Trump’s Baby Balloon; & Why ‘Natural’ Beauty Is A Damaging Stereotype
The High Low
The High Low
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🗓️ 12 July 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
There’s a ton of cabinet reshuffles this week and baby Trump - all 6-foot helium-filled malevolence - is flying over London. Is the balloon a meaningful protest; or is it a childish blimp that could ruin a trade agreement with the US? And aren’t there leaders (Erdogan, for example) whose visit to the UK we should protest more?
Also this week, Justin Bieber’s engaged! Kylie Jenner’s almost a billionaire! Cardi(gan) B has had a baby called Kulture! In (more important) news, we discuss Amanda Knox’s comments on sexuality (she says she taught herself how to masturbate in prison), Terri White’s piece on poverty (30% of children live below the poverty line), Giles Coren’s piece on why ‘liking’ things draws us further away from our authentic self and Richard Godwin’s shocking piece on noise pollution - which is killing 10,000 people a year.
And of course, we *had* to mention Love Island. Dolly raises Alex’s comment about liking ‘natural’ women (what damage does the #ijustwokeuplikethis emphasis do to women?) whilst Pandora laments our cultural obsession with augmented hotness, flagging a brilliant piece on Vice about Megan Barton-Hanson.
Links
- Glow on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80114988
- In defense of Megan Barton-Hanson, by Emma Garland for Vice https://www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/vbq5dy/in-defence-of-megan-barton-hanson
- Terri White on Britain’s poverty problem (last week’s issue; not yet online)
- The goop podcast on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-goop-podcast/id1352546554?mt=2
- She Must Be Mad, by Charley Cox https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008291662/she-must-be-mad/
- Sonic Doom: how noise pollution is killing 10,000 people a year, by Richard Godwin for The Guardian
- The Urge To Like Everything Is Rotting Our Brains, by Giles Coren: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-urge-to-like-everything-is-rotting-our-brains-vdttbtmdx
- Guys We F****d with Amanda Knox: https://soundcloud.com/guyswefucked/amandaknox
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 63 of The Highloat, the weekly news and pop culture podcast brought |
| 0:20.6 | to you by journalist Dolly Aldton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:24.7 | I walked into Pandora's house today and she said it was a house of mourning because |
| 0:29.1 | obviously not only her husband Dolly I think the whole house, the whole Sykes clan, |
| 0:33.6 | including me, a very sad, like I've just put myself in the Sykes clan there. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm very sad because obviously England lost against Croatia last night. |
| 0:41.8 | If you listen carefully I think you can hear the baby still crying about it. |
| 0:44.8 | I did a bit of a vault fast with the old football competition as Dolly likes to call it. |
| 0:49.4 | I watched the last 30 minutes last night and I felt very tense. |
| 0:53.1 | I didn't think if I feel tense how is everyone else feeling who's been following the football |
| 0:57.6 | competition from the beginning? |
| 0:58.9 | Well who followed football competitions all year round? |
| 1:01.4 | Since the year dot. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.6 | And then I got stuck into everyone's Instagram profiles. |
| 1:05.6 | Lol, to Dolly Aldi's Boo-Human collaboration. |
| 1:08.2 | Fair play mate. |
| 1:09.2 | When the match started I was on a train back from Somerset and then I was meant to haul |
| 1:16.0 | ass to the gym straight afterwards and I managed to do a quick run while I was watching |
| 1:21.2 | the first half and I just found it too stressful. |
| 1:23.6 | I had to get off the treadmill and then I thought it was like a ghost towning. |
| 1:28.8 | There was the streets were empty and there were people pouring out of the pubs. |
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