Opposite Ends

We love to shop. In this episode, Katie regales Nina about iconic (in the religious sense) Indian grocery store Sweet Mart. Sweet Mart opened in 1978 and has since become a local Bristol institution. It sells everything you could ever want, from South Asian veg, to Western condiments, to Jamaican bread, to organic Japanese products. However, the history of this always-fully-stocked-with-everything...

We are joined by superior collector Raquel Caballero, who through years of treasure hunting built a cave of wonders in her modern rental home. We meet anklet-wearing iguanas, clowns and dolls to ask: Is it kitsch? Is it camp? Is it crap? What’s the difference? We think meaning can be found in an aesthetic sensibility and living life decadently. Guest stars: Mrs Doubtfire’s wig, Andy Warhol, Baba Y...

Frenchman Ben Chevalier and erudite man Alex Mackenzie are our special guests. We discuss two French actresses: Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert, through their films Belle de Jour (1967) by Luis Buñuel and La Cérémonie (1995) by Claude Chabrol. We reveal sub/dom dynamics as foil to bourgeois sexuality and say the word ‘bourgeois’ 25 times in one hour. Guest stars: shit or mud, YSL, Mama Weed...

Driven by desire to understand the surprising ubiquity of a certain mayonnaise salad, we revisit food histories related to the Russian revolution, the Soviet celebratory table, Katie’s first time and beyond. We also discuss the culinary dimensions of philistinism, national identity and nostalgia. Katie goes deep and asks why it is that we enjoy food at all. Guest stars: hazel grouse, Mayakovsky, k...

We are joined by Sydney style icon Hannah Berzins. We reminisce about the demise of op shop quality and the appropriation of op shop style by major retailers. We commemorate the fashions of our youth and discuss how technology and different cultural contexts might shape our sense of self in clothes. Guest stars: Central Coast Browse About, stretchy polyester, crabs. Love advice: How important are...

Welcome to our talk show, where Katie and Nina discuss favourite niche topics in culture, food, love and more. To start, we talk about the settler practice of mushroom foraging and how this differs between Europe and the antipodes. We cover weeds, mushrooms, foraging ethics and aesthetics. Guest stars: Gdynia local hospital, scrumping.   Links: Mineral Properties and Dietary Value of Raw and...