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

So there's a couple lying in bed. Doorbell rings. The husband gets up, answers the door, and it's this guy, and he says, hey man, can you help me out? Can he give me a push?

And the guy says, it's 3 in the morning, can't help you, and goes back to bed, and his wife says, you should have helped him.

So he yells out into the night.

Hey, man, are you still out there? He said, where are you? He said, I'm over here on the swing.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano, and from American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download,

the show that helps you win your dinner party.

You just got a joke from comic Tignitaro.

That'll break the ice.

We'll speak with her later about her show on Amazon.

Plus, late show band leader John Batiste makes us hungry for red beans and rice.

Also coming up, genius filmmaker Jorgos Lanantemos tells us why he likes making audiences uneasy.

And we learn what real Americans eat.

But first, small talk.

All week long, you've been hearing these stories.

Former Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort,

has been indicted. The Houston Astros

defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers last night to win the World Series.

The president calling on Congress to scrap the immigration program that allowed the suspect in the New York City attack into the country in the first place.

Now for something you might not have heard. We are joined by writer Gustavo Ariano. He's been on the show many times and he's got a piece coming out in the next issue of Reason magazine.

Gustavo, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend?

I want to talk about some story coming out of Austria where they're putting airbags around light poles in Salzburg, Austria,

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