Episode 33: Yo La Tengo, Koreanguistics, Killer Greens

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2009

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week: Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan pulls out his organ… We get a hangul on Korean literate-ture… and “Food, Inc” director Robert Kenner gives Rico an industrial food complex.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	I, yeah, I got jokes. So what do you call a mainstream cloud?
0:12.0	The Stratus Quo.
0:16.0	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:21.6	I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:23.3	And from 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles, this is the dinner party download, the show that helps you win your next dinner party.
0:30.5	Our icebreaker this week came from indie-tunesmith Cass McCombs.
0:33.9	Thanks, Cass.
0:34.6	Thank you, Cass.
0:35.3	We think.
0:36.1	And later we'll be speaking with Hoboken's finest,
0:39.4	Ira Kaplan of the band Yolatango. Wait a second. Isn't Frank Sinatra? He's dead. Okay. It's not okay.
0:46.2	But first, small talk. So Rico, this week's news came from opposite land.
0:55.3	No, it didn't.
0:56.0	Exactly.
0:56.8	Okay.
0:57.6	Gourmet magazine increases its circulation, looks better than ever, gets canceled.
1:02.4	David Letterman admits he's a creepy boss on air.
1:06.0	On television.
1:06.8	Rating sore.
1:07.7	So we should take note of that.
1:09.0	And the U.S. ranked 29th in the world in infant mortality, with 8 million people uninsured,
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