Well, what to say about this half-hour of audio content? The kindest possible account is that it does contain some quite elevated content, which one of the most beautiful women on Australian television manages to RUIN by inexplicably throwing the switch to Pam Ayres at a truly crucial moment.
Read MoreLook, realistically: It's not going to come up again, ever. So naming rights for this episode go to the great Michael Flatley, with whose cult brand of Irish dancing Sales became re-acquainted recently after a stray text message from WHICH celebrated TV satirist????
Read MoreCrabb is amazed when Sales reveals she only just realised the song “Physical” is not about exercise, and is appalled to discover a significant gap in Sales' musical theatre knowledge. GASP.
Read MoreJanet Malcolm is dead and this drives our hosts into a discussion about interview techniques and ethics, via psychoanalysis (stick with us). Crabb talks about her new show Ms Represented and the session ends soothingly with kittens.
Read MoreCrabb and Sales perform live on stage for the first time in 16 months in Sales’ home town of Brisbane. The event starts respectably enough with a brace of Queensland writers but the pair soon falls to bickering over the pronunciation of a terrible 1980s boy band.
Read MoreCrabb has interviewed Cusk. She's sensibly failed to mention the recent Cusk-related anxiety wee-dream which you ALL REMEMBER. Sales is of course massively respectful of Cusk material seeing as it was all HER IDEA. But she also infectiously introduces the unscratchable itch that is Heartsick by Jessie Stephens.
Read MoreCrabb & Sales have been loving a TV show about women in the performing arts, at the same time as organising their own competitive back-to-back live shows.
Read MoreFollowing the death of a prominent former politician, Crabb and Sales remimiscw about the joy of an illegally intercepted phone call.
Read MoreCrabb & Sales have been to see the Australian production of Hamilton, offering yet another opportunity for them to bang on about their latest obsession. Fortunately they move on quickly to Rachel Cusk and Aziz Ansari.
Read MoreWell Hello. It's our big announcement! Be careful what you wish for - Crabb and Sales reveal they’ve finally nagged into a new project.
Read MoreCrabb and Sales have been reading and watching a lot about women in power.
Read MoreLeigh Sales has been hate-watching a terrible TV series. Why do we watch things we know are bad? Both of our narrators have VIEWS on this. On the upside, Crabb has read a terrific book.
Read MoreSales has read only one book ahead of an interview with Bill Gates but luckily Crabb compensates by making a hefty dent in her bedside table reading stack.
Read MoreSales has a new celebrity crush while Crabb’s fandom when it comes to men of note remains firmly rooted in 1980s London.
Read MoreThe pair (freshly de-raddled by a summer break which Sales appears to have spent in a series of ocean pools) attempt to recap their prodigious summer cultural consumption but are swiftly derailed by an in-depth discussion of chess. Plus, which former US President just can't stop DM-ing Crabb, and which magazine recently rated Sales among Australia's Sexiest?
Read MoreTrudging towards the end of 2020, Crabb and Sales come together one last time. Ordinarily this end-of-year reckoning would occur on stage at the ANU amid low-grade insults directed at vice-chancellor and Bundt-auteur Brian Schmidt, but as with many pleasurable events in 2020 it was binned. Screw you, 2020! With their remaining nanoparticles of neural capacity, the pair recap what they can remember of what they read, watched, cooked, and listened to in this plague year.
Read MoreStaggering to the end of 2020, Crabb and Sales's attention spans are so completely shot that they can't retain anything they've seen or read. Still, Annabel loved The Crown, especially the standout performance by Gillian Anderson's jaw; and Leigh has finally got onto Cheer. Theatre is back! And the next instalment of (CLANG!) Garner's memoirs is out. They're both looking forward to reading the book by total legend Nat's What I Reckon.
Read MoreCrabb's been RUNNING! And reading novels in verse! And Sales seems now to be obsessed with a TV series about Barbecue, featuring chefs who incinerate first and ask questions later. Don't panic though. Sales has been interviewing musicians and *accidentally* finding herself right next to a piano. So the world's still at least partially on its axis.
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