Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day: New Cheaper Weight Loss Drugs, Two People Charged with Allegedly Selling Stolen Taylor Swift Concert Tickets, & Edible Packing Peanuts

New cheaper weight loss drugs are hitting the markets. Two New York City residents were charged with selling stolen concert tickets which resulted in over $600,000 in profits. Lastly, the cosmetics store Lush ships their items in edible packing peanuts and some customers have been eating them.  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No show is on. It's the biggest stories of the day.
You know what I can say it my dad was
a little thirsty. I think, hey, he played the right game.
Yes he did, Okay, he got a good one. He did,
and then he got stuck with two not nose kids
that he had to put through college. I'm like, you
do realize it. My mom was very expensive for you.
You know, I don't know how much that costs. But anyway,

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so Big Pharma is dropping prices for weight loss drugs
if you want to pay cash, but still it's still
really expensive. The makers of the weight loss drug we
Govy will begin offering the drug directly to patients that
are reduced costs. Pharmaceutical company I believe it's called Novo
Nordis I hope I said that right announced on Wednesday
that it's starting Novo Care Pharmacy, a program that will

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offer direct to patient sales to underinsured or uninsured customers.
The program will sell we Goby for the whopping price
of four ninety nine a month, but I guess it
could cost as much as thirteen hundred dollars. Uh if
you're paying cashboard. Now, remember this is this drug is
used to treat well somebody drugs. I'm I'm not a
currently licensed doctor, but somebody drugs are needed for diabetes

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and other like actual health concerns. People are using them
for weight loss, So I'm not sure if this helps
things to make it more I guess if you want
to call four ninety nine more affordable, because I know
they were having issues with demand. So anyway, five hundred
bucks a month if you want to take this stuff
to lose weight or gym membership, what does Planet Fitness
cost month? Maybe? Yeah, so there's that you get pizza

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and bagels after my kind of jam because they started
like they had the right dare to do. Yeah, but
I don't think I thought. I thought it was supposed
to be like to troll you. I didn't think you're
really supposed to eat it. I don't. I thought it
was to see like how committed you were. Oh no,
people eat the pizza and bagels reward. Yeah, like if
you go that day you work out and you get
a slice of pizza hut there. Yeah. Oh, I thought
it was like the cheese and the mouse trap, like

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just let's let's see who needs to come more, you know,
let's see which of our customers we could sell on
our added personal training products. He's the ones who came
to the gym to eat the donuts. But I'd be
that guy because that's what I do. I go work out,
and then I justified my mind, well, I just worked
out with Gideon and he kicked my butt, so I

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should be able to go eat whatever I want now,
and I in my mind I canceled one out with
the other. But then then I want to know why
I don't look like the Rock and the reason is
because I just ate a pizza after I worked out,
and it barely it didn't even close to cancel itself out.
Two New York City residents were busted for allegedly stealing
and reselling more than nine hundred tickets, many for Taylor

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Swift's eras to where those guys netted more than six
hundred thousand dollars in profits. Other high profile events included
Adele and Ed Sheeran, NBA Games, the US Open. These
two people are charged with grand larceny and computer tampering.
Prosecutors say another person involved has not yet been arrested.
I'm sorry that's triggering to you, Jason Kalin, but it

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is tickets that you could have used sold for a
lot more. Yeah, lock them up, yep, exactly, that's where
they're going. Sure, yeah, another day another it's on TikTok,
but you don't have to do it. TikTokers are discovering
the popular cosmetics brand Lush utilizes edible packing peanuts to

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ship its products and have taken to eating them. Some
brands have replaced the bouncy cheese doodle shaped syrofoam nuggets
that often accompany your more fragile shippables with a vegetable,
starch based alternative, and people are eating them. Jesus So.
In twenty seventeen, Lush announced that it's packing peanuts we're
one hundred percent edible, and now there's been a surge

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on social media people putting that claim to the test.
The warning here, though, is that it's important to note
that not all packing peanuts are edible. Most are made
from styrofoam. So those particular ones I guess you could
eat if you must let them do it. I'm natural selection.
I'm sick of it. If you want to drop stuff
on your feet, do it. If you want to pound

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on somebody's front door and see what happens, do it.
I'm sick of it. This is crazy. Yes, just because
you see someone eating a packing this is so ridiculous.
I can't really don't having to say this. Just because
you see someone eating a packing peanut online does not
mean that you can just eat any packing peanut like
from the ups store or whatever. Please don't. And another

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food story this morning that made headlines. After eating a
massive burger super quickly, a guy ended up at the hospital.
The thirty year old man this was in Singapore, visited
the emergency room with a bloated stomach and gut pain.
When doctors examined a guy, they found that his abdomen
was swollen. The X ray revealed air pockets and the
patient's abdominal cavity. I mean, this goes on and on.

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So the dude ate a seven pound burger in thirty
minutes and it basically got stuck in him and they
had to, like, I don't know what they had had surgery.
I don't know what they had to do. His intestines
had been pushed over to the left of his abdomen,
flattening his pancreas. Eight hours prior to visiting the emergency room,

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he had been in this speed eating competition. Anyway, This
whole thing is it was really bad doctors one that
frequently cramming a stomach with enormous quantities of food carries
serious health risks. These risks may include injury to the
stomach wall or weakening of muscles that move food into
the lower in testin. So don't do it so that
guy from waiting on the phone a couple of weeks
ago that one of that woman to eat all that

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stuff so he could get it on with her. Not
a good idea. Don't do that you wind up in
the hospital. But yeah, he ate a seven pound burger
in thirty minutes. That's insane. Play stupid games, you win
stupid prices, right, Yeah, no speed eating of seven pound
masses of meat, and how about no eating packing peanuts?
And I would love you for it. It's National Hospitalist
Day to Day, which you'll need to see if you

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do either one of those, recognizing the contributions of more
than six sixty thousand hospitalists nationwide. We'll get to the
entertainmer report next. Fred Show