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The Dinner Party Download

Episode 82: John Lithgow, Undying Birds, and Lost H-Bombs

The Dinner Party Download

The Dinner Party Download ®

Society & Culture

4.5822 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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