Podcasts you should listen to

Shay: Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Ag U Pitch, and Shay and Chris are here today talking about a topic that is near and dear to our hearts and that we're probably going to be spending a couple of months listening to here pretty heavily, and that is the topic of podcasts. I just thought that we would share some of the ones that we find that are interesting, not only just the ag ones but some of the other ones out there as well. So Chris, if you want to go ahead and kick it off.

Chris: You bet, I'll start off with the one I like a lot called the Ag U Pitch. You heard of that one, right?

Shay: Yeah. Once or twice. I think I probably listened to all of them.

Chris: Yeah. Yeah. I think I've listened to a few of them too after we've done them to make sure we did okay. But, um, yeah, you know, I think, you know, you, you brought this topic up so that we'd have kind of a quick little conversation just to kind of get, get the idea out there for people when you're out in the field and you're long hours in the truck, tractor, um, planting and doing field work and that kind of stuff. Education never ends and there's just some really great podcasts out there. I'll just hit on a couple of them and you can hit on the ones that I miss on. You had mentioned a couple of these offline, but the DC Signal to Noise is a great one. That's brought through Farm Journal Media and that usually guest hosts Jim Wishmeyer, who is one of the guys in DC that probably knows more about what's going on out there in DC than anybody.

And I think that's definitely a must-listen to. They do that one about once a week, usually towards the end of the week.

Shay: And they've had fantastic coverage here on like the PPP and some of the other stuff, you know. They had on Paul Niefer as well the other day, and just awesome topics. I find that to be extremely useful.

Chris: Yep, yep, that's a great one to listen to. And then obviously AgriTalk, which is a radio show, but they do convert that into a podcast every night. So if you don't get a chance or you're not in an area where AgriTalk in the morning, AgriTalk AM, and then AgriTalk PM, which is Chip Clory. Usually it's in the, the morning one is a little less specific market, market-oriented, but it's agricultural-oriented. Talks about ag topics, top-of-mind things that are going on, governmental issues and those kind of things. And then the afternoon, it's all markets. Pretty much all the time, and Chip does a great job with that show.

Shay: Yeah, absolutely. One that I think is a good one, Chris, is Grain Markets and Other Stuff, and this is one that you actually kind of led me on to.

Chris: Yeah, yeah, Joe Vaklovic does that one. He's somebody that we have a fair amount of— some of our clients that actually work with him. He's a real insightful young guy that You know, grew up in the Chicago area. His dad was a police officer. I know Joe, and he's just a real trustworthy, down-to-earth type of guy. He actually moved to Nashville, and so he's actually not in the Chicago area now, which is probably a good thing. But he's a great one to listen to. He does a morning, usually a morning 5, 6-minute update.. And so I definitely would recommend that one. And then maybe once a week or something, he'll do another kind of a monologue on some of the topics that are going on in the markets as well during the week occasionally.

Shay: Right. I think another good one, Chris, is The Business of Agriculture. And many people know Damian Mason. Of course, he talks all over the place and just does a great job not only on, on The Business of Agriculture, and I think he brings a very honest and truthful perspective to a lot of things. Yeah, sometimes brings us outside of our bubble and shell that we're maybe used to. I just really enjoy listening to a lot of people that, that he has on there. And then he also does another one called Do Business Better, which I know you've listened to that a little bit more than I have, Chris.

Chris: Yeah, well, he wrote a book called Do Business Better, and if you ever want to download a book that's excellent to listen to, it directly ties to agriculture, directly ties to business. In agriculture and what you need to think of. He grew up on a dairy farm, so he's very farm-oriented. Just a great guy. His history is interesting too. He used to be a Bill Clinton impersonator. So if you get a chance, go on and watch some of his YouTube Bill Clinton impersonations. He's hilarious. But he's also very, very focused on business and the importance of what we need to think about in our businesses to do business better, to steal his term.

Shay: Yeah, and I know many nights on the road it's 10:30, 11 o'clock and you're eating a pack of Twizzlers and watching his Bill Clinton impersonation. So it's definitely worth the, worth the listen there.

Chris: Yeah, yeah, he's a good guy. He's funny to listen to. Another one too, I was just telling you about offline that I've been listening to a little bit too, is called Farm for Profit. And it's the, you Farm, the number 4 profit. That's a good one too. They don't do a lot of them, but what they do do, the content they put out, it's really good.

Shay: Yeah, and that's Tanner and David that are doing that. So yeah, Future of Agriculture is another good one, and that's with Tim Hammerich, or Hammerich, I don't know his last name, so I apologize if he hears this. But just the content that he's bringing out there really gives you a completely different perspective, has lots of episodes that you can go back and listen to. And that's That's what I like about so many of these topics is they're actually very timeless. What I mean by that is you can go back and listen at any time and they're still relevant. Of course, the market ones are, you know, day in and day out a little bit more relevant, but some of these other ones, I just think they're awesome to go back and listen to.

Chris: Yeah, exactly, exactly. Another one, it's not directly agriculture, but it's called— and I'm trying to look at it here— the Blue Collar podcast. Mark Stoner is his name. That's a really good one too. It's just a lot about just, you know, blue-collar businesses, which is obviously agriculture. And so it's just a good one to listen to. And then some of the other ones I mentioned to you offline too, Shay, that we both kind of, I know, listen to is Ed Mylett. Again, not another agricultural one, but very just uplifting, thought-provoking, and business-oriented and success-oriented. He's an individual that's been very successful in his life. He brings other successful people onto his podcast and interviews them, or he brings people who have gone through a lot of life challenges, big-time issues, and gotten through them and how they got through things.

Shay: And so, yeah, really, some of those stories are pretty amazing. I mean, they're incredible to listen to. When you talk about coming through adversity, you know, and hear on— hear about some of these major athletes, you know, he's heavily focused on athletes, which I think is a unique perspective for people out there that want something a little bit different from agriculture. You're going to recognize a lot of these names of people that he has on. And I mean, he does a phenomenal job on that.

Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Any others that you're thinking of?

Shay: Yeah, there's, there's 2 others or 3 others here. Fieldwork with Matora and Zach Johnson. Of course, they bring a a little bit of a different perspective looking at soil health and then some of the other things that are kind of going on in the industry. Men Making a Difference. So this is actually a father-son team, local community where I grew up, and they interview just men throughout the community, throughout the state of Iowa that are truly making a difference in the lives of people and how they've done that. No, not only as, as fathers, but just as men in their community. And it really makes you take a step back and think, you know, as a farmer and as a man, of what does it mean to be a man and what kind of impact and what kind of legacy are you leaving. And then just hearing some of these guys' stories, it's really good.

So I definitely encourage that, Men Making a Difference. And then the last two that I have, Intelligence Matters, or Intelligence Matters, however you want to pronounce it, kind of like the article. It's a former CIA director, and he talks about what's going on in the world. For instance, right now, you know, what's going on with coronavirus? How does that impact the national intelligence that we have going on? How does that direct foreign operations that we have? And he really brings in some great leading experts in these areas, names that you recognize that you normally just see on the TV show, that have down-to-earth conversations with what's going on. So I found that recently and thought that was interesting. And The other thing too is Gary Vee, and we found him, I don't know, probably over a year ago now. And he just has some great content, brutally honest.

And he's another one of those people that really makes you reevaluate the way you think about things and what is the goal. And one of his biggest messages here recently in the last 6 to 8 months is finding your happiness. And what does that happiness mean? You know, is it within agriculture? Is it spending time with your family? And what hard work do you need to do to get there? So I think it's just a a great little sense of perspective there. So that's, that's all I have on my list here, Chris.

Chris: That's good. Yeah. And I know there's probably some, some podcasts, and if you're somebody that produces podcasts and we didn't mention you, sorry. Um, well, right, we'll, we'll definitely, um, pass it along though, because, you know, with, with what we do, you know, with the Ag View Pitch, we try to bring pertinent, valuable information that means something to our clients primarily. And if others can, can gained something out of it, that's great. But, um, you know, we encourage our clients to, to put forth questions and things that they'd like to see us doing, and then we definitely try to deliver on that specifically. And, and, um, obviously, Shay, you hit a lot on safety and, and those kind of things.

So I think, you know, we're— we want people listening to our podcast, obviously, primarily, but we also want to make sure that, you know, we're not the only thing out there, and we want people to, to think out of the box and think of different things, and, and then hopefully get back to us and say, hey, touch on this, touch on that. And, you know, hopefully we can make a difference.

Shay: So yeah, and I'm hoping we added some diversity and some interest to people listening here as we head into spring. And what I'm going to do, Chris, I'll throw this up on social media because we want to hear from you as listeners, you know, what are some of the podcasts that you recommend? So we'll put it out on Twitter, Facebook, feel free to shoot us a message online as well. Agviewpitch@gmail.com, and we'd love to hear from you because we know there's some other great ones too that we haven't discovered. So hey, Chris, I know you're out there running the Strip-Till Bar. Appreciate you taking the time to do this afternoon, and we'll plan on talking with you later.

Chris: Yeah, it was fun talking to you. I'm gonna get back in the tractor and kick a podcast on.

Shay: Sounds good. Stay safe out there. Yeah, thank you everyone for listening. We will catch you next time on the Ag View Pitch.