In this short episode we see Crabb morph into Sales as she bangs on about a Philip Roth-esque novel and then also recommends a music show! Plus, discussion on a couple of must-see films and podcasts.

• Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• [Leigh was recalling: Harry Flashman - a character originating in the 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days]
• Masters of Sex (2013 - 2016) starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan
• How Powerful We Are by Sally Rugg
• The Australian Dream (2019) Adam Goodes, Stan Grant (see Official Trailer)
• Too Peas In A Podcast Mandy and Kate laugh (a lot) and cry as they chat about parenting multiples with disabilities and special needs
• Dylan Alcott's acceptance speech TV Week Logie Awards 2019
• The Set (ABC) presented by Linda Marigliano and Dylan Alcott

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By all accounts it was an egg-cellent evening in Adelaide. Listen now to see if it was all it was cracked up to be. Recorded on Friday August 23 2019 at Adelaide Town Hall.

• A percentage of the proceeds from all our shows goes to charity, for this Adelaide show to Muscular Dystrophy Association of South Australia. (See the full Charities listing here).
• Give it a crack! Crabb shows us her egg topper
• Want to know more about eggs!? Try: A Visual Guide to Eggs (via Epicurious)
• Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn
• Bluey: ABC Kids (iView)
• Bluey, the hit Australian children's cartoon, is set to go global (7.30, 9 Apr 2019)
• Paul McCartney is spotted making his own guitar picks by flattening coins on a railway track (Daily Mail, 20 August 2019)
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Truants by Kate Weinberg
• See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill
• ABC's Sabra Lane breaks down on air over child abandoned by surrogate parents by Amanda Meade (Guardian, 20 Aug 2019)
• Tim Fischer interview "regional Australia would be Siberia without the ABC." Interviewed by Leigh Sales (7.30, 27 Mar 2019)
• Poster Boy: Memoir of Art and Politics by Peter Drew
• Sam Mac: Sammacinsta: Sam Mac's Instagram account:
• Bryan Brown's ticket from Bankstown to Palm Beach: Conversations (with Sarah Kanowski, 9 Aug 2019)
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap (Quarterly Essay; 75) by Annabel Crabb

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After leaving us hanging in anticipation in Episode 115, Crabb and Sales (a.k.a. "the monsters") return to put us out of our misery.

• The Price of Shame Monica Lewinsky TED2015 (March 2015)
• Shame and Survival by Monica Lewinsky (Vanity Fair, June 2014)
• Slate's Slow Burn Podcast (Season2: The Impeachment of Bill Clinton)
• Monica Lewinsky's Twitter response to the Mike Pence comment: 'Spend more time on your knees than on the internet'
• Waltzing The Dragon With Benjamin Law (ABC iView)
• Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
• Queer Eye: Season 4 (2019) [Jonathan Van Ness (Wikipedia)]
• Yesterday (2019) starring Himesh Patel and Lily James (see Official Trailer)
• Stan & Ollie (2019) starring Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly (see Official Trailer)
• Jill Bilcock: Dancing The Invisible (2017) documentary about Australian film editor Jill Bilcock (see Official Trailer)
• 500 Days of Summer (2009) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel (see Official Trailer)
• Honor Freeman: Ghost objects 27 Jul - 29 Sep 2019 Gallery 16, Art Gallery of South Australia
• Honor Freeman on making sense of grief through ceramics (By Zoe Freney, Art Guide, 25 July 2019; includes images of some artworks included in the Ghost objects exhibition.)
• Motherless Child by Elizabeth Strout (New Yorker, August 5 & 12, 2019) *Includes Audio version read by Elizabeth Strout.

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In which, among other things, Crabb and Sales lay out their imagined plots for the Top Gun sequel.

• ABC journalist Leigh Sales makes light of yoghurt being thrown at her during Perth event (ABC News, 29 Jul 2019)
• Simple Lemon Yoghurt Cake via Kidspot. (Add some pine nuts and rose petals if you dare!!)
• Here is the cake! Crabb says "Obviously would be nicer with Almonds ..."
• Top Gun: Maverick (Release scheduled June 2020) summary via Wikipedia
• Apollo 11 (2019) Documentary
• 13 Minutes to the Moon (2019) BBC Podcast (See especially Ep 2 Kids in Control)
• Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum website
• David Bowie: Finding Fame (2019) Documentary (On iView until 3 Sep 2019)
• When Ricky Gervais met David Bowie The Graham Norton Show (BBC YouTube)
• Extras S2, Ep 2 The David Bowie Episode. (see link below for the Bowie song)
• Remember that time David Bowie mocked Ricky Gervais' 'fat face' on Extras? (Metro, Monday 11 Jan 2016) Includes video clip of the Bowie song "Chubby little loser".
• Bowie (Bowie's In Space) Flight of the Conchords (via Flight of the Conchords YouTube)
• Shiny (From "Moana") Jemaine Clement (via DisneyMusic YouTube)
• Revisionist History Season 4 Podcast by Malcolm Gladwell (Ep 1 Puzzle Rush: the Law School Admissions Test; Ep 2 The Tortoise and the Hare: Gladwell is prompted to formulate a theory for fixing higher education.)
• Slate's Slow Burn Podcast (Seasons 1 & 2 Watergate & The Impeachment of Bill Clinton)

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Warning for those suffering from Misophonia, Ailurophobia or Cynophobia: this episode includes audible sounds of ginger balls being consumed, a detailed discussion of cats with breasts as well as the sound of a dog attempting to eat the recording device. (i.e. a fairly typical episode).

• Cats: A Look Inside Universal Pictures, YouTube.
• Cats: Official Trailer Universal Pictures, YouTube
• Feline queasy: eight urgent questions about the Cats trailer by Stuart Heritage (Guardian, 19 July 2019)
• Top Gun: Maverick Official Trailer (2020) Paramount Pictures, YouTube
• Hemingway sees the Lion King by Jamie Cricks (McSweeney's, 19 July 2019)
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
• Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science that Shows It by Angela Saini
• S-Town Podcast
• Nowhere Child Podcast by the Australian on the disappearance of William Tyrrell (Caroline Overington)
• The Lady Vanishes Podcast by 7 News on the disappearance on Marion Barter (Bryan Seymour)
• Max Porter: Lanny Sydney Writers Festival 2019 in conversation with Michael Williams.
• Lanny by Max Porter
• Opening Address: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Max Porter and Meg Wolitzer Sydney Writers Festival 2019
• Sydney Writers Festival Podcast List via Omny
• Line of duty: Season 4 (2017)
• The Good Place starring Ted Danson and Kristen Bell
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• A Boris Johson story by Jeremy Vine (The Jeremy Vine Page on Facebook, 13 June 2019. Republished in multiple publications.)
• Boris Johnson's first interview as a frontbencher tells us a lot about who he is by Annabel Crabb (ABC News, 25 July 2019)
• Boris Johnson recites extracts of "The Iliad" in Greek in a conversation with ABC's Annabel Crabb at the Melbourne Writers Festival. (via ABC)

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Despite threatening in the last episode to never speak to Sales again, Crabb decides to bury the hatchet. In return Sales lets Crabb keep chatting well past the 30 minute mark.

• The Yield by Tara June Winch
• The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Author Elizabeth Gilbert on nursing a dying loved one Interviewed by Leigh Sales (7.30, 26 Jun 2019)
• The Loudest Voice (2019) starring Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes
• Russell Crowe talks about his latest role as Roger Ailes Interviewed by Leigh Sales (7.30, 27 Jun 2019)
• Shame and Survival by Monica Lewinsky (Vanity Fair, June 2014)
• The Price of Shame Monica Lewinsky TED2015 (March 2015)
• Monica Lewinsky: 'The shame sticks to you like tar' by Jon Ronson (Guardian, 16 Apr 2016)
• Vice (2018) starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell. How Dick Cheney quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush.
• Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019 Documentary)
• Breaking Badly by Georgie Dent
• Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

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Crabb and Sales dissect lies, deceptions and plots while slurping down their late-night cups of chamomile tea.

• Crabb and Sales @ the Enmore as Brian May and Freddie Mercury. (Thanks to Stephen Blake for the photo. See more photos from the show here.)
• Truth 2, Lies 1: Sydney Writers Festival 2019. Annabel Crabb, Leigh Sales, Benjamin Law and Michael Williams talk about 3 books, they are lying about one.
• Fake by Stephanie Wood
• Internet searches reveal only so much: a memoir by Stephanie Wood (Good Weekend, 28 April 2017)
• 'He broke me': the destructive trail left by romantic con men by Stephanie Wood (Good Weekend, 29 June 2019)
• Falling for a fake: Stephanie Wood Conversations (with Sarah Kanowski, 4 July 2019)
• Lincoln Lewis impersonator jailed for stalking women over four years (The Guardian / AAP, 6 June 2019)
• Who the Hell is Hamish? Podcast by Greg Bearup (The Australian, 2019)
• Notes from a Hollywood divorce by Emma Forrest about the breakdown of her relationship with Ben Mendelsohn (The Guardian, 6 July 2019)
• Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk
• Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull's demise and Scott Morrison's ascension by Niki Savva
• Sharks: A History of Fear by Callum Denness (Pre-order. Publication date: 24 September 2019)
• Max Porter: Lanny Sydney Writers Festival 2019 in conversation with Michael Williams.
• Lanny by Max Porter
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Crabb and Sales discuss how they consider nicknames to be a sign of affection. To Crabb's surprise, Sales reveals that she wishes a current popular biopic wasn't made as a musical!?

• Fleabag Season 1 (2016) (Currently on iView for a limited period. Ep 1 until 28 June.)
• The Fourth Wall (Wikipedia)
• The day I played a round of golf with Donald Trump by Phillip Coorey (AFR. 2016 Nov 17 - note: may be paywall restricted if you have reached your quota.)
• Veep Season 7 (2019) starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale
• Rocketman (2019) biopic of Elton John starring Taron Egerton.
• Elton John celebrates 50 years of hits with songwriting partner Bernie Taupin interviewed by Leigh Sales (via ABC 7.30, 2017 14 Nov)
• Photos: Elton John's Outfits Through the Years: See all the sunglasses, animal costumes and chest hair from 1973 on. (Rolling Stone, 2011 Feb 02)
• There Are Two Types of Airport People: Some travelers love being late by Amanda Mull (The Atlantic. 2019 May 29)

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Trying to avoid any interruptions, Sales and Crabb hide away in a spare room to discuss some of life's big issues ... and Lego.

• On Politics Work and Gender by Annabel Crabb. Quarterly Essay 75 (due out Sep 2019)
• What 'Good' Dads Get Away With by Darcy Lockman. New York Times, 2019 4 May.
• The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
• Up Series: directed by Michael Apted. 9 instalments over 55 years. (Currently available on SBS On Demand). Wikipedia have a useful summary on the history of the documentary: Up (film series).
• The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After Midlife by Jonathan Rauch
• Wilosophy: Will Anderson with Andy Lee (earlier episode with Hamish Blake)
• Lego Masters with Hamish Blake (Channel 9)

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Crabb and Sales try the patience of a very tolerant make-up artist.

• Mansplainer (With thanks to Hall & Oates. via Leigh Sales on Twitter)
• Facebook's role in Brexit - and the threat to democracy Carole Cadwalladr (TED Talk, April 2019)
• Identity Crisis by Ben Elton
• Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
• The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre (Paperback on presale, to be released early June 2019)
• Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (2019) (Trailer via YouTube)
• The Assassination of Gianni Versace (American Crime Story, Season 2 2018)
• Vulgar Favors: The Hunt for Andrew Cunanan, the Man Who Killed Gianni Versace by Maureen Orth
• You: Season 1 (2018) NY bookstore manager meets aspiring writer at his bookstore and falls in love at first sight.
• Gwyneth x Oprah: Power, Perception & Soul Purpose The Goop Podcast (March 8, 2018)
• Making Oprah Podcast hosted by Jenn White
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant,
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel


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