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July 25, 2025 - Dr. Oz Podcast
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Dr. Oz Confronts Online Fat Shamer in Shocking Face-Off! | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 148 | Full Episode
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He is a notorious unlike fact shaming bullying women.
Men would rather die than sleep with a woman over 150 pounds.
Women were getting larger and larger.
It has to be stopped.
Dr. Ross fights back.
Bat shaming doesn't work.
That's the big message here.
The women he attacks down.
You don't know me.
Odds faces off.
Coming up next on Dr. Rods.
There are monsters that lurk in the shadows of the internet, shaming and bullying people for the way they look.
It's time for them to come out from behind their computer screens.
Meet Roosh V. He calls himself the leader of the international fat shaming movement.
His goal?
To encourage others to join him in publicly humiliating women for their weight as a way to force them to conform to his idea of beauty.
The internet makes it much easier than ever for bullies to hide, but I'm not letting them hide anymore.
Celebrities under fire.
Kelly Clarkson attacked on Twitter a year after giving birth.
Comedian Amy Schumer, mocked by web trolls for her weight.
Now everyday people targeted by fat bullies.
Like Sean, internationally humiliated for simply dancing in public.
All for body shape and size.
The internet's a playground for fat shamers, and it's getting much darker.
Rush Varezade uses the pseudonym Rush Vorek to proclaim himself a fat shaming activist and organizer.
So incendiary, he's on watch lists for embodying the dark underbelly of the internet full of venom and vitriol.
Grush claims men would rather die than have sex with a woman over 150 pounds.
He is even declared jihad on fat women.
His mission, quote, to make it more acceptable to shame, bully, and humiliate fat women into thinness.
Now he's calling for a worldwide fat shaming movement, rallying his followers to snap photos every time you see a girl with a bit of muffin top and post them to Twitter.
Today, we unmask one of the internet's most notorious body bullies.
Rouch Valizade, who goes by Rouch V, has agreed to join us in studio.
So if you can explain the purpose of this fat shaming movement, what's the intent?
Sure.
Right now, the intent is a reaction to the fact that in the past 30 or 40 years, people in the USA have increased their size to such a point where two-thirds of people here are overweight.
I think that fat shaming actually will reduce the health concerns, the health problems that people face right now.
I disagree and we'll come back to that.
But let me just, so people understand what you're doing, just read some stuff.
These are posts you have.
And this is material.
I think it's hateful material personally.
You know, people hear what you say, but now that you're not hiding behind your computer, let's have an honest conversation.
I do not hide.
My name is out there.
You see me on the internet.
I do YouTube videos, so I don't hide.
So I don't want people to think that.
Here's one statement.
Men would rather die than sleep with a woman over 150 pounds.
How can you speak for all men in saying that?
For the men that I have met, men who are thin, who go to the gym three times a week, who lift, who exercise right, who have good jobs, they do not want to date a woman who is massively overweight compared to a thin woman.
I'll speak just for myself, but I work out three times a week.
I do what I can to stay healthy.
I love women whatever shape they're in.
It doesn't frankly matter to me what's on the outside.
It's a much deeper issue that I'm searching for.
But you have to say that because you have millions of viewers.
I think I am speaking in a way that men speak with each other in the locker rooms.
You're in different locker rooms than me, Rush, and I'm not saying that because I'm on the show.
I'm on this show because I believe that.
If you were given an option between a woman who is 300 pounds and a woman who is 125 pounds and all else is equal, would you honestly pick the woman who is 300 pounds?
First of all, saying all else is equal is a very difficult thing to process.
People learn through the messiness of life.
I'm fascinated by people who are overweight.
I'm fascinated by people who are underweight and everyone in between because we all bring lessons of life.
And if we listen to those stories, because the people in our life define who we are, then we learn from all of them.
On the other hand, here's your comment on beauty since you brought it up.
Again, I quoted from your website.
Beauty on the inside.
That's just something that ugly people and feminists say.
You use such ugly words to describe beauty.
I mean, have you ever had a weight problem?
No.
So how can you understand what they're feeling?
Because how someone looks on the outside is indicative of how they are on the inside.
If someone doesn't have the self-control to exercise, to watch how they eat, if they're big on the outside, that is a sign that there is probably some problems on the inside.
Rouch, we're all messed up.
If you can hear my voice, you're messed up.
That's who we are.
That's your opinion.
But part of this, but Baba, you fat shame men too?
The first thing I tell men who come to me when they want to increase their success in life is to hit the gym.
I have caused thousands of men to eat right to go to the gym.
So yes, men, they don't, they respond to logic.
If you tell a man in a faster way, if you tell a man that if you're thin, if your muscles look good, more women will be attracted to you, they will sign up for a gym membership in a day.
What do the women in your life think About what you're doing.
What's your relationship with them?
Your moms, sisters, cousins?
They love me for who I am.
They don't love me for the ideas.
The ideas that I push concerns dating between women and men.
I'm just stating a simple fact that men like women who are thin.
I'm asking these questions because I'm trying to figure out why you're so screwed up.
Okay.
I mean, we're talking about fat shaming, and that's what you're responding to.
I'm trying to diagnose you.
Let me just go ahead and take it.
You've mentioned several times that you're doing this for altruistic reasons, that you want to help women and men lose weight.
I just did a quick search.
I knew you were coming on this week.
I actually went through these papers.
50 papers, 50 papers.
Here they are.
50 papers showing that fat shaming doesn't work.
It's the exact opposite.
What happens is when you fat shame people, they feel worse about themselves, their self-esteem drops, and then they eat to comfort themselves.
What does work is making people realize how special they are.
That's the big message here.
Does it work?
Now, I haven't seen that, but does the tips that you share, the advice that you share, is it helping?
Because I see the obesity epidemic is growing.
So what you are doing, what good intentioned doctors are doing, doesn't work.
So we need to try something else.
And I believe shaming, making a girl embarrassed to look the way that she does will help more than you giving a tip to eat right.
You know, I'm not even going to have a debate.
Here are the papers.
You're going home.
But you have the opportunity to read.
You don't have to read those.
You won't find a single paper that argues in your favor.
In fact, I couldn't find a single person who watches this show who agrees with what you're saying.
Not one.
Just give me one person in the audience now who thinks that if I make you ashamed of who you are, you'll lose weight.
It's not going to happen.
I'm looking around, I see no hands.
This is a sampling of 200.
What is it that made you get up one day and say, you know what?
I'm going to put out hateful, fat-shamming messages.
I don't think that it is hateful, but I will say that it was sad that every year when me, a straight man, would have less options to date a thin, beautiful girl.
Every year women were getting larger and larger.
It has to be stopped in some way.
I'm on the same team as you.
We just use different medicine.
We're not on the same team at all, believe me.
You're on my team.
We're ending the game.
What angers me the most is that Ruchi's up in the ankle by encouraging others to take and post pictures of women that they see who have quote, I'm giving this as your quote, a bit of muffin top, bingo wings, or cankles.
Now, I know how painful this is, so I found a picture on Twitter, one of your followers, heavily blurted out because I want to protect this woman.
Here's what the tweet says.
This is what you're proposing and supporting.
Here's the tweet.
Fat pig pulls in front of me a gas station and cuts off my exit and blocks people on the right.
I mean, what do you say to women who are being publicly violated in this way by complete strangers who follow you?
I think we each, thankfully, we each have the right to share our thoughts, our opinions.
If your feelings are hurt, you know, I can't help that.
But everyone here has the capability to say something to me which will hurt me as well.
And that's their right.
Mankind is your business.
Mankind is your business.
It's not about a law.
You can't legislate morality or ethics or kindness.
What keeps all of us spinning on this globe is because we have empathy for each other.
I wish I could scan your brain and understand what's happening inside there because there are pieces that are missing.
And it's not even rational what I'm hearing.
Now, I said a lot.
I want to ask some audience members, and so when we come back, some women in my audience have a message for Roosh.
Coming up next, Dr. Oz continues his face-off with the leader of the international fat jaming movement, bullying women all over the world on the internet.
What our audience has to say to the notorious fat jammer.
You don't know what I do.
Coming up next.
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My heart rate jumped from 50 beats to 88 beats a minute.
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That's coming up tomorrow on Dr. Oz.
We're back talking with Rouch V, who calls himself the leader of the international fat shaming movement.
Please welcome Jeanette, Erlena, and Megan, who've all faced fat shaming in their own lives, and they're here to speak with you.
I want you to just process what they're saying.
Jeanette, what angers you the most about some of these posts that you're seeing?
First thing, you're very disrespectful.
It's morally wrong to make fun of other people.
I was one of the people that was fat shamed.
I went to a bar a few months ago, two guys taking pictures behind me, laughing.
And guess what I did?
It doesn't hurt my feelings.
I turned around and let them have it.
Because after 40 years of dealing with people like you, there's no, we're done.
We're done.
We exist.
We're here.
And not only that, you don't know me.
I have a nutritionist.
I am gluten-free, fat-free, sugar-free.
You don't know what I do.
And I'm a mother and a teacher.
And I have to take care of the children that you're messing up.
Carolina?
Absolutely, absolutely.
The articles, everything that you're saying, it just makes me livid, like just seriously angry because you don't know, again, what people have to go through in their regular lives.
I argue, you know, what did you go through in your life?
Like, seriously, like, is, you know, because what I see is low self-esteem.
I see self-hatred.
I see that, you know, you're struggling because one thing I do know and I know for sure is that hurt people, they hurt other people.
It's a shame.
It's a fat shame, actually.
It's a fact shame that you think that this is going to help the community.
It's not.
There are children who are struggling with obesity.
Are you prepared to fat shame them as well?
It's absolutely, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Okay, let me just get Megan in and I want you to respond to all of them.
Megan, please.
Hey, Roosh, we must make you very uncomfortable.
We are strong, confident, successful, beautiful, plus size women, and we must make you very uncomfortable.
So, I'm sorry for that if I'm making you uncomfortable right now.
But when I read your website and I read what you do, and I see what your followers, your leaders, and your army do, I feel sad.
I feel sad for you, and I feel sad for them.
Because in an industry where we are finally taking the right steps to get body acceptance and self-love, something that's universal, what you are doing is taking 10 steps back.
Because fat-shaming someone and making someone feel bad about themselves is actually only turning the mirror around on you.
Roosh.
This is going to be the first generation where the life expectancy is shorter than that of our parents.
And my parents.
So wait, wait, wait, please, please, please.
So therefore, the kids that you have will see her mom for a shorter time because the fat problem is unsolved.
If it works, not anything else.
It's a health issue, but not the way you're describing it.
What you're hearing from these beautiful women, and you are beautiful women.
You are picking out the most extreme things I've written.
I mean, you haven't picked out how I'm teaching men to go to the gym and eat right.
Bruce.
What you're saying at its very core is wrong.
And when people think that embarrassing others gets them to change, it means they don't know about people.
So, you know, I've had a very difficult time sitting here letting you speak on my stage.
It is, I think, enough.
Certainly you're out there on the web everywhere, but it's enough of my audience to be able to tolerate this.
So I'm going to ask, if I can, Damika, you're a plus size model.
You're trying to change the face of beauty, and you wanted to be here today, so the platform is yours.
What do you want to say to Roosh?
Hi, Dr. Roz, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to be here.
And Roosh, I'm going to take the approach of treating you like a human being because you don't view me as that.
You, and I quote, stated that someone's weight or the outward appearance is an indicator of their character.
So because you're slim-built, and I read a lot of the things you said, I'm going to say your character is that of a jerk.
Okay?
And I normally don't judge by mere appearance, but that's what you do.
So I'm going to meet you at your level, okay?
And I want you to look at me.
I want you to look at me because I am human.
I have feelings.
And I speak for the plus-size community.
We're not saying, and we're not disagreeing with you, that we shouldn't take care of ourselves.
We're not saying that we shouldn't acquire a healthier lifestyle.
We're not discrediting that at all.
We're saying to accept yourself who you are today, in five months or 10 months, you may be a different person.
But does that mean that you don't deserve love?
Does that mean you have the right to judge me and ridicule me because I'm a size 12?
Does that mean I'm ugly?
No.
Beauty comes from within.
And I am not insecure.
As a matter of fact, I'm one of the most confident people you will ever meet.
Again, look at me.
Can I say one more thing?
Yes, but what I want you to address, please, instead of hiding behind fictional beliefs, false beliefs, what I want you to address is whether you're willing to rethink fat shaming.
As long as they are willing to accept that fat acceptance is going to cause additional health problems for millions of people and shorten lifespans, then I would also think about the feelings that I am hurting.
Roosh, I think you got a complete ass backwards.
The way we get wonderful people to be who they want to be is get them to accept themselves and the weight will come off.
I believe that the reason we hold on to so much fat is because it protects us.
And if you're attacking women and children and maybe men, although I haven't seen the fat stamina, because I, in my heart, think you're misogynist.
I really don't think we're going to get there.
This is your homework.
These are all the papers.
I pulled them for you.
They're on the web.
What you owe me back for this conversation because I'm trying to help you is just go through and find one supported bit of evidence.
Now, in addition, you're welcome to leave if you want, but we spend a lot of time to prepare something.
People then pause.
Because what I'm trying to do, and this is for everybody out right there, because I do think you're the problem, but I think it's fixable.
At its very core, folks, bullies try to steal your power because they have none.
So I want you to take back that power.
I'm starting today an army to change the words so we can change the conversation.
You're going to watch a video.
It's, I feel, incredibly compelling.
If you feel like circulating it, do it, but at least take it to heart.
Watch.
Words matter.
Don't call me fat.
Don't call me skinny.
Call us strong.
Don't judge me by what I look like on the outside because I'm all about being healthy on the inside.
I don't go to the gym to look good for other people.
I do it for myself.
Think before you call someone fat because weight shaving doesn't make anyone thinner.
It just makes you small.
Start using body-positive language about yourself and others.
Join the movement and be body positive.
Yes.
Next.
Actress and Oscar nominee Lorraine Bracco.
How her weight and depression became her toughest role yet.
The turning point that changed everything.
I want to live as strong and fun as I can make it.
How you too can lose the weight and be the best you can be.
Next.
Happy 1000th episode.
It is Ryan Seacrest.
Wanted to say we love you and thank you for always doing the radio show.
Congratulations, my man.
You deserve all the success.
Bye!
Lorraine Bronco.
She's had an amazing career from modeling, which I didn't know she did, to her breakout role in Goodfellas, I love that movie, and her starring role in The Sopranos.
But all of her success didn't mean Lorraine was happy.
She found herself depressed, Overweight and unhealthy.
But now she's fighting back in great shape and feeling good.
How did she do it?
We're about to find out.
Lorraine Bracco, come on out.
Come on!
Come on!
Give me some moves!
Rob, love.
Rob, love.
You look wonderful.
Really, really good.
I'm happy to see you.
Thank you.
I feel good.
You look happy.
How much weight have you lost, may I ask?
35 pounds.
35 pounds.
It's pretty cool.
35 pounds, but I did it slow and steady in about over a year.
Well, you talk about it aloud.
This is Lorraine's new book.
It's called To the Fullest.
It's about your journey towards health.
I am intrigued by the title, To the Fullest.
Because if you don't mind, I'd love if you could explain why you called it that.
Because I'm 60.
It's time to fill up.
And the truth of the matter is, is I'm in the third quarter of my life, and I want to live every day as strong and hard and fun as I can make it.
And you're doing it.
I am.
Let me go back a little bit because there have been times where it was more difficult.
And we always celebrate success, but we also want to figure out how you got here.
You're a co-star in The Sopranos, James Gandalfini.
Yep.
When you lost him, it was painful for everybody.
How did that affect this journey you're on?
Well, the truth of the matter is, is, you know, Jimmy was always a big guy.
He was 6'4.
He's a big man.
And I remember this so well.
We were on the red carpet for something at HBO.
And I hadn't seen him in a while.
And I grabbed his belly, and I was like, you need to get rid of this.
And he was like, oh, it's all muscle, Lorraine.
It's all muscle.
It's all muscle.
And I'm like, no, you really have to pay attention.
And, you know, we laughed about it.
And he says, I'm working on it.
I'm working on it.
I got a home gym now.
And whatever.
But, you know, he was, the thing that killed me about Jimmy is besides loving him and thinking that he was the greatest sparring partner I ever had, he was a decade younger than me.
A decade younger.
And I was like, wow, if that can, you know, if you can pass like that in a minute, well, then it can happen to me.
It can happen to anybody.
And a lot of times it's the sadness in our lives that lead us to do things like medicating with food.
You've had sad times in your life.
In fact, you described some of the circumstances in the book.
Could you help everyone understand what was going on as you gained weight, as you were doing the things that were unhealthy for you?
Well, you know, my parents started to fail.
And they were both 84.
There they are.
And they were never healthy and they never did anything that they should have done over the years.
And I swore on my life when we buried them that I was going to do everything to get my health back.
And I'm going to go down fighting.
Come back for a second.
I want to take you a little journey.
This is a picture of you, a very different version of Lorraine.
When you see this, Lorraine, you see this.
Yeah.
What's going on?
Describe that person to me.
Well, unaware.
Unaware.
Unaware of her health and her weight.
So how did this woman become this woman?
I wanted to live the third part of my life in a big way, not in a little way, not in a sick way, not in a way where I didn't have any energy.
I'm a grandmother.
Oh, I love that.
I love that.
And I know you are also.
I'm a grandfather.
Well, yes.
Yes, I've noticed.
It feels good to be a grandparent.
Yes, it's special, but boy, you've got to have energy for them.
That little thing is around the corner and back before I can turn around.
So you have lots of tips in the book, very helpful anti-aging tips, but the one that really caught my eye was to avoid being invisible.
Like the tip is don't be invisible.
Well, the truth of the matter is, is I think a lot of women who are 50 or older feel that they're no longer as powerful as they were.
And I happen to disagree with that because I think we are smarter, wiser.
I think we should run the world.
I think, I mean, we are the caregivers of the world.
We are the ones that give birth.
We do incredible things.
And to get to a certain age, and I think menopause is something that women dread.
And I don't think that should be dreaded.
I think it has to be embraced, like everything God has given us.
So as all this emotion happens in our lives, a lot of us turn to emotional eating.
You did.
That's probably how you got there.
Sure.
How do you recover from that?
It's not just a long-term motivation.
There's tactical things you have to deal with when you want to overcome emotional eating.
Okay, here's my trick.
All right.
Pay attention now.
The trick.
The trick is, is I will look at a piece of cake that I really, really, really want, or I will look at a bowl of berries.
And I will say to myself, well, I really want that piece of cake and I could eat that.
And I could probably eat another piece after that.
But what are you going to give me?
Are you going to give me any nutritional value?
And the answer is, most of the time, no.
I want that bag of potato chips.
I really do.
But you know what?
I look at my berries and I go, ooh, antioxidants.
Ooh.
They're whispering to you.
They talk to me.
She's the berry whisperer.
And you know what?
I make my decisions that way.
Now, listen, I'm not a crazy person.
I still eat a lot of things.
But I, on a daily basis, turn around and say, I'm going to have a protein, a veggie, and fruit.
And I'm proud of you.
And you also like to exercise.
So I've saved this for the end.
I want you to demonstrate.
I never said, I like it.
I misinterpreted it.
No, no, let's get excited.
I misquoted the book.
Come on, Oliver.
Show me what you do.
You don't like it.
What do you like?
Well, I like to move.
And I think moving is important, especially if you want energy.
I want energy.
That's my whole thing.
I'm taking my high heels off.
Oh, I like this.
We can go dancing perfectly.
That's why we could get in trouble.
Yes, we could.
How about you're free?
Demonstrate.
This is Lorraine's favorite activity to teach us today.
Okay.
This is a 30-day plank challenge.
That's correct.
So I think this is really hard because it works your entire body.
You're coming down.
I'm coming down with you.
Yep.
Go, Dr. Ah.
I'm going.
All right.
We're getting in regular plank.
Look at you.
You know it.
So, ready?
Look at that posture.
Look at that form.
Look at that tushie.
Now, how do you do this?
The first day, this can be hard to do.
It's very hard to do.
Very hard to do, I agree.
So the thing is, is no matter where you are in your life, you can do this for five seconds.
Yep.
Do it for five seconds.
The next day, do it for 10.
Do it for 20 and fight it.
I mean, my whole body is shaking, okay?
But you know what?
I'm going to fight through it.
See how stable you are.
Oh, she's like a rock.
Oh, my goodness, you cannot tell her.
She is not invisible today.
Lorraine Brad goes.
Where are you going?
And I'm going to do a child's pose so I can knock you over.
Lorraine's book to the fullest available now.
Check it out.
It's very well done.
You can also see Lorraine on Resolute Aisles on TNT.
We'll be right back.
Woo-hoo!
You did a great job.
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The Rogue Girl Solution to Expensive Health Products.
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that's coming up tomorrow on Dr. Oz Your health is prices, of course, but you don't have to break the bank to feel like a million bucks.
Today I'm going to reveal the broke girl's solution to the most expensive health products.
Here to give us her two cents worth is the author of the Frugalista Files, Natalie McNeil.
Now she calls herself the Frugalista, but you weren't always so savvy about saving money, were you?
No.
No, I wasn't.
I had $20,000 worth of debt.
I never, I always ate out.
I never cooked at home.
I had credit card debt, car loan, student loan.
And I decided, you know what, this can't be my life.
So I decided to live a frugal and fabulous life within my budget and got rid of all that debt.
Good for you.
And why is it women make such a big mistake when it comes to health purchasing?
They spend so much more money than they have to.
Women, we're problem solvers.
There's something wrong.
We want to get it handled.
We want to look good, feel good.
We want to have the best in life.
So we'll buy a lot of products to do that.
And it becomes almost an addiction.
You have a problem, you want to buy it.
But we can do all that stuff, but we have to decide what we want and what we need and do it in budget.
All right, let's do this.
Ready?
Come on over here.
The first expensive health product that we can avoid if you're a frugalista is for allergy medication.
So what's the Broke Girl's solution for allergies?
Allergy medication is so expensive, but the thing is, if you're a serious allergy person, I wouldn't recommend this, but there is another alternative you can try from buying over-the-counter allergy medicine.
And it's nettle tea.
Yes.
It really does work?
Yes, of course it works.
Nettle tea relieves symptoms of sneezing, itching eyes, all that stuff that you deal with when you have your allergies.
And the cool thing about it is that most of us don't have serious allergies.
So when you know it's allergy season coming around, buy nettle tea.
Don't buy an expensive box of allergy medicine that's going to sit on your shelf for another 11 months.
Buy this instead.
This is an acquired taste isn't it?
I put a little sugar in here if I could.
But it works.
That's the main thing.
Let's compare the cost now.
This is a discount of about 80% off of what you would normally pay.
It's a pretty big difference.
So super savings.
Okay, now this is my favorite one.
There's a super expensive mistake we make a lot.
It has to do with shaving gel and razors.
And unfortunately, most people don't know about this.
So how do you cut corners?
What's the broke girl solution here?
Well, think about it.
We're furry people.
People shave all the time.
And so we have to be careful about that.
We spend 72 days out of our lifetime shaving.
72 days?
Yes, that's a lot of time and a lot of money.
So you have to be careful.
So what's the solution?
What should we be doing?
Dish soap is your friend.
You shave with dish soap?
Yes, instead of using shaving cream, use dish soap for shaving.
You save so much money.
All right, let's put this to the test.
We had Jennifer from our audience.
She's here trying her best to do this.
Thank you, Jennifer, for doing this.
So walk us through.
You've been doing this apparently for a week.
Yes, for a week.
So you only need about maybe a quarter's worth in your hand.
You lather it on, and you could see it definitely has a layer on it.
And then it's pretty easy.
There's no cuts.
Nothing happens.
It's completely smooth.
You could literally feel the difference between the one and the other.
My husband loved it.
He said, my legs feel just as smooth as using regular shaving cream.
It's really cheap.
You can buy any brand you want.
You mentioned your husband.
Does he mind that you use his razor?
Nope.
I'm bringing it up as a personal question.
Nope.
whatever any razor works, even the two-blade razor is fine as well.
So, let's just take a moment here and talk about this issue.
Because there's actually two schools of thought about what razor you use: there's the pinkness argument, right?
It's got to be pink is better, it's worth it.
But it comes up really, and I hear that argument a lot, but I don't actually see it endorsed in my home.
In my home, my wife says it doesn't matter as long as it's a razor, it's a razor.
Absolutely.
What do you think, Frigali stuck in a water?
Absolutely.
Because this is a big issue.
You think we are wise to go pink, or should we use our husband's or spouses' razors or just buy the male versions?
There's a thing called gender pricing, and sometimes companies will market to women.
They'll use pastel colors, and they'll slap a flower on it and jack up the price, and I'm not buying that at all.
When it comes to shaving, think like a man, shave like a man.
Five pence shavers.
There's no other way to go about it.
So look at the savings here, folks.
Amazing.
So shaving gels plus the, with a man's razor, plus the dish soap saves you 37%.
37%.
Jeffrey, thank you very much for moving this stuff nicely, Don.
I appreciate it.
We'll be right back.
How do you save money on your health and beauty routine?
Instead of spending money on expensive conditioners, I use coconut oil.
I've been adding it to my hair for years and I always pay compliments on it.
It's my little secret.
Well, our secret now.
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Coming up.
You've seen them on the internet.
You've witnessed it on the streets.
And if you're lucky enough, you could be on the receiving end.
Real-life acts of kindness, powerful and unexpected.
Random deeds that will restore your faith in humanity.
Coming up next.
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Emmy Award winning Dr. Oz celebrates his 1000th show with Hugh Jackman.
Thursday, May 7th.
That's coming up next week.
I have a question for the audience.
Listen carefully.
How many of you would have a friend who would help you out no matter what?
Someone who makes you say, I wish I could be that good.
Put your hands up.
Someone you really, really, really, really admire.
So that's my friend here, Dan Lebeski.
He is so kind, he named his company after it.
In fact, when you eat a kind bar, that's actually him.
Welcome to the show, Dan.
Thanks, Bob.
All right, now he's in the book called Do the Kind Thing.
But just give me a clip, and I love people to get this message.
Kindness is not just a company name or a book name.
It's actually your mission in life.
Why is that?
Well, I was reflecting a little bit about what I wanted to contribute to society.
I started a little bit about my upbringing and my father.
He was a Holocaust survivor.
And from an early age, I heard about stories, not just of the horror of what he went through in a concentration camp, but also of how he survived through the selflessness of others that took risks to help him.
It kind of really marked me and my siblings throughout our lives to feel that we need to build bridges and to try to help make those connections with people.
So one of the reasons I want to do this segment today is that research continues to show that tiny acts of kindness, small little things you wouldn't think were that important, have a much larger impact because people get motivated to pay it forward.
So today we're going to celebrate real-life acts of kindness.
And the first video comes from a story that made headlines all around the world.
Images of the devastating blast that leveled three buildings in New York's East Village shocked the country and the world.
In the terrifying moments before those buildings collapsed in a fiery inferno, a woman began screaming, trapped on her fire escape.
As smoke began billowing ominously, a brave stranger emerged from the crowd gathering below.
Oblivious to his own safety, he climbed the ladder, grabbed the woman's hand, and led her down to safety.
Isn't that kind?
So what struck you about this real-life act of kindness?
I mean, what really is beautiful is the selflessness of the person that didn't know the stranger, risked his life.
And the more we go out of our way to take that risk, the more that we actually find meaning.
You know, you can also extend your life expectancy, by the way, if you're kind to others.
We do this on the real age survey.
It ends up giving you about three and a half years of extra life if you're living optimistically and counting towards others.
So I saw this next act of kindness on Instagram, and the pictures, well, they speak for themselves.
These are Instagram pictures from hairstylist Mark Bustos.
Every Sunday, Mark takes to the streets of New York to provide free haircuts to the homeless, and he's joining us in the studio now.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
How are yourself?
You have very nice hair, by the way.
Thank you, thank you.
So what inspired you to go out and do this?
You know, a couple years ago, I traveled to the Philippines to visit family with my girlfriend.
And her father, who passed away a couple years ago, used to get his haircut at a little barber shop in town.
And I knew I wanted to do something.
And I rented a chair in the barbershop.
And I had less fortunate children come in all day.
And I figured, I need to bring this back home to New York.
And no matter where I go, it's not that hard to bring my scissors everywhere I go with me.
Well, sometimes, as you all know, a haircut's not just a haircut.
It can really boost your self-esteem.
So I have a couple pictures that really caught me.
This is a client of yours.
It was before.
Now look at after.
Isn't that cool?
It's very dashing afterwards.
I love what you do.
Millions of people viewed this next kind act after it was caught on camera, unbeknownst to everyone involved at this checkout line in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
A young mother shopping for diapers at her local superstore was told by the cashier that she could only get one box at the discount price.
Overhearing this, a complete stranger stepped in.
This good Samaritan, the one wearing blue pants, immediately opened her purse and offered to pay for the young mother's extra diapers.
All the woman asked for in return was that she paid forward to someone else one day.
The heartwarming random act of kindness left the mother in tears.
Why is it important for us to reach out and help people we know nothing about?
I mean, in this day and age, the challenges that we're going to face as a society to climate change, xenophobia, nuclear threats, you know, the problems with resource scarcity, water scarcity, we're only going to be able to tackle them if we recognize our shared Humanity and connecting with one another helps us shatter cultural stereotypes,
helps us discover each other's humanity, and it's just really also very fulfilling, gives us so much more meaning, it gives us a better enjoyment out of life.
I know I love Daniel.
Thank you very much.
His new book, Do the Kind Thing, is Out Now.
It's a very inspiring read.
Check it out.
We'll be right back.
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That's coming up tomorrow.
And we've all been there after a workout or a smoldering day out in the summer sun.
This sweaty stench sets in.
We can be strong.
But now brand new research has a solution to our embarrassing odors.
Now get this.
They're working on a breakthrough perfume that makes you smell better the more you sweat.
Not only does it contain an ingredient that activates as you sweat, it can also remove the bad odors, not just cover them up.
So sweat it out because new science has apparently got you covered.
Congratulations to all the scientists doing this.
Now it's time for in case you missed it.
First, the broke girl solutions for expensive health products.
There's one genius hack.
I love this one.
I want you from now on to try this soap instead of shaving cream on your legs.
Believe it or not, it works just as well as that fancy shaving cream you've been using.
And you know what?
Stop buying your own women's pink razors.
Buy men's razors.
Men's razors, less expensive.
Why bother paying more for pretty packaging?
It works just the same.
Men need to shave carefully and closely as well.
It'll work for you.
Take advantage of these hacks.
You save over 30% of the money you would have spent otherwise.
Next, a shout out to my friend Dr. David Perlmutter.
His new book comes out today.
It's called Brain Maker, The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain for Life.
And I'm excited Dr. Perlmutter will be a guest on the show soon to tell us how we can change our mood through our gut.
You don't want to miss it.
And lastly, and this is really important, I want to start an army for change in fighting the fat shaming that's going on.
The internet makes it easier for shamers to hide, but we are going to change our words so we can change the conversation.
Take a look at this powerful new PSA that we debuted on the show today.
Words matter.
Don't call me fat.
Don't call me skinny.
Call us strong.
Don't judge me by what I look like on the outside because I'm all about being healthy on the inside.
I don't go to the gym to look good for other people.
I do it for myself.
Think before you call someone fat because weight shaving doesn't make anyone thinner.
It just makes you small.
Start using body positive language about yourself and others.
Join the movement and be body positive.
Thank you.
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Share it and be body positive.
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