Mojo In The Morning

Are You On Ozempic?

11 min
Apr 10, 20268 days ago
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Summary

The hosts discuss the social etiquette and personal implications of asking someone if they're using weight-loss medications like Ozempic, exploring whether such questions are appropriate and how people react to assumptions about their weight loss. The conversation touches on restaurant profit margins being affected by customers ordering less due to appetite-suppressing medications, and callers share perspectives on the sensitivity around discussing weight-loss methods.

Insights
  • Weight-loss medication use has become normalized enough that servers notice ordering pattern changes, suggesting widespread adoption affecting food service industry economics
  • There's significant social stigma around admitting to using pharmaceutical weight-loss aids, with some people viewing it as 'cheating' despite it being a legitimate health intervention
  • The appropriateness of asking about weight loss depends heavily on relationship context and rapport, not just the question itself
  • Weight loss from non-diet sources (illness, stress, medication) creates awkward social situations where compliments become uncomfortable for the recipient
  • Open discussion about weight-loss methods, similar to addiction recovery transparency, can help others seeking solutions and reduce shame
Trends
GLP-1 receptor agonist medications (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) are becoming mainstream enough to noticeably impact restaurant ordering patterns and profit marginsShift toward normalizing pharmaceutical weight-loss interventions as legitimate health tools rather than moral failuresGrowing social awareness and sensitivity around weight-related comments and assumptionsEmergence of new medication delivery formats (drops, sublingual options) making treatments more accessible and discreetRestaurant industry experiencing measurable revenue impact from customers using appetite-suppressing medicationsIncreased openness about health interventions in casual conversation, similar to addiction recovery disclosure trends
Companies
Cohesity
Cybersecurity company sponsoring the episode; surveyed 3,000 IT leaders on attack resilience and recovery capabilities.
People
Chelsea
Co-host who shares personal experience with weight-loss medications and restaurant dining habits.
EJ
Radio station team member mentioned as regular at restaurants with the hosts during Jingle Ball events.
Dr. Stanley
Host's favorite diet program creator from past commercials; hosts became friends through the collaboration.
Rose
Caller who discusses social perception of Ozempic use and weight-loss medication stigma.
Casey
Caller who shares story about friend with cancer experiencing awkward weight-loss compliments.
Portia
Caller who expresses strong personal opinion that asking about weight-loss medication use is offensive.
Quotes
"Can you ask somebody if they're on the shot and when people are offended if you do ask them that is it similar to asking somebody if they're pregnant?"
HostEarly segment
"You're not cheating by doing whatever the diet is that you're doing. You know what I mean? Like if you're doing intermittent fasting, is that cheating? No, no, it's basically you're working towards it."
HostMid-segment
"As a fat guy, I want to help other people who are struggling with their weight and say, yeah, it works. You should try this thing."
HostMid-segment
"If someone were to ask me if I was like using the shot or anything, I honestly would be so offended. It's like asking me if I'm like on hard drugs."
PortiaCaller segment
"I would love to be there when he told somebody, only because could you imagine the look on somebody's face? If you would sit there and go, I got cancer."
HostCancer discussion
Full Transcript
If a cyber attack hit this week, would you cope or scramble? Cohesity surveyed over 3,000 IT and security leaders. 76% have suffered a major attack, and a quarter have been hit more than once. Yet only 6% can call themselves truly resilient. Want the playbook the top 6% are using? Visit Cohesity.com slash resilience. Cohesity. Resilience everywhere. Alright, it's Mojo in the morning. So Chelsea and I went out for dinner and Chelsea and I are creatures of habit. I don't know if you guys are like this, but we go to the same places all the time and very often when we go to whatever it might be, a Coney Island or we go to the family restaurant up the street, the sushi place that we go to from time to time, or this place is a nice place that we went to. We went out to a Phoenicia, which is a great restaurant. I love their ribs. Whenever we go there, we always end up getting the same servers, the same guy that every time that we always get. And he's great. He's got a great smile to his face. He's very friendly. He's always been nice to us. He loves when I bring the guys in from the radio station. He loves EJ because when Jingle Ball is always here, I always make sure EJ gets in. Long story short, Chelsea and I are eating and we go to eat and we order hummus to bully with vegetables for an appetizer. And then he comes over to grab our dinner order and Chelsea and I say, you know, we're going to split an order of your world famous Sammy Spiced Ribs with a side of French fries. And he goes, that's it. And he's, yes. Oh, okay. You guys on one of those shots? He feels comfortable with you. Well, as a matter of fact, we are. Did you say yes? Yes, I absolutely did. That's funny. Which brought to a really interesting question of can you ask somebody if they're on a diet or if they are doing the shot or what diet they're doing? Is that too personal to ask somebody if they've lost weight? Because there was for so long where people would question me on different things when they would see my weight fluctuate. Yeah. You know, and I was always the guy that did the commercials for whatever I was doing. I mean, honestly, I'm a whore. I'll take it. But you legitimately anything you talked about you were doing you were trying. And I'm not making money off the shot because nobody has gotten that sold. I don't know. But what was your favorite diet? I loved doing Dr. Stanley. I love doing my first time I love Dr. Stanley. He was like my favorite. What was your skinniest when you were doing it? Wait, what was the diet? It was a Nutra Nutra most and then I think it was Nutra most and then it was ideal you right or something like that. So but Dr. Stanley was the man. He and I became friends and stuff. So long story short with this. Can you ask somebody if they're on the shot and when people are offended if you do ask them that is it similar to asking somebody if they're pregnant? No, I don't think so. It's totally opposite of that, right? I mean, absent somebody if they're pregnant means they're fat. I do think there's a better way to go about it like oh you guys look great. Are you doing something? Are you? Is that it? I don't think the waiter can ask. Although I don't know your relationship with him. If this is somebody you see every week and you have a rapport with OK. But I don't necessarily think that you can ask. But I we used to I mean we had you know people that worked on our show that lost a bunch of weight and when they lost a bunch of weight they would get offended if you would ask at all about the diet or what was going on. They would get offended because everybody assumed this is a shot. And so many people are afraid to say that they're doing something like it almost makes them feel like they're cheating and you're not cheating by doing whatever the diet is that you're doing. You know what I mean? Like if you're doing intermittent fasting, is that cheating? No, no, it's basically you're working towards it. You're doing the shot. You're also doing something very different. You're giving yourself something every single day or once a week. No matter what you're doing. That's for your health. You know, I know I agree. I think Anna may have said it first is based on the relationship you guys have with them. He's very cool. He's very comfortable with you. Oh, yeah. But I'm sure in his profession, he's probably seen so many people in the last year. Things are not not order as much as they used to change how they go about it. So he probably just thought, yeah, this is one of them. Do you think restaurants hate? Oh, is that big? Do you think? Probably is slashed their property margins. Do you think that if you're the owners of these restaurants and you're serving, you know, these meals to one which, by the way, I didn't even look at the bill because I don't even know if that's the if they do this. But I heard some restaurants are actually charging you a split pill. What? They get a zippy fee? Yeah. When restaurants do that. That's like we were talking about yesterday where they charge you three bucks to cut your burger. I hate the split charge. Yeah, they don't like the idea that you're doing it. Although they didn't split anything. They just put a plate of. Yeah, just bring me an extra plate. And they brought us two plates. So we kind of serve family style. And I don't think that they did, but I will say this to you that it definitely hits the profit margins, right? It cuts right into the profit margins. So they used to see people coming in like, yeah, they bought order a lot. Look at that. That's good. Yeah, we know what Mojo and Chelsea's bill normally is. What the heck? That fat son of a bitch. Any idea how heavy skinny son of a bitch. Now we have a dessert today. Jelly in your belly, a little fat. No apps. What is going on? Now this guy's on it. We know how did he react when you said yes. No, I think it was kind of it was kind of him laughing. He's a friend. Yeah. I saw now because we talked about the pill, like the ozempic or DLP one pill. You can there's drops you can do. I mean, they're really making it easy under your tongue or something. I don't know. Wow. But yeah, I did the drops one before with Dr. Stanley. They were just saying, but these are like DLP one, like actual drops. Yeah. What's up? How you doing, Rose? I'm good. How are you? Good. I'm doing fantastic. How are you? Is it bad to ask somebody if they're on a diet or something? I would say it kind of depends because some people see like taking ozempic shots and stuff like that as like cheating to lose weight. Yeah. But I could feel like some people being offended or like embarrassed if they're asked because some people don't like to admit like, hey, I have to take a shot to lose weight. You know? But can I say something this? Yeah. That to me, that bothers me when people get offended by something like that because I as a fat guy, I guess I can speak to this, right? But as a fat guy, I want to help other people who are struggling with their weight and say, yeah, it works. You should try this thing. Right. Right. I agree. And I think others should do it too. I have a friend of mine. Don't be a geek. Tell me. I have a friend of mine who is an alcoholic and we were having a conversation about this. He's gone through AA and he's constantly always very focused on making sure that that he doesn't doesn't drink ever again. And he will tell people when people, you know, he'll order a drink. He'll say, yeah, he says I'm recovering and he'll explain to them his story. And I have to tell you, I've seen people's eyes light up going, oh, my God, I need somebody to talk to about that. I have a brother or something like that. So Casey, what's up? It's Mojo on the morning. Hi. Good morning, guys. Good morning. What's happening? You know, with that, it's something you have to kind of be careful with. I actually, a friend of mine actually just posted a video asking like, how do he respond? Because he has cancer and he lost a ton of weight from it. And people are like, oh, well, you look great. What are you doing? And he's like, how do you really respond? It's hard because, you know, I don't think you want this diet, you know? He's like, it's, you know, can I tell you, though, I would love to be there when he told somebody, only because could you imagine the look on somebody's face? If you, if you would sit there and go, I got cancer. Oh my God, that would like be a record scratch. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. And he was just, you know, he had posted that asking. He was like, I just don't know because I don't want to make them feel bad for, you know, saying something about, you know, all you're looking good or you lost a lot of weight or something. And then be like, oh, well, it's cancer, you know, make them feel bad for saying it. So he's like, how do I, how do I go about this? How's your friend doing? Is he doing OK? He's doing good. Good. Say a personal shout out to to him. So thank you for the call. Appreciate it. You know, that happened to me. Remember when I had that lymphoma scare and I had to have lymph nodes removed from my armpits and a lady came up to me, I was wearing a tank top, but I had like the bandages on because it was the middle of summer when I got it done. And she was like, did you have that arm fit, that armpit fat removal surgery? I've been wanting to do that. And I was like, no, they actually think I have cancer and remove some lymph nodes. And her face was like white. But she had asked about a fat removal surgery and it was definitely not that. What's up, Portia? How you doing? People get a good morning, everybody. Good morning. So I have a I have a couple of opinions about. You only get to allow one opinion a day. I'm sorry. We're we're doing one. Yeah, we got one opinion a day, one max. If you'd like to, you can go back to the end of the line to do the other one right afterwards. OK. What's your first? All right. Well, I'll give you the most unpopular. OK. So and this is no shade to anybody that uses it. If someone were to ask me if I was like using the shot or anything, I honestly would be so offended. It's like asking me if I'm like on hard drugs. Like what kind of hard drugs? Like crack. Like it's like asking you if you're on crack. Yeah, like what you mean? Like, no, I don't know. I'm not in the office to anybody that uses. I know people that use it and it's done great for them. You know people that use crack. No, I'm talking about the shot. Oh, OK. Oh, well, I'm sure I do. But no, no, no. I knew what you were saying. All right, Portia, just for you and just for you only, I'll let you get your second point out. Go ahead. OK, I would just want to say because I know people who lose weight from like stress and things like that. So it's kind of like I wasn't trying to lose weight, but here I am. You know, so see, it's like that's it's like a question that you ask someone you know, stress makes me eat. I eat more when I'm stressed. Like when I gain when I gain weight, I always tell people opposite. Really? If you know, I'm stressed. If yeah, if I'm not eating. Portia, have the best day. You guys as well. Drugs safe today. Yes, thank you.