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The Dinner Party Download featuring Tennis

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Tennis
Tennis is Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore.
Courtesy of Tennis

This week on The Dinner Party Download...

Icebreaker
"Where The Wild Things Are" director Spike Jonze tells us about a tractor trip.

Small Talk: Andrew Womack
Andrew Womack, editor of daily online magazine The Morning News, makes Boring 2010... interesting.

A History Lesson with Booze: The Washington Generals and "The Eternal Optimist"
Learn about the day the biggest losers in sports' history finally won. Then slam dunk a custom cocktail courtesy of Eric Holzherr, owner and bar maestro at Wisdom in Washington, D.C.

Guest(s) of Honor: Tennis
Get ready to puke: Two kids fall in love, save their money, buy a boat, live on it for seven months, get married, write songs about the experience, songs leak on the internet, the world loves them, the kids sign to a label, record a full-length and are now being interviewed on shows like the Dinner Party Download.

Told you.

The couple in question, Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore -- aka Tennis -- tell Brendan about growing up landlocked and living la vida luddite.

To hear a longer version of the show -- and to catch a new song from the band Happy Birthday -- head to dinnerpartydownload.org.

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Tennis
Tennis is Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore.
Courtesy of Tennis