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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.

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!

Dialing it up with Steve Dahl.

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!

HitFix’s Drew McWeeny joins Paul & Jason to discuss the less charming and more preachy Willy Wonka aka Robin Williams in Toys. It takes a special kind of movie with a strange choice of casting, tone, and plot for us to truly ask “how did this get made?” And this movie delivers. We get into everything from LL Cool J’s interrogation scene to the big reveal of Joan Cusack’s character. Oh yeah, we didn’t forget about the sea monster.

The Shrimps take on the The Shecago Bulls at pan North Weddington Gymnasium and Fun Palace. Matt Gourley and Mark McConville call the action. The Shrimps on Twitter: @pistolshrimpsbb The Shrimps on Instagram: @thepistolshrimps Pistol Shrimps Radio on Twitter: @shrimpsradio Pistol Shrimps Radio on Instagram: @pistolshrimpsradio Matt Gourley on Twitter and IG: @mattgourley Mark McConville on Twitter and Instagram: @markmcconville

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.

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.

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.

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.

Just in time for Halloween, the next HDTGM movie will be a gym horror classic. This week Paul goes through Corrections and Omissions for Perfect, explains whether Nic Cage would make Perfect better, and recommends two great things you need in your life during Paul's Pick of the Week. Plus, Paul shares his Star Wars: The Force Awakens theory as he answers your Qs! People of the internet: The League is back on FXX 10pm on Wednesdays! A while ago, Paul and Rob Huebel did a comedy special on a 60 foot glass bus that traveled around LA and 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 Sleeping With Other People in a theater near you! The Hotwives (Casey Wilson, Danielle Schneider, Andrea Savage, Dannah Phirman, Tymberlee Hill, Angela Kinsey, Erinn Hayes) are back and this time they are in Vegas baby! Watch The Hotwives of Las Vegas on Hulu today! Also, check out June in Grace and Frankie available on Netflix, Paul in Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp on Netflix, all the episodes of NTSF:SD:SUV:: on HULU for free, ScheeRL on YouTube here: , and Jason in The Dictator (he’s still in it!).

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!

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.

One of our favorite guests, Todd Glass of The Todd Glass Show is back to join Scott and intern Gino Lambardo on today's Comedy Bang! Bang! They'll chat about party rules, the perfect ice-cream/Pop-Tart snack, and why drummers make everything better. Later, the guys get political as they talk to an undecided voter by the name of LaMary. Who will they vote for in the upcoming election? Tune in to find out!

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

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.

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

This week's Handsome Rambler was taped on Election Night! While checking in on the results, Hannibal and Tony celebrate the Cubs' win, ask just what the TSA is scribbling on boarding passes, deliberate whether it's better to DJ drunk or high, and tell the story of the party bus they rented in DC.

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.

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.

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.

Fellow twin comedy duo Kenny and Keith Lucas (Lucas Bros. Moving Co.) join Randy and Jason for this week's Sklarbro Country. They talk Justin Verlander's Cy Young Award snub before sharing experiences finding footing in the twin comedy game. During Quick Hits, we hear about Cliff Harris' terrifying mugshot (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3936826/Mugshot-troubled-ex-Oregon-football-star-Cliff-Harris-arrested-drugs-theft.html) and Harvard's misogynistic soccer team before the Sklars call up Dennis Rodman to hear why he's moving to North Korea.

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.

Legendary comedian/writer/actor Michael Showalter of The State, Wet Hot American Summer and the new TBS series Search Party joins Scott to chat about the great sketch shows of the 90s, the mystery in the new TBS series Search Party, and tips for becoming successful. Then, seismologist Dr. Brian Blouse stops by to tell us what everyone should have in their earthquake preparedness kit. Finally, crime scene expert Mark arrives to let us into his interesting world.