How we’ll find time for this Documentary + the nitty gritty

Hello, replay viewers! How you doing? Gotta wait for folks to get on here. You're seeing the replay or we're going live. It's live. Anything could happen, y'all. Anything can happen. Sporting the Great American Farm Tour t-shirt. Get those while you can. Down in the description below, got a link. Going away 7 PM Sunday. Hey guys, got some people rolling in. Nick, how you doing, buddy? Uh, like to say hello to people as we get started. Gonna have a lot of fun tonight, hopefully. It's gonna be the last of the 3 series. Hi, everybody's coming in saying hi as ever. Randy, I agree with you, it's the best shirt ever. So comfortable. I've already, uh, I'm gonna hit the game tonight. As Rebecca and I say, we're winning. Already, uh, edited. Already edited tomorrow's video. Already had dinner. Already taken the bath. These people had bath, the host. Had a bath, man. So we're ready to go to bed. Love you too, John Perry. Ottawa in the house. Hi to everyone as you come in. Kentucky, Toronto. I just love that you guys come in and you tell me where you're from. It's so fun, and now I have real connections with all these states. It's absolutely beautiful. Virginia, Joel Salatin, right? Been there. Played there, met a lot of you guys there. Sin City, farming, Las Vegas, wonderful spirit, Vegas strong, strong people there. Australia, I've been there too, Jeff Lawton, a great time of 2 weeks training in permaculture. Alabama, don't have stories there yet, going there very soon. Actually, that gets me into the show. Looks like we got 100 folks on here. Wow, 160, it just went up that fast. So I'm gonna get into the meat of the show here. Florida. Lots of stories of Florida. You talking Alabama and Florida, I got something to tell you guys. I'm gonna give you guys some inside scoop. I'm gonna tell you some of our plans of what we want to do. The tour's almost over for us, guys. We're getting home January 2nd, but the tour is pretty much going to be over for us early December. So I'm going to tell you about that and what's going on and what you can expect from the show during December. It's going to be very different. One way or the other. So let's get into that. But first, I gotta plug it. I gotta plug it. Randy Klyman's plugging it on here, saying this is the best shirt ever. It really is. This is organic cotton, super soft. It's one of those soft kind of shirts. I use mine as a pajama. You know, I like to wear the colored shirts during the day. I've got a Just Plant shirt too. It's awesome. We've got the Great American Farm shirt in white and black. We've got the Just Plant white and black. We've got the, the stainless steel mugs. I use that every day for my Bulletproof Coffee. Absolutely fabulous, as the beautiful one would say. And we're coming out with a 2018 calendar. Already got it designed, it's ready to go. Taking orders on all this stuff, plus the pre-order the documentary at 20% off right now. That's all I need to say about that. Sale's over Sunday at 7 PM. Thanks for bearing with me, guys, during the sale. Just want to do this pre-sale right now, and then we're just gonna go back to regular programming. Keep on with the daily vlogs. Continue, uh, this tour strong. Holler Homestead emailed us or texted us the other day. We met her at Primal Pastures, fellow vlogger. Holler Homestead said, you know, what could— she just reached out— what, what could we do to pray for you guys? And, uh, I guess so we thought about it and she says not the normal stuff like safe travel, that kind of stuff. So I said, well, Rebecca said we'll pray that we would finish strong. And so that is our wish and desire is that we would finish strong. I think you'll see in tomorrow's vlog— I don't see why we're not going to finish strong. Very powerful vlog, uh, one of those higher achievements. We talked about how it's so hard, how every day I want somebody to learn and laugh, and every once in a while I want them to cry. You're gonna cry tomorrow, and I love those. Those are hard. Those are very hard to achieve and very meaningful and very lasting in y'all's memories. So the link to all these goods— hey, Ken! Rhodes Family action figures. I like that, Ken. I actually like that idea. We ought to do farm hero action figures, right? Not just Rhodes Family, right? But Joel Salatin, the ABC Acre guys, Tim Southwell, Greg Judy. We'll have some of these Curtis Stone action figures. Randy, you gonna get on that, buddy? That sounds like something you could You could figure out, man. Go with it if you want to, I don't care. Ken's idea. Perhaps you should do it, Ken, man. Don't make me do everything. One of y'all do it. Come on, Roman, Sin City, you do it. Jump on it. Farm Hero action figures. Let's do it. That'd be a lot of fun. Okay, anyway, let's get into the meat of this. I don't think we're gonna have to— we're gonna be, uh, talk too long tonight. We're gonna keep on winning, right? And I'm gonna get into bed. Maybe by 10:30. That would be absolutely amazing. It's 9:30 here. Tomorrow though, Texas Boys— we're driving to see the Texas Boys. Hopefully they'll get on here in the live. We can shout them out and say hey, and we're gonna see you tomorrow. So anyway, um, this is our plan. One of our stops in Alabama— well, one is a fermenting place. You know, we don't talk about cooking enough on the Great American farm tour, that's a big part of it. That's what it's all about. If we're growing food, why are we growing it? Well, we're growing it to eat it. Well, we better cook it well or else it's no fun. Plain cucumbers is not nearly as fun as cream cheese and salt and pepper on there, right? Raw zucchini is not nearly as fun as turning that zucchini into noodles and making a wonderful pasta out of it, okay? Growing potatoes is not nearly as glamorous and exciting as potato skins with bacon and cheese on it and some green onions sliced on it. There's a big difference, you see. See, uh, then food becomes a celebration. We learned that at Elliott Homestead. Food can be a celebration. Let's talk about cooking. Let's talk about fermenting. That's the plan in Alabama, a place of fermenting, but also a place for film instruction. Do you guys remember when those guys did a documentary on us, on on mine and Rebecca's success story. Maybe if I have the gumption, I'll work to link that in here. I didn't know I was going to mention this, but these guys did a wonderful documentary on us. It's on YouTube somewhere. I'll have to link it. Maybe Ken will get in here, or Randy Klyman will get in here and link that if they know where that's at. But otherwise, I might link it later. Anyway, they did this great documentary. Pro guys. They live in Alabama. We became friends when they shot us. Shot our— shot that film, and we're gonna go to them and I'm gonna pick their brains. I've signed up for them for a day and we're gonna talk about lighting and sound and editing tricks. Guys, believe it or not, I'm very basic in this. When I get around film guys and they start talking cameras and lens and lighting and sound— there's one of you guys have emailed us, said, you know what, I want to help you out with sound. You guys are just coming through in all kinds of ways, and this guy wants to help me with sound, and he started talking about different things. I had no idea what he was talking about. So we're gonna up the game there and get trained in sound and lighting in Alabama, and Alabama will be our last state. All of our kids will all together put that last sticker on. It's just gonna absolutely be crazy. You guys realize we only have 4 more states? It's nuts. It's unbelievable how fast it is, and it's unbelievable that this tour is gonna be over in like 2 and a half weeks. Like the traveling part. I'm gonna tell you what we're gonna do after that. I got— are you guys dying to know yet what we're gonna do for a month before we go home? Yeah, because we're pretty much gonna be done with all 50 states and there's a month and somebody's— then we're gonna go home. Let me block somebody here. Okay. Ken, you're on here too. You're a, you're an admin. You're welcome to block anybody that you want. And so here we go. What we're gonna do in November or December is— okay, resting. Yes, you're halfway right. So the first part of December, well, we're gonna go to Florida, okay? Because it's gonna be, it's gonna be cold at home. We're We're gonna go to Florida. It's gonna be half resting, half working. So first couple of weeks in December, oh, what you call a workcation. It's where I'll take a lot of time to work on this documentary, and in the evenings, or take breaks during the day, spend with the kids and whatnot. It's like where you blend vacation and work. We will actually, during that time— hey, Island Homesteader, how did you know? We will, uh, feature— we will— I can tell you this, we're gonna go to Full Circle Farm. This is a fan favorite. We went on them early. We will share a vlog, at least an update from them, and an update from Pete Kanaris. I'll tell you that. But I will tell you this for sure, we will not vlog every day for almost a month. Pretty much all December we are not going to vlog. Now we might do updates But we're gonna, we're gonna take a break. We're gonna take a break so that we can work a couple of weeks on this documentary and focus on that. And then we can work, and then we can rest for 2 weeks. Leslie G, we may or may not leave you hanging. Randy, sad face. This is so sad. But Jill's saying you look tired. When people ask us when we are tired, we didn't necessarily first know what to say. Say to that. And finally we started saying, we're exhausted. People seem to like that answer, so I'm gonna go with it. We are exhausted because we are. Yes, thank you, Ken. I appreciate that. I guess, I guess I know you guys would support this. I won't promise this. What will me and my family watch, Ken says. Hopefully you'll go back and watch movies you missed from us, right? So before I go off, before we go off from vlogging for for that time. We will recommend different things, of course. We'll encourage you to go watch the different playlists. Hopefully we'll— some of you have, have recommended we organize some playlists according to states and different things. So hopefully we'll have our playlists organized and you can go do some of that, catch up on, uh, on the Great American Farm Tour, go back to the 100 Days of Growing Food, go back to when we first started. There are other YouTubers on here that I've introduced you guys to that you guys can go watch, but I may or may not up— still upload every day. We might pre-upload some stuff. I'm not going to promise anything, so don't hold me to that. There are some ideas in my head of some easy things that we could do ahead of time that we could preload that would be very interesting. At the most, it's going to be highlighting some of the things and some of the places we've already been. It's not going to be a whole lot of new content, but maybe commentary on that new content. We have some fun and interesting and hopefully easy— we're gonna try it. We are home. Michael says you look homesick. We are very homesick, and I haven't felt homesick in ever, I guess. So it's kind of a— it's kind of a weird feeling. But every once in a while, like right now, I can like smell the pine in our house. Okay. and I can imagine our family eating at a table together. This is our— we've been eating— I mean, this is great. This is just wonderful, but it's gonna be, you know, we miss our big table. And like Beau said the other night in the live feed, our house is part of the show. It's part of the character. It's part of the character of our show. And you guys are missing the house. We're missing it. Aww. I'm getting— you're getting all emotional, Les. Are you getting homesick too? So, oh yes, your water, Roman. Thank you for reminding me about that. Our water from our well, oh my goodness, it's so glorious. Our known health food stores, my gosh, guys. Our known products, our known farmers. Oh, I'll tell you this, every 2 times a year we order from— we order meats that we don't grow from Warren Wilson College. It's such a cool college. They have a sustainable farm programming there, and we buy pork, and, uh, we usually don't have to buy chicken, but I think we're gonna buy chicken this round. Chicken and all that kind of stuff. We put in our order. It was a huge order, but that means— that means we're going home, and we have an order there. We have cow. I can't just— I can't I'm missing just getting up in the fresh of the morning and milking that cow. The rhythm of that cow and the thoughts I get done there. But anyway, I'm veering off, guys. You guys are veering me off. I gotta stay on track here. Uh, so to sum that up, workcation for 2 weeks. Uh, maybe some updates for you guys during that, maybe some daily videos. Certainly not vlogs, I can tell you that for sure. No, no, no vlogs in there. We will give you an update on Full Circle Farm, and we will give you an update on Pete Canaris at Green Dreams. And then I want to answer some of you guys' questions that you asked on Instagram. And tonight is the nitty-gritty. So what is the nitty-gritty of it? People are wanting to know what types of farms we're going to feature. And you guys keep firing the questions. I'll hang out with you a bit here in a second after we get done with these questions. I'll plug the, the shirts stuff again, and then I'll, I'll just hang out with you guys and answer some questions, and we'll just, we'll hang out a little bit. Types of farms we're going to feature in this Great American Farm Tour. I always set out— I— now people think of different things when they say farms, probably bigger things, bigger than what I'm thinking. But the Great American Farm Tour, if you haven't noticed by now, I'll tell you straight up, it's about backyards, sustainable backyards, homesteads, and farms. So it's the full spectrum. I mean, I was tickled to death when we, when we met somebody at the Illinois meetup that was growing one tomato plant in a pot. Okay, that's a— that, in my opinion, she's growing something, she's planting, she's farming. And then we went all the way, probably to our grandest scale, was that 8,000-acre, 100-year-old ranch in Hawaii. With that farm was so big they had their own church building. Remember that? Ohio. You know what I think of when I think of Ohio? I think of Lehman's store. I think of Amish country. Did you guys know there's more Amish in Ohio than in Pennsylvania? I think of, uh, the Handhune boys. That's where their farm is. Those guys who helped us butcher their pig. I want to encourage you guys— somebody said in the comments somewhere, don't forget the early on stops. You know, at some point I think I want to poll you guys and see what your favorite— like an official poll— what your favorite stops were, but don't forget the early guys. Full Circle Farm, the Green Dreams. I would hope to maybe in the documentary and maybe a special video for YouTube highlight these underdogs, these underrated farms, these farms that we have uncovered that should be more well-known and for whatever reason they aren't. John Suskovich, These, like, Full Circle Farm— more people should know about them. Of course, there's this family that could be any family in America growing their 90 or more percent of their own food and making a thriving business out of it together as a family. Okay, not too many people knew about them. John Arbuckle, Roamsticks. Kali, value-adding pork and shipping it across the country as a healthy Pork stick, like a beef jerky type thing but with pork, and not tough, absolutely delicious. And what was cool about his farm, my gosh, he had mobile shade mobiles. He was— he had systems where he was feeding his pigs 100% from his farm. Guys, that's nuts, that's nuts. So there are some underrated folks on— I've counted 8 in my own head. ABC Acres is one of those that are underrated, that should be known, should be known by every, every single body in this community. The Beekeeper, uh, Bill Castro, I might add him to the list. And I'm talking, when I say that they're underrated, I mean they're doing a great job and aren't as well known as they should be. There are plenty of people that are well known. Jim, he was on my list. Jim, nobody knows about, nobody knows about Jim. I don't even know if he's got a website. I think he has a Facebook. Everybody knows about Back to Eden though. It was awesome. There are awesome places like Joel Salatin, Back to Eden, even John Suskovich. Maybe not enough people know about John, but I feel like these people, you know, people know about Curtis Stone. See, they're all doing great things, don't get me wrong, but people know about them. So I kind of want to uncover these people that are doing great things that nobody knows about. Anyway, uh, kids— somebody wants to know the kids' roles with the farm. Okay, so why I'm going to Alabama is I'm having this guy teach me how to set up interviews inside this bus to where my family, including the kids and the beautiful one, will tell the story of the Great American Farm Tour. I do this sometimes in the vlog, not that much, and maybe not as much as I would like to, but it's kind of more of like a documentary style where you have the talking head. I do it in my mini documentaries, but it will be our family and our kids' perspective telling the story. It won't be a total shock to you guys because I do it a little bit, especially in the micro documentaries I create, which I created a playlist for those guys, and I'm about to, I'm about to finish that up. So we'll have a micro documentary playlist on YouTube and probably at least the different states. And so it— bringing in the kids for sure, because they're a huge part of this. Also, they're a big part of what helps me accomplish my goal of learning and laughter, for sure. Laughter. The kids, don't they bring us so many giggles? Don't we just giggle a lot at those little guys? They're so much fun and they bring smiles to people's faces and we definitely got to include them. Certainly, Roman, because the kids are our future. And I already answered the second note. Somebody was wondering about the style and I believe I— I think if you guys notice, like, I like to think it's classic Justin Rhodes style. A lot of times when I do a vlog or especially the micro documentary, I'll cut between stories. It's just like classic, like here today, when you see our movie tomorrow. We filmed this, this couple that, um, are of the retirement age who have had some health issues and have to slow down their farm. So this morning we went on a tour of their farm. You got a glimpse of them in today's vlog. We went on a tour of their farm and then I interviewed them. I think I included questions in the interview, and then I didn't put the tour of the farm and then the interview. Somewhere along the line of this Great American Farm Tour, I began to mix that up, and I think it mixes it up for the chiddlers. It's just a little more interesting, just breaks it up from the talking head. So they'll have a little bit of action— that's where we're out in the field doing chores or something like that— and then it'll cut to interview. And then it'll be action again, and it'll be interview. And it's not that I don't interview during the action time, I do that too, like to mix it up. But there'll be a lot of that. So I think it'll— if somehow I can somehow include 50 states, I mean, it's something from 50 states. It's gonna be a feat though. Gosh, if I only gave each state 3 minutes, that would be a 2.5-hour movie. But Delaware is only 2 counties, and we did only go to a park in Delaware. Delaware, so. But then how you— like Alaska, oh my gosh. Maybe just— it's, it's going to be crazy. Maybe it just needs to be a series of shots from every single state with some— yeah, I don't know. It's going to be nuts. So, so then we have the overall story in the timeline, like in order, but then we have these insights that we've picked up along the way and Just one as an example that we've talked about, talked about on this show is that people are content. We've learned that, and we've learned the different climates and stuff like that. And then we've learned things that we're going to apply to our own farm. Okay, so yeah, Roman, you liked all the Alaska videos. I did too. Honestly, there's some of my favorite videos. That's probably one of my favorite playlists. So again, for everyone who may be new to this series in these live shows is that hopefully this documentary points people to the YouTube, to the, to 365 Days, and then, or not the whole full tour, and then hopefully the full tour on YouTube leads the people to the documentary, and hopefully they complement each other. Hopefully they're companions. I think you'll get in more inside perspectives from us in the documentary than you will on YouTube. Because it's going to be more scripted, it will be more edited, so I think we'll feel safer to share more about what's going on and what's our full story. The wild horses, oh my gosh, I know, the wild horses. People are voting for a 3-hour movie. I don't know. Then Um, lastly, and this, this, this, this goes into our plug, somebody's wanting to know if it's for sale at once we release it. So we hope to release it February 17th when— that's when we took off. And I shouldn't say release, I should say premiere it. And you know, I guess it's gonna probably be— now it's probably, guys, it's still a ways off, but probably it'll be like in the movie theaters. Like, here it's premiered, people can see it, but they can't have the DVD yet or the digital download. That it still needs some work, it's still got to go to production, that type of thing. It's kind of like when you go to the movies, you have to wait a little bit for the DVD. I think, I think I see why that happens now. It's kind of easier just to get it into a form to get it to the people and then get it to its physical form to where it gets delivered. We just want to get it out there. We just want to get it out there, don't we? And I don't want to prolong this. Should I take longer? Oh my gosh, we're going to hit the ground running on the farm in January. And really, I don't— I don't want to go— I don't want to go further than the day we left. Like, that's the anniversary. That's such a special day. That's the goal. Are we going to make it? I don't know. We had set off to leave for this farm tour January 1st. You guys know the problems we came into. We didn't leave till like February 2017, but it actually turned out really well because we, even as it is, we spent a lot of time in Florida. I couldn't imagine even spending that much more time, so it worked out well. So yes, it's going to be for sale, but right now, so it'll be for sale, but it'll just be the film and we'll have bonuses and stuff like that. And, uh, by the way though, if you get in on this pre-order right now, you will get any future bonuses. The pre-order is 20% off. It's kind of like the Kickstarter, it's kind Kickstarter is a pre-order. Get this guy's a super great deal. Now you can get on a pre-order, it's a good deal, and then we'll go into the launch of the thing probably in towards the end of February, March. So these t-shirts though and the mugs, it's gonna be novelty. It's good, it's going away. So it's going away Sunday at 7 PM. You guys, the link is down in the description. Fire away. Here I am, I'm ready to focus. Um, could you talk about some of the gardening you plan to do when you get home? Heck yes! Don't get me started. Um, gardening when we get home— and let me answer this question before you fire away because I won't miss it. And Beauty's not here with me, she's getting some rest. Uh, all the kids are asleep. Oh my, I want— okay, Curtis Stone, Joel Salatin, they have these systems and they know these systems, but then they've outlined these systems. I have my own systems that I think it's time to outline, and I hope to do that when I get home. You talk about gardening, I'm, I'm the chicken ninja master. I gotta include chickens in practically everything on my farm, and there are systems that I've proven being back home. You guys remember I've been homesteading for 10 years before this and been experimenting for at least 5. So running the chickens in a system that go ahead of the garden, I mean, they could do so much for you— till, fertilize, make compost, spread mulch, spread amendments— and at the same time plants being grown, and then moving the chickens out and plant them in. Now going a step further and having some enough of those so that You can go around and assist them long enough that by the time you get back, even if you planted pumpkins, you can run the chickens in to clean it up. I want to experiment in things like cover crops instead of wood chips, not because I'm, I'm not a fan of wood chips. I can get all the wood chips I want, but not everybody can. And if we could do cover crops, that might be more sustainable. So these are all kinds of experiments. Somebody asked me if I'm going to build a chickshaw. Bo asked me if I'm going to build a chickshaw when I get home. Yes, you guys remember we're starting at a clean slate. It's going to be fun because we're starting a clean slate and we know what we're doing. I mean, I'm not saying we know everything, but that's going to be a lot of fun because what does somebody who had a great idea of what he was doing and then learned even more on a tour like this— what is somebody like that going to do with a clean slate? It's going to be good. So how am I going to change my chick shawl? Actually, it's going to be more simplified, automated. And I might make a Chickshaw Mini-Me. I dream of making a Chickshaw Mini-Me because many people don't need a Chickshaw 6 feet by 6 feet. What about a 4 foot by 4 foot? And then you could climb the Rocky Mountains with that thing. Okay, if you're just putting a dozen chickens in there, and I could follow my cows even on my north slope where it's super steep. I could even follow my cows 3 days behind with the chickens and, uh, and various things. So When we get home, starting seeds immediately, uh, even though technically in North Carolina you're not supposed to plant anything. The first thing you could plant is Feb— in February, and that'd be onions. But I'm gonna try anyway, January 2nd. Uh, bees, bees, uh, will be happening, um, being— I'll be in touch with Bill Castro whenever he thinks it's easiest to get started with bees. He's going to get me started started. Uh, hey, you gonna come poke your head in? I'm just wrapping it up. I'm just talking to people now. Everybody, this is, uh, my wife Rebecca, AKA Beautiful One. Oh, you tell her, Gregory. They must be on a little bit of delay. Oh, somebody— Leslie G's saying good morning. Are you from Australia? Oh, everybody's saying hi. Look, the, the comments start flying when beautiful one gets in here.

Hey guys, you're married. No.

Yes. Yeah, she does wake up super early. You feel rested?

Actually, I wasn't asleep.

Oh no, you're resting. Oh yeah, I said you were resting. I guess they assumed you were asleep.

No, I was just laying down. I am tired.

I'm exhausted. Yes. Oh, we should say maybe when we plan to have meetups. Or meetups. Yep, uh, we will have a meetup. We only have 3 meetups left, guys. Yeah, and don't kill us if it's not near you, but I know it's gonna be near Dallas, Texas. We already announced that one. That one's on our Texas meetup video. And then where's the other one? In Mississippi, and that's in northern Mississippi.

Oxford, Mississippi.

Oxford, Mississippi. Mississippi, and then where's the other one?

Oklahoma.

And then Oklahoma. I know we've had to skip some states all across America on these meetups, but there's not always a place, there's not always a host, and there's not always time. So we're sorry. Yeah, and we're not always strong enough, so, uh, you don't have to wait to to see the pre-order. The pre-order, there's links to it down below in the description, but you might mean the finished product. And a lot of kicks— some Kickstarters are saying, do I have to get this? No, you don't have to get this. It's coming to you. Uh, yep, Oxford Ole Miss. So now I'm just— oh, what's written on my head? Oh, we showed the— sometimes when we go to host, we show them their movie when we get it done the night before, before it airs tomorrow. And we showed them the movie and I kinda rushed to do it so they could see it. And this is all the mistakes. That you saw. In the vlog that I saw. And then you had one on top of it.

Yeah.

I don't, I didn't have my notebook. Where was my notebook? I don't know. Good question. Love from Washington. Yeah. Love you too. What? What's the best meat chicken? Oh my gosh, we love the Cornish Cross. And you— somebody asked about what we're going to do for gardens. We're going to jam the Cornish Cross too, guys. We got some good experiments with those inspired by this tour. You know, that lady didn't even— there was one lady, what, uh, she didn't have a coop for them. She just put them under a shed. Yeah, she didn't have electric net, did she? My gosh, we at least got to put them in electric net. But then cutting their feed— no, I guess he didn't. And, and then maybe with the dawn of guard dogs at our house, we'll be okay. But we're going to push the limits with Cornish Cross as far as maybe we'll put an electric net at first, but then we have that poultry pen and are automatically cutting what they would normally get for feed down to 20%. And then because they're free-ranging and get that from the land and then fermenting it, so cutting it, uh, or soaking it at least, cutting it down 15%. So like cut gotten it 35%. So I'm ready to like push it with the Cornish Cross and get that down to a very reasonable price. Feeding them expensive organic feed, but because they're free-ranging and moving and on grass very early— and that, that I've been inspired by the guy in Hawaii who puts the chicks on grass at day one. Yeah, I don't see why we couldn't do that when it's warm. I mean, we're not going do that in March, right? But when it's warm, come on.

Okay, someone said no Freedom Rangers. We might do an experiment.

We've talked about doing an experiment, but for some reason I'm not a fan of Freedom Rangers. But well, wouldn't it be fun to like— what was the third one? We were gonna maybe like do 3 meat chickens together and so that we could— because I mean, I would like to be into experimenting and keeping track of numbers and stuff. And when you guys say, how much did you pay for those chickens? I'll say it. And then, how much, how much did it cost you to feed them? We'll say it, or we'll at least have poundage because feed costs vary.

Were we gonna do like a Jersey Giant or something?

No, there's another meat chicken. Gosh, we got to remember this. It was some other new kind of thing. Somebody told us about it. It wasn't in the vlog.

We didn't write it down.

So much life. There was another variety of meat chickens that somebody was bragging on, and it wasn't a Jersey. It wasn't like a traditional— found it. No, it wasn't a Red Ranger.

It was a cross.

Oh, you found it, so you can find it.

Cornish?

Nope. Barred Rocks is a heritage traditional breed.

It was—

uh, nope, not the Icelandic, although we want to experiment with them as egg layers. We want to experiment with Icelandics as egg layers and brown leghorns as egg layers.

There is one. It was like a dark Cornish or something like that. I'll have to look it up.

The first animal when we get back— well, Amy and Arun have a chicken, but that's their chicken.

Yeah.

Uh, would you say— when's the cow coming?

The week of— the first week of January.

The first week of January? I'm pretty safe to say that the family cow is gonna be the first. I mean, maybe we could beat it to it with some chickens if Pat, our breeder, has some chickens ready to go.

Yeah, I don't know.

Okay, well, shoot, this live went longer than any of the rest. I thought it was going to be shorter. Anyway, guys, we better get off of here. I don't want to intimidate anybody. I want them to get on here and watch this replay.

Uh, yeah, we'll probably, uh, hatch some weeks, baby.

Well, the folks back home always knew it was a temporary situation and we were coming home.

Yeah.

And, uh, we're not sure of their plans yet, and I'm not sure if they know.

I don't think they know. I think they have some ideas floating around, and I think that we've been talking to them. And so we are not staying at a farm in Mississippi, we are staying at somebody family who applied to be on the vlog, and they have like a backyard, um, maybe I guess you could call it an urban farm. They live like really close to the, um—

Are they selling their produce? I don't know. Just somebody, just some one of you guys growing amazing stuff in their backyard. We'll find out. Okay, we better wrap it up. I'm sorry we can't answer all your questions. Hang out, we need to go to bed because we're leaving early. Yeah, Texas boys.

Hey, Tall Paul! Love you too.

Love you, buddy. It was so good to see you. We will see— good night, Randy.

All right, smart setter. Yeah, I actually need to look at that. I was, I was one of the people who was supposed to look at it and I never did it. Okay, it's a new app. Good night, everybody.

Well wishes.