Episode 81: Dan Bejar, Big In Japan, and Double Ducks

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2011

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week: Indie rocker/wordsmith Dan Bejar finds himself caught in a (quiet) storm… An athlete goes far – and very wide – to get big in Japan… and we roast awful restaurant websites. Plus, rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson quacks us up, and a new tune from Ducktails.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.
0:03.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:05.0	I told this to Jack White recently, and he liked it so much he had me record the joke
0:12.0	in case he wanted to use it somewhere.
0:15.0	So, do you know how to call a deaf duck?
0:19.0	I don't.
0:22.4	Hey, duck!
0:28.0	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:32.9	I'm Rico Gagliano, and from American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download,
0:36.3	the show that equips you with everything you need to win your next dinner party.
0:39.3	You just got a joke from the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson.
0:41.7	Yes. She's got a new album out called The Party Ain't Over.
0:44.3	Kind of appropriate here at the beginning of our party.
0:46.2	That's right. The dinner party ain't over.
0:52.5	And coming up, musician Dan Behar, drug a poults, very big in Japan, riotous websites, and killing the vibe.
0:54.5	But first, time for small talk.
1:03.4	Well, Rico, this week in the headlines, well, not to be a modest, us, we were in the headlines.
1:05.2	How is that?
1:10.9	Well, the theme for the State of the Union address, you know, that thing the president gave earlier, was, and I quote, win the future.
1:12.4	Ah, yes.
1:13.0	Reminds you a little bit of when the dinner party.
1:14.7	It does, maybe a little.
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