Episode 109: Let's Discuss that Grocery Store Guy: Bobby FlavCity
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In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah start off Season 7 with a bang and discuss one of those TikTok grocery store guys. This week, they discuss Bobby FlavCity. The girls discuss his educational style, supplement line, and series of exploiting his daughter for content. Tune in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube to listen.
Who is Bobby Parrish?
Bobby Parrish, known as Bobby FlavCity, is a popular social media personality, author, and chef known for his focus on “healthy cooking” and meal preparation. He gained fame through his online presence, where he shares recipes, cooking tips, and grocery shopping tips.
Bobby has a strong presence on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, where he shares cooking tutorials, grocery hauls, and lifestyle content related to food and health.
The Problem’s with Bobby’s Content
Fearmongering
One large issue with Bobby Parrish’s content is that it almost always utilizes fearmongering. Fear-mongering about food refers to the practice of spreading exaggerated or unsubstantiated fears or concerns about certain foods or food ingredients. While it can be helpful to be informed about the food we consume, fear-mongering can have several negative consequences:
Misinformation: Fear-mongering often involves spreading inaccurate or misleading information about food, which can confuse and misinform the public. This can lead to people avoiding nutritious foods unnecessarily or believing false health claims.
Stress and Anxiety: Constantly hearing fearful messages about food can create unnecessary stress and anxiety about eating, leading to a negative relationship with food and potential eating disorders.
Stigmatization: Fear-mongering can stigmatize certain foods or dietary choices, leading to judgment and shame among individuals who consume those foods. This can be especially harmful to those with dietary restrictions or medical conditions.
Distrust in Science and Experts: Exaggerated food fears can erode trust in scientific research and expert recommendations, making it more challenging for people to make informed decisions about their diets.
Reduced Variety in Diet: When people become overly fearful of certain foods or food groups, they may limit their diets unnecessarily, potentially missing out on essential nutrients and a diverse range of flavors and textures.
Profit Motives: Some fear-mongering campaigns are driven by profit motives, such as promoting specific diets or selling alternative products. These campaigns can exploit people's fears to sell products or promote a particular agenda.
It's important to approach food and nutrition with a balanced and evidence-based perspective. Relying on reputable sources of information, consulting with healthcare professionals or registered dietitians, and practicing moderation and variety in your diet can help you make informed and healthy food choices without succumbing to fear-mongering tactics.
Generational dieting
Bobby features his daughter, Rose, frequently in his content. Not only is this exploitation, as he is using her in social media content for the sole purpose of gaining likes, views, or followers, but he is increasing the risk of passing on nutrition misinformation and disordered eating onto her. This concept, known as generational dieting, refers to a pattern in which dieting behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs related to food and body image are passed down from one generation to the next within a family. This pattern can have significant impacts on the physical and emotional well-being of individuals and families. Here are some key aspects of generational dieting:
Shared Dieting Beliefs: In generational dieting, family members often share similar beliefs and attitudes about dieting, body image, and weight. These beliefs can include the idea that thinness is ideal, that certain foods are "good" or "bad," or that one should always be striving to lose weight.
Dieting Practices: Family members may engage in similar dieting practices, such as restrictive eating, calorie counting, or participating in fad diets. These practices are often passed down as part of a family's culture or way of life.
Impact on Children: Children in families where generational dieting is prevalent may be particularly vulnerable to developing unhealthy relationships with food and their bodies. They may grow up with a heightened focus on appearance and may adopt restrictive eating habits at a young age.
Cycle of Dieting: Generational dieting can perpetuate a cycle in which family members repeatedly try and fail at diets, leading to weight cycling (the repeated loss and regain of weight). This cycle can have negative effects on physical health and can contribute to the development of eating disorders.
Emotional Impact: Dieting and body image concerns can have a profound emotional impact on individuals and families. It can lead to feelings of guilt, shame, low self-esteem, and anxiety.
Unregulated supplements
Although Bobby frequently demonizes processed, he naturally has his own line of supplements. This is ironic because supplements are high processed and unregulated like food products are. His supplements are also not third party tested even though he notes the importance of third party testing of supplements in some of his videos.
Learn more about our thoughts on supplements by tuning in to this episode.
Bottom line
Bobby Parrish, known as Bobby FlavCity, is a popular content creator known for recipe creation as well as his review of popular grocery store finds. Unfortunately, Bobby uses food fearmongering and misinformation within his content and he is not a qualified source of nutrition information.
Related episodes:
Episode 96: Almond Moms & Generational Dieting w/ Brenna O'Malley
Episode 93: Gwyneth Paltrow's Harmful Contributions to Diet Culture
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if you think plant-based butter is good for you think again hello everyone we're
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here to save you from that scary man that you just heard don't worry you're
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here to stay don't worry you're listening to the right podcast this is the upbeat
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dietitians podcast but we're going to talk about him today yes we are we are
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talking about Bobby Parrish otherwise known as is it flave City or flaccity have you ever liked it was actually
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gonna I was gonna share this with you I didn't want to share it off Mike because like this would be something funny to
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share you know how I have a history of like mispronouncing Words um ass as part of how do you say
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aspartame as far to me that's part of me yes I just now real well not just just
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now after looking into Bobby a little bit more I realized I think it's flave City based off of the capital like f and
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c yeah but I've just been reading it as like full of the city or like
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like what a weird name to have like Bobby flavicity
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I'm like oh my gosh probably like Flavor City ice is that what it's supposed to
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mean I didn't think it was publicity but I didn't know if it was slave City or not I didn't know that was like I mean
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what else would it be I don't know I think I would have included the e in there if I was branding myself as flame
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city I don't get it because like that's like his handle is flave City
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but then like he uses a lot of stuff regarding his name Bobby for his marketing which we'll get to oh
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like Bobby approved and all that very interesting anyway
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we can move on we can move on from there that is awesome but before we get into
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it more let's do some housekeeping real quick um this is the season premiere of season
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seven so welcome season seven guys yeah hope you enjoyed our throwback episodes and
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the Montage you heard last week that was probably a blast to listen to at the time that we're recording this now I
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haven't made the Montage yet but I have high hopes for it it's gonna be great I think so and let me know if it was it's
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just like really confusing timing why my brain just kind of like unable to grasp
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where we're at but yeah we're like multiple months in the future but
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we have to remember what happens between yeah and like there's stuff that we're gonna do that we haven't done yet that
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you guys know we have done very trippy
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but anyway but right welcome to season seven they don't know yeah right now they don't yes in August welcomes
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plus meds let's get into it because we already like scared you guys
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are you thinking that someone took over our podcast um but we're here and this is uh so
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we're okay and we're safe and we have not been abducted unless we do get abducted in the next two months
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that's true there are aliens confirmed you know what aliens probably wouldn't
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even want to abduct us they'd be like they're too messed up mentally unwell
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yeah we're not gonna mess with them like
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City because I that is that is who he is I like no one ever says his name okay
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which is kind of weird because you have a very close Bobby in your life but yes so
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Mr oh today we were talking about one Bobby
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after this we'll probably never mention him again hopefully so Bobby
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if you do are not familiar have not been acquainted with him besides the clip we
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played he is a content creator very well known on YouTube and Tick Tock he also
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writes cookbooks he's a blogger and most
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importantly he is a little businessman he has some supplements
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um he sells his cookbooks obviously um yeah and that's who he is he went to
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school for business I thought he went to school I went to I thought he went to culinary school based off of what he
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talks about but it was about school for business not nutrition
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and overall he is worth over five million dollars
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I just think that Bobby would be a little bit upset that you called him a little businessman
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I'm strictly I'm in my uh I haven't seen the Barbie
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movie yet to me either by the time this has come out I will have but
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I'm in my between like that and how the Barbie movie and Taylor Swift are the
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two things keeping the economy afloat I'm in my like man-hating phase I don't
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I think I don't think I'm entering it I think I've been in it for a while but it's really coming out today yeah yeah
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Bobby would not love that but I think it's a great way to describe him he is very well known for his grocery
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store reviews most of the videos that you've probably seen if you have seen him Ben acquainted as Emily says
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um you've probably seen him in a grocery store holding up a certain food and talking about how it's
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Bobby approved or not and Bobby approved is really kind of his
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thing like that's what his followers know and like how they talk about food is if it's Bobby approved or not and
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we're going to get to why maybe that's not so great in a little bit um but yeah he's on Tick Tock he's on
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YouTube he has something called his Bobby approved app so like you can scan
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foods and it will tell you if it's Bobby approved or not which again will get into that more
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um Emily you included this YouTube do you want to talk about that at all um I just I just think it really depicts
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a good picture of who he is um we could just list them all we I feel like we're gonna go into all these
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throughout the episode but just to start it off what he
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promotes and what this is like directly from his source so we're not this is not
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our interpretation he will say if you follow him you'll learn how to shop for
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the best quality items at the grocery store you will learn how to eat the better
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nope you will learn how to eat that is this a type okay hold on I copy and
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pasted this hold on a second I'm going to his YouTube right now I'm like I am not Bobby flevisity you have a typo
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in your back oh
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okay it is I I was like I directly copied this oh you heard it here first
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folks this is what it says I am not misinterpreting it it says you will
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learn how to eat the better and help eliminate inflammatory oils and process
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sugars from your diet how to eat the better little businessman
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my fat booty not even proofreading your YouTube bio
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where you have over 4 million subscribers dang I'm already confused but anyway
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this is already that was fun you all know I love grammar so this is
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like really getting me going yeah yeah the last thing he claims is you'll learn
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about his Best in Class protein smoothies electrolytes and other shop
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blade City products or other shop flavicity I can't now you've ruined it
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for me I can't think of anything besides full history I this has been my life like this is inside my head since I have
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discovered him online you're a chronic reader is what it is where you read and read and read but then like you don't
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say the words I don't say anything out loud I literally don't say anything out loud so it's all in my head and then I
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start talking I'm like oh that's not that's not how people say things that's funny
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so if that suggests it flows better publicity I feel like publicity it kind
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of like this might be I'm also gonna ruin this I
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don't know sometimes when I'm really reading his stuff fast not that I don't read it fast
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I just like skim over the words I read flaccidity
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yeah I mean I feel like it tracks
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yeah so those that's who he is to me publicity or flaccidity
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wow it doesn't I think it has Tick Tock doesn't let you put caps in it your
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username so like whenever he comes up he doesn't come from my for you page because I have a very nicely curated for
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you page so he will not come up it's just like people stitching him typically
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but I see it and that's I think he needs to change his brand I
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little businessman really a little flaccid businessman
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oh my gosh all right we need to move on because I feel like all we've done has been a
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bully I know we're already like to the part of our outline where we go into the issues but we've already discovered that
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he doesn't know grammar and that he is a flaccid little man
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yeah maybe Bobby is very kind but
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in terms of nutrition there's a lot going wrong there mm-hmm
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let's talk about the issues instead of just attacking him for his grammar and his Poor's choice in username yes okay
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so one of the first issues honestly well these are all these are all bad
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I won't say it's the worst one because they're all bad but most of his content
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is so viral and popular because it utilizes fear-mongering we talk about all the time Emily and I
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do whether it's on or off here I don't really know about how like our content tends to not go viral
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all the time because I mean there are other reasons too besides this piece maybe we just have bad
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content I don't know but we don't use fear-mongering and fear-mongering always goes viral like almost every single time
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it's kind of crazy like even though I don't like fear Monger Foods I will post like controversial stuff sometimes and
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those posts are always the ones that have a higher likelihood of going viral it's like you post like the opposite of
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beer mongering yeah and but it's still like controversial so
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yeah but fear-mongering like any time I see it like it always does so well because this is
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so polarizing and so definitive that there's no gray area and like dietitians
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typically don't live in the gray or we do we do live in the grave we don't live in the black and white that's how like
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Nutrition Works is like it is so great there's hardly anything that I can think of that is like one way or the other
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when it comes to nutrition except for like obvious stuff like but
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even this like also like water is good for you but like even that people will say something about like I saw a video
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yesterday there were demonizing different types of bottled water and saying that you should only choose like this brand over this brand it's like
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even water I guess gets controversy so a lot of like weird water elitism
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it's yeah I don't know but yes I agree yes everything
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almost everything we'll say because we probably can't think of every nutrition issue or nutrition topic is gray in the
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world of nutrition and a lot of his content is fear-mongering
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and it's fear-mongering like specific ingredients and he's like oh don't buy
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this buy this instead it's Bobby approved I actually haven't watched a lot of his content so I don't know if he
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sounds like that I'm this is all my interpretation because it makes me like
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quiver that's the wrong word it makes me not quiver
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definitely not quiver what's the absolute quiver makes me stand still
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yeah it's bone chilling is what I meant to say yes
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but the thing is he'll like demonize one ingredient and then he'll sell the exact
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same thing like his supplements are wild did you look looking into the ingredient
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list oh yeah I looked in the ingredient list I'm like bro it's bad it's just because you put
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you're saying it's Bobby approved that's literally like most of the push for it and that you put some like
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anti-inflammatory and like all these like now eye candy words like what are like
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there we go there we go yeah did you see the one video I think
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it was from okay so there's someone that I want to kind of plug his name is the plant slant he's become very popular
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lately he's like grown so fast we like him we like him he's an RG to be
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um and he has like his whole I know I don't know he's like he works in sleep medicine I think he might be like a
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second degree kind of guy oh dang anyway he's been growing so fast because all he
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does well he does a lot of stuff but a lot of his content is reviewing Bobby and he has been like taking him down I
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love it I love it he's grown from like 20 000 followers to like 450 something
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and like oh my gosh a few months yeah good for him the hero we needed I know
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so he's the one I was watching a lot of his videos today when I was kind of researching this stuff and he made one
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about one of Bobby's protein powders where on the front it has all these buzzwords one of them is it's a nut-free
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protein powder flip it over to the back and you see that it contains coconuts which are
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classified as a tree nut and it's also been processed in a nut containing facility
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so like if you have enough allergy and you just see that Buzzard on the front you're like okay cool I'm good to go but
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then you actually get this product and you if you're highly allergic can definitely get a reaction out of that
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just like so frustrating with like the label regulations of everything which is
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another thing so Bobby has content talking about how supplements aren't great because they're not third party
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tested which obviously we agree with that but then his own supplements aren't
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third-party tested so he talks about how bad that is to not have third party testing but then
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doesn't do it himself I'm a silly little man silly little flaccid man
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oh it's just like so on brand every time we do like one of these we haven't done
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a lot of these like influencer reviews yeah um but it's just so on brand where like
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they demonize something and then they just sell the exact same thing just with
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their approval on it or they say something and it just like they do the exact opposite of or like the exact same
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thing exactly um can we talk about this next bullet point I did not know did you see this
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about this no okay so he posted a video talking about juice and like which juice
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to buy in the grocery store as Bobby does and a woman in the comments was asking
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something about like the gestational diabetes glucose test you have to take when you're pregnant about like what
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like 20 weeks or something like that yeah and they were asking if like these juices would be a good alternative to
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the glucose like juice doesn't make you drink for the test and Bobby said don't take that test it is insane
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he told him not to test for gestational diabetes Bobby the little businessman with no medical
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credentialing whatsoever was telling people to not take the gdm
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test he had to have made so many gynecologists OB gyns endocrinologists
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mad oh yeah that's like blew up for a minute I'm surprised you didn't hear about it it like was a big thing for a while I like really actively avoid his
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face so like even if someone's reviewing him I probably won't watch it because I I
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like don't want to see him bone chilling yeah
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oh my gosh yeah that just like makes me so mad
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because like he doesn't know anything about gestational diabetes
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right he's not even a woman not that like you obviously like men can be doctors even though I would for the rest
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of my life I will be going to a female OB GYN we have never discussed this have we I I wanted to know how you felt about
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gynecologists I am there I would like
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I would not feel safe like I've heard human stories yeah
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like most of my doctors are women the only one that's a man
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because I'm just gonna share my health history because my cardiologist but
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that's because I've been going to him since I was like three years old yeah he's technically a Pediatric
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Cardiologist I should not be seeing him anymore but we're waiting for uh a heart
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murmur to clear up otherwise and it's not clearing up so if something
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happens to me cardiovascular wise that's what it was oh my God just to let you
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know no no one really knows about this I I don't tell my friends but there's a
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heart one of my valves doesn't shut all the way it like actually comes it like back flows a little bit oh
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and apparently in your 20s is okay I'll I'll for you in a second
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apparently in your 20s and like early 30s is when this issue is supposed to
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resolve hence why I'm still seeing my Pediatric Cardiologist
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um and it just hasn't resolved and there's nothing I can do about it it just like either decides to like fix
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itself or like not fix itself so like if it doesn't what happens I
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don't know I'm like does it open more and I have more backflow blood into my heart yeah what does that mean then like
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do I have an enlarged heart do I need to like I I literally don't know
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huh wow but he is a man and I trust him with my life
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because I've been going to him since I was a child and he was literally like you know you could see in a like an adult
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and I'm like kind of like we were talking about before recording like I'm going my same dentist I'm going to my
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home doctor office we're sticking through it my PCP was there the day I
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was born like I've seen the same PCP my entire life it's a bit of a drive to go
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it's like half hour from where I lived now but they've known me for 26 years so
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yeah you just know yeah how do you feel about male gynecologists
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um same I I think the only way I would would be if I like knew them my entire
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life like if my PCP who was a male was also my gynecologist or like he did my
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appointments in that area I'd feel a little weird about it just because my mom works for him and I like
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he's like a family friend at this point so that'd be the only weird thing but in terms of like knowing him my entire life that'd be the
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only way I think I'd be comfortable with it and of course I want to say that of course women can you know
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do bad things too during these appointments not just a male thing
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but it tends to be the majority of how those cases occur
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so yeah my mine's a female probably will always be she's the cutest I love her yeah
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I love mine she's actually a nurse practitioner and we talk about running oh nice and
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she doesn't make it awful yeah because it's not a plus an experience oh no it's terrible but it helps having a nice
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doctor or yeah NP yeah let's move on to the next point
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because I have a lot of things to say about this oh okay let's talk about almond dads yes
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a lot of his content posts include his
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daughter I assume or a small child yeah her name is Rose I think okay
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so if we're gonna look past the bladed exploitation of a child for
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entertainment that's what I asked the list went oh my gosh look at us we're just on the same page oh my gosh
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um so looking past that we're she cannot consent to this
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um it's like teach he teaches her morality around food and like
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essentially like quizzes her like oh is this food good or bad or like you shouldn't eat this to a young girl who
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how old do you think she is I feel like she's like around eight or ten less I'd say less than ten but between 6 and 10
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was my guess but definitely young and very impressional very yes in a very um
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high risk age for eating disorders but
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he like is teaching her basically everything he
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teaches everyone else on the internet but like makes videos with her so that like when
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she's like she knows the right answer that he says he's essentially just
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ingraining this like fear of food and morality around food mindset
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that's is going to affect her in the long run
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mm-hmm and like yeah I call this an almond Dad we talked about almond moms before but of course
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dads can be almond parents as well this is just like classic generational
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dieting where like he's gonna hand down all of these behaviors because obviously he has some disorder eating if he is
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like making his videos unless he's just doing it for his business which I guess could be the case but I'm guessing it's a little bit
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authentic I feel like that's the case but yeah yeah it came from somewhere well he does show his fridge sometimes
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and it tracks with his his rules although his rules are very
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contradictory which we'll get to in a minute um but yeah this is not actually going
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to make his daughter or anyone that watches his videos eat healthier that's not what this content results in most of
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the time it just leads to disordered eating behaviors fear around food all I don't think thinking around food
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like viewing it as good or bad putting food on pedestals like this just makes things worse it
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does not actually help anyone eat healthier especially not kids no it's
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really damaging and I'm like nervous for her
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I hope that when she turns 18 she can write a tell-all book that's what I'm excited that's what I want to happen
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with every single child that has been exploited on the internet for regular content creation I want them to write a
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book and I will read all of their books and support them all right
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it's just so harmful and tough to watch it's like
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it's uh yeah it's so bad it's so bad and some people that follow him only are
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really there because of her because of Rose the daughter like it's like proof is in the pudding kind
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of thing that he is exploiting her for views because people are there because Rose is there
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and she's a cute little girl and they get to see how he is feeding her people love to see how others feed their
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kids which is a whole other thing to talk about there I have discovered a tick tock account
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that I was very confused why it was getting pushed on my page because I
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[Laughter] but it I don't know you've probably seen
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me at some point I don't I don't know if I'm just becoming really popular or not well they apparently have millions of views so they've been popular but
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um it starts it always starts off with this like young girl eating food and
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then it like does different slides to like or no no it's not the girl it's
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like a picture of a lunch like Bento boxing where that's like and then it
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shows like this is what so and so ate for lunch today and then it's another slide to like this this and this and the
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entire account was just showing what she feeds her children there I don't know if
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it's a woman I will say their children because I don't know who the owner of the I did not dive that deep but the
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entire account is just what I feed my child and it's like something feels weird about that very
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interesting to me and like a lot of the food isn't like not like children can have sophisticated
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tastes I guess but most often times
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from what I've seen I am not a mother myself so I can't speak on it firsthand
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but it's not always that way and they don't always eat just what's put in front of
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their plate but like the food choices are like almost like I would say like more
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sophisticated than like what I eat and not to say that I am a very
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happy person who really has my life together and it creates fancy food but
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it was interesting though like I feel like you can do a whole deep dive into like
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the parent culture online it's like what I eat today for kids it's
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weird and then like I bet parents start comparing like oh I need to feed my kid
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this and like am I not as good of a parent if I'm not feeding them this way Bobby makes that
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happen like I saw a video with rose talking about veggie straws and he's like so many parents feed their kids
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these veggie straws they get their vegetables but they're actually just starch and oil like that's just a direct
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slam to parents who decide to feed their kids veggie straws which is totally fine by the way yeah and so those parents
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feel guilty about it they spend an extra fifty dollars on the alternative which
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is a dramatic thing to say but it's true in a way I mean it probably adds up after a couple trips exactly I did see
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some comments people saying how much they're spending on groceries now because of Bobby and it's like
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exponentially greater because all of his Alternatives of course are so expensive his protein powder
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um the plant slant guy that I said I like he talks about it a lot
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for a protein powder it's macronutrient ratio is just like all off it has like
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25 grams of protein like 11 grams of sugar I don't know how many total carbs
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but 11 grams of sugar which is a lot for a protein powder especially from Bobby who Slams on sugar and like almost every
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video in like 250 calories which for that many
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grams of protein it usually is a lot less for a protein powder because it has yeah very little fat and carbs
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so like where was I going with this we were talking about
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I don't know where I was going but I think it goes about the oh the price of it it's like 60 bucks for like 20
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servings which is just absurd I'm not even surprised which I guess
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it's a good segue into our next piece about supplements unless do you have more to say about his almond dad Behavior
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nope I feel like we've we've beat that dead record
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so yes I feel like yeah supplements a lot of them I actually
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want to get on this website right now because I haven't perused it too in depth I'm just gonna it's wild it says
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publicity everywhere for almost a day for visiting I feel like every influencer ever
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that in some way demonizes food has a supplement has a supplement line which is so ironic yes
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every in some way or another the irony there is like uncanny
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I don't know if I'd ever see myself selling supplements I'd like try to imagine like what would I make the only
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thing I would make is protein powders but if they like actually tasted like
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just what they said like if that was a way to figure out like how to make like what I want like a carrot cake protein
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powder but it legitimately tasted like that I would I'd be Pro solely making it
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for my own interest you need to partner up with food science babe and figure out the food science behind that so you have
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the flavors and like the nutrition component of it like the ratios of macros and all that and then food
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science babe could help figure out the food science yeah honestly I'd probably just do it to like
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and this I'm like I'm like wait is this deity that I'm doing I'm like easy ways to like Flavor like smoothies or like
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make like at-home milkshakes yeah yeah I when I was much more focused in
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my business on like the personal training side of things I definitely like thought about like wanting to do
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that in the future and I I do I would really like to get more into the fitness side of things business-wise in the future
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because I do really have a passion for that and it's a credential I have but I
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don't know now that I would want to sell supplements because I think I I know too much
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yeah I think it would depend on what it was like maybe like a for fun thing I could
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see that yeah like oh I just feel it the tub stops
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yeah if we could like I don't know what we'd even make what would I want to make I would want to make something that's
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dairy free so it doesn't hurt my tummy I'd rather make food though than supplements like we have like a
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dairy-free ice cream line or something oh okay you're right we're we're just gonna do that we'll do that
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oh that'd be so on brand for us because then you and all your ice cream and I can eat it because it won't
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be painful oh that'd be so funny yeah and also when we have our coffee shop we'll have like all of them we can have
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an ice cream bars yes with like toppings oh my gosh that's
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what I've always wanted well no I can't say I always wanted it I'm saying this as in right now I've decided
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I love like the Froyo shops for the toppings but what if we did like an ice cream bar
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and then like you get to choose your timing an ice cream tastes way better than Froyo
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oh I you disagree I might I think excuse me
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about his question okay okay you can speak your truth now I'll
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it's not even a comparison of the things it's only because I associate Froyo with like an ungodly amount of toppings yeah
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and I only eat Froyo for the toppings I don't eat it for the Froyo true true so
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it's not a direct comparison I'm also curious to know which we'll save it for a Bono's question your thoughts on like
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ice cream versus custard versus gelato okay
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next time tune in yeah bud
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but yeah I think again it's back to the point very ironic that almost every
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single influencer that is demonizing Foods and the reason why it's so ironic if
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you're kind of like wondering why it haven't caught quite gone so the reason there is they demonize all these foods and
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ingredients that are regulated but supplements aren't like there is no governing body
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making sure supplements actually have accurate labels and like safe
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ingredients in there so if you're gonna demonize something I say demonized supplements I know I do
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yeah it's and most times it's like just such an obvious like money grab like yes I like
34:58
don't eat this but take my like they can't sell you food the closest thing they can probably sell you to food
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unless they had like a specific brand like our future dairy free ice cream
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um is like a cookbook but it's much easier I feel to say like oh take this
35:16
one supplement then like cook my recipes like from like a convenience standpoint
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the supplements are gonna need much easier to take probably not as
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cost efficient as buying a cookbook and making that but
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it's like typically not it's normally money driven and that's our next issue
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with him is everything he posts is an advertisement what was I trying to say
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here the common peas
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who knows it but like everything is like this is
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Bobby approved like almost every single post and then like he'll be like I don't know if he does this I don't watch
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enough of his posts so I could be speculating but the Bobby approved motif
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is directly correlated to his app and which he makes money off of
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yeah and a lot of times too like even without the app like of course that's a big part of
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it because of course he recommends Foods on the app that he makes money off of somehow there's one video where he is
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talking about like nut milks like almond milk specifically and talking about the emulsifiers and the added sugar and all
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of that and there's like one popular brand of almond milk that he talks about that has
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like three grams of added sugar which of course he's like that is not Bobby approved but then what he does recommend
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is a brand called Kiki milk and it ends up or it turns out that's the right word it turns out that he is
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an investor in the company of Kiki Miller oh I I have heard this yep and
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that Kiki milk has like five grams of sugar per like serving so he does not approve of
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the three grams of the cheaper alternative that he has not invested for but Kiki which he's an investor for has
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more sugar but he's an investor so go nuts and definitely buy that one instead
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it's like it takes like a couple minutes just to dive into it a little bit but it's so
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so obvious I'm looking at the label of it right now
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um the plant slant was like a good way to know if a food is Bobby approved or
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not is if he gets somehow paid by you I think I've seen that video really I like
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that sounds like very if he's like grown a lot you've probably seen him he's been like booming lately
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okay I think I have seen him Liam mm-hmm he goes hard on Bobby
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oh he probably hates it probably hates Liam it makes me laugh so much for like this
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guy needs to leave me alone trying to make money and
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I'm trying to scam these people but he's not he's getting my he's challenging me
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I hope Liam gets more followers than he does I hope so too
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I hope Liam takes him down um
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yeah it's just so money driven as this classic times it is classic
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and our last issue is
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like all this like controversial like polarizing claims he makes are like
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typically not even accurate he just says things they're just straight up like no
38:57
sources like obviously no educational background unless I I cannot imagine him
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like doing any type of like reading a research study or like
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looking into like oh picture him like doing a nutrition
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counseling session that's what I like to picture could this person
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could they work with like an actual human being like I imagine like my eating disorder patients and like if
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Bobby was trying to do that job insane he thinks he oh it'd be so bad he
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would make it worse it'd be so bad but yeah not only is it oftentimes false but he also contradicts
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himself all the time all the time again Liam the plant slant has made tons of
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funny videos about this where he'll like show different clips of Bobby saying like cane sugar is good here unless it's in
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this product here like it just totally depends on the product apparently usually again if Bobby's making money
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somehow off of it um there's one that I thought was hilarious that I don't think it was from
40:07
Liam I actually saw it on Bobby's page but he starts out by saying sugar is so
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bad I don't care what type of sugar it is do not eat sugar and then he goes into what I recommend for sugar is this
40:19
coconut sugar it just like doesn't make sense it's insane another one I see
40:27
a lot is processed foods he'll say like this baking cocoa is highly processed do
40:33
not eat it eat this one instead but then he'll talk about these corn tortilla chips that you can
40:39
eat instead or that you can eat because of Robbie approved which are obviously a processed food no one just like is
40:45
growing corn tortilla chips cool that'd be great like a quarantine
40:51
to your chip Farm a chip cheese hello that'd be amazing for a bush but like
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maybe a bush plant I think that yeah they've probably Thrive best like low to
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the ground I feel like if they are high like they'd fall on and break they'd crack yeah the plant would adapt to be a
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bush I agree it wouldn't be underground because that'd be too much pressure on the chip no
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yeah and then like all of his supplements are very processed so yes he
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just doesn't it's only when it's convenient for him and like GMOs or as other big thing oh
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my gosh this isn't on our list but he always talks about like GMO milk
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and GMO eggs and he even says like even though they are not like a crop that you
41:40
can grow they are GMO because they are feeding the chickens and feeding the cows GMO feed and so Liam the plant
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slant which we're going to tag in the notes by the way um I need to go stock Williams you do I
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was cracking up today when I was looking at him um he's like that's like saying if I ate these GMO soybeans that my sperm would
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be GMO sperm and a a sperm bank could say we don't want your sperm because it is GMOs verb
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oh my gosh yeah what yeah like the food you eat like if a cow eats GMO feed it does not
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making GMO milk that's not how yeah so we don't we don't become
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that yeah oh my gosh what a mess so
42:28
yeah that's Bobby Felicity I could go on for hours I'm like I hate this guy can I
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say that I don't like him at all I yeah
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I I yeah his comments are interesting like
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there's I'd say like I don't know the ratios but a good portion of them are like yes
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yes Bobby you are making my life so much better I'm so much healthier because of you and the other I don't know let's say
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30 or like you're wrong like saying what we're saying kind of stuff
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I just don't always it's good and that's why I just like don't get don't get going like if I was getting
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comments I do get comments sometimes obviously saying that I'm in the wrong and I sometimes am I'm sure like if it's
43:16
constant like that wouldn't you like questions like you just stop reading comments yeah that's
43:21
that's all I can imagine them do is like they don't read comments but like or someone else is managing it like say say
43:29
like tud our business like we received news and we got to the conclusion that
43:36
what we were doing is like completely wrong unethical like our approach to
43:41
nutrition was just like invalid would we keep doing this or would we
43:47
like either switch gears or like shut this down like I get so stressed like the minute I find out like something I'm
43:54
doing is wrong and I feel like you're the same way like I change like how I talk or like what I do or how do I
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interact with people I feel like I don't know maybe like I I feel like
44:07
it's a lack of like caring like sympathy like morals
44:13
yeah which since we're in this time period right
44:18
now I don't know if you've seen any of the like memes about like Oppenheimer or like do
44:25
you do you know have you ever seen that girl on Tick Tock who like she like
44:31
explains like complicated Concepts but like you know like I love her like with she like
44:38
always holds it from here she's walking yes I've seen her I love her it's like always for the girls she did a very nice I'm gonna I'm gonna
44:45
tie this into it don't worry I'm not just bring him up um she did a nice breakdown of the Opera
44:53
higher movie and she's like if you're too like hot to sit in a movie like
44:58
physically attractiveness-wise this is it in a movie for three hours about an atomic
45:05
bomb um and she ends it which apparently like
45:10
people have actually seen it and like there are people that literally were like yeah I study like International Affairs in this like
45:16
bring like something up pretty well where she's like it took building a
45:21
nuclear weapon and killing I think it was say 150 200 000 people for a man to
45:29
learn empathy and I'm like that that checks out a lot yeah in law's
45:36
situations so like Bobby seems like
45:42
like he's making some emphasis yeah he does not care he probably has like all
45:48
this Investments set up so he's like if anything goes wrong I got my money I don't care
45:54
I don't care what I'm doing to my people's relationship with food or my daughter
46:00
I don't care that I'm he doesn't care that he's explaining his daughter that's like all I need to know yeah about him as a person
46:07
like I hadn't thought about this topic until social media and the people started like
46:14
showing their kids a lot but like if I had kids which please know God
46:20
um I would like from birth like I'm not showing them I would not show them
46:26
no and it's like I don't know like people I feel like
46:32
people get like so sucked into it where they're like oh my gosh so many people want to watch my child do things and
46:39
then you just keep doing that and you just like forget the effect I can have on a child like
46:44
they don't know what's they can't comprehend what's happening like the brain is not developed yeah
46:51
I I wouldn't post anything like not on Facebook for my friends to see like no
46:56
nothing no like not even like exploiting them for Content like even just like showing them I don't feel comfortable
47:02
with people are creepy on the internet and like the amount of things I've seen were
47:08
like it's typically young girls like pictures are getting saved and stuff like that
47:14
I'm like so weird have you seen the ones where they show the follower count and it's like mostly
47:20
males follow the account I've seen there was this one account maybe a year ago or so where like the
47:26
amount is saves on the tick tocks were disgusting like it was like
47:33
like a gross amount and it was like you looked at like who was following
47:39
this person you're like oh [Music] so yeah I do not know how I could do
47:46
that to a child no especially like now that it's like talked about again like I didn't even
47:52
like I wouldn't have thought about that like if I had kids five years ago I probably would have posted them but like in this day and age
48:00
with the willful ignorance yes that's all that is you gotta like yeah like the info the facts are out
48:07
there at this point like people are choosing to ignore it yeah gross
48:13
so anyway about exploitation let's talk about let's end this one
48:20
um glad I brought that up though because like that's something that he does that's such a big problem aside from
48:25
just the food part of all this yeah and it will have like long lasting effects
48:34
poor Rose someone save her um but let's finish this up so why should
48:43
we care if something is Bobby approved when he has no idea what he's talking about because
48:50
he it's like I was about to say it's so easy to get a big following LOL
48:56
that's why we did it when people are making these really
49:03
controversial polarizing claims over and over and again it's a it's easier to get
49:09
a lot of attention like when you're making definitive statements even like even if you're wrong like
49:16
people it's just it's the confidence and it's the certainty that like is so like
49:23
like attracts people to that it's like oh this person knows what they're talking about and he's like well spoken
49:28
and like like he knows what is talking about he seems trustworthy if you don't know what to look for yeah
49:35
yeah but this is why we're constantly educating you guys on digging a little
49:42
bit deeper looking into their background that's always like the first thing I do but
49:47
then like also it's just so harmful that's why we care the most
49:53
is like honestly I don't I am annoyed by how much money he makes by it but it's because he's like
49:59
exploiting people's fears yeah and his child but because he has such a big following
50:06
and he has so much influence he can like change people's lives
50:14
which is kind of scary when someone who's making you increase your
50:20
grocery bill and then you don't have enough money to pay for rent or your medical bills or whatever it is but
50:27
because you trusted someone who came off as trustworthy like you put your faith in them and that's
50:33
not on you it's on him because he is abusing his power yeah exactly yeah it's it's not a bad
50:41
thing to have a popular successful business and to make money but it is a
50:47
problem if you do it like this and you'd like knowingly which I'm again
50:53
speculating here but I'm guessing he knows at this point all the comments that he receives and all the stitches and the Duets on Tick Tock like there's
51:01
got to be at least an inkling that he knows that what he's doing is incorrect unethical yeah immoral
51:10
bone chilling quick side note I know we're finishing
51:17
this up I prom I promise I will make this quick why is he not belonged to
51:22
Liam yet I'm just thinking of that I was like oh one of Liam's videos today and
51:27
Liam said that someone keeps reporting him and all the comments were like oh it's probably Bobby reporting you and
51:33
he's like oh yeah you're right it probably is so I don't know I don't know if maybe he has and Liam is like getting his videos
51:39
from someone else who Bobby hasn't blocked if maybe leave another account or something
51:46
which is actually very smart it is pretty easy to get them yeah that is
51:51
very because I'm sure Bobby has blocked him I'm sure of it he just can't figure out
51:58
which one yeah there's other followers says Liam in disguise
52:04
okay sorry that was my side point I was like every two I feel like every time I'd see
52:11
like this person Stitch your video I just get so mad yeah
52:17
yeah but that's have you ever gotten stitched I have was it good or bad
52:25
I rarely get stitched away but it was one of my favorite stitches
52:31
and then they deleted it like after an hour or so because it was like stupid I
52:37
might have talked to you about this I think I remember this but one of my favorite stitches
52:42
because I like was ready to like roast this person I remember this yes it was
52:48
about like like it was like a year or two ago my like Jim Bros post like
52:54
um I don't even know what I said in it I to I could not remember what I said in it but it was like something I like Jim
53:00
Rose like probably fear-mongering food when they should be like looking at
53:05
themselves from a disoriented standpoint like something like that like the call is coming from inside the house yeah and
53:13
this guy just stitched it with like just like from here to here him flexing
53:21
and his my muscles are bigger than his and I don't work out my apartment I
53:28
remember oh my God I was tackling foreign
53:36
like at the time I was like still pretty like new to hate comments you know yeah
53:41
so I was like what is like what is this but then like I was like wait this is so
53:47
funny and they took it down I wonder why maybe they got comments from your people that were like bro it
53:55
was out for less than 12 hours like I was so upset they took I should have I
54:01
should have stitched it quicker but or downloaded it at least
54:07
but it was funny I enjoyed that that was amazing I forgot about that
54:13
I know you get stitched I have has anyone ever flexed what's your favorite
54:18
Stitch I don't I can't think back so I kind of want to like want to look like my own stitches I think you could do
54:24
that on tick tock I don't know they're all kind of running together they're all the same just like telling
54:31
me that I'm prone to obesity you know the usual how boring how boring I should switch it
54:37
up and start flexing be more creative start flexing like Emily's haters
54:42
oh that was so fun it's amazing I love that but yeah so that's Mommy we're gonna do
54:50
more influencer reviews in the future just because these are so fun and
54:56
it's gaspi we love talking about fun but also devastating yeah a little bit sad um but we have to
55:04
laugh otherwise we'll just spiral yeah you know well season seven off to a good start
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