The Disrupted

- Cow boss, cow boss, cow boss.

Cow boss.

Cow boss.

Cow boss, cow boss.

Cow boss.

Cow boss.

Cow boss.

There ya go.

- I want everybody to know,

I asked everybody to come over here.

Like all of you guys, I appreciate in different ways, man.

You know what I'm saying?

11 years is a long time.

Built a bond.

I told Jerry earlier, two P's kept me coming in here.

The paycheck and the people.

And this is the people right here.

We gonna do a little shot.

Good luck to everybody.

Everybody got a little something?

- Everybody got a little something something?

- I'ma get a little more, man.

- This is to fuck 3M right here, baby.

- Fuck 3M! - Fuck 3M.

Yeah, I second that.

Fuck 3M.

Hey, they tried to tear us down,

but we gonna show them how we rebuild.

Stronger. - New beginnings.

Stronger than ever.

- I love y'all! - God bless everybody.

Definitely.

- Bottoms up to the bottom!

- To the lips, to the gums,

look out stomach, here it comes.

Woo!

- I'm sorry, Pete. - God bless you.

- Take care of your children.

- Long time, baby. - Yo, Pete.

- All right, bro. - It was eight years.

- It's been real, guys. - Yup!

- You gotta go hog wild a little bit, too.

- Yeah, just a little, just a little.

Just a little.

See that's what I like right there.

Look.

The man just lost his job and said I'ma be all right.

Bought himself a $40,000 truck.

Confidence.

- That's either bravery or stupidity, one of the two.

I call it bravery.

- Who's still at the airport guys?

I'm on my way there.

Is it slow out there today?

- Hey Cheryl, I ain't got nothing

all the way from Lakewood.

If I don't get nothing before I head to the airport,

that's where I'll be.

- Cheryl, I've been here since nine in the morning

and I'm at number eight.

- You're kidding, right?

You're joking with me.

What, that's almost five hours.

Freddy, who did you say

only made $100 in 100 hours?

- LJ, she has a hundred and something hours

and she only made $200.

- I made no money on Saturday,

from five to nine I made 50 bucks, that was it.

I finally get down to St. Pete and holy crap, crushed it.

- Hey guys, so where are you parked at?

I'm getting ready to come around the curb right now,

coming into the airport.

Oh, where's everybody at?

Look, sleeping.

See?

Sleeping in the car.

People come out here and they park and they just pass out.

That's how many hours they've been on the road.

Their cars are running, they're sitting in it,

and they're snoring away.

So, right now I'm 40 drivers in the queue.

I got 40 drivers ahead of me on Uber.

And on Lyft, I'm still 100.

Yup.

I'm on.

- I'm not even in the queue, yo.

This is why I don't stay here, because I have no reception.

So how am I supposed to get a ride?

- Well, and then the guy over here, he just said,

"I went to the bathroom."

He put his phone in his pocket, went to the bathroom,

and got kicked out of the queue.

Start all over again. - Oh, yeah.

I get kicked out of the queue every time I go

into the bathroom. - This is ridiculous.

- See, nothing, no bars whatsoever.

- The streets are terrible today.

I've had one ride on the streets today, that's it.

- Is that you? - Oh, yay,

somebody finally got something.

- Navigating to pick up Peter at door three.

- All right, I'll see you later, John.

All right.

- Good luck, hope it's a long one.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

We wait, and we wait some more. (laughs)

This job is very addicting.

Very, very addicting.

It's almost like gambling.

One day you make a lot of money,

and then the next day you think, oh god,

the next day I can do this again.

Well, it don't work like that.

It just doesn't.

First couple years, I made lots of money.

And then, these companies start slashing rates.

And they kept slashing, slashing, slashing the prices

so we're down half of what we used to make.

I don't know.

But I love it. (laughs)

See?

That's where that addiction comes in.

But I love it.

Oh, what I gotta, oh, my god.

Hey, I'll be back.

You may still be sittin' here.

Yeah, yeah.

Our great-grandfather Godfried Martin

bought this farm

and home in 1904.

And so, what you see around us

is five generations of history.

I mean, even great-grandpa Godfried's pocket notebook

that he kept notes in, this is 1891.

I mean, this is agriculture of a different era.

These are wool cards for stringing out the wool

to get it ready for spinning.

And then this, anybody want to take a guess what that is?

Mm, no.

I can't, I haven't the slightest idea.

- That's for darning socks.

You know, it's a bunch of old stuff.

None of it's valuable on the market,

but Grandma instilled the history nut in me.

I mean, on our honeymoon,

Kathy and I followed the Santa Fe trail out to New Mexico.

I mean, I've always been a history nut.

You feel a lot of responsibility

and obligation to your ancestors,

and so as farms consolidate and are absorbed

by larger farms, you know, there's this sense of not only

letting down yourself and your family

but your ancestors, and that's hard to deal with.

I lost almost a third of the operation this year.

The way the bank looks at it,

you had your run and then sell out.

It's over.

I can sell half the farmland and be out of debt,

but by God it's mine and I don't want to give it up.

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- Well, the next thing is,

I was on a call yesterday, and Chelsea said

that their goal was to have states notified

by September 8th.

- If we're gonna focus our grant on,

on the farm crisis response again,

this would be our, our best route to go.

I always said I'd never work off the farm,

but that's what I'm doing.

And my salary is key to keep our farm going.

- Go to Colby on the 15th.

- Mm-kay, well, that'll be a road trip.

- Yeah, it'll be close one down,

get in the car and go to the west end of the state.

Kathy and I often talk

about what we'd have done different,

and we really can't think of anything

unless I found a rich wife.

Man, something smells good.

I only cook the best.

I started dating Kathy

when she was 14 years old coming up to be a freshman

in high school, and we've basically

been inseparable since then.

And I married a hot babe.

Really?