WEBVTT - “I’M A FARMER” 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:00.560 What's up, mister? 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:04.480 Getto what's up? Man? What's your name? My name is 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.039 Weston Western? What's going on? Western? How's life? 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.559 Well? I live on a farm and I was just 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:18.080 spraying the field and then I ran over a log 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.880 that was hidden in the weeds and it went through 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:21.400 my tire. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.560 Oh no, is that bad? Right? 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.400 So now i'm here, Yeah, that's really bad. That means 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:29.560 I need a new tire. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:32.320 How is working on a farm? 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.839 Oh it's awesome. I love it. It's I would I 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.920 would not want to live any other way. I'm actually 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:44.400 uh in college right now and I'm studying mechanical engineering. 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.559 But I really just want to end up back on 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:48.320 the farm. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.560 Cool. Man's just like your parents farm? Or whose farm 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:51.839 is this? 0:00:53.080 --> 0:01:00.240 Yes, sir, so, so I'm a fifth generational farmer. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:05.040 Woh yeah, So when was the land that you're farming 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.199 on first, like cultivated or whatever. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.160 So both of my grandparents grew up in a town 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.399 about an hour away from us, and then both of 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:22.440 them moved out to where I live now, and then 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.840 my parents met each other, you know that kind of stuff. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:30.040 But so they actually it was all trees like a forest, 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.800 and we cleared it out with big machines and made 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:34.039 it turned it into farmlands. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:36.920 WHOA, what do you grow? 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:44.000 So we grow cotton. So we have about ten tractors 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:49.960 and then two big cotton harvesters, and they once the 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.400 cotton has grown and it's all white, we run these 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.200 big machines over it and it'll it'll tick off the 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:00.560 white fluff off of the the little stop and then 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.520 it turns into this massive bale of cotton. And then 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.120 we stack those bales and sets of four, and then 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.800 trucks will come and pick it up and take it 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.480 to what we call it a gin, and the gin 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.079 will divide the fibers and the seats, and then that's 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.360 how you get your shirts and all that kind of stuff. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.960 Yeah, I was about I ask what what what are they? 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.200 What are they using cotton for? These days? I feel 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.120 like shirts are made out of all kinds of stuff. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:34.440 Now, yeah, a lot of China stuff. But man, I 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:40.040 really couldn't tell you. Probably cotton ball, maybe. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.919 We do they do we need? Do we use a 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:43.400 lot of cotton balls these days? 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.720 I've used probably three in the past couple of years. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:50.160 Three cotton balls. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.120 Here's the thing, man, I'm just look, I'm no farmer. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.160 But I'm just saying, like, I feel like you could 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.880 be doing so much more profitable crops out there, like cotton. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.240 That sounds that's a very like seventeen hundred's eighteen hundred 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.160 stass crop, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:11.399 Yeah, yeah, I mean out here it's really dry. It's 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.120 like a desert. So cotton is actually the most profitable 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:16.160 crop we can grow. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:17.720 Get the fuck out of here. 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.640 Really, which is crazy. Yeah, because like my dad loves 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.200 to plant corn because like the wind will knock it 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.440 over and the next day it's standing up again, like 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.840 it's it's like indistructble, but we don't have the water 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:35.760 for it, so we have to do cotton. Isn't that 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:36.760 isn't that kind of weird? 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.840 I'm still like, I I guess, yeah, I mean shirts, 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.560 but like what what else? Like what who's buying all 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.680 this cot Like who's the cotton ball company buying all 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:48.160 the cotton? 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:56.040 I have no idea somebody if somebody's buying our cotton, 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.760 So we keep going. But I mean it's a it's 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.320 a really really good industry. And the thing about it 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.920 is it's really hard for somebody who didn't grow up 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.040 grow up on a farm to start farming. But like 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.960 in my shoes, I'm almost twenty years old and I've 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.560 had nineteen years of teaching and learning and all this stuff. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.880 So like I'm so far ahead of somebody who would 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.680 just like want to start coming from the city. You 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.240 say so, and I just I really, I really do 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.599 enjoy it, just like the lifestyle, Like I really want 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.400 to have a family, grow up on a farm. You 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.479 get that country lifestyle, which there's nothing wrong with like 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.679 growing up in a city. But you know, like last weekend, 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.640 my me and my friends got together and have you 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.560 ever heard of tannerite? 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:50.120 No? 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:50.520 It is. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.360 All right. So it's like a it's like these little 0:04:54.920 --> 0:05:01.039 white white beads or like bebies, and then and you 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.120 mix it together and you shoot it with a gun 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.400 and it flows. So we stack a bunch of fridges, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.240 old fridges on each other and put like forty pounds 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.440 of this stuff under there, and we get like half 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.360 a mile away and we shoot it and it just 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.280 blows up into a mushroom cloud. It's it's the best 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:17.680 thing ever. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.800 That's so awesome. I love the way you said what 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.320 you said, by the I love what you said by 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.280 the way where you were like, you know, there's nothing 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.880 wrong with living in the city because like because people 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.240 who live in cities we think we're so much better 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.719 than everyone else, and we say things and we say 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.880 things like, well, there's something wrong with wanting to, you know, 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.479 live in the country or the suburbs. But in this 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.280 like sl you know what I mean, it's like a 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.680 framing of like the way you're even saying it implies 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.320 that there is something wrong, you know, but you're flipping 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.680 it on its head, you know what I mean. You're like, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.160 like you see you see the city people, the way 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.680 the city people see the country people. It's like, it's like, 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.680 what the fuck kind of life is that, you know, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.960 living in a big fucking so you can't you can't. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:08.839 If you tried to blow up uh Fridges in the 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.720 middle of Manhattan, you would be sent to Guantanamo Bay. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.560 Yeah, I would be in a lot of trouble, Yes, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:18.640 but I can't. But I can do that here. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.680 You can do that there? What did it look like legally? 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.240 Actually I don't know how legal. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.120 It is, but yeah, but there's who gives a no. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.400 But there's no cops out there. You can break any 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.040 laws you want, I think. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.799 So funny thing is I know all the cops. Isn't 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:37.200 that awesome? So we have we have Carl Kenneth Chase, 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:42.320 like all of them, Sheriff Keith, like I keep so, 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:42.680 so I. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.440 Had wait wait stop stop, stop stop stop? Did you 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:50.280 say did you say Sheriff Pete Keith? Yes, sir, you 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:56.039 fucking you guys have a sheriff. Absolutely, dude, God damn. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.520 So the funny part. The funny part. So I live 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:05.200 in near Midland, which is like the oil field city 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:10.280 of Texas, and so there's a bunch of oil field traffic. 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.680 So all the cops don't give a fuck about us. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.160 They're like, oh, you're local, you do whatever you want. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.520 You want to drive one twenty down a county road, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.160 go for it. We're gonna pull over this guy for 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.480 going five miles over the speed limit because he's an 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.800 oil field worker. So we almost have like privilege, if 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:28.400 that make sense. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:35.040 Uh yeah, that definitely makes sense. Uh so wait hold, sorry, sorry, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.160 I was just making sure that my fucking microphone stories. Okay, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.160 I think it does. I think it does all right. Cool, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.760 So you know all of the cops by first name. 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.880 Do you go on like joy rides with them and shit, 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.480 like do they let you get away with shit? 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:54.880 Oh? Absolutely? Absolutely? So Like I have this one. Carl 0:07:55.000 --> 0:08:00.160 is my favorite cop, and I keep telling him. I'm like, Carl, Man, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.640 when are you gonna When are you gonna catch me? 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.840 I'm waiting for it. And then he's like, oh, I'll 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:06.600 get you one day. And he still hasn't got me. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:07.960 But like. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.960 One of my close friends, his dad's a cop. He 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.200 pulled me over and I just hop out and I 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.120 walk over to his window. I'm like, what's up, man, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.360 how you doing? He's like, oh, good, how have you been? 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.040 How's school going. I'm like, oh, it's going good, you know, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.040 And then I walk away. No ticket. I was speeding 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:31.360 like thirty miles over the limit. Oh boy, isn't that awesome? 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.520 Why? Well, what kind of laws is it? What kind 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.040 of laws are you breaking out here? 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:39.600 Oh? 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.080 None that are important? 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:45.199 All right? 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.680 I know, I know you're not the biggest fan of 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:49.760 a drive in. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.600 I would know I was. That's I was about, Well, yeah, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.000 I don't like I think going thirty miles over the 0:08:55.040 --> 0:09:01.040 speed limit is bad. I actively hate uh that you're 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.760 doing that. But right, I have no but I have 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.320 I have no jurisdiction upon you other than judgments. 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.960 Yeah, pretty much. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.000 Well, okay, let me ask you this. So when you 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:20.959 graduate from school, you said you're in school, right, yes, sir, 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.000 what and you're gonna Are you gonna go back to 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:25.600 work at your parents farm or are you gonna work 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:26.559 on your own farm? 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.480 So I'm actually working for my best friend's dad right 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:37.720 now on his farms class ranch. So he, my best 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.800 friend's dad, works for like this billionaire and he owns 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.080 all this land and like we ranch on it. We 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.160 do like a feed yard, like a bunch of cattle. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.680 We feed them every day and tins and all this stuff, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.320 and then we'll let them out into the pasture and 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.320 the forest and the ranch and stuff. And then he 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.120 also has some farm land, so I am like the 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.560 farm manager if you had to put a title on it. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.440 And that's what I've been doing out here, which is 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:17.679 great learning experience. But after college, I really I don't know, 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.880 because I kind of wanted to do engineering for a job, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.440 but I've lived all my life. Whenever I work, I 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.600 get like my hands dirty. I have to be doing 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.320 something I can't. I don't think I could sit like 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.280 how you do like you sit behind a screen and 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.120 talk to people, which talking to people makes it so 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.199 much better. But I would just be doing like straight bookwork, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:43.560 and I don't think I could do that. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.640 Mmmmm. Yeah. You want to be making stuff and building 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:49.760 things and working with your. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.880 Hands, right, yes. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:58.040 Sir, Yeah, I like that, man, I like that. And 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.840 also you can pick a better crop, because I don't 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.920 know why you guys are stuck in the eighteen hundreds, 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:10.640 you know, making cotton cotton? Oh yeah, yeah, and uh 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.280 and uh. And then you I assume you have a 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.320 bunch of boys. You have a bunch of homies, You 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.559 have a bunch, you have a god, what's the name 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.080 of that movie? What's the what's the movie or the 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:26.880 TV show where they jump a fucking car over a 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.720 ditch and the freezes and there's a voiceover. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.520 Uh, I couldn't tell you. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.160 Hold on, chat, what is the name of this movie 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:45.800 I'm talking about? No, it's not Jackass? Hold on. Oh 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.800 the Duke of Hazard Okay, you got your little Duke 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.760 of Hazard. You got your little Duke of Hazard group? Okay, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.040 And what are they what do they all do? What 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:54.559 are they all doing? What's their deal? 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:01.960 Yeah? So we're all working on farms, and we're all 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.200 just messing around, you know, So I know it's gonna 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:11.160 disappoint you. But three of my friends are planning cotton 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:18.640 right now, and then one of my friends is stacking silage. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:23.200 So you you grow like this really tall grass and 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.040 then you cut it and push it in a big pile, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.400 and then you put a tarp over it, and then 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.720 you let it like ferment, almost like beer or wine 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.560 like ferments, and then you take the tarp off and 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.200 feed it to animals and it's super, super nutritious and 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.200 easy to digest. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.120 Why would that disappoint me because it's more cotton, Yeah, 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:50.000 more cotton. Cotton doesn't necessarily disappoint me. I guess, I 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.280 don't know. I mean, as soon as you guys do 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:52.520 okay with cotton. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:58.160 We're doing great. Yeah. And you know what's also fun 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.960 about farming is you get to mess with big money. 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:08.040 How so, So for example, if the average person makes 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.160 or if a if an if a person makes one 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:16.280 hundred thousand dollars a year, but if they're farming, you 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.720 would make like maybe three million dollars a year, but 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.720 you would have two point nine million dollars in expenses, right, 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.960 so you profit one hundred grand, right, but you just 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.160 get to play with more money. Isn't that so much fun? Yeah? 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.120 Well that makes a lot of sense to me, But 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.559 that's also kind of spooky to me, right because aren't 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.920 you like you you, because you're investing all of this money, 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.120 but aren't you like at the whim of so many 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:45.600 things like natural disasters or lack of whatever, Like are 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.160 you is there a lot of risk involved in farming? 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.080 Yes, sir, Yes, sir, absolutely so. So you have like 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.680 tornadoes and then hail is a big problem. So whenever 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:01.679 your crop is really really small, when high winds can 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.800 even just like burn the leaves off because it gets 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.520 so hot out here, and then you can have hail 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.760 just like pound it to a pulse. But we have 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:16.000 a it's called crop insurance, so if if a natural 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:20.240 disaster occurs, this company will come out, take a look, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.680 they're like, yeah, that looks pretty pretty bad, and then 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:30.120 they'll give you money. So we kind of have a 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:36.040 safety blanket, but not all the time. Like your your cotton, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.160 your cotton harvester that picks your cotton could catch on 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:46.880 fire and there goes two million dollars like nothing, what. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.080 Do you do when you're not farming? 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:55.480 So it's kind of seasonal. So we're just getting over 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.600 planning season and planning season, and harvest season is the 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:10.360 biggest season. But in the downtime, go on vacation, go play, like, 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.840 mess around with friends. I don't know, you're kind of 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.120 you're kind of always farming, right if that makes sense 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:23.920 because you have all of this equipment and land at 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:24.680 your disposal. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:30.000 How has it been managing both farming and going to school? 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.720 So during school, I have a part time job on 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:45.240 a farm, and it's been good. School. School was a 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.400 very drastic change for me because I grew up so 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:54.320 my high school I graduated with twenty kids, and then 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.880 I went to college. In my first class, I had 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.680 two hundred people in one room. Wow, And that was 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.400 like a crazy culture shock for me. 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.280 Yeah, okay, so you had twenty kids in the whole 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.840 fucking grade and then you went from two hundred kids 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.560 in one class. That's crazy exactly. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.560 Oh yeah, it was. It was like nothing I've ever seen. 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:18.120 But but yeah, that first So I just got through 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:22.240 my freshman year of college, and that first semester was 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.720 very difficult for me because because that is, it was 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.080 like not the type of school I was used to. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.600 I was used to very personal connection, and in college 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.320 you don't get that really at all. 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.720 Did you make any friends in college? Yeah? 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:44.840 So luckily I'm a very I don't know. I find 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.120 I have a very easy time making friends, which is 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:54.920 very very fortunate. And so I made a bunch of 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:59.160 friends through like my religion, like we have like a 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.960 like a group or what do you call it, like 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.720 a not a church, but I guess a hall. So 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:07.800 I made a bunch of friends through there. I made 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:12.240 a couple of friends through my major, and then I 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:18.879 made more friends playing pickleball and tennis and like racket 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.240 faulting pong, anything with a racket. I'm not too shabby 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.560 at m Yes, sir. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.000 Do you work with a lot of animals or just crops? 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.359 So that's that's the funny thing is every time I 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.440 bring up I grew up on a farm, the first 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.600 question is always, uh, what kind of animals do you have? 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.919 And I'm like, uh, we don't have any animals. We 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:49.120 have cotton. But the animals I messed with on this 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.200 ranch is a whole bunch of cows. That's their main 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.080 passion if you will, and then they also have a 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:02.280 couple of sheep and a couple of goats. Because, uh, 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:03.160 I don't know. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:07.640 Why do you feel like people like have a lot 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.880 of misconceptions about you when they hear that you grew 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.800 up on a farm. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:22.720 I can understand how that would be a like us. 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:24.560 Hm hmm. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.439 Not really as much as you would think, is how 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.919 I would put there. Because everybody I've dealt with, as 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.639 they've they've just always been super fascinated by the fact 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.600 that I grew up on a farm. M But I've 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.280 never I've never ran into anything crazy like a movie 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:50.119 would portray, I guess if you say that way. But 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:56.320 a really cool part about working on a farm is, uh, 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.280 I have two South African co workers, and they're like 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.440 the best people I've ever met. They're awesome. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:05.679 What do you like about it? 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.800 And they oh, I love them because they like their 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:13.320 accent is awesome. I find stuff that they like, normal, 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.879 stuff that they say really funny, and then they find 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.840 stuff that I say is super funny, and then they're 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.919 just so they're so joyful because they've told me like 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.199 a lot of bad things that have happened in South Africa. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.960 They're getting kind of like the government is kind of 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:36.119 chasing them out in a way, but like they'll invite 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:42.240 me over. They're teaching me South African words because they 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.720 speak English in a language called Afrikaans. And then they'll 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.520 make like all kinds of jerky and dried sausage and 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:55.080 all this like interesting flavors that I've never had before 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.439 because I've never been out of the United States before. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.000 Like all this new culture coming to me is just 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:03.640 like awesome. 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:11.240 Mhmm. Do you what what words do you say that 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:12.840 they find funny? 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:22.680 Oki doki? They they hysterically lose it every time. It's awesome. 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.440 I'll just be like, oki doki, I'll see you later. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:31.240 If they go, ok oh, it's awesome. 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:33.720 Do you have the stuff? 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:40.960 They'll say stuff like uh laksha or a pry and 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.320 I'm like, what does that even mean? It's just awesome. 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:47.440 Do you have places outside of the US that you 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:47.919 want to go to. 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.800 I would love to go to Canada and Germany. 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.320 Wow, what's going on in Germany? 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.480 Germany? They have awesome So like I I use this 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.520 in a scholarship interview, so like they have some of 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:07.679 the best ski slopes because I love us snow skiing. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:14.600 And then anything made in Germany, like cars, tools, some 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.919 of our explosives, we'd buy. Anything made in Germany just 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:22.119 always has this like amazing quality. And I would just 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:27.560 love to see, like everything is made made in Germany, 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.840 is in everything in Germany is made in Germany. I 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.600 just love to see, like what that beholds, if that 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:35.120 makes sense. 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:37.480 And then what about Canada. 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.960 I would also want to go skiing there. And I 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.080 like the cold, which is weird because I'm from Texas, 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.240 Like it's one hundred and fifteen degrees right now. 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:51.240 So if you could if you could get if you 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:55.040 could get into any new crop right like you got 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:58.040 let's say, you could snap your fingers and the land 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.720 and the land were for for whatever you wanted it 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:03.920 to be fertile for what would you grow? 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:15.680 Never thought about this. So it's fertile, and I'm assuming 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:16.200 we got. 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.720 Some water whatever whatever you whatever you need. 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:35.280 Whatever it takes, either al salfa or corn, that would 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:43.000 be my answer, because corn corn is it's super tall 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.320 and it's like it's like building a wall, but you 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:56.080 don't even have to build it, you just grow. Yeah, 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:57.919 you're growing a wall. What could be better than that, 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.240 and it's so it's so dense. And then so there's 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:05.240 a difference between like the corn you eat at a 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:11.760 restaurant and the corn that they put into cans. So 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:14.879 the corn you eat at a restaurant, it's called sweet corn. 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:20.120 And whenever you grow sweet corn, it's only about four 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:25.360 feet tall at its peak. But whenever you grow it's 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.040 called field corn. Like the corn they put in a 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:32.119 can with flavoring, that stuff can get up to like 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:35.679 ten feet tall, and you just get lost in it. 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:38.119 And then you can do so many things with corn. 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:42.880 You can grind it up like corn meal, you can tredit, 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:46.720 turn it into silas for the animals. You can bail 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:50.320 it into bales. You can just fend it off, sell 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.560 it as corn. Oh, there's a badger walking through this 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:54.880 pecan orchard right now. 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:57.439 You're in a pecan orchard. 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:59.399 That's a that's a big orchard. 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:00.320 Big. 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:04.760 Oh my gosh. Can I send you a picture of 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:07.360 the badger. There's two of them. 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:10.240 Yeah, sure, you can send me a picture of the badger. 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:14.120 Oh, I have an iPhone. I don't think it takes 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:19.040 a picture that far away for a reference. It's like 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:24.600 the size m of a car tire. 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:28.120 Did do you see okay, a badger of the size 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:28.960 of a car tire? 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:30.920