I'm rich now because I got prescribed Ozembic? Sure don't feel like it. I mean, if I was rich, I'd probably be getting the kidney I need by now, but nooooo....
@@MarquisLeary34 the comment is referring to people who can pay for Ozempic out of pocket when their insurance doesn't cover it because they don't have a prescription for diabetes.
Rich people cope by lying about how they just bought their way through the problem, poor people cope by ignoring the problem or denying the morality surrounding the problem.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Intervention en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars The US Marines were used as a strongarm for big food companies in the 1800s. Read "War is a Racket".
That is a very good observation. As things are, price caps and subsidized goods set by elected government officials seem like a better way to get items in the hands of the people rather than the price-gauging tendencies of unelected profit-seeking capitalists. Matt Stone and Trey Parker are a step away from stumbling upon the now decades-old conversation around insulin prices and access to other medical needs. With any luck, they will soon begin to notice all the other necessary things being kept out of people's hands by corporate greed; and how is enabled by the so-called free market that many Americans have led to believe is the solution to their problems instead of the source.
Holy shit now I see what the fuss is about 1350 for one is absolutely insane I live in Jordan and it sells for about 140 usd equivalent without insurance
Yes, the US prices in healthcare are ridiculous. The problem isn't that people don't have insurance and therefore have to pay for healthcare out of pocket. It's that they have to pay exorbitant prices out of pocket. And even people who can afford insurance (who don't get it via their employer for example because they're self-employed) and who opt for the best packet available to them still have to pay nonsensical amounts out of pocket.
This wasn’t the first time South Park has dealt with external forces interfering with personal responsibility. Remember when Garrison tried to create his own car only for the auto industry to lobby the government to make his invention illegal.
As a pass meth addict, it is WAY harder to stop eating sugary/snack foods than it was to quit methamphetamine. I still struggle with thoughts of relapse but getting away from the people who have meth was key for me. You can get a sugar fix anywhere. It's often forced upon you with ads and encouraged.
ok but don't forget you didn't get meth since you where a child, like, even more than once daily. If parents manage to keep their kids at least the first 10-14 years on a low sugar diet (fruit level), I think then it would be easier, for everyone. when I was kid I learnt the first sweetest best beverage for breakfast: nesquick with milk...so, what's that? 50% sugar? even more? plus some cookies made by grandma. very good, but she put sugar just as much as there is in commercial sugary cookies. so yeah...the brain grows getting used to those levels of sugar rush. and everyone has their sugar bomb, kind of like cartman.
This is the same reason I struggle with alcoholism. They normalize it in media and society so much and every time you go to the store there’s beer. They normalize meth or heroin in that same way and you can’t just go buy it off the shelf at the store. I once brought this up in rehab and all the alcoholics agreed but everyone there for anything was pissed when I brought up the truth
I’ve worked in medical billing and coding for over 20 years and I can vouch for how accurate the song about navigating the American healthcare system is. The whole system is set up to frustrate patients and facilities to the point of giving up rather continuing to pursue denied claims. I’ve literally spent hours working on patient claims contacting insurance companies or searching their websites to figure out why they aren’t getting paid.
I work medical coding and billing too. I absolutely detest Medicare and Medicaid. Drives me insane trying to find LCD's and figure out their internal denial codes. I hate having to write things off because MCR/MCD said it wasn't necessary.
Well, willpower is very difficult to come up with for anyone with a serious dopamine system malfunction, because dopamine regulates motivation and thus, the _willpower_ to get up and get shit done. We need to get off out high metaphysical horses about how the human spirit is supposed to be impervious to lowly bodily functions. Any hormonal imbalance will wreak havoc on any person's personality and behaviour.
As a poor person working two jobs, too tired to do much else, keeping my weight in line is easy. I can't afford a lot of food, and exhaustion often makes me skip meals :D
That is tragic. I hope that the conditions of the world will change so that you can at the very least afford to let your weight slip up someday. We could spin this as you possessing the necessary willpower and personal responsibility to budget your meals responsibly and avoid overeating, but we all know those are environmental factors at play. Things don't happen in a vacuum. The conditions around us will inevitably impact other aspects of our lives.
The reason fax machines are still used is because it's written into the health codes for transmitting data as a safe way to do so. We just haven't revisited those laws to rewrite them.
I think south parks’ evolution towards Marxism has been fascinating, they went from preaching free market responsibility to realizing there’s nothing free about it
Weirdly enough, as soon as they announced this one. I automatically knew the end result was gonna be, Cartman doesn't change or learn a thing and continues to be Cartman.
I was disappointed when they say they won't make fun of fat people anymore, & Cartman goes off insulting people thinking they'll have nothing to come back at him with, no one calls him out for simply being a rotten bigoted asshole that has nothing to do with his weight 😅
I was diagnosed with DID around 2000. Turns out I'm on the autism spectrum. At 56, I'm STILL waiting for help for this, btw. I also lost 70 lbs around 2017 by mostly starving (I'd lost my mobility following cancer treatment.) The medical industry presented no other option. I only stopped because I reached a plateau, and eating any less would surely kill me--I was already on prescriptions for potassium and such. I haven't gained it back, and still need to lose more, but I have no help (despite proving my commitment,) and no healthy options. As Matt & Trey have said before; "America, f*ck yeah."
As another autistic DID system struggling to fight cancer without support i feel your pain so much. I'm sorry this world isn't built for us but I'm only 38 and glad too hear you made out to 56. I hope i do too even if it sucks
@@ventriloquistmagician4735shouldn't Jesus be helping both of these people? Seems like they have suffered, what is Jesus waiting for? And if you say for them to convert or ask for help then I would say what type of cruel deity only helps their supporters? Is he waiting for the starving kids around the world to ask (even if they've never heard of Jesus?), I'm glad you have your faith but some of us need physical help and results not waiting for a deity to step in.
Really excellent analysis of semantic contagion. Absolutely spot-on. The problem is that willpower has to be developed, and developing strong willpower only comes from making Odysseus Pacts with yourself...and I mean over and over and over again. We can make Pacts with ourselves at any scale of willpower, so there's always some level where you can force yourself to keep a promise to yourself. There's always some concern or want just outside of your immediate desire or focus where you can find opportunities for successful Pacts. The counter to this is is that if you actually live your life from one Odysseus Pact to the next...people will come to *loathe* you. There's a point at which self-control, self-mastery, and self-restraint become socially undesirable because we don't want some tryhard making us look bad. It's the same reason employers avoid overqualified candidates even when they're excited to bring their qualifications to a role: management knows it will shake things up and disrupt the status quo. This means that, ultimately, willpower depends on how desperately you need to be liked. The effect of most Odysseus Pacts of real value that we might make with ourselves will also make us seem very "weird" from the outside. "Why don't you just do this instead, or do it this way?" If you tell the truth, that you've made a Pact with yourself, then your interlocutor will try to subvert you and cajole you into breaking it. So, in order to chain one Pact to the next, over the course of a lifetime, you must accept everyone around you thinking you're weird if not outright alien. There's no cultural or social support for making Odysseus Pacts because it makes you "antisocial" and counter-cultural by definition. Everyone else is having a meltdown as a hoard over the siren call of some new FOMO and you're that one weirdo sitting contently over there in the corner with wax in your ears. "Like what? Who are you? You think you're better than me?" That'll be the average person's response, because the average person not only doesn't really want willpower, but doesn't *realize* they don't want it because they haven't honestly reckoned with its terms. Most people will bristle at my analysis not because they're lazy or lacking willpower, but because they're afraid to reckon with its real terms: social alienation and isolation. We don't want to even begin to think about the cold hard fact that willpower *necessitates* loneliness, so most never even begin down the path. It isn't that their willpower has become so debased that they can't find even a small hook to hang a Pact with themselves anymore. Rather, the problem becomes the terror most people feel when contemplating true social rejection. Most of us are just so terrified of seeming even a little strange that we won't take the first step necessary toward self-control, self-discipline, and self-mastery.
I would also like to reference Sapolsky's work/latest book on Free Will (or the illusion of free will, really). It's much harder to relate to living in a western setting and being middle class, but there are many things that connect it to this episode. If the cheapest food in the US is generally bad for health and can easily get people many calories for little money, that quickly becomes less about willpower and more about inequality of starting positions in life. Add to that the more recent development, where rich people who can have the best food, nutrition advice and personal trainers, can also just take a willpower injection, and it's crazy relevant.
Exactly. It serves the corn/sugar industries for people to be comfortable with obesity. It also serves the insurance companies as obesity often comes with comorbidity and more revenue through sick people.
I love this episode. I will admit, I didn't think it was that funny. However, I was so invested in the story. I was so into the car chase; my eyes were completely glued. And when it was revealed to be the insurance guy in the truck, I screamed, "No!" out loud.
"Rich people get Ozempic, poor people get body positivity." Let me take this further. "Rich people get medical and financial support, poor people get Religion."
Brilliant! So many times in that episode I was amazed about how clever they used a reason to bridge a scene with another one| Randy : "when you start dressing up like that you are surrounded by people offering you drugs" which happens to him as soon as he wear his daughter's crop top! (In Canada, Gov still uses faxes too which doesn't make any sense... but what you see in that episode is an old printer)
@@TheRockerXRapid weight loss that happens to be a large amount of lean muscle makes your face sag. This happens to be exactly what Ozempic does. Rapid fat loss does not make your face sag. Turns out not all weight loss is good weight loss. There are no shortcuts, guys.
The advantage of healthcare industry of America is that almost all new drugs and treatments are developed in America because it is profitable to have a patent there, but yes, patients pay a higher price. Americans are basically paying for research for the world to just copy the research and sell drugs for cents.
The main problem that America has is that it's the cheapest of foods that are the worst for people. American companies have access to ingredients that are very cheap, primarily due to a considerable amount of the rest of the world having banned them for being too unhealthy, such as Trans-Fats and Sodium being incredibly cheap, so they substitute what everyone else in the world would describe as "A lethal amount" of them for actual ingredients. This is why Obesity is such a problem in America, but it's the exact same reason why Nauru is the most obese country in the world. After their economy collapsed and their farming lands destroyed, they have to import 99% of their food, but because of the collapsed economy, they can only import the cheapest foods, which are all incredibly Trans-Fat dense. So, yeah, "Poor people have to suffer with Obesity!" Is true, but not for the main reason the episode tackles.
The reason for the use of fax in the US is a court ruling that posits that you can send signatures via fax! There doesn’t exist a similar ruling for other methods of transporting documents, so fax it is!
Congress passed the ESIGN Act in 2000. Anyone still using/demanding fax has had 24 years and should not only not be engaged with, they should be publicly shunned and ridiculed.
@@qixxxzA digital document through a signature portal or a scanned and emailed document is just as good evidence in a court room. I'd love to hear how a physical document can be better. The truth is, security and forensics became much improved in the digital age.
Hey Jared! I gotta say, with the proliferation of all these video essay channels that make bloated 1 hr videos with little in the form of research or analysis; I’ve come to appreciate your work on such a deeper level. You always put in the work as an editor/writer to keep your scripts concise, with arguments that are well founded and actually represent the ideas of the source material. It is very transparent that this is a labor of love, and I’m glad you’ve found a way to continue to make these quality videos without sacrificing your own health.
I think his argument is that a single will power is insufficient to tackle 3 entire industries who have a vested interest in increasing the premiums. An insurance company's cyclical strategy is to raise premiums through making the high severity and low risk higher if they have sufficient capital, then as premiums increase, they can then pull the rug and focus on prevention and make amazing profits when they need to. So they will push PR body positivity to increase the diabetics to raise premiums for all, then they can focus on diet and subscribe ozempic to prediabetics to reduce the severity of it. In a way this is market manipulation by definition but this is what corrupt health insurance companies do because if you can raise and increase the risk suddenly the revenue comes in, then if they know a preventable risk that just needs PR, they can profit by pushing out PR so that the significant risk is reduced and they profit off the premium decrease. The fact that we have a dictatorship running our healthcare or that we have to pick a dictator is a travesty. I think we need coops and ICD data to really reduce the risk.
This is such a great commentary on pop culture. The fact that South Park has taken this soft stance on will power in spite of their own president that they have set with past episodes is a huge departure. Also I always learn something new when watching your videos. The concept of the semantic contagion is a new concept that I had never heard of but makes a ton of sense as a driver of this phenomenon. It reminds me of Quantum physics and the concept of the observer effecting the out come of an experiment simple by attempting to observe the results. Not being able exercise your will power because of too many external forces becomes a self fulfilling prophecy
The episode was a very good commentary on alot of modern American culture. Like it not, *everything* is an industry now. Something to be profited off of and exploited. To the point where the medical industry is purposely constructed around recurring treatments rather than one-time cures because the hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies make more money off of you coming back once a week. And the reason the Government does nothing about it is because Congress owns alot of stock in those companies so the only people who are able to do anything about it, dont because they too make money off of you coming back once a week.
NHS is a great system (when its funded properly), at uniting different healthcare disciplines under a single roof. Patient information flows freely and your in a single pipleline. The problem in the UK is that there are long waiting lists due to improper funding. Then you go private, in which the transfer of information becomes as kakfa-eque as the American model.
Anytime I get a cartman centric story I always laugh the hardest. Even the subtle stuff was hilarious. Like in the health insurance montage Eric has a consistently blank stare and butters is constantly smiling.
interesting take, got me wondering if the episode is demonstrating the incorporation of Robert Sapolsky's new book where he points out the countless ways the concept of free will is inconsistent with the last 100 years of neurobiological research, I'm not much of a fan of reading but I definitely recommend you check out his interview on the Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss, Krauss is a quantum physicist, and was able to fill in some of the areas Sapolsky was unfamiliar with
Nice to see you’re making videos again! I was wondering if you’ve talked about Dune on your channel. I finally finished reading the first book after many attempts once I saw part two in theaters. Since then, I’ve been hooked and I’m now on book four. I find the topics discussed in these books are very deep and interesting politically and philosophically speaking, and I was thinking it would be right up your alley when I was listening last night. I would definitely be interested in hearing what you think Frank Herbert has to say about the relationship of power, religion, despotism, etc.
That clip of Trey gave me whiplash, I didn't realise he looked like that now. Anyway thanks to the Kendrick and Drake beef for teaching me what Ozempic was
Didn't know you had your own channel. Glad to see you back. This is why I used to watch wisecrack and have stopped. Nothing against the new guys, just I like the analysis of pop culture products.
When they called out the Health care system it made me smile because of my current situation; I have an Eye problem and when it came to being direct about treatment they whipped it out on the spot by saying "Just pay $8K on the spot and it'll be done." but because I'm poor and I'm like "But I want my Insurance involved." I got told to wait an entire fucking month because of "Network communication."
I've always struggled with my weight. I've tried walking more, staying outside more, drinking more water and avoiding anything rich in sodium; snacking more on fruit, vegetables, and nuts; and I've had little improvement. Not only that but I developed a sleeping disorder after 5-6 months into lockdown and now have to take medication just to help me sleep (which apparently has weight gain as a side effect). I've gained over 20lbs within the three years I've been taking the medication. If ozempic was covered by medicaid and could improve my weight loss, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
I started on wegovy last month (it costs 5 times less in Europe than in the US) and honestly... It's made me realize that I've had a life-long appetite dysfunction. I now feel like I'm SUPPOSED to feel. If I eat, I feel sated instead of still feeling hungry. If I eat a lot, I feel full and won't want to eat for most of the day. If I over-eat, I feel nauseated. Before, when I had a meal, I immediately wanted more. If I ate a lot, I'd feel peckish after 30 minutes again. And when I over-ate, I'd finally feel full for the rest of the evening. Now, I feel free to eat what I want - and then I feel free to stop, and then afterwards I feel free from thinking about food for the rest of the day. It's amazing.
When I got diagnosed with T2 diabetes my main goal was to lessen my need for meds. I lost 60 lbs and reduced my need for medication from changing the way I eat and exercise. I got my A1C to normal levels.
That's not even a fax machine he has there, it's just a dot matrix printer. There's a rotary dial phone there next to an acoustic coupler modem, he's not even high tech enough for faxes 😂
what’s crazy to me is i started my weight loss journey a year and a half ago i was 358lbs im currently at 219lbs and i didn’t use ozempic or any of those drugs i just changed my diet cut alot of the sugar and junk food i ate and work out tbh its really that simple but it takes discipline and self control and not alot of people have that
Good job dude. Thermodynamics is the bottom line. It's harder for some people to eat right but in the end the math is the math. Glad you're one of the people who can work directly with it.
I got the complete opposite impression from Kyle's call for change at the end. It resulted in him saying that they should never criticize people for being fat and in doing so, fulfills Cartman's fantasy to be a complete asshole to everyone without any fear of that criticism coming back at him. If anything, I thought that reinforced the idea that people should be held personally accountable for their actions, otherwise it's another "golden ticket" for people like Cartman.
I'm glad they highlighted this, my mums diabetic and couldnt get ozempic in the uk for months, purely because of lazy fat rich people and greedy corrupt doctors.
Jared, I just recently found your TH-cam channel and have been going through the videos. Thanks for your thoughtful and worthwhile commentary/criticism. I particularly enjoyed your videos on A Clockwork Orange, Morbius memes, and conformity/The Spiral of Silence (Depp/Heard doesn't interest me, but the social psychology of conformity does). I'd love to see you do a video on Alex Garland's Civil War. I've seen a number of Civil War review videos, and most of them either missed the points Garland was trying to make with the film, or they understood the broad strokes but didn't go terribly deep with their analysis. (I know for a fact they missed the points Garland was trying to make because I've seen Garland speak extensively about the film, and he was pretty clear on most points.) I also appreciated your video about CCP censorship of Fight Club, and would be interested to hear your thoughts on CCP censors and The Three Body Problem book and/or Chinese-language TV series. Thanks for the channel and, please, keep up the good work!
I love that the warning msg delivered two different messages. I understood that Trey used the injections to have ACTUALL sound footage of the drug being used. And you understood that Tray is actively using the drug for personal reasons. Really interesting.
When my brother in law and I used to visit the states, we'd enjoy the junk food as a holiday experience and sympathise with the poor saps who live there: 'They haven't got a chance.' In some ways, since I went vegan, or, to use a slightly more specific term, whole-food plant-based, I think that about people here in the UK too: most of the food on offer is processed, depleted and apt to make you fat and sick. Most of it, including so-called wholemeal bread, doesn't have enough fibre, and most people seem to have been conditioned to prefer it that way. As a probable consequence, most of them, based on my experience of public toilets, spend far too long on the loo. And for the most part, when people try to eat healthier, they get hung up on the wrong things, like going gluten free, and think they can carry on with 'normal' foods like cheese, eggs, which are all full of saturated fat. It's not that its impossible to eat right - I think I do fine - but it's a labyrinth starting from a position of a lot of stuff being normalised that's actually really bad for you.
@@ramonmujica3193 This is kind of what I'm getting at. People grow up with unhealthy food so normalised that they find it difficult to give up and find real food difficult to eat. That leads them to think they need 'willpower' to eat it. I don't need willpower to eat healthy, I just like it. And I used to love junk food.
the semantic contagion of mental health, depression, autism, and more in the modern life is responsible for so much more suffering than what it initially appears to be. Definitions lead to discoveries lead to new normals of life experience. It's hell on earth.
How about everybody stop trying to look for easy answers in their lives and just get to the goddamn gym? "It's not that easy?" I argue that it is. I'm about the laziest person around, and I've been able to manage my weight and grow strength by hitting the gym three times a week. Americans especially need to stop being taught that solutions are just a pill or injection away.
Tbh the biggest plot hole of the episode and cartmen in general is that he doesn’t have type two Diabetes. Man is server overweight and has been since he was a toddler. Dudes insulin and A1C have to be all f’ed up
4:15 They're required to send compound requests via fax (I don't know why). My roommate had a hernia, and I went to get his pills. They missed one, told me that they didn't know I had a compound order to pick up, which only comes in via fax.
As noted in that chart with mpd, yes there ends up being a spike but fallowed by a quick drop. It's the same thing with the hysteria around Trans and such. You have the left handenss effect (newly acceptable, no longer hiding) but also the same as mpd. The key thing is the process to actually "do harm" with these things and the "fears" take so long anyway that the "fad" ends and it's back to more "true" numbers (not to mention safe guards are and have always been in place). The real harm comes from those directly attacking and making these individuals feel unsafe, as well (ironically) by constantly bringing it up making it a wedge issue they highten and extend the "fad" aspect that is the very fear of harm they have
Is willpower an issue or is the issue that most of the food out there has so many addictive properties it makes it nearly impossible to stop eating. It's almost as if you are a junkie going through rehab.
Bingo. I would clarify and say “most CHEAP food.” I’ve personally lost a lot of weight over the last 15 years, but it’s taken an immense amount of discipline to get it off and keep it off. Many of the foods that surround us and are advertised to us constantly are working against us. One of the biggest red flags to see how this is true is just to note the way obesity is rising throughout the entire world, not just in the west.
@@bdiesel563 no doubt. I mean just as a quick example. I don't drink soda anymore. I quit like 15 years ago but if I drink a soda, by my next meal I'm craving another one! Then the way my mouth salivates for it makes water taste bad. I have to force myself to drink water for my next few drinks so I don't reintroduce that shit to my life. I mean this is pure evil.
I mean I kind of get the body positivity thing, I mean, if somebody wants to live an unhealthy life let them do that, it's a free country after all. And if some people find that body sexy, more power to them.
Fair enough, if we're honest about it in that way. Saying "I don't care that I'm fat" or "Fat people are my fetish" should be fine. But going on to pretend that being fat is healthy, or pushing it as being sexy for marketing reasons is a bit sketch. It's just another take on things like associating sexiness with smoking, or heroin chic. The point of body positivity should be to break down the lies we tell each other, not spin up new ones for profit.
Dunno about the rest of the world. But it’s only $150 for the 1mg pens here in Australia 🇦🇺. I got x3 pens from the pharmacy last week. Enough to last me 10weeks. I was on it last year before it became popular and couldn’t get it anywhere. I lost 21kgs/46lbs in 10weeks . Trying to cut another 16kgs/35lbs this time. Not diabetic either , just got a cool dr that prescribes me what I ask for.
I haven't watched the episode yet, but I agree with the whole thing about willpower not being enough. This is being recognized more recently in the amateur bodybuilding space. 10 years ago, it used to be all about "will power", but now people are recognizing that will power is finite and does run out no matter how hardcore you are. Studies have shown that the 3 things that do the best at losing weight and keeping it off are 1. weighing yourself regularly, 2. staying active on a daily basis (step count, sports, playing with your kids, dedicated cardio or weight lifting, etc.), and 3. knowing the basics of nutrition and energy balance (calories, fiber, protein, fruits/vegetables). But even doing those things requires willpower just due to the environment we live in.
"Rich people get Ozempic, poor people get body positivity." Truer words were never spoken.
Rich people: “Fat for thee, none for me.”
Literally did a "oh shit" when I heard that line.
I'm rich now because I got prescribed Ozembic? Sure don't feel like it. I mean, if I was rich, I'd probably be getting the kidney I need by now, but nooooo....
@@MarquisLeary34 the comment is referring to people who can pay for Ozempic out of pocket when their insurance doesn't cover it because they don't have a prescription for diabetes.
Rich people cope by lying about how they just bought their way through the problem, poor people cope by ignoring the problem or denying the morality surrounding the problem.
As a pharmacist, this episode has already become a living nightmare. It's not even parody anymore
“Sugar Mafia” is a fantastic name for corporate American food companies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Intervention
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
The US Marines were used as a strongarm for big food companies in the 1800s. Read "War is a Racket".
Drug pushers. Sugar kills more people than all the other drugs put together.
They’re a real thing, not accurately depicted in the show but look up how they’re responsible for accelerating health problems over the decades.
@@4m4n40 oh I absolutely know
Wonka came this close to doing it first.
The song "Navigating The American Healthcare System" is so on the nose that it hurts.
Cool, didn't know what that was at all. Just looked it up, Ozempic cost £170 in the UK Vs 1350 in the US, mad
That is a very good observation.
As things are, price caps and subsidized goods set by elected government officials seem like a better way to get items in the hands of the people rather than the price-gauging tendencies of unelected profit-seeking capitalists.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker are a step away from stumbling upon the now decades-old conversation around insulin prices and access to other medical needs.
With any luck, they will soon begin to notice all the other necessary things being kept out of people's hands by corporate greed; and how is enabled by the so-called free market that many Americans have led to believe is the solution to their problems instead of the source.
Holy shit now I see what the fuss is about
1350 for one is absolutely insane
I live in Jordan and it sells for about 140 usd equivalent without insurance
Yes, the US prices in healthcare are ridiculous. The problem isn't that people don't have insurance and therefore have to pay for healthcare out of pocket. It's that they have to pay exorbitant prices out of pocket. And even people who can afford insurance (who don't get it via their employer for example because they're self-employed) and who opt for the best packet available to them still have to pay nonsensical amounts out of pocket.
And it only costs 5 bucks to be made. What a shame.
This wasn’t the first time South Park has dealt with external forces interfering with personal responsibility. Remember when Garrison tried to create his own car only for the auto industry to lobby the government to make his invention illegal.
That sounds like the real-life story of Tucker. I believe they made a movie about it.
As a pass meth addict, it is WAY harder to stop eating sugary/snack foods than it was to quit methamphetamine. I still struggle with thoughts of relapse but getting away from the people who have meth was key for me. You can get a sugar fix anywhere. It's often forced upon you with ads and encouraged.
Whoa
I believe they proved even in lab rats it's actually easier to get them off most hard drugs then oreos
ok but don't forget you didn't get meth since you where a child, like, even more than once daily.
If parents manage to keep their kids at least the first 10-14 years on a low sugar diet (fruit level), I think then it would be easier, for everyone.
when I was kid I learnt the first sweetest best beverage for breakfast: nesquick with milk...so, what's that? 50% sugar? even more?
plus some cookies made by grandma. very good, but she put sugar just as much as there is in commercial sugary cookies.
so yeah...the brain grows getting used to those levels of sugar rush. and everyone has their sugar bomb, kind of like cartman.
No it's not
This is the same reason I struggle with alcoholism. They normalize it in media and society so much and every time you go to the store there’s beer. They normalize meth or heroin in that same way and you can’t just go buy it off the shelf at the store. I once brought this up in rehab and all the alcoholics agreed but everyone there for anything was pissed when I brought up the truth
I’ve worked in medical billing and coding for over 20 years and I can vouch for how accurate the song about navigating the American healthcare system is. The whole system is set up to frustrate patients and facilities to the point of giving up rather continuing to pursue denied claims. I’ve literally spent hours working on patient claims contacting insurance companies or searching their websites to figure out why they aren’t getting paid.
you're a nice person, thanks for going to bat for people :)
I work medical coding and billing too. I absolutely detest Medicare and Medicaid. Drives me insane trying to find LCD's and figure out their internal denial codes. I hate having to write things off because MCR/MCD said it wasn't necessary.
Well, willpower is very difficult to come up with for anyone with a serious dopamine system malfunction, because dopamine regulates motivation and thus, the _willpower_ to get up and get shit done.
We need to get off out high metaphysical horses about how the human spirit is supposed to be impervious to lowly bodily functions. Any hormonal imbalance will wreak havoc on any person's personality and behaviour.
Been following you since the philosophy of South Park. You've been so essential for much of my development. Thank you so much!
As a poor person working two jobs, too tired to do much else, keeping my weight in line is easy. I can't afford a lot of food, and exhaustion often makes me skip meals :D
That is tragic. I hope that the conditions of the world will change so that you can at the very least afford to let your weight slip up someday.
We could spin this as you possessing the necessary willpower and personal responsibility to budget your meals responsibly and avoid overeating, but we all know those are environmental factors at play. Things don't happen in a vacuum. The conditions around us will inevitably impact other aspects of our lives.
Yes the poor man's diet
The problem is that unhealthy food is usually the cheapest one
@@unknown_user_2023 the fact you have to pay extra for healthy food that hasn't been sprayed with poison is crazy too.
The reason fax machines are still used is because it's written into the health codes for transmitting data as a safe way to do so. We just haven't revisited those laws to rewrite them.
They changed that in 2000... they just don't care
Afaik we still use it in norway for prescriptions. Yeah its a safety thing
And why do think they didn't update it?
@@DanielSilvaProf Fax is a more secure way to exchange sensitive personal information than email (even encrypted) yet faster than posting it.
… yeah because sending a fax is more secure than an email. I don’t understand what you are trying to say here?
Personal will and self-responsibility is actively checked when megacorps are spending so much money pushing their personal will against you
I think south parks’ evolution towards Marxism has been fascinating, they went from preaching free market responsibility to realizing there’s nothing free about it
Mutualism is way better than Marxism.
When have they ever been "pro free market"? Give examples.
Cause if U ask me, they sort of been ML from the get go more.or.less.
south park is not going into Marxism LMAO.
people need to chill in calling every critic of capitalism Marxism.
no they aren't, doofis
Weirdly enough, as soon as they announced this one. I automatically knew the end result was gonna be, Cartman doesn't change or learn a thing and continues to be Cartman.
I was disappointed when they say they won't make fun of fat people anymore, & Cartman goes off insulting people thinking they'll have nothing to come back at him with, no one calls him out for simply being a rotten bigoted asshole that has nothing to do with his weight 😅
I was diagnosed with DID around 2000. Turns out I'm on the autism spectrum. At 56, I'm STILL waiting for help for this, btw. I also lost 70 lbs around 2017 by mostly starving (I'd lost my mobility following cancer treatment.) The medical industry presented no other option. I only stopped because I reached a plateau, and eating any less would surely kill me--I was already on prescriptions for potassium and such. I haven't gained it back, and still need to lose more, but I have no help (despite proving my commitment,) and no healthy options.
As Matt & Trey have said before; "America, f*ck yeah."
As another autistic DID system struggling to fight cancer without support i feel your pain so much. I'm sorry this world isn't built for us but I'm only 38 and glad too hear you made out to 56. I hope i do too even if it sucks
Jesus exists
@@ventriloquistmagician4735shouldn't Jesus be helping both of these people? Seems like they have suffered, what is Jesus waiting for?
And if you say for them to convert or ask for help then I would say what type of cruel deity only helps their supporters?
Is he waiting for the starving kids around the world to ask (even if they've never heard of Jesus?), I'm glad you have your faith but some of us need physical help and results not waiting for a deity to step in.
@@picvegita you just got trolled man
I'm confused, what does autism or DID have to do with losing weight?
Really excellent analysis of semantic contagion. Absolutely spot-on.
The problem is that willpower has to be developed, and developing strong willpower only comes from making Odysseus Pacts with yourself...and I mean over and over and over again. We can make Pacts with ourselves at any scale of willpower, so there's always some level where you can force yourself to keep a promise to yourself. There's always some concern or want just outside of your immediate desire or focus where you can find opportunities for successful Pacts.
The counter to this is is that if you actually live your life from one Odysseus Pact to the next...people will come to *loathe* you. There's a point at which self-control, self-mastery, and self-restraint become socially undesirable because we don't want some tryhard making us look bad. It's the same reason employers avoid overqualified candidates even when they're excited to bring their qualifications to a role: management knows it will shake things up and disrupt the status quo.
This means that, ultimately, willpower depends on how desperately you need to be liked. The effect of most Odysseus Pacts of real value that we might make with ourselves will also make us seem very "weird" from the outside. "Why don't you just do this instead, or do it this way?" If you tell the truth, that you've made a Pact with yourself, then your interlocutor will try to subvert you and cajole you into breaking it.
So, in order to chain one Pact to the next, over the course of a lifetime, you must accept everyone around you thinking you're weird if not outright alien. There's no cultural or social support for making Odysseus Pacts because it makes you "antisocial" and counter-cultural by definition.
Everyone else is having a meltdown as a hoard over the siren call of some new FOMO and you're that one weirdo sitting contently over there in the corner with wax in your ears. "Like what? Who are you? You think you're better than me?" That'll be the average person's response, because the average person not only doesn't really want willpower, but doesn't *realize* they don't want it because they haven't honestly reckoned with its terms.
Most people will bristle at my analysis not because they're lazy or lacking willpower, but because they're afraid to reckon with its real terms: social alienation and isolation. We don't want to even begin to think about the cold hard fact that willpower *necessitates* loneliness, so most never even begin down the path.
It isn't that their willpower has become so debased that they can't find even a small hook to hang a Pact with themselves anymore. Rather, the problem becomes the terror most people feel when contemplating true social rejection. Most of us are just so terrified of seeming even a little strange that we won't take the first step necessary toward self-control, self-discipline, and self-mastery.
Obese-turned-marathon-runner here.
A-Men.
I would also like to reference Sapolsky's work/latest book on Free Will (or the illusion of free will, really).
It's much harder to relate to living in a western setting and being middle class, but there are many things that connect it to this episode. If the cheapest food in the US is generally bad for health and can easily get people many calories for little money, that quickly becomes less about willpower and more about inequality of starting positions in life. Add to that the more recent development, where rich people who can have the best food, nutrition advice and personal trainers, can also just take a willpower injection, and it's crazy relevant.
Healthy food is cheaper per serving and per gram. Junk food is only very slightly cheaper per calorie.
Healthy food also requires an investment of some time into cooking, whereas highly processed junk is ready to go as is.
@@rh_BOSS That's also a very relevant point, yes.
Tbh i dont think they were calling out lizzo. I feel they were calling out the companies that probably fund her to spread body positivity.
Exactly. It serves the corn/sugar industries for people to be comfortable with obesity. It also serves the insurance companies as obesity often comes with comorbidity and more revenue through sick people.
@@Vespyr_ sick world we live in.
That's what I thought. I think using Lizzo is just for clicks.
Money which she accepted, and a message she complicity shared. It’s not like she’s in dire need of cash.
And these are the same guys who don't want socialized medicine because government bad.
I love this episode. I will admit, I didn't think it was that funny. However, I was so invested in the story. I was so into the car chase; my eyes were completely glued. And when it was revealed to be the insurance guy in the truck, I screamed, "No!" out loud.
I did the last thing as well
Where is it viewable?
@@ZIM_skol Paramount+
"Rich people get Ozempic, poor people get body positivity." Let me take this further. "Rich people get medical and financial support, poor people get Religion."
Exactly. Thats what Nietzsche refers to if he talks about slave morality.
also rich religious people get medical and financial support but attribute their well-being to religion anyways
Catholic hospitals would disagree. There you get healthcare and religion! The best of both worlds in my book.
The poor get free healthcare
No: the rich HAVE "financial support" - they get to BUY medication - the poor "get" Religion.
Brilliant! So many times in that episode I was amazed about how clever they used a reason to bridge a scene with another one| Randy : "when you start dressing up like that you are surrounded by people offering you drugs" which happens to him as soon as he wear his daughter's crop top! (In Canada, Gov still uses faxes too which doesn't make any sense... but what you see in that episode is an old printer)
I kept waiting for them to bring up "Ozempic Face" by having the moms' faces melt off LMAO
What are you referring to?
@@Thareldis Ozempic makes your face sag.
@@AENock*rapid weight loss makes your face sag
@@TheRockerXRapid weight loss that happens to be a large amount of lean muscle makes your face sag.
This happens to be exactly what Ozempic does.
Rapid fat loss does not make your face sag.
Turns out not all weight loss is good weight loss.
There are no shortcuts, guys.
The advantage of healthcare industry of America is that almost all new drugs and treatments are developed in America because it is profitable to have a patent there, but yes, patients pay a higher price. Americans are basically paying for research for the world to just copy the research and sell drugs for cents.
You’re right. Although, Ozempic itself was developed by a Danish company in Denmark.
Cooperating? Cartman manipulated kyle the entire episode and kyle found out at the very end. That’s classic cartman what else could you want?!
The main problem that America has is that it's the cheapest of foods that are the worst for people. American companies have access to ingredients that are very cheap, primarily due to a considerable amount of the rest of the world having banned them for being too unhealthy, such as Trans-Fats and Sodium being incredibly cheap, so they substitute what everyone else in the world would describe as "A lethal amount" of them for actual ingredients. This is why Obesity is such a problem in America, but it's the exact same reason why Nauru is the most obese country in the world. After their economy collapsed and their farming lands destroyed, they have to import 99% of their food, but because of the collapsed economy, they can only import the cheapest foods, which are all incredibly Trans-Fat dense.
So, yeah, "Poor people have to suffer with Obesity!" Is true, but not for the main reason the episode tackles.
Poor meals and car culture is killing Americans
The reason for the use of fax in the US is a court ruling that posits that you can send signatures via fax! There doesn’t exist a similar ruling for other methods of transporting documents, so fax it is!
Congress passed the ESIGN Act in 2000.
Anyone still using/demanding fax has had 24 years and should not only not be engaged with, they should be publicly shunned and ridiculed.
You need a hard copy or for us commoners, proof in a courtroom.
@Steven_Edwards how else are you meant to send physical documents?
@@bestaround3323You don't send physical documents, you send digital documents.
@@qixxxzA digital document through a signature portal or a scanned and emailed document is just as good evidence in a court room. I'd love to hear how a physical document can be better. The truth is, security and forensics became much improved in the digital age.
Hey Jared! I gotta say, with the proliferation of all these video essay channels that make bloated 1 hr videos with little in the form of research or analysis; I’ve come to appreciate your work on such a deeper level. You always put in the work as an editor/writer to keep your scripts concise, with arguments that are well founded and actually represent the ideas of the source material. It is very transparent that this is a labor of love, and I’m glad you’ve found a way to continue to make these quality videos without sacrificing your own health.
I think his argument is that a single will power is insufficient to tackle 3 entire industries who have a vested interest in increasing the premiums. An insurance company's cyclical strategy is to raise premiums through making the high severity and low risk higher if they have sufficient capital, then as premiums increase, they can then pull the rug and focus on prevention and make amazing profits when they need to. So they will push PR body positivity to increase the diabetics to raise premiums for all, then they can focus on diet and subscribe ozempic to prediabetics to reduce the severity of it. In a way this is market manipulation by definition but this is what corrupt health insurance companies do because if you can raise and increase the risk suddenly the revenue comes in, then if they know a preventable risk that just needs PR, they can profit by pushing out PR so that the significant risk is reduced and they profit off the premium decrease. The fact that we have a dictatorship running our healthcare or that we have to pick a dictator is a travesty. I think we need coops and ICD data to really reduce the risk.
Could this idea of "semantic contagion" also reflect on the increase in gender dysphoria and attention deficit diagnoses?
Based on your summary at the beginning, sounds like a brilliant episode! I didn't know South Park still had it.
This is such a great commentary on pop culture. The fact that South Park has taken this soft stance on will power in spite of their own president that they have set with past episodes is a huge departure. Also I always learn something new when watching your videos. The concept of the semantic contagion is a new concept that I had never heard of but makes a ton of sense as a driver of this phenomenon. It reminds me of Quantum physics and the concept of the observer effecting the out come of an experiment simple by attempting to observe the results. Not being able exercise your will power because of too many external forces becomes a self fulfilling prophecy
You're in Finland now?! Wow! Just stumbled on your channel after looking through the old one. Hope all's been well. Great video!
the lost boys reference when Randy tries ozempic had me cracking up 😂
I love using data to watch a 7 second ad and then 7 seconds of the video before it freezes. At least it downloaded all the ads and comments
TH-cam app in a nutshell
Damn I was 13 when South Park aired. Probably around the last time I was still insured and went to a doctor.
I really vibe with how, "the language we use changes how we view conditions".
Love how you synced the characters saying the words you were summarizing. (y)
The episode was a very good commentary on alot of modern American culture. Like it not, *everything* is an industry now. Something to be profited off of and exploited. To the point where the medical industry is purposely constructed around recurring treatments rather than one-time cures because the hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies make more money off of you coming back once a week. And the reason the Government does nothing about it is because Congress owns alot of stock in those companies so the only people who are able to do anything about it, dont because they too make money off of you coming back once a week.
NHS is a great system (when its funded properly), at uniting different healthcare disciplines under a single roof. Patient information flows freely and your in a single pipleline. The problem in the UK is that there are long waiting lists due to improper funding. Then you go private, in which the transfer of information becomes as kakfa-eque as the American model.
Anytime I get a cartman centric story I always laugh the hardest. Even the subtle stuff was hilarious. Like in the health insurance montage Eric has a consistently blank stare and butters is constantly smiling.
I kinda wish we saw Scott Malkerson in this episode. They could have had him profit from the Ozempic empire as a life long diabetes
I’m late but “oh shit there’s the wisecrack guy”
As ever, it’s your burden until Parker and/or Stone are affected. Then it’s society’s responsibility.
Have they done that before?
285 runs from new mexico to Colorado, I bikepack it all the time.
As someone who can’t do anything unless its an assignment, this spoke to me
interesting take, got me wondering if the episode is demonstrating the incorporation of Robert Sapolsky's new book where he points out the countless ways the concept of free will is inconsistent with the last 100 years of neurobiological research, I'm not much of a fan of reading but I definitely recommend you check out his interview on the Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss, Krauss is a quantum physicist, and was able to fill in some of the areas Sapolsky was unfamiliar with
Nice to see you’re making videos again! I was wondering if you’ve talked about Dune on your channel. I finally finished reading the first book after many attempts once I saw part two in theaters. Since then, I’ve been hooked and I’m now on book four. I find the topics discussed in these books are very deep and interesting politically and philosophically speaking, and I was thinking it would be right up your alley when I was listening last night. I would definitely be interested in hearing what you think Frank Herbert has to say about the relationship of power, religion, despotism, etc.
That clip of Trey gave me whiplash, I didn't realise he looked like that now.
Anyway thanks to the Kendrick and Drake beef for teaching me what Ozempic was
Trey looks like Terrance when he and Philip had split up.
Bruh 😂😂😂😂😂
I like that you and Jonny2Cellos both used this special as an excuse to use the word milf as much as possible.
LOL. I got an ad "for hers" GLP1 watching this.
Didn't know you had your own channel. Glad to see you back. This is why I used to watch wisecrack and have stopped. Nothing against the new guys, just I like the analysis of pop culture products.
@Jared Bauer Please do video on "Double Speak" in Politics and Society as a whole!
When they called out the Health care system it made me smile because of my current situation; I have an Eye problem and when it came to being direct about treatment they whipped it out on the spot by saying "Just pay $8K on the spot and it'll be done." but because I'm poor and I'm like "But I want my Insurance involved." I got told to wait an entire fucking month because of "Network communication."
I've always struggled with my weight. I've tried walking more, staying outside more, drinking more water and avoiding anything rich in sodium; snacking more on fruit, vegetables, and nuts; and I've had little improvement. Not only that but I developed a sleeping disorder after 5-6 months into lockdown and now have to take medication just to help me sleep (which apparently has weight gain as a side effect). I've gained over 20lbs within the three years I've been taking the medication.
If ozempic was covered by medicaid and could improve my weight loss, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
trazadone? or mirtazapine? Ask for something else, those are the shittiest sleep meds
Are you tracking your caloric intake?
>snacking more on fruit, vegetables, and nuts
try snacking less period
I started on wegovy last month (it costs 5 times less in Europe than in the US) and honestly... It's made me realize that I've had a life-long appetite dysfunction. I now feel like I'm SUPPOSED to feel. If I eat, I feel sated instead of still feeling hungry. If I eat a lot, I feel full and won't want to eat for most of the day. If I over-eat, I feel nauseated.
Before, when I had a meal, I immediately wanted more. If I ate a lot, I'd feel peckish after 30 minutes again. And when I over-ate, I'd finally feel full for the rest of the evening.
Now, I feel free to eat what I want - and then I feel free to stop, and then afterwards I feel free from thinking about food for the rest of the day. It's amazing.
Please make a South Park playlist of your videos
When I got diagnosed with T2 diabetes my main goal was to lessen my need for meds. I lost 60 lbs and reduced my need for medication from changing the way I eat and exercise. I got my A1C to normal levels.
As someone from Pakistan (and I actually live 20 mins from the city airport!), I have been looking forward to a new visitor :-)
That's not even a fax machine he has there, it's just a dot matrix printer. There's a rotary dial phone there next to an acoustic coupler modem, he's not even high tech enough for faxes 😂
what’s crazy to me is i started my weight loss journey a year and a half ago i was 358lbs im currently at 219lbs and i didn’t use ozempic or any of those drugs i just changed my diet cut alot of the sugar and junk food i ate and work out tbh its really that simple but it takes discipline and self control and not alot of people have that
Yo that's awesome to hear. Keep it up!
Good job dude. Thermodynamics is the bottom line. It's harder for some people to eat right but in the end the math is the math. Glad you're one of the people who can work directly with it.
Good job, man. It can be done, and people need to remember this.
proud of you man, that's awesome!
another amazing vid. love to content and i hope you never stop.
I love how you take your time to discuss the important issues.
Gods, watching Jared Bauer videos has really brought into focus just how far WiseCrack has fallen since his departure.
Crazy! Just saw the episode!
OMG the truck scene was the funniest thing I have seen in a wile.
I got the complete opposite impression from Kyle's call for change at the end. It resulted in him saying that they should never criticize people for being fat and in doing so, fulfills Cartman's fantasy to be a complete asshole to everyone without any fear of that criticism coming back at him. If anything, I thought that reinforced the idea that people should be held personally accountable for their actions, otherwise it's another "golden ticket" for people like Cartman.
So Lizzo weighed in on it..
*rimshot!*
I'm glad they highlighted this, my mums diabetic and couldnt get ozempic in the uk for months, purely because of lazy fat rich people and greedy corrupt doctors.
Jared, I just recently found your TH-cam channel and have been going through the videos. Thanks for your thoughtful and worthwhile commentary/criticism. I particularly enjoyed your videos on A Clockwork Orange, Morbius memes, and conformity/The Spiral of Silence (Depp/Heard doesn't interest me, but the social psychology of conformity does). I'd love to see you do a video on Alex Garland's Civil War. I've seen a number of Civil War review videos, and most of them either missed the points Garland was trying to make with the film, or they understood the broad strokes but didn't go terribly deep with their analysis. (I know for a fact they missed the points Garland was trying to make because I've seen Garland speak extensively about the film, and he was pretty clear on most points.) I also appreciated your video about CCP censorship of Fight Club, and would be interested to hear your thoughts on CCP censors and The Three Body Problem book and/or Chinese-language TV series. Thanks for the channel and, please, keep up the good work!
At around 8:30 i was acting like that Leonardo DiCaprio meme were he was pointing.
Thanks for highlighting the book you were referring to.
I love that the warning msg delivered two different messages. I understood that Trey used the injections to have ACTUALL sound footage of the drug being used. And you understood that Tray is actively using the drug for personal reasons. Really interesting.
Well done. Just. Very well done man.
When my brother in law and I used to visit the states, we'd enjoy the junk food as a holiday experience and sympathise with the poor saps who live there: 'They haven't got a chance.' In some ways, since I went vegan, or, to use a slightly more specific term, whole-food plant-based, I think that about people here in the UK too: most of the food on offer is processed, depleted and apt to make you fat and sick. Most of it, including so-called wholemeal bread, doesn't have enough fibre, and most people seem to have been conditioned to prefer it that way. As a probable consequence, most of them, based on my experience of public toilets, spend far too long on the loo. And for the most part, when people try to eat healthier, they get hung up on the wrong things, like going gluten free, and think they can carry on with 'normal' foods like cheese, eggs, which are all full of saturated fat. It's not that its impossible to eat right - I think I do fine - but it's a labyrinth starting from a position of a lot of stuff being normalised that's actually really bad for you.
The problem is healthy food tastes yucky
@@ramonmujica3193 This is kind of what I'm getting at. People grow up with unhealthy food so normalised that they find it difficult to give up and find real food difficult to eat. That leads them to think they need 'willpower' to eat it. I don't need willpower to eat healthy, I just like it. And I used to love junk food.
@@ramonmujica3193Not all, sadly unhealthy good tasting food is easier and cheaper to make…thus more accesible.
The power and limitations of metaphors as applied to the idea of will over body. That's a good critique of the weaknesses that are often ignored.
Love this, but I do miss the Wisecrack South Park podcast. Keep up the good fight Jared.
I was waiting for this video to drop the second I finished the episode yesterday 😂
the semantic contagion of mental health, depression, autism, and more in the modern life is responsible for so much more suffering than what it initially appears to be. Definitions lead to discoveries lead to new normals of life experience. It's hell on earth.
How about everybody stop trying to look for easy answers in their lives and just get to the goddamn gym? "It's not that easy?" I argue that it is. I'm about the laziest person around, and I've been able to manage my weight and grow strength by hitting the gym three times a week. Americans especially need to stop being taught that solutions are just a pill or injection away.
Reality is often disappointing.
Tbh the biggest plot hole of the episode and cartmen in general is that he doesn’t have type two Diabetes. Man is server overweight and has been since he was a toddler. Dudes insulin and A1C have to be all f’ed up
I like the episodes when Kyle & Cartman work together, same goal for different reasons.
4:15 They're required to send compound requests via fax (I don't know why). My roommate had a hernia, and I went to get his pills. They missed one, told me that they didn't know I had a compound order to pick up, which only comes in via fax.
As noted in that chart with mpd, yes there ends up being a spike but fallowed by a quick drop.
It's the same thing with the hysteria around Trans and such. You have the left handenss effect (newly acceptable, no longer hiding) but also the same as mpd. The key thing is the process to actually "do harm" with these things and the "fears" take so long anyway that the "fad" ends and it's back to more "true" numbers (not to mention safe guards are and have always been in place). The real harm comes from those directly attacking and making these individuals feel unsafe, as well (ironically) by constantly bringing it up making it a wedge issue they highten and extend the "fad" aspect that is the very fear of harm they have
Excellent episode and discussion!
Is willpower an issue or is the issue that most of the food out there has so many addictive properties it makes it nearly impossible to stop eating. It's almost as if you are a junkie going through rehab.
Bingo. I would clarify and say “most CHEAP food.” I’ve personally lost a lot of weight over the last 15 years, but it’s taken an immense amount of discipline to get it off and keep it off. Many of the foods that surround us and are advertised to us constantly are working against us. One of the biggest red flags to see how this is true is just to note the way obesity is rising throughout the entire world, not just in the west.
@@bdiesel563 no doubt. I mean just as a quick example. I don't drink soda anymore. I quit like 15 years ago but if I drink a soda, by my next meal I'm craving another one! Then the way my mouth salivates for it makes water taste bad. I have to force myself to drink water for my next few drinks so I don't reintroduce that shit to my life. I mean this is pure evil.
The fax machine guy looks like the BTK killer
I mean I kind of get the body positivity thing, I mean, if somebody wants to live an unhealthy life let them do that, it's a free country after all. And if some people find that body sexy, more power to them.
Fair enough, if we're honest about it in that way. Saying "I don't care that I'm fat" or "Fat people are my fetish" should be fine. But going on to pretend that being fat is healthy, or pushing it as being sexy for marketing reasons is a bit sketch. It's just another take on things like associating sexiness with smoking, or heroin chic. The point of body positivity should be to break down the lies we tell each other, not spin up new ones for profit.
Dunno about the rest of the world. But it’s only $150 for the 1mg pens here in Australia 🇦🇺.
I got x3 pens from the pharmacy last week. Enough to last me 10weeks.
I was on it last year before it became popular and couldn’t get it anywhere. I lost 21kgs/46lbs in 10weeks .
Trying to cut another 16kgs/35lbs this time.
Not diabetic either , just got a cool dr that prescribes me what I ask for.
I laughed, I cried... I love South Park! The best satire of all time
That's not the sound of a fax machine , it's a dot matrix printer ....
Hey Jared, would love to hear your take on the new season of The Boys. Season 4 feels exactly like something you might be interested in
it looks like you wash your hair with dish soap
So... not greasy?
I cant wait for the sugar mafia to just start advertising that people actually look good fat, especially when they hold their products.
Easily the best south park has been in years
Strange I don't see this episode on HBO's website
I haven't watched the episode yet, but I agree with the whole thing about willpower not being enough. This is being recognized more recently in the amateur bodybuilding space. 10 years ago, it used to be all about "will power", but now people are recognizing that will power is finite and does run out no matter how hardcore you are. Studies have shown that the 3 things that do the best at losing weight and keeping it off are 1. weighing yourself regularly, 2. staying active on a daily basis (step count, sports, playing with your kids, dedicated cardio or weight lifting, etc.), and 3. knowing the basics of nutrition and energy balance (calories, fiber, protein, fruits/vegetables). But even doing those things requires willpower just due to the environment we live in.
My mom and sister are using it its very culty...
Rich people stays thin, poor people become fat.