Episode 318: Salman Rushdie, Alice Cooper, Carly Rae Jepsen

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week: Novelist Salman Rushdie stirs up age-old mischief – and magic… Shock rock legend Alice Cooper tells wild tales of Groucho Marx, Paul McCartney, and his “Hollywood Vampires” crew, then slays us with sensible etiquette advice … Carly Rae Jepsen DJs our party (you’ll really, really like her soundtrack)…. We shed light on the […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.
0:04.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	Okay, here's a joke.
0:07.0	Did you hear about the explosion at the cheese factory?
0:10.0	Everywhere there was debris.
0:16.0	I'm Brendan Francis Noonam.
0:19.0	I'm Rico Galeano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download,
0:24.9	the culture show that helps you win your week's dinner parties.
0:27.4	You just got a joke from writer and actor Julie Klausner.
0:29.9	That'll help break the ice.
0:31.5	Her comedy series, Difficult People just got renewed for a second season on Hulu.
0:35.3	Later in the show, we'll speak with author Salman Rushdie about sex, fatwa
0:39.5	and baseball. What else? Also
0:41.4	coming up, pop star Carly Raid Jepson
0:43.4	provides a dinner party playlist.
0:45.3	I sample Southeast Asia's favorite dessert
0:47.3	and rock and roll Hall of Famer
0:49.1	Alice Cooper is here. He is front
0:51.3	man of a new supergroup and he is going
0:53.2	to answer your etiquette questions.
0:55.0	And tell you all about Groucho Marx's bed. It's true, but first, let's start the party with a little
0:59.4	small talk. All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.
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