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Eating For Free

The Nepo Baby Wars (feat. Emily Alford)

Eating For Free

Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson

Society & Culture

4.8536 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

While the nepo baby panic rages on with no end in sight, everyone tip-toes around that rather obvious pile of class anxieties 🤔 So join us and special guest Emily Alford this week in search of an answer to the ancient question: What's up with rich and famous people?! Featuring cameous from our favorite friends and enemies, like Allison Williams, Lena Dunham, Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt, Edith Wharton, and so much more. 

Links: 

  • We're Making Nepo-Baby Merch for Actual Babies, Jan. 18 2023 [The Strategist]
  • All the Nepo Babies Who Are Melting Down Over That New York Mag Exposé [Daily Beast]
  • Lottie Moss Tweets [Twitter]
  • Eve Hewson, the daughter of U2 frontman Bono [Twitter]
  • Jamie Lee Curtis [Instagram]
  • O'Shea Jackson Jr., son of Ice Cube [Twitter]
  • Lily Allen, daughter of Keith Allen: [Twitter]
  • Hailey Bieber pap shot [Instagram]
  • What Is a 'Nepotism Baby'? [New York Times]
  • Ben Stiller Asserts Hollywood Is Meritocratic, Rejects Claims Of Hollywood Nepotism In Twitter Debate With Black List Founder Franklin Leonard [Deadline]
  • Billie Eilish brother Finneas Assures Critics That His Parents 'Knew No One In The Record Industry'  [MTV]
  • Elizabeth Olsen said that she is 'very aware' of nepotism and its impact on her career [Grazia]
  • 17 Nepotism Babies from Least to Most Popular Based on Instagram Followers [Gizmodo]
  • Lily-Rose Depp Is An Idol Rising [Talks of nepotism in the article) [Elle]
  • 'Nepo babies' in Hollywood: What do famous families say about industry equity? [USA Today]
  • Nepo Babies know what you think of them. They have some thoughts. [The Washington Post]
  • Stop Blaming Lena Dunham's Success On "Nepotism", Oct 4, 2012 [Buzzfeed]
  • The Big Upside of Hollywood Nepotism, JUNE 26, 2013 [The Atlantic]
  • Emma Roberts: Talk of Nepotism Is "So Ridiculous", June 16, 2011 [Us Weekly]
  • 'We have to work twice as hard': Robin Williams's actress daughter Zelda hits back at claims of nepotism in blog post, 7th March 2012  [Daily Mail]

About:

Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.

You can also find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. Or buy our merch! Any personal, business, or general inquires can be sent to eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com 

  • Joan Summers: Twitter: @laracroftbarbie
  • Matthew Lawson: Twitter: @_matthewlawson

Transcript

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0:00.0

Why do you think other nepo babies have such a hard time accepting or admitting their privilege? Yeah, nepo baby. From the nepo baby community. I mean, Anderson is my favorite nepo baby. But he says he's not a nepo baby because he would be if he was working in fashion. Oh, I see. Okay. I see it as just like, were you born on home base or like third base? And I feel like I was born on third base. Right. And I think what people get tripped up because they feel like people are coming for their skill. They're basically the subtext is you're not good. You don't deserve what you have. And the truth is there will always be people who feel that way about me, 100%. Like, I, you know, I work really hard, whatever whatever but that doesn't mean that it's like

0:38.4

fun I'm not like an underdog like it's not fun to root for me I like came into this with a

0:44.4

big big head start and I feel like it's totally okay to admit that like I feel really lucky

0:49.2

but I'm very privileged these g, they're trying to murder me.

0:58.0

What do I think of her?

0:58.3

Yes.

1:00.6

I don't think of her.

1:02.5

Goodbye.

1:04.3

I'm on.

1:08.0

Right about that in the New York fucking post.

1:09.6

Hello, everybody. Hello.

1:11.5

That was quite a little piece of music that we just started with.

1:15.2

That seems different.

1:16.6

I feel like there's something happening in the beginning of this podcast that has changed.

1:21.1

I do think it contains the sleeper cell activation codes.

1:24.7

Like, it really gets you moving and dang it.

1:26.6

It gets you standing up.

1:30.2

He's going to be mad at me for misquoting the joke that he said when delivering this piece

1:36.7

of music to us. But the person who created our new theme song is not a particularly public person quite mysterious.

1:46.1

And so they have simply been asked, they have simply asked me to refer to them as,

1:51.5

I'm going to fuck this up.

1:52.6

And I am so sorry, friend.

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