Episode 35: Laura Veirs, Jonathan Safran Foer and King Tut

The Dinner Party Download

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2009

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This week: Musician Laura Veirs breathes deep… author Jonathan Safran Foer pigs out… and we discover King Tut’s last hut.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download.
0:04.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	All right, here's a joke for you.
0:07.0	It's a kid joke.
0:09.0	Two men were flying in an airplane.
0:11.0	Unfortunately, one fell out.
0:13.0	Fortunately, there was a haystack.
0:15.0	Unfortunately, there was a pitchfork in the haystack.
0:18.0	Fortunately, he missed the pitchfork.
0:20.0	Unfortunately, he missed the haystack. Fortunately, he missed the pitchfork. Unfortunately, he missed the haystack.
0:26.0	I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:27.6	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:29.2	And from the Frank Stanton Studios in Los Angeles,
0:31.5	this is the Dinner Party Download,
0:33.4	the show that helps you win your next dinner party.
0:35.5	Our icebreaker this week came from Stuart Brand.
0:38.1	He edited the Whole Earth Catalog and wrote the new book, Whole Earth Discipline.
0:42.2	Coming up, Lara Veers, Hotels in Space, King Tut, Jonathan Safran 4, and Deep Purple.
0:48.3	Let it never be said we didn't give you everything we had.
0:51.9	It's all here in this little cast.
0:53.4	But first, time for small talk.
0:59.3	So, Brendan, the headlines this week were full of massive surprises. Okay. In the World Series,
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