Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. Okay, here's a joke. Did you hear about the explosion at the cheese factory? Everywhere there was debris.

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 writer and actor Julie Klausner. That'll help break the ice. You can catch her comedy series, Difficult people on Hulu. Later in the show, we'll speak with author Salman Rushdie about sex,

fatwa, and baseball. Par for the course. Also coming up, pop star Carly Ray Jepson provides a

dinner party playlist. I sample Southeast Asia's favorite dessert and rock and roll

Hall of Famer Alice Cooper is here. He's about to head out on tour and he is going to answer

your etiquette questions.

Yes, and tell you all about Groucho Marx's bed.

As one does.

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

So cast your mind back to a time when only half of all newspaper articles were about Donald Trump.

And when, as at any party, we started with Small Talks.

We are joined by Lizzie O'Leary.

She is the host of Marketplace Weekend.

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

So as the owner of a lot of curly hair, I'm kind of fascinated by this story from Fast Company, which is about blotox.

Blows.

I'm going to let that sink in. Before I make a weird comment, I'm going to let you continue and explain.

Is that windborne toxins?

Is that one?

No, dude.

This is about Botox injections that people, women in this story, are getting into their hair lines, essentially

to stop themselves from sweating and preserve a paid for blowout during exercise. People

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