Standard issue for all women.

Hello and welcome to episode 290 of the Standard Issue pod scene.

I'm Mickey Noonan and I've been trying to get better at breathing.

Yeah? Well 40 odd years in, Mickey, why not? It's going to become

harder, I believe. I genuinely think it's a thing that is going to kill me. Sometimes I just

sort of forget how to actually get oxygen into my lungs or I just stop altogether and then choke.

I've told Gary to tell people I died rescuing a kitten from off a tree, but it will just be because I forgot how to breathe.

But I did a breath work workshop. Is this for exercise?

Is this genuinely just so that you remember to breathe properly? It's supposed to be a good

sort of all-round well-being exercise to do so it's not it was at my gym but it wasn't

about kind of physical exercise although it is really quite physical but it's good for

if you're feeling overwhelmed or stressed out or you might joke if you don't remember how to

breathe properly all of those things.

I have to say Lira does that all the time because she's realised that it up like it

basically sets me she just goes,

and I'm like, oh my God, what's wrong, what's wrong?

And then she looks and she smiles and I think,

you little shit.

I can assure you mine isn't attention seeking, Jan.

Good.

Glad to hear it. it. I'm Hannah Dunleavy and for once I have too many

facts. Too many facts. Are you going to give us your top three? I'm going to say

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