Sean Hannity Show - Government Changing Food - December 18th, Hour 1

Dec. 19, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

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Government Changing Food - December 18th, Hour 1

Eric Eggers & Peter Schweizer fill in for the vacationing Sean and talk about how the woke left is trying to change food production methods. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	It's uh the third year in a row we've been fortunate enough to do that.
	And I think it's only appropriate because people know you and I think know our organization, the Government Accountability Institute, because of the news we've broken about Hunter Biden and about Hillary Clinton and about the interference of money and government corruption in Washington, DC.
	Uh, and it turns out, even though it's Christmas time, there's still actually plenty of that to talk about.
	There is.
	There's plenty of that to talk about.
	We're gonna talk about Hunter today, and we're gonna give you the case.
	I think the best case that I would argue convincingly shows that bribery charges could be warranted or are warranted with Joe Biden, president of the United States.
	We're also gonna talk about the situation on college campuses, and we're gonna bring on a couple of guests who were actually fighting back.
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	You mentioned that you think that's so important that that's what America wants to hear from us, and that's what maybe they need to hear in this season of uh the holidays, right?
	It is a season of darkness, but there is hope in the darkness as many churches around the country are probably reminding you.
	You think people are tired of being told how bad things are, and you know, things are bad.
	We actually have for the first time in the Biden administration, a majority of Americans say they plan to cut back on their holiday shopping.
	That's up from 46% the year before and 40% in 2021.
	Uh, but you actually were in the heartland of America over the weekend.
	You gave a speech in Indianapolis, and you said you met with Patriots who you said they're looking for one thing, and that is solutions.
	Yeah, I mean it was amazing because again, there's a lot of doom and gloom.
	We report on corruption and cronyism, which is not always a fun, light topic to deal with, but I gave a speech on uh Saturday night uh to the first principals forum in Indianapolis.
	It's a Saturday night, the weekend before the Christmas uh, you know, really kicks in, uh, and 300 people showed up to talk about Biden corruption and what they wanted to talk about.
	What are positive things they can do in their community to make a difference?
	And I tell you, it was so encouraging, and there were young people, there were old people, they were knowledgeable, they were engaged, and they weren't sitting around with their hands thrown up, say there's nothing we can do about it.
	They said we've got to figure out how to fight back.
	And this is what makes Peter Schweitz America's most beloved journalist America, because not only can he break news, not only has his reporting led to I think the very real investigation surrounding Hunter Biden, he can also in the humblest way brag about the size of the speeches he gives on Saturday.
	300 people in case you were write that one down.
	And I counted every single one.
	But honestly, one of the topics that a lot of people were discussing was inflation.
	And And you know, in the casual conversation about how prices are so sky high.
	Uh and this, I think, is the real problem that the Biden administration faces when people think of the economy.
	They want to change the subject, they want to redefine what inflation is.
	But the fact of the matter is inflation's a huge problem and it's not going away.
	I think that I think inflation is a problem, and we'll talk about why it's a problem.
	And even NPR is admitting, well, it's a problem, but maybe it's not as much of a problem as it was last year because they're introducing a term called disinflation.
	Right.
	Which you thought meant that prices are going down.
	No, no.
	Deflation.
	No, that's not disinflation.
	It turns out disinflation is when the amount of inflation is decreasing, which we're told is something we should feel better about.
	But I think that's what's crazy is we're told, oh, the economy's getting better.
	But when you've got things like auto insurances, according to NPR up 20%, frozen juice is up fifteen percent.
	I mean, just go to the store.
	Things aren't cheaper.
	And even if the cost is down, maybe compared to last year, the costs are not down compared to two years ago.
	And I think they say, well, inflation is only two percent more this year than it was twelve year months ago, and that's better than the twelve percent jump it was the year before, but costs are still up, and America's memories don't reset from year to year to go and they see what milk costs and say it didn't used to be that way, and rightly or wrongly they blame the president for it.
	And I think you would say it's it's correct to blame the president of the United States for what things cost right now.
	Absolutely.
	Um, you know, look, Joe Biden came in and in 2021, the first thing he did was increase federal spending by fifty percent, one trillion, sorry, two trillion dollars from a four trillion dollar base.
	That led to inflation, which of course forced what?
	The Federal Reserve to increase interest rates.
	Uh and that is the direct cause of inflation.
	That's why the Fed had to do what they they did, and that's why housing costs are at an unprecedented level in the United States history.
	And why we had another report that came out today about homelessness.
	You've got inflation that's hitting everybody, but in its most extreme form, you have greater homelessness.
	So as we struggle uh maybe to pay our bills or to, you know, we're scaling back on the number of gifts we're getting, they're people that are actually out of their home because they can no longer afford to live there.
	Homelessness is up twelve percent uh over the last year.
	That's the highest level ever since they started keeping track in two thousand seven.
	Aaron Ross Powell, Jr.
	And it's interesting, right, that uh homelessness is up twelve percent right now.
	And by the way, for as much as you hear about uh, you know, some of the very culturally enlightened trends that the Biden administration likes to uh imbody, right?
	So uh but homelessness is very decidedly anti-woke because blacks and Latinos make up seventy percent of homeless Americans.
	Yeah.
	And uh you think there's something interesting about today being a day in which we have a new report on homelessness.
	This is quite ironic because today, as this report gets released, is the 20-year anniversary of Gavin Newsom's ten year plan to end homelessness in San Francisco.
	And he is just, I think, the poster child for the broader problem, which is a lot of people on the political left talk about it, but they never fix it.
	And the reason is that they are, I think, largely to blame for a lot of the problems that we have uh when it comes to homelessness.
	Uh you had, of course, the de-institutionalization of of of you know, people that are having mental um uh health challenges, no longer able to get help.
	But also just the craziness of big government regulations.
	There's a affordable housing union in Los Angeles, the Wall Street Journal reported on this that just got completed.
	Which now that seems like a wonderful thing, right?
	Happy holidays to the homelessness in Los Angeles.
	Right.
	You now have a home for the holidays, uh, which is great.
	Yeah, it's uh Lorena Plaza.
	Here's the problem.
	They started building it in two thousand six.
	It's taken them seventeen years to build it, and that's largely because of the laws, the requirements, the uh the complexity of the federal subsidies, all the bureaucracy they had to deal with.
	And these were for the working poor, people that are maybe working as landscapers or other than San Francisco, sorry, in Los Angeles, that gives them a decent place to live.
	Um, this is how long it takes.
	So government doesn't solve this problem, it helps cause this problem.
	I think you're ignoring the real benefit and the real highlight of this particular story.
	Yes, it may have taken 17 years to build a 49 unit affordable housing project in Los Angeles, and yes, this may be the 20-year anniversary of Gavin Newson's 10-year plan to end homelessness.
	But I'm willing to bet you that over those 17 years, they constructed this uh affordable living complex in a very environmentally sustainable way.
	I bet it's filled with smart thermostats.
	I bet that it's not adding to climate change.
	They probably lifted it up at the recent uh COP summit and said this is what the future should look like.
	Yeah.
	And and and this is the problem.
	The left says they prioritize everything, which means they don't prioritize anything.
	Um and to the extent that they're gonna choose between strict environmental standards or helping the poor, they are so if environmental uh sustainability, if climate change is the existential threat that the left says is threatening all of us, and that means it's worth investing in.
	And oh, by the way, the Biden administration has invested plenty.
	But in investing that much money and in all the pandemic relief funds that they injected into the economy, that's what's contributed to the inflation, which is what has made everything else more expensive, which is why this year people that are making less than fifty thousand dollars, two-thirds of them are saying we're spending much less money.
	We don't have it.
	Daddy ain't gonna have it for the Christmas this year, folks.
	Yeah.
	And so I think that's why it all matters.
	It's one thing to just complain about, yeah, it's silly that it took 20 years to do the thing, Gavin Newsom said it would do in 10.
	It's silly that it took 17 to build one complex.
	But at the end of the day, there's a real price tag for these failed policies, and increasingly everyday Americans are stuck with the bill, which means they can't pay for the things that matter to them.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And this is the problem with a broken administration and a broken policy, and they will not admit their contribution to this issue.
	They will not admit to the fact that they're pushing for this agenda.
	We're gonna talk about this in a little bit with Seamus Brunner, but they're pushing this agenda that is increasing the costs of basic foods for people uh in the name of fighting climate change.
	And it's intentional.
	They want the price of certain uh food items like meat, for example.
	They actually want it to go up because guess what?
	They want you to eat less of it.
	Um that's just a symptom of it.
	And when it comes to the housing uh problem, San Francisco has thrown huge amounts of money against it.
	California has, and the problem is they have completely lacked in results.
	California has a higher homelessness rate than any other state in the country.
	Uh, and it's not just because the warm weather of California, Texas has warm weather too.
	Florida has warm weather, Florida has warm weather, but they flock to California because they have failed policies that don't deal with the issue and incentivize destructive behavior.
	We're broadcasting today from Florida, by the way, from Tallahassee, Florida, and Tallahassee has its own fair share of homelessness, but that's because of the combination of warm weather and very liberal municipal policies, and I think it's no different than what California is.
	California is a fair fair to call it a failed state, and if it is, then why are some suggesting that Gavin Newsom, the leader of California, might actually be the replacement for Joe Biden that, oh, by the way, a poll suggests the majority of Democrats no longer want to be the presidential nominee.
	Yeah, and who can blame them, right?
	If you look at the fact that the the walls are closing in on the Hunter Biden uh corruption scandal, we're gonna talk about that later today on the show.
	You look at the terrible poll numbers, you look at inflation, you look at the fact that let's just say he's a little disengaged uh intellectually when it comes to certain things.
	Uh people are looking for a white knight to come in, and they think it's gonna be Gavin Newsom.
	And that's that's what I think is gonna happen.
	I think Joe Biden's gonna stay uh in the race, so to speak, up until the convention, and then at the convention next summer, he's gonna say, you know what, I've decided I'm gonna step back, I'm gonna finish up my term, and I want my delegates to go for Gavin Newsom, and I think that's the direction we're headed.
	Well, listen, you're the president of the government accountability institute.
	I'm a mere vice president of the government accountability too.
	So far be it from me to actively and publicly on national radio push back against what you're saying.
	But I would I disagree with one thing.
	I think Joe Biden's very engaged on the inflation issue.
	We have actually a quote from Joe Biden here.
	Listen to how engaged Joe Biden is on inflation.
	Republicans may have to find something else to criticize me for.
	Now that inflation is coming down.
	Maybe it'll decide to impeach me because it's coming down.
	I don't know.
	I love that one.
	Oh, anyway, it's another story.
	Very sound reasoning there.
	Sharp as attack.
	Sharp as attack.
	Yeah, no, uh, impeachment may be coming.
	We don't know.
	There's certainly an impeachment inquiry underway, but it's not because of inflation.
	Uh it's not because of uh the fact that he's so disengaged.
	Uh it's because of Hunter Biden.
	No, it's absolutely right.
	Well, that's one of the things we're talking about today.
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	Um, but there's a group of people that want to make you live kind of like a homeless person.
	They want to control what you eat, they want to control where you live, uh, they want you to sweat during the day and freeze at night.
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	And we were talking earlier about uh inflation and food prices.
	Uh, but Eric, we don't need to worry because they had a meeting in Dubai uh with 70,000 people showing up and they're gonna solve this problem.
	Yeah, the from the people that told you you could no longer buy a fossil fuel-powered vehicle come the people that will tell you how to grow which food you're allowed to eat and when you're allowed to eat it.
	Uh the headline coming from COP, the Council of Parties, this is the 28th version of this collection of global do-gooders.
	They have now told us that uh food is on the table.
	Yeah, and that should absolutely terrify everybody.
	Yeah.
	And what it means, by the way, is they are seeking a dramatic reduction in the amount of meat that is produced, primarily beef, because they say it's not good for the environment.
	Uh, what that means is it's gonna get a lot more expensive.
	Now, the elites that fly to Dubai on their private planes for this conference, they'll be able to still afford it.
	You know, they're gonna get that nice big roast.
	Uh, the rest of us, it's gonna get really expensive to do it.
	And I think there's a certain irony, by the way, that this event being held in an oil-producing country, uh, didn't really focus as much on dealing with fossil fuels, which presumably you would think they'd want to.
	Instead, they go the direction of agriculture, and small countries like Vanuatu are looking for a big payday.
	Yeah, lots of big takeaways from this thing.
	For the first time, they agreed to create this fund by which the what they call the polluting countries, aka the big wealthy countries, will now give money to the poor countries.
	So countries like you know, the Marshall Islands, like we didn't come here to sign our death warrant, but we will pick up a check, and that's essentially what the John cares.
	They're like, oh, you're very brave for being here.
	Please take this check with our sincere apologies.
	But that's literally what they're doing.
	And so I think those are the things that are on the table, not the least of which is going to be hey, uh, if 30% or of a third of the greenhouse gas emissions come from the way we grow food, that's one of the headlines in the news.
	Then guess what's next in terms of the things they're trying to control about your life.
	So coming up after the break, we're going to talk to our fantastic colleague, Seamus Bruner.
	He's at the Government Accountability Institute.
	Also, how many amazing researchers do we have and authors in our stable?
	Too many.
	But Seamus' book, Control Agarch's, is blowing up the internet.
	It actually created a new word, the word of the year in Australia is Control Agark.
	And so he's the one that broke the story about Bill Gates and his um how much farmland he's buying and how he's got the uh the patents on these seeds.
	So if you're wondering who's in charge of telling you which food and where you're allowed to grow it, uh Bill Gates is the moment and he can explain on this other news.
	Yeah, so we're gonna look forward to Seamus talking about that.
	We're very proud of him.
	He started with us as an intern ten years ago, and he's now written several uh books.
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	You know, it isn't often someone says, I am a number one New York Times bestselling author, and yet still manages to undersell themselves.
	But you've managed to perform just that feat, Peter Schweitzer.
	Uh Peter Schweitzer, of course, is the person who wrote the book Clinton Cash, who exposed the overlap of interests into donations to the Clinton Foundation and the people that got favors from Hillary when she was Secretary of State.
	Our research and reporting on Hunter Biden has continued to set the stage for the revelations that you're now seeing being investigated at the steps of Capitol Hill, which is actually very encouraging and very exciting.
	I think a credit to the work that uh you do.
	And one of the people who has read every email that Hunter Biden has received and has advanced the reporting on the Hunter Biden story as much as anybody is our colleague Seamus Brunner, who has another book, surprisingly this one not about Hunter Biden, but about actually something far more serious and nefarious.
	The book is called Control Logarchs.
	Seamus works with us at the Government Accountability Institute.
	Seamus, um, we were just talking about the Council of Parties and this collection of global do-gooders and the way in which they want to control our lives in the name of global improvement.
	What's the most concerning thing to come out of COP for you?
	Yeah, well, I think as you mentioned before the break, in order to quote save the planet, these guys are very ambitious.
	Uh, and I call them the control agarx.
	These are the people at COP28 setting the policy.
	In order to save the planet, they want to reduce your meat consumption and basically take full control over the food supply.
	And so they're doing this in a number of ways.
	I mean, number one, outright bans.
	They're doing bans on certain agricultural activities, fertilizers, even cows.
	Like right now, Ireland is preparing to slaughter tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of cows on the altar of climate change.
	Wait, pause.
	So you're telling me people are gonna kill cows in the name of climate change?
	Yeah, up to 200,000.
	Because clo because cows are big polluters.
	It's gonna cost a lot of money too, by the way, to kill these cows.
	Here's the question everyone in America that's listening to you right now wants to know.
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	Oh, I want to know too.
	When they kill all these cows, are we gonna get to eat them?
	Or are they just gonna discard them?
	Unclear.
	But it sounds like a lot of ribeyes are gonna go to waste.
	Um the banning method, you know, this is this is the first way that they want to change your behavior, change what you can eat.
	Uh, the banning method is resulting in major backlash.
	I mean, you've seen the Dutch farmers erupting in protest, uh, you know, farm tractor convoys in Canada.
	But that was about seeds, though, right?
	No, that's about the fertilizer restriction.
	So it's not just cows, they want to ban certain types of fertilizer.
	Right now, uh, France, French farmers are also erupting in protest.
	They've been dumping and spraying cow maneuver over government buildings.
	This just happened in the last two weeks.
	French farmers are dumping cow manure over buildings in France because of like this is the restrictions, the climate change restrictions coming out of things like COP 28.
	And just to be clear, this is not a new form of French art.
	This is a protest.
	No.
	Okay.
	No, is it me?
	This French manure just seemed a little classy to anybody else.
	It does, right?
	Like I'm mad, but I'm not that mad because it might be a delicacy in New York.
	Yeah, so So the so the banning method, I mean, that's really uh ticking off the farmers.
	But here's really the more pernicious method, uh, and it's how they nudge behaviors and they're artificially raising the costs of the inputs for farmers until you'll eventually find that you can't afford the delicious ribeye steaks at the grocery store.
	And you'll find that the lab-grown protein cells, these fake meats that people like Bill Gates are invested in, are just cheaper than ground beef.
	And so you'll think, well, it doesn't taste that different.
	And so you'll find that your behavior has changed uh without even knowing it.
	And this is the wildest part of your book, by the way.
	When you get into the Bill Gates stuff, you have a phrase that you use for this.
	Like Bill Gates has a phrase that he uses to try to like incentivize people to do things that you might not otherwise like if you think about the idea, hey, would you like to eat something that's not really meat?
	No.
	But Bill Gates has a way to try to make you do that.
	Yeah, well, I mean, he calls it alternative proteins, which sounds much nicer than fake lab-grown uh meats.
	But he also has this term, a nifty little euphemism for the price increases that we're experiencing.
	He calls them green premiums.
	And so he knows that we don't want to eat fake meat, and we will balk at the price of uh various green technologies.
	I mean, for he also talks about green premiums on electric vehicles.
	Um, but it's a way to make your preferred meat or your preferred vehicle more expensive, raising the costs of fuel, um, raising the cost of the types of fertilizers or or grow, you know, having cows.
	And so that will, and then in turn subsidize the alternatives that he wants.
	And so uh he's plowed eleven point six billion dollars into his food takeover scheme.
	And uh actually Pete Buddig, some some listeners may remember, said the quiet part out loud, kind of about these green premiums.
	He says, quote, the more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.
	And so that's really the way they see this is the more pain that you experience when buying stakes at the store, the more benefit there is to companies like Impossible Meats.
	Well, and here's the part, honestly, I have to say, that's genius about what Bill Gates is doing.
	I think it's a terrible idea.
	I think there's so much hyping of of the climate change issue.
	But explain to people, this is actually a scheme, not just to quote unquote save the planet, but for Bill Gates to actually make money because he wants to replace real beef, which is not patented with fake meat that he and his buddies have the patents for.
	So he's gonna make money when we make this transition from pure natural beef to this lab meat that he's making.
	Like it's funny, you would say, Oh, you've cornered the market on fake meat.
	It sounds like a put down you'd use against your buddy in college, but it's actually Bill Gates' business strategy.
	It's exactly right.
	And he's doing it, and he and the other controller garcs are doing it across a variety of industries, not just food.
	And so I get into the book, like the number one goal of the control garcs, besides making money, is to take power away from, and this would be organizations like you know, in the you know, COP28 or the United Nations, the number one goal they have is to take power away from countries and citizens, Americans like you and me, and transfer that power to international institutions that they control.
	And so once you understand that that's their goal, and and so it's the food and agriculture organization is who COP28 uh put out as like the they've got the roadmap to the fake meat future.
	Once you understand that the goal is to take power away from countries and transfer it to international institutions they control, a lot of the chaos starts to make sense.
	I mean, you touched on inflation and open borders, uh crime, homelessness.
	I mean, it it feels like uh, you know, these can't be just accidents all happening at once, and there's a concerted effort in a lot of the crises that we see to take power away from countries and give it to organizations that are going to solve these crises.
	Well, and here's the thing Seamus backs all of this up, not with opinion, not with somebody else's opinion, but with hard facts.
	He's gone through the corporate records, he's gone through the the histories, his book is Control agarch's the subtitle Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life.
	I would highly recommend you pick it up.
	This is one of the defining issues we are going to face.
	And the problem is it depends, you know, certainly who is in political office, but these guys want to implement their agenda regardless of who is president.
	So in unless you have a presidential candidate and elected officials that are willing to resist them, this is the path that seems to be going Forward for Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and of course George Soros, who are featured on the cover of your book.
	And here's my concern is if they get buy-in at the federal level to support these crazy policies.
	Because there's a lot of ag lobbyists at COP, right?
	I mean, just like there's a lot of uh there's a lot of fossil fuel lobbyists at this collection as well.
	They said there's 2400 fossil fuel lobbyists because they recognize that there actually might be policies that dramatically negatively impact the industry.
	But you've also now seen some of these oil and gas companies start to get into things like carbon capture, right?
	So you're you're moving away from doing the things that made them very successful businesses.
	There's a lot of ag lobbyists at COP.
	Do we actually think if the money's there that the ag companies start moving away from things like traditional agriculture and moving more towards these things, and they become part of the solution, quote unquote average, you know, Joe Farmer, uh, you know, down the road.
	It's it's big Monsanto-like, Cargill-like, you know, multinational corporations and their lobbyists who are taking control of the agriculture industry and putting the smallholder farmers out of business.
	And so just to ask any farmer, you may know if their business has gotten more or less profitable since climate change became public enemy number one.
	It's gotten less profitable.
	Farmer, you know, generation-owned farms are going out of business, you know, left and right, and they're getting bought up.
	And that's why Bill Gates is buying all this farmland is he's making it compliant with the new regulations that are coming out of events like COP 28.
	Uh, and so he's got the solution uh to your problems.
	You didn't know you had problems, but Bill Gates has got the solutions, which is why French farmers are flinging feces all over the place.
	Yeah, exactly right.
	Well, and this this highlights a truism that we have found at GAI over and over again uh occurs in American politics.
	The biggest lie is that big government hates big business.
	Big government loves big business.
	They would rather deal with a couple of large, powerful ag firms than deal with a hundred thousand medium-sized farmers because it's a lot more complicated.
	And by the way, if you work for the government, if you work at the ag department, you may want to go work for one of these companies.
	You may want to go work for Bill Gates.
	You're gonna make a lot more money doing that than trying to become a farmer yourself.
	So this is a reinforcing cycle within big government and big business.
	They're not enemies, they're actually allies.
	Yeah, exactly right.
	I mean, competition is Bill Gates' number one enemy.
	I mean, that's why Microsoft got into trouble in the 90s for trying to put the competition out of business.
	And that's actually a central theme of the book is uh the control agarchs want a control logopoly.
	They want to control every industry with very few players where they're sort of competitors, but it's it's much more like what they have in China with these state-run businesses that there's only a handful of players, they're all in bed with the government, and uh that's the ideal system to the people going to events like COP28.
	It's such a great point.
	I hate to I hate to give you credit on national radio because you always take my parking spot, but also because uh no, it's it's it's an excellent point.
	Uh Bill Gates has an anti-competitive track record that was litigated at the highest levels of the U.S. court system.
	So we know that this is a business model, and as Peter Schweitzer has reported in his last number one New York Times best-selling book, Red Handed, all these big tech guys, many of whom you have as controls, love what?
	The Chinese Communist Party.
	They love China.
	Bill Gates loved China.
	Tell us about Bill Gates' relationship and what he admires about the dictatorial regime in Beijing.
	Yeah, well, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, a lot of the other characters in this book, they praise China.
	They love China because China is, you know, and they use again euphemisms, and they say things like efficient or their ability to mobilize resources.
	What that really means is they're a tyrannical state with total authoritarian control over their populace, and they can move without any sort of pesky voting or elections and things like that.
	They can just uh take over, you know, whatever they want.
	And that's what they that's what they love most about China.
	It's my biggest complaint about free speech and human rights.
	It's so inefficient.
	It's true.
	That's time to build these into the business model.
	Seamus Brunner, amazing work.
	This really is a great book.
	And uh I teased it before the break, but control agarch is a word you made up for your book, but it was also named the new word of the year in Australia.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I mean, I was shocked.
	I was just searching to see if anybody had, you know, picked up some coverage, and all of a sudden I look at Sky News Australia and they have uh their resident wordsmith.
	I'll give him a shout out, Kel Richards.
	He's the man.
	Uh he ran a study and had, you know, took votes and things like misinformation and like other terms popped up, but uh control agarch was the number one new word in Australia.
	Congratulations.
	Number one new word in Australia, and it should be the number one book in the country.
	It's that important.
	And I think it's absolutely laying out a roadmap for what people are trying to do to our lives in America.
	And that's why we continue to highlight the reporting that's done there.
	We'll talk more about that.
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	We've been talking about lab meat.
	We've been talking about inflation and homelessness and how inflation is sometimes encouraged and desired by political elites and global elites because they are trying to steer your life and direct your life.
	And so, Eric, are you going to be getting lab meat for your Christmas meal this year?
	No, I think lab meat is the ultimate uh white elephant gift exchange, though, right?
	It's like, oh, awesome.
	And you can stay right there at that $20 limit, too.
	That's right.
	It's the best part.
	Yeah.
	And it's a way to make a political statement.
	And if somebody is a liberal or they happen to be in favor of the direction many people are trying to take this country, then you know you're hitting a home run.
	And if not, then it's a fun little gag.
	It's actually the perfect white elephant gift.
	It is the perfect white elephant gift.
	It's also important for us to know the full extent of why things are going on.
	It's not a conspiracy.
	It's it's not a secret cabal of people.
	It's individuals that have strong beliefs about how society needs to be reorganized and conform to the pattern that they feel it should exist, and they want to use, let's say, incentives to steer you in that direction.
	And they do that by raising prices, changing laws, pushing regulations, oftentimes not by passing legislation, but by getting unelected bureaucrats to advance their agenda.
	So this is a very anti-democratic.
	You know, we did this show two years ago from New York City.
	So we did it uh in December of 2021.
	And I remember being in New York and walking around and seeing all the people with masks and everything else on and just thinking how different it was in a different state than the state that we live in in Florida.
	Yeah.
	And in, you know, COVID, I think, really helped underscore the difference in how political leadership can impact your daily reality.
	And when stuff like this comes along, it kind of makes me worried.
	Like you could see they've already passed the law in California said they're not going to sell any more gas powered vehicles starting in the next decade.
	Do you really think that banning things like real meat or banning things that we take to be essential parts of the fabric of the American life are off the table?
	I don't.
	No, I don't either.
	Um, I think it's gonna get worse before it gets better, and it does matter who our elected officials are because they're gonna determine whether we go along with this or we actually resist it and fight for the rights and the things that uh that we believe in.
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