Welcome to the dinner party download.

This is your icebreaker.

So two cupcakes are sitting in an oven,

and one cupcake says to the other cupcake,

man, it's hot in here, and the other cupcake says,

Oh my God, it's talking cupcake.

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 week's dinner parties.

You just got a joke from actor Jonah Hill, Oscar nominee for The Wolf of Wall Street.

That'll break the ice.

Later, Jonah tells us about Martin Scorsese and other directors. Stanley Kubrick's favorite film of the 1990s was white men can't jump.

Seriously. Also coming up, we meet Bo Willemann, the architect of House of Cards.

Skip Levese, the off-screen star of the film's Gravity and Inside Lewin Davis, and we learn about

the toast of San Francisco, literally.

First, though, as at any party, we start with Small Talk.

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

Shirley Temple Black, who was one of Hollywood's best-known child stars, has died.

Snowboarder Sean White went for his third straight gold medal, but it was not to be.

The Senate has just approved raising the debt ceiling.

Now for something you might not have heard, we are speaking with Stacey Vanek-Smith.

She is senior reporter at the Business Show Marketplace.

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