Episode 33: Yo La Tengo, Koreanguistics, Killer Greens
The Dinner Party Download
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4.5 • 822 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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