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

Here's a joke. A child told me recently, which was a

a hamburger and a hot dog walk into a bar and the bartender says,

hey guys, I'm sorry we don't serve food in here.

Not good. Not a good joke.

I'm Rico Gagliano.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download,

the culture show that helps you win your dinner party.

You just got a joke from filmmaker Jim Jarmish.

That'll help break the ice.

And bad as it was, it is the perfect food-centric gag to kick off this, our annual post- Thanksgiving all-food episode,

featuring some of our favorite food segments from the last year, including interviews with Ruth Reichel and Three Michelin Star Chef Danielle Ballou,

all piled together indiscriminately on the same plate.

It's a pig out for your ears.

Hooray.

And to kick things off, here's an appetizer from Josh Epstein, one half of the danceable indie band

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. A while back, he told us some songs he'd play at a dinner party,

one of which was Jimmy Buffett's Cheeseburger in Paradise, and not because it's about food.

The low point in my music career actually revolves around Cheeseburger in paradise. I used to do cover shows

to pay the bills while, you know, between going on tour. There was a time when I was playing

the lunch hour at a Mongolian barbecue, and then the manager came up to me and he said, can you learn some

Jimmy Buffett songs for tomorrow? Can you do cheeseburger in paradise? I got to the part where

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