Big chats today about influencers vs journalists, Oscars afterparty drama, Australia’s surveillance apparatus, and why you should really fricking join your union! Also—we have recommendations for you.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Commentary on Jeremy O Harris — TikTok
• Jeremy O. Harris drunkenly called OpenAI's Sam Altman a Nazi — Page Six
• OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash — BBC News
• Kylie Minogue performs at Anthony Pratt’s Party — 7news
• Alice Springs residents conflicted over Pine Gap's role in US strikes in Middle East — ABC News
• Public Transport Users Association (Ryan’s recommended union)
• Black Peoples Union (Ryan’s recommended union)
• Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (Simran’s recommended union)
• ‎Pillion (2025) (Ryan’s recommended watching)
• Untrue by Burial (Ryan’s recommended listening)
• Standing on Business — Sabrina Hersi Issa (Ryan’s recommended reading)

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A beautiful little episode hand crafted for your ears where we touch on the royal family visiting Australia, hate speech nonsense, racism in the Queensland police, and the aftermath of the Oscars.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Pretty Little Liars Ebook Changes — People
• Queensland’s Indian Community ‘Very Distressed’ By ‘Racist’ Police Remarks — The Guardian
• Oscars 2026: A Chilling Effect Seems to have Permeated the Dolby Theatre - The Wire IN
• Queen Mary and King Frederik of Denmark arrive in Melbourne — ABC
• Mary and Fred's love story — how a Hobart girl met a prince and became Queen of Denmark — ABC
• Neil Patrick Harris Hit With Barrage of Politics Questions in Berlin — Hollywood Reporter
• Queensland’s ‘from the river to the sea’ laws likened to Bjelke-Petersen era anti-protest regime — The Guardian
• NSW Government to strengthen laws to protect LGBTQIA+ community — NSW Government
• LGBTQ Organisations Welcome NSW Hate Crime Reforms — Star Observer (Patrick Lenton)

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• New laws to temporarily ban people coming to Australia from designated countries - ABC News
• Timothée Chalamet triggers backlash over ballet and opera remarks - BBC
• Australia Is Sending An Aircraft & Personnel To The Middle East. Does This Mean We Are Entering The War? - The Conversation
• You Can't Critique A System You're Trying To Climb - Kate Forster

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Ethical Problems With (Lack of) Consent in Biopics - Zee Feed
• Ariana Jasmine On The Iran Conflict - TikTok
• Show Pony Zine - Dom Blyth
• The Beaver Family - TikTok
• I Was Addicted To Hair Transplant Consultations - GQ
• Our Latest Substack - Making Broadly Relevant
• Shia LaBeouf Blames ‘Small Man Complex’ For Alleged Assaults - The Guardian
• Victoria Leads Australia In media Suppression Order Numbers - ABC News
• Jack Schlossberg Doubles-Down On Roast Of Ryan Murphy’s Love Story - Pedestrian.TV

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite 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.

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WELCOME TO OUR FIFTIETH EPISODE BESTIES. It has been a pleasure sharing stories and news with you (cannot WAIT for the next fifty).

In today’s chockas episode we chat about the controversy at the BAFTA awards (we’re angry with the BBC), and Manon Bannerman’s exist from KATSEYE. In the news we dive into the polls around One Nation’s success in victoria, the arts funding CRISIS, and the revealed plans to construct a new Trump tower on the Gold Coast (shocking!). Plus, we debrief after we both saw Lorde at her first night in Melbourne.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• BBC Nixes ‘Free Palestine’ Tribute In BAFTAs - Al Jazeera
• BAFTA & BBC Apologise For Racial Slur During Awards Show - ABC
• The Lone Black Girl In Girl Groups - The Simply Simone
• Why Manon Bannerman’s KATSEYE Exit Hurts So Much for Black Fans - Cosmopolitan
• Trump Tower 🤮
• The Shadow Arts Minister Replies
• The arts funding crisis in Victoria
• Lamestream’s coverage of Pauline Hanson
• Roy Morgan Research

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Massive week for culture and news, with Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, the Olympics kicking off in Italy (Ryan has some notes), and closer to home the arrival of Isaac Herzog in Australia (and the protests that followed suit). Also—it's Broadly Diva time!

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• Reality With Ali (Simran's Broadly Diva pick)
• Jamaal Burkman On Bad Bunny's Performance
• 'Unfathomable state violence': NSW Police set upon Muslim prayer group, protesters at Sydney rally
• 6 Bad Bunny halftime show political Easter eggs you missed
• Israeli security cabinet approves rules to increase control over West Bank
• Trump opposes Israel’s West Bank annexation, official says, as outcry grows
• Catherine O'Hara's cause of death revealed as pulmonary embolism
• Khia Asylum | Know Your Meme

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We’re back babes x Big episode for us as we yap about development protests in Brighton, aluminium smelters, women in the workplace, and Social Media Activism™

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• The decision to close Meanjin misunderstands its wider importance. Australian culture deserves better
• Who killed Meanjin?
• Bowen says cutting emissions by more than 70% ‘not achievable’ as 2035 target criticised from all sides | Australian politics | The Guardian
• First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050

We hope you loved the pod, hosted by your favourite 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.

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