Episode 92: Vera Farmiga, Going Dutch, and the Birth of Spam
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2011
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This week: Actress Vera Farmiga has a productive year… We learn who to blame for online SPAM… And Rico goes Dutch… Plus, a joke from author T.C. Boyle and a new tune from ace songsmith Cass McCombs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | I've got a joke for you. So I walked into a bookstore and I said to the woman behind the counter, where's the self-help section? |
| 0:12.0 | And she said, well, if I tell you that, it's going to defeat the purpose. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Rico Galeano. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. |
| 0:23.2 | And from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, the show that helps |
| 0:28.1 | you win your next dinner party. |
| 0:29.5 | Our icebreaker this week came from author T.C. Boyle. |
| 0:32.5 | His latest book is called When the Killings Done. |
| 0:34.9 | And coming up, actress Vera Farminga. |
| 0:37.3 | We can hear you now. Who drew first spam Dutch vittles? called When the Killings Done. And coming up, actress Vera Farminga. |
| 0:38.4 | We can hear you now. |
| 0:42.3 | Who drew first spam, Dutch vittles, and county line. |
| 0:44.1 | But first, time for small talk. |
| 0:48.5 | All week long, you've been hearing this? |
| 0:51.2 | Barry Bonds has been convicted of obstruction of justice. |
| 0:55.9 | Egypt's chief prosecutor has ordered former president Hosni Mubarak to be detained. |
| 1:01.2 | We cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. |
| 1:04.1 | Now for something you haven't heard, we turn to Richard Lawson. |
| 1:05.8 | He is a staff writer for Gawker. |
| 1:08.1 | Richard, what are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
| 1:13.6 | I'm going to be talking about Paul Markarelli, the Can You Hear Me Now guy and his sort of sad fate. |
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