Episode 250: Daniel Radcliffe, Lars Ulrich, and Elizabeth Gilbert
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week: Daniel Radcliffe wears a mask that is not for a role … Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich tells your roommate to turn that racket down … Elizabeth Gilbert (“Eat, Pray, Love”) sets the planets spinning … Cartoonist Jeff Smith lists favorite strips … Visiting the Candyland of vegetables … There is danger and allure at […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | You must know this one. I heard this last night. Why was six afraid of seven? |
| 0:12.0 | I don't know. Because 7.8.9. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:26.6 | the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:29.2 | You just got a joke from Lars Ulrich of Metallica that'll help break the ice. |
| 0:33.3 | Just what you'd expect from a guy who released an album called Kill'em All. |
| 0:37.3 | A math joke. |
| 0:38.6 | We'll speak with Lars later. |
| 0:40.2 | Plus, we talked to Daniel Radcliffe, formerly of the Harry Potter films, now star of the miniseries, a Young Doctor's Notebook, and the new Broadway revival of the play, The Cripple of Inish Mon. |
| 0:50.5 | Also coming up, Eat, pray, love author Elizabeth Gilbert reads from her latest, and if this all |
| 0:55.2 | sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we first aired last |
| 0:59.6 | October. |
| 1:00.6 | So cast your mind back to a time when Jay Leno still hosted a late night show, when, as |
| 1:06.2 | at any dinner party, we started with Small Talk. |
| 1:13.4 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:15.2 | We're on the verge of a government shutdown, folks. |
| 1:16.8 | And there's little hope of a deal now. |
| 1:17.8 | In pending shutdown. |
| 1:20.1 | In 57 Earth minutes. |
| 1:21.2 | Federal government shutdown. |
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