Intern to Full-Time Cowgirl Now She’s Leaving EP. 67

We sit down with Grace “Gator” Oyer as she wraps up her final days here at the ranch. What started as an internship turned into a three-year journey of hard work, growth, and becoming a key part of the operation.

From managing livestock data to living the day-to-day realities of ranch life, Grace shares what it’s really like behind the scenes, what she’s learned along the way, and why she’s decided it’s time to move on. This one’s about commitment, challenges, and closing a chapter the right way.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:41

Whenever I put down wrote down the number, I was like, oh, Grace is gonna hate this.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

Oh that's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Well, welcome to the Registered Ranching Podcast. Uh today we have an uh was an intern, one of the few to get hired full-time. Um had the same name as another intern at the same time, so she got a nickname called Do you know what her nickname was?

SPEAKER_01 1:07

I'm assuming Gator.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Yeah, yep, it was Gator. Did you have any other ones?

SPEAKER_00 1:11

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

Well, welcome to the podcast, Grace Oyer from Florida. Actually, she's from Drockhorn now, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

My driver's license still is Florida.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Okay, then we'll we know it's that like three years.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

I actually got in trouble with one of the cops here that says Did you really?

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Did you get pulled over?

SPEAKER_00 1:31

I got pulled over, but I have Texas plates now and my driver's license still Florida.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

How is it valid? It's not.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

No, they told me I needed to get changed, so yeah, you got you you gotta work on that.

SPEAKER_02 1:46

You gotta work on that. From okay, from Florida, and now you've been here. Your internship was in 23? And you came in January, so three years.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

Dang. Well, now wait, hang on. Let's just go there. Why did From Florida from the beaches of Florida, Fort Myer? Z. Fort Myers. Um why why Throckmorton?

SPEAKER_00 2:13

Why Throckmorton?

SPEAKER_02 2:14

How'd you get to Throckmorton? From Florida.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Okay, well, there's no cows over there. No. It's the number one state for cow calf.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

But okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Um, well, I did not grow up in the cattle industry and showed horses my whole life, and I wanted to get involved, so in college I switched over from all equine to cattle.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

And you went to Florida State?

SPEAKER_00 2:42

No, University of Florida. Florida State doesn't even have like an ag no, no ag school. No. My sister went to FSU. We're house divided.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

Ooh. Does she root for him too? Yes, she does.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

So our our Thanksgiving football game is competitive because half my family went to FSU and it's always on Thanksgiving. The weekend that Friday is always the FSU UF game.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

I'll be dang.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Yeah. I was the only one that went to UF.

SPEAKER_02 3:15

But you were the only one? Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

Anyways, um, so when I got into college, I switched over to Cattleside, and I had Dr. Thrift and Jesse and Jesse's wife kind of be little mentors, and um Joel McQuig and Legend. Legend. And Dr. Thrift is a legend too.

SPEAKER_02 3:36

Legend.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Um legend. They I was telling them that I kind of wanted to do an internship, and I brought up Ari Brown's, and I was like, I don't think I'll ever get it. I'm not gonna apply. And they had to do some serious convincing, and I finally applied, and here I am.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

Look at you now.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

In Throckmorton, Texas. So I went from a population of like a hundred and something plus to a population of 700. And I don't actually think 700 people live here, but we'll just uh uh we'll go with it.

unknown 4:11

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 4:11

Yeah, you were just asking, you're like, well, there's a building besides all sobs?

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

You gotta get to town more. Uh well. Been here in three years. Yeah, been here three years and just found out there's an all sips at the square. Yeah, that they take Apple Pay.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Okay, listen. Most pla well, I guess most places do take Apple Pay now, but Yeah, wasn't that not in 23 though?

SPEAKER_02 4:37

I mean, COVID kind of changed. It used to be just cash not very long ago.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

All cash.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

Yeah. Thankfully they take some cards now. We're we're getting some technology in Throckmorton. We were. Throckmorton was the like one of the few counties in the United States that had the worst internet connection in the United States. Isn't that terrible?

SPEAKER_00 4:59

I still think it's kind of iffy.

SPEAKER_02 5:01

Where's the where's the form on that?

SPEAKER_00 5:04

What like you want to petition that it's still kind of iffy?

SPEAKER_02 5:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Yeah, I would agree.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

Well, now you can get like now more is available.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

Oh, like there wasn't that many options.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

Right, and the options that were available were terrible, but now that Starlink is here. It's off the list because Starlink. Anyway. Um, but Grace Oyer, your time at the RAB is coming to an end.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

It is.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

And you are you are heading southeast of here, and you only have what? How many more days?

SPEAKER_00 5:39

Till Friday.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

Three more days.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

I know.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

I can't believe they let you off work to do this. Do they know you're here? I don't know. Did you tell them I was here? I don't know if they know I'm here.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Oh, well, then you and I both. We're building fence, Dad.

SPEAKER_02 5:55

We're building fence right now as we talk. Anyway, yeah, your time is coming to an end, and you're going where?

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Um, so I'm going to a company that's called Ultra Insights. They started as a yearlink scan company 25 years ago. And the past four to five years, they opened up a data management side. And I'm lucky enough to be able to work with them right now in this role. And I was really wanting to expand my knowledge and continue to grow, and I think that's where I'm going to succeed pretty well at and grow myself some more with them. And I'm excited because then I get to take over y'all's account. So I still get to be with you.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

So, the did you do some of that in college, like data management stuff, or was it just I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

I think being an intern and Donald kind of handing that over to me a little bit as an intern, that's the first time I got to deal with any of the data side of cattle. We did get to do some because the University of Florida has registered Brahmins, and we have a seed stock class with Dr. Thrift, and we got to a little do a little bit of the data on that side, but it was all mostly paper, and he did everything else like behind the scenes. So we just collected it. I never got to do anything with it.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

So manage it or anything like that.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Correct.

SPEAKER_02 7:15

Huh. Well, I think I jumped a little too far. Did I did we I don't know where we got off the route of Dr. Thrift? You didn't know if you'd get the internship. Is that where we were?

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Yeah. And then I ended up here.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

And then you ended up here. But you applied. So you didn't think you would get it.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

Yes, correct. Because I didn't have any cattle experience. Experience. The only experience I had was the classes that I took there and shadowing Kelsey Savelle, Dr. Kelsey Savelle, and then working with the beef teaching unit underneath Jesse, and they let me work their personal cattle as well. So you're I always say your your connections are completely worth it.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

Your network, all of that, and they helped me to get here. And even though I had that little of experience just doing that during college, I think helped me a little bit, but them themselves helped me the most.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

Yeah, whenever um Queg and Thrift and Jesse call, my dad was like, Who is this girl? Look into her, and I was like, I don't know, she doesn't have any experience. And dad was like, something's going on, call them, see what's happening. But yeah. I mean, how many times does that happen on internship applications that we look at? That like we, you know, we're looking through 40 of them, and then there's three of them that their references are like, why would they reference this person? They must be, they must be good. And so what was it different, like never not having that experience or the experience you thought you needed to starting the internship? What was was there a difference on what you were expecting?

SPEAKER_00 9:03

I think I kind of went into it with an open mind coming here because I didn't know any like I didn't know a lot, and I knew somewhat how to handle cattle and never handle cattle horseback at all. And so have coming here, I was like But you've rode.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

But I've rode my whole life, yes.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

I showed competitively ever since I was six years old, but I never worked a cow horse horseback. So experience-wise, I I think I just came in with an open mind. And I think most places you do need to, even if I did have experience and I was going somewhere where so the data side, like I'm going to this new company where I do have experience doing the data things, but there's going to be a lot that I don't know. And I think people either if you do or you don't come into a place with an open mind because you can learn so much more if you aren't going to be stuck on the ways that you used to know how to do it.

SPEAKER_02 10:00

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

And I think that's how people should come into anything, and that's how I came into this.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

Yeah, that so the non would it be right if I said your um lack of experience gave you the open mind to learn more.

SPEAKER_00 10:18

I think so, and I think it's a lot easier for people to train or to show or do anything to help that person know how to grow is because they're not being stuck in a well, this is how we used to do it, this is how I do it, like kind of the mindset. But I think the lack of experience, I'll say that. I think that's what helped me being so open-minded when I came here.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

Well, even if you don't have, even if you don't have that mindset of like this is the way we we do it, you still fall back into your like muscle memory and your latest experience and what you know. And uh so like you there are bad habits, everybody has them. I don't have any. Okay, I don't have any bad habits. But uh but interns that do tend to have experience tend to have some bad habits, and that's for our place. Like I you know we do things a little different, yes, than than a lot of folks. I like, I mean, I thank a lot of folks, but uh just the registered side makes it completely different. Totally different. Well, tell us about the internship. You had who with you?

SPEAKER_00 11:28

Okay, so I had Grace Ingley and myself.

SPEAKER_02 11:32

Ingley from Colorado.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

Colorado. That's where it came, Grace and Grace. That was like the worst text message. It wasn't the worst text message ever to get, but when you introduced us all and you were like, say your name and we both said Grace. I'm like, oh, this is gonna be confusing.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

There we go.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

I think we said after that, no more double names. Yeah, it's a rule, it's a rule, no more double names. You did try to do a Grace intern though, after when I was full time.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

We tried to?

SPEAKER_00 11:59

Or contender.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

Oh, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 12:02

She applied, yes. But that was who I had.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

You would have had to go back to being gator. Or would they have gotten an ignorant?

SPEAKER_00 12:09

No, they would have had anything.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

Oh, yeah, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

But um, it was her and I, and it was fun for six months.

SPEAKER_02 12:17

And then there was another one, right? We had three to start with.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Caxton, yes, Caxton more.

SPEAKER_02 12:22

He was there for the summer. Was there for the summer and left, and then another one that left. And then for a while, Ingley couldn't help.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

I know.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

And it was just you.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Just me. Luckily, Clay Martink came back though. For a few weeks to help during the sale.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

But you were there was a while that you were just the only intern.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

I know.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

That had to be fun.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

It was it was funny. Listen to it.

SPEAKER_02 12:51

It was fun.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

It really was fun. It was stressful at times, but I think I was on such a high high of like being able to get to do this stuff, and I still am on a high because it's like I don't think I would have ever imagined being where I am at today. Like, if you asked me five years ago, where do you think you're gonna be in five years, I would not tell you here. And I think that's something that I love so much, and I love this place dearly, and I'm honestly gonna miss it. And I will not cry during this podcast. You will not cry. I'm not gonna cry.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Don't do it. Cry, cry, cry.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

But no, that was my first six months with them three or four, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:37

Or six or however many times. Who knows? But yes, yeah. I don't know. That I feel like that that month that time where it was only you probably elevated as we were looking for help, it just kind of elevated you to that position.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

Yes. And I'm very grateful for that, but uh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:00

You want to do it again?

SPEAKER_00 14:01

I would I if you asked me again, I would probably do it again.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

Intern again?

SPEAKER_00 14:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

Alright, let's go. You're up. Yeah. Next spring, January to June. Oh no, you ain't coming. Yep, call them up.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

Sorry, not happening.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

Gotta be an intern again.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Well, now I'm gonna be the longest last. I don't know. You kind of had the intern full-time.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

Yep, now you're back to me.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Now it's back to me again.

SPEAKER_00 14:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

As the full-time intern. Well, how did it go from moving from a from an intern to full-time?

SPEAKER_00 14:38

It was it was great. I think I had a pretty easy transition because I stayed for another I did that year internship, and the second half was the apprentice, being an apprentice, and I think Donald and teleforeman at the time, they gave me a little bit more of responsibilities. And um I think that's where the data side started to come into play. And Donald was making me put all his score sheets in, I was putting data in for calving, yearling scans, all of that. And I think that's where the transition of Tell was kind of like, I think we need to hire her on full-time to do the data work and the data side of things or in-office things.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

So, but that extra six months, I think, helped me really get my feet underneath me with that kind of side of things.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

What was the worst part of the internship? And by worst, like the part that was either harder, hardest for you or like the job. We'll go here. We'll go here. Welcome to the Finolio boot. The segment called the Fanolio, give it the boot. Presented by Fenolio Boots. I wear Fanolio boots, they're in the stockyards. Go in there, you can get a discount by telling them I sent you and use code Tucker Brown online. You can get a discount on very nice boots that are built for cowboys. Unlike other ones that maybe are fancy or like weak and aren't built for cowboys. I would give those the boot. And that's why I wear finolio boots. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 16:14

What do you give the boot to? Mike. Oh, we're going to Mike.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

I wouldn't know. I would not give the boot to Mike, no.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

All right. Goodbye, Mike.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

I would give you guys I would give the boot to uh like the feed truck breaking down, working on the feed truck is my least, I think one of my least favorite jobs. Because then it's just gonna be like a bad like two weeks. Backup feed truck, maybe the backup, backup feed truck, waiting on parts. I would give it the boot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Goodbye.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

Yeah. What about you? Of the internship.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Of the internship. I honestly think I would probably say when I was kind of by myself as an intern, having to take care of the horses every single day was a lot. Because when you had the other two interns, you can rotate every single day of who gets them and who feeds them. But when I was by myself, I was doing it every single day for a month straight.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

Yeah, that was tough.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

And I was like, I'm exhausted. That extra 30 minutes of sleep when you're an intern does do a lot.

SPEAKER_02 17:19

So it matters.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

I think that's something I would probably say, I'm gonna kick the boot out.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

What about what about your full-time job?

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

You can there will only be like two days of after this comes out that you'll be working. So maybe we can get you to do that job one more time.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Well, I did it all this morning, so I'm okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

What's that?

SPEAKER_00 17:43

Uh the I think the gross uh ViteliSense system itself is awesome, but the hardware working on it. The hardware of it, and just having like if it breaks, you're having to wait on parts and you don't know how long it's gonna be, and you're like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:02

And then Donald's like, hey, when do we start?

SPEAKER_00 18:04

Yeah, I need to get this started. Why isn't this happening? And I'm like, I'm waiting for parts.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

Yeah, GrowSafe's tough. Vitelli sense is tough. What about you, Mike? Would I give the boot? What do you give the boot? With what?

SPEAKER_01 18:19

You have to give me because I'm about to sneeze.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

Vanilla Roller Crusoe would go, but go ahead. Whatever, whatever you would give the boot. Call G it works. Um with what? Mm-hmm. So you wouldn't give the boot to anything?

SPEAKER_01 18:34

No. Not really. Caffeine.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

I think you needed caffeine.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

I could not give the boot to caffeine. But you did for a while. I did, yeah. Because I made a bet, or did you ever cheat? Did you? Because you still had like coffee.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

I had coffee, but it was in the.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

How many cups of coffee did you have a day?

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Um 12. No. I had two cups every day during the freeze.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

160 milligrams of coffee.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

Hmm? 260.

SPEAKER_00 19:05

160. I think it's 80, 60. That's not bad at all. 80.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

And then it's about what you need. Turn to three cups a day. Oh, you cheated. But no, I did not. You cheated. No, because I I went from thousands of milligrams to hundreds. I think that's a win. You think so?

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Yeah. Okay. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

Well, thanks to Finolio Boot give uh sponsoring that uh podcast. Finulio Boots. They're in Nokona, they're in the stockyards. Use discount code Tucker Brown, all caps, no space.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

But yeah, I also would agree.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

Grow safe. Yeah. Cleaning. Vitaly sense. Cleaning. Cleaning it. Vitali sense cleaning.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

Oh, the cleaning, um. Wait, so can you do that discount code in stores or just online?

SPEAKER_02 19:49

You can do it in store.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 19:51

You go there and tell them Tucker Brown sent me.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Yeah, Tucker Brown's my brother. He sent me, I promise. Sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Yeah. See what they say? They're like, uh, sister? They'd probably think. People who know don't know the whole family. They're like, so Griffin is your brother? No, I'm like, go ahead. Go ahead and guess. Go ahead and guess.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

That's how I was when I was.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

But Lanham is your older. I'm like, no. Nope.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

That's funny.

SPEAKER_02 20:22

Well, that's good. Well, this leads me to um, I mean, doing all the data, you saw a whole lot of numbers, and um, you got to do some ordering for Donald too on things that he wanted. And uh, so I think this can be a good segment.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

I don't know. It's kind of built for you to lose, though. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

So don't feel bad. Yeah, don't feel bad. Kind of built for you to lose. But this segment is brought to you by Ambrook, and it's called What's It Cost? What does it cost? Because we need to know what things cost whenever you're running a business, right? Quick Ambrook is like QuickBooks, but it's built for people in ag, built for farmers, built for ranchers, and like oysterarians. What do you call them? Oysteries. Oysteries. Well, I like oysterarians better.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Yeah, I like that one. I like that better.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

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SPEAKER_00 21:11

Yeah, I met them.

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SPEAKER_00 21:31

Oh, that's nice.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

I need that. So, Mike. Yes. Doom doom doom. What's it cost?

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Okay, so we're gonna start off strong. Average cost to AI a cow per cow. Yeah. One cow.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Well, it depends on the semen.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

True. Yeah. Give us a range.

SPEAKER_00 21:51

Yeah, you well, range wise. It could be a dollar to commercial cow.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

Oh commercial cow herd.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

So registered.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

Yeah, but you're doing a regist you're doing a registered bull. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Well, it depends on what registered bull you choose because it can go from a hundred.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

I mean, but most of those guys are like, let's say thirty bucks ahead.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Okay, thirty bucks. Twenty-five dollars, I would probably say. Twenty-five dollars on the semen. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

Okay, now val for everything else. Setting them up. The tech. Yeah, setting them up, the cedars, the the yeah, hiring the tech, the labor.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

I feel like I should know this, but I'll say probably about fifty dollars a head.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

Oh good guess. Sixty. Yeah, they say they're saying like we were looking it up and it was like sixty to a hundred and twenty bucks. And I was like, okay. So depending on how many head you have and all that. But you could know that with Ambrook.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Could know that with Ambroke. Anyway, next. Next vaxxed protocol here at the ranch. Per head.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Per head. I guess I don't, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Dang.

SPEAKER_00 23:01

Per head? Let's say 45.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

The average is around 20? I'd say about 20.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

Dang, I was gonna say twenty.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Forty five would be a lot. And maybe it's gone up that much. But last time I did it, it was like real close to 20 bucks.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Okay. Well, I clearly don't know any of the payments.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

It was like 18 to 22 bucks per head.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Next. 250 milliliter bottle of Draxon. Draxon. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

So that's a big bottle, right?

SPEAKER_02 23:31

250 is the half bottle. Yeah. 500 is a big one. Right? Or is it 250 the big one?

SPEAKER_01 23:36

No, no, no. That's like the halfway. I feel like two. 250 milliliter? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:41

Well, it used to be$1,000 for the 500.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

But it dropped down to like three something, I think. Maybe not. I don't know. So the 250, I would say maybe about like 175. Am I wrong?

SPEAKER_01 23:57

This is depending on supplier 700, 900. Oh, I feel like that's all. You might have looked up an old one.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Because I remember we used to get told all the time, do not drop that. It's a thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

Yeah. Yeah, that's that's true. Let's see. What is now?

SPEAKER_01 24:15

I feel like we need to look that up. There was 500 milliliter. I chose 250 milliliter.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

I think it might have gone down. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Let me double check. Yeah, we got. I'm looking at on Valley Vet.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Let's see, on Valley Vet. Ooh. 250 milliliters, 318 bucks.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Oh, so it's still still.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

Yeah, so I just read something. But that's on Valley Vet and they're a little more expensive. You just found an old one, I think. Yeah. Because it used to be that. For sure.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

And then you should get this one right.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

Caramel. Caramel? Caramel ice coffee. Starbucks ice coffee. Caramel. Just say caramel.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

Caramel.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

Caram. Well, it just R A.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

It just depends on what store you go to.

SPEAKER_02 25:03

So wait, what is it? Okay, well, you go. What is it?

SPEAKER_01 25:06

Well, Caramel.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Carmel. Just say caramel.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

A caramel what? Starbucks ice coffee. Okay. Caramel Starbucks ice coffee. She knows what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

No, I do. But it depends on what store you go to.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

I'd say right here.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

Probably$4.99.

SPEAKER_01 25:21

Dang.$5.98. Dang.$5.98. Yeah. Jokers are expensive each other.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

Well, you're also in a town of 700 people.

SPEAKER_02 25:30

Oh, you're you're doing the gas station one.

unknown 25:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Is that you're saying?

SPEAKER_00 25:33

Yeah, not actually Starbucks. The Starbucks like glass can that you can.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

That's like you should know what that costs.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Yeah, Mike.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

And I sure did.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

You've only gotten for me like maybe three times.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Bull hockey. Dang, you've never gotten me one.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

You don't drink that. No, he drinks the Fabricinos.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Oh yeah. Bob 98. Then you start doing like a BOGO. You buy one, you get one. Oh, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

Well, you don't buy them anymore, so well, that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

Yeah. Well, maybe if you use Ambrook, you can save enough money that you can get some. Thank you, Ambrook, for sponsoring What's It Cost. Get to know what your stuff costs. You can run your business better, keep the ranch and the family. Family and the ranch.

unknown 26:15

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Easy as that. Not really, that's not easy. But uh yeah, I'm excited to use Ambrook.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

So where were we? Intern to full time. Okay, now full time. You're a woman and ag.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

Oh, don't start that. I'm probably gonna get so much hate for saying that, but I you just like to ranch on it. I honestly think we're all equal, and I feel like we shouldn't pull the whole woman and ag deal, but I'm probably gonna get some hate for that one.

SPEAKER_02 26:46

Hey, hey, we like that. We like to get some hate every now and then. It means you're doing your job good.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

I do support women being in the agriculture industry, but I mean You just support the boys too. Yeah. No, but I mean do I think it's difficult sometimes to get a job in this industry? Yes, but I think it's also there's different jobs that it's harder for women to get into that industry as well. So I agree with women and ag and like supporting us working in this industry, but the whole women and ag deal, like I feel like they just we just take it out to a whole nother level. But I'm definitely gonna get hated on that one. But you are you are working with I mean we have we've had quite a few lady interns, but I mean there's always one female intern no matter what.

SPEAKER_02 27:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

But I I mean we were not gonna have one this semester, but I don't think you guys ever hate on having girl interns, so no. Sometimes we work harder than the guys. Flex. Yeah. But no.

SPEAKER_02 28:01

It always puts a little pressure. Like whenever you whenever you have a girl around, like whenever we have a girl intern and she's out hustling any of the guys, it's like, hey, you letting her mess your Yeah, she is. She's working harder than you are, Mike. I'm not an intern. I'm a full-time employee. That's true. You get asked if you're an intern all the time, though, huh?

SPEAKER_01 28:25

All the time. At the horse sales, probably like 12 times. No, I work for that guy that films himself. I do the filming. Films himself.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

It's okay. I still come to town and people ask when I started.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

Oh, you're new here? When'd you start? Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

They're like, how are you?

SPEAKER_01 28:41

Yeah, you need to go into town more. Holy cow. People know me.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

I started three years ago and they just look at me and I'm like, yeah, I know. I'm a hermit.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

Um you've also gone through a number of like three years. We've had a full turnover, I guess you'd say, of employees. How's that working for different people at the same place?

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Oh. Because I've like I'm You're kind of used to I mean, not used to you.

SPEAKER_02 29:10

I am, I'm I'm kind of used to it.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

Yeah. I think it was because I when I started as an intern, you were the in interim foreman at the time.

SPEAKER_03 29:21

We didn't have okay, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

Um I don't I don't know. And I just I actually remember Tyler telling me when we were intern, like, hey, we're hiring a foreman. Just just know it can be a little different when they do get here. And I was like, oh. Because I was like, we're having so much fun. And then he said that and I was like, well, don't scare me now. And I think when they came in, it was a it was a pretty easy going transition, and I think we all had fun. And then we started turning over. And I don't I don't think it's terrible. I think you just have to kind of adapt and learn how other people manage. And it's like that open-mindedness, which yeah. I think I going from being like, this is what I'm used to doing here, and this is what how I know they like it to be done, but a lot of people manage differently, and they're not gonna manage the same what you're used to. So I think you just kind of have to go with the flow and not be so negative in your mind about it. Because I think if you're negative, you're gonna have a harder time adapting to that person.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

Yeah, then that's not fun for anybody.

SPEAKER_00 30:39

No.

SPEAKER_02 30:40

And then I just sit here and watch y'all watch y'all fight. Knives and everything, just like on Yellowstone.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Somebody goes to the train station and all that. Somebody's gotta go to the train station.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

I mean, we have two train stations, so we do? There's two pits.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

Oh, okay. I was like, what train stations do we have?

SPEAKER_00 31:03

I know we have one over here, but oh, not actually trains.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

I know that's where I was going. Oh gosh, right over my head. That's ridiculous. Well, what part of your job do you think is prepping you for your next?

SPEAKER_00 31:19

Oh, all the data entry things. I think it's gonna be, I think what I'm most excited about is to see it, because here I'm collecting all the data and getting it all put onto Excel like an expread sheet for Donald and for Ultra Insights. And now I get to see it from that point of view where you guys are sending me all the shoot side data, and I get to then put it into the associations and deal with the associations more and learn how they work with things instead of like just collecting it. I get to be on that side of getting to read it a lot more, and I think that's what I'm most excited about.

SPEAKER_02 32:01

Yeah, that did kind of prep you right up for it.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

It did.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

Because now you know what it's supposed to look like coming in.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

Yeah, now I get to call you guys and be like, what are you doing over there?

SPEAKER_02 32:12

Fix it. Get an intern.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

It um okay, so uh put it on social media that um that we were having you on the pod, and we have some questions from the audience.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

Um I do get to say who it's from.

SPEAKER_02 32:27

Sure. Um Do you want me to?

SPEAKER_00 32:29

I don't know. I feel like unless I know the person, but I don't know if you know if I know them or not.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

Let's look at let's look at what they have to say. What do they want to ask? Grace Oyer. Okay. Willie Wardle.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

I will be Did she actually shoot the alligator head that she gave to me?

SPEAKER_00 32:52

I did not. I that's also illegal, Willie.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

To shoot a gator?

SPEAKER_00 32:57

No, it ain't it during that you have to have a tag for it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. No, Willie, it's not. I bought that for you, so okay, from Hartley Van Gilder. Oh, Hartley.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

Who is your favorite intern and why was it Hartley? Ha ha ha ha. JK.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

That's all Hartley.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

I don't know if I don't have a favorite because I think every group is so different. Yeah, they are. And I don't think you can say you can probably have a favorite, but each individual person is so different. So like Emma's internship with Rylan and Briley. Rylan was such a character himself. And then Emma, obviously, Emma's my best friend, so I can't say no to her.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

Well, so she's your favorite.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

No.

SPEAKER_02 33:52

Bang Harley. Fouch.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Okay, listen.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

Caden Rhodey.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

Yeah, they're like everyone just had their own like personalities, and I think it was just fun to learn each one. But Harley was up there, and I do have to say that. I think I have more of a special connection with the girls.

SPEAKER_02 34:09

Makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 34:09

In a sense.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

Makes sense. How many dates did you go on with interns?

SPEAKER_00 34:13

Zero.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

Oh. It was just at dinner?

SPEAKER_00 34:15

For what?

SPEAKER_02 34:20

He's like, who? What? Tell me.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

Well, one, there's a rule, no managers with interns.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

But can't do that.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

And when I was an intern, I don't think I would want to date any of those guys. No offense. But.

SPEAKER_02 34:31

Okay, now from Hartley. Real note. What is the biggest challenge of managing all the data?

SPEAKER_00 34:36

Oh. If there is something that is slightly off, it will hold all the rest of the data up on the association side.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

So as in like one of the one of the animals weights or like one of the data points.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

Not issue, but that's something that would hold up. Like yearling scans, like if I'm missing one or not missing, but like one or two seam off, all like 700 bulls get holed up until those two are fixed. So I think that's something. And then having to make sure that the guys also shoot shoot side that they're paying attention as well. Yeah. Because one thing can slip by, one thing we don't get, one thing we're missing, it's gonna hold all of it up. And I think that was probably one of the hardest things managing it just to make sure I have all of it.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

Then you have to go back and capture the weight or do you you do you work with any of the cooperator data?

SPEAKER_00 35:44

Um I do some. If I need if Donald calls me or texts me and he's like, hey, I need these bulls too, either dollar profit or an association, I'll send that, but I don't do a lot of their data. I know that's hard. From the time they get here, everything data wise, yes, I'm working those bulls. But anything before they get here, I am not doing any of that.

SPEAKER_02 36:11

Okay. From Brax uh Brayton Wicks, what is her most unique experience that happened at the REB?

SPEAKER_00 36:19

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 36:23

Being in my videos.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

Not having to the to do the cupid thing.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

The Cupid, the the dating cupid, the what do we call it? Cowboy Cupid. Cowboy Cupid. Cowboy Cupid.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

Um I won't I don't okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

Getting bucked off in front of tech.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

Hey, oh my goodness. Yeah. Or in front of me. No, no one saw that one, so I that doesn't count.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

I mean, I we just saw you off your horse and heard you the words you were muffling.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

Yeah, maybe I my yeah, getting bucked off in front of tech was awful. And then I just stood up and I was like, I hope that was a great show for you guys.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

And I missed that too. I I missed both of the ones that uh that I'd been there for.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

Yes, but I think also uh calving. Because I just have never got to deal with it, and I think all the data side or all the stuff that we have to take when they're born, that is so unique. But I know that's all for registered animals in general, but in commercial people don't see that side of things, and I think that was very unique to learn and get to do.

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Good one, uh, Kristen Brown. What's your favorite perfume? Is there a story behind this?

SPEAKER_00 37:45

Yes, there is. So it's funny because how where were we? In CBA. And her and RA were there, and they came and sat with us at lunch, and we were talking. I looked at her, I was like, You're wearing the amber amber Amber Bach perfume, and she looked at me, she's like, Oh, she get you guessed it. Oh, I did. Oh, and she's like, How do you know? And I was like, Well, one, it's my sister's favorite perfume, but it's an outrageous price perfume because it's from Italy or France, and it's an oil base. So oil-based perfumes will last a few days, just for ever. So for everyone that wants to know that, they do. But there's a cheaper version, and it's like a knockoff brand, but it smells the exact same.

SPEAKER_03 38:29

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 38:30

So I got her hooked onto it because then I know you pay for the expensive one, wear it on special occasions, but you pay for the$50 one if you want to wear it all day. So yes.

SPEAKER_01 38:40

How much is the expensive one?

SPEAKER_00 38:42

Probably like$500. Like between four and five, I think it is. I know. But it lasts days because it's an oil base.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

But wow.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

And that's worth the$500. You know what? I didn't know that part. Totally worth it. Worth it.

SPEAKER_00 39:02

But that's why I get the I think it's Amber Bok. I think maybe not. I'm thinking maybe I'm thinking of Amber. Is it Ambrook? No, it's not. Hold on. As I'm finding it, you can we can I can what ask the. Oh, amber saffron. Sorry. I definitely was convinced. Amber Saffron. Yeah, I was thinking. There you go, ladies. There's the secret.

SPEAKER_01 39:27

Amber Saffron.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

I will murder you guys if you guys take it out of stock.

SPEAKER_02 39:32

What if uh do they do the guys need to know that for their gals?

SPEAKER_00 39:36

Yes. This is the best perfume ever. I don't know if you can show it on camera, but I can. But that is literally the$50 one.

SPEAKER_01 39:47

So that looks expensive.

SPEAKER_00 39:49

No, it's$50.

SPEAKER_01 39:52

What does the$500 one look like?

SPEAKER_00 39:54

Okay, hold on.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

What does what look like? I want to see the bottle of this$500 perfume. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 40:06

Maybe it's$360.

SPEAKER_02 40:09

Either way.

SPEAKER_00 40:10

Still, it's expensive.

SPEAKER_02 40:12

Either way. Too expensive. Yeah. And then a question, uh a question from Tucker Brown. Oh, yeah. It's a great question. What is your favorite Donald Brown saying? Oh, yeah, that's about$100.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

Um there are so many good ones. I know. There's so many good ones. I'm gonna get the quote wrong. Though it's the one where it's like if you're standing or staying still. It's kind of saying you're useless pretty much, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

If you're standing or staying still, you're falling behind.

SPEAKER_00 40:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

What's the yawn one? A nyop?

SPEAKER_00 40:59

Oh, a nyop, yeah. He says that to me all the time. Because I yawn all the time, and he's like, you're nioping.

SPEAKER_02 41:05

Yeah, NIOP, negative impact on people. So if you yawn, you're negatively impacting them because then you make them yawn. And he says that all the time about nioping.

SPEAKER_01 41:18

Niap.

SPEAKER_00 41:19

And the self-cleaning. I'm gonna miss that one the most. Especially when the cleaning the self-cleaning shoot. Yeah. Especially when the interns hear it for the first time and they're just like, what? This is not self-cleaning. This is not self-cleaning.

SPEAKER_02 41:33

Shout out Kate Rattenbaugh.

SPEAKER_00 41:34

Literally.

SPEAKER_02 41:36

Being the most most worried. Uh not worried, the most vocal about it.

SPEAKER_00 41:43

He was not afraid to be like, this is not self-cleaning if we have to clean it.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

But the inside is self-cleaning if you clean the outside. I think that's a better way to describe it, I think.

SPEAKER_00 41:54

Yeah, he needs to switch his saying with that.

SPEAKER_02 41:56

Yeah. Do you have a favorite Donald Brown saying?

SPEAKER_01 41:59

The nyop. The nyop. Yeah. Also, like um when uh the interns go on road trips and we get to see in the group chat when uh he catches them with a little bit of when they don't shave. He did tell that story Mason.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 42:14

Oh no, tell that story. Oh. What about it? Oh, in the group chat?

SPEAKER_02 42:19

So just what happened, what Donald does to him.

SPEAKER_01 42:21

Um he pulls them into a gas station and uh no water, no nothing, and uh gets them to shave.

SPEAKER_00 42:30

I don't know. He did let Mason get by though, with shaving cream in a bracer. Which he used to do the uh bicks. The what?

SPEAKER_02 42:38

The bicks.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

Or the gritty No, but didn't he used to do the gritty soap with someone?

SPEAKER_02 42:44

Oh yeah, just what uh he would buy a lava soap.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 42:47

Lava soap, and then make them use that as a little he's a he always says, and it goes back to his saying of you only get one chance to make a first impression. Yeah, you only get one chance to make a first impression. And he's like, You gotta be shaved. And if you're not, you get to shave. And then everyone in the group chat gets to scare. Yeah. I love that. So now you know.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

I'm glad I don't have facial hair.

SPEAKER_02 43:13

Now you know if you go me too, you're yeah. I'm glad you don't either. That would be a little odd.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

I meant like me if I was a guy. I don't know, but glad I didn't ever ever have to do that.

SPEAKER_02 43:28

But that's funny. Now you get to become the host of the Gator Podcast.

SPEAKER_01 43:36

The Gator Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 43:37

And you get to ask Mike or I a question. Or both of us.

SPEAKER_01 43:41

You you gonna do an intro song to the Gator Pod? No. No. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 43:46

Okay, Tucker. If you did not have this ranch, what would you be doing?

SPEAKER_02 43:52

Ooh. Good question. I think I'd be selling something.

SPEAKER_00 43:57

I'd be You would be a good salesperson.

SPEAKER_02 43:59

I'd be selling. Selling like feed or okay, hold on.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Not in the ag industry.

SPEAKER_02 44:05

Oh, not in ag? I literally asked this question last pod.

SPEAKER_00 44:08

No, I'm sorry. The last podcast.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

I don't even remember what I said, no. Paul. Um, I'd either be in sports broadcasting or I could I could sell the hound out of some cars. Um I don't know, there's a lot of opportunities within LCU of like working with like they have strange connections with like Starbucks and getting in their office, and I could be a personality hire.

SPEAKER_00 44:41

That's all you're good for, is your personality. Just some morale and he has a really good personality.

SPEAKER_02 44:49

Personality is hilarious. Makes some dumb videos, you know. What do you think I'd be doing?

SPEAKER_01 44:57

Ooh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:58

Selling what? I might not even be selling anything.

SPEAKER_01 45:00

I have one.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

What is it?

SPEAKER_01 45:02

I said it last pod, but put locker in the little ref t-shirt selling shoes. That would be have you ever seen it make yeah. I'd be good at that. You would. You would. And then on his lunch break, he'd make a TikTok or something.

SPEAKER_00 45:18

Yeah, how about it? No, he would probably be pretty good at selling um uh sunflower seeds too. Oh yeah. Yeah, the different flavored ones you always bring around.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I could do that. I could sell anything. That's worth rifle. That's worth anything. Like what?

SPEAKER_00 45:36

I don't know. I think you probably could convince some people to buy things that are not worth it. Well, probably, but like QVC.

SPEAKER_02 45:43

What was that?

SPEAKER_00 45:44

QVC? Is that like those long commercials that are it's it it's like a mag it there's a magazine and then there's also like a TV section of it, and it's pretty much like they have like a you're selling an item. Yeah, you could be on Q. Yeah, you could be on QVC.

SPEAKER_02 46:04

This Rogers Reality and Auction Co Inc. pin. It's not just a pen, it's green, it makes you think of money, makes you better. So good at that. Where are we going? Yeah. Well, any question for Michael? Or more for me on the Gator Pod.

SPEAKER_00 46:22

On the Gator Pod.

SPEAKER_02 46:28

When are you gonna start your own TikTok?

SPEAKER_00 46:31

Oh, I do not even do social media. I think the last time I posted on Instagram might have been last May.

SPEAKER_02 46:39

Do you not post because you know we'll make fun of you?

SPEAKER_00 46:43

Probably.

SPEAKER_02 46:44

You can post now.

SPEAKER_00 46:46

It's like having brothers out here.

SPEAKER_02 46:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:48

Like when people ask me how it is out on the ranch, I'm like, it's like having a family that I that I didn't ask for. No, I would honestly, if if Kelly and Donald came up to me and asked me if they if I would want to be adopted, I'd probably say yes.

SPEAKER_03 47:03

Sure. Sure.

SPEAKER_00 47:04

I'll have yeah. I was telling Carly the other day, I was like, it's like having two brothers, Lannham and Tucker, and then I get Josie and Carly as like adopted sisters. I'm like, it's just a whole family out there. So for me, I think I would be adopted if they would let me, but I don't think they would ever.

SPEAKER_02 47:24

Miss Kelly.

SPEAKER_00 47:25

Miss Kelly Donald, please.

SPEAKER_02 47:27

I'm gonna write you a letter.

SPEAKER_00 47:29

I'll stay forever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:31

You can intern again.

SPEAKER_01 47:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:33

Be a full-time internal.

SPEAKER_00 47:35

I would be a full-time intern if they did adopt me, so well. Um my question to you. If you ever had to go back to school, what is something you would study? Oh. That's different than what you did study.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

I would definitely go uh TCU ranch management. Good one.

SPEAKER_00 47:57

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:00

You can still do that.

SPEAKER_01 48:01

I could. I'm sorry, Tucker. You know what, Tucker, actually?

SPEAKER_00 48:05

I'm leaving.

SPEAKER_01 48:07

No, I love it here. Great place. Browns are awesome.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

They are.

SPEAKER_01 48:12

Yeah. Tucker's all right. He's our own, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

Personality. Personality.

SPEAKER_00 48:18

Personality higher.

SPEAKER_02 48:20

He's a personality boss. That's all. Well, coming from Florida, and now that you've ranched in Texas, and you where do I want to go with this? Um like the differences in ranching between Florida and Texas. I know you have uh if I say it right, you've done a lot more Texas ranching.

SPEAKER_00 48:44

Correct.

SPEAKER_02 48:45

Than you have gator ranching.

SPEAKER_00 48:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 48:48

Well, what's the difference?

SPEAKER_00 48:49

I would say probably environment. Your environment well, and breed of cattle. You have to have more ear down there.

SPEAKER_02 48:57

Dang Brimmers.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

Oh, I love that. Do you ever call them Brimmer? No. Brahmins.

SPEAKER_02 49:01

You shouldn't call them a Brimmer. We don't call them Anga.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

Anga.

SPEAKER_02 49:06

Get you a good old black anger. Don't say that.

SPEAKER_00 49:10

I think that comes out when we're like all just messing around. That's for me.

SPEAKER_02 49:14

But that old Brammer cow.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

That old Brammer. But no, I think type of cattle, which you see, which you see more ear influence in South Texas, but that's also kind of where you start getting into the same environment where it's swamp, all that kind of deal. And here you're it's a lot harder ground in Throckmore, in which I don't know the different type of environments when you go anywhere else here. Sure. Because I don't really think.

SPEAKER_02 49:42

Well, going east, you're gonna get a little closer to uh home. What it would feel like. Yeah. I mean a little closer to home too, not very much closer.

SPEAKER_00 49:49

No, but a little bit closer to what I'm what I had in in Florida. But that's the difference that I would say.

SPEAKER_02 49:55

Any cultural differences?

SPEAKER_00 49:57

I would say I think in Texas they have more of a cowboy, cowboy rules. Where I think they do enforce that in Florida. But again, I didn't do a whole lot of outside that kind of stuff in Florida. So I don't really know, but in Texas you definitely have cowboy rules and I and with having interns, I think sometimes it's a little harder to play that not play that game, but like follow the rules, to follow the rules because you're like trying to also teach them and then get the job done. And get the job done, and if something goes south, you're like, okay, well, we have to step in at this point. So I think that cultural difference. I think a lot more people are friendlier in Texas too.

SPEAKER_01 50:44

South Florida? Yes.

SPEAKER_00 50:47

I think Florida Floridians are very nice and great, but I think Texas people are a lot more like open arms, welcoming. And I don't know if that's just the small town I'm in here, but well, probably part of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:01

I mean East Texas, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 51:04

I don't know either, so we'll see.

SPEAKER_02 51:06

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 51:07

I might be calling y'all in a month and like let me back.

SPEAKER_02 51:10

Please adopt me.

SPEAKER_00 51:11

Adopt me now.

SPEAKER_02 51:13

I'll be an intern, I swear. What advice do you have for future interns?

SPEAKER_00 51:18

Oh. I think this is always my favorite question. Because I think earlier, what I said with coming in here with an open mind, come in here with an open mind. Because there are things that we do completely different. Even other seed stock producers, we do differently. The way Donald likes our cattle handled. That's why our docile is so huge here. There's one, if anything shows anything but being docile, they're out. And I think the way we work things here is different from what I've seen before. But be open-minded, be the first one here and the last one to leave. And dive into anything they will let you dive into. Because they always like we always ask interns, what are things that you want to learn when you're here? And you can say it, but you're gonna have to push for it as well. Because we do get extremely busy. We are a busy ranch 24-7. Yeah, and that can get to the back of our mind a little bit because we have so much going on. Yes, try so much going on, and I think interns need to be on top of like, hey, this is what I want to learn and this is what I want to do, and stay on top of it. And just remember to ask at the right time and not a horrible time of when there's a lot going on. But we're I think that's this is probably where I'm having a really hard time leaving, is they've been so open armed coming here from the beginning. Like Donald and all of y'all have taken me under like y'all's little wings, and I know.

SPEAKER_02 53:13

Taught you how to back up a trailer.

SPEAKER_00 53:15

I wait, really? No, no, like a little bit. I knew how to drive a trailer when I got here. I didn't know how to go backwards with a trailer.

SPEAKER_02 53:25

Just didn't know how to back up.

SPEAKER_00 53:27

Um, but I think just trying is going to be your biggest success because having R.A. Brown on your resume or even behind your back is gonna be the biggest thing. And I know there's things out there that can really help you, but this ranch is here to see you see succeed no matter where you go. So just try your hardest. I love this place.

SPEAKER_02 53:52

So I think it's I mean, if you get an internship here, I think it's kind of putting your feet to the fire because if you don't do a good job, like you're not gonna have that brand on you or behind you or on your resume.

SPEAKER_03 54:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:08

Cause I'll hear some uh there there will be some that didn't really succeed here. Um wasn't a good fit. It's not always a good fit. And uh they'll put Donald as a reference.

SPEAKER_00 54:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:21

And he just tells the truth.

SPEAKER_00 54:24

Donald will always tell the truth, no matter well, yeah, he is not one to lie, so no. That's why I'm saying, like, if you get here and you get to be selected to be here, like try. Even if you're having tough days, everyone's having tough days. Yeah. I mean, there's days that you're thinking you're working overload, but then you have to realize Donald and Kelly are up till 1 a.m., 2 a.m. Sometimes Donald doesn't even sleep because he's doing so much data work himself behind the scenes.

unknown 54:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:56

He's crazy. I give him props, but what about uh advice for those wanting to be an intern, like applying?

SPEAKER_00 55:06

I think we have such a massive pool of interns, or not interns, but applications that come here that even if you don't get it the first time, still apply the second time because you still could have been that top contender, but that one person might have had better references than what happened with you. But I think try to get as much experience as you can outside of here. But again, I didn't have that much, but I think working extremely hard at the university helped me a lot. Yeah, so your network is gonna be your best friend in any job you have or any application or internship you're applying to. But I think I think having also different type of res uh not resumes, um references also helps because then it sees that like you're not like focused on one thing, you have different and you're willing to learn different things. I think that's also something that's pretty cool to see in interns, and I think it's pretty cool to see in interns when you have done something completely different, and then you've done a 180, and now this is your career focus, and I think that's pretty cool as well to see.

SPEAKER_02 56:19

Yeah. Good advice. Good advice. Well, what is the thing you will miss most?

SPEAKER_00 56:31

I think the people it's such a like family-oriented place that anyone you guys take in, I think you just kind of measure your own. And I think that's something I'm going to miss.

SPEAKER_02 56:44

Whenever interns leave, they're like, Man, you it's like you I fell off the end of the earth. I'm like, well, I'm trying to invest in the ones that are here. It's not that I don't want to talk to you, because I do, but like, remember how much we like went out to eat with you or cooked for you or helped you learn how to back up a trailer, or I can't talk to you because I'm helping this young lady back up this trailer.

SPEAKER_00 57:10

Yeah. No, I think the family orientation is something I'm gonna miss the most. But also, like, I'm going to a job that is gonna be a little more inside, and I think that's okay.

SPEAKER_03 57:24

True.

SPEAKER_00 57:25

And I'm not extremely sad about it because I have opportunities to go work cattle, but getting to see the scenery all the time. It's so pretty out there, and not during winter because it's brown.

SPEAKER_03 57:37

Grows.

SPEAKER_00 57:38

When it turns green, but yeah, the family.

SPEAKER_02 57:43

What is um oh dang it. Uh well, it just fell off the end of my tongue. I don't know. It was there. Mike, it was there. Mike, what have you been studying?

SPEAKER_01 57:58

Oh Proverbs. Yeah, it is. Um this morning, me and Mason studied Proverbs 16. And then Proverbs 16, verse 4, the Lord works out everything to its proper end, even the wicked for a day of disaster. 5. The Lord detests all of the proud of heart. Be sure of this, they will not go unpunished. Through love and faithfulness, sin is atoned for. Through the fear of the Lord, evil is avoided.

SPEAKER_00 58:42

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 58:44

That's fresh from this.

SPEAKER_02 58:46

That was from this morning in the bunkhouse. I mean in the saddle house when you were sleeping. Before.

SPEAKER_01 58:53

Mason went to go get horses, and I was like, oh, I'm gonna keep reading the Bible. Fell asleep. Fell asleep. Took me a nap. Dang.

SPEAKER_00 59:02

I think my favorite Bible verse is Isaiah 60, 22.

SPEAKER_01 59:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 59:06

And it's and I live by this. It's when the time is right, I the Lord will make it happen.

SPEAKER_01 59:12

That's right. It's all in God's plan. This is where God wants you to be. Isaiah what?

SPEAKER_00 59:17

6022.

SPEAKER_02 59:18

That's a great one.

SPEAKER_00 59:18

Let me make sure.

SPEAKER_02 59:20

Mike's getting fired up. I am. Mike telling the story of the guy we talked to at Bucky's.

SPEAKER_01 59:24

At Bucky's. Ooh, okay. So Sulfur Springs, right? Mm-hmm. That's not where we were. No, but that's where we're heading back from. Okay, so Tucker uh spoke at a convention in Sulfur Springs, and you know, we me and Tucker see that Bucky sign. We get side-eyed. We're going. We're going. Stop at Bucky's, get our little snacks at one in the morning or crazy late, and uh get back to the vehicle and the sky hops out.

SPEAKER_00 59:54

I thought you were about to say hop into the truck. I was like, oh no. We thought he was.

SPEAKER_01 59:58

Yeah, we thought he was going to. Um me and Tucker look at each other and he walks up and asks uh how we're doing. You know, um, said good. And um he asked for our names, and he's like, Can I pray for y'all?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:15

Well, what I remember is he said, Do you know Jesus?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:18

Yes, yes, that's right, that's right. He said, Do you know Jesus?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:22

Sure enough. I know right away Mike's just heart just going.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:26

Yeah, I got up. I was like, of course I do.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:29

This is my time to shine.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:30

I was like, of course. I was like, I'm nothing without him. And then gave him what, four hugs? Yeah, Mike just kept hugging him.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:39

This is awesome, dude.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:41

And then he prayed for us. And then he hugged him again, hugged him one more time for his way out. It was all it was good. And I was like, Oh, I'm fired up, I'm gonna be up the whole ride.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:52

You are such a sleeper.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:54

He fell asleep.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:54

I sleep in cars, which is so crazy for how much you drink caffeine.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:58

Yeah. It's because he doesn't sleep at night.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:01

Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:03

No, it's it's only on car rides. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:05

Yeah, car rides, mic's out.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:07

Yeah, I don't know what it is. Tucker puts on these podcasts, I start listening to the voice, I'm out. Or music. Or music, yeah. Mike's out. I'm just out. Tucker's a great driver. He does a great job driving me around while you're sleeping.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:20

He was supposed to be the one driving you around.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:24

I hadn't picked up on that part yet. Okay. I hadn't picked up on that part yet. Well, thanks, Grace. Three more days.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:30

Three more days.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:31

No, it's gonna be a sad day. Dang. No more teasing. We gotta get you to the casino. We gotta get you to the casino before you leave. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:40

One more time, yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:42

When tonight. Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:44

We're going to the casino. Buffalo. We're going to the casino. Can we pray for your grace before we go? Oh, yes. All right. Dear Lord, thank you for today. We thank you for the opportunity to uh gather here freely. We thank you for those who fought for the freedoms uh for us to do. God, we thank you for grace and uh what the time she was able to spend with us and the the friendship and the love that the whole ranch got to experience uh with her. God, we thank you for those that she was able to touch, and we pray for her as she leaves and moves on. And God, we pray that next chapter uh works good for her, and that uh whenever you call it time, that it works for her and that she trusts that. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:24

Amen. Short-lived, but it was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:27

What? For me at least. Oh, I was like, I was like, what? Eight months.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:32

She gone.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:33

Eight months. You made her you made her leave.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:36

Yeah. Well, before you go, we have uh the outro song, and then oh yeah. You have to say all the stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:46

I cannot with you both.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:48

It's the AI song we created for great.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:51

Y'all enjoyed it, even what's good to the register great podcast.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:02

Oh yeah. Last week, yeah. That's fine.