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Mm-hmm. crime. Oh, Hello and welcome to Shameless, the Pop Culture podcast for smart people who love dumb stuff.

You're joined, as always, by Melbourne Writers, Michelle Andrews, that would be me.

And Zara McDonald, that would be you.

Hello, Michelle Andrews, and hello, producer Annabelle. Hello. Hi, Nanabot. Coming up on today's show, Justin Bieber's album is here and we have thoughts, as does the entire internet. Speaking of new music, Jojo Siwa's got some that she's threatening to release. Lena Dunham's new show just dropped on Netflix. What's Up with the Royal Peace Summit? And welcome to my algorithm. TikTok is absolutely fucked. Oh, newsflash. Wow. It actually is a newsflash to maybe like 2022 us. I know, that's true. Three years ago, we'd love that up. Anyway, we're not talking about that yet. First, we are talking about you. How your week? Do you have a recommendation? Yes, to recommendation, I think, if I'm allowed to

recommend, I know this is against the rules, but I am 30 pages away from finishing a book.

Allowed. Allowed? Cleared. Okay, thank you, but full disclosure. It's a book from Helen Garner. It's probably 15 years old. It's

called This House of Grief. It's about the trial of Robert Farquison from, you know, the late

2000s. So for any international listeners who are listening to this, Robert Farquison is a Victorian

man. He drove his car off, I think in 2005, off, you know, overpass and into a dam and his

three children tragically passed away. He was charged and eventually found guilty of their

murders. Helen Garner sat in the courtroom every day and wrote an entire book about the court case.

So it's quite like court heavy, but it is a

really, really fascinating read about the court process. I think particularly in the wake of

the mushroom trial that we've spoken about on this show, how those cases come to be and how

they play out is really fascinating to me. The other reason I wanted to

read it is because Helen Garner was spotted at the trial for Erin Patterson. Wow. So people

suspect she's going to write a book about that. The Robert Farquison story seems to be

rearing its head again. There's some podcasts as well that are also looking at the case quite closely. I think it's one of those things where when you consume a court case from afar, when you're just consuming news and there's constantly chatter of did this person do this thing, it's very easy when you're on the outside of it to say, I'm very black and white about something. And I think a book like this kind of teaches you how convincing both sides of the argument are, how they're put together and how much you have to think about the whole story. Yeah, well, the devil's in the details. Totally. So it was fascinating and I'm really enjoying it. As I said, I've got 30 pages to go, so very sorry about that. I will read this book. Can I please get it off you because I was just having a chat with my friend Tom the other day. He's deep diving that

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