Episode 254: James McAvoy, Jon Favreau, and Wearing Your Food
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Actor James McAvoy (of this week’s new “X Men” blockbuster, and the art-house drama “Filth”) flies the Scottish flag… Writer-director Jon Favreau cooks up a new film… Emma Straub on why vacation with the ‘rents isn’t all that bad… Indie pop duo Sylvan Esso score your next brat barbecue… The one time when […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, ready. Here's a joke. A dyslexic man walks into a bra. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, the show that gives you everything you need to feel triumphant at your weekend gatherings. |
| 0:25.1 | Yes, you just got a joke from actor, director, and screenwriter John Favreau. That'll help break the ice. We'll be speaking with him later about his new indie comedy chef. |
| 0:34.1 | Plus, we talk with actor James McAvoy, star of the new movie X-Men, Days of Future Past, |
| 0:39.6 | about filth. Don't worry. It's the name of another movie he's in. Also coming up, author Emma |
| 0:45.1 | Straub reads from her new book, The Vacationers. Comic writer Kristen Newman offers airline |
| 0:49.5 | etiquette. That's not an oxymoron. And North Carolina music duo, Sylvan Esso, suggests music to grill sausages by. |
| 0:56.2 | Excellent. |
| 0:56.8 | But before all that, as at any dinner party, let's start with small talk. |
| 1:03.2 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines? |
| 1:05.4 | Pennsylvania would become the 19th state to legalize same-sex marriage. |
| 1:09.8 | House has passed legislation banning collection of any person's records without a court order. |
| 1:14.1 | Google is now the world's most valuable brand. |
| 1:17.0 | Apple Felder No. 2. |
| 1:18.2 | Now for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Anna Sales. |
| 1:21.1 | She is the host and producer and chief bottle washer of death, sex, and money, a brand new |
| 1:27.3 | podcast from our friends at WNYC. |
| 1:29.4 | Anna, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
| 1:32.2 | I'm going to be talking about, you know the term gung-ho. |
| 1:35.4 | I use it. |
| 1:36.4 | The marine term. |
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