Maintenance Phase Podcast Discussion

Oh I’ve heard about “You’re wrong about” but didn’t realise Michael was one of the hosts. It feels hard to find podcast hosts whose voices i can stand** so i will give it a listen because Michael’s is nice.

(**Expression is the biggest factor i have noticed. Like, please, people, express emotion and don’t give me a flat tone!)

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Same. You’re Wrong About is Great, although I admit to not liking it as much without Michael.

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Is he not in later episodes? I always start with oldest first when I find a new podcast so he’s in the ones I’m listening to.

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Yes. I love that many of the MP episodes end with it!

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He left to do maintenance phase :slight_smile: current eps are Sarah Marshall and rotating guests.

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Damn! Haha, well I can’t blame him. I think MP blew up a lot faster/bigger than they thought it would. At least I still have a bunch left with him in them! Then the quest for another podcast begins again, dun dun dunnnnn

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I wonder if they will cover this! I just heard about it. Seems like it would dovetail with the menu calorie episode.

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OH
MY
GOD

Theyre doing PETE FUCKING EVANS
HOLY CRAP
I CANNOT WAIT FOR DUCKLING TO GO TO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK TO LISTEN TO IT.

oooooooooooh and then discuss with my bestie

I assume this is how y’all feel when they’ve done someone from the US or Canada that ive never heard of.

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Hahaha, pretty much! I’d never heard of this guy. Good episode tho, and there’s going to be a part 2! :slight_smile:

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I knoooooow I can’t believe he got two episodes to himself!

Ok heres my take on him as an Aussie before I listen:

Summary

Chef, east coast, went on cooking shows, becomes celebrity chef, gets some higher profile cookbooks like “heart healthy” possibly with CSIRO, then goes a bit Paleo and shortly thereafter divebombs into the wellness => right wing nutjob (RWNJ) slide.

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Oh! Spoilers…

Summary

The very end talks about fluoridation of water. The area I grew up gets fluoridated water next year. So… Yeah.

Fluoridated water rollout set for 2023 in Bunbury, 55 years after Perth - ABC News

Maybe he did grow up in an unfluoridated water area. Unlikely, though, coz hes east coast.

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We still don’t have fluoridated water here in Portland, a city of 2 million people, or almost the whole state of Oregon. And will not.

The fluoridation vote of 2013 tore friends apart :see_no_evil:

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I did not realise Bunbury did not have flourided water. I assume that means i also didnt grow up with flouride in my water. I just assumed it was everywhere in WA

Some places over east dont have it still… potentially Byron and places like that

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Yeah seems like only Perth, and the actual areas on the metropolitan water supply would have been smaller when it was initially introduced.

ANYWAY I am unsure how we get to a whole second episode with Petey but I’m interested to see where we go.

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My home town was the first city in the US to have fluoride added to the water supply.

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Some places that do not ADD fluoride to the water nonetheless have adequate levels. I lived in such a place ones.

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My mom and her siblings grew up in a place where there was too much fluoride naturally occurring in the water supply. A bit of a social class thing became apparent by the teeth of the residents. Kids whose families had enough money to pay for bottled water had normal white teeth, but those who had to drink the water with too much fluoride had discoloration. Which is the opposite of what you’d think, but too much fluoride causes the same discoloration that decay might cause. Strong, not decayed teeth, but discolored nonetheless. They had fixed the fluoride levels in the town’s water supply by the time I lived there as a kid.

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I heard an NPR story about this happening in Colorado Springs, CO! It was on the radio while driving home from the grocery store when I lived there. Update - Found it! Fluoridation: One Strategy for Improving Public Health, Experts Say | Colorado Public Radio

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Woah! I didn’t know this was a thing! I wonder if that contributed to chemophobia type reactions to things.

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I have 44 minutes left in the 2nd episode, and I wasn’t prepared

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