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The Avocado Proust Podcast

Creepy old men, Periods, and Severance

Season 1, Ep. 5

Welcome to Avocado Proust! We're Jeeves and Lumes, two millennial pals trying to make sense of the week gone by. We love tech, pop culture, and science but really we'll talk about anything and everything.


Highlights from this week's group chat include:

  • Tim Westwood's creepy behaviour (alleged)
  • Elon Musk (again)
  • Getting rid of the term "feminine hygiene"
  • The TV show Severance, and how it relates to work-life balance and the role of memory in defining who we are


Join the conversation and share your thoughts, dilemmas, comments, and ideas at avocadoproust@gmail.com or find us on our socials: Jeeves on Twitter (@jivanvirdee) & Lumes on Instagram (@lumeelumes).


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This week's references


A brief history of Tim Westwood (Pop Bitch)


Specsavers tweet on Elon Musk/Twitter


Elon Musk's tweet about politics


Boot's renaming its feminine hygiene aisle


Severance on Apple TV

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