Welcome to One Click: Season 1
One Click
Vespucci
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to season 1 of One Click, a limited documentary podcast series from C13Originals, in association with The Vespucci Group, narrated by Elle Fanning. This series explores how a single click can change a life forever. This season, One Click tells the story of DNP (2,4-dinitrophenol), an explosive chemical originally used in WWI-era munitions factories that found a home on the internet as a diet pill and has left hundreds dead in its wake. Together, actress Elle Fanning and journalist Jessica Wapner, trace the history of DNP and reckon with the question of why. Through the story of DNP and its victims, we encounter issues of body image and mental health as the series unravels the chain of events that could lead to one fatal decision.
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| 0:00.0 | Living through what I live through, knowing what I know, what they find on the Internet, what they see on the Internet, it's changed me. |
| 0:16.8 | It's a dangerous place that I can't do anything about. |
| 0:28.5 | We all spend some portion of our lives on the internet, |
| 0:31.5 | clicking our way through websites and apps, |
| 0:35.8 | and most of the time, the decisions we make online are routine, |
| 0:37.7 | a part of everyday life. |
| 0:43.6 | But sometimes a single click can change your life forever. |
| 0:48.1 | He told us he had taken a fat burning pill. |
| 0:49.3 | He described it as burning up. People don't know what it is and it's killing people. |
| 0:51.9 | I said, what did you take? |
| 0:54.8 | I'm L Fanning. |
| 0:56.3 | Welcome to One Click. |
| 0:58.5 | In season one, I've teamed up with journalist Jessica Wapner to investigate how a lethal |
| 1:03.8 | diet drug has managed to reappear time and again with a trail of death behind it. |
| 1:10.1 | It's just literally a very dangerous, potentially deadly shortcut, and you don't need it. |
| 1:17.3 | It's a problem that has existed for generations, driven by deeply ingrained attitudes around body image. |
| 1:24.8 | She's the fat girl. That's what she is. The fat girl! |
| 1:28.7 | What's the best way to reduce? |
| 1:30.3 | Eat what you want or starve yourself. |
| 1:32.9 | This is a story about how the all-consuming wish to be lean, to have no body fat whatsoever, |
| 1:39.6 | leads people to ingest a chemical that was once used to make bombs in World War I. |
| 1:45.7 | Now, it's an illegal diet drug that's flourishing online, praying on people whose only |
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