Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Oct 19, 2026 · 18 min · 16 segments
What happened to the once popular activity of having friends over for dinner? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The actual title of this article is Why Americans Stop Throwing Dinner Parties.
But anyway, people coming over to your house for dinner has dropped off a cliff.
The share of Americans who regularly host friends or family at home has dropped sharply.
In 1975, I'm going to give this percentage in the order Joe prefers, and he is correct.
In 1975, people who regularly hosted someone over to their house for dinner was 42%.
What are the key reasons behind the decline? Would anybody like to guess before I give their guesses? Because everybody's guessing, of course.
I'd like you to have a little coma to my house, but I don't know how to cook anything.
One way to pass the time and be interested is to have people over back before we had unlimited entertainment all the time.
The actual title of this article is Why Americans Stop Throwing Dinner Parties.
But anyway, people coming over to your house for dinner has dropped off a cliff.
The share of Americans who regularly host friends or family at home has dropped sharply.
In 1975, I'm going to give this percentage in the order Joe prefers, and he is correct.
In 1975, people who regularly hosted someone over to their house for dinner was 42%.
What are the key reasons behind the decline? Would anybody like to guess before I give their guesses? Because everybody's guessing, of course.
I'd like you to have a little coma to my house, but I don't know how to cook anything.
One way to pass the time and be interested is to have people over back before we had unlimited entertainment all the time.
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