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The Dinner Party Download

Episode 310: Al Pacino, Adam Scott & Jason Schwartzman, Flo Morrissey

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6821 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Encore Broadcast: Al Pacino reflects on playing himself (method, of course), improvising with Sidney Lumet, and watching YOU from the corner booth… Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman, two forces behind the risque new comedy “The Overnight,” pass our etiquette pop(corn) quiz… Precocious singer Flo Morrissey fashions a soundtrack for lovers, dreamers, and an international man of […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dinner Party download.

0:04.0

This is your icebreaker.

0:06.0

This isn't as much of a joke, but I love and what about Bob?

0:10.0

When Bill Murray says,

0:12.0

Roses are red, violets are blue,

0:15.0

I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I.

0:18.0

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano, and from A And so am I.

0:23.2

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

0:24.4

I'm Rico Gagliano.

0:31.1

And from APM, American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, the culture show that helps you win your weak social gathering.

0:33.6

You just got a joke from actor Jason Schwartzman.

0:34.9

That'll help break the ice.

0:47.7

He co-stars with Adam Scott in the movie The Overnight. We'll hear from both of them later. Plus, we chat with none other than Al Pacino about his latest movie, Mangal Horn, as well as The Godfather and his seminal work, Jack and Jill.

0:58.9

Classic. And if all that sounds familiar, it's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we first aired in June. So cast her mind back to a time when some food items at the grocery store were not pumpkin spice flavored.

1:02.2

And when, as at any dinner party, we started with small talks.

1:07.0

All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.

1:08.3

Identify as Black.

1:53.1

Rachel Dolajal in an interview this morning with NBC's Today Show. The Chicago Blackhawks beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2 to nothing to win the Stanley Cup. The Golden State Warriors are the 2015 NBA champions. Now for a story you might not have heard. We're speaking with Aaron McCann. She is news editor at The Guardian newspaper in America. Erin, what story are you going to be talking about at parties this week? I have a story today about a 15-year-old boy who has already accomplished more in his life than any of us will. Oh, no. Thanks a lot. Wait, our lives or when we were 15? I think probably our lives. Okay. Because Tom Wag, who is now 17, two years after this amazing event happened, on a five-day work experience, which is what the British call an internship, on day three of this five-day internship, he discovered a new planet.

1:54.7

What?

1:55.5

Wow.

2:20.3

He was 15 years old when he spotted the planet while doing work experience at the Keele University, and it's taken the last two years to prove that it exists. All right, so this wasn't a comic book that he was reading. It probably could be now. I'd go see that Marvel film. Where is this planet? I'm assuming not in our solar system or we might have heard about it. The planet is thousands of light years away and is the size of Jupiter. But astronomers, the story notes, are still working hard to find much smaller and more Earth-sized planets nearby.

2:22.3

Man, that's just them trying to make up for the fact that an intern totally skilled them.

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