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Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.

I've heard said, particularly over the last few years, that it's never a good idea to drink your calories.

It's an interesting thought. First off, you don't get the

enjoyment of actually ingesting your food, I think. And there's kind of this idea of

ingestion and then digestion with your food. You know, the process that your body goes through.

To drink one's calories is really kind of a shortcut. There's something metabolic about it

that, I don't know, inhibit your ability to maintain a healthy weight. I see a lot of my

students drinking these coffee drinks,

and, you know, I'm seeing figures that are in the thousands and thousands of calories.

And listen, I'm not a cold coffee kind of guy.

Never have been.

I drink coffee for a couple of purposes, first to start my day.

Secondly, to wake up so that I don't kill people.

And third, because I enjoy the warmth of it.

But I have been known in the past to imbibing the occasional smoothie.

And they've got all varieties that are out there. But you know, never have I ever had a smoothie and thought, hmm, this could put my freedom at risk.

Today, we're going to discuss a case involving a smoothie and the straw

that was found within an empty cup, a straw that held evidence that actually closed out a coal case that had been open for over 40 years.

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybacks.

Dave, you drink cold coffee? I've seen you. You and I've actually had coffee together on air. You know, we'll sit there and toast each other every now and then. You know I love my coffee. I know you love yours. You ever drink cold coffee at all? No, I do not drink cold coffee. It's, you know, I drink cold tea and hot tea, but I do not drink cold coffee. That's not my thing, man. I've got these

students that come, you know, come into my classes and they've got these gigantic, gigantic cups

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