Episode 321: Run The Jewels, Elizabeth Gilbert, Pauline Black
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week: Hip-hop duo Run The Jewels explains the cat sounds in their new album… Graphic novelist Adrian Tomine tells us why he writes about confused dads… “Eat, Pray, Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert gives us passive-aggressive advice… Ska legend Pauline Black of The Selecter spins us a spunky and soulful soundtrack… We learn about the […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | And Adam walks into a bar. There's actually no one there, really, except for the bartender who's cleaning glasses in the corner and the Adam starts looking underneath the tables and the stool. |
| 0:15.0 | The bartender looks at him and says, can I help you with something? |
| 0:19.0 | And the Adam says, I was here last night, and I lost an electron. |
| 0:22.9 | I know I left it here. |
| 0:24.7 | And the bartender says, are you sure? |
| 0:26.7 | And the atom says, I'm positive. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Rico Galliano. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party |
| 0:39.0 | Download, the show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:41.8 | You just got a joke from writer Sloan Crosley. |
| 0:44.0 | That'll break the ice. |
| 0:45.0 | We'll hear more from her later. |
| 0:46.5 | Plus, we'll speak with hip-hop duo Run the Jewels. |
| 0:49.2 | Also coming up, graphic novelist Adrian Tomina, novelist Elizabeth Gilbert, and Pauline Black, who is not a novelist, but is a scum music pioneer. |
| 0:58.2 | But first, it's a party, you see, so we start with small talk. |
| 1:03.8 | All week long, you've probably been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:06.7 | Russia says it launched 20 airstrikes and hit eight ISIS targets in Syria. |
| 1:11.4 | Congress managed to pass a measure that will keep the government open. |
| 1:14.3 | The EPA is toughening regulations on ground level ozone. |
| 1:17.9 | Now for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Sadie Stein. |
| 1:20.6 | She is a contributing editor at the Parish Review, which has its new autumn issue out, Sadie. |
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