Welcome to the dinner party download.

This is your icebreaker.

Here's what I would tell my five-year-old, but it's so bad.

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Dwayne.

Dwayne, who?

Dwayne the bathtub. I'm dwounding.

I'm Rico Galeano.

I'm Brendan Francis Nune. and from APM American Public Media.

This is the Dinner Party Download, the culture show that gives you everything you need to win your week's dinner parties.

You just got a joke from Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody.

That'll break the ice.

Her film, Ricky and The Flash, came out on DVD just in time for the holidays, and we'll hear more from her later. Plus, we'll speak to a star with a ton of Oscar buzz, Jason Siegel. Yes, he talks

about playing late literary, luminary David Foster Wallace in the film The End of the Tour. Other

guests this hour include best-selling novelist Jay Ryan Straddle, journalist Anne Friedman, and

Two Cats, comedian Bobcat, Gullfait, and musician Thundercat.

Hope you're not allergic.

And if all this sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show that first aired in July.

So cast your mind back to a time when the only holiday on your radar involved fireworks.

And when is at any party?

We started with Small Talk.

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