381: Thomas Middleditch, Justin Simien, Cold War Kids

The Dinner Party Download

The Dinner Party Download ®

Society & Culture

4.5 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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“Silicon Valley” star Thomas Middleditch gets silly and waxes poetic on his days as a Dungeons & Dragons wizard… “Dear White People” creator Justin Simien tells us how to deal with a Northerner who says y’all… Two-fifths of Cold War Kids mix a sentimental playlist… and author Elena Passarello introduces us to Mozart’s favorite pet. […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
0:10.0	What? Pumpkin pie.
0:16.0	I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party
0:22.5	download.
0:23.5	Everything you need to know to win your weekend gatherings.
0:25.6	You just got a joke from Justin Simeon, creator of the forthcoming Netflix series,
0:29.4	Dear White People.
0:30.4	You will be here later to tell y'all how to deal with a northerner who says y'all.
0:34.9	Plus, we chat with Thomas Midditch, star of the HBO show Silicon Valley.
0:39.0	It's back for a fourth season this weekend.
0:40.9	Also coming up, author Elena Pasellello tells us about Mozart's encounter with the starling.
0:45.5	We hear the tale of pioneering American chef Jeremiah Tower, who changed the way America dines,
0:50.4	and rock band Cold War Kids, DJ Your Dinner Party, and reminisce about the time Bono didn't answer their call.
0:56.5	How dare he, but first, small talk.
1:01.0	All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.
1:03.6	Many Venezuelans plan to protest their government.
1:06.2	Bill O'Reilly will not be returning to Fox News.
1:09.2	Vice President Mike Pence is visiting South Korea at a time of high tension on the Korean Peninsula.
1:14.5	And now for a story you might not have heard.
1:16.3	We are here with our friend Danielle Henderson.
1:18.3	She is a writer for the forthcoming Netflix series Maniac from director Carrie Fukenaga.
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