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🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Sofie talks to Dr Joshua Wolrich about navigating fatphobia and stigma in healthcare provision, being an influencer, changing views, not deleting the past, sex toy x-rays, nuance, activism, science, opinions, the NHS, social media and playing chess.
Trigger warning – heckling, weight loss, fatphobia, fat stigma, bullying, body image, beauty standards, hip replacements, doctors, elderly care, operations, surgery, diets, exercise
Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering
Guests booked by Kitty Edgar
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0:00.0 | Having more fat when you get really old helps as an energy reserve. |
0:04.2 | So when you're in hospital for two weeks and you've fallen and you've broken your hip, |
0:07.3 | having that energy as a store is more healthy for you. |
0:11.6 | You are listening to Made of Human, |
0:14.4 | also known as the Mole Part, a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, |
0:20.2 | who is a Danish comedian. Mole. Mowhoo comedian trying to find out how to do life |
0:28.0 | but it turns out. Nobody knows. |
0:39.0 | Now, as you may know, I have not had a lot of people on this podcast that I disagree with. This is a very rare |
0:48.7 | episode because I have invited onto the podcast a person who is a controversial person. Someone |
0:55.9 | with a very specific opinion that I can in no way endorse or get behind support or in any way see any kind of logic or reasoning behind. |
1:09.8 | We disagree so wholeheartedly on this opinion and yeah I'm just going to be honest it's |
1:21.1 | tricky it's tricky for me to introduce you to this person who is and I feel |
1:29.6 | slightly saying it a heckler. Yeah, Dr. Joshua Wallrich might be an excellent doctor, an excellent anti-weight |
1:39.8 | stigma activist, a very great person to follow on social media. |
1:45.7 | He might be really good at campaigning against really harmful adverts, against, you know, he might be doing a lot of important work, but he is also someone who goes to comedy |
1:57.0 | shows and heckles. |
2:00.4 | I thought it would be interesting to sit down with someone with this god-awful tendency and have a human chat. |
2:06.0 | You know, see if we can connect on other things than this. |
2:09.0 | I don't even think it's in this episode that he reveals himself to be a heckler. I don't remember in which bit it might |
2:15.2 | be in the extra bit which is on the on the Patreon. But when I found out it was it was |
2:21.2 | heartbreaking. It was a oh out it was it was heartbreaking it was a oh god it was heart breaking |
2:25.6 | but everything else he has to say is pretty good I'll'll be honest with you. But oh my God, a heckler, never heckle, never speak, never speak in comedy gigs, never, it's art, it's meant to be, people are prepared that shit, people know, |
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