Crabb and Sales dissect a New York Times article that everybody is talking about. Crabb is loving the work of a first-time novelist while Sales feels let down by one of her favourite comedians.
Read MoreA rip has emerged in the Sales Time Management Continuum; she's turned up to record the podcast without a list of topics! This gives Crabb an early headstart to yabber aimlessly about going to see Hamilton AGAIN and Helen Garner's new book which Crabb has read. The new Ottolenghi is reviewed, and Succession star Brian Cox has written a memoir full of celebrity human wreckage, principally his own.
Read MoreSales goes on an epic James Bond binge, including a rendition of the theme music, while Crabb gets her own back with a big clang: some one-on-one time with super-author Liane Moriarty.
Read MoreBonus Episode - Love Your Bookshop
Read MoreCrabb is aghast at Sales’ latest sporting obsession. Meanwhile the pair has been binging nothing but American culture.
Read MoreThe Newsreader causes Sales and Crabb to have flashbacks to their early newsroom careers (interspersed with Crabb's nightmares about being tortured in a wooden crate because she is STILL watching The Bureau, send help). Plus they've watched Hacks! And The White Lotus!
Read MoreCrabb is delighted, no seriously, she’s delighted, to discover that Sales has been binging sports documentaries, including further indulging her obsession with the Chicago Bulls.
Read MoreWell, what to say about this half-hour of audio content? The kindest possible account is that it does contain some quite elevated content, which one of the most beautiful women on Australian television manages to RUIN by inexplicably throwing the switch to Pam Ayres at a truly crucial moment.
Read MoreLook, realistically: It's not going to come up again, ever. So naming rights for this episode go to the great Michael Flatley, with whose cult brand of Irish dancing Sales became re-acquainted recently after a stray text message from WHICH celebrated TV satirist????
Read MoreCrabb is amazed when Sales reveals she only just realised the song “Physical” is not about exercise, and is appalled to discover a significant gap in Sales' musical theatre knowledge. GASP.
Read MoreJanet Malcolm is dead and this drives our hosts into a discussion about interview techniques and ethics, via psychoanalysis (stick with us). Crabb talks about her new show Ms Represented and the session ends soothingly with kittens.
Read MoreCrabb and Sales perform live on stage for the first time in 16 months in Sales’ home town of Brisbane. The event starts respectably enough with a brace of Queensland writers but the pair soon falls to bickering over the pronunciation of a terrible 1980s boy band.
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