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From the library of the New York Stock Exchange at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in New York City, you're inside the ICE House. Our podcast from Intercontinental Exchange on markets, leadership and vision and global business, the dream drivers that have made the NYSE and indispensable institution of global growth for over 225 years. Each week, we feature stories of those who hatch plans, create jobs, and harness the engine of capitalism. Right here, right now at the NYSC and at ICE's exchanges and clearing houses around the world, and now welcome inside the ICE House. Here's your host, Josh King of Intercontinental Exchange.
Josh King:
Missouri is home to over 6 million people, also 4 million cattle, 3 million pigs, and possibly one future goat. No, not a goat that roams on a farm to which Missouri has over 74,000, but a goat on the football field. Number 15 for the Kansas City Chiefs, three times Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes, while I still side with my seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady as the greatest of all time, the goat. It's no secret that Mahomes and the Chiefs could one day catch my Patriots in Super Bowls, one with six. Our guest today, Missouri Governor Mike Parson, might have a thing or two to say about the greatest quarterback of all time debate. One thing I know we will agree on is the state's spot at the top of the agribusiness industry employing over 400,000 people in agriculture. Missouri is the second in the nation in total farms behind only Texas, in the top 10 in hay production, rice production, soybeans, cotton and corn.
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Josh King:
Mike Parson assumed office as the 57th Governor of Missouri on June 1st, 2018 and secured reelection on November 3rd, 2020, governed by a Missouri's term limits. He currently has less than a year remaining in the Governor's mansion, situated along the Missouri River in Jefferson City. After his term concludes, the third generation of farmer will likely return two hours south to the town of Bolivar to oversee one of the Show Me State's almost 90,000 farms. Before he gets back to the daily business of running the 24th state in the union and then eventually tending to his land and cattle, he speaks with us now. Governor, thanks so much for joining us inside the ICE House.
Governor Mike Parson:
Hey, great to be with you this morning. Josh. You're already talking smack about football though, so I'm going to have to stand up on my Kansas City Chiefs.
Josh King:
I don't have much smack to say after the performance that Andy Reed and the team turned in, it was incredible to watch. I've got a lot of good friends in Missouri who in my time watching the Patriots slow decline, I've been texting every Sunday because they're such an entertaining crew. I just want to start with the state of the state address, sir, that you gave last month. You said, I'm going to quote you. "Well, the view from the Deus is a fine sight to see. It's no comparison to that Polk County Farm behind the windshield of my John Deere tractor." Now Governor John Deere is listed here under ticker symbol DE, a staple on most if not all of the countries, almost 2 million farms despite the well-deserved respite coming your way six months as Governor. Is that bud towards more years of public service still there or you ready to get back to the farm?
Governor Mike Parson:
You know when it's coming down, I want to go home. I think there's a time when all of us need to go home to be right honest about it. I got six grandkids, a great grandchild I had seven months ago. I want to spend a little bit of time on the farm, do a lot of things I did miss doing and spend some time with the family, but it's been a great ride. I mean, I have no regrets of everything I've done and I've been so blessed in my life to get to do the things I've done, but I do. I'm looking forward to it. I met some great friends and being able to move the state forward and I think I want to solve [inaudible 00:05:55] proud of that. What we've done in the state when it comes to agriculture, when it comes to businesses, when it comes to workforce, infrastructure. Those are things that have never been done at the level we've done here in [inaudible 00:06:06]. I'm going to be proud of that, but I'm going to ride off to the sunset for [inaudible 00:06:08].
Josh King:
Before you do, you took part in the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade a couple of days ago. One thing I think you'll miss when you leave office in January are the Super Bowl wins that have become so common over the last couple of years. I mentioned earlier Coach Reid, quarterback Mahomes leading the Chiefs to their third Lombardi trophy in the last five years, all during your time of office. What's the chatter been around Missouri now that a dynasty has finally been cemented in Kansas City?
Governor Mike Parson:
Well, I think as you mentioned earlier, as has been the Patriots, the Patriots have always had this kind of separate league of their own, the dynasty that it has, and I think the ones really chasing that dynasty, right? Most Kansas City Chiefs, when you got Coach Reid, you got Mahomes, you got our players that we've got. The organization as a whole, the Hunt family, what they've done for the NFL over the years, Arrowhead been one of the last original stadiums that are there. It's a great venue to play in, but I've been a Chiefs fan for 50 years, so I know the highs and lows of being a true fan.
For me as Governor, I've been Governor six years. We've been in the AFC championship game six years in a row. We've been to the Super Bowl four times. We've won three out of four. We won the 57th Super Bowl last year, which I'm the 57th Governor, so that's pretty special for me to be able to do that. Look, there's no signs of turn back here. I think they're going to continue to be a good team and Mahomes is a young guy, just super talented. I just think they got [inaudible 00:07:34] organization, the right people. I don't think we're done winning Super Bowls yet, but it's going to be fun. We're going to have a target on our back for sure.
Josh King:
The celebration overshadowed, of course, Governor, by a tragic shooting. We're still getting information gathered about the circumstances of the shooting, but could you give us a little bit of insight into some of the acts that you saw sort of in a crisis situation unfold with your first responders and parade attendees who prioritize the safety and attendance of others as something completely unexpected happened a moment that was supposed to be so celebratory?
Governor Mike Parson:
Sure. Well, it was sad day to end the wedding for a wonderful celebration, over a million people there. First time, like anything like this has happened in our state of this magnitude. It was a little bit of shock for all of us for that to happen at that venue. I will say this, first of all, I got to say our prayers throughout with victims that were involved in that. It was strictly innocent bystanders that just happened to get caught in the middle of a gunfight for better terms. I think when you've seen how law enforcement, we were right there pretty close with the gunshots of fired, to see the response of law enforcement, emergency personnel, you couldn't ask for any more out of them. They run towards the suspects. They were apprehended. People helped apprehend people and it was just for a terrible event, everybody did it as much as they could try to save lives and get bad people off the street.
It was just a shame it ended that way. It's just like I said, it was just a wonderful positive day until that happened again, people that had actually no respect for anyone other than their selves and the lady that lost her life, she was a Hispanic DJ in Kansas City, well thought of and just absolutely at a place just caught random gunshots, all of us [inaudible 00:09:36]. It's a shame, but we got to start even. We got to start out figuring out how to get everything back in order, we got to move on because Kansas City's too good a city and Missouri good state to let this [inaudible 00:09:48] for years come.
Josh King:
I'm always curious, Governor, about the work that people do before they're called to higher office and how they prepare for those offices and think about the opportunity to lead when it comes. You served 13 years in state government in Missouri's House of Representatives and its senate, and then from January, 2017 to June of 2018 as lieutenant Governor of the state. How did those experiences inform and prepare you for ultimately becoming the chief executive of the state?
Governor Mike Parson:
I don't think there's any question, especially where it was to life. I do think it makes a difference. I've got a little years of experience [inaudible 00:10:26] positions that were in up here and then the way it all turned out to end up being Governor someday. I didn't come up here until it was probably the fifties before I come up here. I had a lot of life's experience being a sheriff, being a farmer, been in business before. I kind knew that side of it. I think understanding how the system works and what was a great opportunity is the way I'd come into office because our former Governor resigned. It looked like he's on a campaign trail [inaudible 00:10:53] promised you by [inaudible 00:10:55]. You literally got to walk in from day one saying, "Hey, here's the direction we're going to go and we're going to make infrastructure workforce development the main issues of this entire administration. We're not going to change them. We're going to stay in these guard rails."
That's exactly what we've done and it's been one of the most successful things we've had in our state in a long time. Again, I think the thing Governors sometimes make a mistake, they try to get too many priorities and then all of a sudden [inaudible 00:11:20], so we've really just stayed focused on workforce development and infrastructure and they both paid off for us. We're talking about agriculture. I sometimes [inaudible 00:11:28] because the farmer, dad and mom were farmers, and grandparents were farmers. I also understand the importance of agriculture. I can understand where it was and where it is today and where it's going. It's like anything, you've got to adapt to technology, agricultural change in a very fast pace and we got to be prepared for that. Experience matters in this job and I think that's what's helped me get through this for five and a half years I've been a Governor.
Josh King:
For five and a half, years you've been watching also some of the big companies in your state thrive that are doing operations well beyond the state borders. Missouri home to several companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Governor including Anheuser-Busch, ticker symbol, BUD, H and R Block, ticker symbol HRB, Emerson Electric, EMR, and the Reinsurance Group of America, RGA, among so many others. With over 20 such New York Stock Exchange listed companies located across the state, how have you as Governor strategically promoted the state to retain and attract large corporations and foster the economic growth and stability that comes with that?
Governor Mike Parson:
Well, just what you mentioned right there, when I go overseas, when we start selling our freight, we talk about these companies being here. People want to go where actually work that's being done, where technology's playing a part, we're cutting edge. When you look at some of the ones Jeremy mentioned, and I would also mentioned Dan Ford, Plant Science, there's more scientists and agriculture plant scientists anywhere in the world is in St. Louis, Missouri. When you think about what we have in that arena, people are always looking to see how to advance, how to move forward. I think again, I think when we talk about workforce, you've got to be willing to train people for the workforce of tomorrow. I think that's why we're second in the United States for apprenticeships. We're fourth in the United States for manufacturing. Things that we're doing to make sure we're preparing people for these businesses.
When you mentioned all those businesses we just did, we're now trying to start programs in high schools to let high school students know who these businesses are. Because when you're in school, you normally don't think you're going to work for Bayer, you're going to work for maybe Dan Ford Plant Sciences. Those are normally not normal things, but we got to do a better job of selling them. We have, and I think that's been very successful where now the companies are starting to go into schools and recruit high school students. That's how competitive [inaudible 00:13:52] state, which is a good thing to have.
Josh King:
Given the dependence that the state has on agribusiness. You were mentioning it earlier, I want to address trends that are happening in the sector more broadly. The recent release of the US Department of Agriculture Census results revealed a nationwide decrease, Governor, with over 140,000 farms and 20 million acres of farmland lost over the last five years between 2017 and 2022. What factors do you think most contribute to this decline on a national scale?
Governor Mike Parson:
Well, I think one of the big factors you got to look at, people are leaving the urban areas and they're going out in the suburbs and they're starting to spread more and more into agriculture land. People are wanting to go to those rural settings. A lot of people are developing out in those areas. I also think it's important when we talk about that, you also have to talk about what production is. If you look at that standard says, okay, we're losing farms across the United States, but for Missouri, for example, but we're doing $4 billion more in production with what we have. What that tells you is that we're doing a better job of taking care of the land that we have and making it more productive. A lot of that's through the technology, research, science, the things we're doing to be better producers. I mean, the reality of it is I can't farm like my grandpa did and my dad did. You just can't do it. I mean, you've got to be better stewards of the land than we've ever been, and we've got to make sure we get to production because it is a business. It is one of those small businesses we're talking about.
Josh King:
You'd mentioned the work that your grandfather and father did. What did granddad tell you with the young Mike Parson on his lap about what it was like in his generation?
Governor Mike Parson:
Yeah. Well, my dad and mom were sharecroppers when I grew up. They worked for other people, traveled to farm to farm, using other people's equipment, helping them. As we finally got our own farm later on in life, my dad and mom did and I realized everything they had, I wanted to have a little better to be right, honest. I wanted to be a better operator. Not to say my mom and dad were happy the way they live, but the reality is you can't deal with the things. You can't go out there with [inaudible 00:15:57] plow and plow out into the field and think you're going to be productive going back and forth and field for days when you can do it now in half a day. I think when you look at tractors, it always made, my dad had an old tractor. Nobody had cabs back when I grew up and everything.
Now when you get into the tractor, you got to have some idea of that technology, because you're going to have codes going up, you're going to have all kinds of things that come up. It's just got to be a better operator. I think for us it is how much more production can you get out of the land without harming the land? Then how do you make sure we give it to the markets in a way that's profitable for farmers? I think for the biggest challenge I would say farmers [inaudible 00:16:39], and I'm going to say most face the same issue. How do you get the next generations in the business [inaudible 00:16:46]? It's difficult to do, it's expensive, and if you don't have some sort of help some way, it makes it difficult for the future. I think that's going to be one of the priorities. We've tried to make that a priority statement when it comes to helping you on the farm to achieve the equipment they need by the land, they need to be good farmer.
Josh King:
Yeah, so there was a survey in 2022 by the National Young Farmers Coalition. It showed that 59% of young farmers think that acquiring affordable land to buy as very or extremely challenging. Let's geek out a little bit. I mean, you know these issues cold. How do you overcome this big obstacle of someone graduates in agricultural science from University of Missouri wants to become a farmer instead of working for a big corporation? How do we get them the first 100 acres that they're going to need to till?
Governor Mike Parson:
Yeah. Well, the reality is probably most of them is going to have to work in the private sector to be able to afford buying a farm just from scratch or you've got to have family members that can help them get started in that. Farming's nothing new to the financial, I guess, industry as a whole. I think we all know that farming can be risky and it's very difficult to get loans for a young person to be a farmer, especially if you're talking whether it's cattle or whether it's row crops or where it is. If you went into the bank today as a young man who's got out of college, who [inaudible 00:18:07] you said, "Okay, I'm going to borrow the money and buy all the equipment, buy all the land and buy all the product that I'm going to buy. Whether that's livestock or whether that's row crops," the chance of them may become close to being qualified for bank of loaning for you.
It's not. There's ways that we're trying to, in the state of Missouri, we're trying to help to ensure that loan from the state level to maybe not the banks, not have so much risk in it all by their self. I think there's ways you can help that younger generation to be able to do that. Then it's got to be profitable. I mean, it's business, it's big business in our state. Some of the companies you named earlier, when you hear those names, overall household names to a certain degree, and sometimes we think agriculture's out here by itself, but agriculture's the biggest business in our state. There may be a lot of us farmers out there, but you got to remember, whatever we're doing for businesses, we need to be doing the same thing for agriculture, that helps them to be for the future of agriculture.
Josh King:
There was a release this week of the Agricultural Census at the federal level Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack noted that, I'm going to quote Secretary Vilsack here. "The majority of farmers in the country require off farm income in addition to their farm income just to keep everything running." Are there ways to make the farms not the farmers capable of creating multiple revenue streams beyond what the land has traditionally fielded?
Governor Mike Parson:
It is difficult. It is difficult to get somebody, like I said, just go in there without any kind of land to start with, parents or grandparents or somebody to help get along. It's pretty difficult to do that. I'm not saying you can't do it, but I'm telling you it's going to be a tough old way to go. Then I think the other thing in agriculture, I think us farmers know that. Every year there's no consistency in your revenues or your expenses. I mean, like we've been facing two droughts here [inaudible 00:19:58] the last two years. We farmed over 400 acres with about 3,000 bales of hay is a normal rule, but now you're talking about putting up 40% of that, so it costs you just as much to run over that land, but yet the profit margin you're selling on for is definitely drastically lower. I think that's so much the uncertainty of farming that you got to have people understand that when they give you loans and when you go to those types of businesses to get that. We're trying to sell that. We're trying to sell that to the financial institutions too.
Josh King:
We talked a little bit earlier about John Deere. There's another New York Stock Exchange listed company called Lindsey Corporation that makes those massive irrigation systems that create those huge circles on the land that you see as you fly over states like Missouri. You think about Deere and Lindsey and the amount of technology, you mentioned it earlier that they're starting to employ artificial intelligence, understanding the composition of particular soil, the amount of rain that they get. For our listeners who benefit from listening to both a Governor and a farmer at the same time, share with us where you see some technology really coming to bear in our agricultural industry that will address some of these issues.
Governor Mike Parson:
Yeah, I think to your listing office, sometimes I think people think you got the cap on, it's dirty, you got overalls on things are just, farmers are kind of rugged and rough. I tell you, if you get into new combines today, what that new combine would cost you, but it's like getting in an airplane cockpit. I mean, there's more gauges. There's more instruments. They're all set up to make your life easier for you as a farmer. Matter of fact, you don't even drive them. They're GPS-driven where farmers are basically sitting there seeing what the moisture of that product is, when that bin's going to be full.
The other thing I think that is so important is why in this state you know you're up billions of dollars in production, they've got these set up now where you don't even stop and unload the grain. You're literally going down field, somebody pull up side and you're unload the grain and keep going. That's all technology-driven to be able to do that. I would encourage your listening audience today, I know you've got a huge audience listening to you, but maybe sometime if they already had a chance, go to a farm show, go to the state fair and get up in some of that equipment today and see what that's like inside that thing. I think you'd be totally surprised with what's in the cab in those machines.
Josh King:
Shifting away from the farm, Governor, I want to go back to some of the things you mentioned about what the state of the state address represented in terms of you setting enough priorities to demonstrate real progress, but not too many that you get lost in what you're trying to do. The repair of Missouri's roads and bridges has been a focus of yours during your time in office. Thinking about your administration, what's been done to respond to the needs that you saw as you drove across the state's roads and highways to modernize a few of Missouri's biggest pieces of infrastructure like 270 North, the Buck O'Neill Bridge and the Roach Point Port Bridge?
Governor Mike Parson:
Yeah. Well, I don't think it's a question, we made infrastructure a priority. Let me just say this. Infrastructure definitely automate bridges, rail ports, river ports, but it's also broadband and broadband has been a huge issue to us in our state. But when we set out to do I-70, for example, probably the first state in the United States has six lanes going across our state from I-70 across our state. Because the one thing you have to understand, if you're going to bring businesses here, which we brought $15 billion worth of new business to our state in the five and a half years I have been here, over 100,000 new employees, but all of that comes down to when people look to invest in their state, they want to know what are you doing for infrastructure? What are you doing to prove to get our products in and out? How are you going to help us be profitable businesses?
Then what are you doing for the work? Where am I going to be able to hire somebody to work in my company that has the skills they need to be a good business partner? I think we have absolutely made those two things a priority to be able to do that. I think we had to merger, to name couple of things. I mentioned I-70 and 6 lanes all across our state. People never thought that would ever happen. We were able to do it by some, I guess, being articulate in how we come up with finance. Kansas City Southern Rail merged with Canadian Pacific in Canada here a couple of years ago. That is the first time in North America that we will have continuous rail from Canada to Mexico and the headquarters are in Kansas City, Missouri. Those are the things that make a difference for people coming to state, especially over in European countries and countries who are used to rivers and rail. Those are the kind of things they want to see you doing. I think all the combination, all the making some of the largest investments in broadband, we really believe in five years from now, everybody in the state will have quality broadband in our state, and that's a big deal for us.
Josh King:
You talk about the major projects, you talk about broadband, you talk about the linking Canada and Mexico with its hub in Kansas City, but some of these major pieces of infrastructure have to get balanced, were part of what I think you call the Focus on Bridges Program. How do you balance those big deals with a lot of the smaller undertakings, but obviously greater in number of cities and towns that are off the 270 corridor?
Governor Mike Parson:
Yeah, well, I think I just balanced that, and that's probably because I grew up in a little town with 356 people, and I understand what small Missouri is all about, what rural Missouri is all about. Missouri has the seventh largest highway system in America, and we've already did half of our roads in Missouri, we've already redone in five and a half years, but that influenced Leonard. I-70 is going to get the attention. Bucknell Bridge I2-70, but we did over half the Lemon Grove [inaudible 00:25:45], which is rural, rural areas. That's where you roll crops, where your farmers are at to be able to do that. We put bridges, we put now probably bridges that had never ever imagined being done imagine in these areas in rural Missouri.
You have to have a plan in place to realize Missouri is very diverse, so you've got to be able to take care of all populations in your bigger cities and your main roads, but those other side roads to rural Missouri just as important to those people as it is for Kansas City or St. Louis or Columbia. You have to balance it. I mean, it's not easy because sometimes people think you're taken away from us or all that, but I'm telling you what we did is to make sure everybody gets a piece of pie and that's what we've done. It's been successful.
Josh King:
During your administration, I think you've seen your unemployment rate as low as 2.1%. If you added it all up, you've added about 110,000 jobs to Missouri's economy during your tenure with the state's prioritization of, as you mentioned earlier, apprenticeships playing a big part in that. What other initiatives and efforts has your administration spearheaded to assist those without college degrees in getting the technical skills and certifications that they need to get good paying jobs and empower them to get their own versions of the American Dream if perhaps it wasn't through a formal college degree or higher education?
Governor Mike Parson:
Well, I think one of the important challenges that we had, I met with universities, college and some of the high schools, basically making sure high school kids understand you don't have to go to college. Maybe all of you're not meant to go to college, but you are going to see it need a set of skills. You are going to need to go train the workforce development center that we've set up all across the state. We now almost have those centers in every county in our state for those very people to go to and say, "What's out there for me?" Because the days when we used to think, I guess for better terms, go out there and you think maybe working maintenance is not all that glamorous a job, but today that may be a 60, 70, $80,000 job to a high school kid getting them on the floor of that, a manufacturing company [inaudible 00:27:54] United States down for those.
Really trying to tell high school kids, you have alternatives and you have choices, and if we can get you to these centers, we know that we can move forward with your education. Then you can always continue your education if you want to go back there. It's really been a priority of ours to make sure what we want is as many people in the workforce as we can possibly get them as soon as we can now. We just understand how that works. We're not much different in other states, but 60% of the people in Missouri do not have college degrees. I don't say that bad about the state and everybody says, "Oh my gosh," but most states are the same way. You have people that go into the workforce that help the everyday people all the time. It's just a matter of fact, [inaudible 00:28:38] could probably highlight as much as we should have, so that's one of the things we're trying to do.
Josh King:
From my time working for a two-term president, when you get to the final 365 days of office holders term office, you get a little nostalgic, wistful, you begin to think that you wake up and have your coffee and eggs and you have one less day in the seat in the Governor's mansion in Jefferson City. How are you looking to maximize those final 350 days or so?
Governor Mike Parson:
Yeah, I've been so fortunate you well know you was part of one of those teams. One, I've got some great people that work around me every day that are dedicated to people of state of Missouri. Couldn't be more proud of that. Now, I'll be honest with you, we're full steam ahead. I'm not a guy that wants to sit around too much and gloat about anything or look at all the victories. For me, it's about working until the end of this year, and that's what I want to do, continue to do what we started. There's going to be a solid foundation for the next Governor when they come into the state. They're also going to have a $2 billion surplus when I leave, [inaudible 00:29:39] that ever happened in the States. That's kind of the way we roll here and the way I do business. Again, we're going to keep working every day until the last.
Josh King:
It's nice to leave a successor with a surplus, certainly, sir, but when your term ends, I think you're going to leave office at an age that aligns with the retirement age of most Americans, but by Washington standards, if you look at the two folks vying for another term in the White House, you'll be relatively young. I mean, given this, do you think it's time for American politics to transition to leadership to the next generation of politicians and thought leaders? What would you like to see in Washington in terms of the people representing the people as a whole?
Governor Mike Parson:
I'll, like I said, Washington DC is go back to where our forefather started many, many years ago before we messed it up so bad. There's no reason to be so divisive in Washington DC You worked for President Clinton, I believe, if I remember, you worked for President. You had [inaudible 00:30:36] was the Speaker of the House, and they work together all the time on multiple things. There's no reason we can't find common grounds just like we did in the state. Infrastructure, workforce all is not a Republican or Democrat issue. Find the things you can agree on and get them done. It seems like in that world up there today, it's just so divided.
I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure how they fix it. I hope they figure it out some way because we live in one of the greatest countries in the world. I told you earlier, and I'll stay out of the presidential [inaudible 00:31:10], I guess I'll say, but I told you in the beginning, I'm 68 years old. I think there's time to go home. There's another generation coming. I think for me, you got to understand that. I started this adventure up here where I was about 50. I'm not sure you don't have need that next generation coming, but that's my [inaudible 00:31:28].
Josh King:
Well, Governor, I distinctly remember in my time, one trip to St. Louis with President Clinton, Congressman Gephardt, so many members of the Missouri delegation riding what was then a brand new rapid transit system through the city to show off infrastructure at the time. I've had many great visits there and we've enjoyed your visit here inside the ICE House with us. Wish you all the best in your final year of office and wherever your journey takes you after that back to the farm or maybe to clean up some of those problems that you've just talked about. Appreciate your time, sir.
Governor Mike Parson:
Thank you very much, Josh. [inaudible 00:32:03].
Josh King:
That's our conversation for this week. Our guest was Missouri Governor Mike Parson. If you like what you heard, please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts so other folks know where to find us. If you've got a comment or a question you'd like one of our experts to tackle on a future show, make sure to leave us a review. Email us [email protected] or tweet at us @ICEHousePodcast. Our show is produced by Lance Glenn with production assistance, editing and engineering from Ken Abel. Pete Ash is the Director of Programming and Production at ICE. I'm Josh King, your host, signing off from the library of the New York Stock Exchange. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next week.
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