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Stu.

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Yes.

Hi, yes.

Thank you.

Oh, it's going to be a good, it's going to be a good broadcast.

It wasn't the way it started.

I wasn't listening to you.

Holy mother.

Here is today's podcast for Monday.

A lot of great stuff on it.

Did you want to expand

while we talked to a former Soviet spy?

Yeah, that was great.

That was a pretty cool thing.

That was the fire thing.

The fire thing was great as well.

Probably not the way you should have reinforced it.

Maybe you should have said, like, hey, everybody's, yeah, that's right, Glenn.

Everybody's talking about those fires at food processing plants.

That was great.

I just said it was great.

Also, we talked to Pat Gray.

He was on as well, and it was a wonderful show.

The show is much better than, well, look,

Stoop talks very little on today's show.

So it's great.

Here it is.

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the best of the Blenbeck program.

Imagine that every state were free to choose whether to allow black people and white people to marry.

Some states would permit such marriages.

Others

probably wouldn't.

It seems unthinkable as a scenario in 2022.

That's because in 1967, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that barring international

barring interracial marriage, as 16 states still did, violates the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection.

Under the Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person or another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the state, said the court.

More than half a century on, this court case is considered one of the court's great rulings, and yet it was not universally admired at the time.

Southern states complied only grudgingly.

Alabama didn't repeal its ban on international marriage or interracial marriage until 20 or the year 2000.

That's the point of having a federal constitution, says the New York Times op-ed.

It is supreme.

The guarantees and rights in that document apply to all Americans equally, whether or not they live in the South or the North, no matter where they live.

The court system and the Supreme Court in particular exist to protect those rights when state and local authorities refuse to.

Leaving the matter to individual states and political process means that millions of Americans will be denied their fundamental rights.

In this case, the right of a woman to decide what happens inside her own body.

I mean, unless it's, you know, a vaccine.

The draft opinion relies heavily on the lack of mention of abortion in the Constitution, therefore argues that the document cannot be the basis for the right to terminate a pregnancy.

The Constitution also says nothing about, here comes the fourth grader, the Constitution also says nothing about interracial marriage, but that didn't prevent the judges from finding in the 14th Amendment the guarantee that no couple may be treated differently because of the color of their skin.

Because

that's specifically what the 14th Amendment is talking about.

It's specifically talking about.

You can't take somebody

that lives here in America and treat them differently

because of the color of their skin.

Because they are different in some way.

Now, if the left, I suppose were arguing that men could have abortions as well

then maybe but see you this this is missing the point entirely the point is

in the constitution it doesn't say you can kill babies that you claim are a lump of cells There is nothing, there are no right, you know how many, do you know how many things the Constitution actually allows the federal government to do?

What are the number of things that the government is allowed to do, the federal government allowed to do according to the Constitution?

What's that number?

I don't know the number, but there's very few of them.

I mean,

the common defense,

you have the courts, you have the post office.

I mean, you have 17 things in the Constitution.

Only 17.

How many millions are they doing right now?

And to point out, not only is

gay marriage and interracial marriage not there, neither is marriage marriage.

Like the old school, that's not, it's a state issue.

It's not a federal issue.

To this day, it's not a federal issue.

And by the way, marriage marriage wasn't an issue at all.

That was a church and human-to-human thing.

Shouldn't be a government issue at all.

Should be.

That all started because of the progressives.

Interracial marriage banned because because of the progressives.

I would say that Planned Parenthood had a lot to do with that.

I just want to point out.

Yeah, and we should point out that, you know, the guy, the guy, I don't know if this president freed the slaves.

Remember this guy?

He had a big hat.

Very tall.

I don't know, kind of a weird-looking dude.

Got married.

Sharko Smirnov with the big furry hat.

I think it was Shmirnoff.

It was another one of our past presidents.

He got married.

without a marriage license.

That's weird.

So did George Washington.

So did George Washington because that was not the way they thought about it at all.

In short, constitutional rights are meaningless unless they apply across the entire country.

Let me rephrase that for the New York Times and the fourth grader that wrote this.

In short, constitutional rights are meaningless unless they apply to all people.

All people.

Now, our argument here in the state would be

that

that clump of cells doesn't suddenly turn into a tumor, it always turns into a human being.

You have a right to life.

No one is allowed to take that life

from you unless you've done something and you've been tried in a court of law.

No innocent life is supposed to go away because the government says.

So that's the extremist point of view.

But the Constitution is there to say these are a few of the rights that come from God.

So they come from, you don't have, you could say it's a higher power.

You could say it's the stars.

It's stardust, the things that make us.

Whatever it is,

rights come from them.

You know, the trees, the forests.

I'm speaking right directly to the progressive left.

The forest gives us our rights.

And no one can change them.

And no one can just issue rights.

That's really important because that's what the government wants you to believe, that the government can give you rights.

The Supreme Court is not taking away abortion rights.

The Supreme Court is saying, It's up to the people in the state.

The federal government can't do anything about it.

Why?

Because it's not their job.

When it comes to something like this, it has to be decided by the people.

This is the least dictatorial ruling I have seen in I don't know how long.

All right.

So

what's happening?

Well, Michigan Attorney General, Dana Nessel, very upset, very, very upset

because the Supreme Court is overturning Roe v.

Wade.

And she said, I am not to have, I am not going to enforce any laws

that

say I have to break into a doctor's office and stop abortion.

I just won't do it.

Again, that's not what the Supreme Court said.

It's your state laws.

Well, Michigan has a law in the books from from 1931.

By the way,

the height of the progressive era.

You really hung on that H and height for some reason.

That seemed to.

It criminalized abortion

with, she says, with

no exceptions.

I mean, except for the

exception for rape and incest.

But other than that, no

Okay.

Well, if you don't like it, I think

the Democrats control Michigan.

I think actually the mob does, but

the Democrats control Michigan.

You have a very pro-choice governor.

Change the law.

You can't go off as the Attorney General.

I know George Soros is telling you differently, but you can't just say as the chief law enforcement officer in your state,

you can't say, ah, we're not going to pay attention to that law.

What you do is you change your law.

This is not a federal law.

This is in your state.

Ask the voters.

It really,

it really

amazes me how stupid people really are.

She knows better than this.

All these people, New York Times, they know better than that.

That's a fourth, it is honestly a fourth-grade opinion.

It really is.

It shows you have no understanding how this system works at all.

But then again,

why should people be smart when they're spoon-fed everything they're supposed to believe and then told you must believe it?

CNN reported on Friday that the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion,

probably a right-wing political

leak, and it's going to lead to right-wing political violence.

What?

What are they even talking about?

CNN has learned the U.S.

Capitol Police are bracing for large demonstrations that are being organized by far-right groups to protest abortion rights.

What far-right groups?

What?

I mean, you always say far-right groups, which is wrong.

Far-right groups are Nazis.

Nazis love abortions.

They were killing children in the millions.

What are you talking about?

The Nazis are upset about killing children?

They love it.

The recently installed non-scalable fencing outside the court building was visible.

As CNN reported, several members of law enforcement have expressed concerns that people who are committed to committing act of violent extremism could use Roe versus Wade opinion for a justification of that.

Yeah, where did they say that

it was going to be

the vast right wing?

Where are they saying that?

CNN did say I should caution, there are no specific credible threats.

Oh,

okay.

Okay.

All right.

I get it.

Sure.

Sure.

Now,

a lot of people have been saying these things about the

right

while they put up the fence.

I was shocked, shocked to see the progressive left

calling to burn the Supreme Court and the country down.

I don't know about anybody else.

You know,

those pro-life conservatives were really upset.

Oh, man, they had some heated arguments around the dinner table yesterday.

Yeah, they did.

Meanwhile, the acts of violence or illegal activity seems to be things like a Catholic church burned in Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.

It was vandalized.

I shouldn't say burned or broken into or terrorist activity.

This is vandalized.

Vandalist.

Vandals.

Vandals did this.

Now, was the vandalism mostly peaceful?

It was mostly peaceful, but it was mostly also anti-religious and

it was

pro-choice.

But it was

peaceful, sort of fire-starting,

bomb-throwing, you know,

sort of

threatening if abortion isn't safe, neither are you, sort of way.

Right.

And that, you know, that that's a in a in a peaceful sense.

There was tranquility involved in those words.

Amen, amen.

And they also scribbled on the side of another clinic

in Madison, Wisconsin.

It was a pro-life office.

They scribbled, or actually in very nice cursive handwriting, so you know that it was the right.

1312 was also on there, which every conservative who doesn't know what 1312 means, right?

I mean, that's...

I didn't.

We start all of our, come on, we start all of our meetings with, hey, hail, 1312.

What is 13?

13.12?

All cops are the B word.

I'm not sure.

I think I know what B word, but so many words have been banned when somebody says the B word, well, we wouldn't want to designate the gender of the police officer.

Exactly right.

That would be either one of those.

It could be either one of those.

So

we don't know.

But 1312, that was the tip off to me that it was definitely, definitely right-wing churchgoers.

Jeez.

Welcome to the.

Oh, by the way, Antifa also,

the pro-abort men of Antifa

were putting out hits on pregnancy centers in Portland also this weekend.

They bashed windows and put F C P C's which,

again, come on, we all know what that means.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

This is from the audio podcast, The Agent.

The year was 1988, and Jack Barski had been in the United States for over 10 years.

Like anyone living in the hustle and bustle of New York City, the site of the skyline, peppered with so many tall buildings, never got old.

He had made this city a home, a home he knew better than most native New Yorkers, having explored nearly every street, by foot or by bicycle.

He loved his job as a software developer at MetLife.

He adored his co workers, and he finally felt like he was fitting in.

He was meant to be here.

He lived in a modest apartment with his wife and young daughter, and they considered looking for a bigger place now that there were three in the family.

Even though his days were long and his commute to and from Manhattan made it even longer, he rushed back home every night to see his little princess one last time before she went to bed.

Jack Barski was living the American dream, but this dream was about to take a sudden and unexpected turn.

Town has taken refuge there.

The news watch never stops.

It's 42 degrees in clear in New York, going down to 29 degrees in Midtown.

43, an hour WYNS shot.

I would probably wake up typically about

7,

have a bowl of cereal

and get on my way.

I lived in Queens.

I had about a 12-minute walk to the subway.

This was in December.

It was still dark at that time.

I'm not a morning person, so I'm just like walking sort of in a daze.

I went along a path that I had communicated to the center.

They needed to know this because there was a spot on that path where they were able to put signals.

So every morning when I get to a supporting post for the elevated A train, I would just take a look and nothing ever was there.

But on this cold December morning, Jack noticed something different as he approached the subway station.

This is really odd.

I get a little closer and there was this red dot, the fist-sized red dot.

That screamed at me.

What it was saying is danger.

get out of here.

Immediately.

Don't go back home.

Don't go to work.

Retrieve your reserve documents.

I had a set of Canadian documents that I had hidden in a park someplace.

And make a beeline to the Canadian border where eventually you get further instructions and that's how we get you out of here.

That's all I knew.

Danger, do this.

This was part of the plan.

Jack had received a signal.

A code red.

The red dot was a signal from the center, the home of KGB headquarters back in Moscow, and was part of an elaborate system of graphic signals used for communication.

In the 10 years he had spent in America, Jack had regular secret communication with other Russian agents, agents he never actually met in person.

But until today, Jack had never received the danger signal.

This is from the podcast, The Agent, and Jack Barski is with us now.

Hi, Jack.

How are you?

I'm good.

Good morning, and thank you.

I feel honored to be

called a friend of the Glenn Beck program.

Can I have that in writing?

It'll probably get you in more trouble with the FBI and others, I think, at this point, Jack.

But thank you so much.

You're an amazing man who've lives an amazing life.

And had we talked in the 80s, I wouldn't have said that.

But you have turned into a great friend of the United States.

And

I think what, you know,

I'm not going to reveal anything that is in the agent.

I just wanted to talk to you, Jack, because

something is happening here with this Ukraine situation.

And I feel like everybody's pushing for war.

And

I'm not so excited about that because

this seems like this could quickly

become a nightmare of world war proportions.

You are so right.

And

we have to expect that Russia makes a lot of noise.

You know, this is what Putin does.

And they threaten.

But what's happening in the United States and in other Western countries, we have a bunch of armchair warriors who are playing politics

with a situation that could easily

be accelerated into what you just called a World War III.

The first time I cringed when

our president called Putin a war criminal.

Did that move the needle one way or the other?

I said, shut up, don't talk, act.

Because that, you know, that going back and forth could easily, you know, Putin just might get triggered by that.

He is not

very amenable to being criticized.

And

that's a fact.

It's a proven historic fact.

Jack,

tell me, because I've gone back and forth in my head, other than them being incredibly different people.

Ronald Reagan called Russia

an evil empire and called for the destruction of it.

And I know reading history that the Kremlin, I think it was

Andropoff,

really was quite a paranoid guy and thought for sure that

the United States under Reagan would

launch missiles in a first strike.

What's the difference between then and now?

Well, first of all,

you're right about Andropov and his paranoia.

He thought,

and I was aware of that.

He started

called Operation Ryan, where everybody,

every KGB agent who operated in the West had to look out for signs of war.

But there was,

in those days, the Soviet Union was already weakened.

and there was more fear than

active aggression.

The Soviet rulers did not want to go go to war.

And I say, I think Vladimir Putin is

very aggressive and

he's maneuvered himself into this

position.

He can't, he's on a one-way street with no side street to duck into.

Yeah.

And

do you think he's

in his speech that he gave, where he talked about a new Russia being born,

was that

misinformation, or is this

do you think he really believes that?

Oh, no,

he has not made made a secret of that.

You know, he

a couple of years ago, I think he wrote an essay, a lengthy essay,

about what he wants to do, and he wants to restore Russia's greatness, not the Soviet Union,

mind you, Russia's greatness.

And, you know, he this is this is his

life.

Okay, that this is him.

He is Russia.

And

he has,

you know, he's convinced himself that some greater power.

I think he pretends to be a believer now.

He does pretend to be a believer.

I don't know if he does believe in God, but he thinks he has been appointed to do just that.

That's a little frightening.

So

what are we doing that we

I mean, we came out for the first time, Jack, that I know of and confirmed that we sunk the Russian flagship in the Black Sea,

and that we confirmed that we are giving them all kinds of targeting information to target their generals.

We are just beating our chest in a very terrifying way.

Well, I don't know who we is.

There's some some leaker, right?

Yeah.

And then the media printed it.

The Pentagon and

Biden have denied that.

Now,

we do admit that we provide intelligence,

but

to say that we contributed to the destruction, make this statement that we have proof,

that's an exaggeration.

My God, this country is populated by leakers, and

everywhere you go, where you're supposed to keep things secret, it leaks out.

So what do you see happening here, Jack, as you're sitting watching all of this stuff unfold?

Somebody who grew up under that system, you probably know geopolitics, at least

from a historic sense, probably better than most.

So

to understand

what's going on here,

you need to put yourself into the shoes of Vladimir Putin, his leadership, and the Russian people in general.

And

Putin looks at this conflict as a conflict between himself and the West, not just Ukraine.

He isn't just saying it, he believes it.

Because this kind of thinking is rooted in Russian history.

The Russian people and the Russian leaders have always been paranoid for a good reason.

Ever since

Russia was founded, it has been attacked from all sides, from the north, east, west, south.

It was the Mongols, it was the Turks, it was the Vikings, it was Napoleon, and it was Hitler.

So

there's a paranoia

gene in the Russian DNA, and Putin believes that

the West is coming after him.

And this only gets worse

as we shut down all of the financing and pull all of our people

out.

And when I say our people, pull

all of our financial systems and any of our businesses out of Russia.

That has to speak volumes.

It does, but I don't think it is as powerful as Americans like to believe, because Putin,

we know that he's not stupid.

He expected that.

And when you look at what's happening right now, the ruble has stabilized.

Putin still is,

I think, in the last two months, he got more oil and gas revenue than in the five months before.

You know, and he has allies.

I mean, right now, China is allied with him, and

India is

at best neutral.

So he is not, you know,

this is like

his economy

is like a set of gears that will have to deal with some sand, but I don't think we can bring him down to his knees.

So, Jack, do you feel we are close to war?

Well, you're obviously closer to war than we were just a few months ago, right?

Are we close to nuclear war?

You know, it's partially wishful thinking, but partially also

there's some reality behind that,

my believing that we're not that close.

I mean, Putin

in his speech

did not threaten nuclear, you know,

exploding some nuclear missiles.

It was like status quo, let's keep on going, you know?

And I believe this conflict is going to drag on for a long time well and it's better than the alternative

you bet but

there's a there's a secondary war here and the secondary war is economic all right because you know Western Europe is is I think in great danger we as the United States economically are not as much in danger because we we have all the natural resources Western Europe if they can it's they're so dependent on with regard to their energy

that

if that war drags out for a long time, they will be severely weakened.

Well, we're not doing anything with our energy.

And I tell you, Jackie, I look at this and I think if I were a

former Soviet spy and still could think like the other side,

I'd be thrilled with what America was doing right now.

We are dismantling ourselves.

We have gas prices going through the roof.

We haven't haven't even hit the summer.

We could be at $5 a gallon for the summer and maybe $7 or $8 for trucks, which will just cripple the nation.

I just want to make one statement, which is not necessarily political, because there's one thing

talking about the ideology that

runs rampant

in the Democrat Party.

But we are currently led by a bunch of people who don't know how to get things done.

They don't know how to execute.

And, you know, we're shooting ourselves in the foot.

And this, this,

and, you know, this, you know, that the

energy policy is driven by ideology, and that's global warming.

It's almost a religion.

Oh, yeah, it is.

Absolutely.

With Greta being the patron saint.

You know, you lived in East Germany.

How old were you when you left East Germany?

When I left East Germany, I was 26 because I went first to Moscow to improve my English.

And

when I came to the United States, I was 29.

So you're 29 years old.

You were recruited by the KGB.

You were trained

in all of these things.

And you, being from East Germany, I would assume, you know, you were very well aware of the spying that they did and the

manipulation of people that they did.

Did you notice that?

Did you know that when you joined the KGB that they were

just patriotic kind of our side versus their side?

I was a patriot, but I also was a revolutionary.

I was

going to contribute to, you know, build the paradise, the workers' paradise on earth.

And I was ideologically 100% behind the Soviet Union, East Germany, KGB, the Stasi,

simply because of ignorance.

This is what happens

in a state where all communication is regulated and it's owned by the state.

We never got the truth.

The best of the Glenbeck Program.

Welcome to the Glenbeck Program.

Your personal inflation rate coming up in just a second.

I want to share with you from National Review and Jim Garrity.

There is a...

There is a great story on the food facility fires.

I've been asked about this over and over again, and we looked into it and

it's there's just, it doesn't seem to be out of the normal, believe it or not.

Now, there are some things like, well, for instance,

National Review writes, in a typical year, how many plane crashes do we have into food processing plants?

What's your guess?

How many planes crash into a food processing plant?

I mean, say seven a week, 300.

No, none?

Yeah, none.

Okay, zero.

A bad year, maybe.

One.

One.

Okay.

So so far this year, we've had two.

That's okay.

That's May.

Yeah.

And so you would think, hmm, there's something wrong.

But two, I mean, it's really unlikely, but okay.

Okay.

Maybe.

Okay.

I don't know how.

All right.

So let's look at everything that's been happening.

A plane crashed into an Idaho potato and food processing plant, killing the pilot.

Police say

Gem Strait processing in Hayburn, East Idaho at about 8.35 in the morning on Wednesday.

The pilot was the only person in the plane and died during the crash.

Police said none of the employees at the processing plant were injured.

Okay, so it had to be a kamikaze food plant guy.

Okay, because he flew the plane into the plant.

Then, just a couple of weeks later, Covington, Georgia, firefighters responded to a plane crash that killed two people Thursday at the General General Mills food processing plant.

The small plane crashed apparently after taking off from a runway at the Covington Municipal Airport.

Six tractor trailers were damaged as a result of the crash.

Both occupants of the plane died.

However, local officials were grateful the plane did not strike the plant building, which could have resulted in greater loss of life.

So, if you want to go for the plane crash idea,

yeah,

two plane crashes in or near food processing plants is weird.

It is weird.

But,

well, let me go on.

February 5th, massive, these are the headlines.

Massive fire swept through Wisconsin River meets on Thursday, destroying part of the facility.

Then February 22nd, the Shears Food Plant in Hermiston, Oregon caught fire after a propane boiler exploded.

March 17th, a structure fire at the Walmart Distribution Center in Plainville, Indiana broke out about noon on Wednesday.

A thousand employees were inside, but none were injured.

One firefighter suffered minor injuries.

March 22nd, a fire broke out at a Nestle hot pockets plant in George in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

It happened on March 16th.

The facility was still closed as of March 21st.

March 25th, officials believe a deep frying machine is behind the the fire that destroyed a potato processing facility in belfast april 13th firefighters from several departments and on in maine helped battle a massive fire that destroyed a butcher shop and meat market in center conway new hampshire and april 30th soybean processing tank caught fire at the purdue farms plant in chesapeake virginia okay

I mean,

that's a lot, right?

That's a lot.

Okay, so here's how we have looked at it, and this is exactly the way Jim Garrity has looked at it.

Not all the fires or crashes did significant damage.

In the Chesapeake soybean facility fire, the plant manager said the fire had little to no impact on their operations.

In the Georgia crash, the plane didn't hit the building, no employees were harmed, and General Mills spokesperson said the plant didn't experience any disruption and remains fully operational.

The pilot in that crash, by the way, was identified as a student pilot and the other person was the flight instructor.

So, I mean, unless

it was some sort of anti-food processing plant

flight instructor that took that plane down and missed the plant, that's probably not one to count.

Second, none of the fires so far have been declared cases of arson.

This is really important because I, you know, I went looking at these and I thought to myself, I don't know, that seems like a lot.

But when we really started looking, none of them have been deemed arson.

And that's from coast to coast.

If any of them had been deemed arson, if two of them, I would have been like, well, let's look into this.

In any given year, there are half a million fires reported to local fire departments.

About 5,300 of them are manufacturing or processing facilities.

That comes to about 440 per month.

And if there are fires in 440 manufacturing or processing facilities a month from coast to coast, Wouldn't we expect at least a handful of these to be at food processing facilities?

In fact, the list above stretches the definition of food processing facilities because the Walmart Distribution Center also stored clothes and cardboard and the New Hampshire fire happened at a local butcher shop.

Third, if you were a terrorist or a foreign agent or somebody in the deep state

attempting to choke off the American food distribution network, would you start with a potato chip maker in Oregon or the source for hot pockets in Arkansas?

Then move on to a soybean processing tank in Virginia.

If you were a nefarious terrorist group or hostile foreign power and had not, you know, not merely one suicide pilot, but two of them, as in the case of the Georgia crash,

who, why were they there?

Why not use that third person to bring down another plane?

You wouldn't bring a passenger along.

And would you really aim for a potato processing plant in southern Idaho than the Georgia plant where they make cinnamon toast crunch?

The U.S.

had,

as of 2017, the U.S.

had 36,486 food and beverage processing establishments.

What's most likely happening, according to Jim Garrity, is the Bader-Meinhoff phenomena.

You may not know what the Baider-Manhoff

Meinhoff phenomena is, but you've experienced it.

Have you ever gone to buy a car and then suddenly they're everywhere?

Oh, yeah, for sure.

That is that phenomena.

It's a frequency illusion that when things start to happen, and we are now looking at food shortages, we all know it.

We also all know some things aren't being done by our government that are right.

We also know

there are people that, you know,

like catastrophe and, you know, swim in really calm waters of catastrophe as they look at it, never waste it.

So we have these things percolating.

And as you see one fire and then another, these are not out of the normal.

And they're not arson.

They're not terrorist strikes.

And they don't seem to be affecting big plants.

And that's what you would go after, are the big plants.

That's really good news.

That's really good news.

And that sort of thing happens to everybody.

I mean, on the left, it happens all the time.

One recent example was the Australian fires.

Remember how big of a deal this was?

Everyone was on, you know, online.

They were running fundraisers.

And it was a big deal.

I'm not saying the Australian fires a few years ago were not, but everyone was saying that, like, this is global warming, and look how terrible this is, and the environment, and weather weirding, and all of this.

And at the end of the year,

there was

less square mileage burned in Australia than average, that year, less than average.

Isn't that crazy?

Crazy.

Yeah.

And why is it happening to them?

This is like when you're buying a new car, you're focused on that.

When you're worried about global warming, you're focused on that.

When you're worried about food shortages and you see things that you've not noticed before, it's because you weren't paying attention to it that way.

How many times have we paid attention to a forest fire in Australia?

Well, we paid attention that year because the people who are running the news are talking about forest fires

and global warming.

That is what happens.

And you get down the, and I think this happens all the time with global warming.

Every time there's a moderately strange weather event that's slightly out of the ordinary, this is what it's blamed on every single time.

And everyone's a meteorologist.

And if you really want to know what's going to cause food shortages, it's Russia and Ukraine and our response to it.

That's really what is going to cause

the most problems of getting food all around the world.

What about China and the COVID shutdowns that they're still kind of going through?

That's big as well.

Have you seen the Shanghai ports, the satellite photos from 2020 and then today?

Incredible difference.

It is

today.

It's backed up like crazy basically.

Oh, it's like you're looking at the stars in the sky.

There are so many ships out there.

We are headed for real, real trouble, you know, in the next, I don't even know, three to six, seven months when it comes to items not being available.

No, no, no, no.