SIM Ep 936 Pod 289: Comedy, cancer, college campuses and Christ almighty, our eyes

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Stand up Laura Smyth came to comedy later in life and with a whole load of experiences, including cancer, under her belt. People are lapping it up, and tickets to her debut tour show, Living My Best Life, are selling like hot cakes. Mmm, hot cakes. Laura chats to our Hannah about wide-ranging appeal, the big C and maintaining a sense of self. Mick’s been on the Zoom to America, chatting to author Kiley Reid, whose debut novel, Such a Fun Age, which had race relations as its focal point, was a much-hyped international bestseller longlisted for the Booker Prize. No pressure for the follow-up then, eh? They’re talking money, shame and Come and Get It, Kiley’s sophomore novel, set on a college campus. There’s more Stateside school time as Jen’s Rated or Dated pick of 1999’s She’s All That, unsurprisingly goes down like a lead balloon. Mmm, lead balloons. Not least with Jen. Still, she’s better news of a football, rugby and boxing nature in Jenny Off the Blocks. Plus, there’s a rush of good news (although some is definitely broccoli in disguise) in this week’s Bush Telegraph. Laura Smyth will be on tour with brand new show Living My Best Life from April this year, tickets are available from https://laurasmyth.com 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.
0:03.0	Hello and Standard Issue for all women.
0:13.0	Hello and welcome to episode 289 of the standard issue pod scene.
0:18.0	I'm Mickey Noonan and I have a bodily bruised ear.
0:21.0	Tell me more. Tell me more. I hit myself with a bar bell which landed on it.
0:27.0	It wasn't massively heavy, it was only 12 kilos, but like when that bit of metal does slam into just the tip of your ear.
0:34.0	I've got a purple ear.
0:36.0	It's very sore.
0:38.0	Don't drop a barbell on your ear and neck guys.
0:40.0	That would be my recommendation.
0:42.0	I can't even...
0:43.2	valuable life lessons as ever they've been.
0:45.4	Yeah. Compute how that would happen. I don't I can't really understand the motion.
0:50.3	We were doing a half Turkish get-up with a barbelgien, so you lie on the floor like you're holding a
0:55.8	javelin and then you have to get up whilst looking at it and holding it. And I did it quite easily
1:02.2	with the seven and I thought, oh I'll try the next one up which was a
1:04.8	12 and was too heavy for me and so I I slipped and smacked myself in the head with it.
1:10.3	That's quite a big difference seven and two. There's no ten there's no
1:14.1	interim yeah so it was it was that or nothing and yeah I should have picked nothing
1:18.5	absolutely. If you had asked me what I thought a half Turkish get-up was before this moment, I really don't know what I would have said.
1:30.0	Probably sex position.
1:32.0	Position of the fore-night.
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