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00:15who's anti-garden i've never met anyone goes god i don't want to go in a garden
00:21it's usually oh let's go look at a garden you can bond with people at the bowling alley sure
00:25you can bond with people in my case at renaissance fairs if i if i were to very pompously if
00:31i were to
00:32offer a remedy to the human condition it would be a garden
00:40or acid
00:55or later because the revolution's here and you know it's why
01:10we have got to get it together now
01:22give me a second
01:28no i don't need tp oh you know what i do need to wipe off my urethra
01:43corn completely domesticated and a product of inbreeding like myself but how do we get from
01:50this to this it's fascinating let's find out
02:01hi what's your name sky hey sky i'm zach nice to meet you
02:06oh old-fashioned bob dole handshake what's your name beckett hey beckett have a seat
02:11do you like corn yeah i'm talking about the vegetable not the band i know everybody likes
02:17the band i don't know hi what's your name ava ava zach nice to meet you your name spelled backwards
02:24is ava my name spelled backwards is sick anna if the lag hick has
02:30sawyer zach
02:32no you shake my thumb how old are you seven and a half turning eight in a couple days what
02:38would you
02:38like for your birthday this year corn wouldn't that be nice a nice year of corn would you be
02:43disappointed kind of because i got corn yeah i know who wants corn for their birthday
02:49i don't know what grade are you in three you just started third yeah so did my son uh do
02:57you
02:57know how to read yes oh he doesn't you know how to write yes must be nice for your parents
03:04by the
03:05way your hair is amazing i got a feeling you don't brush it in the morning me either yeah but
03:15we don't
03:16have time you and i have busy lives we don't have time to groom we've got to get out of
03:22the door and
03:22see the world and make the world happen we're not gonna live our lives that how madison avenue tells us
03:29to brush our hair what kind of clothes to wear and hollywood and all that crap you and i are
03:34rebels we
03:41don't care
03:41that was a good speech wasn't it
03:46you like corny jokes what did the corn say when it received a compliment i don't know ah shucks
04:16what do you call corn call corn that joins the army
04:26all right beckett what do you want to talk about anything you want to say
04:28i have a lizard and what do you feed it
04:33corn just see corn
04:35crickets crickets if you ever want to get some crickets you should come to one of my shows
04:42yeah hold on one second i'm getting a call hello
04:46um hello i can barely hear you this is corn
04:49that's not funny yeah yeah okay here for you
04:57me name is corn
05:02that's what you say is me name is corn
05:11you answered a corn as a phone and you said me name is corn
05:17not even this is corn you said me is corn
05:22is that how you wait i think you're getting a call from the corn again hello yeah mia's corn
05:33yeah yeah he's here okay
05:46i got a corn phone yeah don't forget to answer it in school me is corn
06:07so
06:28now i'm gonna go talk corn with murray from mcnab's farm
06:36murray keep it down the pigs in the background holy
06:43murray where is he murray murray
06:48i think i hear murray
06:53here we go comes murray
06:57does it have another speed will you let me know if he looks like he's going to kill me
07:02i mean i mean that during the interview too that's a nice tractor
07:11how you doing murray how's your bad i'm zach
07:15murray if i could get out of the tractor what year is this
07:21yeah it looks brand new i was way off
07:23well what should we do should we just walk around where do you guys want us
07:26sweet corn some corn corn okay well then we're going down that way i'm not too good on walking
07:31uh what do you want me to do
07:41murray wheat murray can you just hold up
07:43do you uh how long has your family been in the corn business
07:55i'm out of breath sorry about the estuary tour but this is the corn that's ready i'm gonna ask a
07:59couple stupid questions okay because i don't know too much about corn you know corn's ready when the
08:04the size of it right yes and sometimes you can smell that it's ready but this here if you
08:10feel it you can see it's a good size and it's got some looseness at the top look at that
08:15beauty
08:17this isn't all handpicked oh yes you handpicked this corn yeah and don't start
08:22asking me if it's a grain or not because i never looked it up but is this a grain i
08:26think it might
08:26be but don't quote me on that what do you mean are the corn is a grain i don't know
08:31what a
08:32grain is really okay well i don't either but we're gonna have the cornologist on here later
08:35is that really what they're called i don't think so but oh it sounds good he's a little corny but
08:41anybody ever come in here try to do a crop circle no any idiot with a center point and a
08:46rope and
08:46like a crop circle you don't think they're aliens no they're just drunk kids doing it no old people
08:52with a piece of board you've probably seen it on tv what do you mean old people by that well
08:56like our age
08:59our age well you look 70-ish the process of getting the corn going how many days do you start
09:10seeing a little life come up well if it's nice and warm i would say it's only a week 10
09:14days is
09:15there a lot of babysitting no aside from keeping things watered that would be it do you grow candy
09:20corn here no i don't this corn is still not ready yet and this is all self-pollinating right yes
09:29this
09:29is where the pollen comes on the top and goes down onto the hairs of the corn cob this just
09:35falls down
09:36starts pollinating yeah and each one of these hairs represents one kernel each hair has to get
09:40some pollen on it or you get cobs of corn that have gaps in them what's the number one enemy
09:46here to
09:46the corn well we can hear crows the heads they call them uh ravens they are
09:55is that the latin term head yeah i think it is what do you do about that
09:59well sometimes some hot lead quickly pass their ears not in their ears no no you ever been chased
10:05by them that's why i got this whoopee stick here just to beat the out of them heads
10:11and so that's about all i know about this corn
10:20i i keep interviewing farmers and gardeners and people seem to be happy and people pretty much
10:26have a good sense of humor oh that's good until you you don't have any extra tractors for sale do
10:32you
10:32no good talk but i got one of the three wheels well does it originally have four wheels it did
10:38have
10:38the four yeah and the steering wheel but uh you're a bit old to be getting into machinery
10:47i know i'm in my 70s like you that hair is crazy and great like my hair
10:55do you do you have any just for men uh back at the house like viagra no oh
11:04this work is very rewarding i would imagine oh there's no life like it uh
11:08when you've been picking rocks in the same place for 60 years you know you have some feeling for it
11:14and uh i guess that's why we carry on i still got a few years left good years and then
11:19there'll be the
11:20diaper years i can't wait till the diaper years are you gonna get back in the tractor oh okay i
11:26wish i could drive it well you could i can yeah i might have to just sort of start and
11:31put in gear
11:31for you so we i know what i'm doing oh oh they got trouble oh we got the emergency brake
11:38on that's
11:38another way okay i just told you the brake was on okay okay back up all right here we go
11:42stand on it
11:44don't go over with my punches you got her oh boy that way yeah that's he's coming this way
11:48your turn whoa they're in the way yeah there you go okay i'm gonna take left here it goes fast
11:54keep going that way a bit careful that way oh holy man the pumpkin okay i don't want to hit
11:59the corn
12:06murray uh we're getting ready to talk to a corn historian if you would do you know anything about
12:11the the the story of corn at all no uh quite frankly i don't and i don't give a damn
12:17well the
12:23food is one of the topics that i study in archaeology and we began to find corn in an
12:28ancient village site that we were working at in chiapas mexico we took samples of that carbonized
12:34corn and sent it to a radiocarbon laboratory how old was it over 3 000 years old
12:41wow older than murray how does a plant like this eventually evolve it evolves through human
12:49intervention the wild ancestor of corn is a wild grass called teosinte
12:58here is an example of teosinte so this is the great great great great grandmother
13:03or grandfather if you will of all the corn that we see around us in this field wow
13:09so here is an ear of teosinte that has individual kernels on it look at that each of which is
13:17covered in a very hard shell that hard shell is what retracted into become the cob the the modern cob
13:25is a genetic modification of what was the outer shell in teosinte a product of human selection for the
13:32attributes of the plant that they were interested in humans made it like this humans made it like
13:37this and in a way it now has made humans wow in other words humans doesn't he know we're trying
13:45to
13:45film i think he misses us how old is murray we can't tell we're gonna send a rope down yeah
13:52hi murray
13:54hello hello have you guys met hi murray oh i appreciate you murray we have a corn doctor here murray
14:00has
14:01a question oh what was that is corn a grain oh yes maybe you could tell us corn is definitely
14:08a grain
14:08thank you very much all right show's over have a great day it's one of the three most important food
14:15crop grains in the world europe was introduced to corn in the late 15th century though corn was
14:37initially received with some skepticism by the early 16th century corn was being cultivated in italy
14:43nice portugal me and can we get countries that actually exist i've never heard spain
14:56good morning brooklyn elementary morning meditation reflection and prayer will be at 11 a.m don't forget
15:04mecca is to the left and today's corny joke of the day is brought to you by corn
15:11what is mozart's favorite fruit
15:17ba-na-na-na ba-na-na-na ba-na-na-na ba-na-na-na-na
15:26beethoven's beethoven's favorite fruit yeah yeah it's beethoven who's she moving it around
15:33by ship to different places they would take salmon for the plant then yeah but but it took
15:38for corn it took um at least 100 years before they really started to grow it um can i just
15:45the portuguese colonies and went over that stuff already okay and then it made its its way into
15:50europe but it took forever for european the future is a variant except it as a food but there's still
15:55uh yeah there's still europeans that come here now uh you know from germany and some of those places
16:01that won't eat corn on the cob because it's animal food exactly that's all it is yeah yeah i i
16:08had
16:08some spanish archaeologists staying at my house when it was summer so we decided oh this is exciting
16:13we'll serve them this beautiful fresh corn on the cob yeah and they just they wouldn't eat it they
16:18wouldn't even try it no no that's animal food exactly what you said yeah this is for animals yeah me
16:24is
16:38corn
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