24 Nov Episode 149: How Fatness Became a Cheap Joke and Proxy for Moral Deficiency in Pop Culture
Citations Needed | November 24, 2021 | Transcript“Fat Monica” (Courteney Cox, left) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) on an episode of Friends.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-149-how-fatness-became-a-cheap-joke-and-proxy-for-moral-deficiency-in-pop-culture[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your help through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded and run no commercials.Adam: And as always, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and please, if you can, support us on Patreon, and there you will find mini-episodes for patrons that we do every now and then, little News Briefs, as well as AMAs, a newsletter, and other content that we offer there. So if you can please support us there, we very very much appreciate it, and it helps make the show sustainable and the episodes themselves free to everybody.Nima: A character played by...