Ray Peterson

I met him there.

And then, you know, Ray Peterson, we used to call him Papa Ray.

He used to frequent that one and a couple of other meetings, and I would go to all the meetings in the area.

We didn't have a lot.

You got to remember, a lot of people have died off, not just got tired of going to meetings and don't go, which that's happened as well.

But there's, you know, I mean, George Montgomery's gone.

Ray Peterson's gone.

Angel's gone.

... is his name.

Ray Peterson.

And, uh, Ray Peterson, and he's kinda, like, looking out the window, looking at what's happening in his neighborhood.

He walks out of his house, and the house next door has this kinda, like, creepy light coming out-

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We're going to pull apart the themes, ask probably too many questions, and occasionally figure out what the movie was trying to say along the way.

i'm courtney and today we're heading into the suburbs with joe dante's 1989 horror comedy the burbs starring tom hanks carrie fisher bruce stern rick de common and corey feldman tom hanks plays ray peterson a suburban homeowner who is spending his vacation at home when he and his neighbors become increasingly convinced that the mysterious new family living down the street the clopex might be responsible for the disappearance of another neighbor What starts as some relatively harmless neighborhood curiosity escalates into surveillance, conspiracy theories, trespassing, property destruction, and a full-blown amateur murder investigation.

So, you know, normal neighbor stuff.

And we are going to be talking about the entire movie today, including the ending, so spoiler warning.

And so you started taking Manjaro and obviously in your role as a science editor and you're reading lots of studies and research papers and clinical results.

How was it that you then stumbled onto this story of a man called Ray Peterson? And I guess the significance of that second, we hear so much about GLP-1s.

Until this story, until you wrote about it, I had never heard of GIP.

So tell me, where does that start?

hormones that are that our bodies naturally produce in response to usually in response to eating that generate insulin and the insulin makes us feel full so we stop eating.

So when I looked at the history of this it turned out that GIP was the very first hormone to be discovered and GLP-1 was discovered about 10 years later so I thought that was curious so I then did some more reading and discovered that GIP was discovered in the 1970s, 1970 in fact, and 1971 by two researchers in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia.

One was called John Brown and the other was his PhD student, a man called Ray Peterson.

And I thought, well, they must have spoken.