Episode 73: Diplo, Tofu U, and Pong Pong

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2010

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This week: Global DJ and music mogul Diplo takes a call… The besotted birth of the video game industry… and Rico gets schooled at America’s most vegan-friendly campus. Plus “medicinal” vodka and a new tune from Cloud Nothings.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.
0:04.6	All right, here's a joke. Did you hear that there's a new restaurant on the moon?
0:08.8	Great food, no atmosphere.
0:15.1	I'm Rico Galliato. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from American Public Media, this is the dinner party download,
0:22.6	the show that equips you to win your next dinner party.
0:24.6	Our icebreaker this week came from Terry DeCastro, she's the former bassist of indie band
0:29.6	The Wedding Present, one of my favorites.
0:31.6	And coming up, Globetrotting DJ Diplo, Electric Eels, The Birth of Pong, Disco drinks.
0:37.5	One of my favorites.
0:38.8	Tofu You and Cloud Nothings.
0:41.3	But first, time for small talk.
0:47.1	So, Brendan, this week in the news, it was all about people visiting enemy territory.
0:51.9	I came back to work after holiday weekend.
0:54.1	That would be one example.
0:55.5	Another one is President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan.
1:00.0	Not three days after visiting Republicans.
1:02.2	Yes, in the DMZ called our Congress.
1:05.7	LeBron James returned to Cleveland after breaking that town's heart by choosing to play in Miami.
1:10.5	Yes, and I know Cleveland wanted him to feel some regret, but it was like 27 degrees that day.
1:15.7	He scored more points than there were degrees Fahrenheit.
1:18.8	He scored 38.
1:19.8	So I think he's happy at this decision.
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