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Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garland. Hi, everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about

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Speaker 1: the choices we make and where they lead us. My

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Speaker 1: guests today are the creative force involved in an incredible

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Speaker 1: documentary that impacts us, all about the importance of regenerative

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Speaker 1: farming that affects the food we all eat, and the

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Speaker 1: health and longevity of our beautiful planet. You have to

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Speaker 1: check out their documentaries Kiss the Ground and Common Ground,

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Speaker 1: out now on Amazon. Please welcome Ian Summerholder and Rebecca

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Speaker 1: Tickle to the podcast. I'm so excited to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about this because I'm really also very passionate about

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Speaker 1: the earth and nature and sustainability.

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Speaker 2: And pushing and pushing and pushing to.

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Speaker 1: Try and do better and be better and stay healthy

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Speaker 1: and longevity and everything. It's you know, it's all for me.

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Speaker 1: So I feel like this is a good connection.

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Speaker 3: They're all inextricably linked, right, They're all inextricably linked.

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Speaker 4: I think, as you're talking to think, this is like

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Speaker 4: the opposite of the circle of profit that we talk about.

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Speaker 4: Like the bear like bear makes the poison to kill

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Speaker 4: the pests, but then they also make the medicine to

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Speaker 4: cure the disease that's caused from exposure to the poison

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Speaker 4: that kills the pest. That's like this degenerative loop of

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Speaker 4: cycle of profit. But what you're doing is the opposite

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Speaker 4: of that. You're spreading the message of regeneration, and then

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Speaker 4: you're also spreading the message of like self health. Regeneration's like,

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Speaker 4: that's a cycle of profit, that's regenerative, that's a.

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Speaker 3: Great within the human body.

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Speaker 5: And so it's using the same model but turning in

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Speaker 5: on its head for wellness and regeneration.

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Speaker 3: And then our families grow as a result.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they grow healthy, which is which is not

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Speaker 2: easy to do in this date.

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Speaker 3: Healthy families create healthy streets that create healthy neighborhoods, create

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Speaker 3: healthy towns, communities. It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Well, on this podcast we talk all about choices, and

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Speaker 1: there is one choice that we all make collectively, every

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Speaker 1: single one of us, every.

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Speaker 2: Single day, several times a day.

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Speaker 1: Is the food we eat. And your documentary, Common Ground,

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Speaker 1: is an all encompassing documentary and it talks about how

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Speaker 1: to get that healthy food and so much more. Can

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Speaker 1: you just tell us about Common Ground?

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Speaker 3: Tell us, sister.

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Speaker 5: Common Ground is environmental documentary that is a hopeful, uplifting,

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Speaker 5: inspirational film about how we can save the future of humanity.

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Speaker 5: It shows how we can fix our climate. It shows

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Speaker 5: how we can create a trillion dollar industry of regeneration

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Speaker 5: that's our future, and it shows how each one of

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Speaker 5: us can get involved and what that pathway is. It

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Speaker 5: really sparks a shift from that paralysis in the climate

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Speaker 5: anxiety that we're all feeling. And then suddenly when you

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Speaker 5: see that pathway, it spurs you into action because you

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Speaker 5: realize that we have a window of time where we

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Speaker 5: can course correct and turn this whole thing around. And

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Speaker 5: that's what Common Ground shows us. And it's the follow

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Speaker 5: up film to the Predecessor Kiss the Ground and Kiss

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Speaker 5: the Ground came out in twenty twenty on Netflix. It's

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Speaker 5: been a huge global success. It's King Charles's favorite movie.

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Speaker 3: We touched a billion people.

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Speaker 5: Ian's in the film. He actually started shooting that back

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Speaker 5: in twenty eleven, and then we started filming and we

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Speaker 5: the fact, only to discover that we were all working

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Speaker 5: on the same stuff, or on the same issue. With

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Speaker 5: Alan Savory and regeneration and we were learning like the

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Speaker 5: same sort of niche information about soil and the sort

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Speaker 5: of magic of soil to sequester all of the carbon

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Speaker 5: that we've emitted. I mean, there's more life and healthy

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Speaker 5: soil than there are stars in the universe. And so

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Speaker 5: when you start to think about the power of life

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Speaker 5: taking care of it because it means the sustainability of

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Speaker 5: life for humans and all living things, and it can

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Speaker 5: be done in any ecosystem and we.

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Speaker 6: All have a role to play.

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Speaker 5: So today Earth Day, Happy Earth Day, Verny. These films

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Speaker 5: have just been launched. Case the Ground is being relaunched

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Speaker 5: to the director's cut with our indigenous people's section. Wonderful

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Speaker 5: and and Common Ground are now they're Amazon Originals, which

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Speaker 5: is phenomenal, and they're now globally available to stream in

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Speaker 5: every country and in most languages. And it's been a

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Speaker 5: fourteen year journey for us to get to this point.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, I know you're like, oh gosh,

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Speaker 6: Dull as dirt dirt, but it's got.

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Speaker 5: And it has Jason, his buddy Jason, and has daw.

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Speaker 6: They all make the soil so sex And.

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Speaker 2: Why did you do work about that?

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Speaker 1: Why was it so important to you to be a

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Speaker 3: I grew up on the very delicate ecosystem in the

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Speaker 3: buyers of Louisiana, and we grew up super poor. We

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Speaker 3: had nothing, but we had everything because we lived off

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Speaker 3: of all the bounty of the lakes, the rivers, the bayous,

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Speaker 3: And so that amazing balance of my dad taught me

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Speaker 3: an imbalance when you take more than you put back.

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Speaker 3: That imbalance throws off the entire ecosystem, and the only

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Speaker 3: creatures that lose are us. All of a sudden, you

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Speaker 3: grandparents always taught us. My grandfather was like an agricultural inventor.

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Speaker 3: Fortunately never patented any of this shit. I'm so curious,

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. In the forties, he so he built

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Speaker 3: the thirties. Actually the little pots made of manure that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're like the biodegrade into their arca.

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Speaker 3: He created those.

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Speaker 3: He made the mold forward and the whole thing, and

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Speaker 3: he made thousands of thousands of thousands of them.

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Speaker 3: is that we both grew up and Josh and I

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Speaker 5: And Josh is my directing, producing partner, writing partner.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, So it's this powerhouse couple who built these

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Speaker 3: and that's how we found ourselves here. I met Alan

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Speaker 3: So Alan Savory is this man. You can look him up.

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Speaker 3: He's basically like the godfather of soil. He was and

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Speaker 3: basically built the most famous the first real guerrilla warfare

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Speaker 2: And that's where I met Allen Amazing.

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Speaker 3: Four months later, we packed up Jeff Schattz and I,

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Speaker 3: So you see, this is really potent, scary stuff where

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Speaker 3: I learned Thank you so much great in the.

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Speaker 5: So when you go to Prime Video today on Earth

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Speaker 5: Day or whatever it may be, start by watching Kiss

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Speaker 3: But it breaks it down into such simplified entertaining because

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Speaker 3: Ground took seven years to make. Yeah, you know, we're

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Speaker 3: not playing around anymore. Bezos and that team and Amazon

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Speaker 3: took all three films, repackaged Kiss the Ground, pulled it

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Speaker 3: an amazing, credible run and relationship. But now Common Ground.

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Speaker 3: So Kiss the Ground was like dipping our toe in regeneration.

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Speaker 3: It's super simple. I'll take that one really quickly. I'll

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Speaker 3: fertilize that soil with their dung and their urine, and

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00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,159
Speaker 3: they would eat all the grass to the growth points.

438
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Speaker 3: And then they.

439
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 5: Wouldn't move on, never still, they would never stand still.

440
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 6: There were huge herds.

441
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 3: And so when you had sixty something million head of

442
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 3: these bison. So basically you can go back and look

443
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 3: at fossilized pollen records, which you can see in the movie.

444
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 3: Where indigenous cultures didn't plant gardens, they planted forests, They

445
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 3: built systems where it allowed their food to come to them, right,

446
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 3: their food came to them because they built ecosystems where

447
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 3: protein models thrived, because that's where they that's where the likenesses.

448
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 3: And this goes back. You can look at this. This

449
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 3: is tens of thousands of years this was done, and

450
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 3: it wasn't until colonists came in, and then it brings

451
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 3: in this unbelievable story of race and the triumph of

452
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 3: indigenous people as well. You know, when colonists got here,

453
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 3: they did not know how to create large scale agricultural systems,

454
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 3: and they went to western Africa and they stole people

455
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 3: who did and they brought them here and they subjected

456
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 3: them to horrible, horrible life, But they brought them here

457
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 3: for their indigenous understanding of how to build large scale

458
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Speaker 3: food systems.

459
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 5: They're like a grarian experts from Africa, and that put

460
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 5: seeds in their hair to bring to the new land

461
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 5: that they didn't know that they were going, because they

462
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 5: knew that they would need those seeds to be able

463
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 5: to live. The problem is, though, when the colonists got

464
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 5: here and they brought with them slavery and this like

465
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 5: crazy model, there was no way for them to keep

466
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 5: that regenerative model alive. And that sort of linear extractive

467
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 5: system where people are being abused, that's not a regenerative system.

468
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 5: Regenerative system is a healthy system where everyone is taken

469
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 5: care of. But what we did do when we came

470
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 5: to the United States is we plowed up all that

471
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 5: top soil that had been built up by those herds

472
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 5: of bison and buffalo, Like we just ripped it up

473
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 5: like huge, like they'd used these huge like blows and

474
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 5: they would literally take like eighteen inches of that rich

475
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 5: top soil the skin of our mother earth, and they

476
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 5: would just tear it up. And that's how we built

477
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,679
Speaker 5: the foundation of our economy in the United States. And

478
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 5: what that did, we removed the ruminants from the land

479
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 5: to control the indigenous people, and then we plowed up

480
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Speaker 5: all that beautiful top soil.

481
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,199
Speaker 3: Prosal networks so that that ability for nutrients to be

482
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 3: distributed all through because soil is literally alive, like it's

483
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 3: like a.

484
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 5: Web of It's like an internet web system, and.

485
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 3: It moves, it changes shit, I mean, it changes direction.

486
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 5: And depending on their relatives like trees favor so they

487
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 5: built through the microhizole fungi and then networks. It's all connected,

488
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 5: and so there is so family like a tree that's

489
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 5: related to another tree will prefer its family members to

490
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 5: another tree and send nutrients through the root system to

491
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Speaker 5: its preferred family relatives.

492
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Speaker 6: So even trees like they have.

493
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 5: This way of moving gnerals and all trees.

494
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Speaker 3: Isn't that amazing?

495
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 5: So plants communicate with each other. But what happened is

496
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 5: when we ripped up that top soil and we destroyed

497
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 5: that network of communication. Guess what happened next in the

498
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 5: United States, Something very famous happened in the United States.

499
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 5: The gospel basically, we desertified the United States. Yes and so,

500
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 5: and that's what we've been doing, and we've been continuing that.

501
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 5: And then when we add it on top of that

502
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 5: the synthetic chemicals and fertilized and the huge war machines

503
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 5: that came in and tilled and plowed, we destroyed our

504
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 5: natural ability to be able to heal, regenerate, move water

505
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 5: where it needs to be, and to have these healthy

506
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 5: ecosystems that reflected what that land looked like before we

507
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 5: came and ripped it up.

508
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 3: And so soil that can also take twenty inches of rain.

509
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 3: You know, go down twenty inches within an hour. So

510
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 3: we're not having all this erosion and kids now. And

511
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 3: this is the thing that I learned from Alan Savory.

512
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 3: Each human is responsible for basically about a pickup truck

513
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 3: load of erosion a year of soil. It's cent our fault.

514
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 3: And I'm saying it breaks down, it breaks down. Yeah,

515
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 3: the stat is pretty wild. So there's so much erosion

516
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 3: happening right now because of land mismanagement and that dust bowl.

517
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 3: Crazy thing is and because you saw common ground, were

518
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 3: you so used to talking to people who haven't. It's

519
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 3: happening again. And so where it becomes really positive, it's

520
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 3: like what Gabe was saying, this is very serious. We

521
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 3: have to stop this. But then you cut to a

522
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 3: guy like, you know, Gay Brown's farm in North Dakota.

523
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 3: He's sequestering ninety six tons of carbon per acre by

524
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 3: doing what by drawing through a process called biose questration,

525
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 3: or just draw down right of that terra ton of

526
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 3: carbon in the air if we call it the legacy load.

527
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 3: And we get this all the time. And I'm not

528
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 3: trying to laugh, I'm not trying to it's just misinformation.

529
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 3: But people think because they drive an electric car, and

530
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 3: they use paper straws. They're going to change the planet.

531
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Speaker 3: And it's just simply not the case. Right, that legacy

532
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 3: load of carbon is not going to go anywhere. And

533
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 3: my buddy, you know, like Elon and Bill Gates and

534
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 3: all these guys are talking about all these like elaborate

535
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 3: ways of scrubbing carbon out of the air. Then you

536
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 3: have Gay Brown. He goes, I have a novel. I

537
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 3: have a novel. Idea, let's plan a plant.

538
00:28:58,360 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, plan a seed.

539
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,479
Speaker 3: Plan to see Gabe is sequestering ninety six tons of

540
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 3: carbon and acre and these sev seventy five acres. Yeah,

541
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 3: this is And he literally says in the movie goes,

542
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 3: can we mitigate climate change? Absolutely? We have the ability

543
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 3: right now by deploying and implementing large scale regenerative agriculture,

544
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 3: where by the way, everyone wins, everyone makes a shitload

545
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 3: of money. Communities get better, are climate balances, and all

546
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 3: of a sudden, we have healthier soil, so we have

547
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 3: healthier people. We have people who are mentally healthier, physically healthier.

548
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 3: All of a sudden you have got farmers and rural communities.

549
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 3: And by the way, some of the people in not

550
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: so rural communities. But now those rural farmers can now

551
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 3: go to the local Ford or Chevy dealership. They can

552
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 3: buy new trucks, ones that have heat, where their transmission

553
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 3: works better, and you know, take their wives and their

554
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 3: kids to dinner once a week, not once a month

555
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 3: or once every six months. They can live in thrive.

556
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Speaker 5: I don't think people realize how farmers in America are living. No, No,

557
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 5: I don't think that people realize that the farmers have

558
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 5: a five times higher suicide rate than other professions in

559
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 5: the United States. Their bank loans will require them to

560
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 5: spray toxic chemicals, and the farmers are on the front

561
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 5: lines of that. And now we're talking about second and

562
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 5: third generation farmers. And if you start to look at

563
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 5: the epigenetics of how that plays out, it's the second

564
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 5: and third generation farmers that start.

565
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Speaker 3: To express the healthy impact.

566
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Speaker 1: How do you how do you change a farmer's mind? Like,

567
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: how do you teach a farmer?

568
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 5: So, my dad's a farmer, my dad's an industrial farmer. Okay,

569
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Speaker 5: I've come, like you said, from an industrial farming family

570
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 5: in the Midwest like you, And you know, I'm making

571
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 5: these films about regenerative agriculture. And I think my dad,

572
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 5: I think what he said the first time I told

573
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 5: them we were making these films. He goes, what do

574
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 5: you know about farming, little girl? And that was like, well,

575
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 5: I'm learning a lot. And you can imagine how those

576
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 5: conversations went. It didn't go well at all. Because my

577
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 5: dad loved spraying round up. It was so easy. He

578
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 5: loved the because he grew up, you know, sprain DDT

579
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 5: and two four D and standing in the bats of

580
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 5: chemicals and plowing that he had a license of like

581
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 5: age twelve or something to drive the tractor. Needless to say,

582
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 5: here we are what fourteen years later, ten years later,

583
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 5: eleven years later from me? And now my dad never

584
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 5: said you're right, but he does send me his organic

585
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 5: and regenerative vegetables that he grows, and so he's doing

586
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 5: a lot of these farmers you know. And I can

587
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 5: say this coming from a farming family. There's a kind

588
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 5: of stubborn gene that runs in farming families and you

589
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 5: have to be it's so that's a resilient heritage.

590
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 3: It's a resilience to get through it.

591
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 5: And it's that you had, like you survived so much

592
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 5: when you're a farmer, and a lot of these innovations

593
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 5: I want to give a little credit to, Like, Okay,

594
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 5: maybe some of these innovations were there to help the

595
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 5: farmer in theory. In theory, but the reality is is

596
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 5: that this technology has destroyed the lives of these farmers.

597
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 5: And as farmers are beginning to wonder what's happened to

598
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 5: their land and what's happened to their family, and why

599
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 5: they're struggling so hard and considering whether they even want

600
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 5: to go on another day.

601
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Speaker 3: The economic models don't add up anymore when they look

602
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 3: at the economics.

603
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 5: And then they see their neighbor who has a microclimate

604
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 5: of in a biodiverse of crops and they can sell

605
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 5: if one crop fails, they have so many crops that

606
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 5: they can sell. They're suddenly making a huge profit. Like

607
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 5: ninety percent of the farmers who transition within year one

608
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 5: are making a profit. And then all of a sudden, Okay,

609
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 5: maybe a fire comes through, or a drought or a

610
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 5: flood or a pest blight. Guess what, your farm is decimated,

611
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 5: But your neighbor's farm over there, they have steady rain,

612
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 5: they have green coverage. Maybe it didn't burn down like

613
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 5: case after case after case, and people witnessing the resiliency

614
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 5: of these regenerative farms and these microclimates.

615
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: That you guys have in the movie of one industrial

616
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: farm next to a regenerative farm, it's incredible and it's

617
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: so beautiful and so like just.

618
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: Duh, well, this is a no brain.

619
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Speaker 5: And when people would watch Kiss the Ground, like farmers

620
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 5: are I don't know about this Hollywood movie about farming

621
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 5: and about Woody Harrelson in it, you know, they don't

622
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 5: want to watch it because you know, it's some like

623
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 5: liberal left wing thing, people that don't know what they're

624
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 5: talking about.

625
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Speaker 6: It's like Hollywood.

626
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 5: But then people started watching the movie, and then these

627
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 5: YouTube videos started popping up with farmers giving.

628
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 6: Reviews, and it was like it was so cool to

629
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 6: watch there.

630
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Speaker 5: I don't know about Woody Harrelson, but I learned a

631
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 5: lot about this. And they'll go on for an hour

632
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Speaker 5: about how one of those five or six principles of regeneration.

633
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: Tell us tell our listeners, what are the five ways

634
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: to keep regenerative farming moving forward?

635
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 5: All right, I'll give my version, then you give your

636
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 5: version of crush it. So there's like principles and then

637
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 5: there's practices. So the principles of regeneration is like everyone

638
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 5: is taking care of you're bringing soil health back to life.

639
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 5: The practices, however, are really simple. So if you're a farmer,

640
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 5: it's different depending on who you are. But if you're

641
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 5: a farmer, you're going to keep a living route at

642
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 5: all times. Can always have life in the soil, and

643
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 5: you're going to keep that soil covered at all times.

644
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 5: Gay Brown likes to say, MoMA Earth likes to be covered.

645
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 5: She doesn't want to be naked, you know, she wants

646
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 5: to be covered. She wants to be covered with that

647
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 5: green greenery because it's what that's what holds in the moisture,

648
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 5: it's what keeps it cool, it's what keeps the life protected.

649
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 3: Brings nitrogen in from the air, puts it into the soil.

650
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 5: Use nitrogen that that photosynthesis to take that carbon and

651
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 5: then put it into the soil, which is what feeds

652
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 5: all of the life in the soil. And that's the

653
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 5: reason soil is the healthy soil is black. That's carbon

654
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Speaker 5: in the soil. When it's dead, it turns almost white

655
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Speaker 5: and denude of life into desert. And so so don't

656
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Speaker 5: cut so keep the ground coverage, no tillage, no past,

657
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 5: no synthetic pesticides, so herbicized pesticides, undersides like, you don't

658
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 5: need those when you have nature. Nature takes care of

659
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Speaker 5: all of it.

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Speaker 3: Now, listen, I will say, not every and we and

661
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Speaker 3: we know this as well, not every single one hundred

662
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Speaker 3: percent of topographical and not one hundred percent of every

663
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Speaker 3: topography is going to be completely input free. That's we're

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Speaker 3: not saying. But you vastly reduce and you can use

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Speaker 3: inputs that are regenerated exactly, So you vastly reduce inputs,

666
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Speaker 3: but you don't need to use high use of synthetics.

667
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Speaker 3: And so that's where people really start to go, oh gosh,

668
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Speaker 3: because even on a thousand acre farm, or let's just

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Speaker 3: say a two hundred acre farm, if you're saving hundreds

670
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Speaker 3: of dollars an acre, you think about all of that savings,

671
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Speaker 3: all of that money. So you can do it through

672
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Speaker 3: regenerative practices. And like John said, I call him doctor

673
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Speaker 3: John because I'm from New Orleans. But people are saying

674
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Speaker 3: he's one of the Scientist Center movie and he's amazing,

675
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 3: but he's talks of farmers. He's the question you have

676
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 3: to ask yourself, is not what it's going to cost

677
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 3: to transition, it's what it's going to cost you not

678
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 3: to transition. Well, it's going to cost you your farm,

679
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 3: it's going to cost you your grandkids. It's going to

680
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Speaker 3: cost you these things that you're not willing to give up.

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Speaker 5: Doctor Jonathan Lundren, he's a like a bug expert. He's

682
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Speaker 5: got he was a whistleblower at the USDA, was the

683
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Speaker 5: the EPA, actually was the USDA, and pummeled him because

684
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Speaker 5: he started asking questions about it. So that leads me

685
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Speaker 5: into the last two principles of agriculture. So no synthetic,

686
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 5: no inputs because you don't need them. You know why,

687
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 5: because nature has a way of doing that. You have

688
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Speaker 5: ground squirrels like we were talking about earlier, put in

689
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Speaker 5: some owl boxes, you've got some kind of might get

690
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Speaker 5: some lady bugs. Like nature has a solution. And guess

691
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Speaker 5: what the beauty of it is.

692
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Speaker 6: It's usually cheap, yeah, maybe even free.

693
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Speaker 5: All you have to do is stop paying to put

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Speaker 5: inputs on there that are killing it. So right, and

695
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Speaker 5: then the other thing is biodiversity. So you never want

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Speaker 5: to have a monocrop. You never want to have just

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Speaker 5: one thing. Can you imagine if all you ate all

698
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Speaker 5: day long was corn and that was it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that wouldn't be healthy.

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Speaker 5: It would not be So we have to make sure

701
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Speaker 5: that we're using biodiversity to our advantage because that's resiliency.

702
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Speaker 5: And then, lastly and probably most important, is animal integration, right,

703
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Speaker 5: because that's the part that people are really confused about.

704
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 5: People think that cows are bad. They think that the

705
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Speaker 5: way to save the planet is to eat an impossible burger.

706
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Speaker 5: And the fact is that the only way to bring

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Speaker 5: a desert back to life, there's only one way, and

708
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 5: that's their animal integration. You need cows, they're hoofs, right.

709
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Speaker 5: You need ruminants. You don't need to pay for fertilizer

710
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 5: when you can put a ruminant that's poop's symbiotic and

711
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 5: co evolved with that land, and it has fertilizer, It

712
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 5: has urine which actss water. It has hooves that breaks

713
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Speaker 5: up that hard pack that was there to protect the

714
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Speaker 5: indigenous seeds so that when the right conditions came along,

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Speaker 5: those seeds could come back and it could go back

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Speaker 5: to the way that it was before we destroyed that land.

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Speaker 1: But you guys, what if I'm not a farmer can

718
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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 5: So what you can do, I'm sure you have a

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Speaker 5: great answer to what you can do is first watch

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Speaker 5: Kiss the Ground and Common Ground on Prime Video literally today, yes,

722
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 5: because in three hours, or just watch one of them,

723
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 5: but if you can watch them both, because it tells

724
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Speaker 5: a really interesting story and there's a real surprise at

725
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 5: the end of Common Ground that you will not expect.

726
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Speaker 5: So watch both films because you're going to Ian and

727
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 5: I could sit here and talk for probably four days

728
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Speaker 5: about this and you'll learn more watching one of these films,

729
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 5: and you'll do will listening to us talk about this

730
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Speaker 5: for you.

731
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Speaker 3: Because we really put it together structures.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's like not as mean, and it's such a

733
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Speaker 2: visual too. Yeah, so you.

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Speaker 6: Really get it.

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Speaker 5: And then as you watch it and you look at

736
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Speaker 5: your own life and what this means to you to

737
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Speaker 5: be able to say I was a part looking back

738
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Speaker 5: on today, when we had a moment, during this critical

739
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Speaker 5: moment in time to course correct to make sure that

740
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Speaker 5: we are regenerating and not degenerating our planet, that I

741
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 5: was a part of that movement. I was on the

742
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Speaker 5: front lines of that movement of regeneration. I found my

743
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Speaker 5: role in that by learning about it, which you can

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Speaker 5: do by watching Kiss Ground and Common Ground, and so

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Speaker 5: whoever you are, whether you're a teacher, you can share

746
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 5: the free cuts of the film. There's free educational versions

747
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Speaker 5: of the film.

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Speaker 3: We gave Kiss the Ground away to forty five million students.

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Speaker 5: Amazing and common fifty thousand classrooms, and Common Ground also

750
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Speaker 5: has an education cut fits coming from.

751
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Speaker 3: We'll end up giving Common Ground away to probably one

752
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Speaker 3: hundred million students globally and.

753
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Speaker 5: In free educational curriculum. So if you're a teacher, you

754
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 5: can teach young people. Guess what, it's not all bad news.

755
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 5: You have a future and here's how. And those young

756
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 5: people will do they'll take this on because this is

757
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Speaker 5: their future. But we have a responsibility to make sure

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Speaker 5: that this information gets out there. That's number one.

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Speaker 6: Number two.

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Speaker 5: Participate in the food system. So if you live in

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Speaker 5: an apartment, grow a tomato plant in your window box.

762
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 5: If you have a backyard, grow pollinators to attract grow

763
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 5: go pollinating flowers to attract pollinators.

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Speaker 3: And bets and then starts to connect with your local

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Speaker 3: you know, those farmers market environments are really really important

766
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Speaker 3: because once you start again, even like a microzil network

767
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 3: under the soil. Once you start connecting with other people,

768
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Speaker 3: you start feeding one another. You feed each other in,

769
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Speaker 3: you feed each other passion, you feed each other inspiration,

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Speaker 3: and that transpires into something that where you're purchasing, you're

771
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Speaker 3: buying from local farmers, you're talking to them, you're propping

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Speaker 3: up their businesses, and so they're actually able to start

773
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Speaker 3: transitioning and practicing these things that are going to sustain

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Speaker 3: everyone while regenerating.

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Speaker 1: Sold people find out about the farmer's markets in their area.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a resource where because for me, I

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Speaker 1: understand why people just go to the grocery store and

778
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Speaker 1: buy stuff because it's easy finding that farmer's market and

779
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Speaker 1: getting there between the hours of two.

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Speaker 2: To five or whatever it is. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, for sure, it takes effort.

782
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Speaker 3: It does take effort, But also too, I think once

783
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Speaker 3: you get in, when there is a little bit of effort, yep,

784
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Speaker 3: it means so much more. But then you start to

785
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 3: find community and it reminds you slow down. How is

786
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Speaker 3: it that I've built a life for myself that I

787
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Speaker 3: can't even take my kids to a farmer's market at

788
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Speaker 3: nine o'clock on a Saturday morning after a soccer game.

789
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Speaker 3: How did I get in to that system?

790
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Speaker 2: You got to re priority where I.

791
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Speaker 3: Can't even just go and pick up some food from

792
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Speaker 3: people who are growing it from their farm to our hands.

793
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 3: How did I get to that point? So, if you

794
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 3: have an acre or you've got a front yard, you

795
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 3: can turn it into a magical regenerative system. And we

796
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 3: have toolkits actually kiss the ground if you just go

797
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 3: on the website we have if you go on the

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Speaker 3: Kiss the Ground website, we have toolkits to do all this.

799
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Speaker 3: And that's what's been so incredible as well. And one

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Speaker 3: of the things we're really once we get out of

801
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 3: production and post production is we're just so in. But

802
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 3: one of the things that we really I'm excited to

803
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 3: do and we're going to do it with Absorb as well.

804
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 3: You start going into some of these food desert communities

805
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 3: that are disproportionately black and brown, where all of this

806
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 3: really unhealthy snap food is pumped subsidized by the US

807
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 3: government and taxpayer money to create such unhealth, both physical

808
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:04,879
Speaker 3: unhealth and mental on health in these minority communities, which

809
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 3: is such a such a waste of these humans are

810
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 3: they're starving for something great and once you start building

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Speaker 3: this resilience within these communities, they thrive. All does is

812
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Speaker 3: taking to just go back in history and look at

813
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Speaker 3: what doctor George Washington Carver got to do. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you had a man who was born into indentured no

815
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Speaker 3: he was born in slav who ended up becoming one

816
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Speaker 3: of the most famous soil scientists in the world, celebrated

817
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Speaker 3: by presidents and a.

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Speaker 5: Professor at Tuskegee University. He was the one that invented

819
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Speaker 5: nitrogen fixing exactly.

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Speaker 3: And he also helped build a very very very robust

821
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Speaker 3: black economic agricultural economic system. Well that wasn't good for business,

822
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Speaker 3: and so that was squashed.

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Speaker 2: I learned about this in the movie.

824
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Speaker 3: So oh yeah, that's train keep forgetting you've seen the film.

825
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Speaker 3: But so in the nineteen twenties there are a million

826
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Speaker 3: black farmers in this country. There's less than fifty thousand now,

827
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Speaker 3: but that is numbers about to change. And the indigenous,

828
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Speaker 3: oh my gosh, these these native indigenous reservations are about

829
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 3: to become these unbelievable, regenerative, giant, agricultural, robust systems. So

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Speaker 3: you know, we hear like some of our like coastal

831
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,439
Speaker 3: elite friends always talking about the flyover States and you're like, no, man,

832
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 3: these are not the flyover states. These are about to

833
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 3: become the rock stars. I do not like that phrase.

834
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Speaker 3: I typically don't use the word hate. Hates a very

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Speaker 3: strong word. I hate that phrase.

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Speaker 5: It's so disrespectful to the people that like built our

837
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Speaker 5: country and feed.

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00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 3: Us exactly so. But this is like these farmers. You

839
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Speaker 3: know when you look at when you look at these guys,

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Speaker 3: whether it's Gay Brown or our dear brother and my

841
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 3: mentor and just brother of mine, Rick Clark as well.

842
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 3: Gabe and Rick have become like these amazing mentors. Rick

843
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 3: Clark is actually growing all of our regenerative organic rye

844
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Speaker 3: for Brothers Bond and Regenerative Grains and gabiz To. These

845
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 3: guys are about to become the most famous farmers in

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Speaker 3: the world. And he's in Western Indiana.

847
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Speaker 5: And Summer Holder and Jason Momoa.

848
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Speaker 6: We got Gay Brown.

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Speaker 3: These guys are the coolest dudes. And then we have

850
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 3: Alejandro Corrio down in the Chiuahuan Desert. It's about to

851
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:29,720
Speaker 3: regenerate two million acres of this unbelievable desert land in

852
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 3: Mexico that is so magnificent, where they see the microclimate

853
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 3: change within months of these regenerative systems starting to take place.

854
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 3: And so you have these systems where you're going to

855
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 3: see indigenous in white and black and brown, all of

856
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 3: this this information coming together common common ground, the soil.

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Speaker 3: You know, we are so divided that are the soil

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Speaker 3: is our only common ground. That's why they name the

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Speaker 3: film common Ground.

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Speaker 5: And we actually had Gay Brown our star. You know,

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00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 5: he says the very much a typical farmer, very conservative

862
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 5: in his views. He's a very religious man, which is

863
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 5: why he did this with us, because he believed that

864
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 5: that was his calling from God to tell his story

865
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Speaker 5: with us, which was a huge privilege.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, you guys, I this movie. Everybody means to see

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Speaker 1: both of these movies.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: It's the Ground and common ground.

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Speaker 5: You you know, Malcolm Gladwell has the site this theory

871
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 5: that when you get ten percent, that that's the tipping

872
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 5: point that then shifts everything that direction. So if we

873
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 5: could get ten percent of our actually.

874
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 3: One hundred million, it's about a temper, you know, it

875
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 3: was about a billion acres farmed here at that ten percent,

876
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 3: when we're looking at that is the tipping point. It

877
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 3: will never go back because at the end of the day,

878
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 3: and I'm not trying to sound crass, money talks, bullshit walks,

879
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 3: and they're gonna be rich. You tell these people that

880
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 3: they can make money and their kids can go to

881
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 3: great schools and they don't have to be sick, and

882
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,959
Speaker 3: they can drive a new car that actually has set

883
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 3: in Iowa where it's freezing cold. I mean, this is

884
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 3: how you change America. And it's so powerful that I

885
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 3: left a very very successful, pretty damn lucrative, you know,

886
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 3: career in television. Didn't have much luck in film, but hey,

887
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 3: your film, well, no, in this film exactly, but really

888
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 3: did well in televisions, and left that business to raise

889
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 3: my kids, build my family, and build my companies, raise

890
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 3: my kids, and then launched these films. And that was that.

891
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 3: I don't know any other way to spend time. And

892
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 3: people say, are you you know, why don't you go

893
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 3: back to acting? And I'm like, I don't know when

894
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 3: I would have the time to sit on a set

895
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,280
Speaker 3: and tell someone else's story. Yeah, when we are writing

896
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 3: in our own stories. All of a sudden it just

897
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 3: came together.

898
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how it works.

899
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: When you you sound it sounds like you really prioritized

900
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: what you want in your life and what you want

901
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: for your kids and your family, and you have done

902
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: is the same thing coming from your background. It's so

903
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: inspiring what you are both doing in individual ways, and

904
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: I love your passion about it. It's so necessary to

905
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: get this very very important message out there and heard.

906
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 3: Thanks for sharing it with your incredible people love your

907
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 3: show and I see why. But this is the watershed

908
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 3: moment and the Gregstone, doctor Gregstone, one of the most

909
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 3: famous marine scientists literally walking the planet, is also a

910
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 3: very dear mentor of mine. I mean this, guys, you

911
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 3: know of the caliber of like a Sylvia Earl right

912
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 3: before Oceans and he saw remember we were at the

913
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 3: Common Ground, I mean at the Kiss the Ground premiere

914
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 3: which we had to do a drive in a drive in.

915
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 3: Everyone was wearing masks, but he literally he was literally

916
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 3: in tears and he said, he's like, I am a

917
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 3: scientist and he's been a scientist for thirty something years.

918
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 3: This is a watershed moment for the planet. This is

919
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 3: where science, economy family. This is where everything comes together

920
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 3: in one neat package and you can turn it on

921
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 3: the flip of a switch. Whether you have a backyard

922
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 3: that's one hundred feet ten feet or one hundred acres.

923
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 3: You can transform your life by building soil.

924
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 2: It's a choice, it's your best part. It's a choice.

925
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 2: It's a choice.

926
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: It's making a different choice, a choice that might seem

927
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult. But if you get the

928
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 1: knowledge and you get the you know, do your research.

929
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: With this information that you're providing with you your platforms, people.

930
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 2: Can do it. And that's exciting.

931
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: And I think you know everybody is going to be

932
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: really excited about this conversation. Before I let you go, though,

933
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: I have to ask what was your last I choose

934
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: me moment.

935
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 5: I'm a mom. I feel like I'm more of a

936
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 5: servant than I choose me.

937
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:51,959
Speaker 2: That's the thing.

938
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 5: Let's see, I choose me. Let's see. I went swimming

939
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 5: naked the other day.

940
00:48:57,920 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 6: That's all I'm going to say about that.

941
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 3: I like that choice.

942
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 5: And I drank and I drank a little of the

943
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 5: water I was swimming in.

944
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 3: I mean house, you and Josh like you, we've all

945
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 3: found ourselves in very much a servants. I live in

946
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 3: a very a life of service, and I mean I

947
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 3: just had this conversation with my own mom, and she goes,

948
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 3: I see you, guys, you're traveling around the world. You're

949
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 3: just talking about regenerating, regenerating, regenerating, but you are really

950
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 3: you're you're degenerating yourself doing it. My I Choose Me

951
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 3: moment really was the big, big, big one, really was

952
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 3: building absorption, you know, because I needed something to actually

953
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 3: make sure I could do all this. And so every

954
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 3: week or every month that we're building into these innovation pipelines,

955
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 3: some stop is a lot of it's for women, and

956
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 3: Nikki and our team really drives a lot of that innovation,

957
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 3: and then some of it is for men, and I

958
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 3: get to help drive that innovation. And that I Choose

959
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 3: Me it was driving some I can't say what it

960
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 3: is right now, but very male driven nanometric liposomal technology,

961
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 3: like this thing that I've been always wanting and hoping

962
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 3: would be in the market. No one's ever been able

963
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 3: to crack it because I didn't have the science to

964
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 3: do it. And I just said, I'm going to push

965
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 3: this through this innovation pipeline. And this is a very

966
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 3: male is something that's really good for men because you know,

967
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 3: we see this a lot, because we talked to all

968
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 3: the scientists, and we talked to a lot of people.

969
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 3: Healthy happy people build healthy happy societies by making healthy,

970
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 3: happy choices. But one of the things I got to

971
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 3: I realize is is that healthy happy guys and my age,

972
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm in my mid forties now, mid to

973
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 3: late Now, I can say it happen, it happens fast.

974
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 3: But you know what, you realize that there is in

975
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 3: a salt on people of our age into middle age,

976
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 3: into late middle age. Healthy people in middle age is

977
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 3: not good for the system. It's better when we're all sick, right,

978
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,359
Speaker 3: It's just better for the economy that they want. And

979
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 3: I choose that, my choose me moment is that is

980
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 3: going to stop. And I am tired of that assault

981
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 3: on middle aged humans, both men and women. Doesn't matter

982
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 3: whether you're middle class, it doesn't matter what you are.

983
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 3: It is no longer acceptable to me for us to

984
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 3: be sick. I'm done with it. And so we're building

985
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 3: a couple of really robust, super disruptive supplement SKUs that

986
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 3: are going to really rock the rock the whole market.

987
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 2: So tell us it's Absorption.

988
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 3: The Absorption Company. Literally, it's why we you know, because

989
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 3: I told you, you know, I set offline that we

990
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 3: have this proprietary piece of technology that allows us to

991
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 3: take lipophilic material, a liposoma material, and turn it into

992
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 3: a water soluble material that's a nanometric particle, so it's

993
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 3: five hundred percent more absorbable.

994
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 2: That's the key it works.

995
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 5: It saved me so many times his product through this.

996
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 5: As you know, it's a bit degenerative. As you're talking about,

997
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 5: it's pretty hard to We've we've made ourselves responsible, like

998
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 5: on the hook for spreading the message of how we

999
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 5: actually can fix the climate, and there's a lot of

1000
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 5: pressure there and it puts us into this endless loop

1001
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 5: of constantly, constantly, constantly advocating for that. But what happens

1002
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,840
Speaker 5: is that it actually is kind of degenerative towards our

1003
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 5: own bodies. And so that's actually one of the things

1004
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 5: we're talking about in our next film, Groundswell. We've got

1005
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 5: Demi Moore also one of our narrators along with Ian

1006
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 5: and Jason Lemon and Jayden Smith. But Demi wants to

1007
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 5: really talk about that inner microclimate of what regeneration is

1008
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 5: for our bodies because it starts within, that starts each

1009
00:52:58,719 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 5: one of us.

1010
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 3: And getting to hear some from like some of these conversations,

1011
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 3: like you know, people like you know, the King of

1012
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 3: England and stuff like that.

1013
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:09,919
Speaker 6: You know, we got to go film the King, which

1014
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 6: is crazy.

1015
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 3: I mean just the people we get to interface with.

1016
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 5: The King was like your movie is my favorite movie.

1017
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 5: He like came out with his hands stretched outs. You're

1018
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 5: not supposed to touch them.

1019
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 6: You're supposed to like Curtsey.

1020
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 3: And all this stuff.

1021
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 5: So like I like, I'm like going to Curtsey and

1022
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 5: then he reaches out. I actually fell on it. Actually,

1023
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 5: the whole night with him was kind of a train wreck,

1024
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 5: but he found it charming, fortunately.

1025
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 3: But it's just this, these are the people that that

1026
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 3: are that we get to bring into our orbit and

1027
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 3: get to experiences and hear from them. And again it's

1028
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 3: this pooling of knowledge. And I'm not saying power from

1029
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 3: a self standpoint, knowledge and power coming together because and

1030
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 3: I mentioned this to one of the single most powerful

1031
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 3: legislators in the country who will go unnamed, but I said,

1032
00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 3: I I said. He basically said, like, so you're saying

1033
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 3: soil is are common ground, but you're splitting you know,

1034
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 3: you're telling conventional farmers are doing stuff that's wrong. And

1035
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 3: I said no, no, no, sir, we're not. We're bringing them

1036
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 3: into the conversation, just telling them they can actually prosper

1037
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 3: and make money. And I said, one of the things

1038
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 3: that that we've realized it's going to happen is once

1039
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 3: that kicks into high gear, incumbents or candidates. And I

1040
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 3: don't mean we stay so far out of politics. I've

1041
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 3: been offered to run for office so many time. I

1042
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 3: wouldn't do it, No way, I would never. I would

1043
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 3: never run for office because we can do so much

1044
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 3: more out here. But I said to him, I said, sir,

1045
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 3: with all due respect, I said, listen, these elections are

1046
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 3: going to change because it's the small communities. If you

1047
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 3: look at a gubernatorial election, look at how presidential elections

1048
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 3: are one, they're won by tiny little communities. They're dots

1049
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 3: on maps, right. And I said, you're no longer going

1050
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 3: to be able to come into these go back to

1051
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,720
Speaker 3: your districts, whether you're an incumbent or candidate as a hero,

1052
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 3: if you're taking agriculture and pharmaceutical money, it's just not

1053
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 3: going to happen anymore. Voters are they're too hip to

1054
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 3: it now. And I said, one of the things he

1055
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 3: asked me. He goes, well, what have you learned most

1056
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 3: about being in DC? Because I spent a lot of

1057
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 3: time in DC. I said, well, sir, to be honest

1058
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 3: with you, I've learned that the Republican Party is owned

1059
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 3: by agrochemical industries and the Democratic Party is basically owned

1060
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 3: by pharmaceutical companies. And I said, neither one of those

1061
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 3: is good for America, and it's time to change that.

1062
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 3: And so this is the sea change, and so kiss

1063
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 3: the ground, common ground, and then ground swell. This is

1064
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 3: the promise of a regenerative, bright future, not just here

1065
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 3: in America but around the entire globe. And we're going

1066
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 3: to build a trillion dollar carbon capture food economy. And

1067
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 3: it starts literally today.

1068
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 6: Today it does heavy earthdayath.

1069
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 5: Two tiny thoughts I want to share this concluding from

1070
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 5: our whole conversation that I want to just say, one,

1071
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 5: it's important to do things like drive electric cars and

1072
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 5: use plat paper straws like all of those things. Like

1073
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,880
Speaker 5: energy efficiency, which was the message that Josh and I

1074
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 5: came out with in the very beginning back in two

1075
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 5: thousand and eight, is a huge part of this. And

1076
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 5: we're not saying don't do those things, right, that dies like,

1077
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 5: we do need to reduce the amount of carbon that

1078
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 5: we're putting into the atmosphere, right, there's no question about that.

1079
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 5: But what he was saying that I really want to

1080
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,879
Speaker 5: put a point on is that's not going to do

1081
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:31,399
Speaker 5: anything about that thousand gigatons of carbon that we've put

1082
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 5: into the atmosphere that the absorb, oceans have absorbed as

1083
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 5: much as they can and acidifying as a result of

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00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 5: and can't absorb anymore. So, yes, we need to reduce

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00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 5: what we're admitting, but the only way, And this is

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Speaker 5: what's been missing from the conversation for the last twenty years,

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Speaker 5: forty years. This is what's been missing. This is why

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Speaker 5: this is so important.

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Speaker 6: This is why this is.

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Speaker 5: Such a huge moment for us. It's because when we

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Speaker 5: add to the conversation the power that soil has to

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00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 5: pull all of that carbon out of our oceans and

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00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 5: out of our atmosphere and to put it in the soil.

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Speaker 5: And we have not been talking about that for twenty years.

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Speaker 5: We've been talking about climate change, and we haven't been

1096
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 5: talking about this simple, easy, elegant, natural solution that nature

1097
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 5: has to this problem that we're all freaking out about

1098
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 5: that's crazy. That's why this is so important, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And then the other thing that I want to mention

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Speaker 5: is that as the daughter of a farmer and a

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Speaker 5: farming family, I know that it can be very hard

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Speaker 5: for people to talk to farmers about this when they're

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00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 5: passionate about it. You may not be able to talk

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Speaker 5: to your farming neighbor about climate change. They may not

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00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 5: want to hear about climate change. It could actually cause

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Speaker 5: them to stop listening to you altogether. And I know this. However,

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Speaker 5: when you talk to your neighbors about the climate and

1108
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 5: the weather, suddenly you have their attention because that's what

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Speaker 5: they live and die.

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Speaker 3: By weather and money is the weather.

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Speaker 5: And so when you start talking about the weather and

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Speaker 5: they're looking at their neighbors' farms and they have enough water,

1113
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Speaker 5: they're not having a dry they're not having a pest problem.

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Speaker 5: Their weather next door on the other side of the

1115
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Speaker 5: fence actually looks pretty stable, resilient and great growing conditions.

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Speaker 5: How come my farm is running off into the river

1117
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 5: and drifting away and blowing away in the wind. So

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Speaker 5: when you talk to farmers about the weather, you know

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Speaker 5: you want to meet people where they're at in this conversation.

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Speaker 5: You don't want to come out righteous like, oh, you

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00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 5: spray chemicals and oh you're the problem and you're the

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00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 5: reason that we're having climate change and you have to

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Speaker 5: fix it. Can you imagine how well that conversation is.

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Speaker 3: Going to go.

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Speaker 5: I can tell you because I've had them. Yeah, it

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00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 5: doesn't go well. All you do is polarize people and

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00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 5: become part of the problem when you talk to people

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Speaker 5: about the magic and power of regeneration to restore ecosystems,

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Speaker 5: your farm, your family, your community, your own body on

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Speaker 5: a region by region level, that is regeneration.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, Thank you so much, really really happy.

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Speaker 3: Then we're super grateful we got to do this. Congratulations

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Speaker 3: on the show.

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Speaker 5: Happy Earth Day everyone, Thank you for having us.