316: Uzo Aduba, Yo La Tengo, Doug Aitken
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Emmy-nominated actor Uzo Aduba (“Orange is the New Black”) on what keeps “Crazy Eyes” grounded – and wild fan run-ins…Indie rockers Yo La Tengo cook up a cover-rich soundtrack… Artist Doug Aitken breathes life (and art and music) into old rail hubs, in his new documentary “Station to Station”… The most elaborate college […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay. Why did the turtle cross the road? |
| 0:09.0 | Why? |
| 0:10.0 | To get to the Shell Station. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM, American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:23.6 | the culture show that gives you everything you need to win your next dinner party. |
| 0:27.1 | You just got a joke from Uzo Aduba. |
| 0:29.1 | She's up for her second Emmy Award for her role as Crazy Eyes |
| 0:32.3 | in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. |
| 0:34.5 | We'll hear more from her later. |
| 0:36.1 | Plus, we'll speak with artist and filmmaker |
| 0:37.8 | Doug Aiken about his cross-country train journey slash art happening entitled Station to Station. |
| 0:43.3 | Also coming up, indie music legends Yola Tango share a dinner party playlist. Emily posts great-great |
| 0:48.9 | grandchildren tell you how to use your iPhone. And we go to Denmark to answer the ancient question, |
| 0:54.0 | is an open-face |
| 0:54.8 | sandwich really a sandwich? Spoiler alert, no. No. But first, as at any dinner party, |
| 0:59.9 | we start with small talk. All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. Wildfires |
| 1:06.5 | burning across the American West. The historic thousand-point drop of the Dow this morning. |
| 1:10.9 | And now we'll look at the uneven recovery in New Orleans coming up 10 years since Hurricane Katrina. |
| 1:16.5 | Now for a story you might not have heard. |
| 1:18.1 | We are speaking with PJ Vote, the host of Reply All, a podcast about the internet. |
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