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All right, my name is Pavel.

Be a man with me.

And do some PG -13 content.

This is a long, long glove.

So I'm on the journey to discover what real masculinity is, not what internet

says it is. If you think about it, real man is responsible for providing food

for his family. So really real man is responsible for providing food.

For everybody.

Food actually does not magically appear in the grocery store.

It comes from somewhere.

So today, I want to meet with someone who's responsible for providing food for

everyone. This is Farmer Claude. He invited me to his farm in Tennessee,

he raises cattle, corn, and soy. I wanted to witness a circle of life and

how an honest day's work can help feed America.

All right, today we're at the ranch in Tennessee.

We're going to do some manly shit.

Okay. The language has got to be clean.

What?

Sir, thank you for your time. Glad to have you. Appreciate you. Tell us what

we're going to do today. We've got some replacement heifers we're going to feed.

We've got some cows we're going to pregnant check.

And then we've got a grain bin we've got to clean out.

And then we're going to hopefully harvest some corn if the weather

I'm excited. It's going to be a good day. Yeah.

All right.

Do some stuff.

Can we go and pet?

Uh, most of those. They're not going to let you get close. So let's go. I can

get you close to some cows.

All right.

Gladys. Come here.

Gladys. Can I call her Gladys?

Our first stop was to meet some cows and pet them. We were there at 6

o 'clock in the morning, so I got to bring the ladies their breakfast.

Farming starts.

Very early in the morning.

Amazing. It's beautiful here.

Yeah, we are very fortunate.

Sometimes you get used to it, you take it for granted, but most days I am

appreciative that my office is this, this right here. You'll go by my

house and my brother lives on the other side of the farm. Wow, so the whole

family lives. The whole family lives on there. We're pretty lucky to have

everybody real close. Most families probably are not like that.

No, this is like an American dream.

Sure.

All right, go ahead and open this gate.

Maybe my goal today is that I don't do any work.

That's the ideal.

You can leave it open.

We'll shut it when we come back out.

The cat will move.

He's okay.

He's okay.

All right, get two buckets out of the back.

This is where we keep the feed. Slide the bucket underneath there.

Pull the slat. There you go.

Watch your new hat.

Sheesh. You know how I said that we didn't need to shut the gate?

That's my bad right there. They followed us.

That is my bad.

The whole crew will be down here in about five minutes.

Y 'all do need to watch the Suburban because they will lick the clear coat

of a vehicle.

All right, so this is a cattle feed.

They need a little bit of a boost. They need a little bit more nutrition.

than just grazing on grass because they're still growing.

Ooh, okay cows, don't kill me.

We're going to break those new shiny boots in for a few while.

There you go.

It's very organic, like they are free range, they're running around, they're

happy. Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, they've got the best life. We do better financially

when we take better care of the cattle, when they're relaxed, when they're

getting fed what they need to be fed.

Now, a cow kicks.

Uh -huh, thank you.

A cow kicks to the side, okay?

Like a horse kicks backwards, okay?

And a cow kicks to the side.

If you are right here and they get spooked, there's a good chance you're

to get popped in the kneecap.

Okay. My family back in Poland, they own the farm. And I got kicked by a horse

when I was a child.

So I have a PTSD.

Sure. It hurts.

Sure. And it does hurt. It does hurt. Alright, cool selfie with the family.

But... This was just a few cows on Claude's farm. He owns

hundreds of them.

There you go, girl.

Y 'all are gonna be famous.

So we had plenty to do before the vet got there. But thankfully, that gave us

enough time to get to know Claude even more.

Daddy's coming with some food.

Why did you decide to be a farmer?

I grew up on a farm.

I was pretty lucky.

The men that I was raised around, a lot of them were farmers or in agriculture,

and they were... So you had knowledge.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. When I was a kid, I wanted to be like them. I mean, they

could fix anything.

You know, they could make anything work. Real men. Yeah, that's right. That's

right. They got to drive.

they got to drive big trucks and tractors and all of that and i was like

know what this is what i want to be that's right that's right i want to be

that what's really rewarding for you i mean i don't know if there's a more

cause or better people to work with to me it's worth doing so and it's a

Claude's story is one I've heard a bunch of times on this journey. He's

following in the footsteps of the men he looked up to.

His farm was handed down to him by his father and he's hoping to leave it to

children. Claude definitely got emotional there while talking about his

tractor, which tells you that his father definitely left his legacy behind.

That's the tractor that I learned to drive on.

Dad bought it in 83 and we still use it every day.

It's so important for men to have an example and be an example for future

generations. Dad bought that new in 83.

And... Can Pablo sit in it?

Sure.

You know, it's strange the things that get you, you know.

But Dad bought that tractor new in 83.

A lot of hours I rode next to him.

And that's probably what got me hooked.

Right there.

Probably started driving that tractor before I was ready.

Dad put me on it when I was eight years old because it had the cab. He wasn't

worried about me coming out of it.

But it'll never be sold.

It has its own soul at this point, right? I mean, it's what my girls, they

drive it. My oldest does a lot of the hay cutting.

Dad passed in 2015.

I'm sorry.

Cancer got him.

He fought it for four years.

And that's what got me.

away from school teaching.

Wow. You know, a piece of iron that has a motor in it, you know, probably should

not have such an emotional attachment to that tractor, but... Why not? Yeah, I

guess so.

Why not? That's all the memories there. That's beautiful, amazing.

Yeah.

Now it's time for some pregnancy checks.

Having cows is very, very expensive.

Is that it, Matt?

Yep. So cows need to have babies, so the babies can be sold, so they can make up

the cost.

If the cows are not having babies, they are just not happy, and things get

weird.

This is a rectal sleeve, and so basically, palpating cows, I go, we do

called transrectal ultrasonography. So I go in rectally with an ultrasound

probe, and so I just wear this to keep the manure off my arm.

All right, Paavo, if you'll grab a couple buckets, and then we're going to

these cows in.

Welcome to the clown show.

There you go. Go on, girls.

Go, go, go. Go on, girls.

Don't get camera shy now.

Hop, go, hop.

All right, I'm going to open it up a little bit.

They feel very safe and secure when they're in the squeeze shoes.

First thing I do, get a lot of lube.

Grab her tail.

And then I go rectally.

It is a very gloriful job, let me tell you.

Not some PG -13 content there. Yeah, we're going to have to censor it.

Is this suspense killing you all?

Come on in here with me.

Probably why a t -shirt was not the best choice.

Yeah, I thought about that when you got out of the car. I was like, it's not a

white t -shirt. It's going to be ruined.

That goes all the way to the shoulder. All the way to the shoulder. You're

to need it. Here you go.

On this show so far, I've been beat up by a professional boxer.

I've been in an active fire situation.

And the worst one yet was getting tased by police.

But pregnancy checks?

I am more uncomfortable with this than I was with the taser. I'm not joking.

I'm not joking.

I'm not joking.

She's not going to kick me. I would kick if I was her. There's always a chance

she can kick you, but be a man, right?

All right. So let her know you're there. All jokes aside. Okay, girl.

Grab that tail with your right hand.

All right.

You're going to go rectally. There's two holes there. Hit the top one. Oh, God.

You got it. Oh, God. Okay. Kyle, this is going to stay between us.

We'll never talk about this again.

I don't think I can go deeper than that. Oh, go deeper. You can't. Oh, shit.

Oh, God. I am so deep.

Damn.

And what do you want me to do now?

You tell me.

I mean, it is warm.

Alright, I'm so deep. I'm good. You've probably come out now. Yeah,

I think they're over there. Alright, high five.

I told you it was going to get ruined.

I told you it was going to get ruined.

If you like this shirt, you can get it at the Daily Wire store.

The one without poop.

Come on, give me a hug.

Come on, give me a hug.

Give me a hug.

Give me a hug.

Back up, dude.

Give me a hug. Back up, dude.

This cow is pregnant.

Okay. About 70 days.

Okay. We got a baby.

We got a baby. Circle of life.

Circle of life.

Go ahead and get close to it.

Because the closer you are, the less a kick will hurt.

I want to get kicked.

I want to get kicked.

I want to get kicked.

I want to get kicked. I want to get kicked.

All right, so go all the way in about your elbow, and I want you to just

gently. Turn your hand down like this and just blow off. Oh, I feel it. You

it? That's the calf. That's calf. Can you describe it?

I mean, it's warm.

It's warm.

Start there.

And then it's uncomfortable.

Start there.

And then you feel something there.

And I think it kind of moves. It does. Yep. It moves. It's a laugh.

Yeah, it is a laugh.

And, you know, high five.

High five.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

So we've learned that less than 50 % of the cows were pregnant.

What that means to everybody.

Yeah, so it's hard on the farmer today, right? So he had half of these girls not

pregnant, which indicates we probably got a bull issue.

This was just bad luck today. This is just bad luck today.

That's a big part of my job, right? So we're going to try and figure out and

to the bottom of this issue on the farm.

We have to be decent mechanics and we have to be decent agronomists and all of

that. You have to be a real man.

Yes. And we have to do a lot of different things.

But when I've got a problem like this, that's where I need him to help me

out what the problem is. I mean, it's going to be, I mean, that's going to be

substantial financial hit.

It's heartbreaking to watch you being disappointed when your cow is not

pregnant. I want the world to see what you do and appreciate what you do

it's so important.

You guys are feeding the world.

I don't want to lose what my family has built. We don't have to be rich. I don't

have to drive a new vehicle.

But I do want to keep this. I want to keep this way of life.

Now,

Pavel, are you going to meet this man's mother in this shirt?

I can change.

I'd probably see it. I probably could change.

You could probably change.

Okay. Next thing, we had lunch with Claude's family at his mother's house.

So this is my mother.

Very nice to meet you, ma 'am. Pavel.

Nice to meet you, ma 'am.

Over lunch, we got to talk to Casey, who's Claude's farmhand

and former math student.

Casey, you said that this was your math teacher. Mm -hmm. What made you want to

do farming?

I had nothing, like, in any direction.

I stayed in trouble all the time. I hit a principal one time.

That's when I got in big trouble.

And then I got saved.

on a youth group trip and i'm like hey i'm gonna have to straighten it out

during the summer his dad would call me and i'd come out here and farm and do

stuff well then i got a job like uh did not have any days off with my family

as far as holidays and stuff i worked every holiday because you know you're

always chasing that dollar and claude was like come farm for me i was like

yeah so we jumped in both feet at the end it makes everything work kids get to

be raised outside It's been a joy.

I always worked some of the guys that I taught.

I mean, I'd get some of them.

We got a long line of them that come through here and had their feet under

table. Claude has taught me that a really good man inspires others to be a

man too.

Claude and his father took Casey under their wing when he had no other role

model. Because of that, Casey has turned his life around and become a very good

man himself.

And he will be able to teach his children.

those lessons remember kids it's never too late to make a change to become a

better man then

came my favorite part driving the combine it's huge

it's sort of intimidating it has the chainsaw blades and his long ass teeth

it's cool but it is scary

But I was still hoping Claude would let me drive it, even though I don't have

license to drive it.

Do you need a license to drive it?

Alright, we're here on the farm. We're going to harvest some corn with this

humongous machinery.

Combine, that is.

It's actually petrifying, it's so big.

I can hack the tire. You want to see me hack the tire? Fine, I'll hack the tire.

Look.

It's badass, it's big.

So, I'll learn how to drive this thing.

We're going to do some harvesting. I'm pretty excited.

Those machines are petrifying me always.

They're pretty simple. There's nothing to them. Let me explain the process to

you. These chains right here, they're going to be spinning going that way. It

grabs the stalk, pulls the stalk down, pops the ear off. The ear goes back,

that auger, goes to the middle of the combine.

You'll be able to see what it's making as we're going through there.

Interesting. Just follow me up here, about right there.

Oh, we have AC.

Let's not kill the guy.

Hey, Ross. We saw you, right? You're on the business end of that.

Ross, I would move.

Ross.

Oh, dang.

That's some cool stuff.

Damn, most fun thing we do all year right here. Look at that right here,

the combine.

It's the best time of year, you get to see what your crop made.

Woo -hoo!

Bam!

Woo!

Bam!

This button right here turns the auger on.

Wow, man, that's a lot of corn.

And that's just from what we just did? Yes.

Crazy.

Oh, that's comfortable.

Watch that front row right there. You're chilling corn.

Oh, hell yeah.

Damn.

This is very, very satisfying.

It is, isn't it? This is so satisfying. It really is. It's like mowing your

grass, but on steroids.

It is. Yeah, you did a good job.

You did a good job.

I told you it was easy.

It's easy. It is easy.

This day is so rewarding to me.

Good. And dangerous, too. You never want to get caught in there, all right? Oh,

no.

Did you wreck it?

Uh -oh, we have lost the drone.

I wrecked it. Did you just kill your drone?

That's funny.

It's not funny, is it?

It's kind of funny.

Oh, no.

We got it. What kind of shape is it in?

It's not in the shape. It's in a lot of shapes.

You got your sig shot?

Oh, it is so sick.

Damn.

So I think the most rewarding part, he grew all of it. He grew it. It's his

fruits. And now he's mowing it all by his hands in this big green thing.

I wonder if you can get DUI for having a beer on that thing.

Genuinely.

Last part of the day was cleaning out the grain bin to make room for the corn

harvested. It was 90 degrees out and the silo was metal.

So you can imagine how hot it was in there.

We're cleaning everything that's inside of that. Yes, we've got to get all that

corn out of there.

This is what it needs to look like. Oh, great.

Hello. We're about to walk into the oven here. We'll clean up some corn.

Hello, hello.

Got it.

Go get it.

This year has been my toughest.

The tough times that you go through, I mean, it's just going to help you down

the road.

We're passing through this earth.

I mean, we'll hand this farm off to the next generation.

You know, my identity is in Christ, my identity is not in how many bushels that

I make per acre.

And for some reason, I don't know, I struggled with that this year worse than

some other years.

But now, we've got a little bit better perspective, and now I'm going, God, see

how we're going to pull this off.

God wants me to farm, I'll keep farming. He'll make a way.

What we're doing does matter.

You know, and our purpose is with Christ, and that's really all that

And we just need to wake up every day and go to work.

It's toasty.

It's nice and toasty.

Be a man.

Oh my gosh.

So here we are.

Hero of this episode.

Together. So we collected corn and now we're dumping it there.

We are very brave.

We got all the corn together.

And we are collecting it.

People's gonna eat it.

People's gonna eat it.

Lord,

we thank you for today. Lord, we thank you for the good weather. The day ended

at the dinner table with Farmer Claude's wife and kids eating the food that we

helped produce.

So, how is the hamburger meat?

Delicious. Phenomenal.

I'm thinking of Claude as I'm eating it.

Claude isn't just hard -working man.

He's building something that's bigger than him. He's building something that

will outlive him.

Something that will provide for many, many, many families in the future. It

makes me appreciate the man that came before me. The man that sacrificed so

to make the world better than they found it.

My cheeks are hurting me from smiling all day long. Well, you are a fairly

entertaining person, so my cheeks are hurting too.

And you didn't do bad. I don't know of anything that you messed up. His shirt.

The shirt.

And I like that. I'll be looking for a copy. Let me say this. You come by the

studio. You got the shirt. Sounds great.

Sounds great. You got the shirt and the hat. And the hat. What hat?

The baseball cap.

Oh, okay. I was like, I'm not a big fan.

You can keep that hat if you want to. This is just for your episode. And you

have it on backwards, by the way. I didn't know if I should mention that

beforehand.

I was like, I'm just going to let it go.

Can you hear anything?

No.

Do I like it?

Yes. It's awesome!

Let's go, Sam!