Welcome to the dinner party download.

This is your icebreaker.

So I have a joke for you.

A guy walks into a bar with jumper cables wrapped around his neck,

and the bartender looks them up and down and says,

look, I'll let you hang out, but you better not try to start anything.

I am Rico Galliano. I'm Rico Gagliano.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

And from APM, American Public Media,

this is the dinner party download,

one hour of culture, food, and humor

to fuel your weekend conversations.

You just got a joke from Charles Russo,

author of a new book about Bruce Lee.

That'll help break the ice.

We'll be speaking with him later. Plus, we chat with actress Kristen Bell, star of Veronica Mars,

Frozen, and the hit NBC show The Good Place. Also coming up, soul singer Sharon Jones shares her digits.

Comic Josh Gondelman celebrates his sublime relationship.

Yes. An Icelandic musician Unius Mayvont provides a party soundtrack as cool as the Northern Lights.

And if you're now experiencing deja vu, that's because this is an encore presentation of a show we first ran in July.

So cast your mind back to a time when the word holiday meant building sandcastles instead of eating dry turkey, and when, as at any

dinner party, we started with Smalltalk.

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