The Shameless Plug #1 — The May 2025 Issue
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Shameless Plug, a brand new Empire Podcast regular show, folks. As the title suggests, every month Chris Hewitt will sit down with Empire editor, Nick de Semlyen, for a deep dive into the latest issue of Empire, bringing you the stories behind the stories and covering everything including the cover. This month's cover feature is Thunderbolts*, and Chris talks about his trip to Atlanta to visit the movie's set, while Nick shares tales of seeing a major star cram jelly beans into their pockets. And there's much, much more. The issue is on sale now at all good, evil and virtual newsagents, and you can subscribe via empireonline.com Do let us know your thoughts on The Shameless Plug. We'll be back in four weeks!
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| 0:00.0 | When I first noticed my bladder weakness, I thought I'd have to rethink our Mother's Day walk. |
| 0:05.4 | But since I've started wearing tennis silhouette, I feel confident to live my life normally. |
| 0:10.3 | They feel just like normal underwear, with protection against leaks to keep me feeling fresh. |
| 0:16.0 | And you can't even tell I'm wearing them. |
| 0:18.5 | The new award-winning tennis silhouette underwear, now even more discreet. |
| 0:22.8 | Vote your bladder weakness product of the year by Kantar. |
| 0:25.2 | Survey 8,000 people. Always speak to your GP. Hello Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to a brand new Empire podcast event. |
| 0:51.4 | Glad if it goes well and we can be bothered will become a monthly regular. Yes, |
| 0:56.2 | indeed. It is called, for one of a better phrase right now, the shameless plug. And basically, |
| 1:03.8 | it's us plugging the hell out of the brand new issue of Empire Magazine, which is halfway |
| 1:08.5 | through its on sale cycle right now. Thunderbolt is on the cover. |
| 1:12.2 | It is the May 2025 issue for reasons that have long escaped us. But Thunderbolts, asterisk, |
| 1:19.7 | is on the cover. It is the world's greatest and biggest movie magazine. And here to join me |
| 1:25.6 | to talk about this for the next 20 minutes or so and give you |
| 1:28.9 | an insight into how this magazine was put together and all the incredible things that are inside |
| 1:33.2 | it as Chris Evans famously said there's a lot of great stuff inside the issue and here's the man who put |
| 1:37.6 | most of it there it is my friend my neighbor the editor magazine. Nick, what's your name? |
| 1:45.8 | Decemlion. |
| 1:49.3 | Decemlion. I know your name, silly. Hello, Nick. |
| 1:55.1 | Hello, asterisk. Chris Astrosk. Yeah, it's the, it's the, we have had so many conversations about asterisks. Astrosksks. Yes. We have two... |
| 2:01.6 | It's been an asterisky business. |
| 2:02.6 | Yeah, that was a headline for one of our Thunderbolts stories. |
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