Welcome to Rising Anxieties.

I'm not doing the song anymore.

If you're not a regular watcher, you don't know what I'm talking about, and you never will.

I'm not doing the song anymore.

I've taken a stand.

All right, this is the podcast.

I don't even know whether it's the right title anymore because, you know, it sounds like it's a therapy podcast.

But anyway, it's where we kind of unpack the things that are making the meat industry anxious.

And there are quite a few things.

We are among them.

And then also unpacking some of the things that make us anxious about the meat industry.

I can't talk about all the things that are making us anxious about everything because, let's face it, that kind of time.

All right.

I'm going to start by talking about something that I saw on, you know, something I was watching on YouTube.

It was the bulwark podcast with the host Tim Miller.

And, you know, it covers the news of the day.

And he was talking about this insane situation with the fact that our tariffs, you've heard about the tariffs, have caused China who's made at us to forego

American agricultural products, which they were pretty big buyers of. And we're particularly

focused on soybeans. And they were a huge buyer of our soybeans, and now they're going to buy them

from Brazil instead. All right. So because now American soybean farmers have no place to sell their soybeans,

the idea is in the administration that we should take the money that we get from the tariffs

and give it to the farmers.

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