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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

8/15/19 A&G Hr. 2 Fat!

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The average weight of American's us waaaay up over the past 20 years--so are you supposed to do now? Jack & Joe ponder it during this episode of The A&G Show Plus, Joe has a new thing--concern over our own hemisphere.

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0:00.0

The red that a few companies are trying to create electric planes that run on batteries.

0:29.8

I'm sorry for the delay. We just got to change 800,000 AA batteries.

0:39.8

That would be impractical.

0:41.8

Hey, a follow-up that just came out of nowhere because I saw this.

0:45.8

So we're just talking about how the average man is now almost 200 pounds. The average woman is almost 170.

0:51.8

Even though the average height is lower than you might think for men it's 5'9", something for women it's 5'3".

1:03.8

And so this article in USA Today, it's teased on the front page. It seems TV just can't let go of fat shaming.

1:11.8

There should be no room for stubborn misguided portrayal of fat people.

1:16.8

So that's kind of interesting. If it I don't watch hardly any television at this point with younger children.

1:27.8

Well, I do watch the sports and the promo is the running for the new sitcoms are embarrassing. A lot of the new sitcoms are like 25 year old retreads like Murphy Brown and they got Magnum PI starting up again with some hot youngster.

1:41.8

Fine. Okay. Great.

1:45.8

But so if the CDC says we're all overweight and they list the reasons none of them being beyond our control and their list.

1:53.8

Their list of reasons is we eat out more than we used to. The portions are bigger but you know you got to not eat the whole thing.

2:00.8

I need to not eat the whole thing.

2:02.8

I'm drinking too much soda blah blah blah all that sort of stuff. So does it make sense to not have any shame about ourselves or put any shame on anybody for doing that since it's all killing us.

2:12.8

I don't know. That's interesting.

2:15.8

So I think it's rates on the rise.

2:17.8

On the other hand, if everybody's fat, what's the point of us all making fun of this is what we are?

2:23.8

Well, it could be argued that it's like making fun of smoking.

2:27.8

Yeah, or being critical of smoking. It's good for you.

2:30.8

Right. I mean, you could argue that. I don't need to hear it on a daily basis.

2:36.8

I got a scale. I know how fat end or not fat I am.

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