Fat Camps
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
How America's oldest fat camp — and the inspiration for Disney’s "Heavyweights" — became the symbol of a health intervention that enjoys worldwide popularity despite no evidence that it improves anyone's health.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All I can think of for tagline is nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana |
| 0:16.1 | fat can't a sentence leave it in I love it. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to maintenance phase the podcast that would never take you out of where you're |
| 0:30.2 | comfortable and make you feel bad about yourself. |
| 0:32.5 | Oh, I like it because we're nice. |
| 0:35.4 | We are nice. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Aubrey Gordon. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm Michael Homs. |
| 0:39.3 | This month if you join our Patreon your bonus episode will be our first ever annual |
| 0:46.6 | grifty awards where we are giving awards for the best and mostly worst of health and |
| 0:53.0 | wellness in 2021. |
| 0:54.8 | When it gets involved Nicki Minaj's cousins balls get involved. |
| 0:59.4 | It is a romp of a time. |
| 1:01.3 | But today we are talking about nana nana nana I'm not going to do the whole thing again. |
| 1:06.4 | Fat camps. |
| 1:08.8 | We are talking about fat camps. |
| 1:10.4 | Mike tell me what you know about fat camps. |
| 1:13.0 | Very little actually a couple years ago I had an idea to do an article on fat camps. |
| 1:18.7 | The idea was I was going to go to a fat camp and live there. |
| 1:22.8 | But once I started reaching out to fat camps perhaps unsurprisingly they didn't want me |
| 1:27.4 | to go. |
| 1:28.4 | Nobody would acquiesce to having this random journalist going there asking kids questions |
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