Episode 215: Eva Mendes, Julia Sweeney, and Blushing Stomachs

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week: One of our favorite episodes! Eva Mendes decodes “The Place Beyond the Pines” (which just came out on DVD) 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 takes us on a field […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.
0:03.7	This is your icebreaker.
0:05.7	All right, here's a joke. It's a drummer joke.
0:08.3	How can you tell a drummer's at the door?
0:10.9	He doesn't know when to come in.
0:16.2	I'm Brendan Francis Noonam.
0:17.9	I'm Rico Galliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download,
0:23.5	the culture show that helps you win this week's dinner parties.
0:26.4	You just got a joke from rock musician Michael Benjamin Lerner, aka Telekinesis.
0:31.2	That'll help break the ice.
0:32.5	He's a drummer, by the way.
0:33.6	Self-hating drummer.
0:34.9	Apparently.
0:35.5	His latest album is called Dormerian.
0:39.2	Later, we'll hear from Ava Mendez,
0:41.3	star of the film The Place Beyond the Pines,
0:42.6	which just came out on DVD.
0:44.2	And if all that sounds familiar,
0:46.1	that's because this is an encore broadcast of an episode that first aired this spring.
0:48.5	So cast your mind back to an innocent time
0:50.9	before the NSA surveillance leaks,
0:53.3	when, as at any dinner party, we started
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