Author, podcaster, and co-creator of Drop the Mic, Jensen Karp (Kanye West Owes Me $300, Get Up On This) joins Sarah and Susan to talk about growing up crying with his mom, Mike & The Mechanics’ “The Living Years,” the 1989 film Dad, Kirk Gibson’s game winning home run during the 1988 World Series, Alan Watts’ “The Mind,” and the finale of Six Feet Under.

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Please enjoy the sixth Earmovie of Season 3, “The Promise” written by Chris Salmanpour. It stars Houshang Touzie (Ata), Omid Abtahi (Reza), Oded Fehr (Afshin, et al), Marshall Manesh (Said, et al), Charlie Weber (Tom), Adam Tsekhman (Sassan, et al), Brian George (Cleric Hussein, et al), Mo Gallini (Iranian Man, et al), Nazneen Contractor (Golnar, et al), and Franklin Leonard (Narrator).

Dan Lippert, Jon Mackey, Ryan Rosenberg, and Drew Tarver of Big Grande (Teacher’s Lounge) join Matt Besser this week for improvised scenes about hiding your shitty car from your girlfriend, going with the Conehead look for your headshot, and finding a role for Liam Neeson’s brother in the next “Taken.” Plus, they put up offensive signs in the name of wordplay, and a group of pizza delivery drivers get vengeful when they aren’t tipped.

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It’s hard to find a bright spot in the 2016 election, but born woke, political commentator and analyst Angela Rye was one. A regular on CNN’s thuderdome-like panels, Angela doesn’t mince words calling out lies and advocating for people of color and women.  In this episode of #politicallyreactive we speak with Angela about authenticity and difficult conversations. Click “play” to find out why Angela is not trying to be objective.

Follow Angela on Twitter (@angela_rye ‏).

Book tours, TV shows, standup – oh my! Catch Kamau in-person for his The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell book tour or on TV for CNN’s United Shades of America! More info at http://www.wkamaubell.com/. And Hari really, REALLY wants you to come see him on tour – find dates at: http://www.harikondabolu.com/.

Got a comment or suggestion? Email us at politicallyreactive@firstlook.org or follow us on Twitter at @politicreactive.

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The Shrimps take on the Princess Layups at North Weddington Gym. Mark McConville and special guest Kristina Rodgers call the action.

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Pop culture scholar, USC professor, writer, and podcaster Karen Tongson (Pop Rocket) joins Andrew to discuss the French election, Boston Red Sox fans racist abuse on Adam Jones, tempers flaring over removal of confederate statues in New Orleans, and much more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (Naomi Ekperigin) and Senator Mitch McConnell (Andy Beckerman) join the boys this week in some heated debates over hot topics like carnivals, PT Cruisers and Palmers cocoa butter. Plus, we get the details on what Patrick Stewart’s orgasm is like and more!

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While Matt is off getting married and honeymooned, I Was There Too will feature a special run of guest hosted episodes! This week actor David Dastmalchian joins guest host Steve Agee to discuss the 2013 thriller Prisoners and the 2015 superhero film Ant-Man. David tells us about being very grateful about landing the part of Bob Taylor in Prisoners, thinking he had actually hurt Jake Gyllenhaal during filming, and being thankful to director Denis Villeneuve for the opportunity to be a part of Blade Runner 2049. Then, David talks about the many improvised lines during the filming of Ant-Man, contributing to his character’s wardrobe & love of Elvis, and tricking Paul Rudd into believing he was actually Russian. Plus, David and Steve bond over similar circumstances when it came to testing to become a part of the Marvel family.

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Improviser and actress Lauren Lapkus returns to Who Charted this week for a mid-May chartfest! She joins Howard and Kulap in counting down the Top 5 Songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 while pondering over Miley Cyrus’s new leaf and lamenting swimming lesson struggles, and they share their favorite products from Shark Tank during the TV Chart. Plus, Kulap reports on her yogativities, and Howard gets a furry visitor during Two Charted!

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Singer and YouTuber Rebecca Black joins Jensen and Matty to talk about how she learned about the overnight sensation of her song “Friday,” developing as an artist & recording new music, Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Styrke, British singer Jorja Smith, Poppy, how we were late on edibles, and many more things you should know about.

Big parties with lawyers gathered around piles of cocaine. Inequality in the criminal justice system. Huge corporations ripping off the families of jailed inmates. Gethard talks to a public defender about these topics, and discovers her favorite word: alleged.

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Craig Ferguson returns to the show with a bit more piss than vinegar this time. Life and how to make sense of it is dissected and celebrated, with a dash of good will to all.

Sean and Hayes are joined by ZEKE NICHOLSON of Lopez for a discussion of how to get so much work done.
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Comedian Jonathan Rowell joins Emily and Deanna this week to talk dating older, Jenner family politics, and how to impress as a sugar baby. Then, the girls get to know Jonathan with 5 Questions, and they break down the new promo for the new Echo Look before playing a game of Swipe Left Or Right.

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In a special live episode (in association with the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival), Gilbert and Frank welcome Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson, who recalls his early days as a sketch performer, his collaborations with comedy icons Carol Burnett, Mel Brooks and Tim Conway, and the experience of directing Dustin Hoffman to an Oscar in “Rain Man.” Also, Warren Beatty breaks Gilbert’s heart, Jackie Gayle riffs on “Bonanza,” Rodney Dangerfield runs afoul of the law and “Diner” influences future generations of filmmakers. PLUS: The curse of The Mummy! The brilliance of Bruno Kirby! The “magic” of Art Metrano! Jack Riley salutes Jack Benny! And Barry remembers the dynamic Robin Williams!

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The script is different but the wording is always roughly the same. Every few months some retiring journalist, former tech-mogul or aspiring Tomi Lahren-type goes viral because they’ve had it up to *here* with these gosh darn millennials. Between their clamoring for single-payer healthcare and their complaining about unpaid internships, it’s like they hate America or something. Why can’t they appreciate what they’ve got and be exactly what the generation before wants them to be?

We’ve heard it a million times and, frankly, it’s all bullshit. You know how we know? Because every generation has been lodging the same 4 complaints about their successors since the beginning of the written language (and probably before that too). Grug and all the other teens don’t care about hunting mammoths like their fathers, they just sit around playing with those newfangled *wheels* all day. As long as we keep having kids, this will happen until the end of time.

On this week’s podcast, resident Gen-X’er-in-chief Jack O’Brien welcomes young upstarts Katie Goldin, Brett Rader and Josh Sargent onto the show to discuss why this never-ending argument is bullshit. They discuss some flaws in logic behind popular anti-millennial rants and call out some shady statistics that news outlets circulate to prop-up these arguments.

And make sure to get tickets to our next LIVE Cracked Podcast, coming up on Saturday, May 13th at 7pm at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles. Jack O’Brien is joined by Cracked’s Carmen Angelica, Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim, and comedian Blake Wexler to combine the podcast’s two favorite topics: great moments in history and binge drinking. 

They’ll discuss the drafting of the US Constitution, the Russian Revolution and other famous moments in history where everyone was completely sh*tfaced. Tickets are only $7 and available here: https://goo.gl/PWmm2y

Footnotes:

Article: Cracked: This Millennial Rant Deserves A Trophy For Being Most Wrong: https://goo.gl/7xeex8

Article: The Society Pages: Adventures in Garbage-Millennial Confirmation Bias: https://goo.gl/cri4JA

Article: Cracked: 5 Lies Millennials And Baby Boomers Believe About Each Other: https://goo.gl/lFWuCt

Article: Cracked: 4 Terrible Parts of Pop Culture (With Weird Bright Sides): https://goo.gl/fIEPXj

Article: The New Yorker: The Big Uneasy: https://goo.gl/RyCzrx

Article: The New Yorker: The “Founder” Generation’s Creation Myth: https://goo.gl/Fn73e8

Book: Morley Winograd: Millennial Momentum: https://goo.gl/PfxdRb

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The Dark Lord’s Chef Inquisitor pays a visit. And that is not a typo.

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp
Chunt: Adal Rifai
Usidore: Matt Young
Dripfang: Kevin Sciretta
Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen
Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi

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Editor: Garrett Schultz
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Paul F. Tompkins welcomes ladies and gentleman to this new experience of your life known as Spontaneanation! This week, Paul’s special guests are Katy Colloton and Katie O’Brien of TV Land’s Teachers! They chat about what song they always have stuck in their head, still having stage fright when it comes to singing, and the unexpected response they received for their musical episode of Teachers. Paul is then joined by Daniele Gaither, Jean Villepique, and Carl Tart, to improvise a story set in a Panic Room. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!

If you’d like to provide a location for the improv on a future episode, follow @Spontaneanation on Twitter so you won/t miss the prompt!

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Indiewire’s Senior Film Critic David Ehrlich joins Amy this week to discuss the 1998 Best Picture winner, “Shakespeare in Love.” David points to the film’s ability to straddle the line between fantasy and reality, the nuanced appearances by Colin Firth and Ben Affleck, and the expressed theme of “performative love.” Then, Amy and David figure out what Shakespeare and BuzzFeed have in common. Is “Shakespeare in Love” to be, or not to be in The Canon? Head to the Earwolf forums to vote now!

Stand-up comedians Ron Funches and Nick Thune join the show this week to face their greatest fears and to find the most fun things to eat and say. Acclaimed indie musician Papa Johns Misty begins his year-long residency with his favorite catchphrases before playing some tasty tunes, and socialite Vernita Wyatt shares tales of all the celebrities she’s slept with. Later, we find out what the Cadillac of pizzas is during a game of Would You Rather.

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Stories from the Fast & Furious set, Cuban bread, and much more is covered on this week’s mini-sode! Paul goes through Corrections and Omissions for The Fate of the Furious, we hear Blake J. Harris interview Andy Gill, Jack Gill, and Spiro Razatos, the stunt coordinators for the Fast & Furious franchise (hear the whole thing in HDTGM: Origin Stories on Stitcher Premium), and Paul goes through the Mail Bag. Plus, you’ll find out which alien film we’ll be covering next week!

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Where to Find Jason, June & Paul:

Paul’s new comedy Drive Share is available on Go90. 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 Lego Batman Movie, How to Be Single, Sleeping with Other People, and is still indeed in The Dictator.

Rachel Sklar (TheLi.st) and Sarah Rose Siskind (StarTalk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson) join Negin to talk about Ivanka Trump’s puzzling role in the White House, so-called school ‘lunch shaming’, and Trump’s proposed tax plan. Plus, they get into regulation on Wall Street.

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Welcome back to The Etique-cast, the polite podcast that explores all things courteous with your hosts Harnold Palmer (Bryan Safi) and Rita Teresa (Erin Gibson). Harnold and Rita welcome Manners Mentor Roberta “Bobby” Bell this week to converse about polite pickup lines, the correct way to ask for a lot of money, and the importance of teaching memorization. Later, Bobby vents her concerns about the new youth, and Traci Reardon stops by to help her Twitter followers with questions of bedroom etiquette on another edition of “Help Me, Rhonda.”

Ronna and Beverly come at you live from Largo at the Coronet for an evening of conversation featuring comedian Paul F. Tompkins and actress America Ferrera! The girls chat with Paul about Fijian timeshares, hot on-set affairs, and why it’s important to look like your spouse. Then they welcome America on to discuss her high school theatrics and how she approaches organizational politics and the schmucks that come with it.

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Actor, comedian, and Broken Lizard Jay Chandrasekhar returns to the Country this week to share stories from his new book, “Moustache Shenanigans: Making Super Troopers and Other Adventures in Comedy.” The Sklars break down how ESPN evolved into its current state before Jay fills them in on how the scoring is coming for Super Troopers 2. Then, they riff on LaVar Ball’s hyped-up boasts, a tennis match interrupted by noisy coitus, and competitive hobby horsing, and finally, the Sklars ring up Nic Cage to hear his take on Las Vegas sports.

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With the gathering of the storm toward the record FOURTH part of the Atlanta reunion approaching Casey and Danielle are joined by friend and Kardashian PodKaster Tricia Mcalpin (Brooklyn 99) to discuss Porsha’s bombshell about Phaedra and whether working for dish nation is true journalism, They talk Adam’s turtleneck, T Rav’s Khakis and Ramona’s rude breasts, plus Tricia ships a new couple that changes everything!!!

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This week Bryan has returned from Japan with some serious jet lag, while Erin got caught in a trash tornado thanks to the Santa Ana winds. Also, the 9th Circuit Court is back at it again and overturned a California ruling which now allows employers to pay women less based on previous salaries, and a recent survey from the Center for American Progress shows that LGBTQ people are retreating back into the closet. Plus, guest Matt Baume is here to discuss Drag Con, his book “Defining Marriage”, and his podcast “The Sewers of Paris” about media that has changed the lives of gay men. Find Matt on Twitter @mattbaume or @sewersofparis for his podcast and at his website http://www.mattbaume.com

Throwing pants with Russell Howard.

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This week: Clu Gulager! Blossom “Grandmama” Rock! Farewell, Sheriff Pepper! And Dick Van Patten plays a vampire dentist!

Folks on both the left and the right have a love-hate relationship with reporter and Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill. His brand of “adversarial” investigative journalism makes no exceptions – not for the nation’s most powerful, and especially not for those advocating for wars abroad. In this episode of #politicallyreactive, we talk with Jeremy about his refusal to sit on a panel with Milo Yiannopoulos on Real Time with Bill Maher, what it was like to interview Julian Assange for the Intercepted podcast, his thoughts on Russian involvement in U.S. politics, and the people who give him hope for the future (hint: it’s probably you!). Click “play” to find out why Jeremy has earned the title, “one-man truth squad”.

Keep tabs on Jeremy on Twitter (@jeremyscahill) and subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on your preferred podcast platform! Or stream the show online at: https://theintercept.com/podcasts/

Book tours, TV shows, standup – oh my! Catch Kamau in-person for his The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell book tour or on TV for CNN’s United Shades of America! More info at http://www.wkamaubell.com/. And Hari really, REALLY wants you to come see him on tour – find dates at: http://www.harikondabolu.com/.

Got a comment or suggestion? Email us at politicallyreactive@firstlook.org or follow us on Twitter at @politicreactive.

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