ICYMI - Gwyneth Paltrow and the Ozempic Craze
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🗓️ 25 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Kate Lindsay of the Embedded newsletter to talk about the latest in diet discourse. They discuss Gwyneth Paltrow’s recent interview and the flak she got for revealing she drank bone broth most days for lunch, the recent rise of weight loss drugs like Ozempic, and how the ways people are talking about them sound all too familiar.
This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Daisy Rosario.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody looks so great. When I look around this room, I can't help but wonder, is |
| 0:09.5 | ozampic right for me? |
| 0:10.8 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:15.5 | And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to ICYMI. |
| 0:18.9 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:20.4 | Slates podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:23.0 | And today I'm joined once again by internet culture reporter Kate Lindsay, the last time |
| 0:29.1 | she was on the show was way back in December 2021, a whole different era on an episode |
| 0:36.9 | titled Nancy Reagan, Blowjob Queen. |
| 0:46.1 | Shockingly Kate did not actually talk about blow jobs in that episode, but she told us |
| 0:52.6 | about her internet habits and her incredible newsletter about the internet embedded. |
| 0:57.8 | Kate, hello, welcome back. |
| 1:00.1 | Hello, thank you. Thank you for the kind words. Thank you for having me back. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah, I'd say I don't think blow jobs are going to come up again this time, but who knows |
| 1:11.3 | what might happen? |
| 1:12.3 | And we might surprise ourselves. |
| 1:15.2 | Honestly, that's the theme of ICYMI. It's just continually surprising ourselves. |
| 1:23.0 | So last time you're on the show, there were some differences, some changes. |
| 1:28.2 | You know, I had a co-host, Elon hadn't bought Twitter, I maybe had like a bit more hope |
| 1:34.4 | for the future, but the most important difference for this part of the show at least is that |
| 1:40.2 | I don't think we had actually started asking all of our guests what their first internet |
| 1:44.5 | memory is, and I have to say as a huge fan of your work, I'm really excited to hear |
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