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Welcome back to My Boyfriend Broke Up With Me with your hosts Kellyanne and Tracy (Danielle Schneider, Casey Wilson)! It’s another rough week for your hosts as they discuss how their recent break ups. They are joined by special guest and dear friend Veronica Taylor who shares her breakup story which involves friends hiding in bushes to take photos and jail time. Plus, Traci Reardon stops by to offer her Twitter followers advice on how to move on from a breakup and getting out of a bad relationship in another edition of “Help Me, Rhonda.”

Scott Blakeman (Laughing Liberally) and Kaitlin Fontana (The Box) join Negin to discuss Jared Kushner’s limp remarks on his Russia ties, the continued GOP scramble for a health care bill, and the latest White House shenanigans. Plus, they dig into the Democrats’ new populist plan: A Better Deal for American Workers.

Danielle and guest co-host/ Jennifer Aniston aficionado Matt McConkey welcome fan fave Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty, Devious Maids) back to the nook to talk the roller coaster that is Shannon, Dorinda's daughter's strange beauty and watching others take a dump. Still basking in the glory of last week's "Louann in a bush", the gang flies high til they are brought crashing down by Shannon's "monster" trainer. Also there's Peggy. Do we care? Find out on this weeks episode.

Making your way in the world today with Ken Levine.

In 1975, a plucky young director named Steven Spielberg saw his first big success with the release of Jaws, a movie about a shark eating a bunch of wealthy beachgoers in a resort town in New England. Paradoxically being the least “Spielberg” of his films while simultaneously being one of the most famous films ever made, Jaws presented a huge early challenge to the director in the form of an intensely difficult shoot due to a number of factors, not the least of which was the fact that most of the movie takes place on the open ocean and features a legendarily unreliable robotic shark. Despite its troubled production and media coverage all too ready to seize on what seemed to be shaping up to be a huge box office dud, Jaws went on to become the biggest movie of all time, creating the “summer blockbuster” genre and forever changing the kinds of films Hollywood bets big on to this day. In this week’s episode, Tom and Abe are joined by comedian Brandie Posey as they discuss the grueling nightmare that was the production of Jaws, a series of calamities that almost derailed Spielberg’s career before it even began. Along the way, they discuss how the shark was basically an underwater RC car (only a fraction as reliable), how the Director of Photography had to invent a brand new piece of technology just to film this cursed picture, and whether a shark from New England would sound like Casey Affleck or Peter Griffin.

Actress and comedian Lauren Lapkus (With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus) joins Jensen and Matty to talk about home movies, being Emmy nominated for The Earliest Show, Hannah Williams & The Affirmations, Mormon Mommy Blogs, how we were late on Missing Richard Simmons, and many more things you should know about.

Actor Jean Elie (HBO’s Insecure) joins Andrew to discuss using “panda” and “monkey” as nicknames, Girls Trip smashing the box office, and much more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

On this week's episode of HARD NATION, odd couple Jared Kushner (Adam Lustick) and Tim Allen (Billy Scafuri) join the brothers for a wild conversation about "Devil's Dust", coconut balls, and dinosaurs. Plus, an in-depth look at Kushner's "teen mustache"!

Paul F. Tompkins welcomes everyone as he finishes up some yard work to Spontaneanation! This week, Paul’s special guest and SOLE improvisor is Spontaneanation’s good friend Marc Evan Jackson! They chat about who was Marc’s best friend as a child and what they would do together, recognizing his old building while watching Batman v Superman, and getting disappointed in the car. They then improvise a story set at A Gas Station Only Stopped at During Road Trips. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano! Want to submit a location for our improv? Follow @Spontaneanation on Twitter! We’ll ask for locations before we record, and once we do you’ll have five minutes to submit your suggestion! One suggestion per recording, thanks!

Comedic actor Ian Gomez (Cougar Town, The Drew Carey Show) chats about touring Second City with Colbert, Farley, and Amy Sedaris, as well as tales from film sets with adorable Lindsay Lohan and sweet Ron Howard.

What college major could possibly involve writing an academic paper comparing the 1968 film “The Parent Trap” with the 1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan? It could only be Gethard’s major, American Studies! This week’s caller chats about what it’s like to be an American Studies major during the Trump era and Chris shows off his talent for generating a good thesis.

TV personality, comedian and game show host Tom Bergeron drops by the studio to share his thoughts on a variety of topics, including the unpredictability of live television, the genius of Marcel Marceau, the benefits of transcendental meditation and the rise and fall of the Jerry Lewis Telethon. Also, Tom interviews Moe Howard (and Larry Fine), Sid Caesar speaks German, Bob Hope moves down the couch and Mel Brooks mimics Bill Cullen. PLUS: Bob the Puppet! The Lawrence Welk singers! Arnold Schwarzenegger "brings funny!" Henry Winkler pulls a fast one! And Tom and Gilbert remember John Ritter!

Momo the mouse is back with important messages about defeating the Dark Lord. Credits Arnie: Arnie Niekamp Chunt: Adal Rifai Usidore: Matt Young Momo the Mouse: Erin Keif 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

If sci-fi movies have taught you one thing about species with queen-based social hierarchies, it's that you should always kill the queen. Same goes for insects right? Kill the queen and the ant hill or bee's nest goes away. Sounds good, unless you're dealing with Argentine ants, who have about 300 queens for every 1,000 worker ants. How do you kill them? You don't. Where do they live? Probably Argentina, right? Wrong, they've taken over just about every continent other than Antarctica. So good luck with your new insect overlords. On this week's podcast, Alex Schmidt is joined by Cracked's Katie Goldin and Daniel O'Brien, as well as comedians Joey Clift, Caitlin Gill and Matt Kirshen to discuss ants, crows, cats, immortal jellyfish and 7 other species whose crazy abilities will allow them to take over the world once us humans are gone. East Coast! The Cracked Podcast is coming to you! The Cracked Podcast will be a part of the Now Hear This podcast festival in New York, taking place September 8th-10th. For $20 off your ticket, head to NowHearThisFest.com and enter code 'CRACKED' at checkout. West Coast! Pack an extra life, some elixirs and a poke ball. The next live Cracked Podcast is Saturday, August 12th at 7pm at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles. Alex Schmidt asks Michael Swaim, Adam Ganser, Monika Scott, Mike Drucker and Brodie Reed, "what is the best video game universe to live in?" Tickets are $7 and available here: https://goo.gl/WCKg8f Guys. Gals. Aliens. Did you miss the premiere of Cracked's newest podcast, Cracked Movie Club? Don't worry. There's plenty of time to catch up. Hosts Tom Reimann and Abe Epperson feature a new director each month as they do a deep into four of the director's films with jokes, insane behind-the-scene stories and crazy fan theories. And July is devoted to none other than Steven Spielberg. Listen to their episode about Raiders of the Lost Ark here: https://goo.gl/ygBfW1 Listen to their episode about Jurassic Park here: https://goo.gl/FK9gV4 Listen to their episode about E.T. here: https://goo.gl/aQmqzD And to hear the newest episode each and every Thursday, search for Cracked Movie Club in your podcast app of choice or click here to find it on Apple Podcasts: https://goo.gl/fQ2o72 Footnotes: Caitlin Gill on Twitter: https://goo.gl/HblhwS Katie Goldin on Twitter: https://goo.gl/GBnSWq Matt Kirshen on Twitter: https://goo.gl/TC2tML Joey Clift on Twitter: https://goo.gl/oXXSBe Daniel O'Brien on Twitter: https://goo.gl/oQWtkY Article: The Atlantic: These Dolphins Are Using Sea Sponges As Tools: https://goo.gl/Gic9E1 Article: Wired: Clever Dolphins Use Shells To Catch Fish: https://goo.gl/CBu32Q Article: BBC: The Dolphins That Kill Each Other's Young: https://goo.gl/GwKnDG Article: BBC News: Ant Mega-Colony Takes Over World: https://goo.gl/JETzX Article: Cracked: 6 Animals That Kill Nature's Scariest Creatures For Fun: https://goo.gl/EPu58 Article: Cracked: 5 Animals That Could Take Over The World (If They Wanted To): https://goo.gl/xq0W1 Article: Cracked: 5 Animals Who Taught Themselves Eerily Human Skills: https://goo.gl/3R3zxb Article: Cracked: The 6 Most Horrifying Abilities Animals Are Evolving: https://goo.gl/pZUW48 Article: Cracked: 29 Animals You Didn't Realize Were Evil Geniuses: https://goo.gl/E49yS9 Article: Cracked: 5 Super-Adorable Animals That Can Kill The Hell Out Of You: https://goo.gl/wr0MWL Video: Raccoon Tries To Eat Cotton Candy: https://goo.gl/yULLCR Website: Daptone Records: https://goo.gl/Vn5rbB

Join Samantha Jones (Erin Whitehead), Miranda Hobbes (Stephanie Alynne), Charlotte York (Mary Holland), and Carrie Bradshaw (Lauren Lapkus) as they reunite at their favorite brunch house in another episode of Sex and the City. They’ll catch up on their relationships, take a Pop Quiz as they recollect their past adventures, and decide on their new careers. Plus, Traci Reardon stops by to offer sex life advice in another edition of “Help Me, Rhonda.”

Calling in from a tattoo parlor, this week’s caller is getting inked up to commemorate a grim experience. Some wild tattoo stories are told as the phone gets passed around. Secret family drama gets dissected: an estranged brother, internet stalking, rumors of the mafia.

Paul F. Tompkins keeps his cool on this week’s Spontaneanation! This week, Paul’s special return guest is Scott Aukerman of Comedy Bang! Bang! They chat about something Scott’s hometown is known for, students mostly being interested in the famous people Scott knows when he goes to talk about his profession at schools, and the public access talk show he hosted when he was in high school. Paul is then joined by Jordan Black, Hal Lublin, and Jean Villepique, to improvise a story set at Karaoke Night at A Small Logging Town Tavern. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano! Want to submit a location for our improv? Follow @Spontaneanation on Twitter! We’ll ask for locations before we record, and once we do you’ll have five minutes to submit your suggestion! One suggestion per recording, thanks!

From a blood stain memorial to the truth about foxes and everything in between is covered on this week’s mini-sode! Paul goes through Corrections and Omissions for Timecop and Blake J. Harris returns to talk to Peter Hyams, director of Timecop (for the full interview go to www.slashfilm.com). Paul also goes through the mail bag and the Movie Bitches review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Plus, you’ll find out which horror film we’ll be covering next week! Check out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepublic.com/user/howdidthisgetmade Where to Find Jason, June & Paul: Paul’s new comedy Drive Share is available on Go90. Paul can be seen on Veep. 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 House, The Lego Batman Movie, How to Be Single, Sleeping with Other People, and is still indeed in The Dictator.

Stephanie Butnick (Tablet Magazine) and Azhar Usman (Ultra American) join Negin to discuss the collapse of the latest G.O.P health care bill, the upcoming tax reform battle, and how the right spins the Trump-Russia scandal. Plus, America’s infrastructure is in a state of crisis. How did we get in this mess and what can we do about it? The panel weighs the pros and cons of private financing for public works.

Naming that tune with Scott Aukerman.

Comedian, musician, and YouTube star Flula Borg joins Scott and our old friend Ming to talk about rollercoaster football, his new special Flulanthropy, and growing up in Germany. Ming also has a very special segment in which he talks about 80s video games. Plus, voice teacher Willard “Willy” Mapleton pops on by to introduce everyone to legendary Boston comedian Captain Mustache and to play a portion of his failed pilot.

Casey and Danielle are home from their whirlwind world tour (of 4 cities on the east coast) and joined by one of their closest, funniest friends Andrea Savage (I'm Sorry, Hotwives of Orlando) to discuss Luann's drunken fall...and follow-up drunker fall. They discuss the toilet in the middle of Shannon's marriage and and new cast member Peggy and her house full of cars and Bump-it's. This episode is more on fire than Ramona's burnt face!

In the early 1980s, Steven Spielberg embarked on a mission to tell the story of his parents’ divorce through the lens of a wrinkly alien puppet with skeletal crab fingers and the voice of an old lady dying of emphysema. After being rejected by one studio for being “too Disney” (the early 80s were a time when Hollywood would give a hard pass to the words “Spielberg” and “Disney”), Spielberg finally got to bring his vision to life in 1982 with E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. The story of a young boy befriended a stranded alien sack of drooping flesh went on to become the number one movie of all time (a record that was not broken until Jurassic Park hit theaters eleven years later), and E.T. became one of the most beloved children’s characters despite the fact that E.T. scares the absolute shit out of most children. In this week’s episode, Abe and Tom are joined by Cracked stand-up and podcasting guru Alex Schmidt as they discuss all the whimsy, technical know-how, and armless children that went into making E.T. an instant classic. Along the way, they discuss how E.T. almost ate fistfuls of M&Ms, how Elliott was nearly scolded at school by Principal Indiana Jones, and how E.T. is apparently a plant. Like, a house plant. From outer space.

Comedic actress and writer Annabell Gurwitch (Wherever You Go, There They Are) joins Sarah and Susan to talk about Dear Evan Hansen, Moonlight, Now and Later candy, thinking about the writer David Rakoff, and much more.

Samantha Henig, Editorial Director for Audio at the New York Times, joins Chris Bannon on The Wolf Den. The two discuss the creation and challenges of her hugely successful new daily news podcast, The Daily, as well as new opportunities for short-form daily podcasts. Samantha also explains how the Times itself defines what makes a Times podcast. Plus, managing the paper's famous editorial wall between advertising and journalism. And finally, the pros and cons of fielding podcast pitches.