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The High Low

The Glastonbury That Never Was; & Ruby Tandoh on The Art of Quitting

The High Low

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Wishing you were at Glastonbury? Get stuck into Zing Tseng's piece, instead. Ruby Tandoh reads us an excerpt of her beautiful piece on quitting, and we discuss why quitting is not just a physical act - but a state of mind. Also today: a Doll's Polls on first date turn-offs (verdict: most of them are unavoidable), a hilarious analysis by Diyora Shadijanova of what Gen Z'ers really think about millennials (verdict: old and boring), plus a great primer on white privilege by Robin DiAngelo and Channel 4's documentary, The School That Tried To End Racism. 


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Links

Zing Tseng on festivals for Vice https://www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/4ayagj/what-i-miss-festivals-glastonbury

Ruby Tandoh on the art of quitting for WePresent https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/work-sucks-i-know-ruby-tandoh/

Eat Up, by Ruby Tandoh

What Gen Z'ers think about millennials, by Diyora Shadijanova https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/4ay3gw/what-gen-z-thinks-of-millennials?

Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story, by Robin DiAngelo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzLT54QjclA&feature=emb_title  

The School That Tried To End Racism, on Channel 4od

Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations: Ellen DeGeneres Comes Out https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ellen-degeneres-comes-out/id1264843400?i=1000475900203

Desert Island Discs - Chili Bouchier https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0093nxc  

The Great Godden, by Meg Rosoff



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Highlo, the weekly conversation between Donnie Alderton and Pandora Sykes.

0:20.7

Pandar, I've discovered this week something that makes me laugh without fail and it's so

0:27.4

wonderful when you discover this. It's like when you realise any clip of any toddler falling down will make you laugh.

0:34.2

I've now discovered a corner, a recently unexcavated corner of my sense of humour which is people playing quite feeble instruments

0:45.4

with sort of apologetic notes in a way that suggests both hope and shame.

0:50.8

And I discovered that by hearing a melodic cover of the Jurassic Park theme tune that I am going to play now.

1:20.8

It's so good isn't it? And then it led me to discover someone doing a flute version of the 20th Century Fox theme tune.

1:30.8

This is amazing because this is fascinating about the internet isn't it? The whole appeal of this is that it's not very good isn't it?

1:58.8

It's like intentionally not very good. I don't know if it is intentional. I think it's intentional.

2:04.8

My friend Octavius said and I think it's very true. There's something about it that sums up the absurdity of human self-aggrandizement.

2:12.8

And I think that's exactly it. Like, look at how pathetic we are. Bless us. I think it sums up the beauty of hope and practice.

2:22.8

Please do send us more. The other one that I love is children with violins. So if you've got any of these kind of feeble, shameful, hopeful recordings, please send them to me because they just tickle me no end.

2:38.8

I like old men in short-sleeved shirts wearing velcro sandals despondently playing a triangle. Yes, I like that as well.

2:47.8

I like that. I like that. I like that. I like that. Thank you so much for all your incredible moving letters about I made a story to you and to the people who shared their own stories devastating that there were so many of you.

2:59.8

But thank you for sharing such precious information and such pain with us. We also had a lot of slightly mad emails about eels. I thought I'd open day. What is it? A wormhole? No. What if I open a can of worms? That's it. I've opened a can of worms.

3:16.8

Apparently the poor things are endangered due to eeling, which is fishing for glass eels and dams which make their migration so much harder.

3:28.8

Reeling from eeling. Yes, indeed. I just hate that the series to become my role on the high load is saying these sort of like,

3:40.8

Dad joke, non joke comments, but you know. Do you know what I thought of this morning and actually you, you did ask me how I was but I thought as I was sopping myself in the shower, I thought when dolly asks me how I am, I'm going to say too much al desco not enough al fresco.

4:01.8

Yeah, see we've just made the transition now into middle aged dads.

4:07.8

Two fun things I want to mention this week. Firstly, have you seen Connell confessing in the hot priests confession box? You heard me?

4:17.8

Arnand's comic relief. I get it. You do? Yeah. When it's good, if you're so good or kisses, just taste so sweet. It's almost like being tested.

4:29.8

You lie awake at night and you just lie there wondering if this is some cosmic challenge that you're being burdened with in order to audit your soul.

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