This week on Cool Story Bri and Bridie bring you hot recommendations for a film, a book, an album, and a TV show! Then they discuss the last Guardian article about how self-care has become meaningless at best and toxic at worst. They round out the week by discussing what's happening with the Voice campaign ahead of the referendum on October 14. Books/Articles referenced in the episode: Shayda - Film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13200006/ The Makioka Sisters by...

This week is a special episode where Bri and Bridie ask each other juicy, spicy, sometimes controversial questions. Then they set each other the challenge of bringing the books that 'punched them in the guts' the hardest. They'll be answering your questions next! Got something about either Bri or Bridie that you've always wanted to know? Email or DM them a note or voice memo on Insta. Books referenced in this episode: The One Thing We've Never Spoken About - Elfy...

This week on Cool Story: Bridie shares a crazy story about her kid sending her husband to hospital; Bri and Bridie compare their notes from reading Andrea Long Chu's takedown of Zadie Smith; and they discuss the legal and ethical fight for a better deal for food delivery drivers.  Articles/books referenced in the episode: The Importance of Being Earnest: https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/whats-on/productions/2023/the-importance-of-being-earnest The Anniversary - Stephanie...

This week on Cool Story: Bri describes an extraordinary new exhibition of Hoda Afshar's photography, a year on from the women's uprising in Iran. Then together Bri and Bridie discuss the two big stories doing the rounds of the internet: a New Yorker article by a man who has spent his 20 year prison sentence listening to Taylor Swift; and a Stylist magazine piece about whether or not women are being 'priced out of pregnancy'. They also talk about how much they loved The Most Important Job in...

This is an interview special with New York Times bestselling author Elise Loehnen about her new book 'On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be good'. Elise is a writer, editor, and the host of Pulling The Thread, a podcast focused on pulling apart the stories we tell about who we are—and then putting those threads back together. Bri and Elise discuss: sloth and burnout; envy and scarcity mindset; and gluttony versus a sad state of vigilance.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

This week on Cool Story; Bri read On Our Best Behaviour: 'The price women pay to be good' by Elise Loehnen, which leads to Bri and Bridie each sharing something that makes them envious. Then they turn to the big stories of the week: Sally Rugg's 60 Minutes interview about the generational attitudes towards working overtime, and a new article with the latest strongly-held opinions about sleep.  This episode contains an excerpt of an interview special with New York Times bestselling author...

This week begins with a critical phone call from Bridie’s brother holidaying overseas about what McDonald's is like in Italy. Then Bri mentions a potentially nation-building event she witnessed at the Human Rights Law Centre.Bridie read "The Sarah Book" by Scott McClanahan, leading to a brief discussion about how great divorce narratives can be, before Bri launched them into a true crime deep dive: the ethics of the genre; why women love it so much; and Rebecca Makkai's novel "I Have Some...

This week on Cool Story with Bri & Bridie we're talking about: Bridie's brush with fame; Bridie and Bri discuss whether The Group by Mary McCarthy is the 'origin story' of Sex and The City, plus Bridie raves about an extraordinary memoir by Octavia Bright (host of the Literary Friction Podcast) entitled This Ragged Grace; a discussion about the discovery of Hadrian's Event Calendar from AD128 leads to a conversation around digital access, burning diaries, and data privacy; the devastating...

This week on Cool Story with Bri & Bridie we're talking about; Problematic artists, can you seperate the art from the artist; Bridie has been reading an extraordinary story in Vanity Fair entitled True Crime, True Faith about how a Texas beauty queen converted a serial Killer to Christianity as well as Scammer by Caroline Calloway, while Bri drunkenly purchased Atomic Habits by James Clear; Usher's "unhinged" dinner etiquette guide followed by the big story; the housing crisis in...

Welcome to the first ever episode of Cool Story with Bri & Bridie. This week on the show we're talking about: Bridie's hilarious wisdom tooth removal story; a conversation about the erasure of women and Anna Funder's new book Wifedom; disagreements about location sharing apps; and discussion about News Corp and Google using AI to generate content pitch news articles. Wanna hear a cool story? Find us anywhere you get your podcasts.   Articles referenced in the...

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