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?

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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

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• 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

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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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• 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

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Neutrality is dead and we literally killed it—but before we get to that, we’ve gotta chat about the rise of Neo-Naziism (sh*t’s bad) in Australia, our picks for the next pope, Jojo Siwa’s messy messy reality tv breakup, Lorde’s latest single, and the tea with Michelle Obama.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Lorde: “What Was That” Track Review | Pitchfork
• Who will be the next Pope? The top candidates in an unpredictable process
• Protestors And Police Face Off At 'Let Women Speak' Anti-Trans Rally In Melbourne - Star Observer
• Melbourne Storm Cancels ANZAC Day Welcome To Country - PTV
• Abbie Chatfield speaks on Kath Ebbs & JoJo Siwa breakup
• Vote Compass Australia 2025 - ABC News
• Build a Ballot - Get election ready
• Melbourne protests - ABC News

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First things first! The Australian election is coming up soon and this is your CRITICAL reminder to check your enrolment with the Australian Electoral Commision. If you’ve moved in the past three years you gotta re-enrol so you can vote in the correct electorate for where you live. It takes literally a minute and you can do it online with the AEC.

Second of all, we recorded again! This week we talk about the devastating earthquake that struck Burma & Thailand, noting the difficulties Burma’s facing in recovery efforts. Trump comes up, as does a little yap about the election—and culturally speaking we’re all over Chappell Roan, White Lotus, and Paige and Craig.

Plus, today’s deep dive is into the raging debate between new and traditional media, and what you’re even meant to do to have a varied media diet.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen says US will not get the country - ABC News
• Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House | Donald Trump | The Guardian
• Your house is becoming uninsurable due to climate risks. Albo and Dutton won’t mention it
• Myanmar earthquake: More survivors pulled from rubble as hundreds still missing
• Myanmar quake response hampered by lack of equipment as international teams arrive - ABC News

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Romance is on our minds this week—that and the incommunicable weight of the world’s slide into fascism.

This week we’re yapping about nine rules for dating, white women appropriating Indian culture, wild morning routines, and the latest YouTube trend.

Plus, Trump gutted the Department of Education (boo), the Australian Greens want to build missiles in Australia (???), and another election is coming up soon (Canada!)

Sending you HEAPS of love divas!

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Trump Education Department Executive Order
• Longest Ocean Voyage You Could Ever Sail
• Greens Drones & Missiles Policy
• Canada's Election
• 9 Modern Dating Rules
• Vernekar Family & Ani And Hope TikTok Drama Explained
• YouTube's Latest Challenge: Walking Across UK In A Straight Line
• 'That' Viral Morning Routine

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Cyclone Alfred was all over our minds this week, as we yap about pop culture, Alfred, and bring back Broadly Diva

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We’re on the precipice of Melbourne Fashion Festival, new music from Rihanna, Chappell Roan, and we couldn’t be more feral. Plus, Kylie Minogue got her flowers! We yap about elections in Germany, the upcoming federal election, and trans rights in the US. Plus… has skincare gone too far with this latest trend?

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Hunter Schafer on her passport gender marker
• Having Sex Before Dinner
• Is anyone having sex after their 12-step night time skincare routine?
• The Morning Shed Creator Speaks Out
• Why Tech CEOs Are Drawn To Ayahuasca And Other Psychedelic Drugs
• 2016 Makeup (in praise of artifice)
• Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You | EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
• Peter Dutton claims Labor is fast-tracking citizenship so that migrants can vote. Here’s what we know | Australian election 2025 | The Guardian
• Labor and the Coalition have pledged to raise GP bulk billing. Here’s what the Medicare boost means for patients
• Ernst Röhm - Wikipedia
• Conservatives win German election but far-right AfD doubles support | Germany | The Guardian
• The Radical True Meaning Of Self-Care: It’s Not Face Masks & Bubble Baths

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The Aussie election’s almost upon us and the world’s a mess. Pop diva’s are popping off and polls are panicking us. Elon Musk is up to no good, but at least we’re in a golden age of Reality TV.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Creative Australia back-pedals on 2026 Venice Biennale selection in response to ‘divisive debate’
• Lizzo says Only God can cancel her
• Shakira cancels Lima concert after being hospitalised during global tour | Shakira | The Guardian
• Peter Dutton most likely to be next prime minister, according to YouGov poll - ABC News
• Why Elon Musk brings his children to work
• The TikToker/ male podcaster who's scared to read.
• Elon Musk and his son at the White House
• Is Peter Dutton deliberately blowing the bloke whistle ahead of the election? 
• Peter Dutton, Peggy Sue: Young women target Liberal with meme

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