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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry lurking around here like a creeper weirdo who takes pictures

of people without their permission and this is Stuff You Should Know.

I like that.

The joke's so nice I said it twice.

So we should issue a trigger warning before this episode because we are talking about

bariatric surgery which some people refer to as weight loss surgery and the topic of

food and weight and weight loss and obesity and weight loss surgery can be very triggering

for people.

So if you want to listen to this one great, we're going to just break it down like we usually

do.

But if it's something that you don't want to listen to we totally understand.

Yeah, I mean, after researching this I totally get why like a fat positive or somebody who

would be triggered by talk of that could be upset by it because there's a pretty substantial

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