Hi, I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

And I'm Rico Gagliano, and people, we have once again been rude hosts.

Not unusual.

Alas. We keep inviting you to these dinner parties we throw, and it has been months since we've

given you the opportunity to bring so much as a bottle of wine.

But we're going to remedy that right now.

Yes, sir.

For just the next few weeks, we invite you to head over to our website,

dinner party download.org, and click on the contribute button, which has magically appeared there.

That's right.

There you can donate a bottle of wine's worth of dollars.

Or enough money to cover our cocktail bill after a long week.

That would actually be crazy, generous.

Not so crazy. I mean, Forbes just recently said they're like 400 billionaires in the U.S.

So you're out there.

Thank you all in advance.

And now here's your icebreaker.

You want to know how to make a golden soup?

Sure.

Will you start with 14 carrots?

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

I'm Rico Gagliano, and from American Public Media, this is the dinner party download,

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