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Stacks from Ocala, FL 9-18-24
[Music] Now walk 'em again, Shark Farmer Radio. Hey! I'm your host Rob Sharky. We're in the studio today, just outside of Bradford, Illinois. Studio powered by Bex Hybrid. Seven years in, and I still am jamming every day to that song. Gennell James out of Canada. That's right. I've had a little bit of caffeine today too. I think you have too, because hey, we started Harvest today. We have. So fantastic. Are you getting the gremlins out? I see the combine stopping. It always makes me nervous when you have to stop and adjust and stop and adjust. Yes. I hope. I hope we do, because William is out there running it now while we're doing a show. So we did some corn yesterday. Just opened up a little, I think, three acres. And then, I don't know, we're probably at about 15 acres on beans today. Hey, I'll take that. You know, you started just about an hour ago, so I'll take that. Yeah. I did pull a rock out of the field already. So, yeah, we need to- You didn't get 'em all. I promise you that. No, no, I did not. But I'm excited. I told Anita, our daughter, I was talking to her this morning, I said, "Yep, we officially started." She goes, "Ah, it's officially harvest time. It's officially fall when that happens." It is. Playing with the new stuff from deer, you know, or you got the auger cart that comes right next to you there, and I can take control of it from William. So, we actually have not been in a place yet. We're still doing in rows. So, we'll get there. So, it's that essentials kit, right? We get there. Everything has to talk to one another. So, you know, you got to work that out a few times. Try it out. Make sure it's talking. Yeah. You want to go down to Florida? Oh, absolutely. Let's talk to Stax. How you doing, Stax? I'm doing well. How are you? Good. Is it- How do you say it? Ocala? I think it's Ocala. I've only been out in here for two months, but that's how I've been saying it, so. Or is that in a great state of Florida? It's central Florida, so it's like, I guess, northwest of Tampa. Okay. You like it down there? Oh, I'm loving it. Are you- You've sold- Heat does not bother you. No, I love the heat, actually. Oh, she's one of those, Emily. Yeah. Hey, I can relate, you know. Well, at some point, I don't know. But, yeah. I am ready for a little cooler weather, but that's- He keeps talking about one in a second house in Florida somewhere, and I'm thinking Arizona or Utah, you know, like around- But it makes no sense. It's beautiful, but they have winter there. They do. All right. Back to Stax, okay. So you are down there. The reason that I asked you to be on the show is I was watching the old TikTok, and you did one where you talked about- You called it what? Your battery pack? Yeah. So you have got some pain that you're dealing with, and we have got an audience that probably deals with more pain in general with farmers and that. So tell me what that is, that battery pack. Yeah, so basically I sustained an injury on the job with law enforcement, and it created a long thoracic nerve injury that also created, like, widespread, severe- nerve damage throughout my entire right arm. So my entire right arm felt like I was being tased 24/7. Yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. Well, it's not just skip over that. I have not been tased, but I've been hit with a cattle prod several times. I mean, are you exaggerating, or was it really that bad? No, when I tell you I have been tased and that is the closest I can get to what that pain felt like. I felt like I had the tas are going just without the muscles being capacitated. How do you even do anything with that? That was the problem is I couldn't. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even pet my damn dog with that arm. So it was getting to the point where I was like, why am I here? I'm just going to be in this pain and I can't do anything. I can't walk outside if there's a light breeze because that accentuates the pain. And I think I went through like four or five, maybe even six pain managers specialists before one of them finally said, well, why are we not doing a spinal cord stimulator? Like, I don't know what that is, but you tell me what we're doing and we'll do it. So basically the device is in my neck from C2 to T3. Had you ever even heard of this before the doctor suggested it or were you at that point where you're just like, tell me something. We're going to try it. Exactly. That's where I was at. I was like, I don't know what that device is. I don't know what you're even saying to me, but if it's going to help my pain, bring it on. And they went, you have to do a trial on first where they implant the device and everything taped outside of your body. And then if it works, then you have the full on device implanted. So that is now it's under the skin. Yep, that is now a permanent part of my body. I mean, how long does it last? So my battery is non-rechargeable, so it lasts anywhere from 8 to 10 years, and then I just have to have the battery replaced. Okay, so was this night and day when you recovered from the surgery after they put it in? Did it work just immediately and you were just like, oh my gosh, like taking your first deep breath? There were a few days where we had to like just let everything kind of heal and everything, and then they had the device turned on. And I definitely noticed the difference. I was feeling better than I had been in my arm. But once we got everything healed up, then I went back and they reprogrammed the device with me and worked it out so that all of the kinks got kind of ironed out within the programming. And once we got all the kinks ironed out, it was night and day. I can actually live my life now. Oh my gosh. Much less pain. Even imagine. Oh my word. All right, we do gotta go to break. Today we're talking with stacks from Ocala, Florida. Go follow her on TikTok, a drunken cyborg. That's the handle. We'll be back. All right after the break. This segment is brought to you by Common Ground. Are you looking for an easy way to buy, sell, or lease your land? Well, check out Common Ground where they connect landowners and farmers and hunters too, by the way. Go to commonground.io that's commonground.io. A battery. Battery at last eight to ten years. Why can't they put that in my phone? Right. I can't imagine. Oh my gosh. Is that a amount of pain? Emily, we had the shark farmer TV last night. Encore is Saturday at one thirty. That's right. We did the Illinois soybean and talked about the benefits of the check-off. That's right. You know, a lot of people still aren't sure about their check-off dollars. So yeah, we did a really cool segment on shark farmer TV. And we started at the DeLong facility in Joliet where they process beans and send them soybeans all over the world. And then we went to Ryan Frieder's farm and he's an actual soybean grower. And so he had the Taiwanese group out there to check out his beans because hey, they're buying them. I mean, actual people that were making the decisions of buying the soybeans for Taiwan. Absolutely. I think people don't realize that, you know, these are relationships you're making with Egypt and Taiwan. And they're real people and they really want to come out and see the soybeans for firsthand. Yeah. Yeah, they're grown. Absolutely. Today we're in Ocala, Florida. We're talking with Stax. You may know her on her TikTok, a drunken cyborg. Now, Stax, we were talking about the pain management of what do you call the hockey puck thing again? It's a spinal cord stimulator battery. Yeah, I bet you've said that a million times. You actually show it on your TikTok and it's like a smaller than a hockey puck, right? I would say it might be just a little bit smaller than a hockey puck. And that is under your skin. Does that bother you? Oh, yeah. It's not all the time. So, like, if I'm just up walking around and stuff, I can't really feel it anymore. At the beginning, I could definitely feel it. But now it's more like when I'm sleeping, if I roll over onto it, it'll get real uncomfortable and wake me up. Or, like, if I'm working out, I do a lot of work outside, I have to be really careful and kind of lean to one side while I'm doing stuff so I don't smack it on the ground. Oh, yeah. It is unreal. So, you have to sleep in a certain position just to be comfortable at night. You can't just roll over and just, you know, lay there however you want. No, between. So, I also had to have the right shoulder reconstructed three separate times with all of the rest of this. So, between the shoulder getting pissed off when I'm laying on one side and then the battery pack. I just, I'm like a hot dog at a gas station all night. Aww. She's like a taquito weight foot strip. So, round and round. Yep. Just keeps this. I think it's important that you talk about it because there's so many people that are living with paint. All these old farmers, I mean, they can hardly move their backs and that. And they don't want to go in. There's like the stigma about going to get in the paint. I know you really didn't have a choice because yours was strictly unbearable. But I mean, if someone's out there, do you talk to somebody who's like, you know, I can't really bend my back anymore. I mean, do you encourage them to go get help? Oh, 100% actually when I was in doing the consultation to get this device placed. At least the temporary test trial one. There was an elderly lady in there. She came out. She heard me talking to the doctor and she goes, young lady, if you're in that kind of pain, please get it. And she's like, you see me standing up straight right now? I'm like, absolutely. I do. She goes, I couldn't do that before I got this. I was hunched over in pain all the time. And now I can stand up right with no pain. And I feel so much better. And that really pushed me to go ahead with the trial. Nice. And sometimes it just takes a kind word from somebody to like give you that extra push. But I almost want to back up. Okay. So you said that you worked with your police officer. Did you start out with a highway patrol or what was your job? Yeah. So I started out in Nevada in 2016 with Nevada Highway Patrol. Absolutely loved it. Went over to the federal side went U.S. Capitol police for a very short stint and then went over to U.S. Park Police where all of this happened. Okay. Well, U.S. Capitol police. Oh, boy. Were you there, January 6? No, I had moved on to U.S. Park Police by that point. Gotcha. I mean, that it seems to me like that has to be one of the more heightened jobs out there. Because, I mean, you never know who's going to try to do something stupid in D.C. You never do. And I mean, most days, it's just really boring there, actually. Most of it's just your glorified security guard. And then you do have days that those are the days you train for. Those are the days that bad things happen. And you got to do what you got to do. It's like after January 6, there was an instance where I had already been injured. So I was stuck in dispatch with U.S. Park Police. And somebody rammed the gates over on the south side of the Capitol and hit one of my officers. Somebody that I've worked with a few times was somewhat good friends with. And I hear them come over the radio asking for our evil to go over and airlift them. And I'm on the radio trying to get assistance over there hoping to pray and it's not somebody I know. And I know that sounds awful, but at the same time, I'm like, I don't want it to be anybody, but please don't let it be one of my buddies. And it ended up being one and he ended up passing, unfortunately. So there are those days over there. But honestly, for the most part, it's super boring. I wanted their FRU team, their first response team, and they put me at the Library of Congress, making sure people didn't still library books. So that is why I moved on from U.S. Capitol because I was like, no, no, I didn't go from running and gun and with highway patrol to sitting in a library, making sure people don't still book. That's not my thing. Yeah, so like when the park police, I mean, are you doing any of like the, what they would consider the game warden stuff? Or you just, when someone steps off the trail, you whack them in the head. No, so U.S. Park Police, a lot of people, you hear park and you're not thinking that we're doing much of anything. Their jurisdiction is the entire national mall, as well as the New York Parkway going into Virginia and the CW Parkway going into Maryland, as well as the Rock Creek. Parkway in D.C. and then they've got the Golden Gate Bridge out in California and the Statue of Liberty, obviously in New York. So they've got a lot of jurisdiction and we handle a lot of the same kind of threats that Capitol Police does. Yeah, and again, all places that you would think would kind of be a target in that. Wow, it's totally different thing than when you said park. Yeah, definitely. We do got to go to break. Today we are in Ocala, Florida. We're talking about stacks. Very interesting. We got a lot to talk about when we come back, but we're going to come back with Florida's favorite radio segment. We'll be back. All right, after the break. [music] This segment is brought to you by Common Ground. Are you looking for an easy way to buy, sell, or lease your land? Well, check out Common Ground where they connect landowners and farmers and hunters too, by the way. Go to commonground.io. That's commonground.io. [music] Florida man. You play the Florida man game. No, I do not. You type in your birthday with a year and then comma Florida man, and you see what wacky they're nuts down there. It's time for Florida's favorite radio segment. Where in the world is well? Well, what do you have for us today? Today I'm in Ocala, which is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Florida. Located in north central Florida, the city's population was 63,591 at the 2020 census, making it the 43rd most populated city in Florida. It's probably got a Walmart then. Yep. Probably got a few. Ocala is named after Ocala, a Timuka village, and chieftain, recorded in the 16th century, the name of which is believed to mean "big hammock" in the Timuka language. Okay. Big hammock. That's fantastic. Yep. Home to over 400 thoroughbred farms and training centers, Ocala is considered the horse capital of the world. What? Notable attractions include the Ocala National Forest, Silver Springs State Park, Rainbow Springs State Park, the College of Central Florida and the World Aquestrian Center. Ocala is one of only five cities, four in the U.S. and one in France, permitted under the Chamber of Commerce guidelines to use the title "Horse Capital of the World." As you can say, Kentucky people are probably ticked right now. Yeah. Five cities, four in the U.S. claim to be a horse capital of the world. Okay. Yeah. And that's based on annual revenue produced by the horse industry. So 44,000 jobs in Ocala are sustained by breeding train. Oh my gosh. It generates over $2.2 billion. It's pretty crazy. Nuts. We got some notable people, though. We got Don Garlet's professional drag racer considered the father of drag racing. He is known as Big Daddy to drag racing fans around the world. You bet he has. Yep. We also got John Travolta. I can't believe you didn't start with that. John Travolta. Two, two, give me two. Yeah. We also got American Pilot and entrepreneur Jason Schapert. Schapert is a CFII and ATP-rated pilot, founder of M0A.com, an author of eight aviation flight training books. Okay. No side of fly, huh? Yes. Yes. He has over 8,000 hours of in-flight instruction, sensing how to fly. And he was named AOPA's top collegiate flight instructor in 2008. Oh, well done. Metalcore fans should know that Ocala is holy ground because a day to remember Park Punk and Metalcore Band, seventh star Christian Metalcore Band, wage war, metalcore band, and under oath, a very good metalcore band are all from Ocala. I think farmers are ever going. Yep. I listened to that. I listened to that with combine. They love that. The farmers might recognize the Royal Guardsmen Band originating from the 1960s from Ocala. American Rock Band, best known for their 1966 hit singles, Snoopy versus the Red Baron. Oh, yeah. The return of the Red Baron, Snoopy for president and the Christmas follow-up Snoopy's Christmas. God, move on, guys. That's it. Okay. All right. Well, thank you. Well, Stax, did you know all that stuff about your town there? Negative. I knew almost none of that other than that. John Travolta is running around here somewhere. Oh, he lives there. Get it. Oh, okay. I didn't know. He's got his own little ranch. I had somebody on a walk the other day while I was training dogs. Asked me if I'd seen him yet. And I was like, Oh, yeah. And he stands on the corner of his ranch every day for a certain period of time, just in case new people move into Ocala to come and meet him. And they're like, really? I was like, absolutely not. Had me for a second. I didn't know the horses saying no. Do you say you were on a horse rant or what did you say about horses? Yeah. So I moved on to this little horse rancher farm. I'm renting one of the cottages on there. So. Are you a horse person? They're pretty. Over there. And I've ridden horses before, but I just, they're so smart. They can hold grudges and that big of an animal compared to a tactical sized individual like me. I'm just, I'm not your horse. But you do train dogs. I do. I do train dogs now. That is my retirement gig is teaching people dogs had to be better behaved. Are you like the Cesar? Do you just go all the time? Oh, no. No, no, they, they've got very. So I train through off leash canine training. And they've got e-colors that we use for our training. It's not a shock collar. It's like a 10 unit. So it just flexes muscle in their neck to let them know, Hey, I don't like what you're doing. I'm feeling that gently constricts her neck. Is that what you're saying? No, it doesn't constrict. It just flexes the side, the muscle in the side of the neck. So you put it on one side of the neck and it's just like a 10 unit. If you could attend unit on your face shoulder and you turn it up, it's going to start flexing the muscles higher. You turn it up the more it flexes them until it starts to get uncomfortable. And at that point, usually the dogs like, I don't like that. So I'm going to do what you want me to do. It's like that rental car. It's like that rental car that shocked my leg when I went a little bit over the sideline. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have an extra one? Maybe Emily and I could. I don't know. Moving on. You've been through a lot. But you also, I mean, some of the stuff that you have sent over for, you know, like how people get to know you're very motivational. You know, you say like the words you can't should generally be taken as a challenge. You look back on your life. I mean, do you feel like you've overcame these things? I mean, do you, in your mind, do you realize what you've overcame or is it just kind of your story? For me, it's just kind of my story. Like I've realized that I've overcome a lot, but that's for me, it's just me living my life. I 100% believe in that, by the way, that saying you can't should be issued as a challenge. Like I was told before they reconstructed my shoulder that I would never be able to do a pull up again. And that was because the pectoralis major had to be disconnected from my humerus and fed through my arm and attached to my scapula. They were telling me that I would never have the functionality to be able to do pull ups again. And I was like, you freaking watch me. And I can do up to five now. Not where I was before the injury, but I can do up to five pull ups in a row. And I'm like, basically suck it. She's still going to listen to her. She's spunky. You tell her she can't do something. She's going to be, she's going to be one of these who says, yeah, watch me. Yeah, I'm thinking that's probably what happened to me. That's why I can't do a pull up. I don't think I ever had that muscle. I could never do that stupid flex arm hang in high school. That was so dumb. It tells you what stacks if people do want to find you on social media, where would they go? Drunken Cyborg is on all platforms. Basically, it's TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. I don't have anything other than that. I shouldn't say all platforms because I know they're a lot more, but those mainstream ones are where I'm at. You know, I'm guessing that drunken cyborg that name is probably available on LinkedIn if you want to look into that. I felt like it was a good, I felt like it was a good screen name because I've got my love for bourbon. And I know we didn't work like. Oh, that's yeah. You want your dog trained. We didn't even get to talk about the love of whiskey and guns, honey and cigars. Oh my gosh. Phil, all right. Stacks. Thank you very much. Don't go anywhere. Sean Haney. He's coming up next. [MUSIC]