Actress Maria Thayer and comedian David Huntsberger join the Sklars for a special episode of Sklarbro County. They discuss Maria’s experience co-starring in the show “Those Who Can’t” and where a suspiciously delicious pizza from a kids’ restaurant was made. David fills in for Daniel Van Kirk with a crazy story about a drunken father who urinated in the aisle during his flight. They also talk about finding their voices as comedians and actors. Later, Dick Vitale stops by and predicts who will be this year’s NCAA men’s basketball champions.

Comedian Langston Kerman and Andrew talk about teenagers acting out on a subway. Make sure to leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

Paul Rust of LOVE on Netflix joins Devin & Amy this week to nominate the Alexander Payne 1999 film Election into The Canon! The movie stars Matthew Broderick as Jim McAllister, a popular high school social studies teacher in suburban Omaha, Nebraska, and Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick, around the time of the school’s student body election. When Tracy qualifies to run for class president, McAllister believes she does not deserve the title and tries his best to stop her from winning. Tune in to hear why Pau l believes this film should be in the canon — and head to the forums on Wolfpop to cast the deciding vote!

The Oscar award nominated actress Jennifer Jason Leigh joins Josh this week to talk about her great assortment of roles in her tremendous career from Fast Times at Ridgemont High to The Hateful Eight and everything in-between.

Stand up comedian, actor, and writer Langston Kerman joins Andrew all this week to answer some racism questions. Today they discuss Beyonce’s “I Twirl On Them Haters” sweater. Be sure to call us at (323) 389-RACE to ask if anything is racist.

Our old friend Adam Scott of Farts and Procreation and U Talkin’ U2 To Me? reunites with Scott on this week’s Comedy Bang! Bang! Adam Scott Aukerman catch up and talk about actors being truth tellers, beards, and the one thing Adam is most proud of in his life. Then, entrepreneur Randy Snutz arrives to seek help on settling a beef with the creators of The Lake House. Plus, special podcast guest Tebow Lebow, King of Euro Trash stops by to discuss his new podcast which will exclusively be about his luxurious life.

Three times a week, Stephen Dubner and James Altucher ask and (attempt to) answer the ‘Question of the Day’. Topics have included “Does Marketing Pay Off?”, “Can Money Really Buy Happiness?”, and “Why Work a Nine-To-Six Job?”.

In January, the guys stepped out of the recording booth and onto the stage to hold a 90-minute live event at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY. Listeners submitted questions for the event through social media, and special guest comedian/moderator Negin Farsad attempted to keep our hosts in line and on topic.

Also, fulfilling a dare from months earlier on the podcast, Stephen and James each made their first attempts at live stand-up comedy!

Enjoy the full, uncensored version of the ‘Question of the Day Live!’ event, then subscribe to the podcast on iTunes to hear the regular show everyTuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Paul F. Tompkins sends a special welcome to you (and only you) to this magical place called SPONTANEANATION! This week, Paul’s special guest is Judy Greer of Married, Archer, and Arrested Development! They chat about New Year’s resolutions, who’s at fault in most of Judy’s car accidents, and eating in nail spas. Paul is then joined by Jessica Chaffin, Mark McConville and Annie Savage to improvise a story set in a Laundromat. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano! 

There’s no live Spontaneanation at Largo next month, but you can still see Paul there on Saturday March 5th, along with Matt Gourley, Jeremy Carter and Mark McConville as they celebrate the Superego Podcast’s 10th Anniversary! Join the good doctors as they welcome special guests (friends old and new to a very special live performance. The early show’s already sold out, but you can still get tickets to the late show!  http://bit.ly/SE10Late

Sorry, the Oscars, but you’re old, out of touch and boring. We can see through your failed attempts to reach a new generation: the Anne Hathaway/James Franco catastrophe, the phony (get it?) Ellen DeGeneres selfie stunt that was totally unscripted and Samsung definitely didn’t pay the Oscars $20 million in advance for. Just stop it already. Take a few years off.

In the meantime, we at Cracked have come up with a bunch of new categories that you’re totally free to steal, such as Best Title, Best Running Time, Best Accent and Best Oscar-Bait That Didn’t Get Any Nominations Other Than This One.

Recorded live at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles, a tuxedoed Jack O’Brien is joined by Cracked’s Dan O’Brien and Alex Schmidt, author Liana Maeby, and actor Stanley Wong of ‘The Big Short’ to brainstorm new categories, solve the Oscar’s race problem, and fix just about everything in time forSunday’s awards.

The Book Club is once again upon us. This time Nate welcomes Dr. Peter Becker who has received his Ph.D. from Harvard’s American Studies Program (History of American Civilization) and holds degrees from Harvard (M.A., English) and Hamburg University (History, Latin, Education) to give a little background on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Then, Engineer Sam Kieffer joins Nate in the studio to get real deep into this great American novel. Make sure to get a head start for the next book club by grabbing A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and send in your thoughts on the book at readingaloudpodcast@gmail.com.

Legendary professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page joins Randy and Jason on Sklarbro Country’s Wrestling Week. Diamond describes the captivating and intricate history of a professional wrestler and how he helped inspire other wrestlers. He also discusses how his own modified yoga, called DDP yoga, improved his body after years of a physically demanding career. Later, the Sklars call Johnny Depp to ask how he gets into character.

From the creator of the YouTube web series The Mis-adventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae debuts a 10-part audio drama titled “FRUIT” exclusively for Howl. Listen as a professional football player named X, recounts his journey of self-discovery and sexual exploration both on and off the field. FRUIT chronicles X’s relationship with his friends, teammates and family as they impose their own perceptions of his role in an alpha-male dominated industry of professional sports. 

In Episode 3, After much hesitation about which direction to take, X decides to finally make a move.

To hear the rest of the story, told week-by-week, sign up for Howl Premium today. Use the promo code FRUIT at Howl.fm, and get your first month free.

Recorded LIVE from the 2016 RIOT LA Festival is The Room Podcast with your hosts Jennifer (Mary Holland), Camellia (Erin Whitehead), and Girl (Stephanie Allynne). Over time they have grown to know each other as they have been captured and kept in a room. Today they meet a new person in the room by the name of Pill and talk about what has been going on in the outside world, the most devastating secret in their life, and how they each got captured. Will they be able to find a way to escape? Tune in to find out!

Photo by Andy Keilen (@keilenphotography on Instagram)

Andrew Ti and special guest Demi Adejuyigbe finish the week off by discussing Black History Month. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

Larry Birdman is in town for a meeting to have a meeting to form a panel to change some Mittens rules and he stops by the podcast to discuss the Mittens Super Calvalcade Part 1.

Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp
Chunt: Adal Rifai
Usidore: Matt Young
Larry Birdman: Rush Howell
Blemish: Martin Wilson
Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen
Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Evan Jacover, Ryan DiGiorgi
Editor: Evan Jacover
Theme Music: Andy Poland
Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Sponsored by: Emporium via The Chicago Podcast Cooperative

Special guest Dr. Melissa Hudson Bell joins her husband Kamau and Kevin this week to talk about “The Sound of Silence,” the Denzel Washington directed episode of Grey’s Anatomy. They’ll also share stories of Kevin’s dating life and Melissa’s Top 5 Denzel Movies.

Comedian Beth Stelling joins Susan and Sarah to speak candidly about the aftermath of an abusive relationship, Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek,” The Wrestler, and W. H. Auden’s poem, “Funeral Blues.”

On this week’s episode of The Black List Table Reads, Franklin chats with Kristina Lauren Anderson, screenwriter of Forever Jiayang, 1937 and the No. 1 script on the 2014 Black List, Catherine the Great. They’ll discuss Kristina’s transition from quiet theater kid to writer, the importance of research, and how did Catherine happen. Then, Franklin chats with Isaac Adamson, screenwriter of the No. 1 script on the 2015 Black List, Bubbles. They’ll discuss his fiction writing career, his transition into script writing, and what on Earth led him to write a biopic about Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles. LA: Join us for the first live, staged reading of 2016 featuring the 2015 Black List script REAGAN, Written and Directed by Mike Rosolio on Saturday, March 5th at 8:00pm at The Montalban Theater and starring JOHN CHO and LENA DUNHAM. Go to https://blcklst.com/ for tickets.

Paul Rust, Mookie Blaiklock and Craig Rowin join Matt Besser on improv4humans this week. They improvise about losing track of time before attending a clock expo and loyal customers who dislike a restaurant’s bizarre new staff. Also, valet drivers go out of their way to cover up locking keys in a car. Later, potential tenants pretend to be Christian to win over an extremely Christian landlord. Sign up for Seeso.com to watch Besser’s new stand-up special “Besser Breaks the Record” and “The UCB Show,” which were filmed live in UCBLA.

The bolo gets trollo’ed once again! Ben Schwartz aka The Elegant Mr. S of House of Pies reunites with Scott for a SOLO BOLO episode of Comedy Bang! Bang! They’ll talk Hamilton, sneakers, and most importantly sing their little hearts out. It’s truly a Trolo Solo Bolo for the ages!

Follow @ScottAukerman on Twitter for info on the CBB 2016 LIVE Tour!

Cleaning up with Richard Kind.

Just before The Wolf Den hits its 100th episode milestone, Adam takes a brief listen back to relive some highlights in what’s been an exciting six years in the evolution and growth of Midroll, and podcasting. Adam shares early clips from podcast innovators like Marc Maron and Chris Hardwick, along with entrepreneurs who were influential behind the scenes. We also listen in on some of the important milestones in podcasting and Midroll history, as heard on the show, and get some keen insights on podcasting from hosts like Paul Scheer, Matt Gourley, Paul F. Tompkins, Lea Thau, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. 

Stephen and James make their first attempts at live stand up comedy on today’s third and final installment from our ‘Question of the Day Live!’ event. Topics include house cats, Stephen’s failed jingle writing career, parenthood, Sean Penn, cream cheese, and much more! 

Demi Adejuyigbe and Andrew talk about a Chinese restaurant called “Takee Outee.” Make sure to leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

Join Casey, Danielle and fellow Real Housewife historian Leslie Grossman (Scandal) as they dive into awkward house-husband side-bars, another sad Eileen ensemble, and the quiet anger of Mr. Girardi. Also, Leslie reminisces fondly about classic Kim and Kyle fights and Casey and Danielle call for Vicki (RHOC) to “ándale” out of her new relationship.

Producer extraordinaire Sunny Levine joins Jensen and Matty to talk about The Trilambs, Sunny’s new album “Boss Selection,” getting up OFF David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” saying “it’s just easy,” hating on The Hobbit Trilogy, Zanerobe pants, the conversation with a stranger when your dog runs into another dog on a walk, and how we were dead wrong about Tower Defense games, growing a beard, and high voices in Pop songs.

Part Two of the Three Part Spielberg-Aganza-Palooza continues with a discussion of 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. Martin Casella once again joins Matt to talk about his experience as Steven Spielberg’s assistant on the film. Martin provides some wonderful insight on what went on behind the scenes including the origin of Marion’s famous dress, Spielberg’s must-see-TV habits, and what lead to the inception of E.T. Plus, Matt’s companion from the Superego podcast, Jeremy Carter, joins him to talk about the iconic Indiana Jones jacket and his own personal quest to find the perfect fit in a new segment called ‘I Was Wear Too.’

Lenny Abrahamson, director of the critically acclaimed Room, which earned Brie Larson an Oscar nomination, joins Leonard, Baron, and Jessie to talk about the letter he wrote to persuade novelist Emma Donoghue to adapt it for the screen, his love of Laurel & Hardy, and one of his favorite sleepers, Margaret (2011) with Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, and Mark Ruffalo.

What it’s like to be a mom with the rare job combo of both delivering babies and terminating pregnancies.

To join the conversation about this episode, go to longestshortesttime.com!

Today, in our second ‘Question of the Day Live!’ podcast, moderator Negin Farsad asks Stephen and James about the best ways to make friends as an adult, what fads they’d like to see return, and what ceremonial rites of passage should be eliminated. Then, we hear how our hosts held up to Negin’s rapid-fire ‘lightning round’ questions.