Cole talks health narratives in major institutions and why everyone is getting fat.
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It's Wild Energy today, guys. brewing But but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but What's up everyone? It's America Plus! I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode! What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here! It's Sunday October 22nd! You made it to another week! What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here! Wooo! It's getting close to Halloween time. Spooky season is upon us, guys. The sun is out. The weather is changing, it's getting colder, getting chilly, getting nice, man. I'm excited.
It's a beautiful time to be alive, man. Right at the bat, what I want to do this week is I just want to celebrate October 22nd this week because some pretty good news came in. Some pretty good, a pretty good text message from my father came in. So we've been following this thread of my father having cancer and he started getting, he was diagnosed in June, started getting chemo in August. He invested in the DNA research of the cancer that matched him up with targeted medicine and he totally changed his diet. He totally believes in the nutrition route, which is what we're talking about this week.
I got a bunch of things to talk about regarding health. There's just, there's like an onslaught of like propaganda and like wild information about health. In the world, in America. So just hang tight, my dad, his cancer. He believes in the nutritional path. He totally changed the way he eats and it's been a wild journey. The man used to be 400 pounds and now he's, I actually don't know his weight, but he's a lot skinnier. He's a lot skinnier for multiple reasons. And in my opinion, when I see him, I saw him last week, when I look into his eyes, I see more life.
When I see his skin, I see more energy. I see more life. And throughout the last few months, the last six months or so, it's been, it's been a wild roller coaster, but this week we can take a moment to feel grateful. We can take a moment to say thank you to the doctors and the medicine and God, because my dad texted me saying, so first of all, so the cancer is in a few different places, right? Colon, colon cancer, colon, liver, lymph node, and sacral, sacral, and the liver. The sacral bone or in a bone near the sacral bone or both. The doctors are focusing on the liver, focusing on the organs first.
The medicine is going to the organs because clearly the liver is like the most important organ ever. Aside to your heart and brain, I think it's like liver is next. It's like the freaking like just third in charge, right? And I guess your liver has five lobes and my dad had cancer on all five lobes. And you know, that's, he was diagnosed with stage four, by the way. I didn't say that stage four colon cancer. It had, I forget the exact word, but it had gone to the liver and lymph node. And he had masses on all of his nodes or lobes. And this past week, after a couple of months, two months of chemo, two months of chemo, and healthy eating, a few months of healthy eating.
I don't know all the numbers, but the biggest number is there has been a reduction in this guy's cancer on his liver. Okay. That's the wild news I got to talk about, dude. There is insanely, his, his cancer has shrunken. My father's cancer has shrunken on his liver lobes. Okay. Like that's insane, right? That's like, thank you, dad. Thank you, God, man. Let's go, man. Let's go. Like, we're praying for miracles here. We're praying for miracles. And what's wild is when you hear stage four, you know, it's automatic death. And my father's mentality was he's going to go through it.
And he's, my dad said, I'm too dumb to fight. And he also said, I'm ready to kick cancer's ass. I'm ready to say I kick cancer's ass. And I just like, I applauded him when I heard him say that. And it's been a wild ride to see him. And at this point, the biggest reduction that we saw in his lobe, so one, one thing, I mean, what do you even call it? Like one cancer mass on one of the lobes. I think it might've been one of the bigger ones, but so it begun when they first scanned this thing, this thing was three inches in diameter. It was 70, okay, here's the millimeters, 79 by 84 millimeters.
I'm fairly certain that's like three by three inches. It's around three inches in diameter. This thing was three inches thick, dude. Three inches big. On his lobe, dude. And now it's under one inch. It's under one inch now. I don't know the numbers for the other lobes. There's still cancer there, of course, but that's insane stuff, dude. That's insane news. When this process begun, the doctors, no, the doctors are always professional. Doctors are always pragmatic. They're straightforward. They're, you know, they're just giving it to you straight. They said that the first goal is to stop the growth.
And then after you stop growth, then it's time to begin to try to shrink the tumor. And in the first two months, my father has shrunk. My father has shrunken the tumors. The medicine has helped shrink them. And that's just like, it's crazy. You don't hear about this shit, dude. You don't hear about this stuff. And we don't know what the future is, you know? We don't know what other side effects there might be. We don't know if any other illness might come up. We don't know, you know? But at the same time, we also haven't even been using all of the tools that we, that me and my family listed out.
My dad's using like maybe like 80, 85% of the tools that we all laid out for him. And so there's more tools to be used. And he's already experiencing shrinkage and like the good kind of shrinkage. Not the bad kind and the cold water kind, the good kind, the good kind on the liver kind, dude. Like that's just crazy. Like I, like it's not cured. Like my dad still has cancer. The doctor, this is when a doctor might be an asshole, but the doctor still said, this will still be your demise. Thanks, doc. Thank you. Thanks a lot, bro.
Like my dad was like, my dad was super hyped, right? He was like, oh my God, like they've shrunk. And then the doctor straight up said that to his face. And my dad was like, can you give me a fucking break? Like come on, man, give me a break. But you know, those numbers are his break. You know, he shrunk it. My father's body is healthy or it's getting healthier. I believe. I truly believe that. And we even know that the tumor in his colon has shrunk as well, which is a big deal. You know, so we'll see just how, we'll see how this journey goes, man, because it's an, it's an ongoing discussion.
It's an ongoing just, just reiterating, you know, just trying to experiment with what's working, what doesn't work. How do you feel on this for a few weeks? Maybe we take it out. It's this constant back and forth, you know, and that's what health is. That's what a healthy eating, healthy eating habits are. You know, it's, it's a constant conversation with your body, with the people around you, with the things that you're reading and absorbing. And you know, when it comes to like health narratives, you know, my family specifically, I don't, I'm, I'm not even confident with myself.
I don't think there's like a clear answer for health narratives, man, because I'm on one, I'm on like one side of the field when it comes to health stuff right now. Like I'm really into the animal based, I'm eating the meats, I'm eating the organs or I'm trying to eat the organs. I'm eating raw dairy. I'm just doing a lot of things that the World Health Organization might say not to do. I'm my, you know what I mean? Like I'm, I'm eating hamburger. I'm eating ground beef every night. I'm eating a pound of beef every night. You know, this is all beef, dude.
My body is all beef. Like, like this is what, like this is what I think health looks like. Like my opinion, I'm not, I'm not the healthiest. Like I haven't gotten any blood testing yet, but how I feel after the way I eat, the way I've been eating for the last year or so, I really feel best on. And from my father's point of view, the way he's been eating, he's been eating fairly, fairly balanced. I would say, you know, he's eating the vegetables. He's eating the meats. He, he still eats steak. He has Turkey, whatever. And it's been working for him and everyone's health journey involves a diet that just works for them.
And what's difficult when you're searching online for, for good advice is that there's just so many clashing narratives. There's a lot of different things that tell you to do something. And sometimes it's going to be the world health organization or the CDC or the NHS, you know, it's going to be one of these national global institutions that are all in alignment with their words, or it's going to be an influencer and they're talking about some insane raw liver thing, you know, like it's, there are, because of the internet, because of social media, you know, there's so many options.
There's so many different environments to, to observe and communities to be a part of. And I was scrolling around this week and I just, I saw some things that are really just like not, some of these things are not good, like just straight up just not healthy, not healthy narratives. And it's, it makes me believe it, reading these articles, it's mostly articles today. I got one clip, but listening to these narratives really makes me think that the main authority just isn't real. And people really need to like, I don't know the answer to this, but people need to opt out of the current food system.
I don't know how that works. Like I don't know, but maybe we need to recreate. I have no ideas. I have no ideas how to make this better, honestly, but this is, this is getting crazy. So this is, I see this on Bloomberg. Oh, Zempik, the drug for kids. Drug makers test weight loss shots for six year olds. Huh? What the f**k? Excuse me? Six year olds? Oh Zempik, weight loss drugs, fat kids. What's happening here, dude? What's happening? And pretty much the company making Zempik. Pharmaceutical, here's a little snippet. Pharmaceutical companies are looking to get busy or get buzzy weight loss shots approved for younger and younger patients.
Eli, Lily and company is planning to test its diabetes drug, Marjarro, for patients six and up with obesity, according to a person familiar with the trial. And I saw that and I just like, my jaw freaking dropped. My jaw dropped. It seemed like a few months ago, I saw some story about doctors suggesting weight loss drugs for children who are obese, but now there's this, like this is not stopping. Companies going after, trying to make money off of fat kids. You know, it's been happening. You know, companies have already been making money getting kids fat. You know, so now it's time to just get the other end of the stick and make money off of their unhealthiness.
It's heartbreaking. Like, I don't, like, this is disgusting. This is disgusting. And it's like, why are these kids unhealthy? You know, clearly it's the parents. You know, anyone see Willy Wonka? Like what's that? The song from Willy Wonka, the original one where the Oompa Loompas are like, eating as much as an elephant eats. Who is to blame? The mother and the father. Like, Oompa. Like that's literally what's going on here, dude. This is some Augusta shit. Augusta, what was it? Augusta's Gus, whatever. I just, I don't like it, dude. And who is Lily and Co?
Who is, who is Illy and Lily? Lily's commitment. Lily's commitment to obesity. I see this video on YouTube. This is from, this is from 2022. And this is about this pharmaceutical's commitment to getting better products out there with people who are struggling with the disease. I'm Julia Dunn. I'm a physician and my area of specialty is endocrinology. So obesity is a chronic disease, but with obesity, very few people ever present even to get help from a healthcare provider for the obesity. And by the time they do, they have tried things oftentimes for decades and they've been unsuccessful because of the relapsing nature of the disease, not because they've personally failed, even though that's what society is telling them.
Okay, pause. We got to pause that right there. The obese person didn't fail. Excuse me? There's a social stigma around obese people or around obesity. Like what are you saying here, lady? Like, this is nuts. Like why is this? This is the narrative. This company is putting out the narrative of this. Does, like they even call it a disease, you know? Is it as it, is it a disease, addiction, a disease, alcoholism, disease? Like what is, what is the difference between behavior and disease? You know, like there's a real, there's some real wishwashy barriers between those things. And you know, if you have a, if you have the opportunity to make money from one of those sides, you know, you're gonna, your story is going to lean one way.
This is gross, dude. Like why are you saying that? Why are you saying it like that? Obesity causes diseases. Why is obesity a disease? That really upsets me because that makes it seem like the person is not responsible for anything. And she's mentioned that a person might've been struggling with obesity for decades, you know? My opinion on that, like it's decades of horrible doctor's advice that's making these people more unhealthy. And along with that, it's also just general addiction to sugar and what you think you should be eating during the day.
Let's just see what the, let's just see what else this clip has to say about the drug, about the disease. If we can provide effective treatments, we are going to decrease that burden. People are going to be able to live the lives they want to live. Lilly really has an exciting pipeline to aim to bring multiple more options for patients who are living with obesity, hopefully really paradigm shifting that we're going to think about obesity very differently as patients have more options and more options that are more efficacious.
We're living through a paradigm shift. You understand me? We are, everything around us is changing, including our drugs, including our children, including our systems. It just makes me sad, man. It just makes me sad. Why are we not promoting healthy eating? Why are we not promoting healthy foods? Why are we not doing more to keep kids healthy and just people in general healthy, man? What is a healthy diet? I've talked about this before, but if you were to just look up what is healthy eating, I already mentioned World Health Organization, CDC, NHS, okay? All these things are aligned with the way they want you to eat and they're telling us, number one thing, fruit.
Number one, you got to have a bunch of fruit. Five servings of fruit a day, okay? Vegetables, you need a bunch of vegetables. Do any vegetable. I love vegetables. Not really. Calcium rich foods, man. They want you to eat calcium rich foods like low fat milk, pasteurized milk. What's going on here? They want you to have an extremely low amount of meat, an extremely low amount. And then what's the other one? Okay, so we have these healthy eating guidelines from the three main sources, like institutions, I guess. I'm on the NHS website now and they have a list of fats that you should stay away from, you know?
And all these websites, all these institutions say you should absolutely stay away from saturated fats. These are bad for you. These are unhealthy. These cause diabetes, okay? And on the NHS list, all these saturated fatty foods are fatty cuts of meat, sausages, butter, hard cheese, cream, cakes, biscuits, lard, and pies. Try eating less of those and maybe you won't be as fat. Hang on, dude. Hang on, man. NHS, England, baby, UK. Why is a pie in the same category as a cut of meat? What the fuck is that, dude? That's some shit that pisses me off.
You're putting a pie, you're literally putting biscuits next to sausage and you're saying they have the same effect on your body. They do not. They do not. Because if you're just going to pick what you want out of this list, pick what you want, eat anything at any amount, which one is going to get you more fat, you know? I can guarantee you the pie is going to get you more fat. The biscuit, the cake will get you more fat. If you have butter and some meat, that won't get you fat, dude. I don't know what is making people think like this. Why are these narratives?
There's really narratives out there, and I got this next article right here. There are narratives that are telling you that two servings of red meat a week can increase your risk of diabetes, man. Listen to this, dude. And this is where the authority starts to slip away, in my view. They present studies of correlation. And in this article that came out, so this is from Sky News, SkyNews.com. It was just published a few days ago, October 19th, 2023. Two servings of red meat increases your risk of diabetes. What happened?
What's the research, the science? Researchers looked at health data. So right there. Researchers looked at health data. From over 200,000 people from the Nurses Health Study, the NHS, along with Health Professionals Follow-Up Study in the United States, and asked these people, the over 200,000, to complete questionnaires about their diet every two to four years for up to 36 years. So you read that and it seems like, okay, this is a decades-long research study. That seems pretty plausible, pretty professional. That seems like a smart thing.
What else does it have to say? Over this period, over 36 years, more than 22,000 respondents developed type 2 diabetes. And the findings showed eating processed and unprocessed red meat was strongly associated with an increased risk of developing the condition. Those surveyed who ate the most red meat had a 62% high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, compared with those who ate the least. So whatever, dude. That's some wild shit. They say that, of course, processed is more unhealthy than unprocessed. Unprocessed being just your regular ground beef, your regular steak, and processed being your conventional beef jerky, I believe salami is in the processed category, pepperoni, those types of things.
But regardless, does that make sense? This is an observational thing. This study, this 36-year-long study, is only observational. They looked at data and they had people answer a questionnaire, and now they're putting it out on global news that red meat is going to literally make you more fat. But they don't write it like that. They say it increases your risk for the condition of diabetes. So will it make you fat or does it increase your risk? And what's the difference? And what do those different words do to your body? I'll tell you right now.
Telling you that you're increasing your risk increases your stress levels. Saying you're going to get fat is rude. That's the issue. That's the real problem, man, is how people want to talk about it. It's how people want to discuss their weight, dude. It's crazy. So I saw that and I read that and I just don't believe it. I simply don't believe that meat is causing obesity. I just don't know how that can be. How can protein and fat cause more fat? Because from my point of view, if I'm working out enough and I'm putting my muscles under enough intensity, my muscles will be seeking more energy.
And I then have a responsibility to give myself the most efficient type of energy. And conventional sayings say that carbs are energy. Conventional sayings say, I can't talk today, you should have low fat milk. You should have, like, don't eat a lot of fat. Have more grains. Have more carbs and sugar and fruit. It's not that fruit is bad. It's not that these things are inherently bad. It's that they're encouraging you to put an emphasis on some foods that taste really good, but they don't have the best effect on your body. And in my opinion, I feel like they should be emphasizing more meat.
They should be emphasizing just more animal products. And I think that's what I really do simply because of my experience. That's really just all I have. I only have my experience. I only have my body. You know, I only have this. And so I saw that. I call it bullshit on that, whatever. And here's the third one. Here's the real kicker here. Here's the last thing that really makes me question all narratives. So this is something from Zero Hedge. 68% of US service members are obese or overweight. Huh? 68%? Are fat? That's crazy, dude.
That's crazy. Rapid and sustained recurrence of obesity across all services, ranks, and positions now possess a dire threat to the United States Army, to the United States military, dude. This is crazy. The proportion of obese members in the ranks has more than doubled in the last decade from 10% in 2012 to 21.6% in 2022. So we've got 21% of these people are overweight, dude. And then this website gives you a little breakdown of which service members are more obese than others. I'll tell you right now, the Marines or the slimmest. Only 8.9% of Marines are obese.
But the highest one, Navy. Dude, Navy. Bunch of fat fucks in the ocean, dude. Bunch of blubbering fucking sea orcs, dude. 27% of people in the Navy are obese. No wonder they're in the ocean. They got a float to go anywhere. Anyway, anyway. That's insane. That's disgusting, right? What the fuck is going on with that? Why the fuck is there any military member fat? Why am I more in more shape than the military? Why? Why, dude? That's crazy. That's crazy. It says here, now this is wild, dude. Less than a quarter of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 qualify both academically and physically for military service.
Barely a quarter. A quarter. I think I might be in that group. I might be. Maybe. I didn't, I barely passed high school, but maybe I'm in that group, dude. I could join the army. Maybe. They're not that fat in the army. Skinnier than the Navy, for sure. This article goes on to say that the issue is framing obesity as an issue of insufficient willpower or discipline prevents soldiers from seeking and receiving treatment. This is what the military is saying. I should have gone more into detail. This article is getting this data from this thing, from this research, this think tank, this American security project.
And they did a survey and they did some research of the military of what's going on. How can we be more secure? More, what does it say in Star Wars? The emperor's like, a more secure society. That's what these people are doing for the military. They're making sure we are safe and secure. You know, the military being fat does not help us be more secure. And that's what they're trying to get across. And I agree with them. I agree. Like it's no good. It's, it's really no good. But what are you going to do about that? Like how do we get these people healthy, dude?
How do we get these people healthy? What made me think about this? When I read this, I said to myself, shouldn't the military be feeding its soldiers a healthy diet? So shouldn't it be following all the global guidelines of how they should be eating? Right? I don't, I, I, I'm not in the military. I don't really know. I got, maybe I should reach out to a few people. I know, but to my understanding, like you're getting fed, like soldiers are getting fed by the military. And so if you're being fed by someone and, but everyone around you is fat, doesn't that mean that the system feeding you is the thing that's doing that to you?
Like to me, it seems like some sort of, just some sort of self, self, uh, uh, self sabotage, dude. It seems to be some sort of self induced sabotage. And I don't understand. I'm not sure if this is a mind virus. I'm not sure if this is propaganda. I'm not sure. It's like maybe soldiers are able to just really eat whatever they want, you know, maybe that's a part of it too. Maybe they have outside businesses and restaurants come into the bases, you know, like I'm not sure all the details, details of how that works, but the, one of the only ways that I can really understand it is a, the military is getting them fat specifically, or they just allow their soldiers to eat whatever the fuck they want.
If they have the money for it, which sounds like more of an American thing. If you've got the money for it, Hey, if you want McDonald's and you got the money for it, go for it. If we're by whatever, can you imagine like some soldier hopping out of a tank when they're in the middle East and they're just like getting a Wendy's that'd be so fucking funny. It's like all, all blubbery. Um, but they're protecting our freedom. Um, that just freaks me out, dude. It freaks me out. I wish I had, I wish I had an answer. I wish I had like an easy way to talk about it because you know, nutrition is like a cult and there's an, but it's not just one cult.
It's like a bazillion cults, dude. You got the vegans, you got the carnivores, you got animal based, you got people who, uh, only eat bread. I like, I, I, I don't know, dude. You got, you got these conventional doctors talking about how they can help people be less diet, um, less fat, but they're, but they themselves are drinking sodas. Like it's, it's just not simple, man. The people facilitating the information are a not doing detailed experiments and B they're not, they're probably not even following their own guidelines. I remember during COVID there's all these photos floating around of all these different countries health ministers and they're literally all obese.
It was like all these obese people telling people to stay inside and to not go outside and not stay around people for their own safety, but they themselves are like super overweight. And reading that article about stigma, stigma, man, like that's a huge thing. Like we got to get rid of the stigma somehow. I don't know. We either need to work through it or we need to get rid of it. We need to leave it behind. Like I don't know how that works, dude, but if, if you're obese, you're fat. My father was fat. It's not fat anymore. If I see a fat kid, I'm going to call him a fat, I'm not, not through his face, but in my head, he's a fat kid.
Like it's like, there's this, they want us to say obese. They want us to use the medical terminology for a person's feeling. Why? It just doesn't make sense to me, man. So I want to encourage you this week on America Plus to just, just don't listen to authorities. Listen to your body. Like that's like, that's just, that's the innovative thing, dude. Like you need to listen to your body. You need to do everything you can to make sure that you're in control of what goes into you and what comes out of you. You know, the food you eat, the words you say, you know, the actions you perform and the foods you eat affect the actions you perform.
And if you eat a bunch of pies, you're going to feel lazy and you're not going to feel like exercising. But if you eat more meat and more protein and, and, and fats, like, I don't think fat on meat is unhealthy. I don't think butter is unhealthy. Butter is healthy, dude. Butter is healthy. Ghee is healthy. Like you're going to have a better ex, in my experience, I can only speak from my experience, right? If we're talking about fats, if I'm doing either, I got to do butter or canola oil, I'm choosing butter every time. And I'm going to tell you to choose butter every time because canola is terrible.
Canola fucks me up personally. Like I feel terrible. My gut, it's an immediate thing. It's just like when I eat pasteurized dairy, it's like, I feel it in my gut, dude. It's really bad. And as it enters me, I feel it bubbling and, and, and inflaming and like it, it's no good, dude. It really, it is an attack. It's an attack on my body. And I've, I've learned that you need to learn your own body. The only way that we can move into a more beautiful world is when you understand yourself and when you have control over your patterns, over your behavior. More people obese.
It does mean that people don't have willpower. Those people truly, why is that controversial? Why is that? Is that a negative thing to say? Is that, or is it just truthful? We need to develop more willpower. We need to develop more stoicism and more strength in ourselves. I feel like we live in a society that has been explicitly getting us weaker mentally and physically, just giving us either watered down information or not accurate information. And that goes from terrorism to math to, to health. Like we've been fucked over, dude. And I try to talk to my friends about how I eat meat and how I eat butter and how I, how I have, how I drink raw dairy.
And they're like, huh? They're like, hmm, like that's weird, Cole. Like you got to be careful, dude. Like people really look at me and they say things like, you're probably going to get colon cancer. You're probably going to die early. Like one time I had a girl say to my face, I told her, I told her, she asked, she asked me what I was making for dinner. And I said, I don't know, I'll probably just do like beef and eggs. And then she looks at me and she goes, that's fucking disgusting. And then she walked away. Okay.
Like that's really been my experience. I'm, I'm the guy, I'm the weird guy eating meat. And everyone else around me is saying that I should be eating more beans, eating more legumes, eating more nuts. Why the fuck would I want to eat a nut? Like what is that going to do for me, dude? Like I don't know, man. I don't know. It just blows my mind, dude. And so if you're willing to discuss this with me, like, like I got the video up on X on Facebook, like, like chime in, like what are your thoughts? Like this is some real shit. Like meat is healthy.
Meat is good. Butter is good. Animal products are good. These do not cause diabetes, sugars and carbs and overeating. And sodas cause obesity. Don't give your kids sprite, dude. Stop drinking Dr. Pepper. Like stop, just stop eating these things. Stop drinking these sugary drinks. Stop going to Starbucks and getting the double macchiato, caramel, pumpkin spice, double drizzle, triple shot, whatever, dude. Like stop. That's getting you fat. All the people around me who are fat always have Starbucks in their hand. All the people around me who are fat are always eating chips.
All the people around me who are fat are eating bullshit. And then I come in, and then I come into the circle. I'm like, Hey, did you know meat's healthy? I'm like, you got to watch your fucking mouth, Cole. Watch your mouth, son. You better watch your mouth. You're going to die of cancer. My dad already has cancer. Oh, I guess he ate meat then. I guess he ate meat. My dad ate meat like a normal human being. My dad ate carbs like a non-normal human being. Like you. My dad would eat chips at one in the morning, 12 at night, whatever the time is, late night eating, late night chips, late night snacking, going to bed, like screwing up your gut, man.
It's not difficult to understand why a person is unhealthy. And I'm sorry that I'm like going on a rant. This episode is like a rant episode, but this is like, I just keep seeing these things, and it's just my algorithm. And I get upset and it's like, I thought there's just one like vegan account on Twitter and they always got these celebrities talking about why, like they always have these celebrity quotes of why plant-based is so better, why vegan is so much better for the environment and your body. It's like, why do you need, you really need a celebrity to tell you what to do. You really need that.
Me? I just want to eat the meat and see how it feels. How does it affect me, man? Like we need more conversation about this, dude. What is the answer? Do you have the answer? Do you have the answer? I'm begging the answer. Like, do we need more experiments? Should I just shut the fuck up? Like what's happening here, dude? I just feel a little non, like, like I feel strong in my diet. I feel strong in my dad's diet, but I don't feel strong in how the world is telling us how to eat. And so we just got to move through that, dude. We just got to move through that.
But I just want to like reiterate that my father is healing from the way he is eating and he is not staying away from meat. He is not staying away from butter. He is eating vegetables. He is having fruit. He is having organs, animal-based organs, dude. Like he's using everything. And that's, I guess that's the innovation too. I guess that's the answer today that I'm trying to understand. Like I'm seeing health become real and become more into frame in my father because of his diet. And so maybe I got to have some more vegetables myself. Maybe I should have some Brussels.
Maybe I should have some carrots. I don't know. I don't know. It's an ongoing journey. And if it's an ongoing journey, I just don't listen to these governments telling you what to eat, dude, because they're going to make it seem like it's set in stone. And it's not. They're going to put cheese next to pies and tell you that cheese will get you fat too. Just that's a lie. Just don't believe the lies. Don't believe the lies. Okay. So that's the, that's what I'm trying to give you. Like that's the value. Okay. And with that, we're going to head on into the boost everybody. The value for value section.
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That's your time. Thank you for that. Um, talent, if you want to be involved with, with, with anything talent wise, if you have any information about if you are, um, uh, uh, uh, a cattle rancher, if you are a farmer, like I need information about aligning food with the cycles of nature. Cause I also feel like that might be an issue with our food systems. Like we're just, we're producing too many things that are not in alignment with the world. You know, like it's why it's better to have regenerative food because it's aligned with, with how the dirt is and how the grass grows.
If you're, if you have a talent to share, if you have any information to share with the community, man, like, come on, like share that, like that's incredible. And then the last thing is treasure. Of course, money, money, money, money, money, money. I got, I have a longterm plan with the podcast, with America plus with my own, uh, creativity. So if you want to be a part of just helping me sustain the show, um, uh, just like I'm paying for hosting, I'm making short films. I got to pay for, for all the AIs I'm using. Um, if you want to be a part of that creative process, um, uh, I have a PayPal link below and I also have, uh, I'm on fountain by the way, by the way, go to value for value.info for more info, then download the fountain.fm app.
It's the best way to support the show. Go to value for the number four value.info, just to get, have a great breakdown of what the system is. You know, this back half, I'm going to be reading all the supporters, but I'm also just, I just want to talk about value for value in general, how I'm moving forward with it, especially with the videos. Um, I'm sort of running with scissors when it comes to, um, using this narrative for my content, using this model for my content. Um, what I want to do first, oh, and then fountain download fountain fountain is a podcasting 2.0 app.
Go to podcast apps.com. There's this whole new ecosystem of podcast apps that allow you to send Bitcoin to people. And I see that as innovative just cause Bitcoin it's, it's, you know, it's decentralized money. It's not controlled by a company or a CEO or a government. It's uninterruptible money and you can send it to a podcaster. So if you want to be a part of that, be a part of the Bitcoin community. I guess they sort of a Bitcoin community. Not really. Like, I don't know. I like that technology, so I want to use it. Download fountain.
That's like my main spot. That's my favorite app, but go to podcast apps.com again, figure out your own app. Like there are many, many apps that you can choose from. So figure out your aesthetic and just engage with the show in any way you can. And if you prefer video, it's a, the videos on X and Facebook and YouTube. Um, we'll see when it gets taken down. Um, but this week, let me do a little refresh on this past week. Uh, I'm going to be reading the messages, the boost of grams from everyone who wanted to chime in and send in some value on fountain.
Only got, I think I got only one. I got one person coming in and you know, there's actually no, no comments today. Just one booster, one booster. And it's coming in from my friend, Kyron, my friend Kyron down from the mere mortals podcast. Uh, he listened to last week, he just sent in 126 sats. So thank you. Thank you Kyron for sending in those 126 sats. Boosting is loving. Give me a boost heading over, heading over to fountain and give me a boost to gram. Um, it's a whole new system, honestly. It really is. And it's value for value is the way that I'm going to be building my brand or at least the foundation of my brand.
As the weeks go on now, I'm, I'm, I'm right now I'm thinking, um, temporarily, um, up until Christmas of this year, as the weeks go on leading up to Christmas, I will be producing more videos surrounding value, value for value. I'll be speaking to more people about value, value for value. And it's my goal and my mission to just make it like, make a narrative, like, like, like get the narrative of value for value out there because up until this moment it's been niche and it's stayed within the circle of Adam Curry, who's the inventor of podcasting and, and the no agenda people and the podcasting 2.0 cruise.
Um, it's very, very small, but value for value needs to expand. And I see an opportunity for myself to just try to be like a, like, almost like a value, like a V for V influencer almost like it's not that it's not going to be that easy. I'm not saying I'm looking for F or any ads or brands, but I'm just like, if I can just sort of be known as the value for value guy, okay. Is that type of a narrative possible? Is it healthy? I think it is. If I were to put more emphasis in discussing value for value and getting people to think about the concept, you know, I think it's only going to help myself and the, the network at large.
It's hard to talk about. It's hard to explain. So and I just had like a mini epiphany a little bit ago, like a few days ago. And I was just like, if there's so many layers to value value for value, you can't just explain it all in one post. It's gotta be like continual. You got to keep coming back to it. So value for value is this thing that's going to just keep reiterating itself. It's going to keep coming back in the form of speaking with each other in the form of exchanging value in the form of exchanging information in the form of just, just connecting with people.
That's really what value for value is. And I want to have a value for value lifestyle. You know, that's what it is as well. Value for value. It's a monetization model and it's an international lifestyle. And this is going to, to guide me to, to, to more people that's going to value for value will take me across the globe. Like I'm saying that right now, value for value will take America plus across the globe and I'll be able to speak with people who are innovating, people who are bringing in this, this new world, this new earth that's coming into play, man. Like there's some, there's some really beautiful things happening in the world right now.
And America plus, like it's about those narratives that are trying to, trying to dispunge the bad ones and, and, and pick up the good ones. I want to put a microphone in the face of people who are doing that. And I want to connect with these people and I want to travel and I want to, I just want to be authentic with everything I do and with all my work and value for value podcasting is the way, man. It's absolutely the way. And as I discuss it more on Twitter, as I post more about it on X and I, and I, I work with people with, with musicians and other artists who are value for value, then it's only going to help everyone.
What other situation is there? Like the, the worst case scenario is that no one watches my short film magic mushroom fun time, by the way, magic mushroom fun time, Christmas of this year, December 25th. That's what comes out. That's what I'm talking about, dude. It's going to be awesome. I'm going to be putting out more interviews as the weeks go by discussing the movie, discussing the model, discussing music and themes and cinema. It's all happening. And I just see an opportunity to be a part of getting into the mainstream. Hopefully, hopefully it's in, it's in that realm because I truly believe that it's going to be something that other people will, will copy and mimic and use and discover it for their, for themselves, man.
Like it's powerful. It's powerful. Like I don't have a lot of support this week, but that's how it goes. Like it's ups and downs. And you know, I'm just in my first year and a half of podcasting and I've made well over 300, 400 bucks from people and that's incredible. And it's all in the form of Satoshi's too. I've made over a million Satoshi's since I started the show and that is so in a different realm than anyone else can even comprehend. It's, it's something that even though I say right now there's like, I don't know, maybe 15 people who might get it.
I don't know, man. Like I, right now I just don't think people are getting it. And along with that, I continue to need to upgrade the value that I give. So that's where the feedback loop comes from, man. Like that's the big vision here. It's a huge vision and I just got to keep getting better at explaining it. So if you want to be, if you want to be a part of the value, if you want to be a part of the feedback loop, like chime on in, like be a part of it, man. If you got any opinions on health, if you have any value to give about the health narratives, if you can dispel any mystery within the health world, you know, I want to talk to you.
I want to talk to these people. I want to try to talk to everyone, you know, want to try to just figure it out. Got to figure out the craziness, man. And with that guys, that's it. That's it. I thought there's going to be more supporters. Usually I got my boy Joel W. I guess he's not around this week. Don't know where Joel's at, but that's the show. If you enjoyed it, let me know if you didn't know. Well, sorry. Sorry, dude. This is me. This is me, dude. This is, this is who I am. This is who this is. This is Cole. This is Cole McCormick, dude, signing off.
That's America plus bitch. Stay free.
It's Wild Energy today, guys. brewing But but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but What's up everyone? It's America Plus! I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode! What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here! It's Sunday October 22nd! You made it to another week! What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here! Wooo! It's getting close to Halloween time. Spooky season is upon us, guys. The sun is out. The weather is changing, it's getting colder, getting chilly, getting nice, man. I'm excited.
It's a beautiful time to be alive, man. Right at the bat, what I want to do this week is I just want to celebrate October 22nd this week because some pretty good news came in. Some pretty good, a pretty good text message from my father came in. So we've been following this thread of my father having cancer and he started getting, he was diagnosed in June, started getting chemo in August. He invested in the DNA research of the cancer that matched him up with targeted medicine and he totally changed his diet. He totally believes in the nutrition route, which is what we're talking about this week.
I got a bunch of things to talk about regarding health. There's just, there's like an onslaught of like propaganda and like wild information about health. In the world, in America. So just hang tight, my dad, his cancer. He believes in the nutritional path. He totally changed the way he eats and it's been a wild journey. The man used to be 400 pounds and now he's, I actually don't know his weight, but he's a lot skinnier. He's a lot skinnier for multiple reasons. And in my opinion, when I see him, I saw him last week, when I look into his eyes, I see more life.
When I see his skin, I see more energy. I see more life. And throughout the last few months, the last six months or so, it's been, it's been a wild roller coaster, but this week we can take a moment to feel grateful. We can take a moment to say thank you to the doctors and the medicine and God, because my dad texted me saying, so first of all, so the cancer is in a few different places, right? Colon, colon cancer, colon, liver, lymph node, and sacral, sacral, and the liver. The sacral bone or in a bone near the sacral bone or both. The doctors are focusing on the liver, focusing on the organs first.
The medicine is going to the organs because clearly the liver is like the most important organ ever. Aside to your heart and brain, I think it's like liver is next. It's like the freaking like just third in charge, right? And I guess your liver has five lobes and my dad had cancer on all five lobes. And you know, that's, he was diagnosed with stage four, by the way. I didn't say that stage four colon cancer. It had, I forget the exact word, but it had gone to the liver and lymph node. And he had masses on all of his nodes or lobes. And this past week, after a couple of months, two months of chemo, two months of chemo, and healthy eating, a few months of healthy eating.
I don't know all the numbers, but the biggest number is there has been a reduction in this guy's cancer on his liver. Okay. That's the wild news I got to talk about, dude. There is insanely, his, his cancer has shrunken. My father's cancer has shrunken on his liver lobes. Okay. Like that's insane, right? That's like, thank you, dad. Thank you, God, man. Let's go, man. Let's go. Like, we're praying for miracles here. We're praying for miracles. And what's wild is when you hear stage four, you know, it's automatic death. And my father's mentality was he's going to go through it.
And he's, my dad said, I'm too dumb to fight. And he also said, I'm ready to kick cancer's ass. I'm ready to say I kick cancer's ass. And I just like, I applauded him when I heard him say that. And it's been a wild ride to see him. And at this point, the biggest reduction that we saw in his lobe, so one, one thing, I mean, what do you even call it? Like one cancer mass on one of the lobes. I think it might've been one of the bigger ones, but so it begun when they first scanned this thing, this thing was three inches in diameter. It was 70, okay, here's the millimeters, 79 by 84 millimeters.
I'm fairly certain that's like three by three inches. It's around three inches in diameter. This thing was three inches thick, dude. Three inches big. On his lobe, dude. And now it's under one inch. It's under one inch now. I don't know the numbers for the other lobes. There's still cancer there, of course, but that's insane stuff, dude. That's insane news. When this process begun, the doctors, no, the doctors are always professional. Doctors are always pragmatic. They're straightforward. They're, you know, they're just giving it to you straight. They said that the first goal is to stop the growth.
And then after you stop growth, then it's time to begin to try to shrink the tumor. And in the first two months, my father has shrunk. My father has shrunken the tumors. The medicine has helped shrink them. And that's just like, it's crazy. You don't hear about this shit, dude. You don't hear about this stuff. And we don't know what the future is, you know? We don't know what other side effects there might be. We don't know if any other illness might come up. We don't know, you know? But at the same time, we also haven't even been using all of the tools that we, that me and my family listed out.
My dad's using like maybe like 80, 85% of the tools that we all laid out for him. And so there's more tools to be used. And he's already experiencing shrinkage and like the good kind of shrinkage. Not the bad kind and the cold water kind, the good kind, the good kind on the liver kind, dude. Like that's just crazy. Like I, like it's not cured. Like my dad still has cancer. The doctor, this is when a doctor might be an asshole, but the doctor still said, this will still be your demise. Thanks, doc. Thank you. Thanks a lot, bro.
Like my dad was like, my dad was super hyped, right? He was like, oh my God, like they've shrunk. And then the doctor straight up said that to his face. And my dad was like, can you give me a fucking break? Like come on, man, give me a break. But you know, those numbers are his break. You know, he shrunk it. My father's body is healthy or it's getting healthier. I believe. I truly believe that. And we even know that the tumor in his colon has shrunk as well, which is a big deal. You know, so we'll see just how, we'll see how this journey goes, man, because it's an, it's an ongoing discussion.
It's an ongoing just, just reiterating, you know, just trying to experiment with what's working, what doesn't work. How do you feel on this for a few weeks? Maybe we take it out. It's this constant back and forth, you know, and that's what health is. That's what a healthy eating, healthy eating habits are. You know, it's, it's a constant conversation with your body, with the people around you, with the things that you're reading and absorbing. And you know, when it comes to like health narratives, you know, my family specifically, I don't, I'm, I'm not even confident with myself.
I don't think there's like a clear answer for health narratives, man, because I'm on one, I'm on like one side of the field when it comes to health stuff right now. Like I'm really into the animal based, I'm eating the meats, I'm eating the organs or I'm trying to eat the organs. I'm eating raw dairy. I'm just doing a lot of things that the World Health Organization might say not to do. I'm my, you know what I mean? Like I'm, I'm eating hamburger. I'm eating ground beef every night. I'm eating a pound of beef every night. You know, this is all beef, dude.
My body is all beef. Like, like this is what, like this is what I think health looks like. Like my opinion, I'm not, I'm not the healthiest. Like I haven't gotten any blood testing yet, but how I feel after the way I eat, the way I've been eating for the last year or so, I really feel best on. And from my father's point of view, the way he's been eating, he's been eating fairly, fairly balanced. I would say, you know, he's eating the vegetables. He's eating the meats. He, he still eats steak. He has Turkey, whatever. And it's been working for him and everyone's health journey involves a diet that just works for them.
And what's difficult when you're searching online for, for good advice is that there's just so many clashing narratives. There's a lot of different things that tell you to do something. And sometimes it's going to be the world health organization or the CDC or the NHS, you know, it's going to be one of these national global institutions that are all in alignment with their words, or it's going to be an influencer and they're talking about some insane raw liver thing, you know, like it's, there are, because of the internet, because of social media, you know, there's so many options.
There's so many different environments to, to observe and communities to be a part of. And I was scrolling around this week and I just, I saw some things that are really just like not, some of these things are not good, like just straight up just not healthy, not healthy narratives. And it's, it makes me believe it, reading these articles, it's mostly articles today. I got one clip, but listening to these narratives really makes me think that the main authority just isn't real. And people really need to like, I don't know the answer to this, but people need to opt out of the current food system.
I don't know how that works. Like I don't know, but maybe we need to recreate. I have no ideas. I have no ideas how to make this better, honestly, but this is, this is getting crazy. So this is, I see this on Bloomberg. Oh, Zempik, the drug for kids. Drug makers test weight loss shots for six year olds. Huh? What the f**k? Excuse me? Six year olds? Oh Zempik, weight loss drugs, fat kids. What's happening here, dude? What's happening? And pretty much the company making Zempik. Pharmaceutical, here's a little snippet. Pharmaceutical companies are looking to get busy or get buzzy weight loss shots approved for younger and younger patients.
Eli, Lily and company is planning to test its diabetes drug, Marjarro, for patients six and up with obesity, according to a person familiar with the trial. And I saw that and I just like, my jaw freaking dropped. My jaw dropped. It seemed like a few months ago, I saw some story about doctors suggesting weight loss drugs for children who are obese, but now there's this, like this is not stopping. Companies going after, trying to make money off of fat kids. You know, it's been happening. You know, companies have already been making money getting kids fat. You know, so now it's time to just get the other end of the stick and make money off of their unhealthiness.
It's heartbreaking. Like, I don't, like, this is disgusting. This is disgusting. And it's like, why are these kids unhealthy? You know, clearly it's the parents. You know, anyone see Willy Wonka? Like what's that? The song from Willy Wonka, the original one where the Oompa Loompas are like, eating as much as an elephant eats. Who is to blame? The mother and the father. Like, Oompa. Like that's literally what's going on here, dude. This is some Augusta shit. Augusta, what was it? Augusta's Gus, whatever. I just, I don't like it, dude. And who is Lily and Co?
Who is, who is Illy and Lily? Lily's commitment. Lily's commitment to obesity. I see this video on YouTube. This is from, this is from 2022. And this is about this pharmaceutical's commitment to getting better products out there with people who are struggling with the disease. I'm Julia Dunn. I'm a physician and my area of specialty is endocrinology. So obesity is a chronic disease, but with obesity, very few people ever present even to get help from a healthcare provider for the obesity. And by the time they do, they have tried things oftentimes for decades and they've been unsuccessful because of the relapsing nature of the disease, not because they've personally failed, even though that's what society is telling them.
Okay, pause. We got to pause that right there. The obese person didn't fail. Excuse me? There's a social stigma around obese people or around obesity. Like what are you saying here, lady? Like, this is nuts. Like why is this? This is the narrative. This company is putting out the narrative of this. Does, like they even call it a disease, you know? Is it as it, is it a disease, addiction, a disease, alcoholism, disease? Like what is, what is the difference between behavior and disease? You know, like there's a real, there's some real wishwashy barriers between those things. And you know, if you have a, if you have the opportunity to make money from one of those sides, you know, you're gonna, your story is going to lean one way.
This is gross, dude. Like why are you saying that? Why are you saying it like that? Obesity causes diseases. Why is obesity a disease? That really upsets me because that makes it seem like the person is not responsible for anything. And she's mentioned that a person might've been struggling with obesity for decades, you know? My opinion on that, like it's decades of horrible doctor's advice that's making these people more unhealthy. And along with that, it's also just general addiction to sugar and what you think you should be eating during the day.
Let's just see what the, let's just see what else this clip has to say about the drug, about the disease. If we can provide effective treatments, we are going to decrease that burden. People are going to be able to live the lives they want to live. Lilly really has an exciting pipeline to aim to bring multiple more options for patients who are living with obesity, hopefully really paradigm shifting that we're going to think about obesity very differently as patients have more options and more options that are more efficacious.
We're living through a paradigm shift. You understand me? We are, everything around us is changing, including our drugs, including our children, including our systems. It just makes me sad, man. It just makes me sad. Why are we not promoting healthy eating? Why are we not promoting healthy foods? Why are we not doing more to keep kids healthy and just people in general healthy, man? What is a healthy diet? I've talked about this before, but if you were to just look up what is healthy eating, I already mentioned World Health Organization, CDC, NHS, okay? All these things are aligned with the way they want you to eat and they're telling us, number one thing, fruit.
Number one, you got to have a bunch of fruit. Five servings of fruit a day, okay? Vegetables, you need a bunch of vegetables. Do any vegetable. I love vegetables. Not really. Calcium rich foods, man. They want you to eat calcium rich foods like low fat milk, pasteurized milk. What's going on here? They want you to have an extremely low amount of meat, an extremely low amount. And then what's the other one? Okay, so we have these healthy eating guidelines from the three main sources, like institutions, I guess. I'm on the NHS website now and they have a list of fats that you should stay away from, you know?
And all these websites, all these institutions say you should absolutely stay away from saturated fats. These are bad for you. These are unhealthy. These cause diabetes, okay? And on the NHS list, all these saturated fatty foods are fatty cuts of meat, sausages, butter, hard cheese, cream, cakes, biscuits, lard, and pies. Try eating less of those and maybe you won't be as fat. Hang on, dude. Hang on, man. NHS, England, baby, UK. Why is a pie in the same category as a cut of meat? What the fuck is that, dude? That's some shit that pisses me off.
You're putting a pie, you're literally putting biscuits next to sausage and you're saying they have the same effect on your body. They do not. They do not. Because if you're just going to pick what you want out of this list, pick what you want, eat anything at any amount, which one is going to get you more fat, you know? I can guarantee you the pie is going to get you more fat. The biscuit, the cake will get you more fat. If you have butter and some meat, that won't get you fat, dude. I don't know what is making people think like this. Why are these narratives?
There's really narratives out there, and I got this next article right here. There are narratives that are telling you that two servings of red meat a week can increase your risk of diabetes, man. Listen to this, dude. And this is where the authority starts to slip away, in my view. They present studies of correlation. And in this article that came out, so this is from Sky News, SkyNews.com. It was just published a few days ago, October 19th, 2023. Two servings of red meat increases your risk of diabetes. What happened?
What's the research, the science? Researchers looked at health data. So right there. Researchers looked at health data. From over 200,000 people from the Nurses Health Study, the NHS, along with Health Professionals Follow-Up Study in the United States, and asked these people, the over 200,000, to complete questionnaires about their diet every two to four years for up to 36 years. So you read that and it seems like, okay, this is a decades-long research study. That seems pretty plausible, pretty professional. That seems like a smart thing.
What else does it have to say? Over this period, over 36 years, more than 22,000 respondents developed type 2 diabetes. And the findings showed eating processed and unprocessed red meat was strongly associated with an increased risk of developing the condition. Those surveyed who ate the most red meat had a 62% high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, compared with those who ate the least. So whatever, dude. That's some wild shit. They say that, of course, processed is more unhealthy than unprocessed. Unprocessed being just your regular ground beef, your regular steak, and processed being your conventional beef jerky, I believe salami is in the processed category, pepperoni, those types of things.
But regardless, does that make sense? This is an observational thing. This study, this 36-year-long study, is only observational. They looked at data and they had people answer a questionnaire, and now they're putting it out on global news that red meat is going to literally make you more fat. But they don't write it like that. They say it increases your risk for the condition of diabetes. So will it make you fat or does it increase your risk? And what's the difference? And what do those different words do to your body? I'll tell you right now.
Telling you that you're increasing your risk increases your stress levels. Saying you're going to get fat is rude. That's the issue. That's the real problem, man, is how people want to talk about it. It's how people want to discuss their weight, dude. It's crazy. So I saw that and I read that and I just don't believe it. I simply don't believe that meat is causing obesity. I just don't know how that can be. How can protein and fat cause more fat? Because from my point of view, if I'm working out enough and I'm putting my muscles under enough intensity, my muscles will be seeking more energy.
And I then have a responsibility to give myself the most efficient type of energy. And conventional sayings say that carbs are energy. Conventional sayings say, I can't talk today, you should have low fat milk. You should have, like, don't eat a lot of fat. Have more grains. Have more carbs and sugar and fruit. It's not that fruit is bad. It's not that these things are inherently bad. It's that they're encouraging you to put an emphasis on some foods that taste really good, but they don't have the best effect on your body. And in my opinion, I feel like they should be emphasizing more meat.
They should be emphasizing just more animal products. And I think that's what I really do simply because of my experience. That's really just all I have. I only have my experience. I only have my body. You know, I only have this. And so I saw that. I call it bullshit on that, whatever. And here's the third one. Here's the real kicker here. Here's the last thing that really makes me question all narratives. So this is something from Zero Hedge. 68% of US service members are obese or overweight. Huh? 68%? Are fat? That's crazy, dude.
That's crazy. Rapid and sustained recurrence of obesity across all services, ranks, and positions now possess a dire threat to the United States Army, to the United States military, dude. This is crazy. The proportion of obese members in the ranks has more than doubled in the last decade from 10% in 2012 to 21.6% in 2022. So we've got 21% of these people are overweight, dude. And then this website gives you a little breakdown of which service members are more obese than others. I'll tell you right now, the Marines or the slimmest. Only 8.9% of Marines are obese.
But the highest one, Navy. Dude, Navy. Bunch of fat fucks in the ocean, dude. Bunch of blubbering fucking sea orcs, dude. 27% of people in the Navy are obese. No wonder they're in the ocean. They got a float to go anywhere. Anyway, anyway. That's insane. That's disgusting, right? What the fuck is going on with that? Why the fuck is there any military member fat? Why am I more in more shape than the military? Why? Why, dude? That's crazy. That's crazy. It says here, now this is wild, dude. Less than a quarter of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 qualify both academically and physically for military service.
Barely a quarter. A quarter. I think I might be in that group. I might be. Maybe. I didn't, I barely passed high school, but maybe I'm in that group, dude. I could join the army. Maybe. They're not that fat in the army. Skinnier than the Navy, for sure. This article goes on to say that the issue is framing obesity as an issue of insufficient willpower or discipline prevents soldiers from seeking and receiving treatment. This is what the military is saying. I should have gone more into detail. This article is getting this data from this thing, from this research, this think tank, this American security project.
And they did a survey and they did some research of the military of what's going on. How can we be more secure? More, what does it say in Star Wars? The emperor's like, a more secure society. That's what these people are doing for the military. They're making sure we are safe and secure. You know, the military being fat does not help us be more secure. And that's what they're trying to get across. And I agree with them. I agree. Like it's no good. It's, it's really no good. But what are you going to do about that? Like how do we get these people healthy, dude?
How do we get these people healthy? What made me think about this? When I read this, I said to myself, shouldn't the military be feeding its soldiers a healthy diet? So shouldn't it be following all the global guidelines of how they should be eating? Right? I don't, I, I, I'm not in the military. I don't really know. I got, maybe I should reach out to a few people. I know, but to my understanding, like you're getting fed, like soldiers are getting fed by the military. And so if you're being fed by someone and, but everyone around you is fat, doesn't that mean that the system feeding you is the thing that's doing that to you?
Like to me, it seems like some sort of, just some sort of self, self, uh, uh, self sabotage, dude. It seems to be some sort of self induced sabotage. And I don't understand. I'm not sure if this is a mind virus. I'm not sure if this is propaganda. I'm not sure. It's like maybe soldiers are able to just really eat whatever they want, you know, maybe that's a part of it too. Maybe they have outside businesses and restaurants come into the bases, you know, like I'm not sure all the details, details of how that works, but the, one of the only ways that I can really understand it is a, the military is getting them fat specifically, or they just allow their soldiers to eat whatever the fuck they want.
If they have the money for it, which sounds like more of an American thing. If you've got the money for it, Hey, if you want McDonald's and you got the money for it, go for it. If we're by whatever, can you imagine like some soldier hopping out of a tank when they're in the middle East and they're just like getting a Wendy's that'd be so fucking funny. It's like all, all blubbery. Um, but they're protecting our freedom. Um, that just freaks me out, dude. It freaks me out. I wish I had, I wish I had an answer. I wish I had like an easy way to talk about it because you know, nutrition is like a cult and there's an, but it's not just one cult.
It's like a bazillion cults, dude. You got the vegans, you got the carnivores, you got animal based, you got people who, uh, only eat bread. I like, I, I, I don't know, dude. You got, you got these conventional doctors talking about how they can help people be less diet, um, less fat, but they're, but they themselves are drinking sodas. Like it's, it's just not simple, man. The people facilitating the information are a not doing detailed experiments and B they're not, they're probably not even following their own guidelines. I remember during COVID there's all these photos floating around of all these different countries health ministers and they're literally all obese.
It was like all these obese people telling people to stay inside and to not go outside and not stay around people for their own safety, but they themselves are like super overweight. And reading that article about stigma, stigma, man, like that's a huge thing. Like we got to get rid of the stigma somehow. I don't know. We either need to work through it or we need to get rid of it. We need to leave it behind. Like I don't know how that works, dude, but if, if you're obese, you're fat. My father was fat. It's not fat anymore. If I see a fat kid, I'm going to call him a fat, I'm not, not through his face, but in my head, he's a fat kid.
Like it's like, there's this, they want us to say obese. They want us to use the medical terminology for a person's feeling. Why? It just doesn't make sense to me, man. So I want to encourage you this week on America Plus to just, just don't listen to authorities. Listen to your body. Like that's like, that's just, that's the innovative thing, dude. Like you need to listen to your body. You need to do everything you can to make sure that you're in control of what goes into you and what comes out of you. You know, the food you eat, the words you say, you know, the actions you perform and the foods you eat affect the actions you perform.
And if you eat a bunch of pies, you're going to feel lazy and you're not going to feel like exercising. But if you eat more meat and more protein and, and, and fats, like, I don't think fat on meat is unhealthy. I don't think butter is unhealthy. Butter is healthy, dude. Butter is healthy. Ghee is healthy. Like you're going to have a better ex, in my experience, I can only speak from my experience, right? If we're talking about fats, if I'm doing either, I got to do butter or canola oil, I'm choosing butter every time. And I'm going to tell you to choose butter every time because canola is terrible.
Canola fucks me up personally. Like I feel terrible. My gut, it's an immediate thing. It's just like when I eat pasteurized dairy, it's like, I feel it in my gut, dude. It's really bad. And as it enters me, I feel it bubbling and, and, and inflaming and like it, it's no good, dude. It really, it is an attack. It's an attack on my body. And I've, I've learned that you need to learn your own body. The only way that we can move into a more beautiful world is when you understand yourself and when you have control over your patterns, over your behavior. More people obese.
It does mean that people don't have willpower. Those people truly, why is that controversial? Why is that? Is that a negative thing to say? Is that, or is it just truthful? We need to develop more willpower. We need to develop more stoicism and more strength in ourselves. I feel like we live in a society that has been explicitly getting us weaker mentally and physically, just giving us either watered down information or not accurate information. And that goes from terrorism to math to, to health. Like we've been fucked over, dude. And I try to talk to my friends about how I eat meat and how I eat butter and how I, how I have, how I drink raw dairy.
And they're like, huh? They're like, hmm, like that's weird, Cole. Like you got to be careful, dude. Like people really look at me and they say things like, you're probably going to get colon cancer. You're probably going to die early. Like one time I had a girl say to my face, I told her, I told her, she asked, she asked me what I was making for dinner. And I said, I don't know, I'll probably just do like beef and eggs. And then she looks at me and she goes, that's fucking disgusting. And then she walked away. Okay.
Like that's really been my experience. I'm, I'm the guy, I'm the weird guy eating meat. And everyone else around me is saying that I should be eating more beans, eating more legumes, eating more nuts. Why the fuck would I want to eat a nut? Like what is that going to do for me, dude? Like I don't know, man. I don't know. It just blows my mind, dude. And so if you're willing to discuss this with me, like, like I got the video up on X on Facebook, like, like chime in, like what are your thoughts? Like this is some real shit. Like meat is healthy.
Meat is good. Butter is good. Animal products are good. These do not cause diabetes, sugars and carbs and overeating. And sodas cause obesity. Don't give your kids sprite, dude. Stop drinking Dr. Pepper. Like stop, just stop eating these things. Stop drinking these sugary drinks. Stop going to Starbucks and getting the double macchiato, caramel, pumpkin spice, double drizzle, triple shot, whatever, dude. Like stop. That's getting you fat. All the people around me who are fat always have Starbucks in their hand. All the people around me who are fat are always eating chips.
All the people around me who are fat are eating bullshit. And then I come in, and then I come into the circle. I'm like, Hey, did you know meat's healthy? I'm like, you got to watch your fucking mouth, Cole. Watch your mouth, son. You better watch your mouth. You're going to die of cancer. My dad already has cancer. Oh, I guess he ate meat then. I guess he ate meat. My dad ate meat like a normal human being. My dad ate carbs like a non-normal human being. Like you. My dad would eat chips at one in the morning, 12 at night, whatever the time is, late night eating, late night chips, late night snacking, going to bed, like screwing up your gut, man.
It's not difficult to understand why a person is unhealthy. And I'm sorry that I'm like going on a rant. This episode is like a rant episode, but this is like, I just keep seeing these things, and it's just my algorithm. And I get upset and it's like, I thought there's just one like vegan account on Twitter and they always got these celebrities talking about why, like they always have these celebrity quotes of why plant-based is so better, why vegan is so much better for the environment and your body. It's like, why do you need, you really need a celebrity to tell you what to do. You really need that.
Me? I just want to eat the meat and see how it feels. How does it affect me, man? Like we need more conversation about this, dude. What is the answer? Do you have the answer? Do you have the answer? I'm begging the answer. Like, do we need more experiments? Should I just shut the fuck up? Like what's happening here, dude? I just feel a little non, like, like I feel strong in my diet. I feel strong in my dad's diet, but I don't feel strong in how the world is telling us how to eat. And so we just got to move through that, dude. We just got to move through that.
But I just want to like reiterate that my father is healing from the way he is eating and he is not staying away from meat. He is not staying away from butter. He is eating vegetables. He is having fruit. He is having organs, animal-based organs, dude. Like he's using everything. And that's, I guess that's the innovation too. I guess that's the answer today that I'm trying to understand. Like I'm seeing health become real and become more into frame in my father because of his diet. And so maybe I got to have some more vegetables myself. Maybe I should have some Brussels.
Maybe I should have some carrots. I don't know. I don't know. It's an ongoing journey. And if it's an ongoing journey, I just don't listen to these governments telling you what to eat, dude, because they're going to make it seem like it's set in stone. And it's not. They're going to put cheese next to pies and tell you that cheese will get you fat too. Just that's a lie. Just don't believe the lies. Don't believe the lies. Okay. So that's the, that's what I'm trying to give you. Like that's the value. Okay. And with that, we're going to head on into the boost everybody. The value for value section.
America plus is a value for value show. If you didn't know that value for value means that the audience puts the value on the show. The audience has the opportunity to show me, tell me what the value of the show is. If you like the way I talk, if you like the information I discuss, let me know. We have three main ways of exchanging the value of letting me know how much value there is. It's time, talent and treasure time. Just thank you for listening to this right now. If you want to repost it, share it, retweet it, comment, whatever, engage with the thing on social media in any way.
That's your time. Thank you for that. Um, talent, if you want to be involved with, with, with anything talent wise, if you have any information about if you are, um, uh, uh, uh, a cattle rancher, if you are a farmer, like I need information about aligning food with the cycles of nature. Cause I also feel like that might be an issue with our food systems. Like we're just, we're producing too many things that are not in alignment with the world. You know, like it's why it's better to have regenerative food because it's aligned with, with how the dirt is and how the grass grows.
If you're, if you have a talent to share, if you have any information to share with the community, man, like, come on, like share that, like that's incredible. And then the last thing is treasure. Of course, money, money, money, money, money, money. I got, I have a longterm plan with the podcast, with America plus with my own, uh, creativity. So if you want to be a part of just helping me sustain the show, um, uh, just like I'm paying for hosting, I'm making short films. I got to pay for, for all the AIs I'm using. Um, if you want to be a part of that creative process, um, uh, I have a PayPal link below and I also have, uh, I'm on fountain by the way, by the way, go to value for value.info for more info, then download the fountain.fm app.
It's the best way to support the show. Go to value for the number four value.info, just to get, have a great breakdown of what the system is. You know, this back half, I'm going to be reading all the supporters, but I'm also just, I just want to talk about value for value in general, how I'm moving forward with it, especially with the videos. Um, I'm sort of running with scissors when it comes to, um, using this narrative for my content, using this model for my content. Um, what I want to do first, oh, and then fountain download fountain fountain is a podcasting 2.0 app.
Go to podcast apps.com. There's this whole new ecosystem of podcast apps that allow you to send Bitcoin to people. And I see that as innovative just cause Bitcoin it's, it's, you know, it's decentralized money. It's not controlled by a company or a CEO or a government. It's uninterruptible money and you can send it to a podcaster. So if you want to be a part of that, be a part of the Bitcoin community. I guess they sort of a Bitcoin community. Not really. Like, I don't know. I like that technology, so I want to use it. Download fountain.
That's like my main spot. That's my favorite app, but go to podcast apps.com again, figure out your own app. Like there are many, many apps that you can choose from. So figure out your aesthetic and just engage with the show in any way you can. And if you prefer video, it's a, the videos on X and Facebook and YouTube. Um, we'll see when it gets taken down. Um, but this week, let me do a little refresh on this past week. Uh, I'm going to be reading the messages, the boost of grams from everyone who wanted to chime in and send in some value on fountain.
Only got, I think I got only one. I got one person coming in and you know, there's actually no, no comments today. Just one booster, one booster. And it's coming in from my friend, Kyron, my friend Kyron down from the mere mortals podcast. Uh, he listened to last week, he just sent in 126 sats. So thank you. Thank you Kyron for sending in those 126 sats. Boosting is loving. Give me a boost heading over, heading over to fountain and give me a boost to gram. Um, it's a whole new system, honestly. It really is. And it's value for value is the way that I'm going to be building my brand or at least the foundation of my brand.
As the weeks go on now, I'm, I'm, I'm right now I'm thinking, um, temporarily, um, up until Christmas of this year, as the weeks go on leading up to Christmas, I will be producing more videos surrounding value, value for value. I'll be speaking to more people about value, value for value. And it's my goal and my mission to just make it like, make a narrative, like, like, like get the narrative of value for value out there because up until this moment it's been niche and it's stayed within the circle of Adam Curry, who's the inventor of podcasting and, and the no agenda people and the podcasting 2.0 cruise.
Um, it's very, very small, but value for value needs to expand. And I see an opportunity for myself to just try to be like a, like, almost like a value, like a V for V influencer almost like it's not that it's not going to be that easy. I'm not saying I'm looking for F or any ads or brands, but I'm just like, if I can just sort of be known as the value for value guy, okay. Is that type of a narrative possible? Is it healthy? I think it is. If I were to put more emphasis in discussing value for value and getting people to think about the concept, you know, I think it's only going to help myself and the, the network at large.
It's hard to talk about. It's hard to explain. So and I just had like a mini epiphany a little bit ago, like a few days ago. And I was just like, if there's so many layers to value value for value, you can't just explain it all in one post. It's gotta be like continual. You got to keep coming back to it. So value for value is this thing that's going to just keep reiterating itself. It's going to keep coming back in the form of speaking with each other in the form of exchanging value in the form of exchanging information in the form of just, just connecting with people.
That's really what value for value is. And I want to have a value for value lifestyle. You know, that's what it is as well. Value for value. It's a monetization model and it's an international lifestyle. And this is going to, to guide me to, to, to more people that's going to value for value will take me across the globe. Like I'm saying that right now, value for value will take America plus across the globe and I'll be able to speak with people who are innovating, people who are bringing in this, this new world, this new earth that's coming into play, man. Like there's some, there's some really beautiful things happening in the world right now.
And America plus, like it's about those narratives that are trying to, trying to dispunge the bad ones and, and, and pick up the good ones. I want to put a microphone in the face of people who are doing that. And I want to connect with these people and I want to travel and I want to, I just want to be authentic with everything I do and with all my work and value for value podcasting is the way, man. It's absolutely the way. And as I discuss it more on Twitter, as I post more about it on X and I, and I, I work with people with, with musicians and other artists who are value for value, then it's only going to help everyone.
What other situation is there? Like the, the worst case scenario is that no one watches my short film magic mushroom fun time, by the way, magic mushroom fun time, Christmas of this year, December 25th. That's what comes out. That's what I'm talking about, dude. It's going to be awesome. I'm going to be putting out more interviews as the weeks go by discussing the movie, discussing the model, discussing music and themes and cinema. It's all happening. And I just see an opportunity to be a part of getting into the mainstream. Hopefully, hopefully it's in, it's in that realm because I truly believe that it's going to be something that other people will, will copy and mimic and use and discover it for their, for themselves, man.
Like it's powerful. It's powerful. Like I don't have a lot of support this week, but that's how it goes. Like it's ups and downs. And you know, I'm just in my first year and a half of podcasting and I've made well over 300, 400 bucks from people and that's incredible. And it's all in the form of Satoshi's too. I've made over a million Satoshi's since I started the show and that is so in a different realm than anyone else can even comprehend. It's, it's something that even though I say right now there's like, I don't know, maybe 15 people who might get it.
I don't know, man. Like I, right now I just don't think people are getting it. And along with that, I continue to need to upgrade the value that I give. So that's where the feedback loop comes from, man. Like that's the big vision here. It's a huge vision and I just got to keep getting better at explaining it. So if you want to be, if you want to be a part of the value, if you want to be a part of the feedback loop, like chime on in, like be a part of it, man. If you got any opinions on health, if you have any value to give about the health narratives, if you can dispel any mystery within the health world, you know, I want to talk to you.
I want to talk to these people. I want to try to talk to everyone, you know, want to try to just figure it out. Got to figure out the craziness, man. And with that guys, that's it. That's it. I thought there's going to be more supporters. Usually I got my boy Joel W. I guess he's not around this week. Don't know where Joel's at, but that's the show. If you enjoyed it, let me know if you didn't know. Well, sorry. Sorry, dude. This is me. This is me, dude. This is, this is who I am. This is who this is. This is Cole. This is Cole McCormick, dude, signing off.
That's America plus bitch. Stay free.
