Episode 3: David Carr, Lolita, Wine Snobs

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2008

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This week: author/columnist David Carr discusses ping-pong as a contact sport… Lolita turns 50, but she’s still too young… and how to defraud wine snobs.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download.
0:04.2	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	There's a million drummer jokes.
0:07.7	They all stink, and this one does too, but I think it stinks a little less than most.
0:12.4	It's, how can you tell the drummer in a band?
0:15.6	And the answer is the one that had to pay a cover charge to go to his own gig.
0:19.9	Shh. Shh. The one that had to pay a cover charge to go to his own gig.
0:21.4	Sh!
0:30.6	From 89.3, KPCC in Los Angeles, this is the Dinner Party Download, the show that gives you talking points and bowlmose to help you win your next dinner party.
0:34.3	This week's Icebreaker came from our guest of honor, author in New York Times columnist David Carr. We'll be speaking with him later, but first, as with any dinner
0:42.1	party, we start off with small talk. You're going to be talking about the week's news
0:50.0	at this weekend's party. Who better to tell you which news is worth bringing up than the people who report it?
0:55.2	So we decided to speak with our colleagues
0:56.7	over at Public Radio's business show, Marketplace.
1:00.6	George Judson, managing editor of Marketplace.
1:03.7	What story came across your desk this week
1:06.1	that you are definitely going to be talking about
1:08.2	at your dinner parties this weekend?
1:09.9	John McCain's houses.
1:11.2	Yesterday, two reporters asked him, how many houses do you own?
1:14.3	He said, I'm not sure I'll have my staff get back to you.
1:17.7	Are you kidding?
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