Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker.

All right, here's the joke. How do you catch a unique rabbit?

I don't know. You meet up on it. And then how do you catch a tame rabbit?

Still don't know.

Tame way, you meet up on it.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

I'm Rico Gagliano.

And from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations.

You just got a joke from Sue Slezak of Mexico-American folk band, David Wax Museum.

Two jokes.

Two jokes, in fact.

That'll help break the ice. We'll hear more from

them later. Also, we'll speak with actor Joseph Gordon Levitt. He's in a film you probably heard of

called The Dark Night Rises and the new movie Premium Rush. Plus, a new tune from psych

popper Ariel Pink. Novelist Jonathan Eveson makes us think twice about friending him on Facebook,

and actress and author, Molly Ringwald,

is here with etiquette tips.

But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk.

All week long, you've been hearing these headlines?

Human rights groups are denouncing the sentence handed down to members of the Russian feminist

punk band Pussy Riot.

Hurricane Isaac is threatening to crash the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

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