Aug 27, 2026 · 56 min · 16 segments
The Purple Circle - a very unique West Aussie way of describing the exclusive inner circle, the inner sanctum, when the boy's club joins forces with the mean girls, sprinkle in a few former school…
Simon CarabettaHostDeanieHost
Look, getting back to the theme for tonight, it's, look, and saying I'm in Perth is very on brand for tonight's episode, particularly because we're going to talk about a, not the concept, but a phrase that that I believe, and I could be proven wrong here because the research isn't showing me a definitive.
But a phrase apparently coined here in Perth that has a bit of a historical relevance to it.
The concept, however, is probably no alien and no foreign thing to anybody around the world when we talk about the corporate inner circle.
What's other? What are some other words? What are some other synonyms here we could
throw at them,
Deanie? When we talk about the corporate inner circle, the inner sanctum is one that I saw on Reddit earlier today.
Yeah.
You know, when you first mentioned the purple circle to me, I kind of assumed what it had meant, but I've never heard it.
you know, referred to as that before.
I've been living under a rock.
Club.
Yep.
this powerful purple circle.
I
think we made this joke about this Captain Planet trope where you've got the Mean Girls.
Gatekeepers.
Look, getting back to the theme for tonight, it's, look, and saying I'm in Perth is very on brand for tonight's episode, particularly because we're going to talk about a, not the concept, but a phrase that that I believe, and I could be proven wrong here because the research isn't showing me a definitive.
But a phrase apparently coined here in Perth that has a bit of a historical relevance to it.
The concept, however, is probably no alien and no foreign thing to anybody around the world when we talk about the corporate inner circle.
What's other? What are some other words? What are some other synonyms here we could
throw at them,
Deanie? When we talk about the corporate inner circle, the inner sanctum is one that I saw on Reddit earlier today.
Yeah.
You know, when you first mentioned the purple circle to me, I kind of assumed what it had meant, but I've never heard it.
you know, referred to as that before.
I've been living under a rock.
Club.
Yep.
this powerful purple circle.
I
think we made this joke about this Captain Planet trope where you've got the Mean Girls.
Gatekeepers.
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