April 17, 2025 • 10 mins
Our caller, Tyler, bought cows, goats, and chickens in response to the tariffs! Hear his reasoning behind it...
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're talking about the tariffs. We all know that, you
know when terrifts roll in that the price of some
things will go up. They will. This is the way
it will be. I don't know how long they'll go up,
but they will. Even the President Trump says, yes, there
will be there will be some sting from this. So
people are texting in the things that they have been
buying to be ahead of the tariffs. Yeah, but look,
(00:26):
dryer sheets, laundry supplies. See, I don't know where they
come from. I'm not quite sure. I'm not quite sure
why I buy them. But if they're from another country
that is going to have tariffs on it, Okay, here's
the one that said they bought a lot of California
olive oil.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Wait a minute, like California, USA?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, I think so, Okay, okay, okay. A lot
of people are buying a ton of tequila because the
tequila coming from Mexico. They're like, well, they're going to
pay more, so let's stalk up. Hey, I'm all for that.
I mean, how long does tequila last? It doesn't go bad?
Doesn't No, No, Well, if it did, it wouldn't go
bad in my house.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
There's that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Here's someone buying like jam like preserves from France. Okay,
look at that. We did find an interesting text though,
from Tyler in Canton, Ohio. And I don't know if
this is because of tariffs or just the need to
live off the grid. Let's go talk to Tyler.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Tyler. E there, yes, sir, there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We're doing great, well, good morning. I love the fact
you sentenced this text. Tyler says, I bought seeds, three cows,
twenty chickens so I could be self reliant and live
off the grid. I love that you harvest sap from
your maple trees in the woods, and you have bees,
and you're getting honey from your honey bees. You have
quite then quite the farm going on there. That sounds cool, Tyler, Yeah,
(01:50):
I try.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I bought the cows because beef is just going outrageous.
I buy.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I used to buy my beef from a local butcher,
and I'm tired of doing it, so I just i'd
be self reliant on myself.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Now, do you slaughter the cow a hole or do
you just slaughter off, slaughter off pieces of cow that
you want to eat that night. It's stupid question I have.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I have. I have an agreement with the cow.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I'm like, all right, give me a hip tonight and
I'll and I'll give you back one tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I don't know if it works.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
It doesn't know babies right now, and I'm kind of
regretting the decision because it's a Cows are messy and
I didn't realize this.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We have me and my wife.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
We have goats as well and for our kids, and
the cows are way messier than goats. So I'm kind
of regretting the cows right now, but I think it'll
all work out. We uh, my son named one Dale
after the Dale sauce.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
D you put on the Dale.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
When you start naming your cattle that it gets really personal.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Dale.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You can't eat them.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Your kids know what's going to happen to Dale.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They do, and I don't think it's really they're they're younger,
so I don't really think they know exactly what's going
to happen. But we try to desensitize them on it
because they're not going to be like a lifelong pay.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Okay, yeah, hey boy. I mean if if they're they're young,
you could just go ahead and take care of it now,
just have veal. So Tyler, uh, why why?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Why do you have this great desire to live off
the grid and be self sufficient, which I think, by
the way, it's brilliant and if you can succeed in
doing it, good for you. But what was the what
was the meaning behind all of this for you?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I like my money. I want to keep it to myself.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I don't you know prices have gone up over the
course of a short period of time, and I'm I'm
actually I'm a I'm a senior buyer for a company.
So I see the terribs every day, and like, why
am I going to waste my money when I can
just invest a small amount and then profit from it
in the end by not not wasting my money on
(04:06):
stuff that doesn't need to be wasted on that I
can do myself.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Wow, when it comes to all of this and you
say you're saving money with the time and the effort
that you're putting into it, is it a huge money saver?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It is?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
And it isn't. The bees take care of themselves. The
cows more or less take care of themselves. They are
just out in the pasture. So really the only thing
I had to pay for is fencing and vet bills.
If anything happens, knock on wood, I haven't had anything
happened like that. And then the materials for the beehives,
and then the the sat or the syrup making, which
(04:48):
isn't you know, it's not extremely high, and the chicken coop.
But no, I think in the long run I'm gonna
save a lot of money with the eggs. Of course, yeah,
because the chickens will pay them off because I'll sell
them the neighbors or you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I think that's so cool. If I have if the beef, yeah,
the beef, so you have, and you have someone who
can butcher the cattle for you.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So I hunt so I can do it myself.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
On them, I stand for Dale. We're gonna come kidnapped.
We're gonna kidnap Dale, just like Gandhi kidnaped that lobster
out of the tank at Red Lobster at that time.
I remember that twice. Oh my god, Hey, So I
think this is great. And especially eggs of late, they've
they've been so so in the news because of the cost.
(05:42):
But what what Tyler's talking about here. I have friends
down the street from where I live. Their farm. They
do a lot of They have tons of goats and
pigs and everything. It's a lot of work. It's a
major amount of work. The livestock anyway. The bees, like
you said, they kind of do their own thing in
the sap. You know, it's it's SAPs. What are you
gonna do?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, you'll you get it once a year.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
How cool?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Though?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Can't you do this on that new little piece of
land that you have, the one where you're gonna plant
whatever were you planning? We're not gonna plant the koyas. No,
we got soybeans going up there.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
If you need some admy, what.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Do you have like chickens and cows?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I could well no, no, in theory, it's cool, but
and Tyler and others like Tyler will tell you it's
a lot of what it's it's it's several times a day.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's first thing in the morning, last thing before you
go to bed. You gotta move your chickens around. You
have coyotes and things breaking and eat slaughtering your chicken
doesn't Who the hell does that for you?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
I have an automatic chicken door, so it opens the
coop in the in the morning when the sun comes up,
and it closes it at night. And I have my
whole well I don't have my whole property, but I
have five acres fenced in with more or less varmit proof,
uh fencing it's and it goes in the ground six
inches that I had to put in. So all my
(07:03):
chickens are free range. My cows are free range, my
goats are free range. And they just kind of they
just kind of do their own things. So I just
wake up in the morning and pull out the draftway,
go to work, and I go hi, and then.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Look at you with your fancy automatic chicken door. I
need one of those.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, all I gotta do. All I gotta do is
clean the coop once a week and I'm good.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well see that's that's more than I would do. So
you see see I'm not going to clean any coops.
I can't do that. Yeah, what up? Scary? I read
somewhere that when the chicken is happy and doesn't have
stress or anxiety, it produces more Is that true? I
can get more eggs out of them.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I don't you usually get one egg a day? Now
I do?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I do have some free loading chickens who don't lay
every day and they.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Just like to eat.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I have an egg question. We're having some fried chicken
for dinner.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah, with the grass quality.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, let's say, Danielle.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So if you get an unpasteurized egg, because I know
sometimes we have friends who give us a carton of those,
how long do those actually last?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
When do I have to throw those away?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
So if the eggs are not washed and they're just
taking right out of the coop, I just lay them
on the counter and they stay that way for a week,
week and a half. But if you ever have eggs
in your fridge and you want to know if they're
good or bad, just get a bowl of cold water.
Put the eggs in there. If they sink, they're good,
(08:38):
If they float, they're bad.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
There you go. See, I knew that. I'm surprised I
knew something. But yeah, and yeah, as long as you
don't wash those fresh laid eggs, you leave them out.
There's no reason to put them in the refrigerator. People
don't understand that concept. But if you if you wash them,
you got to refrigerate them or just use them immediately.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Right, Yeah, yeah, you got you gotta refrigerate them, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Look, I love the fact that you spend some time
with us.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Tyler.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You're a fabulous I love what you're doing with your kids,
introducing them to a way to live without having to
get everything from the grocery store. I think that's pretty
cool if you you're a good dad out over that.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, I appreciate being on your old show. I've never
been on here before, and I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I was a nervous wreck because I listened to y'all
every morning on the Monday to work, and I love
all y'all.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Thank you, Tyler. That's so cool. Look we said, now
your day's a number there.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Buddy, Yeah, I will.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You know if FedEx is a lot of chicken, y'all said, hi,
thank you. All right, all right, we're gonna run. Thank you, Tyler.
Have a great day, man. Okay, by interesting right, But
you know what, we have so many farmers, people who
live on farms and have small farms, large farms. They
listen to us every day. They're like, what is this?
(09:52):
Is it nothing new for them for us? It's like
whoa we wanted to do honeybees. We were about to
do them then we found out if you have a
swimming pool, they love to they love to dive into
the pool and swarm being swarmed by bees at the pool.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
No, well, just a little pool party for bees, like
you never think about them. They're probably having such a ball.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The problem is they're going to want to have a
pool party while you're having yours. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I
love gunny. Just let the bees come in and have
a party with you at your pool.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
No, Robins says, let them.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I think you're really abusing Mel Robbins and who let them?
Theory
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're talking about the tariffs. We all know that, you
know when terrifts roll in that the price of some
things will go up. They will. This is the way
it will be. I don't know how long they'll go up,
but they will. Even the President Trump says, yes, there
will be there will be some sting from this. So
people are texting in the things that they have been
buying to be ahead of the tariffs. Yeah, but look,
(00:26):
dryer sheets, laundry supplies. See, I don't know where they
come from. I'm not quite sure. I'm not quite sure
why I buy them. But if they're from another country
that is going to have tariffs on it, Okay, here's
the one that said they bought a lot of California
olive oil.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Wait a minute, like California, USA?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, I think so, Okay, okay, okay. A lot
of people are buying a ton of tequila because the
tequila coming from Mexico. They're like, well, they're going to
pay more, so let's stalk up. Hey, I'm all for that.
I mean, how long does tequila last? It doesn't go bad?
Doesn't No, No, Well, if it did, it wouldn't go
bad in my house.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
There's that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Here's someone buying like jam like preserves from France. Okay,
look at that. We did find an interesting text though,
from Tyler in Canton, Ohio. And I don't know if
this is because of tariffs or just the need to
live off the grid. Let's go talk to Tyler.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Tyler. E there, yes, sir, there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We're doing great, well, good morning. I love the fact
you sentenced this text. Tyler says, I bought seeds, three cows,
twenty chickens so I could be self reliant and live
off the grid. I love that you harvest sap from
your maple trees in the woods, and you have bees,
and you're getting honey from your honey bees. You have
quite then quite the farm going on there. That sounds cool, Tyler, Yeah,
(01:50):
I try.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I bought the cows because beef is just going outrageous.
I buy.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I used to buy my beef from a local butcher,
and I'm tired of doing it, so I just i'd
be self reliant on myself.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Now, do you slaughter the cow a hole or do
you just slaughter off, slaughter off pieces of cow that
you want to eat that night. It's stupid question I have.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I have. I have an agreement with the cow.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I'm like, all right, give me a hip tonight and
I'll and I'll give you back one tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I don't know if it works.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
It doesn't know babies right now, and I'm kind of
regretting the decision because it's a Cows are messy and
I didn't realize this.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We have me and my wife.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
We have goats as well and for our kids, and
the cows are way messier than goats. So I'm kind
of regretting the cows right now, but I think it'll
all work out. We uh, my son named one Dale
after the Dale sauce.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
D you put on the Dale.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
When you start naming your cattle that it gets really personal.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Dale.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You can't eat them.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Your kids know what's going to happen to Dale.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They do, and I don't think it's really they're they're younger,
so I don't really think they know exactly what's going
to happen. But we try to desensitize them on it
because they're not going to be like a lifelong pay.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Okay, yeah, hey boy. I mean if if they're they're young,
you could just go ahead and take care of it now,
just have veal. So Tyler, uh, why why?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Why do you have this great desire to live off
the grid and be self sufficient, which I think, by
the way, it's brilliant and if you can succeed in
doing it, good for you. But what was the what
was the meaning behind all of this for you?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I like my money. I want to keep it to myself.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I don't you know prices have gone up over the
course of a short period of time, and I'm I'm
actually I'm a I'm a senior buyer for a company.
So I see the terribs every day, and like, why
am I going to waste my money when I can
just invest a small amount and then profit from it
in the end by not not wasting my money on
(04:06):
stuff that doesn't need to be wasted on that I
can do myself.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Wow, when it comes to all of this and you
say you're saving money with the time and the effort
that you're putting into it, is it a huge money saver?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It is?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
And it isn't. The bees take care of themselves. The
cows more or less take care of themselves. They are
just out in the pasture. So really the only thing
I had to pay for is fencing and vet bills.
If anything happens, knock on wood, I haven't had anything
happened like that. And then the materials for the beehives,
and then the the sat or the syrup making, which
(04:48):
isn't you know, it's not extremely high, and the chicken coop.
But no, I think in the long run I'm gonna
save a lot of money with the eggs. Of course, yeah,
because the chickens will pay them off because I'll sell
them the neighbors or you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I think that's so cool. If I have if the beef, yeah,
the beef, so you have, and you have someone who
can butcher the cattle for you.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So I hunt so I can do it myself.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
On them, I stand for Dale. We're gonna come kidnapped.
We're gonna kidnap Dale, just like Gandhi kidnaped that lobster
out of the tank at Red Lobster at that time.
I remember that twice. Oh my god, Hey, So I
think this is great. And especially eggs of late, they've
they've been so so in the news because of the cost.
(05:42):
But what what Tyler's talking about here. I have friends
down the street from where I live. Their farm. They
do a lot of They have tons of goats and
pigs and everything. It's a lot of work. It's a
major amount of work. The livestock anyway. The bees, like
you said, they kind of do their own thing in
the sap. You know, it's it's SAPs. What are you
gonna do?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, you'll you get it once a year.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
How cool?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Though?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Can't you do this on that new little piece of
land that you have, the one where you're gonna plant
whatever were you planning? We're not gonna plant the koyas. No,
we got soybeans going up there.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
If you need some admy, what.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Do you have like chickens and cows?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I could well no, no, in theory, it's cool, but
and Tyler and others like Tyler will tell you it's
a lot of what it's it's it's several times a day.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's first thing in the morning, last thing before you
go to bed. You gotta move your chickens around. You
have coyotes and things breaking and eat slaughtering your chicken
doesn't Who the hell does that for you?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
I have an automatic chicken door, so it opens the
coop in the in the morning when the sun comes up,
and it closes it at night. And I have my
whole well I don't have my whole property, but I
have five acres fenced in with more or less varmit proof,
uh fencing it's and it goes in the ground six
inches that I had to put in. So all my
(07:03):
chickens are free range. My cows are free range, my
goats are free range. And they just kind of they
just kind of do their own things. So I just
wake up in the morning and pull out the draftway,
go to work, and I go hi, and then.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Look at you with your fancy automatic chicken door. I
need one of those.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, all I gotta do. All I gotta do is
clean the coop once a week and I'm good.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well see that's that's more than I would do. So
you see see I'm not going to clean any coops.
I can't do that. Yeah, what up? Scary? I read
somewhere that when the chicken is happy and doesn't have
stress or anxiety, it produces more Is that true? I
can get more eggs out of them.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I don't you usually get one egg a day? Now
I do?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I do have some free loading chickens who don't lay
every day and they.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Just like to eat.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I have an egg question. We're having some fried chicken
for dinner.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah, with the grass quality.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, let's say, Danielle.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So if you get an unpasteurized egg, because I know
sometimes we have friends who give us a carton of those,
how long do those actually last?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
When do I have to throw those away?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
So if the eggs are not washed and they're just
taking right out of the coop, I just lay them
on the counter and they stay that way for a week,
week and a half. But if you ever have eggs
in your fridge and you want to know if they're
good or bad, just get a bowl of cold water.
Put the eggs in there. If they sink, they're good,
(08:38):
If they float, they're bad.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
There you go. See, I knew that. I'm surprised I
knew something. But yeah, and yeah, as long as you
don't wash those fresh laid eggs, you leave them out.
There's no reason to put them in the refrigerator. People
don't understand that concept. But if you if you wash them,
you got to refrigerate them or just use them immediately.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Right, Yeah, yeah, you got you gotta refrigerate them, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Look, I love the fact that you spend some time
with us.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Tyler.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You're a fabulous I love what you're doing with your kids,
introducing them to a way to live without having to
get everything from the grocery store. I think that's pretty
cool if you you're a good dad out over that.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, I appreciate being on your old show. I've never
been on here before, and I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I was a nervous wreck because I listened to y'all
every morning on the Monday to work, and I love
all y'all.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Thank you, Tyler. That's so cool. Look we said, now
your day's a number there.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Buddy, Yeah, I will.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You know if FedEx is a lot of chicken, y'all said, hi,
thank you. All right, all right, we're gonna run. Thank you, Tyler.
Have a great day, man. Okay, by interesting right, But
you know what, we have so many farmers, people who
live on farms and have small farms, large farms. They
listen to us every day. They're like, what is this?
(09:52):
Is it nothing new for them for us? It's like
whoa we wanted to do honeybees. We were about to
do them then we found out if you have a
swimming pool, they love to they love to dive into
the pool and swarm being swarmed by bees at the pool.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
No, well, just a little pool party for bees, like
you never think about them. They're probably having such a ball.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The problem is they're going to want to have a
pool party while you're having yours. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I
love gunny. Just let the bees come in and have
a party with you at your pool.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
No, Robins says, let them.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I think you're really abusing Mel Robbins and who let them?
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