5 Supermarket Secrets Dr. Oz Reveals to Help Save You Money | Dr. Oz | S9 | Ep 37 | Full Episode
Dr. Oz Podcast reveals five supermarket secrets with Michael Ruhlman, debunking myths about milk placement and slow music while exposing corn syrup in fat-free half-and-half; Monica Lewinsky joins to discuss her "Click with Compassion" campaign against cyberbullying and personal battles with humiliation; Damon Johnson reviews Shark Tank favorites like Three Jerks Jerky and Bombas socks; the episode concludes with a live gender reveal where the Shannon family discovers they are expecting a boy, blending practical savings with vital social advocacy. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Supermarket Revolution00:12:25
How did you cope with relentless attacks?
My mom worried that I would take my own life.
Monica Lewinsky.
How bad did it get?
It was global humiliation.
Facing her fears.
Did you ever have a chance to confront some of the people criticizing you?
Her new anti bullying campaign.
Plus, an undercover investigation 10 years in the making.
Everything you wanted to know about the supermarket revealed.
What's really going on inside?
Coming up next.
Are you ready to say some lies today?
I love you, Becca.
Shift happening right now in America.
And it's starting in our own neighborhoods.
I'm talking about the major change in the way we buy our food.
A recent decade long investigation of grocery stores revealed insider secrets to getting better food at a cheaper price.
Walk into any modern grocery store and you can find almost anything produce, fancy baked cakes, drugs, even industrial carpet cleaners.
And then when you go to check out, You often hear, Did you find everything you need?
That's because if consumers don't find what they need, they won't come back.
Author Michael Ruhleman figured that out and a whole lot more by spending over 3,000 hours inside the grocery store.
Groceries are a really tough business.
They run on razor thin margins.
They'll do whatever they can to keep your business.
That's both good and bad for consumers.
It means lots of healthy, nutritious items, but also lots of junk.
It is the best of America and the worst of America all here under this bright neon lit.
Landscape.
And the landscape sure has changed.
We went from having 7,000 products to choose from in the 1970s to today 40,000 products.
Ruhlman's love for grocery stores started with his dad.
He'd shop with them every Sunday at Heinan's in Cleveland, Ohio, their local mart.
When his dad passed in 2008, he headed back to Hynansk, the grocery store of his youth, which was representative of the typical American grocery store.
To do his research, he studied prices, trends, and just how big a role these stores have in the average American's life.
The average American spends about 10% of their income on groceries.
That means they're very important to our health, both financially and physically.
Today, Ruhlman, the supermarket whisperer, is here to reveal five things.
You definitely didn't know about the grocery store.
From what not to buy here to the hidden healthy snack here.
Michael Jordias!
And you're filled with the first thing you didn't know about the supermarket it's that they are not trying to trick you.
Now, I always heard, as an example, the milk was put in the very back of the store, so we all had to go traipsing through all the other foods to get that.
You all heard that?
So, defend that action.
Milk is in the back of the store because the back of the store is the most convenient, logical place to put these huge refrigerated cases.
They don't want to put those up front.
They don't play slow temple music to slow you down and make you buy things that you wouldn't ordinarily buy.
They want a nice, logical, perfect, they want to make it easy for you.
They want you to make it convenient for you.
I don't understand why grocers are held to this higher ideal.
We don't get mad at Nordstrom for trying to make us buy a $200 sweater that we don't need, but we get mad at grocers.
For putting a display of cranberry juice out in front of the cash register at Thanksgiving.
Fair enough.
All right, good defense.
Come on over here.
We're going to start talking about some issues that we see over and over again.
One of the ones that does bother me a lot is the fact that the product names are often distracting.
And I know you talked beautifully about an encounter you had with a woman during your long investigation.
Yeah, I was at my local grocery store standing behind a woman, a businesswoman.
End of the day, she was putting stuff on that counter, and she put a carton of fat free half and half on there.
Half and half is defined by the amount of fat that's in it.
So I had to ask her, why are you buying this fat free half and half?
And she looked at me and said, because it's fat free.
I said, what do you think they replaced the fat with?
What's the other half of half and half if there's no fat in it?
And she picked up the carton and she read it and she said, skim milk, corn syrup.
And she put it down.
She bought it anyway.
But they took the corn syrup.
Those are the ingredients, by the way.
We blew them up for you all to see them.
There's no free lunch here, guys.
If you take the fat out of something, you get to add something back into it.
That's right.
They took something good for us.
Dairy fat out and put something bad for us, corn syrup, into that.
So, snacks are another area where they sort of go for the head fake.
And I know that it's not the groceries per se, it's the people who are selling the stuff.
Sure.
But, you know, stuff that sells, you sell more of.
Yeah.
Right?
The groceries want more of that stuff.
So, give me a couple examples.
So, we have a product like pork rinds, which we think are bad.
We think those are sort of a guilty pleasure.
They're not?
I don't think they're bad.
They're composed of skin.
As you know, skin is a connective tissue, primarily protein.
Most of the fat is cooked out.
They have the same amount of protein or fat, rather, as potato chips.
And yet, they don't have the carbohydrates.
They have instead protein.
So I think of them as a protein snack.
Oh, my goodness.
So just to get it clear, pork wines are what they write on there.
So at least you know what you're getting.
You know exactly what you're getting.
Absolutely.
Intriguing.
All right.
What about the areas in the produce section where we make mistakes?
Where we go for the head fake?
Another thing.
I was with a grocer, and a woman came in and said, How come you don't offer more local tomatoes?
And he said, Look outside, there's three feet of snow in the ground.
It's March.
Where are we going to get homegrown tomatoes?
And she said, Wow, I never thought of that.
So we have to think.
Can I show you what Mike's talking about?
This is fascinating when I learn more about it.
So we all know that ideally you sit in your garden and you pick the perfectly red tomatoes like this farmer is, right?
Pick it when it's red.
But supermarket tomatoes actually are picked when they're still green because they're rock hard then.
And that's because rock hard green tomatoes are more durable.
You can drive them a long distance, even in the dead of winter, it's not going to be a problem.
But no one's going to buy a green tomato.
So, now what?
The answer lies in something called ethylene gas.
Tomatoes are sent into warehouses where they are washed, waxed, and they are gassed.
And the gas turns them a bright, attractive red, despite the fact that they're not really all that ripe.
Then they're shipped to your store where you put them on shelves and look, these shiny little beacons of flavor, only to fall short, unhappily, when you learn what's really going on inside.
So, Michael, what's the solution?
If you're not going to go for, in the middle of the winter, for a red tomato, what do you look for?
You go for.
Hopefully, locally and fresh, or you go for ugly.
The ugliest tomato is usually the best tomato.
Why?
Because it's a natural breed.
They haven't manipulated it to make it look like a perfect fruit.
We want our fruit to look beautiful.
That's a merchandising tactic.
Go with the ugly tomatoes.
They're natural.
These are the real goods, and they taste like real tomatoes.
Okay.
Now, the final category that I want to touch on, because there's a big health issue here, is the idea we have about pre washed produce.
And you're arguing that pre washed actually isn't necessarily better.
What concerns me bag lettuce is a relatively new phenomenon.
We used to survive on head lettuce.
Now, bag lettuce has taken over the whole lettuce section.
It's a $7 billion industry dominated by a few companies.
My concern is that this industrialized process of bagging this much lettuce allows more and more bacteria to creep into the lettuce.
So, the question is, why does that happen?
So, let me give you a little example.
I have four bags of lettuce here, right?
Four heads of lettuce.
And I put three of them here and I put one of them here.
Let's say this one's contaminated.
See all that red junky stuff in there?
Contaminated, gooey, you don't want that.
By some bad coincidence, you happen to buy this head of lettuce, you're going to get sick.
Thankfully, it's only one in tens of thousands maybe that have a bad head of lettuce in them, so only one in tens of thousands of people get sick.
But what happens when instead of just having one head of lettuce by itself, you pre-wash them all together?
Now you put all the lettuce together, unknowingly contaminating all the healthy, normal, without a problem lettuce with the stuff that's not so good.
And you mix it up, so you have everybody getting a little bit of that bad stuff.
And all you need is one of these little babies to make you sick.
Right, that helps spread contamination dispersed through hundreds of bags now because your lettuce got mixed up with hundreds of bags.
So, you all understand why it may not be the best thing for us to mix it all together.
You might want to just be able to separate the ones that are good and bad and be able to tell the difference on your own, or unluckily, one person gets sick instead of dozens of folks.
All right, when we come back, the biggest mistake you're making in the supermarket and is costing you big bucks.
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Best selling author Michael Ruhlman.
Spent 3,000 hours inside the grocery store, researching prices, trends, and uncovering little known facts.
Today, he's here to tell us what questions we should be asking at the grocery store.
We're back with the five things you didn't know about your supermarket.
I'm saying definitely didn't know because I didn't know.
At least the number one thing we didn't know employees want you to ask more questions.
Are you kidding me, Michael?
These guys are busy as stink usually.
They have time for that?
They do.
They want to help share their knowledge, they care about food.
They want you to have the best stuff.
Where does my meat come from?
I need oranges.
I've got a dozen oranges to choose from.
What's the best one?
I want the juiciest one right now.
They'll know.
I like that.
Yeah, I like that.
Come on, we've got two supermarket experts, Gio, a supermarket butcher, and Jason from the deli counter.
They are here to reveal something you do not know about supermarket because you never asked until today.
And we're going to start with Gio from the butcher counter.
Let me just explain something to you all.
You see, the cow is pretty expensive in some parts of the body and not expensive in other parts of the body.
And they're not all the same.
So, how can we do better than just taking the most expensive cut of meat that's offered to us?
You can get the cheaper part of the decal, which would be chuck, round, shank, brisket areas.
This main area is where the money maker is.
This is the supermarket.
So, they sell us this because they make a ton of dollars here.
Exactly.
All right.
And that is what you get from the ribeye, T bone, New York strip, $20 plus per pound.
And you told me this is the one that's most problematic the tenderloin.
This can go to $25, $30 a pound easy.
So, instead, Opt for chuck or sirloin.
How about chicken?
Where's the money saver here?
The money saver is getting a whole chicken instead of getting individual parts.
You might get breasts, legs, thighs, so on separately.
You add that all together versus a whole chicken, you're saving a lot more money on a whole chicken.
Just ask your butcher to cut it up.
How long does it take you to cut that chicken up?
Two minutes.
Two minutes.
Chigo, thank you very much.
Next, I've got Jason here from the supermarket counter, and he has the ultimate deli trick that will save more than 50% on your deli meat.
So, what is it?
Look for chubs.
That's the word for whole cooked meat, such as ham.
Bring it on over to our deli section and we'll slice it for you.
You'll save over 50% over the name brand deli meat.
And if you bring over whole cheeses as well for slicing, you'll save about $2 a pound.
So you can ask, I need to save some money.
What do you recommend?
Oh, I recommend a whole cooked smoked Black Forest ham.
There's whole cooked roast beefs that they make in store.
And there's also whole roast turkey breasts that they make down in the kitchen as well.
De-Stigmatizing Cyberbullying00:15:47
I'm impressed.
Save some money.
All right.
Online grocers, they've become very popular.
My kids often use online grocers.
Now we're still having transformed ourselves.
But what's the opportunity?
What's going to happen in the future of grocery stores in America?
I really think the future of grocery stores is they're going to get smaller.
Grocery stores are going to shrink.
They're going to go back to purveying specialty goods, the very finest meats, the best produce.
Our food's going to get better and cheaper, I believe, in the future.
So it's looking good for our food.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Dr. Oz.
The fantastic book is called Grocery The Buying and Selling of Food in America.
Check it out.
You can find all of Michael's tips on drroz.com.
I'll be right back.
Up next, what are people saying about you online?
We've got an eye-opening conversation with Monica Lewinsky that will change the way you look at the internet.
An eye opening conversation with Monica Lewinsky, who overnight became the subject of worldwide shaming from complete strangers online.
She's here exclusively to reveal an urgent plea and open up about the lessons she's learned about resilience and fighting back against what she calls an online culture of humiliation.
Please welcome Monica Lewinsky.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me, Dr. It takes a lot to talk about online shaming.
It is so painful no matter.
How we try to ignore that it's out there, it bothers everybody.
You've called yourself patient zero.
And others would argue you may have been the first victim ever of cyberbullying that we're all aware of, certainly at a worldwide level.
Why do you think that happened?
What does that mean?
I think for me, really, I was the first private person to lose their digital reputation online overnight.
And so what this meant for me was I went to bed one night, a private person, and I woke up the next day.
Not with it taking days or weeks or months for the whole world to learn my name, but instantly.
It was global humiliation.
And I think prior to the internet, we didn't have global humiliation in the same level.
How did you cope with this series of relentless attacks that you had to face?
How bad did it get?
It was pretty bad.
I think that there were several moments during that time and even in the aftermath where I didn't think I would make it.
And in the first few weeks of the investigation, my mom.
Made sure that I showered with the door open because she was worried that I would take my own life.
And both of my parents really were worried about me being publicly humiliated to death.
So, was your mother right to have asked you to leave the shower door open?
Probably.
So, I think it was, there were a lot of layers of shame and humiliation and fear at that time.
And I'm very blessed, though, to have an incredible family who was supportive.
And friends as well.
So I think that in a resilient core, wicked sense of gallows humor, some sugar, cocktails a few times, the time helped me through it.
What I'm so proud of you for is the fact that you took time, a long time, where you sort of disappeared from the public eye, maybe a decade.
Is that about right?
Yeah.
I got a master's degree in social psychology during that time.
Good for you.
Oh, thank you.
Thanks.
But you came back now with a big, big passion, a vision.
What is it that lets complete strangers rip each other apart vehemently?
How could they even be possessed to do that?
Well, I think what we're seeing is that bullying has always been about power and humiliation.
And I think everybody will see later with the PSA and the campaign is really around this idea about why we behave differently offline than we do online.
And one of the things which I was thinking about is that because social media, in particular, which has really changed the landscape of the internet, is relatively new, what we haven't figured out yet are the pragmatics of how we behave online.
Offline, we were all raised by our parents with table manners to say please and thank you, but we haven't quite figured that out for our online behavior yet.
So, I think it's in some ways that kind of wild, wild west feeling.
So, how do you recover?
How do you find a sense of normalcy after you've been online shamed?
It's hard, it's hard, but it can be done.
I think for me personally, as I was saying, I was very blessed with a supportive family and friends.
A sense of gallows humor certainly helped me, but also.
I'm lucky to have a resilient core, but I think what's really important for people to know is that resilience is a muscle.
So it's something we all have and we can all work on building it.
And in particular with kids right now, what we're seeing a lot in schools is a move towards what they're calling digital resilience.
So I think that's one of the ways that we're trying to help our young people, and it works for adults too, be a bit more prepared for what can happen online.
What do you think is the biggest lesson you personally learned to allow you to get through this?
When was the moment when you figured, This is actually going to be okay?
You know, my experience has been that there's not one moment.
And so I think it's about moments of building your strength.
I work with a trauma specialist, and she talks a lot about how, you know, recognizing when things are different.
So you start to think that, oh no, this is going to happen again, everything's going to crumble.
But when you start noticing why it's not the same as what happened before, that's where the power is to move forward and move through it.
All right, when we come back, Monica's going to show us how to deal with what she calls a virtual attack on your character.
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That's Monica Lewinsky's new campaign against bullying.
And we're back with Monica, who's speaking out about the epidemic of online shaming and bullying.
And she's sharing what you can do today to take back control.
The PSA, and it's longer than that, is really hard to watch.
And I see a lot of these.
So help us understand the message because you do cause pain as you watch.
Right.
Well, I don't know what people were able to kind of glean from the section that they saw.
But what it's about really is that the cruel and Harassing cyberbullying statements, which are made in the PSA, were all comments that we found online, real comments that we found all too easily.
And so, with the campaign, really what we were looking to do was to shine a light on the disparity between how we behave online and how we behave offline when we're face to face.
So, the bullies and the targets that are in the PSA were hired actors, but all of the people who were bystanders, who were upstanders in it, were real New Yorkers.
Who didn't know they were being filmed, they didn't know they were on camera, and they were all natural reactions.
And so, I think what we were looking at in two ways was not only getting people to rethink how they behave online in comparison to how they'd behave offline, but also to really look at what are the ways that we can help to shift the culture online.
Anybody who's online can get bullied.
Probably at this point, cyberbullying is happening to most of us.
We've seen all the happenings.
It's happening right now as we're sitting here to somebody.
Somewhere, probably many people.
All these headlines, there are so many more I could have pulled.
Why do you think there's been such a rapid rise in cyberbullying and online shaming?
You know, I think it's a very layered and complicated issue.
I so often find myself thinking, oh my gosh, everybody else is having more fun.
Other people are invited more places.
Everyone else is, you know, in a better relationship than I am.
And I think what happens is we, without even realizing it, we're feeling less than.
And so I think in many cases, in an attempt to Feel better about ourselves, we start lashing out at other people.
I think that's one aspect of what we see online.
If someone watching us right now was a cyber bully sitting at a computer about to post some reprehensible message to attack somebody, what would you tell them?
I would ask them to think about the campaign, which is Click with Compassion, and I would probably ask them Does what you're about to post pass the face test?
Would you actually say that to the person about whom you're writing this comment if you were sitting face to face, if you could see their reaction, how they deflate when they hear what you've said, how they might even cry?
And I would probably also ask them What's going on in their life that they actually want to make someone else feel bad?
Did you ever have a chance to confront?
Some of the people criticizing you?
So I wrote the Vanity Fair essay, which was kind of the first thing I had done in 10 years.
And where people who were involved in the media and in particularly ridiculing me stepped forward to sort of say that they regretted their behavior.
They did.
David Letterman was one.
What did he say?
You know, I don't remember the exact words, but I think he said he regretted having.
Mocked me in the way that he did.
A lot of the late night hosts.
So, yeah, it's good to see that change.
You know, real change doesn't happen that often.
No, and I'm grateful for it.
There are 200 people right here who I'm hopeful are able to get you to erase some of that chicken scratch.
Oh, thank you.
I'm going to go to them and get some questions if it's okay.
So, you know, she stopped on a lot of cyberbullying.
She's made a big difference.
And so I want to ask the members of the audience who've gone through this, folks who are struggling.
So, let me see, hands, who wants to ask questions?
Are there Well, there are a bunch of questions.
Go ahead.
You take it away.
I'll sit next to you.
Your name is Farah, is that right?
Farah, yes.
Hi.
So, this is a little bit hard for me, but after I had my son, someone had posted a picture of me in a two piece bikini online.
So, even though I was very positive and excited that I was feeling better about myself, I received hundreds and hundreds of negative comments.
One of them was, you know, hashtag a diet program, or, you know, you're a, you know, Tub of lard, or they put the sticker of the throw up emoji over my face, and they've got like, I couldn't even watch those pictures, and I'm getting emotional now.
How do I go back to a positive place?
First of all, the bravery it takes just to share the story.
Obviously, it's not true.
These people should never have done that, but they're saying it isn't true.
But you're able to say that, and I hope with a few good vibes you're getting around you, which I hope you're sensing around us.
Am I speaking for us all?
Yes.
So, Monica, you live this.
I mean, you are pacing zero, and I think it's an accurate description.
So, how did you handle it?
Well, first, Farah, I want to thank you for being able to share that today, too, because one of the really important things when people do talk about their experiences is that we de stigmatize.
We de stigmatize that experience for other people so they don't sit in silence and shame.
So thank you for that.
And I can relate.
So maybe I didn't have a bikini picture put on, but I was called the portly pepper pot every day for over a year.
And I really, I know I sort of referenced this before about my family and friends.
They continued reflecting back to me who my true self was.
But that's not always easy.
I mean, there were days that I stayed home and cried the whole day because of a horrible cartoon or something that happened.
And I don't know if this will help you, but I read this recently and it really opened my eyes to something.
And that was someone had called her fat and she said, I'm not fat, I have fat.
And I happen to have more fat than someone else, but we all have fat.
So, this idea of calling someone fat, it's Like when I looked at it through this woman's eyes, I thought it was ridiculous to realize that we insult people that way.
So I think you're beautiful, and I hope you can.
Congratulations on the baby.
Go ahead.
I have a question for you.
So, what advice do you have for a mom on how to teach my child not to be harmful to others online?
Yeah, that's a big question.
And I think probably one of the best things we can do in First Things is really modeling empathy.
For younger people.
And I worked on a pro social tool, which is an app, it's a third party keyboard, which is a free download.
And there are anti bullying emojis that are used for support.
And there are positive images of compassion and solidarity that can make a world of difference.
How do you fight back against an emoji?
It's the best, right?
It can parse your words.
And I didn't know this.
I looked it up actually after Monica showed me these emojis.
20% of kids who are cyber bullied, 20% think about suicide.
Yeah.
And if that wasn't bad enough, one in ten attempt it.
They try.
I mean, it's just shocking to me that someone I will never meet, and if I did, would probably apologize if they actually had the ability to empathize.
And they might actually make me take my own life.
And that's, I think, the big message our kids have to hear.
All right, one more question.
Go ahead.
I'm crawling down to you.
Thank you.
Well, I do have a question for you as well.
I actually know people, family and friends, who have actually participated in the VU comments online.
And I know everyone's entitled to freedom of speech, but I would like to know how do you open up a dialogue for the change?
Like, I don't know.
So, what I do is I'm very lucky.
I try to find people whose behavior I can model.
So, I have a close friend, which many of you probably know, who's actor Alan Cumming.
And he's a wonderful person, and he's been a real role model for me of someone who steps into a conversation, whether it's online or offline, and he enlightens people rather than shaming them.
And so that's what I've tried to do.
I think that, I don't know if that will feel useful to you.
I was thinking how to lead this conversation.
Modeling Healthy Behavior00:10:44
And there's this great book, Shame Nation, which you wrote the foreword to.
And you say something very interesting in it.
And it changed my mind about this discussion a bit.
Because you say the shame culture really is about making value judgments on people, right?
Instead of actions.
If I judge your actions as not being good, well, you can change your actions.
And maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, but you can change that.
If I judge you, if I call you fat, instead of saying you have fat that you might want to do something about, it might not be in my business either way.
But you can't change one of them.
You can't get out of the way.
It's a freight train.
And even that subtle little shift in how we think, which all of us can acknowledge, will make a big difference.
So I want to thank you for coming.
Thank you so much.
To learn more about cyberbullying, check out Shame Nation.
You can read Monica's Ford, which is beautifully done, like almost all the things you're doing these days.
Congratulations.
Thank you so much.
And you know what, audience?
You're all going home with a copy.
Enjoy sharing Fred Galindo.
Be right back.
Thank you so much.
Up next, I'm swimming with a shark.
David Jom as he reveals his favorite health products from Shark Tank.
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Shark Tank, the hit TV show that revolutionized the business.
Now, you love it because it's more than a television show, it's a dream.
A dream with the idea that if you can have the right concept, anybody sitting at home could one day become a billionaire.
And I love it because it showcases how innovation is born out of need.
If someone can't find the solution to their problem, they invent one.
It's genius.
So today, we're swimming with one of the savviest of the sharks.
Damon John, come on out.
Oh my goodness, this is good.
So, you're going to reveal your favorite Shark Tank products that have to do with health.
Yeah.
Because they solve our biggest issues.
Of course.
And I've turned you loose.
You went through all, we launched the same year, a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
So, the companies that you chose, from all these years of experience, how'd you pick them?
Well, I picked them because, you know, being a busy executive and running around, we always are trying to improve our health.
So, it's the little small steps.
That we can take, whether it's a cause product that cures something or just makes you a little more healthier, those are the ones that I put around me so I can hopefully get a little healthier myself.
And people don't know this, but you love food.
So we're going to start off with a nutritional snack.
His favorite one.
Take a look.
We're the founders of Three Jerks Jerky and are here seeking a $100,000 investment for a 15% stake in our company.
Have you ever eaten jerky only to find yourself asking, What did I just eat?
Either the jerky was tougher than shoe leather or filled with so many chemicals and preservatives you couldn't pronounce most of the ingredients.
Three Jerks Jerky has changed all that by using only the best meat made from 100% filet mignon.
It's amazing.
I'll give you the $100,000 for 15%, and then I have an option to grab another 15% for another $100,000.
And that dating process, you'll see how hands on I am.
Yep.
And then you will be at a $30,000.
That's a better deal than you are.
And we're going to go with Damon.
Ah!
Yes.
I love being a jerk.
You got it pretty high there.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, I love when they do deals with me.
Well, first of all, you know the ingredients in this thing, right?
Yes.
It tastes so good.
This is filet mignon, right?
So, this is like a steak in a bag, really low in sodium when it comes to beef jerky and high in protein.
And you can read and understand all the ingredients on this thing.
And this is why I like this is like a snack whenever I usually eat it sometimes just for lunch instead.
Yeah, and a lot of my best friends eat this.
They do?
Yeah.
Turn it off.
Okay, what do you got next?
This is the best health apparel you've described.
This is Booty Queen apparel.
What's it called?
Booty Queen.
Now, it highlights the area, but really, really amazing fabric.
This is not the fabric you can see through.
So, you can be really active in this fabric.
And Amanda, who is a fitness professional and a big influencer, she created this brand and is doing absolutely amazing.
So, when they came to Shark Tank, they, like the previous guest did, swept you off your feet.
Take a look.
Got yourself a date.
Oh my gosh, I had a date.
Now pick up Damon.
Oh my gosh, I had a date.
Now pick up Damon.
Steve, pick up Damon.
Pick up Damon.
Let's go.
All right.
Oh.
No, I got him.
Oh, my back.
People tend to pick me up.
I'm the most lovable, Sean.
That's right.
You are lovable.
It's true.
So, the producers of the show and my wife would kill me if I talk more about this stuff.
So, I asked some real folks to help me out.
So, I've got Anthea and Sophia here.
So, you guys, take it away.
Describe what the apparel is like to wear.
So, I am a big fan of the Insanity Workouts, and this feels really light.
It keeps me together tight.
Like, I don't feel like it's sliding down and sagging.
So, I really like it.
It's a great product.
I like the ventilation, it feels really good, and it makes me look even better.
You both do look wonderful in it.
Congratulations.
All right, next up one of Damon's favorite fitness devices.
Take a look at this one.
My name is Patrick Whaley, and I'm the founder and CEO of Titan.
I'm here seeking $500,000 for a 5% equity stake in my company.
Yeah, I would know.
Titan is a patented, form fitting weighted compression gear that is designed around the human anatomy.
Our apparel uses gel weights as inserts that are the same density as your own muscle tissue, and you can also heat it or freeze it.
So it's great for healing sore muscles and improving recovery times.
I'm here today to show you that there is a better way to train.
The only question left is which one of you sharks can keep up?
I'm wearing the Titan right now.
I just want to make it feel stronger.
You look stronger.
You look incredible.
Describe me in one word.
Pimpin'.
I've never been called that before.
Yes, you have.
So, why do you love this so much?
So, Titan came on, so there's about 12 pounds of extra weight.
These all gels are placed all in strategic places where your muscles are.
I'll walk around the office with that on my shirt on, and when I take it off, I feel like I'm floating.
But, of course, you could do burpees in it, push ups, you could work out on it, and all the people in my office will really fit.
They really love it, Al.
This extra 12 pounds is incredible.
All right, we'll do push ups to commercial.
You ready?
Okay.
All right, come down here.
Coming up, when we come back, we got Damon John's favorite Shark Tank.
One thing in the air, his favorite Shark Tank products of all time socks.
He says they're socks.
We'll find out what makes them so great when we come back.
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We're back with Damon John from Shark Tank, who's giving us his favorite health products from the show.
Next up, his favorite healthy food pancakes?
That's what I said.
That's exactly what I said, Doc.
I'm already skeptical.
Hope you guys are too.
Take a look.
Sharks, we all know the first step is eating right.
So you can say goodbye to sugar, flavor, fat, and happiness, of course.
Instead, though, you can whip up a pile of nice bland vegetables, two crisp pieces of cardboard, and then top it all off with a delicious protein shake.
Mmm, chalky.
Or you can actually eat what you really want for breakfast in the morning.
Abs protein pancakes.
That's right, get your abs while eating protein pancakes.
This is four fluffy pancakes, which is under 250 calories, over 24 grams of protein, 100% all natural, and gluten free.
And now you can enjoy pancakes as part of a healthy nutrition program.
So, Danny, what made this product jump out at you?
Well, first of all, I tasted it, they taste amazing.
Usually, it tastes like cardboard, but I love them.
Before we go any further, let's just audit that for a second.
Let's figure out this thing about the flavor, because if they taste great and they make abs that look like this washboard abs you just saw, we'd all go it.
So, I want you to take a look at Vite Club member Crystal.
She's a food blogger for us.
She's on Skype.
She's testing them in her own kitchen.
Hey!
So, I know you're down in Baltimore, right?
I want to make sure we're completely separate from the studio.
So, I'll tell you what, we're going to taste at the same time.
I want to give you an honest opinion here.
I love you.
I want to make sure this really tastes good for the audience at home.
So, at the same time, you ready, Crystal?
I got my pancake here.
Ready, set, taste.
What do you think?
I'm so greedy, Dr. Eyes.
I'm so greedy.
I absolutely love the fact that they're flaky, they're tasty, and that pop of cinnamon just gives you that extra flavor for a girl that really likes something tasty.
All right.
Thank you, Crystal.
Love you.
All right.
Next up.
Thank you.
This is one of Damon's all time favorite Shark Tank products.
Absolutely.
They look like socks to me.
They look like socks.
I wasn't going to invest in them first, but then I realized, first of all, they don't have.
The seam in the toe, but more importantly, today's consumer wants to know not what you've done for me lately, what have you done for anybody?
Every pair of socks that Bombas sells, they give away a pair to the homeless shelter because care for their feet are the biggest challenge they have.
They're sending a lot out, obviously, to our brothers and sisters in Houston, and they're all about cause.
These socks are absolutely amazing.
I'm obsessed with them.
Come over here.
Are you wearing some?
Yeah, I am.
But I have these tall boots on.
But here, come sit next to me because I'm wearing some.
Look at mine.
I'll take my shoes off if you can see them better.
These things are unbelievably handsome looking, very stylish, right?
And the biggest thing for me is that they keep the feet warm and they make it nice and cozy, it's clean.
And you know what?
We take that for granted, don't we?
You know, clean socks is something we all think we all have had our whole lives.
But in our audience, in fact, he's sitting next to me, he's Dave Jones.
He's the president and CEO of the Bowery Mission, one of New York City's finest nonprofit organizations that have received donations from Bomba.
So bring this alive for us.
Gender Reveal Socks00:02:44
What's it like for a person to finally have?
The caring love of something around their feet that makes a difference and know that it came from somebody who cared about them.
Well, for most people, a gift of socks would be kind of a maybe a small gesture, but when you're living on the streets of New York City, clean, dry socks is huge, it changes everything.
And I'm sure they also, because I've dealt with shelters quite a bit, the fact that someone even cared enough to make that contribution to you elevates who you are.
So thank you for all you do, wonderful work as always.
Thank you, my friend.
Thank you, as always, Damien John.
Thank you, you can catch Damien and all his other Shark Tank buddies Sundays on ABC.
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To be, and their families can't get enough of gender reveals.
They become so popular that people started getting their kids involved.
The videos have become a social media obsession.
I think they're hysterical.
Take a look.
I still remember, like it was yesterday, when we told my daughters, all three of them, about Oliver's arrival.
Those cries you saw, imagine all three of them at once doing just that.
They thought their entire part of their world had been destroyed, but it has worked that okay.
Anyway, there's no better way.
To end the show with a happy gender reveal.
I've got the Shannon family here, and they are fighting out the sex of their babies right here live on the program.
Are you guys excited?
Yeah, we're so excited.
Congratulations.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
Hi.
So, what are you hoping for, boy or girl?
Boy, camp.
A boy?
I didn't hear it, but boy or girl?
He said boy, girl.
That's what I thought he said.
All right, so you're okay either way.
Any guesses?
Girl.
I think we think it's a girl.
I think it's a girl.
Yeah.
Because of the way it's lined, because of the way you smell.
I don't know.
Just karma.
Yeah, I guess, right?
One boy, one girl, right?
And he's okay with boy, girl.
Yeah, he's so excited.
All right.
It is time.
Are you ready for it?
Yeah.
Okay.
It's the moment of truth.
And it is.
He's happy.
Remember, everybody, happy, healthy, it starts at home.