Hello and welcome to another episode of iWave with Community Mill. I hope you're well. I am good. I am fine. I am mid moving house. So I just want to

tear each one of the hairs on my head and in my eyebrows and some of my pubic hairs. That's right. I still have some of those.

I'd like to tear the meat out individually just to somehow be able to externalize the internal pain of moving house and trying to fix anything. I'm having

I'm aging fast. I'm thankfully I really like aging. So that's good. And I think I'm going to look really different and really

haggard by the end of this. And thank God I have made a career of being okay with that because this is fucking terrible. This is not a way to live. Anyway.

I thought I would give you an uplifting episode this week. It is an old episode that that was kind of from the early days of this podcast.

And so a lot of you are new listeners. Thank you for joining this podcast. And it's such a funny and uplifting episode that I wanted to play it again.

And because we talk about a lot of deeply personal things. This woman is so hilarious and so talented. Her name is Catherine Ryan. She's a Canadian stand up who has become a huge sensation in

particular in the UK. She's got a bunch of Netflix specials on her own show on Netflix and she's just a fucking genius and one of my absolute heroes.

We talk about so many things in this podcast. We talk about patriarchy in such a funny way. She talks about plastic surgery and and her own

approached her aesthetic and the different things that she does are cosmetic enhancements that she has. She talks about it so openly in a way that I just wish more

public figures would do. I mean, I have no I think people think that I have a problem with cosmetic enhancement or cosmetic surgery.

I don't I wish none of us felt like we needed it. Of course I do. But I also totally don't judge anyone who does it. Look at the world we're living in.

There's also a lot of people who are trans who whose lives depend on the safety that comes with cosmetic surgery.

So I'm not against it. What I'm against is is people in particular cis people who are making money off of the way that they look.

Because inherently becoming a celebrity, especially if you're a woman has somehow is tied to your to the way that you look for many people.

I get mad when they don't just tell the fucking truth about it so that we can all relax and not feel like we were born looking the wrong way.

We weren't we're not good enough. We we we have failed in some way. If we just found out that someone else cheated a little bit, then there's nothing wrong with them for having taken that route.

And there's nothing wrong with us for not looking like them when they've cheated.

When they have done an extra thing that we didn't know about just fucking tell us don't tell us we work out fucking Kardashians on on their special with Andy Cohen just like a week and a half ago.

He was like do you think that you have upheld unattainable beauty standards and they were just like no.

I don't think we have you know we got up we work we do that work we work out.

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