The Share Plate is a publication and podcast for people who care about the world but are tired of headlines, hot takes and hopelessness. Every fortnight, Tegan and Lizzie sit down with a writer from the current issue for a conversation built like a dinner party — a Starter, a Main, a Dessert. The twist: guests never discuss their own writing.

In this episode, Walkley Award-winning journalist Simran Pasricha joins hosts Tegan and Lizzie for dinner, with a stacked menu:

• Starter: Politics can leave us feeling divided, what do you think we mostly agree on?
• Main: The Saltwater Running Through My Veins by Tishiko King — what it means to grow up with the ocean as part of who you are rather than somewhere you go, the coconut trees her Elders planted knowing they'd never sit in the shade, and the case for hope as a resource that has to be nurtured, invested in and shared, not an emotion you either have or you don't.
• Dessert: I Stand Corrected by Lizzie Hedding — why the best conversations only start once you let go of needing to be right.

Subscribe to The Share Plate wherever you listen, so you don't miss a fortnightly seat at the table — and read the full pieces discussed in this episode, The Saltwater Running Through My Veins by Tishiko King and I Stand Corrected by Lizzie Hedding, free on our Substack now: https://theshareplate.substack.com/

Then do the thing we asked Simran to do: put your phone down and go talk to someone!

Chapters:

0:00 — Welcome to the table

1:19 — Starter: Politics can leave us feeling divided — what's something we mostly agree on?

5:46 — Main: The saltwater running through my veins by Tishiko King

26:52 — Dessert: I stand corrected by Lizzie Hedding

40:19 — What are you taking home, and who are you sharing it with?

Simran Pasricha is a Walkley Award-winning Australian journalist. Simran's own article, We are our own experiment, publishes on Substack on Monday 28th September, and Izzie White unpacks it with Tegan and Lizzie in an episode live on Tuesday 29th September.

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