Best Christopher Benedict Podcasts (2025)

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Advent 2025 E16 - Oh Yeah...It's Your Birthday... 11:17

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🎙️ Episode 16: “Oh Yeah…It’s Your Birthday…” (Dec 16) — The Josh Scramble Birthday Special! It’s Josh Scramble’s actual birthday, so the Madhouse crew does what it does best: celebrates with love… and immediately turns it into a group therapy session for anyone born within blast radius of Christmas. Special guest local music legend Chad “Bacon” Bur…

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Advent 2025 E15 - The Elf, Diddy, and Carlin... 6:19

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🎙️ Episode 15: The Elf, Diddy, and Carlin… Today’s Advent Calendar micro-dose dives into the unhinged world of Elf on the Shelf, where the gang debates why parents ever signed up for a nightly surveillance doll with a criminal imagination. Jerry dreams of staging his elf in scandalous “sugar” situations, Jen wants nothing to do with it, and Scrambl…

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Frosty Melts in Hell 27:54

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This week, holiday icon Frosty The Snowman goes on an unfortunate adventure to the underworld. He stands a snowball’s chance in Hell… because that’s literally what this episode is about. Frosty played by actor Shannon McCormick from RWBY, Red Vs Blue, and RT Shorts! Huge sales at ⁠store.goodmorningfromhell.com⁠! Watch bonus and extras at ⁠goodmorni…

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Advent 2025 E14 - Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel... 6:34

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🎙️ Episode 14: Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel… Today’s Advent Calendar micro-dose takes a wonderfully chaotic dive into Hanukkah — or rather, the version the three of you thought you understood growing up in Indiana. The gang reflects on how Adam Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song” was basically their first Judaism crash course, why none of them knew anyone light…

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Advent 2025 E13 - This Playlist Could Cause a 72 Hour Hold... 5:09

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🎙️ Episode 13: This Playlist Could Cause a 72 Hour Hold… In today’s festive meltdown, the gang dives headfirst into the emotional minefield that is Christmas music. Jen Pancake declares she hates Christmas and its soundtrack, Jerry passionately defends “Dominic the Donkey” and “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas,” and Josh Scramble questions what …

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Paul Thomas Anderson & Boogie Nights: An Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Warner Bros. 44:55

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Boogie Nights wasn't Paul Thomas Anderson's first movie (that was Hard Eight), but it's the film that put him firmly on the map, and served notice that here was a serious filmmaking force. And with the release of a remastered 4K UHD version of Boogie Nights on Monday, December 15, it's the perfect time for the Empire Podcast team — Chris Hewitt, He…

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There's Magic In The Air (ft. guests Shih-Ching Tsou & Sean Baker; Daryl McCormack & Cailee Spaeny; James L. Brooks) 1:56:11

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The penultimate regular Empire Podcast of the year is here, folks (don't worry, there are specials galore on the way), and it's a belter. Guest-wise, we have more goodies under the tree, as Jamie Graham talks to longtime collaborators Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker (the director of Anora) about Tsou's directorial debut, Left-Handed Girl, which can …

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Advent 2025 E12 - O'Tannebaum AKA O'Fire Hazard... 6:47

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🎙️ Episode 12: O’Tannenbaum (AKA O’Fire Hazard) Today’s micro-dose of festive chaos dives into the dangerous history of Christmas trees — real, fake, flammable, and always surrounded by a 1970s fog of cigarette smoke. Jerry recalls the Cutlass-topped tree deliveries of his childhood, Jen marvels that any houses survived the decade, and Scramble def…

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F1: An Empire Podcast Interview Special ft. Jerry Bruckheimer, Damson Idris & Kerry Condon 1:04:35

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"Yer man's in the pits, boss!" Joseph Kosinski's crowd-pleasingly kinetic F1 was one of the success stories of the year at the box office, displaying impressive legs (or wheels) to take the chequered flag with over $600 million in the global bank, making it the biggest hit of Brad Pitt's career. And now that the film is making its debut on Apple TV…

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Advent 2025 E11 - It Was the Worst of Times... 10:20

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🎙️ Episode 11 – It Was the Worst of Times... From smoky polyester kid robes and creepy vibrating tennis statues to a Steelers jersey picked out by a random child, expired Chi-Chi’s gift cards, balsa-wood dinosaur “fun,” and cartons of Camels, Jerry, Jen & Scramble unwrap the absolute bottom-tier holiday gifts of their lives. Along the way they remi…

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Advent 2025 E10 - It Was the Best of Times... 9:08

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Episode 10 – It Was the Best of Times… A micro-dose of smart-ass notes to listen while it snows. December 10th brings a burst of Christmas nostalgia as Josh and Jerry share their best childhood gifts—bikes of every flavor, from neon-orange Huffys to yellow-fendered BMX dream machines. Jen remembers her pink Huffy and the day four-year-old her taugh…

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Advent 2025 E9 - What Would Bob Barker Do? 6:41

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Episode 9 – What Would Bob Barker Do? A micro-dose of smart-ass holiday wisdom to listen to while it snows… or while you regret every Christmas gift you’ve ever bought. In today’s festive rant, Josh Scramble unleashes on one of the great holiday crimes: buying a pet for Christmas. The gang breaks down why tiny bunnies turn into land piranhas, why c…

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Booty Gains Lost, Plans Abandoned, and a Wedding Forgotten - Why We’re Going to Hell w/ Zach Anner! 23:33

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Welcome to a special holiday episode of Why We’re Going to Hell, where we sit down with the legendary Zach Anner to confess all of our most depressing sins! Chris tries to cheer up someone in a bad mood and somehow makes everything worse. Blaine loses his booty gains while binging TV, then spirals into guilt for skipping workouts. Zach’s depression…

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Advent 2025 E8 - Nut Sack to Bunghole... 8:26

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Episode 8 – Nut Sack to Bunghole A micro-dose of smart-ass notes to listen while it snows… and while LBJ gets fitted for trousers with more “presidential breathing room.” Josh Scramble kicks off December 8th with a full rant about Christmas gift-giving: why he doesn’t do it, why adults should just buy their own crap, and why buying clothes for anot…

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Advent 2025 E7 - The Trashy Sledding Hill... 6:36

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Episode 7 – The Trashy Sledding Hill… A micro-dose of winter chaos, childhood stupidity, and the kind of “holiday magic” you only get when you grow up sledding on a hill decorated with leftover car parts and questionable life choices. Jerry, Josh, and Jen take a downhill trip through their childhood sledding memories — from exploding inner tubes to…

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Advent 2025 E6 - Jen Likes Pies... 5:46

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🎙️ Episode 6: Jen Likes Pies… The crew dives fork-first into the holiday season with a full spread of Thanksgiving and Christmas classics — turkey, ham, beef roasts, deviled eggs, fudge, lasagna, fruitcakes that go straight to the trash, and enough cream pies to send Jerry into a spiritual awakening. Jen confesses to liking all the pies, Josh defen…

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Advent 2025 E5 - No One Likes Your Christmas Story... 7:51

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🎙️ Day 5 – No One Likes Your Christmas Story Miller Morning Madhouse Audio Advent Calendar Today’s miniature meltdown centers on the crew’s most loved — and most violently hated — Christmas movies. Jen Pancake declares open war on nearly every holiday film ever made, and her Christmas anger grows by the minute. Scramble defends Elf with religious p…

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QT's Making A List, We're Checking It Twice (ft. guests Taron Egerton; George Clooney & Adam Sandler; Jon M. Chu) 1:58:26

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This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees Christmas on our mind as we enter December, and accordingly we deliver a sackful of great guests to you, our loyal and loving listeners. First off, Chris Hewitt goes to Taron Egerton's actual flat (smells divine... and the flat wasn't bad either) to sit down with him for a candid chat about his career,…

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Advent 2025 E4 - Here Comes Santa Claus... 8:52

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🎙️ Day 4 – Here Comes Santa Claus Miller Morning Madhouse Audio Advent Calendar Today’s episode is a nostalgic sleigh ride through the exact moment each of the Madhouse crew discovered the truth about Santa Claus — and how that moment shaped the chaotic Christmas adults they eventually became. Jen Pancake realized the truth at age three or four, th…

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The Shameless Plug #10: The Odyssey Odyssey 42:36

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The new episode of The Shameless Plug is here, folks, and this month sees Chris Hewitt sit down with freshly-minted award winner, Empire editor Nick de Semlyen, to delve into one of the most special issues of Empire magazine in many a moon: our world exclusive first look at Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, for which Nick went on something of an ody…

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Advent 2025 E3 - Black Friday... 7:28

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🎙️ Episode 3 — Black Friday Miller Morning Madhouse Audio Advent Calendar It’s December 3rd, and the holiday chaos continues as Pancake, Scramble, and Jen dive headfirst into the retail hellscape known as Black Friday — a day Jen Pancake absolutely despises at a molecular level. The episode kicks off with Pancake accidentally channeling Grandma Pan…

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Advent 2025 E2 - Saved by the bells... 6:08

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🎙️ Episode 2: Saved By The Bells It's Day 2 of the Miller Morning Madhouse Audio Advent Calendar, and Scramble has officially hit his holiday limit. Not with shopping crowds. Not with Mariah Carey. Nope — with the Salvation Army bell ringers. Apparently, the non-stop ding-ding-ding outside the grocery store has driven him to the edge of Yuletide sa…

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Advent 2025 E1 - Grandma got run over by a Burro... 5:21

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From the snowy shores of Miller Beach comes the first-ever Miller Morning Madhouse Advent Calendar — a daily December podcast event filled with festive chaos, emotional baggage, muppet-style storytelling, and more holiday drama than a Frankfort HOA meeting. 🎙️ Episode 1: Grandma Got Run Over by a Burro It’s 1978 in Blue Island, Illinois. Little Jer…

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Seasonal Depression Hits Hell Hard 39:01

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Good Morning From Hell sits down with “Seasonal Depression,” the mischievous winter spirit responsible for dragging everyone’s mood into the dumps. Seasonal Depression is, ironically, brought to life by inspirational comedian and disability advocate, Zach Anner! Huge sales at store.goodmorningfromhell.com! Watch bonus and extras at goodmorningfromh…

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There Can Be Only Dozens (ft. guests Simu Liu; Ke Huy Quan; Richard Linklater & Ethan Hawke) 1:51:41

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This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt sit down with two actors who star in animated movies (and ask them both about their favourite things to do in London). First, Simu Liu Zooms in to talk about new Netflix family flick, In Your Dreams, plus his own dreams, and the return of Shang-Chi to the MCU. [21:38 - 38:30 approx] Then, …

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Escape From Malcatraz (ft. guests Benedict Cumberbatch & Dylan Southern; Joel Edgerton & Clint Bentley; Ariana Greenblatt) 1:57:43

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This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees the podteam — Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and James Dyer — play themselves as they discuss great 'as themselves' performances in the movies. They also run their collective eye over the week's movie news, including heartening Star Trek developments, review Train Dreams, Wicked: For Good, Playdate, and S…

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The Wicked Witch of The Midwest Visits Hell 32:30

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The Wicked Witch of the Midwest has cast a spell on Chris, and you betcha he's gonna bluff his way through The Wizard of Oz, the musical Wicked, and midwestern culture in hopes of scoring a date with her! Featuring Twitch streamer and content creator Laurel Rothamel! Join our Patreon at goodmorningfromhell.com and buy our new merch at store.goodmor…

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All The Information Is On The Task (ft. guests Edgar Wright, Rosamund Pike & Isla Fisher, Michael Shannon) 1:58:03

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This week's episode of the Empire Podcast would surely deserve to get a full fat five points from Greg Davies, the Taskmaster himself, as Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and John Nugent apply themselves wholeheartedly (some more wholeheartedly than others, it must be said) to deciding which Taskmaster contestant has appeared in the best fil…

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Julia Ducournau & Tahar Rahim On Alpha: An Empire Podcast Interview Special 24:35

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Alpha is the third film from the brilliant French filmmaker, Julia Ducournau, following on from her titanic debut, Raw, and her raw follow-up, Titane (which won the Palme D'Or, no less!). A tale of an unusual epidemic and generational trauma, there's much going on above and below the surface, which we get into in this interview special, as Jamie Gr…

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Miller Morning Madhouse S2E10: Face Down in Cabo... 1:10:38

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🎙️ Episode: Cabo Makeover Meltdown – The Pancake House Transformation After a long, chaotic travel day home from Cabo — complete with circling O’Hare, a trash-filled Uber piloted by a man on Jesus music and edibles, and the kind of exhaustion that reshapes your soul — Pancake walks into the surprise of a lifetime: a full HGTV-style home makeover en…

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Jenny Beavan: An Empire Podcast Interview Special 45:41

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Nicholas Hytner's The Choral, a delightful drama set in 1916 Yorkshire, is in cinemas now, folks. It features costumes designed by the legendary Jenny Beavan, who is one of the best costume designers in the business. Nominated for 12 Oscars, winner of three, Beavan has worked with directors like Robert Altman, James Ivory, and George Miller across …

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Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean, & Ronan Day-Lewis On Anemone: An Empire Podcast Interview Special 50:02

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Every year at the London Film Festival, Empire hosts a gala screening for a film that we particularly admire. This year's choice was Ronan Day-Lewis' Anemone, a drama that we called 'sad, absurdist, brooding, tender, and intense', and which marks the return to acting of the great Daniel Day-Lewis, father of Ronan and co-writer of the movie, after e…

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The Sound Of Burning Felt (ft. guests Jennifer Lawrence & Lynne Ramsay; Elle Fanning & Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi; Sean Bean & Daniel Day-Lewis) 1:51:46

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Blimey, this week's episode of the Empire Podcast is star-studded, and then some. First, Chris Hewitt chats with Die, My Love star, Jennifer Lawrence, and director Lynne Ramsay, about unpredictability on set and receiving an email from Martin Scorsese; then, he has a crash course in Yautja from Predator: Badlands stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatan…

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The Shameless Plug #9: Stranger Things Has Happened 43:20

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Another month, another issue of Empire, another episode of The Shameless Plug. This time, Chris Hewitt and Nick de Semlyen sit down to talk about how Stranger Things ended up on the cover of the world's biggest movie magazine, and nearly did so upside down. And they also talk about less strange things, including the stories behind the stories of th…

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Miller Morning Madhouse S2E9: Miller All Stars... 33:37

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🎙️ Episode: Miller All-Stars & The Cabo Third Wheel Disaster Jerry returns from Cabo with a tale of pure airline suffering — trapped in the middle seat between a couple who treated Row 18 like a honeymoon suite. Meanwhile, back home in Miller Beach, Jen Pancake and Josh Scramble are honored by the Miller Beach Citizens Corporation as this year’s Mi…

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Guy Fawkes Reveals the EXPLOSIVE Truth Behind The Gunpowder Plot (feat. Gavin Free) 32:29

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After failing to blow up Parliament in 1604, Guy Fawkes returns with a new explosive plan and this time, the target is Heaven. Along the way, Guy reveals what REALLY happened on that fateful night in London. Featuring Gavin Free from The Slow Mo Guys and The Regulation Podcast! Special Guest “Guy Fawkes” played by Gavin Free from The Slow Mo Guys a…

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Now It's Time For Halloween (ft. guests Edward Berger, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Maika Monroe) 1:56:15

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It's Halloween, folks, so this week's episode of the Empire Podcast is extra-spooky, with Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and Beth Webb get way too invested in a listener question about the horror movie death that they would want for themselves. Just keep repeating: it's only a podcast, it's only a podcast, it's only a podcast. Elsewhere, o…

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Kenny Dalglish & Asif Kapadia on Kenny Dalglish: An Empire Podcast Interview Special 33:11

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If you can hear a high-pitched squealing noise in the background of our latest interview special, that's just Chris Hewitt vibrating with excitement. For this podcast puts him in the room with one of his all-time heroes, Liverpool FC icon Kenny Dalglish, who is the eponymous subject of Asif Kapadia's latest documentary, which is out today (October …

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The Case of Freddy v. Jason Re-release! 28:44

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Anniversary re-release of a classic episode! In a special small-claims courtroom episode, our hosts arbitrate a legal dispute between Freddy Kruger and Jason Voorhees over victim custody, late rent, and other roommate issues. Special guest Eric Baudour from 100% Eat & The Regulation Podcast and comedian Andrew Rosas! Join our Patreon at ⁠⁠goodmorni…

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We've Gone And Caught A Sniffle (ft. guests Nia DaCosta, Jeremy Strong, Rebecca Ferguson & Kathryn Bigelow) 1:59:22

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This week's Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt struggle with the enunciation of one word in particular (you'll have to listen to find out which). Incredibly, it's not 'Howl-o-ween', which is just one of the many things discussed by Chris and his three colleagues of such lethal cunning, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and Ben Travis. They get their teeth in…

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Pennywise & Nicklesmart!? Killer Clown Brothers Visit Hell! 34:24

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Pennywise, the world’s most terrifying clown and star of Steven King's IT, shares how he got into the business of murder and fear! His older brother Nicklesmart is also there. He talks about opening a coffee shop in Portland. Featuring Michael Jones and Jordan Cwiertz from the 100% Eat Podcast as the killer clown brothers! Join our Patreon at goodm…

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Diane, Drew And The Greatest Poster Ever (ft. guests Rebecca Miller, Channing Tatum & Kirsten Dunst, Mason Thames & Madeleine McGraw) 1:59:53

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This week's Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara and James Dyer pay tribute to two cinematic greats who left us this week: the legendary Oscar-winning actress, Diane Keaton, and Drew Struzan, the artist who defined posters, and people's walls, for decades. Struzan's work inspires this week's question, which asks our trio to identify the g…

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Intervention with the Vampire Hunter Re-release! 34:59

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Special anniversary re-release of a classic episode! A vampire hunter is confronted about his violence toward the undead and is brought face to face with an enemy who only wants to be friends. Special Guests Luchen and Mitchell played by Alfredo Diaz and Trevor Collins from Red Web! Join our Patreon at ⁠⁠goodmorningfromhell.com⁠⁠ and buy some merch…

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Wish You Well (ft. guests Greta Lee & Jodie Turner-Smith; Robert Aramayo; Gillian Anderson) 1:45:37

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This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees Alex Godfrey display his versatility as an interviewer, going from utter chaos with Tron Ares stars Greta Lee & Jodie Turner-Smith [22:46 - 34:31 approx] and Gillian Anderson [1:33:01 - 1:43:53 approx] to a heartfelt and passionate chat with Robert Aramayo, star of this week's excellent drama, I Swear,…

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The Shameless Plug #8: Wicked Panna Cottas 45:11

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In this month's Shameless Plug, the show in which Chris Hewitt sits down with Empire editor Nick de Semlyen to do a deep dive into the latest issue of Empire, Chris Hewitt sits down with Empire editor Nick de Semlyen to do a deep dive into the latest issue of Empire. Which, for the first time in our history, has a musical on the cover, Jon M. Chu's…

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Miller Morning Madhouse S2E8: Loud Music Boat Guy... 1:01:37

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🎙️ Episode: Miller Hall of Shame – Mr. Loud Music Boat Guy A bonus beach day turns chaotic when Boat Guy rolls up blasting music loud enough to scare seagulls off the breakwall. Jerry, Josh & Jenny break down the noise, the nerves, and why Miller Beach deserves a volume limit — plus previews of the Miller All-Stars honors and the Pancake House Make…

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Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Justin Tipping on Him: An Empire Podcast Interview Special 41:41

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Justin Tipping's Him is a Jordan Peele-produced horror film in which a young quarterback discovers the kind of sacrifices it takes to become the GOAT of American Football. That young quarterback is played by Tyriq Withers, who is taken under the wing of a legendary quarterback played by Marlon Wayans, and in this Empire Podcast interview special Ja…

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Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera & Paul Greengrass On The Lost Bus: An Empire Podcast Interview Special 43:14

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Paul Greengrass' The Lost Bus stars Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera as a bus driver and teacher, respectively, who have to navigate a deadly Californian wildfire while stuck on a school bus with a group of terrified children, very little water, and fire and flames closing in on all sides. Based on a true story (the 2018 Camp Fire is one of …

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Funny Business with Spirit Halloween 36:26

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Vendrak The Vertical, Scáthach, And The Kamino Kid (ft. guests Benny Safdie, Malcolm McDowell, Harris Dickinson) 1:55:38

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This week's Empire Podcast sees us welcome another hat-trick of wonderful guests, as Chris Hewitt has lovely chats with The Smashing Machine writer-director (and Happy Gilmore 2 villain), Benny Safdie, [24:13 - 40:39 approx] and bona fide acting legend, Malcolm McDowell, star of new WWII drama, The Partisan (please excuse the sound quality of Chris…