Too Much Info or Not Enough? | The Granary

00:00:00 Traditional media, social media, online. Where do you get your information when it comes to farming and agriculture? 00:00:06 Frankly, is there too much information that's almost overwhelming? That's what we're talking about in this 00:00:11 episode of The Grainery. You Ready for a conversation with some real farmers about real issues? 00:00:16 And the best part, you are invited. Pour yourself a drink, grab a snack. Most importantly, pull up a chair. Welcome to the Greenery. 00:00:29 Hey guys. Alright, Guys, as A topic, I'm joined by my friend Chad Harrison and Kelly Garrett with Extreme Ag. 00:00:38 We're also joined by Chase Garner with Spray tech. Spray tech, one of our business partners sponsoring this episode. 00:00:43 We thank you very much for that. You know what? I'm glad you're here. Glad to be here. Well, appreciate you being here. 00:00:49 All right. So we're talking about information. We're talking about all this. I've got this phone in my hand. 00:00:52 In the old days, grandpa would come in, sit down and watch the evening news. You didn't really get any agricultural coverage at all. 00:00:58 You had to get traditional print media to cover agriculture, and you could check it at lunchtime on the noon am 00:01:04 radio that gave the markets. And uh, usually there was like a three minute news about what's going on from, uh, the green embargo to, uh, 00:01:12 shipments to, you know, whatever. You got endless streams of information on here. Some that's good, some that's bad, some that's overwhelming. 00:01:22 We are now ag media at extreme ag. Is there too much of it? Is it overwhelming? 00:01:28 I'm sitting at the wrong table. I need to get up and I'm in the wrong room. Wrong table. What? 00:01:34 AG information, Kelly? Successful farming? Yeah. The, well, I, I do look at the successful farming magazine still, 00:01:41 But, uh, it's online agriculture.com. Uh, the, I don't wouldn't even know what to guess how many Facebook groups I'm part of. Mm-hmm. 00:01:48 And, uh, Becks Twitter. Mm-hmm. It is all, nothing new to you because it's all you've ever known. 00:01:56 You don't e have you ever picked up a newspaper? Um, a few of them. He lit a fire. One. Hey, that didn't make good 00:02:04 Ag magazines. Uh, yeah. There's Still, there's still a bunch of those out there. There's, at least I would say, every other week, 00:02:12 dad puts an ag magazine in my truck and he said, Hey, you need to look at this article right here. 00:02:16 You know, you need to read this article right here. Yeah. I mean, there's four or five in 00:02:19 the backseat of my truck right now. He says, Hey, you need to read this article. You need to look at this. And maybe he's saying 00:02:22 like, you need more help. Like, you, you obviously, he's what you got going On? Well, 00:02:27 I, I, I don't know about that. I mean, he's probably right, but I, I guess I look at what, it's almost too much. 00:02:34 But I have for my job, have to stay up with a lot of stuff. So I like the fact that there's a hundred sources 00:02:40 that I pull from, because that way I'm not just always looking at one single source. Um, it makes you wonder in the old days where we better off 00:02:49 because we weren't overwhelmed or we worse off because you, you got, well, whatever Walter Cronkite said, or, you know, or whatever. 00:02:55 Maybe that one Farm magazine you took said, I think that when we, we were kids and you had like three channels 00:03:01 and you had Walter Cronkite, I think that that traditional media there was more unbiased. So I appreciate that, and I kind of miss that. 00:03:09 But now, today, again, like using the Facebook groups and things like that, you have to kind of sort through the bull. 00:03:15 Yeah. But talking farmer to farmer on a Facebook group, somebody poses a question, and then you can read all the comments and things like that. 00:03:21 And some of 'em are sarcastic and things, but a lot of those guys are really answering in a true fashion. 00:03:26 And it's just, it's really sitting around the table like we are now. But you're all sitting there on your 00:03:30 phone all across the country. I think there's great value in that. So is there too much there? There's a lot. 00:03:36 But you just don't pay attention if you don't want to. You know what I mean? You don't have to turn it on, but boy, there's great sources of information there. 00:03:42 And you can talk to another farmer. Farmers are on their phones a lot. Um, and, and I'm not just talking about you guys. 00:03:48 You guys run your phones a lot, but all the farmers do go to these events. I go to conferences all over North America, 00:03:53 and they're on their phones a lot. I'd say they're dialed in, tuned into some type of social media 00:03:59 and some sort of, uh, online communication more than on a more basis than most any other industry. I mean, look at, look at when we started. 00:04:09 I mean, I would say that I'm probably the, out of the group of us, I'm probably the slowest adapter Yeah. 00:04:15 To it. I mean, I did my first poster, you know, like a month ago. You know what I'm saying? I would say I'm slow. 00:04:21 I can remember when we, when we started this thing, you know, as a group, and, and y'all asked me, you know, like, Hey, we going to, 00:04:27 I was like, man, we ain't gonna watch no dang video, somebody out here in the field messing up. Mm-hmm. But I'll do it. 00:04:33 I think me and Will had like 11 or 12 takes, you know, on the first one. But I mean, as we've progressed, uh, 00:04:39 and I was the last one that, you know, will was only like, Hey, you gotta, you gotta get on Facebook. 00:04:43 Like you gotta get on Facebook. But as I, as I've done it, I mean, there's so much information there, 00:04:48 and like you said, I mean, it's, it's, it's almost, uh, it's eyeopening to see how farmers are back. Because 10 or 15 years ago, the farmers didn't communicate, 00:04:57 I don't think 20 years ago like we do now. And farmers all across the country are communicating for the betterment of farming. 00:05:03 Mm-hmm. And farmers. Yeah. So, I mean, it's, it's reli relieving to me to know that, hey, you know what, we're, we're pulling back together. 00:05:10 Farmers are as a team, you know, and I say that, I know it's kind of count corny or whatever, but it is, you know, to think that we're, 00:05:17 we're a better team now than we was. It's A bigger community, A bigger community. I, I think calling that device right there, 00:05:22 a phone is really selling that device short. And you hear so many people say, well, they're just on their phone all the time. 00:05:29 They're just on their phone all the time. How do you know I'm not reading a book? How do you know I'm not sending an email? 00:05:33 How do you know I'm not looking at the markets? Mm-hmm. All of those things. That device is a great tool, and I know that some people are, are on it, 00:05:41 and they're scanning social media, just goofing off Watching reels. Yeah. Yeah. I did that myself. 00:05:48 But how do you know I'm not on that phone. I hate to use the term, but working and which is checking the market, 00:05:53 sending in an email, things like that. That device puts the world at your fingertips. And it is a great tool. 00:05:59 And no, I don't think there's too much, because I can communicate with a, a farmer, I don't know, in Alabama. 00:06:04 I can communicate with a farmer in Kentucky just because of a question in a Facebook group. Yeah. It makes the coffee table bigger. It's wonderful. 00:06:11 Well, me personally, I can put a post up about product on social media, on a social media platform and reach 30 to 40,000 people versus me driving 00:06:22 around in my pickup all day. Yeah. Cold calling. Yeah. Or talking 10 or 12. Yeah. Seeing 10 or 12, I can reach 30 00:06:28 to 40,000 people with one post. Mm-hmm. Um, that's a great benefit for me. I think A, a guy like you should be in those Facebook groups 00:06:35 and somebody says, here's a problem I'm having with my foliar fertility, with my adjuvant. You need to answer the question. Yeah. 00:06:42 Look at, look at all of the potential customers that you have right there. Absolutely. What a great tool. Absolutely. 00:06:47 It's, it, it, it also can be too much. I mean, it's, it's, it's because it, you say, I wanna, I wanna research this. 00:06:55 I like to keep up, obviously with the ag industry, I go and speak at ag events. If I just go on this 00:07:00 and type in something, there's a a thousand a thousand opportunities. A thousand. Yeah. But you go, You know, you can over eat too. 00:07:07 Yeah. So, well, you put a, you, you can go in your search. You don't Have, you don't have to read everything. Yeah. 00:07:12 That's, You can go in your search bar, type in agriculture, hashtag agriculture, hashtag farming. There's a million posts that pop up. Sure. Yeah. 00:07:20 You gotta decipher through, you know, what you're looking for. Right. Or if you're looking for a certain product 00:07:25 or a certain way they're doing things, you hashtag it, then you have to decipher through all the post that has that hashtag in the system. 00:07:32 Some of 'em are, that's Ridiculous. Yeah. That, that may be where you get the confusion there. Some of 'em 00:07:36 Are completely ridiculous, though. Some of 'em are completely useless. Yes. Somebody just, somebody just standing with a phone, 00:07:41 just, Hey, look, I'm maybe 50. I'm Outstanding, I'm outstanding in my field Videos. 00:07:48 Yes. Yes. But it's still a great tool. I, I don't think there's, I don't think there's too much, and I think there's more to come. 00:07:53 I do think you need to look for people that are authentic and genuine, though not everybody's out there, uh, 00:07:59 with your best interest at heart. Well, obviously we created this, you guys created extreme ag and brought me in 00:08:04 and look at the stuff that we do, will, does whatever. And we say, we say we're providing information or entertainment or what have you. 00:08:10 And we are, we're one of the platforms now that it's almost democratized the entire thing. In the days of three channels, there was three channels, 00:08:18 a dozen publications and the radio. And this has made it so that we have a voice. We wouldn't have had to, we would've, we would've had 00:08:28 to buy a TV show, uh, you know. Right. 20 years ago. Yeah. And now we don't have to. So that's the good part. 00:08:35 And, uh, the thing is, I, I think there's a lot of crap out there. Um, the Bad part is the integrity has gone down 00:08:42 from Walter Cronkite. Maybe, Maybe remember that was bought media also back then. You know 00:08:47 What? How about this? We thought the integrity. Yeah. We, we did. We believed it was, and This is obviously 00:08:53 Older than, but it's the only thing we could believe. Like we believed in some. Yes. Yeah. I mean, it's older than Chase. 00:08:58 When we talk about three cha, it sounds like old guys talking about walking uphill both ways in a blizzard. 00:09:02 Right. And you barefooted and you, yeah. Right. And you saw the weather out here this morning. He's From Arkansas. He doesn't know what a 00:09:08 blizzard is. Yeah. Well stick around. We've had one. I think we've had one right? In my Lifetime. Yeah, we do. About 00:09:13 three a year. So anyway, welcome to Indiana. We appreciate that you don't know or have the, the historical reference 00:09:21 of the three channels and all that. It's, you just, it's, it's nothing new. But there is that thing that you hear people even older than 00:09:28 us say, well, back until days you don't Water crock. I'm like, well, that was still paid media also. I mean, it really was. It was, if you were a big company, 00:09:36 uh, you made sure that the covers that you got was the, the kind you paid for. I bet it was like 500 books 00:09:42 Too. Like you could just bang, you know, That wouldn't take much. A Hundred. Yeah, it a hundred percent. 282 00:09:48.325 --> 00:09:48.525 Back then it wasn't as, uh, authentic and genuine as I would like to believe 00:09:53 We have. I mean, he's really reigning on your parade. He Not, but he's right. 00:09:57 He's right. He's reigning on your parade. Well, remember, all you gotta do with anybody that's a baby boomer and older is talk about the 1950s 00:10:03 and Oh, to hear them tell, uh, you know, everything was a magical moment. I'm like, not really. Not really. No. 00:10:11 There was domestic violence. There was racism. There was crime. There was, uh, let's not pretend in 1950s that everybody was a black and white, you know, episode. 00:10:19 Leave it to Beaver. It wasn't really that way. Anyway, where do you get your information? You're 28. 32. It's 32. 32. 00:10:27 Well, you're young for your age anyway. Alright. Where do you get your information? The internet. Um, what 00:10:36 Specifically? Tell me where you go Google and just type in what I'm looking for. And then from that, from from Google, they'll give you, 00:10:44 there'll be a hundred different. Sure. There Will be. And you just have to go through there and decipher the BS from 00:10:51 the legit information. You came back to agriculture. You need agricultural information so you can be a source of, for your company, for your job, for whatever you do. 00:11:00 Uh, there's probably a bunch of stuff that comes up and be like, I don't know what the hell that guy was talking about. 00:11:03 I'm gonna go over here and look it up. Yeah. So you'd use it that way. I Use it that way. Tell me 00:11:07 there's something you've looked up in the last two days. Ooh, that's a tough one. Um, 00:11:13 I'll come back to you think about what you looked up, but I want you to gimme the exact example and what you found and how you went about finding it. 00:11:18 Okay. Something you looked up in the last two to three days, uh, Looking at, uh, an airplane. 00:11:24 Yeah. And I look at different airplane specifications. I used to go to Google all the time, but then you have to sort through all that. 00:11:29 Now I go to ai. I used to go to chat. GPT. Yep. Now I go to GR on X. Yeah. So I'm in, I I've not done grok yet. 00:11:37 I too have started evolving into the AI thing because Google's paid for it. And then you start wondering, well, what am I getting? 00:11:45 Am I getting what I really want? Am I getting what someone's paying for me to get? Yes. And I feel like I can ask a more specific question 00:11:50 and get a more specific que answer from ai. Yes. Then you can't just Googling it and then sorting. So it, it saves time and becomes the Yeah. 00:11:57 It gets you to the, the A to BA little quicker. You feel like you're a little bit outdated though. Oh, I ain't look nothing up. I'm 00:12:04 sitting here thinking about like, I ain't Google. Nothing's you no more. I hadn't Googled anything. All we've been trying to figure out is we're gonna run 00:12:10 to planters, you know, and what the blends going to be. And so I'm not googling any of that because if I do, like, 00:12:16 I'll be way over here in the left field somewhere. You know, if I Google, Ooh, that's a great idea. You know, I went down this rabbit hole. Well, 00:12:22 You don't come up with everything just off the, you know, off of the whim. So where does your stuff come from? 00:12:27 Uh, your dad's giving you a magazine? You know, I still, a lot of my stuff comes off a whim. You know, I lean on, I lean on people around us. 00:12:37 I lean on extreme ag. I lean on that stuff. A couple that comes from conversations. A lot of it's conversations. 00:12:41 I've observed it. Yeah. You know, it's, it's still agronomists, you know, we've got a couple agronomists. 00:12:44 We've got a couple, you know, good friends and, and we bounced up off each other. Mine is still a lot of conversations. 00:12:51 It, I think it's, you know, and I'm, I don't really know, you know, to, to, because if you looked at, let's say, 00:12:56 you know, my, my thinking still right now is, is if we're dealing with most saying it's gonna be either dealing with a race car or it's gonna 00:13:03 be dealing with a farm one of the two. Yeah. You know, and I'm not gonna Google stuff by the race car. 00:13:07 So we got a guy that helps with the race guard and does the tune and all that. Me and him is bouncing ideas off 00:13:11 and they're farfetched, I promise you, as the farming is or if we're dealing with a phosphorus problem 00:13:15 or a potassium problem, you know, we've just tried so much stuff. Like the thing is like, I'm not that guy that's just like, 00:13:22 well maybe I'll try that next year. Oh no, we fixed track right now. Yeah. Right. Like, so I can tell you what, he's still using the phone. 00:13:29 It's just a different five gallon of that. Yeah. I'm gonna take a picture and show you what burned up. Well, I can remember the first time me 00:13:36 and you got to talking about boron. When I left your farm, I Googled how much boron is too much boron. 00:13:40 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I was like, yeah, I, so when I Just said's, by The way, was I, was it half, was it, 00:13:47 was I double What they said is too much. Yeah, it was, it was, was there a picture of Chad when you did that? I was like, 00:13:52 It should have been, it should have been a poster child. Hi, I'm Chad Henderson and I like boron 00:13:57 and I pushed it to the max. We went to fall progress show when I started working with these guys in 21. 00:14:02 It was like my third month working for these guys. And we went there and I had been to Chad's farm, so I kind of knew him. 00:14:07 And so I, I was comfortable there. And then we went into one of our companies we worked with that was the Boron company. 00:14:13 I heard more boron talk in 20 minutes at the Farm Par show between this dude that geeked out. 00:14:18 Like he was the boron bo, he was the borons boron dude you've ever heard in your life. And Chad Henderson. And 00:14:24 We was buddies. I think I, I think I left, I think I left to cater Illinois and did the same thing you did. 00:14:29 How much blow? Too much. Too much. Yeah. And I'll tell you something else. You talk about, you know, having to decipher through things. 00:14:35 Google the perfect timing to put nutrients out and tell me what you get. Oh no. Ain't no way. Well you'll do a 00:14:41 Hundred different answers. They'll go, Yeah, you, you don't do that before bed because I'm telling you, you'll be up for a couple hours. 00:14:47 You know, writing notes on, oh, okay, well this, this person said Do it this way, or this person said Do 00:14:52 It this way. And you're just like, Man, you might not find the answer, but it sure spurs a lot of thought. It does. 00:14:57 And, and I don't know that any of its, any of the stuff you get on that trail, like none of it has wrong. 00:15:01 No. Like, it's not, like you said, it's not like, oh, that's just wrong. It's not a black No, no. 00:15:05 It's not a black and white world that's like, that has a va, you know, that's fine. Speaking of wrong and black and white. 00:15:09 And, uh, I'm gonna bring up a person's name that obviously is, creates a great deal of, um, controversy at this point. 00:15:16 Elon Musk. Um, but he, I read an article that he was interviewed in about, say six one year ago. 00:15:23 And I, I read it twice 'cause I'm like, there's some real, real truth right here. He said, 'cause you know, he owns X 00:15:32 and he said was criticizing media as we know it. Mm-hmm. He said, the media is, you know, these folks that print this or type it 00:15:40 or broadcasted it, Eric, whatever they do, he said, we give them more trust than they should have ever had. He said, just think about one thing that you are expert in 00:15:51 and then read any publication or, or watch any broadcast about that thing and you'll probably see five things that are inaccurate. 00:16:00 He said, and you know that because you are an expert in your case farming. Yeah. Now imagine you're reading the article 00:16:05 and it's about Wall Street derivatives. You're not an expert at all, but the person that is di is giving you that information 00:16:13 probably has five things wrong there. And so there's some real truth to that about how many, whether it's whatever we look up here, you're like, 00:16:20 wait a minute of all things, you will not tell me about this. 'cause I'm an expert in this. There. 00:16:28 That means that everything that we get, no matter where it's from, there's probably five. That Means that they're not an expert in anything. 00:16:34 That's Right. Exactly. That's exactly man Jack. He wants get on your man and he wants to get on your man jack of all trades master gun. That's 00:16:43 The meeting. That's the meeting. That's, I, that's why I love, that's why I love X uh, because of the, there, it's, it's not perfect 00:16:50 and there's problems on there, but he makes an effort to make it genuine and authentic. Mm-hmm. 00:16:56 Like it or not. Yes. Like it. Yeah. Like it or not. And, and he wants it to be open and he wants it to be honest. 00:17:02 And I, I really like the way that he runs his experiments. Yeah. Uh, when my nitrogen trial, my nitrogen trial, 00:17:09 Evans is like, are you okay if we put a zero out there to see what's gonna happen? It's probably gonna fail. And I'm like, absolutely. 00:17:14 I'm okay with it. The reason when you, when Elon does something, I, and I read this in his book, he's like, 00:17:19 if you don't go too far and screw it up, you haven't found the limit, my man. Yes, Exactly. My y'all 00:17:24 have a lot in common. Mad. So Like, I had never thought about it from that perspective until I read that in one of his books. 00:17:30 And so I'm like, yes, put a zero out there. We know it's gonna fail, but we're gonna find the limit. I love that. Uh, and that, and that is how we run trials. 00:17:36 I just had not thought about it said like that before. Well, okay. The other part, I mean, The thing is we don't have time. 00:17:42 No. Like time, you know, we, we talk about, you know, a a, a farmer of their, in their prime is 40 00:17:47 crops, probably 30 Yeah. But 40 crops in their prime. Mm-hmm. I ain't got time to fool with a paint. Mm. Yeah. 00:17:53 You know, I mean, I, I ain't got, I mean, wasting my time. Like, you know, it just, let's just go 00:17:58 to the other side both ways. The Chase, your 40 years is not enough time to mess with argued over a paint that's, 00:18:05 It's not because, because I need to make money. 39 of them. Yeah. You know? Yeah. You know, and I'm gonna mess one thing up every year 00:18:12 and you take all the nutrients in the periodic table and I'm gonna get 'em all in 40 years. I'm gonna get 'em all. I'm gonna tell you which 00:18:19 one is wrong in 40 years. How's the uranium work? How did it, how did it work? But do not put it in. 00:18:24 But the barn, he'll never not overdo that. Yeah. Well, think about how many professions out there are like ours 00:18:32 where you only get 40 tries. Think about that. Think about that. You get 40, 40 times. Oh, come on 00:18:37 On, Jason, you're, you're, you're sucking up to the farmers here. No. Think, No, think about it. You 00:18:41 only get 40. I Mean, tell 'em how hard they work. They like to hear that also. Well, you take the airplane in car, that guy only had 40, 00:18:48 50 if he, if he had 40 times to try to, to, to perfect that. What about the light bulbs? 00:18:53 How many times would he say, I can only, uh, should tell you how to make it once, but I can tell you 00:18:59 990 something ways not to make it. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, look at that. If he had 40 times, we wouldn't have a light bulb. Yeah. 00:19:05 Well they also, but they, maybe they had more attempts, but they also only had the same amount of years. Yeah. Yeah. 00:19:10 But yeah, that's right. The point is Yeah, but you get only one crop. Yeah. Well, well about that thing about on the information, 00:19:17 we know Musk's point that if we give too much credit to, whether it's CNN or the Wall Street Journal 00:19:23 or any of the sources that you, they might look at, then you realize that the one thing I know I'm an expert in and they have at least five things 00:19:29 that were wrong in the way they delivered that story. Then if you look at the everything, we should be very choosy about where we get our information. 00:19:36 The good thing about ag to me, what like we do at Extreme Mag is we put out this stuff and say, here's what I did and here's what I know. 00:19:45 I I, you know, and if someone said to me, what are you next? I said, I'm an expert in journalist today. 00:19:49 Well, you've been on media. I said, sure I have. And I held what I know and what I don't know. 'cause I'm not going to do ever, uh, you know, be 00:19:58 that person that says is like, Hey, you were wrong about six things over there. Yeah. Just won't leave 00:20:05 that silent right there for a second though. No, I mean, it's a admitting I could be wrong. Exactly. That's a, I could be wrong. That's a 00:20:09 great thought. There's a, there's, There's a chance. There's a chance. I could be wrong. Yeah. 00:20:14 What is the thing you've looked up in the last two days? Now I give you enough time to think about it. 00:20:18 Something you looked up in the last two days. I looked up restaurants in, in Indiana. That's not, That's not like gonna change your 00:20:26 career, I think. No, chase. No, it's not. Um, if you didn't eat it, but Yeah, that's true. Yeah. 00:20:31 See, there you go. Yeah. Um, no. So we've had some issues, uh, with, with a couple guys getting started 00:20:40 on some things in the tank. Mm-hmm. Um, on their tank mixes and, and we have a product that that fixes that. 00:20:46 But I was googling the products they were putting in the tank to, to find out the actives in it 00:20:50 on that, on that side. We'll do a thing since we talk about generational stuff here, about media consumption 00:20:55 and where you get your information. Do you know what the Dewey Decibel system is? I don't. Okay. Do you know, do you, do you know what the library, 00:21:03 It's how they categorize Index cards. Index cards. You know what an index card is? I do know what an index card is. Sorry. Okay. 00:21:07 So in the old days, uh, you'd go into the library and say, I need to learn something about how to plant soybeans. 00:21:14 Yeah. So you would go by starting over to the card catalog. You know what that is either, right? 00:21:18 Uh, I do know. I actually do know what that is. Okay. We, we had one up until, uh, when I worked retail, uh, at retail. 00:21:24 We had one of those up until, uh, my last, my last year in the retail spot. So you'd go in there and you'd, you'd go to the s 00:21:30 and you'd look up soybeans and then it to tell you that there's a book. And it was at, uh, 2 2 3 2 3 1 8 0.6. 00:21:37 And that's where you, you walked around the library on the book number two three point. 00:21:40 Yeah. Now No. You say how to plant soybeans. Yeah. That and, and that device Is really hard on encyclopedia salesman. Yeah. 00:21:50 Yep. Yeah. When's the last time you seen one in, when is the last time You know it an encyclopedia? 00:21:55 I do know an ed. Have you used one? It's been a long time. Yep. 20 years. Yeah, 20 years. 00:22:03 I ain't use one of 'em things. I mean, you can tell, like I think it's obvious mean you you ain't using one. I can say that. I know you surprised, 00:22:10 You know, like a lot of people younger would, were using YouTube as a tutorial and I'm like, no. I, I I just, somehow I 00:22:15 handed my head that wasn't the way to do it. I had to fix something five years ago and I thought, you know, everybody says just go on YouTube. 00:22:23 I did that. And same thing. Yeah. There's 40 videos. Uh, the first one I'm like, not helpful. Okay. Not applicable. Third one I found. 00:22:30 I'm like, this is exactly. Yeah. This is exactly, Exactly. You know what the last thing I went on YouTube to do, tie 00:22:37 Tat Tat tie. It's awesome. Tie, tie. He, you don't know how to tie, tie? No. I don't know. I just have to Google it every time. 00:22:45 I don't tie tie about three times a year. You know, he just sets his phone a full sink and he's like, and then before, see, before I had, I did, I did. 00:22:50 It took me about three or four times, you know, and, but before I would just leave it done and pull it over my head. 00:22:55 Well then that created a bad wrinkle in it, you know? So now undo 'em in a real mess. You know? I like that. You care about how you look. Yeah. 00:23:02 Mean The mechanics. Hey, take a lesson from that. The Mechanics in my shop. YouTube things a lot. Yeah. Yeah. 00:23:07 When, when it's a new problem that they haven't gotten before, you know, or a different truck, different motor, uh, wonderful source of information and it's i's your new, it's 00:23:15 Encyclopedia. And I wouldn't say that it's about being, you know, like, oh, I'm not gonna Google that 'cause I can figure this out. 00:23:20 No, it's time. Like, you're saving me time, you know? Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm gonna skip three steps in learning. 00:23:24 So you remember this thing, that's Why we do extreme mag, right? I mean we, we started hearing in, in the kind 00:23:29 of vernacular fact checkers or false, what is it? Uh, fake news or whatever. Now it makes you wonder. We had the World book encyclopedia. 00:23:37 It was nine years old when I was born. So by the time I was using it, it was 15 years old. Yes. Who wrote the encyclopedia? 00:23:45 Exactly. I never thought that inci, anything in encyclopedia could be wrong. No. Oh no. That's, that's it was gossip. I mean, 00:23:52 Encyclopedia says is the number one source used if they said write a, okay, in the old days you would write 00:23:57 term papers. Now that's another thing. So you, yeah, if I used a encyclopedia, I did, but I think it was for grade, 00:24:01 I think it was like, you have to do this This way. But that your point is, now you wonder, well, who the hell created the world 00:24:08 book? Why should I think that they, I have never till today thought it's encyclopedia that it could have been wrong. 00:24:13 It encyclopedia could be wrong. That's a blasphemy. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe it wasn't wrong. But it, when it's 15, 20 years old, how, 00:24:19 how did farming Yeah. Which, which technically isn't wrong, but we've learned More. Now you're supposed 00:24:25 to get an update, but the World book, I think our dog bit, the guy that sold him, so he never came around 00:24:30 and folded the update every year. They were supposed to bring you an update in, and, and we never had that. 00:24:35 So I, all my information was from 1960, uh, in my growing up. So it was more than 69. Can you imagine being that old? 00:24:44 No, but we just, We just, how is that? Did you see the polls? He was like, how, how is that You start counting your surgeries. 00:24:54 Oh man, you've had eight, you know? Yeah. Uh, going around the table then what's good about the information, the amount we have now, 00:25:02 and then what's the problem with the amount of information we have right now? The Amount of information we have is overwhelming. 00:25:08 Is, is overwhelming. And you have to figure out, you know, what works on your farm. What if the guys, if the guys telling you what'll work on 00:25:16 your farm and then, and then you have to decipher through, you know, if a guy's just on there to get views Yeah. 00:25:23 To make money or Yeah. Whatever they're doing now on there. Um, or if he's, if he's being genuine 00:25:29 and honest about, about what he's talking about. Yeah. And, and the thing is, we think that now they're like, oh, this person's putting out this ag stuff only 00:25:37 because they got a sponsor paying them and they're just trying to get views. 'cause that's what the sponsor wants. But we, we, we, we, 00:25:44 we have a skepticism, a BS meter about that now, chase. Yeah. But we never had the BS meter about the World Book. We never once thought, we never once thought 00:25:51 that encyclopedia Bri, Mike. Yeah. We never had the BS meter back then. And we should have, right. 00:25:58 What's good and bad about the information and way it pertains to agriculture and how you either deliver it or receive 00:26:04 It. What is good is that it's at your fingertips and where you can go right to the source. You're not hearing it from somebody 00:26:10 that might have five things wrong in their delivery. That's great. What's bad is not any, everybody is genuine au and authentic. 00:26:17 Authentic, however, is that bad or I don't know that that's changed because we just talked about, you know, 00:26:24 the World book might've been wrong. Mm-hmm. Walter Cronkite might've been wrong and things like that in that delivery. 00:26:28 So I don't know that that's changed. And so I would say that I think I can make the argument that it's all, all of it's been an improvement. 00:26:35 We now have the BS meter. We now know there's corruption. We now know that everybody isn't honest 00:26:40 and things like that where we used to think that they were, You know, it it, Like you talked about before, 00:26:45 It's not a normal Rockwell Painting. And we used to think it Was mm-hmm. 00:26:50 Good, bad. Um, good is is there's a lot of information. Yep. And I mean, you can, you just, you, I like the way you have 00:26:59 to be open minded, you know, and, and, uh, I, I like to see the best in people and I like to think that most people are on there 00:27:07 for the right reasons and are trying to promote whatever they're talking about, you know, and trying to get, 00:27:12 educate people about what you're talking about. Because nowadays there's so much more education, you know? Uh, and I think that's the good of it. 00:27:18 Now, like I said, I'm, I'm the guy that's like cups half full. Like this is good. And the bad thing is, is that is I think 00:27:26 is to see a person that's maybe prideful enough that won't use the information that's at their hand. You know, that's like, oh, that's, that's not right. 00:27:34 That that's the way of the way I do it. You know, it's better. Like there can always be improvement. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You know, there can, 00:27:40 there can be improvement in how this glass, but there can always be improvement. So to say that it's at the end, you know, 00:27:45 or this is just it. Like that's just, you know, I have a real problem at the shop saying, look, well, we just can't do that. 00:27:52 Not, not, not, let's just don't say we can't, let's just say I don't. Yes. Let's just say we ain't done it yet. 00:27:56 Let's just say we may not ever figure it out, but I'm just re I refuse to think that we can't. That's right. You know, and, and that's just, I don't know. 00:28:04 And I may be off topic from what you're talking about, you know, what's the conversation is, but I Think you, you're right on and I, you know, 00:28:10 if I asked myself the question, what's the good and the bad? I used the word democratized 50 years ago, we would've had 00:28:16 to buy CBS. Now because of online and so many platforms, we can be the media or we can be the expert, 00:28:26 or we can be at least a choice for someone to go to. My ag commentary videos I put out there about the effect of, uh, you know, tariffs on globalization and whatever. 00:28:35 I wouldn't have been able to do that 30, 40, 50 years ago. Right. Uh, that's the good, the bad that there's a lot 00:28:41 of misinformation when you have someone that you, you think, good God, did you just tell me 00:28:46 that I learned this from Chloe Kardashian? Please, please don't tell me that before you get your information. 00:28:54 You get your information from a TikTok video that Chloe Kardashian Brought up, man, what if we get labeled like that? 00:28:58 It is like, God, please tell me you didn't get, except from, is it not Crazy to y'all though, like, um, that we can reach, 00:29:05 you know, 40, 50,000 people with one post? Yeah. It's amazing. I I'd have never thought a small town guy from Arkansas could make a, make a post about farming 00:29:16 or, or whatever the case may be. That's I'm saying 40, 50 Thousand's democratized made. 00:29:20 It is made it, in the old days you would've had to own a, a new, you didn't have to own a TV station. 00:29:26 Yeah. Think about that. Yeah. So anyway, that's the good, I think that's the bad. Um, and like I said, there's the people 00:29:30 that are getting information will cool Kardashian. But you know what, I feel like we also, we addressed information. 00:29:35 We talked about where you getting your information, where you get your air code from information. One thing we want you to do is dial in right here 00:29:39 to the grain room because we're a source of information at Extreme Ag. We were joined this episode by friend Chase, garner, 00:29:45 Arkansas Guy Spray tech rep. If you wanna learn more about the lineup of products they can help you farm better with, go to 00:29:52 www.spraytech.com and there's no, there's no h look at that. Sign back. There's no h on the end of spray tech. 00:29:57 Just spray tech.com. Yep. You did it from about spelling though, right? Mm-hmm. You know, your guy, Matt Miles, always has argued 00:30:03 with me about how the proper spelling of Grainer is. He still thinks it has an I in it and an ERY. It doesn't. I taught it too. Well, you see, 00:30:10 now I've had a, it's been Arkansas thing. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. Anyway, we'll work on phonics down there. 00:30:17 Uh, making, speaking of phonics, you know what? We're really glad you're here because if you're nothing else, you just learned that Chad along with me 00:30:23 and Kelly are almost now so rattled. We're gonna have to go and give ourselves a stiff drink. And we just thought, what if the World Book was wrong? 00:30:30 Anyway, thanks for being here. 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