Welcome to the dinner party download.

This is your icebreaker.

Okay, so a guy goes to the doctor, and the doctor tells him, I'm sorry, sir, but you're going to have to stop engaging in self-love.

And the guy says, why?

And the doctor goes, well, sir, because I'm examining you.

I'm examining you. I'm Rico Gagliano.

And I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

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.

This week's icebreaker came from Luke Burbank, host of America's second favorite podcast,

Too Beautiful to Live. Here, here. And later we'll be hearing from our guest of honor,

documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit. But now it's time for Small Talk.

So, Brendan, this week, Senator Ted Kennedy said, hey, everybody's doing it and passed away.

Sad but true.

The CIA torture memos were released.

Sad but true.

And I guess they redacted the part about self-torture because Ben Bernanke accepted a second term as Fed chairman.

Guy's a sucker for punitive.

That's got to be up there with being the O'Dul's girl at Mardi Gras as far as worst jobs.

Anyway, before Rico and I pass away, we asked our friends at Marketplace to tell us about some stories that weren't in the headlines.

Phyllis Owens' commentary editor for Marketplace.

What's your story this week?

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