Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.

So two atoms bump into each other, and one says, I think I lost an electron. The other asks, are you sure?

To which the first replies, I'm positive.

I'm Rico Galliano. 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.

Our icebreaker this week came from one of our listeners, LA's own Heather K. Dennis.

Thank you very much.

Coming up, the Strokes-Julian Casablancus, Waffle Drought, Detroit's biggest breakdown, and the

Who You Call in Turkey Patty.

All that for the price of free.

But first, time for small talk.

So Rico, looking at this week's headlines, it was hard not to notice that both Barack

Obama and Sarah Palin have a lot in common.

That's true. And beside the fact that they both defeated John McCain in the presidential election.

That's right. True. They both visited superpowers this week. Obama went to China and Palin went to Oprah and flogged her new book, Going Rogue.

Oprah Winfrey, who announced that she is leaving her, this week she announced that she's leaving

her show in the year 2011.

That's true, and she's going to be even more successful, which makes me wish that she

was the one visiting China, and maybe she could figure out our trade imbalance.

Single-handedly, one check.

As usual, folks, we had a lesser job.

We paid a visit to our colleagues at Marketplace

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