It's the last show of the year, and we're here to talk about the TikTok ban, fat pride, and the discovery of Dadbo s tomb in Turkey. Plus, a new addition to our Christmas Special tomorrow.
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00:06:48.000I'll tell you what, you're all going to need a jacket for this next road trip because allow me to take you on a voyage across the world to Turkey.
00:06:58.000Turkish archaeologists now believe that they have actually found the tomb of St. Nicholas.
00:07:06.000When we read the 5th century paintings, Like the candy cane walking stick.
00:07:41.000The tomb was found buried six feet under the St. Nicholas Church in Demra, Turkey.
00:07:46.000Unfortunately, as is often the case in Turkey, it appeared as though this may actually be just part of a revenge plot in that the body of St. Nicholas was found to have been taken.
00:09:15.000Let's put him in the next Santa Claus.
00:09:18.000And by the way, St. Nicholas, for those of you who don't know, the inspiration for Santa Claus was a Christian bishop known for generosity.
00:09:24.000He was a patron saint of children and sailors.
00:12:33.000And if you want to know which rights are actually inalienable, meaning your birthright here in the United States, check out the Constitution.
00:12:46.000Funny enough, duty was very much espoused by the founding fathers who were not communists, who were not collectivists, but who believed that a society could only function if people actually took pride in serving their community and their civic duties.
00:12:59.000Today we talk about rights, and we talk about rights in the sense of whatever you want to do and everyone else has to pay for it.
00:13:05.000So in San Francisco, the Department of Health now has hired Virgie Tovar to be its fat positivity expert.
00:13:32.000We have a clip, so, you know, warning.
00:13:35.000According to the website, Tobar is a plus-size Latina author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity with over a decade of experience.
00:13:43.000She is a contributor for Forbes.com, where she covers the plus-size market and how to end weight discrimination at work.
00:13:49.000Also, she topped their 30 under 500 list last year, so she did quite over.
00:14:13.000This is not just about the fact that this woman is overweight.
00:14:15.000The fact that this woman is advising now a city council, a city department, and the advice that she dispenses is it will put you in a shallow grave.
00:14:31.000Well, everyone seems to agree we have a healthcare crisis in this country because so many people gleefully celebrated the death of a CEO of a health insurance company.
00:14:38.000You think that a rampant obesity epidemic through choice has an effect on your insurance and your premiums?
00:14:45.000I think it has an effect on the mental health crisis that we're experiencing in this country.
00:14:48.000So if you ever thought that you were delusional yourself, just take a look here at Tovar's take on...
00:14:58.000I don't even know what this means, fat liberation.
00:15:00.000If you are a giant fat lady in the United States in 2024, how much more liberating do you need?
00:15:18.000To me, there's a lowercase fat liberation and an uppercase fat liberation.
00:15:24.000Lowercase fat liberation is the stuff I do in my life every day to create fat positivity, like putting as much butter as I want on my toes, like wearing a bikini at the beach, finding a sturdy chair, getting a towel that meets me, telling the truth about my experience with fat phobia and feeling heard and Believed.
00:15:46.000Not trying to disappear or shrink my body.
00:15:50.000It looks like asking for weight neutral care at the doctor.
00:15:54.000It looks like wearing shorts and having visible cellulite or fat rolls and not feeling like I should not show that to the world.
00:16:05.000Uppercase to me is the world that we create once the culture has decided.
00:17:04.000Remember, this lady wrote her master's on the study of how weight-based discrimination impacted lifelong gender trajectories in women of color.
00:18:00.000But this is the byproduct of, look, shame is, you should never shame a child, for example, for, they don't know better, right, for making a mistake, because then those kids won't make more mistakes, they won't take risks, they won't learn things.
00:18:13.000Shame is a tool that should be used for adults who know better and do the wrong thing anyway.
00:18:20.000But it doesn't work if people don't have shame because they have no sense of ownership.
00:19:20.000But if you've got a fat five-year-old, like a morbidly obese five-year-old, there's a parent that needs a butt kicking right behind that child.
00:19:36.000With drag queen story hour, with transition surgery for children, with allowing young adolescent women to have abortions and hiding it from their parents as a result of state policy, and with allowing and encouraging young children to destroy their health.
00:19:50.000So let's get to some of the claims that this expert makes and will be likely dispensing and advising the city of San Francisco.
00:22:44.000If you want to lose weight, if you want to lose weight, her case weights, you want to lose weight, Calories must be reduced.
00:22:51.000You must count calories, or energy output has to be measurably increased to lose weight, meaning you either burn more calories or you consume fewer calories.
00:23:06.000Now, some people have slightly faster metabolism, some people have slower metabolism, some people have hormonal profiles that make them feel more hungry more often.
00:23:12.000We all have different hurdles to overcome.
00:23:14.000Also, as we're discussing not only energy expenditure, You need to keep score if you want to improve your health.
00:23:21.000Progressive overload is the one inescapable fact as it relates to strength training, meaning measurably increase your weight, your repetitions, your time.
00:23:32.000Ideally, some variation of the three is what will improve your strength, which is very important as you get old.
00:23:38.000It's what will improve your muscle mass if you want to look better, if you want to be more productive, and even bone density, just to be clear.
00:24:13.000I know, that's keeping score, but you need it because your heart is...
00:24:18.000it's literally keeping score with each beat yes and with oppressive numbers like triglycerides cholesterol certain inflammatory markers like c-reactive protein in other words how can this woman advise a city how can this woman this is the ideology of the left how can this woman advise a city which says don't keep score and that is the only way to improve health Especially in a city with so many hills.
00:25:21.000Weight is one of and often the most reliable indicator of health status.
00:25:25.000Most importantly, and the reason it's used is because it's the most readily available and inexpensive tool that you have as an indicator of one's health status.
00:26:04.000What do you think big pharma thinks when they go, wait a second, wait a second.
00:26:07.000If someone comes in and says they have joint aches, we can convince people that it's fat phobic for the doctor to look at their weight first?
00:26:15.000Oh, so they're going to want to treat the symptom and get them pills, get them pills, get them pills right away.
00:26:29.000But if a doctor were to bring you into the office and you go, oh my gosh, I have no energy, I feel like I have circulatory problems, I'm losing my vision, my foot is turning blue, and they saw that you were 400 pounds and immediately said, well, let me give you this pill, that is malpractice.
00:26:45.000That's why I like Asian doctors, because they go right to it.
00:26:48.000I got a big cavity in my tooth, went to the dentist, dentist said, oh, it's because you're too fat.
00:29:59.000You may say some people have it tough, sure, but any way you slice it, my perspective requires more discipline than yours.
00:30:08.000The person's perspective who works to be healthy, they are more disciplined, they put more effort into their life, and they are more useful to society in general than your perspective.
00:30:20.000Now, you may have a problem with discipline and say it's a byproduct of oppressive patriarchy.
00:31:09.000Raises everyone else's health insurance costs, just to be clear.
00:31:12.000You want to have no denial for pre-existing conditions with no caps and tell society that it should be fat, obese, and it's just as healthy as being fit?
00:31:23.000What do you think the consequences are?
00:31:25.000Do you think in any other small village or tribal-like society that fat people existed?
00:32:20.000This is why we have army ads with some fat broad and two mommies, and Russia and China laugh, and they have people on Ozempic and Dianabol with shredded abs to get their guys to join the military.
00:32:31.00068% of active duty members are obese, to be clear right now.
00:32:37.000It is the primary contributor to injuries for those in service, medical discharges.
00:32:43.000Just to give you an idea, part of the shortfall that we see in the military in 2022 to 2023, the military recruitment, right, they missed their goals.
00:33:27.000By the way, don't even notice, here's the little bait and switch.
00:33:29.000A lot of the sources I just listed, CDC, WHO, the science, right?
00:33:34.000Oh no, all of a sudden, it's no longer legitimate.
00:33:37.000The science is legitimate when we're talking about an experimental injection that could not possibly have longitudinal studies.
00:33:44.000It can't possibly exist at that point.
00:33:45.000Taking it on faith, that's where you trust the science.
00:33:47.000But when you have Measurable, quantifiable, over long periods of time and large populations, data that can be used to improve health outcomes beyond a shadow of a doubt, No, it's about how you feel.
00:34:08.000This is why C. Matheson, if you guys didn't, this was during COVID, C. Matheson doesn't exist, was actually admitted to and praised at a conference for writing the paper in Titled, Embracing Fatness as Self-Care in the Era of Trump, was accepted for peer review.
00:34:29.000I decided to write and submit my very own fat studies paper for presentation, and with the help of my brilliant researcher, I wrote an entire essay titled, Embracing Fatness as Self-Care in the Era of Trump.
00:34:43.000I then submitted the abstract to the conference, and, uh, oh, did I say that I... Wrote the essay.
00:34:48.000I meant to say it was submitted by C. Matheson, a wonderful and totally academically legitimate genderqueer fat pride activist.
00:35:00.000I am an activist based out of Austin, Texas, specifically working with the non-binary and fat community to help increase presence of intersectional and non-binary people with such events in Austin as Women's March, March for Our Lives, most recently the global climate strikes.
00:35:20.000My preferred pronouns are she and her.
00:35:48.000And by the way, as we mentioned, and please do comment below if this is something that you've run into that you've experienced and how you think it needs to be dealt with.
00:35:56.000I think shame is a useful tool as it relates to this.
00:36:02.000And by the way, when I see someone, there's a huge difference between someone who's overweight and working on it and someone who's advocating that everyone else also engage in the practice of putting themselves in a grave at an early age.
00:36:30.000But as we mentioned before, Tovar, or Virgie, is the author of multiple books, including The Self-Love Revolution, Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color, and You Have the Right to Remain Fat, which actually brings us to this week's 7 Plus 1. This week, 7 plus 1, actually, she wrote other books as well.
00:39:13.000I say leave it to raw ingredients because you can find things that are raw.
00:39:14.000You can eat unhealthy and have your unhealthy lifestyle, and we're not going to be phobying you or whatever if you want to go buy noodles and cheese sauce.
00:40:03.000And by the way, they have lobbyists who then go to the government and say, please ensure that EBT and food stamps continue to be permitted for soda.
00:40:09.000Oh, by the way, you know who else is really big on that?
00:40:11.000The corn lobbying for high-fructose corn syrup.
00:40:15.000When people say it doesn't affect me, it does.
00:40:17.000This is not about what you put in your body.
00:40:19.000This is about demanding that we pay for it and the ramifications and the laws that we have that protect what should be very much an unprotected class.
00:40:26.000Meanwhile, Big Mike is being celebrated as this epitome of health.
00:40:45.000They estimate around 20% of their revenue in the United States comes from people on food stamps buying sugary drinks.
00:40:51.000Candy is in the top 10. I believe all the prepackaged chips and popcorn and stuff like that, that's in the top 5 to 7 products that people buy.
00:41:37.000When you see those commercials of how many people in the United States are starving, you go, but how do you have a higher percentage of poor people who are morbidly obese?
00:42:18.000People want to bitch about Big Pharma?
00:42:20.000How about we incentivize people, or maybe it goes into an HSA. Maybe it's a tax break, where if you have a BMI within a certain parameter, blood work, you are actually encouraged to take preventative care measures.
00:43:42.000We just showed you Virgie, and I just saw dad bod.
00:43:47.000Now, dad bod is usually equated with someone, especially like after becoming a father, and there actually is a physiological response where testosterone often decreases because they say it might be an evolutionary mechanism to be staying at home or to, you know, have a period of nurturing, but tend to put on a few pounds, right?
00:44:03.000So, dad bod is seen as someone who's not particularly fit.
00:44:05.000It was not seen typically as a very desirable body type And this is what is being shown right now.
00:46:08.000I know there's airbrushing and stuff on the cover.
00:46:11.000It would be, if you were to go into a doctor's office, Anywhere from the 1950s to the 1990s, most women would be within striking distance of that shape.
00:46:20.000There's a standard on the women's magazines.
00:46:23.000Let's look, for contrast, at men's magazines right now.
00:47:13.000That's why I say 14-17% is the ideal male body fat for performance.
00:47:17.000To get what people say they are below 10%, It is very, very difficult to do.
00:47:24.000People who are on stages, you know, Mr. Olympia, provided they got their knees for Joe Weider, if they are on the cover, they often involve diuretics, steroids.
00:48:05.000Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn to those three right there.
00:48:09.000You could go down to the local mall, a restaurant, and barring the new obesity trend, grab ten women at random, and at least half the women would be within striking distance of that.
00:48:21.000How many of them do you think look like The Rock or Zac Efron when he was doing, what was that, Baywatch?
00:48:29.000You just can't have standards for one and not for the other.
00:48:33.000On one side, you have fat pride and all bodies are beautiful.
00:48:37.000But here's the reason why you mentioned shame.
00:48:39.000It's not going to work with guys because fat guys know they're fat.
00:49:00.000If I see a guy doing something that I can't do, I'm like, ah, crap, it's because I exercise or I eat too much or whatever.
00:49:07.000To give you an idea, I believe average female body fat is between 18 to 28% for women who are aged 18 to 30. Most guys will find you attractive.
00:49:20.000Just to be clear, if you are average, Most men will find you attractive.
00:49:31.000They just ask that you not be unhealthy.
00:49:33.000And that's not so much the fault of men.
00:49:36.000It's because we're hardwired to want to reproduce.
00:49:39.000Women ask for, and again, when you're just looking at the hunks who they hold up, they ask for six-packs, which exist only in teenagers and drug dealers.
00:51:28.000I'm just like, it's just one of those things like...
00:51:33.000Do you have any idea how much easier it is to be a female fitness influencer today on Instagram than it is to be a male fitness influencer?
00:54:42.000If you guys are looking for something special, like for Christmas, that you want to try, they have expensive meat, but like Australian Wagyu beef, it was the best food that I've ever put in my mouth.
00:54:55.000So it's not, I think they sell like everyday steaks, but they just sent a package, the thank you, Paulo Figueiredo knew them, he set it up because these guys are Brazilians and they're very tribal people.
00:55:44.000Do you think this is a First Amendment issue, a freedom of speech issue?
00:55:46.000Businesses can do whatever they want issue?
00:55:48.000Or do you think this is, we need to be aware of a foreign threat issue considering the ownership of TikTok and considering the censorship that has taken place?
00:55:58.000Full disclosure, I have not been on TikTok for, gosh, I don't know, a year and a half.
00:58:47.000You know that I have been pro either they need to divest, meaning the Chinese government, effectively, or ByteDance, I should say, the company that holds TikTok.
00:58:55.000It needs to go to an American company.
00:58:57.000Or, yeah, then there needs to be a ban because of what we know as it relates to collection on Americans, your data, and it being stored and monitoring your points of view.