Episode 179: Beck, Modern Family Values, and Love’s Songs
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Pop star Beck Hansen’s new album looks great on paper… Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson of “Modern Family” offers etiquette advice… Darlene Love, singer of Xmas soul classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” lists non-awful yuletide tunes… We sing the praises of Leonard’s Cohen’s “Hallelujah”… Top chefs debate if food should come with footnotes… and we learn how “Gone With The Wind” brought Jimmy Carter and MLK together. Plus: paper beats air, a nutty joke, and Destiny’s *other* child.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | I have, you know, my kids tell jokes. Like, how do you catch a squirrel? |
| 0:10.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:11.0 | You climb in a tree and act like a nut. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:20.0 | I am Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, the culture |
| 0:25.3 | show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:28.3 | You just got a joke from pop star Beck Hansen. |
| 0:30.4 | You probably just call him Beck. |
| 0:32.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.2 | That will help break the ice. |
| 0:34.0 | He is a new album of sheet music out and that's no joke. |
| 0:36.9 | No it's not. |
| 0:37.4 | We will be speaking |
| 0:38.0 | to him about it later. Also coming up, Darlene Love, singer of one of the great holiday |
| 0:42.3 | hits, lists some non-annoying Christmas tunes. We learn the history of hallelujah. |
| 0:47.4 | Hallelujah. |
| 0:48.1 | Yes, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson from the sitcom Modern Family is here with etiquette tips. |
| 0:53.6 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk. |
| 0:59.5 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:02.1 | Ravi Shankar has died at age 92. |
| 1:04.5 | North Korea launched a long-range missile. |
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