2/18/26 - The Truth About Processed Foods: Myths vs. Facts

He's here. Now, broadcasting them from the underground command post. Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-descript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin. America, Mark Levin here, our number 877381-3811, 877-381-3811. You know, three hours on radio may seem like a long time, it's really not. And so sometimes I lead with information or discussions or stories or whatever that you might say, why is he leading with that? Because I don't follow the crowd, because sometimes I think there's things more important than the media looping the same story over and over and over and over again. And to give you an update on the looped stories. I'm a big critic of the media. I think there are so many wonderful opportunities, whether it's visual, whether it's simply oral in any respect. to really contribute to the well-being of society with actual facts and information and knowledge. And you make the final decision. Now, some of you are going to be very upset with what I'm going to say. As far as I know, my wife might be very upset with what I'm going to say because I made a decision 10 minutes ago to leave with this story. And I've been working on this program all day long. And yet, I came across this. at the free press, which is a great site. And you don't have to always agree with everything in the free press, but it's very well done. Bari Weiss's operation. And it's entitled, in defense of processed foods. Now, before I get to this, I've talked to you before about processed foods, and that without processed foods... About 100 years ago, people would have starved. You know, we talk about organic food now or fresh fruit and that sort of thing. What happened in the early 1900s and decades later, the population moved heavily from rural and more sparse areas into the cities. There was huge, huge. mobility and movement of people to try and get jobs. And that includes immigration and so forth and so on. So you had slums that were created and housing projects. People were really dirt poor, but this is the way they could find jobs, they felt. But there was no way to put fresh food, freshly but beef would get rancid. But people couldn't afford to throw it away. They would eat it. They'd eat other stuff that had chemicals on it, not chemicals through the processing of it, but people themselves would put chemicals on it, not knowing how bad they were. And you had significant instances of stomach cancer and so forth, dysentery. I haven't even read this entire article. Part of it I'm going to read newly to myself and to you. But that's how Heinz ketchup came to be.

Heinz was a simple man. He mortgaged his home to develop a beef sauce. And his first product went nowhere. So he went broke. Then he had another idea. This time it would be tomato based. And he'd put it in a clear glass bottle. so people could see what they were buying and what they'd be using. Well, that took off because it hid the flavor of the rancid beef. Fish, they didn't have freezers. The kind of freezers were talking about weren't even invented yet, but most of people can afford it if they were. They barely had refrigeration. So fish, if you caught it, you had to eat it pretty quickly. Pretty quickly. Things like milk would sour very quickly. So the problem was you had a concentration of people, particularly in the inner cities, huge concentration of people, and there was no food. And to the extent there was food, it was very expensive in the context of those days. And it didn't last long. The transport of the food didn't last long. That's where processed foods came in. And were invented. And fed... At least two generations of Americans. Now, that's where I'm coming from. Now, let's read this by professors Jan Adukowitz and Gabriel Rosenberg. And this is an excerpt from a new book that they wrote called Feed the People, Why Industrial Food is Good and How to Make It Even Better. And the introduction of this by the free press is the following. Processed foods have become the go-to villain in America's health story. Picture the packages crowding supermarket aisles, frozen dinners, canned food, soda, chips. They're packed with preservatives and additives and often blamed, especially by champions of the make American healthy agenda for soaring rates of obesity, chronic disease. And it goes on. But just how harmful are they really? That's the central question in this new book. And in this excerpt, these professors contend that processed foods, even ultra-processed ones, aren't the dietary demons many make them out to be. And today's calls to purge them entirely, and quote-unquote eat clean, they suggest, offer no magic fix. In fact, such advice even might leave the situation worse. Now let's get to the content of the book in some respect. And I see this might interest all of you, actually.

So I'm reading this anew for you and me. In 1929, the canned meat company Libby, McNeil and Libby, printed a now legendary pumpkin pie recipe on the side of the cans of its 100% pure pumpkin. It was an enormous hit, and pumpkin pie became a national superstar. but the cans branding wasn't quite accurate and still isn't. According to the FDA regulations, the contents of a can of pumpkin can be made of a variety of squashes that we don't conventionally call pumpkins. And in fact, most canned pumpkin you've ever eaten is probably something called a Dixon squash. Apologies if you're a pumpkin purist. But if you are, and you've, and you just found this out, what's the alternative? Roasting and paring a pumpkin yourself? That's a bad idea. Store-bought pumpkins don't have the right starch or water content for the custard. Go to any bakery or grocery the week before Thanksgiving and ask them what they use for their pies. And they'll tell you the truth. It's from the can. Now here's the good news. The industry goo is great. To this day, the only ingredient in Libby's canned pumpkin is a mush of assorted squashes. They take millions of gourds grown on an astonishing scale, peel, seed, and puree them, cram that puree into shell stable aluminum cans. and ship them off to grocery stores by the truckload. The stuff in these cans is nutritionally identical to a fresh pumpkin or a squash, if you will. Moreover, it will all, excuse me, it will sit safely on your shelf for 900 days or more without spoiling. Meanwhile, fresh pumpkins, as you will recall from your... front step after Halloween, they tend to rot after a week or so. Now, what's the point of all this? Well, the point is I need to put my glasses on because I can't read this. Just hang with me. Hang with me. This is all very interesting to me, and I think to you, perhaps. What's the point of all this, you ask? The point is that we have been trained to think of particular foods as good or bad or even noble and sinful. So-called processed foods, those made with preservatives or other chemicals, and which often come in a can, usually fall into the latter category as sinful. It's not difficult to find people deriding whole categories of industrial foods as an unmitigated menace. But like pumpkin pie, the truth is a bit more complicated. In his 2008 book in defense of food, journalist and professor,

Michael Poland famously instructed people to do the following, quote, don't eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize his food, unquote. It's a common refrain intended as an indictment of a modern nutrition system dominated by artificial ingredients. But it ignores a glaring truth. Our great-great-grandmothers didn't exactly live at a time of peak nutrition. They didn't have electricity or running water. They wouldn't recognize a box of fusilli or, for that matter, a mango as food. In their old world, there were no refrigerators in homes, no frozen foods, canning was a crapshoot, and there were no supermarkets, let alone an FDA to make sure your flour, butter, and milk were unadulterated. The result was illness, what I was touching on earlier. Food-borne diseases like typhoid fever, botulism were common. Even more ubiquitous were diseases called by malnutrition, rickets, a debilitating childhood condition caused by vitamin D deficiency, led to bowed legs, stunted growth, curved spines. These are just the ones whose name you may recognize. Ever hear of maramousmas? Be glad if you didn't. Thanks in part to poor food, our great-great-grandmother society was chronically unhealthy. In New York City in 1920, up to 75% of all children were to some degree affected by rickets. Average life expectancy in 1900 was 47 years. When the United States initiated a draft during World War I, about 30% of the men who were called up. were deemed unfit for combat, largely because of poor health attributable to dreadful nutrition. The solution was a better diet offered by, yes, food processing. Pasturization of milk originally developed in the 1860s and adopted at a scale. in the early twentieth century has saved countless millions of infants in babies lives by eliminating dangerous pathogens preservation techniques like canning prolonged the shelf life of many foods improving food access and reducing food waste from spoilage These changes came alongside the emergence of a modern regulatory state ensuring foods met new standards of health. Meanwhile, advances in transportation and refrigeration technology in the early 20th century gave birth to a radical new way to buy food, the supermarket, which improved the quality and safety of food for most consumers. Interesting, Mr. Producer. Synthetic preservatives may be to some extent unhealthy, but compare them to the common adulterance found in the swill milk of 19th century New York City that sicken thousands of children. Rotten eggs are arguably more natural than potassium sorbate, a common anti-mold preservative found in today's dairy products, but we would rather eat the potassium sorbate.

It's only when you take for granted that your diet won't immediately kill you, that you begin to ponder whether it might contribute to cancer or heart disease in a few decades. Now, I want to continue this. I think it's very important, and I'll tell you why when I'm done with the article, but this is very, very important for a variety of reasons. We'll be right back. We only have two minutes this segment. I want to continue this after the bottom of the hour, so it's coherent. But I want to thank you folks in the audience here. You know, my main hub, the core of everything, is radio. Conservative Talk Radio. It's my love. But we get our numbers every week on Saturday and Sunday from Fox on my show overall and so forth. And my numbers on Saturday for my Life, Liberty, and Levin program were 30% higher than a year ago. And they were huge a year ago. And my numbers on Sunday were 25% higher than they were a year ago, despite the NBA All-Star Game and all the rest. And that's thanks to you. And we have a very vigorous audience here, you, in radio. And I want to thank you on this video podcast that I've launched. Those of you who've taken the time to view it, you've made a huge difference. I'm not going to go south. I'm not going to do the stuff that gets all the hits and the grifters and all the rest. There are millions and millions of viewers. I'm not going to do it. We will slowly build this program, this video podcast, and we will show that the American people want intelligent information. In today's program... on Liberty's voice is number one about Rush Limbaugh, passed away five years and one day ago, and I give some personal stories. I don't speak out of school, but things I haven't discussed before. And also I lay out the situation in Iran, the armaments in the situation. And tomorrow's program, I'm going to get back to the founding, the 250th year. We'll dig deeper, as I want to do throughout the course of this year. Just go to YouTube. It's Liberty's voice. You can subscribe there. Go to Rumble. And that would be at Mark Levin Show and follow. But view us. Take a look. We'll be back. The new American Revolution starts here. The Mark Levin Show. Call in at 877-381-3811. I got a request. And then a video from somebody I care about a lot, who I respect a lot, who's been through hell, Dennis Prager. And he has a book coming out next Tuesday. And he wanted me to have the first exclusive interview on Sunday on Fox. And I said, of course, and he sent me a video. And this is a remarkable human being, both physically and mentally. And I very much look forward to having him on life, liberty, and live in on Sunday. As our second guest, our first guest Sunday will be America's governor, Ron DeSantis. I can never get enough of him. He's great. And on Saturday...

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promoted by paltrow and other so-called wellness influencers tells eaters to avoid oranges and shellfish soy and soy-derived products almonds and barbecue sauce. Meanwhile, a growing body of self-annointed fitness and diet experts, including the podcaster Joe Rogan, advocate for a virtually all-meat carnivore diet, one that cuts out the sugars necessary for, among other things, proper cognitive function. Flaw dietary advice has even reached the government. Let's see here, where they heavily emphasize natural foods, quote unquote, as a means to combat our diseases of affluence. But our great grannies would think little of the people today who turn their backs on modern food safety, such as the rising number of people flocking to raw milk. Raw milk, as they knew, is a reservoir of diseases. and in recent years has been linked to dozens of salmonella outbreaks. There are few things more irrational than turning your back on over a century of food safety advances to purposely take risks with your and your kids' health in the name of eating more so-called natural foods. And they go on.

This is the reality of the modern era. To look at the American food landscape is to be assailed by thousands of messages about food. Some of the best and simplest dietary advice winds up drowned out by websites, social media posts, blogs, podcasts, and books pushing complicated and often bad advice. And so now... Now we have a $90 billion U.S. weight loss and diet industry that largely peddles information and diets that are not based on solid peer-reviewed evidence. And when fad diets fall, as they almost invariably do, eaters find themselves right back where they started, only poor for all the money that they spend on supplements and branded health foods. So what should we eat? And how can we preserve the tastiness and the efficiency and affordability and safety and availability and nutritional quality that industrial processing can provide without exposing eaters to harmful side effects? According to nutrition experts at Tufts University, world-renowned Freedman School of Nutrition Society and Policy, a good, affordable diet for most consumers entails the polar opposite. of what most health influencers and culinary naturalists argue. Taking advantage of high-quality industrial foods, not shunning them. In fact, a tendency to shun high-quality industrial foods and consequently making your diet narrow, rigid, and impracticable may be one reason that so many dieters belly flop. Moreover, contrary to a number of widely publicized studies, Many ultra-processed foods are not unhealthy in and of themselves. Considered one study published in the prestigious British Medical Journal. I don't know. Do we want to take food advice from the British? No offense, Mr. Reuss. I'm just saying. Which used prestigious, excuse me, which used data from a large cohort of Americans to assess the links between diets and health outcomes. The widely reported top line finding was that those participants who hate a diet high in ultra-processed foods, UPFs, had a slightly higher mortality rate than those who didn't. Scary. but dig a little deeper, and in fact, the correlation between ultra-processing and mortality was statistically significant only for processed meat and seafood, as well as sugary drinks, cereals, and desserts. All the others made no statistically significant contribution. The study merely confirmed. What we have known for decades, too much meat, especially red and cured meats, and too much sugar, are bad for your health. There is, however, one very important study that gives hints about why and which processed foods can be bad for our health.

In an experiment, nutritionist Kevin Hall gave two groups of people, two diets. One with no processed, and the other with 80% processed. Dieters were responsible for moderating food intake themselves, and the processed gobbling group gained weight. Why? They tended to eat 500 calories more per day than the other group. That's because the processed foods tended to be addictively crispy and crunchy, meaning that they went down too quickly or in higher quantities than people might otherwise have eaten them. And here we get to the problem with processed foods. It's mostly not the ultra-processing itself. That's the problem. Rather, it's that ultra-processed foods can be extremely tasty, easy to eat, convenient vehicles for unhealthy ingredients. So here's the takeaway. It's worthwhile to moderate processed intake, especially when those processed foods are processed meats or high in sugar or salt. But completely eliminating processed foods or junk food, for that matter, from your diet will no more guarantee health than eating them in light moderation will kill you. Don't let the fearmongering about so-called bad foods in the way of following basic advice about a healthy diet or make you second-guess your fortified packaged bread, peanut butter, or frozen bean burrito. There is no reason to use processing and ultra-processing or unnatural or industrial is a shorthand for bad. And in fact... Doing so would unnecessarily deprive us of a great many culinary joys. For example, if you ask Bostonians to name the best bagel in the city, many of them will refer you to bagel guild, nestled in Boston public market, but here's the thing about the breakfast they might miss. It is a happy product of modern food technology and industrial processing. The wheat in that bagel is likely a crossbreed. grown as a monocrop, milled in a factory, fortified with minerals and vitamins, and shipped thousands of miles. It's baked in a bakery that follows strict health regulations imposed by the city of Boston and the great state of Massachusetts. The cream cheese reconstituted pasteurized milk product mixed with carabine gum and potassium sorbate. The locks safe packaging and a refrigerated coal chain mean you're not thinking about spoiling the foodborne diseases. Opting for the vegan smear, soybean oil, and soy protein isolate with a dash of added sugar. The coffee, it's grown in Central America, industrially roasted and processed, shipped in bulk over thousands of miles. The oat milk.

Well, oats, wrap seed oil, and added vitamins and minerals. Only you don't think about it that way. And you shouldn't. It's delicious. It's healthy. And it's cheap. And you wouldn't think twice about whether it was safe or indeed if there would be bagels available today or not. That is because of the unseen beneficence of modern food technology and processing. Think twice. the next time someone insists otherwise. Now, that may open your eyes to a lot of things. In other words, there's bad food and there's good food, but it doesn't mean that processed food or even ultra-processed food is bad for you. It depends what kind of food it is. If it's heavy in sugar, that's a problem. If it's heavy in salt, that's a problem. But that's with natural foods or processed foods. That's the point. The point is the main ingredients. Does that make you feel better, Mr. Producer? It should. Because without processed foods or ultra-processed foods, many of us would starve to death. Or we'd have nutritional issues. We would be malnourished. Or we would lack the kind of vitamins and minerals that we need.

You look at Swanson Foods. Where did that come from? No, not Tucker Carlson. Nothing came from him except a lot of obloviated gas. No. This was a man who was a fisherman. And he would catch fish by himself. He had a cabin. He would hang the fish. And he would have to consume the fish. He couldn't really transport it. could barely bring it home to his family. And he got the idea because he was fishing one season and it was winter. And it was very cold. And guess what he did, Mr. Producer? He put the fish in the snowy ice. And he noticed that it preserved the fish. How long came the invention of the freezer? After that, the invention of freezer train cars. After that, the invention of freezer trucks. And then came frozen food. Wait, we can freeze fish, but we can freeze peas. We can freeze green beans. Wait, we can freeze meat. Then later, advance. We can freeze... Pre-cooked meals? And frozen food was all the hit. And it fed a ton of people and kept them alive. I'll be right back. Mark Levin.

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And I want to say something to our military personnel. At a time like this, I find it odd and troubling that people don't talk about you. They don't thank you. I think about you all the time. And I want to thank you as I thank you every evening. The truth is that while we praise illegal aliens, that while we bend over backwards to protect criminals, while we talk about concocted rights as opposed to real civil liberties, while we coddle Islamists who want to destroy our country and our culture, When we talk about the First Amendment rights of Marxists, we don't talk a whole lot about our military personnel, do we? And what they do for us? All the things that go on in the country, they protect us from all these outside threats and forces. These are men and women who get paid peanuts. Peanuts. And they get to go to a PX or maybe they have a VA or maybe they have a hospital or a pension and so forth. Big deal. Big deal. Is that good enough for most of us? No. Because most of us don't join the military. Now, I have many family members, but we don't, do we? Our military personnel deserve our respect and our gratitude. Because it is they. They are going to take action if action is called for by the commander-in-chief. Not just to protect this generation, but future generations. From the Iranian Islamist Nazi regime that is desperate to develop weapons of mass destruction and drop them on our heads. So they have said, so they have tried.

Now, you and I, Mr. and Mrs. America, we support our military personnel. The Marxists do not. The Islamists hate them. The woke right, neo-Nazis, hate them too. But they, in a diabolical way, they pretend to be looking out for them, to protect them. And they're not. They're isolationists who give aid and comfort to the enemy. The enemies counting on Tucker Carlson. The enemies counting on Marjorie Taylor Greene. The enemies counting on bloated Steve Bannon. The enemies counted on no-pants Bill Gates. And I can go down the list. They're counting on the modern-day Tokyo Roses to dispirate our military. To dispirate the American people, generally. and to despair you, patriots. Isolationism in the face of evil Islamism, evil communism, evil fascism, is suicide. Absolute suicide. I want our military personnel to know something. The Marxist Islamists, the woke Reich, R-E-I-C-H, neo-Nazis and fascists, isolationists, they don't represent the vast majority of the American people. They simply do not. We, you, Mr. Mrs. America, we are the vast majority of the American people. And I want you to know, I feel fairly strongly that we will be taking it to that regime in Iran as we must. For the sake of our country, for the sake of our children, for the sake of the Iranian people, for the sake of humanity. And it will be thanks to you in the military. Trained, competent, courageous, smart.

that we're able to do this. Even with the greatest equipment in the world, it doesn't mean a whole lot without our military personnel. I could not be prouder. So when you see somebody who's dressed in military garb, a uniform, Please make sure you thank them. Thank them. I want to speak briefly about law enforcement, whether they be beat cops, your detectives, special agents. Border Patrol, ICE, state troopers. You know who I mean. They deserve our thanks. When there are violent riots in the streets, we rely on them to help us and protect us. When there are marauders out there, killers, rapists, burglars, what have you, we rely on them. We pick up the phone and we call them. We don't call a politician. We don't call a reporter. And in my lifetime, I've seen efforts by the radical left and the revolutionaries to pick off one element within law enforcement or another. NYPD, the LAPD, Minnesota cops, Minneapolis.

The Border Patrol, ICE, the FBI, the marshals, and on and on and on. I've seen it. The same elements. The same elements that treat illegal aliens as citizens. The same elements that treat criminals as the victims and are weak on crime are the ones who attack the cops. Local, state and federal. These people put their lives on the line, and when they pull a gun out, they don't know if they're going to destroy their lives and careers or not, and they have split seconds to make a decision. I've often thought, I've often thought, if I'm in a police cruiser, I'm a cop, and I pull over a car that has a broken tail light, or an expired... license tag or something you pull that car over it you don't know what the hell's in that car you don't have the foggiest idea what's in that car even if you call in the tag number you don't know who's driving that car you don't know who's in that car you don't know if they have a weapon in that car you'd literally put your life on the line when you get out of your vehicle and walk up to that car. Maybe they were speeding, driving erratically. Who knows? You put your life on the line. Some SOB could pull a gun from out of the, under the seat, and before the officer knows it, shoot them through the window. It happens, doesn't it? And then I want to make one final point. We spend an awful lot of time with news reports on individuals who may have been killed by law enforcement, who were provocative, who were violent, were obstructing, A lot of time. Do you know the name of the last police officer in this country who was murdered? Unless you look it up, you don't know. Because as a national news matter, it doesn't even matter anymore. It doesn't even matter anymore. It doesn't even matter anymore. It matters to us, but not to the media.

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And your children have to live with you. When somebody is on a podcast and they're dropping F-bombs left and right, that shows you that they're real scum. Do you want to be around a person who does that? Do you want to be around a person who does that in front of your children? Or in front of her children? And they think that's cool. What happens is they are starting to lose viewers and they become more and more crazy ass. This is Tucker Carlson. He goes to Israel. He stays at the airport. He won't leave the airport because he knows he's despised by Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze, Arabs. Everybody in Israel hates his guts. And so he never leaves the airport. And now he tries to create a shiny object. He was detained, and his people were thrown into a room. And, of course, the Daily Mail, which is sort of schizophrenic, every now and then they have good stories, but a lot of times real sleazeball reporting, in my humble opinion, it's leaked to them. And they run with these headlines like the National Enquirer. Now, as you know, my stepson works for the ambassador. He was appointed by President Trump. We're so proud of him, our entire family. He's such a mensch, smart, loyal, focused on his mission. He's not in charge. He works for the ambassador. He was not there at the discussion between the two. No inside information. Nothing.

I purposely try to protect him by keeping certain there is a wall between us. Because he's come under vicious attack by the Jew haters, the Trump haters, by people who follow Tucker Carlson and others. And it makes me sick to my stomach. I never attacked the kids of any one of these swine. Never, ever. And when they do that to my family, I unleash holy hell, and I will continue to do that as any real man, father, and husband would do. Now, he says that he was interrogated. The ambassador says, no, he wasn't. It's a typical interview, and in his case, he wasn't even interviewed. Their people were thrown into a room and interrogated. No, they weren't. The day before, it's all in the media. I don't have inside information. It's all in the media. The day before, his camera crew or audio or whatever they were, they were questioned as the Israelis always do. Why? Because they have a lot of terrorists to worry about. Whenever I've gone to Israel, they don't care who I am. They really don't. Before I get on the plane, he flew private. Like Jeffrey Epstein. Wow. He's thrown a private plane. I don't. We fly commercially. And before you get on that plane, you are questioned, usually 20, 30 questions, whether it's United or L.L or whatever it is. And that's why they're able to protect their passengers from hijackers and so forth. And when you land and you go through customs, they do the same thing. This is exactly what we should do in our country when people are coming into our country from foreign countries, especially from the Middle East. We don't do enough of it. We attack the TSA and customs and so forth. But he's created this shiny object now, how he was mistreated. He's a candy ass. You know that? He's a punk. I can't wait to hear this interview. Again, I have no information about this interview. I hope they release the whole thing. They don't edit it and chop it up. I can't wait to hear it. I wouldn't sit down with Tucker Carlson because I'd leap across the table, given what he has said about my family. I'll be right back. You know what Pure Talk's favorite holiday is? President's Day, because they believe wireless service should only cost you a couple of presidents. Just a Jackson and a Lincoln, to be exact, for $25 a month, Pure Talk gives you unlimited talk, text, plenty of data. Now compare that to big wireless. They'd rather celebrate Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin Day so they can charge your family hundreds every month, and he wasn't even a president. That's not right. You deserve better. Pure Talk is an American wireless company that supports our veterans and invests in a U.S. only customer service team. When you call, you're talking to someone right here at home. Pure Talk uses the same towers as the big carriers, so enjoys superior 5G coverage without the inflated price. Just $25 a month for talk.

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You don't need photo IDs in Florida if there's no fraud. If non-citizens aren't voting. And if whatever cases have been brought against people voting who shouldn't vote, they've all been lost. So why have even photographs? Go ahead. And it is that American citizens vote in American elections. So having an ID to vote would be in step with the law. So are you going to vote for the law? If they put forward a bill that says you can use your driver's license or your state issued identification to vote, I support that. Well, let me ask you something. Aren't there states that give drivers licenses to non-citizens, Mr. Bidivis? The answer is yes. They're cities that promote it. So a driver's license isn't enough, is it? This hostility towards a simple identification, and identifications are required in different ways to different degrees for a thousand different things is simply indefensible. It's absolutely indefensible. And, you know, I just think there is corruption, which is why the Democrats defend this. Well, let me ask it this way. How do you even know if non-citizens are voting in these blue states? I think there are 10 or 11 of them that have no requirement for any... Any identification whatsoever in California, in Maryland, in Massachusetts, in New York. How do you, how do even know? But why ask these questions? I understand. The pressure is just too much to stand against your party in a matter like this. This is basic stuff, though. This is basic stuff. It shouldn't be that difficult at all.

This is Black History Month, and the president celebrated it with a number of individuals. It got some attention in the media, but very little. Why? Because many of the people attending Black History Month, the event at the White House today, were not radical leftists. They weren't running these organizations that essentially are an appendage to the Democrat Party. And here's what the president said in part. Cut 10, go. Under the Trump administration, we believe that no community should be abandoned to the scourge of violent crime. And we're saving thousands and thousands of lives in many cities. And frankly, if these radical F. lunatic Democrats would. come and say, please, help us, please. We'd stop crimes all over the place. And we're doing it in a lot of cities. Sometimes we have to force ourselves upon them because they're so bad. And I don't even think they realize what's happening to their cities and their towns. But every town that we go in every city that we go in like Washington, Felicia, you feel much safer now. Totally safe. You can walk to a restaurant. The restaurants were all closing. Now you can't get a restaurant. The bad news is you can't get into a restaurant, but it's a great thing to see what's happening in Washington. It's like, it's a hot place, and hopefully people will be coming in record numbers, and it's been, well, I know we need a little help. You need help in Atlanta. He just said, you're right, Atlanta. Atlanta, we could take care of Atlanta. I'll tell you what, you ought to get them to call me, we could take care of Atlanta so fast.

There's a real people applauding, not political hacks. Cut 11, go. Another way that we're fulfilling our duty to the next generation is the single biggest thing that's happened having to do with schools and education is called school choice in our great big, beautiful bill. Our bill, our beautiful bill, which really covers four years. We put it all together. That's why you go with the great big beautiful bill. This will help millions of African-American children and ensure that no child is condemned to a failing government or a horrible school. You know, ladies and gentlemen, I had a life before radio. And one of the things I did, and I did with the wonderful Patriot lawyers at Landmark Legal Foundation, Pete and Mike and Matt and others, along with really one other legal foundation, we litigated this issue of school choice. It began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, under Governor Thompson, who's no longer with us, the governor of the state. And we litigated on behalf of a black, liberal, state representative in her constituents in the poorest part of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And it was an idea that was hatched by the great late Dr. Milton Freeman school choice. And it was a way to provide an option. to inner city kids, primarily minority kids, primarily black kids, to get out of these crime-ridden, union-controlled buildings and go where they could actually get an education. And the data was demonstrating that they were not getting educated in these dilapidated, crime-filled, union-controlled government-run school buildings. And the idea is... that the money instead, a certain amount of money, would follow the student. And the student, obviously, with the parent or parent's input, could pick among certain schools that they could attend, and not just government schools, perhaps private schools, that would participate in the program and other types of competing schools. They didn't have the same problems. And the Democrats fought us toothed now, boy. And they had their lawyers out, the NEA, the AFT, the state affiliates, even the NAACP, all of them. And we had a state delegate, Polly Williams was her name. What a wonderful lady. Obviously a black woman, just a wonderful lady. We took them on. We went to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin twice. This went on for years, and we won. We went to the United States Supreme Court twice, and we won. And not just me, others. And without those victories, and without these heroes, and without these great colleagues of mine, there would be no school choice.

There would be no school choice. And now there is. One of the greatest civil rights victories in modern times. The education of minority children. And now it has expanded. It's not necessarily based solely on minority status and shouldn't be. It's based on income status. There's a lot of poor kids of all backgrounds and all colors. They're getting crappy educations. They're stuck in these schools. Imagine being forced to buy food at the same grocery store, whether you like it or not. Well, it's a little bit more important, I think, to get your kids in education. So they have a leg up when they become adults. So they have a shot. That's probably one of the things I am most proud of. and proud of Lamarck Legal Foundation and some of the others that participated in this. I've mentioned it every five years or so, but people don't really remember, do they, Mr. Produce? Very, very important. And the president has seized on it like no president ever. Barack Obama blocked it. He allowed school choice for his own kids, but he literally blocked it in the District of Columbia. And the program that existed before he became president, he defunded. That's what he did. And Trump breathed life back into it when he became president. I'll be right back.

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what's her name Susan Collins Susan Collins let me ask you something everybody knows that this creep you're talking to is a radical left-wing Democrat dressed up as a comic and he's not funny despite the fact he has 412 comedy writers and he doesn't make any money he takes money so they removed them and then of course he said that's because of his political views so why are you on there were they leftists agreeing with a leftist if you're not a leftist. Answer that one. I'd love to hear your answer to that one. Go ahead. Well, that's what we want Brendan Carr to do. I think that they don't want a Democratic administration saying that right-wing talk radio must give equal time to Democrats or to see that moment. Oh, I don't think they do. They've tried over and over again. They've tried to destroy this program in the whole industry. I just talked about Soros. And I don't remember Susan Collins or CNN or Kobe or any of these leftyloons speaking out when they went after Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Talk Radio or me from time to time, but they really took after Rush. Does anybody remember that? I don't remember them defending free speech and all the rest of it because they don't. They're frauds and phonies. And that's the truth. Then we have Emmanuel Macron. In India. Now, Candace Owens insists that McCrone's wife has a wiener-Schnezzle. Is that correct, Mr. Producer? And she's been sued, has Candace Owens. But Candice still insists that McCrone's wife has a Weeners-Schnezzle. And I think that got her about 400,000 viewers. If you want weird and stupid and cuckoo for cocoa puffs, if you want insane lunacy, bigot, racist, anti-Semite, a UFO, well, then she's your gal. I assume she's a gal. You're a gal, right, Candace? But anyway, I would never assume Candace was not. Would you, Mr. Medusa? Not in the least. Anyway, here's Emmanuel Macron, who's a quizzling, who's a disaster, which is why he is in charge of France. Cut 17-go. We don't ask for regulation by itself. We don't want the IP, but we say, I mean, just should make it transparent. You know, no offense, he sounds like a bad matri-D, doesn't he, Mr. Produce?

We're saying, what, what, speak English. Anyway, go ahead. For the free speech, some of them claim to be in favor of free speech. Okay, we're in favor of free algorithm. Totally transparent. How's he talking about? Because, I mean, free speech is a pure bullshit. If nobody knows, how you are guided through this so-called free speech, especially when it's to be guided from one hated speech or another hated speech. Mm-hmm. Whatever he said. I don't know what the hell he's saying. And I usually like the French accent, but his accent I don't like it all. I don't know what it is. Maybe Candace is right. Is that possible, Mr. Redis? No, it's not. She's never right. She's a nut. We call it a nut. That's right. By the way, I want to congratulate the Democrats in Maryland, the Democrats in D.C. The Democrats in Northern Virginia, all their crap is flowing into the Potomac River. That's right. There's Democrat human feces because that's where they live. They live around the, don't they, honey? Absolutely. Yes, they live around the Potomac River, right? They do. Now, we live on the Potomac River, but far away from where all the fecal matter is spreading, correct? For the moment. For the moment. That's right. Now, all you folks, the Chesapeake Bay Area, we had a great caller yesterday, some of the other rivers, and then eventually the Atlantic, the East Coast. You're going to get to participate in Democrats' fecal matter because there's a very concentrated population of Democrats in this part of the Potomac River. And they're crapping away and crapping away, and you got this six-foot... big pipe. And their crap is going out the pipe into nature. It's the Democrats. You know, the basic things like Nuscombe can't get water in a fire hydrant. And the Democrats, they can't stop their own crap from going into the Potomac River. You know, they used to say, don't fish downstream from the you know what. And now everybody's saying they think it's funny. Well, when we celebrate July 4th and we do it at the White House and it's along the Potomac River, what happens? If it stinks from Democrat fecal matter, that's not going to be pleasant. That's not going to be pleasant at all. I don't even like thinking about it, honey, do you? I mean, people take these boat rides where they have meals, a slow boat ride. They're very romantic. I have a little wine. I don't drink, of course. They have a little wine. They have food. You know, you take your wife. The wife takes the husband and you're sitting on the boat. You're looking at the beautiful Potomac and now you're going to smell crap. In fact, it's so sick. There could be piles of this stuff, mounds of this stuff. My wife's telling me to cut it out, Mr. Producer.

But I just want people to understand this is what Democrat governorship. Excuse me. Yeah, governorship looks like. This is what it looks like. This is what it smells like. So if you want water, vote Republican. If you want clean water and a working sewage system, vote Republican. And all you lucky people in New York who voted for Zohran Mamdani, I feel bad for the 48, 49 percent who did. You get dragged into that sewer. Is it affordable now that he wants to raise your property taxes by 10%? Affordability, says the Marxist Islamist. Affordability. One of the biggest expenses you have as a working middle class family are your property taxes on your single family home, on your townhouse, on your condo, and you renters, I'm a renter, I'm not affected. Yes, you are. You think the landlord can eat this? He's going to pass it on to the renters. Yes, affordability, America. These blue states are utterly unaffordable. That's why people are leaving as fast as they can. I'll be right back. Mark Levin. You didn't start a business just to keep the lights on. You're here to sell more today than yesterday. You're here to win. Lucky for you, Shopify built the best converting checkout on the planet. Like the just one tapping, ridiculously fast acting, sky high sales stacking, champion of checkouts. That's the good stuff right there. So if your business is in it to win it, win with Shopify. Start your free trial today at Shopify.com slash win.

Don't forget next Tuesday's the State of the Union speech. When the Democrats give it, it's the state of confusion speech. Nonetheless, back to this issue, the Potomac River, it's no joke. It's no joke. The Democrats can't fix the pipe. They've shut down FEMA, so FEMA can help to a point, but its employees aren't getting paid. Because they're so busy representing illegal aliens. trying to get them to become voters. And yet the Democrats, I'm talking about, quite frankly, Democrats who live along the Potomac River, they're too stupid to understand what's happening to them. And now they're going to smell their own crap. And that's grotesque, isn't it, Mr. Producer? The problem is the rest of us well, too. Karoline Leavitt, the great press secretary, had a briefing today. asked a very pertinent question by peter doocy cut 15 go to your point about that there are a lot of events coming up for america 250 the president wants people from all over to come to the nation's capital is he worried that by the summer the potomac river will still smell like poop he is worried about that which is why the federal government wants to fix it and we hope that the local authorities will cooperate with us in doing so Don't hold your breath. Or maybe do hold your breath, actually. The local authorities. The local authorities. They've done a fantastic job. The local authorities. Fairfax County, Virginia, run by a bunch of morons. That's right, I said it. Alexandria, Virginia, Old Town. That's going to get old fast. I used to love Old Town. Oh, I loved old town. It's still very nice as long as you ignore the liberals. I can spend... Mr. Producer, when I'm early for a flight or a flight is late, and I'm sitting at the airport and I'm watching people walk by. I play a game. Sometimes with my wife, sometimes by myself. And you know what it is? Spot the liberal. It's typically easy, although I had a dear friend, Teddy. It was that conservatives can be. Unfortunately, he passed away, and we miss him dearly. And he had very long hair, and he looked like a hippie, really great guy, played the guitar. But a right winger, a patriotic American. So there are exceptions, but they are exceptions. But I can spot him a mile away. Now you're going to be able to smell him a mile away. But you've got Old Town, Virginia. And it's very pricey because it's beautiful. There's not a lot of real estate there. The close you are to the river, the more you pay. They have an old torpedo factory there that they've turned into sort of an artsy, you know what type place, which is very nice, by the way. They have nice restaurants there. But ladies and gentlemen, you're going to get that stench, that Democrat stench coming from the river? You're not going to want to go there. The fact, you'll be heading for West Virginia. And I don't blame you. Beautiful West Virginia where they have casinos and mountains and lakes and fishing. You're going to get as far away as you can. Now, as I said, you heard me with my wife. We have a home in Virginia. It's on the Potomac River. It's not on that part of the Potomac River. We go against the current. The current takes it through all these sort of liberal towns and so forth. But you know where else it goes?

Right past Mount Vernon. Can you believe that? Right past Mount Vernon. Washington's home. Now the Democrats want more government, more bureaucracy, more money. I just sneeze to the truth. They want to run everything. They want to control everything. But they can't get the water to work in California, and homes are burning down. And the firefighters go to the hydrogen and say, what the hell? There's no water. And in the nation's capital, they can't control the sewage. They're literally destroying all the vegetation and wildlife in and along the Potomac River. They can't figure out how to stop it. But they want to control more. We want to be in charge of health care. Oh my God. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? The government in charge of health care? That's right. We want to control the hospitals, the doctors, the pharmaceutical companies. By the way, I'm sorry, count me out. I like pharmaceutical companies. Mr. producer, do you take medicines? Well, you will one day. I take them from my heart and so forth. What would I do without pharmaceutical? Oh, they rip us off. No, they don't. No, they don't. A lot of people get freebies. And if you can demonstrate that you don't have a real income, that you're poor or that you can't afford a particular drug, the pharmaceutical company spend billions of dollars a year providing free medicines. Maybe you don't know that. But every time I go to my pharmacy at a giant food store near here, I guess it's kind of regional, but nonetheless, I mean, I'm walking out. I got this one and this one here, this one, runny nose, this one a scratch on your, this one and this one and you take it. How much do I owe you? $23. No other place on the face of the planet. I'll be right back.

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This guy pretends to be a constitutionalist. The war powers resolution is unconstitutional in every respect. But don't tell Thomas Massie. And Ro Khanna is just there to, of course, sabotage our military. I guess they don't remember the Vietnam War, do they, Mr. Reducson? A Korean War? I guess they don't remember anything. But that said, our enemies have so many supporters in this country. Roycana, Rocana, whatever. Thomas Massie, Kittarlson, bloated Steve Bannon, No Pants Bill Gates, Marjorie Taylor Greene. I got to come up with a really good name for Kelly. I don't like the nickname so far. How about F.U. Kelly. Can I say that, Mr. Producer? That's her favorite word. She uses that word as a noun. She uses that word as a verb. She uses that word as a pronoun. She just uses it over and over again. Hyphenated.

Pretty sick when you think about it. She's got young kids, relatively young teenagers. Would your mother have ever spoken that way, Mr. Producer, publicly? No way. I never heard my mother use that word. But even if somebody uses the word, maybe they'll do it in a fit of anger. They'll do it once in a while. If you are literally putting out a video edited... You've got producers, you got direct, whatever she has. They pay her a ton of money for all that makeup, the fake hair. Not to worry about fake hair. The clothing, the studio, the production, and all the rest of it. She's got her own satellite channel. Are they proud when she's dropping F bombs all over the place? Let me ask you guys, do you want to be near a woman? Who talks like a drunken sailor? I don't think so. But what is that? I'm trying to help her, actually. She will view it as an attack. She views everything as an attack, a little bit paranoid, I would say. But no, Megan, cut it out. You know it's not good. You know you can do better than that. Just cut it out.

You're embarrassing everybody around you. You're embarrassing all of us. Oh, they'll come back. Look at your small numbers on your podcast. We're just getting started. And we will get bigger and bigger and bigger. And then, as I said at the beginning, we'll take our podcast numbers, our radio numbers, our TV numbers. These people get in battles with me and they don't know what hit them. Because they don't understand you in radio land. There's millions and millions of you. In fact, there's so many of you, you're not even, they can't even count you accurately. They've got a weird rating system that they change from what they call diaries and books, which were, in my humble opinion, way more accurate. But that's okay. When you Levinites are so loyal and patriotic, when you decide you want to unleash on somebody, Oh, hell hath no fury like a Levineite pissed off. I'm just saying. It's true. The power, your power in this audience, time and again, time and again reveals itself. Now, we don't overdo it, just when we need to do it. Like with reprobates, miscreants, and malcontents, or on particularly horrendous policy issues or legislation. Oh, you're all boomers. You're all old ladies and old men. Don't you love it when you hear some punk who's 22, 23 years old, say that or post that? And I think to myself, you know what, moron, that iPhone you have? Who do you think produced that? In fact, who do you think produced everything that you have? The boomers and beyond. Generations even older. Who do you think pays for your damn college? Ooh, that's a good one, don't you think, Rich? But they don't speak for all Gen Z? Just for the potheads, the miscreants, the bigots, and the rest of them. Because we all know the Internet is a cesspool with some exceptions. It very much is. All right, what do I owe you, sir? All right. By tomorrow this time, I should have my laptop back. And so I have to move from email to email, ladies and gentlemen. I can't even print off this thing. Let's see here. Give me one second. I'm working on it. Hold on. Somebody just wrote me. Why can't I, honey? Text me, email me again. Why can't I? Because I use it for Fatties United, F you? Well, there is truth to that, actually. Okay, here we are. Sorry, ladies and gentlemen. I'll be right back.

I can't believe the show's over already. You're going to love tonight's video podcast, folks. And there I am, relaxed Mr. Biducer sitting there and talking about things. It's a totally different environment. I love all these environments. Talk radio number one that are a Fox show and now a brand new video podcast. Again, the whole point. is to raise the audience, the viewership on all the platforms, bring them together. I'm uniquely positioned to do this, given the size of the radio program and our ratings on Fox and so forth, where one platform strengthens another. And I want you to participate in this, folks. I very much want you to participate in this. So... If you like Rumble, we love Rumble. We love the owner there, Chris, our buddy Dan Bongino. Rumble, you can follow at Mark Levin Show, follow us on Rumble, but view the program. Take a look at it. If you prefer YouTube, go to YouTube, Liberty's Voice, you can subscribe there. Again, take a look at it. We're going to expand to Apple and Spotify and some of the others. TikTok, now that it's American-owned, but we want to, you know, as they say, crawl before you walk, walk before you run, and don't fall off the cliff. And we don't have to change what we do, maybe approach it differently. So you're not going to see a Mark Levin who's a podcaster versus a Mark Levin who's a radio host versus Mark Levin who's a TV host. You're not going to see a Mark Levin that uses the language of a drunken sailor, as we used to say. That's not going to happen. You're not going to see me platforming the most loathsome people crawling on the face of the planet to get numbers. None of that's going to happen. These are the tricks of the trade, apparently. If you really want to jack up your numbers, you just say the most disgusting things possible, have on the most disgusting people possible, or you bring on big names, really big names. Maybe you bring on the president or vice president, something like that. I've decided at least for now, no guests. We'll eventually get to that. We'll eventually get to that, but I don't want to start a project like this and just start throwing guests at you. No. We're not going to do that either. At some point, we'll have some. But it's 45 minutes, three days a week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, except this week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, since Monday was a holiday. And so check out today's program. I think you're going to like it. You're going to learn some things about Rush and me that you clearly didn't know because I never mentioned them before. As well as the military buildup in Iran, we go through some of that, which is important because I think it's coming now. And then tomorrow's program, I can tell you right now, I'm thinking about it, been taking notes. We're going to dig deeply into history again and have some fun on the 250th anniversary. So we can move around. We're flexible, but we do have certain basic, you know, standards, principles that I want to address.

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