hey everybody how's it going I hope
you're having a lovely day I haven't
been having a lovely day a week or dare
I say it even a lovely month I just
haven't felt the spark to do videos that
I used to which is why I haven't been
doing them as regularly including some
other things that I used to find fun but
today something came across my desk that
was so disgustingly corrupt that I felt
compelled to share it with all of you I
want you to imagine that we are back in
time 22 years back in the Microsoft
Windows XP days where you had Internet
Explorer 6 and you visit a website N20
pop-ups show up and you get a virus and
it's filled with ads everywhere it
sucked
a browser called Mozilla came out that
was much better the world's better it
had a pop-up blocker built in it had
tabs you could right click on an ad and
just block all the images from that
domain very quickly it actually made the
internet usable again I want you to
imagine for all the things that
Microsoft has been in trouble for when
it comes to antitrust imagine if
Microsoft did the following a they made
Internet Explorer 6 a 1500 a year
subscription B when Windows XP Service
Pack 2 came out they realized that
people were trying to get around the
subscription to their web browser by
installing Mozilla so in Service Pack 2
they decided to disable your ability to
use any web browser other than Internet
Explorer
they would have been gone as a company
by 2001 Anti-Trust standards if they did
that however it's 2023. Anti-Trust
doesn't really seem to exist anymore and
nobody seems to care as companies take
away ownership of what you bought and
paid for enter John Deere John Deere is
a company that has done many things that
I have gone over on this channel that I
find to be personally disgusting whether
it is making it more difficult for
Farmers to be able to fix their own
equipment whether it is lying about
emissions law and the EPA as a shield
for their anti-repair propaganda whether
it is I don't it's one of these funny
things where all the heads of the farm
bureaus across the country seem to
completely ignore what Farmers say and
say what John Deere says when it comes
to repair just one of those one of those
really funny things that you know you
only catch when they don't know that
they're being recorded and we got a
right to repair bill passed earlier in
the year that would require that John
Deere make available to Independence
what is necessary to be able to fix
their tractors recently something
happened that is just far worse than any
of the anti-right to repair stuff and it
features my good friend and confidant
Kevin Kenny Kevin Kenny is a farmer in
Nebraska he is a farmer's farmer and he
doesn't put up with any BS and what
Kevin Kenny does him and some friends
have managed to put together something
that competes with John Deere's Starfire
GPS receivers these GPS receivers are
very expensive in addition to being very
expensive they also require a
subscription if you don't pay the
subscription and it's not going to work
right and as many people on my channel
know subscriptions suck so he has
created a product that is considerably
better to use and you can see it over
here on top of a John Deere tractor you
can also see it over here on this one
here on this one and there's a picture
of Kevin Kenny giving the John Deere
logo the bird last week Kevin Kenny
attended the Dakota Fest Farm Show in
Mitchell South Dakota there he displayed
his GPS receiver called the Agra GPS crg
it is direct competition to John Deere's
proprietary Starfire receivers lineup
this crg product works on all the same
tractors as John Deere Starfire GPS
receiver the same way that Mozilla
Firefox worked on all the same computers
that Internet Explorer 6 worked on in
fact their GPS receiver works much
better and it has a lower price this is
a multi-million dollar industry in
agriculture representing one of the
largest costs a farmer has to spend his
money on in order to enter a modern
Precision farming scenario during this
show Kevin Kenny spoke with many
different Farmers that came by and many
of these farmers were telling Kevin
really weird stuff they were coming back
and confiding and Kevin that the people
that they spoke to at the John Deere
Booth were saying that John Deere would
be updating their displays and that his
GPS product that competes with theirs
would no longer work on their tractors
and this went on for several days so
Kevin decided that he doesn't want to
deal with rumors he's a no BS kind of
guy so he decided to go over the booth
on his own and also talk about his
product that he had at his booth and
what they said
oh my God and what they said without
making sure that they were not being
recorded will just blow your mind let's
play it because this is just fun now the
thing about them too to get from sf1 to
that next level it costs four grand okay
to get there and then you have a fee and
a half of that like a sprayer you
probably need a six-month subscription
yeah because that's that'll cover your
whole spraying season that's 850 bucks
okay now if you go do the 7 000 go to
the latest and greatest
you don't have that four thousand dollar
fee one just was the numbers do that
well I think that's what most people are
going to do but the only way to get that
high level signal is you have a 50 1500
annual fee
so if we got a 3 000 you got to pay four
thousand
plus the support What's it gonna cost
trade for seven thousand and just
so it would cost you I think we were
giving twelve hundred and fifty dollars
for three thousands right now that's
about right so I think is what we're
giving so a new seven thousand is forty
three hundred minus 1253 years you know
it'd cost you three grand to trade to
trade Globes and then that seven
thousand you just win it you call in you
know I'm sure your dealer down there at
the network or you can call into our
support center in Sioux Falls and say
I'm sitting in my tractor they'll say
press this button on your screen give us
a credit card number or a farm plan
number and you got us you got Starfire
rtk for 12 months
okay for 1500 bucks and that's not going
off radio towers nope all satellite and
they say it's it's as accurate as rpk
it's it's the one inch accuracy and they
say that seven years of repeatability
too oh sure so I mean it's it's accurate
it's just right there but
um
yeah that that's the best bang for you
long-term investment that's your best so
I went over to Agri GPS booth and
they've got
what they say is better and they can run
this that and the other how does that
compare
to like a seven thousand or three
thousand I mean I mean they're gonna
give me free rtk
here's what I've seen had there was
another company out there too
that had a little device a USB stick
that you would plug into the bottom of
your globe and you had rtk here's what
happens
deer sees another company doing this in
a year from now they said you know what
screw it we'll rewrite the software so
everybody's gotta if everybody's got an
update their Globe for it to keep
working
so do you think Johnny would do that oh
yeah why wouldn't they I would yeah why
I don't want some third-part party
company
why wouldn't you if you were building
something and somebody was just taking
yours and working around it
I'm Kevin Kenny I wrote the first right
repair Bill okay
you're officially on it and you tell
your other sons of [ __ ] I'm going the
farm progress show okay I'm quoting you
for beta okay if anybody at the farm
progress show says the same thing
they'll be on the same view okay be
[ __ ] up okay I just hold the John your
guy to go [ __ ] himself
and that is why I am humbled and honored
to consider Kevin Kenny my friend
did you hear that
we're gonna upgrade the software next
year force you to update and when you do
our competitors products will no longer
work
I'm sorry did you guys like learn
nothing did you you guys really learned
nothing throughout this entire process
if we got a bill passed we won
do you want to get investigated for
antitrust now too
okay and again if you're doing this
stuff see the smart thing to do would be
here's the smart thing here's what you
would do if you had half a brain cell
you would say well you know the software
was updated and listen we can't
guarantee that third-party stuff works
with our software all the time and you
know we can't we don't test for that and
we're not sure there's security
implications because we're dealing with
geolocation maybe when they when we
update our software to make it more
secure their junk doesn't work did this
guy forget his lines you're not supposed
to say that out loud you're not supposed
to say that we're purposely sabotaging
people that want to have some level of
ownership over what they buy you say
that you're doing that to protect the
Safety and Security of the customer when
you tell them that they can't replace
their own sleep sensor you tell them
that they're gonna get raped in a
parking lot a sexual predator could use
this data to stalk their victims if you
use a GPS that's not made by John Deere
they're going to stalk you to a
cornfield and turn you into a scarecrow
and we're protecting you from being
turned into a scarecrow by updating the
software and making sure that you can
only use our GPS with a high
subscription fee you're supposed to say
the [ __ ] you're not supposed to tell
the truth
trouble dumb dumb dealer do you know
what I've been doing for the past three
years I raised two million dollars
between a 501c3 nonprofit and a 501c4
nonprofit that focuses on lobbying and
advocacy to try and get right to repair
past but more importantly give people
back some sense of ownership and control
over what they buy to push for Consumer
Protection legislation do you know what
you just did you gave me a layup you
made it so much easier for me and for
that I thank you you dumb dumb
dealership representative for being
stupid enough to not only say the quiet
part out loud but to say it while
someone was recording you he just Chris
hansened your [ __ ] and I find it
hysterical and here's one of the things
that I think is really important to
understand here
I collected just about two million
dollars to try to get right to repair
past which is one of the reasons in
these states that we are winning now
rather than consistently losing whether
it comes to consumer electronics
wheelchairs or farm equipment I have a
lot of that money left and you know what
I'm gonna do with it when I see somebody
trying to [ __ ] over my friend Kevin
Kenny I'm gonna spend that money to [ __ ]
with you
and I'm gonna win because you're stupid
enough to say the quiet part out loud on
[ __ ] camera at a public trade show
you dumbass not only did you say it out
loud you said it to the person that was
running the competing booth that has
been testifying on behalf of consumer
legislation that cuts directly against
John Deere for a decade I have never
worked on a farm in my life I've never
seen a farm in my life
I can't even keep my own house plants
alive they die after three weeks and if
they don't Mr Clinton needs them that
doesn't mean that I don't feel a sense
of kinship with people like Kevin Kenny
who you can listen to our conversation
with in this hour and 53 minute long
interview that I did with him just a few
months ago
he's a person that provides for society
that wants to be able to repair what he
owns I'm a person that provides for
society that wants to repair what we own
in that regard in spite of the fact that
he grew up in Nebraska and I grew up in
New York City we are brothers if you
have with him you've left with me and if
you f with me I'm gonna have fun effing
with you right back I already did I
already won and I will use the money
that I have left to win again when I say
f with I mean something very specific
here what I say f with I mean spending
my money my time and my resources to do
as much work as possible to look into
how and much anti-competitive garbage
how much monopolistic anti-competitive
crap John Deere has done that has
increased prices to Consumers
artificially reduced consumer choice and
reduce competition in the marketplace
because even though it doesn't get into
forced nowadays even though nobody seems
to care we do have a framework for
Anti-Trust regulation in this country
and I I'm more than happy to use my
resources to do the investigative Dirty
Work necessary to give that a Kickstart
because I can that's what makes it so
much fun
thank you for handing me this layup I'm
gonna run with it and because you're so
sloppy I'm sure that many more of you
have been this sloppy as well I'm gonna
find all of it
and we're gonna win again
don't mess with Kevin Kim just a little
bit of Kevin Kennedy in all of us
the farmer that just wants to be able to
work on his own stuff without being
disturbed by all of you that's it for
today and as always I hope you learned
something I'll see you on the next video
bye now