September 18, 2025 • 7 mins
First, we listen as a cattle rancher makes an announcement. Next, Jack shares from his vast experience working in cattle yards.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. It's one
more thing. I'm It's going to be a short podcast
today unless something pops into my head. But I wanted
to get this on because I've had this experience myself. Katie,
what are we about to hear?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We are listening to a cattle rancher who is standing
at his truck and his entire herd of cattle are
all facing him, and he is addressing the crowd.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I have good news and I have bad news. Bad
news is I will not be able to get the
well going to give you water. It's not an electrical problem,
it's an issue with the motor. Okay. The good news
is Michael's coming and he'll bring you water. Okay, So
you're not gonna die, You'll just be thirsty for a
(00:48):
while long, Okay. I'm sorry. Thank you for your continued support.
All Right, you have a great day.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Thank you for your continued support.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So I don't even know if you know this about me, Katie,
that I used to work in feed lots for years.
I worked with cattle for years, tens and tens and
tens of thousands of cattle in pens and out and
fields and everything like that, and that is a thing
that cattle do. Sheep don't do it, Pigs don't do it,
Goats don't do it quite the same way. They will
(01:20):
butt you. But cattle, if you're like if you're out
in a field middle of nowhere by yourself and like
you're you're digging a post hole because you got to
replace a broken post on them like that, all the
cows will come over and stand there and just look
at you and just watch it. And they'll just stand
there right around you, like in a nice orderly circle
and watch you. And it's a common thing when you're
out there by yourself to address them, say hey, guys, how's.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It going, And they're just observing.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They're just observing, and it feels like you've got an audience.
And I know that other friends of mine because we'd
be out there working on us. Like then we'd start
talking about how you guys doing. Huh, that's my whole Like, look,
welcome to my ted talk. I want to talk to
you all today about why I like leve no, no, no,
hear me out. This is what I like about leather.
You know. We would start various conversations, make each other laughing.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I've said this a million times to family and friends.
I wish they didn't taste so good because they're so
stink and cute.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Man, ah they are. They're relatively nice too, Yeah they are.
They are unlikely to hurt you other than bulls.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
My friend has a cow that has Down syndrome and
is blind in one eye, and its name is Jiggles,
and it's the sweetest cow ever, and it comes up
to you and just kind of what's its little head
sideways India and uh.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I love it. It made me want to be a
vegetarian and do Jiggles lives outside I assume.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, amongst the other cattle. But she's just she's not
you know, she just kind of does her own thing.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't want to turn something nice into something not nice.
But when I worked in the feed lots, and this
was many decades ago, gladys.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You're going to go there, I can feel it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The cattle were not treated that well. And I was
very young and so I just did what everybody else did.
But it was looking back on it is a little rough,
a little rough.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
H.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, the way cattle were sometimes treated. And I don't
even want to tell the stories or get into the specifics,
but it was grown up me would not be able
to participate or be around that, that behavior toward an
innocent animal.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And grown up me doesn't want to hear about it.
So I think we've come to an ice agreement.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, I don't think that goes on anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I would I wouldn't think so, right, I mean times
have changed so much.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, well, even just for practical reasons, they stopped running them.
We used to run cattle everywhere, just because we're in
a hurry. Like you have giant area of pens, and
you've got a pen, maybe it's a quarter mile away,
and you got three hundred cattle you need to process.
That's what I spent most of my time doing processing cattle,
which is giving them all their shots and everything like that.
(03:57):
See A run them down these alleys and then you
run them into a pen, and then you feed them
through this process and they go through one at a
time where they go in this shoot and like I
would stand there and I'd have like ten different syringes.
Bam bam, bam, bam, bam bam. You give them all
their shots. You get a big clipper clip off their horns,
Blood squirts out and they walk off. It didn't seem
(04:18):
to hurt or anything, just but blood would scuirt out
like a fountain, like a monia, like a money python fountain.
It would just word out barbaric is right. Then you
put them, you dip them, so they would go into
a cage, and then he would be submerged in all
these chemicals.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He's still going, Michael, do you notice that how we
kind of got disagreement that he wasn't going to go through.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I'm not doing the bad stuff. This is just the
normal this is this is okay, this is just the
normal stuff. But they would submerge them in this liquid
and all the chemicals and stuff like that to get
ticks and fleas and whatever else off of them, that
sort of stuff. They didn't dig that too, because they
thought they were drowning. So they would evacuate themselves when
they were submerged. And then you lift them back up,
you open the gate, and then they run off because
they're scared to death. But anyway, we would run them
(04:58):
everywhere and then they just you know, that's actually you know,
running a steer in the heat for a quarter mile
is causing it to lose weight. We don't want them
to lose weight. We want them to be heavy, right,
because you make more money. And then they started walking them.
Oh interesting, that was more out of it saving money
rather than trying to be nicer. Wow. But when we
(05:19):
ran them, that's how I got stampeded the one time.
I've told that story too many times. I won't tell
that story again. But uh yeah I did that for
a very long time. Hmmm, that didn't turn me off meat.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
See, that's the thing is, it's like I've been sent
those like meet your Meat videos. You remember that one
that went around. I think Peta made that crap years ago,
and I saw I can't watch I cannot watch that stuff.
I actually just told them I was like, if if
a dog dies in a movie, I'm not watching it.
If like an animal is getting tortured, I'm not watching it.
But I still I can't resist a nice bone in Ribbi.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I ran. I ran over a steer with a tractor
one time. That was completely an accident, completely an accident
in my fault, and it was that was pretty horrific,
And I can.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
See did you not see it?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I still did this day. Don't know how it happened.
I was I was turning a corner and I don't
know if it walked up in between or I just
did I was daydreaming and didn't see it or whatever,
but I ran it over. Oh boy. Yeah. And then
and then it was gruesome to watch. But then I
had to go tell my boss and he was quite
(06:25):
unhappy because I was several thousand dollars I just destroyed.
And then you get a chain you put on the
back of your pickup, and then your wrapp a chain
around a hoof and you drag it down the gravel.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Rookie, all right, you know this took a turn. It
started with the really sweet video of a guy giving
his cows a nice talk. You're not going to be
thirsty for long, don't worry, Thank you for your attention,
have a nice day. And now it has moved into
this Mormon horrible play, moved into this.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Horrible place that I don't like. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Michael backed me up.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Please, this is this. This will be my final comment.
So then you put them in a pile, because lots
of cattle die because you hurt tens of thousands of cattle,
so they're dying regularly, so you have a pile. And
then they had something that they humorously called the used
cow truck that would come by once a week and
pick up the used cow truck and then you take
it to a rendering plant where they like boil it
(07:19):
down to make I don't know, folks chew leather or something.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I tried to stop him.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I did on.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
National Cheeseburger Day. This is what you do.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, that's pretty sick. If I had remembered that, I
would have kept my mouth yet. I'm sorry you guys.
Ever seen Napoleon Dynamite. There is one scene where the
farmers yes, and the school bus goes by right at
that time. Yeah, it's a funny moment. Well, I guess
that's it.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. It's one
more thing. I'm It's going to be a short podcast
today unless something pops into my head. But I wanted
to get this on because I've had this experience myself. Katie,
what are we about to hear?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We are listening to a cattle rancher who is standing
at his truck and his entire herd of cattle are
all facing him, and he is addressing the crowd.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I have good news and I have bad news. Bad
news is I will not be able to get the
well going to give you water. It's not an electrical problem,
it's an issue with the motor. Okay. The good news
is Michael's coming and he'll bring you water. Okay, So
you're not gonna die, You'll just be thirsty for a
(00:48):
while long, Okay. I'm sorry. Thank you for your continued support.
All Right, you have a great day.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Thank you for your continued support.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So I don't even know if you know this about me, Katie,
that I used to work in feed lots for years.
I worked with cattle for years, tens and tens and
tens of thousands of cattle in pens and out and
fields and everything like that, and that is a thing
that cattle do. Sheep don't do it, Pigs don't do it,
Goats don't do it quite the same way. They will
(01:20):
butt you. But cattle, if you're like if you're out
in a field middle of nowhere by yourself and like
you're you're digging a post hole because you got to
replace a broken post on them like that, all the
cows will come over and stand there and just look
at you and just watch it. And they'll just stand
there right around you, like in a nice orderly circle
and watch you. And it's a common thing when you're
out there by yourself to address them, say hey, guys, how's.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It going, And they're just observing.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They're just observing, and it feels like you've got an audience.
And I know that other friends of mine because we'd
be out there working on us. Like then we'd start
talking about how you guys doing. Huh, that's my whole Like, look,
welcome to my ted talk. I want to talk to
you all today about why I like leve no, no, no,
hear me out. This is what I like about leather.
You know. We would start various conversations, make each other laughing.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I've said this a million times to family and friends.
I wish they didn't taste so good because they're so
stink and cute.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Man, ah they are. They're relatively nice too, Yeah they are.
They are unlikely to hurt you other than bulls.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
My friend has a cow that has Down syndrome and
is blind in one eye, and its name is Jiggles,
and it's the sweetest cow ever, and it comes up
to you and just kind of what's its little head
sideways India and uh.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I love it. It made me want to be a
vegetarian and do Jiggles lives outside I assume.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, amongst the other cattle. But she's just she's not
you know, she just kind of does her own thing.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't want to turn something nice into something not nice.
But when I worked in the feed lots, and this
was many decades ago, gladys.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You're going to go there, I can feel it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The cattle were not treated that well. And I was
very young and so I just did what everybody else did.
But it was looking back on it is a little rough,
a little rough.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
H.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, the way cattle were sometimes treated. And I don't
even want to tell the stories or get into the specifics,
but it was grown up me would not be able
to participate or be around that, that behavior toward an
innocent animal.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And grown up me doesn't want to hear about it.
So I think we've come to an ice agreement.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, I don't think that goes on anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I would I wouldn't think so, right, I mean times
have changed so much.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, well, even just for practical reasons, they stopped running them.
We used to run cattle everywhere, just because we're in
a hurry. Like you have giant area of pens, and
you've got a pen, maybe it's a quarter mile away,
and you got three hundred cattle you need to process.
That's what I spent most of my time doing processing cattle,
which is giving them all their shots and everything like that.
(03:57):
See A run them down these alleys and then you
run them into a pen, and then you feed them
through this process and they go through one at a
time where they go in this shoot and like I
would stand there and I'd have like ten different syringes.
Bam bam, bam, bam, bam bam. You give them all
their shots. You get a big clipper clip off their horns,
Blood squirts out and they walk off. It didn't seem
(04:18):
to hurt or anything, just but blood would scuirt out
like a fountain, like a monia, like a money python fountain.
It would just word out barbaric is right. Then you
put them, you dip them, so they would go into
a cage, and then he would be submerged in all
these chemicals.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He's still going, Michael, do you notice that how we
kind of got disagreement that he wasn't going to go through.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I'm not doing the bad stuff. This is just the
normal this is this is okay, this is just the
normal stuff. But they would submerge them in this liquid
and all the chemicals and stuff like that to get
ticks and fleas and whatever else off of them, that
sort of stuff. They didn't dig that too, because they
thought they were drowning. So they would evacuate themselves when
they were submerged. And then you lift them back up,
you open the gate, and then they run off because
they're scared to death. But anyway, we would run them
(04:58):
everywhere and then they just you know, that's actually you know,
running a steer in the heat for a quarter mile
is causing it to lose weight. We don't want them
to lose weight. We want them to be heavy, right,
because you make more money. And then they started walking them.
Oh interesting, that was more out of it saving money
rather than trying to be nicer. Wow. But when we
(05:19):
ran them, that's how I got stampeded the one time.
I've told that story too many times. I won't tell
that story again. But uh yeah I did that for
a very long time. Hmmm, that didn't turn me off meat.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
See, that's the thing is, it's like I've been sent
those like meet your Meat videos. You remember that one
that went around. I think Peta made that crap years ago,
and I saw I can't watch I cannot watch that stuff.
I actually just told them I was like, if if
a dog dies in a movie, I'm not watching it.
If like an animal is getting tortured, I'm not watching it.
But I still I can't resist a nice bone in Ribbi.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I ran. I ran over a steer with a tractor
one time. That was completely an accident, completely an accident
in my fault, and it was that was pretty horrific,
And I can.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
See did you not see it?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I still did this day. Don't know how it happened.
I was I was turning a corner and I don't
know if it walked up in between or I just
did I was daydreaming and didn't see it or whatever,
but I ran it over. Oh boy. Yeah. And then
and then it was gruesome to watch. But then I
had to go tell my boss and he was quite
(06:25):
unhappy because I was several thousand dollars I just destroyed.
And then you get a chain you put on the
back of your pickup, and then your wrapp a chain
around a hoof and you drag it down the gravel.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Rookie, all right, you know this took a turn. It
started with the really sweet video of a guy giving
his cows a nice talk. You're not going to be
thirsty for long, don't worry, Thank you for your attention,
have a nice day. And now it has moved into
this Mormon horrible play, moved into this.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Horrible place that I don't like. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Michael backed me up.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Please, this is this. This will be my final comment.
So then you put them in a pile, because lots
of cattle die because you hurt tens of thousands of cattle,
so they're dying regularly, so you have a pile. And
then they had something that they humorously called the used
cow truck that would come by once a week and
pick up the used cow truck and then you take
it to a rendering plant where they like boil it
(07:19):
down to make I don't know, folks chew leather or something.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I tried to stop him.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I did on.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
National Cheeseburger Day. This is what you do.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, that's pretty sick. If I had remembered that, I
would have kept my mouth yet. I'm sorry you guys.
Ever seen Napoleon Dynamite. There is one scene where the
farmers yes, and the school bus goes by right at
that time. Yeah, it's a funny moment. Well, I guess
that's it.
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