Episode 192: Anna Kendrick, Kevin Nealon, and the Perks of Being a Pittsburgher
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This Week: Oscar-nominated actress Anna Kendrick sings of adorkability… “Weeds”/SNL alum Kevin Nealon blesses us with etiquette advice…”The Perks of Being a Wallflower” creator Stephen Chbosky talks of time and place… Okkervil River runs through a party soundtrack… here comes the (terrorist) bride… And the Primanti Sandwich goes national. Plus: We witness the birth of a clean machine, shine a light on art, and learn the history of comedy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.4 | You know, my wife and I just had a baby, so I thought I'd throw in a baby joke. |
| 0:10.2 | Why was the baby ants so confused? Because all his uncles were ants. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:26.3 | the culture show that gives you everything you need to win this week's dinner parties. |
| 0:30.3 | You just got a joke from Jake Shimabukuru, aka the Jimmy Hendrix of Yucolalei. |
| 0:34.8 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:36.0 | This is an encore presentation of a show that originally aired last October. |
| 0:40.3 | Coming up, Anna Kendrick tells us about her favorite social network. |
| 0:43.6 | And Stephen Chbosky, writer and director of the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower, |
| 0:47.2 | lists his favorite stories that capture a time and place. |
| 0:49.9 | Yes, speaking of which, cast your mind back to a time called Last October. |
| 0:53.8 | Ah. |
| 0:54.1 | When, as at any dinner party, we started with Small Talk. Speaking of which, cast your mind back to a time called last October. Ah. |
| 0:57.1 | When, as at any dinner party, we started with Small Talk. |
| 1:02.1 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines? |
| 1:07.0 | The first debate between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. |
| 1:12.3 | Turkey has continued to shell military targets in Syria for a second day in a row. |
| 1:16.4 | Seth McFarlane will host this year's Oscars. Now for something you might not have heard, |
| 1:22.4 | we are joined by John Spong. He is a senior editor at Texas Monthly. John, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? The owner of a 42-story condo tower in Dallas took out an ad, a full-page ad in the Dallas |
| 1:30.6 | morning news this week to kind of apologize to a neighboring sculpture museum for the glare |
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