Episode 304: Mike Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Encore Broadcast: Filmmaker Mike Leigh talks about crop circles (yes, those crop circles) … Actor Gina Rodriguez explains how “Breaking Bad” is crazier than a telenovela … What we can learn about dictators from thier food obsessions … A replay of the history of the replay … Joseph Gordon-Levitt on art outside the Hollywood machine […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	Okay, here's my joke. What did one math book say to the other?
0:11.0	I got problems.
0:13.0	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 helps you win your week's dinner
0:27.0	parties.
0:28.0	You just got a joke from actress Gina Rodriguez, star of the TV show Jane the Virgin.
0:32.3	That'll help break the ice.
0:33.7	We'll hear more from her later.
0:34.8	Plus, we speak with the great film director Mike Lee.
0:37.4	His movie Mr. Turner just came out on DVD this week.
0:40.2	Also coming out, film and TV star Joseph Gordon Levitt practices selfie defense.
0:45.0	We examine dictators' diets, and talk show legend Dick Cavett tells us how he got his guests to open up.
0:51.6	A swift-pointed, excruciating kick in the shinbone.
0:56.4	Worked for us.
0:57.2	And if that kind of amazing lineup sounds familiar,
0:59.9	that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we first aired in December.
1:04.1	So cast your mind back to a time of Hanukkah Gelt and peppermint sticks.
1:07.7	When, as at any dinner party, we started with Small Talk.
1:10.8	We are speaking with Aaron McKann. peppermint sticks when, as at any dinner party, we started with small talk.
1:15.1	We are speaking with Aaron McCann.
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