Nov. 6, 2025
What Happened in the Oval Office Today That Had 3 Men in Suits on the Ground
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RSS Feed President Trump held a major press conference today touting significant relief for Americans who want affordable access to GLP 1 weight loss drugs. However, in the middle of the presser, a man fainted and there is now a bit of a growing mystery around who this man is and why he collapsed. There is also plenty of commentary about how each person in the room - from RFK Jr to Dr. Oz. to President Trump - reacted to the fainting spell.
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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Thursday, November six, and what an eventful afternoon in the Oval Office the President having a press conference announcing a landmark deal when it comes to prescription drugs, in fact, some of the most popular prescription drugs in the country. But that wasn't the most eventful part. There was a medical emergency while he was making this medical announcement and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: Robes.
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Speaker 1: This is pretty dramatic stuff. Dude just flat out fainted in the middle of this landmark deal being announced in the Oval Office, right next to President Trump.
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Speaker 2: It was, and the video is everywhere, and it is remarkable to see kind of almost in slow motion as everyone specifically the President recognizes or realizes that this guy is going down, everyone saying are you okay? And it seemed like he almost steadied himself and then whoop.
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Speaker 1: He went all the way to we've seen this before, and actually we've seen this probably as many press conferences and things we've covered and been to that. Yeah, you can see somebody starting to fade. You can see this in hold on all right in the middle. Maybe they've been standing too long. Maybe the lights of getting to them, maybe a little nervous, but we saw it kind of happening with this guy. But look, this was a big deal, folks. We were talking about gop ones. We are talking about the multi billion dollar drug right now that's so popularly helping people lose so much weight. They're making a huge announcement today that they are two of the biggest drug makers in the world made a deal with the Trump administration to slash the price of these gop ones. That is a big, big, big deal that could change health in this country. Giving more access to these drugs, which is not just about weight loss, but if your weight goes down, it's going to help you in so many other ways. This could really take a huge strain look off of the healthcare system.
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Speaker 2: Of course, obesity and all of the ripple effects from obesity is one of our biggest, if not the biggest health issue in this country. You're talking about diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease.
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Speaker 3: All of this has to do with obesity.
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Speaker 2: So if we can figure out how to help people trim their weight and be healthier, you were going to save count Like I don't even think you can put a price tag on the dollar figure we could save in not just lives, but in all of the treatments for all of the diseases that come from obesity.
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Speaker 1: Dr Oz was making that point today as well, and that's a good one to make. This isn't about vanity. We talk about people want to lose weight, and we talk about celebrities or on the drug and all this stuff. No, this could help countless folks not just lose weight, but live better lives. So this was a big deal. This was a landmark announcement. But it got delayed, pushed back half an hour to an hour. And again I believe it was the head of Eli Lily that was speaking at the time. But what was happening. The President is sitting at his desk in the Oval office, and over to his left they had a little podium set up a microphone. A lot of people actually were in there making this announcement. But the guy from Elon Lily is speaking. He turns because he could feel kind of a commotion starting, and he turned and tried to ask, like, are you okay something, And sure enough rogues the guy starts going down and I think two executives, two executives from one of the drug companies actually catch this guy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and there were three of them initially actually holding him, trying to help him get down quickly.
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Speaker 3: And then you'll see very was it, Carolyn Lovitt?
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Speaker 2: Certainly there was a security guard there immediately telling all of the reporters and cameras in the Oval Office to get out. Shut the cameras down now. I mean they were stern and quick. It was very dramatic to watch that happen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they She put out a statement later saying that the guy was being treated and he was doing okay. This was from Carolyn Levitt saying during the most favorite Nation's Oval Office announcement, a representative from one of the companies fainted. The White House Medical Union quickly jumped in action, and the gentleman is, okay, the press conference will resume shortly. It did resume again. It was at least half hours this.
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Speaker 3: Was It was close to an hour. According to a lot of reporters.
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Speaker 2: It was nearly an hour delayed because of this medical emergency.
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Speaker 1: I guess that was a good place to have one. He was surrounded by medical effic and doctors, and I give doctor Oz credit. He jumped in, went right to the guy started helping out. Now a couple of things. Nothing is funny about a medical emergency, but some folks are pointing out and I didn't catch it initially, but it looks like and they're making light of RFK juniors in the room at the time, and he is standing in one particular part when the medical emergency happens, it appears at least he heads for the hills. Now it's bizarre, like he didn't even stick around to say, what what's going on? I get it, but a lot of people are making it.
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Speaker 2: He might have just felt like, Hey, we've got doctor Oz like he just mentioned, and we've got pharmaceutical reps who probably are around all sorts of healthcare issues, so he's covered.
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Speaker 3: It's good they don't need me.
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Speaker 2: And actually I got to make a phone call or whatever it was he needed to do.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you one hundred percent had to pee at that time. He was looking for it was an.
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Speaker 2: Opportunity to go ahead and quickly get done what needed to be done.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, we're making a little light, but folk the video, you can't deny what it looks like. We're not saying what he was doing and what he should have done. But a lot of people are pointing out he absolutely just disappears, saying almost like he's running away. I think he's probably just getting out of the way. At that time, doctors did help. The other picture that is also everywhere, and you can't help but go what it's just bizarre. The President of the United States standing at his desk, looking straight ahead, right Rhodes Stern Trump face okay, And to his left on the ground are two metal company executives, one of them physically holding the ankles of the guy who has fainted up in the air, which is what you're supposed to do when somebody faints, trying to get blood back down to the heart into the head. But that image.
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Speaker 2: Robes of his he turned his back in it, and you're right, he looks stern, he looks like but he's looking ahead powerfully almost and yet behind him total chaos, and either it looks like he's not aware of or he doesn't give a rats ass about.
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Speaker 1: But the guy to see the guy's legs being held in the air in the oval office right behind the President's desk. Well, the President looks ahead as if he cannot be concerned. However, we actually.
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Speaker 2: As you're saying, well, that's exactly what it is. You've got the President sinny. Honestly, the look on his face, it's almost like he's annoyed, Like I was in the middle of something here, people, I was really excited about what I was telling everyone, and he just looks kind of just interested and annoyed and almost like.
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Speaker 3: He's shrugging his shoulders, like you gotta be kidding me.
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Speaker 2: Okay, meantime, Yes, you've got actually three executives on the ground holding up the man trying to get to him, holding the legs up. Other people who are in the room are looking on at the scene. The only person not looking at what's happening is President Trump.
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Speaker 1: It's a bizarre picture. In fairness, the photographer just happened to catch this moment. A still photographer did. But when it happened and the video showed, the President immediately turned and went to the y. So he went to the guy, Yes, he absolutely did. But the picture is just what the picture is.
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Speaker 2: It was after the fact, because yes, immediately he did react appropriately.
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Speaker 1: Yes, so let's make sure that is explained. So it's quite an eventful afternoon before it got eventful. Ro this is a big deal. The CDC says, we spend what one hundred and seventy plus million, excuse me, billillion dollars in this country on obesity treatment taking care of people who are obese. So the idea of getting that number down and to think that these medicines, which everybody won't go as far as saying miracle medicines, but damn near clothes, they say these things are working, and so now more people got act well.
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Speaker 2: Glp ones do a lot of things that make a lot of sense. It's understandable why you lose weight. They inhibit the release of lucagen and a hormone that raises your blood sugar levels, so it also delays the emptying of the stomach, which helps you feel fuller longer, and they actually act on your brain to suppress your appetite so then you don't eat as much. So you can see the science behind these types of drugs were actually four diabetes about controlling blood sugar levels, about controlling glucagen. But the result is weight loss, and so it's pretty remarkable. People always said you're never going to find a miracle pill or a miracle drug. Turns out, actually it looks like they did find one.
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Speaker 1: At this point, everybody, don't you have somebody in your life, somebody in your circle who has been on these things and you saw them just transform. Yes, over the past six months a year now that they've been taking these things, we have all seen it and they absolutely do work. But what we're talking about here, well does So many of them have been cost prohibitive. Some people just don't have access to this stuff, and you can't pay because if you're paying out a pocket, you're talking about one thousand dollars plus a month to get this medication. If you have insurance, on average, you're still around five hundred bucks a month, but you got insurance.
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Speaker 2: But even if you have insurance, you can't get it just for weight loss. You have to you have to have another condition. I think you have to. In some cases you have to be severely obese, which is a BMI of thirty five or over I believe.
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Speaker 3: But in other cases you.
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Speaker 2: Have to have heart disease or diabees, some other underlying condition before they'll even consider giving it to you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and some of the I didn't know this. Bro. When you say weight loss injection, the first thing comes to people's mind. Olympic ozempic Ozmpic Olympic. I didn't realize ozempic is not even federally approved for weightlight loss. It's for type two diabetes, yes, which then of course leads to weight loss. But I didn't get that. So to your point about all these drugs we hear, is it zep bound, there's a zimpig all these things, they're just different methods of administering the same type of drug that does kind of pretty much the same thing, but they're just different versions.
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Speaker 3: They're all GLP one.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, there you go. They're all kind of that. So what we're doing here, and what he announced is that the costs of these things are going to go way way down. So for folks, they're gonna see prices in the range of one hundred and fifty dollars a month now. In particular, that's for the pill form that's gonna expect it to be approved and gonna be available as early as next year. One hundred fifty dollars a month for gop ones.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And if you're eating less and you're looking better, and your medical bills are lower and you have to take fewer other drugs because you don't have other underlying conditions. Now, it actually is so reasonable.
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Speaker 1: They're talking about now the injections, the ones that are popular people give to themselves. Again, we're talking about one thousand plus dollars a month if you're paying for this out of pocket. They're talking two hundred and fifty dollars a month potentially now for a lot of these injections. Look, there are different rules for this, and that we're talking to some generalities here, but generally speaking, if this works and all these are going to be on trumprx dot com that we've heard.
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Speaker 3: Like a direct pay direct access to these meds.
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Speaker 2: But if you have Medicare, yes, fifty dollar copey, that is remarkable. Medicare and Medicaid or just medicare it I believe it's you can get it.
00:11:55
Speaker 1: Yes, Medicaid is going to start covering this. Not the fifty dollars copay thing talking about there, but Medicaid is going to start amazing things.
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Speaker 3: It's amazing.
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Speaker 2: This is absolutely you know, I actually really liked the way I think doctor Oz had misspoken about this. Some people I was looking online, we're making fun of him because he gave a different number. But our FKA Junior put it like this. He said that basically, if we get people who need to take these pills to start taking GLP ones now because they're affordable, because they have access to them, he predicted that the American public will lose one hundred and twenty five million pounds collectively by this time next year.
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Speaker 3: I was trying to get my head around that. That is remarkable.
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Speaker 2: I think doctor Oz misspoken said billion instead of millions, so people were doing math and saying, oh, that means we'll all have to lose four hundred pounds by next year. So anyway, I believe the real number is one hundred and twenty five million pounds.
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Speaker 3: But that is an incredible perspective.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Oz never misspeaks.
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Speaker 3: Everybody does known him a long time.
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Speaker 1: Million and billion does make a big deal. The point there being this is absolutely a big deal. Look the president. Folks say, oh, this has been in the works for a long time, by the way, and we have to add it. Did the companies just doing this out of the goodness of their own hearts?
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Speaker 2: No? No, no, they are absolutely getting something out of this deal.
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Speaker 1: As pharmaceutical companies are in it for something other than just the good health of us. All yes, tongue in cheek and saying that there. But still the point here is that these companies he live. Literally, man, it's not in front of me. Why am I are now going to get a break on tariffs? So they are, of course, yes, getting something out of this deal. So the President has struck a deal. He says, It's been taken a little while to get this thing done. This didn't just happen overnight. But this is the second major announcement he's made now in terms of getting prescription drug costs down. He said he was going to do this.
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Speaker 2: And look what was interesting is Biden tried to do this, and people appointed to the fact that Trump signed off on it, like signed it out of even being a possibility because it was going to cost you as taxpayers, of course, billions of dollars over the next nine years. So this is a way where you're not putting this on American taxpayers. You are now getting the drug companies to work with you. And so as we see, people will Biden was going to do this, well, who was going to pay for it? We were going to pay for it. This is now a situation in which that's not the case.
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Speaker 1: Hi, and some of you may be listening. Look, look, look I don't have Medicare, I don't have Medicaid, I have private insurance. What about me? Well, we'll tell you what about you? Because of this landmark deal coming up, and also just how many of us in this country are considered obese, we'll tell you. Stay here, all right, folks, We continue now with the landmark deal announced by President Trump today. Pretty exciting announcement. Even before the announcement was made, we told you that somebody had a medical emergency. During this major medical announcement. We're told he's doing okay, but a guy fainted. He was a guest. As of this recording, he hasn't robes been Identify you seeing anything else?
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Speaker 2: Well, no, because I don't think we even gave the response, because initially we did hear from the White House that and you said this that they said it was Novo Nordic's guy. But the company actually put out a statement pretty quickly after saying hey, CEO Mike Doutstar and EVP US Operations Dave Moore were the only two Novo Nordisk representatives in the Oval Office. We hope the gentleman who suffered a medical incident today is okay, so our guy because so they had actually released the White House had released, or at least it had gotten out another CEO's name from Novo Nordisk, and Novo Nordis said enough he was not in the Oval office.
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Speaker 3: So if you see reports that a.
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Speaker 2: Pharmaceutical company executive and they give a name, it's actually wrong his.
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Speaker 1: Name, this is how things get going like this, Then nobody takes a moment, just takes a beat to confirm what's going on. That name's man. That man's name was trending.
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Speaker 3: On Twitter and he wasn't even there him. He was not.
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Speaker 1: It is really scary, and I'm talking about major news organizations. You look up this guy now are reporting that it.
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Speaker 2: Was him, Yes, and even the Washington Post is reporting rumors about who it may have been. So for whatever reason, it's a mystery right now as of this recording, as.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why it hasn't gone out, but yes, it was why they reported everywhere. But that again, anyway, that's not the guy. Private insurance robes they can do what they want to do because it's private insurance, and many of them, the majority of don't cover weight loss struggles. Just for weight loss. A lot of them will cover die be these medications and whatnot, but they don't do this. However, there is hope because they are paying attention to what Medicare, Medicaid and the federal government do.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 2: So what happens in the public sector often trickles to the private sector. So the hope is that yes, we will start to see private insurance companies also cut cost and offer this these types of weight loss drugs for simply weight loss and not put any sort of specification on it.
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Speaker 1: That's the hope that that is the help, that's the plan, and it's needed. Where at a point we were talking about this not terribly long ago on Morning Run Robes. I think we did the states and I can't remember what I think West Virginia and Mississippi where the two when we were talking about obesity rates in this country. We were talking about which states have the worst obesity rates. But at that time we were doing a deep dive on some of those numbers, and just remarkable to think that forty plus percent of the US population is considered obese.
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Speaker 2: More than one hundred million adults in this country have obesity and more than twenty two million adults in this country have severe obesity.
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Speaker 1: I mean, and I remember at the time. It's not in front of me, but I remember when you broke down demographics it was nearly one in two. The number was like forty nine point nine for African Americans.
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Speaker 3: It was It was really sad and it was scary.
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Speaker 2: And it's not gotten better even with all the information we have, even with all of the campaigns that have been going on about getting active and eating better, and it hasn't worked.
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Speaker 3: It's gotten significantly worse.
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Speaker 1: So, yes, this is a big announcement today that Robes has the potential to change hell, to make a dent in the health of Americans. You have to be all for it. But at this point, on its surface, more people having access to this stuff has to be a good thing.
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Speaker 2: It's absolutely a good thing, and it's coming soon that they say by mid twenty twenty six this should be available and also pill form, so that's really for people who don't like needles.
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Speaker 3: That's probably a huge relief. So thank you for listening to us with this A little bit.
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Speaker 2: Of a breaking development here on this Thursday at MADEI Robock alongside TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes, we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Thursday, November six, and what an eventful afternoon in the Oval Office the President having a press conference announcing a landmark deal when it comes to prescription drugs, in fact, some of the most popular prescription drugs in the country. But that wasn't the most eventful part. There was a medical emergency while he was making this medical announcement and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: Robes.
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Speaker 1: This is pretty dramatic stuff. Dude just flat out fainted in the middle of this landmark deal being announced in the Oval Office, right next to President Trump.
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Speaker 2: It was, and the video is everywhere, and it is remarkable to see kind of almost in slow motion as everyone specifically the President recognizes or realizes that this guy is going down, everyone saying are you okay? And it seemed like he almost steadied himself and then whoop.
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Speaker 1: He went all the way to we've seen this before, and actually we've seen this probably as many press conferences and things we've covered and been to that. Yeah, you can see somebody starting to fade. You can see this in hold on all right in the middle. Maybe they've been standing too long. Maybe the lights of getting to them, maybe a little nervous, but we saw it kind of happening with this guy. But look, this was a big deal, folks. We were talking about gop ones. We are talking about the multi billion dollar drug right now that's so popularly helping people lose so much weight. They're making a huge announcement today that they are two of the biggest drug makers in the world made a deal with the Trump administration to slash the price of these gop ones. That is a big, big, big deal that could change health in this country. Giving more access to these drugs, which is not just about weight loss, but if your weight goes down, it's going to help you in so many other ways. This could really take a huge strain look off of the healthcare system.
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Speaker 2: Of course, obesity and all of the ripple effects from obesity is one of our biggest, if not the biggest health issue in this country. You're talking about diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease.
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Speaker 3: All of this has to do with obesity.
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Speaker 2: So if we can figure out how to help people trim their weight and be healthier, you were going to save count Like I don't even think you can put a price tag on the dollar figure we could save in not just lives, but in all of the treatments for all of the diseases that come from obesity.
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Speaker 1: Dr Oz was making that point today as well, and that's a good one to make. This isn't about vanity. We talk about people want to lose weight, and we talk about celebrities or on the drug and all this stuff. No, this could help countless folks not just lose weight, but live better lives. So this was a big deal. This was a landmark announcement. But it got delayed, pushed back half an hour to an hour. And again I believe it was the head of Eli Lily that was speaking at the time. But what was happening. The President is sitting at his desk in the Oval office, and over to his left they had a little podium set up a microphone. A lot of people actually were in there making this announcement. But the guy from Elon Lily is speaking. He turns because he could feel kind of a commotion starting, and he turned and tried to ask, like, are you okay something, And sure enough rogues the guy starts going down and I think two executives, two executives from one of the drug companies actually catch this guy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and there were three of them initially actually holding him, trying to help him get down quickly.
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Speaker 3: And then you'll see very was it, Carolyn Lovitt?
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Speaker 2: Certainly there was a security guard there immediately telling all of the reporters and cameras in the Oval Office to get out. Shut the cameras down now. I mean they were stern and quick. It was very dramatic to watch that happen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they She put out a statement later saying that the guy was being treated and he was doing okay. This was from Carolyn Levitt saying during the most favorite Nation's Oval Office announcement, a representative from one of the companies fainted. The White House Medical Union quickly jumped in action, and the gentleman is, okay, the press conference will resume shortly. It did resume again. It was at least half hours this.
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Speaker 3: Was It was close to an hour. According to a lot of reporters.
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Speaker 2: It was nearly an hour delayed because of this medical emergency.
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Speaker 1: I guess that was a good place to have one. He was surrounded by medical effic and doctors, and I give doctor Oz credit. He jumped in, went right to the guy started helping out. Now a couple of things. Nothing is funny about a medical emergency, but some folks are pointing out and I didn't catch it initially, but it looks like and they're making light of RFK juniors in the room at the time, and he is standing in one particular part when the medical emergency happens, it appears at least he heads for the hills. Now it's bizarre, like he didn't even stick around to say, what what's going on? I get it, but a lot of people are making it.
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Speaker 2: He might have just felt like, Hey, we've got doctor Oz like he just mentioned, and we've got pharmaceutical reps who probably are around all sorts of healthcare issues, so he's covered.
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Speaker 3: It's good they don't need me.
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Speaker 2: And actually I got to make a phone call or whatever it was he needed to do.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you one hundred percent had to pee at that time. He was looking for it was an.
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Speaker 2: Opportunity to go ahead and quickly get done what needed to be done.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, we're making a little light, but folk the video, you can't deny what it looks like. We're not saying what he was doing and what he should have done. But a lot of people are pointing out he absolutely just disappears, saying almost like he's running away. I think he's probably just getting out of the way. At that time, doctors did help. The other picture that is also everywhere, and you can't help but go what it's just bizarre. The President of the United States standing at his desk, looking straight ahead, right Rhodes Stern Trump face okay, And to his left on the ground are two metal company executives, one of them physically holding the ankles of the guy who has fainted up in the air, which is what you're supposed to do when somebody faints, trying to get blood back down to the heart into the head. But that image.
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Speaker 2: Robes of his he turned his back in it, and you're right, he looks stern, he looks like but he's looking ahead powerfully almost and yet behind him total chaos, and either it looks like he's not aware of or he doesn't give a rats ass about.
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Speaker 1: But the guy to see the guy's legs being held in the air in the oval office right behind the President's desk. Well, the President looks ahead as if he cannot be concerned. However, we actually.
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Speaker 2: As you're saying, well, that's exactly what it is. You've got the President sinny. Honestly, the look on his face, it's almost like he's annoyed, Like I was in the middle of something here, people, I was really excited about what I was telling everyone, and he just looks kind of just interested and annoyed and almost like.
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Speaker 3: He's shrugging his shoulders, like you gotta be kidding me.
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Speaker 2: Okay, meantime, Yes, you've got actually three executives on the ground holding up the man trying to get to him, holding the legs up. Other people who are in the room are looking on at the scene. The only person not looking at what's happening is President Trump.
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Speaker 1: It's a bizarre picture. In fairness, the photographer just happened to catch this moment. A still photographer did. But when it happened and the video showed, the President immediately turned and went to the y. So he went to the guy, Yes, he absolutely did. But the picture is just what the picture is.
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Speaker 2: It was after the fact, because yes, immediately he did react appropriately.
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Speaker 1: Yes, so let's make sure that is explained. So it's quite an eventful afternoon before it got eventful. Ro this is a big deal. The CDC says, we spend what one hundred and seventy plus million, excuse me, billillion dollars in this country on obesity treatment taking care of people who are obese. So the idea of getting that number down and to think that these medicines, which everybody won't go as far as saying miracle medicines, but damn near clothes, they say these things are working, and so now more people got act well.
00:08:26
Speaker 2: Glp ones do a lot of things that make a lot of sense. It's understandable why you lose weight. They inhibit the release of lucagen and a hormone that raises your blood sugar levels, so it also delays the emptying of the stomach, which helps you feel fuller longer, and they actually act on your brain to suppress your appetite so then you don't eat as much. So you can see the science behind these types of drugs were actually four diabetes about controlling blood sugar levels, about controlling glucagen. But the result is weight loss, and so it's pretty remarkable. People always said you're never going to find a miracle pill or a miracle drug. Turns out, actually it looks like they did find one.
00:09:12
Speaker 1: At this point, everybody, don't you have somebody in your life, somebody in your circle who has been on these things and you saw them just transform. Yes, over the past six months a year now that they've been taking these things, we have all seen it and they absolutely do work. But what we're talking about here, well does So many of them have been cost prohibitive. Some people just don't have access to this stuff, and you can't pay because if you're paying out a pocket, you're talking about one thousand dollars plus a month to get this medication. If you have insurance, on average, you're still around five hundred bucks a month, but you got insurance.
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Speaker 2: But even if you have insurance, you can't get it just for weight loss. You have to you have to have another condition. I think you have to. In some cases you have to be severely obese, which is a BMI of thirty five or over I believe.
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Speaker 3: But in other cases you.
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Speaker 2: Have to have heart disease or diabees, some other underlying condition before they'll even consider giving it to you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and some of the I didn't know this. Bro. When you say weight loss injection, the first thing comes to people's mind. Olympic ozempic Ozmpic Olympic. I didn't realize ozempic is not even federally approved for weightlight loss. It's for type two diabetes, yes, which then of course leads to weight loss. But I didn't get that. So to your point about all these drugs we hear, is it zep bound, there's a zimpig all these things, they're just different methods of administering the same type of drug that does kind of pretty much the same thing, but they're just different versions.
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Speaker 3: They're all GLP one.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, there you go. They're all kind of that. So what we're doing here, and what he announced is that the costs of these things are going to go way way down. So for folks, they're gonna see prices in the range of one hundred and fifty dollars a month now. In particular, that's for the pill form that's gonna expect it to be approved and gonna be available as early as next year. One hundred fifty dollars a month for gop ones.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And if you're eating less and you're looking better, and your medical bills are lower and you have to take fewer other drugs because you don't have other underlying conditions. Now, it actually is so reasonable.
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Speaker 1: They're talking about now the injections, the ones that are popular people give to themselves. Again, we're talking about one thousand plus dollars a month if you're paying for this out of pocket. They're talking two hundred and fifty dollars a month potentially now for a lot of these injections. Look, there are different rules for this, and that we're talking to some generalities here, but generally speaking, if this works and all these are going to be on trumprx dot com that we've heard.
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Speaker 3: Like a direct pay direct access to these meds.
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Speaker 2: But if you have Medicare, yes, fifty dollar copey, that is remarkable. Medicare and Medicaid or just medicare it I believe it's you can get it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Medicaid is going to start covering this. Not the fifty dollars copay thing talking about there, but Medicaid is going to start amazing things.
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Speaker 3: It's amazing.
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Speaker 2: This is absolutely you know, I actually really liked the way I think doctor Oz had misspoken about this. Some people I was looking online, we're making fun of him because he gave a different number. But our FKA Junior put it like this. He said that basically, if we get people who need to take these pills to start taking GLP ones now because they're affordable, because they have access to them, he predicted that the American public will lose one hundred and twenty five million pounds collectively by this time next year.
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Speaker 3: I was trying to get my head around that. That is remarkable.
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Speaker 2: I think doctor Oz misspoken said billion instead of millions, so people were doing math and saying, oh, that means we'll all have to lose four hundred pounds by next year. So anyway, I believe the real number is one hundred and twenty five million pounds.
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Speaker 3: But that is an incredible perspective.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Oz never misspeaks.
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Speaker 3: Everybody does known him a long time.
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Speaker 1: Million and billion does make a big deal. The point there being this is absolutely a big deal. Look the president. Folks say, oh, this has been in the works for a long time, by the way, and we have to add it. Did the companies just doing this out of the goodness of their own hearts?
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Speaker 2: No? No, no, they are absolutely getting something out of this deal.
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Speaker 1: As pharmaceutical companies are in it for something other than just the good health of us. All yes, tongue in cheek and saying that there. But still the point here is that these companies he live. Literally, man, it's not in front of me. Why am I are now going to get a break on tariffs? So they are, of course, yes, getting something out of this deal. So the President has struck a deal. He says, It's been taken a little while to get this thing done. This didn't just happen overnight. But this is the second major announcement he's made now in terms of getting prescription drug costs down. He said he was going to do this.
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Speaker 2: And look what was interesting is Biden tried to do this, and people appointed to the fact that Trump signed off on it, like signed it out of even being a possibility because it was going to cost you as taxpayers, of course, billions of dollars over the next nine years. So this is a way where you're not putting this on American taxpayers. You are now getting the drug companies to work with you. And so as we see, people will Biden was going to do this, well, who was going to pay for it? We were going to pay for it. This is now a situation in which that's not the case.
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Speaker 1: Hi, and some of you may be listening. Look, look, look I don't have Medicare, I don't have Medicaid, I have private insurance. What about me? Well, we'll tell you what about you? Because of this landmark deal coming up, and also just how many of us in this country are considered obese, we'll tell you. Stay here, all right, folks, We continue now with the landmark deal announced by President Trump today. Pretty exciting announcement. Even before the announcement was made, we told you that somebody had a medical emergency. During this major medical announcement. We're told he's doing okay, but a guy fainted. He was a guest. As of this recording, he hasn't robes been Identify you seeing anything else?
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Speaker 2: Well, no, because I don't think we even gave the response, because initially we did hear from the White House that and you said this that they said it was Novo Nordic's guy. But the company actually put out a statement pretty quickly after saying hey, CEO Mike Doutstar and EVP US Operations Dave Moore were the only two Novo Nordisk representatives in the Oval Office. We hope the gentleman who suffered a medical incident today is okay, so our guy because so they had actually released the White House had released, or at least it had gotten out another CEO's name from Novo Nordisk, and Novo Nordis said enough he was not in the Oval office.
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Speaker 3: So if you see reports that a.
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Speaker 2: Pharmaceutical company executive and they give a name, it's actually wrong his.
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Speaker 1: Name, this is how things get going like this, Then nobody takes a moment, just takes a beat to confirm what's going on. That name's man. That man's name was trending.
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Speaker 3: On Twitter and he wasn't even there him. He was not.
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Speaker 1: It is really scary, and I'm talking about major news organizations. You look up this guy now are reporting that it.
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Speaker 2: Was him, Yes, and even the Washington Post is reporting rumors about who it may have been. So for whatever reason, it's a mystery right now as of this recording, as.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why it hasn't gone out, but yes, it was why they reported everywhere. But that again, anyway, that's not the guy. Private insurance robes they can do what they want to do because it's private insurance, and many of them, the majority of don't cover weight loss struggles. Just for weight loss. A lot of them will cover die be these medications and whatnot, but they don't do this. However, there is hope because they are paying attention to what Medicare, Medicaid and the federal government do.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 2: So what happens in the public sector often trickles to the private sector. So the hope is that yes, we will start to see private insurance companies also cut cost and offer this these types of weight loss drugs for simply weight loss and not put any sort of specification on it.
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Speaker 1: That's the hope that that is the help, that's the plan, and it's needed. Where at a point we were talking about this not terribly long ago on Morning Run Robes. I think we did the states and I can't remember what I think West Virginia and Mississippi where the two when we were talking about obesity rates in this country. We were talking about which states have the worst obesity rates. But at that time we were doing a deep dive on some of those numbers, and just remarkable to think that forty plus percent of the US population is considered obese.
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Speaker 2: More than one hundred million adults in this country have obesity and more than twenty two million adults in this country have severe obesity.
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Speaker 1: I mean, and I remember at the time. It's not in front of me, but I remember when you broke down demographics it was nearly one in two. The number was like forty nine point nine for African Americans.
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Speaker 3: It was It was really sad and it was scary.
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Speaker 2: And it's not gotten better even with all the information we have, even with all of the campaigns that have been going on about getting active and eating better, and it hasn't worked.
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Speaker 3: It's gotten significantly worse.
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Speaker 1: So, yes, this is a big announcement today that Robes has the potential to change hell, to make a dent in the health of Americans. You have to be all for it. But at this point, on its surface, more people having access to this stuff has to be a good thing.
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Speaker 2: It's absolutely a good thing, and it's coming soon that they say by mid twenty twenty six this should be available and also pill form, so that's really for people who don't like needles.
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Speaker 3: That's probably a huge relief. So thank you for listening to us with this A little bit.
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Speaker 2: Of a breaking development here on this Thursday at MADEI Robock alongside TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes, we'll talk to you soon.