Today, Dazed has launched its new fortnightly culture podcast, Dazed and Discoursed. Hosted by junior writer Halima Jibril and fashion writer Elliot Hoste, each episode will take you through what’s happening in popular culture today, one Dazed article at a time. 

From viral pieces about ‘hot rodent boyfriends’ and why no one seems to know how to be friends anymore to the mystery of why straight men avoid fiction, each episode unpacks our most talked-about articles as a springboard for exploring trends across literature, film, television, and pop culture at large.

In the first episode, the hosts dive into Bee Beardsworth’s viral article, ‘We are about to enter the ‘Undetectable Era’ of beauty’. Beardsworth explores the current shift in cosmetic surgery, spotlighting celebrities like Christina Aguilera and Lindsay Lohan, whose procedures are being labelled as “natural” and “undetectable.” Plastic surgeon Dr Prem Tripathi calls this the era of plastic surgery we’ve all been waiting for. But what are the physical and mental costs of our obsession with youth? What does it mean to be 40 and look 25? Is cosmetic surgery truly a woman’s choice, or is it something that demands a deeper critique?

You can listen to episode one of Dazed and Discoursed above. It’s also available on Acast, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.