Obsessions: Ryan O'Connell On The Joy Of Swings

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Every other week we'll be picking the brain of a different creative about something they admire that has nothing to do with how they generate their income.

Delving deep into the minds of our favourite people's deepest obsessions, this week we're joined by the incredible Ryan O'Connell. The screenwriter, director, comedian, and creator of Netflix's Special is telling us all about his obsession with SWINGING (no, not that type of swinging). Recorded in the midst of lockdown, Ryan tells Ione all about how spending time on the swings help him escape to a meditative state, the history of his love for the activity, what makes the perfect swing, how lockdown has impacted his obsession, and much more.

The Polyester Podcast is brought to you by Polyester's founding editor in chief Ione Gamble (@ionegamble), and co-hosted and produced by Olivia Graham (@og.irl). Polyester is a self published culture zine exploring intersectional URL feminism in the IRL world. Have faith in your own bad taste!

Want to support the podcast? If you're a brand or organisation that could help us continue the show, Please fill in this form. Can't wait to hear from you!

We'd love to know what you think about our podcast. Fill out this survey here to let us know <3

To keep up with Polyester zine, head to: polyesterzine.com, or @polyesterzine on all socials.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, Libya. Hi, Iona. And hello to the listeners, but also hello to hi, hi, hi, hi, hi,
0:25.1	three is there using. He gave us a five-star review and said, I am obsessed with this podcast. So,
0:31.1	thank you very much. And please do continue to leave reviews because it means absolutely
0:37.1	everything to us. Absolutely everything.
0:40.1	Absolutely everything. But let's get started. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm Ioni and I'm the
0:46.1	founder and editor-in-chief of polyester online and imprint and on this podcast. And I'm Olivia. I produce
0:51.9	and edit the podcast and obviously I'm also the co-host.
0:54.8	We publish weekly episodes with Sleepover One Week and Obsessions The Next.
1:00.3	And this week is the Obsessions episode where we talk to someone we admire about something they're utterly obsessed with that has nothing to do with how they generate income.
1:08.2	And next week will be Sleepover Club, where Olivia and I have all those
1:12.0	gorgeous conversations you usually have at Sleepover with your girlmates. We then also have three
1:17.5	recommendations from a creative to get you through the week. So let's do this episode then.
1:23.9	Obsessions! Hey! I'm very excited about this Obsessions. What you can
1:29.2	see is that Ione's recently bought a tiara and she's trying to figure out how to keep it on
1:34.0	her head. Yeah, but um, Obsessions episode, I'm very excited about today's guest, Ryan O'Connell,
1:41.2	who is the creator of special on Netflix, which if you haven't watched it, you should
1:48.0	definitely go and watch it because it's absolutely fucking sick. And it's only 15 minute
1:53.9	episodes. So it's a really easy watch. But it's also just like one of my favorite shows
1:59.5	that I've watched in the last year,
2:01.3	particularly because of like the representation for disability.
2:06.9	Like I can't remember there ever being like a disabled, gay, main character on a TV show ever.
2:16.7	And I also think like it's just like definitely the kind of representation
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Polyester Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Polyester Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.