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SIM Ep 489 Chops 200: Shaking hands with Ella Al-Shamahi

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Covid 19 has given the handshake a bad rap, reckons explorer and paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, who set out to explore the origins and significance of the greeting in her book The Handshake: A Gripping History. She chatted to Jen about why she is a massive advocate for the handshake, why it's probably not gone for good, and why some of us have really missed physical contact in our lives, over the past year Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Are you an absolutely huge fomter or a zoom-in or perhaps you're an arm stretched out like a zombie

0:06.3

when holding a newspaper or a holds a book so close you might as well be kissing it.

0:11.6

Er had spec savers, we get it. You don't want to admit it's time to become a glass is wearer.

0:18.0

That's okay. We're ready to see you whenever you're ready to see properly.

0:22.3

Book an iTest at specsavers.co.uk so you can see clearer. Er. Okay, we'll stop with the

0:29.1

years now. This episode of the standard shoe podcast is sponsored by AJ Bell Money Matters,

0:36.8

helping women to feel good investing. No doubt you'll have heard us talk about the gender pay gap,

0:41.5

but did you know there's also a gender investment gap in the UK of £1.65 trillion.

0:49.2

So after spending our whole working lives worse off the men through a lack of pensions,

0:53.9

savings and investments we're more likely to be worse off in retirement too. AJ Bell think women

0:59.0

need to talk more openly about money. It shouldn't be embarrassing or confusing and I agree.

1:03.5

The AJ Bell Money Matters campaign was founded in 2021 and offers a range of educational material

1:09.6

including in-person events, podcasts, articles and more to help get women talking about money.

1:15.6

The AJ Bell Money Matters podcast has all the news, information and inspiring interviews you need

1:21.2

to take control of your financial future. Listen to it wherever you found this podcast.

1:25.7

AJ Bell Money Matters helping women to feel good investing.

1:40.2

Standard issue for all women. Hello, Jen here to tell you about this week's

1:45.3

episode of the Sunday Chops. This week I'm joined by Ella El Shamahi, paleo and

1:51.1

thropologist, TV presenter, stand-up comedian and author of the new book The Handshake a

1:56.6

gripping history. We talked about the current PR disaster for The Handshake as in the actual

2:02.0

shaking of hands, not the book, about the origins of the greeting, about why it's almost certainly

2:07.1

going to be making a comeback and about the absence of human contact over the last year

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