S5 Ep6: Down In The Hole with Patty Schemel
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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S5 Ep.6 Down in the Hole with Patty Schemel
This week’s guest is the legendary drummer from Hole, Patty Schemel and this one hits hard. Patty talks growing up with parents who met in AA, helping light the fuse of the Seattle grunge explosion, and coming up through Sub Pop Sundays with Sybil and Doll Squad before getting the call from Earth’s Dylan Carlson to join Hole.
Speed. Alcohol. Fame. Needles. Streets. Relapse. Recovery.
From loading it all into the spoon to a surreal run-in with Michael Jackson, Patty tells the whole story with zero bullshit.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Keith. |
| 0:00.9 | I'm Reno. |
| 0:01.9 | What's up? |
| 0:02.4 | I'm Danny. |
| 0:03.4 | And I'm Patty, and it's all bad. |
| 0:08.5 | As you might have noticed, there's no more ads on this show. |
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| 0:15.5 | So please subscribe on Patreon. |
| 0:17.6 | We got special gift for you and tell a friend. |
| 0:22.0 | Patty, thanks so much for coming on. |
| 0:24.0 | Thanks for having me. Yeah, we're stoked. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Yeah. We've been talking for |
| 0:29.2 | the last hour. I know. We're all out of story. I mean, it was like a full on out in the parking |
| 0:34.6 | lot that then a huddle of us kept talking in a big bundle all the way into here. |
| 0:40.1 | We should have been, we should start recording outside. |
| 0:42.7 | So by the time we get in here, then we'll have. |
| 0:45.4 | I always feel that way. |
| 0:47.0 | But like when you have fun, cool, interesting people, you always find a third gear. |
| 0:51.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:51.7 | Always. |
| 0:52.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | There's never, we never run out of steam all the way. It's, it's cool to, to find out who we have in common, too. I mean, we all know people from different places. Yeah. It is really wild the amount of, like, weird crossover. Oh, my God. It is nutty. Like, I, uh, I'm doing this thing that work with this other company. We're collaborating on this project. And like one of the creative directors, I jumped on a call, jumped on a call with them yesterday, in the middle of the day. And he was like, talking about business. And then at the end, he's like, hey, I noticed on instagram that you're like running around with dead city mike no i swear god i was about shout |
| 1:33.2 | out dead city mike and i was like that's so crazy like i would have never thought that this |
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