Louder with Crowder - Baby Formula SHORTAGE! Who's to BLAME? | Louder with Crowder

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00:01:47.000 I started smoking.

00:01:49.000 That's why we're hearing that instead of a sip.

00:01:52.000 Look, I just, it's been a very stressful, uh, it's been a very stressful year and, uh, well, uh, look, I, I haven't introduced him yet, but I blame Dave.

00:01:59.000 Sorry.

00:02:00.000 I, uh, I thought it would be a funny prank and, uh, apparently, uh, sneaking nicotine into your coffee every day.

00:02:07.000 No, and it's also a horrible delivery mechanism, because if you consume nicotine in liquid form orally, I just get sick.

00:02:14.000 I noticed that.

00:02:14.000 A lot of vomiting.

00:02:15.000 Yes.

00:02:15.000 But it's good now, though.

00:02:16.000 You've only had, what's it, was it your ninth today?

00:02:19.000 Well, and they, you know, that's the problem, because they stopped, I had to start smoking Palmol's, they stopped selling Chesterfields.

00:02:25.000 I know, you, Palmol's just don't have the nice, smooth pull of a Chesterfield.

00:02:30.000 Recommended by four out of five doctors.

00:02:31.000 Oh, easy.

00:02:32.000 And if you know anything about me, it's that I'm a Chesterfield man.

00:02:34.000 Yep.

00:02:35.000 Hold up, Dave, you're out of focus.

00:02:41.000 Dave is out of focus.

00:02:42.000 Alright, look, glad to be with you today.

00:02:43.000 We have a lot to get to.

00:02:45.000 Baby formula shortage is a big deal.

00:02:47.000 Also, I want to talk about the CDC.

00:02:49.000 No one's talking about this, the new crime stats that were released and the CDC presented it.

00:02:53.000 With the preface that it's because of systemic racism, because of systemic oppression, that's why you're going to see the statistics that you see.

00:03:00.000 Spoiler, it's not.

00:03:01.000 It doesn't add up.

00:03:03.000 The baby formula shortage.

00:03:05.000 Okay, look.

00:03:08.000 My question to you is what's your best suggestion for an alternative? 0.99

00:03:12.000 First person who answers tits gets banned. 0.97

00:03:16.000 Though correct. 0.91

00:03:18.000 I'm open to all suggestions here.

00:03:20.000 That's all I had.

00:03:21.000 I'm open to all suggestions.

00:03:22.000 Here's the thing.

00:03:23.000 This is, you know, look, what elects Democrats today is white, suburban, middle class, upper middle class women. 1.00

00:03:30.000 This is an opportunity.

00:03:31.000 This hits them.

00:03:33.000 It starts with, hey, I can't get baby formula.

00:03:36.000 Why?

00:03:39.000 It's a really valuable opportunity right now.

00:03:40.000 A lot of, and this is because, and I know, not everyone, I know if you're watching, you watching right now, the woman watching this, the lady watching this, you're engaged.

00:03:48.000 But you also have to understand that you're an anomaly.

00:03:51.000 Typically, statistically, women, white suburban women, are not engaged in politics and vote because they tend to be more agreeable. 0.99

00:04:00.000 They want to do the nice thing.

00:04:02.000 And so they believe that the Democratic Party is more empathetic.

00:04:04.000 So only when it comes to their doorstep, to your doorstep, Does it require thinking about these issues?

00:04:11.000 That's what's happening with the baby formula issue right now.

00:04:14.000 And I can't tell you how many women I've spoken with who say, I can't get baby formula. 0.99

00:04:18.000 I said, well, you know, I have twins, so we run in these circles.

00:04:20.000 I said, well, why do you think that is?

00:04:22.000 I don't know.

00:04:22.000 Well, guess what?

00:04:23.000 Let's make sure they know.

00:04:25.000 You saw the segment yesterday where it was just, you know, talking with people, which is going to be a new segment.

00:04:29.000 You can comment below that versus Change My Mind, what you like.

00:04:33.000 We still plan on doing both.

00:04:35.000 It just is predicated on the idea of, if you talk with people and let them assert, just let them explain their position, you'll realize they often don't have one, and they go, what do you think about it?

00:04:46.000 What do you think it should be?

00:04:48.000 And then, you can suggest information, rather than arguing your point like you're on a cable news show.

00:04:53.000 We have that opportunity, all of you, right now, with the baby formula shortage.

00:04:59.000 Sure, a few babies are gonna have to starve for us to get there, but you know what?

00:05:04.000 Look, them's the brakes.

00:05:07.000 Take it up with the FDA, not me.

00:05:08.000 Okay, we're talking about that, and of course, in studio because he is with child, not here, Gerald B. is still with us.

00:05:16.000 I've had just about enough of your lip.

00:05:18.000 Oh, jeez.

00:05:23.000 There's a supply chain issue with the polythene.

00:05:27.000 I was hoping that hole would get bigger.

00:05:28.000 Yeah.

00:05:29.000 Well, you know, I wasn't.

00:05:31.000 It was getting a little lippy.

00:05:33.000 Enough lip.

00:05:34.000 How you doing there, Gerald A?

00:05:35.000 I'm well.

00:05:36.000 How are you?

00:05:36.000 How's the little one?

00:05:37.000 Little one's doing fantastic.

00:05:38.000 He was nine pounds, nine ounces.

00:05:41.000 Oh, good Lord.

00:05:42.000 Giant baby.

00:05:42.000 So maybe the shortage will do him some good.

00:05:45.000 Well, no, he's on the boob, thank God.

00:05:47.000 And is he on plenty of supply?

00:05:49.000 He should be on Baby Watchers. 0.97

00:05:50.000 Yes.

00:05:53.000 Tell the missus I look forward to her walking again.

00:05:56.000 She's doing fantastic.

00:05:59.000 22 and a half inches long.

00:06:00.000 Wow.

00:06:00.000 Good lord!

00:06:01.000 He's bigger than Luke at birth.

00:06:03.000 And by the way, Gerald's baby- He's bigger than me now.

00:06:05.000 His first baby was the biggest baby I've ever seen in my life.

00:06:08.000 I remember when I saw him, I think he was maybe nine months at that point.

00:06:11.000 I said, how old is he?

00:06:12.000 He said, nine months.

00:06:13.000 I said, come on, how old is he?

00:06:14.000 No, really.

00:06:15.000 It looks like he was two!

00:06:16.000 He's a very, very, you know, large human being.

00:06:19.000 He sent me a video of him dancing to Ghetto Cowboy and I was like, I didn't know you had a teenager.

00:06:25.000 Especially when he said, I hate you dad.

00:06:27.000 I'm like, that's not a one and a half year old!

00:06:29.000 It started early.

00:06:30.000 Congratulations though, that's so awesome.

00:06:32.000 Thank you, I appreciate it.

00:06:33.000 You've heard him, you love him, and we're in Tulsa this weekend, that's sold out, but we do have shows together in, oh yeah, Colorado Springs, June 18th.

00:06:41.000 There still are some tickets available for the early show.

00:06:43.000 Not a lot.

00:06:44.000 Not a lot.

00:06:45.000 At Landau Dave.

00:06:46.000 Dave, how are you?

00:06:47.000 Good, ahoy, how about you sir?

00:06:48.000 I'm doing alright.

00:06:49.000 Oh my gosh, look at the...

00:06:53.000 Is that still lit?

00:06:55.000 They're supposed to go out so they don't kill you in bed, but apparently Chesterfield still has that old recipe.

00:07:00.000 Let me see, is it still lit?

00:07:04.000 I hate the smell of smoke.

00:07:06.000 Oh, I love cigarettes.

00:07:07.000 You don't like the smell of cigarettes?

00:07:08.000 No.

00:07:09.000 It reminds me of my childhood.

00:07:10.000 Me too.

00:07:12.000 I had a great childhood, I'm just saying.

00:07:14.000 I had a French-Canadian childhood.

00:07:15.000 We were in a three-bedroom apartment with 25 chain smokers.

00:07:19.000 Yeah.

00:07:20.000 Yeah, all I smell is smoke, really, for the first 15, 20 years of my life.

00:07:24.000 Well, then I smoked until I was 20.

00:07:26.000 I smoked until I was 30.

00:07:28.000 29.

00:07:28.000 Wow.

00:07:29.000 And one day from 30.

00:07:30.000 Well, I would go to Grandma Ma's house for thanks for Easter dinner and come back with a black lung.

00:07:35.000 That's very nice.

00:07:37.000 And by the way, hey guys, look, we don't know what's going to be happening here.

00:07:40.000 YouTube is now making some changes that we can't fully... but if we don't let you know that we're not doing a show, you can always go over to Rumble, right?

00:07:48.000 Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.

00:07:49.000 Eastern, of course on Mug Club.

00:07:50.000 We do an extra full 45 minutes, sometimes an hour of show.

00:07:53.000 Today is Chat Thursday, which is always a lot of fun where we take as many chats as we possibly can as opposed to, you know, playing a game or segment.

00:07:59.000 So, all right.

00:08:01.000 Let's get to the news, shall we?

00:08:03.000 You been keeping abreast?

00:08:05.000 Something happened when I was gone?

00:08:06.000 Ah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:08.000 I mean, I've just been thinking about babies the whole time.

00:08:10.000 And you don't have to worry about the shortage at all because... No.

00:08:14.000 Dem did his work.

00:08:15.000 Well, but I also chest-fed.

00:08:16.000 Dem did his work!

00:08:17.000 And it works.

00:08:18.000 Get to work!

00:08:18.000 So, I'm just saying, man.

00:08:19.000 Make it work, work, work, work, work!

00:08:22.000 I'm sorry, Gerald's wife, for watching.

00:08:23.000 This is not, I don't mean it in any type of, uh, uh, obviously not disparaging, uh, and I don't want to say, you know, uh, wonderful breasts, but I just, you know what, let's go to the set up. 0.88

00:08:34.000 Best butt in the line. 0.91

00:08:35.000 Say it again! 0.96

00:08:35.000 I don't want to, uh, so best butt in the line. 0.96

00:08:39.000 What a lucky baby. 1.00

00:08:40.000 Oh, son of a bitch! 1.00

00:08:42.000 That's a sponsorship for crying out loud. 1.00

00:08:44.000 What else do I have to throw?

00:08:46.000 You know what we should do for the next Bilt Bar commercial is just place them gently between the wife. 1.00

00:08:52.000 I'm just saying.

00:08:54.000 Totally something I agree with.

00:08:55.000 Yes.

00:08:56.000 Let me get the knife out again.

00:08:57.000 Yeah, that is true.

00:08:59.000 You need to give him a giant blade. 1.00

00:09:00.000 Yeah, and then started talking trash. 0.99

00:09:03.000 Very impractical weapon, by the way, a kitchen knife like that.

00:09:05.000 Well, there's no hand guard.

00:09:07.000 Okay.

00:09:08.000 That's true.

00:09:08.000 You know who wishes that they had a knife like that is apparently Best Buy.

00:09:14.000 They only hire the cream of the crop when it comes to their employees. 0.99

00:09:16.000 Here's some stuff that has been going down recently.

00:09:21.000 Security camera footage.

00:09:22.000 Ah, yeah.

00:09:23.000 Watch, here you go.

00:09:24.000 Nice average shoppers.

00:09:26.000 Yeah, well.

00:09:26.000 Oh, free.

00:09:27.000 Hmm.

00:09:29.000 Well, at least they're casual about it.

00:09:30.000 Yeah, that one guy can't get the one eye drawing any attention.

00:09:35.000 Oh, and there's the security guard.

00:09:40.000 That's just someone who's had enough.

00:09:43.000 I didn't see that before.

00:09:44.000 I saw the part where they were like shuffling back and forth, but not the takedown.

00:09:48.000 That's the first time I've ever seen a Best Buy employee.

00:09:51.000 Every time I'm there, I'm like, hey, could... No?

00:09:53.000 No help with anything?

00:09:54.000 I'm gonna go.

00:09:55.000 I'll just go online then.

00:09:56.000 Thank you.

00:09:56.000 We'll only help with the 15% restocking fee.

00:09:59.000 Yeah, then they're happy.

00:10:00.000 The return policy with a 15% restocking fee.

00:10:01.000 It's wonderful.

00:10:04.000 Yeah, well we have to pay it, we have to restock it.

00:10:06.000 You mean you have to take it from me and put it there?

00:10:09.000 And that's 15%.

00:10:10.000 I don't think you deserve 15 an hour, I think you should live under a bridge.

00:10:14.000 Now if you're that guy though who's tackling them on the way out, 25 an hour, easy.

00:10:18.000 By the way, that first one you could tell, can we watch that again?

00:10:21.000 Play that again.

00:10:22.000 This is unfortunately the reality of the racism bred By the rhetoric here in our country.

00:10:29.000 So, of course, you see, okay, look.

00:10:30.000 Look at the top left criminal.

00:10:32.000 Everybody else is successful.

00:10:33.000 One of them is more ethnic.

00:10:35.000 And then look at the one security guard.

00:10:37.000 Look at the one security guard.

00:10:38.000 That employee right there.

00:10:39.000 That's a little white guy.

00:10:40.000 He's rolling up his pants.

00:10:41.000 Here you go.

00:10:43.000 Boom! 0.99

00:10:44.000 But you see that one guy.

00:10:45.000 He's white.

00:10:48.000 This could be the Bay Area.

00:10:49.000 I have no idea.

00:10:49.000 He's rolling up his pants.

00:10:50.000 He's like, all right.

00:10:50.000 Okay.

00:10:51.000 I've had enough.

00:10:51.000 Bye.

00:10:52.000 Yeah, call me racist all you want.

00:10:53.000 Here we go.

00:10:54.000 He's like an NBA guy.

00:10:55.000 He's like, ha ha ha ha ha.

00:10:56.000 Yeah.

00:10:56.000 I could have gone pro.

00:10:57.000 This is my moment to get back.

00:10:58.000 Yes, exactly.

00:10:59.000 Well, you know, it's like in Detroit.

00:11:00.000 This is what happens is when you keep breeding the racial division and telling people they can steal, you have people who are not racist, whether they're white, whether they're Asian, and they say, All right, that's enough!

00:11:10.000 You get rooftop Koreans, you get the Detroit violence where there was the rebound effect after the riots where then it became, it wasn't entirely a race war before that, that's actually what sparked what ended up being more of the racial tensions in Detroit. 0.82

00:11:22.000 It wasn't, it wasn't the culmination to the race riots in Detroit.

00:11:25.000 That made it worse than ever before.

00:11:27.000 And when you allow people to commit crimes and you go, and I'm not saying that all black people are committing crimes, let's be very clear, what I'm saying is that the leftist party, the democratic party, decides to go out and say, Well, these people need to be able to, let's be empathetic to it.

00:11:41.000 I'll read you the CDC stats later where they say, well, crime has gone up, specifically only in one demographic, but it's clearly due to racism.

00:11:48.000 When you do that, the people who are the victims of crimes decide that they've had enough.

00:11:53.000 And you run the risk of when you label the criminals exclusively by race, but saying it's their race, but it's not their fault because of the race, it's your fault because of their race.

00:12:01.000 Guess what?

00:12:01.000 People say, I guess this is a race thing.

00:12:04.000 Also the restocking fee!

00:12:06.000 Yes and also well usually when you walk out casually you can get away with it or if an alarm goes off ever like CVS they're just like hey I'm like I'm white and they're like that's fine yeah they honestly they don't care.

00:12:17.000 When I get pulled over by a police officer I have tinted windows highly illegal and I just roll it down and go And they're like, oh, sorry, sir.

00:12:26.000 Oh, jeez.

00:12:27.000 Be on your way.

00:12:27.000 I'm sorry.

00:12:28.000 And they give you your choice of cupcake or cookie.

00:12:30.000 Yeah.

00:12:30.000 Then they see the Hodge twin in the passenger seat.

00:12:32.000 They're like, we're going downtown.

00:12:34.000 I didn't know you had your drug dealer with you.

00:12:36.000 Yeah, I didn't know.

00:12:37.000 I didn't know you had a, what is that, blue eyes?

00:12:39.000 Is that a vampire from Blade?

00:12:41.000 Yeah.

00:12:41.000 That's odd.

00:12:43.000 Anytime I got caught really shoplifting was I was stealing a bong that was three feet long and I just casually put it into a springtime jacket.

00:12:52.000 I'm sure the locale from which you were stealing the bong, they probably weren't on top of it to realize.

00:12:57.000 No, no, the security guard did though, and I walked out and it was a giant mall, and they were like, uh, excuse me, you have a graphics bong with a clown on it hanging out of your coat, and I was like, what?

00:13:06.000 I was drunk?

00:13:08.000 How do you know it's a bong? 0.79

00:13:09.000 Because he just left Spencer's.

00:13:10.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:12.000 Also, I can see the plasma ball in your shorts.

00:13:15.000 Did you have to bring a lava lamp with you?

00:13:17.000 And the poopy poster.

00:13:18.000 And a Carmen Electra poster?

00:13:20.000 Yeah, I was just gonna say, yeah, Cindy Crawford drinking a Pepsi. 0.91

00:13:26.000 All available to minors.

00:13:27.000 Thank you, Spencer's.

00:13:29.000 Right next to the Yankee Candle Store.

00:13:31.000 The spirit of Christmas right next to Total Degeneracy.

00:13:37.000 It really is.

00:13:37.000 You guys go over there and play in that store.

00:13:39.000 I can go pick up a nice Douglas Fir scented candle and then a double-sided dildo next door.

00:13:44.000 Thank you, Spencer's.

00:13:45.000 A Douglas Fir handcuff scent.

00:13:47.000 Yes, exactly.

00:13:49.000 Is Spencer still around?

00:13:50.000 I haven't been to a shopping mall in years.

00:13:51.000 I hope not.

00:13:52.000 They are, sadly.

00:13:53.000 Yeah, they are.

00:13:54.000 Oh, man.

00:13:55.000 All right.

00:13:56.000 I don't know who Spencer is, but I don't like him.

00:13:58.000 You know who else I don't like? 0.90

00:13:59.000 And I had no idea he was this crazy. 0.89

00:14:01.000 James Cromwell.

00:14:03.000 You probably know him from Step Brothers.

00:14:05.000 He's one of those guys who appears in movies and you go, he's that guy from that thing.

00:14:07.000 Yeah.

00:14:11.000 He, along with some other protesters, glued themselves to a New York Starbucks counter over, and here's the thing, it's an animal rights thing, but see if you can spot the privilege.

00:14:25.000 When will you stop charging us more for vegan milk?

00:14:29.000 When will you stop raking in huge profits?

00:14:32.000 It's not about the animal rights, it's about the premium.

00:14:36.000 When will you stop penalizing people for their ethnicity or their role?

00:14:43.000 The senseless upcharge hurts animals.

00:14:47.000 Yeah, if you're reading it, what's your belief in that?

00:14:50.000 The senseless upcharge hurts animals.

00:14:52.000 That's what he's saying.

00:14:54.000 Like there's a rooster going, 45 cents?

00:14:57.000 No.

00:14:57.000 No, what?

00:14:59.000 For vegans?

00:15:01.000 Thanks, Biden.

00:15:06.000 If your biggest problem in the world right now is the extra money for vegan milk, you have the best life.

00:15:12.000 And you're a billionaire!

00:15:15.000 I would imagine that it's also more labor-intensive.

00:15:18.000 I have not tried to milk an oat.

00:15:23.000 Or a plant of some sort.

00:15:25.000 I don't know.

00:15:26.000 What'd you get, the steel cut?

00:15:27.000 What's wrong with you, Roger? 1.00

00:15:28.000 You know we gotta get the old-fashioned rolled, son-of-a-bitch. 1.00

00:15:31.000 I think it's just milk and they put lactate in it and blend it and they're like, yeah, it's from an almond. 0.99

00:15:35.000 There's no way.

00:15:36.000 How do you milk an almond?

00:15:38.000 No, it's probably like, uh, what is that, uh, New Jack City? 0.60

00:15:41.000 It's just except they just have a bunch of oats going by and a bunch of naked ladies. 1.00

00:15:45.000 All right, there you go.

00:15:45.000 There's your oat milk.

00:15:48.000 Stupid vegan milk. 1.00

00:15:49.000 Just call it what it is. 1.00

00:15:51.000 Crap. 1.00

00:15:54.000 So apparently Starbucks, I guess they charge an extra 70 cents for the dairy alternative is what they charge. 1.00

00:16:00.000 Okay.

00:16:01.000 Uh, what's going on here?

00:16:03.000 I can't take it anymore, Steven.

00:16:04.000 What are you talking about?

00:16:05.000 The Amber Heard trial.

00:16:09.000 You're treating her so unfairly on your show.

00:16:13.000 I hate it.

00:16:15.000 This is a protest over Amber Heard?

00:16:18.000 You need to compartmentalize and keep your personal life out of your work.

00:16:23.000 Yeah, we already let you off easy for all the turds in the studio and I don't know why you're doing this.

00:16:27.000 Well, little known fact, James Cromwell is a personal hero of mine and I saw how well the Starbucks thing went.

00:16:33.000 Well, it didn't actually go that... I don't think it went well.

00:16:36.000 You used a glue stick?

00:16:38.000 Oh my gosh.

00:16:39.000 Get out of here.

00:16:40.000 Oh my heavens.

00:16:42.000 Oh no.

00:16:43.000 Holy cow. 0.89

00:16:44.000 Oh no.

00:16:46.000 He rolled well.

00:16:49.000 His bone's sticking out.

00:16:50.000 Yeah, I know.

00:16:50.000 That's fine.

00:16:51.000 That's what we call a compound. 0.97

00:16:54.000 So, you know about Senator Manchin?

00:16:57.000 Love him.

00:16:58.000 The cigarettes make sense.

00:17:01.000 I saw Mean Streets.

00:17:02.000 Who flicks a cigarette?

00:17:04.000 Oh, it's the greatest insult ever.

00:17:06.000 It's worse than spitting at somebody.

00:17:08.000 Have you never flicked a cigarette at somebody?

00:17:10.000 Oh my gosh, it feels so good.

00:17:11.000 Oh, I have so many times.

00:17:13.000 It's the simple joys in life.

00:17:15.000 A good flick of a cigarette at a hobo.

00:17:18.000 Or in a convertible.

00:17:20.000 I've done that many times.

00:17:21.000 Or on the rags in a department store.

00:17:24.000 Not recently.

00:17:25.000 No, not at rags in a department store.

00:17:28.000 I do it on the CDs at Best Buy.

00:17:30.000 Who has a CD player?

00:17:33.000 I mean, this is my friend's car with them in it, but I flick it in the back and I watch them panic.

00:17:37.000 Yeah, they had it coming.

00:17:39.000 So, Senator Manchin, he just joined Republicans, you may know about this, to stop the Women's Health Protection Act.

00:17:45.000 Now, let me just preface this with, I know you're hearing, Women's Health Protection Act. 0.84

00:17:50.000 That sounds nice.

00:17:51.000 It's not.

00:17:54.000 It has nothing to do with women's health. 1.00

00:17:57.000 Let me let Manchin, and by the way, I don't agree with Senator Manchin a whole lot, but it's funny that he's persona non grata to the Democratic Party because I will say, even among all politicians, just from the standpoint of not appearing like a crazy Satanist, he speaks normally.

00:18:12.000 I find him actually very agreeable.

00:18:16.000 As far as his personality goes, here he is explaining why he refused to support the Women's Health Protection Act, and the explanation matters!

00:18:24.000 The bill we have today to vote on, the Women's Health Protection Act, and I respect people who support, but make no mistake, it is not Roe v. Wade codification, it's an expansion.

00:18:35.000 It wipes 500, 500 state laws off the books.

00:18:39.000 It expands abortion.

00:18:41.000 And with that, that's not where we are today.

00:18:43.000 We should not be dividing this country further than we're already divided.

00:18:47.000 And it's really the politics of Congress that's dividing the country.

00:18:51.000 It's not the people.

00:18:53.000 They're telling us what they want.

00:18:55.000 And it's just disappointing that we're going to be voting on a piece of legislation which I will not vote for today.

00:19:01.000 It's almost like he's too normal so I don't trust him because he's a politician.

00:19:05.000 What's his angle?

00:19:05.000 What's the play?

00:19:06.000 Yeah, what's his angle?

00:19:07.000 What, you want us to think you're normal?

00:19:08.000 That doesn't seem so.

00:19:09.000 He seems folksy.

00:19:10.000 Yeah, he does.

00:19:11.000 He's from West Virginia, right?

00:19:13.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:19:14.000 There's something wrong going on there.

00:19:16.000 Southern charm, though, goes a long way.

00:19:18.000 So, before you bring up the picture that I referenced, let me just reference the bill here, so you know.

00:19:23.000 The Women's Health Protection Act, you've heard me talk about.

00:19:26.000 How the left, and if you watched yesterday's installment on the street, actual leftists, about 50% of the Democratic Party, they believe in abortion all the way up until and including birth on demand, period.

00:19:35.000 And if they would have their way, it would be subsidized.

00:19:36.000 You know, just like your basket weaving degree.

00:19:39.000 Wow.

00:19:40.000 So the bill would have, and I'm reading a quote here, among other things, it would have banned a prohibition.

00:19:46.000 So it would have banned a prohibition.

00:19:47.000 So it would have banned a ban, just to be clear.

00:19:50.000 It would have disallowed a prohibition on abortion after fetal viability when, in the good faith medical judgment of the treating healthcare provider, continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient's life or health.

00:20:01.000 So really quickly, that means that this Women's Protection Act would allow abortions of babies like that. 0.93

00:20:09.000 Just to be clear.

00:20:10.000 Oh, it's in the womb.

00:20:11.000 Okay, but that's what's in the womb. 1.00

00:20:12.000 You have to look at it.

00:20:14.000 That's why they oppose the ultrasound legislation, where you just have to have an ultrasound, because you're killing that. 0.98

00:20:20.000 This bill would make it illegal for States to ban.

00:20:24.000 Killing that yeah two weeks ago today. We were within 12 to 24 hours of having our kid

00:20:31.000 Yeah, we could have we could have pulled the plug then you could have pulled the plug right there on a nine-pound

00:20:35.000 Probably eight nine ounces already right there at that well your baby at like six months was well

00:20:40.000 Yeah, but I'm just saying like I would have brought to a pet cemetery to get you back

00:20:44.000 Wouldn't work One of us!

00:20:49.000 One of us!

00:20:50.000 Was that Pet Sematary?

00:20:51.000 No, that was Freaks.

00:20:52.000 Pet Sematary is where the little kid comes back.

00:20:56.000 As opposed to the one where the car comes back because Stephen King is just the most talented author ever.

00:21:03.000 I guess that's true.

00:21:04.000 Sometimes they come back.

00:21:06.000 Sometime, something, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, I don't know.

00:21:08.000 It's not like they all bleed together.

00:21:10.000 A lot of stuff comes back.

00:21:12.000 Shawshank, or I think Green Mile, best one, my opinion.

00:21:15.000 And also let's be clear, the patient's life or health, that's also, health can also include mental health.

00:21:20.000 What can mental, it could be stress.

00:21:22.000 And a seven, eight month baby might stress her out.

00:21:26.000 It stresses every pregnant mother out. 1.00

00:21:30.000 I've never, you ever met A seven or eight month pregnant woman who seems chill? 0.80

00:21:38.000 It's kind of when things are going hot and heavy.

00:21:41.000 I'd have to say yes.

00:21:42.000 Really?

00:21:43.000 Yeah.

00:21:44.000 Your missus, she was relaxed all the way up until?

00:21:46.000 I have to be honest, yeah, 100%.

00:21:48.000 You are very fortunate.

00:21:49.000 Yeah, honestly.

00:21:49.000 Very, very fortunate.

00:21:50.000 And yeah, I can honestly say that.

00:21:52.000 Oh, it was great.

00:21:53.000 Don't get me wrong, I'm just saying.

00:21:54.000 A lot going on.

00:21:55.000 She was stressed.

00:21:56.000 A lot going on, yeah.

00:21:57.000 Yeah, she was stressed.

00:21:58.000 Well, no, when you have the baby, there's stress, and it's like that's part of it, though.

00:22:01.000 That's sacrifice to bring another life into the world.

00:22:04.000 Yeah.

00:22:05.000 And then you sacrifice the life, if you're a Democrat.

00:22:07.000 Yeah, you can either sacrifice sleep or the baby.

00:22:12.000 Where else do you get child sacrifices from, Dave?

00:22:15.000 That's a good point.

00:22:16.000 That's the problem, is they're taking their codebook from the Mayans. 0.99

00:22:19.000 Now, Senator Elizabeth Warren was upset that the Constitution, of course, is standing in the way of killing seven and eight month babies. 1.00

00:22:28.000 And let's be clear, I am using that term because it's what it is.

00:22:33.000 We're no longer at the point of arguing viability.

00:22:36.000 That's a non-issue.

00:22:37.000 We're no longer at the point of arguing rape or incest.

00:22:40.000 That's a non-issue.

00:22:42.000 The Democrats wanted to ban, if they would have their way at a federal level, they would ban any limitations for any reason on abortion all the way up until nine months period.

00:22:53.000 That's the party platform!

00:22:55.000 Why you gotta say Democrat?

00:22:57.000 That's the party platform.

00:22:58.000 Yeah.

00:22:59.000 Just to be clear.

00:22:59.000 So if you don't believe People say, you know, you don't want to be a single issue voter.

00:23:04.000 If you don't believe that 7, 8, 9 month babies should be aborted, or at least if you don't believe that no state should be able to place a restriction on the killing of a 7, 8 month baby, you are precluded from ever pulling the lever for someone with a D next to their name.

00:23:23.000 It's not the only issue!

00:23:25.000 But it is a closed-handed issue.

00:23:26.000 So Elizabeth Warren is so upset about the Constitution standing in the way of killing these seven- and eight-month babies that she decided to do what Elizabeth Warren does, which means, you know, ramble, cackle. 0.99

00:23:40.000 I believe in democracy.

00:23:41.000 And I don't believe that the minority should have the ability to block things that the majority want to do.

00:23:48.000 That's not the Constitution.

00:23:52.000 Does she need to grab a dictionary? 0.96

00:23:54.000 Maybe.

00:23:55.000 Maybe it's a source.

00:23:55.000 I like that she's always wearing the exact same thing.

00:24:00.000 She wears it well.

00:24:01.000 She's the Steve Jobs of Congress.

00:24:03.000 Yeah, she really is.

00:24:05.000 She's like RoboCop where she actually has no shoulders in the suit. 0.99

00:24:10.000 She's Earthworm Jim. 0.97

00:24:12.000 She's really just a head. 1.00

00:24:13.000 A head and a tube.

00:24:19.000 With of course feathers from her non-Native American tribe. 1.00

00:24:22.000 Of course at some point Murphy had a soul.

00:24:27.000 She doesn't understand majority, minority, 51.

00:24:29.000 Also, by the way, the Constitution is about the minority not having their rights infringed upon by the majority.

00:24:38.000 None of what she discusses is correct.

00:24:40.000 She doesn't understand that we are a constitutional republic.

00:24:42.000 We are a representative republic.

00:24:43.000 And she also doesn't understand what a basic majority, minority is.

00:24:46.000 Is this the Common Core math?

00:24:48.000 I think so.

00:24:49.000 That may be why.

00:24:50.000 Did it predate our segment by, like, nine decades?

00:24:55.000 I think she's like, well look, I get that the majority of people elected to vote on this voted this way, but if you take a poll of people, they, you know, especially if you focus on California and New York, they say, yeah, that's totally fine.

00:25:05.000 That's part of my language if you have kids.

00:25:08.000 I just need to, just, I'm, you know, and also those cigarettes are getting to me. 0.50

00:25:13.000 It's complete horseshit when they try and say the majority of Americans know.

00:25:16.000 When you ask the majority of Americans, what do you think about Roe v. Wade, I think it's a 60-something percent where they say, well, we don't think it should be overturned. 0.95

00:25:22.000 Then the vast majority of Americans believe that abortion should be impermissible after the first trimester.

00:25:27.000 And guess what?

00:25:27.000 If you actually discuss with Americans what happens within that first trimester, like a heartbeat, like development, like fingers and toes, guess what?

00:25:35.000 Their opinion changes even more.

00:25:37.000 It doesn't take a lot to educate people on this issue.

00:25:39.000 You saw it yesterday where I was standing on the corner with for black people, for African-American, whatever term you

00:25:45.000 want, people of color, I'm just going to go with black. And they said, yeah, yeah, we're pro-choice.

00:25:51.000 It's a woman's right to choose. I said, well, is there like a limitation? They said, yeah,

00:25:54.000 because like at a certain point, I don't know, it becomes like murder. I said, so would you

00:25:57.000 say like a heartbeat? And they said, yeah, yeah, definitely not after a heartbeat. That's messed

00:26:01.000 up. There you go. That's all it took. That's all it takes. Just a little bit of education

00:26:06.000 and talking with people.

00:26:09.000 But if you're afraid to do it because you're afraid to offend your friends, guess what?

00:26:12.000 You're not being a good friend.

00:26:13.000 You know who's a good friend of the show?

00:26:16.000 Good ranchers.

00:26:18.000 That's right.

00:26:20.000 And they're kosher.

00:26:20.000 Good ranchers.

00:26:22.000 I don't know.

00:26:25.000 Don't mess that one up.

00:26:26.000 They're absolutely not.

00:26:30.000 Good Ranchers is you get your meat delivered and here's what's really, this is a ribeye and it is absolutely delicious.

00:26:35.000 It's all USDA choice or hire and it's American meat.

00:26:40.000 They have chicken too, they have pork, it's all American meat.

00:26:42.000 A lot of the meat that you're getting at the store doesn't come from the United States.

00:26:45.000 So they work with small local ranchers so that they can deliver the food to you.

00:26:48.000 They cut out the middleman so you get a good price.

00:26:50.000 It's better than stuff that you get in the grocery store and the prices are comparable.

00:26:55.000 And you need to try their, what is it they have, the new Wagyu burger?

00:26:57.000 Those Wagyu burgers are great.

00:26:58.000 Yeah, the American Wagyu.

00:27:00.000 They're individually wrapped, so they're easy to cook.

00:27:02.000 You can also just use them like in tacos and stuff, but I just eat it like a Salisbury steak.

00:27:05.000 So for a limited offer, you get two pounds of free American Wagyu.

00:27:08.000 Wow!

00:27:08.000 And you get free shipping when you use the promo code CROWDER at goodranchers.com slash CROWDER.

00:27:13.000 I think you get like a $25 off every delivery for the lifetime of the thing.

00:27:17.000 And then the American Wagyu is good for the month of May.

00:27:20.000 Oh, for the month of May.

00:27:20.000 Good for the month of May, all right.

00:27:21.000 Well, it lasts longer than the month of May because it's frozen.

00:27:24.000 Well, meaning the purchase.

00:27:25.000 Oh, jeez.

00:27:27.000 Can I have the ribeye?

00:27:28.000 Yeah, you can have the ribeye.

00:27:30.000 No, no, no.

00:27:31.000 I'll get it after the show.

00:27:32.000 Ribeye is so underrated.

00:27:33.000 It is.

00:27:34.000 Yeah, when I go to a steakhouse, I don't get the filet, I get the ribeye.

00:27:36.000 Yeah, I get the ribeye.

00:27:38.000 It's so good.

00:27:40.000 People just, yeah, they think it's filet.

00:27:42.000 There is a place, though, here, I don't know if I can say the name, but they're very affected.

00:27:46.000 The places that we like, but there's that one place that's very affected.

00:27:48.000 It has a poster of Anthony Bourdain giving the finger.

00:27:50.000 You know what I'm talking about.

00:27:51.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:27:52.000 I do.

00:27:53.000 You have one of the things, right?

00:27:57.000 And they were charging like $200 a steak.

00:27:59.000 Wow.

00:28:00.000 And I said, what are you, $200 for this steak?

00:28:03.000 They go, well, and it wasn't even like Wagyu or Kobe.

00:28:07.000 No.

00:28:07.000 Well, that was just to order the whole left side of the menu.

00:28:09.000 Oh, right.

00:28:10.000 Saltgrass steakhouse.

00:28:11.000 Yeah, they call it the Guy Fieri special.

00:28:13.000 I order big.

00:28:15.000 They call it the stelter.

00:28:16.000 Yes.

00:28:17.000 No, so this place, they're $200. 0.93

00:28:18.000 And they say, this is ridiculous. 0.74

00:28:21.000 It's a little expensive. 0.96

00:28:22.000 You seem like you're a little affected.

00:28:24.000 They go, well, sir, have you ever had a properly aged... I mean, stop you right there.

00:28:29.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:28:30.000 I don't want to have to kick your ass. 1.00

00:28:32.000 But it will. 0.99

00:28:33.000 Like every other steakhouse got it wrong and they somehow got it right, and the steak actually wasn't even that good.

00:28:38.000 It was actually probably one of the worst ribeyes I've ever had.

00:28:41.000 We properly age it, and because we properly age it, there is no seasoning whatsoever, tenderizing, and it sits in a locker.

00:28:48.000 I get it.

00:28:49.000 I understand the process. 0.99

00:28:51.000 You're overcharging because you're a prick. 0.98

00:28:53.000 Yeah, the locker is at a Planet Fitness. 0.99

00:28:57.000 We let fungus grow on it and we cut it off.

00:28:59.000 We let it grow in a locker of foot, yes.

00:29:02.000 That's no good.

00:29:03.000 Not good at all, yes.

00:29:04.000 With a nice jockstrap glaze, more of a reduction really.

00:29:09.000 Ever seen Seinfeld where he poisons the whole troop?

00:29:11.000 Yeah, it's pretty much like that.

00:29:13.000 I assure you at the end of the meal you will be disappointed.

00:29:17.000 $200, please.

00:29:18.000 And we discourage you from leaving Yelp reviews.

00:29:21.000 Yes, please.

00:29:22.000 We turn them off.

00:29:23.000 We have a geofence.

00:29:25.000 We pay them handsomely to not allow them to leave.

00:29:31.000 Let's talk about this, the formula shortage.

00:29:32.000 Okay.

00:29:34.000 This is something that a lot of you know about, and this is something that affects families across the country, myself included, and is a real opportunity, like we just talked about the abortion issue, to discuss this, particularly with mothers of new children.

00:29:45.000 It just starts with the question, why?

00:29:49.000 Invariably someone's bitching about it, right?

00:29:51.000 Like, I can't believe this food shortage, I can't believe this formula shortage.

00:29:54.000 Why do you think that is?

00:29:56.000 And to be fair, there are quite a few reasons as to why, but the overall reason is, of course, an inept government and red tape, and there's a problem that can... a problem can be created by a business or business, and then the government can make it worse.

00:30:13.000 Well, and it's never been extremely cost-effective or abundant, ever, really.

00:30:19.000 Right, yeah, Baby's Formula.

00:30:21.000 Well, it's tough to compete with America's favorite, uh, gland.

00:30:25.000 The bitty gland.

00:30:26.000 Yeah, that's what I meant. 0.98

00:30:27.000 Free the boobs. 1.00

00:30:28.000 Yep. 0.95

00:30:29.000 Free the boobs. 1.00

00:30:30.000 So America's shortage, uh, uh, may be the worst yet, and, um, it's, uh, it has mothers that are struggling to feed their children.

00:30:38.000 Oh, I know.

00:30:39.000 Taylor Miller can't allow even a drop of formula to go to waste.

00:30:43.000 So you're rationing for me.

00:30:44.000 Rationing for me.

00:30:45.000 Yeah.

00:30:46.000 Never did I think I would ever be rationing. Fix the ponytail. You're on air. The Katy

00:30:52.000 Texas mom now feeds daughter Magnolia two ounces every two hours instead of four ounces every 1.00

00:30:58.000 four. In hopes of avoiding leftovers, she might have to throw out because it's spoiled. Or 1.00

00:31:04.000 literally waste a whole tank of gas in a day trying to find formula and maybe only find one can. Hey,

00:31:10.000 why is gas expensive?

00:31:11.000 This happened yesterday in that segment where the one guy said, you know, it's going to be

00:31:16.000 to be really expensive to go and get abortions out of state because gas is crazy expensive. 0.71

00:31:21.000 Yeah, it's pretty bad.

00:31:21.000 And I said, really?

00:31:22.000 And then his girlfriend said, it's not that bad.

00:31:25.000 I said, you're trying to couch it because, you know, you can't accept responsibility for it.

00:31:29.000 Yeah, you know what?

00:31:29.000 There's a shortage.

00:31:30.000 Hey, why is gas expensive?

00:31:30.000 That's terrible.

00:31:33.000 Hey, why would the ingredients that you might need to create your own formula, why are those expensive?

00:31:39.000 Why is there a shortage there?

00:31:40.000 It can't all be COVID.

00:31:43.000 It just begs these questions, and of course the media can't do that, just like the media can't go out for an hour and a half and talk with people on the street, because that's not what they do.

00:31:50.000 So.

00:31:51.000 What kind of sociopath goes to get an abortion and is like, yeah, and a $63 in gas?

00:31:57.000 I know. 0.98

00:31:58.000 What is wrong with you?

00:32:00.000 It cost me so much money to kill this thing. 1.00

00:32:02.000 I'm crying out loud. 0.97

00:32:03.000 Stop for McDonald's, that's a whole nother bill.

00:32:06.000 Stop, it's not all about you!

00:32:12.000 What mindset do you have to have?

00:32:14.000 I can't imagine.

00:32:15.000 An evil one.

00:32:16.000 And then the states that are advertising like, want an abortion? 1.00

00:32:19.000 Come to California where we can still kill your child. 0.99

00:32:22.000 I'm like, what are you doing? 1.00

00:32:23.000 Well, you know.

00:32:25.000 Any self-awareness at all?

00:32:26.000 Yeah, they do have self-awareness.

00:32:27.000 They realize that that's the only thing they have left.

00:32:29.000 They have Hollywood and abortions. 0.96

00:32:29.000 Oh. 0.96

00:32:31.000 So nationwide... So it's the same thing?

00:32:35.000 43% of the popular brands of formula are out of stock.

00:32:35.000 Yes, exactly.

00:32:37.000 Wow.

00:32:38.000 And in January through July 2021, the rate was between 2 and 8%.

00:32:43.000 Between November 21 and April 22, the rate rose from 11% to 31%.

00:32:47.000 So six states, half of all baby formula was sold out during the last week of April.

00:32:53.000 You have Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa.

00:32:58.000 And, uh, yesterday actually.

00:33:01.000 One of our producers here went to, so I've been looking online and stopping by stores, but our producer, and he happened to film it, which really I should have been thinking about that, he went to six stores looking for formula.

00:33:12.000 He went to Target, he went to Kroger, he went to Tom Thumb, he went to Walmart, he went to CVS, he went to Bye Bye Baby.

00:33:16.000 I don't even know they sold formula at Bye Bye Baby.

00:33:18.000 They do.

00:33:18.000 I just thought they sold very overpriced strollers and bassinets.

00:33:21.000 Also that.

00:33:22.000 They sell formula.

00:33:24.000 There you go.

00:33:25.000 They also sell lead paint chips to make the formula go further.

00:33:29.000 It's like a thickener to help you get rid of the one you don't want.

00:33:31.000 So this is our producer going to the stores and you can see, because this is one thing

00:33:35.000 too, when people will show barren shelves, right?

00:33:37.000 Early on the media.

00:33:38.000 So that's not really true.

00:33:39.000 That's not a Biden thing.

00:33:40.000 That was from an old video.

00:33:41.000 This was taken yesterday or the day before yesterday.

00:33:46.000 I was, I think it was yesterday.

00:33:48.000 Exactly.

00:33:49.000 Yeah.

00:33:50.000 You can see the shelves.

00:33:51.000 They were extremely low on supply.

00:33:52.000 Here's what it looked like at six stores. 0.84

00:33:55.000 Ridiculous prices. 0.55

00:33:56.000 Yeah. 0.97

00:33:57.000 Yeah.

00:33:57.000 I know this one is fairly decent.

00:34:00.000 I don't know if you're... This one's pretty good.

00:34:03.000 Wait!

00:34:04.000 There's Neutromagin there!

00:34:06.000 That's what I use!

00:34:08.000 Wow.

00:34:08.000 He could have picked that up for me!

00:34:11.000 What a dick. 1.00

00:34:12.000 What? 1.00

00:34:15.000 Geez.

00:34:16.000 Glassed off like a diamond necklace.

00:34:19.000 Or pie in the... In the corner!

00:34:20.000 There's the Neutromagin!

00:34:21.000 That's what I use!

00:34:22.000 I haven't been able to find it anywhere!

00:34:23.000 I went to like nine stores!

00:34:24.000 Lane! 0.93

00:34:25.000 Get in here! 0.99

00:34:26.000 Ginger Snap! 1.00

00:34:27.000 Is he?

00:34:28.000 Is he?

00:34:28.000 Does he have to come in?

00:34:29.000 He has to come in!

00:34:30.000 Yes, he absolutely has to come in!

00:34:31.000 I use the same thing for my son.

00:34:31.000 Did you see that?

00:34:33.000 For crying out loud?

00:34:34.000 Get in the chair, Lane.

00:34:36.000 Get in the chair.

00:34:37.000 You saw that there?

00:34:38.000 You know that's what we use?

00:34:39.000 What's... Did you see in the video?

00:34:41.000 Play the video again, just for the first... So he has to watch.

00:34:44.000 You watch!

00:34:45.000 You watch what happens!

00:34:46.000 What am I looking for?

00:34:47.000 Hold on a second.

00:34:48.000 Then we go right past their... Neutrogen!

00:34:51.000 There you go!

00:34:52.000 That's enough!

00:34:52.000 That's enough, Kim!

00:34:53.000 There is Neutrogen right there! 0.98

00:34:55.000 Just... What's wrong with you?

00:34:56.000 With the cigarettes again.

00:34:57.000 It's my thing now.

00:34:58.000 I think I want to make it my thing.

00:34:59.000 Are we smoking now?

00:35:00.000 No.

00:35:01.000 I just want to flick the cigarettes.

00:35:04.000 So tell me what happened.

00:35:05.000 You said one employee even told you, actually.

00:35:07.000 Yeah, so actually at Target, the first store, I ran into two people.

00:35:11.000 The first lady said she was searching for formula for her friend in Iowa.

00:35:14.000 Jill Biden was there.

00:35:17.000 The first lady.

00:35:19.000 Second lady. 0.96

00:35:22.000 So she said she was looking for a friend in Iowa, and then I met this man who was shopping for his baby.

00:35:27.000 He said he'd been to five stores, couldn't find any, and most of the formula he'd been getting recently, he was ordering from Europe.

00:35:33.000 Right.

00:35:34.000 Which is technically illegal, as we'll get to later.

00:35:36.000 It is illegal.

00:35:37.000 Yeah.

00:35:38.000 Not technically, like literally.

00:35:39.000 It's literally illegal.

00:35:41.000 Right, but it's so, it's like... But here's the thing, parents have been doing this for years.

00:35:46.000 I think we have an overlay from even the New York Times acknowledging that they've been getting it from Europe.

00:35:50.000 Right, so it's, like I said, it's illegal, it's actually illegal, but apparently it's not enforced.

00:35:55.000 Yeah, it shouldn't be.

00:35:57.000 And what you said, you said an employee to it, Bye Bye Baby, what did this employee tell you?

00:36:00.000 So she said, the first thing she said, I asked her if this shortage was... Bye Bye Baby's a convenient name if they keep running under it.

00:36:09.000 Bye bye baby, I had to starve you so. 0.98

00:36:15.000 Okay.

00:36:15.000 So I asked her if the short, like the shelves were like this all the time.

00:36:18.000 And she said, well, ever since COVID started that it was a little bit down, but over the last couple of months, it's been crazy.

00:36:25.000 And that yesterday is as bare as she'd ever seen them.

00:36:29.000 And she said, whenever they would get a shipment in, it would be gone within 20 minutes.

00:36:33.000 Gosh.

00:36:33.000 And she's getting calls every hour from parents asking.

00:36:37.000 Parents are panic buying right now, too.

00:36:39.000 Is there anything else you need to let me know?

00:36:40.000 Well, yeah, so a lot of the stores are, like Gerald alluded to, they're setting limits on how much people can buy now.

00:36:46.000 That's like toilet paper or gas.

00:36:47.000 People start going, oh crap, I need some, even if you don't need some right at that moment.

00:36:51.000 And like at CVS, they had these things.

00:36:54.000 Coupons?

00:36:55.000 That's like, jingle all the way, a Turbo Man.

00:36:57.000 Yeah, you get it.

00:36:59.000 Where's the Turbo Man?

00:37:00.000 Are you under the impression there's a Turbo Man here in the studio?

00:37:02.000 We said someone would get one eventually.

00:37:05.000 What I have here is a gift certificate.

00:37:08.000 Except the beatings are still funnier than Sinbad.

00:37:11.000 It's a great movie.

00:37:13.000 Actually, for a holiday movie with a kid, I agree.

00:37:13.000 Underrated.

00:37:17.000 It's the best one.

00:37:18.000 But at CVS they had, when you went to the formula section, they had these things that said, oh, available at the front checkout.

00:37:25.000 So I'm thinking, okay, they just have them locked up or something.

00:37:28.000 You go back there and you're like, okay, can I get some of these?

00:37:30.000 They're like, oh no, we don't actually have any.

00:37:32.000 Oh, well that's how you get those Best Buy robbers.

00:37:34.000 I mean, I can't blame them.

00:37:35.000 I'm just saying, if you ransacked the front, I wouldn't blame you.

00:37:38.000 But I am going to dock your pay for the formula you didn't pick up.

00:37:43.000 So, I want you to be here because there's been a little bit of a debate during run-through here.

00:37:48.000 And I really would love to see you guys commenting below.

00:37:50.000 By the way, the best thing you can do is, do we have a share button?

00:37:54.000 Apparently YouTube now favors sharing the most.

00:37:59.000 Comments and sharing.

00:38:00.000 They don't really care about the likes because for some reason they don't want it to contrast with a dislike.

00:38:05.000 So there are a couple of reasons here.

00:38:07.000 Yes, a company screwed up.

00:38:08.000 I want to be clear about that.

00:38:09.000 But we have major supply chain issues as well.

00:38:12.000 And this is not the fault of one company with contamination.

00:38:15.000 So manufacturers are having difficulty Yes, there was a place, Abbott Laboratories, right?

00:38:19.000 They're one of the places that produces a lot of formula.

00:38:22.000 It's increasingly hard to come by.

00:38:24.000 You guys know that.

00:38:25.000 Packaging, labor shortages, also they've been contributing to this problem.

00:38:29.000 Now, yes, there was a place, Abbott Laboratories, right?

00:38:32.000 They're one of the places that produces a lot of formula.

00:38:35.000 And they had a...

00:38:37.000 Well, okay.

00:38:38.000 There's been an argument as to whether there was contamination or not.

00:38:41.000 I don't want to get into that.

00:38:42.000 Parents sued them.

00:38:43.000 They claimed that it was contaminated with, I believe, a bacteria.

00:38:46.000 When they searched the facility, they only found it in a place where nothing that actually would be shipped out would have had contact with it.

00:38:53.000 Regardless, Abbott voluntarily recalled a bunch of its product, including a lot of Similac formulas.

00:38:59.000 That's a very popular formula for mothers out there. 1.00

00:39:01.000 You guys can testify to that.

00:39:03.000 The acid reflux one, too.

00:39:05.000 Right, yeah.

00:39:05.000 And they received complaints.

00:39:07.000 It was, what was the bacteria?

00:39:08.000 Chronobacter saccazake?

00:39:10.000 Nice! 0.94

00:39:11.000 You nailed it!

00:39:12.000 What?

00:39:14.000 It's what?

00:39:15.000 Like, really similar to salmonella.

00:39:17.000 So it's like the Wuhan flu of salmonella?

00:39:19.000 I would have called that chronobacter jetski.

00:39:23.000 Good for you.

00:39:24.000 I would have called it chronobacter sedu.

00:39:26.000 Would have gone name brand.

00:39:28.000 I don't know.

00:39:29.000 Like Kleenex.

00:39:30.000 So, let me give you the story that the media wants to give you, and then there's a little bit more to it.

00:39:34.000 Five infants, children, babies, hospitalized after consuming the formula from Sturgis, Michigan.

00:39:41.000 Two died.

00:39:42.000 Horrible.

00:39:43.000 That's why you see pictures like this when you go to the stores.

00:39:46.000 You have these warnings.

00:39:48.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:39:49.000 It is a problem because, and this is what you see with big banks, you see it with airline companies, you see it with health insurance companies, the baby formula industry is dominated by a handful of companies.

00:39:59.000 You see it with big tech as well.

00:40:01.000 Really just four companies.

00:40:02.000 There's Reckitt Bekanser, there's Nestle, and there's Perigo.

00:40:07.000 I don't necessarily know how it's pronounced.

00:40:09.000 I don't really care. 0.60

00:40:10.000 I don't like Italians. 1.00

00:40:10.000 Now... Hey! 1.00

00:40:14.000 That's why I don't like them.

00:40:14.000 See?

00:40:15.000 Right there.

00:40:15.000 That.

00:40:16.000 Always gotta make their voice heard on something.

00:40:18.000 So anytime you look at an industry, you go, okay, look, I understand, okay, this company screwed up.

00:40:22.000 But why are there only a handful?

00:40:24.000 How do you develop this monopoly, duopoly, tripopoly, or quadopoly, whatever it is at this point?

00:40:31.000 You don't see this in many industries.

00:40:32.000 You don't see it with restaurants.

00:40:33.000 You don't see it with even, like, for example, manufacturing equipment.

00:40:37.000 You see it...

00:40:39.000 And if you select it, you see it with big banks, you see it with airlines, you see it with health insurance companies, you see it with big tech, you see it here.

00:40:44.000 These are industries, the one commonality, that are incredibly heavily regulated.

00:40:50.000 Now, to be clear, I know it sounds good.

00:40:53.000 Oh, heavy regulation.

00:40:54.000 If you believed that it actually worked, keep in mind, remember I told you that Abbott voluntarily recalled it?

00:41:01.000 The FDA didn't catch it!

00:41:04.000 The company recalled it after the harm was done, and then the FDA steps in and says, I recognize this fault!

00:41:11.000 Everybody, look how good I am! 0.96

00:41:12.000 And they're useless! 0.82

00:41:14.000 And then they just make it more difficult and more expensive for other companies to make it into the marketplace and compete.

00:41:19.000 So, uh, 2021.

00:41:22.000 Parents were wanting to make individual choices, right, on baby formula.

00:41:25.000 It was blocked by the FDA.

00:41:27.000 And, uh, they cited insufficient amounts of iron for issuing.

00:41:31.000 There was this recall that was issued for insufficient amounts of iron.

00:41:34.000 There was a brand, uh, HIP, I don't know what this means, Holly and Kendamil.

00:41:38.000 They were part of a 76,000 unit recall, okay?

00:41:41.000 The FDA said there were insufficient amounts of iron.

00:41:43.000 Yeah.

00:41:43.000 Well, so the FDA is kind of doing the job that they're supposed to be doing in that case, but in other cases... What if your family has a history of, like, hemochromatosis?

00:41:52.000 Yeah.

00:41:54.000 In other words, you need to account for individual choices.

00:41:57.000 It affects 1 in 300 white people.

00:42:00.000 In which the body can build up too much iron in the skin, heart, liver, pancreas.

00:42:03.000 By the way, this is something that's very well known.

00:42:05.000 It's the reason that... People's body processes iron differently.

00:42:09.000 I just gave blood yesterday because I have to keep an eye on it.

00:42:11.000 I've always tended to have higher iron levels.

00:42:14.000 Men's multivitamins.

00:42:15.000 Women's... The only real difference is no iron. 1.00

00:42:18.000 Because women can excrete iron. 1.00

00:42:19.000 Men can't. 0.94

00:42:20.000 We know what excess iron does to the body, and it's a pretty common problem.

00:42:23.000 Parents should have the right to pick formula that is lower in iron.

00:42:26.000 The FDA said, no, no, no.

00:42:27.000 Absolutely not.

00:42:28.000 So they don't allow that choice.

00:42:30.000 Okay.

00:42:31.000 Um, let's look at this too.

00:42:32.000 The tariffs.

00:42:33.000 They're 17.5% for infant formula.

00:42:37.000 Coming in.

00:42:38.000 Geez.

00:42:39.000 Now, Biden wants to ease tariffs on China, right?

00:42:41.000 Their goods to reduce inflation.

00:42:43.000 Now, what about easing tariffs on these other Formulas.

00:42:48.000 And by the way, a lot of baby formulas coming over from Europe.

00:42:50.000 I don't know if we have this necessarily on the show, Matt, but there was a bunch of formula that was coming in from Europe, Germany, and it didn't meet labeling laws.

00:42:56.000 Specific FDA labeling laws, which by the way, you want to know how useless the FDA labeling laws are?

00:43:01.000 Guess what?

00:43:02.000 You can have food that can be within 10%.

00:43:05.000 Which is a problem for the diabetic community, whether it's FDA, USDA.

00:43:11.000 In other words, you would accept it if you go, well it's because our standards are far more stringent.

00:43:15.000 No, it's not more stringent than Germany, where this formula is allowed.

00:43:18.000 It's just because of a technicality.

00:43:20.000 So in Europe they can get access to this, but here in the United States you can't.

00:43:24.000 So we have tariffs, we want to ease it on China.

00:43:26.000 Right now when we need the formula, we don't allow Americans to make choices.

00:43:30.000 And we put tariffs on the formula that would come in from Europe where it's perfectly acceptable and probably better than what we're getting from Abbott Laboratories.

00:43:36.000 The point is when you eliminate choice and you create all this red tape, it makes the barrier to entry impossible and so there is less competition.

00:43:44.000 Something else?

00:43:45.000 The FDA didn't enforce the regulations that were already on the books.

00:43:49.000 They inspected Abbott in September 2021 with the following findings.

00:43:56.000 Unsanitary conditions in the building itself, Failure to wash hands, and failure to test for microbes in the final product.

00:44:06.000 They also had an outbreak in 2020.

00:44:08.000 What did they get?

00:44:09.000 A warning.

00:44:11.000 Who are you, Hans Bricks?

00:44:13.000 Wow.

00:44:14.000 So the point is this, the FDA doesn't... Look, look.

00:44:18.000 I don't think it's a legitimate role for the government to say that you can't take something, let's say an experimental drug, if you're willing to accept the risk.

00:44:25.000 Right.

00:44:25.000 I do think it's a legitimate role of the government to make sure that you know the risk of something you are consuming from a company or making sure that the company isn't lying to you about what is in there.

00:44:36.000 For example, if they say, hey, we don't put lead paint chips in our baby formula.

00:44:41.000 They have it in giant, bright, loud letters with singing whistles.

00:44:46.000 Okay?

00:44:47.000 Just have to make sure that you don't actually have lead paint chips in your formula.

00:44:51.000 That's the FDA's job, and they don't do it!

00:44:54.000 Right, and they actually had a whistleblower for that plant that you mentioned earlier, the Sturgis Michigan plant.

00:44:59.000 They had a whistleblower, I believe, in October that came forward.

00:45:01.000 They didn't investigate or contact the whistleblower until December, and I don't think they actually went and looked at the plant until a couple of months after that, and that's the issue that we had.

00:45:09.000 Now, their response, just like with gas prices right now, just like with any of the other inflation, is corporations bad.

00:45:16.000 That's the left's response every single time.

00:45:18.000 No.

00:45:18.000 Government.

00:45:18.000 Bureaucracy.

00:45:19.000 Bad.

00:45:20.000 Historically, communist governments have always had shortages when they step in too much.

00:45:25.000 This is something very similar to that.

00:45:27.000 Like you said, in wine, you have to have the alcohol percentage on the label.

00:45:31.000 It's tiny and insignificant.

00:45:33.000 It doesn't matter.

00:45:33.000 But if you don't have it, you can't sell your product.

00:45:36.000 That's the kind of technicality we're talking about.

00:45:37.000 What's also absurd, though, is that with wine and beer, you don't have to list the ingredients, but you do for other food.

00:45:42.000 Yeah, and they're not for babies.

00:45:44.000 Do you know how much arsenic is in wine?

00:45:45.000 I'm not even kidding.

00:45:46.000 Really?

00:45:47.000 Take a look at it.

00:45:48.000 Well, I guess it's a good thing that I'm just a bottle of whiskey a day, man.

00:45:51.000 And old lace.

00:45:52.000 Yep. 0.98

00:45:52.000 Well, it's not enough to kill you, but just enough to make you sick. 0.98

00:45:55.000 You take your wine and your healthy heart, I will take my whiskey and Chesterfields. 0.99

00:46:00.000 You were about to say something.

00:46:01.000 With everything you guys are saying about the FDA, it makes complete sense.

00:46:05.000 Everything is over-regulated.

00:46:06.000 That's for not getting the formula.

00:46:09.000 After Finnegan had his little spill.

00:46:11.000 Doesn't it seem like it's over or under, though?

00:46:13.000 It feels like it's like Ace Rothstein in Casino, where if you have enough money, they just keep putting the application at the bottom of the pile.

00:46:20.000 That's kind of the point that I was getting to.

00:46:23.000 Yes, the FDA and the government has way too many regulations.

00:46:27.000 The barriers to entry prevent smaller firms from breaking through.

00:46:31.000 But I also feel like, as conservatives, sometimes we automatically have the kind of reactionary response and say, oh, well, government bad, corporations good.

00:46:39.000 Right, that shouldn't be the case either.

00:46:40.000 In this case, I think they're both incompetent, as all get out.

00:46:44.000 Because how did these five companies get this market share?

00:46:48.000 By running the better business than everybody?

00:46:50.000 No, exactly.

00:46:50.000 They get protection.

00:46:51.000 And here's the thing, too, though.

00:46:53.000 The market ended up correcting itself, unfortunately, after damage was done.

00:46:57.000 Now if you have more competition, there's less damage that is done.

00:46:59.000 Think of it as a mouth guard.

00:47:01.000 The way a mouth guard works is it dissipates shock.

00:47:04.000 That's why it makes it really hard to knock your teeth out.

00:47:06.000 A little rubber is not going to stop.

00:47:08.000 That's not enough of a shield.

00:47:09.000 It's that it dissipates the reverberation of the shock, and so you're less likely to

00:47:13.000 lose one tooth.

00:47:14.000 More competition, it dissipates the shock.

00:47:17.000 It means that fewer people are affected.

00:47:18.000 It means that the risk is mitigated.

00:47:20.000 The problem is when the government gets involved and you have this over-regulation, what ends

00:47:23.000 up happening is it ends up creating these leviathans, these super companies, and then

00:47:27.000 that shock is so much more impactful.

00:47:30.000 Yeah, so right now there's an opportunity.

00:47:32.000 If you're an upstart formula producer right now and you want to increase production or

00:47:36.000 maybe jump into the game and you were doing something similar but not formula, you can't.

00:47:41.000 The regulations right now make it so you don't want to risk it.

00:47:42.000 And the price of everything else.

00:47:44.000 Yeah.

00:47:44.000 And you don't, but... And that's the market correcting.

00:47:47.000 These companies have people behind the scenes lobbying for those regulations.

00:47:50.000 Oh, of course.

00:47:50.000 Because they're the ones that can afford to live by them.

00:47:53.000 Well, it's like the big banks.

00:47:54.000 Or Amazon.

00:47:54.000 Of course, Amazon is okay with increasing payroll tax because they can afford it, and it's just going to push their competitors out.

00:47:59.000 Exactly.

00:48:00.000 Exactly.

00:48:00.000 Or if you look at organizations like BlackRock and Vanguard.

00:48:02.000 Right.

00:48:03.000 Look at these organizations, they... You know what?

00:48:06.000 Perfect example.

00:48:07.000 Big tech.

00:48:08.000 When people say, oh, big corporations, look at the most powerful corporations that have ever existed, why do you think YouTube, right, Alphabet, Google, YouTube, this is all under Alphabet, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, why do you think they entirely support Democrats?

00:48:24.000 For you?

00:48:26.000 You believe that Susan Wojcicki, that Jeff Bezos, that Tim Cook, that Mark Zuckerberg are looking out for you?

00:48:33.000 Do you actually believe that all of them somehow woke up and said, you know, this is what's best for the American people and not what's best for my company or shareholders?

00:48:40.000 No.

00:48:40.000 And this is what's happening with the formula right now.

00:48:42.000 And here's the thing.

00:48:43.000 It happened.

00:48:44.000 There was a contamination.

00:48:45.000 And now the government has stepped in and said, we will do our work.

00:48:48.000 And all they're doing is freezing.

00:48:51.000 anything that can be done at this point. Yeah, well stores aren't going to get a lot more product,

00:48:55.000 Abbott said, until July. They're ramping up production as fast as they can, but that's

00:48:58.000 two months. You know what the government solution also is, Stephen? Like, oh, what did we do during

00:49:02.000 World War II? Let's put it under the Defense Production Act so that the government can now

00:49:05.000 control it, or let's add it to the strategic stockpile, like the masks and stuff we didn't

00:49:09.000 have, right, in this. And it's like, oh, government's stepping in and doing more of a bad job.

00:49:14.000 Do you understand how this is going to go?

00:49:16.000 Well, it's just like, look, this is just like the FBI.

00:49:18.000 The FBI is, okay, you're busy prosecuting people who are wearing, you're not going after the pedophiles and actual domestic terrorists, you're going after people who are on the Capitol, along with funny hats!

00:49:28.000 This is the problem.

00:49:28.000 Or school board meetings.

00:49:29.000 Right!

00:49:30.000 We just had that come out in the last couple of days.

00:49:32.000 They did go after people on the school board.

00:49:34.000 Or beer drinking clubs where they didn't even want to kidnap the governor.

00:49:37.000 FBI, that was you, so you don't have time to go after the people who actually matter.

00:49:40.000 This is what happens with the FDA.

00:49:41.000 Anyone out there who has a job.

00:49:43.000 You know what?

00:49:44.000 Let's use an analogy here with mothers. 0.91

00:49:45.000 Which is at least 30% of the country.

00:49:47.000 Yes, at least 30% of the country.

00:49:49.000 Well, it depends on which metrics you're using.

00:49:51.000 Let's call it a solid 15.

00:49:52.000 Fair.

00:49:54.000 So if you're a mother...

00:49:56.000 And let's say you have a baby who has acid reflux.

00:50:01.000 That takes some of your energy.

00:50:02.000 You have to focus on the acid reflux.

00:50:03.000 You have to focus on that problem.

00:50:04.000 You have to deal with it.

00:50:05.000 Prilosec is something that a lot of people use and is recommended.

00:50:08.000 Mayo, when I've worked with them, Prilosec if you have a kid with acid reflux.

00:50:11.000 Detroit Children's Hospital, we were talking about that.

00:50:12.000 Same.

00:50:14.000 Uh, no, by the way, I'm not sponsored by Prilosec, just to be clear, okay?

00:50:17.000 I'm not Stephen Colbert sponsored by a big pharma company.

00:50:20.000 But what I'm saying is, if you're a mom, right, and you have a baby with some kind of an ailment, some kind of a disorder, some kind of special need, guess what?

00:50:25.000 You know that your time is limited.

00:50:28.000 We often don't understand that time is a currency, and you can't spend that time addressing other problems.

00:50:33.000 If the FDA is busy grandstanding and right now virtue signaling, they can't do their actual job, and their actual job should be just ensuring that what they claim is on the label is on the label.

00:50:44.000 Not making up new labels, not shutting down companies, not forcing people to take experimental medicine.

00:50:54.000 Hey, the CDC should actually be compiling statistics more accurately.

00:50:59.000 Instead, they're lobbying the government to make sure that you have to take a vaccine.

00:51:02.000 You only have so much time.

00:51:04.000 It's limited.

00:51:05.000 And so we see, as the FDA grows in scope and grows in power, they're not doing the job that they were basically designed to do, which is ensure that consumers can make decisions with accurate information.

00:51:18.000 So I am pretty libertarian, I believe, in limited government, but I also don't believe that corporations should simply be able to go out and lie.

00:51:27.000 Right.

00:51:27.000 The FDA has no interest in enforcing the truth.

00:51:29.000 They had the opportunity, they just glanced past it.

00:51:32.000 Why?

00:51:32.000 Because they're more interested in making it seem like they're working than actually doing their job.

00:51:36.000 And everyone who works a job knows it's way easier to make it seem like you're doing a job than actually doing your job.

00:51:40.000 Yeah.

00:51:40.000 Well, does the Biden administration really think, like, do you really care about the poor?

00:51:44.000 Do you really care about people like that if this is the issue, if this is what's going on?

00:51:48.000 Right.

00:51:48.000 And Lane, like, what you're talking about with Like, let's say somebody does get the ingredients they need by some miracle or whatever, and they're allowed to have production and make baby formula.

00:51:57.000 How long would it actually take?

00:51:59.000 Like, this couldn't actually fix a problem overnight or even close to it.

00:52:02.000 Like, it would be, what, years?

00:52:05.000 Months?

00:52:06.000 For another company, it would be years.

00:52:08.000 And right now, we're looking at months for the shortage.

00:52:10.000 Yeah, at least July.

00:52:11.000 Yeah, but here's the thing.

00:52:12.000 So it ran at January to April.

00:52:14.000 I think the stat was somewhere between 3% to 8% out of stock, right?

00:52:18.000 So if you're an enterprising company, you're out there going, okay, that's normal.

00:52:23.000 And then you start to see, oh, it's up to 11% now.

00:52:26.000 Oh, it's up to 30%.

00:52:27.000 Guys, there's a market opportunity.

00:52:30.000 Something is coming, we can jump into this game.

00:52:32.000 If you're in that kind of world already making food products, you might be able to transfer over and go after it, but you can't if there's too much government red tape.

00:52:40.000 If it's going to take you a year to get into the approval process and get your product to the market, you can't do it.

00:52:46.000 And this is what I want to be really clear, because it's easy to go, Corporations, evil government, good when you say red tape.

00:52:53.000 When we say red tape, we don't mean making sure that the companies are providing a safe product for you.

00:52:58.000 They don't enforce that.

00:53:00.000 The product already got out.

00:53:02.000 What we mean is red tape with your paper sitting on a stack.

00:53:04.000 Red tape with, well, this label doesn't have the right font size, or you know what, sorry, you can't use Comic Sans, whatever the hell it is.

00:53:10.000 I agree with that one.

00:53:11.000 It has to be in Helvetica.

00:53:12.000 What about Helvetica Bold?

00:53:14.000 NO!

00:53:15.000 Never!

00:53:15.000 But we know that we can't just rush something.

00:53:17.000 It's dangerous.

00:53:18.000 No, no, no, I agree.

00:53:19.000 What?

00:53:20.000 No, what?

00:53:20.000 No, no, no.

00:53:21.000 You almost had me!

00:53:23.000 And then you did have me!

00:53:23.000 You got me!

00:53:24.000 So Tom Cotton actually called out the FDA and the Biden administration on Twitter.

00:53:28.000 He said, the FDA needs to step up immediately, be transparent, explain how it will get production restarted, and give parents a timeline.

00:53:35.000 The Biden administration needs to take this seriously.

00:53:38.000 That's a fair statement.

00:53:39.000 That's a fair request.

00:53:39.000 I think we have a path to how we can do that here.

00:53:42.000 However, when asked what the FDA, the FDA was, I almost said FAA, I said FDA.

00:53:48.000 I also hate the FAA. 1.00

00:53:49.000 Oh, they all suck. 1.00

00:53:50.000 When they were asked what the, just three letter organizations, they're all just the 1.00

00:53:53.000 pits.

00:53:55.000 When they were asked what the FDA was doing to fix the problem, Jen Psaki gave this incredibly

00:54:00.000 coherent response.

00:54:01.000 What the FDA is doing, which while they're independent, they are part of the administration,

00:54:05.000 is taking a number of steps to address.

00:54:08.000 That includes working with major infant formula manufacturers to ensure they're increasing production.

00:54:13.000 Getting a Weird Al signer?

00:54:13.000 Because part of this issue is, of course, making sure there's stock on the shelves, right?

00:54:17.000 It's like the Chelsea Clinton.

00:54:18.000 And working with the industry right now to optimize their supply lines, product sizes to increase capacity, and prioritizing product lines that are of greatest need.

00:54:27.000 You couldn't hear that, could you?

00:54:28.000 No, but I put that in there.

00:54:29.000 Okay, yeah, yeah.

00:54:31.000 Optimizing supply lines.

00:54:33.000 What?

00:54:33.000 Yeah.

00:54:35.000 It's like every word from a business school textbook.

00:54:38.000 It's synergy.

00:54:40.000 Can you imagine if she just comes in as an efficiency expert to your company? 0.98

00:54:43.000 She's like, okay, let me see.

00:54:44.000 All right, let me see the bottom.

00:54:46.000 Well, it seems here what you need to do is optimize.

00:54:50.000 I mean, that's McKinsey.

00:54:51.000 Yeah, it is.

00:54:52.000 My work here is done.

00:54:54.000 No, I love what she said.

00:54:56.000 Basically, the market does this.

00:54:57.000 She's like, we're working with them to make sure that they understand that there's a demand for a product that they make and that if they make more of it, they'll sell more of it and get more money.

00:55:03.000 I'm like, did you really need to call them for that?

00:55:06.000 Yes.

00:55:06.000 Every other company right now is like, oh baby, market share, let's go.

00:55:10.000 You don't have to call for that.

00:55:11.000 No, you don't have to call.

00:55:12.000 Just get out of the way. 0.64

00:55:13.000 We called them and we told them that people need, we called the baby formula company and told them that there are people who want to purchase baby formula and we'll let you know what they come back with.

00:55:22.000 Yeah, we're gonna use a bunch of words you don't understand.

00:55:24.000 The whole thing, and I guess my last point on this, is it's just kind of a sick, incestuous relationship between, like, left-wing politics and these big business people, the cronies.

00:55:34.000 Yes.

00:55:35.000 It's, okay, the government makes regulations, left-wing politicians make regulations that only mega companies can afford to implement.

00:55:43.000 They push the market, push everyone else out of the market, and then they continue to fund the re-election campaigns.

00:55:43.000 Right.

00:55:50.000 For the same people that are going to make more regulations to make them more powerful. 0.86

00:55:50.000 Yes. 0.86

00:55:54.000 Because you and I were talking about this, unfortunately.

00:55:56.000 You were talking about, you know, like plastics.

00:55:59.000 You know, they were getting plastics from China.

00:56:01.000 I think, I don't know how it came out, we were talking about the, was it the bottles for the formula?

00:56:04.000 Yeah.

00:56:05.000 Plastics, getting it from China.

00:56:06.000 You're saying, why don't they get that, you know, be able to get that from Wisconsin.

00:56:08.000 And I agree.

00:56:09.000 Look, I agree that it would be fantastic if we could get everything in the United States.

00:56:13.000 It's not possible sometimes.

00:56:14.000 Right.

00:56:15.000 For example, the mugs that we sell.

00:56:16.000 We get the mugs from China.

00:56:17.000 They're hand-painted and etched in the United States.

00:56:19.000 Do you know why?

00:56:20.000 No one could, if please, send what's what tips at loudearthcrowder.com?

00:56:24.000 Sure.

00:56:25.000 Tips at Loud... If there's an American company that can make this mug... Yeah, we're looking.

00:56:29.000 ...to the scale that we need, let us know.

00:56:32.000 Not a shitty mug with a screen print, but...

00:56:35.000 But the truth is, there haven't been any American companies who are willing to make it, or who can scale to what we need. 0.85

00:56:41.000 Same thing often with plastics.

00:56:42.000 You know, in Wisconsin, well, that's a big union state.

00:56:44.000 Steel.

00:56:45.000 Steel in the furniture industry.

00:56:47.000 Long before COVID, they had to go to Eastern Bloc countries. 0.95

00:56:49.000 I don't know if it's Lithuania or Latvia.

00:56:50.000 There's something with an L in there.

00:56:52.000 Maybe it's Belarus. 0.96

00:56:53.000 I have no idea.

00:56:54.000 Well, that was, by the way, Pittsburgh, the steel shut down long before we stopped needing steel.

00:57:00.000 It was too expensive, and the quality was lower because you have unions who elect Democrats, and then the Democrats say, we'll give you kickbacks, and eventually it ends up killing the industry because no one wants to go to them for raw material.

00:57:10.000 So it would be great, kind of like you're saying, it's a reactionary sort of response for conservatives to say, Oh, corporations good, government bad, which of course none of us agree with.

00:57:20.000 It's also a little bit of a reactionary response where you have people who are like, you should buy American!

00:57:25.000 You have people like, you're driving a jet car, you should buy American! 0.96

00:57:25.000 Right. 0.96

00:57:30.000 Well, see, the thing that you fail to understand, sir, is I've driven enough American cars.

00:57:34.000 No, I completely agree with that.

00:57:36.000 I guess the only thing that I would add on to that is a lot of these companies that could produce these things in America, outside of like the union regulations, do it for cost effectiveness.

00:57:47.000 So you don't have a minimum wage in China, you can have Uighur Muslims make whatever you want for free because, you know, they're not people according to the Chinese government. 1.00

00:57:55.000 So they outsource stuff there.

00:57:58.000 And instead of preparing for a strong economy that can respond well to Black Swan events like COVID, they went for, we need to make every single penny we can by cutting costs everywhere we can, offshore jobs, offshore production.

00:58:14.000 And unfortunately, that's also exacerbated by the government taxes and by making, you know, profit margins are very, very slim for a lot of companies.

00:58:20.000 People don't understand that.

00:58:22.000 And so it encourages, and then of course, when you say we're going to reduce tariffs from China on goods from China.

00:58:26.000 So now, okay, it's now It's even more cost effective.

00:58:29.000 And by the way, we're going to levy more taxes on you.

00:58:31.000 It's like, oh my gosh, my profit margins just shrank and they just gave me an incentive to get things from China.

00:58:36.000 And that's the problem that we have.

00:58:38.000 And that is where the America first, Donald Trump, people say it was racist.

00:58:41.000 You look at what happened with Ford.

00:58:43.000 You look at what happened with companies where it actually became more cost effective.

00:58:46.000 For a good example, within the United States, Elon Musk, Tesla.

00:58:51.000 It's the electric car.

00:58:51.000 Yeah.

00:58:53.000 It should live in California.

00:58:55.000 He went to Texas.

00:58:56.000 We could do that on an international level.

00:58:59.000 Unfortunately, we're not.

00:59:01.000 Well, there's just too many people that want to look at corporations and wag their finger, but they're getting the campaign funds from them and say, all we have to do is tax these windfall profits. 0.99

00:59:09.000 That's what Robert Reich, that moron, keeps saying. 0.99

00:59:11.000 And I'm just like, you've got to be kidding me. 1.00

00:59:13.000 That's not what's driving our problem.

00:59:14.000 The problem is this administration doesn't have a clue on how to handle inflation and reopening an economy.

00:59:20.000 Yeah.

00:59:20.000 It was obvious.

00:59:22.000 The economy, exactly.

00:59:24.000 They're great at making inflation work for them.

00:59:26.000 But the economy, it was obvious that it was coming back.

00:59:29.000 Anyone who was trying to get into politics at that time and be a leader at any level should have known this thing's about to open wide and we need to be ready for it.

00:59:38.000 And yet you put the mayor of a small town in Indiana in the position as secretary of transportation and it's like, oh good.

00:59:46.000 He's going to know a whole lot about how to handle this.

00:59:46.000 Yeah.

00:59:48.000 We're crying out loud.

00:59:50.000 That guy doesn't even drive because he can't.

00:59:53.000 Ubers! 0.98

00:59:53.000 He can't drive home on GHB from Adonis Club? 0.98

00:59:56.000 No.

00:59:57.000 He didn't poke at Knights of Columbus all night?

01:00:00.000 We're crying out loud.

01:00:03.000 We're not in it behind it.

01:00:05.000 Nice. Oh, good. He was a mayor of South Bend and he worked for McKenzie.

01:00:09.000 It's a motorcade of sorts.

01:00:10.000 Oh, he took three months off to chest feed as well.

01:00:13.000 Yeah, South Bend, there's lots to do there, like drink and go to a college that's not so good.

01:00:18.000 Well, that college technically is not in South Bend. It is Notre Dame, Indiana.

01:00:22.000 I know, it's Michiana.

01:00:24.000 Let me distill this for you, okay, really quickly, because people try and make this very... and I agree with a lot of the points that you're making, and I think there's a big difference between crony capitalism and corporatism, who, by the way, this is why the biggest, most powerful companies in the world, and also the big banks, favor Democrats.

01:00:37.000 Overwhelmingly, it's not even close.

01:00:38.000 Big tech, big banks, look at them.

01:00:40.000 Big media, when you talk about corporate media, man, why do you think they overwhelmingly favor Democrats?

01:00:43.000 It's not even close.

01:00:44.000 So they're not looking out for you.

01:00:45.000 That being said, Yes, Abbott screwed up, had this contamination.

01:00:50.000 The level, the degree of which we don't necessarily know.

01:00:53.000 The FDA didn't do their job.

01:00:53.000 Right.

01:00:54.000 That's the only reason that the contamination got out and affected people.

01:00:57.000 However, look, Occam's rays are here.

01:01:00.000 Do you think that all of the entire shortage of baby formula that affects all of you right now and children, which is probably why Republicans, Conservatives are more concerned with it, you know, because they want them to live.

01:01:12.000 Well, that's true.

01:01:14.000 Do you think that it's affected because of one company, Abbott Laboratories, had a contamination, you know, to a small degree, or do you think that there's a shortage With formula, for perhaps the same reason that there's been a shortage in inflation of everything!

01:01:37.000 Now, this is more severe, but remember, when there were empty shelves, not long ago, the media said, no, no, no, it's not happening, it's not true.

01:01:44.000 Everybody who's been doing grocery shopping, and this is why I say talk with moms, guess what?

01:01:49.000 If the moms are doing the grocery shopping in the house, they've seen the shelves, they've gone to, where we go, Kroger, Tom Thumb, Target, Walmart, CVS, I've made those runs, we've seen them for ourselves, the media can only for so long say, don't believe your lying eyes and lying ears, they just never saw the formula shelves.

01:02:04.000 Completely barren. 0.99

01:02:06.000 So, is it just because of one company and, ooh, corporation bad and they should be the target of our ire, or is it just a more severe version of what we've been seeing for months?

01:02:15.000 This, the commonality across the board, Is what?

01:02:19.000 Is this administration?

01:02:20.000 Is the government intervention?

01:02:22.000 Is the policies that we have been enacting?

01:02:23.000 And by the way, it's important to look at the contrast between then and now, two years ago, versus what you're seeing.

01:02:29.000 The shelves are empty for a long time, depending on what it was.

01:02:32.000 Beef, milk, eggs.

01:02:34.000 Take your pick in any given week.

01:02:35.000 There was something that you couldn't find.

01:02:37.000 Now it's formula.

01:02:39.000 Look for the constant.

01:02:40.000 Look for the pattern.

01:02:41.000 Doesn't mean that corporations are blameless.

01:02:44.000 I'm not the party of big business.

01:02:44.000 Of course not.

01:02:45.000 I'm not the party of small business.

01:02:46.000 I'm the party of good business.

01:02:47.000 I don't care how big you are, so long as you're not taking my tax dollars for subsidization, and so long as you're not lying to me.

01:02:52.000 Now, we know that everything might seem hopeless with all these endless government regulations, these incompetent companies.

01:02:59.000 Making baby formula.

01:03:01.000 They also shouldn't have Mr. Magoo in the factory line.

01:03:02.000 I don't know why they did that. 0.96

01:03:03.000 Yeah, it was silly.

01:03:04.000 But our team did uncover one last reliable source.

01:03:07.000 And this is actually research that came from Ginger Snap.

01:03:09.000 He did uncover this.

01:03:12.000 We have an exclusive.

01:03:13.000 This is our new segment, Street Beats, and we hope that it helps mothers in need.

01:03:18.000 Yeah, this is some good formula right here.

01:03:25.000 Some good baby formula right here.

01:03:29.000 Here comes a customer right now.

01:03:31.000 Please step aside camera crew.

01:03:33.000 Cuckoo! 0.59

01:03:34.000 Cuckoo! 0.59

01:03:37.000 So, uh, you were looking for some baby formula or something?

01:03:41.000 I heard you got some of that baby formula with iron.

01:03:41.000 Yeah, man.

01:03:43.000 Oh, I got some baby formula with iron right here for you right now.

01:03:47.000 Oh, my baby's so hungry, man.

01:03:48.000 Can I buy some, please?

01:03:49.000 Oh, your baby's so hungry right now?

01:03:51.000 What, you got $5,000 for your baby's hunger?

01:03:53.000 $5,000, man?

01:03:55.000 Come on.

01:03:56.000 I'll give you like $200, please.

01:03:57.000 Oh, I don't got time for that kind of sad story.

01:04:01.000 I need $5,000 for this pure baby formula. 0.99

01:04:05.000 Jobs?

01:04:06.000 Jobs?

01:04:07.000 Or maybe jobs?

01:04:09.000 I'll do a job, a job, but no job, sorry, not into that.

01:04:13.000 Okay, get in.

01:04:14.000 Alright.

01:04:15.000 Would you mind holding my baby while I... Yeah, it's probably safer.

01:04:22.000 Yeah.

01:04:23.000 Just make sure she's not looking at me, okay?

01:04:26.000 Okay.

01:04:28.000 Things you do for family, you know?

01:04:30.000 I'm actually going to pull over, okay, and feed her real quick. 0.67

01:04:33.000 She's been real hungry.

01:04:34.000 Yeah, that's probably a good idea.

01:04:35.000 Just taste to make sure it's pure.

01:04:37.000 There you go. 1.00

01:04:42.000 Son of a bitch! 1.00

01:04:43.000 This is cocaine! 1.00

01:04:44.000 🎵Hip Hop Music🎵 Couple of notes.

01:04:51.000 The hat isn't enough of a disguise, but your child will be productive as hell.

01:04:55.000 Yes, that's true.

01:04:57.000 Up all night screaming.

01:04:58.000 Yes.

01:04:58.000 Well, and cleaning.

01:04:59.000 Yeah, cleaning.

01:05:00.000 Cleaning.

01:05:01.000 Also, buying more baby formula.

01:05:04.000 I needed a dad hat.

01:05:05.000 Yes!

01:05:07.000 So that's what I...

01:05:09.000 See, I realize I look in the mirror and I'm like, this is not how a man who's almost 40 used to dress.

01:05:14.000 That's when I stopped wearing hoodies.

01:05:15.000 Did you know that?

01:05:15.000 I looked in the mirror and I was like, I can't wear these anymore.

01:05:18.000 I'm a man.

01:05:19.000 Yeah, and I put on today a shirt with a monkey and a space helmet smoking a cigarette.

01:05:24.000 Well, I like it!

01:05:25.000 I like it because monkeys would not typically be found smoking cigarettes.

01:05:30.000 They would not.

01:05:30.000 Well, if they're about to die in space... Well, what if they're typing, though, in the 50s on a comedy show?

01:05:36.000 I particularly also like it when babies talk like adults.

01:05:38.000 That's my favorite.

01:05:40.000 Those are the two things I enjoy.

01:05:41.000 Also, babies do tend to talk like adults when you give them cocaine.

01:05:44.000 Did you know that?

01:05:45.000 Yeah, they do.

01:05:46.000 It activates that portion of the brain.

01:05:48.000 It's something about it.

01:05:49.000 It absolutely does.

01:05:50.000 Don't even get me started on crack. 0.96

01:05:53.000 You have to blow it in their face, but yeah. 0.82

01:05:55.000 I mean, people use the term crack baby like it's a bad thing. 0.95

01:05:58.000 I know, right?

01:05:59.000 I mean, it's just an untapped resource.

01:06:00.000 We could have an army of crack babies. 0.99

01:06:02.000 I would take an army of crack babies over the representatives that we have in the halls of Congress right now. 1.00

01:06:08.000 I once saw a crack baby turn over a bus to save its mother. 0.99

01:06:13.000 No, no, that was Jesus at the temple.

01:06:15.000 Oh.

01:06:15.000 Yeah, there was no crack involved, it was just anger at them selling stuff at the temple.

01:06:20.000 Oh, no wait, Crack Baby did that too.

01:06:22.000 Oh, okay.

01:06:23.000 Both things can be true. 0.75

01:06:25.000 So look, we have a segment here, I think we're gonna, I want to get into it a little bit more, so we'll do this a little bit next week, because everyone gets mad if we don't do enough chats on Chat Thursday.

01:06:33.000 However, the CDC, I think it was May 10th, Put out stats on crime.

01:06:39.000 Yeah.

01:06:40.000 The increasing homicide rate.

01:06:41.000 And they tried to say it was systemic racism and inequities caused by COVID.

01:06:45.000 Look, I'll just give you a spoiler alert.

01:06:47.000 No, if you add it up racially, those who would be systemically oppressed, they make up 76% of the homicides, which is a staggeringly low rate.

01:06:53.000 But all suicides are by white people.

01:06:56.000 So I looked at it, read the PDF. 0.89

01:06:57.000 I said, this doesn't pass the sniff test.

01:06:58.000 Wait, those who are oppressed are killing other people who are oppressed? 0.97

01:07:02.000 Because there's black on black crime, brown on brown crime. 0.99

01:07:04.000 But The oppressors, the white people, are killing themselves? 1.00

01:07:09.000 They're racist against themselves! 1.00

01:07:10.000 They're racist against themselves! 1.00

01:07:12.000 So white people are committing suicide, but black and brown people, to a rate of 75-78%, are committing the homicides, and it's because they're oppressed. 0.99

01:07:20.000 But they're not committing the suicides. 0.97

01:07:21.000 Which, by the way, that's a good thing!

01:07:22.000 We should look into if there's some kind of genetic, genetically, if there's a protective gene for African Americans against the suicide.

01:07:30.000 Well, wouldn't they be killing the oppressors if they were being oppressed?

01:07:32.000 You would think so, but that's far too sensible.

01:07:34.000 We'll discuss this more in a way that we could never discuss on YouTube because race, and you know what? 0.96

01:07:39.000 We'll also talk about women with penises, too, because we can't talk about it on YouTube because it's immutable. 0.86

01:07:46.000 So right now, I'm going to hit the... smash the like button, share, comment. 0.95

01:07:51.000 It's okay.

01:07:51.000 You don't need to hit that, Tim.

01:07:52.000 They know.

01:07:52.000 They don't need an on-screen prompt.

01:07:54.000 You know.

Louder with Crowder - May 12, 2022

Baby Formula SHORTAGE! Who's to BLAME? | Louder with Crowder

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