Welcome to the dinner party download.

This is your icebreaker.

It's a Sunday morning, biker goes to church.

Preachers preach in, congregations listening, all of a sudden fire, smoke, that devil appears on the altar.

Everyone runs, congregation screaming, priests, screaming. The biker just sits there.

The devil says, aren't you afraid of me? The biker says, why should I be? I've been married

to your sister for 25 years.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano, and from American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download,

the show that helps you win your next dinner party.

Our icebreaker this week came from Jessica Hunley.

She's the editor of Tashan's new collection of Dennis Hopper's photographs.

So she knows from biker jokes, people.

And coming up, The Medieval Rock of Midlake, New York Times blogger Bruce Bouchelle, shredding

clothes, silent hattie, caraway honey, Bobby Charles, and Worley Ball.

But first, time for small talk.

So Brendan, this week in the headlines, there was really only one headline, which was

the tragedy in Haiti.

Oh, I thought you were going to talk about the tragedy that is Pat Robertson.

No, that's just too depressing to talk about.

Amen. I mean, not amen, I guess, in that case.

Fortunately, our job is to ask the folks at Marketplace about stories that didn't make the headlines.

Betsy Streisand, senior editor at Marketplace, what story? Are you going to be talking about this

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