Are Sydney Sweeney's Jeans The Harbinger Of Doom?
The Polyester Podcast
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🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It's been over a year since we last spoke about Sydney Sweeney and how many online and off see the Euphoria actress as a MAGA spokeswoman. Her latest scandal - an American Eagle advert celebrating the blonde's "great genes" - cements Sweeney's spot as the right's poster child.
In this week's episode, recorded before that expose revealing Sweeney is a registered Republican - hosts Ione and Gina dig into how fast speed advertising has changed the role of celebrity, why brands are being more blunt about appealing to Trump fans and why we should be more comfortable in calling a spade a spade (or calling a eugenicist a eugenicist).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Iione. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm I'm Ioni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester, and this is The Polyester Podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you haven't yet, make sure to subscribe to our membership platform for exclusive podcast-centred perks. |
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| 0:50.1 | Do we have any reviews, I only? |
| 0:51.7 | Oh, do we? |
| 0:53.0 | First of all, got to say hi to Cleo from JFK Airport. Hi, Cleo. Who came up to me and us? You mainly. It was very nice. I came back from the bathroom and you were just chatting with a friend. She was lovely. Really kind. Shout out, Cleo, if you're listening. I love the name, Cleo. Yeah, gorgeous, really nice name. So then on Apple podcast, |
| 1:27.5 | Shana R in the US says, love from Oakland, finding this podcast has been such a gift to my two favorite European divas, such funny, honest and well-researched commentary. Also, Gina's pronunciation of Dracula has me in a chokehold. Can you say it? Well, the thing is, is now I don't know how I say it. Just try. |
| 1:27.9 | Dracula. |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.3 | But I think that's how he would say it. |
| 1:27.6 | Wow. choke cold. Can you say it? Well, the thing is, is now I don't know how I say it. Just try. Dracula. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah. Okay. But I think that's how he would say it. |
| 1:31.4 | Why? |
| 1:32.1 | Like, Dracula. |
| 1:34.6 | But also I think it might just be an accent thing. |
| 1:36.9 | On Spotify, we have some comments about last week's episode. |
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