Episode 85: Carrie Brownstein, Murdered Moose, and God’s Sporks
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4.5 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2011
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This week: “Portlandia” star/creator Carrie Brownstein satirizes her own… Broadway’s major fail… and Rico sticks a fork in history. Plus a joke (in English) from The Love Language… and TUnEYarDs gives us the bizness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | What did the General do with his armies? |
| 0:07.0 | I don't know. He put them in his sleevies. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam, and from American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, the show that equips |
| 0:21.7 | you to win your next dinner party. |
| 0:23.5 | Our icebreaker this week came from Stuart McClam of the quite cool band, Love Language, |
| 0:28.1 | they're touring now. |
| 0:29.4 | And coming up, Portlandia's Carrie Brownstein, murdered moose, the birth of forks, and tuneyards |
| 0:34.7 | mean business. |
| 0:35.7 | But first, we start with small talk. |
| 0:42.3 | So, Brendan, this week the news was all about a return to the Reagan era. |
| 0:46.3 | Wait a second. I thought that was last week when we celebrated his 100th birthday. |
| 0:50.3 | No, this is bigger than that. This is like the whole world. |
| 0:52.3 | Okay. For instance, as in the Reagan era, Libya is in the headlines. |
| 0:55.5 | Except instead of us attacking Gaddafi in Libya, Gaddafi's attacking Libyans in Libya. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm having, like, junior high school flashbacks here. |
| 1:03.5 | But wait, there's more. |
| 1:04.6 | Okay. |
| 1:05.4 | Reagan busted the airline unions. |
| 1:07.3 | Now governors in Wisconsin and Ohio are trying to bust most of the other public unions. |
| 1:11.6 | Isn't that nice? |
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