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In this episode, John T. Edge, a distinguished professor of practice in the University of Georgia's MFA Narrative Nonfiction program, talks with Tommy Tomlinson about his latest book, “Dogland: Passion, Glory and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show.”   Tommy's book explores the bond between dogs and their people in this inside account of the Westminster Dog Show that follows one dog on his quest to become a champion.  In this conversation with John T, Tommy, a UGA grad, discusses his writing process, and how he went about determining his main character amidst the many interesting, complex people he met over the three years he was on the road reporting this story.  Tommy's first book was “The Elephant in the Room,” a memoir about being overweight in America. He is also the host of the podcast SouthBound in partnership with WFAE and author of a newsletter, The Writing Shed newsletter.  Before that, he spent 23  years as a reporter and local columnist for the Charlotte Observer.   Dogland: Passion, Glory and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show  https://tommytomlinson.com/dogland-book/ The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America https://tommytomlinson.com/elephant-in-the-room-book/ Southbound:  https://tommytomlinson.com/#podcast The Writing Shed Newsletter: https://tommytomlinson.substack.com/

As the years pass, our circle of friends get smaller. Is it good for your health? Hour 1 11/7/2024 full 2174 Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:00:03 +0000 ERFHpUV5Lo29BF630ZnsXC84ZJ34I20M news The Dana & Parks Podcast news As the years pass, our circle of friends get smaller. Is it good for your health? Hour 1 11/7/2024 You wanted it... Now here it is! Listen to each hour of the Dana & Parks Show whenever and wherever you want! 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False

Though counterintuitive, some declining churches start to appreciate their pastors more. This dynamic is usually unhealthy, but not always. Thom and Sam discuss what they see in these situations. What was once unheard of has not become more common. The post Why Some Declining Churches Like Their Pastors More as They Get Smaller appeared first on Church Answers.

Smurfit, Flutter and CRH are just 3 of the major companies that have delisted from Euronext Dublin stock exchange. There are genuine worries about how to reverse the decline, so now the boss of the Euronext Group in Paris has announced plans to set up a Springboard market in Dublin to get smaller companies listed in Ireland. Speaking to Joe this morning was Paddy Quinlan, Corporate Finance Partner, Taylor Wessing Ireland who advises on capital markets.

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 Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Christina Minardi, Executive VP of Growth & Development at Whole Foods Market & Amazon, discusses the launch of WFM Daily Shop concept and the future of grocery retail. Christina Padgett, Head of Leveraged Finance at Moody's, shares her thoughts on the private credit market. Andrew Golden, President of Princeton University Investment Co. and Bloomberg News Higher-Education Finance Reporter Janet Lorin reflect on the Princeton investment chief's career. Bloomberg News Technology Reporter Matt Day provides the details of his Businessweek story Humanoid Robots at Amazon Provide Glimpse of Automated Workplace. And we Drive to the Close with Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist at CFRA. Hosts: Tim Stenovec and Sonali Basak. Producer: Paul Brennan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Christina Minardi, Executive VP of Growth & Development at Whole Foods Market & Amazon, discusses the launch of WFM Daily Shop concept and the future of grocery retail. Christina Padgett, Head of Leveraged Finance at Moody's, shares her thoughts on the private credit market. Andrew Golden, President of Princeton University Investment Co. and Bloomberg News Higher-Education Finance Reporter Janet Lorin reflect on the Princeton investment chief's career. Bloomberg News Technology Reporter Matt Day provides the details of his Businessweek story Humanoid Robots at Amazon Provide Glimpse of Automated Workplace. And we Drive to the Close with Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist at CFRA. Hosts: Tim Stenovec and Sonali Basak. Producer: Paul Brennan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW  0:00 SEG 1 Disney needs to return to their roots Today's Speaker's Stump Speech is brought to you by https://www.hansenstree.com/ and is about COVID conspiracies that have come true and the DeSantis/Newsom debate tonight 19:33 SEG 2 Chris Stigall, Member of The Herzog Foundation and host of podcast “Making The Leap”, talks about Biden Ed secretary's Reagan misquote perfectly illustrates the ignorance of our failed ruling class | What states are gearing up for school choice in 2024? https://readlion.com/these-states-are-gearing-up-for-school-choice-in-2024/ https://readlion.com/biden-ed-secretarys-reagan-misquote-perfectly-illustrates-ignorance-of-our-failed-ruling-class/  36:43 SEG 3 George Santos might get expelled tomorrow | Bill Johnson could resign in the next quarter making the Republican majority even narrower | Kevin McCarthy still hasn't filed to run again and the deadline is 2 weeks away   https://newstalkstl.com/    FOLLOW TIM - https://twitter.com/SpeakerTimJones    FOLLOW CHRIS - https://twitter.com/chris_arps    24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstream    RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Long term planning and thinking about all the bits and pieces of completing a project can lead to shutdown and overwhelm. In today's episode of Expedition to Soul you'll hear Sara share about Dialing it back and thinking smaller Setting an intention moment to moment How right now is always just the next step Think big and then get small. Listen in to this episode for more! Want to learn more about the Expansion Archetypes? Head here: https://signup.thesistersenchanted.com/magicweek Take our Life Alignment quiz and discover where you are shrinking or expanding your energy here: https://signup.thesistersenchanted.com/lifealignment --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/expeditiontosoul/message

Rick and Carly just spent the weekend with her family and there were a few debacles, including temperature wars, weight loss talk, and Rick and Carly were kicked out of the family picture?!

Welcome back to Episode 56 of Monday Night MasterDebaters where I was joined by Ryan from Dangerous World Podcast and Christopher & Jason from the Operation Red Pill Podcast. This was one of my favorite MNMD convos, we discussed satanic control matrix, pyramid of manipulation, occult/esoteric arts, subconscious bombardment, Prophecy of the Popes, Myth of Voting, 'Lesser of two evils', ESG scores, Operation Chokepoint, attack on God's character, atheism and much more! Please leave a review & share the show! Also, go support the great guests: Jason & Christopher from Operation Red Pill Podcast https://www.instagram.com/orppodcast/ https://orppodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/ORPPodcast/ Talk Live OPR Podcast Ryan from Dangerous World Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DangerousWorldPodcast/posts IG: @dangerousworldpod Merch: https://dangerousworldstore.com/ Mat from The Great Deception Podcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thegreatdeceptionpodcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/thegreatdeceptionpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/thegreatdeceptionpodcast_v2/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/Barons44 Email: thegreatdeceptionpodcast@gmail.com To Make Contributions: PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MatthewTerrillion?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/Matthew-Terrillion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatdeceptionpodcast Merch: https://my-store-cb4b4e.creator-spring.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-great-deception-podcast/support

In today's episode, the boys are having some drinks for pre-drinks. Podcast discussion: The boys need some new clothes, getting older and friend groups getting smaller, kicking back with your boys, red flags, fishers and our Spotify additions. GO COP A HOODIE FROM pnclads.com/shopSupport the show: https://www.instagram.com/pnclads/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Many entrepreneurs are frustrated about the lack of success they are having in their businesses. Join Jay on today's Black Entrepreneur Blueprint podcast episode # 427 as he discusses the words he heard from The Creator about growing his business. In this episode, Jay will give you seven tips to get clarity, focus, and direction to grow your business.   JOIN ME ON A SPECIAL GROUP COACHING CALL If you're frustrated with your business and you're not having the success you desire, join me on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, from 7:30 pm EST to 9:30 pm EST for an intimate group coaching call for 5 people, and a one-hour 1-on-1 call with me to help give you clarity, focus, and direction to grow your business. ONLY 5 SPOTS ARVE AVAILABLE. $97 Investment. ENROLL AT https://blackentrepreneurblueprint.com/beb-coaching/    GET YOUR ENTREPRENEUR RESOURCES https://blackentrepreneurblueprint.com/   GET THE SHOW NOTES & SIGN UP FOR THE NEWSLETTER https://pages.rasa.io/signup/36276896-19cd-5b44-122b-a74c002ddf2b?utm_source=signup  

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Tommy Tomlinson reads an excerpt from "The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America," backed by an original Storybound remix with sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer. Tommy Tomlinson has written for publications including Esquire, ESPN the Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, Garden & Gun, and many others. He spent 23 years as a reporter and local columnist for the Charlotte Observer, where he was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in commentary, and he is currently working on a new book about the Westminster Dog Show. He is also the host of the podcast “SouthBound” at WFAE, Charlotte's NPR news station, and he also does weekly commentaries for the station. He has taught at colleges, workshops and conferences across the country. He's a graduate of the University of Georgia and was a 2008-09 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Support Storybound by supporting our sponsors: Scribd combines the latest technology with the best human minds to recommend content that you'll love. Go to try.scribd.com/storybound to get 60 days of Scribd for free. Acorn.tv is the largest commercial free British streaming service with hundreds of exclusive shows from around the world. Try acorn.tv for free for 30 days by going to acorn.tv and using promo code Storybound. ButcherBox sources their meat from partners with the highest standards for quality. Go to ButcherBox.com/STORYBOUND to receive a FREE turkey in your first box. Storybound is hosted by Jude Brewer and brought to you by The Podglomerate and Lit Hub Radio. Let us know what you think of the show on Instagram and Twitter @storyboundpod. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Storybound, you might enjoy reading, writing, and storytelling. We'd like to suggest you also try the History of Literature or Book Dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a two month hiatus we hope you're hungry and ready to sink your teeth into a 4 star Whatever Whatever sandwich! Andy Keating's dulcet tones and consummate guitar playing serve as our bread while Leigh (She/Her/Hers) and Tim (He/Him/His) make for a delicious - albeit chewy - filling. Leigh and her new nose are done with dating sites and Leigh's plastic surgery goes well but getting there was a challenge. Leigh and Tim deal with the shock of Brittany Murphy's untimely passing and Tim gets excited only to be let down by WW's first "real" lip-smacking listener email. • Whatever... • Email us at: whateverwhatevercast@gmail.com • Follow us on Instagram: @whateverwhateverpodcast • Subscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCMiY0vP15pGGBakZCRP8mKw • Thank you to Free Music Archive / freemusicarchive.org and Pudge for the use of their song, ABCD! https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pudge • Thank you to Andy Keating for the use of his songs, Empty Sounds and Marquee / https://soundcloud.com/andrew-keating

Happy New Year! It's 1-1-98 and Maggie Serota from SPIN and Rolling Stone joins Machine Bolt and El Farto in the studio. Dateline made the guys look like idiots, Machine Bolt and Steph are in love/Steph is seeing someone else. Apple FM Broadcast Audience Card reviews from listeners! Your calls/injury claims, Fullerton Municipal Airport: Orange County's Regional Relief Airport! Plus, Slash's baby mountain lion, and more! Epic!

Whew child! On this episode I sit down with fellow podcaster and my friend Kadi C. We discuss our opposite perspectives on friendship. Kadi says : the more she has grown it has caused her to lose friendships because she is determined to live on her own terms. I say : living on my own terms has allowed me to accept more people into my life, but with clear boundaries. Join us as we explore both methods and figure out why friendship only gets harder to define as we get older.

This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Studio 21 Podcast Cafe with our Mascot BRUNO the BELL – we get smaller as we discuss cigarillo style cigars and ask if they are premium cigars?   We will smoke a Dom Hombre from a cigar tin and a United Pencil Maduro.  Plus we will be joined by Josh Habursky who is the head of Government Affairs for the Premium Cigar Association. We will have this and all the usual suspects including Versus, Offer of the Day, Cigar News and a peek into the Asylum. The Cigar Authority is a member of the United Podcast Network and is recorded live in front of a studio audience at Studio 21 Podcast Cafe upstairs at Two Guys Smoke Shop in Salem, NH. As always you can find many of the cigars we smoke at https://www.2guyscigars.com. Never miss an episode by subscribing to the show via Apple Podcasts and Podbean.

Americans have a complicated relationship with food. We obsess over food television, recipes, and cookbooks, and simultaneously grapple with dietary problems like obesity, anorexia, diabetes, and heart disease. There are seemingly more diets and diet books every year, yet it doesn’t feel or seem like we’re getting any healthier. Why is this? To unpack our country's unhealthy love-hate relationship to food we sat down with Reshaunda Thornton, the dietician against diets. In her book, TED Talk, and one on one work with her clients, Reshaunda has built a positive alternative to diet culture that is as effective as it is compassionate and adaptable. In our chat, we explore: Why so many people are drawn to diets even though most of them fail.Why the idea of motivation is overrated when it comes to diet and why habits and consistency matter more.The key steps that she has her clients take to better understand their relationship to food and start making choices out of love instead of out of fear or obligation. Why she tells her client to "stop counting calories and start making every calorie count." How eating better starts with loving yourself and making time for yourself. This is one of our most eye-opening episodes to date that will leave you re-thinking how you relate to food and yourself for better and for always. Show Notes: Learn more about Reshaunda on her websiteReshaunda's TED Talk is a must-watch. Stay up to speed on her work by following her on InstagramYou can learn more about Reshaunda's philosophy by buying her book: "Play to Win the Food Fight." Reilly recommends reading "The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America" by Tommy Tomlinson What's giving Reilly hope these days is the music video for "Grow Food" from the folks at Appetite for Change Reshaunda's favorite song is "I Was Here" by BeyoncéReilly's favorite Beyoncé is "Freedom" featuring Kendrick Lamar

There is a prevailing fallacy, despite warning signs to the contrary (looming peak oil, fragile markets, and climate weirdness, among others), that we can continue in perpetuity the lifestyle to which we’ve become accustomed. All we need to do is to pump into The System more debt or more political insanity, or hope that alternative energies or some new techno-solution will bail us out. But, at best, all debt-fueled growth, shale oil “miracles” and green fuels can do by themselves is to make the Long Emergency just “a little bit longer.” “The Long Emergency” is a phrase coined by James Howard Kunstler to describe the economic, political and social upheavals that will dominate the first decades of the 21st-century as the honeymoon of affordable energy comes to a close. It is also the name of Kunstler’s seminal book on the topic. (The Long Emergency is one of fifteen books on our “Essential Reading List for the Strong Towns Thinker.”) James Howard Kunstler is our very special guest on today’s episode of the Strong Towns podcast. He is the author of more than 20 books, including The Geography of Nowhere, Too Much Magic, and the World Made By Hand novel series. In this episode, Strong Towns president Charles Marohn talks with Kunstler about what has changed—or perhaps what hasn’t changed—since The Long Emergency was first published in 2005. Kunstler explains why the “psychology of previous investment” (4:45) makes it so hard for most people to imagine living differently. Marohn and Kunstler also discuss (17:00) what’s wrong with the Green Revolution narrative that we can keep doing everything we’re doing now, if just “do it green”: “America is going to be very disappointed how that works out,” says Kunstler. “It ain’t gonna happen. We’re not going to run the interstate highway system, Walt Disney World, suburbia, all the stuff we’re running now, the U.S. military, on any combination of green alternative fuels. It just isn’t going to happen. So the whole thing’s a fantasy. Really what we have to do is downscale all the activities in American life—including the distances we travel, the scale of our living places, the scale of our cities, the scale of the corporate activity that we do—it’s all going to have to get smaller.” Other topics: 18:40 - Why people may be using “insane political behavior” as a substitute for the harder work of changing the way we live24:00 - Why Seattle and other cities with absurdly high housing costs are signs of an irrational market and may not be fixable except by a “restart”35:30 - Why modern monetary theory may end up being, in Chuck’s words, the “peak delusion of the Long Emergency”36:40 - The fatal delusion that being able to measure something equates to being able to control it41:10 - How to “change our living arrangements in a way that comports with the circumstances that are coming at us” (Kunstler) By turns provocative, prescient, prophetic, and personal, this episode is just what we’ve come to expect from James Howard Kunstler.

Matter of Castro-Tum was an Attorney General opinion that ended the decades-old practice of administrative closure in our nation's immigration courts. Now, in Zuniga Romero v. Barr, the 4th Circuit rules that immigration courts can continue to administratively close cases.Support the show (https://jacobtingen.com/nation-of-immigrants/donate)

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has redefined blockbuster capabilities on the largest scale imaginable with team-ups, crossovers, and gargantuan productions. That’s what makes its interest in getting smaller and weirder so fascinatingly refreshing.

Meredith and Kaytee are happy to be recording again, and can’t believe we are already up to Episode 37! We have a few important announcements right at the top of the show, one of which requires your help, listeners! Send us your Ask Us Anything questions via email, Direct Message, or as a comment on show notes, and we’ll feature them in a future episode! You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: each of them this week centers on reading with the kiddos. Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We have an eclectic mix of titles from middle grade to adult, fiction and non-, humor and serious. A bit of everything! For our deep dive this week, we are chatting about the fifth category in our 2019 Reading Challenge: a book pressed into your hands by a librarian, bookseller, or podcaster. And we’ve got a trove of resources for you if you’re stuck on this one! As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to press into every reader’s hands. This week has us pressing favorites that we’ve loved for a long time but were out of sight/out of mind until someone brought them back to our attention. As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  .  .  .  .  .  3:18 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling 4:20 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling 7:00 - A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 7:37 - The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupéry 9:17 - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 10:43 - Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View by Ramin Setoodeh 12:55 - Most Talkative by Andy Cohen 13:09 - From Scratch: Inside the Food Network by Allen Salkin 14:20 - First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones 16:42 - Scythe by Neal Schusterman 16:43 - Ghost Whisperer (TV series) 17:13 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 19:44 - Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty 20:50 - Dare to Lead by Brené Brown 21:41 - Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown 21:42 - Daring Greatly by Brené Brown 23:55 - The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America by Tommy Tomlinson 27:00 - The Currently Reading 2019 Reading Challenge 27:27 - I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella 28:30 - libraryreads.org 29:30 - Indie Next List from indiebound.org 30:42 - All the Books podcast 31:08 - Liberty Hardy @franzencomesalive 31:27 - Anne Bogel on What Should I Read Next 31:37 - Anne Bogel on One Great Book (and Patron feed) 31:59 - Annie Jones on From the Front Porch podcast 32:23 - Book Drop subscription box 32:26 - Shelf Subscription from Bookshelf Thomasville 32:31 - Reading Bug Box 33:04 - Sorta Awesome podcast 33:14 - Jamie Golden (and Knox) on The Popcast or at @jamiebgolden 33:08 - Laura Tremaine @laura.tremaine on Instagram 33:45 - Gretchen Rubin on the Happier podcast and her FB page 34:17 - Read Aloud Revival with Sarah McKenzie 34:27 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live podcast 34:38 - The Librarian is In by the NY Public Library 34:56 - Reading Women podcast 35:05 - @parnassusbooks on Instagram 35:06 - @powellsbooks on Instagram 35:56 - @bookshelftville on Instagram 36:20 - Book of the Month subscription 37:05 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 37:21 - Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness 37:31 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness 37:32 - The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness 39:29 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty 40:39 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*  

In part two of my wonderful conversation with Tommy Tomlinson, author of the impossible-to-put-down book The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America, we talk about how he decided he was going to have to do more than just diet to successfully deal with his weight issues. Tomlinson describes asking his friends and family about what they thought about his eating habits. "I learned a lot from them about how they would watch what I was eating. And they would be surprised that I would eat the same as them, but I was the one getting bigger. They didn't know that I would stop again at the drive through on the way home and get a second dinner or something. But I also learned about their concerns about me, and their worry that I was going to be gone too soon, those sorts of things. And then I had longer conversation on the record that I taped with my wife, Alix Felsing, and my mom, who are two people who've been with me for most of this journey." 
 Tomlinson credits his wife in a major way for helping him confront what he calls "the one big problem" in his life. "Alix has been this incredible kind of guide for me," he says. "Without ever nagging or hectoring or browbeating me about it, she has gently and lovingly nudged me to become a better and more healthy person." 
 Tomlinson writes in his book about something Alix once said to him, which I asked him to repeat on ai because I found it so moving. "She looked at me and said, 'You made my life.'" he remembers. "That was probably the best moment I will ever have as a human being, to know that I made her life. She has certainly made mine." 
 I hope that exchange, which brought at least one Serious Eater to tears, gets you to check out the rest of our conversation. This episode is as moving, as wise, and as human as a Special Sauce episode gets.  ---  The full transcript for this episode can be found over here at Serious Eats: https://www.seriouseats.com/2019/03/special-sauce-tommy-tomlinson-2-2.html

It's pretty rare for a Special Sauce interview to speak so directly to me that it feels like I've been hit in the gut. But that's exactly what happened when I talked with Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Tommy Tomlinson, whose book The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America is a moving memoir about struggling with eating and weight issues. As someone who has grappled with a weight problem my whole life, I identified with every word Tomlinson wrote and every bite he took, and I often felt during our conversation that he was speaking about my own experiences with food. For example, here is Tomlinson on how food makes him feel: "I've never done hard drugs, but the feeling that I've heard people describe when they shoot heroin, for example that incredible rush and that warm feeling that goes over their body, is very similar to what I believe I feel when I have like a double cheeseburger from Wendy's. It's just this burst of pleasure and good feeling." Tomlinson is similarly eloquent about how he started to make the connection between obesity and food: "I didn't really connect being overweight with eating because I was eating what everybody else in my family was eating. I just wasn't working the way they were working to burn off calories. And as I got older, I started to realize even more deeply that I had these two lives. I had this one life where I was successful and doing well, had good friends, had people who loved and cared about me. And had this second life where I had this addiction that I could not control. And...up until basically this book and me trying to figure it out, I never could reconcile those two things. And so, sure, I knew from early on that I had some fundamental issue, I just never could figure out what it was." And here he is on the fraught relationship between food and love: "And then there's stuff that's very common in food which is it's about love and affection. Your family has made this gift for you often still to this day it's your mom or your grandmother or somebody like that has made this thing. And they've sacrificed and they've sweated over it. And they've worked on this recipe for years. And it's a family tradition. And they always have it. And so for you just to not indulge in it carries a whole lot of symbolic weight. It's like rejecting the people who love you." This episode of Special Sauce made me laugh, made me cry, and made me think, and any podcast that can make you do all three of those things is worth listening to, whether you struggle with your weight or not. --- The full transcript for this episode can be found over here at Serious Eats: https://www.seriouseats.com/2019/03/special-sauce-tommy-tomlinson-1-2.html

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Charlie talks with journalist Tommy Tomlinson about his moving and insightful book The Elephant in the Room—One Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America. They talk about living in a world that was not designed for you, the culture of southern food, developing empathy, and much more.

Don & his wife celebrate their 19-year anniversary on Valentine’s Day but keep the gifts minimal.  Bill received the new book by Tommy Tomlinson, The Elephant in the Room, One Man’s Quest to Get Smaller & Bill is not sure if there is any hidden messaging intended.  He’s looking forward to reading it.

Tommy Tomlinson is the author of “The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America.” He talks to Mother Jones reporter Edwin Rios about his Southern upbringing and his tortured relationship with fast-food. He also reveals how former NFL quarterback Jared Lorenzen inspired him to tell his own story, and he reveals what people get wrong about obesity and losing weight.

Tommy Tomlinson, a former newspaper columnist, is the host of Southbound podcast. His new book is The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America.

"The clock doesn't run out until the very end," says Tommy Tomlinson, author of the new book "The Elephant in the Room: One fat man's quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America." Tommy talks about his book, his weight, and more with Don on this week's episode, which ranges from questions about emotional intelligence to the speed of Herschel Walker. Tommy, a 23-year veteran of the Charlotte Observer, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the host of his own podcast, has plenty of stories to tell and brings his trademark thoughtfulness to this week's episode.

Community: Get smaller / grow larger

Community: Get smaller / grow larger

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Welcome to 2017! Kaz, Kyle, and William all get a lot (or at least a little) time off at the end of the year, and that means one thing: lots and lots of videogames. We each talk about the titles we managed to clear out of our backlogs, including Bloodborne, Mighty No. 9, Shantae: Risky's Revenge, and more. Then in news, we talk more about the ARK: Survival Evolved devs, even more Switch rumors, and AGDQ. We wrap up with a podcast game in place of Save Point, discussing which game character would win in a series of everyday situations. Come pause with us!

Welcome to 2017! Kaz, Kyle, and William all get a lot (or at least a little) time off at the end of the year, and that means one thing: lots and lots of videogames. We each talk about the titles we managed to clear out of our backlogs, including Bloodborne, Mighty No. 9, Shantae: Risky's Revenge, and more. Then in news, we talk more about the ARK: Survival Evolved devs, even more Switch rumors, and AGDQ. We wrap up with a podcast game in place of Save Point, discussing which game character would win in a series of everyday situations. Come pause with us!