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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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DUMB STUFF FRIDAYS: What… happened with the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party lighting because apparently a bunch of the celebrities there thought the pics flopped??? And then, the Wall St bros were profiled in Interview Magazine; people hated it, so let’s talk about it. To finish, an Ethan Hawke AYINOSI. This week, Zara recommended reading The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. Mich recommended reading ‘The Horseshoe Theory of Polyamory’ in The Atlantic. Big thanks to Samsung and their new Galaxy S26 Ultra for making this episode possible. With a built-in privacy display and an incredibly bright camera, it’s designed to keep up with everything you do. Get it now at Samsung.com. And shoutout to Calvin Klein, too! Use code SHAMELESS20 for $20 off Calvin Klein denim jeans in-store and online for a limited time only. 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 Annabelle Lee. 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	I have been on like a bit of a journey in the last two weeks.
0:04.3	I've tried to like bake a lot and I baked for your birthday.
0:08.8	And do you want to be honest with everyone about what happened?
0:12.1	You didn't only bake.
0:13.8	You, you theme baked because we're approaching Easter and you thought you would bake me some hot cross buns, some chocolate hot cross buns,
0:22.8	which are up there with my favourite things ever.
0:25.6	Unfortunately, your iteration of chocolate hot cross buns were the driest dentist.
0:34.3	And I love you.
0:35.4	I love the effort.
0:36.8	It took me three and a half hours and I packed them in a little container for us to go to Sydney and I presented her one in the airport and she pulled it apart and she goes, oh, it looks a bit dry. You're the one who said to do the night before being like, these are the fuggliest things I've ever made. They didn't look good. So I did that. And then the next night I thought, I'll try something more simple tonight.
1:09.0	I'm trying to stay off my phone. I'm baking. I'll make some crepes. I made... Niche. I made crepe. And I come, I go to the bathroom and I come back. And I see Olly spitting the crepe into the bin. Ah.
1:12.0	Shall we return to basics?
1:14.5	You do a really good chocolate chip cookie.
1:12.0	I need to go. eating the crepe into the bin. Shall we return to basics?
1:14.5	You do a really good chocolate chip cookie.
1:16.9	I need to go back to cookies and build my confidence back up.
1:17.4	Yeah.
1:19.4	Thanks for the hot.
1:20.5	The flavour was good.
1:24.1	The flavour of five out of five. The texture did not start.
2:21.4	Not on the rated spectrum. 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. What are we talking about today? Well, it's a Dumb Stuff Friday's episode. Happy Friday. Very happy to be here. Happy, happy Friday. So we've got a dumb lineup. We're going to talk about the Vanity Fair Oscars After Party because the celebrities were not happy with the lighting. And dare I say
2:27.8	fair play to them? Oh, you thought they look shit. No, but I am not a woman who is above
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