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Ep 22: April Roadtrip Recap (Texas to Virginia to Illinois)
- Rite of Passage with son, Finley in the Thai jungle.
- Visited 2 Bar C, Hometown Meats, Ronnie, and Ol Butch.
- Took a plant tour and met Cole Bolton
- Driving on the back roads of Texas.
- Had dinner with Todd Wyell at the Ozark Beef Conference.
- Stay connected with Texas Slim on a daily basis through our social media.
- Drove through Washington and Virginia.
- Met Jan from Epoch Times.
- Attended the US Cattlemans Association and enjoyed the Cattleman’s feast with Texas Slim’s Cuts.
- Worked on saving children’s lives.
- Attended the Ginger Hill Summit, no matter the weather.
- Visited 101 Constitution Ave. and DC. Was featured on American Thought Leaders.
- Cooked travel steaks on the tailgate and visited Needwood Farms.
- Explored West Virginia, nicknamed "Mountain Momma," and drove through the plains.
- Enjoyed a picanha steak.
- Followed the Florida Beef Initiative on @BeefFlorida.
- Counted down the days to the Ozark BI Conf.
- Met Jason Wrich.
- Discussed the Harvest of Deception.
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We're in a very,very special place tonight.
We're recording it Sunday night.
We're in Illinois.
And it's been a journeyonce again here.
This dude calling himselfTexas Slim has gone
all over the country againand we can't find him.
Where's Waldo?Where's Texas Slim?
But it's been a hell of ajourney.
(00:58):
Last year,I did this journey not like this
kind of rhymes to this year.
But what I didn't do isI didn't film it.
It was reconnaissance.
I've told a lot of people this.
Today is going to be,I don't know,
maybe some storytelling placeswhere we've been,
where we areand where we're going.
(01:19):
I'm getting betterat telling stories.
I was talking to June,our wonderful
executive producerfor Texas Times Media.
He's along on this trip.
He's the one that'sgot the set up.
He's basicallyincreasing the production
value of everything that we dowithin the beef initiative
for our ranchers,
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for our producers,for our farmers, for everybody
that basically is funnelinginto the beef initiative.
June is our executive producerthat is raising that bar.
So everybody applaud.
Thank you, June.Thank you, June.
Thank you, June.But he's along for the ride.
And so we've beenobtaining equipment
throughout the last year,
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ever since one year ago,we were in Kerrville, Texas.
Whenever I saidthat we were going to have that,
we're running for conferencesin one year.
Everybody thought I was crazyand everybody basically
tried to talk me out of ithonestly.
And that'sthe last thing you do with me,
is try to talk me out of it.
Whenever I was 19 years old,I that year
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that I moved to Austin,a lot of people know that.
I've told that story many times.
I left small town Texas,and I was looking for life.
I was full of wanderlustand made it to Austin.
But that same 12 month period,I headed up towards Maine
and there was a mountain upthere.
It's called Cadillac Mountain.
(02:43):
Y'all look it upMount Desert Island.
There's a rock up therethat you can sit on top of.
And if you
if you're the first personon that rock,
first time in the morning,you can be the first person
that sees that sunrisein the United States.
I think this is probablythe 11th time
I've drivenacross the United States
in different various forms
and fashions interstates, backroads, dirt roads.
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It doesn't really matter.I've done it.
I know how to navigateacross this country.
I've been doing it all my life.
I had my licensewhen I was 15 years old
in the dirt roads of West Texasoutside of Canyon, Texas.
I've been basicallycircumventing around this globe
ever since I was in my twenties.
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And so everything that I dois based on that wanderlust.
When I started the Beefinitiative,
I knew I couldn'tdo it from behind
the digital screen, in whichI spent a lot of my career.
I knew that
I had to get back to the rootsin so many different ways.
One of those is driving acrossthis country in this year.
Last year was reconnaissance.
(03:46):
This year.
Well,we're going to tell every story.
It's a fascinating story.
It's like Jack Kerouac,cowboy style,
modern day cattle drive style.
There's a lot of new aspectsto this.
We're going to throwin a little Baxter
Black little Johnny Cash.
So my role within the Beefinitiative is now truly is to be
(04:08):
the number one spokespersonfor the beef initiative.
The ranchersproducers are the ones
that are orchestratingthe beef initiative.
We meet, we talk,we have these strategy sessions,
we learn pain points.
And I'm going to saybefore we get started
on the storytelling
today of where we've been
the last couple of weeksor last month, I guess, is
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that every rancher producerget your butt
into the beef initiative.
We're about savingthe great American rancher.
This is not about competition.
We want to hear from everyonethat is involved in agriculture,
not in any formor fashion in the United States.
We're taking a stand.
We're not validatingthe deceptions.
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And we want to hear your story
because of that, becausewe want to hear your story.
We don't want you to payfor your story to be heard.
Here we are.
We're an outside of Shirley,Illinois.
Is that a placethat's been here for 200 years?
Folks,It is the source of the seed of
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maybe grain within livestockwhere at least we came from.
We're getting closer and closer.
200 years ago,the Funk family came here
and it's called Funk Farmsand it's a trust now
and it's outside of Shirley,Illinois.
This is where we're sitting.
They are modern daycattle people, cattle
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men and cattle, women.
They're carrying to carryingtheir heritage along.
They're moving forward.
And they came all the wayfrom Illinois, drove
all the way to Virginia,and they don't have time
nor the money,nor the resources
to be gone for four daysin which
they were to come to GingerHill,
come to the GingerHill Angus Beef Initiative
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Summit, whichwill now be an annual summit.
But let'sstart from the beginning
and then we'll end up back here.
So me and my boy went across
a couple of hemispheres
on to several continentcontinents over two months.
A lot of y'all sawthat it was a rite of passage.
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It's a rite of passagefor Finley, my son and myself,
a father and son,keeping promises, getting away
from all of this pressure,the crazy prohibition
that was
enforced on that generation,the mindset of the generation
that had to sit at homeduring COVID is criminal, that
it was created in the innocenceof our children.
(06:39):
And so this trip withmy son was a rite of passage
for him, saying, Hey,you don't have to be afraid.
It's time to step up.
It's time to become a man.
And this is going to helpyou give you a vision.
Your dad has a lot of whomhe's had a lot of them.
So come along.
But now we're finishedwith that journey.
My son was damn tired of me.
(07:01):
I tell everybody that comesinto the beef initiative,
including my son.
If you all get in here,
get ready because you're goingto work your ass off.
And I mean that.
And then all you producers
and ranchers,you're already doing that.
Well, let's work smarter,not as hard.
And you're going to leverage
the beef initiativeand the voice that we're going
to givethe great American rancher
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during these times
because it's needed andwe're at a precipice of time.
There's somethingthat needs to change.
This nation needs a voice.
But that voice is sometimesfrom the basically the source
and how we got here,how we got here.
It's the greatAmerican rancher producer.
So me,
my son struck out fromWest Texas, and we drove his El
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Camino 1976, El Camino,500 miles to Austin, Texas.
I dropped him off even to spendsome time with his friends.
And then I was off andI was straight to the airport,
had to go pick up June,and he flew in from Florida.
And then where do we have to go?
Well,we had to go meet Justin Trammel
of Tear Balloon Panhandle meetoutside of Canyon, Texas.
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Justin was the first rancherthat I shook hands with.
And what was he doing in Austin,Texas?
Well, he's been there
while I was gallivanting aroundthe globe.
Justin was in Austin, Texas,working with legislation,
working with Farm and RanchFreedom Alliance.
He's basically
leading
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the passing of legislationin that we have three laws
coming up in Texas.
They're market access laws.
Remember that? Market access?
I'm going to be saying thatfor the next decade.
What is your marketaccess to clean food?
Ask yourself. Take a pause.
Ask yourself right now,
what is your marketaccess to clean food?
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Who do you have to go through?
What hoopsdo you have to go through?
What regulations are keepingyou from it?
What nefarious mediacommunications news programs,
doctors?
Who is stopping you
from having market access to thebest nutrition on the planet?
Because that's what we producein the United States.
No matter what we look likeas a nation in our health,
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which it has been destroyed,it is bankrupt.
We still produce the best foodin the world.
Who does that?
The regenerativefarmer and rancher,
especially those people thathave been around for 200 years.
So Justin and Jun did a podcast,if you haven't seen it,
it's last week right therein front of the Capitol.
And then we went down to Luling,Texas, spent the night
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and had some barbecue
and we went out there andwe met up with hometown meat.
Of course,
June and I, we were over thereto Barresi Ranch earlier
and we met up with Jason Clyde,another podcast.
And you guys have seen
so what we're doing,we're making the rounds.
Folks were giving the ranchera voice in a way that nobody's
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really been able to achievebefore
because we we're podcasting 2.0.
We're decentralized,decentralized communications.
So Clyde, Jason,we met up with Ronnie.
Oh, Bush, of course,
called Bolton County cattleHometown means second rancher.
I shook hands with Carl Bolton.
You're going to hear a lot more
from Carl Bolton,that's for sure,
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because he's runningone of the best
processing centersin this nation.
He's had some painful times.
But guess what?
Justin and Coleman Justin runin a micro processing center
up in the Panhandle,the Texas Cobalt Bolton run
in a regional processing centerdown there in Luling, Texas,
right next to Gonzales County,most populated
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county of cattle per capitain the state of Texas.
It is basically
one of the founding countiesof the state of Texas.
Look it up.
It's historical, folks.
Well, we spent thattime down there in central Texas
when we embarked on the backroads of Texas in June, captured
monumental amounts of footageof the backroads of Texas
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and how much land is out there
that the modern dayand the cattlemen of days gone
by are using,regenerating, growing,
using the land tools,
some of the
most beautiful country,some of the most beautiful cows.
Highway 21 all the way up,all the way up to East Texas.
(11:22):
We spent and spentthe night there in East Texas.
Can't name remember where now.
And but I knowwe were pointing to Arkansas
because we were going to goand of course,
meet up with Todd, which I meta year ago this was now the.
How many times have I seen Todd?
One, two, three.
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I think this was the fourthtime.
And now what?
Tomorrowwe're pointing back to Arkansas.
But first we had to goand have dinner with Todd.
He cooked up all bull that hehad there for about seven years.
And so we had beef intelligence.
We talked about the Ozark BeefInitiative summit
that comes up on the fifthand 6th of May this next week.
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Today,you're probably looking at this.
Hopefully it's Wednesday.
Get your butt to PrairieGrove, Arkansas.
That'swhere we're headed, folks.
And so John Todd, June, Ashley,all of us,
we sat down thereand we gave grace,
we gave thanks,
and we talked about the journeyin which we came together.
All you ranchers and producers.
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I didn't know Todd a year ago,
and now he's holding a summitin his small town of Prairie
Grove, Arkansas.
There's meaning behind that.
This is not a marketing plan.
This is to help everybody regrowtheir communities.
Todd's got speakers.
He's got people in his communitycoming to this summit.
He organized it.
I didn't organize it.
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That was last year.
The people that organizethis year
are the producers themselves,and the beef initiative is there
to help, to instruct, to consultand to advise and to support
and to bring a voice in a waythat has never been done off.
From Arkansas, we headed towards
Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee,see be finished of last year.
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I met up with Rod, met upwith Josh, met up with Kim
Mills, met up with the crew,their Bitcoin part.
I don't know how many timesI've been there,
but we've already had a summitthere.
Last year in Octoberit was December.
We're going to have a onethis year in October.
Nashville,Make your plans, everybody.
You're going to be in Nashvillein October.
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Tennessee Beef InitiativeSummit second annual one.
So get ready.
I spent a couple of daysthere, did some editing.
I started doing thatlittle thing.
Think we started therein Luling, Texas.
As I am Texas,I'm checking in with Texas.
Sam So you guys go to Twitter,check that at Modern Teen Man.
Start following you, gettingdaily updates from here on out
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every morning, 7:00 Central,you're going to get an update
no matter where we are,how ugly it is, how beautiful
it is,how tired I am, whatever it is.
You guys are getting updatesfrom here on out
seven daysa week, Manatee, man on Twitter.
It's going to talk about where
we've been, where we areand where we're going.
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That'sexactly the story of my life.
And then it's making ita story of your life.
And so from Nashville,we headed out towards Virginia,
and basicallywe spent the night,
I don't know, righton the border of Tennessee.
And Carolina, I believe, wasn'tthe same path I took last year
because we were just wantingto get to Ginger Hill,
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Ginger Hill, Angus, DoctorBrooke Miller.
And and and what we did iswe were anticipating.
Have you all ever seen Virginia?
Have you ever seenthat part of Virginia?
It's not in the ShenandoahValley.
It's a little bit removed,about 70 miles.
Some of the oldest parts of thiscountry, Washington, Virginia.
(14:54):
I said it before and I misspoke.
It's the first townshipthat ever called itself
Washington in the United States.
I thinkyou've seen some footage.
You're going to see some footage
as you're watching this podcastof everything that transpired.
We've got so many hoursof footage and one person
that really stepped upwas Bitcoin shooter.
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Michael showed up,flew all the way from L.A.,
didn't get paid a dime
because the beef initiativeis about volunteers
that are getting valuefor value exchange.
He showed up at Ginger
Hill Angus,and he filmed the whole thing.
We've got the interviewswith Dr.
Robert Malone and Dr.
Sabine Hazen.
We have, of course,
brought Brooke Miller, everybodythat was involved
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with the Beef InitiativeSummit at Ginger Hill.
We have it on videoand we're going to be releasing
it's going to be partof a documentary, maybe a movie.
I don't know.
We got some peoplestarting to pay attention to us.
Finally, one person there wasJohn John of Epoch Times.
He came a daybasically the morning of
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and he spent time with meand he talked
and then he invited me to doAmerican thought leaders in D.C.
that following Monday.
So we had a lot of people there.
We had a lotof great discussions.
We had a nation coming togetherright there at Ginger
Hill, Angus US Cattlemen'sAssociation, in which Brooke
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just now finished his tenureas president, we had Leah.
She's basically askingand we're in negotiations
for the Beef Initiative
and the US Cattlemen'sAssociation to partner up now,
we had people coming frombetter Fed feeds.
We had the funk fam, we hadBrian and Carrie come from
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farms.
As I told you, they droveall the way out there, sat
right there in the frontand listened to everyone speak.
We had a cattlemen's feastthat we're putting on
and holding across this nation.
If you guys want a cattlemen'sfeast,
go to definition the dot com.
Contact us.
Let us know we're bringing it.
We're going to bring it acrossthis nation.
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It's a workshop.We cut up a cow.
You learn cuts of the cow, Texaslimbs, cuts.
It's come in strong working onproduct design with cobalt.
And right now in thereand just some surprises
coming down that cattledrive path.
So Ginger Hill, the workshop,the Cattlemen's
Feast,everybody absolutely loved it.
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Buckshot was his nameand I appreciate him.
And we honored him.
Some of the best beef folks,the best beef in the world
comes through the gatesof the beef initiative.
Brooke Miller, his ranch,
generational generationsand generations of people
that have stewarded beefintelligence in this nation.
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It's what you are yearning for.
Folks quit trying so hardnot to pay attention.
Quit trying so hard
not to basically sharethis podcast 100 times.
I dare you, becausethis is about intentionality
you living right now.
This is a bigger causethan any of us
basically hearing this voice, mespeaking,
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Anybody that you share thiswith, this is a movement.
This is not a marketing plan.
This is not a 12 secondTik Tok video.
This is not an Instagram short.
What some LARPing
influencer talkingabout how he's a carnivore.
This is about savingchildren's lives.
This is a health initiative
that is being ledby the great American rancher.
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This is a health initiativethat is being led
by the great American rancher.
Make no bones about it.
This is serious business.
But you know what?
We're going to make it love,caring, authentic,
full of integrity, transparency,everything
that everybody's yearning for,they just don't know it.
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We're bringing health backto this nation.
And the great American rancheris going to be the first one
that startssaving children's lives.
We had all kinds of great
talks at the summit,and then on Sunday,
we even battled a rainstormcame through there.
Everybody, not a soul left.
We finished off the nightwith a lot of grace,
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a lot of gratitude,a wonderful cattlemen's feast.
And on Sunday, we did rest.
We rested as a family.
Brooke and Amanda, Matt
Hodge,everybody that we met there.
I'm sorry if I'm leaving.
Yeah,there's a lot of big names,
but your family now,
the part of the beef initiative,
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and they're going to bea strong voice
for the great American rancherBrooke Miller has been yelling
from the freaking mountaintopfor ten years.
Everybody share this podcast.
Get it out there.
This is a call to action.
And that's what I saidduring the speech.
And you're going to be ableto see that
if you go to the Substack Texasone dot substack dot com,
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you'll be able to see a 12minute basically video clip,
but you'regoing to be able to see more.
After we rested.
We were off to DC Mondaymorning at 6:00 and who
practice travel packwell and did
she took us in she sent us offand she said hit the road,
be safeand let's get going boys.
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And that's what we did.
John was waiting for usin DC at one
on one Constitution Avenue.
We did a little Hi,
I'm checking in with Texans,so I'm right there in
front of the nation's capital.
And then we went up and Johnbasically was a wonderful host.
We had about twoand a half hours
we spent with himabout an hour and a half.
I believe that our article thatinterview will be coming out.
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American thought leaders,they've had Dr.
Sabina Hasan on it.
They've had Robert KennedyJr just finished.
If you all heart
paying attention
that part times in Americanthought leaders with you on
you need to get there right nowgo subscribe pay attention
there are clean newsorganization
they're grassroots just like theUS Cattlemen's Association,
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just like the beef initiative.
We're all grassroots here
and we're working and we'recollaborating together.
Thank you. John Epoch Times.
American Thought Leaders Can'tWait to see the Interview.
Hopefully I did.
Did it justicefor basically the beef
initiative and all the ranchersthat we're producing.
After DC,we went off to West Virginia
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and I'm going to name offsome names here.
We have not been without beef,regenerative beef, the best
beef in the worldsince we left West Texas,
traveling in a pickup truck.
I don't know how many steaksthat I've cooked on the tailgate
with my propane burger.
Me and June sitting out thereat the pocket night
cutting board that actually Toddand Todd made for me
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from Wood of his ranchand actually a lot of water
out of his homein which he grew with.
It's been there for a long dangtime.
I'm not going to
say any dates,but it's I'd say over 100 years,
just like everything out there,Ginger Hill,
just like Funk Farms, 200 years.
But anyways, we've got into WestVirginia, which we stepped on
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over the border of into Marylandand we found some beef at.
Let me look here it is
to see there's so much beef thatI can't remember all the names
and I'malways calling people out.
If you're going to show people
beef online,you better talk about it.
So anyways, we went offand we found Needwood Farms
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and right out there in Maryland,Needwood Farms,
fantastic beef.
They were suspect of old Texaslamb.
They didn't know what tothink of me. But you know what?
We got some beef.
They fed us.We had a good story.
They even have
a small processingplant out there called Wagner.
So see, folks,
there's peoplethere's communities
that have been doing thisfor a long time.
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You need to create your marketaccess.
You need
to turn off the Netflix,turn off the TV where you stand.
You startdoing your own reconnaissance,
you get out there,you find out where
those processing centers are.
You find outif they have processing centers.
You find out who those ranchersand producers are,
and you go shake their hands
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and you say, Will you educate mewhat is going on here?
What do you need from me?What do you need
from your community?Let's do this together.
This is a collaboration.
Have you heard of the beefinitiative?
Let's get your butt in there.
We've only had three ranchersthat I asked to be
in the beef initiative.
Everybody else has putthemselves in there voluntarily
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because they heard it.
Because they heard grass roots,
grass fed,and they heard word of mouth.
They had some handshakesthat it went on.
So you folks dothe same. It's a call to action.
You are now the marketing armof the great American rancher,
just like Needwood Farms therein Maryland using Wagner
Processing Center.
So we've been eating welland we kind of hung
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out in the sticksthere in West Virginia.
Mountain Mama had areally good, nice day there,
wonderful little
place called the train Station,and it was out of cash.
What is that place?
You know, that real famous placein West Virginia
that everybody loves is HarpersFerry, of course.
So it's close to Harpers Ferry,
very beautifulpart of the country.
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You guys ever been in WestVirginia?
You need to get there.They got some good beef.
Anyways,we kind of got rested up there
in West Virginia,and then we headed off to Ohio.
Don't even know where we stayed
in Ohio,but we were outside of Columbus.
It was more of a workingovernight stay.
We're very busy.Lots of phone calls.
(24:33):
Didn't have much timeto even get the camera out.
But we did do a checkingand checking in with Texas.
Remember,get on Twitter daily, check ins,
share it, sharethose with everybody.
Let's get going.
Let's make this basicallya live stream
the rest of the year,because this is this is the year
the great Americanrancher has a voice from Ohio.
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We went to Indiana.
I ended up on a county squarejust by chance, and
it was called Nobles in place,Covington, Covington, Indiana.
Wonderful little Airbnb there.
Stayed the night, didanother check in County Square.
Looks a lot like canyon, Texas.
Guess what?We had some more beef.
Had it on the tailgate,had it in
the kitchen,had it for breakfast.
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We haven't done without.
And I'm traveling on the road
and everybody asked me,How do you do this, Slim?
How do you travel on the road?
Well, it's not that hard.
Whenever you go out and shakeranchers hands,
everybody always say, well,I can't find a rancher.
Well, I found I don't knowhow many on this trip,
how long we got just in travel.
We got coal boltsand we got Jason, We got Clyde.
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Who else do we have?We've got him.
And it's unlimited, folks.
No more excuses.
No more rationalization.
No more justification.
Get this party started.
It's a modern daycattle drive from Indiana.
We ended up gas where Park
Farms 1824.
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Brian and Carrie came to GingerHill.
Fascinating story.
Look it up. Go to their website.
I'm going to do a challenge hereand I you you call farms
and you ask them say,hey, I can't be there in person.
And if you can come in person,
come in person,because it's a beautiful place.
As you can see,this is just a small part of it.
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They've got historyon the walls.
They got history in the soil.
They got a history in the beef,got a retail front,
they got milk,they got beef bacon,
they got honey,they got maple sirup.
They've gotI think it's called a food shed,
food locker,whatever it is, It's a community
that's being supportedby their local rancher, producer
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that's been here for 200 years.
It's called Heritagefolks. It's called culture.
It's called legacy.
It's called market accessthat you can create for yourself
and for your children.
Quit allowing your children
to eat the deceptions,Quit validating the deceptions.
This place has proof for work200 years
that they are survivedthe manipulation of the seed,
(27:10):
the genetically modified,the bioengineered,
the chemical, multinational,chemical and grain companies.
Guess what?
They're still here.They're still feeding.
They're still
feeding from the soilin which where they came from.
You should see the soil here.
It's absolutely gorgeous.
It has a density,dark color to it.
(27:31):
I wish West Texaslooked like that,
but it doesn't anymore.
But it does right here,because I've been doing
something right for 200 years.
You guys want to knowhow to do it?
You guys regenerative
that clean food, clean living,clean farming, ranching.
You want to know about it?
Give them the call.
Call up foreign farms.
Ask them.
They got a museum here, too.
(27:53):
Actually, there's a museum here.
So you know what?
You can spend the weekend here.
They got lodging.That's what we're doing.
They don't have lodgingon the farm.
Maybe we can make that happenone of these days.
But what are we going, folks?
Are we going to do it together?
We did aninterview with Brian yesterday.
We had dinner, we broke bread.
(28:13):
We didn't have any bread.
We had a tenderloin and a big,big pecan yet.
Do y'all knowwhat a bacon you cut is on?
Let me tell you a story. Bacon.
You cut supportersof the back in there.
Okay. But you know what?The butcher is usually do?
They usually don't sellthe bacon.
You cut back in the day.
They kept it for themselves.
Some of the best beefyou're going to have,
(28:35):
you know,you're how you're going
to find that through Texas Slimscuts.
We're going to reeducateeverybody
of what you've been missingall this years.
And I'm going to startsaying something.
Will you reason you don't knowthat corn.
You've only bought your beef
from the supermarketnow, haven't you?
Once you
ask the right questions,you don't
have to ask the right questions.
You already know because you'rein the beef finished.
(28:57):
And you you're actually beingeducated by Texas Slims cuts,
maybe old butch,maybe old farms,
maybe the 160 true producersand ranchers that are soon to be
I don't know.
We're going to open up10,000 gates across this country
so we can what
so we could what?
So we can feed a millionchildren in this nation.
(29:19):
That's the call to action.
It's always been that way.
We're going to consult,we're going to educate.
We're going to checkeach other's hands.
We're going to have dinnerwith each other.
We're going to haveconversations.
We're going to say
no to the Divisionof Interpersonal communication.
We're going to speak louder.
We're going to speakwith confidence.
We're not going to be guests
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working around beefintelligence,
because the best beefintelligence is coming
right straightthrough the beef initiative,
because what are we doingsitting right here?
We're giving media kitsto ever rancher producer
that opens up their gateacross the United States.
It's a challenge.
I've beendoing this my whole life.
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If you've gotsomething that you want to say,
if you've got something special,if you've got history
that's been here for hundredsof centuries
of educationthat lies within these walls,
you ranchers and producers,
if you're doing somethingthat is truth in food,
authentic, is basedin integrity, transparency,
(30:22):
and you want peopleto know who you are,
you want to havethat digital voice
that they have made surethat you have never had
to be finished.
It's Texas Slims Media.
It's people like Juneexecutive producer.
One year ago,
one year ago,he was in Philadelphia.
Now he lives in Florida.
(30:42):
And guess what?
There's a Floridabeef initiative now.
And ranchers, Leonard,you can about to hear
a lot more about Florida.
They're selling beef.
They'rebuilding their community.
Ron and Kerry here.
They'regoing to have a summit here.
Don't know when, but it's lockedin and it's got an airport.
It's got an interstate,
(31:03):
it's got lodging,and it's going to be loaded
with all kinds of beefintelligence.
We're cooking on the tailgate.
We're driving.
Now, where are we pointingor pointing?
Back to Arkansas.
All right.
Ozark Beef Initiative, Summit15 six, Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
Todd, Todd.
Wow, what a beautiful,beautiful human being.
(31:26):
And I'm a much better personfor getting to meet him.
And I owe him.
I owe him.
I'm forever indebted.
I have an obligation to behis voice, because guess what?
Our producers
and ranchers don't have a voicebecause you don't know.
But nowthey're going to know you
and you are going to know them
(31:46):
because you arenow their marketing arm.
Every timeyou have a conversation
about food,you're going to bring up
your American rancher producer.
Every time you talkabout beef online
and on the Internet,on social media,
you're going to bring up yourgreat American rancher, producer
and if you don't have one,
you're going to be bringing upthe beef initiative.
You're going to go find one.
(32:07):
This is about
saving children's livesacross this nation, folks.
And I'm going to get very loudand very stern.
I'm going to get a little cowboyon you from West Texas.
A little history about me.
Never had any money.
All I had was a wealthof knowledge
when it came to basicallyhandshakes.
Look at a manor woman in the eye
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and being full of integritybecause of my grandpa. So
this is what this place is.
This is what this nation wants.
This is what this nation is isinviting you to participate in.
You don't have to askfor permission.
You can lead forwardwith integrity
in what you're going to dois you're going to follow this.
(32:50):
It's the modern day cattlemen,and each one of us is learning
how to be the modern daycattlemen and cattle.
Woman.
It's the type of beefintelligence.
It's the type of health intelligence that our kids deserve.
Turn off the TV,
Get busy.
I dare you to share thisa hundred times, everyone.
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If we get 10,000 ranchersto open up the gates
of the United States of America,
we will basically change historywithin the beef industry.
It's word of mouth.
It's based on integrity,honesty, transparency.
It's not judgment.
This is not competition.
Ranchers and producers,
that's basicallywhat they started in 1971.
(33:34):
We're not going to play thatgame.
This is a collaboration.
We're all one big family.
We're going to act like it.
What we're going to dois we're going to join forces
at the dinner tables
within our counties,within our regions,
within our stateand across this nation.
Once we do thatwill basically shift this global
industrial food shiftthat is unfolding in front of us
(33:56):
and will stop it in its tracks.
Your consumer demandis the reason they are able to
basically facilitate the changeswithin our food industry.
Take ownership of that.
It's a slow stepinto changing your behavior
when it comesto your consumption
model of your audioand your video and your food.
It's okay. Slow step into it.
(34:16):
Start with your rancher.
Start with that handshake.
Once we leave Arkansas, we'regoing to go back to West Texas.
We're going to be filming almosta mini documentary back there.
Y'all want to come to West Texas
whereyou're going to be coming there
because we're going to establishsomething there
right outside of Panhandle meat.
We've got our first client
within the BeefInitiative Association Council.
(34:37):
We're starting to buildprocessing centers across Texas.
Y'allgoing to come along for a ride.
You will learn how to do it.
Go to TBI,Acey dawg, figure it out.
We're here.
We're going to be consulting,
we're going to be
bringing truth and food back.
And then after that,we're going to go to Colorado
(34:59):
and see Jasonand Rick of Rick Ranches.
Do you know, he'sa first generational educator.
He's one of the best educatorsin regenerative
farming and ranchingthat I know.
Guess what?
He gets a grant this year.
It's a $10,000 grantto stop everything right now.
Everything go to be finished,dot com forward slash donation.
(35:20):
Get in there and see whatthat is.
It's a basically a grant programthat is a nonprofit.
It's a nonprofit money.
Guess what I believe BrookeMiller and Miller, everybody,
they're going to donate to it.
Why do you think they had theirsummit there in Ginger Hill
so they could give toall of the nonprofits?
(35:41):
They they feel they didn'tmake any money off of that.
They opened up their gates.
They met new people.
They got some new beefintelligence.
They spread beef intelligence
furtherand wider across this nation.
The only thing they gainedwas basically
they didn't gainany monetary value.
Yet what they did is they solda little bit of their legacy.
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Jason Rick.
Well, he wants to do the samefirst generational kiss, $10,000
grant this year.
Let's get it funded folks
Beef initiative dotcom for slash donation.
We're goingto go out to Colorado
I believe my good friend Bubba,which is the first person
to ever sharethe harvest of deception.
Have y'all readThe Harvest of Deception?
Well, you need to get thereand read it.
But he basically spread it out
(36:25):
and he got meon my first podcast ever.
Well, he's going to cometo Colorado with this.
It's going to be one big party.
We're going to have Bubba,his lovely wife.
We're going to have June. Me.
Jason's going to be there.
Jason's Family is going to bethere.
We're going to have dronefootage coverage.
Y'all ever know what needle rockis? Look it up.
It's rightthere in the North Fork Valley
outside of Crawford, Colorado.We're heading there next, I
(36:48):
guess, where this
party ends on this leg of thistour of this journey.
Well, we'reheading back to Austin, Texas,
and we're going to go
wrap it up full circlethere, hometown mates.
And we'll start back offfrom panhandle
matesand charge up with old Justin.
We might even take Justin backwith this.
Maybelegislation will be back in.
But anyways, Panhandle Meatshometown meat
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processing center is the centerof the universe, folks.
That's where all our beef comesthrough. The beef initiative.
You know what our goal isthis year?
I'll be straight up honestand transparent with you.
We're goingto sell the most beef
that we can through the beefinitiative.
Texas Slimscuts, K and C, cattle.
Holy cow.
(37:31):
Jason. Rick of Rick Ranches.
Justin Trammell, PanhandleMade's Tare bloom handle.
Guess what? Frank Farms trusts.
Everybody is in the beefinitiative.
We're going to gather around
and we're going to sell morebeef than the multinationals
and what they're goingto start paying attention
because they're goingto start learning from us.
(37:51):
This is how you feedyour community.
So say now quitvalidating the deceptions,
get into the beef initiative,
and I'm going to get very loudbecause I'm Texas.
Slim. Are you?
Hey, guys.
June B here,
Co-Founder, executiveproducer, Texas Slim’s Media.
(38:15):
And if you're tuningin on YouTube, look,
you're going to see I'mstanding here.
We're happy, happy,
happy as a sweet horse.
A very sweet horse.
(38:37):
And we are in Farmington,Missouri.
I think that's how I say it.
And boy,
I can't believe I'm traveling
around this whole great country.
I'm from Philly.
(38:59):
Shout out to the 215.
A long way from home.
It feels amazing.
So if you're tuning in on
YouTube, you'll get to seea lot of our travels.
(39:20):
Now the show iscompletely changed.
I'm not sure whothis young buck is,
but they're very sweet to.
You'll see that I am on
Bitcoin Ranch, like I said,in Farmington, Missouri,
(39:40):
and I'ma long from home and boy,
it feels good.
I get to travelaround the country
visiting the mostbeautiful ranches
in America,
mostly traveling on back roads,
and it snakes offgirl, girl to go
(40:06):
off to cast iron pan.
These guys want to want to
come and shop.
But really, I'm just here
to read some Bruce messages and,
you know, show you,
show you the horses here.
Shout out to our amazing host,
(40:27):
Ryan here on Bitcoin Ranch.
This is a
an air gapped facilityaside from Texas Slims media.
So this is some pretty exclusivecontent.
We're going to have a way foryou guys to boost stats
and give us messageshere on the YouTube channel.
(40:51):
We'll figure that outand then next coming weeks.
But in themeantime, for everybody, tune
in on podcasting 2.0found on that breeze
and wherever else you enjoythe podcasting 2.0 revolution.
Want to give a big shout outto you guys and thank you
for tuning in and streamingand boosting every single week.
(41:14):
First up, we got 1000
shots from Nomad Joe.
He says Eat more Florida beef.
5000 sets from smart growth
vacations.
LA Well, trymy damnedest to get the wife off
to a vacationbefore she blows up our ranch.
(41:39):
A thousand shots from bicycleBitcoin
boost the signal to noise
and hopefully the signalscoming in clear.
It's a little windy out heretoday in Missouri.
We got 1111 Sandstrom.
Joel W
(41:59):
apparently needs
a satchel of Richards
that weall know what that means.
1500 shots from Bruce.
Our line keep on preachingfix the food.
Thank you for bringing us Dr.
Miller Absolutely.
That was an excellent episode.
(42:20):
1776 is a freedomboost from Joe Biden.
Sucks.
These
folks better get right with God.
Learn a skill stacksome sets and eat more beef.
Thanks, Joe.
30,000 shotsfrom our main man, Bubba.
That's my rancher right there.
(42:41):
Good work, boys.
The wildfires catch a wind.
So thanks to everybodywho listened last week
and who's tuning in to YouTube
and found and brings
for the ranching
2.0 Podcasting 2.0.
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Revolution.
That's all I got for today.
What can I say?
Goodbye.
I'm happy over here real quick.
I'm sure they want to saysomething.
How you doing?
I'm happy.
Happy is a very sweet horse.
(43:25):
And I'm happy to be here with.
All right. I'll take care.
We're in a very,very special place tonight.
We're recording it Sunday night.
We're in Illinois.
And it's been a journeyonce again here.
This dude calling himselfTexas Slim has gone
all over the country againand we can't find him.
Where's Waldo?Where's Texas Slim?
But it's been a hell of ajourney.
(00:58):
Last year,I did this journey not like this
kind of rhymes to this year.
But what I didn't do isI didn't film it.
It was reconnaissance.
I've told a lot of people this.
Today is going to be,I don't know,
maybe some storytelling placeswhere we've been,
where we areand where we're going.
(01:19):
I'm getting betterat telling stories.
I was talking to June,our wonderful
executive producerfor Texas Times Media.
He's along on this trip.
He's the one that'sgot the set up.
He's basicallyincreasing the production
value of everything that we dowithin the beef initiative
for our ranchers,
(01:40):
for our producers,for our farmers, for everybody
that basically is funnelinginto the beef initiative.
June is our executive producerthat is raising that bar.
So everybody applaud.
Thank you, June.Thank you, June.
Thank you, June.But he's along for the ride.
And so we've beenobtaining equipment
throughout the last year,
(02:00):
ever since one year ago,we were in Kerrville, Texas.
Whenever I saidthat we were going to have that,
we're running for conferencesin one year.
Everybody thought I was crazyand everybody basically
tried to talk me out of ithonestly.
And that'sthe last thing you do with me,
is try to talk me out of it.
Whenever I was 19 years old,I that year
(02:22):
that I moved to Austin,a lot of people know that.
I've told that story many times.
I left small town Texas,and I was looking for life.
I was full of wanderlustand made it to Austin.
But that same 12 month period,I headed up towards Maine
and there was a mountain upthere.
It's called Cadillac Mountain.
(02:43):
Y'all look it upMount Desert Island.
There's a rock up therethat you can sit on top of.
And if you
if you're the first personon that rock,
first time in the morning,you can be the first person
that sees that sunrisein the United States.
I think this is probablythe 11th time
I've drivenacross the United States
in different various forms
and fashions interstates, backroads, dirt roads.
(03:05):
It doesn't really matter.I've done it.
I know how to navigateacross this country.
I've been doing it all my life.
I had my licensewhen I was 15 years old
in the dirt roads of West Texasoutside of Canyon, Texas.
I've been basicallycircumventing around this globe
ever since I was in my twenties.
(03:25):
And so everything that I dois based on that wanderlust.
When I started the Beefinitiative,
I knew I couldn'tdo it from behind
the digital screen, in whichI spent a lot of my career.
I knew that
I had to get back to the rootsin so many different ways.
One of those is driving acrossthis country in this year.
Last year was reconnaissance.
(03:46):
This year.
Well,we're going to tell every story.
It's a fascinating story.
It's like Jack Kerouac,cowboy style,
modern day cattle drive style.
There's a lot of new aspectsto this.
We're going to throwin a little Baxter
Black little Johnny Cash.
So my role within the Beefinitiative is now truly is to be
(04:08):
the number one spokespersonfor the beef initiative.
The ranchersproducers are the ones
that are orchestratingthe beef initiative.
We meet, we talk,we have these strategy sessions,
we learn pain points.
And I'm going to saybefore we get started
on the storytelling
today of where we've been
the last couple of weeksor last month, I guess, is
(04:29):
that every rancher producerget your butt
into the beef initiative.
We're about savingthe great American rancher.
This is not about competition.
We want to hear from everyonethat is involved in agriculture,
not in any formor fashion in the United States.
We're taking a stand.
We're not validatingthe deceptions.
(04:51):
And we want to hear your story
because of that, becausewe want to hear your story.
We don't want you to payfor your story to be heard.
Here we are.
We're an outside of Shirley,Illinois.
Is that a placethat's been here for 200 years?
Folks,It is the source of the seed of
(05:12):
maybe grain within livestockwhere at least we came from.
We're getting closer and closer.
200 years ago,the Funk family came here
and it's called Funk Farmsand it's a trust now
and it's outside of Shirley,Illinois.
This is where we're sitting.
They are modern daycattle people, cattle
(05:32):
men and cattle, women.
They're carrying to carryingtheir heritage along.
They're moving forward.
And they came all the wayfrom Illinois, drove
all the way to Virginia,and they don't have time
nor the money,nor the resources
to be gone for four daysin which
they were to come to GingerHill,
come to the GingerHill Angus Beef Initiative
(05:54):
Summit, whichwill now be an annual summit.
But let'sstart from the beginning
and then we'll end up back here.
So me and my boy went across
a couple of hemispheres
on to several continentcontinents over two months.
A lot of y'all sawthat it was a rite of passage.
(06:15):
It's a rite of passagefor Finley, my son and myself,
a father and son,keeping promises, getting away
from all of this pressure,the crazy prohibition
that was
enforced on that generation,the mindset of the generation
that had to sit at homeduring COVID is criminal, that
it was created in the innocenceof our children.
(06:39):
And so this trip withmy son was a rite of passage
for him, saying, Hey,you don't have to be afraid.
It's time to step up.
It's time to become a man.
And this is going to helpyou give you a vision.
Your dad has a lot of whomhe's had a lot of them.
So come along.
But now we're finishedwith that journey.
My son was damn tired of me.
(07:01):
I tell everybody that comesinto the beef initiative,
including my son.
If you all get in here,
get ready because you're goingto work your ass off.
And I mean that.
And then all you producers
and ranchers,you're already doing that.
Well, let's work smarter,not as hard.
And you're going to leverage
the beef initiativeand the voice that we're going
to givethe great American rancher
(07:22):
during these times
because it's needed andwe're at a precipice of time.
There's somethingthat needs to change.
This nation needs a voice.
But that voice is sometimesfrom the basically the source
and how we got here,how we got here.
It's the greatAmerican rancher producer.
So me,
my son struck out fromWest Texas, and we drove his El
(07:44):
Camino 1976, El Camino,500 miles to Austin, Texas.
I dropped him off even to spendsome time with his friends.
And then I was off andI was straight to the airport,
had to go pick up June,and he flew in from Florida.
And then where do we have to go?
Well,we had to go meet Justin Trammel
of Tear Balloon Panhandle meetoutside of Canyon, Texas.
(08:08):
Justin was the first rancherthat I shook hands with.
And what was he doing in Austin,Texas?
Well, he's been there
while I was gallivanting aroundthe globe.
Justin was in Austin, Texas,working with legislation,
working with Farm and RanchFreedom Alliance.
He's basically
leading
(08:29):
the passing of legislationin that we have three laws
coming up in Texas.
They're market access laws.
Remember that? Market access?
I'm going to be saying thatfor the next decade.
What is your marketaccess to clean food?
Ask yourself. Take a pause.
Ask yourself right now,
what is your marketaccess to clean food?
(08:49):
Who do you have to go through?
What hoopsdo you have to go through?
What regulations are keepingyou from it?
What nefarious mediacommunications news programs,
doctors?
Who is stopping you
from having market access to thebest nutrition on the planet?
Because that's what we producein the United States.
No matter what we look likeas a nation in our health,
(09:11):
which it has been destroyed,it is bankrupt.
We still produce the best foodin the world.
Who does that?
The regenerativefarmer and rancher,
especially those people thathave been around for 200 years.
So Justin and Jun did a podcast,if you haven't seen it,
it's last week right therein front of the Capitol.
And then we went down to Luling,Texas, spent the night
(09:33):
and had some barbecue
and we went out there andwe met up with hometown meat.
Of course,
June and I, we were over thereto Barresi Ranch earlier
and we met up with Jason Clyde,another podcast.
And you guys have seen
so what we're doing,we're making the rounds.
Folks were giving the ranchera voice in a way that nobody's
(09:55):
really been able to achievebefore
because we we're podcasting 2.0.
We're decentralized,decentralized communications.
So Clyde, Jason,we met up with Ronnie.
Oh, Bush, of course,
called Bolton County cattleHometown means second rancher.
I shook hands with Carl Bolton.
You're going to hear a lot more
from Carl Bolton,that's for sure,
(10:16):
because he's runningone of the best
processing centersin this nation.
He's had some painful times.
But guess what?
Justin and Coleman Justin runin a micro processing center
up in the Panhandle,the Texas Cobalt Bolton run
in a regional processing centerdown there in Luling, Texas,
right next to Gonzales County,most populated
(10:36):
county of cattle per capitain the state of Texas.
It is basically
one of the founding countiesof the state of Texas.
Look it up.
It's historical, folks.
Well, we spent thattime down there in central Texas
when we embarked on the backroads of Texas in June, captured
monumental amounts of footageof the backroads of Texas
(10:59):
and how much land is out there
that the modern dayand the cattlemen of days gone
by are using,regenerating, growing,
using the land tools,
some of the
most beautiful country,some of the most beautiful cows.
Highway 21 all the way up,all the way up to East Texas.
(11:22):
We spent and spentthe night there in East Texas.
Can't name remember where now.
And but I knowwe were pointing to Arkansas
because we were going to goand of course,
meet up with Todd, which I meta year ago this was now the.
How many times have I seen Todd?
One, two, three.
(11:43):
I think this was the fourthtime.
And now what?
Tomorrowwe're pointing back to Arkansas.
But first we had to goand have dinner with Todd.
He cooked up all bull that hehad there for about seven years.
And so we had beef intelligence.
We talked about the Ozark BeefInitiative summit
that comes up on the fifthand 6th of May this next week.
(12:03):
Today,you're probably looking at this.
Hopefully it's Wednesday.
Get your butt to PrairieGrove, Arkansas.
That'swhere we're headed, folks.
And so John Todd, June, Ashley,all of us,
we sat down thereand we gave grace,
we gave thanks,
and we talked about the journeyin which we came together.
All you ranchers and producers.
(12:23):
I didn't know Todd a year ago,
and now he's holding a summitin his small town of Prairie
Grove, Arkansas.
There's meaning behind that.
This is not a marketing plan.
This is to help everybody regrowtheir communities.
Todd's got speakers.
He's got people in his communitycoming to this summit.
He organized it.
I didn't organize it.
(12:43):
That was last year.
The people that organizethis year
are the producers themselves,and the beef initiative is there
to help, to instruct, to consultand to advise and to support
and to bring a voice in a waythat has never been done off.
From Arkansas, we headed towards
Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee,see be finished of last year.
(13:06):
I met up with Rod, met upwith Josh, met up with Kim
Mills, met up with the crew,their Bitcoin part.
I don't know how many timesI've been there,
but we've already had a summitthere.
Last year in Octoberit was December.
We're going to have a onethis year in October.
Nashville,Make your plans, everybody.
You're going to be in Nashvillein October.
(13:27):
Tennessee Beef InitiativeSummit second annual one.
So get ready.
I spent a couple of daysthere, did some editing.
I started doing thatlittle thing.
Think we started therein Luling, Texas.
As I am Texas,I'm checking in with Texas.
Sam So you guys go to Twitter,check that at Modern Teen Man.
Start following you, gettingdaily updates from here on out
(13:49):
every morning, 7:00 Central,you're going to get an update
no matter where we are,how ugly it is, how beautiful
it is,how tired I am, whatever it is.
You guys are getting updatesfrom here on out
seven daysa week, Manatee, man on Twitter.
It's going to talk about where
we've been, where we areand where we're going.
(14:12):
That'sexactly the story of my life.
And then it's making ita story of your life.
And so from Nashville,we headed out towards Virginia,
and basicallywe spent the night,
I don't know, righton the border of Tennessee.
And Carolina, I believe, wasn'tthe same path I took last year
because we were just wantingto get to Ginger Hill,
(14:33):
Ginger Hill, Angus, DoctorBrooke Miller.
And and and what we did iswe were anticipating.
Have you all ever seen Virginia?
Have you ever seenthat part of Virginia?
It's not in the ShenandoahValley.
It's a little bit removed,about 70 miles.
Some of the oldest parts of thiscountry, Washington, Virginia.
(14:54):
I said it before and I misspoke.
It's the first townshipthat ever called itself
Washington in the United States.
I thinkyou've seen some footage.
You're going to see some footage
as you're watching this podcastof everything that transpired.
We've got so many hoursof footage and one person
that really stepped upwas Bitcoin shooter.
(15:16):
Michael showed up,flew all the way from L.A.,
didn't get paid a dime
because the beef initiativeis about volunteers
that are getting valuefor value exchange.
He showed up at Ginger
Hill Angus,and he filmed the whole thing.
We've got the interviewswith Dr.
Robert Malone and Dr.
Sabine Hazen.
We have, of course,
brought Brooke Miller, everybodythat was involved
(15:39):
with the Beef InitiativeSummit at Ginger Hill.
We have it on videoand we're going to be releasing
it's going to be partof a documentary, maybe a movie.
I don't know.
We got some peoplestarting to pay attention to us.
Finally, one person there wasJohn John of Epoch Times.
He came a daybasically the morning of
(15:59):
and he spent time with meand he talked
and then he invited me to doAmerican thought leaders in D.C.
that following Monday.
So we had a lot of people there.
We had a lotof great discussions.
We had a nation coming togetherright there at Ginger
Hill, Angus US Cattlemen'sAssociation, in which Brooke
(16:20):
just now finished his tenureas president, we had Leah.
She's basically askingand we're in negotiations
for the Beef Initiative
and the US Cattlemen'sAssociation to partner up now,
we had people coming frombetter Fed feeds.
We had the funk fam, we hadBrian and Carrie come from
(16:40):
farms.
As I told you, they droveall the way out there, sat
right there in the frontand listened to everyone speak.
We had a cattlemen's feastthat we're putting on
and holding across this nation.
If you guys want a cattlemen'sfeast,
go to definition the dot com.
Contact us.
Let us know we're bringing it.
We're going to bring it acrossthis nation.
(17:01):
It's a workshop.We cut up a cow.
You learn cuts of the cow, Texaslimbs, cuts.
It's come in strong working onproduct design with cobalt.
And right now in thereand just some surprises
coming down that cattledrive path.
So Ginger Hill, the workshop,the Cattlemen's
Feast,everybody absolutely loved it.
(17:23):
Buckshot was his nameand I appreciate him.
And we honored him.
Some of the best beef folks,the best beef in the world
comes through the gatesof the beef initiative.
Brooke Miller, his ranch,
generational generationsand generations of people
that have stewarded beefintelligence in this nation.
(17:45):
It's what you are yearning for.
Folks quit trying so hardnot to pay attention.
Quit trying so hard
not to basically sharethis podcast 100 times.
I dare you, becausethis is about intentionality
you living right now.
This is a bigger causethan any of us
basically hearing this voice, mespeaking,
(18:07):
Anybody that you share thiswith, this is a movement.
This is not a marketing plan.
This is not a 12 secondTik Tok video.
This is not an Instagram short.
What some LARPing
influencer talkingabout how he's a carnivore.
This is about savingchildren's lives.
This is a health initiative
that is being ledby the great American rancher.
(18:30):
This is a health initiativethat is being led
by the great American rancher.
Make no bones about it.
This is serious business.
But you know what?
We're going to make it love,caring, authentic,
full of integrity, transparency,everything
that everybody's yearning for,they just don't know it.
(18:51):
We're bringing health backto this nation.
And the great American rancheris going to be the first one
that startssaving children's lives.
We had all kinds of great
talks at the summit,and then on Sunday,
we even battled a rainstormcame through there.
Everybody, not a soul left.
We finished off the nightwith a lot of grace,
(19:12):
a lot of gratitude,a wonderful cattlemen's feast.
And on Sunday, we did rest.
We rested as a family.
Brooke and Amanda, Matt
Hodge,everybody that we met there.
I'm sorry if I'm leaving.
Yeah,there's a lot of big names,
but your family now,
the part of the beef initiative,
(19:32):
and they're going to bea strong voice
for the great American rancherBrooke Miller has been yelling
from the freaking mountaintopfor ten years.
Everybody share this podcast.
Get it out there.
This is a call to action.
And that's what I saidduring the speech.
And you're going to be ableto see that
if you go to the Substack Texasone dot substack dot com,
(19:54):
you'll be able to see a 12minute basically video clip,
but you'regoing to be able to see more.
After we rested.
We were off to DC Mondaymorning at 6:00 and who
practice travel packwell and did
she took us in she sent us offand she said hit the road,
be safeand let's get going boys.
(20:14):
And that's what we did.
John was waiting for usin DC at one
on one Constitution Avenue.
We did a little Hi,
I'm checking in with Texans,so I'm right there in
front of the nation's capital.
And then we went up and Johnbasically was a wonderful host.
We had about twoand a half hours
we spent with himabout an hour and a half.
I believe that our article thatinterview will be coming out.
(20:38):
American thought leaders,they've had Dr.
Sabina Hasan on it.
They've had Robert KennedyJr just finished.
If you all heart
paying attention
that part times in Americanthought leaders with you on
you need to get there right nowgo subscribe pay attention
there are clean newsorganization
they're grassroots just like theUS Cattlemen's Association,
(21:00):
just like the beef initiative.
We're all grassroots here
and we're working and we'recollaborating together.
Thank you. John Epoch Times.
American Thought Leaders Can'tWait to see the Interview.
Hopefully I did.
Did it justicefor basically the beef
initiative and all the ranchersthat we're producing.
After DC,we went off to West Virginia
(21:22):
and I'm going to name offsome names here.
We have not been without beef,regenerative beef, the best
beef in the worldsince we left West Texas,
traveling in a pickup truck.
I don't know how many steaksthat I've cooked on the tailgate
with my propane burger.
Me and June sitting out thereat the pocket night
cutting board that actually Toddand Todd made for me
(21:46):
from Wood of his ranchand actually a lot of water
out of his homein which he grew with.
It's been there for a long dangtime.
I'm not going to
say any dates,but it's I'd say over 100 years,
just like everything out there,Ginger Hill,
just like Funk Farms, 200 years.
But anyways, we've got into WestVirginia, which we stepped on
(22:07):
over the border of into Marylandand we found some beef at.
Let me look here it is
to see there's so much beef thatI can't remember all the names
and I'malways calling people out.
If you're going to show people
beef online,you better talk about it.
So anyways, we went offand we found Needwood Farms
(22:27):
and right out there in Maryland,Needwood Farms,
fantastic beef.
They were suspect of old Texaslamb.
They didn't know what tothink of me. But you know what?
We got some beef.
They fed us.We had a good story.
They even have
a small processingplant out there called Wagner.
So see, folks,
there's peoplethere's communities
that have been doing thisfor a long time.
(22:49):
You need to create your marketaccess.
You need
to turn off the Netflix,turn off the TV where you stand.
You startdoing your own reconnaissance,
you get out there,you find out where
those processing centers are.
You find outif they have processing centers.
You find out who those ranchersand producers are,
and you go shake their hands
(23:10):
and you say, Will you educate mewhat is going on here?
What do you need from me?What do you need
from your community?Let's do this together.
This is a collaboration.
Have you heard of the beefinitiative?
Let's get your butt in there.
We've only had three ranchersthat I asked to be
in the beef initiative.
Everybody else has putthemselves in there voluntarily
(23:31):
because they heard it.
Because they heard grass roots,
grass fed,and they heard word of mouth.
They had some handshakesthat it went on.
So you folks dothe same. It's a call to action.
You are now the marketing armof the great American rancher,
just like Needwood Farms therein Maryland using Wagner
Processing Center.
So we've been eating welland we kind of hung
(23:51):
out in the sticksthere in West Virginia.
Mountain Mama had areally good, nice day there,
wonderful little
place called the train Station,and it was out of cash.
What is that place?
You know, that real famous placein West Virginia
that everybody loves is HarpersFerry, of course.
So it's close to Harpers Ferry,
very beautifulpart of the country.
(24:13):
You guys ever been in WestVirginia?
You need to get there.They got some good beef.
Anyways,we kind of got rested up there
in West Virginia,and then we headed off to Ohio.
Don't even know where we stayed
in Ohio,but we were outside of Columbus.
It was more of a workingovernight stay.
We're very busy.Lots of phone calls.
(24:33):
Didn't have much timeto even get the camera out.
But we did do a checkingand checking in with Texas.
Remember,get on Twitter daily, check ins,
share it, sharethose with everybody.
Let's get going.
Let's make this basicallya live stream
the rest of the year,because this is this is the year
the great Americanrancher has a voice from Ohio.
(24:56):
We went to Indiana.
I ended up on a county squarejust by chance, and
it was called Nobles in place,Covington, Covington, Indiana.
Wonderful little Airbnb there.
Stayed the night, didanother check in County Square.
Looks a lot like canyon, Texas.
Guess what?We had some more beef.
Had it on the tailgate,had it in
the kitchen,had it for breakfast.
(25:18):
We haven't done without.
And I'm traveling on the road
and everybody asked me,How do you do this, Slim?
How do you travel on the road?
Well, it's not that hard.
Whenever you go out and shakeranchers hands,
everybody always say, well,I can't find a rancher.
Well, I found I don't knowhow many on this trip,
how long we got just in travel.
We got coal boltsand we got Jason, We got Clyde.
(25:41):
Who else do we have?We've got him.
And it's unlimited, folks.
No more excuses.
No more rationalization.
No more justification.
Get this party started.
It's a modern daycattle drive from Indiana.
We ended up gas where Park
Farms 1824.
(26:02):
Brian and Carrie came to GingerHill.
Fascinating story.
Look it up. Go to their website.
I'm going to do a challenge hereand I you you call farms
and you ask them say,hey, I can't be there in person.
And if you can come in person,
come in person,because it's a beautiful place.
As you can see,this is just a small part of it.
(26:25):
They've got historyon the walls.
They got history in the soil.
They got a history in the beef,got a retail front,
they got milk,they got beef bacon,
they got honey,they got maple sirup.
They've gotI think it's called a food shed,
food locker,whatever it is, It's a community
that's being supportedby their local rancher, producer
(26:47):
that's been here for 200 years.
It's called Heritagefolks. It's called culture.
It's called legacy.
It's called market accessthat you can create for yourself
and for your children.
Quit allowing your children
to eat the deceptions,Quit validating the deceptions.
This place has proof for work200 years
that they are survivedthe manipulation of the seed,
(27:10):
the genetically modified,the bioengineered,
the chemical, multinational,chemical and grain companies.
Guess what?
They're still here.They're still feeding.
They're still
feeding from the soilin which where they came from.
You should see the soil here.
It's absolutely gorgeous.
It has a density,dark color to it.
(27:31):
I wish West Texaslooked like that,
but it doesn't anymore.
But it does right here,because I've been doing
something right for 200 years.
You guys want to knowhow to do it?
You guys regenerative
that clean food, clean living,clean farming, ranching.
You want to know about it?
Give them the call.
Call up foreign farms.
Ask them.
They got a museum here, too.
(27:53):
Actually, there's a museum here.
So you know what?
You can spend the weekend here.
They got lodging.That's what we're doing.
They don't have lodgingon the farm.
Maybe we can make that happenone of these days.
But what are we going, folks?
Are we going to do it together?
We did aninterview with Brian yesterday.
We had dinner, we broke bread.
(28:13):
We didn't have any bread.
We had a tenderloin and a big,big pecan yet.
Do y'all knowwhat a bacon you cut is on?
Let me tell you a story. Bacon.
You cut supportersof the back in there.
Okay. But you know what?The butcher is usually do?
They usually don't sellthe bacon.
You cut back in the day.
They kept it for themselves.
Some of the best beefyou're going to have,
(28:35):
you know,you're how you're going
to find that through Texas Slimscuts.
We're going to reeducateeverybody
of what you've been missingall this years.
And I'm going to startsaying something.
Will you reason you don't knowthat corn.
You've only bought your beef
from the supermarketnow, haven't you?
Once you
ask the right questions,you don't
have to ask the right questions.
You already know because you'rein the beef finished.
(28:57):
And you you're actually beingeducated by Texas Slims cuts,
maybe old butch,maybe old farms,
maybe the 160 true producersand ranchers that are soon to be
I don't know.
We're going to open up10,000 gates across this country
so we can what
so we could what?
So we can feed a millionchildren in this nation.
(29:19):
That's the call to action.
It's always been that way.
We're going to consult,we're going to educate.
We're going to checkeach other's hands.
We're going to have dinnerwith each other.
We're going to haveconversations.
We're going to say
no to the Divisionof Interpersonal communication.
We're going to speak louder.
We're going to speakwith confidence.
We're not going to be guests
(29:40):
working around beefintelligence,
because the best beefintelligence is coming
right straightthrough the beef initiative,
because what are we doingsitting right here?
We're giving media kitsto ever rancher producer
that opens up their gateacross the United States.
It's a challenge.
I've beendoing this my whole life.
(30:00):
If you've gotsomething that you want to say,
if you've got something special,if you've got history
that's been here for hundredsof centuries
of educationthat lies within these walls,
you ranchers and producers,
if you're doing somethingthat is truth in food,
authentic, is basedin integrity, transparency,
(30:22):
and you want peopleto know who you are,
you want to havethat digital voice
that they have made surethat you have never had
to be finished.
It's Texas Slims Media.
It's people like Juneexecutive producer.
One year ago,
one year ago,he was in Philadelphia.
Now he lives in Florida.
(30:42):
And guess what?
There's a Floridabeef initiative now.
And ranchers, Leonard,you can about to hear
a lot more about Florida.
They're selling beef.
They'rebuilding their community.
Ron and Kerry here.
They'regoing to have a summit here.
Don't know when, but it's lockedin and it's got an airport.
It's got an interstate,
(31:03):
it's got lodging,and it's going to be loaded
with all kinds of beefintelligence.
We're cooking on the tailgate.
We're driving.
Now, where are we pointingor pointing?
Back to Arkansas.
All right.
Ozark Beef Initiative, Summit15 six, Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
Todd, Todd.
Wow, what a beautiful,beautiful human being.
(31:26):
And I'm a much better personfor getting to meet him.
And I owe him.
I owe him.
I'm forever indebted.
I have an obligation to behis voice, because guess what?
Our producers
and ranchers don't have a voicebecause you don't know.
But nowthey're going to know you
and you are going to know them
(31:46):
because you arenow their marketing arm.
Every timeyou have a conversation
about food,you're going to bring up
your American rancher producer.
Every time you talkabout beef online
and on the Internet,on social media,
you're going to bring up yourgreat American rancher, producer
and if you don't have one,
you're going to be bringing upthe beef initiative.
You're going to go find one.
(32:07):
This is about
saving children's livesacross this nation, folks.
And I'm going to get very loudand very stern.
I'm going to get a little cowboyon you from West Texas.
A little history about me.
Never had any money.
All I had was a wealthof knowledge
when it came to basicallyhandshakes.
Look at a manor woman in the eye
(32:28):
and being full of integritybecause of my grandpa. So
this is what this place is.
This is what this nation wants.
This is what this nation is isinviting you to participate in.
You don't have to askfor permission.
You can lead forwardwith integrity
in what you're going to dois you're going to follow this.
(32:50):
It's the modern day cattlemen,and each one of us is learning
how to be the modern daycattlemen and cattle.
Woman.
It's the type of beefintelligence.
It's the type of health intelligence that our kids deserve.
Turn off the TV,
Get busy.
I dare you to share thisa hundred times, everyone.
(33:12):
If we get 10,000 ranchersto open up the gates
of the United States of America,
we will basically change historywithin the beef industry.
It's word of mouth.
It's based on integrity,honesty, transparency.
It's not judgment.
This is not competition.
Ranchers and producers,
that's basicallywhat they started in 1971.
(33:34):
We're not going to play thatgame.
This is a collaboration.
We're all one big family.
We're going to act like it.
What we're going to dois we're going to join forces
at the dinner tables
within our counties,within our regions,
within our stateand across this nation.
Once we do thatwill basically shift this global
industrial food shiftthat is unfolding in front of us
(33:56):
and will stop it in its tracks.
Your consumer demandis the reason they are able to
basically facilitate the changeswithin our food industry.
Take ownership of that.
It's a slow stepinto changing your behavior
when it comesto your consumption
model of your audioand your video and your food.
It's okay. Slow step into it.
(34:16):
Start with your rancher.
Start with that handshake.
Once we leave Arkansas, we'regoing to go back to West Texas.
We're going to be filming almosta mini documentary back there.
Y'all want to come to West Texas
whereyou're going to be coming there
because we're going to establishsomething there
right outside of Panhandle meat.
We've got our first client
within the BeefInitiative Association Council.
(34:37):
We're starting to buildprocessing centers across Texas.
Y'allgoing to come along for a ride.
You will learn how to do it.
Go to TBI,Acey dawg, figure it out.
We're here.
We're going to be consulting,
we're going to be
bringing truth and food back.
And then after that,we're going to go to Colorado
(34:59):
and see Jasonand Rick of Rick Ranches.
Do you know, he'sa first generational educator.
He's one of the best educatorsin regenerative
farming and ranchingthat I know.
Guess what?
He gets a grant this year.
It's a $10,000 grantto stop everything right now.
Everything go to be finished,dot com forward slash donation.
(35:20):
Get in there and see whatthat is.
It's a basically a grant programthat is a nonprofit.
It's a nonprofit money.
Guess what I believe BrookeMiller and Miller, everybody,
they're going to donate to it.
Why do you think they had theirsummit there in Ginger Hill
so they could give toall of the nonprofits?
(35:41):
They they feel they didn'tmake any money off of that.
They opened up their gates.
They met new people.
They got some new beefintelligence.
They spread beef intelligence
furtherand wider across this nation.
The only thing they gainedwas basically
they didn't gainany monetary value.
Yet what they did is they solda little bit of their legacy.
(36:04):
Jason Rick.
Well, he wants to do the samefirst generational kiss, $10,000
grant this year.
Let's get it funded folks
Beef initiative dotcom for slash donation.
We're goingto go out to Colorado
I believe my good friend Bubba,which is the first person
to ever sharethe harvest of deception.
Have y'all readThe Harvest of Deception?
Well, you need to get thereand read it.
But he basically spread it out
(36:25):
and he got meon my first podcast ever.
Well, he's going to cometo Colorado with this.
It's going to be one big party.
We're going to have Bubba,his lovely wife.
We're going to have June. Me.
Jason's going to be there.
Jason's Family is going to bethere.
We're going to have dronefootage coverage.
Y'all ever know what needle rockis? Look it up.
It's rightthere in the North Fork Valley
outside of Crawford, Colorado.We're heading there next, I
(36:48):
guess, where this
party ends on this leg of thistour of this journey.
Well, we'reheading back to Austin, Texas,
and we're going to go
wrap it up full circlethere, hometown mates.
And we'll start back offfrom panhandle
matesand charge up with old Justin.
We might even take Justin backwith this.
Maybelegislation will be back in.
But anyways, Panhandle Meatshometown meat
(37:10):
processing center is the centerof the universe, folks.
That's where all our beef comesthrough. The beef initiative.
You know what our goal isthis year?
I'll be straight up honestand transparent with you.
We're goingto sell the most beef
that we can through the beefinitiative.
Texas Slimscuts, K and C, cattle.
Holy cow.
(37:31):
Jason. Rick of Rick Ranches.
Justin Trammell, PanhandleMade's Tare bloom handle.
Guess what? Frank Farms trusts.
Everybody is in the beefinitiative.
We're going to gather around
and we're going to sell morebeef than the multinationals
and what they're goingto start paying attention
because they're goingto start learning from us.
(37:51):
This is how you feedyour community.
So say now quitvalidating the deceptions,
get into the beef initiative,
and I'm going to get very loudbecause I'm Texas.
Slim. Are you?
Hey, guys.
June B here,
Co-Founder, executiveproducer, Texas Slim’s Media.
(38:15):
And if you're tuningin on YouTube, look,
you're going to see I'mstanding here.
We're happy, happy,
happy as a sweet horse.
A very sweet horse.
(38:37):
And we are in Farmington,Missouri.
I think that's how I say it.
And boy,
I can't believe I'm traveling
around this whole great country.
I'm from Philly.
(38:59):
Shout out to the 215.
A long way from home.
It feels amazing.
So if you're tuning in on
YouTube, you'll get to seea lot of our travels.
(39:20):
Now the show iscompletely changed.
I'm not sure whothis young buck is,
but they're very sweet to.
You'll see that I am on
Bitcoin Ranch, like I said,in Farmington, Missouri,
(39:40):
and I'ma long from home and boy,
it feels good.
I get to travelaround the country
visiting the mostbeautiful ranches
in America,
mostly traveling on back roads,
and it snakes offgirl, girl to go
(40:06):
off to cast iron pan.
These guys want to want to
come and shop.
But really, I'm just here
to read some Bruce messages and,
you know, show you,
show you the horses here.
Shout out to our amazing host,
(40:27):
Ryan here on Bitcoin Ranch.
This is a
an air gapped facilityaside from Texas Slims media.
So this is some pretty exclusivecontent.
We're going to have a way foryou guys to boost stats
and give us messageshere on the YouTube channel.
(40:51):
We'll figure that outand then next coming weeks.
But in themeantime, for everybody, tune
in on podcasting 2.0found on that breeze
and wherever else you enjoythe podcasting 2.0 revolution.
Want to give a big shout outto you guys and thank you
for tuning in and streamingand boosting every single week.
(41:14):
First up, we got 1000
shots from Nomad Joe.
He says Eat more Florida beef.
5000 sets from smart growth
vacations.
LA Well, trymy damnedest to get the wife off
to a vacationbefore she blows up our ranch.
(41:39):
A thousand shots from bicycleBitcoin
boost the signal to noise
and hopefully the signalscoming in clear.
It's a little windy out heretoday in Missouri.
We got 1111 Sandstrom.
Joel W
(41:59):
apparently needs
a satchel of Richards
that weall know what that means.
1500 shots from Bruce.
Our line keep on preachingfix the food.
Thank you for bringing us Dr.
Miller Absolutely.
That was an excellent episode.
(42:20):
1776 is a freedomboost from Joe Biden.
Sucks.
These
folks better get right with God.
Learn a skill stacksome sets and eat more beef.
Thanks, Joe.
30,000 shotsfrom our main man, Bubba.
That's my rancher right there.
(42:41):
Good work, boys.
The wildfires catch a wind.
So thanks to everybodywho listened last week
and who's tuning in to YouTube
and found and brings
for the ranching
2.0 Podcasting 2.0.
(43:01):
Revolution.
That's all I got for today.
What can I say?
Goodbye.
I'm happy over here real quick.
I'm sure they want to saysomething.
How you doing?
I'm happy.
Happy is a very sweet horse.
(43:25):
And I'm happy to be here with.
All right. I'll take care.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!