I share my thoughts on the controversial film Joker 2, a movie that has sparked a wide range of reactions. As a fan of musicals, I found the film's unique blend of drama, music, and tragedy to be a bold and refreshing take on the Joker character. Despite the backlash, I believe the film offers a profound character study on identity and societal expectations. In the second half of the episode, we shift gears to discuss health in America. Inspired by a recent Joe Rogan episode featuring Casey and Calley Means, we explore the critical role of nutrition and lifestyle in combating chronic diseases. The conversation highlights the systemic issues within the healthcare industry and the importance of taking personal responsibility for our health. I share my personal journey and the impact of my father's health struggles, emphasizing the need for a cultural shift towards healthier living.
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Cole McCormick:
It's a mad, mad world. Yo. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. Welcome to America Plus, everybody. It's amazing to be here. We're back for another week, Another other week. Welcome one and all to the this is the front lines of the culture war, of the spiritual warfare. It's America Bloys. What's up, guys? We're going deep today. We're diving deep. We are we're we're unpacking so many things here on America Plus, folks. Just first of all, welcome back. If you are here if you're returning on this new every other week schedule, and I gotta get better at telling you when I'm coming back. I didn't I wasn't here last week. People downloaded the episodes, but I wasn't there. I there there wasn't a new episode, but new episode now. It's every other week. Today is October 13th. It's 8:0:4 in the PM, and I'm coming at you with with a heart that wants to share what I have been experiencing, cinematically and just, like, just, like, health wise? Like, what am I absorbing? This week, we are focusing on the movies I saw this week the the past 2 weeks, and, what I think is important for America and for the world.
We're gonna dive into it right now. I saw so this is a controversial movie that came out. If you're not a fan of DC films, then maybe this film wasn't up your alley. But I saw Joker 2 this past week, and Joker 2 has been extremely controversial. So the first Joker, you know, broke records. The first movie, the first Joker made a $1,000,000,000, and so, of course, they're gonna make a sequel. And this this second movie, guys, people have been, like, memeing on it. People have been hating on it. And, of course, sure enough, I'm in the freaking minority of this entire situation.
Like, why am I the only one who thinks this way? I liked the movie. I thought Joker 2 was awesome. Joker 2 was pretty good. Now I think the reason why I liked it is because I am cinematically educated, and I'm saying that a bit arrogantly, but also just, like, just objectively. Like, I know movies. I believe I know movies. I think I do. I've seen enough so it's a drama, it's a musical, and it's a tragedy. Now a lot of people get turned off with music. A lot of people don't like musicals. For me, I like musicals. I enjoy them. I grew up watching Grease. I grew up watching Glee.
I was I watched Glee for, like, 2 seasons, and then I fell off. You know, La La Land was legit. Musicals have always been, like, in my rapport. I was in a musical in high school. I was in the Cinderella musical, so I'm not opposed to these things. I understand why music is involved. And I'll and when I heard that music was gonna be, like, the centerpiece of Joker 2, I was like, this is gonna be insane. This might be the most insane take on a comic book character ever. And, the the interesting angle is musicals are always, like, upbeat and happy, and, like, it's it's pretty rare when you get, like, a really dramatic musical. You know? The the only dramatic musical that comes to mind right now was that movie with Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, Les Mess, Les Mess Rebels.
It came out in, like, 2,011 or something. It was, like, a long time ago, but it was, like, that was, like, the only dramatic musical. They're, like she's, like, singing about about to die. And but everything else is, like, we're in love, and we're having a ball. It's it's greaselinein'. Like, it's a good time. You know? And Joker 2 comes in with none of it is original music. They're taking songs from different movies, and they're just, like, splashing them into their story. And, it's it's sort of worked for the most part. In my opinion, it worked for the most part. I could have done with, like, 1 or 2 scenes, like, just just we like, we don't need all the songs, but that's just my taste.
The purpose for music in a musical is to communicate the emotion that the character is going through. And the music in Joker 2 is used as an extension of dialogue, and so they were sort of, like, going through that same rule. They were using the song to explain what was going on within the characters' heads, mainly Joker, r r Arthur Fleck. And people hated it. People did not like this movie at all. It took a weird turn. It took like, it it did not do anything that the first movie did. What the first Joker film did was it sunk itself into hate and pain and mental illness and justifiable violence.
What do you get like, the the famous line in the first movie is when Joker's he he's on this, talk show called Murray, and it's Robert De Niro as the, as a talk show host. And Joker's like, what do you get when you live in a society that doesn't give a shit about mentally ill people? You get what you fucking deserve. Like, it's like some satisfying shit. Like, he kills the people who are making fun of him. Like, we all like, as a culture, like, that was, like, what people were, like, vibing with. And I found that so interesting. And the reason why I made a $1,000,000,000 is because people like really, like, gleaned onto it. They really latched onto it. You know, people people like hate.
People like crazy that we love seeing a person go crazy. You know? And I can only speak for Americans. Right? Like, it was a success overseas, but in America, I think America had in, like, the most amount of money. This second film did not cement itself in pain or mental illness. The movie revolt like, the movie revolved around the discussion of that, and the identity of Arthur Fleck and Joker going back and forth between, who is this guy? Is he is he Arthur, or is he Joker? And then, you know, the Arthur, Joaquin Phoenix, he's he's really, like, telling people, like, he doesn't wanna be Joker. Like, he never like, that was never the goal.
That was never the situation. He was able to find a confidence by being Joker. He was able to, you know, actually, like, in some twisted way, live his life to the fullest, by by being Joker and and committing the crimes that he did, murdering those people. And the second film deals with the question of, like, why and who are you? And it's a real character study on a person dealing with that reality. People walked out of the movie. People said that it was it's trash. It's a disaster. It's a train wreck. It's absolutely disgusting.
And I'm over here, and I'm like, this movie's amazing. This movie's awesome. This movie's really, really good. If you are to watch musicals from the fifties and the sixties, and any musical at all, it gets pretty clear, like, all musicals are a bit indulgent within their song and dance. You know? Like, why are you really singing? You know? That's sort of, like, what people, like like, people think and say. Like, why the fuck are these people singing? Why are they dancing? Like, what's the point of this? It's funny how movies are supposed to be this, like, suspension of disbelief, but, culturally, so many people aren't able to suspend their disbelief with song and dance when, realistically, that's, like, the most, like, simple thing that we do in real life.
We sing and we dance. We dance with our lovers. We dance at the club, and we're singing at concerts. Like, these are normal things to do. But when it's in a movie, it's unacceptable. It's boring. It's stupid. It's, like, irrelevant. So that's a interesting, like, conflict, like, you know, like, this is like, that's an interesting thing happening. It's not meshing, but it meshed for me. And the reason why I wanted to talk about it is because the reaction of it. You know, people love the first Joker because it indulged itself within the pain, and the second movie they indulged the filmmakers indulged themselves within song and dance to express the character's experience.
And it's a tragedy because Arthur Fleck, you know, he he meets Lady Gaga, who plays Harley Quinn, and Harley Quinn's like manipulating him. Right? She's like lying to him, but then justifying it, saying excuse me. Saying that she loves him, saying that, like, he's the hero. She's like he's like the guy for dreams. He actually did what she wanted to happen. Like, she has this line in the movie where she's like, when I saw you on Murray, I just thought to myself, god, I hope he shoots his brains out. And then you did. And so it's like that is the explanation of how society is reacting to Joker.
People fucking love the fact that he killed De Niro in the first one. And now there's a culture of celebrity, and this culture of celebrity comes from the poor people and the privileged people. And then you got the media just doing their thing, lying and twisting and doing whatever they wanna do. And the audience itself the audience in real life, you know, people were expecting more Joker. They were expecting more violence. They were expecting more justification, and, you know, that's just not, like, what they did. They just didn't do that. There's some violence, but the violence is mainly what was that? Did you guys hear that? There's, like, some firework outside.
There was mainly violence against Arthur Fleck. There was a lot of violence against Joker himself. Joker rarely does anything. Like, he rarely does any, like, any crime. And it's very interesting to see how people wanted more crime. They wanted more hate. And so this movie's barely made any money. It cost, like, $200,000,000 to make, and they've only they they haven't even made their budget back. So it's, financially, it's a failure. But, thematically, I think it's incredible. And the same sort of goes for the movie I saw a couple weeks ago, Megalopolis. The themes were amazing, and I really vibed with them, but nobody saw it, and nobody respected it.
And I think that, you know, just these 2 movies back to back, Megalopolis and Joker 2, discussing having a discussion about society, and where society is going, and where a character is seeking to go. These are important questions to ask. And within Joker 2, Arthur Fleck, you know, he at the end, he he takes on some personal responsibility to not justify his bad behavior. You know, he at least acknowledges that he shouldn't have done that, and he and he doesn't wanna be Joker. Like, he he really says that. Like, I don't wanna be Joker anymore. Like, stop. Stop. And it even goes for, like and and I'm just, like, sort of spoiling the whole movie now, because, like, nobody saw it.
Him and Harley Quinn are singing throughout the whole movie. Right? It's like a love story, but, like, it's it's a love story in their heads, and the musical is in their heads. And that's how, like, they both feel. And at the end of the movie, Harley Quinn, like, she keeps singing. And, Joaquin, he's like he's like, stop singing. Like, he straight up says, stop singing. I don't wanna sing anymore. I just wanna talk. And it's like that's like him, like, begging to just, like, be in the real world. Like, he doesn't wanna be in his head anymore. And that was, like, the problem to begin with in the first movie. He was in his head, and he just wanted to, like, fucking kill people. Like, he he did what he thought he wanted to do, and that continues in the second one. But then he realized, like, fuck. I don't want this. This is not appropriate. This isn't cool. This isn't cool anymore, Lee. I don't wanna do this.
But then she leaves him, and it's heartbreaking because, you know, she's not in love with him unless he's Joker. And it's like, what the fuck, dude? So the audience reaction is pretty much how the characters react to him as well. People like society rejects him because he rejects Joker, and that's the same thing that the audience did. And it's very interesting. I'm not sure if that is a is that a prediction? Is that a is that, like, is that, like, a creative channeling? You know? Because when it comes to the first Joker and the writer director, Todd Phillips, he's first of all, he's an incredible director. He's made some of the funniest comedies in cinema. You know? He did fucking wedding crashers.
Todd Phillips did old school. Todd Phillips did the hangover trilogy. Todd Phillips, like, he he's made good movies. He's made funny movies. And, you know, people always talk about this. Like, creative people are always, like like, they they're able to channel something, whatever message it is or whatever story it is. And I feel as though when it comes to the first Joker, Todd Phillips, he channeled some sort of rage within the culture. And the second one, it felt as though, like, he didn't want to continue that. Like, him himself, as the filmmaker, didn't wanna justify violence. Like, that's not the point of this movie.
The point of this movie is what this character is going through, and the character's always just wanted love. There's issues with his mother in the first movie, and then there's issues with his lover in the second. And so it's a very natural progression. Like, from my director standpoint, it's like Todd Phillips just did, like, a natural step forward. Like, he he I I don't think he did a sidestep for anything. He took a few big swings. He did a few things that might not have been commercial. But in terms of writing a character and focusing on that singular character and his emotions and his actions, like, everything felt natural to me.
And so I respect Todd Phillips for that. Like, round of applause for Todd Phillips. Round of applause for Todd Phillips, dude. You did that shit. You did it. You killed it. You really killed it. So I'm for that. Whenever a filmmaker does what they wanna do, that is important. It's super important. But sometimes people won't vibe. You know? People don't vibe with Coppola. People aren't vibing with Phillips. You know? People don't vibe with a lot of things. When will people not vibe with Christopher Nolan? Will that ever be a thing? It seems like people always vibe with Christopher Nolan.
You know, it's just interesting how some some filmmakers are like that. Some filmmakers are always, like, fan favorites. Like, people have always vibed with, with Spielberg, you know, even though he maybe hasn't made all the best movies. Like, people are still, like, oh, Spielberg. Oh, my god. But no one's actually, like, been, like, revolted against the Spielberg movie. People have been, like, disgusted by Joker 2. People have been disgusted by Megalopolis. They've said these things are a mess. You know? And I don't agree with this. I I don't agree with the mainstream. I never do. I've never have.
Maybe a few times. Maybe there's been a few times where I do agree with the mainstream, but, ultimately, I'm on my own path, and I think you should see Joker 2, and I think it's a good, like, thought study. It's a good thought experiment about how we, as a people and you, as an individual, what do you wanna see in people, and are you interested in them going crazy? You know, I think I thought a lot about Kanye West watching Joker 2. Remember when Ye when they said Ye was going crazy? I actually so there was actually a line in the movie that I've that this seemed like directly connected to Kanye. I remember in it it was in, like, 2022 or 2023, and Kanye, he said something like like, you only wanna focus on what I did in the past.
And you're not talking about you you don't wanna talk about what I'm doing now or where I'm going. And Joaquin Phoenix says that same fucking line during an interview. He says, you only wanna focus on where I've been and what I've done, not where I'm going, not what I'm not how I've changed. And, there's it's it's extremely emotional. Extremely emotional. And I just saw this thing, like, like, people were loving people loved watching Kanye go crazy. People loved watching him just, like, just just fumble the bag, allegedly, you know, like, just burn his entire career to the ground, you know. Retrospectively, he didn't, but, you know, like you know what I mean? Like, if you followed that timeline, like, it seemed like Kanye was burning everything.
And but at the same time, like, he was wanting to move forward, but people weren't willing to move forward with him. And so it's a very interesting discussion. I'm not sure if Todd Phillips if that's what he was connecting with. I'm not sure if that if I don't think Kanye was a part of the thinking process of the writing for Joker 2, but I saw a connection there, personally. So I encourage you to see that, and, you know, tell me what you think. Do you think Joker 2 is important? Do you think it's good? Do you think it's bad? A lot of people thought it was shit. So do your thing, man. That that's the good thing about film and art in America, like, we can discuss these things, and we can bag on it. We can meme on it. We can celebrate it, and, you know, that's just what it is. That's just what it is, man.
Moving into the I I wanna move into a different section now. I wanna talk about health in America. So there's these 2 people who who showed up on Joe Rogan. I watched, like, half the episode, a few clips. Now whenever it comes to these health episodes that Rogan does or any other podcast does, you know, there these aren't really, like, viral things. And so it's pretty like, it's a lot easier for a different topic to go viral when Joe Rogan talks about it, along with, like, other accounts on Twitter posting clips and talking about the shocking thing that was revealed. But when it comes to health, these two people, Casey and Cali Means. They're brother and sister. 1 of them is a, one of them is a doctor.
Another person is in another like, the brother used to work for Coca Cola, and, they both used to be a part of, like, the classic, like like, mainstream health system. And they both came out of it, and now they're on the other side, and they're aligned with RFK Junior. They're aligned with Donald Trump. They're aligned with I don't know. What do you wanna call it? Like, this, like, alternative health. I I I I really don't wanna say alternative health. I think it's a bad word. I think that's a loaded term. These people have data about how unhealthy people are in America, and their solution is the food.
And that's really, like, if you care about health, about your body, you know, it's about the food that you eat. For some reason, the mainstream, we don't talk about like doc like general doctors don't talk about your diet when it comes to your autoimmune illness or your chronic disease. Doctors are trained to just cover up the pain, hide the pain, numb it, have it go away somehow, here's a pill. And Casey and Callie Means were on Joe Rogan, and they were discussing just what they weren't taught in college. And I have this clip here. It's about a 2 minute clip. This is, who is this? This is this is Casey. I think this is Casey Means discussing what she just didn't
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learn about health and how how many conflicts of interest there are within the medical system. Ultimately, those are not the tools that actually generate foundational cellular health. You know, 80% of medical schools in the United States don't require a single nutrition course, not one minute of nutrition. And yet, 90% of our health care costs are tied to diseases. The things that are torturing American lives are tied to food and doctors. It's it's not a hammer in our toolbox. I didn't learn, you know, I didn't learn at Stanford Medical School that 95% of the people on the USDA Food Guidelines for America committee had a conflict synergies with the food with the food industry. I didn't learn that there were 8,000 conflicts of interest at the NIH. I didn't learn that there are 8,000,000,000 tons of plastic on planet Earth that are degrading into end estrogen, you know, analogs. I did not learn that there's £6,000,000,000 of pesticides sprayed on our global food supply every single year, most from China and Germany. And that these are literally tied very strongly to Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer, obesity, mitochondrial dysfunction, infertility, ADHD, liver dysfunction.
I didn't learn that, you know, simply taking 7,000 steps per day can slash your risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, even gastric reflux by 40 to 60%, and the average American's walking 35 100 steps per day. Like, we're literally just not moving as a country, and if you just walk a little bit, 7,000 steps, which takes, like, 45 minutes, you slash your risk of every major, you know, chronic disease. I didn't learn that we need to be getting sunlight because circadian biology dictates our cellular health. Like, we are diurnal animals that have biologic processes that happen during the day and other biologic processes that happen at night. And the way your body knows whether it's day or night is if you get photons hitting your retina and your skin cells. Pretty basic. Pretty foundational for human health. Didn't learn anything about it. Didn't learn anything about sunlight, didn't learn anything about photons, didn't learn anything about sleep. You know, we're sleeping 20% less on average than we were a 100 years ago.
And sleep is a huge risk factor. You you can, in an experimental setting, take a young healthy person and subject them to sleep deprivation for 5 nights, and they become pre diabetic. Well, 50% Americans are pre diabetic and type 2 diabetic, and we're not sleeping well. And I didn't learn not one minute on sleep. So all the things and so many more. And, of course, nothing about nutrition.
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Okay. So that goes super fast. I probably should've slowed down, that clip. The biggest takeaway for me, like, that's interesting that she's saying that no doctor is gonna tell you to to walk 7,000 steps to decrease your risk of diabetes. That was, like, the most interesting thing that she that she said. Casey Means so this I'm I'm I'm reading off this tweet. Casey doctor Casey Means was stunned to learn that simply taking 7,000 steps can slash your risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's and dementia and even gastric reflux by 40 to 60%, dude.
What are we doing in America? This American system is straight up harming Americans. The reason I bring this up is because this is an important topic. It it it sort of it bleeds into politics a little bit. I don't wanna, like, push politics into it, but this is so dramatically important for the people, for citizens, for humans to know. I don't know what it's like in other countries, what the health narratives are in other countries. You know, clearly, we got governments telling you to get all your vaccinations. We got governments telling you to not drink raw milk. But and, you know, and also don't eat raw meat along with that. When you go down this, like, alternative health rabbit hole, you realize that a lot of people, or at least some people, are eating raw meat.
And you're like I'm like, what the fuck is this, dude? What the fuck is raw meat? Why are you eating raw meat? I like my steaks cooked, please. But clearly, people are able to eat it. People are able to enjoy it. Tartar is what it's called in France. Tartar. People love tartar. It's very delicious. And it's very fancy. It's very expensive when you go tartar. Why are Americans so unhealthy? This is the question people with thinking brains use. This is the question people with, just critical thinking ask. And the people who are asking these questions seem to be aligned with Donald Trump, which is really interesting to me.
And this health narrative, this health conversation, I believe, cuts through the bullshit of all the other, whatever you wanna call it, issues. Political issues, abortion, guns, whatever else they wanna say is super important. Like, if you're not alive, you're not able to get an abortion. Like, I don't know what to tell you. If you're not alive if if if you can barely stand on your feet because you're too fucking fat, you can't really hold a gun now, can you? Like, how are you gonna do anything that you wanna do when you're unhealthy? You know? Regardless of what your belief is on any of these issues, the health is number 1.
The health is number 1. Earlier this year, I was interested in RFK Junior because he was just discussing chronic illness and why people are getting fatter and fatter. You know? 73 I I think it's like 70 plus percent of people in America are obese, you know? And to be obese, you know, that's sort of like easy. It's it's easy to be obese, like, nowadays. Like, it's easy to get a bag of chips. It's easy to get a little box of donuts. It's super easy to get a soda or some sort of drink. You know? Like, people are doing fucking triple macchiatoespresso shots in their Starbucks, you know, like, give me some extra caramel, please. Give me some extra caramel drizzle. Can I have some extra drizzle?
You know, this question is really important to me. Why are people unhealthy? How do we fix this? The solution is the food. And the solution is also advertising better food and bringing healthier food, more organic food to the forefront. Whole food. Bring whole foods to the forefront. This is the key. There was a there was a committee. There was some sort of hearing with with RFK Junior, like, within the government, like, within congress. And he said they they were discussing the Ozempic drug, the weight loss, like, shot that people can take Ozempic and whatever other, like, versions of it there are.
RFK had this line of so, like, the amount of money that we're putting in to Ozempic and these other GLP ones, that that's, like, the name of the molecule. The amount of money we're putting in into the GLP one drugs, we can use that same money and give every single diabetic person organic food for a year and a gym membership. Like, that was, like, actual math that that that his team did, I guess. Allegedly, the amount of money that people are spending on these weight loss drugs can be used to give organic foods to unhealthy people along with paying for their gym membership.
It's possible. And the people who are only discussing this are on I mean, I guess it's the right. I guess it's the conservatives. Like, I don't even know what the fuck to wanna call it, dude. I don't I don't wanna call myself a conservative. Why is me wanting people to be healthy a conservative take? It's so it's it's so much of a mind fuck. Because on the other side, we got Kamala. We got we got, I guess, Democrats. I don't know what to call them, dude. Like, they're not talking about that. They're talking about racism. They're talking about misogyny. They're talking about Donald Trump is, like, dangerous.
But meanwhile, the people who wanna help people be more healthy are aligned with Trump. And so if you just look at this one topic if you look at this one topic and see who's aligned with who politically, it's pretty fucking clear what the healthy answer is. I'm gonna vote for the guy who who is teaming up with people who want people to be healthy. Like, it's so fucking simple. It's so fucking simple. I I don't know what else to say about this. Like, I I just wanted to bring this up. Like, people are not are unhealthy, but people but the people who care about it are on the side of Trump.
What does that mean? You know, I've never considered myself to be a Trump guy or a conservative person. You know? I voted different ways in different elections. And as the years have gone on in the last 8 years you know? I've I've only voted in 2 elections. In the last 8 years, my views on health have evolved. My views on politics have evolved. My views on economics has evolved. And it just seems like Trump is, like, just on the side of health and innovation. And is that really a bad thing to be a part of? It's really wild. Like, how come like, no one has asked Kamala what she thinks about the chronic health issues in America.
Will they ever? I don't know. But it's it's very strange. What do you think about this? Do you think it means something? Like, is the team around Trump who cares about this issue, are they just bullshitting people? Are they lying? Are they manipulating numbers? Me, personally, I don't think so. I don't think that. I think they're being honest, and I think people are like, listen. Like, listen. My dad was obese. I just lost my dad to cancer. And so this health topic is really important to me. I grew up having judgments against my father for being unhealthy.
I didn't wanna look like him. I didn't wanna be like him. I didn't wanna, you know I I shaved my chest in the in the 8th grade because I didn't wanna be fat and hairy. I was afraid of being fat and hairy when I was a child. And it was only during the pandemic when I was, like, starting to get comfortable with my hair, you know, like, with my bodily hair, which is so silly. I I I begun to get more comfortable with, like, accepting that I have my father's genes. And when my dad got and my dad was severely obese. You know, he was never I I guess he was diagnosed. Like, it's pretty easy to say a £400 person is obese, but the doctors never told him to do anything, which is so fucked.
You know? Every time my dad went went to the doctor before he had cancer, the doctors would would always be like, your blood's healthy, Kevin. You're as healthy as a horse. The guy's fucking waddling around. What the fuck? And then, you know, it was only during the pandemic when my dad got serious about losing weight, and he got and he chose to have, weight loss surgery. He didn't take drugs, you know. He had the surgery. I I forget what it's called, geriatric or something. They they they shrunk his stomach, you know. And he started losing weight, and he was able to actually move around. It was only after that surgery when he got the fucking cancer.
And then he dies in August this year. And so, like, it's like he was unhealthy for so long, and then he wanted to get healthy, and then he got unhealthy again. And it's just like the system just didn't help him at all. The system didn't help him in in any case. And here I am in California, you know, like, fucking lefty woo woo California. I'm drinking raw milk, and I'm, like, focusing I'm meditating in my heart. I'm doing, like, heart centered prayers. I'm, like, I'm I'm folk I'm watching podcasts about different spirituality things. I'm I'm I'm doing ketogenic stuff. I'm I'm, like, I'm on this different vibe.
And I'm trying to share my dad this information, and he's, like, he's interested, but he's not really, like he never gleaned onto it. He never really he never just, like he never wanted it, I guess, or he never, like, he never saw the key. He didn't know that it was the key. You know, I'm not trying to judge him now. You know, of course, you know, it's all retrospective. But what I'm saying is my dad is a example, a microcosm of the American health problem. And I I desperately want people to be healthy. I don't want you to be obese.
If I if I knew you in high school and you are obese, I'm telling you right now, you are fat and you need to lose weight for the love of Christ. Do it for yourself. Do it for your family. If you are someone who doesn't care about health, for the love of fucking Christ, get educated on what is healthy, because the things in the store are killing you, like the the normal things to eat. What's what's normal to eat in America? An Oreo? What's normal to eat in America? Doritos? What's normal to eat in America? Soda? Like, these things fucking kill you, dude. These things fucking kill you.
And we'll just advertise that, like, canola oil is, like, heart healthy, and we don't have a culture of of movement. You know? 7000 steps. You know? There's always this trend of, like, 10,000 steps. Get your 10000 steps a day. But we really only need 7,000 to decrease our risk of, of those illnesses. You know, it's like, I pray for America. I want America to be healthy. I want Earth to be healthy. Because the problems in America are expanding to to Earth. You know? American foods are going into Europe. American foods are are are they are expanding. You know? Some chemicals are banned in some countries, but, ultimately, like, people are getting fatter and fatter.
And chronic illness is only increasing. And that means that a certain side, a certain system is profiting off of these permanent treatments. You know? It's really it's really wild. It's really fucking wild. But I have hope. You know? I don't wanna be doom and gloom. I I don't wanna be a tentpole doomer. I don't wanna be, like, anything like this. I I want to be someone who is discussing it in a positive way and is encouraging for healthier things to happen. That's what needs to happen, objectively. Morality is objective. This is my stance. Morality is objective, and it is moral to be healthy.
Is it immoral to be unhealthy? I don't know. I know that gluttony is a sin. I know that not giving a shit about your body isn't good. Like, come on, man. Like, there's, like, this, like there's this blending. There's this Venn diagram of, like, ancient, like, old things that were seen as bad, like like loving yourself, gluttony, like, these things of, like, keeping care of yourself, keeping care of your spirit health, keeping care of your bodily health, keeping care of your everything health, you know, it was seen as unholy to not do these things.
And as, in my opinion, society and, like, science within society has progressed, there's come an opinion of neutralism or some sort of laissez faire on another person's body. And it's very interesting how we don't want other people to be healthy. And it can be seen as manipulative to want the other person to eat healthy. And I personally don't think it's manipulative to want the purse the people around me to be to eat healthy. Why is it manipulative? I want you to not be fat. I don't want you to have chronic disease. I don't want you to have obesity.
You know, there's a way to live your life where you can actually thrive. We you don't have to be in pain. You don't have to be inflamed. I hope this is the answer. I I and I hope this is helping. You know, this is just what's on my heart, dude. I continue to move through my health stuff. I continue to try to figure out how to be the healthiest version of myself. Sometimes, maybe I'm not that healthy. You know, maybe I'd I was just in Mexico. I was drinking a bit too much, but I'm I I definitely like, I don't like drinking. You know? I feel fucking weird when I do that. You know, to just be aware of what you see is unhealthy for yourself. Just begin to be aware, and then maybe you can make a better choice next time.
You know, that's what needs to happen because the system around us, they don't want us to be aware. And I'm not trying to blame, like, a single entity. You know? The the the but there is just a system of distraction. And the system of distraction doesn't care if you're fat. The system of distraction doesn't care if you have any disease. The system of distraction wants you to keep buying, keep eating, and just keep arguing. And when you look at the facts, there is no argument. Being healthy is healthy, and caring about your body is good. And knowing the facts about what is unhealthy for you is important.
And this whole and when you look into, so so here's a here's like a side thing. There's, when you when you're on health Twitter, there's like these like there's these main figures who are sort of like representing science and health narratives. You got like Andrew Huberman. You got Rhonda Patrick. You got Paul Saladino. You got Lane Norton. You got, who's another one? You know, take your pick. You know, those are just like the top in my head. And then it another one is Mark Sisson. This this gentleman named Mark Sisson. Mark Sisson was actually he's, like, the first guy that I started, following for health. He was on Joe Rogan in 2017. He got me into ketogenic.
And what happens with Mark Sisson right now so today on Twitter, he was sort of, like, talking shit about Rhonda Patrick suggesting the certain, like, health protocol. And what I'm trying to bring up is we're still not agreeing. Like, Mark Sisson is a healthy guy, but he's speaking against Rhonda Patrick's health protocol or, like, some sort of science based, high intensity training high intensity interval training. And, you know, I might vibe with what Marxism shares. I might I might really agree with with what he talks about. And at the same time, the people involved with these the the the so called authorities within these health narratives, they're not agreeing on what's healthy.
Whenever you look into, like, the health around seed oils you know, seed oils is a huge is a huge topic. In my opinion, objectively, seed oils, no good. Get the fuck out of my face, seed oil. I don't want palm. I don't want canola. I don't want soy. I don't want anything like that. I want butter, and I want coconut. That's it. Some of these people some of these quote, unquote authorities, they see seed oils as benign. And they're willing to acknowledge that people are getting fatter and unhealthier, but they're also unwilling to acknowledge the increase of these processed oils in all of our processed foods.
It's like, what's the fucking connection then? What the fuck are you selling then, Norton? What the fuck are you selling, Rhonda Patrick? Like, I'm on Marxist inside here. Like like, I'm not I I I'm unwilling to follow your high intensity interval training protocol because you also think canola oil isn't that bad. Dude, like, what the fuck? Like, I don't think people need to, like, do exercising all day long. I I I don't think that's the real problem. You know? I don't think exercising is, like, a big deal. I think we just need to move more, and we need to eat healthier. And moving more is just walking around like the freaking video said.
7000 steps? Come on, dude. Like, that ain't no high intensity. 7000 steps? Stop eating seed oils and do 7,000 steps. That's, like, s's. A bunch of s's. Stop stop seed oil, 7,000 steps. It's very simple, but we can agree. Can we please agree on something? How do we do this? How do we move towards agreement? Like, I just wanna, like like, force everyone to agree. But, you know, that's impossible. But it's up to the individual. That I I I I think that's what what that's where it's moving into. There used to be authorities. There used to be centralized authorities on every topic, a centralized expert on health, a centralized expert on money, a centralized expert on government.
And now it seems like everyone is a piece of something. You know? What am I truly trying to say here? Like, you need to do your own research, and you need to align yourself with the people that have your same mindset and have your same, like, energy, same thoughts, same perspective, or at least similar. You know? That's what's necessary. You can't just be in the middle. Don't be in the middle. Don't be lukewarm. You know? Don't, like, don't do that shit. You know? When I hear one of these quote, unquote authority figures say that, you know, seed oils are benign, like, that's just so bullshit. That's just so, like, in the middle trying to swim in lukewarm water.
Like, dude, like, that's not that that's not the move, dude. Like, this is a time of this is not a time of being a moderate. You know? Like, so many people so many people online who don't wanna stir the boat or stir the pot. So many people people don't wanna tip the boat. The the they wanna call themselves a moderate. But increasingly, it's it's getting to a point where you need to choose a side, dude. You need to choose a side. And you're either gonna be on the side of objective health and objective morality, which is what is healthy for the individual, or you're not.
You're on the other side. And the other side is whatever the system says, the system of distraction, the system of whatever, the system of profit. Be on the other side. I believe this other side of health is the side of light, and I believe that I'm on this side. And I encourage you to come to this side with me. Or maybe I'm just spooning a bunch of a bunch of shit. Tell me what you think, dude. Tell me what you freaking think, man. This is important. This is important. This is America Plus, dude. This is value for value, bro. Value for value. We're gonna head on it into the boostagrams, folks.
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It's a mad, mad world. Yo. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. Welcome to America Plus, everybody. It's amazing to be here. We're back for another week, Another other week. Welcome one and all to the this is the front lines of the culture war, of the spiritual warfare. It's America Bloys. What's up, guys? We're going deep today. We're diving deep. We are we're we're unpacking so many things here on America Plus, folks. Just first of all, welcome back. If you are here if you're returning on this new every other week schedule, and I gotta get better at telling you when I'm coming back. I didn't I wasn't here last week. People downloaded the episodes, but I wasn't there. I there there wasn't a new episode, but new episode now. It's every other week. Today is October 13th. It's 8:0:4 in the PM, and I'm coming at you with with a heart that wants to share what I have been experiencing, cinematically and just, like, just, like, health wise? Like, what am I absorbing? This week, we are focusing on the movies I saw this week the the past 2 weeks, and, what I think is important for America and for the world.
We're gonna dive into it right now. I saw so this is a controversial movie that came out. If you're not a fan of DC films, then maybe this film wasn't up your alley. But I saw Joker 2 this past week, and Joker 2 has been extremely controversial. So the first Joker, you know, broke records. The first movie, the first Joker made a $1,000,000,000, and so, of course, they're gonna make a sequel. And this this second movie, guys, people have been, like, memeing on it. People have been hating on it. And, of course, sure enough, I'm in the freaking minority of this entire situation.
Like, why am I the only one who thinks this way? I liked the movie. I thought Joker 2 was awesome. Joker 2 was pretty good. Now I think the reason why I liked it is because I am cinematically educated, and I'm saying that a bit arrogantly, but also just, like, just objectively. Like, I know movies. I believe I know movies. I think I do. I've seen enough so it's a drama, it's a musical, and it's a tragedy. Now a lot of people get turned off with music. A lot of people don't like musicals. For me, I like musicals. I enjoy them. I grew up watching Grease. I grew up watching Glee.
I was I watched Glee for, like, 2 seasons, and then I fell off. You know, La La Land was legit. Musicals have always been, like, in my rapport. I was in a musical in high school. I was in the Cinderella musical, so I'm not opposed to these things. I understand why music is involved. And I'll and when I heard that music was gonna be, like, the centerpiece of Joker 2, I was like, this is gonna be insane. This might be the most insane take on a comic book character ever. And, the the interesting angle is musicals are always, like, upbeat and happy, and, like, it's it's pretty rare when you get, like, a really dramatic musical. You know? The the only dramatic musical that comes to mind right now was that movie with Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, Les Mess, Les Mess Rebels.
It came out in, like, 2,011 or something. It was, like, a long time ago, but it was, like, that was, like, the only dramatic musical. They're, like she's, like, singing about about to die. And but everything else is, like, we're in love, and we're having a ball. It's it's greaselinein'. Like, it's a good time. You know? And Joker 2 comes in with none of it is original music. They're taking songs from different movies, and they're just, like, splashing them into their story. And, it's it's sort of worked for the most part. In my opinion, it worked for the most part. I could have done with, like, 1 or 2 scenes, like, just just we like, we don't need all the songs, but that's just my taste.
The purpose for music in a musical is to communicate the emotion that the character is going through. And the music in Joker 2 is used as an extension of dialogue, and so they were sort of, like, going through that same rule. They were using the song to explain what was going on within the characters' heads, mainly Joker, r r Arthur Fleck. And people hated it. People did not like this movie at all. It took a weird turn. It took like, it it did not do anything that the first movie did. What the first Joker film did was it sunk itself into hate and pain and mental illness and justifiable violence.
What do you get like, the the famous line in the first movie is when Joker's he he's on this, talk show called Murray, and it's Robert De Niro as the, as a talk show host. And Joker's like, what do you get when you live in a society that doesn't give a shit about mentally ill people? You get what you fucking deserve. Like, it's like some satisfying shit. Like, he kills the people who are making fun of him. Like, we all like, as a culture, like, that was, like, what people were, like, vibing with. And I found that so interesting. And the reason why I made a $1,000,000,000 is because people like really, like, gleaned onto it. They really latched onto it. You know, people people like hate.
People like crazy that we love seeing a person go crazy. You know? And I can only speak for Americans. Right? Like, it was a success overseas, but in America, I think America had in, like, the most amount of money. This second film did not cement itself in pain or mental illness. The movie revolt like, the movie revolved around the discussion of that, and the identity of Arthur Fleck and Joker going back and forth between, who is this guy? Is he is he Arthur, or is he Joker? And then, you know, the Arthur, Joaquin Phoenix, he's he's really, like, telling people, like, he doesn't wanna be Joker. Like, he never like, that was never the goal.
That was never the situation. He was able to find a confidence by being Joker. He was able to, you know, actually, like, in some twisted way, live his life to the fullest, by by being Joker and and committing the crimes that he did, murdering those people. And the second film deals with the question of, like, why and who are you? And it's a real character study on a person dealing with that reality. People walked out of the movie. People said that it was it's trash. It's a disaster. It's a train wreck. It's absolutely disgusting.
And I'm over here, and I'm like, this movie's amazing. This movie's awesome. This movie's really, really good. If you are to watch musicals from the fifties and the sixties, and any musical at all, it gets pretty clear, like, all musicals are a bit indulgent within their song and dance. You know? Like, why are you really singing? You know? That's sort of, like, what people, like like, people think and say. Like, why the fuck are these people singing? Why are they dancing? Like, what's the point of this? It's funny how movies are supposed to be this, like, suspension of disbelief, but, culturally, so many people aren't able to suspend their disbelief with song and dance when, realistically, that's, like, the most, like, simple thing that we do in real life.
We sing and we dance. We dance with our lovers. We dance at the club, and we're singing at concerts. Like, these are normal things to do. But when it's in a movie, it's unacceptable. It's boring. It's stupid. It's, like, irrelevant. So that's a interesting, like, conflict, like, you know, like, this is like, that's an interesting thing happening. It's not meshing, but it meshed for me. And the reason why I wanted to talk about it is because the reaction of it. You know, people love the first Joker because it indulged itself within the pain, and the second movie they indulged the filmmakers indulged themselves within song and dance to express the character's experience.
And it's a tragedy because Arthur Fleck, you know, he he meets Lady Gaga, who plays Harley Quinn, and Harley Quinn's like manipulating him. Right? She's like lying to him, but then justifying it, saying excuse me. Saying that she loves him, saying that, like, he's the hero. She's like he's like the guy for dreams. He actually did what she wanted to happen. Like, she has this line in the movie where she's like, when I saw you on Murray, I just thought to myself, god, I hope he shoots his brains out. And then you did. And so it's like that is the explanation of how society is reacting to Joker.
People fucking love the fact that he killed De Niro in the first one. And now there's a culture of celebrity, and this culture of celebrity comes from the poor people and the privileged people. And then you got the media just doing their thing, lying and twisting and doing whatever they wanna do. And the audience itself the audience in real life, you know, people were expecting more Joker. They were expecting more violence. They were expecting more justification, and, you know, that's just not, like, what they did. They just didn't do that. There's some violence, but the violence is mainly what was that? Did you guys hear that? There's, like, some firework outside.
There was mainly violence against Arthur Fleck. There was a lot of violence against Joker himself. Joker rarely does anything. Like, he rarely does any, like, any crime. And it's very interesting to see how people wanted more crime. They wanted more hate. And so this movie's barely made any money. It cost, like, $200,000,000 to make, and they've only they they haven't even made their budget back. So it's, financially, it's a failure. But, thematically, I think it's incredible. And the same sort of goes for the movie I saw a couple weeks ago, Megalopolis. The themes were amazing, and I really vibed with them, but nobody saw it, and nobody respected it.
And I think that, you know, just these 2 movies back to back, Megalopolis and Joker 2, discussing having a discussion about society, and where society is going, and where a character is seeking to go. These are important questions to ask. And within Joker 2, Arthur Fleck, you know, he at the end, he he takes on some personal responsibility to not justify his bad behavior. You know, he at least acknowledges that he shouldn't have done that, and he and he doesn't wanna be Joker. Like, he he really says that. Like, I don't wanna be Joker anymore. Like, stop. Stop. And it even goes for, like and and I'm just, like, sort of spoiling the whole movie now, because, like, nobody saw it.
Him and Harley Quinn are singing throughout the whole movie. Right? It's like a love story, but, like, it's it's a love story in their heads, and the musical is in their heads. And that's how, like, they both feel. And at the end of the movie, Harley Quinn, like, she keeps singing. And, Joaquin, he's like he's like, stop singing. Like, he straight up says, stop singing. I don't wanna sing anymore. I just wanna talk. And it's like that's like him, like, begging to just, like, be in the real world. Like, he doesn't wanna be in his head anymore. And that was, like, the problem to begin with in the first movie. He was in his head, and he just wanted to, like, fucking kill people. Like, he he did what he thought he wanted to do, and that continues in the second one. But then he realized, like, fuck. I don't want this. This is not appropriate. This isn't cool. This isn't cool anymore, Lee. I don't wanna do this.
But then she leaves him, and it's heartbreaking because, you know, she's not in love with him unless he's Joker. And it's like, what the fuck, dude? So the audience reaction is pretty much how the characters react to him as well. People like society rejects him because he rejects Joker, and that's the same thing that the audience did. And it's very interesting. I'm not sure if that is a is that a prediction? Is that a is that, like, is that, like, a creative channeling? You know? Because when it comes to the first Joker and the writer director, Todd Phillips, he's first of all, he's an incredible director. He's made some of the funniest comedies in cinema. You know? He did fucking wedding crashers.
Todd Phillips did old school. Todd Phillips did the hangover trilogy. Todd Phillips, like, he he's made good movies. He's made funny movies. And, you know, people always talk about this. Like, creative people are always, like like, they they're able to channel something, whatever message it is or whatever story it is. And I feel as though when it comes to the first Joker, Todd Phillips, he channeled some sort of rage within the culture. And the second one, it felt as though, like, he didn't want to continue that. Like, him himself, as the filmmaker, didn't wanna justify violence. Like, that's not the point of this movie.
The point of this movie is what this character is going through, and the character's always just wanted love. There's issues with his mother in the first movie, and then there's issues with his lover in the second. And so it's a very natural progression. Like, from my director standpoint, it's like Todd Phillips just did, like, a natural step forward. Like, he he I I don't think he did a sidestep for anything. He took a few big swings. He did a few things that might not have been commercial. But in terms of writing a character and focusing on that singular character and his emotions and his actions, like, everything felt natural to me.
And so I respect Todd Phillips for that. Like, round of applause for Todd Phillips. Round of applause for Todd Phillips, dude. You did that shit. You did it. You killed it. You really killed it. So I'm for that. Whenever a filmmaker does what they wanna do, that is important. It's super important. But sometimes people won't vibe. You know? People don't vibe with Coppola. People aren't vibing with Phillips. You know? People don't vibe with a lot of things. When will people not vibe with Christopher Nolan? Will that ever be a thing? It seems like people always vibe with Christopher Nolan.
You know, it's just interesting how some some filmmakers are like that. Some filmmakers are always, like, fan favorites. Like, people have always vibed with, with Spielberg, you know, even though he maybe hasn't made all the best movies. Like, people are still, like, oh, Spielberg. Oh, my god. But no one's actually, like, been, like, revolted against the Spielberg movie. People have been, like, disgusted by Joker 2. People have been disgusted by Megalopolis. They've said these things are a mess. You know? And I don't agree with this. I I don't agree with the mainstream. I never do. I've never have.
Maybe a few times. Maybe there's been a few times where I do agree with the mainstream, but, ultimately, I'm on my own path, and I think you should see Joker 2, and I think it's a good, like, thought study. It's a good thought experiment about how we, as a people and you, as an individual, what do you wanna see in people, and are you interested in them going crazy? You know, I think I thought a lot about Kanye West watching Joker 2. Remember when Ye when they said Ye was going crazy? I actually so there was actually a line in the movie that I've that this seemed like directly connected to Kanye. I remember in it it was in, like, 2022 or 2023, and Kanye, he said something like like, you only wanna focus on what I did in the past.
And you're not talking about you you don't wanna talk about what I'm doing now or where I'm going. And Joaquin Phoenix says that same fucking line during an interview. He says, you only wanna focus on where I've been and what I've done, not where I'm going, not what I'm not how I've changed. And, there's it's it's extremely emotional. Extremely emotional. And I just saw this thing, like, like, people were loving people loved watching Kanye go crazy. People loved watching him just, like, just just fumble the bag, allegedly, you know, like, just burn his entire career to the ground, you know. Retrospectively, he didn't, but, you know, like you know what I mean? Like, if you followed that timeline, like, it seemed like Kanye was burning everything.
And but at the same time, like, he was wanting to move forward, but people weren't willing to move forward with him. And so it's a very interesting discussion. I'm not sure if Todd Phillips if that's what he was connecting with. I'm not sure if that if I don't think Kanye was a part of the thinking process of the writing for Joker 2, but I saw a connection there, personally. So I encourage you to see that, and, you know, tell me what you think. Do you think Joker 2 is important? Do you think it's good? Do you think it's bad? A lot of people thought it was shit. So do your thing, man. That that's the good thing about film and art in America, like, we can discuss these things, and we can bag on it. We can meme on it. We can celebrate it, and, you know, that's just what it is. That's just what it is, man.
Moving into the I I wanna move into a different section now. I wanna talk about health in America. So there's these 2 people who who showed up on Joe Rogan. I watched, like, half the episode, a few clips. Now whenever it comes to these health episodes that Rogan does or any other podcast does, you know, there these aren't really, like, viral things. And so it's pretty like, it's a lot easier for a different topic to go viral when Joe Rogan talks about it, along with, like, other accounts on Twitter posting clips and talking about the shocking thing that was revealed. But when it comes to health, these two people, Casey and Cali Means. They're brother and sister. 1 of them is a, one of them is a doctor.
Another person is in another like, the brother used to work for Coca Cola, and, they both used to be a part of, like, the classic, like like, mainstream health system. And they both came out of it, and now they're on the other side, and they're aligned with RFK Junior. They're aligned with Donald Trump. They're aligned with I don't know. What do you wanna call it? Like, this, like, alternative health. I I I I really don't wanna say alternative health. I think it's a bad word. I think that's a loaded term. These people have data about how unhealthy people are in America, and their solution is the food.
And that's really, like, if you care about health, about your body, you know, it's about the food that you eat. For some reason, the mainstream, we don't talk about like doc like general doctors don't talk about your diet when it comes to your autoimmune illness or your chronic disease. Doctors are trained to just cover up the pain, hide the pain, numb it, have it go away somehow, here's a pill. And Casey and Callie Means were on Joe Rogan, and they were discussing just what they weren't taught in college. And I have this clip here. It's about a 2 minute clip. This is, who is this? This is this is Casey. I think this is Casey Means discussing what she just didn't
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learn about health and how how many conflicts of interest there are within the medical system. Ultimately, those are not the tools that actually generate foundational cellular health. You know, 80% of medical schools in the United States don't require a single nutrition course, not one minute of nutrition. And yet, 90% of our health care costs are tied to diseases. The things that are torturing American lives are tied to food and doctors. It's it's not a hammer in our toolbox. I didn't learn, you know, I didn't learn at Stanford Medical School that 95% of the people on the USDA Food Guidelines for America committee had a conflict synergies with the food with the food industry. I didn't learn that there were 8,000 conflicts of interest at the NIH. I didn't learn that there are 8,000,000,000 tons of plastic on planet Earth that are degrading into end estrogen, you know, analogs. I did not learn that there's £6,000,000,000 of pesticides sprayed on our global food supply every single year, most from China and Germany. And that these are literally tied very strongly to Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer, obesity, mitochondrial dysfunction, infertility, ADHD, liver dysfunction.
I didn't learn that, you know, simply taking 7,000 steps per day can slash your risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, even gastric reflux by 40 to 60%, and the average American's walking 35 100 steps per day. Like, we're literally just not moving as a country, and if you just walk a little bit, 7,000 steps, which takes, like, 45 minutes, you slash your risk of every major, you know, chronic disease. I didn't learn that we need to be getting sunlight because circadian biology dictates our cellular health. Like, we are diurnal animals that have biologic processes that happen during the day and other biologic processes that happen at night. And the way your body knows whether it's day or night is if you get photons hitting your retina and your skin cells. Pretty basic. Pretty foundational for human health. Didn't learn anything about it. Didn't learn anything about sunlight, didn't learn anything about photons, didn't learn anything about sleep. You know, we're sleeping 20% less on average than we were a 100 years ago.
And sleep is a huge risk factor. You you can, in an experimental setting, take a young healthy person and subject them to sleep deprivation for 5 nights, and they become pre diabetic. Well, 50% Americans are pre diabetic and type 2 diabetic, and we're not sleeping well. And I didn't learn not one minute on sleep. So all the things and so many more. And, of course, nothing about nutrition.
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Okay. So that goes super fast. I probably should've slowed down, that clip. The biggest takeaway for me, like, that's interesting that she's saying that no doctor is gonna tell you to to walk 7,000 steps to decrease your risk of diabetes. That was, like, the most interesting thing that she that she said. Casey Means so this I'm I'm I'm reading off this tweet. Casey doctor Casey Means was stunned to learn that simply taking 7,000 steps can slash your risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's and dementia and even gastric reflux by 40 to 60%, dude.
What are we doing in America? This American system is straight up harming Americans. The reason I bring this up is because this is an important topic. It it it sort of it bleeds into politics a little bit. I don't wanna, like, push politics into it, but this is so dramatically important for the people, for citizens, for humans to know. I don't know what it's like in other countries, what the health narratives are in other countries. You know, clearly, we got governments telling you to get all your vaccinations. We got governments telling you to not drink raw milk. But and, you know, and also don't eat raw meat along with that. When you go down this, like, alternative health rabbit hole, you realize that a lot of people, or at least some people, are eating raw meat.
And you're like I'm like, what the fuck is this, dude? What the fuck is raw meat? Why are you eating raw meat? I like my steaks cooked, please. But clearly, people are able to eat it. People are able to enjoy it. Tartar is what it's called in France. Tartar. People love tartar. It's very delicious. And it's very fancy. It's very expensive when you go tartar. Why are Americans so unhealthy? This is the question people with thinking brains use. This is the question people with, just critical thinking ask. And the people who are asking these questions seem to be aligned with Donald Trump, which is really interesting to me.
And this health narrative, this health conversation, I believe, cuts through the bullshit of all the other, whatever you wanna call it, issues. Political issues, abortion, guns, whatever else they wanna say is super important. Like, if you're not alive, you're not able to get an abortion. Like, I don't know what to tell you. If you're not alive if if if you can barely stand on your feet because you're too fucking fat, you can't really hold a gun now, can you? Like, how are you gonna do anything that you wanna do when you're unhealthy? You know? Regardless of what your belief is on any of these issues, the health is number 1.
The health is number 1. Earlier this year, I was interested in RFK Junior because he was just discussing chronic illness and why people are getting fatter and fatter. You know? 73 I I think it's like 70 plus percent of people in America are obese, you know? And to be obese, you know, that's sort of like easy. It's it's easy to be obese, like, nowadays. Like, it's easy to get a bag of chips. It's easy to get a little box of donuts. It's super easy to get a soda or some sort of drink. You know? Like, people are doing fucking triple macchiatoespresso shots in their Starbucks, you know, like, give me some extra caramel, please. Give me some extra caramel drizzle. Can I have some extra drizzle?
You know, this question is really important to me. Why are people unhealthy? How do we fix this? The solution is the food. And the solution is also advertising better food and bringing healthier food, more organic food to the forefront. Whole food. Bring whole foods to the forefront. This is the key. There was a there was a committee. There was some sort of hearing with with RFK Junior, like, within the government, like, within congress. And he said they they were discussing the Ozempic drug, the weight loss, like, shot that people can take Ozempic and whatever other, like, versions of it there are.
RFK had this line of so, like, the amount of money that we're putting in to Ozempic and these other GLP ones, that that's, like, the name of the molecule. The amount of money we're putting in into the GLP one drugs, we can use that same money and give every single diabetic person organic food for a year and a gym membership. Like, that was, like, actual math that that that his team did, I guess. Allegedly, the amount of money that people are spending on these weight loss drugs can be used to give organic foods to unhealthy people along with paying for their gym membership.
It's possible. And the people who are only discussing this are on I mean, I guess it's the right. I guess it's the conservatives. Like, I don't even know what the fuck to wanna call it, dude. I don't I don't wanna call myself a conservative. Why is me wanting people to be healthy a conservative take? It's so it's it's so much of a mind fuck. Because on the other side, we got Kamala. We got we got, I guess, Democrats. I don't know what to call them, dude. Like, they're not talking about that. They're talking about racism. They're talking about misogyny. They're talking about Donald Trump is, like, dangerous.
But meanwhile, the people who wanna help people be more healthy are aligned with Trump. And so if you just look at this one topic if you look at this one topic and see who's aligned with who politically, it's pretty fucking clear what the healthy answer is. I'm gonna vote for the guy who who is teaming up with people who want people to be healthy. Like, it's so fucking simple. It's so fucking simple. I I don't know what else to say about this. Like, I I just wanted to bring this up. Like, people are not are unhealthy, but people but the people who care about it are on the side of Trump.
What does that mean? You know, I've never considered myself to be a Trump guy or a conservative person. You know? I voted different ways in different elections. And as the years have gone on in the last 8 years you know? I've I've only voted in 2 elections. In the last 8 years, my views on health have evolved. My views on politics have evolved. My views on economics has evolved. And it just seems like Trump is, like, just on the side of health and innovation. And is that really a bad thing to be a part of? It's really wild. Like, how come like, no one has asked Kamala what she thinks about the chronic health issues in America.
Will they ever? I don't know. But it's it's very strange. What do you think about this? Do you think it means something? Like, is the team around Trump who cares about this issue, are they just bullshitting people? Are they lying? Are they manipulating numbers? Me, personally, I don't think so. I don't think that. I think they're being honest, and I think people are like, listen. Like, listen. My dad was obese. I just lost my dad to cancer. And so this health topic is really important to me. I grew up having judgments against my father for being unhealthy.
I didn't wanna look like him. I didn't wanna be like him. I didn't wanna, you know I I shaved my chest in the in the 8th grade because I didn't wanna be fat and hairy. I was afraid of being fat and hairy when I was a child. And it was only during the pandemic when I was, like, starting to get comfortable with my hair, you know, like, with my bodily hair, which is so silly. I I I begun to get more comfortable with, like, accepting that I have my father's genes. And when my dad got and my dad was severely obese. You know, he was never I I guess he was diagnosed. Like, it's pretty easy to say a £400 person is obese, but the doctors never told him to do anything, which is so fucked.
You know? Every time my dad went went to the doctor before he had cancer, the doctors would would always be like, your blood's healthy, Kevin. You're as healthy as a horse. The guy's fucking waddling around. What the fuck? And then, you know, it was only during the pandemic when my dad got serious about losing weight, and he got and he chose to have, weight loss surgery. He didn't take drugs, you know. He had the surgery. I I forget what it's called, geriatric or something. They they they shrunk his stomach, you know. And he started losing weight, and he was able to actually move around. It was only after that surgery when he got the fucking cancer.
And then he dies in August this year. And so, like, it's like he was unhealthy for so long, and then he wanted to get healthy, and then he got unhealthy again. And it's just like the system just didn't help him at all. The system didn't help him in in any case. And here I am in California, you know, like, fucking lefty woo woo California. I'm drinking raw milk, and I'm, like, focusing I'm meditating in my heart. I'm doing, like, heart centered prayers. I'm, like, I'm I'm folk I'm watching podcasts about different spirituality things. I'm I'm I'm doing ketogenic stuff. I'm I'm, like, I'm on this different vibe.
And I'm trying to share my dad this information, and he's, like, he's interested, but he's not really, like he never gleaned onto it. He never really he never just, like he never wanted it, I guess, or he never, like, he never saw the key. He didn't know that it was the key. You know, I'm not trying to judge him now. You know, of course, you know, it's all retrospective. But what I'm saying is my dad is a example, a microcosm of the American health problem. And I I desperately want people to be healthy. I don't want you to be obese.
If I if I knew you in high school and you are obese, I'm telling you right now, you are fat and you need to lose weight for the love of Christ. Do it for yourself. Do it for your family. If you are someone who doesn't care about health, for the love of fucking Christ, get educated on what is healthy, because the things in the store are killing you, like the the normal things to eat. What's what's normal to eat in America? An Oreo? What's normal to eat in America? Doritos? What's normal to eat in America? Soda? Like, these things fucking kill you, dude. These things fucking kill you.
And we'll just advertise that, like, canola oil is, like, heart healthy, and we don't have a culture of of movement. You know? 7000 steps. You know? There's always this trend of, like, 10,000 steps. Get your 10000 steps a day. But we really only need 7,000 to decrease our risk of, of those illnesses. You know, it's like, I pray for America. I want America to be healthy. I want Earth to be healthy. Because the problems in America are expanding to to Earth. You know? American foods are going into Europe. American foods are are are they are expanding. You know? Some chemicals are banned in some countries, but, ultimately, like, people are getting fatter and fatter.
And chronic illness is only increasing. And that means that a certain side, a certain system is profiting off of these permanent treatments. You know? It's really it's really wild. It's really fucking wild. But I have hope. You know? I don't wanna be doom and gloom. I I don't wanna be a tentpole doomer. I don't wanna be, like, anything like this. I I want to be someone who is discussing it in a positive way and is encouraging for healthier things to happen. That's what needs to happen, objectively. Morality is objective. This is my stance. Morality is objective, and it is moral to be healthy.
Is it immoral to be unhealthy? I don't know. I know that gluttony is a sin. I know that not giving a shit about your body isn't good. Like, come on, man. Like, there's, like, this, like there's this blending. There's this Venn diagram of, like, ancient, like, old things that were seen as bad, like like loving yourself, gluttony, like, these things of, like, keeping care of yourself, keeping care of your spirit health, keeping care of your bodily health, keeping care of your everything health, you know, it was seen as unholy to not do these things.
And as, in my opinion, society and, like, science within society has progressed, there's come an opinion of neutralism or some sort of laissez faire on another person's body. And it's very interesting how we don't want other people to be healthy. And it can be seen as manipulative to want the other person to eat healthy. And I personally don't think it's manipulative to want the purse the people around me to be to eat healthy. Why is it manipulative? I want you to not be fat. I don't want you to have chronic disease. I don't want you to have obesity.
You know, there's a way to live your life where you can actually thrive. We you don't have to be in pain. You don't have to be inflamed. I hope this is the answer. I I and I hope this is helping. You know, this is just what's on my heart, dude. I continue to move through my health stuff. I continue to try to figure out how to be the healthiest version of myself. Sometimes, maybe I'm not that healthy. You know, maybe I'd I was just in Mexico. I was drinking a bit too much, but I'm I I definitely like, I don't like drinking. You know? I feel fucking weird when I do that. You know, to just be aware of what you see is unhealthy for yourself. Just begin to be aware, and then maybe you can make a better choice next time.
You know, that's what needs to happen because the system around us, they don't want us to be aware. And I'm not trying to blame, like, a single entity. You know? The the the but there is just a system of distraction. And the system of distraction doesn't care if you're fat. The system of distraction doesn't care if you have any disease. The system of distraction wants you to keep buying, keep eating, and just keep arguing. And when you look at the facts, there is no argument. Being healthy is healthy, and caring about your body is good. And knowing the facts about what is unhealthy for you is important.
And this whole and when you look into, so so here's a here's like a side thing. There's, when you when you're on health Twitter, there's like these like there's these main figures who are sort of like representing science and health narratives. You got like Andrew Huberman. You got Rhonda Patrick. You got Paul Saladino. You got Lane Norton. You got, who's another one? You know, take your pick. You know, those are just like the top in my head. And then it another one is Mark Sisson. This this gentleman named Mark Sisson. Mark Sisson was actually he's, like, the first guy that I started, following for health. He was on Joe Rogan in 2017. He got me into ketogenic.
And what happens with Mark Sisson right now so today on Twitter, he was sort of, like, talking shit about Rhonda Patrick suggesting the certain, like, health protocol. And what I'm trying to bring up is we're still not agreeing. Like, Mark Sisson is a healthy guy, but he's speaking against Rhonda Patrick's health protocol or, like, some sort of science based, high intensity training high intensity interval training. And, you know, I might vibe with what Marxism shares. I might I might really agree with with what he talks about. And at the same time, the people involved with these the the the so called authorities within these health narratives, they're not agreeing on what's healthy.
Whenever you look into, like, the health around seed oils you know, seed oils is a huge is a huge topic. In my opinion, objectively, seed oils, no good. Get the fuck out of my face, seed oil. I don't want palm. I don't want canola. I don't want soy. I don't want anything like that. I want butter, and I want coconut. That's it. Some of these people some of these quote, unquote authorities, they see seed oils as benign. And they're willing to acknowledge that people are getting fatter and unhealthier, but they're also unwilling to acknowledge the increase of these processed oils in all of our processed foods.
It's like, what's the fucking connection then? What the fuck are you selling then, Norton? What the fuck are you selling, Rhonda Patrick? Like, I'm on Marxist inside here. Like like, I'm not I I I'm unwilling to follow your high intensity interval training protocol because you also think canola oil isn't that bad. Dude, like, what the fuck? Like, I don't think people need to, like, do exercising all day long. I I I don't think that's the real problem. You know? I don't think exercising is, like, a big deal. I think we just need to move more, and we need to eat healthier. And moving more is just walking around like the freaking video said.
7000 steps? Come on, dude. Like, that ain't no high intensity. 7000 steps? Stop eating seed oils and do 7,000 steps. That's, like, s's. A bunch of s's. Stop stop seed oil, 7,000 steps. It's very simple, but we can agree. Can we please agree on something? How do we do this? How do we move towards agreement? Like, I just wanna, like like, force everyone to agree. But, you know, that's impossible. But it's up to the individual. That I I I I think that's what what that's where it's moving into. There used to be authorities. There used to be centralized authorities on every topic, a centralized expert on health, a centralized expert on money, a centralized expert on government.
And now it seems like everyone is a piece of something. You know? What am I truly trying to say here? Like, you need to do your own research, and you need to align yourself with the people that have your same mindset and have your same, like, energy, same thoughts, same perspective, or at least similar. You know? That's what's necessary. You can't just be in the middle. Don't be in the middle. Don't be lukewarm. You know? Don't, like, don't do that shit. You know? When I hear one of these quote, unquote authority figures say that, you know, seed oils are benign, like, that's just so bullshit. That's just so, like, in the middle trying to swim in lukewarm water.
Like, dude, like, that's not that that's not the move, dude. Like, this is a time of this is not a time of being a moderate. You know? Like, so many people so many people online who don't wanna stir the boat or stir the pot. So many people people don't wanna tip the boat. The the they wanna call themselves a moderate. But increasingly, it's it's getting to a point where you need to choose a side, dude. You need to choose a side. And you're either gonna be on the side of objective health and objective morality, which is what is healthy for the individual, or you're not.
You're on the other side. And the other side is whatever the system says, the system of distraction, the system of whatever, the system of profit. Be on the other side. I believe this other side of health is the side of light, and I believe that I'm on this side. And I encourage you to come to this side with me. Or maybe I'm just spooning a bunch of a bunch of shit. Tell me what you think, dude. Tell me what you freaking think, man. This is important. This is important. This is America Plus, dude. This is value for value, bro. Value for value. We're gonna head on it into the boostagrams, folks.
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I'm gonna have clips of that, podcast within this video on Wednesday, and then I'm gonna put out the longer version later this week. So it's happening this week, dude. Just keep your eye out. Subscribe to the YouTube channel Podcast Normie. That's the name of it. That's how I'm doing all this. That's still a side project. You know? I'm just having a little fun. Just having a little fun here. Trying to make some videos for a company I like. What's wrong with that, dude? That's what you gotta do, man. Maybe I make more videos for more people. We'll see. But those are all the people who saw the value in America Plus. Folks, round of applause for them. Thank you so much for seeing value in the show. Thank you for seeing value in me.
I do this because I want to. I do this because I want earth to be better and healthier. And so what else can you ask for, dude? What else can you ask for in a podcast? Does anyone else care like me? Does anyone else care? I think may maybe some people. What do I wanna do now? So value for value is how we do this. I'm trying to figure out how else I can be better at value for value because, you know, Adam Curry, for the No Agenda podcast, he's like the king of of value for value. I'm trying to get on that level, dude. I'm trying to be on this Adam Curry level. That's, like, my standard of excellence for podcasting and value for value. That's how I do that.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, I actually wanna share one other thing. For value for value, I, okay. So I'm a director. Right? I make movies. I do a podcast, and I make movies. I'm making movies forever. I need to. I recently okay. And and it's it's happening soon. So I I met up with this guy, with this other CEO of this, like, I guess, you could call it a streaming service. It's this they're using the value for value tech. They're using podcasting 2.0 tech, to distribute movies. And I released I put out my short film from 2020, The Break In, on this service. And it's also streaming inside of certain podcast apps, like Podcast Guru, and I believe, Podverse does it as well.
But this is on IndieHub, indeehub.studio, And it's called The Break in. It's about this random story that happened to me in 2019. It's a true story. Somebody broke into my apartment when I was sleeping. It was like 3 in the morning, and his name was Jose. I shook his hand. It was a crazy crazy night. Made a whole movie about it. And, I put this movie up on this streaming service. I met up with this guy named Zach Zach Mahoney, which is a great name. I fucking love that name. And the guy was really cool. We really hit it off. We had, like, similar stories about our life, and I was like, damn, dude. Like, this is a fun time. I just and he's right here in LA. Like, we just had a coffee down in Studio City. It's like, fuck. This is cool. I like this. I like having meetings in LA. Makes me feel like I'm really well, I actually had a meeting about making movies for a streaming service.
It was, like, awesome. Like, how what else can you ask for? It was really cool. So shout out to Zach, shout out to IndieHub, and shout out to the break in. Go watch my short from the break in, and you can also boost me in for that, or you can send me a check if you like the movie as well. Indie Hub is interesting. It's still in beta. So if you wanna pay for it, go ahead. It's sort of it's sort of expensive right now, but that's, like, just to block out, like, spam. I'm sure but you're able to watch my movie and Podcast Guru. So go go to Podcast Guru, and hook up your Albi Wallet and watch The Break In and send me some sats, because I it's my best short film. It's really like it's quality. It's it's really quality.
And it's funny too. It's funny. So yeah, do that. That's what that's like the update on me, man. And I'm doing more for this. I, like, I I think I'm gonna put more short films and more things, like, on Indie Hub. This is really this is like, the movie and TV centric focused service that is using the podcasting 2 point o tech, and I think that's like really important. His vision is really incredible, so like, I I wanna stick with this vision. I think this vision is really cool. I don't think I can, like, really, like, share anything because it's not really official yet, but he told me his vision. I believe in this vision, and I'm sticking with it. And so I'm just into it, man. I'm just into it. So go to indyhub.studio, go to podcast guru, watch the break in, send in a boostagram, send me some sats, and just support your boy.
Support your boy. Speaking of other value for value stuff, we're gonna wrap things up now. I'm gonna play a song, and, that's gonna be the the end of the episode. So just hang hang tight, hang out, relax. This song that I'm that I'm about to play, so this is a value for value song. The artist, the band, this is from, the retrograde. They're getting 90% of your satoshi donation. So as soon as this song starts, and you're listening in a modern podcast app like Fountain or Podcast Guru, whatever, they're they are getting 90% of your satoshi donation, which is incredible. Like, that's the real innovation, dude. That's the real innovation of this whole system, and this song is I I I think I played it before. It's called, I Need A Little. It's one of my favorite songs. I think Adam Curry played it on Booster Grand Ball, and I just wanted to play it again because I just vibe with it, dude. It's like it it it's an America Plus vibe. You know? Like, America Plus, like, I just need a little, dude. Enjoy.
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