Dave and Ped's AGcellent Adventure

On this episode the boys welcome on Mitchal Van Gorp of Sheldon Power and Equipment. Mitchal grew up on a row crop and hog farm outside Sheldon, IA. The boys reminisce on some of the disgusting jobs that come with working hog barns, Mitchal being a farm kid in the cell phone era vs Dave & Ped's farm kid era, and selling insurance after college before moving back to rural America. We then dive into Mitchal's transition into a small town business owner and everything that comes with that. From great customer relationships and finding their product niche to small town competition and doing work that you love. The boys end with their breakdown of the upcoming famous CyHawk football game! Hut Hut! Love y'all.Check out Sheldon Power & Equipment: https://sheldonpower.com/

The farm boys open the show with some freestyle rap and talking about Dave's election as a new Church elder. The boys' Dads need to come on the show and correct us young pumps. Adam poses a hypothetical life or death questions. Adam wants to grow his nasty beard out just so he can get the full barbershop experience, like the ASMR videos! The fellas talk sweet corn fencing and Dave introduces his new corn shucking machine! The guys then reminisce about jobs growing up on the farm and how they mold you, before heading down to the auctions! Love y'all!

The boys are back! After weeks apart Dave & Ped are excited to be together again. The recap Dave's family vacation to Florida, Adam & Josiah's calorie filled trip to the Iowa State Fair, Adam's auction gigs are piling up, the boys marvel at the never ending rain and catching up on hay season and farm life recently, which has been wild. The fellas then share tales from their adventurous and humorous sweet corn picking and freezing days before ending with a trip down to the auction. Ya'll come back now yah hear!?

Doug & April Corlew grew up outside Chicago, attended college in Chicago, and started their marriage doing youth ministry in Des Moines, IA. To say that moving to a rural Iowa farming community would be a culture change for them would be an understatement. But that's what they felt the Lord calling them to do, so they moved, and the Lord's faithfulness has been evident time and again for 30 years now. This amazing story is a great example of how God can do big things in small places.

Adam is hay bale Rain Man. The boys had a wonderful Rural America meat cook-off, until it wasn't. Adam gets you HYPED for the best new foods at the Iowa State Fair. Dave shares the story of the downfall of his Maple Trees and how an awesome Rural America resource was there to help find the solution. The guys then discuss jobs they had and other rural kids had growing up that city kids wouldn't, before we drive down to the auction house.

On this episode the boys are joined by a local legend, one of Adam's best friends, back for their 20th class reunion, THEE Harvard Derek. Derek grew up on a farm outside of Alta and spent his days as a youth working on the farm outside of school activities. He currently resides in Boston, MA and is the perfect guest to share perspective on rural life vs major city life, the positives and negatives of both, and just how great Rural America can be. Derek is truly one of a kind so come along for an incredible conversation.

The boys open the show thinking of their brothers and sisters in Texas and put this year's rain in perspective. They recap the amazing 4th of July Hut Hut Media had. A ChatGPT country song for the listeners. The boys' thoughts on AI. We then each share a near death farm experience, read a Reddit post about living in Rural America and close the show with the auction!

Dave & Ped open this episode talking birthdays and what they did for parties as kids. In anticipation of the 4th of July they come up with their own awesome firework names and read off some actual ones for 2025. You guessed it, STILL raining in NW Iowa on the farm! In the main segment, two crazy mattress stories have the fellas talking about valuable life skills they've learned and been taught growing up on a farm (using tools, lending a truck, fixing things for friends) and how they've lent those to society. And as always we bring you fantastic auction items to close the show.

Adam kicks off this episode catching the guys up on his recent Netflix watches and the boys build their ultimate pizza shop menu. Producer Josiah shares a gripping tale from a former concert he attended and we check in o the latest on the farms. Our main topic centers around weddings in rural America and we give wedding speech advice before closing down with the famous action segment.

The boys open the show with David sharing how his 3 girls spoiled him on Father's Day. The pod (Adam) has questions about the miracles of Helen Keller. Adam then shares about a wild bovine miracle that happened on his farm, another time the cow wasn't so fortunate, what is going on with Dave's sprayer tire?, and worst jobs growing up on the farm. For the main segment the fellas share personal stories of how farmer friends and community members are always willing to step in and lend a hand in times of need before hopping in the truck, turning on Paul Harvey, and heading to the auction.