Episode 315: Jason Segel, Diablo Cody, and Three Cool Cats
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Actor Jason Segel turns over a new leaf, as David Foster Wallace, in the biopic “The End of the Tour”… Etiquette (and karaoke) tips from rock star writer Diablo Cody (“Ricki and the Flash”)… Bobcat Goldthwait remembers Barry Crimmins, the man who brought conscience (and anger) to comedy… A taste of haute cuisine […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.3 | Here's what I would tell my five-year-old, but it's so bad. |
| 0:09.0 | Knock knock. |
| 0:09.8 | Who's there? |
| 0:10.7 | Dwayne. |
| 0:11.7 | Dwayne, who? |
| 0:12.5 | Dwayne the bathtub. I'm dwowning. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Rico Galeano. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:23.6 | This is the Dinner Party Download, the culture show that gives you everything you need to win your week's dinner parties. |
| 0:28.6 | You just got a joke from Oscar winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. |
| 0:31.6 | That'll break the ice. |
| 0:32.6 | Her new film, Ricky and The Flash is out this week. |
| 0:34.6 | We'll hear more from her later. |
| 0:36.6 | Plus, we'll speak with the star of another film opening this week, Jason Siegel. |
| 0:40.6 | Yes, he talks about playing late literary, luminary, David Foster Wallace in the movie The End of the Tour. |
| 0:46.5 | Other guests this hour include novelist J. Ryan Straddle and Friedman from the podcast, Call Your Girlfriend, and Two Cats, comedian Bobcat Goldthwaite and musician Thundercat. |
| 0:56.0 | Hope you're not allergic. But first, it's a dinner party, you see. So let's start with small talks. |
| 1:00.0 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:05.0 | Zimbabwe is in mourning for an iconic lion from the country's Wangi National Park. |
| 1:10.0 | Intense wildfires across northern California. |
| 1:13.4 | The 2015 Special Olympics is now underway in Los Angeles. |
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