'Seksbuddies', Robert Pattinson's pasta & information overload

The High Low

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It's a pot noodle of an episode this week. From our favourite pandemic stories around the globe - selected especially to cheer you up - to a bunch of recommendations, a deep-dive into the way we metabolise information now, and a compulsory dwell on Stanley Tucci.

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Links

Book a Migrateful cookery class at migrateful.org

The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett - out 2nd June

Brit Bennett and Emma Cline in conversation for Entertainment Weekly https://ew.com/books/author-interviews/brit-bennett-emma-cline-in-conversation/

Robert Pattinson interview by Zach Baron for GQ, US edition https://www.gq.com/story/robert-pattinson-on-batman-tenet-isolation-june-cover

Lockdown with My Gen Z nieces, by Sathnam Sanghera for The Times magazine https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sathnam-sanghera-lockdown-with-my-gen-z-nieces-8bcm9qxcx

Dating After Coronavirus, by Nayeema Raza for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opinion/coronavirus-dating.html

Here’s how time works now by Eli Grober for McSweeney's: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/heres-how-time-works-now

A Love In Verse: https://www.aloveinverse.com/

Stanley Tucci's Life in Quarantine, for The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/05/stanley-tuccis-life-quarantine/611557/

Sinéad Burke interview on Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j7q5

Dissect podcast https://dissectpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highlo, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:20.5	I'm kicking off with some news from our friends in the Netherlands, where single men and
0:25.1	women are being advised to organise a sex buddy. Official guidance from the Dutch National
0:30.6	Institute for Public Health and the Environment, their version of Public Health England,
0:35.0	has been amended to suggest that those without a permanent sexual partner come to mutually
0:39.8	satisfactory agreements with like-minded individuals. There is also advice for those in a relationship
0:46.0	with someone infected by coronavirus or in quarantine with suspected symptoms of the disease.
0:51.4	Don't have sex with your partner if they have been isolated because of suspected
0:54.9	coronavirus infection, the RIVM says. Sex with yourself or with others at a distance as possible.
1:01.5	Think of telling erotic stories or masturbating together. Thank you very much, the Netherlands.
1:08.0	A bit of bloody specificity, finally. Fuck stay alert. Tell each other erotic stories, finally,
1:15.2	this is what we needed. I like that you managed to get a mutual masturbation into the first two
1:21.0	minutes of this podcast. I also like that sex buddy is spelt S-E-K-S body. It's very tactic
1:30.6	attempt to say this in a Dutch accent. I love the Dutch accent. Do you know what I also love?
1:37.7	Tell me. That when we logged into House Party, which is one of three streams of technology
1:44.0	that we use to produce this hard-hitting news podcast, House Party gave me a little fact
1:52.1	when you log in. A flower worn over the left ear in Hawaii signifies that a woman is no longer single.
2:00.6	Why is House Party giving you these facts? I know why, it's because everyone's run out of
2:05.7	fucking conversation. So they're trading in facts. Exactly, they're gearing you up, they're like,
2:12.1	right, you have to have a conversation with someone. He go talk about these women in Hawaii.
2:18.2	Maybe if I save a fact every day from House Party, it can write the podcast for us.
2:24.5	Yeah, good idea. And I'm basically working with a needs. It will get to the point where you and I
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