Episode 48: Marisa Silver, ‘Rob Me Ronnie’, Parasite-aurants

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This Week: Celebrated author Marisa Silver exorcises her right to write… We go on the lam with Ronnie Biggs… and Brendan discovers a sandwich shop inside a bodega wrapped up in an enigma.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.
0:04.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	Here's my joke.
0:08.0	Um, a guy walks into a bar.
0:11.0	Ouch.
0:12.0	I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:17.0	I'm Brendan Francis Noonam, and from American Public Media,
0:20.0	this is the dinner party download.
0:22.7	The show that helps you win your next dinner party. Our icebreaker this week came from our guest of
0:27.0	honor, the O. Henry Award winning author, Marissa Silver. Believe it or not, we'll be speaking with her later.
0:32.4	I believe it. Why don't you believe that? It's not a very literary joke. It's a very short job. Coming up, Apple is for lovers, pork detectors, a punk rock train robber, vet exorcist, paraciterants, and a tune that tickles us pink.
0:44.0	But first, time for small talk.
0:49.8	So, Rico, lots of scary things happened in the news this week.
0:52.7	Yeah, you're telling me.
0:56.0	Besides your tooth being removed. That's right, I got a tooth extraction.
0:58.0	That was the headline pretty much for me.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:01.0	So much more important than the guy who nearly blew up Times Square.
1:03.0	That is true.
1:04.0	That was not good either.
1:06.0	Also more important than the hole in the ocean floor left there by a broken oil rig that is now gushing oil all over
1:12.4	the already battered Gulf Coast.
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