Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture.

It’s a whole new year and the On the Rag team are back in the sweaty boardroom of dreams to blast the fans at full noise and dissect the first month of 2018. How incredible was the woman at the centre of the ‘glitter boobs’ scandal? How well did the Golden Globes handle themselves in a post-Weinstein world? And holy freaking fuck, HOW GOOD IS IT THAT THE PRIME MINISTER IS PREGNANT?!

Beyond that, we share some sage wisdom collected over the summer, round up our favourite books, movies and TV shows of the month, and announce one prominent New Zealand man as cancelled forever.

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