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Happy New Year! Today we take the opportunity to look back at how Gwyneth and Goop defined Wellness in the 2010s. I argue that while Goop lacked a soulful center, Gwyneth is working in the grand Esoteric tradition of seeking the sublime through one's relationship to the body. I look at the current aesthetic detritus of exercise culture, challenge the bad rap on “self-optimization,” and meet Gwyn in her New Age quest for Something Beyond. Discussed: “How Goop's Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow's Company Worth $250 Million,” Taffy in NYT Magazine Lauren Oyler on the Goop Cruise for Harper's “Gwyneth Paltrow Looks Back at 15 Years of Goop and More,” Marisa Meltzer in NYT Outlive by Peter Attia My fave episodes of the Goop podcast: with Michael Pollan with Peter Attia with Monique Melton 15th Anniversary Special Episode
Hello from a cruise ship! This week, we welcome book critic and Philly basketball devotee Jennifer Wilson back to the show. We discuss [1:00] the epidemic of belligerent airline passengers; [6:25] the surprising (and not so surprising) firings of Tucker Carlson from Fox News and Don Lemon from CNN; [15:10] Jen's favorite 76er, James Harden, and his ejection for nut-punching; and [27:40] journalist Lauren Oyler's recent piece on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop cruise and the sexist genre of wellness writing. In this episode, we ask: Why do so many basketball players punch and kick one another in the crotch? Are the Tucker Carlsons and Don Lemons of the world easily replaceable?What (besides capitalism, duh) makes us so obsessed with wellness? How is vulnerability (especially in women) used to sell products, activate people online, and smooth out social relations? For more, see: * This week's viral airplane video (baby screams; man yells) * A breakdown of James Harden's and Joel Embiid's fouls * Lauren Oyler's dispatch from the Goop Cruise* The David Foster Wallace cruise piece that the Goop story references * Oyler's 2021 essay on writer W. G. Sebald * How Goop's Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow's Company Worth $250 Million, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner * The TikTok influencer video that led to the intense doxxing of two young women * A rumination on the rise of astrology among millennials by Christine SmallwoodThanks for listening! Subscribe on Patreon or Substack, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Email us at timetosaygoodbyepod@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit goodbye.substack.com/subscribe
This week's challenge: watch Fleishman Is in Trouble.You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!------Edited by Alex Cox------Show LinksAutomatic, Self-Cleaning Litter Box for Cats | Litter-RobotThe Good LitterCurb Your Enthusiasm - Tip Coordination - YouTubeGuardian Firewall - Guardian FirewallMake-Good | Universal Marketing DictionaryArticles Of Interest | Avery Trufelman | SubstackRoman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast Company Sold To SiriusXM – DeadlineTechnology Connections - YouTubeTrash Theory - YouTubeCreating Killer Websites by David Siegel | GoodreadsSinger, Songwriter and Guitarist Bob Mould | Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with Terry GrossTippy Toe - YouTubecalibre - E-book managementReadwise Reader | The first read-it-later app built for power readers.The White Lotus - WikipediaMike White (filmmaker) - WikipediaNapoleon Dynamite - WikipediaFresh Air for December 5, 2022: Mike White on 'The White Lotus' : NPRDo By Friday Survivor ChallengeTouring the MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE in the United States! - YouTubeTaffy Brodesser-Akner · LongformFleishman is in Trouble | Slate Money Podcast - YouTubeTranscript - Fleishman Is in TroubleThomas Piketty's 'Capital' in 3 minutes - Newsnight - YouTubeAn Introduction to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century- A Macat Economics Analysis - YouTubeThomas Piketty: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century - YouTubeHow Goop's Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow's Company Worth $250 Million - The New York TimesFleishman Is In Trouble: One Hour Photo – T-Shirts On ScreenSherlock how they handle texts on VimeoWhat Sherlock's Text Messages Tell Us About Ourselves | WIRED(Recorded on Wednesday, December 7, 2022)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer at the New York Times and the creator of the new Hulu television series Fleishman Is in Trouble, based on her bestselling novel. “I took the cast out to dinner … And the way they began talking to each other, which was very intimate, was like a punch in the stomach. Because I had always thought that I got people to open up to me [in celebrity profiles]. And I was like, Oh, no, I got them to answer questions differently than maybe they had before. … And that was a little devastating to me.” Show notes: @taffyakner taffyakner.com Brodesser-Akner on Longform 00:00 Brodesser-Akner on Longform Podcast (#126) 00:00 Brodesser-Akner on Longform Podcast (#350) 01:00 Brodesser-Akner's New York Times archive 01:00 Brodesser-Akner's GQ archive 01:00 Fleishman Is in Trouble (Hulu • 2022) 01:00 Fleishman Is in Trouble (Random House • 2020) 04:00 "Billy Bob Thornton on Bad Santa 2, Ungrateful Fans, and Why He Won't Direct Anymore" (GQ • Nov 2016) 09:00 "Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle" (New York Times • Feb 2018) 13:00 "The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson" (New York Times • Sep 2019) 14:00 Erin Brockovich (2000) 17:00 "This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad" (New York Times • Nov 2019) 17:00 "What Happened to Val Kilmer? He's Just Starting to Figure It Out." (New York Times • May 2020) 23:00 Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 23:00 Ruby Sparks (2012) 24:00 "Christian Slater Isn't Mr. Robot, He's Mr. Nice Guy" (GQ • Aug 2016) 27:00 "Water's Edge" (GQ • Jul 2015) 33:00 "CNN's Jake Tapper Is the Realest Man in ‘Fake News'" (GQ • Apr 2017) 41:00 "How Goop's Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow's Company Worth $250 Million" (New York Times • Jul 2018) 47:00 Sam Anderson on Longform Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Do we even need to write a description? It's the Goopisode! Support us:Hear bonus episodes on PatreonDonate on PayPalGet Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and moreLinks!How Goop's Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow's Company Worth $250 MillionHow Gwyneth Paltrow took Goop from a homebrewed newsletter to a controversial $250 million wellness powerhouseGwyneth Paltrow Feels Good — and So Can YouIs Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP $1.6M In Debt?Goop and Condé Nast Team Up on a Magazine - The New York Times Gwyneth Paltrow didn't want Condé Nast to fact-check Goop articlesA hungry Gwyneth Paltrow fails the food-stamp challenge four days inDear Gwyneth, this is what living on food stamps really looks likeMy $29 Food Stamp Challenge & The RecipesGwyneth Paltrow's Having the Chicest Yard Sale Ever Gwyneth Paltrow says children of celebrities 'almost have to work twice as hard' once they 'unfairly' get their start in Hollywood Gwyneth Paltrow brings aerial yoga, trans talks and cryofacials to Goop health conference We Attended Gwyneth Paltrow's $500-a-Ticket Health SummitAnti-Medication Goop Summit Expert Claims AIDS Treatment Kills and GMOs Cause DepressionInside Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow's Growing EmpireThe history of self-careStill Processing: We Care for Ourselves and Others in Trump's AmericaThanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!Support the show
Do you want to live deliciously? For our fifth episode we're casting our attentions to the mythical goddess Circe and wellness guru Gwyneth Paltrow. These two titans are known as much for their witchery as they are for stirring up contention. As we gather in our coven (virtually) we'll be exploring sorcery, the occult and of course, vaginal eggs. ‘Tis the season of the witch and things are going to get frightening!Email - femmefilespodcast@gmail.comTwitter - @filesfemmeInstagram - @femmefilespodcastLinksHow Goop's Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow's Company Worth $250 Million9 Of Gwyneth Paltrow's Most Outrageous Health HacksCirce's Transformations: Art Images of the Greek Sorceress Through The AgesHow Gwyneth exploited gaps in medical knowledge of women's health9 Women on Why They Attended Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop SummitFrom witches to wellness: medicine and magic in LondonThe Penis-Snatching Witches Who Terrorized Men In The 15th Century
Anthony and James discuss the trends that they think will dominate the headlines in 2019: https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/4045791/the-best-longform-stories-of-2019 Artificial Intelligence (2:00) Blockchain (3:00) Back to AI (4:00) Cloud (6:00) Regulation (9:00) Alternative Data (14:00) Quantum Computing (16:45) M&A (17:30) Market Data Fees (22:00) WatersTechnology (24:00) The Best Longform Outside of WatersTechnology (28:00) Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection, Kiera Feldman (ProPublica) https://www.propublica.org/article/trashed-inside-the-deadly-world-of-private-garbage-collection Blood Will Tell, Pamela Colloff (ProPublica) https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/mickey-bryan-murder-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/ “I Killed Them All”, Jessica Garrison (Buzzfeed) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicagarrison/martinez-hitman-cartel-black-hand-mano-negra-contract-killer Inside Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build a Border Wall, Steven Levy (Wired) https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-border-wall/ Palantir Knows Everything About You, Multiple Writers (Bloomberg Businessweek) https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/ The White Darkness, David Grann (New Yorker) — Great book, too. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-darkness America Beyond Detention, Multiple Writers (Observer) https://www.texasobserver.org/america-beyond-detention/ How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million, Taffy Brodesser-Akner (NYT Mag) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/magazine/big-business-gwyneth-paltrow-wellness.html Jose Mourinho’s Last Stand, Sam Borden http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/25145480/jose-mourinho-last-stand Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry, Elif Batuman (New Yorker) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry The Maraschino Mogul’s Secret Life, Ian Frazier (New Yorker) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino-moguls-secret-life A Kingdom of Dust, Mark Arax (California Sunday Magazine) https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions, Jeff Maysh (The Daily Beast) https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions
Psychology research in terror management theory has shown that when people are primed with thoughts of mortality, their behaviors change, but not necessarily in helpful ways. Tune in as I talk with dietitian Michelle Alison (the Fat Nutritionist) about how she was able to extrapolate Ernest Becker’s research from the 1980s to today’s diet culture which is full of “wellness” messages about saving your life with every bite of food, every minute of exercise, and every pill. Acceptance of mortality doesn’t mean that you suddenly stop caring about your health and your life. In fact, you may appreciate and celebrate life even more after accepting that perfect health, weight, and bodies don’t actually exist. About Michelle Michelle Alison, also known online as The Fat Nutritionist. She is a registered dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario. She has an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. She works online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. She’s a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health. She completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating the Dieting Casualty workshop, where she learned how to teach people eating competence. Prior to becoming a RD, Michelle worked in hospitals as a nutrition supervisor, and then a clinical diet tech. All told, she’s worked in nutrition for over a decade. Website | Twitter | Facebook Links mentioned How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million (New York Times) Eating Toward Immortality (The Atlantic) People Obsessed With Wellness Can't Accept That We're All Gonna Die (Tonic) Body Kindness Episode 16: The Religion of Diet Culture --- Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Order signed copies and bulk discounts here! --- Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- Get started with Body Kindness Sign up to get started for free and stay up to date on the latest offerings --- Become a client Check out BodyKindnessBook.com/breakthrough for the latest groups and individual support sessions --- Subscribe to the podcast We're on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! Have a show idea or guest recommendatio? E-mail podcast@bodykindnessbook.com to get in touch. --- Join the Facebook group Continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners on the Body Kindness Facebook group. See you there! Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.
Kirk's back from vacation and raring to talk about games. What kinds of games? VIDEO games, baby! He and Jason start off discussing what they've been playing, covering God of War's New Game+, Prey: Mooncrash, Destiny 2, The Messenger, and Dragon Quest XI. Then they talk a bit about the glut of indie games en route to the Switch and share some thoughts on that super-slick Cyberpunk 2077 E3 gameplay demo, which CD Projekt Red finally released to the public this week. After that, Kirk has a chat with Ari Gibson and William Pellen, the Australian duo behind the wonderful side-scroller Hollow Knight, before he and Jason bring it home with some TV, book, and music recommendations. Links: Team Cherry Blog, Team Cherry on Twitter Tim Rogers's Dragon Quest XI review Cyberpunk 2077 48-minute E3 gameplay demo Jason on the victims of the Jacksonville shooting Kirk on learning different combat moves in God of War's New Game+ Kirk tries to explain Destiny 2's new weapons system "How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Interview intro music: "Greenpath" by Christopher Larkin from the Hollow Knight OST
This week, our friend and colleague, Taffy Akner, chats with us about her viral article, "How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million." We trace some similarities and differences between Gwyneth and fellow mogul, Oprah, and ask why the wellness industry, ironically, can make us feel bad. Taffy helps us understand how oftentimes, when our current healthcare systems fail to take the pain and suffering of women and gender non-conforming people seriously, Goop can offer a seductive alternative — that comes at a price. Discussed this week:"How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million" (Taffy Akner, The New York Times Magazine, July 25, 2018)"Our First Podcast: GP Sits Down with Oprah" (The Goop Podcast, March 8, 2018)