Valuetainment - March 25, 2026


“Farmers Do God’s Work” - Farmers POWER America By Feeding The Nation


Episode Stats

Length

17 minutes

Words per Minute

188.56126

Word Count

3,287

Sentence Count

133

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

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In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the story of a woman who turned down a $26 million offer from a data center company to buy her land. I also talk about a story about farmers and why they should stay on their land.

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00:00:30.000 All right, so next story I want to get to.
00:00:33.160 The next story is farmers.
00:00:36.080 This story got me so emotional that I came in on fire yesterday,
00:00:39.600 and I brought Tom in, I brought Paul in, I said, guys,
00:00:42.380 I want to share this with you.
00:00:43.460 Rob, do you have that clip of the farmers?
00:00:46.240 If you go to my Twitter account, okay, if you go to my Twitter account,
00:00:50.380 here's what you'll find.
00:00:52.700 Keep going, keep going, it's like right there, that video.
00:00:55.480 So check this out.
00:00:56.300 Imagine you own a farm that's been passed to you from your family, and a family that passed it to you, bless you, grandparents passed down to you, that farm is roughly $6,000 an acre, which would be a total of $2.6 million.
00:01:14.360 And a data center company comes in and offers you 10 times the amount.
00:01:20.340 What do you mean?
00:01:21.420 Not $2.6 million.
00:01:23.220 We'll pay you $26 million.
00:01:24.660 dollars, what would you do? Here's what this lady did when they got the $26 million offer.
00:01:30.900 Go for it, Rob. If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation.
00:01:35.340 $26 million doesn't mean anything. Some people might find it hard to understand how Delcia
00:01:40.480 Bear can turn away a $26 million offer to buy some of her land until you spend a little time
00:01:46.740 with her walking the dirt road she grew up on and in the house her daddy built. My grandfather and
00:01:52.360 great-grandfather and a whole bunch of family has all lived here for years, paid taxes on it,
00:01:58.320 fed a nation off of it, even raised wheat through the Depression and kept the bread lines up in the
00:02:05.020 United States of America when people didn't have anything else. Del Sia is one of dozens of
00:02:10.000 landowners approached by an anonymous buyer, one of the major players in artificial intelligence,
00:02:15.540 likely Google or Meta or Amazon, to purchase their land.
00:02:20.480 The market value for land in Mason County is about $6,000 an acre.
00:02:25.540 The realtor that came to her door last April offered her and her mother about 10 times that.
00:02:31.720 They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we're not.
00:02:35.600 We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing,
00:02:39.380 and we don't have any water and poison, we know we've had it.
00:02:43.900 Delcia's mom Ida Huddleston is now 82 years old she says she does not need the
00:02:49.780 money or the hassle she was born on this land and she plans to die here and she
00:02:55.180 certainly does not trust the promises made by the AI companies or the people
00:02:59.660 who want them to build here so what do you say to the people who are in town
00:03:04.960 that say hey this is gonna bring jobs this is going to bring economic
00:03:09.220 prosperity. I say they're a liar and the truth ain't in them is what I say. It's a scam. For
00:03:15.940 Delcia, scam or not, she says she's connected to her home like Scarlett O'Hara was in Gone with
00:03:22.560 the Wind. As long as she was attached to that land, her spirit never would die. That's the
00:03:28.960 exact same thing for me right here. As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me,
00:03:35.340 As long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land.
00:03:40.900 Isn't that amazing?
00:03:41.820 That's cool.
00:03:42.360 Isn't that amazing?
00:03:43.100 Isn't that kind of emotional, right, when you watch it?
00:03:45.240 Wow.
00:03:45.640 Right?
00:03:46.080 You know, I watched this multiple times, and it reminded me of something.
00:03:51.300 You know, back in the days, there was a Paul Harvey, okay?
00:03:55.120 And Paul Harvey told a story one time about the farmer.
00:03:59.280 Rob, I sent it to you.
00:04:00.680 This is one of the most, I don't know why,
00:04:03.160 it's one of the most emotional videos you'll listen to on how it ends right i brought tom in
00:04:09.300 tom and i are literally sitting in my office and tom is asking himself why the hell is pat
00:04:13.080 showing me a video of farming are we about to go into the farm business are we going to turn our
00:04:17.460 you know 11 acre property into a farm are we now all of a sudden going to see cows and stuff like
00:04:21.160 that and animals i mean i'm sure vinnie would like the animals are we going to do that i said no just
00:04:24.980 watch this video to the end because i i have some thoughts i'm thinking about something watch this
00:04:29.720 message, this sermon from Paul Harvey decades ago on farmers. Go ahead, Rob.
00:04:36.440 And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, I need a caretaker.
00:04:47.380 So God made a farmer.
00:04:51.280 God said, I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields,
00:04:55.820 milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school
00:05:00.000 board. So God made a farmer. I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle a calf and yet
00:05:05.680 gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery,
00:05:10.880 come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies, then tell
00:05:15.520 the ladies to be sure and come back real soon and mean it. So God made a farmer. God said I need
00:05:21.420 somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die and dry his eyes
00:05:28.040 and say maybe next year. I need somebody who can shape an axe handle from a persimmon sprout,
00:05:34.260 shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of hay wire feed sacks and shoe scraps,
00:05:39.940 who planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then paint
00:05:44.340 in from tractor back, put in another 72 hours. So God made a farmer.
00:05:47.820 god had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead
00:05:55.500 of the rain clouds and yet stop in midfield and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a
00:05:59.840 neighbor's place so god made a farmer god said i need somebody strong enough to clear trees and
00:06:07.980 heave bales yet gentle enough to yeen lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets who
00:06:13.360 will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody
00:06:18.440 who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and rake and
00:06:23.860 disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and
00:06:28.440 finish a hard week's work with a five-mile drive to church. Somebody who'd bale a family together
00:06:35.320 with a soft strong bonds of sharing who would laugh and then sigh and then reply with smiling
00:06:43.960 eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what dad does so god made a farmer
00:06:55.560 wow wow it's not powerful wow is that not amazing
00:07:04.380 that's crazy that not amazing beautiful harvey you know there's something about farmers that's
00:07:13.120 emotional i don't know what it is you know to me i'm convinced god's favorite sport is baseball
00:07:19.000 i think he watches baseball and and a part of baseball for me is when you think about
00:07:24.200 the movie with Kevin Costner.
00:07:26.140 What is it called? The Field of Dreams?
00:07:28.220 Yeah. And they're on that
00:07:30.060 farm and, you know, Shoeless Joe Jackson
00:07:32.340 comes out and every night they're out there
00:07:34.120 and it's like, this can't be real. I'm telling you.
00:07:36.480 People are going to come and they start showing up
00:07:38.240 and just a good old, you know,
00:07:40.840 you and I sit there
00:07:42.140 and we eat the chicken or we eat this and we don't think
00:07:44.280 about, you know, where did the steak come from? Where did the
00:07:46.140 chicken come from? Like,
00:07:47.120 how did they do it? What did they do? It's because of
00:07:50.040 farmers. And the fact
00:07:52.220 that you hear. So there's
00:07:53.980 it's funny because we went from all ai what courtney is doing what anthropics and what claude
00:07:59.960 is doing but to me i would prefer to talk to human beings every single day and not have to talk to
00:08:08.060 these language learning models i prefer team human i prefer people i prefer us going i don't think
00:08:14.460 people realize truly if you work here tom brandon rob guys in the back that are doing their thing
00:08:22.620 Justin, how often do we run podcasts?
00:08:26.260 All day we're running a podcast.
00:08:28.660 It's always like this.
00:08:30.340 We're always talking like this.
00:08:31.760 What do you think about this?
00:08:33.380 What do you think?
00:08:33.760 Well, here's what I would do.
00:08:34.760 And it's constant debate back and forth.
00:08:37.040 You know why?
00:08:38.500 I love human beings, man.
00:08:40.380 I love people.
00:08:42.340 I love it's not even close.
00:08:43.900 All these tools that are out there, we got to use it to be competitive.
00:08:46.940 But at the end of the day, there is something so beautiful about what a farmer does that an AI language learning model will never, ever get my heart the way a farmer gets my heart.
00:09:01.460 Something about it.
00:09:02.740 Something about it.
00:09:04.220 When you see that.
00:09:05.280 Tom, your thoughts.
00:09:07.200 You know, I think that in an age of technology and everything that's out there, you know, it grows up around you and everything that's going on.
00:09:15.920 And sometimes you miss – you can miss the human side of it.
00:09:22.520 And Paul Harvey – I remember listening to Paul Harvey.
00:09:26.280 I was in college, and I would go over and see my grandma like twice a week right around lunchtime just to check on her and say hi.
00:09:40.260 Never mind.
00:09:40.680 She'd made lunch, you know, and I'm a college student.
00:09:43.480 I'm broke.
00:09:44.000 and she'd be listening to news and on am radio in la and paul harvey used to come on at noon
00:09:50.680 on am radio in la and i would hear him in his common sense tone and it was just the human tone
00:09:55.620 and then i see this and i see the images that are put with it and it's and it's like you know
00:10:01.360 have we lost it have we lost that humanness has the anonymity of the internet allowed people to
00:10:07.780 be just so intense with their words that they've lost the human side of it and so when i i see that
00:10:15.240 i just think of the human side and it's like wow you know how much more can we you know you know
00:10:22.260 calibrate you know to the human side you know that's what i love about baseball games i love
00:10:27.940 going to baseball games because you're sitting around a lot of other people well but you're
00:10:32.080 also sitting around other people right and you're forced to sit really close to the other so you
00:10:35.880 meet somebody and you talk to somebody would you rather sit next to other people or courtney
00:10:39.780 can you imagine if like the anthropic is sitting next to you so courtney what's the most likely
00:10:45.940 result that this game is going to end up with this is probably going to end up being a score
00:10:50.320 of four two where the pitcher will have nine strikeouts what a boring conversation can you
00:10:56.360 imagine that no you i want to talk to a human being that's going to make a mistake that's
00:11:00.000 emotional that acts dumb says dumb things at times you know sometimes you get it right you
00:11:05.900 get it like wow that was a great point and you know you want that feeling what COVID did to us
00:11:11.240 was what and what COVID did to us is just tell us no matter the most annoying thing in the world
00:11:19.000 which is a human being is also the thing we love the most yeah we missed it how you doing man
00:11:25.760 remembers like you're hugging you you hugged in a different way it was like a hug like bodybuilder
00:11:29.980 sucks like man how you doing man what's this you're a human being this is cool i'm seeing
00:11:34.280 other people you wanted to go to restaurants there's other people here man this is so great
00:11:38.300 it was a very weird thing but i think as we're going this next direction
00:11:43.060 there was a guy in in uh in uh uh la tom you may remember this guy from the church
00:11:49.900 he was a felon he went to prison for many years and he looked like a felon and he talked like a
00:11:56.600 felon and when i mean like a felon i'm talking tatted up probably on trt juiced up but on fire
00:12:04.940 with jesus okay and just sincere and he came up with a very weird idea here's what his idea was
00:12:12.440 he worked for a junkyard when he got out of prison because nobody would hire him
00:12:16.100 and he made a promise to himself that he's going to build a company that 100 percent of all his
00:12:22.800 hires are what ex-felons ex-cons 100 so he goes he saves the money that he makes working at this
00:12:30.860 junkyard and he buys a junkyard later on and he's got like 100 or something employees they're doing
00:12:36.340 27 28 million a year guess what they are every one of them was a felon and he says look that's
00:12:42.560 i'm i'm team second chances because i understand you know what i think is going to happen i think
00:12:48.400 we're gonna experience that in the future where some companies are like we hire human beings
00:12:53.100 can you imagine it's gonna be like look i know it's not the popular thing to do is 2052
00:12:58.960 or 2048 think about what 2048 is gonna be like we're in 2026 what is 2048 gonna look like you
00:13:05.020 know the woman in the podcast was um said something that i was a lot of what she said
00:13:09.960 obviously struck a chord but the fact that you know food and water you know you take the
00:13:16.700 to take this land for data centers understand the profit motive but where's food and what are
00:13:23.520 going to going to come from if that just continues to get eaten up so i mean she said so god lost
00:13:30.360 this woman i mean she really innocent yeah yeah yeah yeah and you know i don't know how many
00:13:34.840 people could turn down that type of money with that type of belief and conviction you know i think
00:13:39.900 of i think if you know most of us if we're honest that's it's a hard thing to turn down and have
00:13:44.760 that type of of moral compass that this woman has so you know it's it's wonderful to see yeah i
00:13:51.760 inspirational some people would say 26 million is not what it used to be but brandon what do
00:13:55.860 you think about it um yeah i'll say you you converted me a little bit because i the last
00:14:00.620 couple years i was kind of hard on the farmers and i was all team um vertical farming and
00:14:04.460 desalination and whatnot talking about how irrigation is inefficient but uh you're totally
00:14:08.200 right um you know farming is a beautiful thing and it's like it's like it's like church man
00:14:13.640 Going to a good church.
00:14:15.340 Interacting with the world.
00:14:16.620 Oh, man, it's so beautiful, man.
00:14:19.180 If you're a farmer out there, I just want to say thank you.
00:14:22.640 Honestly, thank you.
00:14:24.560 You know how we walk, at least when you go into the airport
00:14:27.300 and you see a man in uniform, what can you say?
00:14:30.260 Thank you for your service.
00:14:31.780 Unfortunately, we don't have a uniform farmer's wear for us to say thank you for your service.
00:14:37.380 But truly, I want to say thank you to you.
00:14:39.960 You're so important for society.
00:14:43.160 You're doing God's work.
00:14:44.920 Can you imagine how important your job?
00:14:46.220 You're doing God's work, and we're all grateful for you.
00:14:50.180 May you have protection to continue doing what you're doing.
00:14:53.580 The legacy left behind you with your father, your grandfather, your grandmother, all of them.
00:15:00.540 Very important.
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