Episode 303: Amy Schumer, Cokie Roberts, Kurt Cobain in His Own Words
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week: Peabody Award-winning comedian Amy Schumer talks on the wild side… NPR correspondent Cokie Roberts celebrates our female forebears, then offers some civil advice … A new documentary is at home with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain… Improv wizard and general smartypants Greg Proops challenges three brains to a battle… Nashville’s hot chicken lives up to […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party download. |
| 0:04.2 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Here's a joke that my English teacher mother would approve of. |
| 0:10.0 | Knock knock. |
| 0:12.0 | Who's there? |
| 0:13.0 | To. |
| 0:14.0 | To whom? |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:25.0 | This is the Dinner Party Download, Culture, Food, and Humor to fuel your party conversations. |
| 0:29.8 | You just got a joke from author Heidi Julevitz. |
| 0:32.3 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:33.7 | We'll hear more from her later. |
| 0:34.8 | Plus, we speak with comedian Amy Schumer about sexism, God, and the deviants who run public radio. |
| 0:40.5 | Wait, who told her about us? |
| 0:41.9 | I think my leather mask was a dead giveaway. |
| 0:43.8 | Don't wear that to work. Also, coming up, we speak with the director of a new documentary about Kurt Cobain. NPR's own Koki Roberts tells us how to behave. |
| 0:52.8 | And comedian Greg Proops lists the smartest people in the world. |
| 0:56.4 | You might be one of them, but first, as at any party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:03.1 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:05.5 | Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont launching his bid for the presidency. |
| 1:09.5 | Baltimore's mayor and police faced harsh public criticism after a night of rioting. |
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