Barn Talk - The Importance Of Betting On Yourself

Episode Date: June 18, 2021

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Welcome to Barn Talk. What happens at the barn stays at the barn until the heat and the flies drive us out. Or until we let all the information out. And that's what we're going to do for you here tonight. I'm Torque. And I'm Sawyer. And all we ask for you guys,

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So share it out. That's all we ask from you guys. It's been a hell of a week. It sure has been a hell of a week. It's gone really, really fast. As I've grown up, as I'm getting up in the years. Yes. of 21 years old, I've come to realize once you get out of school, time just seems to just

fly by. We're always very eager for spring. I love spring and I love planting season, but once that seeds in the ground, then it's just like time just evaporates because there's so much to do and everything that you, you know, when the weather's crappy and all winter long, you think about, oh, we're just going to, we're just going to crush it. There's, we're going to get this done and this done and this done. And then we've had a heck of a lot of rain. I mean, it's rained. A unreasonable amount.

This week especially, there's been tons of rain. It's rained about every day. Today was the first day that I think we had most of the, most of the day was clear and it was dry enough. We could do a few things. We've been putting off, puttering around, taking care of the fair. the fairer sexes of the residences. We sold some pigs this week out of my barn. We've been selling pigs out of my barn for two weeks now.

We're getting down to the nitty-gritty. I think there's probably, what, five or six loads left in there. Probably six loads. Six loads left in there. And we're going to sell three more this upcoming Friday, 1 a.m. 1 a.m. It's always, we kind of got the crapshoot. I don't know if this is for everybody out there.

That's a hog farmer, but for us, our integrator, we got to sell pigs late at night. So it's either get like 9 o'clock at night or you get like 10.30 or you get 1 to 6 a.m. the next morning. Yeah. We always like the 6 a.m. the next morning and we always like the early 9 o'clock loads. 9 o'clock is pretty awesome. That's a pretty good deal if you can get it. But there are dock times.

It all goes off dock times. So, you know, if we're going to St. Joe Triumph, usually they're. they have like 5 a.m. dock times. And so you back figure it's going to take them three hours to get there. So you're going to be loading it 1, 132, because usually you sell three loads. Now, we also go to Atomwa. We go to JBS and Atomwa. Those are usually more flexible.

We get a lot of those that are 10.30 at night. And then we'll go to Monmouth, Illinois, or we'll go to Macon, Missouri, and go to Smithfield. And those are kind of usually. late night or early morning, you'll get some 6 a.m. loads that go to Milan once in a while. But anyway, there's no consistency because... You never get used to it. I mean, you really don't. Your sleeping schedule kind of gets messed up for the rest of the week. But good thing it's on a Friday and not on a Tuesday or Wednesday because it's hard to get up in the morning when you get done at 3 a.m.

Yeah, that's the problem is you load and you get done at 3.30 and then if you're like me, you are wide awake. and you sit and have a bowl of cereal and ponder life's existence. You know what's funny thing about cereal? Another thing as you get older, it's not really a breakfast thing anymore. It's a midnight snack. Cereal's good anytime.

It is, but I feel like it's more of a, right before you go to bed kind of thing. I don't feel like we're the only ones that think that. Yeah. I think that's a, yeah, and the honeynut bunches of oats, those are the honey bunches votes. The honey bunches votes. You got the honey nut Cheerios on the Honey Bunches of oats.

out. Yeah. Cinnamon sugar Cheerios, I think. Those are damn good. Too much. Yeah, another thing, if you guys hear some birds in the barn, we are shooting this podcast in a barn. So if you hear some chirping, there's actual probably birds either outside the barn or inside

the barn. I don't know if you can hear it, but I can kind of hear it outside my headphones. So bear with us on that. I can see them. And the flies have started to come. I think we're going to have to get the tempo out and spray hose the whole thing down. These are the, I guess, repercussions of actually shooting in a, barn you know you got birds coming in we don't have all the we don't have all the holes patched up

where they need to be so we're trying our best here but bear with us we've been going to do that but we haven't gotten around to it we also got some landscaping done today so it was finally nice enough the rain all week and today was probably the first day that it was actually really nice I was actually hot it felt like summer today so we went out and we pulled weeds we weed whacked we mowed sweethearts sweethearts happy yes my girl's happy my girl's happy my girl's girlfriend catch. If you don't know who that is, I had her on a YouTube video on her farm channel and people seem to like her. She's a ball of energy. But we got her, we put her outside, got her to work. She loved that. Mom loved that. My mom. And it was nice. Yeah, we got most of the list done.

We didn't get everything, but we got clothes. Yeah, and dad also put some saddles. So my grandpa had horses, and he's had some old saddles in this barn. Dad's, dad's getting eager. He sees what we did up here, and he's just trying to do it all over. He likes it. And I like it too. But this week, out of nowhere, I came in the barn one day with Kat. And that's my girlfriend's name Kat. And we looked into this room, and there were saddles hanging up on two-by-fours that you hung.

And she just, my girlfriend is a horse girl. She wants horses so damn bad. And it's a very risky. It's a very risky deal. I told her, we got to make some stupid money before we get horses. because horses are nothing but a money pit. Yeah, the best way to get rid of money is just get horses. We're just telling her that she ain't getting any.

Well, Dad says he's going to take all the fences out. He's going to just take all the fences out before we get to that point. Oh, I don't know. We'll have to see how that goes. I might, we'll probably have a weak moment at some point. But, yeah, you know, cleaning out the barn this week, it brings back so I'm in the process of still

you have to make those hard decisions because there's all the stuff that has always been here from the last generation and there's no good reason for it to be here other than it's always been here and so you just you walk around it and you

rationalize that you know you just need to keep it and then finally one day you're like well I know for a fact that if my dad was around, he would probably be like, what do you keep that around for? Because a lot of that stuff, at one point we had like probably eight high-wheeled wagons. We had a bobsled, we had a sleigh, we had a buggy, we had the whole nine yards of horse-drawn equipment because that was kind of my dad's hobby. He grew up with that stuff and when when the

generation before him was all selling out, he went to a lot of farm sales around the neighborhood and bought wagons and all that stuff and back before they were worth much. And anyway, we got rid of most of them. I kept one high-wheeled wagon that we're probably going to tear it apart and bring it up here and put it up in the hay mow up on the batterer we'll keep it for when i have some kids and we can bring them around or we'll turn it into one we'll take you'll go the parade route take i guess we'll take him on a parade route i guess i don't know something cat likes that she hadn't oh but anyway i've been working on cleaning out downstairs because uh there's a lot of stuff there that's been there forever and so in the process of doing that i cleaned up a bunch of the old harness and bits and pieces and got

rid of that but we've got like six saddles i didn't realize we still had we had the really little ones from when we were little when i was a kid we had we had quarter horses we had two quarter horses we had we had eight mules we had four teams of mules and at one point i think i think my dad hitched up six three teams one time and uh we used to take them to town and do the parade thing and it was all and then at one point we had a purebred Arabian and only my dad could ride him my brother one of my brothers tried to run him ride that horse and uh he threw him off and about it very badly yeah and but if you what did he do to break in that horse or try to break in that horse well this this isn't this is a pretty good story yeah so we bought him at the sail barn and he was already broke to ride but uh arabians are very strong-willed and if you if you didn't write him a lot, he would get funny ideas, basically, that he didn't really want anybody on his back. And so he threw my brother off, and my dad got on him, and he tried to throw my dad off, but he had a pipe in his hand, and when he tried to throw him off, he cracked him between the ears with the pipe, and then he calmed down.

And after that, my dad could ride him any time he wanted to, but nobody else ever writing. rode him. No. And I was little. I was, I never rode. I never tried to ride him. I'd ride the quarter horses. I actually had a,

I learned to ride on a, on a mule. We had a Jenny mule and she was so, she was so, uh, I think she was probably just elderly, but you could just turn her with her ears and she'd go wherever you wanted to do,

and that was how I learned to ride. But anyway, we haven't had any horses around for a long time. And that's probably why our net worth has gone up, because we got rid of, We got rid of all the horses. Well, I know. I'm glad we don't have any because it would be another thing I'd have to spend my time on.

I got so many things I'm juggling already. And if I had a horse and my girlfriend came along, that's another thing we'd have to probably do. Yeah. So the last horses that we had, my dad bought a small team or a team of small draft horses. And I can't remember what the breed of them were. But anyway, he had those. and one of them died and there was just we just had this one lone horse and the poor thing was lonely i mean he didn't have any we didn't have any other animals or anything and uh my dad

he couldn't ride and you know he'd go out and rub his ears once in a while but anyway our neighbor they kind of they got three kids little kids three or four three or four kids yeah and there it's like a petting zoo up there they got everything dogs and goats and I don't know what all. Anyway, when my dad passed, the neighbor asked whether or not we'd be interested in selling that horse. And I told him that if they were willing to give it a good home, that they could come and get it. And so they brought their trailer down.

And, you know, they thought we were going to have to, like, shoe this horse and wrangle it into the trailer. I just walked up to him and put a holder on him and just let him into the trailer. because he was a he's pretty gentle he's an old horse but anyway my neighbor he leans over and he says so uh how much hay how much hay do you feed this horse and i just patted him on the back and i said he'll eat as much as you'll give it so much as what you're willing to pay he'll eat so anyway he's still living his best life there i think those kids spent a lot of time with him yeah it's good for him i was a good decision on our part it was a good decision he wasn't getting the attention he needed

year so. So speaking of great investments, here is your, here is your Friday market update. Short. Let's make it a short one. We kind of rambled there for a little bit. It is short and it's also a little bit painful because it's not near as good as what it was last week. So I think we had the conversation of whether or not Torque was going to pre-sell any corn to the feed mill because it was, I think it was $5.97? 597. Something like that. Yeah. And it's right there, if you consider 530 right there. So October corn delivered to the mill today was 530. So it's off, it's high a little bit.

All this, everything going on, the chaos is driven the market down. But you can still get 701, cash corn still 701 to the mill. But the river, I think, is six, I think the river might be like 68. gate. So a pretty strong market right around us, a lot of the feeders. And then beans, beans are, I got to look, 1531 in Burlington and 1553 in Quincy. And hogs are still high. Another interesting thing is I think hogs are around 114 or 115, and I think cattle are around 117. And so there was some talk this week whether cash hogs

or whether futures hogs would get to be worth more than what cattle because that doesn't happen. Very often. But it might. I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen. Well, didn't you say some experts saying that future hogs aren't going to be, they're going to just come up with all these, all this,

all these hogs, but you're not, you don't think so. USDA doesn't know anything. I mean, yeah. You know a little bit. don't know if i had to pick uh a government agency to fill in for the irs if i got audited my number one pick would be usda because i'm pretty sure that uh they could not make hide nor hair of my of my books for my taxes well now the irs is coming for you yeah no i don't think so they are going to get a bunch of money Biden's going to give them a bunch of money so they're going to go root out all the tax

cheats but we don't make any money anyway so it doesn't it doesn't it's right we're farmers we're cash poor or so we don't make any we don't make that's right that's right um the crypto market is terrible dog shit so terrible um i think bitcoin's about uh 30 i don't know isn't it like 33 35 i think it got down to 33 it's probably around 35 and ethereum's down to it's down below 2000 i think it's 1500 and uh yeah they're all kind of on this kid stocks on the skis it's just everything real estate's high and everything else is kind of crappy yeah So, but buy and hold.

Buy and hold. Everything's on sale. Time in the market. Exactly. Everything's on sale. That's how you got to look at it. And I think people that bought out of it or sold out of it are, we had this conversation in like three episodes ago, but the people that got in, they were in it for the hype.

And then now that it's down, they're selling. Yeah, they're all. You got to know what it's for and what it's actually, what the purpose of it is. If you believe what it's about instead of just believing in the hype and you actually research it, you, you'd, you'd, you'd, you'd, you'd, you'd, probably stayed in Bitcoin. But if you're somebody that just gone in because of the hype of Bitcoin, then you probably sold out. So this glass is more than half empty, but I look at it like it's half full. I'm a positive. We're drinking a little bit tonight. That's a first. We haven't done that yet.

Well, don't judge me here. Okay. I just got introduced to this exile sour beer probably a month ago or something. And me and my girlfriend, we kind of like drinking this together. It's called Beatniksour exile. I don't know if you like sour beers out there. I don't know. I don't know if you like sour beers out there. I'm not an IPA guy, but I kind of like sour beers just to sip, but I brought some backups too, so I'm a Bushlight guy and an ultra guy, so I like just sipping this after a good day of landscaping on a Sunday after, or Friday afternoon, but yeah, this is pretty good, but I got my backups after this. It's not that good. It tastes like you dumped, it tastes like you dumped the bad part of a sour patch kid into a bottle of beer. Don't be hating. Don't be eating. Don't

me eating on me. I'm old and I can't drink very much and I get full so I just poured myself a small glass of rabbit hole derringer. I'd never tried that before but that's a new bottle of bourbon that I got. It's pretty good. I feel like

this is just an observation but I feel like that you this is going to be bad. Ever since you got done watching Yellowstone, you saw John Dutton, you've been getting kind of on the whiskey, a little bit of the bourbon whiskey. Yeah, I guess I don't know. That show's so good. I would take that and maybe subliminally, that is, maybe that is what happened. I don't know, I've always, I've kind of moved into whiskey, I don't know, long time ago. When I worked at PSI,

one of the guys that worked there, he was a big home bar guy and he, he had everything. But he liked whiskey pretty well, and he kind of got me on that. But I was always a mixer. I didn't drink much straight. But then, I don't know, it's probably been about two years ago. I think I had a glass of, I think I had some Elijah Craig maybe, and I thought it was pretty decent, and then I bought a few, I've bought a few odds and ends, and I did not realize that the bourbon, if you go down the bourbon or whiskey rabbit hole that is like you know to the right it's like everything that can be like a hoarder's paradise because some of these people they just collect a ton of it yeah and i'm not quite that bad but i do like it a little we got some ideas for this barn that you guys

are going to see over the life of this barn we're going to do little improvements here every as much as we possibly can we got some things in the works and it might have to relate to some whiskey so we'll just leave it at that. Yeah, unless we get really slow because I was just sitting up here tonight thinking how last week we were in sweatshirt and we said, well, I don't know if short sleeves is ever going to come. And then tonight we're like, this is what summer will feel like? Yeah, this is going to be good. And then I was thinking, what are we going to do when winter comes again?

So maybe we'll have to spend some money on heating and cooling before we get to the bar. We're going to have some sponsors before we do that. But it would be nice to have a bar. up here. It sure would be. The only liquor I can ever drink straight is crown apple spray or crown apple. That's trash. Crown apple, you can put a little water in that. Oh, you're good. I could drink a Sprite too, but if I had to drink it, I drink it. I drink it with Sprite, the first couple glasses, but after that I could just drink it straight. No problem. That's trash. I like Crown. That's probably why I like sour beer too, because it's kind of got that apple-y sour taste to it. Sawyer might have had a little bit of lead paint as a small child. Probably. He's never quite been right since.

Probably. You didn't keep much of an eye on me. It is probably a reflection. So what are we going to talk about today? This is a little bit of a tie-in to the very long podcast we had last week because we kind of got on, we kind of went down a few rabbit holes. That was our true, like, that was a walk into our mind. That was like an introduction into what our minds are like when we're not thinking about ag and farming and stuff like that.

Yeah. So, but I guess to tie in with that, we're going to talk about. betting on yourself and that's a good you know that's a good t-shirt phrase but we're gonna break that down a little bit because no matter what you're doing whether you're self-employed or whether you work for somebody else whether you work from home whether you work construction you know whatever you're doing really if you if you got to have faith in yourself first because if you don't believe in in yourself. So when I say you got to bet on yourself, you got to believe in yourself. You got to

have, you got to know yourself, which that's hard. It takes time to figure that out. It can be a little scary because nobody likes to admit all their flaws and we're all pretty flawed. Right. We're all very flawed. Let's face it. I mean, it's just, that's just how it is. But yeah, you've got, if you don't believe in yourself, you can't really expect somebody else to believe in you. And, I guess one of my thoughts on that is, you know, our society, we put a lot of faith. Well, we were just talking. We were talking about our crypto. We were talking about markets.

Stocks, all that stuff. We put a lot of faith in our investments, that our investments are going to take care of us over time, that our 401k is going to grow. And we go buy a lottery ticket and we dream that we're going to win the lottery. Favorite sports teams. We put a lot of faith in sports teams. Right. And the best bet, if you're going to talk about it. about any of those things, the best bet you can make is on yourself. Because if you, if you spend the time

to work on, work on yourself, work on knowing what your flaws, you know, you know what, you know what your flaws are. I mean, one of my biggest flaws is time management. We fight that all the time here because, in fact, we were just going through it tonight because the next three weeks are just going to be killer for us. And I mean, side note, you're probably going to get, if you get a podcast every Friday for the next three weeks, it's probably going to be because we recorded three this next week. Yep.

Because if it doesn't get done before next, when are you leaving? I'm leaving for the Ozarks with my boys. Every summer we have a little bit of a boys trip. I didn't get invited. We're going to the Ozarks. I'm going to be gone for early first week of June, and then that next week we're going to the Pork Expo. So we're going to have, we got to get, we got to get our stuff done.

And the only way we can do that is we're going to have to cram it all into this week. We're going to have to do some freaking time management. But I also think on your, when you say, you know, we all got flaws. I think it's really important to bet on your strengths. I mean, you obviously got to, you obviously got to nail the flaws that are definitely a necessity of living. Like time management, I feel like if you're not good at that, you should probably get good at that because that's just a life skill that you're going to have to use in every asset of your life. But I feel like as far as career-wise and like finding out who you are,

figure out the stuff that you're really good at and double down on those. Because if all you do is focus on your flaws and you weren't gifted and born with being good at those things, I probably wouldn't double down on those. But if you're good and you have a creative mind and you've always had a creative mind. Or if you're really athletic, I'd probably double down on being athletic or being really creative. You know, whatever it is. But work on flaws that are you got to have in every asset of your life. Everything you do, you got to have these certain set of skills.

And if it's a flaw, do you work on it? But double down on your strengths because that's how you're going to really excel in life. And, you know, what you're capable of, what's in your genre that you work you're currently doing. You know, if you don't think you're capable of taking the next step, then who is, who's going to give you that opportunity. If you, if you don't, if you don't seek out ways to improve, to get more knowledge about what, you know, what you're already good at, you're going to get stagnant. And if you get stagnant, you're going to get bored.

And when you get bored, then bad things start to happen. And you also feel hopeless. Like, I mean, you got to have hope to be able to progress. in life. If you, if you, if you don't have that confidence in yourself, you don't have that, if you're not betting on yourself, you kind of feel hopeless and you kind of feel, I don't know, you don't feel like you're going anywhere. So if you have, if you, if you bet on yourself and you're the only one that bets on yourself, and it might take some other people to encourage, encourage you. But, um, they might not realize that for, like, for me, when I first started this thing,

you know, when I first started this brand, I didn't have a lot of believers in me. You know, I was betting on myself that I could do this social media brand. And at first, no one was really encouraging me to do that. And because I did that, I kept doing it and doing it and do it. And slowly, people started to encourage me because I see it I was doing it. So you might not

have a bunch of people that encourage you, but that's why it's really important to end the beginning, but that's why it's really important to encourage or bet on yourself first because the people might follow you afterwards. They don't always have to encourage you to start. Yeah. And the other side of that is as you progress, you're also going to have people that they may come around to encourage you, but you also may have people that you've surrounded yourself with that are kind of in the same place that you are.

And they're not going to be comfortable with you wanting to go to that next level because they may not want to put in the time. and they may not want to do the hard work of looking at themselves, and they won't be encouraging. Right. They'll find, because when they look at you, and if you do decide to bet on yourself, and you do start progressing and whatever you want to progress in,

and they look at you, and you tell them about it or, you know, saying you're doing this thing, it's like a mirror looking back at them. When you say you're accomplishing these things or you're going to pursue these things, when they look at you and listen to you, it's like they're looking at a mirror, and they think that, oh, he's doing that. And then they start thinking about themselves,

well, maybe I should do that. But then they feel like crap because they don't want to do that or whatever. So that's just with everything, though. Yeah. It doesn't have to just be betting on yourself. Any time you talk about your accomplishments to the wrong people that don't want you to win,

I mean, they take it to heart. We were just talking about this the other day. One thing that's interesting me, I had a message thread going with a guy that we've done a few, We know each other through social media, and we've done some work together, all three of us. And he's an aggressive fella, and he has come. I mean, he's very successful, but he works.

He's a hustler. And I told Sawyer, one thing that I think that is probably good about where he's at versus, where I feel that I know I am is, and you saw a glimpse of it, the last podcast, some of the stuff that I start thinking about, some of the ideas that run through my mind, there's not very many people

that I can have those conversations with without getting this look of... You're crazy. Well, or I don't have any idea what you're talking about. Like they just... And so... Or they take it as... I always feel like if you say those kinds of things to people

and they're not the right people to talk to those topics to, they feel like you're trying to act like you're smart. When you're really not, you're just genuinely passionate about those topics, but they think that you're coming off like trying to be a smart ass. But you're not. You're just, you know, those are the things you think. You're passionate about it. I enjoy, I enjoy conversations with people that are a lot smarter than I am.

Well, that's... Which that's just about everybody. That's... Pretty much. where you want to be though you want to be you don't want to be the smartest person in the room yeah you really don't you want to i mean this is from people that i listened to but they you know they always say you are the average of the five people you spend the most time around with or you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with and if all you're doing is spending time with

people that you know have large beliefs in you and that don't want to go anywhere don't want to go anywhere when you talk about things that you talk about further in yourself and they kind of look at you like what are you talking about, you need to, you may me want to switch up a little bit of who you spend your time with because spending your time with people that are going to progress you and want you to come forward and move you up and wherever you're trying to go, that's, that's what you want to be. That's what you want to be. And if you're in a rural community like ours, I mean, I don't know, we're farmers, so we don't get out much, but it's hard to find people in small town America because we're not around a ton of people. But there's people out there

and social media is giving us that opportunity because we found some guys like that. Yeah, so this, we're in full-blown graduation season, as a lot of places are. And so we were at a graduation party this weekend. And, you know, you have to have, you have that little voice in your head because you have all these people that you have, you know, you see people that are casual acquaintances that you don't see that often. Or you see them every once in a while. And they ask you, you know, oh, what's new? What's going on? And I know that they don't have any idea that this will do is going on or the podcast is going on or any of that's going on.

And so you have to make the decision. Do I want to really go down this round of a hole? Because in where we're at, you're going to get, there's some of those people you could say, well, yeah, we're doing a podcast. And they don't know what a podcast is, which that's a smaller group. I mean, pretty, you've got to be living under a rock to not know what a podcast is anymore. but or they're just going to look at you like what are you what you just doing that for fun yeah making any money doing that yeah and and so you just you know what's what's new oh not much not much corn's looking good which which it stop raining you know oh can't seem to get can't seem to find a happy

medium oh yeah yeah yeah all right see you later yeah so um i got off but you're good i mean along with that talking about people, people that aren't necessarily supportive of you, you're not going to be, if you're going to step out, if you're going to be different, if you're going to be different, if you're going to try to move the needle on your career, on your life, you're going to have failures. I mean, guaranteed you're going to have failures. But the best thing I can tell you about that, and this, is nothing, this is nothing earth-shattering, but you will learn, and I have learned far more from what I've screwed up and the failures that I've made than I probably learned from the successes.

The successes are, 100% are pleasurable, and you sure feel good about them. But that just means that you were right. And you were wrong a thousand times before you were actually right. Right. And knowing what's right, you have to be wrong. you have to be wrong enough to know what doesn't work to figure out what does. Now, once in a while, I mean, there's guys out there that luck of the draw, they really hit it right off the gate and they got it right. Right. But that doesn't happen that often. I think it's funny that the education system, I mean, they always want you to, you know, failure, I feel like in society and just what you're taught when your kid is like failure's bad.

Failure's bad. you don't want to fail. You know, when you fail, you're a loser. You know, you don't want to be a failure. When you get an F on a paper, it's a fail, failure, failure, failure. But, like, once you get out of school and, you know, you got to fail to learn, like, that's the ultimate learning experience. You know how many times I, you know how many times I failed trying to learn how to video edit?

You know how many times I failed trying to raise pigs? You know, how many times I failed doing whatever it is I do. Staying on the row. You know, staying on the row. Exactly. We don't have auto steer, so. and on the row, you know, all those things. If I wouldn't have failed, I wouldn't have learned how to ultimately do it successfully.

So don't look at your failures as a fail. Look at them as a learning experience because the second you turn the word failure into learning, this is a learning moment, you're 10 steps ahead of everybody else. Side note, Sawyer steer is not the same as auto steer. For any of those that are getting confused. No, it's not a name brand. That's not a brand. That's not a brand you should be proud of.

No. Boy. Well, I was going to say, you know, you'll never be successful if you don't bet on yourself. And that's huge because there's an author out there, and this guy is a personal trainer. His name's Tim Grover. I don't know if any of you guys know who Tim Grover is, but he wrote a book called Relantless. And he was the personal trainer for Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan. He trains Russell Wilson.

I mean, he trains all kinds of elite athletes and all different kinds of sports. And I was just to do a podcast the other day with him on there. And he just said, you know, not only is betting on yourself important because, you know, it's good to bet on yourself, but there's a confidence of once you bet on yourself and you get it and you, you know, you really have that confidence that you bet it on yourself and it worked, all those killer athletes that he trained said, he said that those killer athletes he trained were, they all have this killer instinct of them where they have this just insane amount of confidence inside them

that when they go out on game night they are going they in their head they are like I'm going to destroy this I'm going to you know I'm going to absolutely destroy this and this and that's how he said every single one of every person he's trained if they didn't have that they didn't turn out to be anything but the ones that he trained all had that killer instinct the ones that were successful all have that killer instinct and he said you can relate that just to

everything, not just athletics, but to business as well. He says business and athletics are the exact same way. If you got that killer instinct, you've got to have that killer instinct or you're not going to make it. You're not going to push through when it gets hard. Yeah. And it is hard. I mean, anything worth, anything worth achieving is hard. I don't care whether you're, you know, I don't care if you're a welder or you're the staff accountant. Um, if you're going to be the best at it, it's two different, it's two different type of training

and two different mindsets, not mindsets. The mindsets are probably the same, but it's different, but it's the same in the fact you've got to put in the time, whatever it is, to get better, and you've got to work harder

than everybody else that's doing it. And, you know, you're using sports analogy, and this is, me dating a little bit, but there's a great story about Jerry Rice when he was

playing for the 49ers. And they had won the Super Bowl. And I'm not so sure. I think that I think that this is when they won it. And the Super Bowl was actually at

Los Angeles Stadium. San Francisco. Or San Francisco, yeah. And And so they win the Super Bowl, and the guy telling the story was on the team, but I can't remember who he was. And he went back to the stadium the next day to get something. And Jerry Rice was there running routes. This is the day after they won the Super Bowl. The day after. And he was just like, what in the hell are you doing? And Jerry's like, what? He's like, you know, next season starts today because it doesn't matter. We got to keep going. And there's a lot of stories about he had this, he had this route that he ran up this hill,

I don't know where it was, and he would, guys would want to go work out with him because they wanted to be around him because he was a winner and because he was driven. Right. And they wanted to train like that. They wanted a train like him. They wanted the secret, the secret sauce.

And he would take, he would, you know, he'd do whatever with him. And then he'd be like, you want to go on a run? And he'd go up this, up this hill, and nobody ever would. that nobody was ever behind him by the time he got to the top. No. But he was at the,

he was at the peak of his, his performance, his game, but he didn't act like it. He never, you know, he didn't rest on his, he just kept working,

just kept working, just kept working. And that's, that's the other thing with what Tim Grover said. He said, you know, these guys, they had that confidence in themselves

and they were super confident and almost had an arrogance to them, inside, but on the outside, you know, they didn't show that unless it became game time. Then it was personal. I mean, they were going to be, they were going to be savages once it come game time, but they would never show that they were arrogant. But inside themselves, they were arrogant. You know, yeah, I'm going to kick the shit out of these guys. I mean, that's how they were in their head. I think you can do that when you are to the point that you know it mentally. Yeah, you bet on yourself and you knew it worked. You don't have to be arrogant. Right. You don't have to be arrogant. Right. You don't

have to project any you don't have to project any false um uh persona you can just be you because you put in the work you put in the work you bet on yourself so you knew and that's a great place to be and it's it's hard to get there but if you can put in the time it's definitely worth it if you can get there right and uh one other thing i wanted to say about you know betting on yourself and working and working on things. It's like, I think betting on yourself can be multi-dimensional in the fact that you don't have to just bet on yourself when it comes to your career. You can bet on yourself. If you love your job and you feel like you're doing as much work as you want to do and you feel like you're at the top and you're content with where you're at as far as your career goes, but you look

on the other side, you look at your body in the mirror and you're like, I'd like to change this, you know, I want to bet on myself on my fitness and get better on my fitness. You can bet on yourself in all different kinds of areas. doesn't just have to be your career. Granted, you do work about, what is it, like 85% of the time you spend on this planet, you're working. So, I mean, that's a big part of your life. But if you're happy with your career and you're happy with what you do, try to find

some other area in your life that you can bet on yourself, whether it be your knowledge, whether it be your fitness, whether it be your career or whatever else it is. You know, that's a big thing. Yeah, if you think that all other aspects of your life are perfect, just ask your significant other, if there's anything that they might think need a little work. And then try not to look stupid when that list gets a little long because there's always a lot of things personally that you can work on. Right. And I was just sitting here thinking about, you know, all the hats that I've worn. But the most, the most, I think the first time that I realized

that I really had to bet on myself, and I had to strive to be the best I could be was when I got into sales. When I became a salesman at precision, that was at a time in my life where, well, for one thing, I needed every dollar I could get because I had these two kids and my wife and my parents were getting elderly,

and, you know, the farm here at that time. You hadn't built any of your hog buildings yet. And that sales job was kind of a lifeline to get me where I wanted to go. And there are a lot of people that had been doing in that construction business and selling hog buildings and doing the equipment and all that, that had been doing it a long time.

And they were good. They were good at what they did. They knew. And I was kind of the young, I was kind of the young buck, even though I wasn't that young at that point when I had started. I was in my, I was in my 30s.

Late 30s, probably. But it was your start of your sales career. Right. But, you know, what I did was I sat down and I went through, I knew the mechanical side of a hog building probably better than any salesman out there because I had done. Not only had I worked on the crew that put buildings together,

but I had fixed them and I'd fixed everything in them. But then I also, I had ferroed pigs. I was a ferro to finish guy. So, you know, I'd move pigs up an alley, and I'd washed farrowing crates, and I knew how pigs had to move, and I knew what I wanted and what I always complained about that I didn't have in the crummy hog building that I had.

And I also had that same desire, because at that point, I knew that I wanted to build a hog building. And that really pushed me to just drill down on knowing, knowing the package, knowing the print, knowing the proposal. Most of you are,

a lot of people, have had these psychological profile tests like disk. Disc is one of them. There's three or four of them. I can't remember all the ones that I've done. But, you know, they tell you what kind of a personality you have and a bunch of stuff about you, what you're likely to do and this and that. And when I became a salesman at precision, I think I'd done it a year or two, and they decided that they were going to have this disc assessment done and they had some some company come do it and i don't remember much about it other than the guy that went through my my scores my answers with my questions he told me he said he said you're very confident in your sales ability and that might be your

biggest flaw i would say i would say that you were the kind of person that if you drove to someone's house to go through a building proposal with them and you got there and you realized you had forgotten the bid you would just go ahead and go in without any without the bid and just wing it just wing it and i i started laughing so hard because i literally had sold a building to a guy in missouri and i had driven down there i'd driven two and a half hours down there from from wellman and i got down there and this guy was building a 2480 cargill style building 70 wide and i had the bid for a 50 wide by 400 a small pen tunnel natural building and i was like oh crap oh man but i just went ahead and went through it and uh i got the contract signed so i bet on myself on that one and it worked

but he was right in the fact that that probably wasn't the smartest thing to do, but at that point I was just cocky enough. I thought I could get it done. But it was back to that kind of arrogance that you had inside you, but you weren't progressing that on to everybody else. You had that belief in yourself that, well, you kind of went through that really fast, but when you started your sales career, you sat down and you said, I'm going to be the best salesman I can be because, one, your back was up against a wall.

Yeah, and that's a powerful motivator because I needed, I needed that payday. If I was going to get to where I wanted to go and I was going to be able to build a hog building, I had to make the money. But I also had, you know, I was still shoveling the hole in from when I got out of Farrow to finish

because that wasn't a very easy thing to get out of. But I put in the time. I mean, I put in the time, I knew every bolt, I knew what the amp draw was of every fan, I knew what the calculation was for the air. And a lot of that stuff never came up.

But if I ever ran into somebody that was the competitor that would try to pick something apart, I would have the comeback for it. And that was just, I made the decision that if I was going to do this, I was going to be the best at it that I could be. And that's what you have to do. Like I said, whether you're whatever you're doing, Whether you're the accountant, whether you're the guy selling shoes, whether you're the guy at the Jiffy Loob, you know what? It's the family and friends event at Shoppers 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. And I think that, you know, you said that you went down there and sold that guy two hours away or whatever. You had the wrong bid. But like, I'm sure after that first, you did all the upwork, you did all the, you did all the, work you had to do up front when you first got the job and then you sold one building and you sold

two buildings and sold three buildings and then yeah that that first bet you made on yourself it just compounded compounded compounded and compounded and you got to that killer instinct yeah it's sales but you got it to that killer instinct like tim grover says where it's like shit i brought the wrong bid but i know i can come in here and just get the sale yeah and you didn't probably have that in the beginning no i did but you did you will never have the confidence in yourself if you don't take that first step and make that first bet on yourself. That's right. If you wouldn't have never even done that work up front, and let's say you went out and tried to sell a building and you failed, and you failed and failed, I mean, let's back it up. If I wouldn't have had the courage to walk into Claude Griner's office

and tell him, because we had a salesman that quit, and I just basically went in there and told him, I want to be that salesman because if I can't be a salesman, you're going to have to find a service guy too, because I was at the point where I had gone about as far as I could go doing that, and I knew that I couldn't keep doing, I couldn't keep running the hours I was running and doing what I was doing. I had to make change, and I had to get to that next level to get where I wanted to go.

So, I mean, part of it is just having the gumption to make that change or to try to get that promotion or to learn that skill that's hard to learn, but it sets you apart. And I won't ramble, but a little, but I will tell you one, the best compliment I ever got. So when I was, when I was selling, probably one of the best salesmen that I ever ran into was J.D. Meyer. And J.D., if you're out there, this is a kudos to you because you were about the best, you're about the only competition I really had. But he worked for Hogslat, and he was one of the only guys running down in Missouri when all these cargo barns were going up.

And I never really worried if I went to somebody and they said, oh, I'm getting a bid from Longhorn or I'm getting a bid for these guys or I'm getting a bit. But if he said, oh, I got a bid from JD. I was like, ah, dang it. because J.D. was actually pretty good. And he, well, no, he was really good. And he knew his product. I mean, he knew what he was doing.

And those guys actually had to put together their own bids. So, like, they had to figure, they basically were their own estimators. So, I mean, it was a lot harder deal. I was blessed because PSI had their own estimators that I gave them the info. They did the bid and then, you know, put it, you know, fancied it all up, and I had everything. All I had to do was show up and sell it.

But anyway, I had this guy down around Memphis, and I sold him a building. And J.D. called this guy after he'd signed the contract. With you? Yeah. And the guy said that he bought it from me, and he said, he's like, well, that doesn't surprise me. He goes, when Whistler shows up, he just won't leave until you sign the contract. It's pretty much pointless because it doesn't matter how long it takes. He's just going to sit there until you sign the contract.

And I always remember him saying that. But anyway. You're relentless. And that's what you got to be. You got to be relentless. And, you know, another thing I was listening to you and I was thinking, you bet on your strengths too because, you know, you know the hog business better than anybody else.

You know, you had that long journey of working in a crew, managing the crew, then becoming the service guy. Or if I flip-flop those. Oh, you're good. You knew everything about hog barns. And you stayed in that industry. And that did you a lot of good because you made it really. good career out of sales and you really you bet on your strengths you know you didn't go and say if you didn't

you either could have said i'm going to quit this job being a service guy and never went into claude griner's office said i need this sales job yeah and you could have went and found something else but instead you got the gumption and said i want the job and you got it and that did deal a lot of good yeah it did you bet on your strengths but there you go that was just that was just an observation thanks son So dad kind of gave you a little bit of his, the time he bet on himself. I'm going to give you kind of mine. So when I was 18 years old, I touched on this a little bit in the first one. I was getting ready to make the decision on whether I wanted to attend college or not. And anyone that's 18 years old or anyone that's gone through this process and you're one person that, you know, was questioning if you were going to go to college or not, it's kind of very, very, very stressful situation. Because on one side, you got. people telling you, you know, it's the only way to go. And the mainstream norm is to you go to

college. I mean, it's just a no-brainer. You just go to college. Duh. Why wouldn't you go to college? So you have everybody in your school telling you, you got your friends telling you that. You got your girlfriend's parents telling you that. You mean, you got your teachers telling you that. I mean, everybody seems like they're telling you that. I will say my parents really didn't care either way. They didn't push me to go either way. They said they support me. So that was nice. But that was honestly one of the toughest decisions I had to make. That was probably one of the first adult decisions. Adult decisions I had to make because, you know, I just, it was, it was a lot of, I went a lot of back and forth, pros and cons, pros and cons. But I sat down with myself and I said, do I like school? The answer was no. Am I going to go to college to learn something that I'm going to use off the farm? Probably not because I thought, you know what, I'm going to come back here and I'm probably going to farm and do this, whether it's now or four years later.

So I made the decision to bet on myself and go against the norm of going to college, and I bet on myself to stay here and farm and start torn hog buildings. And around here, people say, oh, you're just torn hog buildings. You're troaring hogs. That's got to be just a crap life, you know, torn hogs, whatever. But what people didn't really realize with that was that's not where I wanted to end. You know, that's not where I wanted to start, and that's not where I just wanted to stay my entire life. You know, when I made that bet on myself, I knew I was going to raise hogs and farm, but I had a goal in mine, and I had, you know, a dream. I wanted to grow our farm, and I wanted to make it viable for another generation, and that's kind of my goal.

And I was going to, I was, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get there. And at first, when I first made that decision, it was like the first year when I was 18 and everyone else went off to college, all my friends, all that went off to college and I was at home. It was really hard. But I, I, I were very unpleasant to be around, especially on the weekends. Yeah, but I put myself up against a wall, essentially. I mean, I literally sat back and I said, well, this is it. This is real life. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to just chore hogs and be content with your life and stay here? which, you know, that's not a bad living, but to me, I wanted more. And I just sat there and I put my back up against the wall and I said, well, what are we going to do from here? Kind of that Lawrence Whistler mentality, my grandpa, you know, what are you going to do about it? So, I mean, that's kind of where we are now. I mean, I went and I started farming and learned all the things I needed to learn. And I saw the opportunity with social media. And, you know, I started documenting our lives day to day as farmers and that was another bet I made on myself because I'd never been on camera before.

I wasn't a public speaker. I didn't know how to talk on camera, but I made the jump and I went into it and now we're here we are and I think we do a pretty good job putting out great videos on our farm channel and now we're here starting a podcast and we're betting on ourselves here because we've never, we've never public speak. I mean, public spoke. We've never public spoke. We were never public speakers. We were never public speakers. Yeah, sorry. my grammar got messed up there but yeah i mean we just i made the bet on that too and you just got to keep making those bets but that was the first real big bet i made on myself to give me the confidence to just keep making bets on myself like that you know that was the first real big one and it was hard

but i've grown more as a person in the last three years than i ever did being in school and it's just because I had that relentless mentality that I wasn't going to stay where I was and I was going to make my dream come true no matter what. And all that started because I made that first bet on myself. Yeah. And what I was going to say to that is don't box yourself in because you really don't know what opportunity is going to come. And when I was just sitting here listening to you, you know, when you made the decision that you were going to stay, you were going to come farm with me, you didn't know what your side hustle was going to look at and it looked like.

You knew that you wanted to do something with social media, and you were dabbling in it then. Yeah, my love. But you didn't have any idea where it was going to go. No, I didn't. You just knew that you had to do something and that it was going to, you had to learn a lot about social media.

I mean, whether you were, whether you were, um, whether you were filming our day to day or you were filming something entirely different. You knew that that was the direction you wanted to go. That was the side hustle I wanted to go because I thought I had the biggest upside. Yeah. Yeah.

That's something I left out. When I started, when I started social media, I had no freaking idea that I was going to be, do, be a come a farm YouTuber or whatever. You know, I had no idea. I was dabbling into fitness. I was trying to just figure out myself. I was trying to figure out social media on the same time I was trying to figure out myself too and see what I was interested in all that stuff.

But, you know, then I came across a farm influencer or farm YouTuber and I'm like, you know what, I can probably do that, you know. And at that time, I did so much, you know, work on learning social media and learning all the things you got to do on it that when that opportunity came, I was ready for it. And you'll never be, yeah, that's a good point. You never know, you'll never know all of it. You'll never know when you make a decision. You'll never know everything when you make that decision.

But if you feel obligated that that's the best decision for you, you're going to figure out the rest. You will. You'll figure it out. And it might not come to you right away, but it will come in due time. So just be patient and just keep working, you know, keep working. Yeah. And I'll add that I had no dreams or.

aspirations of doing anything with social media other than posting my usual picture of Tork's bacon bacon sandwich on my birthday on Facebook. That was about the extent of my social media skills. But you know what? Today, I love doing this. I do. And I like where it's taken us. And it's like, now this is a this is a an opportunity that I had no idea that it would ever come my way. You know, I was just thankful, and I still am, I'm just thankful that there's another generation here farming with me, because when my oldest son, when Clay graduated you and I, I knew there was no way he was going to come. He had no interest in farming. I mean, I knew he had no interest in farming back long before that.

But Sawyer, I didn't think that I didn't think that he would end up wanting to do it. And so when he made that decision, I was happy for that. But everything that's happened since there, since then, it's, it wasn't on my radar, but I'm thankful that it ended up that way because it's been a great, it's been a great ride so far. It's been a great add to the farm, I think. We're just getting started. just getting started. It's a lot more work. You know, that's the one thing. You know, it's always great to bet on yourself and want more for yourself, but just realize it's not easy and it's a lot of

work. So you really got to have that why. And for me, it was, I wanted to make the, I want to make the farm viable for another generation. That's my biggest goal. And, you know, I want to do a lot of other things too. But that was my biggest goal. And I knew that we had to figure out a way to produce some income off the farm. But, you know, on the other, On top of that, you know, what we're doing. It's good for just not just for us, but for the ag community as well. You know, we're spreading, we're spreading great, great things about ag and showing people what happens, showing people our day-to-day lives. Dispelling a lot of falsehoods, too.

Yeah, and that's a lot of misconceptions. I think it's a really good thing. So, yeah. But that was kind of my biggest, that's my biggest bet on myself, I guess you would say. Yeah. And that gave me the confidence to keep going. So just make that first bet on yourself. If you're whatever it is, if it's in fitness, if it's in your physical, whatever,

for it's your knowledge, if it's your career, you know, just make that first bet. Yeah. We'll close this down. But who's the guy, who's the older guy that wears the three-piece suits that yells at the people? Dan Peña. Dan Peña. I saw, just saw Dan Peña the other day and he was talking about just starting, just starting. and I will not tell you everything he said.

He does a lot of explicit content. Dan does not. He's an old guy and he doesn't care what anybody thinks, but he said basically what he said is, you know, just get off your butt and start because if you would have gotten off your butt 10 years ago, you wouldn't have thought about getting off your butt five years ago and you wouldn't be sitting here watching me now

because you would have already done it. And sometimes that's the hardest part. And when you bet on yourself, you are only accountable to yourself. And that, it's a lot easier when you have somebody that is pushing you because pushing yourself, it's tough because it's just so hard. All the blame's on you, all the responsibilities on you, everything's on you. The upside's great because when you accomplish it, it feels really, really good. Yeah, that's the other thing that we don't say.

You know, once you make that first bet on yourself and you're right and you know you're right and you know you made the good decision, you know, when I got out of college, or when I got out of high school and I didn't go to college, I didn't know if this was going to be the right decision for me. But when I, you know, it took me a year and a half, two years to really realize that was the right decision. And I felt damn good about the decision I made after that, you know. And you're never going to, you might not know that right away. And this is the other thing that I'll say about decisions. This is from Gary Vaynerchuk. guy that I listen to a lot. But he says, you know, everyone's always contemplating decisions. Like it's going out of style. What if? What if? What if?

What if? What if? But the one thing, you'll never know the other side of the decision. So I will never know what it feels like if I would have went to college. You'll never know the other side of whatever the decision you're trying to make. It's 50-50. You either go with one or you go with the other.

And you'll never know the other one. So just let it go. Pick one and go. because if you don't, if you just sit there and contemplate, you're never going to start. You're never going to start. And that's the worst. And I'm indecisive as hell. I am indecisive of hell when it comes to going to Chick-fil-A or Poncheros.

I don't know which one I'm going to go to. But when it comes to big life decisions, you've got to be, you got to try to be fast with it. Set it and forget it. Set it and forget it. Obviously spend some time on it because that's a critical, you know, decision. But don't spend a ton of time on it. Don't wait a year to do it or two years to do it. Three years.

important thing is starting right whatever the decision is make the decision start yep and you'll never know the other you'll never know the other outcome of that decision so just pick one stick with it and go i think that's a good i think that's a good ending point i think we should make the decision to not run this one an hour in 40 minutes i like that decision i think you guys do too so we're going to try to keep these got from we're going to try to keep these episodes 30 minutes to an hour if we go over over that you know we're really passionate about the topic. I mean, there's some things, yeah, there's some things that may go a little longer.

Yeah, there is. But I hope you guys enjoy us and don't get sick of hearing us, you know. Yes, and the guests are coming. We've got some people. We've reached out to some people. We've got some interesting. We've got some pretty good people lined up that we think will be really interesting to sit down and talk to.

Honestly, the biggest hurdle that we have is anyone that comes on the barn Talk podcast today has to climb the ladder to get up here. And we think that it might be a little more professional if we got our staircase in. So we got to install a staircase. In a crate downstairs is a steel spiral staircase. And it needs a 60 inch by 60 inch opening that we've got to cut in the floor of the hay mow. And as we said, we are not looking for any extra stuff to do. But we're going to get it done. And once we get that done, we should probably get a fan in here because I'm sweating, I'm sweating bullets right now.

It might not be bad. Or send them a message to say, where you're swim trunks or something. Maybe we can get a, maybe AP can hook us up with one of those portable porticoolers. That'd be pretty cool. That'd be pretty nice. Check out of, AAP, if you're listening. We're going to the World Pork Expo and we'll have to hit them up. Maybe you distract them.

They might have one there. And if you distract them, I'll just start wheeling that sucker down the aisle and see if we can just take her right out to the line. Get one right in here. But yeah, so we're going to have some guests on here in the future. Got some interest. But keep giving us some ideas, guys. Keep throwing some comments down on who you want to see on here because we're going to keep sending messages, try to get some more interest and try to hopefully get some more guests on here. Tell us what you like.

Tell us what you like. Tell us what you like what we can do better on. Give us your thoughts on what we talked about if you agree or disagree and all that stuff. I hope you guys have a great rest of your week or yeah great great weekend and a great next week. We'll see you back next Friday and keep on keeping on. See ya.