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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. So I've been reading an

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Speaker 1: article in the New York Times about a very small story,

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Speaker 1: you'd think, but it sums up everything about our influencers,

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Speaker 1: society and where we are. This is a bicram yoga

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Speaker 1: class in New York, and bikram yoga is a ninety

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Speaker 1: minute class. It's quite a specific class. The room is heated.

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Speaker 1: Many yoga rooms are, but this is a particular style

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Speaker 1: of yoga. As I said, it's called bikram yoga, and

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Speaker 1: it's a ninety minute class. During this ninety minute class,

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes in, this woman who happens to be an

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Speaker 1: influencer with millions of followers, reaches down and she breaks

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Speaker 1: her pose, takes a sip of water. The instructor says,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather you didn't do that right now. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you wait to the designated halfway through mark, Because when

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Speaker 1: bicram yoga, you're taken through a series of moves, and

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Speaker 1: it says here that you're encouraged to refrain from drinking

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Speaker 1: in this style of yoga until half an hour in.

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Speaker 1: Usually once they reach a particular pose called the eagle pose.

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Speaker 1: So she hadn't waited, she wanted a drink of water.

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Speaker 1: The proponent, the instructor says, you don't get the best

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Speaker 1: benefits from this if you drink water outside those prescribed times. Right,

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Speaker 1: what about the down with dog? Where does that fit in?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's big from momma. I'm absolutely

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Speaker 1: not sure. But in this era of obsessive hydration, this

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Speaker 1: has been a big story. So this woman is told,

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Speaker 1: I prefer it if you didn't take a drink right now.

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Speaker 1: This woman, her Fyonce, is doing the class with her.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't say anything to the instructor, but she leaves the

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Speaker 1: class and she then gets on her phone and does

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Speaker 1: a rant. This is why it's everything about modern society.

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Speaker 1: So she does a rant and she says, let me

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Speaker 1: try and find it here that the instructor had bullied her,

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Speaker 1: called her out in front of everyone and said it's

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Speaker 1: not time to drink water. I'll let you know when

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Speaker 1: you can drink water. I don't want you to drink water.

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Speaker 1: So two million users see this, see this rant of

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Speaker 1: hers and other people. Of course, as I said, everyone

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Speaker 1: needs to be uberhydrated at all times. Says, how dare

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Speaker 1: they stop you drinking water? There's such outrage about this,

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Speaker 1: that the instructor is sacked. Really yeah, And the instructor says,

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Speaker 1: I didn't bully her. I just said, if you can

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Speaker 1: refrain to but your own free will, do what you like.

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Speaker 1: The instructor is sacked, and the story has just got

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Speaker 1: bigger and bigger. So this one phrase in this really

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Speaker 1: stuck with me because you'd think, well, you know, take

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Speaker 1: or leave. We're doing a bit from yoga plaster. If

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Speaker 1: you want to have a sip, do it. The instructor

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Speaker 1: probably shouldn't tell her not to. But the story now

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Speaker 1: has ended in the instructors getting a sack, and she

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Speaker 1: has said, you are seeing this new era young people

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Speaker 1: having a very hard time being told what to do.

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Speaker 1: So there are strict instructions that go around this Bickram

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Speaker 1: set of moves, and being told what to do doesn't

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Speaker 1: suit anyone anymore. And also, rather than just being annoyed

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Speaker 1: and leaving, she has a rant on her phone form.

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Speaker 1: You know two million people see it. Instructor gets sad,

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Speaker 1: doesn't go to the person has ran on, that's right,

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Speaker 1: says nothing to the instructor herself, and the the Bickram

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Speaker 1: studio the next day, having seen her comments, sort of

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Speaker 1: tried to make light of it, saying, sorry, we don't

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Speaker 1: mean to you know, that's not our intention. If you

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Speaker 1: want to have a sip, that's okay. But by then

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Speaker 1: the damage had been done. Generation So what happened is

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Speaker 1: started as a very small story a woman doing a

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Speaker 1: yoga class having a sip of water being uncomfortable when

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Speaker 1: she was asked not to, has blown up into this giant,

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Speaker 1: long article in the New York Times because it sums

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Speaker 1: up everything about both sides of where we are. Can't

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Speaker 1: tell them anything, can't tell them anything, but in this

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Speaker 1: as what I love the expression. In this age of

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Speaker 1: obsessive hydration. You and I grew up without ever having

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Speaker 1: a sip of water. I don't, and I never measured

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Speaker 1: and I never measured my protein. Today people spend most

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Speaker 1: of their diet their day weighing protein. You, how do

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Speaker 1: you even do that? Every single food influencer is saying

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Speaker 1: this is great for you, and protein is good for us.

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Speaker 1: Here's how many calories it is, Here's how much protein

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Speaker 1: you're getting. We're all obsessed water and protein. I look

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Speaker 1: at Gemi Raye. He measures his grain waves every day.

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Speaker 1: I love grain mum his Mum packed his little lunch

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Speaker 1: lux