Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.

The Almighty comes down to two nude statues in a park and says, for a short period of time,

I will bring you to life and you can do whatever you would like to do. So these two statues come to life.

They jump into a large set of bushes,

and there's all kinds of rustling and banging around in the bushes.

And of course the Almighty kind of peers around the bushes

in time to see the male statue say to the female statue okay now

you hold down the pigeon and i'll on it wow i'm brendan francis noonham and i'm rico galliano

and from american public media this is the dinner party download,

the show that helps you win your next dinner party. The man responsible for our icebreaker this week

is A. Thomas Schoenberg. He's kind of like the Leonardo da Vinci of the United States.

Translation, he carved the statue of Rocky Balboa in Philadelphia. Which is like our nation's David.

Indeed.

Coming up, comic Tignitaro, a disappearing island, big brass bells, the truth about Jimmy Kimmel, how to eat on the street, and a ferry to Fang Island.

All in your ears for free, but first, time for small talk.

So, Brendan, this week in the headlines, the Constitution spontaneously combusted, the earth was rent in twain, and the fires of hell ravaged what was once the greatest country on Earth.

Yeah, health care passed.

That's right.

And luckily, America's pre-existing condition, aka insanity, is now covered.

In 2014.

Okay.

But covered.

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