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

Here's a really painfully bad joke. A mushroom walks into a bar and the bartender says,

get out of here. We don't serve mushrooms here. The mushroom says, why not? I'm a fun guy.

I'm Rico Gagliano.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, 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 writer Ashley Cardiff.

She's author of the comic memoir Night Terror's.

We'll hear more from her later.

Also, we speak

with superstar comedian Kevin Hart about his stand-up concert film, Let Me Explain. And let me

explain what else is on the show. All right. All right. Humorist and TV host Aisha Tyler

tells us how to behave. Britlic critic Terry Eagleton tells us why Americans smile when they're on TV.

And we celebrate America with frozen beer.

From Japan.

And if all of this sounds familiar, that is because this is an encore broadcast

of an episode we first aired in July.

So cast your mind back to longer days and trees with leaves on them

when, as at any dinner party, we started with Small Talk.

We are joined by evan goldstein he's the editor of arts and letters daily evan what story you're going to be talking about

this weekend i'm going to be talking about what we don't know because we use the internet all the

time i thought we knew everything because of the internet i don't know i've never felt smarter there's things i don't want to know that i knew everything because of the internet. I don't know. I've never felt smarter, Evan.

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