Episode 306: Michael Ian Black, Angel Olsen, Marlon James, Lizzo
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, it’s a special live(ly) edition of the DPD, recorded at the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. Comedian Michael Ian Black comes bearing terrible casseroles and terribly funny etiquette advice… Rocker Angel Olsen plays the lights out… Acclaimed novelist Marlon James remembers the time when his inner diva took center-stage, then introduces […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | So here we go. Why can't you hear a teradactyl in the bathroom? |
| 0:11.0 | Because it has a silent pee. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:22.8 | This is The Dinner Party Download, the culture show that helps you win your week's dinner parties. |
| 0:27.3 | You just got a joke from Rich Summer. |
| 0:29.4 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:31.1 | He played Harry Crane on Mad Men, which of course aired its final episode last weekend. |
| 0:35.4 | Sadly. |
| 0:35.8 | And folks, coming up on the rest of today's show, we've got something really special for you. |
| 0:40.3 | A live edition of the DPD we taped a couple weeks back in front of a thousand or so people |
| 0:45.1 | in beautiful St. Paul, Minnesota. |
| 0:46.8 | Yes, you're going to hear hilarious, terrible etiquette advice from comedian Michael Ian Black, |
| 0:51.3 | a reading from acclaimed author Marlon James, performances from musicians Angel Olson and Lizzo. |
| 0:56.6 | But as is our custom, we started the party with Small Talk. |
| 0:59.8 | We invited Minnesota Public Radio host Carrie Miller on stage to ask her this question. |
| 1:04.6 | Carrie, what story are you going to be talking about at parties this week? |
| 1:08.5 | The great rhino migration from South Africa. |
| 1:13.3 | No, so. |
| 1:14.2 | Yes. |
| 1:14.6 | Have you ever heard of it? |
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