Episode 337: Adam McKay, George Miller, Santigold
The Dinner Party Download
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4.5 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Two Oscar-nominated filmmakers tell us about finding stories in unexpected places — Adam McKay (“The Big Short”) and George Miller (“Mad Max: Fury Road”)… Santigold revives our spirits with her party soundtrack… The down-and-up history of the Ferris Wheel… Star L.A. chef Roy Choi reinvents fast food, in the heart of Watts… And more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | I'll tell you one which is a kind of cruel joke. |
| 0:09.0 | A man goes to the doctor and the doctor says I've got bad news and I've got really terrible news. |
| 0:15.0 | He said, tell me the bad news. He said, you've got 24 hours to live. |
| 0:19.0 | And he said, well, what's a really terrible news? |
| 0:21.6 | Doctor says, I should have told you yesterday. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, |
| 0:32.9 | this is the Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:34.8 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:38.0 | You just got a joke to break the ice from filmmaker and actual licensed Dr. George Miller. |
| 0:42.8 | That is not a joke. |
| 0:44.0 | He is up for an Oscar for directing the epic Mad Max Fury Road, and we will talk to him later. |
| 0:48.7 | Also coming up, another Oscar-nominated director, Adam McKay talks about his movie The Big Short, |
| 0:55.6 | pop star, Santi Gold, |
| 0:59.8 | Parties with Ghosts, and Celebrity Chef Roy Choi fights fast food. |
| 1:02.6 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talks. |
| 1:07.3 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines? |
| 1:09.6 | The death of Justice Antonin Scalia. |
| 1:11.9 | Apple now says it's going to fight a federal order to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. Barack Obama will be the first |
| 1:16.8 | sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years. Now for something you might not have heard, |
| 1:21.5 | we are joined by Brittany Luce. She is the host of Sampler, which is a podcast on the Gimlet Network. |
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