Alex and Liz talk about the Glassdoor reviews of their old employer, touch upon the depravity of working for an SEO content mill, and compare monopoly and monopsony.

• The classic Popula article about working at this very content mill.
• What is monopsony?
• Liz's site
• Alex's blog

Alex and Liz take a look at Kate Manne's 2024 book, Unshrinking: How to face fatphobia. Along the way, they examine some of the key assumptions that drive widespread fatphobia in contemporary society, what the point of weight loss is supposed to be, the history of hazardous weight-loss treatments, and how Manne's book intersects with other publications by Ragen Chastain, Abigail C. Saguy, Paul Campos, and Paul Ernsberger.

• Ragen Chastain on weight loss as a prescription
• Chastain on how weight-loss studies are often deliberately misleading
• Abigail C. Saguy's book.
• Paul Campos' book and blog.
• 1989 debate over whether "obesity" is hazardous, with Paul Ernsberger taking the "negative" side.
• Ernsberger's earlier catalog of hazardous "obesity" treatments.

Liz and Alex talk about streaming, why its business model is so lousy compared to cable, the social aspects of watching TV vs the isolation of streaming, how sports holds linear TV together, and why it feels more sustainable to support individual creators than to pay for a bundle.

• Liz's website
• Alex's blog
• How the Criterion Channel works
• The failed promise of binge TV
• The life and death of Hollywood