ANGELFIRED

Lanyard free down at the men in music business conference, we trek through the flat-org iteration of the Capo Playground towards the TikTok party, where a golden guest list gives us a taste of the sweet side of virality. TOPICS ☆ Cyber insecurity at the Capo Playground ☆ Fit checking strangers at SXSW Sydney ☆ Keli Holiday & Tammy Hembrow were dancing at the TikTok party and we were Dancing2

Recapping our side quests in Sydney before SXSW and Surplus because therapy is expensive but podding is free. TOPICS ☆ Hotel lobbies are elite and Airbnb's are just lonely ☆ How the TikTok party blew out the timeline ☆ SMiZE & DREAM is a circus and we are all clowns ☆ Frowny faces and the Freo footy team

If you're lucky, you'll remember the little moments, like the 2025 AFL season , that were good. TOPICS ☆ Slow-burn romance: how we fell for our new TCL TV ☆ Foreshadowing our pilgrimage to Lexus of Blackburn ☆ Our Lions vs Magpies rivalry and the return of the Fan WAG mane

A timestamp before the US election, when we were suffering from meme burnout and deemed all of politics "boring", when prime minister Albo let his Specsavers slip to do the most boomer thing ever (buy a house), when Pesto the Penguin still wore fur, and the Laneway Festival lineup dropped in time to save summer retail by sending jean shorts and ribbon sales skyrocketing.

We returned to Sydney for the SXSW 2024 conference, a Midsummer-esque celebration where industry folk dance around Darling Harbour in vibrant lanyards, hoping to meet their future co-founder, investor, mentor, team, employer or trauma-bonded-friend. Our last dance around the maypole ended in a decadent and debaucherous 5-night fling at the Abercrombie, so we approached the 'Capitalism Playground'...

As a new dabbler in the dark arts of sportsmanship, I graciously handed over the AFL premiership bragging rights to the pod's resident Brisbane Lions supporter precisely one month ago (sans hissy fit). The flag hasn't got to Harry's head, so it's now safe to release our post-win recount of watching the big dance at The Royal Derby, attending the pep rally at Brunswick Street Oval (spiritual home t...

Now that the Lions have secured the flag, we can throw it back to the beginning of the finals, when BELIEVE was a mantra and not a prophecy when Joe Daniher still played footy, when two tragics headed north amidst crucial games to attend Bigsound but not the Gabba. [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) AFL Fan Wags & The Fan Wagon (00:18:05) Recap: Autograph Hunting at the Brisbane Lions Open Training & C...

You're all bleeding heart and morally elite until that one robbery, the canon event that fundamentally changes you, be it a pickpocket on Euro Summer or a dryer pincher at your local laundromat. We unpack the conundrum of consumption and charity in an age of excess of everything except for the footy. [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) Not In My Laundromat (The Moral Conundrum Of Stolen Sheets) (00:21:17) Temu...

We're reporting from the pit of Olympic Gooch Week (the sunken place between the end of Patriot Prime Time and the start of the Paralympics) as our brains recover from the rot of hyper-fixation on sports we only care about every four years. Gold medal counts were muddled when a Karenesque plot unravelled beside a novelty-sized boom box, where an unlikely protagonist called 'Dr. Ray Gun' left the w...

We're so Bret-coded. [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) Numbness As A Feeling (00:13:11) You Can’t Spell Kawaii without AI (00:16:16) Service Dog Imposters & The Pomeranian In Speed Dealers (00:23:19) Erewhon Smoothies & Status (00:29:10) Scenester Sightings (00:37:28) Food Talk: Ggiata VS Uncle Paulies VS Subway, Maru VS Alfred Coffee, From Chipotle To Kernel (00:43:54) Another Whinge About Tipping

The first rule of Vegas is: you do not talk about Vegas . The second rule of Vegas is: you DO NOT talk about Vegas! Third rule of Vegas: someone yells "stop!", goes limp, taps out, the podcast is over. [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) Our Impulsive Trip To Las Vegas (00:10:04) An Introduction To The Vegas Strip (00:18:01) Review: Raising Canes Chicken Fingers (00:24:29) Review: Dead & Company Live @ The...

Welcome back to the City of Angels, where money yaps and faces are snatched, where nepotism wears a Bass Shop Pro trucker, and expats congregate in clusters around mid-bodies of water. Dangling organic carrots and Erewhon smoothies don’t serve C like they used to, but we'll still dabble for the bit and the boredom. [TOPICS] (00:00:00) Livin’ La Vida Los Angeles & The American Dream (00:18:10)...

We're not the Francis Bourgeois strain of Rail Fans who geek from the sidelines; we're the Renton and Sick Boy kind that freak it from the inside. We rode the westbound Texas Eagle train with the kind of characters that inspire cinema, embarking on a multi-day journey across the Wild West of Texas, the Deserts of New Mexico and Arizona, and the Californian farmlands. Wedged between these vast land...

Friday Night Lights sold us on Texas Football, so we snuck into the home of the Texas Longhorns to see what all the fuss was about. The Cybertruck and Crypto-pilled tech utopia in East Austin was reminiscent of most gentrified cities in America. However, the thrifting, dining, and bar scenes still felt more Texan than Dasha. We found the Texas we’ve always known about in the shadows of The Capitol...

Interpolating songs with rants about vices that grip our futile lives, sing it with me! But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you (sport). You got me wrapped around your finger (nicotine). Do you have to let it linger? (Yes, sadly). [TOPICS] (00:00:00) The Nicotine Chokehold (00:28:05) Cheerleadercore & Centreing On Caricatures (00:41:30) Manufacturing Sports Lore (00:51:18) Nobody Aske...

The current state of pop culture is Nolanesque, skirting dangerously close to the Lynchian edge. Is all hope lost, or can an unbeknownst hero save our damsel in distress? [TOPICS] (00:00:00) Splendour In The Grass Is Officially Cancelled (00:35:21) The AFL Drug Kerfuffle (00:46:21) Euphoria Season 3 Has Been Shelved

We’re redlining on empty and verging on a full-blown dopamine detox with the floppery of our footy teams this season. A conformity commute to the city before 9 AM sent Mia over the edge and Harry is at his wits end over Ponzi scheme start-ups. [TOPICS] (00:00:00) Justice For Jocks (00:16:28) The Conformity Commute & The Salary Trap (00:26:48) The Dystopian Future, Door Dash Drones & Shein...

Misuse of the word ‘crisis’ is at an all-time high. May we suggest subbing out the word ‘crisis’ for ‘crikey’ when things aren’t that bad? [TOPICS] (00:00:00) Crisis Is The New Chaos (00:04:34) The Alleged Festival Crisis (00:08:16) Albo’s Daily Crisis Needle (00:14:15) The Taylor Swift & P!nk-182 Crisis (00:30:46) The Birthday Cake Face Crisis (00:36:24) Fred again.. Lives At Saltburn (00:42:...

We yanked our heads out of the cloud and onto the road to seek truth through a tree change. Out in the wild west of Victoria, we touched dirt and spoke to strangers, admired hay bales and witnessed some of the finest disruptive marketing tactics deployed by locals firsthand. [TOPICS] (00:00:00) On The Road To The Wild West Of Victoria (00:10:03) The Giant Scone, Hay Bale Art, Candle Making Childca...

Harry’s fontcore establishment hunger has birthed a sletter called ‘Taste Maker’, which rivals the Jack Antonoff clout table at The Grammys, and has better reviews than the new Sofia Coppola flop ‘Priscilla’ BUT will it satiate like Madame Web promises to? Sub to find out – https://tastemakerguide.substack.com [TOPICS] (00:00:00) Harry’s New Foodie Sletter: Taste Maker (00:08:03) Review: The 2024...

Forgive us Father for we have Sinner! We’ve fallen into an accidental dopamine detox post-tennis season. In a meagher attempt to rediscover meaning, we travelled west to perceive the next gen of hotties at the ticketed Boiler Room event and then into the city to rally with the ratios. [TOPICS] (00:00:00) Dopamine Detox: Post-Australian Open 2024 (00:07:22) The "Whatever Hat Will Do" Epidemic (00:1...

We returned to Brandland lathered in La Roche-Posay SPF50+ for the Australian Open 2024 season. We checked in on our boy Ben Shelton post-on signing, but sadly, no autographs were hunted by Harry this year. We neglected our Fishbowl kink to smash ghost kitchen grub and bin-chicken Nachos whilst creative directing custom flavour concepts courtside for a future Messina serve.

We logged off for our annual summer trip to Byron Bay to rest and rejuvenate, but the podcasting paparazzi never sleeps. We ate the rich, reviewed the food scene, loitered the industrial estate and tried our hand at the La Sportiva lifestyle with damning effects. [TOPICS] (00:00:00) Gooch Week In Byron Bay (00:01:11) Celebrity Sightings: Troye Sivan, Shannon Bennett and Erica Packer, Joe Daniher,...

The dregs of the industry crawled their way back from the Meredith bush to attend the Virgin Music and Four Tone Artists Christmas Party for one last ‘Cheers’ before logging off for the summer. We unwrap our year on Spotify and unpack the glory days of Triple J before addressing the lump of coal delivery of pre-holiday redundancies. [TOPICS] (00:00:00) PSA: Where Are Our Mushroom Party Invites? (0...

The divide between Gorp Life and Gorp Lite has never been more evident than at Meredith Music Festival when The Sup transformed into a mud pit instead of a mosh pit. Real-tree camo and ponchos were all that sheathed us from the sludge, but we gladly took our Salomon’s to the dirt for a front-row viewing of Caroline Polachek. [TOPICS] (00:00:00) En Route To Meredith Music Festival (00:07:44) Secret...