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Your favorite sisters - other than your own - are back with this all new episode. This week, the list of wild creatures invading Jamie's backyard grows and Paula tries to produce enough spit to find out who she is.

Plus, a discussion about the HBO show Girls leads to stories of how people react when they find out you're pregnant. All this plus Uglee and Awkward Moments of the Week and a shopping tip on what jeans moms should NOT be buying.

Thanks for listening! We hope you enjoy and share our show!

This week, Guy is in New York but not to fear! Margaret Wappler fills in as host with Wynter Mitchell and Karen Tongson to talk about music’s biggest night, The Grammys. They talk about everything, from the production to the performances to the winners and almost more importantly, the losers. Music critic for outlets like Slate, NPR, and Pitchfork Chris Molanphy pops in to provide context about The Grammys and to deliver his opinion on the results. Plus the panelists share what they’re all about this week, and what they can’t stop listening to.

Karen Tongson, Wynter Mitchell, Margaret Wappler, and Chris Molanphy

Jams:

Margaret Wappler - Kourosh Yaghmaei - Leila

Wynter Mitchell - Bambaata - Unconditional

Karen Tongson - Prince - Starfish and Coffee

Each week we’ll add everyone’s jams to this handy Spotify playlist.

You can let us know what you think of Pop Rocket and suggest topics in our Facebook group or via @PopRocket on Twitter.

Other Links:

Buffalo Bill’s Dance Scene

Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond -  You Don’t Bring Me Flowers

Vic Berger- Donald Trump’s Huge Announcement

Vic Berger - Jim Bakkers Buckets

Produced by Christian Dueñas and Kara Hart for MaximumFun.org

Guest XAVIER BURGIN (writer, director, and Twitter power user) tells us about how his need craft story lead to a colossal twitter following, and about his online encounter with Lena Dunham & Amy Schumer.  We discuss an article proclaiming the #OscarsSoWhite movement to be at an end, and we look at some studies that say not so fast.

Kelli Dunham met me in a park in Brooklyn to talk about her days as a nun. She, for real, lived in a nunnery and did all that garbage. Can you imagine living like that? Join us for a beautiful day in the park.

On today's show I talk to comedian and writer Yassir Lester. Originally from Marietta, GA, Yassir is based in Los Angeles. An accomplished stand-up, Yassir is also a TV writer and has written for Adult Swim shows like Black Dynamite and Mr. Pickles. He's a judge on the MTV show Snack-Off as well, and currently he's a writer on the forthcoming season of the HBO series Girls. Also in the second half, I talk about depression and microaggressions with the wonderful Heben Nigatu, a senior editor at BuzzFeed and co-host of the podcast Another Round.

This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on iTunes, follow me on Twitter.

At Soho House West Hollywood, LDM's Adrian Todd Zuniga sat down with actor/screenwriter/director Alex Karpovsky (Ray Ploshansky from Girls, director of Red Flag and Rubberneck) to discuss Twitter, creativity, hang-ups and all things in between. 

His bio from AlexKarpovsky.com: Alex Karpovsky studied visual ethnography at Oxford University before wasting the next few years of his life trying to become the next Andy Kaufman. He now acts and makes movies. Alex's award-winning debut feature, THE HOLE STORY, earned him a slot in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 new faces of independent film and a plastic key to a small city in Northern Minnesota. His subsequent feature-length films include WOODPECKER (SXSW 2008),TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP (SXSW 2009), RUBBERNECK (Tribeca Film Festival 2012) and RED FLAG (Los Angeles Film Festival 2012). As an actor, Alex currently plays the role of Ray Ploshansky in the HBO comedy series GIRLS and appears in the last two Coen Brothers films - INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and the upcoming HAIL, CAESAR!

In this week's packed episode we skip "In and Out Points" to wind down six various shows. We review HBO's The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (3:20), Netflix's Bloodline (17:34) and Glee's two-part series finale entitled "2009" and "Dreams Come True" (24:48). We also review Girls' fourth season (39:37), Looking's second season (49:15) and the premiere episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden (58:03).

This week on the Uglee Truth, Producer Dub sits in for Paula to help bring the planet back into balance after the estrogen overload of episode 100 and Jamie doesn't understand what's so hard about getting tickets to the San Diego Comic-Con. Plus talk on spoiler alerts, the Oscars and Jamie has come up with her own Uglee Awards too. Listen and learn peeps - as always, thanks for the download.

This week's show opens with Jamie recalling one of the more insensitive childhood games she created and Paula has an epic toilet-related, awkward moment... at Jamie's house of all places. Then the Ugs share tales of their kids' poo adventures, random illness remedies from their Facebook friends and, of course, reality TV news including the Uglee take on the cast of the next Celebrity Apprentice. Enjoy the show and get your friends and enemies on the Uglee Truth bandwagon!

In this week's episode Jamie is excited about her annual Fantasy Football draft and Paula is headed to a wedding... which spurs memories of the marriage proposals the Ugs have received. Plus there were two award shows last week so let the Uglee judging begin. As usual, no one is safe... from Lena's dress to Beyonce's dancing. Of course, there are Uglee & Awkward Moments too so download, listen and share an all new Uglee Truth today!

Episode 62: Craig and Jeremy have more nipple discussions, talk about how racist and homophobic Jeff Dunham has, Craig tells the pointless story of him making a girl laugh and then not following up, and close it up with talk of a warrior dash slash BBQ slash pool party. 

Give the Uglees a hot mess topic like Lena Dunham to work with and you can just kick back and enjoy the show. And that's just the beginning of an episode filled with awkward experiences like bodies not meant for bikinis, a shoeless manicurist and Paula's favorite ways to save a few bucks (and cause rashes). Download and share The Uglee Truth podcast #59 today and enjoy some funny females!

“Many of Jesus’ words about money involved warnings. Jesus recognized that the chief competitor to our dependence on Him is our money. When we have enough cash, food, and possessions, we can become self-reliant. Therefore, money is not seen by God as a benign and neutral thing. Money is power, and power competes with God for supremacy in our lives.” – Rich Stearns, President, World Vision US and author of The Hole in Our Gospel writing in the introduction to Secure: Discovering True Financial Freedom

Money is one of the most powerful forces in our life. In fact, it’s always been that way. Going back thousands of years, Isaiah warns the people of Israel to not be enamored with the wealth of the nations around them because of how it will seduce them.

In this latest podcast I talk a little about my personal “epiphany” and how God led me to scripture to better understand money’s seductive power to lead me away from Him.

When I went through my own personal financial crisis it was easy to attribute the condition to the wrong things. As I look back now, some of the issues were self-inflicted wounds and others came about because God was taking me on a journey to discover true security.

Let me share some of my thoughts in my latest podcast regarding my book, Secure: Discovering True Financial Freedom.