prices.What's this doing to the farmers in Mississippi, Mike?

Just got off of a meeting with a, with a farmer about 30 minutes ago, and his exact words were, "These fuel prices are killing me." Uh, so, uh, you have, uh, uh...

Whenever I talk to the governor's office or our representatives or our senators in Washington, DC, uh, I just pass along the truth, that the farmers are the ones that have no one to pass this cost along to.

So the commodity market sets the price for what we get, uh, for the things that we sell, and then we're responsible for all the, the, uh, increases in prices on the, uh, expense side of that, and it just goes into a negative profit margin.

So, uh, they can, uh, not, uh, find a way to pass it along or, or find, uh, some other way to do it cheaper.

I know I've talked to some farmers that are, instead of going over the fields twice or three times, they're going over it once or twice to try to cut back on the number of passes over the field.

And they can do that for a short period of time, uh, maybe one year, but then it starts catching 'em up, u- up to 'em in year two or three.

Well, Mike, the, the crop farmers were hurting before this, right?

Um, for listeners who may be unfamiliar with it, what is fluid overload and what might it look or feel like for a patient?

Yeah, generally when we talk about fluid overload, what it is is it's the, the body is retaining more fluid, which is water and sodium, than it can effectively manage.

Uh, that fluid accumula- uh, uh, accumulates in that patient in their legs and in their abdomen, uh, and it, it all adds to congestion.

Uh, a lot of that congestion materializes itself in the lungs and in other organs, particularly in the lungs where, gosh, the patient can feel like they have a real hard time breathing, shortness of breath.

They'll have rapid swelling a lot of the time, uh, fatigue, reduced appetite.

Gosh, even the inability to lie flat, uh, can be really ...

They, they, they can lie down and feel like they can't breathe.

From what you hear from clinicians and seeing the evidence, what can indicate that a patient's no longer responding adequately, and what factors shape the next steps in care?

17. okay so we're going to go through this process and mike thanks so much for coming on the show again third man in the ring um can you just briefly talk about and explain the reviews how you review and what does throwing the brick mean and what happens once the brick is thrown

Sure.

So I'll I mean, there's obviously different scenarios.

But once a brick is thrown by a coach, it obviously symbolizes or signifies his disagreement with a call.

Right.

We stop the match when there's no action.

And then we approach the official.

Is it just one person in the back, or is there a team in the back? How does that work?

17. okay so we're going to go through this process and Mike thanks so much for coming on the show again third man in the ring um can you just briefly talk about and explain the reviews how you review and what does throwing the brick mean and what happens once the brick is thrown

Sure.

So I'll I mean, there's obviously different scenarios.

But once a brick is thrown by a coach, it obviously symbolizes or signifies his his disagreement with a call.

Right.

We stop the match when there's no action, and then we approach the official – excuse me, we approach the coach and ask him what he is challenging.

And currently the rules allow a coach to challenge anything but a fall.

Is it just one person in the back, or is there a team in the back? How does that work?

Mike McCormick, your thoughts, sir.

Thanks for having me, Steve.

Um, yes, I did work with Joe Biden, and at the time I didn't realize how evil he was.

Evil is the word.

And I'll say this at the top.

I pray for Joe Biden to fully and publicly confess his crimes and sins.

It's the only way he gets out of this with a dignity intact, because right now the house of cards, Biden crime family house of cards is crumbling, and it's taking down the Democratic Party with it.

... your thoughts

Mike McCormick, your thoughts, sir.

Thanks for having me, Steve.

Yes, I did work with Joe Biden.

And at the time, I didn't realize how evil he was.

Evil was the word.

And I'll say this at the top.

I pray for Joe Biden to fully and publicly confess his crimes and sins.

Mike McCormick, your thoughts.

Who would be supplying him drugs, ketamine, and all the other things in his system?

Uh, it was either prescribed to him, uh, the ketamine was, uh, prescribed, or he's getting it off the street.

There's only several ways of doing it.

Um, my understanding is that the Uh, from his, uh, uh, assistant or past girlfriend, uh, Ms. Edwards, that, uh, she's been involved with him off and on from about 2006, and she used to purchase his drugs off the street-

For him

... uh, for him.

So, uh, the ketamine and other, uh, uh, drugs he may have been taking, uh, could come from either source.

What's the big issues of concern right now?

So, you know, an issue that I want to get ahead of.

So we don't have a lot of data that it's happening here yet in the USVI, but we are seeing it starting to pop up.

And one of the great things with our data system is that we can be an early warning source, kind of a canary in the coal mine, if you want to say.

And what I want to talk about are natural products.

We've seen an explosion in products like Kratom.

which is a natural supplement that comes from the Southeast that can get sold in gas stations, smoke shops, convenience stores.

Oh,

... good to go for lunch

The cruise doesn't really actually start until 4:00.

I think 4:00 to 8:00 is the actual time of it, but, I mean, it's, it's grown so much that it, you know, people just show up and, 'cause they wanna get there.

Uh, how long have you been involved? And, and what keeps you going?

I've been involved for a couple years now.

Um, I just actually recently to Monmouth four years ago, so it's been kind of a, I've always been into cars.

Have you ever wondered why over 70% of the Farm Bill budget is set aside for SNAP benefits? Mike McCormick, president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, told us there's a Mississippi connection.

Jamie Whitten, a former congressman from Mississippi who's The building in USDA is named after decided way back when that we didn't have enough votes in the House of Representatives to pass farm bills anymore because most of our House members represent districts that are non-agricultural.

So to get those votes, they married the nutrition title with the agricultural title.

And all of a sudden, we could build a coalition and work across aisles to get a farm bill.

And that's worked well for all of these years up until partisan politics has just gotten so bitter that it's not working well anymore.

Why are you considered a subject matter expert, sir?

Because I was there as a witness with Joe Biden when he traveled abroad through the Obama years as vice president to China, to Ukraine, to Honduras, around the world, and I was there with the press.

My job as, as a stenographer, White House stenographer, was to record whatever he said in the press, but I traveled on Air Force Two with him, so I saw behind-the-scenes things.

What happened was after the, uh, f- fraudulent 2020 election, I got a hold of the Hunter Biden laptop.

Garrett Ziegler said, "You should have this." Marco Polo's Garrett Ziegler gave me a copy of that laptop, and what I was able to do was go through the laptop and see the email traffic that was going on between Hunter and his investors or Hunter and his dad, and compare it with my memories of what I, where we had been in Ukraine or China, and it all fit together in a gigantic timeline.

So I started writing a Substack.

The Substack is Midnight in the Laptop of Good and Evil.

Some of the stuff is, is, is marginal," and just took out the marginal? Or you think they actually broomed relevant, pertinent material?

Michael, Barack Obama's library, not only is it hideous, but it's making other headlines with you, apparently.

Yeah, it is an ugly, ugly building.

And it opens up this week.

It opens up on Friday the 19th.

Juneteenth, baby! Juneteenth, yeah, exactly, of course.

And it's in Chicago, of course.

And he hasn't paid everybody who's been building on it, of course.

This is monstrous, Mike.

Who would be supplying him drugs, ketamine, and all the other things in his system?

Uh, it was either prescribed to him, uh, the ketamine was, uh, prescribed, or he's getting it off the street.

There's only several ways of doing it.

Um, my understanding is that the, uh, pardon me, his, uh, assistant or past girlfriend, uh, Ms. Edwards, that, uh, she's been involved with him off and on from about 2006, and she used to purchase his drugs off the street, uh, for him.

Who would be supplying him drugs, ketamine, and all the other things in his system?

It was either prescribed to him, the ketamine was prescribed, or he's getting it off the street.

There's only several ways of doing it.

My understanding is that the uh from his uh assistant or past girlfriend uh miss edwards that she's been involved with him off and on from about 2006 and she used to purchase his drugs off the street for him so the ketamine and other drugs he may have been taking could come from either source

He used to be the head of air traffic control in New York City.

They had to take gig jobs in order to make ends meet.

And on top of that, you have controllers that can't, no longer afford daycare, so they are finding themselves in a position where they have to stay home for childcare, especially if your child is sick.

So, put that on top of the pressures of having to think about, how am I gonna make ends meet? How am I gonna pay the rent? How am I gonna pay the college tuition? How am I gonna afford the fuel to drive back and forth to work every day without getting paid? So, you have the job pressure, and now you have this pressure in their personal life.

You bring the two of them together and they clash.

And there's gonna be moments, there's gonna be days where they're not going to be 100%.

And you do not want air traffic controllers showing up for a job at less than 100%.

Is it still as safe today as it had been to fly?

What about the controllers who run the system? There's general consensus about there being outstanding professionals.

The United States Federal Aviation Administration insured over 3,000 air traffic controllers across the entire system.

And that came about not just overnight, but it took decades to reach that level of shortfall.

And essentially what happens, whenever there is a government shutdown, the FAA cannot hire or train air traffic controllers.

This was exacerbated by the pandemic when over a year the FAA could not hire a single controller and could not train new controllers.

That has led to where the system is today with over 3,000 controllers short across the country.

The only way out of that is to hire and train new controllers and every rural aeronautic university is proud to be a part of that initiative.

And by doing that, it allows this nonprofit air traffic control system to plan ahead, have control over 100% of its budget, and be able to purchase equipment at a very timely rate and very efficiently as well.

Right.

It's eyes only.

That's not something that they needed to find out about.

That's not...

It doesn't, it doesn't relate directly to their crime they were investigating.

They were investigating whether it was, he had comp, uh, he had top secret clearance files or classified files.

But they had a whole bunch of files that were eyes only.

Any problems that we might have, we're resolving." It was meant to be a theatrical stunt, and in the end, it blew up in his face.

God created it all, so what's wrong with it?

Yeah, and so that speech by McCarrick took place in 2013 in front of an audience of high-profile Catholics at Villanova University.

It was the fall of 2013.

So Bergoglio had been installed as the Pope.

And so McCarrick sort of walked through his experience as being in Rome.

He was a retired Cardinal, so he couldn't vote and he wasn't in the Sistine Chapel as a voting Cardinal.

He was there discussing and as it turns out influencing cardinals on how to vote and he talked about this amazing event that this speech that uh he called it four minutes that changed the conclave that Bergoglio had this speech where he talked about the church on the periphery.

And I think, Mike, you'd agree.