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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 787 Pod 229: Brains, balls and not nature's banana

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

“What’s going on inside our noggins?” is a question we are often terrified to ask, but neuroscientist and Standard Issue favourite Professor Sophie Scott is more than happy to delve right in. She chats to Hannah about "lady brains", the infinite wisdom of post-menopausal killer whales, how chromosomes affect the old grey matter, and her new book, The Brain: 10 Things You Should Know.   In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen chats to Leonie Pryor, match official developer at the Rugby Football Union, about their #Inspire campaign, aimed to get more women into refereeing.   Grab your hankies and hold on tight, as Hannah and Mick revisit Michael Winterbottom’s 1997 war drama, Welcome To Sarajevo. And in this week's Bush Telegraph, Mick has some interesting (*question mark*) Christmas list ideas. Prepare the underground cellar and light the dusty vagina candle! 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

Standard Issue for all women.

0:13.4

Hello and welcome to episode 229 of the Standard Issue pod scene.

0:18.0

I'm Mickey Noonan and I've got a real taste for the pain of wasabi peas.

0:22.9

Wasabi peas, that's quite good at this time of year does sort of um block the sinuses.

0:28.4

Yeah sometimes if if it's really powerful I have to do this to get to get some of the pain

0:36.2

out of my nose. If I knew you could give them to two year olds

0:39.7

I stopped a lot of my problems in the last few days. Very bunged up.

0:43.8

I think that's so cool to the unless species. I'm not really going to give my wasabi peas don't

0:48.0

don't worry. I'm Hannah Dunlavy. Would anybody like a wicker Christmas tree skirt?

0:54.8

Talk me through it. Is this for Christmas disco? The annual standard issue Christmas disco.

0:59.6

Not that sort of skirt. Yep made out of wicker. It arrived at my house the other day erroneously.

1:05.2

I had never ordered one. Ops. And when I rang and said I seem to have been delivered something

1:12.2

I didn't order they said hey yeah that's the mistake keep it. You know I guess it's because

1:18.8

they cost ÂŁ20 and it's probably cheaper to just lose ÂŁ20 and it is to pay someone to come

1:23.7

and collect it from me. But I don't want it. It's absolutely huge. It's in a massive box

1:29.4

under my desk taking up space. Would it fit an Edward wood wood in it? No because it's

1:35.9

gold in the bottom. I can't see I thought I could make a basket at least it could become a cat

1:40.4

basket but it doesn't have a hole in the bottom because it does have a hole in the bottom. It doesn't

1:45.7

have a bottom in the bottom. No use for the annual man burning event at the snow. The standard issue

1:52.3

on your mum. Which ironically we do at Christmas. Yeah I asked my mum if she wanted it and she said

1:57.6

nah and I thought well then no one wants it. Nobody wants this perhaps this is how

2:02.4

Dunnell we're planning to get rid of all of their wicker Christmas tree skirts just to just

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