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

A disheveled-looking man walks into a bar and he orders a drink. The bartender says,

I'm sorry, sir, but I don't think you can afford it. He says, well, if I show you something

you've never seen before, but you give me a drink, the bartender says, sure. So the man pulls

out a box and in it is a little hamster.

The hamster runs down the end of the bar, gets up on the piano, starts doing Gershwin tunes.

Bartender's like, wow, that's amazing. I have never seen anything like that.

He says, if I show you another thing, will you give me another drink? Of course. So he pulls out a frog out of the box, and the frog starts singing along. Another guy sees this down at the end of the bar, and he runs up to the disheveled, homeless-looking man, and says, I'll give you $300 for that frog.

The guy goes, sure, it's a deal.

Hands him the frog, and the guy walks out.

The bartender says, you just sold a million-dollar act for $300.

The guy says, relax.

The hamsters have ventriloquist i'm brendan francis noon i'm ricko gagliano and from

89.3 kpcc in los angeles this is the dinner party download the show that helps you win your

next dinner party our icebreaker this week came from comedian jed mayhew you may also know him

from the new roundtable pizza ad.

He plays a pepperoni pizza.

Thanks, Jed.

Later we'll be talking with our guest of honor, Motown legend Lamont Dozier.

But first, let's get this dinner party started with Small Talk.

So Bank of America went to the federal ATM again this week.

Jet landed safely on the Hudson River, and President Bush said his final goodbye to a nation that was busy watching a jet land safely on the Hudson River.

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