Well, hi! This week's episode of How Was Your Week features author, radio host, documentary filmmaker and wonderful, brilliant British person JON RONSON. And this is great news because he is the best! Listen and enjoy as Julie and Jon discuss some of the new mental disorders that will be included in the new edition of the DSM, which Kubrick film is Jon's favorite, the plot of Mr. Death, why conspiracy theorists always have to annoyingly embelish the unbelievable, and what precisely The Bilderberg Group is.

Also--gnats and the disruptive horror they inflict in our night lives, Honey Boo Boo and what the Emmys can learn from her family, the bizarre piñata-related email friends may or may not have signed Julie up for, the time it rained chicken bones, and a new, cross-eyed fuzz-mush has stolen America's heart.

Plus! Why you should be buying canned instead of boxed soup! An exciting announcement about the next How Was Your Week Live on Oct 17th! Live-snarking, and its consequences! And a new affectation is born, and it tastes like Maker's Mark!

Bottoms up! This show is as sweet as an Old-Fashioned and as modern as a Sex on the Beach.

This week's episode of HWYW is very exciting and glamorous!

First of all, FRAN DRESCHER is here! This is incredibly amazing because Fran Drescher is a huge star whom everybody loves! Fran talks to Julie about her audition for This is Spinal Tap, her "Trash Cancer" project, reading 50 Shades of Grey, speaking at the DNC, marrying three gay couples, and why she doesn't really like to shop.

Then, Gawker's ADRIAN CHEN is here to tell us about why a lady named Chen got sent a bunch of boxes after Adrien pissed off 4Chan & Reddit, what the Horse_ebooks guy's deal is, the erotic illustrator whose work is all over Wikipedia, Swag Babies, and Foreign Social Networks.

Note: This conversation is, on occasion, sexually explicit. Warn or shoo the kiddies!

Also, the difference between Italian and Spanish dogs! Ottavia Bourdain's classy Twitter retort! A funny name for a baby! The physical equivalent of a whisper! And Patti Stanger proves once more she is made out of snakes.

HWYW is the podcast in red when everybody else is wearing tan!

Happy Shmashion Week! This week brings a new installation of the HWYW book club, and you are very excited about it. Because you believe reading is fun-damental!

Our one and only guest on this episode of How Was Your Week is David Sirota, author of the incredible book Back To Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything. It is a marvelous read, and David and Julie discuss the following interesting things together:

>Why Ronald Reagan is ine-fucking-scapable
>What "The Huxtable Effect" is, and how it relates to our handsome president
>How The Army got a makeover
>Rambo 2, The Big Chill, Back to the Future and other HUGELY IMPORTANT 80s films  that say so much more than you think they do about the ideology of their time
>What you used to not be able to advertise to kids and how that changed what we know as TV
>Why the 1950s came back in the 1980s, and what Vietnam had to do with it

Also, Julie has one complaint about Spanx, continues to battle guh-nats, sees Poltergeist for the first time and has some pretty important questions about whether Zelda Rubenstein was lying or sexy.

Plus! A new Twitter account that confusingly promotes not harming oneself! Something only Andre Leon Talley can see! And some creepy ideas about Dr. Oz. A fascinating and terrific episode for you right now. Enjoy it!

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The new episode of How Was Your Week is brimming with quality goodness. First, Wayne White and Neil Berkeley, the subject and director of the new documentary, Beauty is Embarrassing, are here to talk about Wayne's career as an artist who helped shape the visual direction of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, which rock star Chicky Baby was based on, why Randy scared the shit out of people, and how to work through a creative block.

Then, W. Kamau Bell, host of the FX show Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, is here to talk about how his mom embarrassed him as a kid, his evolving love affair with the Obamas, what Chris Rock sounds like when he's angry, and whether he's ever seen a Tyler Perry movie.

Also, Julie's apartment is riddled with guh-nats! What it's like to see JAWS for the first time! Fashion's Night Out and its horrible consequences! And an abundant use of the C-word. This is an edgy and interesting podcast program!