Special Episode: Sarah Everts & The Joy of Sweat

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

You may be wondering if there’s a typo in this week’s TPWKY book club selection - The Joy of Sweat? Are we supposed to find joy in this secretion? Shouldn’t it be The Inconvenience of Sweat? Some of you sauna-goers or hot yoga enthusiasts may already welcome sweat (at the right time and place, of course), but I’m guessing there are plenty of you out there that do everything you can to prevent perspiration and the odor that frequently accompanies it. In this bonus episode, Sarah Everts (@saraeverts), author of The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration and Science Journalism Chair at Carleton University’s School of Journalism, joins us to discuss why we should reconsider our stance on sweat and instead recognize it for the superpower it is. Or at the very least, be grateful that we don’t do what vultures do to cool off. Our conversation covers topics as far-ranging as sweat forensics, the evolutionary significance of body odor, the shameful marketing of early antiperspirants, the wild world of sweat dating, and so much more. Whatever your current feelings towards perspiration, this episode will have you thinking more about sweaty secretions than you ever have before (and enjoying every second of it).

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:03.6	I'm Kara Clank.
0:07.7	And I'm Lisa Trigger.
0:08.9	We're comedians and hosts of That's Messed Up, an SVU podcast on exactly right.
0:13.8	Every Tuesday we take you through an episode of Law and Order SVU, the crime it's based
0:17.5	on and chat with Celeb guests from the episode.
0:20.0	Listen to That's Messed Up on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:26.4	This is Justin from The Generation Y and we're doing a four part series unraveling the
0:30.7	story of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held at
0:35.5	Riker's Island for three years without trial.
0:38.6	This story is about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system.
0:42.6	Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:26.4	Hi, I'm Erin Welsh and this is This Podcast Will Kill You.
1:35.6	Welcome everyone to the second episode in this season's mini series of bonus episodes.
1:42.0	If this is your first time listening to one of these episodes, first of all, thanks
1:46.3	for tuning in.
1:47.8	And second, what I'll be doing in each of these episodes is chatting with authors about
1:52.4	their books on science, medicine, epidemiology, history.
1:57.2	Basically, all of the topics I know listeners of this podcast love so very well.
2:03.8	This is a bit different than what I did in last season's bonus episodes where I interviewed
2:08.6	experts about a topic that we had covered in our previous week's regular season episode,
2:14.1	but I am super excited for this mini series, which I'm calling the This Podcast Will Kill
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