Aubrey Gordon (Your Fat Friend) and Michael Hobbes (also the co-host of You’re Wrong About) talk about the myths of the health industry: detox foods, diets, health gurus, and why almost everything is a scam. And that being fat is normal and nothing to be ashamed of (glares at society in general).
I love Aubrey and Mike’s chemistry, listening to them is like listening to any friend tell you a story. But they’re journalists so they know how to do research.
Episodes I liked enough to write about!
the very first episode, where the hosts talk about what the show is about: debunking myths about physical health and wellness. They talked a lot about fatness and fatphobia, in an uplifting way? Basically saying:
don’t tell fat people to lose weight, it almost never works, on the contrary.
weight and health are very different!
the word “fat” isn’t an insult, use it instead of cringy euphemisms.