Please Don't is a podcast hosted by Raven Smith and Joel Golby, who describe themselves as chronically online and annoyingly right. They share hot takes on cultural opinions, from red carpet moments to TV shows and books. The show explores the algorithm-driven opinions flooding your feed and group chats. Listeners can email ravenandjoel@bbc.co.uk to share their own takes.
Episodes
What Does Wicker Tells Us About Men?
This episode of Please Don’t contains references to gambling and addiction. If you’re needing to speak to someone about these issues, support can be found at the BBC Action Line. Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård’s latest folk fantasy film, Wicker, has landed in cinemas with a crash and a bang - emphasis on the bang. It’s got everything one may need in a film - goats, fish guts, cuckolding, a
Raven's Top Halloween Films
Can we please stop low-effort Halloween costumes?
Do you hear that? Something wicked this way comes… and by that, Raven and Joel mean a man who’s wearing a rubbish Halloween costume, carrying a blue bag of booze.
The boys think it’s time everyone stepped it up a gear. Hear their fundamental Halloween outfit rules, and please do adapt accordingly.
Plus, horror-lover Raven has some hauntingly good f
Girls is back. That is all.
Girls is returning - what do we want from it?
Hear ye, hear ye! Lena Dunham is bringing back Girls!
Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna, Jessa, and Elijah will be back for a limited run, exploring life in their 40s in New York. The original run is, according to Raven and Joel, perfect television. A hard act to follow, so what will Lena give us this time?
Raven wants Lena to avoid pulling an And Just Like Th
Kelly Clarkson’s “Pretty Woman” moment
What’s Kelly Clarkson’s beef with a toy store?
It involves a mechanical bird, a Brooklyn shop and a very public fallout. It’s all he said, she said. Kelly seems to think, staff wouldn't sell her a $15,000 mechanical bird because they thought she couldn't afford it. The shop says the bird isn't for sale. The bird, by the way, is called Molly...and now she’s the most talked about toy in the world.
Has Ross Kemp jumped off the Celebrity Traitors deep end?
Welcome to the kennel of the algorithm bloodhounds, bred to sniff out the hottest takes for the chronically online. Columnist Raven Smith, and author Joel Golby, are here to provide you with their cheat sheet for what to think about culture right now. They’ll tell you what they love - but, more importantly, they’ll tell you what's a Please Don’t.Got a hot take? Or even a hot take on Raven and Joel
Will The Real Wayne and Coleen Please Stand Up?
Are Coleen and Wayne real enough for The Real Rooneys?
Coleen and Wayne Rooney are having a bit of a moment. She’s taken the world by storm, following her court case with Rebekah Vardy, and coming second on I’m A Celebrity. He’s proven himself as a darn good pundit in the men’s World Cup. But are they real enough, or even interesting enough, for their own documentary?
Apparently so, according to D
Is Tom Cruise Cool?
Why is Tom Cruise so extra? Is Big Brother here forever? Is it ever okay to ask for a selfie? Plus SNL UK, and justice for Stacey SolomonWelcome to the kennel of the algorithm bloodhounds, bred to sniff out the hottest takes for the chronically online. Columnist Raven Smith, and author Joel Golby, are here to provide you with their cheat sheet for what to think about culture right now. They’ll tel
The Olivia Wilde Renaissance
Welcome to the kennel of the algorithm bloodhounds, bred to sniff out the hottest takes for the chronically online.
Columnist Raven Smith, and author Joel Golby are here to provide you with their cheat sheet for what to think about culture right now. They’ll tell you what they love - but, more importantly, they’ll tell you what's a Please Don’t.Got a hot take? Or even a hot take on Raven and Joel
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Kings of the hot take, Raven Smith and Joel Golby are the algorithm bloodhounds sniffing out the correct cultural opinions.From the red carpet moment flooding your feed; to the TV show you can’t get enough of; via that book your mate’s weird ex-boyfriend suggested to you.Want to share your takes in the group chat? Email ravenandjoel@bbc.co.uk
