In Old Saint Denis

Shiffa and I talk about primary school beef, film bro stuff, brown family dynamics and cultural ideologies except we sort of forgot this was a pod and kept getting sidetracked

A RadioMonash show.

I spend a third of the episode talking straight nonsense btw

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6319124/

https://asm.org/articles/2025/may/tuberculosis-and-fatal-beauty-romanticism

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565221081062

https://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/what-dark-secrets-will-the-inpatient-reveal-from-until-dawn/

A Radio Monash show.

Ale and I rant about the toxic looksmaxxing community online and about the chuds who idolise Patrick Bateman. However Christian Bale if you're seeing this I love you.

(There may be some audio disturbances ignore that)

Alessandro’s article: https://pivot.mias.org.au/2026/08/21/the-monocultural-golden-age-that-never-existed-an-imagined-past-and-its-consequences-for-a-real-future/

Sources:

When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11896937/

Looksmaxxing Men, Looksminimizing Women: Self-Improvement, Self-Aggrandizement, and the Aesthetics of the New Social Darwinism: A Critical Cultural Essay on Gender, Desire, the Pill Imaginary, and the Ghost of Körperkultur

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6940918

The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male: how toxic masculinity took over social media

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/12/the-sad-stupid-rise-of-the-sigma-male-how-toxic-masculinity-took-over-social-media

The Rise of the ‘Sigma Male’, a New Kind of Toxic Masculinity

https://www.vice.com/en/article/sigma-male-toxic-masculinity/

How American Psycho predicted the capitalism, masculinity and chaos of 2020

https://i-d.co/article/how-american-psycho-predicted-the-capitalism-masculinity-and-chaos-of-2020/

This is a Radio Monash podcast.

This is genuinely a stream of consciousness don’t crucify me for my fillers and pauses x

Sources:

Ethics Explainer: The Panopticon

https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-panopticon-what-is-the-panopticon-effect/

Sun, Sex and Surveillance by Greta Liu

https://artcrimearchive.net/2025/10/17/sun-sex-and-surveillance-love-islands-panopticon-paradise/

The ‘Love Island’ Villa is an aphrodosiac (and the experts agree) by Brittany Smith

https://www.homebeautiful.com.au/lifestyle/love-island-villa-aphrodisiac/

Did Reality TV Help Build the Surveillance State? By Amanda Scherker

https://medium.com/wisecrack/did-reality-tv-help-build-the-surveillance-state-6d63e238f1e6

Seeing like Meta: Smart Glasses and the Ethics of Augmented Reality by Ryan Stanton, Marcus Carter, Joanne Gray and Wenqi Tan

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/meta-ai-smart-glasses-and-the-ethics-of-augmented-reality/105849612

This is a RadioMonash podcast.