Episode 82: John Lithgow, Undying Birds, and Lost H-Bombs
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2011
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week: Actor John Lithgow gives Brendan a killer look.. .An H-Bomb goes MIA… And we visit a city whose birds never sleep. Plus, a dulcet tune from Fleet Foxes and a wooden joke from Motorhead frontman Lemmy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your eyesbreaker. |
| 0:04.0 | Okay. Jesus walking around heaven, right, checking everybody out. |
| 0:08.0 | And everybody's like blissful, you know, harps and halos and all that. |
| 0:13.0 | It comes upon this one rather dark corner, this little old guy, his head in his hands, crying his eyes out. |
| 0:19.0 | And Jesus said, excuse me excuse me he said this is heaven |
| 0:22.9 | you know what I mean people go to church three times every Sunday every week of their lives to get |
| 0:28.0 | up here and you've made it you're in heaven so we can't have you crying just let him the place down |
| 0:32.3 | you know but for publicity the old guy said I'm sorry he, I didn't mean to cause any problems. He said, |
| 0:38.6 | it's just on earth, you know, I was just a poor carpenter. We had this little boy, did everything |
| 0:43.9 | together. I was hoping he'd come into the business, you know, after me and be a carpenter like me, |
| 0:48.9 | but he said he had a mission to fulfill, so when he was about 30 years old he went off into the desert I've never seen him |
| 0:56.1 | since he said and I was |
| 0:57.9 | hoping he said that when I got up here you know what I mean |
| 1:00.0 | I'd find him and we could be together |
| 1:02.2 | again but I've looked everywhere and I can't |
| 1:04.1 | find him anywhere and it's really cracking me up |
| 1:06.4 | and Jesus was tears streaming down his face |
| 1:09.4 | goes father and the old guy old guy says, Pinocchio! |
| 1:16.6 | I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 1:20.6 | And from American Public Media, this is the Dinner Party Download, the show that equips you to win your next dinner party. |
| 1:25.6 | Our icebreaker this week came from heavy metal legend, Lemmy from Motorhead. |
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