French Women Don't Get Fat

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Jolenta Greenberg

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4.7 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jolenta and Kristen put on their berets and live by Mireille Guiliano's French Women Don't Get Fat. The ladies experiment with leek soup, the benefits of champagne, and lots and lots of yogurt. Do French women really not get fat? We're about to find out.Have you lived by this book? What book should Jolenta and Kristen read next? Tell us at 419-869-BOOK; email us at [email protected]; Tweet us @jolentag, @kristenmeinzer, @bythebookpod; and follow us on Instagram @jolenta_g, @k10meinzer, @bythebookpod. And if you haven't already, please join our By The Book Facebook community! https://www.facebook.com/groups/116407428966900/?source_id=475465442806687And a special announcement: Jolenta and Kristen are putting on a live show! Join them July 16, 2017 at the Philly Podcast festival for a live By the Book experience. They'll be at the Trocodero Theater's Balcony Bar at 3:30pm. Tix are cheap - only $11. For more info and tickets go to phillypodfest.com/schedule.

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0:00.0	Hey, by the book listeners, before we start today's episode, we have some big news.
0:04.9	That big news is we are doing our first by the book Live Show.
0:09.8	Woohoo! Yay! Yay! That's right. July 16th at the Philly Podcast Festival,
0:16.2	we're doing a live by the book experience at the Trockadero Theatre's balcony bar at 3.30 pm.
0:22.8	Again, that is the Philly Podcast Festival. July 16th, be there, take a search,
0:28.2	keep, they're only like $11.00. For more information and for tickets, go to
0:32.9	PhillyPodfast.com slash schedule. Or just look at our show notes. We'll see you there. Yay!
0:40.8	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:44.5	Kristen.
0:45.2	Jolenta.
0:46.2	Is it me or our French women extremely fabulous?
0:49.4	Oh God. Not this. What do you mean not this?
0:52.7	Taking a whole nationality or group of people and summing up who they are based on a
0:57.7	supposed quality they'll have. Like, oh, the so-and-so are such an athletic people.
1:02.8	Or the such and such are so spiritual. It just feels weird and reductive.
1:07.6	Yeah, but isn't it annoying and reductive because it's also like a little true?
1:12.7	Like in the case of French women, and how like they seem pretty slim.
1:16.0	Oh God. I know. Okay. You mean French women don't get fat.
1:19.8	I mean, it's just what I've heard. It's a thing I've heard.
1:21.8	That's because it's the title of a book.
1:23.8	Yeah, and not just any book because it's the book we're talking about on this episode, Kristen.
1:28.9	Talking about and God help us.
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