Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail, SF Takes on Junk Food, and This Gay Week

Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail, SF Takes on Junk Food, and This Gay Week
It’s New Year’s resolution season—but what if making resolutions is actually setting yourself up to fail? As millions promise dramatic life changes, we take a hard look at why New Year’s resolutions often backfire, fuel shame, and create unrealistic expectations instead of real growth.
Plus, San Francisco is taking an aggressive stand against junk food, filing lawsuits aimed at companies that profit from unhealthy products. Is this smart public health policy—or government overreach into what we eat?
And Scott Jacobson joins me for This Gay Week, breaking down the latest LGBTQ news, culture, and political developments you need to know as we head into the new year.
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Episode Transcript

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Alrighty.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
The final week of twenty twenty five is finally here.
I'm gonna tell you why you shouldn't be making actual resolutions,
and San Francisco is trying to make you healthier, but
are they going about it the right way? All of
that and so much more.

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Listen daily on your favorite streaming service. A right, it
is the Carell Cast. I am Correl, sil very glad
you are joining me. Happy Final week of twenty twenty five.
Today is Monday, December twenty ninth. I hope you had
an absolutely glorious Christmas. The last time we spoke it

(01:15):
was Christmas Day, and so I don't know how your
Christmas went. I hope it went really well. I had
a lovely, lovely Christmas, low key but lovely, visited my
sister as you know, and then came back and had
a doctor's appointment on Christmas Eve where they really told
me nothing Remember I told you I'm going to the
immunologist and to see if I could take another shot.

(01:37):
All she said was, well, there's nothing in the blood
work that would prevent you from getting a vaccine. Well,
is there anything in the blood work that told you
why I responded the way I responded to the last vaccine?
After all, that's why I'm seeing a specialist.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
But no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
All she could say is, well, it looks like you
should be okay. See chat GPT told me that they
were going to test for certain things, and that would
have told them which part of my body responded to
the Shingricks vaccine. Obviously chat GPT is a better immunologist
than my immunologist. Uh, but you know, that's the way

(02:15):
life is. One day, I seriously believe one day that
one that AI will basically be the first I don't
want to say be your doctor, but I think AI
will be the first line of defense for medicine. You'll
you'll go into an office and there'll be an AI there,
a robot or something, and you'll tell or even before

(02:37):
you go into the office, you'll speak to this AI
and tell it all your symptoms, and then it will
help the doctor formulate what's going on when you go in.
I really believe that because I do it now with
Chad g you can feed your You're not supposed to
feed your lab results into chat GPT for a variety
of reasons. I think one of them is you probably

(02:57):
shouldn't have that information on a server because it does,
in fact store these things that you put in it.
So basically you're sharing your medical records and as we know,
HIPPA and all of that. But if you like, if
you get your lab work from quest or whatever and
you upload it to chat GPT, it'll tell you everything.
It'll break down everything, every bit of the lab. It'll

(03:19):
tell you what's good, what's bad, all that. But it's
not a doctor. It's just regurgitating information it knows, and
if there is something wrong, it doesn't have the nuance
to sit and have a conversation with you about what
that means. Yet I think it will. I think we're
headed that way. So I hope you have a lovely Christmas.

(03:40):
It's over. Is your tree down? My tree is down.
It is Monday, December twenty ninth, and Christmas is gone.
My decorations outside a gone. My tree is down. I'm done.
I am not one of these lingering. I know we're
still in the twelve days of Christmas. I know we're
still in Kwansa. I get it. But you know what,
that tree has been since Black Friday, and as beautiful

(04:02):
as it is or was, it was time for it
to go go back into little box. See you next year,
like that Neil Simon thing, Same time next year, See
you next year. So I do hope you had a
lovely day. I hope you got a present you wanted
or bought it for yourself, or if you didn't celebrate
or just had a low key day. I hope you
had the day you wanted, not the day that was expected,

(04:27):
not the day that society said you were supposed to have.
I hope you had the day you wanted on Christmas.
All right, we got a great show for you today.
We're gonna do this Gay Week twice this week, once
today and once on Thursday because me and Scott did
an extra one and I want to share all the
gay stories with you because I'm gay and I think

(04:50):
it's important to keep these stories out there. Also, tomorrow
we're gonna have most of the show. Is gonna be
the Als conversation with Eric Dane. I got to participate
in and watch a panel that was done, and that'll
be tomorrow. I am not in the panel. I'm not
asking questions or anything, but I found it all so
interesting and they made the video available to me, and

(05:13):
I think that we should talk about people with disabilities
and show people with disabilities more. So that'll be tomorrow.
Of course, on Wednesday, we're gonna do the Best of
twenty twenty five, as that's the final day of the year,
and then on Thursday, we're gonna cook a little, we're
gonna talk about the new year, and we're gonna do

(05:34):
another this day week. So we've got a busy, busy
week ahead of us. I hope you'll stay here with
me on the Caroll Cast and have a joyous time.
All right. Coming up next, San Francisco is suing. They
are sueing to help make you healthier. But I want
to talk about this because of one of the number
one resolutions is you shouldn't be making what walk. We'll

(05:56):
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Speaker 4 (06:29):
Alrighty righty diedy then, So as you know what two
days from now looking at a calendar is New Year's Eve.
I know you're gonna be safe, insane. I hope you
do an Irish New Year like me, where you do
it at a pub at four o'clock and then you're
home by five and you've had a New Year's even
It's fabulous because that's what I do. I go to
the pub at three o'clock, party until four. They do

(06:50):
the countdown in Ireland at four we all do a toast,
play a little music and men ember go home. Be
doing that again this year. But you know, we all
want to make New Year's resolutions, and whether it's healthy
or not, we're gonna do it. We're gonna look ahead.
But there is a psychology behind why resolutions fail. Let

(07:13):
me share a little of what this article has to
say about this. In many ways, the ritual of making
resolutions on New Year's Eve as arbitrary. After all, we
can set goals anytime. I think you should do it
around your birthday, since that's your New Year's Eve. But
what is it about the turning of the calendar that
makes us especially likely to commit to these goals. Well,

(07:34):
New Year's is an opportunity for reflection, says clinical psychologist
Terry Bly of the Ely Mental Health and Institute in
Mendota Heights, Minnesota. As a result, the coming of the
new year may lead many of us to consider the
changes we want to make or have been told to
make in our lives. Then the ritual of making those
resolutions can serve as a motivator for us to commit

(07:57):
to making those changes. Jennifer Kowalski, a licensed professional counselor
at Thrive Works in Cheshire, Connecticut, agrees with that assessment.
She says a new year represents a fresh start, and
people need something to single, a moment to refresh. When
something comes to an end, it's an opening or a
new beginning, and since everyone in the world experiences the

(08:18):
new Year on the same day, it's a moment where
many of the people around us are looking back on
the old year and thinking about how it improve their
lives in the new year. Consequently, the desire to make
resolutions can be especially strong. Yet, even though so many
of us make New Year's resolutions, we also regularly fail
to keep them. So why do we even bother if

(08:39):
we know our chances of success are pretty damn slim?
According to Bli, as humans, we do tend to be
optimistic even in the face of evidence. So even if
we know the success rate of resolutions is low, or
that in the past we've failed to have our New
Year's resolutions come to completion, each new year offers helpe

(09:00):
that this time, this time, those resolutions will finally stick. Unfortunately,
optimism alone won't result in the change that you actually
want or need. The reality is that there are a
number of things about the way that we make resolutions
that set us up for failure before we start. So
don't do this. First of all, don't think too big.

(09:26):
All change is gradual, okay, So don't try to rein
totally reinvent the wheel. You know, in order to change
the behavior, you have to be uncomfortable, and nobody wants
to be uncomfortable. So in order to see a lasting change,
you have to be in a state of discomfort for
a period of a long period of time. Now, some

(09:47):
of us are we've been miserable a while, or fat
a while, or whatever it might be. But where we
go wrong, they say, is there's this idea that it's
supposed to be some big sweeping change in your life.
And yet as humans, we're not wired really to make
big sweeping changes. So as a result, if we want

(10:08):
to be able to meet our goal, like learning a language,
we need to set smaller goals in ways to succeed.
For instance, if your goal is to learn a language
next year, start by signing up to Babbel, signing up
to a language course. Start little, okay, start by signing
up to something. Or if you're going to teach yourself,

(10:29):
start with just a word or phrase a day. Don't
try to master an entire soliloquy, you know, in one day.
And we don't ask ourselves why change is hard and
the pain of not changing has to be greater than
the pain of us changing, or we won't do it.
Many of our resolutions resolutions tend to involve things we

(10:49):
feel we should do. But when we focus on what
we should do. We're not focusing on what's in it
for us. One way we're more likely to change is
to get at the heart of our eternal reason for
wanting to change. Usually, New Year's resolutions are optional things,
and so if we hate doing it, any goal we
set is just playing. It's just pain. Like you know,

(11:11):
it hurts, and we're not really sure that the reward
is going to be big enough, so we stop doing it.
If our resolution is to go to the gym three
times a week, but we hate going to the gym,
we're not going to meet our goal. The pain of
not changing has to be greater than the pain of changing.
In other words, if you have to start going to

(11:31):
the gym three days a week, or your doctor said
you're gonna die, well, the pain of not going is
greater death. You know, we need to know our personal
reasons for our goal before you set the goal. You
need to know, well, why am I setting it? For real?
And another reason we don't make it is we're just

(11:52):
not ready to change. You know, you gotta be ready
to change. You know, first there's pre contemplay. You start
to become aware that there may be something you need
to change. Then there's contemplation you're thinking about making a change.
Then there's preparation you start putting a plan together to

(12:13):
make a change. And then there's the action you make
that change. But then there's maintenance. You determine how to
maintain the change. So those are the five things that
go into making a change. And if the change is
going to be lasting, you have to keep it up.
You can't just stop. January is the number one, number

(12:38):
one time for JIM signups, and guess what by April,
fifty percent of those people drop out. Now, being obese,
being overweight is one of the things that people want
to change, and it often seems like we don't have
much help because trying to lose weight. But society is

(13:02):
out here giving us huge portions of food. The grocery
store is filled with bad food, and so we want
to lose weight, but we live in a society that's
not set up to let us lose weight unless we
take a shot. Well, in San Francisco, they're going to
try to help you. San Francisco is going to sue
the ultra processed food companies. The city Attorney accuses large

(13:25):
manufacturers of causing disease that have burdened the governments and
the public through their cost. So last week, the city
attorney filed the nation's first governmental lawsuit against food manufacturers
over ultra processed food, arguing that cities and counties have

(13:45):
been burdened with the cost of treating disease that stems
from their products. David Chu, the city attorney, told The
New York Times that he will sue ten corporations that
make some of the country's most popular food and drinks.
Ultra Processed products now comprise seventy percent of the American

(14:06):
food supply, which is why it's so hard for you
to lose weight and filled grocery store shelves with a
kaleidoscope of colorful package slim gym meat steaks, cool ranch doritos.
But also there's the breads and sauces and granola bars
that are marketed as healthy and they're really not. They're
really not. Now it's very rare that liberal San Francisco

(14:31):
is in line with the Trump administration, but they are.
They have also targeted ultra processed foods as part of
its make America Healthy Again mantra. So yeah, mister Choo's lawsuit,
which has been filed in San Francisco's Superior Court on
behalf of the state of California, seeks unspecified damages for
the costs that local government bear treating residents whose health

(14:55):
has been harmed by ultra processed food. The city accuses
the company of unfair and deceptive acts in how they
market and sell their food, arguing that such practices violate
the state's unfair competition law and public nuisance statues. They
also argue that the companies know that the that their

(15:15):
food makes people sick, and they sell it anyway. Now
there's no clue how successful it will be. In August,
a federal judge in Philadelphia dismissed one of the nation's
first private lawsuits over ultra processed food, filed by a
young consumer who was diagnosed with type two diabetes and
non alcoholic fatty liver at age sixteen. The judge was

(15:38):
appointed by Joe Biden, ruled that plaintiffs claimed lack specifics
about which products he had consumed and when. But the
San Francisco City Attorney's Office has had success as a
ground baking public agency on other health matters. As you recall,
they won five hundred and thirty nine million dollars from
tobacco companies and twenty one million from lead men factorers,

(16:00):
which you never saw a dione dim of. And in
twenty eighteen they sued the opioid manufacturers and they did
in fact win that. So they say, look, the attorney
picked up a box of lunchables and said, look, it's
supposed to contain pepperoni, pizza, fruit punch flavored capricea and

(16:22):
Nestli crunched chocolate bar. But when you try to read
what's in it, you can't. The ingredients you can't even
pronounce at all. Diglyceride xanthem gum, calcium proprionate, cellulose powder,
modified foodstotch, potassium sor bait. He said, it makes me
sick that generations of kids and parents are being deceived

(16:46):
into buying food like lunchables, and it's not even food,
it's basically chemicals. Okay, okay, I could go on with
the story. But you know, in twenty ten, San Francisco
ban fast food restaurants from giving away free toys because
they said that it you know, it made kids think

(17:09):
that they were, you know, getting something fabulous. So I
have an interesting how do I say this? I feel
split on this because I've been a fat person basically

(17:31):
my entire life, and you have to wonder at what point,
you know, is it the person's responsibility. I like, you
live in a sea of poisonous food, but I don't
eat it. You know, I don't eat it, and I

(17:56):
tend to think that, you know, just because the food
is there doesn't mean you have to eat it. Now,
if only seventy if seventy percent of everything is ultra
process and there's only thirty percent of food that isn't,
then yeah, there is a problem. But again, that food

(18:16):
would disappear from the shelves if people stop buying it.
You know, we do live in a country of supply
and demand, and so if we all stopped eating it,
then it wouldn't fill the shelves anymore. They would put
more food that you're buying, and more types of food

(18:38):
that you're buying. So it's sort of a split, double
ed sword for me. I think it's great that cities
and governments are trying to hold food manufacturers accountable for
the junk that they give us. Just like last week
when we talked about people are filing wrongful death lawsuits
against insurance companies. I think that's great. But at the

(19:00):
same time, on this week of New Year's where many
of you are saying you want to eat better food,
it's not that hard to do. I mean I never
barely ever go into the center of the grocery store.
Barely ever. I will go to the bean and rice isle,
the international food isle, and the canned ale for things

(19:23):
like canned tomatoes and stuff like that. But that's about it.
There are if there's thirty aisles in a grocery store,
or let's say twenty, I don't go on seventeen of them.
I go to the outside of the store, the produce section,
and then the little vegan section, which is often in
the produce section, sometimes the frozen section, because I do

(19:47):
like an occasional frozen veggie burger or whatever because they're quick.
But that's about it. That's and then again the canned
section and the rice and beans. But that's it. I
don't go tow on the chip aisle, the candy ale.
I don't go. I don't even know what all those
they have aisles that are just all bad drinks, like
energy drinks and power aids, And it's like, are you

(20:10):
freaking kidding me, you know, So they stalk a lot
of stuff that's terrible. I never see it. I don't
even see it. I don't mean I don't even know
where it is or what it is. The fact that
the grocery store has half an aisle or a whole
isle of chips and snacks, that's the problem. And but

(20:31):
I it's not a problem for me because I don't
go down those aisles. And it's not just because I
don't eat that food. Oreos are vegan, fig newtons are vegan.
I love fig newtons. I love oreos. So I don't
go down those aisles because I might be tempted to

(20:52):
put them in the in the basket or in the
wagon because I have a wagon, because Ember's in my wagon.
So it it's a matter of is it the chicken
or the egg. Is it that the food companies are
only giving us processed food and therefore they're making us
sick and we should see that. Or is it that

(21:14):
we're only turning to processed foods because it's easy. That
the other ostens are there, but we're just not choosing
to use it. Do we really have to have all
bad things out of our reach?

Speaker 7 (21:28):
I do stay.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
No it show side.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
You know that's powerful what I just said. As much
willpower as I have in the grocery store, I don't
have it at home. For instance, after I had my
tea party with the girls and I had leftover mini
muffins and Chef Kenny tarts. The next day afterwards, I
ate some of them and I was eating too much,
so I put them in the composter, and I know

(22:22):
I should have given them to the homeless people at
the park. I felt bad after that, but I put
them in the composter because I thought, you're gonna eat
these and with an LDL of one hundred, you can't.
You can't. You got to get the LDL down to
below seventy. So I thought, well, at a thirty at night,
after you've had two Edible's child, you don't eat the

(22:44):
mini cupcake. You must say, well, it's just a mini cupcake,
it's only one hundred. Then you're going to shove four
of them in your pow hole. So I got rid
of them. So there is something to be said that
if those items that San Francisco is suing over or
not on the shelves, if there wasn't an entire aisle

(23:05):
of energy drinks, they're an entire aisle of chips and
sodas and snacks. Then you wouldn't be able to buy them,
or you would be at certain places, but it wouldn't
be easy to buy them. Humans tend to go for
what's easiest, and that's just a human trait. We tend

(23:27):
to go for what's easiest. If it's easy to buy
a box of lunchables instead of prepping your kid's lunch
with whole foods because you're so busy in the morning,
it's easy, whatever it might be, then that's what we're
gonna do. Even if it's bad, we're gonna do it.

(23:48):
And so if lunchables weren't there, or if they were
forced to make them better, although you can't. It's processed meats.
It's no one should eat lunchables unless they just got
carrots and you know, fruits and vegetables and you know,
maybe a protein that is not meat, then don't eat them.

(24:09):
But people do and they are filled with count And
that's the other thing. You might be eating food that
you think is good for you and then you read
the label and it's like I said about peanut butter.
The only ingredient in peanut butter should be peanuts. All
you have to do is take your food process or
put in two cups of peanuts after you roast them

(24:30):
for four or five minutes, and guess what you get
roasted peanut butter. No ingredients. I mean, sprinkle a little
salt in there if you want, go and read most
peanut butters in the store they have other oils added,
they have sugar added. They like Skippy. Skippy don't even
say it's peanut butter anymore. It says spread. So they

(24:53):
take good food nowadays and actually make it bad, and
they should be stopped from doing that if you're buying
food like granola. Now, granola's not a health food. It's not.
It's just lots of sugar and oats and nuts and stuff.
There's good stuff in granola, but when you buy it

(25:15):
in the store, it is so filled with sugar and
sometimes fat. Oil. Make your own granola, you know. Add
the other night I made cookies and I thought, I
can't use oil, so I use pumpkin pure instead. It
cut out an entire eight hundred calories from the recipe
just to substitute in pumpkin pure instead of oil, and

(25:39):
they tasted fine. They were peanut butter cookies. They were delicious.
So as you look ahead to the new year, San
Francisco's trying to help you out by getting some of
the bad food off the shelf. But remember it's all
personal choice, and don't make don't swing at windmills for

(25:59):
your resolutions. You know, I'm gonna learn a language, I'm
gonna lose fifty pounds, find a husband, and go to Greece. Yeah,
probably not. Don't set yourself up to fail. But when
it comes to food or anything in life, ultimately you're
responsible and can say yes or no. That's the hardest

(26:22):
part of life is actually taking responsibility for your own
I would like to lose twenty five pounds, or let's
say twenty six. That's it's twenty twenty six. I would
like to lose twenty six pounds next year. This next year,
we're three days away. Will I I'm gonna try. I

(26:42):
know I have the knowledge as to how will I
be able to We'll see. I'm not gonna beat myself
up if I don't. But given that the sleep apnea
would get better, my blood pressure would get better, the
strain on my Orda would less and even more, It's

(27:02):
just a win win for me. And this goes back
to does the benefit outweigh the pain? In my case,
it does the benefit of losing twenty five or twenty
six pounds for twenty twenty six outweighs my love of
oreos at eight thirty at night. So I'm going to
have to find a way this year that I can

(27:25):
live with to successfully cut back on the calories during
the day so I can in fact lose this twenty
six pounds. If I don't, I'm not going to beat
myself up. I'll just keep trying or I'll finally let
them give me the zetbound throwing the towel. Oh god. Okay,

(27:48):
So a week and a half ago, Scott and I,
Scott Jacobson and I did our this Gay Week and
he had spotty Internet, but we covered some good stuff.
So I want you to see that up next. A
lot of interesting stories, So that'll be coming up next,
And again I want you to think about the upcoming year.

(28:10):
You know, we have to be as strong as we
can because Trump and politics and just the world in
general is gonna be throwing some monumental shit at us.
And then in your personal life, I'd like to say
many of you are not gonna lose loved ones. You may.

(28:32):
I'd like to say all of our pets are gonna
make it through the year. They might not, So I'd
like to say we're all gonna make it through the year.
Maybe some of you listening won't, maybe I won't. The
world is gonna throw stuff at us, and our stamina,
our resilience, our health is our shield. That's how we

(28:55):
help protect ourselves. So on the show this year, I'm
gonna try to help you develop up some good habits.
We're gonna cook this week some healthy stuff, and then
the week after we're gonna talk more about movement and
getting you going and getting you out in the world
a little bit more. Because if we are strong, and

(29:18):
we are stronger together, as my song said, then you
love the music show last week. Many of you may
not have thought I love doing it, But if we
are strong, it can be our shield. All right, we
come back this Gay Week with me and the handsome
journalist from Canada, Scott Jacobson. He does a feature called
his Gay Week for the good Man Project. I am

(29:40):
his guest every week. I decided to start sharing what
we talk about. So it's coming up.

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now that the gays are under attack and I have
a podcast, guess what I'm gonna start doing more gay topics,
including this Gay Week. So coming up next, this Gay.

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Week, Uncensored, unfiltered, un hinged.

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It's a Corrall cast.

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Listen daily on your favorite streaming service. All right, it
is the crowd cast. I am Correll. I was told
my entire career to xnay on the gay topics. You
are the gay topic. But you know what, we are
going backwards across the globe in gay and lesbian rights,

(31:14):
and so once or twice a week we're gonna spend
a half hour on the show talking about him. Because
I know all of you are allies or gay or
bye or lesbian or trance. Scott Jacobson's a very handsome
journalist out from Canada. I do an interview with him
every week for his column in The good Man Project
called This Gay Week, and here is part one. All right,

(31:37):
it is This Gay Week again with Scott Jacobson in
Canada and Corell here in beautiful Las Vegas, where it
was thirty seven degrees this morning. All right, We're gonna
start with eight heads, a subject near and dear to
my heart since I survived the crisis, and tomorrow, the
sixth of December, I have a new single coming out
called I Dance because with twelve remixes count them. And

(32:00):
it was written because I have lost so many friends
to HIV AIDS that every time I dance to oldies,
I cry because I remember all of those that I
have lost, And so I was looking up some ads info.
First of all, we got to remember that AIDS the
United States refused this December first to participate in World
Aid's Day, which Madonna has denounced and called reprehensible and ridiculous,

(32:26):
as did many people in the world. We have to
remember that every two hours in the United States and
every or every forty five minutes globally, somebody still dies
of HIV AIDS, so it is not cured. Proteus inhibitors
are a great advancement that are saving lives, but they
are not a cure and prep is great, but a

(32:46):
getting it to people now with Donald Trump's cuts has
been horrible and b again, it is not one hundred percent.
So the first big news about AIDS this week was that,
for the first time since the inception of World Aid's Day,
the United States did not participate in it, once again
showing the homophobia and the power of Project twenty twenty
five that it has on the White House. It was

(33:10):
denounced by many people, including Madonna, as cruel and ridiculous
or unnecessary, but of course this is a White House
that doesn't care. Meanwhile, the rest of the world did
care and does care, and they commemorated those we have lost.
In Australia, it was very powerful. They read the names

(33:30):
of Australian's lost to AIDS. It was a very impactful
and powerful movement. They did this on their national television.
It wasn't just at some little event, and so that
was very powerful. But also there was news out yesterday
from the University of California and San Francisco about long
term HIV control and they're looking into ex visting immunotherapies

(33:54):
and combinations. And one of the things that AI is
really doing for us is allowing us to make different
existing therapies for things that we might have never thought
of combining. But AI thinks of it and does and
something comes out of it. So we are hoping again
that this would just be a long term treatment, not

(34:14):
a cure. I mean, we were hoping for a cure,
but this is not a cure. But on December first,
World's a Day in Nature, they did publish this trial
which relied on a collaboration with a dozen pharmaceutical companies
and other partners in their HIV research, and they offered
a proof of concept the approach could work, and that

(34:36):
approaches combining experimental immunotherapy agents as well as existing ones,
and seven out of ten participants kept the virus at
undetectable levels, because that is what we are hoping for
in treatments for at least six months after the trial,
which is prom mis seeing news as we know their

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problem or maybe you don't know, but the problem with
HIV therapies is the blood brain barrier, as it is
with a lot of therapies. We have to cross that
barrier because HIV hides out in the organs, and so
they can cleanse the blood of it, but it's still
going to be there in the brain and the kidney
and the liver. So they have to make sure they
have a drug that can actually break the blood brain

(35:24):
or traverse the blood brain barrier. They think these immuno
retrovirals are you know, a good way to do that.
We'll see where that research goes, but it is promising
that even though Donald Trump has cut so much in
AGE research, that other countries are still pouring money, resources
and time into it and they are making some advances

(35:44):
like this trial which has came out on weld age
date Ecember first. It's probably primit of medicine that you
see SF San Francisco and was presented at the World
AIDS Conference in Australia. Well, that is very, very exciting
from the world of age. You again with Scott Jacobson.

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Speaker 4 (36:30):
Okay. So I feel sorry for gen Z as I'm
here talking to Scott Jacobson and he's talking to me
him for the good Man Project, which I really want
him to tell us about one day as he traveled.
He's traversing the world for his journalistic endeavors, and I'm
a little jealous. When I was a journalist, we had
no budget to go anywhere except in the coffee room.
But he's in DC as we speak. So you're not

(36:52):
gen Z. So what are you, jen Y gen X?
You're not Jen're You're a millennial Jesus, I have shoes
older than you. But anyway, so they did a survey
and this this is a great segue from an aide story,
because when ages came around, it was really like the
music stopped. Okay, So suddenly those of us who were

(37:14):
out going to bath houses going home with people whose
names we might have gotten before we left the house,
maybe not. You know, I can't tell you how many
times I would be like, oh, yeah, that's with this
hot guy. What's his name, well, Jack Daniels, I don't know.
So now because of the lockdown to Trump presidencies, because

(37:38):
of you know, COVID and monkey pocks and everything else,
gen Z is grappling with love dating in the bedroom.
They're having fewer one night stands. They are taking to
AI lovers. I don't know how that even works. But okay,
CHADGPT as many things, but not sexy. So politicians and
parents have influences whose are all asking about the love

(38:03):
life of gen Z and basically what they're getting back
in today's day and age. And this is across the world,
by the way, It's not just the United States. If
that young people aren't having much sex, and that's very interesting.
Birth rates are declining, so this isn't just a gay thing.
But I will tell you the notion or the stereotype

(38:26):
of the gay man as promiscuous that has really died
with my generation gen X and baby Boomer because the
new generations, Millennials, gen Y, gen Z, they be in hosts.
You know, they are really not going out and having
as much sex as we did. I feel sorry for them.

(38:46):
As George Michael said, sex is natural, Sex is good.
Not everybody doesn't, but everybody should, you know, not that
I've had it recently. I'm sixty three, who's you know what.
I don't want to sleep with a raisin because that's
what men my age look like to me, a little
rippled up raisins. And it's really, you know, nothing more
cliche than a sixty three year old man with a

(39:07):
thirty five year old So unless if I were rich,
should perhaps it's the Donna or fair Yeah, oh yes,
I'd be screwing every dancer around. But they're not. That
gen Z is not. And the other thing about gen
Z that's very interesting is they're not classifying their sex

(39:27):
as gay or straight. If you parse out some of
the details of the article, it shows that they're a
little more fluid with their identification of who they're having
sex with. Thirty two percent in twenty twenty three of
high schoolers said they had had sex. That is compared

(39:48):
to forty seven percent in twenty thirteen. So back in
twenty thirteen, almost half of high schoolers had said, oh, yeah,
I've had sex, and how many of those lied we
don't know, But now it's down to thirty two, so
less than one This would be, you know, nice news
for parents. Less than one third of high schoolers have
said they've had sex. A survey conducted by the Kinsey

(40:09):
Institute in partnership with the sexual wellness brand Love Honey
Loube found that one in four Gen Z adults aged
eighteen to twenty four have not had partnered sex yet.
Now I don't know what they're saying partnered. I'm not
really sure, like, how do you have sex without a partner?
So you know, I but maybe you could enlighten me

(40:31):
on that, mister millennial, how do you have sex without
a partner?

Speaker 9 (40:34):
I mean, my guess is that they mean they're in
some type of good relationship rather than rather in the
sense of there has to be a body there, right,
it would be once more, it would be logical possibility.
Over do you think part of this is tied to
social media technology and.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
So you're in and that is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
and thank you for bringing that up. In the era
of more connection, I read a remarkable article last a
night about how we are in trouble. We're in big trouble,
and it said, welcome to the age of anti social media.
And what the article was about is the more we

(41:14):
gravitate online, the less we are doing human interaction, and that, yes,
you got to have human interaction to have sex, at
least my day you did. Maybe you can enlighten me
about that. But there's also a lot of angry guys
out there. And if you look at the statistics that

(41:34):
eighteen to twenty four, one in three gen Z men
eighteen to twenty four have reported not having sex. So
if thirty three percent of men eighteen to twenty four
aren't having sex, it explains a lot of the upset
people on the internet. And I really don't want to
equate this, but I kind of am. It also explains
some of the mass shootings, you know, because let's be real,

(41:58):
young men, when you're eighteen to twenty four, you are
meant to have sex. Your hormones are raging, and if
you're not having sex, those hormones are gonna manifest some
other way. Explains the Andrew Tates of the world. That
explains this toxic.

Speaker 6 (42:20):
Yes, I'm looking at two parts of the state.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
I mean, I think it explains the toxic masculinity that
is out there right now, because.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
Right it's a little bit of a time be layer think.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
Now with gen Z women, Yeah, there is a time delay.
It's like I'm doing a live network with you know,
with Europe, and I'm waiting for the host to answer
me very hard. Woman under thirty are more likely to
be in a relationship than men under thirty. That's also yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
I'm here, Bob, ask me anything. It's amazing that women

(42:57):
under thirty are It's amazing that women under thirty are
more apt to be in a relationship than men under
thirty because I wonder who those women are the relationships with,
maybe other women thirty.

Speaker 9 (43:10):
One, the women, the speculations, and they're be dating older
that that's been widely speculator one speculation I haven't heard.
I mean it's two second one dating older to their
dating other women. Three they could be sharing men.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
Well, I don't share my man, so I would do
to your point about other women, h twenty percent of
women gen Z who are Republican, twenty percent of women,
thirty eight percent of men. However, gen Z that identify
as LGBTQ, the number between men and women is remarkable.
Thirty two percent of women identify as somewhere on that

(43:56):
spectrum queer, lesbian, bisexual, whatever it might be. Eighteen percent
of gen Z males say that they're LGBTQ. That's a
large number, by the way. Back in my day it
was like one two percent. But it's amazing the gender
gap that thirty two percent, like one third of women

(44:18):
admit that, yeah, I could be with a woman eighteen
percent of men in this survey that I'm reading, which
is from which let's state our source here. This is
from The Guardian. Though sixty three percent of men under
thirty are single. That's compared with only thirty four percent
of women under the age of thirty. So you're right,
they've got to be dating someone or doing something, because

(44:40):
if sixty three percent of men are single under thirty
and thirty four percent on women, they're obviously dating someone.
Thirty one percent of women identify somewhere on the gay spectrum,
of only eighteen percent of men, which might explain the
difference in the relationship gap. I think women are opening
themselves up to relationships with other women more than men

(45:01):
are opening themselves up to relationship with other men. Conservative
policies lead to the fear of sex. Some women's sex
lives have been adversely affected by recent conservative political triumphs
on social media. The raw emotion of Trump selection soon
made itself clear. Talk of a four B movement, which

(45:23):
I'm not quite sure what that is. I'll have to
look that up. Maybe you know what the four B
movement is. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
Yeah, four be.

Speaker 9 (45:30):
It's there's four bees in Korean language that ulster would
be and it means something to the effect of no marriage, men,
no children, no sex as long so Korean would.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
There should be a fifth thing there, no fun there
should be there should be a fifth thing. It should well,
there should be a fifth thing there no fund should
be number five. It's like you know, uh, so politics
are affecting the sex lives of gen Z there and
particularly conservative politics. Non Monogamy is on the table, but

(46:07):
gen Z does not seem to be taken with it
as other generations, which is very interesting. Gen Z are
most likely to say they prefer monogamy as a relationship
style twenty three percent of them, Boomers twelve percent, So
my generation is a little more open to being open
as opposed to the younger people. I'm not one of those.

(46:28):
I can't do the open marriages or open relationships. I
dated a bye guy once and I tried to not
get jealous about the women he went with, and I
got jealous. So you know, and they're not they're not
having Yeah, I did say a boy to the buy guy.
First date sex can be a known of with Gen
Z as well, more so than Gen X or millennials

(46:51):
or boomers. And of course, if you're a gay man,
you have sex before the date because you don't want
to waste a good date on someone you're not going
to get laid by. That's really the truth. I mean,
older gay men dating is great. Well yeah, I mean
with older gay men that was the way. But it

(47:11):
appears that younger gay people are opting for a different way.
They're opting for get to know you first and then
have sex, which might explain why they're not having enough
sex because you know. Meanwhile, in good entertainment news, there
is a movie coming out that I just can't wait
for because I'm a biker. I'm a motorcyclist, I have

(47:32):
been for almost thirty years, and it's called Pillion. Well,
the Baptists, which are the British Film Awards, have a
cousin called the beefas the IFAs. Those are the British
Independent Film Academy Awards and Pillion is the name of
the movie. And it cleaned up at the beefas it
won like almost every major award. Alexander'scard's guard, the hunk

(47:58):
from True Blood and others. He is in the movie
and it's it's kind of a comedy but not and
it's about gay bikers into the SNM. Now, how they're
going to release this in polite culture, I don't know,
but they are and it's getting huge, huge award at

(48:19):
the British Independent Film Awards, like it swept basically and
it took everybody by surprise. It won Best Film at
the Bypass in Britain, so that was just really stunning
for a film about gay bikers and BDSM. It's adapted

(48:41):
from the Adam mars Jones novel Box Hill. It picked
up for Best Debut Screenwriter for Harry Lytton, Best Costume,
Best Hair, Best Makeup, Best Film. It's gotten four star
reviews from the Guardian and from almost every other European
media outlet that has reviewed it. So that's a piece
of good news. We have a gay film about gay

(49:03):
bdsm uh and it's actually cleaning up. We have yet
to see what it will do in America. America tends
to be a little more prudish, but we'll see, you know.
The last film we had that came out kind of
centering on the gaze that created a huge amount of
controversy was al Pacino's Cruising, of which there is a
new Russell Tovey movie out by the way, which sort

(49:27):
of is almost like Cruising by al Pacino and is
also winning awards. Another fun piece of news out of Ireland.
So bears, for those of you that don't know, are
basically gay harry men who have not seen ozempic, you

(49:47):
know who stay away from ozempic. It appears that Ireland
has the highest percentage of bears in the world. So
if you want to go or something this, according to Grinder, don't.
I I would not have looked. I would not have
thought Ireland, and that, you know. I would have thought
maybe some cold nation like Scotland where the men are

(50:10):
bearded and you know, burly men, you know. But but no,
it is Ireland, according to Grinder. It just Grinder did
an unwrapped And I know a lot of people are
getting their music. Did you get your music unwrapped? To
you do you stream the music? How do you listen
to music?

Speaker 6 (50:28):
I stream it on Spotify, but I don't know the
unwrapped option.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
But as I go, well, you should beginning it. If
you're a Spotify member, they send it to everybody that's
signed up and it's basically your ear in music, it's
what you listened to. Last year, I listened to ninety
two thousand minutes of music and in the United States
I was European superstar Emily Sonde's top five percent of listeners. So,

(50:56):
based on anonymous and aggregated data from users to grind,
under Unwrapped report for twenty twenty five says that there's
more Bears in Ireland than any other country. And of
course the Bears are a subculture in our culture. It's
really weird how gays split up. There's bear bars and

(51:17):
twin bars and pretty boy bars. We call them circuit
bars or circuit queens because of the party's circuit, the
white parties. You know, there's a party circuit, Provincetown, all
of that Peatown.

Speaker 7 (51:29):
Okay, so I do subspact state.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Now it's show side.

Speaker 4 (51:59):
And so bear are actually, you know, a subculture, but
they have really and truly caught on. So I guess
I have to stop making my joke that bears are
just gay men who have given up on hygiene and
won't use thozenbic because it appears they're very popular. So
all right, we've got a couple more stories. Hurries to

(52:20):
go here from your coffee shop, per called on just
a second that time or seven minutes and thirty seconds.
Here is something good out of the UK, which is
that there will be free health and well being kit
for trans and non binary people launched in the UK.

(52:43):
So as we see governments pulling back on supporting trans
it is so nice to see that in the UK
they're offering free health and well being kits for trans
and non binary people because you know, it's there's a
war going on with trans people and it's into an
international war. As we know in many African nations, they're
killing trans people, they are out law trans people, they

(53:06):
are jailing trans people. So it's nice that you know,
we're seeing the UK is actually saying no, we're we
are going to help trans people with a health kit.
A toolkit created by an an an e. It focuses
on UK specific healthcare Ireland's house system is also lacking

(53:28):
when it comes to trans inclusivity, resources and funding, and
so they are members of the UK who are trans
healthcare Form members are trying to bring this kit to
Ireland as well and other nations so that trans people
can have some resources to help them either a transition
or help them after they have transitioned. So that's some

(53:52):
good news.

Speaker 6 (53:55):
So it's not Superio. Second, laborers, have you heard the Durnam?

Speaker 9 (54:02):
Have you heard the ya the jurnam?

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Well, have you heard the herd the dirt? Have you
heard the dirt about Eurovision? No? So the Games have
claimed Eurovision as our own because let's be real, it's
pretty gay. It's it's it's the you know, competition that
gave us Abba. So you know, so Ireland and several
other nations are not going to compete in Eurovision because

(54:28):
Israel is being permitted to compete. There are those that
feel Israel is continuing a genocide against the Palestinian people
and they should suffer some repercussion. And so Ireland and
three other nations have said they are not going to

(54:48):
compete in the Eurovision twenty twenty six not because of
a stance on LGBTQ issues, but because Israel has been
allowed to participate and they really feel that the biggest
violator of human rights right now is in fact Israel,
and so that's that's very very interesting. Also, Hugh Wallace

(55:09):
from Ireland passed away. I saw and met mister Wallace.
He was a gay presenter there in Ireland, very very
well known, and he passed away and I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
He was an architect who was also a TV star.
He let's not negate his you know what. He had
has degree in but he was open to gay and

(55:33):
he passed away and the tributes from across the UK
are pouring in. He did like Home of the Year,
the Great House Revival, my Bungalow Bliss. So he was
like their property brothers here in the United States. And
he's passed away and the world is out pouring love
to him. And that's again another positive story. That's nice
to see because he was very beloved and the tributes

(55:54):
are showing and their worldwide tributes are coming in from
all and many other countries, and it's nice to see
that he has in fact been so beloved. Let's see,
I had a Russia story. Did did was it you
that sent me the rest? I had a Russia story.
I don't know where it went to.

Speaker 9 (56:12):
Uh it was under you said, this was under LGBT
Communation report blocks children's gaming platform world block providing antig
example walk And that's actually interesting too because the war context,
there's one systematic state policy stuff put on using video
games as a very subtle and easily accepted forms of

(56:36):
delivery for variouspression coup agenda.

Speaker 6 (56:39):
But in university b TQ one this is.

Speaker 9 (56:41):
I think would be for the writing the line with
that in terms of their antiopp. I think said, of
course some other stories where their model was being taken
into account for other countries that you wish to not
necessarily line of rotor was aligned with their state policy on.

Speaker 6 (57:00):
When they're in the artists, well, you.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
Know, Russia's going rogue. They're trying to distance themselves from China,
which is why Plutin is in India, and they're really
trying to become a the world superpower, and so they're
trying to get away from their reliance on China and
other countries. So they're kind of going rogue, but certainly
they are tripling down on their anti gay rhetoric, and

(57:24):
it is dangerous because it might influence game makers and
their decisions. I was playing a game. I used to
play games. Do you are you a gamer?

Speaker 6 (57:33):
Used to be a gamer? But it's great times.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
Yeah, I used to be a gamer. I'm not anymore.
But there was a game, and I forget. It was
a very very popular game, and it was one of
those games where you could make choices, like at the
end of a scene, you could choose to go this way,
or choose to go that way, or choose to go
with this person, or choose to go with that person.

(57:59):
There was a in the game where your hero goes
to a bar. He's a male hero and he goes
to a bar, and you can choose to go home
home with another man or another woman. You can choose
you don't, And so they built it in the game
where you can choose to go home with the bartender
or whatever. And I found that very it was very cool,

(58:22):
and he was hot for a video game. And I'm
just worried that with Russia doing this that game manufacturers
who have now been very pro LGBTQ in like you say,
subtly putting it in their games, not being overly overt,
but putting it in there kind of in a subtle way.
They may decide to pull back because I imagine Russia

(58:43):
is a pretty big market for gaming, so they you know,
so we'll see or maybe they'll do two different versions
of a game. I don't know, but I do know
that it's in linement that Russia is trying to do,
which is Russia. In Vladimir Putin's mind, if you make
all these laws, if you stop disseminating information, if you

(59:05):
take all the gays off TV, if you take them
out a video game, in his mind, then you won't
have any gays. And of course we know that Vladimir
Putin is completely wrong about that. All right, I am Corell.
I want you to be who you want to be.
Son to hurt anybody tomorrow. Eric Dane, he has als
and I was lucky enough to view a press conference

(59:28):
he did. They gave me access to that. I'm going
to play it here because people with disabilities deserve to
be hurt as well. We'll see you tomorrow. Have a
happy December twenty ninth, and a happy New Year's week,
and yeah, I'll be here with you all week.

Speaker 8 (59:44):
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