They said it couldn't be done.

They said a podcast couldn't be so excellent that it would receive a thousand blue ribbons

at the state fair of podcasting.

And yet here we are folks covered in blue ribbons. I'm that 6,000 pound cow that

toes all the cinder blocks across the field as the 4-H members lose their minds. My name is Big Dave,

the original cinderblock dragger. And I'm joined here on the county fairgrounds by the chicken or the hen.

I can't remember which does which, who laid six dozen eggs in 32 seconds.

It's John Clucky Kimball.

Hey.

We are the blue ribbon-winning state fair champion and county Fair Champion election profit makers.

Your favorite farmers' favorite podcast.

Cinder blocks dragged across the ground.

Have you ever been to an ox pole?

That's what they do at oxpoles.

Have you?

I have been to the Blue Hill County Fair in Maine many years ago, and they had an oxpull event.

I went a couple years in a row, and I was so taken with it that I started to write a movie

screenplay called American Ox Pohl.

And it was a comedy about all the people who get together to cheer on the oxes at the oxen,

I beg your pardon, at the ox ox pole and i got to tell you john

it was very exciting because some of those beasts were pretty small they were so fucking huge

and were they pulling very much shit across the dusty ground oh my god yeah it was really great

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