Barn Talk - Barn Talk Hot Topics: Ohio Train Derailment, Chinese Spy Balloons & Epstein Files

Episode Date: February 21, 2023

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So we're going to drop some heat today. We're doing a hot topics two in a row because back to back because there's so much shit going on in the world that's just craziness. But before we get into all the hot, hot topics we got to discuss, if you guys getting value from the show, pay the fee. share it out with your friends, family, coworkers, employees, whoever we're trying to grow this thing. The more you guys do that, the better guests we can have on, the more content we can create for you. And it just helps us out tremendously. So we appreciate every one of you that have

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That suits you well. That suits you really well. It might be EIP manufacturing, but I choose to believe that it's because an extremely important person. What's EIP manufacturing? They are the preferred gate manufacturer of this will do farm. So they've built all the gates and all four of our, buildings. They're from Earlville, Iowa, and they're another example of how the ag industry is one of

the greatest economic developers in the state of Iowa, because every one of these hog buildings that gets built, all that steel gets made into gating right here in eastern Iowa, and they've been doing it for a long time. So clear back when I was selling buildings, PSI, who I used to work for, use EIP Gates and shout out to you Carl, Kingpin, Salesman Extraordinary for EIP. We could do a whole, we could do a whole show just on Carl's stories and we'd have Carl on, but I don't know if we could write a disclaimer long enough for that or not. He is quite the guy. I will not admit, I will have to admit it. He is funny as hell, though. He is funny as hell. He has. He has. He has. Carl has done a lot of living. He's got some damn good stories. Anyway, I think before we

we get into the hot topics. We got a few things that have happened in this month, particularly. We haven't really covered. Super Bowl happened. Yep. Valentine's Day happened. We'll start with the Super Bowl. Great game up until the last drive of the game, I thought. I have no skin in the game.

I don't love the Eagles because I'm a Cowboys fan. And the Chiefs, I could take it or leave him. I respect Patrick Mahomes' greatness. I respect Andy Reid's greatness. I respect Travis Kelsey's greatness. I love the Kelsey brothers. I think that was awesome. It's a great story.

Can't beat it. They must have been feeding those kids a lot of bacon. A lot of bacon. Absolutely. Genetic potential was definitely met there. The only thing that I have a complaint about is, man, you can't make that call.

I don't think the ref could make that holding call on that drive, on that part of the game. When you're on that biggest stage and that game and as close as that game was, you got to let them play. Got to let them play. And I felt like they did a really good job all game letting them play. And the problem I have with that holding call was, yeah, he tugged him a little bit in the beginning. And I'll give the Eagles credit.

They took full responsibility, said, this game was not decided on one play. The corner took responsibility. He said, yep, I held. But everybody watching looked at that and it was like, that's kind of bullshit. And the other thing is Mahomes overfrew him by 10 yards. If it was close, if it was close to the receiver, I get it. But it wasn't even close. I don't think that receiver could have.

So I think the argument there is when he held him, he was starting his turn out there. And so it's hard to look at it and know whether or not that kept him from turning as soon. But even then, I don't think that that ball was catchable. And for anybody out there that's listening that is not a football fan, doesn't watch football, just know this, that wouldn't you say that pretty much every play in professional football, if somebody wanted to find a hold to call, there's somebody holding on every play. Yeah, 100% there is.

There is a holy call that can be called. I mean, maybe not, but the vast majority of plays, there's somebody holding. And so it goes back to what you use. said at at the end of the day i think they should have let them play and um i and you know the thing with that is chiefs kick a field goal and you give the you give the eagles an opportunity to go down and they could score a touchdown but they could have kicked a field goal we would have had an overtime super bowl which would have been awesome because it was a great game i wanted to keep watching but when you call that it's an automatic first down and you pretty much ended the game yeah you

literally ended the game the refs ended the game yeah and that's what kind of sucks. But other than that, congrats to the Chiefs. I respect the greatness of all those guys like I said before we started and kudos to them. They're building a dynasty. I wish the Cowboys could figure some shit out, but they still

don't have their head screwed on. No, they haven't got it yet. Chiefs were definitely the big winners. The big loser the Arizona Cardinal Stadium grounds crew. Yeah. That turf. That turf was

turned out to be a disaster. So the... Do you see the story on that? Yeah, so I heard that the halftime show heated up part of the turf, those platforms that Rihanna and all are... From the lights. ...that were dressed up in white,

shaking their cock around. Nobody was cold. Geez, they did a lot of humping in that halftime show. I will not lie. I was like, gee, many Christmas guys. Well, there were... Apparently, there was a lot of pressure brought that there were going to be no wardrobe malfunctions.

Yeah. dressed everybody like they were headed to the Arctic. And I'm glad I wasn't one of those dancers because those boys, I'm surprised none of them passed out from Heatster. No, yeah, I agree. I agree. I just, man, there was a lot of... So you're saying the lights from the platforms heated up the turf and the platforms, the platforms, somebody reported that the platforms warmed up the turf and it got really sloppy and that's why guys were slipping and sliding like crazy. I don't know if it was because of the condensation or what was going on. But they said after halftime, it was a lot worse.

Because everybody switched to three-quarter-inch cleats. I think Justin Hertz was the... Jalen. Jalen Hurtz was the first one to switch. But, man, yeah, it was pretty sloppy. And, yeah, last thing I'll say about the game, got to give credit to Jalen Hertz. That guy probably played his best game in the entire year,

and he proved on the biggest stage that he can play. So, uh, they better hold on to him. Yeah, they better not get rid of him. He's definitely proven himself to be a threat, not only on the,

on the ground, but he can throw as well. So that was, that was really cool to watch. And he's a humble guy, so I respect him too. But that was, uh,

Super Bowl. And then Valentine's Day, did you do anything special with mom on Valentine's Day? Well, sadly, we had dinner reservations, uh, at our favorite spot in our local little town here,

but Trish wasn't feeling too hot. Uh, She had had a cold pretty much all week. And so we called it. We called it the night before we canceled our reservation. So we had a quiet meal at home and stayed in. Fresh baked cookies? We did have fresh baked cookies, yep.

And we balanced that. We had salmon. Oh, there you go. Yeah, we had salmon. So we got balanced out the cookies. I could have four cookies that way. Maybe not. Maybe I was only supposed to have two, but I had four.

Yeah. Well, my, my Valentine's Day was good. I, uh, my girlfriend, Cat is kind of a homebody. She likes to, she likes to have a routine and she likes to stick to what she does, but she has a few things that she loves. And I figured out, you know what, I'm going to do some, do some good date ideas inside. And she loves crime. And so I got one of these packets that, that are filled with a file that's an unsolved makeup fantasy, uh, uh, murder mystery. And you kind of sort of, solve the crime together and it's got photos and suspects and all this stuff you got to figure out and QR codes that you scan to figure out who did what and whatever and check your work and that was really fun got her sushi because she loves sushi loves sushi and got her some flowers so did

you who did it who did what who did it who did the crime yeah um well we had to prove a guy's innocence first because he went to jail for 20 years for fall murder. Yep. And then I can't remember what the guy was, but it was some, it was her childhood best friend that played Little League baseball with her, ended up hating the husband that she was getting married to, because she got killed on her wedding, or her reception. I don't remember.

She got killed on her wedding night or something in the parking lot. And the guy didn't go and he had car problems, but in one of the photos, his, his, his cars out there in the license plate matches. and so it's a legit it's pretty fun i won't lie she loved it so it was a good time that's all that that's all that matters that's right well i think we got a fresh and hot strong market update yeah did you update it i did update yeah i did update it so the market update today uh courtesy of cats grain washington iowa closing early today because the roads are the roads are treacherous they're bad out there they are pretty crappy actually we went to town at noon they were pretty

crappy. So corn closed unchanged, so I got the closing numbers. Corn closed 676, and the best bid I could find local was basically a zero basis. One of the hog feeders had 676 delivered. If you want to wait and to deliver your corn in March, I think it jumps up to like 684. A lot of people have a 682-684 bid for March right now. Beans 1526, and if you can drive across the River to Quincy, you can get 1534. If you dump them in Burlington, you're only going to get 1515. Wheat 764. Hogs got pumped pretty hard from where they were a week ago. Swine fever in Hong Kong, which I don't know how that's such a big deal because there aren't any pigs produced in Hong Kong anyway. It's just full of people. But I think that maybe the export

the idea of what the exports might be are looking up. The export numbers haven't been great, but we think maybe they're going to get better. So hogs $85, cattle 162. Oil hasn't done much, which is really surprising because Russia came out and said they were going to cut production 500,000 barrels,

which is basically 5% of world production. Somebody can correct me on that, but I want to say it's 5%. and a lot of people thought that would bring the price up, but there's some question as to whether or not Russia can even deliver the oil that they are producing because nobody will haul it. The international tankers aren't hauling Russian crude oil, so Russia has got its own fleet of old crappy tankers,

and they're using all of them, and they were relying on getting some of the Europeans to haul it, but the Europeans have said nothing doing. So that idea that they're cut in production may be actually out of necessity and not because they're, I think they're trying to spin it that they're doing it on purpose when in fact they may just have to do it because they can't get it all whole. Anyway, gold 1853. I don't know, the economy is really weird because there's so much gloom and doom

and everybody's talking about putting your money and save things. you'd think the price of gold would be moving up a lot harder than what it has, and it's actually backed off a little bit. Same way with silver, $21.75 for silver. However, Bitcoin, $25,000. That is the highest that Bitcoin has been since last June. So, Robert Kiyosaki, rich dad, poor dad, thinks it's going to $500K. Really?

I think he either said it's going to tank again and it's going to $500k, or he said it's going to go to $500k now. I can't remember. But he came out and tweeted something like, Like, he's thinking it's going to 500,000. I would even take 475. Yeah. I'm happy about that.

So it's dragging up everything else. Ethereum's up $1,717, and that's probably the highest. It's been quite a bit. Cardano's 41 cents. That really hasn't changed much. Tesla 214. Tesla is kind of on a tear. They're going to get a bunch of money from the U.S. government.

So all you haters won't like that. But they're going to open up part of their charging network. to anybody. So if you've got a Mustang Machee and you've been suffering at a shitty ass electrify America charging station, you'll be able to go to some Tesla. Not all of them. They're not going to open them all up, but they're going to open up a part of them. So you'll be able to see what life's like at a well-run operation. So they're going to do that. Meta 175 and Amazon $99. Neither one of those stocks have moved a whole lot, a lot of gloom sitting over the tech industry right now. Seems like it.

Seems like it. That was pretty strong right there. There you go. A strong market update. So our first hot topic is Ohio train derailment. If you guys have been paying attention at all on social media, because it's really not getting covered by big media, or they were really damn slow to start covering it.

They're starting to cover it a little bit. it now, but holy shit, they were slow. So there was, on February 3rd, a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and exploded in East Palestine. Is it Palestine? East Palestine. Ohio. Out of the 150 train cars, 38 of the cars derailed.

One million pounds of vinyl fluoride was on this train. One car had bootle and, what is that word? It is. There's a flammable damn liquid. It's a liquid hazardous chemical. I didn't do well in chemistry or science, so just bear with us on some of these. So it spilled and then they burned it. And then, yep, they burned it after that.

Two hopper cars of PVC burned or are still burning. Four cars loaded with oil, leaked all or part of their load. Twelve more were destroyed by the fire that ensued. The length of the train was approximately 8,000 feet. 8,000 feet long. 8,000 feet long. They come two ways. They're either 40 foot or 60 foot, and I don't know what the difference is, but most

tanker cars, I think, are 60 feet. And so 8,000 is kind of an average because I couldn't, it's 150 cars, and I couldn't see where it said the exact length. So if they were 40 foot, it would be 7,000 feet, and if they were 60 foot, they'd be 9,000 feet. So I just said it's probably about 8,000 feet. Yep, around that range. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed fanocloride has leaked into the nearby Ohio River Basin. Phanocloride is not only flammable, but it's considered a carcinogen, which we all know causes cancer.

The Ohio River Basin supplies water to 25 million people. Yeah, it's... That's very concerning. It was really a really shitty place for this to happen. And that list of stuff that we gave you that as far as what ruptured, there was a bunch of other stuff on there. There was, I read the manifest. I was sitting there. So this is a good, this is a good side note.

So I started Googling all this stuff, the manifest of the train. And then I got to thinking, so I wonder if somebody's tracking me now, because I wonder if some, computer somewhere has flagged my IP address because I googled the length of the train, I googled the manifest. Then I started Googling all these chemicals that were on it to find out whether they were flammable or whether they were carcinogens. And I was like, gosh, I hope a black SUV doesn't pull the driveway out here and they cart me off.

And, you know, that's a thought you really shouldn't have. But that's kind of how the world is right now. and I was talking to a guy today at lunch that commented about our last podcast because we were eating lunch and he said he asked me how my lunch was. I said it was good and he goes not quite as good as as Lucky Charms, you know, ha ha ha because we were talking about the food pyramid. And so we got started talking and I said to him, I said, I would hate to be writing material for like the late-night talk shows because reality has gotten so crazy that when you're trying to make up shit, it's like, how do you even make stuff up that's crazier than what the actual news is?

Because it's just, it's insane. So anyway, I digress a little bit. I agree. But yeah, I mean, this, that, that, the Ohio River supplies roughly 10% of the drinking water for the United States. So a really bad spot for that to happen. and in that list there was like four, I want to say those are 10,000 gallon cars, 8,000 or 10,000 gallon that was full of basically like anaphrase. It's the stuff that you put in. If you have a ground source heat pump,

it's the liquid that they put in there. There was four or five of those that ruptured, and that all flowed somewhere. And somebody made the point that, some of those chemicals that leech or burned or got out they by themselves may not be that dangerous but you got to remember

all these cars laying on top of each other rupturing and then they did a controlled I've got my air quotes up controlled burn of that vinyl chloride because it started venting off and they didn't want it I don't know what they thought mixing chemical I mean yeah you're having a bunch of shit mixing together. You have no idea what...

It's a chemistry lab over there. Yeah. I mixed a bunch of shit at the chemistry lab one time and blew up the beaker. I almost flunk chemistry for that. In science class. In science class. Yeah. And that was a very small controlled environment, not 38 train cars. Yeah. Who knows what? My biggest thing, and we're going to keep going here, because we've got a lot to talk about on this topic. But my biggest concern and just... kind of question is this happened on February 3rd and we didn't start hearing stuff about it until this Monday this this Monday is when we started hearing stuff about it and it's Thursday now this Monday is when we started actually hearing stuff and I didn't start actually hearing stuff

on the mainstream media till like two days ago Tuesday right Wednesday yeah and it happened a week ago right week ago it happened on my birthday February 3rd that and nobody heard anything about it that's the crazy part and that ties in right into our next point on february 8th a reporter evan lambert was arrested at the scene trying to report on the disaster uh he was charged for criminal trespass and disorderly conduct he was later released that day but it just gets you to it kind of gets your wheels turning like why the hell did they arrest a reporter that was trying to report on what's going on. And they said he was getting loud,

and that's what they say is he was getting loud and kind of disruptive. But, I mean, the guy kind of has a right to, I think in my mind, I mean, those people are suffering. That town's going to suffer for generations. The amount of damage that's being done there, or that has been done there, is insane.

I mean, the repercussions of that thing happening is, it's just endless of the amount of stuff that's going to be going on for years and years and years and years. And I don't even know if you can live there. Well, right. So for a little bit of, you know, for those that haven't seen anything or don't know, I think this is one of those situations. It's very similar to the little town that we live in and the fact that I don't know how big it is. Is it 12,000 people? I don't know. I don't know for sure. I get the feeling that it's not very big. It's like 8, 10,000, 12,000 people, something like that. and the train pretty much goes right through town, you know, maybe one side more than the other.

But, and it happened, it derailed two miles, two miles outside of town is where it happened. And, you know, they told all these people that they needed to evacuate. But what, I don't think what, and I didn't realize this, but, so if you were a person from that town, and you were told to evacuate, and you didn't have the money to pay for a hotel room. And I don't know how far they had to go to find a hotel room either. I don't know what the, I mean, obviously they're not too far, I think, from a larger city there in Ohio, but I don't know for sure. But what they told all these people were, you go get the hotel room and then we'll reimburse you for it. They didn't give them, like they didn't call ahead and set up that you could just get a hotel room. And from what I

understand this town has a lot of poor people in it. So if you didn't have a credit card or you didn't have the money to pay for a hotel room, I'm not sure if you got a hotel room. I don't know if you get out how that worked. Yeah. But then they sent them all back home two days. As I know right now, people are saying that live in the town that they're, the government's telling them to resume life like back to normal. Like the air quality's fine. Schools are opening back up and you can go about your day-to-day life and just keep going as they clean it up. But obviously most of the citizens that got out are staying out. They're using their brain and realizing, hey, when I walk into this town, I'm getting headaches and fish are dying in the water sources. And cattle have been reported

as far, dead as far as 100 miles away from the accident. I mean, this is all shit that, you know, people are afraid of. And so it's a little, that's the other thing that I'm really skeptical about. I don't think this was intentionally done by the government. I do not believe that one bit. I think this was, we'll get into this a little bit. I think this was a corrupt business that needs to be held accountable that really didn't check their, check their shit very well, and didn't realize how big of a issue that they have and just kept pushing their limit and fuck around and find out is kind of what happened.

We're in the fuck around and we found out. They fucked around, and then this little town, they found out. Yeah. And that's the bad part about it. Because, and I had no idea about this, but it's very interesting because the little town that we live, in close to us. They're in the process of having,

I think they're basically doubling the number of trains that are coming through. And the average speed of the train going through is going from 40 miles an hour to 60 miles an hour because of the additional freight that they're moving on that line. So when this happened, I was kind of keenly interested in it because there's a lot of parallels

we've got more trains running and they're running faster. And then the other thing I didn't realize was that since from 2008 to 2017, the average length of freight trains across the whole country have grown by 25%. And the reason for this is because the competition with over-the-road trucking, these railroad companies have lobbied the government, lobbied Congress, lobbied the Department of Transportation, claiming that the only way that they're going to be able to stay competitive and keep all these people employed is if they can haul more weight and have longer trains. And by longer trains, I mean, this train that derailed was, like I said, it's roughly 8,000 feet long, which is 150 cars.

there's trains out there running that are 10,000 12,000 14,000 feet long 200 cars on a train and I didn't know how this worked but I watched a I watched interview with a railroad engineer and he said what people don't understand is when you get 200 cars or you get 150 cars in a train no part of that train is traveling at the same speed at any given time. Because when you think about it, you have a locomotive in the front or you have three locomotives in the front and you've got three locomotives in the back. And hell, I don't know. Sometimes they may have a locomotive in the middle. It's hard to, I don't know how they do it. But so you're either pushing or you're pulling that train. And if you think about it, each one of those trains where it's coupled, if it has

a half an inch of slack or it has an inch of slack as you go down the line the amount of slack that's in that train is moving all the time and so he said that it's it's really difficult as an engineer you have to be speeding up the locomotives in the front and slowing down the locomotives in the back or vice versa or they're both speeding up or they're both slowing down because if you have to slow that train down you've got to be slowing down from the back and the front and using your brakes because otherwise that slack will all move forward and his point was the reason that this derailment was so bad is because the brakes failed but also because when you have that much slack and the front goes to stop, all that weight takes all that slack out all at once.

And then it's just, you can't, it's, the force of that is just astronomical. And one of the things that they've been doing is they've been lobbying to cut the number of engineers that they need on a train. So, you know, he gave the example that years ago you would have like four engineers on a train and under normal circumstances, you know, two of them would be sleeping because these trains run 24 hours a day, you know, on long runs, whatever. So you'd have two at any given time. And then if anything came up that you needed help, you'd have four people there that would be modern and everything. And they're trying to get it down.

They're running two and they're trying to get some of these trains to where there's one guy running the train. And that's it. And scary to think because like you said in our little town here, you know, we're very, I don't know what the ag, the ag, oh, I don't know what it looks like over there as far as agriculture goes. I know that there's cattle there because cattle are dying, pets are dying, fish are dying in the creek, stuff like that. But if that were to happen around us in our county, where we raise, what is the second most, or the most pigs in the entire country. Yeah, we're one of the most populous pig counties in the United States. an entire nation.

And if that were to happen, and corn and soybean production, we're up there, uh, shit would get out of hand really quick, not just here, but across the whole United States because I just,

I'd empathize with any farmer that lives in that area. Even close to that area, because they could have some serious, serious problems for decades. And with time, being the way that they are, the commodity market, inputs going up, they could have really probably needed a crop or they really could have, they really needed these cattle to pan out for them and they're losing their herd or they're not going to be able to get a worth of a shit

of a crop. And that's just scary. You don't know what it's going to do as far as the groundwater or so one of the things. If you're irrigating, you're going to irrigate, right. You're going to spray that shit on? Well, I don't know. They did a controlled burn there. So they made the decision that these tanks that were leaking this vinyl chloride, it has a very low volatization temperature. So my understanding is that, of course, in the tanks they were liquid. But as soon as the tanks ruptured and that liquid started to pour out on the ground, it started volatizing. In other words, it started to vaporize and turn into a gas. and they were afraid that this gas, because it was rainy and it was raining,

that this gas was going to move whichever way the prevailing wind was, and it's toxic, so they made the decision that they were going to burn it. They were going to light all these tanks on fire and burn it and get it all up high in the atmosphere rather than have that gas drift over the landscape. So that sounds good in theory. And maybe it was. Maybe that was the lesser of two evils. But as they were doing this, it was raining. And there's a lot of pictures people have posted online of people that were driving and the rain on their car was ruining the pain on their car. Acid rain. Acid rain. Okay. So then if that's happening and that rain is pulling those chemicals out of the atmosphere and it's going into the ground, if you're a crop farmer,

you're not going to know, we're not going to know for months whether or not there is crop ground, I guess it doesn't really, whatever ground around there, whether that ground is contaminated and whether it's going to have to be, you know,

whether you're going to have to go around and dig up the top three inches of ground because anything that grows in there is going to be toxic or whatever. I mean, who knows? Nobody knows. and they're going to figure this out over time, you hope. But it's a bad deal.

And to your point, if you have that happen here, depending on which way the prevailing wind is, you could very easily have thousands of market hogs, turkeys, cattle, that are all in a confined space, which it really wouldn't matter if they were outside. I mean, there are, if they're penned up, whatever. It doesn't matter. But they're in a confined space, and that, you know, they're power ventilated,

and all that, all that contaminated air is pulled into those buildings, and you end up with how many thousand hogs that are all gassed. That's what really got me, like, thinking, because it's easy to say, oh, that's too bad for those people in that little town. Well, it'd be pretty bad if that happened to our little town, But then you take a big city like you go to the river, you go to Burlington, you go to Muscatine, you go to Davenport, all those cities have railroads that run through them. If that derails in a city, then you're not talking about animals dying.

You're talking about people dying because there's no way you could get all those people. They're very lucky because this happened two miles outside of this little town that has how many thousand people and they evacuated them all. what happens if that happened in Toledo, Ohio? Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio. There is no way you could get all those people evacuated. And I don't think the other side of this is the government, they don't seem to have a plan. Well, it doesn't seem like they're acting fast.

Big media isn't acting fast. And like I said, what I heard from a guy that lives in the town that is being affected by this, I watched an interview on it. They are pretty much essentially saying the air's fine. Go back to live in your normal life is what they're telling them. Like, school has started up. Kids can go back to school. But obviously, like that guy,

he is realizing that's a load of shit. And he's in an Airbnb with his family outside of the town. And he's not taking kids to school. He doesn't know what the fuck to do, I don't think, because he had a business there. So it's kind of, I mean, a lot of these people, they had businesses there. They had cattle there. They had, you know, if they were farmers, they had businesses there.

And they had kids in school. I mean, just think about it. It'd be like dropping a fucking almost a nuke on a little town. Yep. And these people got to, the government's telling them to just go on about their lives like nothing's happened. Well, anybody with a, with any kind of common sense, I hope would know. That shit ain't right. That shit that they're breathing.

It isn't right. If fish are dying, animals are dying, pets are getting sick. You're getting a headache for the first five minutes that you're in the town. Yeah. No, Bueno. The irony of it is, they're telling the residents that. And if you look at the site, everybody that's working on the site is wearing a hazmat suit. Yeah, that's the other thing.

He even said that. He said, yeah, they're telling us that it's okay and we should go on about our lives. but then we got guys in hazmin suits all around the town cleaning up everything. It's like, fuck you, dude. Sorry to interrupt, but if you think this is good, you should check out our YouTube channel.

This will do farm. Like and subscribe. All right, let's get back to it. Well, and I think the worst part about it is it doesn't seem like there's any hurry on any governmental agency or on the part of Northrop's, Northrop Southern. It's Norfolk Southern. North Folk Southern. North Folk Southern Railway is the company that was

responsible. What did they tell the city they were going to do for? So they're a $55 billion company, B, billion. And they're responsible for it. And, you know, they force all these citizens to flee and, you know, all this wildlife is dying. And they have offered up a whopping $25,000 to the town for compensation of what happened. And that equals out to about $5 a person living in that town. Fifty-five billion company and they're offering up $25,000 into town to the town. And that's what I've heard. That's what I've seen on the internet going around. So it's about 5,000 people. 5,000 people at five bucks ahead is $25,000. So it must be about a 5,000, 5,000 people live in that town. Yeah. And this, and like you said, this company has done a shitload of lobbying to the

government. They've hired government. People that have worked in government to lobby for them. In 2001, annual report, North Folk Southern touted that it had successfully grown its average train weight by 21% and length by 20%. Some trains are now 10,000 to 12,000 feet long. North Folk Southern spent $1.6 million on lobbying efforts in 2002. I also saw a thing that said in 2017 they did a lot of lobbying for this exact thing, allowing less restrictions on hazardous chemicals that were being put on trains. They were lobbying to have less restrictions so that they could put more hazardous chemicals on their trains because they probably made more money when you're hauling that, I'm assuming. And they were lobbying for that in 2017. And this is one of your big things.

So I'll let you say it. So side note, the biggest lobbying group is, is Big Pharma. Big Pharma. So when I was looking this up, because they said they spent 1.6 million, you're like, that's a lot. But the biggest lobbying group in as far as money spent, they spent $356 million.

So Northwick Southern spent $1.6 million. Big Pharma spent $356 million. and out of that money that they, well, including that money they spent, 56% of their lobbyists are all former government employees. The pharmaceutical or? The pharmaceutical industry. Or is Norfolk? No, they didn't give any stats on theirs.

But this is something, and I don't want any of you to get caught in this, because let's face it, there's probably not, there's probably not that many of you that are listening that are probably staunch Democrats, Maybe you are, I don't know, and God bless you if you are. But anyway, this is not a Republican or Democrat thing. I've already seen some of the spin because Mayor Pete, so Pete Bulgajid or Bullich or whatever his name is, he is the head of the Department of Transportation, and he has zero qualifications to be the head of the Department of Transportation.

They just put him in there as a favor when he dropped out of the presidential race. doesn't know shit from Shinole about the Department of Transportation. But anyway, he said that the Trump administration put them in this position, that about the length of these trains or the weight of these trains or whatever. Okay, that's not true. So the Trump administration certainly didn't help because they, my understanding is since 2008, the people have been lost. lobbying to get the safety standards increased and like modernized because there's certainly better ways to help these trains break in an emergency situation than what they currently have. And there was a big push to get all of this stuff modernized. Well, there's some stuff that I heard that's 19th century

on these trains or the tracks or 19th century. Right. And the train lobby, which is Union Pacific, Northwick Southern, Canadian Rail, you know, all your big players in the rail industry, they're all lobbying against it. And they couldn't get it done and they couldn't get it done. And then as the Obama administration was headed out of office, they passed a really stripped-down version of this that my understanding is it didn't do a whole lot of anything, and obviously nothing was really modernized. And then the Trump administration scrapped at all and told them to go back to the drawing board because what they had passed didn't amount to crap. But when we're talking about this lobbying, they are giving money to everybody. They're not

giving money to the Democrats or the Republicans. Their list of the people that they're given money to is basically everybody, because what they're doing is they're trying to grease every person they can in government to get them it's not about what they want them to do it's about what they want them not to do which is nothing they are greasing government to do nothing because it will it will destroy their bottom line it will just it will they won't even destroy their bottom line they'll make less money is that who owns them who owns them because yeah there's a lot there's a lot i didn't know i didn't know all the companies but there's hedge funds a lot of hedge funds are Who are the two biggest? Black Rock probably. And Vanguard. And Vanguard. They're invested heavily in these railroad

companies. A lot of hedge funds are in these in these companies. So when you talk about, you know, you want to put, you like you want to put a face. You want to put a face on this and you want to say that, okay, there's there's these greedy people at the train, the train company at Norfolk Southern. but you got to remember these are publicly traded companies and they're owned by big holding companies and they're owned by people like BlackRock and what they're doing is these boards of directors are made up of people that are investors in the company and they're pushing them and pushing them and they want better return better return better return and the way you get a better return is you lengthen the trains haul more shit you haul more shit less restriction

Less restriction on what you haul so you can charge more because obviously you charge more for hauling a pound of hazardous materials than you do for hauling a pound of corn or coal. So they're pushing that. And then you try to minimize costs. The way you minimize costs is you cut employees because you don't need as many. You try to become more efficient. And you don't update anything.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You don't spend any money. And that's what's happened. and that's what's being pushed. And so when it comes to the finger pointing, you can point fingers a lot of different ways, but you really can't point fingers and say, It's this one person, this one person's...

Or this one party. It's not that the evil Republicans are out to, like, poison every town in America. No, it's all these politicians have chosen to not do anything about a problem, and now this has happened and you have a big problem and the spotlight's on it and now you got everybody running a cover and what you're going to see is everybody involved in this every department they're all going to point the figure somewhere else and say that well it's because so-and-so

didn't approve this funding or so-and-so didn't pass this bill this has been going on for a long time and hopefully I guess the the end of our rambling may be that hopefully something good comes out of this and people actually wake up and hold enough people accountable

that these standards change and I mean I don't know I just fuck you could solve a lot of problems by just getting rid of lobbying God dang if you could restrict lobbying and get rid of it altogether man I think

I think corruption would be very low, but there is just so much lobbying happening, so much corruption. You know, I talked about, I'd rather put my money in good businesses with, you know, great businesses with great people behind them than the government. And I still stand on that. I still stand on that. This is an example of a corrupt business with some bad people behind it that all they give a fuck is about profit and really don't give a fuck about people. Yeah. I mean, that's that's truly what it is and these are the kind of businesses that i don't support that i don't want to put my money in there are i think there's more good businesses and great people behind those

businesses than there are these kind of businesses but there's a lot of corrupt corporate big players like this that are fucking don't have the best interest in the american people and it's sad it's sad but god this is a this is a good example this comes back to if you remember at the end of the Trump administration, when Biden took over, he cut all the funding for the Keystone pipeline. And he claimed that it was because of safety issues. Do you know who one of the biggest lobbyists against the Keystone pipeline was Warren Buffett? He funded a bunch of groups that were against the Keystone XL pipeline. Do you think he did that out of the goodness of his heart? Hell no. The reason he did it is because he owned a big part of, and I don't know if it was

Union Pacific. It's Union Pacific. I remember it was Union Pacific. And the reason is, is because without that pipeline, the only way you move shale oil, oil that got fracked, from the tar sands of Canada and the shale of North and South Dakota, the only way you get that to the Gulf of Mexico to be refined is by rail. And if they built the XL pipeline, Union Pacific stand to lose billions of dollars. So, what do you do? You lobby this shit out of that to get it stopped. And you heard every reason why that pipeline was terrible for the environment. Well, let me tell you something. We're finding out when a train that is too long, too heavy, carrying a combination cocktail of hazardous chemicals derails in a small town in the middle of America, it's a pretty bad day for the environment.

So, any time that you hear some shit like that going on, that's why we always say, you have got to do your own research. You cannot believe anything that gets told to you about why something is good or bad because usually the people that are telling you that it's bad are getting greased and usually the people are telling you it's good or getting greased yeah it's a lot of money it all kind of goes back to money at the end of the day unfortunately it does and that's so funny because i remember one of our points on that pipeline getting shut down we were against it getting shut down and we talked about how many derailments of trains there are versus how often a pipeline burst or gets a hole in it or something and it's there's there's

so many more derailments trains than there are a pipeline leaking or leaching out anything. And since this derailment there. That was one of their excuses was, oh, this pipeline, if it ever burst, we're fucked. Terrible. Terrible. But look what's happening. Look what's happening. So since this derailment, there's been at least two other derailments. Yeah, there's been one in Houston, Texas with hazardous chemicals on it. I, that one's definitely not a big of, as big of a deal as the one here in Ohio. I don't know if it was as dangerous. I don't know if it's just not getting covered as much as the Ohio one. And there was also one in North Carolina that was happening too. But last point, then we'll wrap it up on this topic, because we've been going for a while.

But it's just such a good one. I think it's really important. So corporate precision scheduled railroading is kind of a method that got developed, oh, I don't know how many decades ago. but, you know, it's kind of the way that these railroad companies do things. And this is coming from a union rail worker, Clyde Whitaker. He got interviewed by a guy. I can't remember the reporter's name, but essentially, precision schedule railroading is shorter staffed. They got longer hours, longer trains, less safety, and less maintenance.

And this is coming from a guy that's doing this shit every day. He's flat out saying, that shit ain't, working and it's getting worse because they want to do exactly what you're saying cut the amount of labor they want to have one engineer maybe two on each train some of the shit's 19th century that they're running on it's it's it's a bad deal and so uh rail workers have tried to go on strike before over this kind of shit and they're stopped by congress they're stopped by congress and a few weeks later this kind of shit happens and everybody's like what the hell how did this happen well you just keep pushing the

envelope and just saying if it ain't broke don't fix it so that's a complete disaster yeah fuck around and find out and that's well we're going to try to end but I wanted to bring this up because here we are an ag and if you remember all you farmers out there remember what was it six months ago

all of these rail workers were going to go on strike and what we were told was it was all about wages and vacation and hours and all that which is true it was but there was also a big part in that about they the union was pushing stronger safety measures which was part of this bill that they were talking about and the farm bureau and a lot of commodity agencies were pushing because we didn't know until the 11th hour whether the government was going to intervene and basically say you can't go on strike

because this is critical infrastructure to the United States and it has to run, which I agree it does have to run. But what you didn't hear about was you didn't hear about all the problems on the safety side because nobody wanted you to know that. And the government did step in and the rail workers didn't strike. But you see, that's the problem. Everything is tied together and you only hear, usually you only hear one side of the story. And that's that story there. You didn't hear about all of the reasons why they wanted to strike. And it's my livelihood and it's your livelihood as farmers. You know, if our grain can't move, that's a big deal. But if a train derails in your little town and poisons your waterhole, that's kind of a big deal too. And so I don't

know how we fix it, but it is damn interesting. This, this situation is just one small piece of a really big problem with the infrastructure in America, and somebody's got to fix it. Somebody's got to fix it, and I don't think this is the last derailment we're going to see, because nothing's changed. Nothing's changed. I think maybe this will wake some people up to, you know, maybe start down the road of change. Yeah. But I think the derailments are going to keep happening. and if we don't upgrade some of this equipment and get this safety shit figured out. I mean, truly, I don't know what you do.

And I just, you know, we got to pray for the people of, you know, East Palestine. East Palestine, yeah. Because that, I feel bad for the people out there that are going through that shit, because that would suck. Yeah, that's not your fault. It's not their fault. And this company is going to pay you $25,000 to that town.

Well, that is not near enough. They need justice. Those people need fucking justice. and the government needs to step in or somebody needs to step in. Some organization needs to get out there and help those people. Well, I guarantee you that there are groups that are getting involved. And there's, I guarantee you there's a herd of blood sucking lawyers that see, that see blood in the water and they're headed there.

As they should be. They're already there now. As they should be. You can say what you want about lawyers. You know, everybody hates lawyers. but sometimes they see an necessary evil because you can't let people like this get away with this shit.

Yeah, so keep these people in your prayers. I do, I think that we should definitely keep these people in our prayers, keep this town in our prayers, because it's a fucked up deal. It is, for sure. So is that the only screwed up deal of the day? Nope, it's not. We got another hot topic and we might have to move through these a little bit faster

because we're at 54 minutes. Can you believe that? We're having fun up here. Hey, this is going pretty well. I've only stumbled my words about two times, so that's good. If you've gotten this far, leave a review on Spotify or Apple. It really helps us out, guys. That's all I ask. Now, let's get back to the podcast. That topic was steaming. Well, that was a pretty wide. That was a steaming wide, hot topic. The heat is hot up here in this barn. So, more balloons, huh? We got more Chinese balloons on the loose, it seems like.

Just before we came up, I saw some government, somebody came out and said that it was very unlikely that the other three balloons were Chinese. But... That's even more interesting. So aliens potentially is what they're saying, maybe. I heard that somebody came out, and when you hear the word UFO, people instantly think aliens.

But what's it stand for? Unidentified. Unidentified. flying object. So it doesn't necessarily mean aliens are coming here yet. Well, Elon said he didn't know anything about it, and everybody claims he's an alien. So you think they would have at least told him.

I haven't heard anything from Zuckerberg yet, but... He ain't going to say anything. He's a shifty-ass alien. Don't trust him. He's a bad alien. So, yeah, three more balloons were shot down over North America. None of them have been recorded yet. The spin as of right now is the first balloon was launched

from an island off the southeastern coast of China, and it was intended to float over Guam, but drifted off course as the prevailing winds didn't cooperate. No real news on the other objects, but you just said that they're saying that they may not be Chinese. Right, but I think what's also interesting about it, and it kind of checks out. And I think when we get to the end of this,

we need to have a little commentary about what that video we talked about just before we said down, because this all plays into it. But so the official word from the Canadians is that the balloon that was shot down over the western part of Canada that came down through Alaska, that it went down in a very mountainous area with deep snow, very steep, and recovery efforts are very slow getting to it. The one that was shot down off the coast of Alaska supposedly was beyond the Atlantic or the Pacific shelf off the coast of Alaska where the water gets very deep. So it's very difficult to recover. The one that got shot down over Lake Huron, the water is very deep and recovery efforts have been hampered because the weather's shitty. So the story is that, yeah, we're going to recover these, but we don't really know when, and it's really difficult. The water's deep, the terrain's bad. We just don't know. Which is curious. The one that, the original one, the Chinese balloon that was huge, they've recovered, I heard they've recovered like 80% of it or whatever, and they've got it all figured out where it is. But you just have to ask,

yourself. It's like, well, were those even real? Or was that just something that they put out? Because the Chinese one was real. So that got everybody all riled up. And then was there anything going on in the news that we didn't want to talk about? So we just said, well, shit, we'll throw another one up there. Yeah, we'll throw three up there. So crazy Uncle Joe got on the phone with Justin Trudeau and said, hey, we're going to fly some F-16s over Canada. And, you're, shoot down an imaginary balloon. You all right with that? Oh, yeah, sure, okay.

Because none of them are recorded, right? No evidence of them flying. No photographic evidence. Nope. Just picked up by NORAD, I guess. Which you should be able to believe your government, but I feel like there's just so much shit. Uncertainty.

So much distrust. Like, do you trust them? Is that real? And we were talking about it when the one that came here in America and flew over to America from the west coast to the east coast. You should be able to trust that the government would make the right decision and shoot that fucker down before it ever got here. Before it even got here.

And they were tracking it. They were tracking it, but why didn't they shoot it down? I don't know. Why don't you shoot it down? Any common sense American out there would think we don't want any foreign country to fly stuff in our airspace that are tracking the weather, but it's more like a spy balloon. And so it just, you got to ask why.

Why? And, yeah, I just saw a really great clip of a woman on TikTok that was describing how she feels about the state of America right now and how she feels in the government and trusting the government. And you know what? I think we should just roll the clip. I think we should just show part of the clip. So here's the clip.

Watch it. Okay, is anybody else going into like fight or flight mode? Because I feel like that's where we're at right now. And I've never really been an anxious person before, but I am truly feeling it now. I mean, I'm Gen X. We are always in fight mode or survivor mode. And I feel like that's needing to come back up because the state of the world that we're in right now, I don't trust. I can't even watch the news.

My husband watches the news in nauseam. I can't even watch it because I don't trust it. And there's something wrong when you stop trusting the people that are supposed to have your back, the people that are supposed to be the backbone of America. You know what I'm saying. The way things are going with UFOs, food shortages, medication shortages, oil spills, chemical spills, it's just too much. Lately, we've really been starting to prep. And we're not even conspiracy theorists. We're realists. Um, like he's starting to make a garden back there. We have an RV just in case we really have to bug out and like go off grid. We have canned goods in our basement. I don't, I don't

understand what's going on in our world right now. And it makes me very anxious and scared for my kids and my grandkids' future. And I never thought in my 50 years of saying it that for once I'm just, I'm literally getting prepared for something I don't know what. So yeah, that, I think that's how most people, most common sense Americans are feeling right now. You, ever since COVID, it just feels like there is a new thing that comes out. It's a new variant, new vaccine.

Shit's fucking shit's derailing. Natural disasters. Supply change issues. Disease. Disease. Inflation. Economy tanking. Chinese balloons.

Ukraine. Ukraine. Russia. It's like. And then they're telling us that they're doing all this shit for us and they got our best interest in mind. And then they make decisions that are dumb as fuck that most of us look at. and go, why didn't we do this a different way? Like shoot down a Chinese balloon before it even gets here.

Yeah. Why? I think. Why the fuck should we trust you? Why? You're giving us every reason not to. By the more shit you just release and do dumb decisions on these topics and on these events that happen, just get dumber.

You almost feel like they're incompetent. But then on the same time, you're like, if we can figure out if us common Americans can think up we think we think up better solutions to these problems than they do you almost feel like is it intentional are they doing this shut out on purpose

do they want to take down the number one country that's left the freestanding country that's left in here in the world that you know is independent that's free do they want to tear it down do they want to take it to the ground you got you got people out there talking about one world government

I mean it's a part it's all out there, especially with all this shit going on. I mean, it makes you think, and I think, if you don't think, you need to start. You need to start. Well, the worst part about it is you, you start questioning stuff like that. And then when you go down that rabbit hole, you don't really want to talk to anybody about it because you feel like they tell you're the majority, you're the minority. Well, but not only that, but you think, gosh, am I the only one that? things like that. And the truth is, I don't think that's true.

I think we all are to the point where we wonder whether or not these people have our best interest in mind. And I thought it was really curious. So yesterday, which would have been, I don't know, has it been two weeks since that balloon was shot down the original? or 10 days or something like that. But anyway, they had a briefing on Capitol Hill for members of the Armed Services Committee about that balloon. And I just thought, I thought, don't you, I was thinking to myself, I'm like, well, shouldn't those guys have been briefed on it like as it happened or right after it happened?

If you're on the Senate Armed Services Committee, you're like one notch below sitting in the war room when the decisions made to shoot it down. Why would it take so long to have a meeting? And if I was a member of Congress, I think I'd want answers sooner than that. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it takes that long. But I was just like, it seems like, Amazon presents Jeff versus Texas. Taco truck salsa, whether it's Verde, Roja, or the orange one.

For Jeff, trying any salsa is like playing Russian roulette with a flamethrower. Luckily, Jeff saved with Amazon and stocked up on antacids, ginger tea, and milk. Habiniero? More like habanier, yes. Save the everyday with Amazon. Are they stupid or are they doing it on purpose? Well, right. And here's the other thing. Ten years ago, well, maybe longer than that, but I feel like, so ten years ago, you probably wouldn't have those thoughts. I don't feel like I would have those thoughts because I feel like there was a time where we really, we all bitched a lot about, you know, how wasteful government was and like, you know, how inept government was. But you felt like, most of people that you elected that were in Congress had your best interest in mind. And everybody could agree that, you know, America, we were all working for the betterment of the country. Now then, we have people in our government that are elected from some of these cities

that have pretty much blatantly come out and said that they don't like America and they think America is racist and they think that America was was founded by a bunch of white supremacists and that, you know, we're not the best place in the world and that we could learn so much from the rest of the world and the rest of the world's way better than we are and we're doing it all wrong. And these are the people we've elected to office. And then you get, I think the straw that broke the camel's back, though, was COVID. I think that woke a lot of people up. Well, I think it just, they overplayed their hand. I mean, it literally went from, okay, we're going to, we're going to shut everything down for two weeks

because we don't want to over, we don't want to overdo the hospitals to, well, a year, two years, whatever, we're still, and there's, you know, it's still going on. And I, now you just have, there is just this, there is just this thought in the back of my head all the time. everything that I consume as far as news and information has to get run through this filter of, is this bullshit? Is, you know, what is, what is this person, who does this person work for and who's paying the bill of the person that they, the company they work for? Because are they full of shit? Are they lying to? Are they getting greased?

Yeah. And you shouldn't have to feel that way. But it's just like that woman in that video, you know, they bought a house out in the country because they wanted to buy a house out in the country. And now then they're like thinking, can we drink this pond water? How many fish are in this pond? How long could we live, you know, can we grow a garden? They're thinking all this shit that I guarantee you they probably never thought of when they bought that place. And it's the same thing. You know, I have those thoughts.

I'm like, you know, we have a generator for the hog buildings. and, you know, we have cisterns on our hog billings, and we put the cisterns in because we thought, well, the biggest reason we put cisterns in is because when we're power washing and soak, like if we're power washing in one room and soak in the other, it's hard for the well pump to keep up, but if you've got a cistern, it works slick, you got constant water, and that's why we did it.

And then after the fact, I'm thinking, should I want cisterns on all these? Because at least then if the power goes out for three days, I've got 10,000 gallons of water that's all. drinkable sitting there. You really shouldn't have to think that way. But that's where we're at. And I am thankful every day of the week

that I'm not living in Chicago or Atlanta or Detroit. California, period, just California as a whole state. You just are like, I don't know. We'd like to think that it's all going to be fine. And I'm an optimist, but holy shit, these deals that happen I would say that faith in our elected officials has got to be at the lowest level that it's ever been. I would agree.

I would 100% agree with you. And faith in traditional media is at the lowest it's ever been. People just don't buy it because they know they're corrupt. Once you know an organization's corrupt, why even spend the time to listen to it? why and so yeah that gets us into our last point here you know we were talking well they they claim that there was three more balloons right but we got no photographic evidence and was it was it just to have us look over here while something else is going on behind the scenes and there is something

that is kind of going on behind the scenes that doesn't get a whole lot of news traction at all and it hasn't been for a while i mean there's some stuff out there but it's never being i have haven't seen it be covered in a long time and that's the epstein files geoffrey epstein if you don't know who that is fucked up dude was associated with a lot of powerful people had a pedophile ring he is a pedophile had a pedophile ring his wife uh uh god galen jel i don't know jeez her name i can't it's so you pronounce it so weird. I can't remember how you pronounce it. Anyway, I don't know if that's his girlfriend or if his wife, but she was involved in it. She kind of brought girls to Jeffrey. If you watch the documentary, she kind of facilitated women to go sleep with him, underage women. And if you

didn't know, Jeffrey got, uh, he's suicide. He committed suicide in a, in a jail cell when all the guards were sleeping, all the cameras magically shut off. And he died when he was going to go to court, but, you know, take that with a grain of assault. You know, what actually happened. I'm very surprised that she stayed alive. Well, I think they're protecting her very well. Guards aren't falling asleep, I don't think. So in my crazy mind, I think that she knows more, she's got something against somebody that is somewhere that they can't get to, and that's her bargaining chip. I did see, she did have an interview over Zoom, and I can't remember what news network it was, but she does believe Jeffrey did get killed.

She fully believes. I think anybody with common... I think 90% of Americans believe that he got killed. He didn't commit suicide, definitely. So pretty much, she got a 20-year sentence. She was in, she was on, she was getting in courts for, I don't know how long the trial's been going, but she finally got sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking. But no one's releasing the list of who she was sex trafficking people, too.

Yeah. that is the most curious part is she was charged with child sex trafficking. She was convicted of it. But no list of who the children that she trafficked who they were trafficked to, which is very curious because if you're going to be charged and convicted with that, you've got to have evidence. You've got to have evidence that those. underage people went somewhere if you trafficked them.

And it hasn't... Obviously, they have evidence because she wouldn't have gotten convicted. She wouldn't have gotten the sentence. But they didn't release it. Didn't release the list. Supposedly, obviously the flight log, the Epstein flight log has been released with everyone

that traveled to the island. I think Bill Gates is on there quite a bit. Bill Clinton's on there quite a bit. Yep. Which is a lot of people. A lot of people have been to Mr. Epstein's eye. island there. But somewhere there's a client list. And

apparently 160 names of people associated with the multimillionaire are set to be released in the coming months. So we'll see. But it is very interesting that that happened. It's not getting any media coverage. But we're talking about

the three UFOs that nobody has photographic evidence of and we're talking about that still. And we don't talk about... We're not really talking. We didn't talk about the trend of element for a while, though. We put that on the back burner for a while, too. But the UFOs, that's what the people care about, man. That's what they want to feed, spoon feed us.

So all I'll say to you folks is, you know, I just felt like it was really important to do a back-to-back hot topics because this is, there's shit, there's been a lot of shit going on this week. There has been a lot of stuff. But back to your point of, you know, feeling alone, having these thoughts, I think most Americans, that's why we love doing this show, and that's why we love doing this segment of the show, Hot Topics, is, you know, this might really hurt us in the long run when it comes to sponsorships.

We know that, you know. But we're giving our actual thoughts on this shit, our actual American opinion on this shit, and we believe what we talk about and how we feel on this stuff. Most of you feel that way, too, but most of you are afraid to say it because they're telling you you're the silent majority and also

a big reason why we do this is so you don't feel alone because we see the comments guys we see the DMs we get told in person all the time keep doing what you're doing keep telling the truth keep saying this stuff because we're all thinking it we all think it we just we don't know

who we can tell and who we can discuss these things with so well you know what I love doing this is one of my favorite segments of the show i love doing hot topics because i think it's really important that we do do this so people don't feel alone and they don't feel like they're fucking crazy because we're just regular fucking americans out here we're farmers trying to trying to make living trying to carry on this farm but we have thoughts about the shit that goes on in the country that in the world that we're like what the hell so yeah and i i just want to say i think this is safe to

say. I think we can say this. Well, I'm scared now. Well, you should be. Well, not really. I should be. We're counting on you. We're counting on you. Okay. But I don't think any of you have to worry about this going away as far as us telling you what we really think. Because we had the opportunity fairly early in doing this podcast to get some sponsorship. And one of the the things that happened was, and this is a, this is a sponsor that everybody out there listening would know who it is. But one of the requirements for that was they wanted an outline of every podcast we did, and they wanted editorial control of it. And we weren't interested in that. And that isn't the only reason that it didn't work. There were other reasons

didn't work. Well, that was the biggest reason. I was saying, fuck that. I said, fuck that. I said, it was the biggest reason. But we made the decision that we were never going to go down that road. And we're really lucky in the fact that we have some great sponsors that we work with on our farm channel, our farm YouTube channel. And what we're doing and everything that we're building is, We're going to be our own sponsor. The long story short is we've decided that the only sponsor that is probably going to be, and I guess I'll never say never because somebody might come out of the woods. Yeah, if they're...

And say, hey, just keep doing what you're doing, and we'd be fine with that. So send the check if you want to do that. But what we're trying to do is we're trying to get to a point where... I don't want to say too much, but I think we're far enough. long that we can say that we are going to, there will be a sponsor of Barn Talk podcast. Someday. Yep. But it's probably going to be us.

It's going to be something that we're doing because we feel like the control of what we talk about is important enough that we don't want any outside influence. So you can rest assured. If you love the podcast, you could rest assured that it's going to keep going like it is. and if you hate the podcast, well, you're just going to have to listen to something else because it's probably going to keep going. Because we never looked at this as this was going to be our big moneymaker. Right. But we love doing it. And we're doing enough other stuff that helps this work, and we're going to keep doing it. And stay tuned because there's some exciting stuff that's going to

happen this year. And we think you're really going to like it. And we appreciate the health. out of each and every one of you because this is a long run doing a podcast and making it successful a lot of people give up before it ever gets to where it's got any drive behind it and we're in this for the long run and we're going to keep doing it and we got some awesome guests coming up too so stay tuned for that like the show if you like it share it keep giving us feedback send us your questions, recommend us to people, give us a five-star review. I guess give us a one-star review if you hate it, but we really like the good ones better than the bad ones. So yeah, we appreciate every one of you. Yeah, pay that fee, guys. I think you nailed it. So we'll see

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