Elon Musk and the Irish government are fighting each other over a dumb idea, and we talk about the potential for a global food famine. Plus, we discuss whether or not the U.S. is going to get skinny.
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00:00:37.000Farmers torch Ireland government proposal to slaughter 200,000 cows to meet EU climate change goals.
00:00:43.000I don't know why Elon Musk is in that title.
00:00:45.000But basically, Ireland is reportedly considering a cull of 65,000 cows per year for the next three years because of climate change, sparking fears of a famine.
00:00:57.000Wasn't it like 170 years ago they had a potato famine?
00:01:08.000Also, that headline was, like, horribly... So it's Elon Musk and Ireland together are torching the... Elon Musk and the farmers are torching the Irish government.
00:01:19.000What they're basically saying is that farmers and Elon Musk are concerned and criticizing the plan, and they put Elon Musk in there for click value.
00:01:32.000You have the farmers who are rising up that, like, they actually have the capacity in Ireland to do something about this, but Elon Musk also tweeted about it, so he gets the lead in the headline.
00:01:42.000Well, let's just think about how crazy this is.
00:01:43.000I mean, look, to be fair, we ordered a bunch of food today.
00:01:47.000Whenever we order food, it does get eaten.
00:03:24.000Put twice as many people in their house and make the food cost twice as more and they'll drop their weight by 75%.
00:03:29.000They don't want them to have kids, because that would be bad for them.
00:03:32.000They need to bring in people from outside to be there.
00:03:35.000The problem has been that instead of replacing, because of inflation, because of our grocery bills skyrocketing, we're not eating... Basically, we're just not eating the healthy food.
00:03:46.000We're just eating more calorie-rich, calorie-dense food.
00:04:02.000He did, through artificial selection, found ways to make it so that the density of the crops were substantially higher, so per season they could produce more food.
00:04:11.000The problem is, the nutrient density of the food did not increase.
00:05:12.000But I mean, there's also things like the corn subsidy in the United States and where we just have corn in literally every product that's ever existed now, Reagan.
00:05:20.000Dude, why don't we, can we subsidize something else?
00:05:23.000Because like, what happens is you go to a company and you're like, if you grow corn, we'll pay for it.
00:05:27.000And it's like, okay, what can we do with corn?
00:07:14.000I know you can go to the store and you get the slightly bigger ones and they have the small house ones, but this one in Brazil was like just absolutely massive.
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00:09:42.000I have a litany of things that I dislike that Reagan did that are just like... I have to tell you, everyone's attention span is only 30 seconds unless you make an exciting bridge.
00:10:30.000Like, all the asylums that he could go.
00:10:32.000One of the asylums that he could let in and have clothes and go, you know, repeal the LPS Act.
00:10:36.000I think no-fault divorce may be one of the single worst things outside of the creation of the Federal Reserve that has ever been done to this country.
00:11:30.000I'm torn on that one because I never tend to believe that the state should be molding cultural decisions.
00:11:38.000We ought to be a more healthy, caring, loving people that want to actually enter these arrangements without the state being involved and commit to it for life.
00:12:12.000And it's like, I have a contract with him to sell me, you know, a hundred pounds of corn once a week, and he just stopped doing it, and he kept the money, and it's like, well, you know, he's allowed to do it, have a nice day.
00:12:59.000You can set the terms of the marriage, perhaps.
00:13:03.000Like any other contract, perhaps you'd be able to say, like, we both agree to a prenuptial agreement on these terms, the marriage would dissolve, and have that be recognized.
00:13:37.000But there were a lot of marriages that it was two people living together who were okay with each other's company and they weren't, like, romantically swinging from the, you know, the chandelier or whatever.
00:13:46.000There was just like, hey, we have our lives together.
00:13:49.000Let's live together and have a family and, you know.
00:13:51.000I always felt like this is why more people needed to have premarital counseling before they enter into marriage.
00:13:56.000I don't think you can mandate it but it's just it's it's one of the things Catholic Church does right like you have to be able to talk about all of the issues up front and I think that's uh very difficult.
00:14:06.000I think people feel like oh we love each other so much right now and everything will be fine and if you can't talk things through and figure out where the faults are it's very difficult to enter into a contract.
00:14:15.000And like with abortion, the left lies to justify their lax policies that create perpetual children.
00:14:23.000They say things when it comes to abortion, it's like it's about the health of the mother and abuse and all that, and then what happens?
00:14:28.00099.9% of abortions are elective forms of abortion as contraception.
00:14:32.000Like that's something that most people, when polled, disagree with.
00:14:35.000When it came to no-fault divorce, they respond to like our segments about this saying like, No Fault Divorce was created because women were being mercilessly beaten by their husbands and couldn't escape, and it's like, yeah, no, that was actually cause for breaking the marriage.
00:15:06.000And then the family's been completely destroyed.
00:15:09.000And now, when you think back to those glorious moments as a child, when you'd wake up on Christmas Eve and run downstairs to find the presents, and there's little candles, and we weren't rich.
00:15:38.000So the end of no-fault divorce has basically destroyed marriage as a whole.
00:15:42.000And now people don't want to have, like, aren't having families, aren't having kids.
00:15:45.000Men are becoming perpetual children who are either virgins, sitting at home, living with their parents, or they're just not getting relationships, or just banging random women all the time and not having kids, and then demanding of them when they get abortions if they get pregnant.
00:15:59.000Then you have women being told it's empowering to do all this, and they say, sure, I guess, because Instagram told them to.
00:16:03.000Well, the thing that has kept me out of the marriage game was because I was relatively financially successful young, and I was just looking around like, this seems like a really bad deal for me.
00:17:31.000Yeah, Carter was really, really bad, and people are like, oh, but he helped the country and did all these things, and I'm like, gun control?
00:20:20.000Funny how Wilson's Reagan's middle name, which is what I always thought was really funny too, just happens to be his middle name for some reason, right?
00:20:54.000But unfortunately, I mean, fortunately, people are starting to catch on.
00:20:57.000But really, this is too high level conceptually.
00:21:01.000I'm trying to figure out how to put it into a meme form to get people activated.
00:21:06.000And ultimately, this is why, regardless of my opinion as to the Bud Light and the Target and actually what they were doing, I'm just grateful that there has been a populist uprising that's saying, Whatever the reason, you know.
00:21:48.000You guys shoot your wad trying to get the chief executive job every four years, and there are no members in the legislature at all.
00:21:57.000And there are congressional seats that would be pretty viable for a third party to take because they're in areas where the incumbent has disappointed, I'm not going to name any names, Dan Crenshaw, you know, where the incumbent has disappointed the constituency and they're definitely not going to vote for the other letter, D or R. So the third party candidate has an incredibly good shot.
00:22:23.000And let's face it, you've got to build a little viability here.
00:22:27.000Okay, nobody's looking at libertarianism as anything but the punchline to a joke for the chief executive job.
00:22:33.000And frankly, libertarian policy is more beneficial when it comes to the purse strings.
00:22:37.000So, what is the plan to broaden the party and maybe caucus with some of the America First Republicans?
00:22:45.000Well, that was a couple of questions there.
00:22:47.000But first off, the Mises Caucus and the decentralized revolution, that is really the plan there, is exactly what you're describing, where we go after local offices.
00:23:03.000Yeah, that too, school boards that are nonpartisan city councils.
00:23:08.000I think that that's really the best way.
00:23:09.000If you're going to run with a libertarian decal next to your name, that's the best way.
00:23:16.000I'm of the opinion that if you want the federal level, if you want libertarian beliefs at the federal level, you should probably run under the guise of GOP.
00:23:24.000Ron Paul has already demonstrated that's probably the best way to go.
00:23:27.000So I think running as a libertarian in non-affiliated Yeah, I mean, obviously, that's kind of what I was hoping to hear.
00:23:32.000the smallest local level is the way to go and then running under the GOP banner because the GOP
00:23:38.000voters tend to really like libertarian ideology. I think that's the best way to go. I hope that
00:23:43.000answers your question. Yeah, I mean, obviously that's kind of what I was hoping to hear.
00:23:50.000Okay. Well, then if I gave you the answer you wanted to hear, then that's a win.
00:23:53.000Yeah, if you're a politician, I got a baby for you to kiss.
00:25:02.000I've been digging down in the macroeconomic cycle a lot, looking at some of the work of people like Jeff Snyder.
00:25:09.000So my question is, is the Federal Reserve an all-powerful monolith, or is it just a bunch of bureaucrats running around damaging everything, acting like responsible people?
00:25:40.000And it seems like what they do is more of a social-psychological impact, saying, well, we're in control, interest rates are going up, you have to listen to us and follow our lead.
00:25:52.000But ultimately, monetary systems are global, and so money can easily flow away from the US if it wants to.
00:25:59.000Well, yeah, and that has been probably the biggest pitfall of trying to micromanage the economy through Federal Reserve policy is that because the economy is now global in nature, you have to consider so many factors that it's essentially above any human being's pay grade, which is why the Misesian School of Economics says you have to allow the individuals making their own autonomous decision-making That's really what creates the most sound foundation for an economy.
00:26:31.000Once you have any sort of central planning, you're doomed to shortages and surpluses and all sorts of malinvestment, which is what we've seen.
00:26:38.000The track record of the Federal Reserve, but central banks broadly is horrific, but it doesn't matter because they have a monopoly on the creation of currency.
00:26:48.000So it's a business that it doesn't matter if you fail over and over because ultimately you're sitting on a gold mine.
00:26:54.000So that's why the only answer is for the public to rise up and demand the abolition.
00:27:06.000Yeah, I think Clint touched on it earlier before I got to answer my question, that the focus should be on the private entities with all the money pulling the strings.
00:27:13.000Because it's the banking system with its appetite for risk to do fractional reserve banking that can rapidly expand or pull the rug from under any economy.
00:27:22.000But they can only do that because of their relationship to the central bank and the discount window.
00:27:29.000You can either strike at the branches of this evil beast, or you can go for the root.
00:27:36.000I think that that's where you ought to be focusing your energy.
00:27:40.000I know it sounds delusional, but it wasn't that long ago that you had college kids that were chanting in the Fed during the Ron Paul revolution.
00:27:47.000I believe we can still bring that energy back.
00:27:49.000I hope we can do it before we're in a global Great Depression.
00:27:52.000But even if we have to wait until then, I think people will ultimately wake up to why the economy is so unfair, why income inequality exists, why you can't afford a home, why you can't stay home with your children.
00:28:04.000These are all a product of central banking and namely the Federal Reserve.
00:28:07.000So that's why I go ballistic about it so often.
00:29:34.000Maybe I have the same problem because I have a shitty memory and I thought maybe, but now I'm like, maybe that's why I have a shitty memory because I can't.
00:30:01.000I have a photographic memory, but I don't have a photographic memory to the degree where it's like, I can look at something, and then read, like I can't look at like a page, and then look away and then read the page, but to a certain degree I can, so like, if we're like driving around the corner and there's a bunch of signs, I can look at the signs, turn around, and tell you exactly what the signs say and things like that.
00:30:21.000So, and it also depends on focus and intent.
00:30:24.000So when I used to work for the nonprofits, people would show me their credit card.
00:30:29.000I'd look at it once and then I would just be able to write the whole thing down.
00:31:59.000And so I cautiously bet into it, and then, you know, I got crushed.
00:32:02.000And then there was another time where I flopped a straight with ace queen on an ace ten jackboard and the other guy had, I think he had pocket kings.
00:32:50.000But like, I don't even think I'd want to.
00:32:53.000Well, the people who can remember, like, every day specifically, they can tell you the temperature, they say that it means that they can never, like, they always hold grudges because they can remember every wrong that someone has done against them.
00:33:03.000They can never let anything go because they remember every single detail all the time.
00:34:51.000But I'm saying, from the mass media, you're not going to hear them say, if you want to be successful, go spend a gazillion dollars at a four-year school so that you can be in debt for the next four years.
00:35:02.000Because people that work with their hands in the trades, they can actually make a good enough living that they don't have to rely on the state.
00:35:10.000So I think, I would highly recommend, anybody that's coming out of high school right now, give serious consideration to just going straight into an apprenticeship.
00:35:18.000Yeah, you have to remember that over 95% of student loans come from the government.
00:35:24.000So they are funding this cycle of debt and dependence.
00:35:28.000I don't know about y'all's experience, but when I was in school, there was this sort of semi-negative connotation to trade schools.
00:35:37.000But now I think, like, Man, I wish I had gone there and met a nice electrician who would make money.
00:35:43.000And there's so few people that are willing to put in actual hard labor that you could probably just go talk to your local electrician as a kid coming out of high school and be like, hey, I'll apprentice for you over the summer.
00:36:22.000I think generally people are afraid of labor because we have insulated ourselves from it.
00:36:30.000I'm kind of giving away the story here, but I've been thinking about writing this piece for a long time about how Chuck Grassley is one of two active farmers in the U.S.
00:36:38.000I find this deeply disturbing because a hundred years ago, right, we must have had more people who were actively tied into the farm.
00:36:47.000They actively took part, they knew what it was like, and now it's like, John Tester from Montana, Chuck Grassley, whose son actually manages the farm, and then there's like a handful of people who raise cattle.
00:36:58.000And like, those are real jobs that touch earth, you know what I'm saying?
00:37:02.000Like, they are deeply affected by the weather and taxes, and the way that like the class of people who are coming up right now, you can click on all of their bios, it's public information, They went to an elite school, they went to an elite law school, then they worked on Capitol Hill, and then they ran for office in their home state.
00:37:18.000And I'm not saying that those people couldn't do some positive, but it feels unnerving to me that we are seeing more politicians come from that cycle than politicians who have connections to small business and family farms.
00:37:29.000Is that why we wanted back in the day it was such a plus to have military experience, right?
00:37:33.000Like it's like you were invested in the country because you served the country in a way that, you know, being a lawyer doesn't necessarily have the same connotation.
00:37:41.000I mean, it's the same thing when you hear people who like, like a criticism that comes up right now of Tim Scott, who's running for president.
00:37:47.000uh is that he doesn't he's never been married he doesn't have kids and so that is a strange experience it is a similar criticism that i have to the catholic church right i don't understand why their priests don't get married and have families how can you sympathize more with someone than if you are also having to raise children in this environment you know what i mean i'm saying this to all the unmarried uh yeah men in this room who don't have children i'm sure you all will be fine it'll be great but it does he doesn't mean it it does Look, jury's out on all of you.
00:38:39.000But I can understand why there was a generation of parents that were like, if I save and scrimp and send my kid to college, they can have a better life.
00:38:57.000To all the migrants out there who come here and they're like, I'm gonna work really hard and get my kid in college and they're gonna get a good job and have a good life, you are condemning them.
00:39:05.000You, like, you don't want them to be poor, you want them to have healthcare and make good money and all that stuff, but a good job, a trade, you get paid well, you work with your hands, you get physical activity, you go sit on your ass all day, you're gonna get hemorrhoids and you're gonna be writing about Brad Pitt's junk.
00:39:21.000But also they get home at a reasonable time and like a lot of their work and that allows them the opportunity to actually raise a family.
00:39:29.000All kinds of things that people who have farms or small businesses don't have.
00:39:32.000On the other hand, they are totally tied to a corporation and they are ultimately physically atrophying because they are not moving around enough.
00:39:39.000But there's also a level of like, sure, maybe they have the weekends off, but there's a level of Purposelessness and despair that seems to coincide with the office job, especially now that there's DEI departments that are making you self-flagellate.
00:39:52.000I mean, everything in life is a trade-off, and obviously someone is making the calculation that going into massive amounts of debt because you didn't go to trade school is worth it.
00:40:04.000But also a lot of those people who go work in the trades end up starting their own businesses.
00:40:07.000They franchise their businesses and they seem to be more intelligent at actually working for themselves rather than having to go work for a large faceless multinational corporation.
00:40:16.000I think about like your brother's an electrician, right?
00:40:55.000Let me also add, because I was an entrepreneur and because I had been successful in that path, During lockdowns, I was able to come out in May of 2020 or whatever, April, and start to speak out against this stuff.
00:41:07.000Whereas most people that were working corporate jobs, that was kind of a career ender to do that.
00:41:12.000So I would like to see more people that were in my position during the next crisis, which could be World War III, for instance, that are in a position where they can stand courageously and say, we're not going along with this latest narrative.
00:41:25.000Because I think that's a real problem when you have more than half of the population that's just like, Cowed into silence and that's what we've kind of been dealing with lately.
00:41:40.000Like any amount of like having to go out and work like a lot of the people I know people that work construction that it's not the greatest job in the world, but they come home and they're and they're happy.
00:42:00.000So we've got contractors and what I'm learning is basically it's like, oh yeah, we were going to come in, but in order to do that, we have to have this guy from this government agency.
00:42:08.000We have to have this guy from this agency.
00:42:10.000We have to have this distributor give us these materials and everything is sludge right now.
00:42:16.000So we did have problems with, you know, first degree contractors being like, oh, we're missing today, or I can't find the guys today.
00:42:38.000But anyway, does that answer your question, good sir?
00:42:42.000Yeah, and I just really like the point how office jobs are miserable.
00:42:47.000I'm actually going to transfer from college as a computer science major to technical school because it's like significantly cheaper and I will actually enjoy myself.
00:44:52.000It has not been fucking fun watching that where it's like, oh, he's dead, but I know he's not dead yet because he's going to just come back.
00:45:21.000You'd put the food in, close the door, open it, take it out, and it would be hot and ready to go.
00:45:25.000It'd be hilarious, because I would just be like, Like Seamus would be going to get his potato and I'd kick him in the nuts and then I'd time travel away so that it didn't show me there.
00:45:35.000In the era of virtual school, kids don't have snow days anymore.
00:45:39.000There will be a generation of kids who don't have that experience of rushing to do something while you're waiting for something to come out of the microwave.
00:45:45.000We're robbing them of these core experiences.
00:45:47.000Where you stand there for three and a half minutes and you watch it as it cooks and then you have a tumor.
00:46:47.000It used to be like, you could watch The Simpsons Thursdays at, you know, 5.30 or whatever Central, and that's when it's on, and you can watch it.
00:46:53.000And then there's, they did, they started doing, when I was a kid, Simpsons right after, was it 5.30?
00:46:59.000Monday through Friday, the reruns would come on.
00:47:03.0005.30, and then once TiVo existed, and you could record them all, now it was just, they were there.
00:47:10.000And now, All shows exist in a perpetual infinite state.
00:47:15.000You just turn the TV on and it's every episode.
00:47:18.000I actually had this thought, and I'm sure you guys have probably thought about this too, but basically like once you have no binding event that we all gather for, like the closest thing we have left is live professional sports, but And I guess Game of Thrones was probably the last thing where we were all watching it as it released.
00:47:38.000It was a sad commentary how little there is of that.
00:47:41.000Succession had a record high of 2.9 million, which is negligible.
00:47:47.000I'm older than you, but you probably also remember a similar type of thing where you would have these big TV things that everyone watched.
00:48:22.000It doesn't happen the same way because these people are all having this moment where they're all together more frequently than we are when you're more disassociated or in a larger city.
00:48:30.000I will say this though, to not be totally black billed, I think that this is gonna drive more and more people back into church life because they want to have some sort of uniform experience and that's like the only thing that's available.
00:52:18.000We want to put up the work request thing so we can start just involving you guys and actually, I don't know, getting you paid, getting you jobs, because we certainly need the help and we're willing to pay.