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

There's this guy, he's driving on the road, he's got 17 penguins in the back of his car.

His cop season, the cop stops him, and he's like, I don't know, I don't know what's going on here,

but you got to take these penguins at the zoo. And the guy says, okay, next day, same guy's

driving, he's got the same 17 penguins in the back of his car.

Same cop is in the speed trap, he stops him again.

He says, look, man, I stopped you yesterday.

I told you to take these penguins to the zoo.

Guys, like, I took him to the zoo, today we're going on the beach.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

I'm Rico Gagliano, and from 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles, this is the Dinner Party

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You may have recognized this week's Icebreaker.

It's from Syk Rocker Ezra Feinberg of the band Sitte.

He told us that joke back in September.

And believe it or not, we figured that's the best joke we had on the show Sitte. He told us that joke back in September. And believe it or not, we figured

that's the best joke we had on the show all year. We promised to do better in 2009. Oh, I hope. But

meanwhile, for the rest of this episode, we're going to look back on some of our favorite bits from 2008,

including our interview with Hollywood icon Robert Wagner. But first, as with any dinner party, we start off with Small Talk.

So normally this is the part of the show where we zip around the American Public Media offices

and speak with reporters from Marketplace and KPCC about the one story that they thought was really cool this week.

Now, this segment has actually evolved.

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