WELCOME TO OUR FIFTIETH EPISODE BESTIES. It has been a pleasure sharing stories and news with you (cannot WAIT for the next fifty).

In today’s chockas episode we chat about the controversy at the BAFTA awards (we’re angry with the BBC), and Manon Bannerman’s exist from KATSEYE. In the news we dive into the polls around One Nation’s success in victoria, the arts funding CRISIS, and the revealed plans to construct a new Trump tower on the Gold Coast (shocking!). Plus, we debrief after we both saw Lorde at her first night in Melbourne.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• BBC Nixes ‘Free Palestine’ Tribute In BAFTAs - Al Jazeera
• BAFTA & BBC Apologise For Racial Slur During Awards Show - ABC
• The Lone Black Girl In Girl Groups - The Simply Simone
• Why Manon Bannerman’s KATSEYE Exit Hurts So Much for Black Fans - Cosmopolitan
• Trump Tower 🤮
• The Shadow Arts Minister Replies
• The arts funding crisis in Victoria
• Lamestream’s coverage of Pauline Hanson
• Roy Morgan Research

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.

Massive week for culture and news, with Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, the Olympics kicking off in Italy (Ryan has some notes), and closer to home the arrival of Isaac Herzog in Australia (and the protests that followed suit). Also—it's Broadly Diva time!

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Reality With Ali (Simran's Broadly Diva pick)
• Jamaal Burkman On Bad Bunny's Performance
• 'Unfathomable state violence': NSW Police set upon Muslim prayer group, protesters at Sydney rally
• 6 Bad Bunny halftime show political Easter eggs you missed
• Israeli security cabinet approves rules to increase control over West Bank
• Trump opposes Israel’s West Bank annexation, official says, as outcry grows
• Catherine O'Hara's cause of death revealed as pulmonary embolism
• Khia Asylum | Know Your Meme

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.

We’re back babes x Big episode for us as we yap about development protests in Brighton, aluminium smelters, women in the workplace, and Social Media Activism™

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We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• The decision to close Meanjin misunderstands its wider importance. Australian culture deserves better
• Who killed Meanjin?
• Bowen says cutting emissions by more than 70% ‘not achievable’ as 2035 target criticised from all sides | Australian politics | The Guardian
• First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.

Simran is going to hate the title I gave this episode but I really do hope that you, dear reader, love it — Ryan

On this week’s episode we chat about the tiffin lady, Melbourne’s favourite ferris wheel, Gaza, and the far right. It’s a whirlwind—a bit like contemporary life at the moment. Love you!

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Full circle: Melbourne’s beleaguered Star ferris wheel to turn again | Victoria | The Guardian
• Al Jazeera Journalists
• Australia will recognise Palestine
• Nazi Rally
• Ryan’s Newsletter

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.

Sydney Sweeney might be a nazi, Sydney turned out for Palestine, Penny Wong’s a mess, Up Bank is losing their mind, and Simran & Ryan fall in love—it’s basically a romcom this episode.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.

Ryan’s is fanging to audition for Big Brother, while Simran’s all about Love Island USA. Pedro Pascal is maybe getting cancelled but maybe we need to ignore that, meanwhile the internet is on shaky ground, Australian citizens are getting caught in Israel’s response to the Freedom Flotilla, and Melbourne’s social housing is under threat.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Email Your MP: Activate A UN Peacekeeping Force To Break The Blockade
• Freedom Flotilla Intercepted By Israel On The Way To Gaza
• Big Brother Is So Back!
• Are Love Island USA'S JaNa Craig & Kenny Rodriguez Breaking Up?

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.

The world may be falling apart but here on Broadly Relevant it’s Broadly Diva week—with a facedown between New York’s mayoral hopeful and a star of Love Island. Head to IG to vote for your favourite. In the meanwhile, we yap about Remi Ashton’s wedding, Brazil’s realistic doll obsession, the mushroom trial, and war. Just your average week in 2025 really.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Hyper-realistic baby dolls spark moral panic and legislation in Brazil | Brazil | The Guardian
• Exclusive: ABC Mushroom trial podcast appears to breach suppression order
• Lana Del Rey Attended OG YouTuber Remi Ashten’s Wedding
• Love Island's Huda
• Lucy Hale and Ian Harding “Stand Behind” Pretty Little Liars’ Controversial Age Gap
• The Erin Patterson mushroom trial media coverage

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Why Does Everything Sound Like an Audition Song for 'The Voice?'
• Who’s Afraid of Gen Z’s Squeaky-Clean, Backflipping Bro? - The Atlantic
• One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed - The American Prospect
• How to Help Affected People Amid ICE Raids, Deportation, and Protests in LA
• 'No Kings' protests against Donald Trump
• Protests in LA
• Pedro Pascal Look-Alike Contest Crowns Winner In NYC
• Review: ‘Materialists’ isn’t quite a romance worth swooning over
• Drake and Jagmeet Singh beef

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.

This weeks episode is one of our best, if you don’t mind us saying. We dive into neo-luddism and the way some folks in Gen Z are rejecting technology—I mean how else are we meant to survive the information hurricane we’re living through. Plus, we chat about Kamala and Lorde’s trips to Australia, Victoria’s Machete Ban, Savers, Star Wars, and Gucci’s not-sari.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Transparent methaphone
• Light Phone III review
• ‘My parents didn’t have a clue’: why many digital natives would not give their kids smartphones
• Savers is a thrift store – and we’re in a cost-of-living crisis. So why is the US chain dividing Australian shoppers?
• Northland shopping centre locked down
• Alia Bhatt Didn't Wear 'The First Gucci Saree' At Cannes 2025
• Lamestream
• Kamala Harris takes swipe at Musk and warns world to ‘remember the 1930s’ at Gold Coast real estate conference | Kamala Harris | The Guardian

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite personality hires Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Tell a friend about us and we'll love you forever! Otherwise, we'll see you next week with a new episode.

Recorded on unceded Bunurong and Wurundjeri country by two friends who met on Kombumerri country. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. Join us in ​Paying the Rent​.