Okay Diva

We find ourselves deep in the Khia Asylum this week. What it is, who's in it, who built it, and who has successfully escaped. Ava Max is the final boss. Zara Larson escaped. Charli XCX was one of the founding prisoners. And Khia herself? Gets her flowers fully in this episode because that woman wrote a song that hit so hard it became the name of an entire cultural institution for struggling ar...

Episode 56 features actor Stella, who has the single most Brisbane-adjacent diva origin story we've ever heard: they were the first ever baby born into the Woodford Folk Festival. We open with the obligatory dive into their theatre diva diagnosis, which all began when mid-performance Stella broke their ankle and slayed all the way through, finishing the scene anyway, because a diva knows the s...

We just watched Disclosure Day, so naturally we have a lot to say about aliens, the universe, and the existence of extra-fiercestrials! We get into it about Disclosure Day and kiiiii over Emily Blunt (She carrieddddd) But the real conversation starts when the question comes up: do aliens actually exist? YES DIVA, obviously, and anyone who thinks Earth is the only planet with life is giving main ch...

Episode 54 features actress, writer, and producer Grace, a small country town diva with dreams too big for the backroads and who at 16 packed up her life and moved to Sydney alone to attend Newtown Performing Arts High School. No safety net. Just a gut feeling and the courage to trust it. That one decision led to everything. Her people. Her career. Her husband. A marriage proposal on the stage of...

Episode 53 and we're eating vegan pastries and connecting dots between creepypasta and cinema. We're back on our horror sh*t: movies, Silent Hill 2, all of it. Backrooms got us thinking about where it all really began for our generation... on creepypasta and the internet, and now WE are the ones making mainstream horror. We reminisce on old YouTube nostalgia, the creepypasta-to-conspiracy-video pi...

Episode 52. One year. 52 episodes. We're still here and we're still the biggest, the best, the most fierce...divas. Welcome to the First Annual Diva Awards, our one year anniversary episode special where we're going back through the archives; for the most unhinged things ever said on this podcast, and hand out awards for the most diva, most chaotic, most underrated, and most iconic moments of year...

Episode 51 features Jackson Bennett (@iamjacksonbennett) — Brisbane's foodie influencer who's having his full diva moment right now. If you live in Brisbane and follow food content, you already know Jackson. If you don't, you're about to. Jackson breaks down the food influencer life , going from casual content to full-time career, and why his diva moment is happening exactly when i...

Episode 50 features Kirstie Petrie — wine expert, entrepreneur, and the diva who paused her PhD to open a wine bar in 8 weeks. This conversation is about action over overthinking, impulsivity as strategy, and trusting yourself enough to just do the thing before your brain talks you out of it. Kirstie breaks down how taking impulsive action builds confidence faster than planning ever could, why dia...

Episode 49: We're rating every look from Met Gala 2026!! GIRL let's be clear, there were alot that completely missed the assignment and others who changed the game. The theme was "Fashion Is Art". We break down who understood it and who showed up in a basic gown thinking they nailed it. Beyoncé returned to the Met Gala after a 10-year absence as co-chair, wearing a sheer crystal...

Episode 48 features Ashanti ; actress, YouTuber, writer, and the most passionate hockey fan you'll ever meet. We dive deep into "Heated Rivalries," the gay hockey romance show taking over the internet, debate whether the actors are actually dating, and break down why Hudson Williams is absolutely a bottom. Ashanti walks us through her hockey obsession , from NHL teams to the 2026 Oly...

This is our Madonna tribute. We break down the Queen of Pop's most iconic eras, debate why she's still the blueprint every pop star is chasing, and ask the question: can anyone reach Madonna-level impact in 2026? We walk through Material Girl, Vogue, True Blue, Confessions on a Dance Floor, and preview Confessions 2 (dropping soon). We discuss Madonna's fierce marketing genius like tak...

Episode 46 features actor, writer, and producer Yianni, who currently is on stage with Brock in a Brisbane production. Classically trained, working across theater, and fully convinced he's not a diva. We spend the episode proving him wrong. Yianni argues he's too paranoid, too concerned with what people think, too aware of how he's perceived to qualify as a diva. Brock counters: sendin...

This episode is CHAOTIC diva deep chat, tearing apart the choppiest clubs in brisbane and about 47 different topics but all of them ate. Sam just finished the final script for their folklore proof of concept short film after working through absolute HELL, Brock's writing his own horror script, and we both spiral into manifestation talk because we've been seeing angel numbers everywhere (11...

Episode 44 is Journalism with Jordie. We sit down with Jordan Lamont, journalist and absolute diva who's out here redefining what news can look like. She talks about going from internship into full journalism career, but not in the way you'd expect. Jordan's not trying to write 2000-word articles that three people will read she's frontiering social media-first journalism, shortform...

Episode 43 of the Podcast is pure no thoughts head empty energy. We start with me getting publicly dragged into the shame corner for slandering Brock's choppy yet clocky comfort show. Pivot to Spider-Man and Doomsday theories, Sadie Sink MCU casting drama, and whether the multiverse era is cooked or about to serve. Then I casually mention something absolutely WILD about my childhood that invol...

Sitting down with Lisa No License, the lesbian jester and Brisbane drag/ burlesque ICON, Translink's worst nightmare, and a bad b!tch with an unhinged employment history. This girl has done EVERYTHING. Stage rigger? Check. Film industry? Purr. Stripper? girl YES. Stripper... manager? babe come on now. And why she got fired from Fishbowl after ONE DAY, girl we get ALL the tea. Lisa spills on th...

We're talking about our dreams! In Episode 41, Brock and I finally sit down and talk about where we actually see ourselves going. The dreams we have, the films I want to direct, the roles Brock wants to play, where we'll be in a year, two years, five years, when we're dead. I talk about the kind of director I want to be, the stories I need to tell, the films that live in my head rent f...

Episode 40. We made it. And we're coming for the robots. To celebrate our 40th episode, we invited Tom Wilson — singer-songwriter, artist, long-time collaborator, and living proof that real human creativity will always beat whatever the fuck AI is trying to do. This episode could have been about Tom's music, their songwriting, and their time at an LA retreat with legends who've written...

In Episode 39 of Okay Diva, Sam shows up wine drunk in a blonde wig doing a British accent for no reason, and Brock just... rides the storm like the professional diva he is. We were SUPPOSED to talk about dream weddings. We did not talk about dream weddings. Instead: cat piss carpet trauma, Sam's running (fitness icon era), going full Karen on an insurance company, what inanimate object's...

Welcome back divas! This week takes a WILD turn as Sam discovers he's accidentally ended up on Epstein conspiracy Twitter—and the algorithm thinks we're full-blown conspiracists now. We spiral through whether we're being propagandized, how support groups for government victims are liking our tweets, and what it means when you tweet "feeling so 2109" and conspiracy theorists t...

We survived Laneway. Barely. Iconically. In Episode 37 of Okay Diva, Brock and I debrief from St. Jerome's Laneway Festival on the Gold Coast, QLD — our Chappell Roan live experience (life-changing, tears were shed, we're different people now), festival culture as a concept, and what it's like being total divas in mosh pits (chaotic, necessary, spiritually correct).We break down Lanewa...

Reality TV doesn't know what's coming. But it should be scared. In Episode 36 of Okay Diva, Brock and I sit down to discuss the inevitable: our complete domination of reality television . We break down our Traitors strategy (unhinged, genius, would absolutely work), explain exactly how we'd devour RuPaul's Drag Race (runway? eaten. confessionals? iconic. challenge wins? excessive), and detail the...

History was made. Okay Diva finally has a guest! In Episode 35, we welcome our first guest ever — the legendary Bridie Shield (@the.divadiaries / @bridieshield), radio host at 4ZZZ's The Hot Spot (@thehotspot4zzz), diva hunter, and absolute champion of Australian music and local artists. Bridie is the creative force behind the viral "Who Is This Diva?" series — tracking down Brisbane...

2016 is back. Whether you're ready or not. In Episode 34 of Okay Diva, Brock and I dive deep into 2016 nostalgia — unpacking what 2016 actually was, what it meant culturally, and why the internet is suddenly obsessed with it again. Was 2016 really the golden year everyone claims? Or are we romanticising chaos? Is 2026 the new 2016? We investigate. We talk 2016 pop culture , 2016 music , 2016 aesth...

This episode was inevitable. In Episode 33 of Okay Diva, Brock and I sit down and do the unthinkable: we expose our biggest unhinged diva moments. The receipts. The behaviours. The things that explain why we are like this. What starts as a laugh quickly turns into a full psychological excavation. We drag each other, relive moments that should’ve stayed buried, and come to terms with the fact that...