Episode 161: Gustavo Dudamel, Rob Corddry, and Terms of Service
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Classical music superstar Gustavo Dudamel conducts an interview… “Children’s Hospital” creator/star Rob Corddry prescribes etiquette advice… “Schott’s Miscellany” author Ben Schott on food service slang… author John Brandon perks up his wolf ears… “Darth Vader and Son” cartoonist Jeffrey Brown lists some soulful sci-fi… and rocker King Tuff suggests a party playlist. Plus: Debbie Millman on design, Madeleine Brand gets dreamy, and the uplifting history of the escalator.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | So here's a joke from my son. Why did the chicken cross the road? |
| 0:11.0 | Because he wanted to get in the oven. |
| 0:14.0 | I know it doesn't appear to make sense, but maybe for chickens it does. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Rico Galeano. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, |
| 0:29.8 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:33.0 | You just got a joke from comic artist Jeffrey Brown's Son's Brain. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah. That'll help break the ice. Brown's son's brain. Yeah. |
| 0:37.6 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:39.1 | Brown's book, Darth Vader and son is out now. |
| 0:41.5 | We'll hear from him later. |
| 0:42.8 | Also coming up, a chat with superstar conductor Gustavo Dutamel. |
| 0:46.5 | Plus, we've got comedian Rob Cordry, misbehaving while telling you how to behave. |
| 0:51.5 | And Ben Schott, author of Schott's Miscellany, tells us what your waiters |
| 0:54.8 | saying about you behind your back. But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:02.4 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. Who is Mitt Romney going to pick as his running mate? |
| 1:07.7 | The U.S. women's soccer team won the Olympic gold beating Japan 2 to 1. |
| 1:11.7 | NASA engineers are still giddy after a successful landing on Mars. |
| 1:15.3 | Now for a story you might not have heard. |
| 1:17.5 | We are speaking with Madeline Brand. |
| 1:19.0 | She is the host of the Madeline Brand show on KPC in Los Angeles. |
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