SIM Ep 864 Pod 259: Love Island, Brokeback Mountain and Global Thermonuclear War

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Ruth Kelly’s debut thriller, The Villa, is a sharp social commentary on the dark side of reality TV, as well as a total page turner. She tells our Mick about her time watching people in a glass box in Bristol, why the viewers of reality telly are as complicit and culpable as the stars and the TV execs, and what it’s like to be the Miss World of ghostwriting. Our Hazel Davis has been on the Zoom with singer-songwriter Eddi Reader to talk singing, songwriting, playing the Balladeer in the new stage version of Brokeback Mountain, and why love is love – no matter what shape your nose is. Jen's got good news and bad news – as ever – in Jenny Off The Blocks. And in Rated or Dated, we’re distrusting computers and wondering how we’ll ever work out when something’s made in the 1980s. Hello tiny Matthew Broderick and 1983’s WarGames. Shall we play a game, listeners? Let Hannah go first though, eh – she’s been waiting for aaaaages. 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	Hello and welcome to episode 259 of the Standard Issue Potsy. I'm Mickey Neenan and I just
0:19.4	want to give a shout out to my mum's husband Brian, stepdad hashtag 2, who is right now
0:24.3	part of a 7-band convoy driving aid supplies to Ukraine. Does that not earn him a hashtag 1?
0:31.4	I just feel it's more chronological, but what a guy, right? Yeah, maybe I'll make him a
0:37.3	batch with number one stepdad on when he gets home. What I'm Brian? Is your mother worried?
0:42.7	Oh my god, she's having kissons every minute of every single day and has informed me,
0:48.1	she will be doing it until Friday in a kind of text message that said, you can comfort me and
0:53.8	I want this, but I will continue to be like this until he's home again. Fair to use really,
0:58.1	fair to use. He's 76 driving to a war zone. I'm worried. Oh my god, I think I'd rather drive to
1:03.6	Ukraine than have my mum worry for the day, but it's excellent, is it? I'm Hannes Unleavey and I
1:10.8	bore a thermal jacket in a heatwave. So is that, guys? Yeah, why? Well, I'm going to Iceland,
1:18.6	winter and I'm going to need a proper Dixon coat and it occurred to me the other day that perhaps
1:24.3	the best time to buy it was during the summer because it would be cheaper and so I had a look around
1:30.2	and they are all very expensive, so I bought one on vintage and it arrived on Saturday and I thought,
1:38.5	I've got to try this on. I have to try this on because I just want to press the button so that
1:43.8	woman can have her money. You know, I don't want to be the asshole that leaves someone
1:47.8	desperate for money. The idea of putting your on makes me want to vomit so hard, it was awful.
1:54.3	So I put it on and I zipped it up and I was like, yep, yep, done fine, received and then I screwed
1:59.7	it up in a ball and it's currently at the bottom of my wardrobe. Did you take all of your other
2:03.7	clothes off first? And I ran around in the street, thank you for four hours. Classic Saturday.
2:10.3	I'm Jennifer and yesterday I met a bearded dragon. Was she nice? I think she was a he.
2:17.7	Yeah, it was a slightly strange situation. We were walking back from the chip shop. We decided to
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