Episode 299: Oscar Isaac, Fran Drescher, Wayne Coyne
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This Week: Actor Oscar Isaac (“Ex Machina,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) isn’t bullish on ‘the future’ (but his is bright)… Fran Drescher and her dog laugh in the face of our etiquette questions… The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne turns our party into a Lynch-ian dreamscape… Mary Norris, copy editor at the New Yorker, shares […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. |
| 0:04.2 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | God said to Adam, I'm going to give you the gift of woman. |
| 0:11.0 | She's going to be everything you could ever want from a maid. |
| 0:15.0 | She's going to agree with everything you say, the exquisitely beautiful, cook for you, clean for you, and weight on your hands and foot. |
| 0:23.6 | And Adam said, wow, what's a gift like this going to cost me? |
| 0:27.6 | And God said, an arm and a leg. |
| 0:30.6 | And Adam said, well, what can I get for a rib? |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:44.3 | the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:46.3 | You just got a joke from Fran Dresher. |
| 0:48.3 | As if you couldn't tell. |
| 0:49.3 | She plays a stepmother, not a nanny, in the musical Cinderella. |
| 0:52.3 | We'll talk to her later. |
| 0:53.3 | Plus, we'll speak with Oscar Isaac, star of the new movie X Machina. |
| 0:57.5 | Also coming up, flaming lips and Dutch crunch. But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk. |
| 1:05.8 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:08.2 | The tentative deal on Iran's nuclear program has just been |
| 1:10.9 | announced. Indiana lawmakers are going over the state's controversial religious freedom act. |
| 1:16.0 | California imposing mandatory water rationing on state residents. Now for something you might not have |
| 1:21.2 | heard. We are speaking with our friend Rehan Harmancy. She is editor-in-chief at the new travel website, |
| 1:25.7 | Atlas Obscura. Rehan, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
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