BONUS: Stephen King's Thinner - Homegrown Horror

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Fitness gurus are talking about the newest weight loss rage that everyone must get in on, you've heard of ozempic, but have you heard of Romani curses??? We watched the shit out of Thinner a 1996 film based on a 1984 novel, where our kinda crappy lawyer protagonist receives a curse from a passing group of Romani for accidently killing one of the members while receiving road head, yeah you did read that right. He watches himself waste away and does the next logical thing, what did you say beg for forgiveness? Nah, he recruits his mafia friend to murder them. Come listen to us dunk on this madness.

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This episode was published on February 1, 2024.

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Fitness gurus are talking about the newest weight loss rage that everyone must get in on, you've heard of ozempic, but have you heard of Romani curses??? We watched the shit out of Thinner a 1996 film based on a 1984 novel, where our kinda crappy...

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