Barn Talk - Midterm Mayhem

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

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Farms are different in type, in size, and even in name. Welcome to Barn Talk. What happens at the barn stays in the barn until now. We're going to let it all out for you guys. Today is a midterm mayhem election special episode. So this isn't a hot topics. It isn't a Q&A. We're just going to dive into the midterm election results.

They're almost all wrapped up. I mean, I don't know what the hell's taking so long, but some of the states aren't. finished up counting all the votes. We're still waiting on them to see. But we got too impatient to we had to come up here with what we got so far to just start talking about it because we're just Joneses. So we don't really know what it all means. You know, we don't know what the future holds, but we're going to talk about what we do know or what we think we know. And if all else fails, we'll just speculate. Yeah, we'll just speculate if we, you know, we'll just speculate on

the things that have been happening. It wasn't much of a red wave. It's kind of a red trickle. is the gist of it. But there were some highlights, but also were some negatives. So we're going to get into all that. But before we do, if you guys get any value from the show, pay the fee. Share it out with your friends, family, coworkers, employees, whoever. It's kind of the ticket to admission to watch or listen to the show. So thank you to all that have been doing that. It really does help us out a ton. Or you can also leave a review on Spotify or Apple. That's also a really good way to help us out. And go get some bar. and talk merch if you want it'll be in the link in the description if you're watching on

youtube or in the show notes if you're listening and um i think we're going to get a a little bit of a market update before we get in fully go fully political we're also really dressed warm up here because we haven't installed our uh heaters we got some heaters that are going to hopefully really ramp up the heat in here so we can stay in here all the way or along but we haven't installed them yet so how many times how many episodes have we talked about uh we're going to get these we're getting this heater we get these heaters we're getting this AC we actually do have it it's sitting on a pallet right right below you there is a pallet yep uh but it is dang cold we had a what it was it 40 degrees so yesterday it was middle of the afternoon it was 75 degrees here

and uh it's 29 now probably 30 right around freezing but this morning it was 26 damn cold and i'm i'm not If you look at me now, I'm probably mismatching all my clothes, all different kinds of colors, but I'm going for comfort and warmth rather than looks here today. I'm not messing around with the trying to look the part. We're on, we're running on Mr. Heater right now. We've got the Mr. Heaters running. But anyway, we get this one, we get this one out. I think we're going to get these puppies in.

We've got wire run. Soir and I ran the power, and we just got to get the sleep. leaves in and get we're going to get at least two mounted and then if that goes well we'll go ahead and mount the other two and we should be in she should be in good shape yeah good shape yep but before we get into our rant and raven we'll give you a quick market update um the corn last time i looked corn was 667 at eddyville so a lot of the local feeders are getting full so their basis is backing off like one of the feed mills that i take a lot of corn to if you look at that eddyville bill eddyville bid a 667 that local bids like 633 so that tells you that they're getting

full and so they're just not they're not going after it near as aggressively as they were 665 on the board beans have been headed up 1442 at the river and 1452 on the board so that's only 10 cents so i don't know how the how the level in the mississippi and the barge traffic i don't know how that's a affecting other places, but it's not, it hasn't had much effect around here yet, anyway. Beanmeal 404 a ton, wheat's 802, hogs 84 bucks, cattle $152, Tesla has gotten absolutely murdered. Apparently, Elon had to sell some shares at the bottom to fill in the gap at Twitter because Twitter's got a big hole to fill. Company's not in very good shape.

He probably overpaid for it, and then you got a bunch of people that are boycotting it and advertisers are getting skittish. And so it's just, it's a tough sledding over there at Twitter. And as a result, dragging down Tesla, I would buy, I would buy if I had money to buy. This is not investment advice, no investment advice, but for me personally, this is a buying,

situation. One of the big crypto exchanges, here's something you're going to see as we go forward. As the world has run on cheap money, you've heard us talk about it, so many businesses that could borrow money so cheaply really didn't worry a whole lot about profit, not nearly as much as they should have. And a lot of these crypto exchanges, they were running on venture capital and cheap money and now then they're having to make payments and their interest expense is getting pretty high and one of the biggest crypto exchanges i think it's called ftx um it's going bankrupt and so as a result uh the sky's falling in crypto and everybody's you know crying that it's a Ponzi scheme and pyramid scheme and this and that and so there's going to be a bunch of fall out from it at the end of the day

uh probably going to buy more bitcoin yeah uh it really does seem like the crypto is kind of like the dot-com era when it first started. Yes. Because FTX is the company, you know, it went bankrupt and pretty much everybody figured out they didn't have enough money in reserves to pay back everybody when they wanted to trade their crypto into money. And once the word got out that, oh, shit, they might not have enough reserves. Everybody that had money, I had crypto bought from their exchange, FTX, they were like,

oh, shit, we're going to try to get our money back. And then it just blew up in their face. and Binance actually tried to go purchase them, but then looked at their financials and went. Holy shit, we're not doing that. So I don't know. I think F-T-X is... I think they're done.

What was like Google, what was like Google before Google that just didn't make it? You remember? Like, was there a certain website that was trying to be Google, but just shit the bed? Before, when it all started, it was AOL. AOL was the... They were the pioneer of getting on that old, the sound of dial-up was like AOL's.

And they ended up, I mean, they went basically broke. They got actually bought by Time Warner, bought AOL. I can't remember all of the companies that went. Some of them are still around. They just lost a tremendous amount of their stock value. like JDS, Uniface, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Cisco, all those companies went through a period where it was questionable whether or not

they were going to make it, and a lot of them didn't, but the ones I just named, I think they all ended up making it, but huge drop in their stock price. And I mean, one of the things about the story of FTX, is that, isn't that it, FTCS? FTC, yeah. People are saying,

that it should be illegal. I mean, the whole thing about crypto is, you know, it's not relying on the government. It's, you know, it's freedom if we can govern it ourselves correctly. But a lot of people think that this guy should go to prison, which I kind of feel like he probably should too, but the government's not involved. Right. So he could get away with stealing a shitload of people's money and not be able to give it back to him. I mean, that's the thing. He didn't have enough money and reserves, but what do you do? But there's no governance of it, which that's what people are crying about.

But I think these deals, it's always interesting to me because there's probably going to be a lot of pressure brought by people that lost a lot of money. But on the front end of this, when crypto was running hard and

money was cheap, did anybody force any of these people to give on their exchange and to buy crypto on that exchange. And then how many people have been told, how many times have people been told? And you've heard me to say this. If it's not your keys, it's not your crypto. Do not leave your crypto on an exchange. Get it off the exchange. Get it in a hardware wallet. And the other thing is these people, the popular thing lately has been in the past

year or so has been this staking where you can stake your crypto, which is oversimplified. You're loan in your crypto, and they're paying your return on it. And that's what happened. A bunch of people had crypto on that exchange, and they had it staked. So in other words, they were letting them use the value that use their crypto as collateral, and they didn't have, they didn't have a collateral. They had it all, they had more debt than what they had collateral. But my point is all these people were more than happy to buy crypto, leave it on an exchange, not be responsible for it, and then, okay, we're going to talk about this later. Basically, there's a shitload of people that fucked around and found out. And now they've lost

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BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Yeah, I'm all about personal responsibility on that. I mean, that was your decision to hop on there. It's your decision to buy the crypto. Now you want the government to come bail you out. I think your shit out of luck. But it's just something to think about for future exchanges. Yes, definitely.

It's a conversation that you got to bring up. Should the government be involved on some level? I don't know. I personally don't. I think government regulates too much and makes things harder than it needs to be. But this is one of those situations where there could be, place for government, hopefully at a small level. But yeah, definitely take personal responsibility if you didn't. If you buy crypto, get it off in exchange. I don't care what exchange you use.

Get it off there. Get in a hardware wallet. Because if the people that did that, the people that used the exchange got it off sitting in a hardware wallet, they didn't lose any money. Yeah. Well, they lost value. They lost value. Right. And you know what? I can tell you this. If Bitcoin goes to zero, I don't think it's going to. I think it'll, endure this just fine. If Ethereum goes to zero, I've got some money invested in that. And I'm not going to be very, I'm not going to be very damn happy. But I'm not going to go crying to anybody to come bail me out of my own stupidity. Well, at that point, you might just keep it, because you just never know what it's going to do. Well, I mean, I don't, I think long term,

the future's bright for what, there's a lot of these, there's a lot of these coins that have got to get sorted out. And you can call them shit coins, whatever. A lot of that is going to go away, just like the dot-com thing. It's all going to get sorted out. And when it's done, you're going to have the Googles, the apples, the Teslas of crypto that have use cases that are practical, that will get adopted, that will get used, and those cryptos will thrive. But we've got to get through all the crap.

Got to get through the shit. And on this cheap money thing before we get going on politics, and this is tied a little bit, but this is a very interesting little tidbit, and I'm stealing this from Peter's eye on because I just listened to this before I came over here. He was getting on a plane to fly somewhere from where he lives, and he was talking about the cost of interest, and he was flying American Airlines.

And he said that because of the way interest has moved, American Airlines is an example of a large company that did not worry enough about many, make it a profit because they could borrow money so cheaply. They are so far in debt that their interest payment on the money they have borrowed today with interest rates where they are is greater than all the money they will gross or what their gross profit is for this year. So they're screwed. So basically just said, well, American Airlines won't be American Airlines very long because they made the bet that they could expand and buy and go and scale and scale,

and money was going to be cheap. And they fucked around and found out. Yeah. So it's going to be a theme of this show. It is because that's where we're headed. That is where we're headed. So that's a good tie into. Oil's about the same.

Gold's gone up a little bit. Silver's gone up a little bit. That's about it. Stock markets had a hell of a time. It was up hard yesterday. I don't know where it is today but anyway, stay the course buy shit you believe in,

take care of your own stuff, be responsible, long term, I'm still bullish. Short term, it's going to be bumpy ride. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Yeah, so we'll get right into the politics stuff. We're going to start out with a win and I don't care what side of the aisle you are. If you look at this guy,

he looks like a real American leader that could help our country in a massive way and really, I think, bring people together and just looks like a strong leader. Florida. Florida was an absolute freaking red, that was a red wave. Florida was an absolute red wave. And DeSantis killed it and he delivered an amazing speech that was just spot on. Spot on with, I think, I hope a lot of Americans could resonate with. And I think that he is now the face of the Republican Party. I think Donald Trump really needs to take a step back and just let him go. Let DeSantis be the horse trotting down with the fucking cart. Let him be the guy.

Let him take the reins because he, he, people really seem to really like him. He turned Florida around and he was really kind of against the norm during COVID. But man, it turned out to be kind of the right decision it looks like. Yeah. In hindsight. And he carried, uh, he carried Miami-Dade County, which no Republicans carried that and I don't know how long. And you know what? He has done a great job articulating to people.

When he has made a policy change, he has done a great job articulating that to regular citizens of Florida as to why he did that and how that in turn affected them to where they could see, okay, this is why this is good for me. and the other thing, he is not, he's not a showboat. He's not doing this. Yeah, talk about that a little bit because off-air dad told me this story. So this is a good example of Ron Santis. So when that education bill was passed in Florida, basically saying they weren't going to teach critical race theory, or I think more, I think, actually, I think it was the provision. that they weren't going to teach kids younger than eighth grade anything about gender or sex.

Transgenderism, sex, whatever. And it was a big deal. And I think the left promoted it as the don't say gay bill. Is that don't say gay? And they had a whole big thing about it. And Disney hopped on that. And Disney came out against it. And, you know, they're based.

They have one of their biggest theme. parks is in Florida and they put their two cents in and I think I think the CEO of uh Disney called desantis and basically told him you know that they're pissed off desantis didn't say anything about doing this he just simply turned around and a lot of people don't know this I didn't know this but one of the incentives that Disney theme parks and resorts had in the state of Florida was was they did not pay local, they did not pay any fee for local services. In other words, they didn't pay property taxes,

and they didn't pay for fire, fire rescue, I can't remember all this stuff. All that stuff. Yeah. So Disney actually had its own, they let them run that resort as like it was its own town. It had its own fire department, it had its own police department, all this stuff.

but it didn't pay any of these taxes. And their agreement was written when the parks were first built, and it had expired. I think it had an expiration date on it, and nobody had ever renewed it. It was just kind of a, this is how it's always been. And DeSantis is like, well, if you're going to play that game, you could start paying us taxes on all this stuff.

And if you don't like it, I guess you can leave Florida. And he didn't announce it. He didn't come out and say, hey, you know, if you don't back off, I'm going to do this. He just did it. He just did it. And then the fallout was, you know, everybody at Disney was just, they were just mortified and they couldn't believe it and all this. But that tells you the character of DeSantis in that he didn't do it as a PR stunt and milk all the publicity out of he could. He just did it.

And I feel like... He's in it for the right reasons. I feel like he is in it for the right reason. And the other thing is the, just the momentum that he has and the strength of that win. I mean, he won by double digits. It wasn't even, it was not even close. What was it? 18%?

Yeah. I don't know. Something like that. And the upside of that is Florida is not a swing state. And if he does decide to run, you pretty much got Florida. in your pocket, which that's an advantage for him. And the other thing about him is he can get a very strong vice presidential candidate where I don't think Donald Trump,

if he was to run and get the nomination. One thing about Trump is he pretty, his ego is pretty strong, and he's going to get a vice presidential nominee like Mike Pence that is level-headed. Well, that's very, not a strong individual. Might be very intelligent, might be good, but he's not going to get a carry lake. He's not going to get a Kerry Lake. He's not going to get a Kim Reynolds. He's not going to get the gal that just went independent that you like so well.

Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard. Trump's not going to get any of those people. DeSantis very well could put together a coalition like that. Yeah. So the night, you know, election night, started out and it looked very positive. And Florida turned out, in my opinion, to be the biggest highlight. I think the biggest highlight. And I think the other great thing about Florida was black and Hispanic communities. I think it was a lot of them voted Republican, like more than from a long time.

Yeah. Because they realize. A long time. Yeah. That they've been told, they've been fed this line of shit. forever that the that the Democrats are their only hope and there are a lot of these people are out of hope yeah because nothing has been done for them right so you contrast that you had all that momentum and then we got to Pennsylvania which I have to be honest like I didn't pay any attention to after the debate when I saw Federman because I was like nobody is going to an elect going to elect an empty vessel that might or might not have cognitive problems. Not sure. Don't know.

I don't know why you didn't think that because that's who he voted for president. Well, so my opinion of that is, and I guess has it been called? I think it has been called. I think he won. I mean, he kicked Dodds' ass. I mean, it wasn't even close, I don't think. When I last time I looked, he was up a tremendous amount, which I just couldn't even believe. That's my biggest surprise of the whole midterm elections is Fetterman. I just cannot fathom people voting for that guy when he doesn't look like he is in the best shape at all, and his debating skills were fucking terrible. Terrible. Yeah. Not even, like, terrible. So bad. I guess before we draw our conclusions, I mean, there's other examples. So,

The Georgia race, Herschel Walker, that's going to be a runoff between those two. There again, I'm surprised that that was as close as it was, but it was. Carrie Lake in Arizona for governor, I really didn't think that would be close. Yeah, that's still going on right now. I think they're still counting. I saw something on Twitter today that they have 300,000 or so votes left to count there, and it's a really close race, but God, I love some Carrie Lake. she is a badass. I think she is a great, great candidate, and I really hope that she can pull it out

because she, coming from that media background, man, if you listen to a press conference of her, it's just she is a badass and I love it. And she's an Iowa native. So, yeah, that's right. It's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. You told me that. Yeah. But just a lot of, there just wasn't enough momentum to push these candidates. over the goal line and I take the governor of Illinois like who in their right mind looks at the state of Illinois where they're at what he's done or not done and think yeah let's just keep going down that road but you have to ask yourself from an outsider looking in apparently half the people in the state of Illinois

are happy with the way things are. I shouldn't say that because it's entirely based on Chicago drives it. Chicago, the rest of Illinois is just basically held hostage by Chicago because Chicago has the votes, it has the population, and everybody else is just along for the right. But within the city of Chicago or within that area, you cannot tell, I mean, yes,

apparently people think he's doing a good job. And so what that tells me is, you know, I'm naive in the fact that I think as a country, I thought as a country there was going to be this big group of people that are going to wake up and say, well, what we got ain't working. I'm voting for the alternative. Yep. But apparently we didn't get that. I guess we haven't had enough bad shit go wrong for people to wake up. Now, the other side of that, you and I were talking about, was quality of candidates. Yeah, and that's something Ben Shapiro actually put on Twitter. I follow Ben. He's not my favorite, I guess you'd say political personality, but I think he did have a point in the fact that, and this is something that I didn't really look into. I only really looked into it in Iowa, because that's the state that I'd be voting in. But candidate quality, did we have enough great candidates on the Republican side to really stack up against the Democratic candidates? I don't know. I guess I didn't look into the,

Republican candidates across the board in the nation, good enough to know that. But I think I'm not saying, I'm not saying that one, one state with a Republican would have been a better candidate than the Democrat. I, I don't know, because I didn't do enough research in any given state. But the thing that I preached the most on our last, when we talked about midterms coming up, was just, you know, vote for this person that's going to be pro freedom that's in it for you. That's not going to take a, you know, get bought by the establishment and vote on a certain bill after they get a paycheck, you know. That's what we got to get the money out of politics.

We got to get real Americans in there. And that could have been a Democrat. That could have been Republican. That was the main goal. I was hoping that people would vote that way. So, you know, I don't want to be one side of the aisle or the other. But like the Federman deal, just go back to that. I mean, that guy is, like you said, he's an empty vessel.

So all he's going to do is get in there, and I think he's going to be bought. However, whoever's going to give him the most money, he's just going to vote, however they need him to vote, and he's just going to take the money. It's going to take the money. I explain to people that he's going to be like that. He's going to be like that freshman quarterback that they give him the armband with all the plays on it. He's going to have all the, how he's supposed to vote, and every bill it comes up, he's going to see, oh yeah, I'm voting this way.

And that's the shit we got to, that's the shit we got to, that's the shit we cannot vote for. That is the shit that we just cannot afford to vote for. And I will about guarantee you, and somebody will remind me of this at some point, I would love to know if you're from the state of Pennsylvania, when this gets rolling, how much legislation does this fetterman introduce that he himself comes up with a bill or an idea to help the state of Pennsylvania. In a positive way. I'd be willing to bet you none because I don't think that he's, I don't think he's a thinker.

I think that he literally is a rubber stamp for the machine. Now, I can be wrong, which goes to your point. If he, if he is, if he thinks for himself and he is beholden to the people that elected him and wants to help the, the citizens. of Pennsylvania, then I'll eat my words. But I sure don't feel like that he is that guy. I feel like he is 100% an establishment candidate, and it's just more of the same.

That's the shit we can't have happen. Yeah, there could have been some Republican candidates that are in the same boat, where they're just going to get paid and they're going to vote, and they're just going to be bought by the establishment, they're going to be bought by the Republican Party. I guarantee there's some in some state somewhere.

I just didn't know enough about the candidates nationwide to know that. But I just hope people did their due diligence in looking into, is this person an actual American that's for the people and by the people and is for American freedom? Or is this person going to be an empty vessel? Yeah. I hope you voted for the person that's going to do right by the American people and not be an empty vessel. Whether it be a Democrat or whether it be a Republican. That's the shit we have to get back to.

It's a shit we have to get back to. And I was going to bag on Nancy Pelosi getting reelected. And I find she's in the same boat. I don't know how you can look at her. Unless you're following her husband's investments in which you're profiting very well. But I stopped myself of that because it's kind of like Chuck Grassley in my home state here of Iowa. If you're over 65 years old, I don't think you should be in office. I think you need to get out of the way and let somebody else get in there.

And Chuck Grassley, I voted for him because I wasn't going to vote for the other guy because he doesn't represent my views. But I sure wish that somebody, and the only reason he ran, he was going to retire when he won the last time he was going to retire. But guess what? Quality of candidates, the Republican Party's like, I don't know if we got anybody that can that can win. They evidently weren't confident that they had somebody to fit in that spot.

And so they're like, Chuck, he got to run one more time. You got to run. And I'll give him credit. He's in great shape and he's smart and he can articulate. And I watched him debate and he's pretty sharp. But we got to get these people out of here. And whether it be Nancy Pelosi, whether it be Chuck Schubert, whether it be Charles Grassley, I mean, get these guys out of here and get some new ideas.

And side note, if you are going to run for office, I don't care what office, just know that if you pick some real, what you perceive to be savvy tagline for your campaign, just know that if you don't win, you're going to get stuck with that for life. So the guy that ran against Chuck Grassley, every sign he put out, said, what was his name? Michael, I don't even know what his name was, but it said, Michael, whatever, can beat Chuck Grassley. Well, guess what? I'm pretty sure everybody is home town when he goes to coffee shop. They're going to pat him on the back and go, I guess you can't. I guess you can't beat him. So he's a lot. So he's, he's going to pat him. So he's, going to be stuck with that. So just be, just be cognizant. Uh, when you, if you run a campaign,

pick something that's not going to haunt you forever. Yeah. That'd be terrible. So, uh, I guess the other thing that I'd say is back to kind of your point of do these people, just, they're just voting for the stat, like, is this how these people, their people, these people are happy with what's going on? I mean, is that what's really, is that really what was happening? Is people really voted because they like what's going on? Truly what I think it comes down to, A lot of people in this country, they get manipulated by media, they get manipulated by social media, and they get fed this bullshit about all the social problems that we got going on, abortion, gun laws, and they put those over the real shit that every American family is facing right now when it comes to inflation,

prices of groceries, prices of gas, you know, foreign policy, how we're handling all that shit. I mean, the stuff that's really, really matters when you're sitting down at the dinner table, they're putting these social problems like abortion and gun laws ahead of the shit that every American is feeling right now. Yeah. And I just can't, for the life of me, understand why, but I truly believe it's because they just get spoon-fed this shit all the time. They get spoon-fed it. And it's not, it's easy to talk about abortion and guns. laws and manipulate people that way, but it's not easy to understand inflation and foreign policy

and economics and the debt and printing money and all that stuff. It's not easy to explain that, but it's easy to explain the abortion and manipulate that a lot better than, you know, what's actually going on with the money supply. Emotions. People, people, people, I mean, we're all that way. We all get emotion is what gets the biggest emotional subject, social, social, social, social, get the biggest emotional response. And I'm not saying there's no, there's no room for those issues. But right now with where we're at,

you got to sit down and you got to really think, what is affecting the American people the most and who is going to help us out with those issues? Well, that's what you got to find out. And I really don't think the left right now is trying to solve those issues. They're almost trying to make it worse. And so I just can't fathom why.

You sit and you sit here and you wonder, you're just like, how can people not see it or understand it? But I just don't know. I think it's just because they see it every day. They get spoon fed that shit. And they don't really have perspective, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't either. I don't either. but I have kind of come I've come to so I've come to acceptance so I election I came

and the results are the results and I have resigned myself to the idea that half of this country doesn't care about what I care about which that's fine but

I am not to give like we were talking before we went on to to give the Mel Robbins answer you all better realize nobody's coming so i don't care whether you are a very liberal state like illinois new york california or you're a very conservative state like iowa now florida texas all the problems are still coming. How this election didn't change and this election is not going to fix any of it. Obviously, it's not. So we were going through the- Best case scenario, it's a gridlock. Yeah, best-case scenario, it's gridlock. We were looking at the numbers on the House of Representatives

and the Senate. And if the Republicans get the House of Representatives, they're still not going to have a super majority. They're going to have a minor majority, I think. And in the Senate, I think very well may end up being exactly the way it was. or the Republicans might end up gain in one seat. I don't know. It's too many races are still too close to call. But best case scenario, it's gridlock, but at gridlock, nothing's going to get fixed.

And I feel like society, we may be beyond the point where it can be fixed without a lot of people going through a lot, lot of pain. Maybe all of us. Maybe all of us. Maybe this economy and our way we do things is going to have to get hammered a lot harder for people to gain some perspective. For people to put in front of them what is really important over worrying about social issues. Because the thing I go back to is if you are most worried about transgenderism or

social justice or well social justice encompasses all that abortion well whatever it is whatever it is here's the thing those programs that you want to be funded and all that money

that you want to go to all these things to help all these people that can't have a job or shouldn't have to worry about getting a job and that should pay for whatever surgery they want or whatever drug they want or whatever, when there's no money left because your economy is just completely shit and the amount of money that your government is spending

versus the amount of money that they are receiving and the money that you have printed has become worthless, when you get to that point, none of these social programs matter because there's no money to pay for them. And I don't know, but I feel like we're to the point where it all comes down to, it all comes back,

it is going to have to start with you and I. It is going to have to start with your school board, your local board of supervisor, your local city council, it's going to have to start with you. Because nobody's coming. Because nobody's coming. The government continues to fail us.

They continue to go in gridlock. They're making things work. They get in gridlock. They solve issues. Then they... One side says they're going to solve these issues. They solve what the way they want. And then the other side comes in, gets elected,

and they tear down what that person just did. They do it a different way. And then we just keep going in the cycle. Well, let's be honest. There's a hell of a lot of stuff that nobody fixes at all. They don't fix it all. They don't even try because they want to run on it. Yeah, they want a fundraise on it.

So abortion, the border, the debt. Those three subjects right there. Gun laws. 100%. Each time that either party has had the ability, had the votes, had the branches of Congress to do anything about it, they have chose not to do it because they would rather raise money, they would rather fundraise than fix the problem. And that is Republican and that is Democrat.

at that is politicians at their best. And that's where we're at. None of it is going to get fixed. So it's going to have to get fixed at the local level. And you're seeing it, you're seeing these states that are diverging. You see what's happening in Florida. The state of Iowa was a red, it's 100% red state. I don't know, I guess I don't know 100%. If it's not 100%, it's damn near. It's damn near. What, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, there's others around as far as that goes. But you're seeing a divergence in policy between these states. And as that gets greater, the tension between states is only going to grow.

And I don't know where that all ends either. but as a country, we are losing more and more common ground, I feel like. And that's a bad place to be. It's just a bad place to be. Back to the social problems for one more second.

I just had something else I thought about to say on that. I think abortion and gun laws are such an easy thing to gain momentum on and really promote because it, lives are on the line. Lives are at stake on both those issues. They want to, if you're the Democratic

party, they talk about gun lines, they bring up school shootings. Then they bring up, you know, abortion in itself, you're talking about baby's lives, either side of it. So there's a lot of emotion involved with those. There's lives involved with those issues. Inflation, the economy, it's all indirect. It's all indirect. There's not very much emotion connected to those terms versus the others. And so it's easier to make an advertisement that has those topics in it with that have that much emotional connection with the people watching versus the other thing. And who's your swing vote? Who is the vote? Who are the people? Suburban white women, maybe? 100%. That's your vote. That's who moves the election because your men that are liberal and your men that are conservative. You're

Your minorities, for the most part, those blocks vote the same way every time. The swing vote is suburban women and to a high degree suburban white women. But suburban women in general, and they are emotional. They're emotional by nature. And both sides, they know that. And that's why they push those buttons. They push those buttons and they push those subjects because that's, and that's right or wrong, it's driving us in a bad direction because we're spending way too much time dealing with shit

that's never going to get fixed at the expense of things that could be fixed, but we don't have any political will to do it. Yeah. At the end of the day, those subjects, those topics, those problems, whatever you want to say, they have a seat at the table. But when the economy is shit, that needs to be the main. main course. Yeah.

The social problems can be the side dishes. The fucking state of the country and how we're growing economically needs to be at the forefront of all of our fucking minds because every American's being affected by that on every fucking level. Every single one. So where are we going to go from here?

Well, I guess you talked about it a little bit. I just wanted to say, I'm very glad Kim Reynolds kicked ass here in Iowa. Yes. She handled herself very well the last couple years and I think a lot of Iowans are proud to have her serving it again. We came through COVID

so much better than so many states. She took a beating on that. She held strong. She'd be a great VP candidate. Except I don't want her to go. I know. I don't want her to go either. But she would. I think she'd be

steady. She'd be a good sidekick to whoever ran as president. So you got my vote if you go for it. it. So, yeah, I guess we'll get back to the, you know, the theme of the show for this one. Our country, it's playing, fuck around and find out. And we're getting to the point where we're getting into the finding out stage. I mean, we really are. It's going to get tough because I'm glad that what didn't happen is the Democratic Party is going to have the majority. I think

where it's going to get to gridlock or where either side's going to have a little bit of majority, but still not shit's going to get done. It's going to be gridlocked. Because I really was worried if it went all the way left and they had the majority still, they were waiting all the way right. No, I'm saying if it went all the way left, like it has been, I think they were waiting these first two years to do some really radical shit because they knew these were coming. And if they would have won, really won and had the majority again after midterms, they would have fucking put the gas pedal down and got as much shit. They wanted to get done as possible.

And if the Republicans, if it would have been a red wave, I can guarantee you that everything that has happened in the economy, how we're not in a recession, it's fine, don't worry about it, inflation's transitory. If the Republicans would have won, that would have changed on a dime. and every day a Democrat would be out there talking about how the Republicans are responsible, and we are in a recession, and it's getting worse every day, and it's getting worse because of their lack of leadership, and because they're not passing the stuff that the president wants to get passed,

and he's the only one that can save us, but he really can't do anything because the Republicans are screwing it up. That's what they'd be saying. So as a result, now then it's going to just be more of the same. nobody really can blame anybody and they'll stick their heads in the sand and just I guess they'll blame Jerome Powell. Yeah. So I think what's next is it's going to be more of the same.

It's going to be more of the same in this country. It's going to work itself out, but I think we're going to continue to go down. Economy's going to continue to go down. Whatever happens with Russia and Ukraine, that's still playing out. We don't know what's happening there. foreign policy what happens on the world stage that could have some big big effects here in America and make things worse so it really comes down to what you said we have to get involved on our local level we have to set the standard of what it's what it means to be an American

we have to get back to American values freedom we have to vote people in that aren't going to take a fucking handout and paycheck and be an empty vessel we can't be timid We can't be timid. We've been timid for too long. I think we've just been too timid and we're not speaking out when, like, I, like there's, there was talks in 2020 of election fraud,

and now there's more shit being talked about here in midterms about election fraud. That's something that, I don't give a fuck what side you're on. You can bicker about it either way. That's something that shouldn't even be fucking have to be discussed. That is something that if we cannot,

even think that the elections are fair on either side, that is a real fucking problem. And if that happens again in 2024, when we have the technology to have amazing websites, amazing, we have robots, cars that drive themselves, all this shit, you're telling me we can't get ballot computers, an accurate count ballot computers that aren't going to shut down. I mean, that is a serious issue that if it goes into 20, and there's another discussion about potential election fraud. We got to stop being little bitches and stand up and say, what the fuck was going on?

We need to get this figured out because if we don't, it's just going to continue to spiral. It's just going to continue to spiral. And that's just one example, but good Lord. And I think what I'll say to your point about starting at the local level, there was a guy there was a pundit a political pundit that after the results were in on florida he said that he can never go to florida now and the reason is because now then florida is a racist homophobic zionist misogynist i can't remember everything he said transphobic homophobic all you name it

and state to be in yeah just you can't go there because it's just dangerous it's dangerous it's dangerous and the thought of being there was crippling. Yes, crippling is what he said, crippling. Okay, that is an example of how soft our society has become, and we have a generation now of people that cannot even deal with adversity in the slightest way. and I'm telling each and every one of you not only do you need to get involved at your local level but you need to be responsible to yourself

that you are going to take steps to be more self sustainable. Sustainable. You can take care of yourself, that you have skills. Learn how to change your oil. Learn how to change your tire. There's a great clip.

A guy, I don't know what his name is. He's an older guy, and he trains people how to use guns. And he's got a place out in the desert, and people come from all over groups of people, private security people, because he's really good at what he's. does. And he tells this story about this woman came and she literally had a driver that brought her. And the reason she came is because her husband paid to have him train her how to use a handgun.

And she came there and of course this is not a spa. It's nothing special. It's purpose built training facility. They do close quarters combat. They do range, you know, target practice, all that stuff. to run a automatic weapon, handguns, you name it. And she came in, looked around, and she's like, I'm not doing any of this, I'm leaving. He's like, suit yourself, whatever. He goes, I don't care he goes, your husband's already paid me. And she's like, what? He's like, well, there's a deposit. I already got your husband's money. I don't care if you learn anything or not. And she started to get agitated. And he said, listen, lady, he goes, if you don't want to learn, that's fine. but when they shoot your bodyguard,

they're going to shoot you too because if you got enough money that you got a driver and you have kids, they're going to take the kids. They're not going to kill the kids. They're going to take the kids because your husband will pay

to get the kids back. He ain't going to pay if they just take you, and they know that. They're just going to shoot you and leave you. That's what he told her. She turned out to be one of his best students because she thought that through. She thought that through,

and she realized that was very harsh, very logical, but it's probably true. Yep. I say that just to say to each and every one of you that when we say nobody's coming to help you, we're heading to times where we can't help each other if we can't take care of ourselves. And that's not necessarily saying each one of us has got to be Rambo and we got to have our conceal, carry, and have 10 guns and be a freaking badass. But it starts with, okay, if the power goes out, can I make it eight hours until the power comes back on without having to run to the grocery store or having a panic or do I know how to

start a fire? Do I have a way to keep warm? Do I have, you know, all these little things that we all take for granted. We need to be responsible to ourselves that we can take care of ourselves so that we can take care of each other. And stop playing the fucking victim card. Yeah. Because at the end of the day, if it gets bad enough, again, nobody's coming. And if you don't learn anything, you don't learn how to take care of yourself.

And the truck stopped coming. The plumber stops coming. The power guy stops coming. The landscaper stops coming. stop coming and the city's going rampant and you don't know what the fuck to do and you don't know what you're what you're screwed yeah you're screwed and you got nobody else to blame but yourself yeah that's and that's the the simple hard truth is so if a guy couldn't even go to fucking florida because he feels so intimidated by how the fucking state voted he feels crippled by

even walking into the to the state of florida because of how they voted i mean is that is that what is that what most people mindsets are? Well, if that's how he truly feels, then if we head to a time where there is real problems in this country, he will simply be a person that will sit down on the car. He would have been, he would have been, if he was in that

woman's shoes, he would have still left. Yes, he would have gotten the car and left. Because he still got the truth, but it would have been too hard for him. He would have left. Didn't receive it. He wouldn't have received it. He would have just left. Yeah, it's just, I know that's kind of a, you know, how politics leads to that, but that's kind of where we are in this country.

We have taken for granted for so long that we can elect people to do the hard things. We have people that join the armed forces that keep us safe, and Veterans Day is coming up. And so this may come out before or after Veterans Day, but thank you to all those that have served. and this country, you know, it's firmly standing on the shoulders of all the people that fought and died to defend the freedoms that now we just kind of trample all over and take for granted. But a few of us do. I don't know.

Few of us do. Some of us don't, though, still. Our system runs so well that we've been lulled into apathy. And one wheel comes off. And, I mean, it could be anarchy and, you. in a matter of days. And we're each one responsible for that not happening in our own communities. So, yes, it's important to vote.

But it's more important to be involved in your local community and be the person that knows some shit, that knows how to fix some shit, that knows that has a few things on hand, that has a first aid kit, that knows how to use a first aid kit that's actually open it. And don't just go buy the first aid kit. head put in your car and then not know any of the stuff that's in it or how to do it like actually use it yeah and i mean it's back to you know we think a lot of people are soft nowadays it's also just seeking discomfort i know that's a little cheesy and that's something that's been thrown out there a lot you got goggins you got jaco you got annie fursella you got all these guys that talk about

seeking discomfort it's the truth though to stop being a soft-ass motherfucker you have to seek discomfort. You have to sweat. You have to do shit that is hard that you're going to suck at, that you're going to fail at. That's the only way you get better and that's the only way you harden yourself. That's the only way you become a hard nose motherfucker. Truthfully, that can withstand the storms that come in life. You have to be, you have to do hard shit. You have to endure tough stuff and harden yourself. And there's people, there's people. It is no different than when we talk about, you know, being, starting something on your own or making a change or taking that step. There's always those people that are going to tell you everything that you did wrong, everything that could go wrong.

And I wanted to read this last week, but I didn't get it done. So this is, you know, everybody asked you, oh, what's your quote? You know, what's your favorite quote? And for a long time, I never had one, probably because I couldn't remember one. I don't know, probably 10 years ago, maybe 15 years ago, I heard this and it really resonated with me. And this is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt. And he gave this speech in France after he was out of the presidency. But it's called The Man in the Arena.

And I think it speaks perfectly to kind of where we are at and to the audience that's listening to this podcast. because you are this kind of person. So it's not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. It is, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs,

who comes up short again and again, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at worse, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place is never with, and this is my favorite part, his place is never with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat. and that I fucking love that I do too

because there are so many people out there and the political world is full of them they are chicken shit and they are more than happy to drag down anybody that wants to better themselves or better their community or better this country

anybody that starts their own business everybody that goes back to get more training on what they do. There's always those people that want to point out to you everything that you are doing wrong and why you shouldn't do it. And then what's even worse is the people that go out, and today it's harder than ever to start a business and to get that thing to go and keep it going. And a lot of businesses fail. And you know what? There's always those people when it does fail. Well, I could have told you that was going to happen. Oh, you shouldn't have done that. You know what?

them because I would 10 times rather fail and I have failed than to just go through life wondering what could be. So my two cents on my two cents, my dollar 50 on this election is that I guess it's up to us. I guess it's up to us. It's not up to these politicians because they're not going to get it done. It's up to every one of us start at the bottom. We're going to have to do it from the ground up our own communities, ourselves, ourselves, set the fucking standard, seek discomfort, learn some shit, be the man in the fucking arena.

Just try to better, you know, you got to, you got to tread and strive for triumph because it is the most, it's satisfying. It sucks when you, we all know that feeling of doing something long enough where you're failing at it, and you don't know shit, and then you learn and you learn,

and you eventually succeed. that's what fucking life is about. That is the best feeling in the fucking world is learning, learning, failing, failing, failing, learning, learning, learning, and then succeed in, crush it, crushing it. And yeah, there's always people that are going to tell you no matter what it is that you're doing, whether you're learning a new skill,

whether you're seeking a new venture, whether you're trying to get that promotion and go an extra in your company, they're always going to say, why are you doing that? Why are you doing that extra shit? Oh, you don't need to be doing that. Why you spend your weekends if you want to become a mechanic part-time or learn more shit about trucks? Why are you spending the weekends and not coming out to the bar with us and you're working on your truck? Fuck you. I'm trying to learn something.

There's always going to be people hating on you. But it's better to be in the fucking arena because it's the most satisfying and rewarding thing. Damn that's what part of, that's what life is about. What do you got there? Well, I don't know what I got. I think I got some Elmer T. Lee, single barrel. Yes. So this talk is inspiring.

and so it's inspiring us to have a drink. And speaking of community, so this is a good example of community because I was in a local establishment that will remain nameless because I don't think that, I mean, I don't think they care, but at the same time, maybe they would.

So anyway, a guy, a friend of ours, a friend of the show, a listener, a watcher. A listener. Loyal guy, loyal subscriber, loyal listener. Came up to me, I don't know, a couple months ago and told me how much he enjoyed the show,

but that he really liked the little whiskey samples that we do. And he happens to run an establishment that they get some bottles once in a while that are allocated. Anyway, I was walking through his store one day, and he tapped me on the shoulder, and he showed me this bottle, and he said, hey, if you want one of these, I'll hook you up. and I was like, heck yes. So shout out to Dave. Yeah, shout out to you, Dave. We won't say your last name because we're going to keep you in on us.

But shout out to you. You know you. We know you know. Thanks for hooking us up. We don't want anybody else digging in on our whiskey source. But anyway, this is Elmer T. Lee, and it is a single barrel sour mash. And I have not sampled it. I have not either.

But I've heard good things. And so I will say, say Cheers. Don't be a timid soul. Don't be a timid soul. And cheers to being the man in the fucking arena.

Get your ass in the arena and stay there. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Smooth. That is really smooth. There's no burn on that at all. Shouldn't be.

At all. No burn on that. We might have to close this out. And I don't really, I might have to sample that again. Really? Yeah, we might have to just tell everybody to pay the fee and then we might have to pour a glass. We might just have to finish that bottle.

Well, we won't finish the bottle, but we might have to have one more snort other than it. Yeah, I think we could definitely do another glass for sure. I'm down. I think so. So we'll have to just let everybody go then. So thanks, Dave. Yeah, shout out to you, Dave. We really appreciate it.

And I'm glad that somebody enjoys our whiskey segments. I think majority of you do put your whiskeys down below that you want us to try because we're open. We'll buy some more bottles and try them on the show for you. But yeah, that was damn good. I recommend that for sure. It's like you said. I don't know when you said it, but is there any whiskey that we try on this show that is bad?

Well, no, I think I said, if I think it's going to be shitty, I probably won't try. I probably won't buy a bottle anyway. Yeah. We've been really lucky in that the people that have given us bottles or recommended bottles, it's all pretty good stuff. And you know what? The beautiful thing about whiskey, really,

is that everybody's different and what they like is different. And so it's really hard. It's so subjective. At the end of the day, what I like about whiskey is it's like a celebration of a moment. Like, I don't drink, well, I guess it depends. If you sit down at the bar and you just tell somebody, bring me a shot and just keep them coming

because, you know, something is really gone bad, that's one thing but you know there's nothing i like better than sitting down after a nice meal with family or friends and having the same kind of conversations that we have right here with you we love having good conversations deep conversation with people and you know what if you can do it in a in a a great venue uh with a good whiskey in your hand it's all the better it is it does make things better. It is kind of a moment. And it's always a moment when we hop up on these mics. Oh, I love it. I love it too.

And I think you guys do. So you do too. So we appreciate everybody that watched or listened. Be the man in the arena. Harden yourself because times are coming. Times are coming. So we appreciate every single one of you that have been tuning in.

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