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Not much bad to say about this plan.

So, uh, when you're looking in the grocery store for a healthy snack, throwing it in your oatmeal, throwing it, uh, could be on your smoothie, throwing it on your salad, uh, you wanna maybe reach for four or five walnuts once a day and add it to your program.

Walnuts can help your body make more urolithin A.

And if you go a few podcasts back, I talk about urolithin A as a major, uh, exciting move towards muscle health, heart health, and, uh, other aspects of the body.

But you can do it with a supplement called Mitopure.

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Or finally, The Pink Walnut.

After turning 40, Lionel's prostate develops superpowers.

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All right, Tony.

Do you have any of these jumping out at you? You got the Green Warrior.

I love that song The Pink Walnut.

[laughs] Pink walnut.

That kind of egg is a superfood.

Uh, just this morning, a sweet patient of mine brought by a dozen pastured eggs and gave me as a gift, and that made my day, 'cause I can't wait to get home and eat those eggs, right? That's a superfood, okay? Walnuts, uh, I mentioned asparagus, broccoli.

There's this huge list of superfoods, okay? Now, here's my contention.

I think that every day, all of us ought to strive to eat nothing but superfoods.

So I'm going to take credit for that.

Well, I keep telling the California Walnut Commission to send you a commission check but uh i don't think they've done that yet but i'll get on them

you should well tell us michael about the latest and it's always good news for the walnut industry is the usda is buying 28 million pounds of california walnuts how does that program work when you when you get 28 million pounds that's a lot how does that program work

well what you do is that uh you you put in for a bid and so you send in a bid to uh to the usda and then they evaluate it and then they'll allot out different portions of the bid certain dollar figures to different to different packers depending on their price and their volume that they can supply the program and then they set it up where you ship over a certain period of time and and it goes to a great use and it's it's for a good cause it's a great use it helps out society as well as it helps out the walnut industry because it takes that amount of product off the market it's no longer needed to be marketed and distributed to other other major markets that we're trying to generate more sales from and higher sales so yeah it's a really great program that they've done they've done it for a long time kind of tapered off for a little bit there but it came back this year and uh overall to clean up and they buy uh the lower grade so that's fantastic they don't buy the top grade they buy uh the lower grade which is historically one of the tougher grades to move and so it's a win-win they get they get product uh for their program and we we get to move a certain percentage of our product of lower grade off the market alleviates uh pressure on the market and allows uh those packers to focus on marketing the the better product they have in their inventory so yeah it's a really good program so we're real happy with that and uh Hopefully it does its job and gives a little relief to the overall California walnut market this year.

And it looked promising, but it'll take a while for our line managers to really learn the capabilities of it and to apply that to packing cherries.

But yeah, it was a really tough year.

So We're hoping that that's behind us and we can turn the corner with a really solid Walnut season.

And as we all know, cherries and Mother Nature have to work together or they're going to have a disastrous year.

But let's talk technical because as you mentioned, one of the best parts of this show and something we saw last season, which I'm so glad they're continuing, is just like riffing on the idea of what – the details provided.

So this week the bakers had to make a coffee and Walnut cake, but they were not given a written recipe.

They were only given the illustration of the cake.

I don't think we, did we see this last? Did we see this? No.

I want it, but I don't eat it.

Walnut crunches.

Those are the best.

Okay, kids.