Episode 209: Herb Alpert, Chuck Klosterman, and Big Stars
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2013
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Writer Chuck Klosterman grapples with villains…   Music legend Herb Alpert grapples with your etiquette questions… Comedian Tig Notaro learns a lesson after losing her wisdom teeth… Filmmaker Drew DiNicola tells us why cult rockers Big Star never quite lived up to their name… Documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker does call it a comeback… The Frenchman behind the bikini […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | Here's a joke for you. What you've been up to, Jamie? |
| 0:08.0 | Not much. I went for a job interview the other day. |
| 0:10.0 | How'd you get on? |
| 0:12.0 | He was all right. The guy asked me what I thought my biggest weakness was. |
| 0:15.0 | And what did you say? |
| 0:16.0 | Told him it was honesty. |
| 0:17.0 | Doesn't sound like much of a weakness to me. |
| 0:19.0 | I don't give a monkeys what you think. I don't give them monkeys what you think. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:32.6 | a culture show that helps you win your week's dinner parties. |
| 0:35.6 | You just got a joke from Jamie White and Matthew O'Toole of pop band Etu Busei. |
| 0:39.9 | It's almost a skit. |
| 0:40.8 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:42.0 | They're touring the West Coast next month. |
| 0:43.8 | Later in the show, we'll chat with writer Chuck Closterman about grappling with villains in his new book, |
| 0:48.0 | I Wear the Black Hat. |
| 0:49.2 | Also coming up, we hear from metal band Death Heaven from comedian Tignitaro. Plus, you'll hear music legend |
| 0:55.3 | Herb Alpert make this noise while giving us advice about etiquette. It's a paradox. Yes. |
| 1:02.0 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. All week long, you've been hearing |
| 1:09.1 | these headlines. George Zimmerman says he will not take the stand in his own murder trial. |
| 1:14.0 | Democratic proposal that would have extended current rates on subsidized student loans failed to make it through the Senate. |
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