From the first actor ever CGI’d to whether The Jazz Singer actually being good is covered on this week’s minisode! Paul goes through Corrections and Omissions for The Jazz Singer, Blake J. Harris chats with The Jazz Singer producer Jerry Leider about the movie, and the Movie Bitches review Mother. 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 Good Place, The House, The Lego Batman Movie, How to Be Single, Sleeping with Other People, and is still indeed in The Dictator.

Welcome to the first episode of Where’s Don? with your hosts Carol Henderson and Junies Beaties (Katie O’Brien, Katy Colloton)! Don has been missing for 9 years and law enforcement has done nothing so now we will try to figure out what happened to Don with the help of special guest and neighbor Sheila. Plus, Traci Reardon drops by to share clues on Don’s whereabouts from her Twitter followers in another edition of “Help Me, Rhonda.”

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Comedian Solomon Georgio (Homonégro Superior) sits in with Matt & Dave this week to gush about Karen from Finance, Taylor & Kesha’s new albums, and the incomparable Grace Jones. Solomon also goes deep about his first relationship, growing up as 1 of 7 kids, and being non-confrontational.

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Comedians Judy Gold (Kill Me Now) and Seena Ghaznavi (Sirius XM) join Negin to hash out who wins and who loses in the GOP tax plan. Just hours ahead of the Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor news, the panel also digs into how recent sexual misconduct scandals in politics are playing out. Plus, they take a closer look at Jared Kushner and the changing power dynamics in the White House.

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Casey’s back from the void! And the girls are back where they belong, in the nook and much like Oprah have a list of Favorite Things to share. They are joined by two amazing guests, Paul James (The Path, Greek) talks Jersey, Atlanta and neck tattoos and Kate Spencer (author, The Dead Moms Club) talks Orange County, finding yourself ON Vanderpump Rules and her new book! 

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John Hughes month concludes on Cracked Movie Club! By 1989, John Hughes was closing out a decade of wild success with teen comedies and had been steadily branching out into more adult-oriented fare, most of which starred John Candy. Hughes kept that train rolling with Uncle Buck, starring Candy as the titular uncle who has to care for his brother’s kids after a family tragedy. Out of the surprisingly few films of which Candy was the star, Uncle Buck was the most successful, and its production inspired John Hughes to create Home Alone, which isn’t bad for a movie most of you probably haven’t seen.

On this week’s episode, Tom is joined by Cracked’s David Bell and The Bechdel Cast’s Jamie Loftus as they discuss how the movie was almost not filmed in Hughes’ home state of Illinois, whether or not Uncle Buck is in the mob, and why every teen in Winnetka is goth.

Putting your pants on one leg at a time with Tig Notaro.

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Sarah Claspell, Kimia Behpoornia, Devin Field, Travis Coles, Jake Sprague, and Kristen Studard join Matt Besser for a special i7h Movie Form episode! First, we visit a nail-focused survivors collective, parents that don’t want their child to know it’s the zombie apocalypse, and a roadster who can’t get to his heat unless he performs social pleasantries in “Not Without My Gun.” Then, it’s the gritty crime drama “Love After Death,” in which a grieving widower on the hunt for the truth, a single mom sheriff in the midst of a custody battle, and a serial killer with a Nixon fixation cross paths with explosive results.

This episode is sponsored by HBO’s Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady.

This week, Erin talks about the findings of long-overdue studies on the shared behaviors of sexual predators and why it’s so important to focus on their commonalities instead of those of the victims. Then Bryan brings a story about Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s apology for laws that criminalized homosexual behavior in the past, and performer and advocate Calpernia Addams discusses her mixed feelings about being portrayed by Jared Leto, how she went from growing up in a fundamentalist Christian cult to the military, and the worst abuses committed under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell before capping it all off with a game of Shade, No Shade.

This episode is sponsored by Dollar Shave Club, EverlyWell (code: SHADE), and Sun Basket.

The Shrimps take on the Chicago Bulls at Lake Street Gym. Mark and Matt call the action.

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Comedians Sasheer Zamata and Matteo Lane join Jo and Manolo to play listener-submitted games with callers. 

Games played: That’s A Wrap, Dr. Gym Shoe, and High School Musical Reunion.

Today’s Raised By TV is brought to you by…commercials! Jon & Lauren realize that Creepy Crawlers is just an EZ-Bake Oven for bugs, recoil at the sexual innuendo of Mr. Bucket, and hated getting zit stickers when they played Girl Talk. Plus: Crocodile Dentist, Micro Machines, Fruit Stripe, Gushers, Crossfire, and a Very Special Episode with Mary Holland.

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Actors Will Choi and Keiko Agena of Asian AF join Andrew to discuss Trump’s Pocahontas joke, the representation of Asians in media, Marvel’s new editor-in-chief using “Akira Yoshida” as a pseudonym in the past, and much more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

Conservative provocateur James O’Keefe (Kale Hills) joins Hard Nation mere days after the Washington Post foiled his latest sting. He tells Mark and Pete why he sees Project Veritas as an immersive theater company, how he got into character as “Daddy Peppermint,” and his admiration for John Leguizamo. Plus: Pete almost does a character.

Work off that Thanksgiving turkey, Steve Agee returns for another landmark episode of Who Charted! He helps Howard and Kulap count down Billboard’s Top 5 Rock Songs while they mourn the state of the modern musical and Steve gives the scoop on his podcast We’re No Doctors. Later, they swap holiday movie picks while counting down iTunes’ Top 5 Selling Movies, and Engineer Cody Ramhand joins in for a specialty chanteuse quiz during Two Charted.

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Thought experiment time: what’s the best episode of your favorite TV show? No matter what the series, from Mad Men to Seinfeld to Battlestar Galactica, it’s a surprisingly hard question to find an agreeable answer. But that’s what we’ve assigned Cracked’s resident TV nerds, Carmen Angelica and Brett Rader, with doing: each week they’re going to look at a different popular TV series and try to determine its best episode ever. In the past two weeks they’ve discussed Friends and Adventure Time, and this week, as a special bonus for Cracked Podcast listeners, we’re posting their discussion about 30 Rock. 

Best Episode Ever releases new episodes every Tuesday and is back next week on their own feed to talk about Arrested Development. Click here to find links to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher: https://goo.gl/CxWzkj

A mother of four tells Gethard about going from med school to motherhood, and how she escaped a troubled marriage with a controlling, manipulative man.

Adam Scott Aukerman return to discuss U2’s fourteenth studio album Songs of Experience and with the permission of the band give listeners an EXCLUSIVE first listen to the album track by track. Plus, we get a much needed Harry Potter and Halloween update from Adam and much more!

Buy new U Talkin’ U2 To Me? t-shirts at podswag.com.

Corrine Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson of the Guys We F***ked podcast join Zach and Jess for the ultimate sewer rat, sentient object & chain restaurant musical. With songs like “Waving In Front Of A Faucet”, “Takes A Whole Room To Make A Bathroom” and “Taco Bell”, you’ll be craving some Cheesy Gordita Crunch wraps and breadsticks after belting along to these tunes. 

Rapper District 21 joins Jensen and Matty to talk about Jensen knowing his grandmother, being on tour with Lil Wayne, Friday on Elm Street, HQ Trivia, My Week with Marilyn, how we were late on The Handmaid’s Tale, and many more things you should know about.

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Comedian Jimmy Pardo hosts a pop culture game show-interview podcast; three call-in contestants vie for prizes. Special guest: Rich Sommer.

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Sean and Hayes partner with JESS MCKENNA and ZACH REINO from Off Book to do one of their famous songs but actually do a good job.

Welcome back WOMPSTERS! Marissa and Listler make a perfect re-entry this week as they welcome on the charming Mr. Casey Steers (Paul Scheer) aka C.S. to explain some of his controversial behaviors as head of the Marina Del Rey High school newspaper, the Daily Dolphin. C.S. shares a little insight into the coming of age story he’s working on, why there’s nothing sexual about the human body, and how falling in with a rough crowd led him to high school journalism. Later, scandal ensues when C.S. gets the spotlight on some of his extra-chill teaching practices.

Writer Chelsea Frank joins Emily and Deanna for a special episode of HTBLO. We start off hearing some of Chelsea’s expert haircare techniques and favorite new phrases before they get deep into a conversation about the many allegations of sexual misconduct that have come to light in the last few weeks. Chelsea offers a youth’s perspective on the implications of the tidal wave of revelations, offering up personal experiences and her thoughts on where we as a society go from here.

This episode is sponsored by ThirdLove.

We’re joined by a withered old crone that makes delicious baked goods and steals water.

Credits:

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp
Chunt: Adal Rifai
Usidore: Matt Young
Crone Bakeress: Janet Varney
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

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The news: if you’ve read it since the fall of 2015, it’s been nothing but Donald Trump stories, and Opponent Of Donald Trump stories, and the sports section (which is also kind of Trump news). That’s insane, right? Isn’t there an entire rest of the world out there, full of local governments legislating, scientists discovering, rich people hiding money on tropical islands, and woolly mammoths dying in slapstick ways? Ya know, the fun stuff?

On this week’s episode of The Cracked Podcast, we’re LIVE from UCB Sunset in Los Angeles, with guests Cody Johnston, Katie Goldin, Rivers Langley, and Siobhan Thompson. And we’re bringing you all the amazing, terrifying, and strange news the media hasn’t had the bandwidth to tell you about.

Footnotes: https://goo.gl/ou72Xm

Comedian Sarah Silverman is back and joins Scott to talk about her new Hulu show “I Love You, America,” Soarin’ at Disneyland, and to get a bit serious. Then, Charles Manson escapes from his hospital to tell us about his quest to complete his bucket list. Later, Prince Chinedu from Nigeria stops by to talk about visiting every Burger King in the USA in order to buy a Whopper Jr. Plus, a special appearance from our old friend Jarles. #ClassicJarles

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GGACP fan (and host) favorite, songwriter-composer-dramatist Rupert Holmes returns to discuss (among other essential topics) the brilliance of Bernard Herrmann, the lesser-known films of Boris Karloff and the fine art of “cracking” celebrity impressions. Also, Frank Gorshin channels George Burns, Gilbert channels Sydney Greenstreet, Bob Hope goes psychedelic and Rupert remembers childhood hero Jerry Lewis. PLUS: “House of Wax”! The Great Gildersleeve! Grandpa Munster rocks out! Rupert”collaborates” with Mickey Rooney! And the boys pay tribute to “Old Dark House” movies!