Episode 35: Laura Veirs, Jonathan Safran Foer and King Tut
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2009
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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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