Episode 55: Molly Ringwald, Esperanto, and Raven #2
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2010
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This week: ’80s teen icon Molly Ringwald barks like a dog (and talk about her new book)…William Shatner speaks the language of hope… And Brendan eats corn smut.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. |
| 0:03.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | So this is an adaptation from an old, heavy, young man joke. |
| 0:09.0 | Two blondes are taking a helicopter up for the first time, |
| 0:12.0 | and they get up about 100 feet, and it comes crashing down, |
| 0:16.0 | and everybody runs up towards, it, is what happened. |
| 0:18.0 | And one of the blondes says, well, it it got cold up there so I turned off the fan I'm Brendan Francis Noonam I'm Rico Gagliano and from |
| 0:29.5 | American Public Media this is the dinner party download the show that helps you |
| 0:33.7 | win your next dinner party our icebreaker this week came from playwright and |
| 0:37.0 | celebrated father Frank Gagliano. |
| 0:39.5 | Yes. |
| 0:40.5 | You can find his book, Anton's Leap on Amazon, and he can find his son sitting right across from me. |
| 0:44.7 | Cool Dad's Rule. |
| 0:45.9 | And coming up, Molly Ringwald, Universal Language, Fizz, shoegazing, corn smut, and the suburbs made cool. |
| 0:53.7 | But first, time for small talk. |
| 0:59.1 | So, Brendan, the theme this week in the news was, tell us something we don't know. |
| 1:04.3 | The Arizona immigration law caused a bunch of controversy just before it was enacted. |
| 1:09.7 | Surprising. |
| 1:10.4 | I can't believe it. |
| 1:11.5 | Also, Representative Chuck Rangel got charged with ethics violations. |
| 1:15.5 | Whoa. |
| 1:15.8 | Now, that's weird. |
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