Two Guys Talkin’ Fresno

Paul and Craig talk about Craig's newest project: his book Conscious Life Conscious Death!

Transcript Transcribed by AI (not 100% accurate)

[00:00:00] This is the two guys talking Fresno podcast, the podcast with two guys talking about Fresno. Your hosts are Craig sharp, a lifelong Fresno who loves his community, even though it drives him bonkers and Paul gin, a transplant Freston, who's lived in Fresno for more years than he has it. And he wouldn't live anywhere else.

It's time for two guys to talk Fresno. Here's Craig and Paul on the two guys talking Fresno podcast.

Paul: Here we are long time. No, see Craig. I know,

Craig: but I'm wearing the same shirt today. One of those pictures, I only have two shirts. So I guess the odds are that I'd be wearing the same shirt

Paul: I do too. I'm wearing my Fresno Grizzlies

Like this is an old school, Fresno baseball. T-shirt from way back when, and it's perfectly comfortable. Oh, it's the perfect, [00:01:00] t-shirt perfectly

Craig: new crying. You cry when you first feel that first hole or see that the seams are starting to go.

Paul: Yeah, I've got a couple that I still have the hole in, but I'm still keeping them anyway because it just feels so nice to wear.

So, but then with two guys talking Fresno, I can act like this is theme oriented rather than comfort, so right. Have

Craig: you planned

Paul: it ahead? Yes, exactly. So we haven't done a lot of podcasts lately, but here we are back and we're going to jump back into it.

Craig: That's good. Yeah, we both needed a little break last year was, uh, not only COVID but politics and all that stuff.

And I think we were just worn out.

Paul: Yeah, I think, I think we needed that debrief time. Everybody needed that. And then it kind of ran its course. And I, I think we got through the election and that guy wasn't reelected and we all kind of yeah,

Craig: yeah. [00:02:00] Until January.

Paul: Yeah. It's not to say there wasn't craziness in the midst there, but, uh, and still is, but the good news is we're going to get back to talking a little bit more about Fresno.

We had to talk COVID we had to talk politics and now we can talk forever.

Craig: Yeah, well, we had to some of our, uh, great, uh, listeners or Watchers, you know, commenting saying more Fresno stuff, more Fresno stuff. So that was a good reminder for us. And we do listen to your comments or read your comments and, and take that to heart.

And that's what we started for. So you just brought us back to where we meant. Yeah.

Paul: And if people have ideas, post them on our Facebook page or send us an email through the website to guys fresno.com and let us know what you'd like for us to talk about, because we are getting back to being two guys talking about Fresno.

And today, Craig, I'm really excited because we're going to talk [00:03:00] to a great Fresno author. He's fairly new to the, uh, the, the title of author, but it's been coming for quite a while, but he's very well known by presidents,

Craig: right? Well, we will see you're turning the tables on me.

Paul: I wrote my book. I got to be a guest on the show and today our very, very special guest is author Craig Sharpton.

Welcome to the show, Craig.

Craig: Thanks Paul. It's a, it's an interesting process. That's for sure.

Paul: Go ahead.

Craig: Well, I always, you know, I, every time someone becomes an author, I always say there's, you know, 98% of the people are working on a book and there's a few that, that actually get it to be a product. And I always admired that people.

So, uh, but I've got to say, it's, it's a weird feeling. When you say you're one of them, you see your baby in [00:04:00] print. It's very strange. Isn't it? It

Paul: sure is. And the book is called conscious life conscious death.

Paul & Craig talk shelter-in-place eyecare with Thomas Casagrande of 20/20 Eyecare of Fresno.

 

 

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[00:00:00] Paul Swearengin: all right, Craig. You ready to go?

Craig Scharton: I am ready.

Paul Swearengin: All right, let's do it. Okay. Welcome to the show, everyone. Hi, everybody on Facebook, we love your comments. Let us know you're watching out there. It's time for a two guys talking Fresno podcast.

Craig, we've gotten a little irregular with these, but it's good to be back together

Craig Scharton: again. We have, I know we both had things taking over our lives and And

Paul Swearengin: like our jobs and our income and

Craig Scharton: yeah, those little things, it is a catches catch can, which we said at the beginning, but we were more, we were pretty regular before and I think.

Maybe after the new year, we can get back to our a once a week. What do you think?

Paul Swearengin: I think 20, 20, 21, 2020 has been odd for everybody. And so when we get to 21, I think maybe it'll get back on course here a little bit. We hope, but

Dr. Tomas Casagrande: maybe it's just a number to

Paul Swearengin: be, could be, but I was going to say, speaking of [00:01:00] 2020.

That was going to be the perfect transition. We have Dr. Thomas Casagrande from 2020. I care. Is that right? Did I get them

Dr. Tomas Casagrande: well? It's the tuna is 2020 optometric of Fresno, and I picked that name in 1986 and I never thought that someday it would. I thought I can't wait for 2020. It's going to be cool. I don't 2020 in 2020.

and then boom, March.

Paul Swearengin: you haven't changed the name. That's good.

Dr. Tomas Casagrande: Yeah. Yeah. we'll keep the name because 2020 means, as you all know, if you have 20, 20 vision that's normal vision. So that was the idea there behind them.

Paul Swearengin: Yeah. So we're glad to have Dr. , we've all been doing a lot of screen time, Craig, and I see that you have glasses that are built to help you with that.

Craig Scharton: Yeah. and, Dr. Casa grandad doesn't know it, but, when you, and he [00:02:00] talked about having him on. Paul said, it'd be really good because of all the screen time and how it's messing up people's eyes. So when I went to my, Kaiser appointment, I said, Hey, I hear that the screen is messing up people's eyes.

And they said, yes. So we'll give you a glass of this specifically with, at the distance of your computer. So even though I went through Kaiser, cause that is my insurance company talk, Dr. Costa grandad still steered me in the right direction. So I don't know that I ha I didn't help you financially that way, but in karma, You just got even better car, but

Dr. Tomas Casagrande: that's right.

as long as you can, as long as it's done properly, we're happy.

Paul Swearengin: So is that true? People doing a lot more zoom meetings working remotely? Is it having impact on eyesight?

Dr. Tomas Casagrande: what's happening is when the, I think if you think of what we were doing a hundred years ago, 200 years ago, [00:03:00] a thousand years ago, we, weren't looking at something so close for eight hours a day, which is going on right now.

And then people there eight hours a day, and then they come home and they're on a furnace four or five hours. And I wasn't made for that because when it looks at that, something that close it's, there's a lot more muscle action in the eye causes a lot of eye strain. That's where you get the burning eyes.

you'll get a little brow headaches. Some people they'll even go,

Matt Nicoletti, Business Development Director for Fresno's Penny Newman.

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Two Guys Regenerative Farming

Craig Scharton:  [00:00:00] Matt Nicoletti is in charge of business development for penny Newman, which we established, we think is the second oldest business in Fresno. Uh, Fresno ag has you beat by two years. Pretty close

Matt Nicoletti: though. You, you,

Craig Scharton: you still

Matt Nicoletti: look pretty young.

Paul Swearengin: So how, how old, how old is his number? Is the number two oldest company in the history of France.

Matt Nicoletti: I'd have to do

Craig Scharton: subtraction, but it's 1878.

Matt Nicoletti: So let's see. So is that one 42, one? Uh, yeah, 142 years. All right. And your,

Craig Scharton: your younger brain cells worked very

Matt Nicoletti: well. Yeah. Um, well it's, uh, yeah, um, phone number. I should be tracking readily able to answer. Um, but, uh, yeah, no we're, um, penny Newman, um, uh, uh, like we said, was founded in 1878 and it was an agricultural dry goods store.

It wasn't all too different from Fresno [00:01:00] ag in that respect back in the day. Um, but evolved into a commodity trading business, marketing of grain. Um, uh, marketing of planting seed, um, and then it evolved into a feed business. As the livestock sector really exploded in California and the production of grain and feed type of ingredients really declined significantly in California.

So that industry became more heavily reliant upon industry structure, um, that was owned and operated by companies like penny Newman. That could bring in large quantities of grain and feed type of ingredients from out of state where, which are the largest production, larger production sheds of those types of agricultural goods.

It's kind of inverse of what you would think of California, because we're such a net producer, net exporter of agricultural goods. Um, but these types of commodities that make up penny Newman's core competencies were very much a net deficit state.

Craig Scharton: And yeah, he had to keep buying bigger and bigger quantities, which is kind of an unimaginable volume.

I just can't even picture it [00:02:00] when we were talking about it the other night. Um, but we are a huge producer of dairy products. And so you've got to get the grain into them. Right.

Matt Nicoletti: Indeed. Yeah. And we they've th the, the California produce stuff that the dairy sector consumes here. It's mostly byproducts almond, wholes, obviously being a really popular one.

We just harvested our largest almond crop ever, you know, 3 billion pounds, um, byproducts from the food processing. You know, we've got a lot of grapes and the great pumice from the winery sector, the, um, bakery waste, the mill feed bride products from all the flour milling that we have in the state. Those are.

Those are very much, you know, staples in the dairy ration, but the, the most th the, the most high value, um, commodities in the dairy ration are for the most part coming in from either out of state or even overseas.

Craig Scharton: Yeah. And what, and what we wanted to kind of jump to was I was really excited to hear

Matt Nicoletti: about,

Craig Scharton: uh, your, uh, interests in, [00:03:00] um, In regenerative ag.

So we kind of nerd it out about that, uh, through our mutual friend and, uh, your employee fan Telus, and I, um, Uh, had a beer in my backyard a week or two ago. And, uh, we just, we really went pretty, pretty far off the nerd cliff, uh,

Matt Nicoletti: for most people,

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