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Scales, Jordan Peterson's Carnivore Diet, and the Tapeworm Story
from Fat Camp with Justin Silver · #117
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4 minCaller
Justin explains why bathroom scales are unreliable due to daily fluctuation, they mangle Jordan Peterson's name and carnivore diet story, and Ray tells a story about passing a tapeworm as a kid plus eating raw garlic cloves like apples.
- 33:38Tim notes everyone in his friend group is fat, including Bobby, and suggests hanging around thinner people
- 33:52Two types of women on planes: those who fetishize fat men as father figures, and those disgusted by the overflow into their seat
- 34:29Running and losing weight made Tim grow to hate fat people—a projection of self-hatred he had to distance himself from
- 34:49Tim claims he has Jewish self-hatred despite lacking stereotypical Jewish traits, attributing it to being pushy, annoying, and complaining
- 35:06Complaining with the guest on a boat tour would have been endless—they're spoiled New Yorkers unimpressed by anything outside the city
- 35:38Distancing himself from annoying Jewish traits made those traits even more irritating to him, like the phrase 'happy Pesach'
- 35:56Discussing diet strategy: writing down what people eat, adding dairy for four days to assess impact on health
- 36:18Sushi with brown rice is a perfect meal, but Tim's problem is ordering eleven rolls at once
- 36:29Tim's physically active enough to run around constantly, biking everywhere and working out, so he can eat whatever he wants
- 36:44The guest walks like a lean guy with good posture and speed, not like fat guys who waddle