The for Thursday, September 27th, the Horse Play Edition.

I'm Christina Kauderucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate Podcast Outward.

And joining me for today's episode is someone you might remember.

An old friend from way back when,

WNYC producer Varylon Williams.

Welcome home, Varylon.

Hey Christina.

We're also excited to welcome a new guest this week,

Kristen Meinzer, co-host of the podcast by the book.

Hi, Kristen.

Thanks so much for having me with you guys.

I'm so excited.

Yeah, we've been wanting to have you on for a while so I'm really happy it worked out this week.

Kristen's podcast by the book forces her to live by self-help books to the letter and she will not tell us what book she is living by right now, but the next season of her podcast is in production

and you should listen to it to find out how she's torturing herself.

This week we're going to kick things off with a discussion of Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's choice for the open seat on the

Supreme Court who has been publicly accused of sexual harassment and assault by

two women, one of whom is actually testifying at a Senate hearing today.

Then we'll talk about weight and how the cultural stigma against fatness may pose more of a health risk

to overweight people than obesity itself.

And for our final topic, we'll talk about Napoli Ever After, a new Netflix movie about a black woman's

decision to cut off all her hair after years of trying to make it, quote unquote, perfect.

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