Episode 200: Noah Baumbach, David Alan Grier, Temple Grandin, and Kids Comix

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week: Filmmaker Noah Baumbach on the new New York… David Alan Grier answers (most of) your etiquette questions… Autism pioneer Temple Grandin diagnoses Mr. Spock… Travel writer Matt Gross goes to the edge… “Love & rockets” co-creator Gilbert Hernandez on ’60s comics that were super, sans superheroes… Why guilt is good (for groceries)… and […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download.
0:04.4	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.2	Here's a joke. It's a publicist joke that I actually wrote.
0:09.6	Did you hear about the publicist that tried to sell her soul to the devil?
0:13.3	The devil said,
0:14.7	You must be getting. We all know publicists don't have souls.
0:18.4	Thank you.
0:23.2	I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:25.1	I'm Brendan Francis Nune, and from APM American Public Media,
0:28.8	this is The Dinner Party Download,
0:30.6	the culture show that helps you win this week's dinner parties.
0:33.5	You just got a joke from actor and apparently demon, David Allen Greer.
0:37.1	That'll help break the ice.
0:38.3	He stars in the new movie Peoples. He'll be back later to answer your etiquette questions.
0:42.6	Plus, we'll speak with Noah Baumbach, writer-director of the new movie, Francis Ha.
0:47.2	Also coming up, autism expert Temple Grandin diagnoses Mr. Spock and a new song from a group called Savages.
0:54.0	As opposed to a group of savages. I don't know. Never met them. Me neither.
0:57.7	But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk.
1:03.4	All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. Ray Harryhausen was a visionary of
1:08.0	stop motion animation. Delaware thus becomes the 11th state to legalize same-sex marriage.
1:14.3	The Dow gained 87 points to close above 15,000 for the first time ever.
1:20.1	Now for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Sadie Stein.
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