Barn Talk - America on the Brink: 2024 Election Awakening and Farmer Struggles

Episode Date: March 16, 2024

Welcome to Barn Talk! In this episode we touch on the challenges faced by American farmers, including sustainability and corporate influence on agriculture. This episode also features a critique of legacy media and a push for authentic content. Political discourse surrounds the upcoming elections with a focus on candidates and the Supreme Court ruling on Trump's ballot eligibility. Additionally, we share our skepticism towards COVID-19 severity, vaccination efforts, and government overreach. The conversation extends to media consumption, trust, and the public's shift toward transparency and authenticity in brands. Other topics include the impact of lockdowns, farming profitability, and a whimsical segment on cereal as a cost-effective meal choice. 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  SUBSCRIBE TO BARN TALK CLIPS ➱ https://bit.ly/3BlZnqq   LISTEN ON: SPOTIFY ➱ https://open.spotify.com/show/3icVr4KWq4eUDl7Oy60YMY  ITUNES ➱ 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    09:41 Concerns about his health and campaign performance. 12:14 Manufacturer cost, size, rising prices, financial unease. 18:15 Border crisis: Illegals crossing river, razor wire. 22:27 Refusal to accept TV content as truthful. 28:20 Elites manipulate, but people awaken to the truth. 34:03 Consumers seek alternatives amid distrust in conglomerates. 40:29 Supreme Court ruling allows him on the ballot. 45:19 Advocating for chaos to hinder the presidency. 50:16 CDC: Treat COVID like flu  54:41 Distrust in vaccination, COVID experience, economic impact. 01:00:04 "What drives high asset prices and market inequality?" 01:05:27 Challenges facing aging farmers in modern agriculture. 01:11:08 Discussion about sponsored content and disclaimers. 01:16:25 MSNBC clip criticizes white rural Americans. 01:24:47 Challenging beliefs, open to change, yet resilient. 01:28:43 Embrace trial and error for a change. ------------------------------- ***PLEASE NOTE*** Barn Talk is a significant break from the typical content viewers have come to expect from This’ll Do Farm. Please be advised that we will be exploring a wide variety of topics (some adult-themed) and our younger viewers (and their parents) should be advised that some topics will be for mature audiences only. ⚠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 podcast and provided from or through our content is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presen... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2024 for what we can offer. So be checking out that too. And that's all I got. So what how are you feeling today? Like I'm sitting here, I'm kind of chomping at the bit. We haven't done a hot topic in a long time. I know. There's a lot to, there's plenty to talk about.

that's for sure. I'm kind of excited. I'm excited too and it's you know it's getting hard for me to remember all that stuff to say in the beginning. I need a cheat sheet like you do on the market update. Oh, you sound, it's better just wing it. Winging it. Just wing it. Yeah. Yep. That's what I do. Yep. Except when it comes to the markets. I get the hard, I get the hard numbers. Curse of cat's grain, washing Iowa. Cats grain, they'll help you out if you're trying to market your crop or You just want a shoulder to cry on because you did it wrong like me. You know, whatever. They're there to help.

So corn for March, 426, and this is the close. We're after the close today. Locally, 433 is the high. I think it's kind of curious that China, now this is last week, China bought corn from Ukraine. I thought the Chinese and the Russians were, I thought they were like, I thought they were tight, thick as thieves. but apparently China's like,

ah, we'll buy some corn from Ukraine. So I didn't know Ukraine had any corn to sell, but apparently they do. Beans 1170, Burlington, they got 1157 and 1181 across the river in Quincy. Wheat 526. Bean meal, $341 a ton. Hogs, 8437. And the weiner pig market, off to the races.

$55 for wiener pigs. Feeder pigs. 85 bucks so apparently people are feeling a lot better about the hog market uh cattle 187 feeder cattle 248 and after our last conversation that really went off into the weeds about milk yeah i'll just stay quiet this time yeah just be quiet uh this is the way it goes so class one milk or class one is milk class two is what they make cottage cheese and sour cream out of number three is what they make hard cheese out of and number four is what they make butter out of no number five i don't think there's a number five you didn't check no that was what they gave me so that's what i that's more than what i

had before uh and basically near as i could tell milk straight between 16 and 20 dollars depending on what class i don't really get whether they quote every class every day or how that works but hey it's a start for all you guys out there that want to know the milk price bitcoin uh over 68 000 sorry all you haters but bitcoin has made it back from the brink and i think it's probably going to run now for a while Tesla Tesla's getting beat they're getting beat up pretty bad the chinese market kind of going to hell in a handbasket so uh 176000 and somebody blew up power transformer uh in germany that goes to the Tesla plant they ain't going to be making any cars for like two weeks over there uh what do they called it uh they called it climate activists

terrorism. blew up the transformer. Damn Germans anyway. Gold, 2188, silver 22 bucks. I threw Beyond Meat in there at $8.24 just so that you know that everything's in the shitter. And the only thing less valuable than Beyond Meat's stock price is Joe Biden's words. Look at that. That's a great tie in.

Yeah, that's, so that leads us to our first topic here, guys. It's going to be the State of the Union, which happened last night for us when we're shooting this right now. and I could barely even watch that for very long. My fiancé cat came walking in when I was watching it, and she just couldn't even stand it. She was in there for maybe three minutes, and then she just started going on a rant and left the room. And so I shut it off probably after, oh, 10, 15 minutes.

The thing that bothered me the most outside of just what was coming out of his mouth, which was trash, but was just Kamala's ass standing up, and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, clapping. Everybody clapped every five seconds. And I almost, I almost like thought they would like start clapping before he finished what he was saying because they were like, yeah, that was good enough show. Stop talking. You know, let's get the applause. Let's cut him off with the applause. The celebrity of the whole thing, I think, was Speaker of the House because the meme market has been rolling hard on just his look of

discuss everything that... Is that the other guy in the back? Yeah. Yeah. He just stayed pretty cool and he was just... Rolling his eyes. Didn't stand up at all. Just Kamala. He probably was getting annoyed of her standing up every two seconds. So my question that I threw out on X last night was I would like anybody to speculate on what the...

What was the health smoothie that they gave Joe before he went? and I put only bad answers. And I got some good ones. I got some good ones. If you get a chance, listen to the Joe Rogan episode that has, is it Chris Williams? Yeah, Chris Williamson. Chris Williamson is his name. Joe Rogan goes through, like, if he was Joe's handler, what he would put him on to get him pumped up.

And I mean, he does a pretty good job because he's like, I'd be running this much testosterone own because at this point, you know, it probably is going to kill him, but he doesn't have that much time left anyway. And then you're going to want to get some, you know, you're going to get want to get some kind of narcotic in there, some kind of upper, but then give him some of this. Some molly. You know, I mean, he was pretty, pretty detail. I thought that was pretty funny, but he definitely was fired up. Yeah, there was. I will give him credit, he did not mess up near as much as I thought he was going to mess up, but I didn't watch the whole thing, so I didn't catch him all. He messed up a couple times, but not like he normally did where it was terrible.

And here, I'm going to list off what people have said on Twitter from your response. Oh, so dad-ass contents of Joe Biden's pre-state of the union smoothie? Only wrong answers. Some guy said, give the man some red man chew mixed with some skull, long cut, and that'll get him through the first 30 minutes. And then somebody did a Walter White meme and said, Walter White, the unofficial cabinet member. And it's just a meme of him putting stuff out of syringe in some science glasses. And then somebody just said, straight water, if no way, will his water be brought to you by Pfizer? Yep. Correct. Yeah. Yeah, he was probably, I don't know, they, they probably wake him up every day and say, here you go, Joe. Here's your cup of ambition.

It's got a little more than just coffee in it. Well, I'm pretty sure that there's nothing going on with the White House today. I will guarantee you he probably slept all day. He's probably on the beach. I don't know. They probably just put him to bed. Yeah. And I don't know. Gave him a thumb to suck on. He was fired up and he, most of the reactions that I saw were a lot of people thought that that was the most divisive state of the union address that they had heard. In other words, a lot of people thought that it belonged a lot more on the campaign trail or at a rally than it did at State of the Union. But really, that was his, that was a campaign speech because he ain't debating. Yeah, he's not going to debate and you're not going to see him

on the campaign very much anyway. And I think he really did want to perform because for people in his own party that are getting nervous that he's not going to be able to make it another four years. He really wanted to go out there and show that he could get it done. The thing I thought was really curious was he was like 25 minutes late getting there. And before it started, you know, all the news shows were showing a camera shot at the White House. and I just kept thinking to myself, I thought, gosh, I hope he didn't die in there. I hope they didn't like overdose him. They gave him a little too much of something, and the doctor's like, oh, shit, he's going

into AFib or whatever. And then I thought, I don't wish that on the man anything. You know my thoughts. It's truly, I think it's elder abuse, what they've done to him. But then I thought about, can you imagine if that was announced on the floor, of the of the senate and you could see kamala's reaction because you know she'd be jumping up and down but then she would have to catch herself and come up with some crocodile tears to be mourning like she wouldn't know what the hell to do whether to mourn or whether jump up and down

or just start laughing just convulsively laugh so it yeah that was my moment of huh i wonder i wonder what's going to happen there and then he walked out and got in but um he he He had some doosy, so, you know, he kind of ran the gamut. I guess the first thing I would say about it is, if you don't know what the definition of gaslighting is, that speech was a perfect example of gaslighting because everything he said was not taking in account the lives of real Americans because he said, economy strong never been strong unemployment rate lowest low interest coming down inflation coming down yep safe manufacturing the united states is coming back better than it's ever been before no crime

yep zero safe border secure uh we are abortion let an abortion run free however anybody wants to do it basically the only problem that he didn't have an answer for was the size, the number of chips and a bag of potato chips. He was pretty upset about shrinkflation, and obviously he does not realize how manufacturing of a commodity works where the cost of goods sold and the cost of labor and what your choices are there. But he's pretty upset with all the potato chip manufacturers and cereal.

but other than that, I didn't hear anything that was like either A, to me, believable because everybody that I talk to, we really are living in a country of two worlds, and I don't honestly know whether it really is two worlds or it's just two worlds at the very top of the political class. because I don't talk to anybody. I was just at a deal in Des Moines yesterday with ad executives.

And I didn't talk to anybody that was telling me about how excited they were for the way things are this year and how they're going to up their budget and the amount of money they're spending on anything. that that conversation didn't have didn't happen everybody i talked to it's tighten your belt a lot of uncertainty the end of 24 is really scary to think about because we just don't know what's going to happen um yeah not anything like what joe biden portrayed last night so i i don't know i don't know where all these people are that are so fired up that think that everything is so much better than when he took office. She knows. How? Did you blah?

No. The Devil Wares Prada, too. He's the movie event 20 years in the making. Honestly, can't with the secrets anymore, so I think we just should tell her. Will you two please spit it out already? This Friday, be the first to experience it only in theaters. In light of the recent scandal, I'm here to restore your credibility. Oh, because we're a team now?

That's a nice story. The Devil Wares Prada, too, in Theatis Friday. Yeah, I would just say I watched it and it was just like a slap in the face to what you said, all real Americans that feel all the shit that were going through because of that administration's hand. That was not fun to watch. That's why I shut it off. That's why my fiance could barely watch any of it because it is a slap in the face. he's telling you everything's great when everybody knows it's not everybody that's living

actually in the streets has a job contributing to society and not in the upper class of the political game they all feel the repercussions of what's happening in this country day to day they all feel it on their grocery bill they all feel it on their utility bill they all feel it on their insurance and rates going up they feel it on gas prices they feel it on everything everybody feels it and then when you go up there and you don't take accountability and you don't say what we're going to do to fix it, but you just lie to us and say it's all fucking great, like you're throwing out statistics like it's going out of style

and like it's all great. And I don't even like, if those were really true statistics, like I don't buy that those are real statistics. Yeah. Like there's no way those are real. Those are just like talking points. Yeah. Like maybe they are,

but I don't feel like if that's really the case then we would be in a better situation than where we are right now. And it's like I saw a guy talk about it's like we're in the Hunger Games if anybody's ever watched that movie or read those books.

I was kind of a very big book series or movie series when I was a kid or growing up. But, you know, it's like, it's the premise of the story is the government's really controlling and they have this game every year and then they vote in

13 kids to be in this arena and they fight to the death and everybody watches. And it's like all the citizens are peasants and it's the controlling cabinet that like laughs at all the peasants and controls them all. It's like that. It just feels like two fucking worlds where the legacy media, the people that sit up on the stage and talk about politics and talk about us citizens like we're fucking peasants. And then the politicians flat out just lying to our fucking faces about what we face every day

and saying it's all great when we all know it's not like it's it is it's two different worlds it's manipulation it's bullshit it's scary and it's incompetence and it's just you don't even know what to think because I literally I was just watching it last night I just could not believe it's exactly what you said that was his chance

to get everybody to support him in the Democratic Party to say that he could do it again, but also it's one of his only chances that he's going to be able to get out there and get his message out of what he's, quote, unquote, been able to do because he ain't going to fucking debate Trump because Trump will run his ass through the coals

and he's not going to be, he's not going to get out much. He's just not, because he's not going to be able to. No, and I thought it was interesting. He didn't really lay out. He didn't really lay out, like, what, what's his goal for the, next four years. He didn't really lay that out. He talked about, he talked about prescription drug prices.

And I thought about, actually, Trish was talking about that this morning. She's like, somebody needs to go back and make a montage of every president from the first one that started talking about prescription drug prices and how they were going to lower prescription drug prices. and I realize Joe Biden you know when you get to be his age prescription drug prices

is probably pretty important because drugs are a big part of his life. That cup of ambition. Yes, exactly right. It's pricey. But, you know, like that's not really a platform to run on.

And obviously the border and he made, he was talking about the border a little bit and it just blew my mind because earlier, I want to say it was yesterday of the day before, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, was on Brett Bear's show on Fox, and they were showing,

they showed quite a bit of footage of the border there in Eagle Pass, and they were showing all these, all these illegals coming across the river, and I mean, it's full of razor wire, full of razor wire and blue plastic barrels, and there's no way to get through. And they're walking along, trying to find some place to get through. And the Border Patrol or the Texas National Guard, they have people there that are bilingual, and they're just yelling at them that there's no place to get in here. You know, you need to move along.

And they actually talk to a guy that's wearing Biden Harris, 2024. No, 2020. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah, they haven't got the new stuff. Oh, yeah. And he was saying, you know, like, let me in that he thought,

if you wore this shirt, they're going to let him in. But for Biden to say that they need all this money to do it, to fix the border, when you go there or when you see what's going on there, it's not like you need a freaking miracle to stop these people from coming across the border. You just need to enforce the laws that are already on the books and fill the gaps. Fill the gaps. I mean, we should have finished that border wall. I should have been done decades ago. We could have finished that border wall. I want to say it was, I want to say it was $8 billion maybe.

Don't quote me on that, but you can look it up. Compared to what we have sent to Ukraine. Yeah, it's a drop in the bucket. It is a penance what we could have finished that border wall. It's a drop in the bucket. So, anyway, it was a whole lot of. Yeah, Joe Rogan, I listened to a podcast when Dr. Phil went on there on his podcast. and Dr. Phil actually went down to the border and talked to Border Patrol and they said,

all we need, because Dr. Phil flat out asked him, what do you guys need to be able to execute the job that you're doing at a better, at a better rate? Like, how do we stop what's going on from how, you know, how do we stop it? And he's like, just let us do our jobs. Let us enforce the laws that we're supposed to enforce. Yeah. Because right now we're not able to do it. do that. We're not able to do that. People come across, they give them a court date in seven years.

Let them go. Yep. Let them go. That's how it is. It's a shit show down there. And it's not just Hispanics. It's not. It's all different walks of life coming from all over the world. Because they know that it's open and the news is out that it's open. and male, fighting age males coming over. It's not a good deal. And anybody that says, anybody that calls you a racist because you're concerned about the fucking border

being wide open is just trying to manipulate you at the end of the day because it is a serious issue. It really is a serious issue. I'm all for immigration. I'm all for, if we didn't have immigration,

American wouldn't be where it is today. That's a fucking fact. That's just a fact. but we've never seen it like this before. Yeah. It's never been this bad. Yeah. It's never been this bad.

And with all the crazy shit that's going on around the world right now, with wars and Hamas and, I don't know, just they see that our president is weak, there's a lot of opportunity for other countries to come in here and do some shit. So, I mean, I don't know. That's what I feel like. So, yeah, I just, oh, overall my thoughts, just slap in the face.

Did he win you over? Nope. No, I had to shut off. I shut off the TV. I shut off the TV. It's a slap in the face. Everybody that watched that, unless you're an idiot

and you just buy everything that the legacy media tells you, and you buy everything that Biden tells you, and you don't look into anything other than the headline, you probably sat there and went, yeah, you know what? Joe's got it. Joe's got it. But if you're an intelligent human beings,

being common sense human being and you live in America, you probably looked at that and said, wow, that's the biggest load of shit I've ever heard. Yeah. So, yeah, it was, it was, well, it's what you would expect a politician that is trying to stay in office to do. Although I would say his tone was pretty,

the tone of that speech was, I thought, more political than I've ever seen it. I thought he, I was, the highlight of it, fairly surprised at how well he was able to deliver the speech. Yep, versus what else he's put out before. So for his condition and what his age, he did a good job delivering it, but it was a bunch of bullshit. Dumpster fire of what came out of his mouth. So, uh, real quick, moving on, since things are tight, how are you, how are you making ends meet? How are you feeding your family? Well, I was informed by the Kellogg's CEO that if times get tough, we better just switch to cereal for dinner.

Just eat cereal? Just eat cereal because we'll get all our nutritional value out of that cereal and we'll be able to feed everybody at an effective price and we'll be able to budget all the way until the cows come home. I haven't bought. I'm a recovering cereal addict. I used to eat a lot of cereal. most of it not during morning hours.

I was a late night cereal person. You were a late night serial person. You did a little better though. I mean, it was like everything. You 80s kids, you know, you just got fed all. You were like, you're practically rats, scientific rats. All the pop, all the really, really kid cereals. What did you like the most?

When I was a kid. It's the blueberry shit, isn't it? Yeah, they don't even make it anymore. they used to have this line of cereal that was all monster theme. Booberry, Frankenberry, Count Chocula. Count Chocula made it the longest because it was General Mills opposite of cocoa puffs. So even when they canned the rest of them, they kept Count Chocula around. No red 140 in that probably, or red 40.

So Frankenberry, everything was, that was all red pink, so it was 100% red 40. probably red 40, 39, 38, 37, 36. It's probably where they perfected red 40. They probably started with like red 5. And then the kids that had that had tumors and they're like, we're going to go to 6. Then 7, they settled on 40. Yeah.

Well, as you got older, I was just saying, yeah, you were kind of, you got, you know, the 80s kids, you lived the life, you had a damn good time. But you kind of just ate. Sugar, cereal and garden hose water. Yeah. Well, the garden hose water. That's all right. Yep. That's the true American weight right there.

But anyway, as you got older, you started eating like honey bunches of oats, which isn't any better. Not really. But you feel a little better. You feel a little better. There's some actual grains in it. You're like, oh, that looks pretty healthy. Yeah, I think the whole honeynut chiro is running on low cholesterol and that's going to save your life. Heart healthy. That's kind of coming. Those days of telling us that cereal's good for you are kind of coming to an end, I believe. And so this was just another. he was just trying to get his moment in the sun he was but he did not think that through very good at all people were all over telling americans to hey if you're if you're not happy with what you're

spending just eat fucking cereal for dinner how in your right mind do you think that's a good idea to bring up that probably just pissed off what pissed me off i wasn't very happy oh so you want us to just keep eating cereal and being unhealthy fucks and then die in and then also you know that just makes me say why don't we just fix the country so I can buy more steak because that's healthier for me in my family

you know good place to buy the stakes look at that yeah that's a good I know I know of one really good place but nice we won't do the shameless plug there I don't know you got anything else about that no that just that was a quick one I just wrong wrong thing to

do there. Poor messaging. Wrong time to bring up that. A lot of Americans are not happy about what came out of his mouth. And I think everybody is kind of getting to the point where we realize yeah, processed foods, cereal,

probably not the best for longevity. And being told that you should probably just eat that for dinner, why don't we just put some more dollars back into Americans' pockets? You know, it's... This is a little bit down a rabbit hole,

but if you ever want some interesting reading, read the story of a company called Mondalese. I just want to say... Go ahead. Other thing about that is... It's funny how he tells Americans to do that, but what's he doing for dinner? Well, he's five-star in,

Michelin Star, steak on... I mean, he's probably ordering a fucking Tomahawk everywhere he goes. Probably. But he's telling us, That's the other thing. It's like the peasant thing again. Oh, you peasants just eat cereal for dinner. Yeah, fuck you. Dickhead.

It's definitely a class thing. I think there's a lot of that. I think there's a lot of that out there in the elites that they just want to sell you the idea that they're really looking out for us and we're just not smart enough to take care of ourselves. But, you know, tastes are changing and people are waking up. And I feel like my generation and older, we grew up with a, we were somewhat naive in the fact that we believed, we believed the media that was put in front of us. So we grew up in the explosion of, you know, television, radio, print media was all going.

And I think we bought a lot of that shit, hook, line, and sinker. So, you know, when something new came out, when TV dinners came out, and this kind of cereal came out. Well, look at margarine. My parents, my parents grew up. You fried everything in lard. And then there was this huge campaign, and I'd say it must have been subtle,

but it was there that, oh, you don't want to do that. That's unhealthy. You should use vegetable oil, and you should use margarine. You shouldn't use butter. And you shouldn't have bacon and eggs for breakfast. You should have cereal. And grains were healthier.

You had to cut out meat, had to cut out eggs, had to cut out butter. And that all came through that. And now then, you know, that's all kind of going away because people are realizing the health consequences of what that's caused to our country and our obesity epidemic that we have. But also brand loyalty is just gone to shit amongst a lot of these big conglomerates. And so what I was talking about Mondalese was, so craft, Kraft Foods was actually at one time owned by Philip Morris.

Philip Morris was a huge cigarette company, and they owned Kraft. And then they spun Kraft off and Kraft owned Obisco, and huge conglomerate. and printing money. Dividend stock every year, dividend going up, because it was a staple. Like my mom was a name brand buyer, Nabisco, Kraft. I mean, Kraft macaroni and cheese was in my mind the only macaroni and cheese there was. There was no other. And so I don't know exactly what year that was. It was sometime in the 2000s, there was this company that put together a deal, deal to buy out craft and Nabisco and it was called Mondalese. And their idea was that they were going to buy all these old school brands and they were going to modernize them and they were real big on

technology and efficiency. They were going to streamline their operations and they were going to make just a freaking fortune. And they bought them. And you could not have timed that any worse. And I, don't know, I haven't kept up on the stock. Maybe the stock is making money. But I feel like they bought that right at the time where consumers' faith in all these old brands really started to fall away. And today, I don't feel like people have. Amazon presents Jeff versus Taco Truck Salsa, whether it's Verde, Roja, or the orange one. For Jeff, trying any salsa, is like playing Russian roulette with a flame thrower. Luckily, Jeff saved with Amazon and stocked up on antacids, ginger tea, and milk.

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oh convenience awesome healthy whatever they tell you but now you can't like it's different world it's a completely different landscape when it comes to brands people want to support brands that show you who they are and it's almost like rudy like there's this culture on ticot and just short form content now where businesses are documenting their kind of their journey or showing you behind the scenes of what's happening at the warehouse or like look at the bearded butcher's. They're showing you how they're cutting up animals step by step, cattle, pigs, whatever, right? They're showing you everything. People love that. People want to be a part and support brands that like show what's going on. And those brands haven't done that and they never will do that. And the other thing is their product

sucks when it comes to long term health. So you can't, you could show the story of dehydrating, and grinding cheddar cheese and making into a powder and then adding color to it. Yeah, that's the problem. But nobody's going to buy it. And it's like, whoever's making the chicken nuggets, they could take you on the journey, but nobody wants a chicken nuggets. They're fucked. They can't do that.

Nope, they can't do that. That's the thing. They know they can't do it because it's shitty for you. Right. They've gotten away with it for so long, but they can't do it anymore. When people made that pivot from, don't just tell me. but show me, all these consumer brands were fucked. Yeah, they are.

This is when they're like, oh, shit. Well, some of them are trying to buy other brands that they can hopefully, they'll probably try to get rid of the old ones and kind of buy new ones, which, because a lot of them own, I mean, all the products you see in a grocery store, most of them are owned by these conglomerates. I mean, there's some new ones coming up that are saying, no, fuck you. We're not doing that. And that's the other thing.

It's not only just not being able to, trust them because they don't show you anything and the product's unhealthy. But just the idea, people don't want to buy from conglomerates anymore. That is 100% true. They don't want to buy that shit. I will give you a great example of that that just popped up. And the only reason I bring it is because we know it. And a lot of you, if any of you go to Costco and spend $300 to get a pack of batteries, because you know, you go to Costco, oh, we need paper towels and batteries and then you leave and you have two carts full of shit because it's like, oh, damn, that's a good deal. I need a gallon jar of pickles you know whatever but there is a pasta sauce that they were selling at

Costco and they did have it the last time i was at our Costco but it is this pasta sauce out this pasta sauce and it's made in italy and people are up in arms because the brand sold and campbell's foods bought it and supposedly they changed the recipe because Because the jars said product of Italy. And I haven't seen it. I just saw it and I listened to it because we've bought that brand of pasta sauce before. But anyway, they claim that now then it doesn't say made in Italy. So that's a perfect example.

They bought it and they're going to make it their own and then pull the switcheroo and whatever. And people are pissed. They'll probably add a few ingredients in there. Cheaper production. Yep. It won't just say made with tomatoes. It'll say tomatoes. It won't even say tomatoes.

Tomatoes from concentrate. Yeah. I mean, I don't know, but that was what people, everybody was like. I'm not buying it if Campbell's names on it. Yeah, and I mean, I don't want to hate on America's food system. I mean, there are definitely some flaws, but we are blessed. We've not had famine in this country. But people's health is suffering because of the shit that's on the shelves.

And these companies, they have the... this run, but now it's kind of coming to an end. And you're getting companies like, what's that fucking pop you have in your fridge now? Poppy? Is it poppy? Oh, yeah. There's cream soda. Yeah, there's cream soda. There's lemon lime. It's like sugar-free. Yeah. It's like 100%. It's a probiotic soda. Yeah. And then there's these chips that came out that are made with avocado oil, potato chips, and sea salt. Like people are wanting simple foods that are made with real ingredients, not a bunch of bullshit on that ingredients list. And I know potato chips aren't the greatest thing to eat.

Probably shouldn't eat them all the time. But people are smarter now. People are aware and they want to support people, not corporations. They want to see the people behind the brand. They want to see the struggle. They want to see behind the scenes. They want to identify with you. And Kellogg, you don't got a fucking chance when it comes to that shit.

And telling people they should eat cereal for dinner is a big, fuck you, to a lot of people. Never going back. Never going back. There you go. All right. What's next? Next is Trump is the new...

Trump's the man. He's the last man standing. Yep. He's the man. Nikki Haley dropped her ass out about time. And so Democrats are probably scrambling a little bit. Because a lot of people speculated that she was the candidate that they wanted to run to win the nomination, Nikki Haley, because she was a Republican, quote, unquote,

but she was probably a rhino she was a rhino yep yeah people are speculating that and uh people are always wondering where she was getting all this money so and she is she hasn't endorsed trump nope she didn't endorse trump she wished them all the best but she didn't endorse them so uh it's you can tell that she is pretty much burning her bridges and well i don't think she cares because i don't think she's she's she does not care about the party uh because you take somebody like Mitch McConnell, which I don't have much love for Mitch McConnell. Mitch don't know where the fuck he's at either. He doesn't either. It's a good thing he's done. He's not running again. He's quitting.

It's been a few too many times. He and Trump have had nothing. They haven't had a good relationship. But he came out and he endorsed Trump. He's getting behind him. Pretty much all of your, all of your Republicans are doing that. But Nikki Haley, nope, she's not. And I think that you will see her. I don't know whether you'll see her migrate to the Democratic Party, but she's definitely going to run for office. She will run for Senate at some point because she's got, she's got the military industrial complex supporting her.

And if she does run and if she is elected, she will be, she will fall right in line with the establishment that we have. Yeah, she's, everybody knows she's bought. Yeah. I got nothing against having a woman president. If Candace Owens fucking ran, sign me up. If I like, what's the other lady?

Tulsi. I love Tulsi. I mean, I don't know everything, but I've listened to a lot of her content. And what she comes out of her mind, she's a mouth. She's a common sense American woman. I also like Carrie Lake, love her. I don't give a shit. I would love, if the right candidate came along and she was,

woman, I got no fucking problem with that. But when you start spurting shit out of your mouth about how you may be tied to the military industrial complex and how your past career was that. And you say, you don't say the shit that we're all thinking because you want to stay inside the lines of the establishment. It's pretty clear to, it's pretty clear to everybody that you're playing the game that they want you to play. And I'm happy that she dropped out.

And I'm happy Trump got the nomination. And let's just hope that. I don't know. There's a lot to still happen between now and November. So the Supreme Court ruled last week that no state's going to be able to keep him off the ballot. So Colorado, the initiative that Colorado started is the one that went to the Supreme Court. And then Massachusetts and I think Vermont followed suit and took him off. and that was a 9-0 decision. So all nine justices, there was no dissent.

So that makes, tells you it's very clear because there's four of the justices that are definitely liberal leaning. And I was really surprised that Joe Biden was as derogatory towards the Supreme Court last night as what he was. There was two different times that he kind of, reprimanded them. He didn't

look him in the eye and he didn't call him out by name, but that's definitely what he was talking about. I was really surprised about that because that decision was completely unpartisan. So that tells you that they didn't have a leg to stand on. So what, he was yelling at him because of the ruling that just came out about? It wasn't the ruling about Trump. Something else.

It was something else. I can't remember what. if I would have prepared a little better, I probably could have told you that, but you asked, see, you asked me too good a question. I can't remember. Well, it's all right. I just,

I thought maybe they were pissed that they said that they're not going to keep him off, or they're going to... Well, I'm sure he was upset about that. Yeah, I know, but he couldn't come out and say that. I don't think he does. Yeah, it's unconstitutional. I mean, that, that, that shouldn't have even been a question.

You can't fucking, no state has that right to keep somebody off the ballot if the American people choose that he's the man. Well, it's the, it's the insurrection clause. It's bullshit. It's bullshit. thing is he hasn't been charged as an insurrectionist. Ironically, has anybody been charged or convicted of insurrection of all of the people that were at January? I don't think so. It's all been other shit. No. Nobody has. So I don't know why they keep calling it an insurrection when. I don't know.

They keep trying to take him to court on all kinds of different things. And I think their plan is to just try to hopefully bankrupt him. Yes. bankrupt him, pay all the money in court fees so that he doesn't have enough money to campaign. But he's got the... He's still... Yeah, he's still chugging along and he's still trying his... I mean, I think he already has enough support. He's got the R&C money now.

And for anybody out there that thinks that they are going to bankrupt him, this... I don't know whether this is known or unknown, but his social media... platform truth social that went that ipo it did IPO and basically his ownership in it if he sold the stock he has it would be like four billion dollars it's a it's a billion dollar company so he's got all the money he needs worst case scenario so but i do believe what do you think so what do you think is next on the agenda as far as the democrats go Because the one thing that you don't want to have happen is you don't want to get to midsummer and Trump is your nominee. Trump is not encumbered in any way to become president and he's running against Joe Biden.

So how are you going to stop? Yeah, the Nikki Haley plan didn't work for them. So I think it's try to get him in prison. But they got no, nothing, there's nothing they can get them on. The Georgia case. But the judges are corrupt as fuck. The judicial branch and just judges across the nation, there's a lot of corrupt fucking people in law nowadays.

These judges are not. There's, at a local level, at a local level, there's much more politics, I feel like. I feel like you have, so New York, obviously, the judge that presided over that civil trial, obviously very partisan, probably should reclust himself. I can't say it.

Whatever. But didn't. I don't, I feel like, I feel like if you can get, if you can get heard by, at the federal level, the playing field is a little more level. But I agree.

I think their plan is, to somehow get him. Prison, death, or bankrupt him? Yeah. And you're not going to bankrupt him. What the fuck can you do other than that? And if not, if they can't stop him and he runs,

and he ends up winning, if there's a fair election, then it is, this is why the border's been open for this long. Then it's, let's cause as much fucking mayhem while he's president as we possibly fucking can so that he cannot do what he is setting out to do, which is fix the country. So whether that means a fucking blackout,

whether that means a terrorist attack, whether that means another fucking pandemic, yeah, here we go. We got something new for you guys that are watching. Look at that. We got these bad boys. This is to keep all the listing devices out. Yep.

No mind controlling. Nothing. coming out, nothing coming in here. Just straight, just straight skeptical. If you know, if you're listening, we just threw on some barn talk official tinfoil hats that dad rigged up before this episode. To protect us. So we got some pretty, pretty sick. We look pretty sick right now. But anyway, we look a little bit like Devo. Yeah, we do. We do. But yeah, so pandemic, another pandemic, a terrorist attack, an EMP power out shit or what else did I say?

Terrorists. Yeah, I mean, just... You name it. Throw it out. Make it a fucking... Just make it a nightmare for him. If you can't stop him and he wins fairly, and you can't rig that because it's so fucking outrageous

how many people are going to vote for him because they're sick of Biden's shit, then just make his presidency an absolute fucking dumpster fire. So all he has to focus on is, all the shit that you may go wrong while he's president and he can't focus on fixing the shit that we face today if he wins will they certify the election do you think they'll certify the election no you don't think so no i think it'll be a fight unless they got a plan to make it just an absolute dumpster fire dumpster fire yeah well i mean i agree i i think that i i just can't see i just cannot see

a path that it ends up being Donald Trump and Joe Biden. I just, I mean, we're all, we're here. We're in March. And so the convention, the Democratic convention is coming. And if they allow him to run, more power to him, I mean, I hope that we get to the end and he wins and they all decide if we can't beat him, we'll join him. I think they'll do that. Any chance of that? Nope. Probably not. Another wild card in this whole thing. is Kennedy. Kennedy Jr. He,

I mean, he's an independent, but there's, I don't know, he, out of all the independent candidates that you could put, that we've had for, you know, anybody that's ran as one, he's the strongest in deck, I mean, fuck, he's the strongest

out there that there's ever been. Who knows? Possible. It's possible, but I mean, when you talk about the rules, they don't allow you to go to debates, they don't allow you to go do shit when you're an independent.

because you're not part of the fucking system that they want to be, that they want you to be a part of. So I don't know. He's a wild card. And out of, I would definitely want Trump, but then I'd want him second option, definitely not Biden. So, but I don't know. We'll see.

He's a wild card in there. Who knows? There's a lot of young voters out there. We put these on, we put these on a little bit early. But it fits. It fits. But I want to get through this next bit because the heat, from my brain is radiating back down.

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So you said you talked about another pandemic. You see that, and this is a little bit older, we just haven't been able to have a hot topic, but it's terribly ironic that now then COVID, per the CDC, should be treated just like the flu. It's no, it's the same way. But they did clarify, it's not that it was always to be treated like the flu. The only, reason that it is flu like now is because the strength of the vaccine has made the power of COVID less to the point that now it was very powerful before at everything that they told you to do that you know damn near killed a lot of people and I would argue did kill a lot of people that needed to be done it's just that now it has weakened from the vaccine so I was digging around

and I saw a study and do your own research because... This is why these hats are on. Yeah, this is why this is on. And Sawyer asked me, he goes, do you got the study? What study was that? And I said, do you got the source? Yeah, do you got the source?

I had the source and I didn't write it down because I was like, oh, well, that sounds legit. So do your own research. It's out there, though. It's not like some... And I've seen this too. I've seen this popping around more and more people. I mean, it's coming around that this COVID shit

It wasn't as bad as what they were telling us. And I mean, a lot of people kind of already think that anyway. So this wasn't a community college medical research thing. This was a legit either by the CDC or some big medical deal. But roughly about 90% of the deaths of COVID, people who passed away from COVID or were classified at COVID, they had at least one of four other preexisting conditions. and that's among everybody. And among people that were vaccinated,

70% of them had one of these four. And the list was obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and I couldn't find what the last one was. I saw it and then I forgot it. But, you know, and the other big thing that they've learned is the worst, one of the worst things they did was put people on ventilators. Early on.

early on when they didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Putting people on a ventilator, that was like a death sentence. So it's just crazy to me. The number of businesses that were ruined, the number of lives that were ruined, all those doctors that got, like, throttled, disbarred, fired. It was single-handedly, it was the thing that triggered inside me that

holy shit this is never happened before and this makes me not trust my government or the system that I am more than ever before that was the catalyst that was the thing that did it for me I think you're I think you're 100% right

and I think that that is what they vastly underestimated. I think the political class in this country and the world really totally mis- underestimated people's ability to put it together and look at it and go these fuckers do not care about us we can't trust them and I know for a lot of people that I talk to COVID was the beginning of I would say kind of an awakening

that no matter what side of the aisle you're on politically you realize that your government, one, probably isn't telling you the truth, and two, does not have your best interest in mind. No. I mean, in no accountability. Like, no, we have no accountability to this day. Nobody, where's fucking Fouchy at? That dude, he should be fucking locked up. I mean, the amount of lives that were ruined on the fucking pure lies that they ran, they flat out, we're telling us, if you get the vaccine, you cannot get COVID and you cannot transmit. COVID. That came out to be bullshit. And they were labeling the unvaccinated like fucking, like we were the minority and that we are the fucking problem. I didn't get fucking vaccinated. I'll flat out tell you motherfuckers. I didn't get vaccinated because I didn't trust them bastards at all. And I got COVID once and it wasn't even bad and I haven't got it since. So that's my two cents.

That's my experience. Might not be for you. But that. That. ruined a lot of people's lives, small businesses, made corporations richer. A lot of mental health fucking happening now with young kids and not being able to go to school and depression and all this shit. And those small businesses are never going to recover. All those restaurants, all that stuff.

Like it's not like they just had money just sitting on the sidelines. They had to operate their business. And if there was no business, they're out. They're out of business. They can no longer operate. No aid for those people. Yeah, you had to.

the Stemys, but that wasn't going to save anybody's small business. I just bought big. And you were lie. I was saying, I did too. I invested it. We were just pure out. It was just flat out lies. It was flat out lies.

And, you know, it's just not saying it didn't kill people, not saying that it wasn't a pandemic. It wasn't a disease that killed people. But they were literally treating this like it was the fucking black plague when the numbers don't even compare. They don't even compare. They blew it out of proportion and ultimately, I think

it was to control us to see how far they could get away with it. To see how far we would fucking comply and it gets down to the the idea we'd go into restaurants our kids are gonna literally, my kids are literally gonna go how in the fuck

did you guys even do that? Like how were you even thinking that that was, how was it okay to go sit at the bar but it wasn't okay to go sit at a table? You walk into a restaurant, you got to have your mask on. But when you go sit at the table, then you can take your mask off. Yep.

Or I was just listening to Olympic swimmer that, what's her name, Riley. Riley Gaines. Riley Gaines. During COVID as an athlete, as a swimmer, they had to wear masks in the pool to train for swimming, NCAA swimming. They had to wear masks in the pool while they were swim training. How that work? Didn't work very well.

She said it sucked. It was terrible. just the stupidity among it was crazy and I think all that shit was just to see how far how far can we control these people how many lies can we tell them and how compliant will they actually be that's all I'll say about it but that was the awakening moment because like I was a lot of people when it first started happening and like you start seeing some of the footage of people being thrown dead bodies being thrown on boats in China you're a little like oh shit like this is this ain't good.

This is the end. But as they start banning doctors that come out and say there might be a better way to treat it, and the vaccine is the only way. And they start berating people that don't get vaccinated. It just the chain of events. Yeah, the whole Ivermectin thing. We forget about the Ivermectin thing. Yes, they banned it.

Yeah, we've gone through all this now then to come to find out, oh yeah. Yeah, that actually worked pretty well. And no, the thing that pisses me off about it the most, because there was a lot of lives that were ruined, because of it, not just because of COVID, the actual disease and people dying, but what the lockdown did to people's lives. No accountability for the people. There's a whole generation of kids that are going to have trouble from this. Yeah. We have yet to see the implications of that age of child have to deal with that level of being alone and not having the, not being able to go to

school. So one last thing. I didn't know this, but last night, we found out that the other bonus is, according to Uncle Joan, the vaccine cures cancer. Yeah, I did. He subtly dropped that in there. Yeah. He suddenly dropped that in there that the vaccine cures cancer now. The COVID vaccine cures cancer now. He subtly dropped that in there. I think he might have been tailing off a little bit. Yeah. Might have been losing his marvels a little bit there. Okay, my head's getting awful hot. I think I'm cooking my brain. Yeah, that's a good one. Your hair is a little messed up now.

I got to go back to my hat. Yeah, I do you too. I got to go back to my hat. That's good. That was a good segment. I don't know. We're not going to call that anything. It's just when we throw those on and you start hearing some ruffling on the microphones,

you know we got our hats on, our tinfoil hats on. Let's go back. Iowa news, this is local news or Midwest news. Last week, there was two tracks of land that sold up in Sioux County. and they brought $29,600 an acre. I take that back. The highest priced 80. I think it was two 80s.

Somebody can correct me on that, but the highest price one brought $29,600 an acre. So you have to ask yourself because under no, under no, no matter what fuzzy math you use, there's no way that you can farm that ground to generate the income over a normal amortization period to pay for that ground. So you have to ask yourself what, like what is driving that? What is the, why are people willing to pay that much money for an asset that arguably, and I realize there are guys that bought ground back at the beginning,

I'd say at the very end of the stagnation of land prices, you know, there were guys that bought land around here for $9,000, $10,000 an acre, and everybody said, well, there's no way they'll ever get their money out of that. Okay, one, if you pay, if you pay $26,000, $29,000. $600. Will you get your money out of it? So I'm 52. So would I ever get my money out of it? Would it ever appreciate beyond what I paid for it? I don't know. So my question is why are people, like, why are people willing to pay that? And all I can come back to is that the stock market, it just goes to all the uncertainty that we've talked about throughout this whole podcast.

I saw this statistic, and I guess I don't know how I missed this, but this guy was saying that the wealthiest 10% of Americans own roughly 90% of the stock in the stock market, and only 10% of the stocks, 10% of the companies in the stock market hold 90% of the stock market value. So it's a very small, you have a small group of the population, and then you have a small number of companies that the entire value of our economy is tied to those companies. So if you are someone and you have, you have wealth, and you're looking at that, with all of the uncertainty around the world, I think that's why you have people that are looking for other places to put it. That's the, that's the only answer I can give.

Yeah, that's going to say store value. It's all, it's just continually goes up. but it's like, okay, don't expect to rent. Because like, if that's the case, they're probably not farming it. No. So they're going to rent it out. Yep. So those, they better not expect to cash flow. It's not going to cash flow if you farmed it or if you rented it out.

It's just not going to cash flow. But maybe they don't give a shit. Not with corn at $4.46 cents a bushel. On a regular year, it ain't going to cash flow. I mean, that's the thing is. average year it's not cash phone. We're really at a weird point because land values have

continued to trend higher and our input costs, our living costs, our equipment costs have all risen and now then we're in a situation where our commodity prices have stagnated and actually gone down.

So the pressure on farmland prices you would think they would be really starting to come to bear. And a lot of people thought that we had topped the land market, and then these sales happened, and you're like, okay. So I don't know, it's a really weird time. I'd like to know what you all think about that, because I think it'll be a really strange situation where if this trend continues,

where land sales and land values either stay where they're at or continue to increase, but yet on-farm income decreases to where what you can rent that asset out for compared to what you paid for it, your return keeps getting crushed. I don't know. I just think it's just one more thing in this country that's pretty damn strange. It's whack. It's going to be hard to farm. It's becoming harder to farm.

Yeah. It's becoming harder to farm every day. But it's like, it's all the farmers we talked to in the last three episodes. David. Iowa and farmer. Iowa and farmer. Wisconsin Titan. Yep.

Every single one of them you ask, what's your outlook on the next three years, five years of farming? They, they don't, they're not saying it's going to be very promising. It's not looking like it's going to be a highlight reel. And you ask him about this. year's crop, this upcoming year's crop, all of them will tell you, it's not looking great. It's not looking great. And this is just another one of those things that it's working against the American farmer. And when the American consumer says, well, why are all these family farms going out of business?

We don't want any more corporate farms, just like they don't want any corporations that are making food products. Well, this is what's happening. Yeah. And I think that's, I think that's worth talking about because if you, just think about that, think about being in that situation. If you are a 60-some-year-old farmer and you are lucky enough that you've got a chunk of ground and it's paid for and you're grain farming, your return on that land is not great enough that you're able to start another generation

to farm, or you may not have any kids that want to farm, you may not have any kids, period. But you're sitting there and you're looking at that, and you've come through, you have come through a time that we probably had the highest profitability in ag that we've had in a long time. And that has ended, you know, the last three, four years. Why wouldn't you cash in? But then the answer to that is, if you cash in, you're just like that investor that paid that money, because what are you going to do? What are you going to do with that money?

Well, they don't care. They're going to live their life. They're going to live their life until they're going to, if they don't have any kids or their kids don't want to farm, they're just going to enjoy their life the rest of the way, probably. But, you know, a solution that I see that could maybe help, but it involves government, is incentivize old farmers to sell their ground to people that want to farm,

young people that want to farm and make it work for both people. You know? Yeah. try to help, try to help old farmers sell their land to new farmers or existing family farms instead of corporations or else we're going to have the same fucking problem we have everywhere else where corporations nominate. Yeah. And I know that's not how capitalism works. You know, it's highest bit or whatever, but it's like, it's kind of your food supply, dude. Kind of matters. It kind of matters who controls that a little bit. So if you...

Is the family farmers, do they have a lot of... How's our, how's our, how's our, how's our lobbying capacity in government? Do you think we can get a lot of people Don't have much. Don't have much. This podcast we can probably get a little bit. A little bit. Maybe. A little bit. Hopefully it keeps going. But I don't know. It's just It's all working against you. It's all working against you.

And so it's always back to what we say. You got to, if you're going to want a farm nowadays, you're going to have to bust your ass. Yeah, you better not count on just just that farm well just that enterprise you better have multiple enterprises it's so funny because a lot of business

a lot of people in business will tell you you know you find your passion stick with it go stick with that just go the problem is if you are strictly a grain farmer you're going to have to go and go far and there's a lot of fucking headaches with that there is a lot and I don't know at the end of the day whether that works. I feel like you about have to.

And long term will it can, because you get enough acres, it'll work, right? You get enough acres today, it'll work. But that number will continue to rise of how many acres you'll need for it to pencil, just strictly grain farming without anything else. And so we'll get to a point where it's like, yeah. Because you go, if you keep expanding, it's just that many more people you got to hire, that much more equipment you've got to get that many more grain bins you got to build that much bigger line of credit i mean it's it's a it's a game that you play that's it yeah so anyway we've gone long enough on that and i think we've hit on that a lot in the last three guess episodes that we've done so to top off the hot topics today we got one last topic to go over and it's

just our love for the media just media legacy media just fucking dying man running into the shit hole. Yeah. I don't know about you guys, but for somebody that does podcasting, it's nice to see legacy media that's been corrupt and people don't really trust anymore

kind of go down the shitter. Yeah. Because it just tells us that what we're doing matters and what we're doing people like, most, you know, some people like hearing it. Some people like hearing, they want to listen to authentic people that actually have shit to say

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And all these legacy companies, it's just not the case. It's all fucking, they're telling me to say this. I'm getting paid to say this. I'm getting grease to have this opinion. I'm getting grease to write this article with this narrative. I mean, it's just, it's really,

it's really hard to watch. Really, even, even local news. I don't really watch local news, but it's so funny, they all have a script that's being propagated to them or sent to them because you can watch the evening news in Iowa versus watch the evening news in Utah or West Virginia. And a lot of those stories on the national level, they're all reading them the exact same. way. And there's no, they're not putting any research in that. They're just getting out off the wire and they're just, they're just spitting it out there. I had an interesting experience yesterday.

So I was at this, I was at this roundtable, this Q&A that was put on. And it was a group of ad executives for different marketing companies, PR firms, whatever. And they, there was some people like us that do podcasts or do short form or whatever. And we were just talking about what we do and how we do it and the ends and outs of it. And there was an older gentleman there and he raised his hand at the end because we took some questions at the end. And his question was that when we do a paid sponsorship like on a like what, we do on our farm channel where we have somebody that we work with that helps that is a sponsorship like um we use their we use their ventilation or hog billing or their feeders or whatever and then

you know we talk about them whatever and he asked us if we put a disclaimer that says this is a paid advertisement and i and i'm not the one to ask Sawyer wasn't there so i'm not really the one to ask but I told him, I said, well, I'm pretty sure that any time that we do a deal where we invite the company we're working with as a collaborator, or if they push that post out on Instagram or TikTok or whatever, it'll say this is a sponsored post or whatever. But I said, as far as the bit that's in the long form, I don't think there is. and he said, well, I come from the magazine world, and any time there's an advertisement that has to be written in there that this is a paid advertisement.

He goes, how do you guys, is there any association or any policing of your platform to keep people honest? And I said to him, I said, well, there is. I said, basically, if I don't tell you the truth or if I don't give you something that's valuable and you find out that I'm lying to you, you're not going to listen to my shit, which means I'm not going to be successful, which means I'm not going to be in business. So I said, you don't really need that because people's bullshit meter has never been high. like they can just smell if you're trying to sell them something and you're not genuine in what you do

and i said so i don't really think that's a problem and i could tell he didn't really like that answer and i didn't say anything more about it but i thought about that and i thought yeah these ma first of all magazines i mean god i'd hate to be stuck in that business because i don't even know unless I'm stuck in a, like, where do you read a magazine? The doctor's office? I have not read a, it's been so long since I read a magazine. Like, I don't know. But you think about that, you have all these people,

and they put all this together, and every story in there is, it's their opinion, whether they're trying to sell you or not sell you. I thought it was a little bit self-righteous for him to say, say, you know, like we have these standards. Well, no, you don't because so many of these magazines and print media, whether they admit it or not, their stories are all opinion. They have the opinion page.

But the stories, when I interview somebody, when we have a guest on here, every question we ask them, that is our own, like, that's our own opinion. That's our own curiosity. Right. And it's shaded by our own worldview. And it's no different than when you write a magazine article. You can say that you're completely unbiased and you're full of shit. And the sooner that people just, I mean, everybody that listens to this watches this pretty much knows what we think.

It's not like we claim to be completely unbiased because we're not completely unbiased. Yeah. and for you to be sitting there at a magazine and saying, oh, we're completely unbiased and, you know, you shouldn't, I just took that to be kind of,

kind of self-righteous that, oh, you know, we're pure as the wind-driven snow. Media is, media's in bad shape. Well, he's in bad, I mean,

that's the problem. He's in bad, if he's still doing the magazine shit, he knows he's in bad shape and he can sit there. and bitch, but it's the way it is. Yeah. So you can just die with that while that magazine shit dies. Yeah, I mean, it, it is.

So the last year, I just put it in here because there's a clip and we're going to embed this. So MSNBC, which I don't partake of it, but I saw this clip on, I think, Instagram and I was just like, holy cow, that is like

very blatant And I guess I would applaud him in the fact that they have pretty much taken the gloves off. And you know exactly what they think. Because the story they put on there was about a guy that wrote a book, two guys that wrote a book. And I'm not going to endorse the book and I don't even know what it is. But basically they called white rural Americans the biggest threat to democracy. And you have got to watch this clip.

We'll play it. Joining us now, Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Tom Schaller, and journalist and opinion writer, Paul Waldman, their new book out tomorrow is entitled White Rural Rage, the Threat to American Democracy. And Tom, we'll start with you. Why are white rural voters a threat to democracy at this point? You would think, as we pointed out, looking at Joe Biden's background and Donald Trump's, that the opposite would be true. I mean, we lay out the fourfold interconnected threat that white rural voters pose to the country. First of all, and we show 30 polls and national studies to demonstrate this, so we provide the receipts in Chapter 6. They're the most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant and anti-gay geodemographic group in the country.

Second, they're the most conspiracist group. Q&ON support and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism, and scientific skepticism, Obama birtherism. Third, anti-democratic sentiments. They don't believe in an independent press, free speech. They're most likely to say the president should be able to act unilaterally without any checks from Congress or the courts or their bureaucracy. They're also the most strongly white nationalist and white Christian nationalists. And fourth, they are most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful public discourse.

So you mentioned a lot of negative factors about this demographic. Yeah, it's fucked up. It's great. Or the enemy. Oh, 100%. I guess we're the, we're the biggest threat to democracy, Dad. Yeah, we are. I mean, in their eyes, we are.

And that's kind of scary. Yeah. But. And it's funny, they're two white. Two white guys. They don't live in rural America, but they're. Two white guys wrote this book, and they're being interviewed by a white woman on MSB. And they think white rural Americans are the biggest threat.

Yep, 100%. Just virtue signaling is what they're doing. Yep. So some crazy numbers. the LA Times laid off 20% of their staff, including 120 reporters, and they closed down their Washington, their political office, which is pretty surprising in an election year. BuzzFeed closed down its news division completely,

and a few years ago, BuzzFeed was valued it. I can't remember how many million dollars. It was a pretty big deal. Sports Illustrated is gone all together, which I didn't, I don't know when that happened, but yeah, gone. No more Swimsuit edition or issue, whatever. That was pretty popular in junior high. You'd like to see when that Sports Illustrated Swinsuit Edition came out.

Some people were bagging on the New York Times, and I've seen these stories that have claimed that the New York Times is losing all kinds of money. And near as I can tell, they're not. They bought, I think they bought the Atlantic maybe. And that's losing money for them still. But they, I think they're making money, but their, their print edition of the New York Times used to be in the millions. And now they have roughly about 600,000 subscribers to the print edition. But they have, they claim to have 9.9 million digital subscribers.

And that number is really hard to nail down as to how many of those are real. but it's a number. But just for argument's sake, they were the, I mean, they're like the, they're like the Scouts Honor. They're the most reputable print media, old media source out there amongst people that still partake of print media or old media, whatever.

And 9.9 subscribers on a, annual basis. Joe Rogan has 14.99 subscribers, just million, million subscribers. Nine point nine million for New York Times, 14.9 million subscribers for Joe Rogan podcast annually. Just that's what is, that's what his subscription basis. So, so it really tells you the parody that's out there between new media. And honestly, Joe Rogan, you think he's going to, give that statistic. I mean, how, how... That's just strictly going off people, uh,

I think you can go, can you go to Apple and it tells you how many people subscribe to it? No, it just shows you how many reviews. Oh, actually, I think that might just be as YouTube. That just is reviews. That might just be as YouTube subscribers. Yeah, because you can't tell how many people listen. Yeah. Unless he tells you how many people listen. And his, his, his listens. So it's probably double that because if he's got 14.9 million subscribers on YouTube. He, and he's been just doing audio exclusive now for a while. It's coming back. I mean, he's

done video on Spotify, but I mean, you, you could be well over 50 to 100 million. I mean, he could be well, he's probably well over 100 million subscribers. Well, potentially... That's a third of the population in the United States, and if that was true, and you were a Democrat, you'd be scared to death.

Yeah. I think. Well, I think it's just back to truth and people just are craving real. At the end of the day, they just want to be out, there's no trust. There's no trust in the government.

There's no trust in legacy media. And any form of media that you consume, that you get the sense that you cannot trust what's coming out of the person's mouth, or whether it's a documentary, or whether it's a movie, movie with a narrative that's trying to push you to think a certain way,

when you smell that, people are not buying it anymore. They're not consuming it anymore. They're done with it. They're done with it. And so, you know, that's why being real and having a brand that's authentic and just being you and saying what you think matters because people are craving that more than ever before.

They want to be able to trust what you got to say and what you say you mean. and it's not being shut, it's not being told, we're not being told what to say. It's just what we think. It's not a narrative. We're not getting grease to say something.

It's just what we think. And the more people that embrace that, the more, I think whatever you're doing is going to be successful when it comes to media. Yeah. And that's why we try to pride ourselves on not knowing everything,

going and doing your own research, telling you our opinions and there are our fucking opinions. It's what we think. It's what we, when we see these stories or we watch the, the state of the union, state of the union, those are our thoughts. Those are our actual thoughts. Well, you know what? I think the thing that I get the most out of our podcast and the podcast that I listen to is, one, I get a little bit of feeling a community because I know that I'm not alone. Like when I hear somebody say what I'm thinking, I'm like, okay, well, at least, you know, if I'm crazy, that guy's the same crazy I am. Yeah, that's true. And the other thing is, what I like about it is I don't, there's a lot of stuff

that I listen to and I don't agree with it. But it sparks that thought of, okay, well, am I wrong? Yep. Exactly. Do I need. Do I need? Do you? Do you? do I need to adjust what I'm thinking? And I have changed my mind about a hell of a lot of stuff over the years that I've been walking around. And I probably will some more. But there's some things that I hold to pretty tight that I'm not going to change because it's intergenerational.

Like there's some truths in this world that have been proven over time that well this is just kind of the way it is and you know it's like it's like rain doesn't go up you know it's that kind of a deal but i would hate to be i would hate to be a person that for your for your point of view and for your political view to succeed it would mean that America had to fail. Like, how depressing, like I just think about how fucking depressing. You're fucking, you're soulless.

I mean, you don't, you're evil at that point. If you, I mean, you're evil. I don't know. At the end of the day, if there's people like that, you're evil. There are a hell of a lot of people out there, though, that consume this doom and gloom. and I just, man, like, I just, how can you be against people at least having the chance? Like, I know I'm not for rigging the system, but I want people to have the opportunity that if they're willing to bust their ass, they can be very successful.

And I don't know how you can be against that. But there's a lot of people that are. and anybody that does that, anybody that puts in the time, they want to be disc, they want to discount them, they want to penalize them, they want to vilify them,

and, ah, man, I just can't get behind that. I can't either. Yeah, it's, I love this country, and I think there's some people

in power that don't love this country, unfortunately. Fuck, I was watching a TikTok the other day of Toby Keith singing proud to be it. What is that? What's that song?

Fuck. Courtesy of the red, red, white, and blue. And it was just a montage of, it was back in the day when that first came out and everybody was singing that. Shit, it brought tears to my eyes. I was like, I fucking love America. Yep. That is a, that is a patriotic ass song. And it was just a montage of America and soldiers and all that shit. And it's just like, ah, yeah, I love this country. I want it to keep going. And we need less legacy media shoving their agenda down our throat. And, um, I like seeing it die. because they're doing the wrong thing, I think.

So anyway, not saying we do everything right here, but I feel like we're on the right track of actually talking to you guys, the real Americans. And we love every single one of you guys for tuning in and once a week sticking with us and listen to us or watching us because we love doing it. And we appreciate all the support, all the comments, all the feedback, all the emails,

all the reviews, all the people that go to Farmer, and buy a box of meat. Or send us care packages with whiskey and fucking bucky nuts. Bucky nuts. What are those called? Golden Nuggets or something. Bucky Nuggets. Yeah, Bucky Nuggets.

We don't always get it right, but trial and error will get us a long ways, and we just keep trying. That's our motto. Trial and error will get you a long ways. And I don't know what this year is going to bring for 2024, but all I know is we need an awakening. We need to do something different than what we're. we're doing right now. And so just keep that in the forefront of your mind when it comes election time because we got to change the freaking tide somehow. So keep going at it. Keep grinding. Keep your head up because we still do live in the greatest country to ever exist. And there's no

place I'd rather be. And you know what? I don't want to fight for any other country. You know what I mean? like there's some people that say oh leave america leave america i'm never going to leave america and the reason i'm never going to leave america is because you got to go you got to go down fighting for something and i wouldn't want to go i don't want to go down fighting for anything else but this country so uh we're going to keep saying what the fuck we feel like saying and what we think's right and if you agree god bless you and if you don't agree god bless you too and go find your own answers for yourself but that's all we got for hot topics today guys we appreciate you and we'll see you back here next next

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