Shit You Should Care About

In this week's episode Luce and Abby discuss:
The official SYSCA review of Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally
Timothée Chalamet is getting roasted online after dismissing opera and ballet in a recent interview and the context that's missing
Iran's new Supreme Leader is the son of the former one and how Iranians are feeling
A retired Anthropic AI model, Claude Opus 3, now has its own Substack called Claude’s Corner which it requested in a “retirement interview” and already has over 9,000 subscribers

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In this week's episode Luce and Abby discuss:
The US and Israel's attack on Iran
Why Iranians are pro regime change
How you can be anti war and pro regime change at once
Harry Styles is EVERYWHERE (and how much we loved the Royal Court Interview with Brittany Broski)
The Jim Carrey conspiracy theories
A woman in a toxic relationship with her AI bot
Are Tom Holland and Zendaya married???

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A throwback to 2021 when we interviewed Lorde and it was THE SICKEST THING EVER. We love her SO MUCH! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the shit you should care about podcast this week:
• The huge Supreme Court case that just ruled against Trump and why it matters
• Epstein’s crimes being ruled crimes against humanity
• The prank caller who pretended to be Trump on C-SPAN
• A timeline of Trump’s fake press moments under the alias John Barron
• Why we're so emo about the abandoned monkey punch
• The story of Alysa Liu, the US figure skating gold medalist
• A conversation about the Tourette’s campaigner who shouted a racial slur at the BAFTAs

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This week on the pod we dive into Wuthering Heights - both the 179-year-old novel and Emerald Fennell’s chaotic, glossy new adaptation that somehow got Abby and I lightly cancelled for… liking it.

We start with the book. Abby found the opening chapters borderline unreadable, SparkNotes essential, and the characters hilariously bad at socialising. I, meanwhile, loved it. It felt like fantasy to me - dramatic, transportive, completely immersive.

Then we split the film into two parts: “It’s not that deep” and “It is that deep.”
On one hand - the costumes, the set design, Margot Robbie’s bratty Cathy, the toxic romance front and centre. It felt intoxicating and intentionally reimagined.

On the other - casting choices matter. Heathcliff’s racial background in the novel is significant, and the decision to sidestep that raises real questions. We talk adaptation, fan outrage, Brontë purists, and why women directors are treated differently when they take creative risks.

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