269: Mel Brooks, Greta Gerwig, and AC Newman
The Dinner Party Download
The Dinner Party Download ®
4.5 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Encore Broadcast: Comedy legend Mel Brooks reanimates “Young Frankenstein” then offers priceless etiquette advice (warning: may include death threats, flatulence, gallows humor, and uncontrollable laughter)… Actress Greta Gerwig (“Frances Ha” and “Mistress America”) tries a love story on for size… AC Newman of indie rock super-group The New Pornographers spins a party soundtrack that’s so cool, […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, folks, Rico here. |
| 0:01.4 | I just wanted to let you know that although you are about to hear an encore broadcast |
| 0:04.7 | of one of our favorite classic DPD episodes ever featuring The Legend Mel Brooks, |
| 0:10.0 | we do have some new episodes coming up in ensuing weeks. |
| 0:13.1 | Right after Thanksgiving, you will hear our annual All-Food episode. |
| 0:16.5 | And after that, you are going to hear the recording of our live show in Seattle, Washington, that we are actually taping this week. |
| 0:23.3 | So stay subscribed. |
| 0:24.9 | Look forward to those episodes. |
| 0:26.4 | And meanwhile, here's your icebreaker. |
| 0:28.9 | What does Geronimo say when he jumps off a cliff? |
| 0:33.6 | Me! |
| 0:38.5 | I'm Brendan Francis Nune. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:45.7 | the culture show that helps you win your dinner parties. |
| 0:48.0 | You just got a joke from actor and writer Greta Gerwig. |
| 0:50.8 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:52.3 | She wrote and directed the acclaimed indie film Lady Bird. |
| 0:55.4 | We'll hear more from her later. Plus, Mel Brooks provides etiquette tips like how to deal with |
| 1:00.4 | noisy neighbors. Just write, if you make noise, we will kill you. See, it's just that simple. |
| 1:07.2 | And if this all sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we aired back in 2014. |
| 1:13.2 | So cast your mind back to the international year of crystallography. |
| 1:17.6 | Really? |
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