Desi Lydic Investigates The Reaction to Kentucky's Extreme Laws | Long Story Short: The Dark Side of the Wellness Industry

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Welcome back to the Daily Show. I live here in New York City, but my heart and liver damage are from my home state of Kentucky.

Thanks to Mitch McConnell and Ran Paul.

Kentucky doesn't have the best reputation, so I wanted to show that there's a lot more than you think.

Take a look.

Kentucky and I have both changed a lot since my youth, but unfortunately the changes the state currently faces can't be resolved with acutane. In one hundred and fifty hours of community service, Kentucky legislators passed one of the strictest anti trans laws in the nation. House Built three hundred would allow prosecutors to charge a woman with criminal homicide if she gets an abortion.

At least can't enforce any kind of federal bait on gun adding gender affirming care the name of drag show rifles, free school, trigger laws, business make up.

These bills are getting shoved through like a fried chicken sandwich in McConnell's lipless mouth.

But do Kentuckians really feel this way? Absolutely not. Kentuckians are suffering because of their decisions. You can do things a lot better. It's like we're both of the falling upon DEATHI earths there's a.

Lot of straight white men, a lot of older men.

I would say, and to match in particular that the vast majority of American people are sick and tired of the guns turtle base. There's that Southern hospitality on this. But she's right, Kentuckians aren't happy with their lawmakers. In fact, statistics have shown a majority support access to abortion, background checks on guns, and oppose the law on gender affirming healthcare. So how is this happening. To get more insight, I met a local journalist who's shining a spotlight on the

So my view is we're seeing an extreme Republican agenda because our legislators are governing like Republicans, not like Kentuckians. If you look at the laws being passing Kentucky, they're the exact same ones being passed in Florida or Mississippi.

You know what, Let's just keep this flowing. I don't want to see this glass empty. Where do we go from here? Is there any solution?

I think ultimately we have to in the short term, shame them out of passing the most aggressive version of these bills, criticize them enough to make sure that they are told when they go to church or when they go to the grocery store that you passed a terrible bill and acted like a bigot.

Are you sure that shame would work with Kentucky Republicans. I mean, look at rand Paul. If I got my ass kicked in my front yard by my neighbor, I would never leave my house.

I'm not saying it's a full proof point, and I'm just saying that these legislators have to walk in public and live their life. And I do think you want to make clear that you have done something terrible.

It might be the drinks but I have an idea. What if we may change through the power of song, through subliminal messages.

We could write a country song.

No one's tried that, No one's tried that.

We'll sing it together, Okay, because we know how it goes. It goes here in Kentucky.

We got bourbon and horses and a woman's rat to choose.

We have.

Education, well funded, well supported at school.

Oh this is so good. Okay. We got to record this as being subliminal.

The irony is that even as the Kentucky legislature becomes more extreme kentuck these citizens are trying to bring the state together. Citizens like Edward Lee.

Edward Lee, an award winning chef, founded the Lee Initiative on nonprofit so he can do increase diversity and equality in the restaurant industry.

And he's achieving this on a national level as well.

Jeff Edward Lee, owner of sixteen Magnolia and Louisville, has been invited to the White House to cook for the US and South Korea state dinner.

When it comes to politics, he has a more grassroots approach.

There are people in power here that have their agenda, but there's some belief in me where you stay and you fight the good fight, and you build a community and make sure that people do not feel marginalized, that people do not feel alone, that people do not feel like they're the only ones in this fight. And to me, that's stronger than any political movement. We have done dinners here where we have brought different groups at the table to sit down and talk things out, and I would say,

Do you think this level of humanity and kindness and outreach that you do could ever exist in the Kentucky legislature?

They come here for dinner, I can ask them, has Mitch McConnell ever? Can we don't serve intel?

You don't serve in Telly.

We've been here twenty one years. I'll say this, everyone's.

Been through here.

How many times have you spit in this food?

I waited tables for ten years.

Oh that is against everything I've seen through.

I know a thing or two about spitting in food.

Despite not taking my advice and loved me feeling hopeful. So I sobered up and hit the streets to see if other people shared Ed's vision.

You have to have hope because otherwise you wake up and you live in fear. And that's not what we in Kentucky do. We get up and we go to work, and we take care of our families and we're good to our neighbors. When something bad happens in the state, everyone rallies together and the good fight still can and is on.

We are the solution, and we truly have got to become.

Much more forceful and active.

I think we can make it uncomfortable enough for those who are in charge of the voting, who are in charge of her present.

I guess yeah, make him uncomfortable.

Slip those laxatives. Key is car not a mag of shit on his doorsteps?

And you have the problem with that only makes me look bad. That would not achieve the goal I have, paus.

It takes all that time to shit in the bag and light it on fire and d.

That's right, right, thank you.

You know we can get some good bourbon around here, well at my house. But oh, either way, I follow you.

It's a lot, you know.

I actually have a fine if you don't mind picking up the tab I've racked up plate the mill you say, Kentuckyans are generous.

Right, Let's talk about wellness. It's a one point five trillion dollar industry and I'm obsessed.

I've tried it all.

I drink mushroom coffee, I've done ice baths, I've tried meditation apps. I gave my meditation app an ice bath. I don't know if it worked because my phone won't turn on. But like a ski trip with Gwyneth Paltrow, wellness has a dark side, and that is what I want to talk about in tonight's installment of Long Story Short.

Now.

You might think that the term wellness started in the nineties, back when white women invented yoga, but it's actually been around for at least a century, and until very recently, there's been zero government regulation to make sure that wellness products are legit. A company could claim that their Pandaceman protein powder will give you that glow, but they don't have to show receipts, so it's no surprise that they sell a lot of snake oil.

The US Preventive Services Task Force reviewed eighty four studies involving hundreds of thousands of people over thirty years.

The task Force concluded there was little or no.

Benefit in using vitamin and mineral supplements to prevent cancer, cardiovascular disease, and death.

There is a new study that failed.

Some of those melitonin gummies that are so popular actually contain way more of the hormone than they advertise.

Wellness influencers promoting products like colloidal silver drops they say can combent where there is infection.

Non prescription products that contain colloidal silver are not recognized as safe by the FDA.

There's a lot of buzz around tea tooxes, but dietitians and doctors will tell you detoxing is a myth. There is one ingredient though, that takes some ttoxes to another level. It's called senile and the thing is sena can also cause stomach problems, cramps, and after using zenna for a while, you might not be able to poop without it.

That's right.

If you take some of these products, you might be as full of shit as the influencers who sell them. Look, I get why people want to believe this stuff works, but if just drinking tea was the key to looking snatched, the British royal family would look a lot different. But look, the truth is You don't have to spend a single dollar to try a bullshit wellness trend. Just go on social media and you'll find plenty of ways to jeopardize your health for free.

Advocates of the saltwater flush claim chugging water mixed with two tablespoons of salt is a healthy way to clean out your colon, but experts are issuing stern.

Warnings dangerous as it literally napon for your bowels.

It's the latest viral health trend, with nearly forty million views on TikTok the claim that putting a tape on your mouth at night and help you get better sleep. It's a trend that has some medical experts sounding the alarm.

You're risking things like cardiac arrest, it can induce seizures.

There's a lot of risks to it. Doctors are warning against a viral wellness trend called paraneum sunning.

They say it's not worth the risk of sun damage or even skin cancel.

Just a general rule, never try a trend that seems like it was invented by the guy next door with binoculars. Please please do not try that at home. If you want to see a sunburnt asshole.

Just watch the next presidential campaign.

That's the last we'll see Ahead nailed his ass. But maybe the darkest side of wellness is that too often it's not even about wellness. It's about targeting women's insecurity, whether it's eliminating your wrinkles, flattening your abs, or the industry's favorite targets are extremely disappointing vaginas. Apparently it needs a full runno down there talk in detox, pearls to stay clean, vaginal eggs to tighten its core, and of course, gummies to improve its taste.

Because it's not.

Enough that your vagina can regulate its own pH and be a pleasure center and deliver a baby. It also needs to taste so good it gets a Michelin star.

We don't need any of this. The vagina is a self cleaning organ.

It's not like you need a tiny rumba in there getting all those hard to reach corners. In fact, if your vagina has corners, please go see a doctor. But the fact is the reason the wellness industry is making so much money off women in the first place is because of doc The American healthcare industry is constantly failing women, whether it's doctors dismissing their symptoms or telling them that their pain isn't as bad as they're claiming, or prescribing

And all of this is stressing me out so much.

I could really use a pantacey and smoothie like meditation app when I need it. So it's no wonder that women turn to wellness despite all its faults, Because what's more ridiculous a healthcare system that denies women treatment and tells them that they're pains all in their head or this.

The long story short.

Until American healthcare takes women's concerns seriously, we're going to continue to be targets for alternative solutions. So the next time a wellness brand tries to sell you a product, here's some advice. Pretend like you're a doctor listening to a female patient. Don't take their word for it.

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