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306: From a Sale Barn Kid to the Auction Block — A Family Legacy To a Career with Brandon Frey · CattleUSA Daily

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  Today on the podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming
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  Brandon Frye on to the podcast. This is another one of our King
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  of the Ring contestants that we are welcoming to Dodge City on
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  May 2nd for the King of the Ring contest.
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  And Brandon is here to share more about his story, his
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  background, his upbringing in the auction business.
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  And Brandon has a really wonderful story about legacy,
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  about resilience, about just how you grow up in a family that
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  this was their family vacation and he grew, grew up in the
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  shadow of his dad's legacy and then continuing to take that
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  into his professional career to these days.
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  Brandon's story is just absolutely wonderful and I'm so
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  excited that we get to bring it to all of you today.
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  For all of you being here and continuing to get the word out
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  about this podcast and share it with more individuals as we
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  continue to grow. Without further ado, let's go
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  ahead and hear from Brandon Fry. Welcome to the Cattle USA Daily
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  podcast. Your go to source for the
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  latest. Livestock markets, industry
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  insights, and the updates shaping agriculture today.
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  I'm your host, Lauren Moylan, a passionate advocate for
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  agriculture, here to keep you informed and connected.
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  Now let's dive into today's episode.
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  Great to be on here with you. I guess a little bit of my
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  story. I was lucky enough to grow up in
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  the sale barn, the livestock marketing business.
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  My parents, Tom and Lisa Fry, moaned and then operated Creston
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  Livestock Auction and in southwest Iowa.
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  And, you know, I had a very successful business there, you
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  know, and, and so you hear, hear a lot of stories from different
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  auctioneers to where they had to, you know, go through the
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  ranks to get their start. And you know, I did too.
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  Dad wasn't just going to, you know, let me slip in there and,
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  and not kind of earn my earn my badge.
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  So you know, how to start where start where everyone else did
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  and, and check in cattle, sort cattle and, and, you know, clean
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  the barn and, and everything else.
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  So, I mean, I was very fortunate because then I, you learn the,
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  the whole aspect of the business that way.
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  You will know what it takes. The late nights loading out
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  cattle know what it takes to, you know, check in cattle, the
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  girls in the office. And I think at the time, I
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  really just want to be up there selling, you know, an
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  auctioneering and and doing what dad does.
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  But now, now looking back, I'm I'm really blessed and then I
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  guess grateful that he did it that way.
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  But they elected to sell that business in 2019 and, and, and I
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  guess takes semi retirement. So with that, we moved out to
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  Colorado and worked for the Cruz family at Centennial Livestock
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  in Fort Collins, Co and which was really cool for me to see.
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  I grew up listening to VHS tapes of cow sales from Centennial
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  Livestock. And it was my dad and Danny Cruz
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  selling And Danny Cruz, he's he's a world champion that that
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  never, never competed. So he's a great auctioneer and
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  so it was really cool to be out there and and learn from him and
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  and listen to that. But the grass isn't this isn't
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  always greener. So need to all all roads lead to
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  home, it seems like. So we moved back to Iowa and I
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  was doing the contract auctioneering for four or five
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  different markets and and Ben Hale from Oklahoma bought
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  Knoxville regional livestock and I was able and blessed to run
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  that forum for a year or so and then go back to contract
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  auctioneering. But you know, the rest is rest
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  is kind of history and got to meet some great people along the
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  way. And it's definitely a who, you
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  know, business and and, you know, people are more likely to
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  take a chance on you if they've seen that you've kind of earned
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  your stripes in the back pens and you've sold here and you've
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  done that. And so I'm definitely very
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  blessed with with the people that I've been able to meet
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  along the way. Yeah.
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  When you look at your life from starting in the back pens,
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  checking in cattle, doing your dues and kind of putting in your
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  time to then stepping onto the auction block, what kind of had
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  that? When did that bug bite you?
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  When did that kind of fire really start for you?
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  And what did that journey look like as well?
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  Just kind of stepping into your career and deciding, yeah, this
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  is this is something I want to do for the rest of my life, I
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  think. Yeah, you know, it was, you
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  know, I've heard, I've heard my dad say this numerous times.
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  It's the only God-given talent I was given.
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  So I guess I better use it. You know, it's definitely, how
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  do you say I was? I, I'm going to say blessed a
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  lot throughout this deal because I really believe that, that, you
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  know, I've been blessed with knowing from a, from a young age
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  what I was going to be doing. And you know, the career, I
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  guess my career path, I didn't really choose.
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  It kind of chose me. It was the only thing I ever
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  knew And and yeah, just kind of took the bull by the horns and
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  ran with it. So.
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  But yeah, no, it, I think it also gives you maybe a little
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  bit more respect and a little bit more understanding of all
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  the, the workers who work out back and, you know, check in the
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  cattle, sort the cattle, bring the cattle up yo you.
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  You have more respect because you've done that job and you
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  know what it entails. There's a lot of times at
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  livestock markets where it can get a little fiery.
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  I mean, if the cattle aren't coming to the ring as fast as
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  you think, if you know, instead of losing your cool, you kind of
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  know them. These boys are doing the best
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  they can. So just kind of bear with them,
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  you know, definitely a lot of respect for everybody in all
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  aspects of the barn. For sure.
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  So when you kind of decided that this is something that you
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  wanted to do with your life and you're starting along that
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  journey, a point in that journey was also your parents deciding
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  to semi retire, like you said, and sell the barn that you grew
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  up in. How did you kind of go about
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  processing that and kind of figuring out what you then
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  wanted to do with the rest of your life after?
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  After that, you know, and, and I guess on your last question too,
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  it was the bug bit me a long time ago.
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  I mean, since I was four or five years old running around the
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  sail barn there in Fort Collins. And, and then I was, I think
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  7:00 or 8:00 when we moved to Iowa.
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  But always having the, the sail barn in the livestock market be,
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  you know, such a huge part, influential part of your life,
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  you get hitting by the bug pretty early.
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  And you know, I guess the transition from working at, at a
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  family owned operation and then going out and, and really, I
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  guess putting, putting everything out into one career
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  choice. You know, I, I just, again, I
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  was blessed to just kind of have opportunities just fall into my
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  lap. My, my oldest brother and his
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  partner Kurt Sporelater, they opened up the doors for me to
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  sell at their markets two or three days a week and and then I
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  was selling at Russell Livestock there in Russell, IA on Mondays
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  and everything just kind of fell into place.
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  It's definitely been a great journey so far.
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  So when you kind of like you got bit by the bug, you started
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  really getting into it and really enjoying it and then you
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  decided to of course take it a step further and start competing
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  with it a little bit to what kind of started that kick for
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  you? Was it a mentor that was like,
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  hey, you need did you get your ass in the ring?
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  Or was it like, oh hey, I think I could have some fun with this.
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  So my dad, Tom Fry, that was kind of our family vacation
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  every year was go to the Livestock Marketing Association,
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  their annual convention and championship.
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  And dad, I think he he did it a little bit in the 80s and 90s.
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  And then I think there's 2000 and fours in Billings, Mt when
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  he jumped back in and he was multiple time top ten in reserve
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  and runner up champion. So, you know, I think it had to
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  be O 4 when the bug really bit me and O 5 went to auctioneer
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  school with my two brothers. So my first time, it's funny, I
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  was talking to one of my good friends, Zach Ballard.
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  He's been in the King of the ring contest before and we kind
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  of grew up together. He we're just talking about the
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  very first contest. You know, we were 18 years old
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  and, and, and thought, you know, we were, we were God's gift
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  auctioneering, but we really weren't very good.
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  First contest I was in was in Montgomery, AL.
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  I was 18 and there's 31 there and I finished 30th I think.
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  So it was a pretty big eye eye opener.
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  You know, you just progress and you get better every year.
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  And the next one was in Ponoka, AB, Canada, and I think I
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  finished 10th, but unfortunately at the time they're only taking
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  the top 8. So, but yeah, I think it was
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  more or less not really, maybe something I felt like I had to
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  do, but something I wanted to do, you know, watching my dad go
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  to the contest and and doing well and just kind of living on
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  his legacy, I guess. Yeah.
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  On that note, a little bit more talk a little bit more about
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  kind of growing up with your dad's legacy and how that has
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  kind of continued to impact your life as an adult now.
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  From deciding that this is something you wanted to do and
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  kind of following in that legacy to now how it continues to show
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  up in your life still today. Sure, absolutely.
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  And it show, I mean, just just talking to you and, and being on
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  here, it's I think you get a lot of different qualities, a lot of
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  different, I don't know from who you look up to a lot of
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  different quirks. Like I know from a young age,
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  since I was knee high to grasshop, I remember, you know,
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  holding stuff up on a rack and, you know, just helping dad and
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  wanted to be like dad. And, and so I guess the vital
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  next step from, you know, just being in shadow everywhere he
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  went was, you know, to start auctioneering and start doing
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  what he does. And, you know, being able to
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  grow up knowing what you're going to do and knowing what you
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  want to do. And, you know, having your your
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  hero as someone you live in the same house with, you know, it
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  was very fortunate upbringing. So it I definitely hit home in a
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  lot of places, but I know my dad's left, you know, such a big
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  legacy. It's kind of and, and a big
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  shadow. I mean, he's, he's 5 foot 18,
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  he's 6 foot 6. So he, he cast a big shadow, But
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  you know, just following him around everyday life decisions.
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  I mean, even from from what boots to pick out, how to shape
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  your head, how to, you know, do a lot of things.
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  It's all stems from, you know what you learn and what you pick
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  up on from you know someone that's been vital part of your
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  life. Yeah, it absolutely does.
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  And I think that as we continue to walk into our adult lives,
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  it's crazy to see, looking back in retrospect, how much our
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  heroes in our lives and those really influential individuals
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  impacted who we are today. Like I always tell people I am
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  who I am because of those people in my life and because of their
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  support and them pushing me and then continuing to challenge me
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  to do new things, which I think was from what I'm hearing was a
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  big theme in your guys's family as well.
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  This was a family endeavor. This is something.
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  You guys all kind of did and continue to enjoy together.
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  Can you just talk a little bit more about that and growing up
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  in that environment? Yeah, so we had, I had two older
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  brothers and a little sister, you know, everything from from
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  the ranching to the sale barn. I mean, we all did together.
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  I mean, Mom was definitely the boss, you know, and then and
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  then dad second tier, But you know, it's definitely it.
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  It is hard to explain to to anybody unless they've they've
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  really been a part of it and really seen it first hand.
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  It's hard to explain. It's you you're born into.
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  I don't really want to say you're employers, but you know
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  you it's it's so that's a great thing.
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  I think everyone should experience here.
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  I wish there there was the ability to, you know, all your
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  answers to all your problems. They're all solved around the
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  dinner table. I mean, it's you know, from from
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  buying the next property or or selling the calves or you know
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  who, who we're going to have sort cattle on on next Wednesday
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  special. It was just all there at the
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  dinner table. So I mean, you couldn't really
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  come home and hang your work at the front door.
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  I mean, your work followed you everywhere.
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  But, you know, definitely a huge blessing and a huge part of, of
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  who I am and, and who I strive to be is because of the family
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  business. And and yeah, it's, it's hard to
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  put in words, Lauren. Yeah, no, I, I understand that.
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  It really is. And I really resonate with the
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  dinner table analogy as well. I it's crazy how many
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  conversations are had or Adam, how many problems are solved,
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  how many business decisions are made or things like that.
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  We were definitely a dinner table family too.
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  And so it's one of those things that really sticks with me too.
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  But when we're talking about your life and going from that
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  and growing up in it and being like, OK, the bugs bit me.
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  This is what I'm doing with my life to where you are right now
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  in your life. Kind of talk about that
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  transition and then just where you are right now in life and
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  what what this world kind of looks like for you and what it
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  continues to mean to you every day.
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  Sure, absolutely. So you know, you're definitely,
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  there's old saying that you know, you, you sit around the
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  table with champions, you'll be the next champion.
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  Or you sit around the table with, with millionaires, you'll
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  be the next millionaire. And that, that's one thing that
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  that I've been blessed enough to, to do is, is surround myself
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  with such great people. Today, I'm, I'm sitting here at
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  Central Plains stockyard, dress all Macy's sleep, you know, just
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  a fantastic family. Russell was he was, he is a
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  vital part. And you know, when I decided to
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  go out and be a contract auctioneer, he, you know, I
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  reached out to him and before long he had me a couple sales.
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  And, you know, it's it's just who he is and who they are, just
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  a testament of of the kind of people we get to meet and this
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  in the livestock marketing world, I mean, all salt of the
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  earth people. And, you know, with that
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  transition into it, it's definitely who, you know, not
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  what you know. But I was just lucky enough
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  that, you know, I, I must have listened to Dad enough that that
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  I knew enough, you know, have these people trust me to do it.
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  And so but yeah, it's definitely, definitely the best
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  decision I ever made. So.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Pretty amazing, Pretty amazing
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  what God can do. Every testament of our lives, I
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  think I can continue to point back and be like, well, that
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  sure as heck was it me. So thank you, big man, for
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  putting your guided hand on that.
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  Yeah, that's right, for sure. So when you're looking at your
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  life right now and being a contract auctioneer and kind of
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  being able to bebop a little bit around the country and do a
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  little bit of this, a little bit of that, what kind of is really
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  standing out to you right now in the world of livestock marketing
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  as far as that goes? You see a lot of country, you
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  see a lot of people, a lot of cows.
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  What's what's kind of your takes right now on what we're seeing
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  in the world? You know, it's it's no better
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  time to be in the cattle business.
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  The record high prices, it's just really good.
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  But on the down side of that, you know, the numbers just
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  aren't there. It's so it's old rule of supply
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  and demand. You know, as long as the demand
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  is there and the supplies as low as it is, you know, we're going
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  to be prosperous. And and you'd go out to the
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  country and you see these Cal calf men and say it's it's about
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  time that they reap the benefit from that.
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  You know, they're driving new pickups or hauling the cows in
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  with new trailers or they're finally getting a return on
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  years and years worth of work that, you know, before now might
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  have just been breaking them even every year or showing a
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  loss or, you know, however their program was, but now it's they
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  can be prosperous. But in order to do that, you
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  know, our, our demand still has to stay high for USA beef, which
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  I think it will. It's the best product in the
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  world. Other countries love it.
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  We love it. There's nothing better, you
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  know, so I think the demand always be there.
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  As long as demand stays there, our supplies where it's at, You
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  know, the cows are definitely not as numerous as they were,
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  you know, even five years ago. So I think it's a really great
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  time for for the cow man. They're prosperous.
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  Everyone just seems happy. It's it's a lot easier to go to
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  a sale and and have people smiling at you and happy go
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  lucky when they get their check. And it's it's really nice to be
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  the hero than it is the the alternative.
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  So it's it's just been great all over up here.
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  You know, we were a little dry as as far as grass, but the good
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  Lord blessed us with precipitation the last week and
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  a half two weeks sunshine. We're greening up and getting
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  ready for a spring run. So we're definitely, definitely
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  blessed. Yes, for sure.
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  I think that especially in your position, instead of getting
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  glares from the audience, you're getting smiles right now.
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  So that's right, it's a good time to be selling, but it's a
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  good time to be an auctioneer too, because you get to have a
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  little bit more joy in your everyday work right now.
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  Makes it a lot easier. Makes it a lot easier, that's
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  for sure. Yeah, it definitely does.
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  Definitely does. So as someone who just sees a
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  lot of the country, sees a lot of the things that are going on,
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  what are kind of your thoughts as we go into spring run as we
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  continue to prep for? Because right now everyone's
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  gearing up for selling fall calves and doing some things
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  like that. So what are your thoughts as we
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  go into the next few months of spring and of summer starting up
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  soon too? Sure, right.
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  I think, I mean, I think it's going to stay good.
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  I've, you know, I, it's good right now, the best we've ever
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  seen and there there's no reason for it not to be good.
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  I'm really excited for the future opportunities and
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  there's, you know, next big run of calves, but Gods, it's just a
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  really, really fun time to be in the in the livestock marketing
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  business. Absolutely.
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  I was talking to someone else and they said it perfectly, like
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  everyone's, everyone's happy right now because typically it's
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  11 subgroup of people are happy and everyone else is pissed off
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  with the world. And right now everyone gets a
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  little piece of the cake. And you know, the Packers are
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  maybe whining a little bit, but they're still making money and
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  they're still doing good because the Packers do still have to
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  make their money at the end of the day for us to make money.
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  But everyone, everyone's winning right now.
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  Now everyone can sit around the dinner table and share a piece
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  of cake. Right now, none of us are trying
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  to go at each other's throats. So.
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  That's right. No, it's a It's a great time to
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  be in it, great time to be alive, that's for sure.
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  Yes, it absolutely, absolutely is.
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  So as we kind of like look to just your career in livestock
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  marketing and things like that, what pieces of advice do you
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  have to other people, whether they're in the livestock
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  marketing industry and they're an auctioneer themselves or
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  aspiring to be 1, or maybe they're just kind of in the
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  industry as well? What pieces of advice do you
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  kind of just want to leave with people as you look back on your
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  career? True, you know, definitely find
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  somebody that's that's you can look to.
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  One thing I was always blessed with was, you know, having my
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  mentor right there in the same house or, you know, same dinner
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  table. Find someone you you really look
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  up to you really. You don't want to be like, you
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  know, and my other one was was Russell sleep.
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  You know, he's helped me out tremendously, you know, with my
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  champ, with, you know, the opportunity to to hone my craft.
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  But find somebody you you really like, you really like to listen
• 19:34
  to, like their personality, you know, and just take bits and
• 19:38
  pieces from from them, take bits and pieces from everybody.
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  But the best word of advice and old auctioneer told me, you
• 19:46
  know, market man Bob Hoskins when I was running the barn at
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  Knoxville, he said just tell the people what you'll do and do
• 19:52
  what you say you'll do and you'll be all right.
• 19:55
  So I think that's you can take that mold that and put it in all
• 19:58
  aspects of life, not just, you know, cattle marketing just that
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  easy. Tell them what you'll do and
• 20:04
  and, and do what you say. So it's.
• 20:07
  Just such a great priest of advice for all aspects of life
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  on that one for sure. Whether you're where, no matter
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  where you're at. Yeah, that's right.
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  That's right. But no, it's, there's so many
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  great people. There's not a, there's not a
• 20:20
  Better Business to be in as far as I'm concerned.
• 20:22
  So anywhere you look there, there's someone that you can
• 20:25
  look up to you, someone you can take, you know, a part of it
• 20:29
  and, and craft it to yourself. But definitely find a mentor,
• 20:33
  find somebody that that is going to make you better.
• 20:36
  You know, you surround yourself with great people, you're going
• 20:38
  to have great outcome. So.
• 20:39
  Yeah, you said it perfectly earlier, of who you're
• 20:42
  surrounding yourself with. A lot of times you hear this of
• 20:45
  you're the average of the five people you spend the most time
• 20:47
  with. And I think that's something
• 20:48
  that's really stuck with me too, of who am I spending my time
• 20:52
  with? Who are my mentors?
• 20:53
  Who are the people that are really pouring into us as
• 20:56
  individuals so that we can continue to be successful in
• 20:59
  whatever aspect of life that is in, whether it be in
• 21:03
  auctioneering, whether it be in producing cattle, whether it be
• 21:06
  in just a professional career within the cattle industry,
• 21:10
  whatever that kind of looks like.
• 21:11
  It's a piece of advice that I think a lot of people can can
• 21:14
  take home to him. Yeah, and that's, you know, that
• 21:17
  May 2nd there in Dodge City is going to be, you know, about a
• 21:21
  dream come true for my get to sit there and share the stage
• 21:24
  with John Corey, Kenny Wilcox, Terry Yelson.
• 21:28
  You know, Terry, I used to used to work with him at Mannheim
• 21:31
  Denver just pre COVID a little bit.
• 21:33
  So but it's still, you know, you get to sell cattle.
• 21:36
  Andrew Sylvester, Justin Dotson, I mean, Chuck Bradley, I mean
• 21:40
  Chase, Chase Thompson, Come on. I mean, how can I get any better
• 21:43
  than that? So you know, you take the best
• 21:45
  in the industry, put them in one spot and you know it's certainly
• 21:50
  count your blessings. At the end of the day, it's it's
• 21:52
  going to be great. It is and we are so excited to
• 21:54
  have you on the auction block, that's for sure.
• 21:56
  I, I've been interviewing all the contestants and having them
• 21:59
  on and share their stories and it just makes me so excited for
• 22:02
  May 2nd to get here already because it means that I get to
• 22:05
  see you guys at work and get to meet all of you in person and do
• 22:08
  all of the things. It's going to be a day to
• 22:10
  remember, that's for darn sure. It'll be fun, yeah, And it'll
• 22:13
  be, it'll be a dream come true for me, that's for sure.
• 22:16
  I love it. Well, Brandon, as we wrap up
• 22:18
  this podcast, is there anything else that you would like to say
• 22:21
  or leave to our listeners? Today, you know, it's just
• 22:25
  blessed to be here. Take, you know, don't take every
• 22:27
  day for granted and you know, just have fun, smile, relax and
• 22:31
  you know, that's all you know what, no one gets out alive.
• 22:34
  So you just will have a little fun.
• 22:35
  Love it. I could not agree more.
• 22:37
  And you know what? If you all see Brandon up on the
• 22:40
  auctioneer block, you better be smiling at him these days
• 22:43
  because it's a good day to be a cattleman and it's a it's a
• 22:47
  great day to be an auctioneer too.
• 22:48
  So, Brandon, thank you So, so much for coming on, for sharing
• 22:51
  a little bit about your story, your thoughts on the cattle
• 22:54
  industry right now, the auction industry, everything else.
• 22:57
  I really appreciate your time today and cannot wait for May
• 23:00
  2nd. To all of our audience members,
• 23:03
  make sure you check out the show notes down below.
• 23:05
  I'm going to have all the information for the King of the
• 23:06
  Ring contest that Brandon's going to be participating in
• 23:09
  along with some other really wonderful people in the coming
• 23:13
  weeks as well. So Brandon, thank you once again
• 23:15
  for coming on today. We really appreciate it here at
• 23:17
  the team. To all of you listeners, we will
• 23:19
  see you all on another episode next time.
• 23:21
  Have a good one y'all.