the Stories inside the Documentary

Victor and Rebecca Rhodes discuss their Great American Farm Tour documentary, a three-act story following their family of six across 50 states in a converted school bus. They're selling limited merchandise and DVDs before Sunday, and plan to release the film in February or March with bonus micro-documentaries about individual farmers.
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Guys, um, can you guys see me? Having a little technical difficulty there. If you're probably— if you're seeing this part, you're probably watching the replay. Thank you for watching. Did you guys get it? Just tell me right now. If you are watching this, you might want to skip forward. It's going to do a little bit of a just testing, make sure everything's working, wait for some folks to get on. I saw some folks on and now they're gone. Oh, here we are. Kyle, thank you. Uh, you're in the house, Guy at Fest. Welcome back! You like the show enough yesterday, you come back. Hi to you. Oh, Randy Kleinman back. We're gonna have a good time. Oh, hello from Louisiana. I can say the same thing. Hello from Louisiana. We are in Louisiana. You think that's funny, Beauty?
Yeah.
Oh, you're gonna show yourself?
I'll say.
Oh, you'll show your upper— you, you— we won't show your—
I'm in my pajamas already.
I've been sharing your pajamas.
My stretchy pants.
Uh, somebody, hi from Montana. It's really cool to get on here and see everybody saying hi from all these different states. Yeah, because we are in intimate relationships with all these different states.
I know, we have like—
when you say Montana, all these memories pop into my head. I actually know what Montana looks like. I know we used to get on here and do these shows. Michigan, we know Michigan looks like— we have faces to Michigan.
Yep, yep, lots of faces.
We have faces to Minnesota. Randy Kleiman, minus 60. We have faces to Kansas. Well, kind of. Yeah, we only did, uh, no, we don't. Oh, we only did a farm petting, people visited us, petting zoo in Kansas. Okay, I know we'll get right into this, guys. We got a bunch of people here. Um, this is gonna be a fun show. We are live. We are in Louisiana. Don't you like Beauty's— let's get this out of the way here right now, guys. Don't you like Beauty's shirt? Just Plant. How comfortable is that? That's amazing, right?
The most comfortable shirt ever.
Seriously, you're not partial or anything? No, it's okay. So while she's doing that, hey, hey, she's gonna pull up a— we're— we, we've got some things going on right now with the Great American Farm Tour stuff. Those t-shirts, those awesome Just Plant t-shirts, organic cotton sourced from California. The Great American Farm Tour t-shirts, the mugs are going away. We're selling them until Sunday at 7 PM and they're going away. It's kind of a novelty, guys. We— it's, it's just gonna be a novelty. Those who get in on it have it, and those who don't, unfortunately they don't. Yes, yes, Ken, don't you, dude, because it is so comfortable. Ken's saying he wears it under his uniform. Yes. It's that comfortable. Thank you, Ken. We appreciate and love you for that. I'm telling you, these are the most comfortable t-shirts you've ever worn. Guilt-free, 100% organic cotton. In a minute, I'm going to show you something else too. So guys, you can grab, you can grab the merchandise for the last time down in the link below. You got to do it Sunday before 7 PM because we got to get the orders in. Because what if you're getting this for somebody you love for Christmas? So we gotta, we gotta have a turnaround time here. We're gonna get all the orders and then we're gonna place the orders, get them here, and then Heather's gonna ship them out to you by mid-December so you'll get it to people by Christmas. We're also pre-selling the DVD and the download. Those will not be available for Christmas, but as soon as you order, there will be a printout and you can put it in a nice little card for somebody and they'll have something to hold. Don't be that guy that gives somebody something that they can't hold, right? —Okay, we're also doing a calendar. That of course is gonna end too because I don't know how much you want to get a calendar in February when we launch the movie. So calendars are available right now. You know, I'm gonna give you guys a peek. I'm gonna give you guys a peek. Heather's been working on this for us. You guys met her once in the vlog when we were back at North Carolina, our assistant and friend. We've got— this is one page of the calendar. You guys remember that going to Yonder Way? What's wrong?
Yeah, so we think that this is gonna be— I mean, we still have to— Oh, I guess we shouldn't promise. Yeah, we can't promise.
Yes, Randy, this is a sneak peek of the calendar. This is one of the pages. Show the July too. So like, this is an inspiring quote by George Washington. Look how our politicians used to think, guys. Listen, tell them what he said.
Tell them what he said. Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.
Oh my word. Can you see Trump saying that? I mean, whether you're for him or against him, no. Or Obama, anything. They ain't gonna say that. Come on now, where are George Washington's mistakes?
They don't even think about agriculture, I don't think. Not in a healthy way, I don't think. But whatever.
Okay, Joe Salatin for president, right guys? Yeah, pretty much. Okay. Oh, so what you saw earlier was like a farm flair and an inspirational quote, and now you're also going to get some family flair and American flair. This is July. Isn't that cool?
Yeah. And there'll be—
who doesn't love a dirty kid holding the dog, holding the puppy? And there's going to be a quote here, the yonder way, we're not— rugged American flag.
We're not done yet, we're still— we're working on it. Heather and I are working on this. I'm working tirelessly on it.
Uh, so Ken's gonna be near our farm, I guess. When you say the farm, I guess you're talking about our farm, guys. We're gonna be building our— what do you mean? Nothing. Okay, so there's calendar, guys, you can get that. Um, so it— what?
So this, this is like a rough draft, so we're not promising that this is what it's going to be. Oh yeah, I just want to make that clear.
I guess if you get your copy, where's the sparkler? I know, I'm sorry. Here's our apology right now.
The sparklers are good. This page should be exactly like it, but with just the quote. But the other one, I need— Heather and I are just working out the kinks.
All right, there's our shameless plug. Now we're going to get into— thank you Randy, he likes it. You guys are doing good with the calendar, Rebecca and Heather. Okay, jump right into the content here. The stories, the stories of the documentary, what are they gonna be about? Let's go back to what a classic story is. A classic story is there's a goal, there's some sort of something we need to achieve. Lord of the Rings, uh-oh, there's this problem, uh-oh, we've gotta take this ring back. Or we're all gonna die. We're gonna be taken over, right? So, and that's the problem that needs to be solved. In our case, our part 1 of the story is we wanted to— our goal was that we would set out. If you read our Kickstarter page, it was family of 6 sets out in a converted school bus to discover the greatest farms in America. Now, I will tell you guys, this is a little bit of inside scoop. There's a lot of bad farms out there, okay? We're passing so many GMO, so much GMO corn, so much GMO soy, it's absolutely unbelievable. We've seen so many feedlots, that's where the cows are just basically in a mud pit, but no, it's not mud, as Greg Judy would say, folks, that's not mud, that's manure, okay? Uh, too many of those, it's so depressing. But I chose on purpose actually not to dwell on those or talk about them much, almost as if— and calling this the Greatest American Farm Tour, almost as if it's like, this is just how it is. This is like, this is it. This, this is the way it does. So I wanted to uncover a lot of these people, discover these people for ourselves, for you guys. There's a lot of great farmers out there that haven't been able to get the word out. Uh, Dennis from Full Circle Farm is one. You know, he, he He— we partnered him with him in a way in that he's a great farm to feature and he gets publicity. And there have been farms we've gone to, uh, the blueberry farm up in Maine where she value adds and ships across the country. After we went there, giving her a link, got, uh, so many orders after we left. So exposing these farms, learning from these farms, showcasing these farms as if this is the only way. So that was our goal, and it's got some parts to it. One, discover these farms. Two, learn from them. And three, highlight them. Okay, so then the second part of a classic story is the problem. There's got to be a problem for it to be a good story to overcome. In Lord of the Rings, what's the problem? Well, to destroy the ring is not just right over here. There's gonna be so many obstacles in the way. We're trying to think through what are all the obstacles we had to overcome to tell that story, to meet our goal. Gosh, there are so many obstacles, and it's good that I'm doing these shows because I'm beginning to think about it. And, well, one obstacle is that there are 50 states in this union. And we weren't always necessarily going to go to all of them. We never promised that we would go to all of them. But Rebecca and I went back and forth, and there were times where we're like, let's just go to the highlighted ones and just get back, right? But other times, like, you know, we're gonna go. We put our— we sold our cows, we put our homestead on hold, we're gonna go. We're gonna go all out, including Hawaii and Alaska too, right? So we went all out, 50 states, absolutely Sometimes when I think about that, I just cannot imagine it. Rebecca's shaking her head right now. Are you shaking your head right now? Yeah, that's ridiculous. Is that not an obstacle in and of itself? Yeah, 50 states. How many miles have we gone? I bet we've gone 20,000 miles. Go big or go home, Randy Klyman says. So that's a big obstacle, wouldn't you say? And then on top of that, finding farms in every place. We've had farms that we want to visit that we've known about And then filling in the gaps with people like you guys who have applied. We have over 500 people apply, but then the problem of finding those guys along the way. Hey, uh, Better Life Together— Better Together Life, sorry, I always get that mixed up. Come on, Bo. Uh, welcome to the house, buddy. Glad to see you in here. Randy's in here, Bo's in here, Ken's in here. A lot of old friends in here. So big problem, 50 states, old bus breakdown. I think probably when you say the height the problem, like the deep— if there was a— I wouldn't call it a pit of despair. No, like Princess Bride style. Princess Bride. Uh, uh, but Colorado is when we began to start breaking down. It was also far into the trip. We had a lot of stress with the way we were having to get Maple serviced, and it was like, oh my word, how are we going to do this? Um, so I'm trying to read you. The bus is a character in the movie. For sure, Scott, thank you for mentioning that. You know, I was talking to Beau, he's on here now, the other night, and he's, you know, we're talking about our vlogs at home, and he made a great point. The, the house is a character in the vlogs, our house. And so some people are actually missing that whether they know it or not. Also, this bus is a character in the Great American Farm Tour, and folks will miss that too. Okay, yeah, you, you heard me. You heard me, Beau. So, um, those are some of the big things that we had to overcome. You know, working with other people. Before, we were just filming ourselves, and now we're working with other people. We're coordinating that. The logistics is absolutely crazy. Rebecca, are you gonna be You gonna miss the logistics? I won't. I can't, you know.
You're good at it, but— I am so ready to like not have to think about where we're going next, who do we need to call, who do I need to email, what reservations do I need to make, how many miles is it, you know, the whole thing. I'll like, this is really good, like from now on I'm gonna plan some really killer vacations.
Yeah, because you're gonna be so good at it. Switch it up a little bit. And we might actually take a vacation. I don't think we've ever—
Like, now I'm good at it.
In like 10 years. Um, what? I was thinking, sorry. So that's, that's the second tier of a great story. And the third— and you'll see some of these mini stories popping up, and I go through that outline in every single micro documentary I've made. You guys notice the micro documentaries? You know what I'm talking about when I say that? The Dan Omans, the Paul Greaves, always in my questioning to them, I always talk about the why. Like, why'd you get into this? That's kind of like the goal. And like, what was your hope? And then that's people's hope. And I really— and you get their hope, and then in homesteading or whatever you do, or traveling the country, You set out to it and there's problems, and it's not always what you thought it was going to be. And I like to capture that. And so we're going to try to capture that in the overall big picture of what we set out to do and then what really happened. Now I'm outlining our— some of our storyline here, and then I'm gonna get some of you guys' questions on Instagram, and then I'm gonna hang out with you guys a little bit and try to maybe answer some of your questions. Keep this down to about 20-25 minutes, so The victory. So you, you, you had this goal, you have this struggle, that's the second part of a great story, and then how did you overcome this struggle, or how are you overcoming the struggle? Okay, Bo's on here right now and he's presented, he's presented in his story from that their goal was to get to a homestead, okay? And that would be the first part of the story. And the struggle— they're in the middle of the struggle now of making that happen, selling a house to make it happen. And it's became way more of a struggle than they ever wished. And then the third part of that story will be finally when they have a victory and they're there. So we have our big overarching story of our experiences driving across this country featuring all the farms, but there's always these little micro stories. Okay, so that's probably one reason why I'll include all those micro documentaries. There's probably gonna be like 10 of them. Uh, Rebecca, Jonah might need you. Okay. Uh, there's probably gonna be like 10 of them, so I'll include those in there because there's no way to capture all these little stories in one documentary. They're— and some people are saying that, you know, make, make several episodes or whatever. Well, those— that's a good idea. And I think one person, one something somebody said, and I think this is my— how that could come to fruition is that we— what we've already put on YouTube could be categorized with different playlists. It's just a matter of being able to get to that, being able to prioritize that. So Somebody could go and watch all the, the, the, the Great American Farm Tour from Ohio, for example. Um, I think that would be a really neat thing to do. As for the documentary, stick it to this main story. It's going to be super inspirational. But do you remember part of our goal was to learn for ourselves? So there will be some information, uh, information in it that will, uh, let me rephrase that. There'll be some great content in it that will be informational because maybe what are the top 10 things we've learned? What are the really cool systems we've saw? And there are some things that have surprised us. There are some typical things. A typical thing might be throw the chicken feed on the manure so that the chickens spread that better. So the grass is better fertilized, and we didn't know about that, but that's kind of typical, something you expect. But there's also not typical things we've come to see, and that's— we talked about it last night— that people are absolutely happy for the most part and content where they are, at least in their state, right? And come on, there's exceptions to the rule, And there's people who are like Sin City Acres going from small acreage to bigger acreage. That's not necessarily what I'm talking about, but for the most part, across the board, everybody's content. Those are just two examples of some things we've learned that maybe we didn't expect and maybe that we did expect with farms. So that'll be fun to go over with it, and you guys will learn it with me. My goal for the vlog when we first set out— when I first— the very first vlog we put out, guys, is not the very first vlog. Well, it is, but it's cut down quite a bit because we filmed and edited a 20-minute vlog and we put it out to my email list actually before we went public. And we created a survey, and I think one of the top questions I asked was— well, it was one of the top— did you learn something and did you laugh? And then I had them critique some other stuff and we changed it and it was very helpful, and then we released our very first vlog. So we had to help the community even at the very first vlog. Well, the cool part was that most people— it was like, it was like 95%, and I think 100 or 300 people filled this out— they both laughed and learned something. And I think— thank you, Robin, you've, you've said yes to both. I think that most the time, that's my hope at least, that people would laugh. And when we've seen people watch our vlog, they do laugh and they do learn something, whether they know it or not, because it's immersion learning. It's not instructional lecture, it's just happening and you're learning it whether you know it or not. It's called immersion. It's like life. It's like how we learn language. You just jump in. That's what we're doing with our vlog. You guys are just jumping in with us and you're learning whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not. So I don't see why it's going to be any different for the documentary. I have added There's an element to that though, in hope. My hope is that not only do I make you laugh, learn, but every once in a while I wanna make you cry. Not necessarily sad cry, 'cause that's not so much fun, but inspirational cry. Do you know that's like one of the hardest emotions to do? I can easily, easily make somebody mad, and do it every time. Because no matter what you do, no matter what you create, somebody's not gonna like it and somebody is gonna like it. So you just gotta go forward. That's the easiest one. I think the next easiest one is laugh, or maybe learn, learn, and then laugh is a difficult one, and crying, buddy, it's tough. So at least in the documentary, at some point I want you to tear up because you're so inspired, right? I don't think there'll be a sad. I don't think there'll be a sad tear, but anyway, um, the victory for us guys is that dreams have been fulfilled. The dream of traveling, the people we have met, the places we have seen. When we were with our friends the Tuckers the other night, they wanted a picture of us, and Rebecca just kind of casually said, well, where, what, where, where do you want a picture of us from? We have the Grand Canyon, we have, uh, Thomas Jefferson's house, Monticello. We have Yosemite. We have the Liberty Bell. New York City, right? That's a victory. And all the things we've learned— history, science, farming, you guys, people— it's been absolutely amazing. So now I'm gonna jump into some questions you guys gave. Thank you. You Cannot Eat the Grass, I'm going to shout you out for a second here. I see your comments, I appreciate you very much. I'm so happy that you can enjoy this as a family. We never saw that coming, to be honest with you. When I first started with that first vlog, it was intended for— my target market was me. It was like the— I'm not 35, I'm a little worried, but 35-year-old man, a couple of kids, um, that's who I was filming for. And not that I'm against everybody else, but you just have to have a target market. To be good. So I had that target market, but then what I realized, especially when I went on this tour, people are watching it with their kids and with their grandparents, and I think that's so beautiful. That is you, Randy. But you know what happened? I don't— many times the Randys said— would find it but then say, hey, I think my wife might like this, or my kids might, or the kids kind of heard Daddy watching it and So let me just remove this guy real quick. Okay, thanks. Um, so then it became this family thing, and we were so honored and happy that it became that. And so honestly, we then began thinking about the kids. We began to start putting our kids in most every vlog. I try to keep clips short and entertaining. That's partly why we came up with the member area so that then we could put the more instructional, serious— somebody wouldn't jump to it— some how-to there so that we can still keep the kids and grandma excited and all in the same room watching something wholesome together. Anyway, Instagram stuff, um, somebody asked if there was any unexpected things that came out after from our vision, you know, our original vision, our original goal. I would stay, definitely the contentment of everybody in the stay, definitely the greatness of America. You know, you hear the message, "Make America Great Again." Well, you know, maybe that's talking about the political arena, but maybe it can translate in the psyche that maybe America's not that great. But then when you travel and you meet these people and we're being hosted in wonderful places and they're feeding you and they're helping you, when you're breaking down in there. And, and not just me, but we're going into communities that are helping others. That Yonder Way is helping the hurricane victims by hauling food down there and bread and all this kinds of stuff. And that Jonathan Dodd, the Five Acre Permaculture Homestead, is working with juveniles, juvenile detention centers, making a garden there, taking on volunteers. America is great. That's right, Scott Girvin. And you don't know that and you don't grasp that until you travel and actually meet the people. And we've met quite the spectrum of people. Uh, thank you, Life Goes North. Welcome to the house. From all kinds of different religious backgrounds. We've stayed with Mormons, uh, we've stayed with pagans, we've stayed with Catholics, we've stayed with otherwise, we've stayed with nothing as religious, and every— everybody across the board is so kind, so American, so— oh, in the political spectrum? Oh yeah. Oh my gosh, yes. Liberal, conservatives, all kinds of things. So, uh, but still, they're libertarians, uh, capitalists, socialists, all kinds of— all kinds of stuff. And you know what? We're all getting along, having a good time together. Vegans, okay, we've sat down at the table and shared meals with vegans, and they're, they're very kind, and, uh, we had great, weird at all, smart conversations together and had a good time. Talk, uh, talk with the, these farmers about way more than just farming— family, business, uh, spiritual, all kinds of good stuff, health, um So I get kind of a little distracted and off point here on these things, but anyway, I gotta keep going so I can get in the bed. Um, I think I nailed that. I didn't have to look at the notes for that, guys. I guess I didn't get off. I was just the— okay, um, how has your family bonded? That's interesting. Our family is really bonded, bonded to begin with. Have we bonded anymore? We've certainly learned more about each other. I mean, we're living awfully close to each other all the time. Every once in a while, Rebecca wishes she had a door. You know, you, you take doors for granted in your house when you're in a house. You take doors for granted, let me just tell you.
A door with a lock, that would be a struggle.
We live behind the door. Yeah, you can lock yourself But you don't even think about that in the house. You like really— you'd never go into like a room and like lock yourself in there, which would be okay if you need a break every once in a while. But I do, I lock myself—
oh, you do? In rooms? Okay, occasionally to get away from the kids, just occasionally.
I guess Jonah's coughing a little bit, Ken. So that would have been a struggle, is that— God, and sometimes I can't believe it, we're living in 280 square feet together, 6 of us. Oh my gosh, and we're always moving and there's not always a place for the kids to play. We didn't see that coming. Yeah, like, uh, the RV parks, guys, RV parks are parking lots with little grass spots here and there with the electrical hookup. That's where the grass is in the RV park. And, uh, and this— not all farms you can run around is right there. Sometimes farms are on the road. The sewer's right there where the grass is. So there's not always a playground, and the playground might be way across over there, so we didn't necessarily see that coming. So sometimes it's too much time in 280 square foot together. So anyway, um, it's certainly— I say we're probably about the same as far as bonded. Um, come on, they want us— they want us to be bonded a little bit more. Can we say that? I feel like we are more bonded.
I think that, um when we go home that the kids are gonna have a hard time sleeping away from us. Like, the couple times that we've had houses, like when we were at ABC Acres and when we were in Alaska and Hawaii, like, the kids did not like sleeping in an— in another room. Yeah, even though the room was like really close to us. It was still like, I don't want to sleep here. So I think that like we've just gotten used to like being really close. Like where we sleep is like so small, it's so close to each other. So I feel like we've like bonded in that way.
Good, that's what they want to hear. That's what I want. We get scared of you. Okay, now, um, this is a good point somebody asked in the Instagram, is that they wanted to see that the family explored together. And I just love that. And you know, I mentioned earlier how we had the different photos in different areas. We have really explored together. And one, one really cool thing about this, that we have this now, it's kind of like, uh, family memory memories. It's hard to vlog and put up a video every day But we also have that forever-ish together, and to see us exploring together will bond us probably beyond our wildest imagination. And I would hope that this has sparked and spawned, or, you know, fueled their creativity because it showed them the world is much bigger than just our little holler house in Asheville, North Carolina. There's so much to the world. I know it's given me a bigger perspective as far as when I go to teach. I'm thinking of Florida sand soil. I'm thinking of -60 in Minnesota when I talk about chickens in the winter. I'm talking— I'm thinking about Alaska, the short days in the winter, the, the terribly long 22-hour days in the winter, the, the, uh, 81-pound cabbages. So I'm thinking of all these different climates and soils and water levels all across the globe. So hopefully I'll be sensitive and more effective in my teaching when moving forward with people across all of America and all the different growing zones, all the different growing varieties, and the different challenges. So, well, somebody said that they would hope that after they watched the documentary and And this is gonna be my last comment, and I'm gonna talk to you a little bit more about the merchandise and documentary, but— and then hang out with you a little bit. But he wanted to make— and this is the vlogging veteran. Hey man, thank you for this good insight. He wanted to see if— his hope that after he watched the movie is that he would have a sense of belonging and participation. I think you got— I think we're well on our way to that because we're doing these live shows with you guys. You guys are actually helping mold the movie in some ways. And, you know, just recently, even with what happened with Lily and the community coming through for us physically through Beau, that was very humbling. And it makes us look back and say, wow, this community has poured into us with kind words. I'm talking about you guys. You guys have poured into us with kind words. Jeff has put his phone number out there in the comments to say, call me at 2 o'clock in the morning if you need mechanical assistance. And he meant that, because I call him not at 2 o'clock, but, uh, I believe he would because we've called him at plenty of times. You're supposed to be in the bed. Okay, um, so Everybody wants to say hi to Jonah. Hi. Okay. You guys will belong to this because our vision was set out and discover the greatest, greatest American farms. And at first you think, oh, okay, Joel Salatin, uh, Primal Pastures, Yonder Way, you know, some of these more famous farms. I'm surprised by the answer, and I think you're going to be surprised by the answer. And also on the hook. So I think it's going to be great, and you aren't going to be able to go away not feeling included, okay? Because you are the answer, and you'll see how that unfolds. We'll see how that unfolds as we begin to edit this. So next video tomorrow night, hopefully Breck and I have more time to talk about this. We're going to be talking about the nitty-gritty of putting this together, you know, how I'm going to get trained in lighting and sound So we can, um, how we're gonna structure this, um, gonna talk more. I don't give too much away tonight. Ken Chapel says hello to you, buddy. And, uh, we're gonna talk about that tomorrow night. It's gonna be good. Oh, we're gonna talk about taking some time for this, taking some time to actually focus and work on the documentary. That's gonna mean less vlogs. Yes, Justin Rhodes is not going to put out a vlog every day for a period, and that will be so that we can work and focus on this documentary, and that will be so that we can get some rest after the majority of the traveling of this tour. So hopefully tomorrow night we can tell you more about that so you can know what to expect. But yes, he's very tired. Jonah, they're saying you're tired, you need to go to bed. Go to bed, buddy. So we're gonna go to bed too. But anyway, uh, meet up at home. Yes, let's talk about that at tomorrow night when we talk. Remind me, get on here tomorrow night, probably be about the same time, um, about the meetup of home. Yes, we're gonna have the meetup at home. It'll be surrounded the premiere and Hopefully I'll talk about— let me make a note so I will talk about that. And hopefully it won't just be that. Hopefully this premiere is going to be absolutely amazing for community building. So it's not just, oh, here it is, here's the premiere, oh, I'm gonna ship out the movies. No, it's that you guys could gather. I have some really good ideas, I think, to get you guys together again. You know, it was really cool how we went across and traveled and came to these meetups, and then it was beautiful, especially at this last meetup. I had to step away because it was just me and Rebecca go because she was sick. I stepped away and it didn't matter. I stepped away to change Gideon's diaper and I just looked. Honestly, after I got done changing his diaper— I didn't tell Beauty this yet— I went back. I was gonna go back into the crowd and I just stopped because everybody was around in their little circles talking. And we had done it. We had created community. And we could walk away and everybody's still having a good time. So hopefully we're going to create massive community around the release of this film like we've been able to do with the meetups, and hopefully even a bigger way. So stay tuned for that. We're going to talk about that tomorrow. Um, Ken, so glad you got on here. Thanks for coming, guys. One last shout out for this: get your American Farm Tour stuff. By Christmas, it's not coming back. We're gonna do the stainless steel mug, all the organic t-shirts, and a calendar. If you're just getting on here, guys, go look at the beginning. We show some of the pictures from the calendar. You want to get on there and get that stuff because it's not— that physical stuff is not coming back. We're also doing a pre-sale on the documentary. You can buy the digital download and the DVD, and you get all the bonuses with it that will come. I'm gonna put all the micro-documentaries in it. And any bonuses I add, and I will add a bunch of bonuses at the release of it in February-ish, March to be safe, you'll get all those. So, and you get it right now at 20% off, so check that out. Good night to you guys. Somebody's saying good night, Americans. Good night. Thank you, Randy, for cheering us on. Thank you for your support. Yep, you Kickstarter people, Yes, you've got shirts. You got in, guys. Kickstarter folks got in on a good deal. This is also a good deal, not quite as good as the Kickstarter because they got in way early. All the Kickstarter people will get the bonuses. Yes, I love you guys. You will get the— you will get all the future bonuses I add. Just ask any of the Permaculture Chicken people. They got all the bonuses and it ended up being a crazy ridiculous amount. I cannot wait. Yeah, Kevin. Kevin Pitt's in the house, man. It's like We're having a little reunion here. Life Goes North is in the house, man. Chapel, uh, Bo, they're all in here. Oh, you gotta come back over here. Oh, they're just popping up in the comments.
I know, it's so fun because like, Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! It's so fun to like—
oh, I know, it's like we're the chat. Like back at home, people would comment and we'd have these chats. And we didn't really know anybody, but now it's like, oh, it's like feels like a family reunion. So thanks, guys. Good night to all of you. Good night, and we'll see you tomorrow night about this same time. Yes.
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