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Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to be here, David. I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that there's there's plenty of us out

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Speaker 2: So the Beef Initiative, I like to say, is a

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Speaker 2: You need to educate people about where your food comes from,

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Speaker 2: But but Here's what I did know, because this is

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, everybody's got a different entry point into beef.

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Speaker 2: Look, I was a guy with with, you know, everything

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Speaker 1: Tell me what some of those first conversations with ranchers

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Speaker 2: I'm like, exactly right. So I have a bad attitude already,

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Speaker 2: I'm not a salesman. I'm kind of more like a hustler,

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Ranch Mama Shannon. You know the kid

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Speaker 2: I was like, this is my guy. We're gonna connect, man,

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Speaker 2: He was like, basically, f off, you're a marketing company.

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Speaker 2: Don't give a crap, get out of here. I'm like, bro,

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Speaker 2: I don't want nothing to do with it. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: live in that butcher shop, and you live, you know,

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Speaker 1: with the worry that you know you might lose a

432
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Speaker 1: hundred head and with some kind of bizarre disease. Every

433
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: single day you got your family out there ranching with you. Man,

434
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 1: those are hard human beings, and they, like we said,

435
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: there's a reason when you've got you said, seventy five

436
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:46,640
Speaker 1: percent of the whole UH processing industry with with three

437
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 1: American companies and one mega corporation, JBS from Brazil. You

438
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: know I'd be pissed too. So what what advice did.

439
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 3: She give you?

440
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't so much advice. I'm a little hardheaded. No,

441
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 2: I try, I try to. I do take the wisdom

442
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 2: of these people around me. Of course, there's a I

443
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 2: come with. I come with what I come with, and

444
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,880
Speaker 2: there's a lot to learn and and so I mean,

445
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 2: really it wasn't necessarily advice. It was just practice and practice,

446
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 2: and and I mean, you know what, I guess really

447
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 2: her advice to me most recently was, you know, you're

448
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 2: getting kind of loud, and you know, you're getting kind

449
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 2: of bold and it's having a big impact and it's

450
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:41,360
Speaker 2: it's working. But don't forget that you're you are talking

451
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 2: to a population that is a little bit quieter than

452
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 2: you and.

453
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 1: June.

454
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 3: I've been told that once or twice myself.

455
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so you know. But look, there doesn't need

456
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 2: to be one way that we do beef, or one

457
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 2: way that we sell beef, for one way that we

458
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 2: market beef right with four Look, if we can deport hashtag,

459
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 2: deport JBS, these Brazilian bastards, get these guys out of here.

460
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 2: If we can deport hashtag to port JBS, we can

461
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 2: free up twenty percent of beef industry for American ranchers.

462
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 2: Now they didn't do that before because JBS is too

463
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 2: big to fail. I forget who said it, some guy

464
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 2: in Congress whatever. I don't plan politics that much, but

465
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: I've been dabbling, dabbling into a little bit more because

466
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 2: I'm getting really good at writing about policy. But I

467
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 2: don't play politics, and so I forget where I was

468
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 2: I was going with that.

469
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: But uh, the lessons from ranch Mama, and then just

470
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: how you're taking that to bring these ranchers into the

471
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: initiative I think because that's your main objective, right you

472
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: You want to get you want to convince that these

473
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,479
Speaker 1: family owned ranches that do not have marketing backgrounds, that

474
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: do not know how to connect to customers not only

475
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: in their own state, but in all the states around them.

476
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I went to your beefmap dot com,

477
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: which is I highly recommend anybody listening if you're interested

478
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: in really understanding where you can source locally, process locally

479
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: farm beef. This organization have this has beefmaps dot com

480
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: and you can find all of the ranchers that support

481
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: this initiative on this map. And you know, as June

482
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: just said, you know, he had one listed in Jersey

483
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: for free without even charging them anything for for that

484
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: that service. So you know, how are you can what

485
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: is you and Slim and and and who are the

486
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: other people in your initiative? And how are you convincing

487
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: these people to join? Sure?

488
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 2: Sure? Well okay, so so in the back here of course,

489
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 2: you know, in order to be to have the confidence

490
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 2: that I have currently, you know in the cattle industry,

491
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 2: is because I got some people behind me that advise

492
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 2: and and tell me, like, dude, you're just crushing it

493
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 2: right now. I don't understand how no one is getting

494
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 2: at what you're getting at. So one of those people

495
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 2: that's really close to me is Cole Bolton. Cole Bolton

496
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 2: from K and C Cattle. He recently sold K and

497
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 2: SE cattle.

498
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 4: Uh.

499
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 2: He was a processing center owner out outside of Austin, Texas.

500
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 2: He processed four hundred ranchers beafs. Four hundred local ranchers

501
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 2: had access to processing because of that man. And so

502
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: that's why I got on my phone all the time.

503
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 2: And you know, he said to me the other day,

504
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 2: he was like he was a June. You know, sometimes

505
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: I really wish I was from the East Coast because

506
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 2: it would just be so much easier to be direct.

507
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 4: Like you, You're like, you got to live in Philly.

508
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 4: The only way you get that way is if you

509
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 4: and if you're on the streets in Philly. I'll tell

510
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 4: you what to all my Philly brothers from Penn State, man,

511
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 4: God bless you, I miss you all. In fact, one

512
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 4: of my best friends right now from the Sealed Teams

513
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 4: is a firefighter in Chinatown in Philly, and uh, he's

514
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 4: meeting a lot of people on the street and just.

515
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 3: He's like He's like, what Philly's different. I was like,

516
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 3: I know, bro, it's.

517
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 2: Different, man, it's different. It's like, hey, look swear sweart

518
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 2: of declaration of the pencil sign right. I mean we're lead,

519
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 2: you lead out there. So things are a little bit different.

520
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 2: You know, culture is a little bit different. Religions are

521
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 2: all mixed up and not from not from immigration, you

522
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like you got you got freaking

523
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 2: million Muslims out there that generations were born there, right,

524
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 2: So it's not it's a unique melting pot of a place.

525
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 2: And you know, it took me a while to kind

526
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 2: of love Philadelphia again because it's dark. It took everything

527
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: from it took my mom from me. It's man, it's

528
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 2: so bad. There's more dope that runs through that neighborhood

529
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 2: that I'm from than anywhere else on this planet. Wow,

530
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 2: that's a fact. All the dope runs through Philly so

531
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 2: and and Kensington so so anyway, So you know, with

532
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 2: all that, Cole's just like, you know, it was just

533
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 2: you know, one of my advisors and supporters here on

534
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 2: the back, you know, he he he kind of guides

535
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 2: me in certain ways. You know, some of the JBS

536
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 2: stuff that we're writing about right now? He's like, careful, man,

537
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, bro, I've been, I've been, Button has a

538
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,239
Speaker 2: drug dealers my whole life. Let's go.

539
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: So well, that's what I'm I'm thinking, Like, as you're

540
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: telling me this, and I read a couple of your

541
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: articles that you have on written there, and and man,

542
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: you're throwing blows for your You're you're throwing some haymakers

543
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: out there. Are you guys nervous about trying to take

544
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: on any of these mega corporations? Are you guys nervous

545
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: about what might be the ramifications not only for you guys,

546
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: but for the beef industry, for ranchers out there. I mean,

547
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: obviously they already feel like they're under assault. But you

548
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: know what types of things attacks have you seen, not

549
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: only against ranchers, but you know, this whole initiative to

550
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: get people back to locally sourced beef.

551
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 2: I mean, the attacks are already underway. You don't need

552
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 2: to attack anymore. Like I said, we'll losing seventy seven

553
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 2: farms a day. That's not about to be a war.

554
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: That's war, right, So, like the way that I see

555
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: it is, this is already happening. This war has already

556
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 2: been going on. Do I see any additional threats? Nah?

557
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 2: Not really, because what else could they do, you know

558
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 2: what I mean, like already in control and they know that.

559
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 2: Who's this little guy from Philly going to come out

560
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: here and say jbs jbs. They're not worried about that,

561
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 2: and I ain't say nothing new. Al Jazeera wrote about it,

562
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 2: Bloomberg wrote about it, Reuters ap freaking crocket. You know,

563
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 2: ask Groc about it. Groc will tell you. So it's

564
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 2: we're just putting the pieces together. I happen to be,

565
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: you know, really good at technology, you know, coming up

566
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 2: off the streets and progresses so quickly. Technology was definitely

567
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 2: part of that, right, and so you know, and my

568
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 2: kind of like human connection thing. I really love to

569
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 2: make human connections, which is why it really pisses me

570
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 2: off from people are mean to me, you know, in

571
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 2: the in the industry and everything.

572
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 3: But tell me about Jason Rich.

573
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 2: Jason Rick is another one. Yeah, Jason Rick is another one. Uh.

574
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 2: He's out there in Crawford, Colorado. He's got some of

575
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 2: the cleanest soil. He's He's rebuilt his ranch from scratch.

576
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 2: He laid the he laid the plumbing or they laid

577
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 2: the irrigation and he's got something really really special. And

578
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 2: he's one of the co founders of the Beef Initiative too,

579
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 2: So it was Texas Slim, Jason Rick, Cole Bolton, myself,

580
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 2: Ranch Mala, Shannon comes along and that's really the core group.

581
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 2: And and Jason's out there. He recently put up his

582
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 2: his his his ranch home and his guest his guest

583
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 2: house for the ranch. So now he's got another another

584
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 2: piece of income coming. And part of that I'm very

585
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 2: very honored to be able to say this. Part of

586
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 2: that money, ten thousand dollars the Beef Initiative and the

587
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 2: I Am Texas Slim Foundation gave to Jason Rick for

588
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 2: his internship building.

589
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,280
Speaker 3: So oh wow, that's cool.

590
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So so you know, we're we try to

591
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 2: lead with with by serving other people, you know, first

592
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 2: and foremost we lead through service. At said that, you know,

593
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 2: we do have some free listings on there, the listings

594
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 2: that are on beefmaps dot com. They started out not

595
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: because you know, I scammed the internet and started, you know,

596
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,959
Speaker 2: just adding ranches. We had a portal when we first

597
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 2: launched for consumers, Hey tell us where your rancher is

598
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 2: put them on the list. Let's get these guys some business.

599
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 2: And so the first one hundred and sixty ranches came

600
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 2: from consumers just adding the ranch themselves. Yeah, and so

601
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,399
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Speaker 1: And as the tell me what kind of the response,

626
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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you've you've quoted a little bit of

627
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: a trepidation first initially with ranchers and you reaching out,

628
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: but now as they get into the system, how many

629
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 1: total ranchers do you have in the initiative? And what

630
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: does the increase in business look like on average for

631
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: these people because of joining forces like they have with

632
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: you all?

633
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 2: Oh man, So it's hard to Okay, So the first

634
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: question is we've got I don't know the exact number

635
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 2: because I'm just kind of adding them as we go,

636
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 2: but I think we're probably up to like one hundred

637
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 2: and ninety or so ranches on there. We've added like

638
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: formally paying subscribers, We've added maybe like fifteen or sixteen

639
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 2: in the past two months, So that's really good. And

640
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: they're mostly around along the bottom bar are featured rancher

641
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 2: direct certified ranchers and so that's that's a certification system

642
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 2: that we created. It's a standard mark and and really

643
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 2: what it what it's about is UH single source beef

644
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 2: fulfilled directly from the rancher without UH, you know, a

645
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Speaker 2: supplier in the middle of it. Awesome, super super simple.

646
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 2: But we had to do it because, look, I do

647
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: believe we're gonna get JBS out of here. I'm fully

648
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Speaker 2: confident we're gonna do that. As as a country, we

649
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 2: need to do that, and I believe that it's gonna happen.

650
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Speaker 2: Trump's making some moves right now. Very interesting.

651
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Speaker 1: Oh, there's there's a truck going, truckload going on right now. Brazil,

652
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: they're the head of their UH Supreme Court has been

653
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Speaker 1: kind of a busted.

654
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Speaker 3: They've liquid they sat on his assets.

655
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Speaker 1: In America, there's a probe because if you follow a

656
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: guy named Mike Ben's at all, he basically exposed how

657
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: the State Department and the agency supported getting Lula, who's

658
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Speaker 1: a criminal in in Bolsnaro out and how they were

659
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Speaker 1: going at him. So, you know, I think you're going

660
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Speaker 1: to see tariffs on Brazil that are going to be

661
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Speaker 1: absolute out of control. And I also think there's a

662
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Speaker 1: there's a heavy lobby in DC right now from the

663
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Speaker 1: ranching world saying hey, you know, let's get this these

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Speaker 1: people in check and let's start having Americans buy directly

665
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Speaker 1: from the ranchers. So I think you're in just an

666
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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing time right now.

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Speaker 3: Do you guys feel.

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Speaker 1: That you said you weren't involved in any lobbying, but

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously, you know, maybe your pieces are being spread.

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Speaker 1: Is there any initiative for you guys to get into

671
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: lobbying or content or work with local congressman or anybody

672
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Speaker 1: in in Texas or any of these other places.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about the lobbying thing. I don't know

674
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Speaker 2: a lot about that world we were written about once.

675
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Speaker 2: Uh So our senior writer and research analysts who we

676
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: bring in from time to time, Brianna Sagdal If you

677
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 2: haven't checked her out, Wow, she's amazing. Brianna nine b

678
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Speaker 2: r E E A U n A Brianna nine on Twitter. Yeah,

679
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 2: she's a powerhouse. She works with us, you know, from

680
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Speaker 2: time to time, and she uh, she spoke independently, you know,

681
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 2: just as a citizen up in South Dakota and our

682
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Speaker 2: push to get three D printed meat band from taxpayer

683
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Speaker 2: you know stuff. So we succeeded in that, and they

684
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Speaker 2: gave us, they gave the Beef Initiative a shout out

685
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,720
Speaker 2: in the recording it was amazing. And then somebody wrote

686
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Speaker 2: about it and they called the Beef Initiative an en

687
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Speaker 2: g O and a lobbying organization. Both of those things

688
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 2: are incorrect. Okay, we are we are a think tank.

689
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Speaker 2: The Beef Initiative itself is for profit.

690
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

691
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Speaker 2: The I Am Texas Slim Foundation, which is the BF

692
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Speaker 2: Initiatives Foundation, is nonprofit and that's it. So we work

693
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Speaker 2: with on the foundation side is relief efforts and some

694
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Speaker 2: policy work, you know with Brionna, a little bit of support.

695
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Speaker 2: It's a startup, you know, foundation, so we don't have

696
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Speaker 2: a lot of flow there, but I get a little

697
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Speaker 2: bit of support for beef news and beef maps and

698
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Speaker 2: and yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that.

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Speaker 1: I just think what you're doing is really interesting. As

701
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Speaker 1: I scrolled through some these these these uh ranchers right

702
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: Eversaw Cattle Company, Browsie Acres, Beck Ranch, shirt Tail Creek Farm,

703
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: car Carter Country meets Chap Chapman, three c cattle. Tell

704
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Speaker 1: me about these people, some of them, and tell me

705
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Speaker 1: about who they are and and kind of their stories.

706
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Speaker 1: Maybe pick one of them and and and share their

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Speaker 1: story right now with the listeners.

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Speaker 2: All right, sure, sure, Well I think you know, I

709
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 2: got to really really talk about ever saw cattle. That's

710
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Speaker 2: ranch Mama Shannon, Ranch Mama Shannon and her family. Uh,

711
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Speaker 2: she likes to talk about how she was She wasn't

712
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 2: really a cowgirl. She she would never she would never

713
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Speaker 2: eat anything that had to die in order to be eaten, right,

714
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 2: and then she met a cattle man, and well things

715
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 2: kind of changed since then, and uh, she became she

716
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 2: became a woman. And now she's leading that charge from

717
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Speaker 2: her ranch and helping me lead this with with with

718
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Speaker 2: the beefmaps dot com. And so they're out in Kellerton, Iowa.

719
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Speaker 2: They're grass fed, grass finished, they have access to their

720
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Speaker 2: local processing center, not the Big four. They they're they're

721
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Speaker 2: The breed of cow that they have is Maine on

722
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Speaker 2: jew right. H sounds fancy and it is. It's it's

723
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 2: a different kind of breed, right. A lot of the

724
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Speaker 2: cows that you see out here in America for damn

725
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 2: good reasons, Black Angus and beef Master, because it's really

726
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 2: damn good. But there is there is a whole world

727
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Speaker 2: of cows with different taste profiles, different nutrition profiles. And

728
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Speaker 2: what I love about what she's doing out there is

729
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 2: that she's bringing that education of you know, it's not

730
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Speaker 2: just black. It's a cow's not just a cow. Cows

731
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Speaker 2: not a cow's not a cow, right, It's like they're

732
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Speaker 2: all different, and it's really about how you raise it,

733
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Speaker 2: how you process, how you process it, and the care

734
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Speaker 2: that you take both before and after to make sure

735
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Speaker 2: that that cow both lives a good life. But it's

736
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Speaker 2: also expressed to the consumer in a way that they know.

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Speaker 2: And she I told you that, she kind of gave

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Speaker 2: me some advice before, like, you know, don't forget who

739
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 2: you're you know, don't forget who you're speaking to. I

740
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Speaker 2: love the energy, June, but don't forget who you're talking to. Loudmouth, okay, And.

741
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Speaker 3: She's old, she's smart woman.

742
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Speaker 2: Yeah as ranch mama. Yeah, So so I listen to her.

743
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 2: I listen when she speaks. I listen to her, and

744
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 2: it's just a really it's a really good relationship the

745
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Speaker 2: Browsie Acres. On that I can tell you a little

746
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 2: bit about them, you know, the part that I really

747
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 2: love about Browsey Acres, aside from the fact that it's

748
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Speaker 2: Ronda Rousey from the WWE H aside from that, which

749
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Speaker 2: we kind of keep that in the background a little bit,

750
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Speaker 2: you know, for her to respect their their privacy and everything,

751
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,280
Speaker 2: and and of course her husband Travis, who's the MMA

752
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, king right. So anyway, but as tough

753
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Speaker 2: as they are, they're regenerative ranchers. And they're not just

754
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Speaker 2: regenerative ranchers grass fed and grass finished. They're grass fed

755
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 2: and regenerative grain finished. That's different. What the heck does

756
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 2: that mean? June. That means that the grains that they

757
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: feed them move around in the pasture with them, and

758
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 2: the grains are grown on the farm. So when you

759
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 2: hear people talking about it's only great you can only

760
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 2: grass fed, everything else is unhealthy as garb. That's that

761
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: is a syop right there, because there are so many

762
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 2: ways to raise a cow. Whenever I hear I call

763
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 2: them grass fed, Nazis, I love grass fed, grass finished.

764
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Speaker 2: The beef that I get down here in Florida is

765
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Speaker 2: grass fed, grass finished. I can't tell you where I

766
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: get it there the Mennonites, and they prefer their privacy.

767
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: But you know, like that's just you have to dig

768
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 2: deep into this industry. You have to dig deep because

769
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Speaker 2: the stories, the experiences, the different protocols, the different ways

770
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Speaker 2: of raising cattle. If the different breeds talk about you

771
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 2: go into different regions and things start to change, Right,

772
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Speaker 2: You're not going to raise a cow in in you know,

773
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Speaker 2: You're not going to raise the same cow in Florida

774
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Speaker 2: that you do in Colorado, although you might be able

775
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Speaker 2: to cross breed and have pretty good results. You know,

776
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: one of these guys I know down here, he cross

777
00:46:54,640 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 2: breeds red Angus and beef Master, or sorry, black Angus

778
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Speaker 2: and beef Master, which is a different kind of a

779
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: different kind of deal. And a lot of the cows

780
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 2: down here, you know, it's sandy soil. What are you

781
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 2: gonna do?

782
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 3: His beef?

783
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 2: His beef is so just marbled, and man, I'm like,

784
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 2: how the heck did you pull this off? Well, it's

785
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Speaker 2: a closed herd. He's been raising these cattle in a

786
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 2: closed herd on his land from five generations. Wow, So

787
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: that's what you get when you dig deeper. Right, that's

788
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Speaker 2: what you get when you depart from the multinational beef system,

789
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Speaker 2: when you stop shopping at the grocery store. And let

790
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 2: me just say this, my experience of going from eating

791
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 2: beef at the grocery store to eating beef from my

792
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,720
Speaker 2: local rancher, it is quantifiable.

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Speaker 4: Right.

794
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 2: So I was fasting when I first started to kind

795
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Speaker 2: of change my diet. I needed to resell fasting. Wake up,

796
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 2: you know, I go to the store before, get some

797
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 2: grass fed beef, you know, front front of grocery store.

798
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 2: Cook it, man, It's damn good, lots of butter, super good.

799
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Speaker 2: I am full. I'm nourished for like five hours. I'm like,

800
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 2: damn off of an eight ounce steak. That's amazing. Well

801
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 2: that ain't that? Ain't nothing. I started buying beef from

802
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 2: my local rancher, same eight ounce steak. Now I wasn't

803
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 2: hungry for seven hours?

804
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: Wow?

805
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 2: Why why is that? And how much money did I

806
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 2: just save not buying snacks and this, that and the

807
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 2: other thing. And it's not just about like what you're

808
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 2: not hungry from when you eat actually nutritious local beef.

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00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 2: Your entire desire structure changes interesting.

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00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't.

811
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Speaker 2: You just don't need things anymore. Right, you're good? What

812
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 2: a king's they eat steak? They're kings? Right, you want

813
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,959
Speaker 2: to live a life of luxury, Just shake your answers hand,

814
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: We'll cut out all the bs. Is that some.

815
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: R s June Man. I can't thank you enough. This

817
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:24,280
Speaker 1: has been absolutely educational for me. Your story alone makes

818
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: it incredible. And the fact that you have these really

819
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: amazing people behind you and supporting you and working with

820
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: you to create something that can probably you know, what

821
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: is it, go to war like you said in the beginning,

822
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: and take our food sources back and give it back

823
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Speaker 1: to the people, whether they're from the streets or they're

824
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: they're you know, in the suburbs, or they're out in

825
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: the rural, rural, beautiful lands of this great nation. So

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate Why don't you tell everybody where they

827
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: can find how they can participate and uh, what you

828
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Speaker 1: guys got coming in the future.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, So if you want to connect with me directly,

830
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Speaker 2: you can follow us on beef at Beef Initiative on

831
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Speaker 2: X That's really where we're the most active, that's where

832
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 2: the truth is at currently. You know, Yeah, it might

833
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 2: be one big honeypot operation for the AI apocalypse of

834
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 2: the future, but for now it's really doing a great job.

835
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Speaker 2: So if you want to connect with me, you can, uh,

836
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Speaker 2: you know, you can connect with me there if you

837
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Speaker 2: would like to support me and my work through through

838
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Speaker 2: beef collection.

839
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Speaker 1: Uh.

840
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Speaker 2: We just launched the rough Shot collection and you can

841
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 2: visit one rancher dot com. One rancher, just one source,

842
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 2: not a lot of ranchers, right if you go if

843
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 2: you go to the if you go to the grocery store, now,

844
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Speaker 2: how many cows are on one pack of ground beef?

845
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Speaker 2: About one hundred? Yikes.

846
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Speaker 3: Wow.

847
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 2: So if you would like to go to one rancher

848
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Speaker 2: dot com, we've got a nice collection of rancher direct

849
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 2: certified beef. Visit beefmaps dot com and connect with your

850
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 2: local rancher directly. We do have e commerce functionality on there,

851
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,439
Speaker 2: but that's really that's for that's the second tier. We

852
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 2: really encourage you to visit your rancher's website, even if

853
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 2: they just have a Facebook page. Just connect with them

854
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:28,280
Speaker 2: directly and let's let's build this thing out. I'm also

855
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 2: the editor in chief and uh writer over at Beefnews

856
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 2: dot org. So I'm doing a lot of work, uh

857
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 2: and and you know, uh, with journalism and and showing

858
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Speaker 2: people really the the ins and outs of what's going on.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to drip out a lot of good information.

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Speaker 2: So three sites there beefmaps dot com. That's number one.

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Speaker 2: Go support your local rancher. There's beef price at everyone's

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Speaker 2: price point. Do not think that because it's grass fed

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Speaker 2: that it's super expensive. Look around. Everybody's got a different

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Speaker 2: situation going on, right. So that's that's decentralization right there.

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Speaker 2: Number two is one Rancher dot com o n E.

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Speaker 2: One rancher dot com. You can buy from the rough

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Speaker 2: Shot collection, single source beef rancher direct, certified fulfilled directly

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Speaker 2: from the ranch. And number three is stay stay tuned

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Speaker 2: to beefnews dot org. We've got a great conversation coming

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Speaker 2: up on there with Sally Fallon from Wess and a Price,

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Speaker 2: who we have been very blessed to be partners with

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Speaker 2: the past couple of months. Certain folks see what we're doing,

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Speaker 2: and Wess and a Price is one of them. Also

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Speaker 2: our supporter this week this month at the Beef Initiative

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Speaker 2: is the I Am Texas Slim Foundation. So I would

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Speaker 2: encourage everyone to please visit imtexasslim dot org. If you

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Speaker 2: got a few bucks, go ahead and donate. You know

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Speaker 2: it'll go to help everything that we're doing over here.

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Speaker 2: If you're looking for real raw local milk, wes and

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Speaker 2: a price built a map called realmilk dot com. So

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Speaker 2: don't want to throw it too much at you. Really,

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Speaker 2: the main thing is beefmaps dot com. You can get

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Speaker 2: to everywhere else from there, and that's.

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Speaker 1: It all right, June, thank you so much. You were fantastic.

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Speaker 1: And just one last thing, man, I am. I am

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Speaker 1: for sure. I know that your mom would be incredibly

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Speaker 1: proud of who you are and what you're doing in

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Speaker 1: your life right now. Man, So God bless you and

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Speaker 1: God bless the Beef Initiative.

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Speaker 2: I can't thank you enough. Man, God bless yourself. Absolutely

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Speaker 2: absolutely thank you