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

A baby seal walks into a club. That's my favorite show.

I'm Brendan Francis Noonam.

I'm Rico Gagliano and this is the Dinner Party Download, the show that helps you win this weekend's dinner party.

That pretty dark icebreaker came from a pretty dark filmmaker Tim Burton.

Thanks for living up to your reputation, Tim.

And if you want to see more of his dark vision, he's got a new exhibit up at the LA County Museum of Art this week.

Yes.

And coming up, renowned actor Michael Sheen, Tea Party Godiva, Peeping Tom, and the sandwiches bring us back to the sea.

That sounds delicious.

But first, time for small talk.

All right, Rico, so the headlines this week were a touch macabre.

Maybe Tim Burton Hurt was reading the newspaper.

Turning to a dark show here.

It's like Garth Brooks, that double album.

It is exactly like Garth Brooks, that double album.

It is exactly like Garth Brooks' double album.

You know, speaking of things that were popular last decade, Dr. Kvorkin,

a leading advocate of assisted suicide passed away.

It's kind of macabre.

Unassisted, it seems. Apparently, they're still, yeah, figuring through no help of his own.

Also, Sarah Palin was back in the news.

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