No Nut November, National Sandwich Day, and an Author Special with Otegha Uwagba on Whites

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🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Are you familiar with No Nut November? Move over Movember, there's a slightly queasy new internet challenge in town. Also today, we discuss whether a burger is a sandwich, the concerning omission from the Sean Connery obituaries, and the new YouTube record-breaker. And we have an author special today with Otegha Uwagba, who came on to discuss her new long-form essay, Whites.

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Whites, by Otegha Uwagba, out 12th November

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0:00.0	Welcome to the High Low, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:22.9	Sending so much love to everyone back in lockdown, what a week a spate of really horrible global news and everyone freaking out about the election.
0:37.5	So this all actually come out the day, the elections tomorrow, isn't it?
0:40.9	Well, my WhatsApp groups were all discussing just one thing this morning, which is that Baby Shark, the infuriatingly catchy song recorded by South Korean company Pinkfong, has become the most watched video ever on YouTube over 7 billion times.
1:01.4	Once upon a time when the internet was just a baby, well not the internet means we're just a baby. Do you remember when it was Charlie bit my finger?
1:10.8	Yes, I do remember that. It was the video that everyone used to get out at the end of every rubbish house party in the mid-nauties.
1:21.2	Really wasn't that good.
1:23.4	Ow! Ow, Charlie! Ow!
1:28.7	Charlie! That really hurt!
1:32.9	Okay, so Charlie bit my finger on YouTube. 22nd of May, 2007, has had 877 million views.
1:42.0	Now, have you seen the one underneath? It's just Charlie bit my finger 10-year anniversary with two quite sheepish-looking, pre-adolescent boys.
1:47.8	There's a whole company called Charlie bit me. Charlie bit me, Christmas special. Okay, that's not going down this hole.
1:54.8	That's the highlight.
1:57.5	Well, speaking of memes, I fear our WhatsApp groups are going to go into overdrive again as we enter lockdown.
2:03.8	Literally, as the Boris address was happening, my family WhatsApp group, it's like the alarm was sounded and Tony Alderton started to create.
2:13.1	Going into his vast archive of memes to send.
2:18.2	And I am interested to see whether this second lockdown will have a different vibe to the first lockdown.
2:25.3	I wonder whether they'll be a return to the Zoom quiz, whether they'll be the Zoom drinking sessions, or whether that is firmly belonging to lockdown one.
2:34.0	The time of year, as well, is very different. It's not light as long.
2:38.2	So the alcohol you're drinking, the alcohol you're drinking is now more of the like red wine variety, which is a bit more sleepy rather than like energetic.
2:49.3	I don't know, I've never done a Zoom quiz. Have you not? How did you get out of that?
2:54.7	Well, my son was still pretty young, so I was just so knackered by the time it got to like eight o'clock.
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