Friends and obsessives Eve and Ksenia examine the parasocial relationships that define our weeks, months, and lives. Each episode is a lighthearted yet profound look into the prominent(ish) figures who have been living in our heads rent free and what they can teach us about culture, relationships, and our own selves.
Music by Ewan Fraser
Cover art by Anna Covell
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A big one today ladies a gents. We look at Dolly (alias Hannah) Alderton arch chronicler of millennial friendship and love. We both Dolly to bits and any of our more constructive feedback comes from a place of deep understanding of her work and we hope should she see this she understands. Although we heard of her adaption of Pride and Prejudice with trepidation, we will go into watching it with open hearts and minds. Furthermore, I expect a lot of it comes from cultural cringe. Dolly We Love You <3
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8 Feb 2025
pAraSoCial TRaItORs !!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow Ksenia and Eve - ever on trend are discussing BBC's THE TRAITORS! Only a cool fortnight after it finished. But the series finale was watched by 7 MILLION people so assuming it must be of at least some interest. The sound is better this week as we were back at your recording studio. Ksenia's living room. Who was your favourite traitor? Biggest parasocial? We also solve GENDER, JOAN DIDION, AND THE BRITISH CLASS SYSTEM. All in a day's work.
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9 Dec 2024
2024: A year a pop parasocialism
Parasocial hosts discuss the rise of parasocial and paranormal relationships in 2024, revealing the dark side of celebrity culture and the occult.
2 Sept 2024
Molly Mae and the Love Island Babes
The nation was left reeling by the shock (or not) break up of Molly Mae Hague and Tommy Fury parents of the unfortunately named Bambi Fury. Eve does not get the Molly Mae hype. She seems boring? But Ksenia explains how staying at home in pyjamas and watching films aimed at children is actually very feminist.
Thanks to legend Anna C and Ewan F for the graphics and music respectively.
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4 Aug 2024
A dichotomy: Charli XCX and Taylor Swift part 2 (party girl remix)
The sound is fixed you will all be relieved to know.
365 party girls Eve and Ksenia continue their breathtaking analysis, pitting women against each other. They attempt to mirror XCX's vulnerability and authenticity and Swift's horsegirl drive. Can you be brat if you work at palantir? No. Having said that, if Kamala is brat then Hilary Clinton is Swift. Eve takes you through the chronology of girl so confusing.
You can find Lady Miss Kay's tiktok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@ladymisskay_?lang=en
and her podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6uhBxdeAFz51yzmUiFXzva?si=6e12537aeac6492c
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23 Jul 2024
A dichotomy: Charli XCX and Taylor Swift
SORRY ABOUT THE SOUND. IT WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN
A fridge? Swift. A freezer? Charli. Salt? Swift. Pepper? Charli. Kamala? Charli. Hilary? Swift. Need we go on?
In this two part series we compare and contrast our parasocial relationships with rival (?) musicians and cultural figures Charli XCX and Taylor Swift. Despite being a literal horse girl, Ksenia is not taken by Blondie. Eve is consumed by a fraught ambivalence. Be prepared for an intense psychodrama. We also discuss living legends Anna Maxwell Martin star of Motherland and Tina Tsakonas star of informative Tiktoks about going to prison. No bad parasocial this week except Eve.
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1 Jul 2024
2010 Youtubers
This week Ksenia and Eve dive into one of the most influential cultural movements of our time: YOUTUBE of the 2010s. We consider how it shaped how we interact with celebrities now, the idea of an influencer and 2010s Anglophilia. We also catch up on some of our favourites and what they're doing (owning a student accommodation company, volunteering at a greyhound shelter, and transitioning in Canada.) Eve inflicts some ideas from CS Lewis onto Ksenia and she takes it graciously and we then consider the Youtube careers that could have been. But thank God they weren't.
Who were your favourite Youtubers?
Thank you Ewan Fraser for the theme music & Anna Covell for the graphic design.
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18 Jun 2024
The Royal Ballet
Despite some fans’ unfortunate determination to turn Ms Swift from Taylor to Gaylor, this week’s episode is the most wholesome yet: from the shores of Saudi Arabia (we promise, it’s all nice and positive – at least on Eve’s ex-one-night-stand’s Instagram) to the wings of the Royal Opera House where Ksenia rubs shoulders with members of the Royal Ballet in her daydreams.
Thank you Ewan Fraser for the theme music & Anna Covell for the graphic design.
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3 Jun 2024
Julia Fox and being bourgeois-brained
Our new ‘bad parasocial’ segment reveals that parasocial relationships sometimes go too far… 8000 cards too far. But Eve’s admiration for Julia Fox goes just far enough: we touch on autofiction, the bourgeois dream of middle management, and pest control through the legendary JF’s best quotes.
Thank you Ewan Fraser for the theme music & Anna Covell for the graphic design.
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26 May 2024
Patti Smith & more
Eve introduces Ksenia to the most prominent medieval peasant of our times, we discuss boarding school trauma, and Ksenia waxes lyrical about the godmother of punk herself, Patti Smith: tune in for 70s NYC nostalgia, bad haircut near-misses, and free money.
Thank you Ewan Fraser for the theme music & Anna Covell for the graphic design.
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8 May 2024
Katherine Ryan and Ruby Redstone
Call me Mother!
Our first ever episode! We introduce the podcast, explain in detail what ‘parasocial’ means to us, and our fangirling over fashion historian Ruby Redstone and TV/comedy darling Katherine Ryan helps us explore what kind of women (and mothers) we dream of being.
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