Episode 120: Chuck Klosterman, Diabolical Hawkes, and Zagats in the Zeitgeist
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American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2011
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This Week: Author Chuck Klosterman tosses aside salad… Rap diva Big Freedia on booty etiquette… And the Zagats guide Brendan through the history of the Zagat guide. Plus, the Beatles’ rooftop concert in first-person, John Hawkes on playing a monster, and a soundtrack from a Little Dragon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | It's an evolutionary joke. So a horse walks into a bar and the barman says, |
| 0:12.0 | why the long face? I told you it was an evolutionary joke. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:30.6 | You just got a joke from Andrew Nicol, director of the new sci-fi film In Time. That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:36.6 | Later you'll learn some things you didn't know |
| 0:38.2 | from author Chuck Klosterman. Yes, he's here to talk about his new novel and why he hates salad. |
| 0:42.9 | We've also got some Halloween treats for you, including actor John Hawks discussing his evil, |
| 0:47.7 | evil character in the new film Martha Marcy May Marlene. All that, plus cocktail recipes and some |
| 0:53.2 | dinner party soundtrack suggestions from the band Little |
| 0:56.0 | Dragon. |
| 0:56.5 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk. |
| 1:03.5 | Here are some of the big stuff people have been talking about in the cultural zeitgeist this |
| 1:08.2 | week. |
| 1:08.5 | Steve Jobs' biography is out. |
| 1:10.5 | Prosecutors rested their case against Michael Jackson's doctor. |
| 1:13.9 | Haruki Morikami's new book, 1Q84. |
| 1:16.4 | Now for something you haven't heard about, we speak with Jessica Cohen. |
| 1:20.3 | She is editor-in-chief of Jezebel, the woman's culture site. |
| 1:24.2 | Jessica, what story are you going to be talking about at dinner parties this weekend? |
| 1:28.0 | You know, guys, part of my job is sifting through the internet. And I see a lot of smoking babies, |
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