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The Dinner Party Download

Episode 300: DPD Special!

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6821 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week: To celebrate our 300th episode, we’re telling the DPD origin story! You’ll hear pieces of our first-ever episode (yes, spooky)… highlights from format-busting conversations with Spike Lee and Elaine Stritch… Advice (and jeers) from our public radio peers… Behind-the-scenes tales that we’ve never shared before… And a chat with two very special guests, […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.

0:05.0

This is your icebreaker.

0:07.0

What do you call a deer with no ice?

0:09.0

I don't know, what?

0:10.0

No idea.

0:16.0

It's not a bad joke, right?

0:17.0

Yeah, I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. We should introduce ourselves.

0:20.0

That's right, and I'm Rico Gagliano, and this is the Dinner Party Download's 300th episode.

0:25.6

You just heard the first Icebreaker joke we ever aired.

0:28.6

That's right.

0:29.6

It's one piece of episode one.

0:30.6

We'll be playing other pieces of it in this 20 minutes to come.

0:34.6

Yes, and the thing I love also about what we just heard is how you introduce the show.

0:38.9

It's like, welcome to the dinner party download.

0:41.6

Like get ready to be murdered.

0:43.5

On our, I do.

0:45.5

Upbeat party show.

0:46.5

Yeah.

0:47.5

And I was living in LA at the time, all that sunshine, and yet I was sounded dour.

0:52.0

By the way, we should note this episode will probably be especially appreciated by the old

0:56.0

school folk who've been listening for a long time.

0:58.0

If you're new to the show, you're going to have a good time too.

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