Barn Talk - New Year New Barn Talk

Episode Date: January 1, 2022

Welcome To Barn Talk! The last episode of 2021. What a year it has been. Today we are going to split our time between looking back and looking forward. We want to help all of you get ready for a new year by sharing some ideas and lessons we learned this year and some tools that hopefully you can use to make your 2022 the best year for you. Barn Talk Merch! 👇🏻 https://www.thislldo.co/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ➱ https://bit.ly/3a7r3nR SUBSCRIBE TO THIS’LL DO FARM ➱ https://bit.ly/2X8g45c SUBSCRIBE TO BARN TALK CLIPS ➱ https://bit.ly/3BlZnqq LISTEN ON: SPOTIFY ➱ https://open.spotify.com/show/3icVr4KWq4eUDl7Oy60YMY ITUNES ➱ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/barn-talk/id1574395049 ADD US ON: INSTAGRAM ➱ https://bit.ly/3gaobdN TIKTOK ➱ https://bit.ly/3eJfftr ------------------------------- ***PLEASE NOTE*** Barn Talk is a significant break from the typical content viewers have come to expect from This’ll Do Farm. Please be advised that we will be exploring a wide variety of topics (some adult-themed) and our younger viewers (and their parents) should be advised that some topics will be for mature audiences only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Barn Talk, the last episode of 2021. What a ride it's been, folks. When we sat down to check out the mics on a dreary day in April, we had no idea what journey and what path we were, you know, starting getting ourselves into. 27 episodes later, we have learned a lot and we're eager to learn a lot more. We are looking forward to bringing you all along to meet new people, learn some new ideas, and hear some great stories in 2022. Today, we're going to split our time between looking back and looking into the future.

We want to help all of you to get ready for the new year by sharing some ideas and lessons we learn this year and some tools that hopefully you can use to make your 22 the best year yet. All we ask if you guys get any value at all from listening or watching the show is to share it out with your family, friends, coworkers, whoever. If a conversation comes up and it's like, what have you guys been listened to or what have you guys learned or something like that? just, you know, throw our name out there, Barn Talk, because that's how we grow. We grow organically. It's kind of the ticket to admission to watching or listening to the show. So pay the fee if you get anything out of it, guys.

Dad, give them a banging commodity slash market update. I think when we do our first merch drop, I want to do a T-shirt that says, if you aren't listen to Barn Talk, you don't have a hair on your ass. If you don't chew big red, you don't listen to Barn Talk. F you. F you. Yeah, there you go. That might not be. Name the movie guys. You guys know. Taleda Dagan Nights. Yeah. It's a great. It's a great one. Yeah, we also have merch. We're not wearing the merch right now. But if you guys want to snag some barn talk merch, I'll have the link into the description of our YouTube video and also have the link in the show notes down below. So go cop some merch if you want. There you go. I don't care. I'm ashamed of her own stuff. You know, I'm going to shout aside.

Yeah, I don't have my stuff. I had to get gussied up and go eat supper. I had to go to the, the mercantile and then go eat supper. So if I just drift off and fall asleep. We have our date nights during the week now because the weekends are too chaotic. Anyway, commodities, the market update. So everything is trying to head out with a bang. The markets were down a little bit today.

Well, I take that back. I guess I haven't actually seen where they closed. I forgot to look, but today they were off a little bit, but they've been on a rampage, and bids have gotten pretty good as far as the grains go. Corn locally today, and we're after the close, and these are the updated cash bids. So the highest cash bid is actually a local feeder's got 604 for corn delivered in, and beans locally 13-14. And the river is higher than that.

I think the river might be 1330 or 1325 or something like that. Hogs are 83 bucks. The pig report came out, and it's interesting because the numbers, the weights are down, numbers are down. Everything pretty much is down with the exception of the number of sows that people are holding back for breeding stock. That number's up. but with as much per's action is floating around the countryside,

farrowing rates aren't very good, and so that's affecting. People are holding more guilt just because they can't get, they can't get sow's bread, and they can't keep them bread, and then when they ferrow, the numbers aren't very good, so that explains that. But what's interesting is every time the USDA puts out the new pig report,

the past numbers that they've had, they keep revising them down. and I don't know why it's so hard for them to get their numbers straight. I don't know whether everybody's lying to them or what the deal is, but it, this price, so hogs closed $83 today. That's, it's too low. And I think you're going to see hogs this summer be some of the highest prices that we've seen in a long time because there's just not, the demand is good.

and people are pretty worried about exports, but I feel like the world over there's less pork on the market and there's less hogs being produced because everybody has their struggles. And I think prices this summer, if we can get there, are going to be really, really good. It's just costs are high and cost of production is high because production numbers aren't good, a lot of death loss and a lot of illness around the countryside. So if you can hang in there, I think by the time summer comes, you're going to make good money. But if corn stays as high as it is in bean meal, you're going to have to make good money to pay for all that. So it's a vicious circle.

And cattle, $139. Bitcoin came way back. It was up $51,000, almost $52,000. And then it had a hard day yesterday. And last I looked, it was about $47,000. I'm still buying. Yeah. It was on sale for a while.

Ethereum's 3,600. Ethereum made it clear back up to 4,800, I think. And it settled back down. Tesla is $1,078, and Elon is done selling. So he sold roughly 16 million shares. And if you want to know anybody that's a Tesla hater, if you want to know the strength of that company or of the following of that company, I don't know of any other company out there where the CEO could sell 16 million shares

and the stock price only suffered about 4% at its low and its comeback. And I'll make you a prediction. They're going to announce fourth quarter production numbers and then they'll have their yearly, their year end in mid-January, that stock's going to go to $1,800. It's going to be a barn burner, so get ready. Get ready because it's coming. And I'll give you a new stock.

I'll give you something to go research. Go look up a company called Matterport. So that stock's $21 today. and what they're they're going to be a key player in web 3.0 and any of you that are into real estate that you've ever done a 3D walkthrough of a house or an apartment or anything virtual tour virtual tour Matterport is probably the software that did that and they they actually used to sell these really high dollar cameras the hardware to do it and then they figured out that there was more money and it was easier to expand getting into the software

to where you can use virtual reality. Yeah, and I think you can use a lot of different cameras now. I know that my other son, Sawyer's brother, Clay, he uses a Sony and he uses Matterport software to do what he's doing. But that's directly going to fall into when you get to doing VR on the web, web 3.0, Matterport is, they're pretty well positioned. And he'll be interested to see where that goes. They partner with Meta. Facebook. They partnered with Meta and that's kind of a big, that was kind of a big thing. A lot of people, that put them on radar of a lot of people. But I'm not sure that's a good thing.

It's a good thing for them and the fact that it's a lot of money on the short run. But a lot of people that are involved in Web 3.0 and a lot of people that are involved in crypto and the blockchain have absolutely no time for Mark Zuckerberg and they don't want anything to do with doing a project on Web 3.0 that involves meta. And so it'll be interesting how that affects them. But I think there's plenty of room for a lot of people to play in that field. Yeah. And if you also didn't know meta slash Facebook, they own Oculus. So all the Oculus goggles you see, that's probably the biggest virtual reality goggle company out there. They own that company, Oculus.

And so, yeah, Matterport's probably working with them in Oculus with Meta. So it's all kind of intertwined in one thing. They're going to do their best. There's no doubt that Meta is going to do their best to monopolize that market because they see Web 3.0 as a direct threat to their business because... Where is the attention? Yeah. How much time is going to get spent on scrolling social media

versus how much time is spent scrolling in Web 3.0 virtual reality. And so that's why meta is spending so much money on it. And there's a lot of data. You're going to be a crap load of visual data of people's visual, what colors appeal to them, what products appeal to them, what words appeal to their eyes, which is scary. Yeah, so we're not going to go down that road to that. Because we could tell.

talk for a long time about that. We thought, this is a little bit of a Q&A, but we're just going to talk about kind of our year in review and what we're looking forward to next year and kind of what's worked for us and what hasn't worked for us. And hopefully you guys can get some, maybe you can pick up something that you can use for yourself or you can learn from our mistakes of what not to do and we're just hoping that we can give you some value. If you go back and watch the first episode that we did, which I think is where this will do come from. Where this will do farm come from. Yeah. And it's probably kind of cringy. I haven't watched it since we put it out. You know what? I thought we did a pretty damn good job. But we did. We literally sat down that night. We had no

intention of shooting a podcast. Well, we sat down with no intention of posting that podcast. We just wanted to see if it all worked. We sat down and we sat down and, we had. we like hit the record button and we finished and we were like, that's pretty good. I felt like that went really well. So we just ended up posting that. It did do well. So yeah,

I think it's really good to reflect of the year that you've had, whoever you are out there because I don't think people give themselves enough credit for what they accomplish. I certainly don't. It's good to sit down and reflect and think about the year that you had and what you could do different and what you could improve on. And also patting yourself on the back a little bit on what you did accomplish. Because every single person out there did accomplish something, you know, something.

And it was worthy and it was good for yourself. So 2021 is a year that when you got to the end, if you managed to stay even, it's a win. Because it's been, this has been just a, it's been a depressing year. I feel like, I feel like socially, socially and I also feel like a lot. lot of relationship-wise, if you're not here. So we live in a bubble. I feel like, I feel a little bit like we've told a story about how when my kids were little and they asked my dad about the depression, my dad didn't have any good stories because his answer always was, well, we didn't have any money, but nobody had any money. And he lived in little Washington, Iowa, and not that much

changed during the depression. Kind of already a farmer, so. Yeah, most people were self-reliant, and things were hard to get, and prices were high, and people struggled, but it wasn't to the extent that people in large cities did. And you know what? Kind of the same this year. Kind of the same. I mean, these last two years, pretty much.

If you're listening to this and you're in a large metropolitan area, or especially if you're on the East Coast or the West Coast, you know, COVID has had a lot. lot and it continues to have a lot bigger, excuse me, a lot bigger impact on you than what we feel here. But families, you know, just going through the holidays, people not being able to travel and not being able to get together. I feel like that was probably one of the hardest parts of this whole deal. Well, it's really never happened. Yeah. I mean, really, it's really never happened. So it's, it's been different and it's, yeah, it was hard, but, you know, there's always positive. Look at the positive. of the year what you did that's why you got to sit down and think about you know know where you

started and and maybe that maybe that's a good time to get into we were just talking about the importance of lists and the importance of writing down your goals and you know we're going to talk about we've got some questions and some thoughts here about different things but you know when you get to the end of the year if you if you didn't write down at the beginning of 21 what you wanted to accomplish. If you don't have a map of where you're trying to go. Yeah, you'll never, if you don't have a destination, if you don't have a, you know, a vision, a plan,

you're not going to execute on anything. Like, you've got to have a plan to know where you're going. Yeah, exactly. And the plan might not go the exact way you wanted it to, which it never does. It never freaking does. Life gets in the way every time you set up. plan but most of the time that plan I mean most of the stuff of that plan you know gets executed

and you look that you look through your year and you're like wow I did I did a lot of good this year I had some rough patches but I was stuck on the plan and you got to do that to know where you're going and I think there's a lot of people out there that are loss that don't have a plan that don't sit down and plan their year or their five year their 10 year or just long-term goals you got to know where you're going. So you can do day to day, you can execute on the stuff you need to do to get you to where you want to go. No plan is still just a plan to fail. That's basically what it is. That's right. Totally. Totally. If you don't have a plan, you're planning to fail. Okay. Thanks for, listening. Okay. So when we were when we were talking about this, we'll start with some,

we'll start with some high points. So what do you feel like was your biggest accomplishment of 2021. And also, no one sent in these questions. Dad and I just kind of came up with them ourselves. So it is kind of a Q&A between both of us, but it was just kind of like we kind of did our own outline. So you didn't miss a Q&A if you're Jones and ask us a question. That's all I'm trying to say.

We have the luxury of talking about what we want to talk about sometimes. Yeah, true, true. My biggest accomplishment in 21 was, I would have to say, seeing the fruits of my labor pay off. And what I mean by that is I started, this'll do farm our YouTube channel, which is before Barn Talk, about two and a half years ago,

and I sucked at it. I wanted to do social media, and I started that journey, and I wasn't very good, but I knew that if I kept working, kept grinding, and kept working at it and going after it, I was going to eventually see it pay off.

And we have gotten to the point where we got our first partnership on TDF, our first sponsor, our first long-term partnership, barn tools, which Dad and I love using their product. It's pretty much a barn, it's a barn alarm system that's in all of our barns. It's all cloud-based, all on your phone, and we love the product. It's been great for both of us mutually. but my goal with starting this will do farm it was to bridge the gap between consumers and farmers showing our farm life and showing modern day hog production and showing our row crop

operation kind of just connecting people but also i'll be honest i looked at it as a side hustle too so you know i wanted to make some extra income off the farm while also kind of being on the farm And that's kind of the cool thing about what we're doing is we're still here, but we're just showing people what we do. And I knew I could make money because I really researched social media. I studied social media. I started marketing. And I knew it worked.

I saw so many examples of people doing it. And I just needed a grind to get there. And getting that first sponsorship this year, you know, it really like made me, it's the biggest accomplishment because it got to the point. Yeah. It got us to our first milestone, I think. It was my first, like, you know, you made it kind of thing. Not you made it because I'm not satisfied with where we're at.

We have a long ways to go and we love what we're doing and we're going to continue to do it. There's so many other things I want to do. But like the first real like, hey, this is successful. This is a successful side hustle that you started, that you put your head down and you believed in yourself and you did it. And we started really going hard this year to get there. And, yeah, and Ben Barn talk, too, adding that on top of this will do farm. You know, we love doing this too. You know, I'm very proud of this.

I think it was a great idea, a very great concept of a show. And it's kind of the same idea of bridging the gap with also showing you guys who we are outside of farming. Because we're passionate about subjects, obviously, if you watch or listen, than just farming. That will always be a part of us. But, yeah, I'm just proud of how far we've come. and also the new channel Barn Talk, the new other platform besides just our vlog channel, you know, Barn Talk, the podcast.

So, yeah, that's probably my biggest accomplishment. What about you, Tork? What's your biggest accomplishment of 21? That's pretty good. I mean, that's pretty good. You can probably agree with what I said to. No, I do. We're partners on this thing.

Yeah, I mean, I do. And if anything, I probably, and we'll talk about this later, but I think as you get older, you become more jaded and you don't naturally think as big as you do when you're younger.

Like you ask any little kid, young kid, ask a five-year-old, ask a seven-year-old, what's their dreams? Their dreams are ginormous. They're ginormous because they don't have any,

they haven't had anybody there telling them they couldn't do it. and they don't realize how hard it is. They don't know how many things can go wrong. They just have these dreams. And as you get older, life has a way of... Taking that out of you. Chipping that away from you.

And I think that's one thing I'll say, and I'm saying it out of place, but I think one of my goals for 22 as we sit here now is to dream bigger because the truth is that if you, you don't like you may not reach your goals but if you don't dream big enough to start with you're just you're holding yourself back you don't push yourself hard yeah anyway but so i'm very proud all that but you know a milestone that i did this year uh my wife and i did this year is 10 years ago we built our first contract finishing building and um it seemed like that was a long ways away

But we paid that sucker off early this year. And then we didn't waste any time using the equity. So we paid it off. And my wife had a store on the square in our little town for about 12 years. And when our boys were in high school age, she decided she didn't want to do it anymore. And she closed it and sold it. and she was fine with it.

She was happy with that. And then it's always been in the back of her head. She loves decorating. She loves home goods and she loves... She's very talented. She's always had a knack. She can make anything look good. I mean, I think I've been her greatest.

Oh, you're the perfect example. I mean, you're her... Well, I'd say I'm her greatest struggle in trying to make something look good. But she tries. She does a pretty good job once in a while. But anyway, so she... There was a building that went up for sale,

and it was the perfect spot, perfect size, and we bought that building, and she's been running the mercantile for seven months, and it's been really good. She's had a great holiday season, and I think next year is going to be even better. And so that's been a big accomplishment. But I will say this,

the other thing that has nothing to do with money or stuff or anything like that that I feel like is one of the greatest successes that my wife and I have seen happen is we've raised a family through trial and error, and they've turned out reasonably well. I'm not going to give them too much credit yet because I don't want their heads to swell up, but we'll get Clay on here sometime. little more reserved than Sawyer is. But, you know, both of our boys, they have their own businesses. They're self-employed. But then they also work together. They do real estate together. They do Airbnb together. They have a good relationship. And in this day and age, it's probably a good thing we

didn't have three kids, because I don't think we could have done that with three kids probably. Maybe we could have. I don't know. But, you know, I'm just thankful that we're all here. We're all close. We just had a great Christmas. And those are the things that you can't put a price on. Because at the end of the day, you didn't come here with anything, and you're not going to leave here with anything.

And the generation that you leave behind, that's one of the only things that is ever a marker that you were ever here. So I'm pretty happy with, well, I'm more than happy with, my legacy so far. If I don't do anything else other than what I have, I'm happy with my legacy. So the moral story is I better not mess anything up too bad. Well, that was good though. No, yeah, that was a good tie-in. That was deep. I'm sure a lot of people like that one. Yeah. Well, I appreciate that, dad. My head didn't swallow up too much, but that's right. Thanks. Thanks. Clay and I will appreciate that. So from the highs to the lows?

Yes. So what was your biggest failure if that was your biggest accomplishment? Um, I would say I didn't really have a failure. And I kind of want to go in depth on this a little bit. I used to be, I used to be so hard on myself, which I still kind of am, but not as much about failing. Like, I remember when I was in high school and I played sports, if I would mess up on something, I would, if I failed, I would get so down on myself about it. I'd be, I'd be so mad at myself and just, you know, pissed. But I've, you know, you know, changed my mindset. and listen to people, high-level people, and, you know, disconnecting failure and realizing that failing is not a bad thing and failing is a learning experience. If you look at failure as a learning experience,

you won't sweat that stuff as much. You really won't. So I've probably had a number of failures. I mean, I know I've messed up a lot of stuff this year. I mean, dad's probably witnessed most of it, whether it be on the farm, whether it be on social media, whether it be in real estate,

whether it be whatever I'm doing. I've messed up, but I've done a better job not really letting it get to me and just keep thinking about it. You know, I don't sweat that stuff as much because I now know that, you know what?

What'd you learn from it? That's kind of what I'm trying to get my mind to do more and more. But, yeah, and I also am not old enough. I haven't had a substantial failure, really in my life yet. I know it's going to come because storms come in life,

but I haven't had one that's been crazy yet. So I would say my failure of 21 is probably not spending enough time on the goals I set out for my personal growth. I really like going to the gym. It's something that I fell in love with when I was when everyone else went to college and I was here and I was farming. It was just like a, it was just a spot where I could go and not think and I could just lift and do that and I fell in love with it. Pretty much transformed my body and then COVID hit and it kind of like, you know, fell off. I didn't completely let go, but I just really didn't go as hard as I wish I would have.

So in the gym and then also I wanted to read, I wanted to read some books this year. I really would like to consistently be reading, whether it be just 10 pages a night. And I didn't do that really well either. So those are probably my, the biggest. failure this year was just not not working on myself enough not putting myself first enough because I'll be the first to admit I probably have taken on a lot or too much responsibility at times and dad will admit that my brother will admit that and my brother takes on a lot of responsibility too and we're ambitious we're just ambitious so it's hard to allocate all that time but another

thing that a lot of high achieving people say is you got to focus on yourself first you got to work on yourself first because this is your only body that you're getting and you're only getting one mind and if you're not, you know, working on your body or working on your health, your mental health or, you know, learning new something new, you're not going to, you're not going to run your businesses or run your farm or do things effectively and you're not going to be, you know, feeling good about yourself. So that's one thing that I'm going to try to do better in 2022. So, yeah. What was your biggest failure, dad? I don't know how much time do you have.

In 2021, I don't feel like you've had anything major. No, we haven't had any major, you know, 21. So crop-wise, we raised the best crop. I raised the best crop I've ever had. Maybe not being, maybe not bean yield, but corn yield, especially corn on corn, best crop I've ever raised. And, you know, how much I had to do with that? Not a whole lot, probably.

you know as much uh the good lord is anything else because it rained when rain when it needed to but um i think that that's kind of another that's another deal that age does to you is um time seems to speed up and so in 2020 i came back to the farm full time so i left the job that i had uh I say that nicely. I was asked to leave the job that I had. They told me I could keep coming there, but they weren't going to pay me anymore. That was kind of the problem,

and that kind of lost its luster. But, you know, I felt like, man, it was, I almost regret not doing that sooner, but like we've talked before, I've learned so much in the jobs that I've had that I wouldn't be as successful as I am if it wasn't for the experiences I've had, but I was happy to be home.

and I was like, man, I'm going to get so much done, so much done, because I got all this time. I will say you are probably the happiest I've ever seen you, just saying. No, I think it's... This is what you want. Like, this is your passion. Yeah. Being here, working on the farm, it's been your goal for a long, long time. Yeah.

Yeah, so for those of you that think that I'm a real prick now, you should have seen me. You should have seen me just a few years ago. It would have been a lot worse. I would probably say I had more ass chewings a few years ago than I do now. I still get some ass chewings, but. Yeah, it's all right. It's all right. But so, you know, I've, and I've done, I've done Instagram stories on this.

I don't think I did it this year, but each one of our hog boaths, when you walk in the door, there's a, there's a calendar that has every day, you know, it's got, it's a 12-month calendar all on one sheet, and each day is numbered. and we cross every day, or I cross every day off as I go, excuse me, because it helps me when I'm ordering feed or doing whatever, if whatever. But when you get down to like November, and you're in there and you cross out the first day of November,

I always think about how much more I could have gotten done. And it just seems like time moves faster, and you just don't, you get to now and you're just like, man, I didn't get done what I wanted to get done. And so, you know, that's probably my biggest failure of the year is just not executing on the plans that I had better than I did. And like you said, some of that was out of my hands. There's some things that you make a plan and, you know, the stars have to align to make

those work and they didn't but um yeah by by the standards of what could go wrong there really wasn't much for failures at this will do farm this year they're pretty minor by life standards so yeah pretty happy yeah so what's something that you learned this year or that you found that you felt like just changed your perspective on how you look at things or change the trajectory as you as far as where you're headed on your plan? I would say, and there's probably a number of things on this, but this is probably one of the first things that comes to my mind. Because I said I don't do a lot of reading,

but I do do a lot of listening of podcasts. I'm a big podcast guy, and I kind of consume a lot of information from a lot of high-level people, you know, that have podcasts. and you know anyway i've probably learned a lot of stuff but this is the first thing comes to mine um all the ways that you can finance real estate is the first thing that comes to mind mind because there's just the traditional way that i think most people obviously most people know is you know you put a down payment down and you get a piece of property you get a piece of land or whatever you're buying

whatever piece of real estate you're buying you know you got cash you put a down payment the bank gives you a loan or you got cash you just buy the whole thing you just buy the whole thing out right, whatever. But there's just so many other ways you can accumulate properties, accumulate real estate, using equity, doing a cash out refi, doing a he lock, doing using other people's money and doing seller financing where, I don't know, the seller of a property, let's say, finances the down payment for you and you have to pay them over a three-year or five-year note back what they loaned you to put the down payment on that property that you're buying from them. Like that's just a creative way that not many people want to talk about

when it comes to buying assets. And then you can go a step further and, you know, do the same, I mean, you can do the same thing. Like, okay, you want to buy, you want to buy, let's just say you want to buy a hog barn. You can, you can have somebody, you know, you can get, you can have somebody seller finance half of the hog barn and then you just only have to go get a loan for the other half and then if it's a good enough asset like a hog barn is it's a it's really good cash flow you could pay the bank and then you could pay the seller that seller finance for you and obviously that has to be like a really good asset because you'd have to get a lot of income luckily hog barn is that but if you find the right deal where you can use other people's money and you find the right person that's

willing to do something like that, you know, it's, it's a game changer. It's an absolute game changer. And my brother and I have really learned a lot on the real estate financing side of things. And it just goes to show you, you just, you don't know what you don't know. And there's so much out there that you can learn. And I just have, I, it blows my mind with real estate on just how many ways you can go on off. Like just how many abundant ways there are to get more deals and get more property and get more real estate without using actual cash. It's just crazy. It's absolutely crazy and there's nothing like it. And I'm, I'm eager to learn even more because I know I'm not even close to learning. But that was probably one of the most just mind-blowing things like,

wow, that's just another way to finance a deal. So let's talk about that for a minute. minute because I did I just talked about it for a couple well but there's a couple of things I want to touch on with that because one it takes patience because and I'll use an example this is hypothetical but we know we know a deal that went this way so when you're you know real estate is a relationship business just like so many businesses And you have to be patient. And we know a guy that wanted a property. And he contacted the person that had this property.

And they told him no. And they told him no for how long? Seven years. Seven years they told him no. And the eighth year, he said he actually called him. The guy that owned the property actually called this guy because he knew that he had wanted it, and he literally called him and said,

you know, I might be interested in selling that. And they put that deal together. So patience, if you know what you want, you can't get in a hurry. You have to just work at it, and you have to just be patient. Yeah, because, I mean, yeah, you got to, being able to negotiate is good,

but don't over-negotiate, because time's if time is on your side on a specific deal let time work for you because just put it in their ear if you want some and i mean this is let's just you know that for farm ground it's really hard to find farm ground but if you have a good relationship with a neighbor farmer or a farmer you know that you want to maybe put your foot in the door in the door and your young farmer out there it's never going to hurt to ask right and if they say no i mean you obviously know if it's a for sure no i'm never selling this to you they'll probably look at you and say you know if right and then you know okay well probably not but if they say no you know i'm just not interested right now well that's not like don't ever ask me again you know right it because you you just got to keep asking because your life changes every year and so do so many other people and that's right's life could change something could happen in the family they could lose interest you just never know so you know just keep asking and don't be overbearing with it either right you know give some time because stuff's got to happen for them too.

And the other thing that is important, and this is important in every, no matter what you do, but in these real estate is, you know, it's another version of you're buying things and you're selling things. And I've done a lot of that in my life. And humility and personality play a lot into being able to find those deals.

And you know what? What you said there about just being willing to ask because there's so many deals out there that happen because somebody asked. And it's hard to ask. It takes balls. It takes balls to ask. You got to risk it to get the biscuit.

Yep. You're never going to know if you don't ask. And the worst that can happen if you do ask is to say no. And they may not say, hell no. They may say, well, no, not right now. But and then the other thing is relationships. finding people that are in whatever business that you're interested in, whatever you're trying to do, build relationships with people that have been doing it that are older than you are,

more successful than you are. Because you know what? Most of these people, they don't have anybody to talk to about what they're really interested in. You find somebody that's interested in what you're interested in. I guarantee you they're going to be willing to have a conversation and tell you, things that they've learned because and I'm I this is this is universal you guys have no idea how often we our family Clay and Sawyer and I sit around and we talk about how there isn't any we don't have anybody to talk to I have I have friends but I don't I can't talk to them about the stuff that I think

about I mean you've seen some of the crazy crap that I think that run through my head when we're talking about Tesla or we're talking about the future. We can't really talk to people about the stuff that sets our heart on fire because they'll just look at us dumbfounded and like they'll either look at us like we're out of our mind or we're unrealistic or we're just crazy or we're just stupid, whatever. Yeah. When you find somebody that is successful in what you're interested in, don't be afraid to ask them what you think that they might think is a dumb question because they've been where you are and they are the same. You are not alone.

You're not alone in that feeling that you can't talk to somebody about it because they'll think you're crazy. But that person that's into the same thing you are and is successful about it, they've been there. Yeah. And they will tell you that they feel the same way to that day. Because people that are passionate, there's a small circle. I don't care what it is. I don't care what you're talking. about it's a small circle of people that are really passionate about that thing and you find somebody

like that that's a tool that is an asset because they can help you skip three steps oh yeah they can help and they're willing to do it because they don't want you to make the mistakes they've made they accumulated all this knowledge they're gonna they want to talk to you about it because they want to they want to help you but they also want to like they accumulate all this knowledge for themselves but if they can see it work for that person too, it's rewarding. It's rewarding. It's really rewarding. As far as what I feel like changed my perception this year, I feel like I've really embraced this year the idea that you only, you really have to rely on yourself to build your case as to why, you should do this or shouldn't do this.

And there truly is not that many people that you can take their opinion or their advice at face value because everybody is beholden to their paradigms. And when somebody tells you their opinion, there's things that have happened to shape that. And, you know, Tesla was a big eye-opener for that to me because, I went down that hole and I was passionate about it and I followed it through and I sold myself on the idea that that was the investment I wanted to make. But because of that, I kind of feel like I look at everything. I look at everything now through that window. And when somebody tells me something, I don't take it at face value anymore. I have to run it through my own filter,

and it has made me a better problem solver, but it has also made me much more patient and a much, a much better researcher, which is pretty impressive because for as much as I just run off at the mind, mouth. To be more reserved and actually do your homework before you blabber is, I feel like I'm working on the best version of myself slowly, but surely. So, you know, that's not, it's a big thing. It doesn't sound like that big a thing, but it's kind of a, it has changed my trajectory. It's changed my

perception. It's done both of those things. And I think 22 is going to be a better year because of how I can use that filter. Again, we got to get a bomb button. I know, well, now it's so far away. I can't reach it. I have to get a stick. We get back in the barn, we will for sure. Oh, yeah. Well, on the barn, we got a plan. The barn, we're going to get the barn, uh, insulated and roofed.

Um, and I got an electrician coming. He's going to work this winter on getting, uh, new service put in. Next year is going to be, we're going to spend a little over. Yeah, one of our goals for sure next year is hopefully we can just stay in the barn. Yeah. Oh, we will. Guarante. The whole time. Because I don't want to, I love this garage. It's a great garage. Love looking at the trucks. You know, great bar. But, you know, it's just something about that barn. It's not the same. It's a barn talk. We got to get back on the barn. But you guys understand. I love it. Yeah. Appreciate it. So.

What did you struggle with the most in 21? Well, my biggest struggle in 21 was reactive arthritis. I got, I told this probably on this will do farm. I don't know if I've talked about it. it on Barn Talk, but I got reactive arthritis in the Ozarks with our annual, my annual, we have my group of friends, we call it the Brozarks. We have our annual Brozarks trip to Missouri. And, you know, we, we do a lot of college activities. I would say it's kind of a get away with the boys. You know, it's a boys trip. We have fun. We drink some beer and whatever, do some stupid stuff. But the year, Last year, it was kind of last year in this year, but I still dealt with the repercussions of having reactive arthritis this year.

Um, and I went down there and I got salmonella and I felt like crap and, you know, when you're on a boy's trip, come on, come on, swear. Don't be a pus. Don't be a pus. Come on. You know, and I was just like, guys, I don't feel good. And we were down there for three days and, you know, it just wasn't a good. It's salmonella sucks. If you ever get salmonella, you know, and if you've ever had it, I don't, you know, and if you've ever had it. salmon you know it sucks okay and so i got back i went to the hospital got treated got antibiotics to cure it and then all of a sudden i started having really bad chest pain like like the the bone right between your two your two chest muscles right here your pecks started really hurting and i was like why is that hurt so much and then it just started spreading all over through my body into my knees into my ankles, all over my body, into my back.

And it got so bad that I, I couldn't barely, I could barely move. I was limping and I couldn't straighten my knees out because my joints were so inflamed. And so then I went back to the doctor in town and we did a bunch of tests and we figured out that I might have arthritis. So they sent me to the universe. A rheumatologist. And he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis. and pretty much reactive arthritis is just like a short temporary form of rheumatoid arthritis. But some people, it might turn into rheumatoid arthritis.

For some people, it goes away and then for some people, it stays forever and it turns into rheumatoid. So that was a little scary. I was like, oh, man, I'm a farmer. I might have to have arthritis my whole life and I'm starting at 21. And so I took antibiotics for a long, long time and tried to eat really good. and it was a really big struggle for me because I wasn't, you don't know,

you don't realize how good you have it health-wise until something happens to you physically. And then you go, wow, I really wish I had healthy joints right now. That was for me. And it affected my, you know, what I could do on the farm for a while. And luckily dad stepped in and helped me out. And then it gradually got better

and better and better and better. My joints got less inflamed, less inflamed. And now today, I'm completely 100% cured of it. I don't have much joint pain at all anymore. I've noticed if I eat a lot of sugar, I will have like a little bit inflammation in my chest the next day and it'll just last a day. But if I eat pretty good, I don't get any joint pain anymore. But yeah that was that was scary and that was definitely a big struggle for me because i don't like not being able to do what i what i want to do so yeah that was my biggest struggle the whole family was like what the hell because we'd never we'd never heard of it and then you know you couldn't go to the gym yeah that was that was what derailed your whole yeah that so covid derailed it but also

that really derailed it because they told me that they told me that they told me that they told me a story of a guy that had reactive arthritis and he was going to the gym and he lifted too heavy and he ended up tearing his ligaments in his arm because your ligaments are trying to help your joints more and they work harder and then they tear so i was like well i'm not doing that so i lost a lot of weight that i you know a lot of weight that i put on and worked for i lost because of that and i didn't really explain how that happens so your body when you get somanella my body was trying to fight off the salmonella and it overreacted trying to fight the salmonella virus off you call it a virus it's a virus right yeah salmonella virus off that some of that some of that what do you say

help yeah my body my body overhelped and some of that went to my joints which then caused inflammation that's why they call it reactive arthritis because something has to happen your body your body overfights and some of that stuff. Your immune system. Yeah, my immune system overreacted, over-tried to help my body out, and it attacked my joints. So that's how that happens.

Yeah, it was crazy. And it's super rare, super rare. They told me, like, does not happen to very many people at all. So that kind of scared me even more because it's like, wow, great. But it commonly happens in young men, too, which is weird.

But I'm good now, and I'm, I hope I don't wish that all my worst said at me. I won't even lie. It sucks. But I'm glad. I'm good now. Made me grateful for my body I do have now, and now I'm trying to get back to the gym.

So, okay. There you go. What was your biggest struggle, dad? Time management. Yeah. 100%. I would say that too for myself. Time management's been a struggle.

This year, I feel like this year has taught me that. Just because I have so much more freedom. Like before the time that I did have on the farm was so valuable that I was always like laser focused on, okay, this weekend, we got to get this, this, this done. And this year, I didn't feel like I followed. Like we'd make lists. We had lists. Like, Sawyer and I have a calendar every day and we share it, you know, it's a shared deal and you put on there, okay, Monday we're doing this, the Tuesday we're doing this. Well, you know, life happens, stuff happens. And the other thing is, I have been pretty, the last probably three or four years, I've been a pretty

dedicated journaler. So I use Best Self as the journal that I use. I found it a few years ago. I found it a few years ago. And I really like it. And it's a daily, daily journal. And when I was, when I was, you know, in the business world, it really was easier, you know, because you had so much structure, I knew I was going to be in that office every morning at 7 or 7.30, I always would be down there. And, you know, if I was going to have meetings, I'd have them in the morning. And then if I was going to hit sites, I'd hit sites in the afternoon. And then I would come home. And if we had anything that we needed to get done, we'd do it. but, you know, I'd try to plan accordingly, be here by 3 o'clock in the afternoon or 4 o'clock or

whatever it worked. And now, with my wife starting, with Trisha starting, the mercantile and the boys doing their real estate and us trying to do social media, there's just so much that you want to get done that sometimes nothing gets done. She knows. How? Did you blam? No. The devil wears Prada too.

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That's a nice story. The Devil Wears Prada 2 in Theaters Friday. I would say the hardest part is prioritizing. Oh, yeah. Because, yeah, time management's hard, and I think prioritizing. is part of time management. Yeah. But prioritizing stuff,

the stuff that you need to get done for the week or that day is the hardest part because then there's stuff that comes up that affects what you have to get done that day. And that's what sucks. That's what's hard. Because saying no,

but some of that stuff, you can't say no. And knowing what is priority. Right. And I'm probably more guilty of this than Sawyer. than Sawyer is because I'm an old school physical work is important. When Matt Roda was here, we talked about it. So, you know, the rule of thumb with Farman is if you just outwork everybody else, you're going to be, you're going to be successful. If you just put in the time, put in the hours, and work, work, work, work, work. And I like to go out and work at stuff. But today, that's

not necessarily the best use of my time. The days that I have to spend in my office, organizing all the stuff we've got going and getting numbers to my accountant or getting stuff back to a lawyer for a contract or being on the phone with people that we're trying to get as guests or we're trying to do business with, that doesn't come natural. That does not come naturally to me in the farm setting. Now, my old self, I didn't have any problem doing that when I was doing it for somebody else. But here, I have a tendency to want to get out and do stuff, do physical stuff. And that has been a hard, well, that's my biggest struggle of 21 is doing that. is to do a better job of managing our time in 22.

And I'll just say, you may have heard somebody say this, but if you start a successful business, whatever it is, and you take that to the next level where I'll give you example of, if you start a business and then it ends up being a chain, you end up with more than one location. Or you end up, I'll use farming for an example. If you have a farm and you get to the point that you have one employee, but then you move to where you have two employees or three employees,

for you to make that work, you will be a different person. you will have to be a different person by the time you get to having three people working for you than you were when you were doing it yourself. You just have to be. Because that's the difference between success and failure is being able to delegate that and being able to know that it's probably not going to get done

the way that you were going to do it or what you would say is the best way to do it, but it's going to get done. And it's not, it's not, being able to let go and knowing that it does not have, that job does not have to be done perfectly. Yes, you'd like to have it done perfectly, but it's more important that it gets done.

Yeah, at the end of the day, it's realizing that time is your most valuable asset, and hiring people is essential to that. You cannot, you cannot be successful in this life without just doing it yourself. You have got to have people. You have got to have people. That's the biggest thing.

You have got to have people. You have to be able to delegate and you have to have. And you know what? I've struggled with this for so long. I've studied social media for so long and how to do marketing so very well. You know, I've studied it. And for so long, I wanted to make long form content, YouTube videos for TDF, long form podcast.

And then I wanted to break up the clips and then post them on TikTok and Instagram and Facebook or whatever. When I was just trying to do all that myself, when dad and I were trying to do that all ourselves, I would get down on myself about not being able to get the clips done. And then I'd fall behind on doing the YouTube videos. And then it was just like a loop that I was struggling with. And we finally have gotten to the point where we have hired two freelancers to break up clips for us.

And that was the best damn thing that I could have done. by far. Because it's saved me with that headache and that constant loop that I was getting down on myself about. And it's just turned the growth we're seeing on Barn Talk, the growth we're seeing for this will do farm. All of it's just all in one great, it's just a great content machine. It's a content machine. And it's feeding people to YouTube and it's feeding people to listen to the podcast. And a number of people have commented, found you from TikTok, found you from TikTok.

And I knew that was going to work. It's just I knew I had to realize that I couldn't do all that myself and I needed to hire it if I wanted it to be perfect. And that's what it takes. Yeah. You know what it takes to make good content. And you know what? When we started, we didn't know how to do anything. We didn't know what camera to use.

We didn't know what software to use. We didn't know how to make a thumbnail. We didn't know any of that. And we did it, and we figured out how to do it. But at the end of the day, what is going to propel us, to make us more successful, is not Sawyer and Torque's ability to edit video. It is Sawyer and Torque's ability to make quality content that gives people value. and that is we've got to let it go and say,

okay, we, there's not enough hours in the day. And so what can we offload? And the best thing we can offload is to somebody that's really good at chopping up that content and making those clips. Because now we got more clips than we can get out because we made 20, 27 podcasts, and when it was Tork and Sawyer making the thumbnails and the clips,

we made about, I don't know how many clips are on. We still make the thumbnails, but. No, but I'm saying the clips, what do we got? A dozen on, I mean. We got a ton. No, but the ones we made. We were lucky if we could get two or three done. Right, yeah, it was not working.

Like, I would skip weeks without posting on TikTok or Instagram. Yeah. It just wasn't working. Because there's just not enough time. So learning to delegate that, because at the end of the, day, like I said, we have to create the content because if you don't have the content, you don't have anything. And that's what is most important in this side of it. And we'll just take it to farming here, for example, dad and I want to grow our grain farming operation and we want to,

you know, grow our farm, right? Eventually, we're going to probably have to hire some majority of the hog work done if we want to be a successful, have another successful grain farming operation. Dad and I are going to have to go all in on that. that too. Not saying we'll never work with pigs, but we're going to have to do less with pigs to make the grain farming more successful if we get more ground and, you know, farm more acres, right? And that's the same thing. We're probably going to have to hire a guy, you know, or our two guys, you know, whatever that looks like. But that's how it is in every business. And there's no shame. Don't let your ego get in the way of that. There's no shame in hiring somebody. That's how you scale.

That's how you get better. That's how you make more money. That's how you make bigger impact. you have to, you can't do it alone. You cannot do it alone. There's nobody that's made it that done it alone. No one. So success is different for everybody. So yeah, for somebody, you know, doing what we're doing today as far as pigs and farming, that's all they want. And that's, that's, that's, you have to define what success is for you. However, we've come to a fork in the road and we've decided to go down the road that we're going to create content, because our goal is for this-l-do farm media to generate enough income

that the farm can take care of itself because it's the only way we're going to be able to grow the farm because we don't have to get in the... We don't have to get in the discussion of how expensive it is if you want to add anything to a farming operation. And our goal is to make it viable for another generation. And to do that, it's got to grow.

Yeah, if you're content with where you're at, if you're happy with where you're at, you're a happy person. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to, I mean, yeah, you don't have to hire somebody. But if you want more, if you're not happy with your life and you want to strive for more and be more successful, you got to hire somebody. You got to hire somebody and you've got to be willing to change.

Yep, definitely. That's the, I guess that's the big takeaway. Hey, and shout out to our freelancers, Kiowa, my good buddy, Kiowa. You're the man, great clips. He does all the barn talk clips you guys see on TikTok and Instagram. He's absolutely killing it. And shout out to Lily. she does our TDF clips that you see all over TikTok and Instagram as well.

Just wanted to give a quick shout out to them. Because they're part of the team that you guys don't ever see, but they make that stuff happen. So I wouldn't be able to do it. Obviously, I wasn't able to do it without them. Right. Nope, it's been great. Yep.

Oh, what tool? Is that where we're at? Nope. What will you do different 22 to accomplish your goals? Well, I am going back to my roots. So I have, I actually have my, I actually have my, I actually have my best self-journal, and I never went away from it. I just wasn't consistent in doing it, and I wasn't consistent in, when I was in the business

world, I took this thing with me everywhere, and it was my roadmap. So I would map out the calendar with the events that I knew that were going to happen. I planned my weeks, the stuff that I knew was going to happen that week. I'd already have it in there. I had my daily goals. And anything that I thought, like anything that came to me that I was like, that's a good idea, I wrote it down. And I kind of got away from that.

I would look at it in the morning and I would write down some goals I'd write down, you know, some things I was faith, thankful for, but I didn't take this with me. It didn't go in the truck with me. It didn't go to the workroom with me. It didn't go to the shop with me. And it, I feel like it really helped me stay grounded and stay on track. So one of the things I'm definitely using in 22 is my journal. The other thing that is huge to me, a good guy that I used to work with, he taught me this that he had a list he had a list of goals he had a list of goals like one year goal three year goal five year goal ten year goals and he would read those through every week he would

read them through and he actually wrote the list of goals like he'd already accomplished them like not I will have but just I have I have this we do this he would write he would

own this I earn this I well even even to his even to his kids like that his you know this son is married and got grandkids and whatever

I mean he was very big into you call that manifestation i would have yeah um and i mean he used that and he his his words to me were that you would not believe that when you got when you got 10 years down the road or when you got five years down the road and you looked at that list like he would make new lists but he would keep those he would keep them and he would keep working through them and he said you'd be amazed at how many things you can accomplish on that list when you just keep ingesting that every day or every week.

It just changes your perspective. And he really believed that, you know, that's kind of a weird, that's kind of a weird, like, karma thing. But he believed that it literally brought him, like gave him that little push to talk to the people that he needed to talk to. Even if he manifested it. Right. Even if he didn't know that that person actually had a connection to something that he was trying to accomplish in those goals.

And that, I mean, that is manifestation. That's what it is. But anyway. And so I've started doing that. And I'm going to work hard at being consistent. So much of success is consistent. And if I had one thing I'm going to work on more in 22, it's consistency. Discipline and consistency.

Everybody struggles with it, but that's what I'm working on. I truly believe the people that are the most successful in the world. I mean, some, there's obviously trust fund babies and stuff like that. But the people that work for it, they are just more disciplined than the average person. they are, without a doubt, put in the work every freaking day and they're consistent about it. Yeah. They don't, they do not fall, they do not get off their plan. They do not, not do the things that they say they're going to do.

They do them. That, that to me is my biggest takeaway from listening to high level people that have made a lot of money that have successful businesses or successful lives. They are disciplined as hell. Jocko. Very disciplined. I mean, all of them. I'll use Jocko as an example because I feel like he is the, he's like the bleeding edge. Well, he's just so hardcore disciplined.

But the way he has embraced it, he will tell you, I've heard him tell many people this, that he feels like the discipline relieves the pressure off of him. So many people would look at that discipline as it's putting so much pressure on yourself but he he says that the discipline relieves the pressure because he knows he knows that routine so well he knows he's going to get up at 4 10 a.m. It's already it's done it's written in stone that's what's going to happen and he knows what's going to happen and that discipline of knowing how that day is going to go to him is freeing like he has done such a metal a mental a mental switch that the discipline is freeing when people that aren't discipline would look at it as

restrictive restrictive it's crazy okay so now we're going to jump a little bit into oh you didn't ask me oh well what's your tool tool i was going to say i'm definitely going to try to make to do list and we said yeah you you make a list and you don't do it but i'm going to try to take do a to do list and, you know, take it with me everywhere I go, so I stay on the plan and I do those things. Stay on the plan. Stay on the plan. Also, I am a big, I'm big in a man. I want to be bigger in manifestation. I feel like I've always kind of manifested my goals, kind of always manifested things without really realizing what I was doing. But I would always try to, you know, Man, like, I would always think about me achieving my goals.

And especially when I listen to music, for some reason, I can listen to music and just think about future me in a sense and do, you know, see, see exactly where I'm at, see exactly what I'm doing, see exactly where I want to go. And I really want to try to do that more. I would really like to do what dad said where I have my goals written out and I look. look at him and I see myself accomplishing that goal or I see I see the where like all the stuff whatever it is I see me standing on the ground that I want to own one day or I'm plowing the field or I'm planning in the field that I want to own one day or you know I'm choring the hog barn that I want to you know get one day you know stuff like that I really want to try to manifest that and that is another very big tool and thing that I've learned from high level people

is, and I know I've been saying this a lot in this episode, but it is a truth. There's so many guys at the highest level of that truly 100% believe in manifestation. Thinking about it and deeply thinking about how it's going to feel. Like a lot of people like materialistic things and they think about purchasing a materialistic thing like a car. they will literally go into the dealership, sit in the car, not to buy it because they were, you know, they didn't have the money to buy it at the time,

but literally sit there, smell it, feel the leather. So when they went home and manifested it, they could put themselves in that car and think about it when they get it. And guess what happens? They get it. And I'm not saying, you can't do all this stuff and then not take action. You know, you got to obviously do action. But so many of those people 100% manifest their stuff and they think about their goals and they think about them very, very deeply.

And that is something I want to do. And you still got to do work every day. I'm not going to spend, you know, I'm not going to spend a half an hour doing this. But hell, 10 minutes of me just sitting down looking at my goals, closing my eyes or you whatever and just thinking about one goal, two goals or three goals on my list every day. and I do that every day or a couple times a week, you know, just like dad said, you know, your old, your old coworker did that. He's accomplished those things.

So it's pretty cool. And yeah, lists, lists. And I also, like, you know, I'd love to journal too. You know, journaling's good. Write down your thoughts, write what you were great before. And also when you look back on life and you have that thing, and you can look at those dates, kind of shows where you were at that time and what you were thinking about.

So that's kind of cool, too. So yeah, that's, that's, I'm big, I'm going to be big on manifest and stuff this year. It's the family and friends event at Shopper's Drug Mart. Get 20% off almost all regular priced merchandise. Two days only. Tuesday, April 28th and Wednesday, April 29th. Open your PC optimum app to get your coupon. We didn't talk about this.

And when we were, when we were trying to get our thoughts on this, one thing that we both agreed on was, When you think about goals, dream bigger. Yeah. And when, so we were in Iowa City, we went up to Iowa City, or we went, we were in the car together yesterday driving. And you had your list and you were reading your goals. And I didn't tell you this, but I was thinking, because I had done the same thing, I had made my list of goals. And it was so funny because some of the goals that you have are the same goals.

that I have, but what's interesting in it is the scope and size of the goal that you have, the dream that you have, is bigger than mine. And that goes back to what I said at the beginning, because I feel like with age, you temper those goals because you're more beat down on what you think you can actually accomplish. I think people did that because, you know, Because you couldn't achieve stuff as fast as you can now. True. I mean, you can reach everybody and anybody now. True.

So you can scale something to be big. Yeah. And it's easier to reach bigger goals now. Yeah. I mean, I guess back then it would be harder because you couldn't contact as many people. Well, you couldn't contact people. You couldn't move information as fast. You just couldn't do it.

Another thing that people might listen. people I listen to too, they, they all said that they wish they would have dream bigger when they're younger because they've accomplished all the things. And more, and more. Dream bigger because you don't, at the time, you're like, oh, no, that's too big. That's too big. No, dream bigger because they all wish they would have. They all wish it would have. And it's going to, it is going to push you to go harder and faster and, you know, go even harder to get to that higher goal, you'd say. Yep. So. um what will you do different 22 to accomplish your goals just be more just be more disciplined to myself

i feel like that's that's the that's the key is um stay on you know plan your work work you're there's a guy there's a guy i know a buddy of mine that uh they're good-sized farmers and in their shop they've got a sign in their office where they all hang out and it just sits there and it says plan your work work your plan and that's what they've been doing for simple years and it is simple but so many people can't do it right so many people can't do it that you make the plan but then the first thing it goes wrong that you get off the plan you don't go back to it and so yeah i mean my my goal or what i'm going to use what i'm going to do different is I'm going to, if I get off track, when I get off track, I'm going back to the basics. I'm going back to

staying on my plan and use my planner, use my list, use my goals, and try to stay focused. I will stay focused. What are you going to do different then? Well, I'm going to focus on less screen time. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. I'm going to do less screen time. I, I think that, is one of the worst things in society now. It's social media is great. These phones are great. Having a computer in your pocket's great if you want to absorb information or use social media for your benefit. But it is a time vampire. It sucks away so much time and everyone's guilty of it no matter who you are. There's some people that have a worst addiction with it than others. But I just want to, excuse me, stop, stop wasting time on there. I mean, I'm not saying

completely cut it cold turkey, you know, never be on my phone and scroll on Instagram or something, but I don't need to do that. I got too much stuff I'm trying to do, and I need to just cut that out and use my time as effectively as I can, as effective as I can. And being on TikTok and being on Instagram and whatever, if I'm not using it for my benefit as far as posting content or consuming content that's going to help me in my life, I need to just cut it out. You know, I don't need to be doing that. And so what I have done, so I've taken action on that, I just bought on Amazon today a box that has a timer on it that I set my phone in and it locks and I set the time on it and it won't unlock until that time runs up. That's crazy. And I literally look that up because

I'm like, this is the only, this is the solution that I think could work. I need to just put this thing in a box and just put it away when I know I need to be like when I'm editing when I'm editing I need to just take that phone and put it in the other room and just have it in a box and that's what I want to do so I'm I bought that and that is that is something that I'm going to crack down and really try to be disciplined about and doing it in the morning too I struck when I get up like sometimes I get up early and what do you do grab your phone and what do you sit there for 15 minutes 15 minutes turns in 20 minutes, 20 minutes turns 30 minutes of your life. Where's 30 minutes of your day?

Just scrolling. And most of the time when you scroll in the morning, you find a negative video and it sets the tone for your day. So just I'm getting that out of the way too. I don't want to do that in the morning. And I want to, you know, have a good morning routine. And yeah, so I'm going to try to less lessen my screen time and try to make more. and not saying that I was like I'm addicted to my phone or anything but it's just like I just

that's something that I just want to try to eliminate all together you know have way less way less time on there this is not on our list but I just thought of this as we were talking don't you feel like if I have important things that I need to get done I almost have to do them in the morning yeah I mean I think it's scientifically proven that you're more creative and that you should do the hardest task in the morning first because you are fresh. You haven't ate a huge, you haven't ate a meal yet usually that's full of carbs and sugar that like knocks you down. So you're, you know, you're alert, you're fasted, you're ready to go and you just knocks stuff out. Yeah, I feel like that too. If I, that's why I struggle. It's so hard to struggle

because like I feel like choring most of the time is pretty, I mean, it's not mindless, but there's not all the time something wrong. Right. And so am I using my mornings as you got to go and chore the pigs in the morning. There's just no doubt, you know, you got to do it. But it's just like, man, sometimes I'm like, wow, I wish I could do attentive work in the morning. Like, I wish I could like do some more editing in the morning just because that really, I really need my attention on that when I'm doing that. Like I got to be in that to do it. So yeah, I feel like that for sure. If I don't get up early and I don't get that done first, man, I just feel like, I feel like once 11 o'clock comes and you're thinking about, you know, what are we going to do for lunch or

once you, once you go there, man, from noon to 4 o'clock or 5 o'clock, it just is a blur. Yep. Because and then the other side of it is that's when people start sucking the time out of you. Right. You get all the time vampires come. out from... Yeah, no one's away. He could feed up early. No, noon to four. So...

What are the biggest trends you see coming in 22? This is where we kind of change. I've almost tried to change now three times and you brought me back because I wasn't following my questions very well. Right. What would you do without me? I've... Not this.

I'd probably be laying in bed watching some... Yellowstone? Oh, yeah. I'd watch some 1883. I like that. It's good stuff, guys. Hey, I want to invite every... single one of you right now while I think of it. I'm putting it out there. So my, so Clay got me a,

got me a gift for Christmas. And I mean, it's basically what he did is I had the, I had the land grant that my great, great grandmother received for the original farm that we're sitting at right now. And he got that framed for me. It was rolled up. I found it when I was cleaning out my dad's stuff because he kind of inherited all of the memorabilia and a lot of history to our family and going back to when they came here. And anyway, he had that put in a frame for me. And I told both of them. So our farm was settled, purchased and settled.

in 1853. 1853. And so in 20053, it'll be 200 years old. And I'll only be 80, I'll only be 83 years old. So I messaged him and I said, just plan it right now.

For my 83rd birthday, we're having a 200, 200 year anniversary of this'll do farm. So you're all invited. So just put that on your count. calendar. Dad will probably, he's like, I hope I'm not senile by then. And if I'm dead and gone, go ahead and have the party without me because I'll enjoy it. But I thought that was one of the neatest things.

It gives you a lot of perspective to look backwards at everything that those people went through and how far we've come and how we've kept it together. And I mean, that's why we do what we're doing right now is we're trying to build this thing to transfer it to another generation. And so anyway, that was a little off the subject, but going forward, this is one of the things that I think is really going to change not only social media. Well, it already is social media.

The people who are successful in social media are already this. But this is what's going to change politics. This is what's going to change marketing. The days of people being politically correct, the days of people not wanting to talk about hot-button issues, politics, politics, religion, whatever, those days are gone. Because when you look at social media today, the people that are successful are the people that are 100% authentic and they will tell you

what they think about anything and they do not give a shit what you think of them. And I'll give you Joe Rogan. The most polarizing people. Joe Rogan. Jocko. Jocco. Andy Ficella.

Jordan Peterson. Yep. Those guys are 100% authentic and they are absolutely crushing it. And the reason they're crushing it is because people are so freaking tired of being lied to, of not being told the truth by people that aren't genuine. So many of our politicians and so many the people that represent the acting community and the Hollywood community, they have no...

Sports too. Yeah, they have, they don't even know who they are. They are sold out so completely that they don't even know how they feel. only reason they know how they feel about anything is by who's endorsing them who's paying them who's telling them what they ought to say they aren't they aren't even true to themselves i don't even think they know who the hell they are and that has gotten them a long ways but what you i think what we're seeing just starting and it's the beginning of it i think that that trend in social media is going to spill over into politics it's going to spill over into entertainment

I think you're already kind of seen it too. I mean, there's so many little creators on TikTok that are just straight all about politics or straight, they don't care. They don't care what you. As long as the platforms don't censor you. Yep. That's the problem.

That's the only one roadblock in there that can mess things up. But I agree. Another trend that I think's really going to come, well, that's going to happen, is made in America. Stuff that is made in America, that's 100% manufactured in America, whatever. is people want to see the made in the USA 100% in the USA.

You know, whatever it is, people are going to, there's more and more patriots coming, coming alive. Patriotism is coming back because I feel like for a while, it was kind of shunned. If you're a patriot, ew. But people are sick of, frankly, what's been going down the last two years, what's going down with the current administration we have now. and we're just sick and tired of it. We're sick and tired of it,

and we want to support Americans, small business owners, USA businesses, and I think that's going to be a massive trend that you're going to see is people are all about America first, and we want that back. Yeah. So I think that,

Web 3.0, just going to get bigger. It's going to get more adopted. Crypto. I think it's going to get more adopted as inflation increases, because Angry Joe or whoever's running the show over there, you know, he's whatever. They're going to keep printing money and it's just going to make people want to put their money in crypto even more.

Tesla is going to get bigger. And I just, yeah, that's the trends I think are coming. I don't know. For ag, it's just, I think more and more farmers are going to go direct to consumer. I think that's becoming bigger and bigger. I think more farmers realize in brands important. as far as ag goes, it's like always, costs are going to be huge because margins are getting tight. And the other thing that's going to be really interesting to watch in the ag side of thing,

well, all business, but ag especially because it's so capital intensive for all the inputs you've got to put out there. We've pretty much gone, I mean, I've pretty much far my entire adult life with cheap-ass money. I mean, money, money has been cheap for, I don't know, 20 years, it's been cheap. And I mean, I barely remember the 80s as far as high interest rates and, you know, you had to pay cash for anything because you couldn't afford to go, like operating loans. You're looking at people that had operating loans and were paying. you know, 12%, 14%, I don't know. And so this whole inflation bit,

I don't know what it's going to do to the ag world for people that operate on, on capital, on borrowed money. Because when you have a business like ours that's capital intensive and your return is not very big and your interest expense gets out, of whack, it could be really tough going forward. I don't know how that's going to go. I think that's going to be one of the things to really watch. And then the other thing to watch is where I think

carbon credits, I think that whole thing is going to get sorted out in the next couple of years as far as the importance of carbon credits, whether there's money to be made, how, what that's going to look like for guys that are that are farming as far as adopting ways to reduce their carbon footprint. But I almost feel like more importantly, it's kind of tough in the fact that you got people that have been no-telling for years. How are they going to get paid versus the guy that's been ripping and chisel plowing that wakes up tomorrow and switches? Because it's incentivized as far as the way I don't.

seen it is it's kind of incentivized when you change practices to go to reduce your carbon emission and sequester more carbon. But if you're somebody that has been no-telling for years and you're using cover crops and all that, well, how's that work? So that's all got to get sorted out. What are you most excited about? You know, obviously I'm most excited about just, I'm most excited about just, I got another year to live and go after the things I want to go after, be with the people I want to be with. I know that's kind of cliche and maybe cheesy and kind of a cop-out, but I don't know what to expect in this year. It's hard to say, like, I'm going to go after my goals, and I might not hit every single one of them because they might be bigger. There's so many things that it just

doesn't rely on me to get that goal like it does, but I might have, I might need other people to accomplish that goal, and I might not meet that person next year. I'm going to try to, but I might not get that person now. It might take two years from now. So it's really hard to say, what are you most looking forward or most excited about? I'm most excited about crushing it, crushing my goals, if I can crush them. That's what I'm excited about. And I'm excited about, you know, just being with my family and seeing us all grow and

become the best version of myself. You know, if I can do that, I'll be really happy about 2022. Gosh, you're my inspiration. I'm getting deep with it. That's all I'm saying. I'm excited for this. I'm excited. I feel like that we're finally getting a little traction as far as when I call people up

or when I message people about, you know, being on Barn Talk. There's a, at least there's a footprint out there that people can at least, if they don't know what we're doing, they can at least find a representation. of it and we're a little more we're starting to get a little bit of credit for what we're doing and I love hearing people's stories because I can about guarantee you that I could pull about anybody in here and they have a story. I mean it's just crazy. People's lives the way things work out the journey that they're on or that they've been on the things that they've experienced, everybody has a story. Now, granted, some are more exciting than others,

and we like to find the exciting ones and the interesting ones. And there are so many people in the hog industry and an ag that have done so much that nobody's, that if you're not directly involved in that company or that commodity or what you wouldn't know anything about it, and it's so interesting. We're going to try to get some of those people. Get some legends. Yeah. I mean, and there's legends around here that have been very, very successful, but yeah, you never know. If you don't live around here, if you're not in the hog business, you don't know them. Or the farming business, you don't know them.

Yeah, and I got to say, you know, I always tell people that my goal in life is to just have a really nice lawnmower with a swivel coozy and just mow the grass and let Clay and Sawyer take care of everything. But really, I think I've had to modify that because my goal is, to just keep doing this. Yeah. Because I really like, I really like,

uh, barn talk. Yeah, I do. I really like talk. It is. You put on these headphones. I use sound better,

you know, and I can edit. I can change my skin tone. I look better. I haven't found the button to make me look more svelt. But maybe it can stretch myself a little bit. I don't know. We'll see.

Yeah. But that's what I'm looking for. What your, what name, name some goals. What, what goals do you have for yourself? without getting too personal.

No. So I want to invest more into Web 3.0. That's one of my goals for this year. I can tell you if I had $100,000, if I had $12, I'd go buy Tesla today. This is not financial advice. No, it's not financial advice. I'm just telling you what I do personally.

Really, I'm so torn because there's so much opportunity out there. The crypto world, there's so much opportunity, but I can tell you, I, man, you, I feel like Tesla is on the cusp of just absolutely crushing it. And I've got, we're going to do a whole other episode because there's some stuff that I was listening to today about just their capacity and just their margin and the execution of, what's coming. I think that you're going to see innovation really start to disassemble some of the competition out there. The people that can execute and that have invested in technology are going to absolutely crush it this year. They are going to, and going forward. But me personally,

you know, I should probably exercise because I told Sawyer, I'm not much good. I'm not much used to this. do farm. Health as well. I know I'm not much good to him dead. So, um, yeah. And let's face it, I pretty much, uh, eat what I want, drink as much as I want. But I do get a lot. I do.

I don't, I don't feed a hell a lot of pigs though. I do. If I could just have a group to mat feed, that's why we got to buy more hog buildings. Because if I could just mat feed pigs every day, climb all those gates with my short little legs, I'd be in burning calories like a mofo. Or I'd be dead. I'd have, oh, you'd be, all right. But, yeah, I'd say we get a lot of, most people get FOMO from not going to places, like, that they're, you know, their groups, you know, you get FOMO from seeing people have a life that you want or whatever.

I think Dad and I and Clay kind of get FOMO from all the opportunities there are and just not enough capital to be in all of them. Because there's just so much stuff that we're like, God, if we just had a couple extra dollars, we could just throw some money in there. but yeah, I get so I just, there's so much stuff that I wish I could invest in that I just, I just don't have the capital right now. And that's one thing that I want to strive for a good amount of income because I would love to be able to invest in what I want to invest in and do opportunities, more opportunities. Well, I just told, I just told your mother this tonight that we were having supper. and I said,

you will know when I'm, when I am completely satisfied and I feel like I have done everything that I want to do when I open a restaurant. Because if there's a great saying that if you want to make a million dollars in the restaurant business, start with two, because it's such a,

it's just a, it's a hard business. It's such a hard business. It's such a hard. business but um yeah there's nothing i'd like more than to have a decent have a decent old yeah with an old fashion and just be the host because uh and work the room just work the room that would be you'd be a freaking natural at that yeah but i don't think that'd make enough money to keep it afloat no probably but so if you ever if you are all around long enough that you see

me open a torx greasy spoon or something like that you'll know that you'll know well dang it he must be he must have made it he must have made it has to be satisfied so uh i guess one of my goals without getting too personal i'd love to see barn talk hit 25 000 subscribers 25 000 average listeners an episode yep and then 22 i think we could easily do that and if you guys pay the fee and keep sharing the show like you are we can reach as many people as there is out there but i i think that's a really achievable goal and hell i might be shooting a little low because i don't know But I think that's, I think we could easily hit 25K on YouTube and 25K on, uh, just average listening on all, all platforms, uh, Apple, Spotify, whatever.

It's simple. We just got to keep giving people value. That's all we got to do. And then for TdF, hell, 50K, maybe even 100. That's, that's, that's where I'm shooting for for subscribers on that. And I want to invest money in crypto and invest money in Tesla. So there you go. Yep. And, you know, Our wish for all of you, because we couldn't do any of this without you. And I have enjoyed this so much. And I, you know, I really didn't think I would. This was all, I kind of got drug.

Not so much. Not, I wouldn't say kicking and screaming, but I wasn't, I wasn't. You were skeptical. I was skeptical. But you were even skeptical about TDF2. No, I was. I was. But I knew you'd love it.

And I do. but we hope that you all have the best year that you can have that you keep your family close and I'll say something else you know what I'm sorry is a hard thing to say but when it comes to family and friends don't wait to have a conversation

that you know you need to have so that's some good advice because my my dad and his brother didn't speak for like 50 years and um it was a battle of wills on who was gonna i think outlast the other one um and you know it was an ugly it was a bad relationship i really don't know how bad it was because i came along late enough that that ship had already sailed but i guarantee you that both of them probably regretted that in the end and i tell my boys all the time because they're both different and they both have opinions and they don't always get along. But luckily they, they're smart enough that they know how to say I'm sorry and they know how

to see the other side of things. And at the end of the day, those relationships are all you got. Life's too short. It is too short to hold a grudge. Enjoy the moments. And just try to, just try to have your best year yet. work. Do it for yourself. Do it for yourself because if you don't do it, you're going to wait another year to do it. You won't do it that year. You're going to wait another year to do it. And you're

just going to keep kicking the can further and further and further. So do that thing you want to do. Change the one thing that you know you want to change for yourself. Do it. Just do it. Commit to it and do it. And it doesn't have to be big to start. It doesn't have to be a big change. It just has to be small, insignificant, marginal change every single day. And you're going to 365, you do something every single day for 365 days a year out of the year, you're going to see a big change. So just do that thing for yourself that you always wanted to do. You know, if you always wanted to travel, obviously, you know,

you got to get your finances in order. But if you want to, just like if you want to go hit the gym, go hit the gym, if you want to go read 10 pages like I do, read 10 pages a night. You know, it's easy we can all do it, but, you know, just do it, just do it. You know? Never stop learning. Never stop learning. Yep, for sure. And do your own research. That's the, we need to have that on a T-shirt for sure. But do your for sure. Yeah, it's been a great year, guys. We appreciate every single one of you guys.

We love every single one of you guys. It just, it's been a great ride. And I cannot, cannot, cannot wait to see where 22 takes us. It's, it's going to be an awesome year. And I'm just excited. So, and I hope you guys are excited too. And we will see you guys back here next Friday. Have a great New Year's Eve, by the way. Happy New Year.