The Origin of a Break Up
Weight For It
ohitsBigRon Studios
4.9 • 987 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Elna Baker joins host Ronald Young Jr. for a conversation recorded live at On Air Fest in Brooklyn in February 2024. In it Elna reveals more about her story featured in the popular episode of This American Life entitled Tell Me I'm Fat.
Special thanks to Elna Baker for being a part of this episode. You can hear more from Elna Baker on her podcast Pretty Sure I can Fly with Johnny Knoxville and Elna Baker
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Credits
Creator/Host - Ronald Young Jr.
Story Editor - Sarah Dealy
Additional Editing - JC Howard
Sound Design and Mixing - The Reverend John Delore of Starlight Diner
Show Art - Heather Wilder
Episode Art - Andy J Pizza
Theme music - Jey Red
Additional music - Mass Potential, The Artist DT, the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Wait for It is a show about the way we feel about our bodies. |
| 0:04.4 | Consequently, each episode may include references to gaining and losing weight, eating disorders, |
| 0:09.1 | weight loss surgery, and weight stigma. |
| 0:11.3 | If these topics are triggering to you, please take care while listening. |
| 0:15.2 | We have links to support resources for anyone who may need them in our show notes. |
| 0:36.6 | Wait for it. This was a very exciting moment. |
| 0:39.6 | It was the first live event we'd done, and I was so happy to be able to do our recording |
| 0:43.9 | in front of a packed audience of enthusiastic fans of the show. |
| 0:47.7 | We have Ronald Young Jr. and Elma Baker ready to do a live episode of Wait for it. |
| 0:58.9 | I was joined on stage by audio producer Elna Baker. |
| 1:02.9 | How are you doing? |
| 1:04.1 | I've been good. |
| 1:04.9 | I mean, I'm like, I'm not going to. |
| 1:07.7 | Back at 2016, most mainstream conversations about weight were often about folks who were trying to lose weight. |
| 1:15.3 | But Elna found herself in a unique position one day while working on new episodes of the radio show and podcast, This American Life. |
| 1:23.1 | The way the story came about was we had a hole in the show, and so everyone was sort of |
| 1:29.6 | encouraged to pitch something that was kind of ready-made. |
| 1:33.1 | And recently, Elna had read Shrill by Lindy West, a fat author who wrote the book |
| 1:37.5 | about being a staunch feminist and being fat and the intersections of both, which had |
| 1:42.7 | also come out in 2016. |
| 1:45.1 | The parts of the book that detailed West's body acceptance journey resonated with |
| 1:49.9 | Elma. |
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