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Hello, folks. Welcome back to the Straight Forward Farming Podcast. I'm your host, Tony Reid, alongside Nick McCormick, just like always. We're back. We're back. I don't know for how long, though. Just like Donald Trump, we're back. Exactly. We're back, baby. We are making things great again in the state of Illinois. Making podcasts great again. Yeah, yep. We're also joined today by Mr. Wittitin II. Yeah, Wittitin. Yes, Wittitin. Wittitin II, Ryan Kelly.

Him and I just coming off the Naked show out of Indianapolis. Thought we'd swing over this way and make a few videos, a few podcasts, all that good stuff.

Yes, and are we pausing right now to thank the American farmer? We are. Yes. Thank you. For reference, anything we say tonight will not be brought to you by Reichman Brothers. Yeah. I'm still waiting on the check, so we're just suspending that right now. Yeah. Exactly. And if you're wondering why it's been so long since we were on here again is...

We had to settle the lawsuit. Yeah. Rudy Giuliani didn't quite come through for us. It cost us a few bucks, but that's okay. Got a little rough. I was going to read the cease and desist that we got from Agco, but, you know. That's all right. Yeah.

Yep, that is a fact. So yeah, we're just sitting here shooting the shit. Ryan's flipping through some Prairie Farmer magazines I've got from the 70s and 80s. He's looking for some deals. We actually should call one of these numbers live on the air. Call it about that 4320 you got for sale. I'm actually just going to call on a tractor that I haven't had since...

2009. Really? Yeah. I came across it somewhere. Hey, you guys still got this? No, no, I still don't. Did you have it on your MySpace? Yeah, I did. I did. He had it advertised on MySpace. Yeah, I think he found it while he was bored. It ticked dark, went away, and he was searching the depths of the internet, and that's where he came across it, is my guess. Yep. Yep. What was it? MX-210. Okay. Which apparently I haven't updated.

some portion of the website where somebody hasn't done it. I'm pretty sure I asked for that to be gone, but apparently it was there. So who knows? What? 2009, uh, two 10 was a fairly new, was it seven years old? Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. I mean, it might've been a little later than that. It might've been 12, whatever, but yeah. So was that a trade in when you were an echo dealer? No, maybe with Trump's deal, everybody has to report back to the office. Maybe this spurred something. Yeah. Got this taken down. Yeah. Yeah.

I'll have to get on that. Yep. So in other news, if I was a large dairy farmer in the Midwest, I'd probably be shitting bricks right now. I think I'd be looking for some help maybe. Looks like you'd be milking those cows yourself. If you need to park some money somewhere, Lely Automatic Milkers might be a good suggestion right now. I don't know.

But, hey, there's going to be a lot of Google searches how to turn on vacuum pump. If you go to a local town bar and there's guys there doing the robot, that's because they've recently purchased one to replace some migrants. Yeah, and we're going to have to throw this out for disclaimers. We are a little bit wound up. So if you've got soft ears, you should probably just go ahead and change the station right now. Could be a long night for you. Could get a little offensive. I don't know, but just don't hold anything against us.

I've never argued with anybody. I've been feeling a little froggy all day, so I've been looking to vent for a while now. Yes, sir. Well, I think we can all agree that, you know, we want to thank the large farmer that requires tons of hired help, sometimes illegal hired help. Absolutely. We want to appreciate them for all they've done for agriculture. And we do want to thank the doctors for providing the rotator cuff surgery from patting themselves on the back. Yes. Yep.

Yeah, a lot of people don't realize just how intensive the dairy farmer injuries are. Yeah. You know? Absolutely. It's up there. It is. It's sad. Yeah. Yep. I mean, it's almost as bad as, well...

Almost every livestock farmer that kind of has carpal tunnel syndrome from staring in the mirror talking about how awesome they are. They're just practicing their acceptance speeches. It's no big deal. And it's no different. We talked over the Naked Show when we were there. You know how every farmer you talk to is broke and don't know what they're going to do and how they're going to do this.

And I will assure you, I had the shittiest vehicle in the parking lot, did I not? By far. Everything there was fancy pickups, King Ranches, Dulees, which them people weren't all farmers either. I should preface that by saying...

You know, a lot of just strictly tile contractors. Yeah. Well, I mean, things are tough. I overheard a couple of guys talking about how they had to settle for a King Ranch instead of a Platinum. Yeah. Well, you can't pull a tile car with a B.A., okay? Right. This is true. Right. I mean, you could. For a little bit, yeah. I don't think you're going to revolutionize the industry with that, though.

You could try. You might get a carbon on offset. Some sort of carbon credit. That's possible. That's possible. So I'm going to look into that. So does anybody at this table actually feel sorry for, say it is a large dairy farm or hog farm, or take your pick, that may potentially lose a bunch of help to the deportation process? I'm just going to say it. I'm sorry. Hard no? No.

Hard no. Hard no. Well, I look at it like this, is when I hear, well, my business needs to operate with this. It wouldn't function without it. If I said, you know, I don't have enough acres to full-time farm and I need to offset my income with a meth lab, which is also illegal, right? Mm-hmm.

Last I checked, yes. So if I went and said, well, I mean, this meth lab is how we need to run our farm operation, our family farm operation, is that wrong? Not in Joe Biden's America. So does anybody get a pass if it's such and such family farms with 45 employees?

I mean, it's a family farm. I mean, Walmart's a family-owned business. The Walton family owns it. Right. Amazon is a family-owned business. Jeff Bezos owns it. I mean. Yeah. Yeah.

No. Just flat out no. I just got no. Well, we're on a roll tonight anyway. You would not do well a congressional hearing. You're giving two direct answers. No, no, no. Did you see the interviews with the TikTok CEO where they're asking him questions that don't make sense? He's like, I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing here. Yeah.

Yeah. Like maybe they should have guys interview those guys that actually have used the internet. Yeah. Like let's go out on them. Like last time some of those guys used the internet, it went like maybe find somebody that's had some. Yeah. Because I only caught bits and pieces. Like Tom Cotton didn't realize there was a country Singapore. What was it? Yeah. I don't know how that went down. I just seen a bunch of jokes. Can TikTok access the wifi of a home? The guy's like, well,

Not unless you turn it on, but you kind of need the internet. Right. So it's not really accessing it, but you're like getting on the internet. And that's when he's like, I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing here. Yeah. Unbelievable. Well, I mean, we all know what happened. It was, it's a money thing. It's a power thing. Yeah. So I'm assuming the 90 day clock is ticking, right? I mean, I think so. Yeah, I assume so. But. And I've heard different, I don't know, is there?

Four different people that are supposedly trying to buy TikTok. Which I've never heard is it actually even for sale, though. Well, I guess it's for sale if they force you to sell it. I mean, otherwise it's not worth anything, right? Right. I mean, the whole deal is a sham. Clearly, if they could shut that down, they could stop child porn. They could for sure stop robocalls. I'm like, you're talking about the same government that tells me there's no way they can keep, you know, Juan Pablo in whatever country from calling me and trying to sell me an extended car warranty. But they could shut down the one app that I love.

No problem. Yeah. Yeah. For security purposes. Yeah. Okay. Unbelievable. You want to give me better security? Send Congress home and tell them, hey, you've got to send somebody else. Yeah. I'm all about new people. We want all new people. Yeah. Well, how are we not? I mean, like they're...

There should literally be some serious investigations of ethics about investing in the competition to that before you make the law. As far as I'm concerned, if you're in Congress, you can't invest at all. Correct. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. You can't buy a stock. Right. The entire time you're in Congress, you can't buy shit when it comes to stock.

And I think we should have... Or real estate. Or real estate, yes. And I think there should be some probing into, you know, like it should be monitored, family, friends...

acquaintances, you know, because that's insider trading. Absolutely. And if any of us were to say do insider trading like that, we would go to jail. Yeah. Yeah. And instead these guys. We put Martha Stewart in prison for it. Yeah. So surely we can put these guys in prison for it. Yeah. Now they're just that good. They always seem to know what real estate to buy, what stocks to buy. I mean, they just, they got a knack for that. Yeah. Apparently, apparently they're good. Well,

Even though none of them, for the most part, have had a real job in their life. Yeah, exactly. Career politicians, but they're great at investing. Well, it's pretty simple. I mean, actually, I mean, invest in, you know, defense contractors if you're a politician. Because, you know, it's interesting going forward now. I will say this, that I probably feel a little bit happier, better now.

about agriculture right now than i did say six months ago would you guys agree yeah i i feel better overalls it seemed like you you at least have somebody competent yeah that's not asleep in washington i mean you can actually do an interview off the cuff and actually give you answers i don't care how big of a liberal you are whatever you can't at least tell me that

you don't feel a little bit better about somebody that's at least functional in the White House. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. You can tell me you disagree with his policies, you don't agree with his agenda, whatever. But the fact that you can support a guy that literally probably hasn't made a decision on his own in a while and can't take the stage without shitting his pants. Yeah, and has been in politics literally since the 70s. Basically has spent the last, what, eight years, maybe longer, essentially hiding. Yeah.

think we're better off today. You know, it's funny how things work out because honestly, even before Biden was elected, I mean, I...

I absolutely loathe that. I mean, I could not stand that guy as a human being. He's been a liar his whole life. Yeah, if there was anybody in politics, like even, so like take Bill Clinton. I don't like Bill Clinton as a person at all, but as far as he seemed like he could be a likable guy. Like if he'd come into a local bar. You could probably have a beer with him, tell a couple jokes, have a good time. Yeah, he just seemed like a likable person. He's going to make fun of Hillary with you. Exactly. But there is nothing about Biden. He's just been a smug prick his entire life. His entire life.

When he got elected, I thought, man, it pissed me off because it's like, I hate it for the simple fact that, you know, this bastard's going to get to at least go down in history saying, you know, I was president. Oh, look at me. But it almost worked out for the better because now he's going down as the biggest piece of shit in history. And he proved it at the 11th hour. Yeah. Five minutes to go in my presidency and I'm going to sign a bunch of shit that I don't even know I signed. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and I'll say this. If you don't believe in God and doing what's right,

Jimmy Carter was a horrible president, but probably a pretty good human being. I'm going to disagree. I'm going to go with shitty human being. Alex, I'll take shitty human being for 100, please. Oh, did you ever see all the letters and shit he was writing to all these terrorist countries? That guy screwed up every foreign relations act that we ever had. He was a shitty human being.

He hid behind the Habitat for Humanity to look good. But, oh, yeah, I mean, there was just piles of, just any time there was any little turmoil around the world, he would basically just write letters to come off. That guy was fake as shit. Oh, yeah, America's a piece of shit. We don't need to be battling under your belt. You're talking about a guy so, he devalued the office of the presidency because that holds a certain esteem, right? You're talking about a guy, I'll carry my own suitcases off the helicopter.

But there's nothing in them. Somebody else is carrying the real ones. But I'm going to carry my own to make me look like the common man. No, you just make yourself look like a dipshit because you did shitty things while you were gone. You came back and still look like a dipshit. Terrible guy. Well, I'll say this. They always say, you know, he was a peanut farmer. And, you know, so we always kind of wonder why he did some of the things he did that hurt the farmer the way he did. Because he was dumb. That's why. Well, and.

I kind of get the impression that maybe he was, I mean, they said, oh, he worked hard and, you know, the family, the family had mules when he came back home from the farm, but basically it was a family plantation. So it's like, it was old money. Yeah. I mean, he didn't, it's not like he built up his own farm from nothing. So he just kind of. He was a master manipulator at getting things to be viewed a certain way, even though that's not the way they were.

If I had to choose between him and Joe Biden to babysit, I'd probably take Carter. I would take Jimmy Carter. Yeah. You know, the funny part about the inauguration was, did you notice, because Carrie Underwood's not unattractive, Donald Trump didn't try to sniff her one time, which was refreshing to have a president that's not looking to sniff people. Yeah.

Yeah, just saying. I mean, I wouldn't trust my dog as president either. My dog sniffs a lot. Talking about the inauguration, what the fuck happened to Billy Ray Cyrus? Oh, my gosh. What a train wreck that was. Yeah. Apparently somebody told him about his achy, breaky heart because that guy's off the rails. Oh, my God. I didn't see it. What'd I miss? Oh, so. He went to sing achy, breaky heart and the audio wouldn't work or whatever the speaker, I don't know what it was, wouldn't work. Yep.

So he just goes to do this acapella, which he looks like. You remember WWF Undertaker? Yeah, he showed up as the Undertaker. That's exactly what he looked like. I mean, long hair, cowboy hat, like you couldn't see his face. Yeah. And so he goes to sing Iggy Reggy Hard just acapella, and it sounded like he had drank nine bottles of whiskey and smoked 85,000 cartons of cigarettes. He basically got up there and rambled for a little bit.

Imagine Joe Biden trying to sing, but in a deeper voice with a hat and some long hair. You got to check that out on TikTok. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Yeah, he's off the rails.

By a long margin. And how do he even get drug into this deal? Because that guy hasn't been famous forever. He only had one song that really holds records but really wasn't that good of a song. Let's get down to it. Yeah, it was terrible. His best song, meaning-wise, was Some Game All. Yes, I was just going to say that. By far. But I'll say this. Billy Ray is probably more popular than we think of due to his daughter.

You know, and the whole Disney kid thing. I mean, because he was. Here, I pulled it up on the phone. We can all take a listen to this. So this was him singing at the inauguration at the ball. It should come up. I'm going to take my horse to the old town road. I came no more.

Y'all can put your hands together now, like that. If you encourage him, I'll keep going. I never even seen this song. He was attempting achy, breaky heart on the videos that I seen. Yeah, which was not pleasant. But it was the same thing that just went down right there. Imagine you teach Tony's dog to speak English. Yes. And then you load him up on liquor and pills and then have him try to sing it. Same thing. Yeah, I just kind of pictured somebody that had just nicotine-stained fingers. Mm-hmm.

He had a rough day. It's like they made him walk there from Nashville. And he was just so doggone tired he just couldn't pull it off. Yeah, I guess I pictured him with a, I'm going to say an old school Budweiser in one hand and an unfiltered cigarette in the other one. He definitely had a carton of Paul Mauls. He had way more than Budweiser. When you get done here, pull it up on your phone. He was literally WWF Undertaker 1992. Wow.

I wonder who picks who gets to sing at that. Did anybody see any Nelly's post-inauguration interviews? I did not. Nelly was on there? Absolutely Nelly was. And I like Nelly. They dusted him off. So, he's not super far from here, 120 miles or whatever. Nelly and the St. Lunatics, St. Louis, Missouri. Not super far from where we're at today. And I always liked Nelly. So they're giving him all kinds of grief about

doing the inauguration balls, et cetera, et cetera. And he's like, he basically says, I need the money. Well, that's probably the long and short of it. But he's like, you know, nobody else has ever asked me. He's like, you know, I'd have done it for Barack. I'd have done it for Kamala. I'd have done it for Joe. But nobody else asked me. He's like, I hold the office of the president so high that I would have done it for any of them.

If anybody would have ever asked me. So it was a really good answer, actually. Here's the sad part. So I watched Nelly's interview, Soldier Boys, Kid Rocks, all of them. Their interviews made more sense than anything Joe Biden said in the last four years. And he was president of the world. Because essentially we were in the world. Let's just get down to it. For sure, obviously the president of the United States, their interviews made a ton more political sense than anything that guy said.

Do you guys remember from sick days as a kid when we'd stay home watching Mr. Ed reruns? Dairy farmers don't take sick days. Well, I mean, that did mean you got on chores. When you were laying around for road hater cup surgery. Yeah, exactly.

I wonder if they kind of did that with Joe Biden, the whole thing with Mr. Ed. Like, they'd put some peanut butter, you know, up in Joe's upper lip. And he'd just get up there and they had somebody else. Well, it did kind of look like that from time to time, yes. Yeah. God, what a shit show the last four years was. Oh, my gosh. But the nice part about it is looking back now.

Had Trump not got cheated out of the deal, because let's face it, where are the APBs on the 20 million people that allegedly voted that didn't show up this last time? Right. Had Trump immediately got reelected, which he did, but didn't get to take office, he would have done a good job. But now he's had four years to marinate and four years to realize that, hey, whatever the RNC tells me I need to do on this, that, and the other, ain't doing it. I'm going to put my people in there. We're going to do it my way, because newsflash, I'm in charge and you've got nobody else.

You're not shoving your agenda down my throat. I'm not going to go along to get along. We're going to do it the right way. We're going to put America first. We're going to do the shit we need to do. He's done more in the last three days than Joe Biden did in four years, as far as positive was. He's done way more off-the-cuff interviews than Joe Biden has done in the last 12 freaking years.

And prior to that, if you let Joe Biden do an off-the-cuff interview, he's going to say something really dumb. Yeah. But we give him a pass on all that. The guy was a confirmed racist, confirmed moron at every level, every time he spoke. Yep. But we're just going to pretend that never happened. A confirmed liar. The guy's lied about everything he's ever said. Absolutely. Oh, I got this in college. I did this. I drove a truck for a while. All the shit. Always lying about it. Lying about everything he's ever said. Yep. Just a shitty human being. Yep.

Is your cord hitting the mic? I keep hearing a rattling. I'm sorry. Oh, wait. Yeah, I hear it's going up over here. Flip it right over there. There you go. Flip a cord right there. There we go. There we go. We're sitting in talk. Yeah. I can't hear a rattling. Due to technical difficulties. Yeah. All right. I'm going to have to sing this acapella. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No, I think we had to let things get. So Trump would have had the last four years.

They maybe would have just bided their time. We'd have the same old shit this time around. It went so bad so far.

That this was kind of, I mean, like, I really think that there's a change in the mentality. Well, and I think, too, look at it this way, and I don't know enough about the guy, I'm going to be totally honest with you right now. Comes to J.D. Vance, I don't know a lot about him. I truly don't. But if Trump would have just immediately got reelected, served two consecutive terms, you'd have been stuck with Mike Pence, right? Yeah. J.D. Vance might have been a thought in the wind. You never really knew the guy. What I like about J.D. Vance already is, I mean...

J.D. Yeah, so, but I mean, if it goes well and he can kind of prove himself, he could potentially be a president someday where Mike Pence is what you're going to be stuck with before and he showed he basically has no backbone. I mean, you'd have the same old status quo. The nice part about J.D. Vance is you can interview that guy on any topic, any time, intelligently. You can rattle it off. He's got it. He knows the facts. He knows the figures. He knows the facts.

The guy's actually younger than us, you know, and that's refreshing at some level to have a guy that is quick on his feet, that knows his shit, knows where things should be, knows where it's going, and can –

And can talk on it clearly and make it happen. Yeah. So what are we going to find out in the JFK files here? Just got an executive order today. I am licking my chops. Did you see when he signed that? He handed that pen off to one of his aides. Like, give that to RFK Jr. Really? Well, see, the stupid part was he's watching the news tonight and JFK's grandson, he's throwing a shit fit. You know, we don't need to be doing this. And, you know, basically, JFK's dead and he's not here to defend himself. And then it immediately goes to...

JFK didn't kill himself. Right. Right. But then immediately goes to RFK Jr. Walking down the hall. He's like, I think it's a great thing. He kept his word to the American people. It's time to hold your government accountable. Well, it was supposed to get released the last time and they postponed it. Yeah. It should have been released. It should have been released in the 60s. Absolutely. Yeah.

No, I'm... Yeah. Does anybody think that it was just Lee Harvey Oswald? No. I'm thinking now Anthony Fauci was involved. That's why he got the preemptive pardon. Exactly. Yes. He's got just as good a chance of being guilty for it as Lee Harvey Oswald does. Yeah. Slightly more. Lee Harvey Oswald spoke it very clearly. I'm just a patsy.

And then he got shot by a guy. By a gangster. Yep, Jack Ruby. Who happened to get aggressive cancer. They killed him in prison before he could ever testify. The damnedest luck, wasn't it? It is. It is. That cancer's a bitch. I just hope it actually gets released. It ain't a bunch of hype and a bunch of redacted stuff. You know what I mean? Yeah.

as they say in the modern world, make it make sense. That's a whole big shitstorm there. I've read a lot of books on that, researched that a ton. I can subscribe to a lot of theories. My guess is none of those are correct. We probably still will never know the truth even after these so-called facts come out, but it will be refreshing to see that stuff released. Because previously Trump's like, well, you saw what I saw. You wouldn't release. And this is what I want to know too. So like the government,

Do they actually, like, know 100% for sure? Or is this just sort of a theory? I don't know. I guess we'll find out. Yeah. My guess is they know. I would guess, yeah. I mean, because I think they were involved. Yeah. And I don't know that we'll get everything because I imagine there's a few people that are, I mean, they said it could take, what,

30 days or 60 days, something like that. And, of course, I've seen the CIA's all over it. They're like, well, we're not. I'm sure they are. We wasn't involved in that. It's like, well, anybody that's there now, what are you even trying to defend? Who cares if you did or didn't? I mean, it's water under the bridge.

You know, not to me. You've seen the movie. Well, no, no, no. I'm saying anybody that's working there now, it's like, well, you didn't do it. I mean, so why are you trying to stick up for these guys? I tell you what, if there was a 90-year-old man in a nursing home that had something to do with it, I would drag him by his oxygen hose out to the cop car and throw him in. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I would rough him up. Well, on the backside of that, though, Kennedy cheated that election, so maybe he got what he deserved. He wasn't duly elected either.

Nixon won that election. Everybody knows that. Yeah, I mean, Daley pretty much admitted it. Daley admitted it. Yeah.

Kennedy should have never been president. I'm not knocking some of the things that Kennedy did, but he didn't get elected the first time. He cheated his way to the victory, and then he got shot for going back on his word. That's what got him taken down. Absolutely. In my opinion, and we'll see if it comes out, but in my opinion, he got taken down for the fact he wasn't going to bow to the military industrial complex. Yes, I think that's exactly... They may have used the mob. They may have used the CIA. They may have used the Cubans, whatever. But the bottom line was...

We're not going to give you your war in Vietnam. Yeah, that's what came down to Vietnam. And LBJ was dying to give him that. And then LBJ went, what are we doing here? Yeah. He's like, I'll do that. I'm out. And then he said, I'm out after, you know, his term. Yeah. Yeah. LBJ was a shitty human being. Oh, my God. He was terrible. He was awful. He treated the Secret Service like dog shit. Well, and isn't it amazing that...

When we think of, you know, so today the Democrats like to think of themselves as liberal and humanitarian and, you know, compassionate, right? All you have to do is look at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the way that was handled by the Democrat, you know, government in the city of Chicago and how they handled things. I mean, yeah, compassion, you know. Well, it's always about compassion until they disagree with you, then they just disagree. Here's the thing about liberalism.

And here's what it comes down to. Everything they stand for, doesn't matter if we're saving the monarch butterfly or if we're saving the illegal immigrant or if we're saving the rainforest or if we're saving the transgender can't identify, don't know if they have a ball or a slit. All their bullshit is not viable unless somebody is doing the work and paying the bills.

At the end of the day, if you can't afford groceries, if you can't afford a roof over your house, if you can't afford this, that, and the other, all their shit is solely based on the fact that somebody else has built something and made something and can afford your bullshit policies. None of their stuff comes down to actual real life at the beginning, right? When we landed in America, had that been all Democrats on the first vote in America,

We're going to build a fire, warm up, maybe kill something, cook some meat. Well, we should do an environmental study and see what this is going on. All their shit is literally built on bullshit. None of their stuff actually, you can only do that stupid shit if you have enough money on the front side of it to afford to do it. None of it actually amounts to, it's all in their mind, well, good and great, but it's

It doesn't mean anything unless you can house yourself, feed yourself, shelter yourself, raise your kids, etc. Like, if you can't meet your basic needs, the entire liberal agenda is complete bullshit. Well, and I think a lot of it has to do with entitlement, a sense of entitlement and a false sense of intelligence. So they have all these, you know, kind of like the socialism program, even communism, right?

That only works if there's worker bees under you. And they're always, you know, the leaders of these parties are not the worker bees. Absolutely. They're the, we're smart, let us do the thing. You've got a group of liberal dipshits right now defending the fact that Venezuela dumped all their prisoners here. The Haitian gangs are here. All these gangs of terrible human beings are here right now.

And they're defending the fact that they should be allowed to stay here even though they got dumped here illegally and dipshit Joe Biden let them in. And they're defending the fact that we should welcome them. Why in the blue love and fuck would I want to welcome an entire gang of the worst criminals in the world into my country? That makes no sense. Not even the least little bit. Those are shitty human beings and should immediately be deported, which thankfully Trump's doing.

Well, and what other country says, yeah, just come on in? Yeah. There's no other country. Yeah. No, not in the world. Nope. It's only one apartment building, Ryan. Yeah. Somebody took it over. It's no big deal. You just move your grandparents someplace else. They just lost their home and all their belongings. It's fine. Yeah. Bullshit. So is that actually owned by Venezuela? No. They don't own an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. Is that now...

Venezuela. It's a territory. All that bullshit only works if somebody is doing the work and you have the money to do it. If I drop you off in the middle of wherever, an unsettled land, if I drop you off in the middle of Antarctica right now, even though nobody can go, the middle of Alaska, the middle of northern Canada, the middle of Siberia,

You could give two shits what the environmental study is. You could give two shits about this. If I drop you and your family off, what are you going to need? Food and shelter are your main two things. If you can't afford those two things and you have no way to build those, you don't care about the monarch butterfly. You don't care about gender identity. You don't care about any of that stuff because none of that shit matters unless you have your basic needs met. Their entire agenda is built on the fact that it's bullshit. Yeah.

Well, yeah, I think there's just part of our problem as a society is, I said this the other day, when everybody had people that didn't have time to worry about stuff because you had to work. So when they talk about this livable wage and that kind of stuff that we're just going to provide for people, AI will do these things, the worst thing you can do

Is to not give people work. Like, you need a purpose. Absolutely, you do. So when you take that away, what then? In your hometown, the people that are kind of crazy. Are they people that are doing a lot of work? Almost never. No. You hear about, I'm just going to use a random example. You hear about a housewife that kind of loses her shit, goes off the deep end.

Was she one that was going to work all the time? No. Not necessarily. Like, you hear about a guy that, you know, his family was wealthy, but he was always a little different growing up. So he didn't, he never really got a job. Like, he was just kind of mowing the lawn at the house, whatever, but never really had to go work because they had enough money to not do it. And then he ends up just being this weirdo that lives in a, you know, they got millions of dollars, but he's this weirdo that just lives off in whatever. Yeah.

Because he never had to go to work and do anything and never had a purpose. Like you said, you have to have a purpose at some point in time. You do. You know. And that's why we don't need AI. We don't need robots doing a lot of this stuff. And then. Your most, your best day. Your best day where you felt the most sense of pride about what you had done that day.

Was it a day you did nothing and just kicked your feet up and just relaxed with the family? Or is it a day where you were engaged with the family and you guys took on a task and you accomplished it and you built something? And that can be as simple as hanging a gate that swings correctly and doesn't drag the ground. It can be that simple. But that was way better than a day where you literally did nothing, right? Absolutely. But that's not necessarily the case for everybody in the world now, unfortunately. And since they don't have a purpose...

They manufacture bullshit. You make up problems to come up with bullshit solutions so we can funnel. You hear the numbers on some of this shit. We give $200 million for this cause and $200 million for that. They're not even real causes. I don't want to wreck the environment and so on and so forth, but once again, if you get back to religion, God's going to destroy this earth anyway. I'm not saying you've got to be disrespectful to it and just terrorize it and just burn it to the ground.

But cows are here to eat. They are. Animals are here for our use, et cetera, et cetera. Oh, yeah. Take your pick of the topic. But you get these people that are, well, we're going to save this, we're going to save that. If we went 100% with their policies, if we had a 100% area where we just ran off sole liberal policies, would it make it 30 days? Name one city that's been ran by liberal people that has succeeded. Look at Chicago and Detroit. Last time I checked, they weren't looking so hot. Mm-mm.

It's been ran by Democrats for years. It ain't going so well. California's doing well, though. Yeah, yeah, they are. They're the prime example. Joe Rogan called that six months ago. Your shit's going to burn. No, no, no. We're not going to get rid of the underbrush. We don't need water reservoirs. I mean, State Farm's like, you know what? We're not going to insure your house for fire anymore because you have no water. Right. There's a river that runs down there, but we're going to divert it to the ocean. Great plan. Yeah. Great plan.

It's by design. As far as I'm concerned, it's by design. You know what's kind of amazing here? This caught my eye, that ticket away from that back to farming. Nope. This is the straight forward podcast. We're all about farming here. We don't talk any politics. All about farming. But I was looking at this, you know, the old prairie farmer here, and what stood out to me, so 643 corn heads, this is a 1977 issue. Yep.

$4,500. So now there's a lot of things that, you know, hold their value or et cetera. But that $4,500 for that corn head seems like a lot of money in 1977, doesn't it? Flip back through there when you start looking at actual articles. The John Deere's UAW renewed their contract, $7.65 an hour. Really? Yep. Wow. It's... No, this stuff is...

And you know they're lying because they're not building autos. Yeah. How come the UAW be building farm equipment? I mean, I guess it's a stretch to call John Deere shit farm equipment. But, I mean, there's that. But I think they're misusing the term. Why wasn't there a United Farm Workers Union? Well, yeah.

That's where they really miss their beat. This is better than looking at a Playboy for you, ain't it? Yeah. Ryan can't really talk right now. He's got a 77 model Prairie Farmer, and he's going to call a number. He's going to own a 643 corn head in the morning. Yeah, I mean, well, I say it a lot, and I'll stick by it. You're never going to convince me farming today is better than it was 50 years ago. You know, but in a lot of ways, what is better?

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Use Podbean AI to optimize your podcast. Use Podbean AI to turn your blog into a podcast. Use Podbean to distribute your podcast everywhere. Launch your podcast on Podbean today. Name me something. Cell phone reception is a lot better today than it was. Are we better off with cell phones? Are we better off with cell phones than we were without them? I deal with this every day. I know there's... I deal with every day with my daughter. Tony and I grew up without cell phones. Right.

You know how magical it was to tell your parents, hey, I'm going to Tony's. I'll be home in the morning or I'll be home at midnight in my curfew, whatever it is. And then you're just gone. And then you come back. You magically reappear. Nobody tracked your shit. Nobody videoed your shit. And you just got to do whatever within the confines of knowing that if you screwed up, got an ass kicking coming.

Well, and how did we find each other back then? It wasn't hard. But we did. Tony and I have talked about this a thousand times. Our kids are in the same class. They were born months apart. If I called my daughter and he called his son right now and told him, find one another, it would be an hour and a half before they could put that together. Yep. But Tony and I, in our day, could decide on Monday...

That on Thursday night, we're going to meet at 7 o'clock, wherever, at Tony's shed. And we would magically both appear at 7 o'clock at Tony's shed. Here we are. We're good. These dipshits got iWatches, iPhones, Life 360, Snapchat, all the means of communication. And, well, I didn't want to go to that party because, well, I mean, I was supposed to. But Ryan Kelly's going to be there. And he's going to be there in his sound guard. And I just can't go.

These morons can't put any of it together. Not that they're morons, but, like, they literally, they got to talk about it 9,000 times to put the plan together, and I do not understand it. Yeah. Well, and even, okay, so reading these magazines, remember when a farm magazine would show up? How excited you were? Or the, like, for us, it was the country today in the Agri-View newspapers. Oh, gosh, you, you know, couldn't wait for them.

And now, well, we were Googling about an old dairy farm here today, and we can find everything right at the tip of our fingers. Yeah. On a phone. And it was like, we saw all that, and it's like, huh, that's interesting. We're...

You know, we would cut out pictures from these magazines as a kid, you know, and hold on to that. Kids today don't have to go to an encyclopedia Britannica to look up something, you know. But they'll still ask you a dumb question. It's like, well, you've got a smartphone with you. Why don't you just Google it? Yeah. You know? My phone's not the only one with Google, but in my house, apparently, it must be. Well, and I think part of that is...

I think kids still want some attention and lots of parental advice and stuff that they, we kind of take it for granted. Yeah. We got it whether we wanted it or not. Right. I mean, how many times you and I've had this conversation, you're sitting around with your uncles and your dad.

And you're just listening. And then it turns to you and they just eat your ass about something. You were just sitting there innocently listening to them. And they told you, hey, Tony, you dipshit. Like, next time you grab a two-by-four, you know, you need to do this, this, and this with it. You're not building anything at that time. You're just literally sitting around them while they're drinking beer, listening to them because, well, shit.

Mom and dad brought us over here, and the women went off to their corner, the men went off to their corner. I'm sitting with them listening. And they give you three tips on something you should be doing that you didn't even know you needed to be doing that turned out to be handy later. And now these kids could look that up easy enough, but, well, they can't pull it off with this equipment. But I also think...

And maybe I'm wrong with this, but when we were kids, like you didn't cling on the adults like if you were going to a party or a get-together, but like on a Sunday or something where it was no big deal, like I enjoyed listening to the older crowd talk because you always picked up little tidbits here and there where the kids nowadays don't care about any of that. They're gone. You know, it's interesting how different people view that. So my brother and I have had this conversation several times. And although we were raised in the same house,

And we're very similar in a lot of ways. There's certain things, you know, that all rattle off. I remember a lot of random dumb shit. I do. Nothing that I should remember, but I'll remember random dumb shit. It's like, why do you know that? I'm like, I don't know. So-and-so said that. Old stories. Like all that old talk about certain things, guys that would come in a shop and tell a story about this, that, and the other.

I didn't remember it. If you'd asked me two days after, I probably couldn't have told you. 20 years after that, I can regurgitate it. I remember it then. He doesn't necessarily remember that. His brain's focused on bigger things than that because he's way smarter than me. So he didn't have time for that stuff, I suppose. But some of that stuff is the most valuable things that I know. Like the little things, the little stories, the little nuances. Why is this built here? Well, because...

Brian owned this and he wouldn't sell it. So Jim had to build it over here. Yep. Even though he wanted it over there. Yep. And then,

You know, Jim decided to sell it, and then that's how Tony bought it, and that's how it all got screwed up, you know? Yep. Just the little nuances of stories and how history goes and how things happen. And that stuff just intrigues the shit out of me, and I love that part of life. You know, I always caught little tidbits, you know, like my grandpa or dad would be telling you, well, there was a house set there when I was a kid. You know, well, there ain't been a house there my whole life. No trace of any farm ever even being there. My dad was king of directions. Well, you go over here and you turn at so-and-so's house. I'm like, what?

There was no house on that corner. Well, there used to be. Well, I'm sure there did. You know, I'm sure there used to be one. But there's not one now. Well, there'll be a horse stand at that gate. Well, how do you know that? Well, there's been one every time I drove by there. Okay, I guess I'll turn. If I find a horse stand at a gate, I'll turn, you know. But it's funny how, you know, my brother got more time with my grandpa, my dad's dad. So he remembers some stuff from earlier on.

That I didn't get with my grandpa and little things he would say, but I caught a little more on the backside once he was in college, whatever. So it's just a little bit different on, on, so forth on that different things to my dad, like sayings or tips, tricks, et cetera, or just random bullshit, but like just different things with it. It's just funny how that plays out in the long term. Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Yep. What are you finding over there, Scooter? Anything good? What do you need to buy? Oh, there's so much. Well, it looks like you need some PAG seeds. Yeah. Yeah. For all your needs. Those probably go good in your climate. This big changes in design and finance arrangements, new tractors for 82. Yeah, it's already, the market is in tough shape already in 82. Thank you, Jimmy Carter. Yeah. He didn't affect the rain, but he did affect the interest rate. Paul Volcker. Yeah, he nominated Paul Volcker. Mm-hmm. Which...

That was great, which maybe it needed to be done, but there could have been some things to assist some farmers in there. But nevertheless, it went down the way it went down. And to a certain thing, I will say, you know, the 80s were bad, right? I mean, we can agree on that. But there was a reset in there.

Sometimes a reset helps things because if it continues, if it would have continued on the trajectory it was going in through the 70s, we wouldn't be talking about $10,000 to $15,000 an acre land. Yeah. You know, we'd be talking about $40,000 to $50,000 an acre land, right? Yeah. So there was all right things, but this is amazing. I mean, you get everything at Menards. They're selling tractors here.

Who, Menards is? Menards is selling tractors. I didn't know Menards was a thing around here back then. Apparently it is. They're selling Menards brand. Did you save big money? Well, just think. Menards brand tractors, and you get the 11% off sale. I mean, that's a hell of a rebate. Get a rebate. Yeah. Especially when they're charging 18% on the front side if you buy it. Absolutely, yeah. That's amazing. But yeah, Menards tractors...

That's crazy. You've got a TikTok tomorrow. Yeah, that would be like the Farm King that Rural King sells now or whatever. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. But they don't sell 133 horsepower. Was it branded a Menards tractor? Why pay more than a Menards? Low prices. Famous, famous brand. I think that's a 4440 sold at Menards. It's a 4440 with a Briggs and Stratton in it.

It's pretty much the same as a John Deere engine at that point. It's a T-Move. Actually, Briggs was a little ahead of John Deere at that point. So this is your next tractor story. You are looking for a Menards tractor. Famous brand, fuel-efficient diesel tractors. Nice. I did not notice. They almost kind of look like a David Brown. I'll bet you can't find a Menards tractor on Tractor House right now.

I don't think it's a category you can search. Yeah. I thought they had every brand on there. Yeah. Yeah, this is amazing. You should mark this page. I'm going to put this bottle cap in there. Yeah. So then, yeah, that'd be a hell of a TikTok. Oh, I'm sure somebody will have had one. Hey, look at that. Is that white tractors right there? It is. I wish we could be videoing this. White, but they're gray. Make up their mind. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, that's because Case already had taken the white away.

Case had to do something, I suppose. You must be really torn which one you like better, the white or the case, because case is tied to your favorite brand, but you're tied to the Anko dealership. Case brought nothing to the table. We can all agree on that. Case brought nothing to the table.

I had that sweet digital dash. They brought Crabsteer. I mean, come on. Who doesn't want Crabsteer? Kloss brought Crabsteer back. They did. They're bringing it back. Yeah. Make Crabsteer great again. Those crazy Germans are doing it again. I want to do that. I should ask my local John Deere dealer about a 9RX Quadrac. I'm like, is that Crabsteer? Yes. Can I get one of those and grab? Yes.

You could probably get crabs in a crab steer, but you probably can't get a crab steer. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's a perfect thing for Klaas to do. I mean, because the Germans are... A few years behind. Germans love to over-engineer everything. When they say German engineering, I just think over-complicated, probably hard to work on, probably a lot of bullshit. Yeah. Let's talk about the German diesel tractor. To me, them don't... And I don't know much about them. They don't look like they really impress me much. It looks like a bunch of shit on a boat. I mean, it just looks complicated. Yeah.

That comes down to they couldn't get enough made in the United States because they were fighting with the UAW. So they had to buy them from Germany. Yeah, I mean, but it's not a superior motor, the IH motor, is it? No, in no way, shape, or form. No, absolutely not. Yeah, expensive to fix. Not that the, you know, the 407 is cheap to fix. But it was then. Yeah, comparatively, yeah. I think, you know. Who had metric tools back then? That's why I asked my dad one time, like, how'd you guys work on these back in the day?

What do you mean? I'm like, you know, you metric tools back then. Well, they come with a toolkit. I'm like, yeah, I said a shitty chrome vanadium wrenches. Like you're not torquing rod bolts and head bolts with the do it best truck rolls in the leather pack. That's in the toolbox. You're not doing much with that. We don't have to work on much. Well, I suppose not. But yeah, they were nowhere close to the American version. Yeah, I could see that.

How big did that German diesel motor go? Like, what, a 756? 310? Yeah, 826. Yeah, 826. Well, and an 886 would have been the last ones. Oh, 3288. 3288s, yeah. Yep. No shit, they might have German diesel. Yep. Yep. Or NIS? NIS? NIS diesels or something, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Back then, German was a bad word at some point, Tony, so we had to call them something else. Yes. I could see that.

I mean, we all remember our World War II grandfathers and their view on. Oh, my grandpa was Japanese. That was his nemesis because he was in the Pacific theater. And I can't say that I blame the guy. You know, here's the funny part, and I've asked this question a lot of times amongst tractor pullers. So in the grand scheme of modified tractor pulling world, you've got Allison's, which are pretty badass. I love Allison's.

They were really awesome, you know, pre, like, really big Hemi shit and really badass superchargers, et cetera. Like, Allisons were cool, and you could buy them for nothing. Back in the day, in the 80s, tractor pulling, you could buy an Allison for, like, 700 bucks in the crate from this warehouse in Texas. You bring it home. You pump hot diesel fuel through it to blow the cosmoline out of it, fire it up, go to the pool. You heard about any, for as good as the Germans supposedly were, name me a badass German engine from that time frame.

Apparently they didn't have any. Well, didn't they use like the Merlin, which was the Merlin was British. Yeah. And didn't the Germans use that in there? I don't think so. That so that they copied the, the Allison, but made it a little bit better in a couple of, of things. Cause the one plane wouldn't fly with an Allison. They put the Merlin in and then it would, uh,

But that was all on the American slash British side. That wasn't on the German side. I don't know what they used for those engines. I suppose when you lose the war, all your shit gets blown up and they didn't have anything left at the end anyway, right? Because they'd moved to the jet and they couldn't launch them and all that shit. So maybe they had a couple of cool engines, but you never hear about a cool German tank engine or a cool German airplane engine. Like all that shit was just, I guess, gone and maybe wasn't that good to begin with. Is that the same Allison that makes transmissions company or is it different?

I would guess. I think it's the same company. I mean, it was GM-owned-ish the whole time, right? I think. I think so. I think so. If you want to read a really cool book on that, V for Victory, V-E-E for Victory.com.

is the entire history of the Allison aircraft engine. And it is badass. And they had some really cool shit coming on. And then the jet engine was out at the end of World War II. And like, well, I guess we're fucked. And that's probably when they got into transmissions. Yeah. Like, well, a shitty Chevy diesel engine won't tear up a transmission, so we can build something for that. Yeah. But. There you go. They had some really cool next level shit. Their tolerances were great. Like, they had some really good.

engine stuff back in the day yeah which was not characteristic to gm so that must have been a different division but so looking back now have they chewed through all these allison engines like where they're they're really hard to find these days yeah i mean we're only 30 miles for a bunch of them yeah probably the largest stockpile in america truthfully yeah or one of yeah but yeah they're super hard to get but to your point too i mean

The Germans are in love with Allison Pulley tractors. Because they had access to more of those than any of the German sugars that blew all that up, I suppose. Yeah. I don't think they had anything bad-ass at the end. No. But whatever. So, you know, talking about all this German stuff, I didn't know until like six months ago a guy was telling me about his Gleaner combine with a Deutz motor in it, I guess. And so each cylinder has its own head. Is that right? Yeah.

That's the craziest thing. Like, how does that work? Like, I'm not familiar with that. Well, individual head gaskets. So that's what I'm saying. So like on TikTok, you're like, well, I blew six head gaskets today. There's some beauty and some ultimate failure in it.

Okay, so you tear a head up, you'll have to replace the one or two valves, whatever. The problem with it on the K side is they had three heads on a six-cylinder, two cylinders apiece, but they could never hold anything because everything moves and warps and just didn't work out very well. Yeah, your block, I mean, in theory, if you have one cylinder head, your block is stronger because you're basically binding it all together with the cylinder head. Right.

where the only thing holding your six or eight heads, depending on your Deutz, would be your manifolds. Yeah. So I assume them are fucking pricey to work on, the Deutz motors or not? Deutzes were pricey, I assume, because they were German.

Yeah, no. No, they don't even do an air-cooled engine anymore. I think they're – because the newer Deutz's, like Renner cell, they're liquid-cooled. Yeah. I think they might even be a man. The newer Deutz's are pretty good. That's what I was going to say. Like, them are a man motor, aren't they? Yeah. The man stuff's pretty good. And I assume that's – I think so. That's German, I'm assuming? I assume, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, is that a cis man or is it just a... Yeah, it's a transgender. I don't know if it's a Caitlyn or a Bruce. I don't know. It's an ankle. It's a man. Yeah, we actually have to lobby to get that chain. We can't call it a man. Yeah, it's a man's man, baby. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I know the Deutz is back in the day, so I was around a D-100-06, DX-120, DX-160. Yeah.

They didn't like ether. I mean, they might like it once, but then they become like a, you know. So what does Deutz translate to? Or is that just like John Deutz? I don't know. I assume so. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Deutz-Farr. Yeah. Yeah. KHD, clocker.

Clocker, Humboldt, Deutz. Actually, while we're sitting here, the first Prairie Farmer you looked at, flip through that, there was a graph in the middle of that with tractor horsepowers. Yeah. And there was like two or three tractors in there I'd never heard of. Did you see that at the very top? I didn't even check to see if the Menards tractor was in here. Yeah. I think it was a color page about the middle of the magazine, but it was showing horsepower. And I think red, as in international, had more horsepower in the 43-86 than the 86-30 Deers and whatever. Of course it did.

What do you think about that shit? John didn't build a diesel engine. I don't know if they have yet, but they damn sure didn't back then. It was just a gas motor converted to diesel. It was the 5.7 Chevy of the ag world. And it worked. It didn't work very good. Yes. You were coming off a two-cylinder.

That's like saying this chick is really hot when you went out with a 600-pound fatty the night before. We were talking at the show yesterday, the old pony motors. Oh, yeah. Going to run 40 miles. As compared to the started on gas, switch it over to diesel and crack your cylinder head design. Still better than a two-liter. I don't know, the set fuel economy records have stood for decades.

Of course they did because nobody was using the piece of shit. They were super fuel efficient. If you can't use it, I'll take an M every day of the week and twice on Sunday. You know why there's so many more John Deere antiques than any other brand? Because they made them for 30 years fucking longer than anybody else.

Until they hired a guy from Ford to redesign their shit, they'd still be running two-loader shit. They didn't use any John Deere engineers to do the new Generation Plus. No, they didn't. That was all fresh fucking blood, bud. The main guy on that was from Ford. You can bullshit me any way you want, but that guy was from Ford. Harold Brock worked on the Power Shift. Yeah.

Deere didn't redesign the engine, and when they did, it was a gas motor on fucking diesel. That's why the injectors are in spark plugs and the pump sets with the distributor was. They weren't worth a fiddler's fuck. We all know it. You, me, and the American fucking public know it. They suck ass.

You ever heard anybody having an injector seized in a John Deere? No, because the fuckers come fucking loose. 45 fucking hours later, we can get the injector boots changed on this pile of shit. Yeah. Meanwhile, in a 400 series, a little piece of hose, we're done. Yeah. And you have to have a separate injector. How many companies back then bought it? Drain the coolant when you drop the injector. Not if somebody with a brain put fucking anti-seize on them like they were supposed to. All right.

It's not a hard solution. It's not difficult. It just seems to me like just one copy. Oh, I got to have a tool to line these up because otherwise it's just freaking random. Oh, but nobody owns the tools. We're just eyeballing the shit out of it. Oh, shit, it didn't tighten up at the right spot. Crack it loose, turn it a little bit, tighten it up. Oh, shit, it's not in the right spot. Tighten it a little bit, tighten it up. All fucking day to put six injectors in and still end up with them in spark plug holes still fucking leaking because they ain't worth a shit.

So you're telling me you would like a John Deere motor in a Peterbilt semi? No. No, I would not. I'll take a Peterbilt long before I'll take a John Deere. I'll push a Peterbilt before I'll drive a John Deere. Like I said before, Tony, I'd rather have a sister working a street corner as a brother working in a John Deere.

There was no redeeming qualities to those early engines. Those were piles of shit. You just can't get through to these agco guys. Yeah. We know our engine sucks, so we're going to leave holes in the side of it so the antifreeze can just run on the ground. Great plan.

Great plan. Yeah. Oh, here's your 8630. The transmission sucks. The engine sucks. We're too stupid to mount the damn son of a bitch. So if you cross the fucking ditch, it spins a main bearing. But it does have a PTO. So you can run an auger with your 8630, but that's the extent of what you can do with it. Yeah. Real good. Awesome. Tell me more. Yeah. What's the top track on that one? There's the 5.7 Chevy of the diesel world. Satoa? Satoa?

Maybe that's the Menard special. It could be. The Long. I've heard of those. Yep. Then it goes to Deutz, Massey. Read them off. Read the whole list. Sato. Sato. Long. Deutz. Massey Ferguson. Alice Chalmers. John Deere. White. Cabooda. IH. Ford. Steiger. Versatile. Case.

Satra Belarus, British Leland. Was there many British Lelands around here? No, never heard of it. Okay, so our IH dealer sold them. Really? Never heard of it. I mean, I've probably heard of it once, but there was none around here that I know of. Yeah, there were British Lelands around. I'm surprised there aren't any Samis around here.

Were there Sommie tractors around here? It looked like same. Like the name is same. They're those orange. No. I think they were Italian. We were pulling tits around here. We didn't need that shit. I don't know where the Sommie dealer was, but I can remember seeing them for sale. Never heard of them. British Leland was... Probably exclusively Wisconsin. You probably got your tickets to the Green Bay Packers, probably get a free Sommie. Yeah. I think they were Italian. I think so.

Let's see. What is it? Tommy tractors. I know you flipped your magazine. Sometimes you see like a Fantini and all this weird shit. Like Lamborghini is actually a big tractor in Europe. I ended or was, or isn't the, how Lamborghini got started. So they were a tractor company and didn't,

enzo ferrari pop off to yeah yeah pop off to the to the lamborghini guy about cars or something and that's how lamborghini got in cars right i think it was something like he said hey i can design a better transmission for you or something for enzo ferrari and enzo was like no you stick to building tractors or something like that and lamborghini's like screw it i'll build a car then yeah you know

I'll be damned. And then, you know, and then we got all the 80s bad guys running drugs that today are, you know. So the funny part about that is one of my friends from Germany back in the day,

He always told me that Ferraris were weekend cars. I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, oh, you drive it on the weekend because you're going to work on it the rest of the week so you can drive it again on the next weekend. He's like, you can't drive them to work. He's like, you'll be late by Tuesday. He's like, I'll never make it the third day. I don't know if that's true or not. I've never owned a Ferrari. I don't have any intentions of owning one. My experience with Ferraris in the 80s was Ferris Bueller's buddy kicked one out the window. Exactly. You're not wrong.

Lamborghini had cool doors. They did. Sami was Italian, but it looks like Sami's parent company is the SDF Group, which also makes Deutz-Fahr, Lamborghini, and other brands. Interesting. I guess Lamborghini still makes cars, don't they? Oh, yeah. I assume so, yeah. There's not a dealer close here, I don't know. Yeah, exactly. If they got no dealer supporter, I'd have one. Yeah, absolutely. I'd take a Kunta.

lambo doors lambo doors still a package that you can like aftermarket buy for a lot of vehicles now because the lambo doors are cool yep yeah i don't think john deere copied that on the sound guard i don't know that would have been a better design than what they used literally they took the heater houser and said well what if we make this swing we'll put a roof over it make it swing hell it's good to go yeah vision yeah vision guard

If only they would have put the park lever on the left-hand side from the entryway, it would have been a better spot. Nick would be comfortable with it then. You're going to be hard-pressed to convince me that Soundgarden's worth a blue-loving fuck. We'll give them credit for it was integrated into the tractor. It wasn't like an afterthought, like a year-round or so on and so forth. But literally, they never made a cab tractor until then. And then you're telling me this design is so great that nobody ever copies it.

And the company itself says, oh, you got to have a round cab, round cab, grab a cab. Oh, by the way, we're shaking the round cab. And now we have the 8000 series with a square cab like everybody else has been using since the two decades before that.

And, but, but the round cop was the way to go with this post in your middle, the air cleaner over here, the exhaust over there. There's not enough room in there for a cup holder. You know why? Cause there's no fucking room in it. You can't see anything to the right side. You're going to have two right arms. You're going to have four hands to start the piece of shit. I, there's no redeeming qualities, no sound guard cab. You'll never convince me any different. I just took out into Tony's track day the night I was going to do a video while he was gone. I got here before he got here. We're going to meet here.

I go to get into that son of a bitch and I'm not knocking your tractor. I know you love it. It is as nice as 45, 55 as you will find. If you're into, if you're into queer shit, that's as nice as you'll get.

I get stuck getting into it because I'm a bigger guy. Can't get you it. The fact that guys use this for chore tractors, I don't know how. Because I'm assuming they were larger guys in coveralls and shit. I get stuck getting into this son of a bitch. I go get out of it. There's 45 fucking steps. You gotta do the hokey pokey to get out of the damn thing. I damn near fall down on the concrete. I'm like, I'm gonna die next to this son of a bitch with nobody around.

And I'm going to die next to a John Deere, which is my biggest fear in life. Do you guys ever see the movie Christine? Yep. Long time. I seen it in years, but yeah, way, way back. So when the guy that owns the garage goes to get in the car and it starts to click the seat ahead and slowly tries to kill him. I think your tractor was just trying to, I didn't start it because I was afraid to see what automatically go up like John Deere's do where they shove the seat through the fucking ceiling and break your neck. Oh yeah, that one does. I'm like, I can't start this thing. I'm already damn near dead.

I think the tractor was just trying to get you out of there. I'm sure it probably was. I'm sure it probably was. Tucker was eyeballing the shit out of me. He's like, you shouldn't be doing this, dude. He wasn't wrong. I shouldn't have been doing it. That's why I got out peacefully as best I could, and I just sat in a chair next to it. I'm like, I'm going to wait for somebody to show up to call 911. I'm going to die in this thing. Yeah. Well, he wasn't used to no pictures, being on the walls, go down the hallway, get in the 1066. Absolutely. Go down the hallway, take a left. Plenty of room to turn around.

You got to do the hokey pokey on the step. You know that son of a bitch? There's 45 fucking steps that are an inch and a half wide. I can't get past it. Can't do it. And you full on know when you get in that the son of a bitch ain't going to start anyway because it's winter.

It was sent to a shed, in a heated shed, so it might start. But for damn sure, if I pull it out, it's not going to. I can't think of anybody that's ever said IH put good steps on any of their cabs. They just robbed off the cab over semi-division. The steps on a 1466 cab were great. Now, they screwed them up when they went to the 86, but a 1466 step on a cab, tractor's fine.

They're like, we got some square stock. We're just going to bend it and bolt the next one to it under here. On a non-cab model, with the 66 series, it's the ultimate open station tractor by far. But the main thing you got to have on those is good tires because you're just jumping down and you're going to use the lugs. You're not going to use the steps. But on those piles of shit, because you're going to hop in and realize you can't start this type of a bitch. And you ran out of can of ether to jam into the dash. Now, Tony's is new enough where it's electric because you guys finally embraced electric ether start, you know, somewhere in the mid-90s.

So you don't have to do that. But if the can's empty now, you can get back out. You can get the battery charger, all this bullshit. Shake the wheel. You got to shake, literally, to start a John Deere, you have to shake the wheel, turn the key, pull the fuel shut off, and jam the ether can into the dash. I don't know how many hands you've got, but I only have two. That's four functions that I need to do. I have two hands. You know what you should do, Nick? As a fucking joke, you need some sort of a...

device will make it that like maybe goes on your grinder or something like clams in this is a john deere wheel shaker we're selling the v4 shop no shit i'm missing out i'm missing out i should be doing that every time i get an old ih or an old john deere i think the same thing this is why my dad's old essence i realize they're not worldwide popular whatever i'm like i don't have to do any of that shit i just turn the key

Fire it up. The door's easy to get into. The steps make sense. The shifters are right there. I don't have to crawl over them. The door opens the correct direction. Like, it seems like it all makes sense. And when I'm really wanting to be cool, I open the sunroof, which none of you assholes had. And you can't put a price on a sunroof.

Well, then now your ATU that you put in that 4555, is there a setting in the 2600 or 2630 where you can say start mode in the ATU? Yeah. No doubt, right? We should sell that software. Yeah. That's what John Deere's missing now. Yeah. But I guess at the end of the day, if you had to go between that and a 1086, I'm taking the 4555. I'll take the 1086 because it's going to start and it's got plenty of power. I'll take the 1086.

When I was a little kid, I slept a lot of hours behind that seat. I don't know how because I look at it now. I'm like, how in the hell did I ever fit there? We should actually take some of this older farm equipment. You know how these people, like when they were little kids, they had these funny pictures out in the yard. You know, one was tackling the other and one was in a wheelbarrow or whatever. We should take funny pictures of the farm machine. We're a stuffed nick in the back. Absolutely. I'll pretend to take a nap. Sitting on somebody's lap. I mean, just whatever. Yeah.

Well, you for goddamn sure want, there's only one way you can ride two people in a 4430 and that's some queer shit because one guy's got to sit on the other guy's ass. That's the only way. That's cock and balls to lap is the only way that's working. There's no way. There's no other room in that. If you're struggling to get in that 4555, you are struggling to get in and out of a 1086. No, absolutely not.

You put the chrome shifter levers on it that bend back a little bit, you're good. Put the K&M door thing on it where it opens a little further, you're good to go. That's what I always figured. That cab made a lot more sense after every time. The first few times you went to open it and then the wind blew and it smacked you in the back of the head. You're like, after enough of that, you start to go, this makes sense. I do like the tilt steering in the 1086. Oh, wait. Yeah. They had a tilt wheel. I've never been in one of that. Did they really? Yes.

50 Series did. No, 86 Series didn't. 50 Series did. 50 Series did. It was an option. 1086 just had the old telescoping, which, you know, it's kind of like the tilt steering on a 66 Series. Look, I'm driving a bus or I'm driving a ship. I never could set right in an 86 Series. It just always laid out awkward because you couldn't adjust the steering wheel. Either the seat was too high, too low.

Having to reach. Well, it didn't automatically raise when you started. Exactly. It just was where it was when you got out of it the last time. Yeah. Heaven forbid that's where you wanted it. True. True story. But, I mean, it's handy. You guys were just so excited that it started that you couldn't believe that anything else was going to go forth from there. You're like, well, it's below 70 degrees. This thing actually started. Hooray! Hooray! Yeah. We can go burn a shitload of fuel on oak.

Somebody put diesel fuel in the radiator because they're fucking right next to each other and some dipshit put the nozzle in the radiator. Bad deal. Or put antifreeze in the fuel. Could you imagine trying to run a loader on a 1086? Oh, fuck. You'd have to steer with your knees or something. That's why you could extend the steering wheel.

Took like two seconds to get the steering wheel out of the thing. Spin a little nut, pull it right up. See, now, if they would have put like the race car quick coupler on that. It was a quick coupler. You spin the nut like three times and the steering wheel is out of your way. Come right out, huh? Come right out. Out of your way. And you had plenty of horsepower as opposed to you guys with a gas engine on diesel that are still like, well, shit, I guess we're stuck at 150 horse, burning a shitload of fuel, but we're real cool because we're John Deere guys. What's the 86 series, guys? I would have known it would have been like.

Fuck, where did I set the steering wheel now? Does that have the comparisons of like a 1086 in that book right there?

If you go up the IH chart. Yeah, so 1086. Now, the cab from a, I will agree that the 1086 should have been the 50 Series cab. Agreed. A 3688 cab is perfectly fine. That should have been the 1086 cab. I will not deny that. Was the 1086 130? That's how it should have been. Yep. And this is with the 4430, not the 40 in this one. So, 125.88.

But this one does have Nick's personal favorite tractor in it. The 6030 is in here. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. The tractor was so popular that nobody ever bought one or farmed with it.

I just saw a TikTok the other day that somebody was complaining and the guy was responding to a comment. And I don't know what the previous conversation was, but it was about the front end being heavy. And the guy's like, well, yeah. How are the engineers supposed to know in the early 60s that they need to be lighter for tractor pulling? Newsflash asked that. They were too heavy to farm with in the front. Had nothing to do with tractor pulling. It was the fact that if it was soft at all, they just fell in. And with your whopping 115 horse and a 50-10 ad...

You couldn't get out of it. With three-point arms the size of a nickel neck. I'm sure all the engineers are designing tractors solely on the purpose of tractor pulling. I think they just chiseled that tractor on a solid cast iron. They just got a block of it. All they did was take a 4010, and they're like, does anybody know how to multiply? Yeah, yeah. Can you just multiply that by 0.25? We'll take the same engine.

That's gas on diesel. We'll make it a little bit bigger. Make tractor a little bit bigger. It'll still suck ass, but it'll be bigger. And that's where they went. Nobody farmed with those pieces of shit. Those rear ends sucked. The transmission sucked. The engine sucked. They were just bigger than everybody else. But even then, still nobody wanted them.

Name me one guy you know that farmed to the 50-10 and put 5,000 hours on it farming. Nobody knows that guy because that guy doesn't exist. Found a low-air 60-30. I'm sure you did. When we were pulling in the 90s,

The story was the same. Well, I bought this 5010 out of a fence row. I bought this 5010 out of a scrap yard. Nobody bought one off a dealership lot because there was none of them on a dealership lot because every one of them had gotten mothballed. They're only cool now because they weren't worth a fuck then. And they come out with what motor? 531. We haven't talked about the... I mean, it's a...

pretty good thing that 619 was a factory replacement engine. That never bothered you, did it, Nick? Replacement, though, I think is the key word. Replacement, yep. Once again, I've got no problem with that. If that's the avenue we're going down, that's fine. But if Junder could have mounted an engine in a four-wheel drive, they'd have ran out of those engines 30 years ago. But

But the only reason there's a full supply of them to this day is the fact that the four-wheel drive every time you cross the ditch spun a main bearing. And then we have to replace it with this magical 50 series. It has two oil filters. You know what's kind of funny, though, in this chart? If you look, 4186, IH was a pioneer in crab steer technology. They were. They were a pioneer. They didn't keep it very long, though. They didn't keep it very long. They were a pioneer in it. Yeah.

Yeah. Which, so the four-wheel drive John Deere's. Sucked ass. They bought the first ones from Wagner. Then they did their own version, which was an epic failure. The fact they bought every one of them back except for one, because that guy's like, well, I'll have the only one, so I won't take it back. And then finally John Kinsey bought it. He'd be like, well, I'll help you unfuck this deal. I'll at least put a Kinsey. Let me talk about John Deere engineering. How about the 8850? What a masterpiece of technology that was. Yeah. How many of those you see running around today?

Pound your chest on that. What a pile of shit. Yeah. Got beat up by a 9-0-nothing. Yeah. By a large margin. I actually don't even like the looks of an 88-50. Because they suck. They're just kind of awkward. Kind of awkward. If you got off the dealership slot and made it all the way home, you were a lucky guy.

And silence fills the air. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you got nothing because they sucked. There's no defense. I'm not bragging on them. There's no defense for those. There's no defense for those. Had it been for John Kinzabal, 88-50 has been unheard of to this day. Yeah. They would have made them for one year. You're about the shit they used to do, but I haven't heard of it. That would have been the end of it.

Thank you, John Kinzabal, for saving me the $850 by repowering it with something useful. Yeah. The Cummins that you could have gotten something else, like a Stagger. Yeah. If you're buying a four-wheel drive in those days and it wasn't lime green, you weren't getting much. No. Four-wheel drives have only been built in one place in the world to this day, and that's Fargo, North Dakota. So they actually had a lot of problems with that 4366. Yeah.

With putting the 466 in there, it wasn't nearly as... The early 4366s had a lot. He's trying to change the topic. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. So, yeah, should have had the Steiger with the Cummins instead of the 4366. No, they shouldn't have. But they should have done. How this should have went. You want my opinion on how that should have went? I'm going to give it to you anyway you didn't ask for it. But fuck you, I don't care.

How that should have went with when IH and Stagger was, IH should have went to Stagger and said, hey, you're going to build our four-wheel drives. You've got the best chassis by far. Yep. You've got the best axle combination. We're not going to shove two 1066 axles in this shit. You're going to put your axles in it. We're going to put our engine in it, and you're going to put our gauge package in it.

You're going to paint them red and you're done buying 32 eights and all the other stupid shit. You're the low end shit you're buying from Cummins and cat. You're going to buy four 66 is from us for your small four wheel drives. The big shit's going to have eight 55 Cummins in it. You're going to paint it red for us or gauge package, your axles, your frame done. The world's a much better place. If that happens.

All those Cat ones minus the 3406 weren't worth having. No. All the Cummins ones minus the 855 weren't worth having. No, the triple neck. Stagger's gauges sucked. We blend the two. IHS rear end sucked in those deals. Even if they would take the same power, they take up four times as much space as the Rabba. Just put the Rabba axle in it. Be done. The world's a better place. You sell yours in green. We'll sell ours in red. Try to make your dealers our dealers. Try to make every...

stagger dealer and ih dealer and vice versa whatever katie bar the door we're both good to go both companies are still in business they're still doing fine yeah i do feel like stiger's hands were tied a little bit though when your entire tractor lineup is named after felines yes you have to put a cat motor well but in a cat's a dog you'll never hear me knock a 3406 brian and i have had this debate in this argument numerous times i love 3406 cats i do everything else they've got

Kind of sucks ass. Yeah. Which actually, in the feline, when they have a panther, a tiger. You got to know your cats, Tony. You got to know your cats. A puma, a tiger, a panther. Bear cat. Bear cat. You got the lion. Lion 1000. Lion was the big one. No. I wonder why they skipped cheetah. Well, the big one was the tiger. Tiger was the biggest one. Why'd they skip cheetah? I mean, that's like a popular cat, and they skipped it.

I don't know. That's an interesting question. How big of Johnny Cox would you be walking into the coffee shop saying, I just bought a Steiger Tiger? Oh, yeah. You would have been a Johnny Cox. Steiger Tiger, boys. Which was a Cummins. Yep. Or a Cat. So you could get a 3408. Like three of them. But that wasn't the complete big dog. Wasn't there a KT? The KTA 1150 was in a Tiger.

Or you could get a 3408. It was optional. Yeah, but they only sold like three of those. Maybe six. There was a few, but I don't know. Very few. It's almost constant. You guys are busy pulling tits and spreading shit. You didn't need that kind of horsepower. You guys were running around on your 5010s. Once summer came around, you could start them. But they didn't sell very many. The KTAs versus the 3408, they sold way more KTAs.

Yes, well, and they made the KTA longer, and then the 3408 didn't start out as an option. You Peterborough guys had sucked up all the 3408s. Yes. There was none to be had for the Tigers. They were too busy doing dropping hooks with that. Yeah, dropping hooks with tall shifters, seats low, long hoods. But then, yes, you're right, the next series was the KP525. Yes.

Yeah. So that was the, they kicked up the horsepower instead of, because I think the original ones were rated at 450 horse. Yeah. Or 470. The 9190 was 525. Yes. If I ever win the Powerball, which I don't play, I will have a new Case IH Quadrac painted in Steiger. Absolutely. Just because I think they're cool. Even if it just has to sit in a shop and never move. I love Steiger. I do think they're cool.

So has anybody ever asked Uppy if he's seen a 91-90? Because I heard most of them went to. I thought he had a video. I think so. I think we had that conversation one time. Yeah, I thought he put one on a video. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Uppy's seen it all. I mean, it was probably metric. What's 525 in metric? Yeah. Uppy, if you're listening, the metric system sucks. Love you, but I don't agree.

Can't say that he's wrong. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. When's the last time you sold milk by the leader? Or had a leader of cola? While you were milking. But, yeah. Yeah. Yep. Well, should we wrap this one up and do another? Like, should we do a part two? Yeah, absolutely. Like, we should start a really good conversation right now, and we'll get, like, four paragraphs into it. Until next time. But wait, there's more. Yeah. Yep. Be the cliffhanger version. Sound job.

sneak peek, Soundgards are going to suck in the next podcast just as much as they suck now. We're really going to go after Agco to get me. You're not going to bother me with that. I think we're going to have to. I can't really knock Hess things. I don't know enough about them. Nick's defending IH, but we determined tonight that

He's diehard agco. It's a family tradition. I'm pretty diehard red, bud. Yeah, I mean, he wasn't that good either. Well, his name is McCormick. Cyrus is my great-great-grandpa. I'm pretty diehard red. All right. Look what that got him. Did you get any traits of...

Brooks or whichever one ran it in the ground. Fowler? Brooks unfortunately turned it over to some of Ryan's relation from Wisconsin. Gotcha. That's where it went south. Was Fowler your uncle? No. No, he was not. Okay. He went from Brooks to the other dude. Archie McArdle. Yeah, Archie. There you go. With a name like Archie, he's bound to be in charge of some football. That's like a cartoon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We're going to shut this one down. We're going to turn right around and do another one. Absolutely, we will. These might come out to the public six months apart. Who knows? The biannual podcast. This one might be the rowdier one. We'll have another drink. It's going to get worse. I apologize for what I said earlier. I'll try to make it worse the next time. Look at that. Ran all the way through the bump music. See you on the next one.