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I mentioned I have kids, and my two youngest are twin boys. They’re 12 years old now, so their little lives are starting to take shape, and you’re starting to see what type of young men they’re going to become, what type of men they will eventually become, and I’m wondering a lot of these same things, myself. They have grown up just so differently than I did.
I’ll give you a perfect example. My youngest kid, he’s seven, just turned seven he plays T-ball. And we went to a T-ball game one day, and we were running a little bit late, so we park in the back of the field. And rather than run all the way around, because you have to get there at a certain time or else they mark you off the roster, and you don’t get to play. So we were all hustling, and there was a gate, it was maybe three or four feet high, and I was like, “We’re just gonna jump the gate and go.” And jumping gates is a thing that I just did you do with your friends, growing up,
Guest
Emily VanDerWerff is the critic-at-large for Vox. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Grantland, and The Baffler. She is the co-creator of the DiscoverPods-nominated fiction podcast Arden and the co-author of the book
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Lily Percy, host: Hello, fellow movie fans. I’m Lily Percy, and I’ll be your guide this week as I talk with Emily VanDerWerff about the movie that changed her,
Blockers. If you haven’t seen it, don’t worry. We’re gonna give you all the details you need to follow along.
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music: “The Breeze” by Dr. Dog]
One of my favorites things about hosting this podcast is when I get to watch a movie for the first time in preparation to talk to one of our guests, and that’s the case with this week’s episode. This movie,
Guest
Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and one of the nation s leading experts and lecturers on weight-based discrimination and body image. She is the author of
You Have the Right to Remain Fat and
The Self-Love Revolution, and hosts the podcast Rebel Eaters Club.
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Lily Percy, host: Hello, fellow movie fans. I’m Lily Percy, and I’ll be your guide this week as I talk with Virgie Tovar about the movie that changed her
Real Women Have Curves. If you haven’t seen it, don’t worry. We’re gonna give you all of the details you need to follow along.
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Krista Tippett, host: Alain de Botton’s essay “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person” is one of the most-read articles in
The New York Times of recent years, and this is one of the most popular episodes we’ve ever created. As people and as a culture, he says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. I’m glad to offer up the anchoring truths he tells amidst a pandemic that has stretched all of our sanity and tested the mettle of love in every home and relationship.
Alain de Botton: Love is something we have to learn and we can make progress with, and that it’s not just an enthusiasm, it’s a skill. And it requires forbearance, generosity, imagination, and a million things besides. The course of true love is rocky and bumpy at the best of times, and the more generous we can be towards that flawed humanity, the better chance we’ll have of doing the true hard work of love.