Joel Salatin

Doesn't affect you.

Doesn't affect me at all.

Yeah, I'm a lunatic.

And and it's been exciting.

If you Google lunatic farmer, I'm the only one on the planet, you know, you know.

It's cool to create a handle that's truly unique in the world.

I mean, people live and die to try to create that.

So Christian, libertarian, environmentalist, capitalist, lunatic farmer has kind of become my handle so that when I walk in a room, I developed this over years because as a quote unquote organic farmer,

Legally, I can't use the term because I'm not certified by the government.

But I was speaking at a lot of conferences around the world, and I'd be introduced as this organic farmer or environmental farmer or whatever.

And it was always assumed, oh, well, he must be for the teacher's union agenda, abortion, higher taxes, government, Bernie Sanders, whatever.

And I just got really tired of it.

And so I created, literally created this moniker for my bio so that when I walk in a room and

A, people wouldn't put me in a box, and B, I could, with a smile, diplomatically take that tension, that awkwardness, and just dispel it.

And it's been very, very effective.

Well, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, weather, price, pestilence, and disease.

It's what every farmer sits on the back of his pickup truck and, and complains about.

Yes, yes.

Well, I mean, the Maha movement is real.

And when I was at the Maha inaugural ball in D.C., a wealthy friend invited Teresa and I to go.