Episode 329: Alicia Vikander, Randall Munroe, EL VY

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Alicia Vikander, star of “The Danish Girl,” on why she hates Pictionary… “xkcd” cartoonist Randall Munroe helps us keep it simple… Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf of the band El Vy quarrel over Cat Stevens… Emily Post’s great-grandchildren on whether it’s OK to bring a half-empty bottle of wine to a party (or is it […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.
0:04.5	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.4	Did you hear about the fire in the circus?
0:08.3	Oh, no, there's a fire in the circus?
0:09.8	It was intense.
0:14.6	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:16.4	I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, the best arts, culture, and food of the week delivered in tidy one-hour audio form.
0:26.4	That's right.
0:27.0	You just got a joke from Matt Burninger, frontman for indie bands The National and his new project, El Vi.
0:32.7	That'll help break the ice.
0:34.0	We'll hear more from him later.
0:35.5	Plus, we speak with double Golden Globe nominee
0:37.6	Alicia Vickander about her turn in the new film, The Danish Girl. Also coming up, comedian
0:42.5	Josh Thomas, starred the Pivot Channel series Please Like Me, recalls being his mother's keeper.
0:47.9	Cartoonist Randall Monroe, the man behind the web comic XKCD, talks to us using very simple
0:52.9	language, and we learn if it's okay to bring a half-empty bottle of wine to a dinner party.
0:57.7	Or half-full bottle.
0:59.0	Yeah.
0:59.3	But first, we start with small talk.
1:03.3	All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.
1:05.7	The White House pushed back against criticism of its ISIS strategy.
1:09.8	Chipotle Mexican Grill has been linked to more than 100 cases of food poisoning.
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