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guys. Today is gonna A Q A episode. You guys mitted your questions through email, and we're going to get to my answers on the show today.

And I should say tonight, because tonight it's a night version podcast. Early night football is going on, but barne talk is going on too. So speaking a football.

i'm modeling a an advantage washington demons switcher. Uh, we might get back to mascots that you know that people should be feared, that i'm thankful that our little town never got, uh, beaten down with a whole maScotte deal. We have been the demons forever the day.

Now the demand of today, it's a kindler gender demon. It's not nearly as ferociously as the one that was on all the t shirts in the seventies when my brothers were going to school. But we're still a dame.

You know, you don't want to mess with the demands. And i'm like these these cute fuzzy maScotte S A lot of these schools. Well.

the commanders are playing night, the washington commanders, and they don't come and jack, they should have just state the red skins. And actually, native americans are pissed that they did change the name because I was a good representation yeah, of their culture proud. And now they're pissed off that they did change IT and the red skeins was had a lot of history.

I don't I don't know how you can just change a completely change the name of franchise when IT has that much history. Mean they want a super bow? I don't understand. Sad, sad.

She's like just like anjana no more at ja and everybody da uncle and uncle ben, I eat that shit like crazy and I don't even know it's called uncle bends anymore. But anyway, I think bital mom, my mom or my mom, your wife always says that you in fifty years, we're going to look back at every basing bike. Where's the representation? Yeah, where's the representation of the cultures?

nobody. He's got shit.

There's there's no match of my money more well, because you guys all bitch and got rid of IT all.

I think he always says that he thinks that history will look back at people like, what a bunch of racist you took. Angel mama. I mean, that was like her namesake.

What is wrong with her? What was wrong with, yeah, anyone? So yeah, first night football.

But we're here, we're here and we're ready to fuck, shit up. So we're going to answer some questions. My lips or chat is going to be that time a year where the weather getting dried, starting to get cold, and you don't have chap sickler around and you just deal with IT.

But I need to make a run. The cases are come and go sometime. Dad actually got a new truck, got a new whip all the sudden. I mean, I guess he must be feel unreal, optimistic with the red wave that's common because he just went out.

got a new fuck contract is and IT red.

red. So tell little bit about .

IT before get. So I have to give credit to tony read for this because you know he bought himself a pick up last summer and IT, I don't know if it's like a seventy seventy eight, maybe maybe it's newer than that, I don't know, but simple.

You know four speed truck and there's a great there's a great sound sound by to him and float around on on tiktok that he's just like if he doesn't have a if he doesn't have a cigaret lighter, I don't fuck and want IT and i've I saw I got this jeep. Love the jeep. But the saliently st group for one, i'm not really sure how long gs the lantis is going to stay in business.

If you look at the top ten list of dealer stock of vehicles, it's almost entirely owned by santis. I mean, they can't sell shit. It's all over Priced. And and I have had my fair share problems and I just started think in like I was want to get like a tuner for the farm sow is the point where with farmer grade, he needs to get like a more practical truck. The three quarter ton that he's driving and IT was practical until I put .

a six six lift on in high school with thirty five. And yeah, it's just too high. It's not practical to poll trailer when we we load that that a trailer for me it's sitting. It's like it's at a till.

It's at a till the moon .

yeah yeah hey way.

So i'm like i'm just going to go buy me you know, i'm just gonna get me a one time chevy one on gmc, whatever you start looking at that and it's like, you know sixty five thousand dollars so you buy, you find to use one. But what do you get in? And then if it's a new d sol, who knows what problems you get with that?

Anyway, i've just been like, I don't know what i'm going to do, I said and i've told myself, i'm like I should just go by all ship box chevy you know and um one night I was on facebook and this there's one turn bright red one ten four wheel drive x fire truck came on there and long behold IT was my neighbor and you all knowing because, uh, kentucky great cook from K D K auctions house he's been sitting on this trucks since like twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty one he bought IT from western IT was an old fire truck they they had a bed on IT you know with I think they're probably put a tank in IT for guys are fighting and grass fires or whatever has fifty five thousand like eight hundred miles on IT he bought IT brought a back here, did a whole bunch of stuff to IT put a zimmerman flat bed it's got a steel flat bed on IT fixed all the stuff that you know needed be fixed on IT and he was sell on IT and I was like, well, holy shit, that that's the ticket and I mean, IT is simple A M radio doesn't work. No air but you know what you pop the hood like you could put a cooler in there on both sides, the motor I mean, there's nothing in there. There's nothing to go wrong with that great shape.

You're good when the power grade goes out.

I am good yet corporation unlike um you know what I think that's just exactly what I need.

So I taking me back to because you learn how to drive.

yes. So my dad had a seventy three three quarter ten chevy plane. Jane and IT had IT had the four speed in IT, the greatest low four speed in IT just like this one.

Does this got four elevens in IT? It's got the two O A transfer ase in IT, lock out hubs on IT. But anyway that's how I learned to drive was that deal.

And um so yeah when I put around and this just like and this is a one thousand nine hundred and eighty nine so what kind of funny is at most any of you that know about square bodies so they changed. Eighty eight was the first year for the new body style, the new shavit gmc, but this is a va series, so this is A V thirty five hundred. So this is the commercial version. And it's also the cab chassis that they would have done, like for campers and vans and stuff like that. They kept that all body style.

I didn't know this, but they kept that all body style all away to ninety one so this is actually a one thousand nine hundred and eighty nine but if you were to see IT, you would think it's like, you know eighty six eighty seven um we steel wheels but they are painted red, match the truck uh, like I said, got a erman flat that on IT I just got new headlights in IT because the had hole shit the first the first night that or the day I got IT that night I took one of the kids out drive and and turn lights on. I was like, holy shit because when you're used to leds and you go back to those were even replaced and they were horigan but they're like, terrible so I had to get smell I D headlights for IT got those in. Good to go.

good to go as your bonner gonna go away.

Now I don't know. I just like driver. I love drive around.

IT is cool. It's it's a nice slow ride. I mean.

i'm probably not going to i'm probably not going to .

break any speed records.

Yeah, i'm not not gna become A A A hot shot. I'm not gona hot shot fraid across the country in IT.

I think it's perfect for what you need. It's a lot more um it's got a lot more functionality to IT than the jeep does for the farm and tore track fuckyou do anything with that thing?

yes. So the jeep, I don't know.

i'm try i'm trying to get him to sell IT.

So it's in the shop right now. Get everything fixed on it's wrong. We've got family coming in for thanksgiving.

Somebody will probably have to drive IT with everybody is flying in the second how of vehicle. But I think after the first year, don't know. I think me in the jeep, my part ways love IT.

I mean, it's there is no doubt that's a blast to drive. I mean, i've had a lot of fun with that. And it's kind of like a you know it's like a it's like a tinker toy set, whatever you want to say.

You know there's so much stuff available for IT and you see all this cool stuff you're like, yeah, I mean that but at the end of the day here, I I don't know, i've just kind of i'm very Larry. I just don't want to keep IT and then have symptoms happen with atlantis so that the resale value just goes to total crap in IT. I mean, a pretty good spot with the right now.

And so i'm thinking I might sell IT. I don't know. I did put a block heater on the towner in case I have to park IT outside. So don't don't beat me if IT doesn't go down the road, but I don't know. They think we're going to get ready.

It'll be good, it'll be fine. It'll be in the garage someday. Well, I was going to say before we get into IT, but I think we're already into IT.

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Get him the gift to me. Yeah, we don't have a picture on on the show. You know there's lot of podcast out there that they make you.

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The market update.

Shit got the market update, sorry, before we got to do the market update, before we do the questions. This has just been as backwards this whole episode. We've started off as backwards. We've got talking about all the ship going on our lives and just got awful.

Maybe you're like the perfect tie into that was support the farm bia box of me because, you know, we arent making any money off Green markets. go. And and the example of that is the market update.

So there, the markets are skin ish, to say the least. The, the, the hot room were going around. And what drove the market today? Corn was down seven cents.

I think beans were down like twelve babbit down the last three days. Uh, wheat has taken a beating. Uh weet today close at five thirty and I can't remember but I think five thirty is like that's like a resistance point.

If you're a chart guy and if IT breaks below that tomorrow, you're probably headed to five dollars before IT catches itself. May not stay there very long because as far as I know from the people I listen to a ukraine and russia, russia especially is going to be out of weed shortly after the new year. So it's not like there's a huge weed supply out there. The main thing is people just don't do a lot of work exporting meat.

Are we to a are we going to start point with then?

No, we don't want to flux with that.

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baby, all the way OK grow that organic matter, right? I get the hate male in. Anyway, I just said that to get into the the corn beans, but we took a hell of a hit.

But people worried that trump, with his national trade war with china, every worked about a trade war china. So that is weighing heavy on the on the markets. And what's funny is we've had a lot of good news yesterday mexico bought shitload beans um Ethanol, grand as that at all time record high.

Good news. Lot of good news out there. Corn is corn is actually a great value on the world market. I think if you look at like ship and beans into the water, like a few ship and beans in the indonesia, I I saw a day they're like a fifteen cent. United states beans are fifteen cents cheaper than the rest of the world.

So I mean, there's a lot posses out there, but you know what is that? Sell the rumor or buy the rumor, sell, sell the factor, something like that anyway, just a lot of just a lot up in the air out there. So that's really working on the market.

So december corn close four nineteen and the best bid locally three ninety six and four ten and ceder rapids. You can get about that at the river beans, november beans nine eighty eight, burlington had nine seventy nine. And across the river quenching nine ninety five been made for december's two eighty seven to ten, where he talked about weed hugs eighty box cattle.

One eighty two ninety five cattle were actually down. Very cattle have not had very many, many downtown, but they are down a little bit today. Fewer cattle to forty seven crude oil, sixty eight, sixteen there.

I think there's just a fair amount of oil around the world because IT doesn't seem to matter what happens. Oil does not hold on to its gains very much, uh, which I think that's a good thing. But uh is just interesting that IT doesn't move more than what IT does for the amount of politics are going on around the world. Bitcoin, eighty nine thousand fuck and IT was ninety one. I don't know if I got higher than .

ninety one thousand and I have not .

been looking at IT that is out there been hate on the bit coin back. The people that have been just salt away though they are feeling purty day am good.

There's an n fell football player and office limon for the painters that wanted all his salary in bitcoin in his contract. I'll give you the numbers you keep go and i'll give you the numbers on the contract.

yes. So all crypto is Better moving up off the state of bitcoin. The only thing we ever track here's a theory um theory um thirty one fifty but .

you can go down a line. So he rustle OK, I don't know to say his last name took half of his salary in bitcoin in in twenty twenty so he has now turned his six and a half million dollars into forty five million dollars.

Mother with .

bitcoin. So smart cat there. I mean, I IT who knows where IT goes? You know, who knows how far IT goes? It's like the city.

I remember the the other ball run one was at two years ago, the bat ball run year and half ago you know, you're like, oh, do I sell IT? Do I not? Do I sell IT, do I not? At this point, I think bitcoin has had so many ball runs that is just like IT started to to build up this track record in this history of you Better just hold on to IT.

hold onto IT by the debt. I think I mean, i'm i'm not telling you to go out. This is not financial, it's not for sure, but for the people have been solved away over time.

Ah IT has done very well. Tesla has done very well of late. I will have you know that uh, tesla, I don't know what year and a half o two years ago was about one hundred and fifty eight dollars to share.

Everybody was beaten on him and IT is wowed around. Never never bet against you on mask. Tesla, three, fourteen. IT was actually down a little bit today. But you, the office of doge is coming soon.

And if you don't think that, uh, elon, mass interests are probably get a prosper from a trump presidency, are you would be mistaken. So will get into battle later. Gold, twenty five hundred and seventy three dollars.

It's going to be interesting to see whether this gold keeps run in as the uncertainty. I mean, I guess this suits whichever way you bet IT. If if all these nominations, if the gold bugs take those to be more uh, destabilizing, you may see gold run up.

If you think that the dust is settling, I would think gold would probably soften in, but I don't know. Anyway, we're about silver while silver is twenty seven, seventy nine and that's a high Price for silver. I don't know.

I mean, I don't know what to tell you. I suppose it's easy to accumulate. I D rather buy bitcoin.

I don't know if I I honestly, if I was looking at that by in silver, twenty seven dollars versus bitt coin and eighty nine thousand, I think i'd buy a bit coin. I don't know. I'm just I don't like precious metals, the people that are into precious metals.

Well, yes, there are some Younger people that are probably in IT. I think that whole markets going to age out. I think at some point, there's just people that are not going to want to own physical gold.

And I could be wrong. But let's face that, every goal commercial you see is an old duffer pedal in gold and i'm almost an old duff, old duff. Er, I mean, i'm like fifty two, so i'm not quite in that category yet, but i'm getting there.

I thought you're fifty three. Maybe I am fifty, everyone. Yeah, i'm fifty three.

I feel like i'm only fifty. Two, and I look like i'm only twenty eight. You go anyway.

Okay, that that was definite a good market update, lad, that we didn't skip over. That was some good shit right there.

I was bring the guns.

okay. Well, we're going to get into the questions now. Sorry for jump in the gun a little bit.

I feel like this is cold vent and older. We've had this before and IT was kind of a big deal a few years ago and today it's it's kind of a got away.

But somebody asks if we feed, if the feed we use has and I am going to slaughter this number or this world always say wrong, but it's uah rotated an rot mean I can what an um it's there's a trade name for IT we always call that submits that they put in the feed um and the short answer is that is no. So what IT is it's a growth promote in make pigs. It'll make pigs convert feed faster.

Usually you would put IT in when pigs were getting close to market weight and IT helped them grow faster. Put on extra weight um about I want to say about eight years ago, probably when when the export business to china got to be huge, all of these companies were exporting china. Ban the use of IT.

So if you were exporting meat to china, they would test for that drug, for that compound. And if I was in IT, they would cut off. And there was actually some examples where china found residue in, in, in porker in cattle.

I don't know if they fed IT to cattle or not. IT spent so long, I can't remember, but anyway, and they they cut off working with whoever that was. So pretty much IT was kind of a chain of of a people. So there were some packets that all of their meat stayed in america, and they did not outlook IT. But that became fewer and fewer and more and more feed mills went, went away from, went away .

from IT completely.

To my knowledge, I don't think anybody uses IT in the united states anymore. I could be wrong. There could be some people that absolute.

There could be some smaller systems that absolutely are not doing anything with exports, and they may have A A whole sailor or somebody that's buying that meat that does not have a policy on IT. But to my knowledge, we're not using IT anywhere. And if we are, somebody will definitely correct me. But but I know in our system, so the the company that we feed for, we don't use IT and h nobody within the system, the other producers that supply pigs to the packer that we're all part of, nobody is that. So that's that's the answer.

What was the what potential health effects in humans? What was that? What do you know what I was? What people were thinking .

IT was doing to people? Ah well, i'll tell you what my slady answer is that IT very well could be that there is any side effects to IT. But this all what happened at a time where.

You know, they do this, they do this research where they take some compound and they give rats or mice that compound at fifty times, fifty times the amount that you would ever find IT in a product. And they give IT to every day for six months and then they see if they develop. And that's only thing they can eat is that come back and then they developed cancer and they go on.

I don't know that's the case. But when this was going on, when IT was big news, that was kind, there was a lot of stuff going on about additives and food and all of that. And um so IT was IT was outlaw. So the eu be in at first, which they bay and everything first and then china did.

And at the time that china did IT, IT was kind of a deal where there was a lot of thought that china did that just as kind of a dig to the united states because we were compete against the eu and china was actually buying a lot of port from the eu. And a lot of people thought they didn't really give a shit about the drug IT was more just deal like, oh, just put the fork in the us, say ah we're not going to buy IT, but I don't know but I do know that it's basically nobody uses IT today. So um IT very well could have had some kind of health effect. Maybe it's where I got my you're not a dog reds.

I don't know. Well of such .

pants sometimes I haven't heard any output yet. Well, they're common. And okay.

next question is I was curious on your thoughts about joel salton get a position in the U. S. D.

A. And have an accepted and having accepted a position as advisor to the secretary. Just curious about your opinion.

You, pray, have more opinion of this than I do because .

you've seen more of this stuff yeah that doesn't really know .

much about joe salton which you you need a .

research I A today I respect he's a lot like wide passers can't remember the guy's name. I shouldn't IT, but I don't why .

don't pass sam? No, it's not same. Yeah well, it's will there's like three will Harris .

yeah he's so those two acta have the same mindset or general agriculture is the only way to form. It's the best thing since slice bread. Everybody else that doesn't do IT this way there there a pissed poor farmer, they are hurt the environment.

They're using all resources and they just they just suck. It's kind of adjust that you get when you listen to these guys and that I love. I think regenerate agriculture is awesome.

For one reason, IT gives more people the chance and opportunity to farm, and I think that's great. I don't think everybody should raise hogs in a hug burn. I don't think everybody should should have a feet lot to raise cattle.

I don't think everybody should have to raise chicken and sit in hog barn or in chicken barns. But I also think the opposite is true. I don't think all hugs need to be rage on passive.

I don't think all cattle needs to be grasped on passion all the time. I don't think chickens need to be all necessarily, necessarily passion race. Because here's the deal.

We got to feed all these people, and we cannot feed the entire planet on the genitive agriculture. All pigs being raised on passion, all beef being grasped, all chickens being passed raised, all turkeys being pressured. IT is not fucking possible.

Anytime you listening, these guys go on a podcast, they always get ask this question and they never fuck and answer IT. They can answer IT. They can tell you that it's not possible to feed on all these people because that's gna hurt their brand, that's going to hurt their brain because that's that's the most important question.

When when you get asked that question, that's the most important answer. No, you can, you cannot and that's okay. Not saying it's not right. Not saying that regenerate guys can do what they do. Again, I think it's awesome for smaller farms and giving people more chances to become farmers and making a sustainable farming Operation because they have the means to have a regenerate farm more power to you. I think that's great.

But my only problem with joel salton is he makes IT seem like if you don't do his methods, eua pic, you're a piece poor farmer, your room in the environment, you treat your animals like shit. And my ways, the highway, everybody else sucks. And that's kind of, what did you get from truthful ly? What I can respect about him and will Harris is they have created their own cit by, you know, celt will hair and particular. I don't know as much about joe baLance Operation but will hair is particular why dog pastis they built their own butcher shop, raised all their own animals on their farm and ah they're pretty much our livestock farm on steroid gentaal vely you know not on stereos legitimately just like at a big scale. They were gentle far .

at a big scale, pretty decent scale party, decent scale a little bit, miss lady because when he talks about they have a lot of poetry try a lot of pull yeah they say cattle and pigs but there's really not a lot of yeah there's day a few hugs on yeah and .

so I respect them for creating their own market. And I think a lot of people need to head that way to survive in agriculture. Whether you whether you're raise in pigs in a hawk bar and whether you're raising cattle on a feed lot, you've got to create your own market or you raising pigs on passion, raise on pigs, raising cattle on on, grasped, whatever I don't know. I'd put that right there.

No, I think you did find basically IT all, you know, do what you want to do. There's a room for everybody to do IT, but I think what you're saying is there is room for everybody. And to feed the world, you we cannot rely, we can go bad.

I think that's my that's my problem with that is these guys, there is a lot of great technology out there. yes. Um there's a lot of things that we have moved to that we could look back and there are some technology that we quit using and regenerate.

Ag is is a good example that if IT works, but at the same time is IT scalable. And then on the other side of IT, there a lot of great technology. After that, we've developed ed that works really, really well and is actually good for the environment. And it's not a black and White. The answer to food security in the world is not a black and White answer, and it's not a cookie.

a cookie cut up. My biggest problem, my biggest problem is, and this, this narrative goes around with people that aren't agriculture. Everybody wants to paint agriculture with a broad brush and say, animals should all be raised this way.

You should not tell all your crops. Every farmers should do cover crops. Everybody, every single farmers should do X, Y, Z, E thing.

When every single farming Operation is different. Every single Operator got that farm a different way, might have inherit, might be first generation farmers. Every single farmers soil is different.

Every single farmer is in a different area, a different climate, different geographical location. And what people do in minnesota versus what people do in georgia versus what people do in iowa, it's probably not gonna all the same. And that's on purpose.

That's on purpose. The reason we don't raise pigs and on passion and iwa is because we tried that and IT didn't fucked and work very well, doesn't work well in winter. And there's no pastor left.

Yes, it's crops. We're farming the ground for crops so we can feed all these animals that we have to feed throughout the united states, throughout the world. In georgia, you have a lot of forest, you have a lot of woods lots.

They can refer to that ship pretty easily, and you can rotate and pretty easily. And IT stays relatively good, whether all you around, in that case, go right ahead and raise pigs on pasture. That makes sense.

great. Go ahead. Knock your fucking and socks off. But don't come at me and tell me i'm a paceman or farmer because I do this this way and you do this this, that that way.

That's what drives me up the fuck and wall with those guys. Your way is not the highway and you market IT like IT is because IT only helps your brand and you sell more shit. That's why you market IT that way.

It's not the truth and that's what drives me nuts. But I do have respect form and I wish him all the best. I hope that he brings some advice to the adviser, to the secretary of egg and they they bring some great things to the the state of agriculture and and make things Better. But my only fear is he he's just going to try to apply his his regenerate practices everywhere without no one. sorry.

That's why he's an adviser and he's not secretary of vag. One thing that I do that I hope that he does help give a little perspective to is. I think he's been pretty vocal about a farm table. And like the whole issue, and this was a big issue in pensylvania. And if you've seen this, if you do a little digging on this, the republican party did a really good job of getting the alma shout to vote.

And the reason the omi decided to come out to vote is because there was some pretty public um cases where the feds came in and crack down on omics that we're selling a raw milk and they kind made an example out of some of these omission Operations that were selling raw milk and pass the amah off. And so come voting time, they've vote for trump. And I think one thing that a joe has has stood up about is the idea of if you're producing food, you should be allowed to sell IT.

And that the technologies that we have today, like when IT comes to milk, you know, everybody's like there's a reason why they pastorius and homogenized IT and all that. Well, part of the reason I did that is because a lot of IT was produced in filter environment and you needed to pass realized that the the quality of the facilities and the level of cleanliness and all that lot Better today. A less less likely to give you a case of botulism. I think so stuff like that, I think there's some common sense that can be done. But to your point.

I can get hind that I mean, that's great. Yes, I think that's awesome if he's preaching for that that's hey, F.

I support that. So to your point, i'll give you a really good example of how one size does not fit all and how things change. And this is something that i'm kind of grappling with as we get I almost don't want to bring this up, but i'm gone to bring this up because I I have faith that we're going to get there.

Um so we've been working really hard trying to get to the point that we're going to start separate no lar manual and have a dry I mean it's not one hundred percent dry you it's ten percent moisture whatever. It's a lot like probably a lot like turn mente or something like that. But um go to hall in solid manu instead of hall in eighty percent water out of our buildings.

And the way we apply manual today is we inject IT in the fall. And so we're basically a no till farming Operation. The the only bit of tEllier that gets done is that injection of manure, which really doesn't a mount too much, but and it's treated as very well.

I would say we're very happy with the yields that we've got and the way our soils have changed over the years since we since we started doing that. But I have a real concern about how i'm going to apply this this driver. And what we're thinking about is we're either gonna have to try to ban that and then use a strip till rig to incorporate that because today, we're incorporating that liquid beneath.

But I don't feel like we're going to be able to get that fertilizer, the fertilizer value from the manual in the where the crop needs IT by just spread and on top the ground. And so does that mean that we're gonna just spread IT and then run everything, everything with a vertical tile machine. Does that mean that we're going to band IT and we're going to use a strip machine? Um I don't know, but I would be I don't have my rose color glasses on and think that i'm going to be able to keep just no telling everything and be able to fertilize my crop.

So we're probably gone to have to change. okay? Well, if we change, if we if we go from no tail to use in vertical text, age or strip telling, where are we? The devil? Now, I mean, just because that's the thing about agriculture is IT changes over time.

And I feel like we've got ten a lot smarter. We've learned a lot. They're still a lot we need to learn.

But depending on your situation, you know, like if I was buying commercial fertilizer, IT really wouldn't matter because would we would spread IT or we would knife IT beside the road or come back with the side dress rigg, whatever put out in hydrous. But we have this manual. We're going to use IT, and we've gotto be able to make IT readily available to the crop. So we may have to change .

what we're doing yeah I think where I get pissed about people saying like I think they think all farmers and tension is just profit.

right?

right? Like all we change and we do this practice because we just want to make more fuck and money yeah not the truth that we do give a shit about the environment. We do give a shit about our ground.

We do give a shit about pass and on and making our farm Better, not only just, you know, provably wise, but also the ground itself, the land around IT. We want to leave in a Better place than when we received IT to the next generation, whatever you want to say. So IT just IT drives me up the law when that conversation gets started.

And, you know, I love joe rogan, but my god, he is bad. And sold on the idea that all farmers, all all people that raised hogs and hog barn are fuck in the devil, and we just spray hog manure everywhere and we don't give a shit about the citizens and we have no plan and we're just cruel, evil people and he's been just fucked in brainwashed because that's what gets shut ed down. Citizens that have no connection to agriculture throws that's truth and that's IT pisses me off. And i'd love to have joe salt and on the show.

I really would we will work .

on IT and i'd love to have full Harris on the show, would be awesome love. Last thing that i'll say about this is this, this whole idea, this whole broad brush shit, this whole claims based me thing. This is exactly why I start.

I started farmer grain, because not to two my own horn, or two the horn, a farmer grade. But I looked around at all the direct consumer meat businesses out there. And it's all about the claims they sell on, the claims they sell you on, assures free range grasped.

No, no, no. Non g mo organic vegan die, right? They say on all the shit and nobody highlights the farm, nobody showing the farmers that are actually shown what they do on their Operation and nobody y's highlighting the story.

And so I thought, you know what if IT was a different play in the direct consumer space and IT was about the farm story rather than just the methods that the claim in the claims that they have on their farm of how they raise their livestock. Because coming from an egg background, I understand that farmers are all different, and farmers and farming Operations are all different. And the reason that they do something on their farm, they've probably thought IT through, you know, they've probably know and understand why they do what they do on their farming Operation.

So who am I to say? No, we're not going to work with you because you raise cattle X, Y, Z way, right? Or i'm not working with you because you raise pigs is a certain way or i'm not raised with you because of you know, whatever.

So for us, farmer grade, I just wanted to make platform a direct consumer meat business that we don't give a shit how farmers raise their animals. Obviously, there's some obviously don't abuse your animals, got to treat right, right all those things. But we don't care how you raise your animals.

As long as you're shown people what you do on your Operation every day and educating them through your content and show in your story, we want to work with you, highlight your story and get your message out there and sell your meat help sell your meat like that. That's the heart by, and that's my truth of agriculture. Yeah, I think that other side of agriculture is smoking mirror, smoking meters.

So why I think the whole claims things about dead, yeah, know if we talk about this or not, but I think we about IT the subway deal we have anyway. Yeah, I think a lot of these places, that was a cool, that was a way to differentiate yourself, is claims you made these claims that, oh, this is so much Better and you know what, so many people made so many claims, and now the consumers, I don't know what they have to believe. So what they really want show me, yeah, show me what you do. Get me a good quality product that I can feel good about feeding my family and that I can afford to do IT show me.

And if you show me and you educate me and I see, and you explain, I trust, I will trust then, right? right? I mean, that's that's where we are.

That's where we are now. And that's that's that's my truth. That's why farmer great is the way is so not just throne that out there.

And I think that needs be done more because I don't think one farmers are demand and the other ones a fucked. And Angel say, yeah, right. Okay, we got to fly through these next two questions because i'm getting i'm getting tired.

I know about you. okay. Well, we'll give you an easy one.

This pretty this is a pretty good one, and I am really thought about this. But a jaco sent us a question. He's a mechanic at a john deer dealer, and IT worked.

They often sit around IT break and they tell stories of when something really got destroyed or guys pulled ranks on each other, or somebody said something really stupid to customer while working on their equipment. And he want to know if we had any stories like that from the farm or the hog farm. And um that I mean, it's like I thought about that and there's a .

lot of moments of pic loading that you could definitely go in that category. I mean, all the times that either one of us has loaded the pigs and one gets back on yard, then IT just becomes an absolute fuck and disaster. And you start throwing outward and I start throwing outward and takes her jump and gates and .

solar is a thrower. So i'm a yellow. I, I will, I will, I will strain together a series of profanity that you goes on for a long time.

sorry. On the other hand, when he gets pissed is usually one very loud explicable. And then an alumna sorting panel just goes frickin sAiling, like IT might sail three pants. I mean, he just he's he's a physical, a lot of physical anger.

And then if I really want to pissing me off you, if I if I make a suggestion when he's that is mad, is that really py mopy even more because he hates like hell to be told what to do, what he's mad, or he really hates to be told the obvious. You know, like we this panel. And then I go, that didn't help anything.

Yes, there's one. Dad, what did he first was teaching me how to drive that? Like, I think I was, maybe, I don't know, twelve, thirteen, thirteen.

I think I was not fourteen. I could. thirteen. I have been twelve elver thirty.

maybe.

Anyway, I was doing really good, but I was start, I was driving with both my feet. So I was driving like, drive like A D A clutch. And I started IT was just, you break and gas.

And I was drive with both feet. And I was doing pretty good. And I was driving on the roads, and you're like, well, you like, you should probably drive with warm foot. But I was doing, I was doing, all right. So you're like, well.

fuck, I do IT. Yeah.

I drive a two b so he was like, okay, well, fuck keys, brig, you can do IT. And so I would did great all the way up until I pulled into our driveway. And I don't know why, but I panicked, and I was driving in two feet, and I hit the gas. And I read in the back of dads, I think he was.

your work, you grow. Yeah, you hit the bumper.

I didn't smoke. IT wasn't like I was flying into the driveway because we don't have a very long driveway. But I mean, IT was ten miles, ten fifty million miles .

hour IT probably IT wasn't too bad.

I know. I just remember I was, I cried and I was, I was just passed, I was just passed that I did that and I don't know the damage look like because I I just couldn't even stay around us inside. But that was a pretty funny moment, said, I don't know there's so much self that I i've .

screwed up or I I don't have that many like we we don't have that many really good stories of us, jack and stuff up on the farm.

I will tell you that when I first started working off farm, I worked on a five man crew for a little company in our town, the bill hog buildings this is before I went to work for precision structures and um these guys um i've always said I would have worked there for free just for the stories and um some of the stuff that we did I remember we we were doing a curtain remodel on on a forty eight hundred head shed down by windshield aoa and we had gotten there and I was hot IT was summer time we've got ten there in the morning and we started strip in the curtain, got the old curtain off and I think we got the pipe shoved in one of the curtains, or maybe two one barn, so maybe two curtains on that barn. And we had all the pipe strapped to the roof rack of this tuner, a crew cab tuner. And of course, when we when we got there, we unstrapped IT and we pulled the pipe office.

We needed IT because these curtains on these buildings, there's a hem in the top and you slide half inch govan's ed pipe, and as you go, you spend them together. There's a couple on one end and you keep spinning together. You just keep add and pieces for the link of this barn these Barnes are any either usually they're one hundred and ninety two feet long or there are three hundred and eighty five feet long some like that um but usually a current about two two hundred feet.

So we had done one, two of these and we were hot. And I the tempers started to flare. There were some going on. There were some friction between a couple of people.

And somebody decided that they were going to go into town for lunch, and they hoped in that truck, and they took off for town. And this set up was just like a half a mile from a highway that went into this little town wind field. And the road came up to the highway right on a curve.

And I don't remember who was driven, but when they pulled up there, like fifty pieces a half age pipe, just went shooting right off the roof rack, I beat all, just all all over the highway. Clear cross the highway onto the shoulder of the other side, if a car would have been common, IT would have been IT would have been bad. But IT was bad enough that happened.

But then we had to pick every one of those freaking pieces of pipe up and get IT back on that truck without somebody hit ness come around that curve. I i'll never forget that everybody was so so fricking pest. And, you know, stupid, just freak.

Stupid like, duh. Of course you needed to. I guess everybody thought that somebody else had washed ed in the straps back down.

Only nobody had. And IT was shit like that all the time. The other, the other the other story I, talia, that I just this always sticks with me is.

We we had this was in the slow time of the year, and I think there was just three of us, I think there was three of us work in that day. And a guy had called in and he wanted the the low, the boot on a bin replaced. And this guy was like a cattle guy down southern, I will further south of us.

And we drove down there. And we go to this lot where these cattle are. And there's this, there's this spook bin gavan's, zed, bulk man and IT literally looked like he had bought in an auction and drug at home.

I mean, IT was beat. There's IT was beat to shit. A Normal person would just not to fix IT was idiocy, I thought. But he wanted the lower boot fix because he was rested.

And so we start working on IT and before along this truck pulls up and there's no doors on IT, it's like a square box heavy like you know like a seventy nine three court and square box chevy. It's got a flat bed on IT, but no doors. The doors they took the doors off and there's no doors on the truck.

The guy gets out and I shit you not. He is wearing A A red union suit. Do you know what a union suit is like? legit.

With the, with the flap in the back, with the buttons that you can open up when you need to sit down, take a shit. And he's worn a union suit with a built with a liar pouch and a cowboy head that's IT in his boots. And he had his boots on.

And he comes up there and he starts talking to us. And I mean, he's just like. Matter fact, no big deal. And a he had a hole in the union suit.

And he said there had talk to us for ten minutes with his nuts hanging out the hole in that fucked in union suit. And he did not give a shit, did not care. And IT was all we could do. I mean, so one of the kids that was work with with Younger kid and he literally just got up and walk to the truck because he just couldn't contain himself and i'll never forget that as is just, hey, that's one of the things when you work with the public, you just never know but that all gave no fox custos to him because he's let numbers he was let numbed yes, but that's first.

So okay, well, yeah, I don't know. I was going to say maybe talk about substorms of grandpa, but I feel like this when you can talk about grandpa here. So talk, oh yeah, is an unusual name.

This will be our last question. The talk is an unusual name. Where did this name come from? Or is there any back story to IT?

yeah. And I think we probably spent a long time, but we've pry talked about this so yeah is unusual name and the Youngest of three sons and my brothers are taught in trend uh and there is five years between me and my middle ther. Um and so when I came along, my dad was actually just south of where we're shooting this.

He was, he was plant and corn in the spring of the year. I was born in may, and he knew I was common. And he was trying to decide what he wanted for a name. And you know, we had all t names.

So todd international, and when he, this people are going to be people are going to ask this when I say this, because they're going to do the math and not think this is possible and all that. My dad was in world war two, and he was a fighter pilot. War war two.

He flew p fifty one mustangs. He was based at the sina italy, flew fifty five missions over there before he came home. It's go back.

There is one of the first episodes we did. We talked about my dad. My dad was fifty two years old when I was born, and i'm fifty three years old now.

So that's how that math works. He was born in nineteen, nineteen, nineteen. And so that's how he was.

He was in world war two, but uh, one of the guys he flew with and for A A good part of the war, his wingman, his last name was turkle son and his nickname was true talk and a he that name came to him. And so I am named, i'm the namesake of of a toro son. That's how I got talk. And it's it's it's a name that is served well because when I go to the tire, like when you go to the tire shop, when you go to pick up your tire, they write l Smith on your tire or you know Wilson b Wilson or whatever. When I go the tire shop, uh, I just says talk because there aren't any more of them and when I was selling, when I was selling buildings that was the best name there was because every person I interacted with, like they knew you, uh, when you, I can call him back three years later and when I said this is talk, they know who you are and so, yeah, that's how I came up with IT. So you .

didn't come up with IT.

No, that's how, that's how, that's how I came to be the name of ork. So, uh, torkleson was, uh, was my name sake never got a meeting. But yeah, I only I owe a debt for that so makes .

your name pretty bad as then yeah.

IT is IT is about us.

Do I have anything solar got any cool .

and a cool shit for .

why i'm named soil like.

well, your name soyer because your mother went out, because your brother's name is clay, and I wanted to have three boys, and I want a name, clay, brick and stone. So you were either going to be brick, and that's what he said I was in that brick. I would have .

a terrible and stone. You would have call a stone or your whole fucking live.

yes. So see a be happy that you.

I prety mom told me that SHE saw my name on some credits after A T. V show or movie lost.

Lost was, if lost was out before you were born. Uh, one of the main characters in lost his name was soir. Yeah and that really stuck whether and he thought that was SHE thought that was good .

and his good name, I do like my name is I do. It's unique. Yeah, I like your name too. Well, thank you. So in the name, yes, speaking the names, we got a helva whisky for a .

whisky minute here.

whisky minute today is chicken cock, chicken, chicken cock, double oak kentuchy whisky. So age nine years, single barrel selection, one hundred and nine point eight proof.

hundred nineteen proof. Where's that bottle that .

does that say on the back? Where's IT from?

Yeah is that tennesee .

or kentucky or kentucky from kentucky? So which you can talk from kentucky? It's turban.

right? Note it's whisky.

I thought fucking burberry was from kentucky. I thought he could only bearing yeah.

you're right.

It's but they call IT whisky on here, kentucky whisky. Well, when do you want to go say as burbo then?

No, no, because I must not meet the criteria i'm driving. I'm kind drawn a blank at how that .

dad's been drinking. So he he's been drinking while he's been doing this show. So he's get it's getting cloudy.

I did have a mix. Yeah so we don't .

have any face. We have no glasses. So it's like back in high school, just on the gravel road, get away from your parents break IT in your dad.

It's breaking into your dads like or cabinet. Just get name. You can just .

like the southern comfort. How many of you write a passage with seven comfort? Oh, is IT carmo note. How is that? Is this as smooth as at twelve year wella?

No, no, it's not .

alright. Here IT goes.

It's got good flavor on the back end, but IT fucked in packs punch.

There's a little heat to IT.

Yeah, it's got some heat, but I do like to flavor after .

the fact yeah. So it's kind of like so a lot of the people that i've heard that have tried IT, they think it's got a lot of cornmill to IT.

It's got good flavor on that after the fact.

but it's a higher proof with .

that cow kitchen in the mouth right off the bad that I can think yet packs put. so. I don't know.

I'd write that like a six and a half maybe. Yeah I mean, it's not the worst. It's probably a little bit above average maybe if they didn't have any flavor.

Yeah does have good flavor. It's not and the burns not terrible. You cat a lot worse.

Well, we don't do in ourselves any favors. I mean, you've been drink IT a little bit, but I haven't had shit. And I feel like every time you take the first poll, it's always.

I don't know. The welter was pretty.

Yeah, that was good. That was born of the best we've ever sample LED on here. So chicken cock, I probably wouldn't drink IT on ice or just straight. I would probably mix that if you're gonna mix IT or IT a little a little water maybe with IT, but it's got ta kick us name .

if you're going to have a i'll sit on your bar I bought well, that's why I bought I was in demand last weekend and I thought i'm like, I think I need a bottle chicken cock .

so yeah I don't know chicken cock if you're going to of all the animals .

you can pick, it's an old bread.

All the animals you can pick. why? Chicken cock? Well, I don't know. Why not beef cock?

Eagle cock doesn't sound that good. A tiger cock? Well, I that's not. Why cock that's not native to kentucky?

true. I don't know. We could IT. There's a lot other there's IT a lot there's a lot of other cox I would have probably put on the front of a whisky when we build the distil. But I mean, I guess chicken and cock yeah because is yeah yes, my minds in the gutters. So right.

it's not the chickens. Cop, yeah, yeah.

And you .

know what? If you if you want to build your distillery and sell above called tired.

you go ahead. No, i'd call .

a hard cock, hot cock that actually has a pretty good.

But whistle pig have some well.

I don't yeah but I like IT. I OK I think it's on like donkey kong. That's what we're going to work towards. Went the value.

went all the value right there. Hope you. I think if anything, we probably made him in africa ple times, maybe.

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