Great innovations are in the air on this week's podcast.

First we talk about this week's unveiling of the iPhone 5, what it means for civilization and how it has changed our world with a man who has been studying the digital space since before it even had the name.  David Lidsky, the deputy editor of Fast Company magazine joins us.

Then: Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master has been the most anticipated film released in years.  And now that it is here, it is certain to be one of the most discussed.  Here to get the ball rolling is our panel of entertainment intellectuals featuring Emily Yoshida and Jim Gibson. 

PLUS!  Thoughts on the election and the backlash era!

And interstitial music by by Kevin MacLeod!

Two of the great stars of the Fake Twitternet join us today.

First, we have the creator/babysitter of the Internet's finest comedy Twitter account @tweenhobo, Alena Smith joins us and chats about her voyage to creating the leading voice of the Boxcar Beiber generation.

We are then joined by Alex Litel, a brilliant young internet provocateur whose parody of Nikki Finke sent Twitter reeling and fooled no less than the NY Times. 

Plus!  Thoughts on the Twitter cool kids table and Twitter self-promoters.

And interstitial music by by Kevin MacLeod! 

First up, we chat with actress Melanie Lynskey, about her new film Hello I Must be Going, coming up in the profession from New Zealand and her cult classic breakthrough performance in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures.  

Then we are joined by our panel of entertainment intellectuals to pore over the ruins of summer. Emily Yoshida and Jim Gibson take one final stab at the season past talking Dark Knight vs. Avengers, Newsroom vs. Breaking Bad.

Plus!  Thoughts on political conventions in the Backlash Era!

And interstitial music by by Kevin MacLeod!