Megan Rosati and Andrew to talk about complimenting someone on their accent. Make sure to leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

The legendary Henry Rollins of Black Flag and star of the movie He Never Died joins Devin & Amy this week to nominate Francis Ford Coppola 1979 film Apocalypse Now into The Canon! It’s a movie about insanity loosely based on the Vietnam War. It’s the film that had such an impact on Henry and his best friend Ian MacKaye that it resulted in them walking home in silence from having their mind blown. Tune in to hear a discussion on one of the greatest films of all time — and head to the forums on Wolfpop to cast the deciding vote!

We’re going from inner city superhero to a galaxy far, far away this Christmas for one of the best Holiday specials of all time. This week Paul goes through Corrections and Omissions for Steel and gives listeners very special recommendations in a Holiday Edition of Paul’s Picks of the Week. Plus, Paul tells us the moment when he learned the truth about Santa and more as he answers your Qs!

Don’t forget to check out Blake Harris’ Oral History of Steel over at http://www.slashfilm.com/steel-oral-history/!

People of the internet: Watch Paul in Fresh off the Boat on ABC and a while ago, Paul and Rob Huebel did a comedy special on a 60 foot glass bus that traveled around LA and now you’ll be able to see it. Go to https://itun.es/us/3M4J9 now to buy it! You can also see Jason in Transparent on Amazon and in The Night Before in a theater near you! Also, check out June in Grace and Frankie available on Netflix, and in all the episodes of NTSF:SD:SUV:: on HULU for free, and Jason in The Dictator (he’s still in it!).  

As we say farewell to another year of Comedy Bang! Bang! we look back at some of the favorite moments of 2015. Joining Scott is Paul F. Tompkins of SPONTANEANATION to countdown numbers fourteen through eleven of the Best CBB episodes of 2015 as voted by YOU the listener. Stay tuned for Pt. 2 dropping on Christmas Eve!

Paul F. Tompkins welcomes everyone to unwrap the Christmas gift of a new SPONTANEANATION! This week, Paul’s special guest is Ravi Patel of Grandfathered and Meet the Patels! They chat about Ravi’s secret girlfriend, what’s going on with Mario Lopez, and the difficulty of taking compliments. Paul is then joined by Janet Varney, Chris Tallman, and Jean Villepique to improvise a story set in Freeport, Illinois. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!

LIVE episodes of SPONTANEANATION return to Largo on The Coronet on Saturday, February 6, 2016! Get your tickets now: bit.ly/SPONT0216

As everything in the world becomes more interconnected and as the cost of recording and storing data sharply decreases, we’ve seen a steep rise in the importance of statistics. It seems like there isn’t a single facet of human life that isn’t quantifiable now that our phones and watches are counting each step and and calorie, while Facebook and Twitter collects each thought.

If you don’t think data is important, look what happens when we lose it, or realize we didn’t even have it at all. In 2015 we had two major hacks in Sony and Ashley Madison, found out Volkswagen’s data was a complete lie, and discovered we never were even tracking US police shooting deaths, which is completely *$@#ed.

2015 was a huge year for both the data we had and the data we lost. In our final episode of the year, Cracked editor-in-chief Jack O’Brien and Creative Director of Video Dan O’Brien are joined by FiveThirtyEight’s Jody Avirgan, host of What’s the Point, to recap the year in data.

Also, be sure to buy tickets to our next LIVE podcast on Wednesday, January 6th at 7pm at the UCB Sunset theatre in Los Angeles. Jack will be joined by Dan O’Brien, Alex Schmidt and Carmen Angelica to talk about the frustrating intricacies and strange evolution of the English language. Tickets are only $5 and on sale here: http://bit.ly/1OCNQTK

Actor and comedian Megan Rosati returns to join Andrew all this week to answer some racism questions. Today they discuss a New York story of an unnecessary Kickstarter. Be sure to call us at (323) 389-RACE to ask if anything is racist.

It’s time once again for another Book Club episode with friends new and old! Nelson Franklin, Robyn Clark, Ele Woods, Kerrie Kvashay-Boyle, and John Ross Bowie join Nate to discuss “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel. It is a science fiction novel that takes place in the Great Lakes region after a fictional disease, the “Georgia Flu,” has devastated the world, killing most of the population.

The fantastic director & extremely funny Jason Reitman is a huge fan of comedy and has carved out a wonderful film career from Juno to Young Adult. Jason joins Randy & Jason this week to discuss his love of The Comedy Store’s Roast Battle which he’s shot a short documentary on that will play at Sundance, his memories from being on the Ghostbusters set as a child, and the difficulties of shooting the sex scene for Young Adult. Later, Jason explains how he grew to appreciate hockey much more after playing it during Quick Hits. Finally, Steven Seagal arrives in-studio to tell us what he’s been up to during this holiday season. Konichiwa and Happy Holidays!

Recorded LIVE from the famed Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, we welcome you back to The Riffing Much aka The Hard Rock Cafe Radio Hour with your host Shane Shore-Levine (Gil Ozeri)! It’s the kick ass show where we keep you tuned into all the latest Hard Rock news, Cafe news, and bring you tons of great guests. This week Billionaire Playboy and President & CEO of Hard Rock Cafe Sis Penny graciously joins Shane to lay many rumors to rest. They’ll talk about the conspiracy around whether the Hard Rock Cafe indeed has the original Bible in its possession, Sis’ love life which includes the famous “Ginger Six-em,” and his big fight with Sheryl Crow. Later, Hard Rock Cafe super fan Traci Reardon arrives to help answer all Hard Rock Cafe questions from her Twitter followers in another edition of “Help Me, Rhonda.”

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from Ronna & Beverly! Irish comedian Gearoid Farrelly joins them this week to chat about owning a rabbit, being frightened by driving on the different side of the road in Los Angeles, being in a gay relationship with a scientist, and the time he celebrated his birthday with Joan Rivers. Plus, Beverly shares why she’s not in the Christmas spirit this year.

Andrew Ti and special guests Ariana Lenarsky and Aileen Parungao finish the week off by discussing Affirmative Action. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

It’s the return of the mack! OG Denzealot David Alan Grier joins Kamau & Kevin once again to talk about his surprise over the overwhelming positive response to The Wiz Live!, how he emotionally prepared himself to play the Cowardly Lion, and secrets from behind the scenes of the production. Plus, David takes us through his Crimson Tide audition, which he explains might be the worst audition he has ever done as he shares his Top 5 Denzel Movies!

Mickey Fisher and Brian Depetris are the screenwriters of The Winter King. They join Franklin this week to chat about how they met playing Santa Claus, coming up with the idea for the script walking around New York City on Valentine’s Day, and their actual writing process.

The Holiday season is upon us and we have the perfect thing for you here at The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard this week as we present the action-comedy The Winter King from screenwriters Mickey Fisher and Brian Depetris. Mickey and Brian met each other while working as Santa Claus at a major department store in New York City and hatched the idea for the script while walking around NYC on Valentine’s Day. The Winter King stars Jason Ritter, Haley Joel Osment, Mae Whitman, Darren Ritchie, Kristen Johnston, Gabriel Mann, Brandon Scott, Lori Alan, Abraham Benrubi, and Cooper Thornton. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

It’s a Christmas miracle! LIVE from the Marina Del Ray Public High School Library is a Holiday Womptacular with Marissa Wompler, Miss Listler, Marissa’s step dad Dr. Seth Wompler,  Eric “Gutterballs” Gutterman, and many more surprise guests. How has Marissa held up after her recent breakup? Will she finally meet her dad? (Probably not.) WOMP UP the Yuletide JAMZ!

Getting the knack with Jake Fogelnest.

Taylor Goldsmith, Griffin Goldsmith, and Wylie Gelber are together known as American folk-rock band Dawes and this week they join Danielle Schneider, Mike Mitchell, Mike Hanford, and Joe Wengert for a very special musical edition of improv4humans with Matt Besser! Dawes performs songs live in-studio that will inspire scenes about living in  a Mountain Town, Kanye West becoming close friends with a wedding invitation planner, and someone who fetishizes the name “Lily.” Make sure to get the Upright Citizens Brigade television show season 3 now available on DVD, the UCB Comedy Improv Manual, and pick up Dawes’ music at www.dawestheband.com!

Stephen may pretend not to be a manager, but he certainly has a lot to say about it. Today’s discussion ranges from incentive-based school teachers to union-based public radio, and what exactly ultracrepidarianism means.

Best friends and roommates, comedian Ariana Lenarsky and Academic Outreach Counselor Aileen Parungao join Andrew to talk about people propitiating the cholo stereotype. Make sure to leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

There’s a chill in the air and in Foon that could mean literally anything. But this time it means Winter Solstice! Glenn Miller and Spants join us for gift giving and traditional Solstice carols.

Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp
Chunt: Adal Rifai
Usidore: Matt Young
Spants: Meridith Stepien
Glenn Miller: Nick Gage
Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen
Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Evan Jacover, Ryan DiGiorgi
Editor: Ryan DiGiorgi
Theme Music: Andy PolandMagic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

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Join Casey, Danielle and Vicky Gunvalson super fan June Diane Raphael as they discuss tiny disabled horses, Erica Jane, Heather and Terry’s bounty hunter, cat fishing and The culmination of Ken’s 70th birthday in which he is bound off a Baja Shelf. June treats us to a poignant staged reading of a deep cut testimonial from The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Vicky Gunvalson. They also answer listener questions! And as always, Casey and Danielle try to get to the bottom of the mystery that is “Kyle by Alene Too.”

Join Casey, Danielle and Vicky Gunvalson super fan June Diane Raphael as they discuss tiny disabled horses, Erica Jane, Heather and Terry’s bounty hunter, cat fishing and The culmination of Ken’s 70th birthday in which he is bound off a Baja Shelf. June treats us to a poignant staged reading of a deep cut testimonial from The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Vicky Gunvalson. They also answer listener questions! And as always, Casey and Danielle try to get to the bottom of the mystery that is “Kyle by Alene Too.”

This week Leonard and Baron discuss three movies based on True-Life Stories: the 2013 drama Tracks starring Mia Wasikowska (an adaptation of Robyn Davidson’s memoir of the same name), a musical biopic told in an unconventional way, and Bobcat Goldthwait’s documentary Call Me Lucky which chronicles the life and work of comedian/activist Barry Crimmins which you should definitely seek out.

It’s the 5 Year Anniversary of WHO CHARTED!!! Howard and Kulap share their early Whooch memories and talk about Howard’s guest role on Kulap’s show Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ as they countdown the Top 5 iTunes Rap Songs Music Chart. Then, Howard speaks on his recent clench busting adventures and Kulap tells us about her upcoming NY trip during YouTube’s Most Popular Video Games for 2015 Chart. Later, we hear some special Dragon Boy Suede news as Kulap & Howard ask each other Qs!

Have you taken the time to write down where each and every cent you spend goes to? If not, you may be lacking in one of James and Stephen’s “three skills of money”.

Best friends and roommates, comedian Ariana Lenarsky and Academic Outreach Counselor Aileen Parungao join Andrew to talk about judging people vs. racism. Make sure to leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

Jonathan is joined by Dr James Gelvin (professor of Islamic Studies at UCLA) to ask, “What’s the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims & why don’t they love each other?” You can find Dr Gelvin’s books on Amazon. Produced by Colin Anderson for MaximumFun.org.

Singer-songwriter Dylan Gardner joins Deanna & Emily to talk about his very musical family, how collecting records is like collecting artifacts, and what a mixtape means to him today. Plus, Dylan plays “Let’s Get Started” from his album “Adventures in Real Time” live in studio! Check out more of Dylan’s music over at http://dylangardnermusic.com/

Comedian Lindsay Ames joins Jensen and special guest co-host/professional wrestler Chris Hero to talk about PWG blowing up, a possible future for weddings, St. Louis rapper Smino, the video for Wavves’ “Way Too Much,” River’s Edge, Swans Crossing, Bad Rabbits, Saturday Night Live, how we’re late on audio commentaries, the Squatty Potty, Empire, and many other things you should know about.