1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: The Mark Belling Podcast is presented by you Line for 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: quality shipping and industrial supplies. You Line has everything in stock. 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:12,079 Speaker 1: Visit you line dot com. The Mark Belling Podcast is 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio Podcasts. 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: For those of you who listen to twenty seven podcasts 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: and Verrow and are listening to this in the middle 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: of twenty twenty eight, who won't care about this, But 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 2: for those of you who listen immediately, we're releasing this 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 2: podcast on Christmas Eve. We're tweaking our schedule for this 10 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 2: week because of Christmas a little bit, but this is 11 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 2: the Christmas Eve Christmas Day podcast of the program. And 12 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 2: in the next segment, not the first segment, some thoughts 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 2: about Christmas, the way we view Christmas, and so on. 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 2: But I wanted to take the opportunity today to cover 15 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 2: three other stories that I think I can do entire 16 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 2: podcasts on all of them. They're all really interesting, but 17 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 2: we're going to cover them on this special podcast running 18 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: in the middle of Christmas, kind of on themselves and 19 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: maybe set the table for talking about them in a 20 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 2: future moment, in a future time. The first one, I'm 21 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 2: going to tease it for just a second before I 22 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 2: share my Uline information with you other than the super Bowl? 23 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 2: What's the one thing on television that's some certainly not 24 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 2: as many as the super Bowl. Nothing matches the super Bowl. 25 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 2: Simply refuse to miss. It's not as many, but there's 26 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 2: a segment and it's huge that Just refuse to hold 27 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 2: that thought as I share some information with you. Have 28 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 2: you ever been offered an ad on option for premium 29 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 2: or white gloves service? You Line provides only one type 30 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 2: of service, the best. From knowledgeable customer service available twenty 31 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: four to seven three sixty five to keeping every product 32 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: in stock ready to ship the same day. When your 33 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 2: business needs quality shipping supplies, reliable warehouse equipment or office 34 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: furniture fast, contact you Line and get the best service 35 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 2: because you Line believes service is essential, not an option. 36 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna tell a story from when I 37 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: was a kid, which is just perfect fru mean, you 38 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 2: remember all your Christmases when you were a kid, don't you. 39 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: I mean, But then, because you have kids of your own, 40 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 2: maybe some of the ones in between stick up. But 41 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 2: my guess is nineteen ninety nine in two thousand and 42 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 2: two thousand and one blend together as the same one 43 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 2: and you can't break anything. On the other hand, I 44 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 2: could remember, like the Chris, I remember my grade, the 45 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 2: fourth grade year, of the fifth grade year, of the 46 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 2: sixth grade year. I had a grandm well, I had 47 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 2: two grandmothers. The one grandmother in particular, I'm just telling 48 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 2: you she lived for one night of the year. That 49 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 2: was the night of the Oscars. I'm I think it's 50 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 2: not the same now. But for a whole lot of people, 51 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 2: the Academy Awards, the Oscars are still must watch television, 52 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 2: not to the level of the Super Bowl, which gets 53 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 2: well over one hundred million Americans watching it every year. 54 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 2: I don't know what the number is, but it just dwarfs. 55 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 2: But for the Academy Awards, for the people that are 56 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 2: into that stuff, and I'm not one of them, I 57 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: don't watch any Awards show. They've driven me away. I 58 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 2: don't need to watch programs in which I'm insulted and 59 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: attacked the entire I just don't need to do it. Plus, 60 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 2: I never know anybody who's winning any of the awards 61 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 2: and any of that stuff. But for some people, the 62 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 2: Oscars must watch television, which is why I think this 63 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 2: development is really interesting. Every now and then, There'll be 64 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 2: a story that comes down the pike that I think 65 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 2: is an indication of our world changing. It isn't immediate, 66 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: but starting in twenty twenty nine, that's still a long 67 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: way away, isn't it. Yeah, except when it gets there, 68 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 2: it's not going to seem like it wasn't long ago. 69 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 2: In starting in twenty twenty nine, the Oscars will only 70 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: be on YouTube. YouTube has won the right to carry 71 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 2: the Academy Awards. They They say that they plan to 72 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: show it on all of their platforms that would be 73 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 2: available on YouTube tv, which is their streaming service that 74 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 2: offers numerous channels, and on YouTube which is their own 75 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 2: specific individual channel. The Askies have been on ABC, I 76 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 2: think forever and ever and ever, and they're going to streaming. 77 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 2: I think that this is an indication that eventually everything 78 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 2: is going to go to streaming. If you ask me 79 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: if there's going to be a holdout, the only one 80 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 2: I can think of would be the super Bowl. There 81 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 2: are still a fair number of people that don't have 82 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 2: streaming and are unable to pay for tele levision services. 83 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: The super Bowl is still on over the air television, 84 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 2: and there may be a political revolt if some people 85 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: can't watch the Super Bowl without paying for a service. 86 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 2: But I'm not even convinced of that. I think eventually 87 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 2: regular broadcast TV is going to be dead. I think 88 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: that the cable and satellite companies are probably going to 89 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 2: go out of business and everything is going to be streaming, 90 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: and the challenge will be with all the different streaming 91 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: services out there. Well, what if you have Netflix but 92 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: not YouTube? And again, YouTube did say that they're planning 93 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 2: to put this on their regular YouTube channel, so anybody 94 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 2: with an Internet account will be able to watch it. 95 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 2: Now if they put it on YouTube TV, which is 96 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 2: a special pacer. Do you have YouTube TV? How much 97 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 2: is it a month? I think it's like eighty or 98 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 2: ninety isn't it eighty eighty bucks? But regular YouTube is 99 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 2: a free channel that you can get. It's confusing. There's 100 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 2: YouTube and YouTube TV. The initial announcement is that it'll 101 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 2: be on both YouTube and on to YouTube TV, meaning 102 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 2: it would be rather free for people to be able 103 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: to see. But the notion of the oscars not being 104 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 2: on a regular television network but on this is I 105 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 2: think a watershed moment, another story that I want to 106 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: focus on. And as I say, I could do an 107 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 2: entire hour on the transition of our world away from 108 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 2: broadcasting and telecasting and even cable casting to streaming. I 109 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 2: want to move to this. There's a very interesting column 110 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 2: that appeared this week in the Wall Street Journal from 111 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 2: Militia Finley, and she makes a point that I think 112 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 2: is critical for those of us on the right who 113 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 2: need to start doing a better job of fighting back 114 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 2: against the Marxists that are campaigning and preaching on this 115 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 2: whole affordability issue. I think in general, people on the 116 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 2: right are often ineffective a debunking nonsense from the left, 117 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 2: partly because they assume that everyone knows that it's nonsense. 118 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 2: I'll hear people say for everyone that goes without saying yeah, 119 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 2: except it doesn't go without saying there are people out 120 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 2: there who have not thought things through, who are not 121 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 2: hearing a counter to this. So I'm going to dive 122 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 2: into her column because the point becomes a parrot. She writes, 123 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 2: here's a trivia question for your holiday road trip, in 124 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 2: which five US metropolitan areas did the consumer price index 125 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 2: rise by less than two percent over the preceding twelve months. 126 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 2: The answer Detroit zero point seven, Dallas one point one, 127 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 2: Houston one point one, Phoenix one point four, and Atlanta 128 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 2: one point seven. Now let me interject, even though the 129 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 2: left is trying to blame Trump for inflation, the reality 130 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 2: is is that the CPI has drastically gone down under Trump. 131 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: And here she mentioned of the metrolinarias, those are the lowest. 132 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 2: So those are the lowest cities in terms of increase. 133 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 2: They were all under two percent year over year. Back 134 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 2: to her peace, Now, guess the four metro areas where 135 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 2: prices on average have increased by more than three percent. 136 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 2: Don't cheat by asking chat GPT, which answers incorrectly Anyway, 137 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 2: the answer here are the four metropolitan areas in which 138 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 2: the CPI over the past year has gone off the 139 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 2: most in US ending order, Philadelphia three point three, Los 140 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 2: Angeles three point six, San Diego four percent, Riverside, California 141 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 2: four point five. You may have noticed something about that list, 142 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 2: unless don't tell me you haven't noticed anything about this list. Yes, 143 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 2: the highest three are in California. Now again she's going 144 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 2: to get into her column here. Remember who it is 145 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 2: that's preaching affordability to us. The three metro areas that 146 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 2: have had the highest increase, And again we all face 147 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 2: the same thing. We all buy grocery such and such 148 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 2: here in the United States of America. But the three 149 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 2: areas in the last year that have gone up the 150 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 2: most are all in the state of California. Finley continues. 151 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 2: Milton Friedman observed that inflation is always in everywhere a 152 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 2: monetary phenomenon, but affordability the prices of particular things can 153 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 2: be very much a local phenomenon. I'll give you an example. 154 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 2: I live in downtown Milwaukee, travel all over the place, 155 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 2: work in southwestern Milwaukee County. I buy my gas near 156 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 2: we work. For whatever reason, the gas is cheaper here 157 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 2: than it is in Milwaukee, and so on. Is it 158 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 2: cheaper in Cedarberg than it is here? And do you 159 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 2: get your guests around where we are here too? Yeah, 160 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 2: there's a Woodman's. There's not a Woodman's out in this area, 161 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 2: but I hear Woodman's really is low any In any event, 162 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 2: the point is is that there are areas here even 163 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 2: in the metro area, which is the same thing costs 164 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 2: more than they do in others. And the point that 165 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 2: Finley is making affordability is also a regional issue. Containke 166 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 2: consider housing among the reasons for higher CPI readings in 167 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 2: California metro areas are fast rising housing costs. Riverside and 168 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 2: exurb of Los Angeles has drawn droves of middle class 169 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 2: families who can't afford to live on the coast. Yet 170 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 2: the housing supply on Riverside and for that matter, everywhere 171 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 2: else in the state hasn't kept up with demand. Blame 172 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 2: the state's litigation friendly environmental laws with strict zoning, which 173 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 2: raised the construction costs and suppressed development. In other words, 174 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 2: the point she's making is that even though there's clearly 175 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 2: a market for more housing in California, when you get 176 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 2: way away from the city of Los Angeles, the developers 177 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 2: can't do it and make a buck because of all 178 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 2: of the costs that California puts in place that makes 179 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 2: it unaffordable to build the new house. Continuing blame, shelter 180 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 2: prices risen four point four percent in Riverside and five 181 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 2: point six percent in San Diego over the preceding twelve months, 182 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 2: versus zero point one percent in Dallas one point one 183 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 2: percent in Houston. Shelter prices have declined by zero point 184 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 2: one percent. It's true that housing prices in many Sun 185 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 2: Belt cities surged early and the pandemic as people migrated 186 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 2: from states that had imposed strict lockdowns like California, but 187 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 2: more permissive permitting and zoning enabled housing developers to bring 188 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 2: on additional supply quickly, which has helped curb prices. Only 189 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 2: one hundred and eighteen thousand building permits for new homes 190 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 2: were issued for the Los Angeles metro region between twenty 191 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 2: twenty one and twenty twenty four, versus one hundred and 192 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 2: sixty three thousand in Atlanta, one hundred and eighty seven 193 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 2: thousand in Phoenix, two hundred seventy six thousand in Houston, 194 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 2: and two hundred eighty one thousand in Dallas. Now, she's 195 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 2: pointing out that those metro areas that had just mentioned 196 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 2: that had the most housing building were the ones that 197 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 2: have seen the lowest increase in CPI. The more new 198 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 2: homes that are going up, the cheaper they're going to 199 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 2: be for reasons that are obvious, a lot more to 200 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 2: choose from if you're a potential buyer. Back to the piece, 201 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:01,599 Speaker 2: Vice President JD. Vans blames illegal immigrants from making housing unaffordable. 202 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 2: It's a specious explanation that doesn't add up now. I 203 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 2: don't agree with her point on this, but I want to, 204 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 2: in fairness to her lay it out. It's not as 205 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 2: if Arizona and Texas were unaffected by the flood of 206 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:17,079 Speaker 2: foreign niagrants during the Biden presidency. One reason housing prices 207 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 2: have remained stubbornly high in Florida is a dearth of 208 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 2: construction workers, which as which it has been exacerbated by 209 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 2: a state law requiring companies with twenty five or more 210 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 2: employees to use Everify to check a new hire's work authorization. 211 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 2: I will interject, it is certainly true that we're at 212 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 2: not for illegal immigrants. Lots of fields, including construction, would 213 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: have a hard time finding sufficient workers. I think that 214 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 2: that's probably undeniably true. On the other hand, Democrats in 215 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 2: California don't want to build or drill. The state's milange 216 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 2: of climate policies have driven up energy prices in San 217 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 2: Diego eight point seven percent year over year, Riverside seven 218 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 2: point nine percent, and Los Angeles seven percent, even as 219 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 2: they have been falling in places like Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit, 220 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 2: and Houston that haven't sought to banish fossil fuels. Folks 221 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 2: in the Philadelphia Metro area have also seen a jump 222 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 2: in energy prices five point one percent, as the shutdown 223 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 2: of coal and nuclear plants in their region has driven 224 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 2: up electric rates. Another local phenomenon is legal abuse, which 225 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 2: affects insurance premiums and other business costs. Now, she goes 226 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 2: on the point that she is making, and it's a 227 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 2: point that I've tried to throw up a few times myself. 228 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 2: One of the things that's so ridiculous about the Marxist 229 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,719 Speaker 2: running on affordability is everywhere they're in charge, things are 230 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 2: more unaffordable than when they're not. The more liberal the area, 231 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 2: the likelier the prices are to be extremely high. It 232 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 2: doesn't always hold, but it almost always holds. You put 233 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 2: a bunch of radicals in charging, every think costs more 234 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 2: for zillions of reasons. I'll make a quick point on 235 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 2: this and then get out of the next thing that 236 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 2: I want to cover. Milwaukee officials are carping about the 237 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 2: lack of grocery stores in the central city. There's a 238 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 2: Pick and Sand that closed, and the city officials have 239 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 2: been complaining and crying about this forever. And indeed, in 240 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 2: the central city itself, it's most of the mom and 241 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 2: pop independent stores. There are a couple of walmarts that 242 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 2: are set up on the edge of the central city, 243 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 2: and that's where a lot of central city residents go. 244 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 2: The grocery stores that are in the central city the 245 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 2: independent wants. The prices are extremely high. There's a reason 246 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 2: for that. When government officials don't do anything about shoplifting, 247 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 2: stores have to raise their prices in order to make 248 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 2: up for all of the loss that occurs with people 249 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 2: that steal stuff. Your insurance costs if you're a store, 250 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 2: if you're in a central city, are way higher. This 251 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 2: doesn't have to be The leftist policies that are soft 252 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 2: on crime and numerous other things all deal with the 253 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: affordability problem. This is an argument that's going to have 254 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 2: to be made over the next year as to how 255 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 2: Marxists are the last people in the world that should 256 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 2: be talking about affordability because anywhere that you have extreme 257 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 2: leftist policies in place, the costs are way higher than elsewhere. 258 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 2: And finally, this the following piece. I'm gonna get a 259 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 2: bunch of people who ask where you can find this, 260 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: so I've linked this up on my website, billing dot com. 261 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 2: It's a piece that was written by Nina titles it's 262 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 2: in the hill dot com. This is not a conservative website. 263 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 2: The hills Hill stands for Capitol Hill. They buy a 264 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 2: large cover politics and governmental than this story itself doesn't 265 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 2: deal with it. She writes about how medical science and 266 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 2: science have been dead wrong on a specific issue for 267 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 2: a half century. Not before I tell you what it is. 268 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 2: This happens all the time. There were any number of things. 269 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 2: I remember when as a kid, if there was a 270 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 2: show that went on television that was aimed at old people, 271 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 2: the prime advertiser was Jerrotol Lawrence Well, Ted mack all 272 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 2: this stuff that like your grandparents would watch Gerroto. What 273 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 2: Jared told was, do you, in fact you remember the 274 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 2: name of Jero Toler. Was that even before your tim Yeah, 275 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 2: you don't remember. What it was? Actually was an iron supplement. 276 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 2: Jered Toe was iron, and they pushed iron for old people. 277 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 2: But we've since learned that most people, not all, but 278 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 2: most people who are elderly, they have too much iron. 279 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 2: It's a problem. In fact, if you buy a multiviem 280 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 2: when it says fifty plus on it, usually that means 281 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 2: there's no iron in it. In other words, the guidance 282 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: of having old people pound iron right and left was 283 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 2: the worst possibly, But there's a zillion things that we've 284 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 2: learned with regard to thats. When they were brought in, 285 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 2: they were brought in as an alternative to the animal fats, 286 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 2: and it turned out the transfats were absolutely terrible. The 287 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 2: transtats essentially of the fats that were created in a laboratory, 288 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 2: and they ended up permanently clogging your arteries. And they're 289 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 2: not involved much of anywhere anymore. They're in potato chips 290 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 2: and a few other things. Otherwise they're not there. But 291 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 2: there are any number of things in which we thought 292 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 2: something was a good idea, and years go on and 293 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 2: you find that it wasn't. The problem that we have 294 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 2: now is that it has become so hard for the 295 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 2: leftist public health and medical establishment to ever admit that 296 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 2: it was wrong. In part, we are slaves to the 297 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 2: drug companies, and if the drug company makes a product 298 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 2: that combats something, we have to convince people that the 299 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 2: thing that its combating is something that needs to be combated. 300 00:17:55,440 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 2: Nina Titcholes's piece is on saturated fat. Paul's younger than me. 301 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 2: Your whole life, you've been told that saturated fat is terrible, right, 302 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 2: your whole life, your whole life. I still remember when 303 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 2: I the cardiologists were the first to pick up on this. 304 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 2: There's a the name of the book was, but it 305 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 2: was a groundmaking book that was written by Milwaukee cardiologist 306 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 2: Wheat Belly, That's what it was, in which they drew 307 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 2: attention to the real problems carbs. That fat isn't really 308 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 2: a problem much at all. And we're starting to turn 309 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 2: the corner on that this writer is observing that the 310 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 2: whole guidance that we've been getting forever and ever and 311 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 2: ever on avoidance of saturated fat is wraw. I'm going 312 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,119 Speaker 2: to share the piece here and again, I just think 313 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 2: it's going to intrigue a lot of people. So if 314 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 2: you want to find it belling dot com my website, 315 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 2: we posted it up. She writes, for more than a 316 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 2: half century, Americans have been urged to shy away from 317 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 2: saturated fats found mainly in animal products. We have been 318 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 2: told to cook with canola oil instead of butter, select 319 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 2: skim instead of whole milk, and to fill our plates 320 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 2: with pasta instead of steak. Paradoxically, decades of adherence to 321 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 2: this advice has coincided with rising levels of chronic disease. Again, 322 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 2: RFK juniors on this all the time, all this guidance 323 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 2: we've been given, and undeniably, people in America are in 324 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 2: worse shape. They've gained more weight, diseases around the increase, 325 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 2: and so on. And it's mostly among the people who 326 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 2: I think of following rules. Back to the piece, As 327 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 2: people cut more saturated fats in their diets, the nation 328 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 2: grew heavier and sicker, not healthier. Put plainly, the war 329 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 2: unsaturated fat, rooted in the hypothesis that it causes heart disease, 330 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 2: has never been based on sound science. In fact, a 331 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 2: large and growing body of evidence reveals that saturated fats 332 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 2: aren't a menace, but a key part of a healthy diet, 333 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 2: and they should be recognized as such a national nutrition policy. Fortunately, 334 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 2: this long overdue change what appears likely to happen next month. 335 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 2: The federal government will soon release the new dietary guidelines 336 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 2: for Americans, the nutritional blueprint that shapes everything from school 337 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 2: lunches the hospital meals. Officials have finally signaled that they 338 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 2: will lift the decades that will limit on saturated fat. 339 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: This would mark a critical turning point. The misguided crusade 340 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 2: against fat began in the nineteen fifties when researcher and 341 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 2: sell Keys proposed a connection between saturated fat and heart disease. 342 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 2: But in his seminar seven countries study on the subject, 343 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 2: Keys cherry picked the countries that supported his claim and 344 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 2: ignored others like France and Germany, where people consume plenty 345 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 2: of butter and meat yet had low rates of heart disease. 346 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 2: Let me get interject, if you know anything about French cooking, 347 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 2: you know nothing about French cooking. Do you have a wife? 348 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 2: Maybe you do? What do you know about French cooking? Nothing? 349 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 2: Here's what I do. Put butter. Everything French cooking is butter. 350 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 2: And the point that's being made here is that this 351 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,640 Speaker 2: Keys guy back in the fifties, he ignored France in Germany, 352 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 2: pulled them out of the study because France and Germany, 353 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 2: I think a German food that much harder, and French 354 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 2: food butter, butter, butter. Julia Child she tacked like the butter, 355 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 2: and she just poured them like a whole stick of butter. 356 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 2: And we put in a sauteed pen and so on. 357 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 2: Yet France in Germany had low rates of heart disease, 358 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 2: and they were excluded from the study. Back reupees. In 359 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 2: subsequent decades, scientists set out to test keys hypothesis. They 360 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 2: conducted a series of large, randomized controlled clinical trials around 361 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 2: the world, some funded by the National Institutes of Health 362 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 2: and rolling a total of sixty seven thousand participants. Subjects 363 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 2: on experimental diets replaced animal fats with vegetable oils made 364 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 2: from corn and soy, while the control group, ate the 365 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 2: traditional diets of the time, was up to eighteen percent 366 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 2: of calories from saturated fat. When the results of these 367 00:21:54,520 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 2: core trials failed to confirm Keys's hypothesis, researchers largely ignored 368 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:05,719 Speaker 2: or buried them. One major study when unpublished for sixteen years. 369 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 2: Scientists who later recovered and reanalyzed data from this study 370 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 2: found surprisingly that the more the men lowered the cholesterol 371 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 2: on diet reduced and saturated fat, the more likely they 372 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 2: were to die from heart disease. Among dozens of review 373 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 2: papers on the court trials, not one could point to 374 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 2: evidence that lowering saturated fat had a saturated fat had 375 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 2: an effect on cardiovascular mortality or total mortality. It is 376 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 2: true that saturated fat increases LDL, the so called bad 377 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 2: cholesterol associated with heart disease. Participants in the court trials 378 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 2: on the experimental vegetable oil diet did successfully lower their cholesterol, 379 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 2: Even so their mortality didn't budge and there was little 380 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 2: to no effect on cardiovascular events. One plausible explanation is 381 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 2: that saturated fat also raised HDL, the good cholesterol that 382 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 2: protects the heart, possibly equalizing the overall effect on heart 383 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 2: disease risk. Another is that saturated fats only raise the 384 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 2: type of LDL particle called large and buoyant that isn't 385 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 2: associated with cardiovascuar disease. Saturated fat may even have beneficial effects. 386 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 2: The world's largest observational study, following one hundred and thirty 387 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 2: five thousand people found that those who ate more saturated 388 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 2: fats suffered fewer strokes. Yet, despite the substantial body of evidence, 389 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 2: federal nutrition policy remained stuck in the past. When the 390 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 2: Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services issued the 391 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 2: first dietary guidelines in nineteen eighty, fifteen percent of adults 392 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 2: were obese. Forty five years later, forty percent of American 393 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,919 Speaker 2: adults are now obese. Three and four live with at 394 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 2: least one major chronic disease, and one third have pre diabetes. 395 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 2: Heart disease remains the nation's leading killer. Now let me 396 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 2: interject the cardiologists who have broken ranks and the nutritionist 397 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 2: who have broken ranks, and this ten, fifteen, twenty years ago. 398 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 2: They have argued for the longest time that the problem 399 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 2: is sugar and carbohydrates. Carbs are sugar, bread, pasta and 400 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 2: all of this stuff. The drastic increase in the consumption 401 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 2: of them by people that were reducing red maid and 402 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 2: butter and all this saturated fat stuff. That has been 403 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 2: their argument as to why we've had this obesity problem, 404 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 2: that the problem was never saturated fats or even fat. 405 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 2: The problem was always the carbohydrates. The problem was always 406 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 2: the sugar. Whether that's true or not, this fifteen percent 407 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 2: of beest to forty percent of bees. What really changed? 408 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 2: I think back to pre nineteen eighty everybody was eating 409 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 2: steak and red meat and butter all over the place. 410 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,199 Speaker 2: Why were we so much less obese than Clearly the 411 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 2: more sedentary lifestyle and all of this comes into play. 412 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 2: But it is certainly possible that the dietary guidance that 413 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 2: we were given was completely raw, which is now the 414 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:11,679 Speaker 2: point of this piece, on the point of some of 415 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 2: the cardiologists that have broken ranks, and it suggested that sugars, carbs, etc. 416 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 2: Are the real problem and that saturated fats out a 417 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 2: problem at all. Back to the piece. We got here 418 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 2: by replacing the whole unprocessed foods that our ancestors ate 419 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 2: for millennials with processed, refined carbohydrates. Let me interchet A 420 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:38,719 Speaker 2: regular old steaks not a processed food. Get that box 421 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 2: of pasta that you buy on the supermarket shows that 422 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 2: has an expiration data twenty thirty. It's all highly processed. 423 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 2: The processing of the foods often results in the food 424 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 2: being good for years and years and years and years 425 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 2: and years. This is me and not the author. Does 426 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 2: that mean that it's not breaking down in our bodies 427 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 2: the way that it ought to. Foods strongly linked to obesity, diabetes, 428 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 2: and premature death. The federal limits on fat are long 429 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 2: overdue for correction. The guidelines have long told Americans to 430 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 2: keep calories from saturated fat below ten percent of total 431 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 2: caloric intake and to swap butter for vegetable oil, full 432 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 2: fat dairy for low fat. There is no solid evidence 433 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 2: that these swaps will improve health or as at least 434 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 2: some experts behind our federal nutrition policy appear to have known. 435 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 2: Internal communications from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in twenty 436 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 2: fifteen revealed the acknowledgment that there is quote no data 437 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: to justify the ten percent recommendation. The scientific process may 438 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 2: have been clouded by pervasive corporate ties among committee experts. 439 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 2: Most of them, according to research published in a paper 440 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 2: ic author for Public Health Nutrition last year, really received 441 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 2: funding from the ultra processed food manufacturers that profit from 442 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 2: keeping whole foods off the menu. Those, of course, would 443 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 2: be your craft, after your hinds, your big companies that 444 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 2: do all the processed foods. Those aren't the ones that 445 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 2: are ranching beef and ranching pigs and all of that stuff. 446 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 2: They're not them. They're the ones that have a vested 447 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 2: interest in selling the process stuff. Continuing, thankfully, momentum as shifting, 448 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 2: policymakers in both parties are calling for a re examination 449 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 2: of the nation's nutrition policies. FDA Commissioner Doctor Marty McCarry 450 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 2: has repeatedly said the demonization of saturated fat in medical 451 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 2: dogma must end. Continuing to steer Americans away from butter, 452 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 2: cheese and meat ignores decades of evidence. As the next 453 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 2: dietary guidelines take shape, policymakers have a rare opportunity to 454 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:45,199 Speaker 2: correct course and end the unfounded war unsaturated fat. So 455 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 2: guess what they were wrong all these years? They just 456 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,679 Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the more we learn. But the 457 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 2: difference now is the new stuff that we learn is 458 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 2: being rejected because there's so much money tied into continuing 459 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 2: to do things the way that we've been doing it. 460 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 2: The twoc balls that I talk about all the time 461 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 2: that for some reason our lefties have now joined after 462 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 2: being against forever is the processed food industry and the 463 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 2: drug companies, and they've i think driven down our throats 464 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 2: this notion to do certain things, all of which are 465 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 2: in their interests but are not in our interest I mean, 466 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 2: look at it anecdotally. Clearly we were healthier before. You 467 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 2: look at what we were doing before. Everybody was smoking, 468 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 2: everybody was drinking, everybody was eating red meat. They're slapping 469 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 2: butter on everything. Again. I'll go back to my grandmother again. 470 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 2: She take like lord and lap that into the frying 471 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 2: pan before make it say all this stuff you weren't 472 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 2: supposed to do. And now look at us now, and 473 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 2: none of them were fat. What's the meaning of Christmas? 474 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 2: This podcast is being released on Christmas Eve. We'll talk 475 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 2: about that in a moment on the Mark Belling podcast. 476 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling Podcast. It was actually sixty 477 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 2: years ago this year the Charlie Brown Christmas aired on CBS. 478 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 2: At the time. Peanuts. In fact, Peanuts is still an 479 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 2: incredibly popular comic strip. It's one of the few that 480 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 2: they didn't have a new author come in and take over. 481 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 2: They simply, you know, most of them were just timeless. 482 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 2: They didn't deal with meteor technology. The many newspapers still 483 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 2: run the old Charlie brown Snoopy Linus, Lucy Peanut strips 484 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 2: of the past. When Charles Schultz was alive, that comic 485 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 2: strip was just massive sixties, seventies and eighties, and they 486 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 2: started to convert. They did one a year and turned 487 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 2: it into a television show and it would tie around 488 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 2: a theme. And the Charlie Brown Christmas is one of 489 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 2: the first and the people who produced it, along with Schultz, 490 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 2: they made brilliant decisions. Vince Garald and his arrangements just 491 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 2: became identified with them, and they came out and they 492 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 2: were they're huge, and they still live on in rerun land. 493 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 2: The Charlie Brown Christmas Special became ictic. I can actually 494 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 2: say I watched it the first time I was around. 495 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 2: Paul can't because it was out before he was born. 496 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 2: But it became like The Wizard of Oz and a 497 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 2: few things. It was just shown every year, forever and 498 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 2: ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever. 499 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 2: If anything was a classic, it was it, and it 500 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 2: was just the story. Charlie Brown was always this kind 501 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 2: of loser and a guy who couldn't catch. He was 502 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 2: like a kid that was a Rodney Dangerfield type. He 503 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 2: just couldn't catch a break and so on, and he 504 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 2: was attracted to other people like him, and he fell 505 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 2: in love with this just ramshackle falling apart Christmas Tree. 506 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 2: It was like the last out of the lot. It 507 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,479 Speaker 2: only had a few needles left. And it became kind 508 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 2: of the storyline for this, and the backstory was all 509 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 2: the commercialization that was going on, et cetera. And as 510 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 2: the program was winding down, Charlie Brod was just frustrated 511 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 2: and he said, doesn't anybody know what Christmas is really 512 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 2: all about. And that's when this extraordinary thing happened. It 513 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 2: never would have happened today. I don't even think it 514 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 2: would have happened twenty years ago. The only reason that 515 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 2: it continued to be showed on TV is to edit 516 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 2: out the next portion of the segment would have created 517 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 2: a backlash. But as it is, the Charlie Bon Christmas 518 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 2: has essentially been shut it off to streaming and elsewhere 519 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 2: because there's a portion of what happened that just makes 520 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:46,479 Speaker 2: people uncomfortable. I can think of since this year. It 521 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 2: only a handful of times ever that the New Testament 522 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 2: of the Bible was quoted, and in the segment which 523 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 2: became iconic. We played this on my old radio show 524 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 2: a few years ago. Linus, who was the friend of 525 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 2: Charlie Brown, when hearing this question what's the meaning of Christmas, 526 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 2: responded by quoting the Gospel of Luke. 527 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 3: Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about? Sure, 528 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 3: Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about. 529 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 3: Lives please. And there were in the same country shepherds 530 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 3: abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night, 531 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 3: and lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them. 532 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 3: The glory of the Lord shall round about them. And 533 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 3: they were sore afraid, and the Angel said, unto them, 534 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 3: I fear not, for behold, I bring you tidings of 535 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 3: great joy which shall be to all people. For unto 536 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,959 Speaker 3: you is born this day in the city of David, 537 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 3: a savior, just Christ, the Lord. And this be a 538 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 3: sign on he you. You shall find the Babe, wrapped 539 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 3: in swaddling clothes, lying in an anger. And suddenly there 540 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 3: was with the Angel and multituded the heavenly host, praising God. 541 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 3: I'm saying glory to God in the highest and on earth. 542 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 3: Peace wouldn't will toward men. That's what Christmas is all about, 543 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 3: Charlie Brown. 544 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 2: That program had a monstrous viewing its first year. It 545 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:42,479 Speaker 2: had monstrous viewings after the in the following years that ensued. 546 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 2: And as they say, when you think of like a 547 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 2: Broadway musical, there's always the showstopper. That was the show stopper, 548 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 2: a cartoon character voting from the Bible on that character's 549 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 2: belief of what Christmas wants all about, which was the 550 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 2: birth of the Savior. He's right, that is Christmas is 551 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 2: all about. This is the mark Belling Podcast. That's it again. 552 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 2: Our podcast was initially released on Christmas Eve, whenever you're 553 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 2: listening to it, so if you're listening to a Christmas 554 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,400 Speaker 2: Eve or Christmas Day, Merry Christmas. For those of you 555 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 2: paying attention to our schedule, our next podcast will be 556 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 2: released December twenty sixth, Friday, not Thursday. 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