Episode 313: Liev Schreiber, Joshua Oppenheimer, Mark Ronson
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show: Liev Schreiber, star of the hit hit-man series “Ray Donovan,” brings stories of his dog days… A follow-up documentary from Oscar nominee Joshua Oppenheimer (“The Act of Killing”) looks into the eyes of mass murderers… Mega-producer Mark Ronson DJs our dinner party, gets us out of our seats… A requiem for […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.1 | Well, here's a joke. How many vegans does it take to screw in a light bulb? |
| 0:13.3 | I don't know. I'm better than you. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneman from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:23.6 | This is the Dinner Party Download, the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:27.6 | You just got a joke from actress Abigail Spencer. |
| 0:29.6 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:30.6 | Or break friendships. |
| 0:32.6 | That's true, depending on the diet of your audience. |
| 0:34.6 | A new season of her critically acclaimed show, Rectify, is airing |
| 0:37.9 | now on the Sundance channel, and we'll be speaking with the star of another acclaim show |
| 0:41.6 | show later. Leav Schreiber tells us about his showtime series Ray Donovan, for which he just |
| 0:46.5 | got a Emmy nomination. Also coming up, pop producer Mark Ronson DJs Your Dinner Party. We |
| 0:51.3 | learn the history of the world's most famous rabbit. Author Amelia Gray tells a summer tale and veal loaf. Theoaf. But first, let's start with small talk. |
| 1:02.2 | This week, the news sounded mostly like this. NASA's New Horizon spacecraft passed by Pluto yesterday. |
| 1:08.7 | The first sitting president at tour a federal prison. |
| 1:11.6 | The Emmy nominations are in. |
| 1:13.7 | Game of Thrones led the pack with a whopping 24 nominations. |
| 1:17.1 | Now for a story that you might have missed, we are joined by Manusse Semarodi. |
| 1:20.1 | She is the host of Note to Self, a tech podcast produced by WNYC. |
| 1:24.7 | Manus, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
| 1:27.3 | You guys, the smartest garbage cans you have ever heard of us. WNYC, Manouche, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
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