Back to Old Fashioned on Purpose, the show where we explore what we have left behind as we have raced towards progress as a culture and also how we can get all the good pieces back.

So I'm your host Joe Winger, many of you know me. I have been homesteading out here on the wide open Wyoming

prairie with my family for well over a decade and I am extremely passionate about teaching old

fashion skills to people from all walks of life no matter where you live.

So today's a really fun episode and I've been looking forward to this for a while.

Every year usually in the fall if you're on my newsletter list, which I hope you are, you get an email that offers you the opportunity to get a bottle of olive oil for a dollar.

And often in those emails I give you some information about the

olive oil industry and I didn't realize this until probably six or seven years ago

there was a lot of fraud and there's a lot of weird things that happen in that world and so when I became educated

I started seeking out better options and I found an amazing company that I've been working with for quite some time.

So I offer a bottle of that oil every year and the

funniest part about that is I get so many responses from people who are like, is this real? It's

too good to be true. Like is this company for real? this is this a scam and so today well first off my answer is no it's not a scam but

today I'm excited to go straight to the source and I have the olive oil hunter himself the founder of the fresh pressed olive oil club the authorities on all matters olive oil. He has an incredible palette so much so that he has been invited to be a judge in prestigious olive oil tasting competitions over in Italy, which you can only imagine how much of a big deal that is. And he is dedicated to finding the

best olive oils on the planet. He travels all over the world, and I got so lucky I was able to

snag him for an episode today.

So welcome at T.J.

Oh, it's such a pleasure to be here.

I'm so excited to have some time to talk with you and we've been so supportive of our mission of supporting

small family farmers around the world that we work with. They worked so hard to

produce amazing quality products that have never been delivered to America before.

We raced them here by JET. And as your listeners and followers know, the quality of that taste experience is really exciting

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