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

Okay, so I bought my friend an elephant for their room. They said thank you. I said don't mention it.

Get it? I'm Rico Galliano.

Elephant in the room. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. And from APM, American Public Media,

this is the dinner party download. An hour of culture, food, and better humor than that to

fuel your weekend conversations. Yes, you just got a joke from actor Nicholas Holt.

That'll help break the ice. You may know him as the boy, About a Boy or Nucks the Warboy from Mad Max Fury Road.

But today we'll be speaking with him about his latest movie, Kill Your Friends.

Plus, we'll speak with Tatiana Maslani, the multifaceted star of the hit BBC America thriller Orphan Black.

Also coming up, musician and Broadway composer Duncan Sheik gets blood on his hands.

Author Don Tripp has Georgia O'Keefe on her mind, and the band Heron Oblivion parties in a chicken shack.

But first, let's start with cocktails.

Once again, we tell you a true tale from history, then challenge a bartender to capture its essence in the form of a cocktail.

It's our legally trademarked history lesson with booze.

It really is trademark, too.

We'll sue you.

And as always, we're going to start with the history parts, but this time we're doing something a little different with it.

We are giving our stalwart voice of history, Michelle Philippi, the week off.

And instead, as part of our occasional partnership with the online

cabinet of curiosities called Atlas Obscura, we are joined by journalist David Goldenberg.

This week in Atlas, he published a piece about the unlikely history of the bulletproof vest,

and David, welcome.

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