Episode 130: Wim Wenders, Liszt Lists, and Live Long and Proper
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2012
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week: Director Wim Wenders speaks body language… Star Trek’s George Takei takes etiquette to warp factor five… A list about Liszt, from world-renowned pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet… Kathleen Turner’s fiery new role… Third Wave Coffee… Existential humor… And finally, we learn how to play dead from a corpse – and then how to come back to life from Guided By Voices.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | How many existentialists does it take to screw in a light bulb? |
| 0:08.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:09.0 | Two. One to screw it in, and one to observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a single incandes |
| 0:14.0 | a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in another world of endless absurdity reaching out toward a mottland cosmos of nothingness. |
| 0:20.0 | Got that? endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness. |
| 0:25.6 | Got that? I'm Rico Galeano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. And from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, |
| 0:30.6 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:34.6 | You just got a joke from Kaysini Cushup, author of the brand new graphic novel, Tina's mouth. That'll help break the ice, if you can remember it. Later, we'll speak with Vim Vendors, director of the new 3D dance movie Pina. Yes, legs and leotards just shooting off the screen. That's scary. Also, coming up, Kathleen Turner channels the ghost of Molly Ivans, and Star Trek's Mr. Sulu is here with etiquette tips. |
| 0:57.6 | But first, some Earth news. |
| 0:59.5 | Except for you, podcast people. |
| 1:01.3 | Skip news and go directly to show. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 1:10.9 | Welcome to The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 1:16.0 | Later, one of the world's greatest concert pianist tells us about his favorite rock star. |
| 1:20.1 | Here's a hint. |
| 1:20.9 | He did his best work in the 1840s. |
| 1:23.1 | Ah, Abe Lincoln. |
| 1:24.6 | No, but I love Abe's early stuff. |
| 1:26.9 | So honest. And coming up some old school |
| 1:29.9 | hip-hop history, complete with alliteration. But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
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