Episode 12: David Fincher, Tom Jones, Mozzarella

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2008

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This week: Director David Fincher isn’t afraid of the dark… We unite our nation with an All-American cocktail… Brendan is granted an audience with the king of mozzarella… plus a joke from THE Tom Jones.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download.
0:05.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:07.0	A penguin walks into a bar and he says to the bartender,
0:10.0	has my brother been in here?
0:12.0	And the bartender says, I don't know.
0:14.0	What does he look like?
0:15.0	I'm Brendan Francis Noonam.
0:20.0	I'm Rico Gagliano and from 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles, this is the dinner party
0:26.1	download, the show that helps you win your next dinner party.
0:29.1	This week's icebreaker came from Tom Jones.
0:31.6	Tom Freaking Jones.
0:33.6	So, even though it's not quite funny, it's the coolest joke you ever heard.
0:37.1	By the way, he told us a funnier joke, but let's just say he works blue.
0:40.5	Later, we'll be talking with our guest of honor, David Fincher, director of the curious case of Benjamin Button.
0:46.5	But first, as with any dinner party, we start off with Small Talk.
0:54.2	You're going to be talking about this week's news at this weekend's party?
0:57.2	Who better to tell you which news is worth bringing up than the people who reported?
1:00.7	So we took a spin around the American public media offices and talked to our colleagues.
1:06.8	Phyllis Owens, commentary editor for Marketplace.
1:09.3	What are you going to be talking about at your dinner parties this weekend?
1:12.6	Well, this week, Brendan, for me, it's all about the cheese.
1:15.1	The Italian government is buying 100,000 wheels of Parmigiano-Rigiano and Grano-Pedano cheese
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