You Can't Print Steak - Fiat Food with Matthew Lysiak - Ep 90 - Tales of Abundance

<p>The food pyramid. Seed oils. High-fructose corn syrup. For 50 years we were told it was science. An investigative crime reporter who survived cancer as a teenager dug deeper — and traced it all back to one date: August 15, 1971. The day America&#39;s money broke. The day our food started breaking too.Matthew Lysiak — former New York Daily News national crime reporter and author of Fiat Food — joins Dr. John Oberg and Randy Lorensen to expose the hidden connection between the U.S. going off the gold standard and the systematic corruption of the American diet.What you&#39;ll discover:• Why &quot;going off gold&quot; in 1971 directly incentivized the subsidizing of corn, soy, and sugar — and what that did to your plate• How Kellogg&#39;s cornflakes, the food pyramid, and seed oils share a common origin — and it wasn&#39;t science• Why red meat is becoming a food of the upper class while processed food stays artificially cheap• The difference between the &quot;illusion of abundance&quot; and real abundance — and which one most Americans are actually living• Why Matthew believes ending fiat money is the single most powerful thing we could do to fix the food supplyTimestamps:[00:00] Introduction — Matthew Lysiak, author of Fiat Food[00:42] How Randy discovered Matthew at the Bitcoin Commons in Austin[03:08] Starting a newspaper at 17: the scrapper&#39;s origin story[04:21] National crime reporter: mass shootings, corruption, and the addiction to intensity[06:01] Matthew&#39;s daughter Hilde — the teenage journalist[07:56] From Brooklyn to Patagonia, Arizona: the move that changed everything[09:49] The real life of a writer (not the glamorous version)[13:06] Credentialism: why we&#39;ve outsourced our thinking — and what it&#39;s costing us[16:24] The media landscape: from government watchdog to government lapdog[18:00] Free speech absolutism — including the case of Alex Jones[21:18] Who gets to decide what&#39;s true? A three-way debate[28:59] Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and the founding intent of the free press[31:23] The pivot: from crime reporter to food investigator[33:02] Cancer at 15, the food pyramid, and a personal awakening[35:01] Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard, and the birth of Fiat Food[38:14] What &quot;fiat&quot; actually means — and the Nixon Shock of 1971[41:16] The Seventh-Day Adventist church, Ellen White, and the anti-meat movement[43:00] John Harvey Kellogg: the anti-masturbatorial breakfast food that changed America[44:07