Episode 322: Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap, Kurt Vile, J. Kenji López-Alt
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Legendary singer Tony Bennett, with collaborator Bill Charlap, color our world joyful – then compliment Rico’s dad… Rocker Kurt Vile spins a soundtrack for cowboys, outlaws, and toddlers… Mad food scientist J. Kenji Lopez-Alt solves a few kitchen mysteries… The Posts run etiquette circles around us… A fascinating new documentary puts a face […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, here's a joke. Why did the hipster burn his tongue? |
| 0:10.0 | Ooh, why did the hipster burn his tongue? |
| 0:12.0 | He drank his herbal tea before it was cool. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:22.0 | And from APM, American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, an hour of food, culture, and humor to fuel your weekend conversations. |
| 0:29.4 | You just got a joke from Daniel Post-Sening, great-great-grandchild of etiquette-dwyan, Emily Post. |
| 0:34.7 | He's not a hipster. |
| 0:36.1 | He and his cousin Lizzie will be back later to proper advice. |
| 0:38.9 | But before that, music legend Tony Bennett stops by to play travel agent. |
| 0:42.9 | I adore San Francisco. It's one of the best things that ever happened to America. |
| 0:47.4 | Sorry, Oakland. Also on deck, indie rocker Kurt Vial is here with a party playlist. |
| 0:51.7 | Comedian and perennial guest star Fred Stoller tells a tale. |
| 0:55.2 | And David Felix Sutcliffe tells us about terror, his new documentary about an FBI informant. |
| 1:00.6 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:06.1 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:08.4 | Republicans will choose their nominee to succeed John Boehner. |
| 1:11.7 | New guidelines from the World Health Organization call for a change in treating HIV. |
| 1:16.3 | The Nobel Prize for Literature went to a journalist. |
| 1:19.4 | Svetlana Alexievich. |
| 1:20.7 | Now for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Jody Avergan. |
| 1:23.6 | He is host of the weekly podcast. |
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