Barn Talk - Uncle Trent Is Back

Episode Date: July 17, 2022

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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 types, in size, and even in name. Welcome to Barn Talk. We should call this Slim Shady Edition because he's back. Brother Trent is back. The El Kinquistador of the East has arrived on his summer tour. And we decided, you know what? It would just be terrible of us to not share him with the world.

So today is kind of, it's a family episode. We need a soundtrack, but anyway. Yeah, this is one of our most popular episodes on YouTube back in, I don't know how, whenever we started. You were actually our first guest, I think. Wasn't that just last summer? Last summer. You were our last guest.

So it's crazy. He always comes back for the 4th of July. We had a really good 4th July. And you also might be noticing that the camera angle looks a little bit different for this episode. I think this is going to help us with our camera issues and we're not going to have anymore. So we're going to roll with this setup for a little bit and see how we get along and hopefully we don't have any cameras that overheat. And we just got to go get another, we just got to buy another camera that won't overheat, but they're all sold out. So this is

the setup we're going to have to roll with for right now. If you guys get any value from the show, you know what to do, pay the fee, share it out with your friends, family, coworkers, employees, whoever, trying to grow this thing, trying to do some good in this world. So that's the ticket to admission to watch and or listen to the show. It's just to share it. We don't run ads on the show or for the show. It's all promoted through organic reach and growth. So we appreciate everybody that does pay the fee and leaves us a review on Spotify and Apple as well.

So really appreciate everyone doing that and just go ahead and do that if you're listening. So we'll do an abbreviated market update. And this is a very diverse show. morning because we've got Sawyer is drinking some black rifle coffee. My brother is on the Bloody Mary train, and I am drinking my official drink of summer. I just found this. I think shout out to Matt Roder, because is he the one that brought these on your boat to her? So this is an Arnold Palmer spiked, half and half.

It's an Arnold Palmer with a little extra in it. But, oh, man, we had pool day. Yeah, I'll show you there. That's what it looks like. 5% alcohol. Well, yeah, that doesn't, it doesn't matter. It's just tasty. Fourth of July, I kind of got on these, and it's very refreshing.

I told you they were dangerous. They are a little dangerous, but I'll keep it in check today. You don't have to worry about that. Now, how did that get to be, like, who's on Arnold Palmer? He's a golfer. Not a gopher. Famous golfer, and I guess, I don't know if he started the brand, or somebody named the brand after him, but...

No, it was his drink. That was his... They called an Arnold Palmer because he used to mix lemonade and iced tea together, I guess, and so they called it an Arnold Palmer. Well, maybe one day they'll have a... And is he dead? Yeah, I think he is.

I think he's passed. Yeah. It's always when you're dead. Yeah. You should get the recognition. Except for you boys. We're going to call something the triny. Yeah.

I will. Probably... Dirty trenty or bloody trenty. I don't. Those don't. You better stick with the dirty tranny. Heavenly triny. Well, I don't know about that either. Although dirty triny, I think that kind of fits.

So like a dirty martini, you need to get your spin on a dirty martini. I think this is actually probably the way he drank most of his Arnold Palmer's. Yeah, he just didn't tell people that. I'm sure he spiked the shit out of these. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he just didn't tell people that. I'm going to need a rhinestone can. There you go. I don't know.

There's a price point there. Well, you can't get over that. I'm worth every penny. Ah, we already digress, but the abbreviated version of the market update is going to come fast and hard today. So oil's the same. I think it actually, so I think it might come up a little today. It sounds like it's coming up. But corn, $7.10 locally.

So corn's kind of getting hit because apparently we think now we're going to have good weather and a big crop and all that. and any excuse to pay less for corn is what the train we're on right now, but we'll see how long that lasts. Soybeans 1562 at the river, 1584 on the Illinois side, bean meals, $460 a ton, wheat, 791, although just about all the grains were up. So this is going off yesterday's clothes, so just about all the grains were up when I looked at them this morning. Hogs 112, cattle 133, Tesla was $700, market open.

I haven't checked it where it's headed. Everything was looking higher, so we might get back to a little better price today. Bitcoin 20,000, it just stays. It just goes down, comes up. It can't get over 21,000, doesn't get much cheaper than 19. We're just kind of in a, we're building a basis. We're building the floor right there, I think. And Ethereum 1137, and I still got MP materials in there.

price hasn't changed $32. So how was that? That was quick, wasn't it? That was a quick one. Yeah. So when we have guests on, I think we're going to try to be a little quicker with the market update, just so it doesn't take so much time away. Tork just needs to shut up, not talk so long.

No, it's, you know, this camera angle is going to be kind of a bugger because when you're talking, I'm not going to be able to pick my nose or anything like that. That's what I was just thinking when I was drinking my coffee. Well, I think we'll be able to zoom each other in. I think you'll be able to zoom in on you more and then zoom in on me more when I talk and versus you talk that sounds like work for the guy editing it does but you just copy and paste not really looking for copy and paste the effect you ought to be all right yeah so we got uncle trent on today and we're just going to shoot the shit we're just going to shoot the shit we got a little bit of a game plan but it's

not really set in stone so wait wait Trent Trent has appeared oh yes look at that we got sound effects so i've never set close enough to the roadcaster that i could play with any of the effects buttons and Sawyer's already thinking, this was a bad idea. This was a bad idea. So, welcome. Thanks, Torquy. Welcome, Trene. Welcome back. Welcome back to Marn talk. Now, I did this purposely because last year, you know, I had on a pair of sunglasses. So I decided to wear him again. Can we wear, see your beautiful eyes? There we go. Look at that. Look at that. Play that music again. Oh, here. Better. Here. Eyes. Cue music. Not the laughter, the little chimes.

This one. Oh, look at that. Magical. Is that what you're going for? It's magical? Okay. Not the laughter. Yes.

How was your flight? How was your fight here? It was great. I was just thankful that everything was, you know, on time. I was a little stressed because, you know, as you've heard, there's just cancellations everywhere. You're from Pennsylvania, right? Yes. Yeah.

So a thousand flights canceled. earlier in the week. You came in on Sunday morning. Yes, I did. And I just was like, Lord, get me there on time because I'm a little selfish and I really am ready to go on vacation. And so he did. Then I got off and the most amazing Uber travel that I've ever had was awaiting my arrival out there at the Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Iowa airport. And it was you and your... It was Goober. cool Jeep there. No doors, no top. I mean, it made me reflect back to flying on the airplane, you know, that we put on our seatbelts on that airplane that flies through the air. But the airplane at least has a roof and the sides on, not that, to my knowledge, I don't know of anybody wearing the seatbelt on the airplane has necessarily survived because of the seatbelt, but we do need to put those on. That's right. But I was thinking as I was getting in your Jeep and we put on our seatbelts,

So I was like, yeah, I don't really think this is going to do much good either. You really get a bunch of bruises if that thing goes over. So thanks for driving safely. I think that if you're in a strip down Jeep and anything happens, you probably want to be ejected from the vehicle because it's not going to be good. It is a token. That's your only chance. Yeah, really.

It is cool. How are the flight attendants on your flight? What do you say about flight attendants when they're checking the seatbelts? Well, you know, it's something they have to do. And it's funny because I didn't have mine on when the flight attendant first started walking toward us. And I said to myself as I was sitting there, you know, I'm like, well, I wonder if he'll notice that I don't have it on. But, you know, they look like that the whole time. They're crotch checking the whole time.

They're walking down the aisle just looking at everybody's crotch. It's a little uncomfortable sometimes, you know, but I'm like, you know. Did he kind of chuckle when he walked past you? No, he didn't. Oh, okay. Yeah. If anything, they get a big old smile. Thank you for flying our friendly skies.

I do always laugh when they say, you know, and please, if there's anything that we can do to make your flight more enjoyable, don't hesitate to let us know. And I must admit, in my mind, I think of all kinds of things that would make the flight more enjoyable. Many are appropriate. Go through them. Go through them. I'd love to hear. Well, you know, I think they could. I would take a little back massage, you know, just ask the people sitting behind me to get out of their seat and they could just come up and give you a little shoulder massage.

That would be nice. I mean, you know, a scalp massage, you know, a little facial. Right. You know, even a warm cloth. They do that on the international flights. Right. They do sit down. Not to aisle.

Um, you know, free cocktails, I really think could be a thing because people aren't going to drink that many. Most of us are going somewhere when we get off the plane. So, you know, step it up. And most, all my flights coming were like, um, and we will not have time for in-flight service, but we will be coming through. And if there's something you need, let us know. And again, it was just hilarious because, you know, a lot of people want water. I'd like an old fashion. Not with the cheap cherries either. Give me the good stuff. Anyway, but it's good. You know, I'm just glad we can fly and get there. It is nice to be back to traveling. Yes, amen to that. And we were no masks this time. So that was, I can breathe. Did you have a good Fourth of July while you were here?

We did. It's always fun. It is a good time. I mean, it's just, you all, you know, so many things, once again, you know, I won't digress. We're going to try to, they gave me this little sheet this time. Where's the camera right here? So I have a little sheet to stay on track this time. And last time we sort of kind of went.

That's the beauty of you, though. All over the place. Yeah, like you're going to pay attention to this. This is just like. It'll ground. This is like cat hurting. Yeah. But yeah, the fourth.

See, we'll go right back to it real quick. The fourth, that's better than we did last time. The fourth was great. You know, Soye, you had a great little gathering of your friends. And it's just beautiful, kind of reconnecting. You know, you don't just reconnect with family when you come here. You reconnect with, you know, Sawyer's friends. You can see how they're all doing.

And you just grilled up a storm. It was just wonderful. All the food you made. And you guys make it special. You are entertainers. Yeah. And I will have to say, I'll say kudos to Sawyer because it's always nice that he and he lets the old people come down for a little bit.

We're kind of like a, we're kind of like a novelty. Sawyer gets these parties going. and then all the old people come down across the yard, and everybody's like, oh, who is this? Who are these older kids? Who are these geysers? And then they look at us and point and chuckle, and we tell them some stories, and they're like,

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It's okay. People that I know will be watching this, and they will not find that hilariously funny. I think it's hilarious. Soy milk. No, I just, you know what, let's face it. Okay, here's the thing. There's just times where you just like to give people the shock value.

And there's something about that in life that is, missing today, you know, and I tend to be one of those people that sometimes I get a chuckle out of shock value. Yeah. I mean, sometimes it's just fun to tell people something if they ask you, if they ask you a question. Give us an example. So anyway, we're down there by the pool. And this one lad comes up to me, what was his name? Matt. Matt. We just had him on the show. I'm sorry. Yeah. No. Oh, Matt. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, gosh, I'm not very good with all the names. But so Matt, Matt, Matt, we're standing there chatting, and then Matt goes, what do you do? And I said, I said, well, and I looked a little uncomfortable, and I just looked at him,

and I said, well, I do porn. And in that moment, he just kind of, he just kind of stood there, looked at him like a little deer in the headlights, and I was trying to be serious. And then, of course, I didn't realize there was this girl standing behind him. and then her eyes lit up a saucer's like wait but you sold it you sold it so well yeah you were like this you said look up a few key words oh yeah and i'll pop up i just literally again i apologize to all of you out there they're gonna go that is not funny it's kind of funny if you were there everybody listening watching it's probably going to laugh at that part it is pretty funny i thought

it was i don't i am a hairstylist in lancaster pennsylvania okay that's what i do i have a little studio there so did um Did your plane hit a pheasant on the way here? Or how did you assemble that? What is that that that you got on there? On your, on your... What is that hanging around your neck there? I'm like, what are you going with that?

Is that ostrich? What is that? I don't know what it is. It was a piece of jewelry that I just fell in love with. And I was like, oh, you know what? I'm going to get that. I think it is a pheasant feather. It's probably some kind of...

So call you hunters out there. Thank you. Simbaugh. Yeah, thank you. For those, whoever's hit some random... Thank you for providing me with my pheasant feather. feather. Yeah. That might be your Indian name. Fisant feather. Fessent feather. We'll send pheasant feather. There we go. Okay. Next question. So we're going to stay on track today.

This is good. So it's good to have you back. It's so good to be here again. This is really nice of you guys to have me on again. And, you know, I was out in my trailer this morning in hair and makeup. And, you know, I was just waiting to come up. And I told Torquie, I said, what time do I have to be in there? again, it's hot. It's actually not as bad. It's not too bad this morning. That's what it was. And I said, I don't want to go in too early. I don't want to sit there and melt. Yesterday was a hot one for sure. We had a little storm over there. I have a question that's not on the sheet. Sure. Let's talk about that. Tell me some of your salon, like, what is the weirdest thing somebody's done in your chair while you've been cutting their hair, shampooing their hair?

Oh. What is something that's just like, what the hell are you doing? when while they're in your chair. It's funny because you did not ask me that just so everybody knows ahead of time. And I can honestly say that throughout all of my young years of doing hair, I have not had anything really awful ever or, you know, bad or whatever. I mean, thank the Lord. I've never had anybody, you know, die or anything. That would be bad. But funny that you asked that. One of the funny things that happened was I was at one of my studios and I was shampooing and I still do this gal's hair and I love her very much. She's great. So I don't know. Maybe she won't watch this. But anyway, I'm shampooing her hair. She's back in the shampoo bowl.

I'm not kidding. And you know, you lean back in the shampoo bowl and, you know, I have a stand behind shampoo bowl. So I'm shampooing her hair. And I kid you not. She is like, she is like this. Oh, yes. Oh. And she's, you know, a little bit of older lady, you know, which is fine. I was literally like looking away. Because you were laughing. Laughing. I just thought to myself, in that moment, I'm like, what are you doing?

Nobody has ever done that. She started moaning. Oh, yeah. And she was like, just keep. And my door was open because I have just a small studio in my door and it has a hallway. I was like having thoughts, you know, of like, oh, dear God, please don't bring you going down the hall. because people are going to be,

or either that or I'll have a line, you know, maybe get some new customers. Anyway, that was a little weird. And I was like, okay, we're all done.

Does she continue to do it? No. So she does not now. I think she just was having a day. She realized it. I don't know. Maybe you've lost that loving feeling. So that was up there with the weirdest.

That was, I mean, it was. It was just a little bit like, okay. Because there were a couple of other gals in the salon that, I mean,

in the studios nearby that, did hear it because they asked they're like, who was that woman? Did you ever snip someone's ear or anything? Oh, you know what? I did. You've how long been cutting hair? Well, let's see. Don't ask me numbers. I was, I started doing hair in 1986. And so I've been doing here since 1986.

What am I into 30, 30 some years? Yeah. So you have a lot of experience. Yeah. What's the worst, what's your worst like? nightmare that ever happened to you that you're like oh my god i can't believe i did this well you know what so as as far as snipping someone's ear i i do have to clarify and just say i did not cut their ear with my uh scissors uh i had ordered a new pair of blades uh that i was and i was doing uh actually a guy's haircut and i didn't notice that on the blade there was a piece of the steel like you know through the

production manufacturing whatever i just happened to get this blade that had a little sharp piece sticking out from it and I went around his ear and it just kind of scratched it a little bit. So that's what happened with that. That's pretty good. And of course I felt terrible. That's not your worst. But that's not my worst. No, actually I can honestly say my worst is when I was in beauty school back in Milwaukee, Oregon in the day.

And I did not enjoy doing perms. It's something like I learned very quickly when I went on this journey of, you know, doing hair. I knew the things very quickly that I did want to. do and that I did not want to do. And standing there wrapping perms was not something for me, personally, that I enjoyed doing and I was very slow. But anyway, nonetheless, so it was toward the end of the day, and I'll never forget it, because see, in beauty school, they would let, back in that day, I don't know how it's like today, probably not like this, but they would let us as students work the desk, so we got experience being the receptionist as well. So of course, when I was the

receptionist and people would come in and they were booking pedicures or booking um perms well do you think i'm going to put that in my own book well hell no i'm going to skip right over that you know and put that over here and sarah's book and diane's book and whatever i would do the things i needed to do to get through but you know other than that i'm not doing any extra so one day this blonde bleached blonde lady i'll never forget came in this was back in the day when we used um nexus products in beauty school what's nexus me well it was a brand of products like you know today there's all kinds of you know you have redkin and unite and a veda all these is that like the how you do you go to chris uh no bobby bobby thompson bobby thompson has a line shout out to thompson and co he gave me a really cool

sweatshirt a couple years ago he's our barber iowa iowa city go check check them out if you want to get a sweet cut as a dude. So anyway, this lady came in. She needed a perm and Miss Donna told me she goes, Trent, you've got a perm. And we had just studied not perming over bleached hair. You should not do a chemical process over a highly chemicalized, you know, head of hair.

So of course, I went to Miss Donna and it was four o'clock in the afternoon. Or I don't know, probably not that late because beauty school is probably out at five. But I just remember it was afternoon, and I'm like right away looking at the clock going, oh, now I might have to stay until 4.30, and I've got places to go, people to see. Anyway, I didn't want to do it. It's what the gist of it is. And she basically looked at me, and she was like, you get out there and you do that perm. But she's got bleached hair.

It could not work so well. This could not be good. And I knew that I had to go do that. So I'm like, fine. So I wrapped the hair, put up. on the processing, took her back all those minutes or 45 minutes later, whatever it is, 30 minutes. I don't even remember on processing perms. Leander back in the bowl turned on the high-pressured water and started hitting those perm rods with the water.

And four of those perm rods just fell right off her head. Oh, my. And I started to just. Freakow. No, I was a laffer. And I was just holding my gut. and going and looking around and was, I remember this girl Sherry, and I called over and I go, Sherry.

I'm, you know, they don't see you because you're in the bowl and you've either got your armpit in their face with the old ones, you know, and I'm like, and I'm looking in the bowl and there was the hair. So I'm just like, just one minute. And I kind of felt real good about that because I'm like, hmm, that chapter is true. You should not do that. And now I've just proven, well, I had to go back and get me. Well, why did they fall out?

Because it was the processing solution over the bleach broke the hair off at the scalp. Yeah, just you can't do. Trashed it. Oh. That's why you see some of these bleach. Her hair was falling out of her head. It fell off her head. Like not her whole hair, but for those perm rods.

I'm not kidding at all. That is what happened. Oh, the hair that was on the perm rods fell off. Right. Along with the rod. And so the perm rod is not supposed to lay in the sink until you unsnap it and unroll it. And then you're supposed to have this little curl. Right.

But that hair just skipped all that and it just went right into the sink. I was like, So you brought the pixie cut before it's time. So what did you do? Well, I know they gave her a lot of Carafix treatments, which was like Nexus's heavy conditioner, the Bechris and Carifix. Some of you guys out there used those products, right?

You know what I'm saying. Anyway, yep, that was probably my, that is. That's one that went. down in history right there but thankfully in the salon i haven't had um there's never been anything really that bad now so that was like an 86 yeah what a few years ago that was a tough that was probably tough to get out of doing perms because that was like the heyday of perms hell i had a perm mullet for a little while in about 86 or 87 well i was going to say the perm's kind of coming back on some of these kids in like la and stuff and the mullet's coming back i know what do you think about

Well, I used to have a mullet, too. What do you think about the mullets? Oh, I think they're kind of cool. I think, you know, like, you know, with everything, it's all and who's wearing it. You know, it's just like a little pheasant necklace here. Right. If you want to wear the pheasant necklace, put on the pheasant necklace and wear it. Just, yeah.

Fucking rock it. But, yeah, I just, my son-in-law in Pennsylvania, we kind of did a little bit of a modified one on him, which for, I mean, he's always, we've kind of done pretty basic, you know, haircuts, but we kind of stepped out on it. You like it? I think they're cool. Yeah, he actually did. So what's the hardest part?

So you've done this. 30 plus years. For a long time. What is the hardest part of working with the public? Well, you know, that's really an easy question to answer. I think the older that one gets, for me, thankfully, it's not so much the physical part of it. It's just that now you, there are just days where you, you, you really are like you're on stage you are entertaining you know i do not sit in a cubicle

that i work from a computer that i can you know uh even do calls with people just on the call like you are a visual entertainer there and there are days where just a minute excuse me um there are days where you know if you're not feeling it and you've got to a full day, it's just kind of like tough winkies. Right. And I think that's the hard part for me is that there are times where, you know, I just, I'm like, it's not that you don't want to do it, but you get to the point, well, at least it's good that after all these years I do anyway. I always want to give people, you know, my best and be listening to them, but I do find sometimes that people tell me the stories and I'm just like, uh-huh, foiling their hair going, uh-huh. Oh, really? Oh, wow.

once in a blue moon they'll be like so i don't know what do you think about that and i'll just be like hmm what was i'm sorry what and i i i try not to let that happen but you know i catch myself so i don't know that's probably it for me so feigning interest is is a hard thing when you're not interested at all i mean you know or you do have you know certain people that are sharing things that you know they you know, we live in a delicate time because everyone has an opinion about something. Yes, indeed. Maybe that should be. Maybe that's not my answer.

Maybe my answer is. That's actually an excellent point. So you would know this. So over the time that you've done this, have you noticed a shift in the culture as far as how strong of opinion? I don't know exactly how to phrase that. Like, I feel like people today are not as willing to accept an alternate opinion. Is that, what would you say, soy? You know what I'm going for.

I was going to say, are people more outspoken now than they ever have been? 100%. Yeah. And I do feel that, you know, I've had, you know, probably even family members included in this that have said to me throughout the years, you know, you're so understanding of everybody. Or you, you know, like some people joke and they're like, but Trinney, he'll just,

he'll listen to anybody. He can just, and you know what, though, I can. I mean, I am, I'm very proud of that. And I think some of that is because I have been a hairdresser for so many years. Yeah. And it is an industry and it is a time with your people that I want everyone to feel

you know, comfortable coming to me and being with me at the time. I don't necessarily need to talk about everything that we might, you know, that somebody might sit down and start to talk about because I have heard it all. But there are certain things where I'm just like, okay, you know, I might, I don't necessarily think that Michael Jackson myself is alive currently. But I don't, I'm not upset that you do. If that makes your world better. Well, he and LaToyer are the same person.

Did you not know that? Yes. Yeah, see, that was all, that was just all a scam. But those are things that come up on the conversation, you know, that I'm like, okay. You know, and sometimes it's like I honestly mean it when I say, I just, I just really don't think that's something to get upset about or feel like I need to really beat my. Well, the thing is, it's recurring business for you. You can't really say, well, I don't believe in that because then people, the other thing is people are more outspoken than they ever been. before but they also get butt hurt more than they ever have before yeah they can't take criticism

very easily doesn't matter if you're not older if you're young kid people just can't take criticism well we should have led with this because the the kindler gentler barn talk we try to get this out in the beginning what what pronouns would you like to be referred to within the podcast so is we were not to offend you oh sorry so we were not to offend i don't know if you are you you you you you or they, them, or I don't even know what all the pronouns are. We need a cheat sheet of pronouns. I think, Torquay, I just, I always just want to be your hero. Okay, all right, I'll write that down.

I like that. I just can refer to me as, did you ever know, Trinney, that you truly are my hero? You are, for sure. And I am the wind beneath your wing. No doubt about it. Hey, you don't actually believe Michael Jackson. Q music to that. Is that woman, do you?

Latoya. Yeah. Because I think you said that in a really firm way, and I feel like people will probably listen to that, and they'll go. Cork really believes that? I think that's like urban legend because clear back when, so for my generation, nobody really knew the Jackson 5. So Michael Jackson was part of the Jackson 5, and his dad was a real prick, and he had all the kids saying, all of them. Yeah. And he toaded him around.

then that kind of all died out and until Michael Jack, until MTV came, like thriller came out and it was just a freaking juggernaut and you saw him moonwalk and you saw him on the on the MTV music awards and he just blew up. So that was like my first introduction of Michael Jackson and I was like, wow, Michael Jackson. Well then it didn't go very long before they had that tour and I can't remember what it was called, but old Joe Jackson, he rolled out the whole family and you had LaToya and you had, I don't even know all of them, Germain, well, and I guess I shouldn't say that, I was familiar. Any of you that are of my age, if you've heard Eddie Murphy's comedy album, Delirious, which is not, if you were easily triggered, you should not listen to Delirious because it offends a lot of people,

but it's damn funny. I grew up on that. I was like 12, 14, I don't know, somewhere in there. And he talks about, you know, if Michael Jackson and his brothers are teasing him. And he's like, Jeremy, stop teasing. But out of that, when they all toured, I think that's where the urban legend started, because there was something about in that Michael was never on stage at the same time that La Toya was on stage. And let's face it, LaToya was a token Jackson. really wasn't that talented but you know she was cute enough that they're like oh yeah throw letoia in there well i'm sorry i mean i don't know maybe she really was but what do you think about that trend i just i didn't know

i didn't take it to this level well right so anyway i feel like that that was an urban legend that got started was that michael and letoia were the same and they're never on stage because they were never on stage at the same time and that's how that all got going but anyway yeah but no i know whitney passed michael passed and Eddie Murphy died in that ski accident too. So, you know, he's gone too. I'm kidding. No, he didn't. Eddie Murphy didn't. That's also an urban legend that we always like to.

I started that. We go back to that shock level or shock value, we say to people, when you first meet somebody, that's something that dad kind of throws out to him sometimes is, oh, you know, Eddie Murphy died. That skiing accident. No, you just wait until you find somebody that, for whatever reason, in random conversation it comes up, They either, if it's, if it's some girl, some woman, and you get started talking about pulp culture and all that, you talk about, you know, Whitney Houston and Whitney Houston passed. And then if that happened, you talk about Michael Jackson. And when, if I come into that conversation, I will, my go-to will be, yeah, it's just so tragic. And then, you know, they always come in threes because then Eddie Murphy died in that ski accident. And it will stop them every time. And they will stop and they'll look.

And he's not, you know, he's, he's not as famous as he was. And so he's just, he's just obscure enough today that people are like, wait, did he, I haven't, did he die? That'll be like me one day. And it's just fun, it's just fun to, I'm sorry, it's kind of fun to mess with people. But we do that with our mom, you know, like when we go see mom in the nursing home, sometimes, you know, we're just sitting there and you should play that crickets chirping thing. We sometimes, we love her, but, you know, sometimes keeping the conversation going with her, she just gets uninterested. Yes. Pretty quick.

She wants to talk about what she wants to talk about. Oh, you know what? I'm going to wear this feather necklace today when we go see her and have her on her face. No, just have her look at it because she'll just look at me. She never knows. But anyway, we're like, oh, mom, I think it's so tragic, you know, Whitney Houston died. And she'll just look at you and be like, well. And even I knew that.

She's been gone for a long time. And I'll be like, oh, really? I just heard that. And then I told her the last time we were there, because it was shortly after Betty White passed and some, you know, soy milk, you know who she is. She was hilarious. Loved Betty White.

But anyway, I said to Mom, I go, oh, gosh, as long as, I'm just so thankful that Betty White is still around, you know, that'll be really sad. And then she looked at me again and she was, well, she just died. And I tried it for, we're terrible. Y'all are sitting out there going, gosh, these people, we need to come up with new material with mom starting to date. Well, let's face it, really the only question that mother wants to know out of you is whether

you brought her damn dishes back. You thieving, son of a bitch. I know. It's bad. So what do you think about city life versus small town life? What do you like? What do you don't like? How do you feel about it?

Well, and let's preface, you've lived, so currently you live in Pennsylvania, you live in Lancaster, but you've spent... Lancaster. Yeah, whatever. You don't. I can't say it. You're not Mennonite, so you can't say it right anyway, so it doesn't matter. But you've lived all over.

I mean, you've lived in California, Colorado, Oregon. I've done the motor home living. You're Johnny Cash. We lived in campgrounds that were like the country. because they were quiet. So yeah, you know, and I'm so thankful that I have because it's, you know, obviously being, we talked a little bit about this last time,

you know, being born and raised here, it is just a beautiful gift to still be able to come back to the very place where you lived as a kid. And a lot of people don't have that. I'm fortunate enough to have that. And that we have family here and that we like each other.

And those are all parts of people's stories. like, yeah, but we don't go there or whatever. So I love coming back here. I love, I look forward to it every year. I said that last year, but I also am thankful that I've done the big city life and experienced that and experienced California in the 80s, was a rock star myself, you know, with my beautiful long blonde hair and all that. I told this kid last night at Marquis, he walked in and had long hair and I went up to him and I said, I just got to tell you, I just, I love your long hair. and thank you for wearing long hair because so many guys just wear, you know, short hair. So anyway, he just was like, oh, yeah, thanks.

So anyway, but yeah, and I love Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is beautiful. It's very similar to here. Lots of farms, and, you know, it is great seeing the different parts of Pennsylvania. I mean, the cool thing about living there is that just a couple weeks ago, I got on the train and went to New York. And you can go to New York, the big city. city for the day. And then you come home at 11 o'clock at night on the train. It's easy, breezy. Yep. And then you can go to, you know, little parts in Lancaster that are very remote and country and

Amish buggies and horses. And so, yeah, it's really cool. I like it. I mean, but I never tire of, you know, like I was in town here on the 4th of July, you know, drove in. And I mean, not a soul is out. It was just like, you know, and I was reminded as I was kind of driving around the square and just, you know, taking it all in, I was like, oh my word, I love how quiet it is. Yeah, I was going to ask you, as you get older, do you like the more rural, little small town vibe versus big city? Well, number one, I'm not getting older, just to clarify that. And number two, I still can just adapt to both. I really can. Like, there's a part of me that will always like going to some sort of a city.

And yet, I am loving, I mean, even in Lancaster, we live in an area where I literally can walk now from where we live to my hair studio. And we have a beautiful park across the highway that I love to go to that has, you know, little water fountain and ducks and trees. And so I'm definitely an outdoor nature, quiet kind of a person. I like it simple. I've learned that about myself in getting a little. That's good. I always said this about myself. Growing up here,

kind of ruined me, because if I ever tried to go live in a city, I think I hate, like I went to New York City once with the whole family. We went up there, and I was a little bit younger. But I couldn't do that every day. There's no way in hell I could do that.

One day, and I was ready to be gone. I remember that. One day, get on the, Like what you did, get on the train, go there, come back that night because I could not stay there for two days, three days. I'm somebody that would like to go to a city and visit, but I don't think I'll ever live in one. Unless you can go down and stay at Mr. C's Seaport and drink bellini's on the room. Oh yeah, that was nice. Okay.

Actually, I've been in New York twice. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I forgot. That second time was way better. Oh, my gosh. That was just a fun weekend. Well, when you go to somebody, well, we first, the first time.

we ever went, we went to Times Square. And that is like, you want to talk about people upon people about people. That is like, people are on top of each other. When you're a small kid and you're walking around, you're like, this is endless. This is stressful. I don't like this. But the second time we went, we weren't downtown or on Times Square. We were kind of like, we're kind of all over. We're kind of all over, but we went with your nephew, Caleb, and he was from New York. He lived in New York. So he knew all the sites he knew where to go and we kind of went around with him and he took us around and that was fun i enjoyed that but well it didn't hurt so bad when we checked into that nice little uh boutique hotel yeah right by the brooklyn bridge yeah and we were upgraded i think yeah so we

i booked it i booked it through american express and we got there and apparently they had overbooked the the regular rooms and it was so weird because we checked in and they said well there's a problem with your reservation and I was like oh my gosh and uh we went there for the rivian we went there this is clear back when rivian introduced that they were going to build this electric pickup which that's been four years ago probably four or five years ago that's kind of crazy yeah and you know it was supposed to be out in you know like two years and i actually it's just now they're just now getting into production so that's that's the story on that but anyway the reveal of it was at the new york show and I decided you know what piss on it we're going to go I want to go because I want to see it

and I wanted to meet RJ the guy that started the company he was going to be there and I wanted to meet him so we made this plan we went to Trent's and then we we drove out there we took the ferry across went to New York spent the day we get to their hotel and there's a problem with the with a reservation and I was like oh gosh well American Express kudos to them if you travel a lot you cannot be the American Express card because they they got on the phone with them, I think, apparently, and they upgraded us. And so we're in this like, what would you call that? It was like a rooftop suite. It was a boutique hotel. Yeah. And then exactly that. It's right by the Brooklyn Bridge. Like you're sitting on the patio and you're practically under the Brooklyn Bridge and free, like,

uh, bellini's for everybody and this big outdoor patio. It was, it was insane. It was insane. Turf. The patio was turf. Yeah.

Yeah. But we walked in and we were just like, I was like, dad, what the hell? Yeah, what did you do? Trent was like, Tork. What is this? What have you not been telling me?

Yeah. What drug money have you been longer? Yeah, what the hell? But the highlight for me of, well, obviously I thoroughly enjoyed. So then Trent and I went to the, to the Rivian unveil party that they had. And your brother and you went out with Caleb and you went and did your own thing. But anyway, Trent and I walk into the Rivian reveal. And we go up to the bar and Trent orders first. First of all, Trent dresses like a ragamuff.

He thinks he's going to like a car show outside like they have up around the square, your little hometown, you know. So he's just like, oh yeah, no big deal. It was a little casual that. Yeah, you were a little... Which surprises me as I look back on it. You were a little too casual. Usually I'm the one that's too casual,

but it was fine. There was a variety of people there, so it was fine. But we walk up to the bar and Trent's like, he's like, I'd like a glass of, you know, chardonnay or whatever. And then I think I ordered like Crown and Coke or an old fashion. And Trent just instantly goes,

now wait, is this all free? The guy tenant the bar goes, yeah, it's open bar. It goes, okay, now scratch that. Because he was like, okay, I am going to change my order now. Is it Chris? So, but it was a great time. And I did meet RJ and love the product.

And then we went back. We spent that night and then we took off and went back. Well, that was a good trip. Yeah. It was fun going with you. but it didn't take long that, you know, we were there together, but then very quickly, you know, thank God for the bar because I was friends with the bar and Torquy was friends with all the people.

Yeah. He just was talking to this person and this person, because let's face it, yeah, I mean, I think it's going to be a great vehicle, but, you know, I just wasn't as into it at the time. I went, okay, it's a truck, and, but it was fun to see it. It was a good trip. And we had fun, yeah. That redeemed my New York, uh, feeling on New York.

Yeah. That was a better experience for me. I do love all the stories, though, that you boys have, you know, when you were little. Like, we do have fun looking back on that. You've brought up, we don't need to go into all those, you know, but there were a couple of fun stories when you kids were little, and you're like, oh, never forget you, Uncle Tranny, you were like, you know, at the restaurant where we found. Oh, yeah.

The cockroach. Yeah, there was a cockroach. We don't tell them that restaurant. I think that chain might be out of business anyway. Well, I always remember, you're always trying to get hustled. in New York. There's always people trying to sell you their CD. They're trying to get you to buy jewelry. I'll never, I'll never forget you walk down the street and we got gold, we got diamonds. We buy them, we sell them, we buy them, we sell them. And that's all they, they just repeat it over and over and over. Outsi, Louis Vuitton. Yeah, CD, CD, CD, buy my CD. And when you're a little kid and you're walking, you're like, oh my God, this is just everywhere.

I had a guy a couple weeks ago when I was there, he was full on selling. marijuana right out there he's like you know opened his bag and he's like what you need man what you need and i'm like man i'm good for now he thought you'd be an easy easy score you know i didn't you know do you have your sunglasses on or off oh i had him on i'm sure yeah i'm pretty sure i always try to look like maui jim or somebody oh my word where are we we're here on the farm and we would be remiss to not talk a little bit about uh growing up on this'll do farm so we all had kind of the same experience growing up with a, with a strong-willed, detail-oriented father, who was a former military guy.

And we all had chores. We all had jobs to do. Whether we wanted to do or not, we did them all. So when you think back, what was your least favorite chore or task that you got put in charge of on a regular basis? or maybe once if you did a poor enough job. Believe it or not, one of the, let me first say one of the jobs

that for some reason I loved the most was washing hog pens. Power washing. Power washing. I just, I'd go over and sing to the hogs, you know, and I would find that the hogs

that were in the other, like they were out when we were in the hog washing one. But I remember in the other, you'd go through the other door and the pigs that were in there. I would go in because I was, you know,

I sang in junior high and high school, and I would practice. when I was over there. And the hogs would just quiet down. They would just listen to you. So something about that. They love music. But that one I actually loved doing.

What I didn't like is the piercing voice at the bottom of the stairs in the morning when you're in a very peaceful, restful sleep. And you would hear, boys, boys, Todd, Trent, your dad. your dad's coming over it's time to get up better get ready it rings in my ears like it was just yesterday and i was like not nice about i was like just be quiet don't yell my name like that i like to be walking up i like to wake up a little more peaceful so yes oh torquy this is a whole new day here on barn talk i love it But anyway, and then you'd come down and it would be, in the summer, it would be, you know, the gardening day.

Oh, yeah. And you're going to pick the peas and you're going to pick the beans and they're going to come in 80-gallon buckets and it's just endless. And you'd sit down at a chair in the garage. And though you were sitting, it was a long-ass day. It's a long ways to the bottom of a five-gallon bucket of peas or green beans. And let's, I mean, so that's a, that's something that, so we have a garden. Yeah. And we've had one the last, we used to have one.

We kind of got out of it, but I love, there's nothing better. And anybody will tell you this, it's, there's nothing better than tomatoes you raise yourself. Because they're just are. They're just fantastic. And when fall comes and you can slice tomatoes and have BLTs and have, you know, whatever you want to make with them. but to this day, we do not raise green beans and we do not raise peas. Because you talk about an economic disaster.

If you are raising peas and green beans and your time is worth anything, that's not, when you can buy a can of beans for 93 cents, okay, it's a recession. It might be a dollar in 12 cents or $1.25 cents. I don't care. Because as a child, I remember. I don't remember sitting in the garage snapping beans and peace. I remember sitting downstairs in the basement watching Lawrence Welk,

and each one of us had a bowl of green beans, and we were snapping green beans and everybody throwing them in one thing. I can remember sitting down there and doing that and just be like, why are we doing? I don't even like green beans. And we had jars and jars and jars. And we were watching Lawrence Welk. Yeah, it was a double.

But I did used to think I would be. be on that show one day. I never made it. Cue the bubble machine. Where more bubbles. And Guy and Rolna. My mother loved Guy and Rolna and I didn't think they were that good. But I didn't like polka.

And Bobby and Sissy. I don't remember. Oh, they were the dancers. And mom would be just, oh boy. She was like the mom. And Lawrence Well, would always hold his hands together. Am I cutting off the camera? No, you're fine.

Thank you. Thank you. Bobby and Sissy. And now a word from Geratol. Yes, that's right. And Norma Zimmer was the champagne lady. And she would talk about rose milk skin care. And I'm sure there was a Saturday Night Live version of that.

But, you know, oh gosh. And mom went out and that was the beginning of her probably passion with Avon even because there was all kinds of skincare. Her own best customer. She was her own best customer. She had rose milk skin care. And just anyway, all those things that, yeah, people are like why. You both need to just talk about some stories on the farm that you remember.

Just that happened that are funny now that you look back on them. I had the advantage. Definitely I had the advantage because there's five years difference between Trent and I, and then Todd is older. And so Todd and Trent, they were like the duo. They got made to do everything at the same time because they're basically, you know, close enough in age. that they could. So if it was building fence or moving pigs or doing anything, they would be the ones

doing it. And then I was just there. I was my dad's yes man. I was just there to fetch a wrench or a piece of bailing wire or give me my buzzer. Get my buzzer. Or whatever it was. Give me that panel or shut that gate or go there, whatever. So I got the advantage of watching you to work and seeing what got the of dad and mentally I'd be like okay note to self you are so smart don't yeah don't do that oh don't say that but also I got some good so Todd was the collivator Todd had mastered the front mount four row collivator on the 60 John Deere that was his job you never did that no because my dad had the shovels tractor 101 Well, dad had the shovel set out so wide on that that if you got off at all, you were plowing out corn.

And so Todd somehow, his attention to detail and his longing to have the approval, he's not here to defend himself. So he became the go-to collivator guy. Trent, on the other hand, my only real memory of you on the tractor is when we used to plow everything, Then in the spring, if we plowed in the spring or if you did it in the fall, you'd harrogate. So you plowed obviously with the row. So you stayed on a row and you were plowing. But then when we went to harrogate, you would harrogate on the diagonal. And so you'd go catty cornered across the field to level it out.

And so at one side of the field, you were turning away from the fence. So that was really easy. And you're on a 4010. So it's pretty simple because you had the left and right break and you could crank that thing around. But at the other end, you were turning basically into the fence. So you had to judge, you had to turn a little sooner. Right. Perceived or real, you didn't feel like you had as much room.

And I'll never forget, I'll never forget the time that Trent came walking back to the house. And if you're, you know. I'm surprised I could walk. Yeah. And I could just remember, you know, you know what I'm saying. Everything when you're a kid is a big deal. And I just knew that Trent's ass was grass and dad was the lawnmower, even though I was, you know. And we go out there and what happened?

Well, I didn't turn soon enough. And so I caught the fence and then behind the, what was it called again, a harrogator? The harrogator. I knew I've not said that word. in all these years. Yeah, following the Harrogator was the fence coming along with the Harrogator. Well, so instead of, when you started a turn,

and then you realized you didn't have enough room to turn, rather than turning, you just kind of panicked and went, just went straight. Did you not? Well, I just remember I took out the fence somehow. Yeah, you went through the fence. If I remember right, you... It happens.

Trent did the head-on collision look where you just take your hands off. He did Jesus take the wheel before that was a, before that was a song. And so you went into, basically you went into freezes or into cryals. Oh, I don't know. Probably cryals. And I went out, I remember going out there. Well, you're not fucking perfect either. No, I'm not.

What's your shit story? But it went, oh, dad was. I mean, and hello. who's got time to put in a new fence? And it's not like that just happens in an hour and you build a new fence like, you know, on Yellowstone where we all watch and oh, the fence is done this year or, you know, this time, right?

But anyway, yeah, I don't, for some reason I thought I was pulling it or I pulled it out to you. You might have been. You might have turned and caught it. I don't remember. I was seven. I don't know. Yeah, so talk more about the car catching on fire,

the barn caught on fire, or dad cracking his head open fucking three times. Are you falling in the... I mean, come on. Let's get it going. I love the farm talk. People like these stories. You did not get called up a lot to do tractor driving work.

No, I did not. It's a good thing that you liked power washing because you ended up doing a lot of power washing. Yep. And then that shoehorned me into, like, here, torque. I know you can barely touch the pedals, but it's all right. You just stand...

When you get to the end, just throttle it down and stand up and you can run the pedal standing. That was the first talk I got from Dad is like, you can do it here. Oh, you can't quite, you're not quite, well, when you get to the end, just throttle down and then just stand up, you can clutch it, or you can shift down or you can, you know,

if you need to turn the break, it's fine. Yeah. But what year, let's see, let's think about that. We were talking about this the other night. So in, on our farm here, our original hog buildings on Thanksgiving Eve, and it must have been 1980.

Because I thought that you, I thought that you were still here, or maybe it was later than that. No, it was later because you had left and come back. Tessie came back, I'm sure. Yeah, so it was like, what would have been, 84? Yeah. So in 1984 on...

For Thanksgiving Eve, we were sitting at the table and out the south window of our house, it looked like our hired manhouse or the house that Sawyer lives in now, which I used to live in, it was all white at that time and it was glowing like the sun was reflecting off of it. Only the sun was not reflecting. The hog building was on fire. And we had a finisher, 500 head finisher, and it literally, burnt to the ground. Yeah. And I, so in 84, I would have been 13. Yeah, I would have been like 13 years old. 12 or 13, depending on where it was. And I don't remember much about, well, do you remember?

I mean, I just remember to the point of, yeah, where all of a sudden, you know, when you realize that, hello, something on your farm is on fire, it's not like you sit there and go, oh, well, that's unfortunate. No, it was like all, everything broke loose, you know, and you're flying out the door. And I mean, I, but the funny thing is I don't remember the fire trucks coming, which of course they did. And that kind of thing, it was kind of a blur. But you just kind of remember it happening and going, and I remember though, dad, even though that was our business and that was, you know, of course, money and all of that going up in flame. But I know that that was hard on dad too from the element of he cared about, I mean,

as weird as it is, caring about your pigs to be healthy enough to go to market and go through the stages. I mean, that squealing and that wasn't fun. Like, I remember hearing that and just being like, oh gosh, this is really sad. Yeah, not being able to do anything about it. Yeah, you just, it's like any house going up in flames. I mean, you've got to just wait till help comes and kind of pray for the best of what's going to be left, but it wasn't good. Yeah.

So anyway. And I remember the thing that will always stick with me about that is not so much the fire. But after it was done, the cleanup, like the next day, probably not the next day, because everything was probably still too hot. But like two days later, there were probably 50 people. there like there every every neighbor we had mm-hmm was there brought skid loaders bought brought loaders brought all this stuff and I'll never forget Hanson Concrete which Hanson Concrete that's Chris Hanson's parents that's before so they eventually sold that move to Texas and it became Wilson's concrete which became ideal today but that was Hanson's

concrete. Okay. And they brought out a big Michigan end loader that they used to load sand. And we we scooped up all the dead pigs. So I remember all the neighbors coming. We pulled all the gates because there's literally nothing left to this finisher. It was a, it was a power ventilated finisher. So it was a solid-sided barn. This is before the days of tunnel natural and natural barns. And the neighbors came. We pulled all the gates out. Basically, we pulled everything out. We could and the only thing that was left laying on the slats were the ashes and the pigs and we had some guys that had smaller like the old little john deer skid loaders and we put them lifted them up and set them on the slats and they didn't like break the slats and we scooped all that stuff off all those

dead pigs off and national byproducts which today is darling international and they they're rendering company so they take you know they pick up deadstock whether it be cattle or sheep or pigs or whatever and they you know they make all the byproducts out of it uh from leather to dog food to cosmetics yes cosmetics come from dead pigs oh that's got to feel good for all you all you like to all you mothers out there that i better stop anyway um they scooped all that up and loaded i think we had like six semis that came and i'll never my dad or our dad it's okay made the comment. I'm not normally here.

Right. He made the comment that he didn't know if we'd ever recover from that. I remember that, you know. And but we rebuild it and we kept Farrowing and, you know, we built a building back that was better than the one we had. And it was all fine, but I'll never forget that. Yep, there you go. It was.

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Learn more about their customizable plans at squareup.com. But he, yeah, so that was, of course, tragic. And let's see. What else? Yeah, my car, my, I think that was my, my graduation night of high school, that my car, I probably hadn't put oil in it is most likely what, we could leave the story at yeah the car just caught on fire but i'm i'm probably pretty sure that you know i didn't really check those things i um yeah as boys we were all in charge of pulling

maintenance on the vehicles that we got so our parents were kind enough to buy us vehicles i think that's i actually i think i i think i actually bought the car that i had however i siphoned a lot of money out of mom and dad for the fixing up of the car. You're a candy apple red. Camaro. Well, you had the coolest car out of all of us. You know, by the time you came along, things started to get cooler.

You could tell that my parents had been beaten down because Todd's car, his first car, was a Ford Pinto. And it never blew up on him, but it was not a very pretty vehicle. And then your first car was an AMC Matador. Yeah, it was this car. like grandma. It looked like snuffelupicus.

It was a two-tone brown matador. But it didn't even make it. It didn't even make it through high school. The Pinto at least made Todd all the way through college till he wrecked it. But the matador, what happened? It just died. Something just happened because you ended up getting something different. Well, then I got another two-toned tan little four-door.

Omni. Omni. It was a omni. It was smaller than the Matador. But I don't really think. I don't think I had a choice. I think, you know, well, I think that I think in your guys' case,

Lawrence Whistler went to Perdox. Oh, yeah. And was like, what do you got here? What do you got here that's cheap that we'll probably hold together? And that was what he brought home. And I don't know. When I came along, I think I started,

but cars weren't important to you guys. Todd or Trent. Neither one of you thought, I mean, it just wasn't. for me my group that i ran around with like we were scheming about cars when we were 13 14 years old and by the time i turned 16 it was like i had one friend that had a 71 charger 340 i had another friend that had a 67 chavelle with a 327 i had another childhood friend that had a i think he i think jody I can't remember Jody Calupa had a Mustang mock one or not.

I know they had one. I just don't know if that was his or his brothers. And then we had another friend that had a 4-4-2, an old's 4-4-2. And then a buddy of mine that he ended up going to IMS to finish school, but he had like a 69 chavelle convertible with a 396. So we were all muscle. We were all into muscle cars.

And I bought this Camaro with my own hard-earned hog money for $600. However, the only panels on that car that we ended up not replacing was one quarter panel, the hood, and the trunk lid. Everything else, we got it stripped, and it was full of Bondo. And then we, you know, pulled the motor. we ended up i just you know you made that a sweet car it was a sweet car it was but it was um that was back when gas was 98 cents a gallon too so anyway my word um you ever get in on fence building um no not so much the thing that i hated the most oh you weren't the shot time it up very well so

you would shut your mouth and trent could start talking then i could sit back down oh well it wasn't you were nobody's missing you it's all right I always have to check the cameras because we don't have anybody behind the scenes, ladies and gentlemen. The crew here, I always think about it. You know, at least you've got hair and makeup now in a trailer out of the run. I'm thankful for that. And, yeah, but other than that, the crew, you always end up doing it all. And that's a show right there, seeing the two of you set this whole thing up.

Sometimes you get, it's very beautiful. Pissy with each other. You know, I'm like, it was, it's just, you could do a great job. I mean, setting this up, you know, people think, Oh, yeah, it just always looks like that. I said that last year. And I'm like, no, it doesn't. Like the hay bales are real.

I said that last year. Yep. Well, I really appreciate it. We try our best. It's awesome. We do. We try to give the best to them. But, yeah, where we, um, Torky, we do appreciate, you know, the fence building.

Oh, we're going to talk about that, yeah. No, I was just going to say, I think a lot of people can identify with this because my dad was one of those people's that, one of those folks that when you dug a post hole and you put a post in it, even though the post took up three quarters of the volume of the hole, you were still expected to tamp every crumb of dirt back into that hole. Right. Which I never understood, and I remember arguing one time and realizing it was pointless, but it's like, okay, we dug this hole and we put this post in here, and the post takes up a lot of space of the hole.

How can you possibly think that I need to get all the dirt back in here, but that is what was required. And you would tamp, tamp, tamp, tamp, tamp, scoop, tamp, tamp, tamp, tamp, tamp. Just, it was terrible. And I remember using that thing that went over the post driver. The post driver. For the steel post. Oh, my gosh, that was.

And it was always hot. Oh, yeah, blazing hot. I didn't enjoy those things. Nope, either. Nope. What about all the times you cracked your head open? He didn't have anything to do with any of those. Well, I know, but it's still good to hear.

Just keep, make them quick. How many times you crack your head open on this farm? well on this farm or house farm doesn't matter three times three times you have your head open so that explains it ladies and gentlemen that explains why Tork says the things he says sometimes

because he's just got permanent brain damage I'm saying I'm a pretty white boy so yeah and then you almost suffocated in a in a wagon full of corn so when I was a little kid it's truly a blessing that I was even

conceived you're even alive I was even conceived On top of all of that, a woman took pity upon me and looked at me. Trisha Whistler looked at me and said, I think I can fix him. I think there's potential there. And she's still working at it. We're going to be 29, 29 years in here before long. And she's still thinking, yeah, we'll give her the.

Yay, Trisha. That's impressive. Yeah. I slipped on the ice once. I dived into the side of the swimming pool once. And the third time... Head on the car, right? Oh, yeah, that's right.

Yeah, that's right. And then, yeah, I almost did suffocate in a wagon load of corn because I was young and stupid and was playing in it and got sucked under. And luckily my dad found me and pulled me out and was so thankful, so thankful that I was okay that he promptly beat my ass right there, right? He literally got me out of the wagon, made sure I was okay,

and you could tell the panic, and he was so thankful, and then like that, switched, and he beat my ass and said, don't you ever be up there playing in that if I'm not around here? God damn it, get back to the fucking house. So, parenting love. You weren't playing in it when the auger was running. It wasn't like dumping corn. Oh, no, it was.

It was in the fall year. And we were pulling, so we were combining. We were combining. And my dad and his neighbor, Tom Walker, they owned a combine together, a Massey 510, the epitome of ag engineering. And so my dad had been running it. And Tom came and he started running it. And so we were hauling loads in because I was hauling in corn by myself.

No, I wasn't. I was small enough. I wasn't. but I was probably riding with Terry, which was Tom's boy. And then my dad started hauling. We were hauling loads in 300 bushel Parker wagon with 4010. And we started unloading. And my dad was down below, you know, standing there watching everything.

And I got up in the wagon. And, you know, it's going in. And so you're playing in it, whatever. And then like an idiot, I don't know. I was probably goof. I was probably thinking about something or looking at a bird or whatever. and I'm standing there as it's pulling down. And it's kind of fun.

You know, it's like you're thinking, oh, I'm like Indiana Jones. It's like quicksand, you know. Only the problem was it finally got to where it was quicksand, and I couldn't get out, and it pulled me all the way down. And little did I know that my dad had started the sprinklers in the gestation barn,

which is right by where the bin are drying bin. And so he had gone up there to shut them off as this happened. And he came back, and I'm literally all the way, to the bottom and the corn is just over my, over my nose, and I'm freaking out, and I feel somebody, my toes are sticking out of the slot at the bottom where you open the gate. My feet are sticking out there, just the toes of my boots, and he squeezes my toes, because his first, you know, he probably thought, well, he loses boots or what, and he squeezes my toes,

and then I could hear, God damn it. The next thing I know, I just remember, you know, him grabbing me and pulling me up out of there. He pulls me out of there, picks me up. He's got me with one hand. Did he shut the auger off, I'm assuming? I think he did. I don't remember. How would he have got, he had to have gotten in the wagon. No, he did. He got up in the wagon. He grabbed my arms. He pulled me up out of there. He's got me under his arm. He crawls down the way. He gets down. And he pulls my shoes off, because I got my cowboy boots on there full of corn. And he like, are you all right? Are you all right?

are you all right and I'm like yeah and then he's like god damn it he slaps my ass and he's like get your ass home don't you come I don't want you back out here and then he probably turned around rock walked around the corner and cried I didn't you know I'm saying I hope he did well yeah but he was freaked out I remember he was really freaked out well and then he just started bursting into tears because well because I you know it was his last hope of anybody anybody you know he had you too he was like speaking of the corn bins and that I remember then also getting down into the corn bin when the corn bin was almost empty. And we would get in there, you know, with our brooms and be sweeping the corn toward, you know, the center.

But those are just the kind of things. As little kids, I just can't picture my daughter, Mariah with and bratters with the boys of going, okay, you guys just get in there with your bros. I mean, because we were little. We were little. It was. The auger, you know, the thing goes like this. And I don't know, I probably had boots on, not something with a string.

But, you know, as you sit thinking about all that, I mean, certainly throughout the years of growing up on a farm, you do hear. Oh, yeah. There's always horror stories. And you just feel you'll, you just never forget some of the people who have, unfortunately, you know, lost kids and fathers. And, you know, it's just, it makes you go, wow, I did all that. You got a grain bin safety is very important. And when anything, anytime there's an auger involved, you got to be really careful because them things will chew you up faster than anything.

I mean, but as Torquil was describing it, I remember. I mean, I remember we would play in the corn bins. You know, then when they were full, we'd crawl clear up to the top of those corn bins. And, you know, there had a, what, a steel door or whatever on it. We'd kind of jump down into the corn as it started to go down. and you just never, I didn't think about any of that stuff. Anyway. We were terribly naive is what it was.

I mean, it really was. People didn't think about stuff like that. Well, you didn't hear, I mean, you probably heard in your local community of the deaths of somebody due to that stuff, but you didn't see it on social, you know, now it's like if there's a death anywhere, it's, you know about it. So it makes people more scared and you probably should be a little more scared. so you don't do that kind of dumb shit. What about when the manure tank exploded and got shit all over you? So did you ever have where the Vak tank, like you got something plugged in the back of it?

No. I never ran that machine either. You know, my checklist was just very small compared to yours. Well, you, though, the thing is you and dad were like oil and water. Well, we were. And so you ended up, you were the only one of the three of us that got a job off the fire. So you went and worked at Dino's, you worked at the captain's table, you had an after-school job.

I did. Because you didn't want to have to work with that. I wanted to go to Richard George Beattie Salon and get my haircut and not have him cut it. And he said, well, by God, when you start paying for your haircuts, then you can go down there and get yours cut. So the next day after school, I just walked down to Dino's and I'm like, hi, you need some help. And I don't even know how I went in there. Maybe one of the kids that I went to school with. I think, yeah.

There were a lot of us that worked there. Carol Loban and Donna Hoyle and Tim Robinson, we all went down there and we worked, but it was great. Oh my gosh, I could have Mountain Dew and I could have, you know, pizza. Every night you worked. Anyway, go back to your story, Torquey. I have no idea what I was going to talk about. Well, when you were cleaning up.

Oh, the manure tank. Yeah. So, yeah, when we built our hog buildings, they had four foot. So we had one building that had a 10 foot pit that you could. could put a chopper pump in. But the rest of them were four foot pits and they just had a tube every 16 feet, I think, or maybe 12 feet and used a vacuum tank. So this was back before the days of 10,000 gallon huli tanks and all that. We had a 1,500 gallon better built vacuum tank. And so you had a hose, you shoved in that port, and then it created a vacuum and you actually suck the manure

out of the pit and then it had a it had a four-inch pipe out the back with an elbow and at the top of the elbow it had like a flat hand so the manure it broadcast the manure on top of the ground it didn't knife it in like we do today and um worked like a charm except if anything got in there that was bigger than four inches i mean if it was a broken off piece of of pipe or if it was a corn cob or it was a stick or it was a bone or something like that, it would plug that. And then if it got in there, anything else would just start backing up behind it. And you had enough pressure because when you went to unload, you reversed one,

you had a pump that if you flip the handle one way, it created vacuum. If you flipped it the other way, it created pressure. and the pressure forced all the manure out of the tank. But if that plugged up, a very key thing to remember if it plugged up was flip that switch. Flip that switch to the middle position

in which it was neither creating pressure nor vacuum and it would let all the pressure off the tank. So you could go out there and fix it. That is a key thing to remember. And if you forgot to do that and you would walk to the back and there was a clamp, there was on one side there was like a fork and on the other side there was a lever with a fork

and when you flip that it would let that joint come apart well one and i i have to say sadly i did this twice but once i was with my dad riding on the fender of a 4010 i mean how many kids of this generation grew up riding on the fender of a 4010 or 4020 i mean i spent hours and hours and hours riding on that fender, watch my dad do whatever, plant corn or harrogate or haul manure. And so it plugged up because you look back and there's no pattern of manure going out the back of the thing. And so plugged up. So we get off the tractor.

We stop the PTO. Get off the tractor. But we forgot to flip the lever. So I walked back there with my dad. he grabs that handle and flips it and when he flips it when the manure shoots out in a an alarming rate under extreme pressure and um i don't really ever complain if i swallow a fly because i'm not sure how much manure i have swallowed in my life but it's a it's more than what the average person has by a long shot so i have

had manure under my eyelids, up my nose, uh, in my mouth. And my dad looked the same. And so we're covered, just covered. And we're out in the middle of the field west of the hog buildings. And, uh, some very choice, colorful adjectives were spoken, which I, I couldn't see. But if I could, my eyes would have been pretty big because they were probably, they were probably new to me adjectives other than the normal. Yeah. And, uh, so my dad took a short, Does it just keep coming out? Well, for a little bit, but the PTO's off. So as soon as the initial pressure gets out, then it just stops.

So it's kind of like a science lab blow up. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So my dad pulls his shirt off and gets his face cleaned off to where you can see. And to his credit, we clear the obstruction out of the elbow. We put it back together. And we get back on the tractor and we finish unloading that load. And we come to the house and my mom meets us at the door.

We go to, you know, we open the door and my dad's like, Shirley. And she comes trotting to the back. Yes. And she's like, nope, nope, nope, nope. You guys, you take everything off. So we stripped down outside and we went and, you know, took a shower and get cleaned up. And I'll never forget that. However, I did do the exact same thing.

Fast forward 20 years. 15 years probably. I'm haul and manure at my place when we lived up on nutmeg, a different tank, 2,100 gallon tank. We moved up quite a bit, 2100 gallon tank. And don't know. I don't know what happened. I probably, I don't even know, I don't think I had a cell phone yet, but I, for whatever reason, I got off and didn't take the pressure off. And I had the same thing happened. And And did the same thing when you came home. Did the same thing, came and knocked on the door. And Tricia came.

And she's like, nope, nope, you're not coming in here. And that was, there's something special about having manure under your eyelids. And, you know, you just are like. Well, I even had that in washing the hog pens. Oh, sure. Not to that level at all, mind you. But I do remember you just, depending upon where you hit that nozzle, it's going to backfire at some point. And there were a couple times we'd be like, oh, gosh, you know.

Yeah, I never had, I never had to do, never had that happen to me. I have power wash before. Yeah, you can get some shit flying. But never had a full-on manure tank explode in my face. Yeah, I know. Kind of happy I haven't. Okay, so we went on the whole farm rant stories. That's kind of a little background of that.

What's one thing you wish you were told growing up that you had to learn for yourself? Now we're getting deep. That I had to learn for myself. For yourself. Yep. No one taught you and you had to learn by yourself and learn it for yourself. Oh, for the love. I mean, I just think, you know, in choosing to leave when I did after high school and not really having a plan. Yeah. You know, being, I was, of course, thankful for, you know, I definitely had mom and dad's, you know, support and blessing and all that.

But just, you know, navigating through all the, gosh, we weren't. a family that traveled. We were not a family that I remember flying on an airplane. You know, my first time I flew on an airplane. I was by myself. I wasn't with anybody sitting there, you know, holding my hand and telling me where to go. Again, stuff like that. I mean, gosh, you know, just and navigating through, you know, going to these, I went to L.A. after high school and, you know, learning my way, just, you didn't have MapQuest. You did not have, or, you know, maps you didn't all the things that phones give us to it was just there was so much that you just learned and figured out you know on your own um so you know the basics certainly of stuff like that and um

i don't know like nobody told you there be days like these you had to figure it out on your own i mean you know and you know i think probably something that i uh notice a little bit today as a you know grandparent, parent, I'm that, I'm certainly, it's very quickly becoming that, oh gosh, I'm that older generation, you know, because you do naturally say things like, well, you know, back when I was little, we didn't, it wasn't that way. And I don't say it that way. But, you know, I, I very easily go, gosh, when we were younger, we didn't do this and you didn't, you know, have all that. But I remember, or, you know, today so much with little kids is, you know, everybody will get a little ribbon. And I see sometimes I'm just kind of like, no, you, no, you didn't win.

Okay, you don't get anything. That's how it should be. 100% is how it should be. I was last place, so, you know, just didn't get there in time. So, thanks for playing. But I mean, I don't know. What's your guilty pleasure, junk food wise? I love chocolate milkshakes.

Where's the best in your area of the world? Well, where we live now, a sweet shop in Lancaster makes a real nice milkshake. And I'll either do the mint chocolate chip or the double chocolate. Mint chocolate chips is always a good one. Mint chocolate chip is a throwback to your days at Baskin Robbins. Oh my gosh. Washington, Iowa had a Baskin Robbins.

We did. And those were highlights, you know, when mom would be like, well, do you want to get a milkshake for? the drive home. Yep. Older brother Todd, the one thing that is a point to him is I know I can go to Texas and Baskin Robbins is still around down there. It's not, you don't really see it anywhere else. We have some in Pennsylvania. They're just not close to where we live that I, you know. But if I drive past one. Chocolate Moose Royale. I was a mint chocolate chip guy. That was my deal. That's good too. So if we're driving around, we see one, Trish is like, just stop. You know,

you want to stop, just get one. I would hang out there. I remember now just talking about that. I'm like, oh, my gosh, I hung out at Baskin-Robbins after school. Sometimes, you know, I think I'd have to wait in town if we had play practice for something, because then I'd go back for it. And that means I must have had ice cream for dinner. I don't know.

Probably. And, you know, probably, I don't know how I paid for it necessarily. I don't remember all this. You might have an account at Baskin-Robbins. I mean, right. The days of the accounts. Oh, I love those. What do you guys think?

I think we're going to wrap it up. Well, so we've got lunch. We've got lunch plans. Yes. So Trent's time is very precious. Everybody wants a piece of Trent. Everybody wants some of the Trent pie. I'm just happy to go around.

We're just thankful that you had time to sit down with us. I have one last question to ask you. My precious. And I want you to answer this. Oh, gosh. Don't build it up. Get the cue of the music. Because this is probably the funniest thing that this man ever

has said before and we always want him to repeat it every time he comes here and we have to get it on this show because guess what for memory's sake i want this on video and i want the people of barn talk to hear this because it's not just about what you do to our what would you do to somebody that messes with our family but the whole barn talk family let's let's talk about Trent what would you do if someone tried to hurt your family. And when I say family, I mean our family plus the Barn Talk family, the people watching and listening. If someone tried messing with them, what would you say to that person that's messing with us?

You know, so I thank so much for really asking that question. Oh, there's just going to be people that really love me even more. We'll talk later. but well you know i do i protect i protect i protect my people and all that so yeah so i would just have to tell them that they'd really not better not mess with any of you or anything because yeah i would definitely uh take my fist and shove it so fucking far up their fucking ass that they won't know what the fuck hits them so it's better off if they just don't do it okay but other than that i'm i'm a lovely person and i just love everyone and i just pray for peace and happiness

So if you ever see Trent at a bar and you're a barn talk listener or you are a watcher and someone starts messing with it, you just call him over and you say, Trent, this guy's messing with me and you know what's coming. You know what's coming. That's something we've asked Trent every time he comes here because he said it one time to our family and we all just lost it and we always want him to say it over and over. For the record, there's certain things, there's certain words that are just not naturally a part of my vocabulary because I, you know, I don't know, I miss that chapter. When you all say certain things, it's just so funny. And that was the one thing. I think that made it so funny for you kids is because, you know, I didn't really, you don't ever say, I didn't always say that.

Yeah. These words, you know, I have, I am in a profession, too, where I'm just like, you know, you got to kind of. Well, I heard that. I heard you guys prepping for a thing, like at your house. house over there for some speaking you're doing. And the whole topic of cussing came up. And I was like, I think this one lady is like, now y'all are just real nice boys and you get your point across, but maybe we just don't have to cuss to get the point across. I don't know. I was just kind of observing. What's the stat, dad? Do people think you're more trustworthy if you cast? 50% more 50% you're usually when people hear someone who swears their, they register about 50% more trustworthy than someone that doesn't swear.

It's a bad habit, but you know what? It's part of me. We call it brutal honesty. Yeah, it's brutal honesty. And I think when you do cuss, it does get your point across. So, you know what? It resonates. I don't think anyone's going to mess with our family because of what you said.

And I really appreciate you saying it because that would be for memories forever. I'll sleep on tape. I'll sleep easier now at night knowing that you're there to protect me. You're like the equalizer. Thank you. We really appreciate you. And thanks for having me again. I love you guys.

I love you guys. I just love being here. So thank you guys. Yeah, of course. We'll have to do it again when you come next year. All righty. All right, guys. We're going to wrap it up.

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