Episode 1: The Watson Twins, Dillinger, Hot Sauce

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2008

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This week: indie-folk duo The Watson Twins shares their secret fantasy…A short history of John Dillinger… How to mix an Old-Fashioned cocktail… Taste a hot sauce 8 times more potent than pepper spray.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.
0:04.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	What do you call a deer with no ice?
0:08.0	I don't know, what?
0:10.0	No idea.
0:11.0	From KPCFM in Los Angeles, this is the Dinner Party download,
0:19.0	the show that gives you talking points and bes to help you win your next dinner party.
0:23.6	This week's icebreaker came from hot indie folk duo The Watson Twins.
0:27.3	We'll be speaking with them later, but first, as with any dinner party, we start off with
0:31.4	small talk.
0:36.4	Your friends are going to bring up certain topics at this weekend's party.
0:39.3	We're about to tell you what those topics are, and more importantly, how to respond.
0:43.3	We're going to help you put the un-in unconventional wisdom.
0:46.3	Topic number one, Barack Obama's World Tour.
0:49.3	He was greeted by like 200,000 people in Berlin.
0:52.3	Iraqi President Maliki all but endorsed his troop withdrawal plan.
0:56.0	But of course, what everyone's going to be talking about is that he sunk a three-point shot on a basketball court in Kuwait on his first try in front of the entire world press corps.
1:07.0	What can you add to that?
1:07.9	What can you add to that? Clearly, John McCain can't shoot a three-pointer from downtown.
1:12.0	No.
1:12.5	John McCain can't even shoot a basketball.
1:14.7	Probably not.
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