Episode 201: James Franco, Paul Theroux, and a Cowardly Display
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week: We look back to one of our favorite episodes, in which actor/polymath James Franco rebels against beds… Preeminent travel writer Paul Theroux offers etiquette advice to globetrotters (and public radio hosts)… Nashville raconteur Todd Snider tells of his brush with NASCAR fame… The NY Public Library celebrates Noel Coward… and Hollywood’s top auctioneer […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party download. |
| 0:04.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, here's a joke. |
| 0:08.0 | I have a CDO. |
| 0:11.0 | That's actually OCD, but in alphabetical order, |
| 0:16.0 | just like it should be. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:27.1 | This is The Dinner Party Download, the culture show that helps you win this week's |
| 0:31.3 | dinner parties. |
| 0:32.0 | You just got a joke from someone who might know a thing or two about OCD, movie star, |
| 0:36.6 | artist, writer, ellipsist, James Franco. |
| 0:39.3 | That'll help break the ice. He's in the new movie The Ice Man, and later we'll speak to him about one of his fine art projects. |
| 0:45.8 | Also coming up, travel writer Paul Theroux is here with etiquette tips, and if all this sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of one of our favorite episodes from last year. |
| 0:55.1 | It's Deja Awesome. Indeed. So now cast your mind back to last May, when, as at any dinner party, |
| 1:00.9 | we started with Small Talk. All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:07.2 | Egypt's first free and fair presidential election. Philip Phillips won American Idol. |
| 1:12.2 | Thousands of investors accuse Facebook of withholding key information about the inflated |
| 1:17.3 | value of the company. |
| 1:18.5 | Now for something you haven't heard, we are joined by Amber Bravo. |
| 1:21.6 | She is a senior editor at The Fader. |
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