Bodies: Meat
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Meatis an international podcast created on the surface of a person’s skin. It is a vision of the world from the point of view of human flesh. In people’s everyday life, there’s a wall between their ideas, dreams and desires and the real world: our body. A cage for the human behaviour made by flesh and bones that affects the way we interact with the rest of the world: the sound of our voice, the line of our movements, the space we take up on a bus because of our weight, the dominant or submissive position we are forced to take when we argue with someone because of our height: our reality is a constant argument between what we have in our head and what the body we are born with is able to do.
In the inaugural episode of Meat, Jonathan Zenti candidly and beautifully discusses his body and how he loves it despite the fact that not everybody else does.
This episode was created for Radiotopia’s Podquest, by PRX and made possible with funds from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey heart listeners! I hope you're enjoying this show. We just have a quick request. |
| 0:06.0 | We are conducting a survey to hear from you, our listeners. |
| 0:10.0 | Just go to survey.prx.org slash heart to take the survey today. |
| 0:15.0 | Let us know what you think. We're so excited to hear from you. |
| 0:18.0 | That's survey.prx.org slash heart. Survey.prx.org slash heart. |
| 0:26.0 | It means a lot to us. Happy listening! |
| 0:29.0 | From PRX's radio toopia. Welcome to the heart. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm your host, Caitlin Prest. |
| 0:43.0 | And this is bodies. Our bodies versus the world. |
| 0:56.0 | Meet up! |
| 1:06.0 | We return to the saga of the hair. |
| 1:10.0 | Senior producer, Metric Bowley. |
| 1:18.0 | A week has passed since I first noticed my chin hair. |
| 1:22.0 | And I'm frozen with indecision. |
| 1:25.0 | This single hair is carrying a quarter century of guilt and shame about my body. |
| 1:31.0 | To pluck it would mean to give in to myself and the hair free obsession of the patriarchy. |
| 1:38.0 | Keeping it felt like a shameful secret. |
| 1:43.0 | I woke up that following Monday and do what I always do. Drink a glass of water, poop shower, brush my teeth, put on my tinted moisturizer. |
| 1:51.0 | Then without a second thought, like a surge of my form others blood pulsing through my veins. |
| 1:59.0 | I picked up the tweezers and I plucked it out. |
| 2:03.0 | I examined it for a moment and then I blew it away. |
| 2:11.0 | That's all for today. On the next episode we'll see what other great wonders my body holds. |
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