February Bonus: Diet Book Buffet
Added 2023-02-27 10:00:03 +0000 UTCThis month, we're taking a tour through Aubrey's ever-expanding diet book collection, starting with politically conservative diet books. That's right—we're taking on The I Heart America Diet (written by the former First Lady of Kentucky), The Love Diet (foreword by king gremlin James Dobson) and Kill It & Grill It, a wild game cookbook from noted racist horror show Ted Nugent. Let's dunk on jerks!
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M&A
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Mike and I started to sing the what’s love song at the same exact moment and I laughed out loud, startling my roommate
H. Owens
2025-08-14 18:48:20 +0000 UTCME TOO! I'm going to suggest "Sex and the Single Girl" for that--there's a diet/exercise section (because, girls, you know how you must look adorable). I love If Books Could Kill, but given their theme, they are a little heavy on books written by men.
MHW
2025-04-12 19:13:42 +0000 UTCStill waiting for the Maintenance Phase/If Books Could Kill crossover episode. 🤞
R
2025-04-06 13:32:31 +0000 UTCI first interpreted “Is he being paid by the preposition?” not as “He is paid according to how many prepositions he uses,” but as “This guy is in the pocket of Bug Preposition.”
Betti Tristan
2024-12-12 16:49:03 +0000 UTCI have the same birthday as Ted Neugent and I hate that I do
SnakeGrl
2024-08-22 16:14:38 +0000 UTCShrimp! Recipe! Now!
Pinakebbet
2024-08-13 05:39:15 +0000 UTCThe people humbly request the Christian diet book episode! I need to know what’s in Bod for God
Nina Bee
2024-07-28 17:08:18 +0000 UTCI just listened to this episode yesterday and today this popped up on my FYP https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7svN2vtUvS/?igsh=cXB5ejBvMG94eDk5
Astrid Hogenkamp
2024-06-05 05:55:39 +0000 UTCkv my
Sarah Easley
2024-03-22 00:29:08 +0000 UTCmd y
Sarah Easley
2024-03-22 00:26:34 +0000 UTCLove y’all, your idea for your own “diet book” is just a cook book. Those also exist😄
Sarah W.
2024-03-21 18:12:16 +0000 UTCMy cousin works in bike infrastructure in Seattle and he’s always pronounced Biketown the same way as you and I try to convert as many people as possible.
Rachael
2024-01-25 21:00:02 +0000 UTCI remember this book!!! It was a whole series of 'skinny bitch' books and they were horrible. Even as a young teen I could tell they were full of shit lol!
king
2023-08-12 16:55:05 +0000 UTC27 min. in, where Mike reads a book section comparing love as a diet motivator to driving...that part was beyond ridiculous and funny. 'Love levels' sound like a setting for a sex robot.
Melissa Lobo
2023-07-27 03:48:08 +0000 UTCI found a diet book at my local used book shop called, “skinny bitch”, in which the gimmick is that the authors “tell it like it is” and basically call the reader stupid and ugly the entire book.
Alexia Bunge
2023-06-19 15:11:28 +0000 UTCPLEASE GIVE ME THE SHRIMP RECIPE OMG I WOULD BUY THAT “DIET” BOOK
Destinee E.
2023-06-06 21:28:57 +0000 UTC“Resist the entire fucking premise” should be a tshirt
Ivie Montgomery
2023-05-25 15:56:19 +0000 UTCWhen they were talking about TicTok all I could think was “Everybody’s so creative!”
Tiffany Kummer
2023-04-27 01:14:02 +0000 UTCCoke is great for cooking. My mum uses it for the Christmas ham sometimes. And, as you say, great on chicken.
Kala Emmy
2023-04-23 14:19:29 +0000 UTCOmnivore's Dilemma?
fig leaf
2023-04-16 21:04:37 +0000 UTCwould love more of these! so curious about wack diet books
fig leaf
2023-04-16 21:03:45 +0000 UTCI was crying laughing at this one, omg
Christie Moore
2023-04-14 20:49:02 +0000 UTCI'm very down for Aubrey to bring a garbage diet book to If Books Could Kill!
Emmaline Conover
2023-04-14 19:51:19 +0000 UTCI want to see the tiktok too!
Nicole Iger
2023-04-14 02:46:58 +0000 UTCDoes anyone have a link to the Tiktok. lol
coffinrehearsal
2023-04-11 15:15:27 +0000 UTCOMG, Noom, your personal guide for developing an eating disorder. Fun fact, they used to use some of Brian Wansink's research in their teachings. I don't think that they ever changed the information used after his retractions....
Candi Risk
2023-03-30 19:31:57 +0000 UTCRosh Hashana brisket uses cans of Coke, too. Bet that makes Ted mad
nina
2023-03-27 01:47:05 +0000 UTCGreat episode as always :) I'll echo the interest in covering Noom (but maybe that will be a regular episode vs. bonus?)
LeAnne
2023-03-26 21:16:09 +0000 UTCSex fried fish slab is my new trivia team name, I call it
Delaney McBride
2023-03-26 14:59:03 +0000 UTCHoping people listen to it!!! I posted the podcast link on my FB page and some dude totally popped up out of his trash can (within 2 minutes of me posting without even bothering to listen....) to shout "O###### is BaD fOr ChIlDrEn"and doubled down after I asked him to at least consider... ... .... anyway, we're no longer friends
Candi Risk
2023-03-24 18:28:32 +0000 UTCI read some of the comments and saw "sex fried fish slab" and thought, well now I know the joke so it won't be as funny, and oh my god I underestimated how incredibly hilarious this bit is. I laughed to the point of crying and wheezing. Peak comedy lol
Ashlee Beals
2023-03-24 06:15:52 +0000 UTCI don't want to be that person, but In college we used to make "Pollo a la coca cola" (coca cola chicken) with chicken thighs and a can of coke, and it doesn't taste very sweet. Nowadays I still do it every month more or less, with a dash of soy and oyster sauce, garlic, cayenne and onions, and ginger. And it's delicious. I might say that venison must taste good xD without the chutney
Gabriela Lamadrid
2023-03-23 10:05:36 +0000 UTCSome comedians i follow would not shut up about their strict diets in their last episode. Man comedians. Regressive progress?!?!
Julia
2023-03-22 00:25:45 +0000 UTC*Beef
Kendra LeSar
2023-03-18 17:22:30 +0000 UTCY’all have clearly never heard of Mississippi Roast. Pork, ranch, and Coke in the slow cooker https://www.deepsouthdish.com/2013/01/mississippi-roast-my-way.html?m=1
Kendra LeSar
2023-03-18 17:21:57 +0000 UTC“Sexfried fishslab” is gonna become one of those phrases that lives rent free in my mind for the rest of time
Sei B
2023-03-17 19:17:57 +0000 UTCWhat are your top 3 must haves and bottom 3? For your average home cook.
Blake Martin
2023-03-16 16:25:14 +0000 UTCI'd LOVE a review of the college health class requirement and the textbooks used. Connect Core Concepts in Health, seventeen edition, for me.
Shartooterie
2023-03-15 22:34:18 +0000 UTCI really really want an episode on Caroline Dooner and the anti-diet to conspiracy theorist pipeline!
Lisa Brundage
2023-03-15 21:28:53 +0000 UTCAmazing as always, y’all! 💛💚💜
Sam Stone
2023-03-15 14:37:20 +0000 UTCDrop the shrimp recipe Aubrey!!!
Rachael
2023-03-14 17:37:22 +0000 UTCSEX FRIED FISH SLAB. Hoooly lord this was worth the $30 "patronage" alone.
Amy Hayden
2023-03-13 16:16:47 +0000 UTCI HAVE NOT LAUGHED THIS HARD SINCE 2015 THANK YOU
Sunflower 🌻
2023-03-13 04:04:34 +0000 UTCI HAD TO STOP DRIVING AT SEX FRIED FISH SLAB AUBREY YOUR LAUGH IS THE BEST
Sunflower 🌻
2023-03-13 04:04:02 +0000 UTCYes please share the recipe!!!!! 🍤🥥
Lauren Sina Bondi Piccioni
2023-03-12 11:35:18 +0000 UTCAubrey, I’d take that shrimp and coconut milk recipe if you are still offering.
Jancee Hansen
2023-03-10 21:31:31 +0000 UTCI love the expression "very ex husband" lmao
Ember Macaroni
2023-03-10 21:24:20 +0000 UTC"Let's dunk on jerks" is my fave hobby
Ember Macaroni
2023-03-10 18:38:35 +0000 UTCThe deep gliggles from Sexfried Fishslab were SO GOOD. Can’t wait for the next Aubrey’s diet book collection tour!
Erin Marziale
2023-03-10 14:30:41 +0000 UTCAnother killer episode!!! You guys are the best. WOULD LOVE episodes on Noom and Ozempic
Grace
2023-03-10 02:50:32 +0000 UTCAubrey: reason GWB and Tom Ridge blurbed Ted's book is that it came out a year after 9/11, when these yobbos were riding high. Would be surprised if there wasn't a blurb from Limbaugh.
Gary McCammon
2023-03-09 01:04:09 +0000 UTCDo you guys remember the name of the book about academic squabbling and politics that you recommended early on in the pod?
Nina
2023-03-07 01:06:21 +0000 UTCYES! The abuse that was hurled at her was appalling
Katie Cook not a book
2023-03-06 02:36:47 +0000 UTCI want that t-shirt and I also love my air fryer.
Lisa Manske
2023-03-05 21:08:20 +0000 UTCDemanding!
Lisa Manske
2023-03-05 21:03:56 +0000 UTCYes! It's dizzying
Lisa Manske
2023-03-05 21:03:00 +0000 UTCAs an exvangelical, I can say that the reason white American evangelicals buy evangelical diet books has nothing to do with the bible but with being conditioned to not trust any information that comes from a non-Evangelical. The pressure to stay inside the bubble is very strong.
Lisa Manske
2023-03-05 19:36:53 +0000 UTCIn case anyone needs yet another reason to be disgusted by James Dobson, enter his name and Paul Popenoe" into a search. YIKES, yes, it's the e word.
Lisa Manske
2023-03-05 19:34:20 +0000 UTCPlease share details! Name and date of show?
Lisa Manske
2023-03-05 19:30:22 +0000 UTComg, thank you! I don't use TT and was so curious. That's too good.
Lisa Scheff
2023-03-04 23:17:42 +0000 UTCI just want to say thank you for the childhood o**** episode. It's all so horrifying and now I don't have to try to explain why, I can just point people to your extremely excellent breakdown.
Lisa Scheff
2023-03-04 23:14:11 +0000 UTCOkay, but actually bear meat makes a pretty delicious chili.
Emily Cicora
2023-03-04 21:32:30 +0000 UTCI love whole milk cottage cheese with crackers. This episode was fantastic and as a chef who received a TON of cookbooks when I said I was going to culinary school, I can tell you there are a lot of bad cookbooks out there.
Melissa M
2023-03-04 17:26:45 +0000 UTCJust listening to NPR and heard an ad for a show airing this weekend and whose voice did I hear? Aubrey!! Love to hear her voice getting out there!
Michelle
2023-03-03 20:09:55 +0000 UTCIn case anyone else wanted a direct link to the tiktok mentioned @ ~ 6:30 https://www.tiktok.com/@mandibossard/video/7164775397366697262
Irene
2023-03-03 19:51:17 +0000 UTCCan I ask which state? States moving from Fee For Service to Managed Care Plans can be a total mess
Allegra G Harris
2023-03-03 19:49:21 +0000 UTCI wasn’t sure where else to put this (I cannot do twitter) but in relation to the most recent main feed episode it made me think about my recent experiences with medicaid. I’m disabled and in my state they recently changed the services that Medicaid recipients get from the broad “medicaid coverage” umbrella to a list of plans under private insurance companies that you are required to choose from. It’s a nightmare and now for the first time in my adult life I’m having to do all of the network navigating bullshit that I believe no one should have to do. When choosing a plan you’re given a breakdown of what each one offers/includes. It’s very confusing. But the thing that made me laugh in a grim way was that EVERY SINGLE PLAN offers first and foremost a “fReE mEmBerShIp with WEIGHT WATCHERS!!” It’s fucked and I hate it and I had to share this somewhere lol. God bless America.
nina ♡
2023-03-03 19:08:09 +0000 UTCGovernment Objectification Project
Christina Bugna
2023-03-03 17:29:01 +0000 UTCSexfried Fishslab sounds like someone trying to remember Benedict Cumberbatch’s name.
Tom
2023-03-03 14:20:50 +0000 UTCOMG BIKETOWN ME TOO
Tanner Johnson
2023-03-03 03:02:01 +0000 UTCI desperately want to see a picture of Aubrey's entire diet book collection, but I even more desperately don't want to spoil future episodes for myself. It is difficult to be alive.
Meredith Anderson
2023-03-03 02:08:04 +0000 UTCTotally bought the Nugent Book as a totally serious anniversary present for my now VERY ex husband. He got the book in the divorce.
Laura Hayes
2023-03-02 23:59:05 +0000 UTCI LOVE COTTAGE CHEESE AND I AM ALLERGIC TO CHEESE FFS 😂 😭
Casey
2023-03-02 23:27:11 +0000 UTCDear Michael & Aubrey, our book club is going through some stuff so could you help us out ? Michael mentioned he was in a book club...anything he liked that was fun in the last six months? (We already have Aubrey's books 💜)
Elizabeth
2023-03-02 22:27:28 +0000 UTCI want to know Michael's bookclub book
Amanda Gibson
2023-03-02 22:18:49 +0000 UTCI have family members who have been on hunting trips with Ted Nugent and the blurb on "Nugentizing" the language truly does not do justice to the words he makes up
Giovanna N. Reesby
2023-03-02 21:48:44 +0000 UTCOkay I'm gonna write a book called, "The Love Your Diet Book," and fill it with all kinds of delicious delicious recipes (which are in NO WAY low-cal, but just plain awesome), and then tell the reader to eat their fill of these yummy things, and tell them that only when they are happily sated and dreamy-eyed after dessert, can they consider that they've achieved "dietary success." P.S. I fucking LOVE you guys!!!!!
Thuri Calafia
2023-03-02 21:19:18 +0000 UTCI WANT THE SHRIMP POACHED IN COCONUT RECIPE
Lyndy Wilde
2023-03-02 21:05:17 +0000 UTC“I mean, I’ve seen TikTok.” - all millennials
Ashton Ballard
2023-03-02 18:24:00 +0000 UTCI don't feel they've ever hid their political leanings. Like even a little bit . . .
Gretchen Sprinkle
2023-03-02 14:44:07 +0000 UTCThese two could rant about eating dog shit and my ears would eat that shit up all day long, because listening to them talk about anything brings me so much joy.
Kate Naomi Aldridge
2023-03-02 13:58:55 +0000 UTCIt’s a bummer that this has become an political podcast in many regards whereas in the past it wasn’t. This was my favorite podcast of last year, according to Spotify, and I really enjoyed this show from its inception until about 6 months ago or so. At this point, you are both so certain that every opinion you have is “right” that you have become arrogant and close-minded. I have been a patron for over a year and I have introduced this podcast to many people, but recently it turns people off because they don’t want to listen to two people just make fun of or bully other people with different beliefs. You have both become very much the thing you have such disdain for, and it is really discouraging. Some of your episodes recently are more enjoyable to me than others, but the phrase “far right” is said in almost every episode and it’s completely unnecessary. People of all political beliefs stigmatize people for their body, so it seems ridiculous just to be critical of one demographic of people. Please be more open-minded and demonstrate more humility or else this show truly will just be two people complaining about the other side of the political spectrum and that concept is awful to listen to and absurdly unoriginal and overdone. As a fan from the very first episode, I really hope the focus goes back to the actual issues related to diet culture and prejudice/stigma associated with body types rather than focusing on whether or not people like Donald Trump. Who cares if people like Donald Trump? People who don’t like Donald Trump have the capacity to be just as awful, so please stop using that as a metric to determine if someone is a legitimate person or not. This is just my opinion though.
Reid Dutchess
2023-03-02 13:20:20 +0000 UTCOk, so I'm wearing a heart monitor for 24 hours. When you got to "sexfried." I literally could not stop laughing! Not sure if I had a weird heart moment, but I noted it down on my chart as "laughed really at funny joke" with the time just in case XD
Maria
2023-03-02 12:52:28 +0000 UTCLove it. Such a fun conversation. If you ever decide to dip into this well again, I'd be curious to hear if you have takes on Mike Huckabee's Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork, which was published some years before he started calling for conservatives to eat at Chick-fil-A as a way to own the libs. I had thought his whole deal considered eating fast food as bad, but I guess he makes an exception if it can hurt gay people.
Holly Surbaugh
2023-03-02 00:35:12 +0000 UTCLove that Aubrey low-key roasts Ted Nugent for using the “catsup” spelling.
Glo
2023-03-01 23:01:24 +0000 UTCAnother Michigander here. The Nuge is inescapable in large swaths of the state (or was, anyway, back when he was sexfrying fishslabs), and my huntin’ uncle ABSOLUTELY owns this book. I’m a brand-new Patron and this single episode was worth 10x the price of admission. 🤣❤️🤣
Angela Hathikhanavala
2023-03-01 22:24:18 +0000 UTCYes! Please!
Laura Perna
2023-03-01 19:46:40 +0000 UTCI grew up in rural Northern Michigan. Ted Nugent is the absolute worst. Don't forget the song "Jail Bait." What a piece of shit.
Chelsea
2023-03-01 17:02:24 +0000 UTCJust need y'all to know that I also started singing What's Love Got to Do With It at that exact moment 😂
Anthony Melo
2023-03-01 16:44:14 +0000 UTCIf texture is your issue with cottage cheese, blending it is a game changer.
kb
2023-03-01 16:40:46 +0000 UTCI absolutely lost my shit when Aubrey couldn’t get out the words sexfried fishslab. We need this phrase in the tee public store STAT 😂😂😂
Leigh Fisher
2023-03-01 15:59:22 +0000 UTCI hate/love that I immediately recognized the title “Kill it and Grill it”… because I’m 99% sure that book was a gag gift circulated in our (extended) family gift exchange one year. For context my momcomes from a mennonite family, is one of 6 siblings, and grew up in the Washington DC area but everyone is pretty spread across the country now. Most of my aunts and uncles more or less lean liberal/democrat with a few exceptions: so basically I think someone just thought this book would be a fun and wild thing to throw in the gift exchange one year as none of us are the target audience. A few of my uncles are really into cooking and barbecue so maybe that had something to do with it? Anyway, buckwild.
Em Munson
2023-03-01 15:31:46 +0000 UTCIf you guys did a diet/cookbook I would totally buy that! Lol
Natalie Gayle
2023-03-01 14:27:48 +0000 UTCSexfried had me pee 😂😂😂😂
Erica McKernan
2023-03-01 05:35:52 +0000 UTCThere are tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard at the “sexfried” part. The juxtaposition of the most macho, fragile end of straight dude culture with the diet world was a wild ride. Plus I had no idea they couldn’t use the word “meatloaf!”
Lissie Green Geyer
2023-03-01 04:43:13 +0000 UTCShould not have listened to this on a cross country bus. The SNORT LAUGHS.
Claire
2023-03-01 04:04:14 +0000 UTCAnyone else learn the phrase “sentence case” from this episode?
Nico Peruzzi
2023-03-01 03:43:15 +0000 UTCSo the evangelical diets brought me to the concept of “live” and “dead” foods… please look into some explanations. The ones I found make no sense and are very funny.
Andrew McGee
2023-03-01 03:00:03 +0000 UTCYES! I'm envisioning a camp for fat kids in the same way there are camps for queer kids, where your fatness or your queerness is mostly irrelevant to your kidness and everybody who's there just GETS IT. I have so many fond memories of camp and I was never a kid who was comfortable having a body except when I was running around the woods learning about trees and riding horses and practicing archery. That sounds like an amazing experience.
Moth
2023-02-28 23:49:40 +0000 UTCI'm so glad I work from home so that nobody can walk into my office and ask why I'm laughing so hard, because I don't think I could explain it. #sexfriedfishslab
Moth
2023-02-28 23:35:13 +0000 UTCYou can share your poached shrimp recipe. You don't need a reason
Kaitlyn Wahl
2023-02-28 23:18:39 +0000 UTCI’m laughing I’m crying I’m laughing #sexfriedfishslab
Elizabeth Kovach
2023-02-28 21:49:26 +0000 UTCFascinated by how a 1980s conservative diet book said, “Trust the government! Do what the government tells you!” How times have changed. Unrecognizable as a conservative message now.
Greta Christina
2023-02-28 21:22:15 +0000 UTCI’m officially deceased after hearing Michael’s guess of the exercise plan (repeated sit to stand flag salutes.)
Vanessa Gorelkin
2023-02-28 19:16:39 +0000 UTC“I about shit my pants” Whether this was an intentional or unintentional reference to Nugent’s maybe most famous anecdote, I love it.
Natalie
2023-02-28 19:02:33 +0000 UTCAdd me to the group wanting y'alls cookbook!
Christina McPants
2023-02-28 18:51:46 +0000 UTCDied at "pizza slices and sewer rats"😂
Maia P
2023-02-28 18:43:15 +0000 UTCThank you for the term “body sovereignty” in a recent episode! Suffered a serious injury last month and since been physically afraid of my body, including eating, with reason. Nice to release the “but are these changes a diet?” baggage while muddling towards recovery.
A
2023-02-28 18:42:21 +0000 UTCNow I really want a Maitence Phase watch along for the Khloe Kardashian show
Rouge
2023-02-28 18:40:13 +0000 UTCSexfried fishslab: the second time I’ve stopped breathing from laughter and nearly injured myself thanks to Maintenance Phase
Marika Lee
2023-02-28 18:19:21 +0000 UTCWrite your fake diet book! 📖 Ever since listening to MP I’ve had the dream of opening a “Fat Camp” but then just treating the children to good food and a good time
Elodie Rain
2023-02-28 17:06:23 +0000 UTCOmg can we get the Boston PD's diet book as a bonus episode for If Books Could Kill 👀
Jordan
2023-02-28 16:31:17 +0000 UTCjust losing it over sexfried fishslab 😂
Abbey W
2023-02-28 16:12:19 +0000 UTCOh, holy shit, I do remember those! Wow, that's a blast from the (so distant) past! I had to look it up and now am reminded that the commercials went "There she is...she's in the chicken biz" and "You won't like it...by George you'll love it!"
Carrie Bulger
2023-02-28 15:28:35 +0000 UTCthey've always been highly selective about what science they believe... when it reinforces racism or sexism or homophobia, they support it. If it challenges prejudices, they reject it.
Meh
2023-02-28 15:12:19 +0000 UTCWas just coming back here to say I'd wear a tight black Sexfried Fishslab tshirt. God, that sounds like the name of the worst jam band imaginable.
Leela Corman
2023-02-28 14:06:54 +0000 UTCI'm also in for an "Uncle Mike and Aunty Aubrey's Guide for Young People" book - helping teens navigate weird awkward years but also practical advice on how to be politically engaged in stuff that's important to them
Caitlin Fry
2023-02-28 12:17:25 +0000 UTCThe wildest part is seeing how conservatism has moved from “trust the government’s scientific consensus” to pure tinfoil hat in the space of my lifetime.
Corrie Tritz
2023-02-28 10:27:20 +0000 UTCWhen's the "sexfried fishslab" t-shirts coming out? Maybe we've finally found what's next after the air-frying craze calms down
Caitlin Fry
2023-02-28 07:22:28 +0000 UTCLove this discussion — the two of you together makes me absurdly happy. I will admit that you are my imaginary (internet) friends — thank you for spreading the love!
Allistair Owley
2023-02-28 06:18:02 +0000 UTCHahaha celebrate the flesh. I was outside and I audibly gagged
Kathryn Carper
2023-02-28 05:46:42 +0000 UTCThat was a really good one guys. Cracking up the whole time! Thanks for bringing me some cheer on this dreary PNW evening. Appreciate you two ❤️
Brenna McLaughlin
2023-02-28 05:19:32 +0000 UTCThis was the MOST fun!! I was in tears laughing along with you both. Please do more diet books!
Sara Striefel
2023-02-28 05:05:40 +0000 UTCHearing Aubrey completely devolve because of Sexfried Fishslab was choice
Erin Prizant
2023-02-28 04:22:32 +0000 UTCIf I remember correctly, Ted Nugent got a visit from the FBI in the oughts after threatening, onstage, mid performance, into a microphone, to shoot Hilary Clinton. Then there's that story about him getting granted legal guardianship of his underage girlfriend, which Snopes says is "unproven".
Leela Corman
2023-02-28 04:18:34 +0000 UTCHad to go find the tiktok 🤣🤣🤣 It’s all love! You two brighten my day so much. For others curious, I think it’s this one: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRnvfeF9/
Ashley Clements
2023-02-28 03:55:56 +0000 UTCThe Kenny Rogers mix up made me laugh so hard, and still- I was in no way prepared for how much harder I would soon laugh over sexfried fishslab. Tears, running down my face. Top shelf.
Heather Seidle
2023-02-28 03:41:40 +0000 UTCSo here's my own Ted Nugent walk of shame... For about 3 years, we had the same dentist and the one time I saw him there I about shit my pants. He was always a trash baby, but in the 90s, had a weird little redemption arc with a gig writing about nature conservancy for JFK Jr's short-lived magazine George. I think this cookbook is a tie-in for his equally short-lived reality show, Surviving Nugent, which was basically The Most Dangerous Game. He would chase and shoot arrows at contestants from the back of an ATV and sent Tila Tequila home on like the first episode screaming in her face that she smelled like a French whore. This show premiered the same year as The Apprentice (2003). I watched both and I'm sorry. So very, very sorry.
Carey Leigh
2023-02-28 03:16:54 +0000 UTCMissed opportunity for a “Threat Level Midnight” reference when Michael was comparing the empty and try hard verbiage about love levels to Michael Scott.
Daniel Brandes
2023-02-28 03:03:20 +0000 UTCYou and I can be embarrassed together. I used to think "Stranglehold" was a top tier banger.
Carey Leigh
2023-02-28 03:02:41 +0000 UTCSeconded!! Someone gave me that book to give to my mom when she was in cancer treatment… I flipped through it and then tore it up and recycled 🥴
erin
2023-02-28 02:43:45 +0000 UTCWe need a Maintenance Phase x Fundie Fridays collab to talk about the Weigh Down Diet!!!
Kim Luke
2023-02-28 02:39:16 +0000 UTCI have long felt that Aubrey needs to put out a cookbook for us!
Parul
2023-02-28 02:25:35 +0000 UTCRight? That shit sounds fire
Dorian
2023-02-28 02:07:26 +0000 UTCI just alarmed my family by how loudly I laughed at "sexfried fishslab."
Sally Pierce
2023-02-28 01:51:24 +0000 UTCPLEASE do the Gerson diet. My aunt just went to Mexico for 3 weeks at a Gerson resort to treat her stage 4 cancer. She is convinced it’s going to shrink her tumors. It’s illegal in the US so I know something’s up. 3 coffee enemas a day so it’s right up Michael’s alley. Please please! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Kristi McQueen
2023-02-28 01:23:25 +0000 UTCOmg someone got "Kill it and Grill it" for my dad! As an 11 year old i thought the title was hilarious but unsurprisingly we never cooked any "recipe" from that book.
Edite Grendze
2023-02-28 00:38:29 +0000 UTC“Man fried meat slap” sent me into orbit. 😂
Patrick Myers
2023-02-28 00:01:38 +0000 UTCPaused to take a call, opened it up again hours later. At 47:52. Had to rewind a bit for context. 😆
Anita Ford
2023-02-27 23:51:13 +0000 UTCThat one got me, too!
Lindsey Goss
2023-02-27 23:40:45 +0000 UTCIt’ll be mediocre and not as good as advertised
Jeff Puckett
2023-02-27 23:40:14 +0000 UTCDying of laughter at the Nugent segment. Thank you.
Ellenbrenna
2023-02-27 23:40:08 +0000 UTCSexfried fish slab definitely got me in a stranglehold baby
Jeff Puckett
2023-02-27 23:37:01 +0000 UTC"ManFried MeatSlap" --I need the parody recipe immediately.
Lindsey Goss
2023-02-27 23:35:13 +0000 UTCAgreed! Please don’t ever change it!
Jennifer Sais
2023-02-27 23:32:48 +0000 UTCI remember the Ted Nugent cookbook! Someone in my family got it as a white elephant gift for Christmas in the early 2000s. I remember us passing it around, flipping through it and laughing. 😂
Crystal Carrigan
2023-02-27 23:26:46 +0000 UTCPhyllis George was married to a Democratic governor of Kentucky. Obviously they were not wild hippies, but I wouldn't call her a "conservative." Further, she was briefly married to the notorious cokehead producer Robert Evans. Again, hardly Focus on the Family type stuff.
tabgirl
2023-02-27 23:20:55 +0000 UTCthe people demand the If Books Could Kill crossover
Mugiwara
2023-02-27 23:19:08 +0000 UTCYes! Fellow PDX resident and "Bikey-town" sayer!
Lindsey Goss
2023-02-27 22:45:05 +0000 UTCAubrey and I said No. That's Kenny Rodgers in unison! What a fun episode
Bridget
2023-02-27 22:37:26 +0000 UTCI snort-laughed so many times!
Kim Denise
2023-02-27 22:36:08 +0000 UTCListening about the Ted Nugent book, I made so many faces I have never made before 🤣🤣🤣
Aimlyn
2023-02-27 22:09:56 +0000 UTCSexfried Fishslab is Ted’s nickname for his penis.
bee
2023-02-27 22:03:13 +0000 UTCSHARE THE SHRIMP RECIPE AUBREY
Emily Hewitt
2023-02-27 21:03:51 +0000 UTCAlso BIG GAME MEAT CAKES
Sara Hamilton
2023-02-27 20:57:50 +0000 UTCOK - who else thinks SEXFRIED FISHSLAB was a rejected Ted Nugent back up band name?
Sara Hamilton
2023-02-27 20:55:37 +0000 UTCCould we do a March-Madness style bracket someday to determine which diet is the most batshit? That could be fun. Well, darkly fun.
bee
2023-02-27 20:55:20 +0000 UTCThe Dobson book is giving me Patrick Swayze's "love |----| fear" life lesson chart from Donnie Darko.
Sara
2023-02-27 20:51:08 +0000 UTCThere is also a bush family cookbook. Just putting that out there for a future episode
Elizabeth Vrinten
2023-02-27 20:46:58 +0000 UTCOk but can we get the shrimp recipe
Maya
2023-02-27 20:36:50 +0000 UTCAudrey's laugh is the best!
ML Tafoya
2023-02-27 20:15:12 +0000 UTCI love cottage cheese. My mom served it with black pepper and I still eat it that way. I'm not sure if it's a relic from one of Mom's many diets, but I love it (Mom doesn't eat it anymore, so maybe it was torture for her).
ML Tafoya
2023-02-27 20:14:35 +0000 UTCObsessed with Aubrey melting down about the fish slab
Taryn
2023-02-27 19:56:09 +0000 UTCI feel personally devastated not to hear Mike make a “Sarah Paleo-n” joke. 😉
Meghan_S
2023-02-27 19:40:47 +0000 UTCMy child free fundamentalist sister gave me those books when my son was young. Pure trash. I managed to never strike my child and he managed to get through my lax parenting unspoiled and happy and successful. Must be all the Satan
Rachel
2023-02-27 19:32:47 +0000 UTCI love your intro music, it makes me feel all the joy when I hear it. That is all 😘
Mirandorkus
2023-02-27 19:27:16 +0000 UTCI've been thinking for awhile that Mike and Aubrey should write a Choose Your Own Adventure diet book (pretty sure they mentioned it in a previous episode)...
Angela Hendricks
2023-02-27 19:21:08 +0000 UTCDare to Discipline and The Stong Willed Child should be on a If Books Could Kill episode. James Dobson has so much to answer for
Ali
2023-02-27 19:12:10 +0000 UTCThere's some great joke diet books, like The Taco Cleanse
Meh
2023-02-27 19:11:20 +0000 UTCI want to Google images of Sexfried Fishslab but I’m scared
Sarah Bear
2023-02-27 19:09:43 +0000 UTCThe Boston PD book reminded me of a diet a friend once told me about from General Motors. They made a whole diet up to get the 'most efficient' line worker possible. Capitalism, man.
Megan Hazzard
2023-02-27 19:05:58 +0000 UTCHere for a Church of the Maintenance Phase recipe book
Molly
2023-02-27 18:56:15 +0000 UTCI love how much of an extra silly goofy mood Michael was in in this one
Elena
2023-02-27 18:34:28 +0000 UTCHonestly, the coke braised venison doesn't sound that bad (coming from someone who's made Dr pepper pork) 🤣
Carrie Shevelson
2023-02-27 18:28:45 +0000 UTCI really appreciate you sharing this. I felt really seen by what you wrote. Isn't it disturbing, when you leave a high-control group, to see how much nonsense you went along with?
Liz Winston
2023-02-27 18:19:43 +0000 UTCAbout a decade ago, my mom sighed and said "Dr. Dobson has turned into a cranky old man." I just stared at her and said, "He's ALWAYS been a cranky old man." We had Dare to Discipline on the bookshelf; we listened to some of Focus on the Family's radio shows; we got the kids' magazines. I don't even know how much of my childhood was affected by Dobson because he was just so fucking ubiquitous. My spouse's parents are still so much in to Focus on the Family that they're leaving a significant amount of money to the organization in their wills.
Anna O.
2023-02-27 18:04:19 +0000 UTCI used to work in the Christian nonprofit world and my friends who worked at Focus on the Family always referred to James Dobson as “the Doctor” - never by his name. It was creepy, even when I was steeped in that culture - sooooo culty! Thank goodness I’m free of that nonsense now 🙃
Emily Dykes
2023-02-27 18:02:50 +0000 UTCI always listen as soon as I possibly can, then I'm sad when I'm done. This one was quite a ride from "I say Bikey-town, too!" to "HOW DARE you misattribute The Gambler!" I was super excited to see Aubrey at Powell's, thinking "I really just want to show my support" to disappointment when it was hard to find a place to stand in the overflow area that just had her playing on speaker. Glad you are so popular, bummed it means I will have to show up an hour early to see you.
Zardogs! Zardogs!
2023-02-27 18:01:09 +0000 UTCMitch Albom and The Nuge - both from Michigan. Weird reason to blurb a book, but there we are.
Jessica Hoffman
2023-02-27 17:55:38 +0000 UTCMan, that whole Ted Nugent blurb part took me back to when he was, like, the designated right-wing guy that everybody had to get on board with because he was just a good ol' straight shootin' real man or whatever. Even Bourdain did an episode with him. Dark times.
Shannon O'Rourke
2023-02-27 17:52:48 +0000 UTCIf someone doesn’t start a band called Sexfried Fishslab I swear to god
Kristi Brokaw
2023-02-27 17:35:22 +0000 UTCUse an oil-based lube when sex frying your fish
Nemo
2023-02-27 17:30:18 +0000 UTCwatch and cringe: https://www.today.com/video/what-are-blue-zones-and-how-they-re-responsible-for-people-living-healthier-lives-131915333875
Elizabeth Archer
2023-02-27 17:28:52 +0000 UTCPhyllis George was married to a Democratic governor...the GOP jokes don't really work here.
Angela
2023-02-27 17:26:17 +0000 UTCCan't wait to listen! Episode idea: Blue Zones. There is so much to say about it, but basically it works by local organizations with deep pockets paying Blue Zones to come into their community and make it "healthy." Which mostly consists of the Blue Zones team taking credit for work that other, smaller, often BIPOC-led organizations are already doing in that community. The founder, Dan Buettner (Nat Geo fellow and NYT Bestselling Author), is an anti-fat narcissist. On one of his MANY media appearances he said on the Today Show that fat people have toasters on their counters and thin people have bowls of fruit (or something like that). It's full of cultural appropriation and smug thinness.
Elizabeth Archer
2023-02-27 17:25:29 +0000 UTC1) the people need that diet book!! 2) can we also join Michael’s for fun book club??
Victoria Spratt
2023-02-27 17:19:15 +0000 UTCSexfried Fishslab was my nickname in high school. 😏 /s Audrey melting down was a light in my day. Oh Audrey. Bless you hunnies. You angel.
Nicole Wagner
2023-02-27 17:18:29 +0000 UTCPretty sure GOP is an acronym for Grind Off Pounds.
Liz Fenton
2023-02-27 17:14:30 +0000 UTCi’m glad than when problematic christians say something stupid and hurtful in the name of Jesus that Mike is like, “that’s not what he said.” 👏thank👏you👏 say it louder for the people in the back
Rae Leo
2023-02-27 17:12:55 +0000 UTCI've actually seen Nugent perform live a lot of times (before discovering what a trash human he is), he came to my hometown every year to deer hunt and put on a free concert. He actually does hunt with a bow and arrow, and is still super popular in my area. And Cat Scrath Fever, his most popular song is over 40 years old, he was most popular in the late 70s, early 80s. I'm more than a little embarrassed I have retained all of this information but I feel this is a safe space.
Wendy Reed
2023-02-27 17:06:50 +0000 UTCI'm also from rural west TX and Nugent used to come to my town every year to deer hunt (graduated in '93, so not exactly the same time frame). I've seen him perform live *many* times, I liked his music before learning what am absolute trash human he is
Wendy Reed
2023-02-27 17:00:49 +0000 UTCAgreed! also, not only are they an MLM but at least in NYC they've been a repeated front business for recruitment into *actual* human trafficking (makes sense anyway since the line between MLMs, trafficking, and cults is paper thin). My mom and uncle both had a phase with Herbalife when I was in my teens - they have been around a while now!
Jessamy Klapper
2023-02-27 16:57:30 +0000 UTCGive us the booook! I need that shrimp in my life
Mara
2023-02-27 16:50:23 +0000 UTCAs a senior in high school ( circa 2000-2001) in rural west Texas, I quit the tennis team and had to find another elective - the choice available was "Wildlife Management" where we almost exclusively watched Ted Nugent hunting videos and took quizzes where we had to be able to identify things like collared peccaries. I was the big loser of the class who sort of jumped every time the guns were fired. Also we ate deer meat chili? Anywho, what an unexpected stroll down memory lane!
ev
2023-02-27 16:48:21 +0000 UTCPLEASE write that book.
Julia Hilliard
2023-02-27 16:40:23 +0000 UTCmitch albom?!?!?! sexfried fishslab?!?!?! I'm dying over here!
L. Brooks
2023-02-27 16:37:17 +0000 UTCok but drop the shrimp recipe!!!!
Sophie
2023-02-27 16:32:55 +0000 UTCEpisode idea: Would love to see y’all do a deep dive on the Ozempic shit show that’s happening right now. It’s definitely the new segment in a long series of ‘healthy people co-opting chronically ill people’s life-saving medications’ for weight loss. So gross.
Ember
2023-02-27 16:31:20 +0000 UTCAubrey, how many books are in your diet book collection?
Jennifer
2023-02-27 16:24:42 +0000 UTCAubrey please drop the coconut ginger shrimp recipe, I am so mouth-wateringly curious
picatso3
2023-02-27 16:13:29 +0000 UTCYes! Both Aubrey and Michael’s laughs are so contagious - this show always makes me laugh, despite the often serious subject matter, they always find a way to make a laugh, too😊🫶🏽
Ember
2023-02-27 16:12:51 +0000 UTCAh yes, and the classic: ‘More of Jesus, Less of Me’ 🫣 Christian diet books are a special kind of vile😖
Ember
2023-02-27 16:11:23 +0000 UTCThis is so wholesome, and 10/10 relate to the motivation, although I’m in a different life stage - it helps me a feel a LOT more excited about my workday commutes every time a new Maintenance Phase episode drops🤗
Ember
2023-02-27 16:10:41 +0000 UTCDoes anyone remember Phyllis George's "Chicken By George"? She sold marinaded chicken breasts in a few different flavors--BBQ, lemon, etc. You'd buy them in just little boxes at the store--my mom loved them.
WOOD, MORGAN
2023-02-27 15:52:12 +0000 UTCCellar door, I'm dying! 😂I love that so much
heathermama7
2023-02-27 15:43:51 +0000 UTCAnything from Ted Nugent is a nightmare. Once I looked at his Facebook page out of curiosity and it was was like looking down a sewer drain. Woof
Sheree Speaks
2023-02-27 15:37:10 +0000 UTC"Sex-fried fish-slab" is my new "cellar door."
Three Memes in a Trenchcoat
2023-02-27 15:20:08 +0000 UTCLmao at the food porn thing. At least once a week I see something and I’m like wtaf is wrong with people. And then I remember it’s porn. It’s always porn.
KMB24
2023-02-27 15:18:21 +0000 UTCSuggestion for a bonus episode! CASS ELLIOT, from The Mamas and The Papas. Please!! And thank you for your consideration:)
Michelle Dobris
2023-02-27 15:12:31 +0000 UTCAubrey! Please tell me you have "The Beautiful People's Diet Book"!
WOOD, MORGAN
2023-02-27 15:12:13 +0000 UTCI saw that this bonus episode had dropped, and it decided me to get up, showered, dressed and the laundry started so I could reward myself with Maintenance Phase! (when you’re 74, motivators are important. Mike and Aubrey, you’re totally worth it!)
Sarah Akers
2023-02-27 15:11:34 +0000 UTCNext round up, let’s do the Christian diet books like What Would Jesus Eat, Weigh Down, etc. 🙈
Kristi Brokaw
2023-02-27 15:11:21 +0000 UTCFor a bonus episode, can I suggest Herbalife? These protein shake and juice bars have been popping up all over that claim they're healthy when they're actually all made with Herbalife. I'd love a deep dive into how they came about and if they're actually duping the business owners, the customers, or both.
Michelle Stavrou
2023-02-27 14:57:41 +0000 UTCAs an aside, I read recently that the phrase 'to pull yourself up by your bootstraps' was originally meant to refer to an impossible task
Amy Bond
2023-02-27 14:57:25 +0000 UTCIt's Aubrey's breathless laughing for me, every time. It's absolutely infectious.
Rachelle Stallard
2023-02-27 14:49:00 +0000 UTCLordy, I am laughing out loud at work . . . This is great. I didn't realize a bonus episode was coming today, and I was in such a bad mood when I got to the office, but then I saw this had dropped. Y'all seriously made my day.
Allyson Whipple
2023-02-27 14:45:35 +0000 UTCAbsolutely love it when Aubrey can’t stop giggling. Makes me smile every time.
KTG
2023-02-27 14:44:24 +0000 UTCPlease link to the tiktok call out????
Allegra G Harris
2023-02-27 14:43:08 +0000 UTC"i save the potatoes in my little hand"
Jane Mather-Glass
2023-02-27 14:27:17 +0000 UTCTo many of us, that whole "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" thing seems pretty clear. Just say or write it where rich people can hear/see and I give it 10 seconds before you get the "Oh, that's not what it really means" push back. Yeah, right.
AliceMerray
2023-02-27 14:17:16 +0000 UTCI love that Michael went "let's make a diet book, but subversive!" And then proceeded to describe a cook book 🤣
Eleanor
2023-02-27 13:42:48 +0000 UTCRhode Islander here. Yes
Skye
2023-02-27 13:37:46 +0000 UTCThis episode had me cackling so hard!! Absolutely brilliant episode 👏🏻 As an Australian I’m sad but grateful I don’t have to carry the burden of knowing far too much about Pete Evans alone! 🤣
Shelby
2023-02-27 13:35:52 +0000 UTCI just threw both my arms up like I stuck a gymnastics landing seeing that y'all posted!!!
Jillian Price
2023-02-27 13:32:47 +0000 UTCI love this, thank you! Re cottage cheese. I'm surprised to hear it come up as a diet food. It's extremely an Eastern European Jewish food. It was ubiquitous in my Yiddish grandmother's house. Egg noodles with cottage cheese are a Jewish kid comfort food! Also delicious with honey and fruit. Totally not meant to be an instrument of torture!
Leela Corman
2023-02-27 13:31:53 +0000 UTCI'm from Boston, and the idea of a diet book from the police force is genuinly terrifying
Kate
2023-02-27 13:29:28 +0000 UTCOh my gosh, yeees, I needed a maintenance phase episode today! ❤️ Thanks for all that you do 🥰 Loved your guest appearances, Aubrey! Especially the one with being there for friends when times are tough with Oh, I like that. I’m so thankful you and Michael are out there in the world. Hugs from Sweden! ❤️
Emma Nyberg Feldt
2023-02-27 11:50:44 +0000 UTCMaintenance Phase cook book undercover as a diet book when?
Ellen
2023-02-27 11:47:50 +0000 UTCI made some wild auto-suggest typos here (“opioid” should be “opinion,” for example), and it’s not letting me edit. Sorry!
Taylor Flora
2023-02-27 11:42:40 +0000 UTCCoconut shrimp recipe pls?
Jules B
2023-02-27 11:42:00 +0000 UTCOh I am so in for the diet book!!! Do it guys!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Beth Visser
2023-02-27 11:41:16 +0000 UTCAs someone who grew up in a rural, conservative place, you’re underestimating Ted Nugent’s popularity when saying people aren’t reading his cookbook. As soon as you said the title was Kill It and Grill It, I was instantly like, “Oh, Ted Nugent.” He had a very popular hunting show, and that was one of his catch phrases. There is a huge audience for this content, believe it or not. One of the current most popular hunting shows is on Netflix and it’s called Meateater, and it is a true combination hunting/cooking show, where they start by hunting’s something and then go, like, full Food Network “watch me cook this, follow along” with things like crane. Having grown up with my dad watching hunting shows (and being someone who still enjoys wild game — I made venison shepherd’s pie last night made with venison my dad shot), Meateater is definitely an improvement over the Nugent era in my opioid, but yeah, he was definitely a popular hunting show host in 2002. Also, if you think the titles of his chapters are wild, look up the titles of his songs. Hoo boy.
Taylor Flora
2023-02-27 11:40:03 +0000 UTC“It’s my Man-Fried Meat Slap!” 😂🤣😂🤣😭
Miles Walser
2023-02-27 11:38:34 +0000 UTCRecipe for Asexual Fish: Ingredients: Some fish. Any type and amount you want. Butter Parsley Lemon Salt and pepper The confidence of a medicocre white man The most important part of this recipe is that you DO NOT fuck the fish. This will change the flavour and texture of your dish. Get the fish and all the other stuff, combine it however the universe moves you to do so, and then fry the fish. You can put the other stuff on the fish before, during, or after cooking. DO NOT fuck the fish after frying. Let it rest for a moment while you do whatever you want with the ingredients you didn't use while you were frying the fish. Serve with watercress.
Siobhan Roberts
2023-02-27 11:35:06 +0000 UTCOh fuck...are they dipping their sex fried fish in the ranch?
Siobhan Roberts
2023-02-27 11:25:52 +0000 UTCYes please!!
Emma
2023-02-27 10:55:46 +0000 UTCLink to the Tik Tok y’all reference calling you out?
Erin King
2023-02-27 10:24:19 +0000 UTC
