Hear Me Out: Walks Are Boring, Nay, Agonizing

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… stretching our legs. We know we like to bring you deep conversations about the biggest topics in the news. But today? Let’s go for a walk. Lots of us picked up this new healthy habit over the course of the pandemic. But walking is still one of those things you either love or really, really hate. So we took our host — an enthusiastic walker — and sat her down with someone who hates it. Our guest is Lucy Lopez, media personality and host of the Mamacita Rica podcast. If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hear Me Out, I'm Celeste Hedley.
0:04.4	We bring you a lot of serious topics on this show, but today, let's go for a walk.
0:09.9	There are a lot of things in this world that you either love or hate.
0:13.0	One of those things is going for a walk.
0:16.3	Recently, there have been editorials in high profile outlets like The Guardian and The
0:20.9	New York Times, asserting the unpopular opinion that walking sucks.
0:27.2	Now listeners, your host is a walking evangelist.
0:31.6	I love a walk.
0:34.4	So we found someone who hates going for a walk, and we sat down to talk.
0:41.4	I hated it.
0:42.4	It was like a walk of shame.
0:44.0	It was like, oh, you're not in shape.
0:47.1	This is not your lifestyle.
0:48.7	I can tell by the shoes that you're wearing.
0:51.5	Podcast host Lucy Lopez joins us in just a moment.
0:54.8	Stay with us.
0:59.6	Welcome back to Hear Me Out, I'm Celeste Hedley.
1:03.1	Our listeners know that we frequently have serious topics on conversations at the heart
1:08.0	of the news, like our discussion last week about the challenges of translational adoption.
1:12.8	But today, we'll try something a little different, a debate about walking.
1:17.5	Listen, a lot of us picked up new hobbies during the peak of COVID lockdowns a few years
1:23.0	ago.
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