Summary: <a href="http://offthegridbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Charles-Wiley.jpg"></a>Charles Wiley<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://offthegridbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Corn-Man-Chapter-2.jpg"></a>Corn Man Chapter 2: Corn Inc. Cometh<br> <br> Charles Wiley is back with us to talk about the Chapter 2 of the Corn Man story - Corn Inc. Cometh, as well as what sparked his idea for International Corn Man Day! <br> <br> Checkout Chapter 2 and all things Corn Man at the link below. <br> <br> <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3VtMDlXUXhKbXNSNUdfeE1jRW5qbkFUcXQ1d3xBQ3Jtc0tseTNBVnlvWXhYLXlXbTE0aVUxSUpZVUY4OF91ZTVWTExGQmU4STlJR2NRY0RZOE95bTFPRU1GaWhfclp4QzJ1d052RWRHVHZ3QzhPWmtJU1RBcC1kUXZrQ3psQXNKNElfU2VRTVJKcGZhYmNGR3RRSQ%3D%3D&event=video_description&v=e65hfxev6co&q=https%3A%2F%2Fcornmanofficial.com%2Fshop%2F" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://cornmanofficial.com/shop/</a><br> Transcription<br> Brian: Charles Wiley has been writing music and playing drums for 25 years. He currently lives in Los Angeles and plays with various bands and artists including rock band Dark Horse, Rising Riot, award winning singer songwriter Chris Angeles, and Americana band Circa 62.<br> <br> In addition to playing drums, he also writes music for television. His music has been played on Oprah, Dateline, NBC Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Dr. Oz Show, The Young and the Restless and more.<br> <br> Charles created the Corn Man project to bring awareness to how much corn is in everything we eat. Corn Man is an ongoing action adventure children's book series, and progressive rock concept album, Charles was inspired to call attention to the issue using music and humor.<br> <br> Corn Man hopes to be the conversation starter and tackling the complex issues surrounding the food industry, the environmental impacts of it, and the unsustainable nature of how we eat and grow food.<br> <br> Charles Wiley, welcome back.<br> <br> Charles: Thank you so much Brian, and pleasure to be back. I'm really excited.<br> <br> Brian: For those of you who are listening, you may remember Charles from an earlier episode and we'll link to that in the description, where we first met him met the Corn Man project, and what's that's all about.<br> <br> And now we're kind of getting back together and being updated on what's happening in his world, his upcoming book, which is Corn Man Chapter Two.<br> <br> So that should be out in paperback next week. At the time of when we're recording this by the time you hear it, it may already be out.<br> <br> Charles: That's the hope.<br> <br> Brian: Yeah. So let's go right into it.<br> <br> We were talking a little bit before and you had mentioned, International Corn Man Day, just celebrated. So why don't you tell us a little bit about what that is?<br> <br> Charles: Well, that was yesterday. And I had this idea, How can I bring more awareness to what the Corn Man project is about, and what it's doing at one time?<br> <br> I thought, well, let's have a day, a Corn Man Day. And I liked the way Corn Man day sounds. But for some reason, International Corn Man Day, just had a more grand name.<br> <br> I was like, I like that, plus two, I do have people that support the project overseas. And you and I both know, tackling our food system, the environment, it's a worldwide solution that we're looking for. It's not singular to the United States or to any other place.<br> <br> So I said, let's do International Corn Man date. And my goal was two fold.<br> <br> One, I wanted to help people find one small thing that they could maybe implement into their lives that would help reduce the amount of processed corn and their food. In September,
