Episode 49: Wallace Shawn, FBI vs. Louie Louie, No Kidding
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2010
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This week Wallace Shawn critiques power and Brendan…the FBI investigates Louie Louie…and RIco chats with a restarauteur who’s not kidding around.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. |
| 0:04.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | So, uh, panda bear walks into a bar, looks at a bartender and he says, |
| 0:10.0 | I'll have a gin and tonic. |
| 0:14.0 | The bartender says, all right, but I gotta ask you, why the pause? |
| 0:19.0 | He says, I don't know. I was born with him. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from American Public Media, |
| 0:29.6 | this is the Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:31.6 | the show that helps you win your next dinner party. |
| 0:33.6 | Our icebreaker this week came from Jason Rhine, |
| 0:36.6 | bases for the band, Rotary Downs. |
| 0:38.6 | And coming up, actor and author Wallace Sean, dumb mascots, the FBI versus Garage Rock, adult food for kids, and Tweed Music's Last Trot. |
| 0:48.0 | But first, everybody, it's time for Small Talk. |
| 0:54.4 | You're very excited about Small Talk today. |
| 0:56.4 | Just mixing it up, man. |
| 0:57.4 | It's good to see. |
| 0:58.1 | Secret to a long romance. |
| 0:59.7 | So, Brendan, this week, the headlines all seem to come from the discount bin. |
| 1:05.3 | Where lots of Elton John albums live. |
| 1:07.3 | That's right. |
| 1:07.8 | And where now Arlen Spector lives, after the primaries, he's going to be working for cheap. |
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