Episode 128: The Best of 2011

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2011

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week: We celebrate the best of 2011 Hear Guest of Honor interviews with Spike Lee, Carrie Brownstein, and Randy Newman… groove to disco godfather Nile Rodgers’ tale of the birth of “Le Freak”… feast on a heart-stopping sandwich and a 100-year-old egg… toast Sweden’s turn to the right… ponder a bigger Small Talk… then set your New Year’s playlists with Song Of The Year picks from listeners like you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Dinner Party.
0:04.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	Knock Knock.
0:07.0	Who's there?
0:08.0	Panther.
0:09.0	Panther.
0:10.0	Who?
0:11.0	Panther, no panthe. I'm going swimming.
0:13.0	I'm Rico Galliano.
0:18.0	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:20.0	And from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives
0:24.6	you an edge in your weekend conversations.
0:26.9	You just heard a joke from Chas Bundyck, the man behind the band Toro Imois.
0:31.5	That'll help break the ice, especially when you tell folks our listeners voted that as the
0:36.1	best joke we've had on the show all year.
0:38.3	Yes, that's called Keeping the Humor Bar Low, folks.
0:41.3	But fear not, we've kept the bar high for the rest of the episode.
0:45.3	It's our annual Best Of show featuring our favorite segments and interviews of the year.
0:49.3	Coming up, you'll hear from director Spike Lee, musician Randy Newman, and Carrie Brownstein
0:54.3	of the hipster macken TV show, Portlandia.
0:57.2	But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk.
1:03.2	Now, usually at this point in the show, we bring in a journalist to tell us about one
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