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The Sporkful

A Car Crash Saved Jameela Jamil’s Life

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jameela Jamil may be best known for her role on the NBC show The Good Place. On the show, her character’s nonprofit work is a punchline, but in real life, Jameela’s activism on issues of fatphobia and sexism is no joke. She’s spoken in UK Parliament and successfully lobbied social media companies to change how they operate.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Please note this episode includes discussion of eating disorders also my guest

0:06.0

Jamila Jamil is known for her dark humor so you'll hear plenty of that

0:09.1

along with a lot of explicit language, here we go.

0:13.0

Do you ever just go to Paris for the day to eat?

0:17.0

I haven't, no, but I've spent a bit of time there, but that sounds magical.

0:21.0

I think it was one of the greatest days of my life.

0:22.9

It was a friend of mine's birthday present,

0:25.4

but really one of those ones where you give them the present

0:27.6

because you want to do the present.

0:29.2

Right.

0:31.6

Is there a particular bite that stands out in your memory?

0:35.0

I think one of the restaurants we went to was called Pink Mama.

0:38.0

They have food from all different types of backgrounds and you know like Argentinian steak but also incredible

0:44.3

sourdough pizza and then wonderful French food but I took sourdough pizza and I

0:49.5

took some of the steak with Shimaturi and I rolled it up into the pizza with some smashed

0:56.4

potatoes like deep-fried smashed potato and created a new food.

1:01.6

It was the single greatest bite of food I've ever eaten in my life.

1:05.0

This is the Sportkfall.

1:09.0

It's not for foodies, it's for eaters, I'm Dan Pashman.

1:12.0

Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.

1:16.8

Jemilla Jemilla Jemil is probably best known for her role on the NBC show The Good

1:20.0

Place, about four mismatched people who died and gone to heaven.

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