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Ryan
Aspect and the actual taste of it all. You know, whenever you go to grocery store and sometimes you buy fruit and there's no taste, none that there's reasons for that. And that's because, one, you have no idea where it's come from. It could be six months old, transported from South America or elsewhere to the actual. The farm itself just not properly cared for. And so that reflects on the taste and nutrients of the food.
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Unknown
All right, guys, got Ryan here. Make milk raw again. Let's go.
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Ryan
Yes, sir.
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Unknown
It's been a while since that was a normal beverage in America.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Ryan
So what the biggest thing I really want to talk about in the context of raw milk, because that's such a polarizing topic, especially on social media. It's interesting. Whenever I post on my Instagram about raw milk, you leave the comments that are loving it or the complete opposite end to where they're just telling you that you're gonna kill everybody and it just should be illegal. But there's one protein that I see that's not talked about a lot, and that's lactoferrin. Have you heard of that?
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Unknown
No, I haven't.
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Ryan
So it's an incredible protein found in raw dairy, but then also in breast milk, too. But one of the topics that are talked about just raw dairy and dairy in general, is immune health. Because that's some of the claims with raw dairy, that it helps with your immune system. But then on the flip side, people say there's no benefits at all. Lactoferrin is a huge protein that really helps build that up. So I know there's all these phrases, but it's really true with lactoferrin. It's antimicrobial, antifungal, anti cancer, anti aging. It's huge with your white blood cells. So it actually helps boost the production of that. It binds to. To iron. And so or not we back that up. It binds to pathogens within your body, so it stops the spread of it. So that also plays to why it helps with your immune system. But then also for folks with low iron or anemia, lactoferrin is really good for that too. And so when you break down the actual components of raw dairy, there are so many like that to where it truly does build your immune system. And that's why we deserve the right as humans and Americans to. To choose between that, because that's not. My argument is we should legalize raw milk and then make pastures like pasteurized milk illegal. No, we should just have the. The freedom to choose between the two. And right now we really don't. I mean, in. In Nevada, it's very, very tough to get banned here. Yeah, it's banned here. So if you were to get it, you're pretty much doing it just behind closed doors, essentially. And that's just so ridiculous. But fortunately, more and more states are starting to open up to that. North Carolina, there's so many other states that have bills that they're in the middle of pushing rather to be actually to starting to sell milk, but has to be labeled as pet food milk. Or you can get it straight from the. The farm itself or there's one to where. North Carolina, they're pushing it for sales in grocery stores or farmers markets. So the good thing is it's starting to really open up. But yeah, it's just funny to see how polarizing that really is.
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Unknown
Well, the milk industry is crazy because when I was growing up, it was just milk. Now you got cashew milk, macadamia milk, almond milk. It's nuts. There's a new one launching every couple of years.
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Ryan
It feels like there's banana milk. There is, yeah.
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Unknown
How is that even a milk.
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Ryan
That's the thing. It just completely changes the. The definition of what milk is.
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Unknown
Yeah, that doesn't even make sense. Like where are they getting liquid out of the banana? Are they just smushing it up?
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Ryan
I actually have never looked into that, but I've seen it at stores to where it says banana milk.
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Unknown
That's crazy, man. And then you look into the health behind some of these milks and it's actually. Some of them are actually bad for you.
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Ryan
Well, yeah, and especially with Pastures Pasteurized milk too. Because that's another thing is you don't know where that coming from. From the dairy standpoint. A lot of times they don't even care about the quality of the milk because they know it's going to be heated up anyways. And then lastly, the whole. Another funny part about raw dairies is people will say that it. It causes all of these diseases and hospitalizations. People always talk about E. Coli and whatnot. If you look up the largest. Sam, I cannot pronounce it. Salmonella outbreak in US history was in the 80s. There was around 200,000 cases and there's around 20 to 25 deaths. It was caused by pasteurized milk. And so that's another thing that's just interesting too is the E. Coli and all these other bacterial infections that folks talk about with raw dairy happens all the time with produce too. When you think about all of. Especially vegetables that happens all the time with all these things, but that just seems to not be talked about in this conversation. And so above all else, that's why I try to tell people, despite what everything from the media, the government, institutions tell you, go visit a farm or ranch and talk to the people actually doing that and see for yourself and compare that versus what again, everybody's telling you and make informed decisions through all of that. Because to me, the root of all of our problems, not just our health problems, but all of our problems, is our disconnection from our food. Because I'm not saying that fixing your diet will fix everything. But when talking about Maha and how all of this is huge, America needs to have a massive paradigm shift.
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Unknown
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Ryan
We want to have a truly healthy country because we've outsourced all of our responsibilities. When you think about especially post Covid that really just kind of broke our society in a lot of ways to where a lot of people just siloed ourselves a lot but then through just hyper specializations in America because capitalism goes towards just hyper efficiency and whatnot because that's huge for our culture too. But then you just go into really specializations to now where people are getting doordash and they're not growing their own food, they're not even buying their own food and they're not even cooking their own food. And so I can just give many examples of that and that's Just one particular example. But then you think about, like, say, Ozempic 2. We try to just cheat everything. We want it quick, quick, quick. I actually saw a tweet a couple days ago how someone bought potatoes to plant. She genuinely expected it to be grown the next day. And she didn't realize that it took. She was gonna have to wait a couple months. And then that got like 30 or 40,000 likes on Twitter. And I was reading the comments, and there's so many other comments sharing how they had similar experiences where they bought some type of food they wanted to grow and they had no idea that they had to wait for that. And even just that, it's just, it's sad because I wasn't, I commented on it. I wasn't trying to dunk on that person. But that's just kind of where we're at in a society now to where we expect everything to just solve itself quick. And that's why we have to be patient, especially with our health and food, if we want it to fix long term.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
And that's again, to me, it's going to require a paradigm shift because of just how we think on everything now in America.
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Unknown
And I mean, you have an autoimmune condition. If you were eating out all the time, it probably would make it even worse.
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Ryan
Oh, yeah, it's. And that's another thing too, is whenever you're sick, like the, the one thing you notice whenever you say you can't breathe through one nostril, that's all you focus on. Like, I can't wait to start breathing again normally. And whenever you're sick, that's all you really think about too. And when you think about America, most people are sick. And that's why whenever. Talking about COVID how over a million Americans died from that, to me, there's no surprise with that. Whenever you take 75% of this country is overweight, severely obese, morbidly obese, and you have something like Covid come in, that's going to wipe out a lot of people.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
And that we're just not honest with ourselves either, because that was my whole problem with the fat acceptance movement, because I had, I mean, I was severely overweight and unhealthy growing up and had really bad issues with self confidence and image and all that. But if we're not being honest with one another and genuinely believing that you could be severely overweight and still be healthy, it's, it's. That's where we're at in society now. That's why I say we're not in a society, but a soy society.
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Unknown
I love that body positivity movement. Yeah, that was a rough one. I think even the people that were part of that know they messed up now.
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Ryan
Well, look at Lizzo. She. I mean, she stopped making music, but then she has lost so much weight and she looks so much better. I hope that that can really set an example for others too, because, I mean, she was getting bullied a lot online and I have a feeling that pushed her. But again, you cannot be in the shape that she was in and still be considered healthy.
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Unknown
No. Oh, man. How did you cut the pounds off? Did you do it naturally?
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Yeah.
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Ryan
So this was junior year of high school because again, my diet growing up was after school, I'd eat Cheetos, two sodas a day.
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Unknown
Damn.
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Ryan
Before school, I would be eating pop tarts and cereal. Obviously, lunches weren't that great and so awful. I mean, I had horrible gut issues up. My upbringing, too. I remember getting an ultrasound on my gut. They couldn't figure out anything. And then I remember I took out gluten. And that solved a lot of my gut issues pretty much overnight. And then that kind of got the wheel spinning in my head too. But the biggest thing was going outside. So I joined track and just was outside running a lot. And then that became my obsession. I always played sports and whatnot, but my diet was so shit. But even then, looking back, I just outran my diet. So if I stopped running and really focusing on that, the pounds would have just come back. And again, that's my biggest issue too, with the whole exempic thing, is you're not addressing the root cause. So say you take Ozempic and you lose 100, 150 pounds, but you still have those awful habits and whatever trauma that you might have faced and you don't address that. And so you still have those awful habits. And that's not going to help you in the long run at all.
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Unknown
I'm not really a fan of it either.
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Ryan
No.
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Unknown
Anything. Anytime where you're losing or gaining something super fast, like, it's just. It's not sustainable in your body. You know what I mean? What was your event in track?
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Ryan
So I did long distance. I just went straight into it all just to get in shape for tennis. So I did the one and two mile. Absolutely embarrassed myself.
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Unknown
What was your best mile?
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Ryan
540.
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Unknown
That's actually pretty good.
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Ryan
But when you compare that to anybody else.
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Unknown
Yeah, yeah, those track kids are fast.
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Ryan
And I had a good. The school I Went to was good for track. And so they were just straight killers. But I also remember too, going back to just your mindset. I remember I was in the stands talking to one of my friend's dads and I just kind of felt embarrassed, but he was just like, dude, I'm sitting up here and you're running. And that kind of even that was just like so simple that there's so many people not doing the work. And even though I'm getting absolutely decimated and laughed by people, I'm still running. And so just that little mental shift too, could. Could help too. That not comparing yourself to everybody else, just comparing yourself to how you were the day before, could really pay dividends because it did for me.
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Unknown
Yeah. Did you go vegan for a period of time?
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Ryan
Two and a half years.
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Unknown
Were you really weak when you were on that diet?
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Ryan
Yeah, but that's also because. So that was towards the tail end of that I was taking care of my brother. So the whole reason why I started my brand regenessance and why I talk on raw dairy and agriculture overall was what I've gone through with my family. So at the start of the pandemic, pretty much right at the beginning, I get news that my older brother has stage three colon cancer. And so obviously that just my whole world stopped with that because up until that point, I had a fairly straightforward easy life. No, no major health, family, stuff like that. But then fast forward to September of 2020, we're told it's in remission. So great, I go back home, we celebrate. Two months later, my dad calls me. Not only did his cancer come back, but advanced to stage four. So in that regard, looking back, I have no idea what went wrong from. From the healthcare, how they messed that up so badly. But then first six months of 2021, I go back home to be his caretaker and watched the chemo, opioids and all the treatments literally torture him alive. That's he was being tortured alive for six months and it was psychological torture to watch. On top of that, I was taking care of my mother too, because she was forced to retire from her health in 2019 or from her teenage teaching career because of her Health in 2019. So she had diabetes, she was on medication for that. She had shingles and gout, anxiety, depression, medication for that. She had coronary artery disease, the most common heart disease. Her kidney and livers were both failing and she needed transplants for both. But because of her heart condition, she was deemed inoperable. And then in total, she had 14 liters of fluid drained from her lungs. So just think of like 14 water bottles. Oh, my gosh, 14 of these in total from her lungs.
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Unknown
Holy crap.
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Ryan
And so she was massively suffering, too. And yeah, just seeing all of that. The last two and a half months of my brother's life was spent in the hospital. So then I really saw what that was like, how hellish it was for everybody involved, not just for me and my brother and family, but it's just set up for failure on everybody. And again, that's why from all of that and then being vegan and then actually working with farmers and seeing all this, because my brother ended up passing away three days before his 33rd birthday. And then my mom eventually passed away a year and a half later on the day I launched my business. And so I really saw and felt just how awful you're. You can be. You can go 50 years feeling okay, but your health, if you're not taking care of yourself, can drop in the blink of an eye, because that's what happened to me. Again, my life was fine. And then I'm talking to you after losing two thirds of my family in the blink of an eye. And so after my brother died, I come from a tech background, used to work for IBM, and so I quit that immediately and withdrew my 401k bet on myself, thinking that I'm just going to figure out my life. Had no idea what that meant or where that would lead me to. But then Twitter, I started learning about agriculture, and that was my light bulb moment of, holy shit, I've been so disconnected from my food. Had never gone to a farmer ranch, had never spoken to a farmer or rancher. And so I had this big road trip planned, initially just to travel, but then that changed to visiting farms and ranches. And I remember going to a ranch in Colorado and it was a huge processing day to where they were just processing a lot of chickens. And I got to see the. Just the experience of all that. The farm owner, he did this ceremony on all the chickens, just giving them thanks for all of that. I got to see the beautiful farmland that the chickens got to roam around, just surrounded by the Colorado Rockies. And then I actually saw them, you know, actually processed where he took its life. And then I would help defeather it all and, you know, cut it up and whatnot. And then I got to take a bird home for. For volunteering to help out. And then I remember taking that and grilling out with friends, and they just commented how much better that tasted too, because it was properly raised, and there's no vaccines or antibiotics or any garbage feed or any of that. And so I realized that there's absolutely something here that I need to help out. How can I help out the farmers and ranchers and get folks to really wake up? Because that's the biggest part with everything, is not just education, but awareness. Most people do not understand where we're at from a food standpoint, from agriculture standpoint, or how decimated our farmers and ranchers have gotten for so long, and especially now. So I worked on the farm in the fall of 2022, and that was incredible. I was in rural Pennsylvania, surrounded by the Amish.
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Unknown
Amish farm.
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Ryan
No, but neighbors were the Amish. And we. We bartered with them and traded for their butter and chocolate milk. And it was the best raw butter and chocolate milk to this day I've ever had.
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Unknown
I bet I've never had raw butter, actually. You can't buy that in the grocery stores.
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Ryan
No. And so that's another thing, man. It's just the quality of it, too, because it's super yellow, super rich. Taste of it is insane. Like, that's what with the food aspect and the actual taste of it all. You know, whenever you go to a grocery store and sometimes you buy fruit and there's no taste, none. That there's reasons for that. And that's because, one, you have no idea where it's come from. It could be six months old, transported from South America or elsewhere to the actual. The farm itself just not properly cared for. And so that reflects on the taste and nutrients of the food.
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Unknown
So I remember going to Wegmans as a kid because I grew up on the east coast and eating strawberries and fruit and tasted amazing. Now when I get fruit, nothing.
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Ryan
Yeah, it's wild. There's sometimes I've bought pomegranate and I took one bite and there's literally no taste at all. You're just chewing nothing.
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Unknown
Yeah, same with dragon fruit. Dragon fruit has no taste anymore. Yeah, it's crazy.
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Ryan
Yeah. So through all of that, I started sharing that online and shared my story, and people really latched onto that. So I realized that people were also waking up to everything post Covid and all of that and realizing, where the hell have I been my whole life of my food? Not connected to that at all. And so through all of this, though, my health was still really bad, obviously, because I was taking care of my brother. I mean, once he died and I went back to Austin, I weighed, I believe, 122 pounds damn. Cause I just, I barely ate. I was also vegan then and obviously all the stress of everything, I just destroyed my body and whatnot. And so I came back and then this is where I had my own health. Hell of a journey. Because no doctor could figure it out at all. They kept telling me I had an over acidic stomach, but it was actually the inverse. I had very low stomach acid, which can happen a lot for ex vegans whenever they switch back. I. I started learning a lot on Twitter too, realizing I was wrong about veganism. That animal protein has been at the center of our diet our whole life or our whole existence. That's how it will always be too. But then I started really thinking about the moral ethics standpoint of it all. Because that's the one thing vegans are right about. When talking about, you know, factory farming and a lot of the videos they've shared online, there's a lot of truth.
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Unknown
That I agree with that part of it.
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Yeah.
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Ryan
And most people are starting to agree with that too. And so once I started actually talking to the real farmers that aren't doing any of that, I realized how can I help bring them to the limelight and then also bring the consumers over and realize that there's a better alternative and path. And so we have to support them because this industry overall, it's already insanely tough for farmers and ranchers to get by, even make a profit at all. Yeah.
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Unknown
Because they're competing with big food.
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Yeah.
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Ryan
And then in every, pretty much every part of it, even like the processing has just been completely captured and who loses it out? The people that are actually doing it all. And so that's kind of why I've gone about where what I've done with, with my brand is going from an educational focus. I talk with the farmers and ranchers and all the other folks involved in agriculture because there's a lot that it takes to, to do. And yeah, I'll just leave it at that because it's just fascinating to, to how we've gotten where we're at and in our culture worldwide, but in America, because agriculture, the 1800s, you think about the bison and cattle and the massive cattle drives, that was huge. And now again, most people have never been to a farmer ranch. There's people that genuinely believe food comes from a grocery store. And all of that, to me is because we're just so disconnected from the very thing that sustain us.
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Unknown
And it's only getting worse now with these grocery delivery apps, people won't even be going to grocery stores. Anymore.
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Ryan
And you can even get. They partnered up with Klarna, I believe Doordash did. So you really can get payment plans for that.
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Unknown
That's crazy.
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Yeah.
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Damn. That's nuts. Yeah. Amish farms are amazing. Every time I find a good one, they get raided. So I have to constantly switch suppliers. Another big problem is the shipping cost is so much to the west coast because most of them are on the east coast, right?
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Yeah.
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So I have to pay like 200 bucks for shipping. So if I am going to order, it's going to be like a huge order.
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Ryan
You did you have you bought it from Amos Miller's farm?
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Unknown
I think so. I might have because I like. Yeah, I like raw cheese too. So. That one sounds familiar.
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Ryan
Yeah, well, they're the one of the ones that got really majorly rated in Pennsylvania.
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Unknown
Really?
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Ryan
And pretty much the biggest reason why the Amish came out in record numbers in Pennsylvania to vote because they just want to be left alone and they were just getting destroyed by the government.
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Unknown
Has that stopped since the new administration came in?
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Ryan
Overall, it seems to be trending that way. So actually yesterday there was a major, major case that happened in South Dakota with they're the Mount family and they've had this piece of property in their family line for I believe five generations, since before the 1910s. And then last year with the National Forest Servicery, this anonymous hunter made a complaint about their fence line claiming that it was in conjunction with National Forest Service tree and that they needed to adhere to that. But the thing is the Maud family again has had this their whole, I think fifth or sixth generation ranchers, they've complied with everything that's need be, have not done anything wrong. And then all of a sudden they had this in the first 90 days from that complaint. By the end of that they had people show up at their doors in tactical gear. They then put a gag order on them. Each, each husband and wife were facing up to 10 years in prison.
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Unknown
Wow.
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Ryan
$250,000 in fines and this was just a massive ordeal to where the hearing was actually happening in April. Fortunately, yesterday the case was dismissed and the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins actually made a post about it. And this is why I'm also going from awareness and educational because I truly believe how that happened was people just were sharing that like crazy online because there were so many other incredible folks doing work on the Beck and to really help drive that. But I think about all the families that's that's happened to to where they didn't get the help and you just get screwed. I mean, these families, again, they're just doing ranching. They just want to support their families, their communities, be outside. But yet these. This family almost faced 10 years in prison.
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Unknown
I feel bad for them because they also have no voice. Because the big thing about the Amish is they don't have social media. Right.
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Yeah.
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Or technology.
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Ryan
Oh, so sorry. This example. They're not Amish, but I'm just trying to showcase that the. The farmers and ranchers get attacked at every front.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
From. From a freedom standpoint. And they don't have a voice. So that's actually why, if you go to my bio on Twitter, it's being the microphone for farmers and ranchers, because it's just been completely stripped away. And then most people, especially in living in major cities, it's out of sight, out of mind. So you have no idea what's going on.
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Unknown
Yeah. Because there's probably so many cases we don't even know about because they get raided or whatever, and then they don't know who to tell.
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Yeah.
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They got no voice.
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Ryan
Yep. And this is happening globally. So on my podcast, I had a. She was an ostrich research farmer in Canada, and I. It's still going ongoing, and they still might lose the whole flock, but they were doing research on the. The yolks of the ostrich eggs, and there's a lot of COVID antibody properties.
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Unknown
Oh, my gosh.
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Ryan
And she was working with a research scientist in. In Japan. And then all of a sudden, they got an email from that research facility that they can no longer work together. She had no idea why. And then the scientists wouldn't explain anything, probably because there's pressure from everything. And then they essentially got raided, too. And then she was saying how whenever folks showed up to. They were wearing the wrong hazmat gear. It's just all facade. And so a lot of people, too, with this whole avian flu thing. They go through it from a PCR test, which is very fraudulent, because you can essentially, if you do enough PCR tests, you're gonna get the results you want. And that's what they. That's how they go about it with the avian flu in America. But this happened with her in Canada, too, where they just did a boatload of PCR test, got what they wanted, and now they're just trying to seize the whole operation, kill all of the ostriches and hide it all.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
And fortunately, they've pushed back the hearing again because of social media. If they didn't have that, it Would have ended already months ago. And so that's why I try to tell folks a shake the hand that feeds you, but then also share this information out because farmers and ranchers need literally all hands on deck with this.
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Unknown
That is super concerning because first of all, eggs are like a staple in a lot of countries. So if the vaccines are getting inside of the eggs and people are consuming them, that's really concerning, right?
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Oh, yeah.
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I mean, that is terrifying. I mean, there's people saying it gets in the meat. When you vaccine a cow and then you eat the steak. I don't know if that's true or not.
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Ryan
It is. And then also grocery store meat, you have no idea where that's from. You have no idea how many different types of cows are in that. Where the environments they came from. And so you can still buy American beef that's been imported. And so consumers have no idea about that.
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Unknown
They're probably importing it. If from a business point of view, it would save them a ton of money, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Ryan
I mean, there's a lot of reasons for that, but money, I mean, money.
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Unknown
Is always going to be the root of it. I feel like. Wow, that's crazy. So even if it says Made in America on the beef packaging.
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Yeah.
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Ryan
If it's a product of usa, it can technically be from somewhere else that they imported.
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Unknown
It's crazy.
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Ryan
And so you're not. You think you might be supporting the farmers and ranchers, but you're not. And so that's why there's so many resources out there too. That's why I going back to saying we've just outsourced responsibility. You could literally just Google farms and ranches near me or I share resources constantly to where there's 10, 20 websites now with farm maps to find farmers and ranchers, homesteads, raw milk. I mean, there's regenerative farmersofamerica.com from the farm.org beefmaps.com eatwild.com for raw milk, you can go to getrawmilk.com and then I think it's realmilk.com I think seed oil.
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Unknown
Scout is adding a section too.
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Yeah.
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Ryan
And seed oil Scout too is great for that. And so there's a lot of resources. It's just you got to do some type of work. And especially I say this a lot too, if you're a parent or want to be a parent. Because I hear this all the time too. Like, I would do anything for my parents or for my kids, even die for them. But why aren't you living for them? Because I think about my family. I mean, my mom's passed away and I want to have a ranch and raise a family. And it sucks to think about that. My mom's not going to be there to see her grandkids because she wanted that a lot. And I see just where we're at as society now too. I went to the March Madness basketball games last year or last month and it felt like such a bread and circus because most people could not even walk up the stairs. Like it was so jarring how unhealthy. Majority of the people were there not being able to even walk up the stairs. And I'm just thinking you can still technically be alive when you're 70, but if you can't even walk, you're not even going to be able to play with your grandchildren.
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Unknown
Health span versus lifespan. That debate, right?
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Ryan
Yes.
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Unknown
Like why would you want to live to 80 if you're not healthy?
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Ryan
Yeah, I mean that kind of goes back. You kind of hear sometimes whenever there's people like in their 90s that they just want to die and just. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Unknown
No man, it's rough. Like I want to live out some good years. Like doesn't have to be a hunter. But if it's, if my, you know, health span is close to my lifespan as possible, that's my goal.
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Ryan
Absolutely.
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Unknown
Damn, that's crazy. That's sad to hear though. People can't even walk up the stairs these days.
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Ryan
Felt like the whole Bren circus because then I remember there was like a capital one like blimp that was just dropping coupons and everyone just had their hands up and I'm just sitting there just having like an out of body experience thinking that that's where we're at as a society.
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Unknown
America's interesting because we always win the Olympics, but we definitely have the unhealthiest people too. It's like both ends.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Like you really got to find the right people to associate with if you're living here.
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Ryan
And that's one of the things I did actually after my brother died was thinking about who I would surround myself with. And that does play huge role and really helping you go through anything because I remember I always again had such low self confidence in myself. And so it's huge to have good friends that really believe in you and your true potential because say that this is my friend's belief in me and then this is my, my belief in myself. And through all the events like this would change a lot. But then as I kept building my business and just everything else and not giving up. This eventually got to where I surpassed my friend's belief in myself. And now that's never going to go down. Like I will always have that. And that's because of the friends I surround myself with. It's insanely important.
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Unknown
Super important. So do you do all your shopping with the local farms now? You don't go to the grocery stores anymore?
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Ryan
I do go to grocery stores still too, but I, I support my local farmers and ranchers. Like Austin Austin there's two people that I buy pork and beef and eggs and, and chicken and turkey. It's, it's. The taste is so much better.
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Unknown
I'd love to eat pork again, man. I stopped eating it because of all the horror videos I saw of what they feed the pigs.
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Ryan
Yeah, and that's very tough too because I didn't eat pig for pork for a very, very long time until I actually had properly pasture raised. And not only did I not feel like shit afterwards, but the taste was just so good and there's. And so I have Hashimoto's and the very vitamin that I really need is vitamin B1. And actually pork is one of the best sources for that too. And so that's also why we need to treat food as medicine and we don't. We really think about it as food is pleasure too in a lot of ways. And that's very hard to break. And that's because a lot of the food and grocery stores have been chemically designed and changed to make us addicted.
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Unknown
Gmo. Right.
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Ryan
That and just all of the thousands of chemicals that are allowed here.
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Unknown
They just banned food dyes. At least that's a good first step.
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Ryan
That is a good first step. I'm hoping that that really snowballs into a lot of other chemicals because that's what I try to think about with my. So I had a really bad just relationship with my food and that was the one thing after my brother died was just eating a lot of junk food. And it's very, very, very tough to break. And that's why I also believe like going back to those Zimbabwe stuff, a lot of people, I, in my opinion they emotionally eat for some trauma then they never overcame. And so that's why giving grace to that, but also trying to understand that the foods they're eating is just worsening everything because it worsens your gut, destroys your insides and so that reflects your, the gut brain barrier. That is very true. And then you go outside and you drive around. Everything's Marketed towards you. You can smell whatever fast food places you're driving past. And then you've got door dash and you've got hot and ready meals, you've got carry out. It's very, very easy. But then to, to get all that food which makes it very difficult to change.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
And so that's why to me again it's going to a farm and ranch, seeing that connection and then actually tasting that food. Because we've also associated with healthy food equals not tasty. It's such bullshit.
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Unknown
Yeah. It's definitely not true. Maybe at first because your body's just not used to it. Like your gut bacteria, they're like what is up?
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Yeah.
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Over time you start craving it. Like I don't even like candy anymore. I used to love candy.
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Ryan
Really.
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Unknown
I like, like I'll pick fruit over candy any day. You know, my body just likes that more. But at first I would never pick candy or fruit over candy when I was a kid.
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Ryan
That's why it's nature's candy in my opinion.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
That with some, some honey too. It's so good. And honey too. That's another thing. We've also. There's so much nuance in every like industry and aspect. I don't know if it's just from schooling but America's. It's our black and white thinking there's nuance in everything. So now we also associate with everything. Sugar is bad. So people don't eat fruit or honey. But that's just not the case at all. There's so many incredible benefits and especially with honey that.
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Unknown
The raw honey. Right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Because there's some BS processed one they sell now but.
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Ryan
Yeah. And then they hunt. They heat that up too. Which denatures it similar to raw dairy too.
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Unknown
So. Yeah.
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Yeah. Honey you gotta do you buy like the raw honeycomb or what do you buy that too?
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Ryan
Raw honeycomb is awesome. And then raw royal jelly. That, that it kind of has. Trying to even explain the taste of that because it's a super strong taste and you don't have to have a lot of that. But the, the benefits of just all the bees are just insane overall.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
And especially just raw honey because I also. Whenever my brother was in the hospital he had a huge wound in his gut from just all the surgeries and they would use what's called meta honey. So there was just properties of, of honey in that because there's wound healing properties to that. And so we've got to protect the bees as well. And that. That goes to how we go about farming and ranching.
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Unknown
Have you seen how 5G towers affect bees? No, you haven't seen that, but I've seen.
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Ryan
I saw in Vegas here, the. The 5G towers that look like trees.
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Unknown
That's scary. I did not know that was in Vegas. I've seen that photo.
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Ryan
I saw that here.
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Unknown
That's on the Strip, probably then.
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Ryan
I'm trying to remember what I saw. But yeah, I was around you. That was because that's the first time I've ever seen that in person.
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Unknown
They're being sleek with it these days, man. Because people know, or some people at least know that they're not the best.
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Ryan
Yep. And that's another thing, too. There's just so many modern toxins that we're not aware of at all.
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Unknown
Yeah. But basically with the. The towers and the bees, the bees don't know how to get back to their hive when they're too close to a 5G tower. So that messes up the whole food chain. Yeah. Crazy, right? And that's only on 10 activation. They could still fire these things up even more. Yeah. That's a whole nother podcast. That's actually.
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Ryan
That. That's really mind blowing then, actually. Because then they can just use that as a tool to.
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Unknown
Yep. And then that'll get deleted if we talk about it. But yeah, we at least have to start planting seeds in people, not be walking around oblivious to what's actually going on.
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Yeah.
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Ryan
We've got to really stop outsourcing our responsibility on everything.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
They take really extreme ownership. And that's why, also thinking about. It's a paradigm shift. You have to think long term, too. If you want to heal yourself, that's going to take time. But then also, when you think of having children, epigenetics is a real thing. And so if you want to produce healthy babies, you've got to be healthy yourself.
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Unknown
100%. I go to the farmer's market, you know, as much as possible. I'd rather support them than Tyson or one of the big food companies, you know?
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Ryan
Yeah, absolutely. Tyson.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
They. They are pretty much fueled awards, modern day fuel lords, man.
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Unknown
The whole chicken industry. If you look at it, it's like four players. Right.
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Ryan
So every industry is pretty much captured. And cattle is the last one that they're really, really going after.
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Unknown
They don't have that one yet.
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Ryan
In some ways.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
I mean, to me, that's also partly why. Maybe with the Mouth family, because they're cattle ranchers, but it's just really hard to make a Profit in cattle industry now too, because of the processing facilities and how that's a huge bottleneck. I believe in the last five years we've lost nearly110,000 ranches.
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Unknown
Damn.
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Ryan
And so again beef and cattle. And when you think Texas, you think of the cattle drives. When you think of America too is just built by beef and pork, but beef and. And now that's really dwindling too.
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Unknown
Wow. Yeah, we're like known for that. Right. So those numbers are going down.
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Yeah.
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Is it because we can't keep up with demand or what's going on, you think?
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Ryan
So the processing facilities. So going back to when I was traveling, when I visited this ranch in Colorado, this was in I believe June or July. And I went with him to processing facility to schedule some dates for September of the next year. That was the earliest he could get in to have his cows processed.
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Unknown
Holy crap.
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Ryan
That's because there's not a whole lot of processing facilities. And if you want to open up a new one, you there USDA plays favorites. And that's just from money too with. With the big players. So then you get. So all the bigger producers then can get in earlier. They control all of that. So it's just throughout time with this industry has just been completely consolidated. So just the big powerful players can really influence all of that. And that's what's happening with the cattle industry like it happened with chicken pork. It's really sad because I mean I talk to them every single day. I talk to them on my podcast. They are salt of the earth people. Just so incredible. Obviously there's people in this industry that are bad players and bad actors, but that happens in every industry.
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Unknown
Yep.
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Ryan
Overall, I mean it literally saved my life after what I've gone through. I worked on the farm. I think about that farm every single day. That family that lives there raising their children. It's the life I want to give my future children. And also whenever I think about from like a fulfillment aspect, there's so many people in say big cities that, you know, they might have a fairly good paying job and they might have some social life, but they inside still don't feel fulfilled at all. This could be an avenue for that. You might not be making nearly as much money, but I was outside the whole day, every day out in nature, eating the best food possible. And to me that was just again, I think about that every single day.
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Unknown
Is that when you felt the best, like mentally?
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Ryan
Yeah, I could see that definitely. And because you also see the connection of to Me, God, because I mean, that's a different conversation. But I see God's work at play in all of that. How it's just one major system to where it goes. Taking care beneath the ground, which then shows above ground, and then with the animals and the crops, which then goes with the surrounding nature. And then ultimately to us and our health too. And so there's just this big cycle going on. And whenever you think from like a conventional and then like regenerative, because I know you had Kevin from perennial pastures on. Conventional is pretty much against nature in a lot of ways. And then how it responds. Well, we have degraded soils, we have mono cropping going back to the taste of food. And then nutrient density, all of that plays. And then you go with regenerative agriculture, which is more in alignment with how nature operates. What happens with that? You start rebuilding the soil, rebuilding nutrient density, and then you have more better tasting food. And so that's why above all else, I will keep preaching. Go visit a farm and ranch. Take your family out there, watch your kids. See how they, they interact with everybody. It's just. It's hard to put into words how awesome it is.
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Unknown
Yeah. I adopted both my dogs from the Amish, man. It was such a pure experience seeing that lifestyle.
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Yeah.
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And they have no mental health issues. They just live off the lay of the land and they. What I like too is they barter. Like, we just started gardening at my house and I want to start trading some stuff. Man, we got some jalapenos.
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Ryan
Yeah, I love that.
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Unknown
I want to live in a, like a culture of that. Bring that back again. Dude.
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Ryan
That's. That was the cool thing because farmers markets from the farmer standpoint can be very tough. But it's cool to barter with the, the neighbo tents whenever the farmers market ended because that's what we would do and there'd be some Mennonites and it was. Yeah, it was just really cool to. It felt very communal.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Ryan
That's another thing is we're just. We don't have that third. I'm blinking because you have your home and then you go to like your job or school. But then we don't have that third option anymore.
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Unknown
We don't have community anymore.
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Yeah.
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Ryan
And so community's just gone.
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Unknown
And especially in major cities, like it's non existent.
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Ryan
And Rule 2 rules been completely decimated in a lot of ways too, overall. And so it's just. I have a lot of hope and I truly believe that the best days are ahead. But it just it's going to take a lot of work. It's going to take a lot of awareness and education.
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Unknown
Absolutely man. Where can people watch your stuff and stay updated on this?
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Ryan
So on Instagram and Twitter and TikTok the regenessance. My website is just the regenessance co there I also have apparel all natural fibers outside of the trucker hats because that was another thing too is learning about natural fibers versus polyester and and all the synthetic fibers.
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Unknown
Yeah I stopped wearing polyester but then.
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Ryan
Also I have podcasts, the regenessance podcast and there again I talk with farmers and ranchers and all the other folks that encompass agriculture and then on YouTube because I'm going to be doing a lot of media moving forward. I have a lot planned for these next two years and so just be on the lookout for that. I love it. It'll be cool.
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Unknown
Stay tuned guys. Check them out and they'll be video below. See you next time.