August 26, 2025 • 31 mins
Are Fat People Really To Blame? | Southwest Airlines, Incivility & America’s Compassion Crisis ✈️
Southwest Airlines is requiring plus-sized passengers to buy two seats so they “don’t spill over.” But here’s the real question: why not just design a few rows of larger seats? Instead, society blames fat people for being fat, ignoring the bigger issue — an industry and culture that lack compassion.
This episode of the Karel Cast digs into more than just airline seating. From body shaming to public incivility, America is in a compassion crisis. Insults fly daily, strangers fight over parking spots, and violence erupts over the smallest things. Is Trump to blame for fueling division, or is there something deeper and darker behind our collective lack of civility?
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Southwest Airlines is requiring plus-sized passengers to buy two seats so they “don’t spill over.” But here’s the real question: why not just design a few rows of larger seats? Instead, society blames fat people for being fat, ignoring the bigger issue — an industry and culture that lack compassion.
This episode of the Karel Cast digs into more than just airline seating. From body shaming to public incivility, America is in a compassion crisis. Insults fly daily, strangers fight over parking spots, and violence erupts over the smallest things. Is Trump to blame for fueling division, or is there something deeper and darker behind our collective lack of civility?
👉 Join the conversation that matters. Don’t forget to like 👍, share 🔁, comment 💬, and subscribe 🔔 to keep this dialogue alive.
The Karel Cast is supported by your donations at patreon.com/reallykarel and streams live Monday–Thursday at 10:30am PST. Available on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Apple Music, Spotify, iHeart Media, Spreaker, and all major platforms.
#AreFatPeopleToBlame, #SouthwestAirlines, #BodyShaming, #ObesityStigma, #AirlineSeats, #Incivility, #CompassionCrisis, #AmericanCulture, #TrumpEra, #CurrentEvents, #TrendingNow, #BreakingNews, #KarelCast, #DailyShorts, #SubscribeNow, #LikeAndShare, #StayInformed, #PoliticalTruth, #CulturalCommentary, #TruthMatters
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mean he's really something, the best, most fabulous host will
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almost here. I know he doesn't speak well of me,
and that's okay because I mean, he's really quite fabulous.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
SI Southwest Airline says, if you're a big boy or girl,
you're gonna have to buy two seats. Is that fair? Also?
Are we living in the end of civility and the
rise of rudeness. We're gonna talk about that and so
much more on today's carell Cast.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
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Speaker 2 (01:34):
It is the cREL Cast. I am Correl, so very
glad you are joining me. Sorry for being a little late.
I had a doctor's appointment and now I'm here, and
I wasn't sure if I was gonna have to go
have a head scan or not, so I you know,
I had to see so here. I am no scan today,
but perhaps in the future and tomorrow I get to
(01:55):
put on a heart monitor for two weeks. Isn't that fun?
But they want to see what's going on. Why I
got dizzy and everything last Thursday? All right, I'm a
dizzy queen, honey, that's what I am. Are fat people
to blame? Are fat people to blame for their fat?
You know? In writing the book Die Healthy, I had
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to address that about myself because I grew up in
the era where fat people were to blame for their fat.
It was okay to fat shame them and to treat
fat people differently. After all, if they didn't like it,
they could just shut their pie hole and lose weight.
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And now we live in the era of ozempic, where
if someone is fat, we look at them and say, well,
there's no reason, just take the shot, even if they
can't take the shot, don't want to take the shot,
have a medical condition that prevents them from taking the shot.
So we still tend to vilify fat people because ultimately
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we see and we feel that they don't have to
be fat, that it's a choice. Now, we could debate
this for weeks. Is being fat a choice? Because in
some ways it is. I mean, no one is forcing
you to eat all that food, are they? Ah? Yes
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they are, and that somebody is you. There's something inside
a fat person that does force them to eat all
that food. Now, there are very fat people on social
media that I see, and they love to have videos
of them eating mass amounts of food. It makes me
(03:43):
cringe because they are fat because of their food intake
and they're not ashamed of it, and they're happy for it.
So there are some people who are fat by their
own choice. I don't know why anyone would choose it.
I'd love to lose their pounds for myself, but others
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have a lot of complex issues going on, health issues,
psychological issues. Food is a form of medication, So, as
I said, unhappy rats don't medicate. So unhappiness is a
big source of obesity. But obesity crisis is relatively new
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in society. You know, there were very few fat people
back in the days of old and if they were,
they were rich. It was a sign of wealth. Well,
we've all been on the airplane. Look, I have been
the person on the airplane that had myself spilling over
into the seat next to me when I weighed three
hundred and ten pounds. Because first of all, airplane seats
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are this big. You know, they're not made for anyone
over one hundred and fifty pounds. So if you're three
or four hundred pounds, that's it, you're not fitting. So
Southwest Airlines has said they are going to start making
large people. And I don't know, is there gonna be
a thing like for a bag. Are they gonna have
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to put someone's ass in a measurer and say your
ass is too big, you gotta buy two tickets? Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
However, they're going to gauge people being too fat. They
have said that if you're too fat, you have to
buy two tickets. Now, if after the plane takes off
and it's not listening to one side and there are
empty seats on that flight, you can be refunded for
the other ticket. If the flight is full, you cannot.
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Fat people across the globe are upset by this they're
saying it's fat shaming, it's it's you know, ablest, it's many,
many of the things. Now. First of all, we make
accommodations on airplanes for handicapped people, Okay, we do. I
know we've all had to wait for the wheelchair brigade
to because it seems like nowadays there's one hundred and
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seventy two people in wheelchairs and we all have to
wait for them to preboard. So we make they make
accommodations for handicap people. However, for fat people, which is
not a protected handicap, they're saying, no, you gotta have
you know, two seats. Is that fair? Are we blaming
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fat people for being fat?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
You know?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
The short answer is yes, yes we are. We have
always blamed fat people for being fat, and there are
many of us who will always blame fat people for
being fat. I wish I were to blame for my fat.
I wish I were, But years of damage and low
self esteem and different views on food and a variety
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of issues play into my weight. I lost one hundred
and ten pounds. I have twenty five more to lose,
and that's been really hard. I want to do it now,
especially that I'm having these blood pressure issues. My blood
pressure was normal forever and now it's spiking like really high,
one fifty over ninety in the afternoons. If I were
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twenty five pounds lighter, there'd be a chance it may
not do that as badly. But outside of just personal
is it up to businesses to accommodate fat people? I mean,
they accommodate handicapped, They accommodate me with my service dog.
Should they have to accommodate fat people? Should airlines simply
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install three or six larger seats in coach, but wider
seats for fat people and charge them the same price.
The reason I bring this up, and by the way,
being tall is just as bad as being you know,
fat on a plane you don't fit. You don't fit,
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it's uncomfortable. They should have to give you a refund
if you're tall. The reason I bring this up is
it would be the right thing to do to not
act like fat people are cargo, to put in one
or two rows of seats for larger people, probably on
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both sides of the plane, to balance it out. Literally.
You have to do that and not charge them for
two seats. You know, that would be the humane, the
kind thing to do. But we're not kind and we're
not humane. We are a point and lay blame kind
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of society now, and we are so quick. You should
see the comments under the social media post from the
NBC News about Southwest charging for two seats. You should
see how mean the comments are about obese people under
that story. And I was reading it, going, Okay, look,
(09:17):
you can think that you know, someone should have to
have an extra seat or whatever, but you don't have
to be so vicious and so mean about it. And
it got me thinking, nowadays, we are in a rudeness epidemic.
We are living in the end of civility, and we
(09:40):
have a president who is setting that tone, setting the
tone of rudeness in civility, and it's rubbing off. It's
rubbing off on the nation. And nowhere is that more
evident than social media. Yesterday, someone posted a comment under
(10:01):
my video that said gay should be seen and not
heard or something like that they have the right to
not be heard or whatever. And one of my Joshua
taking her a friend and someone who booked me at
an event, and a friend of another friend of mine.
He emailed me or texted me and said, is this
a troll? And I said, honey, that's a mildest. So
(10:26):
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All right, You know, trolls on social media seem to
think that insulting me is going to make me feel
bad about myself. My dog loves me, my friends love me,
and my parents love me. So there's nothing most people
can say that will hurt me. Friends can hurt me, sure,
but strangers on social media I could give two fucks about.
(11:35):
Really So they post, oh, you know, get your teeth fixed,
or they do a lisp comment wherevery s they make
a thch or they say very homophobic things and they
think in some way they're being cute or pithy, or
they think in some way it's going to hurt me,
it doesn't. So if you're a troll and you're wanting
(11:58):
to post a hateful comment that I've been in talk
radio over thirty years, Okay, I've had people say those
things to my face, not just online. And if I
let it hurt me, you know, and ninety eight percent
of the time it doesn't. Two percent of the time,
I'll let it get me down, or I'll just wonder,
(12:19):
why are they so fucking mean? They don't even know me,
you know, they don't know who I am, They don't
know my life or my world, and yet they make
this statement. You know why, Well, because they're assholes, that's why.
And so nowadays it just seems to me. And by
the way, the adaptive seats on airplanes, people are saying,
(12:41):
that's probably you know, why can't airplanes be made for
the center row? You can take out the handle and
so someone's large you there they go is you know,
it's because they're profit driven, because they don't care about
human beings. They only care about profit. If we give
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this human being the if they let them take up
two spaces and we don't charge them for two spaces,
the world will end. I mean, they're not that many
fat people in the world anymore to where you know,
maybe someone should start a fatty airlines, fat air, chub air,
someone should start a you know, bear airline or chubby
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airline or you know, fat air. I like fat air.
Someone should should start fat air where every seat will
fit your fat ass. Think about it. Welcome to fat Air.
You don't need a seat belt extender. On fat air,
our seatbelts extend out ten feet. Welcome to fat Air.
We're our invert. Our snack service is a t bone
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steak thrown around your neck. And anyway, Yes, I'm making
fat jokes. Whatever I'm fat, I can do it.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And so nowadays MAGA and Trump have really brought out
the worst in almost every American. Almost every American now
is so quick. Here in Vegas, I was at the
doctor this morning and on the news there's a guy
about to be sentenced for what stabbing someone over a
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fucking parking spot. Okay, they fought over a parking spot,
and instead of doing the fried green tomatoes where you
just smashed the car and then say hey, I'm older
and got more insurance, he stabbed the guy. Road rage
is on the rise everywhere right here, in Vegas. Just
two weeks ago, someone got out of a car, walked
(14:38):
up to the car in front because they were mad
at them, and shot them. We now live in an
era of rudeness and incivility on the part of corporations
are so rude to us. First of all, when I
call you for customer service, it is fucking rude. To
give me a recording, or to make me go through
(15:00):
fifteen prompts before I get to you, or to keep
me on hold for more than five minutes. FAD's rude.
It's bad customer service, and it's rude. Now. They can
be rude to you, but if you get rude back
to them, they'll hang up. When you call someone in Canada,
a business in Canada, like the government business it has
(15:23):
on the recording, don't be rude to our employees. They
are trying to help you. And so it's not just America.
Rudeness and incivility is spreading like an epidemic. Like an epidemic,
and no one is speaking out against it. No one
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is saying wait a minute, Like with the Southwest Airlines thing.
I posted a comment underneath that said, look, we're all human,
we all come in various shapes and sizes. So just
maybe airlines should take that into considerations and have a
few seats to accommodate larger people without charging them a
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fat fine. Because making someone buy two seats, that's a
fat fine. That is punishing them for wanting to travel
while fat. No matter how you try to sugarcoat it,
it's a fine for being fat. Oh well, if they're
going to take up two seats, they should pay for them. No,
(16:27):
they shouldn't. The airline should actually have adaptable seats to
where if you are larger, you fit. But that would
take compassion, that would take empathy, that would take civility,
and there doesn't seem to be much of that these days,
does there. You know, there just does not seem to
(16:52):
be any empathy or civility left. You know, today people
are falling over themselves to congratulate Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift.
They're engaged, good because they've been going out for two
years and what a wedding that's gonna be, and oh
their children will be gorgeous. But these are the same
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people that will talk shit about them in the out
of the same you know, the other side of their mouth. Oh,
congratulations Taylor, congratulations Travis. And then if they fail, they'll
talk shit about them like a dog. And so we don't.
We just we're out of humanity. We are out of humanity.
We have just the well has run dry, The humanity
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well has run dry. We are not compassionate about homeless,
much like fat people. We blame the homeless for being homeless.
There's a lady at the park right now. She's breaking
my heart every day. She's old, she's over fifty. She's
sleeping in her car with her cat, and her cat
now knows to go around the car outside but jump
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back in, you know, So every morning I see her
and her cat. No single woman over fifty with a
cat should be homeless. I don't care if she's an addict,
I don't care. She shouldn't be out on the streets
with her cat. But we have no empathy for the homeless.
We have no compassion. We blame them. It's their fault,
(18:23):
their addicts, or their screw ups, or they should get
a job or whatever. And that comes from us being
so miserable in our own lives. Misery loves company, and
people are so miserable nowadays, so they want to make
everybody else miserable. Look, I don't like the homeless. I don't.
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And when I say the homeless, I mean the homeless situation.
I don't like them lying around the park, making messes,
being filthy. I don't like any of it. I don't.
But do I blame them, No. See, I see homelessness
as a failure of government. I see obesity as a
(19:05):
failure of the healthcare system. People are obese because doctors
don't prescribe food, vegan diets, exercise. They've waited for a
pill or a shot, and now they got it, but
they've even made that too expensive. I mean, now we
actually have a treatment for obesity, but we don't have
(19:27):
the compassion or the empathy or the humanity to give
it to people who actually need it without charging them
to grand a month. And if you can't pay, stay fat,
no zepic for you, you have to go on the
met format. So there's no empathy there. We have lost
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our humanity. Humanity would be to save the planet. It's
a human thing to do to save the environment you
live in. But we have no compassion planet Earth at all,
none at lease, not in our government, not in our
social policy. Not in our shopping habits. You won't give
(20:10):
up plastic bottles, will you? Will you? Hey Carrel here,
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support for the loudest, craziest, most unhinged gay guy and
his little dog. And let's keep the party going as
long as we can. I love this headline, Haboob. A
(21:29):
haboob has slam Phoenix with a dustwall, darkening skies and
knocking out power. Now it sounds like a Muslim breast,
but it's not. Actually, a haboob is a giant dust storm.
We have them here in Vegas. I never knew what
they were called until I was in one here in Vegas. Uh.
There one slam Phoenix today. It knocked out power at
darkened the skies. They're very scary. It's a giant wall
(21:51):
of dust at very high speeds that just takes the
It's almost like addecho, which I had no idea what
a direcho was until I started watching this show. Oh
what is it? Into the Storm on HBO Max. Such
a great show. New episode last night about the Christmas
Texas or Christmas Tennessee tornadoes, which sounds like a great
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group that would tour doing Christmas carols the Christmas Tennessee tornadoes.
But it's a great show. So I didn't know what
a do that show was until I saw that show,
and I didn't know what a haboob was. I would
have sworn that a haboob was a Muslim breast until
I found out it's a giant dust storm that can
do horrible damage. And one struck Phoenix yesterday. Also, I
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love the UN today saying to Israel there needs to
be justice after the bombing of the hospital in Gaza,
there won't be. The UN is possibly the most ineffective,
useless organization known to mankind. They mean well, they mean
very well, but when it comes to actually governing in
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any sense of the word now, and when it comes
to governments heeding what they have to say, they take
it with a grain assault. So so Trump got smacked today,
which I love. He was a judge dismissed Trump's lawsuit
against Maryland based judges. He was suing all fifteen judges
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on the federal bench in Maryland, and a judge through
that out and said it was constitutional chaos. So that's fun.
He got slapped again, and he'll keep getting slap you know, repeatedly,
And so those are fun, you know, fun little headlines
(23:39):
from the day. I worry about us, I do. I
worry about society because we are losing our humanity. The
notion that we would have to discuss cutting look at
no more. Can it be illustrated that we have lost
our humanity than the current US budget, because you are
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what you do, and that's just the way it is.
If you want to be something and you're not doing it,
then you don't want to be it, because you are
what you do. We have cut Medicaid, medicare, food stands,
services to the poor. We have cut vaccines to the sick.
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We have cut AIDS assistance to those in other countries.
We have cut the US Aid organization. We have cut
anything with any spark of humanity to fund the tax
break for billionaires. Now, if that doesn't simply illustrate that
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our government has lost any sense. You know, yesterday I
talked about I don't need rainbow sidewalks. What I need
is the government to treat me and every other American
exactly the same. That's what I need, and that's what
government should do. But it should do it with a conscience,
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you know, and nowadays there isn't any there's no conscience
in politics. In entertainment, you know, there's a lot of
things that we show as entertainment that people just should
not see. You know. One of the things I love
to watch are the murder shows from ID Discovery, and
(25:34):
I often question myself, like, is it really you know?
I like police procedurals, That's what I like. But I
question myself, I say, is it good to watch so
much suffering? You know? Is it good to watch episode
after episode of Man's inhumanity to man? Should that programming
(25:58):
even be out there? Should we have multipart mini series
about serial killers? You know? Should we have Why do
we emulate the least human of us and not make
lots of shows about the most human of us? I
do watch medical shows, and medical shows to me exemplify
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the best of humanity, people helping people on their worst
day ever. But I worry. I worry about the United
States because I don't think we're going to get our
humanity back. I don't think there's any party that can
come into power that will make us kind, you know. Fuck,
(26:43):
make America great again, Make America kind again, Make America
human again. Make it a country that would never let
an American starve. Make it a country that would never
let an American go without healthcare. Make it a country
(27:04):
that prioritizes its people and not its budget. Make it
a country that values humanity over war. I don't I
don't see how that's going to happen. I mean maybe,
but I think the pendulum has swung and got stuck
(27:26):
somewhere between total complete assholes and you know, rudeness, And
I think our American rudeness has spread, has spread like
a cancer, and so I worry. I know what I
know now why people sometimes want to drop out of society.
I get it because they don't see any improvement. They
(27:50):
don't see it getting better. They don't, you know. And look,
I don't see the United States getting much better in
the future. I really don't. I think we are going
to be the divided States of America for my rest
of my lifetime. I don't ever see the South agreeing
on principles from California just because they're from California. They
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might be great principles, the right principles, but I don't
ever see the South embracing them. It's like diversity, equity,
and inclusion. That's possibly one of the most human things
we could do. And what does Trump and MAGA want
to do? Get rid of it? Get rid of it
because hey, showing compassion, showing humanity, showing equality to everyone. No,
(28:41):
we disapprove of those people. You know we now live
in a time of approval and disapproval ratings. Well, what's
the approval rating? You know? And it doesn't matter. More
Americans approve of same sex marriage than not, they're still
going to repeal it. More Americans no longer care about
gay people. Sixty three percent said they're not really they
(29:03):
don't care, and yet they're acting like it's the biggest
issue around. Less than one percent of women that get
pregnant will ever have abortions. But do we have the
humanity to leave that healthcare decision with the woman and
her family, her doctor, and her god. Nope. How inhuman
(29:24):
is it to tell someone that's been raped they have
to carry the baby to term. I can't think of
anything more inhuman than that, and yet we do it.
Everyone is so rude and angry these days. Maxwell in
the chat room, there is no patience, kindness, or respect.
I agree, And yes, the violent streaming dramas can put
(29:47):
you in a bad headspace, they really can. I've been
watching Silent Witness. I'm now in season seven. I lose
my main character next season, but it goes on for
eighteen more seasons after that. But it's a British show.
It's you know, it's a pathology show. And she has
kindness and compassion and morals and ethics, and it's nice
(30:09):
to see a lead character on a TV show tell
people that, no, you shouldn't do it for any other reason,
and it's the right thing to do, even if it's
gonna harm you. You know, it's the right thing to
go tell the police this, it's the right thing to
go tell the family. You know, we just don't practice
doing the right thing.
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SI Southwest Airline says, if you're a big boy or girl,
you're gonna have to buy two seats. Is that fair? Also?
Are we living in the end of civility and the
rise of rudeness. We're gonna talk about that and so
much more on today's carell Cast.
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Speaker 2 (01:34):
It is the cREL Cast. I am Correl, so very
glad you are joining me. Sorry for being a little late.
I had a doctor's appointment and now I'm here, and
I wasn't sure if I was gonna have to go
have a head scan or not, so I you know,
I had to see so here. I am no scan today,
but perhaps in the future and tomorrow I get to
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put on a heart monitor for two weeks. Isn't that fun?
But they want to see what's going on. Why I
got dizzy and everything last Thursday? All right, I'm a
dizzy queen, honey, that's what I am. Are fat people
to blame? Are fat people to blame for their fat?
You know? In writing the book Die Healthy, I had
(02:17):
to address that about myself because I grew up in
the era where fat people were to blame for their fat.
It was okay to fat shame them and to treat
fat people differently. After all, if they didn't like it,
they could just shut their pie hole and lose weight.
(02:37):
And now we live in the era of ozempic, where
if someone is fat, we look at them and say, well,
there's no reason, just take the shot, even if they
can't take the shot, don't want to take the shot,
have a medical condition that prevents them from taking the shot.
So we still tend to vilify fat people because ultimately
(03:00):
we see and we feel that they don't have to
be fat, that it's a choice. Now, we could debate
this for weeks. Is being fat a choice? Because in
some ways it is. I mean, no one is forcing
you to eat all that food, are they? Ah? Yes
(03:22):
they are, and that somebody is you. There's something inside
a fat person that does force them to eat all
that food. Now, there are very fat people on social
media that I see, and they love to have videos
of them eating mass amounts of food. It makes me
(03:43):
cringe because they are fat because of their food intake
and they're not ashamed of it, and they're happy for it.
So there are some people who are fat by their
own choice. I don't know why anyone would choose it.
I'd love to lose their pounds for myself, but others
(04:04):
have a lot of complex issues going on, health issues,
psychological issues. Food is a form of medication, So, as
I said, unhappy rats don't medicate. So unhappiness is a
big source of obesity. But obesity crisis is relatively new
(04:25):
in society. You know, there were very few fat people
back in the days of old and if they were,
they were rich. It was a sign of wealth. Well,
we've all been on the airplane. Look, I have been
the person on the airplane that had myself spilling over
into the seat next to me when I weighed three
hundred and ten pounds. Because first of all, airplane seats
(04:49):
are this big. You know, they're not made for anyone
over one hundred and fifty pounds. So if you're three
or four hundred pounds, that's it, you're not fitting. So
Southwest Airlines has said they are going to start making
large people. And I don't know, is there gonna be
a thing like for a bag. Are they gonna have
(05:09):
to put someone's ass in a measurer and say your
ass is too big, you gotta buy two tickets? Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
However, they're going to gauge people being too fat. They
have said that if you're too fat, you have to
buy two tickets. Now, if after the plane takes off
and it's not listening to one side and there are
empty seats on that flight, you can be refunded for
the other ticket. If the flight is full, you cannot.
(05:42):
Fat people across the globe are upset by this they're
saying it's fat shaming, it's it's you know, ablest, it's many,
many of the things. Now. First of all, we make
accommodations on airplanes for handicapped people, Okay, we do. I
know we've all had to wait for the wheelchair brigade
to because it seems like nowadays there's one hundred and
(06:03):
seventy two people in wheelchairs and we all have to
wait for them to preboard. So we make they make
accommodations for handicap people. However, for fat people, which is
not a protected handicap, they're saying, no, you gotta have
you know, two seats. Is that fair? Are we blaming
(06:28):
fat people for being fat?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
You know?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
The short answer is yes, yes we are. We have
always blamed fat people for being fat, and there are
many of us who will always blame fat people for
being fat. I wish I were to blame for my fat.
I wish I were, But years of damage and low
self esteem and different views on food and a variety
(06:56):
of issues play into my weight. I lost one hundred
and ten pounds. I have twenty five more to lose,
and that's been really hard. I want to do it now,
especially that I'm having these blood pressure issues. My blood
pressure was normal forever and now it's spiking like really high,
one fifty over ninety in the afternoons. If I were
(07:17):
twenty five pounds lighter, there'd be a chance it may
not do that as badly. But outside of just personal
is it up to businesses to accommodate fat people? I mean,
they accommodate handicapped, They accommodate me with my service dog.
Should they have to accommodate fat people? Should airlines simply
(07:41):
install three or six larger seats in coach, but wider
seats for fat people and charge them the same price.
The reason I bring this up, and by the way,
being tall is just as bad as being you know,
fat on a plane you don't fit. You don't fit,
(08:05):
it's uncomfortable. They should have to give you a refund
if you're tall. The reason I bring this up is
it would be the right thing to do to not
act like fat people are cargo, to put in one
or two rows of seats for larger people, probably on
(08:27):
both sides of the plane, to balance it out. Literally.
You have to do that and not charge them for
two seats. You know, that would be the humane, the
kind thing to do. But we're not kind and we're
not humane. We are a point and lay blame kind
(08:52):
of society now, and we are so quick. You should
see the comments under the social media post from the
NBC News about Southwest charging for two seats. You should
see how mean the comments are about obese people under
that story. And I was reading it, going, Okay, look,
(09:17):
you can think that you know, someone should have to
have an extra seat or whatever, but you don't have
to be so vicious and so mean about it. And
it got me thinking, nowadays, we are in a rudeness epidemic.
We are living in the end of civility, and we
(09:40):
have a president who is setting that tone, setting the
tone of rudeness in civility, and it's rubbing off. It's
rubbing off on the nation. And nowhere is that more
evident than social media. Yesterday, someone posted a comment under
(10:01):
my video that said gay should be seen and not
heard or something like that they have the right to
not be heard or whatever. And one of my Joshua
taking her a friend and someone who booked me at
an event, and a friend of another friend of mine.
He emailed me or texted me and said, is this
a troll? And I said, honey, that's a mildest. So
(10:26):
we're going to talk about the era of incivility when
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All right, You know, trolls on social media seem to
think that insulting me is going to make me feel
bad about myself. My dog loves me, my friends love me,
and my parents love me. So there's nothing most people
can say that will hurt me. Friends can hurt me, sure,
but strangers on social media I could give two fucks about.
(11:35):
Really So they post, oh, you know, get your teeth fixed,
or they do a lisp comment wherevery s they make
a thch or they say very homophobic things and they
think in some way they're being cute or pithy, or
they think in some way it's going to hurt me,
it doesn't. So if you're a troll and you're wanting
(11:58):
to post a hateful comment that I've been in talk
radio over thirty years, Okay, I've had people say those
things to my face, not just online. And if I
let it hurt me, you know, and ninety eight percent
of the time it doesn't. Two percent of the time,
I'll let it get me down, or I'll just wonder,
(12:19):
why are they so fucking mean? They don't even know me,
you know, they don't know who I am, They don't
know my life or my world, and yet they make
this statement. You know why, Well, because they're assholes, that's why.
And so nowadays it just seems to me. And by
the way, the adaptive seats on airplanes, people are saying,
(12:41):
that's probably you know, why can't airplanes be made for
the center row? You can take out the handle and
so someone's large you there they go is you know,
it's because they're profit driven, because they don't care about
human beings. They only care about profit. If we give
(13:01):
this human being the if they let them take up
two spaces and we don't charge them for two spaces,
the world will end. I mean, they're not that many
fat people in the world anymore to where you know,
maybe someone should start a fatty airlines, fat air, chub air,
someone should start a you know, bear airline or chubby
(13:22):
airline or you know, fat air. I like fat air.
Someone should should start fat air where every seat will
fit your fat ass. Think about it. Welcome to fat Air.
You don't need a seat belt extender. On fat air,
our seatbelts extend out ten feet. Welcome to fat Air.
We're our invert. Our snack service is a t bone
(13:47):
steak thrown around your neck. And anyway, Yes, I'm making
fat jokes. Whatever I'm fat, I can do it.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And so nowadays MAGA and Trump have really brought out
the worst in almost every American. Almost every American now
is so quick. Here in Vegas, I was at the
doctor this morning and on the news there's a guy
about to be sentenced for what stabbing someone over a
(14:16):
fucking parking spot. Okay, they fought over a parking spot,
and instead of doing the fried green tomatoes where you
just smashed the car and then say hey, I'm older
and got more insurance, he stabbed the guy. Road rage
is on the rise everywhere right here, in Vegas. Just
two weeks ago, someone got out of a car, walked
(14:38):
up to the car in front because they were mad
at them, and shot them. We now live in an
era of rudeness and incivility on the part of corporations
are so rude to us. First of all, when I
call you for customer service, it is fucking rude. To
give me a recording, or to make me go through
(15:00):
fifteen prompts before I get to you, or to keep
me on hold for more than five minutes. FAD's rude.
It's bad customer service, and it's rude. Now. They can
be rude to you, but if you get rude back
to them, they'll hang up. When you call someone in Canada,
a business in Canada, like the government business it has
(15:23):
on the recording, don't be rude to our employees. They
are trying to help you. And so it's not just America.
Rudeness and incivility is spreading like an epidemic. Like an epidemic,
and no one is speaking out against it. No one
(15:46):
is saying wait a minute, Like with the Southwest Airlines thing.
I posted a comment underneath that said, look, we're all human,
we all come in various shapes and sizes. So just
maybe airlines should take that into considerations and have a
few seats to accommodate larger people without charging them a
(16:07):
fat fine. Because making someone buy two seats, that's a
fat fine. That is punishing them for wanting to travel
while fat. No matter how you try to sugarcoat it,
it's a fine for being fat. Oh well, if they're
going to take up two seats, they should pay for them. No,
(16:27):
they shouldn't. The airline should actually have adaptable seats to
where if you are larger, you fit. But that would
take compassion, that would take empathy, that would take civility,
and there doesn't seem to be much of that these days,
does there. You know, there just does not seem to
(16:52):
be any empathy or civility left. You know, today people
are falling over themselves to congratulate Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift.
They're engaged, good because they've been going out for two
years and what a wedding that's gonna be, and oh
their children will be gorgeous. But these are the same
(17:15):
people that will talk shit about them in the out
of the same you know, the other side of their mouth. Oh,
congratulations Taylor, congratulations Travis. And then if they fail, they'll
talk shit about them like a dog. And so we don't.
We just we're out of humanity. We are out of humanity.
We have just the well has run dry, The humanity
(17:38):
well has run dry. We are not compassionate about homeless,
much like fat people. We blame the homeless for being homeless.
There's a lady at the park right now. She's breaking
my heart every day. She's old, she's over fifty. She's
sleeping in her car with her cat, and her cat
now knows to go around the car outside but jump
(17:59):
back in, you know, So every morning I see her
and her cat. No single woman over fifty with a
cat should be homeless. I don't care if she's an addict,
I don't care. She shouldn't be out on the streets
with her cat. But we have no empathy for the homeless.
We have no compassion. We blame them. It's their fault,
(18:23):
their addicts, or their screw ups, or they should get
a job or whatever. And that comes from us being
so miserable in our own lives. Misery loves company, and
people are so miserable nowadays, so they want to make
everybody else miserable. Look, I don't like the homeless. I don't.
(18:45):
And when I say the homeless, I mean the homeless situation.
I don't like them lying around the park, making messes,
being filthy. I don't like any of it. I don't.
But do I blame them, No. See, I see homelessness
as a failure of government. I see obesity as a
(19:05):
failure of the healthcare system. People are obese because doctors
don't prescribe food, vegan diets, exercise. They've waited for a
pill or a shot, and now they got it, but
they've even made that too expensive. I mean, now we
actually have a treatment for obesity, but we don't have
(19:27):
the compassion or the empathy or the humanity to give
it to people who actually need it without charging them
to grand a month. And if you can't pay, stay fat,
no zepic for you, you have to go on the
met format. So there's no empathy there. We have lost
(19:48):
our humanity. Humanity would be to save the planet. It's
a human thing to do to save the environment you
live in. But we have no compassion planet Earth at all,
none at lease, not in our government, not in our
social policy. Not in our shopping habits. You won't give
(20:10):
up plastic bottles, will you? Will you? Hey Carrel here,
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his little dog. And let's keep the party going as
long as we can. I love this headline, Haboob. A
(21:29):
haboob has slam Phoenix with a dustwall, darkening skies and
knocking out power. Now it sounds like a Muslim breast,
but it's not. Actually, a haboob is a giant dust storm.
We have them here in Vegas. I never knew what
they were called until I was in one here in Vegas. Uh.
There one slam Phoenix today. It knocked out power at
darkened the skies. They're very scary. It's a giant wall
(21:51):
of dust at very high speeds that just takes the
It's almost like addecho, which I had no idea what
a direcho was until I started watching this show. Oh
what is it? Into the Storm on HBO Max. Such
a great show. New episode last night about the Christmas
Texas or Christmas Tennessee tornadoes, which sounds like a great
(22:12):
group that would tour doing Christmas carols the Christmas Tennessee tornadoes.
But it's a great show. So I didn't know what
a do that show was until I saw that show,
and I didn't know what a haboob was. I would
have sworn that a haboob was a Muslim breast until
I found out it's a giant dust storm that can
do horrible damage. And one struck Phoenix yesterday. Also, I
(22:36):
love the UN today saying to Israel there needs to
be justice after the bombing of the hospital in Gaza,
there won't be. The UN is possibly the most ineffective,
useless organization known to mankind. They mean well, they mean
very well, but when it comes to actually governing in
(22:58):
any sense of the word now, and when it comes
to governments heeding what they have to say, they take
it with a grain assault. So so Trump got smacked today,
which I love. He was a judge dismissed Trump's lawsuit
against Maryland based judges. He was suing all fifteen judges
(23:19):
on the federal bench in Maryland, and a judge through
that out and said it was constitutional chaos. So that's fun.
He got slapped again, and he'll keep getting slap you know, repeatedly,
And so those are fun, you know, fun little headlines
(23:39):
from the day. I worry about us, I do. I
worry about society because we are losing our humanity. The
notion that we would have to discuss cutting look at
no more. Can it be illustrated that we have lost
our humanity than the current US budget, because you are
(24:05):
what you do, and that's just the way it is.
If you want to be something and you're not doing it,
then you don't want to be it, because you are
what you do. We have cut Medicaid, medicare, food stands,
services to the poor. We have cut vaccines to the sick.
(24:26):
We have cut AIDS assistance to those in other countries.
We have cut the US Aid organization. We have cut
anything with any spark of humanity to fund the tax
break for billionaires. Now, if that doesn't simply illustrate that
(24:47):
our government has lost any sense. You know, yesterday I
talked about I don't need rainbow sidewalks. What I need
is the government to treat me and every other American
exactly the same. That's what I need, and that's what
government should do. But it should do it with a conscience,
(25:12):
you know, and nowadays there isn't any there's no conscience
in politics. In entertainment, you know, there's a lot of
things that we show as entertainment that people just should
not see. You know. One of the things I love
to watch are the murder shows from ID Discovery, and
(25:34):
I often question myself, like, is it really you know?
I like police procedurals, That's what I like. But I
question myself, I say, is it good to watch so
much suffering? You know? Is it good to watch episode
after episode of Man's inhumanity to man? Should that programming
(25:58):
even be out there? Should we have multipart mini series
about serial killers? You know? Should we have Why do
we emulate the least human of us and not make
lots of shows about the most human of us? I
do watch medical shows, and medical shows to me exemplify
(26:22):
the best of humanity, people helping people on their worst
day ever. But I worry. I worry about the United
States because I don't think we're going to get our
humanity back. I don't think there's any party that can
come into power that will make us kind, you know. Fuck,
(26:43):
make America great again, Make America kind again, Make America
human again. Make it a country that would never let
an American starve. Make it a country that would never
let an American go without healthcare. Make it a country
(27:04):
that prioritizes its people and not its budget. Make it
a country that values humanity over war. I don't I
don't see how that's going to happen. I mean maybe,
but I think the pendulum has swung and got stuck
(27:26):
somewhere between total complete assholes and you know, rudeness, And
I think our American rudeness has spread, has spread like
a cancer, and so I worry. I know what I
know now why people sometimes want to drop out of society.
I get it because they don't see any improvement. They
(27:50):
don't see it getting better. They don't, you know. And look,
I don't see the United States getting much better in
the future. I really don't. I think we are going
to be the divided States of America for my rest
of my lifetime. I don't ever see the South agreeing
on principles from California just because they're from California. They
(28:13):
might be great principles, the right principles, but I don't
ever see the South embracing them. It's like diversity, equity,
and inclusion. That's possibly one of the most human things
we could do. And what does Trump and MAGA want
to do? Get rid of it? Get rid of it
because hey, showing compassion, showing humanity, showing equality to everyone. No,
(28:41):
we disapprove of those people. You know we now live
in a time of approval and disapproval ratings. Well, what's
the approval rating? You know? And it doesn't matter. More
Americans approve of same sex marriage than not, they're still
going to repeal it. More Americans no longer care about
gay people. Sixty three percent said they're not really they
(29:03):
don't care, and yet they're acting like it's the biggest
issue around. Less than one percent of women that get
pregnant will ever have abortions. But do we have the
humanity to leave that healthcare decision with the woman and
her family, her doctor, and her god. Nope. How inhuman
(29:24):
is it to tell someone that's been raped they have
to carry the baby to term. I can't think of
anything more inhuman than that, and yet we do it.
Everyone is so rude and angry these days. Maxwell in
the chat room, there is no patience, kindness, or respect.
I agree, And yes, the violent streaming dramas can put
(29:47):
you in a bad headspace, they really can. I've been
watching Silent Witness. I'm now in season seven. I lose
my main character next season, but it goes on for
eighteen more seasons after that. But it's a British show.
It's you know, it's a pathology show. And she has
kindness and compassion and morals and ethics, and it's nice
(30:09):
to see a lead character on a TV show tell
people that, no, you shouldn't do it for any other reason,
and it's the right thing to do, even if it's
gonna harm you. You know, it's the right thing to
go tell the police this, it's the right thing to
go tell the family. You know, we just don't practice
doing the right thing.
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