Episode 336: Jason Schwartzman, Jenny Slate, Father John Misty, Lena Waithe
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It’s a special live(ly) edition of the DPD, recorded in front of a sold-out L.A. crowd! Actor Jason Schwartzman revisits his “Rushmore” audition… Comedian Jenny Slate talks Marcel the Shell and Michael Dukakis the Hottie… Father John Misty plays a few party-stopping songs… And TV writer-producer Lena Waithe (currently starring in “Master of None”) tells […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | How do you turn soup into gold? |
| 0:09.0 | You add 24 carrots. |
| 0:12.0 | Okay. All right. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:26.7 | Culture, Food, and Humor to fuel your party conversations. |
| 0:29.6 | You just got a joke from Tiana Paris. |
| 0:31.7 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:32.9 | She stars in Spike Lee's film Shirek, which just came out on DVD this past week. |
| 0:37.4 | That joke also kicked off a special live taping of our program in Los Angeles. |
| 0:41.5 | We called it our Midwinter Review. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes. Now, to be honest, we don't really know what a midwinter review is. |
| 0:47.6 | There's that. |
| 0:48.2 | But it sounded better than a Let's Do a Live Show in L.A. when it's cold everywhere else review. |
| 0:53.1 | Nonetheless, it was a grand night with great guests. |
| 0:55.9 | And today you'll hear the highlights, including conversations with actor Jason |
| 0:59.7 | Schwartzman, comedian Jenny Slate, writer and actor Lena Waith and musician Father John Misty. |
| 1:04.9 | But as is our custom, we started the party with small talk. |
| 1:08.2 | And for that, we turned to journalist Shereen Marisol Maragi. |
| 1:11.3 | She reports on race issues for NPR's Code Switch team. We invited her on stage to tell us about |
| 1:16.2 | her favorite story of the week. So I did a story on the etymology of the political term, |
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