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Casey Bad News. What's that? Our state is a bunch of fatties.

And they're riding around with the lieutenant governor sometimes.

I didn't say that.

For the record, I didn't say that.

That was what was reported.

I didn't make any fat friend jokes today.

So what was this?

Let's see, the New York Post had this article that U.S. News has come up with this list of most obese states.

Yeah, they weighed in on America's expanding waistline. See what I did there?

I see what you did there. They weighed in on it. And we cracked the top 10, didn't we?

We did crack the top 10. Indiana ranks at number nine for top 10 most obese states. This is according to U.S. News and World Report.

All right. So who was number one? West Virginia was number one. Yeah, where they have nearly 41% of adults.

Yeah. And then Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kentucky, us.

And then Tennessee's in there as well.

Okay.

So what is the actual obesity rate?

Does it say like what percentage of people are?

Oh, there it is.

There's the chart.

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