November Archives

• Episode 72: A Three-Course Thanksgiving

  November 25, 2010 2:00 PM

  Episodes

  

  This week, a Thanksgiving meal for your ears, in three courses: Brendan braves the mean streets of NYC to score contraband grilled cheese... Rico daintily dips his tongue into the hottest of hot sauces... and we launch a unilateral war against the cupcake. Read more...

• Episode 71: Sally Hawkins, Fossil Follies, and Chinese Thanksgiving

  November 19, 2010 11:23 AM

  Episodes

  

  This week: UK movie star Sally Hawkins crows about her new film... we unearth the missing drink... and Brendan has an early Thanksgiving in Chinatown. Plus, a joke from Procol Harum's Gary Brooker, and a new track from A-D-D D.J. Girl Talk. Read more...

• The Piltdown Daisy

  Kris Holechek Peters

  November 19, 2010 10:24 AM

  Recipes , lemon juice , lime juice , mint leaves , pisco , simple syrup

  In 1912, English fossil collector Charles Dawson claimed to have found evidence of the 'missing link' between apes and humans -- people called it "Piltdown Man". This week in 1953, news broke that the only thing "missing" from Dawson's discovery was even a single grain of truth. Read more...

• Episode 70: Huey Lewis, Le Situation, and The Birth of Football

  November 12, 2010 12:35 PM

  Episodes

  

  This week: Pop 'n' soul star Huey Lewis gets dressed... Canada takes out our TV trash... We learn the greatest name in football... Plus Kai Ryssdal kids around and Sonny and the Sunsets supply a tune. Read more...

• The Black and Gold

  Kris Holechek Peters

  November 12, 2010 10:15 AM

  Recipes , chambord , limoncello , sours , vodka

  This week in 1892, William "Pudge" Heffelfinger put the "pro" in pro football. Read more...

• Episode 69: Chris Morris, Black Bart, and Getting Your Goat

  November 5, 2010 1:35 PM

  Episodes

  

  This week: Brit actor/director/provocateur Chris Morris terrorizes US movie screens... Black Bart's last verse... and urban farmers get their goats. Plus, Curative new music from Crystal Castles, and an-"other" joke. Read more...

• The Annuity

  Kris Holechek Peters

  November 5, 2010 10:08 AM

  Recipes , brandy , egg white , honey syrup , lemon juice

  This week in 1883, gentleman thief Black Bart finally botched a job...after pulling off 27 stagecoach robberies. The lyrical larcenist left poems - but never dead bodies - at the scene of his crimes. Read more...

Sponsor

Latest Episode

Episode 72: A Three-Course Thanksgiving

• iTunes
• Listen
• Download

Twitter

Tweets by @dinnerpartydnld

Sponsor

About The Show

• 

  The Dinner Party Download is a fast and funny ‘booster shot’ of news and culture designed to help you dazzle your friends and family at this weekend’s dinner party. Hosts Rico Gagliano and Brendan Francis Newnam set the table every Friday. Hear what our guests are saying about us inside... more

Sponsor