Welcome to the aggressive life.

This is live running through some of my favorite live talks from the past year that

had to be recorded, but we're never being planned on played in the podcast.

But I found out they're recording.

I went, huh, that actually might be a win.

So today we're going to head to Rock Valley, Iowa.

What's in Rock Valley?

A lot of corn.

I still don't understand that.

If a valley has a lot of rocks, isn't that a place where corn wouldn't want to grow dirt, right?

That's what you would think.

I would think, but man, it is parallel universe in Rock Valley.

I met some of the most unique, kind, and intense people ever.

Farmers. A lot of, I would say farmer boys. No, these were farmer men. There's a small community

of about 4,000 residents. Most of them are in the agriculture industry. Some of the men,

they were decided they weren't content to just keep doing the same old, same old,

which would have been making money on the tractor.

This is the harvest season.

Like, when they turn off the tractor, they literally turn off the money.

That hundreds of guys turned off their tractors

when they're trying to bring the crops in to make money and show up at an event at daylight

to hear a guy, which was me, pushed them in various areas, was really mind-blowing and humbling. One little interesting aside to it.

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