Episode 243: Pharrell, Carrie Brownstein & Fred Armisen, and Much MØ
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Portlandia duo Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen open up about hot-tubs, underwear, and weddings … Music multi-hyphenate Pharrell Williams explains his ‘exotic rainbow’ of ‘Happy’ness … Danish electro-pop phenom Mø spins us a party playlist… author Cari Lynn tells the tale of a NoLa birthday party of ill-repute… How the grandest experiment in […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | How do you make a Kleenex dance? |
| 0:08.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:09.0 | Put a little boogie in it. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:21.8 | the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:24.5 | You just got an appropriately silly and musical joke from musician and actress Carrie |
| 0:29.4 | Brownstein. |
| 0:30.3 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:31.6 | Season four of her show, Portlandia just began. |
| 0:34.2 | Later we'll speak with her and her Portlandia co-star Fred Armisen about, among other things, |
| 0:39.1 | how Fred can afford his jet-setting lifestyle. I'm loaded. That explains it. Also coming up, |
| 0:45.2 | the musician and man with the hat, Farrell, talks about sounds he can see. We taste ice cream |
| 0:50.5 | you can hear, and we talk to the director of a new documentary about things you can neither see nor hear. |
| 0:55.5 | All these mysteries will be solved, but first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:03.0 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:05.5 | Russian forces are tightening their grip on Crimea. |
| 1:07.8 | The president and the Pentagon want to cut army troop levels to their lowest level since World War II. |
| 1:12.6 | And the Oscar goes to 12 years of slave. |
| 1:16.6 | Now for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Sadie Stein. |
| 1:19.6 | She is contributing editor at the Paris Review. |
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