EP725 - Pretty Privilege, Standards, and The Rise of Skinny Tok
The Brad Jensen Show
Brad Jensen
4.9 • 792 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Craig and I kick things off with a solid twenty minutes of pure holiday chaos and friendly rambling while we try to settle one of the most important debates of our generation. We attempt to figure out what the best Christmas movie of all time actually is. We share some nostalgia, some questionable takes, and way too many opinions for two grown men.
From there, I shift gears and play a viral clip from an influencer on Instagram that got both of us thinking. We dive into the whole idea of "pretty privilege," how it shows up in real life, and what having actual standards looks like today.
We also start talking about the "skinny tok" wave that's popping up on Instagram. I break down why these extreme aesthetic trends always seem to come in cycles, why they can be dangerous when you make your looks your entire identity, and how easy it is to get wrapped up in something that's only one small part of the overall truth.
At the end of the day, that's the whole theme of this episode. Something can be true, but that doesn't mean it's the whole truth. And when any one thing becomes your whole personality — whether it's fitness, looks, validation, or even self-improvement — it usually becomes the thing that breaks you instead of builds you.
It's a mix of humor, honesty, and real talk.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to the Brad Jensen show with Health and Mindset Optimization podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Let's go. Welcome back to another episode of the Brad Jensen show with Craig Smith, with Craig Smith. |
| 0:30.3 | Take two. |
| 0:32.4 | Your mom took two. |
| 0:35.7 | Well, well, probably more, actually, but let's not talk about my mom. |
| 0:39.2 | Two of what? |
| 0:40.7 | Advil. |
| 0:41.5 | She has a sore back chronically. |
| 0:45.1 | She's old. |
| 0:46.3 | My mom has legit never taken less than four. |
| 0:49.4 | She'll have like a very minor thing going on. |
| 0:52.0 | And she's like, yeah, honey, just grab me four. |
| 0:53.4 | And I'm like, I think the 800 milligram is for like when you're really in pain. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like a surgery. Yeah. No, no. It's always four for my mom. Four, eight hundreds? Every time. No, four, 200. But like, I should. I mean, sometimes she'll have like a very minor headache, which I'm like, well, you should probably figure out why you have headaches all the time first. |
| 1:13.1 | 800's the baseline. |
| 1:14.4 | That's it. I mean, sometimes she'll have like a very minor headache, which I'm like, well, you should probably figure out why you have headaches all the time first. |
| 1:30.2 | 800's the baseline. That's it. She's like, no matter what, stub my toe. Can you give me four of those? I used to be that way. And then I was like, maybe 400 milligrams to do great. And it did. Yeah. also you probably can train your body that it doesn't have to have 800 to just touch the pain. This morning, I was walking up the stairs into the podcast studio. |
| 1:38.4 | And I was just minding my own business, trying to reschedule an appointment because the car detailers were coming to detail my car, |
| 1:47.1 | but it's not even dirty. |
| 1:49.2 | Wait, are they coming here? |
| 1:50.7 | Yeah, they come here on Tuesdays. |
| 1:52.8 | Oh, we should do it on a Monday and I'll double book. |
| 1:56.4 | Oh, they would love that. |
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