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Episode 134

Home for the Holidays

Jodie Foster considers this the second in an extremely personal trilogy of films she directed. Little Man Tate and The Beaver round out that trilogy.

The always excellent Holly Hunt goes home to spend Thanksgiving with her very dysfunctional family. Robert Downey Jr. is insanely wonderful and wonderfully insane as her black sheep brother. Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning play the parents doing everything in their power to keep the family together and the holiday tradition alive. Cynthia Stevenson completes the family as the tightly wound oldest sister. The entire cast is extraordinary and the writing and directing is so sharp. It's like a Thanksgiving David Mamet cinematic feast!

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Allyson Bobbitt

Allyson Bobbitt is a wife, mommy, and comedian from southeastern Michigan. She has toured all over the Midwest, California, and Canada and has worked with the likes of Sara Schaefer (Nikki & Sara Live), Ty Barnett (Last Comic Standing), Dan Telfer (Hashtag Warrior), and many more.
In her spare time, she likes to fully embrace her mid life crisis by dying her hair fun colors and petting her cats, telling them how handsome and perfect they are despite their rancid smelling trash-mouths.
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Mike Bobbitt

Michigan native, Mike Bobbitt is a comedian show offers his perspectives on celebrity, sexuality, people pleasing and the gritty side of Hollywood.

Over the past eighteen years, Mike has performed in four countries, 26 states and Alabama. His three comedy albums are available at the online retailer of your choice. He’s appeared on Freeform’s “Freak Out”, “Laughs” on Fox and the hugely popular WTF Podcast with Marc Maron. He’s also cowrote the horror/comedy No Pets available on Amazon, and co-created the Ideal Remake podcast .

Mike is currently the host of three podcasts. The Truthcast, a improvised conspiracy theory parody that's been described as The X-Files meets Beavis and Butthead. The family friendly Movies for Kids podcast. And You Made Me Watch, where Mike and his wife make each other watch movies they loved, but recognize the other may not.