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The Polyester Podcast

We Live in Hell ft: Katy Perry In Space, AI Selfie Dolls And The Great Teeth Debacle

The Polyester Podcast

The Polyester Podcast

Arts, Society & Culture

4.5533 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's been a helluva week for the news cycle and our social feeds - Katy Perry's been on Amazon's first, girls only, space trip (for exactly 11 minutes), Aimee Lou Wood has taken to Instagram stories to call out an off colour joke about herself on Saturday Night Live and everyone has taken to ChatGPT to generate extremely specific and fairly ugly blister packed dolls of themselves. Stuck between which to cover, we decided to dig into it all.


In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina take apart everything wrong with the Blue Origin rocket trip that took an all female crew into space on the 14th April including the environmental impact, classism implications and faux feminism the journey's being marketed as. After the break, the pair get into the cringe inducing AI created dolls so many of our peers are posting on the Insta as well as the disheartening SNL impersonation that's caused distress for The White Lotus actress Aimee Lou Wood.


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0:00.0

Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding editor-in-chief of Pollyester, and this is The Polyester Podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Before we start, we've just relaunched our membership platform to include loads of new perks, including exclusive podcast-centred ones.

0:24.3

We're now offering exclusive video episodes, secret mini-episodes, and even episodes centred on what you want us to talk about across different tier options.

0:34.8

Go check it out at the link in our description.

0:38.8

And if you haven't yet,

0:43.9

please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. Do we have any reviews I all need?

0:49.3

We do. Angel emoji. I've been listening for a while, but I've really loved the past few episodes. Thank you for all your hard work and generous thinking. P.S. Did you and the

0:52.8

Valley's made me cry laughing that's

0:54.5

about gina's book episode five stars from ambian trembling and then thank you thank you and then on

1:02.3

spotify we have olivia who says as someone who works a full-time job and grows flowers to create

1:07.3

buches you can indeed make having a full-time career and create beautiful things fantastic

1:13.1

dialogue this week thank you olivia and then jade zybon said fantastic episode as always from a fellow

1:21.1

insomniac which is very kind thank you jade what are we talking about gina well we're doing kind of like a summary episode of the last week, because there was just too

1:31.5

many different prongs, I think, to talk about, so we wanted to talk about all of them.

1:36.5

Too many things, but not enough for a full episode of any of them.

1:39.5

But enough for us to have a good kiki.

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Oh, don't I say

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Kiki, oh my God

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A little Kiki

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I feel like I'm on the edge

1:48.2

So we're going to talk about

1:50.3

In no particular order

1:51.8

Katie Perry in Space

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