Ghostrunners - 521 - Running for Governor w/Steve Koop

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

Jake's father-in-law joins this episode to talk about his many different diets, memories from the farm, and proper crawling technique. Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Check out Cozy Earth and get 20% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We should have talked about it. We went to the Vikings game. Oh, we should talk to this. Yeah, we're so wrong. We went to the Vikings game, and it was one game that Minnesota was doing awesome. They were killing. I wanted to go because I watched that quarterback show. Yeah.

And I liked Joe Burrow. I thought he's an interesting person. So here, hey, Bengals are coming to town. Let's get tickets for that. Then he gets hurt. So we go up there, and the Vikings absolutely destroyed him. but I was putting my phone in the cup holder in front of me and my wonderful wife at halftime got me a Coke

and then I put my phone right in the same spot I didn't even know it and then I was going to look something up in the phone phones in the Coke yeah that is that is 650 later I get it oh man that makes Rachel's like

toothbrush story makes sense there's been so many things just in the last like 12 hours It was like, oh, it sets us up, but that was the Coke phone that had that. Oh, yeah, yeah, that was before the Coke phone. Uh, uh-oh, ooh, I do. I think this type beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white. Me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat.

So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost of his podcast. We got Steve Coop on the podcast today, ladies and gentlemen. he's here. Just came in town just for a couple days. Went up to dinner last night. Heard a lot of things last night at dinner

that I think are going to get brought up today. I don't remember anything. And I also ask the ghosties for some questions. So we will get to the crawling. People want to know about that. Right off the bat, you were sharing with me and Rachel last night that I'm not going to say you're making a run at politics, but you were saying if you were to run for, what is it, mayor?

Governor. No, I'm going straight to governor. It's going up the rig. If you were to run for governor, you already know what your platforms would be. The first few things, the most important things. Yeah. Well, number one, we've always gone to the state fair. And there's some houses right next to the state fair in Des Moines.

And they let people park on their yard for like $10. And the story is then the state goes around and makes sure they're paying taxes on that. Oh. I would eliminate taxes on people that let people park the car. State bare parking is free. I mean, that's just ridiculous. Yeah, absolutely. But if you're tearing up your yard and all that.

Yeah. First thing I would do is I'd come up with a whole bunch of expenses to repair my yard that countered any of my income. And I'd say, no, I have no income from this. Pay myself $50 an hour to shovel dirt back in the tracks. And you have to monitor. That's my first one. Yeah. Second one was, okay, and it's probably a little personal because I am a JV.

and junior high referee. Okay. And so you get to go out there and get 70 bucks or whatever, and then you pay taxes on that. And they can't find referees. I think the first thing you do, don't make them pay taxes on there. This all comes back to not pay taxes.

How are we going to move the needle? Like, we got a guy who's been in politics forever. I got an idea. You know the 45 people in the state that are referees? You get those votes. We're going to get them. And you get the 12 people in Des Moines to vote. And the other one,

Without getting too political. We've moved them. We've swung them. Without getting too political. I got to be careful. No, this will be fine. This will be fine. This transgender and sports things.

We've got to use a little common sense on this. And I'll just go with this one. There were people who were all upset because the LGBT Q plus, I say, if you're going to run for the government, you got to get you. You got to know. The community is upset because they had a pinball tournament somewhere. And the area officials banned the transgender. woman from competing with. You had to have pinballs to play. And I thought, come on, is that,

that's not an advantage. Let's have some common sense here. Oh, so that one is okay. For sure. Yeah. I mean, they don't. Yeah. What are you singling them out? That's crazy. And like darts. That was another one. Darts. Like, does it matter? There's transgender sports. And Billiards was another one. Like, does it matter if you're a man or woman to play pool? I would argue those aren't even real sports. Well, there you go. I mean, those are just

the rest of it. Yeah, use your own decision of a 6-6, 6th, 6 biological male can pound a volleyball at it.

Sure. That's, you go decide on that. But I'm just saying some of these types things. Does it really matter? All right.

Progressive Steve Kooke. Well. He's like taking away taxes as a Republican, but he's like, you know what? It's all right.

You know, what about you like the shootings play pinball with each other. What about shooting? Clay Pigeons. Does it matter? No. I don't think so. I mean, let's use some common sense. Okay. So my theme is going to be like, in your heart, you know. Like I have another one.

Hold your heart. So like there's farmers that leave a little grass next to a stream and they don't farm that. And there's farmers that farm right up to that dang stream and maybe swing their boom with their spray right in the water. You know. In your heart, in your heart, that is not right. No. So if you legislate against that. Don't argue that no, I should be able to farm in the stream. No, you shouldn't. Get your boom out of my stream. My theme is going to be in your heart.

You know that's not right. Okay. In your heart, what did he say? In your heart, you know. You know. We need shirts to say Steve Coupe. In your heart you know. In your heart, you know.

You know it doesn't matter if you're a man or woman to play pinball. That's right. It's so dumb. I agree. Yeah. That's good. In your heart, you know. In your heart, you know.

Inside. You know. No. I mean, there's a little something telling you, yeah, I don't need to fight that. Yeah, that's fair. Right. There's, there's no delineation there. Yeah. I don't think there's any.

Yeah, whatever. Video games. Really? Yeah. I mean, I'm bad at him. I know that. You guys destroy me in this. Does it matter if you're a man or woman playing against a video game?

No. I don't think so. I don't think so either. Also, yeah. Whatever. It's not a sport, though. I'll say that. I don't, I don't.

In your heart, you know it's us. I just think. Yeah, I want to go back to that more of like, what's a sport these days? Oh, boy, here we go. They're really throwing around the idea of sports being, like clay shooting even. Is that, I mean. That kind of is. Hand-eye coordination.

It's hard. I'm bad at it. Do you think it's a sport if you don't have to have any cardiovascular effort? Hmm. You know what I mean? Like if you can stand still. And again, like you have to be in shape to play sports. Like darts.

You really don't get your heart rate. Cornhole. Golf? Golf, I think you have to be a little bit in shape. I get tired after like 12 holes of golf. Especially if you walk it. There's a lot of muscles. But even if I drive, I'm like, I'm like, crawl it.

Crawl one hole. Drive the rest of a little crawl one. Rachel was on that mile thing, you know, that one year. She's always running around. We're in a golf course. She's running. She's the only one running on the golf course. That should be a great fantasy football punishment.

You have to crawl in nine holes of golf. So par three even would be miserable. I'll tell you what. I'm just saying on this crawling thing, try crawl in a quarter of a sometime. I break it up, but that's hard. 16th at a time? No, like a third. A third of a quarter? So a 12th. Yeah. Okay. Okay. That's, oh, I, I have no doubt. I was crawling on the ground. That's not the thing that we're and it's hard. It does. It tires you out. People ask a lot of questions about your knees. Yeah. Yeah. Can you explain exactly what you mean by crawling from the top.

Just like a baby crawls. Like how close is your face to the ground? Well, it's about that far. I mean, it's not army crawling like I described. It's not, no, I wish it was. It's not army crawling or straight. It's almost like bare crawling. Sometimes you crawl on your fist because your hands start to get.

Oh, yeah. You get tired. But I usually crawl in the wintertime. Okay. I have coveralls on and I'm in snow in the cornstalks. So it doesn't hurt your knees. Okay. So this is what's great.

Before we start recording, you go, why are you interviewing me? Interview Angie. I said, because Angie doesn't crawl in the field late at night. I try to crawl. I mean, that's the things that, like, nightmares are made of. This guy coming out of the corn stalks in his coveralls crawling. It was icy, and my car went off the road, and then this man came crawling out of the cornfield offering to help me. I try to crawl where people don't see me for two reasons.

It's kind of embarrassing. And I don't want them to think I need help. So I try to get over a hill somewhere and crawl by myself with my dog. Is it considerably easier or harder to crawl up or down a hill? Oh, definitely harder uphill. I would think downhill, though. Downhill's hard too. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, definitely. Yeah, uphill is. Yeah. Yeah, you want to get a, you want to get an elevation going near. As hilarious as this is, I am considering trying it in my backyard. Well, I thought I was the first one doing this and I looked it up online. No.

No, no, no. There's plenty of pinball wizards doing this. Yeah, a lot of babies. Turns out a lot of people do it for the first six, eight, nine months of their lives. Some people up to a year. Well, you got to mix it up. You know, 236 didn't work. No.

That was ridiculous. That was such a bad idea. What would you, I want to know, okay, so the 236 was 23 hours every day, six days a week, you would be good. And then one hour of every day, you'd be. Maybe you could have an ice cream. That's what I'm curious about. How much did you, like, go wild during this one hour? This only lasted two days, and I thought, no, that's way too restrictive.

Oh. I like to exercise. Only one hour of ice cream? Yeah, that's not enough. Usually I have four or five hours every day. Well, it's just everything I had on there is I can't keep track of anything. Okay. And then to follow all those rules, oh, my gosh, I had scrapped it after two days.

What were your rules? I'm usually pretty good about keeping my manifesto by the time. Oh, yeah, it was my manifesto. Yeah. It might be still on the phone. No French fries. Well, not heavily seasoned French fries. They can be curly fries if they're sweet potato fries.

You know, it was like there was a lot of like specifics to the science. Yeah. Amazing. All right. Well, what are other people asking about the crawling? Oh, yeah. So the knees are fine. Yeah, they're fine.

Because you're calling snow. Okay. That was half the questions was, however his knees. Will you get out in the snow, that cushions it quite a bit. Yeah. What about like, are you going to try to do it? No, I don't think so. I don't think so.

You're cold about it. It's a winter sport. I cleaned out in my basement and I got a little workout area there and do other stuff. Nice. Yeah. People are looking up to you for fitness advice. Got a few questions. I don't know why.

Maddie Deerey says, what thing should I implement in my workout routine that the fitness influencers aren't telling me about? I have no idea. Take your dog out and go. And go up and downhills and that. That's the best. Level of ground doesn't do that much. Okay. Take your dog out and go.

And change elevation. Yeah. Take your dog out and go. There's so many like little. In your heart. That's a great quote. Take your dog out. She offers some resistance too because when you're crawling, she thinks I'm injured.

So she's. Wait, you're, you have a leash while you're crawling? No. I don't even have a leash for my dog. I live in the country. Good for you. And she's got a pretty good life. Yeah.

But she's in my face because I think she thinks I'm injured or something. So I'm pushing on her. You're pushing a sled. Yeah. Get out of here. What's her name? Lila. Get out of here.

Lila. She'll go, though, then she'll go do her thing and then check in every so often. Amazing. There are so many questions about your knees and crawling. Oh, I'm sure. Here we go. Well, your knees will toughen up a little bit too much. Okay, you've been married for how many years, ish? 33 this summer. 33.

We were just talking about it. What, how did she react when you said, hey, babe, going to go out for, I don't. I'm going to go try crawling. I'll do a quick crawl. Or did you, did you even say anything? There's not too much that surprises her anymore. Angie? She's laughing.

I don't know. Did you tell her or did you just say, hey, I got back. I just went and crawling. Like, what, like, where you been? Do you remember, Angie? Well, she doesn't want to talk about it. I don't know. I hope it was where have you been?

I think crawling. Oh, she's coming. Oh, yeah, do you remember your first time hearing him crawl? He told me, I was just like, what do you mean crawling? And he told me, and I was like, actually, it does sound like a good workout. I'm just saying, try it. Try to crawl a quarter of a mile sometime. And you'll be like, oh, yeah, I feel it my shoulders and triceps.

I believe it. Yeah. It seems like the key to this is having privacy. Oh, yeah. Because I think a lot of people would be like, oh, this probably is a good workout. But I'm not willing to do this in my front yard. I don't know where you would do it here. Go to a football field somewhere.

You did it at the pond the first time. Yeah. I said I crawled around the pond. Yeah. I did. That's a long time. Roll around the dam and up through that hill. Yeah.

Have you ever seen the movie Facing the John? Giants. You heard that? It's like a cheesy Christian movie about football back in the day. And there's a scene in it where this guy has to do this crawl with this kid on his back, like another player. And at the end he says, like there's a famous quote. He's like, look up, Brock.

You're in the end zone or something like that. I just see Steve be like, look up Steve. You should take your kids. I think there's a football field or soccer field. That's the thing. I think you either need privacy or you need, let's say, at least five other people. Or like even just cones. Yeah.

Just throw some cones. Yeah, that would help. Yeah. And like the New Hartford football field is just like carpet. It wouldn't hurt your knees at all. Yeah. Like turf or? It's just very nice.

It's good grass. Yeah. Yeah. Of course it is. Those farmers know what they're doing. I don't know why because it's a lot of sandy ground around New Hartford right there. But that football field is lush. They know what they're doing.

It's nice. Yeah. I love that. Abigail asked, what's your favorite part of Iowa? Beaver Township, Butler County, Iowa. What is that? That's where I live. I just, it's got some good grounds, some poor grounds, some trees, some ponds.

I just, I just, it's great. It's right where I live. Oh, it is. Okay. It's, I like a lot of Iowa, though. It's beautiful out there, man. Yeah, I mean, the best farm ground isn't necessarily there, but it gets kind of boring where the best farm ground is. There's not, there's just fields, you know.

Fields can still look nice. It feels in the summertime look nice. Oh, they do. Beautiful. They do. Yeah. Yeah, I think you told me before, Grundy, town next to you, and is it Ukraine? Like, those are the best two places in the world to grow corn.

There's one county in Iowa now that Grundy County people don't like it, but it's a higher CSR 2 than they. Oh, CSR 2. I think it's Ida County. Ida County is 91 average. 91 average, yeah. What does that mean? So it's crop suitability rating. Okay.

And 100 is the highest five of them. is the lowest. 91? Their average is 91. Yeah, Ida County. What do you think like a normal, like what do you think

Kansas's average would be for that? Do you have any idea? Or what, even Iowa. Of the farm ground itself, I, 5560. And there's just not as deep.

Yeah. You know. But Grundy's about an 86, which is really good. Butler may be 78 or so. So 91. 91 is pretty special. I don't make headlines.

Yeah. That's crazy. That's good dirt. People are like, who's, who's testing this? Like, yeah, they're paying a loan or something. Yeah.

Wow. CSR2. That's a fun one. I'm going to, I'm going to store that one in the, there you go. To say the next farmer I talked to. Do you remember off the podcast you learned what CRP is?

Do you remember that? Yeah, yeah. I had heard that once before. Okay, yeah. Because I want to be a CRP farmer. Yeah. Conservation. Reserve program.

Yeah, yeah. I know it's like a government. One thing that I keep, the problem is you can, there's a payment limitations on it. Like you only make so much. 50,000, all the government can pay you for renting. I'd still like to be a,

CRP farm. So you could have like 160 acres in Seattle. Sounds like plenty. Which would be great. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, but maybe I don't, I kind of understand what it means, but like you, you don't do anything on the land. Yeah, you rent it to the government and you put it in the wildflowers or yeah, bird habitat or whatever. It government pays you not to farm it. Yeah. Yeah. That's weird, isn't it? There's places like that in South Dakota where we went. Oh, yeah. Good pheasant hunting. It's beautiful. Yeah, I was going to say there's nice. So many. Can you hunt on CRP? I was going to say, I think we did. Oh, yeah, I love people.

There was one time, there was one field specific. Maybe it was all CRP, but I remember them saying it. And we got up this field. And it was before we even like parked our whatever, you know, side by sides, hundreds and hundreds of pheasants. And it was like amazing. Yeah, crazy. So I wonder if they raise a few there.

I don't think they do. Oh, wow. Yeah, South Dakota is supposed to be the best. It's insane, man. Especially like this area. We were west of the Missouri River. Oh. It was unbelievable how many pheasants.

It was so cool. You're way out there. If you were governor, would you do anything about CRP farming? There's already quite a few pretty good programs. All right, all right. Make sure there's nothing needs to change. Cam asked, if you were to go to college right now, what would you study? Oh, gosh.

Would you go to college? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I would for sure. Okay. Boy, that's a really good question. Do you, would you farm and teach again? Would you do it over? I probably would, but I don't know, I might be an ag teacher instead of a, I did like teaching physics a lot.

I'd probably still do that. So did you go to school for physics, or did you go school for? Math, math education, and then physics minor. Sure. So I taught math and physics. What if you say, hey, you already know all the things you know, you're going to college to do something new? You know what I mean? Like, you don't have to take away the farming and the education.

I do think about that sometimes. I wish I was good at carpentry. Yeah? Yeah. I wish I could build my own house to have all the skills to build my own house. I think you could do that. I think you're brave enough that you could. Oh, I don't think so.

You got a son that could help you up. Yeah, he can do it. But I'm more theoretical than applied. Okay. Yeah. But you go out and crawl in the fields. I think you're willing to like go for it. Like, I think it goes back to the crawling.

In your heart, you know. There's a personality behind the crawling. I always thought that was pretty something amazing. a person that could build their entire own house. Oh, yeah. Yamish. Yeah. I'm starting to learn more and more about houses.

I mean, I still don't know enough to truly do that or anything. But like, it's amazing. The foundation stuff especially. Oh, yeah. So important. It's so amazing. It's so, like, there's so many different factors that I now notice on people's houses and grading of dirt and all that stuff.

I'm sure you would be doing that part of it. You've really got me thinking about now. I'm not paying attention to it as much as I should be. I'm still thinking about it. Yeah, you're good. What would I study instead? Yeah. Boy.

I got to really think about that. Yeah. Because I do, sometimes in the fall, I run the semi quite a bit. I drive around. I see all these jobs people are doing. And I think I didn't prepare kids for any of this stuff in high school. Okay. And so even though I, yeah, I think maybe I wanted to go to college again because I had so much fun in college for four years.

Right. But, yeah, I do wonder. schools kind of doesn't really prepare people for what they need to do all that well. That's what I wonder like, unless you, it's a very specific. Right. When my kids are that age, I'm not going to force them to go to college by any of it because I don't think it's always necessary. Right.

But at the same time, it is the most fun time of your life. It's a four-year buffer. It's so fun. Yeah. And I do think my personality changed over the people you meet and the connections. Oh, my personality changed in some ways bad. Yeah. And I was pretty shy for a long time.

I don't know what happened. Is that where you met Angie? No. She would not have liked me in college. I'm glad she didn't go to same college I went to. I met her not. She was going to grad school to Iowa, and I was teaching at West Branch. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah, you went to Warburg. Yeah. Which is where Nick Haggman went. That's right. I was like, I know that. Yeah, he, I think he ran track there. Yeah, he did.

Yeah. Okay. He was crawling. That's in the town where they got married. Yeah, Waverly. Oh, was it really? Okay. Yeah. Speaking of your classroom, I learned something about last night.

I mean, I'm always hearing little nuggets because Rachel had you as a teacher and as a student. She's like, oh, I wish you could have seen my dad's classroom. And he was always making pizza, making pancakes. But I heard about something last night, front porch sitting. You want to tell them one with that. Oh, that was good. If you're a teacher out there, maybe you need to spice up your classroom. I liked that.

So you teach them how to do the math lesson and all that. And then they're working. And then I sometimes kids would come up and not help. So I cleared off this one big table. and I put sign front porch sitting on there. And they could come up and sit at the front porch and get help and just talk and stuff. Okay. I liked that.

Yeah. Front porch sitting. Then we had country counseling. Yeah, you did some country counseling too. Country counseling. Me and a couple of boys that weren't very good counselors, kids would come in after lunch and we'd counsel them with their problems. Yeah.

Like issues of their life. Sometimes they'd just leave mad. Hey, that's what happens sometimes in counseling. But I did like this. You got to want to get better. Sunday night, we were playing, I was playing with Logan and Lucy, my little grandkids. Lucy is going to be four, Logan's two. Wow.

And they had a little, as it called, play school, schoolhouse that we were playing with. And I said, Lucy, did you know I was a teacher? She goes, yeah. She goes, and you made pancakes and ice cream and hot dogs. And I said, how did you know that? My mom told me. Yeah. Did you have her in class?

Yeah, Corey was in my class. Really? Yeah. Corey and Tom at the same time. I guess, okay, this is like, did you have every kid? Like, was it like you're the physics teacher or were there? Yeah, I was the only physics teacher. Yeah.

I had such a good deal in my teaching. You know how the state sets the curriculum and all this and that and the principals monitor all that? They didn't monitor me for 34 years. I did your heart you know. I can't believe it. Really? How did they not ever, like, there had to be.

some Iowa standardized testing. They sucked down. We did that. We did fine. We never got blue ribbons. We did fine, but like I wrote up my whole physics curriculum that I thought they needed to know. And I did that the whole time. Nobody ever.

They just trusted you. They didn't even try to change it. I love that. Because I hear about teachers these days being like, it's so hard to get any kind of time to be like creating. Oh, I had autonomy. That's awesome. I don't know why. So physics.

I'm so bad at science. So bear with me. But physics, there's like, oh, I mean, it's more chemistry. I was going to say, are there fun experiments? Oh, we did a lot of good stuff. Anything that, like, I can do with my kids? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

You're Reub-Goldberg machines. Yeah. We made those. Okay. We did a speed of sound lab where they had to come up. That was, I told you about that one, didn't I? Remind me. Yeah, when the guy with PTSD.

Oh, God. I don't know. I don't know this story. Oh, it was Rachel's first volleyball game in high school. I got a phone call from my friend who's a deputy, B.J. Jorgensen, he goes, Steve, would your students be doing an experiment involving a shotgun? I go, oh, no, what's happened? Well, they were by this little town Fern, and they were shooting the shotgun at night,

and then the muzzle blast, you'd see that. When you saw that, you start your stopwatch, and when you hear it, you stop your stopwatch, so that's your time. Okay. And they were doing like a mile away on the gravel. So he could divide them out and get miles per hour. Well, they did it right in front of a house from a guy was in Vietnam. Gosh.

And he told his wife, get in the basement. Somebody's shooting at us. Oh, boy. And he came out with his gun. He must to measure the speed of sound. And the road was flat. This guy was a little faster. The road was flat except for a little hump.

And my idiot students parked right in the middle of gravel road. At the same time, there was a woman in that area was threatening to commit suicide. Oh, my God. So the deputies are trying to find them. and they're hearing the shotgun blast, and they fly over the hill, and my kids are parked in the middle, and they fish tail all over the place

and don't hit the car. Then this other student of mine fires again. When the kids were trying to explain to the guy, they were doing this, and nobody got hurt somehow on this whole thing. So I went in and talked to principal the next morning. And the problem is I put that seed into their heads that you could do it this way.

So then after that, the rule was no fire. arms and physics anymore. That's a fair, fair rule. I feel like most schools have that rule already. Yeah. Oh, man, we just had Steve Coop on the podcast.

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We threw it like... We were throwing pumpkins in the fall, but we threw a bowling ball. We got it like almost 200 feet. It's pretty good. That's fun. But... The first time we fired it, it's testing to figure... It fired it backwards. It fell and hit a car. Oh, no. And it bounced

and hit the front fender. And then one of my country boy students went over there, carl-duner, popped it back out. And good to go. That's awesome. Yeah. I'll figure this out. Yeah. So, yeah, we did a lot of experiments.

I love that. Did physics Olympics. They had mouse trap cars. So the mouse trap was all the power to drive the car. Oh, okay. They had a really, they had a human powered water heater. That was fun. And how do you do that?

Any way you can come up with to heat up a liter of water in five minutes on just human power. What was the? So you could have a bike. Okay. And running a pulley and friction on friction and that sitting on there. And you could have, I don't know what else, lots of different ideas like that. One group made a big bear suit, put little things, pockets of water in there, ran around the track. And just different stuff.

Interesting. Yeah, it's like, just get their body. One was a pretty good one. It's called a self-propelled catapult. You had to roll forward, stop, then fire a ping pong ball and get as close you could to a target. Oh, that's fun. Just stuff like that. I didn't take any classes like this.

I know. Physics was fun. Were other teachers as fun as you? Oh, yeah. As humble as possible. No. Were there other teachers like you at this school? I doubt it.

Because that's what I'm saying. Like small town though, like you have more flexibility, obviously. Oh, well, one person department helped. Yeah, true. I was the head of the department. I was the only person in the department. That's true. You don't have to say like, hey, we're doing this.

Yeah. Yeah, Mr. Koops class did this. We didn't get to do anything like that. Like, that was always the thing. in our school was always like, I got the wrong biology teacher. I have the really boring one that's really hard. We have way more homework than you, you know.

Coach Jeff asked, what do you love most about hot cabbage? I do like cabbage. Yeah. Hot cabbage. We talked about it on the podcast because we were playing settlers of Catan one night.

Oh. And you go, boy, that's hot cabbage. And we didn't know that was a good thing or a bad thing. I don't even remember that. I think you're like, rolling five for me is like hot cabbage. Well, did you ever do

You ever take these, their old milk, milk, I'm going to say no, whatever your question is. No, we've not done this. You throw it in the fire, you put everything you can think of in there, cabbage and sausage. You have to know that the answer is no. And you put it on that fire until it steams,

and then it's done. And you may throw a can of beer in there or whatever. And the alcohol boils off. Because I would do this, we'd have Winterfest, we'd call it. Okay. Tom would bring out their friends. The cabbage was great in there. That hot cabbage.

Oh, hot cabbage in the milk jug. What is this? Is a jug of milk? It's a, like a jar? It's called on. Angie, what's that thing called? Like a big old tub? It's a stainless steel, and there's a lid on it, and you clamp that over it.

There's a little hole. Okay. But all this stuff in there. Okay. And then you just pour it all out on a tray. And everybody scoops it up. They use spoons or forks, whatever. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. No, I haven't heard this. Oh, yeah. Elephant ears? Are you familiar?

You mean fungus? The cheat? No. Fungus? No, no. Elephant ears? Oh, is that like a type of mushroom? Out in the woods?

Yeah. Maybe. No. We learned about some kind of pastry that's called an elephant year that's like popular in Michigan. This is, you believe that. I believe that. I believe that.

You don't believe. We had some friends in town from Michigan this past weekend. And yeah, they talked about elephant year. I didn't know if it was like, I think it's, you know, a northern thing. Milk can. It's just called a milk can.

Can cooker. Can cooker. Elephant ear. So I was staring at you and I wasn't thinking about what you're saying. Except the Michigan family and the elephant here. No, no, it's okay. Elephant here. What's going on in here?

Just water. Oh. What kind of thermos? So what do we have here? It's got the top is the lid. Joanne said, please tell us about Rachel's College Vol. volleyball recruitment. Oh, that,

Angie should be in here to talk about that. Because I remember I was in Dumond, Iowa, and they called me, hey, Rachel just got an offer for UNI. And I just pulled over, like, what? Because she was a freshman, hadn't even hardly played any varsity yet. I thought she committed when she was in, like, seventh grade. Angie? What year was she when she committed to UNI?

This is great. She was freshman. Okay. Okay. Okay. But she wanted me to be in charge of doing videos and making, remember that? We didn't have to do any of that. We didn't have to do any of that.

But I would have been the worst one. I couldn't believe you put me in charge of that. Like, I would do the video, and then I wouldn't keep track of the tape and how I was going to make a highlight reel of this. I do not know why I was the one chosen to do that. So thank goodness she got recruited early. I never had. You would have been in charge of the huddle highlight reel.

I would have needed Tynman to help me with something like that. Yeah. Timmer was still crawling. Yeah. Involuntarily. Yeah. Right. So she was a freshman.

Yeah. And they just found her somehow. I couldn't believe it. Hadn't played yet? No, but they guess they recruit out of club volleyball a lot in the volleyball. I couldn't believe it. It was just freshman girl. I think about that a lot.

Every little boy that likes sports has his dream to play college. Yeah, absolutely. Never, I never would have had a chance. And I thought, my daughter played and was like all district, all conference. Yeah, how'd she do that? Unbelievable. I mean, the chances of that happening, good bloodline on the other side. My wife's right here.

But, yeah. I saw a question. There was someone to ask, what's your favorite memory of Rachel? I know it's probably hard to remember. Oh, Rachel, so many. She's such a good kid. You know what? actually probably

when we were ready to walk down the aisle. Oh, that was a good day. That was a fun day. Yeah. She started crying. Oh, yeah. Oh, let's go do this. Let's do this.

Waverly, Iowa. Yeah. And it was the, the song was the Beatles. Yep. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. Yeah.

Yeah. That was great. That was a great day. I mean, I've had a lot of great memories with her, but that was just nice. I had a good time walking your mom down the aisle. Oh, yeah. That was some good time for us.

Yeah. Did you walk Murna down? Murna found her own seat. She found her own seat. That's Murna for you. That's classic Mirna. Yeah. Merna found her own seat.

Murna. That was a great day. That was a great day. Yeah. Easy. It really was. That's coming up in three years already. Yep.

Yeah. Time flies. Coming up. Chloe said, favorite type of pickles? Oh, Girkins. Oh, Gercins. Love those.

little guys. I like the, my memory is so terrible. Milk can recalling. I like all pickles. I just bought some dill pickles a couple days ago. Did you guys name a whole litter of cats

after pickles? We might have. Every litter of cats, so you pick a theme and that's what the cats, like the nomenclature for the kiddies. Angie, did we do this? You've had it,

I'll just sat here beside me. That's right. Yeah. You're not having cats on purpose, but they're all around. Pickles are great. I don't think I know enough about pickles to tell you. Bread and better pickles are good, too. Okay.

See, what are those compared to dill pickles? They're sweet. It was just about how much like sweetness and salt. There's not necessarily. There's a lot of sugar in gherkins, too. It's not how they're cut. It's more about how they are. Prepare them.

Yeah. Angie gives me a hard time. I thought I was going to make my own pickled cucumbers. And I didn't follow the recipe. She says, how did you make those? I just put them in vinegar. Yeah. Just straight up.

I don't need a round. recipe. Just put them in vinegar. That's all they were. I still ate them. Tim said they weren't horrible. I used Angie's recipe after that. Okay. I get a little arrogant. I think I can make pickles without any information. What's the difference between pickled, cucumbers and pickles? I don't think anything. It's just they were fresh. Yeah, okay. You know, right. They weren't canned in it. Any other food kicks right now? You got any. I like food. New cleanse starts tomorrow. Oh, yeah. Prolon. I think you guys should talk to them and get them to be a sponsor.

Oh, it's a brand? It's a, it's called Prolon. Prolon. It's a five-day deal, and it's fasting without being starving, hungry fasting. So they've got, you eat this little bit of algae oil, you eat some olives, a little soup that you really get sick of by the fifth day. And it's maybe 800 calories one day. But I dropped 10. pounds doing it five days. So you've done it once before? You've done it twice. Okay. I'm going to start today's my last day to eat a lot tomorrow morning. Okay. Then I'm doing the five day prolon. Okay. And you will really, and the reason that's good is I've done fasting before like three days

with no calories, but you lose some muscle mass. Right. With the prolon one, it's designed to keep your muscle mass. Interesting. So is it 800 calories every day or is it like 800 and then maybe the next day? One I think is 1100. There's two days in there that are really tight. tough. Okay. But you just, uh, interesting. It's funny, you don't get hungry after a little bit, but you think about food, but you don't really, you don't get hunger pangs or anything like that.

Interesting. It works. I'm telling you. Cool. It's like, it's like 140 bucks. So it's not cheap. That's what crazy. It's like, it's not very much stuff, but it's probably.

And that's a through the discount from my doctor. My doctor wanted me to do it. Okay. And this, she's really an amazing woman. She doesn't just go straight to medicines. Like, if I need my cholesterol is a little high, she says, no, you need to try this first. Sure. Yeah.

So, okay. Good for you. So, yeah, I'm going to start tomorrow. That's why I had donuts. It doesn't really make a lot of sense. I preload. Yeah, you got to, man. It doesn't make.

All that is so good. You were talking about any food right now, dried beef. I'm really doing dried beef right now. What are you doing that? Angie's bread. Okay. She's grinding her own wheat. Yep.

And making bread, I think she got the grinds. idea from your podcast. Unsifted. Yes, unsifted. And it is awesome. Yeah. It's so good. Yeah, it's so good.

Yeah. It's easy. Yeah. So that's our next kick. She's got me growing some organic wheat for her. That's going to be fun. First time farmer. Yeah, first time wheat farmer.

Yeah. There's not very many people in Iowa that are wheat farming. No, hardly any wheat in Iowa. Really? Too much corn. Too good. 291. Well,

on the DSCR, Iowa grows corn. Whether we need all that corn or not is debatable because it goes a lot of it. Here comes on. Governor. Governor Steve. I know. No, I'd get voted out if I said that. A lot of farmers would be not liking that. Yeah, he loses farmer vote. There's better things to grow than just corn, though.

Something that is directly eaten by a human. Really? Like wheat. Like wheat. Yeah. Okay. Time and I want you to be thinking of a question for Steve, get you involved. But here's a question from Jack. Hey, Steve. How did you feel about Jake, a city boy marrying Rachel? City boy?

I'm considering asking a girl I know on a date who's from the city. Since I'm from the country, I didn't know how your family handled it. Oh, well, I hope you have a good crawl today. Well, Rachel lived in the country, but was not a farm girl at all. She knows nothing about the farm, did not participate in any of the farm stuff. What's the most she's ever done on the farm? I paid her 50 bucks to give a guy named Big Bob a ride to Evansdale. And she couldn't even do it by herself. She had to get her friend to come along. That is probably the max. I'm so glad I asked. And I... You paid her 50. bug, why would you put your daughter in that situation?

I don't care anything. I don't care Big Bob's a deacon at the church. Big Bob's a good guy. He just can't drive. He's got too many D-Y. He'll pick up the semi. Oh, okay. He needed a ride.

Yeah, needed a ride. I thought she could make a little money. Of course, she had to call Maddie Demro ride along. Picked 50 bucks to give Big Bob a ride. I married a woman from the city, Webster City, and she lives in the country, but she's not a farm. wife either. That's kind of the deal. So you'd say, don't try to, you know,

don't try to make them. Yeah. Be a country girl. If you've seen this show, farmer needs a wife? No. What's it about? Oh, there's a lot of them are Australian farmers that need a wife. Okay. I don't understand why they think they need to, once they, it's probably part of the show, but why can't the wife just live with them? Why does she have to get in the hog slop and come on? That's fair. Yeah. She can't go work?

Show her the best of the farm. Don't, Sure, we're going out and castrate these hogs together today. Yeah, right. Out of all the things. Yeah. Yeah. You do that once a year. Turn into little bob today.

I mean, if that's what you want for your farm wife, then don't go get a woman that. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Sure, the best of the farm. Take her out and a crawl. Yeah. A nice crawl.

A nice crawl. Sunset crawl. Get the dog and go. Yep. That's a good question, though. That is. That is. Yeah, you're from the city.

You don't, you're not one of us. But other people are like, come on. He should show her the best of the farm and don't force the farm on her. That's great. Yeah. Take her for a ride the pickup truck. Yeah. Windows down.

There you go. Or was he the city boy? Yeah. He was, he's a country boy, I think. He's the country boy. Yeah. Driving by some CRP, maybe I see some pheasants. Yeah, that's right.

The best of the farm. Don't take her by Big Bob. She doesn't need to see that. So you could never get Rachel. What about Tim? You ever have Tim working on farm? Tim wasn't interested in either. and that's okay.

You don't have to do what your parents do. But, yeah, it's so interesting. Tommy was playing with tractors. Oh, yeah. He was always going to be the next farmer. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why some do and some don't.

He has the gift. Yeah. No, I think Rachel and Tim both chose good path. For sure. Yeah. Sometimes I think about, I think it was Luke Hoagland. Remember him? He was one of my brimsman.

Oh, he's a good guy. Great guy. He's a part-time pastor? now too? Yeah, yeah. He's becoming the head pastor. Oh, really? Wow. Luke. But I'm pretty sure the story goes, he like pulled my dad aside, kind of, but we're all kind of there and asked him for, like, parenting advice. Oh, wow. And my dad's words to him were, it's all random. It was like, truly like him bestowing wisdom. Yeah. Oh, I mean, it's all random. Oh, your dad's a wise. He's wise. He's He's wise, but he acts like he's done. Yeah. I don't know what I did. They just came out.

It's something, right? Yeah, oh, yeah. Yeah. I think he somewhat believes it. I think there is a little, sometimes I do think about that. Like, there's nothing you could have done to make one of your kids probably become the heir to the farmer. You know, it's like Tommy chemically was going to be a farmer.

I didn't even realize they didn't want to go to the pond every Sunday until they were old enough to tell me, why did you take us to the pond every Sunday? They're crawling around. I thought you. I'm tired of this. I thought you like that. Keep crawling. Stay below the fits line. Big Bob can see you.

Yeah. Big Bob's peering out. Oh, man. Someone asked, I don't know what this is referring to, but have you ever done theater? I did it in high school. All right. It was fun. We did cheaper by the dozen. Oh, fun.

And we did another one like that. I tried to, there was one, they were musicals. One of them was a musical. and I got the only part that I did it was non-singing. I was so glad of that. Cheaper by the dozen and another one, bye-bye, Bertie. Oh, yeah, by Birdie too. Yeah.

With the telephone, the calls, focal. Yeah. That's fun. Rachel should have done. She said, she knows it now. She should have been in drama. She should have been in, you know, where you just come up with it all of a sudden.

Improv. Imprope. She should have done improv. Okay. She would have had fun with that. We got to take you to the improv show in Kansas City. Oh, that'd be great. Yeah.

On cabbage. I want to have, she doesn't make me know this yet, I want to have a variety show in the street outside of her coffee shop this summer. And outdoor. Yeah. Open mic night. Open mic night. Yeah. That's fun.

Yeah. You ever do any live music at the choice? She does. They had, boy, they had a couple hundred people, I think, out there watching. It was very good. That's sweet. They served little flat breads and their drinks and. Elfineers.

When you go to the shop, you just hang out? That night I was dishwasher boy and delivery boy. I liked that. And now when I go, yeah, I just buy my latte and sit there, have my cinnamon roll, and then take out some recyclable stuff, fix stuff that they went fixed. Yeah. But she doesn't want me behind the counter.

Yeah. No. She definitely doesn't want you to be the face of the, you know. I go and talk to the cooks a little bit. Love it, man. I bet it's been really fun for you to watch. Oh, yeah. I went from telling my kids.

talk your mother out of this. It's a horrible idea to then switch into, no, don't do that, to now, oh, that's a really great thing you've got going here. Yeah, that's awesome. But that was my initial reaction. Call all the kids like, you've got to talk about this. What are we doing? That's amazing.

Yeah, I mean, you guys are already expanding or at least, you know, trying to. Trying. Like, people just can't get enough. Yeah. And that one couple can't get enough of each other while they're in there. Yeah, it's a great idea. Yeah. Making out on the couch and the.

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American meat delivered. Welcome to the table. Someone asked, what's the best part of parenting adult children? Oh, boy. It's all random. Oh, like seeing their successes, seeing their develop their marriages and their parenting. And like Tim now, he's going to graduate law school.

Now he's got to find a job. Yeah. And he's been holding down another job all along at another law firm, but he's doing work that he doesn't really want to do in his career. Just seeing how it all. But I did. I was cleaning my basics. And I texted him, I said, if I could just do one more day of second grade on your knees football down here.

Oh, we did that. Oh, we did that night after night. And it got a little rough. He got slammed down crying a few times. And then he'd go up and tell Mom and come back, let's go. She always had to break up the fights. She just about punished me. Yeah.

What do you call it? Well, just like, you can't do it anymore. You ground it. Bannis. She just about grounded me from porch basketball because I don't know, an instigator, I guess. We'd have rules. And Tom, when he, did you have an older brother or not? No.

You didn't. We had sisters. Like sometimes you'd think the older brother would back off a little bit on the one that's six years younger? Absolutely not. Yeah. He'd just play as hard as he could against that kid. Didn't know a second. No.

And then to be fights. I do miss that. Yeah. That was, I mean, that was so much fun. we spent a lot of time in that basement. So when I was cleaning it up, got a little melancholy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a little, like, nostalgic. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, so. Soon enough, Logan will be down there. You really enjoy your kids and spend a lot of time. It's all, it's all an act for the podcast. Yeah. That's the way to be, though. We wrestle right now, most of the time, it's just three on one. Everyone's a little Henry will get in there. Yeah, it's like an art form, though, to like,

Oh, oh, man. Tickle him, but also, like, don't tickle him too hard, but don't let this guy, you know, his head hit him, you know, all and stuff. But any time there's a chair in our corner of our room, and any time they get her, I say, go to the hospital and they go to the chair for a second. And they feel better. That's good stuff. Yeah.

That's something I noticed Sunday night for the first time. I don't wrestle with Lucy, give her a teaser nap, but Logan's going to me too. And I kind of was getting after him and he came at me. Yeah. And I'm like, hey, this is kind of fun. Oh, yeah. It's the first time I've seen him do that. Right.

Because he cut his head and I was missing on me. Yeah, because Hattie would. I mean, Haddy would wrestle with me and, like, have fun. It was like ticklish and whatever. But Bo, I mean, no, yeah, no regard for anything. He'd just jump on me. He'd, yeah, he'd hurt me. Like, everyone's when I was like, oh, that was not good, bud.

So it's, it's nice. He's about to be sick. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he could hurt you. He's great, man. Yeah. And he has, he's never, I've taught him or tried to teach him so many times. Like, you can't hit me with that.

That hurts. And like, he's never really. completely understood that. To this day, he'll like have a sword and I'm like, surely he's not going to just whack that at me. And he just nails me with it. I'm like, dude, that hurts so bad. And I just think to myself, someday you're going to have a brother that's going to get you, like, or your sister, somebody's going to get after you. But right now it's just, he doesn't quite understand. So this is a fun question. Susanna said, what are three easy vegetables? My three-year-old son and I should plant in the garden this summer. Wow. I don't know where she lives.

Well, beans are green beans are really easy to grow. Okay. And they're awesome when they're right. Don't let them get too big. Okay. They don't taste very good. Once the seeds inside get really big, okay.

Harvest those little young, green beans are probably the easiest. Green beans are great too. Yeah. Get a bed of asparagus started. Oh. I just love, I love just harvesting stuff that I don't hardly have to take care of, you know. Yeah. Cucumbers?

That takes, oh, there you go. do cucumbers. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, put a few little mounds and little space there. Yeah, you'll get all kinds of cucumbers. That's a good idea. We do a few in our backyard, cucumbers.

Cucumbers are easy. Tomatoes. They love the little... Tomatoes. Do they like tomatoes? The kids? I didn't like them much when I was a kid. I don't know.

I don't have her on the horn right now. They would like the cucumbers. I don't know if they'd like the green beans either. Get some raspberries growing. I will say those green beans are significantly better than normal green beans. They are. I think they're like a different. vegetable almost. It'd be fun to grow a few potatoes. The kids could dig him up and like, hey,

they. Sput Island. Sput Island. What were you talking about that last night? Friday Piglin has taken a little trip to Prince Edward Island, which is like up like northeast Canada, you know, a little above Maine. And I really know anything about it. I just mentioned it offhand to Rachel. Hey, we might go on this. You know, it'll be the summer if you want to come. And if Rachel has become obsessed with this place and just can't believe. Oh, it's like what's the book? She knows. See, everyone knows this for me, apparently. You got to have kids and then you'll know. And then you and Angie, apparently... We were going to Nova Scotia, and they said,

don't go to PEI, is this full of potato farmers. So that's all we knew about it. Oh, okay, don't go there. Yeah. Wait, potato farmers is bad, bad news? Well, they're on the other side of the tracks. But then we looked at videos, there's a lot more than that. Yeah, we were watching, like, PEI tourism videos on the TV last night.

Like, this looks amazing, and there's not a potato inside. It's like, yeah. Yeah. But then we did find it's called Sput Island. Yeah, because they do grow a lot of... They weren't lying about that. Yeah. What else?

I would get some raspberry started. Okay. Yeah, those are, that's another thing you can harvest. Get the ones that bloom, you get two crops, getting early and a late crop out of the same plant. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, those are. Get on your gurneys, get your gurneys catalog out and order some good stuff. I don't know if you heard us talk about, or have you seen this show extracted?

You heard about this show? Not sure. We talked about you the other day for it because it's this show where you get dropped in the middle in nowhere in Canada. And the whole idea is that you're trying to survive longer than all the other contestants. Oh, I think I have seen that. It's on Fox. And I would die.

You think? Yes. Really? I would die. Oh, yeah. Barrett get me or something. Yeah. I've watched that and I thought there's so many people would be so much better at that.

Okay. That's good to know because we've been trying to kind of figure out our rankings. I think Steve Triplett is now ahead of you. Oh, yeah. I wouldn't be very good at it. Really? You wouldn't be able to have a gun? No.

I don't think you can have no gun I'm out They supply you with different They supply you fishing lines I can't measure the speed of sound I'm out there I watch this guy Trying to catch fish

Made a hook and all this and that And he wouldn't need to do that Prolon they were all getting so skinny They weren't eating hardly anything Do you ever read that book about that guy That tried to live by himself in Alaska Oh yeah He made a critical mistake

They made a movie about it too He's living in a bus That he found in Alaska Something wild Into the wild No yeah I think so Something like that. And he ate a plant that didn't, that looked like a other plant.

That's what you would do. And his gut wouldn't absorb food. I don't know enough about any of that stuff. I could survive in Beaver Township a long time. And I used to take kids in the wintertime and stick them out in the woods and give them a backpack and some canned goods. You got to find your way home. Really?

That was fun. Wait. What? With who? Our kids? Yeah. And they're friends. They loved that.

That's awesome. We'd all get on the snowmobile. I'd drop them off. And I'd go back. It was kind of funny, though, when their parents would show up, I'm like, we're here to pick up her kids. They're on their way back. They're on their way back. I set them out there and said, find your way home.

You got a can of beans. They'll be fun. They liked it. They did. How far out there? Oh, when you're a little kid, it seems like a really long ways. It was probably a mile. Okay.

A mile and a half. That's great. Yeah. Just in the middle of your field. So if you can find your house. So if you go toward town, there's a big patch of woods. Yeah. By Deer Ridge Edition.

Is it by the cemetery? Yeah, I'd stick them in there. Yeah, by the cemetery. Yeah. That's awesome. Stick them in there. Yeah, but when you're a little kid, you're like, oh, wow. Oh, yeah. And you look at it now, like.

And that probably feels like such a fun adventure. Once you do know where you're at, like, are we got to go this way, guys? You know, that's probably so fun. But didn't drop in the middle of Canada. I wouldn't last a week. You don't think. I don't like being away from people. Okay.

Yeah. I like a little solitude during the day. But, man, I have to have a radio on or so I don't like quiet. I don't, yeah. No, I don't have. the knowledge or the skills to do that. I'm not very good, especially without a gun. Well, they do, like, supply you at times with different things throughout the game.

Like, you have teammates. You would have two family members working for you back in, like, the studio. Oh, really? Yeah. So the better they do, the more supplies you might get, you might get a sleeping bag or you might get fire starters or a cup of a gun you want. I'm not going to say no, but it sounds pretty miserable. I think it sounds all right.

I think I have a lot of mental strength. So I think I'll be okay with there. But like, I think I would struggle physically, honestly. Yeah, just building a fire if we didn't have a prep or, you know. I would love to learn. Like, I've watched this show and I'm like, I want to get the stuff to make a fire just for fun. Like, let's have Steve Kup drop us off in the middle of the woods. Yeah.

Find a way home. Like, I can see their house from here. Fire piston. Isn't that what it's called? They got one for physics one time. It was a fire piston. It compresses the air so much. You hit it and you have a little bit of a, like,

not a flint, but a little piece of cloth and, I think, charcoal inside of it. Okay. Hit it so hard, it ignites. And then you can use that to start your fire. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think I bought a couple of them, show them for physics.

That's cool. But I don't know what I did with them. Yeah, I kind of, I get this, like, primal urge to, like, do certain. I don't want to necessarily go out in the wild, but I, like, watch the show. What you should do naked and afraid? There you go. People would like that too much. Yeah.

Yeah. Can I get a gun? Yeah. Can't you each choose one thing? Don't they each get to choose one thing? No, I don't think so. For this one, it's like they just get dropped out there and then eventually they get supplies throughout the show.

But like the people in the HQ headquarters choose what supplies. They might get a knife. They might get their knife taken from them. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. I wanted to start that a few years ago. I wanted to have my own naked and afraid. You started at the source of like the Shell Rock River, which is southern Minnesota.

And you have to get to the Gulf of. Mexico and you start Gulf of Mexico I still call it there. Governor. Yeah. We know inside Iowa, you're on. I don't even. I don't even think about that. Anyway, you have to get there.

I call it the Golden Mexico too. And you start with nothing. Okay. Sorry, I'm nothing. You've got to do their trading, trade up, find five cent refundable can and find an old cloth and you have to try to, I thought that'd be great. Get down the Mississippi on a raft. What's a cloth for?

Cover yourself. Oh, I thought it was to trade up with. Yeah. To polish your coin. These people always find things they trade. You can find stuff out there. You could trade up. I think it would be a fun project.

I'd be okay not being naked to start. I think I don't want to. Especially at the shell rock, really. Well, I just don't think you'd be naked very long. Like, five minutes. You're like, I got to cover myself. I got to find something. I think you could find something.

Yeah. Some grass. What would you do? You really don't know until you're in that environment. Like, how good would I be at foraging clothing? I don't know. I think you could. could find stuff.

Maybe I'd get used to. Maybe I'd adapt very quickly. You'd crawl around and find it. You know, crawl around. There's a bunch of stuff on the ground. You start looking. Well, maybe you can start in your underwear or something. I don't know.

Yeah, you can choose either top or bottom. Porky pigging it. All right, so if you, my dad, and Uncle John, Ron extracted, who's getting sent in the woods and who stays back to help? Your dad stays. He's a hunter and trapper and all that. Hunter and Trapper. Yeah, your dad's out.

He goes into woods and you and John are working together. Yeah. I think I'm too smartest. John is doing most of my job. I'm just there probably laughing. Okay. That's your dad. Your dad's in the woods.

And I'm just. If anyone has a physics question, would love to answer it. It hasn't come up yet. It's been two weeks. John's running the controls and your dad's in the woods and I'm just a minor player. It sounds like my dad's going to die soon. I would pay so much money to watch that. I think I would pay $1,000 to watch that TV show.

I think we could get it going at my woods. I think watching John interact with all these other people, because that's the interesting. Like all the teams are in this HQ, watching John and you like interact with the party. Try to gain like the affection of people, but actually say something the wrong way and actually like, I kind of hate this guy now. John would be incredible. So good. You got to get good out there. I think you do a pretty good job.

Yeah. Your dad would kill it in HQ though, dude. Yeah. They would love him in HQ. They would have to subtitle him when he's doing the selfie cam out in the woods. I wish I could say I could be the outdoors guy. I just don't think I could. How would Tommy do?

He'd do better than I would by far. Yeah. That's what we thought. We thought Tommy would. He'd do pretty well. It's like a vacation for them. He would build an entire house. He would find shingles.

So you don't get any tools or anything? What do you have? I think by day two, they get stuff. Sometimes they get stuff. Yeah, I mean, initially they don't have. I don't think anything. There's two seasons. The first season, people got a lot of stuff.

Second season, not as much. But, I mean, this past episode, like poured down rain. And some of them, their shelter just got demolished. So do they get extracted, then they call and they get out? Is that what they mean? The idea is, like, at any time you can say, I would like to be extracted. But it's not truly up to them. They have a camera on them that says that, though.

And the people in their family are watching this. And they get to choose whether or not to press the button. Really? And so there's, every once in a while, it's like, these family members are having such a hard time watching them, even though they didn't say, I want to be extracted. They're like, we can't take this anymore. We're pressing the button. So, do they make money out of this? If they're the last one.

If they win, they win a quarter million dollars. Oh. But taxes. Oh, yeah. Half of that will go to taxes. If they're in Iowa. And I don't, honestly, I don't mind, I sound terrible. We live in an amazing country, so I don't mind paying some taxes.

Yeah. I just think there's certain things. When you park at the state fair. They should not be charging those people. people taxes. Yeah. Yeah. That's dumb.

That's, it doesn't even amount to that much for the state. Just let them be. Right. Yeah. Because there's, there's millionaires out there. Yes,

for sure. For sure. You made $180 today on parking. You made $180 today on parking. Did you pay $60 bucks taxes on that? Yeah. Yeah. I was trying to think of something.

And I just thought of, I recently saw this movie that took place in Iowa. So I wondered if you had heard of it. Have you heard of the guy that, that rode on his lawnmower, 240 miles. like across Iowa into Wisconsin. So I was saying if you haven't seen this movie, you need to watch it.

I have heard of that. I don't remember a lot about it. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I don't remember. He started off naked. Did he lose his license?

I think he. So then he started out of eye sight problems. It was like, I just, I watched this movie. I was like, this is an amazing story. Then it was true. And I was like, I feel like it even mentioned some like Iowa towns I'd heard of because of you. Slalom.

But anyway, he was like 73 years old. I think he had eyesight problems. And so like he couldn't drive a car. but his brother had a stroke, and so he wanted to visit him. So we drove for six weeks on his lawnmower. That's right. And I'm just like, the movie's called The Straight Story. Huh.

I was hoping you'd seen it so we could talk more about it. I'd heard of this, but it's really good. Did he mow on the way? Yeah, it was just like a Henslerd kind of thing. I don't know how to get back. I'll figure it out. Really productive six weeks, the, yeah, the whole, mowed the whole ditch while he was at it.

Just like one little stroke. What a question. I mean, yeah, he's going there. It's going to take that much extra gasoline. I thought you're about to be funny and be like, have you seen this movie? It takes place in Iowa. This guy hears things in a cornfield. Yeah, that's what I thought.

What else? I mean, Iowa movies. Music. Twister. The house for Twister is right there not too far from us. Really? Yeah. The original Twister.

That's cool. Oh, Dora. Aldora. Yeah. I was just like, just a great Iowa movie. It was just cornfields the whole time. I thought of you when I was watching it. Oh, nice.

Yeah. We reminded Tyman of the mile run race. Yeah. But he doesn't realize there's a few new rules. Oh, yeah. You brought it up. Yeah, this morning. I get to train and he doesn't.

Remember when we were all running? We talked about it. We need to do a live race. I do three laps and he does four. And he doesn't know when the race is. Yeah, the new rule is it can any day, Steve can just show up and be like, it's race day. It's right now. I think Tyman's fine.

I think... And whatever... Shoes and everything he's got. Yeah, I've got these shoes where... Yeah, he has to stay ready. To lace on one. So I don't think the shoes matter. I don't think...

Yeah. He has to do four laps. I have to do three. You could beat him. I don't think so. I think I really don't. I think you'd beat me. But, I mean, someday we'll find out.

We need to do this. Who knows what day. Do you guys always do this on Wednesday? Usually Thursday's actually. Cathay's going out of town tomorrow, so I got to show up. Watch my kids. I got a baby. babysit.

Yeah. Yeah. I've got to get down here. There's a company down here called Greenfield Robotics. Okay. And that could be your new college degree. I want to see their field day. These robots go down the rows instead of using chemicals, they mow the weeds down between the rows.

Oh, it can like decipher the weeds? Yes. It's steered by Starlink. Oh, interesting. Yes. And I invested a little bit in it, and I also want to use them on some organic crops. And they're in Kansas City? So I want to, they're in, no, maybe down by Wichita.

So I, when I make that trip, maybe I'll just show up sometime. Yeah. We'll get this race. Just send time in the coordinates and time it shows up. You're like, go. We're on. You fire your gun and you see how long it takes to hear it. Oh, let's hear about, Jake told me the story about, I think it was the turkey trot or something, Thanksgiving.

Oh, yeah. Some guy shot his gun and fell over. Is that right? Glasgow or something? Yeah, Glasgow. That's cock. He fell over. He did.

You ran the 5K by yourself. It's the typical, the gun won't work every year. It never will work right until about the third or fourth try. Speed of sound is real slow. He finally worked and he's kind of walking back as we're running past him and he tripped over the curb flying backwards. Yeah, he's a nice guy, Mark. And so I'm glad I didn't just keep running. I helped him.

Yeah. But in my mind, I thought, do I help him or do I run? I shouldn't even have thought that. So I helped him. Just shave off a minute of whatever. I'm glad I made the right decision once on that. But yeah, he was fine. He did kind of bump his head when he fell back.

That's scary. Yeah. Older guy? Or? He's a little older than me, but he's not in great shape. Sorry, Mark, if you're on this. Yeah, Mark, say, sorry. Hey, Mark, come on the podcast if you want to, Mark.

Mark, come race me. But he's a, he works hard. He's a good guy. Yeah. All right. I just got done. Well, we're going to put this in later, but we recorded an episode with Steve Coop. Yeah, and you're listening to him now. I'll be honest, listening to him brings me comfort.

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Bonnie Unsworth, not your mom, asked, what is the hardest lesson you've learned in life? It might be a tough one answer on the fly. Yeah, just quick, like, let me just think. Oh. I've learned a really hard lesson life, but I probably don't want to talk about it. All right. Yeah.

Yeah. Second hardest. What's like your deepest, darkest, like, shameful thing that you've ever. Same thing. What's like your most embarrassing moment? Like, what's the time when you parented and you just wish you did? List your top 100 regrets. Yeah, right?

That's tough. That's what Bonnie wants. Bonnie, come on, Bonnie. Bonnie says something else. She says, what's the hardest you. You've laughed in the last week. Oh, probably watching everybody loves Raymond with Angie. Yeah.

It's fun to laugh out loud at a show. That's a show that I don't think I appreciated because when it was coming out, I was so young. But I think now I appreciate the adult, like, situational humor a lot more. I haven't watched it. I watched it last night for the first time, probably since high school. I thought it's like, oh, this is funny than I remember. It's pretty like dry, right? Yeah.

Yeah. And it's kind of the same. From when I remember, it's kind of the same issues every. episode, you know, the overbearing mother-in-law. Sure. But it's still funny. It's just a lot of issues that couples go through and they make it funny. And yeah, you can relate to it.

Yeah. Yeah, Ray Romano. He went through it phase a minute. He just killed it. I laughed pretty hard when I found out about the couple making out on their coffee shop couch. Christian coffee shop. They're reading the Bible and making out.

Yeah, that's what's so good about it. I know. The Bible was open. Yeah. Yeah, that's something. You know, when you start a coffee shop, you don't think these are the kind of issues we're going to have to deal with. You know, you worry about, you know, are prices too high? Inventory.

There's this one girl that works there. There's Rosie. She said, I just couldn't look away. That's great. I couldn't believe it. Because you kind of like, are they done yet? Yeah. But now I'm just watching them make out because they're not done yet.

I can't help it. Stop. Yeah. I didn't see it at McLean's this morning. No? Not yet. Huh. Looked around for it.

They don't come. about two o'clock. Yeah, you went too early. Yeah. I can't say things go a little bit faster here. All right. Well, anything else on your heart or mind? Any of their running platforms for governor? We didn't go over? I probably got a few more. I can't. I got to write them down sometimes. Mainly deal with taxes. Yeah. Taxes are big. People care about that. They do. So, yeah. Good to spear that. It's all right. I just remember some. Aren't you doing somebody else's taxes? Oh, I'm doing my neighbors. That didn't work out very well. She lost her husband. She knew I was working on my own farm tax.

She said, hey, since you can do taxes, could you help me with mine? I said, sure, bring them on down. So she didn't have any of her codes to get in her turbo tax. So I started a new free tax USA one. But then it was stuff that I don't know about. Yeah. It was, she, they took money out of annuity. And there's questions where, is this a rollover or is it a Roth?

I asked her. She didn't know. I said, you know what? I don't want to mess this up for you. Right. So I said, you need to go to like. Yeah. Who do they have at Walmart?

You know. Liberty Tax.com. Or your own turning point tax. I directed her some different ways. I said, I'd love to help you, but I don't want to mess this up. Send her to that guy in Pella. To my guy? Yeah.

No, I should have. Oh. To your guy. He's in Minnesota. So don't send him to Pella. They won't find out of that one. H&R Block, that's what I said. Sounds great.

Or Jackson Hewitt. That's what's at. Okay. Walmart Jackson I got I got asked to fill out a W-9 the other day for something and just like taxes it's like I don't know if I'm doing this right

and no one's gonna tell me I know oh yeah like you know how many deductions yeah what do you want me and I'm like I don't know and then he filled out and you're like I don't know if I did that right or wrong but then all of a sudden the government's gonna come

and be like you did it wrong and you're in big trouble I didn't know tell me what I'm doing and I'll fix it you know it's an annuity or rollover you're like, I could put something down and they won't, there's no immediate issues with this.

I got to thinking she took, she took like $32,000 out of annuity. Yeah. And I thought, what if I put the wrong thing down? This isn't supposed to be taxed at all or she gets 25% tax on 32,000. I'm like, I don't think I should be doing this for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Last Thursday, I was sitting right here. We were just got done recording. And then I think time you had headphones on. I don't know what you heard, but I called the IRS to give Connor, like a power of attorney to do some things on my behalf. Yeah. And so it started with like, let's verify your identity. And at first it's kind of, I've talked about this.

It's kind of fun. Which of these addresses sound familiar. Which of these cars sounds familiar. And kind of like it. And they started asking some tough questions about previous tax years. They're like, in 2024, how did you file? I'm thinking, what are the options? Yeah.

What do you mean? How did I file? I asked Rachel. I said, well, would you have answered that question? And she said electronically. Yeah. I was like, that's fair. On my computer?

For married filing jointly or something like that. So I'm just guessing. Proudly? Proudly. Yeah. Patriotically. Yeah. You should have said that. Somewhat truthfully?

I rounded down. You're welcome. But I said married because I was like, I think that's what they're going for. And then they were like jointly or, you know, they gave me three other options. And I go, you're kind of stumping me here. I have this is why I have an accountant. Yeah. What if I get an a minus on this test?

Is that going to? Right. And she's like, I need an answer. And I go, give me jointly. And she says that was the right answer. All right. That's what I figured.

But didn't even give me options. Just like, how did you file? But we got it. That's good. We got it. Yeah, you never know. Like, I remember I had like that issue where I didn't have my ID for flying one time. And so they called to like verify.

And they're like, where'd you go to college? And I was like, Kansas State. And they just like sit there for a second. And they don't say anything. I'm like, Kansas State University. and they're like, very good. Oh, gosh. There's no other Kansas State.

Right. You know, Iowa State. Finally. Tang got fired. Crazy. Yeah. With cause, apparently. Is that going to go through?

I don't know. Yeah. Kind of wild, though. They loved him at first. It's crazy how quickly it can turn. It doesn't take long. He kind of went crazy at that one press conference. How do you feel?

I feel like you might have an opinion on this. How you feel about the way? Iowa State's coach wears his shirts. Man, he likes that. He wears, he's a size large wearing a size. Yeah, yeah. It's wild. Have you seen this guy?

I think I can imagine him. He looks like a wrestler, right? He looks like a wrestler, right? He looks like a wrestler, right? Was he? Okay. I mean, the guy wears clothes that are so tight. Oh, yeah.

And looks uncomfortable the whole time, right? Yeah, he, I know. It looks like he's like, it's his trademark. I should be uncomfortable. I don't deserve to be comfortable. It's like that kind of good. That's his trademark. Yeah.

His wife must like it. Must like it. She never told him not to do it, I guess. Hope so. All right. Any final thoughts? That's all the questions from the ghosties. All right.

What was it if you do it with your heart? In your heart, you know. In your heart you know. Take your dog and go. Take your dog and go. I mean, people know. Yeah. In your heart, you know.

You do. That's biblical. Or is it? Probably. I don't know. Heart deception. Yeah. It's a seafold.

Yeah. Heart will deceive you. So, either way. In your heart, you know, you go to joyful job. You do.

Most of the time. Steve, thanks for being on. Yeah. It's always a joy. I hope. It was great timing. You're coming to town

right after you've been on this crawling kick. Yeah. It was great to get some questions answered. Don't think I'm going to crawl here in Shawnee. Okay.

Too much concrete. Okay. We got a nice backyard. Yeah. He's just fenced in. He's got good grass. Fitz did. Yeah.

just so you don't wander off. We got some corn, we got some corn fields back behind me. You know that? No. Yeah, like in the next lot over, basically. Yeah, like two or three houses down.

There's like a, but there's an acre and a half. Sweet corn? Great question. Probably. It must be sweet corn, yeah. But yeah. So stock still there and everything?

I don't, I don't monitor very much. They might call the police if they see me crawling around in their garden. What would you think? I mean imagine that police call though. Yeah, like you're used to a city city policeman. Hello?

Somebody's, this can sound crazy. Someone's crawling around in my corn stalks. Does he pose a threat? I don't, I don't know. I don't think so. He's not going very fast. Do you need to try this sometime, Brad? Try to crawl a quarter of a mile.

See what you think. How long do you think that takes? Yeah. It takes a while. With your mile time? You're just. I mean, that would take what, 20, 30 minutes? Probably.

Yeah. You're in the snow and dog. I don't, yeah, I don't think you're going a mile an hour. I go, honestly, like, the thing that sounds worse for me is my knees. I have bad knee. That sounds like a wrist, really hurt my knees. Yeah, after a while, you got to go right a tank. Yes.

Yeah, but I can, I can. But if you break it up, do it. My knees are like, there's like some scar tissue or something in there because it's like, it hurts to, like, touch when I'm on the ground. Like, you better not do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. It sounds miserable.

Oh, you could roll a quarter mile. That is your new thing. Well, you're like, I'm tired of crawling. It's time for roll season. I'm going up hill. Yeah. It's rolling season. You do that in summertime.

That also sounds like a lot of work. Rolling would be worse. I would hate it. I'd get dizzy. Yeah, I would not like that. You and Lila rolling. Yeah. Steve, you're a treasure man.

Yeah. Thanks for coming to town. Well, yeah, that's fun. All right. We'll get some merch made with your running pillars, running platforms. Yeah. Seriously. I'll try to think of some more of them and text you.

Go, see, send some nice comments Steve's way in the YouTube and whatnot. Spotify comments. Yeah. I said to these guys, I was sitting out there listening to them. This is easy for them because when they're at the room talking to each other, it sounds just like this. They're just doing the same thing. It's true.

Yeah. It's a nice compliment to get, especially when people made us in person. Oh, you don't see me any different in the podcast. It's why we can't believe that people listen to it. I know. That's the other thing. They asked me, what does your son-in-law do for a living? I said, well, it involves comedy and pickleball.

And I have a few other things like, really, he makes money that way. Sure does. There's a lot of different ways to make money nowadays. That's right. Somehow. Yeah. I know. Have you had time to think to wrap it up your college degree if you could go back now?

I've got to think about that. All right. All right. Next episode. Yeah. Comment below. Yeah, I don't know. I think you'd be a good engineer.

That's what I started. Really? And I still kept taking a lot of those classes. But then once I started coaching junior, I baseball. And I figured out I liked being around the kids. Okay. So I kept taking the math and the physics. And then I also figured out, which was a good thing and a bad thing,

I could also be a farmer because I'd have summers off and that. Well, I don't know if you need two jobs. I don't. That's what I like about being retired. Now I just have one job. I remember talking to you two weeks after retiring and you go, How did I do all of this for 25 years or whatever it was? It kind of stresses me out to think about it.

Sunday nights. Like raising kids. I'm going through my mind what I'm going to do on school on Monday. I don't have that anymore. Yeah, right. Yeah. Sunday scaries, they call it. Yeah.

Like, I've got to go back to work and do this or whatever. You don't have that anymore. No. It's funny that you're like, I'm retired now, so I only have one job. Yeah, but I have flexible hours. Yeah. Plus refereeing. Plus, you're like, garbage, man.

If ring's good for the most part. Do you have flexible hours as a farmer truly? I do, but I don't have livestock. Because of your situation specific. Because I mean, all the people I know, they're like, yeah, it's 18 hour days during the summer. They must have livestock. Maybe so. Yeah.

There's some summertime days we'll work 18 hours. My brother was a crop consultant and I feel like during the summer. I mean, he's working. Oh, he probably is all the time. Scott and Fields. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway. But like only, not only, but like eight months or something. six months out of the year, he's super busy. And then he's got tons of flexibility. So it's like, that's a job that you could do if you're... Some of the Iowa schools are going to a four-day school week. How do you feel about that? I would have loved it. Yeah. And they don't add that much more onto those days. I suppose education's probably going downhill if you think about it. Maybe. I don't know. Or maybe it's like they're more focused. Might be good for their mental health. Yeah, who knows. It would have been good for me. Yeah. I'd love to add three-day weekends.

Yeah, I know. That's interesting. That's what I did. I studied abroad and Spain and we had four days every, every week. And it was great. That would be great. Every once in a while, it's like, I'm just going to skip class on, you know, my fourth day. And then we got to, yeah, four-day weekend. Anyway, fun time. All right. All right.

Thanks. Governor Steve Coon. All right. All right. All right. Go to stop.