Episode 241: Stephen Malkmus, Doughnuts for Groughnups, and Oscar’s Finest “Act”
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Stephen Malkmus on rock and roll fatherhood … Comedienne Annabelle Gurwitch makes an effort at etiquette …. Rebecca Mead revisits “Middlemarch” … Humble doughnuts get a sophisticated make-over … “The Act of Killing” is a difficult, fascinating, and important film to watch … Angel Olsen takes flight … Clown college admissions decline … […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | What kind of music does a chiropractor listen to? |
| 0:09.0 | Hip pop. Hip pop. Is it getting better? |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:26.6 | the culture show that helps you win this week's dinner parties. |
| 0:29.6 | You just got a joke from comic Annabel Gerwitch that'll help break the ice. |
| 0:33.6 | We'll speak with her later about her new book. |
| 0:35.6 | Plus we chat with musician Stephen Malchmus about his old band, Pavement, and his new band, The Jix. |
| 0:41.0 | Also coming up, the Oscar-nominated film that changed a country, |
| 0:44.5 | What Wine Pairs Best with Donuts, and the history of the first phone book. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm sorry, the phone... |
| 0:50.8 | Book. It's the thing that comes in the mail and you recycle it. |
| 0:53.7 | Oh. |
| 0:56.0 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talks. All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. Facebook |
| 1:03.1 | announced it's going to buy the mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion. This is the worst |
| 1:09.0 | violence in Ukraine since the Soviet Union. American Lauren |
| 1:12.4 | Williams became just the fifth person to win medals at both the summer and winter Olympics. Now for |
| 1:17.3 | something you haven't heard, we are joined by Richard Lawson. He is a calmness for vanity fair.com. Richard, |
| 1:23.7 | thanks for joining us. What story are you going to be talking about this weekend? I'm going to be talking about a troubling American clown shortage. |
| 1:31.2 | This is a true. This is a real thing that's happening. |
| 1:33.5 | Clowns are troubling enough. |
| 1:34.8 | Well, sure. They might haunt your dreams in vast numbers. |
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