Episode 311: Joe Manganiello, Devendra Banhart, Joy Williams
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Encore Broadcast: “Magic Mike” star Joe Manganiello strips away our bad etiquette habits… Artist-musician Devendra Banhart ruminates on art, ritual, and everlasting honey… Grammy-winner Joy Williams (formerly of The Civil Wars) shares a party soundtrack, direct from her Nashville “Night Circus”…The pros and cons of dining with dogs… Nina Simone gets a close-up, from acclaimed documentarian […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | Here's a joke. How do you find Will Smith in the snow? |
| 0:09.0 | I don't know how. Look for fresh prints. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media. This is The Dinner Party Download, an hour of food, culture, and humor to fuel your party conversation. You just got a joke from True Blood Star Joe Mangonello. That'll help break the ice. He's among the stars of the movie Magic Mike XXL. It's out now on DVD. Later in the show, he'll answer your etiquette questions with wisdom like this. |
| 0:39.3 | Keep it above the nipples. |
| 0:40.3 | Garrison Keeler gave us that same advice. |
| 0:42.3 | It's unforgettable. |
| 0:43.3 | Plus, artist and musician Devendra Vanhart stops by and talks about mysticism and honey. |
| 0:48.3 | Also coming up, documentary director Liz Garbus tells us what happened to singer Nina Simone. |
| 0:53.3 | And if all that sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of an episode we first aired in June. |
| 0:58.6 | So cast your mind back to a time when cranberry sauce was but a distant dream. |
| 1:02.9 | And when, as at any party, we started with Small Talk. |
| 1:08.1 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:10.2 | From the U.S. Supreme Court, the subsidies for Obamacare have been upheld. |
| 1:16.1 | The Confederate battle flag is on the defensive. |
| 1:19.2 | Men's professional golf has a new superstar. |
| 1:21.5 | He's American Jordan Speeith. |
| 1:23.4 | Now for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Richard Lawson. |
| 1:26.2 | He is a calmness and movie reviewer for Vanity Fair. Richard, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? I'm going to be talking about the rediscovery of what is being called the greatest cinematic pie fight of all time. Okay. Is that a high bar? Well, I mean, we've all seen someone getting hit in the face with a pie in like old-timey, you know, keystone cop. |
| 1:45.2 | I don't know if I've seen it, but yeah, it just lives in my memory. |
| 1:47.7 | Or you've probably seen like homages to it, maybe not the originals. But it was a really popular thing in like the early 1900s. And then it sort of fell out of favor. but in 1927, Laurel and Hardy made a movie called The Battle of the Century, that the centerpiece, |
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