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The Cracked Podcast
Facts, jokes, and more from the Internet’s leading comedy website, Cracked.com. Fill your week and your brain with hilarious, mind-blowing revelations that’ll make you the most interesting person in every room you’re in.
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How The Simpsons’ Planet of the Apes Musical Was Born | Simpsons Taught Me Everything
This episode of STME features one of the original Simpsons writers, Josh Weinstein discussing iconic Simpsons bit, "The Planet of The Apes: The Musica...
The Definitive Guide to Groundskeeper Willie with Michael Swaim
This Groundskeeper Willie video’s going to have it ALL - the length and girth of a Dan Carlin history podcast, the tightly-scripted humor of a VH1 Beh...
How One Simpsons Joke Made Bill Oakley Famous 30 years Later | Simpsons Taught Me Everything
This episode of STME features the one and only Bill Oakley, legendary Simpsons writer, co-creator of Mission Hill, and originator of the Simpsons "Ste...
14 Times Whole Towns Became Delusional Springfield-style | The Simpsons Taught Me Everything
This week on The Simpson's Taught Me Everything, Michael Swaim sits down with Robert Brockway of Cracked fame to unpack14 Times Whole Towns Became Del...
A Master of Scams and Cons Reacts to Marge vs. The Monorail (featuring Brian Brushwood) | The Simpsons Taught Me Everything
Michael Swaim brings in Brian Brushwood (Scam School/Scam Nation, Modern Rogue), a magician and his expert witness in scams, for episode three of The...
The Simpsons Reference That Unlocked Buddy Hackett's Best Joke | The Simpsons Taught Me Everything
On episode two of the Simpsons Taught Me Everything Podcast, Michael Swaim is joined by fellow comedy writer, Danielle Radford (Honest Trailers), to c...
The Sex-Crazed Con Man Who Inspired Conan's Monorail Episode | The Simpsons Taught Me Everything
Each and every week, Michael Swaim & his guests are going to zoom way, way too far in on a single Simpsons bit and unpack it for a month's worth of jo...
Introducing: The Simpsons Taught Me Everything
Everything Michael Swaim knows about the world, he learned from The Simpsons—and now, he's passing on all that useless information to you. On Simpsons...
How Bizarre (Or Great) Will The 2020 Election Be?
Alex Schmidt is joined by Sarah Pappalardo (Reductress) and Dave Weigel (The Washington Post) for a look ahead at an election that’s practically happe...
5 Weird Ways The 1990s Never Ended
Alex Schmidt is joined by Adam Tod Brown and Chet Wild, the hosts of Unpopular Opinion’s “The 90s Sucked” podcast. They’re exploring huge, meaningful,...
6 Little-Known Crises And Lockdowns Of U.S. History
Alex Schmidt is joined by Jody Avirgan (FiveThirtyEight, 30 For 30) and Nicole Hemmer (historian, author 'Messengers Of The Right'). Jody & Nicole hos...
7 Bizarre Moments From Bizarrely Long-Running TV Shows
Alex Schmidt is joined by the incredible Andy Daly, star of ’Review’ and all of the rest of TV. This podcast is inspired by Dalton Wilcox’s long-simme...
Bizarre Myths & Amazing Facts About Animals & Coronavirus
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer & “Creature Feature” podcast host Katie Goldin for a run through animal-specific myths springing up around cor...
Common Beliefs That Make Disasters Worse (with Jason Pargin)
Alex Schmidt is joined by New York Times-bestselling author Jason Pargin (pen name David Wong) for a close look at mistakes society needs to stop maki...
Sports In The Time Of Coronavirus (with Jason Benetti)
Alex Schmidt calls up Chicago White Sox play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti, to explore what it’s like simulating a sports season that may never happ...
6 Things Shut Down By Coronavirus (That Shouldn’t Return)
Alex Schmidt is joined by Adam Tod Brown (Unpopular Opinion, MTV, Playboy) and Dan Hopper (Ranker, The New Yorker, CollegeHumor) for a look at some th...
The Surprising Scientific Truth About Living As An Outsider
Alex Schmidt is joined by journalist Olga Khazan, author of ‘Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World’. They’ll take a deep dive into...
11 Bizarre Psy-Ops Real Governments Tried To Pull Off
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians/podcasters Adam Tod Brown (Unpopular Opinion) and Jeff May (Sideshow’s Side Show) for the strangest, silliest, odd...
11 Little-Known Dumb Details Of Big Historical Events
Alex Schmidt is joined by Billy Wayne Davis (Conan, Adult Swim) and Kandice Martellaro (Stan Against Evil, Femmebot PhD) for the silliest minutiae tha...
11 TV Shows That Secretly Gave Themselves Baffling Canon
Alex Schmidt is joined by Siobhan Thompson (Rick and Morty, Dimension 20) and Andrew Ti (Mixed-ish, Yo Is This Racist?) for a trip through the strange...
8 Famous Movie & TV Locations (Ruined By The Fans)
Alex Schmidt is joined by Dan Hopper (Ranker, CollegeHumor, The Washington Post) for a look at movie & TV locations that fans are pilgrimaging into ob...
7 Weird Jobs The Children Of Rich Maniacs Bought Themselves
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians/podcasters Kate Willett (The Late Show, ‘Reply Guys’) and Eli Yudin (‘What A Time To Be Alive’) for a look at the...
10 Regular Things We Should All Stop Mistaking For Aliens
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians & alien comedy experts David Christopher Bell (Gamefully Unemployed, "Fox Mulder Is A Maniac") and Moujan Zolfagha...
9 Bizarre & Surprising Stories Of Famous People Hanging Out
Alex Schmidt is joined by special guest Jesse Thorn (Bullseye, Jordan Jesse Go, Judge John Hodgman, THE LIST GOES ON)! They’ll explore the surprisingl...
11 Major Recent Movies (With Secretly Bizarre Productions)
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writers Gonzalo Cordova and Alan Denton. They’ll explore the biggest recent movies, and the extraordinarily strange w...
9 Infamous Scandals (With Crazy Details Everybody Forgot)
Alex Schmidt is joined by the incredible Dana Gould for a trip through world-famous scandals that somehow never get a closer look. With each story, th...
Why Fear-Based Democracies Aren’t Free (with Jason Pargin)
Alex Schmidt and special guest Jason Pargin (who writes for Cracked as David Wong) are exploring the ways being afraid of everything (an easy action)...
5 Parts Of The U.S. Economy That Are Stranger Than You Think
Alex Schmidt is joined by the one and only Kai Ryssdal (Marketplace, Make Me Smart) for a look at surprising, strange, and shocking stories from all o...
9 Times Pop Culture Accidentally Taught People To Save Lives
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians/writers Caitlin Gill and Alex Watt for a look at the surprising number of times movies, TV, and gaming gave heroic...
9 Everyday Objects With Incredible Secret Powers
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians/podcasters Jamie Loftus and Atsuko Okatsuka for a look at everyday objects with incredible secret powers. Find out...
6 Brain-Stretching Calendar Systems You Never Knew Existed
Alex Schmidt rings in “the new year” with comedians/podcasters Billy Wayne Davis and Danielle Radford. It's a special double-topic show, beginning wit...