Matthew McConaughey puts frozen peas and crispy chips in his tuna salad.

This Friday's chisme is an equally tasty mishmash.

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Hi! Welcome to this week’s Friday chisme.

It’s been a few weeks — I’ve been settling into a new job/life routine, and I have been traveling a lot lately. Most recently, I was in Boston at an obesity and metabolic convention, of all things — an unsettling trip that landed me squarely in the shadow of the Eli Lilly building, in a room full of big pharma CEOs and Harvard professors asking each other the thinly-veiled, profit-driven question, Are GLP-1s a panacea for chronic disease?

This intimate conference (40 people or less, in one room for one day) took place the morning the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot—an absolutely bizarre experience, as I read the news breaking on the iPads and laptops of every executive in that room, many of whom have since removed their pictures from their respective websites.

I’ll elucidate on this juicy morsel for today’s chisme at the end of the letter, but sufficient to say, it was a thoroughly dystopian trip.

Today’s letter is a fun one. Also, happy holidays to you all! I hope your tips make up for the chaos.

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