Episode 325: Brie Larson, Gloria Steinem, Raury

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Encore Broadcast: Actor Brie Larson, star of “Room,” talks about being trapped on a plane while passengers watch her movie… The esteemed Gloria Steinem answers etiquette questions and gives you permission NOT to smile… folk-hip-hop artist Raury DJs your dinner party in a futuristic forest… Mary-Louise Parker reads a letter from her new book (don’t call it a […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.
0:04.0	I got an amazing joke for you. Knock, knock.
0:08.0	Who's there?
0:09.0	Yeah.
0:10.0	Yahoo.
0:11.0	What are you so excited about?
0:13.0	I'm Rico Gagliano.
0:18.0	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, an hour of culture, food, and humor to fuel your party conversations. Humor, in quotes. You just got a joke from indie rock star Kurt Vile. That'll help break the ice. He'll launch an East Coast tour next month in support of his latest album. It's called Believe I'm Going Down. Later, we'll speak with actor Bree Larson. She's up for an Oscar for her starring role in the movie Room. Also coming up, hip-hop folk artist Rory, DJs the Party of the Future. Mary Louise Parker, star of the TV show Weeds, reads an open letter to a man she's never met. And we pose your etiquette questions to none other than feminist icon Gloria Steinem.
0:57.3	Yes, and if all that sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we first aired in November.
1:03.0	Seems like just yesterday we were airing this and dreaming of leftover turkey.
1:06.6	Back then, we started, as always, with Small Talk.
1:11.5	All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.
1:14.0	Cyclone Chopola made a rare landfall in Yemen.
1:17.2	Kansas City waited 30 years for their royals to win another World Series.
1:21.1	A proposed amendment to legalize marijuana failed in Ohio yesterday.
1:25.5	Now, for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Rebecca Ler.
1:28.3	She is co-founder of the Matchup Americans, which is a podcast and website about identity and culture.
1:34.4	Rebecca, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend?
1:36.9	Well, I want to talk about a new super creature, the coy wolf.
1:42.2	The coy wolf.
1:43.6	It's very shy.
1:44.5	That's exactly right.
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