Barn Talk - Assassination Attempts & the 2024 Election: The Political Battle is Heating Up

Episode Date: September 21, 2024

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So it's a carnivore Patreon for all you supporters of Barn Talk. And it tastes better than Patreon anyway. Are you smoking anything this week, weekend? Oh, I thought you meant like right now. No, I'm not high at all. Well, I don't know. It's supposed to rain. Oh. Maybe. Last weekend you said you were going to smoke a pork biscuit, but we never got around to it. Time got away from us. But if it's decent, we better do it because we're, if it doesn't rain, we're going to start harvesting Monday.

Yeah, we won't have time for much smoke and then, and it's going to get shitty. It's going to start getting shitty out. So we'll have to move the smoke. We've got to have one last smoker. Yeah. One last smoke. better do that we better do pork brisket or ribs or ribs or both or both can't go wrong you could actually you know what you could because they both take about the same amount of time you can do you can do it about the same amount of time so you might be able to we'll have to try that uh yeah how are you doing today i'm all right it's been a busy day it has been a busy day i haven't showered i haven't been able to take care of myself because i've been just running and gunning we've been running and gunning pretty much all day

Chores are done, though. Stuff's been fixed. Yeah, we fixed a lot of stuff. Got some stuff done pre-harvest. Just a side note, you probably are going to want your dog to have a bath before you put him in because Darling brought a fresh tank for the deadstock. And when I dropped off the trailer up there, he was just, he was licking that for all it was worth. So he doesn't smell very good. Yeah.

Cat will have to bathe him. You probably do because he went in my garage. She really loves having dogs inside. But when you have farm dogs that want to be farm dogs outside but then want to come inside and enjoy that too, that's where you get screwed. Yeah. That's where you get screwed. If we could ever redo something in our house or if we ever built a house, I always say. Because we're never going to not have dogs inside.

I've come to terms with that. we need a dog wash area a dog shower a dog bath that's got tile that's easy to just spray them off and it's not going to be a mess and you don't have to take them upstairs and bathe them just easy easy to clean right there you just need to or put it put it in the garage something when these dogs pass away you need to get yourself a pair of pugs because they they won't leave the house i don't like pugs you just you just take them out in the morning and then wherever they fall asleep they'll be there six hours later. And that's, then they're boring. Well, true. Not as fun. They are fun to feed and look at. Yeah. So otherwise, yeah, you better get that dog. I'll leave that to you. Oh, yeah. You can get some

pugs. I don't know about that. I don't know. Anyway, how about a market update? We'll take one. I don't know. I think today corn was down eight cents and I think the main reason for that is because yield information is starting to get out around the Midwest, and there are some monster yields out there. Probably more on that next week once more stuff gets going around here, but from what I've heard and just from what we've yield checked, I think it's going to be pretty good. Corn 406 locally, 366.

Oh, sorry, 406 on the board, that's the December contract. 366 locally 434 in Cedar Rapids at either ADM or Cargill and that is if you get it there by the 21st so you better leave now beans November contract 1013 Burlington 940 and 968 at Quincy I got a brand new we've gone paperless we've gone paperless here at Barn Talk we're we're saving all the trees so we're using our monitor now for outline so it looks like i'm really intent i don't have to look down i can focus on you the listener not that you care the viewer too well the viewer too don't leave out the viewer yeah because the listener

they don't care anyway yeah they can't see your eyes yeah i think i look better to listeners than viewers yeah i'd agree yeah anyway uh sorry i digress uh 940 in burlington 968 and quincy bean meal for october 319 a ton uh hogs 82 25 an almost respectable hog futures price, especially if you consider that corn and bee meal may continue to slide a little bit, so these hog guys may make a little money. Cattle, 180 feeder cattle, 245. Crude oil, 7205, Bitcoin, 63,000, Ethereum's 2,500. Tesla, $243 a share. Gold, $2614. That gold is, gold just keeps working up. I think there must be a lot of people in the precious metal markets that are, they think the end is near or something.

They don't like this economy. Silver, $28 bucks. And the Fed cut a half a point on the interest rate. Paying that deficit interest must be real bitch. Because I don't know what necessarily has changed that all of a sudden the Fed just is like, well, inflation's dead. We got her whipped. We're going to start dropping this interest rate.

I feel like they're getting a lot of pressure from somewhere because I haven't seen any prices come down on anything that I buy every day. I haven't either, and half percent ain't going to really move the needle much. I'm not going to go and refinance any of my loans. No, it's going to take some time for that to work through the system. We'll just have to see. And the other thing is you're really going to know whether or not like they can stick with this plan. if you come to the end of the year and they drop in another quarter percent, well, then maybe we're getting a little traction. I don't know. And I hope, I hope, I hope they know what

they're doing because I sure as hell don't need inflation. None of us do. If you happen to tag along to go to the grocery store, holy mother Mary, crazy. It is crazy. I'll tell you inflation. You want to know some inflation. I got something for you. Give it to me. So there was a guy that did a TikTok and he had his Walmart app open. See this? He had his order history from like two years ago and he reordered what he ordered two years ago and it was like $120

$120 from two years ago. He ordered it now. It's like 3X. It was like over $400. It was like $350 to $400 from what he had two years ago. And he was, he was like, we're not crazy. No.

We're not crazy. Everybody's, you know, government likes to tell you that it's the best economy. It's the best economy since in history. It's the best economy in history. No, no, it's not. Damn. It's crazy. That was like visual evidence of like, no, prices have gone up tremendously.

Well, yeah, my example I was going to give is I've got two Brent, 657 wagons. and I bought them, I don't know, three years apart. And I honestly can't tell you what I paid for like the middle one. But I think the first one I paid like $19,000 for. And do you know what they're selling new ones for? $40,000. So the price is doubled since I bought that first one. I don't exactly know when that was 2000s.

I mean, I don't know if it's a 20. It's a 657. so I think they started making them in like 2014 maybe. So I don't know if it's a 2014, 2015, something like that. So from 20, so 10 years, price is doubled. Crazy. Yep. Anyway.

Are you in the wagon business? Huh? Are you in the wagon business? I'm not in the wagon business. Are you looking to buy a wagon? Well, I should have bought one. There was two that sold at KDK's auction. And I, man, I sat and watched them, and they weren't 657s.

they were 644s and one of them was an older version and one of them was a late version. And I told myself, I'll go $10,000. And I quit. And I think they brought, I think one of them brought, I think one of them brought like $10,100 and one of them might have brought like $10,500. So there was, the older one actually, I don't think. get brought 10 grand, but I wasn't going to pay that much for that one. So you say, well, I should have kept bidding, but I bet you that somebody else probably had a number in their mind that

was higher than mine. I'm just surprised that more people weren't bidding on it, actually. I figured it would go faster to 10 than that, but it was, it stayed right to the end, but then I'm like, nope, I'm not going over that. Now I don't have a wagon. Discipline. Now I'm going to have, yeah, I was disciplined. You were. But now I'm going to have to like haul ass through the field. yield. Yeah, you must be feeling pretty, uh, pretty good about the potential yield out there. Well, I am. Because you were going to go buy another wagon. So that means you were going to be, there's going to be a lot of bushels. Well, I feel like there is going to be. Is that your mindset? That's my mindset. That's what you were kind of thinking. Yep. So now then I feel like I can't buy a

wagon, because if I do buy a wagon, then I've jinxed myself and the yield's not going to be that good. So it's a catch-22. I guess. So what are, what are, what are, what are, what are, Our first topic is harvest. Hey, thanks for sticking with us. If you haven't heard of BioCow yet, it's time you do. BioCow from Midwestern BioAG is a soil amendment that makes your applied nutrients more available to your crop. Pairing manure with BioCow is really a no-brainer.

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Cobbs going to be? It would be pretty good-sized cobs. Yeah, that's right. You need to check out the what the upcoming, this will do a farm video because we do a yield check and Sawyer is whipping the cops out all over the place. And it's, yeah, it's like a train wreck. You want to look away, but you can't. but anyway um i everybody that i've talked to that has been out where people are harvesting around here say the numbers are pretty good um most guys locally are running beans because like this many drought that we've had has really dried out i mean beans are dying fast and turning fast and uh so a lot of guys are worried about that if they don't get their beans now that they they're just going to be at, they're going to be at 8%, you know, from here until the end of harvest,

because we just can't get any rain. Now then there's a chance of rain this weekend, and our beans weren't super early planted, so they're not quite there yet, but pretty much the last two days, everybody around that is doing anything is running beans. So there hasn't been a lot of corn that's been gotten into yet. But I've also heard that there's a lot of aphalotoxin around there. I was talking to, actually I was talking to one of the guys from bioag that goes down south. And I guess corn on corn that didn't get sprayed with fungicide or got sprayed with fungicide too early. They're having problems with aflatoxin. So if you're, if that, if you're looking to sell that for feed, that's a problem because feed mills, they don't want to deal with that. With that crap.

What is that for people that don't know? It's a, it's a mold, basically. that gets started growing in the cob, and when you harvest it, it's in those kernels of corn, and it binds to the kernels, and it's toxic to livestock. Now, I think that, say you were feeding that to fat hogs or to pigs that you were finishing out, I don't think it's as, I don't think it's like toxic like it's going to kill them but it could make them sick the problem is especially in gestating sows and farrowing pigs you can like it'll make sows sick enough that i think they'll abort or um it'll get them sick enough that they're not milking uh i don't know about how it works with baby pigs but i know that from my experience of working in the production side of it you do

not want to deal with aphalotoxin in your feed mill and there's products that they can put in the feed do they have a detector that could detect that yeah they test it so they test it all and if it isn't so what do you do if it's bad it comes up they'll refuse it okay yep at most feed mills they'll actually refuse it now most like if it's going for ethanol um if it's going for ethanol or it's being for, you know, corn, like ADM or somebody like that, I don't think it's a big deal. I should get some clarification on that, but to my knowledge, it doesn't affect that end use. But if you're using it for feed, a lot of mills, they'll just refuse it, if it's over a certain level.

So that's something we'll have to watch as we get going. a lot of guys talking about basically phantom yield loss because these beans have dried so fast that you know if you're out there combining in their 8-9% beans you can shave three bushelie acre off pretty fast so i don't know but today the market was down because a lot of rumors of big yields are floating around southeast iowa so we'll just have to see like i said we're going to try to start monday we got a bend to clean out tomorrow and then we'll be off to the races and to your point my hope is to not spill the beans this year I'm going to try to make sure that I don't leave the door open on one of the wagons and I'm going to try to bat a thousand on my grain cart operating I'm not going to overfill any wagons I'm going to be

batting a thousand there you go you got to control that stick you just got to shut off you just got to shut it off time. That's the hard part. You got to give it time. You got to fill it all the way up. Get that wagon as full as you can get. But you just it's just all about timing. All about timing. Do you see Corey Hillibu's brand new

Brandt, uh, grain cart that he got? Nope. He's a suck up, you know, and gets a lot of free shit. He's got, it's sexy. It's nice. But the unload on it, it sticks up nine feet past the hitch of the tractor. So it's like, you know how, you have to kind of turn.

Uh-huh. This one, it's like right here. So you just kind of go like that. Turn your head. Yep, it's like right there. Oh, that's really nice. Yep. Yep, he always gets the best of everything.

I wonder if he'll let us borrow it. He should truck it down here to Southeast Iowa. I mean, he's over-equipped the way it is. Yeah. I doubt he'd even miss it. Coria will take it whenever you're ready. Yep. He should come down and have to deal with the poor people down here in Southeast Iowa.

He should. Yeah, I guess that's all I got. So, I don't know really where to start. I guess, do you want to start with the debate or the, the, do you want to start with the shit or the shit? It's all pretty shitty. Yeah. I guess I'll just say, as you all know, if first you don't succeed, try, try again.

And Trump had another assassination attempt here last week. He was playing golf. And so they found a guy set up in the, in the chain link fence he had an he had an AK-47 he had a 7.62 uh rifle and uh with a long scope on it but i don't he didn't get a shot off i don't think he got a shot off no they caught him they caught him before he was able to shoot anything but fucking psycho just a fucking if you saw any pictures of him he just looks like a nutcase well there's quite a bit of video out him out of him.

I guess he was a big pro-Ukraine war guy and pretty, yeah, kind of nutty. Oh, it's just, it's insane. It's insane. It's like we ever say this every time we have a hot topic. It's like a circus. It's like a circus. Like you just don't, you just, we knew that 2024

was going to be a crazy year because there was an election year, but man, there's already been so much. much shit that's just wild it's just wild yeah assassination attempt gets shot in the ear kamala gets put up joe gets shoved to the side don't vote for kamala they just pick the candidate for you and he's about to get shot again but doesn't it's just like how many times are they going to try well you got to ask you i mean there are people that have said that like i think Tucker Carlson said he doesn't think well I want to be careful how I say this but there's people out that basically think that they will do anything to keep that man from being president whether he's

duly elected or not because it is just so it has gotten so partisan and the machine is so anti-trump that they'll about go to any length to keep that from happening and it's Scary part is, too, if he does win, are they going to stop there either? I mean, like, are they going to stop then? Are they going to keep trying to pursue it? Oh, it's not going to stop. I mean, it's like, geez, going to have to put them in a glass, going to have to put them in a glass box when he gives a speech.

They'll have to get a Pope-mobile. They'll be like the Pope. I don't know. Bulletproof. It's sad that politics drives people to do some crazy shit like this. Yeah, I don't think, I don't think anyone on either side should have to, worry about getting shot and killed and assassinate. Like, I don't wish death on the other side by any means,

and I don't think anybody should. I don't think political violence is okay whatsoever, but evidently there's people out there that think that they can just take matters under their own hands and, yeah, try to do it. And it's just, it's sad. And it just, again, makes me want to vote for Trump even more because it just does seem like, man, they will do anything to not allow this guy to run. And I don't know, he could have been acting.

He could have, he's going to say he was acting as himself and alone, but again, who fucking knows? Well, and there's some question, there's some question out there as to whether or not the feds are going to prosecute him because Merrick Garland came out late last week. And I guess I, I don't know for sure, but something about there was some question whether or not they were going to actually charge him with an assassination attempt. But then the state of Florida said basically either you do or we will.

Because basically Florida wanted to take jurisdiction on it and prosecute him, well, it was a capital crime. And I don't know where all that's at. But yeah, it's a mess. And I guess just jumping off of that, you know, the debate for any of you that actually watched the debate. I did not watch it. I listened to it. I couldn't, I couldn't quite stand to sit in the room and watch it because I knew it was going to be cringy. So I just listened to my wife watched it, but I sat in the, in the kitchen and actually was watching a podcast, so I was kind of half,

half listening to it. And I think it's one of those things that you kind of knew what you, you were going to get because the moderators weren't moderate and they fact-checked everything that Trump said and quotation marks fact-checked nothing that she said. I mean, she, she didn't answer, she really didn't answer many questions. Every question they gave her, she might have said one sentence on it and then she just used it as a as a chance to just run you know basically personal campaign ads um and i i don't know i thought the highlight of the whole thing was when she was talking about um controlling the border and trump trump just said basically that she needs to get a maga hat because she she's just echoing everything that he said

But the Biden administration and her haven't done any of these things in the time that they've been in office. But now then she sounds like Trump. And I thought that was a good point. I thought my highlight was when he was saying he told her like, and I'll just say this. I don't think Trump, Trump just sometimes can't shut his mouth. And that honestly hurts him, I feel like, and it hurts people that are on the fence of who they're going to vote for. because when they see him acting like that, I think people get a little pissed off

and just like, dude, come on. Like be, be, I'm not saying mature, but just reframe yourself from just like the insults or just, you know, go on blabbering on and on or whatever. So I don't know if the debate really helped Trump or if it hurt him. But one highlight, and you know, you go on Twitter and all the lefties say,

Kamala just absolutely killed him, Trump sucked. And then all the right wing guys say, oh, Trump absolutely killed it. He destroyed her. I don't know. I don't think it did a whole lot of good for either side. I didn't feel like there was a clear winner that won the debate. Both Trump, I think, might have hurt himself more than Kamala did. But at the same time, Trump had some good zingers that did hit pretty well. So it's like, I don't know. but my highlight was when he said, let's go to the White House. Let's stop this debate right now. Let's go to the White House.

Let's wake up Sleepy Joe right now and let's shut down the border. Let's sign a bill and shut down the border right now. Yeah. Because she was talking about how we're going to shut the border down and do all this shit. He's like, you got the power. Right now. Let's go and do it. Let's go and do it right after this.

Let's get on a plane and let's go do it. And that's my whole point with Kamala. It's like we've said it on this. podcasts. They put her up, didn't give the people the chance to vote for her, and she's saying all the things she's going to do. And they paint this false reality that everything's okay, even though all everyday Americans are feeling the BS that they have put us through this last four years, or three and a half years, whatever. And they don't do a thing about it. Like, you're going to just let this woman tell you what she's going to do.

but doesn't do anything right now. Because we all know Joe ain't running the show. He hasn't been running the show. Right. She probably has more say than he does at this point. And she hasn't said, obviously, she hasn't said shit.

Nothing's gotten done. Nothing is, nothing has happened that's better for the American people since they've been in office. It's just not. So I thought that was a great, I thought that was a great, uh,

just like, in your face, kind of like, let's change it then. Fucking change it. You're, you're in there. right now fucking change it yeah no i i 100% that's what i was a great point that's what i'm thinking when

i'm sitting on my couch watching or that's what i'm thinking when i see her political campaigns fucking change it right now yeah you're in there do something but i think i think she is the i think that what you're getting with her is basically the same thing that you got from joe just with another deficiency so joe's deficiency was he's really old and doesn't have a real firm grip on what's going on. Her, I think she's really not very capable and not very bright when it comes to a lot of subjects. She might be one hell of a prosecutor.

I don't know. But when it comes to foreign policy, the border, economics, anything like that. I don't think she knows shit. And so, but that's why they're running her. They're running her because she's a woman,

she's bought, and paid for, and she's been a career politician for as long as she's been. And it's the easiest, it's the easiest move on the chessboard. Well, just put her up. Because nothing will change.

Nothing will change. So, It's not like there's going to be a reshuffling. The staff that is in the White House, the chief of staff, all of the people that are there, they literally will stay there. If she becomes the president, nothing will change because the same people that are actually making the calls, the people that are actually moving and creating the gender, and the policies and doing all of the things behind the scenes for Joe,

they're going to do the same thing for her because she, in a different way, is no more capable than he was. And that's why she's the candidate is because they can keep running the same play. Exactly right. They can keep running the same play. She's just riding the deal. And there will be change. It'll be changed for the worst, not the better.

Yeah. That's what it'll be. I mean, it's, it's, I don't know, guys. It's very scary to think that she could win. I mean, it really does. It really worries the shit out of me. And it keeps you up at night if you focus on it too much, I think. So I think we touched on this that basically, I don't think anybody that was un...

First of all, I don't know who out there in the country is undecided. like they always talk about all these undecided voters. Well, I don't know who in the hell is undecided. I mean, when you look at this shit show, you pretty much are going to react one way or the other. You either aren't voting, you're voting for one or the other. Yeah, I don't think there's anybody that's like, gosh, I just don't know who I'm going to vote.

I mean, who the hell? I don't know who that is. But a point was made that I watched Sean Ryan's interview with J.D. Vance, and I thought it was really good. Yeah, and I want to say, keep that thought. J.D. Vance has really came out and surprised me. He is very... Articulate, clear, actually, when he gets interviewed,

has some shit to back up what he's saying. He's not a dick to the interviewers. Right. But he's firm. He, yes, he's firm, he's confident, he brings facts, and he's very professional. And, like, I don't get. It, like, I feel like he, and he's young. I really like, I really liked what I've seen from JD Vance so far.

The only thing that people give him shit for is they say that he might be wearing mascara. I don't really give a fuck about that. Whatever. That's, and that might be bullshit anyway. It might be just the way his eyes are. I don't know. It's no different than. It's a political hit.

I mean. The Santas with his platform cowboy boo. And then people make fun of him for having an Indian wife and, you know, saying that that's his, like, That's like his shield against the race card. You know, people call him racist, whatever. And they call her a hypocrite. It's like, fuck you. Anyway, I just wanted to say I have been very pleased with what I've seen from J.D.

Vance of how he's handled himself in the media and just stand in his ground. And I don't feel like he looks like he's a, from what I've seen so far, he doesn't look like he's a career politician as far as like being bought and paid for and going with what. because my biggest fear with him is like are you going to be one of these war mongering career politicians that's bought by the military industrial complex but i've really seen that yet so i'm happy with what i've seen so far but go ahead sean ryan show yeah so he asked him i mean one of the dings that everybody wants to bring up is that trump's not going to get not going to

get uh votes votes from women and jd vans had a great he He said, well, he said, I don't know. He goes, I can't really, I mean, I can't really speak on that. He goes, all I can say is, he said in this country, roughly 70%, I mean, he had the exact number. He goes, but roughly 70% of the groceries in this country are purchased by wives. And he said, so to me, if you are a woman and you do the grocery shopping or you do the, you know, the Target run, the Walmart run, the whatever, he said, are you going to vote for Harris? Because you've seen your grocery bill go up all the time.

And you've seen the cost of filling up when you're taking the kids to school. You've seen the cost of school supplies. He said, so if I'm a woman, I don't know, looks to me like, probably not going to vote for what's going on. I thought that was a great answer. That is a good answer. And what I like about J.D. Vance and what I don't like about the debate, the debate is like what you said, and Trump does the same thing.

They ask a question. The fuckers don't even answer the question. I mean, they barely stay on the question, and then it's just whatever they want to say for three minutes. And it's like, what I like about J.D. is whether it's a question on a stage, whether it's a question with the media, The dude answers the question. Yep. He answers the question.

And I appreciate that. When you get asked the question, fucking answer it. Yeah. Don't go on a tangent about the three main subjects that you really want everybody to get slammed into their head that you're going to do and change. Like, that's what I feel like Trump does too much of. Yeah. He hits on the same three things, inflation, the border, what he did in the past. What do you know, build in the military.

Like, I know, dude. Just answer the question. I think people know you had a lot of success. You ran the country great. You've said, you've sound the alarm of what you're going to do and the things that you're really going to focus on. But when you get asked a question not about one of those things, answer the question, you know, that's my thing.

That interview with Vance is just right about an hour that Sean Ryan did. And it's pretty good. I really enjoyed it. And I have to say that currently right now, maybe I said this last week, but right now, my favorite podcast to listen to

is Sean Ryan's podcast. He is a good interviewer. He's a veteran. Quality of his podcast is fantastic. He's a patriot. He's just good at his mannerisms and how he asks questions. I mean, he really needs,

he just needs to come to Iowa. Like, I'd want him, I would love to have him sit down. Oh, it would be awesome to have him sit down. I mean, just a great guy. And he has great guests on. He does. He's on a rolling. That military, having that military background, and he was a seal, right?

He was a seal. Having that connection and that, that's a, that's a community that not a lot of people have access to. And what, what's his power is is those guys will sit down and talk war stories with him. because they trust him and that's so powerful. And he gets to get those kinds of people on that would say no to anybody else, which is cool. I highly recommend.

Before we move on, I will add one point that J.D. Vance actually brought up. They were talking about inflation and they were talking about the size of government because there's been talk that they have talked to Elon Musk about basing. about basically they want to bring they want to get Elon must to be involved in the government if Trump wins to basically do the same thing he did with Twitter which when he bought Twitter I see he cut 80% of the workforce and cut all the fucking shit and got the trim and so they basically want him to do the same thing with the government and they asked him about that and um and he he answered it very well and about what they talked about but he gave this statistic

and I had to go back and listen to it. So J.D. said that in 2019, the budget of the United States, actually not the budget, the amount of money the United States actually spent was $4.4 trillion. And in 2024, they estimate that by the end of this year, we will have spent right around $7 trillion. dollars so that's 2.6 trillion dollars difference between 2019 and 2024 and so uh ryan kind of pushed him on that as to you know what's the what's the breakdown on that and he said yeah so people will make the argument that well uh all the boomers are retiring so social security what we paid out in social security and medicare that's gone up a lot and he said and he said and

he accounted for that and he said that out of that 2.6 move between illegal immigrants fleecing the social security and the welfare system more retirees getting social security benefits and Medicare that comes to about uh 200 million dollars so out of that 2.6 that's 0.2 so that leaves you with $2.4 trillion. So that $2.4 trillion is just new spending. That's money. That's money that is going to... Foreign countries.

Foreign country. Yeah, and not only that, I want to say... Greece politicians. This reminds me of something else that came up. Do you know, and I hope you do know this, there has been two different bills that have been introduced in committee. They haven't made it to the...

floor because we are still sending money to the fucking Taliban. And shout out to Sean Ryan for that because he's the one that actually broke that story. And he's keeping it going. Yeah, he had that lady from the FBI on there. Yes. I think it was FBI. No, CIA. CIA was on there.

And she literally broke it all down. Spilled the beans on that. Yeah. We are giving money to the Taliban and giving money to the Taliban. and giving money to the Taliban's families that we took out. Like anyone that was affected, if you killed your dad, if we killed your son, we're handing them money. We're giving those family money.

And the Taliban is operating al-Qaeda. And here we are. Veterans in America that went through it aren't getting shit. Right. How fucked up is that? That's so fucked up. It's unreal. And Tulsi Gabbard, when she was in Congress,

She introduced a bill, and she got Rand Paul on board in the Senate, and it didn't go anywhere, and it was called the Stop Funding Terrorist Bill. And basically, that's what it was for. And it went nowhere. And then Sean Ryan had that, what do you call that, when people sign a petition. He had a petition that, I think to date it has over 200,000 names on it. If you go to his podcast, you can find a link, but basically trying to do the same thing. But it's like $2 billion a year that we're spending all over the world.

So as an example, like in northern Syria, we're giving money to al-Qaeda because al-Qaeda is working to overthrow the government of Syria. And it's one of those deals, well, the enemy of our enemy is our friend. And we want to get rid of the regime of Syria. so we're protecting. The United States is actually using military assets to protect al-Qaeda in northern Syria because they are going after Bashar Assad or whatever the hell his name is, the government of Syria. And that, I mean, it's such bullshit. Anyway, I'm really getting it.

But it's messed up. The amount of money that is being wasted, it's insane. And if we don't get a hold of it, I mean, those keep going. I don't know. Lobbian is what's the problem with politics. We've said that a million times. We talked to our barber that is in a pretty liberal city, you know, and he's pretty middle of the road,

and he used to lean probably more left. He even flat out admitted that. But he gives you a sense of fresh air when you go. We get our hair cut from him. We always shoot the shit with him and talk. And he's just a real-ass dude, and it's like he feels all the shit that we're feeling. you know like and he said it himself he's like until we get lobbying out of politics

there's it's not it's always it doesn't matter what side it is it's it's going to be you got people lobbying for farmer you got people lobbying for the military you got people lobbying for this and lobbying for that it is it is the it is the worst thing that's ever happened to American politics and that's that's the thing that if we could get rid of that it would bring some some unity, maybe some trust.

We'd actually start trusting politicians and bills and if you want to spend money for this and spend money for that. But it's really hard to trust when that's going on. And something that really did come out of here, come out of this debate that is a positive, at least, they're eating all the dogs.

They're eating the cats. They're eating all the dogs. That meme is fucking hilarious. That meme ruled TikTok. That meme went crazy. I mean, I don't know. Those videos are those dogs with that sound on there and they're looking, scared as shit. What the hell?

I'm not going to go on about the Springfield thing. I honestly don't know if they are eating the dogs. The Haitians are eating the dogs and the cats. Very well could be. Very well. Might not be. I don't know. But it is a damn good.

It is a damn good meme. And, uh, I mean, my thing is just like, if there are reports that people, like I just know from personal experience, if my fiance, if she found out that her dog got stolen and fucking ate, oh, she would be, everybody would be, everyone would fucking know. She'd be like, uh, and so that's my thing. If there's a rumor that that might be happening, there's probably a lot of crazy ass dog parents that are fucking pissed that sounded the alarm because she'd be going rambo she'd be going vigilante she would she'd be hunting down oh yeah hunting them down she loves her dogs so oh i don't know but i guess that i mean we could go on about the craziness of our government and politics but um i think i mean i think you all know and the other the point of you when we were in not

when we were up there talking to our barber. I mean, he, he cuts and talks to a super wide demographic of people. And the thing is, most people think the, I mean, we're all feeling that. We're all thinking the same thing. It's just, you don't hear about our voices because the media that's out there, that narrative, they'd like to have you think that you are, crazy, that you're weird, that, you know, she's polling so well. I really think at the end of the day, I think it's bullshit. But you know what? I think it's one of those things. The one thing I'll say

about this election, and I've said it before, is this election can't be close. I mean, it cannot be close. It isn't enough for you to go vote. You need to vote and you need to make sure that everyone that is in your circle votes to. Because it's... It's important. It's probably the most important election in our lifetime, I feel like. I would agree to that.

I would agree to that. I mean, it's... Shit is going to go more south. There's... It's just... It just is. I mean, it's scary to see where we are,

where we've come to. Like what we've come to. and I think COVID was really the start of it all. I mean, that was just like, I always go back to that. But I just, that was like the awakening for me that like this shit is not right. Yeah. Shit's not right. And it hasn't got, they have not reestablished trust with me.

And I think a lot of people ever since then, because they've given us no reason to trust. Well, I think it's the system. Got gotten worse. The system and the establishment, whoever they are, there's definitely an agenda and it's very blatantly obvious that whatever they want is being played and played out and don't kid yourself they have a long game they have a long-term game of what they want this country to turn into and they will chip away at it and they definitely do not want someone that isn't bought by them that hasn't played the political ladder game and doesn't have

shit on them to get in and disrupt their plan. I don't think Trump was ever going to was never supposed to, he was never supposed to win. No. He was never supposed to win. If you go back and you watch videos of all celebrities, mainstream media, talk show hosts, you know, actors, actresses, artists, anytime they were asked during the point when he was thinking about running or when he started to run, Donald Trump's not going to be president. Oh, that is just fuck. Tom Hanks, I will believe that Donald Trump's going to be president when elephants come flying down with red balloons down earth jumping out of airplanes.

Like, just shit like that that was like, it was never in the cards. It was never supposed to happen. And when it happened, they went in panic mode and they said, we're never going to allow this happen again. and I think they're trying everything they can. I mean, they tried putting him in prison. They tried framing him. They tried killing him.

Twice. You know, they try to drag his name through the mud every fucking day in the media while he was president. I mean, it is wild. It is wild. So I just, again, it makes me want to vote for him even more. When I know somebody, he's not perfect. I don't think he's the greatest. guy in the world probably.

Right. But when you got somebody in there that isn't bought by this establishment that just keeps pushing the envelope and making it worse for us as American people, I want that guy in there. I want that guy in there. And I don't think Trump's bought. And some people will say, well, you're wrong.

Well, prove me wrong, then. Well, you know, we know what we got. We know what we had. We know what we had. We know what we have now. and I don't want more of what we have now. So I would prefer what we had to what we have, so I'm voting for Trump. That's what it comes down to.

I mean, that's, yeah, that's pretty simple. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, fucking short supply. Yeah, it is. It is. One more, we want to hit one more item, and then we're going to, you know, all of this, the, the idea of a whiskey minute might turn into a whiskey 10 minutes. I don't know.

We might not eat, we might, we might, I might, I might sleep in. this chair. All this can draw can really make a man drink. But I'll tell you, I'm going to give you a public service announcement. If your phone rings, you might want to know what the area code is from anywhere in Israel. And if it's an Israeli area code, don't fucking answer it. Because I don't know if you all saw this this week or not, but I don't know if it was Monday or Tuesday. literally hundreds of pagers in Lebanon that were all held by people that were members of Hezbollah exploded and like in their pocket in their shirt pocket wherever they blew up and people didn't know and I don't know if they if they still have got this straight from what I from what I've heard

they think now that it was basically malware in the page that caused the battery, excuse me, caused the battery to overheat and explode. But when it first happened, people thought that somehow they had implanted explosives into these pagers. And it, I don't know how many people it killed, but it injured hundreds of people, pretty much all members of Hezbollah. Well, the next damn day, the next day. So this happens, and obviously they're like, all right, well, you know, don't use the pagers. And they already don't use cell phones because the Israelis have gotten so good at tapping their phones. Yeah, at tapping all these phones.

That's the reason they were using pagers to start with. So they're using two-way, two-way Motorola walkie-talkies. The next day, they got all of those to blow up. And there was even more people injured. And, I mean, I don't know what they're doing now, but if I was a fucking carrier pigeon, I'd be nervous. Yeah, because I don't know what's going to go on. And of course, the Israelis haven't taken responsibility. They haven't said anything about it.

It's like the North Stream Pipeline. They ain't going to say shit. No. U.S. didn't say nothing. They ain't going to say nothing. And, but I just, I'll tell you what, it, you got to give them credit. I don't know how they do the shit they do, but that country, that military, that, uh, that intelligent apparatus that they got.

It is fucking impressive. And, you know, this deal in southern Israel isn't going to end until they get all them out of there. And it's a shitty deal. But how many times, I don't know how many times the Israelis have tried to make nice. with first it was the PLO, then, you know, now you got Hezbollah and what are the, what's the other group? I can't remember what the other group is. It doesn't matter. But they've tried to make, you know, it, there is never going to be peace in the Middle East until these groups are taken out. because the part that no, and we talked about this on a podcast a little earlier,

the part that nobody talks about is like the Palestinians, none of the Arabs want the Palestinians either. Part of the reason it's such a bad humanitarian deal in southern Israel is because the Egyptians won't let them into the country. Because they did that once, and then the Palestinians, they tried to overthrow the Israeli government. The Egyptian government. Yeah, the Egyptian government.

And Egypt's like, no, we ain't playing this game. And the rest of the Middle East, they don't want them. But nobody talks about that. Everybody makes them the victim. Well, they've been playing dirty pool for generations over there. And anyway, this deal, though, this is kind of like some next-level shift that the Israelis are pulling. And I would not want to be pegged up going one-on-one with the Israelis, because I don't think you're going to.

And so yet somehow they can blow up pagers and they can blow up walkie-talkies without planting bombs. But somehow they can let Hamas fly over their fucking wall. I know. And not know that it's coming. Yeah. That's a weird, weird deal. It's almost like they almost wanted it to happen. And that's very possible. That's my only thing how this whole thing got started.

Everybody raves about their intelligence, their military power. You know, they got some shit. But they didn't know that these guys were going to fly over their wall with these riggedy-diggity, fucking backpack It looks like they had a fan on the back of their backpack Fly over this wall And start this war and kill civilians It's a weird

And they compare it to 9-11 This is the equivalent to the America's 9-11 Is what they were saying I mean It just seems like It's just fishy I don't know And it just makes you think

Did they want that to happen? Did they let that happen? They know that that was coming and they allowed it. So they had an opportunity to eradicate them. I don't know. I have no idea, but it's just wild to me. You can blow up people's pagers without even being there or putting a bomb on them, but you just let that happen.

You know what? When we get to this point, I've said this so many times and I'm going to tell all of you again, the best that you can do, the best that you can do, is do not take anything that regular media, any media, me, don't trust me. I'm an idiot. I mean, I have days, I have days of perfect clarity, don't get me wrong. But, you know, just because I sit here and tell you this shit, do your own research. As Americans are only hope, when you strip it all away, I say this, how common, sense is in short supply. Well, you know who's going to turn this son of a bitch around.

It's going to be all of us with common sense that aren't afraid to get your hands dirty, that aren't worried about their feelings getting hurt, that get up every day and just go do shit and make shit happen no matter what, you know, whoever tells you know. And think. And think. I mean, that's the thing. Like what I just did, what, what, a perfect example. people asking that question yeah they blow up people's fucking pagers for not being there but they let people fly over their wall and they were undetected yep no idea i mean they're just ask questions like how does that make make that make sense yeah make that shit makes sense yeah i mean that you got people got to stop just reading the headline they got to stop watching just mainstream media

because they are spoon-feeding the narrative that they want you to hear and see to you. And if you, that's why, that's why I always say we've talked about it on here before too is, I feel like podcasts, the Sean Ryan show, Tucker Carlson, what we're doing here, that's like the middle ground. That's like the, that's real ass people talking about real shit. Real shit. And, you know, there's some. experts that have inside access like fucking Sean Ryan having that woman from the CIA on

breaks the story about the Taliban. I mean, that's where you want to know where the real people are. You want to know where the real thinkers are. That's where it's at. Podcasts. Absolutely. Podcasts. And media that isn't bought, media that isn't bought and paid for that is spoon-feiting a narrative. I know that we're, you know, we probably lean a little more right than other people. But that doesn't mean that, you know, I have some left-leaning views as well. Like, I'm, I hate the two-party system.

I, we're going to tell it how it is. We don't claim to know all the shit. We don't claim to have all the answers. We don't claim to be the smartest fuckers in the room. But we're real-ass Americans looking at this shit going on and asking questions and being like, shit's fuck, Rick, and connecting the dots. And listening. I can be liberal.

Yeah. I can be liberal. Yeah. I feel like a lesbian sometimes. Yeah, well, me too. I am a lesbian. Yeah, absolutely. Fuck yeah, I am.

I love women. I love women. I love them. Won't buy a Subaru, but I love women. Yes. And, you know, I might be one 64th Cherokee. Haven't got any tax credits for it, but son of a bitch. Yeah.

I could be. Yeah. You very well could be. You speak for yourself. I'm right there middle of the ground. Middle of the road. all I'm saying is just

this is where it lies and I think the people that tune in to podcasts really have a good understanding of what you're talking about I think they're real thinkers critical thinkers have some common sense go and do seek out information

and they know that the mainstream media is fucking bought and they know a lot of things are bought even look at movies now look at entertainment now it's bought there's bought They're so few. It's so bot now.

I mean, they're all trying to push a narrative too subconsciously. Or, they might throw it in your face, but they're also doing it subconsciously too. I mean, it's all over the fucking place. It's all pretty blatant. I mean, it's terrible. It is. It is terrible. But anyway, vote for who you think's going to turn this shit around because what we're doing ain't working.

So vote, get everyone you know to vote. Do what you think's best. search your own answers, search for your own answers, do your own research. And just don't be a fucking sheep. Yep. Stop. We got to have people. You know what the answer is?

Get people to stop being fucking sheep. Yep. Amen to that. Being a fucking American. Go do some shit. Build some shit. Make some shit. Make your community better.

Make your household better. Don't fucking just listen to what everybody else does. Because that's how you end up in fucking Nazi Germany or fucking China. Mao's China. Yeah, you're right. I mean, you're 100% right. When you shut your brain off and just go with the flow and just say, oh, well, all right.

Taking my guns away, fuck it. I didn't need him anyway. Yep, that's when we're screwed. I can defend my house with a spoon if I have to. Yeah, I guess. It's enough to drive Amanda drinking. It is. So why don't you show him that bottle?

That is a sick-ass bottle. Yeah, this is nice, isn't it? I love it. So this is a bottle of Baker 7. I just got it the other day. And I've never had it before. It is, it is, eight years, six months old when it was, when it was bottled, 107 proof. And I don't know, we're going to pop it off and see what.

Oh, that was a good pop. Nice pop. It smells, it smells damn good. I can tell you that already. Yeah, I think I'm going to like this. I mean, there's... That one's yours. Yeah, I know.

I'll pour you a little one. Yeah, I'm not trying to get off my rocker. I'm not trying to get off my rocker this afternoon. I'll just give you a little. I still got to go to the gym. All right, all right. Well, I don't have to go to the gym. In fact, I'm probably...

Are we going to sip this? Are we going to just... You can sip. Well, I'm not drinking this. I will sip this. All right, we'll sip this. Smell that. Tell me what you think.

He has a very... He has a very... I wouldn't say it smells sweet. Oh, I think it does smell a little... I mean, I think four roses smells sweeter than that. So, for my money, like four roses, that is a... That's pretty sweet. That's a sweet.

Yeah. I mean, it's sweet, but it's not like that sweet, I guess. Smells good, though. It doesn't smell like shit. I'm going to try it. All right, try it. I'll take a sip after I see your reaction. Looks like it's okay.

Almost gave me a hiccup. I think I'm going to have one. Ooh. That's got a pretty good burn on the back side. Well, it kind of burns the whole time. Oh, I didn't think so. Right off the bat, I did. Well, it's burning now.

Yeah, it's pretty hard on the front, but gosh, it's got a really nice. It's smooth. I mean, it's, the flavor's good on it. You can't have, you can't say that burns like hell, but boy, is it. No, the flavor's good on it. Yeah, the flavor's really good. like, I like the flavor. Yeah. I like the flavor too. That's what I try to kind of mean is like the flavor

makes up for the burn. Yeah. Because when you have a shitty, when you have a shitty whiskey that tastes like shit and it burns, that's where it's like, fuck, this is trash. Bushnells. Yeah, Bushnells. So our, so our, our, like, our top end, for me, our top end is like that bottle of Hirsch that I had, that was, that's really good. That bottle's just about, oh, it's about half gone. This is bourbon. Yeah. This isn't whiskey.

Yeah. So that's my, that's my like, yeah, that's really good. And then the old bottle of Bushnells, that's like, that stuff, holy cow. That's like, you would set down on fire and throw that at people trying to take your weapons away. Yeah, you would use that as a Molotov. Yeah. There you go. That's the, that's the broad.

I would say Baker 7. It's right there. It's real good. Where would you rate it? For me, I would rate that. I guess it's subliminal advertising. I'd rate that like a 7, 7.5. I was going to go 6.5. 7.

All right. See, not bad. Yeah, not the greatest I've ever had, but not terrible either. No. Oh, it's definitely, it's definitely... I don't know if I would drink this on the rocks. Yeah. I mean, I could get away with it, but I would prefer some others on the rocks. I agree with you. I agree with you.

I would probably mix this in an old fashion. Oh, yeah, definitely. You know, that's something that is, it's kind of interesting because as we've accumulated all this whiskey, and I don't drink, I don't drink really on a regular basis. The second sip's a little better. Yeah. Did you have a second sip yet? No, but I will.

I'm trying to get an idea out here to the people. All right. Throw it out there. let them catch it um but as you kind of accumulate a whiskey collection i think you're always looking for something that is better than what you think like your favorite is because we all kind of have our favorites and you're always thinking like oh this might be something i like better but usually what you end up with is you end up with quite a few bottles that you actually would mix and some of those would piss people off because there's some of the stuff that I would just, I would just mix it,

that other people be like, oh my God, I can't believe you're going to mix that. You know, you can only drink that neat. That's really good or whatever. And I'm like, eh, it's all right. But to me, you know, this is better. And that's a beautiful thing about it. Yeah, it is, that is a beautiful thing about, you know, whiskey is that it's really in the eye of the beholder. and I think I could, I think I could take the second sip. It's a little better. I think once you have that initial sip,

it makes everything a little better. It tastes like something else, and I can't put my finger on what it is, but it's very similar to something else that I've had. Bullet. Not makers. Not, no, not something like bakers, like. Makers, I said.

Oh, yeah, obviously. that's that's bakers um uh i was thinking more like uh knob creek eliza craig maybe maybe some eliza craig whistle pig no i tell you what i haven't really had a good bottle of whistle pig there isn't anything i've had from them that i just think is great well we need to come out with our own little you aren't a kid and we miss the boat there like we should have we should be the official farm of whistle and we missed out on torque toilet paper paper towels and we missed out on torque toilet paper towels and dispensers. Penny a wipe.

God damn. That sucks that you don't own that. I'm everywhere. I'm everywhere. Every bathroom in America, Torque's name is in there. And we don't get a shit on that. And then there's some company that makes like timers

and like photo eyes. You know when your light, when your night light turns on, that little photo eye, there's a company that makes all that stuff that's, it literally is Torque. I'm like, God, I should get a royalty. Like, why aren't they sponsoring me?

I should be, I should have a tax. should we should really reach out to them i would that would be great we can make some funny ass commercials too we could yeah we deal with a lot of shit yeah we could like i could just we could do a video going around and wiping all the pigs asses with and that guess what we have torque toilet paper in the garage like we use it yeah oh yeah we i mean that's if you can't get any more on brand if you want to talk about a great partnership with a with a brand i mean shit that's as real as you get yeah it is a hundred percent so anyway but yeah i actually uh after having my third sip i'm going to change my score to a seven okay good not a six and a half i will i will go to a seven it has definitely gotten a little

better i think just that first first sip always gets me especially i haven't had it had whiskey in a while but i'm sipping that just fine now all right All right. Well, I better save it. Keep it from evaporating. Yep, that'd be good. Put the cork back on. Kick-ass bottle, though. I really like the bottle. That's really cool. Very nice. Really, really cool. So. All right. All right. Well, I think that's going to wrap it up. I was going to talk a little bit about sports, but I don't, I don't think, I don't know, hawkies suck. That's all there is to it. I tell you what, the cowboys. Or, well, yeah, cowboys, but the hawk eyes, I don't know. No, the cock-eyes and the Cowboys are practically the same team, just in different.

Cowboys, give you hope, kick you in the nuts in the playoffs, choke. Hawkeyes, they build themselves up, they win 10 games, everybody says that they're a contender. They're on the same level as Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, and then when they play one of those teams, teams in the Big Ten Championship, they get absolutely fucking destroyed. And that's how it is. I know. Shit is not going to, I don't know. I'm not, people get so pissed when you talk about Iowa football because people love ferrets.

Some people hate ferrets. Some people say you need to go. I don't know. Something's got to fucking change. That's all I know. I don't know if he's the answer or not the answer, but something has got. to give on that deal. Nebraska's coming.

They got Patrick Mahones Jr. And if we're, if the, the playoff is extended to 12 teams, I don't give a fuck about going to a good bowl game at this point. Let's compete to go play for the national championship. We, if,

we should be trying to get into those 12 team playoff bid every year. Well, here's the thing. We had this conversation. So everybody talks about how Iowa, it's defense, it's offensive linemen, it's tied ends, it's whatever, we get all the, but we cannot get a quarterback. We can't get a quarterback. And Iowa State somehow, they get Brock, they get a quarterback Brock Purdy. I know, and he wasn't like, he wasn't stellar. He wasn't stellar, but he was steady. He was above, he was definitely above average.

He was a good, he was a pretty damn good college quarterback. He, if we had Brock Purdy in the system we have now with a good offense and the defense, the special teams we have, we could go. Because here's the thing. I have no doubt that the culture at the University of Iowa is excellent because you talk to any former player that played there. They love Kurt Ferrence. They love the strength coaches.

They love all the coaches. They love the system. He's a player's coach. Great culture. They do a great job of preparing young men to go to the NFL. You talk to any player in the NFL that came from the University of Iowa. they tell you the same story that the University of Iowa, Kurt Ferrence, set them up so that when they walked in the first day of camp, they were prepared. They were ready to go.

We just can't win. We just can't win the big, we can't win the big games. We can't win the big games. And that's literally cowboys. I mean, that's why I say they're the, they're identical. I'm rooting for two identical teams. They do the same shit to me. They build my hopes up, and then they fucking stab my heart.

when it matters. I'm just numb at this point. I think I better slide that bottle over closer to me because you just might go down a real bad path and I might find you here next tomorrow morning. Oh, geez. I don't care about football as much as I used to. My fantasy team, though, isn't as good this year. I won last year.

It's looking leery this year. I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to get, I don't know if I'm going to repeat. It's hard to repeat. But anyway, that's our, that was, I just felt like we were. sipping this whiskey so we better talk about something so I figured that was a little good extra filler. But anyway, we love you guys. We love you guys. Uh, go vote. Don't be a sheep. Share the show with those that you know. Leave review on Spotify or Apple. And if you want some baby back ribs at a discount,

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