Episode 285: Wes Anderson, Dave Barry, and Real Estate
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This Week: Filmmaker Wes Anderson on stoves that witnessed history… Humorist Dave Barry takes aim at your etiquette questions… Real Estate play party DJ… Lit phenom Helen Oyeyemi gazes into the mirror, mirror….And Noah Strycker opens up his bird-brain. Plus: wild camels roaming Texas, the strangest cleanse ever, and Mac DeMarco’s tuneful “Brother.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, here's a joke for you. Why do hummingbirds hum? I don't know. Because they don't know the words. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:23.9 | the culture show that helps you win your week's dinner parties. |
| 0:26.7 | You just got a joke from writer and bird specialist, Noah Stricker. |
| 0:30.3 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:32.1 | We'll speak with him later about his new book. |
| 0:34.1 | Plus, filmmaker Wes Anderson tells us about his Golden Globe nominated movie |
| 0:37.8 | The Grand Budapest Hotel, and we hear what he sounds like when he gets super mad. Well, I think |
| 0:42.7 | that's quite rude. Jeez. Such language. Yeah, also coming up, comic writer Dave Barry tells us |
| 0:48.3 | how he avoids taxes. And if that sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast |
| 0:53.1 | of one of our favorite episodes of the year. |
| 0:55.2 | It first aired in March. |
| 0:56.6 | So cast your mind back to a time when the words, the interview, just made you think of applying for a job. |
| 1:02.4 | When is at any dinner party? |
| 1:04.0 | We started with Small Talk. |
| 1:07.7 | Now for something you haven't heard, we are joined by Aaron McCann. |
| 1:28.0 | She is an assistant news editor for the Guardian newspaper. Erin, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? I am going to be talking about cheese. All right. That's a great topic to talk about at any time. That's right. Cheese and international warfare, actually. What? The long and short of it is, the European Union wants to take away your cheese. |
| 1:29.7 | Who moved my cheese? |
| 1:32.3 | I've been asking that, and it turns out... Belgium moves your cheese. |
| 1:33.1 | Turns out it was Europeans. |
| 1:34.2 | Explain, please. |
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