Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker.

A traveling salesman knocks on a door, a five-year-old enters, drinking a scotch and smoking a cigar.

And the salesman goes, excuse me, are your parents home?

The kid goes, what do you think?

I'm Rico Goliano.

I'm Brendan Francis Noonam.

And from American Public Media, this is the dinner party download, the show that equips you to win your next dinner party.

Our icebreaker this week came from comedian Patton Oswald.

His new book is called Zombie Spaceship Wasteland.

And coming up, filmmaker Spike Lee, our favorite

gawker, smoking women, and alo, darling. Hello. Now, small talk. All week long, you've been hearing

this. Chinese president, Ujin Tao, is in the U.S. Joe Lieberman will not run for a fifth term as Connecticut Senator.

This is one of the largest single-day operations against the mafia in the FBI's history.

Now for something you haven't heard, we're speaking with Richard Lawson.

He is staff writer for the website Gawker.

Richard, what story are you going to be talking about at your dinner parties this weekend?

I will be talking about a new jalapeno pepper that was scientifically created so we can have bigger jalapeno poppers.

Yeah.

For those who don't know, a popper, that's like a cheese stuffed jalapeno.

Yeah, it's stuffed with cheese and then deep fried.

It's really good for you.

And now that we can have them even bigger.

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