Brother Jim

Wyndmere, ND. Richard’s home town.

Richard’s brother Jim lives here out on his farm. He’s got the family handlebar tash and a fast talking no-nonsense delivery peppered with jokes and expletives.

We film with him out on the ranch as he feeds the cows. We drive in his pickup over to collect hay on the site of what used to be the largest turkey farm in the US. The whole complex is deserted after the place went bankrupt and there are row after row of empty corrugated barns.

The cows are friendly, but it’s one of the horses that gets up close and personal with Josh and gives the camera a lick.

Back at their place his wife Sandy shares her just-out-of-the-oven rice krispie cakes and we sit down for a chat.

Afterwards we make it to the local bar just in time for happy hour. Richard joins us and as Jim tucks in to beers, it’s clear he’s got things to say. Talk turns to an upcoming family reunion in June and he warns Richard that “there will be none of that healing talk shit”.

For supper we eat a goose that Richard acquired under dubious circumstances and has had roasting all day.