GUARDIAN ANGEL

The first rule of Vegas is: you do not talk about Vegas. The second rule of Vegas is: you DO NOT talk about Vegas! Third rule of Vegas: someone yells "stop!", goes limp, taps out, the podcast is over.

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(00:00:00) Our Impulsive Trip To Las Vegas

(00:10:04) An Introduction To The Vegas Strip

(00:18:01) Review: Raising Canes Chicken Fingers

(00:24:29) Review: Dead & Company Live @ The Sphere

(00:56:00) Recap: The Grateful Dead Forever @ The Venetian

Welcome back to the City of Angels, where money yaps and faces are snatched, where nepotism wears a Bass Shop Pro trucker, and expats congregate in clusters around mid-bodies of water. Dangling organic carrots and Erewhon smoothies don’t serve C like they used to, but we'll still dabble for the bit and the boredom.

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(00:00:00) Livin’ La Vida Los Angeles & The American Dream

(00:18:10) Coffeenomics & Salary Cuck Care Packages

(00:22:59) Supermarket Tiers & Erewhon Elitism

(00:27:11) The Contramar Red & Green Grilled Snapper

(00:28:21) Is Quiet Luxury Edging Towards Oodies?

(00:30:55) Is Patrick Bateman Driving Your Uber?

(00:34:32) Jessie J Spotted @ Melrose Trading Post

(00:36:04) Amanda Bynes Spotted @ Target

(00:00:00) Tropes at the WISP show @ El Rey Theatre

We're not the Francis Bourgeois strain of Rail Fans who geek from the sidelines; we're the Renton and Sick Boy kind that freak it from the inside.

We rode the westbound Texas Eagle train with the kind of characters that inspire cinema, embarking on a multi-day journey across the Wild West of Texas, the Deserts of New Mexico and Arizona, and the Californian farmlands.

Wedged between these vast landscapes, we caught glimpses of life in borderlands and one-horse towns, where liberty exists in isolation, but modernity is only a sculptural art installation away.

Friday Night Lights sold us on Texas Football, so we snuck into the home of the Texas Longhorns to see what all the fuss was about. The Cybertruck and Crypto-pilled tech utopia in East Austin was reminiscent of most gentrified cities in America. However, the thrifting, dining, and bar scenes still felt more Texan than Dasha. We found the Texas we’ve always known about in the shadows of The Capitol, and the H-E-B supermarket by Boggy Creek, where meat trays came in heart-shaped packaging and local hospitality was abundant.

Clear eyes! Full hearts! Can’t lose!

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(00:00:00) Paris, Texas and Friday Night Lights Romanticism VS Reality

(00:16:58) Tech Bros, Cybertrucks & Millennial Gated Communities

(00:25:38) Crossing Boggy Creek Into The Real World Of H-E-B

(00:37:17) Is Whole Foods A Scam?

(00:46:27) Unsupervised At The Home Of The Texas Longhorns

(01:00:17) Unsupervised At The Texas Capitol

Interpolating songs with rants about vices that grip our futile lives, sing it with me! But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you (sport). You got me wrapped around your finger (nicotine). Do you have to let it linger? (Yes, sadly).

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(00:00:00) The Nicotine Chokehold

(00:28:05) Cheerleadercore & Centreing On Caricatures

(00:41:30) Manufacturing Sports Lore

(00:51:18) Nobody Asked For ALDI Merch

The current state of pop culture is Nolanesque, skirting dangerously close to the Lynchian edge. Is all hope lost, or can an unbeknownst hero save our damsel in distress?

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(00:00:00) Splendour In The Grass Is Officially Cancelled

(00:35:21) The AFL Drug Kerfuffle

(00:46:21) Euphoria Season 3 Has Been Shelved

We’re redlining on empty and verging on a full-blown dopamine detox with the floppery of our footy teams this season. A conformity commute to the city before 9 AM sent Mia over the edge and Harry is at his wits end over Ponzi scheme start-ups.

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(00:00:00) Justice For Jocks

(00:16:28) The Conformity Commute & The Salary Trap

(00:26:48) The Dystopian Future, Door Dash Drones & Shein Start-Ups

(00:44:25) Adult Sweet Treats & The Sandwich Gold Rush

(00:51:12) Hot Cross Bun Remixes, The Microwave Supremacy & Washing Machine Settings

Misuse of the word ‘crisis’ is at an all-time high. May we suggest subbing out the word ‘crisis’ for ‘crikey’ when things aren’t that bad?

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(00:00:00) Crisis Is The New Chaos

(00:04:34) The Alleged Festival Crisis

(00:08:16) Albo’s Daily Crisis Needle

(00:14:15) The Taylor Swift & P!nk-182 Crisis

(00:30:46) The Birthday Cake Face Crisis

(00:36:24) Fred again.. Lives At Saltburn

(00:42:09) Dogs Are Appropriating Seeing-Eye-Dog Swag

(00:49:57) Late Film Reviews: Saltburn, Pearl, Top Gun Maverick

We yanked our heads out of the cloud and onto the road to seek truth through a tree change. Out in the wild west of Victoria, we touched dirt and spoke to strangers, admired hay bales and witnessed some of the finest disruptive marketing tactics deployed by locals firsthand.

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(00:00:00) On The Road To The Wild West Of Victoria

(00:10:03) The Giant Scone, Hay Bale Art, Candle Making Childcare

(00:17:31) Raw Dogging The Radio (Driving Sans AUX Cord)

(00:20:57) Copping A Kerwin Frost Box Adult Happy Meal

(00:22:53) The Origins Of Suburbia & Romanticism Of Country Living

(00:28:36) Scent Shazam: Fond Smells VS Triggering Smells

(00:37:55) Disruptive Marketing & Nimbycore

(00:53:27) Visiting The Townships Of Daylesford, Newlyn, Creswick & Clunes

Harry’s fontcore establishment hunger has birthed a sletter called ‘Taste Maker’, which rivals the Jack Antonoff clout table at The Grammys, and has better reviews than the new Sofia Coppola flop ‘Priscilla’ BUT will it satiate like Madame Web promises to? Sub to find out – https://tastemakerguide.substack.com

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(00:00:00) Harry’s New Foodie Sletter: Taste Maker

(00:08:03) Review: The 2024 Grammys

(00:34:38) Review: Priscilla (It Was Mid, Soz Sofia)

(00:52:28) We’ve Been Baited By Madame Web