Kanye’s Basic Tweets; and an Author Special with Trans Activist and Writer, Juno Dawson
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Amber Rudd’s resignation; Mary Beard’s sparkly sneaks; Kanye’s ‘basic Plato’ tweets - oh and the news that beer goggles really DO exist. Yup, it’s just another week at The High Low.
This week sees the return of the author special, with trans activist and YA author, Juno Dawson, whose 14th book about a teenage heroin addict, Clean, had us both hooked. We discuss addiction, privilege, teenhood and trans issues with Juno, whilst her miniature chihuahua Prince, looked on.
Links
Milk & Honey, by Rupi Kaur https://www.amazon.co.uk/Milk-Honey-Rupi-Kaur/dp/144947425X
Clean, by Juno Dawson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clean-Juno-Dawson/dp/1786540363/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525277433&sr=1-1&keywords=clean+juno+dawson
The Comments on my Selfies Are Different Now I’m a Mom, by Leandra Medine for ManRepeller https://www.manrepeller.com/2018/04/why-i-take-selfies.html
I Am The One Woman Who Has it All, by Kimberley Harrington for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-the-one-woman-who-has-it-all
Breasts Unbound, an Audible podcast series hosted by Florence Williams https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/breasts-unbound/id1314135350?mt=2
What Do Your Boobs Mean To You, by Pandora [yes, the same one!] http://www.pandorasykes.com/what-do-your-boobs-mean-to-you/
Wild Wild Country, on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80145240
Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation on BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b09dss/ad/stephen-the-murder-that-changed-a-nation-series-1-1-the-loss-of-joy
Soul Music on BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mj7p
BOOK a ticket to Consent Matters: millennial voices changing the narrative, on 14th May https://www.facebook.com/events/1581406098643539/)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 53 of The Highlo, the weekly news and pop culture podcast brought to |
| 0:20.5 | you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:23.8 | So we're going down this week. |
| 0:26.3 | Kanye is running a mock on Twitter. |
| 0:28.9 | Camilla Long called him incontinence. |
| 0:30.6 | He's been tweeting these brilliantly basic hypotheses about life and death. |
| 0:34.6 | Meanwhile Mary Baird is fighting back after being told she's too old to us Barclay Trainers. |
| 0:38.2 | I didn't know about the Sparkly Trainers. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, Nigella's been leaking into her Sparkly Trainers defense. |
| 0:42.2 | Oh good, good. |
| 0:43.7 | I think Mary Baird is totally of the correct age to be wearing Sparkly Trainers. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm so, so into Kanye West's tweets. |
| 0:50.9 | Just he's absolutely anodine observations and phrases about love. |
| 0:55.7 | So banal. |
| 0:57.1 | But they're presented in this like my adolescent way as if it's profound philosophy. |
| 1:02.2 | My favorite is stop thinking about things for a long time without saying what you think. |
| 1:09.0 | I think they sit somewhere comfortably between sort of really shit dinner party |
| 1:14.6 | and everyone getting stoned in someone's room in freshers week. |
| 1:18.7 | Sort of sitting by a tie-dye sort of sheet hung on the wall. |
| 1:23.5 | And actually on that tweet about stop thinking about things for a long time without saying what you think. |
| 1:28.6 | If you go on to the responses, they're so brilliant. |
| 1:31.0 | Some the first reply is I don't think pineapple belongs on pizza. |
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