Episode 109: The Icebreaker Episode (2nd Ed.)

The Dinner Party Download

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2011

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Back by popular demand, it’s another all-star, all-icebreaker show: Almost every joke we’ve aired in the last year, collected in one convenient podcast. Patton Oswalt, Miranda July, Spike Jonze, Lemmy and many, many more regale you with miniature tales of animals in bars, drummers in hell and dumb dictators. It’s a veritable feast of corn and cheese. Click here for the list of jokes and their tellers…

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download.
0:03.6	This is your icebreaker.
0:05.5	What happened when Ralph Waldo Emerson got too drunk?
0:09.4	He was throwing up.
0:11.5	Can I tell another one that it's kind of related?
0:14.1	Okay, why couldn't Henry David Thoreau leave his room?
0:18.3	Because he was Walden.
0:23.6	I'm Rico, Galeano.
0:24.6	I'm Brendan Francis Noonam.
0:26.6	And from APM American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download,
0:30.6	the show that helps you win your next dinner party.
0:33.6	You just got a joke from Cassie Ramon of the band Vivian Girls.
0:36.6	That'll help break the eyes.
0:38.0	Two jokes.
0:39.0	Two very public radio-esque jokes.
0:42.0	And usually on the show, we follow the joke up with a little small talk about the week's news.
0:47.5	A historical anecdote.
0:49.4	A cocktail recipe.
0:50.7	We learned some stuff we didn't know from a celebrity guest of honor. And then we talk a
0:55.1	little bit about food. Yes. We've lots of conversation fodder about basically everything. But today,
1:00.1	partly because our listeners demanded it and mostly because it allows us to take a week off,
1:04.7	we are giving you an episode of 100% jokes. That's right. It is our second annual icebreaker show.
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