Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.

This is your icebreaker.

My son, who's two, wanted this book of knock-knock jokes, which is ridiculous because the whole thing is completely over his head,

and yet we read the book as if it's like a gratifying story.

So here's one from that. Knock-, knock. Who's there? Theodore.

Theodore wasn't open, so I knocked.

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 Miranda July. That'll help break the ice. Yes. She is a new novel out, and we'll hear her read from it later. Plus, we chat with superstar architect Frank Gary.

Also coming up, we learn why some people put butter in their coffee. It's not an accident. And we speak with the international mega superstar of the stage, Dame Edna, who apparently

now writes our dialogue as well.

She slipped that line right in there.

But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk.

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

President Obama laid out an ambitious agenda in his State of the Union address.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has died.

Controversy has blown up in the NFL over deflated footballs.

Now for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Rehan Harmancy.

She is a senior editor at Fast Company magazine.

Rehan, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend?

I'm going to be talking about one of the strangest cases of deja vu in medical history.

I feel like I've heard this before.

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