Episode 135: The Shins, Lovable Fools, and Boardwalk Empires
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2012
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week: The Shins’ James Mercer blows the lid off a government cover-up… author Krys Lee’s inspired immigrant tales… An Oscar-nominated Undefeated team… Emily Post’s offspring get aggressive-aggressive… a tourist’s guide to a city you can’t visit… and Victorian puddings on the rise (plus a recipe). Plus: The weirdest bands of the year, a kiddie joke from Youth Lagoon, and a prescription for dull dinner parties from Dr. Dog.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. |
| 0:04.3 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, so this is a very stupid and horrible joke. |
| 0:08.9 | I heard it as a little kid. |
| 0:11.4 | Here it goes. |
| 0:12.7 | Why don't Batman and Robin go fishing more often? |
| 0:16.1 | Because Robin eats all the worms. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Rico Galliano. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, |
| 0:28.9 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:32.2 | You just got a charmingly bad joke from musician Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon. |
| 0:36.7 | That'll help break the ice. Youth |
| 0:38.3 | Lagoon's on tour now. Later, we'll speak with the directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary |
| 0:42.8 | Undefeated. Which is about our radio careers. No, it is not. No, it's not. But also coming up, |
| 0:47.7 | we have the Shins. They have a new album coming out, and we'll speak with their frontman James Mercer. Plus, an excerpt from author Chris Lee's new book, and we |
| 0:55.4 | learn why Brits are fools for fools. But first, the news. Not for you, though, people of |
| 1:01.6 | podcast town. You take the express train straight to the show. I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Brendan Galeano. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nune. |
| 1:12.5 | Welcome to the dinner party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend |
| 1:15.9 | conversations. |
| 1:16.9 | In a few minutes, in honor of this weekend's Grammy Awards, music writer Andy Herman gives |
| 1:21.5 | us his list of the weirdest bands of the year. |
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