195. SPECIAL: Common Ground: Earth Day, April 22

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Welcome back, pet parent.
I cannot even believe today's

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episode is so incredible.
First of all, there is a call to

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action at the end of today's
episode.

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I'm going to go ahead and give
you a preview.

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April 22nd is Earth Day this
year in 2025.

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There is a global watch party
that I really, I'm going to do

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it.
I'm going to watch.

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I hope you guys are going to
watch.

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Even though I'm traveling, I'm
going to make sure to take the

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time out of my day to to watch
this on Amazon Prime.

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There is a global watch party
for a documentary.

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There's two of them, Kiss the
Ground, which actually came out

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in 2020, and Common Ground,
which is the premiere on April

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22nd on Earth Day.
We talk a lot on this podcast

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about regenerative agriculture.
It is literally our planet is

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dying and regenerative
agriculture is the way to bring

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it back to life.
And when we bring the planet

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back to life, when we regenerate
the soil and bring the soil back

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to life, every other living
being on this planet is also

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back, brought back to life,
brought back to health.

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And so this to me is like, I
remember watching Kiss the

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Ground in 2020 and I was just
like, there's a solution.

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Like I, I didn't know about
regenerative agriculture before

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that film.
And so I'm really excited for

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Common Ground, which again
premieres April 22nd on Amazon

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Prime.
This is a game changer.

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We can reverse global warming
and the Earth's soil is the

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solution.
By regenerating farm lands, we

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can completely and rapidly
stabilize our planet's climate,

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restore lost ecosystems, and
create abundant food supplies.

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So on today's episode, I only
have a few minutes to speak with

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Ian Somerhalder, who he's an
actor and humanitarian and you

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may know him from Vampire
Diaries.

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That's how I was introduced to
him was through Vampire Diaries,

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one of my favorite series of all
time.

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And he is from a family of
farmers.

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And so he has been working in
this since 2000.

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Gosh, I mean, the early 2000s,
he has been working at the start

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of trying to put all of this
together, trying to figure out

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what we can do, what we need to
do to get back to regenerative

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farming practices.
Because it's, it's a domino

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effect.
When we fix the planet, we fix

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everything else.
The only problem is, and we

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talked about this a little bit,
is that big Pharma, Big AG,

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meaning these agrochemical
suppliers, they're not going to

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like it at all because they need
to find something much better to

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do with their time and their
money other than killing the

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planet.
So let's talk to Ian Somerhalder

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about all of this and then I'll
be back at the end with the call

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to action.
How are you doing, Ian?

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Oh my God, so awesome man I am.
I'm super grateful to be on this

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with you.
Thank you for don't mind me.

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I have like chicken feathers and
poop all over me like we're

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there's a lot happening.
I can't tell you how much I love

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that, so I just want to jump in.
First of all, this for us

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started with Kiss the Ground.
You're coming out with common

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ground this year on Earth Day,
which is amazing, a global watch

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party, Amazon Prime and Yep.
So my questions for you are

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really, I talk about
regenerative agriculture on this

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podcast a lot.
It's really important to me.

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But one of the things that, you
know, kiss the ground did it

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really started to open our eyes
here in the US to the

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destruction that industrial
agriculture has caused for us.

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And I think from what I
understand, common ground is

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giving us so much hope in that,
yes, there's we have some really

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big problems here, but we can
fix it.

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And not only can we fix, we can
fix the planet, we can fix the

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humans, we can fix the
everything, everything that

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lives on this planet.
And I would just love to hear,

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like, what's the most powerful
truth that people need to hear

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about how regenerative farming
can actually reverse climate

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change and so much more.
So grateful for that.

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Listen, you just said something.
You said we have big problems

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here, but we can fix it.
And I just realized because I

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did definitely want to jump in
and disrupt you.

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We do have big problems, but you
know what?

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We have even bigger solutions.
I love.

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That I love.
That and that is, I think one of

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the things that when people take
away from this, like I, I get

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teary eyed just thinking about
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It's not because I'm like some
soft hoity toity.

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Like no man, I'm covered in
chicken feathers and chicken

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shit because I have a brooder in
my garage with 20 baby chicks in

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it.
Because we're just rebuilding

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our massive, amazing flock.
Regenerative agriculture that we

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are about to do at scale is
going to push out the

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agrochemical companies, and it's
going to rebuild soil in

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America.
And what that's going to do is

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it's going to give us our power
back.

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It's going to build a giant,
robust agricultural food economy

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where everyone benefits, not
just a select few.

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And our human health and our
mental health is going to

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skyrocket because as you rebuild
soil, human health goes with

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that.
And as human health gets better,

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human healthcare costs, what
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Yeah, precipitously.
And so people say, okay, yeah,

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just start from the brass tack.
What the hell is regenerative

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agriculture and why should I
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And anyone knows me has heard me
say this a million times.

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It's so simplified, it's so
simple.

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Regenerative agriculture is just
the use of planned raising

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methods and using living,
growing plants, literally

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agriculture at scale, to
sequester enormous amounts of

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carbon dioxide and store it
safely back in the ground where

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it belongs.
Now, when you do that, all that

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carbon feeds the vital
microorganisms in the soil.

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Well, healthier soil, healthier
plant, healthier people,

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healthier planet, healthier
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Boom, right?
So what happens?

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Is this farm or start making
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Shit loads of money pardon my
French.

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Now when that happens, what do
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Well they pay more in taxes and
school districts all of a sudden

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get better.
Water districts all of a sudden

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get better.
After school programs all of a

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sudden get better.
Because remember in America

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school districts are based on
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Full lower income communities IE
farming communities, black and

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brown communities.
They don't get that great

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education because the tax base
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Well, guess what?
Once we start rebuilding these

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communities up, boom, all of a
sudden the money is there.

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And then as the pharmaceuticals
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get pushed away, because
remember, these agrochemical

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companies are also owned by the
same pharmaceutical.

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They are also owned by the same
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pharmaceutical companies.
So the pesticide create, and

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there's a couple of case studies
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A couple of these companies, one
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the chemical that causes the
disease and then they sell the

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cure, the only cure for that
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Talking about a closed loop
economy for them.

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Come on.
And the American legislators,

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the American Congress has
allowed this to happen.

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And so with common ground, this
is all positive, everyone.

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We are going to rebuild our
soil.

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We're going to build a robust,
healthy agricultural food

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economy.
There's going to be so much

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money in the system.
Our human health is going to go

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up.
Our education is going to get

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better.
This is how we build America

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from the ground up instead of
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How exciting is that?
It's it's so exciting and you

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said something you said that
people are going to get their

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power back.
And that is just that to me.

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Again, talk about this so much
about empowerment and I know

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that you just talked about it a
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It can feel so overwhelming to
us.

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It's just individuals trying to
get by day-to-day because as you

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said, this is so deep.
There are politics and power

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dynamics involved that are
keeping our system broken right

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now.
And so I'm curious, like, can

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you give me a little sneak peek
about how we can actually push

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forward and get through these
roadblocks in politics in our

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government right now too?
Because I know there are tons of

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subsidies for industrial farming
and agriculture.

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And so like, how do how do we
get past this and and get our

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power back?
Yep, so this is all I'm I'm just

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taking some notes because I
there's so much going through my

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brain.
So amazing question.

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So the politics and power
dynamics is how we we got here,

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right.
So in the film, which is

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amazing, you'll see it'll blow
your mind.

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We uncover the money pipeline
how Agri chemical companies,

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primarily Monsanto or Monsanto,
however you want to say it has

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been secretly micro financing a
very large part, I can't say all

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a very large part of the
university agricultural

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curriculum in this country for
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So for four decades, the United
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Monsanto to secretly
microfinance these not just land

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grant universities, pretty much
all the university agricultural

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economy, I mean agricultural
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So basically what they did was
built a system where they taught

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students, hey, if you want to be
a successful farmer, you need

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all of our chemicals and inputs
and the universities, because

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they basically, you know, these
Agri chemical companies paid for

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all the best science money could
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curriculum and then was haloed
by laws from the US Congress

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because they get paid.
And it's so wild, you know,

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about politics and power
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So I stay out of politics,
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But I'm saying there are 23 Agri
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Congress.
Can you imagine how much noise

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that is?
If you're a lawmaker, you're a

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dad, you just want to build a
great community.

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And it's like, hey, hey, Jeff,
hey, listen, you know, why don't

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you come down to the Bahamas
this weekend?

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We'd love bring the wife.
Hey, we'd love to talk to you

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about this one thing we really
want to do.

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Well, hey, listen, jump on the
jet.

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Oh, you know what, man, I bet
your wife looks so good in this

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main coat.
Even at there's 12 months in a

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year, that's basically two
people per month coming to you

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saying, hey, let's do this.
Do, do, do.

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Do you imagine how much noise it
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And then everyone wants real
election.

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And so one of the things and,
and, and this is not about

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changing power dynamics, so to
speak, meaning for one party or

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another.
For me, what I'm realizing is

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that voters are going to learn
this and that whether you are an

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incumbent, whether you're
Republican or Democrat,

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independent, I don't care.
But whether you are an incumbent

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or a candidate, you're no longer
going to go be able to go back

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to your district as a hero if
you're taking all this

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pharmaceutical and agrochemical
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That's not going to happen.
And so I think the Democratic

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Party and the Republican Party
are going to have to figure out

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how to rebuild voter confidence
and love, but from a grassroots

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component, rather than taking
all this agrochemical or

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pharmaceutical money.
It's not going to work anymore

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because young voters aren't
going to stand for it and

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farmers aren't going to stand
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A conservative farmer who has
conservative views but is

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looking at a party that's
keeping him, you know,

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underneath the thumb of the
agrochemical company by keeping

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all these laws in place is going
to be furious.

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And it's not fair to them.
So that's what's so amazing.

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If you look at even grain
production, right?

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I mean, I make whiskey to go
through a lot of grain and

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you're looking at there's 200
million grain acres in this

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country.
Regenerative agriculture saves

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up to $400.00 an acre.
Multiply 200 million * 400

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dollars.
That's 80 billion $1,000,000

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that we sent away of farmers
money.

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Why are we doing that?
They got to go to a bank, they

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have to borrow that.
Then they get sick from the

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chemicals.
Farmers are going to have so

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much money.
These these communities are

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going to have so much dough and
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to the local Chevy dealership or
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truck, one that has heat.
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to dinner not once a month, once
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better houses, run their farms
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they're doing.
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subsidized, especially growing
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power dynamics are going to
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to have to go with it.
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back into the people, politics
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And that's what's so empower.
That's what's so empowering.

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So this isn't all doom and
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I mean, listen, the future is so
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Get your sunglasses, you know.
I love that so much and I know

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you have to move on, Ian.
So I have one final question for

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you.
You came from a farming family

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and I think that's where a lot
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You've talked about that in the
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on this podcast is the health of
our pets, which is such a small

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like sub niche of what we are
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But I am curious because I know
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nutrient value in an agricult in
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industrially versus regenerative
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day.
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what do you feed your pets?
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robust, we're farm people,
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from regenerative places that I
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this country, which then all the
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We were poisoning our animals
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Animals in the wild eat whatever
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fruit and certain grains.
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basically what they would eat if
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in a really, really, really
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And we, you know, we don't have,
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animals in this country that are
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end up with cancer.
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veterinarian industry in this
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Once we change, listen, we've
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our nutrition in the last 75
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It doesn't take a rocket
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degrade the soil, you degrade
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All these, this pet and human
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People forget pets.
Food has also grown like ours.

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I had an amazing, unbelievable
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Neutro, which is 100 year old
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It's owned by the, it's owned by
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Mars is a huge pet health
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they're spending millions of
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transition to regenerative
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like, wait, this is our supply
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allow them to make higher
quality, better food that they

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make more money anyway.
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supply chain is safe for the
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How cool is that?
So And so I'm very much in that

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space and it is a really
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So I'm not joking when I say the
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It really is bright.
And I'm so grateful.

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Thank you for using your passion
and your skills to keep people

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healthy and taking this message
of keeping the getting the

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planet healthy so that our
people and our economies and our

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climate is balanced.
That is a win, win for all of

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us, you know.
It is.

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Thank you again so much.
Earth Day, April 22nd there's a

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global Global watch party for
Common Ground I.

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And kiss the ground.
And kiss the ground.

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I cannot wait to be part of it.
I've already signed up.

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Link is in the description guys
and thank you.

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Again with us, April 22nd.
Amazon, please be a part of our

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global watch party.
This film will change your life.

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You can't Unsee this stuff, so
thank you.

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Thank you so much and I
appreciate your time.

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Have the I just can't thank Ian
enough for that.

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So what I'm going to do, I am on
commongroundfilm.org.

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I'm just going to play a clip of
the trailer for Common Ground.

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I hope you can hear it OK.
The Global Watch party again

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April 22nd on Amazon Prime
Video.

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Here is the trailer.
What I'm about to tell you is a

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matter of life and death.
If the soil dies, we die.

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The facts have been proven,
round death does cause cancer.

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If you Burrow deeply enough,
there is a pipeline of money

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from the pesticide industry into
those universities.

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They're getting the kind of
science that money can buy.

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Nature is the mother of us all,
and if Mama ain't happy or but.

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There's a way to save our
precious soils.

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It's called regeneration.
Regeneration is not just

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restoring the land to the state
that we found it out, but

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actually making it better.
We have added over 96 tons of

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carbon per acres into our soil.
Can we mitigate climate change?

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Absolutely.
We're going to check the

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underwear and the regenerative
versus the conventional soybean

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field and see if we can tell a
difference between the microbial

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activity.
We've eliminated insecticides,

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pesticides, herbicides.
We are saving upwards of $400.00

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an acre.
It works out to be about

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$2,000,000 a year in savings.
That is serious cash.

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I forgot my suit.
I feel like I'm underdressed.

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But if you are the people who
can make a change, well, it's

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high time to finally get
regenerative agriculture.

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Let's prioritize the farmer.
It's a connection to the land,

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it's a connection to those that
came before us and those that

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are going to come after us.
We could change everything.

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There's hope, I said.
This letter is a warning, but

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it's also a promise.
So I'm going to fight like hell

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to save your future, my
children, because I love you.