ShadowBoxing
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"Okay this guy is just asking to be pooped on"

So I get DirectTV here at the place, and I still have no f---ing clue what channel is what, so whenever I want to watch something I have to channel surf until I find what I want. Low and behold we have an informercial channel which features such favorites of mine as "The Total Gym", "Wackie Nu Nu" and of course "BoFlex". I own none of those products...but hell, how can watching Chuck Norris and Christy Brinkley NOT be enjoyable at midnight.
Anyways, this guys face has been showing up more and more often as I change through the sea of informercial channels. His name is Kevin Trudeau who peddles such scams as "Natural Cures They don't want you to know about" and "Natural Weight Loss Cure They don't want you to know about".
I actually really wasn't bugged by his pressence on my Television until his whole "weight loss" informercial...especially since the guy is nothing special, certainly nothing that would stand out at my gym (or any others). Sure he is remotely thin, but like Dr.Phil, he doesn't strike me as someone I'd particularly want impressionable young fatties listening to when they want to shed pounds...so, I wanted to know exactly what this guy was scamming people with.
So, I did my research. Actually it was somewhat of a challenge, since the first 3 pages worth of stuff you find on this quack is how many Larceny charges he has, and how many times he's had to settle in fraud cases. But then I finally found this guy out. Basically his whole weight loss cure is the HCG diet, a 500 calorie a day diet mixed with HCG (basically a compound found in the urine of pregnant and nursing mothers). Yeah, great cure Kevin...fasting...yep, THEY don't want you to know about that. They don't want you to know that fasting can cause you to lose over 1 pound a day. I gave this guy too much credit: I figured he would just peddle some obvious, common sense approach to weight loss and throw his name on it. No, no, no...he chose on of those over the top solutions. Great, make people sicker...jack***.
So congratulations, you've gotten me to rant against you...because I hate people like you. You could give SumofGod a run for his money. You've just joined the ranks of Benny Hinn...