Special Report: Jeanie Finlay on Your Fat Friend (2023)

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4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode, Mike talks to documentary filmmaker Jeanie Finlay about her latest work, Your Fat Friend (2023) which spotlights Aubrey Gordon, a blogger, author, and podcaster. Find out more at https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off.
0:23.6	Turn it off. Just say fat.
0:42.0	Not curvy or chubby or fluffy or more to love or big guy or husky or obese or overweight.
0:50.3	Just say fat.
0:52.3	The very first piece was called a request from your fat friend.
0:57.0	And like 30,000 people read it in a week.
1:00.0	And I was like, whoa, okay.
1:06.0	My aim is to provoke people to question ideas that we've held on to for so long.
1:13.2	The strongest bonding amongst women happens when people are talking about how much they hate their bodies.
1:19.0	Oh, God.
1:20.0	I had a woman take a melon out of my cart, and it's got too much sugar for you.
1:25.0	It's a melon.
1:26.6	The wellness industry is worth $4.5 trillion.
1:32.2	This is like big tobacco.
1:34.6	Levels of just lying to people.
1:37.3	It's like they're trying to pull some Jedi mind trick.
1:40.5	It's not a diet.
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