This week on the No Country for Hot Girls podcast, we spiral through a very unhinged week of celebrity news, viral culture moments, and questionable life decisions.

We break down the endless stream of celebrity weddings dominating the internet, from Dua Lipa and Callum Turner’s wedding rumours to Taylor Swift speculation and Sienna Miller’s engagement, before detouring into why the entire internet is currently obsessed with A-list relationships and overanalysing every detail.

Elsewhere, we get into hot Australian musicians in London, questionable wellness advice about food and ageing, and the rise of “bimbo stoicism” as the latest TikTok aesthetic redefining femininity and self-image.

In between the pop culture chaos, we revisit a disastrous Croatia trip involving acid paranoia, sea diving, and stepping on sea urchins, debate kale conspiracies and polyphenols, and spiral into everything from David Hockney’s legacy to why everyone is suddenly getting married except us.

It’s chaotic, slightly hungover, and occasionally profound in the worst possible way.

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This week on No Country for Hot Girls, we are recording in peak post-weekend condition: mildly regretful, highly caffeinated, and emotionally unstable in a very productive way. Expect hangover confessions, chaotic public transport decision-making, and the kind of friendship dynamic where interrupting is both a sport and a love language.

We also go deep on the internet’s most dangerous game: asking ChatGPT which fictional character you are (spoiler: it’s giving Hermione… and Fleabag, depending on how honest you want to be). From there, things spiral as they tend to, into WAG nostalgia, Arsenal-induced identity crises, and a full cultural audit of everything from Kim Kardashian’s hard launch to Pussycat Dolls drama.

And just when you think we’ve peaked, we uncover a genuinely unhinged Epsom Derby conspiracy involving a decades-old cryptic note, a horse called Christmas Day, and the unsettling possibility that the universe is actively trying to get us into gambling.

In short: it’s pop culture, personal chaos, and questionable life lessons served exactly how we like it.

This week on No Country for Hot Girls, it’s finally Reunion Day.

After weeks of build-up, speculation and emotional investment, we’re gathering with fellow Bravo obsessives to watch the Summer House reunion and, naturally, treating it like a major cultural event.

Before the drama kicks off, we discuss the London heatwave (one of us is thriving, the other is convinced we’re heading towards climate apocalypse), Kylie Minogue’s excellent new documentary, and why music docs always seem to hit harder than any film ever could.

We also revisit what we’ve officially named The Worst Day of Our Lives™: a lockdown-era tale involving heartbreak, a rowing boat in Dulwich Park, hailstones, Boursin, and an emotionally devastating viewing of Supersonic.

Plus: Emily in Paris, Taylor Swift in the Cotswolds, Dave Franco’s questionable hydration choices, and a completely unnecessary debate about whether you’d eat your best friend on a desert island.

The episode finishes with a live dispatch from reunion night itself, complete with wine, guacamole, Bravo superfans and a toast to the hardest-working man in reality TV: Andy Cohen.

As ever, it’s equal parts pop culture, friendship, chaos and nonsense.

Enjoy.

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This week: heatwave behaviour, the politics of complaining, why living in London is basically a communal experience, and whether friendship is actually the secret to life.

We also get into celebrity chaos, relationship icks, reality TV updates, questionable internet research methods, and an unnecessarily detailed deep dive into The Strokes’ drama.

Expect conspiracies, culture, gossip, bad takes, strong opinions, and several moments that probably should’ve stayed in the group chat.

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You may notice this week’s episode sounds slightly different.

That is because shortly after recording, we discovered the entire thing had been blanketed by what I can only describe as deafening white noise. What followed was 48 hours of panic, several existential crises, and me accidentally retraining as a sound engineer.

So if you hear the occasional tinny moment or a slightly mysterious bit of audio texture, please know this episode has been manually dragged back from the dead.

Inside this week: impossible London journeys, Lime bike politics, sobriety updates, ADHD revelations, wedding dress shopping, Kylie Jenner’s Birkin obsession, Olivia Rodrigo discourse, Cannes chaos, Eurovision humiliation and our usual completely unnecessary opinions in between.

Thank you for bearing with us.

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This week on Country for Hot Girls we attempt to recover from a cursed podcast recording fiasco (RIP to the lost Romantasy segment), and instead spiral into: wedding plus-one politics, Lena Dunham and Adam Driver lore, the aggressively unnecessary Harry Potter reboot, and why everyone is furious about Boston accents in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

There’s also Yung Lean’s incredible new music video, nostalgic Britney chat, Greek mythology tangents, and an important discussion about butterbeer.

A very chaotic episode. As always.

It’s episode three and Hannah’s back (phew)! We’re debriefing bank holiday carnage, hot Pilates bodily fluids, and the ongoing battle between sobriety and two bottles of natural wine.

We spiral through Met Gala discourse, billionaire chaos, and why we’re suddenly pro-smoking again (don’t quote us on that). There’s also a deep dive into parasocial crushes, Raya horrors, and the very real consequences of a misspelt broccoli joke.

Plus: Pinterest as self-care, toxic workplace rumours in podcast land, and the existential injustice of Gen Z being banned from cigarettes.

Recommendations from the episode:

Read Before the Coffee Gets Cold

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44421460-before-the-coffee-gets-cold

Buy Fun and Games

https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/fun-and-games-john-patrick-mchugh?variant=41459518177358

Buy bedding you can’t afford

https://under-under.eu/collections/bed-linen

Stick detox patches on your feet and hope for the best

https://wholefoodsbox.co.uk/products/bodytox-detox-foot-patches-10s

The Cut Smoking article

https://www.thecut.com/article/should-we-start-smoking-cigarettes-again.html

Pop culture, mild breakdowns, and absolutely no fact-checking, just how we like it.

Riding solo today Juliana is talking getting wasted at Milan Design Week, our cultural obsession with the nineties and the new phenomenon of the Airspace Man. You’ll find him in your local natural wine bar, scrolling the Modern House and talking about his love of The Sopranos. Oh and wanting to go to Japan is his personality.

My Sunday Times Style 90s piece is here.

The Verge essay on Airspace Redux here.

It’s our very first episode! We’re getting into the Scamanda drama taking over the Bravosphere, the chaos of Bieberchella, and Olivia Rodrigo’s ongoing heartbreak saga. It’s pop culture, opinions, and plenty of unfiltered waffle.

Read about SCAMANDA in the New York Times here.

Olivia Rodrigo new album review in the Guardian.

The Hurvin Anderson exhibition at the Tate.

Read about the Geese Psyop scandal here.