Episode 239: Steve Coogan, Hugh Bonneville, B.J. Novak, and “Broad City” BFFs
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Oscar nominee Steve Coogan (“Philomena,” this summer’s upcoming “The Trip to Italy” ) meditates on condiments and dramedies … “The Monuments Men” star Hugh Bonneville – a.k.a. Lord Grantham on “Downton Abbey” - minds his manors … Former “The Office” employee B.J. Novak introduces us to Wikipedia Brown, Boy Detective … The BFFs behind […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.6 | So, uh, yeah, so here's one for a dinner party. Um, it'll clear the table. |
| 0:12.3 | Uh, what do you do when you see a space man? I don't know. You're parking it, man. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, |
| 0:28.9 | the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:31.6 | You just got a joke from actor Hugh Bonneville, aka Lord Grantham from downtown |
| 0:36.0 | that'll help break the ice. Later, he'll share |
| 0:39.1 | etiquette advice. No more jokes. Don't worry. Yes. Plus, Steve Coogan, star and writer of the |
| 0:44.0 | Oscar-nominated film, Philomena, reveals the secret of sanity. Read the writing on the back of a |
| 0:49.1 | sauce bottle. It's cheaper than therapy. First, though, as at any party, we start with small talk. |
| 0:58.9 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:01.2 | The untimely death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. |
| 1:06.2 | Heading into the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, there have been many predictions of trouble. |
| 1:10.3 | CVS said this morning that it would stop selling cigarettes later this year. |
| 1:11.9 | And now for something you might not have heard. |
| 1:13.6 | We are speaking with Aaron McCann. |
| 1:16.7 | She is assistant news editor of the Guardian US. |
| 1:20.6 | And Aaron, what story are you going to be talking about at parties this weekend? |
| 1:29.0 | I have this story from Wired Magazine where they have crunched the numbers on OKCupid and Match.com to popular online dating sites and hacked your vocab, basically, to tell you what words attract the most number of opposite sex. |
| 1:36.3 | Wow. |
| 1:37.0 | Okay. |
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