Small Towns Podcast
Small Towns Podcast
E13: Dairy Farm Part 2. Nick is back, with more stories to tell!
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SPEAKER_02That's true. Along with genius suggestions for solving the world's problems and a whole lot of laughs. This is the Small Towns Podcast. Hello again, everyone. This is Dave Simmons and Jason Kimber with the Small Towns Podcast and back by Popular Demand. Yeah, we're back. He's our good buddy Nick Zollinger. We were doing our previous episode and talking to Nick and realized that there are a lot more stories about growing up on the farm in uh College Ward, Utah, that we needed to make sure to pass along to our listeners. Fascinating for me. I I to hear some of the things that are happening on the farm that you guys had to go through as kids is unbelievable. And I say you guys, because Jason was a shepherd. I was a shepherd, yeah. And Nick's a rancher. Dairy farmer. Dairy farmer. Dairy farmer. So Nick grew up in a household full of boys. He's the son of a dairy farmer. Do you think your dad would feel like Nick's not really a dairy farmer? Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Of all the kids, I was the dumbest when it came to dairy farming. Really?
SPEAKER_02Well, you got for sure. You're not the youngest. No, I'm third. Third out of four. Third out of four, boys. You do have a younger brother. I would think he'd be dumber than you.
SPEAKER_00No, he was he's the golden child.
SPEAKER_02Really?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he's well, he's a sharp cat. He's a yeah, he's a good one. You come from a good fellow. But I think good stuff. Good stuff. The the three of us pretty much had everything handled. I don't remember the youngest really doing a whole lot. Dairy Farmer. Listen, you realize the child probably wouldn't listen to this. I think you would admit to it. Oh, really? I don't remember him ever having anything to milk. Like I had my milk day. Maybe he did. Do you have to wear a certain suit to milk? Like coveralls. Coveralls. You ever heard of coveralls? Sure. It's like that one piece you were talking about, but without the belt. Oh, okay. Yeah. Big zipper right at the front. Yeah. We're looking for a big thing. How about muckmucks? Are you wearing the muck mucks?
SPEAKER_02Mud boots. Are they muk mucks? I learned about mukmunks just a couple weeks ago. But like who refers to them as mukmunks? I don't I don't know. Is that a brand? I think so. Well, they should pay us.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, maybe they'll sponsor sponsor us. I feel like that might be a little too trendy though, because like I'm afraid that if I would have ever said to my dad, hey dad, you know, slip on those muk mucks, he might have punched me right in the mouth. Really? Back here. So it's no, I'm gonna go put in the mud boot too. Okay. Yeah, muk mucks on the book. I learned something new every time we talk about the dairy farm. Do you know what the greatest thing I ever built at school was in shop class? A mud boot remover. Like you stand on it? Yes, with the it's a slanted piece with a V cutting the top of it, and then you slide your mud boot into the heel of it, right? Yeah, the heel of it, into the V and it just pulls it right off. Is this your own personal invention? Well, I don't think I invented it, but I built a couple in a shop class. We had one, and they're slick because you can't just pull your mud boot off.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Not with your hands. Well, you're reaching down with your hand on the heel and pulling all the yeah, good point.
SPEAKER_02That's not easy to do. Like when I wear my cowboy boots. Actually, not on the cowboy boots. I don't think I could walk. I'd roll an ankle for sure. Um Nick, growing up on the farm, I would imagine you and your brothers got yourselves into situations that maybe mom and dad weren't aware of. Is that safe to say? Or maybe not at the moment aware of?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, at the moment, but I think they were when they were made aware of it, we paid the consequences of what we were doing.
SPEAKER_02Worse than being grounded for an afternoon from the Nintendo? Yeah, a lot worse. No Super Mario Brothers for you.
SPEAKER_00You know, I don't remember this vividly, but my brothers tell me the story of when I was probably four or five, then throwing me on the three-wheeler. Probably like a you know, 200 three-wheeler, we had it on the farm, and I drove it into the slough.
SPEAKER_02So there was the slough. Does this have anything to do with similar to what Jason was having to pull the sheep out of the assessment?
SPEAKER_00Well, the slough is a little crick that ran behind our house. An irrigation river. All right, we called it the slough. But, you know, before I don't know who got involved, environmentalists, all the farmers upstream, kind of their runoff or you know, what they couldn't handle or manage, would go on the slough. Yeah, so this isn't like a uh to help Dave kind of wrap his mind around it. He says it's like an irrigation crick or whatnot, but it's not like a cool, clear, clear water. You're not gonna go on, you're not gonna have a soak from it. No, it's not the soak of the ear. No, you're not gonna like you're not gonna sip from it like cupping water up out of your hands. You can see the bottom of the slip. I don't even think you can see an inch into it. I'm not soaking in the sloop. Oh, the leeches. Not the hot pots. You're gonna get like some sort of like gonorrhea if you do that. Well, the thing I feared the most were the leeches. Oh. You ever had a leech on it? You ever had a leech on? I try to stay away from a leeches. Several leeches.
SPEAKER_01Several leeches.
SPEAKER_02I can see that.
SPEAKER_00The snakes, the leeches, and just the poo. Okay.
SPEAKER_02You know, just the stuff.
SPEAKER_00We're not swimming in it. You know, there were sharp pieces of metal in there that you just kind of discarded and you know, threw it. What's happening with this? Uh throw it in the slip. Yeah. Big piles of concrete pushed through the on the riverbank. Created all sorts of great obstacles when we were riding our motorbikes. Not something friendly to swim in. So you don't want to be in the slip. It never went dry for the most part, but it would fluctuate. But your older brothers are putting you on. You said this was a 200 three-wheeler, so it's a big three-wheeler. Again, I don't remember it. I was probably four, but yeah, a full-size three-wheeler. It can carry around the man. Yeah, way too big for you at the time. Right. So you're on it. Apparently, just on it, trying to drive it through the bar. When you're four years old. Just trying to navigate, try to get through this life. Well, that's the stuff you do when you're on the phone. Okay, get on there and drive it. What's a four-year-old on there?
SPEAKER_01Let's see what happens. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Into the slough. But yeah, several just fun stories about what me and my brother would do. Anything that you did, whether you got away with it or not, that you're either proud of or that your mom and dad were just shaking their head. Oh, well, you know, I think about my kids. I have kids now, and you know, the most important thing to me is their safety and well-being, right? Right. I don't know that that was the case.
SPEAKER_01Mom and dad didn't seem to care quite as much about you as you do about your own children.
SPEAKER_00I know they care a whole lot about more about their grandkids than they ever did. The things we would do on the farm, like here's an example. We had an old aluminum baseball bat that, you know, didn't have a whole lot of use for.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00Well, we decided we'd take it out back next to the milk barn and pitch each other rocks to the aluminum baseball bat and see how far we could hit the rocks.
SPEAKER_02Sounds like a fun activity. Why wouldn't you?
SPEAKER_00Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you? So in between milking, so when you when you milk the cows, you're not pulling on every teat with your hand. You're just hooking them up to a machine. You're hooking them up to a machine. We had six on one side, six on the other. So you clean them off, you hook them to the machine, you sit there and wait for five, ten minutes until they're all done. The machine automatically comes off. You put a little uh teat dip on them to send them out the door and off they go. But that downtime. But that downtime, you know, you didn't have cell phones to hop on Facebook and social media and start channel. That's a good thing. Yeah, it really was because it prompted you to go outside in the barnyard, pick up an aluminum bat, and have a brother switch a rock together. Hey, buddy, hey, hey, hey, hey, throw me, throw me a rock. Let's see how far I can hit that thing. Like, can you keep your hands up? Yeah, getting a line drive by a rock. Maybe take you to the eye. If I ever saw my kids soft tossing each other rocks with an aluminum baseball bat, it would be the last time.
SPEAKER_02But but is it because of their safety or the fact you just spent the money on that bat? Go ahead and finish your story.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I mean, it's so we're out there in the barnyard, and sometimes we get a little distracted or carried away with the amount of time that we're out there. Well, my dad apparently walked into the barn and the cows are all sitting there doing nothing. Standing with the milkers off. Well, he's wondering where his kids are. Where's Cruis? Well, he saw us out in the barnyard screwing around and decided he was gonna teach us a lesson. So he went and found the closest two by four he could find. I'm standing there up to bat, you know, getting ready to hit, and all of a sudden, poof! I got hit with a two by four in the butt. Me up off the ground. Really? I look over, all I see is my brother High Taylor. Like Sid, he must have put a little of into the dug in.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, nice little pop in the beehive. Yeah. Oh, that's funny. That's not fun. I think I bet.
SPEAKER_00But I bet you didn't do that again.
SPEAKER_02No, well, not on Sid's not until the next day. You ever try to hit a rock with a tennis racket? No. Oh my gosh. Now those go. We used to have a field in my backyard, and me and David Webb, he'd pitch rocks. We'd pitch rocks to each other with a tennis racket. Those things go hundreds of yards. But you would you would you would pitch them to each other. Oh, yeah. So was there any fear of you getting you don't think about that. Of course you don't. I'm not. We're launching those things. For the most part, you're not going to get one back in the well. I guess you could. If you don't think about it. Yeah, you don't think it, but why would you? No one ever did in my family. No. We'd probably hit hundreds of rocks. Yeah. Thousands. Yes. Next time you have an old tennis racket, go find a field with some rocks and see what that thing does.
SPEAKER_00I think someone was watching over us all the time, right? You would think so. I mean, to live through that kind of stuff, that to not catch a line drive in the face. However, we also had a game. Probably some of my fondest memories are playing this game with my brothers. We would get those big, round, plastic, backyard softball. Bats. Bats.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we we had a name for them. Like the big red ones. The big red bat. Yeah. Yeah. Big red bat. Just talking to my cousin about that not 15 minutes ago. Yeah, okay. We used to tape them too. A little extra hop on.
SPEAKER_00It's like cork in a woodpass. Yeah, exactly. Absolutely. Well, we would get the big red bat, and we had two apple trees out in the front yard of the barn of the barnyard. Okay. Well, we would go and pick the little green apples that are maybe the size of a golf ball. We'd go pick all as many as we could find. We had a big red shed kind of close to the front road or the road that the barnyard was on. We would stand out by the apple trees that were next to the road, and we'd have a home run there. You know, you got one point if you hit the middle of the shed, you got two points if you hit the top of the shed, three points if you hit it over the shed.
SPEAKER_02That's a dinger.
SPEAKER_00That's a dinger. Yep. Yep. And if I'm maybe in my mind and picture it, isn't over the shed into the road? No, no. You're hitting away from the road next to the road. Because it could have just added a whole level of uh I'm sure you've probably hit one or two into the roads. You would have fought through that, right, Jason? We'd have checked all the boxes before we did anything so dumb. Those apples will fly with that big red bat. You put the tape on it, and they'll really fly. Well, you know, nobody ever got hit in the face with a rock. But my brother Tony got smoked by my little brother Mike in the face with an apple. Oh. Oh, okay. Right in the lip. Did he lose any teeth? No, we never lost eight teeth. It hit him high enough that I think it was above the tooth line.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But his lip swelled up. I can picture it in my mind now, and it's red big. Heather tells a story. I think they had like some sort of apparatus where they got a baseball, drilled a hole through it, put a rope on it. Oh, I had one. Swing it around. Just swing it around. Yeah, and then they would just all stand in a circle around this person with bats. More than one person? Yeah. Maybe just maybe it's one person. I would think that I would think one person. We'll need to collaborate that story. But still, I don't know if that was the unless I have done a lot of things.
SPEAKER_02It helps me a lot. My dad put a ball in a rope. Yeah, ball on a rope, and you could swing, he'd swing that around. And you've got to really time that thing as it's coming around. And it's a really good little thing. Activity. That's why you're such a great player.
SPEAKER_00It's probably probably that and a whole host of other things. Maybe just his finesse and his athletic prowess. Probably. I mean, look at this body. It's amazing that any of us, the three of us, made it to where we are today with all of our limbs and appendices. All the antics. Yes. Well, farming is, I mean, I'm not sure. You ever get kicked all the time by a cow? All the time. Farming is one of the most dangerous. I think we can all ask that question. I'm just trying to get to where I think maybe things will make some sense. I'm going to say that's a resounding yes. Several times. Several times been kicked.
SPEAKER_02Those heifers are so stimulated.
SPEAKER_00You know what a heifer is?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's the woman, right?
SPEAKER_00Well, every cow, every woman cow is a heifer until they calve for the first time.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00So it's pre-cav, and then once they calve, they're considered a calf.
SPEAKER_02Just a cow at that point.
SPEAKER_00I didn't know that today either.
SPEAKER_02I thought all female cows were heifers.
SPEAKER_00Well, they are at one point. They all are calved. Not always, right. Until they become a woman. Yes. There you go. Once you become a woman, you're now not a heifer. Exactly. So the heifers were the most miserable to come in and milk in the barn. When it's their first time and they're coming in to get their teeth milked, they're quite sore, from what I understand. And they're gonna just kick you right in the chops. And they look sore, like they're swollen up. It's their first time doing this. You know. This is too much for Dave. This is too much for Dave. This is too much. I'm trying to paint a picture of these hefty and keeping this somewhat family friendly friendly. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and now going back to the calf pulling stories. I mean, you can imagine that that was a difficult process for them as well. And they're not happy about any of it, right? They're just pissed. They're ready to kick somebody. Well, they come in the barn, you have what's called a kicker. We would call it a kicker. She's a kicker? No, the apparatus that you use. You got a device that you can put on the cow that prevents them from kicking.
SPEAKER_02Because I would call the heifer a kicker. Well, she's a kicker. She's a kicker. They're all kickers. You know what's coming.
SPEAKER_00Okay. You know what you're gonna be dealing with. So you gotta get the kicker to stop him from kicking. Got it. Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes good sense. So you get this metal bar, it's kind of like a hook shaped metal bar that goes up over their back and then hooks into their, like their is this their loin? Haunches? Haunches? Love handle. I think it's a love handle. From where you're pointing, I think it's my brothers and I call that the donut. Okay. When we would ride snowballs. That donut shifts a little bit, that snowball goes wherever you're wearing it. I'm just driving it with the handle.
SPEAKER_01It's like driving that big old bus.
SPEAKER_00Is this on video too? That's what I was saying.
SPEAKER_02We need this on YouTube at some point.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I mean, because half the stuff is in the animation. Yeah, absolutely. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Well, so you get the kicker on, you get it locked into the haunches. The haunches. I think that's a well, and then that kind of compresses everything together when they go to lift their leg, puts pressure on their back. So they think twice about it. Yeah, it hurts. Probably hurts. Yeah. Well, there were some that that didn't stop. And so you were expecting no kick. Even worse. Yeah. It's like a kick in the back. I think you're safe. And they would just wham. It's like animals gone wild.
SPEAKER_02Where do they usually get you?
SPEAKER_00You're sitting there. No, you're standing. So it's an elevated, elevated barn floor. The barn floor's probably pocket high, maybe, maybe a little lower. So that's where their feet are. So when they're kicking you, oh, we're getting right in a shit. It could be the face. It could be. Yeah. Even worse when they poop and it hits the ground. Oh. Splashes out. It gets it in your mouth. Oh. Jason, it doesn't. I mean, it probably couldn't. Any good dairy farmers had cow crap in their mouth.
SPEAKER_02Really?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I'd rather be a subpar dairy farmer.
SPEAKER_02I don't want to be the best dairy farmer. Only the good ones have it.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, I've been kicked several times by heifers. And even the old ones would get onry and they'd let you have it every once in a while. Not today. Not today, Nick. Not today. You know, piece of straw up in the teeth gets stuck up there, and all of a sudden you got a little fester going on. And then here I am. I got no idea, right? That this cow's got a piece of straw up in her teeth. So I come in there ready to clean her off and get her milked and pull on that sore teeth. Wham! Have you ever thought about just being a little bit more of a jungle? Why don't you bring her some swimmer? You never know what you're gonna get out of there, right? You just oh wow, head on a swivel. You always gotta be ready. Head on a swivel. You don't know what's happening. Most dangerous job in America. It's gotta still be, right? I mean, you got belts that are just exposed in the tractor spinning a thousand miles in a hand could get stuck in it eight times. Yeah, you got an on your old cow with a straw on her teeth, the tray would kick the crap out of you.
SPEAKER_02A dad with a two by four. Just lurking around. Just improved a dairy farmer with a two by four, lurking around with it for kids hitting.
SPEAKER_00The only thing you can do for fun is hitting rocks with an aluminum bass.
SPEAKER_02Seems like a dangerous occupation. Well, you barely did. We're better for it.
SPEAKER_00We're better for it. The best parts of my life are on working on the farm.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00At the time, I thought this was the most miserable thing I could ever be doing. But would you want to do it again? I would want to do it so that my kids could experience it. There's some wisdom there. Would I want to do it for me? No. No. No. That's why I went to school. Yeah. We're getting soft, guys. We're getting soft. My hands are soft, delicate banker hands. I can't have I can't have cows kicking these things no more. I went back. My dad had sold the cows shortly after I left the farm. Got rid of all of them. Thanks a lot, Dad.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, now you get rid of them.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, I went back to the neighbor's farm.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I walked into the barn and I'm like, oh, it smells horrible in here. How could anyone work in this driver? But you had a little tear. You had a little tear come down your face, didn't you? I worked in this environment. That's a hard life. My mom was raised on a dairy farm. It was so it was so interesting because my mom was raised on a dairy farm. Back then you didn't have automatic milkers and a raised platform deck to milk the cows on. Or a kicker. Or a kicker. So and she was, I mean, she was definitely getting up early. I mean, they milk every morning, every night. You know, and so it was uh you did as well, of course. But for sure, at least two. At least twice. Yeah. The cows will get sick, the milk will go dry, you get all sorts of problems if you're not getting the milk out of there.
SPEAKER_02So, you know how you say you had to feed the calves? Why can't the calves just eat from the mom for a while?
SPEAKER_00Everybody's separated here, bud.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00The milk cows are by themselves in their own corral, maybe one bull in there. No more than one bull.
SPEAKER_02Why? Keep it spicy.
SPEAKER_00I think that's how the bulls preferred it.
SPEAKER_02He came up to you one day and said, you know what? We want to be best friends.
SPEAKER_00I got a list of list of rules I want to go over. You know what I loved? I love tormenting. I had an older brother. He found no greater joy in life than to make me cry. Really? Well Jason Ted away. I mean, we're good now, but yeah, we've shared some stories. Yeah, we're best of friends. Yeah. But he loved to make me cry. I loved to torment the one bull that was in with the cows. Yeah. You can imagine how dangerous that is. Yes. I don't know why. Walk in there with your red cape. He walks in with his red cape, and I tell you. I had a buddy growing up, his name was Britton, who was a good egg. And I tell you, I remember one time we went down to his dad was a cowboy and uh went down to the corrals, and there was kind of an old bowl down there. I don't even know what it was doing down there, but we we had no business tormenting it. And he's sitting under the trees. He's throwing the whole shooting game with Ferdinand. For all I know, I mean it could have just been well, I don't know anything, but we go down there and it was kind of like the corrals were set up. Not a chute per se, but kind of like a long runway, you know, poles on both sides, a series of corrals down there. One of our favorite things, we'd jump down into the enclosure, into the corral, if you will, hoop and holler and get that sucker to chase us. Oh, yeah. That's right. And then head for the fence. Yeah, get yep, over the fence. You better be able to do that. First of all, there was nobody, at least in my situation, there was nobody there to help us. People get gored, you know. Yeah, well, of course, you've yanked the the horns off. This is their turf.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00Don't come into my turf.
SPEAKER_02They're in the rut.
SPEAKER_00They're in the rut.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so well.
SPEAKER_00Let me break down the structure of the farm for you so you get a clear picture of what's going on there. Should I close my eyes? Well, yeah. What you can do is first of all, you don't want the calves sucking off the cows. That's what you need to sell for the profit. Then what are you feeding them? The calves?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, when you say I gotta you gotta feed them their milk, yeah. Where are you getting them to the milk?
SPEAKER_00Sometimes straight from the cows, other times milk replacer. A formula. Yeah, it's a powder. Less expensive. Well, you can go ahead and I mean I think that depends on the price of the milk, right? So sometimes milk replacer made sense, other times it's just better to take it straight from the cows and feed it to the calves.
SPEAKER_02But you can't let the calf take it right directly from the mama.
SPEAKER_00No, I think they gorge themselves. Oh or that causes problems. The cows are like the prized, they're the ones getting all the premium feed, right? Listen, they're the they're the money makers. Yeah, they're the layers golden egg, right? You gotta take really now the stairs, you're just selling them for meat, you know, when they get old enough or selling them off to whoever wants. Exactly. Two young boys that just want to torment them. So you got the cows in their separate corral where you're given all the premium feed to, right? Then you got the steers and the young heifers in their kind of corral together. And then you got the dry cows over in their corral. Those are the cows that you're given a break to. They produce, say, nine months in a row. Now you're gonna dry them up because they're pregnant and they're gonna have a calf in maybe two or three more months. So you're gonna give them a break, and when they calf, their production goes way up.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00So there's an art, there's a science to all this, right? So you don't want the calves in there maybe trying to suck on a cow, you're trying to dry up. She's getting ready to calve in a couple months, too. So this has almost turned into, I mean, this has been a fun podcast. But it's also been more PSA kind of, you know, hashtag the more you know. Yeah, this is definitely an educational. Yes. I learned a lot today. I would love to be, I wouldn't mind listening to this with your dad and brothers. Oh, thoroughly embarrassed. Just see C of those flowers. No, it's not.
SPEAKER_02Say what.
SPEAKER_00You are the dumbest one.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02I gotta I got one more Nick story that to me, this is not on the farm. And I just gotta ask. Okay, I'm here's the story. And you guys all know. Oh, I love it already. So a couple weeks ago, we went all the three of us went to a movie. We were at The Courier with Benedict Cumberbatch. Great movie. He's called Iron Bark. Well, apparently it's called Both, we found out. Either way. Anyways, good show. Good movie. It's a good show. Based on actual events, which I always think is fun during Cold War. So, anyways, if you haven't seen it, you're gonna get a little bit of a spoiler. Anyways, Benedict Cumberbatch ends up in a Russian prison. And he's for years, and they're beating him up. I forgot a story, but I know where we're talking about. They're uh basically starving him, and then one day for his meal, they just shove something through the little jail cell hole, and he he grabs it, he's ravenous, he's hungry. He looks down into this thing, and it's a soup of some kind that's got like an eyeball floating in it or whatever. And I look at Nick like, ooh, gross. And Nick, just as calm as day, just looks at me and says, I'm not really a soup guy. Now I need to know. Was that a joke, or were you looking at that and go, yeah, I don't know. I just I don't know, I don't really like soup. Soup. Let alone the fact that it's got eyeballs floating in it.
SPEAKER_00You know, I was putting myself in his shoes, and I thought, how can they make this situation worse for me? I'm in this jail cell, they're starving me to death. Here's how give me soup soup. The fact that the soup, what if it was a nice mulligatani? So maybe like a nice tofu steak. Yeah. I don't know, like, like what would I expect to slide through that? Exactly. I was thought I could just see Nick in that situation. He's like, he pushes it back. Oh, no, thanks. I'm sorry. Do you have something that's uh made like a pork chop?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I I didn't order the soup. I have the salad. I'm just gonna go ahead and skip to the main course. He loved that when he I just I'm not much of a soup guy. I'm not much of a soup guy. Nobody's a soup guy in that situation. Don't give me eyeball soup and then think, yeah, I'm a soup guy. I think you're probably grateful for the soup. I'm a soup guy.
SPEAKER_01I mean he's like, I'm gonna soup soup.
SPEAKER_00I think at that point he's just like, I'm a food guy. I'm a food guy.
SPEAKER_02I'm hungry. Turns out I'm a soup guy. Mick says I'm not much of a soup guy. I think you might be in that situation.
SPEAKER_00We are getting soft. We're getting soft.
SPEAKER_02I mean, yeah. And some of the stuff you went through on the dairy farm, you'd be a soup guy in that situation.
SPEAKER_00Any guy would be an anything guy. Yeah, not in that much of a soup guy. Yeah, that's why, you know, they wouldn't claim me. My parents, you know. Oh, come on now. He's turned soft and he's gone soft on us. He lives in the city Providence. Again, this is like we're all small town, but we've all uh but we'll never forget our roots. Also, our roots. Oh, yeah. Right before. That's who makes us who we are, right?
SPEAKER_02Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well, let's wrap this one up, folks. Nick, we sincerely appreciate you being here. This has got to be a more regular thing. How about this? Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_00Maybe one of these times we'll have to do like an in-the-field correspondent. Maybe we could take a trip. I know that your dad's not running the dairy farm anymore, but maybe we could just go to a dairy farm. You think we should let him know we're coming? Show up. We're just wandering around.
SPEAKER_02Don't worry, we're here with a dairy farmer. We got a dairy farmer. We got a dairy farmer in our fine. Thanks again, folks, for listening to another episode of the Small Towns Podcast. We're pretty sure we've changed your life for the better. If not, well, we'll try again next time.