Yeehaw! Cowbow Talk with Texas Slim

The Real Story Behind Texas Slim
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Texas Slim: [00:00:00] Hey guys, Texas li here. Uh, thanks for tuning in today. We have a special, uh, recording. This is a recording that's been, uh, several years, over three years in the making. Actually, this is. My story, where I come from with food intelligence, where I come from, my quest for health, for nutritional, um, stability and everything.

Uh, it took me about three years to come to this conclusion that it was time to go ahead and, uh, release my story. It's full of transparency. It is a testimony of sorts. And, uh, my purpose is, is to save children's lives. It started with saving my own life. Uh, had a accident, um, over three years ago, [00:01:00] got busted up pretty good.

As you y'all know, I've had a few injuries in my life and I ignored one certain injury that almost took my life. I went to the edge. Uh, I had to finally accept that I was, uh, not in a good place and that, um, my health had failed. And what I had to do is I had to take a step back. Uh, I had to find an avenue and a pathway to be able to save my life.

It's been a hell of a journey. Uh, here we are today, and you're gonna hear my journey. You'll hear more about it, and it'll be, uh, something that comes from my heart. Uh, it's, it's hard to expose yourself. Uh, it's full of transparency of who I am, where I've come from, uh, the battles that I fought, uh, the sadness, the, uh, achievements, the victories.

And, uh, here we go. Uh, remember, we're out there to get a hundred thousand people, you know, through our sub stack. We're out there to get as many listeners where we can on this [00:02:00] podcast. Please share if you find this valuable. You know, let us, uh, let's spread the word. Uh, you know, we have a health epidemic in this nation.

A lot of it become comes from addictions. A lot of it comes from denials. Um, what we need to do, acceptance is a key these days. Let's, uh, get back to the source of the seed of who we are, where we came from. Uh, tune in right now and, uh, hope you enjoy my story. We'll see you on your side.

I slim. Hello. It's just, you look wonderful.

Shawn Johnson: It's just you and me,

Texas Slim: baby, nobody else. It is those special moments in time that we always remember and cherish actually. Right? Or we don't do we sometimes we have time that we don't want to remember and we want to forget. This is true, but this sometimes we want to tell a story about times of the past that led us [00:03:00] to times that are now, and that's what we are here to do today.

That's what I hear. So

Shawn Johnson: let's, uh, let's take a trip back in time, shall

Texas Slim: we? We can. I'm gonna let you lead the questions and you know a lot, you've been kinda, you and I have been talking a lot lately. So what we need to do is you kinda lead the curiosity and I'll fulfill the little gaps and the holes in the, in the cracks.

Shawn Johnson: It's cute that you thought I wasn't going to take the lead on this one.

Texas Slim: Well, I was just, wasn't gonna put you on the spot, . You're right. That's what a lot of people don't know about you, Sean Johnson. You take the lead on most things and that's why I highly respect you, and I'm very, very, very honored to be able to answer any questions that you have.

This is about transparency. This is about how things, this is about life and how we live it and how sometimes we want to cover it up, but sometimes we really want to tell, [00:04:00] uh, tell the story, tell the truth. And a lot of times we don't have those people that are willing to listen. From day one, you've been willing to listen and that's something that I, I definitely saw.

And so I appreciate that. Well,

Shawn Johnson: it's an, it's an honor and, um, I appreciate you the real you mm-hmm. and, um, and I'm really looking forward to sharing the real

Texas Slim: you with the world. Well, it is time and I knew this story would always come out. It's not, you know, it doesn't come from ego. I think the first time you and I talked, I said, Hey, this ain't got nothing to do with freaking ego.

You know, I'm not a charlottean. I'm not trying to get up here and be some stupid influencer. Has nothing to do with that. I'm a very introverted person, but I do what is required. Whenever I'm on a mission or whatever. Anything in life that I've always done, I've done it with intent. And sometimes it might seem random and a lot of, to a lot of people, I think within the BEEF Initiative in Texas, slim, sometimes it looks very random.[00:05:00]

It's not random. There's something that's going on here. It's an orchestration. It's been planned from day one, but I knew I had to have more ears that would actually listen before I told the story about how we got here. It's been planned from day one. Mm-hmm. , pretty much. Okay.

Shawn Johnson: Well, let's see. Let's, let's take a trip.

Trip.

Texas Slim: A good, I love a good mystery. And I always know, and my grandma always said, curiosity killed the cat. Young man , but asking so many damn questions. So, you know, stuff like that. And

Shawn Johnson: with that being said, I'm about to ask a lot

Texas Slim: of questions and I give you full permission. It's trying to get real, it's trying to get, you know, transparent and do it with integrity.

So go for it. Let's take a

Shawn Johnson: trip back to the fall of 18. Can you tell me what was going on at that time in

Texas Slim: your life? Well, at that time in my life, and I don't even think I told you this, you know, I think people can kind of appreciate it. Now if they know anything [00:06:00] about me, I'd taken a massive road trip that year and I can't even remember how long.

It was one of those times in my life where, and, and, and as you get to know me, you'll understand that this shit happens in Texas Slim's life. He'll load up his pickup truck and he'll just, I don't know where you going? I don't know. Well, that was one of those years. I, I'd done a contract with a major media company, the parent company, and I know their parent company and their parent company, but it was USA Today.

And one of those, I, I'd done some consulting with them and I was trying to look into how they were doing their digital marketing, blah, blah, blah. Anyways, it's, it's kind of who I am. It's kind of how, like how you are as well. But what I did is I, I'd done a contract with. Corporate America, and most of the times in my life when I do that, I feel pretty damn dirty.

Whenever I'm done, you know, my mission was accomplished. I'd figured out what I wanted to figure out, so I'd loaded up and I'd driven across the United States [00:07:00] and I, I made it all the way up to. Right outside of Maine. Uh, and cuz I used to work up in Maine when I was a young man, I'd leave Austin and I'd go work up on uh, Mount Desert Island up there where you have some resorts, but I was just road tripping.

But later, you know, after I finished that road trip that, that, we'll come back to that road trip at a different time cuz there, there was something there that I, I'd like to kind of fill in as far as some gaps. But that year I got, uh, you know, I'm a metal work. I've been a metal artisan since I was about 19.

Always grew up with working with wood, metal, everything. But I was, I was getting back into metal and I had this really bad, I was by myself in a workshop and I had this really bad internal injury I got, I had blunt force applied to me by some metal and some machinery. And myself, we were all participating in this orchestration of knocking the shit outta me.

Well, it knocked the living shit outta me and it knocked me so [00:08:00] hard that, you know, I'm pretty embarrassed, all that kind of stuff. But me being me, and there's something here because I've, I've had over 20 broken bones. I've got 14 pieces of metal in me. I've got a half amputated finger. I've had over 10 concussions.

We think we know of, whatever. You know, I've had some stuff that's gone on with my body. One thing that I've always been able to do, and one thing that was in my core belief system was that you don't complain and you deal with pain. You don't complain. You deal with pain. So this time I got to living shit knocked out of me.

I didn't complain and I dealt with the pain well, you know, and that's how I've always done things. Well, you, I didn't really, I don't know if I broke a couple of ribs. I've broken, I don't know how many ribs now, enough to know what a broken rib is and what a cracked rib is. Cracked rib is worse than a broken rib if you don't know that.

Cause every time you take a breath that you're, you're, you're doing something. So I'd either broken or crack some ribs, but I [00:09:00] just, you know, I weathered the storm. You know, that's what we do. And throughout time though, after I had that injury, the fall, I believe it was 2018 that you and I have discussed, um, something started happening to me.

This is my physicality. Uh, I started losing, uh, weight. But my abdomen was getting a little bit bigger. I started losing muscle mass and my appetite was way off. Do you

Shawn Johnson: mind if I, uh, establish the timeframe here? So we're going from about fall of 2018 to the spring of 2019.

Texas Slim: Yeah. That's basically what had happened throughout there.

I wasn't all that kind of holidays hit, you know, it's holiday season, you're dealing with other things. You know, I don't think I was even in, in that mood, in the mood that year for holiday. It was a, it was a forgetful holiday season for me. Just put it that way. Mm-hmm. probably separated from my son that year.

From family a little bit. Maybe a family dinner was all that really I remember. So I was pretty isolated. I [00:10:00] think it was really starting to mess with me mentally and emotionally, but, Time that, like late January came around in the February march. Those were very pivotal times. I, you know, it was winter, so I started wearing more bulky clothes, but I was losing a lot of weight.

I think, you know, right around now these days, I'd weigh one 70, you know, with boots on, all that kind of stuff. 1 72 is what I like to hit. Uh, about six foot one. Well, I started getting pretty, uh, pretty shallow there in those boots. Now I think I was probably about 1 45 and still wasn't paying much attention to it.

I wasn't really focused, uh, internally focused. I wasn't, uh, emotionally, spiritually, I was just hurting. I was hurting, but I wasn't gonna say anything. This was very subtle over the course of this time. Yeah. Extremely. Yeah.

Shawn Johnson: Um, can I, I just wanna say this. For those of you who are listening, I highly encourage you to watch the video version of this, [00:11:00] because I wanna show you some pictures about what we're talking about right now.

Texas Slim: Yeah, and those pictures that, you know, I'll lead into those pictures about why I took 'em when I took 'em. Uh, they weren't, they weren't glamour shots, they weren't, uh, filtered Instagram shots, so that's for sure. But, uh, that's for sure. Very few people have ever seen these pictures. Uh, my mother has seen 'em.

You've seen them. Maybe one or two other people. I think my son saw that. So, but what had happened is that, and I'd had an internal injury whenever I got busted up. Well, things were shutting down on the inside of me and nobody could figure it out at that time, nobody knew. Come March, it was time to kind of look into what the hell's going on.

I was probably down to about, at this time I was down to one 30 something and, and I wasn't sleeping, wasn't eating, I was pissing blood and, um, no valve movements. It was more liquid than [00:12:00] anything. And, um, you know, I was on water. And that's about it. I'd eat just whatever I could stomach and put it down. So I didn't have any, my GI track was screwed.

You could tell, you know, I know enough about my body that it was red light time that something was messing up. And in that denial, that's basically, you know, engineered by that going ahead and being tough and, you know, working through the pain and not complaining. Um, you know, that, that, that's a very strong thing that happens in somebody like me.

I've seen grown men where I grew up, you know, piss blood and they never say anything. They wake up dead. It's just kind of the cowboy way of the past. And, you know, you don't ask for help. Mm. Cowboy programming. Yeah, it really is. Hey guys, just a quick interruption here. Uh, I hope you're enjoying or [00:13:00] that you're finding my story valuable.

It is tough sometimes to be transparent and put yourself up there, uh, up on that cross of vulnerability. I don't mind doing it. I believe in what I'm doing. I believe where I came from. I know the struggles that I did have. And, you know, right now is for another story. The story is, uh, it's, it's warming my heart.

I picked up my sonic couple of months ago, so from, uh, you know, from him seeing his dad very sick to now. Him seeing his father very healthy and, uh, mind, body, and spirit is very rewarding. It's been worth the struggles, it's been worth the, the suffering. Uh, I tell people all the time, you know, if it's, uh, you better engineer your own suffering, or that suffering's gonna be engineered upon you, you know, I'm the, I'm the one that can speak from the truth and the heart from this.

And so these days, me and my boy are, what we're doing [00:14:00] is we're having a father son relationship that, uh, you know, everybody should be able to have in their lives. Uh, my story of today is about redemption of, uh, health of mind, body and spirit. It took me a, a lot of, uh, soul searching to get to that place of, uh, accepting that I needed to think differently, that I needed to take a step back, and I needed to quit acting such a, like a, like a tough.

Man, you know, toughness comes in many different ways, shapes and forms. Uh, really if you can, you can expose some vulnerability in this life, it shows that you're willing to put up with any hardships that come your way. You know, this is not about being an influencer. My story today is about the love of a boy, the love of a father and a son relationship.

My boy is 18 years old and now we're, we're spending time together, and I remember whenever [00:15:00] I actually had to fly him to the panhandle, he was living in the Austin. And, uh, you know, putting, putting yourself in my, my position of being pretty sick, seeing, you know, being in that position where your, your child, You know, has to look at you in your eyes and see the pain and you know, the suffering.

You know, there's something about it is if you go to that edge in which I was, I think the doctor gave me like six weeks. And so, you know, having to look into the innocence of a child's eyes and, um, have the vocabulary or have the communication skills to be able to, you know, not break a, the heart of a, of a young boy in a a, in a young mind, and to kind of be the person that has to crush some of that innocence.

It's not a place that anybody wants to go once you've been given that second chance at health, you know. You realize, you look at things different. You're not as scared of [00:16:00] things. You're you, you don't live in any forms of denial or you don't put things off. You pay attention, you know, to, um, your life differently.

You pay attention to stewarding, you know, your child differently, yourself differently. You look at how we got here, you know, you look at, you know, you don't look at food as a convenience. It wasn't that I was, you know, a bad consumer. I've always eaten really pretty well, especially on how I was raised. The one thing that you do is you get back to, uh, the source of the seed.

That's where I came up with that phrase, because, you know, once I did get to where I knew that I wasn't going to pass away, that wasn't gonna die. I had to, I couldn't do this midstream. And that's what I really want you guys to know. That everything that we do in life, the change that is required, the intentionality that we, we tried to steward our lives with, you know, it doesn't start midstream.

You go in two [00:17:00] directions. If you start midstream what you have to do, the, you have to get to the source of the seed. You have to get to the root cause of everything, the root cause of, you know, the deceptions, the root cause of your own denials, the root causes of your own addictions. You know, and you, you look at addictions and you know, everybody can say, yeah, he is a drug addict, he's an alcoholic, you know, or this addiction, or that addiction.

One thing you guys need to accept is that addiction. Is is more of a behavioral problem than anything. Um, you know, alcoholics, you know, alcohol is a symptom of a behavioral problem. You know, drug addicts, the drug is a symptom of a behavioral problem. It's, it comes from a thinking differently. So whenever you need to, Reboot.

You need to reset. You gotta get to the source of the seed of what your core belief system is. And once you can look in that mirror and understand that your core belief system is based on [00:18:00] love, trust, truth, honesty, then you can reflect that back out to the world. But if you start midstream, you're always gonna have a form of confusion.

These days, me and my boy were, you know, we're living life together. We're, we're going to the gym together. We're, we're eating beef together. We're, we're having a lot of fun. I'm teaching them a lot. He's learning how to drive. Uh, I learned how to drive when I was 14. Uh, a little story there. I think it was probably within 30 minutes whenever I got my hardship license up here in West Texas that I, I got a ticket.

So whenever I learned how to drive, I was learned how to drive on dirt roads and bar ditches. And my father took me out and we learned in one day. And, uh, it was one of the most painful days of my life. But, uh, , it was tough, but I learned how to drive. These days I'm teaching my boy how to drive a, a stick shift, even where we've got a pasture about three acres over at his Nana's.

And, uh, he's back there driving a little Kia in the back pasture. And he is learning how to shift [00:19:00] gears. And once he learned how to. Years. He's going to get down to the source of the seed of what a car is, what that transmission is, the operating system of that car. He's gonna understand how to maneuver it.

He's gonna understand that, you know, he can't, he can't start driving a car midstream or mid-high or mid interstate. It's time to get to the source of your relationships of yourself. My son and I are getting into it and I'm using learning how to drive a stick shift in a pasture in West Texas on how that boy's gonna understand how to approach life.

Do it with your food. Do it with your health. Do it with your thinking. Live another day to tell a story. There's many more stories coming our way. Don't validate the deceptions anymore. It's time to rise above. It's time to lead from the front. As I say, each week, I'm gonna keep on saying that [00:20:00] we don't have to ask for permission.

There's so much good. There's so much spirit that is trapped inside of you. Go see a reflection of yourself that you never seen before. I hope you enjoy the rest of the story. There'll be more to come. I respect all of you have much grace, much love. I hope to see you guys in Tennessee too. Me and my boy are gonna drive to Tennessee be the third time this year for me.

We'll see you guys soon. Back to the. And it's nothing that's not, it's not about being boastful, saying I'm a badass, or I'm tough. It's just ingrained, you know? It is. It is what it is. And so I got so bad that I finally went to the emergency room, right? And, um, so. Had a doctor that had taken care of my family, uh, especially my stepfather.

He's, he's in his nineties now and he's in good health being in his nineties, but they couldn't figure [00:21:00] out what the hell was wrong with me. And so after I didn't have insurance, didn't have anything like that, you know, it was out of God's grace that I found any avenue to be able to be looked at. And, um, all the times I had insurance in my life when I was in corporate America, I never used it.

There were times I needed it, couldn't have it, you know, and insurance has gone as shit. Anyway, so, um, so I, I did have an avenue for, to be diagnosed. Well, they couldn't find a diagnosis and they just, basically doctor looked at me in the eyes. He goes, man, I I'm, you're not going well here. And it was, it was a, it was a true conversation.

He goes, you got about six weeks. So he goes, you need to start making plans. But what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a number of, uh, internal tests. We're gonna do some MRIs, we're gonna do all kinds of stuff. Pause. Pause. What's

Shawn Johnson: going, what is going through your mind when the doctor says, you've got about six weeks.

Yeah.

Texas Slim: What's going through your mind? You know, you think it's like, oh shit. Oh no. The first thing that went through my [00:22:00] mind is, damn , I gotta talk to my boy. Yeah,

that's tough.

I didn't give a shit about me. He gave a shit about how he's gonna have to live. Yeah. So, This will get better . But anyways, it was, I didn't give a shit about me. I just, I just cared about how he have to live his life. Sure.

Shawn Johnson: A lot of, a lot of men, a lot of fathers can

Texas Slim: relate to this. Yeah. He was 15, yeah, about 15 and 16 at the time.

And so, you know, all this shit was going down. I believe it was right before Covid, you know, I can't even remember when that shit came [00:23:00] out, to tell you the truth, but I, I can't remember the years. But anyways, he was younger. Uh, he hadn't even hit puberty yet. And, uh, you know, that was, that was the biggest fear that I had.

It was like, oh shit, here he is. We stuck outta here. In this world where he's not gonna understand how to innovate himself. So I had to, you know, look at that. And, uh, so I prepared after that conversation, what I did is I, you know, I, I called him, said, you know, you're gonna, you're gonna come see me. And so what, what, um, what we did, we planned, and I had to gradually go into it, say, Hey, your dad's sick.

And just having to talk to your kids and tell them that, Hey, you're not old enough to hear this shit, but you're gonna hear it anyways. Your dads are [00:24:00] gonna pretty much be gone. . And the, and the reason I get so choked up is, you know, I've had a, I had a buddy that I grew up with that died of cancer as well, and he left all his kids.

And they still don't have a father. Nothing like that. So anyways, there's a lot of emotions with that, but once again, I didn't care about many. The reality really hit, hit home well, yeah, that's what it is. It's that form of a reality that hit you. Can I,

Shawn Johnson: can I say something? Can I just Thank you for having the courage to go here with us because this is what it means to be a real man.

This is what it means to be a real cowboy, my friend. I appreciate

Texas Slim: this . Yeah. You don't know, you know, how you're gonna feel when you, when you kinda let it all kind of go out and it's vulnerability. A lot of, well, it, you know, trust takes a lot of courage. And courage is, you don't see too much of these days.

And so, you know, one of the reasons, you know, [00:25:00] to your statement there and your gratitude is that, you know, people are afraid to basically expose themselves because people get assassinated with their characters. All that bullshit. People get to make up their impressions about you. They get to do a lot of stuff.

So, you know, with where my life has gone since then, there's no other way that I can tell this story except just basically being, you know, up on that damn cross, being transparent and saying, , go ahead. Take your best shot. So, you know, that's why I'm willing to do this and I don't know how I'll get through.

I don't know how long this will be, but shit, I am gonna get choked up or I'm gonna get pretty damn pissed off or something. I don't know what it's gonna be. This is real. This looks real. Right?

Shawn Johnson: Okay. This, this isn't an

Texas Slim: act. Well, and that's, we're not putting on a performance here. No. And that's why I hate freaking social media because you got all these damn charltons out there.

You know, people always acting and being dramatic and shit like that. And that's the last thing our society [00:26:00] needs right now. They need some truth. And so that's why I'm willing to do all this. Like I say, I'm a pretty introverted person. I had stage fright my whole life. I didn't talk till I was five years old.

So, you know, here we are, . But anyways,

Shawn Johnson: so, so, so you have this conversation with your son. You're, you're realizing the gravity of this situation at this moment.

Texas Slim: Mm-hmm. , what next? Well, what next? They kept on looking at me. What next is my son? Actually, he was able to come see me. But you've got some pictures of before and after He saw me.

What they did next is they, they actually rushed me into the hospital one day in, they said we're gonna have to do emergency surgery. They thought they'd found something, they thought it was some type of a, you know, a type of ulcer that was bleeding out, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right before they started putting a scalpel on me, they backtracked once again the medical field, the medical industry.

And they, they, uh, [00:27:00] say, oh shit, you don't have that ulcer now, that's not what it is, but what you do have is a lot of fluid and we're gonna drain that fluid. So they put one of those big old needles in my abdomen, they made sure they didn't hit stomach, liver, all that kind of good stuff. Positioned it right.

And they went in there and they drained at least 21 liters of fluid from my body. And I think there's some pictures of that. Yeah,

Shawn Johnson: that's what you see sitting on the table here.

Texas Slim: Yeah, it's extraordinary. And so what we did with those, you know, with that fluid is like, okay, let's see if it's gonna keep on building.

I had 21, I think that time. You know, I stayed pretty low for a couple of days, but then they had to go in and do nine more. So it is something, it was close to 28, 29 liters all together within a probably a eight day pro, uh, timeframe that, that's how much they drained outta me. I finally got down at that last draining, about 1 21, I [00:28:00] believe it was, and, and still no diagnosis at this stage.

No diagnosis. But it was coming. It was coming quick. And what they did is my son came. Uh, his mother came and, uh, they stayed. They stayed a couple of days and we talked, you know, it wasn't gloom and doom, but it was preparation in a way that you don't know until you sit down and, you know, look at your child in their eyes and you, you let 'em know that, hey, you know, this is what's gonna play out.

We're gonna pray, we're gonna do whatever we have to do, but to, you know, be prepared. And he's, he's a strong young man, you know, and, uh, so we got that behind us. And it did it, it felt better. It felt better that, okay. You know, the, the secret is out, whatever you want to call it. You know, the truth is out. So let's move forward.

Well, I got another call and um, so they put me in the hospital. I was in, you know, I was in an observation, but what had happened, I'd had a portal vein had collapsed and it was up [00:29:00] underneath my liver. And basically what they did is they found out that, hey, we can kind of give you some help here. And it really isn't based on any pharmaceuticals or anything like that.

So they did one more draining. I had three, I had like five to six MRIs, all kinds of stuff, and they put me on a certain diet. Okay. But it was a chemical diet, which was done through rv, uh, IVs and everything. Almost said rv, like a vacation. But they did IVs and you know, and sure enough, here we go. I quit basically retaining fluid.

And then they gave me some stuff, I believe, kinda like water pills. Uh, I don't, I can't remember the names of 'em, but there was two prescriptions and then the IVs. And so I was in that hospital stay that time for about a week. But all of a sudden, you know, I was sitting in that hospital but, and I was having a little hope and everything.

And what happened is I started talking to the nutritionist and, you know, what [00:30:00] were they feeding me And everything that she was doing, she was a institutional academic, you know, that's her whole life was to become a nutritionist. And the way I was raised and how we ate as a family, everything that she was telling me, she was wrong.

She was wrong on everything from what nutrition. Um, the importance of protein, uh, the, the damages of carbohydrates, especially in a highly processed form. See, I knew all this cuz I've always just basically been a more of a, you know, I grew up with a freezer full of beef and that's what we ate. We ate meat first and then everything else came second.

And I saw the food per, I just know food in a way that a lot of people don't understand it. And I'm not ever studied it, I just know it naturally. So

Shawn Johnson: you start working with this nutritionist and then you immediately reflect back to your childhood and the foods that you as a child mm-hmm. before, before all the damage had been

Texas Slim: done.

Right? Yeah, [00:31:00] exactly. You know, well, you know, I was eating beef before I had teeth. Right. You know, mom used to feed, feed us bone broth. You know, there's so many things that we were raised with. We ne our doctor was in our small town. We never had all this type of. Damage to our health that these kids have, that adults have right now.

And it was so simple. It's complicated to most people. So I never got away from that mindset.

Shawn Johnson: You had a very unique upbringing, how many of, I mean, you were literally eating the food from the land that you were growing up on. Not many people in the US have that experience or even can fathom what that's like.

Texas Slim: No, they can't. And I think that's what's a, it's a gift to me to be able to really, what it did, especially being sick, being beat up like I was, you know, it gave me time to reflect on my family and my heritage and man, it went deep and I started getting deeper and deeper and deeper. By the time I left that [00:32:00] damn doctor, you know, I'd had a health clinic in, in the Texas pan that took me in, which was great.

And you know, much grace to. But everything that they were doing, everything from, from diets to how you're supposed to basically, you know, um, you know, a big thing with uh, community based health clinics are, there's a lot of diabetics going through these health clinics. Mm-hmm. . And so I could tell that there was something off with the guidance of basically our consumption models.

You know, especially even if you're in the damn hospital damn near ICU and people are telling you to consume stuff that actually is working against what your body is trying to accomplish. That's a fact. And so it was a moment of clarity and it was a moment of like, holy shit. Well, you know, before all of this kind of trans transpired, you know, I've, I grew up in the Bible belt and all that kind of [00:33:00] stuff.

The one thing I did was always knew and always reflected, especially as an adult, that I left all that organized religion away. You know, I don't participate whatsoever. I look at my higher powers in a different way than most people. , kinda the cowboy way, but I'd always looked at Jesus as being like the baddest outlaw that ever existed.

Cuz he went against the system. You know, he, he turned over the tax tables in the temple. He did a lot of things and he told everybody to piss off basically, that he knew what he was doing and he didn't need their assistance, but they need to listen. Well, you know, I made an agreement with him and said, Hey, if we can get this shit turned around , you know, let's, let's go at this.

So that's what I did. I made an agreement saying, if you get me through this shit so my boy can have a father again that he can be proud of, I'm gonna, I'm gonna create a fucking leg legacy here, and we're gonna [00:34:00] do it in a way that people want freaking have a clue. And we're gonna do it in a very outlaw way.

Not meaning not Rob, Robin Banks. But what we're gonna do is we're gonna change people's spirits in a way that they don't see coming. And it's gonna come from getting back to the source of the seat of who we are. And if we can do that one person, one child, one family, one community at a time, then this thing's gonna take hold.

And you're gonna be able to tell a story. And so at that point in time, when I got out of the hospital there, and you know, I was, I was not bloating up, I was actually able to consume a little bit. I went straight into protein. So, so let's

Shawn Johnson: just set the stage because the BEEF initiative hadn't occurred to you yet.

Texas Slim: Not at all. You just, I haven't told anybody when the beef initiative actually happened in my mind, and,

Shawn Johnson: and we'll definitely get there. But at this point in [00:35:00] time, you made a promise and you were gonna pursue that promise, and that's all you knew.

Texas Slim: Mm-hmm. . That's the only thing I knew. I come from research and analysis.

I never went to university, I'd never relied on these institutions to, you know, I, I borrowed from the institutions. I would go sit in class at ut, it never paid 'em. If I needed to go find something out, I went and figured it out on my own, you know, if they had valuable information, I don't know if it was a value for value exchange, but they definitely, you know, I leveraged into understanding and how I got to work to be a very good research and, you know, and do analysis in the level that I can do it.

I turned all that skill set, especially my cowboy way, my technology way, big tech consulting, everything came into one and it went right into something called food intelligence. And I was. Redefine what that is. I did a, I did a hashtag food intelligence and I did a Google search and I laughed. I [00:36:00] laughed at everybody out there trying to do food intelligence and they had no clue what the hell they were talking about.

And they still don't to this day because it's based on deceptions that they're still validating. And so I knew that, okay, we gotta start from ground zero here. And so I started doing some heavy ass research and at that time, You know, I wasn't in health, I wasn't in a good place, but I, you know, I was, I was getting better.

And so it took me eight months, eight months to get to where I was functioning again. And then, you know, I went the route of cowboy way. I, let's get farm tough. That's what you're shooting for. It wasn't about, you know, getting something and doing something in the gym. That's all you do. You, you know, all these metrics, all these measurements, it was about getting farm tough.

That's the only, go ahead. What, what

Shawn Johnson: specifically are you researching at this point in time?

Texas Slim: Well, you look at, [00:37:00] okay, you hear me all the time. And this is where I think anytime when you say research, I think a lot of times in this life, especially these days, we get into analysis paralysis. We don't know where to start the research.

Mm-hmm. . So I was late in bed one night and I said, and I made that agreement. I make agreements with myself, their promises, they're sacred promises. And I said, with all this is daunting. You don't know where to start. And I said, okay, we're gonna get to the source of the seed. In my mind, I pictured the seed.

The seed is where from which we come. And so any type of living being, you know, especially us, there's a seed. Where do we come from? So what do we consume? We consume food. So I had to get to the source of the seed of our food system. What is that? Well, it's the seed. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it now?

Where did it come from? Whenever before we even came onto this continent, as far as, you know, [00:38:00] people migrating from all over the world into the United States, what seeds were here? Who controls that seed? And it's amazing. If you can start with the seed, where it used to be, where it is now, you'll find everything you want to know about our food systems.

Shawn Johnson: So, so let me get this straight. You're laying in bed. You make the decision I need to get farm. Tough as if you're, you're preparing to get your hands dirty. And I think we're about to dig, dig into that part, which is one of my favorite parts of your story, by

Texas Slim: the way, . Yeah. It, it's good. You know, and if you have some, you know, background of me, you know, I grew up on dirt roads.

I grew up, grandfather had several sections. He was a farmer rancher. He produced animals, he produced produce. He, you know, he stewarded family. He survived a lot of things. He survived a dust bowl. Just two world wars that are great. Depression, uh, death in the family. Um, you know, but one thing he did is he, he taught me [00:39:00] how to work.

Farm tough work. There's only one way. And so if you've, if you, if you know what that means and you know what the hell I'm talking about, if you don't, it should scare you a little bit cuz you'll hurt a little bit . But anyways, that's where I was going. Yes. Cuz I could reflect back on how I was raised. I also know how to, you know, drive a combine, you know, drive a tractor, farm equipment.

I know how to, you know, break horses, work horses, all that kind of stuff. Not an expert. I'm not a cowboy out there that does it every day. So, you know, I don't wanna disrespect anybody that does this every day cause that's not me. But I guarantee I can keep up with most people. So by saying that, I knew kind of, I didn't know what, what the path was, what that roadmap was to getting farm tough.

But it was basically me designing my own consumption model around audio, video, and. And I had to start where it wasn't gonna be something that was a centralized delivery apparatus that gave me that form of intelligence that [00:40:00] I was trying to uncover. Because a lot of people don't realize most of the information that we get is censored and it's controlled by many people that people really do not understand.

Mm-hmm. . And you gotta have a skill set to dive deeper. Most people in their lives are on an interface surface level. When I say that, it's like they're on their phone screen, they're on a computer screen, and they don't go beyond that. What you gotta do within the internet itself is you gotta go layers deep into the internet to get to where that valuable information is.

And a lot of people use software applications to do that. Well, you can't do that whenever you're looking for information. You can Google all day long, but all you're doing is you're staying in one little index. It's compartmentalized. It's just part of the internet. And a lot of people don't understand that.

So being me and my technical skills, I went ahead and got certified as a data scientist as I was beat up. And [00:41:00] so I got my skill set honed in a little bit more, and I learned how to do queries and calls and research, you know, what data analysis and data scientists do. And so I got to the source of the seed of a lot of basically who controls our food system, the global industrial food complex.

And I started unraveling exactly where we came from. What's been interjected into our food systems from the beginning, basically of my grandfather's life and until where we are today and, and how it's changed and how our health is declined, uh, you know, it's, it, it, there's a roadmap there that I could talk about for days as far as where we've come from and where we are now, and especially our health.

And so I knew I was onto something and so I got pretty solid with my health started coming back. I've showed you some pictures there of, uh, whenever I was kind of peak performance. Yeah.

Shawn Johnson: Let's take a look [00:42:00] at the, the before and the after because it's, it's mind blowing.

Texas Slim: Go for it.

Shawn Johnson: So when do we go undercover into the harvesting company?

Texas Slim: You just getting w could you,

Shawn Johnson: I, I can't wait. Well, look, anybody who does research knows the value of utilizing primary sources. That's what you're talking about. These secondary and tertiary. You know, filtered versions of the truth. Right. And, um, I've never met anyone who truly went to the primary source.

I mean, you went

Texas Slim: undercover, . Yeah. I was just a, I was just an old dude going on harvest. A harvest company. Yeah, right. I woke up once again, I usually wake up about three o'clock in the morning. I woke up and said, shit, I gotta go on harvest. It's, uh, well, it's time to go on harvest. Yeha,

Shawn Johnson: you do realize that you're li you're going to live at this point.

Texas Slim: Have we best point. I was, I was functioning, man. You know, I was looking pretty, I was feeling fantastic. I [00:43:00] was feeling great. I was really, you know, I was happy. I was like, man, this is gonna be fun, you know, I'm gonna go work my ass off. I'm gonna get out, you know, into the, you know, it is mono cropping, but I didn't know it was as bad as it, you know?

It is. But you know, when you go on harvest, what you do is you go on, uh, you start off with a wheat harvest basically, is what you do in Texas, and you go north. And what I'd done is I'd written an email about three or four in the morning, and I sent it off to about 14 harvest companies. It's been years since I'd done a harvest, but I, I know what is entail.

It's not that difficult if you've been through one, it's like riding a bike, right? You're gonna be rusty and all that. You're going to catch a lot of shit cuz you're older and you're not an expert. But that's part of being that cowboy thing. You catch a lot of shit if you don't know what you're doing. So you can't be thin skinned.

But, uh, so I got into a harvest company and we, uh, they're outta Kansas and we went all the way up to North Dakota on a harvest [00:44:00] and we got stationed, uh, outside of a small town in North Dakota. And so I was on harvest and what I was doing, I was working with a bunch of young, young guys and, uh, there's about 20 of 'em, give or take.

And we were harvesting wheat and that's what I thought we were gonna do was harvest wheat. That was what we were gonna do. Well, That year they were saying there was a wheat shortage. They were saying a lot of things that didn't really add up. You know, they're always blaming drought, they're always blaming shit.

And if you know, the U S D A, there's a lot of, uh, insurance policies that, you know, get fulfilled every year. So I sought a lot of things that weren't adding up within the harvest. I knew all the grain companies. I knew all the chemical companies, you know, I knew all the pesticide companies and I looked and I studied every damn harvest we did.

Every person that came on that land, what their responsibility was, who was the farmer, if there was any farmers left, whereas there just [00:45:00] land in this whole apparatus was being controlled by basically multinational corporations. And so I started uncovering exactly how we go through harvest now, and it's a hell of a lot different than it used to.

And in that year, you know, you usually do about 80 to 90% wheat. If you're a wheat farmer, you grow wheat. Right? Well, that year we basically ended up doing 50% wheat and 50% rape seed, which is canola oil. And that's when I went, holy shit, this is, this ain't right. Asking that farmer, he really wasn't a farmer.

He owned some land and he planted seeds and he didn't even plant his own seeds anymore. He just stewarded the land in a way that was told to him by the multinational chemical and grain companies through a technology use agreement. But he, uh, he said, well, this year we, we, we were growing more canola. He called it canola, it's rape seed.

But he said, well, last year we did this percentage, this year we're [00:46:00] doing this. I said, and why canola's paying more? So you have a weed that was outlawed by the FDA in 1956 that is actually becoming a surplus crop in the United States. And so if you look at that, just that statement right there, and you say, okay, well what's going in our food supply?

Well, you can find canola in every damn thing that we consume if it goes through the industrial food complex. And so, and what I is did, and this what, this is what subsid. Yeah, it's subsidized and you know, it's, it's a fake commodity. I call it a fake commodity. Mm-hmm. , all vegetable oils, all that kind of shit.

Procter and Gamble started it way back in the early 19 hundreds. When we went off candles, we had to find something cuz we had electricity. Procter and Gamble started making Crisco and that was the introduction of vegetable oil into our, basically our market access is consumers. And that's a fascinating story there that you can research on your own.

But what I found out is that these farmers really were only getting paid because they [00:47:00] were planting a crop that is subsidized. And it's a fake commodity. It has nothing to do with nutrition, it has nothing to do with feeding communities. Had nothing to do with anything as far as us being healthy as a nation, healthy as a people, healthy as an individual, healthy as a farmer, healthy as a community has nothing to do with it.

Shawn Johnson: Right? And these farmers are just thinking about putting a roof over their, their

Texas Slim: family size. That's all they can do these days. They own the land. It's in their family. For years, I think, you know, these guys have been there in North Dakota a hundred years and North Dakota is fascinating. It's a fascinating state.

It's a step back in time. You know, it's very rural, it's very majestic. It's got rolling hills. The wheat, you know, the wheat fields are phenomenal. The, the wildlife, just everything about it is, is beautiful. But what I noticed where we're in small town, you stage out of certain places. And I, we staged out at a small town there.

And all that small town had was a convenience store and a restaurant. The only thing that they served was fried food in that restaurant. And everything at that restaurant was [00:48:00] basically frozen. It was shipped in by multinational food corporation and, and basically you look at it, all of it was a food desert in the middle of North Dakota of agricultural America, especially wheat.

It was a food desert where everybody in that community had to drive 89 miles to a Walmart. They had a small grocery store that was worse than a Dollar General, and all they had really was aisles that were frozen aisles, and it was the same thing that was being served at the restaurant. It was just different, you know, it was just different packaging, but it's all the same food.

So at

Shawn Johnson: this stage, you're really just starting to realize how deep the deception really is. Sure. And you've described it as daunting. Yeah. And it feels daunting just hearing.

Texas Slim: Describe this. Well, it was because here I am on harvest and I'm the, I'm the older, wiser guy and everybody loved me. You know, I'm [00:49:00] pretty knowledgeable.

We go out and shoot guns, you know, when we're not just everything, you know, I just have a couple years on 'em and they, they need some guidance. And these boys, you know, they grow up on freaking video games, you know, and that's how they act. And they, they grew up eating pizza pockets and chicken tends, and that's, that's what they know.

And their farm kids, they shouldn't be that way. They should be healthy. That's how we grew up. We didn't eat, chicken tends, we had good food whenever we went on harvest. We had good food. When we went on hunts, we had always good food at our fingertips cuz that's how we were raised. All these young men were still acting like boys.

They had low test oster. They were overweight, they were still strong cuz they're young, you know, and they do work, work their asses off, but they didn't have a level of strength to them emotionally, maturity wise, spiritually wise or physically. They're depleted. And I could see that. And they, I think in, in, in the, in the, you know, the health world and the nutrition world, they call it skinny fat.

Right? It's like they're [00:50:00] over fed and they're, they're, they're, they're either overweight or they're obese and they're undernourished and they have no muscle tones. Yeah. And, and that's what I saw across the board. And it, and one thing that was fascinating in the very beginning, you know, I was part of their crew to go get food.

Well we had a Walmart to shop at. So everybody gets to pick what they want to eat and they get the master credit card from the harvest owners and everything. So you go there, you buy about $4,000 worth of food for that many people. Everybody has to take care of themselves. That's one thing you do. You get all the food, you can eat all these, all these boys were lining up just all kinds of highly processed food.

Everything you throw in the microwave, grab and go, everything, $4,000 worth of poison and, and here I am feeling very healthy, being in very good shape. When I went on harvest, one of those pictures is right before I went on harvest. Well, I didn't have access to any good food [00:51:00] anymore like that. I started eating that food.

I started going downhill fast and I could feel it, my pancreas, all my insides, and I was not at my peak level anymore. And what had changed? Well, my consumption model had changed. Consumption model across my food, my audio, and my video. I was sitting here in Paradise working my ass off and I should be feeling fantastic, but I was feeling lethargic, mentally cloudy, so many things because I was having to eat all this highly processed food and I was trying really hard not to eat the shit, you know?

But you have to go with the flow and you gotta be part of it. So I went and talked to the owner of the Harvest Company and I said, this is bullshit. Let me, let me do something here. And that's when I, you know, I knew that we needed to go shake a rancher's hand, so in the middle of North Dakota. One of our days off is Rain Day.

I went and found a freaking rancher and I went and shook his hand and I said, I need a lot of damn beef. So I went and bought [00:52:00] like $500 worth of beef and I started cooking for the crew and it was extra work and all that kind of stuff, but I started cooking beef Texas style, which they didn't know how to do.

Cowboy style, the little GAO and Brazilian style of cooking beef. And all of a sudden the whole crew got better. Everybody started feeling better just two nights a week. We ate steaks, we ate fajitas, we ate whatever, but we ate good beef. And I introduced that into the crew, and all of a sudden people started changing.

They started getting a little bit more energy. They weren't wanting to eat that shit anymore. All they did was talk about, Hey, when are we gonna get to eat? When is, when is slim gonna make us, you know, fajitas, when is slim gonna cook those steaks? So what you saw is you saw a change. You saw a change in young minds, and they, they, they, they started conversations and they're like, how?

It, it led into a rabbit hole, not because of your preaching [00:53:00] to them, not because you're trying to force change upon 'em, but they were consuming protein that was making them have a new yearning. That yearning was to discover, discover something that they never had before. These boys that were farm tough, they'd never eaten like this before.

They'd never had pure animal protein served to them like this before. And these guys grew up. But one thing, they were, they were extremely poor, impoverished. Farm boys. And so what that, as their families had come from the communities in which I came from, they had basically no market access to pure animal protein growing up.

Most of 'em had never even tasted it before. All they had tasted were pizza pockets, chicken tend and fruity pebbles. That was their life. And that is not something that people want to admit. It's a, it's the type of shadows in which we live in in the United States right now, and people don't realize how bad off this truly is, [00:54:00] how bad off that.

We've basically killed off a couple of generations opportunities to have that sound health that I talk about.

Shawn Johnson: When does the beef initiative start to enter

Texas Slim: into your. Well, I, I finished up harvest in North Dakota and I was gonna go ahead and do a corn that year, but I was done. I knew that I needed to get busy.

I didn't know exactly, I had so much content that I needed to outline. Once again, I said, okay, let's get back to the source of the seed. Mm-hmm. . So what do you usually do? You know, I'm pretty good writer. I, off and on, depends on how invested I am in it, but whenever I do, I, I, I pick a title. That's all I do.

In the beginning, I picked a title and I called it the Harvest of Deception, and at that time I knew that I could write a book, so I started writing. And then I wrote a, I think it was about, I don't, it was about, uh, 14,000 words. The first sit down took me [00:55:00] about, I don't know, I believe it, three or four.

Three or four days. Yeah. The first one, the first edition. And, uh, so I wrote the Harvest of Deception. I didn't know a damn thing about it. I'd been playing on Twitter, you know, off and on calling myself different things and everything. So I said, okay, well if you're gonna do this, you gotta get back to, you know, your roots source, the seed of who you are.

So, you know, I picked old Texas Slim. It's been a, you know, a nickname for me forever. And I, I, you know, I had a couple of followers, had, I don't know, hundreds, a couple of hundreds or something like that. And I wrote the Harvest of Deception, and I knew that Twitter and I'd fallen down the rabbit hole of Bitcoin too.

And this, this is valuable because Bitcoin is a decentralized, you know, sound money apparatus. It's a technology. A lot of people don't understand it, but I know that the Bitcoiners are very loyal. They want truth, they want transparency and honesty. And so I, I released the harvest of deception on Twitter, which a lot of my followers and a lot of [00:56:00] my attention towards Twitter was Bitcoin.

Cause I was educating as well into food intelligence. And so I released that article on Twitter and all of a sudden it took fire. It took, you know, it, it, it took hold. And people were like, holy shit, no way. And I said, yeah, this is, this is where we are. And so once, once that happened, I knew that I was onto something.

And going back to the Beef Initiative, I knew that I had to paint a roadmap. But I wasn't gonna say what the Beef initiative was, if it was anything. I was gonna talk about food intelligence first, and then after I've got enough attention through the harvest of deception, I, I don't, I think I had written probably two to three follow up articles.

Mm-hmm. then it was time to say, okay, we're gonna form the beef initiative. In the beginning I called it the Texas Beef Initiative cause I wanted to get people's attention and that got people's attention really fast. [00:57:00] And, uh, the reason I did the beef initiative was the day I went and basically knew that I'd, I changed the course of some guys' minds by feeding them animal protein.

And what were my steps to get there? Well, I took off time from work on a day off. I didn't go and drink beer. I didn't go and shoot guns. What I did is I went out and I looked at a community and I found somebody that wanted to feed the community, and I found the rancher and I shook his hand and I told him what I was doing, and he was more than willing to help me feed a group of guys on harvest.

And so that became the Beef Initiative. And within our food supply systems, I knew that I had to introduce something that was a decentralized mindset and a decentralized way of paying for this because in the future, more people will be buying beef with Bitcoin than they realize right now. That's my projection, but [00:58:00] I believe it's gonna happen.

It is happening already within the Beef Initiative, but it came from just that one call to action that I gave myself. And so that's when I started formulating the Beef Initiative. And then after I'd written those articles, you know, basically I said, okay, this is what we're gonna do. Don't know how we're gonna get there, but you know, I'm not gonna tell you what the beef initiative is.

You're gonna figure it out. And it's not a marketing plan, you know, it never was. It's not about getting likes on freaking social media, that's for damn sure. And it's not about getting up and laring into a, an incessant circle jerk, as so many people do, and they never accomplish anything, but they parrot the daily fear porn and they basically grab people's attention and then those people recycle out, and then new people recycle in.

You know, and they figure that that's that hamster wheel. People figure out that, okay, these guys are just laers. This is not what the beef initiative is. This is about [00:59:00] saving children's lives, and it's about saving your life, and it's about giving you the type of intelligence that you need to take ownership of, that you have a roadmap that there are no more rationalizations and justifications to be where we are.

And I think that I've done a very good job is getting to the sources of the seed of the issue so we can get to the sources of the seed of the solution. And in my life, the source of the seed of solution for hundreds of thousands and hopefully millions of people, is gonna be a gateway called the Beef Initiative.

Shawn Johnson: So you're, you're in the process of discovery and educating, and as that education starts to take hold, there are people there that are hungry for that information. They wanna understand the deception. Yeah. And then the beef initiative blossomed

Texas Slim: out of that. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. And all this

Shawn Johnson: time, you're, you're following this calling within your heart, this promise that you made between you and [01:00:00] God and your son.

Yes. And you're just moving in this direction, and this is just starting to unfold, which is mm-hmm.

Texas Slim: extraordinary. Well in, in, in that, that's what I think about it all the time because there, there was no plan. The plan was to keep a promise. The plan was to have integrity and truth and honesty and transparency within myself, you know, so I could, I could save a little boy's spirit.

But the thing about all of that is that whenever you accomplish something in life, usually, and if you get accolades for it, or if you get people that you know, come along for the ride with you, it's not planned. It's just something that is true. It's just the truth. And I knew that I had to live in that truth.

Well, may I, may

Shawn Johnson: I say something to that? Yeah. You know, the, the thing that stuck out to me about you was a, I knew there was way more to the story than, than you initially [01:01:00] let on. I knew this was coming from a, a much deeper place because you've literally, Let go of, of everything, of value in your life to dive into this mission.

It's clear that you were a man on a mission. It's clear that you had a roadmap, which is not something that we've seen in this space that, you know, we've done a really good job at defining the problem. But you were one of the first people who I saw actually had a roadmap moving forward. Now, with that being said, you didn't necessarily know all the hows involved in that roadmap.

And so, you know, you've, you've taken the leap, you, you've taken that baton. But what we need in order for the this thing to be a massive success and we need it to be successful, is for people to, to show up and no, we don't have it all figured out. Tell us what [01:02:00] you can bring to the table to make it possible.

Because it takes each of us as individuals. Taking up that baton and driving this thing

Texas Slim: forward. Well, and it's a very good observation. I like that you can see that because everybody that comes to me, they want all these answers. And that's how we've conditioned a society. It's like, I gotta know everything before I believe in it.

You've gotta, you know, you've gotta tell me everything or I'm not gonna be invested. And I'm trying to tell people, there ain't no knowing where this is going. It depends on you. Are you gonna be involved with it? Then kick ass, let's get moving. I've got something for you. I'm gonna work your ass off.

Because going into each day, into the unknown and each day is actually how a farmer and rancher lives his. There's no guarantees. The pioneer, the pioneer, the pioneering spirit, the pioneer, and that's where I, I mean, Texas panhandle, this is all, this is, this is a [01:03:00] godforsaken place to most people. To the first pioneers here.

They were the rough and tumble people that said, screw you, I'm gonna make this work cuz it is. You can go hundreds of miles without water. You go through rolling, rolling planes of grasslands. It was Comanche land. It's pioneering in a modern day. A lot of people are afraid to do that. And what it takes is that acceptance, saying, well, I don't, I, I don't know the answers, but I have enough faith and I have enough willpower that's based on some integrity and some strength.

The dammit, I know this outcome's gonna be better than where I'm standing, so let's get busy. And so I'm not afraid to do that cuz that's what a farmer rancher does every day of their life. They don't have any guarantees. They have so much corruption. They have that, you know, volatility, you know, weather, government, society, community, you know, animals, everything.

And, and, and you [01:04:00] try to go up to a farmer and rancher and you try to go up to somebody like me and you want me to define it for you. Well, why don't you do some groundwork first and then we'll have a conversation. That way you're showing me some respect or you know where the hell I'm coming from. And so, you know, that's kind of how I'm gonna start moving forward because that's who the hell I am.

And, and people are either gonna like it or hate it. I told everybody, said, I'm gonna live rent free in your head. In the beginning I told people this, that you're either gonna love me or you're gonna hate me. Cause it's gonna come from a, a form of strength. That's stern. It's not. But it's like, it's time for the bullshit to end here folks.

And if you can look at the harvest of deception, you can look at those truth, those facts of what's going on with in our nation and what's going on with our food supplies and what's going on with our children. I ain't got time for you to rente. You know, what is the beef initiative? What I want you to do is help us define it.

Yeah, help us [01:05:00] define it. Bring your perspective. There you go. It's

Shawn Johnson: going to take multiple perspectives to chart new territory. And that is what we are doing. We are charting a new territory. This territory does not exist yet. Nope.

Texas Slim: We are making it. No, it's like I give myself visuals. I'm a visual person. I think in visuals, I look at us sitting out on a mason, looking at a new horizon, and I, I, we're, we're, we're explorers right now because times are a change.

You know, they are a change in folks and if you can look at it and if you can accept, acceptance is a key. I keep saying that cuz it's extremely important. Once you accept something, you can move forward. No matter good or bad. What you do is you, you, you go into a form of innovation, personal innovation that gives you empowerment.

And that's what I believe right now, standing here right now for anybody asking if they're really curious, that's what the Beef Initiative is. It's a collaboration, it's an innovation back into something you've never seen in [01:06:00] yourself. So let's go with that. I like that.

Shawn Johnson: Yeah. I'm gonna ask you a question.

Mm-hmm. , to close this out, if you could have a billboard. Anywhere. Mm-hmm. in the world, in front of billions of people. Mm-hmm. . What message would be on

Texas Slim: there and why? It'd be me and a cowboy hat and be looking down and says, I am Texas slim. That's it. Wow.

Shawn Johnson: That's a, that's a Stay tuned for more folks. . I like it.

That's great. I like it. I know where you're going with it and I can't wait to reveal

Texas Slim: more. I love to play chess and I love to pay Texas Holden Poker,

Shawn Johnson: so that's something I know about my friend . Well, uh, thank you for having the courage to come on here and do this

Texas Slim: today. Hopefully a lot. This is one of a thousand because what we're gonna do is we're gonna go save some lives [01:07:00] and people will come.

They're gonna funnel in, they just have to. Only the pioneers. Only the pioneers. And with that,

Shawn Johnson: I bid everybody a do.

Texas Slim: Thanks Sean. Bye. Peace. Hey guys. Um, tough one to say. Might have been a tough one for you to see. Appreciate you, uh, spending your time with me. That last, I guess so, hour or so. This is where we talk about value for value exchange.

This is where we say, Hey, you know, we're giving back to each other. Uh, we are podcasting 2.0. We have a wonderful team that's, uh, producing these podcasts for us. Great, uh, production. Uh, sometimes you're gonna see me on a dirt road. Sometimes you're gonna see me in this little pseudo studio. Sometimes you're gonna see me in the pickup truck, but always know that, uh, my message is, uh, clear, concise, and, you know, every time you guys stream us sat, you know, I really appreciate it.

Let me read off some names for you real quick that are given that [01:08:00] value for value. They're steaming strats streaming, sat with podcasting 2.0 on the Fountain app. Uh, here we go. I'm gonna read these off. We've got, uh, gene Everett again. Thank you so much. Gene. You're, you're, you're doing this every week. We have a junior side.

Noah, thank you so much. Uh, he's looking for a rancher in Michigan. Hey, everybody. Get a rancher in Michigan. Let's get him in the Beef initiative. If you know somebody, go to Twitter, tweet it out. Let's go. Let's get some people in Michigan. There's a lot of great, uh, regenerative action going on in Michigan.

Let's get some Michigan ranchers into the Beef Initiative. Appreciate that. Thanks for that awareness. Um, nomad Joe. There you go again. Eat more beef. Yes, sir. And then we got Bubba. Bubba, you lost your, uh, license for about three or four days. Now you're back. You're on the road. Thank you Bubba. Good to see you down in Luling.

Uh, appreciate you man. Love you. Big love. Who else we got? We got Bubba again. [01:09:00] Then we got Joel w he's doing this every week as well. We've got Gene ever again. We've got t w cattle. That's the first time I saw you. Thank you for the sat. We've also got Ron, uh, listen to what Ron has to say. He gave 10,000 SAT education is the number one focus in the goal of bringing new first generation ranchers.

Into the fold. This scholarship is something I'm very excited about. Everything is so. Early. Okay. If you guys have missed the last podcast or the time before, we have a scholarship foundation trust fund going on these days. Remember, this is going to the ranchers. A lot of the, uh, proceeds that we get, some, some through the events that we've had.

Through, uh, people donating, people are donating to the scholarship trust fund. Go ahead and go to the Beef Initiative, uh, website. Go to the donation page, give back to the scholarship Trust fund. We are in partnerships with Unchain Capital. This is something that is moving forward. It's moving forward in [01:10:00] 2023.

With your help, we're gonna be able to help the ranchers be the educators they are. They're gonna be able to give out internships, scholarships, apprenticeships. That's our mission. That's our goal. Uh, let's wrap this up here. We got Gene Everett. Again, we got none Business. David Bennon. He's up in Washington now.

Thank you guys. Um, stay tuned for next week's podcast. It's a tell of, uh, health and, uh, to tell of overcoming, um, obstacles within our health. Uh, we got the Tennessee Beef Initiative, uh, micro Summit coming up, uh, and a lot of announcements there. And guess what, if you haven't found out Sean Baker.

Carnivore diet. He's gonna be speaking in Tennessee beef initiative.com, your future events tab there. Go ahead and click on it, see if there's any tickets left there. Might not be. Get there if you can get there to Nashville. Uh, hope to see you come shake my hand. Much grace, much respect, much love.

Appreciate everyone of you. We'll see you next [01:11:00] week.