Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - It’s a Thing… | 6/27/23

Episode Date: June 27, 2023

Nathan's contest comin' up… Kobayashi quits hot dog eating contests… Florida citrus in trouble… Georgia peaches in trouble… chewingthefat@theblaze.com Mexican chili pepper in trouble… Montan...a rail has troubles… Kennedy Center honors new inductees… Fox lists new lineup and layoffs… SAMBA TV diversity on tv… Just Like That season two… Elton at Glastonbury… Alec and air travel… Toronto Mayoral election… Publishers Clearing House settles… Anti Fat Drugs still in the works… Side effects from Ozempic... Joke of The Day… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:22 19 plus Ontario only. Please play responsibly. Concerned by your gambling or that if someone close, you call 186653300 or visit Comex Ontario.com. Blaze Radio Network And now chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher We are a week away from the Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest on the 4th of July. One week, if you're listening live, today is the 27th of June, 23. One week away from July 4th and the Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest. The contest is fun.
Starting point is 00:00:55 It's fun to watch. I, in fact, interviewed the announcer and the guy that's, you know, face of the contest, George Shea, episode 409 of chewing the fat, by the way. And he's a fascinating guy. I interviewed him during the pandemic and how they were going to do the contest for 2020. And he's a really fascinating guy. And we're back to being, you know, with crowds, obviously now. Then, you know, when you look at the records, I mean, Joey Chestnut owns the Nathan's
Starting point is 00:01:25 hot dog eating contest, along with Mickey Sudo. the female, I'm sorry, the woman. She owns the woman's side. She didn't win a couple years ago because she was out. And a Michelle Lesko won, but that was because Mickey wasn't there. And Mickey came back last year and is back on top with Joey Chestnut. I mean, Chestnut owns the competition. Before Joey came along, there was a competitive eater by the name of Takiro Kabashi.
Starting point is 00:01:56 And he won multiple years a long time ago. It's not that long ago, but it feels like it's a long time ago. I mean, he won back in 2001 through 2009. And that's when Joey Chestnut showed up. Chestnut showed up in 2008. Well, actually, in 2007 and won. And then in 2008, they tied and had an Eid off, and he won. And then there was no looking back for Joey after that.
Starting point is 00:02:30 contest he continued to win and set records now Kobayashi is still a competitive eater but he released on Instagram that he is giving up competitive hot dog eating now the reason he's given up competitive hot dog eating is very interesting to me since I am a Heinz ketchup police officer Kobayashi is partnering with Heinz to say just how good hot dogs are, but not for hot dog eating contests. I'm Takeroubaishi, six-time hot dog eating contest champion
Starting point is 00:03:10 and the godfather of competitiveity come to see how my ears of eating hot dog this way was wrong and ready to make it right. From this point forward, I will no longer participate in hot dog eating contest of any kind. But I want to thank Heinz and hot dogs are not a contest movement
Starting point is 00:03:30 for having see the light. Halduks are not a contest. They are for enjoying with Heinz. Thank you. That is awesome. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Some interesting headlines about food and, well, specifically fruit here.
Starting point is 00:03:59 Florida oranges and Georgia peaches are both experiencing the lowest production of their big name fruits in decades, which, of course, will drive up prices. You can count on that. Citrus harvest this season in Florida could be the smallest since 1928. Could be, probably will be. 18 million boxes compared to a peak of 250 million boxes
Starting point is 00:04:27 in the 90s and early 2000. I mean, that's incredible. How, I mean, when I lived in Florida, in the 90s and the 2000s. They were just, they were dropping everywhere. My wife at the time was a nurse, a home health nurse, and she had plenty of patients, older patients that had orange trees and tangerine trees
Starting point is 00:04:51 and grapefruit trees in their yards. And they didn't know what to do with it. They were, stuff was just falling off. So we would go and pick them and take them and have, you know, we have oranges and tangerines and grapefruits and juices. And it was amazing. Amazing. That doesn't happen anymore. Now, according to the reason was nasty weather in the fall and winter, compounded longer-term challenges like greening disease to devastate Florida's famous citrus grows.
Starting point is 00:05:19 And if you get your hands on fresh, squeezed Florida orange juice, you will be paying through the nose or through whatever orifice you pay for your fruit because it's going to be a pretty penny. Now, Georgia peaches are almost completely wiped out this year. Wow. Warm weather, warm winter weather, actually, followed by a cold snap in March, have destroyed 95% of the crops. The farmers say it's the worst harvest since 1955. Holy cow. So if you get a Georgia peach this year, you're going to be a lucky one. Florida, of course, is far more dependent on the citrus harvest than Georgia is on the peaches,
Starting point is 00:06:07 which I didn't realize, actually. I mean, I realized Florida was dependent on the citrus industry. They have an industry worth $6.9 billion a year, according to the University of Florida. And peaches are mostly symbolic for Georgia. They only brought in $34 million in revenue, which is really surprising. I would have bet a lot more. but they make over a billion for cotton out of Georgia. So I just figured that Georgia made a lot more from the peaches, but apparently not.
Starting point is 00:06:40 And they're not going to make $34 million this year because it's almost wiped out. There's almost no Georgia peaches. Really sad. And of course, it's not because of weather changes and snaps. It's all because of climate change. And we need to not be able to do the things. things we love or have energy or have power for our homes because of climate change. Okay, I get it.
Starting point is 00:07:06 We have a shortage of Mexican chili peppers. We talked about the syriachi sauce, right, and how people are stealing it from the restaurants. That's high priced. The Ha-Fong foods, their sauce, they hamper production because of the green-capped bottle. People are fighting for it because the Mexican chili paper. chili pepper, I can't even say it, the crop failure. It's caused by an ongoing drought,
Starting point is 00:07:36 exasperated by climate change. So that's the blame that they're having for high-fong foods shortage of syriachi sauce. So if you're looking for the production of the green-capped syriachi bottle, it's pretty low. And prices are surging through the roof. And if you find one, I'm not saying deep pocket it, but you may accidentally have one fall into your wife's purse.
Starting point is 00:08:05 Just, you know, say, oops. Oh, did that accidentally fall in there? Oh, shoot. Gosh, darn it. Wish I hadn't had done that. And then we found out that we talked about bees and the shortage of bees and the hives. What's going on with the beehives and they're being stolen? Well, bee hives have reportedly gone through the second highest.
Starting point is 00:08:29 death rate on record. Beekeepers have lost 48% of their managed colonies. Wow. Just incredible. Incredible. Bees are responsible for so much of our food and our growth.
Starting point is 00:08:47 And so we have to do something about that. I don't know if it's climate change. I don't know if we have to go out and make sure we have to open up Beehive strip clubs so the bees are taking care of business. so we can start having some more bees we need a little bee business going on
Starting point is 00:09:03 because that needs to happen we don't need to be losing the honey bees and if they would have done what I had suggested a long time ago during the Afghan war the original Afghan war we would not be in this problem because I said
Starting point is 00:09:17 the farmers in Afghanistan who make poppies for the heroin trade need another revenue stream and so I said let's take bees to Afghanistan, use the caves, use the fields, and create beehives in Afghanistan, which would then in turn make honey a new product rather than poppies for heroin, and they would, we'd have bees. Nobody took me up on my idea. They should have now. Yeah, who's laughing now?
Starting point is 00:09:47 That's right. Who's stinging bees now? Me. That's right. And we talked yesterday about the trained. derailment in Montana and how they were worried what was going to go in the river and it cut off the internet line and so they now they're saying oh it's fine don't worry about it nothing bad spilled into the river we're all fine don't worry about it well come to find out that was the fifth train derailment in Montana this year what is happening I don't know the first was March 8th, which I believe they claimed ice caused the train to come off the tracks at a road crossing. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:10:36 Then in March 15th, one week later, the engine of a 72 car train came off the tracks at a Montana crossing. They claimed that was snow was a big factor. Okay, they never had snow before on the tracks. It's just really, really strange. Then at the end of March, March was a busy month for Montana. rail. They had another train come off the tracks. Again, no one was injured. So apparently, snow is new to Montana and the rail lines because who knew? And now then in April, wow, this in the first part of April too. So it's almost, almost a whole month throughout March and
Starting point is 00:11:17 the first part of April, a train carrying loads of beer derailed in northwestern Montana and Sanders County. Okay, so 25 cars derailed. Some landed in the river, and the cause of the derailment is still under investigation, but I'm guessing that because it's the first of April and they were still blaming the rail crashes in March on snow, it will have something to do with, yeah, there was a lot of snow and ice. And then what are you going to do? And then they don't forget in 2021, they had the Amtrak passenger train derailed. Three people died.
Starting point is 00:11:54 Several people were injured. Wow. And apparently the NTSB says that a bent rail on the track could be blamed for that incident. Could be the blame for that incident. The bent rail. Okay. I don't know what's happening in Montana or around the country with the trains. But I'm a huge fan of trains.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Life in the train age is I'm all for them. I love them. But whatever is going on needs to be stopped. You can quote me on that. You can quote me on. that whatever is going on needs to stop all right let's go to the break room i need something cold to drink desperately get joint help dot com slash jeffy if you are struggling with stiff or aching joints and you're tired of letting this well we'll call it discomfort steal the joy and freedom from your life
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Starting point is 00:14:09 Congratulations are in order to Billy Crystal. Renee Fleming, singer-songwriter, BG's band member, Barry Gibb, actress, singer and rapper queen Latifah and singer Dionne Warwick. Congratulations. to all of them as they are going to be awarded a lifetime artistic achievement award from the Kennedy Center honors congratulations to them it's the 46th feels like the 800th but it is only the 46th Kennedy Center honors and all of those people are going to be honored congratulations to all of them i mean queen latifah the first lady of hip hop and she's got her own big show now whatever uh whatever the stupid show is
Starting point is 00:14:56 it's the equalizer. That's it. The Equalizer. You know, that started out okay. And then I got kind of bored with it. And they got rid of my man, Chris Knoth, off the show because he was accused of some stuff. So, and I liked Chris on the show. Anyway, so the Kennedy Center honors are going to air on CBS and stream on Paramount
Starting point is 00:15:17 Plus on December 3rds. We've got a ways. It's going to be hosted by a singer and the 2017 honore. Gloria Estefan. Hasn't she been there before? Yeah, it's like her third time hosting. And he can't get rid of Gloria at the Kennedy Center Honors. So congratulations.
Starting point is 00:15:37 I mean, Billy Crystal, he absolutely deserves an award. I mean, he's funny and he's had some of the memorable Hollywood scenes in the last century. Barry Gibb? Well, okay. I mean, he was a big part of a musical movement. So, okay, I'll give you Barry Gibb. I don't know. I was going to come as a surprise.
Starting point is 00:15:57 The celebrated soprano, Renee Fleming. Not real, I don't have a lot of information about her. Let's take a look at Renee. Well, I'm sure she's a celebrated soprano, but she is also the artistic advisor at large to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. So a big surprise, she's going to be getting an award from the actual Kennedy Center this year.
Starting point is 00:16:23 So congratulations to all the all the nominees and all the people who are going to be celebrated on their big night. Interesting that the same night yesterday or the same day, that Fox News announced the new primetime lineup, finally figuring out what they're going to do after Tucker got his booted out the door. So the new lineup is reshuffling the current evening schedule. So Laura Ingram is moving to the 7 p.m. slot. and they're moving Jesse Waters up to the 8 p.m. slot, which was Tucker Carlson's slot.
Starting point is 00:17:02 And then Sean Hannity stays at 9, and Greg Gutfield moves to 10 p.m. Now, I think the guy that was on after Gutfeld is going to move to the 11 p.m. slot. I think it was called Fox at Night or something like that. So, anyway, they had the big change. However, the interesting news that can't. the same day was that there was still staffers who had previously worked for Tucker Carlson in the building no more oh you worked for Tucker good luck God bless take care no you can't work on any of the other shows no you're not working on any of the new shows uh you're out
Starting point is 00:17:45 have a nice day take care interesting you had something to do with Tucker Carlson yes well yes I worked on a show bye but I could work on, nope, sorry. But I'm happy to work. I like living in New York and working at... No. I just worked for Tucker. I didn't do...
Starting point is 00:18:05 No. Okay. All right. Take care. Just interesting to me. That's all. Just interesting. So I see this headline.
Starting point is 00:18:14 It said, report from Samba TV. I'm not aware of really what Samba TV is. But the headline is Samba TV, finding that Hispanic actors are underrepresented on TV. Only 10%
Starting point is 00:18:29 of lead actors were Hispanic despite making up nearly 20% of the U.S. population. So I was okay, fine, whatever, let's take a look at what Samba TV is. So I can download their report,
Starting point is 00:18:46 which is the 2023 state of diversity on TV. And it also says I can download more insights is the TV industry accurately representing the changing landscape in the U.S. Does representative content attract viewers? No, you know what attracts viewers?
Starting point is 00:19:04 Good shows. It doesn't matter, you know, if the show, what the show wraps around, and if the characters are the right character for the part, that's what makes good TV. I may have to download the state of diversity on TV analysis from Samba TV, and get back to you on that. and let you know just exactly how they feel about diversity and representation on TV. While it's not just a moral imperative,
Starting point is 00:19:35 but it also plays a crucial role in fostering inclusivity and influencing how society is shaped. At Sanba, this is their promo. At Samba TV, our vision is a world where everyone is more deeply connected to what they love through TV. So we look closer, look at the impact of diversity and reputation. representation has on us, the viewers, with practically unlimited choices of what TV to watch, are we more likely to seek out programs and respond to advertising that features characters
Starting point is 00:20:07 who look like us? Well, I would have to say, maybe, but we'd also respond to, I would say, I look for shows that are good. That's what I'm looking for. I want a show that's good, okay? Like, for instance, let's say, let's use the show, oh, and just like that. The new Sex and the City reboot, okay? So season two just fired up again on HBO, I'm sorry, Max. And it, I stopped watching season one because it was just so god-awful boring. And I had it had enough. The Sex and the City, I believe, had its run.
Starting point is 00:20:48 And to try to reboot that, really didn't work. But hey, they got a full season out of it, and they got another season reboot out of it too because season two fired up. So I thought, okay, you know what, I'll give season two a shot. So I went to, uh, and just like that on HBO. And it says continue watching. I made it through two episodes of season one before I stopped watching. That's where it says resume watching. I was after the second episode. So that's, I mean, I was done with it then. So I watched the, the first episode of season two of just like that. You know, it's more sex with, you know,
Starting point is 00:21:28 grandmas in the city or whatever it is. And it is amazingly as boring or more boring than the first season was. And I will say this. There were plenty of times in that first two episodes of just like that, where I wanted Samantha to show up and be in the show and she wasn't on it. Now, they claim that Samantha was coming back this season. I did not see her come back. Now, that means that I stopped somewhere in episode one because I was like, okay, enough.
Starting point is 00:22:01 I can't. I even saved watching with my wife because my wife loves sex in the city, but she can't take the new reboot. And so it's just, I never made it to Samantha coming back. So all I want is to be good, okay? Just be good. And sometimes a reboot doesn't need to be a reboot. reboot it could just be a whole new show okay all right good I'm glad did we cover that okay maybe I'll go back and take a look at the state of diversity on TV from Samba but I
Starting point is 00:22:31 think I'm gonna disagree with some of their some of their outcomes you never know though you never know with Amex platinum $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug but your taste buds too that's the powerful of Amex. Conditions apply. So did you catch any of the Glastonbury concerts that was going on? I mean, I know they all, you know, little Naz-X showed up and Blondie performed in the final day. And Billy Idol was there. And so, you know, all the bands, all the bands of record of great were there.
Starting point is 00:23:24 But the number one show was the Elton John show. It was probably his last show on his. farewell tour, which is, you know, who knows, the farewell tour could be gone for another 10 years. But he believed that it was his final show in the UK. He's 76 now. This is supposed to be his retirement tour, right? The tour is now the, I don't know, the most, the highest grossing tour of all time.
Starting point is 00:23:54 I guess almost a billion dollars, $887 million, according to the experts. So he'll probably reach a billion. same as so will Beyonce and Taylor Swift, but Elton will probably get there first and deservedly so. So he showed up in his gold jacket and his red glass. He was awesome. I love Elton. And the crowd estimated at over 120,000 people.
Starting point is 00:24:23 When you look at the air shots, it's amazing. There were so many jokes about having to pee and I'll wait or I'll just pee here. It was a massive crowd 120,000 people for Elton No doubt about it Plus he set a record 7.3 million people tuned in to BBC 1
Starting point is 00:24:44 To watch it Which blows away the other records Diana Ross had 3.1 million When she did her set at Glastonbury And McCartney had 2.7 million When he did his set at Glastonbury when he did his set at Glastonbury. That's not Elton John.
Starting point is 00:25:02 Okay, Elton, we were getting more 7 million people. Plus 120,000 in the crowd. I mean, I've seen Elton before. A couple of times, he's awesome. I saw him with Billy Joel, too, which was a great show. Maybe we've talked about it before. But just really, really amazing. He came out.
Starting point is 00:25:24 The crowd went crazy. He said, you know, I'd better play well. better entertain you. You've been standing a long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, I mean, he played his greatest hit. I mean, of course, I mean, anything he plays on stage is going to be his hits. But you look at the set list. It's been Bull Wizard, the bitch is back, many of the Jets. Daniel, goodbye, Yellow Rick Road. I guess that's why they call it the blues. Philadelphia Freedom. Are you ready for love? He did that with Jacob Lusk and the London Community Gospel Choir. Sad songs say so much.
Starting point is 00:25:59 Someone saved my life tonight until I found you with Stephen Sanchez. Your song, Candle in the Wind. He did Tiny Dancer with Brandon Flowers. Then he brought out Rina Sawayama
Starting point is 00:26:12 to do Don't Go Break in My Heart and place of Kiki D. Crocodile Rock. Saturday night's all right for fighting. I'm still standing. Cold heart. Don't let the sun go down on me. And of course, we end with
Starting point is 00:26:26 Rocket Man. And we have fireworks and blasting off. And it's the end of the show. And, you know, I think it's going to be a long, long time. Oh, my gosh. Get it? I think it's going to be a long, long time. And he said it's been an incredible journey.
Starting point is 00:26:46 And I've had the best, best time. Wow. I think it's going to be a long, long time. Incredible. Elton Man is the man. There's no doubt about it. So I see where over 2,000 or almost 2,000 flights were canceled many due to storms on the East Coast, adding to a tough weekend for the airlines as they try to handle increased travel demands
Starting point is 00:27:12 and avoid critiques on recent summers of poor service. So, I mean, LaGuardia Airport in New York City saw the highest share of flights canceled among U.S. airports. And the Federal Aviation Administration lacks a lot of. any kind of plan to address it. Wait, what? The U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at the helm doesn't have a plan. I know that there's a shortage of air traffic control personnel, and so they're saying, hey, it could take years for the FAA to hire and train the optimal number of air traffic controllers.
Starting point is 00:27:49 Duh. One of the things that made me happy about it, and I would be so frustrated if I was traveling, and I understand being frustrated with travel and delays. Truly, I would be out of my mind. But the only thing that made me happy about the delays was that I follow my man, Alec Baldwin. No, no gunshot, because I'm not talking about the movie Rust. If I were talking about the movie Rust, and I mentioned his name,
Starting point is 00:28:19 well, then you'd have to have a gunshot. But since I'm just talking about him traveling, I won't do the gunshot. Probably should. And I'm disappointing myself by not using it. But, you know, I'm just being nice. But I don't know why I'm being nice. I just am.
Starting point is 00:28:36 Because it made me happy that he was so frustrated. I see on his Instagram. Yes, I follow him. I never comment, though, because I don't want him to block me. So many times I want to comment on some of the dumb crap he says on his Instagram account. But I don't, because I don't want him to block me. I want to continue to follow him because he's such a douche.
Starting point is 00:28:56 And he was so unhappy about having to fly. Apparently, he's flying, or he was, I hope he's there now, I guess he is. He was flying from Newark to Vancouver. So he's going to Vancouver. He must be getting ready to try to film a new show or get some money for a movie or whatever. So he's flying to Vancouver.
Starting point is 00:29:16 And he posts six and a half hours on a plane, sitting at the gate, waiting to fly Newark to Vancouver. no ended site hashtag how will global warming effect air travel and it shows his face all pissed and then the next post is his pissed even more is his face
Starting point is 00:29:34 even more pissed with his headphones in and why are the U.S. airlines so shitty sitting here for seven and a half hours and so that makes me kind of happy that I mean I would not want to be on a plane with him
Starting point is 00:29:52 after he's all pissed off because they've been sitting there delayed. I believe me, I understand the frustration. I really do. But because it's him, I'm kind of okay with it. Plus, what are you doing? You're flying domestic, Alec? You cheap, what do you have in the movie company? Fly you out to Vancouver to look at some new show you could possibly be doing
Starting point is 00:30:17 instead of flying private out there? What a douche. And speaking of Canada, I see where they had their mayor election yesterday. They had 102 people, or names, I should say, because one was a dog that was running for mayor of Toronto. 102 names were on the ballot for Toronto's mayor election. So that included a man running on behalf of his dog. And what's going, what's happening in Toronto, the previous mayor of North America's fourth largest city, resigned following a candle and so they had to, you know, have a vote.
Starting point is 00:30:55 So you only had to pay $189 and get $25 signatures and you're on the ballot. Well, congratulations to the new mayor of Toronto. Her name is Olivia Chow. She's 66. She emerged victorious from a record field of 102 candidates after promising to raise the city's low property tax. and do more to support tenants facing a housing affordability crisis. So congratulations to her for defeating all 102 people on the ballot.
Starting point is 00:31:36 Olivia Chow. She apparently came to Canada as a 13-year-old immigrant. She's the first Chinese-Canadian mayor of Toronto. And she's going to pursue a more progressive approach. in Canada's largest city after ending more than a decade of conservative rule. And I feel like that's different than
Starting point is 00:31:59 what we consider conservative here in the U.S., but maybe that's just me. So good for them. I know that they've had quite a few scandals around the old mayoral seat in Toronto. The first guy, right, he smoked
Starting point is 00:32:15 crack. That was a few years ago. He was busted smoking crack and then he got cancer. And then their last mayor left in disgrace after admitting he had an affair with a staffer, and he pledged not to get involved in the race, and he endorsed someone else, sorry, didn't work. Olivia Chow got the job. So good luck to Toronto. Maybe it'll work out for him. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank,
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Starting point is 00:33:36 alleging that the company used deceptive website design to convince consumers that making purchases was required to either win a sweepstakes or increase their chances of winning and tacked down surprise shipping fees to purchases.
Starting point is 00:33:53 Yeah, I don't know if they used dark patterns like Amazon did, but it's not the first time that the marketing and sweepstakes firm has been accused in lawsuits of misleading customers. Wait, what? Have you ever tried to, I thought at one time, I remember a long time ago, and I don't remember how long I tried it to win the Publishers Clearing House, and I got a few magazines to get the first one, to get the first entry,
Starting point is 00:34:20 and then they keep sending you things, and you keep entering, and you don't have to purchase, but you do feel like you have to. I will say that. You felt like the purchase. just was necessary. And obviously they tell you that it's not. But they also lead you down the road of, yeah, it's not necessary. But if you don't do it, you'll be a loser and you know there's no chance for you to win.
Starting point is 00:34:42 So maybe that had to do with the dark patterns. I thought the dark patterns thing was a joke as the trade commission is trying to go after Amazon for it. But maybe it's not. Maybe they're, you know, doing their voodoo that they do to get people to do their things. thing. So if you were one of the people that, you know, had the deceptive website design issues that convinced you to make purchases, you're going to get some of your money back. They're going to refund customers $18.5 million.
Starting point is 00:35:16 $18.5 million. That seems pretty low. I mean, the attorneys are going to take half of that. So, I mean, what are the people going to get? Two bucks? Hey, thanks for spending $150 of your hard-earned money. thinking here to win publishers clearinghouse but here's two bucks we settled in quote we settled with the federal trade commission so good good for you you'll be able to get your two bucks back
Starting point is 00:35:41 even though it was a lot more than that that you spent and good news for people with fat guy seating problems uh like uh yours truly uh the new weight loss drug from eli lily shows an average job of 24% body weight in over 48 weeks in phase two of the clinical study. It's the most effective results to date for the new class of drugs known as semaglutides. And so, okay, great. It just when it seemed that the weight loss drug race couldn't get any more frenzied, the makers of the popular obesity medications are on the run. They're on the go.
Starting point is 00:36:21 We're going to make this happen. We're going to have the anti-fat pills on the market. I know, and they're doing it without shots. So Novo Nordisk said yesterday, it will seek FDA approval this year for a pill version of its pound shredding medication. Weigave, OZempic for weight loss, after finding that an oral alternative was just as effective. All right, good. So these people are saying, hey, we make OZEPIC, we're going to get OZEPIC in a pill. I don't know if you're going to end up with OZEPIC, but that's a thing.
Starting point is 00:36:55 apparently Osepick makes you have a saggy butt but you know is it worth it to lose 100 pounds you'll have to make that choice so Pfizer and Eli Lilly then the maker of Montgero and I don't know if you get Montgero butt or not a recent breakout in weight loss
Starting point is 00:37:17 is trailing behind the three drug makers so we'll see how that goes now the Novo Nordisk final trials before the FDA review, diabetics lost up to 20 pounds, and non-diabetics lost an average of 35 pounds. Wow. On a high-dose daily pill version of the semi-glutide,
Starting point is 00:37:39 the generic name for OZepic. Okay. That's great. And it doesn't say if you're going to get OZempic butt from the pill. I don't know if you are or not. It's a good question. We'll find out, won't we? We'll find out in the trials.
Starting point is 00:37:54 Right. so we'll see now one of the drugs they stopped making right i thought i saw yeah Pfizer was developing a second pill but it dropped oh there you go Pfizer was developing a second pill it just dropped it after discovering it could harm people's livers wait what come on we're gonna give it we're fine if you're if you're fat and want to be thin you're gonna take a shot it might hurt your liver eh all right i'll take one last pill i mean the docs think it's great because people get squimmish around needles really i don't you know
Starting point is 00:38:36 is that a thing i mean i i i guess i mean i've had shots all my life and i've had shots in my knees and my ankles and my shoulders you know everywhere and uh you know so i it hurts but you know you just do it and so you know that's why I never wanted to do any really hard drugs with needles because I knew that that would I would be addicted in a heartbeat absolutely 100% be addicted so it's just me maybe it's just me okay so we have to find out now if you get mutton gero butt because ozempic butt is a real thing It's a side effect linked to the drug. So some users of the medication say it caused them to develop a saggier butt,
Starting point is 00:39:28 and it's associated with the use of Ozempic. So are you willing to have a saggier butt for a thinner waistline? That's a question only you can answer. Hey, be sure to follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. you can follow me on my YouTube channel chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher you can follow me on cameo and you can order a cameo from me that's not free but you can order a cameo from me just tell me whether you want me to be happy
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Starting point is 00:40:43 He had chocolates all over his face, hands, clothing, everywhere. The old man walks by, shaking his head as he goes, by inside the store to get his flour, coffee, and sugar. When he comes out, little boy still gnaw on his big bag of chocolate. The old man stops, shakes his head and says, little boy, eating all that chocolate isn't good for you. The little boy looks up and says, my granddaddy lived to be a hundred years old. The old man replies from eating chocolate.
Starting point is 00:41:12 Little boy says, nope, from minding his own damn business. All right, that's it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. It's not just you. News is moving faster than ever, and I'm hoping that I can help you make sense of it all. My name is Jamie Puezzo and I host Canada's most popular daily news podcast. It's called Frontburner.
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