Episode 232: Jeremy Renner, Nancy Sinatra, and Billy Collins
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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This Week: Jeremy Renner does the American Hustle… Nancy Sinatra on headphones and hair-poufs … Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins asks you to clean your room …Nick Lowe’s Eccentric Xmas Soundtrack … An inimitable, unpronounceable writer you’ve got to read… Italian food that might remind you of sushi … The precise moment when cringes become […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. You know, the dinner party download wouldn't exist without listeners like you. |
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| 0:20.3 | Welcome to the show. This is your icebreaker. Donate at dinner party download.org. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:21.6 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:22.6 | This is Austin from Parquet courts. |
| 0:25.6 | I play guitar and do a little singing. |
| 0:28.6 | I was going to take up archery, but there's too many drawbacks. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:43.6 | the culture show that helps you win your dinner parties. |
| 0:45.9 | You just got a joke from Austin Brown from the punk band Parquet Courts. |
| 0:49.5 | As he said, that'll help break the ice. |
| 0:51.3 | Their latest album, Light Up Gold, is appearing on tons of best of the year lists, and they're |
| 0:55.4 | back on tour in January. |
| 0:57.0 | Later, we'll speak with actor Jeremy Renner, one of the stars of the new hit movie, American Hustle. |
| 1:01.9 | Other dinner party guests this hour include former poet laureate Billy Collins, music legend |
| 1:06.3 | Nancy Sinatra, British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, and Michelin-starred chef Michael Simurusti. |
| 1:11.9 | That is a fine table of people. |
| 1:13.4 | Plus cocktails and a new Beyonce track. |
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