Making It Awkward
Hosted by Jessica Wilson · Jessica Wilson, MS RD
4.8from 155 ratings
- 151
- Episodes
- 22
- Transcribed
- 155
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 5M
- YouTube views
About Making It Awkward
What's going on with health and food policy right now? Each week dietitian and author Jessica Wilson shares her conversations with experts in their field or on their farm and figures out how we got here and why. Jessica has followed the ultra-processed food hysteria to trad wife pipeline and the direct path from COVID conspiracies to RFK Jr to the current administration. From her conversation with the Make America Healthy Again spokesperson to the Oregon beef farmer this podcast connects it all. Listen each week as she brings something new to the conversation and at times makes it awkward.
- Publisher
- Jessica Wilson, MS RD
- Category
- health & fitness · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Jul 2023
- Latest episode
- 24 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
22 of 151 episodes have a transcript.
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Democratic Dark Money, the Influencer Economy and Sam Rosenholtz with Lindsay Lee Wallace
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The SPAMisode! with Daphne K. Jenkins
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Chemophobia and Science Literacy with Jillian Wilson
Inside a recent episode
Democratic Dark Money, the Influencer Economy and Sam Rosenholtz with Lindsay Lee Wallace
Published 24 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So that was like one of the things where I was like, I know seven things about what is undermining democracy and I talk about them all the time and I'm annoying. That was one of them. Well, tell us more. Well, is that something friend of the pod, Alison Pill was in? Yes, it is. It is. Friend of the pod, Alison Pill plays Maggie in the newsroom, the television show that child me was obsessed with. Hi, Allison. I saw you playing Maggie so many times. Formative experience for Lindsay. I love that. OK, so keep going. Citizens United was a Supreme Court decision that made it that classified. political donations as free speech and made it legal for an enormous amount of like dark money that previously wouldn't have been allowed to be donated to political campaigns to be donated to political campaigns. […]
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- Lindsay Lee Wallace
- Daphne K Jenkins
- Jillian Wilson
- Bethany Johnson
- The Conscious Lee
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 4,822,938
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 87 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 68 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 82
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 92
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