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MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Vegas 119: Kape vs Horiguchi. Also on the main card card, Cutelaba vs Stirling, Rodriguez vs Amil, Lime vs Borjas, Baghdasaryan vs Magomedov, and Oliveira vs Fili.

Kelly is joined by Tyler Stout and Jacob Yancey to preview their upcoming fights for LFA 235 which is Friday 6/19/2026 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY. Episode recorded 6/10/2026.

On this week's episode, the CFL is back for its 113th season, the Leaders are the Mexico Bowl IX champions in the LFA , and the matchup is set in the UFL's United Bowl Championship Game. Follow us on: Facebook: facebook.com/TWOFKalamazoo X (Formally known as Twitter): twitter.com/@TWOFKalamazoo Instagram: Instagram.com/TWOFKalamazoo Threads: threads.com/twofkalamazoo YouTube: The World of Football Kalamazoo or www.youtube.com/@theworldoffootball E-Mail us: info@theworldoffootball.com Official Website: www.theworldoffootball.com Our Royal Retros link - - https://www.royalretros.com/?aff=80 #NFL #CFL #ARENAFOOTBALL #INDOORFOOTBALL #FOOTBALL #PODCAST #CIF #COLLEGEFOOTBALL #collegefootball

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs Gaethje. Also on the card, Pereira vs Gane, O'Malley vs Zahabi, Hokit vs Lewis, Ruffy vs Chandler, Nickal vs Daukaus, and Lopes vs Garcia.

Send us Fan MailFew issues came up during the most recent session of the Louisiana Legislature concerning sustainable forestry, but there were come very important ones. Minding the Forest talks to Louisiana Forestry Association Executive Director Buck Vandersteen about the session that wrapped up Monday, June 1, 2026. Much of the bills that could affect sustainable forestry came through environmental committees in the State House and State Senate. Carbon Capture also was an issue in several bills that could have affected several industries, including the forest products industry. Minding the Forest is a podcast of the Louisiana Forestry Association and his hosted by LFA Media Specialist Jeff Zeringue. Comments can be sent to jzeringue@laforestry.com.If you want to find out more about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), go to forests.org.Check out our website at laforestry.com.Click this link to join the LFA.

On this week's episode, The Arena League season has begun, the playoff fields are set in the UFL and the NAL, and the championship game matchup is set in the LFA's Mexico Bowl IX. Follow us on: Facebook: facebook.com/TWOFKalamazoo X (Formally known as Twitter): twitter.com/@TWOFKalamazoo Instagram: Instagram.com/TWOFKalamazoo Threads: threads.com/twofkalamazoo YouTube: The World of Football Kalamazoo or www.youtube.com/@theworldoffootball E-Mail us: info@theworldoffootball.com Official Website: www.theworldoffootball.com Our Royal Retros link - - https://www.royalretros.com/?aff=80 #NFL #CFL #ARENAFOOTBALL #INDOORFOOTBALL #FOOTBALL #PODCAST #CIF #COLLEGEFOOTBALL #collegefootball

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Vegas 118: Muhammad vs Bonfim. Also on the main card, Allen vs Shahbazyan, Ziam vs Nolan, Mitchell vs Luna, Schnell vs Costa, and Baraniewski vs Tafa.

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In this episode I chat with LFA lightweight champion Richie Miranda as he's coming off his second successful title defense. This past weekend Richie won via Bull Dog Choke, giving him his 13th victory of his mma professional career. Here we find out Here we talk about his first defeat, fighting for the LFA, grinding and putting in the work to become successful in the MMA

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Macau: Song vs Figueiredo. Also on the main card, Zhang vs Menifield, Pavlovich vs Teixeira, Asakura vs Smotherman, Matthews vs Harris, and Perez vs Sumudaerji.

In this episode I chat with the voice of Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA), Mike Kendall. Here we talk about all things life, his wife, the importance of the LFA to the MMA community and culture. We also find out what it's like day to day for a ring announcer aswell as his advice for folks out there. And of course about the great city of Louisville Ky ahead of LFA 235.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for PFL Brussels: Habirora vs Henderson. Also on the main card, Lapilus vs Hadley, Atangana vs Gooden, Alves vs Inoue, and Adjoudj vs Sasu.

Kelly is joined by Ed Soares, CEO of LFA and Eddie Donaldson to promote the LFA 235 MMA card which will be Friday 6/19/2026 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY. Episode recorded 5/14/2026.

Send us Fan MailThe W.H. Ward family has grown and kept property in LaSalle Parish near Jena for almost a century. The men might have founded the company, but it was the women in later generations who elevated it into an extended family company with an annual meeting that has turned into a family reunion. Certainly there is a business meeting, but much the day is spent catching up and getting to know family. In 2025, the property, which is part of the American Tree Farm System, was selected Outstanding Louisiana Tree Farm. This is the family's story and stories of growing up learning to love the property as well as growing close to relatives. You can contact forester Joe Shively at joe.shively@smurfitwestrock.com.Minding the Forest is a podcast of the Louisiana Forestry Association and his hosted by LFA Media Specialist Jeff Zeringue. Comments can be sent to jzeringue@laforestry.com.If you want to find out more about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), go to forests.org.Check out our website at laforestry.com.Click this link to join the LFA.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for Netflix MVP MMA 1: Rousey vs Carano. Also on the main card, Ngannou vs Lins and Diaz vs Perry.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Vegas 117: Allen vs Costa. Also on the main card, Choi vs Santos, Wellmaker vs Diaz, Bukauskas vs Bellato, and Cuamba vs Sopaj.

Kelly is joined by Anthony McCormick and Alexander Collett who both train at Triump Combat under head coach Damon Bell and will both be fighting for LFA 235 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY on Friday 6/19/2026. Topics discussed included preview for th...

Kelly is joined by David Richardson to preview his upcoming fight for LFA 235 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY 6/19/2026. Preview of the LFA card included along with backstory of David's journey through his childhood, into wrestling, time with Sparro...

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC 328: Chimaev vs Strickland. Also on the main card, Van vs Taira, Volkov vs Cortes-Acosta, Brady vs Buckley, and Green vs Stephens.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for PFL Sioux Falls: Storley vs Zendeli. Also on the main card, Rabadanov vs Chizov, Powell vs Sordi, Ferreira vs Bilostenniy, and Magomedov vs Higo.

This week Alex and Beck jump right in with nothing much on the agenda, but overcome that hurdle to cover how the LFA has evolved in the market; peeling out and peeling tires; waterborne Lambos; viewers vs. watchers; a study in twins; sedentary Hondas; two very different takes on the modern dealer experience; whether a GT350 is truly necessary; the Mount Rushmore of "is it real?"; a practical argument against divorce; a practical argument for driving the wheels off the nicest car you can find; letting people abuse your precious; an impressive performance by Beck's kids; taking fake places at face value; and, most importantly, instilling the road trip spirit and a love of maps in one's offspring;Follow along! Links for the listings discussed in this episode:0:51 748-Mile 2012 Lexus LFA4:46  2025 Watersports Car Series L 16′9:22  Sequential-VIN 1965 Porsche 911 Coupes11:41  3k-Mile Supercharged 2005 Acura NSX-T 6-Speed16:33  BaT Auctions Presents: The Fox-Body Collection – Six 1980s Ford Mustangs19:11 1964 Chevrolet Chevy II Nova SS L77 4-Speed22:24  1967 Shelby Mustang GT350 Fastback 4-Speed22:49  1966 Ford Mustang GT Fastback K-Code 4-Speed36:18  Event Coverage: BaT Alumni Gathering at the Sonoma Speed Festival49:35  Delaware BaT Meet-Up—May 16 with McQueen Classics!Got suggestions for our next guest from the BaT community or an idea for our next game episode? Let us know at podcast@bringatrailer.com!

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Perth: Maddalena vs Prates. Also on the main card, Dariush vs Salkilld, Elliott vs Erceg, Gaziev vs Pericic, and Tuivasa vs Sutherland.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Vegas 116: Sterling vs Zalal. Also on the main card, Dumont vs Edwards, Garcia vs Hernandez, Grant vs Martinetti, Jackson vs Barcelos, and Buchecha vs Spann.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for PFL Belfast: Kelly vs Wilson. Also on the main card, McKee vs Lohore, Yagshimuradov vs Pedro, and Mixan vs Sheridan.

Send us Fan MailDave Cupp is a manager for Walsh Timber Co. in Zwolle and president of the American Loggers Council talks about the start of Earth Day and how it affected his decision to become a forester. Cupp grew up in the Hudson Valley area of New York State and remembers when Lake Erie caught fire. More than 50 years after the first Earth Day, the environment in the United States is much better. The day not only marks the progress made, but it also is a guide for many, especially foresters who view every day is Earth Day. Want to drop him a line, send him a message at davecupp@southland.group. Minding the Forest is a podcast of the Louisiana Forestry Association and his hosted by LFA Media Specialist Jeff Zeringue. Comments can be sent to jzeringue@laforestry.com.If you want to find out more about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), go to forests.org.Check out our website at laforestry.com.Click this link to join the LFA.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Winnipeg: Burns vs Malott. Also on the card, Phillips vs Jourdain, Nallo vs Herbert, Jasudavicius vs Silva, Moises vs Young, and Buzukja vs Barbosa.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for PFL Chicago: Pettis vs McKee. Also on the main card, Newman vs Silveira, Stots vs Khavalov, and Braga vs Leialoha.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC 327: Prochazka vs Ulberg. Also on the card, Murzakanov vs Costa, Blaydes vs Hokit, Reyes vs Walker, and Swanson vs Landwehr.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comThe UFC is back at the Apex and does it ever show. Our boys behind the mic dubbed it “Not even good enough to be an LFA card”. Hearing Zane—the most optimistic fight analyst alive—say that was the first nail in the casket for this event. Looking at the stats and the actual matchmaking, then seeing how many losing skids are gracing the bout sheet hammers…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comThe UFC is back at the Apex and does it ever show. Our boys behind the mic dubbed it “Not even good enough to be an LFA card”. Hearing Zane—the most optimistic fight analyst alive—say that was the first nail in the casket for this event. Looking at the stats and the actual matchmaking, then seeing how many losing skids are gracing the bout sheet hammers…

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Vegas 115: Moicano vs Duncan. Also on the card, Jandiroba vs Ricci, Yakhyaev vs Ribeiro, Ewing vs Estevam, McMillen vs Zecchini, and Pat vs Petersen.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for PFL Pittsburgh: Eblen vs Battle. Also on the main card, Rosta vs Kasanganay, Lipski vs Inaba, Pergande vs Arce, and Dayron vs Thrall.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Seattle Adesanya vs Pyfer. Also on the card, Grasso vs Barber 2, Chiesa vs Price, Erosa vs Douglas, Abdul-Malik vs Belgaroui, and McKinney vs Nelson.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC London: Evloev vs Murphy. Also on the card, Riley vs Aswell, Page vs Patterson, Baraniewski vs Lane, Dolidze vs Duncan, and Campbell vs Silva.

Send a textMarkets are a challenge in the forest products industry, which trickle down to the small forest landowner. Consulting forester and Louisiana Forestry Association Past President Tim Holland talks about markets, which also was the topic of his Forestry 101 article in the Marsh issue of Forests & People magazine. Slow markets for mills to move their products means less wood going to the mills and fewer trees harvested.Holland's company is Mudd & Holland Consulting Foresters in Shreveport (https://www.muddandholland.com/).Minding the Forest is a podcast of the Louisiana Forestry Association and his hosted by LFA Media Specialist Jeff Zeringue. Comments can be sent to jzeringue@laforestry.com.If you want to find out more about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), go to forests.org.Check out our website at laforestry.com.Click this link to join the LFA.

Send a textLouisiana Forestry Association Executive Director Buck Vandersteen keeps a keen eye on the Louisiana Legislature whenever it's in session. The 2026 Regular Session began Monday, March 9 and is due to end in June. More than 20 bills filed for the session so far deal with Carbon Dioxide, in some form. And there are many other bills that the Forest Products industry will be following this session. Buck also puts out a Legislative Report periodically, sometimes a few times a week, depending on what bills are being heard. If you'd like to get the Legislative Report, send an email to lfa@laforestry.com and ask that your email be added to the list. Minding the Forest is a podcast of the Louisiana Forestry Association and his hosted by LFA Media Specialist Jeff Zeringue. Comments can be sent to jzeringue@laforestry.com.If you want to find out more about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), go to forests.org.Check out our website at laforestry.com.Click this link to join the LFA.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Vegas 114: Emmett vs Vallejos. Also on the card, Lemos vs Robertson, Sy vs Cutelaba, Fili vs Delgado, Rahiki vs Hardwick, and Petrino vs Asplund.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC 326: Holloway vs Oliveira 2. Also on the card, Borralho vs de Ridder, Font vs Rosas Jr, Dober vs Johnson, and Rodrigues vs Ferreira.

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Mexico: Moreno vs Kavanagh. Also on the card, Vera vs Martinez, Zellhuber vs Green, Chairez vs Bunes, Rodriguez vs Borjas, and Luna vs Pacheco.

Adrian "the Elusive" Garcia a top-ranked professional MMA fighter out of Miami, Florida joins the show to preview his fight vs Christian Natividad in the main event of LFA 228 on March 13, 2026. The flyweight bout takes place at the Wild Horse Pass Showroom in Chandler, Arizona. "

MMA Lock of the Night is back to give you breakdowns and predictions for UFC Houston: Strickland vs Hernandez. Also on the card, Neal vs Medic, Ige vs Costa, Spivac vs Delija, and Smith vs Harrell.

Send a textFor more than a decade, Dr. Glen Gentry and a team have been working on a way to curb the population explosion of feral hogs in Louisiana. An example, he said if Louisiana had 1 million feral hogs, 750,000 would have to be eliminated every year to keep the population at 1 million. However promising, the process of getting it approved through the Environmental Protection Agency is still a decade away. Gentry talks about the bait and what is the next phase to get it to market.You can contact Dr. Gentry at GGentry@agcenter.lsu.edu.Minding the Forest is a podcast of the Louisiana Forestry Association and his hosted by LFA Media Specialist Jeff Zeringue. Comments can be sent to jzeringue@laforestry.com.If you want to find out more about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), go to forests.org.Check out our website at laforestry.com.Click this link to join the LFA.

Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark! We are Virginia Sole-Smith and Corinne Fay, and it's time for your February Extra Butter episode! Listen to hear about:⭐️ Anti-diet GLP-1 life⭐️ Who gets left out when the tradwife aesthetic takes over influencer culture⭐️ Interrogating the ableism of not wanting to be on medication your whole lifePlus, serious stuff, like:⭐️ Corinne in a prairie dress⭐️ How long Virginia will last in a zombie apocalypse ⭐️ Why hot cheese is in for FebruaryTo hear the whole thing, read the full transcript, and join us in the comments, you do need to be an Extra Butter subscriber.Join Extra Butter!This transcript contains affiliate links. If you're going to buy something we mention, shopping these links supports Burnt Toast at no extra cost to you! Episode 232 TranscriptCorinneToday we are talking about the state of GLP-1 discourse. A few recent media pieces have us wondering if the GLP-1 backlash is finally beginning, and if so, why is all of the coverage still so anti-fat?VirginiaWe're going to use two primary texts for this conversation, but I also want us to talk more generally about how we're seeing the conversation shift, because I feel like there's been an amorphous shift.CorinneI think the initial craze has died down and we're starting to see a more nuanced conversation.VirginiaWhich in many ways is good. There's more nuance on both sides, but there's still a lot of harm being done in the way the media is framing this conversation.CorinneFor sure. VirginiaExhibit A on that front is a piece by Dani Blum that ran on January 15 in the New York Times. The headline is The Hard Truth of Weight-Loss Drugs: You Probably Need Them Forever. Corinne what is your immediate first reaction to that headline?CorinneNo shit, Sherlock. Why were people confused about this?VirginiaI guess people were. It seemed obvious that if a drug makes you lose weight, and you go off the drug, you won't continue to lose the weight.CorinneUnfortunately, except for maybe antibiotics, that seems to be how drugs work. You have to stay on them.VirginiaThere's a lot that comes up for me in this piece. It's looking at new research, bringing to light the fact that when people go off the weight loss drugs, which many people do because they can't tolerate the side effects and it's too expensive, they just get tired of it. There are lots of reasons that people fatigue about being on a weekly injection drug. They're seeing now that people regain the weight. This is being framed as a grave disappointment and a surprise in the article.CorinneNot to me, but to Oprah.VirginiaOprah particularly. Oprah was surprised. They referenced the fact that even Oprah said that she had stopped taking a weight loss drug cold-turkey for a year and then gained back 20 pounds. "I tried to beat the medication," she told People Magazine. It was then she realized it's going to be a lifetime thing. Brilliant marketing for Weight Watchers, Oprah. She thought she could go off it, but you can't. You should be on it forever. So buy your GLP-1s from Weight Watchers. Of course she wants us to be on it forever. She has a business incentive to make that work. It gets into ableism. Why is it problematic to be on a medication for the rest of your life? I have asthma. I expect to use an inhaler to manage that for the rest of my life. I have sleep apnea. I expect to use a CPAP for the rest of my life. Most people with mental health conditions expect to be on an SSRI for the rest of their life. Why is that a problem?CorinneI think there's something about human nature where people think, I don't want to be on a medication for the rest of my life. I've heard so many people say that.VirginiaOften it's the main resistance to starting a medication. Why? What is it about that that makes us sad?CorinneWe want to believe that we're strong and independent and don't need pills to make us ok.VirginiaYou and I are going to wear glasses for the rest of our lives.CorinneI am extremely screwed. So many medications, so many glasses.VirginiaIf the zombie apocalypse comes, I'm out in the first week because if they break my glasses or I lose an inhaler, I'm sorry, I'm not going to try that hard to survive. Even my acid reflux medication - I don't have debilitating acid reflux - but it's irritating. I would be out.CorinneSame. VirginiaTake me now. CorinneI take multiple medications every single day that I would be lost, if not dead, without.VirginiaI don't understand the aversion to that because it's great that I get to breathe through the help of medication. I'm a big fan.CorinneI think what you're hinting at is it's ableism.VirginiaIt's ableism. We want to believe we can overcome these challenges. We see it especially in conditions that are weight linked in any way. This is why people get told to diet before starting a blood pressure or cholesterol medication when those drugs work really well to manage those conditions ... Corinne... and diets don't.VirginiaAnd diets tend to not do so. Is it such a moral failing to have to go on a statin? I don't think so.CorinneThe other thing they're not talking about directly is - and we've talked about this before - that studies show people who take these drugs for conditions like diabetes and/or insulin resistance, don't tend to stay on them long-term because they're hard drugs to be on. VirginiaYeah.CorinneThis article is so sad for people who got to lose weight on these because they will have to be on them forever if they want to "keep the weight off." It's also sad for people who need to take them to manage chronic conditions. These drugs suck in a lot of ways and people don't want to be on them.VirginiaThat's a valid reason to think, I don't want to be on a drug for the rest of my life if it's giving me terrible side effects. My inhalers don't give me terrible side effects. I just like breathing and want to do it all the time. I'm an oxygen addict. If it's a medication that's giving you side effects, I understand not wanting to be on it for life. For folks who are pursuing this just for weight loss, independent of metabolic health, maybe that's a reason to reflect on whether you need to do that. It is a depressing thing to say, "I will be on a medication that gives me diarrhea, fatigue or whatever side effects, but at least I can be a smaller size." That feels like something to reflect on. That reflection is nowhere in this article, however.CorinneThe article doesn't mention side effects at all, does it? VirginiaIt mentions that it's why a lot of people in the studies are going off the drugs. It's this Catch-22 where they're saying, Oh, people are saying, wow, it's so expensive, or, wow, I have terrible side effects, so I go off it. Then they're framing it like those people were quitters. That they gave up. On the other hand, some of this aversion around "you wouldn't want to be on this medication for the rest of your life" is another layer of anti-fatness. The message is we shouldn't let fat people get away with thinness this way. We don't want them passing for thin because they can stay on a GLP-1 forever. We want them to do the "real work" of weight loss.The idea that you could only achieve weight loss by staying on the medication forever makes the weight loss feel fake to people. It's interesting because all intentional weight loss is fake to some extent. It's all manipulating your body in a direction it doesn't naturally want to go in. So why do we penalize medication-based weight loss versus excessive-running-based weight loss?There's also a nice shout-out to RFK, Jr., who also thought the drugs would just be a short-term fix for people and then we'd go back to eating beef tallow to stay thin. Turns out that's not science, but I don't think we're surprised he's not science. Another flavor of anti-fatness in this piece is the casual normalization that you could do this the old fashioned way. In talking about folks who are able to lose the weight even after they go off, the article says:It's not impossible, but it is extremely difficult. Dr Hauser estimates that fewer than 10% of her patients have successfully kept off 75% or more of the weight they lost after going on a GLP-1 without turning to another weight loss medication or undergoing bariatric surgery. "Those are the people that are working out two hours a day, tracking what they eat. They're working really hard," she said. "I haven't had anyone that just tapers off and isn't really putting that much thought into it and just keeps the weight off. I've never seen that happen."That's just casual normalization of eating disorder behavior. Working out two hours a day and tracking what you eat is not a normal way to live.CorinneThe choice is either drugs or an eating disorder.VirginiaThat's not interrogated by this piece, or in any of the discourse I've seen around the whole idea that you have to be on it forever. It's either you have to be on it forever, or we expect you to do this the old fashioned way, like a good fat person would.CorinneIt's also getting into the Rosey Beeme of it all. She lost some weight with a GLP-1 and then was like, Well, I guess weight loss surgery is the way to go here.VirginiaRight, to continue her health journey. I haven't checked on her in a while. Do you know how that's all going?CorinneNo, I don't and I don't honestly want to know. I just think that will become a more common storyline where people are saying, I didn't want to stay on this drug. It didn't lead to permanent weight loss, but maybe bariatric surgery will.VirginiaWell, that's depressing.CorinneSpeaking of influencers, the second article that we wanted to discuss today ran at the beginning of January in Vulture. It's titled ‘Less People Click If You're a Size 16' How plus-size influencers are faring in a GLP-1 world.VirginiaThis one is paywalled. CorinneI'm glad we're talking about this article because I saw so many people whispering about it on social media before I saw it, and then I saw a lot of folks sharing it. The gist of it is that plus-size influencers are not making as much money as before. They're not getting as many brand deals, etc.VirginiaThey're not getting brand deals from fashion brands and other lifestyle brands, which was interesting to me. The plus-size mom influencers, brands don't want them to show the car seat or the stroller anymore.CorinneI think a lot of plus-size influencers would make money from beauty skincare deals. That seems to be where a lot of the marketing money is. Even that area is slowing.VirginiaThe article talks about how one explanation, in addition to the rise of GLP-1s, is the rise of the tradwife aesthetic. An influencer named Joanna Spicer is interviewed quite a bit in the piece. She says:People in the industry, according to Spicer, are “afraid to say anything. It's being danced around. I've been told that I don't fit the criteria to work with the brand because they're more into the tradwife aesthetic. I'm like, ‘Got it.'”With the tradwife aesthetic, a baseline of thin is a given, right? They're all willowy thin blondes like Ballerina Farm. It's interesting that it's not just thin, but the whole Little House On the Prairie conservative fundamentalist perspective. That's what is trending right now. CorinneIt's very depressing. I like Joanna Spicer and that is not her aesthetic. There are plus-size influencers that lean more in that direction who are also suffering.VirginiaBecause they're not leaning enough in that direction.CorinneThey're not living on farms in Utah. I also thought an interesting part of this was her saying that it's being danced around, that no one's straight up saying what's going on.VirginiaOn the flip side, we've also seen (and reported on) a lot of plus-size influencers becoming not plus-size, or attempting to become not plus-size by sharing their GLP-1 journey. While we've had valid criticisms of the way Rosey Beeme and others have articulated those journeys by using a lot of anti-fat rhetoric, I do understand that when you've made your body your business, and now the business is changing, you feel a lot of pressure to change your body to keep up with things.CorinneThis article doesn't mention it, but there have been a couple of brands recently announcing they're not going to make plus sizes anymore, one of which is Christy Dawn, which is a big tradwife aesthetic brand.VirginiaI never did get a Christy Dawn prairie dress while they made them in my size. Now I guess I never will.CorinneI did try one once. It's really not my aesthetic, but it didn't seem nice.VirginiaI kind of wish you had photos. I really can't picture you in a tradwife dress.CorinneI put it on and was horrified.VirginiaYou had a reaction to that like I have to those boiler suit jumpsuits where I feel trapped, have a panic attack and I can't get them off.CorinneThere was too much shoulder. I didn't like it.VirginiaIt's the whole milkmaid thing.CorinneI like my shoulders covered.VirginiaYeah, not your aesthetic. All of this tradwife aesthetic taking over influencer culture and who's getting brand deals also very much ties into how much this is driven by the political climate right now, which is obviously a dumpster fire. Here is another excerpt from the piece:One vice president and an influencer marketing agency who asked to remain anonymous, said that while they haven't seen brands explicitly push back against working with plus-size creators. They are far more hesitant to sponsor any creator who gets even remotely political. What is acceptable now politically may not be in the future, and to avoid any issues, they don't want any voices that are not controlled internally from their side, he said.That made me wonder if fat influencers are more likely to be left wing and progressive than thin influencers. We don't have any data, but my instinct is yes.CorinneThey're probably more likely to be outspoken about size inclusivity, at least.VirginiaPeople think fat liberation is not political or it's not considered part of political action, and it is part of it. They also wrote:"The trend to move away from plus-size clothing aligns with the trend to move away from DEI. It's all related,” says Monica Corbin, a stylist at a plus-size fashion brand. “We had this big explosion during COVID around inclusivity, and I just think there's been the biggest backlash."So what's happening in influencer culture is just a microcosm of our whole country right now?CorinneThere is a part of this article that was so sad. Joanna Spicer was talking about how not being able to get work in your area of expertise makes you feel like a loser. That it's demoralizing and you feel like you've done something wrong. And you don't want to speak out about it because you don't want to screw yourself over in the future. It sounds so isolating.VirginiaThere's often a lot of pressure on influencers not to be transparent about the business model and the money, which is something we see in almost every female dominated industry. Anytime you have an industry that's majority women, people tend to be underpaid and you're encouraged not to talk about money, which is why all of my writer friends know I am extremely transparent about money. Because I feel like this is how any of us make any. It doesn't surprise me that people were so hesitant to go on record for this story because they think they have so much to risk if they say these brands are paying them less. But it also enrages me because these brands are treating you terribly. How else do we put pressure on them to do something different and make different choices?CorinneI don't know, but it's scary to do that now, especially when it feels like there's fear of political retaliation.VirginiaMaybe this is me grasping at a strand of hope, but I do wonder if the fact that Vulture did this story is a positive sign. Will this kind of media coverage put pressure on brands to be more inclusive again? You could read this piece and think, What is Virginia talking about? There's no GLP-1 backlash. The fact that the piece exists feels like a tiny bit of backlash. Or am I just grasping?CorinneWe'll see. It's probably going to take eight years, but I think at least some of the shine is off.VirginiaIt's hard to say that we're definitively in a backlash, or in a moment of change. I don't think we are. I think we are in a moment of increased nuance, and that's where we've landed. There's value in that. There's value in the conversations becoming more nuanced. The last piece we wanted to talk about was Amanda Richard's recent essay about her own experience taking GLP-1s and her take on where we are in this moment. It's called The return of thinness, without the reckoning. What are your thoughts on this piece?CorinneI thought it was really interesting. I read it this morning and haven't fully digested it. The most interesting part to me was this part near the end where she says:What this moment reveals isn't hypocrisy, it's preference, preference for ease over effort, relief over reckoning, for changing bodies instead of changing the rules that they're judged by. Fat acceptance faltered not because it was wrong, but because it asked more of people than a weight loss transformation ever could.She's getting at this moment in culture where people have lower tolerance than ever for friction. We want everything to be as easy as possible, myself included. That's not always what's best for the world, or even ourselves.VirginiaShe's arguing that we're not in a backlash, but that the rise of GLP-1s has legitimized the pursuit of thinness in new ways. She wrote:What's changed isn't the desire to be thin, but the way that desire is explained. It no longer has to pass through shame, discipline or denial, instead arriving framed as care, responsibility and common sense. we've had moral alibis for thinness before diets, program, supplements, lifestyle changes, but they were always imperfect because they still smelled like wanting. They required visible discipline. They demanded effort. They asked people to accept failure when their bodies didn't cooperate. Medicine is a better alibi.I thought that was pretty dead on.CorinneThat's interesting, although we had health as an alibi before.VirginiaWe definitely did. But she's right that making it something that doctors prescribe, that you have to do, and you have to do in very specific ways in order to adhere correctly to it, does feel different from when doctors say, Try to lose some weight and, you know, walk more. It's vague and nebulous and pushes people over to diet culture.Because you're accessing it through consumerism it feels more like something you want, like a choice you're making. There's aesthetic components. I'm doing this celebrity's plan, you know. It feels legitimate now that you're doing it as a responsible choice for yourself because a doctor prescribed it. It's not to say that the medical choices people are making to do these drugs are always wrong, or that it's a bad choice for everybody. Again, it's a great medication for managing diabetes. Because all of the research dollars in the world go towards these drugs, they are discovering other new benefits of them, and that's great if we don't want people to not have those benefits. CorinneWe didn't mention that the whole premise of the piece is that she's taking a GLP-1 for a condition, and it has helped tremendously.VirginiaShe's had some weight loss as a side effect, but that wasn't the primary goal. Fat acceptance needs to keep making more space for those stories and that reality. That is why we added the Anti-Diet Ozempic Life chat room on Burnt Toast, because I was hearing from readers ashamed and confessing to me that they were on a GLP-1 and not having a place to talk about how to do that with integrity and in alignment with their fat liberation values. I was thought, Well, we're doing something wrong if we're making people feel bad about their own individual choices. That's what the other guys do. That's not what we're about. The conversations there have been fascinating and super instructive to me. I've learned a lot. Everybody who's navigating this, if you've identified that fat liberation is one of your values, you have a responsibility to interrogate this thing that Amanda's articulating, how much of this is a moral alibi for thinness, and what does that mean if you're using medicine as your alibi to achieve thinness because of all the other reasons that thinness is valued.CorinneAlthough, in our culture, how can you not? There's always some element of "Being thin is good? Being thinner Is better?"VirginiaBeing prettier? I'll have better access to things. I don't think wanting that for yourself is "wrong" because how could you not want it?CorinneIt's the water we're swimming in. It's hard to make a neutral choice.VirginiaThere is no neutral choice. Articulating that tension to yourself is valuable versus just dressing it up in "I am doing this for x, y and z health reason. I don't care about being thin." Let's be honest. Of course we all care about that a little bit. We're in an interesting place with this stuff. I'm curious to hear what folks think. How you resonated with these articles and what else you're seeing in the discourse. I am glad for the increasing nuance and I wish mainstream media could spot its anti-fat bias even sometimes.

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