Putin seems to be a firm believer in the "my house, my God" school of theology.

This week, a Russian man was charged with insulting the feelings of religious believers, and now faces up to one year in jail, for posting on the Internet that "there is no God". This 2013 law was introduced after punk art group Pussy Riot was jailed for a lewd performance in Moscow's leading Orthodox church.

Viktor Krasnov's remark offended another online poster so much that they filed a complaint against him accusing him of "offending the sentiments of Orthodox believers".

Putin clearly doesn't play when it comes to trash talking about Comrade Numero Uno in the Big Dacha in the Sky!

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* A 4-year-old Australian boy learned a valuable lesson from his first experience with a vending machine when his arm became stuck for nearly six hours.

* A farmer in China said one of his chickens escaped being slaughtered when he discovered the bird was born with an extra set of legs and feet.

* A Swedish musician created a machine that makes music by having 2,000 marbles traveling along its tracks.

* A pair of Canadian plumbers literally struck gold after finding a $50,000 gold brick while renovating a client's bathroom.

* The Swedish arm of fast food chain McDonald's is testing out a specially designed Happy Meal box that folds into a virtual reality viewer.

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ROBERT ALLAN ACKERMAN, award winning Broadway director who has worked with Al Pacino, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, is our special guest this Sunday night.

ROBERT's New York directing credits include the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Martin Sherman's "Bent" starring Richard Gere and David Dukes; "Slab Boys" starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Val Kilmer; Oscar Wilde's "Salome" starring Al Pacino; "Legs Diamond" starring Peter Allen; and William Mastrosimone's "Extremities" starring Susan Sarandon, for which he received the Outer Critics Circle Award.

As a resident director of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, he directed Thomas Babe's "A Prayer for My Daughter" (Obie Award for direction); "Taken in Marriage" starring Meryl Streep and Colleen Dewhurst; "Fathers and Sons" starring Richard Chamberlin and Dixie Carter; "Salt Lake City Skyline" starring John Lithgow and Fred Gwynne; "O'Neill and Carlotta" starring Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst and Madeline Kahn; and David Henry Hwang's "Family Devotions."

London credits include West End productions of "Strangers On A Train;" "Extremities" starring Helen Mirren; "Torch Song Trilogy" starring Sir Antony Sher; "A Madhouse in Goa" starring Vanessa Redgrave; "Burn This" starring John Malkovich and Juliet Stevenson; "Our Town" starring Alan Alda and Robert Sean Leonard; "When She Danced" starring Vanessa Redgrave; and the world premiere of Manuel Puig's "Mystery of the Rose Bouquet" starring Gemma Jones at the Donmar Warehouse.

In Los Angeles, ROBERT directed "Holiday" starring Kevin Kline, Sally Kellerman and Maurice Evans (Ahmanson Theatre); "Mystery of the Rose Bouquet" starring Anne Bancroft and Jane Alexander and "Scenes from and Execution" starring Frank Langella and Juliet Stevenson (Mark Taper Forum); and Noel Coward's "The Vortex" starring Rupert Everett (Doolittle Theatre).

This month, he in in Los Angeles directing "Blood," a world premier political thriller about the Japanese tainted blood scandal, at the Complex on Hollywood's Theatre Row.

Hear our live interview with ROBERT ALLAN ACKERMAN this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!

Soccer fans around the world rejoiced this week when FIFA, the governing body of the beautiful game, selected its new grand poobah.

Swiss-Italian Gianni Infantino won in the second-round of voting, which took place in Zurich. He managed to purchase - ah, I mean, earn! - 115 of the 207 eligible votes, leaving his opponent Sheikh Salman of Bahrain in the dust.

FIFA's reputation has been badly tarnished since allegations of corruption emerged involving the former leader, Sepp Blatter.

Those wishing to congratulate Infantino may want to do so in the traditional FIFA manner - which would of course be small brown paper bags full of cash (preferably high-denomination bills)!

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* A village in India imposed a ban on unmarried women and minor girls from owning cell phones.

* An elephant at a Thailand sanctuary showed off her art skills by using her trunk to pick up a brush and paint a self-portrait.

* An Australian man set the world record for the loudest burp by producing a belch that reached over 110 decibels.

* A French village celebrated its annual Bear Festival in a traditional-yet-unusual way -- with a man dressed as a bear mock-battling pretend hunters.

* A University of London researcher shared video of penguins walking on treadmills to test their ability to balance while walking after putting on weight.

* Members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, otherwise known as Pastafarians, registered their first official marriage celebrant in New Zealand.

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JACK STEHLIN, actor from the Showtime fan-favorite TV show, "Weeds," is our special guest this Sunday night!

JACK is an award-winning actor/director and founding artistic director of the New American Theatre, but is probably best known for his television role as DEA captain Roy Till on the Showtime series "Weeds" (SAG Award nomination). His many guest-starring roles on countless hit TV shows, include "NCIS Los Angeles," "Without a Trace," "Monk," "The Practice," "Crossing Jordan," "ER," "NYPD Blue" and the Fox pilot "Hieroglyph." JACK can be seen on the big screen in "Wilde Salome" with Al Pacino.

An accomplished stage actor, his New York stage credits include "Salome" (with Al Pacino), numerous productions at New York's Public Theater including "Richard II" (with Steven Berkoff), "Henry V" (with Kevin Kline), "Casanova (with Ethan Hawke), "Henry IV" (with Mandy Patinkin) and "Julius Caesar" (with Al Pacino and Martin Sheen).

He is currently starring as Prospero in an imaginative retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" at the Odyssey Theatre.

Hear our live interview with JACK STEHLIN this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!

An anti-smoking poster in Moscow featuring a picture of US President Barack Obama went viral this week. The ad shows Obama with a cigarette in his mouth.

The caption of the poster made the case against smoking very clearly - "Smoking kills more people than Obama, although he kills a lot of people. Don't smoke - don't be like Obama."

Ouch!

Obama, previously a regular smoker, has significantly limited his tobacco use since moving to the White House, although he admits he has occasionally "fallen off the wagon."

No official confirmation yet as to whether the President has developed a preference for "vape-ing" or if he is simply an old-school stand-outside-in-the rain cigarette man.

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* People traveling home at the end of China's Spring Festival holiday led to a traffic jam in Beijing stretching six and a half miles with thousands of vehicles.

* A British man discovered a strange road hazard while driving home from work one night - a 25-foot model triceratops.

* A zoo in China marked Valentine's Day by holding a wedding ceremony for a pair of orangutans.

* The island of Cape Breton in Canada is encouraging Americans to relocate if Donald Trump is elected president.

* The head of the Russian Orthodox church took time to walk with penguins during a visit to the only permanent church in Antarctica.

* After Renato Bialetti, 93, died last week his children decided to honor his life's work by placing his ashes in a container that symbolized his family's legacy - a replica of the Moka coffee pot, which his father, Alfonso, invented.

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JOHN POSEY, star of hit TV shows, "How to Get Away with Murder" and "Teen Wolf," is our special guest this Sunday night!

JOHN first came to the attention of network casting executives who discovered him on stage with the Atlanta-based comedy group, "Comedia," a group Posey co-founded in the 1980s, and brought him to Los Angeles.

Since then, JOHN has compiled a long list of credits that includes recurring roles on "How to Get Away with Murder" and "Teen Wolf" and guest starring appearances on "Criminal Minds," "24," "Boston Legal," "NCIS," "Scorpion," "ER," "Seinfeld," "Manhunter," "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Newsradio" among others.

He wrote, produced and starred in "Legendary," a coming-of-age drama with Patricia Clarkson and Danny Glover that was released in 2010. His original script, "Gorgeous George," has been set up at WWE Film Studios. JOHN wrote for the TV series "Doc" from 2001-2004 and created the syndicated radio series "A Lighter Look at Sports" for CNN radio.

This month, JOHN returns to L.A. with an all-new revival of his critically acclaimed comedy about a former small-town football star who attempts to live vicariously through his son. Welcome to Tupelo County, Georgia, where even the local Easter egg hunt takes on legendary, Super Bowl proportions. In "Father, Son & Holy Coach," Friday night football is the motif that illuminates a father/son journey gone hilariously off the rails. Over the course of 85 minutes, JOHN, who confesses he was shaped by a complex and conflicted relationship with his own father, seamlessly portrays over two dozen different characters - the entire town of Tupelo. "Father, Son & Holy Coach" opens at the Odyssey Theatre on February 13.

Hear our live interview with JOHN POSEY this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!

Money. As Pink Floyd once sung "Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash."

EU finance ministers, however, are now having second thoughts about their decision over a decade ago to issue €500 notes, one of the highest value denomination in general circulation. It seems there is growing concern that these notes are making life easier for terrorists, money launderers and drug barons.

Steps have already been taken in France, the site of two bloody terrorist attacks last year, to limit the ability of extremists to use cash to fund their operations. Since September, French citizens can only make cash payments of €1,000. If in any given month someone either withdraws or deposits more than €10,000, they are automatically checked by money-laundering authorities.

Only the Swiss have a higher value note in circulation - the Swiss 1,000 franc note (worth $975 or £707). But then that shouldn't be too surprising. They are Swiss after all!

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* Education officials in Japan have announced that new guidelines regarding human pyramids in schools will be drafted by the end of March.

* Guinness World Records confirmed a British resort broke a world record with a 3-foot, 4-inch tall stack of pancakes.

* A town in Slovenia announced it is moving forward with plans to build a nearly $400,000 fountain that dispenses drinkable local beers.

* A tourist visiting the Great Wall of China took a speed run down the attraction's alpine slide and crashed when he reached the end of the track.

* A seal dubbed Sammy by residents of an Irish town was recorded engaging in his daily ritual: crossing a road to beg for fish from a seafood restaurant.

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ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH, star of critically acclaimed films "Chi-Raq," "Dope," and "Birth of a Nation," is our special guest this Sunday night.

ROGER has essayed memorable roles in "Do the Right Thing," "Malcolm X," "He Got Game," "Get on the Bus," "Summer of Sam," Deep Cover" and "King of New York." He also adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of "A Huey P. Newton Story" into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm. His "Rodney King," developed locally at Bootleg Theater, has toured internationally, and was recently distinguished with the Bessie and OC Weekly Awards.

He studied at Yale University and Occidental College, and has taught at both institutions. He directs his Performing History Workshop at CalArts.

ROGER is currently directing "The Mountaintop" (an imagining of events on Dr. Martin Luther King's final night before his assassination) at the Matrix Theatre.

Hear our live interview with ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!

We always appreciate young actors who fully commit themselves to their roles, especially in small avant-garde theatre productions where attendance is sometimes - ahem! - a bit light.

But thespian enthusiasm went a bit too far in Pisa, Italy this week when an Italian actor was left in a coma after he accidentally hanged himself during a live theatre performance.

Raphael Schumacher, just 27, was performing in a production of a six-scene "immersive performance" staged in different parts of a theatre. Audience members were required to walk from one scene to another.

Schumacher was reciting his monologue alone in a courtyard in front of just one spectator, when he decided to change the ending of the scene. Instead of using a gun to kill himself at the end of a scene, he placed his head in a noose. The initial spectator departed unknowingly and the actor was discovered unconscious by a second spectator, who rushed to his aid. An investigation has been launched into the theatre's safety procedures.

Acting is a tough business. Our message to all of you young thespians out there is, "Stay safe." Any immersive theatre production you can walk away from is a good immersive theatre production!

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* Police in Japan are investigating a series of thefts involving more then 400 hand straps taken from public commuter trains.

* A Swedish website is allowing users to "trump" Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by blasting him with a virtual trumpet.

* A British museum said the mousetrap that caught an invading rodent recently wasn't there for pest control, it was a 155-year-old piece on display.

* An Australian man who found something "vile" when he bit into a piece of KFC fried chicken likely received a "kidney or lung," the chain said.

* A group of naturists in Canada have traded in wetsuits for birthday suits and begun a series of nude scuba diving events -- despite the fact that it's still wintertime.

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JOHNATHAN McCLAIN, from AMC’s critically acclaimed drama, Mad Men, is our featured guest this week.

Previously, he was the lead in TV Land’s comedy, Retired at 35, starring alongside George Segal and Jessica Walter. Before that, he was seen in series regular roles on UPN’s The Bad Girl’s Guide starring Jenny McCarthy.

His television work includes a recurring role on 24, and guest appearances on The Glades, Scoundrels, Medium, CSI, Law & Order: SVU, Without a Trace, CSI: Miami, and Happy Family with John Larroquette and Christine Baranski, amongst others. On film, he appeared in the Academy Award nominated Far From Heaven.

At the age of 21, JOHNATHAN moved to Chicago where he wrote and began performing his critically acclaimed one-man show, Like It Is. The Chicago Reader proclaimed, “If we’re ever to return to a day when theatre matters, we’ll need a few hundred more artists with McClain’s vision and courage.” On the heels of its critical and commercial success, the show subsequently moved to New York where JOHNATHAN was compared favorably to solo performance visionaries such as Eric Bogosian, John Leguizamo, and Anna Deavere Smith.

JOHNATHAN recently joined up with friend and former DAMAGES writer Adam Stein to write, produce and act in a series of satirical short films. The videos are available for viewing on funnyordie.com. On the radio, he has been a writer and on-air contributor to the Public Radio International series Fair Game, on which he tried his best to make light of political issues, having occasional success. In his spare time JOHNATHAN is active in the world of Slam Poetry; and with his unique style which he describes as “e.e. cummings meets Eminem,” has competed in and won dozens of poetry slams around the country.