Episode 326: Allison Janney, Norman Lear, John Mulaney
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Encore Broadcast: Allison Janney, star of the CBS sitcom “Mom,” on the humor in life’s heavy stuff… Alan Palomo, better known as Neon Indian, DJs your bomb shelter dinner party (but you’ll have to bring your own food)… Bon Appetit’s Adam Rapoport on how to pre-game for a food coma… The veteran producer behind “The Jeffersons” […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | So what's the, what's the tricky thing about making butter? |
| 0:10.0 | There's little margarine for error. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nune. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Rico Galeano and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, the culture show that helps you win this week's dinner parties. |
| 0:26.6 | You just got a joke from Alan Palomo, the man behind the band Neon Indian. |
| 0:31.0 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:32.4 | He's on tour now, and we'll hear more from him later. |
| 0:35.1 | Also coming up, actress Alison Janney tells us about her |
| 0:38.2 | multiple Emmy-winning work on the West Wing and the sitcom mom. Plus, you'll hear comedian John |
| 0:43.0 | Malaney describe how dumb he looks watching TV, and TV icon Norman Lear draws on 92 years of life |
| 0:49.5 | experience to bring you this etiquette advice. Get lost. Two words of wisdom. Exactly. And if all that sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of an episode we first aired last November. So cast your mind back to a time of year when you had to pack sweaters for vacation. When, as at any party, we started with Small Talk. Now for a story you might not have heard, we are joined by Ben Johnson. |
| 1:12.4 | He is host of Marketplace Tech and the new podcast Codebreaker, which takes a deep, cool dive into the world of tech. |
| 1:18.3 | Ben, what story are you going to be talking about this week? |
| 1:20.6 | I'm going to be talking about how my cat's tongue is going to disrupt the future. |
| 1:25.1 | Okay. |
| 1:25.7 | Wow, that's a powerful cat, man. |
| 1:27.4 | What's going on? |
| 1:27.9 | You know, so a bunch of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology looked at the |
| 1:33.9 | cleaning habits of 27 mammals. |
| 1:36.9 | And what they found is mammals from chinchillas to cats are really good at cleaning themselves. |
| 1:44.9 | So they didn't study any like college age males, I'm guessing. |
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