Episode 19: Girls, Brando Lore, Meaty Cupcakes

The Dinner Party Download

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2009

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This week: Rico chats up Girls at SXSW… Marlon Brando gets an offer he can refuse… and Brendan is forced to rethink his jihad against cupcakes (Hint: it involves meatloaf).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.
0:05.0	Okay, here's a joke.
0:07.0	Why didn't the lifeguard save the hippie?
0:12.0	See, it was too far out, man.
0:14.0	I'm Rico Galliano.
0:19.0	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles, this is the Dinner Party Download,
0:25.6	the show that helps you win your next dinner party.
0:27.6	Our icebreaker this week came from Christopher Owens of the San Francisco band Girl.
0:32.6	Sweet.
0:33.6	Yes. Later on you'll hear the interview we taped with them at the South by Southwest Music Festival.
0:38.7	But first, time for small talk.
0:45.1	So Rico, this week, floods in Fargo, subway fare hike in New York,
0:49.6	there's a Hooverville of tents that's growing in Sacramento.
0:52.4	It's like some kind of madness in March.
0:55.0	And then there is March madness.
0:57.3	I guess there is that.
0:58.4	Yeah, it's pretty under the radar.
0:59.9	Speaking of which, as usual, we asked our colleagues at Marketplace to tell us about some news
1:05.4	stories.
1:06.1	The folks at your dinner party won't have heard.
1:09.4	Stacey Vanek-Smith, senior reporter at Marketplace, what are you
1:12.6	going to be talking about this weekend? Food auctions. What is a food auction? Well, it's just like a
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