Barn Talk - Barn Talk Q&A: Is American Culture at Risk?

Episode Date: March 30, 2024

Welcome to Barn Talk! In this episode, we share our thoughts on the TikTok ban, homeschooling, Tesla & much more.  Use code BARNTALK for 10% OFF your next order https://farmergrade.com SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ➱ https://bit.ly/3a7r3nR   SUBSCRIBE TO THIS’LL DO FARM ➱ https://bit.ly/2X8g45c  SUBSCRIBE TO BARN TALK CLIPS ➱ https://bit.ly/3BlZnqq   LISTEN ON: SPOTIFY ➱ https://open.spotify.com/show/3icVr4KWq4eUDl7Oy60YMY  ITUNES ➱ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/barn-talk/id1574395049 Follow Behind The Scenes👇🏻 ● This’ll Do Farm Instagram ➱ https://bit.ly/30KPBNk   ● Barn Talk TikTok ➱ https://bit.ly/3qciekS   ● Sawyer’s Instagram  ➱ https://bit.ly/3BtX0n4   ● Tork’s Instagram ➱ https://bit.ly/3LGZJxS    09:23 Podcast reaching high, thanks for support. 15:02 TikTok creators upset about diminishing reach. 17:46 Having a child changes priorities and organization. 24:33 Sacrifice and prioritize to use time wisely. 26:59 Prioritize tasks with highest return on investment. 33:41 Conflict between American and other cultures feared. 39:49 Critical views on TikTok and call for change. 44:54 Tesla's success challenges US automotive industry norms. 48:48 Tech innovation vs. political and social obstacles 57:08 Doomed future of auto business without Tesla. 01:04:17 Invest in homeschooling, improve education system efficiency. 01:09:11 College model questioned, alternative education solutions suggested. 01:12:18 Homeschooling options have increased with social opportunities. 01:17:20 Nation's unity outweighs divisive issues, demands accountability. ------------------------------- ***PLEASE NOTE*** Barn Talk is a significant break from the typical content viewers have come to expect from This’ll Do Farm. Please be advised that we will be exploring a wide variety of topics (some adult-themed) and our younger viewers (and their parents) should be advised that some topics will be for mature audiences only. ⚠NO FINANCIAL ADVICE / DISCLAIMER⚠  The Information discussed and shared on Barn Talk is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or success for any particular purpose. The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice. The Information on this podcast and provided from or through our content is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented on this podcast without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional, professional broker or financial advisory. Understand that you are using any and all Information available on or through this website at your own risk. RISK STATEMENT– The trading of Bitcoins, alternative cryptocurrencies, NFTs, individual stocks, etc. has potential rewards, and it also has potential risks involved. Trading may not be suitable for all people. Anyone wishing to invest should seek his or her own independent financial or professional advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Let's get to 1,000. Let's see if we can get to 1,000 after this episode. That would be awesome. We're so, so, so close to 1,000 5-star reviews. And another way you can support Barn Talk is you can head over to our direct-to-consumer meat business, pharma grade.com, and buy some meat from us. We have a lot going on in 2024. We got a pasture-raised poultry producer. We got some chicken on the website. We got some summer grilling products for pork. So pork patties, hot dogs, brots, pork butts, you name it.

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I'd like to say that I had a lot to do with that, but I came to you for a lot of, you're kind of my therapist. Sometimes it's just on load on you and you just take it and. I have broad shoulders. Broad shoulders. I did help load the pigs though. Yeah, you did. You contribute.

It's pretty important. It is. Definitely got to get it. them on the truck somehow, so no doubt about it. How are the, how are you today? Ah, it's windy. It's windy. Our spring in southeast Iowa comes and goes and comes and I don't know, we had some really nice weather and gave people a lot of bad ideas. It's kind of going, a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon and windy, and I don't like wind. I don't mind the cold. I don't really like the heat, but I hate windy days. It just sucks if you got to be outside doing anything. And,

I mean, don't get me wrong. I am built for high wind. I have a low center of gravity, but I don't know. I don't really like it. One positive, though, if it does rain, we've got a lot of moisture. We've had more moisture than three years. Yeah, we don't need any more. We're way ahead on moisture compared to the last three years.

So I don't know. That's good for getting it in the ground when it comes time to do it. We'll just have to see. We seem to do pretty well on dry years, but it'll be kind of nice if this holds out and you're not waiting on every cloud that comes over hoping there's rain in it. So we'll just have to see. I can tell you how I'm doing today, if you want to hear it. I can already tell.

Let me just say something. I had Pizza Hut last night with Kat, and I don't like Pizza Hut. You know, it's not like it used to be when you were a kid. You guys, all you 80s kids and 90s kids always talk about how badass Pizza Hut was and how good it was and all this stuff. And I didn't really live that. That wasn't my experience and it still wasn't my experience. The 80s was the golden age of Pizza Hut. Yep.

Not true today. No. Nope. They changed that cafeteria, that room, that restaurant room where everybody sits and now it just went downhill after that. The pizza went downhill is what happened. Man, I'll just be honest. That pizza huts tearing me up today. tearing me up i'll never eat that shit again god maybe we should shoot maybe i should shoot my part

of the podcast remote today well you just bring me in zoom you might have to get a did you bring a clothes pin because i don't know you're gonna have to cover up that nose at least the fans are blowing your way so maybe it keeps i mean you have a stench most days yeah so to you might be worse might be worse so to you so yeah don't don't don't get pizza that hasn't got any better so don't don't don't go there we only went because Kat came home from Des Moines. She went to a horse show, and she didn't feel like cooking, and I didn't feel like cooking, and it was Sunday, so we just got Pizza Hut.

You had money left to get pizza after her going to a horse deal? Well, did you have to buy it? We're not married yet, so she's still got her own. She's got her money she works for. Did she buy or did you? Oh, she bought some stuff. Oh, I bought Pizza Hut. Yeah, she might be completely broke.

You don't know. Yeah, and the thing about it is it's overpriced. What you get for what it's what they pay or cost you? Oh, it's, no, not worth it. So definitely not worth it after how you feel the next day. Yeah, I'm glad that I didn't partake of any of that. Yep, yep. So just be just your friendly reminder to get Papa John's instead or something.

Oh, man. So what do the markets look like today? Well, the hot off the press market update, courtesy of cat's grain in Washington, Iowa. Corn 437. that's the close on the board local 439 and ADM and Cedar Rapids must need some corn because they're bidding 452 beans 1209 the river this side of the river 1178 and Quincy is 12 dollars bean meal 341 dollars a ton wheat 555 hogs 8515 still having a hard time getting a lot of traction I mean we

We are in better shape than we have been, but that's not a great, that's not a great bid by any means. Cattle 186, feeder cattle, 249, class three milk, $16.33 for all you milk guys out there. Oil, 8190 for May contract, Bitcoin, $70,700. Holy cow. So I hope all of you that. Hey, we've been sounding the alarm for, yeah, shit. I don't know how many. Yep. Every time you've done a market update, we've said Bitcoin Spring.

Who was it? Raul said that, like months ago. Yeah, it went through a pretty tough spot, but it's kind of solidifying itself around the 70,000 range. A lot of people think it's going to go to 100K. So if you're one of those guys that spent your Bitcoin on pizza, no bueno for you. Ethereum, $3,000, Tesla, $173. I would be, yeah, I'd be buying Tesla. this spot if I was in the mood to buy any, but I'm just penniless grain farmer right now, so I ain't gotten any extra cash. Gold, $2,175. And I just thought I'd throw in there my good friends

of Beyond Meat, $7.89. And Italy today said, no more lab-grown meat. They banned it from the country. And the EU is contemplating it over concerns about the very long list of man-made ingredients that are going into man-made meat. The EU is not too, they're not too keen on all that. So there's a possibility that the EU may say, no way, Jose. Let's follow. Yeah, I think we should do the same. Just go to Farmergrade.

Yep, go to Farmer grade. Yep, if you want real meat, real American meat. It's a good place to get it. That was fantastic. So today, Q&A episode, we haven't done one in a while, because, you know, it's Feast or Fam in here. We were pretty consistent because we had a hard time getting our guests down here. Now that we've had just been a cornucopia of guests,

and we haven't had time to shoot Hot Topics or Q&As, but we got time today. Side note, I think, Barntock podcast on the Apple Business chart, the last time I looked, the Stephen McVee episode was number, 63. Wow. Cool.

I think that's the highest charting podcast we ever had on there. And it was 43 on Spotify. And I don't know if we ever got higher than that on Spotify or not. But thank you to all of you because we couldn't do what we do without you. Well, we could, but it kind of suck. It'd get pretty boring after a while. So thank you for all of those that share the show out and comment. And thanks for the questions.

I try to reply to the questions. And I don't always get them all done, but just know that we try to work through them and we try to get them all in unless you happen to send us one that is a repeat. It is a repeat question. Sometimes we don't do the repeat questions. But anyway, we're going to get through some. It can be about anything, guys. You can ask us any question. A lot of times it's farming and agriculture related because that's what we do. But it can be literally about anything. We'll give you our two cents about anything and everything. So don't be afraid to ask something if you want to. If you're engineering a bridge somewhere and you're just not quite sure about a calculation, feel free to throw it out here. We'll try to help you.

I will not be of any help on that one. Maybe we need a disclaimer for that too. I'd say I thought, no, maybe not. Maybe not. No help on that one. Maybe a deck. If you got a deck question asked me, I build a few decks, but engineered concrete and steel, I don't know.

So what's your opinion of the, proposed TikTok band. My opinion on the TikTok band is ban, not banned. We're not smoking the drums. Well, it's like a lot of people that you've seen on probably TikTok if you have it or anywhere. People are not very happy about it. American citizens aren't very happy about it because on the priority list of issues that we all go through on a day-to-day basis in 2024, TikTok ranks very, very fucking low. And yet we're making this such a big deal. And some people speculate the reason they want to ban TikTok is it's right before the election and they don't want people to collaborate and talk amongst one another and, you know, make videos on what's going on or share ideas or share thoughts because

they don't want us to do that. And TikTok for a long time, Twitter's been that been the platform that you can really share your thoughts and opinions on for a long time. But TikTok has really adapted that to, adopted that too. And a lot of people talk on TikTok. A lot of people make videos and these kinds of videos talking about this subject, you know, really strikes a nerve with people. And people are talking about it. People are commenting about it. People are making a lot of videos on it. So people talk about politics and hot topics on TikTok. And so my opinion is, yeah, I agree with those people. my only thing is, yeah, these platforms probably do take a lot of our data, but TikTok is not the only one doing it. And to me, the scary part about getting rid of TikTok is some other speculation behind it is, well, Mark Zuckerberg is lobbying and, you know, greasing congressman's pockets to get rid of a competitor for him and just ban it.

And I don't think that's fucking right because, you know, you want to. to talk about corporate greed and companies having the power. So what? You just can ban your, ban your competition in any industry. I mean, that gets, when you talk about rights and, you know, freedom and commerce and capitalism and the American dream, well, that's not the American dream at all. A corporation shouldn't be able to grease other politicians to vote to get rid of one of their competitors. That's just wrong, in my opinion. And I think that's ultimately what's happening. because you can't tell me TikTok has taken more information and more of your data and your facial recognition with all the filters and stories that you do on that platform and TikTok or I guess

TikTok and Facebook are doing the same thing. All these platforms are taking your data. So I don't think they're the big bad wolf that everybody are what they're trying to make it out to be. And Google. And they're all doing it. They're all fucking doing it. They know your search history. They know they know what your face looks like. Wait, they know my search history. Hell yeah, Dad. You better... The midgets, you better get off that midget stuff.

Sorry to all the short people out there. It was just a joke. The ownership of TikTok, what, like 20% of it is owned by the employees here in the U.S. And there isn't actually much of the company that is owned by... I don't think there's any of it that's actually owned by the...

CCP, but I have no doubt that they have their fingers in it, but I don't feel like, I agree with you. I think this really comes down to our government doing the dirty work for the competition of TikTok, and, you know, leave it to Gary V to give you the positive spin on it. He had a comment about it, and he just said, he doesn't really care what happens to TikTok, he's just going to move wherever the attention is. And if TikTok goes away, more than likely, something else will probably start or some other platform is going to grow more

because all that attention is going to move somewhere. And the only other thing I'll say about TikTok is they have really kind of gotten, a lot of people aren't very happy with them on the creator's side, of late because basically if you're not peddling a product through their store, their shop, the organic reach of the platform has gone to trash because they want to feature the people that are spending money with them. And then the other side of it is, and I don't know what, I don't know what this is about because we don't really, we put all our stuff out or clips on TikTok, but we don't, we don't

monetize any of it. I mean, we don't make crap off of it. we just look at it as a funnel to get people that otherwise might not find the YouTube video to have a reason to go there. But I guess a lot of creators, their pay from what they're making has been like over cut by over half. So they're kind of, a lot of people are comparing them going the same route like Vine because that's what happened to them. They screwed over their creators and then all their creators left. So I don't know what the long term outlook for TikTok is, But the one thing I will say, agree with you is the government just needs to stay the hell out of it. Like most things, the government doesn't get involved because they just have an overwhelming sense that they want to help you out.

They're being motivated by somebody. It's true. Yeah, just another example or another reason why if you are a creator and want to make content, you need to be on all platforms. Because if only your audience is on one platform and it goes away, you're fucked. You're screwed. So you got to be on everything because you don't want to take that risk at all. And the other thing, last thing I'll say about it is, I said that all these platforms are taking data, but all these platforms are taking that data and selling it.

And they are definitely selling it to China. Don't get it twisted. Meta is selling your data to China. Google's selling your data to China. And I'm sure TikTok does the same. They all do it. So, yeah, if you got a platform, you're on any of the social media, just know they got your shit.

Yeah, so that's why. And that's scary, but we're starting to post our stuff on Amishmingle.com. There we go. We're trying to broaden out. Yep, trying to reach everybody. Yep, we're trying to reach everybody. Yeah, nice. Nick asks, what, with a child on the way and trying to juggle multiple endeavors at the same time,

do you have any tips or tricks to stay on track and motivated? That's a good one. That's a good one for you. I'll give you my two cents. Well, you had a kid, so you know what that process is like. I don't have one. Yeah, well, when that arrives, when your child arrives, your life will change. And one thing will be that some of the priorities that you have now probably will get pushed to the back burner. But I would say, I mean, some days I feel like we are the worst people to talk about being organized and staying on task and all that. But at the same time, I will tell you that compared to the days that I had,

multiple legal pads floating around in my work truck and on my desk and trying to keep track of everything that I needed to get done compared to the way that we do it today. There's a lot of tools out there to help you. And I guess the other thing, the big overarching point that I would make to anybody that is trying to get ahead or, you know, is trying to do multiple, multiple deals is really be cognizant about what you spend your time at because the amount of time that your electronic devices can steal from you and you don't even realize it is pretty amazing. Like, when you go to, when you go to do something, you get to the parking lot of here or there or you get done with a task or you get off the phone with

somebody think about how much time that you pick up that phone and you or you hang up from talking to somebody and then you're like oh i'm just going to check on blank and then the next thing you know 20 minutes has gone by and you've been perusing all the social media sites or you're whatever you're looking at. If you can really, if you can really batten down the hatch on how much time you allow yourself to be engaged on your phone with whatever, it amounts to a, it's a good amount. It's a lot more than what you probably realize. And so, um, one thing that I do is I've actually gone, I have an app. Sawyer turned me onto it called Things, and I use that as like my checklist and my to-do list and all that. However, in the morning when I get up, I used to use a journal, and I went away

from that and I did everything on my phone. And then what I found was I'm not dedicated enough that when I go to that, I don't end up going and perusing all the social media. So, when I get up in the morning, I don't use my phone until I'm done journaling, like making my list, just putting my thoughts down for the day. I actually do that on paper, and the reason I do it is because I don't want to pick up my phone because I know when I pick it up, something's going to lead to something's going to leave to something, and the next thing you know, I'm going to sit there for 20 minutes wasting time. So, and some people are a lot better about that. You know, you may be somebody that that doesn't bother you bit or you don't have

of those apps on your phone and kudos to you if you can do that but for me i just know that i've got to be very conscious about how i spend my time with my devices so that's one piece of advice and then the other thing i would say is if you have a child on the way you and your wife need to be on the same page like make sure that you're sharing like have a calendar together have a if you're using something like things share that back and forth so that when one of you has something come up that you add, everybody knows it's on there. And the more you can tackle family as a team, the better off you'll be. And it will be chaos.

You're going to be, it's going to be chaos for about, how old are you? 24. Long time. 24. It's going to be chaos for a long time, but it does get better. okay well on the screen thing uh screen time i think there's a lot of people that struggle with that hell i struggle with that uh things i've talked about many times i just mentioned it things too i think is what the app's called it's an amazing app you can do so much on it helps you plan out your day

check tasks off but there's also another app that i found that's also it's a screen blocking app that will block any app that you want for however long you want and you can make the difficulty of the blocking session so you can't access the apps at all in that amount of time or you can have a little break and hit the break button and it goes up to a maximum of 15 minutes. So I really use that. It's called Opel. Op. It's on the app store. It's really great app. It's not free, but I went ahead and bought it because I know myself and I'm the same way as dad. So if I really need to sit down and I need to focus, I have a blocking session. And you can schedule a blocking session for,

if you wake up at 5.30, start at 5.30 and end it, you know, whenever you want. You can block everything. And it can block websites. You can block literally everything that you can think of. So I really recommend that app as well for the screen time. As far as just motivation, I mean, I would use your kid as a big motivator. I mean, you're bringing a child into this world.

and I don't think it gets, I mean, I have no experience with doing that. I just think about when I do have children. Like right now, you know, I have a fiancé. Obviously, we're going to get married and we're going to start having kids. But I try to think about what kind of man I want to be for my kids. And if I can try to cultivate the things and the person I want to be now so that when we have a kid, like I'm the man that I want to be and I can continue to be that man while my kids growing up. up but I can't give you really much guidance on helping you out once that kid arrives because

I have no experience but I would just say it's definitely something that I fear because I have a lot going on too and I think about that and it gives me some anxiety because I'm like I already have a hard enough time as it is to get shit done and having a kid is not going to it's going to make it even harder but I think it's just it's back to that what dad said using your time wisely, you're probably going to have to give up screen time, TV, video games, going out to the bar, you know, as much if you go out to the bar, going out and drinking with your bros, hanging out with the bros. I'm not saying you should never do that, but you're going to have to sacrifice some shit, probably. I mean, at the end of the day, you probably won't be able to go

to the gym as much, or you'll have to get up earlier than everybody in your household to get to the gym and get home and get the kids ready to go to school and all that. I mean, it's just taking inventory on what your life is, where you're at, and how can I adapt and get the things I want to get done done? I think at the end of the day, what it'll teach you probably is, well, there's a kid. I got to spend time with this kid, so I got to schedule everything else around it to make it work. And you'll probably get better at using your time wisely because you can't afford not to. So that's all I'd say. I mean, that's all you really can do. I would just say, don't let yourself go, though, too, because, you know, and that's easier said than none because it's

chaotic when you have children from the outside looking in. But you're the example. So what you do, what you do, your kids are going to emulate. They just are. It's not what you say. It's what you do. I'll add one, I'll add one thing because this is, from the sound of the email you sent me, you've got a lot of stuff going on. I know that you're doing multiple things besides the job that you've got. And something that's very hard for me, but is very important to the success of everything that we're trying to do as a family is I'm kind of like a squirrel.

and I'm not real strong on, I'm not a real strong finisher. I'm a real strong starter because I like variety. And if left to my own devices, I will have multiple, multiple projects started around the farm and in the house and on my desk. But then I don't always do a good job of finishing. them and that kind of makes for chaos because it's like you know before you start another thing you need to clean this up but one thing that i've started to realize and you have to you have to do this you have to look at everything that you're doing through the guise of what is the return on my investment of time so in other words is it

As much as I would like to go to the shop and work on clearing off the bench or building cabinets or doing this or doing this project, how much does that help further our overarching goal versus spending the time in the office, going, returning emails and working on, you know, sponsorship or whatever, whatever. needs to be done for for our business within our business and the truth is that time in the office actually has a much higher rate of return than me doing some carpentry job or me doing some other thing and it's not sexy and it gets a little monotonous sometimes but if you sit and look at everything you're doing, you're going to have to decide, okay, what is the biggest bang for the buck? In other words, what is going to give me the biggest return for the amount of time that I have to put

into it? And whatever that thing is, that's what you need to work on. And you may have to let, you may have to let some things go that you may enjoy, but they're not profitable. And because at the end of the day, you only have a finite amount of time. And as much as, you know, as much as you would like to do all of it, at some point, something's got to give. And you really have to boil it down to what is going to, what's going to push, what's going to push you forward? What's the most important thing to getting you and your family towards the goal that you have and focus on that? people. I mean, if you got, if you're, your endeavors, you are in endeavors. So if you're, I assume that's businesses. So I mean, exactly what dad said, hire out the positions that you know aren't your best

use of time. I mean, that's, and that's easier said to done because you got to have the money to do that. And we know, we empathize as anybody that's in that boat because we wish we could hire out a lot more stuff than we, that we can right now. But we'll get there. And that, what dad just said, that's how if you study the most successful people in the world and you listen to them and you talk to wealthy people, that's probably the number one thing that they will tell you. Your time is your most valuable asset. And you have got to be a son of a bitch when it comes to your time. Because if you don't, nobody will and you can lose it really quick.

And it's the only finite thing that you have on this planet is your time. And you could die tomorrow. better use it to the best you possibly can, best of your ability. So 100%. Tyler asks, what do you think about illegals being dropped off in random cities across the country? And the frame of this is he is from a town of about 20,000 people in Indiana, and it's happening in his little town, and it's not good. I mean, as we've said before,

there's a heck of a lot of these people that are coming here that are mostly male. I think the majority are male, not families. And you've got no background. You have no, there isn't any background check being done on them. So I don't know where this all goes. and we're getting to a we're getting kind of to i feel like a critical point because now with what's going on in Haiti there's talk there i think there was a talk just today about them them being the government airlifting refugees from Haiti into the united states so now we're

going to fly illegals in because these would not be from my understanding very little very little background checks being done on them and no no visas for most of them uh i don't know i don't know the details on it but um it's it's really strange times and if you take like if you just sit and think about the basic fabric of how everything runs in this country when you start influxing people to towns all over the country, it does not take a whole lot of mayhem to just make the whole system fall apart. And you really got to ask yourself,

is this just a total, is this a random act of incompetence by our political leaders? Fuck, no, it isn't. Or is this, is what we're getting, what we're getting and what we very well may get completely intentional.

Yep. I believe it's intentional. Can't tell me it isn't. How can you be this stupid for this long not do anything about it? When everybody's screaming from the rooftop said it's a problem. I don't know. And ironically, the... Because they don't care. The budget bill that got passed at the last minute to keep the government going,

in that bill, I think there was $500 million that was sent to the country of Jordan for border security. nice um yeah my thoughts on it uh yeah it's scary uh it's really worrisome it's everything dad said there some of them can be terrorists you're talking about crime i think the scariest thing for me about it is i'm all about other people's cultures and other countries cultures and like appreciating people's cultures you know that's what makes people amazing that's what makes human beings amazing, but it's almost like they want to bring all these people in from all these different backgrounds with all these different cultures and different way of life to totally lose the identity

of what our American culture is. Because we do have an American culture. I don't give a fuck what anybody says. All the woke people will tell you Americans are white supremacists and they were founded on white supremacy and they have no culture. White people have no culture. That's bullshit. America has culture. Fourth of July is fucking pure-blooded American culture. Like, there's stuff in our country that's American. Like, that's an American thing. And, you know, I feel like a lot of it's been kind of lost.

You know, they kind of want it to be lost. They want us to lose our identities as Americans. And they don't want us to have a culture. They don't. And when you talk about, like, how people in small town America are raised versus these people that are coming in, like completely different yeah completely different i mean jason aldean wasn't fucking around try that in a small town like that's how it is like people respect each other people are neighborly more so than

they are in cities uh you know like we care well i care about our little town we want to keep it intact like we care about our neighbor like we want to keep the found the values and the stuff that we stand for. We want to stand on that and keep that intact. And like, I just feel like that's, that's their goal with it, is to make it a disaster, lose our identity, let crime accelerate, let terrorist attacks happen. I mean, you name it. But this idea that it's incompetence is just total bullshit at this point. It's straight intentional. And whatever reason you can speculate, but that's one of my speculations, and that's the scariest thing about it is we're going to lose ourselves. And they're already doing it inside of the media with just how polarizing they are

with everybody's against everybody. Divide, divide, divide, divide. And then you throw this in the mix. Shit, we'll have no identity left. You'll have no identity left of what America was founded on, what it stands for, what is American culture, because you'll have so much shit in the pool that you won't even know what America stands for. So I think a point that not enough time has been spent, on is if you talk to any person that has has immigrated here, and I'm thinking about your ice guy, or I know, I know a lot of, I know a lot of Hispanic people that have come here legally, and they're very upset about this, because the amount of time and money and angst that it took for them to get to become a legal citizen of the United States.

And the reason they came here, the reason they came here are for all of the values that you just talked about. And they are proud to be Americans and they are thankful that they are here. And now you're just kind of... And the thing about that, because I don't want people to think, like, I'm against culture, different cultures and that backgrounds. But the thing about that is, they recognize the American dream. That's why they came. That's why they came here and they're willing to embody what it means to be an American.

Totally different mindset than somebody coming in here for free. Well, that doesn't really give a fuck about anything that this country stands for. They're just coming here because it's better than where they're from. Right. They're escaping where they're from. And here's it. Here's, I mean, we're kind of getting off on this, but what's really sad about this whole deal is there is no reason why in this country, we have not overhauled the immigration system, streamlined it. We should want immigration. But we should want the best, the brightest, the most law-abiding people from around the world to come here. Yep.

And we should have an immigration system. That's easier than what it is right now. Yes, much easier and incentivizes that for those people. However, when you have countries that are using the situation we have as a good way to empty the prisons and to get rid of all the people that they don't want in their country. Now, that's not all of it, but that is definitely part of it. And then on top of it, I don't think near enough time has been spent speaking about these Chinese nationals that are coming here. Like what, there is so much bad.

Child trafficking, drug trafficking, drug traffic, I mean, fuck, there is terrible things happening. Right. And terrible. We just constantly every day, it's just gloss. over and nothing to see here. And there's going to be something to see. I don't know when. I don't know, I don't know what's going to happen, but I fear that fall election time of 2024 is not going to be a good time in America. I just, there are too many things that are lining up and the volume and the speed at which this has all been increasing is just it's it's crazy to me and i don't know where

it ends but um i guarantee it doesn't end for the better so i don't know from what i've viewed on tic talk this is probably one of the reasons they want to get rid of it uh people are not even like people are saying in these videos now why don't we get the fuck off this app and do something about it When are we going to get off this app and do something about it? When you start getting people like that, yeah, the government should be shit in their pants because when you get a bunch of people, that's ultimately probably why they want to get rid of it.

Because people are sick of this shit. I think the only way you change it is a revolution. Or you hopefully get somebody in power for our country that can change shit for the better. But even then, I don't know, shit's got to change, though. Shit's got to fucking change. Yeah, it does. Because I'm tired of it.

And I think, you know what? And we see, I mean, we see it. I don't know about illegal immigrants, but just, I can tell you firsthand what I've seen in our little town, migration of people from major cities that are falling apart. And you get a lot of scumbacks. Yep. That ain't doing shit that are sitting on the corner that are running around,

get into the liquor store, smoking cigs, smoking pot on the street. you know, you see, like, never saw that as a kid. Never saw that growing up. Hell didn't see that when I was in high school. Now you see it all the time. I mean, it's not like, it's not on a huge scale, but it's like, that was non-existent. Yeah.

That was non-existent in our small town. Now it's prevalent. Yeah. And that's a migration of people coming from different places. Well, and that's a reaction. Cost of living. That's a reaction. to failed policies of larger cities.

And don't kid yourself, the people that can least afford, the people that can least afford the higher costs, the lack of public services, those are the people that are hit the most by illegal immigration into those larger cities. And that's why you're seeing more and more people leave those cities, is a reaction to that.

but at the end of the day at the end of the day i think we all have got to take a lot more a lot stronger role in our local government pay attention go to your stinking uh county supervisor meeting go to your local uh you pay attention to your local elections um because It starts right where you live. And for too long, I think we've all just kind of been on cruise control because, let's face it, that stuff is pretty boring most of the time. But I think we've all got to learn that it all starts with us. And so I guess my thoughts to close that is get involved at the local level and

wake up and pay attention what's going on and do your point. part to be the solution and not just stand around and go, well, that sucks. Yeah, because it's got to swear. Yep, because it's got a swing. So, yeah, yep. I mean, where do you want to go from here? Hey, thanks for sticking with us. We appreciate every single one of you guys. Let's keep this ball rolling. Leave a review on Spotify or Apple. Follow us on YouTube. Pay the fee. Share it out with who you know. It all helps, guys. We appreciate every single one of you. We love you. Now, let's get back to the podcast. All right. John sent us a long one, and he basically is asking, what is the deal with Tad's Tesla fetish?

Yeah. So I think John in his email, he was having a hard time reconcile my thoughts on Tesla versus the government playing in markets. and the whole renewable energy thing and all that. So I'll try to, I couldn't rant on it for a whole episode about this. And there are some Tesla episodes back in the beginning that are whole episodes about my thoughts on Tesla. But I'll keep it simple. First of all, to me, Tesla represents what's possible. and it represents a future that America can be super competitive in

because outside of Tesla, the most advanced electric vehicles out there are not from Ford, GM, Stalantis, Volkswagen. They're from B.D and other Chinese manufacturers. If it wasn't for Tesla, if it wasn't for Tesla, the U.S. automotive industry would have no no hope whatsoever. And the Biden administration, who I think it's funny that the unions were pro-Biden and Biden just basically slit their sack because if you look at the new tailpipe regulations and what's coming out, basically for them, like Ford, for example, if the way they've got that

proposed right now stands for Ford to sell. a regular F-150, they've got to sell two electric F-150s. So it's basically incentivizing the EV business, which I don't agree with. The government should stay the hell out of the EV business, because Tesla built a profitable business and their product is superior. And anybody that wants to argue that with me is more than welcome because these cars go watch sandy monroe tear down anybody else's electric vehicle and show you how they've done it and how it works compared to how a tesla is it's night and day and they're losing money on every one of them they sell so everybody else out there that's an american car company that's selling eve they're losing money on every one of them vehicles

they're subsidizing so in ford's case they're subsidizing that with all the money they make off the Ford F-150. Basically, Ford loses money on every vehicle that everything else they do, they lose money on it, but they make a shitload of money off selling Ford F-150s. And that's fine, but it's not sustainable. Especially how shitty these fucking trucks are. Oh, and they're all terrible. They're all fucking terrible. I don't care. I don't know about you guys. These trucks suck. Terrible. 2024, ever since COVID trucks are ass. You see videos. You see videos. I have friends. Hell, you had problems with your Jeep.

I've had friends that have had problems with Chevy, GMC, Ford, you name it, cross the board. Trucks are not built like they used to be. No. And that's a damn shame, but that's got, that's the honest truth. Yeah. So, anyway, just saying.

Anyway, getting back to my thoughts. So Tesla has built a great product. And yes, it's not for everybody. And, you know, we saw that. if you live in a really cold climate, electric car is a challenge. And people get on about the electrical grid and say, oh, we can't support all these EVs because it's too much of a drain on the electrical grid. Well, no, the reason our electrical grid is in trouble is data centers, for one thing.

I mean, there's all kinds of things, but a data center that are going up all over the country because data is such a huge thing. the amount electrical power that each one of those data centers pulls compared to what charging an EV is. I mean, it's like thousands and thousands of cars, every one of those data centers. And it's poor policy by our government that there has been no good infrastructure as far as power transmission investment in this country in a long time. We're making more power. We're building power plants, but we're not investing in infrastructure. That is not because of the EV business.

It's because of bad policy. At the end of the day, and this scares me, but what I really believe is that we're heading to this, we're heading to this time where there's going to be a fork in the road. And on the one hand, companies like Tesla are using technology, and they're inventing the technology, to give us greater time, better products than we've ever had. But on the other end of that,

our political system, our government regulation, our misinformation, our division in this country may tear the fabric of our country apart to the point that none of us are going to be able to enjoy what all of this technology could make available to us. And I think I said that clear back when we started to do that. talking about Tesla. Like the possibilities for solar generation, for the power wall as far as basically making your home energy independent to where you pretty much can run your life off of the grid. In other words, be your own power generation system.

have a vehicle that you charge at home and not have to stop at the gas station, you know, for your commute and all that. That is all possible. Full self-driving is possible. I really like the idea that at some point, I don't think I'm ever going to get a trained gorilla to load pigs or to chore my buildings. But I think that if I live long enough, I might be able to get a Tesla bot to chore for me. But if we can't hold this country together, none of that matters. My only thing about this question is this everybody, anytime you talk about Tesla and all anybody wants to talk about is a fucking car. They are not just a fucking car company.

I don't know how many times you have to say that to people for them to get that through their brain. Yeah. The data of the self-driving, the whole charging network, the power walls and the freaking Tesla tiles they're putting on people's roofs, the robots they're building. They're not just a car company. They're not just a car company.

That is what you have to wrap your head around. And dad is a pure capitalist. I mean, you're a capitalist. You like to make money. Tesla's a valuable stock. The reason you went down this whole rabbit hole is because you were like, holy shit. Tesla is a good, like,

you invested in Tesla, you made money off Tesla because you believed in what they were doing, and it still is a good stock, because they're like an evolutionary company. They're like Apple. The shit that they're trying to do, they're like Apple. And that's what people don't get. And I, we've said this from the test,

from the very beginning. I'm not a greenie. I don't, I don't, think EV is, I'm not standing on that high horse of supporting EVs because I think it's going to make everything more green. I can give a shit less about that. Yeah. It's valuable. The technology can move human evolution and they are high level of what they do. And if you're a capitalist and you want to invest in that, I look at that as a valuable company. And yeah, my girlfriend or my fiance has a Tesla. I can speak firsthand.

car's pretty fucking sick. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of noise. And yeah, you don't get a roll coal on anybody. But shit, she doesn't pay shit for gas. The electrical bill on it's pretty cheap. We drive that thing everywhere. It's self-drives. You got a freaking computer in your car. You can play, music, watch anything you want. It's got some really good features in it. It's an actual, it's a really nice car to drive. It's really nice car to ride in. The driving and riding experience in that car, it's pretty damn awesome in my opinion. Most car guys might not like that

because they like the Vroom Vroom and all the shit. But the daily person that's just getting on about their life that it's just a car to them, they're going to like a Tesla because there's a lot of convenient, great features to them. But that's just the cars. Yeah. That's just the cars.

So I don't give a shit about the green thing. I don't give a shit about that at all. Yeah, I'll say one, I'll just say one last bit about it. I've been following Tesla for a long time. If you want to go back to earlier episodes, I do a really good job of laying out the whole thesis of why I invested in Tesla to start with.

But one thing that I have watched since the beginning of this is people, this is another example of the media walk and hand in hand with the government if Elon Musk would have stayed on the path that he was on and let's say that he bought

the New York Times or he bought some liberal rag say he bought out MSNBC he would be the dark It's much the same story as Trump. If you go back and you watch when Trump was the darling of the libs, because he was a liberal. There's a great clip of him on Oprah Winfrey and her just gushing all over him

and telling him that he should run for president at the time. He said no. Well, Elon Musk was the same way. So, you know, grew up Silicon Valley. And I would say he still has pretty liberal. views. But his overriding, the way he kind of governs his life is what he calls, I think, first world principles. And just, you know, logic. Like, logic. Like, he follows things to their, to the end.

He looks at something and he plays it out to how it's going to end. And that's how he forms his opinion. And so you've seen him shift. And the reason he bought Twitter, the reason he started X, was because he saw how the media was totally being held hostage by government. And there's no free speech. You can argue, you know, whatever you want. But I just think it's incredibly, it's just so interesting to watch how people have turned.

The government has turned. the media has turned against that man from the time that he was a darling and all it comes down to is he's really all about common sense and they do the really hard stuff like they are like Apple but they built the machine

that built the machine they didn't outsource making that phone to China and put it in a pretty box that was designed in California they built the machine to build the machine and built the factory and he bet his life on it and it's profitable every car they sell they make money on your legacy automakers that you have bet all these union jobs on and you have tied yourself to the federal government you are screwed you are screwed and it is becoming more apparent every day. And now than the government, because you don't fit the narrative,

the big automakers, they're going to get thrown to the wolves. And if you didn't believe that politicians don't have your best interest in mind, when you go down the road far enough and some company like BYD buys a controlling interest in Ford Motor Company or General Motors because nobody else wants the stock and it's in an all-time low, and they come in and buy it so that they can sell their Chinese-made cars in America under a blue oval. That's when, I think that's when a lot of people wake up and go, oh, shit, this isn't what we thought it was. I'm not saying that's going to happen, but the auto business as it is today will no longer exist at some point. And the only company, the only American-made company that's out there that makes a product that is compelling enough and is quality enough and is efficient enough that can make money and turn a product.

profit and pay its payroll is Tesla. Not any of the rest of them. So that is why I like Tesla. Yeah. And I would just say I'm not anti-oil and gas either. No. We're not anti-oil and gas. We use diesel fuel on the farm. We use gas on the farm. I got a gas truck. Dad's got a gas truck. But people just get their emotions so tied up in this subject. And it's just, they get their feelings. Like that's the thing. Get me something better. Because right now, I don't want to buy a new truck. I've got a Jeep that's three years old

and transmission went out of it when it had 4,000 miles on it. And the engine that's in it is prone to the camshaft just wearing out because it has shit lubrication in it. And I run full synthetic oil with one of the highest ad packs of any oil you can get just because people are like,

you better do that because if you don't, you're going to have to tear the thing down and replace the camp. And it's brand new. I have a 2010 Toyota Sequoia with a $350 in it, and it has almost 200,000 miles on it, and that thing is by far one of the best, it's the best car I've ever owned. And I don't want to get rid of it. Like, I see the new Toyota Sequoia, and it has a turbocharged four-cylinder or six-cylinder in it, and I'm like, why in the hell are you doing this? Because you had a V8 that was absolutely bulletproof.

I have never done anything to that car. And you talk to anybody that has one of these sequoias, they'll tell you the same thing. Best goddamn car they've ever had. Go buy a new one? Hell no. If that thing finally goes to crap, I'm going to go find the last year that they made that Sequoia that way, and I'll buy that. But I won't buy a new car because the quality is terrible. The workmanship is terrible. And not only that, I'm not altogether confidence that if I buy that car, because I've had this one, obviously, for 14 years, am I going to, is there going to be a dealership to take the damn thing to? I don't know. I, it's, we're going to find out. But yeah, I get like you're probably seeing, I get a little fired up about it. But if I, my whole thing on Tesla is they are literally.

kicking the rest of the United States auto business right in the ass and just being like, get out of our way. Because if they're allowed to operate, if the government does not hand tie them to where they are at a disadvantage, they will be the only viable auto company in 10 years made in America, hands down. I should be drinking because my blood pressure is getting high. But anyway. Well, that's why look at Smithfield. People don't like Smithfield today because why? They got bought by the Chinese. Yeah. Same thing could happen in the automotive space. Let all the snarky comments come. I'm ready for all of them.

Here, we should talk about this, I guess. What are your thoughts on homeschooling? I've thought about homeschooling. Kat and I have thought about homeschooling, my fiancé. I think every young person right now is thinking about it. I've talked to friends. I've talked to people my age. The more and more this world goes crazy, the more and more you want to take them out of the public school system, the more stories you see about the public school system,

the more you're like, I don't want to put my kids in that position. I don't want them indoctrinating my kids with the shit that they want to indoctrinate them with. And, you know, I think school fails a lot of kids. truthfully the school system that we have the day and i mean i'm blessed i lived in a a good small town community that you know there wasn't as many kids and there wasn't you know it was it was easier to get attention from teachers and stuff there wasn't as many

troubled kids and troubled areas and troubled environments you know but i mean you look at inner city schools damn it's hard for those kids get a really good education because they got a lot of shit going on it's chaotic and I just, I don't know, but, you know, there's obviously some current concerns about homeschooling. You know, you guys, you don't want them to be awkward as hell. You want them to have people skills. You want them to be able to interact and pick up on social cues. You know, those are concerns.

You want to be involved in the community and involved in sports and activities and whatever they're passionate about, which they can still do. But the other thing is, it's work. It's work for the parents. You got to get the curriculum. You got to teach them the curriculum. to find an online school. You know, that's all, it's not the easy thing to do. It's not the easiest thing to do. It's also not mainstream. So you also have all the social pressure of going

against the grade and homeschooling your kids. But, you know, that's another thing that the, the older I get, the more crazy shit gets, the more I start thinking more and more about it. Because, yeah, shit's fucked, Rick. It's fucked. I think. Uh, I think, that you hit the nail on the head there when you said that it's not the easy thing to do. I think that we are in a time today that you as a person, you as a family, you as a community, being able to do the easy thing and take the easy path is done. Those days are over. there are not many easy days ahead for us for this country. I think for us to move forward as a country, there's going to be a lot of hard. And I can just tell you that if I was raising my two sons today,

I would homeschool them because I don't trust the system. We spend, I'm not sure if we're first, but if we're not first, we're damn close to first. And I think we are. I think we spend more money per kid in America on education than any place else in the world, and our return for that money is among the worst in the world. So we keep spending more money, and our test scores keep going down, and some of the more liberal places around this country have just basically taken out testing. They just don't test them because they don't want to know the answer. And we just had dinner with some friends of ours and one of the one of our couples they work in a in the public school system and they don't grade like they don't give out grades i think it's middle school that they

are an aid and they don't they don't grade they just grade kids on their participation if they really try hard or they're not trying very hard or they're not trying at all i think it's just it's basically just you're good you're okay or you need to do better because uh grades are too uh too triggering too traumatic to children and no child likes to fail i didn't like to fail but it didn't keep me from doing it quite a bit just me i mean and i feel bad for those kinds of teachers because there are good teachers out there that they are being told what they have to teach, how they have to teach, how they can discipline, what they can do to discipline kids, what they can't do to discipline kids. And geez, a kid's beating the shit out of you.

You can't even do anything. I mean, it's like, it's a shit show. It's a shit show across the board. What they teach is a shit show, most of the teachers, I'm going to be honest, they should be make becoming a teacher a lot harder than it is because I'll be honest with you. Even in a small town had a lot of attention from teachers, I had some fucking awesome teachers that were engaging that kept people, they were with the times, kept students engaged. You really picked up on the information they were teaching you because they gave a shit. And then you had teachers that handed you a sheet and said, all right, everybody collaborate with each other because we need to all learn from each other. And like, there was no

teaching you taught yourself practically it was a shit show and there's some bad teachers we need to get rid of the bad teachers you need to get rid of the bad teachers you need to have some qualified you make more qualifications you can't get it you can't you there's no way you're going to do that you're not there the standards for teachers are not going to get higher because right now they got to pay enough they can't get enough teachers and they're not they got to pay they got they got to pay them more and you got to have more you got it's got to take longer to become a teacher because I think some people they go. I don't think that's the case.

You don't think people go to college and don't know what the fuck they're going to do and they're like, well, summer's off sound good. No, I think that's 100% true, but you're not going to be able to raise the standards on the quality of teacher you hire until there is an excess supply of teachers. Right now, they can't even fill, they can't get enough people to teach. There's no way they're going to raise the standard. Yeah, and I don't know if it's necessarily the solution is homeschooling. I heard a really good theory or idea about people coming up with an app or a business where you get a pool of parents together and you all pull your money together to pay a teacher that is very good.

and you all go, like old school, go to a schoolhouse or, you know, wherever you go. And all those parents, kids go to that one teacher and you all learn together. So you get the social, social, you get, I don't know, what am I supposed to? The socialization. Socialization. Yes, thank you. And you're learning from a qualified teacher that you vetted yourself as a parent. All your parents, they're in that group, vetted that teacher to know, hey, what's their beliefs?

what are they going to tell what are they going to say to my kids are they smart are they not do they know shit do they not know shit uh and you know you have a little more control and it's kind of the best of both worlds there here's if you take it to the to the logical conclusions and this is what i'm surprised this is why college to me i just do not understand the model of college at all because as you and I both know and as most people know, you can go out and you can find people world-renowned experts in whatever their field of study is. And you can consume their information, what they're teaching. You can consume that for damn near free.

So why has nobody come up with the model that you, yes, you're homeschooling your kids, or you're pooling and you get a group like you talked about, but you might have an in-person somebody that facilitates it and make sure that they're checking the homework and doing that, but you're using the best and the brightest people within the fields that are, whether that be algebra, whether that be U.S. history, or whether that be whatever, why are we not doing that? And we're consuming the information from the best and brightest and then spreading that among, you know, many, many people instead of paying money to go to a university to have a TA, a teacher's assistant, teach the course and never even see the process.

and get charged an arm and a leg. I just don't know. The whole education system, me is just, it's outdated. It's in a mess. It's outdated. It's not keeping up with the times. And like, I heard this.

In life and in business, there's not a right answer and a wrong answer. There is, some answers are better than other answers. Right. It's what is the best answer to the, to the problem? In school, most of the time, it's this is the right answer, this is the wrong answer.

And it's not coming up with, it's just coming up with the right answer. It's not coming up with the right, right answer. Yeah. There's many right answers to a problem. And I don't know, I always talk about how, what I hated about school was you were measured on your academics and how good you are extracurriculars. But when you get out into the real world and you become an adult, what fucking matters to people?

What do people measure your success on and how smart and bright you are? How much fucking money you make. Yet they don't teach you a fucking thing about how to make money. Not a dollar. Not a thing, not a thought, nothing. They don't teach you shit. And yet that's what people measure your success on and how smart of a human being you are on because of what you do, what how much value bring to the world,

which results in money. Isn't that kind of weird? It is very strange. Very strange. Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, I don't know what the answer is. I would just tell you that, to me, homeschooling, the stock on that has skyrocketed from when I was a kid. Because when I was a kid, almost nobody homeschooled, and you knew who the homeschooled kids were. but today there's so many options as far as having that curriculum but yet have them involved in

extracurricular to where they are adjusted they have friends they socialize and all that and being able to control the quality of the content the quality of the curriculum and to maximize the value of the curriculum that's the other thing homeschooling you can expose your children to so many, so many things that otherwise are not going to be exposed to in public school. And the quality of the curriculum that you can get, I think that's kind of in that where I was talking about. You can get, you know, people that are, are basically renowned experts in the fields that you want, that, you know, your children are interested in. And those options weren't available years ago, but today they are. And I don't know. There's definitely

some room for disruption in the education space. 100%. And I think, definitely, definitely. definitely in my lifetime, there is going to be an alternative. And I don't think it's just homeschooling. I think there's going to be a middle ground. There's going to be some company, some organization that comes out with some sort of something different because I think there needs to be something different because people are tired of the government indoctrinating your kids. Your kids are gone. Your kids are gone for eight hours a day. You might see them for. two hours a night on the weekdays because you're working.

They spend more time with their teachers and their peers at school than they do with you. So how they turn out most of the time is how they want them to turn out most of the time. Not how you want them to turn out because that's what they get fucking shoved in their brain, eight hours a day besides summer. So. Jeez. Well, I'm just saying it's the truth. So I can blame the school system.

Well, luckily I didn't apply myself enough because I hated school. Oh, so I didn't listen a lot. Oh, yeah. I looked at the clock and I was like, all right, when's football practice or when are we getting out of here? Because I hate my life right now. That does sound vaguely familiar to my childhood, so maybe we do have more in confidence.

Business, farming, athletics, numbers, that always interests me. annotating about Charlotte's Web or Atlas Webb I don't know not Atlas Shrug They wouldn't talk that No they didn't teach that

So you don't even I don't know Some other some other shit Greek Gatsby Something like that That didn't interest me Well we're running pretty long here You want to close her down

You want one more? Shit I don't know if we should I'll give you one more Okay Do you think American farmers Should be protesting like European farmers. Where's it happening?

Let me know. Get her going and let me know. I don't think it'll happen. It won't happen. So give me the address. Give me the time when our tractor's supposed to be there and let me know. I don't think it'll happen here because American farmers are way too independent. And if you load it up and took your tractor to Washington, D.C.,

by the time you got back, your neighbor would have rented all your farm ground from your landlords. Yep. I just I don't know I mean and the other thing is they're their agriculture is so regulated I mean we have a lot of regulation but that the European Union is definitely getting worse yeah and it definitely is getting the DNR's kind of getting crazy yeah some of the shit they're trying to do I mean there's I guess the short answer is I don't think American farmers are gonna are gonna do that's not quite at that point yet no and I just don't feel like that I like I said I think were just so independent-minded that it would take something very, very severe to get all of the,

all of the people involved in ag to think, to unite that way. I think what we should do, if you're going to have a revolution or protest, it should just be all-Americans. Yes. We got more problems, all of us collectively, not farmers, farmers, whatever you're doing. We got more problems all of us together than just farmers. Yes. If that means we got to take our shit tanks up to D.C. and let her eat, I guess we'll do that.

But that could be our contribution. But I've shit. I think that's a great point. I mean, I think... We've got worse problems all of us collectively. At the end of the day, we can't lose sight of the fact that there is way more wrong with this country that we can all agree on

than the few things that we don't agree on. And I think that's, I think the government may, at the end of the day, this year, this election, they may very well have finally overplayed their hand. In their effort to divide us by just coming up with more BS that, you know, divides you from your neighbor, I think they have played it so far that one of these days, and I think we might be there,

I think people are starting to realize that we actually have enough things that we agree that are totally screwed up, that we're willing to overlook the few things that we don't agree on and say, you know what, it's time that we held these son of a guns accountable and make a change. Definitely unites us for sure. So we got a few questions that we didn't get to, and I think there's a couple of them that we could have. We can get them into the next one. Yeah.

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