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The Worthless Twink is one of the most prominent gays on Instagram. But he's not called that anymore. Tim Abbott is reinventing himself as a meme artist. He gets real and raw with Josh about influencers, the gays, and self-obsession. This episode was recorded before the tragic death of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies on Monday the 19th of Febru… ncG1vNJzZmitnpi8rrLOq6uampyasLC61Z6prJmknryvv42srJurpJawrHrCqKRoqF%2BsvLPAx6WcrKtdqcSquspmq6KlXZavo7vTrWSwoJGpwA%3D%3D

☆☆☆☆ Kitty (played by Anna Cathcart) Dae (played by Choi Min-young) ↑Note: Korean names denote the surname followed by the given name. In the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved” spinoff “XO, Kitty,” Anna Cathcart stars as Katherine “Kitty” Song Covey — a high school senior with a white dad and a deceased Korean American mother. Cathcart’s Kitty was a standout in the TATB trilogy, playing a matchmaker for her older sister (played by Lana Condor) and her hunky crush (Noah Centineo).

Sarah Marshall is the co-creator and host of the award-winning podcast, You're Wrong About, Podcast of the Year at the 2022 I Heart Radio Podcast Awards. You’re Wrong About revisits what we think we know about history and cultural events that have lodged themselves into our brains, and how that compares with what actually happened. Marshall sat down with me to talk about how she got into podcasting in the first place, why she and co-creator Michael Hobbes started a Patreon a year later, what it’s like identifying more as a talker now than a writer, and what she has learned while touring her podcast with comedian Jamie Loftus.

Mike Gibbins (1949-2005) – Badfinger Badfinger recorded five albums on The Beatles – Apple Label from 1968-1973. They had four worldwide hits: “Come And Get It” “No Matter What” “Day After Day” and “Baby Blue”  Badfinger is a sad story about how legal, managerial and financial problems destroyed this group. You can easily find the details about 2 of the member’s suicides. Like many upon hearing Badfinger on the radio, they sounded similar to The Beatles.

“Not baaaad!” Prince used to say. Before adding slyly, “for a girl…” His point being Sheila E. was so far beyond being “not bad”. She was phenomenal. It was so far beyond the matter of her gender — but of course this was the 1980s and female drummers were far more of a rarity than they are today. Sheila E. was one of the reasons, I’m sure, for an explosion in female drummers; she was more visible than most by virtue of also being a lead singer, a backing singer, a musical director, a collaborator.

Alright, first episode - yay! We made it :) And wow, what a juicy episode... My guest is David Bland, author of the bestselling book Testing Business Ideas co-written with Alexander Osterwalder and part of Strategyzer's book series.  David is one of my biggest references in Product.  His work, combined with Teresa Torres, is such a potent cocktail for anyone wanting to build better products and discover value more effectively. 

It is a reclamation of Chanel’s life, her story and her power over what happened to her. It is a form of processing. It is painful, gruesome, truthful, yet also beautiful. It shines a much needed light on the darkness and gives words to the experiences that so many people struggle to describe in the aftermath of trauma. Trigger warning: rape and sexual assault. Quotes in italics are taken directly from the book.

Nayyirah Waheed’s latest book preFICTION cannot be found anywhere. Released in 2021 for free as a digital book only, now it’s as if it never existed. It’s like the streamers removing on demand shows off their platforms without warning never to be seen again (which happened on HBO Max quite recently) except it’s the creator of this work who is the arbiter in the dramatic overshadowing of mystery and secrecy that her work has quite suddenly become shrouded in.

Hello courageous people! 👋 Another week done and dusted which sees us here for edition #12! This week, our featured book is 📚 In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction 🖋 by Dr Gabor Maté. Well this one was the definition of a slog to read at 500 pages 🥵 and fulfils (I hope!) the exact purpose of this newsletter - me doing the hard yakka of reading the book for you and pulling out the bits of gold.