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The Dinner Party Download

Episode 63: Davis Guggenheim, Driving then Drinking, The Situation 2.0

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6821 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2010

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This week: Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis (“An Inconvenient Truth”) Guggenheim schools us on his latest movie… We take a trip down memory superhighway… Apple’s got a Situation… and a meta joke.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

0:01.7

And I'm Rico Gagliano, and every week we record our show in the venerable Frank Stanton Studios, home to another little radio show.

0:09.3

It's called Marketplace or something.

0:10.6

Maybe you've heard of it?

0:11.6

Probably not.

0:12.6

Anyway, even though we've been in the business a while, we're still tickled by the fact that we share a studio with one, Kai Rizdahl.

0:17.9

Let's face it, the guy's radio royalty.

0:19.7

In spades. But here's an interesting thing.

0:21.7

After each of his shows, his scripts are put into a little pile. Or rather a big pile.

0:26.3

A big pile. And every time we record here, we stared at gnaw. And it seems like a waste to just

0:31.1

throw it away. So we decided we're going to make you a deal. That's right. If you donate to us at dinnerparty download.org this week and send us an email saying

0:39.3

you've done so, we will select a few lucky listeners to get a page from one of Kai's scripts,

0:45.3

autographed by us.

0:47.3

That's the special part.

0:48.3

Hells, yeah.

0:49.3

No, but a few, Rico, I mean, there are thousands of pages here, man.

0:52.3

I think I say everyone who

0:54.6

donates this week, we will mail you a page from Kaiscript with our autograph. That could be a ton of

0:59.9

work. Who cares? We're not even sure if we're allowed to be doing this. And we have an intern.

1:04.6

So head to dinnerparty download.org. Give what you can. And we'll send you a piece of radio history. Now let's do the number, I mean, here's your icebreaker.

1:12.1

I don't actually have a joke, but years ago I met a very wise old man who told me the

1:18.0

secret to comedy.

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