Episode 195: Eva Mendes, Julia Sweeney, and Blushing Stomachs
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2013
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Actress Eva Mendes decodes her new film – and hieroglyphics… Writer and “SNL” vet Julia Sweeney answers your etiquette questions from the fetal position… New Orleans indie rockers Generationals spin a sweet-and-sour soundtrack… Science writer Mary Roach (“Stiff,” the new “Gulp”) takes us on a field trip down the alimentary canal… Twitter queen Kelly Oxford tiptoes into David Copperfield’s private lair… And Wrigley’s Gum inspires a cocktail that WON’T lose its flavor. Plus, salt mines in the sky, self-hating jokes, and a new Rogue Wave.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | All right, here's a joke. It's a drummer joke. |
| 0:08.0 | How can you tell a drummer's at the door? |
| 0:10.0 | He doesn't know when to come in. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM, American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, |
| 0:23.7 | the culture show that gives you everything you need to win this week's dinner parties. |
| 0:27.5 | You just got a joke from rock musician Michael Benjamin Lerner, aka Telekinesis. |
| 0:32.3 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:33.6 | He's a drummer, by the way. |
| 0:34.7 | Self-hating drummer. |
| 0:36.0 | Apparently. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah. The new telekinesis album, Dormarian, came out this week. |
| 0:39.7 | Later, we'll hear Ava Mendez starred the new film, The Place Beyond the Pines, Decode Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
| 0:45.4 | For real. |
| 0:46.0 | Also coming up, etiquette advice from writer and Saturday Night Live Vet, Julia Sweeney, |
| 0:50.6 | a magical tale from S.A.S. Kelly Oxford. And science writer Mary Roach tells us everything we never wanted to know about the human gut. |
| 0:58.2 | But first, as with any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:04.0 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:06.4 | A giant in the world of film criticism. Roger Ebert died today in Chicago. |
| 1:11.2 | The North Korean Army says it now has approval to launch a merciless attack against the U.S. |
| 1:16.6 | Baseball is back and well before the first pitch was thrown. |
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