What happens when a medication changes not just how much people eat—but how entire industries behave?
In this episode of Lead Human, Jack Myers and Tim Spengler unpack the broader cultural and business impact of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, from shrinking food and beverage consumption to changing consumer habits, restaurant economics, body image, and even expectations for corporate leadership. If millions of people want less food, less alcohol, and less immediate gratification, what happens to the industries built around selling more?
The conversation then takes a lighter turn into something surprisingly revealing: hats. Jack and Tim explore how baseball caps have become a kind of real-world emoji—signaling loyalty, geography, taste, aspiration, and cultural identity. From Yankees hats worn by people who don’t follow baseball to Sundance, Knicks, art, and family connections, they ask whether what we wear reflects who we truly are or simply the culture we want to belong to.
It’s a distinctly Lead Human conversation about consumption, identity, technology, culture, and the choices—big and small—that shape how we present ourselves to the world.
Lead Human is hosted by Jack Myers & Tim Spengler, produced by Wondir Studios (Desta Wondirad), in association with Acast.
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00:00 Welcome to Lead Human
00:43 Jack & Tim take on the dog days of summer
01:48 Is America going through a consumption reset?
03:33 GLP-1s are changing more than weight
04:33 Are shrinking categories getting CEOs and CMOs fired?
05:18 Which food and beverage brands are still winning?
05:54 Do GLP-1s expand human potential—or replace discipline?
06:35 What happens to restaurants if America loses its appetite?
07:33 One in nine adults and the scale of the GLP-1 shift
08:25 Could body size become a marker of access and wealth?
09:27 Is this a lasting consumption reset or just a trend?
09:47 The conversation pivots to hats
10:23 What your hat says about who you are
11:27 Are hats authentic identity or borrowed cultural credibility?
12:21 Why the baseball cap may be the world’s most important accessory
13:09 Why people wear Yankees hats without knowing the Yankees
13:28 Do hats need “truth in labeling”?
14:35 When did wearing a baseball cap backwards become normal?
15:19 CEOs, culture, and the backwards hat
16:31 Could baseball caps actually be culturally unifying?
17:34 Hats as loyalty, memory, creativity, and aspiration
18:05 What hat tells the truest story about you?
18:45 Outro – share your favorite hat and why it matters
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