DEEP DIVE: Cowboy Carter, Friendship's Radical Potential, and the Limits of Representation

Broadly Relevant

Today's a long one, so buckle in. We deep dive into the politics of representation and the actual good that celebrity has to shape a better world. Particularly, we chat about Cowboy Carter (what a great album) and the politics of Beyoncé. Perhaps in counterpoint, we discuss the healing potential of friendships, and how restructuring our lives around friendship has led to a fuller life for us. Plus, lots of extra fun tidbits along the way.

👋 Welcome to Episode 6 of the podcast for burnt out girlies trying to stay Broadly Relevant, hosted by your favourite personality hires, Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton.

🔗 Research Links

• Sagrada Familia in Barcelona ‘will be completed in 2026’
• The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom
• ‎How to Keep Time: What Do We Owe Our Friends? on Apple Podcasts
• Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and the flip-flop, flippy flip flop and ass bitches

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🎶 Thanks to Seb Whitaker for our lovely intro music.

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🖤💛❤️ We recorded this episode on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations, but Simran and Ryan met and grew up together on the land of the Yugambeh people. We’d like to acknowledge and pay our respects to Yugambeh, Kulin, and particularly Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung elders past and present. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We encourage settlers like us to Pay the Rent.