Episode 287: J.C. Chandor, Mark Duplass, Twerps
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week: Actor-writer-director Mark Duplass on brotherly love – without eye-contact … A spicy, south-of-the-border drink trend … Filmmaker J.C. Chandor makes art inspired by tragedy … FM radio is invented, and we’re pretty grateful … An ex-Aerosmith roadie/sailor/journalist settles down on an unlikely farm … Aussie rockers Twerps turn up the volume … Latin […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | So, so here's a joke for you. Guess who I bumped into on the way to the optometrist yesterday? |
| 0:12.0 | Everyone. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:22.8 | This is The Dinner Party Download, the culture show that gives you an edge in your party conversations. |
| 0:27.7 | You just got a joke from author Thomas Pierce that'll help break the ice. |
| 0:31.2 | Yes. |
| 0:32.2 | His short story collection, Hall of Small Mammals came out this week and we'll hear more from him later. |
| 0:36.6 | Plus, we'll speak with J.C. Shandor, writer and director of the new film, A Most Violent Year. |
| 0:41.7 | The National Board of Review just voted it the best film of the year. |
| 0:44.7 | Also coming up, Australian pop band Twirps, DJ Your Dinner Party. |
| 0:48.9 | Writer Gustavo Ariano helps us to a new old Mexican beverage, and Mark Duplas, co-creator and star of the new HBO show Togetherness, asks the philosophical question, where is the happy button? |
| 1:00.8 | It gets deep. It does, but first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:07.5 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:10.0 | Tonight, House Speaker John Boehner reehlector, holding on to his post. |
| 1:12.9 | California has finally embarked on constructing the first high-speed rail line in America. |
| 1:18.0 | Over the year, private employers added more than two and a half million jobs to pay roles. |
| 1:22.4 | Now for a story you might not have heard. |
| 1:24.3 | We are speaking with Manu Samaroti. |
| 1:26.1 | She is the host of New Tech City. |
| 1:28.0 | It is a podcast from WNYC about, guess what, technology? Manus, what story are you going to be talking about this week? |
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