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Filmmaker John Chu joins Josh this week to discuss his latest film Now You See Me 2, what he learned from Jem and the Holograms, and much more.

Amanda Meadows and Robbin Higgins, co-authors of the book We Don't Think You're Racist join Andrew all this week to answer some racism questions. Today they discuss naming your white child "Ebony." Be sure to call us at (323) 389-RACE to ask if anything is racist.

We all need some cheering up in these dark times. Hopefully this dancer can do it. CREDITS: Arnie: Arnie Niekamp Chunt: Adal Rifai Usidore: Matt Young Josh Swollensword: Lawrence Collerd Krom the Fingarian: Mark Logsdon Otok Barleyfoot: Nick Baer Flower: Brooke Breit 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 Audio Assistance: Jason Knox Production Assistant: Garrett Schultz

Tom Scharpling of The Best Show joins Paul, June, and Jason to discuss the 1998 action spy film The Avengers. Recorded LIVE from the 2016 Vulture Festival in New York City, they discuss Sean Connery's "evil" plan, Uma Thurman's clone "2ma Thurman", and the bear costumes. Plus, we hear the very first 4th Opinion in the history of the show! Don’t forget to check out Blake Harris’ Oral History of The Avengers over at www.slashfilm.com! Get yourself a BB-8 “What Is Its Mission?” T-shirt or Tote Bag over at http://howdidthisgetmade.bigcartel.com/ Set your DVRs for Party Over Here, a new FOX sketch comedy show from The Lonely Island and Paul starring Nicole Byer, Jessica McKenna, and Alison Rich. It airs Saturdays at 11 pm. People of the internet: Watch Paul in Fresh off the Boat on ABC. Awhile ago, Paul and Rob Huebel did a comedy special on a 60 foot glass bus that traveled around LA. Now you’ll be able to see it. Go to https://itun.es/us/3M4J9 now to buy it! You can also see Jason in Transparent on Amazon! Also, check out June in Grace and Frankie available on Netflix, and in all the episodes of NTSF:SD:SUV:: on HULU for free, and Jason in The Dictator (he’s still in it!).

New Zealand actor Rhys Darby of Flight of the Conchords and Wrecked visits the calming shores of Sklarbro Country! Rhys, Randy, and Jason talk about What We Do in the Shadows, the evolution of Flight of the Conchords, playing Psycho Sam in the New Zealand film Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and Netflix's Voltron: Legendary Defender. Then, 13-year old Jairam Hathwar and 11-year old Nihar Janga join Randy to chat about the road to becoming the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee co-champions. Finally, the Sklars call up Dick Vitale to ask about his recent tennis challenge against Roger Federer.

The co-creator and co-stars of the new Netflix original series LOVE, Paul Rust and Gillian Jacobs return on this week's Comedy Bang! Bang! They'll talk all about their new show in full detail (including how many butts we will see), Gillian shares what was appealing about her role as an actress, and Paul brings some fresh New No-Nos. Then, composer and lyricist Alan Thicke of Growing Pains arrives to write a theme song for Paul and Gillian's show LOVE.

In 2001, Wet Hot American Summer came out and the world was never the same. Now a new series by the name of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp is coming to Netflix and director and co-creator David Wain has brought Rich Sommer, Molly Shannon, and Marguerite Moreau aka the Wet Hot Crew/Club to celebrate! We’ll get some hot ‘sclusies, a possibly canon appearance from Harry Crane, and hear sounds of the first Wet Hot baby during a game of Would You Rather!

Intern Gino Lambardo tags along with Scott for a LIVE Comedy Bang! Bang! recorded at Esther's Follies in Austin, Texas as part of South by Southwest 2016! Ben Schwartz aka The Elegant Mr. S stops by to chat about the greatest deleted scenes in film, the perfect improv suggestion, and math. Then, one of the greatest film actors of our generation, Sylvester Stallone arrives to talk about Creed, what role he would like to portray in an upcoming Star Wars film, and being the originator of Heynong Man. Later, Underworld franchise director Len Wiseman joins in the festivities to screen test Ben with the help of Scott & Gino for his latest vampire film.

Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, and Martin Starr of HBO's Silicon Valley are back to give us the inside scoop of what we can look forward to in the 3rd season of their show on this week's Comedy Bang! Bang! They'll also take some calls from around the world, talk about Kumail's amazing experience on the set of The X-Files, and tell us about their "Rude Boys" scooter crew. Later, aspiring stand-up comedian Turd Dunkweed arrives to talk about the night Kumail discovered him while performing his act at an open mic at Meltdown Comics.

Mookie Blaiklock, Fran Gillespie, Joe Hartzler, and Ryan Rosenberg quickly learn that there’s something odd about Happyville, help each other go to the bathroom the correct way, and dine at a restaurant that specializes in placentas on today’s improv5humans with Matt Besser! Plus, we hear how difficult it is to cancel a subscription service in another edition of What’s Bothering You. Make sure to get the UCB Comedy Improv Manual at http://ucbstore.com/books/the-upright-citizens-brigade-comedy-improvisation-manual, Matt Besser’s new comedy album at mattbesser.com, and Dragoon’s new album at dragoongalaxy.bandcamp.com! Humans of San Francisco, there will be a LIVE improv4humans on Sunday, February 9th as part of SF Sketchfest. Go to www.sfsketchfest.com for tickets.

Your best friend Bob Holt (Big Dipper) welcomes you back to I Truly Complimean It: The Compliment Hour! This week, YouTube sensation Kipper Fields joins Bob to talk about how she feels knowing that she's never received one positive comment on her positive uplifting videos. Later, Traci Reardon arrives to help her Twitter followers with complimentary and positive advice on getting rid of bullies and much more in another edition of "Help Me, Rhonda."

HULKAMNIA is back brother! Recorded LIVE at Largo in Los Angeles, Rob Corddry joins Paul, June, & Jason to talk about how Mr. Nanny has changed his mind on enjoying movies all together. They’ll discuss the casual dog throw into the ocean at the very beginning, Terry “Hulk” Hogan fingering a pie, Buster Poindexter as the villain, and the pit of blood. Plus, Rob shares his daughter’s commentary of the movie and everyone asks themselves what really happened at the end of this movie.

Dapper stand-up comedian Troy Walker joins Ronna & Beverly to chat about being a lawyer in the state of Colorado, the Casa Bonita experience, and his plans to rule Hollywood. Plus, Beverly tells us about her recent trip to New York in which she saw Waitress: The Musical.

Nate's brother Rob Corddry reads Ken Kesey's story about the death of his son which leads into Nate's conversation with this week's guest Timothy Simons of HBO's Veep. Tim and Nate chat about the inevitable Grateful Dead phase, reading Stephen King books in 7th grade, and the ins & outs of Veep. Then, Tim reads an outrageously hilarious piece by Maura Quint entitled "How To Negotiate A Raise (If You're A Woman)." Pick up a copy of next month’s book, “Geek Love” by Katherine Dunn! Once you’re done reading, call us at (702) 751-READ and let us know what you thought!

Elizabeth Alexander speaks from the heart. An accomplished author and playwright, she delivered her poem, Praise Song for the Day, to an audience of millions at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Alexander, a professor of African-American Studies at Yale, speaks with David about how everyone can learn to appreciate poetry, how students on campuses are fighting a necessary fight for a more accurate depiction of history, and how poetry helped her know she was still alive after the death of her husband.

Andrew Ti and special guest Hollis Wong-Wear finish the week off by discussing the term "Grammar Nazi." As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

Paul F. Tompkins welcomes you and yours, including families, back to Spontaneanation! This week Paul’s special guest is singer-songwriter Aimee Mann! They chat about the thing Aimee desires that she is most ashamed of desiring, accepting that other people have opinions of their own, and Aimee’s response to a therapist telling her to talk to her younger self. Paul is then joined by his pals from his show No, You Shut Up!, improvisers Ted Michaels, Michael Oosterom, and Colleen Smith, to improvise a story set at the Underwear Department at Macy’s. As always, the glorious Eban Schletter scores it all on piano!

Fan fave Jessica Chaffin returns to the nook to co-host with Danielle, along with Real Housewives super sleuth Vanessa Reisen (Weeds, Californication) to discuss how dry cleaners are more important than surgeons and why Ramona's breasts are (in her words) better than a twenty-five years old's. Danielle also hesitantly joined Linkedin to find out more about Louanne's ex Rey and Jessica and Vanessa visited make-up artist to the stars Scott Barnes to get Erica Jayne make-overs.

Hollis Wong-Wear joins Andrew to talk about t-shirts that interchange the word ninja for the n-word. Make sure to leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

Do you think you have what it takes to successfully make it through an interview with Stephen or James? Would either one of them hire the other? Today, our hosts bring back a topic from over 100 episodes ago - episode 27 to be precise - asking each other more "impossible" interview questions, and dissecting the intellectual processes they use to reach their conclusions.

Parenthood's Joy Bryant joins Kevin and Kamau to talk about her experience working on Antwone Fisher which includes her uncontrollably laughing the first time she met Denzel. Plus, Joy tells us about her Bronx roots, falling into acting after modeling, and her Top 5 Denzel Films.

Summah has arrived! Film actress Brittany Ishibashi joins Howard & Kulap to talk about playing the villain in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the Summah controversy, and having history with Kulap on The Office. We'll hear of summah secrets, Turtle action figures, and Netflix gems during the Top 5 Pop Songs on iTunes Music Chart and the Movie Chart. Later, Howard shares how Summah has been jacked during Two Charted!

Comedian Jon Gabrus loves science. It’s awesome. Mind-blowing. It’s also kind of difficult to understand. In this series, Gabrus goes to the experts - doctors exploring the frontiers of the mind, outer space, and more; and asks them to break it down in terms we can all understand. In Episode 1, Keith Luhrs and Lauren Billings Luhrs are a husband-and-wife science team. But the science doesn’t stay at the lab. Lauren has used that same discipline to become a bestselling romance author, Keith has applied it to his incredible home brewing operation, and they both have applied it to raising their children. In this funny and freewheeling conversation, our host explores whether this same method can make his creative life more disciplined and productive, too!

Sean and Hayes talk about what projects they worked on over the show's four-week hiatus. They pick apart some unfair criticism of one of the Big Brother housemates and recap the rivalries on this season of MTV's The Challenge. Then Survivor winner JOHN COCHRAN pops in to talk about his fairly earned sitcom gig and island pooping.

Traveling troubadour of comedy Dana Gould returns to join Leonard to talk about one of his favorite spooky comedies, Don Knotts in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, and a much more serious chiller, Val Lewton’s 1943 horror classic I Walked with a Zombie. Dana also gives us a sneak preview of his upcoming horror-comedy TV series Stan Against Evil.