Listen Now: Weight For It
Last Day
Lemonada Media
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, we are excited to share one of our favorite podcasts. Weight For It unpacks the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time. Through narrative storytelling and some memoirs, host Ronald Young Jr. hopes to have the conversations that we tend to avoid when it comes to our bodies.
In this Season 2 premiere episode host Ronald Young Jr grapples with the impending loss of his mother while still thinking about his weight.
Special thanks to my sister Marilyn Denise Young, my Father Ronald Young Sr. our dear friend Carolyn Perry, and of course to my mother, the late and always great forever loved Peggy Lee Young
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You can also hear Ronald on Pop Culture Debate Club, from Lemonada Media and the BBC.
Credits
Creator/Host - Ronald Young Jr.
Story Editor - Sarah Dealy
Sound Design and Mixing - The Reverend John Delore of Starlight Diner
Show Art - Heather Wilder
Episode Art - Andy J Pizza
Theme music - Jey Red
Additional music - Mass Potential, The Artist DT, the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder
You can find out more about this show and other ohitsbigron studios shows by following us on IG @ohitsbigronstudios
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:07.2 | Weight for it is a show about the way we feel about our bodies. |
| 0:10.5 | Consequently, each episode may include references to gaining and losing weight, eating disorders, weight loss surgery, and weight stigma. |
| 0:17.4 | If these topics are triggering to you, please take care while listening. |
| 0:21.4 | We have links to support resources for anyone who may need them in our show notes. |
| 0:29.1 | Wait for it. |
| 0:33.8 | And the winner is, |
| 0:40.3 | Wait for it! Wait for it! |
| 0:52.3 | It's Tuesday, March 26, 2024, and I'm in LA given an accepted speech at the Podcast Academy Awards. |
| 0:55.7 | This, I recall, to my mind, therefore I have hope. |
| 0:58.7 | It is because of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. |
| 1:00.7 | Because his compassion's fail not. |
| 1:01.9 | They're new every morning. |
| 1:04.0 | Great is thy faithfulness. |
| 1:09.1 | I want to say thank you to my family, my parents, Ronald Sr., my mother, Peggy Lee, |
| 1:12.3 | my sister, Marilyn Denise, Bridget Quinn. |
| 1:17.3 | It's been an incredible year for Wait for it. Giving this speech was one of the culminating moments. |
| 1:23.5 | And the winner is, wait for it. And because the show won awards in three different categories, |
| 1:27.5 | it would be one of three 30-second speeches I'll give. Anybody who independently produces, understands that you spend so much of your time, |
| 1:33.1 | like, by yourself, you know what I mean? |
| 1:35.2 | Like, you're writing and you're editing and you're cutting tape and you're doing all that, |
| 1:39.5 | and then you have to wonder, like, is this good? |
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