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Welcome back to the Curious Podcast. My name is Josh Pax and I'm your host and your name is

listener and that's what you do. You listen. Did we get through the holiday? One down? A couple more

to go. I don't know what your affinity is whether you're a Christmas person, a Hanukkah, maybe

you're a Kwanza guy. Regardless, you got one or two events coming up and probably some holiday

parties. I'm talking office holiday parties. I'm talking a friend perhaps and by two every year

to a holiday party that you don't really want to go and fuck. Who wants to be white elephant

for this long? And there's always that one guy in white elephant or like secret Santa who takes

it way too seriously, who's like stealing gifts left and right and you're like, hey Chuck,

why don't you fucking take your foot off the gas. It's a $25 gift certificate to Taco Bell,

not the fucking Faberier egg that you're training it like Chuck. Man, whenever I play white elephant

and I get a gift that I want, I just kind of fade into the wall. You know what I mean? I just kind

of, maybe I'm going to go to the kitchen and get a snack. Hope, you know, I hope that they forget

that I got, you know, an $18 gift certificate to Pete's coffee and I can just palm that thing and,

you know, I'd be four four to five cold brews richer depending on the price point that I'm

purchasing it at. But that's how I approach white elephant, you know what I mean? But the holidays

are upon us. We got through Thanksgiving. I had a very nice one. Eat a lot. I have a weird relationship

with food. Welcome. I'm pretty sure the whole world does or at least most of us. I, you know,

growing up I was a heavier person. No, I'm not. But I feel myself plagued by, you know, thought of

thoughts of what am I, what am I going to eat? How much should I be eating? Did I eat too much?

And how can I work out to compensate the amount of calories I've consumed on a regular basis?

I'm overcome by thoughts of food, my body image, and the way that I'm perceived. You know,

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