Prescription weight loss injections are all over the news right now.

People want them, people can't get them, everyone is talking about them.

They seem to work by removing hunger, but what does that really mean?

This episode of Gastropod, we talked to people who've taken these drugs and felt their hunger suddenly disappear.

We also talk to the researchers who are figuring out the science of hunger and fullness,

how it works and how it shapes our lives, plus why each of us experiences it so differently.

Come with us behind the headlines to hear what these drugs can tell us about the feelings that bookend each and every meal.

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Student loan debt is an issue that's important to a lot of weed listeners, to a lot of people I know.

It's like a lot of folks are struggling with personally, so I was really excited to sit down with Catherine Lucas-McK.

She is an expert at the Aspen Institute. She's been tasked with studying the question of student debt and its consequences for the past couple of years now.

We had a really fascinating conversation about all of this.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weets on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Eclasius.

Before we get to it, I just want to let you know we're shaking up the schedule a little bit instead of a Friday episode.

Me and Ezra Klein are going to do a post-debate episode that should be out on Wednesday.

My guest today, Catherine Lucas-McK, is a program manager at the Financial Stability Program at the Aspen Institute.

That's a mouthful, but she has been working on student loans, which is not something we've had the chance to talk about here, but I know it's an interest to a lot of people.

So I'm really glad to have you here.

Thank you. I'm really glad to be here, both as a person who's passionate about the topic and as a passionate Weets fan.

I think about this. I sometimes feel like this is a topic on which I show my age.

I think about I graduated college in 2003. Most people who I was graduating with had some student loans.

I think I wish we didn't have them. Nobody likes to be in debt.

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