Latest / The Source – The Jorgensen Land & Cattle Podcast / Episode 13: Meet the 2026 JLC Interns
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- speaker-0: Welcome everybody. this is the source. you may not recomm recognize my voice. I'm Phil Jorgensen here. feed lob manager here at JLC. I'm replacing Jamie as the podcast host. We kinda have a unique episode here. We have five nervous people sitting in front of me right now. none of them have done this before. and I'm obviously still new to this too. So right now we have five interns. they've been here for three months now. so yeah, we're gonna talk about a lot of different things. where they came from, what they've been doing, how they get in the egg, who recommended who recommended us, you know, to them, basically how they got here and their experience here. So with that, We'll go around the table, we'll introduce these guys, they're all nervous, no one wants to talk. So it's literally just it's just us. So let's let's start with the guy sitting right across from me. speaker-1: How in depth do you want me to go with this? speaker-0: Just say your name for now and then we'll we'll we'll go around and pull up story. speaker-1: well. I'm Zach Connor. speaker-0: my name is Joe Stefan. Nathan Williams. speaker-2: Andy Henderson, I'm Mac Monero. speaker-0: Annie, you're you're gonna have to talk louder than that, Annie, probably. Annie. speaker-2: Okay. speaker-0: Annie, are you okay? speaker-2: Okay. speaker-0: So yeah, but these g these guys are kinda from all over actually, as far as Fresno, California. Yep. right Nathan, we'll we'll we'll probably just start with you. Okay. We'll just we'll go over. Yeah. Where did you I wanna know like day one. Day one, where did you like what you just woke up one day and saw some cows on the TV and No speaker-1: I'm speaker-0: I mean in Central California you're always around Ag. I there's dairy where are you from in California? Hanford. Hanford. Originally. Yep. So Hanford, California, Big Dairy, Kings County. right next to Tularie County. So Kings County, Tulary County, they're probably the biggest dairy counties in California for sure and then probably even the United States. so there's it's just it's dairy. I mean, at least livestock wise. there's some goat dairies too, a lot of Portuguese. Then there's tree cr you know, trees, almonds, pistachios, nuts. You do a lot of farming over the there's some farming and stuff. Yeah. But How'd you get into it? Huh? How'd you get into it? I've always been around it. I've always liked it. I've always took interest in in it. Even though I didn't grow up in a family that was involved. I mean originally we did smaller farming, but that was probably three or four generations ago and then we kinda straight away On the top side or bottom side? Your like your grandma or grandpa. mom or dad side of the family. I guess both sides. Both sides came from it. Yeah. So originally Swedish farmers, immigrants, moved to the Midwest and then some came out to Tuleri. Mm-hmm. but no, I kinda just I've always had a liking towards it. And then I went to Fresno State switch my majors from business to livestock management, dove in, you know, headfirst and got involved as much as I could, joined some clubs, dairy, dairy science, young cattlemans for Fresno State, which is how I ended up pretty much here. Yeah. before you get to that. Yeah. You say you switched majors. Yeah. go I know from what I understand you are you work for you work for tell tell where you work when you're in s when you're in college. Well I was a baseball company. I worked for the Vicella Rawhide. speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-0: But r before I came here, yeah, I was at a feed store lowed hay all day. or right when I would get out of class. Mm-hmm that's all I would do. That's pretty much it. That was my first, I guess, ag job. Yep. And then I volunteered at the at the feedlot or the beef unit. started volunteering there pretty much after class or when I could. Stayed there late. Most of the times helped feed when the feed wagon would break. So we would hand feed. Mm. That sounds awful. Yeah, it wasn't too bad. I mean it's only, you know, a hundred degrees outside at seven o'clock at night. Yeah, but your heat's different than our heat. Yeah. We can we can we can go back and forth about that all the time. but yeah. Yeah. That's pretty much it. Nice. So you were getting into it and I interrupted you? No, that's fine. Where how did you find Jorgensen landing cattle? the California Cattlemen's Convention in Reno. It doesn't make sense that it's in Reno, but you know, that's how I I met Wilson and Larry. Who's Wilson? Andy. Andy who? And Andy Andy. Andy take it off. Not a lot of people call him that. Yeah, I it's okay. All I hear is about mm. Yeah. even when I say Andy, people are like, Who? speaker-2: I don't know what you're talking about. speaker-0: But yeah, I BS with them for about two hours I think and it's not hard to with those two guys. then they gave me I still have their business cards. Yep. They're in my wallet and then one the other one's in my phone case. Mm-hmm. And that was the first thing I showed Andy when I got here. I was like, I still have you guys' business cards. Mm-hmm. but yeah they said email Reagan. I emailed Reagan and it was at a point where I was I emailed so many places for internships. You know, it's hard when you don't have the background and you know you don't have a lot of experience, but Nobody wants ya. But yeah, no one no one wants me. And Yeah. I'm kinda just I'll just keep working at the feed store like for the summer. And then I think I told you, I for sure told Luke. Yeah. I woke up from a nap and I was like, no way you know 'cause it was well I don't know when they sent sent it to me, but it was pretty late. Stressing speaker-2: Yeah you got the engine. speaker-3: Yeah, speaker-0: me out. So I was like, okay, they're not even gonna respond to me. I was like, that's fine, whatever, you know. Just another one on the that down into the bin. But yeah. Yeah, well that's cool. Well We're gonna go back and I'm gonna do it for Reagan that we're gonna we're gonna go back and as far as talk about the recruiting process a little bit more and kinda how what that all entails and your guys' experience and stuff. Nathan kinda touched a little bit on his, but everyone's got a little different different way of, you know, emailing Reagan and whoever else. if there is previous interns that are listening to this podcast they if you ever run into one, they will tell you stories about emailing Nick. for those of you who know Nick Jorgensen, my cousin, Reagan's brother, he is an impossible person to get a hold of. he just he gets a million emails a day. So he used to he used to be the one to get in touch with and if you think that we ro reached out late this year, then shit, we were like yeah, it was it was rough. So we're gonna kinda go in a star pattern here. Mac you're next. Mac Mac Kenzie. Yeah, speaker-2: What's my story? speaker-0: well like where did you where did you come from? speaker-2: It came from Lincoln, Nebraska. My name is Mackenzie, but no one actually calls me that. I don't know why Phil keeps saying that. I don't know who that is. Anyways. Yeah, I'm from Lincoln, big city. You know, I didn't grow up on a farm or in ag directly. my grandpa's got a feed store and a cow calf operation in northern Nebraska. speaker-0: Grandpa's name, give him a shout-out. speaker-2: John Maneric, if you know him, you know him. He's the guy. He he I wouldn't be surprised if some people listening to him. I mean he's he's the guy. But yeah. No, grew up going out there. Loved going to see my grandparents, being with the cows or going to the feed store. We hunted a lot out there. It was the best and we I've got like a million cousins on that side and they're they're like my best friends. And that's actually how I learned about this internships. My cousin Elena, she was an intern to speaker-0: Yep, two years ago. speaker-2: and now she works here full time, getting married into the family. speaker-0: Getting married to my cousin. Yeah. my best friend. speaker-2: So basically I I'm I'm marrying into the family too. Yeah. speaker-0: Down the line. speaker-2: So yep, that's kinda how I got word of it. But otherwise past past my childhood I grew up and just ended up getting asked to work at a horse farm in high school and I was like sure, that sounds fun. and just kinda caught the horse bug and when you catch that you don't lose it and so speaker-0: Unfortunately. speaker-2: Yeah, worked with a f you know, a small herd of cattle there, so kinda got a little bit introduced to that. then when I went to college I decided to major in animal science. I was really interested in when I was a kid I always wanted to be a vet and then I figured out how long you have to be in school for that. And I decided to just pursue a regular animal science degree. and I started working for like some small farms around there and after my sophomore year I ended up working at a ranch in Wyoming and that opened it up for me. I r I like loved that. It was they they just take in summer steers so it was like light end of the deal. speaker-0: You have a not sorry to interrupt you, but you have a really might be getting to it, but you have a really, really cool story of you guys taking somebody out on a trail ride. speaker-2: the works in who it was? speaker-0: can you say that? Can you say that? speaker-2: Yeah, probably. I took Andre Godala for a trail ride when I was working in Wyoming. I had no idea who he was. Honestly. Well it was cool 'cause my speaker-0: Yeah. Couple time NBA champion. Yeah. speaker-2: Like Steph Curry and speaker-0: Really tall guy on a whole speaker-2: I was like, this are you sure like my boss his name was Ben Tibbetts, like best guy ever, shout out, but anyways he was like, Yeah, like you guys you really gotta make this one special, like this guy's like famous. I'm like, I d I don't know, I've never heard of this guy. And so it kinda got through and I eventually like told my brothers about it. I have three brothers and they're like, Are you serious? You're joking like you're lying. Like this is AI. No. I just genuinely had no idea who it was. Didn't ask for a picture or anything 'cause I had no idea. speaker-0: Better give your bret your brother Theron especially a shout out. Give all three of those speaker-2: My brother Theron. Well, Theron came out here. That's why he gets a shout out. He came out here to visit. speaker-0: Yeah, we don't need to go into any store because speaker-2: He he's a fun guy. He fits he fit right in when he came out here. But my older two brothers, Tristan and Cody, they they know a little bit about basketball, so they were getting after me for not knowing about Iggy that I took on a trail ride. But yeah, anyways, after that I just I'm sort of a one year at a time kind of person, so I didn't totally know what I wanna do and I I still don't. I just kinda I'm figuring it out as I go. So when Elena told me, I'd email Reagan and s figure out if if I can come out here and work for the summer. I did and as I got closer to the summer I'm like, I should really start figuring this out, like what I'm gonna do and so like Nathan, I I applied for a lot of different places and got a few different offers, but didn't totally want to accept any of 'cause I was like, Lana keeps she's You should get the you should get the job I'm like, Okay. I don't know. So I really didn't. and then eventually I got I got the email back and Came out here and it was it it's one of the best decisions I've made. speaker-0: Awesome. Well, you made it here. You kinda skipped over. What do you do? You you're a college athlete. You're talking about that. speaker-2: Sometimes I sometimes I play softball. I speaker-0: What's what was your team's name again? What do you you got? Better give a shout out. speaker-2: Northwest Missouri State softball, go Bearcats. And they'll see me they see me the majority of the year. I hope my coach doesn't watch this, but honestly during the summer I don't wanna look at a softball play. We actually the most the most practice I've done this whole summer was when we were having beers after work one day and decided we wanted to play a little catch. speaker-0: In a working facility. speaker-2: Did that was literally the only practice I've done this whole summer. But yeah, that's that's what takes up most of my time during the school year. So speaker-0: Yeah, awesome. So Andy and Andy and Larry is who captured you, Elena captured you. we're gonna jump down to Annie. Annie are you okay? speaker-2: I'm I'm great actually. speaker-0: let's hear you let's hear where you came from. speaker-2: Okay, I grew up north of Rapid. I don't usually say Somerset 'cause nobody really knows where that is, so I just say north of Rapids. speaker-0: Yes. A lot of these guys listening will know where Somerset is. speaker-2: Summer set. anyways, I did not grow up around cattle. A little bit of horses, my aunt has horses, is has always had horses, so I grew up riding them. Never all the time, really I guess, but I knew, yeah, like Max said, once you get a bug for horses it never goes away. So I'd always known that I wanted to go speaker-0: What's your Snapchat name? What's your S what? No Yeah, speaker-2: My Snapchat? speaker-0: your Snapchat. Well you don't have to say your full Snapchat. But it's like named after Snap. speaker-2: Yeah, it's after a horse, my aunt's horse that I love dearly. He's in my senior pictures actually. I'm not saying love here. speaker-0: It's rusty something, something. speaker-2: Rusty and then some numbers. Yeah, Rusty. speaker-0: Right. speaker-2: Shout out Rusty, he's a good horse. anyways. Yeah, just knew that I wanted to be around livestock, but I had no idea what, 'cause I had never been around cattle. I mean over the fence, hey there's some cows. so I guess my one of my first jobs was just for a family friend. cleaning horse stalls and feeding horses, it was like maybe an hour and a half a day probably. But I loved it 'cause I was around horses every day. And then kinda was like, well, like Max said, I wanted to be a vet. And then I'm that's a lot of school. And I I'm not about that. So decided not that. I went to University of Wyoming for one semester and then I transferred out of there because that was just it was too big. I knew I didn't want to even do four years of school. And then transferred to Mitchell Tech. studying animal science and agricultural business and then last summer I did my internship at a horse collection facility in Piedmont. So that was really cool. Red Valley Genetic. Yep. Yeah. That was a lot of fun. I loved it there, but I knew the second summer for another internship, I knew I wanted to do something with cattle. I'd actually originally heard about this place from one of my dad's good friends, Tate Lance from Lance Ranch. My dad had told me about it. He's Yeah, there's someplace south of Presswell, they've got like six thousand bulls or something crazy. And I'd heard it he had said that a few years ago. I'm like, pfft, whatever. I don't know that place. Okay. Nothing for anything. But I was like, okay, I mean that's cool. speaker-0: Okay. speaker-2: Whatever, I guess. And then at an internship fair, Reagan was there and one of my friends from school is actually Reagan's nephew and he's like, You should just go talk to her. It's like, okay. Brody. speaker-0: give him a shout out. speaker-2: Shout out, Brody. anyways. So I was like talking to Reagan and then gave her my resume. She kinda told me what you guys are about. I was like, Okay, that sounds pretty cool. I wouldn't mind doing that for a summer. That sounds pretty fun. and then I called my dad and I said, Yeah, this is the place that I gave my resume to. He's like, shoot, that's like right next to Lance Ranch, so they would know them. It's like, Okay, that's actually kinda cool now. So unlike speaker-0: Yeah. So it turns out that we do a lot of lands, right? speaker-2: I work with them. Yeah, so that's kind of a good in there is they all know me. I get told that a lot. I've known you since you were this big. Okay. unlike Mac and Nathan, I applied for two places for an internship. It was between here or CGS and Mitchell, another bull collection facility and they're a really cool company. I mean I love the manager there and every like one of my good friends works there. But I kinda decided it was a little bit like what I did last summer. And I knew if I had gone there it would be too much in my comfort zone and I needed to get away from family. Like my aunt and uncle live in Mitchell and so it's like I need to get out of my comfort zone and just go somewhere where I don't know anybody, somewhere where I'm really pushing myself. So that's kinda how I ended up here. speaker-0: Move back west. speaker-2: Yep. speaker-0: Yeah, I got a funny story about the first time I met Annie. speaker-2: I don't know if it's funny. speaker-0: so she explaining went through her spiel or whatever and she's like yeah my my dad is my dad's best friends with Tate Lance And I'm like nah my dad's best friend with Tate Lance speaker-2: Yeah, I when he first said that I remember I looked out the window I'm like, I just messed up. I just I just literally speaker-0: no. No, that's funny. We share that and that's it's pretty cool. Tate Tate's a good guy. Tate will just better can't forget all. Can't forget Tate, Troy, Matt. yeah. they and they all have a little bit to do with JLC and help we help each other out as neighbors and really really good family. Extremely good family. Yeah. So beautiful country where they live too. Sure. speaker-2: Yeah for speaker-0: So it's a little bit different country and it's only like six miles to the north. It's crazy how that works. Yeah. Eat a little bit of everything around here. So let's jump over to Zack. speaker-1: I thought we were going to Joe next. Alright. All speaker-0: No you never know what I'm gonna decide next. speaker-1: right. speaker-2: True questions and speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: Very true. so yeah, I'm Zach Connor. I'm from Howard, South Dakota. I grew up on a little feedlot operation just outside Howard. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: yeah, kinda been around cattle my whole life, a little more, you know, in depth than some of these others, but speaker-0: Mm-hmm. What do you what do you like you gotta feed about at home? Yeah. Right? Yeah. You and your d is it who's all out? Is it your dad and Well so speaker-1: S kinda complicated. The cattle side's mostly just me and my dad, but then we we also have a crop side, so we do that with my dad and my uncles too. speaker-0: How many uncles? speaker-1: I got two other ones that are in the operation and then two more. speaker-0: Yeah, cousins too. Yeah. The old family. Yeah, speaker-1: Big old family. Big old Catholic family. speaker-0: there you go. There you go. so yeah, your feedlot and I'm sorry I'm interrupting ya, but your feedlots along what highway? speaker-1: it would be along eighty one, just south of where thirty four and eighty one yeah intersect. Halfway speaker-0: Right there. speaker-1: between Madison and Howard. Yeah. speaker-0: Yeah, just like Somerset. speaker-2: Yeah, thank you very much. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-0: So yeah, you grew up in the feed lap, up and dad. you guys run you you finish or you guys speaker-1: we finish everything. yeah, and then we do red half for operation we sell in the in the February, second weekend of February. and then as well as the crop side. speaker-0: Yeah, from what I understand though, you're getting back into the pairs. Yep. speaker-1: Yeah, that was kinda my deal. So when I started with cattle, I mean I had bottled calves growing up and stuff and then I had four H cattle. Showed them, not that competitively, but I showed but I think I really got the bug for the whole cattle side of stuff is when I got my own pears. Yeah. Then I just really wanted more, so I got more pears. bought some feeder cattle as well. and then I wasn't getting paid by my dad. We started doing a deal of like is more Right, speaker-0: All that rent that you owe, you know. speaker-1: right, right. But well we'd trade yardage for labor and when you only have a few cattle that's a horrible deal, but it's an okay deal now. but yeah, I was doing that. I started working for the sale barn when I was in high school at the Madison Livestock when that was still rotating. Shout out to Chipwashi out there. But yeah, and went to SDSU for animal science degree. speaker-0: You're going to be a junior. So speaker-1: I'm going into my junior year. speaker-0: you finally get off campus. Finally speaker-4: for. speaker-1: Gamer. speaker-0: now you just get a fight for a parking spot all the time. speaker-1: Pretty much. Well I got a moped now, so that's a lot of speaker-0: You better watch out. You you can get in some serious motorcycle accidents. Yeah, don't you have one? No, that's it's a story for a long time. Those of you who are listening, Laura Moller and Landon team and you guys you guys know exactly what I'm talking about. But no. Yeah, not parking in SDSU is no joke, right Boston? Terrible. Yeah, it's terrible. Yep. But they'll fix it one day. But no. so you're in school s sophomore or you were a sophomore, you're junior off campus now. Mm-hmm. you're you have a lot to do with little eye. Yeah. Talk about that a little bit. Sorry. speaker-1: Yeah, I don't know. I I got elected assistant manager this year, so yeah, speaker-0: Are speaker-1: I'll be in that. speaker-0: you been any been doing any planning or anything? You been Yeah. speaker-1: I'm trying to figure out like the cloth the attire basically is like all my job's been so far. But Yeah, yeah. speaker-0: Not really always way yet, so it's a huge deal in our school. explain little eye for th those of you for being like you guys have no idea what little eye is. speaker-1: A little bit, yeah. It's it's a student run show as well as an FFA competition. basically you get a show a bunch of animals owned by the college. So it kinda takes the I wanna say the competition apart as far as, you know, how the quality of the cattle and it's more about like your skill at presenting them. and showmanship and stuff like that. So it's kinda more level playing grounds, I'd like to say. speaker-0: it's a random draw, correct? You like your name in a bucket and you can get drawn for a pig. Well speaker-1: Well you gotta put your animal preference as far as like pigs, horses, all that. But yeah, they pack all of us into this rotunda D back at SDSU and you get your name drawn and you get this bowl and you're like, Great. My first bowl was even by the way. speaker-0: Barney Yeah, speaker-1: He tried to kill me the first day. speaker-2: So speaker-0: well that sometimes they just they flip a switch one day and they wake up on the wrong side. speaker-1: Definitely. speaker-0: It's a weird deal. speaker-1: Yeah. But no, it's a fun experience. Looking forward to being more involved with that. But yeah. speaker-0: Yeah, that's shout out STSU. We got a couple of STSU alums in here, right Boston. Now it's good. Now that's yeah. So you are I think is that it? You got anything else? speaker-1: I don't know, last summer I interned at Darfy L speaker-0: Yeah, you didn't even Yeah, you didn't really shout out the guy that would even got you here. speaker-1: Well, I you didn't something here. Yeah, I really heard about Jorgensen well, I knew about Jorgensen Land and Cattle beforehand, but I really got the bug in my ear that, hey, you should apply for this place from an intern here from last year, Jackson Heine. Shout out Jackson. speaker-2: Okay loves a shout-out. speaker-1: We're probably on shout out number twenty. But yeah, so he kinda put the bug in my ear that I should apply. So I think way early on I got Reagan's number, texted her, Hey, I'd be interested in doing an internship this summer, what's the whole process? And it's like kinda wait. waited for the internship application to come out and I filled it out and here I am. speaker-0: Awesome. Yep. yeah, like I said, we're gonna we'll we'll touch on more. as far as the re recruiting and how that all goes and what I go through and then what these guys have to go through. I g I have the easy job. I don't I'm probably l lot of the main reasons why they wait. 'Cause I haven't picked yet probably. So But anyway we got one more best for last, right Joe. Yep, I'm gonna take this from Zach if you wanna back. Just let me know if you wanna Joe, who are ya? Where'd you come from? Well, I'm Joe Stefan from Northeast Nebraska. Small town, Hardington, Nebraska. Good community. Shout out. A lot of good people. I go to college at SDSU. I'll be a sophomore here coming up. And when I went to college, I always wanted to be out of my comfort zone, I guess. I always there was a small community by us. community college, Norfolk. That's where all my buddies went. Mm but I just figure, you know, if I'm gonna be let's go do something else. Yeah. Let's go to Nebraska. Get out of the bubble. Let's get out of Nebraska. Yeah. Let's go see a South Dakota Zagger. Let's speaker-2: Yeah, yeah. speaker-0: go north. Yeah. Let's go way north. Yeah. Across the border. Mm-hmm. So I I came up there not knowing anybody and I I mean it was it was terrible the first two days but I met a lot of good people And I mean it really built my character, I guess. so I want you to talk about what you have at home. A little bit. Like where how'd you get in the egg? What are you guys doing at home? You're doing a lot of cool things at home. Yeah. Well growing up, it's really been pretty awesome. I've seen my dad expand the operation to what it was. Because when I was probably ten, probably had a couple head of livestock over the years and we built some hog confinements, got some more pears, started a feed lot and we even bought into a tub hay grinder business. Shout out Stephen Hay Garning. There you go. There you go. Call us for all your needs in Northeast Nebraska. There you go. There you go. But yeah, it's been awesome. Yeah, but sorry, go ahead. No, you're good. yeah, but over the summer, I just my dad always told me to do an internship and I was like, I don't know about that. You know, being away from home over the summer, you know, what, nine or ten months of college is already enough for me. But my siblings had it all covered and I I just figured if I wanna I mean grow more I'd have to do an internship. So meet new people. Yeah, you're exact I think you're you hit that right on the right on the head of the nail, Joe. Yeah. Especially like you realizing that, you know, my siblings, they got it covered here. it's a your dad can relax, you can relax. Now is like the perfect time for you to go do something. Yeah. And go out and see you you might I mean, obviously you're gonna go back home, but like now is this is a good time for you to go learn something else. Yeah. When you're the perfect age, you know, you can just go and do something, learn something and you know, bring it back home, hopefully. So Yeah. And also at the same time when I I wanted an internship where I did something like the same thing every day. Like run a feed truck. I mean we probably sort bowls every more. morning two or three hours, but then after that, you know, you go do something different. Like today I was in the shop and the day before I was you know, it's always something new every day. Yep. That's right. You know, then you just never know who's gonna show up that day. You might be feeding bulls, you might be Pretty soon the bulls are mixed and there's fighting and you know, it it just you never know. Cattle battle. It's a cattle battle, that's for sure. Bulls times ten X, that shit. And it's a it's a war zone out there sometimes. But anyway, I I have there's a funny story. I asked Joe one day, you might not remember this, but I don't think you know I don't think a lot of guys were here. But I was like, Joe So what the like what's like you were kinda upset about something. I'm like, what the hell's wrong what's wrong, Joel? Why you're going for too much speaker-4: These pears. speaker-2: Ready? speaker-0: in the lunch line or something. You were so mad that you missed out on It's ridiculous. that's good. You're how old are you, Joe? Just turned twenty. Yeah. Last month. And you're buying pairs. Yeah. Good for you. Good for you. Well, I the thing about this is that my this is my first time being host. I did not build an agenda, which I think this is what's gonna make it even better. But anyway, I think we're gonna I think we should continue to talk about you know a little bit about business before we start making some jokes. but I wanna know you know, this is when everyone can chime in. the the process from starting from day one of getting to JLC as far as who to reach out to does it start with an email? Does it start with a fare? and then as far as that and then you get an email back, then what? So for whoever wants to chime in, by all means, you know, don't fight for the mic. For the process for an internship? Yeah, I just heard for word of mouth like Zach. Yeah, but who did you who did you email? Reagan. Well, and then after I'm trying so you email Dragon. You emailed Dragon. And then Reagan you waited for Reagan respond. What'd she respond with? speaker-1: For me, I think I think I reached out in September, October and speaker-0: The speaker-1: applications for internship wasn't really available till like January. So then she just told me that, told me where to look for it and I you know. speaker-0: I mean I think we emailed her and then after that it was you. Yep. Yeah. So you emailed Reagan, app applications came out, you guys you guys submitted your resumes. speaker-1: Yeah. And I think there's a short questionnaire. speaker-0: It like a Docker document. So you guys you you emailed your resumes. basically what I got from Reagan is the short questionnaire, and then your resume on top of it. so when when I'm going picking these picking these interns, you know, whenever I'll shoot February or whatever it is, or March or whatever it is. We're I think this year I told you we we had like twenty five. Twenty five people apply. And like you said, there was we did have some that we know we wanted five but we weren't afraid to get more. we'll never be afraid to get more. We'll probably get more next year. We'll just But we we had reached out to a lot of people and then a lot of guys, you know, have you know, I'm sorry I accepted I've already accepted this, which is our fault 'cause it's fr re we reached out too late or whatever. but, you know, where you've been we're very lucky to get the select five that we had for the last three months. You guys are all great people. me and my family have been very lucky to have all of you here. so yeah. I think all your resumes were good, obviously. I didn't I didn't I liked them must have liked them all. So you didn't botch any of the questions. What was one of the questions? I can't remember. speaker-2: One of them was like what's your background in agriculture? I think that was one of the questions. speaker-0: What'd you say? He rode rusty? speaker-5: Go ahead. speaker-2: Yeah, that's wrong for us. No, I think I said I don't have much I mean, obviously a little bit more professional, but like I didn't really come from agricultural background other than riding horses, but I know I want to go into it enough. I do have my CEO. speaker-0: But you do have your C DL. Yeah. speaker-2: Shout out Matt Gilbin for instr being my instructor for that. speaker-0: There you go. Another shout out. one of them for me was I think is w what's one thing you wanna learn over the summer. speaker-2: I think I remote. speaker-0: And I think I put like ride a horse and I mean just you know horsemanship. And I learned it all over summer, so Yeah. speaker-2: You should talk about Joe and his his love story with his horse. speaker-0: Yeah, so we'll we'll kinda open it up for the floor now, I guess. So hopefully we talked about the recruiting process enough. I guess it was kinda slow. it was kinda fast, but it was For those of you are listening in the you know in the future, or if you do if you hear of anybody looking for one, Reagan Nielsen, Reagan dot Nielsen dot at JorgensonFarms dot com. She will walk you through everything. she's HR here, she is my second cousin. she's a extremely nice person. She'll make sure that you n to help you along the way as far as get you where you need to be, in contact with whoever. but yeah. the intern the internship at JLC is it's extremely important for us. like I said there's three there's three full time employees at the on the feedlot all summer and then you had five of you guys. That's well and and Will can't shout out Will. My younger brother Will. But there is you guys are Extreme help. so yeah. But anyway, well enough enough business aside, we'll we'll get to hopefully Boston don't have to be nowhere. Zema work tonight? No. she at home? Well she's at the gym right now. so we got all the time. speaker-2: Shout out Emma. speaker-0: So that's my wife the day we're recording this it's Molly's my wife's birthday, Molly. Shout out Molly. Shout out. speaker-2: yeah. speaker-0: Happy birthday. Happy birthday to Molly. we are we might be a little late for supper, but I bought her some flowers, so hopefully she forgives me. But no. So Joe, every year that we have interns, we have this one horse, he's part throwbred, he's a big big bae. we call him Big Sexy. And every year and he I mean he'll he'll I mean he'll save ya. I mean he'll put ya he won't put you in a bad position, but he won't turn his head from for nothing. but every year there is an intern that just falls in love with this horse. Falls in love with this horse. And every year He's for sale. He's for sale. And no one no one wants like no one ever buys him. But one of these years I think well Joe really likes them. last year I bought traded a Jeep for him. He about went to shout out Heather Sinclair. about traded her Jeep for But speaker-2: It's hard to ask a college kid to to buy a call. speaker-0: Yeah, that's all fun fun and games, but speaker-2: I've kind of all fallen into our horse that we've liked for the summer. speaker-0: Yeah. We should do that. We'll explain. You should explain your f favored horse. Go ahead, Zach. You can go first. speaker-1: Well I told Phil that in two years once I'm out of college I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna buy George. George speaker-0: What is George? speaker-1: is he's a something He's a something. He's a reject cutting boards basically. speaker-0: You should have been. speaker-2: Poor guy. speaker-0: he's a good horse too. speaker-1: But yeah. Yeah. a little bay horse. but I just like him 'cause he just never runs out of ambition. He is always gonna run after the bulls. Sometimes he's scared of which becomes a problem. speaker-0: Bosse cut that out. speaker-1: But but no, he'll he'll always work for ya. So George is my horse. George got a big set. speaker-0: Joe's sexy. Well funny story actually, George is my least favorite one. Got a lot of energy, but I just and couldn't speaker-2: Can you know? speaker-0: handle that anymore. I yeah. Big sexy, like Phil said, he just won't turn your back. Any bowl he just will hit speaker-2: You guys have lot in common. Yeah. We're both like here. speaker-0: Yeah. Right. Eyes on the prize. speaker-2: Yeah. Not much else going on, really. speaker-0: What about you, Nathan? Snoop. Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg. Shout out. Yeah. Snoop Dogg and Nathan. OG. Yeah. He was the first horse I rode. I mean it was fifty yards. Yeah. And then speaker-2: That's actually a funny story you should explain. speaker-0: I needed to give the horse to I need to take him to Yahoo. Yeah. I'm I'm gonna man, okay. I'm gonna interrupt you. again. The first day of Nathan's internship flew all the way over here from California. He had made it clear that he has had no experience. Yeah. No experience. None. speaker-3: it's speaker-0: And he said to be frank with ya, they kinda scare the piss out of me. And I think you've came a long way from that. that's awesome. Yeah. But anyway, go away with your story. No, it's just 'cause they're too s they're smart. They're smarter than cattle. Cattle you can just kinda you know I mean, cows are smart and all that stuff, but horses are way different. But yeah, first horse I rode and then we were at Bloom's, I think, and then that was the second time I rode And we were I don't remember what we were doing, but I I remember you said, you know, take the horses on a trail ride and then he started going and I couldn't keep straight. We were all over and you drove by laughing at me. speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-0: He was la you and Luke. You and Luke and the pickup laughing. speaker-2: No I remember that you drove. speaker-0: You laughed and then you said, keep him straight. But you know he's the he's the picked on one. Fat, slow, lazy, you name it. But I tell you what, I get him going. Get him going. I'll be I'll be going after a bull before George. And big sexy and no name and you name him. Snoop is your your go-to. Yeah. Do you need anything done? He is bad, slow, but he will do it for you. He will do anything for you. I think he likes scanning the pens. I don't I don't know how he is with pushing cows a lot, but he's great. Everything he's all every He's all around. He's all around. All around Cowgirl. Yeah. speaker-1: Shout out Roxanne. speaker-0: No yeah, Snoop. Yeah, for those of you seen our Instagram Instagram posts or Facebook posts of we did that well we'll ha we'll we'll talk about that too. Our over the night our over the night cattle drive when we packed out, set up camp and all that and Nathan was in Nathan and Snoopy were in charge of the snacks. Yep. They had so much. They had he had the bags, he had the saddlebag bags, and he was the pack meal for the game. He was good at it. Now, Annie, you you kind of you kinda had jumped over like you had a lot of different horses. speaker-2: I've kinda been on all over. I think I've ridden all of except Hangover, but I mean George. Yeah, I rode George's first horse I rode when I was here. Yeah. I almost went off the side of him, but it was the first one. No, he was he's a good horse. I love all of but I definitely love Buckeye, I think the most. He's a he's a fun horse to ride. speaker-0: Mm-hmm. Buckeye is a older buckskin. he I'm even gonna guess his age, but he's older than quite he's older than the rest of Not I mean not super old, but not big sexy old. But Buckeye is same thing. He he kinda gets distracted a little bit. speaker-2: You gotta keep them focused. speaker-0: Keep him focused, keep him running. He'll a little bit of buddy sour, but they're all they're all that way. Yes. It's just a f they're herd animals. speaker-2: Yeah, he's a good horse. I love him. He's really taught me how to ride being on him. speaker-0: Mm-hmm. Buckeye is he he will he is like a kid horse. He will he will do anything, he will make sure that you are not in danger. That's that is his number one priority when anybody gets on him. That's why I love bought that horse. So Yep. Mac, you have found a new lover. speaker-2: That is crazy to say, sorry if you're watching this Corey and go listen to him. but it's actually funny. I didn't really have a horse that was like the one that I always rode. I love riding the hooker or Big Sexy. is this PG? I don't know. speaker-0: No, that's her name. speaker-2: But I don't know, about a month ago, maybe month and a half, Phil bought a new horse from a sale barn and Sale speaker-0: Is Sailbarn fine? speaker-2: Barn Fine. As a person antique, if you could. and the first day Phil went to saddle him, he blew up and Phil speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-2: rode him that day and he was just kind of there, you know, didn't really have enough personality to have a name, so we started calling him the horse with no name. And unfortunately that was super catchy so it never left and so this horse is just doesn't have and I started riding him and was kinda able to be like the first person here to put like some horsemanship on him, which was really fun for me and I I enjoyed that a lot. So and then he blew up a couple more times. And then everybody kinda had somebody to blame for it and then that was me. So it was like, your horse did this and you tied him up wrong and everything if you were speaker-0: Dude Paul's. speaker-2: here. Yeah, something. You whatever you did, it's it never happened on I wasn't gonna say it, but this is Hack's fault. But I was he's never blown up when I've tied him up, so horse with no name. speaker-0: Yeah. he was a good horse. He's a good find. Yeah, he's a good find. speaker-2: He took he would have taken me through Helm back today, man. We had a we had quite the morning trying to move some cows in in this heat and this humidity. speaker-0: Yeah, just they caught up on us real fast. Yeah, they speaker-2: Yeah, Pim and Buckeye were dragged. speaker-0: look the same, they're the same color. speaker-2: They were the same color. The horse with no name is pretty much brown. Buckai matched that. speaker-0: No, that's Phil. Do you have a fair horse? I do. I think she'd get offended if I didn't give her a shout out. But the hooker is I had purchased the hooker. It was my first horse that I bought. She's the only mare that we have. and I'm I'd have nothing bad to say about her. She's got a long, long stride. but I got her got her from Dalton and Bailey Harder. yeah, and it was it was perfect. so yeah, she will do anything anything you ask her. So yeah. We did we kinda had an intern afternoon. We made it you know it was their afternoon, we asked some took some headshots, had their exit interviews, questionnaire, all the fun stuff. We're doing this podcast now, but in our in our questionnaire that they they were all asked the same question and one of the questions was their favorite memory at JLC and pretty much all of except Joe. Joe wasn't there. Well you were missed. Joe Phil made it very clear. Don't let your mother listen listen to this. It's okay. What's your mom's name? Sarah. Sarah. Shout out Sarah. It's okay, Sarah. We don't don't let him he needed to go on his family vacation. Yes. He did. That's number one priority. But anyway, we went on we went on an over over the night cattle drive. We went and camped out at our one of our other West facilities, Talbot's, set up camp and we went at sunrise and moved heifers. It wasn't yeah, it was only about six miles. So I wasn't too terrible too terrible. We make the move probably three times a year, so not a big deal, but We did it because it was fun. And I get that question around town. Why'd you guys do that? speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-0: Why not? Because it was fun. Because we because we wanted to. we didn't have to do it, but we did it anyway. So you know it was a nice little there's some crowds set up, there's water in there, so we went and took horses there overnight, all of our tack and whatever else, took two trailers, set up fire and made some supper out of a Dutch oven and Pretty much woke up the next morning and moved cattle. It was great. But anyway, we'll we're gonna talk more about it. Right now or in the water? Yeah, go ahead. Right now. speaker-2: just gonna ask w if you would share with everybody what your attire was for that night. As our chef and cow boss. speaker-0: Yeah, I want to get another shout out, that's okay. But no I no I as the chef we packed what the hell did we even make? I don't even some bacon beans, bacon, yeah. It was something. I did have some vegetables. speaker-2: I want to see them. speaker-0: No, but anyway I I showed up my s everybody at seven thirty, I wanted everybody at the yard at seven fifteen. Seven fifteen and and we're gonna leave from the yard by seven thirty and we're gonna go out west. And I I showed up in sweatpants and I was done working. I was showered. I was in my pajamas. most importantly I had my poncho on. That is the perfect the perfect attire I think for a night like that. But shout out Al Cities from Ecuador and gifted me that poncho. But Anyway, I think we sh we all have stories we should talk about that night. speaker-2: Gosh it was fun. The bancho came out of nowhere, I mean. Bill showed speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-2: up and his sweatpants were tucked into his socks. So at that point it was I I had no idea what speaker-0: Never talk to that I don't to look like a goofy. speaker-2: But yeah, I mean we set up and then all of a sudden we c had a few beers and supper was on and w where's Phil and he comes out with the poncho on. speaker-0: Awesome. Yeah, no, there was some live music. Colena and Mac know how to play a little guitar. It was fun. Just like the good old days. It was great. Would you do it again, Nathan? Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't even think twice about it. Yeah. You slept in the cab. Yeah. So I speaker-1: yeah. speaker-0: didn't have any complaints when I woke up in the morning and unlike everyone else. speaker-2: Exact, for sure. speaker-1: Yeah, no. If you ever do that again, don't sleep in a hammock especially. That was like fifty degrees. speaker-0: I didn't expect to get that call. speaker-1: It was cold. And it rained a little bit. speaker-2: You were probably the only one that felt it. Did you even have a blanket? speaker-1: I was out there I did, but it like fell off. It was not speaker-0: I laid it on the speaker-2: Will you? speaker-1: Yeah, like an hour of sleep that night. It was a rough move. Coffee saved me for sure. Yeah. speaker-0: We yeah, you slept like folded a half. So that's awesome. speaker-2: The girl trailers were pretty good. We split the trailer between the guys and the girls. So Yeah. Yeah, we did pretty good speaker-0: Yeah. man. No it's fun. we'll probably do that again. For sure it was we'll have to. like I said, it was a great experience. I've never done that. I've always wanted to do that. You know, they do it all the time. still to this day. But it was fun for us to go out there next time we're gonna do it on like a Friday or Saturday so we can do speaker-1: Go on. speaker-2: It was a good idea until we had to work this yeah. speaker-0: No, it was fun. speaker-2: Clutch Zack had in the percolator though. speaker-1: That's speaker-0: Yeah, saved all of us right. speaker-1: a great move, especially when we accept Annie. Yeah. Annie fell apart. speaker-2: Yeah, okay. speaker-0: Nope, it's fun. Well, Joe, I think we have to include you a little bit in this conversation. We'll show we're probably share one more. Unless you guys got anything else, but we'll share one little memory. but you forgot to mention. You forgot to mention that you roped your first two calves like last speaker-2: Ciao. speaker-0: week. That was like that had to have been probably one of the better things you've you've ever done. For sure. It it feels good when you get that dawier on yeah, well no, we had some untagged calves, some last some last coal cows or coal herd at some when you calve in this market it's it's never bad. So we were throwing some tags and some ears and whilst we were weaning and we were waiting for trucks to come in and went to start tagging and I was like, boys these calves weren't I mean they were They were a couple days old. Old enough to old enough to get the hell away from you. Yeah. So we I told these boys said, You guys ever roped anything before? And you're like, Nope. And sure as shit, everyone roped two. And it ended up being a a really fun morning for all of us. All on our first row. Except for Except for you. Except for me. speaker-2: Yeah, I'm gonna miss out. speaker-0: Edit that bust. No, that's fun. anybody else have any last minute stories that they that they'd want to share? Anybody? Too many. Too many. Not enough time. Not enough time. That's okay. You guys Is it allowed to we sh we should tag in our Instagram posts. All these guys all these so we can have if you guys have any questions at all for these guys or anything in the in the future we will link their Instagrams or their Facebooks or whatever in their in their interview posts that we'll do in the future. so if any intern that may be listening that don't wanna ask me or Reagan, they can ask a fellow intern and maybe these guys can help you out a little bit. But we're gonna end on one thing. If you guys have any advice for the next intern. You guys were just asked this question. Now it's time to share. speaker-2: Get yourself some pliers. need that. I I got fired last week. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-4: yeah speaker-2: You know often I speaker-0: I need these farmer pliers. Man, the guys that the guys that give you the guys that give you poofs for pliers are the first guys to ask you to use them. Never given anyone. Right, Mac. speaker-1: Wires when you're like fencing or something, that's the first thing all the time. speaker-2: Well, every time I've needed a pair somebody wasn't using theirs, so That's true. I could probably count on both hands every time I needed but speaker-0: Yeah that should be. speaker-2: And that's why I got fired. speaker-0: But yeah, that was a good one. Anybody else? speaker-2: I think we all said the same thing. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-2: Come with an open mind. Like truly you you'll get out of this what you put into it. I mean, Phil will give you every opportunity to work in any part of the operation that you want to or ask questions where you want to learn, talk to whoever you want to talk to, speak up for yourself and and go go learn really. Like that's what the internship is for. speaker-0: Yep. speaker-1: Yeah, absorb information. There's a lot of very cool things happening here all the time between the cattle side, crop side, cows, bulls, feedlot, whatever. There's a lot going on here and there's a lot of people willing to tell you about it, so watch and learn, you know. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-2: But if don't think you need to learn, keep your mind. speaker-0: Yeah. Don't make any wagers with Phil on going. Don't happen. Unless you got six people playing against me, right? speaker-2: A women's a win. Yeah, bring some clubs. That's one thing I did. speaker-0: Yeah. Yeah, there's not much to do here in lower lower the ideal. So we make our way to town once in a while and there's either drink or play golf or do both. Yeah speaker-2: We go big or we go. speaker-0: anything, Nathan? I just agree with Zach and Mac what they said. Mhm. Yep. You know going back to what you know what you guys said, Ask questions. Ask questions. Take advantage of this internship. You're here to learn. It's cheaper than college. You get paid to be here. Yeah. So cheaper than college. So take advantage of it. So I guess Boston. Is that good enough? Okay. Well, we'll we'll end this episode of The Source. thanks for those who had listened. Hopefully it's the most popular one. Hopefully I did a better job than Jamie. So call shouting out or I'm calling out Jamie right now. Might be the new podcast host. Yeah. We'll see. But no. Thank you guys for listening. this is another episode of The Source. Well we will catch you on the next one. speaker-2: Count it, noggin. See ya.