Can we ask you one favor? We start every show with a joke, and to have you tell us a joke of any straight?

Well, the pigeons in Los Angeles invited the pigeons from San Francisco down for a tea party.

Lots of seed and meal laid out ready for them, and the day went by, and there was no sign of the pigeons from San Francisco.

And the pigeons in LA thought, what do we start to have, eating our tea without them?

It's very rude of them.

They haven't let us know what's happening.

No messenger pigeon has delivered a message.

But eventually, very, very late in the day as the sun was going down, and suddenly

some rather bedraggled pigeons from San Francisco arrived, and the LA pitcher said, where the hell

have you been?

And the San Francisco's pigeon said, oh, I'm so sorry, but it was such a lovely day, we decided

to walk.

I'm Brendan Francis Nune.

And I'm Rico Gagliano.

Welcome to a special edition of the Dinner Party Download,

the show that helps you win this week's dinner parties.

You just heard Gandalf himself.

My.

The great Sir Ian McKellen break the ice with a California joke.

But we promise there's plenty

of non-coastal humor to come on this, our annual all icebreaker show.

That's right. Every week on our show, we somehow convinced the likes of Anderson Cooper,

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