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🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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She was one of the stars of NBC’s The Good Place, a tv and radio host in England, and she’s created a popular movement aimed at celebrating body positivity, all within the past few years. But Jameela Jamil has been through enough trauma, eating disorders, depression, and other calamities that she can’t feel much of anything. She’s working to change that.
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0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. These are unusual times. They're challenging to everyone in so many ways. |
0:08.7 | Here at the hilarious world of depression, we are planning to put out our regular episodes |
0:14.3 | every Monday, episodes that have very little to do with COVID-19. We're also going to do whatever |
0:20.0 | we can on other platforms to help. Because of a lot of restrictions on where we can go, parts of |
0:27.7 | the show might not sound as polished as you're used to. But nowadays very little is as polished |
0:34.4 | as you're used to, and we're all rolling with it as best we can. Wash your hands, stay inside, |
0:41.6 | be kind to others, and yourself. Before you can record an interview, you have to set the volume |
0:50.3 | levels. Show the engineer how loud you'll be talking. I had a nice leisurely morning, walked over |
0:56.2 | here. The loudest time I get is something like this. I tend to keep it just sexy. |
1:01.8 | So just let the record show. Also, I do. I am also sexy. The most of me, most of me. |
1:06.9 | I |
1:23.0 | It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Mell. On this episode, a person who has become |
1:28.4 | famous in America rather quickly, as a sitcom star and an outspoken activist. The sitcom has ended, |
1:36.1 | but the activism, who it's just getting started. Hello, my name is Jamila Jamil, and I am at the |
1:41.9 | hilarious world of depression. And what do you do for a living? I am an actor and an activist, |
1:49.2 | and a pain in the ass. Three job titles. I'm multifaceted. Jamila Jamil was a TV and radio host |
1:58.4 | presenter in England for several years. Hello, and welcome to the official chart wrap-up. |
2:05.8 | With me, Jamila Jamil, I'm here to deliver onto you all of the latest chart news and gossip |
2:10.5 | in less time than it takes to make a cup of tea. So last Sunday, sigma and plebiscuit. |
2:14.4 | American audiences first got to know her, playing Donny Aljamil, the name-dropping high-society |
2:20.4 | Londoner on the NBC moral philosophy sitcom The Good Place. But we've been through a lot as well. |
2:26.4 | You know, I haven't been in the subsets. My good friend Taylor was rudely upstage by my |
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