Ronald Young Jr.
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945 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Aug
Ronald Young Jr.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I am at a place where I think I'm a pretty smart person. I think I understand things. I understand stocks. I listen to Planet Money. You know what I mean? I'm an NPR guy. I read. I understand numbers. The one thing that I will never understand is the United States national debt.
Es ist etwas, was die Abgeordneten anbieten, was der Präsident anbietet, was die Senatoren anbieten, was jeder immer über eine Art oder andere Art spricht. Wir müssen diesen verdauungslosen Wachstum reduzieren, die nationalen Steuern reduzieren. Wir müssen es reduzieren, weil es für die Wirtschaft schlecht ist. Es wird explodieren. All das. Und ich höre das.
Und wenn ich darüber denke, Steuern zu haben, Ich bezahle Renten, ich hatte Studentenlohne, ich habe Kreditkartenrechte, all das. Es gibt jemanden, dem ich Geld bezahle. Ja. Weißt du, was ich meine?
Du machst eine Kreditkarte aus, jemand kommt und sagt, hey, du zahlst Interesse und auch, wenn du das nicht bezahlst, werden wir dich in den Gericht nehmen, und dann kannst du deine Waren verspüren, und so weiter und so fort. Aber wenn ich über die nationalen Rechte denke, Und ist deine Frage auch so wie...
That's exactly it.
Ja.
3.
Chuck, chuck, chuck, rolling on my end.
Cool? Yeah, that's good. That's good. Are you concerned about saying fat? Yeah, I feel like, am I allowed to say fat?
I love, let me tell you, it's funny because like this is the toughest conversation for me to have because the truth is we are trying to make fat just a flat descriptor, but so much damage has been done using the word fat as an insult that it's tough to hear straight size people say it.
And it's tough for straight size people to say it without adding some sort of like disclaimer or apology in the beginning of the end of it. But it is okay to say fat. It is. But the way you said it is also fine. I just wanted you to know that's okay. And it's tough to start getting out there and saying it because it means you have to purge it from your language as an insult.
You know, it's funny, like in my mind, when I started making it, I had a few things that I knew I specifically wanted to talk about. And I didn't think about anything outside of those couple of things. And in the first season, I knew I wanted to talk about going to the doctor. I knew I wanted to talk about my relationship with my college, we'll say sweetheart.
And then I knew I wanted to talk generally about how I felt about influencers. I knew I wanted to talk about those things. But what I found is that as I started making the show, the more questions I was asking and answering, the more stories and answers were coming to my brain, which created more stories and more opportunities to talk about it.
So I found that while making the show, I, like you, was having the same experience where I'm just like, there's still more things to talk about. And I just keep pushing that direction and more stories keep coming up.
Listen, man, I thought you would share a little bit with me. I thought I'd just get in there a little bit. There's plenty of room for all of us on the airplane, I thought. How did you decide you wanted to talk about airplanes? You know, I mean, I've flown more over the years. Like the last five years has probably been the majority of the flying I've done in my life. Okay.
So it's all encompassed in the last five years. And also in the last five years is the biggest I've been in my life. So interacting with planes has been a little bit different. And I don't even have the experience that some people who are even bigger than me have by getting on a plane. But I do know that there is a very specific experience that you have when you are big and going to fly.
Everything from the anxiety of thinking about going through security to the anxiety of getting to your seat seeing who you're sitting next to and wondering if the seatbelt's going to fit. And I felt like these were questions that I was hearing within fat community from other folks.
And it felt like it was just important to tackle because flying sucks for everyone, yet the scapegoat always seems to be fat people. So I really wanted to unpack that.
This is Brigid McDonald. She's talking about a flight she took to South Carolina in the summer of 2023.
She flew Southwest, which was her go-to airline. Southwest has what's called an open seating policy, which allows folks to pick the seat they want when they get on the plane. Bridget had chosen a seat that she liked.
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