Standard issue for all women.

Hello there and a very merry betruxmas to you dear listener.

As it's becoming a standard issue tradition, Hannah Jen and I are revisiting our favorite gig casts of times gone by.

Like the three ghosts that visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve,

but packed with women, cracking anecdotes and loads of laughs.

Yeah, kind of feel like Dickens missed a trick there. Anyway, been a bit of a shitter for

lots of people this year. Understatement, very much an understatement. So I thought it would

be nice to remember that time there was a big win for ordinary women.

It does mean we have to go back five years. Still, let me take you back to 2018 and the joy of repeal the 8th becoming repealed the 8th.

Not long after that glorious news we got Marion Keys on the show and so of course

Hannah asked her about it. In this particular blast from Gig Cast Past, Dunleavy and I are also joined by

Katie Tunstall and Vicky McClure. I know, what a lineup! And we cover all of the big topics topics free crisps, bags of hair, that time Vicky and

Shay Meadows had a Will You Ask Him to Pass the Salt moment and why you should never

meet your heroes?

Also, finally an important question answered.

How wide are Hannah's legs and why does it make her potentially

brilliant our Irish dancing?

It was a real joy to go back in time to this one and I hope you have as much fun as I did.

Welcome to the Standard Issue Podcast. Hannah, do you want to do some intros?

Yeah, well, as per usual, we usually introduce ourselves with our names, what we do, and a random fact about ourselves.

Anyone who comes here regularly will know Mickey and I are now scraping the bottom of a barrel of random

packs about ourselves, but I'm Hannah I am one of the standard issue team I have a

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