Episode 129: The List Show
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2011
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week: We celebrate the year’s end with an all-list show. Film critic A.O. Scott explains the art (and anxiety) behind list-making… The Colbert Report’s Opus Moreschi curates the year in comedy… sleeper hit films… Lists with identity crises… And the Onion lists the year’s top news stories that never happened. Plus, a glimpse of the future feat. jetpacks, platefuls of bark, and your favorite artists of *next* year (like Jhene Aiko and the XX).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | A baby seal walks into a club. That's my favorite joke. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:16.0 | 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. |
| 0:24.6 | You just got a joke from Tim Burton, director of many films, including The Nightmare Before Christmas, |
| 0:29.2 | which is on our producer Jackson Muskers list of best films ever. |
| 0:33.4 | And that's appropriate because this is our first annual, very special end-of-the-year list show. |
| 0:39.7 | We will be hearing from David Wallachinsky, author of the famous book of lists, |
| 0:43.7 | plus master listmaker A.O. Scott, film critic for the New York Times. |
| 0:47.6 | Also, The Onion shares their list of this year's best fake news. |
| 0:51.1 | Fader magazine lists songs you'll be listening to next year. |
| 0:54.8 | We list food trends. The list goes on and on really yeah but first the news list except you're |
| 1:00.5 | actually listening to a podcast so you get to skip the news you luckies I'm Brendan |
| 1:08.9 | Francis Nuneum I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 1:11.6 | Welcome to the dinner party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 1:16.6 | And this is our first annual list show, where we look back on 2011 and ahead to 2012 through the lens of lists. |
| 1:22.6 | Yes. |
| 1:23.6 | Now there are to-do lists. |
| 1:25.6 | Do not call lists. |
| 1:26.6 | Negative guest lists. Negative guest lists. |
| 1:28.3 | Negative guest lists. |
| 1:29.3 | I don't know what that is. |
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