We’re off and running, following on from the previous episode with no intro! And it’s doubly exciting because it’s the beginning of Volume 4! In this episode we cover a lot of ground, in the readings and in the in between bits (IBBs, aka the chat). Jenny skips most of the dreams, Lily says ‘great’. It’s ten days until exams but Jenny’s got other things on her mind: how to pin the tuxedo pants, how to acquire more t-shirts, how to have someone famous love her and how to open a shop (t-shirts naturally!) Oh, and she also wants to get ‘Luigi Vercotti’ sunglasses. A quick Google reveals who that is – a Monty Python character. There’s a long list of what she’d like to put ON the t-shirts as well as a long list under ‘please don’t sue us’ at the end of the episode, including short men, activists, Barnaby Joyce, Kanye, anyone who wears Kanye’s sock-pods, George Orwell people (again!), any literary prizes, the Bronte estate, the Jane Austen society and ‘scarf women’.
And in case you think Jenny from nice-girl Ashburton can’t effect an east-end Cockney accent in her diary entries, think again! ‘F***ing ‘orrible it was’ and ‘wot will I do wiv meself?’ Meanwhile, Lily adds ‘radio announcer’ to her delulu list of jobs she thinks she could do (remember actor? F1 driver??) We talk about humour and how sometimes it’s the only thing the powerless have to subvert authority, and we get scathing about B Joyce and how women are never treated so gently when they fall from public grace (Jenny does feel a little sorry for him, if it’s a substance issue). We chat about Gaza – finally, we go there – and Jenny says she thinks she might be self-sabotaging re the exams. If she doesn’t try then that can be the excuse for failing, some sound logic there!
We decide our brand is ‘we don’t know anything but we can Google in real time’ and also usher in the CB radio era, where Jenny talks to Peter, Fred from Mildura who may or may not be very short, and finish up on Taylor Swift getting the Kelce ick in real time, and indulge in some light conspiracy theories. Enjoy!
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