Mark Moore
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
PTFO - Share & DOGE & Tell with Mina Kimes, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo Torre
We make these packets of peanut butter about the size of an iPhone. See that USAID thing? We also make these generic ones. So the big switch this past week, we lost our contract to make these with the gift of the American people on it. Ironically, they said, we don't want that on there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
PTFO - Share & DOGE & Tell with Mina Kimes, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo Torre
What I hear when I think Elon was on Joe Rogan saying, oh, these people are griping. It's fake news.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
PTFO - Share & DOGE & Tell with Mina Kimes, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo Torre
And for us, we just had no information. We weren't griping. We were just doing our job. And there was, we were getting official comms from USAID, email addresses we didn't even recognize, people we don't know. But with the USAID letterhead and URL saying, hey, stop, my email started lighting up one after another, just, you know, for Sudan, for Israel.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
PTFO - Share & DOGE & Tell with Mina Kimes, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo Torre
democratic republic of congo these are each individual kind of line items into a bigger contract so it's about a we had won through a bidding process about a 50 million dollar contract over six months and those are big numbers and you know a lot of twitter trolls have come after us saying these are just the type of people that need to be cut but we're non-profit like we make this stuff it's super transparent
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
PTFO - Share & DOGE & Tell with Mina Kimes, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo Torre
Thank you, Mina, and thank you, John. They've taken the means that are available to them and made a difference in this case. And we do have to do, I think what Elon should be good at as a coder and as a businessman is cost benefit analysis. Others may say, Mina may say, what's a kid's life worth? If you don't value that kid's life because they're far away and they're not of our tribe.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
PTFO - Share & DOGE & Tell with Mina Kimes, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo Torre
That's one way to look at it. But what's it worth to reach so cheaply into these deep communities and to send a message of America first? It's pretty great messaging. It's pretty powerful and impactful. And I'm hoping that we pause for a moment and say,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
PTFO - Share & DOGE & Tell with Mina Kimes, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo Torre
The food aid stuff we do is not going to make a discernible difference in the right sizing of our government spending, but it does make a huge impact in lives saved. That's the kind of... Unfortunately, nowadays, maybe that's a mamby-pamby thing to talk about, to actually care about kids who aren't our kids.