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00:01:35.000I wasn't actually sure where you were going with that, believe it or not.
00:01:37.000You know, this is one of those weird days in the news.
00:01:40.000Where we have this big wall of monitors over here, so we get to see all the different news channels that are going on.
00:01:45.000And there is quite literally a different headline on all of them.
00:01:49.000So CNN's covering the fact that, you know, Musk is about to open up his spending to help Republicans in the midterms.
00:01:58.000We've got Fox talking about California judge tossing DOJ girl sports case.
00:02:04.000Vice President Vance is going to host a White House press briefing.
00:02:07.000You know, the Young Turks is talking about terrorism in Gaza.
00:02:11.000You know, there's all kinds of things going on.
00:02:13.000Then we got the Lindsey Clancy trial heading into day six.
00:02:15.000So there is lots of different, various news items that are percolating and circulating.
00:02:21.000But what's interesting is there is nobody, as far as I can tell, there talking about what Blake just mentioned.
00:02:28.000And I want to make sure that you are aware.
00:02:30.000And that is in six days, a 25 year and running temporary protected status for El Salvadorans after the 2001 earthquakes in.
00:02:43.000That country is going to finally expire.
00:02:47.000Now, you're probably wondering what earthquakes exactly nobody remembers, but these people, almost 200,000 of them, have been legalized to stay and remain in the United States for 25 years on a TPS designation that was originally given 18 months.
00:03:06.000I went and I looked up the original press release.
00:03:08.000This happened in the first few months of the George W. Bush administration before 9 11 even happened, and there's just these incredible quotes in it.
00:03:16.000It was The designation was made by AG John Ashcroft.
00:03:20.000Covered, even then, they admitted up to 150,000 people.
00:03:23.000Acting Immigration and Naturalization Service, I guess, do we even have IOs?
00:03:29.000So, office that doesn't even exist anymore, Marianne Wersch says the havoc caused by these earthquakes makes it extremely difficult for Salvadorans to return home safely at this time.
00:03:40.000Given that reality, granting them temporary protected status is the prudent and humane thing to do.
00:03:47.000And they have a bit where they describe.
00:03:49.000You know, there's thousands of injured, thousands of homes destroyed.
00:03:53.000These factors have clearly resulted in a substantial, but temporary, disruption to living conditions in El Salvador.
00:04:17.000An estimated 170,000 members of our community nationwide may need to leave the country as early as next week.
00:04:23.000That's how many Salvadorans living in the U.S. with something called temporary protected status will have to go if that TPS is allowed to expire.
00:04:31.000It includes people like Daisy Gonzalez.
00:04:37.000I am a partner at a political consulting firm.
00:04:42.000You know, a lot of people depend on me.
00:04:44.000And it would just completely upend the lives of so many people.
00:04:49.000Self deport or risk everything that I've built here.
00:04:53.000She's been documenting the uncertainty she faces now on social media.
00:04:56.000She came to the U.S. as a toddler, and her family qualified for TPS after an earthquake hit their native El Salvador.
00:05:03.000TPS has allowed them to legally live and work here for decades, but unless Congress or the Trump administration takes action, those protections are set to expire on September 9th.
00:05:14.000They suddenly have to say it that way.
00:05:15.000But this is just, it's such a perfect example of this extremely sinister left wing nonsense they do.
00:05:22.000It's called temporary protected status.
00:05:24.000It plainly exists to deal with a situation like you cannot safely fly into your country right now because there's been a natural disaster or a military invasion, like something.
00:05:51.000It's too cruel for you to end the program that we cynically manipulated and extended because we just wanted by whatever means necessary to get infinite people here.
00:06:01.000And they're going to blame President Trump for this when it is your fault.
00:06:04.000It is your fault because you strung these people along for a political objective.
00:06:09.000And it was never meant to be temporary, is what you realize.
00:06:12.000Temporary protected status is something that the Trump administration is doing great work on.
00:06:22.000So we heard a lot of noise about the Haitian TPS being revoked.
00:06:25.000And you even saw Governor Mike DeWine, who's a Republican in name only, saying that this is really harsh and these people are really good for the economy.
00:06:45.000And I want us always to remember this.
00:06:47.000This is an intentional project of the political left in this country.
00:06:51.000Blake, I think, said one of the most profound things.
00:06:54.000Don't listen to this, I don't say nice things very often.
00:06:58.000The other day, and he said that the political left in this country is a replacement project.
00:07:02.000They want to replace the body politic with new voters, they want to replace the institutions with socialist ones, they want to replace the American way of life with a socialist way of life.
00:07:13.000Every which way you can imagine, it is an ideology that despises what we have in this country and they want to replace it with something made in their image, some utopian unicornia that will never exist.
00:07:26.000And they want to replace you, the voters.
00:07:30.000Texas is a very, very Republican state, but some people say the demographics are changing and the demographics alone will make that it won't be so Republican next time around.
00:07:41.000In a couple of presidential cycles, you'll be on election night, you'll be announcing that we're calling the 38 electoral votes of Texas for the Democratic nominee for president.
00:07:52.000It's going to become a purple state and then a blue state because of the demographics, because of the population growth of folks from outside of Texas.
00:08:35.000Now, what's really infuriating about this is that when it comes to El Salvador, Bukele's El Salvador is now the safest country in the Western Hemisphere.
00:08:45.000Yeah, I was absolutely, yeah, I was looking at their murder rate in back in 1995.
00:08:49.000It was 125 murders per 100,000 people.
00:08:53.000That's like worst neighborhoods in the United States for a whole country.
00:08:58.000When they did this temporary status, it was about 60 to 65.
00:09:01.000They went through multiple waves of drug war where it went down and spiked to new highs.
00:09:06.000And now, yeah, it's lower than America's murder rate.
00:09:08.000They keep going, these Castro brothers.
00:09:12.000To answer your question about Texas, I believe that within the next six to eight years, that what you're going to see is the acceleration of that state into a purple state for two reasons the growth of the Latino community that is growing faster than any community.
00:10:00.000They do not want you to live in a better tomorrow.
00:10:02.000They want to overwhelm the system and radically transform it, as Barack Obama said, as one of the last things he said before he got elected president.
00:10:09.000We are only a few days away from fundamentally transforming this country.
00:10:24.000That is why we call ourselves conservatives, because we have gratitude and love for this country that we did not build but we inherited thanks to the grace and the glory of God.
00:11:57.000This was published today by the Center for Immigration Studies.
00:12:00.000Since January of 2025, when President Trump took office, data shows an unprecedented drop of nearly 3 million, 2.9 to be exact, decline in the foreign born population.
00:12:13.000That would be naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, long term temporary visitors, and illegal immigrants.
00:14:32.000These ones are such big because they're illegal immigrants, but they're the most taxing illegal immigrants because they're illegals who get work permits.
00:14:41.000It makes them eligible for a whole battery of extra stuff and special treatment.
00:14:47.000And on the flip side, it does mean that when you revoke it, it's easier to get them out actually, because we know exactly where they are.
00:14:54.000We know they actually usually have to leave quickly.
00:14:57.000They aren't embedded in these quasi legal arrangements the way someone working as an illegal roofer or an illegal construction worker might be.
00:15:07.000They're working in schools, they're working in health clinics, they're working in places where we could employ Americans in those jobs.
00:15:14.000And they're suddenly realizing, oh, we have to do that.
00:15:17.000We might have to raise our pay to actually get Americans to do it.
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00:18:13.000We talk about replacement theory as just a replacement, and we play those clips from the Castro brothers bragging about replacement.
00:18:20.000This was a poster or some sort of note on the back wall from Mark Potock.
00:18:28.000He kept a chart on his office wall literally titled Non Hispanic Whites Proportion of the Population, tracking the decline of white Americans toward minority status.
00:18:38.000Like a doomsday countdown, or in his place, in his case, a celebration of white minority status in the United States.
00:18:48.000This is what they spend their nights thinking about.
00:18:50.000Everything is about, they love, I mean, they'll call them minorities, but basically, the absolute second that whites are 49.9%, it's going to be the majority.
00:19:57.000Well, your subtitle, Our Battle for the Soul of America.
00:20:00.000This is like, I mean, I just feel like Charlie would be really proud of you because he had the right wing revolution book that was looking forward, trying to say, hey, this is how we get our country back.
00:20:11.000And you actually started writing this book before everything happened with Charlie.
00:20:15.000Tell us the story of this book, how it came to be, what happened when Charlie was killed, how you changed it, and what it's about.
00:20:23.000Yeah, well, one, it's, you know, I just kind of got goosebumps a little bit that you mentioned Charlie's book, right?
00:20:29.000Wing Revolution because I posted a photo on my story.
00:20:34.000Because you know, when you write a book and it goes everywhere, you go out to try to find it in a location or whatever.
00:20:41.000And the first location we went to, me and Alyssa, we found it.
00:20:45.000It literally is right next to Charlie's uh right wing revolution book.
00:20:51.000And I don't know, I just again, it's on my stories right this second, I'm pretty sure.
00:20:56.000But but but I actually posted that, I should have sent it to you, but but but I didn't.
00:22:32.000But, you know, I told you when we launched the pre order that.
00:22:37.000And I even say this in the book, I intentionally left the chapters that I had written pre Charlie being taken from us.
00:22:45.000I left them the way that I had originally written them because, unfortunately, a lot of the things that I had talked about that I was seeing that this was going, unfortunately, on September 10th, 2025, I was proven right in that regard.
00:24:38.000And I just want to say something about you personally, Graham.
00:24:41.000And those of you out there that have followed Graham's story and followed the way that he rose up and became loud when a lot of other people cowered in the aftermath of Charlie's assassination and all the conspiracy theories, Graham didn't have to do that.
00:24:55.000It's not like, you know, it's like the conspiracy theorists out there think, oh, Graham's on payroll and we're paying him per tweet or something to defend us.
00:25:02.000No, nothing like that was at all the case.
00:25:05.000Graham came to us multiple times and kept saying, I want to fight, I want to fight, I want to defend you guys.
00:25:11.000And it was like, honestly, when you're in that position like we were, and to have a guy like this come out of nowhere, there's nothing in it for you, Graham, at all.
00:25:20.000And to have you stand up and fight was truly incredible, actually.
00:25:25.000And I know why you were doing it because you're loyal to Charlie and loyal to Erica.
00:25:29.000And you don't fight because you know you're going to win.
00:25:31.000You fight because it's the right thing to do.
00:25:33.000And that's why this book that you've written to me stands out and why I want to help you move as many copies as you possibly can because you live the values that you preach in this book.
00:25:45.000And you have my gratitude and my admiration, Graham Allen.
00:25:49.000Well, I appreciate you saying that, but it was unnecessary, but it's appreciated.
00:26:13.000I would never have talked about it while Charlie was alive, but I talked to many people about it and they were okay with me telling the story of how there would be no dear America.
00:26:22.000There would be no Graham Allen if Charlie Kirk had not seen something in me and stepped in to help me when just what you said about me, he had no reason to do so.
00:26:31.000He just did it out of the goodness of his heart.
00:26:33.000So, this book is what I believe Charlie would want us to be focusing on right now, which is the mission ahead, which is the midterms in November.
00:27:01.000If you want an easy way to do it, you can go to grahamallen.com and it has all the hyperlinks on where you can just buy it if you don't want to go get it in stores.
00:27:24.000Go to grahamallen.com, pick your favorite place to get a book and buy it and buy multiple copies because we need to restore a warrior ethos.
00:27:33.000In the base, there's a lot of demoralization campaigns, there's a lot of black pilling, doomerism.
00:27:38.000We need that spirit, Charlie's spirit lives on in people like Graham Allen right now.
00:27:43.000So, buy the book, send it to your friends.
00:27:47.000They want to show you this new t shirt that the team put together.
00:29:16.000You know, one of the reasons that that attorney for the Kirk family just said that is because the defense made a decision yesterday to attack Charlie.
00:29:52.000But what's not debatable is that Charlie was brutally murdered in front of the world.
00:29:58.000And for that, For that lawyer, if you want to call him that, to go up there and attack the victim like that, I don't think I've ever seen anything like that with his widow sitting behind him.
00:30:09.000Yeah, and then, Graham, you go on to talk about how small that courtroom is, which I now have a new appreciation for.
00:30:16.000It feels like you're breathing the same air as Tyler Robinson, candidly, and his defense counsel, and you are right there.
00:30:24.000So when these guys are attacking Charlie, or during the preliminary hearing where Mr. Burt, The other attorney said something about is tacked Erica.
00:30:32.000He was saying Erica was like holding press conferences, that she treated the prosecutors as her legal team.
00:30:39.000Yeah, but people don't understand how emotional that courtroom is in person and how tight it is.
00:30:45.000You had an experience for a whole week during the preliminary hearing.
00:31:02.00010 feet in front of you if depending on the day they would switch it out.
00:31:07.000So Erica and all of us that were with her would be on the front rows one day and then they'd switch it out for Tyler Robinson's family and then so on and so forth.
00:31:15.000So I don't know if you guys were in the front rows on the day that you guys were there Tuesday or not, but if you were, then Tyler Robinson is maybe 10 feet in front of you.
00:31:26.000And then when they're at that podium speaking, they're maybe 12, 14 feet away, maybe.
00:31:36.000I know that I was so upset that I couldn't make that day, but now I'm glad because, Andrew, I'm telling you, you, Erica, everybody, I don't know if I would have been able to control myself on that one.
00:31:52.000It was one thing and it was terrible how they went after Erica, but then again, what's not up for debate, no matter what you believe, whether you believe Tyler Robinson's a patsy, whether you believe, like I do, that the evidence shows Tyler Robinson did it.
00:32:08.000Although he deserves his trial, no one is arguing that.
00:32:11.000Or whether you believe it's ancient Sumerian alien technology that saw into the future, whatever you believe, what's not up for debate is that Charlie Kirk was brutally assassinated in front of the entire world.
00:32:33.000But no matter what you believe, Charlie is no longer here.
00:32:38.000And for that attorney to get up there and essentially say, I mean, let's not church this up.
00:32:43.000He essentially said, well, you know, Charlie was kind of asking for it at the end of the day because Charlie was this hateful person that hated Mr. Robinson and his lifestyle and his sexuality and this and this and that.
00:32:56.000I don't know what I would have done in that situation if I had been in the courtroom.
00:33:01.000And I was telling people that when you get into court, the judge reminds you a couple different times throughout the day no gestures, no head nodding, no pins on your clothing, no expressions of anything.
00:33:15.000Started, you know, I mean, it was a shocking moment.
00:33:18.000But what else was shocking was just how bad of lawyering it was.
00:33:21.000Because he's basically saying, we don't know that he killed him for his political expression, but he did say really hateful political things.
00:33:29.000And we do know that he did say hateful things about people like, you know, Tyler Robinson and his gay lover.
00:34:05.000They want some juror to come in and be like, I don't think we should execute somebody when the person he killed was a hateful individual who had it coming a little bit.
00:34:16.000Well, and one of the things that I noticed in that courtroom, Graham, was.
00:34:21.000All the conspiracy theory stuff just melts away when you're in that courtroom and they're dealing with the actual ballistics, the DNA, the surveillance evidence, the confessions.
00:34:30.000Like, you're sitting there, you're like, Oh, oh, I get it.
00:34:34.000All that noise, you just it feels completely absent from that courtroom, which is why we have courtrooms, which is why we have this process.
00:34:45.000And I, I mean, I, I, I know you have thoughts about this too, so I'll give you the final floor.
00:34:51.000Uh, one more time on your book and your final thoughts here, Graham.
00:34:54.000Well, yeah, I mean, the fact that we are essentially a year since Charlie was taken from us and we still don't even have an actual trial date, it's beyond me.
00:35:03.000I get it, but good lord, at what point is enough is enough?
00:35:07.000But, but, but either way, thank you for the time.
00:35:11.000Please consider going and checking out the new book, Stand, Fight, Win Our Battle for the Soul of America.
00:35:18.000This book is a tribute to Charlie because it turned into that, unfortunately.
00:35:25.000But it's also a book that I feel like Charlie would have wanted me to write.
00:35:28.000It is a book about putting all the noise aside, remembering what we're fighting for, which is this country, which is the greatest country the world's ever known, and why every battle for victory is a battle for victory.
00:35:42.000So go to grahamalland.com and go get the book.
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00:37:06.000So, every so often we like to dive into Maha, the health stuff.
00:37:09.000It was super critical to what Charlie believed in and what he liked to talk about, and we like to keep that alive as well.
00:37:16.000But it's also just really important when it comes to health, okay?
00:37:18.000So, today we're going to talk a little bit about Alzheimer's, dementia.
00:37:23.000This is something that is affecting a lot of you out there in the audience, I know, because we see your emails, you talk about this with us.
00:37:29.000Did you know that more than 7 million Americans aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer's?
00:37:42.000So it's roughly one in nine adults in that age group.
00:37:46.000Globally, over 57 million people have Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia.
00:37:52.000So it's not only impacting the people diagnosed with this awful disease, it's awful, but it's devastating the lives of their family members and the people that love them.
00:38:03.000So I wanted to show this clip to show you just how quickly the decline can occur with Alzheimer's.
00:38:12.000Early onset Alzheimer's can affect people in their 30s and 40s.
00:38:15.000Rhonda was just 52 when the signs started to surface and officially diagnosed at 56.
00:38:23.000She started to repeat herself all the time, started asking the same questions over and over again, wouldn't answer simple questions like what time it is.
00:38:31.000I mean, as it turns out, she couldn't tell time, that she had lost the capacity to tell time.
00:38:37.000Just before their 40th wedding anniversary, Rob knew it was no longer safe for his wife to live at home, so he placed Rhonda.
00:38:47.000Finally, the brain shut down enough where nothing else, where she just forgot how to swallow, forgot how to eat, and I'd like to think, and it seemed at least at the time peacefully passed away after a long, tough battle with this dreadful disease.
00:39:05.000Early onset Alzheimer's that's a three word horror story.
00:40:00.000So, the idea of losing any mental functionality anytime soon is terrifying for me.
00:40:07.000And, you know, reports show spikes such as 373% of an increase in diagnoses among 30 to 4 year olds and a 311% increase in 45 to 54 year olds in the US in recent years.
00:40:23.000So, again, 57 million people worldwide are living with Alzheimer's or some form of dementia.
00:40:30.000And I think it's important to point out that, you know, many people conflate the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's.
00:40:35.000So, dementia is really more of a broad term for a set of symptoms like memory loss, impaired thinking, behavioral changes that, you know, interfere with daily life.
00:40:45.000Whereas Alzheimer's disease is a specific and progressive brain disease that's responsible for dementia, probably in 60 to 80% of cases, which is caused by the damage and death of the brain cells due to sticky protein buildup.
00:41:00.000And, you know, many people don't even realize that they're suffering from dementia because they miss the early signs.
00:41:07.000You know, it's short term memory loss, right?
00:41:09.000It's repetitive behavior, asking the same questions or telling the same stories over and over, kind of getting lost, right?
00:41:17.000Or forgetting the date and struggling with daily simple tasks.
00:41:21.000And I think for years, you know, the medical establishment viewed the brain as an island, right?
00:41:28.000And when doctors are targeting brain diseases, they often prescribe medications in an effort to directly target the brain.
00:41:34.000But they're forgetting about the root cause and treating the symptoms instead of curing the problem.
00:41:42.000So, neuroinflammation and oxidative stress are two of the primary contributors to loss of cognitive function, and that leads to degenerative neurological diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and oxidative stress is an unequal balance in the body between the harmful, unstable molecules called free radicals and helpful protective molecules called antioxidants.
00:42:06.000So, there was a stunning scientific breakthrough.
00:42:09.000It's reshaping what we know about Alzheimer's disease, and it's very exciting.
00:42:14.000Yeah, and you're talking about this link between the microbiome and Alzheimer's, which, again, I'm a big believer that everything starts in your gut.
00:42:24.000Every single health outcome, I mean, maybe not every single one, but darn near everyone.
00:42:40.000So, researchers have managed to transfer symptoms of the illness to healthy rats simply by transplanting gut bacteria.
00:42:48.000So, this discovery really could revolutionize how we diagnose and treat one of the world's most devastating forms of dementia.
00:42:56.000And what we eat has a tremendous impact on our cognitive health.
00:43:01.000It impacts our levels of inflammation and oxidative stress that I was just talking about.
00:43:06.000But more importantly, there is a direct link between the gut.
00:43:09.000And the brain, and it's known as the gut brain axis.
00:43:12.000This intricate biodirectional communication network links your gastrointestinal tract directly to your central nervous system.
00:43:20.000Think of it like a highway, right, between your gut and your brain involving nerves, hormones, and immune signals.
00:43:27.000It's where they are constantly sending messages, and it affects mood, digestion, stress, even cognitive function.
00:43:33.000So, the chemistry of your gut microbiome directly dictates your mental health and cognitive function.
00:43:40.000I like to say, and you've probably heard this before, that the gut think of it as your second brain.
00:43:45.000So, talking to your actual brain, and it influences everything from anxiety to appetite.
00:43:52.000And when your gut ecosystem is thriving, it produces essential neurotransmitters like the serotonin and the dopamine, the hormones that are responsible for feelings of happiness and well being.
00:44:03.000So, in fact, 95% of your serotonin is produced in the gut before even making its way to the brain.
00:44:10.000So, a well balanced gut microbiome also reduces a systemic neuroinflammation that clouds your thinking.
00:44:19.000And you honestly won't believe what recent research tells us about how simple lifestyle changes.
00:44:28.000Well, Ellie, I think the first time you were on, I told you about this Atlantic article that I had read that was about basically why your dad could eat a Big Mac and not gain weight and you can't.
00:44:39.000And it was, I think it was a 2013 article or something like that.
00:44:42.000But it really got me thinking on this track and it was all about microbiome.
00:44:48.000Apparently, we just have studies at this point that we can find people who have the exact same lifestyle and eat the exact same thing as someone from 1982 are 15 pounds heavier or something like that.
00:45:35.000You know, we've talked about how inflammation and oxidative stress are the two leading factors causing this cognitive decline.
00:45:42.000But now it's been discovered that there's an even bigger one.
00:45:46.000It's a sticky protein fragment called amyloid beta, and it builds up in the brain and it blocks the neurons from making those connections and speaking with each other.
00:45:55.000And this is what causes Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
00:45:59.000So normally the brain will clear these proteins away, but in dementia, amyloid beta can kind of clump together and they form these.
00:46:09.000And these plaques are what interfere with communication between your neurons.
00:46:12.000It triggers inflammation and may eventually damage or kill brain cells.
00:46:17.000So, over time, this damage is what affects the memory, the thinking, your reasoning, your mood, your behavior, and most importantly, your ability to perform daily tasks.
00:46:27.000And so, the research indicates if we can remove the amyloid beta plaque, we can essentially prevent Alzheimer's disease and dementia from occurring.
00:46:54.000The whole point about Alzheimer's was now we have a genetic group of people that definitely have this beta amyloid.
00:47:00.000So, all the research then focused on what drug, because that's how the pharmaceuticals make money.
00:47:05.000What's crazy is that I think there were like six or seven drug companies, and they were all trying to find this antibody or some.
00:47:12.000Cure for this beta amyloid, and nobody ever found it.
00:47:15.000I think Biogen sank $18 billion into looking for this drug on this one immunotherapy, I do helm, and they were sure that that was going to do it.
00:47:27.000They submitted it to FDA twice and they turned them down in 2019.
00:47:33.000That tells me if you have five drug companies that have been looking at it for 20 years for something that will stop beta amyloid and nothing has ever worked.
00:47:43.000That's not very promising, but hopefully you've got some good news for us.
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00:55:36.000All right, so let's throw up this Politico headline Trump in Purgatory.
00:55:41.000A White House plan to lower beef prices is dividing the president's supporter.
00:55:45.000Many ranchers and Republicans argue that boosting imports won't tangibly lower beef prices in the short term, in a rare break with the president's policies.
00:55:53.000Now, I think it's safe to say that in general, you've been supportive of Brook Rollins, what they've done at the Department of Ag.
00:56:02.000It's sort of reversing years of decline in this.
00:56:23.000You know, I thought about this this morning.
00:56:26.000I was on the show maybe two months ago with you guys.
00:56:29.000And I'll remind you and the listeners I remember saying two months ago to you and to the listeners, Now is the time more than ever we need to be supporting our farmers and ranchers.
00:56:46.000And I'm so glad that it's making national headlines now.
00:56:50.000But we've been shouting this from the rooftops for the last seven years.
00:56:57.000And this has been a problem over a decade in the making.
00:57:01.000So I think the president is absolutely right about addressing the problem because beef prices are too high for American families and we need relief.
00:57:09.000But Importing our way out of a historically small cattle herd is not a long term solution.
00:57:16.000And again, if we don't support our own farmers, our own ranchers here in America, and give them incentive to rebuild the herds, then we're just going to keep going in circles.
00:57:33.000So I think the president is right to address the problem.
00:57:38.000But this 90 day, Just increasing imports, which by the way, we've been importing the 300,000 metric tons that they announced.
00:57:48.000You know, everybody kind of is all in arms going, oh my gosh, we're importing meat.
00:57:53.000Well, we imported over 4 billion pounds of beef into the US just last year.
00:57:58.000And we've been importing over 3 billion pounds for the last six years.
00:58:02.000So this is not anything new, but it's something that we're very much aware of to the general public now.
00:58:10.000So just to give everybody the backstory here, it says President Trump signed a proclamation on August 26, 2026, temporarily expanding the U.S. tariff rate quota on imported lean beef trimmings.
00:58:24.000So, used to blend with domestic beef or ground beef for 90 days starting September 1st.
00:58:47.000The stated goal is to increase ground beef supply and ease higher consumer prices while the U.S. cattle herd remains near multi decade lows.
00:58:55.000So the question is sort of twofold, Ben.
00:59:10.000Well, here's the thing there's no mandatory country of origin labeling law in the U.S. for beef or for pork right now.
00:59:19.000And it's been that way since 2015 when it got repealed.
00:59:24.000And again, this is our entire messaging that we've been.
00:59:29.000Shouting for years is we need to bring back mandatory country of origin labeling for beef in the US.
00:59:37.000Because right now, the foreign beef gets imported into our system and there's no transparency and it sits equally alongside the American beef.
00:59:48.000So if we really want import to be to lower prices, then it needs to be labeled.
00:59:55.000It needs to be clearly labeled where it's coming from, what's in it, how it was raised.
01:00:00.000And until that happens, We're really just putting a bandaid on a bullet wound.
01:00:08.000Again, importing beef is something that we've done for a long time and it is a part of our supply chain.
01:00:16.000But the reason we're in the predicament that we're in is because there's no mandatory country of origin labeling law for that imported beef.
01:00:24.000And so until we can get that reinstated, it's just a complete guessing game.
01:00:34.000And what we've learned over the last two weeks, especially, I mean, we've been flooded with comments from people.
01:00:43.000And Americans want to buy from Americans, and Americans want to support American farms and ranches.
01:00:50.000So, you know, now is the time to support your local farm and ranch.
01:00:56.000And if you live next to a ranch, if you know somebody that sells beef directly to consumers, we should be supporting those people.
01:01:47.000How do we just make it so this is not even in consideration in 28?
01:01:51.000I don't want to oversimplify it, but if we would bring back mandatory country of origin labeling, the cool law, if we would implement that, that would make a huge difference in the market.
01:02:06.000Ben, didn't you tell us last time that if it's something like 90% of Americans, if they knew that they were buying American beef, they would pick that beef, right?
01:02:17.000The National Organization of the American Meat Conference, the North American Meat Conference, they do a study.
01:02:25.000And it's the most vast study done on consumers.
01:02:29.000And it's for grocery shopping, online shopping, all of the meat grocery shopping in the US.
01:02:36.000And the number one thing that consumers are looking for, especially when it comes to beef, over grass fed, over organic, over no antibiotics.
01:02:49.000But the number one thing that consumers have said for the last five consecutive years is country of origin labeling.
01:02:55.000They want to know that it's American beef that they're buying in American stores.
01:02:59.000And right now, we do not have the ability to know what we're buying at the grocery store, whether it's coming from an American farm or it's coming from Brazil or South America or Mexico or anywhere else in the world.
01:03:15.000And you can't build American beef independence by making American ranchers compete with tariff free foreign beef that consumers can't identify.
01:04:02.000So the price of everything has gone through the roof over the last four years.
01:04:10.000So when you have an increase in feed, an increase in fuel, and also a lack of water, that makes it really hard to grow your herd.
01:04:24.000But the big issue is our ranchers have been.
01:04:31.000Overlooked for the better part of the last decade.
01:04:35.000And so, for them to hold on to cattle to build their herd means that they have to forego selling them right now and making a profit right now to invest in the future.
01:04:51.000And they have not been incentivized, nor have they been prioritized by not just this administration, any administration over the last decade.
01:05:20.000It's a very simple thing to assume, but you're either going to be financially incentivized to grow that herd or you're going to be financially incentivized to send those to, you know, a feedlot and, you know, get some money from that, right?
01:06:46.000So these are cost drivers that are impacting cattle ranchers all across the country, but any type of meat that's being produced, that's going to filter down into the price of the meat that you consume.
01:07:52.000If America decides we need to import more beef temporarily to supplement supply, that's okay.
01:07:58.000But American families should be able to look at a package of beef and know whether that animal was raised in Texas, Montana, or Mexico, or Brazil, or Argentina, and let the consumers make the choice.
01:08:22.000And weirdly enough, I'd never thought of that just trade off.
01:08:25.000Do you butcher your cattle or do you leave them to have more babies and grow your herd?
01:08:31.000I just had never actually thought about it that simply, which is sort of ridiculous.
01:08:35.000But that is the trade off, especially as you're getting older, you're looking to cash out and you're not really planning for the long term.
01:08:41.000So the question is, what do we do about it?
01:08:43.000I mean, how do we get more young ranchers?
01:08:46.000Is that something that is an initiative somebody's taking on?
01:08:49.000Secondly, how do we incentivize this industry to grow their herd size?
01:09:26.000He had all of his cattle loaded up, ready to go to market.
01:09:30.000And when the president made that announcement, the price of cattle, the whole, you know, it's a commodity and everything, the price just dropped so low that he knew that if he took them to market, he would lose money on them.
01:09:46.000And these are animals that he's had for the last two years, taking care of day in, day out, raising these animals.
01:09:53.000And it's time to take them to market to sell.
01:10:22.000I talked to him again yesterday and he was really upset because he's like, I just took them, I just sent them out to the market and I'm just praying I break even.
01:10:34.000And not even, you know, he's not even praying he makes a profit at this point.
01:10:37.000He's just praying that he breaks even.
01:10:39.000So, if we're going to rebuild the herds, we have to give security to our ranchers that there's going to be profit for them two years from now, three years from now, five years from now, which would allow them to hold on to those cattle.
01:10:55.000We need to reduce unnecessary barriers and costs for American producers, and we need to expand and protect the domestic processing capacity and competition, which is in.
01:13:02.000Yes, it is absolutely a step in the right direction, but it's not going to magically change things overnight.
01:13:08.000I feel like this is just a good demonstration of how much of a long view you have to take on the economy, that even agriculture, you think of that as an annual thing, but no, this is.
01:13:17.000Two years to build out a herd, five years to build out processing.
01:13:22.000The fact that the ranchers are old, so they want to cash out their herds.