1 00:00:02,786 --> 00:00:04,873 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Growing Our Future podcast. 2 00:00:04,873 --> 00:00:08,811 In this show, the Texas FFA Foundation will take on a 3 00:00:08,891 --> 00:00:12,663 journey of exploration into agricultural science, education, 4 00:00:12,663 --> 00:00:15,990 leadership development and insights from subject matter 5 00:00:16,071 --> 00:00:19,669 experts and sponsors who provide the fuel to make dreams come 6 00:00:19,708 --> 00:00:19,969 true. 7 00:00:19,969 --> 00:00:22,344 Here's your host, Aaron Alejandro. 8 00:00:30,251 --> 00:00:33,274 Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening, 9 00:00:33,433 --> 00:00:36,936 or whenever you may be tuning in to the Growing Our Future 10 00:00:36,976 --> 00:00:37,576 podcast. 11 00:00:37,576 --> 00:00:40,868 Hey, listen, number one, we want to say thank you for 12 00:00:40,908 --> 00:00:41,530 stopping by. 13 00:00:41,530 --> 00:00:43,463 You know time's the only thing. 14 00:00:43,463 --> 00:00:44,588 We can't save it. 15 00:00:44,588 --> 00:00:45,765 All we can do is spend it. 16 00:00:45,765 --> 00:00:48,787 So the fact that you're willing to share a little of your time 17 00:00:48,807 --> 00:00:50,371 with us, trust me, we're honored . 18 00:00:50,371 --> 00:00:54,030 We're also honored because this show brings on some incredible 19 00:00:54,070 --> 00:00:54,451 guests. 20 00:00:55,420 --> 00:00:56,542 You know Abraham Lincoln. 21 00:00:56,542 --> 00:01:00,100 Lincoln used to say that the philosophy of the school room in 22 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:02,908 one generation will be the philosophy of government in the 23 00:01:02,969 --> 00:01:03,290 next. 24 00:01:03,290 --> 00:01:04,902 Now, let that sink in. 25 00:01:04,902 --> 00:01:07,147 The will be the philosophy of government in the next. 26 00:01:07,147 --> 00:01:07,769 Now, let that sink in. 27 00:01:07,769 --> 00:01:10,313 The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation 28 00:01:10,353 --> 00:01:11,938 will be philosophy of government in the next. 29 00:01:11,938 --> 00:01:15,965 So when I think about the future, I think about 30 00:01:15,984 --> 00:01:17,611 agriculture and I tell people, if agriculture has taught me 31 00:01:17,631 --> 00:01:19,316 anything, it's taught me this If you want to know what the 32 00:01:19,337 --> 00:01:19,980 future is, grow it. 33 00:01:19,980 --> 00:01:21,641 Well, how do you grow it? 34 00:01:21,641 --> 00:01:24,989 You got to plant the right seeds, you got to nurture those 35 00:01:25,030 --> 00:01:27,647 seeds and then you got to harvest it and share it with 36 00:01:27,746 --> 00:01:27,987 others. 37 00:01:28,820 --> 00:01:31,852 The reason I enjoy this show is because we get to bring on 38 00:01:31,912 --> 00:01:36,105 incredible guests, guests that share their experiences, their 39 00:01:36,245 --> 00:01:40,313 insights, their seeds of greatness that we can put in 40 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,268 place in our lives and share with others. 41 00:01:42,268 --> 00:01:45,388 I am so excited for today's guest y'all. 42 00:01:45,388 --> 00:01:48,668 I got to tell you I'm going to try not to fanboy it here, but I 43 00:01:48,668 --> 00:01:52,688 may fanboy it a little bit because I am in awe of this 44 00:01:52,787 --> 00:01:53,590 man's career. 45 00:01:53,590 --> 00:02:00,003 I'm inspired by his passion for agriculture and I'm taken by 46 00:02:00,263 --> 00:02:01,605 his incredible heart for others. 47 00:02:01,605 --> 00:02:06,030 Ladies and gentlemen, legendary rodeo announcer, bob Tallman. 48 00:02:06,030 --> 00:02:09,955 Bob, thank you for being with us today, thank you. 49 00:02:09,974 --> 00:02:10,435 Speaker 3: Cowboy. 50 00:02:10,435 --> 00:02:14,263 Thank you, I like it. 51 00:02:14,263 --> 00:02:16,387 I love it, I love it. 52 00:02:16,387 --> 00:02:21,754 You know I'm big on Jesus, big on agriculture, big on America. 53 00:02:21,754 --> 00:02:25,780 So God bless America and God bless Texas and I know this will 54 00:02:25,780 --> 00:02:30,348 go outside Sure Texas, and I was born and raised in Nevada, 55 00:02:30,889 --> 00:02:31,270 nevada. 56 00:02:31,290 --> 00:02:31,692 Speaker 2: Nevada. 57 00:02:32,032 --> 00:02:32,413 Speaker 1: Nevada. 58 00:02:33,699 --> 00:02:37,167 Speaker 3: And there's some pictures behind me of my great 59 00:02:37,207 --> 00:02:40,253 great uncle, 1903 in Denial, nevada. 60 00:02:40,253 --> 00:02:50,643 He came, he raised horses for uh the cavalry in butte montana 61 00:02:50,663 --> 00:02:52,766 and there was a uh scuffle so he left with about 150 mares and 62 00:02:52,806 --> 00:02:56,211 20 studs and 10 dogs 1600 miles. 63 00:02:56,211 --> 00:02:58,641 He drove them horses to nevada. 64 00:02:58,641 --> 00:03:04,012 I was raised in a place called four vada, nevada, 55 miles 65 00:03:04,111 --> 00:03:05,294 outside of Winnemucca. 66 00:03:05,294 --> 00:03:11,408 W-i-n-n-e-m-u-c-c-a stands for one moccasin, because Chief 67 00:03:12,311 --> 00:03:16,263 Winnemucca is a Pied Indian chief there and he was in World 68 00:03:16,282 --> 00:03:18,669 War I and he got his foot shot off so he only had to wear one 69 00:03:18,710 --> 00:03:20,254 moccasin. 70 00:03:20,254 --> 00:03:24,905 Cool people, pied Indians, you said about raising kids in 71 00:03:24,985 --> 00:03:25,546 agriculture. 72 00:03:25,546 --> 00:03:26,830 We're ready to go. 73 00:03:28,862 --> 00:03:29,103 Speaker 2: Okay. 74 00:03:29,103 --> 00:03:31,849 So before I get you wound up, let me ask you one question, 75 00:03:33,659 --> 00:03:37,629 because every one of these episodes, every episode of the 76 00:03:37,650 --> 00:03:41,105 Growing Our Future podcast, I ask all the guests the same 77 00:03:41,145 --> 00:03:41,567 question. 78 00:03:41,567 --> 00:03:42,729 I'm going to ask you the question. 79 00:03:42,729 --> 00:03:43,070 You ready? 80 00:03:43,070 --> 00:03:45,800 Here it is Bob Tallman. 81 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,567 What are you grateful for today ? 82 00:03:50,149 --> 00:03:53,175 Speaker 3: Oh, life, life, God's abundance. 83 00:03:53,175 --> 00:03:58,364 Family, my family, my friends, we're in agriculture. 84 00:03:58,364 --> 00:04:02,890 My grandkids now are seventh generation agriculture, blessed, 85 00:04:02,890 --> 00:04:04,514 blessed, blessed, blessed. 86 00:04:04,514 --> 00:04:15,187 As you well know, I'm not very technical and had help setting 87 00:04:15,228 --> 00:04:16,673 up this podcast with you, with Jordan Jo Hollibaugh, who does 88 00:04:16,694 --> 00:04:19,545 all my social media stuff and she's a pretty cool lady Mary 89 00:04:19,565 --> 00:04:23,963 Doream and Hollibaugh rodeo people and breakaway ropers and 90 00:04:24,043 --> 00:04:28,100 horse people and so forth, but seven generations of us. 91 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:32,247 The next room, in the tack room , I've got brands that go back 92 00:04:32,267 --> 00:04:37,822 to 1894 246, which was the cavalry brand for those horses 93 00:04:37,862 --> 00:04:38,903 he raised in montana. 94 00:04:38,903 --> 00:04:44,853 Je, my mom and dad's brand, three-quarter circle T and now 95 00:04:44,932 --> 00:04:46,454 3T, our brand. 96 00:04:46,454 --> 00:04:49,848 It's like Rodeo Houston, everybody's got a brand. 97 00:04:49,867 --> 00:04:56,523 Okay, where I was raised, aaron, I went to a one-room 98 00:04:56,543 --> 00:05:00,764 schoolhouse, no electricity, two-hole route house out in the 99 00:05:00,805 --> 00:05:08,980 back, eight, nine, 10 kids every year, mostly girls, and when 100 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,425 the bus ran, ran, we went to school and the teacher lived 101 00:05:11,545 --> 00:05:16,074 with us and had eight grades and so if you're going to go on to 102 00:05:16,093 --> 00:05:18,382 high school, you had to go to winnemore, mcdermott or 103 00:05:18,423 --> 00:05:19,264 someplace like that. 104 00:05:19,264 --> 00:05:30,204 I can remember as a kid, school got out in April because we had 105 00:05:30,204 --> 00:05:31,370 to take the cattle to the mountain. 106 00:05:31,370 --> 00:05:32,665 No fences, no fences. 107 00:05:32,665 --> 00:05:36,021 15 ranches all put their cattle together and went to the 108 00:05:36,062 --> 00:05:39,540 mountain for the summer and school didn't start till October 109 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:42,694 because after Labor Day by the time you got all the cattle 110 00:05:42,735 --> 00:05:45,382 separated and everything had been branded in the spring and 111 00:05:45,401 --> 00:05:46,406 you got your cattle home. 112 00:05:46,406 --> 00:05:48,454 Kids had to go as a hand. 113 00:05:48,454 --> 00:05:52,524 They paid them in those days $2 a day to buckaroo Pretty good 114 00:05:52,545 --> 00:05:52,725 deal. 115 00:05:52,725 --> 00:05:57,473 But gas, if you could find it, cost 15 cents a gallon. 116 00:05:57,473 --> 00:06:04,290 So I can remember I used to love to go to the chicken yard 117 00:06:04,451 --> 00:06:08,990 with my grandmother and we had, oh I mean probably 100 chicken, 118 00:06:09,180 --> 00:06:15,822 around 500 head of sheep and 800 head of cows, and I can 119 00:06:15,862 --> 00:06:18,440 remember going in that chicken yard with a stick and drawing 120 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:24,440 pictures of pastures, corrals, places to work cattle, because 121 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,677 every place you build a set of crows on that ranch and those 122 00:06:27,718 --> 00:06:30,427 other ranches always had a creek running through it so you had 123 00:06:30,526 --> 00:06:34,310 water in it and the milk barn, milking barn, was right there. 124 00:06:34,310 --> 00:06:37,709 Normally the slaughterhouse was right over there. 125 00:06:37,709 --> 00:06:42,411 Being in the beef business today, I've been watching cattle 126 00:06:42,411 --> 00:06:48,903 , lamb, hogs, deer, trout All my life. 127 00:06:49,526 --> 00:06:54,310 You lived off the land so I didn't know the word agriculture 128 00:06:54,310 --> 00:06:55,947 , had no clue about it. 129 00:06:55,947 --> 00:06:58,988 Nobody ever talked about agriculture. 130 00:06:58,988 --> 00:07:03,290 We talked about ranching livestock horses. 131 00:07:03,290 --> 00:07:06,266 Everything we did was big horse m mules. 132 00:07:06,266 --> 00:07:07,269 I hated them. 133 00:07:07,269 --> 00:07:11,107 They were mean, they bite you, kick you, strike you, and we did 134 00:07:11,107 --> 00:07:14,401 everything with sickle bar, mowers and dump breaks and my 135 00:07:14,461 --> 00:07:16,384 mom drove them just like everybody else. 136 00:07:16,384 --> 00:07:22,021 And so when we'd sit down at the table there might be 15 men 137 00:07:22,382 --> 00:07:26,353 me and my little sister then she's just a baby and my mom and 138 00:07:26,353 --> 00:07:29,752 my grandmother and they were swiss, italian came from the old 139 00:07:29,752 --> 00:07:35,110 country to ellis island 1911 and there they were in their 140 00:07:35,170 --> 00:07:35,612 dresses. 141 00:07:35,612 --> 00:07:39,584 My mom and my grandmother always wore dresses and they had 142 00:07:39,584 --> 00:07:42,471 a rosary and they prayed while they cooked. 143 00:07:42,471 --> 00:07:45,362 They prayed while they made cream, prayed while they make 144 00:07:45,422 --> 00:07:45,682 butter. 145 00:07:45,682 --> 00:07:51,545 It was just something that you got used to in life, and 146 00:07:51,586 --> 00:07:54,028 sometimes on Sundays my grandmother would drive me to 147 00:07:54,067 --> 00:08:00,392 Winnemucca 54 miles A lot of it was a gravel road then church 148 00:08:00,994 --> 00:08:06,038 where I was born, baptized, confirmed and married 54 years 149 00:08:06,077 --> 00:08:06,598 ago now. 150 00:08:06,598 --> 00:08:12,505 So the history in all of that agriculture was not discussed 151 00:08:13,266 --> 00:08:13,687 Wrenchy. 152 00:08:15,690 --> 00:08:17,033 Then I moved to town. 153 00:08:17,033 --> 00:08:20,286 My dad broke his back horse bucked him off and he broke his 154 00:08:20,365 --> 00:08:22,932 back and he tried it for a year in a body cast. 155 00:08:22,932 --> 00:08:25,701 I remember cutting green willows and running them up and 156 00:08:25,721 --> 00:08:25,880 down. 157 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,206 That back of his cast, couldn't take it. 158 00:08:28,206 --> 00:08:28,567 No more. 159 00:08:28,567 --> 00:08:30,500 He couldn't drive a team, couldn't run. 160 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:32,004 You know, put hay up with a dairy. 161 00:08:32,004 --> 00:08:33,687 So we moved to town. 162 00:08:33,687 --> 00:08:35,711 We moved to town. 163 00:08:35,711 --> 00:08:36,972 I joined 4-h. 164 00:08:36,972 --> 00:08:41,225 We didn't have ffa, it's great, 2,500 people. 165 00:08:41,225 --> 00:08:47,673 Kirk day, my first 4-H leader and he was, as you and I know, 166 00:08:47,793 --> 00:08:51,004 thousands of them he was the head of the agricultural 167 00:08:51,043 --> 00:08:54,924 district in Humboldt County, nevada Changed my life. 168 00:08:56,101 --> 00:08:57,548 I didn't know what record keeping was. 169 00:08:57,548 --> 00:08:59,106 I didn't know what a record book was. 170 00:08:59,106 --> 00:09:01,769 I didn't know what making a speech in public was. 171 00:09:01,769 --> 00:09:08,779 But being an old BSer now I was a bsr as a kid got one fist 172 00:09:08,860 --> 00:09:12,508 fight by accident, knocked a guy out with a cast ahead on a 173 00:09:12,528 --> 00:09:13,068 broken arm. 174 00:09:13,068 --> 00:09:15,520 So I wasn't a big guy, I was a little kid. 175 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,562 But 4-h changed my life. 176 00:09:17,562 --> 00:09:23,490 I did everything, everything you could do in 4-H, including 177 00:09:23,591 --> 00:09:24,032 home ec. 178 00:09:24,032 --> 00:09:30,888 Well, as time went on and I got into high school, I tried 179 00:09:30,927 --> 00:09:31,971 football for three days. 180 00:09:31,971 --> 00:09:32,652 That didn't work. 181 00:09:32,652 --> 00:09:36,828 So I started to rope because I was raised doing that kind of 182 00:09:36,849 --> 00:09:42,842 stuff and as I got ready then later to go to college, I went 183 00:09:42,863 --> 00:09:43,566 to Cal Poly. 184 00:09:43,566 --> 00:09:45,510 I was going to go to Sol Ross. 185 00:09:46,221 --> 00:09:47,567 I had a girlfriend change my mind. 186 00:09:47,567 --> 00:09:51,904 I went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, california, for a year. 187 00:09:51,904 --> 00:09:53,100 Yeah, what did? 188 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,302 I do when I got there Agriculture I got the cap 189 00:09:55,341 --> 00:09:59,346 contract, steer contract, took care of all of the livestock at 190 00:09:59,366 --> 00:10:00,129 the Poly arena. 191 00:10:00,129 --> 00:10:07,100 Worked in a feed mill on Monday nights all night cleaning. 192 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:08,586 Worked in a feed mill on Monday nights all night cleaning it so 193 00:10:08,586 --> 00:10:10,432 we could have all the free feed pelletized that we wanted to 194 00:10:10,451 --> 00:10:11,053 feed our cows and steers. 195 00:10:11,053 --> 00:10:14,043 And on Tuesday nights we worked in Buelton, california, south 196 00:10:14,062 --> 00:10:19,658 of Cal Poly, um, in a sale barn so we could buy all the killer 197 00:10:19,677 --> 00:10:23,245 horses first and go to the and do that kind of thing. 198 00:10:23,245 --> 00:10:29,260 So agriculture took over and I learned, I think, in my early 199 00:10:29,321 --> 00:10:32,528 days, about agriculture because every pamphlet I looked at, read 200 00:10:32,528 --> 00:10:37,107 , talked about or was lectured by, had to do with agriculture, 201 00:10:37,149 --> 00:10:41,280 didn't just say farming or ranching, it said agriculture in 202 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:42,283 its entire sphere. 203 00:10:42,283 --> 00:10:46,522 Pardon me for taking so long to get to all of that, but I mean 204 00:10:46,542 --> 00:10:50,809 that was, you know, 20 years of my life and from that point on 205 00:10:51,851 --> 00:10:59,754 until I came to Texas oh, by the way, I've been in FFA 45 years. 206 00:10:59,835 --> 00:11:01,678 Speaker 2: You're a great supporter, by the way, and we 207 00:11:01,719 --> 00:11:03,743 appreciate you more than you will ever know. 208 00:11:03,743 --> 00:11:07,210 When you talked about what you were grateful for your family, 209 00:11:07,250 --> 00:11:09,394 your country I'm with you. 210 00:11:09,394 --> 00:11:13,201 I love the fact that we have this incredible liberty, and the 211 00:11:13,201 --> 00:11:16,284 reason that we do that, bob, the reason we start every 212 00:11:16,325 --> 00:11:20,491 podcast with that, is because you know the great, you remember 213 00:11:20,491 --> 00:11:22,554 the great Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker. 214 00:11:22,615 --> 00:11:26,370 Oh yes, his son, tom Ziglar, is on my board of directors. 215 00:11:26,370 --> 00:11:30,589 And so Tom and I were talking one day and he was up on the 216 00:11:30,708 --> 00:11:34,749 East Coast and he was talking to these kids and he asked them 217 00:11:34,769 --> 00:11:35,431 this question. 218 00:11:35,431 --> 00:11:40,831 He said how do you feel when you're grateful about things? 219 00:11:40,831 --> 00:11:43,570 And the kid said well, you know , I feel good, I feel positive, 220 00:11:43,639 --> 00:11:46,606 I feel hopeful, and he goes through all of these words and 221 00:11:46,866 --> 00:11:49,533 emotions associated with the word grateful. 222 00:11:49,533 --> 00:11:52,384 And then he asked him this question. 223 00:11:52,384 --> 00:11:56,432 He said what is the opposite of gratitude? 224 00:11:56,432 --> 00:12:00,419 And the room got quiet and the kids were thinking. 225 00:12:00,419 --> 00:12:07,701 And finally he said and the kids were thinking, and finally 226 00:12:07,721 --> 00:12:09,344 he said the opposite of gratitude is entitlement. 227 00:12:09,344 --> 00:12:11,167 And watch what happens to your attitude. 228 00:12:11,167 --> 00:12:12,910 Well, that's not fair. 229 00:12:12,910 --> 00:12:16,461 That's mine, give that to me. 230 00:12:16,461 --> 00:12:20,385 You go from a place of being hopeful, optimistic and 231 00:12:20,426 --> 00:12:25,433 visionary to a place of a little bit of self-centeredness, a 232 00:12:25,474 --> 00:12:29,224 little bit of negativity, a little bit of anger, maybe even 233 00:12:29,284 --> 00:12:29,885 some hatred. 234 00:12:29,885 --> 00:12:34,601 So I think, when we can teach young people to that, bob Tomlin 235 00:12:34,601 --> 00:12:35,062 , look at this. 236 00:12:35,062 --> 00:12:36,407 This is an accomplished man. 237 00:12:36,407 --> 00:12:37,919 I mean, he's a legend, I mean he's. 238 00:12:37,919 --> 00:12:40,988 There's no way we could give you all of his awards. 239 00:12:40,988 --> 00:12:42,412 But what did he start off with? 240 00:12:42,412 --> 00:12:43,601 Gratitude. 241 00:12:43,601 --> 00:12:47,464 And so, bob, part of these dialogues that we have on this 242 00:12:47,484 --> 00:12:49,708 show and you're already doing it . 243 00:12:49,708 --> 00:12:53,304 So, as you were telling your story, one of the things that I 244 00:12:53,345 --> 00:12:55,711 like about bringing people on and letting them share their 245 00:12:55,779 --> 00:12:59,368 story is you find all these little tidbits in their 246 00:12:59,427 --> 00:13:02,114 testimonies, call them seeds of greatness. 247 00:13:02,114 --> 00:13:05,250 And as you were sharing, you were talking about that. 248 00:13:05,873 --> 00:13:08,664 I sure hope people heard some things, because I'm gonna tell 249 00:13:08,684 --> 00:13:09,326 you what I heard. 250 00:13:09,326 --> 00:13:13,981 Number one you were willing to sign up for something. 251 00:13:13,981 --> 00:13:15,625 You stepped out on on a limb. 252 00:13:15,625 --> 00:13:17,809 That limb was called 4-h. 253 00:13:17,809 --> 00:13:20,543 You probably had to stir up a little confidence to get up and 254 00:13:20,563 --> 00:13:21,245 say something for the first time . 255 00:13:21,245 --> 00:13:22,591 Let me tell you something life is that way we we've got to 256 00:13:22,610 --> 00:13:22,811 sometimes. 257 00:13:22,811 --> 00:13:24,054 You know one of the things that I've confidence to get up and 258 00:13:24,075 --> 00:13:24,778 say something for the first time . 259 00:13:24,778 --> 00:13:27,005 Let me tell you something Life is that way We've got to 260 00:13:27,046 --> 00:13:27,488 sometimes. 261 00:13:27,488 --> 00:13:30,239 You know, one of the things that I've written about, bob, is 262 00:13:30,239 --> 00:13:34,951 I tell people life is like a calf scramble and there's a lot 263 00:13:34,971 --> 00:13:36,174 of people don't even sign up. 264 00:13:36,174 --> 00:13:40,403 And then those that sign up, when you show up, you better 265 00:13:40,462 --> 00:13:43,767 chase, you better run and you better not quit running until 266 00:13:43,787 --> 00:13:44,908 the final calf's caught. 267 00:13:44,908 --> 00:13:49,253 But if you catch, that's when the real work begins. 268 00:13:49,874 --> 00:13:50,315 Speaker 3: You bet. 269 00:13:50,815 --> 00:13:51,735 Speaker 2: Life's the same way. 270 00:13:51,735 --> 00:13:55,701 There's some people I don't even know if they really sign up 271 00:13:55,701 --> 00:13:58,104 , and then there's some that sign up but they don't hustle, 272 00:13:58,384 --> 00:14:02,087 they don't run, and then some people chase their dreams and 273 00:14:02,128 --> 00:14:04,549 they catch them, and that's where the work begins. 274 00:14:04,549 --> 00:14:08,254 And your story that already we're going to get into it more, 275 00:14:08,254 --> 00:14:11,275 but your story already is already an example of all that. 276 00:14:11,275 --> 00:14:15,903 So that's why I like to start with gratitude. 277 00:14:15,903 --> 00:14:18,346 So thank you so much for sharing, you know, your faith, 278 00:14:18,726 --> 00:14:22,033 your country, your family, because those are all things 279 00:14:22,052 --> 00:14:25,946 that I'm grateful for as well and they make me hopeful. 280 00:14:27,302 --> 00:14:27,461 Speaker 3: Can. 281 00:14:27,501 --> 00:14:28,466 I ask you a question. 282 00:14:28,466 --> 00:14:30,024 Just let me make a statement. 283 00:14:30,024 --> 00:14:31,269 Two things Sure. 284 00:14:31,269 --> 00:14:35,892 Number one time is a non-renewable natural resource. 285 00:14:35,892 --> 00:14:39,028 Once it's gone, you don't get it back. 286 00:14:39,028 --> 00:14:46,966 So in that frame, be positive, be grateful, be leading for 287 00:14:47,025 --> 00:14:48,831 somebody's career if it's not your own. 288 00:14:48,831 --> 00:14:58,131 The second thing is you don't understand winning if you lose 289 00:14:58,172 --> 00:14:59,734 the first time and you don't try again. 290 00:14:59,734 --> 00:15:00,835 Know what a winner is. 291 00:15:00,835 --> 00:15:02,136 Know what a winner is. 292 00:15:02,136 --> 00:15:15,470 A winner is a person, a horse, turtle that becomes a winner 293 00:15:15,490 --> 00:15:18,437 because they lost, they lost, they lost and they tried again. 294 00:15:18,437 --> 00:15:18,798 Never give up. 295 00:15:18,798 --> 00:15:24,861 Never give up and the gratefulness that we all need to 296 00:15:24,861 --> 00:15:24,961 have. 297 00:15:24,961 --> 00:15:26,105 That's how you earn grace from our Lord and Savior Jesus. 298 00:15:26,125 --> 00:15:30,491 Speaker 2: Christ man, I'm writing notes, because that was 299 00:15:30,572 --> 00:15:33,537 really good that was good. 300 00:15:33,557 --> 00:15:39,572 Speaker 3: I think about it every day you have this 301 00:15:39,652 --> 00:15:40,874 incredible kickoff. 302 00:15:40,934 --> 00:15:43,599 Speaker 2: It sounds like you learned some work ethic early on 303 00:15:43,599 --> 00:15:43,599 . 304 00:15:43,599 --> 00:15:45,951 You learned you know something else that you said. 305 00:15:45,951 --> 00:15:48,167 I wanted to mention this to you because this is a. 306 00:15:48,167 --> 00:15:50,413 This is a little tip that I use with the kids. 307 00:15:50,413 --> 00:15:53,847 I don't necessarily personally, I don't like it. 308 00:15:53,847 --> 00:15:58,046 When I get into discussions and the kids will say the word ag, 309 00:15:58,066 --> 00:16:01,514 they'll say the words ag, industry, and I always tell them 310 00:16:01,514 --> 00:16:01,514 . 311 00:16:01,514 --> 00:16:02,618 I said, let me tell you something. 312 00:16:02,618 --> 00:16:06,274 Number one I don't know any industry, but I sure know a lot 313 00:16:06,313 --> 00:16:09,852 of farmers and ranchers that raise some good food, and so I 314 00:16:09,913 --> 00:16:13,187 like to personalize it all the way down to farmers and ranchers 315 00:16:13,187 --> 00:16:13,187 . 316 00:16:13,187 --> 00:16:16,554 And here's the reason why when you use the word agriculture, 317 00:16:17,177 --> 00:16:20,370 back in about 2017, they did a survey of Americans. 318 00:16:20,370 --> 00:16:23,898 Did you know that 79% of Americans did not know what 319 00:16:24,024 --> 00:16:24,846 agriculture was? 320 00:16:25,668 --> 00:16:30,715 I believe that Now, if you use the word food, now get it. 321 00:16:30,715 --> 00:16:34,505 So a lot of the times, what I challenge the kids with is, I 322 00:16:34,546 --> 00:16:37,879 said, start a discussion by let's talk about food, because 323 00:16:37,899 --> 00:16:41,532 then it won't matter if it's sushi or barbecue or steaks or 324 00:16:41,591 --> 00:16:44,621 baked potato, but if we can start with food, we can start 325 00:16:44,662 --> 00:16:47,607 having a dialogue about where that food came from and that 326 00:16:47,648 --> 00:16:48,168 food came from. 327 00:16:48,168 --> 00:16:51,894 And that food came from agriculture and it came from 328 00:16:51,975 --> 00:16:55,941 farmers and ranchers who did exactly what you did as a young 329 00:16:56,004 --> 00:17:01,873 man that put in the toil, sweat the tears and lived a brand of 330 00:17:01,913 --> 00:17:03,317 bringing a product to the table. 331 00:17:04,665 --> 00:17:08,835 Speaker 3: Have you ever cut three, three or 400 trout in? 332 00:17:08,954 --> 00:17:10,458 Speaker 2: one day no sir. 333 00:17:12,445 --> 00:17:14,752 Speaker 3: Where I was raised the cricks would go dry. 334 00:17:14,752 --> 00:17:21,307 The 4th of July, snowpack springs, they just dry it. 335 00:17:21,307 --> 00:17:26,773 And on that ranch we had beautiful, beautiful rainbow 336 00:17:26,814 --> 00:17:27,055 trout. 337 00:17:27,055 --> 00:17:33,717 And if you told somebody today that you ground sluiced a bunch 338 00:17:33,737 --> 00:17:35,788 of quail they'd say well, that's not right. 339 00:17:35,788 --> 00:17:40,242 You'd say if you went down an irrigation ditch with one or two 340 00:17:40,242 --> 00:17:44,112 gunny sacks and pushed them fish together and somebody was 341 00:17:44,152 --> 00:17:47,486 coming the other way and you turned, somebody else got in the 342 00:17:47,486 --> 00:17:50,073 middle of it and filled those gunny sacks full of trout, some 343 00:17:50,093 --> 00:17:52,964 of them might be six, eight inches, some of them were a foot 344 00:17:52,964 --> 00:17:53,766 and a half. 345 00:17:53,786 --> 00:17:54,645 Would that be poaching? 346 00:17:54,645 --> 00:17:57,468 No, sir, that's conservation. 347 00:17:57,468 --> 00:18:02,971 That is a part of agriculture that doesn't happen anymore, and 348 00:18:02,971 --> 00:18:07,335 so when I see things spill in creeks and rivers and lakes and 349 00:18:07,634 --> 00:18:08,816 you know, kill fish. 350 00:18:08,816 --> 00:18:14,599 I'm big on fish, I like fish, but I like steak, I like mutton, 351 00:18:14,599 --> 00:18:17,122 I like pork, I like everything. 352 00:18:17,122 --> 00:18:18,782 You can tell by my waistline. 353 00:18:18,782 --> 00:18:23,621 I got a lot of scar tissue here . 354 00:18:23,621 --> 00:18:30,771 The thing with agriculture, I'm afraid today that 79% in 2017, 355 00:18:30,791 --> 00:18:32,554 you said, I believe that was when it was taken. 356 00:18:33,394 --> 00:18:35,998 I'm afraid, with the world population the way it is today, 357 00:18:36,057 --> 00:18:42,165 and even here in the United States of America, that it might 358 00:18:42,165 --> 00:18:43,288 be closer to 89% today. 359 00:18:43,288 --> 00:18:46,013 That don't understand, because we don't represent it right, 360 00:18:46,273 --> 00:18:48,219 often enough and meaningful enough. 361 00:18:48,664 --> 00:18:49,911 Speaker 2: Yep, I agree with you . 362 00:18:49,911 --> 00:18:53,467 By the way, you know Wayne Gretzky, great hockey player, 363 00:18:54,028 --> 00:18:55,613 and they asked Gretzky one time. 364 00:18:55,613 --> 00:18:57,746 They said what makes you such a great hockey player? 365 00:18:57,746 --> 00:19:01,653 And he said most players scaped where the puck is. 366 00:19:01,653 --> 00:19:04,086 I scaped where the puck is going. 367 00:19:04,086 --> 00:19:09,273 Now, when you said what you did just a second ago, Bob Tallman, 368 00:19:09,273 --> 00:19:13,286 you said something really good and that is where's the puck 369 00:19:13,346 --> 00:19:13,686 going? 370 00:19:13,686 --> 00:19:16,032 I can tell you where it's going . 371 00:19:16,755 --> 00:19:18,077 It's going to a hungry world. 372 00:19:18,077 --> 00:19:22,012 And to think that in the next 25 years we're going to need 60 373 00:19:22,032 --> 00:19:26,671 to 80% more food than we have today, there will not be 60 to 374 00:19:26,711 --> 00:19:27,932 80% more land. 375 00:19:27,932 --> 00:19:31,019 There will not be 60 to 80% more resources. 376 00:19:31,019 --> 00:19:34,707 60 to 80% more land. 377 00:19:34,707 --> 00:19:37,310 There will not be 60 to 80% more resources. 378 00:19:37,310 --> 00:19:39,414 That means we're going to need the brightest minds that we can 379 00:19:39,434 --> 00:19:42,160 cultivate to pursue careers in food and agriculture and science 380 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:47,195 and technology, because the challenges that this whole world 381 00:19:47,195 --> 00:19:51,794 are going to face when people get desperate, they do desperate 382 00:19:51,794 --> 00:19:52,134 things. 383 00:19:53,506 --> 00:19:57,295 When countries get hungry and we're very fortunate to live in 384 00:19:57,316 --> 00:20:01,171 the United States, we're very fortunate to live in a country 385 00:20:01,230 --> 00:20:05,826 that has the natural resources that if, to your point, we use 386 00:20:05,865 --> 00:20:09,794 conservation and take care of them we have the capacity to not 387 00:20:09,794 --> 00:20:12,567 only feed ourselves but to feed a lot of our friends around the 388 00:20:12,567 --> 00:20:12,888 world. 389 00:20:12,888 --> 00:20:16,644 But we're going to need young people to step into those 390 00:20:16,723 --> 00:20:20,612 leadership roles, to step up and say I want to pursue this 391 00:20:20,692 --> 00:20:25,127 career and learning how to build a bridge to get food over this 392 00:20:25,228 --> 00:20:28,576 river, I want to learn how to use a drone to get food into 393 00:20:28,615 --> 00:20:31,885 this other village and I want to learn entomology where I can 394 00:20:31,945 --> 00:20:33,229 help with the pest control. 395 00:20:33,229 --> 00:20:37,486 I mean, it is so many things, but it's exciting to think about 396 00:20:37,486 --> 00:20:40,798 all the opportunities that are coming down the line for our 397 00:20:40,857 --> 00:20:44,891 young people if they will consider looking at a career in 398 00:20:45,111 --> 00:20:46,375 agriculture and food. 399 00:20:48,381 --> 00:20:49,865 Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought up Wayne Gretzky. 400 00:20:49,865 --> 00:20:51,288 I'm glad you brought up Wayne Gretzky. 401 00:20:51,288 --> 00:20:53,074 I met him when he was 19 years old. 402 00:20:53,074 --> 00:20:57,194 Oh wow, one of my dearest, dearest friends, michael Barnett 403 00:20:57,194 --> 00:21:01,798 , played for Calgary Flames. 404 00:21:01,798 --> 00:21:05,550 He used to go to Edmonton watch the Oilers play. 405 00:21:05,550 --> 00:21:06,314 I'm a hockey fan. 406 00:21:06,314 --> 00:21:11,228 I met Gretzky in a restaurant with Michael Barnett. 407 00:21:11,228 --> 00:21:14,875 Michael Barnett built Wayne Gretzky in a restaurant with 408 00:21:14,894 --> 00:21:15,375 Michael Barnett. 409 00:21:15,375 --> 00:21:17,780 Michael Barnett built Wayne Gretzky. 410 00:21:17,780 --> 00:21:19,644 Michael Barnett has built a lot . 411 00:21:21,326 --> 00:21:24,392 I don't get to see him as often as I'd like to, but first time I 412 00:21:24,392 --> 00:21:25,755 met Wayne Gretzky I looked at him and I went. 413 00:21:25,755 --> 00:21:27,396 That skinny little kid what can he do? 414 00:21:27,396 --> 00:21:28,900 You know what he did. 415 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:34,307 He outsmarted him as a little kid right here. 416 00:21:34,307 --> 00:21:37,211 I had to be quicker and get there sooner because I wasn't 417 00:21:37,251 --> 00:21:39,076 big enough to outrun the big ones. 418 00:21:39,076 --> 00:21:40,759 You know what gretzky did. 419 00:21:40,759 --> 00:21:45,212 He saw where his shot was going to go and he let his feet carry 420 00:21:45,212 --> 00:21:48,906 his butt so that he can stand that shot. 421 00:21:48,906 --> 00:21:51,297 But he played beyond that shot. 422 00:21:51,297 --> 00:21:54,689 This is not the first quote I've heard that you just gave me 423 00:21:54,689 --> 00:21:55,289 about him. 424 00:21:55,289 --> 00:22:00,310 As another point, you're talking about we as a society in 425 00:22:00,310 --> 00:22:03,064 agriculture am I still correct, because I'm on a lot of 426 00:22:03,084 --> 00:22:05,931 different television shows and radio podcasts and so forth. 427 00:22:05,931 --> 00:22:11,873 I still say that less than 2% of us in agriculture raise the 428 00:22:11,933 --> 00:22:13,257 food for the 98%. 429 00:22:13,257 --> 00:22:15,152 Am I fairly correct still? 430 00:22:15,452 --> 00:22:15,713 Speaker 2: Yes, sir. 431 00:22:16,164 --> 00:22:18,291 Speaker 3: And I'm not so sure that 20 years ago you didn't 432 00:22:18,332 --> 00:22:19,355 give me those numbers. 433 00:22:19,355 --> 00:22:24,016 You've given me a great lead in so much of this, aaron, as 434 00:22:24,056 --> 00:22:25,546 we've done it With. 435 00:22:25,546 --> 00:22:29,876 That said, we need to teach something besides agriculture. 436 00:22:29,876 --> 00:22:31,330 I'll get back to that in a moment. 437 00:22:31,330 --> 00:22:33,868 We need to teach people agriculture. 438 00:22:33,868 --> 00:22:35,973 I'll get back to that in a moment. 439 00:22:35,973 --> 00:22:38,160 We need to teach people the average consumer about waste. 440 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:38,760 Oh yeah, yeah. 441 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:43,094 Portion portion serving clean your plate. 442 00:22:43,094 --> 00:22:46,971 Portion serving waste. 443 00:22:47,813 --> 00:22:49,134 Have you been in a restaurant lately? 444 00:22:49,134 --> 00:22:52,019 You watch what those waiters pick off the tables. 445 00:22:52,019 --> 00:22:57,355 There is enough food in a restaurant. 446 00:22:57,355 --> 00:22:58,460 Pick the one you want. 447 00:22:58,460 --> 00:23:01,708 Every night at midnight it goes in a dumpster. 448 00:23:01,708 --> 00:23:06,577 I used to slop hogs so I know how that works because we went 449 00:23:06,617 --> 00:23:09,169 to restaurants and grocery stores and heads of lettuce 450 00:23:09,528 --> 00:23:11,932 threw them in a garbage truck and slopped dogs with a guy 451 00:23:12,314 --> 00:23:14,277 named Pete Pedroli when I was a kid. 452 00:23:14,277 --> 00:23:16,279 No waste. 453 00:23:16,279 --> 00:23:20,855 But today we waste and that all goes to a landfill or something 454 00:23:20,855 --> 00:23:21,336 somewhere. 455 00:23:21,336 --> 00:23:23,090 We've got to quit wasting. 456 00:23:23,090 --> 00:23:25,952 We've got to learn to produce on 10 acres what we used to 457 00:23:25,992 --> 00:23:26,855 produce on 100. 458 00:23:26,855 --> 00:23:34,205 We need to think about water on 100. 459 00:23:34,205 --> 00:23:34,848 We need to think about water. 460 00:23:34,888 --> 00:23:36,174 Water conservation is the number one thing in my mind in the 461 00:23:36,214 --> 00:23:37,701 real estate business today and in the ranching business, 462 00:23:37,721 --> 00:23:41,553 livestock business, agriculture business that if we don't start 463 00:23:41,593 --> 00:23:48,070 conserving our water because our snow packs less and our runoff 464 00:23:48,391 --> 00:23:51,796 is less, we waste water by letting it run in different 465 00:23:51,875 --> 00:23:55,141 directions to where it does no good. 466 00:23:55,141 --> 00:23:59,055 And if we learn how I've got a little place here. 467 00:23:59,055 --> 00:24:00,829 Have you ever been to my house? 468 00:24:00,829 --> 00:24:06,647 Well, we manage with lease places about 800 acres and I 469 00:24:06,688 --> 00:24:08,433 have a little D5 Caterpillar. 470 00:24:08,433 --> 00:24:10,291 Now this is going to kick your bottom. 471 00:24:10,291 --> 00:24:12,308 You know how I shoot grade? 472 00:24:12,308 --> 00:24:14,355 Watch this. 473 00:24:14,355 --> 00:24:18,472 My grandfather was an engineer. 474 00:24:18,472 --> 00:24:24,017 This is how I shoot grade Right here, this pencil. 475 00:24:25,125 --> 00:24:28,625 So you take this and you either focus where you want to go which 476 00:24:28,625 --> 00:24:32,686 way do you want to move that water this way or this way and 477 00:24:32,727 --> 00:24:36,596 then you find a way to go and you find out what you're going 478 00:24:36,615 --> 00:24:41,997 to do to do this, or come back and do this looky there all it 479 00:24:42,137 --> 00:24:42,258 is. 480 00:24:43,079 --> 00:24:46,006 Well, I packed a stick for my grandpa as a kid. 481 00:24:46,006 --> 00:24:48,628 I've done a lot of things I I just thought about this. 482 00:24:48,628 --> 00:24:56,478 But catching rainwater and I was in a continuing education 483 00:24:56,498 --> 00:24:59,601 class the other day in real estate that just really brought 484 00:24:59,641 --> 00:25:04,711 it to a head that we catch rainwater and it's the purest 485 00:25:04,790 --> 00:25:08,616 form of water that you can have, full of nitrogen, awesome, 486 00:25:08,656 --> 00:25:08,997 clean. 487 00:25:08,997 --> 00:25:10,759 And what do we do with it? 488 00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:12,003 We let it run out on the ground . 489 00:25:12,003 --> 00:25:17,877 If you learn how, as a hydrologist will teach you how 490 00:25:17,897 --> 00:25:19,402 to collect it, use it. 491 00:25:19,402 --> 00:25:23,890 Water, cattle water, garden water, yard water, your house 492 00:25:26,114 --> 00:25:27,236 there's so many things. 493 00:25:27,236 --> 00:25:28,939 Be careful about waste. 494 00:25:29,219 --> 00:25:31,973 Speaker 2: That's the end result of cooking and producing food, 495 00:25:32,484 --> 00:25:36,633 but you better don't waste your natural resources going into 496 00:25:36,653 --> 00:25:41,210 making you know, bob, one of the things that you said and I know 497 00:25:41,210 --> 00:25:43,778 we probably have talked about this over the years. 498 00:25:43,778 --> 00:25:48,951 I live in North Texas, I live in Wichita Falls and we were on 499 00:25:48,971 --> 00:25:49,571 the verge. 500 00:25:49,571 --> 00:25:54,028 Our city was on the verge of becoming the first major MSA 501 00:25:54,127 --> 00:25:56,132 ghost city in the state of Texas . 502 00:25:57,074 --> 00:25:58,196 Speaker 3: Really, I didn't know that. 503 00:25:58,477 --> 00:26:00,888 Speaker 2: During the drought, our three combined lake levels 504 00:26:01,148 --> 00:26:04,939 three combined lake levels was down to 17%. 505 00:26:04,939 --> 00:26:10,314 The Texas FFA officers happened to be traveling through Wichita 506 00:26:10,314 --> 00:26:12,759 Falls one day and I said I'd like to take you all on a little 507 00:26:12,759 --> 00:26:16,633 field trip and I drove them out in the country, out to a little 508 00:26:16,633 --> 00:26:17,454 rural bridge. 509 00:26:17,454 --> 00:26:20,634 We went across the bridge, we parked and I said follow me. 510 00:26:20,634 --> 00:26:24,491 And we started walking and we walked, and we walked and we 511 00:26:24,531 --> 00:26:27,152 walked and I looked at these two young men. 512 00:26:27,152 --> 00:26:28,912 I said I want you to look around you right now. 513 00:26:28,912 --> 00:26:31,190 They said where are we? 514 00:26:31,190 --> 00:26:32,227 I, these two young men. 515 00:26:32,247 --> 00:26:33,471 I said I want you to look around you right now. 516 00:26:33,471 --> 00:26:34,295 They said where are we? 517 00:26:34,295 --> 00:26:35,921 I said you're walking on the bottom of a lake and I want you 518 00:26:35,941 --> 00:26:36,763 to look at the ground. 519 00:26:36,763 --> 00:26:38,468 I want you to look at the cracks in the ground. 520 00:26:38,468 --> 00:26:41,757 And I want you to look around because in my lifetime I've 521 00:26:41,825 --> 00:26:45,790 heard people talk about droughts but I'd never experienced one. 522 00:26:45,790 --> 00:26:49,076 And I said I want y'all to look around as far as your eye can 523 00:26:49,135 --> 00:26:50,858 see that there is no water. 524 00:26:54,884 --> 00:26:56,487 How much water is it going to take to fill this lake back up? 525 00:26:56,487 --> 00:26:56,807 And when? 526 00:26:56,807 --> 00:26:59,808 You understand just to your point, bob, how precious our 527 00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:00,670 resources are. 528 00:27:00,670 --> 00:27:04,673 That's why we love working with Texas Soil and Water 529 00:27:04,712 --> 00:27:05,393 Conservation. 530 00:27:05,393 --> 00:27:08,135 Matter of fact, rex Isom, their executive director, is on our 531 00:27:08,175 --> 00:27:08,935 board of directors. 532 00:27:08,935 --> 00:27:13,319 We work with American Water Works Daniel Nix, their new 533 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,321 executive director, is a former FFA member. 534 00:27:16,321 --> 00:27:23,857 We work with Ducks Unlimited, another great conservation group 535 00:27:23,857 --> 00:27:25,945 , which is working with Certified Angus Beef, which is 536 00:27:26,026 --> 00:27:29,996 another collaboration on conservation, because, you said 537 00:27:30,036 --> 00:27:33,645 it a while ago, we're going to have to manage this land that 538 00:27:33,707 --> 00:27:34,208 we've got. 539 00:27:34,208 --> 00:27:37,936 We've got to manage this water, because people are going to get 540 00:27:37,936 --> 00:27:42,112 hungry and we need people that are smart, that can stand up and 541 00:27:42,112 --> 00:27:46,106 say let me help figure this out , let me be part of the solution 542 00:27:46,106 --> 00:27:51,554 here, and I think that our 4-H and our FFA kids I have a 543 00:27:51,614 --> 00:27:55,038 feeling they're the ones that can stand up and lead this 544 00:27:55,159 --> 00:28:02,492 opportunity that's going to be presented them are some pretty 545 00:28:02,512 --> 00:28:03,016 heavy names. 546 00:28:03,056 --> 00:28:06,064 Speaker 3: You just dropped the people of what they're doing and 547 00:28:06,064 --> 00:28:06,886 where they came from. 548 00:28:06,886 --> 00:28:15,940 Sometimes I get preached back at for preaching. 549 00:28:15,940 --> 00:28:25,465 I am ordained, by the way, I have a license, okay, and I have 550 00:28:25,465 --> 00:28:27,549 a God gift on this property. 551 00:28:27,549 --> 00:28:30,315 It's a hand-dug well. 552 00:28:30,315 --> 00:28:37,344 It's 512 feet from the county road, hand-dug 21 feet. 553 00:28:37,344 --> 00:28:41,693 Down in a hand-dug well is 25 feet of water. 554 00:28:41,693 --> 00:28:47,270 We've pumped it twice with a full horse pump for 24 hours and 555 00:28:47,270 --> 00:28:48,641 reduced it maybe an inch. 556 00:28:50,042 --> 00:28:51,705 It's above the Paluxy. 557 00:28:51,705 --> 00:28:52,867 It's groundwater. 558 00:28:52,867 --> 00:28:57,641 It's as clear, clean and safe to drink as you could have. 559 00:28:57,641 --> 00:28:59,125 I don't use it. 560 00:28:59,125 --> 00:29:00,367 There's an old windmill on it. 561 00:29:00,367 --> 00:29:03,142 We shut it down and just let it turn because it's fun to listen 562 00:29:03,142 --> 00:29:03,682 to in the wind. 563 00:29:03,682 --> 00:29:09,595 If it ever comes going to follow what t boone pickens said 564 00:29:09,595 --> 00:29:12,763 , the day's going to come that a gallon of water will be worth 565 00:29:12,804 --> 00:29:13,926 more than a barrel of oil. 566 00:29:13,926 --> 00:29:18,141 The day comes, I'll put a solar pump on that front of pipeline. 567 00:29:18,141 --> 00:29:22,287 Out there, that street, tell people it's free, god gave it to 568 00:29:22,287 --> 00:29:22,488 me. 569 00:29:22,488 --> 00:29:25,311 It's free, god gave it to me. 570 00:29:25,311 --> 00:29:27,515 It's my right and deservency to give to them. 571 00:29:27,861 --> 00:29:29,923 Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you when we were in that situation 572 00:29:29,963 --> 00:29:34,132 here in our community so I've experienced it you realize just 573 00:29:34,172 --> 00:29:48,820 how precious that resource is over in some of the arid land 574 00:29:48,842 --> 00:29:49,963 over in the Mideast that actually the billboard has 575 00:29:49,983 --> 00:29:51,606 porous holes in it and captures the moisture out of the 576 00:29:51,767 --> 00:29:52,328 atmosphere. 577 00:29:52,328 --> 00:29:56,803 I mean you have to try everything you can to grab that 578 00:29:56,864 --> 00:29:58,727 resource while you have the opportunity. 579 00:30:01,172 --> 00:30:03,601 Speaker 3: I don't know what you know about wind or solar energy 580 00:30:03,601 --> 00:30:05,501 In the real estate business. 581 00:30:05,501 --> 00:30:08,805 My partner, phil Sanders, and I have got quite into the 582 00:30:08,845 --> 00:30:15,930 development for clients in solar energy and people say, well, 583 00:30:15,950 --> 00:30:22,374 there's miles and miles of solar panels, yep sun, second, 584 00:30:22,595 --> 00:30:25,616 condensation, third, rain when it rains. 585 00:30:25,616 --> 00:30:29,900 And where does that water go onto the ground? 586 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:32,707 Capture, making solar panels. 587 00:30:32,707 --> 00:30:36,917 Now that capture that water in a trough, goes into a tube, 588 00:30:36,978 --> 00:30:39,461 tubes go into big pipes, pipes go into big rivers. 589 00:30:39,461 --> 00:30:42,125 It's picked up, you can turn it around. 590 00:30:42,125 --> 00:30:43,847 It's amazing. 591 00:30:43,847 --> 00:30:50,803 Well, you take 12 sections of ground, 9,600 acres, and you 592 00:30:50,823 --> 00:30:54,906 cover it up with solar panels and you catch that much 593 00:30:54,967 --> 00:30:55,730 condensation. 594 00:30:55,730 --> 00:31:00,590 You can build a lake in a day in a drought. 595 00:31:01,011 --> 00:31:01,252 Speaker 2: Wow. 596 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,368 Speaker 3: Now you know where my next love of life is. 597 00:31:04,368 --> 00:31:05,683 I'm 76 years old. 598 00:31:05,683 --> 00:31:09,287 Okay, I'm only going to live to be 101. 599 00:31:09,287 --> 00:31:12,357 And then I'm going to figure out what I'm going to do in the 600 00:31:12,417 --> 00:31:18,130 next quarter century, and it will be in agriculture, okay. 601 00:31:18,410 --> 00:31:19,211 Speaker 2: We're going to. 602 00:31:19,211 --> 00:31:21,381 We've got to change topics or you and I. 603 00:31:21,381 --> 00:31:23,124 I knew this was going to happen . 604 00:31:23,124 --> 00:31:25,708 I just knew when we got on the phone we were just going to 605 00:31:25,748 --> 00:31:28,050 start and just go down this agricultural path. 606 00:31:28,050 --> 00:31:30,674 I want to switch back over to your career real quick. 607 00:31:30,674 --> 00:31:40,549 Okay, earned it. 608 00:31:40,549 --> 00:31:44,615 But I'm curious for some of our younger listeners that may not 609 00:31:44,674 --> 00:31:48,525 know Bob Tallman's story how did you find your way into this 610 00:31:48,664 --> 00:31:53,642 rodeo announcer space and how did that start lend itself into 611 00:31:53,682 --> 00:31:54,223 a career? 612 00:31:54,223 --> 00:31:57,070 Can you take us on a real quick journey of what that looked 613 00:31:57,132 --> 00:31:57,311 like? 614 00:31:58,500 --> 00:31:59,902 Speaker 3: No, it's only been 55 years. 615 00:31:59,902 --> 00:32:02,506 I don't know how quick I can get through it, but here's the 616 00:32:02,546 --> 00:32:02,826 deal. 617 00:32:02,826 --> 00:32:09,296 I knew as a kid that I wanted to be a cowboy. 618 00:32:09,296 --> 00:32:13,328 When I was four or five years old, my dad took my mom to 619 00:32:13,409 --> 00:32:16,146 Elkville, nevada, to see Casey Tibbs ride a bucking horse. 620 00:32:16,146 --> 00:32:21,791 And I knew that day when he met my mother, he took his hat off, 621 00:32:21,791 --> 00:32:26,092 shook her hand, kissed her hand hand, shook hands with my dad. 622 00:32:26,092 --> 00:32:30,702 I said, dang, that's a pretty cool dude. 623 00:32:30,702 --> 00:32:34,809 It's still just bright in my mind. 624 00:32:34,809 --> 00:32:37,374 So I wanted to be a cowboy. 625 00:32:37,555 --> 00:32:38,401 Well, it wasn't very big. 626 00:32:38,401 --> 00:32:42,006 When I started high school I was five foot one weighed 105 627 00:32:42,046 --> 00:32:42,306 pounds. 628 00:32:42,306 --> 00:32:44,068 That's when I played football. 629 00:32:44,068 --> 00:32:47,874 Three days All my friends weighed 150, 200, beat me up. 630 00:32:47,874 --> 00:32:50,941 So that didn't work. 631 00:32:50,941 --> 00:32:56,569 But when I graduated from high school I said six one weighed 632 00:32:56,589 --> 00:32:57,471 135. 633 00:32:57,471 --> 00:32:59,714 Still not big enough to do anything. 634 00:33:05,743 --> 00:33:07,051 In that time frame I tried to ride bucking horses, bulls, rope 635 00:33:07,051 --> 00:33:08,259 calves, team rope, even tried barrel racing. 636 00:33:08,259 --> 00:33:14,663 Didn't have a good horse, but what I could do as an individual 637 00:33:14,663 --> 00:33:20,432 and if I didn't win I didn't have a team that lost and the 638 00:33:20,471 --> 00:33:23,741 coach would make me run 30 laps around a football field I knew 639 00:33:23,761 --> 00:33:24,726 that I had to try again. 640 00:33:24,726 --> 00:33:27,909 Get a better horse, get better cattle, try harder. 641 00:33:27,909 --> 00:33:32,041 I did not know that I wanted to be a rodeo announcer, except I 642 00:33:32,061 --> 00:33:33,227 loved telling stories. 643 00:33:33,227 --> 00:33:37,950 So I team roped with an old gentleman. 644 00:33:37,950 --> 00:33:41,263 His name was Vern Ryan, he lived south of Winnemucca there 645 00:33:41,304 --> 00:33:46,165 and he was a rodeo announcer and he had four great big 646 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,961 university horns and these 50 pound drivers and a bunch of 647 00:33:49,001 --> 00:33:53,339 cables and a little 45 record player and a microphone. 648 00:33:53,339 --> 00:33:59,231 So when I started I had a $26 Windsor mic, four great big 649 00:33:59,271 --> 00:34:01,151 horns heavy big old drivers. 650 00:34:01,715 --> 00:34:07,133 I mounted them on two by twelves , put them on the, but twelves 651 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:09,128 Put them on the hood of my truck . 652 00:34:09,128 --> 00:34:11,365 My wife and I programmed eight track carts. 653 00:34:11,365 --> 00:34:15,827 Because you didn't, it shoots, it moves and it ruins your music 654 00:34:15,827 --> 00:34:15,827 . 655 00:34:15,827 --> 00:34:19,028 I practiced and I practiced. 656 00:34:19,028 --> 00:34:23,250 I also was still trying to ride bugging horses and rode. 657 00:34:23,250 --> 00:34:26,509 They would have to hold that for me after the rodeo. 658 00:34:26,509 --> 00:34:30,769 Well, about two months into that, I said my God, I'm beat up 659 00:34:30,769 --> 00:34:31,431 , I'm sore. 660 00:34:31,431 --> 00:34:34,307 All the money I made announcing rodeo I had to pay over here 661 00:34:34,769 --> 00:34:35,090 for this. 662 00:34:35,219 --> 00:34:36,606 I said there's got to be a better deal. 663 00:34:36,606 --> 00:34:38,467 My wife said, yeah, you need to quit that crap. 664 00:34:38,467 --> 00:34:43,429 Remember now she'd been training on me 54 years. 665 00:34:43,429 --> 00:34:54,284 Remember now, she'd been training on me 54 years. 666 00:34:54,284 --> 00:34:56,248 So today I did what you should. 667 00:34:56,248 --> 00:34:59,195 I think I went through the right sequence of career living 668 00:34:59,215 --> 00:35:01,280 in nevada I went to idaho, oregon, never did go to 669 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:06,697 california, utah, and nevada's a big state so I had plenty of 670 00:35:06,737 --> 00:35:09,992 work that I could go out and get and I didn't know if I was 671 00:35:10,032 --> 00:35:10,695 making enough money. 672 00:35:10,715 --> 00:35:12,563 But the first rodeo I ever announced, the guy gave me a 673 00:35:12,583 --> 00:35:13,347 hundred dollars a perk. 674 00:35:13,347 --> 00:35:16,039 I said, whoa, there'll never be another poor day. 675 00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:17,282 We're going to filet mignon. 676 00:35:17,282 --> 00:35:18,364 So much for them hamburgers. 677 00:35:18,364 --> 00:35:23,820 Well, if my mom and dad hadn't supported me and us and all the 678 00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:25,063 rest of it, I I'd have never made it. 679 00:35:25,063 --> 00:35:29,673 And my dad had a split personality about that. 680 00:35:29,673 --> 00:35:34,242 He wanted me to stay in business with him. 681 00:35:34,242 --> 00:35:37,146 My mom got tired of listening to him yell at me and she said 682 00:35:37,186 --> 00:35:38,827 you need to go over here and do this. 683 00:35:38,827 --> 00:35:41,893 And the guy that really convinced me was my 684 00:35:41,952 --> 00:35:43,534 father-in-law, harris Goodrich. 685 00:35:43,534 --> 00:35:50,431 He said you'll never know if you don't try. 686 00:35:50,431 --> 00:35:56,983 And he said you'll never fail if you don't try and you'll 687 00:35:57,003 --> 00:35:59,396 never make it at whatever level you want to go to if you don't 688 00:35:59,416 --> 00:35:59,737 persist and push. 689 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:06,085 So, just like we try to teach these kids for a career, the 690 00:36:06,184 --> 00:36:08,146 earlier we start on them, the better off we are. 691 00:36:08,146 --> 00:36:14,313 Well, I've been very blessed between the accolades and the 692 00:36:14,353 --> 00:36:18,097 halls of fame and Denver, fort Worth, houston, san Antonio 693 00:36:23,282 --> 00:36:24,947 Think about it Reno and the Calgary Stampede for 40 years 694 00:36:24,967 --> 00:36:27,271 and I have been from San Francisco in the Cal Palace, 695 00:36:28,304 --> 00:36:29,532 caltown, new Jersey. 696 00:36:29,532 --> 00:36:32,268 I've been from Seattle in the World's Fair with Larry Mayhem 697 00:36:32,902 --> 00:36:33,525 to Miami. 698 00:36:33,525 --> 00:36:37,507 I've been to Australia three different times Medmonton, 699 00:36:37,588 --> 00:36:43,402 alberta to now if I may pat their chest the Houston 700 00:36:43,442 --> 00:36:47,668 Livestock Show and Rodeo, the ultimate, the biggest every time 701 00:36:47,668 --> 00:36:50,230 I drive by that gate where you and I did that interview that 702 00:36:50,289 --> 00:36:53,061 day I look up at nrg stadium and I go. 703 00:36:53,081 --> 00:36:56,527 Aaron alejandro and I did a big tv show right there. 704 00:36:56,527 --> 00:36:58,532 I think about it every day. 705 00:36:58,572 --> 00:37:00,822 Speaker 2: I drive by boy, we didn't know what was coming that 706 00:37:00,822 --> 00:37:01,043 day. 707 00:37:01,043 --> 00:37:02,126 That we did that did we? 708 00:37:02,126 --> 00:37:05,632 That was right before covid hit us and yeah. 709 00:37:06,313 --> 00:37:10,106 Speaker 3: So as far as a career , how many people want to do 710 00:37:10,286 --> 00:37:13,271 what they don't really know that they need to go? 711 00:37:13,271 --> 00:37:13,572 Do? 712 00:37:13,572 --> 00:37:18,929 I had so much support bob cook, jack roddy and jack sperrick 713 00:37:18,969 --> 00:37:19,771 when it all started. 714 00:37:19,771 --> 00:37:24,547 In those days I can go back to corky prunny diamond day rodeo 715 00:37:24,588 --> 00:37:28,521 company in elko, nevada, jarbridge prior to that, and 716 00:37:28,563 --> 00:37:31,507 then cotton rosser and then mike servey. 717 00:37:31,507 --> 00:37:35,521 Mike servey opened my big doors , took me to phoenix to the jc's 718 00:37:35,521 --> 00:37:36,422 rodeo one time. 719 00:37:36,422 --> 00:37:38,043 The next year I'm at denver. 720 00:37:38,043 --> 00:37:45,172 Two years later I'm at Houston and I'd branch off and go here 721 00:37:45,914 --> 00:37:53,248 and I'd branch off and go there In 1983, I did 303 performances 722 00:37:54,311 --> 00:37:56,173 in one year and 365 days. 723 00:37:56,293 --> 00:38:00,251 But think about it, we had a lot of double days, unbelievable. 724 00:38:00,251 --> 00:38:02,340 But we also had the Great American. 725 00:38:02,340 --> 00:38:04,748 Now I want to give you a little media here. 726 00:38:04,748 --> 00:38:06,581 But we also had the great american. 727 00:38:06,581 --> 00:38:07,543 Now I'm going to give you a little media here. 728 00:38:07,543 --> 00:38:08,905 The great american cowboy radio show, second only to paul 729 00:38:08,925 --> 00:38:11,250 harvey, 454 stations at its max. 730 00:38:11,250 --> 00:38:17,583 The great american farmer, sponsored by con agra, coors, 731 00:38:18,045 --> 00:38:22,710 dodge, mango, jeans all the people that sponsor me still 732 00:38:22,730 --> 00:38:23,090 today. 733 00:38:23,090 --> 00:38:25,213 Some of them are 50 years old. 734 00:38:25,213 --> 00:38:30,565 Wow, those, those two radio shows lasted 18 years. 735 00:38:30,565 --> 00:38:33,992 I did them in australia, I did them in mexico, I did them on 736 00:38:34,012 --> 00:38:37,530 the east coast and I've still got a bunch of those. 737 00:38:37,530 --> 00:38:39,880 I ought to give you some of those old tapes just for you to 738 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:40,961 listen, I'd love it. 739 00:38:41,081 --> 00:38:42,344 Speaker 2: Let me tell you I'm a history buff. 740 00:38:42,344 --> 00:38:42,623 I'd love that. 741 00:38:42,623 --> 00:38:43,865 Let me tell you I'm a history buff, I'd love that. 742 00:38:43,865 --> 00:38:47,291 And because I know you, I'd be honored to know more about your 743 00:38:47,371 --> 00:38:50,436 personal journey and what it was like. 744 00:38:52,701 --> 00:38:55,045 So, bob, real quick we got to start wrapping up. 745 00:38:55,045 --> 00:38:58,211 But I want to ask you something because you said something one 746 00:38:58,271 --> 00:38:59,574 time that I've never forgot. 747 00:38:59,574 --> 00:39:05,648 It's tough out there for our teachers right now. 748 00:39:05,648 --> 00:39:12,327 It's really tough and they're never going to hear thank you 749 00:39:12,387 --> 00:39:12,708 enough. 750 00:39:12,708 --> 00:39:15,969 They're never going to hear we appreciate you enough. 751 00:39:17,940 --> 00:39:21,570 And you know ag teachers are a little bit different than you 752 00:39:21,590 --> 00:39:24,628 know some of the other teachers because you know you know math, 753 00:39:24,648 --> 00:39:25,561 science, history. 754 00:39:25,561 --> 00:39:26,362 You know some of your basics. 755 00:39:26,362 --> 00:39:27,306 You know some of the other teachers because you know you 756 00:39:27,262 --> 00:39:27,974 know math, science, history. 757 00:39:27,974 --> 00:39:28,356 You know some of your basics. 758 00:39:28,356 --> 00:39:29,565 You know you go from eight to four and you're pretty much done 759 00:39:29,565 --> 00:39:30,327 in the summertime. 760 00:39:30,327 --> 00:39:31,291 You're pretty much done. 761 00:39:31,351 --> 00:39:34,882 But ag teachers they're there early in the mornings to help 762 00:39:34,983 --> 00:39:35,726 train teams. 763 00:39:35,726 --> 00:39:38,079 They're there late in the afternoon training teams and 764 00:39:38,119 --> 00:39:39,762 they have to go check on projects. 765 00:39:39,762 --> 00:39:43,786 And they got to go round up projects for lambs and sheep and 766 00:39:43,786 --> 00:39:47,748 you know, and goats and pigs and steers and heifers and dairy 767 00:39:47,748 --> 00:39:49,130 and whatever else it may be. 768 00:39:49,130 --> 00:39:51,773 And then they got the all summer long They've got to go to 769 00:39:51,773 --> 00:39:54,295 the FFA convention and the teachers conference and 770 00:39:54,356 --> 00:39:59,916 leadership camps and they got. 771 00:39:59,916 --> 00:40:01,304 We don't get to tell them thank you enough and I heard you 772 00:40:01,326 --> 00:40:02,992 speak at the Live Like Johnny. 773 00:40:02,992 --> 00:40:08,382 You were the emcee at the Live Like Johnny kickoff and I never 774 00:40:08,463 --> 00:40:11,512 forgot your words and I want you to share some words of 775 00:40:12,137 --> 00:40:12,579 encouragement. 776 00:40:12,579 --> 00:40:17,449 But you said that an ag teacher's name on the lips of a 777 00:40:17,509 --> 00:40:19,472 child is almost like God. 778 00:40:19,472 --> 00:40:23,545 Yeah, and it was your way of sharing your appreciation to 779 00:40:23,585 --> 00:40:24,286 those teachers. 780 00:40:24,286 --> 00:40:27,431 And would you mind just sharing a little bit of word of 781 00:40:27,490 --> 00:40:30,094 encouragement to our educators that are listening to this? 782 00:40:31,039 --> 00:40:33,364 Speaker 3: I'd like to talk to some high school kids that are 783 00:40:33,403 --> 00:40:36,067 thinking about getting into some kind of agricultural training 784 00:40:36,126 --> 00:40:40,592 in college or tech schools to think about graduating with a 785 00:40:40,632 --> 00:40:42,936 teacher's degree to become an ag teacher. 786 00:40:42,936 --> 00:40:46,750 They normally go hand in hand with a county agent. 787 00:40:46,750 --> 00:40:51,291 They normally work with county supervisors and you know county 788 00:40:51,311 --> 00:40:51,811 commissioners. 789 00:40:51,811 --> 00:40:53,744 So they have broader. 790 00:40:53,744 --> 00:40:57,460 They're not nothing against English teachers and I'll get to 791 00:40:57,460 --> 00:41:00,400 that but they have a broader spectrum of life and 792 00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:03,338 appreciation for what they represent and who they're 793 00:41:03,358 --> 00:41:03,539 teaching. 794 00:41:03,539 --> 00:41:07,927 I have a 16-year-old grandson who's been very blessed to win a 795 00:41:07,927 --> 00:41:11,097 fair amount in the team roping world. 796 00:41:11,197 --> 00:41:14,626 One day we're sitting outside and he's coming out of the ag 797 00:41:15,608 --> 00:41:18,556 building at Peaster High School. 798 00:41:18,556 --> 00:41:21,164 I said how come you didn't come out with all them other kids up 799 00:41:21,164 --> 00:41:21,385 there? 800 00:41:21,385 --> 00:41:23,891 He said I needed to talk to my ag teacher. 801 00:41:23,891 --> 00:41:27,320 All them other kids up there. 802 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,144 He said I needed to talk to my ag teacher. 803 00:41:29,144 --> 00:41:31,168 I said how come you in trouble? 804 00:41:31,168 --> 00:41:32,873 No, he said you know we get going so fast with this team 805 00:41:32,932 --> 00:41:36,503 open, this high school rodeo stuff, all this junior 806 00:41:36,543 --> 00:41:37,166 competition. 807 00:41:37,166 --> 00:41:40,753 He said if you go talk to a basketball or football coach, 808 00:41:40,773 --> 00:41:41,882 he's going to push you to go harder. 809 00:41:41,882 --> 00:41:46,101 He said I went to talk to my ag teacher and he said you know 810 00:41:46,121 --> 00:41:46,221 what? 811 00:41:46,221 --> 00:41:50,208 He told him sometimes you got to slow down, to go faster. 812 00:41:51,811 --> 00:41:52,090 Why? 813 00:41:52,090 --> 00:41:54,320 Because that man's life. 814 00:41:54,320 --> 00:42:06,532 99 of them are married, 99, 98 of them, 90% of them, have been 815 00:42:06,592 --> 00:42:09,514 in the job, not because it doesn't pay that good, but 816 00:42:09,554 --> 00:42:11,496 because they love their career base. 817 00:42:11,496 --> 00:42:18,384 And 100% of them will have life left over and they might want 818 00:42:18,403 --> 00:42:20,065 to do something else in a career . 819 00:42:20,065 --> 00:42:22,226 Now to teachers in general. 820 00:42:22,226 --> 00:42:30,490 I've gotten in trouble a time or two that I've always 821 00:42:30,530 --> 00:42:34,213 supported teachers and veterinarians. 822 00:42:34,213 --> 00:42:39,936 You know why Veterinarians and teachers have a lot in common. 823 00:42:39,936 --> 00:42:48,864 Think about this when you're coaching, when you're teaching a 824 00:42:48,864 --> 00:42:49,967 five-year-old in preschool, they can't communicate. 825 00:42:49,987 --> 00:42:51,293 When you're a veterinarian and you're working on your animal, 826 00:42:51,313 --> 00:42:52,257 they can't communicate. 827 00:42:52,257 --> 00:42:53,903 So what do you have to do? 828 00:42:53,903 --> 00:42:56,581 You have to think for them, feel for them, teach them, make 829 00:42:56,621 --> 00:42:59,509 sure that the end moment that you leave them that they feel 830 00:42:59,568 --> 00:43:00,652 better than when you got there. 831 00:43:00,652 --> 00:43:05,652 Teachers today, you're exactly right here. 832 00:43:05,652 --> 00:43:08,204 Nice to see you, mrs Smith. 833 00:43:08,204 --> 00:43:10,050 Thank you, mr Johnson. 834 00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:15,889 Geez, I'm glad you're my teacher and in our classrooms today, 835 00:43:15,949 --> 00:43:20,246 except in the country school areas, we've got some big that 836 00:43:20,648 --> 00:43:21,650 they don't control them. 837 00:43:21,650 --> 00:43:24,846 I think politics controls them is to run them through, teach 838 00:43:24,945 --> 00:43:28,474 them, get them on, get them past the star test, act test, 839 00:43:28,539 --> 00:43:31,284 whatever all the tests they take , and get them on into life. 840 00:43:31,284 --> 00:43:38,927 Wrong, you're doing them a disfavor In the ag world with ag 841 00:43:38,927 --> 00:43:39,608 teachers. 842 00:43:39,608 --> 00:43:45,869 And then you can go on with our FFA kids into college and I to 843 00:43:45,889 --> 00:43:49,235 go back and think about the $27 million we just gave at Houston. 844 00:43:49,235 --> 00:43:55,023 And it's not all about farm kids, rural kids, it's 845 00:43:55,143 --> 00:44:00,867 engineering, it's art, it's music, it's, I mean, behavioral 846 00:44:00,907 --> 00:44:01,429 sciences. 847 00:44:01,429 --> 00:44:05,688 Those scholarships are so important to give those kids a 848 00:44:05,728 --> 00:44:06,030 chance. 849 00:44:06,271 --> 00:44:09,748 But it came from where the houston livestock show and rodeo 850 00:44:09,748 --> 00:44:12,702 , the fort worth livestock show and rodeo, austin. 851 00:44:12,702 --> 00:44:17,675 You know san angelo, just go san antonio and so many people 852 00:44:17,795 --> 00:44:20,001 outside our texas borders go. 853 00:44:20,001 --> 00:44:22,927 You people just manufacture money down there like it's paper 854 00:44:22,927 --> 00:44:22,927 . 855 00:44:22,927 --> 00:44:24,650 I said, yeah, we do. 856 00:44:24,650 --> 00:44:26,561 Yeah, and you know what we do. 857 00:44:26,561 --> 00:44:32,376 We educate our children and I will stand up and fly my flag 858 00:44:33,056 --> 00:44:35,081 for agricultural opportunities. 859 00:44:35,081 --> 00:44:40,751 So if you put all of this last hour sorry, you said 30 minutes, 860 00:44:40,751 --> 00:44:45,329 you put all this in the last hour and you think about it, if 861 00:44:45,369 --> 00:44:48,244 we don't educate and help our teachers, if we don't feed our 862 00:44:48,304 --> 00:44:51,672 people better food, if we don't give our chance, our kids a 863 00:44:51,711 --> 00:44:54,387 chance, to lose so they know what it is to be a winner, and 864 00:44:54,427 --> 00:44:58,740 if we don't give grace, the grace we receive the credit back 865 00:44:58,740 --> 00:45:00,583 to jesus christ, we're done. 866 00:45:00,583 --> 00:45:04,047 Buddy, as a society and I know you and I in Wichita Falls are 867 00:45:04,086 --> 00:45:06,710 only an hour and a half apart we ain't done. 868 00:45:07,351 --> 00:45:15,005 Speaker 2: Thank you, wow, bob, your words, your wisdom, your 869 00:45:15,286 --> 00:45:20,208 expertise, your insights, your willingness to share your 870 00:45:20,268 --> 00:45:21,030 encouragement. 871 00:45:21,030 --> 00:45:24,443 There's so many things here that I could say, but I guess 872 00:45:24,483 --> 00:45:28,824 the easiest way to do it is just say thank you, thank you. 873 00:45:29,106 --> 00:45:31,291 Thank you for taking time to come on the show. 874 00:45:31,291 --> 00:45:34,105 You and I have been trying to get this scheduled for a while, 875 00:45:34,204 --> 00:45:39,242 and it's the reality of the world that you live in and we 876 00:45:39,382 --> 00:45:39,762 honor that. 877 00:45:39,762 --> 00:45:42,766 We appreciate that and we need you to keep doing what you're 878 00:45:42,806 --> 00:45:43,065 doing. 879 00:45:43,065 --> 00:45:47,871 You're not only a voice, bob, for agriculture, for farmers and 880 00:45:47,871 --> 00:45:50,355 ranchers, but so many people you know. 881 00:45:50,355 --> 00:45:51,876 I've told Red Stieg all this too. 882 00:45:52,019 --> 00:45:53,206 Red and I have talked about this . 883 00:45:53,206 --> 00:45:58,222 He's such a good man, but I told Red I said the reason I 884 00:45:58,242 --> 00:46:01,728 appreciate so much about what you and Bob Tallman do is 885 00:46:01,768 --> 00:46:04,954 because y'all also have listeners that don't come from 886 00:46:05,034 --> 00:46:09,492 our ranks, and so what you're doing is you're using your voice 887 00:46:09,492 --> 00:46:12,601 to help them understand and appreciate where some of that 888 00:46:12,661 --> 00:46:16,411 comes from and to encourage them to support the kids that are 889 00:46:16,431 --> 00:46:20,972 coming in our footsteps, and so, anyway, we could go on about 890 00:46:21,012 --> 00:46:21,152 that. 891 00:46:21,152 --> 00:46:22,538 I just wanted to say thank you. 892 00:46:22,538 --> 00:46:26,047 Hey, okay, so you get one fun question and I'm changing yours 893 00:46:26,188 --> 00:46:26,911 up a little bit. 894 00:46:26,911 --> 00:46:30,349 I've been thinking about what do I want to ask Bob Tallman, 895 00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:34,963 Every guest gets one last fun question, and so here's my 896 00:46:35,023 --> 00:46:40,659 question for you If they were to make a movie about Bob Tallman, 897 00:46:40,659 --> 00:46:43,724 who would play Bob Tallman? 898 00:46:49,634 --> 00:46:54,469 Speaker 3: Interesting, somebody that loves the Lord, kids and 899 00:46:54,489 --> 00:47:02,822 grass, somebody that understands you get one glass in life and 900 00:47:02,884 --> 00:47:03,547 it's half full. 901 00:47:03,547 --> 00:47:08,891 It's your job to fill it up and then learn how to share it. 902 00:47:08,891 --> 00:47:12,666 Can I get back to you on that one? 903 00:47:12,666 --> 00:47:15,965 I'm not sure. 904 00:47:15,965 --> 00:47:20,070 I always wanted to meet Elvis, missed him. 905 00:47:20,070 --> 00:47:25,192 Always wanted to meet John Wayne and missed him. 906 00:47:25,192 --> 00:47:32,882 And after that and lifestyle changes, when you reach six 907 00:47:32,963 --> 00:47:36,769 million people a week in one fashion form or another, it's 908 00:47:36,851 --> 00:47:38,313 not about me, it's all about him . 909 00:47:38,313 --> 00:47:43,650 And it's not about the hurtful things in life, because that's 910 00:47:43,710 --> 00:47:44,873 all the news is anymore. 911 00:47:44,873 --> 00:47:47,682 It's about trying to make something positive. 912 00:47:47,682 --> 00:47:53,018 I'm going to find the guy that I would want to play me, but I'd 913 00:47:53,018 --> 00:47:58,653 rather have them spend their resources on a wake that is too 914 00:47:58,773 --> 00:47:58,974 funny. 915 00:47:59,235 --> 00:48:01,802 Speaker 2: You know when they made the movie about our mutual 916 00:48:01,862 --> 00:48:03,143 friend mr walrath. 917 00:48:03,364 --> 00:48:04,246 Speaker 3: There's a yes there. 918 00:48:04,606 --> 00:48:07,914 Speaker 2: There's a scene in there where I've got just a 919 00:48:08,039 --> 00:48:11,268 moment there with Val Kilmer and all the actors and everything, 920 00:48:11,347 --> 00:48:14,603 and I always jokingly tell them they were looking for a Texas 921 00:48:14,663 --> 00:48:17,367 Danny DeVito, so that's why I got the job. 922 00:48:17,367 --> 00:48:23,864 So anyway, Bob, thank you so? 923 00:48:23,903 --> 00:48:24,344 Speaker 3: much. 924 00:48:25,005 --> 00:48:26,465 Speaker 2: What a man, what a giver. 925 00:48:26,465 --> 00:48:27,507 Your words today. 926 00:48:27,507 --> 00:48:29,108 I want to wrap up with this. 927 00:48:29,108 --> 00:48:33,213 So, again, this is the podcast Growing Our Future. 928 00:48:33,213 --> 00:48:35,876 If you want to know what the future is, grow it. 929 00:48:35,876 --> 00:48:40,722 We got to plant those right seeds and, Bob, I don't know how 930 00:48:40,722 --> 00:48:44,349 many times today you've said what I'm about to say, but 931 00:48:44,389 --> 00:48:47,293 around the foundation shop, around the programs that we 932 00:48:47,452 --> 00:48:48,715 operate, we have a saying. 933 00:48:48,715 --> 00:49:02,496 It goes like this the essence of leadership is to plant trees 934 00:49:02,516 --> 00:49:03,599 under whose shade you may never sit. 935 00:49:03,599 --> 00:49:05,827 There's going to be some mighty oaks one day. 936 00:49:05,827 --> 00:49:07,657 Bob Tallman, because of your encouragement, because of your 937 00:49:07,717 --> 00:49:10,480 support and because of the things that you've done, the 938 00:49:10,519 --> 00:49:14,380 catalyst that you've served to great programs, and. 939 00:49:14,782 --> 00:49:18,172 I just want you to know as somebody who admires you. 940 00:49:18,172 --> 00:49:22,251 Thank you, and thank you for taking time to be on our podcast 941 00:49:22,251 --> 00:49:22,251 . 942 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:24,960 Speaker 3: Thank you all. 943 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,523 God bless America and God bless Texas. 944 00:49:28,505 --> 00:49:31,467 Speaker 2: And so, until we meet again, everybody go out and do 945 00:49:31,527 --> 00:49:33,030 something great for somebody. 946 00:49:33,030 --> 00:49:35,753 Go out, listen, trust me, you're going to feel good about 947 00:49:35,813 --> 00:49:35,873 it. 948 00:49:35,873 --> 00:49:40,280 And guess what, when you do it, it just makes our homes, our 949 00:49:40,300 --> 00:49:42,387 community, our state and country a better place to live, work 950 00:49:42,487 --> 00:49:43,831 and raise our family. 951 00:49:43,831 --> 00:49:46,586 Until we meet again, everybody be safe. 952 00:49:46,586 --> 00:49:47,911 Thank you for stopping by. 953 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,585 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Growing Our Future podcast. 954 00:49:53,585 --> 00:49:57,460 In this show, the Texas FFA Foundation will take on a 955 00:49:57,541 --> 00:50:01,329 journey of exploration into agricultural science, education, 956 00:50:01,329 --> 00:50:04,652 leadership development and insights from subject matter 957 00:50:04,733 --> 00:50:08,326 experts and sponsors who provide the fuel to make dreams come 958 00:50:08,365 --> 00:50:08,666 true. 959 00:50:08,666 --> 00:50:11,012 Here's your host, Erin Alejandro.