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Mike Slater (4:30)

Mike Cider, filling it for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly Update. Message of the day. RFK Jr. Has unveiled the official 74 page mark Maha report. Make America Healthy Again. And it's not good. Well, the reports sound and it's wonderful that we're finally addressing this, but the state of America's health is very bad. A lot of people don't care about this, but would you rather live in a healthy, fit country or a sick, unhealthy country? Obviously a fit, healthy one. And we're not. So we have to get to work. You know, JFK in 1960 wrote an article in Sports Illustrated called the Soft American. It's worth a read. He ties Western civilization, Western values and fitness in America all together. Physical soundness, he said, has become a part of western tradition, sound mind and a sound body. And we, I would argue, don't have either of those right now. And now, 65 years later, his nephew wrote this report, this Maha report for America. American kids are ranked 47 out of 50 nations in their cardio health. There was a shuttle run test. The short of it is 15 year old American boys can't keep a 10 mile pace for half a mile. That's very slow. 47th out of 50. 78% of kids get less than eight hours of sleep. 50% of kids are chronically stressed. 42% of high school students experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. 42% 73% of 16 to 24 year olds report feeling lonely. One in five kids take at least one prescription medication. Antidepressants were written for 2 million 10 to 19 year olds. Over 40% of kids have at least one chronic health condition. One in five kids over the age of six are obese. In the 1970s it was one in 20. Now it's one in five again. There's 74 pages of statistics like this, but you get the idea. It's very bad. The report tells the story, the true story, that tobacco companies bought a lot of food companies back in the 80s. R.J. reynolds, Philip Morris. When the government finally realized that cigarettes were bad for people's health, the cigarette companies used all their cash to buy food companies. Philip Morris acquired Kraft in 1988 for $13 billion. It was the largest non oil merger in the United States at the time. Philip Morris also acquired General Foods in 1985 and Nabisco holdings. In 2000. RJ Reynolds bought Del Monte and Hawaiian Punch. Hawaiian Punch at the time was a cocktail mixer and they decided to market it as a juice for kids. This was the first nationwide juice box. Hawaiian Punch Tobacco Company did that. It's 1983. The scientists who worked to make cigarettes addictive now worked in the food industry to make food addictive. Then Big Food started lobbying for these processed foods. All the the lobbyists they had for the tobacco industry were now for the ultra processed food industry. And they started to market all this ultra processed food to kids. The tobacco companies of since sold the food companies but they forever changed the game. This is such important stuff for every individual in our entire country. As JFK ended that Sports Illustrated essay back in 1960, he said we do not want our children to become a generation of spectators. Rather we want each of them to be a participant in the vigorous life. And as his nephew now says, the head of health and human services. A healthy person has a thousand dreams. A sick person only has one. And 60% of our population has only one dream, that they get better. I look forward to America getting healthy again. Something you might not know coming up next.

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Mike Slater (9:00)

Mike Slater filling in for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. How many nuclear power plants do we have in the United States of America? Not enough, is the first answer. But more specifically, we have 54 nuclear power plants in 28 of our states. California is getting rid of some on purpose. They're tearing them down for no reason. France has 18 nuclear power plants, but they only have 68 million people. So we have five times the population and much higher energy demands. So we should have at least 90 nuclear power plants, at least twice as many as we have now. Why don't we? Well, back during the Cold War, the rhetoric against nuclear war, which is a good thing to be against, but the people conflated nuclear war with nuclear energy. Bad branding. We've been suffering without affordable, reliable energy, nuclear energy, because people were too ignorant to know the difference between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. And bad branding from the nuclear power industry. We have to do a lot better now. Also, people were concerned about what to do with all the nuclear waste. Well, all the nuclear waste that we've produced in America since 1950 could fit in a football field 30ft deep. So if we double that, double our nuclear power for a thousand years, we could put all the nuclear waste in a mountain somewhere and never know and never care. We need more nuclear energy, more affordable energy. This is going to be the fuel for a new American prosperity explosion. It all starts with energy. It's high time we get more nuclear reactors in America. And on that point, Donald Trump signed a bunch of executive orders the other day moving forward and setting goal of building more nuclear reactors. First major reforms at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Since 1978, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized only five new reactors and of those, only two have been built. This executive order also has the mission to upgrade existing nuclear power plants by 5 gigawatts which is enough for 5 million homes and build 10 new large reactors by 2030. The left has been holding nuclear energy and this nation back for far too long because it's been run by environmentalists who think that humans are a parasite on the planet. But those people are out of power now, excuse the pun. And now it's time we use the energy that God has blessed us with for the purpose of human flourishing. I'm Mike Slater filling in for Bill O'Reilly, coming up next. My name is Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. I was just talking to a friend of mine who said he hasn't been able to follow the news lately. It's been too much. It's too crazy. It's driving him crazy. And he's just checked out. If you feel that way sometimes, too, I think you'll really like our podcast, Politics by Faith. We take the main story of the day and we run it through the Bible. What does the Bible say about this? It's amazing, but it's all there. And then God tells us what to do. We don't even have to figure it out. The answers are right there. He gives us the answers. Politics by Faith. Please join us over there. You can listen to it wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. Politics by Faith. I'm Mike Slater filling in for Bill O'Reilly. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. I hope you can join us over there. We'll be back one more day before Bill finally return.