Barn Talk - A Year in Review: Farming, Entrepreneurship, and Whiskey

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

Welcome to Barn Talk! In today's episode we dive into a range of interesting topics. We kick things off by discussing political strategies aimed at stirring up chaos around elections and the surprising resilience of certain political figures. The conversation then shifts to President Biden’s controversial pardons. On a lighter note, Sawyer and Tork reflect on the successful year at their venture, Farmer Grade, and share personal stories about entrepreneurship, business challenges, and surprising victories. You'll also hear their candid thoughts on societal trends, like their humorous critique of people with blue hair, and a nostalgic trip down memory lane with a retro cereal gift and a playful gift exchange story. Our hosts also tackle more serious subjects like governmental transparency, media distrust, and the influential presence of figures like Elon Musk. They round out the episode with a "Whiskey Minute" segment, sampling Penelope bourbon, and share their impressions and ratings. Amidst all these discussions, Tork and Sawyer provide a market update, ponder future plans, and express gratitude towards their listeners. They close with heartfelt holiday greetings and a reminder to support their direct-to-consumer meat business, Farmer Grade, which underpins the podcast. So, grab your favorite beverage, sit back, and enjoy a mix of insightful analysis, personal anecdotes, and a sprinkle of humor on "Barn Talk!" Use code BARNTALK for 10% OFF your next order https://farmergrade.com SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ➱ https://bit.ly/3a7r3nR   SUBSCRIBE TO THIS’LL DO FARM ➱ https://bit.ly/2X8g45c  LISTEN ON: SPOTIFY ➱ https://open.spotify.com/show/3icVr4KWq4eUDl7Oy60YMY  APPLE ➱ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/barn-talk/id1574395049 Follow Behind The Scenes👇🏻 ● This’ll Do Farm Instagram ➱ https://bit.ly/30KPBNk   ● Barn Talk TikTok ➱ https://bit.ly/3qciekS   ● Sawyer’s Instagram  ➱ https://bit.ly/3BtX0n4   ● Tork’s Instagram ➱ https://bit.ly/3LGZJxS    00:00 Share, review, or comment to support Barn Talk. 05:47 Ukrainian grain flooding market depresses prices. 10:47 Federal ruling expected for self-driving standard. 16:40 Iowa Corn Growers advocate for farmers' profitability. 25:51 Bill failed multiple times; compromise reached. 31:39 Confused about potential holographic conspiracy over NJ. 36:57 Leader might pardon death row; church audit overdue. 40:19 Trump supported across demographics, people wanted change. 46:15 Rethinking priorities changed my life path. 51:15 Lifelong fan enduring team's repeated playoff failures. 54:36 Manure separation project progressing, building planned soon. 01:02:38 Struggling to delegate and work on business. 01:04:59 Trying a new four-grain 80-proof bourbon. 01:09:47 New team members might enhance scheduling, organization. ------------------------------- ⚠NO FINANCIAL ADVICE / DISCLAIMER⚠  The Information discussed and shared on Barn Talk is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or success for any particular purpose. The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice. The Information on this pod... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You covered it. I didn't even have to jump in there. Well, now it's your turn. So we got the hot market update here. Yeah. Well, I think, I don't know if I'd call it hot. It's pretty warm. I don't know.

So a week 10 days ago, like ending stocks report came out and corn exports were way more than they thought they were going to be. Ethanol usage is at an all-time high. And the rest of the world doesn't really have much corn. So the corn market looked fantastic. The bean market, everybody knew that South America was going to grow a crop. But the crush has been pretty good. the world oil stocks, I think we're down a little bit, and a lot of people are using, getting into the whole biodiesel game. Indonesia is one of those countries, and so everybody was

feeling kind of good, and then the wind changed, and here, what, beginning of the week, the sky was falling, and beans were down 20 cents one day, I think, and now everybody's got it in their head that it's all doom and gloom. I guess the shorts are running the show, but the past couple days, it's kind of bottom back out, and now we've kind of headed back the other way. So I don't know which way is up, but I feel like we're kind of stuck in this trading pattern. Beans cannot get over $10, and they seem to stay no lower than about $9.55. So that's where we'll stay until something happens that drags us one way or the other. So March corn was 445. The best local bid I saw was 419, 434 in Cedar Rapids. Beans for January, 982. Burlington had 959, and if you want to go

across the river, 979. Bean meal, $286 a ton. Wheat. I've said this so many times. I can't figure out the wheat market. And right now, nobody cares about wheat. They will here in a few months. probably, but I heard the best hypothesis as to how it is that the wheat market is where it's at, considering all the mayhem going on in Russia and Ukraine. And the theory that I got was that the Ukrainians at the start of the war made the decision that they were going to basically hold no grain, that they were going to get it out of the country as fast as they could because basically, they didn't want it to get blown up.

So they, and the Russians to some extent, did the same thing, and that has basically just kind of flooded the market and has depressed wheat prices. But when we finally work through where we're at, a lot of these guys seem to think that there isn't going to be very much wheat in the world. So then it may take off. But I'm kind of surprised it hasn't done that yet. I don't know.

Strange. Strange days indeed. Hogs February, 8325, and the hog market doesn't really seem to catch much fire, but feeder pig prices and weiner prices are pretty stinking high. People seem to think that they're pretty proud of them, so if you're looking to buy feeder pigs or weiner pigs, I don't know whether you can make them pencil or not, but they're pretty high as of late. Feeder cattle. December cattle, $192. I don't think I'm going to go get started. Feeder cat, or I'm sorry, fat cattle, $192.

Feeder cattle, $255. Either scenario, I don't think I'm buying any cattle to finish out right now. Crude oil, $69.55. Bitcoin's $96,500 last time I checked. I think it hit $107,000. I think that might have been the high. It backed off a little bit now. I'm sure there's some people that were speculating that are taking some money.

So I don't know if you buy Bitcoin at this price. If you didn't buy Bitcoin all the way along, I don't know if I'd buy it now. But if you bought it somewhere along the line, you're probably feeling pretty good right now. At this point, I would be dollar cost average in that shit. I would too.

I don't think, I think they'll probably, I mean, I don't know. but talking to some folks that are really involved in Bitcoin and have done their due diligence, they think that there's going to be a bull run 130,000 to 300,000 potentially. It's a pretty wide. That's pretty wide. That's pretty wide. Or that there won't ever be another bull market.

It'll just go like crazy. But I, to me, this is not financial advice. I do think Bitcoin is here to stay. Governments are starting to adopt it. ETF. I mean, it's just, it just seems like it's here to stay. It's gone through, what, three cycles, four cycles now. It'll go down again at some point, but all markets go down and they come back.

And so I think Bitcoin, it's got a future. So I would be dollar cost averaging that shit, truthfully. Look at you. Because there's no way you're going to be able to swing 96,000, probably, most people. So I would dabble for sure. I should give you. I'm going to dabble. I should give you my hat because you just sounded like an extremely intelligent person. That's why I have this hat. Oh, nice. Or EIP. It might be, it might be a EIP manufacturing. But I feel, I thought I was going to play the extremely important person, too, you said that. And I was like,

damn, well, sounded pretty smart. I guess. Tesla, $421. That might be another good dollar cost averaging. for all you people out there that bought Tesla when it was $100 and that it was $180. A good way to boost your company stock is to become the shadow president. Everybody thinks that Elon's got a lot of influence in the Trump administration, and he probably does. And on the other side of the coin, Tesla is one of the few automakers right now that they're pretty much crushing it. And one thing I think that's really driving that is people are starting to realize that the full self-driving deal is working. If you know anybody that has, is it version 31?

I think we're up to like version 31 maybe. I don't know. But it's really good. My oldest son is actually running the full self-driving on his Tesla. He drives a lot every day and he's paying the subscription and he loves it. He thinks it's, he said it's fantastic. Yeah, we went to the city to go out to eat one night and he literally didn't drive at all. Yeah.

Just got on the interstate with it. Got off the interstate with it. Literally everything. Yeah. Besides parking, I think he parked it. But yeah. It was just, it was crazy. Pretty impressive.

So one of the things that was a big, kind of a big up in the air deal about full self-driving, was at one point people were under the opinion that every state in the United States was going to have to come up with its own regulation of full self-driving. But now then, everybody is pretty sure that because of his involvement in the Trump administration, that the Department of Transportation will probably make a ruling covering full self-driving at the national, at the federal level. So there'll only be one standard for the entire United States, which makes it much easier to get it certified, i.e. the stock price has done fairly well because Tesla is sitting on a pile of money. For every car they sold that the person opted to purchase full self-driving,

they could not take that money to the bottom line and call that profit because they hadn't technically delivered the full self-driving. But once it is, once it's certified, they'll be able to. to take all that money is profit and that is a big chunk of money so anyway uh that's my tesler rant for today gold 2639 dollars and silver nobody cares but 26 bucks 2692 uh that was a lukewarm market update it was a lukewarm market update there was some high points there was some low points but uh to top that off to put the cherry on it our good friends at contera that we have worked with this year answered some great questions for us. They have a message for each and every one of you courtesy, well, courtesy of Contrera, and so we're going to let them chime in and see what they've got to say.

Hey guys, this is Jake from Contera, wishing all of you hardworking American farmers and ranchers a very happy new year. As you look ahead of 2025, we're inspired by your resilience, your dedication, and the vital role you play in feeding the world. Every season brings its challenges, but it also brings opportunities to grow, adapt, and thrive. So here's to a successful and prosperous year for you, your families, and your farms. Let's grow together in 2025. From all of us at Canterra, happy new year. Happy New Year.

And thank you for that. That was very nice. That was very nice. I feel whole now. My heart is full. Your heart is full. Yep, I'm ready for Christmas. Are you?

Well, that's good because guess what I have for you? I can't wait. Hopefully it's not coal for the 24th year in a row, fifth year in a row. Now that's not true. You've had some good gifts. I've had some good gifts. Shotgun. I don't know if you've had a crappy ones or not.

Shotgun. Lifting gear. Lifting set. Oh yeah, set of wheels. Set of wheels. Yep. Yep. Sure glad you got that lift kit for that truck, aren't you?

Oh, not really. I wish I would, if I could have gone back, I would have definitely not done that. That's the gift. Here's the problem. I was thinking about that, but we put that bumper on. Yeah. And once you put that bumper on, it just looked disproportional. Yeah.

And so I was thinking about, well, if you took the lift off and the wheels off, you'd still have that gigantic bumper that would make everything else look so disproportional because it's so wide and so big. Because I remember what it looked like when that bumper was just on there and it wasn't lifted and there was no fender flares and there wasn't any it just didn't look great yeah so we kind of fuck ourselves you should probably put a you should probably insert a picture for the video so uh if i can find one i will yeah it maybe maybe not um so that truck it was it only had a few thousand miles on it and uh i hit a deer in it and it pissed me off because i mean it was

It might have had like 10,000 models on it. I doubt it even had that. I was an impulsive buy. And I was pissed. I was so pissed and I took it to the body shop. And it needed a bumper anyway. It mostly hit the bottom and the plastic under it. I don't think it, because I think the grill we left.

And I was like, I want a road armor bumper for it because I'd seen those and we put it on there. And I was like, you wanted the fucking deer to pay. I wanted them to pay. absolutely but you're right once you put that on there you're like ah yeah probably need a little more aggressive wheel and tire combo yeah so after that i just i think i'm pretty much locked in now so i'm just gonna let her eat till i can afford something else or the wheels fall off i guess but yeah i had to take it into the shop because it kind of has the death shake a little bit so when i break it's got a little shake to it and uh it's been doing that for quite a while

So I felt like Probably should get that looked at And I finally had somebody Give it a real good looking at And Yeah, let's say We're just gonna have to spend $3,400 in repairs

So Little ball joints, little tie rod ends Tire rods Uh Breaks are about 30% Uh Yeah,

ball joints the center bar. Yeah, the track bar. It's, I don't know if it's moved or it's cracked. Oh, the bushings are shot on it. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, there's a multitude of things that I've been putting off that we're going to have to pay our fee.

Yep, there you go. So hopefully it rides like a Swiss watch now, it rides smooth. Yep. So. Hey, thanks for sticking with us. You know, it's your voice. It's your seat at the table. It's your Iowa Corn Growers Association membership.

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like access to latest news and executive members-only events. We believe farmers are stronger when we work together. Visit iwacorn.org backslash join to become an ICGA member today. Now let's get back to it. Okay, well, I got, you don't even know you're totally going to be blindsided because you don't know what I got. So the first thing I got for you is, and this is especially for you, lip balm. Lip balm. Yeah, I, uh, I have definitely been, uh, neglecting my lips as of late. I think everybody gets to that point. I don't know. I don't know if people relate to this, but it just sneaks up on you, those dry lips. They just sneak up on you. And all of a sudden, one day, you're just like, motherfucker. Well, my lips are dry. The fine people from, these people,

are from Maryland. Yep. And their company, I think it's called none of your beeswax. None of your beeswax. They took pity on you and they sent us a box with like six of those and some other stuff they do. So they saw my chap lips. They felt bad for you.

And so they sent those down and I said, I will, I'll deliver them personally. So Merry Christmas from the people. Ingredients are real good too. Bees wax, cocoa butter, almond oil and essential oils. There you go. None of that bullshit. Right. Yep.

And I think this is a family farm, isn't it? It is. Well, I think so. I'm pretty sure it is a family farm that's turning their products into a product that the end user can use. Nunia. Nunia beeswax. I'll give it a go. All right.

I'm a bird's bees guy, but I'll have to give Nunia Beeswax, I guess, a try. There you go. I'm going to have to make out with a stick and really see how good of a kisser it is. I don't know. I haven't used it yet, but I thought you're the perfect, you're the perfect test subject. So that's a healthy. Now that's better than coal. We're getting somewhere now. Now then the other, the other thing I got for you is, is, wow. Here you go. This is your favorite cereal ever. This is from our good friend, the Wisconsin Titan. He wanted you to have that. He sent along a little note.

And he said, Dear Tork and Sawyer, after hearing Sawyer's utter disbelief of the 8th, 80's kids' breakfast options. I thought he should probably experience it for himself. He said, now my mother wasn't crazy about buying sugar cereals, but she would do it. But my grandma and grandpa, on the other hand, there was no restrictions. You could have all you wanted. And I firmly believe that what they did was good for their grandchildren. That is a nutritious breakfast. Read the box. Wash all those vitamins, minerals, whole grains and marshmallows down with a mountain dew. After all, Mountain Dew is a citrus beverage, which makes it as close, makes it a close cousin to orange juice. So pour yourself a big bowl, and rather than just plain old

milk, grab some half and half for heavy cream, because Grandma doesn't really care. Crack open a Mountain Dew and you've got yourself a nutritious retro breakfast. Sounds like I would be set up for the day. I would just be, and I would be so productive that day, I bet, you know, just wouldn't feel like shit at all after eating all that. Booberry was my favorite. Yep. Is this it? Yeah, that's Booberry.

This is it? This is your favorite. I thought it was the blue one that you liked. No, that was. This is Frankenberry. Oh, yeah, sorry, Frankenberry. Booberry was the blueberry one and then Count Chocula. And then they had one that was with some wild, like, werewolf that was like a fruity one.

So this is strawberry. Yep, that's strawberry. We got sunflower oil. oil, sugar, red 40, blue 1 and 2, malic acid, citric acid, trisodium phosphate, and natural and artificial flavor. Absolutely. Got to throw that natural in there. How many grams of sugar is in a serving?

You see somewhere on there. Let's see here. We got, what is it going to tell me? 11 grams. And that's on a one third cup. Yeah, one third cup. And let's not kid ourselves.

So about 33 grams. I would pour a bowl about, oh, a cup and a half. Yeah. So. Well, if you're going to eat cereal, you might as well go all out. See, you've cleaned up. I'll give it a go. I'll probably eat that for a midnight stack tonight and just see what.

Well, if you're up, if you can't sleep, just call, just call up Wisconsin Titan. He's going to be up anyway. Well, thanks for the gift. Yep. We appreciate it. I'll give it a go and try to feel like an 80s kid. All right. My last one, this is for me. And I just wanted to show you because somebody out here might have drank this back in the day. I never did, but we had a, we had like a friend's Christmas get together and we had a white elephant gift.

And I got this. I got this from my good friend, Mr. Strabole. His grandmother used to own the bar in Richmond, Iowa. So if any of you out there ever had a bottle of California cooler? That's a cool sign. I was a barless and James guy, but I'm going to have that displayed proudly. One man's trash is another man's treasure. That's right. I latched right onto that, and I wasn't trading that.

Because I almost, I was pretty scared because you know how the trashy gift thing works. You draw numbers, you get a pick, and then you get a steal. And I was like, nobody's stealing this. Yeah, I got, I've done that a couple times, and you can get screwed pretty quick. I know. The worst is when you get a low number, but you're not like a one. Because the person that gets one, it's one both ways. So everybody steals their shit, but at the end, you get the last harass.

So you can steal whatever you want. Yeah. It's really bad as when you're like two. Two is the worst number, I think. Because you know they're going to take the best, and then they're going to get screwed. So anyway. Well, I didn't get you anything. No, I didn't get you anything.

Your ears are waiting for Christmas. You're right on the knife's edge. So I'm waiting until the day before Christmas to decide whether you deserve anything or not. Santa's been trying to tell me to have a little more empathy for you. Thank you. So I'm thinking about it too. I appreciate it. It's awesome.

Yep. He's been in my ear. So what do you want to talk about? well there's a lot to cover here i mean not a ton but there's we could go a whole multitude of directions um we got that budget bill that that uh that that bill that got passed that was originally 1500 pages now is 116 pages so you can talk a little bit about that to the people because you're pretty amped up with about it well i just thought we should probably cover that because that all just went down. So, you know, the government was going to run out of money. The sky's falling. And so we're

going to pass a continuing resolution. And that turned into like this massive, massive pork barrel, classic government. Oh, you know, don't ask what's in it. We'll tell you what's in it after we pass it. We've got to get this done. The government's going to shut down. Right before Christmas, nobody's going to have any money for presents. I mean, it's the government workers are going to starve. so we've got to pass it. But something strange happened. The contents of that bill got out, got out everywhere. And I think old Elon was a big part of that. He really pushed showing everybody what was in it and all that. And the whole thing fell apart. There was like a $70,000 per congressman and Senator pay raise, like a bunch of shit for their health care because they, I think, well,

I'm not going to speculate on that, but anyway, they were supposed to get, there was a lot of benefits in it and just a whole bunch of, you know, what you would expect, stupid stuff. And that didn't pass. And then they came back and they tried to, they tried to pass it again. and it was dramatically smaller, but it didn't pass. So then somebody put up the proposal that they would just pass each amendment to the bill separately so that every congressperson had to vote on each thing. And nobody wanted to do that. And so the compromise was, yeah, I think that the finished bill ended up being like 114 pages.

And of course they raised the debt ceiling. I don't know why they don't just raise that son of a bitch to infinity. Because it doesn't, nothing's going to stop. And they're just going to keep printing money until the damn thing breaks. So if you want to run it in the ground, I mean, just let it go. I don't know why it's even a big deal. I think the only reason they do it is so they have an excuse to push a bunch of this shit through when they feel like they need something. Pass a bill with a bunch of other shit.

Yeah, I think that's it. But anyway, there was a bunch of money in there for disaster relief that needed to be passed. and a bunch of money for military maintenance that I guess hasn't been getting done. And then the farmers got a kick back out of it. And what's funny about that is I don't think that there's very damn many farmers out there that wanted anything to do with that. But if you've paid attention at all, farm credit, what's the other? What's the other big ag?

Hills. No. Hills are not farm credit and Robo Bank and some other big financial institution. All wrote letters to Congress basically tell them how dire straits the ag economy was. I think basically what it came down to, all the banks wanted to bail out because they're worried about what their balance sheet's going to look like. they don't give a shit about the farmers unless they go unless they have any they're going to go tits up and then they can't have that so uh that got passed we'll see how that all rolls out um i'll i'll keep checking my um mailbox and see how much see how much i get so maybe i'll get a monkey cam or

something if it works out good yeah that'd be good we always need that anyway so uh crisis adverted but something that came out of that that was pretty interesting, I thought, was a bunch of people started crying that Elon Musk already has too much influence over the government. And the guy that he's working with, Trumpy, he's not even the president yet. And Van Jones, your good friend Van Jones. Is it Van Jones or Vance Jones? I think it's Van Jones, isn't it? I don't know. It's this guy, his last name's Jones.

and he cries on CNN quite a bit. He's very passionate, and he's a big lib. But he made the argument that Elon is like the shadow president already, even though he's not president, and the guy who works for isn't president. And I thought it was pretty good. They had another guy on there, and he made the comparison and said,

well, I'd be happy to debate you on that, but if you're worried about him having too much influence, influence. What about all the people that have been running Joe Biden for the last four years? And then he didn't really have anything to say about it. There's a lot, there's been a lot of shadow presidents the last four years. Yeah, 100%. So. But I think that's just, uh, foreshadowing as to what's to come because, uh, Elon was on the cover of Time magazine. And I haven't picked up a Time magazine in about 15 years, but it's about the size of, uh, it's about the size of like a farm magazine now. 30 pages and I think probably 15 of those pages are ads. There's not a lot of,

there's not a lot of meat on the bone when you pick up a news magazine anymore, but anyway, and people are, people are already lining up to bag on him that he has too much influence. And my answer to that is, I think the guy is pretty fucking smart. And I would, I would, if I was president, I'd want to have some people advise me, they're pretty smart. I think he foots the bill. Yep, I agree. I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it. I like the whole

idea of Doge. I do too. Let's fucking chop off all the bullshit government that we don't even use and that's not serving us. I think that... I think that'd be awesome. They don't like that. They're bought,

the media will tell you he's the shadow president. Well, they're trying to pay them in a negative light because they don't want government to shrink. That's who flips them the bill. They don't want government to shrink. They want big government, not small government. Big government hasn't done fucking all for us. Fuck all for us.

It just keeps getting worse. All these people got all this shit and they don't, nobody helps any Americans. We don't get, when we, when we say we need stuff, they don't get shit done. I think you need a little, you need a little shot of Christmas spirit. you're 100% right though. No, it's true. I think the bureaucrats are scared to death. They're shitting their pants. He is shit in their pants. Beercrats are shit in their pants. Everybody's shit in their pants. That's why they're throwing fucking drones up in the sky and making people think they're fucking aliens. I don't know, but what do you think about that? I don't fucking know

is they, it's very, I wonder why they're over New Jersey and not fucking Texas. Because I guarantee you if they were over Texas, somebody would have tried to shoot one of them fuckers down by now. Because everybody's like, are they real? Are they not real? Are they holograms? Is this project blue beam? If you don't know what project blue beam is, look it up. It's a conspiracy theory about the government has technology that can make shit look super real with holographics and shit and make us think that the second coming of Christ is coming and we're all going to believe it because it looks so fucking real and all this shit. I don't know. But it's what I do know is they're telling us that the government doesn't have a fucking clue what it is.

Well, I think that's the scariest. I think that's the scariest part of the whole deal is. If you, if the, if the U.S. government has no idea where these drones are coming from and they can't track them, if that's, if that's the story they're given out, that scares me more than anything else because I'm like, wait a minute. No, that's bullshit. They know what, they know what it is. They know what it is. They're just not sharing.

I don't know. It could be, I don't know, it could be aliens. It could, it might not be, but to me, I feel like, it's hard to say, but somebody needs to try shooting one of these fucking things down is what I think. If you shoot a bullet, if you, everybody shoots some rounds at this thing and it doesn't fucking, you don't see anything happen. Nothing gets, I mean, you don't see any reflections or deflections or, I don't think you can own guns in New Jersey. I'm not sure how that works. But it's like if we're all thinking, if people are thinking it's Project Bluebeam and it's a hologram, well, how are you going to know unless you shoot something? True. But nobody, like this is something that people are talking about, but nobody's like.

Nobody's done anything about it. Guys, they're flying these massive fucking drones. There's massive drones that look like little spaceships over a United States state. Like, that's literally happening and people are taking videos of it and nobody's like speaking about it. Nobody's got the answers.

Nobody's got the answer and the government's telling us that they don't know what it is and yada yada yada. Well, I think that's the scariest thing is when the Defense Department came out and said they don't know what it is.

Like, you are the United States military, you got some crazy ass shit and you have all this No, I don't believe in one bit. They're totally lying about it. But you would think they'd be able to come up with a better lie than that than to just say, well, we don't know. They've been lying to us for long, long time.

So I think they just think we're going to just bend over and take it. Most people are just so stupid that they'll just believe anything they fucking say. So I don't know. I know if they were over a red state, they probably would have been fucking shot at by now. maybe somebody has tried i don't know i don't know either but not good i know that i don't like that that's just like the spy balloon thing i mean this is a lot i think this is arguably worse than the spy balloon could be but we just let a spy balloon just fucking travel the length of united states and nobody did shit about it and then now we got drones flying over it's a lot of weird shit it's a weird

time dude well there's weird times you got you got this transition period. What do we got 30 days? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's the other thing. Are they just going to try to make it chaotic as fuck? I mean, is this the... Are they going to just literally...

Do you feel like they've accepted the fact that they're going to let Trump be president or they got another plan? Like, they're not going to even get him... He's not even going to make it. Oh, no, I think that they've just... They've accepted it? They've accepted it.

And now it's all about just playing interference. Yeah, you think it's just to make his presence. Just stir the pot as much as you can and hope for the best. I mean, we've been saying that. I don't know how long we've been saying that. But if he got elected, I said, we're either going to kill him so he doesn't get elected or when he does get elected,

they're going to make it so chaotic that he can't get anything done. Well, that's their plan. I think that was their plan. I think one of the problems they're running into is I think they, I think they underestimated the scope of the win as far. as the number of people that came out and supported him and the size of the victory, it makes it a lot harder to make that, to sell the narrative that it isn't what most Americans wanted. I think that has definitely helped him. But I think that, yeah, they're not going to make it.

They're going to make as big as mess as you can. Did you see all the people that Biden is pardoning? There's a story out. I saw a chart of all the presidents that have, pardon people. Yeah. And his, and he's in like 1,500s. Yeah. And the rest of the presidents have been in like 200. Yeah.

Maybe. And there's a story out today I saw on X this morning that he's twined with the idea of of pardoning like a majority of people on death row. I don't know if that's true or not. But I got a good, I got a good rise. I had a meeting. I had a meeting in our church the other night. I'm, I'm an incoming.

elder. I'm not an elder yet. I was an elder. I think it's a two-year deal, but anyway, so we had a meeting with the finance committee for a church, and one of the questions that came up was when was the last time that the church books had been audited, and they were talking about how it's very expensive to get your church audited because there aren't a lot of firms that do churches, and it's kind of unusual, and so it's kind of expensive to do, and they have to, and they have haven't done it in a while. Like, I don't know, they haven't done it in eight years maybe, or maybe it's 10 years. And snarky torque, I said, well, you know, there's that woman from Dixon, Illinois that Biden just pardoned. She's not doing anything, and she's real good with books.

The lady that she, she embezzled $54 million from the city of Dixon over like a 20-year period. Biden pardoned her. She's looking for a job. You said that? I did say that. it didn't it got a pretty good reaction oh i'm surprised you didn't get oh now we were at church nobody's gonna say anything okay i was just i was just trying to put a target on your back put a little humor into things yeah well that's what you do but yeah that was a real odd pardon but there's a lot of then they pardon that judge from illinois that was literally uh accepting money he was accepting money to send boys to a uh like a like a like a it was like a um a boys prison, basically, it was a, like a reform school,

but he was getting bribed to send boys there and they were being abused and Biden pardon that guy. And he's a scum of the... Oh, he likes smelling, he like probably stopped by at that, at that boy school, sniffed a few. And he likes making his stops every once in a while. Crazy. Yeah, I think they, I mean, yeah, stir up the chaos. Let people under the southern border like fucking crazy. let the drugs run rampant,

pardon as many fucking crazy ass people as you can and let them out of prisons and you fucking let her eat. That's what they're doing. What was your biggest since we're getting down the end of the year? What was your biggest surprise? Biggest surprise?

Well, I guess of 24, if not, it doesn't have to be like countrywide. It could be on a personal scale. whatever you want to, whatever you want to share? Um, well, I will say I will get a little political. I am glad that the American people pulled their head out of their ass and realized that having an old elderly guy that shits his pants and eats ice cream and doesn't really run the country, getting him out

and not having him be the president anymore was probably a wise move. Did it surprise you? Did it surprise me? Did that election surprise you? No. It didn't really surprise me. I felt like just with the temperature of people I talked to and just what I was seeing on social media, I mean, Trump was being talked about, a lot of people were voting for Trump.

Of all demographics, didn't matter. Women, black men, Hispanics, white men. young men it just it just was it was a lot of lot of people were talking about it and i just think a lot of people are struggling and they're sick of this shit and it's crazy that joe biden is our president and they needed a change and they wanted somebody that had been there before and is fighting the way that he's fighting for this country and so that was that was that was was, I guess it was kind of a surprise, you know, because you also have that, you have that, got that voice in the back of your head that's like, I guess, I guess you would say that you

probably, what you're talking about is you were surprised that they allowed the results to come in the way that really were. I mean, I don't know. I just, you, you, yeah, I was surprised that they, I was just surprised at what's so clean. I know. know, like, it just, it's just like that night we kind of knew when I was like, okay. When they called Pennsylvania, I was like, is this real? Really? Yeah. Is this? I feel like this is, I'm, this is surreal right now. Is this real? Like, what can happen from here? So yeah, I think that's, that's kind of the big one. Personal life, biggest surprise. I would say, I mean, I had a, we had a really good year at Farmer grade.

I mean, that was, I don't think that's necessary. I wasn't surprised by it, but, you know, when you're, when you're just in it every single day, you know, grinding and thinking up systems and building out processes and just executing on what you think is right, it's nice to see it paying off, you know. Were you surprised this year, building Farmer grade to where you are right now, harder than you thought it'd be or easier or. about what you figured it would be. I mean, I think it's harder. I mean, I, and I, I'm okay except in that. But you, everybody will tell you that, well, there's some people on the internet that'll tell you you can get rich quick and, you know, do, do the, the get rich quick thing and you'll

have money in two weeks or whatever. And then there's the real entrepreneurs that'll tell you it's hard as fuck and it's going to take way longer than what you think. we needed to bomb this barn so all these flies die i don't know how these flies are alive they won't stop but they keep messing around with our guests they keep flying in our ear they keep getting in our face when we're trying to talk to you so like i was saying though there's guys that tell you you can get really get rich really quick and build a business like that and you're going to have money in your bank account a month and then there's real entrepreneurs that tell you it's super hard

and it's going to take way longer than what you think and so you have those polar opposites and so i kind of went it was going into it like knowing that it's going to be probably hard. I mean, it's going to be hard. But you really don't know how hard it actually is until you are in it. And I wouldn't say it's like, I mean, yeah, it's hard. The hours are demanding. You have to be, when you're in the early stages, man, it's all you and the people that you bring on.

And you got to be, there's no balance. I mean, there is no balance. Yeah. Zero. balance. I think what I saw was, I don't think you are ever ready for the mental, the physical part of it and the long hours of having to do this, having to do that. I mean, that is what it is. But I think the thing that I saw that probably took the, has taken the most toll on you is just the mental, the amount of things that you have to be thinking about and making decisions on and then changing.

Yeah, I would agree. Mentally, it's more draining than what. I think it's more draining mentally than it's physically. I mean, depending on the business that you start. But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of the time when I come home and my brain's fried. I'm like, I can't even think. I can't think about another thing right now. Yeah.

Because you're just thinking all the time. So that's, yeah, I think I was, yeah, I guess I'd be surprised. I was surprised at how well this year went and just seeing the fruits of your labor really taken off. And, but yeah, it's, it's definitely for anybody that wants to start a business, just know, it's not easy. It's not easy. Depending on what level you want to take it, I mean, it just requires more, the more

that you want to grow it. that's the bottom line that's what it takes until you have a whole team you know until you have a team established and you can offload some of that thinking and offload some of that workload and you know have those systems built have those processes built until that point i'm not there yet it's you know it's on your shoulders so yeah yep what about you what surprised you this year i didn't really think I answered that question. Well, I apologize. No, you're all right. I just kind of, I don't know, shot from the hip, I guess. Yeah. I think the biggest surprise for me this year is what a difference a year makes in how you perceive like kind of every, I wouldn't say everything.

but I feel like 24 I've had to like really kind of rethink my priorities on a lot of things in life. I didn't feel this way as much. When my dad passed away, I don't feel like that I felt as this need for getting stuff organized and kind of laying out a path as to how I want to move forward and how long I want to keep doing everything I'm doing. I don't think I felt that. But man, I feel like this year I do, especially towards the end of this year.

Time really, I mean, and everybody tells you this, but I feel like this year has gone so fast. and my priorities, like my wife's been telling me this for a while, but she's like, you know, you really have to, you really have to be careful with your yeses. And I know that because I probably do say yes to too many things. But even on your time, like what you do in a day, I was on a call the other day, and this gal made this comment, and she said, you really got to get to the point where you decide whether you're going to spend your time doing a $20 an hour job or doing a $200 an hour job when you're trying to, you know, prioritize your time.

and that kind of got me because I enjoy like there's jobs that I enjoy doing that don't make me any money but I enjoy doing them well that's valuable though it is valuable but then when you think about when you think about what you could be getting done from a from a strategy standpoint or from a like directional standpoint, just organization and getting pieces in place. Like you start thinking about trying to run everything that we've got going on the farm side of it. Yeah, I think the biggest surprise for me this year was the amount of time, the amount of time I waste and how fast time goes when you're like, when you're like, you're, even when you're trying to be deliberate with your time, it's like, man,

shit goes pretty fast. It does go really quick. So I think that's, that's kind of not a, that's not a solid, like, surprise, but, um, that's kind of where I'm at. What was your biggest disappointment? Biggest disappointment? Uh, God, I would say disappointment wise, I mean, the Cowboys suck, Dick. That was your disappointment last year.

Dallas Cowboys, they just, man, they just can't figure it out. I think we're going to have to rebuild again, get rid of everybody that's good on the team, and try to go for gold once again and build it from the ground up because, man, they, they fucking suck. I can't. I haven't watched much football this year, which honestly, you know, I love football. I grew up and I watched every Sunday. every Saturday I was watching football. I mean, if you're not careful, football can consume. I mean, you can watch it Sunday, you can watch it Monday, you could watch it Thursday,

you could watch it Saturday. Hell, they have games on Friday sometimes now. You got Friday night lights if your kids in high school football. If you're not carefully, you can literally watch football all week. And it's kind of a time suck. It really, it can really become a time suck. And so this year, you know, the Cowboys suck. And I was like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm not going to watch that much. So I really haven't been watching that much.

I'm going to watch the playoffs. I'm going to watch both college and NFL playoffs. But, yeah, they're disappointing. I mean, it's, I have been a fan since I came out the womb. My uncle lived in Texas. So when I went down there, I got my first jersey. I loved it and I loved football and gravitated towards it. and I have been through all the shit of Tony Romo and the eight and eight seasons and the

playoff chokes and here we are back still still at it not making it to an NFC championship game and it's just it's almost as bad as being a Packers fan because you know Packers fans with Rogers I mean they went to so many playoff games and were that fucking close to go into another Super Bowl. But they'd lose every time. And I was like, God, that would suck. That would be, that would almost be worse. That would almost be worse than at least not making it to the NFC championship game.

That's just a kick in the nuts, man. It's a kick in the nuts. But, yeah, I'd say that's my biggest disappointment. I don't really have a huge disappointment in my life that I can really think of. of that was just like, damn, that fucking sucked. I don't have that this year. I felt like it was a pretty, it was a busy year. You know, there's little moments of disappointment,

but you fix, there was nothing so big that was like just stand out this year that was a disappointment. Like the day you realized you were going to be 160 pork chop short on your corporate orders and they didn't know what the hell you were going to do. Right. That's the kind of shit. I mean, yeah, you have a little, you have a little bit of disqualification. disappointment, there's moments of it, but you have to just figure out what's the solution.

So I guess that's more stress than disappointment. But yeah, you are disappointed. You don't have time to be disappointed. No, you can't like sulk. You can't sulk. So, but yeah, there was no life thing that just was like, God, that sucked. Yeah. So what about you? I don't know. I guess I'm with you. I don't have any like personal things that I really was disappoint. I wish I would have done a better job marketing my corn crop, but at the same time, I don't feel like there was, man, I just don't feel like there was a good opportunity to get it marketed. As I think back, I'm just like, I don't know. I don't know what I really could have done. I know that's something I feel like I got to get better at, but yeah, I think, I mean, we had an

amazing crop this year. I mean, I talk about awesome. That was fantastic, but the marketing side of it, I mean, that's where you, that's where you make the money. And I don't think I've, I haven't done a, I haven't done a great job on that. And I definitely need to get better. Other than that, I mean, I really, I don't know. I don't really have any disappointment. I'm looking forward to 25. I can tell you that. Next year is going to be just... Next year is going to be an awesome year. There's a lot of things that we've been doing

that are all starting to come to fruition. And for those of you that are still curious if the manure separation thing is still a thing, it is still a thing. It is back on track. We are, I don't know, I don't know whether we're going to get our system in before this weather goes to complete crap. But the engineering's just about done for the footings on the shed that the machine's going to sit in. And if we have a window here of good weather, we're going to try to get a building built yet this fall.

And yeah, and so we. That'll be exciting. I hesitate to say this, but I really don't think that anything is going to stop us now. Knock on wood. We will be separating manure in 25. I'm pretty confident in that. And we're going to document the whole fucking thing. And it's going to be, yeah, it's going to be a lot of good content.

This will do farm. YouTube. This will do farm. If you want to watch the process, you got to go there and watch it. We're also going to have some people on the podcast that are involved in it, are involved in it, that can really talk in depth about it too. But if you want to watch the process of how it actually works and building it out,

you're going to have to go to this with a farm. Yep. I just, I'm just, I mean, I'm really excited for it for our part of it, you know. But for the pork industry, for the guys out there that have got these sheds that are stuck and we haven't had a pay raise and since basically we build them,

I think that we may be on the edge of a new revenue stream for a lot of hog farmers that may really help this, may help rural America, to be honest. I mean, I think it could be a big, I think it could be a really big turning point in animal agriculture. It could disrupt the industry completely. I believe it can. So anyway, I'm really looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to growing all of the crazy shit that we're doing at this will do farm and on Barn Talk and personally and Farmer Grade and what else do we got? I mean, I can't.

I just, it's too much some days, but there's a lot of. Well, we got, what has 24 told you and what is the biggest win of 24? Oh, well, 24 told me that you 100% cannot trust legacy media. and it's like we have said since pretty much we started this. You really got to count on yourself. You got to do your own research and you got to learn for yourself what your truth is. What the truth is. I don't want to get caught up into this.

This is my truth. People find their own truth. This is my truth. The truth is out there and a lot of times we're not told what the real truth is. But 24, that election to me was. That's what the blueberry hair people say. This is my truth. Oh, hey.

Snarky, snarky, side note. That's what they say. RFK, you know, they've said that he wants to ban, what, Red 40? He needs to ban blue hair dye. I believe that blue hair dye is a bigger epidemic than Red 40. And I'm not talking about highlights. I'm fine. You want to get a little blue tint.

That's fine. But these people that are 100% true blue, yeah that's that's that's a that's a sign i i think that dive does something well maybe that they're eating too much of the red 40 and it's turning their hair blue well or it's compulsing them to go get a go get blue hair i don't know but man you need to look into that yep so that would be less blue-haired people the better feel free let the hate flow just let the hate flow i think that's a pretty uh is that a universal truth that's a universal truth you seem somebody with fucking a whole hair that is whole head of hair that's fucking all the way blue most people are gonna go yeah yep

yep she's off for fucking rocker or yep yeah i'm probably gonna steer clear of that guy or that yeah no you're that's i mean you're everybody's gonna think it it's whether they're gonna say it or not everyone's fucking i would say that if we were to rank the most uh divisive hair colors blue would be the top that'd be the most divisive device it is It is endangering. Yeah. It really hurts my feelings. It is.

I do. I get, I get, if I go, we need to sit in a restaurant, if I'm sitting in a restaurant, and the server comes up and, and that server is 100% blue hair, I'm like, oh, man, oh, boy. I, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm visibly. Do you want to eat your food? You got to ask yourself. I want to try to come up, like, I want to somebody to call me. so that I can fake that I've got

and it's something I got to do that I got to get out of there. Yeah. Because you just don't know. It's a wild card. Yeah. It's a wild card. It rubs off on you. Anyway,

24 has told you the legacy media cannot be trusted. Yeah, it just totally does because that election was overwhelming and for them to say they didn't see it coming. They all saw it coming. They knew that they were propping. I think the thing that, that really rubbed me the wrong way on that whole deal was the fact that I totally am good with all

these actors and celebrities that are libs but the fact that that candidate was such a poor candidate on the democratic side that people like Oprah and Beyonce wouldn't just help them because they were liberal they had to pay them like they had to pay them big bucks and that tells you that they were like oh boy this this this deal ain't good Yeah, by the way, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Jay-Z is up in the ditty shit. He might have fucking molested like a 14-year-old or a 15-year-old girl

at a ditty party. So, J-Z and Beyonce, there's rumors of them being fucked up, but there you go. I don't know if those allegations are true or not, but that came out not too long ago, but Jay-Z allegedly raped a minor. so.

Them fuckers are, I don't care. A lot of these celebrities, they're into some weird shit, they're fucked up. And I think that's also something that, 24, if 24's told me something, people are done with fake, people are done with bullshit.

They're done with fake. They're done with celebrities. They're done with it. If you're going to be fake, if you're going to put your agenda on us and you're not going to be real about it, and it's just, you know how they are. People are done with that shit.

They want real people talking about real shit, doing real shit, because we idolize these people at the top that don't have a fucking clue what it's like to be in our shoes. And they want to tell us how we should vote or they want to tell us how we should live our lives when their life is like... Is dictated by whoever's telling them what to do. But their life is so,

they don't cook, they don't clean, they don't, they don't, their life is, they have fucking workers doing everything for them. Yeah. I mean, so it's just, it's a whole different thing. It's a whole different perspective. So I think people are done with fake. They want real. People are craving real and people are craving trust because they can't trust shit. So that's a big thing 24th told me. Um, I would say a big struggle of mine that we didn't talk about is what you were talking about. I think My biggest struggle has been how do you, how do you delegate enough to free it? I feel like I work in the business of Farmer Grade and not on it enough. Yep.

That's my biggest struggle. Yep. You can very quickly get caught up and doing all the shit that you have to in, in a specific business, and you have no time to work on it. it on how it can get better and how to how to build it correctly and so big goal of mine in 25 is working on the business more not in the business so much um because i know you have to work in the business but i got to do i got to work on it more i got to work on it more so uh and biggest win of this year was definitely uh i mean fuck growing this podcast having some

pretty kick-ass guess on here. Growing, growing the social media and growing Farmer grade. Growing everything, that's a win for me. Seeing everything grow and seeing the community build and seeing the impact that we have build and grow, that's a win to me. So it's going to keep going.

You ready to celebrate or you want to get more? No. Maybe I'll celebrate. Yeah. Yes, no, I think I should celebrate with you. Maybe this shit will clear me out. We're going to do what might be. This might be the last whiskey minute.

This might be the last whiskey minute of 24. I don't know. We'll see whether or not we can make it work. So I have here. This bottle is Penelopee bourbon. And Taylor Moyer brought this guy that was a guest on the show here a couple episodes ago. and I might not even be able to get it open, but I feel like I'm going to get it.

Come on. Gonna get it. Yeah, so it's always nice when people show up bearing gifts. And now some of you that might remember is, or some of you that are faithful watchers of the show, will know that we had a bottle of Penelope on here, and we weren't big fans of it. But it wasn't this one.

It wasn't this one. So this is a straight bourbon whiskey, and it is their four grain is what they call it. It is 80 proof. So it's not very hot. So let's see. Nice. The pop just flew right off.

What's it smell like? Smells like bourbon. No, it smells pretty good. Smells good. I'll get you a little one. Yeah, give me a little one. I just need something to clear out my sinuses. That's pretty little.

Yep, it is pretty little. You can always have more. Well, you have a... It almost smells like a glazed donut. Oh, that's a good... Maybe it's because one of my nostrils is clogged. It does smell sweet. He said it's his favorite.

Smells very sweet. And I can't remember because we talked about this. and it's from Bardstown. So it's, but this is an M.G.P. product. So it is, it was distilled in Indiana, which is MGP, I think, is the name of that. It's a huge distiller.

So it's their distillate, and then they bottled it here. So we'll see how it is. I don't know. Cheers to 24. Merry Christmas and have a happy new year and... I should get some better toast. Fucking get them all.

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I think that's pretty good. That is probably about the easiest... There's no punch. No, that's probably the easiest drinking whiskey that I've probably ever had. Now then, the downside of that is, it doesn't have a lot of it doesn't have a lot of taste on the front end no you're tasting it now smooth and it's kind of fruity on the back end yeah that is super smooth like there's no

there's no fire right when you put it in your mouth it's not like chicken cock uh no not like chicken cock no that's really good that would drink that on ice very yeah i would drink that on ice. So if you, uh, if you come home one night and you want to sit down in front of the fire or the television and, uh, everybody's gone to bed. If you're at Christmas this year and your kids are running around like a fucking pack of coyotes and you're, it is crazy and you just helped your wife clean up and she's ready to be done and you just can't take another minute. Yeah, I would have, I would have a short glass of that. That is really good to just sip and think about life's problems and find what to be thankful for.

That was, yeah. Shout out to Taylor for that. Yeah. That's really good shit. He gave us a great recommendation on that. What do you rate it? I, gosh, I think I would rate that like. I'd give it a nine.

I'd give it an eight and a half or a nine. I think I would too. I think that is a bottle that I will go back to. So now then, there's a lot of different bottles of Penelope. So remember, this is just straight bourbon whiskey, four grain. Four grain. Because the last bottle we had is like a red label or pink. It's got a white label.

This is a white label, but the last one we had was like a red label or a pink label. That was no Bueno. I didn't like that one bit. So anyway, you know, that's kind of like us. You know, we're smooth. We're smooth. This one, I don't know if it was quite smooth, but I don't know if we'd call it that. But it was a damn smooth year.

It was quite a smooth year this year. It was. A damn good year. A lot of great things coming next year. We've already got, we've done, we have done better with our systems, and we actually have some guests lined up coming in the new year. And we might have somebody that's going to be coming on on the team that can help scheduling and help just make us more organized.

so we don't have a have a gap week where we don't we're not able to post something you know because that happens every once in a while but hey we're trying we're having a damn good time doing it community's growing and we appreciate the hell out of all you guys for for tuning in and listening to two sorry old hog farmers talk about life and farming but we love doing it so we appreciate you guys we love you have a great Christmas have a happy new year and big things coming in 25 so we'll see you next week for another episode