Deluded Modern Says Something Dumb
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Summary
In this episode, the lads discuss the latest episode of American Idol, the new music video of the week, and the debate of whether or not beauty is a subjective or objective standard. Also, we talk about the new American Idol song, and how it compares to the old one.
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Okay, so, Christine, what did you think of that?
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Potential heart disease feels the same as not potential heart disease.
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I was thinking that was such a good opportunity, like, money-wise.
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I mean, if you tried that hard, you wouldn't look like that.
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That's what she said, being skinny and being big is the same, so...
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I'm pretty sure that it sounded like an American.
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I think the thing that people get so wrong with, like, weight loss is, like, they think
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it's a case of, oh, like, endless, like, you need, like, endless discipline and you
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need to track every calorie and all this kind of stuff.
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It's a lot easier to lose weight if you just have a bit of an education about, like, hormones
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The way you're eating is producing a certain result in your body, right?
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And being American, like, I guarantee that woman is eating food that is empty.
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What I was going to say was that woman, even though she's, like, even when she's not starving
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That's why you've got to grow your own chickens and grow your own cows and stuff.
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And then she can probably do it because American land is very cheap, but, like, even if she's
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trying to, like, eat healthy and stuff, it's going to be, like, low fat.
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There's so much deception around, like, weight loss and how to do it correctly.
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You will get prettier when you are at a healthy weight.
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Because the men with the most option date the same types of chicks.
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So, like, it's like saying, like, men that can't sleep with anyone else will sleep with
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ugly, overweight chicks, but the men with the most options don't do it.
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You look at Leonardo DiCaprio, if you look at the hottest, most successful men who they pick...
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Who are hot, according to whoever is looking at...
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So, this is a question that has pondered in human history for as long as we can remember.
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But the point is, there has to be an objective standard for beauty.
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Otherwise, how have we decided what we like all over history?
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We can all agree that certain architecture is more beautiful than other architecture.
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So, there is an objective standard there that we are aware of, at least most people are
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But I feel like people feed themselves this lie that because people have certain preferences
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to things that they might find attractive in someone that, say, someone else might, that
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doesn't take away from the fact that there is such thing as objective beauty.
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They've done multiple studies on this that find, for example, people whose faces are
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Most people will agree that those people are more attractive than people who have less
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There's actually something called the golden ratio, which is a number that appears in all
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I'm talking across cells to plants, to human beings, to buildings.
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I can't remember the number now for the life of me.
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It's like a really crazy number, like 6.18 something, something, something.
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But when you see this ratio reflected in a human being's face, not only that in their
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body as well, like how their body looks, there is an objective standard that generally most
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That's not to say, like everything, there is always exceptions to the rule, but there is
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That's not something created by society to make people feel bad about themselves.
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In the same way that peacocks, they do that thing where they display themselves in a certain
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way, that's because the other peacocks will agree we like that.
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And we do have something that we all like and can agree is mostly attractive.
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Well, my question is, I don't understand why she took it as an insult when like, clearly
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you're going to have more problems later on if you're heavier and like, you can either
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take it as an insult and be the victim, or you can take it as your family trying to love
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What do you find for people that want to lose weight?
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I think something more along the lines of like, maybe not necessarily like extreme
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carnival, but like, just like, I personally like the structure of the paleo diet, because
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it's basically just, and people misconstrue it as actually being like full on carnival,
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but it's really, all it really is, is like eat meat and veg.
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You can eat, like you can add, you can add potatoes and sweet potatoes.
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But like, if you eat paleo, you're basically eating like a colorful array of vegetables,
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You know, it came out of the ground, you know, it didn't come out of a factory.
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It's really, it's not, that ain't rocket science.
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And you can, and if you just know, like, all you need is like two or three good recipes,
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Before all of that, you need to have the right mindset.
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You need to be in that right frame of mind to even get to that of what you're saying.
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Because all the food we eat nowadays is so addictive.
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And if we're talking about the food that you said, sorry, you said the family is essentially
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You know, a lot of, I can hear in my head, a lot of people saying, oh, but you know,
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And you know, we should, we should cater to how she feels.
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If you put it nicer, it's going to make a difference.
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Actually, the truth is the biggest change comes from the harshest delivery.
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If you are told something, if someone really, really insults you that automatically in your
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brain, hopefully if you've got a healthy mind and not a victim mindset that says, well,
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Whereas if I go, you know, I've noticed that maybe you're getting a bit bigger.
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Like that gives the person who's receiving that message, every excuse under the sun to
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Whereas if you're straight up, you are going to kill yourself.
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But actually, I think harshness can be the kindest policy because it just, it gets it
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It's, it's, it's a sharp, you know, rip the plaster off, but it gets it done.
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I mean, you wouldn't, you wouldn't mince words if, if like a family member of yours was
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You'll be like, look, you're going to kill yourself.
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Well, and I was thinking, I'm like, I mean, she's pretty big.
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I mean, like, like she's, well, how much time is that going to take as a terrible return
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Back then when you were a kid, like at 12, that's a lot of money.
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If anything, it was an opportunity for, you know, you could get like cash.
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I was, I was doing lemonade stands from a young age.
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But I think the biggest problem I have with this weight issue thing is we live in a society
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And I understand that you can be comfortable in your body.
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But the problem with that is that if you look at reality, reality always tells the truth.
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There's a reason why you don't see so many overweight old people.
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That's because they die before they get to that age.
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Most of the old people you see walking around are not overweight.
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So if you can't look at reality and look at the truth that is waiting ahead of you,
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that just means that you're essentially saying that you don't care about your future.
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Like if I were to look out into the world and see the fate that men face,
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Because I can look out into the world and see what happens to people that do crime.
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So it should be the same ideology we should take.
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When people are telling you, oh, it's okay to be this,
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you can actually look out in the world and see the facts of reality
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So I just think that people need to get off this bandwagon of...
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I think it's very destructive to people because reality doesn't agree with that.
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body positivity, the irony there is you actually don't respect and love your body at all
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because you're not giving it what it really needs.
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You're harming yourself and you're actually giving it the nutritious food
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and the exercise that it actually needs to be its best and perform its best.
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Did you know I applied to a body positive organization?
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And I pitched in the interview that like the best way to be body positive.
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I said the best way to be body positive is to lose weight.
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So on the social media, I would really like to do some like running campaigns.
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The government wants us all to believe body positive.
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Well, and then they can just sell us more stuff.
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Because when you're overweight, you're actually at a higher risk of all-cause mortality.
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I would like to say I actually was only that weight for a few years.
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And it's because I got depressed and in a hole, put on a bunch of weight and then lost it.