Dinner Party Download
The company that brings you A Prairie Home Companion and Marketplace serves up The Dinner Party Download - a fast and funny "booster shot" of news and culture designed to help you dazzle friends and family at this weekend's dinner party. In every 10-minute episode ...
The company that brings you A Prairie Home Companion and Marketplace serves up The Dinner Party Download - a fast and funny "booster shot" of news and culture designed to help you dazzle friends and family at this weekend's dinner party. In every 10-minute episode you'll learn a joke... Get the week's major headlines... Bone up on some history... Drink in a cocktail recipe... Meet an artist of note... Savor an emerging food trend... And hear your new favorite song. Plus unconventional wisdom from hosts Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam. This weekend, don't just attend your dinner party - win it. Bon appetit.
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Episode 270: James McAvoy, Jon Favreau, and Emma Straub
This week: Actor James McAvoy (of "X Men" and "Filth") ...
This week: Actor James McAvoy (of "X Men" and "Filth") flies the Scottish flag ... Writer-director Jon Favreau cooks up a foodie film ... Top author of the summer Emma Straub keeps the vacation going forever ... Indie pop duo Sylvan Esso score your ...
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Episode 269: Mel Brooks, Greta Gerwig, and AC Newman
This week: Comedy legend Mel Brooks reanimates "Young Frankenstein" then ...
This week: Comedy legend Mel Brooks reanimates "Young Frankenstein" then offers priceless etiquette advice (warning: may include death threats, flatulence, gallows humor, and uncontrollable laughter)... Actress Greta Gerwig ("Frances Ha") tries a lov ...
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Episode 268: Daniel Radcliffe, Benjamin Booker, and 'The Narcissist Next Door'
Actor Daniel Radcliffe's favorite language ... NOLA rocker Benjamin Booker's ...
Actor Daniel Radcliffe's favorite language ... NOLA rocker Benjamin Booker's wild party ... The era when your granddad's music was super-rebellious ... Emily Post-approved place-settings for palaces (and regular restaurants) ... Novelist Edan Lepucki ...
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Episode 267: Elisabeth Moss, Alice Waters, George Takei, Jon Wurster
Elisabeth Moss' supernatural surprise ... Taking on George Takei .. ...
Elisabeth Moss' supernatural surprise ... Taking on George Takei .. Jon Wurster drums in some etiquette lessons ... An apple a day won't keep Alice Waters away ... We dig up the story of Daguerreotypes ... Greg Poehler is an American fish in an cold ...
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Episode 266: Kevin Spacey, Ruth Reichl, Todd Snider and Elephant
This week: Stage and screen star Kevin Spacey channels Richard ...
This week: Stage and screen star Kevin Spacey channels Richard III (and Bill Clinton)... Food icon Ruth Reichl has us eating her words... Folk-rocker Todd Snider meets Tony Bennett in an unlikely place... English pop duo Elephant come together to DJ ...
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Episode 265: Pharrell, Carrie Brownstein & Fred Armisen, and Much MØ
This week: Portlandia duo Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen open ...
This week: Portlandia duo Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen open up about hot-tubs, underwear, and weddings ... Music multi-hyphenate Pharrell Williams explains his 'exotic rainbow' of 'Happy'-ness ... Danish electro-pop phenom Mø spins us a party ...
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Special Live Performance from Teenage Fanclub!
Scottish indie rockers Teenage Fanclub joined us for a recent ...
Scottish indie rockers Teenage Fanclub joined us for a recent live event with Merge Records. We asked them to cover some of their favorite songs, and to perform one of their own. This internet exclusive gives you a bit of that performance.
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Episode 264: Margaret Atwood, Tim Gunn, and Hulk Hogan: Hero
This week: literary giant Margaret Atwood is prepared for giant ...
This week: literary giant Margaret Atwood is prepared for giant bears... Tim Gunn returns, just in time for Project Runway's 13th season debut, to save listeners from the 'comfort trap'⦠Guitarist Steve Gunn (no relation to Tim, as far as we know ...
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Episode 263: Bill Nye, David Crosby, and Our Big Party in Big Sur
Bill Nye The Science Guy takes us on a trip ...
Bill Nye The Science Guy takes us on a trip around outer space ... Seventies singer-songwriter David Crosby gets spiritual about redwoods ... Ghost-hunter Richard Senate spins some California spookiness ... Novelist John Brandon takes us into the wil ...
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Episode 262: Scarlett Johansson, Billy Eichner, and Slint
This week: Scarlett Johansson muses on ol' blue eyes and ...
This week: Scarlett Johansson muses on ol' blue eyes and earthly aliens ... Comedian Billy Eichner takes etiquette to the streets ... We catch up with 90's alt stars Slint ... A baseball game everyone wanted to lose ... Terrifying Easter bunnies, bro ...
