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

There's New York City, a penthouse bar, 80 floors off of the ground level.

And there's this sort of like grizzle guy sitting at the bar.

Another fellow comes down sits next to him. How you doing? He introduces himself.

The grizzle guy looks at him and he goes, I want to tell you something really unusual and really interesting about this building. There's a convergence of wind

patterns that if you open the window, you can step outside and the wind will carry you around

the whole building. The guy goes, no way, that's crazy. He goes, you want to see it? I'm going to,

I'll show you right now. Opens the window, steps out, and lo and behold, he floats all the way around the building,

comes back in.

The guy at the bar says, this is incredible.

I've never seen this before.

I have to try it.

He goes to the window, opens it, steps out, and plummets 80 floors to his death. The bartender turns the grizzled guy and he goes, you're a real jerk

when you're drunk, Superman.

I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Noonum. And from the Frank Stanton Studios 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 Aaron Britt, writer and editor for Dwell Magazine.

Thanks, Aaron.

Thank you.

And later we'll be speaking with our guest of honor, author and humorous Mishna Wolf.

But first, time for small talk.

So, Brendan, this week in the news, Michael Jackson died.

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