Corn: From Ubiquitous Crop to Controversial Commodity
The Poor Prole’s Almanac
Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac
4.9 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Although some corn is grown in each state, two-thirds of the corn of the United States is grown in an area called the Corn Belt. |
| 0:10.0 | Why do we have a corn belt here? |
| 0:15.0 | Thousands of years. Well, call me Irish because we've got some corned beef going on around here. |
| 0:36.0 | We've done this 100 times. And is that really how you're going to start this? |
| 0:40.4 | You know, we're not cornucating around here. |
| 0:42.4 | That's clue number one. |
| 0:43.7 | I'll quote the book of Cobb. |
| 0:45.5 | Then Cobb answered the corn and said, I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of |
| 0:52.2 | yours can be thwarted." |
| 0:54.2 | And what I'm saying here is this will make you stronger, Elliot? |
| 0:58.8 | Probably. |
| 1:00.2 | Like all corn consumption, it makes us stronger, American-eer Americans. |
| 1:04.8 | Did you just call me corn, Fred? |
| 1:06.6 | Because I don't think I am. |
| 1:07.7 | And how long is this episode? |
| 1:09.8 | How long does it take a combine to harvest an |
| 1:11.9 | acre of corn? Is that a rhetorical question? It's like 20 minutes, give or take. So in like |
| 1:17.5 | four acres, we'll be done. This is our new measuring system. Sorry, Shaq. All right, I have to draw the line |
| 1:23.3 | here. If you haven't guessed what this episode is about by now, you're about to find out and probably |
| 1:28.6 | be slightly disappointed. Agreed. So we have a title to this episode, so hopefully people know what |
| 1:34.8 | it's about. But we are going to be definitely talking about drawing the line, as the kids say, |
| 1:39.4 | when they're talking about, you know, inbreeding corn for purebred strains of corn. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

