Episode 12: David Fincher, Tom Jones, Mozzarella
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4.5 • 822 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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