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Hello, folks. Welcome back to the Straight Forward Farming Podcast. I'm your host, Tony Reed, alongside Nick McCormick. And man, it has been a hot minute since we've been on one of these. It has been a little bit. I think looking here at the list, it's showing May 9th. That's probably about right. Wow. We're sorry. We're sorry.

Yeah. We'd like to tell you we'll do better, but we all know that's probably not true. But we will try. Exactly. We'll try, but we won't succeed. Yeah. Yep, especially with harvest coming up. It's probably just going to get worse before it gets better. Which, looking here, oh, God, we've only done four podcasts this whole year. Yeah, we've got to crank them out a little faster than that. That's kind of an epic failure. We're just going to do the Harris and pretend that we have more podcasts

more um things going on than we do yeah just photoshop them in yeah exactly it'll be fine yeah i mean i don't even know where to start on the gamut of news that we could cover since our last podcast oh it's been a lot of stuff we were still farming may 9th probably yeah we were geez we can back it up here a little bit and cover some ground if we need to yeah where do you want to start um

Well, you tell me your pick. Gosh, I don't know. My memory's shit. So we're in the middle of planting when it was wet and then it got really dry. Yup. And then it got wetter and then it got drier. Now, personally, I do think we got a pretty good crop coming on. I've traveled a lot of the Midwest here in the last couple of weeks. And now granted, I know you only see 1% from the interstate, but I've talked to a lot of people and, uh,

I think I know locally we're in good shape. Now you branch out a hundred miles from what I've heard. I think we're still in pretty good shape. So yeah, I think we're all right. Yeah. It's not worth anything. No. And God, that just keeps getting beans. We're down. It just keeps getting worse. 16. Don't even remind me. Don't I'm pretending. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. What a deal. Yeah. Miserable.

So how's things going in the tractor pulling world this summer? Keeping everybody going? Yeah, trying to. Doing okay so far. It's been a good summer. It hasn't been super hot, so that makes it easier to work on stuff. Wait if you have to, if it's not. Yeah, the boy, he's all wound up. He's going to get his first taste of pulling here. I think it's on the 24th hometown pull here. Cousin's got a 1066 that doesn't use it for farming anymore. It basically just sits in the shed, so...

the boy's got a cabbage onto that. So first they were just going to go down the track with it. Now they're taking the front fuel tank off and switching rear tires. And who knows? That's how it starts, Tony. That's how it starts. Of course, I haven't helped that addiction any. I got him, I got him set on a pro stock a couple of times this summer. He was, he was eating that up pretty hard, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know where this will end up. Having 5,000 horse at your right hand is, is kind of intoxicated. Yeah, but it would be. Yep. My cousin who actually owns this tractor, uh,

He pulled a lot back in the day, but he was more into pickup trucks. He might have pulled tractors a handful of times, but he was more into pickup. Yeah, he was a truck guy. Yeah, then were the good old days. That was back before things got really carried away on the pickup side here locally. Yeah, his career probably ended right as it was just falling off the cliff. I would say, yeah. Yep.

And he might have been one of the ones that pushed it on the cliff a little bit. He wasn't scared to get the good stuff. Things were rapidly progressing back then. Yes, absolutely. But that was before diesel pickups had really become a thing in the pulling world, and they were still running them together, and they hadn't split it yet, and it was starting to escalate. He had, what was that? I think it was an 86 F-250 gas. 460, yeah. Had a real cool paint scheme on it. Yeah.

Yeah, he had that thing running good. He done pretty well with it. Yeah. But then he had to haul water, too. Still dairy farming then. There wasn't time to do both. Yep, exactly. Yeah, that's right. It's amazing, though, how far out of control this pulling has gotten, even at the local level. You know, like take kids like my boy's age, you know. Unreal. It's like there's really no spot for them to even get in and just have fun. No, it has come so far. I mean, when we got into pro stock,

What we gained, what they've gained since I quit was more than we had when I started. Yeah. You know, when I started pulling pro stock, they probably had 1,500 oars, maybe 2,000, maybe, maybe on a good day. They've gained 1,500 oars since I quit, and that wasn't that long ago. Yeah. You know? And where's the limit? I mean, how much higher can this go? I mean... They've finally capped the turbo thing a little bit-ish. Otherwise, it would be completely off the charts. But, I mean, like I said, they went from...

You know, we started 98 in pro stock, and they maybe had 1,500 to 2,000. They're over 5,000 now. So, you know, it escalates very fast. Yeah, and that's the bad part. I wish some of these promoters would find a way to get younger people to where they can do something. It's tough to do. Even when you put rules on limitations, there's always a guy that should be two classes up, but he's a big fish, little pond.

And I don't blame them. Like, I get why those guys do that. It's just, it makes it tough. And the technology has come so much further so fast, you know? I mean, look at diesel pickup trucks. If you had a 225-horse diesel pickup truck when we were in high school, we'd have been pretty badass. Oh, yeah. Now you can buy a side-by-side with more power than that. Yeah. So, I mean, it's just...

things have have come fast yeah i don't know what what was like an old six nine non-turbo ford pickup from the 140 150 i mean a 94 factory turbo idi was 185 really i know that and the model before was 180 so a 69 would have probably been 160 ish i remember locally back when the power strokes very first came out local guy here bought one i think his first year they come out

And it was a five-speed, and, of course, everybody driving it thought, man, yeah, it's got power for days, you know. Yeah, probably like 215, 220 horse, something like that. Yeah. Not my wife's car has that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It has come a long way. But like you say, even on the side-by-side zone now, I don't know what some of these Razors and Rangers are getting up to, but they're way overpowered. Yeah. For what they are. They got a bunch. They got a bunch. Yeah. Yep, and putting turbos on them now. Yeah. Yeah.

or anything else. I don't know. Yeah. Some days I just wish you could push the pause button for just a little bit on some of this stuff. It's like, man. I just want a time machine. I just want to go back. Yeah. And it's all getting to where you can't do it unless you've got extremely deep pockets. I don't care if it's buying a side-by-side or pulling a tractor or whatever. I mean, what's a new fully loaded Polaris Ranger now? Like, if you want one with a cab, heat, air, I mean, $40,000. $40,000. Jeez. Yeah. And you think about it, you could have bought a...

Boss 429 Mustang for what? Three to four? Yeah. The coolest car you could have physically drove off the lot at those times, you know, which is worth $100,000 to $200,000 now if you got it in good shape, you know. And Ranger's got more, Razor's got more power and, you know, costs way more. It's just everything's that way, though. I mean, tractors are the same way. It's just sad. Yeah. You know, I remember I had a customer back then.

bought a 1880 Heston new off of us. Oh, it had been in the late eighties probably. And he told me at that time, I think for $3,000 more, he could have bought two of those over one 4850 John Deere. No kidding. I think, I think so. I have to, I have to ask him. He'll remember. It was pretty, those numbers are pretty close, you know, but neither one of them looking back now was, it wouldn't be the down payment on a new tractor today. Like you couldn't even, they wouldn't even let you in the dealership to look around and grab some literature, you know?

No. Yeah, I mean, it's nothing now to get a lawnmower to cost $12,000. I mean, you can do that easily. Easily. Very easily. Yeah. And, you know, all the ground was being, there was more ground to be farmed back then than there is now. Yeah, for sure. We're getting done. Yeah. You know, it was happening.

At some point in time, everybody was harvesting with a 2388 and 9510. Every acre was getting covered. It was getting covered. Absolutely. Now these combines are bigger than your house. Yep. Boy, that's one market that's fallen out of bed. Holy smokes. Yeah. If you want a 780, today's your day. Yeah. Well, actually, tomorrow's your day because they're getting cheaper every day. Yeah. Even the X9s are starting to take a beating. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know where this is going to land. And, you know, you see all these horror stories. I mean, that stupid-ass grain market discussion on Facebook. I can't even stomach that page anymore. It's just whining. Yeah.

You know, I think most of the guys that are running that stuff are financially healed. You know, everybody acts like, well, you know, anybody's got any kind of new paint in the shed. Well, you know, they're going broke. Well, I don't know about that. Yeah. I mean, there's been a lot of money made in farming. Guys don't want to admit that, but there has been. We've heard that for years. They keep selling new stuff. I mean, they sold even in the 80s as bad as they were.

New stuff still got sold. I can name a handful of people around here that are buying stuff every year. It don't matter what the grain prices are. They're buying. Yeah. X, X number of whatever. Yeah. They're buying it anyway. So, so I don't, I don't really believe that, but, but it is definitely getting cheaper. I mean, the balance sheets are going to look different. You know, when I was growing up in our little town, there wasn't that many hundred thousand dollar houses. No, a few, not that many. There's way more, uh,

hundred thousand dollar pickup trucks in that town now oh for sure there was hundred thousand dollar houses when i was a kid absolutely you know it's it's literally insane like i just can't wrap my head around it that's one thing you will never see this guy doing i don't care if i hit the powerball tomorrow i have not given a hundred grand for a pickup truck i'm not just crazy i mean i found the receipt for one of dad's way back numbers 80 to 86 somewhere in or 83 to 86 somewhere into their 12 13 grand yeah for a new truck like

Which was a lot of money then. Sure. But there again, there's a down payment now. Absolutely. Ish. Yeah. And now that this used stuff has done what it's done, you can about get that. Mm-hmm. You know, for as nice as them trucks are. I mean. Yeah, now you can sell for more than that if you still got it. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to have another 85 or 86 one ton. That's what I want. I like 79s. I do. But I want, I had an 85 growing up, that N86. I want one of those.

My brother's got my dad's 86, but I would like an 85 or 86, one ton. I don't even want a diesel one, I don't think. I think I want a gas. Just something to mess around with. Can't really find them. Cash for clunkers ate a bunch of that stuff up. And the ones that are out there are super high, and you can't find a nice one. I'm glad I got a 78, bought what I did. I mean, I foresee them being kind of like the old...

what you call muscle track, you know, like 1066s and stuff. They just, I think they're just going to keep going up and back. I think you're right. Nice ones are just going to keep getting harder to find, you know? Yeah, it is. It's crazy out there on every, every stretch of the imagination. Yeah. And that's the thing. I don't think a lot of people realize when you get to really looking on social media, whether it's Tik TOK or Facebook or whatever, uh,

You know, there's still a lot of that older stuff being farmed with, you know, 10, 16. We don't see it here as much, but you don't have to go very far south or east. There's still plenty of it in the field. There's a lot of it. So my question to the people south of here is, what is you guys' aversion to walls on a shed? I just drove to Florida and back. You get very far south of here, and some of them were new. Yeah. Like they were building them. Brand new. It's rough. No walls.

Is there a reason you guys don't like walls? You have something against doors? I just don't understand that. Like, I saw a couple classic muscle cars sitting in this just roof. Yeah.

you can only park it two foot in the middle otherwise you're getting the sunny i'm like the sun worries me more than the rain these days like i just don't understand why we got all this new machinery there's a neighbor just west of here that built a shed similar to that oh he's probably been there 10 12 years now anyway maybe longer than that real nice shed and it was just more to back implements in you know or whatever not tractors and stuff

But the thing that I don't like is everything that's sitting in there is just covered in bird shit. And I mean covered. Covered. It's like, well, I'd just as soon as it set outside, at least it would get rained off or washed off. Yeah, washed off, yeah.

There is no way I would have something like that. Yeah, I just don't understand it. But it's like once you get to, well, it's about the Illinois state line. Once you cross into Missouri or Arkansas or Kentucky, anywhere down in through there, it's where it all starts. Yeah, just sheds with four walls and a roof are pretty slim pickings. Yeah. I just don't grasp that. And they'll have three or four of them together. Yeah. Like I said, some of them are brand new. They'll build a couple of them. It's not that much more to put a wall on. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.

That's funny. That's my question to you guys. Why can't you guys build walls? Yeah. What's your hang up with walls? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. But even when you drive down the interstate, you still see a fair amount of older. I mean, it's a blend of new and older equipment. But, I mean, I think a lot of people forget that there's not everybody's farming with new shiny things. And the south is still loaded with new things.

Magnums, original Magnums, and, you know, first, second generation MXs and 8400 John Deere's and so on and so forth. Like there's a ton of those still down there, which always gets chuckled out. Those guys always act like they can't ever buy any new machinery. They bought that shit new. Yeah, exactly. They haven't bought anything since apparently, but they bought that shit new. Like it didn't, you know, it's still got the original dealer sticker on it. That's where it landed and that's just where it's at. And they're still beating the crap out of it.

But it's funny too, how it's regional. Like you could go to any farm in Illinois and,

or I'm going to say a grain farm. You'll throw out the dairies and that kind of stuff, but any grain farm. And if you took an 8,000 series deer tractor and said, yeah, this thing's got 10,000 hours on it, it's like nobody's touching this thing. That thing is junk, wore out. Wouldn't have it. You go to Arkansas, it's like this thing's just getting broke in, boys. I mean, you got another 10,000. Don't bother them a bit. You're absolutely correct. You get one up here over 5,500 hours, guy's like, ah, no, I had to come from Arkansas, don't want it, wouldn't touch it.

You take one down there with 7,000 hours, like, that's low hour. We'd love that. You got another one? We'll take two. You know? Yeah. Yeah, it's funny. It's regional. Well, and the other thing I always laugh about that on is, you know, every Magnum's got, you know, 5,000 to 10,000 plus, but every 1066 still has 4,500 hours. Yeah, exactly. They haven't been one of them over 4,500 hours in the last 10 years. I'm like, I realize the tax quit and somebody put a new one in or maybe they didn't fix it or so on and so forth, but I'm like,

You were using those things every day back then, and they were smaller, so you were using them more. Agreed. You know, but nope, they didn't get any hours on them. But you get the snower tractors, they got a bajillion hours on them. I tell you, you get up here, the only high-hour tractors you're going to see are going to come off of a dairy farm. You know, there ain't many strictly row crop tractors left in this area with 7,000, 8,000 hours on them. No. I mean, there's a few, but not many. Not very many. Not very many. No. No.

I suppose it's no different when pickup truck odometers, you know, didn't used to got 99,000 on that's as many as you could put on. It just rolled over. Well, exactly. I suppose the same way down there on, on tax on tractors, you know? Yeah. And a lot of them places, you know, they farm damn near year round. And I mean, they can rack the hours on stuff. Absolutely. Big hurry. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fact.

Yeah, I don't know. So what else is new? We need somebody else in here that could field us some questions or something. Hell, I don't know. Yeah, we've got a lot of stuff going on here. We had a really, really, really bad deal that we won't get into here. Most of you guys have probably heard a little bit of something about it or whatever here. It's been about a month ago. Really bad deal with some local kids. You know, we won't touch on what happened. But I will say, like,

Pretty proud of my community. It was a tragic, tragic deal, and we don't have to touch on the details, but you always think, oh, we're from this nowhere town in the middle of nowhere in Illinois, and we're a flyover area, and this, that, and the other, and then something like that happens.

And everybody kind of comes out of the woodwork and does what needs to be done and rallies around. And there were some really good things to be taken from that. Yeah. I've thought about that numerous times since that happened. And the one thing that comes to my mind is I will put this community up against any community on the planet when something tragic happens. Yeah. Like...

Even people that don't get along, whatever, so on and so forth. All that goes out the window. Even the surrounding communities. My hat's off to the surrounding communities. Several of those had fundraisers, and they raised more money in one night than a lot of places can do for their main fundraiser for a

I won't call it a larger cause, but... Well, like every town has their Lions Club tractor puller. Or something. Festival something, this, that, and the other. I'm like, there were some girls not too far from here, sold pork burgers and hot dogs that night and kicked in a pretty good chunk, you know? And my hat's off to them. They didn't have to do that. Much appreciated. And it makes me pretty proud to be from this area. Yep, I totally agree. You know, we had a lot of... There was a tragic, tragic, tragic deal.

but there was a lot of positives to be pulled out of it. Yeah. It taught, taught the kids a thing or two taught me a thing or two. Absolutely. You know, there's some, some, uh, underlying things that come out and all that, that, uh,

It's like, you know, this is a pretty good spot. I'm pretty proud to be from here. Yep. And when you're having a bad day, you think, well, it could be worse. It could be worse. Yes. Yeah, it opened everybody's eyes. And, I mean, I think every person individually took something different away from that. And it is what it is. Yeah, absolutely.

But that's the stuff that you don't necessarily have in the big city. They're not rallying around some of that. I mean, yeah, they can raise a lot of money for some artsy-fartsy whatever deal if you've got some big players in the game. But for what it is and what we're working with and this, that, and the other, it's pretty impressive. Yeah.

I'll take small town America any day of the week. Absolutely. I don't care. Absolutely. Everybody can bitch and complain. There's nothing to do around here. There's nothing for me. You know, it's just a farming community, whatever. Yeah, that's fine. At the end of the day. I don't mind the fact that I can probably name off 95% of the people I went to high school with. Yeah. I'm okay with that. Exactly. Same here. Yeah. And we can get in a truck and we can drive a 15-mile circle from my house and I can pretty much tell you. Yeah. Who.

who lives where and who farms what yeah and there ain't nothing wrong with that you kind of lose sight of that at some point in time and a deal like this kind of brings that back around you know yeah yeah yeah what a deal yeah absolutely but uh we don't have to go any further down that path or i'm gonna get in a bad place but uh anyway

Other than that, we've had a lot of other stuff going on, I suppose. Like I said, we've been busy at the shop, and we've caught some okay rains. I'm not complaining there any. So I think we're looking towards having an okay crop.

I need to get stuff in for fall and start working on the combines and getting those ready. Yeah. I couldn't have hit it any worse on my double crop beans. We cut wheat probably two to three weeks earlier than ever this year. Yeah. Just the way it worked out. Wheat was dry. It was Father's Day weekend, like the 16th of June. Cut the wheat. Had the planter going right behind the combine. Thought, man, we're going to really have a chance to get some good double crop beans. Get them in early like this.

And boy, it was drier than hell. The ground was hard. My God, it was like concrete. Got them in, put them in deep, you know, trying to get to moisture. And we caught like three-tenths of rain, and it was just enough. It got them to sprout. And that was it. Yeah. I probably had a third of a stand. Yeah. Maybe half in places. I don't know. And so then we thought, well, to hell with it. I mean, we got to go in and replant them because, I mean, they were dead. I mean. Yeah. So I just went in on 30-inch rows on an angle.

And shit, no more. And got started, got half of them planted and got a damn, that's when that hurricane come through. So got three inches of rain out of that. So snuck in and it was just barely, barely, barely dry enough and got the rest of them slapped in. Hell, I got three inches of rain that night then. It wasn't even in the forecast. Yeah.

So, what's luckily, I mean, we've got a stand now, but God, they're small. They've got a long way to go. They've got a long way to go. They're definitely not early now. No. There's a couple spots here and there, and it was pretty small areas. They got the rain when they needed them right after they planned them. Across from my house, they look good. Yep. But you go, you know, I'm only three miles from you. You get over here, you didn't catch that. Exactly. And they're not so good, you know. Yeah, I'd have been better off with no rain.

And then they wouldn't have sprouted, you know, versus the three-tenths that was just enough to make them sprout. Because, man, it got hot then after that. That was that week. It was 115 or whatever heat it was. Terrible. Yeah. Yep. Of course, then when it come time to spray them, then, you know, same way. It started raining. You know, had water hip out the edge. Finally got them sprayed, so hopefully it'll do the trick. But, I don't know. Can't win for losing. The wheat was good. We had a good wheat crop. I mean, it was all right around 100 bushels an acre, so that's good. Yeah.

Yeah, the hopes for 45 to 50 bushel of double crops, I think, are over. Yeah, I think they're gone. Yep. My only saving grace out here will be I had, if they actually end up making it to harvest, you know, don't get an early frost or something dumb, I did have enough of the early ones that, I mean, hell, they're waist high. Yeah. Where everything that's rowed in, you know, is all small. So I'm hoping I do have at least enough tall ones to rake them all. Nothing worse than cutting them little bitty bastards. You get a big pile, then they fall off, you know.

And it don't matter if it's a draper, an augerhead, them son of a bitches just won't. Yeah. Well, short beans are no fun to cut. No, they're not. Nope. Well, I am looking forward to harvest. I'm not ready for it, but I am looking forward to it. Yeah, I am too. I'd be looking forward to it more if corn was five bucks and beans were 14, but I mean, looking forward to it anyway. That's one of those deals. You always love the work. Yeah. The outcome may not be what you want, but you like the work. There's way worse things to do.

Yeah. And, you know, I don't know. It's always doom and gloom and pretty much about the time all hope is gone, it seems like that's when markets turn around. And I don't know what this scenario is. You know, I mean, we live in a different world every year, and, you know, you've got these damn BRICS nations now and trying to do anything they could to just stick it in our ass. Yeah. I don't know how long this will last. I mean, we like to hope not very long, but nothing says it has to turn around. You never know. Yeah, it doesn't have to.

I mean, I do think if it keeps this up, you give it another year from now and we're still in this boat. I do think there's going to be some high rollers that are sweating at that. I mean, $400 an acre rent ain't cutting it. Ain't cutting it. No, there's going to have to be some input corrections. And that's not the norm. You know, I mean, I know there's some ground around here that's renting for that or close to that, but that's not the norm. No, no, no. Fortunately, no, it's not.

So, yeah, I don't know. I suppose it'll make the wind and solar look more enticing if you're not making anything on the ground. Well, let's hope. I get a chuckle. I see TikToks every day where they're cutting those things down and scrapping them, yet they're wanting to build new ones all the time, which totally proves it's a bullshit deal all the way around, and they don't make a legitimate kilowatt of electricity. But, hey, whatever. Yep, I agree. Sounds like there's a fair amount of solar trying to come in around here. Yeah. Whatever.

i guess it's a free country and i believe in land rights if it's your land and that's what you want to do yeah i don't know i see both sides of that my thing is it'd be easier to stomach if it was if it was viable yeah but what taxpayer funded yeah exactly yeah want to build solar panels think seemed like you'd do it in like arizona where in new mexico agree where the ground wasn't worth much and the sun show shown all the time and

But whatever. It didn't take away from the food supply, so on and so forth. I guess the part where I get a little distraught is the people that are signing up for it around here currently don't have a single windmill running their home or a solar panel. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And most of them are old and don't need the money. Yeah. And they're going to have to look at the damn things the rest of their lives. Exactly. They'll be dead in 10 years. Yeah. That's exactly right. But it is what it is, I guess. Yeah, I suppose. Yeah.

It wouldn't be the first sham of a deal we got shoved down our throat. Power won't be the last. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So we got the beater with the heater coming up. Yes, that is September 14th. I don't have a calendar for it. I think it's the 14th. That sounds right. Yep. Yep. That's the plan of attack. That's open to anyone and everyone. And I've tried to be as clear as I can on TikTok. This ain't my event. I'm not liable for anything. This ain't. I'm just telling you where I'm going to be with my beater with a heater. And if you happen to show up there.

then so be it yeah no doubt a couple things then you get done for here and there but uh hopefully i'll just got out for that i mean it's it's drivable now i just like to make a couple i think we're actually going to turn that into just like we do on a tractor drive we're going to start down here in the local town yeah we're going to make a five six seven mile circle yeah maybe even stop here at my house you know whatever just have a few stops along the way call it a day yeah go back to the bar

Yeah. Not a bad plan. I'm curious to see what shows up to that because, man, I've had a ton of messages of people. I need to mention that on TikTok again just so everybody knows. But, yeah, originally the original date was supposed to have been last weekend, but we were gone out of town, so we had to change it. Yep, which it should coincide pretty good. There's another event going on in town that day. It's going to have a band and food trucks and all that good stuff. Yeah, it should work out good. Yeah, it should work out pretty good. Yeah.

So, yep, if you're listening, bring whatever you want. Don't ask me any questions because I don't care. I don't care what you drive. I don't care if it's a lawnmower. I don't care. It's a beater with a heater. Lawnmowers or Lamborghinis. Yeah. All are welcome, but it's not our deal. Yep. It's a free country. Bring your solar-powered car. We don't care. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know where the summer went though. Gosh. Oh, it just goes by fast and school starts earlier this year. And that, that annoys me. Yeah. Shouldn't start till after labor day, but whatever. Did the kids say something about, maybe they're taking off more days this year than they normally get an extra day here and there they get deer season off or a day, a day during deer first year season. Yeah.

My thing, give them a summer. Those extra days here and there, you can't plan anything for doing that because you know damn good and well they've got a sports practice all those days. You can't do anything. You can't plan any trips for it, so on and so forth. Give them a summer. Give them a chance to earn some money. Give them a chance to learn something. I realize not everybody's learning stuff in the summer, but some kids are. Some kids are learning more in the summer than they did during the school year. I realize that nobody in the education department wants to hear that, but

It turns out they're not teaching carpentry and mechanics and farming and so on and so forth in school. And a lot of those kids are going to be doing that the rest of their lives. Yeah, you're not going to be playing baseball. No, and you're not going to be sitting around doing the Pythagorean theorem and figuring out how to do algebra and calculus. Not saying there's not some value to that. I don't want any haters from this, but I worked all day today.

I didn't ever had to solve for X and I never needed to know where the verb was in a sentence. Nope. Same here. I just, I just didn't, you know, I didn't even know some history. Yeah. Even though apparently they don't even teach that anymore because I started having, you know, we played a little trivia on vacation here or whatever. My kids were like, how do you know that? I'm like, well, it's history. Like you just, you've heard it, you know it, you've, you've learned it somewhere oblivious to all of it. I'm like,

Maybe it's time to sign up for Nick's history class. Yeah. Or maybe sometime watch a good World War II movie. Yeah. Read a book, watch a movie. Maybe just listen when I talk with my friends because we talk about history all the time. Because it repeats itself pretty regular. Instead of sitting next to your buddy and texting your buddy, maybe you should listen. Yes. Yeah. You know, if I could make one change to the world today, well, there's a lot of them I'd make, but

If we could eliminate cell phones or just go back to basic, basic bag phones. Yeah. So where you got it in an emergency, but you don't have to check it every two seconds. You don't have to text your buddy. Like even just go back to where you had to do the, what do they even call the text where you had to hit the button so many times? Oh. There's a term for it. Yeah. Yeah. Like we just go back to that. That'd be okay.

You know, to where we're not tied to that thing 24-7. Like, I get so tired of that. Yep. Yeah, and I'm sure, contrary to popular belief, like with me being big on social media, people probably think I'm glued to my phone, and I'm not. I make a TikTok, and other than that, I don't sit there and play on it. I'm very seldom on it. There's a lot of days I wish I didn't even have one. Yeah. Yeah, I hate it for these kids. They...

Because the bad part is they've got so much information at the tips of their fingers, but nobody's using it to the way that it could benefit them. It's like I was meeting a customer of mine's nephew the other day. And you'll probably hear this, so I'm going to go ahead and kick him. And we were going to meet up. I said, what route are you taking? He's like, I don't know. How do you not know? He's like, I type the address into Google, and I drive where it tells me. I'm not 60 years old like you assholes. And I'm like, that's neat and all, but there's road signs on the road you're on. Like, what?

sometimes your phone maybe doesn't work so on sort like maybe i don't learn how to read a map yeah you know i mean so all that he's like well drop me a pin i'll meet you there okay so i beat him to the location dropped a pin sent it to him and he drove right to it it was all it was good there and great there but i'm like we could have worked this out two hours ago yeah if you knew what route you were taking like yep my dad used to ride my ass you guys never know where you're going because you're always asleep

okay he wasn't wrong you know but like now my kids are 10 times worse than i am like i can take them two towns over where are we at yeah how long is gonna be before we get home we're five miles from home like i've seen your daughter leave my house one day and go the wrong direction yeah it's like where you going yeah yeah i live a little bit north and a little bit east she went west yep it's a long drive west yep pretty much clear around the world yep

Yeah. We were going somewhere here a while back and I'll give it to Cora. She gets car sick sometimes on like long trips. And so she was sitting in the middle seats in the van. So she switched with Carolyn and sat in the front seat. I thought, well, I'm just going to quiz her here because we always keep a map there between the seats. And I think when she sat down, she just grabbed it and asked what it was. So that's a map. So she opened it and I forget wherever we was going. I said, tell me what route I should take from whatever city to whatever city. Yeah.

And she's like, well, where are we? And I'm like, well, we're 20 miles outside of blah, blah, blah. And so, yeah, she looked right up. And then, so then I just told her, I'm like, well, go ahead and find it. You know, I told her the whole rest of the trip and she rattled it right off. So I'm to the point. I refuse to give directions with anything other than directions. Yeah. You're going to head West two miles, go North two miles, turn back West two miles. Was that left or right? I don't know which way you're coming from, but I always know it's West. Exactly. Well, I don't know how you know it's West.

Is the sun out? Yeah. Are you driving this in a day? Yeah. Well, then go ahead and take a look around. What time of day is it and where's the sun? Yep. These people today, it just boggles my mind how lost people get on some of that stuff.

I'm pretty much, you can drop me about anywhere in the U.S., and I'll have my internal compass. I mean, most of that's pretty easy. Yes. If we're driving to Colorado and we're on I-70, we're clearly going west, so as long as you're in Colorado, no, well, now I know I'm south of I-70. I mean, I don't know why that's so hard. Yeah, I don't understand it either. It shouldn't be that hard. I can just tell you it's a good thing these kids today ain't playing the route to Normandy. We're at a bit of...

It had been a rough trip. It was a rough trip regardless, but it had been way worse. Yeah. You know, like it's some of that you just kind of got to experience enough to pick up on and kind of know where you're going. Like, how do you walk through the woods? I suppose they don't never do that anymore. No. But how do you know when you're out road tripping? You don't have GPS. You're just cruising around at night, screwing around like crazy.

can I get to know where you're at? Like, I don't grasp it. The thing is now, like we always talked about, you know, we were younger out goofing off doing whatever. And somebody put their truck in the ditch and you're like, well, how'd you get pulled out? You know, it's like, well, somebody come along and pull you out. I mean, done that a thousand times. Yeah. And the scary part is, is nowadays I don't think that would happen because none of these kids do anything. They don't go anywhere. They don't drive around. They don't do nothing. Nope. Nope. Well, that's my complaint to this whole world. Now we have this deer season day off. Well, okay. That's fine.

But now you've got all these kids that don't deer hunt. They're just going to be driving around aimlessly through the country if they do leave the house. Yeah, when we were in school, literally half the high school deer hunted probably. Now it's probably three kids. Yeah, but the rest of them are going to be driving around, screwing around with their butt, honking the horns, whatever, just driving around doing nothing. If they leave the house, they might just stay at home and text their buddy about it. But my kids give me a hard time all the time. How do you know we can be 30 miles from here out in the country or whatever? How do you know where you're going?

You just do. Like, I'm not saying I don't make a wrong turn somewhere if I'm trying to drive through the country. Sure. Well, how do you know where you're going? Well, we're here. We live that direction. If I drive that direction long enough, I'm going to run into some roads I know. Yeah. Well, I don't understand that. Hop in the truck. I'll just drive you around until we figure it out. Like, I just don't grasp it, you know? I just...

As bad as I hate to say it, it's a generation that cannot think for themselves. No. The initial goal is we can't, we don't know, and we've got to ask somebody. And that drives me up the wall. I'd rather you did it wrong than just sit there with your thumbs in your ass not doing anything. That just drives me up the wall. Yep.

And I'm sure our parents were the same way on some of that, and they were frustrated by it too. But I'm like, some of that stuff is just not that hard. It can be a simple task. Yeah. And my kids are like, I can't. I'm like, it is literally right there. Yep. Right there. But you guys refuse to look. You refuse to, like, you hand them a computer. They'll touch buttons they should never touch.

Because they have no fear of screwing that up because we can solve that or whatever. But you want them to pick something up off a workbench. Which workbench? The one I appointed you, asshat. Yeah. You know, what do you want me to get? The same thing I told you before you walked over there. You know, there's a 916th wrench laying on that workbench. Where at?

Well, I'm not going to give you the GPS coordinates for where it's at on the damn workbench. Walk over there. If you happen to see a wrench, see if it says 916 on it. If it does, bring that one to me. If it doesn't, grab another one. You should have to drop him a pin usually. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, it's not easy. I told my son today, I say, hey, there's a hitch pin laying on that workbench. Grab that for me. He wanders around. So he's giving me the whole, I'm like, if I find that hitch pin, when I get over there, it's going in a place you're not going to want it.

And so he got all fussy with me or whatever. By gosh, two steps before I got there, magically he was able to find that Hitchman. I'm like, told you it was sitting there. But you're spending your whole time turning around and looking at me. Well, it's not here. No, it's right there. I can see it from here. Like,

I didn't give you the where's Waldo bullshit you can't find. It's literally laying right there. Agreed. I think the gap is bigger, though, with us and our kids versus us and our parents. I think you're right. You know, they probably thought, you know, all this technology, which, you know, when we were kids, the biggest technology you had was a Nintendo, and we didn't even have one of those. Yeah. So it wasn't like we were just sitting around on the front porch with cell phones just staring at them all, you know. Yeah.

I don't know. I think it's a bigger gap. So we were on vacation. I didn't realize this because we don't have cable TV. Apparently, the History Channel has like American Pickers and Pawn Stars on 24-7 now. Okay. On their own channel. Or at least they did where we were at. Cool. We see some of those little toys come in. It's literally like...

A duck on these two oblong wheels that just goes up and down, up and down, up and down. And you know, some kid pulled that thing from here to Africa and back with this little twine string rope and had a great time doing it. My kids wouldn't pull that from me to you right now, but done with that. Yep. You know, this is dumb. I'd rather Google it and find out, you know, something about it is to actually use it on something. I'm not just knocking my kids. I'm just saying that generation of kids. And I hate to get on that high horse. Cause I got tired of,

My parents' generation and my grandparents' generation bitching about the next generation, but I understand now why they did it. Yeah. Because it is frustrating. Like, they just, you give kids today the option, hey, I got this badass fast car. I'm going to take it for a drive. What's your Wi-Fi password? Yeah. Get out of my house. Yep. Walk your ass home. Yeah. I don't like that thing. It's too loud. Yeah, it's too loud. It hurts my ears. What do you keep cackling the pipes for? What are you doing that for? Because that's freaking cool. That's why. Exactly.

Yeah. Here a while back, I was going to Effingham. Going to take the old 78. And for some reason, Cora never goes anywhere with me.

And for some reason that day, I said, sis, why don't you go with me? And she said, yeah, I think I will. So it was like you're riding the coolest truck in town. So we drove all the way to Effingham. As soon as you were coming into town, you got the stoplights over at the Ford dealership. Of course, we had the windows down. It was hot out. Rolling up to the first stoplight there, and some truck pulls up and says, hey, man, what year is that? I got 78. Man, I had one just like that when I was 16. She's like, oh, my God. You'll get to the next stoplight. Guy rolls up, hey, man, nice truck. We went through three stoplights in a row, and there was a compliment at every stoplight.

I'm like, see, I told you. You're not getting that in a Toyota Tundra. No. It's just not going to happen. Nope. Yeah. No, they don't even know what they're missing. No, they don't. It's sad. Yeah, it is sad. Someday my kids are going to sit around and bitch about it. I suppose too, but... Yeah, they probably will. You know, I got to think one of these days, some of that cool stuff, stuff that we think is cool has got to get cheaper. I would think. Because...

Our generation is the last generation that cares about it. Right. You know, so as the people that own it die off, you know, these guys have got these massive car collections, massive tractor collections. As they die off, who's there to buy that shit? Yeah, agreed. You know, for one, you know, take your son, for example. Like, he's one of the few that does appreciate it, but he doesn't have a disposable income to buy any of it or, you know, not a large amount of it. Yeah.

He might think it's neat, and he might watch the online auction, but he's not buying it. So who's in the middle there that has the money and the interest? Like, there ain't a lot of people in that zone. No. You know, it's pretty slim. And especially when you're younger like him, even if you think that stuff's really cool, if none of your friends do, it's like, well, I'm not going to buy one. Nobody else has one. You know, you kind of want stuff everybody else can do with you. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. But if you look back...

You just stop and think between the BB guns, the .22s, and whatever other rifles, how much ammo that we shot. Oh, my gosh. Just between all that. Like, my son's never just taken a shotgun into the woods and just blown a tree in half. Right. He never just shot at one until it fell over. We did that pretty much every weekend. And we might have rode a scooter.

out there to do it. Potentially. The gayest vehicle ever, but if you've got five guys on a scooter, you're having a pretty good time. One guy on a scooter is like, oh, look at that ass head on a scooter. You've got five guys on a scooter, and now you're cruising around. You're not Sons of Anarchy, but you're five guys on a scooter while your buddies are walking. It's like, ha, ha, ha, asshole. We're not around scooters. Looks like that shit you see in Vietnam. There's just shit piled all over the scooter. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. They've never shot a tree down for fun. That's so sad. I don't know.

How many times have my boys shot a gun? I mean, we deer hunt. I mean, he's killed some deer and stuff like that. But, I mean, as far as just taking that .22 or anything out, just target practice. My son was big into it, and we were doing it quite a bit. And then ammo got super high and super hard to get. And I kind of put the clamps to it, and I got to get back to it now. Otherwise, I had all that stuff that I lost in that booting accident that I agreed. But he's not going to appreciate if we don't do something with it. Like, I don't know. You know, you pick out any weapon...

I wouldn't call them weapons. You pick out any firearm that my dad had or three or four of my closer buddies had that we were around some, I can tell you five stories about every one of them. Yeah. You know, and they might not even have been in my family, but like, you know, neighbor kid across the road, when his dad had this from his grandpa, blah, blah, blah, there's a story that goes with it.

When I die, it's just gone. Nobody knows the story on it. It's sort of like what you just said, Mendigo, with the trucks and tractors and all that. As we all die off, then it's gone. It just goes away, and that's a shame because the stories are more viable than the gun. Yeah, someday in this country, it's probably going to look like Australia. There's going to be piles and piles literally of guns that they're just running over with bulldozers to get rid of them because nobody wants them. Yeah.

Yeah, because these dipshits don't know that they have to have them to keep from ending up like the Jews in Germany. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. That damn technology, it's too addicting. It is, and we're all guilty of it. I'm not saying I don't play on my phone quite a bit, but I can still catch a fish, shoot a deer, load a magazine. Most of my phone playing, though.

That's what I do now. Like when my dad come home from work, when I was a kid, he watched TV. I come home from work now. I goof off on my phone because there's nothing worth watching on TV. Here's why I think some of that social media is so addicting though. Have you ever legitimately tried to look something up on the internet? It's the same thing every time, right? Okay. Page one. And you're getting a little bit of the backstory. You're getting close to the facts that you want. And then there's 10 ads. Get a scroll slide to the next page, bunch more ads.

I'm pissed off at that point in time. I don't even need the information now. Now, I don't even care. I don't care if we're bombing the shit out of Russia, bombing the shit out of Ukraine, if we're telling me how to time a 6-7 or put a disaster kit on it or put new headsets in a 6-0 Ford. I don't even care at that point. That's what I went to look for, but

But now you've done pissed me off with the ads and this, that, and the other. And now I've abandoned ship. I'm off to something else. Released of TikTok. It might be a different subject every time. Yeah. But I didn't have to put up with any of the bullshit. It might not be something I don't like, but one little swipe and it's gone. The ad deal, you scroll to the next page. Well, now it's got a load. Yep. And now it's got to screw around for a little bit. And there's, you read three lines and there's a big pop-up ad and there's some more shit. And you're so pissed off by the time you get to the end of it. You don't even know what you went there to be, to find out to begin with. Yeah. That's what kills me. Like, yeah.

Everybody wants to get rid of print magazines. I'm like, well, at least if I open Hot Rod magazine, I can read it from the top of the page to the bottom. If I go to their website, I can't find shit. Yeah, agreed. And that's why I don't read much. I loved magazines at one point in time. I don't read any of them anymore online. I'm not reading any of them because there's too much shit there. I'm not interested. And every website, I don't care if it's what it is. It's got to have a username and a password and all this bullshit. It's like once I get to that point, I'm out.

And we can't standardize that. So every damn time you go to a website, well, your password's not long enough. Add some more characters. So now I can't remember my passwords because I've got 9,000 of the damn things. If you write them down, they're not a password anymore. So deal with it. Yep, totally agree. So now you're back to scrolling Facebook, seeing what your buddy in Bangladesh ate for supper, which you don't even care about. Yep. Good times.

I do miss the 90s. I think the 90s was the best time. It was the peak. As far as farming, we had decent farm machinery, had good air conditioners. Good cabs. Most of it rode pretty good. Yeah. Wasn't overly huge. Yeah. You didn't have cell phones. I mean, it was just... Yeah. If I could go back to any point in time and farm, it would be 1990 to 97 or 80, thereabouts. That was a good time to farm. Yeah, I'm with you there. I'm with you there.

The 80s were rough in a lot of ways. The 90s had a little hope and promise. Stuff was a little nicer, but it wasn't too expensive yet. Just enough creature comforts to get you by. Towards the end, you had a cell phone. If you knocked a bearing out or lost a tire, you could call somebody, but you weren't calling to bullshit. Yeah, it was expensive. It was $3.95 a minute or whatever it was. I remember when my wife and I started dating,

You had to talk at night, nights and weekends. Yeah, free nights and weekends. You know, shit, I can't call her yet. You know, we got to wait until after 7 or 8 o'clock, whatever it was. And I had to get it in pretty quick because the bar was, you know, right around the corner. Exactly. We got this shit over here pretty quick. Yeah. She's going to bed and I'm going out. Yeah. I'd have to ask my cousin. He bought that 7110 Magnum front wheel assist.

And I thought he said he bought that used. It had like 200 or 300 hours on it, but it was only a year old or something like that. And, I mean, it was one of the early, early ones. It was an 87 or 88. Yeah, and I'd be curious to know what he gave for that looking back now. I mean, probably less than 100 grand, wouldn't it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I want to say when our mutual friend bought that 7130 that that was. I was going to say, did he give like 5600?

I don't even think it was that high, Tony. To be honest with you, I think it was in the 40s. And there again, it was used. It wasn't new, new, but it was under 1,000 hours. Yeah. And that was a nice tractor, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of the only Magnums around. I know.

Yeah, I do remember getting in them. And I remember I had a neighbor when I was a kid who bought a new 1660 case combine. I mean, I just couldn't believe it. I mean, God, this thing's nice. Look at this thing. Yeah. There's upholstery in it. Huge. I mean, just couldn't believe it. You walk up to a 1660. Now you're like, this thing is a baby. I mean. Yeah. Yeah, ain't that the truth?

Yeah, it is crazy how far. But they got the whole crop harvested with just that. They did. So far, that same number of acres now got five combines later. Yeah. Still doing those same acres. Agreed. Yeah. The trucks are busier, but they don't really get done any faster. Yep. I would like to get in like a 1660 now, because back then, I suppose a good corn crop was 160 bushel. I mean, it would have been a really good crop. Yeah.

I'd like to put a, cause he had a six row head on it. I'd like to put that in like 220 bushels of corn to see. Yeah. You can work it. Yeah. You're being a crawl. You can't, especially if it's a little bit damp. Of course, back then we never sold wet corn. Right. You just waited it out. But yeah, you can shove it out the back if you have to.

Yeah, you're going to have to slow down some. And we're taking so much more fodder. Back then, the tops always fell out of it. There was no plant there. We were just taking in ears. So that helped. Now we're taking in a lot of plant, and the population's way higher. Those corn heads aren't made for that, and so on and so forth. So you can bridge them over. They wouldn't fare quite as well in today's world, but...

And I still stand by my statement that I've probably made numerous times on here. I think we have gained more on the farming side from machinery than we have genetics. I'm not saying the genetics have not improved because they clearly have. I mean, like last year was a prime example. Yeah. I thought corn here at my house would have been 120 bushels. It was 170 or 75, which was okay. I mean, that's not a great crop, but it was okay.

But think of when we were kids, you know, two-wheel drive tractors, you just had your hand on the lever the whole time. You raised and lowered, you know, your soft spot here and spinning through this. Nothing was front wheel assist. No. You know, you had duals, you're pumping fluid in, you're stacking weights on, you're still raising it up every 20 foot if it's at least a little bit soft. Yep. You're lucky to have a cab. Yeah. You know, when I was a kid, we had an eight-cab tractor. I never got it. My brother had it most of the time. You know, like...

And I'm not bitching at him over that. I'm just saying we only had the one. Yeah. And shit runs downhill. I was lower on the totem pole, you know. But it didn't bother me at all. Like, I had the nicest non-cab tractor we had. I was pretty stoked. Sure. There was three other shittier ones there that I wasn't running. Right. So, okay, this is cool. Now you tell me, hey, Nick, you got to go work 80 acres, no cab. Are you talking to me? Yeah.

I don't think you are. I think I'm good. I think I'm going to go do something else, you know. I would do 80 acres, but I'm not going to do that all day for days on end. Right. You know, it's no wonder our parents couldn't hear shit. Yeah. Out there were straight pipes. Even a muffler is still loud, you know. Oh, for sure. We're putting Treflon on with a fuel culvert. Our arms are green, you know. We're just doused in chemical. Yeah.

Bacon in the sun. It's no wonder those guys didn't live to be 125. Totally agree. Just miserable conditions. They're smiling the whole time. They're loving it because they weren't on an M. Their dad did it on an M or a horse. This is way better. I'm planting eight rows now. Dad's planting four. No doubt. Holy shit, we just went to narrow rows. All right, cool.

Yeah. We got to slide the tires in. Yeah. Or we have one crop on one, one crop on the other, so we're sliding them in and out, you know? Yeah, didn't think nothing about it. But no big deal. Nowadays, there's a lot of guys around here that got enough tractors that this one stays on the field cultivator, and that's it. I don't know the hook shit. Half these guys, if you told them right now today, hey, for the next farm program, you got to slide your wheels out to 38 inches, but you can't call the dealer.

No, I don't need the program. Yeah, exactly. I don't have a jack. I don't have an impact. Yep. We got guys around here that literally their shops are so nice that they change the oil outside. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm not in that category, and I will never be in that category. I hear you. No, we just got to do it outside. We don't want to make a mess. It's technically a shop, but we're not going to be doing anything. Yeah. Yeah.

The old Farm Journal Top Shop deal always cracks me up. They got a 40-ton overhead crane. I'm like, what are you pulling the top off a D8 cat? Like, no, you've got a 4020 that your grandpa bought. Everything else is new-ish. Yeah.

It's going back to the dealer like, you're not pulling. Were you picking up with that crane a pool table to slide off to the site for the party? Yeah, and you can tell the crane has every ounce of paint still on it. The floor ain't scuffed. There's no oil spots anywhere. But you saw it in last year's Top Shop, so by God, you had to have one too, which I get we're all a little bit guilty of that at some level, you know. Yep. You know.

I think I had oil on my shop floor the first time I pulled something in there. And don't feel bad about it a bit. No black marks. God knows I've tried to get Henry to leave some. Yeah, exactly. Apparently, there are strict rules about black marks in Tony's shop. Yep. For those of you on the beater or the heater run, if you happen to lay a black mark in there, my hat's off to you. A free beer from me. Yeah, exactly. I asked you in from Tony, but a beer from me. Yeah. You know, we hadn't had our one shop all that long, and one of our mutual friends,

Laid black marks from one end of that thing to the other. My dad, although not super impressed, he bitched a little bit about it, but part of him was proud. For one, he didn't think a Pontiac was laid black marks. Because he drove that car the day that kid bought it. So quick back story here. One of Tony and I's good friends shows up with this car to the shop to show it to my brother because him and my brother are about the same age. My brother was gone that day. He was running parts. Still had dealer's plates on it.

So my dad hops in it, takes it for a test drive, backs it out on the road, reverse drops it into drive, smokes the tires off, goes down the road, brings it back, jumps out, tells my buddy and my brother's buddy, piece of shit shuts off at 115, I wouldn't buy it. That was a Trans Am, wasn't it? Yeah, Trans Am. This kid's jaw is literally melting on the floor, like just in the driveway, just running down the driveway, just melting. When he left the black marks and left...

My buddy's like, I haven't even done that yet. I just bought that car. My dad had no idea he'd bought it. He still had dealer's plates on. He thought, sure, he's just test driving. He did feel bad about this. So he comes back, tells him I wouldn't buy that car. It shuts off at 115. You won't get anywhere in that thing, you know. Well, it turns out he's already bought it. So dad's like, oh, yeah, nice car. Drive's good. Yeah. So anyway, like two months later, we're at our other shop, and he's got the car in there to get my dad back. He laid black marks in that shed from one end to the other. And dad's like...

Yeah, I had that coming. I'm not happy about the black marks on concrete, but...

Yeah, all right, you got me. You know, it is what it is. Life goes on. He complained about it for just a wee second. I'm like, dude, I had nothing to do with it. I was here. I saw it, but it wasn't my deal. I'm not the one that put anything in this building. I didn't authorize any of this. I did witness it, but it wasn't my deal. And life goes on. He gave Chris a hard time about that, and Chris always gives him a hard time back about it.

turn his car up before he ever got it so yeah it just went back and forth but i'm the type now i wouldn't be as pissed now because my floor has got enough you know oil stains and shit on this like when that shop was brand new like that's gonna be the first things in here i get that i get that it's tough to do yeah yeah you're always that way when they're new oh yeah now hell i got oil on my floor the first first time i pulled something in there and i don't feel the least bit bad about it i ain't rolling around in the rocks and everything else yeah

I didn't build it as a party shed. If I did, I'd have changed the dimensions a whole bunch. Yeah, exactly. So. No doubt. Now it looks like we've been about around the world again. Yep, as usual. Like always. We didn't get two off the rails tonight, though. No, no. We'll give you guys one off the rails here. Yeah, we're working on it. Pretty quick, yeah. Yep. But no, other than that, ain't much going on. Just getting geared up for harvest. Yep. That's about it. Yep, for sure.

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