1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 I Daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:30,079 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 2: This is not what I'm gonna belabor, but it's just 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,000 proof of the wackado nature of our world right now. 12 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,359 The World's Strongest Woman winner was stripped of her tut 13 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:42,640 his title after organizers found that she was actually he. 14 00:00:42,799 --> 00:00:45,600 The Official strong Man Games who released a statement after 15 00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:50,240 suspected trans competitor Jamie Booker won the games Official Official 16 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,439 strong Man officials, we're unaware of this fact ahead of 17 00:00:52,439 --> 00:00:55,759 the competition, and we have been urgently investigating since being informed. 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,600 An attempt has been made to contact the competitor involved, 19 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,320 but a response has not been received. They announced on Instagram. 20 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,880 Had we been aware or had this been declared at 21 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,680 any point? In other words, had someone been honest point 22 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,400 or during the competition. This athlete would not have been 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,519 permitted to compete in the woman's open category. Given this, 24 00:01:12,599 --> 00:01:15,640 we have disqualified the athlete in question from the Official 25 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,799 Strongman World Championships. All athletes points and places will be 26 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,319 altered accordingly. In other words, a woman is going to 27 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,319 be awarded the title. But think about this, you didn't 28 00:01:25,359 --> 00:01:28,000 get the glory if you're a woman and you trained, 29 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,400 and you worked and tirelessly and you put time, effort, 30 00:01:30,519 --> 00:01:34,560 energy for years, weeks, months, whatever, and you actually won. 31 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,640 You didn't get to. You didn't get to walk up 32 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,879 on stage. You didn't get to You had to sit 33 00:01:38,879 --> 00:01:41,799 in a second place. And then after the fact, you 34 00:01:41,879 --> 00:01:44,760 get awarded the title when nobody's looking and when no 35 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:47,040 one knows who you are. And that's the kind of 36 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:53,519 just misguided crazy through the looking glass that I'm sorry 37 00:01:53,599 --> 00:02:00,439 you're born the way you're born. And it's just said 38 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:03,040 to me that we've reached a point in society where 39 00:02:03,079 --> 00:02:06,879 this is, uh, this is a thing. Now another one 40 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,599 in the Oh my god, I can't believe I stepped 41 00:02:09,599 --> 00:02:13,719 in it files. So Campbell soup, Campbell soup, Yes, that 42 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,680 Campbell soup is in a bit of a kerfluffle. Florida 43 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,080 Attorney general said he will shut down violators of the 44 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,439 state's law on lab grown meat after launching an investigation 45 00:02:24,479 --> 00:02:28,159 into campbell Soup over a secret recording of an executive 46 00:02:28,159 --> 00:02:31,680 at the company. What wait, Campbell's soup soup is good food. 47 00:02:31,879 --> 00:02:34,719 You know everybody knows the jingle, right. We don't do 48 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,000 fake lab grown meat here in Florida. We'll enforce the 49 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:42,280 laws and shut down, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said 50 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,280 on x Olthemeyer said the state's Consumer Protection Division is 51 00:02:46,319 --> 00:02:49,159 launching an investigation into the company. Now you're gonna say, 52 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:51,680 what is chat talking about? Why? Why is the state's 53 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:56,680 attorney general in Florida concern about this? WDIV broadcast portions 54 00:02:56,719 --> 00:02:59,719 of the recording. In the recording, WDIV beting a station. 55 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:04,599 In the recording, a speaker identified as Campbell's vice president 56 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,759 and chief information security officer Martin Bally is heard saying, 57 00:03:09,199 --> 00:03:14,520 we have blank for blanking poor people who buys our blank. 58 00:03:15,319 --> 00:03:18,360 I don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy. 59 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,159 Now that I know what the blank is in it, 60 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,000 the speaker said again, I can't repeat what he said. 61 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,479 The speaker also referenced bio engineered meat, saying, I don't 62 00:03:26,479 --> 00:03:29,319 want to eat a blanking piece of chicken that came 63 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,680 from a three D printer. We use one hundred percent. 64 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,240 So that's on the recording, and so Campbell's soup is 65 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,199 doing absolutely all the damage control they can right now. 66 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,639 Soup is good food. Well, I don't know if it's 67 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,560 good food. It's I'm not the one who said it. 68 00:03:43,599 --> 00:03:47,039 Here's a James Reagan, director of External Communication, that Campbell 69 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,159 told Newsweek. We use one hundred percent real chicken in 70 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:51,919 our soups. The chicken meat comes from long trusted USDA 71 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,199 approved us suppliers and meats our high quality standards. All 72 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,840 of our soups are made with no antibiotics ever chicken meat. 73 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,120 Any claims to the contrary are completely false. What about 74 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,520 the beef or the y I'm just kidding. I don't know. 75 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,960 The development and sale of lab grown meat is banned 76 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,360 in seven states. According to the South Carolina Daily Gazette. 77 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,919 Florida's band was signed into law last year. Today, Florida 78 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,399 is fighting back against the global elites plan to force 79 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:18,360 the world to eat meat grown in a peatriot dish 80 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:21,120 or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals. Florida Governor Ron 81 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,600 DeSantis said, our administration will continue to focus on investing 82 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,079 in local farms and ranchers, and we will save our beef. 83 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,959 What to Know. Robert Garza, former employee the company, told 84 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,920 wd IV that he recorded the hour long comments from Bali, 85 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,839 where he discussed bioengineered meat and other topics. Garza is 86 00:04:38,879 --> 00:04:45,480 suing Campbell's Soup and supervisor JD Apparel Aparel Apparel say 87 00:04:45,519 --> 00:04:48,759 That Right for employment discrimination retaliation. The lawsuit claims he 88 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:52,879 was fired Gaza in retaliation for raising concerns about a 89 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,920 hostile work environment. So interesting. So Campbell's Soup not having 90 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,879 a great day, obviously, and I don't know where this 91 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,920 always going to go. But it's sad when a guy 92 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,399 inside the company at the upper echelons is saying I 93 00:05:04,439 --> 00:05:07,360 ain't gonna eat it, but he did say I barely 94 00:05:07,399 --> 00:05:09,040 eat it. So I don't know if he still eats 95 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,519 the vegetarian parts, but he says I barely eat it. 96 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,399 You know that's uh. Hey, I grew up in a 97 00:05:14,439 --> 00:05:17,279 Wrangler jeans home. I edward for Bluebell headquartered out of Greensboro. 98 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,480 I wasn't aware of a low to wear Levi's, but 99 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:21,519 he never would have come on and said our jeans sucked, 100 00:05:21,519 --> 00:05:24,879 don't They're terrible? You know, we you know. And he's 101 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,360 very brand loyal for the company he worked for until 102 00:05:28,519 --> 00:05:31,319 they weren't what they were. So I don't know where 103 00:05:31,319 --> 00:05:33,000 the Campbell's suit story is going to go. I find 104 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,279 it fascinating that this guy said I don't buy Campbell's 105 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:40,480 products barely anymore than so, which means he still buys them. 106 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,199 And if it's as bad as he says you have to, 107 00:05:42,319 --> 00:05:44,920 why are you barely buying it at all? It's not 108 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 healthy now that I know what the blank is in it, 109 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,199 I don't want to eat a blanking piece of chicken 110 00:05:50,199 --> 00:05:53,000 that came from a three D printer. And then he tried. 111 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:54,959 Then he threw the poor out of the bus and said, hey, 112 00:05:54,959 --> 00:05:57,759 we have blank for blanking poor people who buys us. 113 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:03,519 So he's classed delinear the entire company, every Campbell brand. 114 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,680 Campbell's a big company, been around forever, but this is 115 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,560 not going well at all. So I don't know where 116 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:16,120 the story ends up. But luckily, soup is not a 117 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,879 staple for Thanksgiving, so maybe we'll get to the bottom 118 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,839 of the story. But when I saw it come across 119 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,759 the wire, I was just like, what a weird story 120 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,319 that they're self imploding from the inside and trying to 121 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:31,560 say But he didn't address the beef part. He said, yeah, 122 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,800 our chicken is real. He didn't say anything about the beef. 123 00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:38,000 So it makes you wonder. I hate but he went 124 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,879 out of his way to say the chicken is real. 125 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,040 And so that's what made me question it because I said, 126 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,000 wait a minute, there's more than chicken in Campbell's soups. 127 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,920 Your chicken's real, but what about your beef? I just 128 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,759 don't know. Now, do you want to give you a 129 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,040 little update? And we'll probably talk about it a little 130 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,199 bit on the other side of the break, but I 131 00:06:56,199 --> 00:06:57,759 wanted to give you kind of an update to where's 132 00:06:57,759 --> 00:07:00,680 where we are. So the dal Jones Industrialized up five 133 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,519 seventy today, and if you look at year to date, 134 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,000 the Dow is up almost eleven percent. Now I'll go 135 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,160 into this a little more, and again I don't want 136 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:11,519 to base it on just one day. That's why I'm 137 00:07:11,519 --> 00:07:13,680 giving you the year to date. Today the S and 138 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,560 P is up and if you look at it year 139 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,800 to date, it's up about fifteen percent. And if you 140 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,560 look at Nasdaq, the tech heavy side of things, it's 141 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:23,360 up today about one fourteen as of you know, this moment. 142 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,920 Year to date, it's up almost twenty percent, nineteen point 143 00:07:25,959 --> 00:07:28,040 two two percent. And I bring all that on the 144 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:29,480 other side of the RK. We'll talk a little bit 145 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,120 about that. I'm not going to belabor it and get into, 146 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:36,240 you know, all sorts of profit margins and stuff like that. 147 00:07:36,279 --> 00:07:39,199 What I do want to say is what people were saying. 148 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,199 Speaker 1: All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 149 00:07:41,279 --> 00:07:43,279 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 150 00:07:43,279 --> 00:07:45,360 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 151 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,439 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, 152 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,160 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 153 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,399 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app 154 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:58,800 and it's a website and it combines news from around 155 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:01,639 the world in one place. You can compare coverage and 156 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,560 verify information. 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Your subscription then not 167 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,120 only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News 168 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:43,759 as they make the media landscape more transparent. 169 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 2: One of the issues I'm not going to belabor this one, 170 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,559 but I want to mention it is minimum wage. We 171 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:50,919 probably will talk about later, But I do want to 172 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:53,080 get to the markets a little bit. And I'm doing 173 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,360 this only not because I look. I'm a long term investor, 174 00:08:57,399 --> 00:09:00,600 so markets EBB and flow, and if it's are tanking 175 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,399 and you're buying when it's down and it goes back up, 176 00:09:02,399 --> 00:09:04,519 your benefit from that as long as you're looking at 177 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:06,519 you know, five ten year horizons and you've been doing 178 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,320 it since you're eighteen rights and you're gonna you're gonna 179 00:09:08,399 --> 00:09:10,519 just you're just gonna kill it. It's just an amazing 180 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,399 thing to see if you're if you're not looking at 181 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:15,799 it every day and getting anxiety and taking xanax every 182 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,240 time there's a market shift. The reason I say this 183 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,639 is in broad, broad, huge, huge terms. I can well 184 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,000 remember when when Trump took office in January this year 185 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,159 and the markets were you know, shaky at best, and 186 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:34,440 and everyone I can remember all of my leftist friends saying, oh, yeah, 187 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,279 I didn't think it was going to destroy My four 188 00:09:36,279 --> 00:09:38,159 were one, kay, look at this the market. Look it's 189 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,679 gone down. It was hovering that they were turning to 190 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,120 the Dow Jones. They all were a Nasdak called them 191 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,279 long April about the April of this year, earlier this year, 192 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,360 and and then they got oddly silent. As it is, 193 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:53,919 it broke through at least the Dow Jones forty five 194 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,559 and started going and zoomed up to forty eight. Now 195 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:58,840 since it's come back off those highs. But the markets 196 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,399 are that there's a a lot of science and a 197 00:10:01,399 --> 00:10:04,519 lot of psychology behind the way markets work. And I'm saying, 198 00:10:04,639 --> 00:10:07,399 if you were to have had, let's just say at 199 00:10:07,399 --> 00:10:11,000 the beginning of the year, that you invested money in 200 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:13,480 an index fund for the dal Jones, the Nasdaq, or 201 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:16,159 the SMP kind of the three broad endices that people 202 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:17,200 look at and I don't want to get in the 203 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,120 weeds with this, is that if you had done that, 204 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,399 so right now it's up. It's up about five seventy today, 205 00:10:23,399 --> 00:10:25,759 which is just breaking over forty seven thousand. It's been 206 00:10:25,799 --> 00:10:27,960 to forty eight, so it's off. It's high. But let's 207 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,440 just say that you did that. You know, January first, 208 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,879 you're up eleven percent, meaning that if you put money 209 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:36,519 in it, you're up eleven percent. That's a good return. 210 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,600 That's a good year. Is if you were retired and 211 00:10:38,639 --> 00:10:40,799 you had that index, that's a good year for you. 212 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,840 If you were in the S and P and you 213 00:10:42,879 --> 00:10:44,919 put whatever amount of money in. Now the S and 214 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,639 P is up about fifty two points, less than a percent, 215 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:51,679 but year to date it's up fifteen percentage points, so 216 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,120 over fifteen percent return over the course of your year, 217 00:10:56,799 --> 00:10:59,639 just in an index fund, not even picking and choosing stocks, 218 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,639 you know, and there's a lot. Look, I'm not giving 219 00:11:02,639 --> 00:11:04,759 you stock and I'm not giving you advice here, it's 220 00:11:04,799 --> 00:11:06,799 not my job. A long time ago it would have been, 221 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,320 but not in this current waymbley. And then if you 222 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,240 look at the now Nasdaq is where it's heavily tech 223 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:15,120 and we now in America have four companies that are 224 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:20,320 worth over a trillion dollars. That's an astounding accomplishment that 225 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,440 you have four companies that are worth over a trillion dollars. 226 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:25,039 But had you invested in NASDK at the beginning of 227 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,960 the year, you'd be around nineteen percent return on your investment. Now, 228 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,360 remember the political left was losing its mind. Tariffs were 229 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,120 going to destroy the economy. It was going to be terrible, 230 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:37,840 we were going to have it was just it was 231 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:41,080 going to create massive unemployment. None of their and again 232 00:11:42,399 --> 00:11:44,679 none of their predictions came true. But have they have 233 00:11:44,759 --> 00:11:46,399 they backed up and said, you know what, we just 234 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,039 missed it. Again, an honest politician would just say, you 235 00:11:49,039 --> 00:11:51,519 know what, we were wrong about the tariffs. Look, I 236 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,440 wanted to be I wasn't a real big fan of 237 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,679 the tariffs, I'm gonna tell you right now. But as 238 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,840 a tool for foreign policy they've been absolutely phenomenal. They've 239 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:08,200 been a rather fascinating way because again, the difference between 240 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,639 taxes and tariffs is tariffs aren't permanent, and that's a 241 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,639 huge distinction with the difference. Again, context is everything. When 242 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,039 Democrats pass some kind of increase in taxes. It's it's 243 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,399 it's almost Moses parting the Red Sea or God partying 244 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,480 on Moses' behalf of getting those taxes removed gotten. There's 245 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:31,559 nothing more permanent than a government than a temporary government program. Right, 246 00:12:32,279 --> 00:12:34,200 And again I didn't say that someone much bars. I 247 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,000 don't know if that was a Milton Friedman or something. 248 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:41,519 But again, it is literally an Act of Congress that 249 00:12:41,519 --> 00:12:44,840 they could change it. But but tariffs are a means 250 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,080 to an end a tariffs are a way to equaliz 251 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:48,960 I you know, never seen them use that way. Usually 252 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,240 a lot of people would put tariffs in like they 253 00:12:50,279 --> 00:12:53,480 wood taxes. This administration is using them as a tool 254 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:57,519 to accomplish and and create a better trade situation for 255 00:12:57,639 --> 00:13:01,600 the country. And in that respect it has worked very well. 256 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,679 I don't know where it's going to end up, but 257 00:13:04,039 --> 00:13:06,600 at least at this point, it has been very effective. 258 00:13:06,639 --> 00:13:09,559 And inflation hasn't been the problem that people predicted it would, 259 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:11,399 even Stephen Moore, it's a very art laugher in these 260 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:15,519 guys out there. It hasn't been an overly horrific situation. 261 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,759 So in many respects, this has been a very strong 262 00:13:19,759 --> 00:13:23,320 and robust economy. It has been pretty good. It is, 263 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:25,720 and that doesn't and it is. You can kind of 264 00:13:25,799 --> 00:13:28,600 tell because you don't have democrats screaming. You do in 265 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:31,000 England right now, because England's a bit of a different 266 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:33,600 mess for a different reason. But you don't have If 267 00:13:33,639 --> 00:13:36,039 it were, democrats would be screaming about minimum wage. It's 268 00:13:36,039 --> 00:13:38,679 funny they're talking about affordability but not about minimum wage. 269 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,240 And minimum wage is one of the biggest false arguments 270 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,919 you could ever have, because a wage is a reflection 271 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,480 of a service or a product you know, that you 272 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:51,480 produce and you're providing to society. You you know, otherwise 273 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,320 a Lamborghini and a Hugo would a Pugio, I don't know, 274 00:13:55,759 --> 00:13:58,240 a Hundai or something would cost the same. They don't. 275 00:13:58,399 --> 00:14:00,600 It costs more to build and produce, an engineer and 276 00:14:00,639 --> 00:14:03,240 all that stuff. You don't pay people that are building 277 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:06,399 Hyundai is the same as you would pay for Ferrari's production. 278 00:14:06,519 --> 00:14:09,799 It's different, and that's okay. That's the free market at work. 279 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,679 You want to be able to produce goods and services. 280 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:13,279 You want to do it at an affordable price. You 281 00:14:13,279 --> 00:14:17,519 want to be able to do these phenomenal things. The 282 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,840 point being minimum wage. You can tell that Democrats are 283 00:14:19,879 --> 00:14:22,399 kind of backing off that what Trump did was kind 284 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,679 of interesting. On the minimum wage side of things. Instead 285 00:14:24,679 --> 00:14:27,159 of saying, hey, let's increase your minimum wage, what he 286 00:14:27,279 --> 00:14:29,279 said is let you keep more of what you make, 287 00:14:29,879 --> 00:14:32,279 which is a better argument than saying tax cut, because 288 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,679 every time a Republican says tax cut, Democrats scream, you 289 00:14:34,679 --> 00:14:36,399 want to help the rich. But when Trump said no 290 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,240 taxes on tips, the Democrats were left to say, well, 291 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:42,879 we kind of like that, but we don't like him, 292 00:14:42,919 --> 00:14:47,080 so what can we do? And that's different when you 293 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,200 get to keep more of what you make, rather than 294 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,039 giving you more or alleging that you're going to get 295 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,440 more money. The problem when you create when you increase 296 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,519 minimal wages is you decrease the company's ability to hire 297 00:14:57,559 --> 00:15:00,799 more workers because you get what's called way compression. You're 298 00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:03,240 pushing the bottom up, and then every wage above that 299 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,080 has to go up commensurate to that, and then you've 300 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,679 created an inflation area. You've just created a really bad 301 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,039 thing that doesn't make the goods and services cost less. 302 00:15:12,039 --> 00:15:15,919 In fact, it's pushing the prices up artificially to make whatever. 303 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,000 When you do that, it's why we're less competitive on 304 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,559 the global stage. So that being said, just worth noting. 305 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:24,960 Democrats aren't scream about affordability right now, but they're not 306 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,240 screaming about minimum wage that is soon to come off. 307 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,759 Sure it's another one, but their class warfare, due to 308 00:15:31,639 --> 00:15:34,639 the way in which Trump operates, is not working like 309 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,240 it used to. The class warfare argument is not working 310 00:15:38,559 --> 00:15:40,559 like it used to, and that's why Democrats are kind 311 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,519 of wandering around heading more to the left. They're going 312 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,799 more left rather than learning to be more moderate. 313 00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:48,559 Speaker 1: Here's a great idea. 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Why do you want to 340 00:17:13,759 --> 00:17:17,240 do that? So, because there are a lot of implications 341 00:17:17,279 --> 00:17:19,720 here now, I'm not going to get into all of 342 00:17:19,799 --> 00:17:22,960 the details about the taking out of drug boats. I 343 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,160 think that's a great debate to be had. I mean, 344 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:32,319 I can absolutely, from a straight up perspective say, I 345 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,160 see both sides of the argument about taking out drug boats. 346 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,720 On the one side, these people are importing absolute poison 347 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,720 that it's killing US citizens. They are doing it with 348 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,599 the permission of a government that is x enough. Those 349 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,319 boats were full of sidewinder missiles being taken up to 350 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,400 New York City and you let them come into the city. 351 00:17:50,599 --> 00:17:52,839 You just wouldn't do that. You know, you could say, 352 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:54,400 we'll just follow the drug boat until they get to 353 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,839 a certain point and have whatever. But that's this doesn't 354 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,200 work that way. And so on the one hand, these 355 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,799 people are exporting poison. It is intentional. It is meant 356 00:18:03,839 --> 00:18:06,440 to hurt our country and profit off of us, off 357 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,359 of our appetite for drugs, and on the so that 358 00:18:09,839 --> 00:18:13,519 absolutely bad guys. On the other is, you know, without 359 00:18:13,559 --> 00:18:16,799 a declared war and without a declared military action, without 360 00:18:16,799 --> 00:18:20,839 Congress's oversight, do I have questions about them taking out 361 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,119 these struggles And just you're on a drug boat, you're 362 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,440 screaming across the Caribbean coming to the US or coming 363 00:18:25,519 --> 00:18:28,480 up the Pacific coasts and they're going to take you out. Now, 364 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,599 good news, bad news there. The word has definitely spread 365 00:18:31,599 --> 00:18:33,720 to these guys. Hey, you know you can you see 366 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:35,400 you know, hey, Hector, do you want to take the 367 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,480 boat out? N I got to go see my sister. No, 368 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:40,359 you can tell you can take you can take the boat. 369 00:18:40,599 --> 00:18:44,039 And I'm sure the word's gotten out that the past 370 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,160 ten boats that have gone haven't come back. Those guys 371 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,680 are gone. So it does create a deterrence. But you 372 00:18:51,759 --> 00:18:54,519 are taking human lives. Now, you're taking out bad guys, 373 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:59,559 but you're you're killing folks. So you know it's US 374 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,960 military car people break things. Are those the enemies of 375 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,359 the United States. It's a little bit of a gray 376 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,319 area to me. So I see both sides of that issue. Now, 377 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,960 having declared that gang a menace to society as a 378 00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:17,880 terrorist organization on Maduro, that is, that is going to 379 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,359 create a problem for him. So he's the head of 380 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:27,720 this terror organization. In many ways that Maduro is the 381 00:19:27,759 --> 00:19:31,400 head of the terror organization, and the US government has 382 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,519 declared that a terrorist organization. Now he can be taken 383 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,559 he can be taken out, he can be picked up, 384 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,960 he can be prosecuted in a US court. He is. 385 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,319 It's a serious, serious problem for them. Now add to this, 386 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:46,480 and this is part that you probably didn't already know, 387 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,759 is that there's a fifty or there was a fifty 388 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:54,279 million dollar reward put on Maduro a while back. So 389 00:19:54,319 --> 00:19:57,319 there's billboards all over Venezuela with a fifty million dollar 390 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,480 reward for information leading to his you know, for a 391 00:20:01,559 --> 00:20:05,519 narco terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation, conspiracy to use and carry 392 00:20:05,559 --> 00:20:09,000 machine guns and destructive devices in furtherance of a drug crime. 393 00:20:10,279 --> 00:20:12,799 So is that going to change anything. No, But here's 394 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,039 and there's a much bigger issue at play. So he 395 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:17,880 is now the head of a terror organization. The US 396 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,400 government can act somewhat with impunity to go and take 397 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,160 him out. He can leave peacefully, or he can leave 398 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,960 in a box. I think that's the attitude that this 399 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,079 administration has toward him. Now, his generals, many of which 400 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,200 are part of the organization as well, have to decide 401 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:33,960 how deep their loyalty lies. Do you want to challenge 402 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,519 the USS Jerald Forward and multiple attack groups that are 403 00:20:37,599 --> 00:20:39,359 right off your coast with some of the most advanced 404 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,839 weaponry know to mankind, or do you want to have 405 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,319 allegiance to a drug lord that's choosing the money to 406 00:20:44,599 --> 00:20:47,160 keep himself in power even though he didn't win the election. 407 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,119 I don't know. That's where it's now, in the larger 408 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,559 theater of operations down there, if you're familiar. I grew 409 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,319 up in Puerto Rico. I've traveled to Ecuador, in Panama 410 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:58,920 and Coast three Gunaal. I love the plays with Mexico 411 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,759 that hemisphere. Venezuela one of the most oil rich countries, 412 00:21:03,799 --> 00:21:06,000 even more oil than Saudi Arabia, one of the most 413 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:10,799 mineral rich resources on the planet. Venezuela is an amazing country. 414 00:21:10,799 --> 00:21:13,200 Before shav is a Maduro and they're the ones that 415 00:21:13,279 --> 00:21:16,039 took again socialism doesn't work. They took their country down 416 00:21:16,039 --> 00:21:17,599 a very dark road to the point that they were 417 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,559 trying to convince their people to eat rabbits. It should 418 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:24,000 not be that way. It could be the Switzerland of 419 00:21:24,039 --> 00:21:28,160 this hemisphere. It's an amazing country. And if it falls, 420 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,519 if I want to say went, it's going to fall. 421 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:35,519 So when the Maduro regime falls and the democratic elected 422 00:21:35,559 --> 00:21:38,960 people serve and they create their system of their parliamentary 423 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:43,000 system of government and some kind of Democrat Republic. It 424 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,680 has a domino effect because right now Cuba needs oil 425 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,319 from Venezuela to survive. The only thing propping them up 426 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:56,000 right now is Venezuelan resources to keep Cuba alive at all, 427 00:21:56,519 --> 00:21:58,920 because the Russians aren't gonna help, they're too tie down. 428 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,359 The Chinese don't want to get involved in that. So 429 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,440 Venezuela falling and the US oil companies and other oil 430 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,839 companies running those companies again with all that oil and 431 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:12,839 shutting off the pipeline to communist socialist Cuba, also shutting 432 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,680 down stuff to Noriega, who's still in charge of Nicaragua, 433 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,880 just north of Costa Rica. So Nicaragua would also probably fall, 434 00:22:19,279 --> 00:22:21,680 So those two regimes would fall. So you end up 435 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,720 with three countries in this hemisphere, all falling and probably 436 00:22:25,759 --> 00:22:30,240 becoming most likely Democrat Democrat, not Democrat party, but democratic. 437 00:22:31,039 --> 00:22:33,200 You also have right now, you have the success story 438 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,359 of Argentina, which has become very libertarian, is doing very well. 439 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,240 They've turned their accounty around Chile, the country of Chile 440 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,880 moving to the right, the Colombia also moving to the right. Look, 441 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,720 there is a massive transformation of Central and South America 442 00:22:46,799 --> 00:22:49,839 right now that could go. That could really leave two 443 00:22:49,839 --> 00:22:52,119 countries kind of isolated. When i'm Ecuador is going to 444 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:53,880 have to decide what they want to do, but Brazil 445 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,680 is going to have to decide where it wants to 446 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,759 in Mexico, and it's thirty plus states, the thirty two states, 447 00:22:59,319 --> 00:23:01,160 it's going to have to side how far they want 448 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,319 to go down the narco terrorism route, because the narco 449 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,079 terrorism situation in Mexico will be the last remaining bastion 450 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,640 of that way of being. And the Mexicans are paying 451 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,480 attention to what's happening in Venezuela because they don't need 452 00:23:13,519 --> 00:23:15,519 that to happen. Luckily, the president of Mexico is not 453 00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:17,559 the head of a cartel. There are multiple cartels that 454 00:23:17,559 --> 00:23:19,920 can't stand each other. If anything, you could probably so 455 00:23:20,799 --> 00:23:23,000 division between the cartels and they take each other out. 456 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:32,759 But with Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina, you 457 00:23:33,319 --> 00:23:35,599 have a basis from the US all the way to 458 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:43,039 the Antarctic of stable countries that have human rights, that 459 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:48,000 have democratically elected leadership, that have a conservative bent. It 460 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:52,160 could be transformational for this hemisphere and it could lead 461 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,920 to a repudiation of the Chinese influence down there. If 462 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:56,759 you ever go to Ecuador, you'd see its massive in 463 00:23:56,799 --> 00:23:59,839 several countries, a massive Chinese influence. And we could rid 464 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,200 our ourselves of that menace, which is what we need 465 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,960 to do. So Venezuela. When you hear stories about Venezuela, 466 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,839 and I'm not trying to go on a soapbox here 467 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:09,839 too much, don't look at it as an isolated place. 468 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,720 Look at it as the domino that needs to fall. 469 00:24:13,279 --> 00:24:16,000 And if you look at it from that perspective, that 470 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:20,079 domino has a huge effect in our entire hemisphere and 471 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,920 could lead to Mexico becoming a very different place in 472 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,599 the near future. So that's my two cents worth all that. 473 00:24:26,039 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 1: You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense 474 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,880 of things, to understand experiences. 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One is 495 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,279 climate related, so don't turn off your radios, don't turn 496 00:25:41,319 --> 00:25:45,559 off your podcast. Just bear with me. It's short, and 497 00:25:45,599 --> 00:25:48,920 it is the changing nature where we find ourselves before 498 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,200 global warming catastrophes. And this is from the editorial board 499 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:57,000 at Insights and Issues Issues and Insights. Rather before global warming, 500 00:25:57,559 --> 00:25:59,680 we were supposed to have an I says that was 501 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,359 the big warning. For a while. Now we're hearing again 502 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,759 that a big freeze is on the way, what do 503 00:26:04,799 --> 00:26:07,599 we do best just to ignore it? Since predicting the 504 00:26:07,599 --> 00:26:10,640 future climate based on human activity as a narcissistic folly, in 505 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:15,160 nineteen seventy, University California Davis icologist Kenneth Watt pulled the 506 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,359 alarm handle on our planet, he said, has been chilling 507 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,319 sharply for twenty years. If present trends continue, the world 508 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,799 would be about four degrees colder by nineteen ninety, but 509 00:26:24,039 --> 00:26:26,960 eleven degrees colder in the year two thousand. That's about 510 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,480 twice what it would take to put us into an 511 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,640 ice age. Didn't happen. Instead, climate activists then shifted and 512 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,519 had been promising an overheated future since nineteen eighty eight, 513 00:26:35,559 --> 00:26:38,000 when Senate hearing James Hansen in a Senate here and 514 00:26:38,039 --> 00:26:40,480 claimed the greenhouse effect is here. We have since been 515 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,680 inundated with predictions the band's combustion of fossil fuels was 516 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,359 just going to roast us, it would cause more frequent 517 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,759 and damaging storms didn't happen. Clamatus drouts, overflowing rains, the 518 00:26:49,759 --> 00:26:52,839 wildness of wildfire's sea level rise, just to name a few. 519 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,119 The X essential threat is always just around the corner 520 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,599 by the way, isn't it's it's you know that Donald 521 00:26:58,599 --> 00:27:01,400 Trump's an existential threat. Really they think he will be 522 00:27:02,319 --> 00:27:04,519 just like this, but we can't see it. We just 523 00:27:04,599 --> 00:27:06,519 know it's there, convincing you of that is what the 524 00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:08,839 green left has always done to get more power, wealth 525 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,480 and influence. And yet despite this, humanity is moving on. 526 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,480 But now a new threat has emerged. Carbon dioxide quote 527 00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:19,200 might be a factor in turning warming events into ice ages, 528 00:27:19,519 --> 00:27:23,039 according to Science Magazine. Or maybe it's not too soon 529 00:27:23,079 --> 00:27:24,759 to tell. And it's likely that it will always be 530 00:27:24,839 --> 00:27:27,039 too soon to tell, since, contrary to the left leaning 531 00:27:27,079 --> 00:27:29,799 media's take, most climate warming science is hotly debated and 532 00:27:29,799 --> 00:27:32,599 therefore not certain. In any event, let's not confuse this 533 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,839 report with one that, according to The New York Post, 534 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,559 also floats the idea that a new ice age is coming, 535 00:27:37,559 --> 00:27:40,359 in this case, because the Gulf Stream just off the 536 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,119 coast of our beautiful state is almost at collapse. Reminder, 537 00:27:44,599 --> 00:27:46,799 just a reminder. This is just a couple of weeks 538 00:27:46,839 --> 00:27:50,799 after influential arch global warmest and multi billionaire Bill Gates 539 00:27:50,839 --> 00:27:54,039 announced a change of heart about climate change, saying that quote, 540 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,000 climate change will not lead to humanity's demise people will 541 00:27:57,039 --> 00:27:58,680 be able to live and thrive in most places on 542 00:27:58,759 --> 00:28:02,359 Earth for the foreseeable future. So saith Bill Gates, which 543 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,720 is now why he's not a champion for the political left. 544 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,960 Whatever the supposed state of the climate is, no matter 545 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,759 what dangerous trends of allegedly been identified, we suggest the 546 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,440 editorial Board of Issues and Insights suggests that everyone should 547 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,599 take the new information to do well nothing, because that's 548 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,559 roughly what it's worth. So I wanted to pass that 549 00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:22,559 along before I try to get into this next one, 550 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,079 which I don't think that I will get through, but 551 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:26,960 I'm going to throw it out there. And this is 552 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,519 what is somebody's going to scream and yell at the station. 553 00:28:29,799 --> 00:28:34,039 I apologize in advance, but it is about gluten sensitivity. Okay, 554 00:28:34,759 --> 00:28:37,000 not a doctor not telling you what to do. I'm 555 00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:41,759 just passing along from the American Council of Science and Health, 556 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,799 and it is that. This is by Chuck Dinnerston, who 557 00:28:44,799 --> 00:28:47,160 is an MD. The past twenty years have seen gluten 558 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,480 sensitivity transform from a fringe concern into a mainstream cultural identity, 559 00:28:51,519 --> 00:28:55,960 powered more by consumer experience, psychology, and industry dynamics than 560 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,319 by anything biological. This rapid rise has left many people 561 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,960 ensure if there is any scientific consensus for this popular belief. 562 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,240 Our findings show that symptoms are more often triggered by 563 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,880 fermentable carbohydrates commonly known as FOD maps, by other weak components, 564 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,759 or by people's expectations, according to Jessica Bisserkarski, head of 565 00:29:15,799 --> 00:29:19,839 the Human Nutrition Group the University of Melbourne, at this point, 566 00:29:20,079 --> 00:29:23,640 most of us know someone who's identifies as gluten sensitive. Culturally, 567 00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:27,599 ideas gone up with gluten free eating wellness trends and 568 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,880 widespread belief that gluten causes fatigue, bloating, brain fog or 569 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,279 other vague symptoms. Again, not attacking any of you that 570 00:29:33,319 --> 00:29:36,799 feel this way, however, medical understanding of that experience is 571 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:41,480 very narrow and the cultural phenomenon is much wider. Non 572 00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:46,200 seliac gluten sensitivity Again, gluten sensitivity seliac if you do 573 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,559 have coeliac disease, gluten is something you don't tolerate well. 574 00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:52,079 But we've had millions of people that claim they're gluten 575 00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:55,000 sensitive that don't have celiac. It's the medical term for 576 00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:58,920 that condition, referring to individuals who experience things but do 577 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,519 not have coeliac that lacks a diagnostic In other words, 578 00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:04,839 there's no way to test you for this. It's a 579 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,039 known biological mechanism or clear symptom patterns. You can't tell 580 00:30:08,079 --> 00:30:13,519 if someone's got this alleged n CGS. To understand why 581 00:30:13,559 --> 00:30:15,839 the symptoms are so difficult, it helps to look more 582 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,640 closely at what gluten actually contains. Gluten is the main 583 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,319 storage protein and wheat and gives do its stretch elastic qualities. 584 00:30:23,319 --> 00:30:26,400 It provides most of the grains protein content. It's rich 585 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,200 and amino acids protein glutamine, making it difficult for the 586 00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:32,920 system to fully break it down. As a result, people 587 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,440 think something's wrong with it. Studies from around the world 588 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,759 show that about ten percent of people report being sensitive 589 00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:40,720 to gluten, though estimates range from four to fifteen percent, 590 00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:44,200 numbers significantly inflated in control studies, they don't show that 591 00:30:44,279 --> 00:30:46,640 at all. But let's get to the end of this one, 592 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,279 because I don't want to belabor this too much, because 593 00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:50,000 we're right up to against the top of the hour. 594 00:30:50,759 --> 00:30:54,200 In the end, what we do know at the end, 595 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,920 the result is a self sustaining cultural loop most people. 596 00:30:59,039 --> 00:31:01,720 More people try and free diets out of curiosity or 597 00:31:01,759 --> 00:31:06,400 wellness motivations. Many folks do feel better, often because they 598 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,119 are inadvertently reducing their intake of ultra process products. In 599 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,079 other words, the fact that they're changing is why they 600 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,920 feel better. It has nothing to do with gluten. But 601 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,640 they want to look at this a lot more. But 602 00:31:15,759 --> 00:31:18,880 is it interesting? Just an interesting observation. 603 00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:23,079 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 604 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,160 so much for listening. I could not do the show 605 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,680 without your support and the support of the businesses that 606 00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:30,880 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 607 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,559 them too and tell them you heard it here. 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