Episode 2: Girl Talk, Ein Berliner, Patriotic Fruit
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2008
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This Week: the artist known as Girl Talk tells us about his explosive high school band… A short history of Jesse Owens… How to mix a “Berliner Olympic” cocktail… An introduction to the All-American fruit most Americans have never tasted. [Photo: Girl Talk performs live at the Virgin Festival, August 2007. Credit: Joe Cereghino]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | Here is my girlfriend's signature joke. |
| 0:09.0 | What do you call cheese that's not yours? |
| 0:13.0 | Nach cheese! |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Brendan Nuneum. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Rico Galliano. |
| 0:21.9 | From 89.3, KPCC in Los Angeles, this is the Dinner Party Download, the show that gives |
| 0:27.0 | you talking points and balmoes to help you win your next dinner party. |
| 0:31.0 | This week's Icebreaker came from our guest of honor, the mashup musician known as Girl |
| 0:34.3 | Talk. |
| 0:35.3 | We'll be speaking with him later. |
| 0:36.4 | But first, as with any dinner party, we start off with Girl Talk. We'll be speaking with him later, but first, as with any dinner party, |
| 0:38.3 | we start off with Small Talk. |
| 0:43.8 | Your friends are going to bring up certain topics at this weekend's party. We're about to tell you |
| 0:48.1 | what those topics are, and more importantly, how to respond. We're going to put the un in conventional |
| 0:53.2 | wisdom. Topic number one, Anthrax. |
| 0:56.0 | Army scientist Bruce Ivans, the guy suspected of sending that poison in the mail back in |
| 1:00.0 | 2001, killed himself before he could go to trial. |
| 1:03.0 | What can we add to that conversation? |
| 1:05.0 | Well, first of all, Rico, a trial did happen this week, and it was of Osama bin Laden's driver. |
| 1:09.0 | And it looks like he's going to serve a little under six months in prison. |
| 1:12.8 | Not a lot. |
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