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Speaker 2: This is not what I'm gonna belabor, but it's just
proof of the wackado nature of our world right now.
The World's Strongest Woman winner was stripped of her tut
his title after organizers found that she was actually he.
The Official strong Man Games who released a statement after
suspected trans competitor Jamie Booker won the games Official Official
strong Man officials, we're unaware of this fact ahead of
the competition, and we have been urgently investigating since being informed.
An attempt has been made to contact the competitor involved,
but a response has not been received. They announced on Instagram.
Had we been aware or had this been declared at
any point? In other words, had someone been honest point
or during the competition. This athlete would not have been
permitted to compete in the woman's open category. Given this,
we have disqualified the athlete in question from the Official
Strongman World Championships. All athletes points and places will be
altered accordingly. In other words, a woman is going to
be awarded the title. But think about this, you didn't
get the glory if you're a woman and you trained,
and you worked and tirelessly and you put time, effort,
energy for years, weeks, months, whatever, and you actually won.
You didn't get to. You didn't get to walk up
on stage. You didn't get to You had to sit
in a second place. And then after the fact, you
get awarded the title when nobody's looking and when no
one knows who you are. And that's the kind of
just misguided crazy through the looking glass that I'm sorry
you're born the way you're born. And it's just said
to me that we've reached a point in society where
this is, uh, this is a thing. Now another one
in the Oh my god, I can't believe I stepped
in it files. So Campbell soup, Campbell soup, Yes, that
Campbell soup is in a bit of a kerfluffle. Florida
Attorney general said he will shut down violators of the
state's law on lab grown meat after launching an investigation
into campbell Soup over a secret recording of an executive
at the company. What wait, Campbell's soup soup is good food.
You know everybody knows the jingle, right. We don't do
fake lab grown meat here in Florida. We'll enforce the
laws and shut down, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said
on x Olthemeyer said the state's Consumer Protection Division is
launching an investigation into the company. Now you're gonna say,
what is chat talking about? Why? Why is the state's
attorney general in Florida concern about this? WDIV broadcast portions
of the recording. In the recording, WDIV beting a station.
In the recording, a speaker identified as Campbell's vice president
and chief information security officer Martin Bally is heard saying,
we have blank for blanking poor people who buys our blank.
I don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy.
Now that I know what the blank is in it,
the speaker said again, I can't repeat what he said.
The speaker also referenced bio engineered meat, saying, I don't
want to eat a blanking piece of chicken that came
from a three D printer. We use one hundred percent.
So that's on the recording, and so Campbell's soup is
doing absolutely all the damage control they can right now.
Soup is good food. Well, I don't know if it's
good food. It's I'm not the one who said it.
Here's a James Reagan, director of External Communication, that Campbell
told Newsweek. We use one hundred percent real chicken in
our soups. The chicken meat comes from long trusted USDA
approved us suppliers and meats our high quality standards. All
of our soups are made with no antibiotics ever chicken meat.
Any claims to the contrary are completely false. What about
the beef or the y I'm just kidding. I don't know.
The development and sale of lab grown meat is banned
in seven states. According to the South Carolina Daily Gazette.
Florida's band was signed into law last year. Today, Florida
is fighting back against the global elites plan to force
the world to eat meat grown in a peatriot dish
or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals. Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis said, our administration will continue to focus on investing
in local farms and ranchers, and we will save our beef.
What to Know. Robert Garza, former employee the company, told
wd IV that he recorded the hour long comments from Bali,
where he discussed bioengineered meat and other topics. Garza is
suing Campbell's Soup and supervisor JD Apparel Aparel Apparel say
That Right for employment discrimination retaliation. The lawsuit claims he
was fired Gaza in retaliation for raising concerns about a
hostile work environment. So interesting. So Campbell's Soup not having
a great day, obviously, and I don't know where this
always going to go. But it's sad when a guy
inside the company at the upper echelons is saying I
ain't gonna eat it, but he did say I barely
eat it. So I don't know if he still eats
the vegetarian parts, but he says I barely eat it.
You know that's uh. Hey, I grew up in a
Wrangler jeans home. I edward for Bluebell headquartered out of Greensboro.
I wasn't aware of a low to wear Levi's, but
he never would have come on and said our jeans sucked,
don't They're terrible? You know, we you know. And he's
very brand loyal for the company he worked for until
they weren't what they were. So I don't know where
the Campbell's suit story is going to go. I find
it fascinating that this guy said I don't buy Campbell's
products barely anymore than so, which means he still buys them.
And if it's as bad as he says you have to,
why are you barely buying it at all? It's not
healthy now that I know what the blank is in it,
I don't want to eat a blanking piece of chicken
that came from a three D printer. And then he tried.
Then he threw the poor out of the bus and said, hey,
we have blank for blanking poor people who buys us.
So he's classed delinear the entire company, every Campbell brand.
Campbell's a big company, been around forever, but this is
not going well at all. So I don't know where
the story ends up. But luckily, soup is not a
staple for Thanksgiving, so maybe we'll get to the bottom
of the story. But when I saw it come across
the wire, I was just like, what a weird story
that they're self imploding from the inside and trying to
say But he didn't address the beef part. He said, yeah,
our chicken is real. He didn't say anything about the beef.
So it makes you wonder. I hate but he went
out of his way to say the chicken is real.
And so that's what made me question it because I said,
wait a minute, there's more than chicken in Campbell's soups.
Your chicken's real, but what about your beef? I just
don't know. Now, do you want to give you a
little update? And we'll probably talk about it a little
bit on the other side of the break, but I
wanted to give you kind of an update to where's
where we are. So the dal Jones Industrialized up five
seventy today, and if you look at year to date,
the Dow is up almost eleven percent. Now I'll go
into this a little more, and again I don't want
to base it on just one day. That's why I'm
giving you the year to date. Today the S and
P is up and if you look at it year
to date, it's up about fifteen percent. And if you
look at Nasdaq, the tech heavy side of things, it's
up today about one fourteen as of you know, this moment.
Year to date, it's up almost twenty percent, nineteen point
two two percent. And I bring all that on the
other side of the RK. We'll talk a little bit
about that. I'm not going to belabor it and get into,
you know, all sorts of profit margins and stuff like that.
What I do want to say is what people were saying.
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Speaker 2: One of the issues I'm not going to belabor this one,
but I want to mention it is minimum wage. We
probably will talk about later, But I do want to
get to the markets a little bit. And I'm doing
this only not because I look. I'm a long term investor,
so markets EBB and flow, and if it's are tanking
and you're buying when it's down and it goes back up,
your benefit from that as long as you're looking at
you know, five ten year horizons and you've been doing
it since you're eighteen rights and you're gonna you're gonna
just you're just gonna kill it. It's just an amazing
thing to see if you're if you're not looking at
it every day and getting anxiety and taking xanax every
time there's a market shift. The reason I say this
is in broad, broad, huge, huge terms. I can well
remember when when Trump took office in January this year
and the markets were you know, shaky at best, and
and everyone I can remember all of my leftist friends saying, oh, yeah,
I didn't think it was going to destroy My four
were one, kay, look at this the market. Look it's
gone down. It was hovering that they were turning to
the Dow Jones. They all were a Nasdak called them
long April about the April of this year, earlier this year,
and and then they got oddly silent. As it is,
it broke through at least the Dow Jones forty five
and started going and zoomed up to forty eight. Now
since it's come back off those highs. But the markets
are that there's a a lot of science and a
lot of psychology behind the way markets work. And I'm saying,
if you were to have had, let's just say at
the beginning of the year, that you invested money in
an index fund for the dal Jones, the Nasdaq, or
the SMP kind of the three broad endices that people
look at and I don't want to get in the
weeds with this, is that if you had done that,
so right now it's up. It's up about five seventy today,
which is just breaking over forty seven thousand. It's been
to forty eight, so it's off. It's high. But let's
just say that you did that. You know, January first,
you're up eleven percent, meaning that if you put money
in it, you're up eleven percent. That's a good return.
That's a good year. Is if you were retired and
you had that index, that's a good year for you.
If you were in the S and P and you
put whatever amount of money in. Now the S and
P is up about fifty two points, less than a percent,
but year to date it's up fifteen percentage points, so
over fifteen percent return over the course of your year,
just in an index fund, not even picking and choosing stocks,
you know, and there's a lot. Look, I'm not giving
you stock and I'm not giving you advice here, it's
not my job. A long time ago it would have been,
but not in this current waymbley. And then if you
look at the now Nasdaq is where it's heavily tech
and we now in America have four companies that are
worth over a trillion dollars. That's an astounding accomplishment that
you have four companies that are worth over a trillion dollars.
But had you invested in NASDK at the beginning of
the year, you'd be around nineteen percent return on your investment. Now,
remember the political left was losing its mind. Tariffs were
going to destroy the economy. It was going to be terrible,
we were going to have it was just it was
going to create massive unemployment. None of their and again
none of their predictions came true. But have they have
they backed up and said, you know what, we just
missed it. Again, an honest politician would just say, you
know what, we were wrong about the tariffs. Look, I
wanted to be I wasn't a real big fan of
the tariffs, I'm gonna tell you right now. But as
a tool for foreign policy they've been absolutely phenomenal. They've
been a rather fascinating way because again, the difference between
taxes and tariffs is tariffs aren't permanent, and that's a
huge distinction with the difference. Again, context is everything. When
Democrats pass some kind of increase in taxes. It's it's
it's almost Moses parting the Red Sea or God partying
on Moses' behalf of getting those taxes removed gotten. There's
nothing more permanent than a government than a temporary government program. Right,
And again I didn't say that someone much bars. I
don't know if that was a Milton Friedman or something.
But again, it is literally an Act of Congress that
they could change it. But but tariffs are a means
to an end a tariffs are a way to equaliz
I you know, never seen them use that way. Usually
a lot of people would put tariffs in like they
wood taxes. This administration is using them as a tool
to accomplish and and create a better trade situation for
the country. And in that respect it has worked very well.
I don't know where it's going to end up, but
at least at this point, it has been very effective.
And inflation hasn't been the problem that people predicted it would,
even Stephen Moore, it's a very art laugher in these
guys out there. It hasn't been an overly horrific situation.
So in many respects, this has been a very strong
and robust economy. It has been pretty good. It is,
and that doesn't and it is. You can kind of
tell because you don't have democrats screaming. You do in
England right now, because England's a bit of a different
mess for a different reason. But you don't have If
it were, democrats would be screaming about minimum wage. It's
funny they're talking about affordability but not about minimum wage.
And minimum wage is one of the biggest false arguments
you could ever have, because a wage is a reflection
of a service or a product you know, that you
produce and you're providing to society. You you know, otherwise
a Lamborghini and a Hugo would a Pugio, I don't know,
a Hundai or something would cost the same. They don't.
It costs more to build and produce, an engineer and
all that stuff. You don't pay people that are building
Hyundai is the same as you would pay for Ferrari's production.
It's different, and that's okay. That's the free market at work.
You want to be able to produce goods and services.
You want to do it at an affordable price. You
want to be able to do these phenomenal things. The
point being minimum wage. You can tell that Democrats are
kind of backing off that what Trump did was kind
of interesting. On the minimum wage side of things. Instead
of saying, hey, let's increase your minimum wage, what he
said is let you keep more of what you make,
which is a better argument than saying tax cut, because
every time a Republican says tax cut, Democrats scream, you
want to help the rich. But when Trump said no
taxes on tips, the Democrats were left to say, well,
we kind of like that, but we don't like him,
so what can we do? And that's different when you
get to keep more of what you make, rather than
giving you more or alleging that you're going to get
more money. The problem when you create when you increase
minimal wages is you decrease the company's ability to hire
more workers because you get what's called way compression. You're
pushing the bottom up, and then every wage above that
has to go up commensurate to that, and then you've
created an inflation area. You've just created a really bad
thing that doesn't make the goods and services cost less.
In fact, it's pushing the prices up artificially to make whatever.
When you do that, it's why we're less competitive on
the global stage. So that being said, just worth noting.
Democrats aren't scream about affordability right now, but they're not
screaming about minimum wage that is soon to come off.
Sure it's another one, but their class warfare, due to
the way in which Trump operates, is not working like
it used to. The class warfare argument is not working
like it used to, and that's why Democrats are kind
of wandering around heading more to the left. They're going
more left rather than learning to be more moderate.
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Speaker 2: I want to touch on. I don't want to do it.
Let's see this. I don't want to do it too much,
but I do want to touch on. It is the
situation in Venezuela. It would say, Borque, why do you
want to talk about Venezuela? Why do you want to
do that? So, because there are a lot of implications
here now, I'm not going to get into all of
the details about the taking out of drug boats. I
think that's a great debate to be had. I mean,
I can absolutely, from a straight up perspective say, I
see both sides of the argument about taking out drug boats.
On the one side, these people are importing absolute poison
that it's killing US citizens. They are doing it with
the permission of a government that is x enough. Those
boats were full of sidewinder missiles being taken up to
New York City and you let them come into the city.
You just wouldn't do that. You know, you could say,
we'll just follow the drug boat until they get to
a certain point and have whatever. But that's this doesn't
work that way. And so on the one hand, these
people are exporting poison. It is intentional. It is meant
to hurt our country and profit off of us, off
of our appetite for drugs, and on the so that
absolutely bad guys. On the other is, you know, without
a declared war and without a declared military action, without
Congress's oversight, do I have questions about them taking out
these struggles And just you're on a drug boat, you're
screaming across the Caribbean coming to the US or coming
up the Pacific coasts and they're going to take you out. Now,
good news, bad news there. The word has definitely spread
to these guys. Hey, you know you can you see
you know, hey, Hector, do you want to take the
boat out? N I got to go see my sister. No,
you can tell you can take you can take the boat.
And I'm sure the word's gotten out that the past
ten boats that have gone haven't come back. Those guys
are gone. So it does create a deterrence. But you
are taking human lives. Now, you're taking out bad guys,
but you're you're killing folks. So you know it's US
military car people break things. Are those the enemies of
the United States. It's a little bit of a gray
area to me. So I see both sides of that issue. Now,
having declared that gang a menace to society as a
terrorist organization on Maduro, that is, that is going to
create a problem for him. So he's the head of
this terror organization. In many ways that Maduro is the
head of the terror organization, and the US government has
declared that a terrorist organization. Now he can be taken
he can be taken out, he can be picked up,
he can be prosecuted in a US court. He is.
It's a serious, serious problem for them. Now add to this,
and this is part that you probably didn't already know,
is that there's a fifty or there was a fifty
million dollar reward put on Maduro a while back. So
there's billboards all over Venezuela with a fifty million dollar
reward for information leading to his you know, for a
narco terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation, conspiracy to use and carry
machine guns and destructive devices in furtherance of a drug crime.
So is that going to change anything. No, But here's
and there's a much bigger issue at play. So he
is now the head of a terror organization. The US
government can act somewhat with impunity to go and take
him out. He can leave peacefully, or he can leave
in a box. I think that's the attitude that this
administration has toward him. Now, his generals, many of which
are part of the organization as well, have to decide
how deep their loyalty lies. Do you want to challenge
the USS Jerald Forward and multiple attack groups that are
right off your coast with some of the most advanced
weaponry know to mankind, or do you want to have
allegiance to a drug lord that's choosing the money to
keep himself in power even though he didn't win the election.
I don't know. That's where it's now, in the larger
theater of operations down there, if you're familiar. I grew
up in Puerto Rico. I've traveled to Ecuador, in Panama
and Coast three Gunaal. I love the plays with Mexico
that hemisphere. Venezuela one of the most oil rich countries,
even more oil than Saudi Arabia, one of the most
mineral rich resources on the planet. Venezuela is an amazing country.
Before shav is a Maduro and they're the ones that
took again socialism doesn't work. They took their country down
a very dark road to the point that they were
trying to convince their people to eat rabbits. It should
not be that way. It could be the Switzerland of
this hemisphere. It's an amazing country. And if it falls,
if I want to say went, it's going to fall.
So when the Maduro regime falls and the democratic elected
people serve and they create their system of their parliamentary
system of government and some kind of Democrat Republic. It
has a domino effect because right now Cuba needs oil
from Venezuela to survive. The only thing propping them up
right now is Venezuelan resources to keep Cuba alive at all,
because the Russians aren't gonna help, they're too tie down.
The Chinese don't want to get involved in that. So
Venezuela falling and the US oil companies and other oil
companies running those companies again with all that oil and
shutting off the pipeline to communist socialist Cuba, also shutting
down stuff to Noriega, who's still in charge of Nicaragua,
just north of Costa Rica. So Nicaragua would also probably fall,
So those two regimes would fall. So you end up
with three countries in this hemisphere, all falling and probably
becoming most likely Democrat Democrat, not Democrat party, but democratic.
You also have right now, you have the success story
of Argentina, which has become very libertarian, is doing very well.
They've turned their accounty around Chile, the country of Chile
moving to the right, the Colombia also moving to the right. Look,
there is a massive transformation of Central and South America
right now that could go. That could really leave two
countries kind of isolated. When i'm Ecuador is going to
have to decide what they want to do, but Brazil
is going to have to decide where it wants to
in Mexico, and it's thirty plus states, the thirty two states,
it's going to have to side how far they want
to go down the narco terrorism route, because the narco
terrorism situation in Mexico will be the last remaining bastion
of that way of being. And the Mexicans are paying
attention to what's happening in Venezuela because they don't need
that to happen. Luckily, the president of Mexico is not
the head of a cartel. There are multiple cartels that
can't stand each other. If anything, you could probably so
division between the cartels and they take each other out.
But with Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina, you
have a basis from the US all the way to
the Antarctic of stable countries that have human rights, that
have democratically elected leadership, that have a conservative bent. It
could be transformational for this hemisphere and it could lead
to a repudiation of the Chinese influence down there. If
you ever go to Ecuador, you'd see its massive in
several countries, a massive Chinese influence. And we could rid
our ourselves of that menace, which is what we need
to do. So Venezuela. When you hear stories about Venezuela,
and I'm not trying to go on a soapbox here
too much, don't look at it as an isolated place.
Look at it as the domino that needs to fall.
And if you look at it from that perspective, that
domino has a huge effect in our entire hemisphere and
could lead to Mexico becoming a very different place in
the near future. So that's my two cents worth all that.
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Speaker 2: And these next two stories that I'm going to try
to as we wrap things up, I'm going to try
I'm going to beat as delicate as possible. One is
climate related, so don't turn off your radios, don't turn
off your podcast. Just bear with me. It's short, and
it is the changing nature where we find ourselves before
global warming catastrophes. And this is from the editorial board
at Insights and Issues Issues and Insights. Rather before global warming,
we were supposed to have an I says that was
the big warning. For a while. Now we're hearing again
that a big freeze is on the way, what do
we do best just to ignore it? Since predicting the
future climate based on human activity as a narcissistic folly, in
nineteen seventy, University California Davis icologist Kenneth Watt pulled the
alarm handle on our planet, he said, has been chilling
sharply for twenty years. If present trends continue, the world
would be about four degrees colder by nineteen ninety, but
eleven degrees colder in the year two thousand. That's about
twice what it would take to put us into an
ice age. Didn't happen. Instead, climate activists then shifted and
had been promising an overheated future since nineteen eighty eight,
when Senate hearing James Hansen in a Senate here and
claimed the greenhouse effect is here. We have since been
inundated with predictions the band's combustion of fossil fuels was
just going to roast us, it would cause more frequent
and damaging storms didn't happen. Clamatus drouts, overflowing rains, the
wildness of wildfire's sea level rise, just to name a few.
The X essential threat is always just around the corner
by the way, isn't it's it's you know that Donald
Trump's an existential threat. Really they think he will be
just like this, but we can't see it. We just
know it's there, convincing you of that is what the
green left has always done to get more power, wealth
and influence. And yet despite this, humanity is moving on.
But now a new threat has emerged. Carbon dioxide quote
might be a factor in turning warming events into ice ages,
according to Science Magazine. Or maybe it's not too soon
to tell. And it's likely that it will always be
too soon to tell, since, contrary to the left leaning
media's take, most climate warming science is hotly debated and
therefore not certain. In any event, let's not confuse this
report with one that, according to The New York Post,
also floats the idea that a new ice age is coming,
in this case, because the Gulf Stream just off the
coast of our beautiful state is almost at collapse. Reminder,
just a reminder. This is just a couple of weeks
after influential arch global warmest and multi billionaire Bill Gates
announced a change of heart about climate change, saying that quote,
climate change will not lead to humanity's demise people will
be able to live and thrive in most places on
Earth for the foreseeable future. So saith Bill Gates, which
is now why he's not a champion for the political left.
Whatever the supposed state of the climate is, no matter
what dangerous trends of allegedly been identified, we suggest the
editorial Board of Issues and Insights suggests that everyone should
take the new information to do well nothing, because that's
roughly what it's worth. So I wanted to pass that
along before I try to get into this next one,
which I don't think that I will get through, but
I'm going to throw it out there. And this is
what is somebody's going to scream and yell at the station.
I apologize in advance, but it is about gluten sensitivity. Okay,
not a doctor not telling you what to do. I'm
just passing along from the American Council of Science and Health,
and it is that. This is by Chuck Dinnerston, who
is an MD. The past twenty years have seen gluten
sensitivity transform from a fringe concern into a mainstream cultural identity,
powered more by consumer experience, psychology, and industry dynamics than
by anything biological. This rapid rise has left many people
ensure if there is any scientific consensus for this popular belief.
Our findings show that symptoms are more often triggered by
fermentable carbohydrates commonly known as FOD maps, by other weak components,
or by people's expectations, according to Jessica Bisserkarski, head of
the Human Nutrition Group the University of Melbourne, at this point,
most of us know someone who's identifies as gluten sensitive. Culturally,
ideas gone up with gluten free eating wellness trends and
widespread belief that gluten causes fatigue, bloating, brain fog or
other vague symptoms. Again, not attacking any of you that
feel this way, however, medical understanding of that experience is
very narrow and the cultural phenomenon is much wider. Non
seliac gluten sensitivity Again, gluten sensitivity seliac if you do
have coeliac disease, gluten is something you don't tolerate well.
But we've had millions of people that claim they're gluten
sensitive that don't have celiac. It's the medical term for
that condition, referring to individuals who experience things but do
not have coeliac that lacks a diagnostic In other words,
there's no way to test you for this. It's a
known biological mechanism or clear symptom patterns. You can't tell
if someone's got this alleged n CGS. To understand why
the symptoms are so difficult, it helps to look more
closely at what gluten actually contains. Gluten is the main
storage protein and wheat and gives do its stretch elastic qualities.
It provides most of the grains protein content. It's rich
and amino acids protein glutamine, making it difficult for the
system to fully break it down. As a result, people
think something's wrong with it. Studies from around the world
show that about ten percent of people report being sensitive
to gluten, though estimates range from four to fifteen percent,
numbers significantly inflated in control studies, they don't show that
at all. But let's get to the end of this one,
because I don't want to belabor this too much, because
we're right up to against the top of the hour.
In the end, what we do know at the end,
the result is a self sustaining cultural loop most people.
More people try and free diets out of curiosity or
wellness motivations. Many folks do feel better, often because they
are inadvertently reducing their intake of ultra process products. In
other words, the fact that they're changing is why they
feel better. It has nothing to do with gluten. But
they want to look at this a lot more. But
is it interesting? Just an interesting observation.
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