Hi folks, Jack Spirko here. Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial free versions of past episodes podcast blast from the past.

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare

vacations. These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes Stitcher and other

feeds, but will be titled TSP Rewind episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today we are rewinding back to July the 20th, 2011.

That's a long time ago. That's before 9-mile farm was a thing.

I love some stuff in this episode that I kind of wanted to point out in the new intro.

One, it will start right from the very beginning because we were living in Arkansas.

I had an office and I had a way of introducing the show back then. I won't say what it is now,

but when you hear it, some of you who haven't been around forever in a day will have never

heard it before and I think it's kind of cool. I usually take the sponsor spots out of this

episode and I took one of them out because the company is no longer in business.

But there's another sponsor spot in this episode. I went ahead and left it in and you know why?

It was 2011 and they were a sponsor and it's 2022 and they're still a sponsor and I thought

that would be cool too. The next thing I wanted to say during this intro is that

you'll hear a little bit in this. You'll hear me mention a thing called Aggretroo.

What was Aggretroo? Aggretroo was a company that I and some partner started.

It was designed to basically be an alternative, a parallel alternative to organic certification

for farmers and growers. And it failed. It failed and I won't go into why, but it failed.

And this episode is all about making things happen, taking risks, going ahead and doing it and

just building it and solving problems as they come. And so in it, I talked toward the end a little

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