313: We're Breaking Under the Weight of Our Own Weight with Vinnie Tortorich

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

The health and fitness guru breaks down the effects of sugar and grain on the American diet, gives an accounting of the total weight lost by the "Rowebies" that joined Vinnie's crusade after his first appearance on TWIHI (spoiler alert: it's a LOT!), and bids us beware of food pyramids and sleeping nineteenth-century prophets.

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0:00.0	And just like that, it's episode number 313 of the way I heard it.
0:08.2	This one is called We're Breaking Under the Weight of Our Own Weight.
0:13.2	A rather clever turn of phrase by my rather clever guest back for his reprise or redux.
0:22.7	I think it means the same thing.
0:24.3	Whatever it is, it's Vinny Torterich.
0:26.8	I'm still not convinced he pronounces his name properly.
0:29.6	Why would you pronounce it?
0:31.9	Tertorich.
0:33.1	Tertorich.
0:34.1	I mean, I...
0:35.5	John Tertoro.
0:36.5	Exactly.
0:37.5	Exactly.
0:38.5	And for a long time, I saw his name in print and that's what I assumed it was and then he
0:42.9	introduced himself when he came on this podcast a year ago as Vinny Torterich and I'm
0:47.5	like, oh, I hate to tell you this, my friend, but you're saying your name wrong.
0:51.5	You got that wrong.
0:52.5	What was it turned?
0:53.9	And he said, what do you mean, Mike Row?
0:55.7	As it turns out, I was wrong.
0:57.2	Vinny has been pronouncing his name properly his whole life and as it turns out, the things
1:01.9	we're wrong about really is at the guts of this conversation.
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