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I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano. Welcome to the Dinner Party Download, your weekly audio atlas of everything excellent in culture.

Happy December already.

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Other guests this hour include show host par excellence, Anthony Bourdain, and one of the best emerging actors around Mackenzie Davis,

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Japanese acting legend to Shiro Mifune.

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