The Sleepover Club: We Need To Talk About Nepotism Babies
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
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🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Why does every famous person have even more famous parents? This week we're delving into why nepo babies still have such a stronghold on our culture. Is talent genetic or are we just overly obsessed with celebrity culture? And by keeping it in the family, who is excluded from doing well in these industries?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Hilema. |
| 0:01.0 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.0 | And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Aione and the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester, online imprint and ever else. And I'm also the author of upcoming book, Poor Little Sick Girls, which you should bring order. And I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Zoon and the co-to-the-Polyester podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. |
| 0:25.7 | Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe to the podcast as it helps us so, so, so much. |
| 0:31.8 | So, ba, ba, bum, we're back with another episode this week. |
| 0:36.0 | Kaleema, what are we talking about? |
| 0:37.8 | I'm talking about nepotism babies. Nepotism in general. |
| 0:41.5 | Shout out, Sharon, who is a listener, a friend of this podcast of Pollyester and suggested that we do this topic. |
| 0:49.1 | Nice, nice, nice. I was wondering why you wanted to do it. |
| 0:52.6 | Do I not tell you? |
| 0:53.7 | No, you're just like, let's do nepotism babies, and I was like, oh, okay. Who's rubbeds me the wrong way? Yeah, so we're doing nepotism babies. I think the reason why we're doing this is because, well, there's a few things. Obviously, by now, the, I don't even know the girl's name, what's her name, Nicola Peltz? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The American heiress and socialite. |
| 1:12.9 | And I don't know why that's got to me. |
| 1:19.9 | Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham obviously got married a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:23.8 | Cruz Beckham is also on the cover of ID magazine, which is very weird. |
| 1:30.0 | I do not understand. |
| 1:31.9 | He's very tan, you know? |
| 1:33.3 | Is he? |
| 1:34.1 | He's so tan. |
| 1:34.9 | He's like the literal image of Victoria Beckham. |
| 1:37.3 | Like, he doesn't know like his dad at all, in my opinion. |
| 1:41.1 | And there was a couple of other things things but I've already forgotten them. |
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