Sean and Hayes welcome Kumail Nanjiani on to the program to have a good talk about sex and body positivity.

Actress Alanna Ubach joins Matt and guest co-host Amanda Lund this week to discuss her role as Serena in the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde. Alanna shares how Jessica Cauffiel helped her book the role by having her mirror her movements, improvising her Vietnamese line, and being an adopted blonde. Plus, we hear Alanna answer important questions like “Why was Warner such a dork?,” as she answers questions asked by Matt’s parents.

It’s hard to be a soldier: that’s part of the point of military service. But being a lady soldier in the modern U.S. military is way, way more difficult than it ought to be. Today on Cracked Gets Personal, Robert Evans and Brandon Johnson talk to a soldier who was raped in boot camp. We hear from a lady Marine sergeant about how she survives in the world’s biggest boy club, and we talk to an Army nurse who was stationed in Iraq about how kindness and gentleness can help win wars. You’ll also learn about the weird things that make it more difficult for women to serve, like the fact that the world’s most powerful military lacks a technology that Burning Man’s had for a decade.

Comedian and writer Josh Androsky (SpongeBob SquarePants, VICE) joins Andrew to discuss the Berkeley rally, Ed Skrein turning down a Hellboy role to prevent whitewashing, and much more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

White House Communications Director Hope Hicks (Laura Willcox) takes a break from assisting Mr. Donald President Trump to talk to the Hard brothers. She reveals which former staffer she called Polly Pocket, how Trump’s brain cured AIDS, and her plan to become a Real Housewife of DC. Plus: Mark, Dick Durbin and Newt Gingrich are prepping for Burning Man!

Fresh off their new hit podcast “Off Book,” Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna join this week’s Who Charted! They perform an original rendition of the Music Chart Theme before counting down the 5 Top Grossing Musicals. Later, they check out the Movie Chart, and Engineer Stard and Kevin join in for a high stakes quiz during Two Charted.

This episode is sponsored by Blue Apron (www.blueapron.com/charted).

Fran Gillespie (SNL, Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later) stars in this new musical of bridal proportions. With songs like “Hell Yes (Because of the Dress), “A Little Bit Bad” and “When Your Dad’s John Cena”, you’ll be dancing down the aisle in no time. Plus, stay tuned til the end for a new segment: “Deep Cut”! 

This episode is brought to you by Modcloth (www.modcloth.com code: OFFBOOK) and Blue Apron (www.blueapron.com/OFFBOOK).

Our old pals Amanda and Maria return to the show. This time we discuss the 1964 classic Goldfinger. Matt’s wigdar is put to the test and a special appearance from Matt Gourley’s dad!

This episode is brought to you by Credit Associates.

Trainer Phil joins Jensen and Matty to talk about the start of #BUFFSEASON, Domani Harris, food plans, Shin Godzilla, how we were late on Revisionist History Podcast, and many more things you should know about.

This episode is brought to you by Blue Apron (www.blueapron.com/getuponthis).

Join Samm Levine as he sits down with actress Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers series, Con Man). Mindy chats about flunking all but theater classes in college, her preference for improv over scripted, and accidentally leaving the price tags on furniture.

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Eight months pregnant and she loves messing with people, this week’s caller is celebrating her birthday on Beautiful Anonymous. She tells Gethard about some pregnancy-driven life hacks. Controversial birthing practices? They go there.

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YouTuber and Smosh cast member Courtney Miller joins Emily and Deanna this week to give the low down on working for one of the most-subscribed comedy channels ever. Courtney talks about meeting creative (and romantic) partners on Vine, how that led her to Smosh, and her connection to #GirlLove. Plus, Emily and Deanna get Courtney’s take on the Ta-Ta Towel, Summer’s Eve Douches, and Millennial Relationship Dealbreakers.

Sean and Hayes are joined by some very special friends of the show to celebrate their 200th and send it off once and for all.

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Jonny Sun is Twitter-famous. Not in a Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber sort of way. He’s Weird Twitter-famous. He’s got half a million followers and he did it the hard way, by inhabiting the character of Jomny Sun, an alien visiting earth without any friends or a solid grasp of spelling in the English language.

Jonny’s now a published author, a playwright and an architect, he’s coded two of Twitter’s most popular bot accounts, oh, and he’s  studying for his doctorate at a little place called MIT. Heard of it?

Dude is super smart, super funny and while normal people like us have to practice and study to get better at things, he probably learns like Trinity in The Matrix learning how to fly a helicopter. So this week Alex Schmidt and Daniel O’Brien are joined by Jonny in-studio to talk about his book full of typos, juggling being an author-internet celebrity-architect-playwright and the state of internet cultures in 2017.

Footnotes, sources and links: https://goo.gl/V8yFfy

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Gilbert and Frank welcome one of their favorite funnymen, legendary writer-actor-director Buck Henry, who looks back on his 50+ year career and shares hilarious anecdotes about Orson Welles, James Mason, John Belushi and Jonathan Winters (among others). Also: Buck adapts “Catch-22,” praises Richard Benjamin, invents the Cone of Silence, co-directs “Heaven Can Wait” and confirms the Pat McCormick helicopter story. PLUS: “Captain Nice”! “Samurai Delicatessen”! Claude Rains speaks! The hoaxes of Alan Abel! And Buck remembers “That Was the Week That Was”!

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Paul F. Tompkins shouts for his love of life and his love of Spontaneanation! This time out, Paul’s special guests and improvisors are Spontaneanation favorites Maria Blasucci and Amanda Lund! They chat about their favorite and least favorite fonts, habits they still do from when they were kids, and waking up screaming and sobbing multiple times. They then improvise a story set in A River Boat on the Mississippi. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!

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A wizard, a witch, a badger, a flower, a Chicagoan and a humunculous made of bodily fluids all try to understand the Earth book ‘The Great Gatsby.’

Credits:

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Chunt: Adal Rifai
Usidore: Matt Young
Flower: Brooke Breit
Claudia: Beth Melewski
Metanoid: Jorin Garguilo
Bungaree Chubbins: Tom Gottleib
Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen
Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Evan Jacover, Ryan DiGiorgi
Editor: Chris Rathjen
Theme Music: Andy Poland
Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban
Audio Assistance: Jason Knox
Production Assistance: Garrett Schultz

Comedian Chris Gethard of Beautiful/Anonymous joins Scott and this week’s co-host John Lennon, formerly of The Beatles on Comedy Bang! Bang! They talk about Chris leaving his mark on movie sets, being given the role of Iron Man in Iron Man 3 and being cut out, and how much he gets paid for the new season of The Chris Gethard Show. Plus, television producer Pam Carton stops by to talk about her hit reality show “Hot Tub Diarrhea.”

This episode is brought to you by Marc Maron: Too Real on Netflix, Black Tux (www.blacktux.com/BANGBANG, Dr. Katz: The Audio Files (www.audible.com/DrKatz) and Stitch Fix (www.stitchfix.com/BANGBANG).

This week, Amy is joined by Tom Reimann and Abe Epperson of the podcast Cracked Movie Club to pit two Tom Cruise films against one another: “Top Gun” and “Minority Report.” They discuss the usage of “Top Gun” as a military recruitment tool, as well as the film’s unapologetic hyper-masculinity. Then, they discuss the theme of privacy and the use of CGI in “Minority Report” before giving their final arguments. Which Cruise flick will find its way into The Canon? Head to the Earwolf forums now to cast your vote!

This episode is sponsored by Paramount Pictures’ “Mother!” and The Harold Ramis Film School.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Nannies, Nannies, Nannies with your host Felicity Foster (Beth Dover)! Felicity is currently pregnant and looking for a nanny so she went to Craigslist and decided to record the interviews as a podcast. Will she find her perfect nanny? Plus, Traci Reardon stops by to answer Twitter questions about nannying in another edition of “Help Me Rhonda.”

This episode is brought to you by Modcloth (www.modcloth.com code: LAPKUS) and Texture (www.texture.com/LAPKUS).

The anti-union message of Garbage Pail Kids, how did Ali Gator get his voice, and more on this week’s mini-sode! Paul goes through Corrections and Omissions for The Garbage Pail Kids and Blake J. Harris talks to Kevin Thompson about playing Ali Gator. Paul gives some recs in Paul’s Picks and the Movie Bitches review Valerian. Plus, you’ll find out which movie we will be covering next!

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Where to Find Jason, June & Paul:

Paul’s new comedy Drive Share is available on Go90. Paul can be seen on Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, Opening Night, and Veep. You can see June and Paul on NTSF:SD:SUV:: on HULU. June stars in Grace and Frankie on Netflix, as well as Lady Dynamite alongside with Jason.

Jason can be seen in The House, The Lego Batman Movie, How to Be Single, Sleeping with Other People, and is still indeed in The Dictator.

The amazing Guy Branum (Talk Show the Game Show) joins the guys to talk about losing your virginity, deep horrible crushes, and binge watching every season of Survivor in 2 months (yes, EVERY season). Plus, Matt talks acupuncture and Dave shares his love of “Lisa D from CT”! PS, call us if you need advice! 424-248-8978

This week in the nook Danielle is joined by special co-host/Bitch Sesh assistant/old lady handler April Mouton and British journalist and novelist Elizabeth Day. They go in hard on eclipses, male camel toe and early morning Titos, while Elizabeth gives us all the deets on why Vicki Gunvalson rejected an interview with her. Plus, we have a verrrrrrry special surprise guest with a breaking announcement. This episode is chock full of as much fat as some buttermilk chicken, don’t miss it!

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The ACLU got a lot of heat last week when their neutral free speech stance had them defending the alt right in Charlottesville. We talk to ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Lee Rowland about the organization’s decision to change course and not defend groups that protest with firearms and the effect that will have on their methods going forward. Historian Mark Bray teaches Kamau and Hari how to pronounce Antifa and what the group is all about. And April Reign, a co-creator of trending hashtag #NoConfederate, talks about why the ‘Game of Thrones’ producers should think twice about creating a TV show where black people are enslaved again.

Follow our guests!

• Lee Rowland: https://www.aclu.org/bio/lee-rowland
• Mark Bray (@Mark_Bray): https://markmbray.wordpress.com
• April Reign (@ReignOfApril): http://www.reignofapril.com

For updates on us, follow Politically Re-Active on Facebook and Twitter (@PoliticReActive.) Send us your comments using the #politicallyreactive. Thanks! Check out Hari’s tour dates and albums at Harikondabolu.com and for all Kamau’s projects check out wkamaubell.com.

This episode is brought to you by Michael Moore’s “Terms of My Surrender,” Lyft (www.lyft.com/REACTIVE), and theSkimm (www.theskimm.com/REACTIVE).

Christopher Nolan month continues on Cracked Movie Club! In 2014, Matthew McConaughey took to the stars to save his family from a life of eating exclusively corn-based meals. The result was Interstellar, a film that’s simultaneously Christopher Nolan’s homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey and his own version of a dense sci-fi epic with cool robots.

This week, Tom and Abe are joined by returning guest and recurring master of Cracked podcasts Alex Schmidt as they discuss the incredible lengths Nolan and his crew went to create the effects of Interstellar, the film’s themes of time and permanence, and how many times Alex cried while watching the movie.

Staring at the sun with Lee Farber.

Comedians Benari Poulten and Seena Jon join Negin to discuss the military plans Trump has laid out for Afghanistan and his inflammatory remarks at a rally in Phoenix. They also cover Steve “Jacked Up” Bannon’s departure from the White House and take an unpolitical detour into Game of Thrones. Plus, they bemoan their physical aches and pains induced by the Trump administration. 

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This week, Bryan and Erin discuss a crisis pregnancy center in Northern Ireland that uses scented candles to discourage abortions plus Trump’s ridiculous nominee for chief scientist of the Department of Agriculture. Then, they welcome actress and comedian Jessica Chaffin to talk skin care routines, the American Heroes channel, and awful childhood shopping experiences.

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