Episode 42: Author Joshua Ferris, the Real Bonfire of the Vanities, and Snowcavores

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 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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