SIM Ep 696 Pod 789: Diagnosis, Partygate and hurtling headfirst downhill at speed

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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On the bus home from her diagnosis of degenerative hearing condition otosclerosis, journalist and broadcaster Helena Merriman got thinking about the experiences of others on the receiving end of life-changing diagnoses. In this week’s podzine, she talks to Mick about Room 5, her latest series for Radio 4, a collection of stories about lives that change in a heartbeat and the process of diagnosis and recovery. With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics kicking off this week, Jen chats to skeleton gold medallist turned Eurosport pundit Amy Williams about how to get into winter sports in the UK, and what it’s like to chuck yourself headfirst down an ice track. In the Bush Telegraph, Sue Gray’s been, Theresa May – yes THERESA MAY – delivers perhaps the best Boris burn, there's good news all over the shop, and M&Ms get Hannah banging her head on her desk. Meanwhile, the team tries not to hurl as they revisit 1992's Wayne's World in Rated or Dated. 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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1:05.6	I'm Mickey Noonan and at the weekend I went to a gig that started at 1am,
1:10.7	life in the old dog yet. I am very tired. You're so so rock and roll. That was quite rock and roll.
1:17.4	I think I felt I had to be rock and roll because the three men play in the gig. It's the smile,
1:22.4	which is Tom York and Johnny Greenwood's new beat combo. They are older than me and we're doing
1:27.8	three gigs in a row and I was like, seriously, I suppose it better, you know, take my blanket and
1:32.5	try and stay awake. Why was it so late? They probably had a disco nap, hadn't they? Well, they had a gig,
1:37.5	they had one at eight o'clock, then one at 1am and then another one at 11am on the Sunday. It was
1:42.8	being streamed to the Americas, live streamed. We were the live stream audience for one o'clock in
1:49.0	the morning because the tickets for all the other gigs had been sold out, Joe. Last time we went to a
1:55.0	gig that late, we all had to go home because we had to leave early because we were tired when we
2:00.3	went to see Daniel Kitson. And like, and it started at half past 12 and by about half past one,
2:07.1	we were all like, I think my eyes were actually closing, weren't they? And you were at that point,
2:11.5	the pair of you were like, I think we need to take Jen home. He's very much become the Ken Dodd
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