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Influencers are sleeping at the wheel

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Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Happy Monday to our fave humans! On today’s show: The maaaany reasons Kanye West absolutely should not become President. Plus, the controversial Harper’s letter signed by scores of high-profile journalists and artists lamenting cancel culture, and then, a conversation about influencers, politics and a pandemic. This week, Mich recommended the Bumble and bumble thickening hairspray. Zara recommended watching Billions on Stan. Thank you so much to today’s sponsor, the Adore Beauty podcast, Beauty IQ Uncensored. Listen and subscribe here. If this is your first time checking us out (hey, you), we are an independent media company that is dedicated to telling young women’s stories. The best way to support Shameless is to click ‘Subscribe’ on Apple Podcasts or ‘Follow’ on your Spotify app, and to tell your mates about us. We will reward such good behaviour with a puppy! Not everything in this paragraph is true! But wait! There’s more! Follow Shameless on Instagram. Join our book club Facebook Group. Subscribe to the weekly Shameless recommendations newsletter. Pre-order our upcoming book about life in your twenties, The Space Between. We cherish your feedback on the show. If you’d like to weigh in on an episode - whether it be a segment in a Monday episode, an In Conversation guest, or this month’s book club pick, we’d love for you to call our Shameless Hotline. You miiiiight just be featured on an episode. Thanks so much for lending us your ears for this episode! Have a great day! Stay hydrated! This episode was produced by Annabelle Lee for Shameless Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello and

1:07.0

welcome to Shameless, the Celebrity and Pop Culture Podcast for Smart People Who Love Dumb Stuff.

1:14.0

You're joined as always by Melbourne Journalists Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald.

1:18.0

Hello!

1:19.0

Coming up on today's show, The Many and Vary Reasons varied reasons Kanye West absolutely should not

1:24.3

become president. Plus the controversial Harper's letter signed by scores of

1:28.6

high-profile journalists and artists lamenting cancel culture and then a conversation about influences, politics and a pandemic.

1:37.0

As 2020 exposed the influences who want nothing more than to sit idly in their cocoon of comfort

1:41.6

and privilege.

1:43.0

But first, Michelle, how was your week?

1:45.0

We're back in lockdown.

1:47.0

Hooray, all Melbourneians.

1:50.0

It's been a sad week, I'm not going to lie.

1:52.0

The one thing that picked me back up out of my slump was in last week's episode we promised the listeners that we were going to do a bit of a competition, a bit of a mishvizara situation. A bit of a comppy com. A bit of a compi comp where oh I hate that yeah same by the way

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