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The Polyester Podcast

Not Everything is a Recession Indicator

The Polyester Podcast

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5533 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Black tights under denim shorts? Recession indicator. Good outfits at the Met Gala? Recession indicator. Crying because you can't afford to pay your one in three Klarna payment for a Domino's pizza last month? Recession indicator.


This week, our hosts Ione and Gina are dissecting our latest impulse to jump at the chance to label every single behaviour a recession indicator. Is it an attempt to make a meaningful connection with others about struggling under benefit cuts and Trump's tariffs? Or an irony tinged dodge at having to accept how bad things are?


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0:00.0

Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Pollyester. And I'm Iione, the founding editor-in-chief of Pollyester, and this is the Pollyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Before we start, we've just relaunched our membership platform to include loads of new perks, including exclusive podcast-sended ones. We're now offering exclusive video

0:23.0

episodes, secret, mini-episodes, and even episodes-sended on what you want us to talk about

0:29.1

across different tier options. Go check it out at the link in our description. And if you haven't

0:34.7

yet, please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review.

0:39.4

Do we have any reviews, I or need?

0:41.0

The best podcast around IDST and we Google before and what does IDST, if destroyed, still true, apparently?

0:49.1

I was wondering why you were to ask me about how did we go to his office?

0:52.7

This is by SPFawn in the UK.

0:54.9

Truly the best podcast out there.

0:56.5

The high load for people who went to state school, facts.

0:59.6

Ione and Gina always so interesting and well considered an analysis of societal phenomena,

1:05.8

as well as being able to laugh at themselves and enjoy guilty pleasures without the guilt,

1:09.1

2025 goal to attend a polyester event

1:11.7

oh can't wait to see where we've got a live pod we're going to run out soon next month

1:16.7

oh motherfucking yeah thank you so much and then on spotify comments Antonio lasano said it definitely

1:23.6

sound like gina said this is about last week's episode. It couldn't be me anymore. Thanks for clarifying.

1:28.6

Knew it. She's acting like I was so out of order for that as well. No, wasn't. And also the podcast transcription on Apple Podcasts also thinks that I said that. You're trying to rewrite history here. You're at a tonight. What? What? Yeah. And then Hal said the word you're looking for a spouse, which is very true.

1:47.4

Smiley face. Sometimes I have a lack of memory. Well, I think partner also works. We didn't say partner, though. We were just like, oh, we don't know. No, you're rewriting history recently. Okay, what we're talking about? Well, to be honest, I want to set the scene for you. I only walked into the studio on Monday morning. We were like, what should we do, podcast episode on? And then she went, you know what I want to talk about? I went, hit me. She went, how not everything's a recession indicator. I went, I couldn't agree with him all. And now I've read the

2:18.6

research, I still couldn't agree with him more. And we took it to the chat and they agreed.

2:23.1

And you should join the chat if you're not on the chat. Join our WhatsApp chat. Yeah.

2:27.5

Be a member baby. Recession indicator not being a polyester member. It was between recession indicator

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and everyone being worried about Lord's gender journey, as she, they call it. Are they? No, no, but I'm saying, like, they're saying that on a gender journey, so I'm giving both pronoun options. That's nice. But also, loads of people are saying, loads of people are also saying Lord non-binary era is a recession indicator yeah someone said

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