Episode 148: Santigold, Manly Manners and a Pilgrim’s Process

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American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2012

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week: musician Santigold pines for a day job…Time’s gonzo humorist Joel Stein offers some manly etiquette tips…Three ancient art treasures we HAVEN’T found…Rico visits crawfish country…Shakespearean theater worth fighting for…Writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus walks us through pilgrimages…Plus, humor from Violens, Sendak remembered, and the canine brain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker.
0:05.0	What was the kitten's favorite 80s song?
0:08.0	What?
0:09.0	Careless whiskers.
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.
0:25.4	You just got a joke from George Elbrick and Ido Arad from the band Violins.
0:29.7	That'll help break the ice.
0:31.0	And help induce groans, too.
0:32.4	All the above.
0:33.3	Yeah.
0:33.9	Their new album True comes out next week.
0:36.2	Later, we'll speak with pop singer Sontiold about her new album, Master of My Make Believe.
0:40.3	Also coming up, we've got Time Magazine's resident humorist Joel Stein here to answer
0:45.2	your etiquette questions.
0:46.7	We hear a new tune from Passion Pit.
0:48.6	We have a remembrance of Maurice Sendak by a modern master of kids illustration.
0:53.4	And writer Gideon Lewis Krauss schools us on his
0:56.1	pilgrimages.
0:57.5	But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk.
1:03.5	All week long, you've been hearing these stories.
1:06.0	Voters in France electing their first socialist president in almost two decades.
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