Jim Rash (Dean Pelton from “Community” and co-writer of “The Descendants”) joins Cole and Vanessa for their first podcast of 2012! They chat about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, shortstop playing chimpanzees, controlling the world’s bees, Sky High, The Golden Globes, Nicholas Sparks flicks, The Enabler, practical jokester George Clooney, Cybill, terrible auditions, saving Community, Fincher family members, twisted Barbers Shop Quartets, Guess Who?, and Jim’s hilariously stressful day on Spielberg’s Minority Report.

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Phil LaMarr (“Pulp Fiction,” “Madtv”) goofs off with Cole and Vanessa and chats about working with Tarantino, People’s Sexiest Man Alive, The Descendants, the sorting hat, going to Broadway, The Groundlings, the Mr. T. cartoon, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, Morgan Freeman, Detective Comics, a steady stream of turkey, the lost Matrix scenes, Marvin’s head explosion, Star Wars vs. Physicists, Sea Monkeys, seeing Helen Mirren, the Lego movie, and the absolutely ridiculous people backstage at the Pee Wee Herman Show.

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Ethan Suplee (“My Name is Earl,” “Mallrats”) chats with Cole and Vanessa on their first podcast with the Nerdist network about Boy Meets World, neverending Risk games, Settlers of Catan, D&D, sad Bowie stories, Greg Garcia, looking for aliens, Remember the Titans, playing a skinhead, Without a Paddle fights, making videos with Jack White, the alternative Jason Mewes, nose dirt, Kevin Smith, and Ethan’s experience at a Don Phillips Pizza Party.

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Dave Anthony and Greg Behrendt from the Walking The Room Podcast stop by to chat with Cole and Vanessa about the art of retweeting, Jack and Jill, The Hunger Games, ranking overrated bands, the Duggars, the coining of the term Zombie, celebrity peeing, snot skin, Cameron Diaz, Mr. Catpoop, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Sex and the City ladies, Kardashians, Insomnia, body hopping, books vs. movies, and Greg’s awkward plane trip with Miley Cyrus.

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Meredith Salenger (“The Journey of Natty Gann,” “Dream a Little Dream”) joins Cole and Vanessa to talk about twitter stalking, Brett Ratner, suing Kim Kardashian, The Muppets, kissing John Cusack, hanging with Harry Dean Stanton, virgin daiquiris, fan sites, Melancholia, Corey Feldman’s MJ moves, working with a wolf, Seth Myers’ unheralded extra work, River Phoenix, hoarding cats, body-swapping movies, Harvard, Sally Field, and a trio of Bjork impressions.

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Fred Dekker (writer/director of “The Monster Squad” and “Night of the Creeps”) stops by for this Halloween episode with Cole and Vanessa to chat about Lindsay Lohan, Estate of Panic, the true nature of game shows, Shane Black, the “Pad o’ Guys,” George A. Romero, UFO spottin’ Billy Ray Cyrus, James Bond, Monty Python, scary staircases, the life of spoiler alerts, Anthony Michael Hall, Taileypo, wizard films, Hitchcock, Stan Winston, Liam Neeson, the Wolfman’s infamous nards, and Vanessa’s serious Victor Borge/Ernest Borgnine confusion.

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