Standard Issue Podcast

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The Bush Telegraph: What in the skibidi is going on? Jan 30, 2025

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Suella Braverman’s glitching like Liz Truss, millions of kids in poverty, no new label for extreme misogyny, and ‘sexism is bad, pals’: there’s a lot to unpack in this week’s Bush Telegraph, brought to you by Mick and Jen. There’s good news, too, of course, including some of the yoot’s favourite words, brought to you by Jen, and a surprise book recommendation, brought to you by Mick. And if you’ve been hardcore manifesting a disturbing segue in JOTB about that time Ian Botham accidentally sent an unsolicited dick pic to the world, you are in for a badly angled treat.

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Rated or Dated: Wonder Boys (2000) Jan 29, 2025

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There are lies, affairs, copious pot-smoking, stolen memorabilia, Michael Douglas in a dressing gown, and a dead dog this week, as we watch Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys. But what do Mickey, Hannah and Jen make of it, 25 years on?

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Kathy Slack's growing through a Rough Patch Jan 28, 2025

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Rough Patch is the name of award-winning food writer, author and veg grower Kathy Slack’s new book (out on February 6, but available for pre-order now), and it’s a warm mix of memoir, a love letter to growing your own, and recipes.

It covers a year in Kathy’s life in which a brutal depression meant she left her high-flying city job and, eventually, found solace and purpose growing her own vegetables. She chats to Mick about depression, what advice to ignore and the joy of feeding yourself.

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Liz Johnson's Panathlon Challenge Jan 27, 2025

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Panathlon Challenge is a charity aimed at giving young people with disabilities and special educational needs the opportunity to take part in competitive sport, and is chaired by Paralympic gold medalist, Liz Johnson.

Jen chats to Liz about the charity, what skills kids can take from competitive sports into their adult lives, and the barriers young people with disabilities and special educational needs face in terms of accessing services to help develop those skills.

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Dawn Adams on menopause, hormones and type 1 diabetes Jan 24, 2025

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In her early 20s, Dawn Adams was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and told she probably wouldn't live long enough to worry about any impact the menopause might have on her condition. And so, when Dawn started perimenopause and noticed changes in her condition, she began to question what exactly medical professionals and researchers do know about it? As ever when it comes to women’s health, the answer was not a lot.

Dawn's now involved in several research projects, and so Jen got the midwife and diabetes advocate on the phone to talk about autoimmune conditions, why we still don’t know enough about diabetes type 1, and how representative Steel Magnolias actually is.

You can find out more information on Ulster University’s research project here.

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The Bush Telegraph: True or false? Who even knows anymore? Jan 23, 2025

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Trump's back in the White House, so what better time for a big quiz about what's real news and what Hannah has just made up? Good luck, Jen. Also, there's more on the Online Safety Act, the ceasefire in Gaza and women's prizes in sport. And in Jenny Off The Blocks, we're talking tennis, cricket and what's in that little jar they win in The Ashes. Plus, if you're a Standard Issue supporter, it's time for some more Sarah Millican's Light Relief. You're welcome!

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Rated or Dated: Showgirls (1995) Jan 22, 2025

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They said it could never be done, but Tits Ahoy, Tits Akimbo and Tits McGee come together in Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 erotic drama/satirical masterpiece/car crash of nudity* and it’s more aggressively aggressive than is ever necessary.

Showgirls bombed and took a critical spanking at the time, but 30 years on, opinion has softened. Well, some opinions. Do they include those of our Mick, Hannah and Jen? Find out.

*delete as appropriate

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Women Are Mad – and rightly so Jan 21, 2025

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Psychotherapist Jen Cox and life coach Salima Saxton, are best mates and co-hosts of the podcast Women Are Mad. Together they’ve created a space to show women that emotions are a superpower. And it has – as the name of their podcast suggests – a healthy focus on rage as a source of fuel and change. They chat to Mick about the power in sharing, the joy of rage, and why we need to let it out.

Women Are Mad is available wherever you get your podcasts and Jennifer’s book, Women Are Angry: Why Your Rage is Hiding and How to Let It Out, is available from all good bookshops.

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Outside The Box January 2025 Jan 17, 2025

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Is your New Year's resolution to stay in and watch more telly? Unlikely, but let us recommend some things to watch regardless. This time we're chatting about What We Do In The Shadows, 100 Years of Solitude, Playing Nice, Somebody Somewhere, SAS Rogue Heroes, Missing You and Dr Odyssey (OMFG!)

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Rated or Dated: The Usual Suspects (1995) Jan 15, 2025

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Bryan Singer’s much lauded, twisty-turny, Oscar-winning

classic starring Kevin Spacey has us separating art from artist this week. But

is the art all that interesting? What is Pete Postlethwaite’s head-scratcher of

an accent? And when the surprise ending's all everyone talks about, how does it

fare on a second watch?

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