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Pope Francis passed away recently at the age of 88 years old. Even if you aren't a Catholic, this is a major world event that has the potential to impact the entire Western world.
RFK JR and the Department of Health and Human Services moved to ban toxic petroleum-based food dyes. Why does that matter, and when will it take effect?
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, Happy Wednesday, everybody. Hope we're doing well. Little bit
of housekeeping, of course. Just want to remind you seven
pm on Sunday nights. We are here. I say we're here,
we're actually there live on AM nine fifty KPRC. It's
a great show every weekend. I want to encourage you
to listen to it. Take the time. Pretty much anywhere
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in the Houston area you are in range of the
AM nine to fifty KPRC radio transmitter, so you can
listen to the show live on Sundays and then it'll
be podcasted Monday morning. It's also worth noting the verdict
with Ted Cruz that is on in the six o'clock
hour on the same station, so you could do a
double feature six o'clock Ted Cruz seven o'clock me. What
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better way to follow that up. I highly encourage you
to do that. It is a great time every single week.
I've enjoyed being able to do it, and I want
to encourage you to go listen to it. But if
you can't, I understand a lot of people are busy
Sunday evenings. Listen to the podcast on Monday morning or
if you're kind of outside that Greater Houston area. You
don't get a very good AM radio signal. That's fine too,
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Free iHeart Radio app plays the show live. Just tune
in on the iHeart Radio app to AM nine to
fifty KPRC. All right, that's enough of that. Let's talk
a little bit about something that actually happened, I believe
technically while I was on the air last Sunday, and
that is that Pope Francis died. Now, I want to
start off by saying this, I am a religious Southern Baptist,
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kind of a forms Southern Baptist Calvinistic Protestant. So the Pope,
especially this particular Pope, is someone that I had quite
a few issues with. I have several issues with the
off of the Pope, and I had a number of
pretty big political issues with this particular Pope. So all around,
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this was a guy that I did not care for. However,
this is a person that has passed away. This is
a person that was made in the image of God,
and this person has died. And there are, you know,
something along the lines of one point four billion people
on this earth who cared for Pope Francis deeply. So
I think that's worth taking a mention of what's really
important here is all the things that Pope Francis's death
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now set in motion. Obviously, if you've paid any attention
to the online right, Roman Catholicism has seen a huge
resurgence in kind of the online right. I've picked up
on this. I'm part of the online right. I'm online
all the time, and I'm just about as far right
as you can get. The online kind of new tread
right is very attracted to Roman Catholicism, and I definitely
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see the attraction for sure. I mean, if you watch
all the degeneracy and nonsense and chaos that goes on
in the world, obviously, something like the Roman Catholic Church
that offers a deep rooted sense of purpose and history, tradition, belonging,
all those great things. Those are all things that are
offered by the Catholic Church, and there is obviously great
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appeal to that. If you're a Protestant Christian, you need
to be looking at and saying, Okay, what there can
I take and implement. Now, I'm not saying change what
the church is or does in order to conform to
the times. That's never a good idea. What I'm saying
is we have done that in a way that the
Catholic Church to a certain extent has not, and maybe
we take some hints from that. I don't know. That's
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for the big wigs at the Southern Baptist Convention, I
guess to decide, or individual pastors at various other churches.
Who am I to tell you how to run your church.
I'm not a pastor, I've never claimed to be, I
don't want to be. But I recognize the importance of
big institutions like this, and that's where I'm really trying
to get out here. Whether or not you subscribe to
the beliefs of the Catholic Church, and I don't. I
think many of them are very wrong in a lot
of ways. There are two things that every single person
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has got to recognize, whether or not you like the
Catholic Church or hate it. The Catholic Church just as
an institution, not even necessarily as a religious institution. But
I think to a certain extent, both just as a
secular institution and a religious institution, has one thousand percent
been a major player in the shaping of the Western world.
The Western world is far and away the most amazing
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place the most amazing kind of culture and subcultures that
a person could possibly ever hope to live in, and
a whole bunch of that, maybe even most of that
is directly because of the influence of the Catholic Church.
Those two things are irreversibly connected. Because of that, who's
at the top and pulling the strings of the Catholic
Church is going to have an immense amount of influence
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over the Western world, even more so as people in
sort of these European countries. Younger people, especially in these
European countries, begin to flock more and more towards the
traditions of the Catholic Church. My hope and prayer is
that will lead them to more ord orthodox Christianity, but
who knows what will happen either way, The Catholic Church
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is going to have an immense amount of influence over
the thoughts and actions of huge portions of Western society,
as they have since the first century. So even if
you're not a practicing Catholic, even if you're not a
practicing Christian, you have to recognize the fact that who
becomes the next pope is incredibly important for the entire
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world right now. It is and we talked about this
a little bit on Sunday as well. Again, go back
and listen to the podcast. It's available now. The Western
world is coming up on a point where we are
definitely going to have to unite together in order to
combat the various enemies that we have, namely communism, the
communist China, and the list can go on. We've already
sort of started to see that happen thanks to Donald Trump.
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We've seen different countries Western nations start to kind of
coalesce around the United States, and that I think is
a very good thing. We don't need to be a
globalist empire, but at the same time time, it is
good for us to kind of work together and help
each other out to spread our mutual values. Bringing on ancient,
historical institutions that hold the hearts and influence of literally
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over a billion people is going to be a major,
major help in that. A conservative pope coming into the
Catholic Church and saying, hey, listen, we and by we,
I mean the Catholic Church and Western society together for
a long time, have been way too accepting of ideals
and practices that are completely antithetical to this society that
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we have built. We've got to stop accepting those things
as normal, things like gender ideology, things like abortion, things
that are frankly pagan that the Catholic Church, to their credit,
Pope Francis has been very pro life in his speech,
but he hasn't really done a whole lot. I had
this conversation with somebody the other day. Pope Francis has
talked a big game for years about how pro life
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he is. But Joe Biden was never excommunicated. He was
denied communion by a couple of different priests or cardinals
or what have you, but he was never excommunicated. There's
a major pro abortion group called Catholics for Choice that
I get emails from press releases basically every single day.
I've never seen a statement from the Vatican on them. Ever.
I want people to remember this, politics is always downstream
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from culture, always, So if you really want to change
things politically, like abortion, what you really need is the
culture to get behind you. A great way to get
the culture behind something like a pro life message is
for the Catholic Church, which has extreme influence over cultures
all around the world, to be reinvigorated and say, yes,
we're going to fight for life. We're not going to
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make any exceptions anymore on anything. I think that would
be an amazing thing. So anyway, my point here is
this is going to be a very big moment for
the Western world, and everybody should be praying for the
best here. Even if you're not Catholic, this is going
to matter. So pay attention to it. All right, stay tune,
We got a great show coming.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Up for you.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Donald Trump continues to completely undo everything Biden did, and
I think that's great. Everything Biden did was terrible. I
can't name a single good thing. I'm sure there's probably one.
I have no idea what it is. One good thing
that Joe Biden did. One of the biggest bad things
that Joe Biden did was basically just tell everybody that
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had student loans, hey, you don't have to pay back
those loans. All you goober liberal kids that got master's
degrees in lesbian dance theory from Harvard University. You don't
have to pay any of that money back anymore. You
all like four hundred thousand dollars to the US taxpayer
because you took out a student loan that you couldn't
afford for a stupid degree. That didn't make you any money.
(08:57):
Don't worry about it. We'll just let that slide completely
off the hook. Now. I just want to speak about
myself personally. I never did go to a fancy four
year college. And I know what you're thinking. I know
what you're thinking. Ethan, you're super genius. I mean, the
insights that we get listening to you are unlike anything
you've ever seen before. How is it possible that you're
(09:19):
doing all of this without backing that up with a
degree from Yale University? How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I know, contrary to popular belief, I was never super
academically inclined. I always loved learning about history and government
and law and world events and things of that nature.
But none of that ever really translated super well academically.
So I graduated high school and my financial situation was
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such that the only way that I was ever going
to go to a four year college, which I didn't
think I would ever really enjoy anyway, was if I
took out massive amounts of student loans. Because my family
was never particularly wealthy. I was I'm not athletic enough
for a sports scholarship, and I was not smart enough
for an academic scholarship, So that basically ruled out college
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unless I wanted to take out a bunch of debt,
which I wasn't willing to do because I didn't want
that risk. I didn't want to have to take out
a bunch of debt to get a degree and then
maybe not be able to pay that debt off. And
I would never have gotten a degree in something useless,
even at that young age of eighteen. I was too
practical for that. I've just been always a very risk
(10:30):
averse person. So I didn't see that as a good idea.
I just didn't. And if you do, think, okay, here's
a degree plan that I can turn into a very
profitable career with, you know whatever levels of risk I'm
comfortable tolerating. So I'll go ahead and take out a
student loan. You know what, go for it. I'm not
going to stop you. By all means. You have that
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right to do that. However, don't ask me who didn't
do that very intentionally, didn't do that to then cover
the cost of your student loan, because that's what you're doing.
If you say I don't want to have to pay
this off, you're asking the taxpayers because it's a government loan.
Presumably most student loans come from the government, at least
the ones that the government is forgiving. Those are loans
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that come from the government, which means that's US tax
dollars that went into your education. That's my money, that's
money I paid to the federal government in my taxes.
I wasn't asked if I wanted to do that. I
wasn't given an option. I was told, pay your taxes
or go to jail, and we're going to take your
tax money and we're going to put it into student loans.
I will accept that, maybe, even though I don't think
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that this is something the government should be involved in.
But as long as you know, whatever, we can issue
out these loans with certain levels of interest and get
those interest payments back and make some profit here, and
maybe we can funnel that into other beneficial for the
taxpayer programs. I'll allow the argument. All of a sudden,
that argument disappears if you say, never mind, you don't
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have to pay that back. Here's free taxpayer money. No,
don't do that, never do that. But the Biden administration
did that despite court orders that we're trying to stop him,
even from the Supreme Court. The left who loves to
talk about how terrible it is that Donald Trump isn't
bringing back in El Salvadre and MS thirteen gang member
because the Supreme Court said he had to and he's
not doing it. They'll tell you all day how horrible
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that is. But Joe Biden, who just said, you guys
don't have to pay back your loans, even though the
Supreme Court said, hey, you need to get these guys
to pay back their loans. We ignore that. We pretend
that didn't even happen. Well, here's Caroline Levitt, Press Secretary
for the President of the United States, saying, hey, by
the way, you guys are going to have to pay
back those loans. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
In other news, the Trump administration has announced we will
put an end to Joe Biden's illegal loan bailout attempts.
No student loan has been referred to collections since March
of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That comes to an end on May fifth.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
The Department of Education will resume involuntary collections for borrowers
with defaulted federal student loans. The student loan portfolio controlled
by the federal government is nearly one point six trillion dollars,
but fewer than four out of ten borrowers are in repayment.
This is unsustainable, unfair, and a huge liability for American taxpayers.
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Debt cannot be wiped away. It just ends up getting
transferred to others. So why should Americans who didn't go
to college or went to college and responsibly paid back
their loans pay for the student loans of other Americans.
The Trump administration will never force taxpayers to pay student
loan debts that don't belong to them. Student loan borrowers
need clarity, and we're finally giving it to them. Borrowers
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will now be clearly expected to repay their loans, and
those who default on their loan obligations will face involuntary collections.
The government can and will collect defaulted federal student loan
debt by withholding money from borrowers, tax refunds, federal pensions,
and even their wages. America is thirty six trillion dollars
in debt. We must get our fiscal house in order
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and restore common sense to our country. If you take
out a loan, you have to pay it back.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
It's very simple, and you know what shoes right. It
is very simple. You took out that loan. You agreed
to the terms of the loan. I don't know if
you read it. If you didn't, that's your own fault
for making a stupid decision. Don't sign a loan if
you don't read the terms of the darn loan, because
you're on the hook for that and you agreed to it.
You're eighteen years old, you're a legal adult. You took
out that student loan. Welcome to adulthood. Your actions have consequences.
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Pay back your loan. I'm not doing it. This really
isn't that complicated. Just take responsibility for your own decisions
and choices. This shouldn't be that hard. But for a
bunch of you know, freshly out of college, my age liberals,
people in my generation, who are completely stupid for some reason,
you went to college, but you don't understand how a
loan works. They're losing their minds over this. Take a
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listen to this one lady just absolutely going bananas about
how terrible it is that she's going to have to
pay back the loan that she agreed to take out.
Take a listen. Will they just drop the student loan bomb?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
The federal government just announced that it's coming for your
loans and collections began in May fifth for student loan debt.
If you're in default, they can garnish your wages, they
can take your tax return, and they can even take
like your benefits like Social Security, and if you still
can't pay it and default, they're gonna send you to collections.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
They're about five point.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Three million people in the United States right now in default.
This is gonna hurt the people that are already struggling
the most. They are really just trying to absolutely cripple
as many people as possible. At this point, it's pretty
clear they want us completely broke. They don't give about
our health. They don't really give it if we die. Yeah,
(15:40):
they're just gonna cut everything. This really just paves the
path for so much more bullshit.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I just realize it's.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
About the same amount of people that have been at
the protests.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Interesting. Well see you guys May first.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
That's the next one.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I gotta say, I respect the fact that she added
that little pinch of conspiracy theory in there. As a
conspiracy theory enjoyer myself. I appreciate when someone comes up
with a new conspiracy theory Donald Trump making people repay
their student loans because they're protesting him. That's a pretty
good one, I will admit, But I don't think you're right.
(16:14):
I think the fact that that ven diagram of people
protesting Trump and people who need to pay back their
student loans, I think that is probably a perfect circle,
or a near perfect circle. I also think that's a
coincidence more than anything else. It is kind of interesting
to note, however, that all of the people that think
their entire lives should be subsidized by the federal government
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tend to vote for Democrats. That's an interesting it's an
interesting pattern that we're seeing here. But anyway, you took
out that loan, you agree to the terms of that loan.
The people that that's gonna hurt the most are the
people that are lazy and not paying back their debts.
I understand that sometimes the life happens and you don't
get the job you thought you wanted, and so paying
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back your debts is difficult. Regardless of that fact, that's
still on you. It's not on me, because that's what
you're trying to put it on Again, I didn't take
out a student loan but you took out a loan.
My taxpayer money went into your college. That's what happened.
I'm not on the hook for that. I didn't sign
that paperwork. You did. You agreed to those terms. Maybe
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you are one of the rare cases where somebody actually
went and tried to get an education in something that
was useful. But you know, whatever happened in your life
and you weren't able to get the good paying job
you thought you were going to have. But guess what,
that's still not my problem. I mean, it sucks that
you're in that situation. I hope you have a strong
social safety net. Maybe parents you can move in with
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to kind of get ahead a little bit. That's fairly common.
That's not anything particularly new. People have been doing that
for some time, right out of college. They moved back
in with their parents, save a little bit of money,
and then set themselves up better for the future. I
know someone personally that did that, and it worked out
pretty well for him. He got a good paying job,
lived with his parents for a while, just bought a
nice house. No shame in that. Guess what if something
bad happened his student loan is not my problem. If
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you needed a couch to crash on. Minds right there.
But I'm not gonna pay your student loan back. And
I'm not gonna do that for somebody that I've never met,
somebody who I know got a useless degree from a
useless school. It is of no value to society. I'm
not gonna pay for that. I'm just not going to
What we are going to see here is a bunch
of young Americans, Americans my age, that are about to
learn real hard and fast about the consequences of their actions.
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And that's a good thing because they need to learn.
There is no other type of loan that you can
take out and just demand that the government pay it
back for you. And if you go through life thinking
that that's the case, you're gonna end up learning a
lot harder lessons a lot later in life, when it's
gonna be a lot more difficult to recover. So the
point of your being cry about it, basically, if you
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didn't want to pay back your student loans and now
you have to cry about it, I'm not gonna pay
for your student loan for you. You need to pay it back,
just like you need to pay back any other loan.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We got one more segment coming up in just a second, alright,
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and we all know what that means. Means we are
on our way out for this episode. Let's end on
a really high note. I know, making annoying college kids
pay back their student loans. That's already a pretty high note.
Don't worry, I'm gonna top it. Believe it or not.
I got something on my sleeve here.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
We've talked a lot in the past about how unhealthy
our food is. I've discussed this topic at length in
previous episodes of the show. We've talked a lot about
this in the context of RFK Junior and what he's
getting up to. This has been his whole thing, right.
This is the reason that Trump brought him into the
fold last year. This is the re in that Trump
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made him a member of his administration. It was to
tackle specifically this issue. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have
fantastic news. The issue is being tackled. It wasn't just talk,
it wasn't just hopeful wishful thinking. It is becoming a reality.
Jojo from Jurors, take note. This is one of the
things that is benefiting me in real time right now.
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FDA to phase out dies used in flaming hot Cheetos,
Skittles and other snacks. Now you might think, oh my god,
I love Cheetos, Skittles and other snacks. This is a travesty.
I'm not going to be able to get these foods anymore.
Let me read to you a little bit more some
interesting details that might not be included in that CNBC headline.
This is the turning point USA headline. FDA announced his
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plans to phase out petroleum based synthetic food dies from
US food supply by the end of next year. Petroleum
based Wait a minute, I thought petroleum was the stuff
that we make car fuel out of, bills and such.
What do you mean they were making food dies out
of that? Yeah, they were making food dies out of that.
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You think that was healthy to be eating. I've been
eating it. I will be the first to admit I'm guilty.
I love me some skittles taste the rainbow? Am I right? People?
But hey, they're bad for you, really bad for you.
And I've tried to consciously cut back on eating. That
was actually really hard for me this Easter was not
eating the skittles. My mother in law to be gave
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me a big old bag of candy and there's a
lot of skittles in that, and I just left that
in the newsroom at the station. I did not eat
those skittles so far, so we'll see if I can
stay strong. But what's probably going to happen here is
the companies that make these products are just going to
phase these particular ingredients out of their recipes. We'll get
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into that in a second. Here is that announcement from
FDA Commissioner Marty McCarey. This was yesterday, the FDA actually
announcing that they are removing petroleum based food dies from
the US food supply and from medications. So even mor
good news, take a listen to this.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Today, the FDA is taking action to remove petroleum based
food dyes from the US food supply and from medications.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
For the last fifty years.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup
of synthetic chemicals. The scientific community has conducted a number
of studies raising concerns about the correlation between petroleum based
synthetic dyes and several health conditions such as attension, deficit,
hyperactivity disorder, obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, cancer genomic disruption, GI
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issues as I've seen in the hospital, and allergic reactions.
For example, this Lancet study conducted a randomized, double blinded,
placebo controlled study on food dies and concluded that artificial
colors in the diet quote result in increased hyperactivity.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
So obviously, the first question in a lot of people's
minds is going to be, Okay, well, what happens now?
Obviously this is not going to be immediate. Okay, don't
expect to walk into Walmart tomorrow and magically all the
food on the shelves is healthy. That's not how this works.
This also doesn't mean that all of the snacks that
you love, like skittles, are just going to disappear and
not be available anymore. What's going to happen is the
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government is going to give these different companies a timetable
and say, okay, starting at this date in the future,
you have to start phasing out these different chemicals and
dyes and stuff, which means probably in two or three years,
who knows what the exact details are going to be,
maybe your skittles will start to look a little less bright,
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a little less colorful, because that's what we've seen in
countries like Canada that don't allow these food dies. All
these products are still available on the shelves there. They
just have a lot less chemicals in them. Do they
look as colorful and cool?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
If you look at a box of fruit loops from Canada,
all the colors look washed out and depressing. But the
fact of the matter is all those colors were artificial
and terrible for you. So does your food look less
esthetically pleasing?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Is it worth it because it's not going to give
you cancer? Probably? Yes, Absolutely, that's not a question to
be asked. Absolutely, that's worth it. Here's RFK actually pretty
much saying this. He's like, listen, I told these companies,
we're going to work with you, We're going to cut
a deal, but you got to get this stuff out.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
When I met with and I want to commend food
companies for working with us to achieve this agreement or
this settlement. And when I went in a few months
or about a month ago to meet with a few
food companies were I was just talking with my staff
about these petroleum based eyes, and I said, if they
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want to add petroleum, they want to eat petroleum. They
ought to add at themselves at home if they shouldn't
be feed to get to the rest of us and
without our knowledge or consent, and unfortunately one of them,
and we are gonna we're gonna get rid of the dies,
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and one by one, we're gonna get rid of every
ingredient an added in to the school in food that
we can legally address.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Again, I think this is going to be a major
win for food. And remember we've already seen even more
progress on this front. The entire state of West Virginia,
I believe, has banned petroleum based dies in food, so
that's obviously very good. And of course red dye number three,
we've already announced that that's going to be phased out
of food for again the same health reasons. I want
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to remind you this isn't necessarily anything new. This shouldn't
be that shocking to people. We've been talking about this
and how important it is for the better part of
two years at this point. And again, Europe did this
a long time ago. There's a reason that food in
Europe is so much healthier than food in the United States.
It is, that's a fact. There's tons of anecdotal stories.
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Kitchierris did a story about this, I believe, on Monday,
about how people can move to Europe not really change
much of their habits, still eat relatively the same amount
and managed to lose huge amounts of weight. Why is that?
It's because the food that we have in the United
States is frankly poisonous. We've sacrificed healthy food for esthetically
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pleasing I guess, shelf stable food. And how has that
worked out for us? We have an obesity problem, we
have a diabetes problem, we have a cancer problem, we
have an autism and ADHD problem, all these new issues
that we just recently started to have over the last
kind of thirty forty years. Why is that? It's probably
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because of all this stuff that we're putting in our
food that nobody else is putting in our food and
thank the good life, or that there's somebody in government
that's finally willing to stand up and say, hey, this
is bad, this needs to stop happening. I've personally kind
of evolved on this issue over the last I guess
several years, because I used to be very libertarian here.
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I used to say, okay, yeah, nobody thinks that these
foods are necessarily healthy if that's something that you're super
concerned about, just don't buy those foods. That's the libertarian argument.
I was very partial to that argument for a long time,
But the more and more I think about it, these
companies know that these foods aren't healthy because they're doing
the research on them, and they're putting them on the
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market anyway. They know that this stuff, these dyes are
likely poisonous, but they're putting them on the market anyway.
And not only are they putting them on the market,
they're putting them on the market as food. We, for
very good reason, have rules and regulations in place that
prevent Walmart from buying a bunch of rat poison, for example,
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and putting that on the shelf with their food items
and marketing it as food. We have regulations in place
that would stop the rat poison companies from saying, hey,
this is food, Eat this food, because they know and
everybody else knows, that it's poisonous. So if you're selling
a products that's poisonous, even for a specific use, you
have a moral obligation to make sure you're making everybody,
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even the biggest moron, as aware as they can possibly
be that this is unhealthy. Don't put it in your body.
It's rat poison. It's to kill rats. Don't eat it.
By that same standard, you as a food manufacturer, have
that same duty to intentionally not put rat poison in
the food products that you're manufacturing and selling because you
know it's gonna harm people. You know that these guys
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are hurting people, but you're putting them in your food
and selling them anyway. It's good that the government steps
in to stop that. I like that. I'm glad that's happening.
All right. That is all I've got for us this
Wednesday again Sunday, seven pm KPRC or the free iHeartRadio app.
Tune in. It's gonna be a great show. Thank you, guys.
I will see you then
Speaker 4 (29:00):
On up stream and con
Hey, Happy Wednesday, everybody. Hope we're doing well. Little bit
of housekeeping, of course. Just want to remind you seven
pm on Sunday nights. We are here. I say we're here,
we're actually there live on AM nine fifty KPRC. It's
a great show every weekend. I want to encourage you
to listen to it. Take the time. Pretty much anywhere
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in the Houston area you are in range of the
AM nine to fifty KPRC radio transmitter, so you can
listen to the show live on Sundays and then it'll
be podcasted Monday morning. It's also worth noting the verdict
with Ted Cruz that is on in the six o'clock
hour on the same station, so you could do a
double feature six o'clock Ted Cruz seven o'clock me. What
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better way to follow that up. I highly encourage you
to do that. It is a great time every single week.
I've enjoyed being able to do it, and I want
to encourage you to go listen to it. But if
you can't, I understand a lot of people are busy
Sunday evenings. Listen to the podcast on Monday morning or
if you're kind of outside that Greater Houston area. You
don't get a very good AM radio signal. That's fine too,
(01:24):
Free iHeart Radio app plays the show live. Just tune
in on the iHeart Radio app to AM nine to
fifty KPRC. All right, that's enough of that. Let's talk
a little bit about something that actually happened, I believe
technically while I was on the air last Sunday, and
that is that Pope Francis died. Now, I want to
start off by saying this, I am a religious Southern Baptist,
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kind of a forms Southern Baptist Calvinistic Protestant. So the Pope,
especially this particular Pope, is someone that I had quite
a few issues with. I have several issues with the
off of the Pope, and I had a number of
pretty big political issues with this particular Pope. So all around,
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this was a guy that I did not care for. However,
this is a person that has passed away. This is
a person that was made in the image of God,
and this person has died. And there are, you know,
something along the lines of one point four billion people
on this earth who cared for Pope Francis deeply. So
I think that's worth taking a mention of what's really
important here is all the things that Pope Francis's death
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now set in motion. Obviously, if you've paid any attention
to the online right, Roman Catholicism has seen a huge
resurgence in kind of the online right. I've picked up
on this. I'm part of the online right. I'm online
all the time, and I'm just about as far right
as you can get. The online kind of new tread
right is very attracted to Roman Catholicism, and I definitely
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see the attraction for sure. I mean, if you watch
all the degeneracy and nonsense and chaos that goes on
in the world, obviously, something like the Roman Catholic Church
that offers a deep rooted sense of purpose and history, tradition, belonging,
all those great things. Those are all things that are
offered by the Catholic Church, and there is obviously great
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appeal to that. If you're a Protestant Christian, you need
to be looking at and saying, Okay, what there can
I take and implement. Now, I'm not saying change what
the church is or does in order to conform to
the times. That's never a good idea. What I'm saying
is we have done that in a way that the
Catholic Church to a certain extent has not, and maybe
we take some hints from that. I don't know. That's
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for the big wigs at the Southern Baptist Convention, I
guess to decide, or individual pastors at various other churches.
Who am I to tell you how to run your church.
I'm not a pastor, I've never claimed to be, I
don't want to be. But I recognize the importance of
big institutions like this, and that's where I'm really trying
to get out here. Whether or not you subscribe to
the beliefs of the Catholic Church, and I don't. I
think many of them are very wrong in a lot
of ways. There are two things that every single person
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has got to recognize, whether or not you like the
Catholic Church or hate it. The Catholic Church just as
an institution, not even necessarily as a religious institution. But
I think to a certain extent, both just as a
secular institution and a religious institution, has one thousand percent
been a major player in the shaping of the Western world.
The Western world is far and away the most amazing
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place the most amazing kind of culture and subcultures that
a person could possibly ever hope to live in, and
a whole bunch of that, maybe even most of that
is directly because of the influence of the Catholic Church.
Those two things are irreversibly connected. Because of that, who's
at the top and pulling the strings of the Catholic
Church is going to have an immense amount of influence
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over the Western world, even more so as people in
sort of these European countries. Younger people, especially in these
European countries, begin to flock more and more towards the
traditions of the Catholic Church. My hope and prayer is
that will lead them to more ord orthodox Christianity, but
who knows what will happen either way, The Catholic Church
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is going to have an immense amount of influence over
the thoughts and actions of huge portions of Western society,
as they have since the first century. So even if
you're not a practicing Catholic, even if you're not a
practicing Christian, you have to recognize the fact that who
becomes the next pope is incredibly important for the entire
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world right now. It is and we talked about this
a little bit on Sunday as well. Again, go back
and listen to the podcast. It's available now. The Western
world is coming up on a point where we are
definitely going to have to unite together in order to
combat the various enemies that we have, namely communism, the
communist China, and the list can go on. We've already
sort of started to see that happen thanks to Donald Trump.
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We've seen different countries Western nations start to kind of
coalesce around the United States, and that I think is
a very good thing. We don't need to be a
globalist empire, but at the same time time, it is
good for us to kind of work together and help
each other out to spread our mutual values. Bringing on ancient,
historical institutions that hold the hearts and influence of literally
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over a billion people is going to be a major,
major help in that. A conservative pope coming into the
Catholic Church and saying, hey, listen, we and by we,
I mean the Catholic Church and Western society together for
a long time, have been way too accepting of ideals
and practices that are completely antithetical to this society that
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we have built. We've got to stop accepting those things
as normal, things like gender ideology, things like abortion, things
that are frankly pagan that the Catholic Church, to their credit,
Pope Francis has been very pro life in his speech,
but he hasn't really done a whole lot. I had
this conversation with somebody the other day. Pope Francis has
talked a big game for years about how pro life
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he is. But Joe Biden was never excommunicated. He was
denied communion by a couple of different priests or cardinals
or what have you, but he was never excommunicated. There's
a major pro abortion group called Catholics for Choice that
I get emails from press releases basically every single day.
I've never seen a statement from the Vatican on them. Ever.
I want people to remember this, politics is always downstream
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from culture, always, So if you really want to change
things politically, like abortion, what you really need is the
culture to get behind you. A great way to get
the culture behind something like a pro life message is
for the Catholic Church, which has extreme influence over cultures
all around the world, to be reinvigorated and say, yes,
we're going to fight for life. We're not going to
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make any exceptions anymore on anything. I think that would
be an amazing thing. So anyway, my point here is
this is going to be a very big moment for
the Western world, and everybody should be praying for the
best here. Even if you're not Catholic, this is going
to matter. So pay attention to it. All right, stay tune,
We got a great show coming.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Up for you.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Donald Trump continues to completely undo everything Biden did, and
I think that's great. Everything Biden did was terrible. I
can't name a single good thing. I'm sure there's probably one.
I have no idea what it is. One good thing
that Joe Biden did. One of the biggest bad things
that Joe Biden did was basically just tell everybody that
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had student loans, hey, you don't have to pay back
those loans. All you goober liberal kids that got master's
degrees in lesbian dance theory from Harvard University. You don't
have to pay any of that money back anymore. You
all like four hundred thousand dollars to the US taxpayer
because you took out a student loan that you couldn't
afford for a stupid degree. That didn't make you any money.
(08:57):
Don't worry about it. We'll just let that slide completely
off the hook. Now. I just want to speak about
myself personally. I never did go to a fancy four
year college. And I know what you're thinking. I know
what you're thinking. Ethan, you're super genius. I mean, the
insights that we get listening to you are unlike anything
you've ever seen before. How is it possible that you're
(09:19):
doing all of this without backing that up with a
degree from Yale University? How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I know, contrary to popular belief, I was never super
academically inclined. I always loved learning about history and government
and law and world events and things of that nature.
But none of that ever really translated super well academically.
So I graduated high school and my financial situation was
(09:46):
such that the only way that I was ever going
to go to a four year college, which I didn't
think I would ever really enjoy anyway, was if I
took out massive amounts of student loans. Because my family
was never particularly wealthy. I was I'm not athletic enough
for a sports scholarship, and I was not smart enough
for an academic scholarship, So that basically ruled out college
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unless I wanted to take out a bunch of debt,
which I wasn't willing to do because I didn't want
that risk. I didn't want to have to take out
a bunch of debt to get a degree and then
maybe not be able to pay that debt off. And
I would never have gotten a degree in something useless,
even at that young age of eighteen. I was too
practical for that. I've just been always a very risk
(10:30):
averse person. So I didn't see that as a good idea.
I just didn't. And if you do, think, okay, here's
a degree plan that I can turn into a very
profitable career with, you know whatever levels of risk I'm
comfortable tolerating. So I'll go ahead and take out a
student loan. You know what, go for it. I'm not
going to stop you. By all means. You have that
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right to do that. However, don't ask me who didn't
do that very intentionally, didn't do that to then cover
the cost of your student loan, because that's what you're doing.
If you say I don't want to have to pay
this off, you're asking the taxpayers because it's a government loan.
Presumably most student loans come from the government, at least
the ones that the government is forgiving. Those are loans
(11:11):
that come from the government, which means that's US tax
dollars that went into your education. That's my money, that's
money I paid to the federal government in my taxes.
I wasn't asked if I wanted to do that. I
wasn't given an option. I was told, pay your taxes
or go to jail, and we're going to take your
tax money and we're going to put it into student loans.
I will accept that, maybe, even though I don't think
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that this is something the government should be involved in.
But as long as you know, whatever, we can issue
out these loans with certain levels of interest and get
those interest payments back and make some profit here, and
maybe we can funnel that into other beneficial for the
taxpayer programs. I'll allow the argument. All of a sudden,
that argument disappears if you say, never mind, you don't
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have to pay that back. Here's free taxpayer money. No,
don't do that, never do that. But the Biden administration
did that despite court orders that we're trying to stop him,
even from the Supreme Court. The left who loves to
talk about how terrible it is that Donald Trump isn't
bringing back in El Salvadre and MS thirteen gang member
because the Supreme Court said he had to and he's
not doing it. They'll tell you all day how horrible
(12:15):
that is. But Joe Biden, who just said, you guys
don't have to pay back your loans, even though the
Supreme Court said, hey, you need to get these guys
to pay back their loans. We ignore that. We pretend
that didn't even happen. Well, here's Caroline Levitt, Press Secretary
for the President of the United States, saying, hey, by
the way, you guys are going to have to pay
back those loans. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
In other news, the Trump administration has announced we will
put an end to Joe Biden's illegal loan bailout attempts.
No student loan has been referred to collections since March
of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That comes to an end on May fifth.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
The Department of Education will resume involuntary collections for borrowers
with defaulted federal student loans. The student loan portfolio controlled
by the federal government is nearly one point six trillion dollars,
but fewer than four out of ten borrowers are in repayment.
This is unsustainable, unfair, and a huge liability for American taxpayers.
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Debt cannot be wiped away. It just ends up getting
transferred to others. So why should Americans who didn't go
to college or went to college and responsibly paid back
their loans pay for the student loans of other Americans.
The Trump administration will never force taxpayers to pay student
loan debts that don't belong to them. Student loan borrowers
need clarity, and we're finally giving it to them. Borrowers
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will now be clearly expected to repay their loans, and
those who default on their loan obligations will face involuntary collections.
The government can and will collect defaulted federal student loan
debt by withholding money from borrowers, tax refunds, federal pensions,
and even their wages. America is thirty six trillion dollars
in debt. We must get our fiscal house in order
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and restore common sense to our country. If you take
out a loan, you have to pay it back.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
It's very simple, and you know what shoes right. It
is very simple. You took out that loan. You agreed
to the terms of the loan. I don't know if
you read it. If you didn't, that's your own fault
for making a stupid decision. Don't sign a loan if
you don't read the terms of the darn loan, because
you're on the hook for that and you agreed to it.
You're eighteen years old, you're a legal adult. You took
out that student loan. Welcome to adulthood. Your actions have consequences.
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Pay back your loan. I'm not doing it. This really
isn't that complicated. Just take responsibility for your own decisions
and choices. This shouldn't be that hard. But for a
bunch of you know, freshly out of college, my age liberals,
people in my generation, who are completely stupid for some reason,
you went to college, but you don't understand how a
loan works. They're losing their minds over this. Take a
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listen to this one lady just absolutely going bananas about
how terrible it is that she's going to have to
pay back the loan that she agreed to take out.
Take a listen. Will they just drop the student loan bomb?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
The federal government just announced that it's coming for your
loans and collections began in May fifth for student loan debt.
If you're in default, they can garnish your wages, they
can take your tax return, and they can even take
like your benefits like Social Security, and if you still
can't pay it and default, they're gonna send you to collections.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
They're about five point.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Three million people in the United States right now in default.
This is gonna hurt the people that are already struggling
the most. They are really just trying to absolutely cripple
as many people as possible. At this point, it's pretty
clear they want us completely broke. They don't give about
our health. They don't really give it if we die. Yeah,
(15:40):
they're just gonna cut everything. This really just paves the
path for so much more bullshit.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I just realize it's.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
About the same amount of people that have been at
the protests.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Interesting. Well see you guys May first.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
That's the next one.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I gotta say, I respect the fact that she added
that little pinch of conspiracy theory in there. As a
conspiracy theory enjoyer myself. I appreciate when someone comes up
with a new conspiracy theory Donald Trump making people repay
their student loans because they're protesting him. That's a pretty
good one, I will admit, But I don't think you're right.
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I think the fact that that ven diagram of people
protesting Trump and people who need to pay back their
student loans, I think that is probably a perfect circle,
or a near perfect circle. I also think that's a
coincidence more than anything else. It is kind of interesting
to note, however, that all of the people that think
their entire lives should be subsidized by the federal government
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tend to vote for Democrats. That's an interesting it's an
interesting pattern that we're seeing here. But anyway, you took
out that loan, you agree to the terms of that loan.
The people that that's gonna hurt the most are the
people that are lazy and not paying back their debts.
I understand that sometimes the life happens and you don't
get the job you thought you wanted, and so paying
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back your debts is difficult. Regardless of that fact, that's
still on you. It's not on me, because that's what
you're trying to put it on Again, I didn't take
out a student loan but you took out a loan.
My taxpayer money went into your college. That's what happened.
I'm not on the hook for that. I didn't sign
that paperwork. You did. You agreed to those terms. Maybe
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you are one of the rare cases where somebody actually
went and tried to get an education in something that
was useful. But you know, whatever happened in your life
and you weren't able to get the good paying job
you thought you were going to have. But guess what,
that's still not my problem. I mean, it sucks that
you're in that situation. I hope you have a strong
social safety net. Maybe parents you can move in with
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to kind of get ahead a little bit. That's fairly common.
That's not anything particularly new. People have been doing that
for some time, right out of college. They moved back
in with their parents, save a little bit of money,
and then set themselves up better for the future. I
know someone personally that did that, and it worked out
pretty well for him. He got a good paying job,
lived with his parents for a while, just bought a
nice house. No shame in that. Guess what if something
bad happened his student loan is not my problem. If
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you needed a couch to crash on. Minds right there.
But I'm not gonna pay your student loan back. And
I'm not gonna do that for somebody that I've never met,
somebody who I know got a useless degree from a
useless school. It is of no value to society. I'm
not gonna pay for that. I'm just not going to
What we are going to see here is a bunch
of young Americans, Americans my age, that are about to
learn real hard and fast about the consequences of their actions.
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And that's a good thing because they need to learn.
There is no other type of loan that you can
take out and just demand that the government pay it
back for you. And if you go through life thinking
that that's the case, you're gonna end up learning a
lot harder lessons a lot later in life, when it's
gonna be a lot more difficult to recover. So the
point of your being cry about it, basically, if you
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didn't want to pay back your student loans and now
you have to cry about it, I'm not gonna pay
for your student loan for you. You need to pay it back,
just like you need to pay back any other loan.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We got one more segment coming up in just a second, alright,
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and we all know what that means. Means we are
on our way out for this episode. Let's end on
a really high note. I know, making annoying college kids
pay back their student loans. That's already a pretty high note.
Don't worry, I'm gonna top it. Believe it or not.
I got something on my sleeve here.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
We've talked a lot in the past about how unhealthy
our food is. I've discussed this topic at length in
previous episodes of the show. We've talked a lot about
this in the context of RFK Junior and what he's
getting up to. This has been his whole thing, right.
This is the reason that Trump brought him into the
fold last year. This is the re in that Trump
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made him a member of his administration. It was to
tackle specifically this issue. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have
fantastic news. The issue is being tackled. It wasn't just talk,
it wasn't just hopeful wishful thinking. It is becoming a reality.
Jojo from Jurors, take note. This is one of the
things that is benefiting me in real time right now.
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FDA to phase out dies used in flaming hot Cheetos,
Skittles and other snacks. Now you might think, oh my god,
I love Cheetos, Skittles and other snacks. This is a travesty.
I'm not going to be able to get these foods anymore.
Let me read to you a little bit more some
interesting details that might not be included in that CNBC headline.
This is the turning point USA headline. FDA announced his
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plans to phase out petroleum based synthetic food dies from
US food supply by the end of next year. Petroleum
based Wait a minute, I thought petroleum was the stuff
that we make car fuel out of, bills and such.
What do you mean they were making food dies out
of that? Yeah, they were making food dies out of that.
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You think that was healthy to be eating. I've been
eating it. I will be the first to admit I'm guilty.
I love me some skittles taste the rainbow? Am I right? People?
But hey, they're bad for you, really bad for you.
And I've tried to consciously cut back on eating. That
was actually really hard for me this Easter was not
eating the skittles. My mother in law to be gave
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me a big old bag of candy and there's a
lot of skittles in that, and I just left that
in the newsroom at the station. I did not eat
those skittles so far, so we'll see if I can
stay strong. But what's probably going to happen here is
the companies that make these products are just going to
phase these particular ingredients out of their recipes. We'll get
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into that in a second. Here is that announcement from
FDA Commissioner Marty McCarey. This was yesterday, the FDA actually
announcing that they are removing petroleum based food dies from
the US food supply and from medications. So even mor
good news, take a listen to this.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Today, the FDA is taking action to remove petroleum based
food dyes from the US food supply and from medications.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
For the last fifty years.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup
of synthetic chemicals. The scientific community has conducted a number
of studies raising concerns about the correlation between petroleum based
synthetic dyes and several health conditions such as attension, deficit,
hyperactivity disorder, obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, cancer genomic disruption, GI
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issues as I've seen in the hospital, and allergic reactions.
For example, this Lancet study conducted a randomized, double blinded,
placebo controlled study on food dies and concluded that artificial
colors in the diet quote result in increased hyperactivity.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
So obviously, the first question in a lot of people's
minds is going to be, Okay, well, what happens now?
Obviously this is not going to be immediate. Okay, don't
expect to walk into Walmart tomorrow and magically all the
food on the shelves is healthy. That's not how this works.
This also doesn't mean that all of the snacks that
you love, like skittles, are just going to disappear and
not be available anymore. What's going to happen is the
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government is going to give these different companies a timetable
and say, okay, starting at this date in the future,
you have to start phasing out these different chemicals and
dyes and stuff, which means probably in two or three years,
who knows what the exact details are going to be,
maybe your skittles will start to look a little less bright,
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a little less colorful, because that's what we've seen in
countries like Canada that don't allow these food dies. All
these products are still available on the shelves there. They
just have a lot less chemicals in them. Do they
look as colorful and cool?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
If you look at a box of fruit loops from Canada,
all the colors look washed out and depressing. But the
fact of the matter is all those colors were artificial
and terrible for you. So does your food look less
esthetically pleasing?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Is it worth it because it's not going to give
you cancer? Probably? Yes, Absolutely, that's not a question to
be asked. Absolutely, that's worth it. Here's RFK actually pretty
much saying this. He's like, listen, I told these companies,
we're going to work with you, We're going to cut
a deal, but you got to get this stuff out.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
When I met with and I want to commend food
companies for working with us to achieve this agreement or
this settlement. And when I went in a few months
or about a month ago to meet with a few
food companies were I was just talking with my staff
about these petroleum based eyes, and I said, if they
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want to add petroleum, they want to eat petroleum. They
ought to add at themselves at home if they shouldn't
be feed to get to the rest of us and
without our knowledge or consent, and unfortunately one of them,
and we are gonna we're gonna get rid of the dies,
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and one by one, we're gonna get rid of every
ingredient an added in to the school in food that
we can legally address.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Again, I think this is going to be a major
win for food. And remember we've already seen even more
progress on this front. The entire state of West Virginia,
I believe, has banned petroleum based dies in food, so
that's obviously very good. And of course red dye number three,
we've already announced that that's going to be phased out
of food for again the same health reasons. I want
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to remind you this isn't necessarily anything new. This shouldn't
be that shocking to people. We've been talking about this
and how important it is for the better part of
two years at this point. And again, Europe did this
a long time ago. There's a reason that food in
Europe is so much healthier than food in the United States.
It is, that's a fact. There's tons of anecdotal stories.
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Kitchierris did a story about this, I believe, on Monday,
about how people can move to Europe not really change
much of their habits, still eat relatively the same amount
and managed to lose huge amounts of weight. Why is that?
It's because the food that we have in the United
States is frankly poisonous. We've sacrificed healthy food for esthetically
(26:32):
pleasing I guess, shelf stable food. And how has that
worked out for us? We have an obesity problem, we
have a diabetes problem, we have a cancer problem, we
have an autism and ADHD problem, all these new issues
that we just recently started to have over the last
kind of thirty forty years. Why is that? It's probably
(26:53):
because of all this stuff that we're putting in our
food that nobody else is putting in our food and
thank the good life, or that there's somebody in government
that's finally willing to stand up and say, hey, this
is bad, this needs to stop happening. I've personally kind
of evolved on this issue over the last I guess
several years, because I used to be very libertarian here.
(27:14):
I used to say, okay, yeah, nobody thinks that these
foods are necessarily healthy if that's something that you're super
concerned about, just don't buy those foods. That's the libertarian argument.
I was very partial to that argument for a long time,
But the more and more I think about it, these
companies know that these foods aren't healthy because they're doing
the research on them, and they're putting them on the
(27:34):
market anyway. They know that this stuff, these dyes are
likely poisonous, but they're putting them on the market anyway.
And not only are they putting them on the market,
they're putting them on the market as food. We, for
very good reason, have rules and regulations in place that
prevent Walmart from buying a bunch of rat poison, for example,
(27:55):
and putting that on the shelf with their food items
and marketing it as food. We have regulations in place
that would stop the rat poison companies from saying, hey,
this is food, Eat this food, because they know and
everybody else knows, that it's poisonous. So if you're selling
a products that's poisonous, even for a specific use, you
have a moral obligation to make sure you're making everybody,
(28:17):
even the biggest moron, as aware as they can possibly
be that this is unhealthy. Don't put it in your body.
It's rat poison. It's to kill rats. Don't eat it.
By that same standard, you as a food manufacturer, have
that same duty to intentionally not put rat poison in
the food products that you're manufacturing and selling because you
know it's gonna harm people. You know that these guys
(28:37):
are hurting people, but you're putting them in your food
and selling them anyway. It's good that the government steps
in to stop that. I like that. I'm glad that's happening.
All right. That is all I've got for us this
Wednesday again Sunday, seven pm KPRC or the free iHeartRadio app.
Tune in. It's gonna be a great show. Thank you, guys.
I will see you then
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