Barn Talk - Barn Talk Hot Topics: Fields to Frontlines- Wagyu, Whiskey Wisdom, and War Talk

Episode Date: April 29, 2024

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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, but not today. We're going to let it all out for you guys. Today is going to be a Barn Talk hot topics episode. We got all kinds of hot topics to discuss today. We haven't had a hot topics in a while, but a lot of stuff going on around the world and in our country that we're going to discuss. But before we get into it, you guys know.

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and getting more variety. for people so good deal yeah what are the how are you today i'm excellent uh it's a late it's an evening edition of barn talk uh we it's kind of silly season we should be planting but we had a big thunderstorm come in and so everybody kind has just been sticking their foot in the water uh there were some guys running pretty hard the last couple days but the weather's supposed to cool off after this so it's kind of split decision and uh we're We haven't actually planted anything. We were waiting for this to move through,

and then we're going to go and start getting some seed in the ground. But the weather has been really good. We'll just see whether this cold snap gets as cold as they're saying and lasts as long as they're saying. And as soon as it's fit, I'm sure everybody will be rolling. And rain makes grain, so the markets have responded accordingly by basically going to pot. So the market update, courtesy of cats grain, Washington, Iowa.

Corn for local is 428, 431 on the board, beans 1145. I didn't get the river price. I would imagine they're very similar to what they were last week, because not much has happened. We eat 550, bean meal, $336. ton hogs ninety four dollars and thirty five cents it's been a minute since hogs uh futures have been that high uh cattle 181 feeder cattle 240 dollars uh grade three milk 18 dollars and 10 cents crude oil 80 what 85 30 so we'll get into that after the uh after the iran israel deal

man i really thought that we were going to see crude crude oil just go crazy but It's been tempered somewhat. Bitcoin 62,000. Had to take a break, some profit taking in that crypto. And so Bitcoin's backed off a little bit. There's a halving that is coming. I think in May is when the next halving is. So we might have to do an episode talking about that.

Tesla, $157, dirt cheap. the CFO of Tesla, long time, been there since the beginning, he's leaving. Stressed out, needs a break. Is that what he said? No, he didn't say that, but I think that's definitely part of it. I mean, that's a long haul. He's been there a long time, and I think that he's just ready to do something else. Probably got a good amount of stock in there.

He does have a fair amount of Tesla stock, so he's definitely, not leaving on bad terms at all. It's just it's time, I think. Gold, 2400. Sky's falling, so gold has strengthened over the last few weeks, and I think that might be the highest it's been for quite a while. Silver, 2580, a stock that is not a good store of value when things start going to pot, or really any time, beyond meat. I've left it on here just because I like bagging on them. Beyond meat, $6.56 a share. That was an $80 stock.

Yeah, I don't think the lab grown or plant-based meat's going to pan out. Oh, you should. Dang it. I will have to share this the next time, but they had a press release that they're relaunching their crumbled product. They have a crumbled product that's like sausage. and it's a new simplified ingredient list, and you should read the ingredient list. One of the ingredients that's in it,

I can't even read the name, but it's basically a laxative. Dang it, I had it all. I'll have to bring it next time, but if that's the simplified ingredient list, should have seen it. Well, they're trying to listen, and it's not working,

because you can't make it simple. No, you can't be as simple as meat. Yeah. Can't be as simple as just beef. We got you beef. We got you beat on that. Yeah. So, yeah, I got a buddy at works at Hormel,

and he actually just told me today that he heard that companies across America are stopping production on investing in that sector. Because they're just the consumer, this anti-meat movement has shit the bed. I think when times get hard, people go back to what they know. People don't want to spend on stuff that they don't know. And I also think the trend of health conscious people and going back to traditional values, but also traditional food, people are more people are gardening, more people are canning,

more people are buying local, buying from people that they can trust because they don't fucking trust corporations. It's hard to compete with a product like, say, sausage or ground pork when the ingredient list is. ground pork. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The trust is not there. The consumer does not trust a lot. They don't trust much.

Well, you have this trend of all these people that go into these grocery stores and some of these people, I think, are a lot of, they fear monger quite a bit, but they'll literally just walk down the grocery store aisle, pick something off the shelf and say, this ain't good for you. And here's the ingredients and all of it.

And now everybody's like, it's not even just health conscious, it's like ingredient conscious. Hell, I'm even guilty of it. I pick up peanut butter now and I'm like, I just want peanuts. I want the ingredient to just be peanuts. I don't want a bunch of shit in it. You know?

Same with my oatmeal. Same deal. Right. I just want simple stuff. Oh, speaking of simple stuff, we forgot one thing. We have, this is big news and it's not quite here yet, but we're going to beat her own drum a little bit. So coming very

soon, you will be able to go to one one central location. Yes. To learn everything you want to know and probably some things you don't about. This'll do farm, barn talk. Farmmer grade. We're launching a website. Our website will be this will do farm.com. And if you go there, there will be links to the podcast, links to the farm video, links to merch. We've got a new. We've got a new. merchandise provider that we're using local and it's going to be a lot higher quality and a lot more varied we're going to be able to change it a lot quicker for the seasons and when we get great ideas when i get when i get those little tinges of poetic gold and i'm like man that should be

on a t-shirt boom we're going to have it on a t-shirt yeah yeah it won't the merch will be on there so you can buy straight from the website. It's not going to be a link. It'll be on the website that you can buy straight from there. Also, we're going to have, every time that we do Q&A episodes, we tell you guys to submit your questions and email them to us.

But on there, we're going to have a contact thread on the website to allow you guys to just ask your questions or anything you want, you can submit a question or submit a request through there and we'll get it that way. So, yeah, we're just making it.

thing's simple and everybody's always been bagging on us saying you got to get some merch you got to get some merch so uh we felt like hey we better we better get on this and just make it happen so we've been putting it off for so long but it's coming very very soon so be looking out for that we'll definitely announce it here on the podcast once we get it live but we're streamlined in the operation we're getting there we're we're figuring stuff out here slowly but surely but anyway uh well i'll tell you how i well how my day's going or how my week's been going because I asked you, so I'm going to plug myself here. Hey, Sawyer.

Yeah, there you go. How's it going? A little update about me. I was just at the gym yesterday, and I was ready to go. I was going to do push day, chest, shoulders, and triceps. I was feeling good, one of my favorite days of the week, and I was warming up on bench press, and, you know, I was warming up, and I did my, I just, I did everything right, you know. I didn't push too far, go too fast.

fast but man i uh i was building up to my max and i wasn't going to like do like a three rep max but you know like six to eight reps probably was the heaviest i was going to go and i was building up and i was adding weight and i got to probably the second to third second to last set you know before i would reach my maximum weight i was going to do and i went down for my third rep and went up and holy shit i felt something that i never felt in my life before happened and I thought that I completely tore my peck muscle but I didn't because I feel like if I would have completely torn it it would have been extremely painful and the weight would have just dropped on me but I was able to rack it but I got up and I was like I just

did something messed up and then I tried going pushing through and keep and switching up the exercise I continue my workout but I just could not I could not do anything so might have strain something might have a partial tear i have no idea that's never happened to me in my life i've never experienced it but i'm all pissed because beach beach season's coming and pool season and summer season i was i was hoping to hoping to have my progress yeah look you know look good for for the lady and have you just have to stand next to me more often yeah yeah you'll know i do it every week i just sit next to you yeah you'll look just fine yeah so nobody will even notice hey you just Anyway, I was pretty pissed about that, but we'll see.

It's not as bad as I think. It's not bruising or anything. So that's a good sign. But we'll see how it pans out. But anyway, that's enough about our bullshit. So let's get into the hot topics here. And the first one is a little, it's nothing to do with politics, more to just do with culture, culture, American culture.

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Yeah, it's no longer loose. It is expired. The juice has expired. Hell of a football place. but man, if you ask me, I think OJ did it. I think OJ did kill his wife and, uh, and her boyfriend. And her boyfriend. I think that was her boyfriend.

Uh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah. But I don't know. And all I'll say about this, dad's got most of the facts on this and what he can share with you. And you lived it. Yeah. You lived it.

I, I don't, I didn't live it. Uh-uh. I did not, I was not around there. I've just seen documentaries. But all I'll say about it is all the stuff's coming out after he's passed away. you know yeah and like it was a huge thing in american culture when initially happened and there was little drops of kind of resurfacing throughout his life but now it's just like it's resurfaced again and all this shit's coming out about people think you know people really do think he did it

and people are trying to come after his estate and all this money's involved and it's just like how did he how has he just scurried his way all the way to the end yeah though with nothing I don't know, I guess I was thinking about this when I was doing the outline. And I wonder, I'm sure there were polls done during the trial. But I don't think, like, of my acquaintances and the people that, you know, in my circle, I just remember at that time, I don't think anybody didn't think that he did it. I really don't think. I think most of America, I think that that was the first time that we saw the court system kind of all the way through, and we saw how much manipulation lawyers can have. because here's a we all remember uh cochran uh is it johnny cochran was his was one of his lawyers

and he is the one that coined the phrase if the glove don't fit you must acquit because uh the glove that they found or the gloves that they found that were by the way soaked in blood so obviously when he went to put them on they had shrunk because because they'd gotten wet in any pair of leather gloves, if you get them wet and then you let them dry out, they're going to shrink. But something that I don't think anybody knew until recently was O.J. Simpson took arthritis medicine

because his hands, he had arthritis. And Cochran told him to stop taking his medication. So his hands and his knuckles were swollen anyway. and then he goes to put on these gloves, which the prosecution should have never... Like, I just don't think anybody realized how much of an opportunist his legal team was,

and one of his lawyers was the Kardashian. But he had three guys, and they were all damn good lawyers. I mean, it probably just about bankrupted him for what he paid to have them. But I mean, that bit right there, I just remember when that happened and it just became this. It was everywhere.

You know, if the glove doesn't, if the glove don't fit, you must acquit. Or equip, sorry, acquit. And it, that trial took like nine months. It went on for nine months. And it just captured everybody, like that was the water cooler talk. that was the talk at break was about what happened in the Simpson deal. But sadly, I think that he got off of that because of, I do believe that he did it. And he ultimately was found guilty in a civil case.

So he got off of the public trial, but he had $100 million. judgment in a case that he lost to the Goldman family and to his ex-wife's family. But I think most people, if they were honest, thought that he did it. But you have to remember, this happened. The Rodney King beating, the man that was beaten on the freeway in Los Angeles. and that was one of the first civil well like views

where somebody caught police brutality on camera and this happened close enough to that that there was a lot of anger about the police and about race relations and also Los Angeles in general that community.

And I just feel like those jurors, I think that they, I think they all decided whether on purpose or whether just through their lens of how they perceived the world at that time. Yes. I don't think there was any way that he was going to get found guilty.

And he wasn't. But yeah, to your point, he, from that point on, up and to that point, he was a football star and he was the Hertz guy. When I was a kid, every Sunday football season, you would see the commercial of OJ running through the airport and hurtling luggage and, you know, getting to his rental car for Hertz, and he was the Hertz guy. And after that, he was forever known as, you know, OJ, basically the murderer. that he got off, that he beat the system.

But he did not pay a dime. Well, I wouldn't say he didn't pay a dime, but he paid almost nothing against that $100 million judgment that was against him. And I'm just amazed at how he finagled that all that time and basically never paid a dime. And I think that he lived down in Florida, and I think he golfed a lot.

And I mean, I don't know. And the thing was he didn't. like stay out of the lamplight because i've seen him i mean he you know he was he still hung around people and was on social media and wrote a book and he he did all kinds of stuff so yeah i just think it's odd that it's just kind of all resurfaced now and there's just all this news coming out after he's passed away but he's just been able to get away with it and everybody that's the thing like he's just known for that it's like it's like if aaron hernandez from the patriots were to get off for what he did you know

yeah and he'd be still known for you know right he wouldn't be known for the football he'd be known for getting off yeah of that yeah and you know the other thing that's interesting is that trial really started really kind of started the the 24 hour news cycle and maybe not maybe not that as much as like these these news commentary shows like you have today. Like if you get on Fox, they have the five, and they basically just sit around and talk about the news. And they have these experts, like they have judges and they have forensic people and all that. And that all, that all kind of started from the O.J. Simpson trial because you had all these news shows that had experts in this and experts

in that. And they, because people wanted to know. And that's how that whole, kind of that whole genre got started. So anyway, interesting. I think it's, you know, right or wrong, I think it's, it's very telling that a man's life work, a man's life's work be known by that one. One mistake. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Well, I just hope he made peace with the Lord. Yes, right. Or he went. Absolutely. Yeah, and I, only he really knows if he did it or not. Right.

Truly, yeah, that's right. I mean, and the people involved. So I guess we can say, but we won't really actually never know, just like we all don't know who killed Kennedy, but we kind of know. Yeah, right. You know, we're about 95% sure. Yeah. Right.

You know, but there's still that 5% chance. And Cato Caelin, he's doing fine. Cato Caelin was the, was like the, he was like the bum that was like sleeping in the guest house and he was just buddies with everybody. And I don't know if he had a real job. And, but he was on some, I think he was on somebody's show on Fox that I saw he was going to be on there. I didn't actually see the interview, but kind of looks like he's still, he's still kind of doing the same thing. He's just floating around and he knows everybody and just kind of meandering his way through life. so hell of a deal uh the the other piece of this is this is politics but also a little bit of our

culture is and well played i might add um Donald trump showed up at a chick fillet and uh bought everybody chick fillet i think and i thought it was very interesting that he chose uh chick filet because uh just I think that was on purpose. It wasn't so much that he went, part of it was that he went to a fast food place, you know, being a man of the people, common, and he bought everybody's lunch or whatever, bought their sandwiches.

But I think he picked Chick-fil-A just to get a little extra turn on the left because they don't like Chick-fil-A very well. But it's just another example of the parallel because if you watch that, he is an interesting guy in the fact that when he wants to be, he can be, he can talk to common people pretty well and not be,

and not be, um, cringy. Not be a politician. Yeah, and not be a politician. I mean, he knows how to,

he knows how to talk to just regular people. And, um, and he kind of has, it's another example of, of him having his finger, kind of on the pulse of people because he's not afraid to get out and talk to regular people. And would you ever see Biden do that? No. I mean, you will see that. You'll see him go get

ice cream somewhere and he doesn't care what flavor it is because as long as this ice cream, he's good. But yeah, and how many regular people are in there when he does that? How many regular people or are they I don't know for me if I saw Joe Biden and I wouldn't be impressed I don't give a shit at this point I don't care

no I do not care if yeah Trump is a man of people people are excited when they see Donald Trump all those workers were excited everybody in the restaurant was excited it's just it's a complete different

it's completely different and all this all these cases and all these lawsuits and all these people trying to charge him on shit. It's just lighting the fire and putting in people's minds that you don't want him as president and you're going to do everything you can to not have him be president, which just makes people want to have him as our president even more. Right. And so, yes, that, him doing that only helps his case because it's him just being a regular guy talking to regular people. But I don't really get,

I don't think the left understand their tactic of doing all that they're doing and trying to make it so we can't run. It's just putting in people's minds more and more that yeah, I'm going to vote for this guy

because you don't want him to be president. Right. I mean, the amount of people that, like we were just, it was on, it was on when we having dinner tonight. And mom was like, oh, here we go again. More Trump shit with them trying to charge him with this.

or charge them with that. I said, oh, I don't really give a shit. It just makes me want to vote for him even more because it's bullshit. I mean, it's all just bullshit and it's corruption, and nobody trusts the government we have right now. They don't. They don't.

I'm not saying Trump's perfect in all the ways in every single thing that he does, but like, what can be worse than what we have at this point? I mean, for God's sake, if you want the same person that's running the show right, now running the show quotation marks in 24 i don't even think we could have a conversation because you're so fucking far gone that i can't even talk to you i think the only i think the only argument that i will accept uh for somebody that will vote for what we have is if you are somebody that has just been

so worked over that the thought of the mean the thought of the mean words and mean press conferences is just too much for you that you're actually voting for anybody other than Trump. I will accept that before I will accept that you want to argue with me that Joe Biden has done a bang up job

because that it's we're about to the point that he might be the worst president of all time. Yeah. You know, I said, that I said that Barack Obama was the best thing that ever happened to Jimmy Carter, because in my mind, growing up as a farm kid, Jimmy Carter was the worst president of all time. Then when we got Obama, I was like, yeah, Jimmy, Jimmy, he might not look so bad. And Joe Biden has lowered the, he's lowered the bar. And getting back to what you were talking about,

with the cases and what the government has and the Justice Department has kind of launched against him. The reason that they keep doing what they're doing is because they really believe that they can paint a picture so glaringly obvious that he is guilty of something that people are going to finally wake up and go, oh, we can't trust this guy. Yeah, just get them in the courtroom as much as you can. But what they don't understand, and I mean, this sounds so simple, but I think that when you're so entrenched... Yeah, I think you're right.

You just can't... I don't think they can let themselves believe this. They just can't come around to the idea that they are the problem, that they have pushed this narrative so far that it's so unbelievable to regular Americans. It's backfiring so bad. Right. That instead of them looking at it and say,

this guy has got to be guilty of something, the majority of Americans now are looking at it and go, well, obviously, you guys are scared to death of what he will do to you and to your paradigms or your agenda. your agenda that you will do anything to try to discredit him, which tells us that you're the real problem. Yeah, the, that they don't get is the culture is flipped.

Ever since COVID, it's never been the same. It's never been the same since COVID. People, that was the first, I think that was the first tack in people's, and people's, I don't know what you want to say. That was the first thing that happened where people were like, shit in their bricks about COVID. And then it's came out that, okay, well, It's not as bad as what they were saying it was.

And then the whole January 6th thing, same thing. Yep. It's the fucking sky is falling. America's under attack by radical right. Yeah. Republican conservatives. Comes out. It was really fishy what took, what transpired there.

Yeah. And it's just event after event after event after event after event after event. Election might have been people, people don't know. People say it could be rigged. some people say it wasn't rigged. But the fact that there's even a question that it was, or wasn't, all these things have compounded

to where, and then you have the administration that we have, and they're doing nothing by the American people, they're not doing anything to serve us. They're not doing anything to serve us. So it's like, you're sending our money off to Ukraine, you're letting the southern border just stay,

open, even though all Americans have been voicing their opinions for however many years that we need to fix this problem and that we don't want to keep giving our tax dollars to Ukraine, but yet it still happens. I mean, all these things have happened. And then the man that you don't want to run the most, that you ran the most hit pieces on when he was elected president, you're trying to get him to not run again. Yeah. It's blatantly obvious. And everybody, most common sense people, that the culture is shifted. It looks fishy. It looks fishy. It just totally looks fishy. It totally looks fishy. And so there's no trust.

They, I think you're right, the media establishment and the people involved with not wanting him to run and get elected, they are either have burned the bridges and are just going to go with it, even though they know the culture is shifted and it's not soaking in the way that they thought it would, or they're so entrenched that they just think it's going to work. so they're just going to keep pounding the stone, just keep them in that courtroom. Yeah, they've listened, they've listened to the show,

they've listened to the show, and they believe thoroughly that if they just keep pounding the stone on their agenda, it's going to work. That only works, it only works if, if you're dealing in truth, if you're dealing in pure,

in pure thoughts and truth. So, yeah, I will just say, I think it's either to bankrupt him, but truth social, did it end up going did it IPO? Yeah oh yeah at IPO

it went public it's either to bankrupt him it's either to put him in prison or if that doesn't work just basically rig the election if you can or if that doesn't work

get him elected and then just make his presidency a fucking living hell yeah all the above all above yeah I mean that's my two cents

so on the on the election and while we're talking about Biden, this last, I want to say last maybe Thursday, the Consumer Price Index came out, and inflation was expected to be flat, 3.2%. And I think some people were actually hoping for it to maybe be a little less than that.

And instead, it was 3.5%, so it actually increased. and so there was a lot of talk that the Fed would probably at some point this year loosen interest rates so back interest down and Joe Biden actually made the comment that he expected before the election to have interest rates fall was it him that made the comment or somebody in his no he made he made the comment that he he said that I think he phrased it

that he would not be surprised if we had a rate cut before the election. The economy is strong. Once again, our borders are secure. The economy is strong. America's never been safer. Jobs or just have so many jobs.

All they've created all these jobs. Stuff. But now then, when you look at this, and everybody knows, this. Anybody that goes to the grocery store goes to Wal-Barre. Anybody that is buying the stuff to live. If you're the person doing that and you're a family. If you're an adult. Yes. You know that this is bullshit. Everything has gone up and continues to go up.

And it really, it really hurts the amount of income you have to use for anything other than living. And I think it's hurting young people the most out of anybody because look at buying a house, look at buying a car, look at, you know, feeding a family, starting a family, any of that stuff. But so instead of looking at the possibility of a rate cut, which if you're a politician, getting the economy going the right way is the best thing you can order up. And Biden has been counting on that. And now then, I would be the only reason that the Fed would not actually raise rates is if the Fed is controlled well enough by the administration that the politics, that they're going to put the screws to them and say, you are definitely not going to raise rates, which is very

possible. It's very possible. Because if they do, people are going to go fucking nuts. Well, Biden has no chance. If there's a rate, if there is a rate, if rates stay the way they are, I don't think it really matters, and I honestly don't think it would matter if we got a cut. But if we got a cut, it would definitely help him. But if it stays flat, it doesn't. And if we get rates that we get more increases, it's going to be a bloodbath. And what do you mean by bloodbath? He don't think he's going to win.

There's no shot. I think it won't even be close enough that you can fudge it is because regular Americans, not only regular Americans, but real estate investors, venture capitalists, anybody that is trying to put money to work, they're seeing real problems with access to capital, opportunities to use that capital. It's just, it's a really tough time.

Is this the worst since 08, you think? I think it is. Commercial real estate, 100%. large commercial real estate investments in the United States in large cities is an absolute bloodbath right now. I mean, it is, it is freaking terrible. And the Biden administration has got to be, they've got to be freaking out a little bit over this because it's this, well, here's the other side of it. So we saw last week that he wants to do another round of student loan forgiveness. Okay, the problem with that is... Did he even get his first one done? No, he didn't because the

Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional. So now then they tried it a different way, and it's going to the courts too to see whether they can get it done. But they think, obviously, administration thinks that they've written that right to where it will withstand a court challenge. But I don't know. but the problem with that is when you have a time of interest rates increasing, adding more money to the economy only makes inflation worse. So as a politician that's trying to buy votes by doing stimulus and by doing giveaways, you're only adding to the problem by putting more money in the market. You're pouring gasoline on the fire.

Exactly right. And see, they're really, screwed because yeah because they look but they look at it that if he doesn't do that he hasn't done shit right so he's got to do something right because nothing else has worked and everything else is only going to make it worse yeah so it's either do nothing and hope that rates go down or

throw caution to win and just say yeah manipulate americans and say oh it's because how many people actually think about it that way way where they're like, hey, yeah, this is great. You're forgiving student loans, but hey, this is just going to make our problems even worse. Well, it's no different than when during the Super Bowl, he came out and made that message that it's not inflation. It's greedy corporations making your potato chip bag smaller. Yeah. It's not really inflate. It's not their cost. It's them being greedy. And nobody bought that. Nobody bought it. I mean, I think there's a little bit

that to an extent. I mean, I do think that that's happening, but the reason it's happening is because it costs. I mean, that's the fucking issue, dude. You're, it starts with that. And then that's the result of that. It's the result of inflation. When costs go up, corporations have to cut costs in some ways. Yeah. Well, or whoever. Yeah. Everybody. Yeah. Everybody. From, from, from, from the coffee shop on main street to the chips in the lays bag. Yeah. It doesn't, it isn't just big corporations that are screwed when costs rise. It's everybody.

You pay it at the pump. You pay it at the grocery store. You pay it on whatever you're, whatever you're doing. I mean, the cost of boxes. I just, I, I don't know. I don't know. I'm tired of it. I'm really, I'm tired of it.

And I just don't get. I mean can we just all get to the point where we're just like this ain't this we can't keep doing this I don't know I mean seriously how in the fuck can you sit how is there people out there that can really sit and say I'm going to vote for Joe I'm going to do another four years of this okay I'll go off we'll go off uh off uh the outline for a minute because I just thought about this. So any of you out there that have not seen any of the new Amazon series fallout, based on the video game, Fallout, which best TV show I've, I start,

I watched it and finished it in a week with Kat. We watch it periodically. Best TV show I watched all year. Yeah, it's excellent. However, to your point, we were talking, you're like, How long are we all going to just be able to keep doing this? I thought it was very telling because people don't change. And I know that this is a made-for-TV show,

but one of the beginning scenes of that, this group of people in suburban America outside Los Angeles are having a birthday party. They're having a birthday party for their kids. And on the TV, they're talking about... Nuclear War. nuclear war, the possibility of nuclear war and how negotiations between China and the United States are breaking down. And the mother comes in and she shuts the TV off and says, today we're just

going to celebrate birthday and everybody's whatever. And then the nuke start dropping. And I just, I think about this sometimes that we are, for all of this shit, for all of the things that are wrong with our society and with our country. And I mean, just the, the amount of things that you can just rattle off that are wrong. Like, I just saw a clip, PBD, is that what is that? Patrick Bed-David. He's talking and he's talking about inflation. And he says, do you know that of all of the money ever printed within the United States, 40% of it has been printed in the last 12 months. If you think about the entire money supply the United States runs on, 40% of it has been printed in the last 12 months. And you hear a number like that and you're like, what? How is that,

how is that possible? Well, okay, we are no different. We are no different than those actors in that show sitting there, we know that at some point the nukes are going to drop. And yet, not not. No, not literally. It could happen maybe. Figitively. Yeah. Our economy. Yeah. The world economy or our economy or whatever you want to say. But we just keep going. We just keep, we're on this road going around the mountain. We just keep going around the mountain, round the mountain, round the mountain, round the mountain. And we just think that every day it's all going to be okay. And it will be until it's not. And when that happens, people are going to just, there is going to be a certain amount of people in this country that are literally going to sit down

on the curb in the street and they are absolutely going to be blindsided. Like they are going to be, they will have never seen it coming. They had no idea this is possible. They had no idea that all of their public services and their welfare and every damn thing they've been counting on just stops. And they're going to be, you talk about like COVID crazy, they will not be able to function because they will not be able to comprehend that nobody's coming.

Nobody's coming to save them. And then there's going to be people that are going to be at the other extreme that are going to be like... They already had their bunker. But a big portion of America is going to be like, well, yep, it finally happened. Because there's just so many things that we just take... We just take and we look at... It's like we look in the mirror and we don't recognize what's... Well, we look and then we don't do anything.

Because it's too scary to think about. We roll over and let we've let corporations, we've let politicians, we've let all these people dictate how our lives are conducted and what they push on to us and just about what, just taxes. I mean, we talked about it once on this show. Taxes, I mean, the amount, if I knew that our tax dollars were actually going to go into making this country better, I would feel better about paying as much as we do in tax. but it doesn't. It doesn't. No. And we're paying all this money and it doesn't even help us.

Most of it's going elsewhere. Most of it's lining people's pockets. A hell, a lot of it's paying interest. I mean, it's just like people have rose up for way less than what we go through right now. We don't do shit. We haven't done shit for years. Decades. We haven't done nothing.

and it's just like is it going to have to get to the point where the bombs do drop for us to wake up and do something or like what's it going to be? What's it going to take? Because it's just,

it's the worst I've ever seen it in my life. I'm only 24, but it's like, holy shit. Shit's fucked, Rick. It really is. And my thing also is like, you know, the founding fathers

and people you read about in history. Like everybody wants to, I always use the analogy. Like everybody, when I grew up in our small town, everybody says, I'm getting out of here. I'm getting out of here. There's nothing to do here. You know, I want to go somewhere and like,

I want to go somewhere where all the shit is. And it's like, you know, if you want to make the town better, there's got to be a certain amount of people that say, want to fight for that. Want to like run, towards the fight of better in the town of like making this place

somewhere that people want to live right but every I think there's so many people now that like they run away from the fight whether it's whether it's the fight of trying to make your hometown better or the fight for yourself to make yourself

better or to be a better American or keep your politicians accountable or keep your politicians accountable I mean it's just run away from the fight but the people that go down in the history books fight for something. And I think we get a lot. Like Abraham Lincoln wasn't, you know, he wasn't, I'm sure he was a very intelligent man,

but I mean, he went down in history because he fought for something. Yeah. He went against the grain and fought for something. He went down and he has a legacy and went down in history. Yeah. People go down in history for fighting for something that they think is right and winning. I mean, that's, where's that at? People want to, people want to be comfortable and they don't want to fight for something.

but we need to fight more than ever before. We need to fight for a lot of things. We need to fight for our rights. We need to fight for fucking beliefs and getting our... Truth. Truth. Yeah. The truth would be a good start.

I mean, it's just, I don't know. That's something I think about a lot. That, let's just, let's jump ahead. Since you're there, let's jump ahead and then we'll come back. Because on that subject, this all goes back or comes, down to your local level. We cannot hope to keep politicians at the state and federal level in check if we don't even pay attention what's going on in our own backyard. And I am as guilty of this as anybody, and I'm going to tell you, I'm going to try to do a heck of a lot better

because the example that was given to me this last week, I was just like dumbfounded. So in our community, at the state level, there's been a whole overhaul of the education system and the way it's paid for. And as a result, all these local school boards, which they're always fighting for money, and you can get into the whole local education deal.

that can be a whole episode, we're not going to go down that road, but they are going to be increasing property taxes because they've got to come up with a bunch of money to fill in the gaps that have been created and because they can't get enough teachers and they're having to, they got to pay more to get teachers and whatever it is.

However, there was a meeting of the local school board, and I want to say that the county supervisor, were involved in that too because that has to do with the property tax levies. And it used to be that they would put it, they would just run a deal in the local newspaper that we're going to have a meeting. Well, so few people get a local newspaper and so many communities across state of Iowa don't have a local newspaper and not very many people read the newspaper anyway. they the state mandated that every county mailed every person that paid property taxes

mailed them a letter that said we are having a meeting on this date for whatever local whatever school board or whatever school district you were in so every person that paid property taxes got one of these letters and they got one of these letters for every entity that they were in. So, like, between all of us, we got like 10 letters in the mail. And I opened it, and I looked at it, and I was like, you know, what the hell? And I thought to myself, you should go to that. But I didn't go. So I went to a corn growers meeting, and one of my neighbors did go. And he talked about it. and at that meeting, there were five, five people. Out of the entire school district, there were five people that weren't board members that showed up at that meeting.

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Shit's fucking. Shit goes wrong. These people that you have elected, when nobody's there to, push back or question what they do or whatever, why would they not just do the easy thing? And this is just one example, but this happens so many times in so many ways. And the other problem that we have in this country is, when you have meetings like that, do you know who shows up at them?

Retired people, people that don't have real jobs, and people that are aspiring to be politicians. Regular working people that have common sense that run businesses, that pay payroll, that have to buy supplies and have to buy the raw materials to make a product to sell it. Or have the kids in school. They're too busy. They're too busy raising the families.

And making the money. They don't go to the meetings. So guess what? When you get what you get, you have these people that are part of the system voting for the system that has allowed them to be part of the system. I could have probably said that a better way, but I mean, that is the cold, hard truth. And that is what we have. Those are the people that end up rising to the top of government. And by the time they get there, they are so used to having a free pass,

and they are so used to having people funnel them money for their opinion, for their vote, for their whatever, they don't know any different. And then you just speed that up. And that's how we got what we got. And it's not going to, we're not going to unroll this overnight. But you know what? The next time there's a school board meeting,

and I don't have any kids. I don't have any kids in school. But you're going to have grandkids at school? I will have grandkids. Well, I don't know. I think they might be homeschooled. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what we'll do. I'm undecided there. But I think I better go. Yeah. And there's a hell of a lot of us that need to go. And you need to get involved. And it sucks because it is the last thing you want to do is to go listen to a bunch of babbling politicians. But you know what? Who's going to stop it? That's the thing. We got to be, we got to realize we have the power. I mean, there's more of us.

But we only have the power. We do have the power if we choose to take it. If we choose to speak our minds. Because there's all kinds of people out there that think the same way that you think. And you know what? You may be wrong. And I'm not saying I may be, there may be plenty of things I'm wrong about. But I'm not going to learn.

I'm not going to learn anything by sitting at home and then reading after the fact and going, oh, shit. I don't know why they did that. Well, go find out why they're going to do what they do on whatever. it is. Yeah, and I would just say my experience with local politics is when I went to go caucus, I was the youngest person in there. I was 23 at that time, I think.

I was the youngest person in there. No other person, I know that it's broken up between counties, whatever, but it's just like, really? Yeah. No other young couple was in there. Like literally, I was, I couldn't believe that. like, wow. No, no 20-year-old, no 21-year-old, no 18-year-old. It was just, yep, I was the youngest person in there. Yep. That was wild. And I think I would have been like

the 20-old, 20th youngest. Yeah. There was a lot of blue hair. It's just like, well, that doesn't mean anything about age. That's just, well, I mean, there, yeah, a lot of old people. Yeah. Well, anyway, I just thought that was something to share. But, I don't know, guys. We talk about it a lot on this, on hot topics. It's just we got to, we got to, something's got to change. Something we all got to do better about. We all got to do better about being involved and taking our own responsibility.

But at this point, at the top level, we got to get these guys, we got to vote these guys out. We got to vote them out. And I don't know. Vote for the lesser two evils haven't got us very far because. because a lot of these elections, you end up with two candidates that are just a different head of the same coin. And I don't know what the answer is on that. And the other thing is, we've said it before, can you blame it? Who the hell wants to be a politician?

Yep. I mean, who wants to put themselves through that? It's too damn bad. It really is. So, well, anyway, I don't want to get over, I don't want to waste our time tonight without talking about Iran attacking Israel because that is part of a much bigger deal. So a few nights ago, Iran launched like 350 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and about most of it were drones.

And the United States, England, and Israel shot down basically like 99% of there was hardly any damage. However, everybody was freaking out and thought, oh, this is the beginning of World War III, and you could just see all the fearmongers out, just hyping that up for all it was worth. And to Israel's credit, they didn't retaliate yet. I will guarantee you that they will retaliate against Iran. But a really interesting, I guess for me, viewpoint of that is, I would be curious to know what the value of all of the munitions, all of those missiles, drones, fired by Iran,

what the value of that was versus the value the money that was expended by the United States, England, and Israel to shoot all that down. And I think that if you knew that number, it would be very disturbing. Because I think that we are at the very beginning of a complete paradigm shift in how wars are waged. and I'm not sure whether or not we be in the United States have got our shit together when it comes to that. And the reason I say that is because you had Houthi rebels in the Red Sea going into the Suez Canal

firing off $2,000 dollars. drones and we were shooting them down with a $2 million missile? How sustainable is that? And in Ukraine, Ukraine thought that they were going to use drones to turn the tide against the Russians. And Zelensky made the comment that they were going to deploy over 100,000 drones. And when the Russians heard this, they said, here, hold my beer. Because they're in bed with the Iranians, and the Iranians have shared with them their drone technology, and they've been making drones for the Russians, but now the Russians are building their own, and they're pretty decent, and they're very cheap. And the other thing the Russians have gotten good at is electronic jamming to where these drones that

guided by somebody, they jam the signal so the drone loses connection with whoever's flying it and then it just crashes or just flies the wrong direction because there's no communication. And they're cheap. They're cheap. And I thought about this and I thought if you're China, if you're China and Ukraine can build 100,000 drones, and you're thinking about attack in Taiwan, well, how many drones do you think that you'd have to throw up before it just becomes a mathematical impossibility that a United States naval group can shoot them all down

before you blow up an aircraft carrier? Like how viable is an aircraft carrier If you just cannot Put enough lead in the air basically To get rid all these drones Or block their signal Or block their signal or whatever And you know

I'll put on my Mighty US hat There's plenty of people that are going to come after me in the comments And say oh The United States Their technology is so much better We're so much further ahead we've already got that all figured out

and blah da da da da da da da da that well the United States has two problems we have a lot of problems but one of the problems is and you and I have talked about this and we talked about it tonight how excited are you or people your age

about join in the U.S. military to go fight a war in the Middle East or Europe or Taiwan. Not very hyped up to do that. For a multitude of reasons, but I mean... Yeah.

We don't want to go fight a war for somebody else to get rich and benefit off it because Vietnam was a shit show. Two decades, what was the two decades we spent in Middle East? Pretty much a shit show. All the progress made, all lost. Should have just went in there, killed Ben Laden. got out. But we decided to stay and spend trillions of dollars and line the pockets of the military industrial complex and politicians and government. How many men were killed? How many women

were killed? For what? For fucking what? Because now the Middle East is where it was when we started. And now we're having a Middle East, Middle Eastern threat happening again. Yep. And we, I mean, you can argue there was no progress made. nothing nothing in the long run sustained and that that was all for nothing and i i sympathize with any veteran that had to go through that and go fight that because i mean that's my that's how i look at it why would i want to go fight a war especially with america being in the state that it is in at home where it's an absolute shit show and train wreck why why do you think i would be motivated to go fight your war for you to line your pockets.

And what do we get out of it? So recruiting, the armed forces, the number of people, and I'll say World War II is a little bit different. I genuinely believe our livelihood was on the line. Our, I mean, our way of life. Our way of life was on the line. Hitler and the Germans were fucking moving.

Japan was a threat, legitimately. Yeah. They were trying, I mean, if Hitler could have taken over the world, he might have tried to do it. I mean, I think he was trying to do that shit. And that was a real threat. That was a real threat. I felt like people really thought, okay, we got to stop this fucker. Like, he's going to just keep conquering if we just keep letting him. But this, I don't feel like Putin's out to try to conquer the world. I don't feel like Iran. Iran just hates Israel. But what's that got to do with fucking us? Right now, how bad things are here? Like, what, what's there, what's our, what's there to gain out of that? What's, what are, what are we threatened by on that? Israel can hold their own.

I mean, I don't know. Part of the problem there is, on the one hand, we tell, uh, Israel that we've got their back no matter what. And then on the other hand, we're playing kissy, face with the Palestinians and the Biden administration is trying to play both sides of that and they're not doing a very good job on either one. However, I get off. The United States Armed Forces is having a really hard time recruiting because young men and women don't believe in those institutions the way they used to. And part of the reason for that is because, as you and I talked, camera, there was this unspoken like boogeyman of the military industrial complex.

And nobody thought that that was really a thing, but well, it was kind of a thing. Well, I think most people today generally realize that there's five companies. There's five companies that pretty much are the U.S. war machine. and people that work for those companies go into government and people that are politicians that come politicians that come out of government move into those companies and it is a it is a well it's a money it's a money deal those companies make money off of people dying they make money off a war And they draped themselves in the flag and use the, use patriotism and the United States and keeping us safe and all of that as a guise for the operations that we do all over the world. So when we ship money to Ukraine, what we do is we ship money to Ukraine and then they turn around and they write a check back to Raytheon for,

this missile system or that missile system or to Boeing or to whoever. It's a big, we print the money, we print the money, we appropriate the money, we send the money to somebody, and then whoever we send it to, write to check back to the military industrial complex. And that circle, now granted, they employ a hell of a lot of people. And I totally want the United States to be the most powerful country in the world because I think we have the best opportunity to do good in the world, and I think that we are without a doubt the freest,

even though I think we're less free than we've ever been, I think we're the freest country on earth. And I want to keep it that way. However, we have some real problems, and part of it is that the young people of this country are losing faith in the political class and in the military, and the military has traditionally been the highest, when you ask people their trust level of the military,

it above all other political groups in the United States, it had the highest rating. It's not that way anymore. But we have that problem in that young people don't want to be involved with the military. But then the other problem we have, as this technology changes, and the federal government goes to Silicon Valley, because they want the best and brightest working on this technology

either to improve our own drone technology or to improve our electronic warfare technology. Guess what? A lot of these Silicon Valley tech companies, they want nothing to do with it. They want nothing to do with the U.S. government because, one, they don't want to get swallowed up by McDonald's, Donald Douglas or Raytheon or whoever, and two, they don't trust them. And that is, it's going to be

really interesting to watch over the next few years how, how this all changes. And I'll go back. You know, we're spending, there is a brand new aircraft carrier that has come online. I can't remember what the name it is, and I don't remember what the price tag was. But it's, I mean, it's astronomical what that carrier costs and the group when you think of putting a carrier strike group together the amount of money and it all goes back to are we moving to a time where you're going to have to spend two million dollars on a missile to shoot down a two thousand dollar drone how sustainable is that i don't know it's crazy times yeah all say about it is I the war talk just makes me I like any time they can beat the war drum they're beating it and I do believe there's going to be a terrorist attack on American soil I don't know how the fuck there won't be because the border's been open for however long it's been open and when it does happen they will try to leverage that as an opportunity as why as to why we need to get involved at a higher level than what we're

we're involved in now. And I don't know how far that goes, but it is all, you could say that that, I mean, that to me, that's leaving the border open and people have been bringing this up.

Military-aged males have been coming across the border from all different walks of life, coming into America. We've been screaming it from the rooftops. And all this foreign, all this shit's happening on the world stage being planned out with war. And then when that happens, you expect me to buy your bill of goods that now we're going to beat the patriotism drum and say, this is why we got to go fight when this probably could have been avoided if you just would have fucking listened to us.

But, and, you know, done something about the border. I mean, it just feels very, that feels very intentional to me. it feels like we're being set up to fail yeah it makes me feel like they're setting it up to go to war they're setting it up to here we go we're going to have all the shit you know we're going to have all this shit happen around the world stage all these countries are going to go out each other we're going to have our country just be in an absolute shit show and we're going to have the border open and yep there's probably going to be terrorist attacks and once that happens let's rile everybody up like we did with 9-11 and let's go go into World War III.

I'm just going to tell you, I don't fucking buy it. I don't fucking buy it. I'm not going to buy it like 9-11 was when it happened in 2000, 2001, whatever. It's just not, I don't think it's going to have the same feel because I think most young people are like you said.

We don't trust the military and the government. I mean, you just piece it together. Yeah, piece it together. And then it's like it's back the track record. Middle East was an absolute shit show. We were there two decades. What did we get done? Nothing.

All for what? All for what? What did we ultimately achieve? And how we got out of Afghanistan, thanks to Joe Biden. Yep. Absolute shit show. Why? I, yeah.

I'm very wishy-washy on this subject because I do have pride in the U.S. military, obviously both my grandpa's fought. One of them fought in Vietnam and one of them fought in World War II. And, you know, it's near and dear to my heart. And I have a lot of respect for veterans and people that do lay down their life, lay their life on the line for us. But these last two conflicts we've been involved in, it's just been very, it hasn't been good for the people that went and did it. It hasn't been good for the American men and women that have gone over and And it hasn't been good for our country. It hasn't been good for our country. The only thing, the only people that have benefited from it is the military industrial complex and the government.

Anybody that was involved that was making money, hand over fist for the trillions of dollars that was being spent on. Government contractors. Yeah. I mean, that's, at the end of the day, that's, that's what it was. How common do you feel is your viewpoint among your peers? I mean, I think if you're aware of what's happening, I think it's pretty common.

But if you're just like the people in fallout where you're just going on about your day and you're not paying attention, you're gonna, you'll probably buy into the propaganda that, yeah, well, shit, we better go over there.

Yeah. But I think if you're paying attention at all, you can kind of see that this is, they're pounding the shit out of the wardrum. I mean, it's, they're, they're, it's going to happen. I know it's going to happen. And I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, enough recruits.

Is there enough people willing to do the job to go over there? I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. But all I know is, I don't want to go fight. And if it was, it'd be different if I felt good about, like, it would be different if I felt like it was necessary. Like, if it was World War II.

like where it's we have got we have got to fight for our country for it to stay free free for it to make it and have a future we have got to go take out the threat because it's not looking good but i genuinely don't feel Putin is that i don't feel like Putin wants to conquer the world right i don't feel like he wants to take over and nuke everybody and just be this evil dictator that they paint him out to be i genuinely don't think so and Tucker Carlson interview was pretty evident of that. He's just trying to do what's best for Russia at the end of the day. And I don't think that's world domination.

And I think Iran and Israel, everybody fucking hates Israel in the Middle East, pretty much. Let him fucking duke it out. What's that got to do with us? They're going to come here, obviously, and do shit on us to row us up to go back them up. But why do we need to get involved in that conflict? Yeah.

And then Taiwan and China, I mean, same deal. I mean, same deal. I mean, I think Taiwan's, I don't know much about Taiwan, but are they less equipped than Israel as far as military? There isn't anybody as well equipped as Israel. Yeah, I mean, our main thing. There we might need to offer a little bit of assistance, more assistance than we're offering now. But I think Israel can hold his own. And I think Ukraine and Russia, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what the solution is. is, but all I know is I don't feel like these wars are worth putting boots on the ground and sending our boys and women to go fight it. Yeah. Because I don't think the stakes are that high.

Yeah. And I still don't think the stakes will be that high if there's a terrorist attack in America. Well, I don't think it's a... My problem with the Ukraine-Russian situation is not not as much with

Russia as it is with Ukraine in the fact that I don't believe that the Ukrainian government is, I don't trust them. Yeah, I don't trust them either. I think they're very, uh, I think that they're very corrupt and I think that that whole administration was, well, wasn't there, I mean, when Obama was president, we were going in there and wasn't there speculation that we were trying to make

Ukraine less Russian-minded and more European-minded so that they would go away from Russia? Yeah, right. And so if you're in Putin's fucking shoes, how would you feel? Yeah. Okay, this other country had came in here and there's speculation that that has been happening

and Ukraine and in America have kind of been buddy-buddy, and America had a hand in doing that. the other side of this that I think is pretty dirty is that the Ukrainians are being used, they're being used, the people of Ukraine are being used terribly, because the rest of Europe and NATO, we're funding this because we're basically fighting a proxy war against Russia. So we're just using the Ukrainians

as our proxy. And I think NATO and the United States anytime the Cold War might be over, I don't think it is, but any time that you can weaken Russia

and we don't have to be the ones doing it directly, I think they're all about it. And I just feel like the Ukrainian people are getting used. I don't think anybody, in the political circles care whether or not Ukraine is a free state or not, I think they're just being used to serve a purpose. And that's, I mean, that might be right, it might be wrong, but that's the way I look at it. I look at it is they're being manipulated. You know, everybody makes it out like

that Russia is going to take them over. And I don't think that's, like, I don't want that to happen. But to some degree, I don't think those people are free now because I think they're all being manipulated by the government that they have that I don't think is probably representative of the people of Ukraine. It's just a freaking mess is what it is. and it's one of many messes just going on around this world. And at the end of the day, I'm not 100% sure why the United States,

with everything that we have going on at home, and as poorer conditions as our economy is in, and the amount of debt that we have incurred upon ourselves, why we are spending, our blood and our treasure around the world and giving money to people to hate us and just doing all the things we're doing when we can't even run our own shit.

We can't take care of ourselves. And we're not going to solve any of that tonight, but anyway, that really has been the hottest topic of the hot topics, the whole the Ukraine, Russia. And in the United States House of Representatives, I think there's four bills that are going to be debated this week. Originally, they had a huge spending bill that they tied to border security that was funding for Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine. And then you had the TikTok bill that floated around and didn't get out of committee, or didn't pass,

whatever the hell it was, didn't pass in the Senate. Now then there's four bills, and they're going to debate each one independently, money for Israel, money for Ukraine, money for Taiwan, and a standalone TikTok ban bill. And then on top of that, they're going to try to get the Majorcas impeachment trial going in the Senate. So what that means is there's going to be a lot of sound bites. And nothing's going to happen, probably. And the news is just covering Trump's case. Yes, and the biggest thing on network news is Trump. All they'll be showing is Trump.

Trump and the fact that... It's what gets the ratings. Trump and the fact that they're not going to let him go home for his son's graduation. I will say, side note, Barron is a big bastard. He is. He's gotten tall. Baron Trump is a tall fucker. Holy shit. But, yeah, I think we need.

need a drink yeah uh at the end of the day all of this is enough to drive you to drinking and we i got i got a message on x a few days ago uh just chastising this a little bit we've been slacking on the bourbon minute and so today we have a bottle of penelope barrel strength and this is the first bottle of uh anything by penelope that i've had And this is a, this is all MGP distillate out of Indiana. They, they're, the guy that does their formulations, I think they call it a four grain, a four grain mash bill, which I don't know what that means. Well, I know what it means.

There's four grains, but I don't know how they formulated it or whatever. But it's gotten pretty good reviews on a lot of their products. I think this is a newer one. And I just saw it. In Iowa, when you see something new, you just got to get it because you know it's not going to be there very long because our allocation sucks here. So anyway, I can't get the top off.

Oh, there you go. That was a good sound. Yep. Pour me up, bartender. I'm not sure how old this is. I want to say it's probably about six years old, five, six years old, something like that. I don't want that much. I'll pour myself some.

All right. Here you go. Do it up. Buttercup. Smells like it's got a little bite to it. It smells like it's going to burn. It smells like it's going to have a little burn. So I think it smells, to me, it smells young.

It smells like high school. Well, it doesn't smell like Southern Comfort. Well, I didn't do that, but... All right. It reminds me to take it liquor out of your liquor cabinet. No, maybe. I thought it was only clay that did that. No.

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Oh, no, I mean, it's not terrible flavor, but the burn is just so overpowering. And it's fast. Like, you can't get any, there's not a,

there's not a lot of flavor. You can't enjoy the flavor that long. Yeah, like there's a little tent and then it was burned the rest of the way. Yeah, it's a real fast, finish. I would say that that is, it drinks like a really young whiskey. Like, that would be a

lot better if they would have left it in the barrel longer. Yeah, it had a, yeah, look at you. You're getting good on how to talk about it. I've been watching enough, I've been watching enough bourbon TikTok that I know all the buzzwords. Yeah, well, I don't know nothing. I, it had, it had, it had potential. I felt like when I first put it down the hatch, it had of this a little bit of sweetness and then it just quickly went away really quick. That's why like Four Roses is like... Four Roses is... Real good.

It's got that... You can really taste the flavor. I think... I think Four Roses is one of my favorite bourbons as far as consistency goes against really all their products. I probably buy that. I probably drink that the most, I would say, of... of anything that I get.

Knob Creek's good. Yeah, some. Whatever we've drank before, I really enjoyed that. Makers is pretty damn good, hard to beat. Makers is what, if I go out, a restaurant that we eat in town a lot, usually most have it,

so that's what's nice. Yeah, they make a good old fashion with makers. But I like trying new stuff, and that'll probably sit on the show. What do you get? What do you give that? I'd give it a, I'd, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. It's a nice bottle, and it's got a nice beginning. I'd give it like six out of ten.

Wow. I was going to give it like a four or five. Yeah, I could see that. I almost gave it a five. Yeah. So what's the worst whiskey? It's that. Peaky blinders.

Blinders shit. That shit was terrible. Yeah, that stuff is terrible. This wasn't very good, though. This might be one of the, I mean, it just wasn't, wasn't good. Yeah. It, I mean, we'll have to try. They've got some older stuff. We'll have to try. That's a mixer. You would mix with that. Yeah, I don't even know if I'd mix with it or not. I mean, yeah, it'd be fine. But there's, there's cheaper. And that was, that was $50. That was $50 for that. model. Is that cheap? Or's that pretty middle of the road? So that, I mean, obviously I was able to buy it at the liquor store. 59.99. Yeah, but it was on sale. Well, I don't know. Whatever. He rang it up and it ended up cost me like $54 with tax.

So maybe you rang it up wrong. I don't know, but I didn't say anything. So, um, but for $50, I can go buy. You know what this is good for? What? If you ever, uh, had a wound and you, you, needed to drink while somebody was operating on you. Well, somebody was cutting your toe off or hopefully. Yeah, just slug that shit back.

Because the pain from just slugging that back would override the toe getting cut off. Okay. So that's what it's good for. We'll set that next to the... How's that for buzzwords? Yeah, that's a... You found the bright side. Yep.

Bright side. Yep. We'll put that next to the first aid kit. Okay. So if you need it. There you go. Well, is there anything else to need to tell? All the people. I think we covered everything. We hit 100,000 subscribers on our This

Do Farm YouTube video or YouTube channel. So that was pretty cool. We've been doing that for five years. We did that. We started that before we ever started this. So it's pretty cool to see that. People really like watching this farm. I don't know how, but it's like a, it's just like the podcast. It's like a train wreck. People want to look away, but they can't. And there's a certain amount of people that leave you're a midget. Yeah, they can't decide if I'm a giant, door for what what my abnormality is but they're kind of drawn they're they're entertained yeah that's that's been really cool so we're just going to keep chugging along and try our best to keep bringing you guys value i know this was kind of a more doom and gloom episode but i think these conversations are

important to have and important to share because you know every time we do a hot topic with you guys we feel like you all we get so many comments and so many emails and so many dms from people just saying thanks for doing what you're doing don't stop we relate to you we're thinking the same thing you keep doing what you're doing and so we're going to keep speaking our mind we're going to keep speaking on how we think on these subjects might be wrong might be not but all i know is we got to do some shit we got to turn this train around because uh you know i love this country and i'll die for this country i'm not leaving i don't care back to the thing i was saying earlier in the podcast I'm fighting for this country.

I mean, I'm not bitching out and going to go where it's easier. I'm going to fight for this country. If that means dying for what I think is right and dying for what's made this country great for the years that it's been in a country, I mean, I'm going to fight for those ideals. So I encourage us, I encourage every single one of you guys to do the same and just try to be a better American. and that's all we can do really, you know. It's all we can do at the end of the day is go out and vote, get active in your local community,

try to be a better American and set the standard of what that means. And hopefully we can try to get some of these corrupt fucks out of politics and get some good eggs in there for us, the American people that actually are doing the shit that, you know, matters. so that's all I'll say we love you guys we appreciate you thank you so much for all your support thanks for tuning in have a great day and we'll see you back here next week for another episode