Robert Smith
speaker
1,476 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Jul
Robert Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One thing I thought was interesting this week is talking to the vendors and seeing how many vendors scaled down the size of their booths.
They got a smaller booth.
Timber Creek, they reduced their booth by almost half.
A lot of places are like, we just don't want to do this big extravaganza anymore, but we want to get a more intimate setting with our true customers.
Part of that is tariffs. Tariffs were mentioned 49 times in the Beige Book, by the way. The president has been slapping tariffs on and then unslapping those same tariffs and then delaying the slap and then doing that thing where you sort of fake a slap and then point and laugh. Ha, ha, ha.
Quote, a contact in Memphis noted that the current agriculture market was in a worse spot than the same time last year. Contacts noted that tariffs, policy uncertainty, and a lack of clarity regarding farm bill safety nets were negatively impacting the sector. Some farmers also reported having no expectation of profits in the 2025 crop year, and others have gone out of business.
I know.
Zarlan told us that a lot of the farms do a winter wheat that they sell around the world through USAID, the same USAID that's been essentially cut by the Trump administration. So there's a lot of extra grain sitting around.
In fact, Zarlin is changing his plans right now based on the tariffs. Rice, the crop rice, apparently takes a lot of fertilizer to grow. So he's switching to soybeans, which requires a lot less fertilizer. But soybean prices are low.
But Sarlon isn't dwelling on it. When we left him, he was staring at soy prices on his phone again, trying to figure out if he should lock in a price now or gamble on it going up later. Robert Smith.
Big opening for Tony Dorsett. Look out, he's got great speed. Tony Dorsett was my favorite player. I had the uniform, the helmet. The running backs were bigger stars during my childhood than the quarterbacks.
The running back is the most violent position in the most violent sport on the planet.
The average fan doesn't fully appreciate that the NFL is a huge business.
It was always kind of a badge of honor to play the position because it is a very physical position. And there are times when you have to block players that outweigh you by a large amount. It's not for the faint of heart.
Only the quarterback has the ball in their hands more. And so you have, I think, one of the greatest opportunities to impact the outcome of a game. On every running play, 11 guys are trying to hit the same person, and that's the guy who has the ball. It's the challenging part, but it's also the rewarding part. that you were able to get by them.
I hold the NFL record for the longest average per touchdown run at more than 26 yards. And I got to tell you, it's a feeling that I wish everybody could experience when you break into the open and you know you're going to score a touchdown. It's like when you're leaning back in a chair and and you almost tip and fall, and you get this rush of adrenaline.
It's like this sudden burst of excitement that I'm about to score a touchdown.
I tore my ACL my rookie season, but in that injury, I also broke the bottom of my femur. and did some damage to the articular cartilage, which is the smooth cartilage that's on the tip of the bone. And I needed to have a microfracture. It's a procedure where they tap on the exposed surface of the bone. And then I needed to have that again after my last season in the league.
So there I was a couple of months shy of my 29th birthday. It was the only season I didn't miss any games. And I still needed to have knee surgery after the year. And the thing that I said was, you know, if you would pay any amount of money to get your health back if you lost it, then what amount of money is worth the very real chance that you'll lose it?
It was the calculation that was going on in my head. That's why I left the game when I did. I'm thinking quite literally, it's better to walk way early than to limp away late.
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