Hoovering - Episode 27: Viv Groskop
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2018
⏱️ 56 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 week I’m talking to comedian, journalist and author Viv Groskop. We met in the Riding House Cafe in Fitzrovia, London which we both love but I had totally underestimated how crazily loud it is in there. Always. So it’s loud, but you CAN hear us. We get pretty deep into the cons (in my view) of the diet industry and the misery and insanity of a life of YoYo dieting. Viv has incredible stories of pushing buttons for champagne and meeting Uraguyian plane crash surviving cannibals.
Honourable Mentions
Viv’s Edinburgh Show Vivalicious - get tickets here!
Here’s where to buy Viv’s latest, brilliant book ‘The Anna Karenina Fix’
We met and had breakfast in The Riding House Cafe
The BOOK by the guy who survived the Uruguay plane crash by eating people was Nando Parrado - Miracle in the Andes
Recipe for Georgian Kachapuri bread
And finally, the restaurant: Little Georgia
OH, And
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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. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as |
| 0:25.3 | anything else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other |
| 0:31.6 | things that are rubbish. It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, Hoovering. |
| 0:46.9 | Hello, thanks so much for listening to the Hoovering podcast. I'm so grateful. I love it, especially when you tell the other people about this, but I don't have any PR, so you telling people that you like it and asking them to listen is the greatest gift. |
| 1:00.6 | You could give me, apart from, cash. I'm on a site called Patreon. If you go to patreon.com forward slash the hoovering pod, if you've got even a spare few pennies a month, you can swap them |
| 1:12.5 | in exchange for like gifts that are related to the podcast exclusive content, all that kind of |
| 1:18.4 | shit really. Patreon.com forward slash the hoovering pod. Anyway, it's not very nice to ask for money, |
| 1:25.0 | is it? But I've done it now. Shall we get on with the podcast? |
| 1:32.5 | This week's guest is the excellent writer, comedian and generally very, very clever egg. |
| 1:33.4 | Viv Groskot. |
| 1:39.7 | We met in the Riding House Cafe, which is a bit of a trendy wendy wankhole we both like for breakfast. |
| 1:43.8 | And full disclosure, there is a lot of background noise. I've forgotten how relentlessly loud it is in there. |
| 1:46.7 | But, but, but, producer Emma has done some great work lessening the background. |
| 1:51.8 | I used some snazzy lapel mics. I know. Microphones on your clothes. |
| 1:58.1 | So you can clearly hear what we're saying and I can solidly promise you that |
| 2:02.6 | after a minute or two it sort of becomes normal and far less annoying than your immediate first |
| 2:07.7 | impression will be. So I do promise please stick with it. Trigger warning quickly for anyone with |
| 2:13.2 | disordered eating. We do talk a lot about yo-yo dieting in this episode. Viv is super open with |
| 2:19.8 | me and I mean I'm clearly talking about what lunacy dieting is but it's talking about dieting nonetheless. |
| 2:26.5 | We coined the phrase don't teach your granddad to suck a banana. I learned that Oprah Winfrey, |
| 2:31.6 | she's literally owned by Weight Watchers. |
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