Episode 307: Alison Bechdel, Chuck Palahniuk, Colleen
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show: Alison Bechdel — whose graphic memoir “Fun Home” is now a 12-time Tony-nominated musical — tells us how she gets comfy, with her life on stage… “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk schools us in prank-ology, to celebrate his new sequel… The Posts tackle some especially hairy etiquette hang-ups… We tune into […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, here's my joke. What does a nosy pepper do? |
| 0:10.0 | It gets jalapeno business. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:21.9 | This is The Dinner Party Download, the culture show that helps you win your dinner parties. |
| 0:25.9 | You just got a joke from author Mia Alvar. |
| 0:28.1 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:29.6 | She's releasing a new collection of stories called In the Country. |
| 0:32.3 | We'll hear more from her later. |
| 0:33.6 | Plus, we chat with award-winning graphic novelist Alison Beckdell. The musical adaptation of her book |
| 0:38.4 | Fun Home is up for 12 Tony Awards. Also coming up, Fight Club author Chuck Pollanick tells us how to change |
| 0:44.3 | society with pranks. French musician Colleen gives us a party playlist and we find out what's good |
| 0:50.2 | to eat at baseball stadiums. Beer and hot dogs. And Parfay is made of pork. |
| 0:56.2 | All right, I'm skeptical. |
| 0:57.3 | But I guess we'll figure it out. |
| 0:58.9 | First, as at any party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:04.5 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:06.9 | Dennis Haster, the former speaker of the house, has been indicted. |
| 1:10.1 | Some residents of Texas are cleaning up from floods. |
| 1:13.0 | Others are being told to evacuate. |
| 1:15.0 | 14 individuals facing corruption charges in a scandal that has rocked the soccer world. |
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