Episode 78: Tennis, Epic Losers, and Happy Birthday
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2011
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This week: Indie-pop duo Tennis live la vida luddite… A London conference aims for new, boring heights… We unveil the story behind sports’ biggest losers… Plus a joke from director Spike Jonze and a new Happy Birthday song.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:04.9 | What happened to the tractor that was driving down the road, tripping on acid? |
| 0:11.3 | What? |
| 0:12.8 | He turned into a field. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, |
| 0:25.7 | the show that equips you to win your next dinner party. |
| 0:28.1 | Our icebreaker this week came from filmmaker Spike Jones. |
| 0:31.2 | And coming up, pop duo tennis, the biggest losers, drinkable artichokes, and Happy Birthday, the band. |
| 0:37.7 | But first, time for small talk. |
| 0:42.1 | All week long, you've been hearing this. |
| 0:44.2 | Bill Daly has just been named the new White House Chief of Staff. |
| 0:47.2 | Goldman Sachs has invested $500 million in Facebook. |
| 0:51.2 | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hands over the gavel to John Boehner. |
| 0:55.4 | Now for something you haven't heard, we're speaking with Andrew Womack. He's editor of the morning |
| 0:59.6 | news.org, the online magazine. Andrew, what story are you going to be talking about at your |
| 1:04.9 | dinner parties this weekend? I'm going to be talking about Boring 2010, which was held last month in London. It's a conference |
| 1:12.5 | whose goal was to bore its audience to tears for seven hours. And the purpose of that |
| 1:18.5 | was what? The conference was in reaction to the cancellation of another conference called |
| 1:23.7 | the interesting conference. The organizer of Boring 2010 sent out a tweet saying that |
| 1:29.3 | someone should hold a boring conference and then 50 people signed up. So what kind of stuff |
| 1:33.1 | happened at the boring conference? Because I guess you can't make it too, you know, exciting |
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