Episode 216: Brie Larson, Baz Luhrmann, and Nomnomnom-enclature
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2013
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: “Short Term 12″ star Brie Larson fears oranges & lobsters… Baz Luhrmann talks movie music from Bee Gees to Gatsby… author Juan Gabriel Vásquez shares a story of narco-trafficking and lost hippos… A Jimmy Buffet song brings indie band Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr to tears… We learn about the real-life divas who inspired […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Here's a joke. I was raised as an only child, which kind of annoyed my sister. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneiman from APM American Public Media. This is the Dinner Party |
| 0:21.7 | Download, the show that helps you win your dinner party. You just got a joke, actually more of a |
| 0:26.5 | one-liner from director Baz Lorman. That'll help break the ice. His latest film, The Great Gatsby, |
| 0:31.6 | came out this week on DVD, and we will talk with him about it later. Plus, we'll hear from Bree Larson, star of the award-winning new movie Short-Term 12. |
| 0:39.5 | Also coming up, Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez reads from his new novel, The Sound of Things Falling, Detroit indie pop band Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jr. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm not stuttering, that's their name. |
| 0:49.7 | Share a playlist. |
| 0:50.9 | And we learn where German chocolate cake came from, which is not as simple as it |
| 0:54.6 | sounds. |
| 0:54.9 | No, it is still chocolate, right? |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.3 | All right, but first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:03.6 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines? |
| 1:05.5 | The president is still deliberating over the correct response to what the administration |
| 1:09.7 | says was Syria's use of chemical weapons. |
| 1:12.5 | The Justice Department will not sue Washington and Colorado over state efforts to legalize marijuana. |
| 1:18.3 | The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. |
| 1:21.0 | Now for something you haven't heard, we are joined by Pat Morrison. |
| 1:24.2 | She is a calmness for the LA Times and a correspondent at KPCC, the NPR station in Los Angeles. |
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