Badlands Media - MAHA News [5.15] FDA Chief Resigns, CIA Whistleblower Outs Fauci, Hospice Fraud

Episode Date: May 15, 2026

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince break down a packed week in health news. Marty Makary is out as FDA chief under circumstances that remain murky, with Dr. Malone having previously claimed Makary was blocking COVID vaccine death data from going public. Interim replacement Kyle Diamantis is a food lawyer who represented CBD companies and quit a Planned Parenthood case over moral objections. Kennedy moves fast, announcing the FDA will now continuously review food chemicals already on the market, starting with BHT and ADA. A CIA whistleblower from Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI task force testifies before Congress about the intelligence community's COVID cover up, and Rand Paul drops a bombshell: Fauci allegedly bribed a scientist with a $9 million grant to flip his position on lab leak origins. Dr. Oz reveals 800 fraudulent Medicare providers were quietly removed and none of them called to dispute it. And farmed fish? Sedated. Vaccinated. By conveyor belt.

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They are. All right, friends. Maha news here. Greetings, Maha folks. May 5th. In today's episode, we're going to be discussing the FDA chief, Marty McCari, resigning, and maybe positing as to the reasons why. Was it an organic resignation or was there some kind of fallout? And we'll also touch on Medicare fraud, hospice fraud, Dr. Oz announcing something. that were shocking to J.D. Vance. Also, look at the haunta virus propaganda that,

luckily, the Trump administration's not falling for. CDC, RFK's health agencies, just not biting that hook. And finally, what else? What else? Ah, the CIA whistleblower, lighten up Fauci. That was a good one. Yeah. So. All kinds of good stuff.

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We'll get to them later. Let us bring up, there we go. So before we start diving into Marta Macari, I just want to let you know about Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s YouTube channel. So for all of his podcasts, RFK recently announced that he's doing a podcast on Maha topics. He's got a YouTube channel for it now, so you don't have to go to the. hHS.gov URL website.

He's only got 4,000 subscribers. That's it. Dude, what? We got to get him some more on there. But he sat down with Mike Tyson a couple of weeks ago fighting for a healthier America. He sat down with

Dr. Ellen Vora two days ago, mind-body connections. So if you're interested in RFK's podcast, he's got a channel for it now. Go give him a sub, go give him some love. Now let's touch on Marty McCari. Trump confirms that FDA director Marty McCarrey is resigning and let's see what Trump has to say about it. That is as loud as we can make that job. That is as loud as we can make that. Sorry guys.

you can never really hear those videos when Trump's standing out front of Marine 1 or Air Force 1 getting interviewed but he essentially said Marty McCarrey was having some difficulty he's a great doctor he's a terrific guy everybody wants the job Martin McCarre is going to go on and you know do well lead a good life

in his career but that statement right there he was having some difficulty what do we think that means I don't know, man I was looking at that and then his past performance I guess you could say

and this one honestly it kind of surprised me maybe there was some things that we weren't paying attention to but it kind of caught me off guard seeing that that happened so what do you think Jordan

yeah Martin McCarrey said a lot of good things there was a lot he was doing that I liked but there were a couple especially in recent weeks, we had that statement from Malone. I think we'll look at something from Dr. Malone here in a moment. And there was one that video Martin Macari put out that was really almost two pro-vaccine.

Like I get having to be sort of PC and walk a tightrope when you're talking about vaccines in such an influential position. but this one was almost like too, almost shilly over it. Yeah. Here's Secretary Kennedy's statement. Marty, you took on entrenched interests, challenged the stat quo, and never lost sight of the American people we serve. You push forward critical reforms and helped advance our mission to Maha.

I'm grateful for your courage and your friendship, wishing you the best. I also want to thank this is our new, this is our acting or interim FDA commission. Kyle Diamantus. RFK just basically thanks him and has full confidence in his work. They're not calling out, RFK and Trump, they're not calling out Marty McCarie. Apparently, there was just something, something that came up maybe that required his resignation.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, man. I mean, we could dive into all kinds of things, but it could be something as simple as his health. I mean, I'll be honest with you. Like, there was a video that he posted. It was a week, two weeks ago, where he was discussing a new drug that they had, you know, successfully passed. And he did not look healthy in that video at all. So who knows?

It could be something as simple as health. It could be he just wasn't working in the direction that RFK and Trump wanted. It's actually a good point you bring up. I mean, even these high-level officials in D.C., they got families. They got family problems. They've got personal problems. They've health issues could arise. So I know we always like to, we tend to want to descend into conspiratorial thinking,

like they're evil or they're an establishment shill or something like that, which may be, but it could be a much more benign, just personal or health problem that they figured I can't work in this position anymore. So here is our conspiratorial thinking, though. This is from Nicholas Hulcher. Martin McCarrey refused to add a black box warning to the COVID shots, despite FDA scientists recommending it over irreversible heart damage. That is his claim.

His departure from the FDA represents a major win. This guy, Nicholas, Herschel too like he seems to be I mean it seems like he's pretty darn intelligent when it comes to the whole vaccine realm and this world so you know I take I take what he for now I take what he says with the grain of salt like I will listen to it so yeah I've come across a lot of Nicholas's videos but I don't know much about him and I've never dove into his his angle so true he covers COVID and the COVID shots quite a quite diligently yeah chat says he's been pretty darn reliable so far i don't i don't

i don't quit i don't question that i sounds reasonable i just he's making a statement here as if he knows for fact and i don't know if we can say that's a fact or not yeah worse yeah unless does he have some inside knowledge to make this statement maybe? I mean, so I think he's tied in with McCullough, Dr. McCullough. Okay. And so I would assume that McCullough and Malone, you know, all those guys, I'm sure they speak. So who knows?

Yeah, I'm on the fence here, as Spett said in the chat. Sometimes people are just temps. Had something they were wanted to do or something they wanted to do and then get it done. Then they get out of there. So, yeah. I wouldn't be surprised. if Martin McCarrey had some shady, shadiness to him, and that's why they wanted to be out of there.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was something totally benign. This is from Dr. Malone, as we just mentioned. Malone reveals the name of the person he says was blocking COVID vaccine deaths and children from being shared with the public, and Malone said Marty McCarie. So Malone claimed that Marty McCarie was the one preventing COVID stats from coming.

publicly. Yeah. And then that was, what, that was like a month ago? Yes. Yeah. Yes.

So timing fits, though. Could have been something vaccine related. And RFK was like, you're not doing, you're not being very maha, bro.

Yeah. I mean, I think that, I think that we all were hoping for faster progress. That I don't think anyone could argue that. So,

Faster progress in what regard? Oh, faster progress in like justice and eliminating the COVID vaccine and RNA vaccines, pulling those off the market, getting them out of kids' arms. Yeah, frankly, I'm actually kind of okay with the progress. with the speed of the progress in looking at the big picture Maha agenda in terms of food and chemicals and microplastics and just everything they're going after. I'm actually, of all of Trump's cabinet,

I think RFK and the health agencies are probably some of the most efficient. Yeah. I can see this. The White House is considering naming FDA Deputy Commissioner Kyle Diamantis. I'm saying that right, to head up the FDA. This is our new FDA commissioner. Yeah, he's like the interim.

Dude, he's only 38 years old. What am I doing in my life? I thought the same thing. He is a lawyer from Florida. He was appointed as deputy, Commissioner for Human Foods a year ago. He became the acting commissioner the other day. Hold on, I'm reading.

He represented hemp bombs in a lawsuit against its... Oh, so he's definitely pro-CBD. He defended some CBD companies in lawsuits against them. And this is... Let's see here. at one point he did represent planned parenthood in a lawsuit yeah but he said he had moral objections and later requested to be removed from the cases involving planned parenthood so march for life president jenny bradley says that she's optimistic

about working with the fda's interim head kyle demontas despite his past work with a legal team representing Planned Parenthood. So apparently he quit that case, though. He just said I couldn't represent Planned Parenthood. Just checking out some of his other workings. Yeah, so kind of a young guy, lawyer. We'll see how, yeah, we'll just see how he acts in this position. Yeah.

I mean, because I know that they've said, the White House has said that they're going to be looking for a replacement for Makari. over the next few weeks but we'll just kind of see like well because I mean CDC is still looking for a director kind of an interesting interesting scenario now both of these positions

are sitting kind of empty or I guess are they empty I mean is that is that exactly what they wanted to get those specific people in those seats right one green flag for our boy Kyle is that Senator Bill Cassidy sure hates him that he does

Bill Cassidy said he's concerned that acting FDA Commissioner Kyle DeMontas doesn't have enough experience with drugs, medical devices, and AI in medicine to stay in the position long term. No shit, that's why you call it acting. It's not really supposed to be there long term. Anybody Bill Cassidy doesn't like is great. Biggest vaccine shill in Congress. And bro's a Republican. clown. Anyway, moving on from that, on the topic of food ingredients, Kennedy made a statement about BHT this week. Let's play this.

Hi, I'm Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., your HHS secretary. Today we're taking action to strengthen the safety of the American food supply. Families deserve safe food. At HHS, we set that standard and we enforce it. The FDA will for the first time continuously review chemicals already in our food, replacing a decades-old system with continuous oversight for the first time. We will evaluate the science on an ongoing basis. We'll identify the risk earlier and will act when necessary to protect the public health. We'll make our findings public. The American people have a right. to see the data and understand the decisions and hold us accountable. We are also re-evaluating to widely used food chemicals, B.H.T. Preserves fats and oils and appears into cereals,

frozen foods, and packaged snacks. ADA is used in flour processing and appears in bread products and food contact manual. These substances are widely used, but that does not establish safety. We are taking a fresh look at that question requesting data from researchers industry in the public through a formal request for information posting if so bht i'm not too familiar with ADA but uh bhty is in a shitload of stuff in your average walmart or safe way uh pretty much anything that is a a snack in a box that is like a cracker. So cheese its, goldfish, chips, and a variety of just snack processed garbage foods like that.

B.HT is in and pretty nasty preservative, actually. This is very good. I'm just looking up. Give me some cheese its ingredients here. Some other products. It's, PhD is pretty wide. It's like fast food industry. It's all over the place.

Yeah, it's in pretty much everything. So it's good news. And now the acting FDA commissioner is a lawyer with, where was he serving? He was serving at human food? Yeah, he was, I think he was already working either in HHS or in the FDA with the food division. So he was focusing on synthetic. dies. Deputy Commissioner of Human

Foods. So Diamantus oversaw the FDA's process for creating the definition of ultra-processed foods. And Diamantus was additionally responsible for reviewing infant formula. So I mean, he could be

a temp as well. And they have him in there to specifically go through this phase of defining ultra-processed foods getting those sort of legal regulations in place and then in a couple months we'll probably get a permanent FDA commissioner named but it sounds like that's what we're going to be

dealing with for the next couple of months I would imagine is a lot of a lot of headway being made against processed foods. You know and this and this here the statement from Kennedy was on the 13th so two days ago go and when did Marta Macari step down? Was that Tuesday? Yeah. So the day after

Marty McCarrey stepped down and we got the food lawyer guy named as acting head of the FDA then Kennedy puts out this statement on food chemicals. So yeah, it sounds like that's where we're going with Kennedy and the FDA.

I would give it a month or two they'll be attacking the processed foods and everything. because did we get that specific definition yet? I don't think we have. No, nope, that hasn't come out yet. Yeah. We're waiting for it. Yeah, so I bet that'll be like within the next month.

They'll probably put out a legal definition of ultra-processed, and then it's like the next phase. Next phase of maha will be going after processed food. Sounds good to me. Yeah. Cool. Me too. Before we move on to talking about all your favorite viruses in the news,

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Haunta virus. If I can click the right buttons here. There we go. Here's the CDC statement. In addition to working with international partners, the CDC since the start of the Honta virus cruise ship outbreak has done a bunch of stuff, I guess. But pretty much all the government officials are just saying it's not a big deal. Like this is NIH Director Jay Bata Chiarra.

We are in touch with the WHO. We're in touch with the international health organizations, including the one in Spain. And we have been providing technical assistance to all of those organizations all the way through. This is not COVID, Jake. And we don't want to treat it like COVID. We don't want to cause a public panic over this. We want to treat it with the hantavirus protocols that we, again, we're successful in containing outbreaks in the past.

And so we followed those protocols. Like we gave health, this health alert is coming out because, again, there's this discreet event of the 17 arriving in the United States very, very soon. And so we just want to make sure that the medical community understand. Sounds like they just aren't given a shit. yeah you know the whole hanta virus thing is being pushed by either the media or the world health organization and trump admin officials just don't they just don't care yeah they're not having it we're not doing this again guys not falling for it so yeah um but i did see something today i don't

know if maybe you saw this uh tedros he's the head of uh w h o came out and he was talking about um how the nations need to embrace vaccination programs to protect the children. So they're using it. They're trying to use it. I'm just checking out all the WHA Honta virus news. Oh, yeah. Yeah, WHO director, Dr. Ted Dr. Dross held a virtual news conference today. I'm not clicking on that.

A few days ago, W.H.O. Chief says, work not over after evacuation of the cruise ship. All right. Whatever, dude. Good luck. But let's get on now to our CIA whistleblower James Erdman, testifying to Congress regarding Fauci's role in covering up the Wuhan Lab leak origins of the coof. Let's play this one. Thank you for the complimentary introduction, and I appreciate the committee's dedication to transparency and accountability. I am a career CIA operations officer,

and as you mentioned, I was on joint duty assignment at the Office of Director of National Intelligence, directors in this group, or the dig, between March 2025. Hold on, you got to pause it. April 2020. Not to take away from this, but I can't help. But look at this dude sitting behind his left shoulder.

He looks like he just smelled a baby diaper or something. That does it. I couldn't help it. I was cracking me up. 26. I was responsible for leading the digs investigation into COVID origins, anomalous health incidents, and unidentified anomalous phenomena.

I'm here today, to discuss the COVID cover-up, the national security implications associated with the digs investigative findings. Also, also, epic stash here. Oh, I missed it. Oh, yeah. Ah, him.

Yes. And CIA refusal to comply with lawful oversight, as well as how we remedy these problems. Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as a result of the lab incident. Motives are difficult to define, given the scope of the Diggs review.

Intentional or not, the IC's actions resulted in a cover-up, wasted resources, and a failure to properly inform policymakers. Public health policy would have been very different, had the American public been made aware that a virus from a lab in China was going to serve. as the foundation for an emergency use authorization MRNA products being mandated by the former administration. Ooh, we! And as per Rand Paul at this hearing, he revealed that Fauci bribed a scientist with a $9 million grant to get that scientist to switch his opinion on COVID starting in a lab versus natural origin.

Jeez. Yeah, man. That's insane. And this guy was, yeah, as comments, where'd that comment go? He was very complimentary of Tulsi Gabbard in the work that Odie and I is doing. Essentially what it sounds like, so the director's initiative group that this guy was working for for the last. year, let me bring it up as this. This is the outfit that was it was started when Tulsi took office just a year ago. Okay. And it looked like a basically a group of intelligence community professionals that were being put together to investigate the intelligence community and expose weaponization and basically expose the deep state operatives still embedded.

in the CIA and OD&I and all those other places. So, you know, press release April 8th, 2025, so that was a year ago. Tulsi Gabbard establishes a task force to restore trust in the intelligence community. This was that dig group that he was a part of, or whistleblower there. And this dig group was just focused on rooting out. deep-seated politicization, leakers, investigating weaponization, just getting out a bunch of deep state clowns. So now he is coming public, one of our whistleblowers from that dig group, just exposing Fauci and COVID origins. So he sounds like he's one of our guys.

Yeah. So what do you think? I mean, that's pretty extraordinary. what you just pieced together there, do you think that there's going to be more coming from this? Well, the thing that surprises me about what he said is that, let's see here, let me play the first couple seconds again. Complementary introduction,

and I appreciate the committee's dedication to transparency and accountability. I am a career CIA operations officer, and as you mentioned, I was on joint duty assignment at the Office of Director of National Intelligence, Directors Initiatives Group, or the DIG, between March 2025 and April 26. I was responsible for leading the DIGS investigation into COVID origins, anomalous health incidents,

and unidentified anomalous phenomena. So COVID origins, the health incidents is like the Havana syndrome thing, so maybe targeting public. officials with directed energy weapons or something like that. That's what he means by health incidents. And then he said, unidentified anomalous phenomena. I think he means aerial phenomena, anomalous phenomena, I guess.

Well, sounds like he was investigating the UFO cover up as well. So I don't know. I'm thinking it's quite possible we'll hear a lot more from this James Erdman fella or get some more whistleblowers from that dig group coming out, just like this. Because, of course, UFOs in the news and COVID origins as well. So this could be a continuing, I think it's likely this could be a continuing thing we see in more whistleblowers coming out or this guy speaking about more issues.

Interesting. Well, I'm looking forward to seeing where that goes. and what else and who else comes out from that dig group. Right. Interesting indeed. All right. Moving on. Let's get into some Medicaid fraud.

Boom. J.D. Vance did a double take after hearing this wild stat dropped by Dr. Oz. So Dr. Oz, I want to be sure I understand this well. So you're saying that we kicked off 800 fraudulent health care providers off of the Medicare system and not a single one of them called the government and said, hey, you made a mistake. We've had a handful of calls. We're not sure they're legitimate yet, but it's less than 20 out of 800 and we're auditing them. Unbelievable. So at least 780 are not even trying to claim that they're not fraudulent. And again, those are businesses that we were giving hundreds of millions,

in some cases, billions of dollars to not to provide services, but to make a fraudster rich. It's just completely insane. less than 20 called and said hey you guys made a mistake yeah we would like some of our fraud money back please that's crazy all right

then here Dr. Oz also announced a national moratorium on all new hospices or home health licenses because of the rampant broad It's already. Arizona, Texas, they're moving across the country. So we're today announcing a moratorium nationally.

There will be no new hospices or home health care open in this country. If you have the program now, you can keep it. You can go to ones that already exist. We're not taking away any services, but there will be no new ones licenses granted until we can figure out a better way of working across government. Let me highlight this because when Andrew is leading and the vice presidents are sharing this task force, it's very simple. You have CMS, you have OIG, March Bell, sitting over there.

the Department of Justice, you have the FBI, you have treasury. You put those things together. You make a powerful fist. And that's the fist we're going to punch through bureaucracies and realities that are stopping our ability to... I like that. You got these agencies. You make a fist. We're going to beat the shit out of fraud with that fist.

That's awesome. Yeah. L.A. hardest hit. Somalians hardest hit. Yeah. All right, guys, we're going to, to finish up the show, we're going to jump around a few different health topics, and then we will call it a day here. RFK is given some props to Lee Zeldon for taking action on microplastics. Very good.

Trump admin is leaning into gold standard science to safeguard drinking water from the potential threat of microplastics. Lee Zeldon announced that the Trump EPA is adding microplastics to their contaminant candidate list for the first time ever. So there's that. What else we got here? Here's Marjorie Taylor Green. Regardless of your thoughts on her, this is good that she's highlighting this particular issue. So disgusting, says MTG, reposting a tweet from Nicholas Hush. The farmed fish you eat are routinely sedated and mass vaccinated using over 50 different vaccines.

Hundreds of millions of salmon, trout, and seabass are injected with automated vaccine machines or immersed in vaccine baths every year. If we have time, the video is actually interesting. I had no idea that there were systems like this that existed. Oh yeah, it's only a minute long. Let's play this. It's nuts. The farmed fish that you eat are injected with over 50 different types of vaccinations, literally. So they sedate them like that video showed en masse.

So large numbers of fish, they bathe them in some sort of sedation agent. And then they feed them through a giant vaccination machine, a vaccinator conveyor belt. And so while they are asleep from the chemical. drugs that they absorb. They are inoculated with who knows how many types of vaccines at one time. And they go through that and then they're released back into the farmed fish pond. And again, so every single year, we'll have hundreds of millions of salmon, trout, you know, sardines, all sorts of fish are receiving these vaccinations. And M RNA versions are coming soon, by the way, they are. My sardines are wild caught.

Farm fish. Yeah, farmfish is disgusting. And I didn't know that, I didn't know about that sedation and vaccination process. That's terrible. Disgusting. Oh, yeah. But I was aware of just the, like the food that GMO salmon eat, genetically engineered fish or farm fish even, aside from genetically engineered fish, which is a whole different thing.

But what farmed fish eat is just genetically engineered slop food. And the condition usually aren't the best. And then you add in the sedation and vaccination and everything. And then on top of that, yeah, so there are genetically engineered versions of salmon out there. I don't know if they're on the food market yet, but that has been an issue in the past, GMO salmon. So, Wildcott.

Yeah. So those fish sandwiches at the local Burger King or restaurant, most likely, are going to be farm fish. If you eat salmon, do your best to avoid Atlantic salmon. Pretty much all Atlantic salmon is farmed. You know, I grew up in Washington State, so I was lucky enough to be real close to Wildcott Saka and King Salmon and good wildcat salmon,

but anything Atlantic, avoid that. You'll go out to restaurants. I've been to restaurants before, and it just says salmon burger or salmon, and I ask, hey, what kind of salmon is this? And the server will have no idea. Like, well, it's important that I know. Yeah, as Chat said, any kind of. salmon and your dog or cat food

Purina, big box garbage trash, it's going to be probably from sedated, vaccinated fish. Yep. Eric never eats farmed fish even without the jabs. Those ponds are nasty, exactly.

Just the conditions they live in, what they eat, how they treat the fish. That is morally and ethically terrible. Cool, good video, man. What else we get? The world's second most published critical care doctor says they've been lying to you about the sun for decades. Dr. Paul Merrick says there's no reason to fear the sun.

You should embrace it because when you get adequate levels of vitamin D, your risk of cancer goes down. Depression symptoms alleviate. Your immune system functions far better. What about sunscreen? Dr. Merrick advises against it because it defeats the purpose. similar to how big pharma doesn't like the ivermectin drug for treating COVID. Dr. Merrick explained that they also don't like vitamin D for general health and well-being. That's why I embraced the early spring sunburn. Bring it on.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, the first nice sunny day I get, I'll go out, I'll lay out, I'll burn a little bit, get that base layer, but I don't wear sunscreen at all, ever. And I don't feel bad about it. Yeah. Claire says love Dr. Paul Merrick. Nice. Hmm. Uh-huh, uh-uh-uh-uh. And then your favorite strawberries are laced with a shitload of dangerous pesticides.

An EPA certified lab just found that Driscoll's non-organic strawberries contain about 12 different pesticides. Not even going to try to read those. No. But especially when it comes to any fruit you eat where you're eating the skin. So any berries, apples, if you're not peeling that fruit, yeah, you know, organic is important. Washing them as well. Very important. Sometimes if I want a pineapple, but the organic ones are just crazy.

or if the store doesn't have any organic pineapples. All right, I'll buy one that's not. I ain't worried about it. Yeah. But when it comes to any berries, I do go for the organic berries especially. I was watching another video about this finding, and there was a lawyer and he was discussing issues around the Driscoll farms. And apparently there's like a 30% increase in childhood cancer.

in a certain vicinity around that whole farm issue. Kind of the same thing is like living next to a golf course. Bad deal. Where is the majority of their farms? I believe it was California. It looks like California. Yeah, Driscoll's is based out of Watsonville, California. So your whole, what do they call that big agricultural valley in California,

Central Valley or something? Some belt. Sunbelt, man, that's got to be the dirtiest just poison-laden area. Yeah, unfortunately. And it doesn't rain all that much there, so any pesticides you get laid down,

it's not like you have a lot of rain to come in and wash those away. So, homegrown strawberries are the best, says chat. nice what's wrong with Driscolls pesticides yeah

lots and lots of pesticides grow your own strawberries but it's hard to keep up with picking sometimes what's your what hardiness zone are you guys in for your own strawberry growing if you don't mind me asking curious of how they do in your area

I'd like to get some strawberries in the ground do the first one of the first years we planted a bunch of strawberries I built some 14 foot by four foot raised beds, and we had one bed that was literally full of strawberries. And, oh, that was so good. And you're in, you're probably zone like six, maybe even five.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, northern Montana. Yeah. Your winters are pretty bad up there. So you're probably like zone five or six. Yeah, I knew it one time. I don't remember which one now. So strawberries should do,

they seem to be pretty hardy plants then. I think they are. And they spread great too. Tracy, zone nine. You must be in Florida. Yeah, I think, I'm zone seven, they say, but it's more like six B. But I'd like to get some strawberries in the ground this year.

Time's running out, man. Better get them planted. Oh. Guys, any last comments? You guys drop them in the chat. Otherwise, you know, something we didn't talk about in today's podcast, and I meant to throw it in our lineup was the tick issue. That's going on right now.

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All right guys We are done for the day We'll see you guys next week On Friday That'll be May 22nd If I'm mathing correctly So we'll see you guys next Friday

For the Wednesday shows We unfortunately It's just a little too difficult For Nate and I to do two shows a week together So we're going to work something out to moving that Wednesday Maha living show maybe even to Fridays and we'll do like just both of them together here on one stream or do two shows like back to back on Friday. But yeah, so that might be what happens next week. Maha Living will just be on Fridays right after

Mahal Maha news and we'll just do them back to back. But we'll let you guys know. Otherwise, yes, we'll see you back here next Friday. Take care. Have a great weekend. Go to your farmer's market tomorrow. Yeah, that's where you get the blueberries from. Support local. Oh, yeah, that'd be for sure. Cool. See you guys next Friday.

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