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Standard Issue for all women. Hello and welcome to episode 188 of the Standard Issue pod scene. I'm

Mickey Noonan and turns out I'm scared of contortionists. How did you find that out?

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Well, yeah, now I've thought about it more.

It is reasonable and to answer your question, Jen, went to the circus on Saturday,

big one of the circus, as you all know, and they're contortionist. And he was so bendy at one

point, I just shouted no at the stage. I just didn't like it. Andy looked a bit like Owen Jones,

so that made it even worse. Double worry. Yeah, we were just watched in sort of like

fascinated horror. It was incredible what he could do with his body, but Curry was like,

I wouldn't let him in the house. I'm like, what are you getting anyway? Terrifying.

I'm Hannah Dunlavy and it turns out I'm not the best carer in the world.

Do we get our surprise faces out? Or do you want to take a link to us?

Yeah, so on Friday, a friend of mine had an eye operation. Don't know what she had done because

I didn't ask. And she asked me if I could go and pick her up because she was essentially blind

for a day. And so I went to pick her up and I had to walk her back through Cambridge

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