Honey, the showcase showdown this week was epic! If you didn’t watch the debate, you missed a terrific ad for Flonase and also a queen at her mightiest. Plus, California’s Governor Jerry Brown is all in on continuing to tax tampons and diapers, and a woman unfairly faces harassment at our favorite grocery store for wearing terrible shoes. Cotton Candy grapes, why hast thou forsaken us?!?! Bye wig.

Michael Showalter (Search Party) and Aisling Bea (The Fall) join Paul and Jason to talk about the vampire movie Vampire Academy. They’ll cover everything from the gumbo of a plot to out of place mall montage to the orgasmic vampire bites. It’s not as sexy as Twilight, not as dangerous as Hunger Games, and not as childlike as Harry Potter.

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Negin Farsad of Fake the Nation joins Andrew to talk about current trends including the 2016 Debates, how you should reply to someone on Tinder, and much more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

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Lawrence Wright knows a lot about terrorism – because he’s been covering it for decades. In this episode, he talks to David about interviewing Osama bin Laden’s business manager, and how covering covering religion changed his own thoughts on religion.

Welcome to When You Wish Upon A Cast with your host Handy Bobbit (Adam McCabe) recorded live inside the ceiling crawl space in his mother’s (Jackie Johnson) house which is next door to Disneyland in beautiful Anaheim, California. This week Handy is joined by infamous songwriters Little Carol and her older sister Smudge DuBois best known for writing hundreds of songs for Disney films which ultimately didn’t make it into many of the films. They treat us to special performances of cut songs from classic Disney films such as Dumbo and Aladdin. Later, Traci Reardon stops by to offer Disney related advice to her Twitter followers in another edition of “Help Me, Rhonda.”

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Comedians Maz Jobrani (Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero) and Rebecca Donohue join Negin Farsad to discuss the first presidential debate. They also talk about the blanket of violence that’s covering the country, Oliver Stone’s new movie Snowden, and how Rebecca wasn’t surprised at all to discover the NSA was all up in everybody’s business.

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Coming straight out of LA Podfest, the Sklarbros are joined by comedian and overall good buddy Nick Swardson for a live episode of the Country. We hear about the Sklar’s recent show in Mobile and tales of New Orleans debauchery before getting into stories with Daniel Van Kirk. Daniel tells of a father who accidentally ate three too many pot brownies and a husband who received an unfortunate surgery while his wife gave birth next door. Finally, a slew of celebrity guests including Ozzie Guillen, Ken Kratz, Christoph Waltz, and Mark Wahlberg drop in to share their take on the World Series, favorite NBA players, and more.

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Beloved actress Melanie Lynskey (HBO’s Togetherness, Heavenly Creatures) joins Sarah and Susan to talk about Beyonce’s “All Night” from Lemonade, the moment when Sawyer Fredericks won The Voice, Conor Oberst’s “Lenders In The Temple,” and the British romantic film 45 Years.

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Crossing the pond with Stuart Goldsmith.

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Acclaimed internet personality BlogXilla joins Kevin and Kamau as they return this week to talk about Denzel’s new western flick “The Magnificent Seven.” They check out snippets from Xilla’s exclusive Denzel interview before hearing about his rise in the blogosphere and Denzel’s reaction to becoming a meme. Then Xilla lists his Top 5 Denzel Movies, and the gang dives into a discussion on “The Magnificent Seven,” praising the workability of the ensemble cast and notable points of Denzelishness in the film.

Live from the LA Podfest, Ian Roberts, Sean Clements, Jessica McKenna, and Zach Reino join Matt Besser to find out how hairy you have to be to soak up all the water in the pool. An IRS scam call inspires a scene about overly personal government notices, sound engineers deal with kickball-obsessed recording artists, and a virtual fish agency programs extremely realistic death scenarios. Finally, Eric the Paid Intern returns for street interviews that lead to scenes about a playful drug dealer and getting beaten with a boat.

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Welcome to the Teacher’s Lounge, the only podcast that gives an uncensored, behind the scenes look at the goings on at Hamilton High School. To hear more episodes from this 6-part mini-series go to Howl.fm and use the promo code TEACHER at check out to get 1-month for free.  Big Grande (Comedy Bang! Bang!, improv4humans, With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus) take you inside the minds of Hamilton’s honor’s department teachers and welcome guests from the greater Hamilton High Community (Paul F. Tompkins, Mary Holland, D’Arcy Carden and more!) to discuss the hard hitting issues facing today’s high schoolers.

Binge seasons 2-5 plus new weekly episodes from season 6 only on Stitcher Premium. For a free month of listening, go to stitcherpremium.com/teacher and use promo code ‘TEACHER’.

Debate season has begun, and Mark and Pete have invited celebrity campaign surrogates Lena Dunham (Gilli Nissim), George Clooney (Dhruv Uday Singh) and returning favorite Gennifer Flowers (Jamie Denbo) to discuss the first Clinton-Trump face off. Who gave Trump cocaine before the debate? Who will admit they own slaves? Who will admit they had a recurring role on One Life To Live? Who will get shot before the episode ends? All this and more will be revealed. Wooh!

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The Shrimps take on the Sports Bras at Pan Pacific Park. Matt Gourley and Mark McConville call the action, heat causes loss of mental traction.

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Jazz and Bass veteran Putter Smith joins Matt this week to talk about playing the assassin Mr. Kidd in one of Matt’s all time favorite Bond films, Diamonds Are Forever. We’ll hear how he ended up getting a script for the film and doing a screen test with Paul Williams, getting to carry Sean Connery alongside fellow assassin Mr. Wint portrayed by Bruce Glover, and getting his arms burned for his death scene. Putter also tells us what it was like working with Thelonious Monk and the sessions for The Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’.” Do yourself a favor and check out Tyler Dilt’s book in his homicide series “Come Twilight” which features references to this very podcast!

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Coming at you live from the LA Podfest, Howard and Kulap are joined by actress Natalie Morales for a chart fiesta. We hear about Natalie’s multiplicity of instrumental talents while they count down the Top 5 Songs on Billboard Hot 100. Then they dive into the Movie Chart, where they debate the best speed to watch a comedy and sample a selection of tasty spices. Finally, Howard has his Top 5 Questions for the audience before performing a song live for the crowd.

On the 100th episode of OMFG!, prolific podcaster, mother, and grown woman Elizabeth Laime of Totally Mommy, Totally Married, and Totally Laime fame joins Deanna & Emily to offer sage advice on how to deal with little monsters in this digital age.

Live from the LA Podfest 2016, actor and comedian Rob Huebel joins Jensen and Matty to talk about sensory deprivation tanks, acting in Transparent, The Descendants, and the new Baywatch movie, Ian Karmel’s new podcast “All Fantasy Everything,” Lady Dynamite, and many more things you should know about.

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Sean and Hayes make a major politics announcement. Then JEN D’ANGELO of MTV’s Loosely Exactly Nicole makes the scene for a nice return to the traditional episodes that the boys used to do before.

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This week’s caller is a linguist who teaches Geth all about the “corpora.” In case that’s too nerdy for you, hang around for the story about a first date that was captured on a Coast Guard thermal camera. And if you’re still not satisfied, we’ll take you shopping at the Face Depot.

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Join Kevin and company live from LA Podfest as he sits down with actor David Harbour (Stranger Things, Quantum of Solace). They chat inside out about the Upside Down, but mostly about Sheriff Hopper’s hat.

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Comedian Kurt Braunohler makes his return on this week’s episode of Sklarbro County. He dishes on breaking into the scene from a background in non-traditional comedy and tells of his cross-country jet-ski trip before the Sklars get into some stories. Daniel Van Kirk shares tales of a man with eyeballs in his anus, a wedding between a 17 year old and a 71 year old, and a Tennessee habachi chef whose service went a bit too far. Finally, the Bros listen to a voicemail from the great beyond, in which Doug Buffone takes listener calls in heaven.

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Vampires, a connection to Terminator 2 and Incubus weighs in on their contribution to the Stealth soundtrack (sort of) all on today’s minisode! Plus, Corrections and Omissions for Stealth and what movie you’ll need to see next. Send your own voicemail explanation hopes for Paul to answer by calling 619-PAUL ASK.

Come see us at the Now Hear This podcast festival: nowhearthisfest.com

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Where to Find Jason, June & Paul:

Paul, Jason and June appear in a new animated pilot BAD GUYS on Adult Swim watch and vote here http://adultswim.com/misc/pilots/

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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Anthony Ramos has Hamilton in his bones. He’s performed the show on Broadway hundreds of times in his dual role as John Laurens and Philip Hamilton— but he still gets pumped when “Wait for It” comes on. Before being cast in Hamilton, Anthony was waiting for it, too. He describes what it was like to go from working in a bakery to performing at the White House. Plus, he tells Travon about learning by example from Leslie Odom Jr. and (not) watching his boss kiss his girlfriend onstage.

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We all know Rome wasn’t built in a day. But in the fake Hollywood adaptation, “Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day,” it’s probably built over the course of a short montage set to peppy music, where it feels like it’s built in 20 minutes.

That’s one of the subtle lies movies and TV imprint on our minds- that monumental things can be achieved in relatively short periods of time or with relatively little effort. Doc Brown hits his head and comes up with the idea for a time machine, and the hardest part is sourcing plutonium from a crew of gullible Libyan terrorists. This myth of invention affects how we look at history too. In our minds, Thomas Edison is a guy who just pulled the idea for the light bulb out of thin air (or from about 3 inches above his head, right after he thought of it), but he’s just the guy who happened to invent the best one.

These recurring myths are what we’re talking about today. Jack O’Brien is joined by Cracked’s Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) and Alex Schmidt to talk about this invention myth, why we mistakenly think the President controls the economy, how we assume that there are real-life criminals like movie criminals and why a bomb with a timer on it is the stupidest idea in the world.

Also, make sure to come see our THREE live shows this October!

First, at 9pm on Thursday, October 6th at the UCB Sunset Inner Sanctum, Jack O’Brien and Daniel O’Brien take a behind-the-scenes look at America’s most underappreciated profession: teachers. Along with the cast of TruTV’s ‘Those Who Can’t’ and some real-life teachers who would like to remain anonymous, they’ll take a look at the secret and alcohol-fueled lives of the people who we entrust to mold the minds of our nation’s youth. Tickets are FREE, but it’s first come, first serve, so make sure to arrive early. More info is available here: https://goo.gl/XcGndb

Next, at 7pm on Saturday, October 8th at the UCB Sunset Theatre, Jack O’Brien and Nick Mundy co-host a sequel to last year’s Halloween episode. Cracked’s Tom Reimann and comedians Eric Lampaert, Anna Seregina and Ryan Singer guest to share more real-life stories of death, disappearance and potentially the great beyond. Tickets are $5 and available here: https://goo.gl/wTyocv

Finally, you can see us on Saturday, October 29th at the Now Hear This podcast festival in Anaheim, California. The time is still TBA, but we’re on an amazing lineup with other podcasts like WTF with Marc Maron, Doug Loves Movies, I Was There Too and Superego. Tickets and information available here: https://goo.gl/R8gzMX

Footnotes:

Cracked: 4 Recurring Myths We Apparently Really Want to Believe: https://goo.gl/arDKS

The Atlantic: The President of the United States Does Not Control the Economy: https://goo.gl/iVdi4l

FiveThirtyEight: A President’s Economic Decisions Matter…Eventually: https://goo.gl/6xtZB7

Slate: Do Freelance Assassins Really Exist?: https://goo.gl/tT50OV

NYT: Profile of notorious art thief Stephane Breitwiesser: https://goo.gl/IK9t4Y

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Paul F. Tompkins welcomes all back to Spontaneanation, recorded in front of a LIVE audience at Outside Lands in San Francisco! This week, Paul’s special guest is Fred Armisen of Portlandia and Saturday Night Live! They chat about whether a cheeseburger is a part of the sandwich family, discovering that Alzheimer’s didn’t mean “old timers,” and the true meaning of the Madonna song “Like A Prayer.” Paul is then joined by Craig Cackowski, Tawny Newsome, and Little Janet Varney, to improvise a story set in Madrid. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!

Go to paulftompkins.com/live to get tickets for live performances of Spontaneanation October 1st at Lago and October 30th at The Now Hear This Festival in Anaheim!

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Checking in with the evil alternate Foon, where Arnie is evil, Chunt is evil and Usidore is evil.

Credits
Carnival Wilson/Arnie, a real person and totally not a robot at all: Arnie Niekamp
Wendigo Wilson: Adal Rifai
Usidore the Black: Matt Young
Tannakin the Terrible: Sarah Fineout
Evil Bungaree Chubbins: Tom Gotlieb
Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen
Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi

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

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Aya Cash and Kether Donohue of FXX’s You’re the Worst are part of the CBB First-Timers Club! Aya, Kether, Scott, and this week’s co-host Bone Queef chat about their real names sounding fake, why Bing should replace Google as the go to search engine, and the new season of You’re the Worst. Later, a new guest by the name of Daniel arrives to talk about a previous time they’ve met Scott and their interest in getting into VR.

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Writer and Trekkie Dave Schilling joins Devin and Amy this week to discuss the iconic 1982 film “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.” They cover how director Nicholas Meyer’s detachment from the series affected the final product, the influence Star Wars had on the run of the series, and why the viewer shouldn’t invest too much in the craft of the film. Then, Dave explains specifically what it is about Star Trek that he holds dear, the gang debates whether Spock’s character is underutilized, and sparks fly as Amy airs her grievances with certain elements of the film. Should “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” boldy go into the Canon? Cast your vote on the Earwolf forums!

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Ronna & Beverly are back in the Earwolf studio in Los Angeles to go through listener comments as well as offer advice on staying fit & healthy, making new friends, where is a good place to raise the child of a Thai prostitute, and more.

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