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00:00:00.000 welcome to the podcast today we look at the texas voting law which is absolutely restricting people

00:00:04.940 to not be able to vote and that's why this anti-democratic republican party needs to be

00:00:10.160 examined very closely we'll get into all of that today uh the new movie a quiet place part two kind

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00:01:13.060 we have uh we we had an interesting uh tale to tell here in texas you know in texas uh i think

00:01:25.120 we run things better because the politicians are never in session which is the way the united states

00:01:33.480 used to be um we used to meet i think it was once every year in the summer or once every other year

00:01:41.340 and they put it in washington because they knew nobody would want to go to that swamp

00:01:46.420 mosquito infested nightmare of a town and unfortunately the the uh uh politicians and

00:01:56.240 everybody i guess decided to uh make that a permanent thing but it it used to be that they

00:02:03.280 would only come in that's the best scenario for a republic because it allows people to have control

00:02:10.020 of their own lives uh the uh the house and the senate in texas they don't rule our lives because 0.99

00:02:17.260 they're never there so they ended their session in a in an interesting way wouldn't you say stew

00:02:23.940 i would say and it's it's apparently as the uh i believe it was the the new york times in a news story

00:02:30.020 by the way wrote uh and summarized these are the republican efforts to clamp down on voting

00:02:36.360 uh oh man thank goodness we have that happening it's very as you can see anti-democracy glenn uh

00:02:45.860 republicans don't want people to vote they're looking for a select you know group of six or

00:02:50.480 seven people who will vote each year right they're kind of clamped i'm on that list i don't of course i

00:02:56.140 don't know about you but i i'm on that list and uh they're all white and what i say goes

00:03:00.520 right all white men and there's about six of us maybe seven uh eight if you can count our zionist

00:03:07.800 master over in israel of course um so this is the big the new georgia law controversy is now texas

00:03:16.120 because as each state has gone through it the national media has tried to come together to tell

00:03:21.760 everyone how terrible these things are and now the latest one is in texas texas took a while to get it

00:03:28.560 done came down to the end of the session which was needed to be sunday night uh long story short

00:03:35.740 what the democrats decided to do because you know they love democracy so much glenn and they the

00:03:44.080 respect democracy the right the right the intent of the voters must be respected yes of course as you

00:03:51.880 know amen so what they decided to do with these elected officials that were put in by voters

00:03:58.140 they decided instead of letting them i don't know accomplish uh their uh their jobs and actually

00:04:05.820 do their jobs and get their get the bill that the you know republican voters all supported i get that

00:04:11.780 through they decided to walk out and make it impossible to come up with a quorum basically a

00:04:16.620 procedural measure oh so the vote couldn't go through so all in the name of democracy democracy yes

00:04:25.480 so they stop the democratic process process now as you know republic republican process if you will not

00:04:37.020 uh not uh republican with a uh a capital r but a republican with a small r right they stop the

00:04:43.660 republican process which uh part of that is democracy of you know all of them lining up and and voting

00:04:51.140 they stop that all in the name of that yeah really interesting especially after being lectured for the

00:04:55.900 past couple weeks of the the terror of january 6th and the insurrection attempt that we saw on that

00:05:01.940 date glenn the reason was that it was so offensive was not just the violence and the rioting it was

00:05:07.260 because they stopped the democratic process from going forward uh that that was such a terrible tragedy

00:05:13.520 uh just a couple weeks ago now it's to be praised that democrats walked out of the session so they

00:05:20.380 couldn't get the vote done now long term they will have a special uh session and they will get the

00:05:25.040 voting uh rights uh act done uh here in texas but what's fascinating about this glenn is not only

00:05:33.560 that they're stopping democracy to preserve democracy as it were to paraphrase an old george bush

00:05:39.520 line on capitalism i gotta i gotta violate the free market to save the free market exactly it doesn't

00:05:47.000 really work george so that's what they're doing here um but in addition to this um you know it's

00:05:53.600 it's a typical bill that you've seen from republicans this cycle which is basically hey we think maybe you

00:06:00.120 should be able to prove who you are before you vote things like um the overwhelming uh one of the most

00:06:06.520 popular items in our national discourse which is voter id things that are this is approved by 70 and 80

00:06:15.840 percent of minority voters 70 and 80 of democratic voters approve of voter id but it's tossed out

00:06:23.000 there as if it's the most offensive thing you've ever heard in your life so it's mostly stuff like

00:06:26.320 that the one just like in georgia where they they latched on to you can't have water when you're in

00:06:32.800 the lines there's no water what people only go to vote to get water and now you're taking away the

00:06:39.420 water because water is the reason why people get in line to vote every every november and it really

00:06:46.940 it's it's so hot it's so hot in the summer in november november that november heat wave in the

00:06:54.260 summer oh it's so uh people are dropping dead in the lines in november from heat because they don't

00:07:00.760 have any water we have to bring them water that's what they did in georgia so they didn't attempt that

00:07:06.080 thing in texas what they're doing in texas is the brisket there's no brisket where's the brisket

00:07:13.560 i didn't i need brisket i can't go on i first i voted in georgia and i didn't get any water now what

00:07:21.220 no brisket so what they're trying to do in texas is they're highlighting this one part of the law that

00:07:30.340 was also part of the original um uh take on the georgia law basically it says yes you can vote early

00:07:38.720 yes you can vote early on weekends yes you can vote early on sundays but you can't vote sunday

00:07:48.140 morning early you can't vote until i think it's 1 p.m on sunday whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa now whoa my gosh

00:07:57.160 look at the oppression right that's what they're saying now why are they saying that i mean the

00:08:01.940 republicans are saying look you know we want to be able to protect people who work at the polls and

00:08:06.520 have their ability to still go to church so we don't want people forced to avoid church to have

00:08:11.040 to go work at the polls because they have to open the polls early just just so you know uh texas is the

00:08:17.460 closest to a blue law state that i've ever seen and it's all by choice people do go to church i know

00:08:26.300 it's weird democrats but people do go to church you know when you're not putting their pastors in jail

00:08:32.720 uh in texas and very few stores are open on sunday uh a lot of people take you know the sabbath

00:08:42.800 actually as an important thing it's not against the law for them i mean there's some places do close

00:08:48.180 there's a lot of places open too but those they're not as heavily trafficked as you might think

00:08:52.720 because people are actually at church uh you know it's a highly it's a it's a it's a high population

00:08:58.600 religious uh voting base and citizenship so so but the democrats are saying well the only reason

00:09:06.740 they're doing this is because they're trying to limit the souls for the polls glad souls for the

00:09:14.060 polls souls hang on just a second my friend hey uh sarah do we have the gospel music here as we talk

00:09:22.180 about the souls for the polls uh that is fantastic so are they are they actually being honest this

00:09:31.760 time the souls for the polls that's uh dead people voting no no i should say you're right souls to the

00:09:39.280 polls you're right so i guess it's not so it's not we don't want our voter registry we want dead

00:09:44.460 people it's it's their claim is basically this is a big i mean they took the mask off already i thought

00:09:51.800 maybe they're just also like yep we're just whipping up names of dead people it's the souls for the

00:09:58.160 polls would not be surprised honestly at this point on this one no i i wouldn't either so souls to the

00:10:03.280 polls is a program that runs you know largely in black churches which is an idea that after church

00:10:09.340 everyone gets together and they all go to the polls to vote early i guess now

00:10:14.260 i i i don't know what time church runs uh you know i you know my it runs various times usually

00:10:22.940 there's multiple services in texas i've noticed yeah i mean a lot of churches have show times

00:10:28.300 yeah you're like like all in the movie theater yeah three or four services per day right because

00:10:33.740 there's so many people that actually go to church here but the idea being that like what they're

00:10:38.640 accusing republicans of is altering the time schedule so that no one can vote before 1 p.m

00:10:44.440 but because they think they're trying to limit the amount of people who will go from church directly

00:10:51.580 to the polls now in theory if you let's i don't know what time does your church end 11 or 12 so you'd

00:10:57.860 have to wait an hour of course the whole point of this is to make the poll workers who are also going

00:11:03.420 to church giving them time to get to the polls to open but what they're saying is they're just trying

00:11:08.340 to limit black people because they apparently and again this is racism again racism in action here

00:11:14.780 by democrats who are basically trying to make the case that black people care so little about

00:11:20.280 government and society that if given a an opportunity to vote but they need to wait an hour will not vote

00:11:27.080 because they care so little about this country they care so little about the state that they will not

00:11:32.860 wait for an hour after church to go vote because they actually care about the poll workers also

00:11:38.320 being able to go to church these religious people want to thwart the poll workers ability to go to 0.99

00:11:43.060 church so that they can go immediately after apparently is the accusation here and they're trying to say

00:11:48.600 this is the only reason they're doing this is to limit black voting and therefore this is anti-democracy

00:11:53.860 which is why we can walk out on the democratic process at the last minute okay oh my head

00:11:59.260 follow that's from trying to do the gymnastics on this one weren't the democrats the ones that were

00:12:05.500 trying to shut down all of the churches thank you wasn't it i mean isn't it the the democrats that are

00:12:13.280 the marxist that are not really for church you know or god here is a group of people glenn that have

00:12:21.940 spent the last year telling you you're not allowed to go to church at all you are going to be fined your

00:12:30.120 pastor is going to be arrested if you try to go to a worship service but they're the ones telling you

00:12:37.600 that democracy is at its edge if black churches aren't allowed to cart their voters directly to the 1.00

00:12:46.160 polls from church again in addition to all of this we spent the last how long with the democrats

00:12:54.500 telling us it's against the law for any pastor to say anything positive about a republican policy

00:13:02.760 from the pulpit because it's a violation of the separation of church and state and they're going

00:13:07.580 to get their tax exemption status removed but yet souls for the polls is so vital to democracy

00:13:15.820 that apparently now you're allowed to go to church just so you can get to the polls

00:13:21.380 it's insanity i love this souls for the polls i mean it just couldn't be any more clear you're

00:13:30.360 you're saying to me you're going to lose your tax status if you intermingle at all church and the

00:13:37.860 polls you're going to lose your tax status uh you know with an exception of uh souls for the polls and

00:13:44.880 alaska and hawaii what what is that this is a scream if it wasn't so tragic if it wasn't our

00:13:53.920 country burning down it would be hysterical yeah and you know i mean other if i were in canada no

00:13:59.320 no because everybody's going to be ruled by the chinese soon so i wouldn't be laughing if i was in 1.00

00:14:04.720 another country if i were in china i'd be laughing hang on i can hear them laughing right now that's a

00:14:15.600 that's an amazing thing this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:14:21.360 could i play cut six biden democracy is in peril listen to this the lives of billions

00:14:37.200 from antiquity to our own hour have been shaped by the battle between aspirations of the many and the

00:14:44.240 greed of the few between people's right to self-determination and the self-seeking of the

00:14:52.200 dictator between dreams of democracy and appetites for autocracy which we're seeing around the world

00:14:59.440 our troops have fought this battle on fields around the world but also

00:15:04.220 the battle of our time and the mission falls to each of us each and every day democracy itself

00:15:14.780 is in peril here at home and around the world

00:15:18.940 what we do now what we do now how we honor the memory of the fallen

00:15:26.700 will determine whether or not democracy will long endure

00:15:31.240 so those are great words they really are but i'm having a hard time squaring them with

00:15:40.100 um reality i'm trying i'm trying to square them with

00:15:45.340 so let me be honest with you let me let me did you see the do we happen to have the video of uh

00:15:54.240 joe biden when he was talking about the very young girl he's at a speech and i'm not going to go into

00:15:59.880 the creepiness of the very young girl thing i just want you to listen to him here it is

00:16:06.420 i'm honored to be joined today by the governor northland and by two great representatives of

00:16:12.100 the commonwealth congressman laurie and congressman scott listen to him and i want to thank uh thank you for

00:16:19.700 all that you do to represent these service veterans because they're devoted to you

00:16:23.620 the family members the caregivers survivors will call virginia home

00:16:29.320 i'm especially honored to share the stage with britney and jordan and nathan and margaret catherine

00:16:37.020 i uh i love those barrettes in her hair man i tell you what 0.99

00:16:42.420 i'm looking at her she looks like she's 19 years old sitting there with her like a little lady 0.72

00:16:47.500 britney you're doing triple duty

00:16:51.420 okay we don't have to overlook the weirdness do we i i mean it completely you know no i mean you

00:17:00.100 you go ahead that's not my point but i think it should be made so go ahead stew

00:17:03.800 it was really creepy you all heard it and you know it was creepy i mean i understand that there's a

00:17:09.160 grandfatherly thing he's going for there but he is they should tell him not to try doing it again

00:17:15.300 because it does not work it is really super creepy however did you notice how he is just

00:17:23.960 i don't know i don't know one thing britney i love those barrettes and britney 0.92

00:17:30.720 and he just sounds like he's really really tired like i've got to get a nap in pretty soon

00:17:38.460 i'm not sure um that he even knows i i think he has surrounded himself by radicals

00:17:46.980 uh and i don't know if he's even getting the truth on what is happening with his policies

00:17:52.840 because how are these radicals writing these speeches for him these speeches don't reflect

00:18:00.660 the policies of of him for the most part that that you know democracy is in peril because of

00:18:08.820 the the want of a dictatorship yeah who's calling for a dictatorship who who is who is building the

00:18:17.720 framework of a dictatorship who's the one that's trying to change all of our systems so it's easy to

00:18:26.280 stay in power who is the one that is demonizing half of the country it is it's it's frightening

00:18:35.340 and i saw a poll the other day that democrats and i don't mean the ones in washington i mean the

00:18:41.340 average democrat that you know that lives next door to you that is normal that they're starting to

00:18:47.860 be concerned about some of these things that are happening they're starting to look at the wokeness and

00:18:55.400 say this is going too far and uh you know it looks like we're starting to you know edge into

00:19:02.660 marxism well welcome to the party democrats um i hope you i hope you wake up a little faster because

00:19:11.460 democracy is in peril and i don't understand the policies you know we are looking at probably

00:19:23.000 two million new um dreamers coming in over the border two million in this year at the time when

00:19:35.200 americans are not working now these people will work i don't know about you but i see i see you know

00:19:44.080 in new immigrants assuming they're legal or illegal but i see new immigrants and they are working hard

00:19:51.940 they they know what the american dream is so is that it is is it are we just living off of this new

00:20:01.260 labor and then americans are not supposed to go to work because everywhere everywhere it is happening

00:20:09.300 where americans just aren't going to work i got a friend who wrote to me he said glenn my my neighborhood

00:20:16.580 facebook page is now a constant stream of job openings for low wage positions people are complaining

00:20:24.020 because mercury coffee just shut down here uh until they can find people jimmy johns is now shut down

00:20:32.160 not because of covid but because they can't find anybody to work it the local pizza place can't find

00:20:38.580 anyone i just placed an order at mcdonald's and drove up to pick it up the manager told me she can't do 0.99

00:20:45.040 curbside because they don't have enough people even to keep the drive-thru running there were dozens of

00:20:51.560 cars waiting like 70s gas lines for the drive-thru at mcdonald's what's happening to us

00:21:01.180 well we're we're so many are not willing to go back to work and this is going to mean really bad

00:21:12.020 things now i want to i want to talk to you about the price of gas and the price of everything that

00:21:18.780 is going up and not all of it is because people won't go to work some of it is if we include all

00:21:27.260 food and energy costs into our cpi which we don't because the government says oh those numbers are too

00:21:35.420 volatile oh they just go up and down and we don't want to include those in the consumer product in

00:21:43.520 index i mean consumer price index i mean because they'll go up if you include them like we used to

00:21:51.880 we'd be closer to 20 percent annualized rate of inflation 20 percent john williams that's shadow

00:22:00.420 stats pegged in 1980s era cpi at 12 percent in april compared to the four percent that the

00:22:08.400 government tells us it is but even he noted that his inflation index doesn't include all food costs

00:22:15.900 for instance dining out now i'm not dining out all the time but i'm using uber eats more than i ever

00:22:23.000 have before if gasoline moves up to five dollars a gallon even his index will be higher uh closer to

00:22:32.880 eighteen percent we also have another problem and i would love to hear from anybody who is a rancher

00:22:45.900 or somebody who sells lumber on their land or a logger because something is very very wrong

00:22:54.500 we have a growing issue in both the lumber and meat packing industry now on friday

00:23:02.000 and this is why i question the president

00:23:05.780 we have lumber up at over 800 percent increase the price over 800 percent in an increase

00:23:17.580 we also have a housing shortage now people are are trying to buy houses but they're buying houses

00:23:25.020 at a rate or i should say at a price that we have never seen before in human history

00:23:32.160 when you look at the case shiller index never has america paid this much for a house

00:23:40.540 it's almost double what it was in 2007 right before the big collapse where everybody lost their houses

00:23:49.980 one of the reasons is because the houses are about 30 percent more expensive to build right now

00:23:58.700 because of a shortage of lumber now you're president of the united states

00:24:03.740 what do you do if you believe in the united states if you're trying to help out the consumer

00:24:11.000 do you do things to make lumber less expensive or more expensive on friday president biden put a new

00:24:21.800 tariff on lumber so now we have any lumber that is coming from canada has a new tariff on it

00:24:31.380 well that's not helpful that will make the price of lumber even more expensive

00:24:38.040 now there are four companies four companies that run the lumber mills there are also four companies that

00:24:46.880 are the largest meat packers they control over 90 percent of all of the uh product in america so if

00:24:57.520 you're looking to buy meat you're most likely going to get it from these four processing plants

00:25:03.380 90 you're looking for lumber you're going to get them from these four different lumber companies

00:25:11.620 there is something you could make a case for collusion and there are some senators now

00:25:22.840 including democratic senators who are now looking at the price of beef and what is going on and the

00:25:30.000 price of lumber and they're asking questions and what they're doing is they're asking the justice

00:25:35.440 department to look into it to see if there's any collusion

00:25:39.460 do you trust the justice department

00:25:44.000 consumer prices are up more than a hundred percent in each industry but what's driving the shortages

00:25:56.860 is more collusion between major companies keeping the supply short rather than skyrocketing demand or

00:26:06.160 shortage of production in both cases lumber and beef fortune 100 companies who control the industry

00:26:16.900 are making huge profits right now gigantic profits but the producers and the consumers are getting screwed

00:26:27.920 the guy with a chainsaw out in the forest he's not making more money the guy who has

00:26:35.920 has purchased this land and is now trying to thin some of the forest by taking some of the lumber

00:26:43.040 he's not getting rich if you have a herd of cattle and you are trying to sell them at market

00:26:51.460 you've just paid the highest price you may have paid in a very long time for grain

00:26:57.180 you have to raise the price of your cow because you've paid it costs you so much money

00:27:06.000 if you're lucky you're making about eight cents a pound that's barely enough to keep the lights on if

00:27:18.260 you're lucky as of as of friday you weren't making anything you were lucky to break even most are losing money

00:27:29.640 so we have plenty of beef we have plenty of cattle

00:27:35.880 where's the breakdown so it is it is not the fault of the truckers it is not the fault of the producers

00:27:50.100 we know now that the producers are paying more for grain uh they are uh the cheapest logs we've had

00:27:59.380 in a very long time so what's happening because the the guys who are actually producing

00:28:05.960 they're not getting any more money in fact they're getting less

00:28:10.300 so where's it coming from well the meat producers are blaming it on the truckers

00:28:17.660 the truckers would not be could not be responsible for a 100 percent increase

00:28:28.420 yes we have shortages of people who want to work but the truckers are being paid more than they were

00:28:39.600 but not enough to make our beef this expensive

00:28:43.360 it's at the producers level the people who actually take the beef process it and then get

00:28:53.180 it to the stores they are making profits that are record profits and because there's only four

00:29:01.400 of them two of which are foreign owned when are we going to learn that lesson because there's only 0.86

00:29:07.320 four of them i believe it's a wink and a nod i believe i can't prove it but there needs to be an

00:29:13.340 investigation but it's going to be the justice department

00:29:16.860 they i believe are looking at profits and saying why would we work harder when we're making more

00:29:26.680 money than we ever have we're we're putting out less product and we're making more money why would

00:29:37.220 we want this to change i don't think these companies are in it for americans i don't think these

00:29:45.220 companies are actually doing the right thing they're doing the right thing for the shareholders perhaps

00:29:52.700 for the ceos perhaps they're not doing the right thing for the american people and somebody in

00:30:01.360 government needs to have a hearing and call them to task is there anybody clean enough in washington dc to

00:30:10.900 do it because the price of your house and the price of the food that you put on that kitchen table

00:30:15.760 are going to skyrocket if this doesn't stop soon you're also going to put all of the farmers out of

00:30:24.020 business you're not going to have anybody that can afford to raise cattle for meat oh but don't worry

00:30:29.840 two of those companies are foreign but the other two they're the ones making things like

00:30:37.120 the impossible burger oh they're so green oh i wonder if they get some help on that as well

00:30:46.220 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program

00:30:52.400 so i grew up on a farm kind of in the summers my grandparents had a farm and uh there wasn't

00:31:08.240 anything i could do faster than get off of that farm it's incredible work um however i think we

00:31:17.020 lost it as a nation when we lost connection with the soil and how things grow and are produced

00:31:22.980 i i want to talk to somebody who i admire a great deal who has been on the program before

00:31:30.080 uh and whose voice i seek out when the price of meat is starting to go up his name is steve stratford

00:31:38.800 he's a kansas cattle buyer and angus breeder and assistant manager of pratt livestock hello steve how are

00:31:46.500 you good morning glenn i'm great uh thanks for having me on you bet now steve here's what i'd like

00:31:55.560 to do because most of the audience doesn't doesn't care about the price of cattle and they should

00:32:03.660 can you frame this so people who are just they go just go to the grocery store they're living in a

00:32:09.900 city they're living a normal life and they're disconnected from the farms can you explain what's

00:32:16.440 happening to the beef and why it's so important

00:32:18.820 i'll tell you what glenn right now uh the uh packing industry is controlled by such few amount of people

00:32:29.060 that uh basically today they can uh put the screws to the consumer and the producer both and and capture

00:32:36.840 a margin in the middle that uh is not uh of uh percentage equity theirs um basically uh

00:32:46.520 you know they're they're profiting this week a thousand dollars ahead and owning that animal for

00:32:54.560 a week or less and the producer's margins are negative 100 to maybe 20 or 30 dollars and they've

00:33:01.580 got an 18 month investment in that animal right so the people who are raising the cows they are losing

00:33:09.240 money now at the open market why is the market i mean because they're paying more for feed they do

00:33:17.320 have at least 12 to 18 months in that cow that they had to feed it and care for it and give it its 0.54

00:33:24.000 vaccinations and everything else and now they're losing money um that sounds like a company trying to put

00:33:31.240 farmers out of business yeah that's exactly right and i mean you're talking about a producer losing

00:33:38.080 money while our product at the retail sector is at record levels and the demand is insatiable

00:33:44.380 um what has happened that uh they've got so much captive supply and control handed to them

00:33:50.780 that they don't have to actively bid and there's no true price discovery on those cattle

00:33:55.220 um so they've got the deal controlled and they're putting the screws to the retail sector and uh also

00:34:01.800 the producer with the end goal in mind to uh get it down to just a few uh very large producers that

00:34:09.680 are willing to work on a margin and uh put the average uh smaller operator out of business in this

00:34:16.120 country so the free market system has completely broken down

00:34:21.180 correct um you know we've lost any price discovery and any connection to the uh to the product we raise

00:34:30.340 um you know they uh they can uh they can price it at the retail sector and basically give the producer

00:34:38.880 whatever they want so the trump administration was looking into these um uh into these uh processing

00:34:51.080 plants um because of covid and they said oh this is the price and the farmers are getting screwed

00:34:57.360 because of covid and he didn't think so do you know if any of that was was done was was there any

00:35:04.360 result to that we're actually waiting on the results of the there was a fire and a packing plant we're

00:35:12.000 still waiting on the final results of that investigation all that stuff has uh come without any real

00:35:18.840 true fruition or answers um as we speak right now we have a couple three drives from uh different senators

00:35:27.080 to uh open another doj investigation so what is the um uh how long can a rancher

00:35:37.120 you know wait this out i mean i don't know any ranchers that can lose that kind of money on their 0.92

00:35:45.240 cows and then just oh well i'll just do it again for a year and hope that it's better next year

00:35:49.760 yeah and and we're at that point now glenn where uh the clock's ticking fast um you know it is such a

00:35:59.000 large investment out here for these people and they have to uh invest so much time capital labor that

00:36:05.440 if they don't start getting a plausible return here we're going to see a lot of these producers go out

00:36:11.780 of business and how that affects the consumer is that uh a like i said before i mean these these big

00:36:20.320 packers can price it to the retail sector however they want they own different uh segments of the

00:36:26.700 protein business um they're controlling that whole meat counter with also investments in fake meat um

00:36:33.340 that's priced there alongside our product and it's it's a total misadvertising by the packer i mean

00:36:40.760 you go into the effect of the foreign beef coming in and as long as it's processed here it can be

00:36:46.360 labeled product of the usa um you know we've got it coming from all avenues i mean right in the middle

00:36:53.060 of the american taxpayer sending billions of dollars to the american rancher the american taxpayer just as

00:37:01.040 well wrote those checks to uh the four major packers because they're the ones that got that margin

00:37:05.740 our product was never in problem our product never was at a discount in the meat in the meat counter

00:37:12.440 and we had to bail out the american ranchers when the when the product they raise is at a record level

00:37:18.080 and and that's just a broken system so we're talking to steve stafford whose report on this i've

00:37:25.680 watched i think on uh friday or saturday and you know i am i am not a rancher but uh you know i i dabble

00:37:34.380 in cows and the one thing that i've learned is this didn't start with covid there's always an excuse

00:37:42.520 and it it looks like um that this started to get bad around 2015 which i think is interesting

00:37:50.700 when you look at the paris accords because they went down uh as as well at that time

00:37:57.340 and the they were then pushing the corporations and big banks into this esg thing but let me just

00:38:07.220 give you an article here that really is disturbing um meat from animals i'm quoting meat from animals

00:38:15.520 will be a luxury uh and very pricey in the future the people will have to turn to vegetable

00:38:22.800 uh derived alternatives which will be cheaper this is according to jbs chief executive officer

00:38:30.140 uh gobelto uh tom what is it tomazzoni um this is gb jbs saying years ago that this is going to

00:38:42.620 become very very pricey what is what are the indications that beef is going to become you know

00:38:50.040 more pricey in the future other than people wanting to engineer prices to be more expensive

00:38:56.700 yeah and you've got the packers investing in the alternative meats um which is a direct competition

00:39:03.820 and um they uh you know there's no reason right now for what the producer's receiving for the meat to

00:39:11.940 be at the price they are it's just a monopoly on the on the packing system um and we haven't

00:39:19.800 you know you've got these fake meats out here they've got a list of ingredients in them

00:39:24.020 that is longer than your average bathroom cleaner you'll find under your sink um i don't think we

00:39:29.800 really know the ramifications or if that stuff's even healthy um and uh i imagine you're a red-blooded

00:39:36.460 american that eats red meat and uh we've proven that that is healthy and the most wholesome source

00:39:42.040 of protein for a long time here so i don't think we throw the baby out with the bath water and think

00:39:47.180 we go to uh these alternatives they're pushing so steve you're seeing the futures prices now what does

00:39:55.080 that mean in the grocery store a month from now two months from now you know the futures price to the

00:40:02.340 grocery store really means nothing the futures price is is what the producer out here can lock in that at

00:40:09.340 or uh um you know price his product at there is no tie to the from the futures price to the boxed beef

00:40:18.860 um there's no tie to the producer with the boxed beef price um we do have a like a december futures is

00:40:27.200 showing fat kettle going to be you know 15 dollars you know eight nine dollars higher than it is today

00:40:33.820 um now how does that correlate to the boxed beef it really doesn't um the packers can price that

00:40:40.360 so do you have you have any idea how if our prices are going to go up or down at the grocery store

00:40:48.060 it would look to me like they're going to stay up we have a uh employer problem in these plants they

00:40:55.480 can't process at maximum capacity because the employees won't show up because they can make as much

00:41:00.840 money sitting at home collecting unemployment um and like i say beef has crazy demand right now

00:41:07.420 everybody's out and about and back out um so uh they have they've got that price up there and

00:41:15.220 gouging the consumer because they can't uh they can't process enough of it and keep it in front

00:41:19.900 steve thank you so much you want to take it you want to take it to another level i guess i'd like to

00:41:27.980 add this that uh the average consumer out there listening to you and the consumer across the

00:41:33.280 united states needs to call their senators their legislators and express concerns because uh

00:41:39.240 you know just like today we've got jbs which is the largest packer in the united states of

00:41:45.020 proteins under cyber attack and shut down so the prices will skyrocket at the consumer level

00:41:53.200 when one of these packers goes down for a minute so this country national security and feud security

00:42:00.540 needs to uh have more packing and and uh not be so susceptible to problems

00:42:05.860 steve thank you very much i appreciate it call your senator and your congressman now and have them

00:42:14.400 look into this uh i was just going to uh report on this uh cyber hacking it is exactly what happened

00:42:23.080 to our gasoline uh what a surprise we're going to see more of this which will cause the cost of

00:42:29.680 everything going up i sure would like to know what washington is doing about it you know last time we

00:42:35.920 had a cyber hack it was uh it was a private matter it was a private corporation well what the hell good

00:42:43.240 is a the united states government if you're not protecting our private corporations uh and our and our

00:42:50.960 private individuals from terrorist attacks and that's exactly what this is they're shutting us

00:42:57.840 down and they're shutting us down in core sectors god forbid somebody actually gets serious the damage

00:43:05.740 they could do to this country

00:43:07.120 they could do to this country

00:43:07.140 they could do to this country

00:43:07.160 you

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The Glenn Beck Program - June 01, 2021

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