Episode 84: Karen Russell, Paar vs. NB(W)C and Stuck-up Employees
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2011
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This week: Author Karen Russell muses about amusement parks… Jack Paar vs. NB(W)C… And Wal-Mart employees get gun-fired. Plus: Nashville-based singer/songwriter Tristen delivers a joke, and a trip to San Pedro via Mogwai.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | Okay, here's a joke. How do you get a songwriter off your porch in Nashville? |
| 0:10.0 | How? |
| 0:11.0 | Pay for the pizza. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:23.4 | the show that equips you to win your next dinner party. |
| 0:26.0 | Our icebreaker this week came from Nashville songwriter Tristan. |
| 0:29.2 | Yes. |
| 0:29.5 | She's touring now for her album Charlottons at the Garden Gate. |
| 0:32.7 | Look out, Gnomes. |
| 0:34.3 | And coming up, Swamplandia author Karen Russell, Jack Parr versus NBWC, a drink to gossip about, |
| 0:40.7 | and hardcore will never die, but you will. There's a positive thought. But before you go, |
| 0:46.8 | time for small talk. All week long, you've been hearing this. An Egypt-inspired uprising in Yemen. |
| 0:55.2 | The budget battles of Washington heated up today. |
| 0:58.0 | Lance Armstrong is retiring from competitive racing. |
| 1:01.2 | Now for something you haven't heard, we're speaking with Pat Morrison. |
| 1:04.1 | She is an L.A. Times columnist and host of her own talk show on KPCFM. |
| 1:08.7 | Pat, what story are you going to be talking about at your dinner parties this weekend? |
| 1:11.6 | I'm still thinking about that suspected shoplifter at a Walmart in Utah. |
| 1:15.6 | He tries to shoplift in that book, and when he pulls a gun on the employees, they take the gun away from him. |
| 1:21.6 | Their reward, they get fired. |
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