Episode 74: Kid Cudi, Starstruck, and Reindeer a la Palin
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2010
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This week: Rap iconoclast Kid Cudi comes in for a check-up… An Alabama woman gets star-struck… And Sarah Palin slays a reindeer. Plus, a joke/hallucination from Bob Odenkirk, and a classic track from Thin Lizzy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm getting old and the reason I can tell the symptom is that I've been getting up early and watching infomercials. |
| 0:15.0 | I kind of can't help myself. I actually bought something from one the other day. It was, I don't even know what it was, but the guy who was selling it was such a nice young man. |
| 0:26.6 | He was so handsome and he believed in it, but I bought it. |
| 0:30.6 | It's called The Shoe Magician. |
| 0:33.6 | I put it in my closet and I pressed the button, and now I can't find my shoes. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:46.8 | And from American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, the show that equips you to win your next dinner party party. |
| 0:53.1 | Our icebreaker this week came from comic Bob Odenkirk. |
| 0:56.0 | He's also a regular on the TV show, Breaking Bad. |
| 0:58.0 | And that icebreaker isn't so much a joke as a hallucination, but I kind of like it. |
| 1:03.0 | Figures. |
| 1:04.0 | Coming up, rapper Kid Cutty, a meteoric marriage, earthy beer, and a moonlight dance. |
| 1:08.0 | But first, time for Small Talk. |
| 1:14.6 | All week long, you've been hearing this. |
| 1:19.1 | The man behind WikiLeaks handed himself over to police in London this morning. |
| 1:22.1 | Elizabeth Edwards died yesterday at her North Carolina home. |
| 1:24.1 | A compromise over tax cuts. |
| 1:32.3 | Now for a story that didn't make the front page, we turned to Jacob Weisberg. He's the editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, which includes Slate.com and Slate Culture Gab Fest. Jacob, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
| 1:35.3 | Sarah Palin Caraboo Hunter. |
| 1:37.3 | Everyone's been talking around our office about the most recent episode of her show, Sarah Palin's |
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