Badlands Media - MAHA News [9.4] Meat Packing Monopoly, Trump Defends Unvaxxed Amish, HHS Tackles Screen Addiction, Foreign Peptides

Episode Date: September 5, 2026

Jordan and Nate are back live this week, kicking off with genuinely useful talk about mobility work, self experimentation, and using AI to plug in your own blood work and genetics for a targeted health plan. From there it is a stacked news day: Trump's fresh executive order cracking down on meat packing monopolies and opening up direct to consumer sales for small ranchers, plus Trump publicly defending unvaccinated Amish communities amid Pennsylvania's ongoing measles controversy. They dig into a genuinely wild story about a researcher behind a major vaccine autism study pleading guilty to fraud, the FDA cracking down on overseas peptide vendors while Eli Lilly quietly sues the same market it helped create, and a hopeful stat on soda sales dropping after SNAP reform. The show wraps with a candid, occasionally hilarious conversation about screen addiction in kids and what actually gets them back outside. Equal parts hard news and honest banter.

The Badlands, one of the Badlands, explain those badlands. That's a hell of their name. What's up, guys? Mahan News here on Friday, September 4th. I had to look at my watch for that one. So we're starting a little early today because we both have some time obligations. Nate Dogg, how you doing? Doing good, man.

It's good to be back on here live, getting to see what the audience is up to. Yeah, so a little bit of intro discussion. here, man. Share with us, and I will too, share with us your Maha wins lately and a couple of things you're working on. And anybody in the chat, if you want to share as well, I'll bring your comment up and we can talk about it. But Nate, kick it off. Yeah, for sure. Let's see, I think it's just a continuation. You know, sometimes like we're, it'd be great if we all had like these huge wins every week. But I think for me, my win is just the silent work in the background and that's that I've been showing up with the gym. I've been getting in there five days a week. So I got right now I'm doing,

I think I told you guys last week, I'm doing three days of lifting and two days of cardio. And I'm liking the change up. And so my workouts are shorter. It's more manageable. I'm able to do it. Get the kids to school, that sort of thing. Yeah, I'm feeling good. How about yourself? Well, thankfully, we've got a big, rainy weather system coming through the Pacific Northwest. So air is clearing up. I think it's put out a lot of the fires in the northwest as well. So now that the air is a little fresher, getting outside more, sort of my goal is for the next few months.

You know, September, October, while the weather is manageable, I'm going to get out and play pickup soccer as much as I can. I did last night. It felt great doing it. But then when it gets real cold, too cold to go out and play ball. I'm just going to live in the gym over the winter. for like three to four months. I'm not going to go play any sports or really run much.

I'm going to do a lot of lifting, try to get a couple pounds of muscle and then work on my joints, like my hips and my ankle and everything to get everything balanced again. So that's my goal. And I'm feeling good. Hey, how are those ribs doing? I know you had that injury from soccer that was, what, a few months ago? Yeah, that was back in February.

February. Oh, okay. That was quite a while ago. No, my ribs are good, man. Ribs are good. I just want to keep my knees healthy. And I know a lot of my knee issues come from my hips and my ankle. So I've sprained my right ankle a lot in my life playing soccer. And my hips are really like imbalanced.

So I can externally rotate my hips, my femur a lot. I don't have very good internal rotation. And I know that imbalances causes some extra stress on my knee. So I'm going to work a lot on internal rotation of my beamers over the winter and then try to get my ankles more flexible, more mobile. And that should help my knee out a lot. Dude, that sounds like a solid plan to give you years of extended use and fitness for going forward. That's really cool that you're going into winter with a plan to do that. yeah it's really important to just gauge like if you have joint pains anywhere something's going on

it's really important to kind of get a baseline of what your posture's like what your mobility is like with each joint and the know you the more somebody knows about themselves then they can create an action plan like a targeted action plan to know what to do to undo their issues right a lot of people are going into the gym just kind of with a general routine that they found on the internet or from AI or something and it might not be targeted specifically towards them or the same thing with diet a lot of people have a goal in mind they want to build muscle or lose weight or something so they start this diet but it's not really curtailed to them and it's almost like pissing into the wind almost right so no i've never considered that like you're saying like usually

i go into this like oh i want to stack on some muscle or lose some fat or but i've never gone in like hey, over the winter, this is my goal is to increase mobility in my hips. I think that's an amazing like side quest for, you know, the winter months or for a section of time. I'm going to, I'm going to use that. Yeah. I mean, my time in the past working at a chiropractic clinic and being a personal trainer and a strength coach and everything, it's, it's helped me understand, you know, I'm not an expert, physical therapist or anything by any means, But it's helped me understand what each joint is supposed to do, how to balance that joint out, and how issues in any specific joint cause problems up and down the chain.

If you have knee problems, a lot of times knee problems are coming from either your ankles or the hips. Or if you have elbow problems, that might be an issue with your wrists or your shoulders. So it's really important to gain self-awareness. What would exactly is imbalanced in your body and then learn about how to attack those specific issues instead of just generalized approaches that you find from like fitness influencers, right? So they'll say everybody needs to do this workout or everybody needs to do this diet. And that's what's going to help you with your health and your fitness and everything. It's yeah, maybe, but not, maybe not. It's individual.

individuated approaches or important. Yeah, it's funny. You talk about data, you know, like for years, I've always just kind of gone by feeling and then judged it by results. And this is the first year where I've really taken, getting actual data back, you know, blood work, looking at, you know, DNA, genes, that sort of thing and how that plays. And then making decisions based on that.

And yeah, I think that's a solid approach. I've never done that before, but I don't think I will go back to the other direction. And I'm a big of belief in self-experimentation, too. So you can come across all the studies. You can look at the research on social media, which is good. But sometimes, of course, you want to do it smartly and responsibly, but be your own guinea pig. Try things. Right?

So, Brett Hour, been getting somewhat better sleep since using topical K2 before bed. That's awesome. Sometimes you just have to try stuff to see how it works for you. moey's out here looking for a used bike to buy checked one out today but the chains are rusty tires are flat yeah man get out biking look for a low impact activity to do whether it's biking or

swimming I love that's such a great great sport get out in nature cruise you just got to love the uphill as much as you love the downhill yeah All right, guys. So let's go ahead and dive into today's topics.

We're going to be touching on the meatpacking monopoly. Discuss a little bit about this measles, sciop going on in Pennsylvania. Take a look at what RFK Jr. is doing with our food. We got some talk about peptides. So it's going to be a good show. And it's funny over the past probably three weeks because we've had to pre-record the past couple of episodes.

We usually pre-record on Thursdays, and then we play the show on Friday. And it's like every single time we pre-record on Thursday, some big Maha-related news blows up Thursday night or Friday morning. And then it would be back for our Friday show. We just pre-recorded it. All right, man. So RFK Jr. did a town hall earlier in the week, and we're going to play a couple clips of RFK Jr.

Speaking about Maha issues during his town hall here. I thank you and your family for your service and your sacrifice to this nation. I first want to say that. My question is this. Why does American allow chemicals, additives, and ingredients that you don't find in European food? It's because we had a—when we passed the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act in 1948 and started regulating ingredients for the first time, there was a—the Congress decided, okay, we don't

want to regulate, we don't want to make companies prove the safety of ingredients that have been used for a long time, like vinegar and salt and yeast and those kind of things. And so if something is generally recognized as safe, grass, generally recognized safe, companies don't have to do a safety study. The food industry captured my agency, FDA, and they, they, they, They hijacked that loophole and turned it so that every ingredient gets stamped at grass, self-affirmed. So we don't even know what ingredients are in our food. When I came in, I asked FDA, how many ingredients do we have in our food? And they said, we don't really know it's between 4,000 and 12,000.

We think it's about 10,000. In Europe, there's only 400 ingredients, and everything else is illegal. And so that is really its agency capture. It's the corruption of the regulatory system by. The Rockefeller medical system at its finest. Basically, it's corrupt corporations and the people they paid off in the government. Yeah. And we're the ones that foot the bill.

I saw a video earlier today. It was an American couple that was spending time in Italy. And they're like, why is everybody so skinny? over here, we're the only fat people on the beach. Yeah. Well, that's not just what's in the food, but also they have a lot better portion control. Mm.

Okay. The portions you get at a lot of restaurants here that people often serve up for themselves. Freaking giant plates. 2,500 calories in one sitting? Yeah. Yeah, you go to some of these other countries and the portions you get there,

just a lot smaller. so just don't overeat as much. Even if it's organic grass-fed food, if you're serving yourself up portions that are the size of your head, you're still going to gain weight. You're still going to get obese. Next clip here.

RFK talking about pharma ads on TV. Question is, is there a plan to ban pharmaceutical ads on TV or if an outright ban isn't possible, how far can you go to limit them? Yeah, the question is about ending pharmaceutical advertising on TV, which has very broad support on the American public. There's only two countries in the world and allow pharmaceutical companies to direct consumer

advertising on television. One is the United States, the other is New Zealand. New Zealand's rules are very, very restrictive. They don't have anything. Nobody in the world has anything like we have. where you're seeing these advertisements constantly. We looked at every way to try to get them off TV, but there's a very, very bad Supreme Court case

that says that commercial speech has not have the same protection under the Constitution as political speech, but it does have some protection. and the Supreme Court case is very, very broad, and it makes it very difficult. You can't ban them altogether. What we've done is we've changed the rules, the regulations, to make them be more honest

so that they have to report more and more of their side effects. And those rules are going into a place now, and it will make the advertisements longer and, you know, there's a good chance that we'll make less of them because they're going to be more expensive for the company. But that's not our purpose

because if it was, it would be unconstitutional. If you thought the list of side effects and the pharma ads were long before, yeah, it's going to be, yeah. May cause death. Yeah.

My kids. It would make the advertisement have to be three minutes long, which the pharma company isn't going to want to pay for because it'll cost five times as much. So they're using a loophole to make it untenable for pharma companies to even buy the ads. You know what they're going to do next. I'm just guessing, theorizing here, is instead of paying for ads now when people are watching Gray's Anatomy or whatever the heck they're watching these days. Product placement. Product placements and those in the in the popular ones all the all day oh i just got on ozampic and i lost oh that's that's interesting i wonder if there's

a regulation behind that or not in yeah right let's see ozamp listed in product placement dude it's like it's like trying to freaking nail jello to the wall these guys are they'll they'll squirt around all they can yeah seriously all right now we got another clip here President Trump's speaking about AI claiming that AI is going to bring cures for diseases that wouldn't have come out otherwise. It's going to be positive.

I think medically it's going to come up with a cure to diseases that we would have never been, we would have maybe never come up with. I'm hearing things medically that are being that are happening now. You might be talking 100 years from now. Yeah. We're discovering cures

to problems and diseases that they might not be even it might not it might not have happened a hundred years from now. Two thoughts on this one, Nate. Dude, you know, when he mentioned the hundred years from now twice, you know, what he's saying there is that the advances in medicine and cures, and he's saying it's from AI, are a hundred years in the future. That's a really significant statement if you think about. Think about how far we've gone in 100 years now.

I mean, where was medicine? It's probably in a better place in the 1920s than it is now. But, you know, think about how far we've gone. How about you, man? What are you thinking about what he's saying here? Yeah, I have two different. I have an optimistic view and a pessimistic view of this. On one hand, I was doing some research into AI and quantum computers the other day.

I was trying to look into at least what the official narratives is are on quantum, and how they're going to hook up quantum with AI and all of that. Apparently, quantum computers and quantum algorithms are far better at processing information about medical issues than classical AI. classical AI is based on still binary code, zero and ones and whatnot. Quantum computers do a lot better with complex guesstimations. And apparently quantum computers are far better at estimating how proteins fold and things of this nature. So I could definitely see quantum computers and AI being used. to quote unquote find treatments and everything.

But my more pessimistic view is ultimately, we want to strive for a society where we don't even need to depend on quantum computers or AI or pharmaceutical treatments, right? We want to eat healthy food, exercise, make smart decisions, be responsible with ourselves and not even have these diseases to worry about because we're living proper lifestyles.

And we also know that there's treatments and methodologies out there that can, really help degenerated diseases through purely food and drastic lifestyle change and things of this nature, like the Gerson therapy and others. So on one hand, yeah, I think AI and quantum computers can be really good tools in medicine, but on the other hand, we don't want to depend on those tools. We don't want to, I think we shouldn't be thinking that AI is going to save us because that then takes away our focus and energy on what can we do now to get rid of this disease. So that's my thought on it.

Dude, I really like your approach on that. And that's something that I hadn't really thought of is you're basically saying, like the way that they're looking at this at using AI is it's still the Western medicine frame of thought. And they're looking at treating the symptom and not what's the root cause. What you're saying is treat the freaking root cause. Go for the base and take care of that first. Yeah, hey, but if AI and quantum computers can help treat a symptom with far more efficacy, great, awesome.

I'm for that. But if we purely depend on it to be like some magic pill and take our focus away from the root cause, like you said, then that's a problem. But, you know, I was, maybe we could talk about this in the next episode, but I was thinking about AI, because you have more experience than I do on utilizing. AI for health purposes. So you were discussing how you plugged in your genetics into AI and it helped create some suggestions for you. I was thinking like what they need to do with AI is put in some, be able to have some

kind of AI algorithm where you can plug in somebody's blood work, their hormonal numbers, like all their numbers and maybe genetics, and have AI spit out a spitz. a specific diet that somebody needs to do where or even you could like take a side angle picture of yourself and a front angle and AI could figure out where your joint imbalances and postural imbalances are the body and create a targeted workout program or with the blood numbers AI will create okay this is exactly how many grams of of spinach, like what food is how many nutrients you're going to get from it. These are the foods you need to eat to sort of regulate numbers or something like that, right?

I do. I think my honest opinion, I think we already have the technology to do that. I think we're already there. It's just turning it into something that's available for everybody to utilize is probably another couple of years away. But I think that the technology already exists. It's just bringing it all to gain. together to create to create that but that would be utilizing AI to address the root cause right

we're cool if we use AI to help the symptoms is fine but like plug in your blood numbers and your genetics and all that and then boom a a a I spit out a very specific these are the kinds of foods you need to eat the time how much this these are the exact nutrients you're going to get from it because you're deficient in these ones or maybe you have too much of this in your body. So I'd be more interested in seeing what AI can do with targeted lifestyle. Yeah. With the stuff that I fed into it, like as an example, one of the things that have found is based on my genome.

There was a certain sequence that makes it so that I do not metabolize caffeine well after like after a certain time like I so I should caffeine for me is I have to be very strict with caffeine where there's a lot of people that can be loose with it same thing for alcohol my body doesn't tolerate alcohol well at all and that was all you know based on what the A I was given and that's just and that's just with the super basic model that's available to the public right now so who knows you know what you know if we utilized if quantum computers became something normal at a you know at a hospital and we were able to do that. I'm sure it would be pretty mind-blowing.

So four locoes never did well for you, huh? Well, I don't know. I got some stories by the biggest and four locals. All right. Next subject, and this is something that news that just came out 30 minutes ago, right before we went live here, which is great because it ties into a topic we were going to discuss today anyway. Trump signed an executive order to support farmers' ability to butcher process package and sell their meat across state lines. Today I'm thrilled to announce that my administration has taken historic action to help our nation's great cattle ranchers and deliver American meat process to the highest standard.

And any, there will be no standard higher in the world and sold at the lowest prices directly to the consumer. ranchers and farmers have always been a number one priority to me. They like me and I like them based on the results in the election. They like me a lot. And I like them a lot. They work hard. They're smart. They're efficient.

And they are very clean people. They're immaculently clean. That's what we're talking about. But for years, I've heard that they have a problem with the big processes. You have basically four massive companies that process the food. and they have to bring it to these processes, and it's a monopoly, I would say. So I've heard all about it.

I've been listening to it, the big processes, and they say they're a very nasty group, very difficult to deal with. So this is a three-minute video. I just wanted to bring up the executive order itself and go through that, so we didn't have to listen to the superfluous speak. Nate, this is exactly what you and I have been talking about

for weeks now is that the main issue is that small ranchers can't I mean they can process their own meat they can process their own products they just can't legally sell it across state lines unless they get it licensed by a federal USDA you know badge so well more power to them this is this is great news. And it plays also, you know, because we were discussing all the beef that he was pulling in from outside of the United States. And it's like, well, if he opens it up for local ranchers and farmers in the United States, then this is a great thing. And lo and behold, boom. So checking out this executive order, it looks like there's going to be mandatory country of origin labeling. Perfect.

and they're looking at doing that within a few months. I'm just skimming this. So let's see. There was, where is that? Cool. Anyway, I hadn't checked out this executive order yet. They just posted it a few minutes ago. So I think, yeah, the ranchers first.

Looks like it changes some things about insurance. So that, and this is for increasing herds as well. so that U.S. farmers can focus on increasing the herds. And the way that works is insurance endorsement lets ranchers protect the value of keeping heifers for breeding instead of sending them off to slaughter. So that's a big one. I had a few bullet notes here. It looks like they're deregulating some climate regulations as well,

Biden-era climate regulations. Hallelujah. Oh, federal buying. So for for hospitals, prisons, VAS facilities, etc., they will prioritize locally processed American beef.

Nice. Yeah. Oh, and then new support coming for FSA loans, livestock insurance, and education for new farmers. So it sounds like they're going to make loans and all that stuff easier. I mean, overall, I think a significant amount just happened between Brooke Rollins and what President

Trump has done for ranchers and farmers in the United States. This is big. Undoes years of garbage that, you know, has been setting them back. Claire says the cartel, Tyson, Cargill, and the other two are going to be very unhappy. Too bad, so sad. Yeah. But, Dave, that'll be great if school districts can, start sourcing more from local ranchers in their community to provide food for for the school

districts or hospitals or even prisons that'll be huge for ranchers all across the country well how exciting is that that a new industry is opening up for the younger generations you know like now farming and ranching may be financially rewarding enough to where the younger generations are going to want to do it. And then so now we start seeing, you know, land being passed on family to family again, the way that it should be. It's sad all of the ranchers and farms that we've already lost, but better late than never. Yeah, for sure.

And moving on here, we've got Trump out here defending the unvaxed Amish. What do you think about that? posting this meme on his true social account. This meme was about autism in the Amish. After 330 years, no published case has explicitly documented an unvaccinated Amish child with autism. And clearly Trump here is defending the Amish because in Pennsylvania, this sack of shit, Josh Shapiro lying to the world

claiming that two people died of measles when even the coroner in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where the deaths happened, confirmed that one of them was an infant that died of a ruptured spleen did not die of measles. That is crazy.

And what's happening is that I think there's a couple of agendas here. Number one, they're just trying to attack RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers with this big measles sciop. But also, and I found this out yesterday, is that in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Department of Health just introduced, proposed to their state legislature a 500 page rewrite of their health regulation to basically codify draconian COVID-era laws into law. They want to, all the shit we were dealing with during COVID,

contact tracing, investigations, mandatory quarantining in the event of a disease outbreak. Pennsylvania is trying to force that in. And so I think part of this measles op is, to scare people into accepting COVID laws in the state of Pennsylvania. That totally makes sense. Yeah. Manufactured crisis. Exactly.

Hmm. You think they think they'll get away with it? We'll see. We're going to have to keep an eye on that one. Yeah. So, but yeah, it was great out here to see Trump defending the, not only defending the Amish, but also, you know, pushing the envelope definitely the topic of vaccines playing a part in autism.

Yeah. Wild times, man. Wild times. Wild times for sure. And then Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Lodipo says it's disgusting that some political leaders are salivating for measles deaths they can use for political gain. Some of these political leaders are literally salivating for measles deaths just so they can use it as a, you know, political weapon to, you know, to try and get people to comply.

And, you know, when Mary was talking about these Amish communities, it breaks my heart that that there, you know, so many political leaders are trying to, you know, separate them from their ancient traditions. I mean, the whole thing is, it's just, it's disgusting. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. Not just in Pennsylvania, but the state of New York, too, is trying to force how much people to get vaccinated. So I hope this guy is director of HHS after RFK. Yeah. I agree. Yeah, I hope he continues to play a key role. A nice. it would be nice to see him take on more responsibility than just Florida. We'll go through some comments here and then we'll get to mid-show ad break.

So Moe says Josh Shapiro is going after the Amish. Shame on him. Amish are great people. Claire says they're going to do that here on the commie left coast too, I think. Oregon likely next. Pennsylvania told Amish families that they were in a measles emergency. And at the same time, a state-linked mosquito program was fogging an outbreak county with aqua duet.

I think I saw that. Yeah, they were spraying some stuff in some of the same counties. So it's, it's, people are questioning what's actually going on with the outbreak there, which Shapiro's doing in Pennsylvania

is criminal. For sure. But grotesque, Paul Offutt told an interviewer that a ruptured spleen can occur due to measles. Oh my gosh, really? I'm trying to twist it.

Anyway, they can. to blame the measles. Yeah. You get a guy dine in a motorcycle accident and Paul Lofitt will be out here. Yeah, well, you know, bad motorcycle rising

can be caused by measles. Yeah, we laugh, but man, that's crazy. It's just gaslight America a little bit more. Wild. All right, guys.

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out of the CDC saying that the rate of vaccine exceptions for American kindergartens has reached a record high as kids to go back to school. Ran an alley here with the details. Good morning. Good morning to you guys. Yes, a record number of kindergartners are starting school by skipping routine vaccines. So doctors are now found out. Not just kids. So win. New CDC data shows vaccine exemptions climbed to 4.2% during the 2025, 2026 school year. That is up from 3.6% the year before. and nearly double the 2.2% from just five years ago. So why aren't kids getting vaccinated? Well, the data shows most exemptions are actually non-medical reasons, such as religious exemptions. And it comes as a country is dealing with a record-breaking year for measles cases in the last 35 years. The CDC says the percentage of kindergartners getting the MMR vaccine, which protects against

measles, mumps, and rubella slipped to 92.4 percent. And that is below the 95 percent, experts say, is needed to maintain that herd immunity. So guys, while the overall numbers are declining slowly, help people say that even small dips increased risk of outbreaks as highly contagious diseases like measles continue to spread. Of course, this is going on as President Trump and RFK Jr. Are questioning the efficacy of vaccines. Absolutely.

Thank you. Wow, what a convenient time for this measles siop to blow up during back to school, almost as if they planned it that way. Rookie numbers, we need to get the, those numbers up. Yeah, you know what? I don't even think that those are real numbers. It's probably like, freaking 50, 60%. Dude, yeah, a lot. There's a lot of people I know. And I mean, I'll be honest, I live in a little bubble, but a lot of people I know are not, either outright not vaccinating their kids or skipping most of them. Yeah. And so I wonder what the real numbers are,

Winning. That is winning. And what I'm noticing the mainstream media do is that because, you know, RFK Jr. is in control of the federal health agencies, they're no longer going to the CDC for their experts. They're going to organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics. They're going to NGOs for their experts. Right. Or to state health departments. like California or Brooklyn,

or frickin' Pennsylvania, where they have brainwashed people that will promote their agendas. So that's not to be aware of. It's not trust the science, it's trust our science. Correct.

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Now we get to Joe Rogan here, because Joe Rogan the other day was talking about an individual we'll get in it. We'll just hear them outlay the story here. So we've touched on this in a Mahan news episode a long time ago, but this story hasn't surfaced until now, now it is again. Here's one thing important before we get off the vaccine, autism thing. the guy who wrote the study that's often quoted

about vaccines not causing autism just got arrested for fraud the guy that's often so the scientist whose paper they quote when they say here's the proof that vaccines don't cause autism see if you can find that article he just got arrested for fraud

he was arrested a while ago he just pled guilty actually so his name is Paul Thorson. That's him there. A researcher behind one of the major studies used to dismiss a vaccine autism connection just pled guilty to fraud. He stole more than a million dollars in CDC research funds, forged documents,

and spent more than 14 years evading justice. Seems like a real stand-up researcher, huh? Yeah, he was the researcher behind studies used to dismiss the vaccine autism link. And he was arrested, I think, about a year ago. We covered it. It was a while back. But, and I believe he was arrested in the Netherlands, and they had to extradite him to the U.S. if I remember correctly. But anyway, he just played guilty now. So that's a big one. Yeah. Also, don't forget, one of the scientists. What

study was it that was retracted from one of the medical journals? Oh, it was the glyphosate one, right? Yeah, yep. That's right. That's right. So. Glyphosate and vaccines. These are big stories that are kind of going under the radar is that the glyphosate study getting rescinded.

this researcher now. So the science that, and this would be good to keep talking about because the science that for decades they've been promoting their narratives about the science is getting dismantled. Clairecat dropped an interesting comment. She says that his paper is part of how they vilified

Andrew Wakefield. And for you guys that don't know, Andrew Wakefield was one of the OG guys that called out the connection between autism and I believe it was the MMR vaccine. Yep. This book is called Callous Disregard. This rest is huge. The science has changed. As it always should.

Yeah. As it always should. The main researcher that suggested vaccines don't cause autism was extradited and guilty of fraud. It is short and it hits. Yeah. Nice. Thank you, Bradauer. Good stuff.

And then RFK is saying that public service must serve the public, not the personal interests of government officials. Recently published records revealed that Dr. Fauci used his federal position to solicit nominations for private awards from individuals associated with institutions funded by his own agency. So not only did Fauci enrich himself, but clearly we've got this. This guy too, so. Are dominoes falling? Yeah. Huh. All right, guys.

We've got two more subjects. Well, three. So we've got to move pretty quick, because I've got 15 minutes left. Uh, peptides. The FDA just posted warning letters to five peptide vendors. And, uh, what do you know about this one, Nate? Yeah, so it looks like, so there's a bunch of, what do they call them, there's research use only peptide vendors on the internet.

It's turned into a big business. These guys are making crazy amounts of money buying cheap. Yeah, cheap peptides and they're bringing them in from overseas. And so, I mean, it appears Eli Lilly is kind of, I don't know if it was a ploy to earn some cash, you know, get, get this out in front of people, but Eli Lilly is going after these research use. And so is the FDA is going after the research use only peptide dealers, which, ah, man, I'm 50-50 on. Yeah, I just typed in research peptides for sale, and there's a bunch. Yeah. Yeah, there's tons. And I get, I get labeling something vaguely to circumvent FD. regulation, right?

So, you know, like saying chlorine dioxide, water purification kits. Okay. I get that, but you do have a point. They could be using the loophole, using the vague wording to bring cheap Chinese crap into the market and sell it. Yeah, I think, I mean, I think that people should have the option to get their hands. on cheap stuff that works. It's also really important that it's, man, this is,

it's so convoluted, man, because I feel, I feel a little bit of frustration with the way that the system is right now is like, the demand for these products is not going to go away. People have found out about peptides, and a lot of people are really excited about them, and they want to keep using them,

and they're going to keep using them. And so, rather than just trying to squash, this like another war on drugs, what they should do is give people access to quality products that have been vetted, like instead of having to go to black and gray market. All right, spiel over. Sorry. And it looks like Eli Lilly is suing. Did you just mention this? Eli Lily is suing some of these research companies. Yeah. They're specifically going after the Reda Trutide. Reda Trutide, right. GLP 3. So Eli

But this post says my take on the Red of Trutide lawsuits, Eli Lilly used all these black market pet tide dealers to build demand. And now Eli Lilly is capitalizing on the demand they've built and suing them out of the market. Yeah. It's just strategic corporate tactics. Yeah, I mean, Eli Lilly only has to take down probably six or seven of the big guys and the rest of them will be scared poopless and we'll drop out voluntarily.

Yeah. I mean, I could see peptides. Somebody asked us what our thoughts on peptides are. We don't have too much time today to get into it, but Spark Notes, my opinion, is that I think peptides have potential of being a great tool, but not for every situation, not for everybody. I do think that peptides are becoming a little too normalized and viewed as kind of like a magic pill by a lot of people. But if you do choose to go down the peptide route, you want to make sure you get it from a reputable source. And I don't think they should be illegal.

But I don't think they should be so normalized. Yeah. There are ways that you can get them compounded within the United States. if you go through, you like an actual physician. There's a lot of places that offer that. So you don't have to go to the research use only in order from China. Right. Right.

And I just simply see both men and women, whether it's guys using them for testosterone or anybody using it for weight loss or whatever it is, people leaning way too much on peptides. And they just want the quick fix or they can't accept the fact that maybe their body is aging and they're not 20 years old anymore. So they're leaning on peptides. And it's like, what are the long-term effects of these things?

And yeah, it's just becoming a little normalized. Let's see normalized, in my opinion. Yeah. It's interesting, though, to watch how this is going to play out. I am intrigued to see what Eli Lilly does and what happens. with all this. You know, I'll be honest. I do want to try,

I do kind of want to guinea pig myself and try that new tropic peptide. Yeah, well, so it starts with an S. I can't remember. I forget the name of it. Yeah. I found, uh, I don't want to do any injectables.

I can't stand needles. I have like a needle phobia. I couldn't, I had to look away when we watched that video earlier of the children being vaccinated. But, uh, I found, I think it's sublingual drops of that neotropic peptide, but it was like 80 bucks, and I don't think I want to spend that money on.

Yeah, I think they can do sublingual and then also nasal spray. But, yeah. Brett Hauer says collagen peptides. Those you don't need to inject, though, you can take. And there's some companies out there that have some pretty cool, uh, peptides that you can get with promo code

Badlands but you know there you go there you go all right we've got two more subjects to roll through here real quick huge Maha wins

soda sales drop 12% nationwide after snap waivers took effect only in 10 states a decline projected to prevent 34,000 cases of type 2 diabetes and related chronic diseases and save Americans at least a billion dollars a year. I don't know how you can project the reduction of disease off that, but that's crazy. 12% after only 10 states had snap weavers. How much of this garbage

food are people buying with tax dollars? That's insane. Dude, how pissed are Coca-Cola and Pepsi right now. Well, that's exactly why they paid all those conservative influencers to shill for big soda a year and a half ago. Yeah. Exactly why. That's exactly why some conservative influencers took money from some social media

marketing company. It was called Influensible. And oh, it's hilarious. Congratulations, all of us paying taxpayers. We are no longer funding a soda epidemic in the United States. 12%.

If you had all 50 states do that, how much would soda sales drop? Oh my gosh. I didn't even think about that. That's crazy. Yeah, if you had all 50 states do it, literally what percent of soda is snap funded? You could probably say a third,

a third of all the soda pop bought in this country is with taxpayer dollars. I would venture to guess it's a whole lot more than that too. At least a third. That is wild. Yeah, it's wild. RFK is out here visiting schools in California for the edible schoolyards program. They're basically trying to get kids learning how to eat good food, cook themselves, build healthy habits around the home.

Fantastic news there. RFK is also out here trying to revolutionize the military food program going base to base and switching out the old food regimen for fresh real food. That's great. They'll have to really redo those MREs. Those things are so terrible, dude. They're so terrible. So a quick short story. My son and I went on a long hike. And so as the fun, we brought MREs when we were camping overnight. we opened those things up and my son pulled out a bag of M&Ms, not shit in you. It was from the 90s.

Like they were so old, like the color was like faded on, it was old. Still ate it. Yeah. Military food is bad. It's really bad. But that's great that they're getting it better. And then last subject here,

the screen addiction crisis. HHS confronting it this week. The crisis is real. The Trump admin is confronting it. 8.5 hours a day on screens for the average 16-year-old. Two to three hours for toddlers. Screens heavily used right before bedtime. Only one in four high school students get 60 minutes of physical activity a day.

And that is one of the reasons that we have rising anxiety, depression, social isolation, obesity, bad sleep, cyberbullying. So that's a problem, man. That, man, that's, you want to talk about an uphill battle. How the heck do you fight that when our world has changed so much in the last 20 years?

Forcing your kids to get into sports. Yeah, but I mean, half the problem is the adult, the parents. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, for sure. It's only going to get worse. you are 100% right there so parents need to force the kid to do something go play um

have them join a sports team yeah helping the garden like make a garden and have your kid come help you with that bring your kid to the gym with you work out together it's it's tough i'm not saying all these things are easy it's absolutely difficult but these are sacrifices are things we need to do.

Yeah. Let them go play. A big issue as well is that the way communities are being built because you have a lot of just developments going up. And, you know, when I grew up, I grew up on a dirt road where there was a forest I could walk to. So I spent a lot of time walking a block or two to some patches of tree. or a ravine and playing in the dirt, playing outside.

These days, because a lot of neighborhoods that are going up are the cookie-cutter tract homes, they're not really, kids can't walk to nature as much anymore. Yeah. And so some of the problem with this is the city development. Of course, you have screens. Of course, you have, there's a lot of reasons. There's a lot of reasons. Yeah.

And then the adults, too, yeah. Adults relax with screens. Mm-hmm. So really don't, I think don't let your kid have a TV in their room. Oh, a thousand percent. That's one of the worst things. Yeah. Yeah.

Adults shouldn't have a TV in their bedroom either. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's lots of reasons for that, especially if you want to get laid. be free forever we would play four to six hours of baseball home run derby swimming for a few hours tackle football great times all unorganized yeah oh yeah one of the best games to play when i grew up was smear the queer they probably don't allow it to be called that anymore but i did probably not four square wall ball tether ball i busted my tooth tether ball how many people here busted

a tooth playing tetherball. Was I just watted or like how did I smack? Yes and yes. Yes and yes. Yeah, man, play these sports. Yeah, there's so many reasons. But anyway, hopefully we can tackle that. And that is it all for today, guys.

One last quick little, we'll leave you with one promo in the outro. We've got to finish up this show. so we have some time obligations, but yeah, we played comment in the chat. We played Smear the Clear. No TV in the bedroom, barely have TV on at all. That is great. Yeah. That is fantastic.

Kids today don't know what nature is or they're scared of it, right? So anyways, we have to lead by example. And as adults, as parents or future parents, we got to lead by example. and turn the TV off, don't even have one, kick your kids out or go play with them, do some sports, whatever it is. Hopefully we can get them off so many screens. Yeah, it'll be interesting what that looks like in 50 years. I mean, I imagine we'll kind of go full circle. Yeah, the pendulum usually swings. Yeah. You know, pole to pole polarization. So we're going into a very, we are in, have been in, and very heavy

technologically dependent and addicted society. And I think, I think that pendulum is starting to swing. People are realizing that it's the phones. Some people are. So that pendulum is starting to swing, and then we're kind of rejecting it. Well, we're like, kind of think about it. We're like kids with a new toy.

Yeah. Maybe we'll get bored and put it down soon. Yeah. So, anyway, guys, that's it for this show. We'll see y'all next week, live again. Next week on Friday. normal time. We'll start at two. Two Mountain four Eastern. So that's it for us. Any final thoughts, Nate?

Have a good weekend. Go do something that you can tell stories about. I like that. Cool, man. Have a great weekend, everybody. Let's see you next week. See ya. Patriots, the fight for truth doesn't stop at the screen. It's hitting the road again. Badlands Media is coming to Las Vegas, September 7th. for the next stop on the Great American Restoration Tour. Join your favorite Badlands hosts and like-minded Americans for three powerful days of unfiltered conversations

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