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Welcome to a vintage episode of the Brand X Podcast, originally broadcast on May 27, 2016! Join hosts John Jamingo and Deuce as they take a hilariously irreverent look at what it means to embrace your manliness in a world that seems determined to tone it down. In this episode, the guys reminisce about the glory days of wild “steak fests,” shooting skeet, epic hiking trips, and the legendary Brand X pancakes—moments that defined their unapologetic approach to living life to the fullest.But the real adventure begins as they set their sights on the infamous Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, a restaurant that celebrates excess with hospital-themed hijinks, sky-high calorie counts, sexy “nurse” waitresses, and a menu that's as tongue-in-cheek as it is artery-clogging. John and Deuce dig into the controversies, the marketing genius, and the sheer absurdity of a place where a burger with eight patties and 40 strips of bacon is just the starting point—and getting spanked by a nurse for not finishing your meal is all part of the fun.Along the way, they get nostalgic about their early radio days, debate pop culture trends, and swap witty observations about manhood, modern life, and the changing social landscape. Whether you're craving a laugh, a trip down memory lane, or want to know what happens when podcast hosts try to outdo each other in outrageous stories, this episode has it all. Pull up a chair, prep your appetite, and get ready to embrace the madness—Brand X style!- 00:00:05 - Vintage episode intro and weekend banter - 00:01:23 - Weather complaints and impacts on activities - 00:01:33 - Phillies vs. Braves recap; sports frustration - 00:01:52 - Hollywood speech vs. historical accuracy in shows - 00:02:32 - Vikings and Game of Thrones discussion - 00:04:05 - Embracing manliness and societal views on masculinity - 00:06:09 - "Hammer" drink and steak fest stories - 00:07:10 - Cabin trips: hiking, shooting, and camaraderie - 00:08:08 - Brand X pancakes and epic eating memories - 00:09:10 - Shooting skeet and hunting stories at the cabin - 00:11:12 - "Everything tastes like chicken"; food banter - 00:11:19 - Gluttonous meals and spicy pasta sauce disasters - 00:13:19 - Discovery of Heart Attack Grill; themed restaurant intro - 00:16:08 - Heart Attack Grill's nurse outfits and legal drama - 00:17:06 - Health controversy and restaurant's business model - 00:18:11 - Cooking with lard vs. vegetable oil health debate - 00:19:01 - Eight-patty burger and the spanking nurse - 00:21:01 - Heart Attack Grill deaths debate and media coverage - 00:22:20 - Supersized portions and obesity in modern life - 00:23:14 - Morbid marketing: keeping ashes at the restaurant - 00:24:38 - Restaurant fatalities and questions of responsibility - 00:25:06 - Critique of media bias and comparisons to fast food giants - 00:27:16 - Owner's messaging: "food for thought" and health awareness - 00:28:42 - Death as marketing and the “honesty” angle - 00:29:01 - Quirky features: mini-ambulance and new spokespeople - 00:30:47 - Comparison shopping Heart Attack Grill menu prices - 00:34:50 - “Vegan menu” as unfiltered cigarettes joke - 00:36:31 - Transition to “Back in the Day at DBK” segment - 00:37:04 - College radio misadventures and station tales - 00:40:15 - Legendary on-air rebellion and technical takedown - 00:43:35 - Upgrading radio studio equipment and budget talk - 00:45:00 - Record companies sending promo albums to college radio - 00:46:07 - Playing (and hating) hit songs like “Don't Worry, Be Happy” - 00:47:10 - Arguments for college radio playing Top 40 vs. alternative - 00:48:42 - The changing landscape of music genres and radio programming - 00:49:26 -...
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Are you sad that Spooky Season is over? Do you need a chuckle after a stressful week? Maybe 50 Chicken McNuggets is the cure!?! After talking about it for over 8yrs, Dave finally attempts to eat 50 nuggets. We know he SHOULDN'T do it, but CAN he do it?! Tune in to find out! Episode Drinks: Headhunter (#61), Pink Pony Club & Girl is a Gun Grog Log Completion percentage: 78% Time remaining to complete the Grog Log: 70 days ---------------- Want more Mai Time content? Head over to our new Patreon, The PIGtreon, and become a member! For either $5 or $8/mo you will receive bonus episodes, monthly livestream happy hours, giveaways, video content, and more! Call and leave us a message with your favorite toasts, Grog Log tips, and feedback: (559) We-Drunk (559-933-7865) Follow Mai Time on Instagram: @MaiTimeThePodcast Email Us: MaiTimeThePodcast@gmail.com ---------------- "Secret of Tiki Island" theme song by Kevin MacLeod
Gluttonous guerrillas demand snacks at Columbia University, Joe Biden bans TikTok, and President Trump condemns anti-white racism. Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEl Ep.1480 - - - DailyWire+: Introducing Emerson Premium Multivitamin for Men: https://bit.ly/3WlNWgs Get 25% off your DailyWire+ Membership here: https://bit.ly/4akO7wC Get your own Yes or No game here: https://bit.ly/3X6tlKY - - - Today's Sponsors: Genucel Skincare - Mother's Day Sale! Get an additional 25% off your order, 2 FREE gifts, and FREE shipping at https://genucel.com/Knowles Hillsdale College - Enroll for FREE today at https://www.hillsdale.edu/knowles - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3RwKpq6 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3BqZLXA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eEmwyg Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3L273Ek
This week we are BACK with the deadly sins. Featuring: Gluttony and Greed. We talk about immediate gratification, budgeting, sharing, and more. Before that, we catch up on our weeks, give some recs, share some shocking Club Chalamet news, and much more. Then we pull over for a Seatbelt Check featuring some inner child work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode, hosts explore the evolving landscape of online church, spurred by insights from Nathan Finochio, Founder of TheosU.They reflect on the tension between leveraging digital platforms for outreach while guarding against the pitfalls of consumerism and individualism.Through historical parallels and personal reflections, listeners are prompted to consider the responsibilities of pastors in guiding congregants through the complexities of the online church.LinkTree:https://linktr.ee/AllisonParkLeadershipNetworkEmail:Jeffl@allisonparkchurch.comDavel@allisonparkchurch.comInstagram:@Jeffleake11@Dave.Leake
Follow @aunt_acid Aunt Acid is a dancer turned DJ living near the late, legendary, Club Zanzibar. Aunt Acid's Acid's Camp mix weaves a love letter to queer campout festivals: Creating new friendships. Fleeting romances. Hugs and cheek kisses. Bright smiles. Infectious fits of giggles. Skinny dipping. Twisting squelches. Gratuitous diva anthem blends. Camp. Camping. Campy. Sleepless nights. Sleeping through an entire night's programming. Jolting awake to Running up that Hill. Stealing a garden truck to drive an injured friend up that hill. Prancing. Holding a tarp over the decks during a flash rain. Beer on ice. Shake-n-go wigs. Glitter. Colored fires. Skimpy outfits. Tits out. Ass out. Making out. Jockstraps. Boots. Dancing in the mud. Chocolate ❤️💛💜 Yurt NASA visuals. Shared tents. Cold weather snuggling. Fog over the pool. Shared outdoor showers. Morning Jane Fonda exercise routines. Gluttonous indulging. Sharing furs with Burners. Radiant colors and new shapes. Hand geometry. Spilled drinks. Born again Easter Morning.
Earnest ‘EJ' Christian discusses his “glutinous” Christmas, the current NFL playoff picture, the continued ascent of Jalen Brunson, why he could see Shannon Sharpe as the future face of ESPN, and how the ‘Home Alone' movie impacted him differently this holiday season. Watch this episode here https://youtu.be/ZyA95--xKdo SUBSCRIBE to Earnestly Speaking: UNFILTERED! https://www.spreaker.com/show/... SUBSCRIBE to The Wrestling Retrospective https://www.spreaker.com/show/... BLOG http://earnestlyspeaking.subst... YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@earnestchristian X (formally Twitter) @EJChristian7 TIKTOK @earnestchristian Instagram/Threads @earnest_christian Podcast cover art created by Lauren Christian
It's almost Thanksgiving, and we're thankful for hot takes, St. Martin's Hole, and French words to describe quintessentially American concepts. Other discussion topics may include: - National Gingerbread Cookie Day...for whatever reason - How often should one wash, trash, and/or apologize for one's pillow? - A John Lennon tribute and a Goldie Hawn brief mention - So much gastric physiological discomfort - How many platefuls of food does it take to temporarily forget about genocide? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/goingterribly/message
The only anime podcast veers wildly on course to discuss currently running anime before pivoting gracefully back to rambling nonsense, then Nate breaks down the live action Jojo movie in excruciating detail.Berserk of GluttonyUnder NinjaJujutsu KaisenSpy x FamilyJojos Bizarre Adventure
Our heroes square off against the terrible Murthok Huul and his army of skeletons! Who will prove victorious? Grab a drink and join us at the bar! Drink of the Week: Gluttony Ingredients: 1 oz. Chocolate Liqueur 1 oz. Coffee Liqueur 1 oz. Vanilla Vodka 1 oz. Cream 2.5 oz. Milk Ice Steps: 1: Combine ingredients in an iced shaker. Shake to combine. 2: Strain over ice into glass. 3: Enjoy!
Welcome to The Old Dog Pack Show — the world's premier podcast regarding the mind, body, soul, and money of the middle-aged man. In Episode 94, the boys talk to Kylie Hughitt, a therapeutic consultant who helps families find and manage the proper care for loved ones who need intensive mental health care that goes beyond traditional therapy. Kylie provides assistance nationwide with the placement of children and adults into residential programs that are equipped to meet those needs that cannot be met at home. If you would like to do us a big favor, go on over to Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a 5 star rating and/or a short review. We may not deserve it yet, but we will one of these days. Click ‘subscribe' while you're there. You can also check us out at olddogpack.com, where you can sign up for The Old Dog Pack newsletter. It may not be great, but it don't cost nothing. Most importantly, we'd greatly appreciate if you would share us with a friend. We are nothing without you, and we would love to have a lot more yous out there.
Summer is upon us and we want some something fruity. Fortunately, Two Tides is here with a solutions. Layerz - Mango Passionfruit is a 7% ABV fruited sour with mango, orange, key lime, coconut, granola and vanilla. It's lip smackingly good. We follow that up with a crazy collab beer from Nothern Monk. This could be the case of too many chefs. They teamed up with Amundsen Brewery and Holy Goat Brewing to create a 10% ABV imperial stout with salted caramel, muscavado sugar and vnailla. It's a strange beer coming from a group of breweries that know how to make amazing stouts. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #imperialstout #sourbeer #fruitbeer
Date: Wednesday May 24th, 2023Question: What is the line between enjoying food and being gluttonous?Check us out on our website: www.bathnewcity.church
Hey Gorgeous We are continuing the conversation around integrating the "7 deadly sins" we are diving into being Greedy and Gluttonous!!This episode will help open you up to the fullness of your desires!If you are ready to join Sovereign you can do so here: http://themagneticwoman.com/sovereign
Join us this morning as Pastor Andy takes us to Amos 6 in our sermon, Gluttonous Christianity.
Join us this morning as Pastor Andy takes us to Amos 6 in our sermon, Gluttonous Christianity.
This week our heroes land on Grapefruit Island which seems to be having trouble with a specific thief stealing all the grapefruit! Once they realize it's a huge wild Snorlax, how will they be able to handle this? Let's watch and find out!
Bro. Doug Foster presents "Grateful, Not Gluttonous" from Proverbs 23, during a worship service at Immanuel Baptist Church, Florence, Ky. Please visit us at 7183 Pleasant Valley Road Florence KY 41042, or call us at (859) 586-6829. Church links: Website: https://www.ibcflorence.com Daily Devotions: https://ibcflorenceky.wordpress.com/follow/ Free App: http://www.ibcflorence.com/ibc-app Our entire list of recent sermons: https://www.ibcflorence.com/recent-sermons Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ibcflorence Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ibcflorenceky Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ibcflorence/ Podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/user-658781358 Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/ibcflorence/live Instant Message: https://m.me/ibcflorenceky We would love to know how to pray for you! Romans 10:9
This week the boys show the possibilities of Capionista. Is 1TB of storage on a phone reasonable? The iPhones new Dynamic Island. John talks his work on a cross functional project including 2FA, SMS and phone keyboards. Scotty expands on last weeks discussion of working on the backend of MoneyWell Sync, the decision to move to hosted solutions, and how the perils of his past App Review horrors turned out. Parse Parse Hosting Barky The Failure Dog, Courtesy of Captionista
I know saying yes to every thought that pops in my head can be bad but when it comes to food, saying yes to every thought is okay. Why is that? Let's talk about it. Hit me up on TikTok @bariatricjawn Join my Facebook Group Register for Bari Successful Virtual Meetup exclusively on Zoom --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zipporah-herbert/support
The Trainwreck sits down with YouTube Sensations and Competitive Eating couple Randy Santel and Katina Eats Kilos! We discuss the world of competitive eating, their relationship and future plans! So climb aboard the Monthly Trainwreck for a ton of fun.... Rated as a Top 200 Comedic Interview Podcast!
Bro. Jordan Foster presents "Gluttonous Christians" from Proverbs 23, during a worship service at Immanuel Baptist Church, Florence, Ky. Please visit us at 7183 Pleasant Valley Road Florence KY 41042, or call us at (859) 586-6829. Church links: Website: https://www.ibcflorence.com Daily Devotions: https://ibcflorenceky.wordpress.com/follow/ Free App: http://www.ibcflorence.com/ibc-app Our entire list of recent sermons: https://www.ibcflorence.com/recent-sermons Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ibcflorence Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ibcflorenceky Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ibcflorence/ Podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/user-658781358 Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/ibcflorence/live Instant Message: https://m.me/ibcflorenceky We would love to know how to pray for you! Romans 10:9
Bernadette Siracky of the Kamloops Food Bank (at 10:42 mark) and Heather Sutherland (21:16) of soon-to-be-defunct Kamloops Skydivers Sport Parachuting Club join us for Episode 49 of Kamloops Last Week. Also, co-host Chris Foulds expresses displeasure (5:50) with gluttonous spending by federal politicians on a trip to the Middle East. Several regular Kamloops This Week readers feature on Foulderdash (24:16), the segment that combines Foulds’ love of the English language and his tendency to pipe up on social media. The #LastWeekClique returns (30:34), with Jessica Wallace bringing us the latest on the family doctor shortage in the city and Michael Potestio delving into counterfeit currency in the River City. Nu Leaf Produce Market, our co-title sponsor (along with Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre), is expecting berries to arrive soon, and the coffee is already on at McDonald’s. KLW has 195 subscribers on YouTube and is determined to reach 200 by next Wednesday, when we film Episode 50 in state-of-the-art Studio 2 at Lee’s Music. We’ll see you Last Week.
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This episode will help you learn how God can repair your relationship with food so that it loses its power over you and teach you how eating from a grateful heart enables you to fuel your body, His temple, in a way that stewards what He has given you. In Christ, there is fullness of joy! Get 7 Scriptures to help you eat from a grateful heart and a freebie: 10 God-made Whole Food Quick and Easy Recipes Eat from a Grateful Heart with these 7 Scriptures: "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations." (Psalm 100:4-5) “Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!” (Psalm 95:2) "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:21) "And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (Colossians 3:15-20) "You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever." (Psalm 118:28-29) "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil." (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1) Start today! God can do a new thing in you and your fitness, friend! ️ Now you know I'm never going to leave you without asking you to get into action because nothing happened without it! Join My Power Up Challenge! All you have to do is tell me how this episode spoke to you on Facebook or Instagram. When you do, you're automatically entered into my Power Up Challenge! I pick one winner every week, and you'll either get a coaching call from me, a copy of my brand new Strong Confident His Faith and Fitness Devotional, my best-selling Christian fitness book Faith Inspired Transformation, F.I.T., or the F.I.T. Workout Series. Rate, Review, & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, here. Click play to join us! If you love this episode, it would mean the world to me if you left a review for The Strong. Confident. His Podcast on iTunes. It helps the podcast get discovered by other women and shows me what type of content to create for you and serve you with excellence! Thank you in advance, friend! Remember, You are Strong. Confident. His. From my heart to yours, God bless, Kim Dolan Leto Sign Up for Free Faith and Fitness Tips Start the Faith Inspired Transformation Workout Series For Free on Pure Flix Links Mentioned in This Episode Get Your Strong. Confident. His. Faith & Fitness Devotional Watch the Strong. Confident. His. Devotional Videos Series Faith Inspired Transformation Book and Workout Series Free Faith Filled Fitness Resources
The Janes take over the Side Quest and things get foody! With special guest and geek cookery expert Catherine Barson Eastis! See more of her at https://thegluttonousgeek.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/authors-and-dragons/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/authors-and-dragons/support
Hello Interactors,I’ve started to making my own milk again. It’s not really milk. It’s creamy colored water made from pulverized remains of nuts or grains that I sweeten with a little maple syrup. Invariably I get lazy and real dairy creeps back in. But every time I look at that carton, I know what’s inside didn’t come from that cute cow or that stylized farm on the label. And however it got here, I know it came at a cost greater than what I paid.As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…MILK MANRick has a phone to his ear with one hand while he clicks his mouse in the other. He’s searching websites for a hay baler part while calling neighboring farmers to borrow theirs until his part arrives. He clicks a browser tab that is already open to the weather forecast. Rain is coming. Tension mounts as friends and relatives kick into gear. The hay has to be cut before that rain comes. Have you ever had milk straight from the cow? It truly tastes like milk you’ve never had. It was so good, I was warned to not drink too much or too fast. Gluttonous dairy consumption can lead to an upset tummy. But I was assured that if I ever wanted more, there was always a fresh container waiting in the refrigerator. Chances are if you grew up with milk, your refrigerator has milk in it. It’s probably not straight from the cow, and it may just look like milk (oat milk is all the rage – especially once Oprah and Jay-Z got in on the action), but the West likes their milk and milk products. But consumer demand is worldwide. The more Taco Bells and Pizza Hut’s pop up on streets around the globe demanding cheese, the more milk supply is needed. Starbucks sells more milk than they do coffee. People like their milk and coffee. I was in Mexico City once eating breakfast at a local eatery with a friend. The waitress sauntered around with a carafe of coffee in one hand and a pitcher of milk in the other. She’d walk up, make eye contact, and start pouring coffee until you said stop. She’d fill the rest with milk. I miss Mexican coffee. It was hard for me to imagine a dairy farm in a mostly arid Mexico. Growing up in Iowa, I have images of vast grassy fields dotted with milk cows; a winding grove of water thirsty trees clinging to a creek or river bordering the farm. A&E Dairy was the only brand of milk I ever knew. They’ve been bringing milk to Iowans since 1930. We had an actual milkman as a small child. A gray sheet metal box with a blue A&E logo on the front sat nestled in the corner of our doorstep. He’d raise the hinged lid and gently place a glass container of milk inside.By fourth grade, in 1976, that all had changed. We took a field trip to the A&E bottling plant in Des Moines, Iowa. I remember watching an industrial sized see-through bin full of white plastic pellets the size of ball bearings funneling into a heated form. After a couple seconds, a plastic one-gallon milk container emerged. The glass jar delivered by the milk man had been replaced by crates of one-gallon milk jugs. They’d load them into a semi-truck and off they went; onto a freeway that was as old as me.A&E, like all American dairy producers, were just beginning to scale up their farms. President Richard Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz sent this message to American farmers, “get big or get out.” It was the beginning of the end for small and medium sized farms across the country as milk production steadily climbed from around 54 million tons in 1976 to nearly 100 million tons in 2018. It doesn’t show signs of stopping. MILK: THE MANRick, his wife Terri, and a team of extended family members were able to get the hay in the barn before the rain started to fall. But there was no time to rest. A semi-truck had backed its long shiny silver milk tanker up to the barn and was waiting patiently, though a little stressed, for some help. It was time to mix their milk with that of other producers in the Delaware River Valley just north of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. Both milk and water flow from this watershed south to an increasingly thirsty New York metropolitan area where urbanites peek up from their steaming molten chocolate cake at trendy restaurants to ask their waiter, “Got Milk?” With milk production continuing to ramp up over my lifetime, these New Yorkers must not be the only ones craving milk. The entire country must be hankering for more. Not true. Despite American momma cows producing more and more milk every day, the average American milk consumption per capita in 2018 is equal what it was when I was born in 1965 – 256 kilograms per person per year. That’s around 65 gallons a year or just over five gallons per month. That includes cheese, but not butter.If a growing American population doesn’t account for the growth of dairy production in America, that tells you American dairy farmers interested in endless growth and profits are relying on exports. But Milk is very expensive to ship given its weight. One gallon weighs 8.6 pounds. Because it’s 87 percent water, 9 percent skim solids, and 4 percent milk fat it needs to be broken down into dry ingredients. Dry milk and dry whey make it easier and cheaper to ship. Once it reaches its destination, it’s reconstituted into milk or cheese by adding water. This has led to an explosion in commercial exports. The United States has become the world leader in nonfat dry-milk and dry whey exports. Their biggest markets are Mexico, China, Philippines, and Indonesia. To meet consumer demand and a growing food processing industry in China, a 2020 Department of Agriculture report expects exports to continue to grow. To meet this demand, the dairy industry continues to expand. And like Nixon’s Earl Butz “get big or get out” advice, Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said in 2019, “In America, the big get bigger and the small go out.” He said that in a speech at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin – a state known for cheese – where they lost 800 dairy farms that same year to consolidation. Licensed dairy farms across the country numbered just over 70,000 in 2013 and is now a little over 31,000. A 55% decline in seven years. Meanwhile, the amount of milk they can get from a single cow has increased. Cow milk production has increased 11.5% since 2011 and the USDA is expecting increases to continue.To get your head around how production increases while the number of dairy farms decreases, consider one of a half a dozen companies providing most of the milk to the world – Riverview. Based in Minnesota, their website seems corporate but kind. Maybe even a little innocent. It says, “[They] utilize both rotary and parallel parlors. Each site is a little different from the others, but the activity is the same: milking cows. Each cow produces about eight gallons of milk per day which is sent to processing plants to make cheese.”But they don’t talk about the farmer they approached proposing a 24,000-cow dairy near his farm in Minnesota. They were hoping to buy his corn to feed all these cattle. He couldn’t imagine a 24,000-cow operation and turned them down. In addition to worrying about the odor, damage to roads, and pollution, he was most concerned about the amount of water that would take. One researcher estimates Riverview uses nearly one quarter of all the water used for hog and dairy farms in Minnesota. And they’re not through. State records show permits for two farms of over 10,000 cows. Minnesota isn’t the only state they’re interested in. They’ve extended into one of the most unlikely places to raise and milk cows (given my bucolic ideal of farm country) – the deserts of Arizona.COCHISE CHEESE PLEASERick and Terri started their farm from scratch. They raise three kids, endured and recovered from a house fire, and have managed to raise some amazing kids, award winning cows, and by my standards, some very tasty milk. But it’s getting harder and harder to make ends meet. Their youngest son is interested in continuing the farm, but prospects of survival are grim. New York was the fourth biggest producer of milk in 2020 behind California, Wisconsin, and Idaho, but they were also fourth behind Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania in the number of dairy farms lost. New York state lost 240 small dairy farms last year. The pandemic didn’t help. And mega-farms have seized the opportunity to prey on financially vulnerable farmers – like Terri and Rick. But also farmers in Arizona where wells are running dry.Riverview was most likely attracted to Arizona because of its lax water laws. If you’re a farmer in rural Arizona, there is no limit to the water you can use. But scoot your boots too close to roost near Phoenix or Tucson, and you’ll be wrestled, metered, and hog tied. So they picked a location made popular by California pistachio farmers who got there before they did – Sunizona, Arizona. This town sits in the Willcox basin in Cochise County. It’s a dried lake bed, Lake Cochise, named after an ancient Indian culture that existed 9,000 – 2,000 years ago. In keeping with America’s enigmatic ways, it’s both a National Natural Landmark and a designated bombing range for the U.S. military. But it’s also home to acres of crop circles in a desert that is prone to dust cyclones. Sounds like a perfect place for a dairy farm.Below this dusty playa is a vast underground water source. Sometimes. Its replenishment cycle has turned sporadic since large-scale agriculture came here in the 1940s. Before big-ag hit it had enough water to satisfy demand for residents of nearby Tucson for 970 years. And in more recent decades, the effects of climate change have resulted in the nearby mountains getting pounded with rain some years and other years nothing. Farmers are forced to dig deeper and deeper wells to capture a steady supply of water. In 2015 area farmers used four times more water than was being recharged. It’s created a race to the bottom. But digging wells isn’t cheap and the more money you have the deeper you can dig. Imagine a friend offers to buy a drink to share. They sit down with a tall glass of your favorite icy concoction and then slide you a straw across the table as they dip theirs into the depths of the drink. You plunge yours in and take a long cool draw. Halfway through the drink you realize you’re only siphoning ice melt from the pile of cubes that have become exposed. Meanwhile your friend is happily slurping away from a straw longer than the glass. That’s when you realize your friend gave you a straw shorter than theirs. Some friend.The farmers in the Willcox basin have built short-straw wells over the years to grow everything from nuts, to cotton, to alfalfa. But many can’t afford to dig deeper. So Riverview swoops in and buys them out. Many are happy to take the money and run, some are hoping Riverview’s money will spill over into the community, and others feel isolated, stressed, and bewildered. Riverview is taking over the place. A money-rich mega-dairy from Minnesota who showed up with a straw twice as long as their neighbors. More short-straw farmers see wells run dry as desert dust turns green with grain to feed the thousands of Riverview cattle. To get as much milk out of their cows as possible, operations like Riverview load 90 cows into a carousal that slowly spins in constant motion. Cows enter, get milked as it turns, and then get dropped off. An area that used to get treated to a deep dark night sky lit only by the milky way is now blinded by the light pollution of a 24-7 dairy operation. A water sucking corporate machine who will surely deplete this ancient basin of its water and then move on to the next aquifer. If there are any left.WAVES OF WATERYou can see why my wife’s cousin, Terri, and her husband, Rick, can’t compete. They’re playing a different game. Having spent some time with them on the farm, I can tell you they have a love and respect for their cows and their land. And they’re proud of the thought somebody down the road, even in another state, is drinking milk they produced. In the presence of factory farming, in an era of ‘go big or go home’, Terri and Rick’s method of dairy farming is receding. That quaint, romantic, idealized grassy farm with a single cow that dairy’s print on their containers is vanishing faster than our water supply. And it will likely not return. I remember a slogan from an ad campaign paid for by the American Dairy Association that read, “Milk does the body good.” It indeed does. It’s tied with eggs as one of the highest quality, efficient, and micro-nutrient rich foods you can consume. There’s evidence that the earliest domestication of cattle was by nomadic hunter-gatherers who discovered how handy it was to have a food source walk alongside you. Talk about efficient. Energy we get from cow biproducts is minimal compared to what it takes to generate it. Feeding livestock requires tons of grain which requires tons of water. In the United States, roughly half of the water for agriculture comes from irrigation and the rest from local ground sources like the aquifer in the Willcox basin. But not all feed can be grown locally, so it’s grown elsewhere and trucked or shipped in. When I was born in 1965, 2.5 million acres of U.S. land was irrigated for corn and soybeans. In 2017 that had grown to 12 million.California, the country’s biggest milk producer, draws far more water than any other state. But most of that water is drying up. As the West dries up, irrigation moves east. Nebraska leads the country in the amount of land used for irrigation. California is number two.But Nebraska is drawing from the Ogallala reservoir. This High Plains aquifer is one of the largest in the world. But it too is getting depleted. Conservation efforts have helped. Programs have been underway for years and together with new genetically modified corn that requires less water, depletion rates have lessened. Increased in demand is coming from many sources: housing developments, corn and soybean crops, natural gas fracking, and hydraulic drills for oil pipelines to name a few. This, coupled with variation in replenishment rates from climate change, means natural habitat is at risk. A 2017 study used satellite imagery to examine the effects on wildfowl. Measuring multiple years of water inundation during replenishment cycles, they came to this conclusion: “These results indicated that realized inundation was well below the capacity of the landscape as indicated by maps of potential playas. Thus, even when holding water, the observations here indicated the area of available open-water habitats, for waterfowl, for example, was below the potential capacity described by wetland maps.”MILKING THE ALTERNATIVESBack in 2001, Rick and Terri drove their kids across the country in an RV. They passed by 3000 miles of farm country; over the Ogallala and across the arid West to our home in Kirkland, Washington. I was drinking soy milk at the time and had them all try their first swig of the so-called milk. Let’s just say not a single glass was emptied and the kids all looked at me sideways for awhile. Plant-based milks are growing in popularity, but it’s mostly an elite urban phenomenon right now. And you can bet most of those oat milk drinkers still like their cheese. Most of the milk from Riverview’s tens of thousands of cows goes toward cheese production. The truth is, we don’t have enough land and water to meet a growing worldwide demand for dairy products. Especially amidst exponential population growth. We’re facing a choice between sliced cheese on a dish or trees and the fish; ice cream in a bowl or a stream that meets the shoal. The Colorado River once rushed into the shoals of the salty Pacific Ocean, but now it runs dry inland in Mexico. I can’t say I’m doing very well myself. I’ve reduced my dairy consumption and sometimes make my own Oregon sourced hazelnut ‘milk’, but I’m not fortifying it with the nutrients I get from dairy. And I’ve tried plant-based cheese. It’s not there yet. Perhaps I shouldn’t beat myself up. Maybe U.S. farmers should stop chasing profits found in lucrative foreign markets and conserve the natural resources this country depends on. Maybe grow more food for people and less food for livestock. More milk and cheese for me please, let them find their own dairy over seas. I now that sounds dogmatic, but maybe it’s just pragmatic. Besides, rainfall is getting sporadic and population growth is dramatic. Meanwhile, the amount of freshwater in the world remains static.Or maybe I stop hanging on to my Western dairy diet and seek appetizing alternatives. I may be better for it. Remember Rick and Terri’s advice? Gluttonous consumption of dairy can lead to an upset tummy. Greedy consumption of natural resources can lead to an upset global ecosystem. It’s time for a change. Terri and Rick are having to adjust to a new reality that challenges their past, maybe it’s time we all do. Especially companies like Riverview. 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We continue in our study through the gospels - More Than a Prophet, Violence, Gluttonous Drunkard, Forgiven Much Reading: Matthew 11:7-19, Luke 7:24-50 Scripture: Malachi 3:1, Matthew 5:19, Matthew 11:6, Luke 7:23, Show Notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18AjxerzZUvzLry2RnklqZ_wHabRQ-WNM/view?usp=sharing
What is YOUR Window? If you DON'T know what that means, you probably live a HAPPY life. Don't STARVE yourself, just TUNE-IN to this GLUTTONOUS episode of FOOD ADDICT.
Short podcast for the shortest canto in the Comedy! Fr. Branson and Donovan discuss Dante's interaction with Ciaco (the Hog), and the nature of Gluttony. Join our reading group here: https://gtcc.co/dantegroupme Listen to our main podcast here: https://gtcc.co/podcast
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In the pilot episode (not sure if podcasts have pilots but I guess it works) of the History's Greatest Idiots Podcast Lev and Derek discuss the potential dangers that can come from eating 7 meals in one sitting and dueling your way across the United States of America. Now in Video Podcast format Support us on Patreon Visit our Instagram Or our Twitter Hosts: Lev & Derek https://linktr.ee/Lev_Myskin https://linktr.ee/ThatEffnGuy Artist: Sarah Chey https://www.fiverr.com/sarahchey Circus Man by Jeris (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/37243 Ft: A.M. mews by MommaLuv SKyTower --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historysgreatestidiots/support
“Tarrare” was a French showman and soldier who lived in the late 1700's and was renowned for his insatiable appetite and bizarre consumption of various creatures. - Tarrare could eat meals fit for fifteen people to himself all at once, dabbled with the consumption of snakes, lizards, live cats and puppies, and was also allegedly suspected of even eating a toddler. - Despite crushing absolutely everything he could find, Tarrare was slim, weighing only approximately 100 pounds. To date, although there is documentation of many individuals with eating disorders resembling Tarrare, no other case study approaches the same extreme EXTENT of Tarrare. - Old medical records outlining Tarrare's uncanny case study were written by Dr. Baron Percy in “Memoirs of a Polyphage”. - Herein, we discuss the historical accounts of Tarrare, his involvement as a specialized secret message carrier in the French Revolutionary Army, his ridiculous feats of consumption, and speculate on what disorder(s) Tarrare may have had based on modern day knowledge. - What say you?
DA and Mraz dig deeper into Mraz outburst ind efending his spoiled fandom on Tuesday's show. The Body and Mraz discuss a feud Mraz recent between the music and athletic departments at his high school.
DA talks about attending the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium. On Side B, Joe D and James Ward talk about filling in for Mraz and eating Chinese food.
Food in Opera. Sheila Dillon hears the story of food told through 400 years of music history. Gluttonous composers, cuisine centred plotlines and singers needing nourishment.Renowned opera critic and gourmet traveller, Fred Plotkin holds an event at the Royal Opera House on food in opera. We get to listen in to stories of a sugar addicted Mozart, Pavarotti's post performance meals and find out who gave their name to Pasta Norma.The interval is spent at Glyndebourne opera speaking with chorus members and prop makers about the travails of eating on stage.Presented by Sheila Dillon with help from Opera on 3's Christopher Cook. Produced by Emma Weatherill in Bristol.
A sermon about the spiritual discipline of fasting.