Fame, Fortune and Phone Sex, with Actor and Memoirist, Gabourey Sidibe
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we discuss that jacket worn by Melania Trump whilst visiting an immigrant children's camp in Texas; Lionel Shriver's follow-up to her anti-diversity rant; Johnny Depp's bonkers Rolling Stone interview; Dolly's new favourite podcast Dear Joan and Jericha; and why mindfulness should be less about emptying your mind - than filling it.
Also today, we host the Oscar-nominated actor, producer and now memoirist, Gabourey Sidibe. Her book, This Is Just My Face, Try Not To Stare is a hilarious and brutally honest account of her life, from working as a phone-sex operator, to her breakout role in Precious, via fat-shaming in Hollywood.
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Links
This Is Just My Face, Try Not To Stare, by Gabourey Sidibe
The Economist Radio
On mindFULLness over mindfullness, by Laura Freeman for The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/this-meditation-mania-makes-me-anxious-l6fggsm9p
The Pisces, by Melissa Broder
Are plus-size clothes really making us put on weight? By Victoria Moss for The Telegraph
The diversity trap, by Lionel Shriver for The Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/the-diversity-trap/
On The (Nearly Lethal) Comforts Of A Luxury Cruise by David Foster Wallace: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf
Dear Joan and Jericha: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/dear-joan-and-jericha-julia-davis-and-vicki-pepperdine/id1376577916?mt=2
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 61 of The Highlo, the weekly news and pop culture podcast brought to |
| 0:21.1 | you by journalist Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton. Welcome, Beyond Venido! |
| 0:28.6 | I hope you've been enjoying the heatwave. Have you been enjoying the heatwave? |
| 0:32.2 | I've only just got back to the heatwave, but I have been enjoying the heatwave, yeah? |
| 0:36.3 | I'm up and down with it to be honest. |
| 0:38.5 | Around up of this week's controversies, Melania Trump's, I really don't care, do you? |
| 0:43.4 | Jacket from Zara. We need to talk about Kevin Ortherlan or Shriever's defense of her |
| 0:47.4 | anti-diversity rant. And Johnny Depp's Rolling Stone interview, which revealed that he once tried |
| 0:51.9 | to pull out his own tooth while at dinner with Penelope Cruz. |
| 0:55.1 | We've all been there. I couldn't believe Melania wore that jacket. I was so, so shocked and I |
| 1:00.4 | absolutely do not buy that nonsense about this. I just accidentally managed to just close. |
| 1:05.5 | There's only two possibilities right with Melania and that jacket. And they're both in adequate. |
| 1:10.8 | The first scenario is that she didn't realise the impact of her jacket and the flotuses |
| 1:15.9 | comms director Stephanie Grisham said it's just a jacket. There's no hidden message. |
| 1:20.2 | I hope the media isn't going to choose to focus on her wardrobe, which somehow said it's |
| 1:23.6 | actually a ruse in itself as it allows the White House to then claim that the media is making |
| 1:29.1 | fake news about her clothes. And therefore, this is dragged from the shitty immigration policy |
| 1:34.4 | that's obviously beginning so much. Um, criticism. Trump actually contradicts Melania's miso-ignorant |
| 1:40.0 | stick. And Tali, he said that her jacket was a response to fake news in that they're saying that |
| 1:44.3 | they don't care about it anymore. The second option, of course, as you mentioned, is that Melania |
| 1:47.8 | did know and that she was trying to make a point. And to use immigrant children to make that point |
| 1:53.1 | is vile. And then the whole administration uses immigrant children. They put out the message of |
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