This week we farewell the absolute icon that was Dolly Parton, before moving seamlessly — and we use that word very loosely — into Vanity Fair’s questionable Best Dressed list, James Franco’s spectacular descent into vertical werewolf drama, and some AFL Mad Monday behaviour that has us asking, once again: are the men okay?

We get into Richmond’s Mad Monday antics and the bigger conversation about footy culture, before ARIA’s ban on fully AI-generated music sends us down a rabbit hole involving robot sex music, AI slop and one deeply unfortunate sentence about a shaved pussy.

Plus, we unpack the Jackie O and Kyle Sandilands court case, workplace bullying and what happens when bad behaviour becomes part of the brand.

Dolly. Fashion crimes. Jimmy Frank. Pissing footballers. AI madness. Workplace bullies. Terrible segues.

As Tansy so eloquently puts it: “This is the dumbest fucking episode.”

She may be right.

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