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The Dinner Party Download

Episode 71: Sally Hawkins, Fossil Follies, and Chinese Thanksgiving

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6821 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2010

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This week: UK movie star Sally Hawkins crows about her new film… we unearth the missing drink… and Brendan has an early Thanksgiving in Chinatown. Plus, a joke from Procol Harum’s Gary Brooker, and a new track from A-D-D D.J. Girl Talk.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.

0:03.0

This is your icebreaker.

0:05.0

These two elderly ladies were having tea together, and one of them said,

0:08.0

You know I bought those two female parrots?

0:11.0

She said, yes, they started talking.

0:14.0

She said, talk.

0:15.0

It's terrible, she said, all they say is.

0:17.0

Hi, we're a couple of hookers. We'll do anything.

0:20.0

Said, oh, I wonder what we can do about that.

0:22.9

They meet up again the following week, and she said, I've been talking to the vicar,

0:26.6

and he's got grey parrots, two males, and all they do, apparently, is prey.

0:31.2

What about you take your two birds round, and if they're praying parrots, as he says,

0:35.8

then, you know, might bring about some change.

0:38.8

So they arrange it, and they take them round.

0:40.6

She's got her two parrots and takes the cloth off the cage.

0:44.1

And they immediately go, hi, we're a couple of hookers.

0:46.9

We'll do anything.

0:47.9

And so one of the male parrots, he looks to his mate.

0:50.3

He said, Fred, I think all our prayers have been answered.

0:57.2

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

0:59.0

I'm Rico Gagliano, and from American Public Media, this is the dinner party download,

1:04.5

the show that equips you to win your next dinner party.

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