Episode 305: Blondie, Oscar the Grouch, Thomas Vinterberg

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week: The band Blondie talks mod style and hoarding habits… Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg ponders the vicissitudes of fate – and then yodels… Oscar the Grouch deigns to give us etiquette advice (DON’T thank him for it)… Comedian Maz Jobrani gets his dream gig, with a nightmarish caveat… We digest some Knish Knowledge… British […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download.
0:04.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	Hey, this is me, the grouch.
0:09.0	Oscar the grouch.
0:10.0	Here's a little joke for you.
0:12.0	Okay, here, get ready. Brace yourself.
0:14.0	What do you call cows who have no legs?
0:19.0	You ready for the answer? Ground beef.
0:22.6	Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
0:26.6	I never mind.
0:28.6	I never liked you anyway.
0:32.6	I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:34.6	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party download,
0:40.6	the show that helps you win your dinner party.
0:42.7	You just got a joke from Oscar the Grouch.
0:45.2	I'm not sure how we tricked him into that.
0:46.9	That'll help break the ice.
0:48.2	We will hear more from him later.
0:49.8	Plus, we speak with another New York icon, Blondie.
0:52.9	But this week's show isn't all about the Big Apple.
0:55.6	Coming up, Danish director Thomas Winterberg, British musical duo public service broadcasting,
1:01.0	and Iranian-American comic Maz Jabrani.
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