Episode 172: Stephin Merritt, Vengeance Eating, and Alka-hol
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Stephin Merritt’s attraction to love… Actress Amy Brenneman adjudicates listener etiquette… A vengeful lunch with Joel Stein… an Alkaholic drink… Neil deGrasse Tyson defends space… Bill Plympton’s favorite animation… and a 3-song prescription from Dr. Dog. Plus: Aggie yells, a Dinner Party Timeout, and a cross-word joke from singer Cate le Bon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. |
| 0:04.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, I've got a joke for you. |
| 0:08.0 | Two nuns are driving and a vampire jumps out in front of the car. |
| 0:14.0 | And one nun says to the other, |
| 0:16.0 | Quickly Mary, get out and show me across. |
| 0:18.0 | So Mary gets out the car and says to the vampire, I am so angry with you right now. |
| 0:27.3 | That'll show him. I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. And from APM, American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:38.3 | You just got a joke from Welsh singer-songwriter Kate LeBahn. That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:42.3 | She just wrapped up a fall tour. Coming up, we'll speak with Stephen Merritt of the band The Magnetic Fields, who just launched a fall tour. |
| 0:49.1 | It's an interview we taped last March, and in fact, this whole episode is an is an encore rebroadcast from back then. |
| 0:54.8 | We promise it's even better the second time. |
| 0:56.6 | But first, cast your mind back to last winter, when, as at any dinner party, we started with small talk. |
| 1:04.9 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines? |
| 1:07.1 | Davy Jones, the lead singer of the monkeys, has died. |
| 1:10.0 | Friday's parliamentary election in |
| 1:11.6 | Iran is the first national election since 2009. And the Oscar goes to the artist. Now for something |
| 1:19.5 | you haven't heard, we turn to Jake Silverstein. He is the editor-in-chief of the Texas Monthly. |
| 1:23.9 | Yes. Jake, what's story you going to be talking about down there this weekend? Well, the story that has really dominated the conversation this whole week and last week |
| 1:31.5 | in Texas has been the bid of a woman named Samantha Ketchum to become the first female |
| 1:36.4 | yell leader at Texas A&M University. |
| 1:39.0 | Yell leader. |
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