The. Worst. Bachelor. Ever.

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🗓️ 7 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Good morning to everyone except Nick Cummins! Kidding, kidding. In all seriousness, though, what the HECK happened on The Bachelor last week? Plus, can you be a feminist and love rap music, and what's with the return of the noughties' biggest Hollywood stars? Mischa Barton and Lindsay Lohan are ev-er-y-where. Our recommendations for the week: How To Be Perfect by Holly Wainwright and Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty. Wanna read what we spoke about in the pod? Links below. Tricia Rose for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/jay-z-bitch-rapper-hip-hop Ann Friedman for The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2013/07/blurring-the-lines-enjoying-maybe-sexist-music.html The New York Times on women in the music industry: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/arts/music/music-industry-gender-study-women-artists-producers.html Tirhakah Love for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/19/post-malone-rockstar-numb-the-pain-with-the-money-how-hip-hop-turned-nihilistic Jill Filipovic on women's public meltdowns: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/29/amanda-bynes-meltdown-why-we-watch Thanks so much to STA Travel for sponsoring this episode of Shameless. This episode was produced by Michelle Andrews, with royalty free music from BenSound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.4	really love dumb stuff. You're joined as always by Melbourne journalists Michelle Andrews
1:04.6	and Zara McDonald.
1:05.6	Hello.
1:06.6	Coming up on today's show, Carnay has a new song and it's high time we talked about the lyrics.
1:11.1	Of course we're going to do one long and deep dive into
1:14.1	the worst Bachelor series in history and the teen stars who fell from Grace.
1:18.1	Why are they all suddenly back on our radar? But of course Michelle first, how was your week? It was a really good week. It was a relaxing week and I think that was in part because the weather was so bloody
1:29.1	amazing. Yeah it's nice when the weather actually starts getting good in Melbourne.
1:33.2	You notice that everybody's moods goes up tenfold.
1:36.0	Oh, I think I have seasonal effective disorder.
1:38.1	Definitely.
1:39.1	I think most people do in this city.
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