Oh heeeeey everyone, we're back! Welcome to the first episode of Queens of the Drone Age for 2023. Well, kind of. You may have noticed a cheeky 🚨Announcement🚨 drop appear in your feeds, and if you haven't listened to it yet... we highly recommend it.

The TL;DR is that the people have spoken, and after two years of asking us, we've finally launched a Patreon! We have a full explainer in our previous episode and over on the Patreon itself. There's some cool stuff in there (and some secret things still to come) so go check it out!

As for this ep, we're back on the gadget chats! Rae bought herself a brand new fridge for the first time - the LG 847L InstaView Refrigerator. It's so fancy that some (censored) swears may have been dropped.

Tegan engages in an unsanctioned six-monthie review of the Jabra Elite 5 wireless noise-cancelling earbuds - a more affordable alternative to the likes of Apple AirPods Pro, Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 3 and Sony WF-1000XM4. She also gets rightly roasted for being excited about the beige option.

Amanda ups the Queen's TikTok game by messing with the CapCut app, which offers more (and easier) editing options for video creation. Surprise, it's also owned by ByteDance.

And Rad drops some dollars on the Garmin DriveSmart 76 MT-S GPS after her partner gets her P Plates and legally isn't allowed to use map apps on her phone.

Full show notes are available on the Queens of the Drone Age website.