Episode 85: Carrie Brownstein, Murdered Moose, and God’s Sporks

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 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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