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AG Squawk with Davis Michaelsen | Cathy Eagan-Spicer | Listen Up Stay Safe · AG Bull

0:09
SPEAKER_03: Day in the grain markets today.
0:11
SPEAKER_03: The livestocks, I mean, did okay, I suppose.
0:15
SPEAKER_03: October WTI crossed over 100 bucks per barrel in equities, cried, Uncle.
0:22
SPEAKER_03: Today's show is about something you probably think won't or can't perhaps even happen to you.
0:30
SPEAKER_03: And I hope you're right.
0:32
SPEAKER_03: I hope it will not.
0:33
SPEAKER_03: And toward that end, we're gonna talk about it.
0:48
SPEAKER_03: From behind the intrepid trapezoidal microphone of Ag Bull South, your pal Davis Michelson here for Ag Squawk.
0:57
SPEAKER_03: Once again coming to you from Nashville, Tennessee Music City.
1:01
SPEAKER_03: I'm up here on the ninth floor at Nesvik Towers in Nashville, Tennessee.
1:06
SPEAKER_03: And about 11 a.m.
1:08
SPEAKER_03: I don't know if you've never been to Nashville, we're kind of down close to close to the strip where all the neon comes on.
1:15
SPEAKER_03: Actually, the neon, I don't know if they ever shut it off.
1:17
SPEAKER_03: I starting at 11 this morning from clear up here in the office.
1:22
SPEAKER_03: I could hear now I have a window, but I could hear the music already starting down on the street.
1:28
SPEAKER_03: It just takes a little break from I don't know what time in the AM till about 11 o'clock in the morning.
1:35
SPEAKER_03: And then it's off to the races once again here in Nashville.
1:39
SPEAKER_03: It's been great to hang out down here for a couple of days.
1:42
SPEAKER_03: I've got one more show tomorrow that I'm looking forward to doing.
1:47
SPEAKER_03: And then it's back to KC, back to the Ultimate Man cave behind the uh big blue bodacious microphone.
1:53
SPEAKER_03: I'm in uh Tommy Grassoffi's chair right now with the intrepid trapezoidal microphone.
1:59
SPEAKER_03: We'll get to the markets.
2:01
SPEAKER_03: I got some good news, bad news stuff here in a moment, but today I want to go a little deeper than just saying don't stick your hand in there.
2:11
SPEAKER_03: As I say, this time of year, don't stick your hand in there.
2:15
SPEAKER_03: You're not fast enough.
2:16
SPEAKER_03: You'll think you're fast enough in that moment, but please think again, you're not fast enough.
2:21
SPEAKER_03: Don't stick your hand in there.
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SPEAKER_03: Safety first.
2:24
SPEAKER_03: Harvest is coming up, and the PTOs will soon be in full swing.
2:30
SPEAKER_03: And let me just say, I just I just typed this up, spill in my guts a little bit to y'all, because I do care about everybody out there.
2:38
SPEAKER_03: Agriculture is a blessed pursuit.
2:41
SPEAKER_03: And if you know, you know it's it's a lifestyle, and many can't imagine doing anything else.
2:47
SPEAKER_03: But things don't always go as planned, and there is an element of danger in a lot of the tasks that farmers and ranchers accept as just part of the territory.
2:58
SPEAKER_03: Today I'll chat with someone with quite a tale to tell about farm safety and the ripples that can run through a family when something goes unexpectedly wrong.
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SPEAKER_03: Please stick around for this one and share with somebody you know, perhaps even somebody you love.
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SPEAKER_03: Share it around, everybody.
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SPEAKER_03: It's uh uh Kathy Egan Spicer from Listen Up and Stay Safe will talk with us about her experience and that of her family when the unexpected happened quite suddenly, as it often does on on the farm, and how she's carried that through the rest of her life and even even off the farm, how it's been an important message to spread around.
3:47
SPEAKER_03: And so please do stick around and like I said, share this with somebody.
3:51
SPEAKER_03: Somebody needs to hear this.
3:53
SPEAKER_03: And I'm just I'm just really glad that you're here for today's program.
3:57
SPEAKER_03: I'd excited to introduce you to Kathy and to walk through her message with you.
4:03
SPEAKER_03: Before we get to the uh the news, and I've got some good news, bad news.
4:07
SPEAKER_03: As I said, we'll start with the bad news, I think.
4:09
SPEAKER_03: I prefer to let's get that out of the way, rip off the band-aid.
4:13
SPEAKER_03: Before we do, let me urge you to take your marketing by the horns with Ag Bull Intel.
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SPEAKER_03: Y'all visit AgBull.com or give us a call at 83 uh 855-737 Farm.
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SPEAKER_03: That's 855-737 Farm.
4:28
SPEAKER_03: What is it?
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SPEAKER_03: The first time I ever said that number?
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SPEAKER_03: 855-737 Farm or get on your www and visit the AgBull.com.
4:35
SPEAKER_03: You won't be disappointed.
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SPEAKER_03: Okay, I'm gonna begin with some notes just ripped right out of Wiesmeyer's commentary this morning.
4:43
SPEAKER_03: Like I said, let's let's go to the bad news first.
4:46
SPEAKER_03: Wiesmeyer wrote, quote, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration has raised its forecast for average U.S.
4:54
SPEAKER_03: retail diesel prices in 2027 to$4.40 a gallon.
5:00
SPEAKER_03: That's up 33 cents from$4.07 previously, extending the prospect of elevated costs for agriculture, logging, and transportation.
5:10
SPEAKER_03: The revision was released yesterday.
5:12
SPEAKER_03: EIA also increased its fourth quarter 2026 diesel forecast to$5.55 from$4.86.
5:21
SPEAKER_03: Brent crude surged over a dollar five as the Iran war threatens to create a prolonged fuel squeeze.
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SPEAKER_03: In response, diesel hit another record high.
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SPEAKER_03: Brent is up more than 40% since the U.S.
5:32
SPEAKER_03: and Israel attacked Iran on February 28.
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SPEAKER_03: The average price of diesel this morning hit$5.98 per gallon.
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SPEAKER_03: That's a record according to AAA.
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SPEAKER_03: Now I'm guessing if this is coming from AAA, that that is the on-highway diesel price.
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SPEAKER_03: So we're looking at, you know, 30, 35 cents lower for your Ruby Red Farm diesel.
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SPEAKER_03: Be that as it may.
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SPEAKER_03: Yikes.
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SPEAKER_03: A record there reported by Triple A on your highway diesel at 598.
6:00
SPEAKER_03: And, you know, just in case you need a cherry on top of the little sadness Sunday there, Trump advisors warned that Iranian war could drag on through the remainder of his term.
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SPEAKER_03: All right, now a little good news.
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SPEAKER_03: A little good news now.
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SPEAKER_03: China purchased approximately 1 million metric tons of U.S.
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SPEAKER_03: soybeans this week for traders told Reuters, providing additional evidence of accelerating business ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's expected Washington visit.
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SPEAKER_03: The purchases bring China's cumulative buying to nearly half the 25 million metric tons annually through 2028.
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SPEAKER_03: That the White House says Beijing has committed to purchase.
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SPEAKER_03: We're getting there.
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SPEAKER_03: We're making progress.
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SPEAKER_03: That report follows USGA Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Ag Affairs Luke Lindbergh's assessment Wednesday that China is, in fact, on track to meet its agricultural commitments.
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SPEAKER_03: All of this thanks to Mr.
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SPEAKER_03: Jim Wiesmeyer, one of the crew over here at Ag Bull, and we're we're glad to have him.
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SPEAKER_03: Let's move on.
7:01
SPEAKER_03: The ethanol numbers.
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SPEAKER_03: Ethanol production did drop 1% below the previous week in the weekended September 4.
7:08
SPEAKER_03: Ethanol stocks gained a little more than a half percentage point, now at a stout 25.187 million barrels.
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SPEAKER_03: Other energy items, U.S.
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SPEAKER_03: crude supplies fell during the report week, but much less than was anticipated.
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SPEAKER_03: Meanwhile, distillate and gasoline supplies well above expectations during the report week, gaining a little bit of ground on the previous week.
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SPEAKER_03: The spate of daily export sales continues.
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SPEAKER_03: Private exporters reported flash sales of 272,000 metric tons of beans to China in the 26-27 marketing year, and 206,500 metric tons of soybeans to unknown destinations.
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SPEAKER_03: That also for 2627.
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SPEAKER_03: And with that, let's get to the tale of the ticker corn and soybeans and wheat.
8:04
SPEAKER_03: We're off to a strong start this morning with soybeans shooting to double-digit gains.
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SPEAKER_03: Livestock futures were higher as well early on, including the lean hogs.
8:13
SPEAKER_03: Rounding into lunch, soybeans were bumping up against 20 cents higher as corn and winter wheat came off session highs.
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SPEAKER_03: Livestocks faltered with lean hogs and some cattle contracts flipping into negative territory.
8:27
SPEAKER_03: Now, before I get to the settlements for this afternoon, let me mention plus 500.
8:31
SPEAKER_03: My squad and I use plus 500 T4 software every single day for real-time quotes, futures and options, and a host of dandy features that you may just enjoy as well.
8:43
SPEAKER_03: Look to plus 500, that's plus 500.
8:46
SPEAKER_03: And now as I look to plus 500, I've got December corn futures settling out today at 533 and three quarters up six cents.
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SPEAKER_03: Novi beans holding on to that 13 handle, and I like it a lot.
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SPEAKER_03: 1332 and a quarter.
9:01
SPEAKER_03: Get this up 22 and 3 quarter cents.
9:04
SPEAKER_03: I think that goes back to that news about uh China maintaining its its commitments to buy uh soybeans here.
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SPEAKER_03: Soybean meal and soybean oil, both uh moderately higher, I'm gonna call it.
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SPEAKER_03: They kind of moved up in kind along with with the soybeans.
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SPEAKER_03: Over to the winter wheats, your December Chicago wheat at 741 and a quarter, up 12 and one half cents.
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SPEAKER_03: Kansas City wheat, eight dollars eighteen cents and three quarters, up twelve and a half.
9:31
SPEAKER_03: That's your December Kansas City wheat.
9:34
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna go over to the livestock now, where your October feeder cattle ended$172.5 higher at$327.55.
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SPEAKER_03: Your December fat cattle$219.60.
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SPEAKER_03: That's uh a buck$12.5 higher on the day.
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SPEAKER_03: The October contract$217.82 and a half at settlement.
9:53
SPEAKER_03: That's a dollar ninety-seven and a half higher, just a shade under two bucks higher on the day.
9:58
SPEAKER_03: And over to the lean hogs.
10:00
SPEAKER_03: All right, I know what the screen says here.
10:01
SPEAKER_03: It says up seven and a half cents.
10:04
SPEAKER_03: The October contract indeed was up seven and a half cents at 83.15.
10:09
SPEAKER_03: But you're starting with with the December contract, you're lower, headed out into the deferred 25 cents lower in the December, looking out all the way to the May 27.
10:20
SPEAKER_03: We're a dime lower.
10:21
SPEAKER_03: That one settled out at 86 and 25 for today.
10:28
SPEAKER_03: All right, with that, it it gives me great joy, and I want you to stick around and and hear the conversation here.
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SPEAKER_03: It is vitally important.
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SPEAKER_03: It it may save a life.
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SPEAKER_03: So, without without further ado, let me bring in Kathy Egan Spicer from Listen Up Stay Safe.
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SPEAKER_03: Kathy, welcome to Ag Squawk.
10:48
SPEAKER_03: We're really glad to have you today.
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SPEAKER_03: I appreciate you coming with us, and and you know, you're fixing to share your story.
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SPEAKER_03: I know it's not an easy story to tell, so I I appreciate your boldness, your your heart for getting the message out.
10:59
SPEAKER_03: How are you today?
11:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm good, Davis.
11:01
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
11:02
SPEAKER_00: How are you?
11:03
SPEAKER_03: I'm really, really good.
11:05
SPEAKER_03: Let's start here because this is fresh news for you.
11:08
SPEAKER_03: Listen up, stay safe.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm already off script, by the way.
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SPEAKER_03: Listenupstaysafe.com.
11:13
SPEAKER_03: Listenupstaysafe.com.
11:16
SPEAKER_03: Tell us what that is.
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SPEAKER_03: What do we find there?
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SPEAKER_03: What gives?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, first of all, I want to thank you for having me here today and sharing our story with your listeners.
11:28
SPEAKER_00: You mentioned something about a script.
11:31
SPEAKER_00: If you have a script, I did not get that memo.
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SPEAKER_00: So could you send me that script?
11:37
SPEAKER_00: More of a list quickly.
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SPEAKER_03: More of a list than a script, really.
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SPEAKER_03: And I'm already off of it.
11:41
SPEAKER_03: We'll get back to it.
11:42
SPEAKER_03: We'll get right back on it right after this.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway, thank you again for having me here today.
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SPEAKER_00: Davis, I sincerely appreciate it.
11:52
SPEAKER_03: You bet.
11:53
SPEAKER_03: You bet.
11:54
SPEAKER_03: You you do uh some public speaking, you've got a documentary going.
11:57
SPEAKER_03: We'll talk more about that.
11:59
SPEAKER_03: But listenupstaysafe.com is where you can find more about Kathy.
12:05
SPEAKER_03: Let's uh, you know, rewind us all the way back to the beginning.
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SPEAKER_03: Northern North Dakota.
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SPEAKER_03: There was a farm up there.
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SPEAKER_03: You were a little girl hopping through the flowers, I imagine, riding your bikes, doing all that sort of stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: Tell me about the tell me about the home farm back in the day.
12:24
SPEAKER_00: Oh, sure.
12:25
SPEAKER_00: Well, it's a favorite spot of mine uh growing up.
12:29
SPEAKER_00: It was on the Canadian border, or it is on the Canadian border.
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SPEAKER_00: The community is Wahhalla, North Dakota.
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SPEAKER_00: Our farm is actually situated in Leroy, North Dakota, about six miles east of Walhalla, about two miles south of the Canadian border.
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SPEAKER_00: Beautiful place.
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SPEAKER_00: It's called Valley of the Gods, actually.
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SPEAKER_00: So we had downhill skiing, snowmobiling, golf all four seasons, and a beautiful place to grow up.
13:00
SPEAKER_00: My parents farmed, they farmed sugar beets, certified seed potatoes, grains, beans, and we actually lived in town in Wahalla.
13:13
SPEAKER_00: There was no home on the farm.
13:15
SPEAKER_00: Uh so my dad or all of us would drive out to the farm to work on the farm.
13:19
SPEAKER_00: Like I mentioned, it was about six miles out.
13:23
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, so we used to ride our bikes across the Canadian border, no passport needed at the time.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: So there's my age thing out there, right?
13:34
SPEAKER_03: Well, and it and it sounds sort of like the place that maybe Julie Andrews every once in a while came kind of spinning through.
13:40
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I think she did.
13:41
SPEAKER_00: She's cruising through.
13:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
13:45
SPEAKER_03: Well, you must have uh you must have done well through your career and retired early.
13:51
SPEAKER_03: I can't believe that you would be retired already.
13:53
SPEAKER_03: But right, you when when you grew up as an adult, left the farm as an adult to pursue to pursue your career elsewhere, but you carried the importance of farm safety into the non-farm world.
14:10
SPEAKER_03: So when when you grew up, tell us what you did.
14:13
SPEAKER_03: What were you up to as a as a career woman?
14:17
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
14:18
SPEAKER_00: So I graduated from Wahala, uh, went off to college at the University of North Dakota, received my bachelor's degree, business degree, and then uh went on to receive my MBA in business.
14:30
SPEAKER_00: And while I was in school, I was thinking of a sophomore in college and working in Grand Forks full-time when my father had his farm accident.
14:43
SPEAKER_00: And even I guess I I really don't like the term accident because it was a choice, right?
14:52
SPEAKER_00: Safety is a choice.
14:54
SPEAKER_00: A PTO, power takeoff was involved.
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SPEAKER_00: It was my father's choice not to have the cards on, and it was very detrimental to him and to our family and to the community.
15:08
SPEAKER_00: And it it carries a weight through you, you're like, you know, life's life changes in an instant.
15:15
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
15:15
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
15:16
SPEAKER_00: So that was in 1982 when that transpired.
15:20
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
15:21
SPEAKER_03: And then flash forward to your career in packaging.
15:26
SPEAKER_03: I think I have in my notes here, packaging sales was your uh was was your specialty, and you were to give a talk or something, and you found out people don't want to hear about safety.
15:37
SPEAKER_03: Not not on the farm, not not in the warehouse, not anywhere, apparently.
15:42
SPEAKER_03: Was that your impression?
15:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it kind of safety kind of evolved over the years.
15:47
SPEAKER_00: I saw it.
15:48
SPEAKER_00: And it back in my early career days, you never really heard about it.
15:53
SPEAKER_00: I mean, everybody says drive safe, you know, watch out for the deer, or you know, little comments like that.
15:59
SPEAKER_00: But it wasn't incorporated in all of the businesses like it is today, which is so fortunate that we do have that evolving.
16:09
SPEAKER_00: So in my career path, it was rather late in my career path.
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SPEAKER_00: I was attending a production meeting for safety.
16:19
SPEAKER_00: And I, as a sales manager, I was responsible for a sales team.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I would go to the safety meetings and the production ones and hear about the updates on the plant floors or updates and safety, because not only would myself and our sales team be on the plant floors, our plant floors, but we would also be on our customers' facilities.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of moving madness, and everyone, you know, was incorporating safety.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: But one of the gentlemen that I knew at the safety meeting, he's he just happened to make a comment to me and ask me why do I go to these safety meetings all the time and they're for production.
17:04
SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, this calm Joe, let's say.
17:08
SPEAKER_00: I said, Joe, you know, I take these messages and bring them forward to our sales team.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: They're on the road, they're traveling, they're in facilities that have a lot of moving madness, heavy operating equipment, moving equipment, forklifts, you know, 53-foot trailers, production equipment.
17:29
SPEAKER_00: So I share what I learned here today at our next sales meeting.
17:32
SPEAKER_00: And he goes, He made the comment and it just really opened my eyes, Davis.
17:40
SPEAKER_00: He said, Safety, safety, safety.
17:43
SPEAKER_00: That's all we hear about.
17:45
SPEAKER_00: And he kind of did it in a coy attitude.
17:49
SPEAKER_00: And it just stopped me.
17:51
SPEAKER_00: And I looked at him and I said, These messages are extremely important.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: These processes.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: You know, I said, I know sometimes maybe the ladder safety that was on a video from 1975 or something looks a little age, but it's the same message and it's important.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: And so I felt like complacency had set in.
18:19
SPEAKER_00: So then, you know, the meeting started and on with the presentation.
18:23
SPEAKER_00: I can't even remember what the presentation was about, uh the safety presentation going back now, thinking about it.
18:31
SPEAKER_00: Because I really honestly Davis don't think I was listening to it because I was looking around the room because I was startled about are we complacent?
18:43
SPEAKER_00: Is are these messages getting old?
18:45
SPEAKER_00: Are people actually listening?
18:47
SPEAKER_00: And I look around and there's a you know, there's a c there's a hundred and maybe twenty people there, and you know, a few of them have their hoodie up.
18:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm behind them, I can't really tell if they're sleeping or you know, if they're paying attention.
19:00
SPEAKER_00: And I I was kind of devastated a little bit personally.
19:06
SPEAKER_00: And I thought, I left, I left that meeting and it disturbed me.
19:13
SPEAKER_00: And when I was driving back to North Dakota, I'm I thought, wow, I don't think people realize what I don't think they realize.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: If you make if you make a choice in safety, what really happens when it happens to you?
19:30
SPEAKER_00: It's like a tsunami hits you.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: Uh there's this I think you said earlier, and I think it says it well, this ripple that you absolutely have no idea is coming your way.
19:43
SPEAKER_00: And and my dad's accident, again, call it accident.
19:48
SPEAKER_00: My dad made the choice.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: The accident per se did not happen to me personally, but it does happen to you personally.
19:58
SPEAKER_00: You know, so that's kind of that kind of brought me to the forefront.
20:04
SPEAKER_00: My at this time, my dad had passed away in 2014.
20:09
SPEAKER_00: So I couldn't go to him and ask him to tell his story, which he would have done because over the years he was asked to speak, and he did speak at rehabilitation and a few farm egg week activities or events.
20:25
SPEAKER_00: But my mom was living and I thought we should tell this story.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: But I didn't want to tell it unless I had my mom's blessing because it really was my mom and dad's story.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: That that was their day in and day out livelihood and everything.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: So I went home the next weekend and I engaged one of my brothers, my brother Jim, and he and I talked to my mom.
20:50
SPEAKER_00: I I told him my idea, and you know, he was all for it.
20:55
SPEAKER_00: And and I said, I want mom's blessing.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: And I want I have four older siblings.
20:58
SPEAKER_00: I have two older sisters and two older brothers.
21:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm the youngest of five.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: So I wanted to make sure that the the family was okay with this because then it turns into not only dad and mom and dad, but then it's our family.
21:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: And it trickles down now to grandchildren.
21:16
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:16
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, so I mentioned it to my mom and I said, I'd like to do a professional documentary, and I think we need to tell our story because I said it it's a farm related story, but it doesn't just relate to farm life.
21:36
SPEAKER_00: It's it's really about your safety decisions and just paying attention and not being distracted and following the rules or the processes.
21:48
SPEAKER_00: They're in place for a reason.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: So I mentioned it to her and she liked the idea, but then when I told her I would she would need to be on camera and tell part of her story or any parts that she wished, then she didn't like the idea so much either.
22:08
SPEAKER_00: I I I really don't blame her.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: She was 80 some years old, right?
22:12
SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
22:13
SPEAKER_03: Well, and I I gotta throw you some props.
22:16
SPEAKER_03: Our our viewers don't know this, and they would never know by by watching our discussion so far.
22:21
SPEAKER_03: But is is I think you told me this is the first podcast that that you've ever done.
22:26
SPEAKER_03: Is that right?
22:27
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
22:27
SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
22:28
SPEAKER_03: Well, you're doing a terrific job.
22:29
SPEAKER_03: You're doing a terrific.
22:36
SPEAKER_03: I might be asking you to speculate or maybe asking you, I do this all the time in the show.
22:42
SPEAKER_03: I might be asking you a question that you just don't want to answer.
22:45
SPEAKER_03: And you know, you can just say the code word will be lasagna if you don't want to answer.
22:50
SPEAKER_03: Okay, just mention lasagna and we'll move on.
22:53
SPEAKER_03: But I I wonder if in thinking about it, I almost feel like there are some, especially among the guys, dudes.
23:03
SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry, I'm gonna call you out that feel like, oh, safety is for wimps.
23:08
SPEAKER_03: Oh, don't be, you know, such a worry ward.
23:11
SPEAKER_03: What are you so worried about?
23:12
SPEAKER_03: Don't uh, you know, guys, this is machismo kind of guys want to be a tough guy, we can handle it, we can take it.
23:20
SPEAKER_03: But when a dude has an accident, it doesn't just affect that dude, right?
23:24
SPEAKER_03: Am I am I speaking completely out of school here?
23:27
SPEAKER_03: Or would you agree that there's an element, some who would say safety's for wimps?
23:33
SPEAKER_00: Nope, safety is not for wimps, right?
23:36
SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, if you're taking safety serious, you have you are a a shining star in my book, because that means you know how valuable you are personally to a whole circumference of people around you.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's not just your workforce, it's not uh it's your family, it's maybe if you don't have any family, you have a dog.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: A dog relies on you.
24:06
SPEAKER_00: It's your friends, it's it's everything.
24:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
24:11
SPEAKER_00: So no, I don't, I don't I don't think anyone should take it lightly.
24:17
SPEAKER_00: And if you are one of those that, you know, macho and you don't have to worry about it, or the reverse, it's not no safety, safety is definitely for everyone.
24:27
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
24:28
SPEAKER_03: Well said, well said, and an interesting thing that you brought up too, as safety, kind of an expression of of self-worth.
24:37
SPEAKER_03: You know, we were given one body in this life, and it's it's worth trying to preserve as best we can.
24:44
SPEAKER_03: I hurt myself enough, even when taking safety precautions, Kathy.
24:48
SPEAKER_03: It's absolutely true.
24:50
SPEAKER_03: Most of my injuries that I've ever experienced have been self-inflicted somehow.
24:55
SPEAKER_03: Let's let's get on to the difficult part because we we need to talk about the nuts and bolts of of what happened here.
25:03
SPEAKER_03: We've kind of danced around it a little bit, but Kathy, if you don't mind, you can go as as deep or as shallow as you want to in this part.
25:11
SPEAKER_03: But what what happened?
25:13
SPEAKER_03: What happened?
25:15
SPEAKER_00: Well, after I talked to my mom and she gave the green light, her words were if our story can help one family, Kathy, not have to go through what we went through.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: Let's I think we should do it.
25:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: So what happened was from that point on, and and just kind of reliving it, and which the documentary brings into play.
25:41
SPEAKER_00: My dad was 57 at the time of his accident.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: It was October 20th.
25:46
SPEAKER_00: He went out to check grain.
25:48
SPEAKER_00: He was drying grain and it had rained a little bit, and he had the power takeoff going.
25:54
SPEAKER_00: And the power takeoff, you know, the tracker runs it and it runs another piece of equipment, generates electricity.
26:01
SPEAKER_00: And that power takeoff has like, I don't know, 600 to a thousand evolutions or uh like a minute, right?
26:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: And so it's a very dangerous piece of equipment.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: Uh, there are safety guards for it.
26:17
SPEAKER_00: My dad stepped down from the ladder of the bin and his foot slipped.
26:24
SPEAKER_00: It was kind of muddy, like I mentioned, it was wet.
26:26
SPEAKER_00: We were harvesting beads, you know, mid-October, October 20th, 1982, and his foot slipped, and he got caught in a power takeoff.
26:36
SPEAKER_00: It grabbed his clothes, his jacket is what they determined, spun him around, and he was very fortunate.
26:44
SPEAKER_00: Doesn't sound very fortunate, but he was very fortunate.
26:47
SPEAKER_00: It spit him out and threw him onto the ground, tore all of his clothes off, mangled him up.
26:55
SPEAKER_00: The doctors told us throughout his recovery that the reason why he several told us he should not, this man should not be here.
27:04
SPEAKER_00: He should not be alive.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: He was he's a he was 100% Irish Irishman, so very stubborn, obviously.
27:12
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm sure that helped a lot.
27:14
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure it did.
27:15
SPEAKER_00: But one thing that they mentioned several times as well, he had his farm work clothes on and they were not new.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: They were older, and the threads were older.
27:24
SPEAKER_00: So they felt that those threads probably helped save his life by uh pulling apart, and so that that clothing got wrapped up more in the power takeoff, and the power takeoff spit him out and kept the clothes.
27:42
SPEAKER_00: So off to the races.
27:45
SPEAKER_00: We didn't live on the farm, so it was just very fortunate one of the young men working with my dad on the farm.
27:54
SPEAKER_00: My two brothers were farming as well, they were in their early 30s.
27:58
SPEAKER_00: Someone pulled into the yard and found my dad.
28:02
SPEAKER_00: And so way to the races and to Grand Forks, North Dakota, to the hospital.
28:10
SPEAKER_00: And it was a very, very difficult situation.
28:16
SPEAKER_03: Let me uh let me let me just push the pause button there for one moment because I know a lot of folks do wind up spending some time.
28:25
SPEAKER_03: Uh farming can be a very isolating sort of a thing at certain points.
28:29
SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm just gonna run over to the farm quick and you know, do this, do this quick thing.
28:34
SPEAKER_03: You know, we're we're in the days of of cell phones now.
28:38
SPEAKER_03: There are my wife and I watch a lot of Seinfeld, and she makes a comment often about how they get into these weird little jams and how it just could have been fixed if someone had just had a cell phone.
28:51
SPEAKER_03: I'm a big proponent for if you have to go off and do something by yourself, keep your cell phone in your pocket.
29:00
SPEAKER_03: Don't leave it on the you know, the dash of the truck, don't leave it in the little toolbox on the on the combine of the tractor or or whatever.
29:08
SPEAKER_03: Keep that puppy on you as as best you can.
29:12
SPEAKER_03: Because it sounds like from what you were describing there, that somebody sort of just happened to come pulling up at just just the right time.
29:19
SPEAKER_03: Otherwise, it might have been a different outcome.
29:21
SPEAKER_03: Did I hear that right?
29:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes, totally.
29:24
SPEAKER_00: That's Davis, that's such a good point.
29:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, people feel like cell phones are used too much nowadays and you don't have to carry it with you all the time.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: In in these environments where you're working by yourself, you definitely need to have a cell phone on you.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: He didn't have a cell phone, obviously, probably wouldn't have been able to call anyway.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, the uh the gentleman that found him, he didn't have a phone.
29:51
SPEAKER_00: My dad had a phone in his pickup, one of those bag phones back in the day.
29:56
SPEAKER_02: Oh, sure, sure.
29:57
SPEAKER_00: And they had the best reception, especially in happening rural North Dakota.
30:03
SPEAKER_00: So Peter went to my dad's pickup and called my brother.
30:09
SPEAKER_00: And my brother thankfully had a big phone as well.
30:13
SPEAKER_00: And so that's how they were able to, you know, engage assistants and get the ambulance on its way.
30:23
SPEAKER_03: And yeah.
30:25
SPEAKER_03: Well, that's and that's where if we're talking about ripples coming out from an event, this is where the the pebble hit the water because this was okay, okay.
30:37
SPEAKER_03: He he survived, thank God, but this was by no means a a short recovery, was it?
30:44
SPEAKER_00: No, it was not.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: He spent about two days in Grand Forks.
30:49
SPEAKER_00: They amputy like amputated his right leg in Grand Forks because of gas gang green, had set in.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: And that's another thing, too, and egg and forestry, and you know, you have all these chemicals, you know, you're in the dirt.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: The gas gang green, they were hoping that they could amputate the leg far enough where they got all the gas gang green, but they did not.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: So they told us the only way, probably within 24 to 48 hours, dad would die of the gas gangrene because it's fast spreading and will go to your heart.
31:29
SPEAKER_00: But that there was in Minneapolis a hyperbaric chamber that will actually 100% oxygen will actually kill gas gangrene and stop it.
31:42
SPEAKER_00: So then that's what we did.
31:44
SPEAKER_00: And off uh he went by air ambulance, and the air ambulances back then were not what they are today.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like cell phones, it's like anything, all the technology, it's like farm equipment, right?
31:57
SPEAKER_00: Right.
31:58
SPEAKER_00: And uh so he went uh he went to Hennepin County and the hyperbaric chamber helped and they stopped the gas gangrene, and then they he was hospitalized just short of two months down there in isolated ICU.
32:16
SPEAKER_00: They put him into an induced coma so that they could work on all the other injuries.
32:24
SPEAKER_00: So my dad ended up, he lost his right leg, badly dumb damaged his left leg, which eventually later had to be amputated, like about 10 years later, uh dislocated his left shoulder, all underneath his left arm was all skin graft.
32:45
SPEAKER_00: He his his injuries were extensive, and the only limb that he had for 100% use of the same after the accident as prior to the accident was his right arm.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: So then Hannah Pen had indicated.
33:07
SPEAKER_03: I gotta know, was he right-handed at least?
33:09
SPEAKER_00: Yes, thank goodness.
33:10
SPEAKER_03: Okay, good, all right, good.
33:12
SPEAKER_03: The iron blessing in disguise.
33:15
SPEAKER_03: Yes, absolutely.
33:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so then it was off to rehab.
33:18
SPEAKER_00: They gave us two choices.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: It was off to rehab.
33:23
SPEAKER_00: At the time it was United in Grand Forks's the rehabilitation hospital united.
33:29
SPEAKER_00: And so they said for his extensive injuries and the type of injuries that he had, they recommended a rehabilitation, two top ones in the United States, one in Florida and one in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
33:45
SPEAKER_00: And we're like, wow, that's 100 miles away.
33:48
SPEAKER_01: What are the odds?
33:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
33:50
SPEAKER_00: So off he went to there.
33:52
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, you mentioned timing.
33:55
SPEAKER_00: My dad, our dad, he was three days short of a year hospitalized from the time the accident happened through his rehabilitation until he his goal when he got to the rehab when they asked him was to walk again and walk out those sliding glass doors and get my pickup.
34:16
SPEAKER_00: And I'm going back to the farm, is what he told him.
34:19
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
34:20
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
34:20
SPEAKER_00: And so that's what he did.
34:22
SPEAKER_00: Three days short of a year in hospitalization.
34:26
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna see if I can pull up a picture here.
34:29
SPEAKER_03: And maybe there we go.
34:31
SPEAKER_03: There we go.
34:32
SPEAKER_03: So this must have been post incident, right?
34:37
SPEAKER_03: And this is this is one of your lovely children.
34:39
SPEAKER_03: Is that right?
34:40
SPEAKER_00: That is.
34:41
SPEAKER_00: That's our daughter Ellie.
34:43
SPEAKER_00: So she's with Grandpa Tad.
34:45
SPEAKER_00: So my dad was probably, I suppose, 70, early, probably 74, 75, there.
34:57
SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay.
34:58
SPEAKER_00: And yes, that was post, and she's getting a little ride in the combine with grandpa Ted.
35:04
SPEAKER_03: Here she is guarding over the uh lunchbox, which is an important job on the farm, too, by the way.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: That's actually our son Tim.
35:11
SPEAKER_03: Oh, Tim, okay.
35:12
SPEAKER_00: I thought I saw he definitely would be the one, although Ellie doesn't share food.
35:19
SPEAKER_00: Kind of like Joey on Friends.
35:22
SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
35:23
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
35:24
SPEAKER_00: Tim would definitely uh be guarding over the grandpa's lunchbox for sure.
35:29
SPEAKER_00: So there's he knows grandma Ginny made the lunch and her lunches were the best.
35:35
SPEAKER_03: I've uh I've talked about those combine lunches.
35:38
SPEAKER_03: The one that's super nostalgic for me is grandma used to make a big old massive roast beef and put it on white bread, buttered white bread, and wrap it in foil and bring a big handful of those out to the the combine.
35:51
SPEAKER_03: What might have been in that lunchbox there?
35:52
SPEAKER_03: I'm just curious.
35:53
SPEAKER_03: I gotta know.
35:54
SPEAKER_03: I'm a foodie.
35:54
SPEAKER_03: I'm a foodie.
35:55
SPEAKER_00: Yes, so it could it very well be something like that.
36:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, what I can guarantee you, whatever sandwiches it was, it had butter on it.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you gotta have butter lots of it, lots of it.
36:08
SPEAKER_03: Thank you, thank you.
36:09
SPEAKER_03: I'm glad somebody said it.
36:10
SPEAKER_03: That's an important message to have out there.
36:13
SPEAKER_03: Absolutely, butter everything, and I think we've got one more shot of you with the folks there.
36:19
SPEAKER_03: If if Roberto wants to bring that up for us, but let's okay, so just a couple of days shy of a year in the hospital dealing with an incident that took a couple of seconds, and then two years to the day of that accident.
36:40
SPEAKER_03: That's what I have in my notes here, anyway.
36:42
SPEAKER_03: Kathy and I spoke ahead of this because I wanted to make sure and get the story straight.
36:45
SPEAKER_03: Tell me if I've got this right.
36:46
SPEAKER_03: Two years to the day after that accident, a very emotional, very monumental uh goal was achieved.
36:55
SPEAKER_03: Can you do I have my timing right on that?
36:57
SPEAKER_03: Can you tell us about it?
36:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, you have it right.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: Yes, so two years to the date of my dad's accident, it was October 20th of 1984.
37:07
SPEAKER_00: My dad walked me down the aisle.
37:10
SPEAKER_00: So I was the only only sibling out of the five of us that wasn't married at the time of my dad's accident.
37:16
SPEAKER_00: I didn't have any children, wasn't married.
37:19
SPEAKER_00: And this is, you know, everyone has their own story of what trans, you know, where they were when the accident happened, you know, what your first thought process was, et cetera, et cetera.
37:33
SPEAKER_00: And I'll share with you, I I felt terrible uh because I felt that I was a very selfish person when I first heard about my dad's accident and that he was gonna le lose his leg.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm at the hospital with my dad and my mom and and my siblings and everything.
37:52
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, when they tell us he's gonna lose his leg, my thought was I'm gonna be sad.
37:59
SPEAKER_00: My dad would probably never get to walk me down the aisle.
38:02
SPEAKER_00: Then so then I just felt terrible because within 24 hours he's fighting for his life.
38:08
SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
38:09
SPEAKER_00: We the gas game green is growing fast.
38:12
SPEAKER_00: We got it, he's gotta go by air ambulance.
38:14
SPEAKER_00: We all have to go, you know.
38:17
SPEAKER_00: It's speed, speed's a deal here.
38:20
SPEAKER_00: And so then I felt guilty.
38:22
SPEAKER_00: I'm a terrible, terrible person for thinking that.
38:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
38:26
SPEAKER_00: And then fast forward to the rehab, and my dad and I spent a lot of time at the rehab because I was living in Grand Forks.
38:33
SPEAKER_00: And so during the week, we tried to let my mom go home and and stabilize herself, and then she'd come back Thursday and Friday till Monday and and be with my dad and stay with me.
38:43
SPEAKER_00: And so after work or after school during the week, I would have dinner, supper with my dad every night.
38:51
SPEAKER_00: And so I I told him that story, and he's like, I said, I I'm really sorry that you know, and you know, emotional.
39:01
SPEAKER_00: And he's like, You didn't have you weren't even dating anybody.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: You didn't have a boyfriend.
39:08
SPEAKER_00: I thought you and Stephen broke up.
39:13
SPEAKER_00: And when he was right.
39:15
SPEAKER_03: But but that's one of those ripples, isn't it?
39:18
SPEAKER_03: I don't it is.
39:19
SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
39:19
SPEAKER_03: And you you know, the the people around somebody like that can often, I think in our previous conversation, you use you use the word survivor's guilt.
39:28
SPEAKER_03: And although he he did survive, you know, some of those it's a it's a major disruption, not just in the in the life of the person who's injured, but in in the lives of those around them.
39:42
SPEAKER_00: It is, and I was glad that I that I kind of spoke my mind.
39:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm I kind of a person that does like to speak my mind, but I'm glad I shared it with him.
39:54
SPEAKER_00: And because it actually ended up being kind of a a poke joke between us.
40:01
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the rehab would call me at work, and like a good example was he his therapist Diane was just absolutely amazing, and she designed to get my dad in the pool.
40:17
SPEAKER_00: Uh, she designed a prosthetic for his legs so that he could learn to walk in the pool.
40:24
SPEAKER_00: And we knew it was forthcoming, but we didn't know when.
40:27
SPEAKER_00: And she said, you know, it it might, I might have might be an hour's notice or something.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: And she had called me and said, Can you come over?
40:39
SPEAKER_00: Because we're gonna put your dad in the pool in about a half an hour.
40:43
SPEAKER_00: And so that was the first time he actually walked.
40:47
SPEAKER_00: And you know, so then I saw him walking, and I'm in my mind I thought, hmm, he might walk me down the aisle someday.
40:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
40:57
SPEAKER_00: So the story came out, and then I, you know, and it became kind of a jabbing point between us and just giving each other grief.
41:05
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, you need to work harder because you need to walk me down the aisle.
41:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
41:09
SPEAKER_00: And he's like, Well, you better get Steve back because nobody else will probably have you.
41:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
41:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
41:17
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, so yeah, and it it was kind of an odd thing because we I was looking for a date for the wedding.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: Well, I wanted the last week in September, the church wasn't ready, wasn't available last first week in October, the event center wasn't available.
41:34
SPEAKER_00: The next week, this wasn't available.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: So I called my mom and I'm like, Well, now we're really into beat season, which my dad told me stay away from beat season.
41:43
SPEAKER_02: Oh no.
41:44
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, Well, now we're really in the heart of beat season.
41:48
SPEAKER_00: It's October 20th.
41:49
SPEAKER_00: And when I said that, it didn't dawn on me what date that was.
41:55
SPEAKER_00: And mom on the phone said, Well, Kathy, that's the date of your dad's accent.
41:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, Oh my gosh, it is.
42:01
SPEAKER_00: So it ended up being two years to the day that my dad walked me down the aisle.
42:06
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
42:07
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: And I can tell you honestly, the ripple effect in the family.
42:13
SPEAKER_00: And when we say ripples to the community, I was a little busy paying attention to dad and I walking down the aisle.
42:23
SPEAKER_00: But I've been told there wasn't probably a dry eye in the church.
42:26
SPEAKER_03: I don't imagine so.
42:28
SPEAKER_03: What a terrific story.
42:30
SPEAKER_03: So after after that, I mean, was was he was he out of the woods?
42:35
SPEAKER_03: Was he able to was he able to?
42:38
SPEAKER_03: I guess obviously he's driving the combine with with your kids on board there, able to able to get back out there and keep keep farming, yeah?
42:46
SPEAKER_00: He was.
42:47
SPEAKER_00: There weren't the lifts and the you know the disability programs that there are today as far as on as far as farming equipment goes that was needed to lift him into the combine.
43:02
SPEAKER_00: So my dad, along with an engineering friend, he wasn't an actual engineer by education, formal education.
43:11
SPEAKER_00: They were engineering mines, very entrepreneurial, very they designed lifts, a couple lifts for the equipment.
43:20
SPEAKER_00: And my dad was able to farm, drive the equipment until he was 80 years old.
43:26
SPEAKER_03: That's terrific.
43:28
SPEAKER_03: That's terrific.
43:29
SPEAKER_03: And you know, a different outcome, couldn't it?
43:32
SPEAKER_00: Oh, definitely.
43:33
SPEAKER_00: And some of the things it wasn't once he left the rehab, it wasn't, oh, done, okay, everything's good.
43:40
SPEAKER_00: My dad, dad was in and out of the hospital several times, infections, because he had a lot of moving, you know, a lot of areas that didn't have great blood flow, things like that.
43:51
SPEAKER_00: He became a diabetic.
43:53
SPEAKER_00: Diabetes doesn't run in our family, but it's a thing called stress diabetes to the body.
43:58
SPEAKER_00: So then you deal with that.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: And and that's how he lost his left leg was just because of complications of the blood flow and not healing.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: And so then he was a double amputee.
44:11
SPEAKER_00: And then at that time he elected not to get another prosthesis.
44:15
SPEAKER_00: He he walked with arm crutches before and then had his wheelchair.
44:20
SPEAKER_00: But from then on he was wheelchair or scooter bound, basically.
44:27
SPEAKER_00: So that's something too I I you know kind of back to the people who poo poo safety.
44:35
SPEAKER_00: Um our family was very we think our family was very fortunate because our dad had such a great attitude.
44:44
SPEAKER_00: And the family support and community support and you know, attitude is everything in life.
44:52
SPEAKER_00: You know, forge forward, do your best, engage your resources, or if you know of resources to help someone, hopefully help someone.
45:01
SPEAKER_00: But many people after accidents or choice of safety, right?
45:08
SPEAKER_00: They don't recover so well.
45:10
SPEAKER_00: Uh you hear about drug abuse or alcohol abuse or mental, you know, your mental capabilities, or going back to work, or financial, or repairs on the house, or whatever.
45:22
SPEAKER_00: There's so many things out there.
45:25
SPEAKER_00: And when someone's poo-pooing a safety meeting, it's very concerning because you you don't think it's ever going to happen to you.
45:35
SPEAKER_00: But what happens when it does happen to you, it's just it could be just crazy.
45:42
SPEAKER_03: Well, and it happens to everyone else around that person as well.
45:47
SPEAKER_03: I mean, well, it can't happen to me.
45:49
SPEAKER_03: Well, it it could happen to to you or to me.
45:54
SPEAKER_03: And it doesn't involve just the person involved in the incident, it involves everyone who cares about that person, everyone who you know wants to help and you know lends a hand and all this sort of stuff.
46:07
SPEAKER_03: It's there's a lot more than just one person involved in in these types of deals.
46:12
SPEAKER_03: Listen up staysafe.com.
46:15
SPEAKER_03: Kathy, you've you've been very forthcoming with some things that aren't easy to talk about, and we really appreciate it.
46:21
SPEAKER_03: It's it's very important to me to get messages like yours out there.
46:26
SPEAKER_03: You are you're trying to get out there on the speaking trail a little bit, offering up your services and your story.
46:33
SPEAKER_03: Listenupstaysafe.com.
46:36
SPEAKER_03: Is that where we can find out more about you and even maybe get in touch with you if some event uh wants to have you come and address the audience?
46:45
SPEAKER_00: Yes, absolutely.
46:46
SPEAKER_00: The website will direct them to a form they can fill out and we can just visit and see what works best for them.
46:53
SPEAKER_00: I'm available professionally for my sales career.
46:57
SPEAKER_00: I am retired, and so my mission is to get this story out.
47:03
SPEAKER_00: On the website, they can also see kind of a teaser of the documentary.
47:08
SPEAKER_00: It is a professional documentary.
47:10
SPEAKER_00: I worked with Absolute Studios at a Fargo.
47:12
SPEAKER_00: They did a fantastic job, and it's not just me on the documentary, they'll see you know, my mom and the you know, she visits about this the my dad's accident.
47:24
SPEAKER_00: And there's a couple other things they can read on the website as well, a little bit of background, and yeah, and my contact information is on there, and we can engage in a conversation and see what works out.
47:37
SPEAKER_00: I can travel and available to travel any place in the world, actually.
47:41
SPEAKER_00: Somebody might have to help me with expenses, but well, sure, that's part of the deal.
47:46
SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah, you get you get all that uh kind of thrown in.
47:49
SPEAKER_03: You betcha.
47:49
SPEAKER_03: You betcha.
47:50
SPEAKER_03: Kathy Egan Spicer, listenupstaysafe.com, listen upstaysafe.com.
47:57
SPEAKER_03: We should begin to move toward the exit here, Kathy.
48:02
SPEAKER_03: But I I just want to give you a chance to if there's anything that we've missed here, any aspect of your message that that you would like to make sure and get out there now is the time.
48:14
SPEAKER_03: I'll ask you for for some closing thoughts before we move on.
48:18
SPEAKER_03: And we're gonna start talking about the weather in just a minute, okay?
48:21
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
48:22
SPEAKER_03: So what uh what would you like to leave us with?
48:25
SPEAKER_03: If if anything, a detail maybe you missed, or your closing thoughts, please, Kathy.
48:30
SPEAKER_00: My closing thoughts would be I think the logo says it all.
48:35
SPEAKER_00: Listen up, stay safe, because this isn't just about egg.
48:39
SPEAKER_00: It is any industry, it is anything personal, it's distractions, everyone's busy, it's a cell phone driving or operating equipment or walking, anything in your life, just take a pause because that pause may save your life.
49:00
SPEAKER_00: And like my mom said, if us visiting out about this in person and doing a QA like this can just help one family not have to go through what we went through, this is worth my time, definitely.
49:15
SPEAKER_03: Well said, well said, and I would I would just echo that, and that that's why I wanted to have you on here.
49:23
SPEAKER_03: This time of year, as I've said, I'd I like to bring up the idea of safety, and this is one of those tales of what can happen, whether you think it can or not, beloved viewer.
49:35
SPEAKER_03: And speaking for Kathy and for myself, we don't want something like this to happen to you.
49:40
SPEAKER_03: And there are there are simple steps, and you you know what those are, viewer, and uh take those take those steps to safeguard yourself and and your family.
49:52
SPEAKER_03: Okay, Kathy.
49:53
SPEAKER_03: Let's move on just a little bit.
49:55
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna just play a little bit of lighthearted music here and move us into the next segment of the show.
50:00
SPEAKER_03: I would I wonder if you'd do me a favor.
50:02
SPEAKER_03: I don't know if you're near a window or not, or uh if you just want to speak in generalities.
50:07
SPEAKER_03: How's how's the weather?
50:08
SPEAKER_03: Where are you in North Dakota now?
50:10
SPEAKER_00: I'm in North Dakota in the Red River Valley, just south of Grand Forks.
50:14
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
50:14
SPEAKER_00: Um my son Tim and his wife Samantha farm our land up north alongside her family farming, and it is absolutely beautiful out.
50:25
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking out on 25 acres of trees and farmland and loving it.
50:32
SPEAKER_03: Love that.
50:33
SPEAKER_03: I love that.
50:33
SPEAKER_03: It's it's still kind of hot down here in Nashville.
50:35
SPEAKER_03: We're at 89 degrees and cloudy right now.
50:39
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna go over to the National Weather Service.
50:41
SPEAKER_03: They're calling for thunderstorms and locally heavy rainfall from the Central Plains to the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and across the southeast.
50:49
SPEAKER_03: Severe weather from the upper Midwest to Central Plains increases on Friday tomorrow.
50:54
SPEAKER_03: Major to extreme heat risk continues across the southern plains to the lower Mississippi Valley late this week.
51:00
SPEAKER_03: Fire weather concerns for the northern Rockies and Northern Plains today.
51:06
SPEAKER_03: Kathy, while I've got you here, I wonder if I might be able to inspire just a little bit of mild interest in you.
51:13
SPEAKER_03: I have some items of mild interest from history, September 10.
51:18
SPEAKER_03: Can I interest you for just another moment?
51:21
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
51:22
SPEAKER_03: Well, the year was 1894.
51:26
SPEAKER_03: And London taxi driver George Smith was the first person fined for drunk driving.
51:34
SPEAKER_03: 1894.
51:35
SPEAKER_03: I imagine he uh I imagine the man claimed something like he'd only just had a pint or two to the officer.
51:42
SPEAKER_03: I apparently the officer didn't buy it.
51:45
SPEAKER_03: I don't know what kind of taxi driver decides he needs.
51:48
SPEAKER_03: Safety! Safety first, come on, taxi driver guy, George Smith.
51:52
SPEAKER_03: 1991.
51:54
SPEAKER_03: Rock band Nirvana releases their single Smells Like Teen Spirit, often dubbed the anthem of Generation X.
52:02
SPEAKER_03: I don't know, I'm a Gen Xer, and we're just against anthems in general.
52:08
SPEAKER_03: That's I guess that would be my thought.
52:09
SPEAKER_03: But Nirvana.
52:11
SPEAKER_03: And uh finally here, 1945.
52:13
SPEAKER_03: It's the birthday of Jose Feliciano, the Puerto Rican singer songwriter, a a blind fellow who made good.
52:22
SPEAKER_03: And that brings us to today's Ag Bowl Injustice.
52:26
SPEAKER_03: Kathy, I'm springing this on you.
52:27
SPEAKER_03: It's something that I do from time to time here on the show and is completely unfair.
52:31
SPEAKER_03: That's what makes it such an injustice.
52:34
SPEAKER_03: I ask my guest a question that I would have been unable to answer even close to correctly had had I not looked it up the interweb.
52:43
SPEAKER_03: Are you ready for today's Ag Bull Injustice?
52:45
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna ask you a question.
52:47
SPEAKER_03: Are you ready?
52:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm ready or not.
52:49
SPEAKER_00: I think you here you come.
52:51
SPEAKER_00: You're on your way.
52:52
SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
52:53
SPEAKER_03: It's already started.
52:55
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
52:55
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
52:56
SPEAKER_03: I just mentioned it's Jose Feliciano's birthday.
52:59
SPEAKER_03: Now you've heard the Christmas song, Feliz Navidad, right?
53:04
SPEAKER_03: I wonder if you can finish the lyric for me.
53:06
SPEAKER_03: It goes Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad.
53:14
SPEAKER_03: What comes next?
53:15
SPEAKER_03: Any idea?
53:16
SPEAKER_03: I had no idea myself.
53:17
SPEAKER_03: I have it written down here.
53:18
SPEAKER_03: I know what it says now, but I mean it's an injustice after all.
53:22
SPEAKER_03: What comes after Feliz Navidad?
53:24
SPEAKER_03: Do you know?
53:25
SPEAKER_00: I should know.
53:27
SPEAKER_00: My kids are going to be disappointed in this Christmas.
53:29
SPEAKER_03: It's interesting.
53:31
SPEAKER_00: I can't recall.
53:32
SPEAKER_03: It's actually it's actually quite interesting.
53:34
SPEAKER_03: It's feliz Navidad, Prospero Ano y Felicidad.
53:40
SPEAKER_03: Now, my Spanish is weak, but that almost sounds like prosper, have a prosperous year, and felicidad means happy something.
53:51
SPEAKER_03: So so there you go.
53:52
SPEAKER_03: Prospero Ano y Felicidad.
53:57
SPEAKER_03: This Christmas, you'll be ready for the uh Jose Feliciano.
54:00
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
54:01
SPEAKER_03: Kathy Egan Spicer, you're a good sport.
54:03
SPEAKER_03: You're such a good person.
54:05
SPEAKER_03: Thank you for being on the day.
54:08
SPEAKER_03: Not an easy story to tell, but you you told it well.
54:11
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54:14
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54:17
SPEAKER_03: Book Kathy Egan Spicer to come and speak at your event.
54:20
SPEAKER_03: This is a message that that can't spread wide enough for uh everybody needs to hear this message here.
54:27
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54:35
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54:38
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54:44
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54:46
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54:51
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54:56
SPEAKER_03: And having said all that, Jed Sidwell will be back first thing in the morning to get you ready for the day.
55:02
SPEAKER_03: And I'll get you squared away on the markets quick and hit the high points of tomorrow's WASDI.
55:06
SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, by the way, there's a WASDI tomorrow.
55:09
SPEAKER_03: And then I'm leaving on a jet plane tomorrow afternoon on Egg Squawk.