Welcome to the dinner party download.

This is your icebreaker.

So this is an adaptation from an old, heavy, young man joke.

Two blondes are taking a helicopter up for the first time,

and they get up about 100 feet, and it comes crashing down,

and everybody runs up towards, it, is what happened.

And one of the blondes says, well, it it got cold up there so I turned off the fan I'm Brendan Francis Noonam 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 playwright and

celebrated father Frank Gagliano.

Yes.

You can find his book, Anton's Leap on Amazon, and he can find his son sitting right across from me.

Cool Dad's Rule.

And coming up, Molly Ringwald, Universal Language, Fizz, shoegazing, corn smut, and the suburbs made cool.

But first, time for small talk.

So, Brendan, the theme this week in the news was, tell us something we don't know.

The Arizona immigration law caused a bunch of controversy just before it was enacted.

Surprising.

I can't believe it.

Also, Representative Chuck Rangel got charged with ethics violations.

Whoa.

Now, that's weird.

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