Barn Talk - Barn Talk Christmas Special

Episode Date: December 22, 2022

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All of the food we eat and much of the clothing we wear comes from plants and animals that are raised on farms. Farms are different in type, in size, and even in name. Welcome to Barn Talk. What happens at the barn? Stays in the barn, except for today. We're going to let it out for you. Welcome to the Christmas edition. It's a blustery day in southeast Iowa, and I would say the heat is just keeping up. we're here because a year ago we weren't here. So we're just going to talk pretty casual today.

We're not going to do a Q&A. We don't have any hot topics. I'm not going to talk about all the things that are pissing me off in the world. I'm going to talk about what we're thankful for. It's going to be Christmas. It's going to be Christmas. Snowflakes are falling from the roof of the barn. No, I'm just kidding. But candy canes and elves are running around making toys.

And we're thinking about Santa Claus. so it's going to be sunshine and rainbows up here today. Nothing to be negative about. No, no negativity. And what he means by we weren't up here last year is we shot one of these episodes similar to this time last year, but it was in the garage because if you're a long-time listener and supporter, you know we couldn't withstand the cold up here last winter. That's why we got these heating units.

So we're staying in the barn and not leaving ever again. And so now we've got to do this kind of episode up here. for this year. So it's been a, it's been a blustery day. Winters officially here, unfortunately. I, we get in some snow, and the only time I like to get snow is actually on Christmas, but we're getting closer to it, so I guess I'll take it. But after Christmas, I wish it'd just stop. I don't want any more, but January tends to be pretty brutal. But to start some things off, we're going to have some fun questions that, I don't know, you guys might care or might not care, but what's what's the number one thing you want for Christmas this year what's on your

Christmas list that you're just like shit I really would like that well I feel like if you are if you are a if you're somewhat of my age or older you have family you have kids Christmas gets to be a lot more about everybody else getting along and everybody else enjoying themselves so really my the best gift that I could have this year is that when we all get together, everybody has a good time. And we're actually going to a cookie. We're going to a cookie bake. I guess it's not a cookie bake. I guess it's not a cookie bake. We started about, I don't know, a long time. How many? 20 years. 20 years. So a couple that we're friends with, their kids and our kids grew up together. And about 20 years we started doing, 20 years ago, we started doing a cookie, sugar cooking. cookie decorating night. That wasn't my idea. I don't have a lot of artistic ability, but

we've been doing it ever since, and it's something we always look forward to and everybody gets together. And that's kind of what, you know, holidays are about. And I'd say I enjoy it a lot more than, well, I've always enjoyed it, but I enjoy it a lot more. And it's just times like those that we can get together. Look at you being politically correct. I know. That was a real good politician answer. It was like you're buttering us up.

Well, I'd like a cyber truck. Did you get me that? I couldn't get a hold of Elon, unfortunately. He won't come on the podcast yet, but maybe one day. No, I don't. Men, you know, all the men out there, you kind of understand this in the fact that

I think men are kind of of the deal that if they want something, Usually they just go and get it for themselves and they don't, like they don't he-ha around somebody to ask them to get it for them. I don't know. I'm sure that I will have gifts that I didn't even think of. So a perfect example is last year, you guys got me that frame for my dad's flag. My dad was, you know, in the Air Force and the flag that they presented my mom when he passed away. My son's got a box. to put that flag in and that's pretty awesome. And just tell, yeah, that was awesome, but just tell the people what you want for Christmas. One thing. One thing that I want for Christmas.

Oh, yeah, well, here, I'll give you perfect. This is one thing I want for Christmas. I don't have any idea if I'll get it. But, and this is a totally not, a total want, not need. I want one of those deals that makes the perfect round cubes of ice that you put in a glass, a whiskey or a drink that you make, you know, that are clear. Yep.

That's what I want. I don't know whether anybody will get it for me. And it doesn't make any sense. It's frivolous, but I think they're pretty cool. That's what Christmas is about, though. Yeah, I think they're pretty cool. That's what I want. All right.

That's a good gift. How about you there? There you go. I would love, well, I would love a drone. We have, you know, we're farmers. We do a lot of content for our farm channel. This will do farm if you're not aware. And when it comes to fieldwork, we have gone without a drone.

Sometimes my brother Clay comes out and he has a drone and he shoots a little bit. But I'd like my own. So every time that we do fieldwork, I can just fly that drone around and get some awesome shots because people seem to really like the drone footage when we put it in when we have it. So that's something I'd want. And then a need, I lost my lens cap to my camera that we shoot and vlog with. So that's a need. And that's like $2, I think, or $5.

So that's a need that I need because I don't want to mess up that lens because camera equipment is not cheap. So the lens cap is about the cheapest thing you can get. Did you tell your mother or your brother this? I put it on a list. Good. And I think I sent it to him. I hope you're not counting on it. If not, Cat can relay some information, I think.

It's getting kind of late for that. I just had a cold chill because I was like, oh shit, I hope he's not counting on me to get that. Oh, I'm never, I'm never counting on you for that. Yeah. You know, there's people working behind the scenes here that they really do the heavy lifting, and it's not me. Best Christmas memory you can think of. A couple.

So in our house, there is a picture that I got blown up, actually, and I am probably like, I'm probably like four or five years old, and I am sitting on my mother's lap in a bobsled, and my dad is driving it. So I grew up, my dad, you know, long story, my dad was a lot older when I was born, but he grew up in the generation that they farmed with horses. And anyway, we had a couple teams of mules, and there's a picture of the mules hooked up in the snow right outside of our house and I'm riding in the bobsled and I remember that because my mom didn't particularly like the cold and I remember I thought it was pretty neat

and I thought it was kind of odd that my mom was out all bundled up in the cold like that. So that's a memory from long, long ago, but the best Christmas present that I ever got was the year that I got my first Honda ATC 110 3-wheeler death tricycle so I'm not even sure

I think I was I think I would have been like 12, 11 maybe when that when I got that total surprise had no idea and to this day I don't know how in the hell I don't know if my dad got it

and my mom didn't know about it it because I can't imagine my mother would have gone along with that because she she was scared to death as well she should have been from then on but I got that for Christmas and that was that was the beginning of an amazing that was the beginning of an amazing journey in my life because I think I went from a 110 to a 185 to a 250 R and all my friends They had their own set, and it was a lot of good times. How about you? I can't pinpoint.

I got a bad memory for some reason. I can't really pinpoint a best Christmas memory. I feel like all our Christmases are, and everybody's going to fucking roll their eyes at me. But every Christmas that we've had, it's always good. It's always good. I mean, the presents change, but it's always a good time. we always get up, we open presents, and then we have brunch, and we all eat together,

and we pick up everything, and then we kind of go on about our day. And depending on what we got each other, we either do stuff together or do stuff separate or we watch a movie at the end of a night or something. And let's face it, that's my kind of Christmas, you know? Your favorite part of any holiday is eating. Yeah. The brunch is always good. By the time we get done open presents, I'm like, all right, where's the food at?

So I don't know. I would say we were kind of gamers when we were a little. So when both my brother and I would get a new game or an Xbox, you know, that was always exciting because we always would just game and play with each other the whole day. And I guess the best gift I've ever received, there's some, you know, there's, I could, I got a Blackstone last year. I used the shit out of that thing. Got a shotgun one year.

That was great. Got wheels and tires on my trucks. That was awesome. Um, so there's a lot of gifts that I'm, I'm, I'm a grateful, I'm a grateful kid. I, you know, mother's a good gift giver. She is. She totally is. So, and I'm pretty hard to shop for too. I like to, I think the key to Christmas to kind of keeping that spirit alive when you're in that middle when you don't, because I feel like when you're a kid, you have, you have the Christmas spirit because, you know,

you obviously everything. And then when you get to being a teenager, you kind of lose the, you know, it's Christmas. enjoy Christmas, but it's not as much as when you were a kid. And then when your parent kind of gets revamped when you have little kids again, and you feel the Christmas spirit. And I'm in that middle stage. So I feel like the best way to enjoy Christmas is being surprised. And so I just, if I got a list, I just throw shit on there. And I'm like, I don't care what you guys, just get me something. And I want to be surprised that I just, I just, I don't know. I don't even know what the fuck I'm getting.

Because where's the fun? I know kids that they put exactly what, they know exactly what they're going to get on that list. It's like, just overdo it, just throw everything you could possibly think of on there and just get surprised. That's what I like. Because I like to just open that and be like,

I have no idea what this is. That brings the Christmas spirit in, I think. Might be all of garden gifts certificates. Yep, but hey, guess what? Didn't expect it coming. You know, I'd make a trip up there. Yes, you probably would. Um, that's kind of the fun little questions that, you know, we had because it's Christmas and we're bringing the Christmas spirit. Uh, let us know what, what your favorite, uh, Christmas gift you ever got or gave to somebody or Christmas memory or anything like that on YouTube comments or if you're on Spotify, throw it in, uh, where you can let us know what you thought of the episode. Throw in your favorite Christmas memory. Throw in your favorite, uh, Christmas gift you ever received or gave somebody. Anybody remember riding the, uh, the box, if you

if you didn't have a real Christmas tree. And I remember, I think we only had a real Christmas tree one or two years. Now, my brothers, we could have had real ones before that, but I only remember having one or two. And I hated it because all of the, all the needles got stuck in my footy pajamas. And I didn't like that. But I do remember when we had a fake tree, I liked taking the box and riding the box down the stairs till the box was destroyed and then my dad wasn't very happy about that but I enjoyed that.

I don't know how and I don't know why you ever let us play this but my brother Clay was really good when it came to being kids and coming up with crazy shit to do and crazy games and he had a really great imagination and I was just along for the ride but we'd play this game called

Avalanche and we would get all the pillows in blankets all across across the whole entire house, put them on the top of the landing that goes down the stairs. Top step. It wasn't the top step. We put it on the landing at the top of the stairs. And we'd stack it up like a wall. And then we would just run full fucking speed and smoke all the pillows and blankets. And we would just roll down the stairs. Yeah, I remember that. You really do not get how, uh,

I guess you could say flexible and durable you are when you're a kid. Yeah. But I cannot imagine doing that today because we would do that over and over and over and over again. You want to try that this year and whoever makes it out without a broken bone in the winter? I would do it if I had enough whiskey and coats. Maybe then I would do it. Well, then you'll probably be pliable enough that you'd win. Yeah, true.

I just get through the pain. Yep. We'll just see how many people can run the gauntlet. I don't know. I think that'll probably get voted down. It's kind of, I don't know, I'm kind of intrigued. That is a, I just can't believe mom let us play that, to be completely honest, because that's just a recipe for disaster, in my opinion.

Yeah, her innate need of safety, she must have been, she must have been just like, should we play her over the edge? Yeah. And it was around Christmas when we play it. So, yeah, anyway. But I guess we're going to get into the nitty-gritty of kind of what we wanted this episode to be about. you know, like we said earlier, we shot a similar episode to this in the garage last year, and we talked about kind of our goals and what we thought, how you could make 2022 the best year yet for you.

And some of you may be listening to that. Some of you didn't. But at the end of the day, we got a lot that we should be thankful for and grateful for. There's a lot of blessings in the world that we live in today. There's a lot of shit that we don't have to. endure that a lot of people before us did a lot of our ancestors did we got we got a roof over our head most of us do if you're listening to this you got an iphone you know you probably got some air pods you probably can reach anybody in the tire world that you possibly want you got heat in your house probably probably got water probably can eat every day three times a day you're alive you're alive you know so there's a ton that we we take for granted every day that we need you got to you got to think about those things and be thankful for them.

Because I know sometimes, you know, in the age that we live in, it seems like everything's going wrong all the time. But this is a time of year to kind of reflect on, yeah, your year, but also the holidays are coming around the corner. You got your family, you got your friends, and you kind of sit back and you enjoy, and you think about the things that you're grateful for. And I think every single one of us out there,

no matter how bad it is for you, there's some stuff that we all take for granted that you could that you could choose to be grateful for. And so. Yeah. And I think the other thing that it's a good time to reflect about is that there are a heck of a lot of people that you don't agree with. And our country probably is more divided. I think the world might be more divided than it's ever been. But I think you all have to be, me included.

be able to back up a minute and realize that none of us have any idea what someone who we may not agree with or may say something snarky to us or whatever the scenario is, you don't know what is going through, what they're living through. And it's real easy to, it's real easy to assume that people, you know, they're just the worst when, in fact, you don't know what their situation is. And so we should all do a better job of giving grace.

Yes, absolutely. And that's hard to do, me included, and I get, you know, we spend a lot of episodes on here talked about what what pisses us off and what makes us mad and what we think is wrong and what needs to be fixed but uh there's an awful lot that's going right uh you are if you woke up and you're living in this country if you're living in the united states of america you are blessed beyond measure just on that one if you're living today and you're living in this country you are among some of the most blessed people in the world because this is this is

kind of it. This is, this is as good as there is about anywhere. So, um, be thankful for that. Yeah, it's, it's kind of what you wrote here. Staying thankful in a selfish world. Look at that. Yeah. God dang. Look at you. Thinking ahead. But that's true. Staying thankful in a selfish world and, because it is kind of gotten to be a selfish world. I think people really don't sit back and reflect on the things that they have in this life that other people don't. And it just takes perspective, but I think like everybody kind of does it probably more towards the holidays. When holidays start coming around, you start to reflect a little bit more on that. But that's something that we really wanted to hone in on.

It's just, yeah, be thankful because you could always have it worse. I saw a video, and there's probably some Michigan fans, Michigan football fans that watch or listen. And I don't know what the young man's name was, but he was an 18-year-old kid that got bone cancer. And so he was a phenomenal athlete in high school, got a lot. lot of D1 offers and he started getting bone cancer and he died at 18 years old and there was a video of him it was really sad you know he's he said that you know he wasn't ready to die you know I'm 18 he had a young he had a young kid and I just watched that video and it's just like

there's so much you you take for granted so much every single one of us takes granted for granted so much in this life that kid would had the whole his whole life ahead of him he was going to D1, he was going to be a phenomenal athlete, and he got bone cancer and died at 18 with so much potential. It's like, you got to take every day like it's your last, because you truly do not know when your time is coming, and it's coming. We all know it, but you got to be, you got to try to be grateful and look at the positive of your life, because I know it's hard sometimes. We all struggle with it, but it's true. Yeah. So that. is a great segue, I guess, into the fact that here we are, we're sitting here, and it's the end of

2022. We got a week left, 10 days left, whatever. And, you know, you and I sat in your garage, and we talked about what we wanted to get done in 2022. And now we're, you, fast forward and it is amazing when you think about it seems like time just goes so quick and here we are so what is the just name one thing that you are you are most pleased that you got done or a lesson you learned in 22 or something that you accomplished that you look back and you feel like yeah i've i've got i got this done or i got that done i think there's a lot that we got done that I'm happy with and proud of and, you know, can look back and just be happy with. But I'm going to just throw out a lesson. We've said it on here before on this podcast,

but the biggest lesson I learned this year is do not be afraid to ask. If there is something or someone that you think can help you in your career, in your health, whatever you're striving for, and you think somebody out there can help you, do not be afraid to reach out to that person or company or whatever for guidance or help or for an opportunity. Because there was many times this year that I would get anxiety picking up that phone because I was thinking about what they were going to say to me

and how they were going to tell me no and how they were going to tell me to fuck off and never call them or whatever, don't ever call me again. But the opposite happened. I dialed that number and you just got to dial it because once you dial it, you can't go back, put it to your ear and you just, you ask what you want to ask or look for the person you want to look for to help you with whatever you're trying to achieve or trying to strive for. And most of the time, most people are good and they're there to help and they're there to

help you out and give you an opportunity. If you just ask and kind of take the job. jump and believe in yourself a little bit, you know, because I think every single person, it's tough to go ask a random person that has something that you kind of need or has some guidance or some advice that you need. It's hard to ask somebody like that. If you don't know them, it's hard. Yeah. But that's kind of how you grow. And I've done that. I don't know how many times I did that this year. We did that probably. I could say we probably did it five to ten times, maybe 20 times I did that.

And yeah, some of them are noes, but it's never like a... Very few, though. Very few are knows, and it's never like as bad as you think it's going to be. Yeah. It wasn't like a fuck no. It was like, just no, you know. And so, just ask. If you think there's somebody out there that can help you better your career,

better whatever you're trying to strive for, just ask. Because most of the time, they're going to help you out. Or they're going to give you that opportunity. So, yeah, and I think with that, it is just another example of no matter where you are to get to move forward there is a certain amount of things that you can do for yourself to move forward however if you are not willing to step out and risk anything if you're not willing to risk anything you're not going to get the reward that you're looking for because you can't do it without people and you can't do it like it's the Mel Robbins

that's one of the best that's one of the best lines that I've heard in a long time is nobody's coming wherever you are in your life nobody's coming nobody's going to make you make that call nobody's going to get you out of bed to ask yeah nobody's going to get you out of bed although it sure would be nice if I could just get somebody to come get me out of bed, but it doesn't work that way. Yeah. You know, I think when we think about everything that we've gotten done this year, got to risk it to get the biscuit. You do 100%. You do 100%. So I'm really, I'm really thrilled that we're sitting here. We got the, we got a roof on this barn, which when we sat and thought about it, We thought that was going to be a pretty major undertaking and a lot of,

we weren't quite sure how we were going to get that done, but it worked out. We got it done and we're sitting here. Got this mofo heated. Yep, we got heat in here. Thanks to all you. I mean, when you talk about you need people, we need all of you because we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the fact that this thing has grown.

we have an audience that is amazing and the support that we've gotten and the the I mean yeah I was just going to say the reviews I mean for the amount of people that listen to how many reviews we have I think that ratio is better than most podcasts oh definitely we got a ton of people that leave reviews we have so many of you guys share the show it's just a really awesome thing to see we we absolutely Absolutely love it. We're not, you know, we're not the biggest podcast out there audience-wise. I think we can strive to get there someday. But with the people that we do have, I think you guys, tune in, most of you tune in just about every single episode. And yeah, yeah, like Dad was saying,

none of this could be possible without you guys. We could have never put a new roof on this barn without you guys. We could have never bought these heating units without you guys, you know? So it's, it's a credit to you guys for supporting the show and continuing to pay that fee. which I forgot to freaking say in the beginning. We'll say it at the end. Yeah. But yeah. You guys, it's all because of you guys.

So we do really appreciate it. I, uh, some of you may have noticed this, some of you hasn't. One of the best thing that's happened to me this year is that I'm about, I'm probably about 30 pounds lighter than what I was a year ago. And that is from a combination of things. Sawyer works me like a mule. Don't, I mean, it's. it's borderline child labor it's you know i'm it's not easy come on ass get in there and work them pigs

yep that's how it goes uh but then also i i there was a time in there where uh i probably was eating pasta four nights a week and i could go back to eating pasta four nights a week real easy but i mean let's be honest we're borderline italian yeah we should be i mean good lord we eat a lot of We like the Italian restaurants. Yeah, we do. We like the Italian cuisine. Yeah, we do. But I decided that I better get, I better,

better start taking a little better care of myself. So I'm a lot more careful about what I eat. Yeah, I don't want to lose my fucking co-host. Okay? I don't want to lose my co-host too early. So, yeah. You better, yeah, you keep doing it. I am.

I'm in a lot better shape than I was a year ago, and I'm thankful for that. I feel good. I'm thankful that I can get up and do what I do every day. And, you know, it's funny because there's only one torque. There is only one torque. If I was a twin, well, we'd be felons. Let's just face it.

We'd be what? My twin and I would be felons. Yeah. And you'd have to visit your dad at prison probably. So it's probably best that that didn't happen. But I'll tell you something. This is a little off the subject, but, you know, I'm thankful for all the people. that comment on our stuff and all the advice we get and some of it good some of it not so good but

um very recently there was a clip where i was talking about kind of the story of me building my first uh contract finisher and somebody made the comment that um now you're just a you're just a you're just a glorified hired man yep that was what it was and i thought about that and i don't i don't share that point of but I'll tell you something. Every day I have to get up and I have to chore pigs. And when you get to be 50 years old, I wouldn't have to do that. I could have Sawyer do it,

or I could probably hire somebody to chore for me. I am thankful that I can get up and do that. And honestly, that work and that different types of work because you never know what you're going to have to do. You know, I'm just thankful that I can do it. and I enjoy doing it. And you've got to have something driving you, and you've got to have something that you have to do every day that gets you going. And, you know, let's face it, if I didn't have, you know, I could get up at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

I could get out of my pajama pants at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and shoot a podcast. But the work has to get done. And I'm thankful that I've got the work. work to do. And to those, to those that think, you know, you're a glorified hire man, well, I don't know, it's pretty good work if you can get it. And I'm damn happy that we are, that we're doing what we're doing. And I'm thankful that I've got this guy to do it with me. And if this is, you know what? If this is hired man, I, I'm happy working for this company. I just, you know what I do with them, them hater comments? These shoulders right here just get a little bit bigger because the chip on my shoulder just gets a little bit bigger so you just keep leaving those

hate comments because it just it just drives me and puts more shit in my fire you know so that's what i say uh well i'm grateful for you too just say that to you because you said it to me and you know you felt guilty i felt that's why i said no yeah you you want to make me feel guilty but we probably don't say it enough but seriously we i am grateful for you and i'm grateful for we've built something together but i'm grateful for all you too but uh i guess the last thing that I wanted to say and was kind of the main thing I was thinking about when we were coming on to shoot this episode. And, you know, like I said, we talked about all the goals we want to achieve last year and now we're here. Same, same kind of time. And you were either one of those

people that wrote your goals out, got up every day, did the super unsexy, boring work, that needed to be done because you knew it was going to propel you forward and achieve your goals. And now you're sitting here and you feel good about yourself. You feel proud. You feel fulfilled. You feel like you feel better. You just feel better. You probably feel happier.

You're in a better situation than you were a year ago. Or you are somebody that went to the gym the first two weeks. You know, that's the cliche thing for New Year's Resolution. Everybody wants to get in shape and they go two weeks. and then they stop. And your life probably didn't get much better. It could have got worse. And you decided not to do the unsexy, super boring discipline work.

And where are you now? Where are you now? Because I know you're reflecting. I know you're sitting back and you're reflecting and you're thinking, man, I kind of wasted this year. And I didn't get everything I wanted to get done, done. and I'll just say time is flying time flies as you get older it just cooks it goes by years like nothing and you got one freaking life and the days that you don't want to do shit the days the stuff

that's super boring that's mundane that nobody wants to do and it isn't sexy is the stuff that brings you long-term lasting success. That is the shit that nobody wants to tell you that truly is what separates people from other people. It's the shit that nobody wants to do that's not sexy, that is boring that you have to do every day because you know it's the best thing for you. And that's the secret. That is the secret to success in no matter what you're doing. if you want to get in better shape the secret is you have to eat better and you have to find a way to get to the gym

even if you have a 9 to 5 job you're going to have to probably get up at 4 in the morning or just work out you don't have to go to the gym but you got to be dedicated to not you know you know you have to get up move your body and you're going to have to eat right and some days it is going to that broccoli and chicken or whatever the shit it is

is going to seem really boring and not super sexy to eat but you're going to have to eat it if you want to get you to go further and meet your goals for the year or if it's in your career or if it's in whatever it is you are doing that is the secret and so i would just encourage you every single one of you guys to really think about are you happy with your 22 and if you are not happy with it lay a plan set a plan because you need to think about what you're going to achieve in 2023 before

you can achieve it, and then change the way you act, change the way that you take action and do it differently than you did this year. Because what is, what's Einstein's quote? If you do the same thing over and over and over and expect a different result, you're, that's the definition. That's the definition of insanity. Yeah. And that's the, like I think as human beings, we, we, we hear that and we go, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you don't apply that to your own life. Well, that is, that is honestly the truth. If you are not where you want to be, it's probably because you're not doing the things that you say you want to do to yourself, but you end up not doing them. Let's all face it. The hardest work that there is to do

is the work you do on yourself. The work you do on yourself and the work you do on the relationships with the people closest to you because it is much easier for all of us to sit on the couch next to the person that we spend our lives with or the people and scroll our phone, watch TV, read a book, anything to get out of having an uncomfortable conversation. and none of us are perfect. And in relationships, the easy thing to do is to blame the other person for the reason why that relationship is not good. And the best outcome that you can have is have somebody in your corner that keeps you

accountable. But it's really hard to take that accountability. when somebody says, I thought you were going the gym today or somebody says, I thought we weren't

going to have pasta tonight, or I thought we weren't going to Olive Garden. And you don't want to hear that. You know they're right. You know they're right. You don't want to hear it.

And it's just, if you're sitting there and you're not happy with how this year has gone, you cannot do the same thing and expect it to be better next year. And the other thing I'll say is, I think as a society, we're so, we're so all or nothing in the fact that we make these, we make these resolutions.

Yeah, that, oh, it's going to be this. And then the first time that you fall off the wagon or you fall short or you don't, it doesn't go the way you think, you just throw it all out and you're like, I'm done. Well, there's 365 days in this year. and if you do good for three days and you fall off the wagon, big deal, get up. Get back on it. It is not the people. It is not about perfection. It's about consistency.

Consistency trumps perfection every day of the week. Because everybody out there that has been perfect at something or the best at whatever, they got there through consistency. They weren't, they didn't just. Nobody's perfect. They're not. No matter what craft it is, there are people that they are the best in what they do, but they still have days where they get off the saddle.

Get off the wagon. But they get back on the wagon. That's the key, getting back on the wagon. Yeah. And getting back on it. And I'm going to tee this up for you because you got a good analogy for this. So in the, there's a lot, you know, there's a lot of analogies we could talk. about, but a great one is the way you and your brother view like real estate in the fact that

everybody wants the easy way. Everybody wants, I just want the stock tip that, you know, I'm going to buy at the bottom and then it's just going to take off and then I'm... Everybody wants the passive income. Yeah. Quotation marks. You know, whatever it is. You know, I want to be able to take a pill to be buff and thin and I still want to. want to be able to eat as much as I want, drink as much as I want, or I want the investment of whatever. So we were just talking about this because you guys, I feel like you guys have been doing this enough that you know a little bit about the property business. And it's exact same thing. And you could take this analogy and put it towards a career. But you go ahead,

like talk about the difference between well everybody wants a turnkey property in real estate everybody wants the eightplex that is phenomenal shape that has no problems all the tenants are great and all that but they don't what they don't realize is that is sexy that is a sexy property but you're probably going to be paying more upfront for that property which in turn your mortgage is going to be more in turn, you're probably going to make less than if you found a super not so sexy property and it was at a cheaper price and it had the same amount of units, eight units, but you had to put a little bit more sweat equity in and fix it up and put in that boring, super not sexy work, you now probably are going to be able to charge,

you're probably going to cash a way more money on that not so sexy property versus that super sexy property because your mortgage will be less. because you paid less up front and you had to do a little bit more sweat equity versus buying the perfected turnkey property. And that's just an example of doing the boring work, doing that shit that nobody wants to do is how you get lasting success. And it's with everything that you do. And none of us, none of us are turnkey.

No. That is the sad truth. none of us are turnkey we all have to put in the sweat equity and it's it sucks it sucks because it's hard you here's an analogy you can choose your hard i heard this so many times would you rather choose the hard that is the boring work every day discipline work getting back on the saddle when you get knock down, achieving your goals, being successful in life and getting a return on that, or choose the hard of staying in bed, eating like shit, not showing up early, not staying late, not doing any of the doing more than what's expected of you, and 30 years later getting no

return of living your life that way. Yeah. Being depressed, being unfulfilled, not having a great year, year in and year out, are you going to choose that hard? Are you going to choose the hard that, hard work, that is hard work, and success requires that. Like, you're going to have to choose the hard that requires the hard work, the unsexy work, you know, the discipline to get the success. I know that that's the path I want to choose. want to choose the hard that I know I'm going to have to put my blood, sweat, and tears in every day, and I know eventually I'm going to see the long-term benefit of that, versus choosing the heart of staying in bed, not getting back on the saddle, and losing, and getting to the new year

every single year and saying to myself, wow, I wish I would have done this, this, and this, and this. And I feel like it is our, it's back to the one life thing. You got one, fucking life. It is our obligation to make this life the best we can possibly make it. Like, what else are you living for? You're just gonna fucking get by every day

and just not strive for anything and sit and mope and get to the end of the year and not be proud of yourself, be unfulfilled, be depressed. I don't want that shit. Do you want that shit? No. I don't think any of us want that shit. but you have to take the action to not get that result.

And you got to choose the right hard. 100%. And don't kid yourself. We all sit there. If you put this out, everybody heard it. Everybody's going to say, no, I don't want that. But you're going to run into people every single day that even though they say that's what they don't want. That's what they're doing. And you're going to run into those people. And those people

will suck the life right out of you. There isn't a single person that you're going to run into that when you ask them, do you want, you know, you want the best out of life? They're going to say, of course. And then you're going to say, all right, well, let's do X, Y, or Z. And they're going to go, well, let's not do that today. So it is so easy to lose that fire because you have to be accountable to you. And if you are lucky enough to have at least one other person in your life that will be brutally honest with you, that you can build a relationship and hold each other accountable, then kudos to you. You are better off than 90% of the people in the world.

That's the kind of friend you want. Yep. And back to the partner thing or just relationships, I am so, I related to you there because I told Kat this the other day. I am glad that Kat does say to me, I thought you were going to go to the gym today. Yeah.

And I do fucking hate hearing that. I don't like hearing that kind of stuff. I don't. It's so true. Having somebody, if you're going to get in a relationship, make sure that person makes you better, even when you don't want to hear it. Because long term, that is going to serve you very, very well.

And I tell her that. I sometimes hate when she, I sometimes hate when she gets on my butt about that stuff. But she's just trying to make me better. And that's the kind of friend or kind of partner or kind of wife or husband you want. That's who you want. Yep. Because a real, I wouldn't say a fake friend, but I think a lot of people's friends, they have the guy that's like, hey let's go do this shit and they're like no not today and they're like oh yeah you're right

and they just you know you just bring you down and that's why you end up on new years and you you didn't do the shit you wanted to do and end up accomplishing the shit you wanted to accomplish so yeah and thanks to each and every one of you because you guys help hold us accountable because we are how many episodes we put this will be well i don't know this year but i know overall this will be our 63rd episode. I want to say we're on about 35, 36 episodes this year. So if you do some simple math, there's 52 weeks in a year.

Our goal with this podcast, when we started, was to do it every week. We didn't get that done this year. And we have not had the systems in place to get it done because we had a lot of stuff going on and we were trying to do this barn and let's face it. We're doing a lot of other things.

And the easiest, the easiest thing to kick to the curb is, okay, we're not going to get a podcast out this week. Yep, you're right. We have, that's one of the things we've worked towards and we've made improvements and we have the systems and we've added. My oldest son, Clay, is now our producer and he helps keep his accountable because he's a whole lot better organized than we are. but hired some editors. When we don't have a podcast out, we get these messages. When's the podcast?

When's the podcast coming out? And that is exactly, I value that. I love that because not only does it give me a little twinge of, oh, shit, we got to get that out. But it also is like, wow, people, there's somebody out there that's looking forward to hearing what we got to say,

which that is fantastic. and the support you guys have given us, the questions that you send us, the listens that you give us, which in turn, when we go out and we ask people, we ask businesses, we asked agencies to help us with the stuff we need to do, that gives us credibility. And let's face it. It's a better guess. There's not many people sitting around in a barn in middle of America that can, can pull off doing a podcast. And it ain't easy. I'll tell you that. It ain't easy. But we are so

thankful for each and every one of you. And our goal has not changed in the fact that we want to give you value. And we hope that we hope that what we talk about and the people, the guests we have on and the stories that get told here inspire you and give you value and give you a feeling that But, you know, I can get up every day and I can make, I can make those decisions and I can move a little bit further down the path that I want to go. So with maybe making you laugh a little bit along the way too. Yeah, I mean, we love to have fun. Yeah.

We do. And, um, you can relate to you. I think that's what's also makes what we're doing great is there's so many of you that I read the comments and stuff and you just can relate. We're real Americans doing a podcast talking about a. real American things that we all go through, which I love. This is, I feel like the people that we, that you guys listening and are watching, you are part of the part of what it makes America great. You are the real Americans. And that's how we feel. We feel like, we feel like we are,

you know, the backbone of what makes this country great. We are the great people that love this country that want it to succeed, that want to continue the values that has made it so great for such a long time. And so, yeah, cheers to all of what you just said, because I 100% agree and none of it would be possible without you guys. So we are super, super grateful for you. Do you have a whiskey? I don't have, well, I don't have a whiskey. Do you want to get up and get one? I could. I could. How adventurous are you feeling? I'll find one. Okay. You talk about something snapping. Yeah. Yeah, so, you know, guys, I kind of messed up in the beginning here. I didn't ask you to pay the fee, but if you got this far, I'm going to throw it in now.

So if you guys got any value from this show at all, go out, share it with your friends, family, coworkers, employees, whoever, what we just talked about, we're trying to get better guests on, you know, we're trying to make better content, walking in my shot, you little shit, a little shit, gosh. You need to, one of your goals is you got to have better camera awareness for 2023. But anyway, share the show, guys. We really, really do appreciate every single one of you guys. Seriously.

So they can't hear you. They can't hear you. You got to get your mic. All right. We got a rookie over here. You're in my shot. You're in my shot. Or now that I'm back in my shot.

Yeah. I'm just going to pull this this way. So it's the holidays. So we're going old school today. So I have a bottle, Jack Daniels, Jack Daniels, single barrel, select. and I think Jack Daniels gets kind of a bad rap. I'm not a big fan, but I haven't had that yet, so.

So I think that's one of the, I think that's one of the, I think that's one of the unknowns about Jack Daniels is there are a lot of distilleries out there that they put out like several different brands within that brand. So you take like Buffalo Trace. They make Buffalo Trace, but they make, They make Stagg, Stagg Jr., they make Blanton's, they make Elmer T. Lee comes out of that. Is that right? I don't know if Elmer T. Lee comes.

I think it does, but I'm trying to think of the other one. It doesn't matter. I'm drawing a blank. But Jack Daniels, they make traditional Jack that you can get at any bar in America. But then they make these bottles, they make several different ones. They make single barrel. They have a special release several times a year. And it's all under the Jack Daniels brand,

but it's totally different as far as a taste compared to their regular stuff. So anyway, we're going to sample this single barrel select. So pour me up one, bartender. Okay, holy shitballs. Cat always, I don't know if cats ever, Cat's the one that edits these podcasts, but she always gives me shit for my whiskey face after I take a shot.

I'm not, I don't quite have the stoic look of every time I take a shot, I'm just like, there's nothing affects me. I have a little bit of a, what do you call that? Bitter beer face. A bitter beer face when I drink a little bit of whiskey. Well, I'm not a, I'm not an alcoholic. So it's not like I just throw down whiskey straight.

Yeah, on a regular occasion. The old, and I think that's, something that as you get older, that's just, because I never, I mixed whiskey my whole life, and I'll tell you what, I may have told this before, but when I was in high school, the group of guys I ran around with, about every vehicle that we had had a bottle of Southern Comfort, and any of you out there that are about, you know, in my age, can probably identify with this. to this day, if I smell Southern Comfort, oh, I can't do it. I just can't do it.

I had way too many bad experiences on Southern Comfort, and in my mind, that barely qualifies as whiskey. But as I've grown up, you know, when I played softball, we drank a lot of beer and a lot of picnics, we drank a lot of beer. and when I, I don't know, a few years ago, I got to the point when I would go out or I would play cards at somebody's house and, you know, everybody brought beer,

I just get so full and I don't enjoy sitting around and just drinking a lot of beer. But, and I think it was being on the road, being a salesman, having to work trade shows, you kind of migrate towards liquor over beer, because you don't feel, you feel better the next day if you partake of some. And I really move down the whiskey road.

And now I'm to the point where if I'm going to sit down and have a good conversation with somebody, I will pour myself a glass of whiskey. And I can sip on that and enjoy it and not feel like hell. and so that's a really long that's a really long segue into this Jack Daniels single barrel select but I was I was just listening everywhere you were riveted I was you were all riveted weren't you yeah so anyway Merry motherfucking Christmas cheers cheers to yeah it is cheers to all of you and I hope every single one of you guys we hope every single one of you guys has a phenomenal Christmas and a happy new year Cheers to that. I'll drink to that. Yes, sir.

Oh, boy. So, I think I got a bitter on that one. So I will say, though. I don't know, though. That was a weird one. That wasn't too bad, but the bite is not that bad. I don't know why I had such a weird face. Maybe you poured too much.

Well, I did pour a little too much. It actually is pretty smooth, but, yeah like i got no burn but not not a lot of flavor to no i didn't feel like there was a lot of flavor to it and it still has that burn on the backside though yeah like it's going down my throat now now i feel the burn you've got it but like some stuff it hits you it burns right away well jack yeah i don't like i don't particularly like regular black label jack um i think that's yeah that's got kind of a real that'll reach out and grab you so that would be something good to when you're about pre-gaming to go out to the bars in college, you could take four

shots of that and be good. I mean, because you're taking shots no matter what. Yeah. I mean, you're going to have the bitter face, but yeah, the flavor. Like, I went to Kirkwood. Nobody could afford decent whiskey then. You got beer bongs. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The Coors Light, uh, party ball. I was the generation. I'm kind of pissed. They never brought that back. I need to find if anybody has. Because I would have loved to just see that once. Oh, I loved it. you always talked about it and it pissed me off. I never had it. Playing softball and driving around in the bruty carpet van with two or three party balls,

life was good. Okay, we're going to wind this down. So here's to you and yours. I hope you have a great, great holiday season. And we'll be back here. So Q&A, probably the next one? Q&A next one, probably hot topics after that.

And then we'll have another guest episode. So, submit. Yes, consistency. That's going to be one of our goals this year, guys. We're going to try to get one out every single week if we can. We're going to really try to strive for that. And if we get off the saddle, you know what we're going to do. We're getting back on that thing.

We're going to get back on that saddle. Don't be afraid to call us out. Yeah, don't call. Yeah, keep keeping us accountable when asking for an episode. But what I was going to say is submit your questions, guys. If you want a question to be answered on the show, submit your questions to Barntock Show at gmail.com. And that's where your questions will be received.

we'll put them on the outline and then we'll talk about them and answer them so submit your questions guys because we need them we need your questions get some damn merch too if you're hey if you want to uh if you're if you're a fan of the show and you want some merch you can buy yourself a little bit of a christmas present this year and get some barn talk merch we also got some this will do farm merch it's all out there it'll be in the link in the description if you're watching on youtube or it'll be in the show notes if you're listening on spotify or apple We appreciate every single one of you guys again. Have a merry, Merry Christmas.

Have a happy, happy, happy new year. Stay safe out there. We'll see you back here next week for another episode.