Dialing it up with Steve Dahl.

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Comedian and Hannibal’s gambling buddy Kevin Bozeman is on this week’s Handsome Rambler! They remember elementary school basketball stars, share their worst heckler stories, and wonder whether Hannibal needs to learn to parallel park. Later, Tony shares a terrifying story about an identity thief.

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NOTE: Hannibal will be in Australia the week of 12/1; the next Handsome Rambler will be out 12/8!

Comedian and writer Louis Virtel joins Sarah and Susan to talk about The Carpenters “I’m Caught Between, Goodbye And I Love You,” Other People, Cate Blanchett in Carol, Ordinary People, and “Satisfied” from Hamilton the Musical. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Dean Obeidallah (SiriusXM) and nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot join Negin for a special holiday edition of Fake the Nation. They share Thanksgiving memories of food and family, including the saffron-flavored basmati rice and currant stuffing that horrified Negin as a child. Plus, are you feeling orphaned this holiday? We have just the song for you, care of Gaby Alter.

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John Gemberling and Gil Ozeri join Matt Besser this week for scenes about the origin of Speed Weed, quilting with the boys, and being forced to read during your formative experiences. Later, band groupies bestow excessive praise and a man avoids defending his wife from a verbal assailant at all costs.

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The Shrimps take on the The Shecago Bulls at pan North Weddington Gymnasium and Fun Palace. Matt Gourley and Mark McConville call the action.

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Two more murders bring the total to five, terrorizing the city. As the police come up short in their attempt to protect the city, women take desperate measures to protect themselves. In this episode, host Portland Helmich meets a granddaughter of the Strangler’s fourth victim, and she follows the Boston police as they launch and attempt to control one of the largest manhunts the city had ever known. We’ll hear the voice of the late detective Phil DiNatale, meet his son, John, and explore the family’s vast archive of original Strangler notes, photos and diaries. Portland also interviews Mark Safarik, a retired FBI agent, who specializes in the homicides of elderly women. Safarik explains that with an unprecedented crime, traditional crime-solving techniques are almost never effective. 

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Check out Howl Premium and use promo code FRANCHISE to hear the entire Season 4 of The Franchise: Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts.  Join Kyle Newman and Razzle Dangerously as they tackle the most successful film series of all time. In Episode 1, We kick off Season 4 with a look at the film that launched the phenomenon The Sorcerer’s Stone as well as its darker sequel The Chamber of Secrets. Friend of The Franchise, concept artist Paul Bateman (who also appears in the film series!) joins to chat all things Harry along with actress and Potter-fanatic Georgie Flores, star of Freeform’s upcoming series Famous in Love.

Writer Christine Nangle (Inside Amy Schumer, Kroll Show) joins Andrew this week to talk about the current state post election, protest culture, Mike Pence at Hamilton possibly being a distraction, and much more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

How do you make a baby when you’ve got a uterus and your partner does, too? We hear how one family did it, in this two-parter. And how some of their plans…don’t go according to plan. To join the conversation, go to www.longestshortesttime.com!

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On this very special 50th episode of I Was There Too, Matt invites you all along on his journey to fulfill a lifelong dream of getting professionally squibbed. Substitute host and podcast brethren Mark McConville interviews Matt and andrew from J&M Special Effects throughout the process and fellow podcast soulmates Paul F. Tompkins and Jeremy Carter beautifully provide the taut action drama of the fictional scenario in which Matt is to be fake shot. Plus, Matt’s dad, stepmom, and fiancée join him to provide a tough but honest critical reaction.

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On a very special Thanksgiving episode, Mark & Pete share the studio with their niece and nephew Dana and Derek Hard (Hillary Matthews and Zach Reino). Dana tries to teach Uncle Mark about gender neutral pronouns, Derek reads an excerpt from his alt-right take on “Hamilton” called “Jefferson,” and everyone argues about whether plants have feelings.

This week, comedian and actor Jimmy O. Yang joins Howard and Kulap for a tasty Thanksgiving chartucopia! They swap normcore rap names and test out experimental forms of learning while counting down Spotify’s Top 5 Viral Songs. During the TV Chart, we hear about the cult of Gilmore Girls, and the gang finds a Ramhand doppelganger while listening to Kevin’s Hot Picks during Two Charted.

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Happy Thanksgiving from The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard! Please enjoy an interview with writers Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, the minds behind the most critically acclaimed film of 2016, Moonlight.

Join guest host Samm Levine as he sits down with writer and actor Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer, Burning Love). Michael chats about his early days in sketch comedy, reads his Seuss-like election results, and how working is his social life.

A small town police officer chats with Chris about the current state of policing in the United States. They try their best to reconcile a divisive issue that incites a lot of passion on all sides. And this is all going on while our caller is on his couch watching Fail Army videos on YouTube.

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Comedian Dan Levy joins Jensen and Matty to talk about his new Seeso comedy special “Lion,” getting punched in the face in front of Lululemon, Virginia singer Reece, Grailed.com, BreezePark, producer B-sides, how we were late on Fantastic Beasts, and many more things you should know about especially knives.

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Musician Maddie Ross joins Deanna and Emily to decompress post-election and discuss everything we can do to make our voices heard. Plus, Maddie reads her beautifully written letter to her future children that she wrote the day after the election. Check out Maddie’s new album “Making Out Is Easy” over at www.maddieross.com and everywhere else you find music!

Hayes and Sean welcome their trainer RYAN STANGER of the Dumbbells podcast to teach them about being strong.

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Comedian and actor Mo Mandel returns this week to join Randy, Jason, and Daniel Van Kirk for a Thanksgiving County. Mo tells the tale of purchasing a gift for his parents and reflects on his new stand-up special before the gang gets into Stories. We hear about a bootcamper who was hit in the face with a fish, a Norwegian man getting lodged in a shower stool, and a driver who left her Pontiac in a ditch. Finally, the Sklars listen to a voicemail about holiday travel from friendly TSA agent Michael Kissick.

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Believe it or not, Matthew McConaughey’s thesis (from behind a bookshelf inside a black hole) that love is the most powerful force in the universe isn’t the most scientifically accurate thing Hollywood has offered us lately. It should come as no surprise that movies take a lot of liberties with astrophysics and what is possible or impossible in the realm of outer space. Like, sending up a crew of men less qualified than Donald Trump (too soon?) to blow up an asteroid? That’s probably not in NASA’s Plans A through “we ran out of letters” of how to stop a meteor on a collision course with Earth. 

Even in more fantastical movies like the Star Wars or Star Trek films, you just get very inadequate image in your head of how space works. Take asteroid belts, for example. It’s a belt! Made of asteroids! Asteroids as far as the eye can see! You can’t safely pilot your ship through them because there are just so many damn asteroids! I’ve had it with these motherf**king asteroids on this motherf**king belt! 

We’re sorry to say that’s now how the asteroid belt works at all. The average distance between bodies in the asteroid belt is 600,000 miles, which is more than double the distance between the Earth and the Moon. So traveling through the asteroid belt is less dodging asteroids like Han Solo and more, “we passed through the asteroid belt?” To dispel some more myths about how space works, Jack O’Brien and Alex Schmidt are joined by Dr. Farah Alibay, a real life scientist at JPL who gets to play with styrofoam models of planets all day and is currently working on a mission that’s trying to scoop a 2o-ton boulder off an asteroid, which is as cool as it sounds. 

Footnotes: 

Farah Alibay Bio : https://goo.gl/iM4NI7

Podcast: How NASA Was Born Out of Magic Loving, Orgy Having Nerds : https://goo.gl/sbSjcR  

Video: To Scale – The Solar System : https://goo.gl/yxUggj

GIF: Jupiter’s Surface in Motion : https://goo.gl/BEUaJz

Video: Pigeons in Space : https://goo.gl/H3Anrr

Video: Spiders in Space : https://goo.gl/VrQQkJ  

Video: Russian Meteor Reaction : https://goo.gl/R6WKTA

Image Gallery: Cupola Module on the ISS : https://goo.gl/IJUO5U

Article: The Drake Equation : https://goo.gl/rYZVzF

Article: Myths Everyone Believes About Space (Thanks To Movies) : https://goo.gl/H0WiLF

Article: Things About Space You’re Picturing Almost Exactly Wrong : https://goo.gl/qDDpgn

Article: Reasons Space Travel Will Always Suck : https://goo.gl/VfNZ

Article: Reasons Life in Space Sucks (That Sci-Fi Doesn’t Show You) : https://goo.gl/jNuONd

Article: The Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space : https://goo.gl/XztW9

Article: Real Planets Way Weirder Than Anything in Science Fiction : https://goo.gl/Rb6Yy6

Article: Mind-Blowing Things Found in Our Own Solar System : https://goo.gl/Azquk

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As Hamilton’s set designer, David Korins had the daunting task of devising what the hit show should look like. He joins Travon to discuss the process behind telling the visual story of Hamilton, including the famed turntable stage. As he explains it, no set detail was too big or small to pore over. Korins also dishes on what it’s like to have worked with everyone from Kanye West to Bruno Mars. 

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This week I interview a lizard guy who’s here to fix up the tavern.

Credits:
Arnie: Arnie Niekamp
Chunt: Adal Rifai
Usidore: Matt Young
Preckle: Ryan Ridley
Blemish: Martin Wilson
Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen
Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi

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

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Paul F. Tompkins welcomes the audience back to Spontaneanation, recorded in front of a LIVE audience at the world-famous Largo at The Coronet! This week, Paul’s special guest is SNL alum Horatio Sanz! They chat about what Horatio’s “Sliding Doors” career would be, Horatio listening to The Beatles in the dark with his best friend, and finding his older brother’s disturbing newspaper clippings. Paul is then joined by his Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ co-stars Ryan Gaul, Mandell Maughan, and Drew Tarver to improvise a story set at a Train Station. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!
Photos by Liezl Estipona.
Paul & Eban will be doing their first all-music show at Largo! Featuring songs with Aimee Mann, Ted Leo, Open Mike Eagle & special surprise guests! Join them all for an evening of eclectic song choices and unique new arrangements. And all proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood & The American Civil Liberties Union! Saturday December 3rd & Sunday December 4th – Get tickets at paulftompkins.com/live!

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Novi-Doggie is upon us and it’s the time of year where we are thankful for everything in our lives. We are thankful that actress Maria Thayer of truTV’s Those Who Can’t and Strangers with Candy fame is here to honestly answer Scott’s questions about her personal life. We are thankful that our old friend and world famous actor Paul Giamatti has returned to the show to let us know the real way he was offered the show Billions. We are thankful for small business owner Gary Urbansky to come visit us by the way of Chicago to tell us all about his hair business. We are thankful for all you listeners. Happy Thanksgiving!

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What is shirt cocking? Do people jerk it to Shrek? Paul gets into this and more as he opens up the Explanation Hope Line and goes through Corrections and Omissions for Vampire’s Kiss. The Movie Bitches review The Accountant and you’ll hear about the virtual reality world we will enter in the movie we cover next week! This episode is brought to you by Squarespace.

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Where to Find Jason, June & Paul:

Paul is in the new Nicolas Cage film “Army of One” available on VOD.

Paul’s new comedy Filthy Preppy Teen$ is now avail on the FullScreen and you can see June and Paul in their old show NTSF:SD:SUV:: on HULU. Paul also appears on Fresh off the Boat on ABC.

June stars in Grace and Frankie on Netflix, as well as Lady Dynamite alongside with Jason.

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

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Handsome Rambler is taping at Hannibal’s new building! He and Tony talk about some of their favorite new records, dealing with the reality of President Trump, and why there should be trap karaoke. Then Hannibal breaks down the latest UFC fights and Dave Chapelle’s SNL afterparty.

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The adorable actor/improviser Jordan Black joins Ronna and Beverly to chat about working with Joey McIntyre of New Kids on The Block, his live show “The Black Version,” the Jamie Foxx commercial campaign he’s in, and much more. Plus, Beverly surprises Ronna with some Broadway news.

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In today’s grab bag episode, Negin calls up Dean Obeidallah (SiriusXM) to talk about the latest president-elect developments, including widespread peaceful protests. Next up: Benari Poulten (Garbage Time With Katie Nolan) and Leah Bonnema (New York Comedy Festival, VH1) join Negin to discuss sexism at work. Horror stories are shared. Finally, Negin chats with Dylan Marron (Seriously.TV) and Andrew Heaton (Mostly Weekly) about prisoner protests.

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At 24 Winston Churchill was looking for a fight – and he found a war in South Africa. He was captured, escaped, saved a train full of people and became a national hero. David talks to writer and journalist Candice Millard about the adventure that helped make Winston Churchill a world leader.

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