The Avocado Social Club

By Natalia Albin and Fraser Bell

Couple Fraser and Natalia discuss topics inspired by the issues affecting the lives of those in their 20s during the 2020s. From politics to pop culture, their different points of view and backgrounds... more

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March 15, 2021 Yes, All Women Are Afraid
This week, following the death of Sarah Everard, women across the UK have been speaking out about the constant fear they live in. We are taking this opportunity to talk about the situation in the UK and Mexico, where the killing of women is an everyday occurrence, and what women do to feel as safe as they can. Natalia, having lived in both countries, talks about the differences as a woman and how - no matter how safe you want to feel, you never are. Because yes, all women are afraid.
HIGHLIGHTS
The Flight Attendant (HBO Max show)
Moxie! (Netflix film)
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Amazon Prime film)
The Burnt Orange Heresy (film)
Spinning by Charli XCX, The 1975, No Rome (single)
Only Child - Sasha Sloan (album)
The White Album by Joan Didion (book)
The Art of Living Now (podcast)
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31min
February 15, 2021 Starting a Business During Lockdown
Over the last year of lockdown, many have been lucky enough to find a new passion, project or even a new business - even in a time where doing so has been incredibly challenging (possibly even more than usual). We talked to Rushab Shah, the founder of Portobello Vintage Market, who took his father's market business and built it into an ecommerce venture for high quality vintage shopping. He talked to us about the challenges and mistakes when starting, the importance of a business partner and lockdown being the push he needed to build his own business.

Highlights:
FILM AND TV
Years and Years (TV Show on iPlayer)
The Great (TV Show on All4 / Hulu)
It’s A Sin (TV Show on All4 / HBO)
The Farewell (Film on Amazon Prime)
BOOKS AND PODCASTS
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (Book)
Grounded with Louis Theroux: FKA Twigs (Podcast)
MUSIC
Vintage - Blu DeTiger (song)
Taylor Swift new releases
OTHERS
Poker Now
Baking Cinnamon Buns
Clubhouse (app)
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48min
January 26, 2021 The Story Behind the Meme and What Does It Say About Us?
Why do we like memes so much? We have a chat around individual and collective stories of memes and the phenomenon that comes with them. We all share and laugh at pictures of strangers with funny captions on them, but who are these strangers and how has this strange new form of fame affected them?
HIGHLIGHTS
TV & FILM
The Serpent (BBC Show)
Schitt’s Creek (Netflix Show)
Grand Designs (Channel 4 Show)
Lupin (Netflix Show)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Film - available for streaming)
MUSIC & PODCASTS
Who Am I? by Pale Waves (Album)
The Media Show. Episode: How ITV News Reported First-Hand on the Storming of Congress (BBC Radio 4 & Podcast)
BOOKS & ARTICLES
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet (book)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (book)
Paul Mccartney for The Sunday Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/culture/paul-mccartney-interview-on-recording-mccartney-iii-and-his-friendship-with-john-lennon-q8s5n0b58
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42min
November 30, 2020Pop Culture Catch Up and Understanding the Paris Agreement
A big catch up on everything we've been watching, reading and enjoying over the last month of lockdown. Then diving into The Paris Agreement, the implications of international climate change efforts, how it might shape the future and what it means if America re-joins.
WHAT WE'VE BEEN ENJOYING
TV AND FILM
FUNNY AND UPLIFTING
On the Rocks (Apple+)

Happiest Season (Amazon or Hulu)

Emily in Paris (Netflix)

Grand Designs (All 4)

Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' Session (Disney+)
POLITICAL DRAMA
Roadkill (BBC)

Bombshell (Amazon)

Dark Waters (Amazon)

The Crown (Netflix)
OTHER DRAMA
The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)

First Man (Netflix)
BOOKS
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

Spring by Ali Smith

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba
ARTICLES AND PODCASTS
The Crown Podcast

Postscript magazine: https://www.postscript.london/

Meghan Markle, The Losses we Share: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/meghan-markle-miscarriage.html
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35min
October 26, 2020Are Televised Debates Good for Politics or Good for Business?
Let's chat about televised debates! Do we actually need them? Do they make a difference to people's voting tendencies? Or is it all there just because it's good for businesses? From their history to the current status of political debates, Fraser and Natalia discuss debates, analytical thoughts on them and their own opinions and experiences.
WHAT WE'VE BEEN ENJOYING:
TV AND FILM
Enola Holmes (Netflix Film)

The Morning Show (AppleTV+ Show)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix Show)

Gilmore Girls (Show on Netflix)

Wild Rose (Film on Amazon Prime)
BOOKS
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
MUSIC
Mama’s Boy by LANY

Fake It Flowers by Beabadoobee

Didn’t Make It by Charli Adams
ARTICLES AND PODCASTS
David Tennant does a podcast with… Neil Gaiman.

He Married a Sociopath: Me by Patric Gagne on Modern Love https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/style/modern-love-he-married-a-sociopath-me.html

My Year in San Francisco’s $2 Million Secret Society Startup - The rise and fall of Latitude - Lydia Laurenson https://www.vice.com/en/article/xygykj/my-year-in-san-franciscos-2-million-secret-society-startup
OTHER
Her Hustle: https://www.herhustle.co.uk/
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39min
September 28, 2020 Too Much Wellness?
Is there such a thing as too much wellness? In this episode Fraser and Natalia delve into the good, the bad and the ugly in the wellness industry, inspired by Netflix's (Un)Well and researching some of the biggest trends in the world of consumerist wellness.
WHAT WE'VE BEEN ENJOYING:
Film & TV
-Tenet
-Lost in Translation
-Erin Brockovich
-Queen & Slim
-I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Books
-Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
-Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Articles & Podcasts
-Conspiracy theories and coronavirus - QAnon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-53997203
-Buying Myself Back When does a model own her own image? by Emily Ratajkowski https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html

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38min
August 10, 2020 Are Our Grandparents Taking Over the Internet?
Over the last five years, there has been a rise of what's being called 'senior influencers', basically people who are 60+ gaining a lot of traction on social media and beyond. In the first episode of the new series, Fraser and Natalia talk about why this might be, the type of content they are creating and why we are all happy to follow them.
WHAT WE'VE BEEN ENJOYING
TV AND FILM
-Fleabag on BBC iPlayer
-The Good Girls (Las Niñas Bien) on Mubi
-Blackkklansman on Netflix
-Short film and article: Jessica Mendez Siqueiros’s Pozole: https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/pozole-jessica-mendez-siqueiros/
BOOKS
-Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
-Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsh
-The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
-Lodestars Anthology: Mexico
MUSIC
-Taylor Swift - Folklore
-The Naked and Famous - Recover
ARTICLES AND PODCASTS
- Hannah Mylrea’s feature of Haim for NME. https://www.nme.com/big-reads/haim-cover-interview-2020-women-in-music-pt-iii-2704642 made me want to listen to the album over and over again.
-Every Proper Noun on Taylor Swift’s Folklore, Charted By HEATHER SCHWEDEL https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/taylor-swift-folklore-album-lyrics-charted-explained.html?mc_cid=d8c68021ac&mc_eid=fa8d57f6af
-The Unpaid Labour of Female Founders by Sharmadean Reid https://medium.com/@sharmadeanreid/the-unpaid-labour-of-female-founders-2a101efad24e
Follow us: @theavocadosocialclub on instagram
Contact us: [email protected]
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30min
July 17, 2020 How to Start a Brand
Starting a brand or a business seems to be a trend amongst our generation, but how do you actually go about it? We have a chat about our challenges and what we've learned from creating and starting our own brand. From the technical and admin side of it to the creative and mission-building.
WHAT WE'VE BEEN ENJOYING:
Articles and Books
How to Own the Room by Viv Groskop (Podcast)
EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE By Zoe Schiffer https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo-steph-korey-toxic-work-environment-travel-inclusion
Are All These Female-Founder Takedowns Fair? By Leah Chernikoff - https://www.thehelm.co/female-founder-takedowns-outdoor-voices-away-the-wing/
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (Book)
Working out Loud by John Stepper (Book)
Film & TV
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Netflix)
Hamilton (Disney +)
I May Destroy You (BBC iPlayer and HBO)
Music
Haim - Women in Music Pt. III (album)
The Forever - Home (single)
...more
51min
June 29, 2020 Does Cancel Culture Actually Work?
In this episode, we delve into cancel culture. The idea of being cancelled, what it means, how it works and its differences with call-out culture. Does cancelling people actually work? Does it do anything to their career? When is it a good thing and when is it going to far?
WHAT WE'VE BEEN ENJOYING
Culture
Weather by Jenny Offill (book)
Code Switch - Why Now, White People? (podcast)
Film & TV
The Politician (Netflix show)
The Bureau (Amazon Prime show)
Little Fires Everywhere (Amazon Prime Show)
...more
38min
June 08, 2020 Mental Health Series: Wellbeing in the Workplace with James Naylor
In our third and final episode of Mental Health Series, we caught up with James Naylor, Co-Founder at Livitay. Livitay is a platform created to bring wellbeing into the workplace and we discussed how to stay well at work and at home, as well as his personal and career journey so far.
Articles and BLM
Books
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo Lodge
Me And White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr Ibram X. Kendi
México racista: Una denuncia by Federico Navarrete
My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
An American Marriage by Tahari Jones
TV and Film
When They See Us (Netflix)
13th (Netflix)
Dear White People (film on Amazon Prime, show on Netflix)
Explained: The Racial Wage Gap (Netflix)
Articles
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change by Barack Obama
https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067
The Death of George Floyd, in context by Jelani Cobb
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-death-of-george-floyd-in-context?mc_cid=77d097eb52&mc_eid=fa8d57f6af
An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Davies by James Baldwin
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/01/07/an-open-letter-to-my-sister-miss-angela-davis/?mc_cid=77d097eb52&mc_eid=fa8d57f6af
Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracist reading list
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html?mc_cid=77d097eb52&mc_eid=fa8d57f6af
Podcasts
1619 by The New York Times
Code Switch by NPR
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

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FAQs about The Avocado Social Club:

How many episodes does The Avocado Social Club have?

The podcast currently has 60 episodes available.