From Serena's Weight Loss Scandal to a Man's Sleepless Nightmare

What happens when one of the world's greatest athletes hawks weight loss drugs as a "lifestyle choice" rather than admitting it's a shortcut? Kennedy from Fox News doesn't hold back in her scathing critique of Serena Williams' latest endorsement deal with Rowe Telehealth, a company connecting patients with GLP-1 medications. As we explore in this episode, the tennis star's claim that she "couldn't lose weight no matter how hard she trained" rings hollow when you consider her access to world-class nutritionists, trainers, and resources most people can only dream about.

The morning news roundup continues with a United Airlines flight that never took off after a restless passenger decided to smoke marijuana in the bathroom during a delay. The pilot ultimately cancelled the entire flight when crew members became concerned about potential secondhand exposure. It's yet another reminder that one person's poor decisions can impact hundreds of others in shared spaces.

Most disturbing is the account of Oliver Alvis, a former train driver who claims he hasn't slept for nearly two years. This medical mystery has cost him everything – his career, home, and health. Even powerful surgical anesthetics apparently fail to render him unconscious. His description of the experience is haunting: "Sleep deprivation isn't just exhaustion. It dismantles your spirit." His struggle raises the question for all of us: What's the longest you've gone without sleep? Share your experiences in the comments, and don't forget to subscribe for more thought-provoking morning news discussions every weekday!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Monday Morning Daily Mail Stories
• 1:13 Serena Williams Weight Loss Drug Controversy
• 5:24 United Flight Cancelled Over Marijuana Smoker
• 7:07 Man Claims No Sleep For Two Years
• 10:14 Question of the Day: Sleep Deprivation

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Well, hello, good morning, happy Monday. Hope you all had a great weekend. I'm bringing you three stories from the Daily Mail today because I really couldn't find anything interesting in the New York Post. For once, let me go over here to my profile and get these stories that I'm bringing to you. They're kind of weird and Well. The first one up is written by Kennedy. I subscribed to the Daily Mail just because of her. So, yes, I have a paying subscription to the Daily Mail because of Kennedy. And do you know who Kennedy is? The woman commentator on Fox News used to be on MTV. Yes, I like her a lot, all right, so she wrote an article about Serena Williams.

Speaker 1: 0:59

You've heard about Serena Williams coming out and pimping out the weight loss drug because she is paid to do so and Kennedy doesn't like it. So shame on Serena Williams. She may be starving herself on prescription anorexia drugs, but this putrid stunt proves she's still a greedy beast. And okay, I have signed up for it. So get it. Go away from that. All right, let's. Why is it not showing up now? Come on, I apologize y'all. Oh, already, let me log in. I gotta log in. Oh, oh, my gosh, let me stop. Okay, let us resume. Here we go of the story. Serena this is the words of Kennedy.

Speaker 1: 1:47

Serena Williams is arguably the greatest female athlete of all time. Of all time, really. Do you really think so? Do you think that's true? I beg to differ, but I don't really follow sports all that much. She's a tennis player. Sure, it takes some athletic skills, but I don't know about of all time. Maybe Her skill, power and markability have made her a cultural force who transcends tennis, which is why her latest partnership, launched with a glossy photo shoot for People magazine, is so repulsive. Serena appears airbrushed, of course, because she's on the magazine. By the way, in case you didn't know, women who are on the covers of magazines, they're airbrushed, okay. Serena appears airbrushed within an inch of her tennis skirt gunning and a glp1 drug into her abdomen and thigh, while bemoaning the universal difficulty shedding pounds after giving birth to her second daughter. And see, here's the thing, because she is an athlete, this is so. This is really disturbing.

Speaker 1: 2:58

Because she's an athlete, people think that she works out like crazy, and maybe she does. But it's not just about working out, it's about eating right too. We don't know what her personal training is. We don't know what she does. Maybe she does too much lifting, I don't know. I don't know what she does, but in order to lose weight, that really goes starts in the kitchen with what you eat. I don't know what she eats, so serena appears. Are we already that?

Speaker 1: 3:25

I never was able to get to the weight I needed to be, no matter what I did, no matter how much I trained, she blubbed. I had never taken shortcuts in my career and always worked really hard. I know what it takes to be the best. Do you Spare me the soft serve interview? I'm calling total BS like a steaming, putrid pile of hot cow turd. That's what Kennedy is saying. Because she's not just a user. She's not just a user.

Speaker 1: 3:56

She's now a spokesperson for Rowe Telehealth. For Rowe, a telehealth, a telehealth company that connects patients with weight loss drugs and their dealers. Sorry, providers, it's not a shortcut. Rowe's logo states it's a lifestyle. Really, because Opting for an injectable weight loss drug when you have an army of nutritionists, trainers, private chefs, meditation coaches, doctors and gurus sure looks like a shortcut to me. Amen, sister, it's all about a shortcut.

Speaker 1: 4:32

Now I understand some people that can't exercise in order to shed the pounds they need to shed. I understand this drug is helpful to some people, but there are way too many people on it because they're too fucking lazy. Who can exercise? Who can exercise? Who can change their eating habits, but they don't want to? Well, all right, so you can go finish reading that if you'd like. You probably need a paid subscription, but you get the gist of the story. You've heard about it all over the weekend about her. I don't like it either. We're moving on to the United Pilot makes difficult decision to cancel flight on runway after passengers' outrageous bathroom behavior.

Speaker 1: 5:22

Can you guess what it is? Can you guess what it is? Uh, smoking marijuana in the bathroom? Yep, a united pilot made the difficult decision to cancel a flight while it was on the runway after a passenger smoked marijuana in the bathroom of the plane. United flight Flight UA1679 from San Francisco to Mexico Well, there's your number one problem You're going to Mexico, don't go there.

Speaker 1: 5:48

Had originally been delayed due to technical issues, according to a Reddit thread regarding the incident. Yet the original delay prompted one passenger to grow restless. The passenger was then found to have smoked marijuana in the bathroom of the aircraft during the delay. But by all means, let's make it legal. Okay, I'm sure it is legal in most states. Maybe it's the medical marijuana I'm thinking of that's legal, I don't know. But I know that most people don't. Most authorities don't charge anybody with pot position anymore, and I wish they would. Okay, I don't like it. I don't like it. The smoker was taken off the plane, but the flight crew then deliberated over what they should do for the next 40 minutes. In the end, the pilot decided to cancel flight after the flight crew became concerned. They may have inhaled the drug through secondhand smoking. I don't know about that. I don't know if that's possible or not. We're going to move on.

Speaker 1: 6:45

So this next one. I kind of call bullshit on this next one too. This guy says he's not slept in two years. I think if you have not slept in two years, you might be dead. Maybe I don't know A man who hasn't slept for two years, although they say non-sleep won't kill you, or there's a saying about it, I forget what it is.

Speaker 1: 7:08

So this train driver, oliver's a medical mystery. Now he tells of horrifying condition that's wrecked his health, how he lost everything and why his eyes feel like they're melting out of his skull. Oh, that's lovely. Two years ago, oliver Alvis was the sort of young man. Every parent hopes their son will be Diligent, clean, living, responsible. He worked long hours as a train driver and had paid off the mortgage on his four-bedroom home, and he wasn't even 30 years old. Yet he had gained his private pilot license in his spare time and bought his own light aircraft. All this and he was not yet 30. But today he has lost everything health, home, job and the future, bright with hope and promise.

Speaker 1: 7:59

That beckoned the cause a constant nerve, fraying wakefulness that has deprived him from restorative sleep for almost two years. This is crazy. It's not merely poor sleep, it's the virtual obliteration of sleep, he says. I don't feel drowsy, I don't drift off, I'm locked in a perpetual state of alertness. Endless days bleed into interminable nights, and it's torment.

Speaker 1: 8:27

Sleep deprivation isn't just exhaustion. It dismantles your spirit. I've lost almost everything. The person I once was has disappeared. How can something as natural, as essential as sleep be completely stripped away? I used to wonder what pain could drive someone to wish for death. Now I understand. I don't want to die, but I can't survive this torture much longer. I would give every penny I have worked myself into the ground for just to be able to close my eyes and sleep.

Speaker 1: 8:59

And the hardest part for Oliver is the absence of answers. His general practitioner has said there is nothing more he can do. His psychiatrist has run out of options. No one really knows how to approach this. Despite aren't there sleep clinics, despite the fact that sleep in the very foundation of life itself, his body seems resistant even to powerful anesthesia. What he's been injected with, drug used to sedate patients before surgery, yet that still didn't make him unconscious.

Speaker 1: 9:36

And the effects of this constant restiveness, restiveness, are grueling. I have spent the past 21 months in a walking nightmare, fighting to survive in a body that feels like it's on fire, burning from the inside. Wow, wow. I mean, this article goes on and you don't want me to keep reading it because I'll be here all day reading it. It is a long ass article. I'll maybe finish it later, but I've got to get to the question of the day because I'm running out of time.

Speaker 1: 10:00

But speaking of sleep, I got like two and a half hours last night. I don't know what was wrong with me. I could not fall asleep to save my life. Last time I looked at the clock it was 1.30. And you know I get up at three. But the gent, let me sleep until 3.30 this morning. All right, question of the day. Well, let's go with this. What is the longest amount of time you've gone without sleeping? Mine would be, I guess, 24, 48 hours, like a full day, a full night and another full day, probably. That's it for me. That's all I've gone, and it was when I was younger. I could not do that now. All right, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Love y'all, bye.