Episode 350: Rashida Jones, Yo-Yo Ma, Tegan and Sara
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Encore Broadcast: Multi-hyphenate Rashida Jones — one of the forces behind TV’s police farce “Angie Tribeca”– comes bearing wisdom for ‘overdogs’… Cello maestro Yo-Yo Ma gets existential… Pop sensations Tegan and Sara craft a party playlist that’s frank — and French… The man and myth behind the doughnut, as we know it… Photographing your dinner makes […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. Tegan, I got a joke for you. |
| 0:05.8 | What is it? How do you make holy water? I have no idea. You boil the hell out of it. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nunement from APM American Public Media. This is the |
| 0:20.2 | dinner party download, culture, food, Humor to fuel your party conversations. |
| 0:24.3 | You just got a joke from the beloved musical duo, Tegan and Sarah. |
| 0:27.6 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:28.8 | They're on tour supporting their album Love You to Death, and you will love to death. |
| 0:32.9 | The playlist. |
| 0:33.7 | They will spend for us later in the show. |
| 0:35.6 | Plus, we speak to actress Rashida Jones about her |
| 0:38.0 | TV show Angie Tribeca, Modern Hollywood, and her theory of The Overdog. Spoiler alert, that's not a food |
| 0:44.2 | item. Nope. Also coming up, cello genius Yo-Yo Ma underestimates himself. Comedian Nguine Farsad |
| 0:49.9 | teaches us how to make white people laugh. And we learn the answer to one of the great |
| 0:53.7 | ancient mysteries. How come donuts have holes? Stand white people laugh. And we learned the answer to one of the great ancient mysteries. |
| 0:55.2 | Welcome, Donuts Have Holes. |
| 0:56.4 | Stand by for Enlightenment. |
| 0:58.0 | And if all that sounds familiar, |
| 0:59.3 | it's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we first aired last June. |
| 1:03.1 | So cast your mind back to a time when you could still filibuster a Supreme Court nominee. |
| 1:07.8 | And when, as at any party, we started with small talk. |
| 1:13.2 | Now for a story you might not have heard, we are joined by Richard Lawson. He is the film critic at |
| 1:18.1 | Vanity Fair. Richard, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? I'm going to be |
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