FT Weekend: How has lockdown changed us? Plus: a night on the Orient Express
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Introducing our new FT Weekend podcast. New episodes every Saturday. This is the last episode of the FT Weekend which will be published in this feed, so if you want to keep listening, subscribe now by searching ‘FT Weekend’ in your podcast app of choice.
In our third episode, we explore the question of how we’ve changed. Host Lilah Raptopoulos talks to the writer Imogen West-Knights about the phenomenon of treat brain: how the pandemic spurred our desire to excessively indulge. Then, columnist Janan Ganesh describes why lockdown decidedly did not change him — and why he’s worried if it changed you. Plus: Maria Shollenbarger sweeps us away on the world’s most glamorous train.
Links from the episode:
—Imogen West-Knights describes Treat Brain: https://www.ft.com/content/3ed08931-80b0-43a0-9bba-6c4bcc1b3e70
—Janan Ganesh on the lockdown epiphany that wasn’t: https://www.ft.com/content/bf7c501e-12a5-4737-b297-15eba91b26a0
—Maria Shollenbarger aboard the Orient Express: https://www.ft.com/content/9f776436-8205-48cc-a879-7a053f388671
—Lilah’s Instagram Live with Esther Perel: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CULKKCcJXdq/
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| 0:22.0 | Hi briefing listeners, Mark here. |
| 0:24.0 | Today is the last day you will hear our new Saturday life in our show FT Weekend in this feed. |
| 0:30.0 | So if you want to keep listening next Saturday, go subscribe now before you forget. |
| 0:35.0 | Search FT Weekend in your podcast app of choice. |
| 0:39.0 | I wonder if you've also found yourself spending too much money on unusual things. |
| 0:54.0 | And whether it also started for you around the spring of 2020. |
| 0:59.0 | My name is Will and I developed an oyster habit if you like as a way to treat myself during the never ending. |
| 1:08.0 | Spring of 2020 and now I'm probably more oyster than man. |
| 1:14.0 | In the depths of lockdown, Will developed a new habit. |
| 1:18.0 | He would ride his bike down to the fishmongers, get six shocked oysters, and then eat them on a park bench. |
| 1:25.0 | And it just became this weird self-flagulating behaviour of knocking them back. |
| 1:30.0 | And then just putting the box, the icy box in the bin, unlocking my bike, and cycling home, and that was it. |
| 1:37.0 | I think I can still get joy out of them, but that situation is somewhat joyless. |
| 1:42.0 | Will has developed something that my colleague, Image in West Nights, has deemed treat-brain. |
| 1:47.0 | It's gotten pretty bad. So bad, actually, that he's talking about it with us. |
| 1:52.0 | I really should say to you that I'm ashamed, but I'm actually in conversation with you on the topic of oysters for the Financial Times podcast. |
| 2:01.0 | Clearly, the battle between my shame and my narcissism has been called in favour of my narcissism. |
| 2:08.0 | I'm oyster boy, apparently. |
| 2:12.0 | Hello and welcome to our fourth episode. |
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