Episode 111: TV on the Radio, Moonicorns, and Sophisticake

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2011

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week: TV on the Radio explains why it’s raining milk…The Sun talks craziness about the moon…And we treat ourselves to the cake to end all cakes. Plus, a joke from actress Claire Sloma and a fierce new track from Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.
0:04.0	What do you call a line of rabbits hopping backwards?
0:08.0	A receding hairline.
0:11.0	I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:16.0	I'm Brendan Francis Nune. And from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party download.
0:22.2	The show that helps you win your next dinner party.
0:24.5	Our icebreaker this week came from Claire Sloma, one of the stars of the coming of age film,
0:28.9	The Myth of the American Sleepover.
0:30.8	That's out now.
0:31.3	All right.
0:32.1	And coming up, TV on the radio, a bottle under the desk, Brendan's snack of snacks, and tigers.
0:38.1	Oh my.
0:39.1	But first, small talk.
0:43.1	All week long, you've been hearing this?
0:45.0	The fall of Tripoli and the slow demise of the Gaddafi regime.
0:48.6	Yesterday's earthquake rocked much of the East Coast.
0:51.3	Steve Jobs has stepped down as the CEO of Apple.
0:54.5	Now for something you haven't heard, we're joined by Julie Gerstein.
0:57.4	She is a writer for the women's pop culture site, Thefrisky.com.
1:00.5	Julie, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend?
1:03.7	The Oxford English Dictionary this week released its new list of words that they have taken
1:09.2	out of the dictionary.
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