Episode 270: James McAvoy, Jon Favreau, and Emma Straub
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Actor James McAvoy (of “X Men” and “Filth”) flies the Scottish flag … Writer-director Jon Favreau cooks up a foodie film … Top author of the summer Emma Straub keeps the vacation going forever … Indie pop duo Sylvan Esso score your next brat barbecue … The one time when you want food to stain your […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | I'd like to tell this one to kids who liked Star Wars. |
| 0:09.0 | How did Luke Skywalker know what Darth Vader got him for Christmas? |
| 0:14.0 | He felt his presence. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi, I'm Rico Galeano. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Brendan Francis Nune, and from APM American Public Media, |
| 0:25.8 | this is the Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:27.7 | the show that gives you everything you need to emerge triumphant |
| 0:30.5 | from your weekly dinner gatherings. |
| 0:32.0 | Yes, you just got a joke from A.C. Newman, |
| 0:34.5 | frontman of Canadian Supergroup The New Pornographers. |
| 0:37.3 | Their album, Brillbrusers, is out now. And speaking of supergroups, later X-Men star James McAvoy will join us, |
| 0:44.3 | and he talks filth. Don't worry. It's the name of a movie. That's right. |
| 0:47.5 | Also coming up, actor, director, and screenwriter John Fabro, dishes about his latest film, Chef, author Emma Straub reads from her book The Vacationers, |
| 0:55.9 | and North Carolina music duo Sylvan Esso suggests music to grill sausages by. |
| 1:00.1 | And if that sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we first aired in May. |
| 1:05.1 | So cast your mind back to a time before either kind of football season, when, as at any dinner party, |
| 1:11.8 | we started with Small Talk. |
| 1:16.5 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines? |
| 1:21.1 | Pennsylvania would become the 19th state to legalize same-sex marriage. |
| 1:25.3 | The House has passed legislation banning collection of any person's records without a court order. |
| 1:28.1 | Google is now the world's most valuable brand. |
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