Double Threat with Julie Klausner & Tom Scharpling

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! Legendary actress Jackie Hoffman (Feud, Difficult People, Fiddler on the Roof) joins Tom and Julie for a salute to moms, including the Texas mom who hired a hitman to kill her daughter's cheerleading rival, the Pennsylvania mom who deep faked her daughter's cheerleading rivals to frame them for vaping and sexting, the mom in the Enjoli perfume ads, cheesecake mom, Anne Ramsey,...

Tom and Julie and Brett attempt to book guests in real time, frantically texting everyone they know and learning a thing or two about friendship in the process. The good news is, this episode features nine very special guests who had no advance warning they were going to be on the show! Plus all the talk you crave about McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the eggs in Cool Hand Luke, Bela Lugosi in No Countr...

Elon Musk on SNL, Ben Shapiro at Home Depot, Jerry Seinfeld Private Detective! It's a brand new Double Threat with Tom and Julie! Plus Jon Daly makes a surprise appearance to brainstorm lyrics to Walter B. Bad and Yakety Vax, Brett crowbars a couple new transitions into the show, and Spencer's Gifts gets LOTS of free advertising! Also Tom and Julie rank rubber bands, Chico Marx the barista, Brett...

The Horror! The Horror! Tom and Julie are joined by Fangoria Editor-In-Chief Phil Nobile Jr for a deep dive into your darkest nightmares: Freddy Krueger's 900 number, The Host, The Exorcist, John Landis, Godzilla vs Kong, The Dawn of the Dead, Trilogy of Terror, John Kassir horror con stories, Happy Death Day, Annabelle, Hereditary, and more. Plus Tom and Julie reveal selections from their list of...

NYC downtown legends Ann Magnuson and Lady Bunny join Tom and Julie for the 2nd Annual NYC Fantasy Draft: Underground Edition, battling over top prospects like Richard Hell, Sister Dimension, Yoko Ono, and Kim Gordon. Plus Tom and Julie come up with one of their best ideas yet-- a rock musical adaptation of Breaking Bad called Walter B. Bad. And The American Dream Dusty Rhodes, pizza talk, cat tal...

Tom and Julie line up for a classic clip buffet and chow down on listener submitted clips of Marianne Williamson and James Cameron talking Avatar; The Crypt Keeper's short-lived children's game show; David Lee Roth's political cartoons; the rogue helicopter pilot terrorizing one Charlotte NC man; and an anime-themed Domino's Pizza promotional campaign! Plus a new Heckers Flour email! This time Hec...

The Cat Daddy himself JACKSON GALAXY stops by to answer listener cat questions, meet Julie's cat Jimmy Jazz, and go toe-to-toe with Tom the Cat Fixer on the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE OF DOUBLE THREAT! Also Brett makes Jackson Galaxy watch a side-by-side video of his cat Frances and Timothée Chalamet to determine who is the better actor. Plus See Saw on a Seesaw, Dr. Phil secrets, the Bad News B...

Tom and Julie talk to three cool kids (Roxanne, June, Desmond) about how to make Double Threat more interesting to the coveted under-10 demographic. Plus plenty of the regular old Double Threat stuff for not kids - Columbo investigates the Manson murders, The Two Jakes, Ed Wynn in Chinatown, Fred Gwynne in Chinatown, the Stop the Steal Pinball Machine, Brett's terrible Twitter, Buff Bagwell, and m...

Join Tom and Julie for a weird and wild journey through the animule kingdom, featuring farting seals, f*cking tortoises, shoebill storks, chipmunks, hippos, and more! Plus a definitive answer to the question, what would it sound like if a dancing bird of paradise choreographed to Prodigy??? Also Tom and Julie's favorite and least favorite animules, Producer Brett's favorite actor (HUGH GRANT BABY!...

The Zapruder film of rock band fights. A Satanic animatronic restaurant on Long Island. The Kansas City Kitler scandal. Tom and Julie go down a rabbit hole of listener submitted clips in this instant classic episode of Double Threat. Plus Julie invents the internet's next hot gif TURN IT OFF (featuring George C. Scott's porno theater meltdown in Hardcore) and Brett provides an update on his highly...

Tom and Julie are joined by international Drag Superstar and Race Chaser co-host WILLAM for another round of Schlub Rescue! Featuring aspiring comedy writer Max Beneke and his terrible Twitter @MaxBeneke! Plus Allen vs Farrow, Mike Nichols, Tom plans Julie's funeral, Don Pardo My French, King of Kong on a Plane, Flight meets Sully meets Capt Phillips, and much more! LISTEN TO WILLAM'S PODCAST RACE...

Anything you can do, Tom and Julie can do it better. At least that's the theory we put to the test as the hosts of The George Lucas Talk Show-- George Lucas (Connor Ratliff), Watto (Griffin Newman), and Patrick Cotnoir-- join Double Threat for the first episode of The Nancy Meyers Talk Show hosted by Nancy Meyers (Julie) with co-host Nick Marshall from What Women Want (Tom) and producer Brett. Wat...

We asked and you delivered. It's the 1st Annual Double Threat Erotic Fan Fiction Challenge featuring the listener submitted sexual escapades of The Cryptkeeper, Alec Baldwin, McDonaldLand mascots, Producer Brett, and more. We hand out Superlatives for the Best Line of Dialogue, Most Creative Inclusion of Gerry, Best Threesome, etc. PLUS the Top 5 Finalists presented with cinematic sound design and...

Settle in for a classic Tom & Julie episode featuring the queens of NYC public access television, Horowitz & Spector; the chaotic Handforth Parish Council on Zoom; a Danish children's cartoon about a middled aged man with a long prehensile penis; a button for couples who can't figure out how to synchronize their horniness; the return of the Milk and Cereal song; and Double Threat cryptocur...

It’s the third Double Threat episode with a focus on chili and this time Tom and Julie are going ALL IN BABY! After last week’s embarrassing Jack Nicholson debacle, in which Tom mistook an Onion photoshop of Jack spilling chili on himself at a Lakers game for a real photo, Brett books four chili all stars, including the heads of the two major international chili societies and the author of a serie...

Tom and Julie are joined by comedian/writer Keisha Zollar (Astronomy Club), tattoo artist Ella Sklaw, and a cavalcade of listeners for a deep dive into the world of tattoos! The panel designs Double Threat tattoos for listeners Steve and Iann, and they help listeners Meri, Brennan, and Kalee fix their regrettable tattoos. Plus Liam Neeson stars in Taken... a piss in his pants, that is! And Jack Ni...

It's a clips extravaganza on Double Threat this week as Tom and Julie plow through ten (count 'em TEN!) listener clips, including Scott Adams house tour, Nigella Lawson saying "microwave," a pair of public access theater critics, and more! Plus Brett reveals his love for rubs and glazes! And Julie breaks down the Armie Hammer scandal for Tom! LISTEN TO DOUBLE THREAT AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: ht...

Having recently been blocked by Alec Baldwin on Twitter, Tom and Julie are joined by frequently blocked comedian Andy Kindler and a panel of blocked-by-Baldwin listeners, including Variety editor-at-large Kate Aurthur, to discuss the experience of being blocked by the celebrity actor (best known for supporting roles in State and Main and the Mission: Impossible franchise) and to come to terms with...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! In the first Double Threat of 2021, Tom and Julie watch listener clips inspired by Brett's New Year's Resolutions, including Joel Osteen's Inspiration Cube (Be Inspired in 2021); Bob & Brad, the Two Most Famous Physical Therapists on the Internet (Be Healthy in 2021); and the Longest Sketch Comedy Showcase Ever (Be Aware of Others in 2021). Plus a pitch for a new travelogue foo...

It's the Top 10 Double Threat segments of 2020 as voted on by you! Thank you to everyone who supported and contributed to Double Threat this year. We love you and we'll see you in 2021! *10* Every Single Song That’s Ever Won Best Song at the Academy Awards with Cole Escola (Ep11) *09* Yeah Right! (Ep17) *08* The Cryptkeeper (Ep29) *07* Hollywood Handbook vs Double Threat (Ep6) *06* The Cat Fixer (...

It's the ultimate year-end list! Tom and Julie pick their Top 10 Things of 2020, including Febreze, Jon Daly's Snowman song, not having to be jealous of other people's accomplishments, The George Lucas Talk Show, and more highlights from the year that sucked. Also Tom and Julie dictate one last email for Brett to send in 2020 - and buckle up, because this one might put an end to Brett's excellent...

THE NSFW EPISODE! Tom and Julie are joined by the hilarious Janelle James (You In Danger Gurl podcast) to listen to a selection of erotic audiobooks and rate them on a scale of HORNY to FRIGID so that you know which ones to pick and which ones to skip this holiday season! Also Gerry from TeePublic calls in to tell an Iggy Pop story and Tom and Julie pitch him some exciting new merch ideas. Plus RE...

Tom and Julie take an improv comedy class with improv experts Monique Moses & Alex Song-Xia! They even do their own Harold! Tom pitches his forthcoming theater project Broadway Stinkers, Breaking Bad's Tuco orders a pizza to go, Julie lists her vacuum cleaners, Jack Lemmon gets a free Golden Globe from Ving Rhames, and Julie and Tom compete for the most ultimate Zappa playlist! FOLLOW MONIQUE...

It's Franksgiving on Double Threat, babyyyy! Tom and Julie talk the new Frank Zappa documentary (directed by Alex Winter), compete head to head in Zappa Trivia, and talk liking what you like and not liking what you don't like. Plus baby chefs on TikTok, Johnny Rotten breaking news, Jackson Galaxy the Cat Whisperer, Tom's pitch for a new show called The Cat Fixer. And Tom and Julie in high school,...

In lieu of Thanksgiving with your family this year, celebrate Threatsgiving with Tom and Julie, where they talk about McDonald’s for two hours! It's the audio equivalent of eating fast food in your car! Featuring interviews with McDonald’s scholars Connor Ratliff, Ian Abramson, and Justin Strong AND a roundtable expose with former McDonald's employees! Tom and Julie get to the bottom of McDonald's...