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SIO362: The Whale and Fatphobia

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This movie was just so needlessly cruel. It was also, and this is true, f$%&ing terrible. It was so bad. Seriously, if you haven't seen it you might not even believe it when we tell you about it. Charone Frankel joins me to discuss the shocking fatphobia of this film, and how its writer and director were seemingly completely oblivious to it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to Series Inquiries. Only this is episode 362. I'm Thomas Smith.

0:22.1

And quick little bit of housekeeping before I get going. For one, how about that episode

0:27.1

with Cecil about cooking last week? That was so much fun. And I wanted to add that as

0:32.7

I was prepping for that show, and I was looking through Cecil's YouTube channel, I found

0:37.3

his grilled cheese and tomato soup video, and I thought, ooh, I stashed it in my mind. I

0:42.6

was like, oh, it's going to be perfect because one Lydia Smith, my beautiful, amazing wife,

0:47.6

would love something like that. And so I cooked it for Mother's Day, and it was amazing.

0:53.8

It was fucking delicious. So I just wanted to share that. It was really cool. Lydia loved

0:59.0

it. It was way too much work because I, like I said, to Cecil, I stressed too much when

1:03.8

I cooked. It's so stressed. But it's, but it was ultimately very rewarding, and it was

1:09.1

so tasty. So I just wanted to share that because it was, it was nice. One other thing,

1:14.2

I know I had said previously that I wanted to do Sunday night, Wednesday night for releases.

1:19.9

I'm realizing now in the age of now three children that I really cannot get anything done

1:26.3

on the weekends. It's, man, I used to be able to, but, oh, boy, the weekends, I, I'm

1:31.4

inverse of everybody else. Weekends are hell. Not that I don't love my children, of course,

1:37.0

but like in terms of getting anything done, it's, there's no way. There's just, it's,

1:41.6

it's non-stop yelling from everybody. Everybody, I'm yelling, they're yelling, Lydia's yelling,

1:47.6

the cats are yelling, just everybody. It's all yelling. So I think I'm going to have

1:52.0

to do this, this Monday late night release. It puts the, the release is a little closer

1:57.6

together. You know, Monday night, Wednesday night, but I think that's fine. Whatever. I just,

2:01.4

it's really boy. It's a different world. I inhabit now than back when I used to do this

2:07.8

in the, in the old atheistically speaking days. So I think that's going to be what I do

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