Episode 96: Billy Collins, Food Raves, and Wandering Waste

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2011

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week: Former poet laureate Billy Collins talks death and baseball… The lonely journey of the Gar-Barge… And Rico survives a San Fran food rave. Plus, new music from Black Lips, and jokes from a Vivian Girl.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker.
0:04.0	What happened when Ralph Waldo Emerson got too drunk?
0:08.0	What?
0:09.0	He was throwing up. Can I tell another one that is kind of related?
0:13.0	Sure.
0:14.0	Okay. Why couldn't Henry David Thoreau leave his room?
0:17.0	Because he was Walden.
0:19.0	Hi, I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan. room because he was Walden.
0:23.6	I'm Rico Galeano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:25.6	And from APM American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, the show that helps
0:30.6	you win your next dinner party.
0:31.6	You just got some very literate icebreaker jokes from Cassie Ramon of the band Vivian
0:36.6	Girls. I was pretty impressive.
0:38.0	It was, but here's even more impressive. Coming up, we have ex-poet Laureate Billy Collins,
0:43.7	as well as the Garbarge, food raves, and modern art. It's like a little liberal arts program right
0:48.8	here on the show this week. For free. Yeah, I'm impressed by us. All right, first time for small talk. All week long,
0:58.1	you've been hearing this. The Mississippi River hits record high levels. Tigers hurler,
1:02.5	Justin Verlander tossed his second career no hitter. Raj Roger Rottenham, convicted of felony charges,
1:08.1	alleging he made a fortune of insider trades. Now for something you haven't heard, we're speaking with Madeline Brand,
1:13.6	host of the Madeline Brand Show on KPCN LA.
1:16.6	Madeline, what story are you going to be talking about at dinner parties this weekend?
1:20.6	Well, I'm going to be talking about something called the Quark Theory.
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