Episode 249: Scarlett Johansson, Billy Eichner, and Slint
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Scarlett Johansson muses on ol’ blue eyes and earthly aliens… Comedian Billy Eichner takes etiquette to the streets … We catch up with 90′s alt stars Slint… A baseball game everyone wanted to lose… Terrifying Easter bunnies, brought to you by UCB co-founder Matt Walsh… Uncovering Uzbek cuisine … And, check your chins, […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | All right, here's a joke my kids are fond of. What do you call an alligator in a vest? |
| 0:10.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:11.7 | An investigator. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Rico Galeano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:24.3 | the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:27.0 | You just got a joke from filmmaker Lance Bangs. |
| 0:29.5 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:30.7 | His new documentary is about the quietly influential 90s band Slint. |
| 0:34.8 | We'll speak with him and the band's drummer later. |
| 0:37.3 | We will also talk with |
| 0:38.4 | Scarlett Johansson about her new movie Under the Skin and about Captain America and Frank |
| 0:44.2 | Sinatra. I always thought Frank Sinatra was Captain America. That's a good point. It's just in my household. |
| 0:49.8 | Also coming up, we hear from Upright Citizen Matt Walsh. We learn about the wedding chicken of Uzbekistan, and we assault Billy Eichner, aka Billy on the Street, with your questions. |
| 1:00.4 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:06.3 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:09.0 | Gabrielle Garcia-Marcus, who put magical realism on the literary map, has died. |
| 1:14.5 | Scientists said they found a planet they believe is the closest match for Earth so far. |
| 1:18.1 | Michael Phelps is diving back into the competition. |
| 1:21.8 | Now for a story you might not have heard. |
| 1:23.6 | We are speaking with Richard Lawson. |
| 1:25.3 | He is the film reviewer for VanityFair.com. Richard, |
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