Heather Radke, a writer and contributing editor/reporter at Radiolab, chats with Trey Elling about BUTTS: A BACKSTORY. Topics include:
- Heather's goal with Butts (0:00)
- The gluteal cleft (2:13)
- Why humans evolved to have butts (3:31)
- How the butt is a Swiss Army Knife (5:26)
- Male peacocks and the female human butt (7:07)
- The modern objectification of the female butt beginning with Sarah Baartman 200+ years ago (10:56)
- Scientists' creating racial hierarchy with butts (and more) in the 1800s (14:44)
- The bustle in the late 1800s (17:16)
- The flapper of the 1920s (20:20)
- Josephine Baker's butt nearly ending European civilization (23:50)
- Attempting to define "normal" in the mid-1900s (26:08)
- The model responsible for how many clothing companies determine the fit for women's pants (29:23)
- Buns of Steel (32:29)
- The start of 'fat fitness' in the 1980s (35:53)
- Sir Mix-A-Lot and Baby Got Back (38:13)
- Why women's butts have been more openly discussed since around 2000 (42:59)
- Beyonce and "Bootylicious" (46:30)
- 2014 as the 'Year of the Butt' (49:20)
- The next big thing in butts (51:22)
