Why Raising Your Kids on the Farm is the Best Decision You’ll Ever Make

growing up on the farm or in a small town

I spent a lot of time feeding hung over
maybe still drunk

the first 3 to 5 years
when you get out of high school
get away from the family farm
get away from the family business

number 10 that’s what that was
yeah 10 cm or whatever
or millimeters
millimeters or centimet

I’m freaking out

I would guarantee 50% of the teachers in that school are caring

respect respect
all all the mothers out there
all the mother man

okay col so what are you having
I’m having

hey y’all welcome to meet the mcb’s
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today I’m joined by my brother Cole
and we’re going to be talking about life growing up on the farm

the benefits of raising a family on the farm
some of the negative aspects too

and what we think the ideal way of raising a child would be

um if we had our own
which I don’t told does or will

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and let’s get down and dirty with it

hey y’all thanks for tuning in today

we’ve got an exciting podcast today
and I think it’s something that I’m going to let Cole take the lead on this

because this is what he has more experience in

and Hell let’s be honest
he’s got a baby on the way due in December

and by the time this episode releases
Casey will have posted the gender right

okay Cole so what are you having

I’m having a girl

the First first girl is a girl

so we have the first grand baby
for my mom and dad

and it’s a little girl

which my mom has wanted her entire life

to say that she’s going to be spoiled
is probably an understatement

it’s bad
it is
it’s going to be really bad

she’s going to be the most spoiled baby on the planet

my mom kept trying for a girl
and she had four boys

yeah

and on like the last
she wanted a girl every time

and she thought the last two were girls
me and Braden

they weren’t

sometimes it was like back then
where they like still were confused

didn’t she wasn’t I supposed to girl for a while
and I wasn’t

so I even questioned that up until you

no you didn’t have to question that
once I was born trust me

all right

so today’s episode we’re going to be talking about
growing up on the farm or in a small town

uh Gallatin is population 1700
it’s a 1A school

and Jesse and I did not grow up in gon
whereas Cole actually moved up here

uh sophomore year

yeah sophomore year
sophomore year going into junior year

and so we wanted to talk about um
really the positives that come with growing up on the farm

or in a small town in general

and where we come from is Independence Missouri

so I had 550 in my graduating class
Jesse had the same

how 492

down there here it it was uh 60
and we were the biggest class goes are gon

yeah

so gon usually ranges 45 to 50
yeah like 45 50 somewhere in the ey

so it’s a big difference

wouldn’t you say

it was huge
it was a huge difference

um a total like life change

um I I’m trying to it’s just way different at a small town

uh you know the high school

I really like going to a smalltown high school

just because of the the feeling of like knowing everybody

you know you go to the football games on Friday night
and the whole town is there

like you go into cas’s the next day
everybody’s telling you good game

everybody’s talking to you

and it’s just

what happens if you threw it interception
everybody’s making fun of you

and so I mean the good and the bad comes with it

but no it’s I loved it

I’m glad that you know I did get the experience both
which was good

I got to go to a big school

we were 5A
5 yeah

which is there’s only 6A in Missouri
so was pretty big school

and uh that was just a lot

I I um I definitely like a small town better
it fit me way better

and your plan in Casey’s plan

y’all are building a house up here
you’re going to be raising your daughter in gallon

she’s going to be going through the gon School District

thoughts on that

1,000%

I know shoot I went to high school
with like six of the teachers up there now

like I know so many of the people
they’re still the same teachers I was there

um I know what I know they’re getting taught the right things

you know I’m not going to get into politics or anything

but in 2024 things that are being taught
in big schools and big city schools

are not what they’re supposed to be learning

you know

I want my kid to go to school
and learn the right things

and I also want to be able to take my kid to school
and know that she’s going to be safe

and yeah that’s a good point

a small town

I mean the school I can see it from my front door
I can see it from our office
I could see it from our

I would guarantee 50% of the teachers in that school are caring

wouldn’t you say

I mean I hope

I guarantee it honestly

I would say knowing who all I would say every one of them

know how to operate a gun

yeah yeah

I I would say they all have something hidden in their closet
or in their carrying underneath their uh their pants

yeah

I can tell you this

I um I’m not saying there’s not good teachers all over

obviously there’s great teachers all over

I just trust the uh school systems of small schools way better
after going to one

and just with the uh the amount of change in our world nowadays

I well it’s scary sending your kid to school to a big school

I mean you look at really some of the issues
we’ve had with school shootings over the last few years

there is something to be said about knowing
pretty much every single person in the building

yeah

and even for the kids

for the most part everyone knows everyone

and there are there are no serious outcasts
I would say in a small school

I mean out of the 60 people in your class
I bet all of them had friends

oh every single one of them

and every single one of them like

there was obviously the five of us
the 10 of us maybe that moved in

throughout like the school

but a lot of them literally grew up together
since kindergarten

like they went they knew each other

like they were like some like so close
like brother and sister

because they’ve been so close for so long

and and I think in a big school
there’s so many numbers of students

there’s so many kids to keep your eyes on
that some of them fall through the cracks

and uh unfortunately

if I’m looking at it from a big school perspective

it would be about impossible to make sure
you’re able to keep tabs on every single student

if you have 500 100 plus in a class

and so you have some that start to drift away
start to lose friends

and uh become some of the the problem um kids

or some of the potential uh school shooter kids
in those bigger schools

in my opinion

I could be completely wrong on that

but just seeing it from a Gallatin perspective

it’s so close in such a small knit community
that everyone knows everyone

and really everyone’s a part of a friendship group somehow

for sure