The world may be falling apart but here on Broadly Relevant it’s Broadly Diva week—with a facedown between New York’s mayoral hopeful and a star of Love Island. Head to IG to vote for your favourite. In the meanwhile, we yap about Remi Ashton’s wedding, Brazil’s realistic doll obsession, the mushroom trial, and war. Just your average week in 2025 really.

💖 We hope you love Episode 10 of the podcast for burnt out girlies trying to stay Broadly Relevant, hosted by your favourite personality hires, Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Stay tuned for new episodes every Monday at 6PM (AEDT)

🔗 Research Links

• Hyper-realistic baby dolls spark moral panic and legislation in Brazil | Brazil | The Guardian
• Exclusive: ABC Mushroom trial podcast appears to breach suppression order
• Lana Del Rey Attended OG YouTuber Remi Ashten’s Wedding
• Love Island's Huda
• Lucy Hale and Ian Harding “Stand Behind” Pretty Little Liars’ Controversial Age Gap
• The Erin Patterson mushroom trial media coverage

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💖 We hope you love Episode 9 of the podcast for burnt out girlies trying to stay Broadly Relevant, hosted by your favourite personality hires, Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Stay tuned for new episodes every Monday at 6PM (AEDT)

🔗 Research Links

• Why Does Everything Sound Like an Audition Song for 'The Voice?'
• Who’s Afraid of Gen Z’s Squeaky-Clean, Backflipping Bro? - The Atlantic
• One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed - The American Prospect
• How to Help Affected People Amid ICE Raids, Deportation, and Protests in LA
• 'No Kings' protests against Donald Trump
• Protests in LA
• Pedro Pascal Look-Alike Contest Crowns Winner In NYC
• Review: ‘Materialists’ isn’t quite a romance worth swooning over
• Drake and Jagmeet Singh beef

🫶 Enjoying Broadly Relevant? Tell a friend about us and we’ll love you forever.

🎵 Shoutout to Seb Whitaker for composing our theme music.

💛 Broadly Relevant is recorded on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations, and we met and grew up together on the land of the Kombumerri people, part of the Yugambeh Language Group. We acknowledge and pay our respects to Yugambeh and Kulin elders past and present, and extend that respect to first nations listeners. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

🌱 If you’re a settler like us, we encourage you to Pay the Rent.

This weeks episode is one of our best, if you don’t mind us saying. We dive into neo-luddism and the way some folks in Gen Z are rejecting technology—I mean how else are we meant to survive the information hurricane we’re living through. Plus, we chat about Kamala and Lorde’s trips to Australia, Victoria’s Machete Ban, Savers, Star Wars, and Gucci’s not-sari.

💖 We hope you love Episode 8 of the podcast for burnt out girlies trying to stay Broadly Relevant, hosted by your favourite personality hires, Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton. Stay tuned for new episodes every Monday at 6PM (AEDT)

🔗 Research Links

• Transparent methaphone
• Light Phone III review
• ‘My parents didn’t have a clue’: why many digital natives would not give their kids smartphones
• Savers is a thrift store – and we’re in a cost-of-living crisis. So why is the US chain dividing Australian shoppers?
• Northland shopping centre locked down
• Alia Bhatt Didn't Wear 'The First Gucci Saree' At Cannes 2025
• Lamestream
• Kamala Harris takes swipe at Musk and warns world to ‘remember the 1930s’ at Gold Coast real estate conference | Kamala Harris | The Guardian

🫶 Enjoying Broadly Relevant? Tell a friend about us and we’ll love you forever.

🎵 Shoutout to Seb Whitaker for composing our theme music.

💛 Broadly Relevant is recorded on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations, and we met and grew up together on the land of the Kombumerri people, part of the Yugambeh Language Group. We acknowledge and pay our respects to Yugambeh and Kulin elders past and present, and extend that respect to first nations listeners. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

🌱 If you’re a settler like us, we encourage you to Pay the Rent.