Host Cole McCormick dives into the intriguing world of health data and wearables, sparked by recent comments from Secretary Kennedy. The discussion revolves around the potential for wearable technology to revolutionize personal health management, as Kennedy envisions a future where every American is equipped with a device like an Apple Watch or Fitbit. This initiative is part of the broader "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, aiming to empower individuals with data-driven insights into their health. However, this vision is met with skepticism from various quarters, including concerns about privacy, data misuse, and the potential commercialization of health data.
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June Sunday, June 29. Happy to be here, folks. Beautiful day to be alive. Coming to you in pretty good moods right now, folks. I'm coming off a week of unemployment. I'm not on unemployment. I'm just I just happen to be unemployed. And yesterday, I was at the beach, and I ended up if you can see the video, my hand my right hand is, like, super swollen right now because I, like I was throwing around this, like, medicine ball, and I completely just, like, ruined the ligaments in my fingers. I can still move them. There's, like, just a little bit of pain. It's not broken, but I got this, like, I got a swollen finger. I got a swollen set of fingers right now, which is a good time to be alive. So I'm pretty I'm blessed for that. Just put that on the list of whatever the fuck is going on in my life.
It's a beautiful time to be here for with you. I'm very happy. We're just gonna hop right into it, dude. This week is gonna be a health episode. I wanna talk about Kennedy. I wanna talk about what's going on in the, Maha sphere because I think it's a really important thing to talk about. This past week, I believe it was on Tuesday, like, five days ago. Kennedy was speaking with Congress about some stuff, and there's a few clips that came out of it. And I have a series of clips that I wanna share, and I wanna go into this discussion with you, mainly revolving around, health data and wearables and just what is what is the heart of Maha, and I think this is really interesting.
I wanna share this ninety second clip between, senator from Ohio and Kennedy.
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Secretary Kennedy, my first question is is that there is a tremendous amount of research that shows that greater engagement with one's health leads to better outcomes. In recent years, American innovators have created and improved wearable devices so that not only are consumers able to better engage with their health through monitoring data, but they are able to share that data with providers. I believe American consumers, in line with the twenty first Century Cures Act, should be able to access these innovative wellness tools. Secretary secretary Kennedy, do you agree that consumers should continue to have access to these tools?
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Absolutely. In fact, we're about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables. It's a way of, people can take control over their own health. They can take responsibility. They can see, as you know, what food is doing to their glucose levels, their heart rates, and a number of other metrics as they eat it. And they can begin to make good judgments about their diet, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives. We think that wearables are, a key to the Maha agenda making America healthy again, and we are gonna we my my vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.
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Wow. That's crazy, dude.
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That that just that last part again. You are gonna we my my vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.
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That's crazy, dude. What do you think about that? I didn't expect to see Kennedy say that because, Kennedy has always been a part of this, like, freedom, like, health freedom thing, you know? And it's very interesting to hear him talk about how his vision is for every way every American to wear to wear a wearable. And this is like Apple Watch. This is Fitbit. This is Garmin. This is, Whoop. This is, any glucose monitor. Right? And, you know, in my personal experience, I used to wear an Apple Watch. And, during COVID, I took it off, you know, not because of any, like, philosophical reasons. I just I wasn't using it, you know. It was you know, LA was still, like, super hardcore with lockdown rules, and, I didn't feel like wearing the watch all day. And I also didn't feel like just wearing it for my workout, because, like, the whole point of a wearable is, like, you're you're getting the entire day's worth of health data, how much you're walking, how much you're stepping, how many calories you're burning during exercise. You know, a wearable is supposed to be, like, a constant thing. It's, like, it's you're supposed to wear it all day long, and most likely nighttime as well. There's they're tracking sleep. They're scoring sleep. You know?
And I thought that was really interesting. And it's immediately when I hear that, I don't think hello, blue. Hello, mister blue. Immediately when I hear that, I sorta get freaked out by it, because it's like, oh my god. Like, the government wants me to wear something. The government wants me. I I go full Alex Jones. Like, the watches are turning the freaking people gay, dude. Very interesting stuff like that, you know, just, like, immediately. And then I'm I'm going back and forth in my head of, like, is this good? Is this bad? Is this really Maha? And then there's this lady on, on x. Her name's Gooba, Gooba Homestead.
You might have seen this woman, somewhere in the, Instagram sphere or in the Twitter sphere. She has something very interesting to say about this. She she's criticizing it. She doesn't support it. This straight, the guy fronting the Make America Healthy Again movement wants every American
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to wear a biometric device to track their health. And you really think it will just be tracking your steps? This is the same man who told people to get the measles vaccine and said antisemitism is as dangerous as history's most deadly plagues. Not chronic illness, not big pharma, and not the collapse of real food. So is he actually fighting the system, or simply putting us deeper in it? And let's talk about these wearables. People are reporting burns, rashes, heart rhythm interference, radiation concerns, and whatever these are that are popping up on people's wrists. But sure, strap one on for your health. It's almost as if RFK is not leading a health revolution, and is instead the newest face of tech wrapped tyranny. I think we need to wake up and realize that Make America Healthy Again might just be a scam.
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So that's a rift in the health conversation. Okay? That's immediately what I see. This woman, she's posted about raw milk. She's posted about homesteading, you know, just like nature, being more aligned with nature in terms of where you get your food, in terms of how you approach your health. She's clearly an anti vaxx person. She's clearly, I mean, she she was sort of criticizing Kennedy's stuff about talking about Jewish people and antisemitism. I'm not one to, like, criticize that stuff. Like, if Kennedy wants to say something about Jews, go ahead. Whatever. Or antisemitism, go ahead.
And I'm also not fully in line with the anti vaxx thing. Like, even though I'm inclined personally to maybe, most likely, not get a vaccine ever again, That doesn't mean that I'm going to, like, judge anyone because they think a certain vaccine is good or not. You know? You know, that it's just not relevant. You know? I think this whole division around vaccines is like, that's a psyop. Like, the division in that is a psyop because when it comes to Kennedy and judging Kennedy and his morals, I think people like her forget that Kennedy is from the classic Democrats.
You know? Kennedy is from like, his legacy is, like, the classic Democrat party of, like, believing in an institution. You know? It's his uncle, JFK, who started the whole, like, presidential fit not he didn't start the presidential fitness test, but he's, like, the most, like, famous the most famous president who, like, pushed it, you know. JFK, his whole thing was, like, wanting more fit people so that America would be ready for war. Within the nineteen sixties, Kennedy, Robert Kennedy junior saw and I'm sorry. John f Kennedy saw that people were getting a bit more unhealthy. Children weren't as active. Children were getting a bit soft, you know. And Kennedy has a has a history of writing articles for Sports Illustrated, talking about how people are getting soft and how we need to have more standards. We need to push more standards for health.
And and there's a whole history with that, you know. Like, JFK was, like, the only president who really cared about health. And, of course, like, you know, all everyone cares about health, you know. Like, that's, like, sure, of course. But the emphasis throughout the last decade since JFK on this presidential test, it's diminished, and it's even been, like, completed. It's been done. It's been, what's the word I'm looking for? It's just it's been recycled with with some other silly fitness thing that I grew up with in high school. I didn't have a presidential fitness test when I was in school. We were just doing basic stuff. We were just practicing our our hops, whatever that like, you gotta hop real high and, like, smack some freaking, meter. I don't even know what what like, the high jump. You know what I mean?
Our fitness standards was only because of, like, what sport I played in. Like, I was in a specific PE class because I played football. And that was, like, how my high school did it. But, like, not every high school is the same. Not every state is the same. The presidential test tried to unify some stuff, but then there's issues there was issues with, like, resources, and not every school had every type of, facility to perform these tests. And so there's variations with that, and people didn't like it. And then the history of it is also, like, there's all these all these stories of people, like, felt alienated by it. They had anxiety about doing pull ups, about climbing the rope.
And, you know, I mean, personally, I think that's sort of ridiculous. But, clearly, the government, from a top down scenario, they had firm standards, and they probably weren't approaching those standards correctly when it came to communicating to the people of, like, how do like, what needs to be done, and how do you do this, and why you should do it. You know? Back in the day, it was always for war. You know? If you wanna be healthy, you like, you need to be healthy because America might go to war soon. So you need to be an able-bodied man. You know what I mean? And that's a little that I think that idea has, like, sort of gone away.
But, you know, here's a pretty crazy statistic. Seventy five percent of Americans wouldn't qualify. They do not qualify for the military today. That's where America is with their health. There ever since JFK was in office, he identified it, but the decline of American health has only gotten worse. And it's the health side of things that made a lot of people, want to vote for Kennedy. And it was the health side of things that wanted to that chose to, to support Trump because Kennedy was supporting Trump. If make America healthy again is on the side of Trump, people were willing to make that decision. I was a part of that choice.
A lot of other people were a part of that choice. And, objectively, I think I think right now, I still think it's a good idea. I still think it's really important. But when it comes to this conversation of wearables, wearables are interesting because then this goes into data and AI and technology and maybe a little bit of, like, a transhumanism on a really surface level, you know. How much do you want technology to be in your life? Kennedy said in the clip that the HHS will be doing the largest advertising program in the administration's history, in the entire history that HHS has been around.
Like, this is gonna be the largest advertisement campaign. I think that's crazy. And I'd I I was reading an article saying that they would even begin, like, next week, like, tomorrow, Monday. You might start seeing, HHS and, Kennedy start posting more about the wearables and why you should wear one. I think that's, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You know, advertising that people should look into it. You know? Like, I I I don't know what the big deal is. You know? There's a lot of people who don't like how Apple is tracking your data, or how Apple is is just, like, holding on to that data. There's some concern to have that when you give your health data and all your biomarkers or most of your biomarkers to these companies, you know, they're gonna sell that data for advertisement.
And so if you're, like, running, and you and that data's going to Apple, Apple can sell that data to, like, Nike. And Nike can sell you or try to sell you a new pair of shoes. And that's like a invasive privacy, because some people are just trying to do a run. You know? This is the divide between, like, people who are really guided by data, and people who are guided by nature and instinct. And I'm sort of, like, in between there. I'm more leaning towards the nature and instinct, especially within the last few years of my life. I've developed these new friendships with, I call it the Santa Monica crew. You know, I go to these movement meetups as often as I can, at the beach, at at the original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica.
And, you know, I I hang upside down on the rings, and I do my best to climb the rope even though I can't really climb the rope all the way up. It's, like, 30 feet high. It's freaking high. I'm scared of it. But I but I also try to do it, you know. And we were throwing around a medicine ball, and I try to I try to be healthy, and then I get freaking swollen fingers. That's just the price of playing around in the sand, I guess. But this goes into how do you make your decisions? Like, do you need your decisions to come from the top down? To come from a larger authority?
Or do you wanna make your decisions based off of your, your personal experience and your instinct? That's something to that's a real conversation to be had. Now, there's a little bit of conflict of interest when it comes to this conversation as well because of because of RFK Jr, because of the people surrounding RFK Jr. There's a couple people who are a little, some people say these people are suspicious. I got, one more clip to share here, from I'm on Instagram here. The Feminist News Now. This is a fantastic page. I follow it, and I love it, and it's empowering me.
But the the the feminists have an angle on this whole Maha situation.
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During a congressional hearing today, health secretary RFK junior told house members wearables like the Apple Watch are the key to his make America healthy again agenda.
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We think that wearables are, a key to the Maha agenda making America healthy again, and we are gonna we my my vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.
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After he said this, he went on to promise one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to reach the goal of every American wearing a wearable. Here's where things get interesting. Trump's nominee for surgeon general, who RFK Jr. Recommended, Casey Means, is the cofounder and owner of Levels, a tech company that sells $50 glucose monitoring wearables and monthly memberships to a tracking app. Her brother, Callie Means, is a top aide to RK Junior and runs TrueMed, a wellness startup which stands to make billions off, you guessed it, wearable technology being more accessible.
They're literally turning the Department of Health and Human Services into a grift for a woman who sounds like she got her MD from a podcast comment section. The more specialties
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we invent in healthcare, the sicker we're getting. The more drugs we prescribe in The United States for these different chronic illnesses, the increase in the rates of these diseases. So the more drugs for the diseases, the higher amounts of these diseases we get. The more It's not about making America healthy,
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eliminating toxins from our diets, or any of that. It's about scamming us all so they can make as much money as possible before the administration is over. I'm Lacey Dickinson with feminist That's so wild, dude. So okay. So
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the music was really funny. It's, like, all suspicious. It's, like, fucking, like, stranger things. They're going in the upside down. I love that dude. When I saw that clip, I was like, okay. I gotta play this. This that's so funny. Casey and Callie means, corruption within the government. Is this a grift? Now, the, Casey Means being surgeon general, surgeon general is a symbolic position. The surgeon general is involved with policy discussion, but does not directly influence or approve, any sort of policy. You know, that's all congress and the president and RFK Junior, because he's actually in charge of a real department.
And, so right off the bat and I was sort of, talking to Grok about this as well, even though, like, I'm not sure if, like, Grok has all the accurate information. I was trying to Grok is, like, my, like, conversational Wikipedia. That's why I'm using Grok. And Grok was saying, like, there's a way to, like, skirt around the conflicts of interest if Casey Means isn't really, like, directly involved with any sort of policy. But then you gotta remember what RFK Junior said. And And RFK Junior said that they're gonna start an advertising campaign to encourage people to wear a wearable.
Okay? They're not gonna they might not advertise any particular wearable. They might not advertise any particular, style or, a field of wearable because both Casey and Cali means they're directly involved with glucose monitor wearables. And so those are those are very specific for a very specific, type of person who has diabetes, of course. And there's a bunch of other fitness and health monitors as well, you know. I think there's, like, more than there's, like, close to 10 over 10 different types of wearables that you can wear, or 10 different brands that you can buy from. And so, time will tell if the government is going to really be specific, if they wanna, promote, Casey and Kelly means as companies.
Okay? But that's a conversation going into, like, corruption and making policy that supports the company directly. You know? And the biggest example I have of that is you're not able it is illegal to sue a vaccine manufacturer. It's illegal. What? Like, people like, the the this feminist was more interested in talking about how they might advertise for you to wear a wearable that might inadvertently make these people's companies money. But, I'm pretty sure if that wearable, like, harms me, if I get some, like, radiation burn from the wearable, if I get harmed in any way from the wearable, I'm able to sue. And I'm also probably able, like, on a on a lower standard, I'm probably able to get a refund.
You know what I mean? Like, there what are the parameters? Like, what is the hierarchy of corruption here? You know? Because in my view, I would have to say that, like, the the the biggest tier of corruption is making someone use your product, or they lose rights, or lose a job, or lose whatever it is. Like like, losing a literal right, losing your ability to move freely and make money anywhere. You know, that's corruption, and we've lived through that. You know, I'm not gonna try to get into that. But we all know that we live through that scenario, and that is the peak example of corruption within the medical industry and within government. And the whole reason to vote for Kennedy was to promote, a healthier way a healthier way to look at things.
He's already done so much work with getting all the CEOs from all the food companies together, and they're voluntarily getting rid of RedDye 40 and seed oils, and, changing their formulas, and replacing the coloring with colors from, from fruits and vegetables. You know, In N Out for for, an example. They were using artificial dyes to color their strawberry shakes, and their and their sauce or their ketchup, you know. And now they're changing that. They're moving away from that, and they're bringing in more fruits and vegetables for a more natural dye, for more natural coloring. And that's really important because those dyes are connected to inflammation and possibly cancer.
And it blows my mind when it comes to this conversation about health. Every like, the people who are opposed to Kennedy and opposed to Maha, you know, the mainstream media, and clearly, this feminist account, and clearly, the the conspiracy Homestead Girl, they focus so like, they have such a narrow focus on what it like, what is the correct way to make America healthy again. And right now, the way I see it is when RFK Jr wants to promote for you to wear a wearable, that's your data. That's your that's your body. That's that's your movement. That's your exercises. You know? And it's your choice if you wanna buy one, because it's just advertising.
Are they mandating a wearable, or are they just advertising that you should wear one? I think that's a big deal as well. Does advertising Americans to have wearables, does that enable people to be healthier? You know? That just goes into just, like, the American consumer mindset. You know? Every single company that sells a wearable, you know, Apple's the biggest example of this. Like, oh, you wanna be healthier? Buy an Apple Watch. Like, the like, the simple purchase can make you a healthier person. You know, that's what's on the line here. And that's what I think is interesting too because, it seems HHS is taking that similar standard or similar vibe. Like, what do you what's the word I'm looking for here when it comes to just, like, the advertising hypnosis, like, making you think when you buy something, it's going to solve all your problems.
HHS and Kennedy seem to want to just want to encourage you to do that. I have a article up here that was, really interesting to read. There's this one paragraph that says, this this initiative certainly lines up philosophically with the individualistic sensibility at the heart of the Maha Movement, animating, definition of wellness, which elevates self knowledge. Quote, do your own research, above clinical expertise, especially if it involves pharmaceutical intervention. I don't think Kennedy has ever spoken out against doctors. I don't think Kennedy or anyone in the HHS or Trump has ever told anyone to not listen to your doctor.
When it comes to the mainstream media, they take the rhetoric from the conspiracy people, and they make it they make it so that Kennedy is agreeing with them. They make it so Kennedy is, like, saying similar things as them. Kennedy has a history of being against ingredients in vaccines. Kennedy has come forward that he wants to know what are the real effects of vaccines, and they're doing the studies on that right now. Kennedy has supported certain vaccines since he has come into office. And the conspiracy side of people, the anti vax side of people, they don't like Kennedy right now. They're not enjoying this guy.
But, you know, Kennedy is it goes on to say that Kennedy has described friends who, quote, lost their diabetes after wearing glucose monitors, thanks to their miraculous awareness of the impact of the dietary choices. Evidence does show that diet and exercise changes can reverse type two diabetes, and that continuous glucose monitoring can be effective in the motivation in motivating patients to make those shifts. Notably now this is interesting. Notably, the proposed HHS wearables campaign would come with a price tag of $80 a month for individuals as opposed to GLP threes.
I think they mean GLP ones, which is like Ozempic, opposed to Ozempic, which can cost a person over $1,000 a month. I thought that was a really interesting take as well, because the conspiracy people and the feminist people, they're sort of ignoring that part of it. If you're an unhealthy person and you wanna lose weight, Ozempic and those other, fat shots are gonna cost you, like, a thousand bucks a month. But if there was a scenario where you could buy a device and it's $80 a month if you're doing a subscription, or if you're you're able to do payments, and it's just and it's not a thousand dollars a month. I mean, hell, the most premium Apple Watch is, like, $700.
You do installments on that. What it like, you can, like, that's not a thousand dollars a month, you know. And that's enabling you to track your data, and it's giving you a little, like, gamified scenario to help you be a little bit healthier. So I think that's an interesting side to to look at it as well. I think it harms more people to to spend more money to be healthy. If you're able to buy a device that's less than $100 or let's just say less than less than $500. If you're able to buy a device less than 500 or subscribe to it under 100, would that save you more money in the long run? You know, we don't have that data per se.
But right now, I'm leaning on the side that this is helpful for America, because culture begins from the top down. If we have people up top saying that, hey, you should consider wearing this type of device so that you have more data on your health, and so that you can know what's working, what's not working, what foods are affecting your blood, what foods are affecting your your mood and your health. You know, these things are very important. These things are very important. And there's pros and cons to everything. Right? As I've gotten older, you know, and I think as a lot of people get older, they sort of get a little bit more nuanced, or at least the majority of people try to look at the nuance of things.
It's not necessarily where things are at, you know, politically. A lot of people wanna stank, black and white with stuff. And, you know, I'm inclined to think black and white on some things as well. But when it comes to Kennedy and Trump and Maha and MAGA, or some some people say, MAGA. I hate people who say MAGA. Fucking ridiculous. It's MAGA and Maha. One of them has a short a, the other one has a long a. But Maha, I'm willing to look at the nuance within Maha because Kennedy I I know Kennedy believes in the institutions. He's talked about this before in the past.
He wants Americans to trust the FDA. He wants there to be a world where citizens trust their government. You know, that's a noble pursuit. Objectively, I think that's a noble pursuit. You know, so many people are disillusioned with it. And he's one of the few that's as counterculture as you can get. Like, everyone's, like, hating the government for one reason. Like, the left hates Trump. The right hates, pharmaceutical companies and and the FDA and and now even Kennedy. But the real, like, the real counterculture is to try to, like, rebuild the institution, and to try to make a scenario where people can see the data coming into the institution, and see how they're making decisions, and look at their track record, and really evaluate them, you know.
And I think that's noble. And so I'm keeping an open eye and an open heart, to this scenario. In my personal experience, you know, I took off my Apple Watch during COVID. But in the last year or so, I've personally been thinking about, should I buy a new Apple Watch? You know, I sort of want more data in my life. You know? And that's been just like a in the back of my head sort of thing. Like, when I exercise, it's like, oh. There's been a lot of days where I exercise, and I might not be going as hard as I can. And, you know, there's a lot of, like, emotional reasons for that in my life. But when I think about wearing the Apple Watch, I'm like, man, like, I was just a bit more motivated to close a ring.
The Apple Watch really gave me, like, a like, a visual goal to reach. And then when I when it when I reached that goal, it gave me a little dopamine hit with some confetti. Like, way to go. You reached your goal. And I've always thought that was, like, really cool and and fun. You know? And so when it when it comes to me seeking more motivation and discipline within my life, when it comes to exercise, I have been considering it. And so now I'm gonna have the government be telling me to consider it even more. So now I need to like, everyone's gonna need to think about this, you know, if you care about your health. And you don't have to go that way, you know. It's just advertising.
If you wanna go go into your instincts and go into just nature, you know, that's that's your god given right, you know. That's your free will, You know? But on the large scale, you know, what would you do if you're in Kennedy shoes? You know, seventy five percent of young people don't qualify for the military. Obesity is skyrocketing. America is the fattest fucking country on Earth. What are you supposed to do if you are in charge? I think this is having an advertising campaign to consider an Apple Watch, to consider a wearable, you know, that's like, I don't know, the bare minimum. Like, they're not bringing back the presidential test. You know? Maybe they will in the next few years. I don't know. But, clearly, it seems as though people are willing to make more decisions based on data.
And so maybe the maybe Kennedy is thinking, you know, if a person had their personal data, if you had access to more data about your day to day routines, maybe you would be more willing to change your day to day routines. And so, you know, pros and cons, dude. Pros and cons. And what are the cons here? The cons are data collection. The cons are government could be colluding with the private corporations to look at the health data. And you're probably already doing that if you do own a device already. That might be how the government is getting this, whatever health data they already have. You know, so much data is, like, either self reported or reported by doctors, or, you know, they're they're in, like, some sort of, like, open field, survey that they're doing.
Would it benefit the country if the majority of people gave their health data, to these institutions to to to show them, like, what they're doing, how much they're exercising, what their weight is, how much muscle they have, you know, would that benefit the country? You know, I'm not sure. And that's a that's certainly it's sort of scary to think about it, you know, because that's a scenario that we've never really been in before. But it's certainly something that we need to think about as well. Another con, you know, is is the corruption side. A I see the feminist page's, like, point that this situation could potentially enrich in the people who are sort of in charge.
But that has already been going on with vaccines, and with cereals, and with the fucking food pyramid. You know? For decades, they told us that grains were the most healthy thing that you can have. Whole grains, and the majority of your diet should be bread and grains. And that only got us more sick, and more fat. And so, people are worried about corruption, but the corruption's already happened. In my opinion, the worst corruption has already happened. And so I don't know how much more corrupt it could get. I don't see how the people who are owning the wearable, companies advertising that you should wear a wearable, I don't know what that seems lower on the totem pole for me. Maybe I'm completely off base, but I'm just not worried about that, you know, because it's still my choice to do it. I'm not losing any rights, if I don't get the the Apple Watch.
And so I see I see that con, but I don't really believe it. Any other potential cons you see? I don't really I think the pros outweigh the cons if we're talking about this type of a conversation. But in my experience, I've been I've already been considering it, and, you know, maybe more Americans should consider it. Maybe that would actually benefit America. And so we'll see how it goes, dude. We'll see how it goes. But I wanna know how you how how you think and how you feel. That's value for value, dude. America Plus is a value for value show. Like, I wanna hear what you have to say about this because when it comes to health in America if you're an American, or if you're just a fucking world citizen, if you're just a person on Earth just vibing, tell me what you think, dude. If you're living in America, how would you approach this? If you're outside of America, what do you think about the scenario?
If you're if you are living in America, do you think things need to change drastically? Do you think that these types of, ad campaigns are worth it? Because my tax dollars are going towards advertising to wear an Apple Watch. I think that's weird. Do you think that's relevant, dude? I think this is a really important conversation to have, and I think we should remember the nuances in these things, and the intention of the leader. And, you know, I'll just reiterate, the intention of the leader of of RFK Jr is he wants us to trust the institution, and he wants people to be healthy.
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I brought you up to my doctor. Should try to silence you with pills. But I can still hear you whisper. You say it's the diagnosis that's making you ill. You said fight me like a man. Try your stupid lines in the sand.
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You said it just to be mean. You said it just to be me.
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Did you know Kennedy wants your health data? What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Komal, McCormick. It's another week. Another episode of what's going on. We're going to get Sunday. 04:53,
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June Sunday, June 29. Happy to be here, folks. Beautiful day to be alive. Coming to you in pretty good moods right now, folks. I'm coming off a week of unemployment. I'm not on unemployment. I'm just I just happen to be unemployed. And yesterday, I was at the beach, and I ended up if you can see the video, my hand my right hand is, like, super swollen right now because I, like I was throwing around this, like, medicine ball, and I completely just, like, ruined the ligaments in my fingers. I can still move them. There's, like, just a little bit of pain. It's not broken, but I got this, like, I got a swollen finger. I got a swollen set of fingers right now, which is a good time to be alive. So I'm pretty I'm blessed for that. Just put that on the list of whatever the fuck is going on in my life.
It's a beautiful time to be here for with you. I'm very happy. We're just gonna hop right into it, dude. This week is gonna be a health episode. I wanna talk about Kennedy. I wanna talk about what's going on in the, Maha sphere because I think it's a really important thing to talk about. This past week, I believe it was on Tuesday, like, five days ago. Kennedy was speaking with Congress about some stuff, and there's a few clips that came out of it. And I have a series of clips that I wanna share, and I wanna go into this discussion with you, mainly revolving around, health data and wearables and just what is what is the heart of Maha, and I think this is really interesting.
I wanna share this ninety second clip between, senator from Ohio and Kennedy.
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Secretary Kennedy, my first question is is that there is a tremendous amount of research that shows that greater engagement with one's health leads to better outcomes. In recent years, American innovators have created and improved wearable devices so that not only are consumers able to better engage with their health through monitoring data, but they are able to share that data with providers. I believe American consumers, in line with the twenty first Century Cures Act, should be able to access these innovative wellness tools. Secretary secretary Kennedy, do you agree that consumers should continue to have access to these tools?
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Absolutely. In fact, we're about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables. It's a way of, people can take control over their own health. They can take responsibility. They can see, as you know, what food is doing to their glucose levels, their heart rates, and a number of other metrics as they eat it. And they can begin to make good judgments about their diet, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives. We think that wearables are, a key to the Maha agenda making America healthy again, and we are gonna we my my vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.
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Wow. That's crazy, dude.
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That that just that last part again. You are gonna we my my vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.
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That's crazy, dude. What do you think about that? I didn't expect to see Kennedy say that because, Kennedy has always been a part of this, like, freedom, like, health freedom thing, you know? And it's very interesting to hear him talk about how his vision is for every way every American to wear to wear a wearable. And this is like Apple Watch. This is Fitbit. This is Garmin. This is, Whoop. This is, any glucose monitor. Right? And, you know, in my personal experience, I used to wear an Apple Watch. And, during COVID, I took it off, you know, not because of any, like, philosophical reasons. I just I wasn't using it, you know. It was you know, LA was still, like, super hardcore with lockdown rules, and, I didn't feel like wearing the watch all day. And I also didn't feel like just wearing it for my workout, because, like, the whole point of a wearable is, like, you're you're getting the entire day's worth of health data, how much you're walking, how much you're stepping, how many calories you're burning during exercise. You know, a wearable is supposed to be, like, a constant thing. It's, like, it's you're supposed to wear it all day long, and most likely nighttime as well. There's they're tracking sleep. They're scoring sleep. You know?
And I thought that was really interesting. And it's immediately when I hear that, I don't think hello, blue. Hello, mister blue. Immediately when I hear that, I sorta get freaked out by it, because it's like, oh my god. Like, the government wants me to wear something. The government wants me. I I go full Alex Jones. Like, the watches are turning the freaking people gay, dude. Very interesting stuff like that, you know, just, like, immediately. And then I'm I'm going back and forth in my head of, like, is this good? Is this bad? Is this really Maha? And then there's this lady on, on x. Her name's Gooba, Gooba Homestead.
You might have seen this woman, somewhere in the, Instagram sphere or in the Twitter sphere. She has something very interesting to say about this. She she's criticizing it. She doesn't support it. This straight, the guy fronting the Make America Healthy Again movement wants every American
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to wear a biometric device to track their health. And you really think it will just be tracking your steps? This is the same man who told people to get the measles vaccine and said antisemitism is as dangerous as history's most deadly plagues. Not chronic illness, not big pharma, and not the collapse of real food. So is he actually fighting the system, or simply putting us deeper in it? And let's talk about these wearables. People are reporting burns, rashes, heart rhythm interference, radiation concerns, and whatever these are that are popping up on people's wrists. But sure, strap one on for your health. It's almost as if RFK is not leading a health revolution, and is instead the newest face of tech wrapped tyranny. I think we need to wake up and realize that Make America Healthy Again might just be a scam.
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So that's a rift in the health conversation. Okay? That's immediately what I see. This woman, she's posted about raw milk. She's posted about homesteading, you know, just like nature, being more aligned with nature in terms of where you get your food, in terms of how you approach your health. She's clearly an anti vaxx person. She's clearly, I mean, she she was sort of criticizing Kennedy's stuff about talking about Jewish people and antisemitism. I'm not one to, like, criticize that stuff. Like, if Kennedy wants to say something about Jews, go ahead. Whatever. Or antisemitism, go ahead.
And I'm also not fully in line with the anti vaxx thing. Like, even though I'm inclined personally to maybe, most likely, not get a vaccine ever again, That doesn't mean that I'm going to, like, judge anyone because they think a certain vaccine is good or not. You know? You know, that it's just not relevant. You know? I think this whole division around vaccines is like, that's a psyop. Like, the division in that is a psyop because when it comes to Kennedy and judging Kennedy and his morals, I think people like her forget that Kennedy is from the classic Democrats.
You know? Kennedy is from like, his legacy is, like, the classic Democrat party of, like, believing in an institution. You know? It's his uncle, JFK, who started the whole, like, presidential fit not he didn't start the presidential fitness test, but he's, like, the most, like, famous the most famous president who, like, pushed it, you know. JFK, his whole thing was, like, wanting more fit people so that America would be ready for war. Within the nineteen sixties, Kennedy, Robert Kennedy junior saw and I'm sorry. John f Kennedy saw that people were getting a bit more unhealthy. Children weren't as active. Children were getting a bit soft, you know. And Kennedy has a has a history of writing articles for Sports Illustrated, talking about how people are getting soft and how we need to have more standards. We need to push more standards for health.
And and there's a whole history with that, you know. Like, JFK was, like, the only president who really cared about health. And, of course, like, you know, all everyone cares about health, you know. Like, that's, like, sure, of course. But the emphasis throughout the last decade since JFK on this presidential test, it's diminished, and it's even been, like, completed. It's been done. It's been, what's the word I'm looking for? It's just it's been recycled with with some other silly fitness thing that I grew up with in high school. I didn't have a presidential fitness test when I was in school. We were just doing basic stuff. We were just practicing our our hops, whatever that like, you gotta hop real high and, like, smack some freaking, meter. I don't even know what what like, the high jump. You know what I mean?
Our fitness standards was only because of, like, what sport I played in. Like, I was in a specific PE class because I played football. And that was, like, how my high school did it. But, like, not every high school is the same. Not every state is the same. The presidential test tried to unify some stuff, but then there's issues there was issues with, like, resources, and not every school had every type of, facility to perform these tests. And so there's variations with that, and people didn't like it. And then the history of it is also, like, there's all these all these stories of people, like, felt alienated by it. They had anxiety about doing pull ups, about climbing the rope.
And, you know, I mean, personally, I think that's sort of ridiculous. But, clearly, the government, from a top down scenario, they had firm standards, and they probably weren't approaching those standards correctly when it came to communicating to the people of, like, how do like, what needs to be done, and how do you do this, and why you should do it. You know? Back in the day, it was always for war. You know? If you wanna be healthy, you like, you need to be healthy because America might go to war soon. So you need to be an able-bodied man. You know what I mean? And that's a little that I think that idea has, like, sort of gone away.
But, you know, here's a pretty crazy statistic. Seventy five percent of Americans wouldn't qualify. They do not qualify for the military today. That's where America is with their health. There ever since JFK was in office, he identified it, but the decline of American health has only gotten worse. And it's the health side of things that made a lot of people, want to vote for Kennedy. And it was the health side of things that wanted to that chose to, to support Trump because Kennedy was supporting Trump. If make America healthy again is on the side of Trump, people were willing to make that decision. I was a part of that choice.
A lot of other people were a part of that choice. And, objectively, I think I think right now, I still think it's a good idea. I still think it's really important. But when it comes to this conversation of wearables, wearables are interesting because then this goes into data and AI and technology and maybe a little bit of, like, a transhumanism on a really surface level, you know. How much do you want technology to be in your life? Kennedy said in the clip that the HHS will be doing the largest advertising program in the administration's history, in the entire history that HHS has been around.
Like, this is gonna be the largest advertisement campaign. I think that's crazy. And I'd I I was reading an article saying that they would even begin, like, next week, like, tomorrow, Monday. You might start seeing, HHS and, Kennedy start posting more about the wearables and why you should wear one. I think that's, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You know, advertising that people should look into it. You know? Like, I I I don't know what the big deal is. You know? There's a lot of people who don't like how Apple is tracking your data, or how Apple is is just, like, holding on to that data. There's some concern to have that when you give your health data and all your biomarkers or most of your biomarkers to these companies, you know, they're gonna sell that data for advertisement.
And so if you're, like, running, and you and that data's going to Apple, Apple can sell that data to, like, Nike. And Nike can sell you or try to sell you a new pair of shoes. And that's like a invasive privacy, because some people are just trying to do a run. You know? This is the divide between, like, people who are really guided by data, and people who are guided by nature and instinct. And I'm sort of, like, in between there. I'm more leaning towards the nature and instinct, especially within the last few years of my life. I've developed these new friendships with, I call it the Santa Monica crew. You know, I go to these movement meetups as often as I can, at the beach, at at the original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica.
And, you know, I I hang upside down on the rings, and I do my best to climb the rope even though I can't really climb the rope all the way up. It's, like, 30 feet high. It's freaking high. I'm scared of it. But I but I also try to do it, you know. And we were throwing around a medicine ball, and I try to I try to be healthy, and then I get freaking swollen fingers. That's just the price of playing around in the sand, I guess. But this goes into how do you make your decisions? Like, do you need your decisions to come from the top down? To come from a larger authority?
Or do you wanna make your decisions based off of your, your personal experience and your instinct? That's something to that's a real conversation to be had. Now, there's a little bit of conflict of interest when it comes to this conversation as well because of because of RFK Jr, because of the people surrounding RFK Jr. There's a couple people who are a little, some people say these people are suspicious. I got, one more clip to share here, from I'm on Instagram here. The Feminist News Now. This is a fantastic page. I follow it, and I love it, and it's empowering me.
But the the the feminists have an angle on this whole Maha situation.
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During a congressional hearing today, health secretary RFK junior told house members wearables like the Apple Watch are the key to his make America healthy again agenda.
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We think that wearables are, a key to the Maha agenda making America healthy again, and we are gonna we my my vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.
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After he said this, he went on to promise one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to reach the goal of every American wearing a wearable. Here's where things get interesting. Trump's nominee for surgeon general, who RFK Jr. Recommended, Casey Means, is the cofounder and owner of Levels, a tech company that sells $50 glucose monitoring wearables and monthly memberships to a tracking app. Her brother, Callie Means, is a top aide to RK Junior and runs TrueMed, a wellness startup which stands to make billions off, you guessed it, wearable technology being more accessible.
They're literally turning the Department of Health and Human Services into a grift for a woman who sounds like she got her MD from a podcast comment section. The more specialties
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we invent in healthcare, the sicker we're getting. The more drugs we prescribe in The United States for these different chronic illnesses, the increase in the rates of these diseases. So the more drugs for the diseases, the higher amounts of these diseases we get. The more It's not about making America healthy,
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eliminating toxins from our diets, or any of that. It's about scamming us all so they can make as much money as possible before the administration is over. I'm Lacey Dickinson with feminist That's so wild, dude. So okay. So
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the music was really funny. It's, like, all suspicious. It's, like, fucking, like, stranger things. They're going in the upside down. I love that dude. When I saw that clip, I was like, okay. I gotta play this. This that's so funny. Casey and Callie means, corruption within the government. Is this a grift? Now, the, Casey Means being surgeon general, surgeon general is a symbolic position. The surgeon general is involved with policy discussion, but does not directly influence or approve, any sort of policy. You know, that's all congress and the president and RFK Junior, because he's actually in charge of a real department.
And, so right off the bat and I was sort of, talking to Grok about this as well, even though, like, I'm not sure if, like, Grok has all the accurate information. I was trying to Grok is, like, my, like, conversational Wikipedia. That's why I'm using Grok. And Grok was saying, like, there's a way to, like, skirt around the conflicts of interest if Casey Means isn't really, like, directly involved with any sort of policy. But then you gotta remember what RFK Junior said. And And RFK Junior said that they're gonna start an advertising campaign to encourage people to wear a wearable.
Okay? They're not gonna they might not advertise any particular wearable. They might not advertise any particular, style or, a field of wearable because both Casey and Cali means they're directly involved with glucose monitor wearables. And so those are those are very specific for a very specific, type of person who has diabetes, of course. And there's a bunch of other fitness and health monitors as well, you know. I think there's, like, more than there's, like, close to 10 over 10 different types of wearables that you can wear, or 10 different brands that you can buy from. And so, time will tell if the government is going to really be specific, if they wanna, promote, Casey and Kelly means as companies.
Okay? But that's a conversation going into, like, corruption and making policy that supports the company directly. You know? And the biggest example I have of that is you're not able it is illegal to sue a vaccine manufacturer. It's illegal. What? Like, people like, the the this feminist was more interested in talking about how they might advertise for you to wear a wearable that might inadvertently make these people's companies money. But, I'm pretty sure if that wearable, like, harms me, if I get some, like, radiation burn from the wearable, if I get harmed in any way from the wearable, I'm able to sue. And I'm also probably able, like, on a on a lower standard, I'm probably able to get a refund.
You know what I mean? Like, there what are the parameters? Like, what is the hierarchy of corruption here? You know? Because in my view, I would have to say that, like, the the the biggest tier of corruption is making someone use your product, or they lose rights, or lose a job, or lose whatever it is. Like like, losing a literal right, losing your ability to move freely and make money anywhere. You know, that's corruption, and we've lived through that. You know, I'm not gonna try to get into that. But we all know that we live through that scenario, and that is the peak example of corruption within the medical industry and within government. And the whole reason to vote for Kennedy was to promote, a healthier way a healthier way to look at things.
He's already done so much work with getting all the CEOs from all the food companies together, and they're voluntarily getting rid of RedDye 40 and seed oils, and, changing their formulas, and replacing the coloring with colors from, from fruits and vegetables. You know, In N Out for for, an example. They were using artificial dyes to color their strawberry shakes, and their and their sauce or their ketchup, you know. And now they're changing that. They're moving away from that, and they're bringing in more fruits and vegetables for a more natural dye, for more natural coloring. And that's really important because those dyes are connected to inflammation and possibly cancer.
And it blows my mind when it comes to this conversation about health. Every like, the people who are opposed to Kennedy and opposed to Maha, you know, the mainstream media, and clearly, this feminist account, and clearly, the the conspiracy Homestead Girl, they focus so like, they have such a narrow focus on what it like, what is the correct way to make America healthy again. And right now, the way I see it is when RFK Jr wants to promote for you to wear a wearable, that's your data. That's your that's your body. That's that's your movement. That's your exercises. You know? And it's your choice if you wanna buy one, because it's just advertising.
Are they mandating a wearable, or are they just advertising that you should wear one? I think that's a big deal as well. Does advertising Americans to have wearables, does that enable people to be healthier? You know? That just goes into just, like, the American consumer mindset. You know? Every single company that sells a wearable, you know, Apple's the biggest example of this. Like, oh, you wanna be healthier? Buy an Apple Watch. Like, the like, the simple purchase can make you a healthier person. You know, that's what's on the line here. And that's what I think is interesting too because, it seems HHS is taking that similar standard or similar vibe. Like, what do you what's the word I'm looking for here when it comes to just, like, the advertising hypnosis, like, making you think when you buy something, it's going to solve all your problems.
HHS and Kennedy seem to want to just want to encourage you to do that. I have a article up here that was, really interesting to read. There's this one paragraph that says, this this initiative certainly lines up philosophically with the individualistic sensibility at the heart of the Maha Movement, animating, definition of wellness, which elevates self knowledge. Quote, do your own research, above clinical expertise, especially if it involves pharmaceutical intervention. I don't think Kennedy has ever spoken out against doctors. I don't think Kennedy or anyone in the HHS or Trump has ever told anyone to not listen to your doctor.
When it comes to the mainstream media, they take the rhetoric from the conspiracy people, and they make it they make it so that Kennedy is agreeing with them. They make it so Kennedy is, like, saying similar things as them. Kennedy has a history of being against ingredients in vaccines. Kennedy has come forward that he wants to know what are the real effects of vaccines, and they're doing the studies on that right now. Kennedy has supported certain vaccines since he has come into office. And the conspiracy side of people, the anti vax side of people, they don't like Kennedy right now. They're not enjoying this guy.
But, you know, Kennedy is it goes on to say that Kennedy has described friends who, quote, lost their diabetes after wearing glucose monitors, thanks to their miraculous awareness of the impact of the dietary choices. Evidence does show that diet and exercise changes can reverse type two diabetes, and that continuous glucose monitoring can be effective in the motivation in motivating patients to make those shifts. Notably now this is interesting. Notably, the proposed HHS wearables campaign would come with a price tag of $80 a month for individuals as opposed to GLP threes.
I think they mean GLP ones, which is like Ozempic, opposed to Ozempic, which can cost a person over $1,000 a month. I thought that was a really interesting take as well, because the conspiracy people and the feminist people, they're sort of ignoring that part of it. If you're an unhealthy person and you wanna lose weight, Ozempic and those other, fat shots are gonna cost you, like, a thousand bucks a month. But if there was a scenario where you could buy a device and it's $80 a month if you're doing a subscription, or if you're you're able to do payments, and it's just and it's not a thousand dollars a month. I mean, hell, the most premium Apple Watch is, like, $700.
You do installments on that. What it like, you can, like, that's not a thousand dollars a month, you know. And that's enabling you to track your data, and it's giving you a little, like, gamified scenario to help you be a little bit healthier. So I think that's an interesting side to to look at it as well. I think it harms more people to to spend more money to be healthy. If you're able to buy a device that's less than $100 or let's just say less than less than $500. If you're able to buy a device less than 500 or subscribe to it under 100, would that save you more money in the long run? You know, we don't have that data per se.
But right now, I'm leaning on the side that this is helpful for America, because culture begins from the top down. If we have people up top saying that, hey, you should consider wearing this type of device so that you have more data on your health, and so that you can know what's working, what's not working, what foods are affecting your blood, what foods are affecting your your mood and your health. You know, these things are very important. These things are very important. And there's pros and cons to everything. Right? As I've gotten older, you know, and I think as a lot of people get older, they sort of get a little bit more nuanced, or at least the majority of people try to look at the nuance of things.
It's not necessarily where things are at, you know, politically. A lot of people wanna stank, black and white with stuff. And, you know, I'm inclined to think black and white on some things as well. But when it comes to Kennedy and Trump and Maha and MAGA, or some some people say, MAGA. I hate people who say MAGA. Fucking ridiculous. It's MAGA and Maha. One of them has a short a, the other one has a long a. But Maha, I'm willing to look at the nuance within Maha because Kennedy I I know Kennedy believes in the institutions. He's talked about this before in the past.
He wants Americans to trust the FDA. He wants there to be a world where citizens trust their government. You know, that's a noble pursuit. Objectively, I think that's a noble pursuit. You know, so many people are disillusioned with it. And he's one of the few that's as counterculture as you can get. Like, everyone's, like, hating the government for one reason. Like, the left hates Trump. The right hates, pharmaceutical companies and and the FDA and and now even Kennedy. But the real, like, the real counterculture is to try to, like, rebuild the institution, and to try to make a scenario where people can see the data coming into the institution, and see how they're making decisions, and look at their track record, and really evaluate them, you know.
And I think that's noble. And so I'm keeping an open eye and an open heart, to this scenario. In my personal experience, you know, I took off my Apple Watch during COVID. But in the last year or so, I've personally been thinking about, should I buy a new Apple Watch? You know, I sort of want more data in my life. You know? And that's been just like a in the back of my head sort of thing. Like, when I exercise, it's like, oh. There's been a lot of days where I exercise, and I might not be going as hard as I can. And, you know, there's a lot of, like, emotional reasons for that in my life. But when I think about wearing the Apple Watch, I'm like, man, like, I was just a bit more motivated to close a ring.
The Apple Watch really gave me, like, a like, a visual goal to reach. And then when I when it when I reached that goal, it gave me a little dopamine hit with some confetti. Like, way to go. You reached your goal. And I've always thought that was, like, really cool and and fun. You know? And so when it when it comes to me seeking more motivation and discipline within my life, when it comes to exercise, I have been considering it. And so now I'm gonna have the government be telling me to consider it even more. So now I need to like, everyone's gonna need to think about this, you know, if you care about your health. And you don't have to go that way, you know. It's just advertising.
If you wanna go go into your instincts and go into just nature, you know, that's that's your god given right, you know. That's your free will, You know? But on the large scale, you know, what would you do if you're in Kennedy shoes? You know, seventy five percent of young people don't qualify for the military. Obesity is skyrocketing. America is the fattest fucking country on Earth. What are you supposed to do if you are in charge? I think this is having an advertising campaign to consider an Apple Watch, to consider a wearable, you know, that's like, I don't know, the bare minimum. Like, they're not bringing back the presidential test. You know? Maybe they will in the next few years. I don't know. But, clearly, it seems as though people are willing to make more decisions based on data.
And so maybe the maybe Kennedy is thinking, you know, if a person had their personal data, if you had access to more data about your day to day routines, maybe you would be more willing to change your day to day routines. And so, you know, pros and cons, dude. Pros and cons. And what are the cons here? The cons are data collection. The cons are government could be colluding with the private corporations to look at the health data. And you're probably already doing that if you do own a device already. That might be how the government is getting this, whatever health data they already have. You know, so much data is, like, either self reported or reported by doctors, or, you know, they're they're in, like, some sort of, like, open field, survey that they're doing.
Would it benefit the country if the majority of people gave their health data, to these institutions to to to show them, like, what they're doing, how much they're exercising, what their weight is, how much muscle they have, you know, would that benefit the country? You know, I'm not sure. And that's a that's certainly it's sort of scary to think about it, you know, because that's a scenario that we've never really been in before. But it's certainly something that we need to think about as well. Another con, you know, is is the corruption side. A I see the feminist page's, like, point that this situation could potentially enrich in the people who are sort of in charge.
But that has already been going on with vaccines, and with cereals, and with the fucking food pyramid. You know? For decades, they told us that grains were the most healthy thing that you can have. Whole grains, and the majority of your diet should be bread and grains. And that only got us more sick, and more fat. And so, people are worried about corruption, but the corruption's already happened. In my opinion, the worst corruption has already happened. And so I don't know how much more corrupt it could get. I don't see how the people who are owning the wearable, companies advertising that you should wear a wearable, I don't know what that seems lower on the totem pole for me. Maybe I'm completely off base, but I'm just not worried about that, you know, because it's still my choice to do it. I'm not losing any rights, if I don't get the the Apple Watch.
And so I see I see that con, but I don't really believe it. Any other potential cons you see? I don't really I think the pros outweigh the cons if we're talking about this type of a conversation. But in my experience, I've been I've already been considering it, and, you know, maybe more Americans should consider it. Maybe that would actually benefit America. And so we'll see how it goes, dude. We'll see how it goes. But I wanna know how you how how you think and how you feel. That's value for value, dude. America Plus is a value for value show. Like, I wanna hear what you have to say about this because when it comes to health in America if you're an American, or if you're just a fucking world citizen, if you're just a person on Earth just vibing, tell me what you think, dude. If you're living in America, how would you approach this? If you're outside of America, what do you think about the scenario?
If you're if you are living in America, do you think things need to change drastically? Do you think that these types of, ad campaigns are worth it? Because my tax dollars are going towards advertising to wear an Apple Watch. I think that's weird. Do you think that's relevant, dude? I think this is a really important conversation to have, and I think we should remember the nuances in these things, and the intention of the leader. And, you know, I'll just reiterate, the intention of the leader of of RFK Jr is he wants us to trust the institution, and he wants people to be healthy.
And so, how do you move forward in that? If that's the scenario, how do you move forward in that? And so, that's all I gotta say really folks. Let's go into the value for value section. America Plus is a value for value show. That means that I bring forward a conversation I think is important for the world to have, for America to have. And really guys, you're able to just, like, return whatever value that you're receiving from this show. I have multiple ways that you can do that through Time, Talent, Treasure. You can support me with PayPal. Yeah. You can support me on Cash App, if you wanna do Cash App. You can support me, with the fountain.fm
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I brought you up to my doctor. Should try to silence you with pills. But I can still hear you whisper. You say it's the diagnosis that's making you ill. You said fight me like a man. Try your stupid lines in the sand.
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You said it just to be mean. You said it just to be me.
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Introduction and Personal Anecdotes
Kennedy's Health Data Initiative
Wearables and Health Freedom Debate
Historical Context of Health Initiatives
Potential Conflicts of Interest
Corruption and Health Policy
Pros and Cons of Health Data Wearables
Listener Engagement and Value for Value
