Episode 235: Lupita Nyong’o, Gary Shteyngart, and Rust Belt Restos
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Lupita Nyongo, Golden globe nominee for “12 Years A Slave” reveals the secret to happiness… Gary Shteyngart develops a crush on the Iron Lady … Beyond the tabloid tale of Tonya Harding … Pittsburgh, PA steels itself for an influx of foodies… Novelist Chang-Rae Lee’s dystopian vision of Baltimore … Night clothes with thinking caps […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. |
| 0:03.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | These are courtesy of an 80-something-year-old Jewish woman. |
| 0:08.0 | What did the Venus de Milo's mother say to her? |
| 0:11.0 | You could pick up a phone and call. |
| 0:13.0 | What did Moses say when he got to Mount Sinai? |
| 0:16.0 | This is where we'll build the hospital? |
| 0:19.0 | What did Vincent Van Gogh's wife say? |
| 0:21.9 | Everything I say goes in one ear. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:35.0 | an hour of food, humor, and culture to fuel your weekend gatherings. |
| 0:38.3 | You just got a joke or three from Gary Steingard, author of the new memoir, Little Failure. |
| 0:43.3 | That'll help break the ice. We'll hear more from him later. |
| 0:45.3 | Plus, we speak with Golden Globe nominated actress Lupita Njango about her performance in 12 years of slave. |
| 0:51.3 | Also coming up, author Chang Re Lee Lee discusses dystopias and we steal |
| 0:55.8 | ourselves for the next big food town. But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:03.6 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. Frank Thomas, Greg Maddox, and Tom |
| 1:08.2 | Glavin will be inducted to Cooperstown. Governor Chris Christie has apologized saying he was embarrassed by the actions of his age. |
| 1:14.6 | The bitter weather is the result of the ominous sounding polar vortex. |
| 1:18.6 | Now for a story you might not have heard, we are speaking with Rehan Harmancy. |
| 1:22.6 | She is the executive editor at the Food Culture magazine Modern Farmer. |
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