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I’m pretty new to this pod ( found thru If Books Could Kill) and have been listening to old episodes just can’t stop laughing out loud. They don’t seem to be happening? If not, where can I get something similar. ? Kudos Aubrey I’m a huge fan now !!!

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Was reporting some AI bullshit and this came up as one of the reasons you can report posts

As someone straight from the Church values to ED pipeline in my late teens…I find this super troubling. I personally believe Jesus would have loved a beefy 5 layer burrito.

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I just came back from a 10-day organized group tour of Morocco, which was absolutely wonderful. I went with my mom and we were placed in a group with 6 other people. I'm in my late 40s, but was the youngest one by more than a decade. The rest of the group was in their 60s or 70s. The one thing that stuck in my craw the whole time was the amount of diet talk/body obsession going on, both from women and men. It felt like most mealtimes, obsession with food/losing weight/being "healthy" came back around. All of these people were not heavy in the least (I was definitely the fattest there)! None of them seemed to have any inkling that their diet talk is unhealthy; so much of it felt like talk of socially acceptable disordered eating. They would also tell stories of people they know doing all sorts of diets and which ones worked. On one of the last days, one of the women in the group bought "detox tea" while we were in a souk after the seller lauded its virtues to help you lose weight. When I pointed out to my mom how terrible these laxative teas are for one's health and that so many Insta influencers have been trying to hawk this stuff for a long time, she seemed surprised.

Anyway, I didn't engage in any of this talk, and I would constantly try to change the subject to something more interesting. But boy, it kept coming back as a topic of discussion. In retrospect, I wonder if I should have pushed back more, but I didn't feel like I could say anything that wouldn't get me shunned. Also, I concluded that people often want to think older people are more secure in themselves, but they definitely are not.

Would love to hear the podcast cover Picky by Helen Zoe Veit because I had a very mixed reaction to it. The historical sections on American food culture, refrigeration, processed foods, and advertising are occasionally interesting, but the book feels massively stretched out relative to the actual thesis.

A lot of the argument boils down to fairly obvious points: ultra-processed foods, increased food choice, and child-targeted advertising contributed to modern picky eating. That could honestly have been a great long-form article or podcast episode instead of a dense full-length book filled with repetitive anecdotes and strawman parenting arguments that often feel disconnected from how parents are actually advised today.

What do you MEAN you just strapped a carton of eggs to the back of your bike?? For the love of god man, get a set of panniers. It’s a real, revolutionary 1880’s technology that big grocery doesn’t want you to know about, and it could cut your grocery bill in half!

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