Chapter 1: What intriguing comment did Mich share at the beginning?
Yes, Belly? Oh, am I on mic? I thought you wanted to be. I always want to be. You wanted to tell us about a comment we got on TikTok. Oh, well, I saw a comment on one of our new fancy videos because we've got new fancy cameras saying, I thought this was AI. I just thought it was really funny.
That is really funny. I love that the trust for us is so low in terms of like the aesthetics of this podcast.
We're so bootleg.
That even if it looks a little bit better, it just simply must not be a conscious decision.
Imagine when we get our new studio later this year, which Zara and I have been strictly banned from even getting involved with. But imagine, I know you're saying don't hype it up, but it's got to be better than what we have right now.
This is true. When I say don't hype it up and people are probably thinking, trust me, babe, the bar wasn't that high.
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Chapter 2: Which podcast is everyone in the office talking about?
Like we weren't thinking that this was going to be out of this world. Someone made a good suggestion to me on Instagram. I'm sorry I don't have your name handy to be able to give you credit. She said, Michelle, you're so big on colour analysis. Surely you're applying colour analysis to the colour selection in the studio so that you look the hottest.
I'm glad you've said this out loud now because we'll be watching for it.
Well, if everything's lime green. Yeah, we know, or light blue. Someone else said, why don't you just get Wi-Fi that works? And I thought, touche. Great questions all round. Guys, yeah. Yeah. Shit, yeah. Hello and welcome to Shameless, the pop culture podcast for smart people who love dumb stuff. You are joined, as always, by Melbourne writers Michelle Andrews and Zara MacDonald.
Hello, Zazie MacDonald, and hello, kind of here, kind of not, Annabelle Lee.
Yay, hi! You want to be here today?
Sure! Oh, you're in.
You're in, in. And the camera's on you, so... Hi. Babe, this is not a video episode. No one's going to see that. Oh no, and we had a big clashing of voices just then. That gave me anxiety. I'm sorry. No, no, it was my fault.
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Chapter 3: What are the most inappropriate places listeners have been broken up with?
I spoke over you. Oh, well then you should be sorry. I'm so sorry. Wait, I was. Anyway, on today's show, Michelle has an argumentative symmetry. It's bluey themed. I know. High risk, high reward, I hear. Well, definitely high risk. TBC on the high reward part. Okay, we're also going to be talking about the podcast that everyone in the office has been speaking about.
This came up at lunch about, I mean, this week. Came up at the lunch table this week and we thought, well, we simply have to talk about this on Shameless. And then what is the worst place you've ever been broken up with? The most inappropriate place you've ever been broken up with? We want to know because apparently lots of women are getting dumped on mountains.
Dumped on mountains. And so we reached out to you, the listeners, and we said, what's the weirdest place you've been split up with? Yeah. And you delivered.
Well, I don't know about that because I haven't seen any of the suggestions yet. That's true. I just knew that Belly had like 25 questions that she liked.
I had a long list.
She had a long list. Before we get into anything, a very quick shout out to our sponsor Nespresso and their new Virtuo Up coffee machine inspired by style and discovery. Speaking of things that are popular at the lunch table, I would say our new Nespresso Virtuo Up coffee machine is very popular.
The sound of that coffee machine is becoming like the backing track of my work day.
Exactly. Do you have a recommendation for me to kick us off?
I've got one. Yeah. It's been, I had a double deck a week, two weeks in a row. We, we had double decks. Sorry, we. And then this week I said Calm Your Farm. Yeah, one is fine. One's fine. Laugh Out Loud UK Season 2. It's on Amazon from memory.
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Chapter 4: What recommendations did Mich and Zara give for this week?
Oh, my God, you boomer.
I was looking at the Wikipedia page.
Is it Last One Laughing?
It's officially called LOL. colon, last one laughing UK. So I think I saw LOL and I went laughing out loud.
I'm so glad you've brought this to the show because I saw so many Alan Carr clips all over my feed and I kept wondering if this was a show for me.
Yeah. So it's hosted by Jimmy Carr, obviously of no relation to Alan Carr. But Jimmy Carr is back for season two. He's hosting the thing. Ellen Carr is so fucking funny because if you haven't heard of the premise of Last One Laughing, it's a bunch of comedians thrown into a room together with a bunch of props and dumb shit to make each other laugh. But the rule is you're not allowed to laugh.
I would seriously last 15 seconds in this room. Like someone tells me not to laugh and I like immediately, even the thought of not being able to laugh makes me want to laugh.
Yeah, same.
They do such a good job, but the reason Alan Carr is so funny to watch, he doesn't do a very good job. Spoiler alert.
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Chapter 5: How did the Dominican Sisters Open Mic podcast gain popularity?
But I don't think they win anything. I think they just win like... Charity. No, I don't think there's any money. Oh, I appreciate them not pretending. They're just like, they're just there for a vibe. And a lot of them also stand up and do stand up comedy. In every episode, you get a bit of a stand up comedy set. I think, Bella, you've watched it? I have, yeah. It's very you coded.
I played a game similar to this on the weekend with my friends.
Oh!
It was a lot... Weirder. Do you want to hear it? Yeah. We're already there. It's Dumb Stuff Fridays. What else are we here for? So two people verse each other. They're both on all fours looking down. Everyone goes, three, two, one. And then they both look up and they have to make a moo cow sound. What the fuck? To make the other person laugh. Okay, hear me out. I think we do this right now.
I don't think I would laugh. Get on that floor. I do not think that this is going to be an issue for me at all.
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Chapter 6: What unique insights do the Dominican Sisters share in their podcast?
We can cut this from the episode. It won't take very long. You and I get down on all fours. Annabelle, can you film this on your phone, Annabelle, so we have this? Oh, my God, this is amazing. Face your mic in so that people can hear. Okay, down on all fours, doll. Okay, I am pregnant, so. Oh, come on. I have to go this way to get you both in. Okay, so what do we do? Yep, both on all fours.
Oh, we're always so close together. You have to be really close. And then I go three, two, one.
I won.
I was instant, Michelle.
I won.
um i don't know if anyone could hear that i think we might have just cut that out but let the record show that was a nonchalant moo that's why i wanted to shock you so i decided when i was on all fours instead of going moo to just go moo yeah and that was really funny because no i wasn't trying to be funny i thought it was the easiest way for me to stay serious well that's why you're a smarter person than i am because i was on all fours
just going I'm about to move I'm about to move I'm about to move you had strategy I'm not who came up with this game Stevie did oh Annabelle's boyfriend Stevie not just a pretty doctor not just a pretty doctor yeah he's gonna love this how do you move how do I move personally she would move like a proper move like a move I didn't last very long, so I would break almost instantly.
But it actually gets a lot. I love how you say I would break as if you're on SNL.
I would break. It would be horrible. But it actually would be way more awkward to watch when it went for a really long time and both people are just mooing for like minutes and then we're all watching on like, oh.
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Chapter 7: What surprising breakup stories did listeners share?
I think it's in part because – I'm quite passionate about wedding songs being aligned to their meaning. And I feel quite passionate that if a singer or a songwriter is writing a song with an intended meaning, we should respect that and have open arms with that meaning.
And I agree with you. I just probably don't agree to the level you do. Because if there's even one word in a song that you're like, that's got bad juju, you chuck it out as being not wedding friendly.
I know. So her going through her songs, it just made me want to listen to the entire back catalogue again and, like, listen to them with a different lens. Yeah. I have a snippet for you. I know we don't do this in... Oh, my God, fun. I know. Here's something I prepared earlier.
But I think what stuck with me, and I know this is going to sound like, oh, I feel like I've heard something like this before, but... The way she spoke about the song Mirrorball and the way she spoke about how that song kind of articulates how she's able to get through being so famous just really stuck with me in terms of how she put it together.
This is simply too smart for a Dumb Stuff Fridays episode, but I'll allow it.
It's Taylor Swift.
Being a person in the public eye, I've... I've really begun to realize that you are a mirror. Like, you are a mirror for your fans, for the media, for people on the internet, for just random, just people who don't even really care about your music, but they know who you are. However they feel about themselves and their life will be projected onto how they perceive you.
A public person who makes art is a mirror ball. And that's part of why I've been able to keep my wits about me through all this. Wow.
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Chapter 8: How do societal expectations influence breakup situations?
Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty? Is the best policy. And it's fine. All right. What's your eye? I am in need of some intrigue. Are you in need of some intrigue, Annabelle? Yes, desperately.
Okay. Shout out to the Creator Gearside because this is not a new conversation, what I'm about to tell you. However, it has re-entered the public domain this week because of a viral social media video published by the Creator Gearside. Sure. Cool. All right. So the TV show Bluey, children's TV show, known and loved globally. Little Dogs. Yes. Well, yeah, tell me what you know about Luke.
So Bluey is a little dog.
Sure.
And Bluey has two parents. And there was once an episode where dad's always fun, mum's not, so dad takes the kids to the pool. But dad doesn't prep anything, so mum has to turn up to the pool with all the stuff.
Yeah.
And then the kids realise that while dad is fun, it's not fun when he doesn't prepare. And it was a subtle message about the women's mental load. Yeah. What do you know about Bluey? Like the character? That's it. Someone told me the plot of that episode a few weeks ago. It's a good episode. I've watched that episode. No, I know nothing else. It's Australian created. Okay.
Do you know if Bluey's a boy or a girl?
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