How Global Events Hit Your Grocery Bill & Guest Colin Erdle

This week, host Ian Heller makes his mission clear: forget the talking heads — What If I'm Right? is about understanding the world from the ground up, from the people actually getting rained on when the storm rolls in. And no one illustrates that better than today's guest. Colin Erdle is a sixth-generation farmer and partner of Erdle Farms in Silver Creek, New York, growing blueberries, seedless table grapes, strawberries, raspberries, and Concord grapes — and before that, a music teacher in some of the toughest classrooms in Cleveland and inner-city Buffalo. It was staring at the quality of his students' school lunches that sent him back to the land. Together, Ian and Colin trace the invisible thread connecting global events — like the war in Iran and tariff policy — to local farmers, and straight to the number on your receipt at the supermarket or big box store. They dig into what's quietly bankrupting American farms, why well-meaning state policy can devastate an entire industry, what Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor has to do with blueberry season, and why going back to the land might be one of the most radical acts left in America. Plus: a USDA loan program that could still help a 25-year-old with a dream actually become a farmer — if it survives the cuts.