Episode 258: Jonah Hill, House of Cards, Luxury Toast
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Jonah Hill’s search for the perfect coupling … Skip Lievsay explains how movies should sound … Life imitates board games imitating life (but not The Game of Life) … One mother’s love-hate relationship with a thousand plastic blocks … Getting what you pay for with luxury toast … The creator of “House of […]
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| 0:00.0 | And one more thing, folks, you're about to hear a rerun episode of the show. |
| 0:03.8 | An excellent episode featuring movie star Jonah Hill, also a mom driven mad by Legos, but still... |
| 0:09.6 | Still a rerun. |
| 0:10.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.2 | Hey, we've also got something super special plan for you podcasters later this week. |
| 0:15.4 | On Tuesday, June 24th, we'll be uploading our full interview with Mr. Steve Martin, |
| 0:20.7 | featuring lots of never-before-heard |
| 0:22.4 | material just in time for his July 4th holiday shows at the Hollywood Bowl. |
| 0:26.7 | You can hear him compare banjo music to paintings by Dekooning and do his Rupreked voice. |
| 0:31.5 | For free. |
| 0:32.4 | For free, and only via podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | Be sure to check in and download it on Tuesday, June 24th. |
| 0:39.4 | Meanwhile, here's this week's icebreaker. So two cupcakes are sitting in an oven, and one cupcake says to the other cupcake, |
| 0:46.8 | man, it's hot in here. And the other cupcake says, oh my God, it's a talking cupcake. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:59.2 | And from APM, American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, |
| 1:03.4 | the culture show that helps you win your week's dinner parties. |
| 1:06.0 | You just got a joke from actor Jonah Hill, |
| 1:08.5 | Oscar nominee for the Wolf of Wall Street. |
| 1:10.6 | That'll break the ice. |
| 1:11.9 | Later, Jonah tells us about Martin Scorsese and other directors. |
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