Welcome to the dinner party download.

This is your icebreaker.

There's this guy. He's driving down the road. He's got 17 penguins in the back of his car.

His cop sees him. The cop stops him. He's like, I don't know what's going on here, but you got to take these penguins to the zoo.

And the guy says, okay. Next day, same guy's driving. He's got the same 17 penguins in the back of his car.

Same cop is in the speed trap. He stops him again. He says, look, man, I stopped you yesterday.

I told you to take these penguins to the zoo. Guys, like, I took him to the zoo. Today we're going to the beach.

I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. I'm Rico Gagliano. And from 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles, this is the dinner party download, the show that gives

you talking points and bamos to help you win your next dinner party.

This week's icebreaker came from our guest of honor, Ezra Feinberg of the eight-piece

psych rock band Sitte.

We'll be speaking with him later.

But first, as with any dinner party, we start off with small talk.

You're going to be talking about the week's news at this weekend's party.

Who better to tell you which news is worth bringing up than the people who report it.

So we spoke with our colleagues at American Public Media.

Tess Vigland, host of Marketplace Money, occasional host of Marketplace.

What story Croster does this week you've got to talk about this weekend?

Well, at the very least, my husband and I will be talking about the study that came out from Swedish researchers,

saying that there are some instances in which infidelity

could be caused by genes and not the denim kind.

So just people are being naturally inclined to cheat?

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