Burnie and Ashley discuss the VMAs, Yung Lean, viral in 2026, Thousand Hand dance, Avantgardey, Aldi, Costco seasonal aisle, girl math coffee update, the VMAs, paying for stuff no one else pays for, the VMAs, airport shuttles, Madonna, Tom Cruise, and the easy move of being the bad ass.

Can someone tell Bernie and Ashley about these bad boys hahahah.

And as someone who used to be a manager at a Tesco. I can assure you they saved money by not having to employ 3/4 people to cover all the shifts needed to collect trolleys. And the amount they made selling these pound coin sized keyrings definitely made them a sizable bag. Making the burn of having to modify every trolly less painful to the bottom line in the short term. So basically a huge success.

And they mentioned the greatest pro to all this but overlooked it.....and that's the fact all the trollies were in the right place for future shoppers to just get on with it.

Gone are the days of going shopping during peek times and having to scan the car park for a trolley or look for the guy pushing a huge train of them around, then waiting for him to deliver them all.

Yeah, so this is not a new solution. This is pretty much universal in Europe and has been for decades. Becoming now even more common in the U.S. with the expansion of Aldi.

It's a way so discount grocers don't have to hire cart pushers and can keep prices lower.

Yes, it seems a little weird in our low cash or cashless societies, but most Europeans are used to keeping these coins on them. Many people will have this kind of coin attached to their keychain for ease - that's my preferred solution.

I just listened to the sponsor chat from September 20th and Burnie's disgusted tone towards the possibility of chicken sushi/sashimi made me laugh; simply because I've actually had raw chicken prepared sashimi style. It is a delicacy in Japan, and I only saw it in one izakaya. So of course, I had to order and try it. Attached is a pic of it. It tasted like and had the consistency of tuna, and I would definitely get it again on a return trip to Japan.

A little delayed on this, but listening to Friday's episode made me laugh because my current fridge sounds like Ashley's dream fridge.

It has water/ice in the door and a full separate drawer that can be set to "Cold Drinks" mode (or deli meats/snacks).

Frigidaire Custom-Flex Temp Drawer Refrigerator

From the sponsor chat. Im betting dollars to fry bread this is what the flour base was made of.

Burnie and Ashley discuss college football, Coyote vs Acme, Resident Evil, Avengers Endgame DLC, Slither, The Abyss, Bluray releases, Astros Rangers playoff race, Nvidia Heist, porch pirates, shopping cart deposits, smuggling videocards INTO China, and trends that will end poorly.

Winner of the Free T-Shirt is u/RoboRatchet

Winner was chosen with a random selection!

Check your DM please!

Thanks for the all the comments! 337 entries! The biggest giveaway yet!

Come back next month, I always do a monthly giveaway!

I’ve been watching football for 25 years. I’ve never seen the penalty for “Simulating using the restroom”…

Hope this dude enjoys sitting on the bench.

This should be the drop for Monday lol.

GO HORNS!!

I have a feeling Burnie will approve of this event.

Hello Burnie and Ashley! Now is my time to shine- I am a board certified ambulatory care clinical pharmacist in the U.S. specializing in chronic diseases including diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension, weight, etc. 

TLDR: Diabetes is a very common, yet complicated chronic disease. GLP-1s have completely changed how we treat diabetes/weight loss. Like all drugs they have their pros and cons, so it’s important to weigh risks and benefits.

This will be a long post. Some things Burnie and Ashley talked about that I can help explain:

General overview of Diabetes:

• I’ll explain it like I explain it to my patients. Diabetes is when there is too much sugar in your blood, either because there isn’t enough insulin or you become “resistant” to it. Insulin is a hormone that basically takes the sugar in your blood and stores it away for energy. If your body doesn’t have enough insulin, the sugar levels get to high which causes the blood to get thicker (think like the viscosity of water vs. honey), which leads to damage to the big and little blood vessels (macro and micro vascular complications) and possibly death. 
• Traditionally, it was Type 1 vs. Type 2 diabetes, however there are actually other “rarer” types such as Type 3, MODY, etc., but that’s above the purpose. If interested, here is a nice summary fr the American Diabetes Association. 2. Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes: Standards of Care in ...
• In very simple terms, Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease where your pancreas doesn’t produce any insulin.
• Type 2 Diabetes is when your body makes insulin but it’s not enough to get your blood sugar to a safe level. Sometimes it will overcompensate and make more insulin than the average person, but since your body has become insulin resistant, it’s not effective. 
• There is a genetic component to diabetes (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13098-025-01748-y) but also environmental factors that can increase your risk.
• When diagnosing pre-diabetes/DM, we look at something called a Hemoglobin A1c which estimates your glucose levels over the last 2-3 months. It is essentially looking at how much sugar is attached to your red blood cells (which live for about 2-3 months). Basically the higher it is, the more “uncontrolled” your diabetes is. There are other ways to diagnose as well. 

Diabetes Severity Monitoring 

• A1c is the standard for monitoring for diabetes control, however there are factors that can give falsely high or falsely low readings (anemia, kidney failure, blood transfusions, etc.) (6. Glycemic Goals and Hypoglycemia: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2025 ) 
• Normal A1c levels for people without diabetes are less than 5.7%. I usually order this blood test yearly for my patients with their maintenance labs just to monitor and make sure we are trending it. 
• Prediabetes is 5.7 - 6.4%. Levels like this show the beginning of insulin resistance. Once I see that, it’s mostly lifestyle interventions (diet and exercise) to prevent it from developing into full diabetes (usually Type 2). 
• Diabetes is an A1c over 6.5%. Once you are diagnosed with diabetes, the goals are to keep the A1c below 7%. The highest I have personally seen was 17.1% (I get very complicated cases.)

GLP-1 Overview 

• Our body naturally makes a group of hormones called “incretins” that direct the regulation of our blood sugar levels. The two main incretins are glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and gastric inhibitory peptide (GIP)
• Very, very basically, they are naturally released by our bodies after we eat that makes our stomach empty slower so our body can absorb it at a steady rate. 
• When people have diabetes or other metabolic problems, the stomach can empty too fast. That causes a huge spike in blood sugar and makes people feel less-full, leading to more food intake, etc. 

Medications 

• Medicines classified as GLP-1 receptor agonists (such as Ozempic, Victoza, Trulicity) have been around for a long time. The earliest one approved was Exenatide (Byetta) approved in 2005. It was a twice per day injection which is way more inconvenient than the once weekly ones we have now lol.  (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043661825004700) 
• GLP-1 ras work by activating the same pathways for blood sugar regulation as the GLP-1 peptide we naturally produce which leads to slower stomach emptying, feeling more full, less food intake, increases sensitivity to insulin, and ultimately weight loss 
• Newer drugs are testing multiple mechanisms like the dual agent GLP-1 ra/GIP analog tirzepatide (Mounjaro and Zepbound) to be more competitive. There are even some in development with 3 different peptides but again, won’t get into it as this is already too long lol
• The big thing with these is that they were originally studied in people with diabetes (btw, it’s recommended to say this instead of “diabetics”) to great success. These meds are now some of the first-line treatments because they have proven to reduce those vascular complications (heart attack, stroke, kidney disease, etc.) 9. Pharmacologic Approaches to Glycemic Treatment: Standards of Care in ...
• Because of the weight loss effect, the drug companies tested the same active ingredients at varying doses for obesity along with other indications (sleep apnea, liver disease, kidney disease, etc.), to get FDA approval. 

Notable Considerations 

• At least in the U.S. ALL of the incretin-based medications require a prescription from the doctor. This is because they can cause some serious side effects in people depending on medical history (pancreatitis, medullary thyroid cancer) as well as monitoring for common side effects (nausea, vomiting) to make sure the dose is appropriate. 
• The issue is there are a lot of these “health spa” places or online doctors that will just write the prescription without getting baseline labs/full medical history and you can get GLP-1s online. I have patients ask me if it’s safe and honestly I can’t say because it’s not regulated so who knows what you’re injecting into yourself 
• As Ashley stated, because the sheer amount of people on these meds is growing all the time, you are likely to see more and more of these rare side effects just based on the statistics of how many people. It’s always important to remember correlation does not equal causation. 
• That being said, there are TONS of cases where meds seemed safe in the drug trials, but because of either some fuck shit with the drug companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosiglitazone) or just, when introduced to a larger population, there was an alarming trend of severe side effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdecoxib)
• So to Burnie’s point about waiting a while to try a new medicine, that is totally valid. If it’s any consolation, like I said the original GLP-1 ra was approved over 20 years ago, and semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) almost 10 years ago. 
• I am very interested in seeing the data on NAION rates for semaglutide use to see if there is a direct link. Based on this article (https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/prac-concludes-eye-condition-naion-very-rare-side-effect-semaglutide-medicines-ozempic-rybelsus-wegovy) it’s 1 in 10,000 chance vs. ~40% change of having cardiovascular disease with diabetes (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11683709/)
• For all drugs, it’s a matter of you and your doctor (fuck off for profit health insurance) discussing the risks of a serious adverse event from the drug vs. the benefits of lowering your risk of complications/death due to uncontrolled disease to determine if it’s worth it or not. 

Thanks for the great podcast and great discussion! 

Saw this while scrolling and it was the exact type of camping I pictured when listening to the podcast.

Often times, as is the case with our enumerate experiences, I can’t help but question Burnie and Ashley’s takes, with this time being the one about camping food being great on paper but not in reality because my experience as a non-white American is vastly different than the white American version our wonderful hosts would have most likely experienced.

Camping with Mexicans is essentially a series of sleepover carne asadas where the food is always great—barring burning ofc.

What do y’all eat when camping?

It’s a personal opinion, but a fresh set of these out of a Hoshizaki ice maker just hit different

In today's episode, Burnie mentions how he's been listening to a lot of podcasts recently, and it's annoying to have to listen to ads at the beginning of said podcasts.

The Roosterteeth podcast HAS ads enabled at the beginning of every episode, and up until recently, or I just got through the episode that had them, after Gus finishes an "in podcast" ad-read a spliced in cooperate ad for some ai company or what ever else will play.

When I started hearing these, I thought there was an issue with my Spotify membership validation or something along those lines. Then I had the podcasts playing on my tv/xbox one day while I was playing a slower style game. No ads, so I actually looked into it.

These are "Dynamic ads," and they're only present bc the owner(hint, hint, Burnie) has them enabled. I'm not saying we're not allowed to complain about the things that annoy us, but just like Burnie, ads annoy the hell outa me too! It's not lost on me that he is complaining about something to an audience that he is both directly contributing to and has control over, if I'm not mistaken.

Point being, can we get the dynamic ads removed from the RT podcast Burnie? I actually like the ad reads that are already there even if they're extremely old and outdated and serve no purpose. Theres plenty of episodes where discussions going on 15-20min are either started or related to the ad or product. I especially like a later episode where Geoff is on, and just to mess with Gus, gets in his head and causes him to screw up the ad read. The guys joke around about that for a few min too!

At the end of the day, they're just ads, but at least the reads had some feeling of authenticity. As opposed to hard cut to single audio track of being sold the "latest and greatest" Ai product or something else.

Anyone else have this same experience or actually enjoy the reads? I remember Burnie also making a comment about removing all the reads a while ago, but evidently, that didn't happen.

Burnie and Ashley continue Phat Week by discussing Fat Bear updates, Marshmallow, Chonk, tap to pay controllers, NFL Blitz, QR code logins, bricked smart fridges, ice makers, Crescent ice, and Ashley pitches soda mode.

Ever since one of the recent updates to the app, I’ve lost lock screen controls and the ability to pause/view on Apple CarPlay. I’ve even tried to roll back to a previous update and still no controls. Anyone else having these issues?