00:00:00 Personalities. We all have them. But what makes these guys personalities extreme? We are extreme ag after all. 00:00:06 I've never asked the question, but I'm gonna ask the question. And guess what? I didn't ask the question till just now. 00:00:11 Surprising them. My friends, Matt Miles, Chad Henderson and Temple Rhode, asking them what makes your personality so extreme? 00:00:18 Mr. Extreme Ag in this episode of the Great Game on a farm, the work's never really done. 00:00:24 We're calling the day anyway because my friends from extreme ag are coming over. You ready for a conversation 00:00:29 with some real farmers about real issues? And the best part, you are invited, support yourself a drink, grab a snack. 00:00:38 Most importantly, pull up a chair. Welcome to the greenery. Hey guys. 00:00:51 Alright Chad, the obvious first person should be you. We talking about who's extreme you get in a race car and go a couple hundred mile an hour, 00:00:59 maybe not in an eighth of a mile. Um, you could wreck, you could hurt yourself. That's a little bit extreme, 00:01:05 but you started this extreme ag four years ago. I don't know if you're that extreme, but then sometimes it ain't. 00:01:13 Then you some pretty crazy crap. The extreme. I don't call myself extreme. I don't think I'm extreme. I call you extreme. 00:01:20 I don't know. I mean, I ain't had hip surgery. He had hip surgery walking out the door. I mean, that's extreme. 00:01:24 That's true. That's not, you know, extreme. That's a lot of things. Not Extreme. Not extreme. What's 00:01:29 extreme about your personality temple? Well, he just skipped right over, didn't he? Oh, he skipped outta 00:01:34 You. Let's talk about Chad. How many drives race cars? He li I mean he, you live like you race for sure. You don't believe that? 00:01:43 Oh yeah. If I'd known that I was gonna have 51 birthdays, like I would've probably changed himself about 25, you 00:01:47 Know? Alright. How many hours of sleep did you have last night? Uh, I hadn't, no, I slept two hours. 00:01:52 Alright, so that's what he is alluding to. Yeah. Yeah. That's what, two hours your WFO Olive Marie told me, he said, don't drink 00:01:58 any more monsters today. I said, I ain't even started the today at sun. Can't, ain't the sun ain't even come up. 00:02:03 And I done met my quota. All right. Your high energy temple can't hold a, a, a, a focused thought for more than about 18 seconds. 00:02:12 And you're that much different. Okay. And I ain't about the same. So I'm pretty, I was a DHD before as a Trinity diagnosis. Whoa, whoa. 00:02:18 And Matt's trying to get back home to run a disc. Uhhuh. Yeah. Like I gotta go disc. 00:02:22 Alright, so the point is, we all probably have a little bit of a tension span issues that might be a underst statement 00:02:27 that doesn't make you extreme. It makes you high energy, but sometimes high energy. I think what makes you extreme is you're 51 years old 00:02:37 and you still go like I did when I was 19. He acts like, that's not normal. No. My mind went somewhere else. 00:02:47 Totally. Like a hundred somewhere Else. You're talking about like, let's not talk about that Today. No, I mean I 00:02:54 think it's good. I mean, I, I do think that's good. I mean we do, we we a hundred percent do. But you know, and I get that from heck looking back, 00:03:00 I think I get it from my dad, like he's 75. How old's your dad? 85. And he still try to work you down every day. Every day. 00:03:07 And I think that's where we get it from. I think it's in our day Gene. Honestly. I think they can work us down. 00:03:11 Don't ask them. They'll tell you. They can. Yeah. Alright. I jokingly called in to send the twins. 00:03:15 One thing that makes them extreme is they never met a new thing that they wouldn't try a, 00:03:20 a new product they wouldn't put on the field a new, a new something to dump in the batch, on the sprayer, whatever it is. 00:03:25 I think you're the most cautious. I think you're the least extreme. Am I right in saying of that outta these guys? 00:03:31 Probably I would say so. They may not agree with that, but I would say so. I I probably tend to overanalyze things. 00:03:37 You know. You too. Whoa, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. So he's got, would you have bought a brand new truck this week? 00:03:43 Didn't he buy two Peterbilts? This, I mean, I, I don't know what he did. I bought One. Okay. 00:03:48 That's extreme. That's Extreme for me. I've never bought difference about Difference is, is, you know, we're extreme about some 00:03:55 of the, the stupid stuff that Chad and I do. I have an extreme attitude. I got extreme anger issues. I got, I have a lot of extreme, I mean, I got a lot 00:04:03 of extreme things that we probably shouldn't talk about. Matt is extreme when it comes to finances, 00:04:08 financial taking risks, doing the right thing. Like he has a different version of extreme. Is he extremely calculated? Oh hell yeah. 00:04:17 Very, very calculated. He would Extremely Scare me. New death. He scare me to death, but he's not scared of it. 00:04:23 So that makes him extreme in a different version than what we are. You're more of the venture, extreme financial. 00:04:31 They're more of the practice. Extreme go Broke, extreme. There's a difference. We'll go broke extreme. 00:04:38 He's extreme always gonna be success. Just like Chad, Are you okay? I don't know. I just started went That's because he knows it's true. 00:04:45 I just, I was trying to, I was actually trying to think here. When Chad and Temple start getting a con into comparison, 00:04:51 um, you know, wiener comparisons over here. I'm trying to think which thing that each of 'em wins at. And then you always wonder, is that winning? I don't know. 00:04:59 That's why I just started laughing. He's gonna put boron on a corn crop until he finally can kill it. 00:05:06 You know, that's his extreme. He wants to get to the point that he kills it and then he can back up. 00:05:10 Alright. So farming practices, they're more extreme business practices. You scare them because you take financial, uh, risks. 00:05:19 You've calculated it. They would find it to be extreme of our friend Kelly Garrett. Okay. The sleeveless shirts and the cowboy hats 00:05:26 and mirrored sunglasses and all that stuff. And then, so he is, you know, everything's a contest to him from flipping coins or whatever. 00:05:33 I think he's extreme more in the direction of you that, that the entrepreneur stuff, the, the thriller, the thrill, 00:05:41 caution of the wind or gamble. I think he's, he's out there on that. Yeah. He's probably more extreme on that than I am. 00:05:47 I I take calculated risk. You know, I, I've studied what I'm gonna do probably a month before I do it. 00:05:54 On some instances, some instances with farming, you can't do that, you know, on, on like a agronomic decision. 00:05:58 Yeah. But you know, he was talking about me buying that new Peter belt. Mm-hmm. You know, what I was looking at at that point, just 00:06:03 to show you my analyzation is I'm running out drivers. There's no drivers anymore. So rather than have 20 trucks, you know, I can sell three 00:06:11 and buy one new one and have something I don't have to work on. And that eliminates two drivers 00:06:16 as the trucks are setting anyway. So could I win by, can you keep 'em on the road? Well, and I can get a, I can get a good driver for 00:06:23 that brand new truck that I might not can give for that 14 model. Yeah. So I'm sitting there running all these numbers saying, 00:06:27 okay, it's, it's, it's cheaper for me in the long run or more profit for me in the long run to have two new ones than six old 00:06:34 Ones. But, you know, what's helped him and I, I'm going to explain the difference between Kelly and Matt to me, Kelly 00:06:39 and Matt, you know, they're two of my closest friends. Talk to 'em, you know, daily. The difference between Kelly 00:06:44 and Matt is, is Matt's making every one of them decisions in himself. And he's doing all the other calculations. 00:06:49 Kelly's doing all the calculations in his head, a hundred and thousand miles an hour faster than you drive. 00:06:56 And then Kelly's got guys in his team that help him make those decisions. Matt's making all them decisions on his own. 00:07:02 And that's very different for me to look at, you know what I mean? As an outsider looking in at them too, how extreme they are. 00:07:09 But you know, Kelly's got an extreme guy that helps him out and make those decisions, 00:07:14 that he feeds him all this information and Kelly's doing it in his brain a hundred miles an hour. He's doing it in his brain all by himself. 00:07:22 And then he, you know, Matt's making every one of them decisions, you know, step by step. He doesn't have a guy that's financially 00:07:30 setting him in the right place. Well, and the, and I've got a little different background probably when we come back to McGee in 1980. 00:07:37 Mm-hmm. You know, my dad cleaned his life up. We come back in 1980, he bought a house. Mm-hmm. And so he said his payment at 400 a month 00:07:43 and the bank come to him and said, the interest is more than 400 a month, we could afford interest on the house. 00:07:48 So as he's became successful, you know, restarting his life, I guess there's a feeling if you make a dollar, try 00:07:56 to keep 80 cents of it until you can make another dollar and then maybe keep 60 cents of it 00:08:01 until you can get you something that you can halfway, you know, rely on. 'cause when you're renting a hundred 00:08:07 percent of your land, yeah. You're at the mercy of the, you know, there's no, there's no equity. 00:08:11 There's no equity. You know, you're, you're get ahead the well, and if you get ahead, then you start wearing 00:08:17 so much about am I gonna lose it? Hmm. And with agriculture, you can lose it in, in one year because everybody, especially this time is 00:08:25 Everybody that farms today that's staying in the game. I'm not, I'm talking about legit farmers. The people that are our audience, 00:08:31 they all have a tinge of extreme. They Have to. Oh yeah. But to be in business today, you have to, you 00:08:37 Better be, you know, your other, the other point to you is Matt, um, is you started off differently. You know what I mean? Like, I farmed 00:08:44 with my dad, he farmed with his dad. It's all we knew. You farmed, you didn't start off farming like that. 00:08:49 You had a job prior to that where you studied numbers and you did all that stuff. Yeah, that's true. So talk about that for a minute, 00:08:55 because that, that to me makes you who you are today. Whether you wanna realize it or not. Well, Hey was the people we didn't lack. 00:09:02 Yeah. No kidding. Ling Ling like when they call, I throw my phone out the truck window. Well, when, when, when my dad started 00:09:10 after, you know, he started just as a farm worker. And then within about four or five years during my high school career, he was able 00:09:16 to acquire a few pieces of property. So when I graduated high school, he had about 1100 acres. He farmed. Well that wasn't enough for two people. 00:09:24 And I knew I needed to go to college, no one else in my family had went. So I went third year I decided I was gonna quit. 00:09:30 And he's like, what are you gonna do? I said, I'm gonna quit. Come back to farm. He said, no, you ain't. There's not enough. 00:09:35 So finished my degree, there still wasn't enough. So I'm sitting there being patient, okay, I can't do this yet. 00:09:41 So I went to work, I looked for land and I look and I put resumes in. And then I was hired as a loan officer, 00:09:46 ag loan officer at a local bank. I gained more knowledge at that local bank in a two year period 00:09:53 than I gained my whole other lifetime, including anything I did in ag business degree. So that's been a big advantage to me 00:10:00 because you watch the people that failed and you watch the people that succeeded. Yeah. And so you could take, 00:10:05 I don't wanna do the just like extreme act. Yeah. If you watch us, we're gonna show you where we fail, where we succeed. 00:10:11 So you don't wanna do this, but you wanna do this. That's the whole goal of extreme ag. And that was the goal of my life, is to try 00:10:18 to build a business based on information I gleaned off of other people's successes in estates. Did You notice, Chad, that when he said failed, 00:10:24 he pointed our way and then when he's kind of bay, that's what he said, he went fail and he kind of came towards us. 00:10:32 Success. Success is here. Failures Here. See what I mean? I'm gonna throw it down there. I first, the first farm I ever went to was Chad Anderson's. 00:10:39 Uh, when I started working with you guys. And I discover two things, whether it's extreme or not, at least it's personality things that struck me. 00:10:45 First off, Chad's the fastest talking southern human being that I've ever met in my life as, I mean, that comes 00:10:52 From your race car career too. Uh, so then you notice he's, he's wasting time. While he was talking to me, he was running out, 00:11:00 he had from a grease gun to a wrench to three other tools. And that was in the first four minutes 00:11:05 of me getting outta the rental car. I said, hi Chad. I know we've talked on the phone and, and I've watched video of you on extreme ag. 00:11:10 I'm Dave Mason. Start working with you. Yeah, I know that. Then he runs around and I'm like, holy s**t, 00:11:16 this guy is like a, a bee on crack. I mean, this thing is just going around, around around. So, and then I thought, is he nervous? 00:11:23 Is that why he's speaking this quickly? No, you go down McGee, Arkansas, he gets in three words for every half of a syllable 00:11:32 that the people in Arkansas get in The man's a fast talker, fast mover, high, high, high energy that has struck me. 00:11:39 And then the race car thing. And I said, I thought he got an old Buick Grand National and like went down the road 00:11:44 and maybe like drag race somebody for 50 bucks. And they're like, oh, That's when he was 12. Right. 00:11:48 Done that too. Yeah. Like, like this is real. Like this is real. This is actually not just, you know, it's a real race car. 00:11:54 So I'd say the speed and it's every part of the speed from how you talk to how you move to how you drive to all that. 00:12:02 It's not, I don't know if I call it extreme, but I'd call it, it's pretty, it, it strikes you, it struck me on my first 15 00:12:08 minutes on your farm. I should say It. Well, there's a certain mold that, 00:12:11 that I think certain farmers hold. Chad and I were talking about this on the way out here. You know, the first time I met him was on a connecting 00:12:18 flight, going to a farm show. And he had on a farm hat. I mean, just like, I mean, you look over there and I told Sherry, I said, he's a farmer 00:12:25 and he's probably going where I'm going. Went over and sat down, struck up a conversation, got off the plane, went straight to lunch, 00:12:32 and been best friends since then. Yeah. I mean, ever since you, you jail to people that have the same drive. 00:12:38 I, I don't know. I, I get extreme and drive. I, I, I put those together because in, in agriculture, 00:12:44 if you're gonna succeed, you've gotta have the drive. Yeah. There's not a person in this organizations. I'm probably the least driver 00:12:50 of the whole bunch, to be honest with you. You know, I'm kind of sitting back thinking, man, I wish I could do what Temple does or what Chad does. 00:12:56 You know? So, but it takes a certain like, kind personality to, to be successful in farming and to share ideas. 00:13:04 Farmers are so close-minded. They don't want you to know what they're doing or secret. This group, I've learned more about my farm 00:13:11 and how to farm from these two guys sitting here and the other guys in extreme ag than anywhere. My whole life, kinda like the bank was 00:13:17 with the business deal, my farming, my successes in farming the last five years. I can, these guys here are part of it. 00:13:24 I think just, just imagine what it would be like if, um, we could put all our personalities together and, and Oh 00:13:31 God have One. I make some cheers. I'm resigning. I'm by the way, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm just saying, 00:13:37 I'm not saying run one business, but if you could make a baby child Yeah. Of all of our personalities, I mean, he'd either explode 00:13:44 or fail immediately. One or the other. I don't know what it would be. But if he, but if he exploded, it would be something. 00:13:50 'cause we all bring certain things. It's no different than our children. You know, when you raise our kids, what 00:13:55 If you had all the bad qualities? Ooh. You Don't wanna mix one with me and you. I can promise you it would have all the bad ones. 00:14:02 See, if it was all three of you, it'd be a kid wouldn't sleep. We'd know that. Right. It'd be, 00:14:07 so the worst qualities would be, the worst qualities would be it would sleep at 40 minutes a night like these two do. 00:14:13 Uh, it would talk a little slower than you and then have the you one of your problems, uh, from a personality standpoint that I would see is you did 00:14:22 Because he really, it's gonna call out your personality problem. Absolutely. It was about to him Anyway. What was that? 00:14:27 This is a counselor. What Was that? Failure goes this way. Success. A 00:14:30 C. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He did. Not a problem. You, you stew on things more than They too much. Oh yeah. You 00:14:36 Are a steward there to, I Will lose years of my life that they won't lose because of that reason. 00:14:40 Mm-hmm. You know, I, I, we'll just lose This, This is kind of my motto when it's a terrible, that's awesome, but I worry about what needs 00:14:47 to be worried about and then all the things that might need to be worried about. Then when I'm through worrying about these, 00:14:52 I worry about those in case they come true. I've got a reaction. I always want a plan B. And it's been a, it's, 00:14:59 thank God Lane has half his mom's personality. Yeah. Because she's don't care to son. I don't even have a plan a, you know, 00:15:05 and I may change that plan six or seven times in one day, but I've got, I've got most 'em, 00:15:10 I've got it on paper before I get to the shop. One thing that struck me, I've been to your farm three times. 00:15:15 The one time I was there and I was asking Matt, I said, you know, I think we should do a recording 00:15:20 of cutting the Fear podcast about what you guys have learned from one another. Because we always talk about what we're gonna teach the, 00:15:26 you know, the the viewer. And I said, have you learned anything from Chad? He said, oh my God, yes. 00:15:31 All guy says, first thing I learned from Chad was to slow down and I dropped my drink at just like that did little. 00:15:37 I said, wait, you learned to slow down from Chad's? Oh, you don't, you don't have no idea about that guy. 00:15:43 None. Well, first off Of all the people to go just Like going quantity, Quantity, literally, you know, for, for reading lessons. 00:15:50 I'm like, you learn to slow down from check. You told me that at His fault. I did. And 00:15:53 what, and and that's a little bit of a odd statement to the, to the viewers, but what I'm talking about there is my deals. 00:16:01 How many acres can I get in a day? And Chaz deals, how many acres can I do the right way? So when he says slow down, he's like, instead 00:16:09 of getting 250 acres a day, what if you got 175 but you did it this way? Well, y drops not granular or whatever. 00:16:16 You know, I'm just using that as an example. I gotcha. Not slowing down. Like I, I can't keep up with him on a work day. 00:16:22 What happens if the same amount of acres that you did in the day, you pulled off the same amount of bushels that day. 00:16:28 Exactly. On a lot less acres. Exactly. That's what he's getting At. Yeah, exactly. 00:16:31 You Know, and, and it has taught you to slow down some. Oh yeah. And I have slowed down. Not, Not Really, but Yeah. 00:16:37 How did, how did you help, first of all, it can't really change personalities. I think you can probably make refinements to habits, right. 00:16:45 Is that probably more of the thing? By the time you're our age, you're not gonna change your personality, 00:16:49 refine your habits, you can change your practices, those kind of things. How did you help him slow down? 00:16:54 Oh, I think I failed at it. I don't think he slowed down yet. Well, you credit he did listen, he didn't hear. He, 00:17:01 He, that's right. So it's, it's the start of it. You know, you, you can cut. No, I mean, it, it is, and it, 00:17:06 and it's all, um, you know, if you think, if you think I'm fast now, you should have seen me 10 years ago. 00:17:13 Like, you know, because it's, it's a lot of trying to take my own advice. You know, I'm on three different 00:17:17 medications, try to do that now. You know, that's, that's a disclaimer anyway. But, but you know, to that point, I mean, we, we do try 00:17:26 to learn a lot off each other and, and teach each other the a lot more besides farming. You know? And that's, and 00:17:31 that's the things we're missing in our farms. Yeah. You know, like with Matt, you know, we still, you know, I, I've been telling him 00:17:37 for three years I'm gonna come out there and help him get started planting, you know, because he says he is missing something 00:17:42 and I don't know, I gotta get Out there. I think just, you just killed something. 00:17:46 And another recording that we did with our friend Tommy, we talked about the maturation that 00:17:52 anybody our age would have that you didn't have when you were 2025. What did you call that? Maturation. 00:17:58 What is that? Okay. Growth. But you, You're talking about the same guy that can't spell Grainery, 00:18:03 But He definitely can't spell by The way Grainery is spilled just like it is on my cup right here. 00:18:08 So the viewer that's wondering, look it up. You told us yesterday that I think if it's your 00:18:12 grainer, you can spell it how you want to By God. I really like it. Come on. Same you. 00:18:16 So let's go back to that thing though about personality. And this is one I think that we should ask if we are, 00:18:21 if you are extreme, my wife and I have been together when, uh, talking to all of our extre married friends and 00:18:26 they got to know her a little better. Um, she has helped me improve in a person. But also she is fast apart. 00:18:34 Says your personality has never changed, but you realize you've cost yourself some grief and some money in your life because of who bar. 00:18:42 And that goes to that thing that you talked about. Well, you're like a billy goat on cocaine. Yeah. I thought That's angry 00:18:49 Thought on crack. That's angry. I mean, yeah, the Temper, the temp, the Temper. This one here is an extreme in imperfection. 00:18:57 And you think he's not, talk to him five seconds about you planter and tell me again how he's not extreme 00:19:04 about planting. Well, and we Argue about that because He will chew your ass about something that he feels like you're not doing right. 00:19:10 And will tell you flat out, I can put 20 to 30 bushel on your crop just by you doing blah, blah, blah. 00:19:15 We've had that conversation. How times have we had that already? We're like with him, Chad said this 00:19:19 And I'm like, man, it ain't working for me. Tim was like, it ain't me either. But he said he can't get outta the way of his own self. 00:19:24 Sometimes that would be a disadvantage because he's gonna, he's gonna wait an extra day to make sure it's perfect. 00:19:30 Oh yeah. He's gonna make sure everything You Make. I mean his, his, I've been in his field before. 00:19:35 Well, I feel like I've made less than both of y'all this year. Yeah. You Have to Deal with different things. 00:19:38 He years, I don't know that we could do that. He May better than me and you combined. Alright, Lemme throw it on through. When 00:19:43 you, when you talk about, I don't mean to cut you off, Damien, but when you talk about perfection of when a stand comes up, I've never been in anybody. 00:19:51 I've been in two people's fields in my, in my lifetime. Chad's one of them where the plant stand is perfect. And I've never seen that before. 00:19:59 I've been in a lot of high-end people fields. And I've seen it in two chad's. One of them. So when he, when you wanna talk about sit up 00:20:06 and pay attention to, to a planter guy that knows what he's doing, that one right there is that guy. And that's extreme to me 00:20:12 because I can't understand it all. But, But you don't, you know when, when you see something like that, you know, I had people 00:20:17 before me, you know, I mean, uh, me and David walked fields together, you know? Yeah. You Didn't reinvent the wheel, did you 00:20:22 Say? And, and, and nobody's reinvent the wheel. You know, we had these conversations and if you ever get a chance to walk a field with somebody 00:20:29 that's made great corn, I'm not talking about good corn. I'm talking about great corn. Mm. 00:20:32 Uh, if you ever take that opportunity take, if you have to get off your combine and go to that people, that person that day and you miss one day of harvest, take 00:20:41 that opportunity because you can't until you see it and you tell people that, you know, and you may miss it. Some other points of the game. There's other points 00:20:47 of the game that I can't figure out at all. But that point of the game, until you see that you don't know what you're looking for. 00:20:52 No. You think good is good, but when good is not good, I mean good is not great. And you gotta have great, you know, 00:20:58 and now there's everything else. But you gotta start somewhere. When I, that's where you start. 00:21:03 I mean, Matt sent me a video, me sent that video. I'm like, here's our plant running, you know, and I zoomed it back like five times. Oh, I 00:21:09 Caught him. That's what I was gonna to say. Don't 00:21:10.725 --> 00:21:10.965 he pick you apart? Like, what are 00:21:12 We doing here? Don't, It's on the other hand, if Matt puts something on, we'll find a bug in one of the picture. 00:21:17 Yeah. He gonna circle The Bug all the time. Infest infestation. You gonna, it's one bug in temple's gonna say infestation. 00:21:23 So extreme personality, perfection, obviously high energy. High energy. You're, you're a hard worker. 00:21:31 But when I think high energy, I think of them two maybe be me, uh, and then maybe, maybe me and then the other one, where's it cost you? 00:21:39 I, I admitted, and this may sound, I says, your temper has cost you that just caused you some headaches. 00:21:45 It's cost you money. Your hot temper. What personality that is sometimes too extreme has cost you much anger, 00:21:52 Anger, anger, anger For you and me as both anger. Does this perfection ever cost you money? 'cause you spend, oh, it's time. Uh, just nitpicking. 00:22:01 Well I think I need to be on that anger side. 'cause if I could shut up, if I could learn to just shut up and it's just that one last word. 00:22:07 And like if I could say something and not say the two more behind it, like I'd be in pretty good shape. You know, that's 00:22:13 Say The worst thing on Right here. I mean, you know, and your family and your family operations, you know, all 00:22:19 That thing. Or saying different than you mean, or my mouth gets me in more trouble than anything. There's people that would say, 00:22:24 That's why I think we ain't boycott texting just to quit. Quit boycott texting. There's, 00:22:30 but then you never talk to Matt because he sure ain't gonna answer the phone. Yeah. That's talk to that's good point. 00:22:34 You're gonna talk to him like middle of the summer maybe 'cause irrigation. Probably not, but maybe, maybe. 00:22:41 And in the middle of the winter and start planting in January and deer season better not be in. 'cause you If you'all start planting in January. 00:22:47 Gotta go, gotta go To jail. So we have December. I'll talk to you in December. Well I'm the anti guy here, Right? I don't know. 00:22:53 You told me on the bus, you've told me on bus. You told me on the bus. Well you just told us that we're broke guys. 00:22:59 Successful guy. Okay. That's what you that's what he said. It might have Happened to go the left here And right here. 00:23:03 I but you start, that's you learn. Actually tell us the truth. It was subtle but it wasn't that subtle. 00:23:08 We all picked up on it. That's okay. Alright. We know where your hard it's big gap. There you go. So something that you would tell a person since 00:23:16 personalities doped with a change. Certainly by a certain age. Managing it for the best. Me managing my temper has been, I set 00:23:25 that goal every year for the last decade. It's Not working out for you. You should see the 20. 00:23:31 That's what I was at. I am doing better. I'm in day 362 of being calm. Like I am better. What's your recommendation to managing personality traits? 00:23:42 That, because really it becomes a thing of if you can't get this thing harnessed it, it can cost you, uh, a lot. 00:23:49 What's your recommendation? It, I'm, I I I'll start honestly. Um, 00:23:55 Get A good group of peers. 'cause when I'm off the chart way, way out, less field, first thing 00:24:01 Im going to do, I mean, yeah. Guess he gonna quit talking to us. Yeah. You Terrible Advice 00:24:05 these guys. When I say peers, I mean not, not these. You're joking. So these guys have helped you manage your personality. 00:24:12 Yeah, I mean, honestly, you have to take it back to your family first. I mean, you, you gotta talk to them first. 00:24:16 But when you have a good group of peers that you can call and you can rely on 00:24:21 and say, look, this is what I'm going through. It's financial, it's this, it's that. You know, don't be afraid to say something 00:24:27 because you, you're gonna get surprised sometimes when they say, Hey look, I went through this exact same thing back in 2007 00:24:35 and this is what I did. And just take that advice. You gotta be willing, don't do this. Yeah. I mean, and I've heard that a thousand times 00:24:43 and that's helped me out dramatically. Maybe also a perspective you're thinking, 'cause your personality's probably thinking 00:24:50 nobody else has been through this. The weight's all on me. I'm, you know, you're, you're 00:24:54 you're just so caught up in it. Yeah. You talk to your buddy and then Chad says, chip, I went 00:24:58 through this same think four years ago. Yeah. You, You know, I mean, we try to protect our families a lot, you know, as farmers, you know, 00:25:04 and that is that, you know, as farmers or or as male, you know, and we get back to you, oh, you're the head 00:25:08 of the household, you know, or whatever. We forget that, you know, your wives, your mother and fathers, your, your your partners, you know, 00:25:15 all those people are carrying a load too. And you know, you just gotta, you know, as I know I do, I'll just shut down and just, just pull in. 00:25:23 Just pull in, pull in, pull in when, you know, you gotta keep venting to you. When Chad starts to shut down, he'll get quiet on you. 00:25:30 Something's wrong. Yeah. Something's wrong. You manage. What was your recommendation? I mean, if you said, Hey, 00:25:36 one thing I can tell you about managing personality for success right side. Uh, what's your, 00:25:43 what's your recommendation on managing personality for success? Well, or or to prevent, 00:25:47 This is gonna be a textbook answer right Here. No, well, I it's perfect. I said this, 00:25:50 I've said it I think in a previous episode, just, you know, my goal and I don't reach it any probably is every day get 00:25:57 up and be a better person than I was the day before. You know, that, that's one of my number one goals. Mm-hmm. And it takes friendships with like these guys, you know, 00:26:04 I've had both of them talk me off a ledge before, something I wanted to do, whether it was agronomic or whether it's personal, you know, can 00:26:11 You talked to us off no ledge. Like We, I know I have, he has talked me off the ledge multiple times. 00:26:17 There's been times where I've called him and I'm thinking I'm angry about something. He talked me off the ledge with my, you know what I mean, 00:26:24 like with my marriage, like I'm not talking about that. And look, if we don't have that marriage and we don't have a good relationship with our wife, 00:26:30 we ain't gonna be farming no nohow then were you So where then, where we're going to be? And he's reminded me of that numerous stunt 00:26:36 Nights. I'm not sure off it. I think you talk 'em off from jumping. I think they live their lives on the ledge. 00:26:42 Oh yeah. I got like one foot off. I got one toe clawed into the edge, like still holding me on. Yeah. He don't listen. 00:26:48 I got tell him five things and he won't listen to six. Oh, I've got a real problem with like, you know, if it ain't 00:26:53 what I want hear I'll shut it out. Yeah. And, and I'm trying like, like Matt, you know what I'm trying to do better medicine for 00:26:58 that. I'm, I'm trying Huh? They make a medicine for that. Yeah. It's, we should both be on that. 00:27:02 It's, I'm on a double dose. Really? Yep. Yeah. It's like a horse Field. It's 00:27:06 A personality problem. Yeah. Well see, I I man, I have to manage. That's why all I do anymore, you know, with the drug 00:27:12 and company in our larger farm, I'm managing so many other people's personalities. Yeah. That I have to adjust mine for them. 00:27:20 I've got a guy that if you get onto him, he'll quit. But if you, if you pat him on the back and you go at a different angle, there's 00:27:28 so many different angles you can go in a relationship and I and I from your wife to your, to your, to your 00:27:35 Employees to the service Provider. Yeah. And, and you, if you learn someone's personality, you know, I'm gonna have to go the backside of the is 00:27:40 'cause if I go to the front side, he's gonna say, I'm gone. Yeah. You know, and, 00:27:45 and you just, I've learned to do that better than I can do it on my own. I I I don't practice what I preach all the time. 00:27:51 That makes any sense. But you start to morning trying to Every morning. Yep. Good 00:27:56 job. I mean, you have to, that has to be A goal. I started, I started too. When I stubbed my toe going 00:28:01 through to the kitchen, you know, I It's over. Yeah. I lose it right there. You know, There is a thing about, um, you're, 00:28:07 when you understand your own personality, I think it makes you better at working with others. Realizing, I I, you know, Lori used told me a long time. 00:28:15 She says, you don't realize how different you are from other people. And I said, I do Jesus. 00:28:23 That that was great advice. That's what, that's, you should rotate to hell. That's what makes let you know that you need 00:28:28 to be on a heavier dose of medicine If you don't realize You're not different than any everybody else in the world. 00:28:33 Woo. But I mean, you know, we're all different at some point in time. That's what you, you almost alluded to this earlier, 00:28:39 and Chad's talk, and I've talked about this before. What if we had, what if we had a farm? What if we all farmed together 00:28:45 that farm, we all farmed together. You took care, you took care of the planters, you took care of the harvest. 00:28:50 I took care of the marketing or the plant, but we took care of the goat. Do you realize Damon did all the meat? He's a, 00:28:56 He's a Guard door, you know, or all the Whole guy At the end of the gate. Caution. Wait a minute. 00:29:01 Are you doing this with your own personalities? You're not doing that. That terrible Frankenstein thing that temple recommended where you each got 00:29:07 the best or worst of each other? We would've, We would all stand our own line. Okay. And then you have all the trust. Okay. Well 00:29:12 That's a lot. Like I would, like I foresee my farm in the future. Exactly. With, With my children. 00:29:18 You know, each one of my kids has a very, very different personality. But they got great traits. 00:29:23 If you can just funnel them in the shape them in the right direction that Alexander does this little t does this, 00:29:29 Madeline does this, that farm can be super successful because they're really, really good at one thing importance is, is don't cross over. 00:29:38 Right. They are the boss of their own individual piece of the pie. Well, and, And it may not be, I've got a friend 00:29:44 and he's got a son that's a lawyer. He takes care of the lawyer part. He's got a, you know, another son that's an accountant. 00:29:50 Yeah. Yeah. And he takes care of this. And the other brother has a son that's on a tractor all the time. 00:29:55 Yeah. You know, I mean, and they, they combine all those and you take a specialty where you don't have to, we wear 00:30:00 so many hats every day. Yeah. Wouldn't it be cool if all you had to do on your farm was, 00:30:05 think about the con getting the combine ready and taking care of harvest. Yeah. And you And the morale of the company would be great. 00:30:12 Yeah. Because you, you knew you're good at something. And why I kind of saw that and kind of set that up. There's a, there's a local dealer in our area that 00:30:20 that's exactly how they set up their, their deal as far as their service. They got, you know, they have a combine team, 00:30:27 they have a tractor team, they got a sprayer team and they do not cross over, cross over. And they have a service rep for each one of them. 00:30:36 You know what I mean? None of them cross over each other. Oh no. Makes you very, very good at one thing. 00:30:42 When you manage your personality, does it mean you're less extreme? I don't think it does. I think it's management. 00:30:47 It's intensification. It's it's specialization. I don think that you can become less extreme. I just think you get better about managing. Yeah. 00:30:54 I think that, what do They say? Don't let my meekness or quietness Fo you be For, you know, what is it, what's the words? 00:31:03 I know what you're saying, but I can't think of it either As weakness, don't let my meekness 00:31:07 Weakness. I think that Chad's operation at Henderson Farms, I think that that's one of the things that makes you guys 00:31:13 so successful because you definitely have, y'all have a lane, a piece of that. You guys have lanes and they really 00:31:19 don't cross over each other. Yep, yep. And it makes them very good at What they do. You know? And, and 00:31:23 it was harder back, you know, if it's took, it is taken Jackson a few years to figure out where your lane is, you know, and, and, 00:31:30 and it takes 'em all like they may think it's this way and, and it won't be. And you can go down this lane 00:31:34 and so, so don't ever think that you're just gonna put a kid or a young farmer in here 00:31:38 and you're just gonna be your lane. Kinda gotta find your lane. When you look at your kid, does he have any extreme, 00:31:44 when you look at any of your kids, do they have, is there anything with their personality that is extreme when you look at Lane? 00:31:49 Is there anything about him that you think that's, he he's got an element of extreme. He's A perfect mixture of someone 00:31:56 that's probably overdriven, which is me. And I wouldn't say a under driven but calm, cool and collective, which is his mom. 00:32:03 Yeah. He's got the right mixture. I think he's about 60% me and 40% higher. He will live longer than me. 00:32:08 He will make better decisions that I make because he's got that edge that I don't have. It's A prime example temple when you cross breeded animals. 00:32:17 He took this sire and this young man Created. Mm-hmm. You got, you got a 50 50 split. Oh yeah. Is there an extreme about object? Yeah. 00:32:24 I mean the extreme, most extreme part is I think he, he got more me than I wanted him to. Is there any extreme about your kids? 00:32:31 Um, yeah, EE Each one of them have a, you know, you take Madeline for instance. Madeline has that, she has an extreme competitive edge, 00:32:41 which I have a piece of that. So she's got that piece for me. Um, she's extremely calculated. That's like her mother. 00:32:47 She's beautiful. Like her mother, nothing like me. She'd be ugly as hell. She looked like me. Um, but she's got that competitive edge and, 00:32:55 and she does a really, really good job. You know, when what, what she does. She's a perfectionist. That's like her mother not like me. She's crazy as hell. 00:33:04 That's like me. Mm-hmm. She is aggressive. That's like me. So she's got probably, I'd say she's probably a 60 40 split. 00:33:11 She's 60% her mother, 40%. Me Alexander is got a huge heart and when he puts passion into something, 00:33:20 there's no more passion than I've ever seen anybody. He is really passionate about everything in agriculture that's gonna make him extremely successful. 00:33:28 Temple has got that edge of where he is. He overthinks everything mechanical. And he now, he will tear the hell outta 00:33:37 everything there now. I mean, talking about tear something up. Oh, I didn't tell you what he did the 00:33:41 Other day, by The way. He does go look. He goes a million miles an hour. Like Jim. I I I've seen that. So 00:33:46 There, yeah. So you, you, each one of them has an extreme version. But when you com when you put all those pieces together into 00:33:53 one puzzle, it's gonna make one extreme team. And that's what I Care about. You know, that's like when 00:33:58 you talk about, you know, with, with Jackson, like when, when you see what he does, he's way, way competitive. 00:34:04 You know, very competitive, you know, and if you, if he can harness that competitiveness into a calculated, you know, part of it where it's not a, 00:34:13 it's not a risk, it's a calculated risk. Like Matt talking about, he's quiet. He and, and too, you know, it's, it's just, you know, 00:34:19 all these kids that, that we're talking about here, you know, they, they grow into their own, you know? And, and I can remember that side of him 00:34:25 and I tried to talk to him about like, I was the same way. You know, my granddaddy, you know, I just wouldn't shut up, 00:34:29 you know, just like, he's like, you gonna make your bed hard enough, you're gonna sleep in it. 00:34:34 You know? Yep. So, but you know, it, it's like you said, you can see it in all of 'em, you know, and you wanna say like, 00:34:39 well just calm down a bit. They gotta learn that lesson, something, right? It's let 'em fail, 00:34:44 Man. It's tough. We've Been talking about personalities and we were glad that you joined us here at this table 00:34:50 and we're gonna be doing this an awful lot. And we want you to pull up a tear and grab yourself a drink and do this all the time. 00:34:55 We cover everything. Personality to farming practices, to the business side of farming, to a whole bunch of stuff. And that's what we're doing right here, you know? 00:35:02 Uh, we really appreciate you being part of this. Till next time, my friend Temple, my friend Chad, my friend Matt, we're gonna be right here at the green rink 1015 00:35:09.855 --> 00:35:11.355