Episode 248: "OZEMPIC LIVES MATTER - Part II"
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Submarine and A Roach — Nigeria’s funniest podcast and the #1 comedy podcast in Nigeria — presents Episode 248, “OZEMPIC LIVES MATTER – Part II,” hosted by TMT, Koj, and Mayowa.
This week starts in the trenches of modern insecurity: pink lips, under-bridge beauty hacks, instant gratification, and the booming business of selling people relief from bodies they were taught to hate. The boys use Serena Williams, Oprah, and the whole GLP-1 era to ask a darker question: if even the richest, most decorated people in the world can still be got by insecurity, what exactly is capitalism doing to the rest of us?
From there, it opens into a bigger conversation about media, ambition, and why America remains the greatest and worst country on earth: the kind of place where someone can raise millions for a football media product just because they believe hard enough. That leads into a proper Submaroach media summit — the boys sketch out what a real Nigerian football media company could look like, name their Mount Rushmore of Nigerian media, and side-eye the structures that make some ecosystems flourish while others are left begging telcos and betting companies for crumbs.
They also get into the week’s current-events circus: Timothée Chalamet casually cooking opera and ballet, Canal+ swallowing Showmax, and Daniel Bwala embarrassing himself in public service of power. It becomes a wider riff on shamelessness, political attack dogs, and why journalism is not supposed to be government PR, no matter how badly some people want applause for bare minimum governance.
Then the episode lands on the piracy debate, sparked by Big Jolls and a very online argument about books, access, and theft. The boys wrestle with the real tension at the heart of it: if the people downloading the books were never going to buy them anyway, who exactly is being robbed — and does that change the ethics of the act? It’s a classic Submaroach mix of body politics, Nigerian media, celebrity nonsense, political foolishness, and digital morality, all tied together with jokes sharp enough to cut through the discourse.
