Episode 53: Sebastian Junger, Evil Machines, WWII Food

The Dinner Party Download

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4.5 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2010

⏱️ 20 minutes

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This week: Sebastian Junger joins Afghanistan’s band of brothers… a devilish Okie spawns the parking meter… and Rico gets a (tiny) taste of rationed food during WWII. Plus, a joke from author/satirist Gary (“Absurdistan”) Shteyngart… and Cults to join.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.
0:03.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:05.0	I grew up in the Soviet Union, so I have some Brezhnev jokes.
0:08.0	We all grew up with those.
0:09.0	So it's 1980, and Brezhnev is the head of the Communist Party.
0:13.0	He's the leader. He's completely senile.
0:15.0	And he has to get up on the podium and deliver the opening speech to the Moscow Olympics.
0:19.0	He crawls up to the podium, and he looks at the sheet of paper in front of him.
0:23.6	He says,
0:24.6	Oh, oh, oh, oh.
0:28.6	And then his assistant runs up to him and says,
0:31.6	Comrade General Secretary, those are just the Olympic rings.
0:34.6	I'm Rico, Galliano. I'm Brendan Franci. Those are just the Olympic rings.
0:40.5	I'm Rico, Galeano.
0:45.8	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download.
0:48.3	The show that helps you win, your next dinner party.
0:52.0	Our icebreaker this week came from celebrated author Gary Steingart.
0:53.6	Look for his new book coming out in August. I haven't heard a Brezhnev joke since Brezhnev.
0:56.5	Coming up, journalist Sebastian Younger, The Limits of Unlimited Comic Stamps,
1:00.5	The Most Evil Machine in the World, Cold Lahoma, War Rations, and Cults.
1:04.9	But first, time for Small Talk.
1:10.7	All right, Rico, this week, three stories that have dominated the news all summer long are going to be leaving the front page.
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