Episode 54: Venus Williams, Wrong Turns, and Cloud Control

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2010

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week: Tennis superstar Venus Williams lives long and prospers…Texas criminals get literate…And a befuddled (or brilliant!) aviator takes a wrong way turn into the history books. Plus, rocker Cass McCombs on cloud control.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:02.0	And I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:04.0	We just wanted to give you a heads up that this week's show may sound a little different than usual.
0:07.0	That's right.
0:08.0	That's partially because due to popular demand, we're finally putting out a show every single week.
0:13.0	God bless America!
0:14.0	Yes.
0:15.0	But there's still only two of us producing the thing.
0:17.0	Alas.
0:18.0	That's right.
0:19.0	So here's the thing. Alas. That's right. So here's the deal. You will still get the same 20-minute DPD you know and love every two weeks.
0:23.6	Thank heavens.
0:24.6	But in between you will get a shorter episode.
0:27.6	Like the one you're about to hear.
0:28.6	That is correct.
0:29.6	It's like your mom watched your favorite DVD episode and left it a little too long in the dryer.
0:33.6	Yes.
0:35.6	Except as you'll see, it's still beautiful. Welcome to the dinner party download. This
0:41.4	is your icebreaker. Yeah, I got jokes. So what do you call a mainstream cloud? The Stratus Quo.
0:56.1	I'm Brendan Francis Nune.
0:57.7	I'm Rico Gagliano, and from American Public Media, this is the dinner party download,
1:03.0	the show that equips you with everything you need to win this weekend's dinner party.
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