So the milkers now, the process behind this, I guess the balance, getting them looking their best, and the differences between stages of lactation.

Yeah, so the milkers, it is a little bit more complex than the heifers.

Um, there's still a lot of similarities in terms of, I think, a six-week period is a good amount of time to be having your milkers, where you're working with them, breaking them in if they haven't been led before.

Um, and once again, that six weeks out to the show, we like to get them onto a, a different diet.

You wanna have your milkers milking as hard as they possibly can when they get to the show.

It's gonna make your life a lot easier.

But at the same time, we still wanna utilize hay to stretch that rumen a little bit and give them as much rib depth of body as possible to give the show the more capacity.

So you've got them at home, you've got six weeks, and then when do you decide to leave some milk on them and push them to their limits is what you think they should look like on show day? How far out do you do that?

Thank you very much for reaffirming Alex, in my belief.

No problem.

He jumps in real quick with Carmelo Hayes.

there's 20 immediate

Vikings at this thing, I'm going to die in section 114 in the U.S. Bank Stadium.

but can you just kind of run us through you know to 2026 luke starting from kind of the earlier parts of your career

yeah totally and the story really is my life started with my first child like when i found out we were pregnant with my son eli that's the career version of me that was born because until then i was bartending like kind of like you drinking too much bartending making rock and roll on the side just living that single life and when i found out we were pregnant with my son eli It was literally like getting struck by lightning.

I had no idea what I was going to do next.

I wasn't planning for it.

I had nothing saved.

I thought I was rich making $40,000 a year living in a shoebox.

It really was like that holy shit moment where what happens next is important and I don't know what it is yet.

Sometimes it's easy to explain things in hindsight, but I'm curious if it was intentional or if you had that kind of thought process.