Scott, Paul and Lauren discuss belly buttons and age differences in relationships. Then during their feature segment, the three hosts play Hyperthetical.

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Going abroad with April Richardson.

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This is not a test. This is your emergency podcast system announcing the commencement of the Annual Purge sanctioned by the U.S. Government & Scripps. Weapons of class 4 and lower have been authorized for use during the Purge. All other weapons are restricted. Government officials and Scripps officers of ranking 10 have been granted immunity from the Purge and shall not be harmed. Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours. Police, fire, and emergency medical services will be unavailable until tomorrow morning until 7 a.m., when The Purge concludes. Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn. May Squarespace be with you all.

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IT’S THE 3rd ANNUAL BITCH SESH HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA! Where grown humans do Andy Cohen cos play! Casey and Danielle are joined live at Largo by costumed national treasures Vanessa Bayer (Darcey) and Bryan Safi (Paul) for scenes and song and judging of the Halloween Parade. For images and costumes go to Casey and Danielle’s instagrams. @caseyrosewilson and @daniellecarolinescheider 

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Standup, writer, and actress Tiff Stevenson joins Howard to get creepy in the new studios with special themed charts for Checkpoint: Pumpkin! They’ll count down Spotify’s Top Streamed Songs on Halloween while Tiff shares England’s best cover band names. Plus, the top Halloween movies of all time get ranked during the Movie Chart, Tiff gives her take on the new generation of royals, and a holiday track from Dragon Boy Suede caps off a set of incredibly Hot Picks.

Karl Racine is Attorney General for the District of Columbia – the only Attorney General in Trump’s backyard. He is the first elected AG in the District of Columbia, the co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, and the VP of the bipartisan National Association of Attorneys General.

Attorney General Racine joins Jonathan to talk about corruption in government, his work to fight systemic child sexual abuse and protecting consumers. All this goes towards why November 6th’s midterm election is so important and why voters should be sure to vote down the whole ballot (and not just for house or senatorial candidates).

Find Karl Racine’s work at OAG.DC.GOV. He’s on Twitter @AGKarlRacine, Instagram at AGKarlRacine and Facebook at DCOAG.

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Comedians Dan Licata (Joe Pera Talks With You) & Alyssa Stonoha (Three Busy Debras) join Jo & Manolo to play listener-created games with callers, including a special call from Will Hines (Screw It, We’re Just Gonna Talk About The Beatles podcast)! 

Games played: Doktor Spielshow, When I Say This, You Also Say This, and Dr. Dad Dance

This week’s guest is Xosha Roquemore from The Mindy Project and I’m Dying Up Here! She talks to Lapkus & Gabrus about Charm School, the joys of 70s period dialogue, and appearing on the Roseanne reboot. Plus: A new improvised sitcom with Mary Holland, “Dave’s Dead Dog!”

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Actor Tyrel Jackson Williams (Brockmire) joins Andrew and Tawny to discuss not being allowed to celebrate Halloween growing up, if white kids can dress up as Black Panther, skeleton decorations with blackface, and much more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

It’s an ultra spooky Halloween OFF BOOOOOK with the hilarious Lou Wilson joining Zach and Jess for sacks on sacks of candy, Pintrest pumpkins, half-monster dads, epic ghost stories and so many more treats! With songs like “Which Stuff is the Witch Stuff”, “Wall Street for Candy” and “No Thank You, Too Scary!”, you’ll be howling at the moon to all of these scary new songs!

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Comedian Jon Dore chats with guest host Samm Levine about their shared past, Canadian holidays, and Jon’s new Comedy Central special, “Big Questions, Huge Answers”.

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Jensen Karp and Matthew Robinson present The Last Episode of Get Up On This! They address the future of the podcast, look back at favorite moments from the show, and hit you with their Top 10 Get Up Ons of All Time.

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On an eight hour solo road trip, a wilderness therapy guide takes a break from dreaming of the woods and insects to chat with Gethard. He’s a wanderer, a man of nature and a modern day philosopher and Gethard gets him to unleash some wisdom gleaned from his experiences outdoors: “You squat over a hole in the ground and everything just slides out”

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The Boys and BRETT GELMAN have a little fun making a podcast festival.

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Marissa and Listler welcome Marina del Rey’s resident mystic Marinetta Papahimona (Mano Agapaion) to predict their futures on another WOMP It Up! Marinetta discusses her craft and the friends she’s made in the dark arts before venting her frustration with her husband’s crazy ideas on “What’s Cheesing You?”. Then, we’ll find out why she cast a spell for Fergie during “Listler’s Love Lockdown,” and Marinetta reads everybody’s palms before revealing her true form during “Spotlight On.”

Mara Keisling is the founder and executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, “the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people”.

Last week the New York Times reported that the Trump Administration may be seeking to change the definition for sex and gender under federal civil rights laws, narrowly defining it based on an individual’s sex as assigned at birth. This would essentially erase transgender people from enforcement of those laws.

There’s never been a more important time to stand with our trans family, so we recorded this bonus episode at The Bentzen Ball in Washington DC with the question: What Can Allies Do to Defend Trans Rights?

Find Mara Keisling’s work at TransEquality.org. She’s on Twitter @MaraKeisling.

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With the help of Magic Paint, Blemish is back. More than one Blemish, in fact.

Credits:

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp
Chunt: Adal Rifai
Usidore: Matt Young
Blemish: Martin Wilson
Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen
Tricia: Kate James

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

Get your copy of the next Book Club read, Pride and Prejudice here!

Gilbert and Frank celebrate Halloween 2018 by welcoming Master of Horror Tom Holland (“Fright Night,” “Child’s Play,” “Psycho II”) for a lively conversation about everything from the influence of EC Comics to the sexlessness of vampires to the collapse of the Hollywood studio system. Also, Christopher Lee hams it up, Anthony Perkins plays “The Movie Game,” Tom pays homage to Abbott and Costello and “Trilogy of Terror” inspires “Child’s Play.” PLUS: “The Beast Within”! The cinema of Tobe Hooper! Hitchcock vs. Paul Newman! In praise of Richard Donner! And Tom remembers his friend and collaborator Roddy McDowall!

This episode is brought to you by Screen Dive.

Thought experiment: imagine an alien. Great, experiment complete. Now examine what you came up with. It’s almost definitely one of two things: 1) a specific extraterrestrial from a movie or show, who you can point to as from that movie/show. 2) what’s known as a “Grey” — a small humanoid with a large teardrop head and two face-dominating eyes. That second kind of Grey Alien dominates our cultural conception of life from other planets. But where did it come from? And what does it say about our larger belief in everything from dragons to werewolves to the scariest monsters ever invented?

On this spooktacular episode of The Cracked Podcast, Alex Schmidt sits down with Jason Pargin (who writes for the site as David Wong). They’ll dig into the creepiest “true” story Jason’s ever encountered. They’ll also explore monster lore from the Salem Witch Trials to Slenderman creepypasta to the myth of The Deep State. And they’ll consider whether all monsters, human and otherwise, come from a cultural & psychological source that’s scarier than anything you could dress as for Halloween.

Footnotes: http://www.cracked.com/podcast/the-creepiest-hidden-truths-behind-origins-monsters/

Paul F. Tompkins welcomes the live London audience to Spontaneanation! This time out, Paul’s special guest is broadcaster/writer/nice person Starlee Kine! Starlee chats about her relationship with God, her sister’s Shakeology phase, and recently having a full on sister fight in public. Then, they are joined by improvisers Tawny Newsome and Little Janet Varney, to improvise a story set at A Train Platform. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!

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Scott is joined by intern Gino Lambardo to chat about rebooting an A.1. Steak Steak Sauce commercial before Queen Cleopatra arrives to squash rumors that history has spread about her. Plus, rope trick expert Idaho stops by to talk about being hired for crime gangs.

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Don’t forget to vote Yes on 3! Ariel Sussman (Communications Specialist) and Kasey Suffredini (Campaign Co-Chair, President of Strategy at Freedom for All Americans) chat with Cameron about the importance of voting Yes on 3 to protect transgender people from discrimination and their own personal relationships with activism.

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Seth Rogen joins Paul, June, and Jason to discuss the 1988 action film Action Jackson starring Carl Weathers on the 200th episode of How Did This Get Made! Recorded live from Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles, they talk about Craig T. Nelson doing karate, Action Jackson driving a car inside a house, Dee at the barbershop, Vanity doing a solo performance for Craig T. Nelson, and much more. Plus, Paul breaks down the film term “Man and Woman Scene.”

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Pop music scholar and manager to Sia(!!!) David Russell joins Dave and Matt this week to dive in deep about all things pop music, Kim Petras, Madonna and so much more music fun. Plus, managing an international long distance relationship, erasing the stigma of HIV and surviving high school bigotry.

This episode is sponsored by Chappy, Robinhood (homophilia.robinhood.com), and PrettyLitter (www.prettylitter.comcode: HOMOPHILIA).

Jude’s interest in his cousin Sue Bridehead leads him to follow her to church. Will he finally speak to her?

Danielle and Casey are joined by Housewives Historian Brian J. Moylan and he has a big announcement. (HINT: He will be making more money off the housewives backs!) They discuss OC, DALLAS and where the franchise is headed. Dream of dreamzzzz they are all then joined by 90 Day Fiancé Historian Shira Caspe Weiss who explains why the tide is turning and why we must all hop aboard. 

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Comedians Keisha Zollar (The Opposition) and Michael Cruz Kayne (The Exhibition) join Negin to discuss reports that the Trump administration is considering a narrowing of the definition of gender. The proposal would effectively erase protections for trans people. Then, the panel chats about the ‘pink wave’ and if the term treats female candidates as a novelty. Finally, they unpack the growing trend of smart assistants such as Alexa. They ask: Is convenience worth the price of privacy?

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Paul & Amy set sail through 1951’s Katharine Hepburn & Humphrey Bogart adventure The African Queen! They ask whether the central romance is convincing, discuss John Huston’s groundbreaking and arduous location shoot, and reminisce about the Disneyland ride inspired by the film. Plus: Suzanne Holmquist tells about running the actual African Queen as a modern day tourist attraction. 

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Special musical guest Frances Quinlan of Hop Along joins improvisers Dan Lippert, Jon Mackey, and Seth Morris for this week’s improv4humans! Hop Along plays songs that inspire scenes about a kid under pressure to whistle well, an open house that attracts jazz fans, and a mom who finds a solution for bullies on the dark web. Later, a family hashes out their issues at Disneyland, sloppy weapons testers cause lab accidents, and a library gets packed with bands researching their songs.

This episode is sponsored by The Jim Jefferies Show podcast.

Chris Kelly and Pat Kelly —from the aptly named podcast creative studio Kelly & Kelly and CBC’s This Is That — join Lex on the Wolf Den. Chris and Pat discuss This Is That’s upcoming tour, and inadvertently tricking listeners into thinking their satiric stories were true. The three also talk about Kelly & Kelly’s new fake true crime “This Sounds Serious,” and the importance of striking the correct tone with satire.

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