The Port of Baltimore oscillates between being a top ten port and a top fifteen
port in the United States. It's definitely a top five port on the eastern
United States. You saw Pete Boodhage, Judge Secretary of Transportation, go on
and talk about how it's not as though this is a long beach harbor or
harbor on the West coast to take in forty percent of our trade. Well,
it's because it's the trade that comes from Asia. But for to sit
here and minimize the impact of what this Baltimore harbor would have on the supply
chain is just well, it's it's idiotic because first of all, we're obviously
going to see inflationary costs rise. Just over the next thirty days, we're
going to have to see trade move up and down the seaboard. You and
I both know that the longer that these ships sit out in the ocean,
the more the costs are passed on to the consumers, So there will be
an immediate inflation from this. You are listening to Carrie Let's's Financial Survival Network,
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the Financial Survival Network. I'm your host Kerry Lutz. Well, you've heard
about the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsing, A lot of rumors about it a
terrorist attack. I mean, Francis Scott Key authored The Star Spangled batter when
he was in a British prison ship in the War of eighteen twelve, So
was it symbolic? Hot? What do we make of all this? Well,
Jason Nelson is with us. Jason, thank you for your service.
You were you worked a lot there. You were at Curtis Bay, and
you know that geography there as well as just about anybody. What the heck
happened here? Yeah, it's beyond the obvious that it's just a horrible tragedy.
And I do want to acknowledge that lives were lost in this. Obviously
there were a series of cascading errors that impacted what happened. And I don't
think we can wave off any conspiracy necessarily, but we can definitely see that
there are other reasons why this tragedy would have happened, and we can see
the reverbrating impacts that are going to come from that for a long time.
Yeah, So what a fact is about what's the impact upon the supply chain?
I mean, I think I heard somewhere Baltimore or to Baltimore is the
ninth busiest port to the seventeenth busiest. Supposedly three percent of the country's trade
goes through there. I mean, how bad is it really? Well,
Well, when you think about the fact that most stores operate on about a
five percent margin, I think it's not very hard to sit here and say
that there could be a much larger impact across the country. But let's get
into some details real quick on exactly what goes to Baltimore and why this particular
incident is so important. The port of Baltimore oscillates between being a top ten
port and a top fifteen port in the United States. It's definitely a top
five port on the Eastern United States. You saw Pete Bootage Jeddge, Secretary
of Transportation, go on and talk about how it's not as though this is
a long beach harbor or harbor on the West coast to take in forty percent
of our trade, well, that's because it's the trade that comes from Asia.
But for to sit here and minimize the impact of what this Baltimore Harbor
would have on the supply chain is just well, it's idiotic because first of
all, we're obviously going to see inflationary costs rise. Just over the next
thirty days, we're going to have to see trade move up and down the
seaboard. You and I both know that the longer that these ships sit out
in the ocean, the more the costs are passed on to the consumers.
So there will be an immediate inflation from this, but long term we have
to take to look at the accident itself to understand what this means. So
do you mind if I opine for a moment here on the Bartomine Harbor.
Is you're our expert here, that's why we have you on. So you're
entitled to a pine. Okay. So I was stationed at Curtis Bay.
My primary job in the Army Special Operations was in civil affairs, but my
last two years was attached to a boat's unit right at Curtis Bay. In
other words, I could throw a tennis ball and hit where the Francis Scott
Key Bridge was. What you need to understand about the harbor there is and
so let's cut down some of these conspiracy theories. And we can do that
just by talking about operations. First of all, the person in charge of
the vessel at the time it was inside of the harbor is a harbor pilot.
That is a person who has spent years and years and years studying to
understand that very nuanced shipping lane. The reason for that is you see that
the result because what happens if there's an accident inside of a harbor. It
shuts down operations and that's extremely expensive for everyone, not to mention it could
result in obviously law of life and other things like that. So the harbor
pilot was in charge of this vessel. When you're looking at the Baltimore Harbor,
there's a very narrow channel it's about one hundred and twenty feet deep,
and that they shift through. It's in the middle of the pylons that you
would have seen in that bridge. What happens is is a vessel comes in,
unloads its cargo, and loads its cargo. It's peer side for about
forty eight hours. In this particular ship's into instance, I can verify reports
that there were power outages happening on the vessel during its forty eight hours.
Now, there's many numerous it's repeated myself. There are numerous reasons why this
could happen, includes electrical systems, engine failures, other such things. But
what we do know is that ships are slaved to the dock, which means
that most of their electricity, if not all, is coming from the dock
itself. So if there's power outages, that's likely an electrical system. Now,
this is supposed to be reported, supposed to be reported to the harbor
master. The ship's captain is supposed to take note as well as ship's engineer,
and they're supposed to address to fix the problem, in other words,
to make the vessel sea worthy. A ship came right, correct. So
whether or not someone reported this is going to be something that the NTSB finds
out over the next couple of years as they does they work their way through
this investigation. Nonetheless, this ship did leave the harbor at forty eight hours.
Why because they can't stay there, Because if you have to do a
major repair in your peer side and you're right there inside of that area.
Not only are you laden with your own cargo, which causes you a penalty
for your employer, but you're also holding back other ships from moving. There
are massive penalties for this, so there's an incentive for someone to lie or
OPTU, skate the truth and move a vessel outside and move it from the
pier. So there we have an issue. We also know that that,
contrary to the graphics being shown right now that it's the ship didn't make what
you would call a port turn. It didn't move out and move out of
the harbor or into the shipping length. It didn't move directly into that.
Instead, it swung wide, as a matter of fact, in a very
dangerous way. When you look at the water and the shoals there and you
can see that it gets slowest thirty one feet in some of those areas.
How do I know this correct? How do I know this happened? Well,
not only do I have someone that verified that the data showed this.
However, you could see in the long form videos that the vessel itself is
moving parallel to the Francis Scott Key Bridge for a prior to making its turn
its hard starboard turn and then before it hit the pilon. So there we
have another issue. What was the harbor pilot doing. Was he testing the
system? Was there a failure in a system we know they called the may
day? We know the power went out, So we get into another conspiracy
theory here the ship made an abrupt movement into the pilon. Well I could
answer that one, and that the power went out twice on the vessel,
and then there are redundant systems put in place. But essentially, if someone
had made a move and the STI ships aren't steered by their rudder, this
isn't the eighteen orties right. They're adjusted, especially at slow speeds, by
thrusters on the bow and the stern. So with this vessel, what it
would have done if you could see prior to the second time the power went
out and where it was headed, I can see the maneuvers the captain would
have made, or that at least who was captain in the vessel would have
made to avoid hitting the pylon and to enter the center of the channel with
the power out. As it drifted, you could see when the power comes
on the second time that it makes a sudden lurch. There's only two possibilities
for that. The anchor that they had dropped, and they would have dropped
an emergency anchor would have caught purchase, which wouldn't make sense in a declining
v that would be the channel, or that the last commands that they entered
in were what hit and it made the shift the ship adjusted and suddenly slammed
into the pilot. Which is a whole separate issue in that the Baltimore,
the Francis Scott key Bridge did not have protections in place, and then five
years ago had a budget to do so but didn't enact it. There's lots
of correct politicians doing what they do best, which is nothing correct. So
I look at this as that I'm not eliminating all conspiracy theories, because you
won't know until you get all of the results of the NTSB investigation. But
what I can say is, I'm seeing a lot of c ya right now.
I'm seeing a lot of people pulling back information and they're doing so because
right now someone's going to be held financially liable for what happened here, and
there's going to be a lot of careers that are ended over this, and
in the end, you're going to see that it was a cascading level of
failures. It was it can be cylinder right, correct. Now, why
does our supply chain affected and impacted so much by this? Because the Francis
Scott Key Bridge allows flammable materials to move over the bridge. That means that
when you talk about all of the vehicles coming in, when you talk about
fertilizer, when you talk about helium, anything that can't go through the two
tunnels, has to go over the bridge. And you can't just make a
land route for the next and just send people over through a neighborhood to take
these They said it's going to take two years just to create an alternate route
in order to move this traffic. So that's two years. For two years,
harbor's around the East Coast are going to have to take in that cargo
that was intended for that and that includes specialized loading and unloading facilities, and
all of that creates inflation that is going to be passed on to the consumer.
It's going to create artificial shortages. Baltimore is not the sexiest harbor.
It doesn't bring in all of your finished goods. It brings in the things
that make your finished goods that make your factories work. This is going to
have a long term, huge impact on our supply chain. And you know,
it just puts us one step closer because as we see between this Texas
prairie fires, the food facilities that go up in flames, the railroads that
are having crashes, you know, there's only so many accidents that we can
have in our supply chain before our supply chain becomes overwhelmed and collapses. And
this one here is a huge piece of It's just it's another big foundational stone
that's been removed from the building that is our supply chain. And eventually it's
just going to take one more, just one more. That's how much closer
we are. And for them to treat it so lightly, Boodoo judge,
to treat it so lightly and to say that, oh, you know,
other people are going to absorb this, that's not sarious. He's not serious,
the serious government official. He's a joke. He's a joke. And
it's treated get lis. Oh, hey we had an earthquake here at South
Bend, and oh the other grocery shore is going to have your groceries for
you. This is ridiculous to imply that it's about three percent of the nation's
traffic and cargo is somehow going to miraculously be pushed around to other ports and
have it not impact at least the consumer level when we're talking about prices.
This is going to raise prices across the board. This is going to have
a massive impact. And then beyond that again where it puts our supply chain.
Right now, that's why we created our company. It was because understanding
that being able to turn around and vertically integrate and make a domestically dependent supply
chain is so important. Right now, we are so focused on this international
trade and the cheap products we get from that that we've forgotten that our way
of life is at risk quite literally. Yeah yeah, Well, the supply
chain is resilient, but it's also delicate, right Well, that that is
the point. Right So, look, they just called how many chickens down
here in Texas and millions because of bird flu avian flu? Correct? So
you know we see this EBB and flow right now, you know. So
obviously I pay attention to beef, right so prepperbeef dot Com we listed here.
We focus on shell stable beef and not just beef, but you know,
actual beef people want to eat. So I have to sit here and
watch the cattle here in Central Texas because I about importing cattle. I'm not
bringing cattle in from Argentina or Venezuela, or Canada or Australia. We're sitting
here, We're doing TeX's cattle, which means that we're impacted very much so
by the fires that just happened here in Central Texas, although are both North
Central Texas, but in the Panhandle, they're going to need so much feed
to be able to stay in the livestock they were able to save, which
raises the prices here locally in those local impacts. Of course, because Texas
provides so much cattle for the rest of the United States, impacts the supply
chain there again. Couple that with the excess costs you've got to see from
Baltimore. Couple that with excess costs here get to see from the calling with
chicken heerts. It's just it is that precarious and as we sit here in
an inflationary nightmare, these are not the signs you want to see. What
you want to see is you want to see production running smoothly. You want
to see our supply chain running smoothly. You want to see this opposed to
infrastructure spending that the Biden regime put in actually have an impact rather than just
words and DEI and a bunch of people making TikTok videos about how they're all
accepted. Yeah, well, there's a lot more to the supply chain than
just TikTok videos. Hey, what are three things the country can do to
help strengthen the supply chain right now? Well, the first thing you want
to do is pay attention to what you're eating. And that's important. I
say that because of what you want to do is support local farmers. You
want to support support local ranchers. You want to support companies that support local
farmers and local ranchers. So it's time for you to take a deep dive
on the brands and what you get your food from. Understand where do they
spend your money, your money, because it is your money when you give
them money, Where do they take those profits and how do they spend them.
Do they spend them to increase your quality of life or did they spend
them to decrease your quality of life? So by supporting companies and people who
at local ranchers, local farmers. You're not only sending a message to these
large corporations, but what you're also doing is to change their ways. But
on top of that, what you're also doing is creating a paradigm shift.
You're creating a parallel economy in which you can have a direct impact on the
policies to impact to you and your families. I would think it's important to
maintain as domestic as possible, to vertically at a great our supply chain so
that we're dependent on Americans for American products. And I don't say that as
a zofoe by say that as a person who understands that there are just certain
things you can't farm out, and that is barring. It's something that we
are great at. We are the bread basket of the world and we need
to continue to embrace that. And the final thing I would say is that
we need to say special attention to the bureaucracy in this country and how through
the EPA and through other regulatory agency, through BLM, which has been reducing
grazing land BLM as in the Bureau of Land Management right well, unfortunately now
there to BLM. Neither of them were good. How coincidental, yeah,
but the idea yes. So the idea that we need to pay attention to
the policies that are being put forth and be active. Be active with your
state legislators. Make sure they're not allowing people to put MR and A vaccines
inside of your cattle. Make sure they're not able to sit here and make
vaccine inducing food. I mean, this is a real thing, and for
those to say that aren't possible. By the way, that's how we used
to give vaccines to Afghan children. We used to put up on wafers and
give them to them in their mouths. So yes, you can give people
vaccines through food. So we need to pay attention to what's being done.
We need to make sure we stop with these breaking meats and these you know,
they're making lab grown food beatups from a pasture, not from a petri
dish. So you know, these are the things that we could do.
I know they don't sound simple, but they are simple, and they all
center around one thing, educating yourself and then sharing that education. Couldn't agree
with him more. You know, have been having Florida honey for twelve years,
best honting around and it also helps with local allergies too. And you
know, Florida is I think the fifth largest producer of cattle in the country,
but they ship it off to other states to finish it because there's nothing
glamorous about Florida cattle. Well, you know, you guys have orges,
so I think you have plenty to brag about down there. So we let
us have our cattle here in Texas. Come on, that's out there,
organic, organically grown, no no antibiotics, no hormones, right and free
range right, yes, that's any time. The regenerative farming has been a
key to that, and that's why we've partnered with the rancher that is focused
on that. Because being able to allow your cattle to move about builds,
builds, better bodies. It's the type of protein you want to eat.
You know, people can have their Kobe beef all they want, you know,
I this best cattle come from cattle that are able to free reach,
move about and grow as they as God intended. And you know, there's
a lot to be said. I understand why factory farming exists, but the
invinal thing is is that we've been able to shift away from that. We've
been able to create new methodologies, So a factory farming came about so that
they could create mass quantities of food. Now we found that we could create
mass quantities of food without having to do factory farming, and I'm excited about
being able to show that that paradigm shift is worthwhile so true. I mean
a few like ten years ago, I noticed that the meat just wasn't tasting
as good, even in good restaurants. And what my investigations discovered is that
because they're using the hormone the cow, they can they can butcher it after
a year instead of two years because it artificially builds up its muscle and fat
and all that. And since I switched back to the free range stuff,
I found it it's really as good as it ever was. It's that stuff
that the franken food as we call it. You know, I call it
what passes for food because it looks like food, it tastes like food,
but it ain't food. Jason, No, it's not food. You know.
People ask that because you know, so we started huh Prepper all naturals
of prepperbeef dot called. The whole reason we did it was obviously supply chain
issues of other things like that. But as we were building it, and
you know, I begin to educate myself. I started to see the things
that these quote unquote innovations that they're putting out there, and and uh,
did you see what the Italians are doing with uh They've taken I'm just going
to tell you so the spare parts of the cow, the part that quite
literally they turned into cat food. This is their words, not mine.
They bunchet all together and they put it into a machine that then makes simulated
steak and they they show them cutting it. How amazing this is going to
be. And I'm thinking, uh, this in Italy and this is what's
coming to the EU. You know what they're doing to the Dutch farmers.
But they done is it has been very out front and proactive with food quality.
There's a lot of stuff they won't even import from the United States because
it's Franken food. Absolutely, but here they are doing exactly the same thing.
So you know, it bothers me because we don't have a shortage of
food. And this is not what's causing a climate disaster. The climate disaster
is being caused by China. If there is a climate disaster, and you
know, I quite frankly, don't think there is one. I think what
we have is we just have a hysteria and we have a cult. But
we have a changing climate. Yes, but yes, but that's what happens
at Earth. It's something to blame, you know, well correct now?
I mean they're no different than ancients shaking their fist at the sky and blaming
the gods they can't see because their crops were ruined. It just reminded me
of something when we're not political at all, but just the funniest thing when
Trump was elected and all of these people were screaming and there's that one woman
with the wool hat on it just screaming and they're ranting and raving, and
it's just like but you know, it's that thing they're like cursing the gods.
Hey, Jason, question, where do we do? How do we
connect with you on the web? Well, you could find me obviously our
companies at prepperbef dot com. We have a blog down there so you can
easily track what we're doing. But if you want to find me on X
you could find me at real Jason Nelson. That's at Real Jason Nelson.
I am on other platforms but I'm going to be honest to say that I
am way too busy with five kids and two companies to be able to spend
much jah on any other ones. Totally understand. Hey, if you've got
a question for Jason myself, shoot me an email KL Atcarrie Lutz dot com
and the link to jason site will be in the show notes this interview on
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