Episode 302: Mark Ronson, Young Fathers, ‘War Fries’

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week: Mark Ronson makes a new Macarena, dissects the many roles of a modern-day music producer… Writer Amelia Gray imagines a world of competitive grieving… Scottish hip-hop artists Young Fathers – winners of the Mercury Prize for Best 2014 British Album – deejay a deep dinner party… The Posts return with gripping advice … […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker.
0:05.0	Here's an interesting knock-knock joke. I learned this one from my favorite, five-year-old.
0:10.0	Knock-knock.
0:12.0	Who's there?
0:13.0	Avocado.
0:14.0	Avocado who?
0:15.0	Please let me in. It's cold outside, and I have no food to feed my family.
0:19.0	I'm Rico Gallup. cold outside and I have no food to feed my family.
0:25.3	I'm Rico Galeano.
0:29.0	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneman from APM American Public Media.
0:30.8	This is the Dinner Party Download,
0:34.0	the culture show that helps you win your week's dinner parties.
0:36.2	You just got a joke from author Amelia Gray.
0:37.3	That'll help break the ice. Pretty bleak for a five-year-old. They grow up fast. We'll hear more from Amelia later. Plus,
0:42.3	we'll speak with producer and songwriter Mark Ronson about his hit album Uptown special.
0:46.7	Also coming up, a brief history of rain. We learn war may be hell, but war fries are delicious.
0:52.5	Indeed. And young fathers, they're a Scottish hip-hop outfit, not a support group.
0:56.4	Give us a party playlist.
0:57.8	But first, does it any dinner party?
0:59.6	We start with Small Talk.
1:03.3	All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.
1:05.8	The Senate confirmation of Loretta Lynch, the next attorney general.
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