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e country isn't paying attention. Anybody who's watched him in a debate is gonna have a real problem thinking that that's a safe thing to do for the country. But if there's any doubt in people's minds about whether Biden will be capable and they still want the benefit of thinking incorrectly but thinking that Biden could beat Trump, they might have this tough question, which is it's obvious he's n…
← Previous segment →tional background in those things, one should expect that they don't maybe have a full grasp, if they haven't been exposed to those things, of what to do exactly in every situation because those are pretty useful fields. So let me give you an example of what James Corden said. Now apparently James Corden has been struggling with his own weight for years. I had to look at a picture of him to see what he was talking about and I don't know, maybe it's because he works in LA, but he doesn't look fat to me. I don't know what he's talking about. Now I get that James Corden seems to have some genes that make him a little rounder maybe, or hold fat more strongly than other people. So anyway, the point is James Corden believes he's overweight. So that's his self-assessment. I don't really see it in the pictures in any way that I would call fat in America. By American standards, certainly not. But he probably lives and works in LA so it probably feels like that to him. And I imagine it's going up and down over time.
But here's what he said. So James Corden said this quote: "If making fun of fat people made them lose weight there'd be no fat kids in school and I'd have a six-pack right now." Now in this mode he was trying to make a serious point. He wasn't making jokes. Now if it were a joke I wouldn't say well let's look at him factually, pull it apart and see if it makes sense. But it wasn't a joke. He said it in sort of an interesting way but it's obviously a serious point in which he's saying that fat shaming doesn't work because if it did obviously every single kid gets fat shamed. In fact, so how many of you think that's a good point? In the comments we'll do a fun little thing. Is James Corden making a good point? Did that – given that every kid who's overweight gets fat shamed, you can guarantee
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that zero kids who are overweight do not get fat shamed – so we wouldn't see any fat people if it worked, right? So I'm looking at your comments and look at the mix. A lot of you say yes, a lot of you saying no. Why is it that it looks like about half of you are yes, half of you are no? Now why is it that you disagree on such a simple question? And here's my hypothesis. Now this won't be true for…
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