Should Celebrities Be Involved In Prison Reform?; & The Lunacy of Hen/Stag Season

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

There's been a garden gnome heist and Trump's on his state visit (those are inter-connected stories, naturally.) Love Island is back - but is there any actual body diversity?

We discuss Kim Kardashian-West's campaign for clemency for convicted murderer and death row inmate, Kevin Cooper. Should celebrities lend their weight to social reform; or is this signify a dangerous "mission creep"?

And it's silly season: that of hens and stags. With the help of YOU, our brilliant High Low listeners, we discuss the maddest hen stories out there and throw in a few new surveys, for good measure.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highlo, the weekly current affairs and pop culture podcast brought to you by
0:19.3	Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:22.1	How was Rod Stewart Dolly?
0:23.9	Well Stewart himself was wonderful, his voice I think is getting better and better with age.
0:30.9	He did all the banners and left room for more.
0:34.9	He is getting on a bit.
0:35.9	I just realised you look quite like a wife.
0:39.9	Like your what he goes for.
0:41.9	Yeah, blonde sort of aging hippie.
0:44.9	Aging hippie.
0:46.9	Fringe.
0:47.9	You can be the next.
0:50.9	I take that as a huge compliment actually and I would have to be the next.
0:55.9	Well the next is not.
0:56.9	Mr. Swarod Stewart although I'm pretty invested in him and Penny.
1:01.9	But you know he's getting on a bit and you really felt it this time because he kept on going how chilly he was.
1:07.9	He kept saying it into the mic how cold he was and he kept going back on putting layers and layers.
1:12.9	It's a big woolly scar.
1:14.9	He's just doing the welding stones do it.
1:16.9	It's just start with loads of layers.
1:17.9	Like they wear leather trousers and leather shirts which makes me want to faint with his work on sight.
1:22.9	That's how this on Bird Menki wore my pretty face.
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