Barn Talk - Barn Talk Hot Topics: New Southern Border Wall, Mr. Pfizer & The Fall of American Cities

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

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We really appreciate you guys tuning in today. Now, let's get into the episode. 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 haven't done one in a while, and the topics we got on the schedule for today are steaming. So before we get into it, though, you guys know the drill. Pay the fee. If you get any value from the show, share it out with your friends, family, coworkers, team members, whoever, the more that you guys share the show, the better guests we can have on, the better podcasts we can make,

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And if you have any questions for our Q&A episode, send them at barn talk show at gmail.com as well. So that's all I got for you. Dad, what do you got? You're a great humanitarian. It's awful nice of you. I know. We got to get the product out.

We got to get the pork out for people to try it. It's some damn good pork. Pork chops are pretty fire. I would put Farmer Grades pork chops up against any that you get as far as the marbling and the fat and just the way they grill up here. It's got the right amount of fat. You know, some of these pork chops nowadays, they got like an inch thick. I mean, it's like inch, two inches of fat on the outside. That's a little too much for me.

We just got done loading. Loading pigs last, or this morning at 1 a.m. and we just loaded more pigs this morning at 9 a.m. So we are just completely energized, guys. We're feeling good and spry. Are we? I don't know. You were going to say I was about gas.

Well, we are kind of gas, but this coffee's helping a little bit. Today, we are very happy to be shooting the podcast today because if it wouldn't have rained, we would have been going back to harvest. So I'm going to give you the market update, and then we'll talk a little bit about where we are in harvest. but we got a little moisture this morning, and that gave us a reprieve, which we needed, because I don't know if I was emotionally strong enough

to go right into harvest after loading pigs in the middle of the night. Yeah, schedule's kind of fucked, Rick. Right now, it's kind of fucked. Kind of burning it pretty hard. Yeah. Anyway, this is as current a price as what Katz grain could give me the last time that I looked at the website this morning. So corn 495, locally 479 at Eddieville.

And no, 479 is actually at one of the feeders. Eddieville has the hot bid by the 14th. They've got 495. Beans 1281 for November contract, 1234 in Burlington, and 1264, if you want to go over to the Great State, Illinois. Wheat, 574 for December, bean meals 371 a ton, which is quite a bit, better than $430 a ton like it was not off that awful long ago. The October contract for hogs is $80, but the December contract, I'm not sure if it has broke $70 yet. It was $69. So those two are definitely going to have to come together at some point, up or down.

Cattle 181, feeder cattle 247, crude oil is $82 on the December contract. Bitcoin, $27,000, $27,000, $27,000, Tesla, $260, gold, $1,8,27, and silver is $19.25. I don't know why I keep them on there. They don't change. None of that change. Everything below crude oil, I don't know. I've kind of given up on common sense is in short supply, but whatever. Harvest update. So we finished beans yesterday. So that feels good. So we're we're over half done. I'd say I think we got 340 acres left to do between us and Davey. Five-eighths. Five-eighths. We're five-eighths. We're five-eighths.

You're kind of splitting hairs now. Yeah. I was going to say three-quarters, but I don't think we're about three-quarters. We're not quite three-quarters. No. So, yeah, it's been good. It has been. It's just been busy. So it's hard to get everything going. I mean, this is literally the only time that dad and I've been able to sit down and shoot it, shoot the podcast, so it's nice that we got some time this week because we really want to get one out. But harvest has been good for us. Yields have been surprisingly good on beans and corn. I mean, beans aren't the best we've ever had, but better than what we thought. Considering the lack of moisture, I really thought the beans would be hurt. And interesting is

our beans, I think the field average end up being 64 of 121 acres. And This ground here has a little bit of roll to it the further you get to the south of the farm and that usually is really good dirt right through there, but I think the south sloping land just got pounded that much more with that heat and that was actually the so where we finished up that was the poorest beans we had like some of it was running in the 50s and where we started to the north on the flattest ground they were running in the 80s. Because when we started, we thought our average was going to be over 70 bushel the acre, but it just got worse as we went, and by the time we finished, we ended up with 64.

Thankful for that. But corn, on the other hand, corn yields in southeast Iowa, depending on where you are, have been insane. I mean, literally the best corn yield that I've ever raised myself, and they're running anywhere between 250 and 270. And I don't know where our field averages will end up because none of our fields are done.

Our corn on bean grounds about half done. And we've only taken the ends and just a little bit off of our corn on corn. Corn on corn is definitely not going to be as good. It's not going to hit that number. But crazy. And we're not alone. I think everybody is very pleasant. least surprised. The other thing that Sawyer alluded to is this is really the first break that we've

had in harvest since we started because there has been no rain. It has been pretty much sunshine every day and a lot of wind. And when we started, we filled the dryer once and that corn was 22, 23%. And then we did a little bit more at David's and then we switched to beans and now we're going back and one of david's neighbors was in 1108 pioneer yesterday day before and it's running 15 percent right out of the field so we may just dry in season was like one and done because this corn may be it may be so close that even if it's not that low we'll just throw it in the bin and put air on it and call it good so it's good for us uh but probably not going to need a lot of propane in southeast Iowa doesn't look like.

No. I guess we'll have to use all that gas we contracted just to grill up pork chops. There you go. That's called efficiency. Yep, absolutely. So I'm happy with it. Yeah, it's been good. And we're going to get done with it here probably.

I don't know, what do you think? Maybe in the next month. But I guess if it doesn't rain, we could probably get it done by the end of the month. Oh, I think we'll be done. Here's my, I bet you we're done with harvest. unless the weather goes to hell I bet you we're done with harvest by the 25th of October

maybe the 20th if we have good days of running because we can knock out 40 45 bushlet or 40 45 acres a day on corn especially if we don't have to wait on the dryer because we can just run and we'll just put it in the bin so if that happens we could be done

before that even but fingers cross fingers cross It's just hard. This year, this year has been a grind because with us going back and forth to David's, as we talked about, I don't know if we talked about it on here or not, but David, that he does our custom work and drag lines are manure, but his father passed away this year and actually not that long ago, a month ago, two months ago. Yeah, two months ago. Two months ago, probably. And so, you know, he's, he was in good shape as far as, you know, he knows what he's doing and he is taking over a lot of it anyway. But that's a big, that's a big transition when you've got, when you've got somebody there that, you know, has got your back and can always hop in and do this and that. And so we've been trying to kind of be that for David and going to his place and we've all been running together, which has been great. But with this weather, I mean, we've been running every day.

Yeah, every day. And we've been going pretty much seven days a week. I mean, we haven't, we've been starting in the afternoon on Sunday. But yeah, between that and dumping, dumping our big site and trying to get a podcast done and trying to get stuff done for Farmer grade and everything else we're doing, it's a, I don't think we need one more thing to do. No. I'm not looking for anything else. Makes life fun, though. Yes, it does. I wouldn't want it, one in any other way. It's definitely not boring. Yeah. Yeah. It's not sunshine and rainbows, though, either.

I think the world likes to paint farming and entrepreneurship is this glorified walk in the park, cakewalk. Oh, you're going to make all this money being an entrepreneur, or being self-employed. There's money to be made.

There's a lot of fucking work to do. There's a lot of money to be spent. Yeah. So... You pretty much have to spend it as... I mean... There's so much stuff that we want to get done and, you know, just trying to, just trying to make it all work that, yeah, it's, I wouldn't trade it, but it's probably not for everybody because, uh, sometimes your mental health suffers a little bit. But today, today is not one of those days.

No. is a good day. No. So our first topic is, uh, we, now we need a border wall. So yes. Did you see that? So Biden sold 30 million dollars worth of wall material for two million. And now they will probably buy it back for 60 million. So when, when Biden sounds kind of like an Afghanistan thing, you know. So when Biden came into office, one of the first things he did was he just put the kibosh on the whole border wall deal. And, And he wanted to get as far away from that as he could. So, you know, all of that, all those pieces that were in place down there, that all came, that all got wound down.

And you had, you had, you had wall that had just been built. You had wall that the footings were poured. You had wall that the, that the metal, the sections were laying there. You had sections that were partially made. You had materials that were purchased that hadn't been put in. I mean, the whole, thing was just, you know, they were doing it as they went. That all got stopped. And the story that I read was, and gosh, I think it was 30 million. I don't think it was 30 billion. That seems awfully high.

But anyway, the number I heard was 30 and 2. Whatever it was, if it was 30 million, they sold all the stuff, auctioned it off. They got about $2 million out of it. And we didn't need it. I feel like that might be a billion. It could be billion. It's a wall. I mean, you're talking about a wall. My tiny brain, some of these numbers, I can't comprehend. It's a big number. When you're thinking in bushels, it's hard to think in dollar signs.

I mean, when you're in that mode, it is. It's hard to keep it all straight. It is. It's just funny because I feel like he did that because he probably didn't want, he wanted to get rid of anything Trump had, you know, he doesn't want any, yeah, anything that Trump touched. He wants to get rid of it. And he, that from the onset, that's what they did.

and now I think they're starting to kind of wake up to the fact. And, I mean, if you've been active on any social media for any part of Biden's administration, and you've probably seen that the border is an absolute shit show. I mean, people are just flooding in there. And drugs are coming in. Middle-aged, or war-fighting-aged males are coming in. From all over them. all over the world from all different backgrounds, ethnicities, whatever, races, whatever.

Like, I think everybody just thinks it might just be Hispanics. You know, that's like the, like, that's the, you know, typical thing you think about with the border is, oh, people are coming over from Mexico. It's not. There is. There's Chinese nationals. Chinese people from East Asia, Africa, Africa. I don't know if there's any Russians or, or Europeans.

I don't know, but Middle East. Middle East, too. Yeah, they don't know either. Yeah, so that's very concerning. And it's also just like, why are they sending, if it's so bad from where, if they're trying to seek asylum, why are the men coming? Yeah. Where are the women and children?

Right. Well, we can't, I mean, we all kind of might know the answer to that. They don't probably value that stuff as much as we do here. But, or they're trying to come in here and do some shit. I don't know. but there's you're seeing it i think you're seeing it play out now um that they're it's not good you know all these refugees all these immigrants are getting imported into these cities they're so why so why now why now when we've been getting along just fine and the borders under

control and we've got that stellar stellar homeland security guy that guy he boy he's smart what's his name snuffel uppicus like what's how do you pronounce no i actually don't even I think it's either it's something like that or else it's like the guy that his family owns the yogurt company. I can't antho. I don't know what his name is. But anyway, boy, he, he's a sharp tack. Anytime I've seen him up on the Capitol Hill, he really doesn't impress me. Well, I don't know. From the onset, from the start of their administration and just the, how the years have progressed as far as the border just getting worse and worse and worse and worse. and you're seeing the crime happening in America,

not saying it's all from illegal immigrants, but there are some cases where illegal immigrants are raping women and killing people and robbing people and stealing shit. That is happening. And opioid pandemics happening in America, and everyone's like, well, how's that happening? I don't know, probably because they're bringing it.

Anyway, it's just, I always felt like it was kind of of done intentionally just because we've been going on for so long now it's been multiple years that it's just getting worse and worse and worse and like nobody's covering it but then you get you see real videos from the border like actually shot at the border and you're like holy shit yeah that's not good that's bad and then you see these news articles come out of the crime happening from illegal immigrants it's like it's so weird like there's just not a lot of coverage on it but when you actually watch real people, like, reporting on it with their cell phones and putting videos out there, like, you can actually see what's going on. And there's, there are articles about that narrative

of illegal immigrants causing, causing crime inside the United States. But there's not a super, there's not a lot of coverage. Yeah, and it's not mainstream at all. No. Which is, which is just, if it's such, it's, it's, it's obviously a huge problem, but it's just weird that the media a machine doesn't want to cover it for some odd reason. And it's weird that we're waiting this along to now. Like, it must just, it must just be so bad, like, so bad that they're like, okay, we probably need to build a little bit of wall. Well, and I, why do you think that is?

And my answer to that is, is because all of your hard left cities, mayors, legislatures in these states, and you can run through the list. Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, the most liberal, most broke, most woke, cities in this country

that became sanctuary cities. Now you're even seeing those mayors throw up their hands and say, enough is enough. And I think that that's where this pressure has come. I think the backlash is coming back to the Biden administration that we've had enough.

And that's all I can figure is that that's where the pressure has come, that now then they finally decided that they're going to have to try to build this wall. and let's not kid ourselves. Do you think any wall will actually get built? Or do you think this is just a talking point that they're going to put out there and say, oh, we've got this, we're on top of it, we are going to build wall, and we're going to build it in the places that Trump should have built it, because obviously if he would have done it where it needed to be done,

we wouldn't have this problem. They're going to try to spin it, but then at the same time, do you think they actually will get anything done? No. I think it's just for him to run on it. If they're going to allow him to run, I don't even know if they're going to allow him to run. I mean, I don't know if he's going to try to run again for re-election.

I would certainly hope not. But the way that they're parading Gavin Newsom around. Yeah. And Gavin Newson shows up at the Republican debate in California. and he ends up doing an interview with Fox News. I, there is something brewing there. I cannot, I would just be very surprised if this election goes on and Joe Biden ends up being your candidate.

Yeah, I think they're trying to make him the frontman because who else are going to get. But he is, oh God, I pray. I pray. people use your fucking head look at the state of california look at it just look at it look how that sunshine state has just fallen apart yeah major cities falling just falling apart it has the highest income equality inequality of any state in the united states i don't care what you say he has been the man in charge there and the policies that he's passed in that state have not done good by that state,

have not helped the state in many ways at all. And I'm not, I don't know every policy he's passed, but I have seen some. And you can just, the overall look of California is, it's in the shitter. You're either rich as fuck in California,

and you're a celebrity, you're a star, LA specifically. You're a star, whatever, and you're in there, Calabasas, whatever. Or you are, dirt broke. And the middle, I feel like the middle has gone, They're out.

They're out. They're out. They've left. California has the highest exodus. I mean, if you can afford to leave the state, you're leaving. And that's still going on today. I will give him credit, though. He is very well, I mean, he is your politician to a T. Very well spoken, can talk his ass off.

He can, he can, he can, he can, he can, he can, he can slur his words around. Don't get it twisted. But, guys, it's just like, it's just like anything. look at the evidence look at the body of work that he has produced that state is his responsibility to make it better can you look at california and go that state has gotten better it's flourished under gavin newsome running the show no i think the answer is pretty obvious no but i mean we you and i were just talking about that before we started okay so that's that state but let's let's let's let's let's just Let's talk about everywhere that liberals, liberals control, and they've been allowed to just run amok.

Chicago. San Francisco. LA. Philadelphia. St. Louis. New York. Whatever. Whatever it is.

I mean, it is an unmitigated disaster. Philadelphia is the latest as far as the rampage that ever, you know, there was how many videos of people shooting that just randomly. They're just tearing that place. downtown and new york new york the the mayor and the governor of new york you can see them pivoting they are walking a tightrope but they know that they're screwed they know that city screwed they know that state screwed and they are pivoting and they are they are two of the voices that i know are pushing hard on the biden administration to get this border under control because new york is literally and

figuratively drowning from illegal immigration. It's ridiculous. And the crime, it is a, I just don't know how you solve it because the problem is now, you and I were just talking about this, you have started a cycle where no business is going to come to these areas where all this violence is because how can you afford to open a business when there's a 90% chance that it's going to get broken into and rated and just trashed but you can't protect it because you've defunded your police department and there's no integrity within it and you can't not only that if you brought the funding back which you don't have the money because your tax base has collapsed you don't have sales tax you don't have property tax so

So how do you pay if you said, okay, we're going to fully fund the police and we're going to get this under control? Well, are you? Because one, who are you going to hire? Because nobody wants to work there. Nobody wants to be a cop in one of these cities. And two, you don't have any money. You're already broke. And not only are you broke as far as just running your government, you have an unfunded pension obligation for all the people that came before that you promised them that if they served your city or they served your state, you're going to give them this pension and their health care is going to be paid and they're going to get 80% of what their salary was. Well, guess what?

They're fucked because you're sitting now, everybody went haywire when Detroit filed bankruptcy. Detroit is the tip of the iceberg. The pension liability for the state of New York, the state of Illinois, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, California, that pension obligation and the amount of debt, because not only is it an unfunded obligation, the reason it's unfunded is because they've stolen all the money. They've taken all the money from the pensions and used it for other shit, and there's not enough people working paying into the pension.

it's a disaster. And on top of that, you went to, you can buy a, what'd you say? What was that? Yeah, I went to, I went to Casey's,

and I don't know about you guys, but Casey's, I ain't gonna lie. They have fallen off. They, they've gotten way too big and all their shit. It's an average-ass gas station now.

Yeah. Because they've gotten so big. Everything's branded Casey. pizza is not as good donuts are not as good and it's just I don't know they're losing

they're losing me I won't lie and I've loved Casey's I grew up with Casey's but anyway what's Casey's Ice Breakers $3 for a pack of ice breakers I said it was $3.78

wasn't it? No I think it was $3 on the dot okay $3 we made that point like all this all these cities are poorly ran no businesses want to go there because why would you? The crime's so bad.

There's no police officers to handle it. And I also feel like there's a lot of young people my age, you know, that are just getting started, getting out of college, getting that first job, you know, meet the girl, meet the boy, whatever. Going to start a family. Buying a house right now. Buying a car right now.

Well, just paying rent. Surviving. Yeah. Buying groceries right now. Like, I'm feeling, I'm even feeling it in the Midwest, like in a small town in Iowa. Like, shit's expensive. Cities, it's got to be just outrageous.

It's just got to be outrageous. And if you're a young person and you feel like you can't do what has always been taught that you can do, like go to school, find the girl, marry her, buy the house, buy the car, settle down, have the kids, do the life thing. You can't do that when you're supposed to do that to society's standard or whatever. I feel like there's a lot of pissed off people. And I feel like maybe that's why you're seeing

these businesses just get raided and just crime and people just stealing shit is just at an all-time high. There's just a lot of piece of shit people out there. Unfortunately, they're just are. but I think people are also just pissed. Yeah. They're just pissed.

Everything's so expensive. Wages probably haven't gone up with the amount of inflation. Oh, there's no way. No way. And people just can't get, young people can't get started like they used to. Yeah. And I think that's just adding fuel to the fire. But I think it's to your point.

And I mean, you've made this point, I don't know how many episodes ago. If you've been listening or watching for a long time, Dad made her, you know, he's been on this point for a while. probably did it a couple months ago where you talked about San Francisco and you talked about all these major cities. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like Detroit was the city that fell in America, that everybody, that was like national news. Like, you know, Ford Motor Company was there. Like, it was booming and then it just fell. And everyone's like, what the hell happened? And I feel like it's going to happen in more places and everybody's going to be like, well,

what went wrong? Yeah. All the shit that you said. I mean, nobody, anybody there that, anybody there that loved living there, either can't afford to live there or sick of the crime, so they get out, and you have the rich of the rich, and you have the poor of the poor, and you're just adding gas to the fire, and it's just making shit worse. No cops, all that, like we said.

Yeah. And I also think, this is, this is kind of a tidbit on the police officer thing. the police force in this country has never been the same since George Floyd. I don't care what anybody says. It's the truth. This whole defund the police thing, it started, and the major cities are the worst. I have a couple buddies that are cops here in Iowa, and they said it's great because the benefits are amazing now. Like, they're incentivizing the shit out of people to become cops because... They have to. It's a need. And like, ever since George... Like, I don't think that was the case always before George Floyd. you know but after it just became this thing where we got to get police officers and because a lot of

police there was a lot of guys that were had years in that were close to retiring and when that happened and they saw the people the distrust and the hatred and all of the shit that was put forward towards the police force guys that had 20 30 years in a lot of those guys threw their hands up and they were just like, why, why am I, what am I putting my life on the line when this is the thanks I'm going to get? And a lot of those guys retired. A lot of those guys got out. And there's not enough young people for all the jobs we have in this country anyway. And law enforcement, it doesn't look very good. Let's face it, if you're a young person, and you've seen the George Floyd and you see all these cop videos of all these, because like it's a hot topic thing now.

Ever since that happened, everybody's getting their phones out and they're recording. Because they want a fucking cop to try it. They want a cop to, yep. Like they, my buddy's even said, like, traffic stops. Yeah, you don't know. 50% of time you're getting recorded. I mean, you're just going to get recorded because people are, they are ready. They are wanting to get the moment.

They want to catch it on tape. And like, that is a high. I even said to them, that's high. I mean, that's pressure. You got to be, that's some fucking pressure right there. because you know you got to be on every time you interact with a citizen, you have got to be on, on, on. You got to know your shit.

You got to know that book. You got to know that law, which is probably good. It makes them perform better, but it's also just a lot of pressure. And if you'd say, what are some of the most, you know, popular job opportunities? I think cops probably way far down the list. Yeah. But anyway, yeah, I don't know what the solution is. is to that. I would just say if I was in one of these cities, I'd get out. That's what I would say.

Get out. Get out. So I was in, Trish and I were in Madison, Wisconsin, beginning of this week, the World Dairy Expo, never seen so much cow utter porn in my life as what was going on up there. In fact, it's still going on. I just saw the email today. It's still going. That thing's like over a week long. It's huge, huge deal. It's double or triple the size of like rural pork expo. But I was up there with the LWE boys, just helping them out a little bit. And I had five Uber rides. I Ubered from the hotel down to the Alliance Center where they have that.

And five different drives and drivers that were between the age of 58 and 20. 23, I think, so your age. And every one of those, every one of those people, I asked them about, you know, how they like doing what they were doing and what they thought about, you know, how they like Madison and, you know, just whatever. Because it was about a 20, it was about a 20 minute ride getting down there and back. And same, same viewpoint of all of them. Different ethnicities. They were all men. They were all men. I did not. have, I didn't have a woman drive me anywhere. They were all men, but different ethnicities, different ages. They all said the same thing. They said that everything is too expensive, and the older,

the older drivers said that they were just thankful that they weren't trying to start out. They weren't trying to start a family. And the young one, the youngest one, he said he just didn't know how he was ever going to get, be able to raise a family, because everything. thing is so expensive and just there's so much uncertainty yeah and that's that it's it is a little bit uh of a concern because like i was asking you has there like i know interest rates have all you know they've been higher before and i know we've had tough times in this country but man i just is there ever been a time where it's been this expensive to live. Like, is it ever been a, because I know there's, there's been times where we were broke.

Just everyone was broke. Yep. Just broke, right? But has there ever, like, I don't feel like people are broke. Like, it's so weird. People have money, but everything is just so fucking expensive now. So, like, it's like you're the new broke, but like, you know what I mean, though? It's weird. It's not, weird. It's, it's a weird time. Like, is this ever happened to? before where it just seems like everything is just so high. It's one of those things that I feel like we have, if you're lucky enough that you're employed, you have a job, you own a business, whatever, you have money, but the cost of just living has never been higher. So it goes to what on our list of things to talk about. We're going to talk about at the end, but it really lays into this good,

is the cost of energy in Europe because the cost of feeding your family, clothing your family, putting gas in your car, rent, or if you're buying a house, all those things have just gotten outrageous. So you feel like you're broke because you have no money to do anything other than just live. And in Europe, I just saw this story the other day. In Germany, there's a firewood shortage. there's not enough firewood and the reason is because natural gas which most people heat their home with natural gas has gotten so expensive that people have gone back to feeding their house out of their fireplace or a wood burning stove so all of the people that always sold firewood they're sold out so now the government's having a shit fit because people are just going out in the timber

and cutting down trees they're getting their own firewood and they don't know what the hell to do because all the greenies are piss because they're going to de-for-us the, you know, they think the fucking guys follow. That's going against their agenda. Yeah, they can't have that. And, but people are like, what the fuck am I supposed to do? Because I can't pay my gas bill. And the French, being, being French like they are, their answer has been, they are trying to put, uh, basically limits on your gas meter to where you're only allotted so many BTOs of gas a month. So you, I told Sawyer, it's like, so you can is that going to solve anything? So you can either just be cold the entire month or you can be okay

and then freeze at the end of the month until you're... Honestly, what's, it'd almost be worse to have 14 days. Half the month you're living in luxury and then... Yeah. Because you might as well just get used to the cold because that might be better. Better for your dental anyway. And then that reminded me, uh, the guys that put our solar on, one of the guys that works from him, he's from England. and he said over there, it's been this way for a while now, your electric meter at your house, it isn't like here where you get a bill every month from a lion energy. No, every electric meter has a card reader on it,

and you basically, you buy your power up front. So, oh, you know, you put this much money in and it gets this many kilowatts of electricity, and if it runs out, you got to go out to the meter and put more money in it. And if you ain't got any money, well, you ain't got any power. And that's how they do it, which, I mean, I guess that's fair. But when the rate keeps going up, there's all, I mean, it is, it's not exactly the utopian experience that, you know, the Europeans, there's a lot of people that think the Europeans are so progressive. Well, they've progressed themselves right back into,

they may be progressed themselves back to the dark ages if they can't get their energy policy figured out. But to what you said, I think we are to the point where just living is so expensive that you have no money left for anything else that is, you know, hobbies or going to see this or going to do that or going to that fancy restaurant or buying something that you just don't need. You just can't do it. Yeah, I mean, I'm not the thing. typical joke. I'm not the average, I'm not the average 23 year old as far as like, I don't go do much because we're just doing so much here and I like to doing that and that's what I enjoy doing.

But, you know, Kat and I've looked at going on vacation before, you know, just to get away for a weekend or something or a week. Dude, that shit is outrageous. Yeah. When you think about rent a car, Uberin, food, Airbnb, hotel, what you're going to do, I mean, you're lucky if you don't spend five to eight to $10,000 after doing that. I mean, maybe I need to go look around more. But it's like, I'd love to go take a break and go travel and go see places. But I just feel like right now it's just, it's insane. Like, it's just with everything.

It's just crazy. Like, you got to have some money built up to go on a trip. And then you think about, what was that trip really worth it? Right. A week of my life for that much money. Yeah, then I got to pay off now. Right. I mean, for a lot of people, they're rolling on a credit card.

That's just hard. But speaking of credit cards, American Express, if you're listening, it'd be really nice. It'd be really nice if you would let me roll my Uber cash or whatever. I get $15 at Uber credit every month on American Express. And I only go somewhere where I need an Uber like twice a year. So it would be really nice if I could have like, you know, 100, 100. in Uber cash, but I don't. I only get 15. And it's, uh, it was $20 each way going to the Dairy Expo. So I burned through that pretty fast. So if you're listening out there,

hook me up. This sun is really pissing me off. Yeah. So if you're watching this, at times I might appear like I'm angelic. And then at times I might look like your dark evil demon. I'm a dwarf. Well, I'm all, I always look like I'm a dwarf. But yeah. So yeah, this freaking sun is flashing through the two barn windows on the south wall of the barn here and it's just sun shines sun sun goes away sun shines sun goes away and it's directly behind dad and so he gets really bright and then he gets really dark nobody cares what i look like they're here they're here for the knowledge that's right or for the there's a lot of you that are listening so it don't matter anyway. But if you're watching, I do apologize. Dad.

We should have an assistant with one of those umbrella things, you know, to soften the light. We don't have that in our budget because our fricking, our power bill is too expensive, so we can't afford it. Yeah, anyway, I don't know. That's a lot of doom and gloom, but I think we got to get some shit figured out. And I hope to God, I hope to God. And I'm not saying politicians always solve things, but there are some things that, could probably help us if we get the right person in office. And I'm not saying the president makes all the decisions because I think there's a lot of corporations that are running shit behind the scenes.

But president getting the right commander of chief in office might help us a little bit. The one we have is not doing a very good job. No, it's definitely not helping us. And he ain't good for nothing. And the scariest part about Biden is that the people, who's running this country is not him. is not him. Who you, quote unquote, voted for, voted for, isn't the man running the country.

And if you think that he is, you are fucking stupid because he can't even walk straight. I mean, just watch the tape. Look at the tape. He's being fed everything he says. I mean, he ain't the one running things. And that should scare the shit out of you. He's not the one making the decisions. That's not the person you voted for. So that's the, that's the biggest thing. So we got to vote. we got to vote. Let's have a little, let's have a little lighter. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll talk a little bit about,

we're going to get a little bit into the sports talk because it kind of, it is a hot topic going around right now. We got Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift, and we also got Travis Kelsey maybe quote unquote, or aka Mr. Pfizer. So Travis Kelsey comes out and he posts this ad campaign that he does for Pfizer, posted on his Instagram, and now it's on TV if you watch football or anything. Of him getting his COVID shot and his flu shot, he gets two shots, and he's, you know, promoting

him, promoting everybody to get the shots. 20 million. Get the jab. And, you know, I really, it really didn't just piss me off or rub me off the wrong way. It obviously rubbed a lot of people the wrong way because he actually turned off the comments on that post that he put on his Instagram, that video. But people went to the next post that he had and just let him have it in the other post that he had.

People are not very happy with that. And I looked at it as somebody that does, you know, because now Travis Kelsey is one of the biggest stars in the NFL in all of sports right now, obviously. He's Dayton Taylor Swift. They have like the number one sports podcast, him and Jason. They just had a documentary on Amazon Prime. He's with the Chiefs, one of the best franchises in the NFL right now, and he's a baller. Obviously, he's like the best tight end in the league.

So he's killing it. But, man, with that big of a brand and your base is in Kansas City, Missouri, and you're winning on all these other levels, why? I just, I can't wrap my head around. Why sacrifice the authenticity of you and your brand that you. of you, like you are one of the most beloved people in America and then, because you're just you. Like people love Travis Kelsey because he's 100% himself. He'll say what he wants on the field. He'll do his little dance shit. He'll, he ain't afraid to tell the mayor of whatever on the Super Bowl stage to watch his mouth,

the Bengals, or Cincinnati mayor or whatever, you know, he says what he wants. but everybody that saw the post, everybody that saw the ad, immediately said you sold out. And it's like, dude, you're making millions of dollars, not just from playing football, but he's got a shitload of endorsements. He's got a banging podcast right now

that they're getting paid for. Like, why? Why do that? And I think he lost a lot of, I think he lost a lot of credibility. I really think it hurt his long-term brand because he's being labeled as a sellout now. Yeah.

But here's the caveat to that. So that happened. He posts that, that went for a couple days. Then it comes out that he's dating Taylor Swift. And what do the great, what do the people in this country do when something happens? And then two days later, another thing happens, they completely figure out about what happened two days prior. And so Taylor Swift comes to the Chiefs game, starts dating, it's coming out that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are dating now. And it's almost like.

Like everybody's forgotten. Most people have forgotten. I haven't forgotten. I think there's some other people that haven't either. And I think ultimately it is going to hurt his brand. But now that he is part, he is dating the number one pop star in the entire world. It's just he's grown, his popularity has just grown tremendously. And everyone's just forgot about it.

And I don't know if Taylor, I don't know, Taylor is obviously a lefty. like she's 100% liberal for sure. She's, from what she's plugged before, she seems like she's hooked, hook line and sinker. So maybe she influenced that decision. I don't know, but I just can't understand why he would do that. For what all he's got going, I just, why?

Because that is your number one in this, in the age we live in now, that is like your number one thing that you can't compromise. I think because there's so much fake shit. There's so many sellouts in the world now today and people are just tired of it. And they want authenticity. They want real. Not only in content, but businesses, people, celebrities, they want in everything because

that's... Well, because we can't trust anything. So when you find something that you think you can or you find somebody that you think is genuine and that this is, you know, he can do whatever he wants. That's totally fine. It's just there's a huge amount of people that follow. followed him that probably that doesn't align with

other things. That doesn't align with the image that he's put out. And kudos to Aaron Rogers for queuing up the Pfizer man. Now that is an example. The best thing Aaron Rogers ever did,

quarterback, I did not like Aaron Rogers. Just because he beat the shit out of my cowboys anytime it mattered. Too many times. Too many times. And that fucking belt he used to do in the end zone pissed me off so much. I did not like

Aaron Rogers. But when he started opening his mouth and saying what he wanted to say and being authentic and not giving a fuck what anyone says, that changed a lot of people's opinions, including myself about Aaron Rogers.

And that's a perfect example of why people, like Aaron Rogers is authentic. Authentic and people are starting to like it more and more and more people are starting to like. him because of it. And yeah, he went on Pat McAfee's show and literally was talking about the Chiefs for Chet's game and he called Travis Kelsey, uh, Mr. Pfizer. And everybody, it stuck. And it's stuck and everybody laughed their ass off. But it was just so funny. And like that's what makes

Aaron Rogers so likable is because he don't care. He does not care. He's going to do his own thing and people can respect that. So that's my two cents on that deal. I think it was a poor decision on his part, honestly. Yeah. Like, you're making all the money. I don't care what check they're giving you. Why? You're making money, dude. You're the best tight-in in the league. Got a great podcast

going. You got plenty endorsement steals. Why do it? Why? I think one of the... Unless he is a true believer in it. Yeah. I mean, unless he is just he is all about the COVID vaccine and thinks it is the fucking

holy grail to stop the spread of COVID. He thinks that's what... And he could. Could. Very well could. But it doesn't align. It doesn't seem to align with his reputation or his... Because he's been really honest and authentic, I feel like. He has been. And when I saw that, I'm like, that does not seem like something that you would be aligned. And I think that's what most people... Yeah. That's why he's getting called a sellout. And we did a, you know, I don't... Hell, this has been, this might have been like podcast number 30.

I maybe it's not been that long but we said one of the biggest trends I feel like this was in 22 was authenticity yeah like in a world where because you know when you listen to the media you can't well I can't shouldn't say that

but the level like there's been multiple studies so the level of trust of your politicians all time low Joe Biden's approval rating all time low honesty and media all time low Trust in everyday products you use in your home.

Yes. Trust in companies. Trust in food. All time low. Yep. Absolutely. All these things. And it's not that people are starving.

And I think this is true no matter which side you are. If you're a lib, if you're a hardcore lefty love COVID, think that you should be able to kill your child right up until a week after it's born. and you should be able to, I don't know, marry a horse. I don't care what your position is. If that's your position and you are true to it, I can respect that a lot more than I can respect these people that stick their toe in the water, and they want a focus group,

and whichever way the wind's blowing, that's how they're going to position themselves. And that's what people just hate. Authenticity is what people want. think people can smell it out more than ever before. Yes, 100%. Because it's, it's just happened for so long now that people just, they're smarter than what they give it. Like, they're smart. Yeah. They know Travis had to have gotten a hell of a check for that fucking endorsement deal. Yes. 100%. And that's the first, that's the top comment you see is how much. How much? How much was, I bet that check was nice. Yep.

That's the first thing people are saying because they know. They took. totally no. Like, that's the deal. That's the deal about it. I don't care. I think over money, over money, it's what people think about you. If you're building a brand, if you're Travis Kelsey and you're doing that, your authenticity and what you're known for and what people, you know, really enjoy about you matters more than any dollar sign and staying true to what, stay. That's hard, though, because you're on that stage. You got to do, you got to try to be you. Right.

And I don't think he's been being fake. Like his whole career, I don't think he's been fake. I feel like that's just him. But maybe he has, I don't know. It's hard to say. That's hard. When you're in the limelight like that, you could be putting on a front. I don't know.

But your integrity matters. It's worth way more than your short-lived NFL career. Yeah. Because what you, how you are off the field, and how you treated people and what, yeah, your integrity, that is what is going to carry you through the rest of your life as to whether or not you are respected, whether or not you're relevant,

whether or not you can continue to flourish at a high level. Once that, once that, and I felt like they were really setting themselves up good. And I mean, they still. Yeah, they still are. They still have. I just lost respect for him out of that. Yeah, I, yeah, I lost a little respect. I still think he's a hell of a ball player.

I still love watching him play football. I still, hell, I still even love watching their clips on their podcast. I think him and Jason are killing it, and I love it. But, yeah, bad move, my opinion. Just a bad move. Last thing that I'll say, and then we'll wrap it up. I know this is a quick one, guys, but we got to get going to the field because it stopped raining. I would also say, if anybody out there watches.

football, I would just say the NFL and the fans in the NFL, we judge way too early. We judge teams way too early in the season. The Bears have been terrible this season. And last week, they got in a shootout and they blew the lead and lost. It was a big game. Played very well, just shit it down their leg. Thursday night football, this yesterday. They played the Redskins. Sorry. The commanders and beat the living shit out of them. And three weeks, ever since they've lost, they've been 0 and 4. They just got their first win last night. I mean, the sky is falling. Chicago's bear fans are saying, Benj Justin Fields, the starting quarterback, fire the coach, tank for the number one pick. We're terrible. Jeez, we are four weeks.

into the season. There is a lot of football to be played. Chill out. Chill out. And it's like that with every fan base. But holy shit. It is a 17-week season. Chill.

So wouldn't you say, though, the flip side of that is, what, two weeks ago when Miami beat up Denver? Same deal. Those same people are. This is the year. This is the greatest football team that's ever played the game. It's already done. The season's over. Miami is going to be...

It's a dynasty in the making. In sports media is just as bad as political media in the fact that they just got their narratives. They're running. They're trying to make the shows entertaining. And they are sparking that shit. But oh my gosh. Like the Bears last year were not very good.

But at the end of the season, they got really good. You know, they got better, right? and they're starting quarterback, Justin Fields got better over time. And this year he started out slow, but the last two weeks, he's starting to get into the groove like he was at the end of the season last year. And it's just like, just shut up and let him play a little bit before you're just like, let's just destroy the whole team and blow it up. So that's all I would say.

A lot of ball to be played there. Okay, so that's my last two cents. So we're going to wrap it up. Hope you guys enjoyed this one. I know it was a quick one. leave review on Spotify or Apple. Submit your proof at Barn Talk Show at gmail.com. Send in your questions at barn talk show at gmail.com.

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