Episode 171: Ben Gibbard, Jens Lekman, and Fake Presidents
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Ben Gibbard, of the band Death Cab For Cutie, goes solo… Political comedian W. Kamau Bell lists his favorite fake presidents… Swedish rocker Jens Lekman tells of his fake almost-marriage… Advice for debate-watchers and couch-crashers from the Emily Post Institute kids… Top chef Michale Cimarusti makes a big deal about little fishes… and John Paul Getty III’s ear-ie kidnapping. Plus: a new track from Kanye West, the science of disgusting, and trampolines ‘cross the Seine.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Dinner Party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | All right, you're ready? How do you get 50 Canadians out of a swimming pool? |
| 0:09.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:11.0 | Everyone out of the pool, please. |
| 0:16.0 | I am Rico Galliano. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner |
| 0:22.7 | party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. You just got a joke from |
| 0:27.2 | Aaron Britt, deputy editor of Dwell Magazine. That'll help break the ice. If you're not at a Canadian |
| 0:32.1 | dinner party. That is true, although they'll be polite about it. Probably. We will be speaking with Aaron later, and we'll also be talking with Ben Gibbard from the band Death Cap for Cutie. |
| 0:40.6 | He has a new solo album out this week. |
| 0:42.7 | Also coming up, comedian W. Camal Bell shares a list of political fakes. |
| 0:47.3 | Swedish musician Jens Leckman tells us a story about a fake marriage, |
| 0:51.0 | and Emily Post's great-grandchildren stop by and tell us how to fake being polite. |
| 0:55.0 | Which works the same as actually being polite. |
| 0:56.9 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:02.7 | All week long, you've been hearing these news headlines. |
| 1:05.3 | The second debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney is done. |
| 1:09.4 | Newsweek, at least the print version, is going away in 2013. |
| 1:13.6 | A big miss from Google and a big decline more than 7% for the stock today. Now for something |
| 1:20.1 | you might not have heard, we turn to Aaron Britt. He is a new father and he is the deputy editor |
| 1:24.5 | of Dwell magazine. Aaron, when you're not hanging out with your kid, |
| 1:27.8 | what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
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