Damian Mason
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125 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Miami Heat, probably. So anyway, if you just took the contract from any of those three or four NBA teams that he played for, it would be certainly more than anybody else that's listening to this show's career earnings. Probably. I'm not in any way being insulting. But the desire to keep doing something and refreshing it
that then keeps it so you can get an icy hot commercial, that then makes it so you can then get in line for this. And then, because of your staying out there and staying sharp and not letting yourself go, you get invited to the meeting where they're talking about pooling investments to do this. So I mean, when you think about that,
It'd be a lot easier to do nothing, but, I mean, it's clearly not just about the money at this point. He's probably also in a similar thing where he said, I don't want to be typecast as just the big, dumb guy that couldn't make free throws.
So the point is, if you don't put yourself out there in a, and granted, you need to be known and you need to be known as being proficient at something in that regard. So you don't want to be to where you're all over the place and you don't have something. But then, like you say, when you get, typecasts can be a lot of things. I use the showbiz example.
When you just use the farmer example, it can go to a lot of businesses. If it gets to where they think that you don't have breadth or range, it's the same thing.
Then remember the final one is always going to funerals. Yeah. We'd like to not quite get there.
Probably a private event. There was three. I had three gigs lined up when I quit my job. With an average of probably $600 or $700 of actual gig money. So I had like two grand of revenue lined up when I quit my job. And I remember a lot of people saying, good God, aren't you concerned about this? I said, well, I've got some Purdue money to pay back. I got a loan. I got a car payment.
I said, you know what? I bartended when I was at college. I said, if I can't If my act doesn't sell, I'll just grab a few nights at some tavern and make a little cash that way. So it became a sales thing. It becomes a thing of, again, running a business. You work on the act and you work on the creativity, but you've got to also sit at the desk and make phone calls and then keep a file.
So all that stuff that my wife gave me a wonderful compliment when she worked in corporate. She hasn't for 10 years. She works with me. She says, you know, I'm in a sales role, and I said, everything I know about selling, I've learned from you. I didn't get trained. I said, wait a minute. She says, you've got a follow-up file.
You have a prospect file, and you have an actual follow-up file, and you date stuff, and you take notes about it, and then you vary how you reach out to these people. Phone call, then an email, then a postcard, then all this. It really was that way with the Clinton thing way back when, and it's probably the same as anything. It's
managing it as a business, but also making sure that you do the outreach.
Yeah. We've already established that he's deadbeat who's not here. We've already established that. He's working. He's going to love that.
All right, so I get in trouble because, you know, I'm an ag guy, obviously, and I work in agriculture, and I've got listeners that are. We have listeners that we share, whatever. I mean, obviously, I take the more business side. I have probably a lot more people that work in industry, and you have more people that are actually in the production side. I get in trouble because I say, you know what?
why do we have to go through this fire drill every time there's a downturn when we know that USDA policy, since the 80s, has always stepped up and thrown money at ag? And then farm people get very bristly. Well, that doesn't make us whole. You don't understand. You're not a real farmer. You don't understand my expense structure. Yada, yada, blah, blah, blah. I'm not being mean. I'm being honest.
40 years. And he was on my show. And he says, you know what? USDA policy since the 80s. We haven't allowed people to just have a big washout. There's going to be some prop up. So, yeah, we're in a downturn. But unless history for the last 37 years isn't accurate, there's going to be programs that swing in here. There's going to be consolidation. We're at the FarmCon conference. We just saw this.
We've got people in here that farm 20,000 acres. They're looking to expand. There's going to be consolidation. We just saw a graph. I think you might have been in the room. It said 89,000 in 2022, so three years ago. 89,000 farms of the 2 million produced 75% of all the dollar value of crops. It's probably down to less than 80,000.
Okay. So that was the projection. Even lower. I think that was the projection for like by 2030. Okay. Either way, we're in that 45 to 75, whatever number. The point is that's going to continue. And the consolidation has been going on since the 1930s. We hit peak farm in 1935 with like 8 million farms. And now we're down to less than 2. And of the 2 million that we have, again, 50,000 of them are
cranking out three-quarters of the stuff. I'm not being mean. I'm being honest. USDA policy still favors small farms. The New York Times won't tell you that because the NPR says, oh, and all these bailouts go to factory farms, whatever that means because it's just a meaningless term they came up with. In general, USDA always puts caps. Yeah.
It can't take more than a certain amount, so it favors smaller operators. You can be a smaller operator. You can be that person that farms 400 acres, has a job in town. You're probably going to be able to play some USDA policy, get your crop insurance, do all that, make money. What I think the big picture is...
My big predictions are, Tanner and Corey, that I think we're going to start seeing a shift. And it could be the RFK influencer. It could be the media, social media influence. We've been focused on quantity for 100 years. And by God, we figured it out. We have mountains, literally mountains of corn and soybeans and wheat and name the commodity.
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