We’re back in the podcast studio for a tea-stuffed whirlwind of poddy x. Ben and JLo are over it but maybe Jane Fonda called it, Macklemore cancels shows in over the gen0c!de in Sudan, a gay penguin is dead, Chappell Roan is setting boundaries, Roxanne Tickle wins her sex discrimination battle against Giggle, and Gen Zs obsession with nostalgia reaches a new level. See you on the other side cuties.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Botswana diamonds: World's second-biggest stone found by Canadian firm Lucara
• Fast fashion giant Shein finds child labour cases in supply chain
• Roxanne Tickle speaks after landmark 'what is a woman' case win | SBS News
• Sphen the penguin, known for same-sex love story, dies at Sydney aquarium aged 11 - ABC News
• French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO - The Verge
• Chappell Roan’s statement
• Macklemore’s Statement on Sudan
• Why TikTok conspiracy theorists are saying a “second lockdown” is going to happen.
• Mackelmore accidentally helps cops arrest fugitive

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You see how we are back to our regular posting schedule? Very demure. Very mindful. You see how we discuss culture, news, and dive into the extractive nature of art-making? Very cutesie.

This week we chat about protests in India, Blake Lively’s messiness, Thailand’s new PM, and heaps more. Hope you enjoy cuties x

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This might be our most demure episode yet. We chat about breakdancing at the Olympics, Brooke Schofield, riots in the UK, politicians trying to be funny, and astronauts stuck in space.

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This week we recap some highlights from week 1 of the Olympics, reality tv tea, electoral mayhem around the world, and deep dive into Project 2025.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Project 2025, explained: What is it? Who’s behind it? | Vox

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Shocking new data has come out on the prevalence of strangulation in the bedroom, which we have a big chat about, plus we explore the possibility of ethical tourism and whether we’ve managed it before. In other news, Olivia Culpo’s wedding dress is out, but Radhika Merchant’s wedding dress is in, French & British elections have turned out broadly leftist, and the US is withdrawing their aid pier from the Gaza strip.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Can Ethical Tourism Actually Exist? | Simran Pasricha
• The Tana Mongeau & Alissa Violet Drama On TikTok, Explained
• Radhika Merchant Haldi Outfit
• Strangulation during sex: new research

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Get keen for a piping hot plate of gossip from Glastonbury Festival, featuring Paul Mescal, Tilda Swinton, and Louis Tomlinson. We’re dealing with. major cases of FOMO so just had to get it all out of our system.

Plus, it’s election season. We chat about the French election (and how their electoral system works), the British, and the American—but to end on a brighter note, we chat about the rise of the pop girlies in 2024 and the way they’re making everything feel ok. And is that ok?

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Banksy launches artwork during Idles’ Glastonbury set
• Glastonbury One of the World’s Greenest Festivals
• The Brooke Schofield And Clinton Kane Drama
• Tilda Swinton introducing Orbital’s Set | TikTok
• Hundreds of candidates pull out of French run-off in bid to foil far right | Al Jazeera
• Fatima Payman was excluded from Labor caucus over her support for a Palestinian state but she has won an unlikely ally - ABC News

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This week we’re thinking ahead to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, chatting about the drama regarding the fecally infused river they’ve got there, plus the state of queerness at the games. In other news, Julian Assange is free, the Taliban refuse to platform women’s voices, Chappell Roan is a star, and Stonehenge got a new paint job.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• There's no openly gay player in the men's AFL. The silence is deafening - ABC News
• Chappel Roan on Jimmy Fallon
• UN Doha Talks Exclude Afghan Women
• Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Wants To Compete, Not Defend Her Womanhood : Live Updates: The Tokyo Olympics : NPR
• Olympics: Namibia’s sprinters highlight a flawed testosterone testing system
• Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Wants To Compete, Not Defend Her Womanhood : Live Updates: The Tokyo Olympics : NPR
• Restrictions on transgender athletes at Paris 2024
• Which sports will allow trans athletes at the Paris Olympics? | Context
• MONA fires back by hanging Picasso’s in toilet
• Why the hearing to free Julian Assange is happening on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific - ABC News
• Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters
• Sports are supposed to be for all – but new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sport

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Taylor Swift snubs Charli XCX of her number one moment, Australia’s getting New Pandas, Robert Irwin & Pauline Hanson are fighting, and digital news is having a moment. Plus, we chat to Clare Rankine about making it in the arts.

Clare Rankine is a comedy producer and writer who has performed on stages across the world, including Upright Citizens Brigade, Los Angeles and House Of Yes, New York. She's written for Netflix Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald and the ABC.

@clare.rankine on Instagram

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• New pair of giant pandas for Adelaide Zoo, Wang Wang and Fu Ni to return to China by end of year - ABC News
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report
• Silence from Robert Irwin on defamation threat against Pauline Hanson as deadline to remove satirical video passes - ABC News
• Victoria to raise age of criminal responsibility to 12 with no exceptions | Youth justice | The Guardian

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your fave 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 pop girlies are going hard, between Chappell, Jojo, Charli, Sabrina, we’re eating well. Plus, we chat about changes to domestic violence laws in WA, the challenges of negotiating ceasefire, and in our deep dive we go deep about fears that we’re behind in our careers, and the struggles of hyper-independence.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• New laws in WA would take guns away from people accused of DV
• Animal Rising activists paste Wallace and Gromit image over portrait of King Charles at London art gallery - ABC News
• Australian police forces have a domestic violence problem and we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg - ABC News
• Police Domestic Violence: Data Shows 40 Percent of Cops Abuse Family
• Charli XCX Seemed To Shade Camila Cabello's "I Luv It" On TikTok

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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 week we chat about Rising: Melbourne's international arts festival, in particular the brilliant Counting & Cracking. Doctor Who comes up with its brilliant new star Ncuti Gatwa, and we dive into the delicacy that is a rat boyfriend. Plus, in the news is QLD's trial of 50c public transit, Mexico's new president, and and Indian airline's attempts to make air travel safer for women. And to top it all off, we bring back Broadly Diva.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Free fares: two charts – Daniel Bowen
• Rat Boyfriend -Pedestrian News
• Claudia Sheinbaum makes history elected as Mexico's first female president : NPR
• IndiGo Now Highlights Female Passengers On Seat Map At Check-In
• Regarding Rising | FourAM Substack
• Now Glasgow's infamous Willy Wonka Experience is turned into a musical
• X has new rules that officially allow porn now - The Verge
• Doctor Who episode 6 shocks with a Black Mirror-style surprise - Polygon
• Queensland government to trial 50 cent public transport fares to ease cost of living, congestion as state election looms - ABC News
• Melanie Perkins - Wikipedia
• RISING: Counting and Cracking
• Mexico elects its first female president: What does it mean? - Missing Perspectives

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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​.