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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

JOEL SALATIN | The Lunatic Farmer (Ep. 774)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Joel Salatin to the show. He is an American farmer, author, and blogger. He owns Polyface Farm in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. His blog is called “The Lunatic Farmer” and so is the recently-released Angel Studios documentary about his life and work. In this interview, we discuss how his upbringing led to his fascination with farming, how his family was ran out of Venezuela at gunpoint when he was a child, how he and his wife saved to become farmers full-time, what we get so wrong about farming and raising animals, how his work in integrated with the MAHA movement in the US, the role men play in the work of God on this planet, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is undaunted Life a Man's Podcast.

0:23.9

I'm your host Kyle Thompson.

0:25.7

Let's get into it.

0:26.9

All right.

0:27.1

So, today we got a special guest on the podcast.

0:28.6

His name is Joel Salatin.

0:30.0

So he's an American farmer, author, and blogger.

0:32.6

And he is the owner of Polyface Farms in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

0:36.7

And so he has a blog called The Lunatic

0:38.1

Farmer. And there is a recently released Angel Studios documentary about his life as well, where he goes

0:42.9

into that moniker and the lunatic farmer and all of that. And so I've wanted to talk to him for a long time.

0:47.2

You might recognize his name because I think he's been on Joe Rogan several times. I know he's

0:50.9

been on there at least twice. And so he's a guy that just approaches

0:54.4

farming and environmentalism in a completely different way. And he does it from a biblical

0:58.8

Christian worldview. Because he calls himself, he has kind of a long moniker and a long name for

1:04.0

himself at the beginning of the podcast. It's actually the first thing I ask him about. But this is a guy

1:07.9

that has dedicated his life to farming. And the story about how he got into that is pretty insane because his dad was like a chicken farmer in Venezuela, but, you know, there was a coup in the country.

1:17.0

So they got ran out of the country when he was like four years old.

1:19.2

They end up in this terrible piece of land in Virginia, but it's the same piece of land they're on now.

1:23.3

And it's incredibly ridiculously fertile. But in this podcast, we talk about why he thinks, you know, he's so thankful that he gets to

1:31.2

wake up every morning and walk out into a physical expression of God's abundance and how this

1:36.3

planet is not a scarcity planet, you know, especially if you hear from environmentalists or leftists

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