Hoovering - Episode 178: You Look Like A Man

Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew

Jessica Fostekew

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.

This episode is a FORCE, so there. I’m hoovering with American strong woman and the absolute genius behind Instagram sensation ‘You Look Like A Man’, Jess Fithen. We zoomed, as she’s in the States and we wolfed gendered MANS FOOD, naturally I devoured a Yorkie.

Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage.

Honourable Mentions/ Links

Get all over Jess’ blogs and merch right now on the YOU LOOK LIKE A MAN website and on JESS’ OWN INSTAGRAM HERE there’s a link tree to alllll the amazing You Look Like A Man Stuff - and whilst the battle rages to get the epic, iconic Instagram page reinstated, you have to follow VAGINAS IN THE WEIGHTS ROOM

COME TO HOOVERING LIVE WITH JO BRAND AND JAY RAYNER for fucks saaaake - in Soho on 17th July at 5pm. Please.

Hench is now doing THREE EXTRA SHOWS AT SOHO THEATRE on 12th, 13th & 14th July if you fancy it?

COME AND SEE POWERHOUSE HALF HOUR FOR FREE by applying and then coming to Greenwich on 28th July in the evening, to the Up The Creek Comedy Club.

Will you come and SEE ME DOING HENCH ON TOUR? Cool.

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Things we mentioned that you might be interested in from this podcast include…

I couldn’t find the American gendered food she scoffed but I had a YORKIE and a

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Love this podcast. Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just hit the link in the show description to support now.
0:15.2	This is a message from ACAST. This is an urgent appeal from the Disasters Emergency Committee.
0:21.8	Conflict in the Middle East is devastating lives.
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0:34.5	Text costs your donation plus your standard network rate.
0:45.1	Thank you. give 10 pounds. Text costs your donation plus your standard network rate. Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as anything else in the world.
0:53.6	But also, it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish.
1:00.1	It's complicated and I think fascinating.
1:03.4	This is a conversation with an interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoovering.
1:17.1	Hello, you. food but about gobbling it up or if you will hoovering hello you this week it is a brilliant episode if i don't say myself i'm hoovering with strong woman and frankly absolute icon genius
1:24.3	behind the phenomenon that is instagram's you look Like a Man. She is Jess Fithin.
1:31.3	Now, crazily, at the time of recording, or indeed of recording this, but not when I spoke to her,
1:37.3	the You Look Like a Man Insta page, which if you haven't seen it, is just the stuff of dreams.
1:43.3	It's really amazing, but uplifting, but awful examples, but made beautiful and never offensive
1:53.7	of terrible and so bad they're funny things that men have said to women in the gym,
2:00.8	basically about their bodies
2:02.2	or have commented on strong-looking women online. It's sort of outing all of that horror. It had over
2:10.9	105,000 followers. I'm still loath to use the past tense. At time of me recording this introduction,
2:18.4	that Instagram have taken the page down with 105,000 followers.
2:23.2	Anyway, I am hoping, as I'm sure Jess is,
2:26.4	my brilliant guest for this episode,
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