Perez Hilton, AI Hiring Bias & Peptide Doctor's Arrests - 1322
The Chalene Show | Pop Culture, Women's Health, & FitnessShow Notes
Perez Hilton had a public breakdown on TikTok this week, and people are asking what actually happened. Chalene Johnson breaks it down with trigger warnings, including how it connects to his defamation fight with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and his brush with death from sepsis this past March. Chalene also digs into why qualified applicants, including former Elle editor Stacy Deguide, who deleted 15 years off her resume just to get a callback, are vanishing into what recruiters call an AI hiring black hole. A Stanford study found that roughly one in five companies now let algorithms reject candidates before a human ever sees a resume, and Chalene walks through how hiring software like Workday's may be filtering out midlife workers, new grads, and everyone in between. Rounding out the episode is this week's crackdown on the black market peptide trade. An Indiana company called Paradigm Peptides was sentenced after selling to 54,000 customers in 80 countries, a Michigan dealer got 20 years for relabeling semaglutide as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Retatrutide, and a licensed doctor running a Utah clinic called True Health was caught repackaging BPC-157, TB-500, and other peptides under fake labels for more than 200 patients. Topics discussed: Perez Hilton, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Justin Baldoni, TikTok, Ariana Grande, Stacy Deguide, Elle, Stanford University, Workday, Paradigm Peptides, True Health, Justin Watkins, Ozempic, Wegovy, semaglutide, Retatrutide, BPC-157, TB-500, GLP-1, sepsis, ageism. Go Beyond The Podcast Join Chalene on her private podcast 👉chalene.com/more
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00:00:00 — Intro: AI job screening, the peptide crackdown, and a Perez Hilton preview 00:03:46 — Why AI is pushing people toward multiple income streams 00:05:01 — Stacy Deguide's story and the AI hiring "black hole" (Elle, Stanford study, Workday) 00:09:42 — Resume tips: customize, mirror keywords, use referrals 00:11:51 — Warning: an AI deepfake "doctor" in a fake facelift video 00:14:43 — Chalene's four lawsuits, four wins, two criminal convictions 00:17:22 — Sponsor: Midi Health on peptides and hormones 00:20:19 — Peptide crackdown: Paradigm Peptides, a Michigan dealer, and Dr. Justin Watkins' True Health clinic 00:24:41 — Peptides vs. plastic surgery: which is really more dangerous? 00:27:34 — Sponsor: OneSkin peptide lotion and SPF 00:29:36 — Perez Hilton: trigger warning and why Chalene is covering it differently 00:32:04 — What happened on Perez Hilton's TikTok livestream 00:33:30 — Who is Perez Hilton, the Blake Lively/Ryan Reynolds lawsuit, and his hospitalization 00:40:07 — Tuesday's Ariana Grande video, hours before the breakdown 00:43:24 — Why we can't look away: the psychology of "don't look"
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