Barn Talk - Barn Talk Hot Topics: Bud Light Boycott, Nashville School Shooting & Montana TikTok Ban

Episode Date: April 18, 2023

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So we appreciate each and every one of you. And you don't have to agree with us. That's a beautiful thing about this country. Yeah, it is 100%. And you know what? Like we always say, the one thing we want to do out of our media more than anything else is to make you think that maybe you've got to do your own digging, that you've got to do your own research, that you've got to figure it out for yourself. Don't listen to us.

I might really tee off. And if I do, that's good. Go, you know, like here, prove me wrong or, you know, just go figure it out for yourself. Because a lot of the information we get out there from traditional sources, it's all very pointed and very filtered, and it's all intended to make you think a certain way where that may not actually be what's going on. What's really going on. So anyway, without further ado, the market update. Corn is 656 is where it closed on the board. and there is a 704 bid at eddyville if you want to track it down there if you're closer and the

best local bid around us is 680 at one of the feeders beans 150 on the board 1520 at quincy on the illinois side and 1498 in burlington was the best bid i saw wheat 682 hogs man the hog market is a bloodbath I'm a broken record every week that I give the market update, but man, I'm starting to feel, I'm starting to feel guilty. Not guilty enough to send any of my monthly rent check back, but guilty. Nonetheless, the hog business is pretty brutal right now. 71, 75 is the nearby, I'm assuming that's the May contract for hogs. Cattle, $174, $74 pound.

And feeder cattle, I threw that in there. So if you see that cattle price, you're like, damn, I should, I should go to the sale barn and get me some feeder cattle, fatten them babies out. Feeder cattle, $2.3 a pound, $203, 100 weight to buy a feeder cattle to feed out, feed some of that quality, $6.80.000 corn to. I don't know what the math on that is, but I'm not sure whether it works or not. Somebody let us know in the comments. I don't have any.

crude oil 8268 and that's off the May contract I don't know if that's the cash price settled but that's what the May contract is gold $2,017 it's kind of it ran up there and it's been

just kind of hanging out because nobody really understands what the Fed or the Treasury's doing Silver 2331 I think that's pretty high for silver I don't think it's been that high in quite a while Bitcoin 30,500 it got up to over 31,000

it's playing the same game as gold and silver and the fact that just so much uncertainty about where this inflation number is and whether the Fed is going to the Fed kind of got its out this last week as far as job numbers the signs of a recession are probably gained enough strength that they might have they're out to stop hiking interest rates which I feel like that's kind of they They've kind of wanted a strong enough excuse to pivot. And I don't know. Right now, the money, the Vegas money is about 30% chance that they hike a quarter of a percent.

And that's down from where it was. But who knows what they'll do. Ethereum 2110, which is high. Cardano is 45 cents. That's pretty high for it. Tesla, $185. It's kind of gotten beat down with the rest of the market. And I threw Budweiser in there.

Conveniently, I threw Budweiser in. 64-56 is where it closed. So it actually bounced a little bit. It was down pretty hard earlier throughout the week off of the brew ha-ha-ha that we're going to talk about, but it came back a little bit. But just for reference, I think it's all-time high. It was about $133 a share, and that was back. that was clear back like 2017, 2018.

And it's pretty much been in a downward trend since then because beer sales flattened out. And I was going to say this later, but let's face it, whiskey's better than beer. And if you're going to, you know, if I'm going to go somewhere and sit down and talk with friends, I don't want beer. And I sure as hell don't want Bud Light.

Anyway, I'm not a Bud Light drinker. I'd rather have whiskey. So maybe that's what's hurting them. There you go. That's it. I would agree with you. Toto Finito. Well, you kind of hit the nail right on the head.

I alluded. You did. That was a nice segue. Nice segue. We're kind of messing it up right now. But Bud Light becomes Bud Woke. I'm sure all of you guys have seen the controversy surrounded by Bud Light, Bud White.

what he called anhydrh andhydrous bush imbev so the the Adolphus bush family sold the company they still own considerable stock in it but they sold it to german european beer conglomer imbev a few years ago so it's it's uh budweiser inbev i think is what they call the company And to give you a little background, you know, as I said, beer sales in the United States have been flat to trending down for quite a few years. And then the other part of that is, you know, when we grew up, when my generation grew up, you had, you had Bud, Bud Light, Miller Light, Coors Light. My brother's generation, you had Bud, Coors, Miller, Hold, Milwaukee. You didn't even have light beer. Like my brother graduated in the early 80s,

and I think when he was a senior in high school was when Bud Light came out. So they didn't even have that. Everybody drank Bud, Bud, Bud Heavy. But there was not all these craft beers. There weren't any. It was all these big brewers because it consolidated. And then, you know, we got Bud Light and we were the- How would you know in high school?

Huh? How would you know in high school? I just saw other people drinking beer. Oh, yeah, yeah. I never. Never partaked. No, of course. No.

That would be... The drinking age was 21 when I was in high school. Twenty-one? Yeah, so I couldn't drink. Yeah. So I just watched... There were people, there were hooligans out there that somehow, some way, they got beer, but I don't know how that happened. Nope, never happened for you.

No, I would. Yeah, you were a good kid. I was a good kid. Don't let anybody tell you any other. And we're going to talk about that. An advantage of growing up in the 80s is very little photographic evidence of anything that I might might not have done. So we're going to say, I didn't do anything. There you go. Anyway, they, and so Budweiser's, they, their market share has been declining. And, you know, one of the

things that kind of has come out of this is, I don't think people realize how many different brands Budweiser owns now. They have bought up so many things in an effort to try to find what the next big thing is. And your generation, you know, we played cards up here the other night. Well, you guys played cards up here and out of pity. I got a pity invite. You know, they're like, oh, should we, should we, should we call someone? Oh, no, people like sitting at the window. Everybody loves talking to torque. I was just sitting by the window with my phone in my hand. Yeah, right. I hope they call me. Oh, yeah. They call me. Anyway, I came over here and, you know, these guys are all drinking a variety of stuff. They're drinking celtzers. They're drinking.

I don't know if we made a gin bucket. Yeah. We had Miller Light because people were pissed about the Bud Light, so they don't want to drink or going Miller. Jacob's a Miller guy. Matt was drinking. Microlubs, Seltzers, gin bucket.

You had an old fashion. Somebody had a fresca. A fresca vodka. Fresca vodka. It tastes like a vodka Sprite. I mean, yeah, they got these freaking cocktails in a can nowadays. It's like super easy. That's, if I'm not much of.

of a seltzer guy. The only shelter I really like is high noons. Those are pretty good. And I feel like those are kind of a warm-up. If you're on the boat, it's kind of like Arnold Palmer's. It's like a warm-up for the day. You're going to drink something light like a seltzer, like a high noon or a Arnold Palmer. And then you can get into either the liquor or the beer of choice that day. but yeah i i i i like the cocktails in a can though like i like ranch water that shit's good or uh there's like a there's like a cut water yeah cut water they got like a moscow mule in a can that ain't bad yeah i mean it isn't the best mule in the world but it isn't bad either so yeah so that's that's kind of what's happened to the to the beer industry is you know i made the

call i've made this comment before but think about if you were the if you were the if you You were the beer truck driver. You know, if you started, if you started in the early 80s, you were 18 years old, got out of high school, and you got a job driving a beer truck, which I don't even know if you could do that. But back then, you probably could. You know, you only hauled, all you hauled was bud, bud light, bush, bush light. That's about all you did. And then, you know, they started adding and Mikolo, Mikolobultro. and cooers miller i mean all this stuff but today if you're the poor guy driving the beer truck

i mean you got like 45 different products on on that beer truck and you know instead of hauling just carts full of one kind of beer you're getting oh give me three cases of this and three cases of this and i mean it's got to be like a just an inventory nightmare but that's just a testimony of how things change. And the other, the last thing, all the IPAs, all the, all the other beers, craft beer out there that people are getting into. I mean, I just think my generation and younger,

or maybe even a little older than me, younger than you, they want to just try new shit. And I think another thing with craft beer that makes people intrigued to drink more of it is the story behind it. Right. They like going to a local brewery, and knowing that this comes from this place.

Yeah. You know, they like that instead of just sipping on something. And it gets you drunker faster. That's the other thing about craft beer. I mean, yeah, it doesn't taste the best sometimes. But two of them, and you'll be feeling pretty good versus, fuck, I don't know, 12 light beers and then you're in the same level. It's like, I don't know.

Yeah, what's the local, well, we actually don't have a brewery in our hometown, but a town very close to us has a brewery. and what's that i think it's called we bit hazy's like 14% alcohol something like that and it'll make you a wee bit hazy pretty fast yeah if you drop back one of those and i also think that there's a trend of people that are going sober yes that don't have alcohol they're not alcoholics but i think people just are waking up to the fact that alcohol just isn't the best thing for you and there's a lot of science and research and stuff coming out of just how bad alcohol is to the body.

And I think with the health consciousness happening in just everybody with hell, people are fucking not even putting detergents in their laundry room because it's got toxic chemicals and big food and all this stuff. People are just health conscious. And so I think they're trying to limit their drinking or just not drink at all. And I mean, more power to you. And beer is not, beer is one of the. poor choices because not only do you have the alcohol, but it's full estrogen. For men,

beer is not the best thing to drink. And, well, once again, I go back. If you're going to, if you're going to hurt your body with alcohol, whiskey's probably better than beer. Everything in moderation. Actually, clear liquor, they say, is actually the best. Of poor choices, medically clear liquor such as probably vodka or gin is better for you than beer. Anyway, we're not helping the beer. No, we're not. No, we're not. I'm just going to say there's a multitude of factors as to why Budweiser's stock is tanking.

Right. This isn't the only thing that has made it started to trickle down. So, Bud's been trying to stay relevant. And we were talking before we came on about Budweiser is another legacy company that many people, including the people that own it or in it, just assume that it has always been and it will always be. But that's not necessarily true. We know that times change. And so they've been struggling to try to stay irrelevant. So enter this woman, and I'm going to probably slaughter her last name, but her name is Alicia Gordon Heinershides. That's not bad. We'll say Heinershides.

Her pronouns, got to get those. Yeah. Her pronouns are she-he. Of course, she-her. She-her, right. Yeah, right. Sorry. I'm not good with pronouns.

That's why I just don't use them. I can't keep them straight. She-her. Yeah. Her LinkedIn profile, and her LinkedIn's been... Yeah, it's gone now. Well, it's back up, but it's been whitewashed. Her picture's gone.

She is currently, although I'm not sure how much longer she will be. she is currently the head of VP of marketing for Anheiser InVHen. And she had in her LinkedIn profile. Yes. The first female to lead the marketing for the largest beer company in the world.

Yeah. That's what was in her LinkedIn profile. So that's what's important for her. That is what she feels is important for you to know about her. But she's also the first, first fucking VP of marketing to lose the most amount of money that this company has ever lost in market share in market share in market cap on their stock in company history yeah so that now that should overtake her that other title that she had there because nobody gives a fuck what your first

you could be first this first that first this first that are you good at it are you good at your job and her choices have proven that she's not very good at her job. And so I don't care if you were the first. You're not good. You're not good. This whole idea in business that we're going to hire people to be inclusive. I don't, I think most people don't give a shit. Who you are, what you want to do outside of work,

what race you are, what religion you are, what fucking gender you are. They don't care. Are you good at your job? Are you good at your job? job. I think that gets glossed over. Now, in Budweiser's defense, she had, she has the pedigree. She went to Harvard. She graduated from Harvard's business school. So she has all the right, you know, she has all the right connections and all that. But she decided that she wanted to take Budweiser in a different direction. And that direction was to hire Dylan Milvaney, who is a

26-year-old man who portrays himself near as I can tell from what I've seen on his social media as a very, very young woman. And I don't know if the transitions fully happened. I don't know if he plans on fully transitioning or they plan on fully transitioning. I don't know what you say. I don't either. But I'm pretty sure they still have the transition yet. They still have their genital tally.

Yeah. So, well, that's why you could still say it's a man who portrays himself as a woman. Yes. Yes. I think that's right. Somebody can probably correct me if I'm not being correct. But so, I mean, he's, he's famous. He's 10 million.

Today's standards, he's famous. 10 million followers on TikTok, 1.8 million on Instagram. He's met President Biden. He's on. all these talk shows, are they're on, we're going to say he, okay? Just to keep it simple, because we, we don't know. We don't know what the pronouns are. We don't know. So, it's he. Pretty much makes their living off of endorsements. Endorsements and being a, being a woman, quote unquote, for his, the brand. Like, that's, that's his identity.

He has made his social media following in his presence on social media about him being a woman. Yeah. Yeah, because he chronicled. Transitioning to a woman. And like I said, I don't know if he's transitioned or not or she's trans. I don't know. I don't know what's fully happening there. But it seems like I heard of that I read into that the switch has not been made downstairs.

Right. Yeah. So. Yeah. And Budweiser isn't his only. endorsement deal. No. He's got endorsement deal.

Nike, Nike came out and gave an endorsement deal. For sports bras. For sports bras and leggings. Yep. Yep. You can, you can. And, I mean, you all saw the aftermath of what happened with that. They gave him, sent him a custom can with their face on it.

And it was, it wasn't, this wasn't like that was going to be sold. across liquor stores here in America. They just sent it to them to, you know, recognize, congrats on one year of being a woman is what they sent to them. And they put it on social media. And that fucking exploded across all social media and people were pissed. Because I think, and we, the demographic of Bud Light specifically is, the young college kid, frat boys. It's cheap. I think it was the number one served beer in bars

across the United States. People seem to really like it. And, you know, I think most of them are hard, you know, hardworking blue collar in the South, in the Midwest, people that drink. Salesman. Yeah, salesman. If you go to a bar, if you're traveling and you go to a bar and you don't know what the local craft beers are, and you walk into a bar, the safe bet, the safe bet, you walk up the bar, give me a bud light. If they don't have bush light. Because you know they're going to have that. Well, if you're not in the Midwest, if you're in the Midwest, you order a bush light because you know they're going to have it. But if you're traveling around and you walk into a bar, if I drove to, if I drove to Florida tomorrow, walked into a bar, well, I wouldn't order that because I don't really

drink beer anymore. But if I was going to safe bet, order bud light. Yeah. And that's, that's their bread and butter. but that isn't enough because the sales are flatlining. So they decide to go a complete and utter different direction that most people, what is the statistic? Well, so I just looked this up. So the population of the United States, give or take right now, is 331 million citizens. The trans community accounts for about 0.00-48% of that population.

There's about in that number, it's fairly hard to come up with that number, but between 1.2 and 1.5 million people identify as trans. And those numbers are hard to say. It's kind of like, you know, how many people are Presbyterian. It's hard to know. But anyway, so if you're trying to widen the gap, your, your demographic, how's that work? I don't know. Apparently not very well. Now, we're early in this.

This just happened this week. Yeah, yeah. So we don't know how this is going to play out. I mean, well, it's playing out that people are boycotting Bud Light and Anheiser Bush all the way. I mean, some people are going to the extreme and they're not going to buy Mickelope. They're not going to buy Budweiser. They're not going to buy any of the brands under their portfolio. Right.

And then there's just people that are strictly going to boycott Bud Light. Yeah. Either way for them, it ain't good. It ain't good. And I'm going to just say this. And I don't love cancel culture altogether. I think cancel culture is a bad thing because one of the things that I don't like about canceling Anheiser Bush is all the, you know how many people they have employed.

They have a shitload of middle class Americans working for them that, you know, their family. The poor guy drive the beer truck. Yeah, is the one that's going to hurt the most on this deal. And because people aren't going to buy. Nobody's going to accept the Bud Lighter on the Hanheiser Bush products that are coming into the liquor store because they're like, we're not buying this shit anymore. And I mean, we've seen, I've seen videos of beer truck drivers. literally making TikTok videos saying, guys, like, this has affected me.

People do not want this. They're turning us away when we show up and say, we don't want this shit anymore. Yeah. And I just think it's so that's the bad side of it. But the same time, it actually shows you where most Americans heads are. It shows you where most people are thinking as far as this trans stuff and they're over it. and they are sick of it being shoved down their fucking throat. They just are.

I think most people... It's what you said earlier. Most people don't care. We don't care. I don't care what Dylan Movaney does. Yeah. That's more power to you. If you can get these companies,

give you endorsement deal, great. And if you want to be a fucking woman, be a woman. But when you start shoving... When you start making it your whole ass identity. identity that all you talk about is how you are trans it's it takes it just it's like you're shoving it down our our throats you're shoving it in our face like just be a person your sexuality your gender is not your identity it's just who you are so just be that whatever do your thing but just don't throw it in our face all the

time. And I think that's where most people are with this trans stuff. Just do you. Don't shove it in our faces. Yeah. The list of things that you have to get through with me before I tell you that I'm a heterosexual male. Exactly. You know, I'm a, I'm a father of two, husband, father of two, farmers, slightly husky podcast, uh, podcaster, um, you know, go down the line. And some of the Somewhere down the bottom. Oh, yeah, by the way. Number 100. I'm a man.

I'm a heterosexual male. Yeah. But in that community, that has been, it is just being drummed up constantly. And it's like there is this percent. Both sides of this are being played. Both sides of this are being played. The trans community, they're being shoveled this idea that the world is against you. Yep.

And that you are under attack and people hate you. And the truth, that is not the truth. The truth is people don't care. People do not care. Stop shoving it in our faces. Stop going and dancing in front of little children. Stop indoctrinating the shit in our school system. Stop letting boys transition to women and keep their dicks and go into the women's bathroom and fucking raping children in school.

Stop that. Other than that, we really don't care. But when you start having an effect on our kids specifically and shoving it in our face all the time, that's where we draw the line. And I'm not saying every trans person agrees with that, that crazy ass shit that's happening in the trans community. Because there are some transgender people that just want to be them. They feel that way. They want to be that person.

And they are. And good for them. And they just go on about their life. They don't make it their identity. It's like you said. It's on the way down to the bottom of their list. They're just living life. they have interests, it's not their...

It's not their identity. It's not their identity. Well, and here is a really interesting... This is on that subject, but off a little bit. I think you're going to see a breaking within the whole... What is that? The... The...

LBQ... LGBQ, etc. Plus... Because, okay, if you, if you're gay, if you're gay, the trans community is basically saying, that's like, that's not, that's not far enough. And there's this, like, if you're gay and you don't support the trans community, then, you know, you're a hypocrite within that community. And there are a lot of gay men out there that have zero interest in transitioning to be a woman or dressing up in drag or pretending to be a woman. But that gay community, if they aren't 100% on board with that, then they are ridiculed

just like anybody else. And I think what you're seeing starting, and not a lot of people have spoke out about it, but some, and I think you're going to see more, there are a lot of people within the gay community that do not want to be lumped in with this radical. I mean, it's no different than Democrats not wanting to be dumped in

with the far left Socialist, woke shit. You're seeing the exact same thing in this, with the trans community. There's a lot of gay people that they don't want anything to do with that. And that kind of is a clue that is a clue for the rest of you that you do not have to feel you do not have to feel like you're some

kind of a monster if you look at this shit that's going on and look at Riley Gaines she was the swimmer she was the swimmer that tied with the man that swam as a woman that is transitioning to a woman that they tied for the NCAA championship but the the man that was transitioned to to a woman, he got to stand on the podium and he got the trophy, even though they tied. And she got second place. Because the NCAA wants to be inclusive. Yeah. And now then she's speaking out about it and she was at California and I don't know what school it was, but she basically, she basically, they got her to a room. She was attacked coming down the hallway from her speech and they shoved her in a room with a couple, because there was only like two cops because the security

was terrible. And they basically held her there for, I don't know how long before the mob dissipated. But anyway, she has spoke out about this. And she's a very well spoken, very intelligent young woman. And she is just being, she is just being crucified for the opinion that biological males should not be allowed to compete in women's sports. That women's sport should be for women. Well, it's because it's taking away opportunities for women. Caitlin Jenner wins women of the year. Yeah.

We have men that haven't fully transitioned being able to compete in women's sports and taking opportunities away from American women. Yeah. That is a problem. That is, that is, that is taking other people's opportunities away because of what you're doing. Yeah. that is what people don't want.

When you are you and you take away opportunities from us because of a choice that you made, that's when people start to get really pissed off. Yeah. When most people see it as unfair and you made that choice and you get away with it, it's not good. It's not good. And it's not good for women. It's not good for women in general, period.

Yeah. For those two things, the sports thing specifically, it's not good. Yeah. They can make a class of their own. If there's so much transgenderism going on and that community grows, make your own fucking class then. Yeah. Make your own class in sports.

Have your own class then. If it's so, such a big topic, there's so many athletes out there, make it its own class. But don't take away for men or women. Well, you don't see it the other way around. No, you don't see it. Because it can't happen. No, right. And so, you know, I was going to say another thing, sorry to cut it.

you off but the other thing i wanted to say about you know we see these these these trans genders dancing in front of these kids with their parents in the yeah i don't know they're sitting in a circle and these these drag i don't know they dress up and they're very i mean they're very underdressed i would say if it was going to be like a it's just it's fucking weird if you look at the videos you go watch them you're going to look at it and you're going to go this is not right. This is not right. These kids should not be seeing this shit. And the thing about that is, it's never the other way around. It's always men transitioning to women that do this crazy, weird shit. It's never the women transitioning to men that are dressing up and dancing in front

of little fucking children. It's never the women transitioning to men that go in and rape a person in a bathroom at a school. it's never that it's the other way around and so i think there's a lot of there's a lot of weird shit going on there i think there's some pedophilia going on inside of that trans and that that's the i'm not saying all trans people are that way those are the bad eggs inside that community and it's what you said about gay people lesbians other trans people they look at this crazy shit and they're just getting looped up in it and they're going we don't support this shit yeah but everybody else from the outside, they want to like make it one community.

Well, and so that's why people in that community are getting pissed because we're like, they're like, that is like, that's just like when BLM came around and we're all talking about cops. There's good cops and there's bad cops. There's good people in a community and there's bad people in a community. We shouldn't lump everybody in. There's good Democrats. There's bad Democrats. There's good Republicans. There's bad Republicans. Same deal. There's good people. There's good people and there's bad people with bad intentions. And I think that, I don't know, I think that the shit with the kids and the shit happening at the schools and the, the pushing this shit into our school system is, that's what people are pissed about. And the women's sports, people are pissed about that.

And just having it in our face all the time when it's 0.000,000,000,000, 48% of the population here in the United States. that's not where we're at as a country. Yeah. Bringing that back to the Budweiser deal, a point that I'd like to make is, and we don't know this, but a lot of people,

I have heard the comment made that there's a fairly good chance that really Budweiser was kind of pushed this way. Because part of the problem that you see in corporate America, is ESG scores. So part of this idea that they needed to be more inclusive could very easily come from the fact that as part of that ESG,

which is your social score, to get that social score up, you need to be more inclusive. And that's where programs like this and endorsements like this that show that you're pro trans, pro this, pro this, pro this. that's being pushed at the corporate level. And don't know what that had to do with Alyssa making her decision to go this way with this ad campaign. But to tie this up, the last thing I want to tell you is, she gave an interview before this all broke, that she wanted to clean up change Bud Light's perception as being a frat boy drink.

and to widen their reach. And she talked about how she wanted to do that and that she wanted to get rid of this party, party boy, frat boy, college deal. And then this is why it's good to be a kid of the 80s. Somebody went digging, and they found a bunch of pictures of her partying when she was in college with a bunch of frat boys

doing exactly what she said. She wanted to clean up. The only thing I thought it was really funny about it was she was drinking Rolling Rock. But anyway, it's like, oh yeah, those pictures will bite you in the ass. And I'm like, I tell people, the beautiful thing about growing up in the 80s is now I'm old enough that none of my friends and I, when we get together, we're past the glory days of reminiscing. Now when we reminisce, only about half of us can agree that the memories are correct. Like we can't quite remember how that worked.

We knew we were there. We, gosh, did he say that? Did he put that on his head? I don't know. What car were we in when that happened? And there's no pictures. So that's really convenient. And your generation doesn't have that because everything, there is a picture or a video

of everything. That's right. So anyway, long story short. I got two more things I just wanted to say about it. I think the basic thing when it comes to people, having a good time and cracking a beer open, they don't want to think about fucking politics. Most of the time.

100%. Most people want to go to a bar and they want to escape the bullshit that's happening in the world. So when you go on a campaign this far, this radical, yep. People are, you're going to lose support because people want to escape from everything that's happening in the media and being shoved down our throats. They don't want to get away from that. They don't want to think about that shit.

And so when you put that at the forefront of your, brand and your beer, people ain't going to support it, though. It's good. If you're a beer brand, if you're a, if you're a beer brand, I wouldn't, I wouldn't get into politics too much. Yeah. Because beer is something that can be shared between somebody on the left side of the aisle, somebody on the right side of the aisle. And nobody has to know where the company stands. You just could be, you could be neutral and it ain't going to matter. Your sales are going to be good or they're going to be okay. And the last thing I want to say is This is an example of what real cancel culture looks like because the market will dictate.

The market, what happened to the market, it got dictated by this actual cancel culture. When other cancel culture happens, the market always doesn't, it doesn't always dictate that outcome. Yeah. You know, I feel like this is real class America going, fuck this. We are not drinking this shit. Yeah. And then you saw the market do what it did. versus another example where Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan, exactly. It had the opposite effect. That was an attempted, that was attempted by elites to create a cancel culture against Joe Rogan. It totally backfired. And it actually grew his following. It actually blew up. Blue up versus this. I feel like this is actually what cancel culture looks like because the market dictated that.

Yeah, and I, to speak to that, so Joe. Rogan actually commented on this, and I think I can agree with him on this. He picked up and drank Bud Light on his podcast, and his point was basically, I don't give a shit what you do. Like, I don't care what you do, and people are blowing this out of proportion. And I agree with him in the fact that, and you said this, I'm not a fan of cancel culture. I just feel like Bud Wiser, you are 100% correct. I mean, beer is a recreational drug. That isn't how they market it,

but it's no different than anything else that people do to escape. It's a recreational drug. It's alcohol. And people use that as an escape, rightly or wrongly, from their day-to-day lives. And for them as a company

to inject politics into that, it's just wrong. That's the... It's a poor business decision. I mean, it was a fucking terrible business decision. and you know what if you want to drink Bud Light, go ahead. I don't know if I'm going to drink it.

I never really liked Bud Light to start with. I don't drink it. But am I going to continue to probably drink a little bush light from time of time? Probably. A little bit of ultra-action? Probably. Yeah.

Because... It didn't get to save the ship anyway. No. I mean, companies under downward spiral. This did not help it. Like we talked about before we got into this topic. It's been trickling down. Yeah.

Because I just think all the things that we talked about, People aren't drinking. They want to drink other shit. Craft beers are coming around. It's just not looking good for legacy beer companies. That was hot. Steaming. Yeah.

So, I mean, there are a lot of things that we drug into that. And some of those same things kind of go on our next topic because we're a little late on this one. We are a little late, but I feel like it deserves to be talked about. Hey, real quick, we got to take a little break. because I got to tell you something real important. If you guys aren't watching or this will do Farm YouTube channel, you're missing out.

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So there was actually two shootings. There was a shooting at a Christian school in Nashville, and then there was a shooting at a, at a bank in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I think. And killed six people.

Yeah, six people. Six at the bank shooting three at the school. Three kids at the school. Yeah. And, you know, it's brought the gun debate back. And if you were to listen to the media,

you would be convinced that guns, guns corrupt good people and turn them into... The monsters... Monster killing machines. That's... I mean, that's basically the premise. The premise is that... One side of the media, if you listen to one side.

The premise is that if you didn't have guns, people would not have thoughts of killing people massively. People would not have thoughts of going into a church or a school or a workplace or a bank and killing a bunch of people

if we did not have guns. Now, we're going to start by saying AR-15s because that's the gun of choice. That is the assault weapon, even though most people on the left couldn't tell you can't define that. They can't define it.

They don't know what the hell it is. They've never. seen one or if they have they don't know anything about how it works but doesn't matter uh start with that but really if you're going to go down that rabbit hole it's and i and that's why i mean this this argument people that are somewhat indifferent you know that maybe don't own a gun but don't have a problem with people owning guns they'll make the the argument that you know well we should just make it just some common sense gun laws and maybe you shouldn't be able to have an assault rifle Well, the problem with that, and I think a lot of people probably could agree on some common sense things to make it more difficult for people that might have mental issues, might have shit going on as far as being able to buy a gun.

I agree with that. I mean, if you're mentally unstable, I don't think you should be able to buy a weapon. Yep. That's true. I mean, here's the problem. The NRA and the gun. rights people know this because we've seen it. It is how government works. If you give, and I think we can speak to this because in the livestock business as far as regulation goes, or in farming in general, as far as regulation goes, if you give an inch, then you'll give the next time and you'll give the next time and you give the next time and before long you have given away everything and the NRA has made the decision that we are not backing down on absolutely anything because they feel like if you give on anything you are going to get completely steamroll the next thing you

know we're going to be Australia and they're going to be rounding up everybody and taking all the guns. So you have this, you have the far left that doesn't think that anybody should have a gun and that the world would be safe if we did not have guns. And then you have the hardcore right that thinks that anybody should be able to walk into a store and pick up a gun. And if everybody had a gun, the world would be safe. The other side of that, not really the other side of it, but kind of in the background are the people that are pulling the strings on this. And don't kid yourself. There are a hell of a lot of people in government and elites within media and within corporations that know, and I believe this, 100% to my soul.

that part of the reason that the United States of America has remained as free as we are, and we're getting less free by the day, but as free as we are, is because we are the most well-armed citizenry of any country around the world. And anybody within the political machine knows, if you push hard enough, at taking personal rights, something bad could very well happen. And there's a point, there's a line that you don't cross because if you do, Civil War in this country looks a lot different

than it does in a lot of places because you have such a well-armed citizenry. And if you want to take us to the New World Order and you want to take us to where you will own, nothing and you'll be happy and you want to take us to socialism. Complete socialism. Communism. The only way you get there is if you disarm this country. Yep. So that is where the battle lays out. But this, there's so many facts of this and we touched on this a little bit.

A couple of key, I think it's important. I think it's important because it has happened and it's important because it wasn't reported. But the shooter at the Christian school was transgendered. She was a woman transitioning to a man. I believe so. She had, she left a manifesto, left a note as to why she was doing it. That has not been released. Most people believe the reason that hasn't been released is because she wanted to kill Christians. So that would make this crime a hate crime.

A hate crime. A hate crime against Christians. And it's not going to be investigated that way. It is not being investigated that way. It's not being covered that way because it's not the narrative they want to put out. The narrative that they've been putting out is it's a, don't, now don't use this situation to go out and have any more hate against trans people.

That's what this message has come out of the school shooting. no no honoring the police officers that went in there and sweep that school like clockwork and took out the target no honoring those police officers did a phenomenal job no no um mentioning that this could have potentially been a hate crime against christians they don't want to put that out there they just want to say you know what we don't use this situation as a um fire to have trans hate to go hate trans people And I believe this woman, transition to a man, the shooter, has been fed,

this sack of lies that they're the most hated class in society. Like we talked about in the last topic, most people do not give a solitary fuck what you do as long as you keep our kids out of it and you don't shove it in our face every second of the day. Well, just be a good person.

Just be a good person. don't make who you are, what your gender is, your whole and entire identity. Simple as that. But the media is telling trans people that they are the most hated class of society. So then you have this person, and I don't know what makes a shooter a shooter.

There could have been some other factors that happened in her childhood and her life. Who knows? But what I can gather, looking from the outside looking in, it seems like she and from the pictures that I've seen from social media she had trans shirts that had eight like

if you're not with trans rights it had machine guns on it like she was like if you're not with trans you're going to die kind of deal and it just seems like she thought that they were the most hated class society and that's what made her

pushed her over the edge and kill these kids which is unfortunate and I just want to say I Dad and I both don't, obviously we don't like seeing kids get shot up in schools here in America. It is a fucking problem that we need to address. But this whole idea that we're going to just take guns away all the way, we're going to take guns all out of America and give the U.S. government the power to dictate what our future is when the last three to four years,

they have completely flipped our world upside down and manipulated us to believing that this disease that came out, this pandemic, was like the next, it was like Ebola. It was like the plague when it first came out. And they were telling us that. And if we were,

if we did not have guns here in this country, we would have ended up just like China, just like Australia, where they were rounding up unvaccinated or, positive tested people and putting them in fucking camps, isolating them from the rest of the citizens. That was happening in Australia.

That was happening in China. That was happening in other countries. But they knew they could not do that here because people would react and say, you're not taking me anywhere. You're not taking me anywhere. So I believe there's a solution in the middle somewhere. I believe that

I believe that we could have some stricter guidelines. Like I said, if you're unstable as a human being mentally, you shouldn't be able to go and buy a freaking gun. Done. And there could be some other things. And I get where NRA's coming from. You don't want to give an inch. I understand that. But you could give a little bit on that, probably. Do I think that we should take all guns away? No. Because then you give the government all the power to dictate what we do, what our future is. And over the lack, the track record that they have showed us over the years has told me

and told most people, I believe, you cannot trust the U.S. government. You cannot trust traditional media. You cannot trust what they have been telling us for a long time. What their actions have proved, I don't trust shit that comes out of their mouth. I do my own research. I look into things. and I think more and more people are getting to that point because the track record's not good. And so you can't give them that power. So I believe, like I heard a, I heard a, I heard a great point. You know, we have all these veterans that come back and they don't have any purpose. And the suicide rate of veterans is one of the highest group of people that, you know, commit suicide. Because they don't have purpose. And, you know, some of the, you know, some of the people. And, you know, some of the people. And, you know, some of them have mental problems. They have PTSD and those people we shouldn't probably put in schools

to protect kids, right? Give them a gun. I'm saying the veterans that are stable mentally, that have no purpose and want to serve, have a purpose again coming out of the military, they're trained. They know how to use a firearm correctly. They've had plenty of training. Why isn't there a program out there to give these veterans that are stable, opportunity to protect the kids in these schools in America. I mean, that's something that I heard that I thought could solve two problems. You could give a class of society that has a hard time transitioning back to citizen living as a citizen and because they just don't have that purpose anymore. And give them a purpose and solve a problem because that they know how to use weapons

better than most Americans here in this country. And I just think that would be a really good middle solution because you'd solve two problems with one. I agree. The other thing,

a point I would like to make and this is something I've said this before and this is equally not presented well by either side of the political aisle. And that is

the mental health crisis that we have in this country. So there is not nearly the facilities or the funding that is needed to take care of the mental health problems that we have in this country. There are so many people, and part of this is the homeless population, but some of that is not from mental health, but part of it definitely is. and if you are willing to if you're willing to go take multiple people's lives that you obviously haven't done anything to you other than something perceived

you're not in a good spot specifically children I mean if you're going to go take children's lives something's something's off right and the Republicans and the Democrats have done a piss port job, even talking about this, let alone trying to formulate a way to pay for it. And today, if you have a person that is either trying to hurt themselves or trying to hurt others that is arrested and is deemed to be mentally unstable, if that person is sent to a, for a mental evaluation, one, chances are there aren't enough doctors.

They're probably backlogged to where that person, who knows how long it takes for them to get in. How well of a job that they do once they do get in, because if that doctor's getting back to, I mean, well, there's no beds available. Most of these institutions, there's no beds available, there's no money available to treat them. So most of the time, they're just turned around

and released back out in society. And it's just a revolving door. nothing gets done. And that is, that is part, that's not, that's not all, the end all be all, but that is a huge problem in our country. It needs to be addressed. It is not being addressed. And Republicans are every bit as guilty of it as Democrats and the fact that nobody wants to spend the money on it. And then on the, on the progressive side of it, there's this whole idea that, you know, because we don't want to label anybody anything, there's almost a backlash that if you have mental health problems, if you call that out, then you're being, you're being

discriminated against, you're being victimized, and so they don't want to talk about it. And it's, it definitely plays into this conversation about gun violence. It should definitely, we need to do a better job of evaluating people. And if those people have problems, they shouldn't be able to get a gun. It's a tough subject. It's a tough subject because it's emotional subject.

Lives are at stake. We don't like kids getting killed here in America. Whether you're on the left, whether you're on the right, whether you're in the middle. Nobody likes seeing American kids get killed for any reason. Just period. Nobody likes seeing school shootings. It's it's not something that we like to see. But I feel like it's one of those subjects that we've talked many times on this show.

Abortion, the illegal immigration, gun laws. It's something that they run on, but they don't fix. How many times we've been talking about this? I mean, overall, I think that, like you said, I think the world economic form would love nothing more than to take our guns because they know that that's the quickest way to get the solution that they want to own everything, to control everything, to control us, and we own nothing.

It would. It'd be the easiest way. The other thing that I wanted to just say before we move on to the next topic, I know these have run kind of long guys, but these are some, I think these are important to talk about. We talked about this off air, I think it was a couple,

a couple weeks ago when this first happened. But, I mean, you play out the scenario if the government said, we're coming for your guns, right? how many people would bury every motherfucking gun that they own, how many of them would hide them, how many of them would try to scrape the numbers off, or how many would get guns built with no numbers on them, right?

How many people would scramble to have no trace of a firearm? Like they don't know where it is. Oh, we lost it. I don't know. I haven't seen that years. How many people do you think would actually hand over their guns? Not very many. Not very many.

And saying that taking away all guns is the solution, you've lost your mind because people, murder is illegal. Murdering people is illegal, but murder still happens. Having a gun in Chicago, Illinois, or the state of Illinois, is very difficult, but Chicago is almost impossible. Yet it's one of the highest states in gun violence in the entire world. Yeah.

I mean, even when you cross the border to go in Illinois, isn't it what's the have to have if you if you have a gun in your car it has to be in a case and in the trunk cannot be in the in the cabin of the vehicle yeah i mean it's true the gun violence hasn't stopped even though chicago has the highest regulation on firearms the selling of illegal firearms do you think that if guns get outlawed and banned do you think the selling of illegal firearms market's going to go up or down it's going to go fucking way up and it's already up it's happening a legal firearm selling of illegal firearms happens all the time everywhere in major cities i mean you think that somebody with a bad track record track record and a felon gets out of

prison and gets back on the streets he's going to go walk into the gun shop and buy a gun or is he going to buy it out of a trunk out of a car right i mean what do you think happens it's a the whole gun idea is a scapegoat of a larger problem I mean, it is. And what's really sad, to me, what's really sad is any time that there is a shooting of any kind, half of the country...

Go see the extreme. No, half of this country is like, God, I hope that was a fucking white... I hope that was a white Christian Republican that shot that up. Yeah. And half of that country, half of the include is like,

God, I hope it was some... I hope it was a gangbanger. I hope it was somebody that was that was not well I hope it wasn't a Republican I hope it wasn't a conservative because that's what they want and that goes the point you and I talked to earlier

about this country is kind of we're at a point now where it's a powder keg and I feel like well you tell them about being pushed what the push is wanting a reaction oh yeah I mean

I thought I saw I said the only way I think strategically that they would really start revving up the taking away of our guns and our rights is if, like this trans example, this trans woman, this trans person goes in and shoots up a school.

All this shit is happening where young girls get raped to the bathroom because a guy transitioned to a woman. Didn't really, but he did, and raped a girl in the bathroom. Or athletics and sports. there's going to be a lot of pissed off people. There is a lot of pissed off people because of this shit happening,

dancing in front of little kids and indoctrinating them in the school system. There's going to be a lot of pissed off dads, specifically, and moms. But what would be the quickest way to take away our guns? I believe it would cause enough division in this country between groups and somebody does actually do a hate crime. against a specific group. Like if a kid's, a little girl's gets molested in a bathroom by a trans boy

or trans woman that, a boy that transitioned to a woman went in there and did that. What do you think that dad's reaction is going to be of that little girl? He's going to want to kill that motherfucker. I mean, truthly, he would. Because, I mean, I have never experienced anything like that, never had any family members that had anything, thank God. but I'm sure that that feeling, you want to kill that guy.

You want to kill that person. And so I think they want to push us to a point where we do act on violence against a specific group and then blow that shit, blow that shit up as fast as they can, put it on every headline, every major news network, and show this is the problem. This is why we have to take guns away. This is, they're having hate against trans people or hate against black people or hate against Asian people, vice versa. they want to take two groups

something happens they want to rise up the division something happens and then blow it up and say this is why we have to take guns away yeah it's just pulling strings I feel like that everything you know we talk about how

it's the bait and switch we use social issues our political classes use social issues to keep everybody Meanwhile, your liberties are being taken away from you over here, and you don't hear anything about it because we're too busy bickering about stuff like this. But all it will take is for a situation to happen where it truly is a hate crime coming from the right, coming from the gun, the people that are for guns.

and they will blow that up and they will do everything they can to get enough political traction to swing that vote to take those guns away. And once that happens, all of this social will all go away because then there's nothing holding back the legislative power grab of all your rights. And that's crazy. And I wanted to make a tinfoil hat. I was going to have my tinfoil hat to do.

But I don't think that there's anything about that. I think you'd be fucking stupid not to think that way. I can't even fathom. If you do not think that that is the plan, if you do not think that that's what they would do if they took our gun rights away, I just, I don't know if we can have a conversation

because literally look at the track record. Look what they've tried to do. Look what they've done in other countries. Look what's happened. Look at history. Look around. Yeah. Do your own research.

open your eyes. Open your eyes. I read something today and this totally, it spoke to me this morning. A guy, a historian was talking about this phrase is called Bread and Circus. And what it is, towards the end of the Roman Empire, the citizens of Rome realized how crooked the political class was within the country and Rome was in decline and people were being around people were being persecuted anybody that spoke out against the bribery and the just the poor quality of the politicians and just how bad everything was getting and so that was the time that the Coliseum was built and the games were started and the gladiators and all the stuff that went on there and if you went they had free bread free food free bread and the citizens poured into the

Coliseum and it kept the people occupied as Rome just kept declining and eventually it fell that is exactly what we have in this country. We have these social programs that we're printing money to give it away, to buy people off, to incentivize the kind of behavior that they want, and they pit us against each other. We're fighting over guns. We're fighting over the border. We're fighting over abortion. Abortion. We're fighting over genders and perceived hatred between groups. meanwhile your your rights your freedoms the future of your society

is being pissed away because they're throwing bills around while they have all this shit and headlines which I hope is dead I think it is I think I saw it was dead so good but till the next I mean they're not going to stop but as a as a society

we have got to learn to not take the bait. Look around. You have got to learn that these are not, I'm not saying they're not problems, but these social issues are not the most important thing going on in our society day. They're just the most highlighted. They are the most highlighted,

and you've got to ask yourself, why are these the most highlighted? Well, it's because they do not want the eyes over here, because they don't want to have happen what's happening in France right now. And that brings us to, there's a ban the TikTok issue. Yep. Because the only place that I've seen anything about the riots, and I mean huge riots in France,

the only place I've seen that's TikTok. Yeah. Nowhere else. So this is our last topic, guys. Montana is looking like they might ban TikTok altogether. Hey, this is a pretty good podcast, isn't it? If you made it this far, you must think it's pretty good. I got a favor to ask you.

Please, if you like the show, leave us a review on Spotify or Apple. Now, let's get back to it. Montana has become the first state to approve a bill that would ban TikTok over the possibility that the Chinese government could request America's data from the wildly popular video streaming app. The GOP-controlled Montana House of Representatives sent the bill on Friday to Republican government. Governor Greg Giafonte, who can now sign the measure into law. The bill makes it illegal to download TikTok in the state with penalties up to $10,000 a day for any entity such as Apple and Google's app stores or TikTok itself that makes the popular

video stream app available. If enacted, the ban in the state would not start until January of 2024. Brock Oberwetter, Brooke Oberwetter, sorry, a TikTok spoke person said that the bill's backers have admitted that there is no feasible plan for putting the TikTok ban in place since blocking downloads of apps in any one individual state would be almost impossible to enforce. Oberwetter said the bill represents a censorship of Montana's voices. My opinion on that, we've already really kind of talked about the TikTok ban in full when the whole, it was getting battled out on the courts. Who do you think be most happy about that? I think the elitists and the government and politicians and big corporations that...

Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg would be pumped. But I'm saying this whole idea that TikTok is going to go away because of the Chinese government's taking our data. Mark Zuckerberg has been selling your fucking data to the Chinese government or China for long, long, long time, longer period than TikTok's ever been even alive as an app. He's been selling your data to China. that's not even a question. Google has been doing the same thing. YouTube, Google, they're selling your data.

They're selling it. They're making money on it. Why wouldn't they sell it? Highest bidder, baby. The largest gatherer of personal information within the United States is not any of those companies. It is the United States government.

Yeah. So this whole idea, they want to tell you it's about that. It's not about that. What it's really about, I believe, I believe what it's really about is exactly what Dad was saying. they see TikTok. It is like the Wild Wild West Twitter.

When COVID was going on and you saw literally Australian people getting rounded up and put in camps, that was on TikTok. That was literally happening and it was being put on TikTok. When that was happening in China, they were getting rounded up of being put in camps. They were building these huge massive pod complexes and putting Chinese people in camps because they, and the whole green, yellow, red status, that was all on TikTok. The debate between the amount of people that are waking up and talking about conspiracy theories, quote-unquote,

and talking about the world economic form, and talking about elitist, and talking about Nancy Pelosi's trading history. I mean, you name it, all that shit can be put on TikTok and it's not getting taken down. What's going on in France right now? What's going on in France right now, with all the, with all the protesting, the whole farming,

the Netherlands, all these farmers protestant. I can only see that on TikTok. I've only seen it on TikTok. They want to take away TikTok because it's the place where us as Americans, we are waking up. This is where we're seeing what shit is happening. And we're hearing all these different opinions. And we're going, you know what?

That does seem fishy. That is weird. That is messed up. it's not it's not they don't give a shit about your data and they sure as hell don't give a shit if tictock's making you dumber they would love nothing more than the ticot to make you dumber well my they're they're gonna make the argument that those videos that footage that those accounts are creating division within this country they're not but what they don't want to talk about And this is, I haven't heard any politician talk about this.

What they really don't like is to admit that you and I can actually think for ourselves that we are intelligent and we can look at something and go, that's kind of bullshit. Or look at that and go, I need, I need to find out more about that because I think that, I think that guy's telling the truth. Government thinks that the ordinary people, they think that you're all stupid. They think that I'm stupid.

They think that we can't look at a story problem and deduct from it whether or not there's good information in there or whether we're being lied to. And they don't care if you, they don't care if you partake of whatever on any of these other platforms, that are controlled by corporations within the United States,

but they're not giving you that kind of footage anyway. They're not giving you those kind of stories anyway. They just don't want you making your own decisions and come into your own conclusion. They don't want you to be a free thinker. That is it. I mean, the older I get, the more I am just so suspect of government and media.

and it's kind of a new, I mean, it's kind of a new thing though. I mean, you had, you had your old, you had television and all that and radio. And I don't feel like back then it was probably as jaded as it is now. I mean, people would agree to that. But now this new wave, it's everywhere, it's all over. Yeah, you're going to have some corruption. You're going to have people paying people to get out their message of what they want to say. They're going to pay journalists.

They're going to pay news networks. follow the money. We've said it a million times. Follow the money. Is your information getting skewed or is it not? And if it's getting skewed, look into that story or topic or issue deeper. Look into it deeper.

Yeah, guys. I mean, that's my two cents on the TikTok ban. I think it's bullshit. I think I would love if TikTok stayed a platform. Our data is already being sold to China, no matter what platform you're on, it is. And to say that TikTok is the end-all be-all and they're like, because they're Chinese company, right? When they have, they have a U.S.-based division here in America for TikTok.

It's not like it's the headquarters for the American TikTok media is in China. It's here in America. And the thing I find curious is, so if somebody really wanted to work on a bill to reform TikTok, you could legislate that the servers, the servers are in America and the information stays in America. You could legislate that the Chinese need to divest of TikTok here in America and it needs to be created. An American controlled holding company needs to take it over.

You can do that. It's not the easiest thing in the world, but it could be done. No talk of that. No talk of that because the end, justifies the means. Use the TikTok, the hatred towards TikTok, build the idea that they're selling your secrets to the Chinese, and only them. They're the evil Chinese government coming into your home, not all these other guys that are taking all your data and selling it to the highest bidder, or the United States government who takes more data than anybody, and then use that to take away

more of your rights. But in reality, they don't give a shit about what they're doing. They just want to use as an opportunity to take more of your rights. That's the just thing. And it almost makes me feel like,

you know, it makes me feel like TikTok's probably a good thing when they're starting to do that. When they're starting to say that TikTok's enemy number one, when you know that other companies are selling your data, it just doesn't make sense, guys. doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up. It just doesn't. So, and I'll, the last thing I'll say about

this point is, I don't know how they're going to ban TikTok from state to state. It's like that TikTok spokesperson said, Brooke Oberwetter, Oberwetter, she said, you know, I think that was how are you going to, how are you going to ban an app on the app store in a specific state? I don't know if that's ever been done. I don't know if it even can be done. So we'll see where it goes. And it's, I think they have 10 days to approve this bill, sign it, before it fully goes in. Or it expires. So they got 10 days. So we'll see what happens.

But people are saying it's looking like it's going to get banned in Montana. Will it actually happen? I don't know. Can it even happen? Can they even do that? I don't know. But we'll see. So are you on fire right now?

Yeah. I'm feeling I'm kind of hot under the collar. I'm going to finish up. I'm going to give you kind of a... I put it under the golden nugget of info, but this is kind of a big chunk. But I want you all to think about this through this summer and watch what happens in the biggest cities around America.

Because the problems that have been... the can that just kept getting kicked and kicked and kicked, those are starting to roll up and creating real problems, and you're going to see things happen in some of these larger cities through this year that are going to, I think it's going to scare the bejesus out of a lot of people. And I'll start with Chicago. I did not realize, but do you know that in Chicago,

80% of the taxes, of property taxes that are taken in, go to fund the pensions. And they're only funding them at 25%. So in other words, these pensions are basically on life support, and the tax base is almost to the breaking point to where 80% of the money you bring in are just going for pensions, not for, not for roads, not for bridges, not for, to pay the current cops, not for any of that stuff. It's just going to pay pension obligations. And a lot of people are really happy when Lori Lightfoot did not win reelection. However, the guy that did get in, he probably will be worse on crime than what she was, and he's bought and paid for 100% by the union.

so he's not going to fix anything if he does anything he's going to probably find a way to take more money from Chicago to go into these pensions and Chicago is going to go bankrupt Chicago is going to go the way that Detroit went and anybody that can get out is getting out Walmart is getting out of Chicago they said that they've never no Walmart store in Chicago has ever ever no Walmart store in Chicago has been profitable since they built the first one. And the level of theft, the amount of money they're losing. Crime. And crime. Citizens don't want to shop there. Nope. Because they're afraid they're going to get killed or robbed or beat the shit out of. They're moving out. And guess where I've seen most of that footage? TikTok. TikTok. Yeah, 100%. In San Francisco, and I want to say this was three years ago,

the vacancy rate in commercial real estate was about 3.4%. Today, it's somewhere between 20 and 25%. I can't remember the exact number. And it's getting worse all the time. Whole Foods opened a flagship store, they called it, in San Francisco two years ago. They're closing it. And the reason they gave is because they could no longer guarantee the safety of their employees. and the level of theft was unbearable. You're seeing the same thing in Portland. Walmart's closing their stores there. A cracker barrel. Cracker barrel left Portland. Same reason. Safety to their employees.

Target, the CEO Target said, and I don't know, I'm not going to give you hard numbers, but the level of theft loss nationwide through their system is the high. it's ever been and they're contemplating how they're going to manage that in these larger cities. I saw a story that Home Depot is shutting some stores in large cities and COVID proved to a lot of these corporations that they could have workers work remotely and workers do not want to commute

into the inner city. They do not want to go into these cities. They want to live. They want to live out in a suburb, they do not want to go into the city. And so you're seeing everybody that can afford to get out, get out, whether that's San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, Baltimore, you name it, Los Angeles, St. Louis. I mean, it's happening everywhere. And as that happens, the tax base collapse. And as that happens, public service get worse. And let's face it, You got to have good people live in these cities to run for public office. And the only people that are running are people that are being controlled by the unions and by special interests. They're not making decisions for the betterment of the communities.

And so it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. And so just watch. And if you live in one of these cities, just be aware that, you, you're going to have some hard decisions to make, I think. Um, because it's not getting better. And I, I think the good Lord every day that we where we live where we live, uh, we have the same problems here that, that people have other places. We just don't have them to the degree yet. And hopefully we can ever have that. Hopefully we can keep enough good people within government in our state and our cities to keep that. But it's all of this money printing,

all of these social experiments, all of the free money, somebody's got to pay that back. It's all coming home to roost, and it's starting with these big cities. And so if you want to know what can happen with your federal government, watch these big cities. So that's my nugget. So that's my nugget. There's nothing gold about it. They sold that off a long time ago. It's kind of a shit nugget. Those are kind of the nuggets. It's kind of a crap nugget. Those are kind of the Michelle Obama chicken nuggets you'd get on the lunch tray when you had to go through the lunch line. Those are those kind of nuggets. You're still better about that. You grew up during the Michelle Obama.

School lunch sucked. School lunch sucked when Obama came into office because Michelle went in there and said, we're going to make school lunch healthier. And then you get mascot bread thrown on your on your tray and sweet potato fries and chicken nuggets three chicken nuggets. Yep. Terrible. Anyway, guys, that's going to wrap up hot topics. Those were some pretty, pretty steamy topics today, I will have to say, but I think they were good.

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