Episode 57: Gary Shteyngart, Guitars go Electric, and Killer Fries
The Dinner Party Download
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4.5 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2010
⏱️ 19 minutes
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This week: Celebrated novelist Gary Shteyngart doggedly pursues mental health… A history lesson you can crank to eleven… and Rico learns French Fries know no limits.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:01.0 | And I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey, listener out there, did you know that iTunes doesn't let you charge for podcasts? |
| 0:07.0 | True story. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, it's not that we want to charge for our show. |
| 0:11.0 | No way. |
| 0:12.0 | But if we were a band, and let's be honest, the show is nothing except us living out our band |
| 0:16.5 | fantasy. |
| 0:17.5 | If that hasn't been clear to you now, I don't know what is. |
| 0:19.0 | This is as close as we get, folks. But if we were a band, lots of people would buy our songs for 99 cents. |
| 0:24.4 | And lots of people would download them illegally. |
| 0:26.5 | But the point is, we'd at least have some money to cover the bills around here. |
| 0:29.7 | That's true. |
| 0:30.3 | The episode you're about to hear is our 57th episode, which is like the equivalent of four full-length albums. |
| 0:36.3 | Or 20-10 inches. |
| 0:38.3 | Which means right about now we'd be rehab millionaires working on some overwrought concept |
| 0:42.8 | album that people would only like in retrospect. |
| 0:46.1 | But we're not doing that. |
| 0:47.6 | We're just creating more dinner party downloads than ever, one a week for at least the next |
| 0:52.7 | month or so. |
| 0:53.7 | During that time, we have a chance to show our bosses that people value the DPD. You can't pay for us on iTunes. The only way you can do it is by going to our website. It is www.dinnerparty download.org and making a contribution. If any of our anthems, power ballads, or summer jams have ever made you smile, |
| 1:12.3 | then please send us a few bucks at dinner party download.org. |
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