Trouble in Paradise: Coconut War Waters and Coconut Oil Controversies
Gastropod
Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coal-canon oil kind of swept in and became the darling of the decade. |
| 0:06.9 | And it certainly did. |
| 0:07.9 | So we've got company some headlines. |
| 0:10.1 | This is some of the coconut oil hype. |
| 0:11.8 | Specifically, one headline said, five ways you can use coconut oil to lose weight. |
| 0:17.1 | Another said one said, why everyone's obsessed with coconut oil. |
| 0:21.3 | I know what I'll do right after the next president's inaugurated and I'll be on a beach somewhere. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm drinking coconut. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm going to be singing that all day. |
| 0:43.1 | Honestly, it's not often you'll find Dr. Oz and President Obama on the same page, but |
| 0:49.0 | if there's one thing that can bring us all together, it is apparently the coconut. |
| 0:54.3 | And we have a gastropod listener who certainly agrees. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah, my name is Danny Sely and I am a long time listener. |
| 1:00.7 | Danny is both a gastropod fan and a coconut superfan. |
| 1:04.2 | In fact, his avatar on Zoom is a coconut. |
| 1:07.2 | Growing up in Sierra Leone, there's like a little coconut eat issues. |
| 1:11.5 | I remember going to the beach with my parents and as I grow up, as I've got older and older, |
| 1:17.7 | I just enjoy more and more coconut. |
| 1:21.1 | Danny was into coconuts way before coconuts were cool. |
| 1:24.6 | Basically, yes. |
| 1:27.5 | I started looking into it more and more and seeing it becoming more and more cool. |
| 1:31.8 | And I'm like, well, there's a reason for it. |
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