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Dirt to Dollars
Episode 28 - Central Hardin FFA Member Avery Miller
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SPEAKER_03Wouldn't that be nice?
SPEAKER_02Did you get your wish, Daniel? You were hoping Lauren Hart to be out of there, weren't you? Would you have rather seen him fired? I think I think he was paid to leave.
SPEAKER_04I think is what's happened here. But they were paid to leave, nine. But the same thing five thousand dollars. They've given him bonuses before this that weren't in his contract. And we just paid some football coach $30 something million dollars to not coach, and he's spending our m he's spending money like that. I tell you what, I was really aggravated when that first they announced that his job was going to be funded by the general fund. I was about to go up there and start a picket line. That's ridiculous. You know how many extension agents you could give a pay raise for what they're paying that guy? Yeah. That's ridiculous.
SPEAKER_03Not to mention the $1.15 million each basketball win cost us this year.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah. That's true.
SPEAKER_03$22 million.
SPEAKER_04I didn't see that math. He hadn't done that math yet.
SPEAKER_03$22 million.
SPEAKER_04All of his three tickets. I don't care about the ticket stuff, but my gosh, I mean, what are we doing up there on campus? They're complaining about not having enough money and having to make budget cuts and then they're spending stuff like that. That's ridiculous. I think I didn't know it was going to get him that fired up. I think we're losing our focus of what that institution is supposed to be doing.
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SPEAKER_04Like I didn't even have notes. I just it just started just coming out of it. And if you're somebody that's worked for UK and you ask them for more money, they say no, heck no, it's not even a conversation you can have, yet they just give this guy too many dollars to teach a made-up class.
SPEAKER_03We're gonna get in trouble with the FAA again.
SPEAKER_02They're gonna put Daniel on the no-fly list over this one. Anyway, so uh goodness speaking of schools, we're uh hot off the trail with the Larue County uh FFA chili supper and auction last week, which I will point out Mark Thomas was invited to and did not attend crickets speechless. I was told you're not allowed to complain about not being and that's fine.
SPEAKER_03I understand but I walked in the house. I'd been working on a forklift in the shop all day, and I walked in the house, and our middle daughter ran up to us and was ran up to me and was like, Can we go to the farm? I was like, Yes, anything for you. So make me feel bad now.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I mean we had it it took place at a farm, so he could attend to the farm.
SPEAKER_02I literally I single dadded it and loaded mine up and went.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I brought the Hofam family too. I mean, had a big old time.
SPEAKER_02Oh so uh a little bit of recapping on that. Daniel, how was your chili?
SPEAKER_04It was good.
SPEAKER_02I had chili and a little different than I was expecting. That's that's like potluck.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and it was actually I kind of thought um the potato soup looked good, and my wife got the potato soup. She said it was good. Uh desserts were great. I I mean I had a full belly and uh got to talk to a lot of people over there. And we we had an item in the auction that got sold and brought brought what it was worth, so that's good. Did it?
SPEAKER_02I think so. Okay. Yeah, we'll see if uh if Central Harding can outdo us on on that because they're getting the same thing, have the same opportunity to get that one. But yeah, I I do just want to point out so Adams Family Farms donated a beef brisket. And what did what did BLT Farms donate, Mark?
SPEAKER_03A bushel of sweet corn.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I I outsold Mark. Uh I I didn't really do the math, but I think right at $75.
SPEAKER_03What's a what's a brisket normally go for, though?
SPEAKER_02Uh roughly $100 on that size.
SPEAKER_03Okay. You can buy my bushel of sweet corn for $32.
SPEAKER_02Well, I can't help it that you were cheap and donated something that was worth a third less than I did to begin with.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but it brought three times what it's worth. Did your brisket bring $300? No. Okay.
SPEAKER_02But it doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_04It's the it's all about gross dollars for the kids. It's all about the kids. Y'all need to hush.
SPEAKER_03What did Carpenter Sheep Farms donate?
SPEAKER_04I almost brought a bottle lamb, but I was afraid the thing would be sitting there whining the whole time. That's why you gotta do gift certificates. Yeah. But see, then they wouldn't come use the gift certificate until that bottle lamb was already fed out and big and true. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Put a timestamp on it.
SPEAKER_02There were there were a couple special presentations during the middle of the auction.
SPEAKER_05So I was presented with my You got video. I did.
SPEAKER_02I didn't know you videoed it. Okay. Yeah, I was presented with my what do they call that? Honorary Green Hand? That's what it was, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_04Uh Honorary Member.
SPEAKER_02Honorary Member, yeah. From like 2021 or two.
SPEAKER_03Only four years late.
SPEAKER_02Well, I didn't feel too bad because uh they turned around and presented Cody Howe with his American FFA degree, and that had to be what, seven or eight years old anyway. So yeah, I didn't feel too bad. I we got a picture sent of it uh before or during kind of during the beginning of the auction, and then I saw it sitting behind the auction line. My fear was that they were gonna pull up there and auction it off, and I was gonna have to. I know there were a couple in that room that would have ran the bids on me. That would have been actually pretty smart today. It would have been bad if I'd hadn't uh hadn't bought my own honorary member plaque. But next time, if anybody else ever leaves one in the in the ag office unclaimed for two or three years, that's your next idea. So yeah, good time was had by all, good food.
SPEAKER_04They had Daniel's hot dogs. So yeah, my kids, my kids are happy they had hot dogs and peanut butter and jellies. Um, but uh speaking of which we've got uh another one of these coming up in uh uh Elizabethtown at Central Harden High School. So um why don't we get we've got a special guest for that one, so why don't we get over to that real quick? All right, so we got a special guest this week. We were trying to uh play fair with all the the local schools and their and their fundraisers and uh really wanted to bring in somebody from Central Harden because they have an event coming up and wanted to learn a little bit about uh their FFA chapter. So we're happy to have Mr. Avery Miller joining us, uh Central Harden FFA. Uh thanks for joining us, Avery. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
SPEAKER_00Uh I'm 17. I'm a junior at Central. My parents are Aaron and Melissa Miller. They are my mom is the executive director of the 4-H Foundation. My dad is an ag lender through a bank in Arkansas called First Financial Bank. Um, we own commercial poultry houses. Um, we do box beef, which is a big thing that we have been heavily invested in the last couple years. Um, I think that's about it.
SPEAKER_02So what part of the what part of the farm are you the most involved in then? All of it. Good answer.
SPEAKER_03So would you rather go out and feed cows or walk chickens?
SPEAKER_00Uh it depends on the day.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I know part of the chicken farm you like because you get to skip school to clean out.
SPEAKER_00I like full clean outs because I get to skip school and run a skid steer. Uh, but on a day, kind of just normal day, it's definitely the cows. Uh the chickens are a lot sometimes. Just because you never know what's gonna happen. You never know if you're gonna show up and and something's broke or something, something's else is going on. The cows you can predict it a little more, I would say. Uh especially here in E Town, they're right there, so we can pretty much see what's going on at all times. It's pretty easy just to walk out here and deal with them. So day to day, it's definitely the cows, but whenever it comes to full clean out, it's it's full of chicken houses for me.
SPEAKER_02So uh you mentioned that your mom's the executive director of Kentucky 4H, but uh you're on here more to talk about FFA today. Uh tell us a little bit about your involvement in in FFA there at Central Harden and and what you've done and what you're how you're currently serving.
SPEAKER_00So the 2020 2024-2025 school year, I was the safety executive committee chair. So I held kind of run an event, plan an event, um, had to give a committee report during our FFA meetings. Then this year I am the um student advisor, so it's more of kind of just if they have any, like if you're more higher-up officers, if you want to say, have any questions, they can come to me and be like, hey, do you think this is a good idea? Um a lot of stuff is run by me. Um it's more, hey, do you think this is a good idea? Do you think we can get a lot of people involved? And it's yes or no, or how can we tweak it so we can do this event? Is this event fun? Tweak it, that kind of thing. And then so my freshman year, I was on the junior parley team. We went to we won region, went to state, didn't place. Um, and then I last year I did swine speech since my sister quote unquote stole the poultry speech from me. They wouldn't want to compete against her, so I had to do swine. Uh, I was also on the senior parley team last year. We won region, and then this year, coming up tomorrow, I'm doing the poultry speech, and I'm also doing uh senior parley again.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, you talked about that uh junior advisor, is that what you said that student advisor, yeah. Student advisor. Yeah, that wasn't even a wasn't even a thing when Mark and I were in FFA.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's kind of just come up, and then last year we had like we had like eight officers last year, and we condensed it down to seven, I think, this year.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, lots of things have changed. We had the we had the constitutional offices and uh a few add-on offices, and we had a bunch of committee chairs, but that that student advisor sounds like a pretty pretty neat opportunity.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's definitely fun. I would definitely recommend it for somebody who's kind of looking to get into the officer team, but not do a whole bunch. Uh it would it's definitely positioned for somebody who's wanting to be on the officer team, but kind of teeter on what they have to do.
SPEAKER_02So uh we got you on here. I know you all got an event coming up uh here pretty soon in a couple of weeks. Tell us a little bit about your Chili Supper and Auction coming up.
SPEAKER_00So March 21st at 5:30 at Central Harden in the Auxiliary Gym. We have our annual Chili Supper and Auctions. We get donations like gift cards, tools, equipment, baked items, baskets, um, any homemade items like leather, leather work, like wallets. We've had wallets multiple years in a row. There's always pumpkin rolls there. It's always a fun event. The chili's pretty good, I would say, and I don't even like chili that much. Uh chili's always good, and there's always way too many items, I would say. Uh it's always a fun event. We would love for people to come out and support it and even maybe donate if they would like.
SPEAKER_04So have you have you seen like the stuff that's getting donated? Have you been seeing it pile up in the in the rooms or anything yet?
SPEAKER_00Well, the advisors actually told us not to bring it because we have we normally get so much stuff it takes up our our uh our office. So we're they said keep it. And I've seen the spreadsheet, and I think we're close to already close to 75 items. And so is there anything you got your eye on?
SPEAKER_04Like, is there anything you're like, oh I think I might bid on that?
SPEAKER_00Any of the tools I want to bid on.
SPEAKER_04Gotcha, gotcha. Also on the menu, so I know it's a chili, so is there hot dogs? It's gonna be hot dogs.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we also have hot dogs, and then dessert, we always have brownies and cookies, I think, and then lemonade and tea for drinks. Daniel's always worried about the hot dogs. I think he's a picky eater or something.
SPEAKER_04No, I'm just like I'm I'm my kids are gonna come and they like and they'll eat hot dogs and they'll eat peanut butter and jellies. And they had both. They had hot dogs and peanut butter and jellies at LaRue County, but I thought I just wanted to make sure we were gonna have hot dogs there so they can have something to eat. Because I'll I'll never hear that.
SPEAKER_03Maybe he likes to make a chili dog now.
SPEAKER_04That's also a good idea.
SPEAKER_03Lots of options. And if you don't and if they run out of dessert or you don't like their dessert, as he said, we can always buy a pumpkin roll. And I was told that there's gonna be 10 this year that Becky French is gonna make is making ten to sell. So that's what I was gonna ask who who normally makes.
SPEAKER_04They've always, as long as I can remember, they've been having a lot of people.
SPEAKER_01Sometimes they bring north of a hundred dollars, so they bring a lot of money. They normally bring pretty penny, yeah. Have any of y'all eaten them before? Like, is it yeah, my mom is good? Yeah, it's actually really good. I don't know that I've ever had actually.
SPEAKER_03So we might have to buy one this year to try it and see. Or maybe we can be Becky's taste tester, whenever she's making them. Send them over, and it could be dirt to dollars approved. That might make them worth more if they're dirt to dollars approved. So we can promote it. There you go. We can promote it. Uh you can pass that along.
SPEAKER_04I'd like to sample it live on the show. Live response of the pick pumpkin roll tasting.
SPEAKER_02So getting back on track here. Squirrel we were talking about. Uh squirrel. What uh I guess explain to the listeners a little bit what does this money, what's it used for, what's it go towards, and how do you all go about getting donations?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so our alumni, it they do so much for us. This money is solely for the alumni, and our alumni pay for state convention. They paid for us last year to go up there, they pay for our hotel rooms, they paid for a couple meals, they per pay for scholarships for seniors going, even if they're going into trade school, they'll pay, they'll give you a scholarship. Um, they have SAE grants that they do every single year, and it's always a couple hundred bucks, and it really can help out. You don't realize how much that couple hundred bucks can help out until you get it. And then also they always kind of provide snacks for us during our after-school events, and then some candy during National FA Week, whenever we do some events that we hand out candy, they they pay for that candy, they do a lot, they're really good, and we we would love for them to have a record gear this year.
SPEAKER_02One more thing before we, while we've got you here, before we wrap up, uh looking at your FFA career there, what are some of the most important things that you've learned? And I guess more or less, what does FFA mean for you and what has it done for you?
SPEAKER_00I think the biggest thing is learning how to connect with everybody in the room. I think whenever a lot of people walk into FFA, they're like, oh, it's all about competitions, it's all about becoming a good public speaker. And I would argue completely differently. I haven't been super involved in competitions. Uh I honestly don't like giving a speech. Yes, I'll do it. Yes, like I I enjoy the prep. I'm extremely competitive, I always want to win. But I think the biggest thing is walking into a room, and even if that person's off by themselves, going up to them, saying hi, connecting with them. I think that's the biggest thing FFA teaches you. Your after school events, your freshmen, they don't have a clue who you are. Being able to walk up to them, hold a conversation with them, and kind of build that relationship, it's something that only FFA has ever been able to show me. And I think that's I will hold that with me for the rest of my life.
SPEAKER_02And now you can add learning how to do a podcast.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, learning how to do a podcast. Check that off the resume.
SPEAKER_03I don't guess you check off a resume, you write that on your resume. Yeah. I don't know. I've never had to fill one out.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Resume writer is not on your resume.
SPEAKER_04All right. Well, um, Avery, thanks a lot for joining us. We'll do our best and we'll try to get you a big crowd there for the for the Chili Supper and auction. And uh also we got to give a shout out to one of your friends, uh Reese Cali, who gave us a really good recommendation. And I think he told Avery we had a good show. So appreciate appreciate people giving us uh show recommendations to others. It definitely helps the helps the downloads.
SPEAKER_03Well, your friends. But uh anyway.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, real real quick one more time, Avery, what uh what are the details on the Chili Supper date and time and location here?
SPEAKER_00March 21st, 530 at the cent at Central Harden High School in our auxiliary gym. So you'll park down kind of uh you'll park down, not in the teacher lot, it'll be kind of down over by all the gyms where you enter for the big gym, but you'll enter those doors, you'll take a left, and it'll be the gym on the left.
SPEAKER_02Uh and one more thing we forgot to ask, if uh if somebody's listening out there and has a last minute donation they'd like to make, who do they need to get in?
SPEAKER_00You can email Ms. Thompson. Let me look up her email. You can email or text her. Her phone number is 270-268-8183. So you can text her, call her, and say that you have a donation, and she'll probably contact one of the officers, one of us officers to uh connect with you and get that donation from you.
SPEAKER_02All right, awesome. Sounds great. Thanks for joining us again, Avery. Of course, we'll talk to you again soon. All right, well, thanks for Avery for uh jumping on with us there and uh talking a little bit more about the Central Harden FFA Chili Supper. So if you missed LaRue County, you've still got an opportunity. Or you can be like me and Daniel and just do both.
SPEAKER_03That's what I'm thinking. Do I have to do I have to skip Central Harden to be even so I don't show favoritism?
SPEAKER_02Or you take advantage of free food any chance to get. That's my level anyway.
SPEAKER_04So gonna gonna change subjects here a little bit, something a little lighter. Um ever like butt dialed somebody and it just be like a very bad time to do that and have a conversation that somebody overhears, and it's just like I don't know that I've been dialed since the invention of the smartphone.
SPEAKER_02Like, you don't have it still happens though. Yeah, you can still have people, Matt.
SPEAKER_03I have yeah.
SPEAKER_02Apparently I've been on the mark before. And the funny thing, you know, this this didn't happen. I'm a little concerned about what I said.
SPEAKER_04And you better be careful because if you left a voicemail, you know, it could be in writing too, uh, like we mentioned last week, and that could make for some interesting reading. Um, but no, so I had an unfortunate butt dialing event with one of my administrators at my job. And uh, so we we do a lot of things on Teams, and um I had messaged uh somebody on my team uh about some issues I was having with a uh a software thing. And at the same time, I I sent the message, put the phone in my pocket, and then we looked outside and noticed that a sheep was prolapsing. Ooh. And I proceeded to describe what we're gonna have to do to fix that while butt dialing our technology guy at PCM. So uh he got to hear about um just a jumbled up garb of you know things that needed to get lubed and put back into place and where they're gonna get inserted and how it's gonna happen. And who is this conversation with? So my wife was at home, and so I'm talking to my wife about all this, and it was just he he sent a message, he was like, You just butt dialed me and I'm bothered. Um not sure what's going on there. But so uh yeah, just um it was just one of those the worst possible timing of uh of a butt dial, also while also talking about something that's going on in the farm that's just kind of it's not an easy way around how you have to handle that situation. Um literally, but then uh um but yeah, it just I was just like, are you serious? That that just really happened. So I'll I'm gonna probably, you know, until uh the day I retire from there, uh we'll have to hear about that story, I'm sure, at uh every function.
SPEAKER_02So did you call him back and explain to him what was going on?
SPEAKER_04I no, I messaged him. I said, yeah, you definitely heard that right. Um, you know, confirmed what he heard. And uh, but I said it's you know but we were talking about sheep. Yes, it was a sheep. So sorry. Anyway, glad I'm the only one that that kind of stuff happens to.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I you take the cake on that one. I I don't I don't think that's ever happened in that situation to me.
SPEAKER_04I laughed. I I mean, what do you do?
SPEAKER_03You just laugh about the you have to you have to just laugh at that that situation.
SPEAKER_02So so uh we've had some stuff going on in Frankfurt this last couple weeks, Mark. And I think uh you were up there actually, we're recording this here on Wednesday the 11th, and you uh were up there today and was sat in a house ag committee meeting.
SPEAKER_03Yep, you guys uh you guys gave me a little bit of slack, a little bit of uh stuff for for not coming to LaRue County, but I was the only one of the three of us Farm Bureau board members that uh attended a legislative drive-in today with Farm Bureau and uh we did we delegated so hopefully you took good notice. So I delegated to you all to to go to the Chili Supper. So we're even uh bouche. But anyway, uh we um typically on that day we go up and and we kind of divide and conquer and and uh meet with our legislators and and that time usually starts about 10 30 in the morning, 10 30 to to noon, we kind of meet with those legislators on kind of 30-minute intervals. Well today um the House Ag Committee was meeting at 1030 uh and they were going over Senate Bill 199. Um Senate Bill 199 had been passed in uh in the Senate AG Committee last um Wednesday, I think, and uh passed on the Senate floor and then and then had to go to the House AG Committee uh to be passed, and then now it can go to the uh actually on the House floor to get passed. And and what that is is a a bill concerning pesticide labeling. Um there's a lot of discussion on it. There's uh been a lot of opposition to it. Um it seems uh and Senator Howe talked about it today, and and he said, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna spend a lot of lot of time talking about what this bill does and doesn't do, um, more on what it doesn't do than what it does. It's a pretty clean cut bill. So so what they're trying to do with this is not give blanket immunity to uh the pesticide companies, um, but to pass this to um allow not allow uh frivolous lawsuits against pesticide companies for uh false claims. Um so basically if it's on the label that it that it causes something, you know, uh uh cancer is one that's um you know big thrown about that you know this product may or may not cause cancer. Um basically it's saying that uh you can't have you know if it's on the label, it's the law.
SPEAKER_02And proper labeling which is what farmers go by when handling. I mean, we've got that drilled into our heads.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, every time you hand attend a pesticide meeting, it's the label is the law. And every three years the the EPA has to approve those labels, and um that it is illegal for a um company to put something on the label that is not true. So if they put on the label, uh and actually in California there was a case where uh they wanted um the company to they wanted they wanted Bayer to put on Roundup containers that it caused cancer, and the EPA said there's no proof that it caused cancer. Um so no, you cannot put that on the label. So that's kind of what it's doing. Um like I said it's had a lot of opposition, um, but the uh the farmers have showed up and uh legislators like Representative Bibbins, um uh Representative Tate uh were both on that that house ad committee here here locally, um and they've passed it out to go to the house floor and and have some more discussion on. Um and I and I think uh Ryan said it has to be read on the house floor three times before it can be voted on, so it it could be late this week, uh, but most likely next week before it gets voted on.
SPEAKER_02And but here's the thing on the frivolous lawsuit deal and why farmers, I guess, have lobbied so much for a bill like this. All of these lawsuits, if you look at these different uh these different products that have been the focus of some of them. It's yeah, I'm sure it hurts the company financially, but ultimately it's not the company that pays for that. What happens what's happened around up the last five or six years to the price around? It's gone through the roof. So you're right. And that's the the reasoning for it is it's uh it's to pay these lawsuits.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so so the the company pays out those those lawsuits and then raises the the cost of that product on the farmer. So so we're paying for it.
SPEAKER_02Um and most of the time the lawsuits are not even agriculturally related. Nine times out of ten, or probably more, those lawsuits are from a turfgrass situation or a a homeowner or a gardener or something like that that was using that product, and it's typically not a farmer. And farmers are handling loads more amounts of those products than the people that generally file lawsuits do.
SPEAKER_03That's right. So I've got it right here if you kind of want me to read a little bit of the wording of the bill. I don't know if that'll kind of clear a few things up, but um it says any pesticide registered for use with the Department of Agriculture pursuant to KRS 217570 or the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuing it pursuant to the FIFRA FIFRA as defined in section two of this act and any regulations promulgated there under, including but not limited to 40 CFR, Part 156 that displays a label that has been approved by the F EPA in registering the pesticide or is consistent with the most recent human health risk assessment performed under the FIFRA shall be deemed a sufficient warning label for the purposes of an action commenced under any provision of state law concerning the duty to warn or label or any other common law duty to warn. So basically it's saying if it's not on the label, then you can't have a frivolous lawsuit to sue that it caused that to happen. Now, in the case of some of these other products um that have been known to possibly do some stuff, it's on their label and it should be properly handled. And and that's what that's what this is pushing into. If there is a a pesticide, and this doesn't uh uh necessarily just concern uh agriculture chemicals, it it can go into um household cleaners and and other things that if it is known to cause those, it is supposed to be on that label. And if it is not, there will not, there cannot be lawsuits.
SPEAKER_02Well yeah, and then it so then it just brings the lawsuit down to I don't want to play lawyer here and anything, but in my mind it brings the lawsuit down to if that goes to court, then basically what you're arguing about is A, whether A, whether that person filing suit handled the product with accordance to the label like they were supposed to, or B, did the company put on the label how it was supposed to be handled to best protect the handler. So that's right. That's really probably how it should be.
SPEAKER_03And and there's a provision in this as well that if if a company is uh proven that they knowingly withheld, concealed, misinterpreted, or destroyed material inform or information regarding the human health risk of a such a pesticide, that this this goes away. And that they are free game then for the for the lawsuits. So um the the EPA is the EPA approval for all of these products is not easy to get. So, you know, when a when a product comes to the market, it has been uh uh rigorously tested and looked over, and um you know it's it's it's there for the betterment of agriculture and and uh you know precautions that have been listed and and made if they need to be looked at.
SPEAKER_04Are they doing anything about the labeling of coffee?
SPEAKER_03That it might be hot, don't spill it on yourself?
SPEAKER_04No, that it's I mean, isn't it like uh thirty to forty times more toxic than glyphosate?
SPEAKER_05Just curious.
SPEAKER_03I don't drink coffee, so I do.
SPEAKER_04I do. But I don't drink that much of it because the dose makes the poison, right? That's right.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. That's what we taught them in pesticide drain and Daniel.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but it's I mean it's it's it's science. I mean, that's what we need to be based on is science. It is right, and not opinions.
SPEAKER_02So another bill coming out of Frankfurt that was released this week. Mark, did they talk any about House Bill 545 while you were up there?
SPEAKER_03So we talked about it just uh just very briefly. Uh, I think there was a big press press conference on it yesterday. Um really good coming.
SPEAKER_04It was an impressive like uh spread of people. So I noticed there was a lot of different titles up there, and and one of the first lady speaking was with the chamber. Chamber of Comp, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, I think. And that's kind of neat seeing uh some announcements about some agriculture initiatives coming from uh coming from that side of stuff.
SPEAKER_03So this is a a bill uh to establish a non-refundable income tax credit for alternative jet fuel production. Uh and this I love this bill. It it goes along with what I've been saying, you know, for the last two or three years, we've heard sustainable aviation fuel, sustainable aviation fuel built out of uh uh made out of corn and soybeans. Um and a lot of talk of this has been, well, we're gonna do it in in Georgia, and we're gonna do it in the south. Well, that's a there's a lot of corn produced down there, but it's a corn deficit area with all the livestock in the area. Um what better place to try to get some sustainable aviation fuel plants built than the heart of central Kentucky with uh pipelines we have running through the through the state, as well as the UPS World Hub in Louisville. Um it I couldn't think of a better place to have it.
SPEAKER_02So it's ethanol based or soybean oil based?
SPEAKER_03I think it's both.
SPEAKER_04I think it's both, and that was one of the things that about this because you're hearing like I know we've had some people talk about different fuel types, and there's some word out like, well, if it might benefit corn, but it might hurt beans, or this might benefit beans, but it might hurt corn. But this one seems like something that's gonna benefit all of it.
SPEAKER_03Agriculturally based alternative jet fuel means an alternative jet fuel produced from agricultural biomass, including crops and agricultural byproducts derived from ag or livestock production, such as corn, soybeans, wheat, canola, animal fats, and biomass residues from trees, wood, and grasses.
SPEAKER_04So you know what this makes it reminds me of. You know, in the back to the future when he's powering that thing and he starts just pouring all the stuff there. Banana peel. It kind of feels like we're gonna be doing that with all of our stuff and just making this really great fuel. We're not gonna go back in time, but we're gonna we're gonna power jets with it.
SPEAKER_03So that's that's but we might go into the future with this sustainable jet fuel.
SPEAKER_05Oh nice.
SPEAKER_01Great Scott. Is that what he says? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Where we're going, we don't need roads.
SPEAKER_02So that wraps up our Mark Thomas Frankfurt report. Report from the Hill. Is that what Capitol we got? No, it's not the hill.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's still Capitol Hill Capital Hill.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Report from the Hill with Mark Thomas. So um before we go. Yeah, we haven't asked guys to give a review in a while. So if you're listening to this on the podcast, make sure you drop us a review. I think can they review on Facebook? I don't know about that, but I know you can on no, I know you can on Apple Podcasts.
SPEAKER_04I think you can on Spotify too, but uh, but yeah, give us some reviews and we might we might read them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we uh we went back and read some. I hadn't read them in a long time. I don't think anybody had caught this one. There was one from uh what was it five months ago?
SPEAKER_03October 7th, 2022. You got it pulled up there, Mark. We hadn't much more than um got started when yeah, that was pretty early on. So uh Glenn, Etown, says informative, entertaining, robust. It's Bob and Tom meets Tony Reed and Paul Harvey. Great to hear about local current local concerns and information. Great job, men.
SPEAKER_02Robust, like a good cup of coffee.
SPEAKER_03I guess.
SPEAKER_02That's that's a good word, robust.
SPEAKER_03Who's Bob and who's Tom, though?
SPEAKER_02Well, Tom's the bald one, right?
SPEAKER_03I think you're right.
SPEAKER_02So that one's pretty easy to be easy to figure out. Easy to put on there. Uh I don't know which one of us has the better mustache, Mark, because that's who Bob had the mustache, right?
SPEAKER_03He does.
SPEAKER_02Bob also wore the wore the unstructured hats.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I guess that I guess that gets to be you then.
SPEAKER_02And I'm not sure who Paul Paul Harvey is.
SPEAKER_03So Tony Reed. None of us are Tony Reed. Nobody can uh compare to him. So he's just kind of his own.
SPEAKER_02We're not given the given the intro with vulgar insults.
SPEAKER_03That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER_02Other than Daniel on the first episode. Kind of got a little getting dirty. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Maybe somebody will throw back and throw another one of them out there someday.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, probably not. We probably pushed our luck too much on that first one.
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SPEAKER_02Yep. I think it's the uh it's the unstructured hats that brought them all in. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yep, that's keep telling yourself that. So we sold that thing last week that had a hat in it. Did the did the purchaser was he happy with the hat or did he want an unstructured hat?
SPEAKER_02I'm not a hundred percent sure the purchaser even knew the hat was in the bucket.
SPEAKER_03You think it got uh swiped by maybe one of his boys? No, I bet it did.
SPEAKER_02Probably, yeah. And one of them had commented on our hat post that they were a Richardson guy.
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