Hi Olivia. Hi Ione. And hello to the listeners who have not left us any reviews recently, so if you'd like to, please leave us a review. But for now, welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm I'm Yoni, and I'm the founder and editor-in-chief of polyester, online and in print and everywhere else. And I'm Olivia, the co-host, producer and editor of the podcast. We publish weekly episodes with the Sleepover Club one week and Obsessions the next. This week, it's The Obsessions episode where we talk to a person we admire about something that I obsessive that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. And next week is the Sleepover Club, Ryoni and I have all those gorge conversations you usually have with your girlmates at a sleepover. And at the end, there's some recommendations to get you through lockdown. So, today we

have obsessions. I'm very excited. Olivia, what's your obsession of the week? Well, actually, I don't

want to do any spoilers, but obviously, UK and American drag race is back on. And the UK one has a very good lip sync, very emotional, and I basically am obsessed

with the song.

For like, pure musical, my whole space, literally like, oh God, yeah.

You have to leave the movie today.

Okay, this is controversial because the song slash musical slash recent film

adaptation of the musical is very controversial. So you're brave for saying that, Olivia.

Yeah, I know. I think it's a great version of the song. I think the film, I love the meme.

It's basically from cats, isn't it? Let's be honest. Let's just be honest about it.

Memories. Is that the name of the song? Memories, yeah. But it's great. There's a meme going around that's like the release of cats, the, like the trajectory of the demise of the human race. The demise of the size. Yeah. I know. I was thinking that the other day, I have two obsessions, also TV-based, because what the hell else is there to do?

On very opposite spectrums of TV, so bear with me. One is Bling Empire on Netflix. It's literally incredible drama.

Like, if you're missing drama, it's incredible.

The characters, the storylines, the money, the diamonds.

It has everything.

So watch that.

And then secondly, this weekend, I've just binged all of It's a Sin on Channel 4,

which is the new Russell T. Davies drama about the AIDS crisis, but it's based in London. And it is amazing. Oh my God, it's so sad. It's literally broken my heart, but it's an incredible watch. So I think everyone should definitely watch that. Fantastic. I love the different ends. You like interlink the episodes just for a bit of calm.

Oh yeah. We love, we, I forgot what I was going to say. Anyway, what have we got today?

Today. Oh yeah, I love today's obsession. So today we have author, scriptwriter, journalist,

Balu Babolola, who actually last year had a book out, loving colour. I don't know if you've read it. I know that you've read it, but I don't know if everyone listening to read it, but they should because it's gorgeous. Loads of lovely short stories, which I actually have found, like, really helpful. Like, I've always loved short stories anyway, but just in lockdown with your like patience yeah like with a short

story you kind of it's like little achievement you know what I mean you know you don't have to

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