Episode 30: Gary Hustwit, Krakatoa and Foraging

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2009

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This week: Filmmaker Gary Hustwit has designs on Honeybaked ham… Krakatoa bursts without pride… and Brendan breaks the two-second rule with a professional forager.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download.
0:03.8	This is your icebreaker.
0:05.8	Okay, so a guy goes to the doctor, and the doctor tells him, I'm sorry, sir, but you're going to have to stop engaging in self-love.
0:15.2	And the guy says, why?
0:17.3	And the doctor goes, well, sir, because I'm examining you.
0:24.2	I'm examining you. I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:25.9	And I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:27.4	And from the Frank Stanton Studios in Los Angeles, this is the dinner party download,
0:31.6	the show that helps you win your next dinner party.
0:33.7	This week's icebreaker came from Luke Burbank, host of America's second favorite podcast,
0:38.8	Too Beautiful to Live. Here, here. And later we'll be hearing from our guest of honor,
0:42.3	documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit. But now it's time for Small Talk.
0:50.5	So, Brendan, this week, Senator Ted Kennedy said, hey, everybody's doing it and passed away.
0:55.9	Sad but true.
0:56.9	The CIA torture memos were released.
0:59.3	Sad but true.
1:01.4	And I guess they redacted the part about self-torture because Ben Bernanke accepted a second term as Fed chairman.
1:08.9	Guy's a sucker for punitive.
1:10.2	That's got to be up there with being the O'Dul's girl at Mardi Gras as far as worst jobs.
1:15.6	Anyway, before Rico and I pass away, we asked our friends at Marketplace to tell us about some stories that weren't in the headlines.
1:21.6	Phyllis Owens' commentary editor for Marketplace.
1:25.6	What's your story this week?
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