It’s been another big week for Myf and Zan, in private and public, and we catch up on Bjerth, missing cues on the Rocky Horror stage, and meeting the guy who wrote “I Want It That Way”. It’s also 6 years to the day that Bang On first popped into your podcast feed! Oh yes, we go back to the tapes… We were chatting International Women’s Day then, and still are now. What’s changed in that time? And what are the conversations we’re fed up with having? Owen Wilson is soon to star as a certain painter...
Mar 09, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan are catching up on the week that was, and whether Harry is still doing shoey’s. W Magazine has just unveiled a phenomenal cover shoot with woman of the moment Jennifer Coolidge , as crafted by Directors of the moment “Daniels”. Yep, the people who put together Everything Everywhere All At Once have made a magical world for J Cool and it’s as good as it sounds. Meanwhile the King has Coronation Party anxiety, Ted Lasso is back soon with some more hints at S03, and a long read on the a...
Mar 02, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re back, and 2023 is already as wild as we imagined it would be. Myf and Zan catch up on what’s gone down since we last banged on; notably Myf is now best friends with Jason Donovan. Zan watched Cocaine Bear and lets you know whether it’s worth the ticket, and Harry Styles is continuing the strange and disgusting “tradition” of drinking from his own shoe while in Australia. Whyyyyy? Meanwhile a Tiesto remix of the White Lotus theme is not the only hot goss about our favourite series; has John...
Feb 23, 2023•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf Warhurst and Zan Rowe are getting ready to get back in the ring and wrap-up your week in art, life, music, faaaarshun and everything in between.
Feb 08, 2023•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a bloody year. Well done, you made it! And for our final episode, we’re throwing Bang On over to you – our beautiful Bang Fam – for some excellent summer recommends. Myf and Zan will wrap our favourite (and most cooked) moments of the year too, and ask the question we posed at the start of 2022: has the vibe actually shifted? Yes, that was this year. We’re also checking in with Bang Fam all over the world, from Dortmund to London to Sydney, for some beautiful Bang Backs. Stick around till t...
Dec 15, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast White Lotus is winding up and we’re on the edge of our seats, but importantly – which character would we most like to take back to our fancy hotel room? Myf and Zan are digging into a brilliant thinkpiece on just that. A couple of weeks ago we got the Macquarie Word of the Year, now it’s Oxford’s turn and the results prove that dictionaries are Bang Fam. Meanwhile it’s a bear, and not bird, week. Balenciaga have confused and upset a lot of people with their latest campaign showing BDSM bears in ...
Dec 08, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan bring Bang On live to the Bang Fam for the first time in 3 years! As a part of the Grapes of Mirth festival, we head to the Barossa Valley in South Australia for some woine time, with special guests Tom Gleeson and Geraldine Hickey. Did you know Tom is Bang Fam? Believe. And wait till you hear what Gez is Banging Back about. Join us for a big love in, in the Barrel Room of a vineyard, as we reunite with our Bang Fam. Show notes: Rogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iInDq8bn81g&...
Dec 01, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan are back and oh boy, there’s a lot to catch up on. We’ve been glued to the telly with the Kath & Kim specials, news of Neighbours returning (what?), and the promise of even more White Lotus. The Macquarie Dictionary are offering up their contenders for word/phrase of the year and there are some Bang On classics in the mix. And speaking of Bachelor’s Handbags, there’s more bird talk this week. Maybe we should rebrand to Bird On? Dolly Parton has finally been inducted to the Rock n...
Nov 22, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan are back to flick through the week that was and explain WTF happened. A man in Philly has eaten 40 rotisserie chickens in 40 days, there’s that. Speaking of birds, Myf has an important update on her beloved Collins St Peregrine Falcons. Meanwhile Twitter’s “imminent demise” has a few people switching to the Mastodon social platform, we explain what it is. If you’ve noticed that celebs have flipped back to the “heroin chic” look of the 90’s, you’re not alone. A new piece by Jameela Ja...
Nov 10, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s Halloween and you know what that means: celebs dressing up in hot costumes. Not so with Heidi Klum, Halloween’s biggest fan, who has topped all of her previous efforts by dressing up as a giant earthworm. We talk about why this slimy turd is so compelling. Speaking of scary, several lions escaped from their enclosure in Taronga Zoo this week, and we’re wondering what they were looking for. Taylor Swift has made history (again), and Elon Musk has everyone in a tizz with his acquisition of, a...
Nov 03, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s been another headline filled week, but never fear – Myf and Zan are your cliff notes, and making sense of it all. It’s been a big week in music too, with Björk announcing her first live performances in Australia since 2008! Taylor Swift dropped an album, ICYMI, and Tina Knowles-Lawson is once again leaking all the good stuff re: her daughter on her socials, including a Beyoncé World Tour. Rihanna is back as well, with her first new music in 6 years! One artist many have been turning the vo...
Oct 27, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan are back and oh boy there’s a lot to catch up on. Much of it food related, weirdly; from roast chicken handbags as art, to butter boards (wtaf), and Olivia Wilde’s “special salad dressing”. James Cordern is being banned from eating out, for good measure. More locally, the Bureau of Meteorology caused it’s own storm with an attempt at rebranding this week. And artists across the globe are cancelling tours and speaking out against rising costs, unsustainable touring wages, and the ment...
Oct 20, 2022•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Yeah look it’s a bit of a weird one this week. All good, Myf Warhurst and Zan Rowe make sense of it for you as per. The Queen’s funeral has taken place and in amongst the meticulously planned ceremony, some outlier events have all of us talking. Yes, we’re referring to the spider, and that bit of paper on the ground. The end of this long period of mourning, respect, and reflection has been felt in different ways across different communities. Stan Grant’s brilliant and heartbreaking editorial for...
Sep 21, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan make sense of a week dominated by one news event, but with plenty of pop culture tugging at our attention. The Emmy’s provided plenty of reminders of TV we loved, missed, or clean forgot that we watched in the first place, and a rare magical TV moment as Sheryl Lee Ralph took to the stage. Staying with the screen, the trailer for Disney’s live action remake of The Little Mermaid got a whole lot of attention, but we’re mostly here for the real time reacs from young black girls at the ...
Sep 15, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast What a smorgasbord this week has been. Grab the popcorn, Myf Warhurst and Zan Rowe are going in. If you’re confused about all the hullabaloo around Olivia Wilde’s new film Don’t Worry Darling, don’t worry – we were too. We explain it all, and debrief on what’s driving this ferocious hunger for gossip. A Reddit thread on sex soundtracks has the internet heaving, while Kim Kardashian’s bum makes the front page again. And why are famous folks sharing hot pics of themselves as teenage dirtbags? We d...
Sep 08, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf’s back from Bali and she and Zan have a lot to bang on about. Pool times, hanging with the PM, all of it. It’s been a big week for Britney too, with the release of her new Elton John collab, and a 22 minute audio recording detailing her conservatorship. We debrief on the MTV VMA’s too (WTF), and the biggest mic drop of the night; Taylor Swift’s announcement of her new album. And wonder, with some help from TikTok, what it may sound like. The verdict has been handed down on Chris Dawson, and ...
Sep 01, 2022•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan are back to make sense of the week that was, and mourn the unnecessary loss of Freya the 600kg walrus. The Bang Box has been overflowing with your sweet emails, and also some nice surprises from young nudists. Speaking of getting your gear off, Tommy Lee did, but who asked for it? We dissect the double standards of Instagram censorship. And an editorial on our connection to music as we age has us thinking about our own musical journeys. Meanwhile Myf is devouring a new podcast on the...
Aug 18, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan are here to make sense of the week that was in all its lows and highs. We’ve lost some icons of late, and we pay tribute and show thanks. Meanwhile Malcolm Gladwell reckons we need to get back to the office which is frankly a BIT RICH coming from him, Mr Laptop on the Couch. Naturism, or getting in the nuddy, is making a comeback in these pandemic times and we investigate why. And Frank Ocean hasn’t shared any music but has released a $25k cock ring via his fashion label. And we’re b...
Aug 11, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan are here to make sense of the week that was in all its lows and highs. We’ve lost some icons of late, and we pay tribute and show thanks. Meanwhile Malcolm Gladwell reckons we need to get back to the office which is frankly a BIT RICH coming from him, Mr Laptop on the Couch. Naturism, or getting in the nuddy, is making a comeback in these pandemic times and we investigate why. And Frank Ocean hasn’t shared any music but has released a $25k cock ring via his fashion label. And we’re b...
Aug 11, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan are back and absolutely champing at the bit to bang on this week. Which is a perfect horse reference for Beyoncé’s Renaissance album (see: cover art). We go in deep on all facets of this instant club classic, and some of the backlash it’s received. We also dip into a larger discussion around releasing, then changing an album. Is an album, as a “finished” piece of art, much more malleable in the digital age? The finale of Neighbours had us in absolute tears, and we debrief on all our ...
Aug 04, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is one of those weeks where Bang On truly has it all. Myf and Zan start with a 600kg sun-loving walrus, and end with vagina perfume. In between, we wrap the week that was, including the solving of the mysterious Somerton Man (Zan wants to rewind to when he was a mystery). A teaser for the new Black Panther movie has us in a tizz, particularly cos one of our faves is in it. And a reflection on the massive pile on to Anne Hathaway in the noughties is reframed through a new generation’s viewpo...
Jul 28, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Zan and Myf are back and have lots to catch you up on! It’s a time of celebration too, with J Lo and Ben Affleck hitting Vegas for a quickie wedding (20 years in the making). Meanwhile on the streets of Melbourne an act of “kindness” has gone viral for two very different reasons, and we’re digging into our reactions to performative charity and who it targets. And a piece on the “end of ambition” has us thinking about the cumulative effect of everything that’s hit us over the past two years, and ...
Jul 21, 2022•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s been a whirlwind coupla weeks and Myf and Zan have heaps to catch up on. TV adventures as the ABC celebrates 90, book deadlines, and what it’s like to be in a trigger ban state when Roe V Wade is overturned. In more joyful news, Rihanna has become the youngest female billionaire, and Only Murders in the Building is back (with a helluva guest cast). The internet is frothing at images emerging from the Barbie movie shoot, and we catch you up on everything you need to know. It feels like the '...
Jul 07, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s the return of Queen B, and we are bouncin’ to her new single and how perfectly it captures the moment. Like all things Beyoncé, there are layers and layers, and we dig in. Myf has been hitting the red carpet for the Logies, so we catch up on all the goss from TV’s night of nights. An opinion piece on the popularity of “messy millennial women” on TV has caught our eye; is it becoming a trope? And we’re banging on about one of those series (lol), as well as the great music city of Nashville. ...
Jun 23, 2022•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ooh it’s been a big week. Britney got hitched (a dream wedding with a dream reception guestlist), while Lizzo’s new single features a word we weren’t expecting to hear in 2022. The outing of Rebel Wilson by a gossip columnist has dominated discussion; and made for some hot shoe shuffles and stumbles in the apology department. Meanwhile the dress Kim Kardashian wore to the Met Gala has been returned to the museum, but Marilyn’s iconic sheer frock is looking a little different. And do you eat the ...
Jun 16, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf and Zan continue to celebrate Kate Bush’s resurgence into popular consciousness, and rejoice in the discovery of her official website. The iceberg lettuce shortage has us talking leaf, while on the other side of the pond the Platty Jubes is trying to shore up support for the monarchy. Meanwhile the European Union has stepped in to decree that there should only be one charger for all devices (hallelujah), and Julia Garner is set to portray Madonna in a new biopic written and directed by Madge...
Jun 09, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Zoomers have discovered Kate Bush and while everyone Gen X and older cries “where have you been?!”, we’re revelling in the celebration of one of music’s great icons. The ruling for the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard defamation trial has just been handed down, and we debrief on what it all means. And the internet is shook by the news that Swedish people don’t feed their guests? Myf and Zan are here to investigate. It’s a big week for powerful blokes punching down too, with Ricky Gervais the latest...
Jun 02, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s a new day and a new government in Australia, as Myf and Zan emerge post election. The rise of women’s voices has been heard, and we debrief on the seismic shift in the electorate. Meanwhile new PM Anthony Albanese's dog Toto is getting roasted online, and Kourtney Kardashian has wed Travis Barker but what was served at the reception? A new app called BeReal promises to cure us of our social media obsessions, while we’re all obsessed with the lewk of Balenciaga’s new runway show. And we’re b...
May 26, 2022•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Myf has literally just landed, and is back to spill the tea on what went down at Eurovision. Kendall Jenner’s cucumber cutting technique has the internet agog, and speaking of online pile ons we take a look at the bizarre meme-ing of the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial. It’s been a busy travel time for Myf and Zan, but of course we’ve made time for consuming culture! The brilliant TV series Hacks is back, Kendrick Lamar has a new album, and Myf used her long flight to finally watche...
May 19, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s fashun Christmas! And we’re real time reacting to the red carpet at the Met Gala as the “gilded age” is revealed. Who nailed it? Who phoned it in? And who wore puffa?? A timely biography on Anna Wintour has us reflecting on her power too, and recommending one helluva fashion doco. Women are increasingly naming their kids after themselves, a la “junior” boys, and a great piece on the patriarchal conventions of names has us thinking. And Myf has been googling some weird stuff. What’s a balldo...
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