Episode 309: Paul Dano, Jackie Collins, Hot Chip
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show: Actor Paul Dano channels his inner Beach Boy…The always saucy novelist Jackie Collins heats up our etiquette segment with talk of models, lost underwear, and a stolen microwave… Crystal Moselle reflects on her unique new documentary, “The Wolfpack,” an extreme case of pop culture-as-parent… Alexis Taylor of the band Hot Chip […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. |
| 0:05.0 | This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's a joke. |
| 0:08.0 | Are you ready? |
| 0:09.0 | Are you sitting down? |
| 0:11.0 | Do you have some tissue handy in case you need it because of the tears that will roll down your face? |
| 0:15.0 | Due to laughter. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay. |
| 0:18.0 | Why does Waldo always wear stripes? Because he doesn't want to be spotted. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is the |
| 0:34.5 | dinner party download, the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:38.3 | You just got a joke from Judy Greer. That'll help break the ice. She's among the stars of the film Jurassic World, which comes out this week. |
| 0:44.8 | Later, we'll speak with Paul Dano, who plays young beach boy Brian Wilson in the new biopic Love and Mercy. |
| 0:51.0 | Also coming up, UK band Hot Chip, we chat with the director of the Sundance |
| 0:55.3 | winning documentary The Wolfpack, and author Jackie Collins tells us what it's polite to steal |
| 1:00.1 | from a dinner party. It's practical, but first, we start with small talks. All week long, you've |
| 1:07.0 | been hearing these headlines. President Obama has ordered the deployment of up to 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq. |
| 1:12.8 | Sir Christopher Lee has died at the age of 93. |
| 1:16.4 | And the Tony Award goes to Fun Home. |
| 1:20.4 | Now for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Sadie Stein. |
| 1:23.3 | She is a contributing editor at The Paris Review, which just launched its summer issue. |
| 1:27.8 | Check it out. |
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