Our frictionless world

Shameless

Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Hello hello! On today’s show, our lives have never been this… frictionless. Everything is convenient and bespoke; dating apps present us with an endless stream of suitors, streaming platforms curate personalised playlists for any possible mood, ChatGPT can write tricky emails for us so we don’t have to. But what if the most satisfying part of being alive is wading through the friction? What could happen if we never have to be uncomfortable again? Also! The Coldplay affair couple. Lol. Your hosts are Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald) and Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1). Big thanks to South Australia for making this episode of Shameless possible. Visit Australia’s hidden gem and celebrate the simple pleasures. On today’s show, Mich recommended The Gen Z Stare by Kate Lindsay in Embedded. Listen to ‘Fake bands, real weapons: How Spotify is fuelling the arms race’ from 7AM. Shameless Podcast is produced by Annabelle Lee and Eilish Gilligan, executive-produced by Lucy Hunt and audio-edited by Eilish Gilligan. Our social media team consists of Naima Fatema, Emily Li and Eilish Gilligan, and our partnerships manager is Cindy Luu. Want to support our show? Clicking ‘follow’ on Apple and Spotify is the best way to do that, and we're super grateful to anyone who leaves a five-star review while they're at it. Also! An old-fashioned 'Tell a Friend In Real Life' is equally appreciated. Want more? We've got more… Subscribe to our newsletter Smart, Dumb Stuff: https://tinyurl.com/4yasjphn Follow us on Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/2mf557ux Aaaand we’re on TikTok: https://tinyurl.com/2hchchrp Everything else your heart could ever desire is here: https://linktr.ee/shamelesspodcast Thanks for listening! We’re huge fans of yours.

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0:00.0	This episode of Shameless Media.
0:07.2	This episode of Shameless is brought to you by South Australia.
0:10.7	Visit Australia's hidden gem and celebrate the simple pleasures. Hello and welcome to Shameless, the pop culture podcast.
0:42.4	For smart people who love dumb stuff, you're joined, as always, by Melbourne writers, Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald.
0:48.6	Hello, Zara McDonald and hello, producer Elish Gilligan.
0:51.2	Hi.
0:51.6	Hi, guys.
0:52.7	Coming up on today's show, our last show for a few weeks
0:56.3	and turns out one of the biggest affair, hot co-cord stories has dropped just in time. Plus,
1:03.8	our lives have never been this frictionless. Everything is convenient and bespoke. Dating apps present
1:09.2	us with an endless stream of suitors, streaming
1:11.1	platforms, curate personalised playlist for any mood and chat GPT can write tricky emails for
1:16.4	us so we don't have to. But what if the most satisfying part of being alive is wading through
1:21.3	the friction? I know this sounds a bit of an amorphous topic today, but can I just say I'm very
1:26.0	excited to go there? I am bloody excited to go there. I am bloody
1:27.7	excited to go there. People are just going to have to trust us, I guess. They really should. Guys, we feel like we've earned your trust over seven years. Let's just vaguely friction. How are you, Michelle? How is your week, what are you recommending? I'm good. I want to recommend, I'm going to make this quick, actually, because I feel like we have so much to get through today. I want to
1:26.2	recommend a piece in Kate Lindsay's newsletter embedded. This is not the first time we've recommended Kate Lindsay's work. It will not be the last. It's called the Gen Z stare. When I say that to you both, do you have a hunch as to what I'm talking about? Yes. Well, only because I haven't read this piece properly yet, but I skimmed the synopsis.
1:44.3	Yeah. It's the idea. And we need to make it clear. Gen Zed is, we're not coming for you. You are not some hard done by group. We did have the millennial pause and millennials have copped it. Oh, millennials. Been beaten down.
2:18.8	Thated and bruised.
2:19.8	Yeah.
2:20.1	Now, when it comes to Gen Z, there has been an observation made that perhaps all the years
2:26.0	spent online, spent in Zoom classes, spent perhaps not face to face as much as other
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