Encore: Diet Wars | Scaling Up | 1
Business Wars
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🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
It's 1961 and in a supermarket, housewife Jean Nidetch is about to get a shock that will send her on desperate quest to get thin.
But when her new diet gets tough, she turns to friends for help and inadvertently starts what will become Weight Watchers. And as Weight Watchers rakes in big bucks from weight-loss, a street-tough Philadelphia businessman grabs his chance to become a millionaire.
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| 0:00.0 | A note to listeners, the material in this episode covers the weight loss industry and diet culture, |
| 0:06.0 | which could be upsetting for some people. |
| 0:08.0 | This episode also contains adult language. |
| 0:11.0 | This series originally aired exclusively on Wondering Plus in 2022. |
| 0:17.0 | September 1961, LittleNet Queens, New York. |
| 0:23.0 | Jean Nightich pushes her shopping cart down the supermarket aisle. |
| 0:27.0 | She's wearing her favorite moon move, which flows around her. |
| 0:30.0 | The salons just touched up her brunette bomb. |
| 0:33.0 | She puts a cart in a bag into her cart, next to the hamburger meat. |
| 0:38.0 | At the next aisle, she exchanges smiles with another housewife and adds a box of chocolate malomars to the cart. |
| 0:44.0 | Nightich wheels the cart to the checkout. |
| 0:47.0 | The cashier greets her with a smile and starts ringing up the items. |
| 0:51.0 | She brings up the eggs and hamburger meat. |
| 0:54.0 | Then the malomars. |
| 0:56.0 | The cashier's eyes flick toward nightich. |
| 0:58.0 | Then the cat's eyes flick toward nightich. |
| 1:01.0 | The cat's eyes flick toward nightich. |
| 1:04.0 | The cat's eyes flick toward nightich. |
| 1:07.0 | Then back to the cash register. |
| 1:09.0 | Nightich smiles. |
| 1:11.0 | My son's a door malomars. |
| 1:13.0 | Would you believe they ate the entire box I bought yesterday? |
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