Holiday Bonus: Frolic with Molly Ringwald and Friends
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2014
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
We’re issuing you a holiday bonus — in the form of an extra podcast. We know, it’s what you wanted most of all. So we’ve wrapped up the contents of our recent Holiday Frolic live event staged in Los Angeles. You’ll hear an extended version of the B.J. Novak story and conversation from last week’s […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Brendan Francis Nunes. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to a special podcast-only, super-duper, holiday edition of the Dinner Party download. |
| 0:12.0 | That's right, consider this a belated Hanukkah present or an early Christmas or Kwanza gift, whatever's your preference, and it is just for you podcast listeners. |
| 0:20.0 | Today you're going to hear highlights from our recent live holiday frolic. |
| 0:23.6 | It took place a few weekends back at KPCFM's Crawford Family Forum in Pasadena, California. |
| 0:28.6 | That's right, and in addition to a hundred or so fans in the house were some of our |
| 0:32.6 | and our audience's favorite past DPD guests of honor, as well as a couple of stellar musical acts, all of whom are coming up. |
| 0:38.9 | But first, let's hear from our headliners, us. |
| 0:42.2 | This is how Rico and I open the show. |
| 0:44.2 | It's our dinnerbody download, Frollic. |
| 0:46.0 | So thank you for being here. |
| 0:47.7 | We hope you've already done plenty of frolicing. |
| 0:50.2 | However you interpret that to mean, for public radio types, it generally means reading the New Yorker until we fall asleep. |
| 0:57.6 | Or not recycling. |
| 0:58.9 | Oh my God, that's crazy. |
| 1:00.3 | Anyway, it's a holiday show, and as media people, we want to say that this is a time of year when the media just kind of slacks a little bit. |
| 1:07.6 | Reporters are about to take vacations. They don't want to work too hard, so what |
| 1:11.3 | do they do? |
| 1:12.3 | They make lists. |
| 1:13.3 | They make lists. |
| 1:14.3 | You know, best of the year list, top ten lists, and it gets click bait. It gets people riled |
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