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Dubious Diets
Let's speculate wildly about what she might have done in a new game we're calling Dubious Diets. We're going to take turns. I'm going to give you each a brief description of a diet fad from the past, and you have to guess first and foremost whether or not it is real, and then I'm going to have you kind of name what exactly the diet is. I'll go first. A surefire…
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Let's speculate wildly about what she might have done in a new game we're calling Dubious Diets. We're going to take turns. I'm going to give you each a brief description of a diet fad from the past, and you have to guess first and foremost whether or not it is real, and then I'm going to have you kind of name what exactly the diet is. I'll go first. A surefire way to limit your calories, this system might ultimately lead to quite a lot of waste. What? What? Did you explain it? Is that real or fake? You just explained that it could... What? Say it again. A surefire way to limit your calories, this system might ultimately lead to quite a lot of waste. But you didn't describe anything. You just said it might work. The problem is all of these prove to have like on the money like names. Yes, so I couldn't give you the name of the thing and then have you try to figure out what it is. So I'm doing it the other way where I'm going to give you a cryptic...
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What is wrong with you, Curtis?
What is wrong with you? Are we taking pills together? No. That is what it sounded like. That is a good guess. That is not the case.
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What is wrong with you, Curtis?
I'm not going to lie to you. I engineered having Lawrence do this one because I thought it was easier. Do you think the tapeworm diet is real?
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Are you purposely giving Ryan Sansone the hardest ones?
Like, are you just purposely doing that to Ryan? Yeah, that's tough. What could this gadget be? This is a diet? Is that what we're doing? It's a weight loss fad.
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Like, are you just purposely doing that to Ryan Sansone?
Yeah, that's tough. What could this gadget be? This is a diet? Is that what we're doing? It's a weight loss fad. Oh, okay.
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Like, what were they thinking? The previous episode is going to be about a kid's party. We know Daphne embarked on a new weight loss journey, but precious little was shared about
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- Let's speculate wildly about what she might have done in a new game we're calling Dubious Diets. We're going to take turns. I'm going to give you each a brief description of a diet fad from the past, and you have to
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Okay. What's the surefire part? Lawrence, he's lost his mind. I don't know. We just have to figure this out. What do you think this system is?
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- What is it? Oh, so I have to do all the work. Okay. I'm guessing this is how you... I don't get it at all. I think this is one of those belly things that you put on and they're like, oh, it'll give you abs, but really it just makes you shit a lot. Okay. That's incorrect.
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7 bites? There you go. Okay. You finally got the answer. You get a point for getting it. We were all there on the first try. Watching Ryan do it, I'm pretty sure I'll be great at this. So let's do this. Come on.
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Well, I guess it's real, Curtis, because you didn't describe anything.
Okay.
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And what is the waste away system?
What is it?
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What are you going to take 7 of on the plate?
7 bites?
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It's got some Jeopardy DNA, but I don't know how the game works, so we're not doing that.
Does it?
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What is wrong with you, Curtis?
I'm not going to lie to you.
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But is it a thing that existed?
Like, did people do this?
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- Let's speculate wildly about what she might have done in a new game we're calling Dubious Diets. We're going to take turns. I'm going to give you each a brief description of a diet fad from the past, and you have to guess first and foremost whether or not it is real, and then I'm going to have you kind of name what exactly the diet is. I'll go first. A surefire way to limit your calories, this system might ultimately lead to quite a lot of waste. What? What? Did you explain it? Is that real or fake? You just explained that it could... What? Say it again. A surefire way to limit your calories, this system might ultimately lead to quite a lot of waste. But you didn't describe anything. You just said it might work. The problem is all of these prove to have like on the money like names. Yes, so I couldn't give you the name of the thing and then have you try to figure out what it is. So I'm doing it the other way where I'm going to give you a cryptic...
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- I'm going to give you each a brief description of a diet fad from the past, and you have to
- We just have to figure this out.
- Oh, so I have to do all the work.
- You are allowed to take 7 bites of whatever you're eating and then you have to stop.
- I have to agree.
- Just to be clear, even though I questioned everything Curt did, you don't have to do that for the format.
- This weight loss regimen is one you'll never have to do alone.
- Why do I have to do this by myself?
- You eventually have to, like, take something to kill it, and then it just goes out your bowels.
- Oh, no, you have to guess now.
- You have to change your guess.
- What does that have to do with rubber?
- He doesn't even have to do the second one.