Barn Talk - Taking Back Freedom In America

Episode Date: May 6, 2022

Welcome to Barn Talk, Mean Tweets edition! Well, It happened. As we speculated last time, Elon did the deal that the Left didn’t want done. Today we're going to dig down on the details of the Twitter purchase. We also have a new StarWars movie coming out called “The Ministry Of Truth- Origins of Palpatine” No, No, It’s a Joe Biden board. What? Sounds like something from the evil empire! Maybe it is? Vegan’s glue their hands to the counter at Starbucks. We can't get any corn planted,  And, any other stories going on in this crazy, crazy world of late. Pay the fee! 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 Follow Behind The Scenes👇🏻 ● This’ll Do Farm Instagram ➱ https://bit.ly/30KPBNk ● Barn Talk TikTok ➱ https://bit.ly/3qciekS ● Sawyer’s Instagram  ➱ https://bit.ly/3BtX0n4 ● Tork’s Instagram ➱ https://bit.ly/3LGZJxS ------------------------------- ***PLEASE NOTE*** Barn Talk is a significant break from the typical content viewers have come to expect from This’ll Do Farm. Please be advised that we will be exploring a wide variety of topics (some adult-themed) and our younger viewers (and their parents) should be advised that some topics will be for mature audiences only. ⚠NO FINANCIAL ADVICE / DISCLAIMER⚠ The Information discussed and shared on Barn Talk is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or success for any particular purpose. The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice. The Information on this podcast and provided from or through our content is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented on this podcast without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional, professional broker or financial advisory. Understand that you are using any and all Information available on or through this website at your own risk. RISK STATEMENT– The trading of Bitcoins, alternative cryptocurrencies, NFTs, individual stocks, etc. has potential rewards, and it also has potential risks involved. Trading may not be suitable for all people. Anyone wishing to invest should seek his or her own independent financial or professional advice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This Friday, be the first to experience it only in theaters. In light of the recent scandal, I'm here to restore your credibility. Oh, because we're a team now. That's a nice story. The Devil Wears Prada 2 in Theaters Friday. Why do you ultimately think that dairy milk was cheaper? So that just tells you that the reason they're doing that is because of just cost and with the supply chain and with the manufacturing that goes into squeezing almonds

really hard to get the milk out of them. This is a joke, by the way. We know almonds aren't squeezable. Well, I used to think that you could milk their almond. I thought that they had some teets on them. Well, I thought they just got like, I thought it was child labor. because it takes somebody with very small hands to milk and almond. And then I figured out, well, that can't be right.

So I figured they must just squeeze them really hard. Well, you would have been working there. I would have been. I would have been the plant manager, just milking those almonds. All of the food we eat and much of the clothing we wear comes from plants and animals that are raised on farms. Farms are different in type, in size, and even in name. Welcome to Barn Talk, Mean Tweets Edition.

Well, it happened. As we speculated last time, Elon Musk did the deal that the left, did not want to be done. So today, we're going to dig down to the on to the details of the Twitter purchase. Great news. There's a brand new Star Wars movie out. It's called The Ministry of Truth Origins of Palpatine. No, no.

It's a Joe Biden board. What? Yeah. Well, that sounds like, it sounds like something like from the evil empire. Maybe it is. But all I know is there's vegans out there that are gluing their hands to the countertops at Starbucks, and we're going to cover that as well. And the other thing that we can't seem to get done around here is we can't get any corn

planted because it's just raining and the temperature in the morning is just too damn low and the soil temp's too low and it's just a disaster. It's a disaster. It is kind of a crapshoot. And if you all of a sudden sound like somebody's shooting at us, it's because a thunderstorm could break out at any minute. And the barn is not all that well buffered from that sound on that tin roof. So we think that all the storms are passed.

Yeah, we sat here for a little bit just waiting out the storm. We also got bird noises. I don't know if there's a bird in here for it's on the outside, but we don't have a BB gun sitting with us or a 22, so we can't just... Not a very good shot anyway. Not a very good shot. We don't want to do that anyway. But if you hear any birds, bear with us on that as well.

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It all helps. It really does. Market update? Yeah. The market update's going to be very abbreviated today. So the commodity markets aren't a lot different from the last time that we talked. I think wheat might have had a little pressure because there was some rain in the Midwest, but there again, they're just trading the rumor because it isn't going to change the actual amount of grain that's in the world. So I think it'll all come back. And beans got helped a little bit because this cold weather, there's some guys around here that've had beans in the ground for two weeks, I think. and it had you know usually you can speculate a little bit and get some beans in and then if you feel like that weather's going to turn they'll just sit there and wait for it i don't know it it doesn't look

good right now um as far as turning around and getting those temperatures i mean we can't even get out of the 60s barely most days aren't even in the 60s and so i don't know we're we're waiting it's too wet now and um we'll see what this week does but uh As far as the business side of things, a lot of quarterly results were released this last week, and Amazon missed. Part of that was because they had a big loss from Rivian, because when Rivian went public, the electric truck company, the stock was valued pretty high,

and it's dropped quite a bit since then because they're not getting along very well, getting very many trucks made, so they're missing their production targets. So I think Amazon had like a $5 billion charge off on that because of the value of their stock. Did they split? Or when are they splitting? Oh, I don't know when they're splitting. I don't think they've... I think they're splitting in June.

Yeah. Maybe... Or is that Google? No, it's Amazon. They're doing a 20-for-one. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it has yet.

But anyway, that was a disappointment. Ford missed. Ford lost money. but they lost money partially because they had an investment in Rivian. So Rivian hasn't helped anybody, but they're rolling out the Ford Lightning as fast as they can. And I think all the pressure is on them. You know, if they can execute that and get that going,

it'll go a long ways to helping them out. GM, that thing's a train wreck. I think Mary Barr, somebody ought to fire her because it's fun to watch her answer questions, because she does a great job. She should be a politician. I mean, she already kind of is, but she does a great job of not answering any question

that gets put in front of her. She just spins it around and throws some thing they're doing to take care of it. And then Twitter missed. And so Elon, we'll get into that, but I think that's part of the reason why he got it bought was because they knew they were going to miss, and they did. Their ad revenue was down,

and I think their subscriber or their traffic was down. So the stock market is just kind of a mess. It is kind of a mess. Everything's down. Hell, the S&P 500 is down. Everything. Time to buy. When there's blood in streets.

That's the time to be in buying. It's on sale. It's on sale. So we'll see. We'll see how that goes this week. Yeah. So did Tesla miss? You don't have to go on down a whole rabbit hole here.

but no Tesla didn't miss Tesla crushed record like record so just a little tidbit GM and Ford they gave their quarterly results and just for reference Tesla makes roughly five times as much money per vehicle they sell as what Ford and GM do so it's it's crazy in fact, Tesla made more money off of the million cars they sold than Ford made off of all the cars they sold. I don't even know what it was, but anyway. And I think GM, they were very close to GM, but yeah, they crushed it, but the stock's down 20%.

So it's a good time to buy Tesla stock. And most of that's because of the macro environment. And by that, I mean about, 45% of Tesla's stock is owned by institutional investors. And so when you have all of this uncertainty about him buying Twitter, Elon buying Twitter, and people weren't sure how he was going to fund that. And he did sell, I think he sold $8 billion worth of stock because he's got to come up with the money to pay part of that. I think he's putting in $21 billion into that Twitter deal. and then he's got backers, banks that are putting up the rest.

But everybody knew he was going to have to come up with some money. Anyway, he sold stock. And so, you know, everybody's speculating about that. And so a lot of your institutional investors, they're just going to sit on the sidelines. So even though Tesla had great results, the stock's not going to go anywhere. In fact, it may even go down

because a lot of the big players are reluctant to get in when there's all this uncertainty. They want a momentum trade. and so when the stock, you know, when it's got a tailwind and it's going up, it's easy to pile in and get your run it up a little bit, get out, then buy it again, go again. So I don't think much is going to happen even though they had excellent results. But it's all tied together. That's the thing is now, for whatever reason, you know, Tesla and Twitter,

and it's always been that a little bit with Tesla and SpaceX, but because SpaceX is private, it isn't as big a deal. And eventually, when Twitter is done and it's private, it won't be a big deal either. But right now, in this transition time, the next month, you're going to have a lot of, you're going to have a lot of just every day. There's going to be some bullshit story, you know, that CNBC or the street or Barron's or Forbes or whoever's running, because it's all news. And so they're going to play with it.

Tesla's been probably the most scrutinized stock ever in history. Oh, yeah. Every single day there's something new on Tesla. And really, you just got to block out the noise and dig in and find the reasons why it's invaluable company. Yeah. It's just like regular media. Yeah.

Without finance, any kind of media nowadays, they like the headlines because it's the ratings. They go where the eyes are. Right. I mean, I'll give you a good example. I own just a little bit of seaboard, and that's a very uninteresting stock. The only reason I own some of it is because seaboard is the parent company of the hog. They have a hog division, seaboard that's located out in Oklahoma. I think that's Oklahoma, the Panhandle, but they're partners in triumph.

And they're into international shipping. they're into power generation, they're into all kinds of stuff. It's a big conglomerate, but I bought some stock in it a few years ago. And if you look at the news every day on stocks, like Seaboard will go months. Like it might be six months before there's a story about Seaboard, because nobody cares. It's not interesting. Tesla, there's eight stories a day about it. Most of them aren't even true.

It's just people just hype in this and hype and this. that and that's what they're doing because the eyes are on it so that was a little rambling that's all right or so it kind of ties into exactly what we're going to get into to start Elon buys Twitter for 44 billion dollars which is crazy it's crazy we're sitting here a week ago we were like is he going to get it done it didn't look like he's going to get it done looks like they were going to do what do you what do poison pill poison pill on him and he wasn't going to be able to do it but you kind of heard a perspective on it and how he got it done and why he got it done. How did he pull it off and kind of explain your theory on it?

It's a little deeper than kind of what a lot of people, because people just think he just snapped his fingers and got it because he's Elon Musk, but I think there was a little bit of strategy in there that not a lot of people know about. Yeah, he definitely did have a lot of strategy in it, and I don't know if this was him personally that figured this out or somebody that he had working with him.

And honestly, we'll never know if this is even true. And I've got to give credit. I heard this from Tom Nash. So Tom Nash is a guy who's got his own YouTube channel. He used to work for a financial firm, and he went on his own. I think he just runs a family office, and he puts out videos. But Sharp Cat, and it actually dawned on him just right as it was being announced. But if you go back a little bit, Elon started accumulating shares in Twitter gradually over time,

started three months ago, I think, maybe. And he built up this position, and you can do that without having to tell anybody that you've done it. Because, you know, it's just like when individuals, yeah, when you and me or anybody else buy stock, you don't have to tell anybody. But when you get to a point that you own a big enough percentage of the company, then you have to file a form with the FCC or the SEC. And he did that, and nobody really thought about the timing of it. But what Tom's point was, is that he could have, he could have crossed that threshold of where he had to report it. He could have done that really about any time, but he chose to do it at the time he did because what ended up happening,

at the end of the day, the reason that the Twitter board ended up accepting this offer is because of the way that Elon proceeded through his steps. They had no time. And by that, now that they've reported, we can talk about, Twitter missed. So they missed on their earnings, And they're... For the quarter. Yeah, for that quarter. So he saw what was coming with Netflix. And when Netflix reported, the stock dropped 30%.

Because they missed. Because they missed. And, you know, the whole economy is kind of in the shitter right now. So these tech companies, if they hit, basically, the stock may just kind of stay the same. But if they miss, it's going down. It's going down hard for at least. a while because everybody's in a panic. Okay, well, when he announced, when he filed that form and then Twitter came and they wanted to play nice with him, he played along with that,

but I don't think that he ever had any intention of taking a seat on the board, but he kind of played it to buy himself some time because he knew that they were going to miss. He, you know, earnings call. He knew the earnings call was coming. He looked at it and he knew chances are they're not going to beat. At best, they're going to, they're going to hit maybe where their target is, but more than likely they're going to miss. So he kind of sandbagged, and he let him offer that chair, and he talked to the chairman of the board and the chief financial officer, and all that went down through the end of that week, and then over that weekend, he said, he came to the conclusion that he wasn't going to do it, and he made the offer of 54-20. Or, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, 54-20 a share. Okay. So then the board, they were debating about what to do. Well, they knew they knew that they had to report the following week. So by the time this all got rolling, they only had a matter of days to try to find somebody that would be more palatable to them to purchase the company.

And there wasn't anybody out there. Nobody was going to stick their neck out and buy it. And so, and they knew that if they didn't take his offer of 5420, when the stock had been $30, if they didn't take that. And then they missed. And they miss. And the stock drops. And then he sold his. And then he dumps his shares because they screwed the pooch. He, when he would do it, he would dump his shares, which would drive the stock down even further. And then publicly, the persona of Elon getting out would even drop it even more. Right. And the board would end up getting sued because the shareholders would file a suit against him against the board for not doing what was in the best interest of the shareholders. So they had that hanging over them. So at the end of the day, they had three days to make a decision. Pretty much. To make a decision on. That's about right. Two to three days to find somebody better than Elon to sell it to. Yeah. And they didn't do themselves any favors. As I told you last time, they hired the bank that they hired to explore what it was worth. they actually had a sell, they had a sell recommendation on the stock, and they were basically telling people to short the stock before Twitter hired him to do it. Morgan Stanley, that's who it was. They hired Morgan Stanley to do it. Well, anyway, long, you know, long story long, he played that well, but I rambled a little bit.

He played that really, really well. And, you know, it could be that that was dumb luck, but I don't think it was. I think he knew exactly what he was doing, clear back when he made the decision to buy that last bit that put him over the hump that he had to file that because when he did that it put tesla's board in a tight spot and when he's board yeah twitter's board in a tight spot and they really had no choice but to take that offer so anyway that's that's kind of my and there again i'll i'll totally give credit i hadn't thought about it till i until I listen to Tom Nash and it totally made sense to me. He's a pretty sharp guy.

I feel like a lot of the stuff that we see for me on this isn't the first instant of that. Like he doesn't, he doesn't show you what's all going on behind the scenes until something's done. He's done this before with like stuff he tweets about. Yeah. And then stuff, good stuff happens to him.

He's just smart with what he, he knows what he's doing. He's five steps. ahead of people. Well, it's just like when he, when he tweeted out, should I start a social media platform? Yeah. You know, that was clear.

When he put that out, that was like the first. And meanwhile, he's buying shares. He's already buying shares. He's already buying shares of Twitter. So he knows. So I feel like that was just an indicator for him, man, I want to see how many people would actually like if I start a platform.

Damn well knowing I'm buying Twitter shares right now. See, that makes it even think, that makes you think even more that it was. thought out. He knew what he was doing. Yeah. I think something that's surprising, though, is the reaction, the way over the top reaction that people

have gone. I mean, it is what's really crazy to me is Elon Musk is not a conservative. Yeah. I mean, I would say he's absolutely I think he's a libertarian.

Absolutely. I guarantee it is. but he has a lot of very liberal views, but his overarching, like, his due north is... He's a capitalist. He's a capitalist, and he's a free speech guy, and yeah, pretty much libertarian, the fact that government should not be involved in your day-to-day lives. And I told Sawyer just today, I think, you know, isn't it ironic or whatever you want to say that I am sure that there is a, large demographic of people that would consider themselves very progressive, very liberal, that all own Tesla automobiles because of the environmental side of it and everything that Elon, you know, stands for up until the point that he buys Twitter. And now they are just like,

they're just churning because they don't they don't know what to do because on the one hand you know they here they thought that he was their savior for for mother earth because to them environmentalism is like a religion but then shutting down conservative voice that's like a whole other religion to them and so they're so convicted is you know what they don't know they don't know what to do yeah yeah it's crazy i've seen a lot of positive i mean i guess i don't follow a lot of of left-leaning people on Twitter, but from what I've seen, a lot of people are on board with it.

And there's so many people that are happy that the platforms change. I've seen so many conservative people in politics. Ted Cruz, for example, he grew his following in two days by 500,000. You went from 4.5 to 5 million

in two days. Because of the shadow banning and the bots and all that stuff and Elon's already kind of putting halt to it and like he's growing now he's actually getting exposure versus when it wasn't owned by you on it was getting shut down and i feel like the other part of it is there is a heck of a lot of conservative people that have left twitter because they were just tired of it they were tired of every time that they commented on something that it got taken down or they got thrown in they got

insane amount of bots that would comment and and now a lot of those people are coming back and so the platform, you know, it's going to be interesting to see how much the platform shrinks or grows because you know the same people that, you know, everybody is going to take their music off Spotify over Joe Rogan. And that's a total side note. I don't know if we commented on that, but... Oh, I think it's going to explode. Joe, I think Twitter's going to explode. That deal with Joe Rogan, when that was all done, how many followers he grown? Two million. Yeah. So from, from Rocking in the Free World, what's that guy's name? I don't know. Oh, gosh.

You would know better than me. Yeah, anyway, the singer that was going to go, that took his music off, you know, when that all went down, you know, they were basically trying to cancel Joe. And the flip side of it is when it's all, and it's still not done, but they've pretty much given up on it because they, it didn't work. He's actually grown two million subscribers from when that all started. And Twitter, you know, you've got all these people out here that are saying, you know, they're going to leave Twitter, leave the platform,

but you've got people coming and when it's all said and done it'll be interesting to see how it grows i think it'll have the same impact i think it'll be the same way that rogan's podcast grew yeah because there's i think there's more people that are freedom leaning in this country than there are extreme left and i think the more people i think the more businesses the more corporations the more platforms stand for pro freedom, the more people are going to get onto those platforms, get on to those, go to those businesses, do anything that's, that those companies,

if those companies support freedom, they're going to be for it. Yeah. So, and I think it's going to explode. I wanted to throw in here, do you think Elon is, is the hero that American needs? Because last week I said,

I was kind of skeptical. Is Elon playing the part like he's for the American people? And then he's bought by elitist, Or is he actually who he says that he is, you know, who he appears to be, which is this freedom, freedom warrior and, you know, this really the best billionaire we've ever seen, to be completely honest with you, as far as being for the people. And so far, I mean, like, over the last week, it's really been, it's really been awesome to see he's really active on Twitter and, like, he's putting his opinions out on there

and just showing people that he truly is for, I think he is, I believe him, that he's, that I think he is a freedom warrior and he is for the people and he is pro freedom of choice and he's not playing a part. I'm starting to form that opinion more and more. If you go off of the moves that the left have made, so if you go off of Elizabeth Warren and off of Joe Biden's Ministry of Truth that we'll get into a bit and the rhetoric coming out of Washington, D.C., you certainly wouldn't think that he was any kind of. kind of friend of that kind of politics because the blood is shooting out of their eyes over this. They're scared to death and CNN, well, this kind of all, it's so funny because this all happened

at the same time that I don't know exactly what the corporate, how the buy, the back and forth went, but long story short, CNN ended up being owned by Warner Brothers or Discovery Network or whatever. I don't know who the parent company is, but they launched CNN Plus when they started their streaming service, and the ratings and the viewership was so poor, they canceled it a month in because nobody, nobody wants to pay for, nobody wants to pay to be depressed. And I mean, that's all CNN is, is gloom and doom all the time, but we're getting off. Why don't you talk about, just it's it's very entertaining to me in the morning when i get up and trish and i are drinking coffee i always like to peruse twitter and see you know what's going on in the world but uh just

the elon tweets are always yeah always entertaining i got a list of just my favorite tweets from elan so far after he's bought in twitter and these are just these are just good um for if you're somebody that's in the middle or you feel like you're pro freedom it's it's really these tweets just make you feel good to see. The far left hates everyone themselves included, but I'm no fan of the far right either. Let's have less hate and more love. Boom. That's a good one. I can agree with that. I can get with that. I think most Americans can get with that. For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally. So let's get back to being more united. Let's come back to the middle where I think a lot of people in

America live. We all kind of live in the middle, but they want to tell us we're either extreme left or extreme right. And I think Elon is in the middle just like us, which is awesome to see. He's, politically, he's where most people are, which makes you feel good. And then last one that I have, I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means. Boom. I love that one because it's like, he's standing by, he doesn't care if his, even if his critics are on Twitter. He's going to allow them to say what they want to say, because that's what matters. That's what free speech stands for. That's what makes America great. And I got one more I want to share because AOC came at Elon. She came at Elon. Well, she said she

didn't go at Elon after he roasted her in the comments replying to her tweet, but she pretty much said, tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening because some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and excuse it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special. And then Elon literally replied, stop hitting on me. I'm really shy. And that tweet exploded. And then she responded and said, I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about Zuckerberg. She was covering her. Oh, yeah. But she was totally talking about Elon. And oh, man, that tweet exploded when he liked that. And I saw another one was just like, Elon a single-hand. destroying wokeness.

Like he's just single handily destroyed wokeness in a single, in a week. And it's like, and I saw someone say, would I rather have Elon solve world hunger with 44 billion or destroy wokeness? I take wokeness. Destroy wokeness. It's, it's really, it's really nice to see,

like I said, last week I was like, you know, I was wondering if he was bought and paid for if he was for the people. And the more and more that I see this kind of stuff, it makes me feel good and makes me feel like Elon is on our side. He truly is on our side with good intentions. And this is exactly what America needs. Yeah. It truly is. Do you think the value, do you think Twitter will ever go public after he takes private? Oh yeah. You think he'll go public again and what do you think will happen? Do you think it'll explode in the next decade?

There are some, there was quite a few people on, on mainstream media that were saying, basically saying that is that is buying Twitter the best use of Elon's money couldn't he have spent that on some better the cause the most popular one was world hunger and he had a great tweet back to that like well your elected government officials have thrown and he had the number of how many trillion dollars has been spent on world hunger over the last how many years and he and basically he was saying well why don't you why don't you ask your elected officials what you've gotten in return for all the money that you've all put towards doing that. Well, and he also said, give me the plan and then I'll fund it. Yeah. If you give me a plan on how you're going to do it, then I'll fund it. Right.

But getting back to your point about will Twitter come back to be in public 100%. So people are real hung up on how is Elon going to fund this? And is this going to be a distraction from Tesla? And, you know, is this going to hurt the stock price? Because the, so Tesla was down 20, 20%, something like that. I can't remember what percentage is down, but it lost like $26 billion in market value or something like that. He is going to take Twitter, private,

he is going to fix a lot of the problems. He's going to add a lot of features that is going to make the platform more valuable and more inclusive to people. he's going to make it easier to use. People are going to, he's going to grow the audience, he's going to grow the number of people that use it. And I would not be surprised at all

if in two years from now he could turn around and take it public. And I would be willing to bet you that when he does take it public, it'll be worth double what he paid for it. So all the people that are whining about what he could do with his money, well, just wait.

Because when he's done and he says, sells out. He's going to have twice as much money from this project as he did when he started. And I don't think people understand his ability to problem solve. And he has no time. The number of people that are probably going to get shit canned from Twitter is immense. Because one of the things that he tweeted out, another tweet he had was when they were offering him a board seat, he said, well, why don't we just turn Twitter headquarters into a homeless shelter? Because no, Nobody works there anyway because they all work from home and basically saying he doesn't know what all those people do anyway. If there's ever a place where Tesla's AI may hit the ground running and they start using Dojo as a service, Twitter,

I really think that these platforms have had a little bit too much power and the censorship was becoming ridiculous. So I'm happy. I think it's a massive problem that he's solving. I think it's great that he spent four. $44 billion on Twitter because I think he's going to give us the first real free speech platform that we haven't had in a long time. Long time. And I think it's a real problem that he's solving there. So I see it as a problem. He is problem solving a massive issue in our society right now.

Yeah. We want, we're craving real. We're craving to be connected together and we're craving to be united again. And we're craving freedom. As Americans, we're craving freedom. And he's going to give us a platform to be able to do that. So I'm all about it, and I think he's going to deliver. And apparently, the Biden administration, what you just said, I think it must scare the

bejesus out of him because during, so during a budget meeting where they drug the head of Homeland Security, he's the Secretary of Homeland Security. his name is Alejandro Macarrocus. Yeah, something. And by the way, they asked him a very, did you see the very pointed question that was asked to him? They asked him about, there's a list of, I don't know, 40-some cartel members or all around bad people

that were basically thought to have crossed the border. and they asked him if he had any idea of the whereabouts, whether they'd been caught and deported, whether they had actually entered the country or whether they were in custody. And he said he didn't know. He didn't know. And he's the head of Homeland Security.

And I mean, they just beat that like a drum. But anyway, through this whole thing, and they were talking about budget and the money they were spending, he, and I don't think he was supposed to let this cat out of the bag, but he did. He said that there is a board, and it's called the minimum,

of truth and Joe Biden started it and then after they got out of got that out of this guy they jumped Jen Pesuckey about it and she fumbled around because she was trying to run interference for him and she said that yeah that the president had put this forward because there was a need for it because all of the poor minority minority intercity people they needed them to to stop the spreading of misinformation for their benefit because they can't they're not smart apparently now i'm you know i'm i'm i'm speculating but you know if you need them to tell you what you should believe or what you shouldn't believe then your powers of rational thought must not be very good which tells me that they're basically just saying that well if you're poor or you're a minority or live in the

inner city you're dumb and we're gonna we're gonna tell you what the information that you need you don't need to think about it we'll just feed you the information we want you to see because you're dumb we don't care what you, what you see, and we don't think you can think for yourself. Which is... They literally flat out said it was for the four minorities to stop the spread of misinformation for minorities and lower class people.

Yes. I mean... You know, for... How stupid do you think Americans are? Like, that doesn't even sound good coming out of your mouth. If you ask most people who would put themselves in this side of the political spectrum, and you asked them why they join,

that side, I think the majority of people would say that that side had the reputation of being for people, being caring, and caring about people. But when everything they do is to divide people, to marginalize people, put them us in categories, race, and pin us against each other, and then basically say that we're too damn dumb to think for themselves, or to think for ourselves, and we need big brother. And the, the Georgia, Orwell similarities and, you know, people pointing out, you know, I'm not going to go into all of them, but if you look it up, throughout history, there's been a few not so colorful

or not so good dictators that have had boards called the Ministry of Truth. Yeah, it's fucking communism. I mean, this is communism 100%. This is not America. This is not freedom. This is communism. And the whole reason they started it wasn't for that. they made that bit for, oh, it's for minorities, which sounds shitty.

I don't even know why you would say that. It's terrible. But let's be real, the reason they started it is because they fear the shit out of Elon Musk in Twitter. They're scared. They're scared as shit. Why do they want to be able to tell you what to think? Because they are, they no longer can censor conservatives' minds on there. They don't want us to be united.

They don't want us to come together and share our thoughts. They want to divide us. just like you said. And Twitter's giving us the chance to come together with different views, not have spam bots, not have, what do you call it, shadow banning.

But to have two sides come together and discuss things and share things without any skewing of any truth, they want to shut that down because they don't have the power anymore. And they don't want us to be free, and they don't want us to be united. Power is the whole thing. At the end of the day,

they fear more than anything else, and they've always hated capitalism. Most people hate capitalism because, and they, you know, capitalism isn't perfect, obviously because there's winners and losers, and they hate that because they don't want there to be winners and losers, everybody to be the same. But when you boil it all down, what it comes, in my mind, what it comes down to is they don't like the idea of people who can think for themselves that can go find information on what they want to know, make their own decisions, and then if you do that long enough,

you'll start to realize that you're in charge of your own destiny and you start getting funny ideas about how to make a little extra money, how to save a little extra money, how to invest a little money, how to maybe start a second side hustle, how to invest, how to buy a rental property. How to take care of your health, your happiness, your wealth. They don't, the thing is, they don't,

want to teach, they, wake up. They don't teach you this shit. They don't want you to teach you. They don't want us to learn this shit. And the more that they can take you away, and if they can skew the information to whatever they want us to see and hear and listen to, so we can't be independent, they, that's exactly what they want. They don't want us to be independent thinkers. They don't want us to be free thinking.

They want to control us. And that is the proof. I mean, this is proof. This is a flat out board that is trying to, you know, that is trying to, you know, and to censorship us because they're fucking scared of Elon Musk and Twitter. They want to make the decision of what you should be able to hear, see, what information you should be able to get. If that doesn't scare you, you have a serious problem. This is a serious, serious issue. And I don't care if you voted for Joe Biden or not.

You have a serious problem if you're okay with this. Yeah. If you think the government has your best interest in mind, why didn't they teach you about health? Why don't they teach you about making money. Why don't they teach you on how to be more happy as a person? Because they don't give a shit. They don't care. They would teach you about money. They would teach you about investing, but they don't. They would teach you how to take care of your health so you don't end up in a hospital because they want to treat what you have at the hospital with a pill, but they don't want to teach you on how to take care of your basic health so you don't end up in the hospital. They're not interested in that. They don't care. Yeah, you kind of jumped off on that. But going back to

to that, this all kind of started with COVID-19. This whole idea of fake news and false information and flag and stuff, you all saw that. When they hijacked all of the social media and got them tied up in it to where if you said COVID, instantly it got flagged as you should go to this, you should go to this to learn more and don't get your information from here. But a really interesting point, and I feel like more and more people are kind of bringing this up.

Through that, what they tell everybody to do? They told you to go stay home, don't do anything. So basically, don't get any sunlight. And one of the best things for COVID was vitamin D, vitamin C, get out and exercise. They didn't talk. They shut down the gyms. They shut down the gyms. Can't go to the parks.

Can't do any of that shit. But that was really just a, I mean, this has been going on for a long time. The government. loves health care as far as a business. So the health care system in the United States is the best in the world if I'm in a car wreck, if I get run over by whatever, if I get shot, it's the best in the world. But if I'm a little chunky and I want to get fit, if I go to my doctor and ask him what I should do, is he going to is he going to prescribe to me what foods i shouldn't eat put me in touch with a nutritionist uh prescribe me uh an exercise plan is he going to cure the disease is he going to cure

and help the the problem or is he just going to give you something he's going to give me a pill for my high cholesterol yeah not tell me that i shouldn't you know are they going to get to the root of the issue or are they just going to solve the minor thing the minor problem you have that's because of the issue, the underlining issue. And that's what's so funny, because on the one hand, we're kind of straying around a little bit, but on the one hand, our government, they don't like capitalism as far as for the individual,

but for the giant machine of the medical community for big pharma, they love that. They love that because they can control it, because they've gotten that through mergers and acquisitions, the number of drug companies has gotten smaller and smaller, and they've gotten very involved in politics, the lobbying, the money they spend in lobbying. I mean, just look at the COVID vaccine. I mean, that was like a private public partnership between the government.

It basically is like the military industrial complex, all the defense contractors, only now it's all the drug contractors. And it's an incestuous relationship. And it's in none of their best interest to prescribe to you. to be your own advocate for your health. Or wealth or happiness. They want you dependent. The gist of this whole thing and, you know,

talking about the Ministry of Truth is dependency. Yeah, it's not, like, don't just take our word for it, but just really think about it. I mean, just think about it in your own life. Like, it happens to all of us. Like, you don't learn these things, and they don't want you to learn. The biggest thing that you can do, like,

to combat what's happening against the left and against taking away our rights and taking away our freedoms is just become the best version of yourself you possibly can be and become a free-thinking human. That's what you can do because they hate that. They hate that. They do not want that. And if this doesn't prove that to you, I don't know what else will. I mean, your life, you've probably seen a little bit of this proof, but this just puts the icing on the cake. they literally want to skew the information that you see because they know we're on these a lot. They know.

Yeah, and they don't want you to think for yourself. They don't. Because they're afraid that you're going to come to the wrong conclusion in their eyes. Yeah. And the wrong conclusion would be that you're self-sufficient and you don't need government. And they don't want that. They want you in every aspect of your life,

if it can be a situation where somehow you need government, that is exactly what they're looking for. Cradle to the grave. you need government. And if anything that strays from that path is, and that's where this kind of stuff comes from. And we say it all the time on the show, but if you think the government has your best interest in mind,

you need to go dig because that's not the truth. Your whole lot, it's not the truth. It's not. And these last two, three years have been nothing more than just fall. I mean, it's just been insane. And it doesn't seem like they do have our best. interest in mine. It sure doesn't seem like it. And this, like I said,

it's the icing on the cake. It's just, it pisses me off and it's communist. So there's a lot to watch because this is all rolling up at the same time. You know, I don't know what the time frame is for when that acquisition by Elon of Twitter. I don't know how long it will take for that to close.

We're also going into an election. So the rhetoric on both sides is really going to ratchet up. The Biden administration is looking for anything that they possibly can throw out there to say that it's a win. But I mean, this guy's law, I mean, pretty much every turn, we said that last time, pretty much everything that you could not have go your way is what has happened. I mean, they haven't won on anything. And I don't think it's going to get any better. Well, what they're scared of, what they're scared of about Twitter is because midterms are coming up.

Oh, I know. And so they're shitting their pants because they know that they have to get on it, and this is a way of getting on the fire. They're trying to put out the fire as fast as they possibly can because they know midterm elections are coming. And if Twitter is the free battlefield

where you can put out whatever the hell you want and no bots are going to shut it down, no shadow banning is going to happen where they just shadow ban the Republicans and then the left has their stuff blow up on Twitter because that's what's been happening. Right. All these Republicans, their stuff gets shadow ban

where it doesn't perform as well as the left stuff blows up. Unless you're a rhino, unless you're a Republican that really isn't doing any good for the Republicans. Right, right. If you're bought and paid for it doesn't matter. If you're Mitch McConnell, your shit will show up easy because he's worthless. Exactly. That's what's been happening.

And so now that that's gone, and midterms are coming, they are shitting their pants. They're shitting their pants and it's just so funny that they gave that excuse about trying to look out for the minorities yeah and out for the minorities what a shit excuse oh yeah well that that's what the it's all for the children it's all for the minorities it's all for the underprivilege everything they do is done out of love as far as it's you know whatever damn the um damn the repercussions we don't care who we

hurt as long as it's a good photo off there's a lot of there's a lot of parallels with this one this that statement that she made with the voter ID thing. Voter ID laws. Oh yeah, 100%. They think that black Americans, most of them don't have an ID and that it's racist that we require IDs at voting polls. I've seen countless videos of people going on the street and asking black Americans, do you know where the vote, do you know where to go vote when it comes time to vote? Yeah. Do you have an ID? Yeah. Well, did you see that, They're saying that it's racist to have voter ID laws because they think black people don't have IDs and it's hard to vote for you guys to vote. And they said, no, I didn't see that, but that's,

that's messed up. They think that's messed up because, I mean, how insulting is that? Yeah. As, as, I mean, I just, you're literally getting insulted as a whole race. They're insulting you saying you don't know how to vote and you don't, most of you don't have an ID. So it's racist. We're going to help you out. shit. All they want, all they want is these borders are wide open. Southern border is wide open. A bunch of illegal immigrants are coming and they want nothing more than to restrict voter ID at these polling stations. Polling stations. So illegal immigrants can vote left because they know, they know they've lost a lot of people's votes here in America and they need every vote that they can get.

They need every vote that they can get. Well, they just need. to get enough votes that they can flip Texas. If you can flip the electoral college, get Texas, then it doesn't matter basically because you got Californians in the bag, New York's in the bag, and- And you can say we got our tinfoil hat on, but geez, look at it. I mean, just look at it at a different perspective. How does that not make sense? And how is that not messed up that they say that? That's messed up. That's messed up that you're saying most black Americans don't know how to vote and don't have an ID. When then, when you have real people go on the street and ask black Americans, they're insulted by that statement and they show you that they got their ID and they know

where they go vote and they know how to vote on, you know, they know who I feel bad for. Who? All the Asians. Yeah. Asians are, they are the most screwed over minority there is. Nobody ever even talks about them. Nobody's worried about whether the Asians can vote. Nobody cares if they've got an ID or even if they know how to get an ID. I if here's the thing Asian Americans I think they're some of the wealthiest Americans in all the country

That's why they don't worry about them They don't bitch They put their head down They just go to work And they go to work And they get shit done And they know that America is the best country in the world And they seize the opportunity

But they don't nobody cares And I don't think they care that nobody cares I think they're too busy working They're kicking ass They're kicking ass and taking names Which is great Okay are you ready for a lighter.

Yeah, I'm just saying, I thought, you know, there's a lot of parallels with her statement about that. Oh, 100%. And the whole voter ID thing. And we haven't covered the whole voter ID thing. So I think that's messed up. But this is flat out communism and this is bullshit. If you're for this,

stop listening. Stop watching the show. I can't, I don't want you on, I don't want you listening or watching. If you're for that, no, don't be listening to watching the show. Seriously. I better, I better take the cooner.

You got to be honest with me there. I better take the, History of truth, you're, no. You can't be for the ministry of truth just because it sounds so evil. There's no, there's no middle on that. There's no middle ground on that. No, there's not. That's flat out, you are anti-American. You are anti-American and you want the government to stroke you off. That's, that's what it comes down to. Seriously, that's, that's, that's all I say about that. Fired up, I agree. I am fired up. It's bullshit. Well, that's good.

That's bullshit. Well, there were some fired up, there were some fired up, there were some fired up, vegan activists in Seattle, Washington. Can you believe that? Yeah, that's, I can't believe that. I can't believe that. It doesn't happen there very often. Tell me. Tell me what happened. So, protesters super glued themselves to the counter of Starbucks in Seattle to protest the company's changing, the company's charging more for vegan milk, almond milk, oat milk, than they are, than they are dairy, you know, the stuff that actually comes So if you want it. It's actually, you know, dairy.

Yeah, they're charging more for the vegan options versus actual dairy. So if you buy a coffee and you want cream in it, it's whatever. But if you want almond milk in it, it's an upcharge. And so they came in there hauling and they super glued their hands to the table and they were protesting that because they're pissed off. So they weren't leaving until they dropped the price. They're really pissed off. And why were they doing that? I mean, what?

They said. They said. And this is, these people were linked to PETA. So they were in, I don't know if they were part of the PETA group or whatever, but they were for PETA. They were for eating tasty animals? No, they weren't for that. Oh, the other PETA, the other people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I get them confused. They said Starbucks was penalizing those who are lactose intolerant, which, most of whom are people of color. That's what, that's what, that is what PETA said. they said that most of the lactose intolerant people are people of color. So they had to make it a race thing too. Not only did they have to come in there with their vegan views, but they also had to go even more extreme with it and tie it to race because we got to put the race card on it to make it even more of a headline.

So higher oat milk hurts lactose intolerant, minorities. Who else does it hurt? Oh, and environmentally, friendly or vegan people. Because squeezing almonds, apparently, is more energy efficient than getting milk out of a cow. I don't know how hard you have to squeeze an almond to get milk out of it. I mean, let's be honest. A.k.a. the woke, broke and weak.

Ooh, look at that. That's what it comes down there. Weak-ass-minded people right there. That's what it breaks. And what did Starbucks do? So Starbucks does what Starbucks does best, and they folded like one of the most worthless poker hands. you know, they, they, they just, they were falling all over themselves to a common. Yeah. Oh, of course.

I mean, they're left leaning as hell. So, you know, they're trying everything they can to appease these people. What would you have done in that situation? I, I said that I would have probably just left, left them, sit in there, and just would have kept serving customers. Well, depending on what time of day it was, I mean, I might have just closed early. Yeah. And just left.

Just left. Just leave them there. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah. You're stuck there, bud. I mean, I guess you'd be here in the morning. Yeah. They didn't get arrested. They got cops came, they arrested him, put them outside, asked them questions, and then

released them. They didn't even take them the jail. So what do you think, what do you think would have happened if they would have gone into a black rifle coffee store and done that? You know, I feel like that's one of the two that we said. I think they would have just left them. I feel like they would have gotten so many insults from people that are just saying, what are you doing?

What are you doing? came to get their coffee and they're just sitting at the counter. Duke, what are you doing? Get out of here. Yeah. Get out of here, dude. Go get a freaking life. And like, I don't know. It's, I heard a podcast and they were talking about this exact thing and they were saying, this is just a result of all those participation trophies and these people thinking that they, they are, they're smarter than what they think and they need all the attention in the world. And you really think that you super gluing your freaking hands to the counter at a Starbucks is going to

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Saving those children is how we all go home. From Binge All episodes exclusively on Paramount Plus. How did they get them off? Did they cut the countertop? I wonder how they got their hand off there. I wonder how they got it off too. I mean, I would have just gotten out the saws-all

and cut up the counter and said, here you go. Get out of here. Souvenier. Never come back. Or else take it. in the tube and then glued the other end or the other side of the countertop of their forehead. Yeah, I don't think Black Rifle Coffee Coat Company would have put up with that. Accommodated? No, and I will never go to a Starbucks ever.

I've never really supported. I've actually never been to Starbucks. I'm all the way, Black Rifle Coffee Company because they stand for veterans. They're conservative. And hell yeah, they're making franchises and they're going out and they're building more and more of them. So I hope they can overthrow Starbucks. I've actually got some stock of Black Rifle Company, coffee company, because I believe in them.

One, and two, I looked at Starbucks stock, and I can't remember the price, but I was like, Black Rifle was probably $20 cheaper, and they just went public a few months ago, maybe it was a year ago. It hasn't been very long that they were public, but I'm like, you know what, over my lifetime and how America's floating around,

I feel like more people are leaned towards pro-America companies, and they're the first pro-America coffee company. Yep. And Starbucks keeps doing more and more shit like this that's making more and more people just go away from Starbucks. I think Brock Rifle can... See, that's a beautiful thing.

That's the beautiful thing about capitalism. You made your bet. You're betting on your horse. I am. I'm betting on Black Rifle Coffee Company, and I wish that they could sponsor this podcast because that is a company I can get behind and I love their coffee.

If you've never had their coffee, go try it's amazing um no no shameless plug there but seriously it's really good so their packaging's badass just saying yeah they have good commercials yeah they do they do um yeah talk about uh why do you think why do you ultimately think that um dairy milk was cheaper well it all goes back to what we talked about last week you don't you don't think Starbucks is just evil towards the left and they no god no you know you and that's what's funny about these people Starbucks is their friend I mean, Starbucks is as woke as they are. So if Starbucks could some way incentivize somebody to get almond milk, they would.

If they could put almond cream in your coffee cheaper than dairy, they'd already be doing it because they're as woke as that guy that glued his hand at the table. Oh, there's two of them, by the way. Well, so that just tells you that the reason they're doing that is because of just cost and with the supply chain and with the manufacturing that, goes into squeezing almonds really hard to get the milk out of them. This is a joke, by the way. We know almonds aren't squeezable.

Well, I used to think that you could milk an almond. I thought that they had, they had some teets on them? Well, I thought they just got like, I thought it was child labor because it'd take somebody with very small hands to milk an almond. And then I figured out, well, that can't be right.

So I figured they must just squeeze them really hard. You would have been working there. I would have been. I would have been the plant manager, just milking those almonds. Anyway, I don't know how they make it, but my guess is that it's probably cheaper, easier, more efficient, and less freight to get actual dairy products to Starbucks than it is to truck almond milk from the two plants in the United States that makes it all over with all the stuff. I mean, I don't know, but it's probably just simple economics as to why it's cheaper. And it goes along with what we were talking about when we were talking about Prop 12 in California. I think that people that are really lit up about all these alternatives and all this, you know,

manufactured meat, like lab meat and cultured cell meat. All your specialty stuff, you're going to pay through the ass for that. Because as the supply chain breaks down and freight gets more expensive and it's harder to find people to work to do the jobs, these companies that are already charging a premium for their product because it's so good and it's going to save the planet and all that, you know, whatever, whatever story you want to spend, your costs are going to go up more so than the traditional. The traditional because timeless that's been working for hundreds of years. Well, yeah, right. And I think there's more and more people that are sick and tired of the new shit.

Like truly, I think there's been so much. much new shit peddled to us as just as a society. I love new shit. I'm going back. But no, but people are going back. I just bought cottage cheese and had pepper in it. Traditional things.

Like there's, you know, it's so funny. We have, we have, you know, vegans. And then now we have people that are going all carnivore.

Yep. And then we have people that are just like, I'm eating eggs, meat, uh, I'm eating butter. I'm doing, like,

I'm doing, it's the whole diet thing is just out of whack. There's so many people that are in so much. so many different things. But there's a whole group of people that are just like, I'm not going to eat anything that you guys make. I'm going to eat what the Lord makes, and I'm going to stick with that.

Yeah. And that's going to work for me. And what you do, you can do, but I'm just, I don't trust it. Yeah. And it's the food, the food thing is just like what we're talking about with them trying to censor information, like this new products, the plant-based burger, do I really trust what you're going to put in that burger?

or should I just go get the ground beef that I know is beef? Right. I mean, yeah, that's the thing. And that beef is going to be cheaper. Right. Because it's timeless. Yeah, that shaved ham is going to be cheaper than shaved whatever that stuff is. Yeah, because the supply chain's already there.

It's timeless. It's been working forever. Well, it's this, like we talked about last week, food insecurity, is that gets to be a bigger deal here in America. And, you know, you go to the grocery store. the shelves that are going to be empty first are all the specialty stuff that's going to be what's empty first so your traditional and so you know if you think oatmeal not not because the demand is so high right because the supply is so low right so if you want your oat milk that's fine i don't care but don't

think that it's going to get to be less money it's going to get to be more money so if it's 50 cents more now, wait six months. It's going to be a dollar more. So truly, to go all the way back around on this story, this guy really just shot himself in the foot because I don't think Starbucks was trying to support dairy because I don't think they want to support dairy. They just probably, it was a simple supply and demand thing. And the price of milk was easier to get. It was, it was, the price was probably cheaper and easier to get rather than get oat and almond milk. So obviously, they got to put those prices into place at their own places or at their own, you know, franchises because they got to still make money. They're a business. If they're good marketers at all,

what they'll do is say that they're going to make them, you know, they're not going to charge you a premium for the non-dairy. So then they'll just raise the price of the dairy to match the non-dairy, and then everybody can feel like they're getting a deal. Yeah, that's what I would do. Yeah. But I'm an evil capitalist. So, I mean, do you feel better, bud? I do. I feel pretty good. I feel like we, you know, guys, I know that we've been slowly starting to talk about politics more and more, but I really think it's important because I think there's a lot of people that relate to us, but you don't get to hear regular Joe's out there talking about the things that a lot of us Americans are thinking. You just don't hear it because a lot of people

are scared that they're going to get silenced or they're going to get canceled or they're going to get canceled or they just don't want to mess around and create a podcast. Yeah. So I just feel like it's really important to share our opinions on things because I think a lot of people can relate and they can go, you know what, I'm not, I'm not the only one thinking about that. Yeah, I'm not the silent majority that I've been painted to be. Yeah, and that's, that's a good point. We need to stay in the fuck up. This shit is out of whack and we need more and more people to come together, share our beliefs, share our opinions, and we can, I think we can come together and be united again. Yeah, and just, just know that if you do, if you do speak up, there's a 50,

somebody's going to try to shout you down because the pattern of the the pattern of the the woke side the the far left side is anybody that anybody that doesn't share their opinion they're not there's no way that they can win those arguments through just open debate what they sound crazy when they say what they really want when they really say what they actually want it sounds pretty crazy so anybody that stands up and says you know, that's, I don't agree with that. The first thing they're going to do is try to shout you down. And that's why people stay quiet is because most Republicans, well, most conservatives,

they believe in live and let live. You're welcome to your opinion. You know, it's not my opinion, but it's your opinion. But the problem is that when you're dealing with somebody that wants everybody's opinion to be their opinion and you don't have that opinion, their reaction is to shout you down. And so if you're in a situation like that, or you see somebody in a situation like that,

you know, we aren't going to be able to keep being the silent majority. We're going to have to put ourselves out there. And it's not comfortable. And, you know, it's not what you're used to. It's out of your comfort zone. But let me tell you something. It gets easier. It gets easier.

And the integrity, I mean, let's be honest, freedom is on the line here, folks. They're chipping away at your rights. They're chipping away at your freedoms. They have been chipping away. I mean, it's been prevalent in these last five years. They're chipping away. If we just keep letting them chip away,

your country for your kid, this country for my kids won't be what it was like when I grew up. It's not even, hell, it's not even like what it was when you grew up. And maybe there's good things in that, but there's also some things that, You know you wish it was. It was that way.

Well, but it's, we got to, we have more power now to share our opinions on things to come together. We have, we have more power than ever before. And it's just important because you can't be successful. If we talk about business on here,

we talk about investing on here, we're farmers, we're capitalists, we're entrepreneurs. But it doesn't freaking matter if our country. Fall apart. Isn't intact. It doesn't matter.

If we go communist and socialist, or socialist, it doesn't matter what we do because we can't get ahead no matter what. And there's no point of us talking about trying to be more successful or trying to share people's stories on how they started a business

or how they got better at farming because it doesn't matter because we're screwed at that point and you've lost America. It's fallen. The freedom is fallen. And we can't let that happen. Can't I let that happen?

I need the bomb button. When are you going to get me this bomb button? Both my grandpa's fought in wars and fought for this country and we can't let that go to Vate. You know, you just can't let that shit is, come on. I know.

I'm telling you, that's why we're doing this. That's why we're getting the word out. Yeah, so, you know, if you hate us talking about politics, just don't tune into these kinds of episodes, but this is important. Thank you to all of you that have been listening to our episodes that have been sharing the show, paying the fee. If you got any value, if you related to us on some things,

if you learned a new perspective, if you laughed, share the show, guys. We're trying to reach as many people as we've, possibly can. We're trying to do some good in this world. We're trying to save a Comerica, spread the word, and, you know, we're just trying to do some good in this world. That's what we always say. So just share the show, guys. And let us know what you think. And if you've got an idea, you've got something you want to talk about. We'll be doing a Q&A here before long, I'm sure. I think next episode we'll probably do a Q&A. And we're going to do some Q&A.

Literally, any questions you guys want to ask, ask away. Doesn't have to be any, it doesn't have to be ag-related. It can be anything you want. Ask. I don't even have to know anything about it and I'll still talk about it. Yeah, right. Dad, you can give dad anything. He'll talk about it. So just throw them out there, put them down below and I'll have a story on Instagram and all that stuff. But we really appreciate every single of one of you guys that is tuned in and watched or listened. So we'll see you guys back here next Friday for another great barn talk episode. We love you guys. We'll see you then.