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

Okay, here's a joke for you. Why do hummingbirds hum? I don't know. Because they don't know the words.

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 writer and bird specialists Noah Stricker.

Of course.

That'll help break the ice.

We'll speak with him later about his new book.

Plus filmmaker Wes Anderson tells us about his new movie and we hear what he sounds like when he gets super

mad. Well, I think that's quite rude. Jeez, such language. Yeah, also coming up, comic writer Dave

Barry tells us how he avoids taxes. Nobless Helen Oyemi talks about the mirror mirror on the wall,

the white hot band Real Estate DJs your dinner party, plus the surprising history of

camels in America. We're not talking cigarettes, folks. But first, as at any dinner party,

we start with small talk. All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. Techies, indie

musicians, and movie people have the annual South by Southwest Festival now underway.

A new campaign encouraging women to lead aims to get people to stop using the word bossy.

Where is Malaysian Airlines Flight 370?

Now for something you haven't heard, we are joined by Erin McCann. She is an assistant news editor for the Guardian newspaper.

Erin, what story are you

going to be talking about this weekend? I am going to be talking about cheese. All right,

that's a great topic to talk about at any time. That's right. Cheese and international warfare,

actually. What? The long and short of it is, the European Union wants to take away your cheese.

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