Barn Talk - Farming Wisdom, Life Lessons & Ag Markets

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

In this episode, today’s episode is a special one—it's Tork’s birthday, and Sawyer isn't letting that milestone slide quietly. They kick off the show with a candid, unscripted vibe (even tossing the usual intro aside) and jump straight into good-natured ribbing, birthday shoutouts, and Tork’s reflections on 54 years of life. Sawyer and Tork talk about everything from starting new gym routines together, attempts at healthier living (with a few hilarious cereal confessions thrown in), and what it’s really like keeping up healthy habits as you get older. The guys also dive into a thorough market update, sharing the latest on corn, soybeans, hogs, cattle, and more—plus some big news about expansions in the meat industry and what it means for rural communities. But it’s not just markets and muscles. Tork gets deep, sharing hard-earned life lessons about struggle, consistency, and the importance of discipline (with a little help from Denzel Washington’s wisdom). The conversation rolls from business tips and time management hacks to why coaching—even for tough, independent farmers—might just be a game changer. And, of course, what would a celebration be without a whiskey minute? The episode wraps up with a toast to memories made and lessons learned, both in the barn and out. Shop Farmer Grade 👇🏻 https://farmergrade.com/  Learn More About Our New Project👇🏻 https://livestockwaterandenergy.com  SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ➱ https://bit.ly/3a7r3nR   SUBSCRIBE TO THIS’LL DO FARM ➱ https://bit.ly/2X8g45c  LISTEN ON: SPOTIFY ➱ https://open.spotify.com/show/3icVr4KWq4eUDl7Oy60YMY  APPLE ➱ 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    00:00 Starting Health Journey with Walking 07:30 "Crispy Cereal Conspiracy" 13:35 "Tesla's Future: Autonomy & Growth" 16:38 Berkshire Hathaway's Expensive Shares 23:03 Costly Meat Processing Machine Challenges 26:20 Weather Challenges in April Planting 32:53 Reflecting on Life Choices 38:46 Mindset Over Details 42:23 Contrasting Mindsets: Focus vs. Escape 51:39 Energy Optimization Over Excess Drinking 55:55 Understanding Health and Self-awareness 01:01:00 Farmer Support and Accountability Program 01:02:38 Comprehensive Financial Guidance for Farmers 01:10:56 "Coaching: Transforming Perspective" 01:14:52 Aspiring Podcast Excellence 01:20:03 Podcasting Joy and Gratitude ------------------------------- ⚠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 websit... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All of the food we eat and much of the clothing we wear comes from plants and animals that are raised on farms. Farms are different in type, in size, and even in name. Welcome to Barn Talk. What happens at the barn stays in the barn, but not today. We're going to let it all out. We're going to say, screw the intro today. You guys all know the drill. Get any value from the show, share it out. Leave a review.

And we appreciate the hell out of all your support. And the reason we're skipping the intro today is this somebody's birthday today. It's a big day today. It's a special day. It's a national holiday. So, Tork, my dad here, co-hosts, many trades, master of a lot. It's his birthday. How old are you today?

I am 54 great years old. 54 great years. You look like you're 25. It's not the years. It's the mileage. I've treated myself better than some. Not as good as others, but better than. better than a lot.

How are you feeling today? I'm feeling good. I went to the gym. You and I went to the gym. I did some... Yeah, I'm getting dad on the program. Well, mom started going to the gym. Party foul.

Party foul. Well, you're going to have a lot of calls probably today. Yeah, that's right. Today, got to silence the... Everybody's calling to work today. I wish him happy birthday. But yeah, we're going to the gym. I'm starting to get dad to go to the gym with me

so he can do some weights. You're trying to walk every day. do 15,000 steps. So you got that going for you. You just need to add the weight part and you're starting to. Yeah. So last year, a lot of you,

if any of you pay any attention, last year kind of was the start of my like, I better get a little more serious about trying to take better care of myself. So I started walking pretty consistent, pretty consistently last year. And for me, I found out that if I want to lose weight, 15,000 steps is kind of the magic number.

Now, that said, I could probably lose more weight or I could lose it faster if I had a more tailored diet. However, I do enjoy food and I do enjoy cooking and I do enjoy barbecue and all that. Butter. So butter. Sour cream. Yeah. All of all of good things. And so it's kind of like you got to balance that a little bit.

like I'm not going to go run a triathlon or anything like that. I just need to get a little slimmer. And 15,000 will get me to where I lose weight as long as I'm halfway. It's about portion size, really, really. You can still have what you want pretty much, just don't eat as much. And then for me, it means throwing all the cereal out so that at 10 o'clock at night or 11 o'clock at night, I don't go, you know what, it would be good right now. a bowl of, you know, whatever.

And so get rid of that. And then, yeah, it's not too bad. But my wife decided that she was going to start doing some strength training, and she has some friends of hers, and they all go to the gym. And, you know, she was, she nudged me a little bit. And Sawyer goes, Kat goes, Clay and Corey and Corey go. So I was like, yeah, I should probably go. So I started going, doing a little weight training.

The first week was pretty hard because we did legs, and I was surprised at how much I could leg press, and I got kind of excited. So as Sawyer kept putting the weight on, I was like, oh, let me try that. Let me try that. So I did it. I did it all the way up to like 495 pounds. I did two reps, and I could have quit, and then I did three, and I couldn't get it up. and when that happened, yeah, I didn't walk worth a crap for like three days. So yeah, moderation start out.

Know your limits. I won't be doing that again anytime soon, but I'm off to a good start. Legs are a hard one. Legs always suck. It doesn't matter. Cereal, it's one of those things. It's funny. I don't know how many people are like this out there, but you, you like, when I grew up,

it wasn't a midnight, our midnight snack, dad's midnight snack, was a bowl of cereal. It was never like a piece of cake or a piece of chocolate or sometimes ice cream. But you like some cereal. Yeah. Which I don't know how common that is out there. I wonder if, because when you get older,

it's not really a breakfast thing anymore. And I don't know if it's a breakfast thing anymore anyway because all the shit they put in them. But, yeah, a good bowl of like frosted flakes or like honey bunches of oats. Like you kind of move up when you get older. You don't go for the fruity. You kind of go for like the special K with the strawberries or honey bunches of oats.

I think it's a generational thing because my generation grew up. Your mother shoves cereal in front of you all the time. And so, you know, in our house, we just always had cereal. And that's how we raised you guys. But like today, I don't think cereal is, and let's face it, it's not exactly the ideal breakfast. We've all realized that, you know, that was all really. great marketing because before that years and years ago there really wasn't breakfast like you got up went out you worked and for some people uh what we have for breakfast as far as sausage eggs bacon that

kind of stuff that was more like it was almost like brunch because people got up they went out worked and then they came back in and they had like a mid morning meal and that was breakfast and then Kellogg's I think is the one that great marketing convinced everybody that they should get up and have a bowl of cereal or whatever and I saw somebody say if it's got a mascot on the box they got a if they have a mascot don't buy it yep that means that it's not good yeah that's about 100% right you see a leprechaun or a bunny on a cereal box don't don't buy it yeah they're trying to get you to they're trying to get you with the

marketing well I think cereal I think cereal was one of the first great inventors of everything that, uh, everything that we're trying to get out of the food supply now. So I feel like artificial flavors and artificial colors were probably first perfected. I could be wrong, but when I think about it, it's like cereal. Fruty Pebbles, man, they're the best, but fuck, they're terrible for you. They are terrible.

You look at the back of that box. You're like, holy shit. Well, and fruity pebbles are like the only cereal I know of that when you eat them, like it leaves a film on the roof of your mouth. Yeah. And you're not like, what is that? Because it's got to be like the oils that are in the, what keeps that all together.

I don't know, but yeah, it's not good. And then there's Captain Crunch. It just murders the roof of your mouth. It does. Just absolutely destroys it. And whatever they put in peanut butter Captain Crunch. Yeah, that's the best. That's all, that's what we ate.

We ate a lot of peanut butter Captain Crunch when we were kids. That stuff stays crispy way too long. There is something in that. I think it's got that coating if you watch Christmas vacation. You know, Chevy Chase's character, his job was coming up with food products. And the plot of that is that he created this new cereal coating that kept the cereal crispy.

And I think that's no shit because that Captain Crunch, there's no way that peanut butter Captain Crunch. peanut butter, cap and crunch should have stayed as crispy and milk for as long as it did. There's something not good in there, but it was damn good while you're eating it. It was damn good. I haven't had a bowl of that in a while, but, yeah, today is going to be kind of an episode where we're going to, we're going to riff, we're going to get deep, we're going to talk about what we want to talk about a little bit because it's a special day. We're not going to be Debbie Downers about all the bullshit going on in the world and in the country.

We're going to focus on the positive today. we might get a little into the negative. It's just really, we're going to let torque guide this one. We're going to let him take this podcast by the balls and hold them and take it to the promised land. Nice. Well, I'm just impressed that you gave up a money-making opportunity to get people to buy meat just for me. Well, the thing is, we did the Memorial Day sale.

I feel like, you know what? We're just going to like. Yeah, let her sit. Let's let her set. Let it breathe a little bit. You guys all know what we're about. If you know Farmer grade, you know it. If you don't, you don't.

And hey, I'm okay with that today. We're not going to give up a chance to make money for the podcast. So we're going to do a market update today. I always like doing the market update. I know. It's your thing. And cats, so we get all the numbers for the markets from Cats Grain, our local grain merchandiser. And they were nice enough to shout me out today on their group text.

Happy birthday. So thanks to Katz Grain in Washington, Iowa. So without any further ado, July corn, last I checked, was 447, December 442. I don't have a local bid. I think 433 was about the best that I found anywhere. 445 in Cedar Rapids, I think that's right. Beans for July 1042, November beans, 1030. 1038 at the river and I didn't get the Quincy bid see I my birthday I'm letting it slide

bean meal for July 294 a ton July wheat 532 hogs for June $100 hogs for July July 103 50 so that's good if your hog guy you like to see a number in the middle of that cattle for June 215 feeder cattle $298. Crude oil, $60. Not to get off in the weeds on crude oil, but I thought this is kind of an interesting deal. So there's a series of oil platforms off the coast of California. I think it's either off the coast of Los Angeles or San Diego maybe.

Somebody will correct me on that. So they were owned by Exxon and the pipeline that brings the oil from those off offshore platforms back into the state of California, that pipeline ruptured 10 years ago or 12 years ago. And it wasn't a huge lake like Exxon Valdez or whatever, but it was a sizable number of gallons of oil that spilled into the ocean. It was a big deal as California. So, you know, sky was falling. And they shut all those platforms down. I think they, I, I think they, I I think the state basically revoked Exxon's license to run the pipeline, whatever, a big mess, been shut down for 10 years.

Well, Exxon turned around and they sold it to another company, and they just reopened those oil platforms. And the federal government gave them the license to do that, so they've got it ready to operate. but now then there's this big controversy because the city, so if it's Los Angeles or wherever it is, so the city is trying to shut it down, the state of California is trying to shut it down, and the feds are saying, go for it. So that'll be really interesting to see how that plays out.

And for what they paid for the platform from Exxon, which they basically got it for half or less than half, maybe a third. $60 oil isn't going to hurt them. Like if they can pump oil, they're going to make money on it. Drill, baby, drill. Drill, baby. It's going to be the best.

It's going to be great. But anyway. Make America great again. Yep. The S&P 500 was up 12 points. Last time I looked, 59, 16. Google $173. Bitcoin 107.

We haven't talked about Bitcoin in a little bit, but, you know, I said it was going to go over 100K. I think I said that. I feel like I did say that. You definitely did say that. And anyway, it did. Big way it went up. I think it got to like 115 or so.

And it settled back down a little bit, but it's hanging in there, 107,000. So I think we've kind of hit kind of a, it's like getting its footing like here. I think it's going to float around just a little above 100,000 until you see more adoption. And then I think from there it's probably going to move higher. So it's going to be a damn good year for Bitcoin. Tesla, $363 share. I think Tesla is also on the precipice of moving way higher because... Platipus.

Not a platypus. Precipice. I think I'm saying that right. It's a big word. They're standing about where they're going to be and I think they're going to move higher from here because all of the talk and the speculation has really... really moved away from auto sales, and it's all pretty much focused on autonomy, Robotaxy, and Robot.

And I think that you, I mean, this sounds a little crazy, and this is what I love about the podcast. Somebody will play this back to me in five years, but I think Tesla could be a $2,000 stock. Pretty easy. If they prove out, if they start shipping Robotaxi, and it's allowed to operate. They're a direct competitor against Lyft and Uber,

and they're going to be well ahead at Waymo, and if that happens, that alone could send the stock dramatically higher. Do you think they'll split it again? Oh, no, they'll split, but I'm saying split adjusted. It'll be, from here it'll go. And then... What's the philosophy there with that?

Why do some do and some don't? Like some companies never split. Well, because so buy rights, I mean, my understanding of it is the only reason that you really should split a stock. Well, there isn't really any good reason to split a stock because what you're doing is you're diluting the shares. So if I have a share, it's worth $100 and you do a two for one split, now I have two shares, but they're worth the same thing as if I had my one. so you're just diluting the shares is all you're doing. So, but what's the point then? Well, the biggest reason why is because, and today it's not,

today I don't feel like it's as big a deal because you have sites like Cash App and what's the other one that allow people to buy incremental shares online. I think most, just about all of them do. Robin Hood. Robin Hood. So years ago, you didn't have fractional shares. Nobody was like a clearing house where you could buy. If Tesla is $360 a share, you couldn't put $50 in it.

So do you think it's just to appease the or to get the average investor excited? That too. People like that because there is perceived value there. Like you feel good when you get a whole share instead of a partial. Or if I own 100 shares and Tesla did a three to one split, I got 300 shares now. That sounds better when you're playing good. golf, you know, whatever. But it makes the stock more affordable to more people because it lowers the share price. But when you have incremental shares, I don't think it's as necessary. And there are

stocks out there that have never split. Yeah. Well, that's why I asked the question because it's like, it seems like there's companies that are just like, we're never going to split or there's companies that we're going to split. And then like Berkshire is a per, Berkshire Hathaway is a perfect example. I don't know whether any, they have different classes of shares, but I'm pretty sure that those shares have never split. That's why they're so god-awful expensive. Like, that's a stock where somebody, if you run into somebody that they own Berkshire stock, well, that means that they own a whole share. Well, I guess I don't know.

Maybe you can buy an incremental share now, but I mean, when somebody had a share of Berkshire, you know, that was $100,000. stock. And I don't even know what it is now. I haven't looked. But anyway, it's a big deal. So yeah, I think Tesla's got a lot of potential. Gold, 3,300 bucks. So it's so interesting to see kind of the old and the new because you've got Bitcoin and you got gold. And I think there's a certain amount of people that are kind of the contrarian. They're not sure about the dollar. And some of those people are buying gold, some of those people are buying Bitcoin. But I think the more uncertainty that's out there in the market,

I think you're going to see both of those move or stay strong, gold and Bitcoin. 30-year treasury, 4.95, 10-year treasury, 4.45. That is the market update, and that is sponsored by our good friends at Contera. So if you are somebody in ag and you're not real happy with where you're banking or you just want a second opinion or you're trying to figure out, you know, it's good to just talk to other people and see what's out there. And if you are, if you're exploring your opportunities or you want to explore your opportunities, call the guys at Contara. Conteraagag.com. They're good people and they're pretty smart. So yeah and I wanted to add something to the market update you know I'm this I'm the meat guy now got a meat business and I feel like I should be laying some laying some facts down on what's going on in the meat business just as a whole doesn't have to be on the small scale that we're playing on but also the large scale so I want to just give you a little news that's happening in the meat world. JBS plans to build a $135 million sausage processing plant in Perry Iowa.

they're going to start construction in late 2025 and hope to have it done by 2026. The facility will process 500,000 hogs annually and produce about 130 million pounds of sausage and employ 250 workers initially and try to expand to 500 with the second shift. So that's the old, they bought the old Oscar Meyer plant. I don't know. I get, they must have. I bet you they did. Tyson went out of there though. Tyson went. So it was the old Oscar Meyer plant and then Tyson had it and then they close it.

And I'll bet you that they bought it and are redoing it. Yep. So that's good for the people of Perry because I know that that was a lot of people got laid off when Tyson decided to get out of there and that was bad for their economy. So I'm sure that the local economy is happy that somebody's coming back, bought the plant now is going to employ people there again. Good for the. the town, good for pork production. Man, when I see these kind of articles and these stories, it makes me feel like they're literally building a plant just for sausage. You know, like we're trying to sell everything and they're literally just building a facility for sausage. It just tells you, it just shows you the perspective of how massive the meat businesses. It is huge.

There's facilities out there that just do bacon or just do sausage. You know, it's crazy. Yep. It's crazy. But that's good. I think that's good for the people of Perry. And hey, good for hog. Hopefully good for the hog producers out there.

And yeah, so that's my, that's going to be my little tidbit that I'm going to add on to the market update. See if I can bring some value. Well, and that tells you that there's money be made in the meat business. Yep. Because they're expanding. And we missed it by like two weeks. but uh

dailies bacon yeah they're expanding their their uh their facility yeah so they have a plant across the street from the processing plant

uh triumphs processing plant in St. Joe Missouri they have a bacon plant right across the road called Dailies and when it's done you got the details yeah it's going to be

in a hundred and it's going to be a 95 million dollar project and in it includes a 111,000 square foot addition on the plant to increase its production in warehousing capacity. So when it's, I think that, I don't know if it says in there, I think it'll be the second largest bacon plant in the United States. I don't know if it says that or not. I could have imagined it. It's going to create another 100 new jobs.

Yeah, this article doesn't say much about it's big though. It's massive. Yeah. So. It doesn't say, it doesn't say that. that but doesn't isn't that that plant right next to the triumph plant and so all the pork bellies tell them the spore about that because you went and toured that when you were working for who you you were working for the integrator we grow pigs for yeah yeah so this is really interesting

um so at the triumph plant when that was built that was state of the art and there was a lot of technology they put in there that nobody had ever you know had was just you just starting to come to the market as far as in processing. And one of the things that they put in there, basically, I think they called it a tovac machine, but I'm not sure. Basically, it's kind of like an MRI for pigs. So every carcass would go across this machine and it would take a 360-degree x-ray of the carcass, and they would know, like,

like how big the loin was, how big the belly was. And it was expensive. It was incredibly expensive. And they thought when they got this, that what it was going to help them with was being more consistent on getting the loins because they wanted the biggest loins that were of a certain size all for export, and it was going to help them sort those carcasses so they could get this. And what they found, though, and it was going to take years to pay for this machine in the savings, the waste that they were going to save and capturing a little more on that export.

But what they didn't realize was that because they knew what that pork belly looked like, one of the biggest expenses in processing bacon is that, you know, those packages when you see bacon, in the store they're all the same size and it lays in there really nice okay anything that is outside of that size is trim and yeah you can sell it as you know bacon pieces or whatever but it's not full value basically okay what they were able to do was they were able to know that every pork belly that went across the road to dailies they were all going to be a consistent size and all the ones that were that were off that were odd or whatever, too big, too small, whatever,

they sold all those to somebody else. And as a result, the bacon factory, Dailies. Dailies, the efficiency that they gained, they were able to pay for that machine like in, I don't even remember. It was a crazy number because they were able to be so much more efficient at the Daly's plant because of that.

And so that's just, an example of the amount of technology that's out there that goes into these things, but the volume that they put in. Like, when we think about, I always think about this when I'm in the freezer and we're fulfilling orders, you know. I know. I go through, we go through tray after tray of bacon. And it's like, that number, the number of packs of bacon that get consumed every week

in the United States, it's got to be just absolutely staggering. Yeah, I mean, my buddy works in food service and he said that the number one top selling our product, bar none throughout food service is bacon. Yeah. Bar none. If you could just get bacon to a restaurant, you're in a good place because bacon is the mover. It is the king. Yeah. Well, bacon makes everything better.

It does. We've had that discussion. Yep. Absolutely. Yeah. So anyway, that's that is the long, uh, long market update slash it was uh celebration of torques birthday so what are the crops looking like yeah so southeast iowa i just thought we would give you an update uh you know everybody's done

i don't think there's anybody left around here that doesn't have anything planted the weather's been really really good um got a good rain got some timely rain yeah that was good so when we we finished planting on the 28th of April. And it was dry. So we had gotten good rain. There was good soil moisture. And then we got everything planted as well as I think most people did. And then we didn't have rain for probably,

I'll bet you it was a good 10 days because all of our corn was just coming up. And you could see the places where you had a little bit of and there were some people out with rotary hose, you know, worried about whether the corn was going to get through. And then we got like, oh, like a half inch of rain. And then went a couple days and we got some more rain. Now, there's places south that got, I mean, there's place around that got five inches of rain out of that deal over a few days.

And I know I saw, there's a guy I know from Ladonia, Missouri. that he put some pictures on and i mean they had they got pounded which isn't good and i'm sure there's some probably some replant down there but uh all our stuff made it up everything got sprayed um i'm actually there's tanks sitting up at my north site with uh nitrogen and we're going to side dress here probably next week um but all and all looking good now we just got to figure out we're going to get it all sold for a decent price because i already missed the boat on the first rally that we had when i could have gotten a little bit better price so i don't know marketing is going to be key this year because i think that if we have a decent crop the corn market especially

uh fall is not going to be the time that you want to market because i think the price everybody knows there's a big crop coming because there was a lot of corn on corn that got planted around our area. So I felt really smart about my decision until it all started coming up and I was driving around and I'm like, wow, there's a lot of corn out here. There's not much, there's not many beans coming up around here. Hmm. Gosh, I thought I was the only smart one. So anyway, they must be listening to you. Boy, I don't know. I hope not. You know, you should everybody do the opposite of what I do. But this year it just made sense. So a lot of people did it. So that's it. That's it. that's the long short.

So what else? What's up? Do you have any wisdom throughout the years that you want to strap on some people? I was thinking about this. And you know what? I'll say a few things. I'll say there are a lot of people. You are going to run into a lot of people in your life

that are going to tell you to just stay right where you're at. and, you know, just grind it out that it'll get better. And that's true to a point. I mean, it's like time in the market. It's like you're going to put 50 bucks a month in the stock market. You know, if you start when you're 18 and you just grind it out, time in the market. But when it comes to your, when it comes to like your goals and where you want to be, nobody ever got anywhere with anything with it all going right like i don't think as humans we were

ever meant to not struggle i just don't know how i don't know how you get how you get better if you don't struggle and the only way you struggle is if you take chances and sometimes sometimes taking chances doesn't really happen by your own like it isn't a decision that you made it's a decision that somebody made that puts you in a position that you have to struggle and I mean that's what happened to me

because and I've probably said this before but you know when I got out of the hog business because you know I lost my ass Farrowan in the 90s I've had so many people say, because I had a decision to make when I stayed Farrowan, I could have built contract finishing barns. I had a place to do it. I had somebody that wanted them, but it was a mindset of, oh, you know, we'd make way more money, Farrow, and our own pigs.

And people will say, because I've told that story, and they're like, man, just think if you would have just gone up there where my site one is now and you would have built a couple of 1,200 head finishers or a couple of 2,000 head finishers because they were building 40 wides back then. Man, you'd just be. And I think about that. And, you know, I probably would be. I don't know. I don't know what that'd be like.

But if I would have done that, man, I wouldn't have met any of the really motivating people that I've met. I wouldn't have any of the skills that I have. I would be, I think I'd probably be kind of one of them, cocky ass, farmers that, you know, this is the way we've always done it, this is the way dad did it, and I don't know, I think I'd been kind of a dick.

Because it's just like, it's that thing, like you don't, I don't know if I would have valued it. Yeah. Because it would have, in hindsight, it would have worked. I mean, it totally would have worked. And those suckers I would have got them paid for and... Just kept building them. Just kept building them.

And there's nothing wrong with that. There's people have done it. But the experiences I've had, I wouldn't change that for anything. You know what? I think looking back, the only thing I think I would change with the hand that I've been dealt is I wish I would have listened. more and talked less, maybe I should follow this today,

to the people that, you know, really were trying to help me. And I also think that I would have tried better to balance the time I spent paying the bills versus the time I spent making memories or doing family stuff. I mean, you say that.

It's hard to do. But as far as the experience, like, you know, having to do construction, like having to sell where our sows were and living in a little dinky house, renting it while we were redoing the house that we bought off my dad for a dollar and we paid too much for it

and all of the strife and all of the shit that went with it, I don't think I'd change that at all. because I wouldn't be sitting here. I mean, you just got to think, you know, you change one thing and the ripples of that. I mean, we wouldn't be sitting here now. So I'm thankful as hell for the experience I had.

And that struggle, that struggle is you have to struggle. And the other thing I'll say is this. We all have goals. we all drive around, walk around, sitting in a recliner, watch TV, whatever, and we think what could be. We think about what could be. Boy, I'd really like to have this. Boy, I'd really like to go there. You know, this steak sucks.

Somebody should open a good steakhouse, and I should be that guy. I should do a food truck. I should do this. I should do that. We all have these goals. And then we all dream about. the accomplishment. We have the goal and then we have this dream of what it would look like if we actually

did that. But you know what gets you there? Consistency and discipline. Being consistent in doing the things that you have to do to get you to that achievement and the discipline to do it every single day. one of the first texts that I got this morning was from a friend of ours and she said, happy birthday, do you get a day off? Question mark? And I'll be honest. I mean, I'm not going to do a whole lot today. I have to chore, but I'm probably not going to, you know, do any more than I

have to do. We got pigs going out tonight. Got to make sure that everything's ready for that. But I texted her back and I said, no days off, but I don't do much. anyway, which I was just being nice to say that. But I'm not really talking about having a chore of the pigs. Like if you want to get to what you want to do, there are no days off. I mean, there really isn't any days off. You have to have the mindset that, you know, I'm going to read whatever it is you're trying to do. I'm going to learn something every day. I'm going to walk every day. I'm going to stay on my diet every day. I'm going to stay on my diet every day. I'm going to read my Bible every day.

I'm going to do my books. You know, whatever it is. It's all discipline. I mean, anybody, people that sit around and bitch about people having, you know, people bitching about Elon that he's too rich and he's got too much money. Well, you know the only thing he's got? He's got too much discipline because he is disciplined. He is consistent.

He has done the things that he's had to do. every day, it helps that his IQ is about 87 points higher than mine. But, you know, it's discipline. Football players, athletes, politicians, business people, we're all the same. It's discipline and consistency. And I feel like consistency and discipline are kind of the same. But, yeah, that's my wisdom.

My wisdom would be, if you are willing to put in the work, not once but every single day a year from today you won't believe how how much shit you've gotten done what when you say you wish you would have listened more and talk less to the people that you were trying to help you who are those who are those people and do you just feel like you didn't extract enough out of that relationship or those relationships as much as you like what gives you that perspective because we sit here and listen and meet people now and you're like damn i wish i would have done more of that back then is that what like what gives you that i don't like i don't have any regret i don't feel like it's not that there's like man i missed out but i think

about all the good advice that i got and the perspective that i got from say my dad say claude griner say dave icelberger say mike roth um people like that that. Well, how much more could I have gotten? Or just how much did I, like, I think about driving around with Claude and he, the conversations we had, but the conversations that he had with other people on the phone while I'm driving him around. And like, if I would have been, so if it would have been me today then. I would have had a notebook in my pocket. And every time that we pulled over and stopped, I'd whip that baby out and I'd write that down. I'd write that shit down. But I didn't. Like how much of those conversations do I not, did I not retain? Yeah. Now, part of that is

when you find successful people that have a different mindset than you have, it isn't all about the details. part of it literally is that mindset that you just develop from being around them and that mindset will get you a long way. It's like the perspective and just the way you look at things once you've immersed yourself with people like that, part of that is it's like flipping a switch and you kind of have the same viewpoint that they have.

But for me, I just wonder sometimes I'm like, how much detail, how many more things could I know or could I have learned that I didn't because I just didn't retain it or it just felt like that was a foreign. Like I remember when I was at a time when I was just starting in the construction world or the sales world and the idea of valuing your time, and like trying to prioritize what you spent your time at and the conversations that you had, I remember at that time,

you just feel like you feel like you have all kinds of time. And you don't feel like prioritizing. That's why I feel like people your generation are so much further ahead than I was because I feel like you guys have a much better grasp on the value of time. and you are more deliberate in how you spend it. I don't feel like I was that way at that point.

I feel like I wasted way too much time talking to people that here, I'll get, this is a great, this is a great analogy and we just coined this analogy this morning at the gym. So I go to the gym with Sawyer and we're in there and this gym, our local town, has a big roll up door in the back. and the way the building sits, it sits along an alley, and at one corner there's this big roll-up door. And it rolls up right into the alley, and then directly across the alley, there isn't a building.

It's actually like the driveway or parking lot to a liquor store. And so you're literally in the gym. You are lifting weights or you're on the treadmill or you're stretching or you're doing whatever. So you're in there and you're working on yourself. and as you are working on yourself, people are coming down the alley and going into the liquor store.

And I said to Sawyer, I said, you know what's crazy about that is? Well, what I said to Sawyer was, I said, we're looking at them and they're looking at us,

and both of them are going, boy, those fuckers are crazy. Yeah. And Sawyer goes, he goes, yeah, we both have exactly the same mindset, but neither one, like,

So we're both right. You know, we're both right. So the people that are in that gym, they are like, Jesus, it's 9 o'clock. How the fuck are you getting a 24 pack right now? Well, yeah, but no, your mindset is you're like, I got to be in here and I got to be working on this. This is what I need to be doing.

And then somebody's going, man, I got to get a fucking 20, I got to get a case of beer. I got to get a fifth of whiskey if I'm going to make it through this day. Yeah. I mean, you literally, both people, both of those examples, you're doing what your mind is telling you that you need to do. And I'm not going to tell you which one of those is right, but I think we all know.

And that, like, holy shit, that is, that is powerful when you realize, because that's mindset, that's discipline, that's, you know, that's perspective. And I remember, I remember going to trade shows, and this is just not, I don't give a shit whether you're selling,

whether you're selling Mike equipment, hog equipment, wing nuts for air cleaners, whatever it is. There's these trade shows. Soccer balls. Soccer balls. Soccer balls. There's trade shows. And there's people that are selling all this stuff. And people that are,

people that sell things are extroverted, and they like to talk. They like to talk about themselves a little bit. They like to talk about all kinds of stuff. They love to be with people. And as a result, they spend a lot of time standing around drinking beverages. And I was no different, no different. And I don't know where, I don't know when this happened exactly.

But at some point, you know, I just realized that I had to get up the next day and I had to go stand in that booth. and I got to the point where I would literally just get up from the bar and there would be a whole group of us there, you know, and everybody would be like, oh, where are you going? And I'm like, oh, I'm just going to take a leak. And I'd walk out. Irish, goodbye. And I would walk right past, yeah, I was that.

I'd walk right past the bathroom, right out the door, and back the hotel or getting my Uber and go. And, you know, then the phone would be like, what are you doing? Where are you going? No, because that wasn't important to me. and you know it's it's those little choices that you make your time is valuable your time is valuable but this body is going to wear out no matter what you do no matter how good you treat it it's

going to wear out so it's not only your time but it's also your body and it's like what you choose to do with it is not important today 25 years from now it's very important And it gets even more important. And if you want to be, if you want to be relevant, if you want to be successful, and if you want to have a long life. Now then, we all know people that the body part of it, the life part of it, I could get diagnosed with whatever tomorrow and the jigs up. It doesn't matter how many times I went to the gin. It doesn't matter if I drink spring water every day of my life. You know, sometimes you just get dealt with a shitty hand.

But you do have a lot to do with the mileage part of it. And so just choose wisely. Yeah. That was good. You're talking about just life and all that and how I think humans are supposed to suffer. And I think not supposed to suffer, but I think people get so caught up on the happiness thing all the time.

And I think you should enjoy your life most of the time. but like i think you're right on the on on the idea of i don't think we were put on this planet to just be happy and comfortable i don't think that's part of the that's one part of the human experience that's one part of life that's one part of living you're supposed we're supposed to go through a bunch of different feelings and circumstances and shit that just hits you in the face, you know, or makes you feel a certain way. That's part of living.

That's life. So this, I hate the culture now of everybody always optimizing for ease. Ease and what's the easiest and what's, and you got to do, you want to be happy and you want to optimize for that, but you're not, your life isn't fucking over if you have a season of, of being sad or being mad or being frustrated or not enjoying your life. Now, don't stay there, work to get out of there. But that's part of living.

You're going to go through shit like that. And it's not, there's not something wrong with you. There might be something wrong with you. You got to fix it. But it's like I feel like sometimes people make people feel like shit. Like if you're not happy all the time, there's something wrong with you. There's something wrong with your life. You're, you're not living the right.

way and it's like, you know, sometimes that's not the case. You know, sometimes there's just shit that happens to you, like you said, that you just can't control and it, it hits you in the face and you got to go through that season. Yeah. You know? We're all going to fail. And I think Denzel Washington, one of his keynotes or whatever, he's like, he's like, you're going to fall.

The best you can hope for is that when you fall, you fall forward, not backwards. Yeah. And if you do fall backwards, you got to get up and move forward. I fucking love Denzel Washington. Oh, man, he's a deal. He's probably one of my favorite actors of all time. Not going to lie. Yeah.

So when I was, so when I walk, there's a, there's a, it's not really a podcast. It's called motivational something. And all it is, this guy, and I think, I think you can get longer versions if you pay for his monthly thing, you know, or whatever. but what he does is he just goes through and he cuts keynote speeches and interviews of people and he just makes these montages of just motivational deals and he's got one that's all Denzel Washington and it is damn good and he's like damn I need to get that I'll I'll set it to because I have my sound cloud my sound cloud it's full of so soundcloud's like where you get all your unreleased music, like all the underground shit that didn't get posted on an album or

something like that than an artist made earlier in their career or whatever. And you can find remixes and shit like that. But I recently found a bunch of like, I would look up Jocko. I'd look up Goggins. I'd look up Andy Fricela. I'd look up Alex Ramosey, Mel Robbins, a bunch of different people. And they have like mashups. Yeah. And it's not. them they didn't make it somebody took an edit put some motivational music or some shit behind it and made it into it like a song and my whole my whole playlist like i'll go to the gym some days and i don't do it because you can overdo it sometimes but i'll just play that shit and i'll just have it run down the down the list of just yeah there's a lot of good ones out there and i know motivate

you know discipline beats motivation every single time but sometimes when you just need to you know you're just in the mood for just some fucking good words of kick ass and take names. Turning that shit on is awesome. Yeah, he's got he's just, he's just riffing at this thing about, he's discipline and consistency and all that

and then he's like, he's like, you ever been to a funeral? You ever followed the casket to a funeral with a hearse pulling a U-Haul? No, because you can't take it with you. The Egyptians tried and guess what? Everybody stole their shit. I just thought that's just so good.

That is real good. So good. Yeah. He's the best. I like him a lot. Yeah. And when you were talking at the end there of your wisdom, people talking about, you know, we were talking about your body and taking care of

and all that and, you know, your decision making that you have that night affects not just today, but it affects you a 25 years later. I don't, you know what? One thing I don't think people think enough about. It's not just like staying on track and getting yourself. shit done the next day. It's your energy level. People do not take in account how they feel energy wise enough, I think, because I can tell you what, when I drink, I notice it. I will notice it in the upcoming days after I drink through just how I feel in my energy and my mindset, everything.

if you don't drink for like a good amount of time and you're on your shit and then you drink let me know how you feel because i guarantee ass to you you will be like damn yeah that i feel that that affects my energy totally affects your energy and that i'm at a point in my life where i'm just trying to optimize for as much energy as i can and what's taking energy away from I'm trying to get rid of best I can. And I'm not saying I don't want to have a good time. Fourth July coming this year, I'm going to get, I'm going to fucking drink some alcohol, right? I'm going to have a good time.

You got to live life too and enjoy yourself. But do I need to drink every week? No. I don't think I need to drink every week. I'm at a point where it's like I don't drink or at this point I'm not drinking like I did in, you know, high school where it's like we're going to go out and have food. You drank in high school? Where'd you get that shit?

I was drinking Gatorade. That's what I meant. But anyway, you know what I mean? Like, back then you were doing it for a purpose. You're going to have fun. You're going to go out with your friends. You're going to feel it. But now you're kind of the point as an adult.

It's like, I don't, I'm not drinking to get drunk. Yeah. I'm just drinking to have a beer. So fuck, I'm not going to have a beer. Right. I don't need to have a beer for the sake of having a beer. Yeah. I'm at the point where it's like, if we're going to do this thing,

let's fucking do it. Yeah. If I'm going to be around friends, let's do it. Whiskey Minute also, I'm definitely going to always partake in the Whiskey Minute. And poker, you know, playing a game of poker. Yeah, I have a glass of whiskey. But, yeah, it's just, it's all about decision making. And I think optimizing your time, but also optimizing your energy,

that's how you gain the edge. That's how you, that's how you stay on the track. Yeah, and I'll just, I'll piggyback. off of that, that if I'm really consistent about just not adding sugar to my diet, like I don't drink pop, the only time I have a pop is when I'm, if I go to a movie and I don't go to movies very more, it's like, man, you got to have that Fountain Mountain and some popcorn. If you go to McDonald's, I always got to get a Sprite.

But if you, if you, if you go to. go and you aren't having sugar. You know, there's sugar and everything. You're not, it's really hard to get out of that. But if you're pretty consistent about not having that, basically anything that's kind of an inflammatory. That's why

that's like, I'm with you, I can feel it when I drink. But if you are giving all that up or pretty good on your stuff and you go to the fair and you have three snow cones and through corn dogs. Blue raspberry is the greatest flavor that God never invented. I just

have to say that's my favorite snow cone flavor but um you know i can feel it and when you're in that like when you're when you are not when you don't pay any attention to what you eat and and your intake or you don't or you don't pay attention to your energy true it's like the social media thing i think there's so many people walking around like fucking zombies i feel like shit i i look like shit. I have no energy. I have no energy. I'm not getting shit done. I'm unmotivated. You're scrolling on your fucking phone for a long, a lot of, your fucking screen time, six to eight hours a day. You're eating like shit. You're not exercising and you fucking drank three times last week. Yeah. Of course you're going to feel like fucking dog shit.

But what I was going to say was when that's your world, you don't even know. Yeah, you don't Because you don't know how good you can feel. Yeah. So, and the example I was going to give is a friend of mine, we were all together and we went to this function, and on the way to this function, they were drinking a big slam, a mountain dew. And then we were there,

and we were drinking while we were there. And he made the comment about how all his joints hurt. And he's like, man, I just, anymore. I wake up and I just hurt all the time. And that doesn't surprise me. I mean, hell, I wake up and I have stuff that bothers me sometimes too. But boy, if you don't remove yourself from all that stuff, you'll never know. So you just don't know what's wrong with you.

That's how we end up going to the doctor and doctor's going to give you a pill for this because you got inflammation. They're going to give you this or that or give you a cortisone shot in that joint. Well, it could be as simple as the fact that you're consuming way too much sugar and then you're throwing alcohol on top of it. But you don't even know because you don't have anything to reference. So anyway, this isn't, this is not health advice. I would say we are not the epitome of health either.

We are not perfect. And I want to live a good life, maximize energy, all that, but I still want to have a good time. And guess what? In a pinch, I'm still, you know, I still go to McDonald's occasionally because I don't have anything to fucking eat and I need to get something to eat and it's been an absolute monster of a day and guess what that's what I settle for and do I feel like shit the next day yep do I feel like shit after I eat it yep am I happy with my decision fuck no but that's part of it so I just I want to put

that out there but if you go from doing that all the time to not doing it you're gonna see a difference and it's gonna make you it's gonna make a change on you that like am I feel so much better when I'm doing the things I'm on my game. Yeah, when I'm on my game, I just feel a lot better. And you're going to just live a better quality of life, man. So, hey, I'll tell you one more thing while we're talking about, you know, supposed, I guess if I'm giving advice, this is probably the, I think this is probably going to be the best thing that I have done for myself.

that I didn't even know that I needed. And I was very reluctant to do this because I am a legend in my own mind and I can do it and I'm smart enough, I'm cute enough, and damn it, people like me. Coaching. I, to me, coaching just seemed like, like I had this, I had no idea.

You're about people that, like, get into coaching and you see all these people that are doing coaching and you think, oh, geez, there's a bunch of soft-headed people out there. Like, who in the fuck is going to hand these people their money to have somebody, you know, be your personal hype man and say, oh, yeah, you can do it. Okay.

I will just say, I'm sorry if I pissed A-B-all- I think you captured it. That is, there are people that believe in it and the people that don't think exactly how you do. And that's how I did. That's what I thought. And I'm just going to tell you. There's a happy medium there too.

I mean, there are some people that are fucking grifters that are like pieces of shit that do scam people for sure. But there are real people out there. I do think that are doing a solid job. Yeah. So you just, some people, I think, you got to just watch out for the grifters. You really do because social media is, they're all fucking over the place. Drop shipping stores and Amazon FBI and. Yeah, and I'm not talking about anything like that.

What I'm really talking about is within something that you know, within something that you is important enough to you that you decide, okay, I'm going to just get a little bit of help with that because that's what happened with me. And this, I'm going to preface this with saying this is not like, this is not an infomercial. This is just me, my personal experience, and since we're talking about it. So a lot of you know that if you watch the podcast, I don't know. six months ago, if it's been that long or not, we had Jace Young on the podcast,

and he has a company called Legacy Farmer, and it's basically a software company accounting for farmers, is what it is. And he was sitting here, like all the shit he was going through. It was like, in my mind, I was just going, check, check, check, because he was going through all the stuff that people do or don't do.

And don't do, and I'm like, yep. Yep, yep. So anyway, when that was all over, he and I had a conversation, and I joined Legacy Farmer. I have their software. I use it. I think I've talked about it once on here that, you know, my banker was kind of like, holy shit, you have actual numbers.

It was pretty impressive. And I thought that that was, like, to me, I thought, okay, that's all this is. This is what it is. but part of their service is really coaching and they have these they have calls just about every week they have calls on something that you can get on and it's just you know farmers talking about what they're going through on this subject whether it's marketing whether it's uh whether it's uh estate planning whether it's like managing employees just risk uh bankers that kind of stuff

but then the other side of it is you have a guy that's assigned to you that you meet with and you can you can do it like i started out and i was just doing it once a month and um i realized that having that call with that person like kept me kind of accountable to myself so that i didn't because i get really excited for doing stuff and like you know today i'm to sit down, I'm going to go through my desk, I go through my desk, and I get everything all done, and it's all set up, and it's all, boy, I'm getting everything done, and I'm like, yep, I'm going to stay on this, and I'm going to be consistent. And then you come back, and in two weeks, my desk is a mess, and I haven't done any bookwork, and it's da-da-da-da-da, because life happens.

So it really helped me because it kept me accountable, and I don't think I realized how much I actually needed somebody outside looking in that can say, all right, you need to get, you need to stay on track. You need to do this. Have you done this? And the guy that you're working with now, what's his, what's his background? Like, is it a guy that knows finance? Like, what, what's?

So the guy that I have, he's both been a private banker and worked in the farm credit system. and now that he works with Legacy Farmer and he coaches. And holy shit, I mean, I felt so good when I got my, like when I got my cash flow done and just like all my assets put in everything, I was like, oh, yeah, you know, I feel good. And then on the call last week, he was like, okay, on your assets, you know, every one of your, every one of your piece of equipment, you need to have the number, you need to have the options, you need to have, you know, all these things. And on your land,

like, don't just put, the whole farm is this, it's this many acres, he goes, break that out, have the CSR of each parcel, the legal description of each parcel, so that when you, if you sit down in front of your banker, you know everything down to the Nats ass, and there isn't anything that that guy is going to say to you that you're going to be like, oh, that sounds right, because you have all your shit together. And like nobody's ever,

nobody's ever said that to me. And that's just one example, but I did not see any value to having, like, having somebody coach me. And if you asked me today, if you would have asked me at the beginning,

I would have said the value of legacy farmer, was to be able to have those cash flows and doing your own reports. When you walked in the bank, you weren't relying on your banker to do that stuff for you. I said, you know, that's, if you asked me today, that is like, the value is in the people. And the value is in like that having somebody outside your circle of your family or your friends or whatever, that keeps you a cannibal, and he don't care. That's the beautiful thing about it. What I love about it is he's going to tell you,

like he's going to look at and go, that's fucking terrible. Now he isn't going to say it that way. But like he has no skin in the game to like let you slide. So he's just going to tell you straight up. Yeah, no, you need to do that. And why don't you have that done? Because there's no point of doing this if you don't have that.

And like I feel like, for the for the future of what i'm doing that single handedly is going to be like the catalyst to push me further in my businesses than i've ever gone i i think i think it's a single best thing i've ever done and that's not i mean that's i don't care who you get if you're if you're uh you know if you're a farmer and you're trying to get your shit together and and you know uh be able to to hold your head high when you walk into the bank. Yes, I recommend legacy farmer, definitely. But as far as coaching goes,

you may not need a coach for your bookwork. You may be somebody that's really good at that. It may be something else in your life that you need help with. Two years ago, I would have just said, that is like snake oil, you know, figure your shit out. It's common sense, da-da-da.

No, there's a value on that. So I think that's... Information is powerful. It is. It is for sure. And I, it's funny you say that. I actually just telling dad at the gym today, you know, I, uh, I saw a guy on Instagram. I thought his content was really, really interesting in the way that he conducted his days was really interesting. And he, he kind of has this like, uh, he has this whole branding on his content that's kind of branded on how he conducts his day as a brand owner and entrepreneur and how it, it is definitely different and structured. And it's like to escape the matrix is kind of his, branding of it. And you know, that can be kind of like, I was like, I don't know about that. But he had a, he had a, he had a subscription. It was like 11 bucks a month. And I was like, you know what? I'm just going to try it. I'm going to go in see what he's got. And if I don't like it, I'll just cancel it. 11 bucks. That's nothing. Holy shit. That, uh, you know, I,

I've, I've kept everything in that things app and I've kind of gone away from getting on a calendar. But man, this guy like, talk about coaching. I was intrigued by how this guy was running and conducting his days in his life and it seemed like he was making a lot of good time for work and getting a lot done but also enjoying his life because I feel like that's something that I really struggle with is I can work, work, work, work, and then, you know, shit falls in other places that I should be spending my time on in my personal life. And so, you know, this guy just was like, man, it seems like he's got it figured out. Like he's got a system on how he's doing this. And I just have been into it for two days.

And there's a community aspect of it. I'm not really in that. I'm just kind of going through, you know, these videos and these tools and these resources that he's given. And I mean, I'm feeling fucking great. I'm feeling productive. I feel like I got my calendar hooked up to my other calendar. I got my to-do list.

I got my days planned. I got time planned for my family. I got time planned for my main thing, my secondary tasks, and I'm just executing the plan every single morning, every single day, and I'm feeling fucking great. And like that, time is literally everything. And when you start to really look into people that are kicking ass and whatever they're doing, every single one of those people is a fucking menace when it comes to their time.

Like, you will find that with every single one of those people. time is everything. You have to allocate a chunk of what you're going to do with that time, and the best people that are winning are using every single hour, minute, second, dedicated to a specific thing that they know they're committing to doing in that moment. Like, that is how it is. And so that's working for me right now. I took the jump and made that, made that purchase of 11 bucks a month and I'm going to stay in it because he keeps adding stuff to it, like resources and talks and they do a Q&A every month.

And like, you know, I just, I think that's good money spent. If it's going to make me money and help me on my journey, I, and I will say, you know, every time you make a jump like that with somebody like a coach, you know, or just a resource to help you. dude like 11 bucks that was 11 bucks and that spent more of that on that McDonald's meal yeah it's like dude that's gonna that's if that's gonna that could end up making me way more money and create way more value because i actually get my i get a plan together that i can stay consistent to and make my life drastically better like that's crazy and yeah i was a little like I don't know if this is grifting or not, but hey, I'm not out much. I can jump in here, see what's in it.

And if I like it, I'll stay. If I don't, I'll go. So anyway. Yeah. And it all goes back. I mean, like there's, I remember walking into a guy's shop and they have a big whiteboard and the top of the whiteboard. It says, plan your work, work your plan. And I remember thinking that was like, ha ha, funny, you know, but, I mean, it's that simple.

the problem is we all need help with that consistency and that discipline. And so even though we all know, I mean, I would say a good coach, a good coach will make, will give you moments where you're like, yeah, I never thought of that. And that's, you know you're getting somewhere when you look at, when you look at things that you work with every day. like when you're working with your numbers within your business and a coach can show you an insight that you've never a perspective that you've never looked at it that way now that's valuable

because i think that's one of the great things about having somebody else that can look in to whatever it is your fitness your health your business whatever and say well what about that you know look at it this way and you're like holy cow that that just changes everything. And I don't want to, I don't want to overplay that. I mean, still it comes down to, you know, you've got to be consistent, you've got to have the discipline. But there are so many tools out there,

and coaching may be one of those tools for you. So, yeah, I mean, and the other thing is, one last thing I'll say is, if you want different results, quit doing the same thing. Another simple is, you know, it's like manage your time or it'll manage you. Well, if you want a different result,

then you have to do things different than you've done before. And I think that's, I mean... So what the fuck are you going to do different at 54? Well, I... Then you did at 53. So, big thing for me is... What are you fucking doing bad? Dad. What am I doing bad? What are you fucking up on that you want to change? Too much. So here, I'll give it to you. So when I go to bed at night, like, I have every intention going to bed at a good time and I'll lay down. And that I've really done a good job of like trying to limit my social media. But that's my time that will get me. Like, I don't know how many times that we're getting, like, we'll watch a little TV. And then Trish will be like, all right, I'm going to go to bed. And I'll be like, all right, I'll be up. And then I sit there and I start scrolling social.

media and that's my time of day where I like to check and see, you know, what's going on and all that. But man, it's so easy to sit there. So I've been changing that. So my goal is to change that out and I'm going to spend that time before I go to bed reading, get back on that train. That's something I really want to work on. Added the gym in. So I'm going to keep on my walking schedule, but I'm trying to block out time that I'm going to the gym at least three times a week. You're going to start looking like the fucking rock.

But they'll just call you Boulder. Boulder. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah. Jim, reading, coaching. So I have always had a, we've talked about this,

terrible at bookwork, terrible at consistency with bookwork. My goal for this year is I want to be able to know the numbers within the businesses we have better than anybody. And I want to be able to run that cash flow like the back of my hand and project and just have like master it.

I want to master that instead of having my numbers kind of master me. And then the last thing is biggest goal I think for me for this year, two big goals. Get LW. running and just show that off to the. world make sure that's going to work do everything i can to uh to help that because i really believe in it i think that that's going to change uh that's going to change how we view the manure out of these hog buildings forever i don't think we'll ever go back and um the other thing is to really work on making i'm not going to lie when when i see barn talk uh podcast get up the

Spotify charts, kind of like that. And I really want to do everything I can to make this program one of the best. And what I love about podcast is it's kind of like pro sports and the fact that

the episode that we put out today, the one that you see, man, you may be like, that's, boy, that's a good podcast. But then we have to turn around and do it next week because it does not matter. It doesn't matter. Like every week you have to,

to execute and i love that i love that it doesn't matter what you've done it is it's fun for us look back once in a while and go wow you know we've really done something but it doesn't matter because if you don't put out a good podcast next week people are like eh and the and it's come it's becoming so saturated because everybody their dog is getting into it and i mostly because they've seen me doing it so they're like well fuck there can't be anything to that pot that's got to be one of the simplest damn things in the world if Tork can do it. So we got to just keep getting better at it. So it's enough to drive Amanda drinking. Well, I like it. Oh, look you there. Let's get drinking then. So that is a bottle that was set to us. Here, you hold it. It's holding up to the

camera. Yep. So this is Traverse City Whiskey Company, aged in New American Oak Barrels for four years or more. And it is 85 proof. Michigan, right? Yep, from Michigan. produced and bottled at the Traverse City Whiskey Company, Traverse City, Michigan. So a guy sent this to us and wanted us to try it, and we were like, hell yes, because I love getting bottles of whiskey in the mail. So, oh, nice pop. Yeah, it smells good. It's got pretty good color to it.

Smell like fruity pebbles. No, it does not smell like fruity pubbles. and you know this one's not going to burn because it's 86 proof so it's not like it's not like fire water so okay well we'll see what kind of we'll see what kind of flavor i'm gonna oh i'll give you that one you can cleanse your palate you can cleanse your palate you can cleanse your palate i'll clean it did i blow the flies out of this i couldn't remember if i cleaned these out but it doesn't matter it's whiskey it'll kill anything so all right i got to pull the switcheroo what's your thought I mean, I just cleansed my palate.

Oh, okay. All right. Okay. I'll go in for a second. I think that's pretty good. I like it. Yeah. What do you get?

I get kind of some... I don't even know how you describe that shit. I don't know. Oak? You get the oakness? I feel like I get a little bit of that oak flavor. Yeah, you get the smoky. The smoke oak flavor.

So that on the front end, for sure. Like, it's not... The flavor. goes fast. Yeah. There's not too much burn on the backside and not on the, it's not, it's pretty smooth, but it's, it's what you'd expect for no older than it is. I mean, it's got flavor, but it, it dissipates.

It dissipates pretty quick. Pretty fast. But the burn, it's, it's enjoyable because it's not so hot. Yeah, it's not so hot. Yeah, you got flavor, but it's not super hot where it's going to, uh, you can sip on that. And you know what? I love, I love a good. I love a good

like independent somebody getting out there it's like cold zero like that's what we need I like I mean don't get me wrong I like me some Buffalo Trace but it's good to have we need more of this kind of stuff in small

communities across the country no matter what it is yeah I mean and so Traverse City Whiskey Company kudos to you and I appreciate getting the bottle and yeah, I'll drink that. I forget who sent us that bottle.

We had it sent to us it was at the warehouse for so long and I forget who sent it. I can't remember the fella's name but he's a damn good dude for sending that. Yeah, we appreciate it. I'd give that about a 7-5. Yeah, I think that's good.

I think that's a good score. You like that score? I'll go 7 because we've got to be consistently inconsistent. Okay, I like it. Well, do you, you got all your words out. I think so. Hey, I'll close us out because you always

get to do it. So close it out. You know. You didn't talk enough, so go ahead. Yeah, I know. You haven't gotten a word in edgewise. It's fine. It's all right. You know, one of the greatest things that I've done in my 54 years is agree

to be Sawyer's accomplice and throw all the hay out of this barn and start this thing because this is the highlight of my week. We love doing it. And we say, you know, we say we love all you guys. And we're not bullshitting you. The greatest asset that we, the greatest thing we've gotten out of this podcast is all the people we've met and all of you listeners and all the people that we've run into out just going around like, hey, I love the podcast.

We've met so many great people. And none of this would be possible without you guys. And we appreciate it. And I love it because, you know, looking at us, you'd never think that us two Hanyaks could do a podcast and have it be. It's, it's. Han Yox? I've never heard Hanyaks. Oh, my shop teacher, Rave Gontcharoski, Rave Gonscherowski from eighth grade shop, he was a, he was Polish and he'd call people a Hanyok.

so uh joe chubahar joe chubahar was in my shop class and he knew just how to we call him raf raf raf gancheroski and uh he knew just how to piss raf off and he'd lose his mind and he'd be like boy you pull like are he yeah he'd say you han yawk you hongyok those good times good times i'm sure that uh that class class 89 is probably one of the reasons that uh rife retired from uh being the shop teacher but anyway all that to say We love you guys. We appreciate it. We're going to enjoy a little more of this whiskey.

And we'll see you all back here next week for another episode.