Episode 291: Eddie Redmayne, Issa Rae, Andrew Jarecki
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Encore Broadcast: Eddie Redmayne reveals his egg-y fears … Issa Rae gives tips for shutting down awkward asks … Why not leaving a tip might be the nicest thing you can do for a waiter … Swedish star Seinabo Sey warms us up … A documentarian tells us why audiences love true-crime stories … We […]
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| 0:00.0 | And one more thing, folks, you are about to hear what we like to call an encore broadcast, so you may have actually heard this episode before. |
| 0:07.5 | First of all, you should listen to it again because it's excellent. |
| 0:10.0 | But second of all, do come back on Tuesday, September 22nd to download an all new podcast-only episode. |
| 0:18.2 | It'll contain our favorite bits from the live show that we're going to be doing at Los Angeles Podfest on Sunday, September 20th. It's going to feature guests like Paul Shear of the League. My gosh, you can't imagine how delightful it's going to be. So do come back on Tuesday, September 22nd to download that. Meanwhile, enjoy this and here's's your icebreaker. So, here's a joke that |
| 0:40.4 | makes me feel great. Why did the yogurt go to the art exhibit? To get more cultured. |
| 0:52.1 | I am Rico Galliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nune, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party |
| 0:59.1 | Download, the culture show that helps you win your week's dinner parties. |
| 1:02.9 | You just got a refined artistic joke from Webstar and soon-to-be HBO star Issa Ray. |
| 1:08.2 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 1:09.5 | She's also an author. |
| 1:10.7 | Later we'll hear her read from her book. Plus, we speak with actor Eddie Redmayne. Last year, he won an Oscar portraying Stephen Hawking. He's now earning raves for his new film, The Danish Girl. |
| 1:19.6 | Also coming up, documentarian Andrew Jurecki talks about his Emmy-winning TV show that helped jail a suspected killer, and we get tips on not tipping. |
| 1:28.8 | And if that lineup sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of an episode |
| 1:33.0 | we first aired in February. So cast her mind back to a time when football season had actually |
| 1:37.5 | just ended when, as always, we started with Small Talks. |
| 1:43.0 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:45.6 | Winners of Super Bowl 49, the Patriots, congratulations. |
| 1:49.0 | $3.99 trillion. |
| 1:51.4 | That's the budget the president is sending to Congress. |
| 1:53.5 | Harper Lee is publishing a second novel, 55 years after the release of the classic to |
| 1:58.5 | kill a mockingbird. |
| 1:59.4 | Now for a story you might not have heard, we are speaking with Aaron McCann. |
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