Welcome to the dinner party download.

This is your icebreaker.

So here's a joke for you guys.

Husband and wife, Italian of course, are sitting at Italian,

you'll argue in the old-time questions, who's the boss?

And he insisted, I don't want to hear anymore for you.

I am the head of this house.

And she calmly says, okay, I'll be the neck.

She turned him wherever she wanted.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano. And from APM, American Public Media, this is

the dinner party download, the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. You just got a joke

from celebrity chef and TV host Lydia Bastianich.

Yeah.

That'll help break the ice.

Later, we'll speak with Van Jones, co-host of CNN's new version of the political debate show, Crossfire.

Also coming up, half of Brit Rock superstars, the Arctic Monkeys, provide an entire playlist.

Author in fashionista Simon Dunin provides uniform advice,

and poet Nick Laird reads from his new collection, Go Giants.

But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk.

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

The Obama administration continues to make the case for military action against Syria.

The wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park has become the fourth largest in California

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