Episode 31: Billy Bragg, Short-Lived Millonaires and Deep-Fried Butter
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4.5 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2009
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week: Billy Bragg makes “Ode” new again… an English Major fails the cough test… and Brendan talks to a cholesterocidal maniac.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. |
| 0:04.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | How many Freudians does it take to change a light bulb? |
| 0:08.0 | Two. One to change the light bulb and the other to hold the penis. |
| 0:12.0 | Ladder. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano. And from the Frank Stanton Studios in Los Angeles. This is the |
| 0:22.4 | dinner party download. The show that helps you win your next dinner party. Our icebreaker this |
| 0:26.8 | week came from our guest of honor musician Billy Bragg. We'll be speaking with him later, |
| 0:30.9 | but first it's time for small talk. |
| 0:37.2 | All right Rico this week in the news, some parents around the country kept their kids home from school so they wouldn't be subjected to the president of the United States of America telling them to work hard and succeed. |
| 0:49.5 | A phrase ripped directly from the pages of Das Kapital. |
| 0:53.2 | That's right, comrade. |
| 0:57.0 | Das Vodanya, Chairman Obama. But Congressman Joe Wilson's parents let him attend an Obama speech, and little Joe acted out. |
| 1:02.0 | No SpongeBob for you this week, Joe. |
| 1:04.0 | That's right, Joe. |
| 1:05.0 | You're on restriction. |
| 1:06.0 | So that's what everyone at your dinner party will have heard about. |
| 1:08.0 | We went around the offices at Marketplace to find out |
| 1:10.8 | about some stories folks won't have heard. But they lie. George Judson, managing editor for Marketplace, |
| 1:17.9 | what's your story this week? How to choose a grocery line? How do we choose a grocery line? The fastest |
| 1:23.0 | line. Well, mathematicians would say it's random. You can't do it. But this is a great world, and someone has taken hours and hours to investigate. |
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