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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | I could use another cup of coffee, but I ain't got one. |
0:15.7 | Okay. |
0:18.1 | I don't have a roll in today because C-Bass is ill. |
0:21.1 | And my companion here, Josh is, uh, a little under the weather, but we're, we're going to knock this one out anyway. |
0:28.6 | Um, this one might end up being a little bit shorter. |
0:31.6 | Um, but you guys will, you'll, you'll, you'll cope. |
0:34.7 | Uh, we're here to talk about fit for TV, the reality series, or reality, |
0:44.8 | let me back up, documentary series about the reality show, The Biggest Loser. |
0:50.2 | And it really seemed to be about certain seasons of the biggest loser, |
0:55.3 | not really necessarily all the people in total. |
1:02.0 | Yeah. |
1:02.7 | It was very focused on a few of the few of the contestants. |
1:09.8 | I don't know how you feel about it, |
1:11.9 | but like the elephant in the room to me is that this documentary series does the same thing |
1:18.6 | that the biggest loser did. |
1:20.6 | It exploits these people and their emotions. |
1:23.7 | It has a particular point of view in that the biggest loser probably did more more harm than good |
1:32.1 | not only to the people who were involved but to the to our culture as a whole they cap it off by saying |
1:43.1 | that that obesity the obesity rate in the United States is higher now than it was before the biggest loser |
1:51.4 | sort of drawing the conclusion that somehow it had something to do with it or at least didn't help at all |
1:57.4 | so from that perspective starting there didn't help at all. |
2:08.6 | So from that perspective, starting there, what were your overall impressions of this sucker? I really liked the documentary. I thought it made a couple really valid points about obesity |
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