162. What Would Jesus Brew?
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2021
⏱️ 146 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kate does an unforeseen spinoff mini dive into something that wasn't on her radar until recently: highly instagrammable shake/smoothie/tea/coffee shops that are secretly tied to an MLM. With data showing that these 'nutrition shops' lose thousands annually, they have widely become known to be a covert recruiting tactic for Herbalife that are posing as mom & pop shops in small towns and cities alike. With minimalistic branding, instagram-friendly backdrops, little to no ingredient transparency (but appealing drink names), friendly staff, and financial incentives to share on social media, these storefronts provide all the ingredients for the thing Kate hates the most: a manipulative enterprise that preys on vulnerable people in the name of help, nutrition, religion, success, or any abstract characteristic that a person is both unqualified to make and deceptive in their solutions. At one point there is a tangent into numerology & Pythagorus’ (of pythagorean theorem fame, obv) cult, but, par for the course on this show. Kate also reads e-mails from listeners who wrote in to spill the tea they once unknowingly drank. Enjoy!
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Works cited:
https://iamherbalifenutrition.com/healthy-weight/herbalife-nutrition-clubs/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/herbalife-a-pyramid-scheme_b_4220426
https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/herbalife.html
https://sweetscienceoffighting.com/herbalife-side-effects-and-horror-stories/
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2013-feb-15-la-fi-herbalife-latino-20130216-story.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm a Chicago-based entrepreneur, author, pop culture commentator. |
| 0:17.5 | I've had this podcast for about three years. |
| 0:19.7 | It continues to evolve. |
| 0:21.5 | You know, I did conclude my Rachel Halls in the Rose-Color Glass Sealing series last |
| 0:25.8 | week I did indeed, and I do want to move on. |
| 0:29.2 | But however, you know, I can't. |
| 0:32.3 | I can't talk to you for two hours a week and conceal the things that are genuinely on |
| 0:37.3 | my mind. |
| 0:38.3 | I can't feign that I've actually moved on from this. |
| 0:44.4 | And today I'm going to do a continuation of you, let's spin off if you will. |
| 0:48.5 | And as we all know, spin-offs can be a real toss-up. |
| 0:52.0 | It can be, you know, just from Gilmore Girls going to Venice Beach to visit his dad and |
| 0:56.0 | essentially start the Gilmore, guys, and a pilot snuck in as a regular episode that |
| 1:00.7 | truly no one asked for, nor wanted, yet the series ended with us crying, asking, begging |
| 1:05.5 | for more jazz. |
| 1:06.5 | But I don't need the context of his origin story with his father. |
| 1:09.5 | I'd sooner watch a think piece, a faux-docque series on Liz and TJ working the Renaissance |
| 1:15.5 | Fair Circuit. |
| 1:16.5 | But a series based on Jess Mariano's early adulthood of trying to get his book published |
| 1:20.0 | in Philly as he glows up from ANXY Teen to pretend just bookish Megahadi and low key |
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