December Bonus: THE 2022 GRIFTIES!
Added 2022-12-29 10:00:12 +0000 UTCIt's the most wonderful time of the year: Mike and Aubrey yell about wellness grifters! In our second annual Grifties, we're honoring (?) the best, worst and weirdest of wellness and weight loss in 2022. We're also bestowing our first-ever LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD on a grifter for the ages. And we're answering a truly groundbreaking question: "what if I told you we could turn regular food ... into squares?"
Some links we talk about along the way:
Drew Gooden: "We Ate the Squares"
Diabetes Med Ozempic in Short Supply as Americans Use It for Weight Loss
‘Liver King’ Admits He’s on Steroids, Says Persona Is an ‘Experiment’
In January's bonus episode, we'll be exploring some of the 700+ stories that you all sent us about your experiences with workplace wellness programs--and there are some real doozies. As ever, if you've got requests for future bonus episodes, tell us in the comments!
See you in January!
M&A
Comments
Wha???? He used drugs to get that body? Say it isn't so 😆 Liver King Admits to Fraud in New Netflix Documentary — Here's Why His 'Sorry' Doesn't Cut It https://share.google/MuXG6o6j161wa7wwf
Trudi
2025-07-27 19:30:56 +0000 UTCHello, from 2025. LMAO.
Jessica
2025-07-10 06:55:43 +0000 UTCLooked up brightline eating on google and the first search result was the ED helpline!
Hadley
2024-03-27 15:18:46 +0000 UTCPart of the way through this episode and SqarEats seems like a dream come true for people with food texture issues (like myself, autistic & has arfid) although the way they market their products is. Strange and very Nothing
novatix
2023-12-05 01:36:36 +0000 UTCI did a healthy wager and it worked well as motivation until I got covid and stopped riding my new ebike everywhere. I didn't lose the money, though, because I happen to have an identical twin who is thinner than the goal weight I set. She logged into the account and took the weighout video on my behalf. It was great.
Marissa Graham
2023-11-14 06:07:01 +0000 UTCHow is SquareEats not called SquareMeals? And will their next product be the FoodPyramid?
Kazoolhu
2023-10-11 22:10:43 +0000 UTCIf someone told me SquareEats wasn’t initially designed either for or by autistics, I would be genuinely surprised. (Saying this as an autistic person who is actually now considering looking into it…)
2023-08-18 17:52:15 +0000 UTCI goddamn love how the comments seem like utter nonsense before I listen, and then things like SHARK THUMBS makes sense.
Christy
2023-06-24 13:45:38 +0000 UTCHi! I’m re-listening to the Grifties (for like the 3rd time 🤣) and in the 2021 episode there are a few mentions of a Noom deep dive to come - did it ever get made?
KWV
2023-05-22 14:26:55 +0000 UTCWegovy and Ozempic are two of the brand names for the medication semaglutide. They are not inter-changable as they were both approved by the FDA for different indications and at different dosages. The indication is the condition that the FDA has approved the medication for. Novo Nordisk was approved by the FDA in 2017 to sell semaglutide for weight loss under the brand name Wegovy with dosing of up. to 2.4 mg of semaglutide. Novo Nordisk was also approved by the FDA in 2017 to sell semaglutide under the brand name Ozempic for diabetes with final dosing available in .5mg, 1mg, and 2mg. I do fact checking for pharma (yikes lmao) and heres the sources, which is the prescribing information for both drugs https://www.novo-pi.com/wegovy.pdf https://www.novo-pi.com/ozempic.pdf
Weed
2023-05-18 06:17:23 +0000 UTCShark thumbs! 😂
2023-05-10 02:52:11 +0000 UTCI've been hearing here and elsewhere that the popularity of Wegovy as a weight loss medication is causing a shortage of the drug Ozempic prescribed as treatment for type 2 diabetes. I googled it and according to goodrx.com they are not interchangeable. Where is this information coming from? Could someone direct me to where this might be covered please? Thanks 😊
Gema Alig
2023-04-29 15:41:54 +0000 UTCI used to love Michael Mosley, he used to be an amazing documentary guy before he got into all the 5/2 stuff. I went to his talk back in the pre-pandemic times and it was super interesting and amazing, then i went to one a few weeks ago and it was absolutely just him trying to sell his and his wife's new cook book, fast 800 keto. and even worse, it was boring.
Kate Williamson
2023-04-19 16:44:15 +0000 UTCAh! I was just going to comment about this! I teach students with exceptionalities and some of my kiddos and the autism spectrum maybe could be convinced to diversify their diet if all their food was the same shape? Haha I would love to see if anyone has tried it!
2023-04-17 14:42:19 +0000 UTCI wonder if the square eats thing is for individuals with sensory differences? I am a speech pathologist, and I know that some of my neurodivergent clients prefer same textures and shapes.
2023-04-04 12:39:04 +0000 UTCAhhh, I'm watching this on April 1st and it's difficult to believe square eats is not an April Fool's episode...
2023-04-01 17:44:16 +0000 UTCI now need a shirt that says “don’t come into my house with statistics speak” thank you michael 🙏🏻
2023-03-14 15:26:20 +0000 UTCOops never mind you already had the link I was going to mention...
Lise Dale
2023-03-10 01:34:41 +0000 UTCListened to this episode two nights ago + just got an ad on Pinterest for seamoss gel. 🤨 1) I misread the word seamoss as "samosas" about three times and could not figure out what tan + bright pink samosa sauce these people were eating?? very concerning + 2) it looks so bad, dude! literally gloop. maybe it's because I'm neurodivergent, but the texture is so upsetting, I can't understand anyone eating this instead of food. edit: even the people in this ad look put off by the texture
fig leaf
2023-02-26 14:36:51 +0000 UTC
