Episode 288: Nick Kroll, Laura Poitras, Eddie Huang

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week: The filmmaker who documented Edward Snowden (but didn’t decorate his hotel room) … Comedian Nick Kroll goes in search of the weirdest voices in America … Chef and author Eddie Huang tries to bring authenticity to a network sitcom … Kolache pastries heat up … An opera star shares moments when music made […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	Here's a joke. It's a classic.
0:08.0	Why did the grape go out with the prune?
0:11.0	Why? Because he couldn't get a date.
0:14.0	I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:19.0	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party
0:24.2	Download, the culture show that helps you win your dinner party.
0:27.4	You just got a joke from comedian Nick Kroll.
0:30.0	That'll help break the ice.
0:31.4	We will speak with him later about the new season of his hit sketch series, Krull Show.
0:35.6	Which is way funnier than that joke.
0:37.3	It is. Plus, we chat with Laura Poitris,
0:39.3	director of the documentary Citizen 4.
0:42.3	It just got an Oscar nomination.
0:43.3	Also coming up, world-renowned tenor Joseph Kalea
0:46.3	lists his favorite opera moments in movies.
0:48.3	Chef Eddie Wong, whose real life is about to become an ABC sitcom,
0:52.3	tries to behave while telling us how to behave,
0:54.8	and I learn what a Kalachi is and how to turn it into a delicious grenade.
0:58.5	But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk.
1:04.5	All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.
1:07.0	The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman led the Oscar nomination announcements.
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