Episode 42: Author Joshua Ferris, the Real Bonfire of the Vanities, and Snowcavores
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4.5 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2010
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Joshua Ferris talks the walk… Renassance Italy burns in vain… and Rico learns what locavores do when it snowcavores.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. |
| 0:04.5 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.3 | Here's a joke for you. |
| 0:08.1 | This Jewish man calls his mom, says, |
| 0:10.1 | Hey, Mom, I'm getting married. |
| 0:11.8 | He goes, oh, hey, that's wonderful. |
| 0:13.5 | There's a mom, just for fun. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm going to come over and bring three girls. |
| 0:16.7 | And you see if you can guess which one I'm getting married to is my fiancé. |
| 0:20.4 | So, okay. |
| 0:22.2 | So he brings over three pretty girls. |
| 0:23.2 | They sit on the sofa. |
| 0:24.8 | Mom talks to him for about a minute. |
| 0:26.6 | She goes, it's the one on the right. |
| 0:28.0 | That's amazing, Mom. |
| 0:28.6 | How do you know? |
| 0:29.9 | She goes, I don't like her. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm Rico G Nuneum. I'm Rico Goliano. And from American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, the show that helps you win your next dinner party. |
| 0:45.3 | Our icebreaker this week came from Robert Zuckerman. |
| 0:51.2 | He takes photos on the sets of movies like Transformers and National Treasure, a job that I didn't even know existed. |
| 0:54.5 | And trust us, his photos are far better than those movies. |
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