5 Podcasts on Bodies & How We See Ourselves

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Curated by Alan Zweig, host of Tubby

Here’s why Alan chose this week’s podcasts:

I’m the host of the new podcast called Tubby. Here are a few other podcasts that touch on the topics we do — shows about being or feeling fat and the conversations we have around them.

Alan Zweig, November 2025 EarBuds curator

Podcasts on Tubbiness

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Weight For It

This was the first podcast I heard that made me think that the concept for Tubby was feasible. I didn’t hear anything in Ronald’s podcast about adipose tissue or triglycerides or even much about calories. It was just a fat man sharing his fat life. It was inspiring. Ronald was gracious enough to appear as a guest on our show this season.

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The Fat Guy Forum

This show does spend a lot of time talking about weight loss and dieting, but it is also filled with deep conversations about the ongoing struggle that us fat folk face. I recently listened to an episode with a guy named Joel that kept me on the edge of my subway seat.

There was a part in the story where he had just lost 120 pounds and was feeling so good and everyone in his community was proud of him. And then somehow he gained back 150 pounds in six months and was afraid to show his face in his town. That was a beautiful story.

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Maintenance Phase

This was one of the first podcasts I listened to when I started to become obsessed with weight loss about five years ago.

The hosts are all about debunking junk science and garbage nutrition advice. I am all for debunking — though all the debunking that their show and others do can drive a person crazy. And if you listen to all the debunking you might start to feel like losing weight is impossible. Still essential listening.

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Embodied

I am not part of the body positivity movement. I just don’t have it in me. We spend a lot of time on Tubby (probably too much time) talking about how hard it is to look in the mirror.

I appreciated the episode of this podcast about body neutrality and why looking in the mirror and loving everything you see is unrealistic. 

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Death, Sex & Money

Although not specifically a podcast about weight or body issues, this show has produced a bunch of episodes about weight over the years. DSM is a show I’ve been listening to ever since I had Anna Sale as a guest on my other show, The Worst Podcast.

Anna is great at steering conversations about all the things we don’t usually talk about. My work has always been about these kinds of conversations. My latest film is about suicide. My latest podcast is about being fat.  It’s always great to hear people say the things out loud that we usually keep to ourselves.

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