The Ozempic Obsession with Jia Tolentino (ARCHIVE EPISODE)

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year! To get the year started off right, we’re re-publishing one of our favorite episodes from 2024. Trevor and Christiana chatted with Jia Tolentino in May of last year; 8 months later, and Ozempic is still a hot topic. Ozempic. It started with a lizard, and then transformed into a drug that, depending on who you ask, is either a miracle or the downfall of society. New Yorker writer and cultural critic Jia Tolentino joins Trevor and Christiana to give context on the media circus surrounding weight loss drugs, and how Ozempic is changing the conversation around fatness in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, what's going on What Now listeners?
0:02.1	Happy New Year to you and yours from everyone here at the What Now team.
0:06.0	I hope the new year is already looking up for you.
0:08.7	We've got so many great episodes planned for you in 2025.
0:11.8	But today, because the team is taking some time off, some much-deserved time off,
0:16.0	we decided to bring you an episode that we loved, probably one of our favorite episodes from this season,
0:21.3	the episode about OZempic, you know, weight loss, our culture's obsession with diet and physical
0:26.2	appearance. I mean, we got as much feedback about this episode as any episode we've done so far.
0:31.9	So for now, take a listen. And once again, happy new year.
0:39.2	I'm not a scientist and none of this is actual advice.
0:42.1	Please take everything.
0:43.4	Imagine I am an idiot who has stumbled into your village.
0:46.2	Now you can listen to me.
0:52.7	This is What Now, with Trevor Noah.
1:04.6	Christiana, nice to see you in person.
1:06.0	Good to see you.
1:07.3	This is so much fun, a friend.
1:08.3	I haven't seen you in so, like this.
1:10.3	I know.
1:10.7	In the flesh. We used to do this every day. Yeah. Remember?'t seen you in so, like, like this. I know. In the flesh.
1:11.6	We used to do this every day.
1:12.9	Yeah.
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