Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And he stepped up at a young age and crushed it.

What was he growing?

All kinds of stuff.

He and I are pretty similar in a lot of ways.

So we experimented with soybeans.

He grew like 20 foot tall corn so that he could get like the husks for tamales.

He grew blue corn.

He used to run a couple thousand head of cattle, sugar beets, all kinds.

He liked experiments all the time.

What was his name?

so he his name's ralph he and i are still close friends he's an awesome dude he still farms um he's probably pushing 75 now so one just from a work ethic perspective like it was amazing what he did for for his family at a young age two he's obsessed with aviation so he i've told this story before he probably fabricated it a decent degree and then he told it to me when i was like eight and i'm sure i'm gonna fabricate it more

But he when he was like 21 took off on like a three-week ride around the country on his Harley And he's coming back into town and he sees this dude flying an ultralight Which is a very small aircraft basically a kite with a motor strapped to it that you don't need a license to fly I mean he trades this dude his bike for the ultralight and gets really really into flying ultralights my mom actually growing up and

So he was one of the first organic farmers in Texas.

He kind of helped create that push, and he couldn't spray pesticide, and he needed to kill all these bugs.

So he found a supplier for lacewings down in Mexico, and he'd have all these lacewings shipped on these cards.

He's got like 2,000 acres to drop these cards over.

So he actually wired... Explain what a lacewing is.

It's a small bug.

It looks like a big fly that like eats aphids and other bad bugs that destroy your crops.

So he actually wired a car seat to the back of the ultralight and put my mom in it when she was like six.

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