“I was fat shamed by the Dalai Lama”: Johann Hari on Ozempic
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4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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OH OH OH OZEMPIC! You knOooOooOoow, never believe it’s not so. This week the fellas get to check off a long time dream guest. Johann Hari, a wildly successful and beloved author and journalist, who pops by the studio to do a deep dive into the new form of weight loss drugs that are taking the world by storm! Johann delves into the concept of satiety and how processed foods undermine our ability to feel full while exploring the tension between body positivity and the health risks associated with obesity. Johann draws on his personal experience with the drug as he began taking it back in early 2023 (he was fat shamed by the Dalai Lama after all) to address his lifelong struggle with obesity which inspired his latest book ‘Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs’. To wrap it all up Jer and Bri explore a bizarre drug injection fad made to increase melanin production in order to have tan skin and the horrifying risks that come with it!
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| 0:44.3 | All right, folks, this week we are so freaking excited to, okay, turn that off. |
| 0:49.5 | What, Jesus Christ, Brian's over here, turn on Newfoundland rap here while I'm trying to do a goddamn intro. |
| 1:13.6 | Chill out. Having a time over here on the set. We're so excited. This week, we got to sit down with one of our dream guests, someone that's been on a list that we've wanted to speak to for a really long time. And that is Mr. Johann Harry, the Scottish writer and journalist. You might know him from his work as an author. He's written such books as Chasing the Scream, Lost Connections, Stolen Focus. And we're here to talk to him today |
| 1:20.2 | about his latest book, Magic Pill, the extraordinary benefits and disturbing risks of the new |
| 1:25.5 | weight loss drugs. So we talked to Johan about his experience in using OZMPIC. |
| 1:31.7 | And it's super fascinating conversation. |
| 1:34.0 | You know, these drugs, OZEMPIC being won, this weight loss drug that's kind of like |
| 1:37.7 | being coined as a miracle drug. |
| 1:39.6 | It was initially made for diabetes patients. |
| 1:42.0 | And now it's being taken by, you know, Tom Brady. |
| 1:46.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:46.8 | Just celebrities are taking it, and it's kind of like a huge thing. |
| 1:51.1 | And Johan struggled with weight his entire life. |
| 1:54.2 | He got on these pills. |
| 1:55.8 | And he wrote this book, this amazing book, that talks about the benefits of these drugs, but also the |
| 2:01.9 | potential downsides of these drugs. And it was just an absolutely fascinating conversation. |
| 2:07.2 | I mean, we love him. Brian's been a massive fan of Johan for quite a while. So, |
| 2:12.4 | so we hope you really enjoy that. Stick around for the end. Brian and I talk about some other |
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