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Chapter 1: What inspired Corey and Ali Anderson to pursue American manufacturing?
Technology is it's taken away the people aspect, it's taken away the teams, it's taken away collaboration and the personal connection. And that's what's so fun about the skilled trades. It's a team, it's a community building something, especially in our foundry where it's hot, dirty and dangerous. And it actually fosters a really cool brotherhood.
I was just overwhelmed with how cool it was. I said, if we could just help educate what is a foundry, people will be really interested in working there. It is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. There is raw iron being poured. And like Corey mentioned, just this incredible brotherhood that hits you right when you walk in.
Corey and Allie Anderson are driven, resilient, and visionary entrepreneurs and the founders of Anderson Industries, known for building the world's largest steam engine to inspire others while creating projects that preserve history and help shape future generations.
We just want to be known as people who are fighting for American-made, people who are fighting to create opportunities for the skilled trades and training and instilling discipline in the character qualities to make our young people the next legacy makers of the skilled trade.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast, the Red Life edition. Joining me today, fresh off their episode of Legacy Makers, is Corey and Allie Anderson. Folks, they may seem like quiet, simple folks, but this is literally the future of American construction workhorse. Oh gosh, please save me here. You guys are amazing. We had such an amazing interview.
Please tell us what you do and why you're here.
Yeah, so we have two missions, really. It's to preserve American manufacturing and to create opportunities and develop the next generation of skilled trades. So we do that through our manufacturing companies, Anderson Industries and Anderson Foundries. We have a number of foundries. Dakota Foundry is a gray and ductile iron foundry. And then Muncie Castings, we just acquired.
That's an aluminum foundry. And so we have a number of operations, mostly in the casting and foundry industry. And then we're also with our Iron Warrior Academy. It's a nonprofit. We're also building and creating opportunities for the next generation of young people to get into the skilled trades.
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Chapter 2: How did Kory achieve a Guinness World Record with a steam engine?
I mean, dating back to... During the pandemic, developing Iron Warrior out of that in order to save the foundry to then launching the Iron Warrior Academy where we train the next generation of skilled trades. Today's focus, launching a children's book to really get those early concepts in the hands of kids so that they're really intrigued to go into metal fab, into foundry work.
They want to get a toolbox. So very, very holistic mission here. They're all intertwined together and it's been fun.
I'd love to. Let's talk about the next generation. A lot of folks are on their iPhones or on their roadblocks. And I'm with my AI. Folks have forgotten what it is to construct and make things with their bare hands and have that energy flow from them into something that's in front of them. Talk about how you're bringing that back.
So that's one of the most fulfilling parts of being involved in the skilled trades and actually learning a skill and being able to create and build something with your hands. And it's going to be it is a huge demand. A lot of that work over the last decades has been shipped to other countries, primarily China. They're one of the manufacturing leaders in the whole world.
But we need to bring a lot of that work back and a lot of the AI, as you mentioned, that that transition is going to be replacing a lot of current jobs that we have today with AI. And it's going to have a huge impact to the whole job industry, the whole job market.
And but also, you know, it's going to eliminate some jobs, but it's going to create even more jobs because we need to build data centers. We need to build infrastructure. AI takes a lot of energy. So there's going to be a ton of infrastructure development, energy production and all of this stuff that has to be built. And it can only be built by people who know how to build with their hands.
For sure.
It's crazy because I definitely want to talk about the children's books. You're going to go back into even younger generations and legacies. That's right. Before we do that, you know, it's funny because analog is coming back. Like the illusion 1212. That's a 1222. People are always on their phones and it's all digital. There's nothing really happening. You're just talking to a computer.
It's the year 2025, 2026. The computers are computing themselves now. It's time to get back to human being humans. Yeah. So I feel like there's going to be quite a resurgence of this analog of woodwork, of people using their hands because now we have computers computing themselves. They're liable for whatever mistakes they make and whatever incoming doom that's coming in a couple of decades.
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Chapter 3: What is the mission behind Iron Warrior Academy?
We take the 150 case on the road every summer. And through our merch line, I get to talk with a ton of people. And there's just been a really high interest in kids' books. And so finally, I said, you know what? Let's do it. This year, we're going to make a children's book. We're going to tell the story of the baby Iron Warrior, Corey, building the 150 case.
He finds Billy in the field and by the end of the book discovers that Billy's gonna be the heart of this engine. And so it's a really powerful story based on a true story, which is not very common with children's books. It's also very value-based and faith-based. So it introduces these really important concepts to kids early on and gets them involved in the skilled trades.
At the back of the book, they can learn what a toolbox is. They can learn introduction to foundry fundamentals. So it'll be a really, really great tool for kids and just inspiring the next generation into the trades.
Gosh, it's awesome. I hear foundries and I hear, I feel the heat, but also I'm a gamer. So I'm always thinking about, Oh, spells and swords and what's it like being in there and then being in there and then being a Guinness world record, like talk about that evolution of, of starting very small, but then kabam.
Yeah. Can I jump in here? Please jump in. When I met Corey and he said, I own a foundry, I thought, okay, it's maybe a piece of machinery. I had no idea. I mean, I was a corporate America executive traveling around big cities and never been to town of Andover, 91 people, much less a foundry. And so when he took me there, I was just overwhelmed with how cool it was.
I said, if we could just help educate what is a foundry, people will be really interested in working there. It is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. There is raw iron being poured. And like Corey mentioned, just this incredible brotherhood that hits you right when you walk in. Yeah. What a great first date.
Make sure you wear steel toes and not heels. Yeah, right on.
Yeah, there you go. Cool, man. You guys, let's talk about this Guinness World Record. You know, from this small, humble beginnings to kabam, and now you're sitting on lips. Giant lips. Welcome to your life. Talk about this journey, bub.
Yeah, so I mean, building the 150 case was a childhood dream of mine. And it was, you know, it really guided me to start businesses, to acquire companies. I eventually bought the foundry because that was a necessary part of that project to be able to cast all of these parts. That tractor weighs 75,000 pounds. And so we had to make hundreds of castings and pour a lot of iron.
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Chapter 4: How can AI and automation impact skilled trades careers?
Her father and her brother, he's in the skills trade, but he hasn't quite figured out how to hand this down to his own son because his own son is into computers. He's got a huge crop of land. For folks that are listening, how does one get their legacy out in front of the video games and out into the field and getting their hands dirty and breaking a couple of nails? I don't know.
Playing with dirt.
I think one of the things is we just have to overcome kind of a branding problem with the skilled trades. You know, for a number of decades, you know, we were told that you had to go get a four-year degree to have a good job. And, you know, the skilled trade was kind of shunned for a long time. But now we're seeing a massive shift in demand where it's like,
everybody wants the corner office, but there's nobody to build the corner office, right? And so now it's like, oh wow, we need these skilled trades jobs and we need people to build. And now there's just this huge demand. And so I think it's really just about telling the story of success and like educating people that, you know, you can make a great living in the skilled trades and arguably now,
probably a better living in the skilled trades than most of the college degrees that we have been going after for jobs over the last 20, 30 years. And there's a big shift in opportunity there. And it's just education. It's just like showing the examples, telling the stories, having people like that who share their story of making a great business and entrepreneurship in the skilled trades.
And the cool thing with the skilled trades is anybody who's in it, whether it's a plumber, an electrician, like you can become very good at your trade and then you have the opportunity to start your own business. And that's that's a great thing about being an American, right? We just you always have the opportunity to work harder.
And if you're if you're willing to work and put in the work and have the discipline and start a company and build a team like there's no limit to what you can do.
Right.
Go ahead. I feel like you had something to say.
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Chapter 5: What challenges do skilled trades face in today's job market?
You know, like we have an oath to, to, to give back to the, to the creator. Yeah. You know what I mean? Absolutely. With that, I would love to end with that. Is there any closing comments? How actually, how can folks find you and continue their journey of discovery with both of you?
Yeah.
So we are live on just about every platform. The unique thing about us, we've got multiple brands. So if you're interested in our foundry, follow us at AndersonFoundries. If you're interested in what we're doing on the Iron Warrior side or in our welding, our engineering, Anderson Industries, or if you just want to follow the fitness stuff,
Iron Warrior and our nonprofits at Iron Warrior Academy. And then Corey, allthingscorey at corey.anderson on YouTube. There's 100,000 subscribers there, some really great content. And yeah.
yeah that's what i got follow us on i mean follow us on youtube and instagram mainly and you know if you follow me corey anderson you know you get you kind of get the holistic glimpse of everything we're doing because i have you know snippets of the preservation of history manufacturing iron warrior everything that we're doing kind of in a holistic mission so
And if you're interested in my book, at Billy the Boiler, it will be launching this month. So we're really excited, hot off the press, paperback, hardback, and an activity book.
Yeah, you're all coming back for the Mastermind next week, right?
We are, we'll be there.
So definitely bring a couple of copies and start handing them out. And I'll introduce you to Rudy, he'll be there. For that, that concludes another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast, Red Life Edition. This is, yep, the Andersons, Corey and Ali Anderson. And I'm Ray Gutierrez, and we are Inside Success.
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