Two very important women from the forefront of two very important movements join the podcast today.

First up we chat with Patty Schemel, drummer for the iconic Grunge band Hole and subject of a new documentary Hit So Hard which looks at her rise to music stardom, tragic flameout and downfall that followed which led to her living on the streets trying to score drugs and the heroic road back.

Then we visit with Molly McAleer aka Molls, internet icon, writer for Two Broke Girls and co-founder of the internet sensastion Hello Giggles. We speak of the hype/backlash paradigm and Molls' long road to build something lasting out of internet fame. 

And as ever thoughts on the downfall of civilization on this the podcast devoted to the decline and the fall of our culture. 

From pets to hype on this week's podcast.

First we chat with Anna David, relationship and sex advisor and author of a new Amazon single, Animal Attraction on a single lady's relationship with the cats in her life.

Then we convene our panel of entertainment intellectuals to discuss the latest in a high flying TV season, for good and ill.  TV Guide.com's Denise Martin, Esquire columnist Stacey Grenrock Woods and entertainment genius Jim Gibson, discuss Girls - the raves, the hypes, the backlash and the counterbacklash, Mad Men, Suburgatory, The New Girl, Community and everything the world's abuzz about on the airwaves. 

An omnibus mega-episode featuring three guests from across the spectrum of the fall of civilization.

First author Neal Pollack joins to discuss his new novel Jewball, a 1930's hard boiled thriller set in the razor-sharp elbows world of depression era Jewish basketball leagues.

Gawker writer Hamilton Nolan pops in to chat about his visit to a national rally of the Ku Klux Klan

And then we are joined by one of the stars of the Bravo show Shahs of Sunset, Mercedes "MJ" Javid talks about embracing life as a reality star and national role model.

Plus deep thoughts, interstitial music and hating on Titanic!

An interview with Duncan Roy, an independent film director whose life was plunged into a nightmare out of Kafka when a bureaucratic glitch led him to be imprisoned for three months in LA County's Men central jail, with no explanation of why he was being held or to whom he could appeal.

On the streets again now, he shares his horrific tale.