Episode 275: Joel Edgerton, Justin Simien, and Banks
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week: Aussie actor Joel Edgerton (“The Great Gatsby,” “Warrior”) dances into the spotlight with wildly different fall projects, including this week’s “Felony”… Filmmaker Justin Simien (“Dear White People”) explores the many shades of black identity, and talks etiquette with y’all… A be-witching soundtrack from electro-pop songstress Banks…Food falls from the sky!  Brendan opens his mouth… The strange backstories of fragrances, […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter? |
| 0:10.0 | What? |
| 0:11.0 | Pumpkin pie. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam, and from APM American Public Media, this is the |
| 0:22.2 | Dinner Party Download, Culture, Food, and Humor to fuel your weekend conversations. |
| 0:26.4 | You just got a joke from Sundance-winning director Justin Simeon. That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:31.0 | His debut film, Dear White People, comes out this week, and coming up, he'll answer your |
| 0:34.9 | etiquette questions. Also, we'll speak with actor Joel |
| 0:37.6 | Edgerton. You've seen him in the Great Gatsby and the cult hit warrior among other roles. |
| 0:42.7 | He wrote and stars in the new thriller, felony. Plus, the pop singer Banks provides a dinner |
| 0:47.4 | party soundtrack. Sent expert Mandy Aftel tells us about the most expensive smell on earth, |
| 0:52.8 | and I have a hot grilled cheese |
| 0:54.3 | parachuted into my mouth. |
| 0:55.8 | Just another week at the office, folks, but first, as at any dinner party, we start with |
| 0:59.7 | small talks. |
| 1:02.8 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:05.2 | A major shift in the Catholic Church's attitudes toward gays and lesbians. |
| 1:08.6 | A huge drop on top of four consecutive days of stock market losses. |
| 1:12.6 | If you have an iTunes account, Bono, the frontman of you two, has just apologized to you. |
| 1:17.6 | Oops. |
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