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This Energy Drink Killed a 17-Year-Old | The Dark Truth About Energy Drinks
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A 17-year-old honor student and cheerleader in Texas, Larissa Rodriguez, died from cardiomyopathy linked to excessive caffeine, and the energy drink at the center of it is one that millions of people drink every day: Alani Nu.
In this episode of The Think Successfully Room, Q.B. and Blaqamore break down the full story — the science behind why energy drinks are more dangerous than coffee, how corporations use influencer marketing to hook teenagers, who's really accountable (parents vs. companies vs. the government), and what needs to change before more kids die.
Topics covered:
- Why caffeine + taurine is a toxic combination
- How energy drink companies hide warnings in fine print
- The dopamine addiction loop targeting young people
- Age restrictions & accessibility at gas stations and stores
- Healthier alternatives for truck drivers and high-demand workers
- The corporate playbook: profit over people
If you drink energy drinks — or your kids do — this episode could save a life.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro & Welcome to Think Successfully
0:27 – The Story: 17-Year-Old Texas Cheerleader Dies from Alani Nu
2:47 – Should Caffeine Have an Age Limit?
5:52 – Who's Accountable: Parents or the Company?
6:02 – Blackamore Looks Up the Alani Nu Can Live
8:47 – Did Alani Nu Target Teenagers Through Influencers?
9:51 – The Dopamine + Sugar Addiction Loop Explained
10:36 – Caffeine & Adenosine: The Brain Science (Book: Why We Sleep)
12:00 – The Fine Print Problem: "Not Recommended for Children"
14:08 – Adults Aren't Safe Either
17:13 – Legal Action & Who Really Failed Her
19:40 – Consumer Power: How Public Pressure Can Force Change
20:43 – Energy Drinks at Every Register: Too Accessible
21:38 – Should You Need an ID to Buy an Energy Drink?
23:34 – Truck Drivers & Energy Drink Dependency
24:48 – Healthier Alternatives: Coffee, Caffeine Gum, Music & Podcasts
28:08 – Final Thoughts: Read the Fine Print. Know What You Consume.
29:32 – Outro | Where to Find Us
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Man, welcome back to another episode of the Think Successfully Room. This is a platform where we focus on building mindsets. We're building character, bringing value to both you and your people, and aligning your body with your intelligence. I am your host, QB SoF and Amazing. This is my guy Blackamore, and together we talk about conversations on how you can get your health in order, man. How you feeling, brother? Good seeing you, man.
SPEAKER_02Likewise,
The Story: 17-Year-Old Texas Cheerleader Dies from Alani Nu
SPEAKER_02man. Likewise. I'm doing all right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, man. So we I'm I'm gonna go ahead and share this. So uh this this is actually our third time recording. You know, the first two times we had some technical difficulties, but this time we're gonna get through it, y'all. But we're gonna we gonna hop straight through it. We're gonna hop straight into it. So what if me and Blackamore told you all that uh there's a product that markets itself as healthy, wellness, uh it says it gives you energy, but it also has the potential or it it also has the ability to damage the heart as well, right? So there's a 17-year-old uh athlete, honorable student that had no prior health issues that has passed away uh from this particular product, and it's a product that we all have consumed at some point in time, right? So there's a 17-year-old girl in Texas, uh teen teenager by the name of Larissa Rodriguez, uh healthy, active, uh cheerleader, uh, had plans to go to college, right? Now, according to the medical examiner, uh the cause to her death is linked to cardiomyopathy uh from excessive caffeine. Um and the particular energy drink that she has gained an addiction to was the Alani New. Um, I have never tried that one myself. At one point in time, I have tried the Celsius, but if I'm not mistaken, I believe Celsius is over Alani, and Alani is right underneath that. Um, so yeah, I mean, um one can offers, I mean, probably around 200 milligrams of caffeine in one single can. Um, and that's double the recommended the recommended daily limit for a teenager. Um so because of that, there are lawsuits uh in play from from the from the girls' parents and and relatives. So my question to you is, bro, is like on this situation, well, first before we get into that, what was your thoughts on this situation when you came across this story?
Should Caffeine Have an Age Limit?
SPEAKER_02Damn, that's crazy. Um the thoughts are what it's it's fascinating to me how people well before I even get there, but it's fascinating that caffeine could be sold to any and everybody. Yeah, I feel like there needs to be a uh an age limit just like with cigarettes or alcohol, especially with energy drinks, because I don't even want I the energy drinks is worse than just the caffeine. Like if she was just drinking coffee, I don't believe this would have happened. Because there's not too many deaths acutely linked to coffee. It's the energy drinks of the extra drink that they that they put in there, which which we can get into a little bit later. Um but it's unfortunate, and uh people need to, especially parents, need to use this story as a wake-up call to be conscious of what you allow your children to have. I know it's a lot of people who let their kids drink caffeine like it's Kool-Aid. But you don't even have any Kool-Aid alone.
SPEAKER_00That shit is uh see, okay. So my my thoughts on this story was is that uh and this and this is just an assumption, right? When I when I read it, I'm like, was she drinking? Like, how many of them was she drinking in a day, right? And um, so I I don't know if it was a graduation party, but it was some gathering that she was having. Like she she loved to drink so much that her her theme was Alani knew. Um so I I think arguably she had some type of, you know, she has some type of addiction to this energy drink. And who knows, she probably was drinking a couple of them in a single day. I know for some people that I know personally, they may sip on one energy energy drink throughout the entire day. Um, because anything more than that can be dangerous, right? But I guess my my uh my problem was that the parents weren't uh wasn't trying to hold any accountability for this. You know what I'm saying? As far as because I know for me as a parent, right? If I if I notice my son has an addiction to an energy drink, and I know and I know the benefit, well not the benefits, but I know the dangers of an energy drink, and I see that he just he's slamming them back to back, I kind of want to intervene with that and and and just school them a little bit. Like, look, hold on, we're gonna have to, if not place a limit, we gonna have to figure out how to kill this addiction, right? Because you you're gonna end up killing yourself. So what they're trying to do is put all the blame on the companies and not trying to and not take any accountability for what happened. So um, and the companies are saying, like, look, it's it says on the it says on the product of, you know, the risk of, you know, so we are legally compliant with, you know, with uh putting that label on the product. So is it really our fault that y'all y'all made the decision not to read that?
Who's Accountable: Parents or the Company?
SPEAKER_00So when it comes to the parents in the company, bro, like do who do you who do you feel should be held accountable or should there be a comparison as far as accountability?
Blackamore Looks Up the Alani Nu Can Live
SPEAKER_02The company. Hold on real quick. Uh hold on real quick. Cause I'm looking, I'm on their I'm on their website now and I'm looking at their cans. Wherever they have that warning, it ain't nowhere easy to see. It looks beautiful and colorful. It says energy and their the company name on there. It has gluten-free and vegan and all that to make you believe healthy. So it ain't gothing about no warning. It's probably if there's warnings, it's in some small, fine print.
SPEAKER_00So it ain't no, it ain't no warning sign on there.
SPEAKER_02If it is, it's small, fine print, because I can't see, I don't know if y'all can see this. If there's one if there is a warning on there, it had it I can't oh shit. I can't show it on the camera, but if it is a warning on there, it's a very small print on the on on the back. Right. So it's not like it's not like they have it right there front and center. And another reason why I blame the company and the government, because like I said, like I said earlier, the fact that these types of products could be sold to anybody without any type of restrictions is crazy. This is not to say I 100% absolve the parents either, because what we have to do in that front is we have to adjust our standard of parenting. Like we are it's easy to like I'm pretty sure more people are are citing or are taking I'm sure more people are not holding the parents as accountable because the average parent doesn't know what what they're putting in their own body, let alone their kids. They figure if we can go buy it at Walmart, it must be okay.
SPEAKER_01Right?
SPEAKER_02So we gotta tighten our standard as parenting and we gotta yo the reason why energy drinks are so dangerous, they got first of all the caffeine within itself. And then they put the taurine in there, and the combination of that much caffeine and taurine together is not great for the is worse than just having caffeine by itself or taurine by itself. Those two things by themselves can actually be beneficial. As a matter of fact, taurine me knowing that is how I help lower my blood pressure. This is what I do with my clients, help lower their blood pressure. But when you combine the two, the effect that taurine has on your heart and the effect that caffeine has on your heart in combination becomes toxic. And we get results like we see with this poor 17-year-old girl. And that I feel, but I I wanna I want to uh put the heat to the company a little bit, because don't act like y'all it looks like look at these colors, uh this this would appeal to a goddamn 17-year-old.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because it I I get what you're saying. Like they, you know, so it if if
Did Alani Nu Target Teenagers Through Influencers?
SPEAKER_00I I get what you're saying as far as the colors and shit, because it's very, you know, like highlighter, like pinks, yellows, and blues and shit like that. Um, so how you feel about because like what the parents was trying to say is like, look, uh y'all find influencers that my that my children look up to and um and put the the the product in these influencers' hands and they they market it. So y'all charge y'all y'all targeting the youth as well. Do you feel like that's intentional or are they just finding influencers to market the product?
SPEAKER_02Well, I find I think they're just doing whatever sells the product indiscriminate of whoever it is. If it happens to be the teens, they don't give a damn.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Number one priority is just making money, which is why we have to tighten the standards of parenting. Parents understand companies don't give a fuck about y'all like that if they can make money off of you. They want to keep you alive just enough, you know what I'm saying, to keep some money coming in, but they don't mind killing some of you in the process if it makes the money. Like
The Dopamine + Sugar Addiction Loop Explained
SPEAKER_02the another thing, I mentioned the caffeine with the taurine, and then like what caffeine does to the brain is dopamine, that's like a drug. So and the sugar or the fake sugar, it has the same effect. It both make you insulin resistant, they both have your blood sugar levels spiking and going up and down. So that mixed with the dopamine from the caffeine is easy to become addicted, especially if you're a young person. So imagine a young teenage girl seeing orange and pink and purple and their favorite influencer, and they get that dopamine from the caffeine, and then the sweet. That was very easy to become and the shit and speaking of caffeine.
SPEAKER_00So uh an episode we did a while ago with my guy uh Johnny and Jake, we
Caffeine & Adenosine: The Brain Science (Book: Why We Sleep)
SPEAKER_00had did a uh a review on a book called Uh Why Do We Sleep, right? And then in a section of that book, it talks about caffeine, right? So it talks about the chemical by the name of adenosine that happens in the brain, right? So as you go throughout the day, adenosine builds up, and this is what tells the receptors, like, look, I'm tired, right? So when you when you drink so much caffeine, what happens is is that the caffeine kind of covers or masks these these receptors. So when the adenosine reaches its peak, it can't alert or so you get a false, you get a false sense of feeling alert or or woke because of the effects of the caffeine. So that's that's also something we have to think about. But, you know, so now that won't that make that makes me want to do research by, you know, the next time I'm in a store, I want to actually look at the cans myself, uh uh Alani New and see if I can if I can visually like if I can see the uh the warning, or you know, they probably put it just small enough to where not even the human eye can read that shit.
SPEAKER_02Let me see if I can actually find the warning label.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. They probably put that shit just small enough to where the human eye can't even read it, but they placed it there just so that they're that so
The Fine Print Problem: "Not Recommended for Children"
SPEAKER_00just so they can say that they did, they added it, you know?
SPEAKER_02So um because you gotta think, even on a case, uh a pack of cigarettes, uh ain't the warning still on the back and fine print on that?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So I mean, an energy drink is less or well, I don't know if it's less dangerous, I would think still less dangerous. Of course they're gonna they're gonna always hide it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and then I and then I I um I have brought up this as well, is that you know, uh even if uh the fine print, like it's just something we need to start paying attention to because 95% of us don't pay attention to that fine print. You know what I'm saying? If it's on there, even if it's even if it's small, try to read what that fine print says just so you can you can save yourself and people that's close to you.
SPEAKER_02Okay, yeah, it's on there, it's on there. And then it and then it could be a uh uh Like is it is it is it readable?
SPEAKER_00Like, is it Yeah?
SPEAKER_02I mean, if you're looking for it, but unfortunately nobody looks at the back. So what it says, it does say it's not recommended for children. So then it's like, is a 17-year-old a child or is teenager his own separate category, young adults?
SPEAKER_00I wonder how they're gonna view that when they so from what they they they was throwing a lot of 18, like younger than 18. Like I guess 18 was the cat, but I guess by her being 17, she was that's how I was taking it. She was being considered as a child. Um so it's it's it's on there. But like like you said, like this just the fine print is just not something we look for, whether it's on goddamn energy drink, shit. I mean, we going to sell our motherfucking life away on a car and shit, you know, buying, we don't even look at fine prints on contracts, and that's just not something we do. Um, so that's I I think this is also a lesson to let us to let us know, like, look, whatever it is and you're not sure about the product, uh, man, you search for a fine print, because I'm I'm sure it's on there, and then that'll that'll give you or put you in a position to decide if you wanna if you want to consume that product or not.
Adults Aren't Safe Either
SPEAKER_02And just because a lot of times, you know, it says like not recommended for children. So you think if you're an adult, it's okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Grown-ups die from this shit too, and it's not good for you either, adult man or woman. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That's true. Even worse when you're younger and your body. Basically, when you're an adult, your body just a little tougher, so it can fight a little more. Yeah. And then think of how much like think of it has to be a lie. If they're telling you vegan, gluten-free, all these healthy indicators, but at the same time it says not recommended for children and danger warnings. How can both be true?
SPEAKER_00Right, right. I ain't think about that. No, that's that's something we gotta think about as well, y'all. And and also another thing that's a marketing strategy as well. Uh, not only now with Red Bull, I would say monster too. I tried a monster before and it took me, goddammit. I just couldn't drink the motherfucker that had so much sugar in that goddamn can. I'm like, yeah, I ain't gonna be able to finish this joint. And I I pulled over and poured my shit out. But another thing is a marketing strategy with uh what I seen with Celsius in the Lani is that not only do you become addicted to the drink, but they they release a lot of different flavors, man. They leave, you know what I'm saying? So you you probably like this flavor, and they probably done released five, six different other flavors. Now you want to try, you want to try them all. As a matter of fact, somebody that I know personally, uh, I believe it was on a Celsius can that had them believe in, uh-uh, man, what was the wording? Something about metabolism or something like that. But she pretty much thought. Yeah, she pretty much thought she could just drink this Celsius and she wasn't gonna have to put no work in and that the Celsius was just gonna do the work for her. And I had to stop her in her tracks. Like, look, this ain't what that, as a matter of fact, I don't even think it's other ways you can speed up your metabolism. This shit right here, what they're doing is a marketing scheme. You know what I'm saying? They gonna put that shit on there because they they gonna make it seem like, look, you can just drink me and you don't have to do no work, and and I'm here to speed up your metabolism. So you so I had to stop her right there because she was finna put herself in a dangerous situation, right? Because she tried the blue flavor. She liked the blue flavor. Guess what? It says five other different flavors in the cooler. Shit, I want to try them all. And then, you know, luckily, you know, she she had asked me, like, look, do you drink Celsius? I'm like, I used to, but I realized I started to feel the effects of Celsius. Like my body started to reject the the energy drink. So that I took that as a sign. You know what I'm saying? And um, and and she listened to me, you know. So um I possibly saved her life. You know, who knows? She probably would have got so addicted that she was down to two, three of them in a in a single day, thinking it was doing something useful for her body, and it wasn't. So yeah, we gotta we gotta we gotta stay on the lookout for that, y'all. Um
Legal Action & Who Really Failed Her
SPEAKER_00man, bro, when it when as far as as far as the team back in uh in in in Texas, man, is there any is there any uh uh legal legal uh situations you heard of regarding this situation as far as the parents and the in the companies?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, not not not that I heard of, but I I do want to add earlier, because you know I was getting on the company ass, and then I said we gotta tighten the parenting. I I don't even know who exactly the blame is. I do know that a bunch of adults failed her. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_02From the parents to the company to whoever's responsible for regulations. There has to be something done to where she teenagers, if it's not recommended for children, children shouldn't be they shouldn't uh be able to get access to it so easily. So we we we we have to do something. I don't know what law needs to get passed, I don't know what they need to get lobbied, and I also want to challenge corporations. I understand marketing, I understand business, I don't want to hate on it too much. You got to get the people what they want. I want to challenge corporations who sell unhealthy products to lean into that in your marketing. There's people who take pride in not being healthy. I used to be one of them. It's okay. Just just you know, sell them on the pleasure of it, and then you can even shun the other people. I challenge y'all to do that because this other shit is it's dishonest when you really think about it. Before real with y'all, how can you how can you sleep at night knowing that there was something you could have done better to prevent people from dying from your profit?
SPEAKER_00And and like you said, like the you know, one thing we gotta understand too is that uh man, they did this system we in is is is people try to find any way to capitalize off anything. You know what I'm saying? Like a life really don't matter, you know what I'm saying? Like, even if I wouldn't even be surprised if whoever the head is, the the the head of this brand and head of the company, the news got back to him. Yeah, uh a teenage, a teenage 17-year-old was drinking our product and she had heart failure or whatever. I wouldn't even be surprised if he pushed that news off or pushed that story off to the side and went about his day. Because he still he still made his money at the end of the day. That's that's the type of people we deal with in this world. Like very, very evil, smart individuals that's that's only here to capitalize off of the people.
Consumer Power: How Public Pressure Can Force Change
SPEAKER_00You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02So um And the reason why I feel it's important and why I'm making it a point to be critical of them, and not just that company, the whole industry, they have no incentive to change until like until they get a uh see how public sentiment is responding to them. If we all say, oh, well, you know, the parents should have just been doing that. Companies have no incentive to change or change their marketing strategies or nothing. But when we say, no, fuck Alani. Matter of fact, while we had it, fuck Celsius, fuck Red Bull, y'all killing us, blah blah blah blah. If that message is loud enough, capitalism says you have to make an adjustment to at least just be more honest about your product. We're not saying don't sell them, no nothing. I don't recommend them, but get your money, do what you do. Just be more honest, make the truth more obvious for the common person to know.
SPEAKER_00And what's crazy is in the marketing scheme is so uh out of this world. I mean, shit, Celsius and Alani. Shit, even Red Bull is at the front register when you, you know what I'm saying? It ain't no water, it ain't no vitamin waters,
Energy Drinks at Every Register: Too Accessible
SPEAKER_00ain't none of that shit. Is it's all straight caffeine right at the counter, you know what I'm saying? So if you if you if if it's ever a time where you're where you're thirsty, goddammit, you might have a, you know, what's what's the use of going back to way back to our goddamn five or six or whatever hour that might be to get to get a case of water or something that's that's more more beneficial for you when shit, I could just grab this this Alani right here by the counter, you know what I'm saying? It ain't no it ain't a water, but this this adul. You know, so um and then you brought up something else as far as like it not being too accessible. So the same way we go into uh uh the gas station and we gotta present an ID for alcohol and and cigarettes and all of this shit, an 18-year-old, anybody that's that's under 18 shouldn't just be able to freely just go into the store, open up the open up the cooler,
Should You Need an ID to Buy an Energy Drink?
SPEAKER_00grab the energy.
SPEAKER_02Especially when it's established that, like you said earlier, you shouldn't be having more than an X amount of caffeine a day. The average teenager does does not weigh what they need to waste so they don't exceed the average serving of caffeine in these energy drinks. My bad to cut you off by that time.
SPEAKER_00Oh no, no, you good, bro. She appreciates you for adding that because that's I mean, that's that's serious. Like we the it's two. Too accessible, and we're talking about not just one cooler in the store, but it's it's one at every register. And goddamn, you probably got the pizza right here, and it's a cool on side of the pizza too. So you know what I'm saying? They might like pizza, and then fuck it. I'm gonna grab, I'm gonna grab this Alani right along with my pizza. So I think I think we have to that would be a step as far as not making this shit too accessible to teenagers, right? Even if that means I'm not sure how y'all would do that, but if a teenager comes in and and decide, look, they wanna they wanna buy an energy drink, man, present this ID, right? Simply because there has been pr uh previous incidents where teens have died from from heart incidents because of too much caffeine from these energy drinks. So this is uh and and of course, me, I understand me and bro talking about this probably ain't enough to push that, to push that onto the companies, but like again, like we putting this shit into the world because maybe, you know, maybe you got kids that's that's addicted to to uh uh you know, the energy drinks, and it just like the story that we shared, and and maybe, you know, uh enough people can come together and push this shit on the companies to try to save more teens in the future.
SPEAKER_02So man, yeah. And more adults.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, more adults as well, because I done seen um man, I done seen, I don't, I'm not even sure how big the biggest can of Red Bull is, but I done seen a motherfucker slam like two of them in one day. And um,
Truck Drivers & Energy Drink Dependency
SPEAKER_00I'm not sure, I'm not sure about about you, bro, but like when I it's times where I done drunk an energy drink, and I feel the pace of my heart just just the it's not normal. You know what I'm saying? I feel it. And that was that was kind of a sign for me to, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and and and and stop buying these because I I can already see where it's going. So man, bro, is it is it anything else you want to add to this story, brother?
SPEAKER_02Um yeah, it's fuck so because I keep uh adding like you know, it's fucked up for adults too. And one thing I know from first and secondhand experience is uh one type of adult who's most prone to get some energy drinks is is people who be on the road in them trucks.
SPEAKER_00Oh man, we can we can definitely have a little time to talk about that shit, man.
SPEAKER_02So I just I just would to give alternatives, maybe you know, it could be a little difficult to drink a hot cup of coffee and and operate an 18-wheel at the same time. Yeah, uh energy drink is much more convenient, probably safe. You swear the hot coffee, you swerve over, you kill people. You know, you don't we don't want that to happen. But uh an even better alternative, I would say look into is gum. They have gum with caffeine
Healthier Alternatives: Coffee, Caffeine Gum, Music & Podcasts
SPEAKER_02in it. And the even the act of chewing will help you stay up too. So if you need that extra energy boost, I would I mean coffee would be number one, gum is number two, and then then we can do the energy drinks if you can't get access to that. I just want to give some practical uh before we left out instead of just talking shit.
SPEAKER_00Or or if you, you know, if you somebody, obviously, you know, it's it's some companies that's more strict than others, you know. If you somebody that loves to listen to music, maybe even the podcast, you know, uh audiobooks, man, get you, if you ain't got the trucker set, you know, get you a you know, get you some earbuds, obviously keep it at a safe level so you can still hear what's going on around you. Uh but yeah, even even the music and just the audio itself will keep you up, you know, because from it from experience like truck driver here and then bro got experience with trucks, that caffeine shit is a false sense of what you think is doing. You think it's keeping it up, but you you think the caffeine is keeping you up or the energy is keeping you up, but it's really in here. Cause I still have I still have had energy times where I'm drinking an energy drink and it's not doing what I expected it to do. Right? But what really helps is when I pull over and I take a walk or like bro to go get a gum or paper, put music in, that's what really keeps me alert enough to get get me to where I need to go.
SPEAKER_02Real quick, I want to ask you because you said listen to podcasts and shit. And I know we both like to learn. Have you found that listening to educational shit makes you sleepy, sleepier?
SPEAKER_00I gotta leave it. You gotta you gotta do that shit in increments. You know what I'm saying? Like I I say if you wanna, if you wanna take, you know, get just a you know, just a pinch of that shit just for for like 15, 20 minutes, go ahead and listen to an audiobook. But as soon as you feel yourself like kind of like drifting off or it's kind of getting boring to you, that's when you want to switch to the music, right? You might got a three-hour drive, three, four-hour drive. It's damn near impossible to listen to a book for four hours on the road. It's just it's just not gonna happen. Uh, you have to find I it's a uh it's a podcast that I listen, I used to listen to that was entertaining. Uh that kept me up because of the the different sound effects, and just they did a pretty good job with keeping you uh immersed and just drawing in. But then also, man, get you a decent playlist. Like for me, I'm a fan of 90s, like the 90s RB. You know what I'm saying? If I got a solid playlist, uh playlist and I got hits coming back to back to back, man, I'm I'm up for four hours, man. Three, four hours, man. I'm good. Um but yeah, definitely to the truck drivers, man, because I done seen uh a lot of truck drivers' health go down very quickly because of the amount of food. Like just the I mean, when you at a truck stop and you, you know, restaurants like it ain't really a lot of access to that healthy shit that you need. So you you it's a lot of bullshit you eating on top of the energy drinks, and then it's a lot of drivers that that might smoke cigarettes because it keeps them occupied. And um, yeah, as a truck driver, if you're not careful, your health will decline very quickly. So you definitely be careful for that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yep.
Final Thoughts: Read the Fine Print. Know What You Consume.
SPEAKER_00Without that being said, y'all, um, man, we hope this this story has uh you know helped out in some way, you know, uh maybe uh took a lesson from it as far as uh how important it is to read the fine print, because that is it's it's fine print for a reason, right? They, of course, they're not gonna put a fine print in bold letters, right? Because if it's say, look, if you drink this product, there's a risk that this may happen. Well, guess what? They just ruined their money. It ain't, you're not gonna buy the product if it's telling you exactly what it's gonna do, right? So what they're gonna do is they're gonna reverse that. Look, it gives you energy, it gives, you know, wellness and it makes you feel healthy, speeds up your metabolism. They gonna they gonna put all of that type of shit in bold to persuade you to buy it. But the shit you need to pay attention to is that very small print uh uh in the back of the can, you know, and that's gonna tell you everything that you need to know about a product. Uh, and the reason why they put it so small is that is they just place it there so that they're compliant, right? Because they have to they have to place that type of shit on the product. Um yeah, so without that being said, y'all, like uh make sure you follow the the YouTube channel, uh, subscribe uh so that you can get notified for future content, future episodes, uh when me and my guy drop. Um my IG page is in the description, black and more IG's page is in the description. We are now on uh different directories as well. So Apple Podcasts, uh iHeartRadio, uh Spotify. You know, so if you're not the type of person that likes to look uh look at visuals and you rather just listen, definitely gonna check us out. Um yeah. So without that being said, y'all, life is good, life is wonderful. Be blessed to be alive. Self sufficiency is how you survive. To the kings and queens, to the gods and goddess, forever and always. Thanks successfully, successfully.
