Episode 133: Chairlift, Megadeth on Etiquette, and the Food Olympics
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2012
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week: Musical duo Chairlift offers us a martini (and some music)…Megadeth politely shreds our etiquette questions…Author-du-jour Ben Marcus says words CAN break your bones…Antonio Banderas plays kitty and creepy…A soldier lost and found – 28 years later…Plus, the latest in men’s fashion, epic Sundance flops, and a joke from crime writer Robert Crais.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:04.0 | Guy walks into a bar and he's got this huge cricket growing right out in the center of his forehead. |
| 0:10.0 | Bartender looks over, does a triple take and says, |
| 0:12.0 | My gosh, man, where did that thing come from? |
| 0:16.0 | Cricket says, I don't know, started as a pimple on my butt. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Rico Galliano. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, |
| 0:29.6 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:32.6 | You just got a not-so-classy joke from the very very classy best-selling crime author Robert |
| 0:38.1 | Krais. |
| 0:38.9 | Not crass. |
| 0:39.8 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:41.1 | His book Taken came out this week. |
| 0:43.6 | Later, we'll hear from the movie star Antonio Banderas, the voice of Puss and Boots, which |
| 0:48.0 | just got an Oscar nomination. |
| 0:49.6 | Also coming up, a dinner party soundtrack from Electro Pop Duo Chairlift and etiquette tips from metal band Megadeth. |
| 0:57.0 | Of course. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | But first, reality. |
| 1:00.0 | And by reality, he means the news, but this is a podcast. We don't do the news. So, next segment. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. Welcome to the dinner party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
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