Name: Semaglutide, Kardashians, and Female Body Image
Uploaded: 2022-10-13T17:16:40.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Semaglutide, Kardashians, and Female Body Image' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-13. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Semaglutide, Kardashians, and Female Body Image' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-13. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- I was reading something that there's a lot of women
who are taking some new, there's some like an injection
that kills your appetite and they're doing it,
what is it called?
- I actually know exactly what you're talking about
because someone.
- What is it called?
- It mimics, had you had like the stomach surgery,
like in terms of appetite curbing.
- Right.
- I know this because yesterday someone told me
that someone they know got it.
- They were talking about the Kardashians
and they were talking about how they lose all this weight,
like the larger girl, what did you, Khloe?
They were saying that she's always had a problem with weight
and now she's ripped and that this is what
these people are taking.
She's larger.
You know the conspiracy on that one is?
- She's OJ Simpson's daughter?
- Yeah, that's a conspiracy.
- I don't, yeah, I'd buy it.
- I'd like to get a strand of her hair and run it through a lab.
- I bet you can, I bet they'd sell it to you.
- How much?
- I don't know, probably a million dollars.
- You just have to brush up against her.
- True, you probably couldn't get that close.
- No, security tackle you.
- I, there's that fine line, you know, as a woman,
it's like you don't want to win or whatever.
I have an issue with that whole family's ethos.
There were parts of them that I thought were so good,
the older parts, and I guess at the end of the day,
this goes back to, you know,
you can't have someone be your end all, be all.
Like whatever they do, these, they seem sad,
and they live in this bubble.
They probably have a lot of yes people.
I think as a consumer, put on your fucking hat
and realize like these people are not,
they're selling you tummy tea, detox tea, waist trainers.
These are people that are deeply unhappy with their bodies,
as most women are, but they're, they don't,
you don't have access to the same things they do.
So you can work out and diet all you want.
You're never gonna look like that.
And I think that's really hard for people
to wrap their mind around.
When you look at Instagram and stuff, it's really,
there's that disconnect, that cognitive disconnect of like,
no one looks like that, but I sure would like to try.
- Yeah.
- And this is not a happy person,
but this is also a person who's been called the larger one
and ugly and all these things her whole life.
So that's probably- - This is larger.
- She is larger. - That's what I said.
Psychologically, I'm not, it's not your fault.
Psychologically damaging, but-
- She's, this shot works.
- I can't believe people- - She's ripped now.
- I can't believe people keep buying into this.
- I haven't taken it yet.
- Is it that, is it that NFT?
- Are you gonna, are you worried about,
but is it, is your appetite bothering you?
- No, it wasn't that.
It's called, I believe this is what it's called.
- What's it called?
- Semaglutide is like the actual drug,
but there's like other names for it.
- Right there, how many times the Kardashians tried to sell us?
- I was trying to see if this is what
you were actually talking about with them.
- That is semaglutide is what I read, yeah.
- Yeah, so, no, I think I was, I asked them for like a weight loss
something because of the stuff I was taking.
I was like, I should be losing weight.
And they're like, oh, take this.
- Well, what are you eating, buddy?
- No, I changed my diet a little bit.
- First of all, you're not big.
- That's where I'm- - You're not a big boy.
- That's why I haven't taken it yet at all either.
- Can I say he's a big boy?
Is that all right?
- You can say he's a big boy.
- You can say big boy.
- You can say big boy, you can't say big girl.
- Big boy's a little, yeah.
- Yeah, it's less offensive.
- You can say big girl.
- My thing about the Kardashians is, this is my take,
is like human beings should have personal sovereignty
and someone shouldn't influence you that much.
Like if that bothers you so much that they're materialistic
and that they get their butts done, like that's on you.
And the problem though is I'm saying this
as a 55 year old wealthy man and I'm not influenced by them.
But if I was a young girl and I looked to them as being the,
like that's one of the things that really fucks with people
on social media is that you're looking at other people as,
these are examples of like what's ideal.
And then if your body doesn't match that,
if your lifestyle doesn't match that,
and then you have this horrible feeling
that you're not valuable, you're not worthy.
And so the problem is that a lot of people look
to these very wealthy people with all this plastic surgery
is that that is the highest level of achievement
because these are the most popular people,
the most social media and the most money
and it influences people in a negative way.
- I agree with all of it.
I agree with all of it.
You know, if you're younger, that's not your fault
that you are looking at that.
If you are older and we'll say like,
if you're in your thirties,
you have seen this family in particular,
but just in general, you've seen social media grow
and you've seen this family grow
and you've seen all of the snake oil over all this time.
So for you to be surprised or let down at this point
is really more an indictment on your intelligence.
- Yeah.
- Really?
Like you think the family that would sell
their own children for money,
you think the family that sold you tummy tea
and diarrhea pills, you think the family-
- They had diarrhea pills?
- Diarrhea pills.
You think this-
- But did they really have diarrhea pills?
- I think their detox tea gives you diarrhea.
- Does it?
- That's how you detox, you take a shit.
- I don't think that's the mechanism
involved in detoxification.
It's a detox tea, but you would also not take de-
That's why, it's not real.
- But what is it?
- Tummy teas, they make you take a dump.
- I literally have never-
- Dump it out, Joe.
- I've heard people say tummy tea.
The most thought I've given to it
is saying those words, just there.
I've never thought about it at all.
- Chances are it involves taking a shit.
- Do you know what it is?
- Even the semi-glutide is gonna make you have diarrhea.
- Where do you think these tides?
They gotta escape from somewhere.
- It's gotta go somewhere.
- Sweating out the fat like someone putting in work, and-
- But tummy tea, is that real?
What the fuck does that do?
Does it really just kill your appetite?
- This was like early 2000s Instagram marketing tummy tea.
These are like detox teas, and these family hair gummies,
everything, they push-
- Hair gummies.
- To make your hair grow, they sell everything.
- But isn't it collagen?
Like hair, it probably actually does help the health of hair.
- You can take biotin.
- Biotin.
- You know, but like I take biotin,
I'm never gonna have like lustrous pony hair.
Like it will grow in, I had like baby,
so it's like, you know what I look like?
All the hairs in the front broke.
You know how like Puerto Rican guys get like the Caesar?
Like it's a very like guido look.
That's what I have, like a full Caesar in the front.
'Cause your hair breaks, and it will never look great.
No matter how much biotin I take.
And so I think at a certain age, it's on you.
Like if you're still looking at these petulant women
as some source of inspiration, like that's on you.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I think so too.
But I think you're right about young people.
The thing that's fucked is that empty pursuit of fame
for no reason.
Like it used to be that if someone,
you know if you were younger and you look to some celebrity
that was a singer, Beyonce or whoever it was,
you're like, "God, I wish I was like her."
- Right.
- Well that's someone who's like putting out
like this incredible work of art
that affects millions of people.
They dance to it, they sing to it.
Like it's very inspirational and aspirational.
Like, God, that would be amazing to be like her.
She inspired me to get into music.
She inspired me to pursue my dreams.
But when the dreams are just like making money
and like sticking your ass out
and you know, and just taking these doctored pictures.
- I don't feel the need to defend this family.
The one thing I will say, you know, you have someone,
however this came about, made a sex tape
with a guy she was dating.
And that guy's obviously a scumbag.
I can respect that she didn't just lay down,
and I'm saying this is a joke, and take it.
Like that tape leaked or however they got a hold of it,
this was gonna be used against her.
This guy had the tape and he's had other tapes.
And to pivot, 'cause there are plenty of people
who have leaked sex tapes that have not risen
like a phoenix, right?
- Yeah.
- I can be okay with that and I can be okay with,
and I will say this,
and I feel like we've talked about this on the podcast,
but like, if you are not rail thin,
if you have thighs, if you are, you know,
and this is for a lot of women of color in particular,
but even if you're just a white girl
and you don't have Nordic model boy hips,
these women sort of champion dressing for your curves.
And when you don't see a reflection,
I'm a white upper middle class woman,
and I still almost am like brought to tears
when I put on jeans because my thighs are like a little big.
So they kind of made it okay,
and I can respect that.
But anything else, I'm just appalled at them.
But I can respect making it okay if you have naturally
the curvy body that they have surgery to get.
If you have a body like that,
I can respect creating a place where as a girl
you might feel okay about the body that you have.
- The fucked up thing about that whole skinny look,
like really scrawny look that some women think is attractive,
like men don't think it's attractive.
That's not something that guys like, in general.
- It actually has less to do with guys
and more to do with an inculcation of an ideal,
a brainwashing that is hard to unscrub,
and it has to do, I mean it's deeply--
- Isn't it from modeling photos?
Because models--
- Models hang.
- They're like hangers.
- The clothing hangs, and a lot of gay guys model,
and they model women's bodies after boys' bodies, right?
- This is all about how the clothes will hang,
and it's so built into our society to be smaller,
which ties to feminism and making yourself smaller,
but I cannot, even though I love my body,
like I look at those women and I'm like,
that's what you want.
- Really skinny?
- I'll never have it, it doesn't matter,
but most women, like it's just a brainwashing thing.
- You can't get out of that?
- You can acknowledge that that's unattainable,
but, and I talked about this in my standup forever ago,
like every girl looks at her body or like,
I just wanna lose five pounds.
Even if you don't need to, like it's a thing,
and it has less to do with being attractive to a man
and just being acceptable.
And most men, good guys, they don't think about women.
I always try to explain to women like,
the thing that what you're putting your body through
and what you're putting yourself through mentally
with thinking you're unacceptable,
most men aren't looking at you like that.
You at your worst, your husband's probably still like,
that looks really good, right?
Like if your wife didn't shave her legs perfectly,
are you gonna leave the room?
No.
And I think this has to do with self-esteem
and the way that we educate women
and the disinformation about their bodies,
vaginas, thighs, hips, all that stuff
that good men don't actually care about all that bullshit.