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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 785 Pod 228: Cat women, strong women and a woman with an egg

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The expression "cat lady" comes with a lot of baggage, something writer and podcaster Dawn O'Porter couldn't understand. She talks to Jen about her new book Cat Lady, which challenges stereotypes around the love we have for our pets. They also chat complicated characters, the reality of living in LA, and the ongoing refugee crisis*. Imagine a women-only fitness space that encourages women to strength train with heavy weights and builds confidence as much as muscle. It’s real! StrongHer, in London’s Bethnal Green (but with excellent online options), exists thanks to Tig Hodson and Sam Prynn, who created a place they wanted to work out in. And it’s where our Mick flips tyres and chucks herself over walls. She borrowed Jenny Off The Blocks for a week to chat with Tig about strength training, listening to your cycle, and why the fear of getting ‘bulky’ is a nonsense. Lucas “Luke” Jackson clearly isn’t worried about a bit of bulk, as he stuffs 50 eggs down his gullet in one of cinema’s most iconic scenes. Yep, this week’s Rated or Dated is 1967 prison drama classic, Cool Hand Luke and unlikely inspiration for Hannah.  And in the Bush Telegram, there’s bad at your job and then there’s Suella Braverman.   *You can donate to Choose Love here. 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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0:00.0

I thought you were going to say I flipped to Tire and I held, I just leave it there.

0:29.2

That could have been my fact. But no, did not vomit, flipped to Tire 12 times.

0:34.5

Job tore a wall, five times. Were you trying to confuse a sniffer dog?

0:40.0

I was on the rob, and I was running away from the pig cups.

0:45.0

I'm Hannah Dunlavy, and I have bought Christmas presents, so I don't know who I am anymore.

0:49.9

What have I got? Tell me what I'm in. I have actually got something for you, yeah.

0:53.3

This is exciting. I'm not going to tell you though.

0:55.6

Is it going to be revealed on a podcast like last year?

1:00.0

I'm Jennifer, and I am baffled by my daughter's posing.

1:04.4

Absolutely baffled. So, a friend of mine, he's a photographer.

1:08.5

She does like a thing, it's like a Christmas grotto thing, so you can go and get

1:12.4

some festive photos taken, and you can like, you know, I don't know, make cards out of them,

1:17.6

or whatever people do to send to relatives at Christmas.

1:20.8

And she was like, do you want, do you and I want to pop down like, you know, just as I'm

1:24.7

finishing kind of thing, and I'll get a couple of pictures for you. I was like, yeah, that'd be nice,

1:27.8

because when you're a single parent, 98% of the photos you have with your child are selfies,

1:33.6

and it's just like, you know, it'd be nice for some of them not to be.

1:37.5

So he went down there and she was like, all right, Larry, you sit on the chair first of all

1:41.1

and do whatever, there's a little wooden stool there. She just sat down, she was like,

1:46.8

Jen is posing up a stone. And I was just like, what the what the fuck is she doing?

1:51.7

I've never seen how does she know, where did she get that from? I don't understand.

1:56.9

She'd been watching Zoolander. She knew exactly what to do. I was completely baffled by her.

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