Survival Of The Thickest

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The delightful Netflix series Survival of the Thickest is about an up-and-coming stylist whose professional and personal ambitions go sideways when she finds herself newly single. With the help of her best friends, she recalibrates her life and steps outside her comfort zone to varying results. It stars the charming comedian Michelle Buteau, who also co-created the show. Survival of the Thickest just returned for a second season, so today we are revisiting our conversation about the series.

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0:15.8	A warning, this episode contains explicit language.
0:24.2	The delineate Warning, this episode contains explicit language. The delightful comedy series, Survival of the Thickest, is about an up-and-coming stylist
0:28.7	whose professional and personal ambitions go sideways, but she finds herself newly single.
0:34.4	With the help of her best friend, she recalibrates her life and steps outside her
0:37.6	comfort zone to varying results. It stars the charming comedian Michelle Buteau, who also co-created
0:43.9	the series. The show just returned for a second season, so we thought it was the perfect
0:48.3	time to revisit our conversation about the series. I'm Aisha Harris, and in this encore episode
0:53.2	of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour,
0:55.2	we're talking about survival of the thickest.
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