The enduring appeal of South Park

Shameless

Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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HI! Coming up on today’s show: it might just be the most consistently controversial TV show of all time – yep, we’re talking about South Park! As the show continues with its 27th season, it’s managed to remain remarkably culturally relevant for almost three decades. Love it or hate it, you simply can’t deny its staying power… On today’s show, Zara recommended the Very Glowy Primer from Go-To Skincare. Mich recommended a good night’s sleep! Huge thanks to Bumble for making this episode of Shameless possible. Bumble is back, and better than ever. Your hosts are Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald) and Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1). 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Shameless Media.
0:07.7	This episode of Shameless is brought to you by Bumble.
0:10.5	Fall back in love with love.
0:12.5	Bumble is back and better than ever. Hello and welcome to Shameless, the pop culture podcast for smart people who love dumb stuff.
0:45.0	You're joined, as always, by Melbourne writers, Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald.
0:49.0	Hello, Zazzy and hello producer, Eilish Gilligan.
0:51.5	Hi.
0:52.1	Hi, welcome back, Gil.
0:53.5	Thanks.
0:54.2	Coming up on today's show, it might just be the most consistently controversial TV show of all time.
1:00.9	Yes, today we are talking about South Park.
1:03.9	As the show continues with its 27th season, it's managed to remain remarkably culturally relevant for almost 30 years. It's insane.
1:13.8	Love it or hate it. You cannot deny it staying power. And that's what we want to talk about today.
1:18.6	Oh my God. I'm so excited. Wow. Long time coming to set. But first, Michelle, how are you? How was you
1:24.3	week? I mean, we kind of spoke recently. So do you have a recommendation? What do you want to feel this space with? I need to break the fourth wall again for the listeners. We are recording this episode a mere day after our Thursday episode because it is a public holiday. Well, now I'm like in the past because people are listening to this on a Monday. What you guys need to know is that the Friday that just happened for you, we were on a public holiday. So this is being recorded on the Thursday. Correct, which means that we needed to find a recommendation in 24 hours. Yeah. And so I don't have a recommendation. I'm so sorry to let the listeners down. I do highly recommend getting seven hours of sleep in one block, which my child for the first time in months gave me last night. So I recommend Sadie does that again tonight.
2:04.3	Love that for you. And for every night, forever more.
2:06.7	What a recommendation.
2:07.9	What about you?
2:09.1	Well, I have decided to actually dip my toe back into beauty recommendations.
2:14.0	I know this is not stylish, but given I had 24 hours, I had to think, you know what,
2:17.9	I haven't consumed anything worth recommending in the last 24 hours, consumed one or two things
2:23.2	I wanted to recommend, but they just weren't up to scratch.
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