Marie tells Lucille about the diet culture of the Katz household in the early 2000s. Lou screams in frustration at youth-targeted weight-loss grifts. Detours include Q-Anon, Crohn's disease, and the economics of Halloween candy. They hope the listeners will interpret Marie's volume as passion, rather than a recording error. 

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"Mother-reported parental weight talk and adolescent girls’ emotional health, weight control attempts, and disordered eating behaviors" from the Journal of Eating Disorders, 2013

"The effect of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) in the treatment of obesity by means of the Simeons therapy: a criteria-based meta-analysis" from the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 

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