Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2062 - Will & Jenni Harris
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2062 - Will & Jenni Harris' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-14. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2062 - Will & Jenni Harris

welcome back well how are you sir good thank you please introduce the world to
your daughter
good my middle daughter uh jenny harris who was uh used to work for me but now
i work for her
get used to it that's got to be interesting well we'll tell you about it please
do and you guys are
the first people to ever bring dirt to the studio so i want to thank you for
that you're small and
welcome so here is uh your soil and uh compared to industrial uh commodity what
does this say dirt
row crop so you can see the difference in the i mean i don't know if you guys
can see it very
clearly in the photograph in the video but one of them is very light colored
and the other one looks
rich and dark and it's filled with twigs and all sorts of biological material
there's probably some
worms in there yeah probably and this looks like what i'd like to grow
something on whereas this
looks like uh some stuff that uh blows in the wind when it gets dry out i'm
going to show you that
yeah please do and they came from side by side one side of the fence versus the
other side of the fence
and there's no difference other than the way they've been managed over the last
20 years
yeah and uh we've showed many times that video of the was it a creek or a river
near your house
where the runoff from their farm is just polluting the water i mean a very
clear line i mean the
difference is so stark it's so stark and how is that legal by the way let me
tell you what you see in
there so the uh the brown water is coming off my farm the red water is coming
under the road there's a
cover there's a video of that yeah yeah we've played that video many many times
uh just to show people
the difference between a regenerative farm and an industrial farm is that is
that me or my daddy damn
he looks old look at those arms oh scale scaling scaling like a fish so you
know this is it's just
it's just strange that it's legal to just have the runoff pollute the rivers
that it seems like
someone would see that and say well the downstream effects of this have to be
pretty substantial and
pretty detrimental to the fish to every other piece of land that's down river
that's going to encounter
all this fertilizer fertilizer and pesticide and herbicides and this has to be
terrible well and if it
was a construction site it would have to be under what they call sweat that's
an acronym for something
storm water something something and they wouldn't allow that but agricultural
land is not under sweat
in fact it's it's not even under sweat that's a subsidized production system by
the government so it's not
only okay or uh acceptable you know it's it's the status quo so they've just
accepted a certain amount
of pollution well i i guess it would be a nearly unlimited amount of solution
because nobody checks
it nobody checks the water nobody checks to see what the results are which is
insane i mean what is it
like downstream what what is downstream of that well it used to be the apalachicola
bay which was a thriving
oystering grounds but they don't oyster there anymore because of the runoff in
the farms because of the
decline in oyster population which is because of runoff correct wow there's
there's like a whole town
apalachicola that's you know used to be a real thriving community because of
the oystering you know
business and industry and the the whole town has suffered which is one thing we'll
talk about you
know with regards to rural america but uh you know there's like a whole city
that's suffering because
they can no longer do what they've done for generations how come no one's filed
a lawsuit
well i'm not in the lawsuit filing business not you but someone from that town
i mean and someone
from the oystering community because it seems like that that's a no-brainer i
mean if you were running
a tire company and the tire company was uh upstream of something and the water
went down and started
polluting it and ruining people's livelihoods you would think that someone
would have the grounds for
a lawsuit we had rfk on and he talked a lot about you know in new york the you
know the the river and
the pollution and how he led the charge uh you know people like that need to
look at apalachicola bay
and if you had a runoff from a tire manufacturing company you could trace it
back to that one
entity in one location you know that water comes from all over south georgia
and and it's from
everybody's fields and most of it is treated the same way so you know i'm not i'm
not answering a
litigation question because i don't know but it would be a a hell of a complex
situation to jump on
so you would have to sue a large number of farms you know i don't know how that
works but yeah but
yeah there's a large number of people contributing to it virtually everyone who
farms corn cotton peanuts
uses the same cultivation and the same pesticides so i mean you would
it seems like it'd be a very very complex litigation to me it seems like it's
at least worth a study have
they done a study on the bay and the levels of pesticides and various chemicals
dead dead zones in
the gulf have been studied and jamie can probably pull that up could you do my
favor just pull that
microphone just a little closer to your face just yeah just try to keep it like
a fist away from your
face like that yeah um so it it seems like that they would want to study that
though i mean that seems
it's insane to me that they just allow that to continue and it's happening
every day day by day
just constantly dumping toxic chemicals into the water okay so i think you know
i'm certainly not
answering for that whole uh kind of politically motivated question but you got
to remember that
the politicians who control the bureaucrats are controlled by pesticide
companies right and
agricultural companies there's just a lot of money involved yeah and you know
if i were a politician
running for office and begging for funding i probably wouldn't want to be the
guy that opened that can
out of worms it seems like it all boils down to that money and politics if we
could take money
out of politics we could make it so that no one can donate other than
individuals and a very limited
amount of money we could change everything i think so we could change
everything it's such a dirty system
and it allows things like this to happen but then the question is you explained
how you changed your
farm from an industrial farm to a regenerative farm and that it took a pro it
was approximately 20 years
is that what you said we yes well i mean the when you start that process moving
from an industrial
farm to what with the regenerative farm that we run today coming out of the chute
you see a decline
in production and it lasts for a period of time three years four years or
something then you see a very gradual
increase until it gets back to where ours is today and where ours is today is
is not as high yielding
as if we used all the crop inputs right but it's approaching that because we
don't have to buy
the crop inputs so i think it's a better it's better for us it's certainly a
more resilient system and if
there was legal or at least some sort of financial repercussions that were
enacted on the farm itself
for the pollution it would seem like that would balance itself out like if
someone did the correct
thing and said hey you guys are ruining the earth itself with this just so you
can make a little more money
which is so crazy that that's allowed and not just allowed but subsidized well
you know the farmers
are making a little more money you're right the big multinational corporations
are making a hell
of a lot more money because they're they're manufacturing these products and
they're handling these huge
quantities of agricultural production right and turning out this industrial
food that we all eat so the amount of
money is incredible and don't forget i think i might have mentioned to you when
i spoke to you before that
it's a way of life that senior bureaucrats go to work for the big ag companies
yeah so if you're a very
senior person in dc in department of ag and probably other departments and you're
getting close to
retirement you can get you can if you've been a good boy you can retire and get
a job making twice which
you were making with the government if you're not a good boy you just retired
right just like the fda
and the pharmaceutical drug companies it's the same problem it's it should be
illegal well farmers aren't
i'll say this farmers are less and less raising food and raising food like
products you know there is
a statistic said that farmers only get 14 cents of every food dollar that's
spent and you think about
wow the the person who you know cultivates the land plants the seed harvest the
crops you know they get
14 cents of every dollar and the truth is the food production system has become
such a long way from a
farmer and a consumer there's got to be room for you know distribution and
manufacturing and logistics and
whatever else a dollar you know the food dollar is still there it's just the
farmers getting less and
less of it because food more and more looks less and less like food she's she's
right but in our case
we get 100 cents of every dollar but we still don't have much money we still
don't make a lot of money
we get 100 cents not 14 but then we cover all these costs that in the
industrial system is just
the farm is just the production arm well and ours is different because we took
a hundred percent
responsibility of that food product you know so we raise we slaughter we
butcher we package and we
distribute so we take we take account for all of those parts in the food
production system so that
we can keep that whole dollar now it's not profit because we have to pay for
those things but uh the
whole dollar stays in bluffton and that's and that's the most important
important part you know clay
county georgia where bluffton is was the poorest county in the united states of
america in 2020. number
one not just georgia in the whole country and when that whole dollar stays in
clay county georgia
uh it is it is beginning to correct that that that results because only 14
cents stays there
that's the result and it seems like the problem is so complicated now because
of fast food chains
and because of big cities that absolutely don't grow anything that what when
you're getting food you
have to get food at scale you have to get massive amounts of food like say if
you're living in um
california if you're living in los angeles which is just an insanely overpopulated
place
and you want to get beef especially if you want to get a cheeseburger from jack
in the box or
something like i don't mean to pick on jack in the box burger king whatever
where's that meat coming from it's not it's not growing from local cows there
are no local cows
you have to go pretty far out of town to find a farm that raises cows i mean
you can go like an
hour and a half out of town and find some cows but that's not going to feed
everybody they'll all be
gone there's not enough cows a lot of it comes from australia and new zealand
and uruguay and
yeah a lot a lot a lot of beef's imported yeah and a lot of elk a lot of elk if
you buy elk at a
restaurant most likely you're getting it from new zealand i got a story about
about imports that i
want to say this is really important so 25 years ago when dad uh decided to
change the way we farmed
he knew that in order to put all the cost that it was going to take to raise
animals differently
he had to find a consumer that would pay for that and so he went you know
looking for customers and
public supermarket was you know one of the first ones whole foods very quickly
after um and you know
that that worked out uh really well but the the the the point i want to get to
is that when dad
started selling beef grass-fed beef to those two grocers the first pound of
american grass-fed beef
to be marketed as american grass-fed beef came from white oak pastures and that
was not a sustainable
option we we can'