Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker.

So here's a joke I feel like a stereotype for telling. What is a gay horse eat?

I don't know. Hey.

You're laughing. You're laughing.

I'm Brendan Francis Noonanam. And I'm Tobin Lowe filling in for Rico Galliano.

And from APM, American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations.

You just got a joke from Tobin Lowe of the Nancy podcast, which is about LGBT culture.

And it is excellent, so you should check it out.

Thanks for filling in while Rico is God knows where, doing God knows what. Oh, I'm so excited to see how this show works.

You know, it's funny, you mentioned the word work, because I've kind of arranged things, so we won't have to do

too much of it. Interesting. How's that going to work? Check this out. Well, before Rico left, he interviewed Deneve Lnev. He's director of the new Blade Runner film.

Also, my producer James Kim spoke with comedian Joel Kim Booster about a time he bombed on stage, so we'll hear that.

And my other producer, Krista Ripple, always wanted to do a food segment, so I told her to go for it.

Huh. So what does that leave for us to do? We get to play

hooky on the streets of New York. Excellent. Wait, but don't you always start the show with small talk?

I thought of that. Hi, this is Rahan Hermanty. I'm the editor of Topic, a new storytelling platform.

I'm not sure where Brendan asked me to leave a voicemail for small talk this week, but here goes.

I think you guys will dig this. I'm going to be talking about pigeons in Paris.

So Paris has a pigeon problem, like a lot of cities, and a mayor of a, the 10th, Arndes-Mont, came up with a solution he thought would be really popular,

where he would get two hawks and

three falcons to scare off the pigeons for a period of some weeks. This did not, however, go down

with the Parisians at all. A petition has been started with over 20,000 signatures to halt

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