Episode 21: Stew, Psychedelic Cycling, Culinary Crasher

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2009

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This week: Tony Award-winning rocker Stew ponders art vs. reality… we take a historic bike trip into an *alternate* reality… and Brendan sneaks into the most exclusive culinary shop in the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party download.
0:03.6	This is your icebreaker.
0:05.6	God, he wrote a letter, and he sent it to the post office.
0:09.0	He didn't have an address.
0:09.8	It said, two, the best drummer in the world.
0:12.4	The postmaster didn't know what to do with it.
0:14.1	He asked one of the mailman who happens to be a drummer.
0:17.0	The mailman recommended he sent it to Max Roach,
0:19.3	most famous bebop drummers of all time.
0:21.6	He got the letter in the mail and he was really pleased that they thought of him.
0:24.6	But he also fell, well, I'm not the best drummer in the world.
0:27.6	So he sends it to Jean Krupa.
0:30.6	Gene gets it in New York and of course he feels the same way.
0:33.6	I need to send this on. I'm going to send it to Buddy Rich.
0:36.6	Buddy gets it in the mail.
0:38.3	He is a black-belled and karate. He beats his band members up if they make mistakes.
0:43.1	He'd been waiting for this day all his life. Yes, of course I'm the best drummer in the world.
0:46.8	So he opens the letter, reads the first lines, and it says, Dear Ringo.
0:55.2	I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Rico Goliano.
0:56.9	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles,
1:01.6	this is the Dinner Party Download,
1:03.5	the show that helps you win your next dinner party.
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