Episode 211: Laura Dern, Billy Bragg, and Bite-Sized Giants
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2013
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: We nominate an episode from earlier this year for your repeat consideration. “Enlightened” actress Laura Dern (who just picked up an Emmy nom) on brains and Baio … Folk-rocker Billy Bragg wins hearts and minds in our etiquette segment … They Might Be Giants list tiny gems … We toast the first man(nequin!) […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. |
| 0:03.7 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.4 | This is probably the best joke I could come up with right now. |
| 0:08.1 | But, hey, have you heard about that fire over at the shoe factory this morning? |
| 0:12.6 | It's real tragedy. |
| 0:14.5 | 200 souls were lost. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:27.1 | the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:29.5 | You just got a joke from Nick Krill of the Spinto Band. |
| 0:32.2 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:33.8 | Later, we'll learn stuff we didn't know about Lara Dern, star of the HBO series Enlightened. |
| 0:38.3 | This week, she was nominated for an Emmy Award. |
| 0:40.3 | Nice. Also coming up, singer provocateur, Billy Bragg gives you etiquette advice, |
| 0:44.7 | and they might be giants list their favorite bite-sized works of art. |
| 0:48.7 | And if this all sounds familiar, that's because this is a rebroadcast of one of our favorite episodes. |
| 0:53.4 | So cast your mind back to March, when, as at any dinner party, we started with Small Talk. |
| 1:01.2 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:03.7 | President Obama's choice to lead the CIA, John Brennan, has been confirmed by the Senate. |
| 1:09.2 | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died today. |
| 1:11.9 | A day for the history books, the stock market closing at an all-time high. |
| 1:16.3 | Now for something you might not have heard. |
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