests songs for a tiny dinner party, and author John Ronson talks about public shaming in the |
| 0:53.9 | Internet age. |
| 0:55.0 | And shame on you if you don't stick around to hear all that. |
| 0:57.0 | First though, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:00.0 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:05.0 | Yemen's embattled president has left his country under Saudi protection. |
| 1:08.0 | Investigators looking into the final moments of German Wings Flight 9525. |
| 1:13.1 | Doughton Abbey's sixth season will be its last. |
| 1:16.5 | And now for a story you might not have heard. We are speaking with her friend Anna Sale. |
| 1:19.8 | She is the host of Death, Sex, and Money. That is a podcast from WNYC about the aforementioned topics. |
| 1:25.9 | Anna, what story are you going to be talking about at parties this week? |
| 1:29.5 | I want to talk about the fancy bus in San Francisco. |
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