Episode 90: Bellflower, Guillotin’s Machine, and the Cheesesteak Challenger

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2011

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week: “Bellflower” filmmakers Evan Glodell and Tyler Dawson set the film-fest circuit ablaze… A Philly sandwich takes on the cheesesteak… And the tale of a most enlightened killing machine. Plus unholy laughter from bestselling author Tea Obreht and a new tune from Vetiver.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download.
0:03.7	This is your icebreaker.
0:05.9	So here's an adaptation of a Serbian joke that I just heard.
0:09.0	This kid comes home and he finds his mom cheating on his dad, so he jumps in the closet to hide.
0:13.5	And at that instant, the dad comes home too, so the wife throws her lover in the closet with the kid.
0:18.2	And they're standing there in the dark, and the kid says to the guy, gee, it's dark in here.
0:22.6	And the guy says, yes.
0:23.6	The kid says, I have a soccer ball.
0:25.6	You want to buy it?
0:26.6	And the guy says, no.
0:27.6	The kid says, that's my dad out there.
0:29.6	The guy says, all right, how much is the ball?
0:30.6	And he goes, $200.
0:31.6	The guy buys the ball.
0:33.6	So next week, same thing. Kid ends up in the closet. The guy's in there with him.
0:39.3	The kid says, it's dark in here. And the guy says, yeah, it is. And the kid goes, I have a pair of
0:44.1	cleats. I have a player of cleated sneakers. You want to buy him? The guy goes, how much? And the kid says,
0:49.2	$1,000. The guy goes, okay. The following week, the dad wants to go out.
0:54.6	He says to the kid, let's grab your ball in your cleats.
0:57.5	Let's go play soccer.
0:58.3	And the kid goes, I don't have him.
1:00.0	And the dad says, what did you do with him?
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