Welcome to the Dinner Party download. This is your icebreaker.

I'm going to tell you the only joke I've heard, I guess, the last 15 years.

I don't even know if it's a joke exactly.

An old man, he's very old, he's like super old, with a severe headache.

He goes to the doctor to check out what's going on and they just can't tell what's wrong.

And it's agonizing. The man, you know it has to stop working it's terrible eventually

they say they're gonna have to do surgery they actually cut open the head and to

their great surprise to see that the skull is empty there is nothing inside of the

skull but a string going from one side to the other. And the doctors say that,

or the surgeons, they say that, you know, it's pretty radical opening up the man's skull and not

do anything inside of the skull. So they decide they have to cut the string and they cut the

string and the old man's airs fall off.

I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Goliano.

I'm Brendan Francis Noonam, and from 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles,

this is the dinner party download, the show that helps you win your next dinner party.

Our icebreaker this week came from Frederick Soroya of New Wave Disco Band, Data Rock.

They're putting out a new album, and we'll be speaking with them later.

But first, how about a little small talk?

So Rico, as far as I can tell, all the news this week was connected. All right.

Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't convince voters to pass his budget. Out here in California, okay.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was the original Terminator.

I'm following you.

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