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So you're running for governor of Iowa and we can get in the whole politics of that maybe

later, but I'm interested in why.

You know, I think I think the primary catalyst for me doing this was I believe we are losing

our culture and our heritage as a people.

That's my honest belief.

And I believe it's not just in Iowa, it's across the country.

When I look around and see people that were running for office, it was all about policy.

It was all about here is this tax rate or you know, this regulation needs to be changed.

And I just thought no one is standing up to say we have to get the culture right first.

We have to step in and say what does it mean to be an American?

What does it mean to be an Iowa and are the traditions and the heritage and the value

of our ancestors important to us.

That's the, in the deepest part of my heart, what motivates me in something like this.

I actually don't want to be a politician, but I've not had interest in it.

You know, I spent a lot of my life in the private sector and building schools and I have a pretty

good life.

I have a great family and a wife who loves me and supports me.

But you know, in 1850, my family came over from Germany and great, great grandpa built

our farmhouse.

And we had that same house on this piece of land in Iowa until 2005.

And my great grandmother passed away and I can still remember my grandma called me and

she said, Zach, you wouldn't want anything to this old farmhouse would you?

And I had graduated from high school in Iowa.

I was off in college and I said, no, I'm, there's something better out here.

I'm off to get something to find something better.

And then a number of years later, I was driving by to see my other great-grandmother who lived

to be 103.

And I drove by the old farm and I just drove up, I said, hey, could I take a look around?

And they said, yeah, I said, you know, my great, great grandpa built this.

He was a third-class passenger on the SS Wyland coming from Hamburg, Germany as a 14-year-old.

He was in the stowage, that's why he traveled over to America.

And he became a carpenter and then earned enough money to buy the farm and build it with

his uncle.

And I said, hey, if you're everything about selling it, please let me know.

And I just didn't think anything coming to that time, but a couple years later, they

called me and said, hey, we're going to sell this farm.

But you know, I'm like, yes, I don't know how I'm going to do it.

But I end up scraping together enough money to get an FHA loan, a down payment, and I bought

the farm.

And then since that time in 2014, I've been working to rebuild it and restore it.

And is the house still there?

House is still there.

You know, when I bought it, it was covered in vinyls, it had been completely changed on

the outside.

Yeah, 150 years the long time.

Yeah.

And being completely changed on the outside.

But I went to my dad's cousin, Peter, and he just kind of had the repository of great

grandma's photos.

And so I got this pallet of boxes of photos.

And I spent, I'm not kidding, hundreds of hours going through photos.

And I was looking for every photo I could find in this whole farm house.

And I'll tell you, to anybody who wants to be radicalized on what we've lost as a culture,

spend that much time going through your great grandmother's photos, and you'll realize

the community, the traditions, the pride I've done it a lot of it's gone.

It's unrecognizable.

Unrecognizable.

And so I did that and I found every single picture I could find and I put the house back

together, bored by board, counted every single piece of sighting, make sure it matched.

And now we live in the home that was built by my great, great grandfather.

And I tell people, I didn't do that so I could run for governor.

I mean, I started doing this over 10 years ago.

I did it because I wanted my children to understand their story.

And that their heritage in their culture, what built them, the man who built this house,

who I bet hoped someday my kids would live in it, yes.

But knew he would never meet them, that that story matters deeply.

And so that's what really got me into this.

You know, I was not looking to run for the seed.

And as I was talking to my wife about this, the current governor of Iowa, who by the

way has done a very good job.

I mean, we're likely other than Florida, maybe the one of the most conservative states and

she's done a great job at that.

Nice person.

Yeah.

You know, when we were looking at this, my wife said, you know, the seed hasn't been open

in 20 years.

And there are issues in our state that are not dealing with taxes, they're not dealing

with regulations, there are systemic deep issues that are really causing our people to

be hurt.

And I talk about them all the time and it was kind of from her at this moment of, hey, you

know, put up or stop talking about it because this is an opportunity to go make real change.

So that's why I'm running.

So you said there are systemic issues that are not included in the normal palette of

politician concerns, which would be taxes and regulation.

How just in order of importance, can you go through a few of them?

Well, I think, you know, I've spent my life in large part as an entrepreneur and in

businesses, organization I've run or started, I have key metrics that I'm tracking to

know the health of my companies or the health of an organization.

And you know, I think, I think on that list for a state is the physical climate of it.

That's no doubt that's part of it.

I can people afford to live here.

Yes.

That's a big part, of course.

But the other, there's other deeper issues that I think are more long term in focus that

we, you know, because of this like constant news cycle of what's happening right now that

we all have to respond to, which thank God I'm not running for a federal office because

it's like never ending and always changing.

But because of because of that, often we're distracted or our eyes are taken off the

ball purposely from the big issues and a couple of them are this, I was number four in the

nation for net out migration of our kids 25 to 29.

Yeah.

How can you build a state if you're people leaving?

Important people.

Yes.

Yes.

We can talk about that.

Another one would be, you know, 25% of our farm lands now owned by out of state investors

and funds that don't live in our state.

So our farmers who have had this ancestral connection to the land are now becoming tenants

again, something we left Germany in large part four, you know, just take a side quest

here for a second.

I remember when I was doing a lot of that research in my family, to understand a lot about

the history and what drove them to leave this homeland of theirs, you know, because I

always made up, you know, 35, 40% German immigrants came over, very industrious people, very

family oriented people, people that had pride in the work that they do.

Objectively some of the best people ever, I would say that.

I'm not one of them, but I just, I just have noticed big on tradition and big on family

and a lot of pride in where they came from.

So what would motivate people to leave?

And you know, I think the common answer we always heard was, well, it's religious persecution.

So I started to get interested in this, just to understand more, what were the real conditions.

And I actually found out that, you know, my family, a lot of Germans came over around

1850, well, in 1848 in Germany, there's an attempted revolution across Europe, across

Europe, yes.

And it was called the 48ers.

And what did they want?

Well, they wanted to be able to own the ground under their feet.

They wanted free speech.

They didn't like slave free.

They had a lot of these, you know, now what we call western ideals.

It was the end of feudalism, right?

Yes.

Right.

And so what happened to them?

They were defeated.

And so in Germany, when they're defeated, many of them got exiled.

And then many others just left.

Well, what state came online in 1846 was Iowa.

And it was also very agrarian, just like where they came from.

So many people came over and I like to talk about this that, you know, one of the key

points in Iowa's history that I'm most proud of is how Iones responded during the Civil

War.

So, you know, we had them as very compromised, we had the Kansas Nebraska Act.

And with that, with that decision of, you know, they sort of get to decide whether or

not they're going to be free slave.

There was a lot of wealthy land-owning elites that were rushing to the Midwest to try

to lobby to create a slave states, of course.

And this Iowa...

Plantations on the Prairie.

Right.

And Iowa is not a part of this, you know, but one of my favorite stories in 1861, the governor

of Iowa, governor Samuel Kirkwood, he was on his plow in his field when a messenger

from the Department of War brought a message on horseback to him.

And then the president said he needed to put together a company of 750 troops to be ready

in two weeks.

And you might...

Mind you, this is 15 years after Iowa became a state, maybe we're in our infancy.

And he said, 750 troops in two weeks, how can that be done?

And two weeks later, 10,000 Iones had signed up.

By the end of the Civil War, more Iones fought in the Civil War than any other state per

capita.

Why was that?

I believe, and there's some evidence, of course, I've read deeply in this, that they had

just left a country that they saw oppression in, and they fled that, left everything.

And they were saying, this isn't going to happen here.

And so, I think when you talk about land, and you talk about now 25% of our land is now

owned by people that don't live in our state.

They're not contributing to our communities.

They don't go to the football games.

They're not shopping on Main Street.

It's a real generational issue, and I go to these auctions.

I've bid against many of these people, land auctions.

Oh, yeah.

And very often, it's a farm management company, the actual owner, we don't know who they

are.

We actually don't know who owns our land in Iowa.

There's not human level disclosure that's required.

So you can own land in LLC, and that LLC could be wholly owned by a trust, and all the

state knows is that the LLC owns a land.

That's it.

And so we've got to this place where just common courtesy, or just common tradition of

knowing who your neighbors are, is not there anymore.

What's impossible?

Yeah.

If you don't, can't find their names, it's kind of hard to have a community.

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And so one of the things that's governor that I want to do is require human level disclosure

of land ownership.

Because I would bet that it's actually more than 25% of our lands.

Of course it is.

Owned by people.

And then another two other ones.

By the way, if you don't have to bear the consequences of your actions, then you're

much more likely to exploit and degrade the community that you're taking money from.

So like why wouldn't you, I mean, why do you care about long term best practices?

You don't.

You're just extracting wealth.

This is the spiritual part of the discussion, I believe.

You know, I was, my father was a 30 year conservationist and a pastor.

And I grew up like learning to love and appreciate the place.

I tell, I've said this before, but you know, he legitimately made me believe that every

sunset was made for me by God.

Amen.

We'd be driving and say, look at what God made for you.

And I still think to those things to this day of just like those little pieces that made

me appreciate creation.

And one of my favorite clips from your show ever, ever is when you're on with Bobby Kennedy.

And he was having that discussion about how nature is how we connect deeply with God.

Yeah.

Makes me emotional thinking about it.

I couldn't agree more.

I said that to so many people and especially my father because it's true and it's language

we don't use anymore.

It brings you to a higher place and it helps you understand like this is much deeper than

just who owns a piece of land or what's happening.

It's actually like we are connected to God through the land through his creation.

And it's on every page of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

There's a lot of nature.

It's what's what's the Garden of Eden fill with trees, rivers, animals, right?

And all the parables that happen to that?

So that, of course, that's a systemic issue.

And let me say that that's been going on for a long time and nobody's really talked

about it.

You go to a cafe, every farmer's talking about these things about like you see that we

had a piece of land in Northwest Iowa recently go for $32,000 an acre, not development.

Okay.

I mean, just I'm a land buyer.

I'm interested in land.

I'm interested in, you know, and all that.

How do you get to $32,000 an acre?

And for, you know, famously productive farmland, like what is that?

What's the potential return on that?

How did that happen?

Well, let's just say commonly we'll go to $20,000 an acre.

That's fairly common in Northwest Iowa.

Some of the best land in the world.

It's a dog.

It is.

And so, you know, look, outside investors look at Iowa as a great investment because it's

a solid asset.

Yes.

It heads against the dollar.

And you get a dividend.

You rent the land like, oh, and so one of the things I kind of complain or opine about

a lot is that our land isn't an asset class.

It's actually was meant as the inheritance for the sons and daughters of our state to build

their lives, their communities and their families.

And when they're tenants on that land and they're paying high dollar rent, because the

only way you can justify high, high price like that is very high rent, you're stripping

away a lot of, you know, go back to say it's like kind of the spiritual aspect of this.

And that land is best when it's owned and farmed by the same person.

We know this.

We know this from, if you own rental properties, where it may be, like there's a connection

of stewardship that comes with that to know that I'm passing this piece of ground on to

my grandkids and their kids and their kids.

And that's what it should be.

And that is being actively taken away in our state.

It's a two other things that I think are big systemic issues that are on my scorecard,

as I'd say, is one is our farmers are actively being exploited by big ag companies.

When I was growing up, I born in Iowa.

We had over 300 seed and input companies, you know, fertilizer and agrochemical companies

that were selling to our farmers.

The day that number's three, that control 85% of the market, over 90% of seed technology

is owned by two companies.

Monsanto.

Actually, it's Bayer and Corteva, 90% of the Jones Monsanto now.

Seed technology.

No, of course, but I forgot that Monsanto doesn't actually exist anymore, does it?

I don't think so.

It changed the name.

It was bought by Bayer in Germany.

Yeah.

They're mentioned a lot in court still, but they're not a company.

So if you look at the long-term trend that anytime there's a rise in commodity prices,

these input costs go up, even though there's not a direct correlating factor.

You know, there's a study out of the University of Illinois, and this study compared the cost

of farming in Brazil to the cost of farming in Illinois, Iowa, basically.

You have to understand that the three big companies in America that provide these inputs

are also the same three big companies in Brazil, Bayer, Cortevans, and Gentah.

That study said that for growing corn using the same application rate, that they're charging

Brazilian farmers about $150 less per acre than they are Iowa farmers.

How?

Well, the real answer is because they're an unchecked monopoly and competition doesn't exist.

There's tacit collusion.

But here's how it actually works.

They have what they call regional base pricing.

But what it really is is this, when they look at their pricing, they base it on the yield

that you're going to create.

So let's say you have more productive land, even though you're using the same amount of product,

they're going to take more.

You have less productive land, even though you're using the same amount of product, they're

going to take more.

It's wrong.

And I will give credit to Brook Rollins and Donald Trump in the administration.

They're talking about bringing antitrust and investing in this with the Department of

Justice.

And one of the things I pledge to do, if I'm governor of Iowa, I'm going to lead the

charge to bring antitrust suits against these companies that are exploiting our farmers.

They're taking every dollar they possibly can.

And we're already on life support.

I mean, many, many, most farms are operating at a loss right now.

And when you talk to farmers about this, you do not, I can't emphasize this enough.

You do not hear them talk about tariffs.

They're not.

Matter of fact, the price of soybeans this year with the tariffs was higher than it was last year

before the tariffs.

The change came that the cost of growing went up.

I mean, the cost of the input products that they're using went up.

And so I tell people all the time, the tariffs are not the issue.

We have to get this unchecked monopoly in check and under control.

Obviously, inputs are essential to agriculture, well, to any, creating anything.

One of them is diesel fuel, not a lot of movement there, but then you have the products

that you just mentioned, seeds and fertilizer.

Taking out seeds, let's just focus on fertilizer.

What are the products like?

Well, I mean, it just depends on the most common product for fertilizers in hydrosimonia.

It's used in the fall.

It's where a lot of nitrogen comes from.

But then you have other products that are products from earth, potassium, potash, those things.

But you look at the trend of the pricing in these.

I think it was five years ago.

The past five years, nitrogen fertilizers went up 150% in the price of corn down 2%.

So farmers are there really being, I would say, extorted in this process.

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But I was hunting on a farm in November right before Thanksgiving a big, big, big working farm.

And I was with the ranch manager and in a truck and he said,

this is a truck we used to spray roundup.

And I said, people choosing roundup, I don't know, you know, I'm not in the ag business.

I thought roundup was bad.

Yeah.

Again, I'm very ignorant, but I just thought I didn't realize that people are still spraying roundup.

He said, oh, everyone sprays roundup like everybody does.

And we kind of don't talk about it.

And I'm like, hmm.

I mean, is that I'm not attacking roundup specifically?

But like, are we sure that these chemicals are all safe?

Well, you know, well, roundup is the most highly used herbicide in history of the country.

This is the world.

Because it's so effective.

I mean, I've seen it.

It's losing its effectiveness greatly.

It has to be, yeah, you'll have different mixtures now.

Yes.

That'll go in because we're getting roundup resist or life is eight resistant weeds.

And now there's the high percentage of weeds have glyphosate resistance.

So, you know, I think in some ways, the life cycle roundup is kind of,

it's going to be coming to an end on its own.

It's limited by nature.

It's limited by nature.

And new products are coming out.

But I will tell you this.

When you talk about safety of products, well, let me back up and just talk about the companies.

I mentioned the three big companies that are controlling the ag input market,

Bayer, Cortevins, and there's other ones.

But Bayer is a German company.

Yes.

Cortevins is an American company.

Top shareholders are BlackRock, Vanguard, and States trade of that company.

But Sinjenta is a wholly owned state enterprise of the Chinese government.

Actually?

100%.

So, about somewhere on the end of five million acres in our state has chemicals and seed technology

from a company that's a wholly owned company of the state of China, the country of China.

So, I mentioned that to say this.

If you talk to farmers about some of these products, and you know, like glyphosate

or roundup is, you know, very ubiquitous you used.

But if you talk to them about products, even many of them won't use anymore,

you'll get to products like Paracquod.

Paracquod is actually was really originally formulated by Sinjenta.

Paracquod was used in anti-drug spraying in Latin America was very controversial for that.

And it'll burn down plants in a matter of hours.

But if you're exposed to Paracquod, your chance of Parkinson's doubles,

that's not a fact.

Actually?

Oh, yes.

Parkinson's?

There's people.

That's something you don't want to get.

Now, if you go next and you type in and you just like look at Paracquod, you'll find stories of farmers

who just will not use anymore.

They'll tell stories of spraying it and immediately getting like that day,

getting like uncontrollable bloody noses.

It's a very, very harsh product.

And it's still spring.

I think the estimate, the best estimate is about 300,000 acres of land and Iowa uses product.

This product is actually used in research settings in mice and rodents to induce Parkinson's.

Are you being serious?

I'm 100% serious.

And our EPA, and this is where the big issue lies.

Our EPA still allows it.

So if we're talking about like, are these products harmful?

Well, we can get into that more, but yes.

Well, we know.

If it doubles your chance of Parkinson's, you're going to have to explain the upside to continue selling that product.

I mean, my instinct is like, well, you'd ban that today.

And I think that's what people Parkinson's want now.

That's true suffering.

Yeah, it's a sentence you don't want.

No.

But when you can research this, your list of skin researchers, it is used to induce Parkinson's in research settings.

So when I talk about these products, I think what farmers want is to understand the truth,

to know that their government is telling them the truth about these products.

It was.

But as with many other things, the corporate capture is so heavy.

And so when you talk about glyphosate or glyphosate-based herbicides, roundup is one of them.

There's many glyphosate-based herbicides.

The EPA has studied this for years.

We know way more than we've ever known about this.

And we also know that there are significant risks associated with its use.

And so, for example, one of the most known cases is the case of the groundskeeper in California, the first major lawsuit against Monsanto.

And this was a man who was his job was to work for the school districts in spray glyphosate.

And the hose broke on his on his packer in his little cart and it ended up showering him with this product.

In a matter of months, he had lesions, all of his body.

And he sends emails to Monsanto asking, what should I do here?

I mean, they're very like, I need help.

Like not, I'm trying to blame you. He's like, what do I do to solve this problem?

Well, if you fast forward in that trial, when they were in the discovery process, the judge agreed to make a large portion of the discovery confidential.

Meaning that it wasn't, you know, it wasn't to be released.

But the plaintiffs could challenge something or request the disclosure of it.

And they could request a meet and confer to talk about them.

And they requested it at one point.

And the Monsanto attorneys, I think literally said the words go away.

We're not going to disclose anything else.

But then there's enough.

Do I get to do that next time I get sued go away?

Go away.

And so, but there's a stipulation there that said, if they didn't, if Monsanto didn't put in there, another request continued the confidentiality within 30 days, that the confidentiality was waived.

They forgot to respond.

And so now we have millions of pages of documents called the Monsanto papers, millions.

And in those documents, it is an absolute master class in corporate capture.

To the effect of, you know, that email that he sent to the company, they opened it, they read it, they forwarded around what should we do here and they just didn't respond to him.

I'm a man who's like hurting, who's of the initial email and covered in lesions from your product.

What should I do?

What should I do?

Yeah, basically, he's asking for help.

They read it, forwarded around.

What do we do with this?

Nobody responded to him.

And there's, he sent two of those emails.

I believe it was two.

But in there's also things like, there was a time and place where another governmental body was going to be doing a study on the safety of glyphosate or roundup in this case.

And the EPA official that Monsanto was working with at the time got wind of this.

And in the email with the, with the Monsanto official, he's recounting his conversation with this EPA official.

And in it, he said, the official said to him on the phone, he quotes it in the email, if I can kill this, I should get a medal.

And he did.

He prevented this other governmental body from doing their own independent research on the safety and effectiveness of glyphosate of roundup.

Come on now.

This is real.

This is out there.

This is the regulator.

This is the regulator.

Yes.

And so this is out there.

And other egregious examples of, and I say this is say this very often I'm talking to farmers who I love, where my friends and my neighbors and my family.

And I am one of them.

We actively farm our own land.

I work with young farmers that, you know, to help them have an opportunity to be on land.

We share crop.

But I'm in there.

I'm doing this.

The most common common I get from people is if it wasn't safe, they wouldn't let me use it.

And I'm just here to say that's a lie.

Just like they were captured during COVID and the medical establishment captured agencies, just like Bobby Kennedy is fighting right now and Donald Trump is fighting right now.

These agencies have been captured for a long time and they've been lying to the consumers about the safety and efficacy of their products.

And my whole goal here, I'm not here to sit and say we should ban X, Y, or Z.

That's not what I'm talking about.

I mean, I think there's certain things like periquot probably should not be used.

I mean, no problem.

It should be used of Parkinson's like hard.

Hard.

No, it shouldn't be used.

But what I want is good science.

So farmers can say, do I want to use this product?

And we can say, should this product be allowed?

And also know if I'm going to use this product, this is how it should be used.

I mean, you have commercials.

I mean, we know how glyphosate enters the bloodstream.

We know that if it's on your skin, about 30% enters your bloodstream.

About 10% of that is through cardiac output, about 10% goes into your bone marrow.

In bone marrow, glyphosate disrupts the replication of hematopoietic stem cells during the differentiating from red to white.

It's genotoxic.

There's 50 studies that show this, like we know how it happens.

And yet there's commercials showing people using this products in flip flops and shorts,

just saying like, be cavalier about it.

We have many products we use.

You go into my shop at the farm.

There's many products in the shelf that if they're used improperly, are bad for your health.

And they warn about that on the label.

These do not, not in that same way.

But in these papers were also examples like this.

In 2000, there was a study called the William study.

It's the most cited study on the safety of glyphosate, the most cited.

99.9% of all papers that cite the safety of glyphosate cite this study.

Last month, that study was retracted because it was found that Monsanto executives wrote it.

Wrote the study.

But here's maybe even the worst part.

We found that out in 2017 and it was retracted in 2025.

The Monsanto executive actually said, when he's sending this back,

he better not have any revisions.

That's what he said.

Look, you know, I think oftentimes when you talk about the subject, especially in my home state,

there's this desire to paint you as some liberal hippie that doesn't like farming.

I'm the exact opposite that I can tell.

I actually think that wokeism is a mental disorder that's trying to destroy our country.

Of course.

And then we have got to fight to protect our culture, our people and our heritage.

But I also believe that our government has been captured in large part.

And this is one of the most egregious examples.

It's really simple.

You know, why do you love the country?

One of the reasons you love it is because of its physical beauty, the landscape.

I mean, America is great because it's got great people and because it's inherently great.

It's just beautiful.

And anyone who's dispoiling nature is an enemy of the country.

Super simple.

Anyone building ugly buildings, spraying poisonous chemicals, those are our enemies.

Those are not our friends.

I don't think it's complicated at all.

And that's not the liberal position.

The liberals are the ones who are putting bulldozing trees to build solar farms.

Let's just be clear about what this is.

It's an aggressive, coordinated effort to defile God's creation by people who hate God.

Not hard.

Abortion is directly related to building strip malls.

Sorry.

They're both destructions of beauty and of God's creation.

That's what I think.

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Exactly.

And here's the thing.

I think farmers agree with a lot of this.

And of course they do.

They're looking to say, like, look, number one,

many of these guys would like to try different things.

But when you're operating a razor thin margins,

the idea of trying a new method of farming is not that appealing.

Because like, what if it doesn't work?

They can't, you know, keep the farm next year.

And so these, these are our people that enjoy hunting,

enjoy fishing, enjoy nature, want to be outdoors.

Like, this is our culture.

That's what we like.

And you're right.

Like, we are the environmentalists.

Like, obviously, we are the people that want to keep that

and keep God's creation.

Bernie Sanders spends a lot of time outside.

You think AOC can identify a tree species?

I mean, these are people who are rejecting nature, rejecting beauty,

rejecting anything that is natural and pure

and trying to defy it.

That's their program.

Yeah.

Well, and they've been completely captured by this side,

like this religion of carbon.

But it's insane.

And so carbon is not, I'm, by the way, emitting it right now.

Carbon is not the problem.

Carbon is the basis of life.

Yeah.

Problem is man-made poisons.

Yeah.

So how's the health?

Okay.

So, um, I was still primarily an ag state, obviously.

Yeah.

What we are, absolutely.

We have ag at all non-union counties.

Yes.

Right.

Yes.

Yes.

Ag is the largest industry.

And kind of come to the last point of like that,

that score kind of mentioned to you.

It's like, we have the fastest rate of new cancer

of anywhere in the history of human civilization.

What?

Yes.

Can you repeat that?

We have the fastest rate of new cancer

of anywhere in the history of human civilization.

Iowa?

Iowa.

Iowa.

Matter of fact, if you live in one of the top counties

for cancer in our state, they're all rural counties,

your lifetime chance of getting cancers one and two.

And if you take Iowa as a whole,

and you compare it to say a state like Nevada,

Nevada actually has fairly low cancer rates.

And any given year?

Nevada is the highest smoking rate out of 50 states,

but one of the lowest cancer rates.

Iowa has very low smoking rates,

very low smoking rates relative certainly to Nevada

and has a really high cancer rate.

I'm just not a scientist.

I'm just noticing.

I just, I picked Nevada because I needed to pick a state

that I was like looking at.

That is the highest smoking rate in America.

Look it up.

So if you choose to live in Nevada over Iowa

and any given year, your chance of getting cancer

is 40% less.

I have, why have I never heard this 40%?

If you take the top county for cancer in our state,

and you compare it, 70% less.

Actually.

Actually.

And it's the top county and ag county.

Oh yeah.

Absolutely.

It's not too long.

No, no, no.

Actually, there's lower rates of cancer.

I mean per capita, of course, in those places.

For real, in your population centers,

they have lower cancer.

It's the top 10 counties are all rural counties.

So you can say that people who are spending the day

outside getting physical exercise 12 months a year

with those people of higher cancer rates

and someone working in a cube in Des Moines,

then you start to think, hmm, maybe there are external factors

we should be looking at.

You know, as I've brought this up,

I find myself, this is so interesting.

I find myself with a genuine care

because like I said, I'm not trying to tell farmers

how they have to farm.

I'm not trying to tell everybody they have to farm like me.

Like we run into a gendered farm, lots of it's organic.

My goal is to help Iowans live longer healthier lives,

help farmers make more money,

and help kids stay on farms for longer.

That's like, is the farmers who are being abused here?

They're the victims here.

A hundred percent.

They're the ones getting cancer.

It's a hundred percent.

And that's, you know, and I'll talk to farmers about this

or I'll talk to people that maybe are big in the ag community.

And they hear these talking points.

They'll say like applicators of these products

have lower cancer rates.

And they're not wrong.

That's actually an accurate statement.

Meaning farmers, in general, as a whole,

can have lower cancer rates.

But when you hone in specifically on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,

leukemia, they have much higher cancer rates.

The lifestyle of the job is going to give you more exercise.

It's going to put you out.

And so there are these things that lower it.

But you hear these industry talking points about like,

actually, there's lower in total.

It's like, yeah, but your chance of getting these specific cancers linked

to these products is much higher.

And so even with the rate of cancer in our state,

you know, I'm in a governor's race right now.

And even with the rate of cancer in our state,

there's not one person talking about these things

that I'm talking about right now with the likely causes of the cancer in our state.

We hear things like fear you'll be attacked as a liberal for bringing this up.

I fear most that isn't a fear.

But most, I think that the ag associations,

especially ones that are not member driven, you know,

are constituted by actual farmers that take large checks

from the companies that I'm mentioning right now,

I think the most likely scenario that everybody's warned me about

is they're just going to come and try to destroy me.

I'm literally here because I could get into tears thinking about the people

that I know that have gotten cancer.

My own father got it.

He was a crop consultant.

So his job was to go into fields, check for pests, weeds.

I used to do this with him as a child.

I had a lot of fun doing it.

He'd write a report and he'd bring it back to the farmers.

And this is part of his job.

He did it very well.

And this is just the norm.

It's what you did.

And he'd recommend this is what you should apply.

He did that for over two decades.

And he was diagnosed with one of these exact types of cancer.

And that's what really, I think, rolled was he?

He was 60?

Ouch.

Well, Tucker, this is maybe...

Sorry.

Thank you.

He's in remission now.

Thank the Lord.

But this is where I think this hits home spiritually, too,

is that I think Iowans in myself included, you know,

about three and a half months ago,

I went back to my hometown that I grew up in in Iowa

for the funeral of my best friend from high school for his father.

He died of cancer again in the 60s.

And I tell people like, I don't know how many more of these

funerals of men and women in their 60s.

I can go to when their parents lived to be 80.

I go, we're losing the wisdom of entire generation of people.

That's true.

And what life expectancy goes down is not progress.

No.

So I tell people, and this is the more the political way to say it,

look, we can have amazing...

I have until people...

I'm not running for office because of policy,

I'm running because of culture, and they say,

what does that mean?

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And I think what that amounted to is there's so many people

have subscribed to what I call this religion of economic thinking.

This idea of market fundamentalism,

that the market matters above all.

And I say, that's not what our ancestors believed.

It's not what our founders believed.

How has it worked?

Exactly.

I say to about our ancestors,

they didn't come here to become capitalists.

They came here to own the ground under their feet,

to build their churches and communities,

and pass something on to the next generation.

To their children, of course.

But they didn't come here to do it at the detriment of their neighbors.

They actually came here to do it, helping their neighbors.

Well, you obviously are a communist.

I have to tell you, the amount of arguments that I hear

from this generation that has subscribed

to this religion of economic thinking,

which by the way our founders did not support.

They were in favor of tariffs.

The states all had laws,

but primarily all of them had laws to protect moral virtue.

Like, this was a part of what they did.

They knew it.

And they knew because the state has a role in that.

And we were, we are a Christian nation

with a Christian form of government.

Like, our constitution could not have been created

by any other religion.

You're not endowed by a creator.

You don't have available rights.

In Christianity, you do.

The divinity in individual is real.

We're made in the image of God.

And so I have these arguments with people

where I'm saying, look.

25% of the lands owned by us are investors.

I'd like to raise their property taxes.

I'd like to disincentivize this thing

that's been happening in our state

and create a new category of tax for investment land

for people that are coming into prospecting.

And I'm just, this is socialism.

This is communism.

I'm just saying, who says that?

This is what gets me.

It's self-defense is immoral now.

It's basically what they're saying.

You're not protecting your...

You're not allowed to defend yourself.

Yeah.

I would just say, Iowa is not an economic zone for the world

or for the country.

It's not.

You're upsetting me.

Yes.

I agree.

And so when I, but when I say this,

it's oftentimes people that were, you know,

that were, oftentimes it's people

that were really affected

by the economic thinking that came out

of the Chicago School of Economics.

And when I trace much of this back,

I look at what happened in the 1980s.

I think Ronald Reagan did a lot of great things.

But there's also this market fundamentalism

that really took over.

And then you look at what's been the repercussions of that.

This idea that unrestrained capitalism

is what we worship.

Or that it even is capitalism.

That it even is capitalism?

Because oftentimes it's...

It's corporatism.

Of course.

It's just, always.

Exactly.

Or that free trade is the ideal.

It's like, even the fathers of modern economics,

Adam Smith, even David Ricardo,

who was a person that basically developed the idea

of comparative advantage.

This is a big thing.

Yes, free trade is good.

If you protect your national interests first.

Like...

Like phrases.

The silicon microchip was invented

by a man from Iowa.

Robert Noise, who then tell.

And then you look at what's happened now in our country

from a product that was invented in our country.

We produce 10% of them.

And basically all of the high-tech versions of this.

We can't produce.

We don't have the technologies.

So the ones that would be a military application

are coming from somewhere else.

So there's this idea that the market matters over all.

I was saying, no, that's not.

We don't worship the market.

Like...

The most egregious example of this,

I think, is when you look at what happened

through free trade in the Rust Belt and throughout the Midwest.

Where you had people that were told that

the other jobs were being shipped overseas.

But they'd be replaced by high-tech jobs

that then they'd be trained by,

by the way, as a lie, it didn't happen.

Matter of fact,

the biggest benefits that came from that

were for the leaders of large companies

that chose to do what Adam Smith said not to do,

which was, you know, free trade was about...

was about one country doing something really well,

another country doing another thing really well,

in the exchange.

A comparative advantage in the market

isn't exploitative labor conditions

of a communist government.

That's not included in the comparative advantage.

That Adam Smith didn't foresee that.

No, and so, like, when Capitals mobile

and you can move all of these factories to one place,

to get cheap labor,

everything's going there.

And then so, who got rich off that?

Well, large companies got rich.

And then pharmaceutical companies got rich

that prayed off purposeless white males

who lost their work.

Of course.

In large partners.

Exactly.

And it created...

Still billionaires.

Never went to jail.

And, like, as I say this,

I get, like, a good response

because it's like,

this is just wrong.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, the hundreds of thousands of deaths

that have come from this,

when you take work and purpose away from people,

and you sell them a lie,

then it's going to be replaced by these high-tech jobs,

or high-tech training for jobs,

and it doesn't happen.

And then you have these practices,

where people, you know, like,

here's a new customer.

We can get them addicted.

There's a stat I read.

It's almost like it was on purpose.

You know, in 2016,

the World Economic Forum had that article

that was published still online.

I don't know why it's still online today.

But I talked about this idea that,

in the future,

you'll own nothing,

and you'll be happy.

I tell people like,

that wasn't a joke.

It wasn't a threat.

It was a plan.

Of course.

And it's happening.

Oh, I know.

And so there,

I think many people in our country

just feel as if there's this large plan

or effort that's being executed

that we're not privy to.

No.

But we have these siops that happen

that, like,

that come up and

we're fed them through news

or something like that to get on board with it.

And I think what we just talked about

is probably a large part of that.

This idea that we're going to take away

meaningful manual labor with your hands,

which, by the way,

is, like, maybe second to farming,

that type of work is really gratifying

because you're creating a product for it.

I do it in my spare time.

Like, I can't wait to get off work and do it.

Not because I'm great at it or something,

but because it's so rewarding.

It's so refreshing.

It feeds something.

It feeds a real hunger, I think,

and all men.

And so, yes, no.

It's like my primary

former relaxation.

I just love it.

And I think every man feels that way.

I agree.

Man, you look at some of these

channels on social media

that have taken off.

Oh, yeah.

It's so much of this because

they're like a dictating.

It's like, I love watching.

Gosh, even the bushcraft videos

of people making these houses

and they're amazing.

Or how about Pakistani

metalworking videos?

You ever watch those?

Yes.

That's a whole genre.

Those guys are amazing.

I've never really liked Pakistan.

I spent time in Pakistan.

You watch those videos.

You're like, I'm pretty pro-Pakistan.

Just the ingenuity, the craftsmanship,

which is not high, by the way,

but it's just like these are men

making things out of raw materials.

And it's real to watch that.

Yeah.

And they're proud of what they create.

100% and they ought to be.

They should.

And they have my respect.

Yeah.

And me as well.

And I would just say that

I look at this from the standpoint of

you'll own nothing.

And I look at this large narrative

that's happening in our country.

I mean, you know this, but

even in Iowa, Blackstone is buying

single-family homes.

There's another company

in Council Bluffs that's doing as well.

Multi-billion dollar

real estate investment trust.

It's buying up single-family homes.

In Council Bluffs?

Council Bluffs.

That's a tough town.

Yeah.

You're right across the river from Omaha.

Yeah.

It wouldn't be your first choice.

That's how ubiquitous this is.

Right?

It's like a Council Bluffs.

Yeah.

And then you look at our

farmlands being bought by people

that don't live here.

And even when you get back into

agriculture and you look at,

Iowa is a top pork producing

state in the country.

Yes.

What most people don't know is

I think somewhere above 75%

of the pork that's raised in Iowa,

the farmers don't own the pigs.

Of course not.

They're on contract

from one of the big four agriculture

from Glamourts, Cargill,

Tyson, JBS,

and National.

So we're having this pride in our work,

this pride in our land,

the health of our people,

we're having these major issues come up.

Can I ask you a question?

I mean, that does,

so you won't know nothing

and be happy is a very famous phrase

and thank you for reminding us

that it was 10 years ago

that it first emerged

and that it was real.

It was not a meme at the point.

It was like a statement of intent.

But I think that has obscured

that even darker reality,

which is not only you not own anything,

you won't create anything.

Yeah.

I personally just speaking for myself

as a middle-aged man,

I would rather at this stage create

than own.

I like both.

But the joy, the thing that proves

that you were made in God's image

is your ability to create

because God is the creator.

Yeah.

And when you create something,

it's the whole purpose of being here,

whether it's children,

or harmony,

or a pair of reading glasses,

creation,

making something out of nothing

is the main joy in life.

And when you take that away,

no wonder people are unfindable.

Yeah.

Right.

Well, also,

I think maybe missing,

like the biggest one of those,

is speech.

Well, exactly.

Of this right here,

of what you're creating.

I like to believe that's a form of creation.

It is.

That's it.

It's like this from my life talking.

Speech is that.

And that is that creating.

This is where I believe

that we get bogged down

in the like the policy

and the politics of this whole thing.

And we forget about the grander story

of who we are as a people

that were endowed by our creator

that were here for a big purpose.

You know,

I spent a number of years building schools.

And one of the things we'd say is that we believe

every young person is a hero

on their journey

to find a calling and change the world.

And like that was the inspirational line

that we would say basically every day.

Like that's who we are.

That's why we're here.

And a lot of this creation

has been,

has been taken away,

as you mentioned.

And AI is not the least of which.

I tell my kids all the time.

Look, use AI for research.

Never let it write for you.

Writing is how you organize your thoughts.

It's how you can think something through

to separate the wheat from the chaff

to understand how to think critically

to test your ideas

and then get into bait and things like that.

You can't have a machine do that.

So it's a uniquely human thing

is for us to come up with these ideas

based on our unique life experience.

It's like saying eat a steak for me.

Have sex for me.

You know, wake up at dawn

and watch the sunrise for me.

No, I'll reserve those to myself

because I'm sure the greatest pleasures in life

and creating something is number one

on that list of joy.

So like, why would you ever outsource that to a machine?

I never understand that.

Did you see the commercial for the product

that basically records

like your grandmother,

you record them when they're alive?

And then after they pass away,

it creates basically an avatar of them

but the actually you can steal my memories

and replace them with the creation of a machine.

Yeah, I don't think so.

This is real though.

Actually, for the longest time,

we accepted technology.

And it looked, farming is a big,

in this too, it's like,

look, it reduced the burden of labor.

And there's a certain part of the point to that,

that's probably good.

Meaning like hand plowing a field

is a really difficult task.

Using a tractor.

Okay, that's probably okay, right?

It is okay.

Obviously I'm joking.

But then when you start to see

what it's being used for now

to replace human beings,

meaning you can continue to have conversations

with this grandmother

long after she's passed away

and she'll give you her unique thoughts.

Well, that's completely stripping

with the affinity of humanity.

This idea that we're creating God's image,

that we each have something unique to share.

And humanity is something to be protected

and is very special in the history of the universe.

It's very special.

And so like, let me just say this.

A lot of my campaign comes down to this question.

I was reading an essay by Windelberry.

Ah.

You know, it's funny.

As you were talking,

I was just thinking of Windelberry.

And I was going to say,

apropos of nothing.

I love Windelberry.

I thought maybe he's never heard of Windelberry.

I love that you read Windelberry.

I love Windelberry.

As a essay, I'm not 11.

It was so radical.

I think it got taken off the internet.

But it was like so good.

You know, I maybe shouldn't say this on here.

But I drive a Tesla

and it has an autopilot feature.

And there's a period of time

when I'd be driving with my kids

and somewhere and I might like, you know,

pull out the Windelberry poem book.

And give them.

And so on the way to schools,

they're talking to my sister-in-law yesterday

about Windelberry poems.

Literally yesterday.

I would actually have the kids take turns in the car

reading a poem to each other.

No way.

Because, look,

understanding these ideas,

I don't know if there's other than faith

and they're tied in together,

inextricably woven together

are the ideas that Windelberry puts forward

in the ideas of our faith.

You can't separate them because

it's about creation.

Yes.

It's about protecting that

and understanding that

we were told to tend the garden

and were told to subdue,

but not destroy, of course.

And so,

I would have the kids read this

because it's like,

I want you guys to know,

like, look, if I'm gone tomorrow

and you knew two things about me

that I loved my Savior

and I loved the creation.

Yes.

I'd be very happy.

And I hope that, you know,

if that's the only two things

you remember about me

you just had to keep reflecting

on those two things.

Great.

You're making me emotional again.

Sorry.

But in this essay,

I was actually in the Atlantic.

If you're listening to Windelberry poems

in the car with your kids,

like, I'm,

tell me where the fundraiser is

because I'm going

because I just weaned more of this in America.

So, um,

he had this poem,

this essay wrote in the Atlantic,

I think it was 1991.

And somebody,

some quote,

I read,

turned me on to that.

And I was like, I wonder what this is.

So, I went and read,

read the whole thing.

And in it, he talked about this idea.

And I think this summarizes

so much what I'm talking about.

When I say,

our farm,

farm lines being owned by people

who don't live here,

our jobs are being shipped

to other countries,

or factories being shipped

to other countries.

We've unchecked monopolies

that are exploiting our farmers.

We have highest cancer rate,

but we're not talking about it.

Windelberry said

that a foundational question

that the Amish ask

before they make any big decision

is,

what will this change

do to our community?

Yes.

And I think,

I don't know anyone

who would deny

that our politicians

and our leaders

have not been asking that question

for a very long time.

That is absolutely right.

And that is absolutely right.

And we don't ask ourselves enough,

how will this change us

and our relationships

and our understanding

of God in the world?

And I think that of labor-saving devices,

I find myself,

I'm the product of, you know,

America and at its peak

and there's not enough labor actually,

and I find myself trying

to eliminate labor-saving devices

from my life,

merely so I will have

the experience of labor.

Yeah.

We hand grind our coffee.

Don't have to do that.

Why do we do that?

I always say,

to my befuddled and grumpy children,

like, because we're not depending on electricity

for everything.

You can grind your own coffee.

It's okay.

And I just feel like

that, and obviously I'm insane,

so that informs a lot of my decisions

as my lunacy,

but it also speaks to,

like, a need in all people

to be involved

in the production of something.

Yeah.

Right?

Oh, absolutely.

Like, Dordash is,

I'm not against Dordash,

but like, not that I've used it,

but like,

I don't know.

You gain something,

but you also lose something.

That's all I'm saying.

Yeah, they're there.

When you feel the feeling of accomplishment,

it's a liberating feeling.

Yes.

It's a feeling that brings pride.

And I would say this,

it's a feeling that brings pride

that also, if you understand

your own history of your family

and your story,

you can connect it to

what's happened generation

and generation and generation before.

I think so much

of where we've went wrong

is that, you know,

I was at a,

gosh, I was at a,

a funeral for a woman

that I loved dearly.

Her name was Becky Elder,

and she was an agrarian.

From Kansas,

and you know,

lived in Kansas for a while,

and she was somebody

who started schools.

She was an amazing woman.

I mean,

like,

this could get me emotional,

but I was at her funeral

about a week ago,

and she was,

I would call,

a daughter of the prairie,

like,

loved creation,

tended it,

had their own farms,

all these things,

and her son was reading

something about her

and he said,

one of the most common sins

is forgetting.

Forgetting where we come from,

forgetting our heritage,

forgetting that these places

really matter,

and so like,

when I'm in my community,

and I'm seeing the people

I'm surrounded with,

in large part,

you know, it's like,

many of these places

feel forgotten,

especially by our politicians,

who don't ask these questions

of what will these changes

do to our community?

I have a defensive mechanism

that comes up in me to say,

like,

I'm going to hear it.

I'm going to fight for you.

I'm going to do it.

I don't know what that is.

I don't know where that came from,

but I would just say

that God put something on me

to say,

look,

maybe I win this governor's race,

maybe I don't.

My whole life

is going to be focused

on these issues,

because they're issues

of caring for your neighbor.

And it's the one of the two

commands I've been given

by Jesus.

And so, you know,

that's why we work with,

you know,

we could do farming

a different way

and I could make more money on that.

I have a family

that I love

that I want to,

like, work with,

specifically because

it's additive

to the whole equation.

Yes.

You know,

my great grandparents

were living on the farm.

I've found all these documents

and I hear stories

about them

from the community.

You know,

it's so interesting.

It's like,

we talk about,

we don't know who owns our land.

You know,

before,

when I was growing up

and I'd talk about these pieces of land,

we've bought some of these pieces

because the people have passed on

and oftentimes they'll want to sell

to us because they know

where my heart is

and they don't want it to go

into an auction

and they don't want it going to somebody

from out of state,

or out of the country,

we don't know.

We call the pieces of land

by the last name of the people

that lived there forever.

Of course, always.

We do the same.

That's what we do.

Exactly right.

And it's honoring.

I've told my wife,

I plan to put up plaques

or signs saying,

like, this is this farm.

This is the history of this farm.

It's exactly what we do.

It's exactly right.

And that's exactly the way to do it.

And so,

when I was talking early on

about this idea of something lost,

I remember hearing some of these stories

and one of the stories I really loved was that,

you might,

uh,

great grandmother,

great grandpa,

uh,

when they were on this farm,

you know,

these Iowa communities

used to be dotted

with these small farmsteads all over.

Many of them have just been bulldozed

and farmed over

because, you know,

people are growing and growing

and growing farm.

Consolidation is happening everywhere

and, of course.

And with the consolidation,

every time a farm is consolidated,

I say to people,

life goes out of our community.

Like, we have to get our young people

back on these farms.

One of my biggest,

efforts,

I'm going to be undertaking

is to do that.

They were so tight-knit

in these communities that,

uh, people tell me,

you know,

we used to come over

to your house,

this house.

Coffee was on till 10 p.m. at night.

And you're a great grandma,

you're a great grandpa,

actually,

the counselors

of our neighborhood.

So they had these groups.

And so,

if

husband and wife were having an issue,

they'd come over,

and they'd sit

and talk this through.

If they're having issues with kids,

they'd sit and talk these things through.

And they cared for each other.

And they cared for each other.

And they're involved in each other's lives.

And

we're experiencing,

likely, the exact opposite

of that trend happening.

And

it's having a profound effect

on our culture

or becoming insular

and othering.

That, you know,

just because you have a bumper sticker

that somebody doesn't like,

that they're not to be talked to,

just not at all.

Like,

what defined us

back then?

No.

Not at all.

And we're not allowed

to behave like that, anyway.

My dream for the state of Iowa

is to see

a long-term, rich,

agrarian society.

Like a long-term, rich,

agriculture heritage

be restored.

That's my dream.

And that's,

that's what I'm fighting for.

Boy, that's got to be one

of the toughest battles

you could fight.

It's,

but it's worth it.

It's, you know,

it's

foundational,

not just to the state,

but to us as a people.

I think it's something

in, like, our soul

that, like,

working with our hands

in the dirt

with animals,

with family,

with multiple generations.

There's a book

by a guy named Alan Carles

and I think it was

just called the

natural family

and where it belongs.

And I,

another basically

radicalizing moment for me was

reading this and realizing

this man said

so many things

that I didn't know how to say,

just that

that set up

of farmstead

and neighboring farms

said they care for each other.

And that did a lot

of life together

was the most

intuned

and connected.

I think spiritually,

we could probably say

we have been

as a society

or a community.

And I would like to see that

return.

What, I don't quite,

we met at an event

a couple of months ago,

a very crowded event

and had like a three-minute

I'd never heard of you.

We had a three-minute

conversation.

I was like,

oh my,

so I should just

confirm to anyone who's

still watching this

an hour in that

you talk this way in private, too,

which I love.

But what if people

in like a

official organized Iowa

politics think

when you say stuff like this?

You know, in

longer form of discussions,

I find that it's very,

very good.

But I think that

politics has been

so overtaken

with this like bumper

sticker ideology.

Yes.

Which is like,

I think somebody

once said a bumper

sticker is a substitute

for thought or something

like that.

Sure.

And,

and so,

and also,

I just think

I'm not the typical person

that would run for office.

Like,

I really think that's

putting it mildly.

I really like,

I've really worked hard

to, you know,

be on our farm,

to farm it,

to have my kids understand that,

to work in education,

and these types of things.

I really worked hard to do that.

This was not something

that I had, just like,

saying, you know what?

Timings,

like, I've been waiting

for this forever,

or doing this.

It was more than I thought,

you know, there's no term

moments on the governor of Iowa.

The longest serving

governor in history of America

is Iowa's former

governor Terry Brent said.

So, in my head,

and in my heart,

as I was talking to my wife about this,

it's like,

the next person who gets elected

governor could be governor

till I die.

Oh, yeah.

We'll look at,

look at your senior senator,

emphasis on the senior.

I like him.

I'm not attacking him.

But he served for a couple hundred

deers, I think.

It's like that,

a quote

when Ronald Reagan said,

I knew Abraham Lincoln

in here, no Abraham.

I love that.

But it's, you know,

so,

politics is not the place

for long form,

deep and spiritual discussion.

And I wish it was.

Yeah.

Because I think if it was,

you'd require people

running for office to connect

with you at a deeper level,

to actually understand

what you're going through,

and to know that they care

about those issues.

Because, you know,

I don't care how low our taxes are.

If, you know, say this,

if our kids are leaving

and our people are dying from cancer,

we are not,

in what I'd call, successful

territory.

Exactly right.

And the beauty of economics is,

it's supposedly a species of science,

which means it can be tested.

So if you have an economic system

in progress,

longitudinally over a period of time,

then you can assess

with the highest degree of accuracy,

whether it worked or not,

right?

Because you look at the outcomes.

And by that measure,

socialism,

communism,

like the worst possible failure

or current system,

is not anything like that,

but it's not a,

it's not a win,

it's a failure,

because look around.

So like what we're doing isn't working,

yeah,

I don't care what they tell you

at some think tank

or what should happen,

I've lived long enough

to see what actually happened,

and no.

Yeah, doesn't work.

And look at some of these new ideas

that are coming out,

which by the way,

it's like the fact that these

have to be stated

is kind of crazy,

and then the fact

that we get pushed back on it,

like I'm somebody who firmly

believes that the priorities

of my government

and my economy

should be solely focused

on making life better

for the people

that live in my state

in my country,

like not racist,

not for big business,

not for foreign countries,

like,

and I think so many people

just thought that was the case.

And then,

meaning people

that they're not really

paid attention,

but it's like the politicians

are all telling me,

like we're going to work

on this low tax,

we're going to work on this thing,

and it's like,

but hold on,

what, just a day ago,

81 Republicans voted

to keep $315 million

of spending

for the national

and down for democracy.

What?

Yeah, not on your side.

It's right,

and it's like after

everything that Elon Musk went

through,

after all of what these people

did,

all of what they took