Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.

This is your icebreaker.

What does Geronimo say when he jumps off a cliff?

Me!

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 dinner parties. You just got a joke from actor and writer Greta Gerwig. That'll help break the ice. She stars in director Noah Baumbach's new film, Mistress America. We'll hear more from her later. Plus, Mel Brooks, the man behind some of the silliest and most classic comedies of all time,

provides etiquette tips like how to deal with noisy neighbors.

Just write, if you make noise, we will kill you.

Simple, pretty easy.

And if this all sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we aired last year.

So cast your mind back to a time before anyone had announced a bid for the presidency.

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

All week, you've been hearing these headlines.

Joan Rivers, the famous comedian, has passed away.

A federal jury has convicted former Virginia governor Bob McDonald and his wife Maureen of corruption.

NFL kickoff is upon us.

Now for a story you might not have heard.

We are speaking with Rahan Harmansey.

She is senior editor at Fast Company magazine.

Rehan, what story are you going to be talking about at parties this week?

I'm going to be talking about a study

about why you can't smell the smell of your own house I can't smell the smell of my own house yes I didn't realize that well you know how when you walk in somebody else's house and you're conscious like oh this smells like for breeze or feels, smells like cooking, you walk into your house and it's just kind of neutral. Oh, that's true. Because my house is clean and perfect. And I'm not gross like other people. Yeah, that's. That's clearly not the case. So what's going on here, Ray Hon? According to New York Magazine, it's a phenomenon called nose blindness.

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