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Episode Date: April 28, 2023

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And without further ado, we got a nice market update going to be done by no other than El Conquistador himself. Cez-Verdad. There you go. Yeah, a nice market update. It won't be too fiery today. The markets down today, I think the markets are trying to figure out trying to find support somewhere with exports, because exports have not been, just haven't been good. and cold around.

I don't think corn progress. We all went crazy. Everybody had good weather in the Midwest here, and we just, we're going to plant this shit. We're going to get done. We're going to be done in a week. And then we all started planting, and then that rain came,

and this week has been pretty much cold and crappy. There's a few guys actually brave out there planting. I wouldn't say field conditions. Probably not ideal, but not too bad. obviously well enough to go but we haven't planted anymore uh since a week ago we're kind of waiting it out but we'd like to get back in there but uh yeah markets uh corn 667 was the best bit i could find local and that's probably going to flip because we flipped to uh is it july corn we were on may

i think it's july i don't know if they do june or not i can't remember anyway 614 is where the market closed so we went to a new month. Beans 1502 at the river 1498 in Burlington and my printer ran out of ink and I don't know what they closed out on the board but they closed real close to that 1498 I want to say maybe 1488 I don't know anyway down today wheat 661 hogs 76 75 the blood bath in the hog business just keeps going meanwhile the cattle guys if you got feeder cattle you got cattle you got cattle going to market uh i'll send you my i'll send you my tax id number um we're a charitable donation if you want to make a donation to the torquistler political action committee uh i'll send you some sort of printed off fake document that says that it's tax deductible uh thank you for your support uh oil

77 78 gold 1993 gold gold went up got over two thousand dollars an half ounce and then kind of petered out. Silver, $23. Bitcoin. We went to like $31,000 and man, everybody came out of the woodworks like, it's going, it's going. This is a bull run now. We're going. And today it's $27,300. So we ran out of our bull run a little bit. Ethereum $1,343. And Tesla had their earnings report and they didn't like it. They did not like it. A gross automotive margin got down 19%, I think, and it was at maybe around 23%. And they're cutting prices and the sky's following, even though, you know, Ford has a, they have a margin of about 4%. And GM has a margin of maybe 6%. 19, not enough. So their critics are out for blood.

Slamming it. Slamming it. But Elon, he don't give a shit. Just on sale, baby. Just on sale. I would be buying more. This is not financial advice, and we do still have our disclaimer. It's in every video. I got to have my cover. Yep. I know. I would be buying more probably at these prices, and if they go lower, I probably will go comb the dishes for a few more cans and see if I can buy a share or two.

Elon, though, he don't care because he launched Starship on 420. and it went off. It cleared the launch tower and it got, didn't make it to orbit and they had a few problems. They had to push the panic button because it didn't separate. But still, most powerful rocket ever successfully launched. And that, I don't think people realize a little space. We're going to Mars. I don't think people realize the gravity of the situation. All right. That was good one. That was a dad joke.

That was a dad. That was good. That was good. Yeah, no, I agree with you on that. I think that space travel just, it was really cool for a while, and then now it's just not talked about enough. Nope. It's going to be, though.

Yeah. If we go to a different planet, then people might start paying attention again. I think we're headed in a good direction on that. Elon is just seeing what's all going on and he's like, I got to get out of here. I got to get out of here. You know, we don't talk enough about, well, I shouldn't say that. We do talk about positively a lot, positivity a lot. I feel like we've kind of been in a little bit of a rut of doom and gloom because the hot topics have not been super positive lately.

But it's Friday here in the barn, and I'm having a damn good day. I am excited for the future. Just full disclosure, we got so much shit going on that some days we can't, well, most days I can't keep it straight. And once in a while, Sawyer will just sit down on a five gallon bucket in the hog building and just go, damn, it's a lot. You just got to take a breath sometimes. But days like today, days like today, you feel like a win.

Yep. And these are wins. We can't really talk about them. Nope. But we will. As soon as we can. As soon as we can, we will share. And probably because we got so much stuff going, I had all planned the Whiskey Minute today.

It's going to be the Whiskey Hour because I just said I need an old fashion. So I broke out my faithful bottle of Knob Creek single barrel. And this, there's a little frost left on it. it is a freezer old-fashioned. I made a whole bottle of old fashions, and I love doing that. It's so handy. You just make a batch in the bottle,

and it has your bitters, and it has your simple syrup, and I make my own simple syrup, because I'm bougie like that, and put a little cherry juice. I was in such a rush, though. I didn't have time to grab an orange peel. So, you fucking rookie.

If you think I'm lively now, you're rookie. Wait till we get to the golden nugget. I know. I'm like, you're already feeling, you're already feeling good. So we'll see. You're going to feel no pain by the end of this deal. We're going out for dinner tonight.

And when I came up here, I went to pour it, and I might have poured it a little bit heavy. And Sawyer just looks at me and goes, are you driving tonight? Or he goes, are they picking you up? Some friends of ours, we're going out for dinner with them and they're driving. He goes, are they driving? I was like, that was a heavy pour there, buddy. Jeez.

But anyway, I think I'll be fine. You'll be good. No pain. We're glad that you're all here, and you know what? Just stay positive. There's still a lot of good stuff in the world. There is. No better place to be living than here.

Even though there's a few more crazies than what there was, probably going to be more tomorrow. But somehow, we're all going to get through. Yep. So you got any good questions? Do you want me to go first? Yeah, I'd like for you to start it off. All right.

Some of these I might have to squint at because, like I said, the print's getting pretty, It's time to make a trip. And I want to say one more thing, one more thing before you get started. Guys, when you ask us questions, feel free to ask about anything you want. It doesn't have to just be about farming. It doesn't have to be just about politics. It can be anything you guys want to know, anything that you think we might be able to give

some value to you guys on. Just shoot it. Just shoot it. We're open book. So just want to throw that out there. We're not necessarily knowledgeable, but that's never stolen. Exactly. We'll answer them to the best of our abilities.

This is a good question. Yep. Although it's, you know, you're getting old. I know, I know. I don't think I can answer this one in a couple years. So Brett asked Sawyer, any tips on making the transition from high school to real world adult life? No college. With no college.

Yeah, that's a key point because I think this is something that's not talked about enough. Like, you know, I follow a lot of people. I've watched a lot of podcasts. Let's do a lot of podcasts. This is something that's not talked about because I think it's pretty worth. rare. So all you know, if you've listened for a long time, I didn't go to college. I jumped right in the farming operation when I was 18. And when I was in school, that was frowned upon. You know, I was told by pretty much everybody that I was making a mistake, that I need to go into college,

just as a backup plan. What if technology takes over farming? And you don't, you're, not useful anymore. You're not needed on the farm. You know, they're just throwing in what if, what if, what if, what if. And, you know, it was one of those decisions that's pretty hard to make. It's not the easiest when everybody's telling you one way to go one way and you go the other way. But, you know, it was not the easiest thing when you go from being with your friends all the time, social, social, social, social, social, to like nothing very quickly because it turns on a dime. You graduate, you have that summer, and then all your friends are gone. If they go to college, most of your peers will probably go to college or wherever they're going. And you're

just there. And you have to now go from being. a young, dumb, high school kid to, what's up, buddy, you're in the real world now. And that is a transition that I think is a little bit easier in college. You know, you go and you have to mature a little bit, but it's not to the extent of the adult world, I believe. You meet new people. You still have that social aspect. You still go out, have a good time. Not saying I never did, but I didn't go as probably regularly as my buddies that were in college, which if I was in their situation, I would have done the same thing. Anyway, my tips for you, because I know it was a hard, it was, for the first couple months, maybe in the first year, that was tough. That was really hard to be

alone, be isolated, living by myself, not having many friends around me. You know, I'd go up and see my buddies occasionally, but, you know, it's not like anything that you were used to. I would say the faster that you can develop a routine, rituals, whatever, to become the best man you want to be in the future now, you're going to be bounds and leaps ahead of everybody else, any of your peers that go to college or that graduated with you, or any kid competing at 18 years old with other 18-year-olds. If you can find a passion, you find where you want to go

and you develop habits to get you to go to that place and do them day in and day out and really focus in on yourself, that will help you escape the thoughts that you have in your mind of, because I remember being like, did I make the right decision? I always would second guess myself, like, did I make the right decision? Should I have gone to college? And it took me a while to realize that I did make the right decision, but I just kept myself busy. Keep yourself. Keep yourself. busy keep working on yourself like I remember one of the outlets that I went to was the gym the gym became a really big hobby for me because it was just a good way for me to work on myself and let my mind just take a breather and not have to think about anything and so that was an outlet

for me but working on your health your wealth your happiness your relationships trying to focus on learning something new every day working on your health working on your career finding out what that's going to be and developing habits early on in your life to set you up for your for your late 20s 30s 40s dude you're going to be bounds of leaps ahead so that was that's my advice to you um and i also i'm almost done i know i've gone long but i think it's also funny about um high school specifically is you are measured on three things of how you're going to turn out as an adult as far as how successful you're going to be as an adult is based off three things when you're in high school and you're in that world your a ct score your GPA and your extracurricular

activities how successful you are at those things and i get it you're young those are about the only metrics you got to really worry about but i just think it's so funny that because i remember when i was a school i was pretty middle-of-the-road student i love the social aspect of school i didn't apply myself as much as I probably should have. And my GPA reflected that. I turned in a lot of late homework. I like to have fun. I love the social aspect. And I was just getting by. ACT score had to get the bare minimum score you had to get 18 to get into most colleges, got that. And then I'd say I was a fairly decent athlete. I was a good athlete, but I wasn't a great athlete by any means. Hey, thanks for sticking with us. This episode is brought to you by the Proletes.

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metric most people measure people's success on in the adult world. What is it? Money and what you own. What you own, what you look like to people that money buys. That's how people look at you as far as how successful you are or how intelligent you are. If somebody makes a shitload of money, you automatically kind of assume that they're probably a smart person, right? But we go to high school and there's nothing be taught about money. There's nothing being taught about how to finance works, how to invest, how to save money, how to balance your checkbook, how to do any of that shit. How to do any of that shit.

And I just think it's so, so ass backwards sometimes. I really think about that. And I'm like, if you can learn how to make money and you can learn how finance, works and you can learn how to invest or how to start a business or run a business or have skills to really help and work for a business and make a lot of money. That is so essential to everyday life and you'll be set up to have a pretty good life. I know there's other things that make a successful life and that's not really my definition of a successful life is just money. But having money is a really great first start to being on the successful path. And I just think it's,

so don't let people get you down. If you're, if you're, if you're, in that situation and you're going into it work on yourself you'll be bounds of leaps of everybody else and if you can work on trying to make some money that's what really matters in the adult world as far as when people look at you as are you intelligent or you not are you successful or you're not money will shut them the fuck up and they won't say shit if you have money so i'm just saying and i'm i'm just saying i'm just saying i'm just keeping it real that's not my that's not my full definition of success by any means i don't think money is everything, but it does, you got to admit, the masses of the world, when they look at somebody and they see what car they're driving or what's on their wrist,

what watches on their wrist. And if it's nice, oh, the hell, he's successful. He's rich. Oh, he's intelligent because of the shit he has. That's just my opinion anyway. But a lot of people play that game. Yeah, a status game is not a game you want to play. You'd not want to get into that. But I'm just saying that's what people base people's success on is money. Anyway, I'll give you my two cents on that. And I think you were alluding to this. But as far as starting a routine, one thing that you didn't do and that I didn't do when I was in high school, I did not enjoy reading.

I did not like reading. Because everything that I was forced to read, everything I was forced to read was not. anything I was interested in reading. But find, find something that is interest to you, and learn to discipline yourself, to spend time, learning to enjoy reading, about whatever it is. And that's worth a lot. And if you're going to spend the time to read anything,

take notes. Don't buy a book. If you buy a book, write in it. if you take it from the library, write in a notebook. But if you bought the book, annotate it. Just write in the book because that's your book. Use it.

And then the other thing I'd say is, get up early. Get up early. Because if you can develop a routine that you work on yourself, you get up early, opportunities will come. And I can't remember what the other thing. Oh, the other thing I'll say is a young kid

if you're going out and you're trying to find a job, any job, or you're trying to find a job within the realm of what you think you're interested in, we say this all the time. One, don't be afraid to ask. Do not be afraid to ask somebody for a job, for information, for a chance, because you know what? A heck of a lot of people, especially in the younger generation, they cannot look you in the eye. They're timid. They're afraid to talk to people. They're not good at communicating because they've spent much time in front of a screen. If you can look a man in his eye or a woman in their eye and express to them that you're genuinely interested in working for them or for an opportunity or for whatever, I'd say, odds are that person is probably, they may not give you the answer

you want, but they're probably going to help you because so few people, one, are willing to ask and two can look somebody in the eye and communicate. That would be my advice. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I always just think about it. And I'm not perfect by any means as far as my routine and my rituals. Like, I don't even have it down yet. I think that constantly changes as your life changes. But I always strive to set my life up in a way that when I become a dad someday,

I have these things that I've been doing since I was 23 years old, 20 years old, that are just a part of my daily routine that are foundational that make me smarter, make me stronger my body, my health, or make me work on what I want to work on as far as career or business or whatever. If you can get those habits developed now, when you get a family, it's going to make it that much easier to keep those habits. going because you've just been doing it for so long. And there's so many guys that I've listened to

that have said that. If you can start early in developing and cultivating those habits and who you want to become, it's so much easier later down the line when life throws more curveballs at you because it's going to be really hard when you're 40 with kids to start saying, I'm going to start going to the gym every day now. Well, you know how that goes. There's kids and all kinds of shit that's going to happen that's going to make things go awry. But I would just say what I try to do is learn something new every day, whether that be a podcast, whether that be a YouTube video, whether that be reading. I try to work on my health.

I like to go to the gym. Not saying I go to the gym every day, but when I can, I'd like to go to the gym. And then three to five critical tasks working inside your business or if you're working for a business, try to move yourself forward in that business. if you can do three to five tasks inside whatever you're doing in your career, work on your health, work on your getting smarter, that's a good fucking day, in my opinion. If you do that day in and day out, you're going to see results.

So that's my two cents, man. I hope that helped. And I hope that whatever decision you choose to go down, I don't know if you've already made the decision or if you're in high school, that you prove yourself right in whatever decision you choose. And it might take some time to prove yourself. fright but if you do the right things i think you will so always get up early uh when you have kids you got to get up early because if you don't if you're not up before your kids uh they'll be plotting

ways to overthrow you you don't want that so get up got to get up before the kids what what do you do now huh why i've i can't fix you now i've done all i could so now it's like i should be sleeping in every day but i'm still worried about what you might be doing so i try to get up what asked about wet dry feeders what are they like what do we like what don't we like yep anything we should anything he should know about him because he's thinking about getting them yep okay so we have wet dry feeders at soyer site at our other sites we have dry feeders because when we started building barns that was kind of the standard um when i sold buildings when i worked for precision we used about everybody's we use crystal springs crystal springs is

kind of the original. They were out with a wet-dry feeder, really, before everybody else. They've been making Crystal Springs forever. And then John O'Mara got in the game, and then SDI, I'm sure there's others. And then the brand we use is Bramer out of Nebraska. And we should get free coffee from them or something. We've got to get something out of them because... They'll take us out for dinner.

They should take us out for dinner. So we don't, we're not a paid, we're not a paid spokesman for Bramer feeders, but we should be. I really like them. I really like that feeder. When we made the decision that we were going to go wet dry and Sawyer's Barn, that was the brand we chose. And if I had to give the biggest dig on wet, dry feeders that people have, is plugging. So, you know, you have a shelf that the pig, shake the feed off of that shelf down into the pan and they can decide if they're going to eat it dry or they're going to mix it with water or whatever. But what happens is you get pigs that have a mouthful of water and they're eating the feed off of the tray and then the moisture wicks up into the gap

wherever you've got the gate shut that's letting feed onto that shelf and it plugs. the other problem that just about everybody's feeder has is at the end of that shelf the shelf has to move there's some mechanism in there that allows the shelf to move and that's what shakes the feed off into the pan well at the ends at the corners most wet dry feeders the hopper is open all the way to the end of that tray and so when the pigs are are small and even to some extent when they're big, you get a lot of feed that rolls off the edge of that tray and the first hole on each side, it's hard to get that feeder to keep it consistently adjusted because you've got some feed that come off the edge. So all of that to say,

when Bramer set out to build their feeder, those are two things that they tried to adjust or tried to address. So the first thing they did is down in the hopper, they weld a, like a triangle piece in the end of the hopper on the feeder, and that way feed can't fall directly on that edge of the shelf and roll off the end. So that helps that. The other thing that they did was on the shelf itself, there is a piece of cut stainless steel that's kind of like, it's kind of serrated. I guess I'd say it looks like a pair of hedge clippers, and there's a piece. So if it's a four-hole wet-dry, there's four pieces, well, there's eight pieces, one on each side, each section.

And when they move the agitator to move the shelf, it moves that serrated piece back. and forth. And the idea of that is that it keeps, it keeps, if there's moist feet on there, it keeps it moving and it doesn't wick up into the hopper. So are they perfect? Are they perfect, Sawyer? They're not perfect, but they're, but they're damn good. But they are damn good. I mean, if you're, it's not, it's not bad. I just think that, like, what we've, what we've done is we don't turn the waters on right away when the, we, wiener pigs get there. And some say, and we might try it next time we thought about, maybe we'll try it different next time. We'll just have them on when they get there. But what we

heard is some people said that when the wiener pigs arrive and they're not used to those feeders and you got the nipple bars down, they will clog up that tray really, really fast that has the feed on it. And you'll have to go through every feeder and unclog it. We just don't even try that. We haven't even tried that. So we just shut the water. water to the feeder off. Matt feed him, let him just get the feet out of the feeder with no water and drink out of the nipple bar. And then like two weeks we'll turn them on. And really the clogging of the feeder is very minimal. Like I'd say in a get, when you turn the feeders on, the water's on the feeders, I'd say I had like five last time that I did it. Yeah. Out of out of 40. 40, you know,

it's really not that bad. And it's something that I always try to keep in my, you know, keep in mind when I'm walking pins. I'm looking at the tray, just making sure it's not plugged up. But most, I mean, seriously, most of the time it's not. It's really not. Just not keep an eye on. And let's face it, you're supposed to be walking your pens every day. If you're a good hog producer, you need to walk those pens every day anyway. So of the brands that are out there, we're very happy with Breemers. That's what we use. I will say the one thing that I don't like about the breamer is the tabs that hold the feed tube in place. Oh yes. Those come off very easily. They can get blown off by a power washer like that. And sometimes I think they've just come off because

they're just not on there very tight like a dry feeder's, that plate that moves that keeps the feed tube in place. Yeah. So we have, we have tube holders. Yeah. We have two feed lines dump. We have two drops into each feeder. so we can fill the feeder fuller, and each feeder has two tall tube holders. And Sawyer's 100% right. So if you get a pig that gets up on the gate, they'll push on one side of that tube holder. We've never had it where they've gotten a tube out of the feeder,

but we've had them where they get those tube holders loose. So that's something to keep in mind. Some people don't run tube holders. They just run the tube holders. They just run the tube a little longer down into the feeder, and then you run your feed system more often. And you can do that. I mean, you could easily do that.

We've done that when they get the tube holder off. Sometimes we're not, we don't put it right back on. We just leave it, and it does just fine. But that's the only thing, and that ain't even that big of a deal. But I'm definitely sold on the wet, dry feeders in the fact that Sawyer's manure analysis versus my barns, we get a lot better, we get a lot better, uh, fertility. The fertility level in his manure is a lot better

than mine. In other words, if we're putting on, if we're putting on 5,000 gallons to the acre on my fields, we can put 4,000 gallons to the acre out of his barn and get the same amount of fertility. So you're hauling less water. There's no doubt about it. Um, and if you're somewhere where you're paying for water, I mean, we're all paying for water. I mean, we're all paying for water if you have a well and you have all that but if you're somebody and you're on rural water or you're on a deal or you're paying for water wet dries are a no-brainer no matter what brand and and let's face it i mean they're all these guys know what they're doing they all have their quirks um and you know you like what you like and we really like the bramers and that's not to say that

you know well everybody else's isn't all right too i just feel like the wet dry feeder's kind of got a bad stigma because of the past and I mean yeah the ones we got work really good yeah don't clog up a lot and the only downside I'd say is the feed uh the feed tube holders occasionally come off yeah seriously that's about the only thing that really can piss me off sometimes yeah but that's not that's very minimal and we'll definitely like my my oldest barn we're not we can't do it yet but whenever i can afford to do it. I'm going to switch out my dry feeders and my cup waters. Just not having cups

on the gates alone is awesome. That's one thing I love about the wet drys is having your water and your feed together. You don't have cup waters. You don't have waters on the gates. The pigs aren't going back and forth from the feeder to the water

to the feeder of the water. Less slatware right there. But another thing that I will say, more wear on your feeder. pad if you have feeder pads or on your slats right by the feeder right or on your slats right by the feeder that is something you got to keep in mind because there's going to be all the traction is going to go there instead of feeder to cut so keep that in mind definitely i'll have to epoxy my feeder pads more often than dad will luke asked what are the best social platforms to be on in 2023 so we've touched a little bit about

social media for this year we've had some questions to come in and I love talking strategy about social media. It's one of my things that I like doing but the way our strategy is set up I guess for social media is

we've said it before we like to make the long form content we like to take that long form content make it once because we don't have all the time in the day to go into the barn and shoot a clip here and shoot a clip there and shoot a clip here and shoot a clip there. We want to maximize our time

and we feel as if sitting down and shooting a long, sitting down and shooting a long-form podcast is really effective with our time because that podcast could produce 15 to 20 short-form clips that then we can reproduce on TikTok and all the platforms that you can post short-form content. It's the same thing with this will do for them.

We'll do the same thing there. And that allows you to be on all platforms, You want to be on as many platforms as you can because you don't want to be beholding to just one platform if they turn you off or whatever. You're screwed and your brand's gone, right? And also, these platforms are firing off at different times all the time. I mean, we just went from a time where Instagram and Facebook were completely dead. You couldn't grow worth a fuck on either one of those. And now Facebook is one of our best growing platforms and we're posted on there almost daily.

and Instagram's starting to make a comeback in organic reach too. And I'm talking about organic reach because we don't have any money to go. We're not promoting ads. We don't want to do that because we almost feel like, I don't know, you guys might relate to this, but I feel like when you see an ad, very rarely does an ad get me to be interested, but if it does, I'm half interested. It's not the same when you come across somebody organically and then indulge in their content.

So we want to create real relationships. So the platforms that I think are, if you're talking strictly organic reach, like you're just starting out, you don't have much money and you want to grow, I think TikTok is still crushing it, still a really great platform. If it doesn't go away, it's going to... Great reach to organic reach. The organic reach on all these is really good. TikTok, Facebook.

Facebook fan page. If you got a Facebook page, post Facebook Reels every day because they're just crushing. Every day, every day. YouTube shorts. We've seen some growth with YouTube shorts. And it's pretty good if you can get a video to pop. And then I would say Instagram is one to watch because just in like a month, like literally this month, we've been posted on Instagram consistently because we post on all the platforms. we have not seen shit for growth but just in this one month alone like we've grown by like two thousand followers or 500 to i can't remember exactly i think it's a thousand it's a thousand two thousand followers which does not happen like that hasn't happened in a long long time so um instagram is one to watch those are my four recommendations for you as far as where you should go what do you think about rumble rumble rumble is one to watch

I mean YouTube kind of has the market and one thing that I'll give YouTube credit for and you know they're not they're not like this with every creator because I know the Nelk boys out there get canceled and they can't even put like one of the people that were in their squad on YouTube or else their channel's completely banned so they do have some strict guidelines but what I respect about them is when it comes to what we do in animal agriculture they've yet to like demonetize us or anything like which I respect and So I just feel like Rumble, it rumbles one of those platforms to watch, because it is long form, I think. I think it's long form videos.

It's kind of like YouTube. But until YouTube, if YouTube really fucks up, which they could, then I don't know. I don't see it. Or if somebody gets banned, like if we got banned, I think you can create an audience on Rumble. Because if you're like, I got banned here, come to Rumble, people will go to Rumble if they really like you.

So it's one to watch though. Who knows? You always, that's the other last tip I'll say is always be on the lookout for what's coming in the, and so if you're going to play in the social media game, you've got to know what's coming. You got to know what platforms are working. You got to know what's coming up. And I'm not saying sees every new platform that comes out on social media. But if you're hearing people chatter about it and say, I'm seeing some really good growth on here.

Time to get on that platform and start posting. So what about? Twitter. Twitter, I also respect in the fact that they are a free speech platform. We talked about on the last hot topics, you know, TikTok is one of those platforms that we see all this chaos going around in the world. But Twitter, since Elon's taken over, you can see a lot of shit going down in the world on Twitter too. And it's kind of, it's nice to see freedom of speech back on there. my only thing with Twitter is it's just not the best platform for me because I'm not a writer and their video content isn't where other platforms are yet

but if they can make video content more digestible on there more appealing to people on there it becomes more popular it's definitely one we'd go way harder on it's just yeah the video it just doesn't they don't they don't like incentivize people to post videos on there it's more just tweets so So if any of you follow us on Twitter, hey, thanks for that because that's kind of my baby. Probably if you now you know that, you know why it's kind of like inconsistent. I'm pretty consistent about I post I post the link to the podcast and to this will do. But I'm not real consistent on getting shorts or reels on there, you know, short clips.

but I feel like Twitter could be, at some point I think Twitter will be great, and I think the reach will get a lot better. That's why we're on there. And I just keep plugging away. And I think there's a lot of potential there. There's a lot of stuff that they want to do. And yeah, to what Sawyer said, just keep experimenting because you just don't know what's going to work for the audience that you're going after.

But I feel like, yeah, you kind of got to be. everywhere, but when you figure out what works for you, definitely concentrate on that, but you do not want to be kind of beholden to one platform because you just don't know when it's going to go away. 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. And there's so many, I mean, the three pillars of success is content. Like, I don't think you can get into content in the content game and not if you're going to get into it just understand it's another job like it's a high if you want to do it you got to do it at a high level because you have

to be consistent every day almost every day you got to be posting and some like youtube long form videos we don't post every day this podcast we don't post every day once a week maybe twice a week on this will do farm sometimes but all the other platforms we're posting just about every day with the clips right and you have to do that you have to do that you have to do that you have to be you have to be consistent. It has to be good content. And being on all platforms, this is something that I think is a foundational step because not only are you not beholding to one platform with your brand, but also you don't realize, I don't know why I didn't realize this earlier, every single platform that you post content on, you're getting a different, you're getting

different people. You're getting a different audience on that specific. platform. They might all have similar demographics as far as what kind of people they are, but they're most likely different people. Yeah. Very, like, if you think about your own personal social media use, how many people do you follow on every single platform? Not very many. Not very many. You might follow somebody on two platforms, but not like all. So there is a little bit of cross following between people, but more than likely, somebody is only following you on one platform, right? And so that's where being on all platforms matters, because you got to look at it as like, damn, we got this many followers on Facebook, and these are all different people, and then we got

this many followers on Instagram, and this is all different people, and then we got this many followers on YouTube, and this might be all different people. I mean, when you look at it like that, it's like, damn, yeah. And like I said, all these platforms are. hitting differently. Like YouTube might go on a run and your stark organic reach might be insane on YouTube again. And it's good that you're on there building videos for years because when it pops off again, you'll have a whole plethora of content that people can watch. So it's just, yeah, those are my, those are kind of my three pillars of success. But I am going to say one thing to top off the social media content shit. Facebook kind of did us dirty on the thistle

do farm Facebook page because we grew like a weed. I think we grew from like 15,000 to like now we're up to 80,000 followers, 82,000 followers in like three months, two and a half months, which was insane. That just gives you credit on how insane the Facebook organic reach is, so get on it. But then they demonetize this. And then this is the thing that I hate about the social media platforms, meta specifically, I can't get in contact it with anybody about why we got demonetized. They give you a policy form that has all these different reasons as to why maybe you got it could be. It could be any of these reasons, right? It's just a forum that they send out to people when they get demonetized. But literally, no customer service, cannot reach out to a rep at all,

cannot get any one-on-one contact with somebody at meta to ask why. Why did we get demonetized? I personally believe it's because they're liberal as shit, probably have some animal rights activists working for them, and they don't like that we're farming the way that we farm, whatever, because we post everything like we post on every other platform. But that's my point. Why are you demonetizing us, but YouTube doesn't,

that TikTok doesn't, that Instagram doesn't? I mean, it's just like, and like Meta's owns Instagram, so I don't get why. It's just, it's so weird. But anyway, kind of pissed up. pissed off at Facebook, but we're not in it for the money. That's the thing. We're in it, we're in it to provide real value to people. We really want to show consumers how we, how we do things on our farm. And that's the most important thing. And so we're just going to

keep posting. Keep posting because the reach is great. We love and we love making content. And so we love sharing our story. Our brand is more important. Our story and our brand is more important than the money we get from Facebook. Exactly. So I love ramen. I can eat ramen every night. Exactly. Just keep getting me a bail of ramen. Just got to keep the machine going. That's all it matters. Chicken and beef. There you go. Don't like the shrimp ramen. Nope. Shrimp ramen sucks. All right. We'll keep her moving here. How's that old fashion? Are you downed it? You need a refill. Might have to pour a refill. Do you need a little break? You give me the question and then I'll get you on the next one. All right. All right. Garrett asked Sawyer and Torque. What do you guys do for health insurance as entrepreneurs?

Is Sawyer on Torx until 60 years old? Jesus. 26 years old? Or does he have his own plan? If Sawyer is on Torx insurance, what is the plan for the future? Yeah. Speaking of eating ramen every night. Yeah.

Anybody that buys their own insurance knows what a pain in the ass that is. Here's a tip for you. Just go out and marry somebody that has really great benefits at a hospital. That's a great idea. Why don't you do that? I'm working on it. Yeah. So, Garrett, so this is crazy.

It might sound crazy, but honestly, like one of the reasons why it took me so long to come back to the farm full time is because when you go down the road of working for somebody else or you have a job that has good benefits, there's this little voice in the back of your head when you want to quit, when you want to do something. something else and everybody will tell you this anybody you talk to will tell you this and it's also chirping in your head yeah but boy the insurance is good you know the benefits are good that when i the last job i had one of the reasons that i went there and didn't just come home full time at that point was oh boy it'd really be nice to have something with benefits with insurance until my kids are grown, you know, till they're out of school. And when that ended, I had to go get insurance. And so this will do farm. So our farm entity pays the insurance for Clay, or sorry, for Sawyer and Trisha and I, my wife and I. And my oldest son, Clay, he was on our plan until he started his own

business and and insurance is fairly cheap you know for for young people but it's a number i mean there's no doubt about it's a number but um it's not and we're lucky in that we're all healthy like we haven't had any any real health um issues that would cause our insurance to go high because i've got neighbors. I've got friends of mine that have had kids that have had some medical issues and their insurance is outrageous. I mean, I want to say we pay, I want to say we pay $15 or $1,600 a month now for insurance for all of us. And don't get me wrong. I mean, that's a number. But if I was working for somebody today, I'd be paying part of that anyway. Not very many places can you go get a job today where they pay 100% for a family plan. You're paying, a lot of them are, you know, yours is

free, but you're paying for the spouse and the children or whatever. And to me, that's just, uh, that's just an expense. That's like a freedom payment that I don't have to work for somebody else. I'm working for myself. It probably isn't going to get any better. Um, and I don't know what the answer is. Um, I imagine, you know, next year, it'll be, more than what it is this year. And it's kind of like everything. Every year the cost of doing business gets higher and you just hope that somehow you can squeeze a little extra money out of whatever you're doing. And in our situation, I mean, that's part of the reason why we're doing all the other things that we are is because a smart guy that I worked for, he always said,

if you're not growing, you're dying, even a little bit. If you're not growing a little bit every year, you're dying. And so, you know, every year we just try to, we try to find a way to, that we can make a little more money for this will do, or this will do pork, or TDF media, or whatever, to help offset that cost. But, yeah, the long-term plan probably would be, we hope to grow the social media side to where we kind of just had this conversation today.

Our goal would be at some point we'll probably all be employees. An ideal situation is for us to all be employees of TDF media and kind of have that be the... In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon employees earn an average of over $24.50 an hour. employees also have the opportunity to grow their skills and their paycheck by enrolling in free skills training programs for in-demand fields like software development and information technology learn more at about amazon dot cae be that the entity that's paying the insurance side and it wouldn't have to be that it could be this will do farm it could be something else that we're doing but um well i mean for me personally like i said i got a kick-ass girlfriend

that works part-time at the university and she has phenomenal benefits. So until if when we get married and I'm going to have great insurance. Until you hire. Until she's like, I'm out of there. Until you hire full-time. Until I hire full-time,

then I'll have to, we'll figure something out. But for the mid-long-term plan, that's my plan, is hopping on cats benefits when we get married and seeing how long we can ride the wave. We'll probably have as many kids as we can in a short amount of time. And then once they're all out, we'll be like, all right, she's like, we're out of here. So, and then, yeah, it'll just come down to what entity makes the most logical sense to pay the insurance?

And I suppose when I get to be, when it switches to where Sawyer is the one that is running the entity that's paying the insurance, I'll just get real nervous every time that I see him walking around with a gun i'll be like well guess he got the insurance bill it's time to put torque out to pasture you better watch yourself on on the ladder going up to the bin i just give it a couple shakes that's right that's right jim asks what do you do with your dead pigs do you compost them burn them put them in the landfill we eat them yep we just eat them we just eat them we get them quick yep pig drops over dead we're putting him in the smoke If you are listening or watching, this is sarcasm.

I know that that's not very common in today's society, but we do not eat the dead pigs if they die. You know, the one person that didn't even think about that twice was growing corn 2020. Yeah, he gets it. He was listening. He got that right away. Yep, 100%. Jay probably got it too. Yeah, he did.

Jay knew. Yep. He knew we were not. We knew we were sarcastic there. We have bins. We have these dumpsters that, we work with. Darling.

This company out of, this company darling and they come and they pick up our dead stock every week. You fill up the bins, the dumpsters with the deads and they come and pick them up and they take them to their facility and they make them into all kinds of products that you use with dead livestock because there's a lot of stuff that people don't realize everyday products that are made because of American agriculture and dead livestock. So that's what we do, but, you know, we've thought about it.

We don't love that model because if you have a bunch of sick pigs everywhere and there's pigs dying, sometimes those dumpsters can fill up. And when we got four sites and you got, you know, there's a lot of pigs on our farm. Any given time, we have around 10,000 pigs here. So it doesn't take too many deads to fill. And depending on what size they're at. Dumpster's not very big. Right.

I mean, depending on what size they're at. If you have two barns with fat hogs, it takes two hogs to fill one dumpster. So for reference, that's right. One of these dumpsters, you can fit three fat hogs, four fat hogs. Three pigs in there would be about max. Yeah. Now, if you got wiener pigs, you can throw all kinds of wiener pigs in there. The other thing we don't like about it is you're dependent on these people to show up and dump these dumps.

That's what I was getting at. And during COVID, they couldn't keep drivers. and you're kind of on your own. We actually did compost some pigs. We have a place. We have a pad of concrete where we can compost. It's just compost is one of those things that that's not a maintenance-free deal because you have to turn that pile, add wood shavings as you need,

and then when it is composted, you have to haul that out. So it's not, the dumpsters are an easy solution. They're just, one, the optics of it or not. not good because we don't want the dumpsters way back in the back of our farm because you don't want the truck from the rendering company driving through all of your hog buildings with dead animals in it that you could get some disease from. I mean, probably not going to happen, but could. So you want to get them, you want them like, they're on the edge of our property, but then you've got them where people driving by can go, oh, well, Whistler's got a bunch of sick pigs because

their dumpsters are full. Right. And you don't like that. And you got to depend on them to come and get it. So it's not, it's the best solution for us right now. I suppose long-term compost. Compost would be the best.

It's just building that infrastructure. Yeah. I mean, it probably is the direction that we'll go eventually as composting them. One thing is for sure, though, it doesn't matter what method you choose. They all stink. They do all stink.

They all stink. Yeah, you touched on that, but you know, that rendering thing is really interesting because a lot of people don't realize all of the products that come from that industry. And it's not just pigs that die on farms. When you go to a Sam's Club or a Costco or your local grocery store, when all the meat doesn't get sold on time, they have to throw it out. They throw that all in a dumpster, and that same rendering company comes and gets all of that meat. They get all that stuff, and it goes through the same process as animals that die on farms, you know. And they make up uses a lot of oil products that come from recycled dead animals. There's a lot of women out there that are crying right now.

because they didn't realize it. There's a lot of pet food. Well, there's a lot of... A lot of pet food. There's a lot of men dressed up as women crying too now. That's true. We're equal opportunity, so, you know, all of them can be upset. Can't exclude them, dad.

No excluding classes of society. Maybe we need to make up artists. Am I looking too pale? Let us know in the comments. You don't have a problem looking too pale. Sometimes you look a little orange. I'm always looking like a marshmallow. Maybe we should get.

get, maybe we should get a makeup. My complexion is ass. Well, your face does kind of look like your ass. Sometimes you can't tell. I can't really tell which ends. I don't tan worth of crap, so that's, I just burn. Yeah. Anyway, that was a little bit of a tangent we got off, but a lot, we render our, our dead stock and those products get used throughout a lot of, a lot of a, a lot of things in this country are made for my products. Honestly, if you want to really know, just look it up on Google or wherever and duck, duck go, and you will find the answer of what all those products are, because there is a shitload of products. So just look that up.

Some of you'll go. Yep, then you'll probably take it out of your house. But you know what? They've been doing it for years. All right. Moving on. You better pour up. You better get a drink.

I'll keep them entertained. Okay. Sounds good. Jeopardy music. La, la, la, how about the smurf? I don't know the smurfs. I don't know that one. You're going to, are you feeling any pain?

Nope. What's your, what's your pain level right now? Well, I, uh, I think that tonight we're going to go out for supper with good friends, good friends of ours. Not, this isn't one of those, this isn't one of those dinners that, uh, there's going to be any struggle. You can be yourself. Yeah, I can be myself. Or if you, you're always yourself. just whether someone likes you or not, depending on who you are.

I am always myself. Occasionally, someone in our family will either rub my arm or... Dirty eyeball. Or rub my leg or squeeze my leg. I don't do that. Or give me a hairy eyeball. And that's the sign of, no, no, don't. Well, the problem with that is, here's a great little side note story is.

Sometimes he does not read people. like he doesn't read into the situation enough as far as when I wrecked my four-wheeler when I was in seventh grade going into seventh grade this is kind of a funny story and I got ruptured my spleen and I got up and I went into intensive care and I had to get surgery to repair my spleen stop the internal bleeding I was so lubed up on drug and I was like I don't know I was I was out, yeah, I was out, but I was kind of in and out of it. I don't remember what age I was. What was, like 12, 13, 12 years old.

And they come out of surgery and they tell mom and dad that your boy is just so nice, he's so respectful, so polite. And dad looks at the lady and goes, it's because we beat him. And that, I know, everybody knows, that knows Tork knows that's his bullshit sarcasm, you know. But she did not. She did not get it. And that is a perfect example of you just got to know who you're talking to sometimes. And so that's where you get.

That's where you get. You got to read into people. That's true. I just assume that everybody knows if I'm kind of shitting them a little bit. And some people don't. It's lost today. It's a lost art. It is kind of lost today.

And in that situation, it was really bad because not only did that nurse not enjoy that phrase, But then I had to deal with Mother Whistler concerned that social services was going to show up at the hospital room to interrogate us, wondering why our son needed surgery. Was it really a four-wheeler accident? Or did you, did the dad kicking? Yeah, it wasn't good. So, yes, I understand what you're saying. Anyway, I'll be fine.

None of that. Nobody will get anything confused tonight. Nothing will happen tonight. And I won't have any trouble keeping the comments. conversation going. 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. In reference to the last hot topics, Aaron asked, which I saw this, he put it on Spotify. So if you're listed on Spotify,

and you want to let us know what you thought of the episode, give us any of your thoughts, you can go on Spotify and let us know on there. This came from that. Aaron asks, who determines who is mentally unstable when it comes to our last hot topics episode when we were talking about gun control. Who is mentally unsubes who is mentally unstable if you want a gun? Are you then mentally unstable if you want to own a gun? What if a trans person, transgender person, is mentally ill? Is anyone willing to put their license at risk to declare that today? Won't they be labeled a transphobe?

Yeah. There's a lot of contradictory. I like I kudos to him because I didn't really think that through but that that is so true so we were talking about how that between both parties in our two party system one of the things that has really fallen through the crack is mental health both sides of the aisle no resources are being committed to to mental health and as a result you have the chances of someone who definitely should be a institutionalized that could be a threat to themselves or to others

just out you know in in everyday uh everyday life or two someone who is mentally ill uh not not in the right frame of mind able to purchase a gun and you know that sounds like a sounds like something well we need to better fund uh mental health facilities and psychiatrists and people that evaluate people. But his point is, that's only as good as the people that are doing the evaluating, and what... What's their politics look like?

Yeah, what's the politics? Because, yeah, so now everybody that wants to own a gun, are you mentally ill if you want to buy a gun? And then, two, if someone that is mentally ill is in a specific class, a society, that is like, oh, we can't. Yeah, we can't say shit to that class because their perceived hate is at a high level right now.

You're a transophobe. Well, you're a transphobe because you won't want me have a firearm. Right. You're only declaring me mentally unfit because I'm trans. Or because I'm black. Or because I'm this. Or this. Or I'm Hispanic. Whatever, right?

So I hadn't even thought about that. Yeah, that. And honestly, when we said, you know, we should have, maybe have stricter gun laws as far as we should do background checks on people, right? These are all things that you can easily just say, but like it's exactly what you, when you get out of the details of it, what's it actually look like? Is it corrupt? Is the person evaluating somebody corrupt when they want to buy a firearm? All these things, that's where, back to what the NRA said, you know, NRA doesn't want to give an inch because,

and I think that's, he brings up an excellent point because I think that more than anything else kind of says where we are as a society in the fact that things that were just, like that you didn't give a second thought to 20 years ago or even 10 years ago, now you can't take that for granted. So in other words, you can't take for granted that the department of, of the government or your state that would be in charge of overseeing the mental health evaluations and the standards and all that, you cannot take for granted that those regulations are put through under honest intentions. So is that board or that group or that, the people,

overseeing that, are they politically biased? And if they are, can you trust them? Right. And the truth is, there's a lot of corruption and a lot of stuff. There's no trust left. And so that's, and that's really scary because that's how you have society start breaking down. When you have, when you have no trust in what the government, when you have no trust in your elected leaders, but even more so, you don't have trust at the levels of government that are closest to the people. you and I. It's one thing to have a grain of salt when you're thinking about your elected officials, which I think that's somewhat healthy. They need to prove to you that they do have your best interest in mind. But when you aren't even, when you don't have a faith in your local

board of, you know, your board of supervisors, you school board, your, you know, whoever at the state level is giving the, giving the regulations on mental health evaluation. then we got a real problem. And I think we have a real problem. Yep. So thank you for that, Aaron. And like Sawyer said, you know, we don't have all the answers. This is the kind of shit we like to see, guys.

We like to see some back and forth. We like, you know, we like the aired spoke as mine because guess what? We hadn't even thought about it that way. You know, there's a lot of things that do your own research. We don't have the answers out here. We're just two farmers from Southeast Iowa come on. on a show dad dad and son and we're just giving you our opinions and giving you our thoughts given given as much value as you can but we feel like you guys are just as important to this deal than

we are you know like what you guys have to say matters to us and it it matters to the show and if you if you bring up a good point we'll shout you out and bring up your good point you know because that's that's that's what it is that's what makes barn talk awesome so um but you know I think we should end on a gold nugget. We should end on a positive note. Yeah, it's like Dad said in the beginning, you know. We've been doing these hot topics, and I know you guys love these hot topics,

because I feel like a lot of you can relate. It's back to what we always say. We think hot topics is important because this is the stuff nobody wants to say, but everybody's thinking. This is the stuff you think about when you're out mowing. You're out mowing. You're like, yeah, right, right, right.

Yeah. And then when you hear somebody say it, you're like, yeah, right. Yes. that's why I think hot topics is so nice, but it is doom and the gloom. I mean, most of the time... It kind of has been lately. Maybe we should add a segment in there sometime that's...

Toxic positivity. There you go. Maybe we should add a segment. We'll maybe think about that. But truly, guys, there, with all the shit that's going on in this country and in the world, there's a lot of bad, but there still is a lot of good and there's a lot of opportunity for your families, for yourself, and there's a lot of opportunities to, do good, you know, that's the thing. Like, we live in a society in an era now where, like,

the amount that a person can achieve now is just insane. The amount that you, if you want it bad enough, you can learn information, like the snap of your finger. You can reach just about anybody you have to reach in a snap of a finger. You can build a website in three days. You can find people to build a professional website for you. I mean, there is just so, like, I think we don't, we really just don't feel, I really feel like most people don't, like, take a step back. Are you building a professional website? I don't know.

Maybe. Maybe not. Anyway, I don't think people step back and look and think about how far we've come as far as, like, Grandpa, Lawrence, that never had. as much opportunity as dad and I have right now. 100%. And the other past, the past fifth generation, the past five generations have not had as much opportunity as dad and I have right now.

Because information wasn't at the snap of their fingers, reaching somebody wasn't at the snap in their fingers. Like, it's insane. It's insane. And we're still, it still is the greatest country to be in, in the world. I don't care what anybody says it is. we still are free, although sometimes it feels like our freedoms might be slowly trickling away. But there's no other place I'd rather be to build a business, to raise a family, to make an impact.

And I think now is a time that you can really make an impact because, yeah, there's a lot of shit out in the world, but there's a lot of opportunity to, like, overthrow that shit. Because it's back to what you said. everybody's everybody doesn't like trust is what we're lacking right and so if you do business or you straight start a business or you are a part of a business that like ingrains trust is yes yeah you know has trust with consumers and customers and it's trying to make a difference here in america and do the right things like that's so rare and that's so cool to be a part of and that's a huge impact and you will prosper so um there's some light to the darkness if you want to

go after that light in the darkness. Absolutely. Anyway, that's my two cents. Okay, I'll give you the golden nugget today. So I was thinking about, I was just, I don't know what brought this up to me. I think I was actually watching the 70s show, and they were at a, they were like a high school.

It is a great, it is a great show. And I told Sawyer this, the, he does not get enough credit for his role in it, but Tommy Chong is in it, and he does a great job. He does a great job. He's kind of an unsung hero of that show. But they were at a high school dance,

and it got me thinking about, you know, when I was in probably seventh grade, going to, I'm not sure what the first dance of the fall semester going back to in seventh grade, but it might have been the Sadie Hawkins dance, I don't know. and I got, you know, I got, I got shot down. I got shot down the girl that there were girls that, I guess I would say there were girls that were probably interested in me,

but the girl that I was most interested in did not have, she did not give me the time of day. And I was pretty distraught about it. And my dad being a, being significantly older than me, so, you know, if I was, if I was 14 years old or so, he would have been 66, let's just say he was 66 years old. He didn't have much time for that. And I was moping around and my dad just said, you know, what's wrong? And I told him that, you know, I was going to say Hawkins Dance, I didn't have a date. And the girl that I asked, she didn't

want anything to do with me. And he goes, well, what are you going to do about it? Now, a highly motivated, like go get them, pep talk would have been excellent at that point and said, you know, you need to take the bull by the horns and all that. But my dad asked me what I was going to do about it. And I'm like, well, nothing. There's not a damn thing I can do about it. She doesn't, she doesn't want to go with me. He said, well, if I were you, I'd quit moping around and get your ass out there and get back to fishing. And I kind of took that like, well, yeah, that's kind of right. Well, today is the exact same thing. We all have. stuff that happens that, you know, we have things, we want to accomplish things that we think are

going to happen. We see it all the time. We have opportunities that come along and we're like, oh yeah, that's going to be great and this is going to happen. And then guess what? The follow-through isn't very good. And what we think is going to happen is not what happens. And you got to just keep fishing. You just got to keep fishing. You just got to keep going because there is a lot of is no. Okay. When I sell my business, I want the best tax and investment advice. I want to help my kids, and I want to give back to the community.

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keep fishing keep fishing and i i will give i will give the freezer old-fashioned recipe quick this is one of the smartest hacks who says that tick tock is not good for anything

because i've learned more good bar recipes from tick tock and recipes in general not necessarily healthy recipes although they're out there but damn good recipes piece. Anyway, I saw this. I saw a recipe for a freezer old fashion and I was like, I'm going to try that. And that is the handiest damn thing because you can make an entire bottle of old fashions and you put it in the freezer and it'll stay good for, well, the bottle will be empty before it's going to go bad. Let's just put it that way.

And so like you take our family on a night when we're feeling celebratory. and you know we don't drink that much but once in a while if we're all going to have a cocktail you've got to make four old fashions it's a lot of work and when you're torque you'd rather be running your mouth than make an old fashion so this is handy so basically you take any good bottle of bourbon whiskey whatever i've got nom creek single barrel and you pour out let's just say you pour out two ounces and i would probably sample that two ounces to make sure that I made a good decision in using this bottle. But you can do with it whatever you want. You could actually make one old-fashioned and then do this with the rest.

And then you put in basically, I think you put in 20 dashes of regular bidders. I'm sorry, 20 dashes of orange bitters and maybe like 30 dashes of orange bitters, which really it comes down to your preference. You know, how you make a regular old fashion as far as the amount of bidders you do, just multiply that by about, I want to say about 16. I think you can get about 16 old fashions out of one of these. Probably not the way that I poured them today, but under normal circumstances. And then simple syrup. And I've gone to making my own simple syrup because I just think it's better than bought.

And it's so easy. Basically, you just take a cup of sugar. I use the brown, the demara sugar. Fucking recipe inside a recipe. Yeah, it's good. So you just mix out with an equal part of hot water on the stove and just keep stirring it until it all gets, it all breaks down, and then let it cool. Put it in a bottle, put it in the fridge. It's good to go whenever you need it.

Pour that shit in your old fashion. Pour that in your old fashion. And then the secret is you put a little bit of that syrup that is in the Luxardo cherries. you're not using Luxardo's cherries, then kiss my ass because the other ones suck. You want the dark cherries. Those are way better. Put just a little bit of that cherry juice in there, that syrup, and that kind of gives it that rich color.

Shake that bitch. Well, you don't really. Just turn it a little bit. And then put it in the freezer. Put it in the freezer. And any time that you want an old fashion, put your ice in your glass, pour out as much as you want. Now, do you recommend when you get the bottle done and you have to freeze it to let it sit? or can you just pour one up right there?

Oh no, you can pour one, because it's just like you mixed it. You can pour one right there and then just put the rest in the freezer. And then I slice. So if I know I've got people coming over, I'll have some oranges sliced up and have my jar of Luxardo cherries. And I put two cherries in an old fashion because I really like them. So, you know, have one on the front end, one on the back end. And you can't beat it. So that's kind of your whiskey minute for the day.

That's a whiskey tip. Yeah, it is. I like it. It's damn good. You know what? Like all of you. When we have a Barn Talk VIP exclusive listener access

invitation party here, you'll have to cut a fuckload of oranges. We will. We'll just make a shitload of whiskey glasses, get a lot of oranges, we'll cut them because you're going to have to make a shitload old fashions. We might just have to make

an old-fashioned in a solo cup. We better just, we're going to have to get the bar built before that ever happens. But it's something that we've thought about, guys. You know, it'd be cool someday. like a meet and greet meat and greet have it in the barn drink some whiskey smoke some meat

talk talk politics talk farming just get some like-minded people together have a good time that doesn't mean show up unless you're invited because we like the second amendment so and the and the old fashions would be free for liability reasons we don't want to charge you we don't want to charge you for that drink and be liable. So it would be part of the house, baby. It'd be on the house. All right, guys. Well, that's going to wrap it up.

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