Badlands Media - Spellbreakers Ep. 180: Let's Check Out Burning Man!

Episode Date: September 5, 2026

Host Matt Trump (pre-recording on a Thursday after a soundless first take) declares this a costume-changing romp through Burning Man, which is happening in the Black Rock Desert as he speaks. Drawing on his own three-year run (2012 to 2014), he plays internet footage from the festival's 40th year and cheerfully warns you it looks basically unchanged: same bicycles, same lights, same beautiful chaos. Expect an affectionate, warts-and-all tour: how to survive the desert, the sacred art of the decorated night bike, why finding a "tribe" is everything, and the surprising mix of Bay Area billionaires, Aspen ski bums, and salt-of-the-earth Nevada locals all sharing an open bar. He gets into the ritual burning of the Man and the Temple, the world-class art installations, Elon sightings on the art cars, and the festival's tense relationship with Christianity. Part travelogue, part confession from a self-described "stealth Christian." Have a great burn.

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. 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 at 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. 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 in 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 causing 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, you know, going forward.

That's really cool that you're going into winter, like 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 is like, what your mobility is like with each joint. And 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? No, I've never considered that. Like you're saying, like usually I go into this like, oh, I want to, you know, stack on some muscle or lose some fat. 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, I'm not an expert, physical therapist or anything by any means, but it's helped me understand what each join 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 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 yeah individuated approaches are important. Yeah, it's funny. You talk about data. 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. the other direction. And I'm a big of belief in self-experimentation too. So you can go, 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, bread 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, you tires are flat. Yeah, man, get out biking. Look for a low-impact activity to do, whether it's biking or swimming. I love doing it. 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 at the show. 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. So 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 a maha issues during his

town hall here. Thank you and your family for your service. 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, and he's proved 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 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 it was, that is really, it's.

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. What is the United States? The other is New Zealand. And 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, you know, commercial speech is not, does not have the same protection under the Constitution as political speech, but it does have some protection. And the Supreme Court case, case very, very broad and it makes it very difficult. You can't ban them altogether.

But 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, may cause death. Yeah.

May cause 50 different things, but which 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 OZ. Zampig and I lost. Oh, that's, that's interesting. I wonder if there's a regulation behind that or not. Yeah, right? You'll see OSMP 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 swer around all they can.

Yeah, seriously. All right. Now we got another clip here. President Trump 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 maybe never come up with. I'm hearing things medically that are happening now.

You might be talking 100 years from now. We're discovering cures to problems and diseases that they might not be. even it might not it might not have happened in a hundred years from now. Two thoughts on this one, Nate. Dude, you know, when he 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, 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 a hundred 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 narrative 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 codes, zero and ones and whatnot.

Quantum computers do a lot better with complex guesstimation. 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 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 spinach, like what food is how many nutrients you're gonna get from it.

These are the foods you need to eat to sort of regulate numbers or something like that, right? I do it I think I'm 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 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, AI spit out a very specific. These are the kinds of foods you need to eat, the time, how much. 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. information. 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. 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. that was all, you know, based on what the AI 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 Locos never did well for you, huh? Well, I don't know. I got some stories by the biggest and four locals. Yeah. 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. 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 immaculately 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. general USDA you know badge so well more power to him this is this is great news and and it plays also you know because we were discussing

the all the beef that he was pulling in from outside of the United States and it's like well if 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. It 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 hospitals, prisons, VAS facilities, et cetera, 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. So 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. Undoze 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 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 do. 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, 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, uh, 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 apart in autism. Yeah. Uh, 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 brings. breaks my heart that there, 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.

Not just in Pennsylvania, but the state of New York, too, is trying to force homage people to get vaccinated. So I hope, I hope this guy is director of HR. HHS after RFK. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I hope he continues to play a key role. 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 two, 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 awkward 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. Sure. But grotesque, Paul Offit, told an interviewer that a ruptured spleen can occur 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 dying in a motorcycle accident and Paul Off, it'll be out here. Yeah, well, you know, bad motorcycle rising, rising can be caused by me. Yeah, we laugh, but man, that's crazy. It's just a guest light of America a little bit more. Wild. All right, guys, we do have a couple of shoutouts to get here. If I can get the buttons right.

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and concerned parents that concerned parents aren't vaccinating their children anymore Oh, no. Out of the CDC saying that the rate of vaccine exceptions for American kindergarten has reached a record high as kids to go back to school. Ran and Ali here with the details. Good morning. Hey, good morning to you guys. Yes, a record number of kindergartners are starting school by skipping routine vaccines. So doctors are now found out of 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%. And that is below the 95% 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 increase 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 vaccine. 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 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, but 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 Brickham, Pennsylvania, where they have brainwashed people that will promote their agendas. So that's something to be aware of. It's not trust the science.

It's trust our science. Correct. Yeah. And then we do have a couple of Rumble rants. I want to shout out real quick. Bread Hour says When Mel Gibson referred to an office as sugar tits Was that a calm

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Thank you very much. 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 pull see if you can find that article he just got arrested for fraud uh he was arrested 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 Notism 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 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 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. are dominoes falling yeah all right guys we've got two more subjects well three so

we gotta move pretty quick because I've got 15 minutes left peptides the FDA just posted warning letters to five peptide vendors and 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 ely lily is going after these research use and so is the FDA is going after the research use only peptide dealers which man I'm I'm 50-50 on yeah I just typed in research peptides for sale and there's a bunch yeah yeah there's there's tons and I get

I get labeling something vaguely to circumvent FDA 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, 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 Lilly is suing some of these research. Yeah. Yeah. They're specifically going after the Reda Trutide. Red of Trutide, right. GLP3.

So Eli, 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, you know, 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, 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 them for weight loss or whatever it is, people lean. 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 becoming a little normalized let's too 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 a, 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 I found, I think it's, 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, uh, 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 collagen 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. Yep. 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 tax. 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 significant. That's crazy. Yeah, if you had all 50 states do it, like literally what percent of soda is snap funded? You could probably say a thunded. You could probably say a

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, brought MREs when we were camping overnight. We opened those things up and my son pulled out a bag of M&Ms. Not shitting 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. 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. 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 or things we need to do. Yeah. Let them go play. A big issue as well is that the way communities are being built is 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 trees 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 the city development part of course you have screens of course you have there's just there's a lot of reasons. There's a lot of reasons. Yeah. And then the adults too, yeah.

Adults relax with screens. 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 of tooth playing tetherball. Was I just whittaded 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, uh, 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 queer. 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. 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. We're like, well, 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.

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