Episode 72: A Three-Course Thanksgiving
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2010
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This week, a Thanksgiving meal for your ears, in three courses: Brendan braves the mean streets of NYC to score contraband grilled cheese… Rico daintily dips his tongue into the hottest of hot sauces… and we launch a unilateral war against the cupcake.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:04.0 | Here's a joke. Two sausages are laying in a pan together, and one sausage looks at the other sausage and goes, |
| 0:10.0 | Hey man, I think it's getting hot on here, and the other sausage looks at him and goes, |
| 0:13.0 | Oh my God, a talking sausage! |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano and from American Public Media. |
| 0:23.6 | This is the Dinner Party Download, the show that helps you win your next dinner party. |
| 0:27.6 | You just got a food-related joke from Buck A.E. Down of Rock Carnival, The Mutator, to break the ice. |
| 0:33.6 | And coming up, in honor of Thanksgiving, a three-course meal of stuff you don't know about grilled cheese, hot sauce, and donuts. |
| 0:40.6 | You know, the holiday classics. |
| 0:42.1 | Yum. |
| 0:42.5 | Let's do this. |
| 0:45.7 | So, it being Thanksgiving, we thought we'd put together some of our favorite main course segments from past episodes, including some oldies that you might have missed. |
| 0:54.2 | And actually, it's the weekend after Thanksgiving, so leftovers seem totally appropriate. |
| 0:58.7 | That's true. |
| 0:59.9 | But these are delicious. |
| 1:01.1 | Indeed. And here's the first item, illegal grilled cheese. Nothing tastes better than crime. |
| 1:06.7 | A few months back, we learned about a guy in New York City known only as Ronnie. |
| 1:18.0 | You text him, tell him where you are, and a few minutes later, he delivers you a grilled cheese sandwich, which is exactly what Brendan did. |
| 1:20.7 | Okay, I'm here on location in the Lower East Side. |
| 1:25.8 | I just texted this number, and I just told him where I was, and I'm waiting here back. |
| 1:30.2 | Oh, I just got a text back. He says, I'm on a delivery, |
| 1:38.9 | be there in 15 minutes. All right. I can wait. So it's been about 10 minutes. And now every time we look around, I think I see Ronnie. Is Ronnie a kid with alabaster legs that look like |
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