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Oh yeah, good to be here with y'all.

Even though I'm up in this hot studio,

we don't have on the AC right now

up here.

And believe me,

it is hot as Vulcan's pecker up in

here.

So look, y'all,

I got the fan on and it is

what it is.

You're lucky I even got clothes on during

this show.

In fact, I do from the waist up.

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all right so as y'all can see we're

hot and heavy today we're heavy one member

of the family and that's t from mountain

readiness how you doing buddy man i've

been sweating like a hebrew slave all day

long but that's not a bad thing you

know given the circumstances of what's

falling out of the sky on us all

the time that's a good thing son how

are you holding up

Pretty good.

In fact,

it's hotter where y'all are than it is

where I am right now.

I think you guys are like four or

five degrees hotter than us.

And it's actually pretty tolerable outside

right now.

So hope y'all are hanging in there.

Well,

I had an old boy I just got

off the phone with a little bit ago.

He's up in Minnesota.

He told me it was ninety five up

there.

I mean,

it's usually not it's usually bearable.

I mean, when you.

work in Oklahoma Texas Kansas and all that

I mean you know what heat and humidity

feels like but these people around here

think it's dying but when you're up in

this second floor believe me it is burning

up but anyway I'll just jump right into

the farm news and we'll do a little

round robin want to thank everybody for

checking us out today believe me hit that

thumbs up y'all this is going to be

a good one tell everybody we're live so

they can get in here and see what's

up

So thank you, everybody in the chat.

I'll be real quick on my end.

So right off the bat, y'all,

here's what I did today.

Earlier today,

I filmed a video of harvesting these

carrots and beets.

And I did a clandestine garden to show

everybody how it's done,

where you can grow food in plain sight.

And every hoopoe headed moron is looking

to rob.

You won't even know that it's food.

If you do it right,

camping in lines and rows, everything,

nearly everything in there is something

you can eat.

So just real quick for the carrots,

for anybody who wants to check this out,

I think the video will probably come out

on Friday.

I just ain't got time to even edit

or do anything else.

But anyway,

imagine three rows of carrots and in

between there you put microgreens.

It all grows up together and nobody can

tell that all of it's edible.

So that's one.

And then doing the same exact thing with

the beets, where in that case,

I just got a cover crop.

Not all of it's edible,

but a fair piece of it is.

So think about those ways,

especially in these times that you can do

some clandestine stuff.

That's why we got my man on T

tonight,

because we're going to talk about how you

can get some of these skills and where

you can get them.

Also made some bone sauce for all you

folks that have been asking.

And that should be on the website now.

And I'll put in more tomorrow as I

know exactly how much I have.

And then for all of you people waiting

with bated breath.

wondering what I do with my urine,

just hold steady because I'm doing a

comprehensive video on all the wonderful

things that you can be doing with urine.

Yeah, I said that right.

Urine,

the stuff that comes out of you that

everybody just flushes down the toilet,

not knowing that it can be your most

valuable resource,

especially at a time where all of the

nitrogen-based fertilizers that they use

getting out of the Middle East through the

Haber-Bosch process,

all of that ain't coming here.

So you're about to be in a bind,

nephew.

If you've been waiting on this stuff to

get in your garden,

I'm going to show you some pretty nifty

ways in which you can get out of

that.

So finally, I'm going to say, look,

I'm way behind on pruning.

But it doesn't matter.

I was down there in the food forest

today picking a ton of blueberries,

blackberries, currants, all of it,

even peaches, y'all.

We got them blowing up right now.

So I've been out there picking all this

stuff,

even though the conditions are not

absolutely perfect.

And it doesn't have to be when you've

got a food forest.

So with that said,

I'm going to kick it on over to

William.

Tell us what's been going on your week

or your day.

Speaking of that urine,

we just had a family friend come over.

She was over at the house for a

little bit, and she was talking about...

We were talking about health in general.

She just went to a holistic doctor who

turned out to not be too legit.

It's basically...

the holistic version of the natural

version of a regular MD where they want

to prescribe you a bunch of stuff.

We introduced her to Logan,

a bunch of the people basically who's on

the panel for the sovereign health summit

and, uh,

urea therapy came up and she talked about

it.

And I got to say this carefully.

I'm going to give it,

I'm going to give a disclaimer at this

before I say this,

because you have to on YouTube,

otherwise we'll get a strike.

So here's a massive disclaimer,

consult your medical professional before

you do this.

But, um,

there when she her daughter was little her

daughter had an ear infection and her mom

told her uh that's easy like she was

on the way to the the doctor's office

or about to go to a scheduled appointment

um her mom told her like hey make

her pee in a cup and then dribble

a little bit in her ear and on

the way to the doctor the little girl's

ear was better supposedly remember consult

your medical professional um have to say

that because of youtube so just

You know,

backing up that what do I do with

my urine statement?

That's one of the things that supposedly

works.

But around here,

just trying to keep up with the cucumbers,

the tomatoes and the peppers.

And out at the demonstration site,

that's a bit like most people who grow

a garden would look at that garden and

think, oh,

your garden is severely overgrown.

It's not, you know,

nothing is going to grow.

You're not going to get a harvest because

there's too many weeds.

There's too many grass.

or too much grass or anything like that.

And it's just not true.

I harvested a half a bushel of paste

tomatoes earlier from that garden.

And literally I had to move the grass

out of the way in order to get

to the tomatoes.

And they're doing fantastic.

I would say,

probably like ninety it's not doing as

good as it could uh if i were

like on top of it a little bit

more but i would say like of the

tomatoes produced ninety percent of them

are completely edible no issues at all the

other ten percent which is perfectly fine

with me losing ten percent to nature is

not an issue with me at all uh

and that's i mean that's pretty doggone

good and got a bunch of peppers from

out of there i got a bunch of

bunch of onions out of there uh now

the only thing that's growing in that

garden

For right now are some tomatoes that are

left and then sweet potatoes and regular

potatoes,

which I could go ahead and harvest those

regular potatoes at any point.

And then here at the house,

I've got some empty garden beds that I

need to go ahead and fill in.

I just haven't had the time to figure

out what I'm even going to put in

those empty garden beds yet.

Definitely don't need to do any tomatoes

and peppers,

but I might just put in a cover

crop and then hold off until the

temperatures get a little bit cooler.

Still trying to figure out what I'm going

to do there.

But yeah,

trying to keep up with harvest right now

is exactly what I'm trying to do.

What about you, Tee?

man i four hundred and fifty chickens on

the ground about forty five narragansett

turkeys uh keeping up with them alone is

a full-time job and a half and uh

we you know you guys have seen the

homestead here we don't have a lot of

pasture land so we're we're raising these

mountain chickens and you know they're

mountain chickens because one leg is

shorter than the other so they can stand

upright going up eight to ten percent

grade all the way around us so uh

We actually had our Narragansett,

one of our hens, you know,

they're a heritage breed.

They're endangered probably because

they're not very smart,

but they have a bad habit about abandoning

their clutch halfway through.

Well,

I had a hen that she just wanted

to be a mama.

So here a couple of weeks ago,

we let her set.

I was about to pull her.

I was about to pull her off because

she had lost so much weight.

She was dead set on becoming a mom.

And sure enough, bam,

we got seven little baby poults running

around now with her.

She guards them and takes care of them.

They're doing great.

So, you know,

we've been working this homestead.

We've been raising all these chickens.

We've got another eighty to a hundred.

We've got a process next week.

um working on the gardens and just trying

to stay hydrated because it is just

burning up non-stop also then you know uh

a guy's got to make a living unfortunately

in this day and age so i'm doing

a little construction work on the side

doing some stone work on a house and

um and uh that's one of those skills

you know those skill sets that everybody

talks about they focus on gear they focus

on their bug out bag and their truck

and all this kind of stuff but what

about can you fix your house

Can you do plumbing?

Can you do basic electrical?

All those things everybody neglects.

So try to keep sharp and a sharpened

edge on the trades because those are worth

their weight in gold.

And that's it.

Just try to make a couple bucks.

Spread some cheddar on this cracker.

That's what I'm talking about.

Yeah, T, I mean, you know,

it's funny you mention that because I've

honestly been kind of mowing over the idea

of going back and getting my HVAC and

refrigeration license.

And part of, I started right before COVID.

And then I dropped out because these

hoopoe-headed Nazis down in Asheville

wanted me to wear a mask.

I said, I ain't wearing no mask.

I got a doctor's note.

I ain't doing it.

But I was thinking that's another little

feather I want to get under my hat.

And then here in the last,

I don't know, three weeks,

I had a freezer quit on me.

And then I had a freezer fridge combo

quit on me.

Of course,

I fixed both of them just using chat

GPT.

But I was like, okay,

what if it was a refrigerant problem that

I can't deal with unless I pay some

old boy to come out?

But like you said, man, there is no...

I have a working knowledge about all the

other trades.

As an electrician, you know it's cousin,

whether it's all the other ones or not.

But I'm thinking,

I'm seriously thinking about going back,

getting that HVAC for no other reason than

not just to fix fridges or whatever.

But I'll tell you what,

in places where you are and where William

is,

People would go without eating before they

go without AC.

So that's definitely something.

And a lot of these kids are thinking

about,

what do I do after I get out

of high school?

They're going to send them off to college

to go get a degree in worthlessness,

and they're going to be paying this off

forever and a day for a career they

can't achieve.

Why not go out there and go get

you a trade?

And sadly,

a lot of them have been believing these

guidance counselors thinking they need to

sit in the air-conditioned office all

their lives.

You know,

how many times do you see that though?

You see,

there's now and again that I have graced

the doorstep of a Starbucks.

Yes, I know, I know it's horrible,

but I cannot count on both hands how

many times I've met someone that has spent

eighty to a hundred thousand dollars on a

degree and they are now a Starbucks

barista serving me a coffee.

How sad is that when the world of

trades

I turn down more work in the construction

business than I take, probably tenfold.

My phone blows up all day long because

in this day and age, especially, I guess,

in this area, you know, NAFTA come in,

all of the good tradesmen left when they

shipped all of the furniture building

overseas,

and there's nobody here that even wants to

show up.

They're just looking for somebody to show

up that has a heartbeat, you know,

and you just name your price at that

point.

So and then if you throw in that

you do good work and you do exactly

what you say you're going to do,

they will hound you to death.

But, you know, people are like,

how do I make money?

It's easy.

Get into the trades.

Hey, it was good enough for Christ.

It's good enough for me.

Bam.

That's what I'm talking about.

Yeah.

What do y'all think about ductless AC

units?

Yeah,

I can hear I'm here to tell you

those.

At first,

I didn't I thought it was too good

to be true.

But man, I've been around these.

I've been around these a number of times.

And I'll tell you what,

that not only are you going to save

money on them,

you can pinpoint and target exactly what

you want cooled.

So it's a whole lot easier.

It's more user friendly.

Um, I would go with those.

If I had to do everything over again,

I'd probably go with those mini splits.

That's what you're talking about more than

I would a central, uh, AC unit.

So, um,

here's the only thing real quick on that,

on that note,

the only thing that I noticed with those

ductless AC units, the mini splits, uh,

is that they remove less moisture in the

air, where your central AC,

that seems to make a little bit drier

climate in your house,

whereas the mini splits,

like when we were in El Salvador,

it was still very humid.

I mean, it wasn't intolerable.

It just wasn't the same as a central

AC unit.

So just keep that in mind.

I know where Agape Field lives,

so that's definitely a factor.

She's got it.

And I would agree with that, too.

Just on a side note of those mini

splits, because of the extra humidity,

you're a hundred percent right.

You also got a little bit more mold

issues depending on what you're running

each unit in and its own zone.

So that's something to keep in mind, too.

You know,

hot air meets cold air equals moisture and

mold.

Not good for a house.

Very good points.

We'll take one more question and we'll

drive on.

This one here is from Scotty saying,

how can I keep my garden dying from

mid-June through September?

I live in southeast Alabama.

My advice to you, Scotty,

start drinking heavily.

No, just move.

William's going to tell you that in Texas,

I think that's why I'll toss it over

to him,

but I think that's why he said he

may just chill out until it's time to

put in a fall garden.

If things are established right now,

then you're generally going to be okay as

long as you're growing the appropriate

things.

My tomatoes out there,

they can be in full sun in Texas,

no issue.

They might look like crap during the

middle of the day,

but every morning they're going to bounce

back.

Every night they're going to bounce back

and be good to go again.

The

thing that I would focus on is like,

all right,

whenever the plant label says full sun,

they ain't talking about Texas.

They ain't talking about like Southeast

Alabama.

They don't mean full sun all day.

You really only need like six to eight

hours of

Mostly full sun.

So what would help out a lot is

if you just increased shade around your

garden,

which is where like the centropic pattern

really comes in handy where you have your

perennial trees and where you're growing

your perennial trees and you grow your

annual garden between those trees.

I think it was developed in like Brazil.

If you grow those trees,

grow your annual garden in between.

As the trees grow up,

they're going to provide shade for your

annual garden and you can grow both

basically in the same spot.

You could go with the shade cloth if

you wanted to.

Just make sure it's permeable enough to

where it's not like shedding water,

more water than you're wanting or adjust

your watering system to where it's like a

drip system underneath the shade cloth.

But if you're growing the appropriate

varieties,

you should be good and the more important

thing more important than keeping your

plants protected is keeping the soil

protected so if you have a good mulch

layer or ground cover over your soil

that's more important as long as the roots

don't burn up you're good to go if

you're at the top of the plant burns

up a little bit it's okay it's going

to recover every single night okay now um

just one more um because this is kind

of a follow-up she said wow great

information she's talking about the

ducting and stuff like that i'm going to

give you a hack

Maybe,

because I can't actually say the word on

here, or they will cut this feed.

One of the hacks for getting rid of

some of this mold in your ducting and

throughout your house is using a method

called Miracle.

Can I say this, son?

No, I'll tell you.

I'll say it in a way that won't

get us in any trouble at all.

So in this application,

it's going to be a cleaner.

It's a cleaning solution that you're going

to use, and it's chlorine dioxide.

That's perfectly fine as long as we say

it within that context.

Okay.

Now,

the way you go about doing that is

that you have intake vents all over your

place.

If you can set that up.

And you don't want to be in the

house, allegedly, when this happens.

No, you don't.

Not at that level.

Yeah,

you're going to come back there and you're

going to find out what those miners used

to find out when they bring them canaries

back into a place.

So you don't want to be in that

situation.

But you can use that.

Put your AC on high.

Let this stuff run through there.

You might want to be gone for a

day.

I'm sure there's somebody with a video

online that's talked about that.

You may have to go looking for something

like that.

But that might be one way to go

about it.

All right.

Well, hey, Dad, on that note,

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We in fact did it in this house

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The mold and mildew in the bathroom is

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So, yeah.

So this stuff definitely gets the job

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We're going to cover some of this good

news right here.

This won't take long.

And then we're going to get into the

main topic here.

Strength training.

Now,

this is kind of a piggyback on what

we talked about last time.

Strength training, especially in women,

rebuilds natural cancer defenses in aging

muscle, this study finds.

So all you ladies out there,

you want to try to work on them

guns a little bit.

Doesn't have to be a whole lot of

weight, just anything.

Just don't be sedentary.

That's number one.

So that's good news.

Number two,

NIH emails show years of coordinated

pandemic planning before

Now, why am I calling that good news?

The fact that it's finally hitting the

light of day in the mainstream media.

Even though many of us already knew about

this forever and a day,

Fauci and all the other scumbags were in

here talking about this stuff and what

they were going to do long before it

ever happened.

Meanwhile,

a lot of people are out there dead

and a whole lot of other people out

there dealing with things that are,

who knows,

maybe lifelong illnesses because of that.

But anyway,

it's starting to hit the light of day.

And then thirdly,

Oh, shoot.

Yeah, Supreme Court unanimously upholds.

Now, this is hot off the presses.

Supreme Court unanimously upholds state

bans on trans-testicle athletes and female

sports.

Okay, they didn't actually.

I've changed the headline a little bit,

but, you know,

gots to do what I gots to do.

I'm going to call that good news because

there are apparently a number of people,

and I live by them right here near

Asheville.

that still seem to think that your sex

is optional.

T, are you at all considering...

What's your stance on stuff like this?

I mean, are you at all...

You know,

as a guy that fought MMA for about

seven years, like our buddy Pat,

just not on the same level.

Like,

I can't even believe that you would allow

stuff like this.

You know,

I don't care how skinny the guy is

or how well built the woman is.

We're just not the same.

You know,

what a boring world if we were all

the same.

That's the whole point, being individuals.

And so, you know,

you see some of these fights.

I've watched,

I can't remember who they were, but,

you know,

this guy and a gal in the ring.

And I mean,

he pummels her half to pieces, you know,

and

How do you allow that?

How do you even call that fair?

I don't know.

It's mind-blowing.

And then the he-she is all happy about

winning the fight.

I would be so ashamed at that point.

I think there's only one woman that I

know, actually two,

my wife and probably Mariah Prussia.

you know,

that I would really have to watch jumping

into a ring with.

But even then, you know,

you're talking about this is anatomy one

Oh one guys,

why would we even allow something this

insane?

And before I shut up,

it's not too often that my children,

you know, my, my children all grown,

grown, the youngest is the oldest is now.

And my youngest Hannah tombs just jumped

into the chat to say hi.

So

She's coming up to Montana.

Usually they're like, man,

I'm so tired of hearing my dad run

his mouth.

I mean, it's just how kids are.

But hello, babe.

I'm glad you jumped in here,

and I'm looking forward.

She's coming to our Montana event coming

up here real soon.

Yeah, that is so cool.

Yeah,

that fighter you're talking about was

named Fallon Fox, and it was a dude.

Now,

if there was any other dude out here

putting a woman through a five-minute

flurry of fists like that,

dude they'd be putting them in the first

thing smoking on the jail but because and

then how how anybody would even go for

this like you said even if he was

a marginal fighter you have bone density

you got all these other things that make

these guys just infinitely more i don't

care how many you know i'm i won't

stay on that too much but man i

am telling you it is a

I just don't even understand the world I

live in that this is even possible.

My dad was one of the smartest guys

I know.

Yep, he is.

Man.

You're going to make me cry.

You got some brownie points on that one.

Yep.

Hey, Hannah, you ain't got no money.

That's right.

I just said I needed some cheddar.

I mean, you know what that means.

I need some of them greenbacks.

No, it's insane.

The last time I seen a beatdown like

that with a man on a woman,

you know, a trailer park was involved.

I mean, that's just insane.

Yeah, that's how it goes down.

All right,

so that's all the good news that I

got so far there,

but we'll come into that in a minute.

All right, with that said,

we're going to go to my man,

Eric Sider.

Actually, I think that was an old one,

so I guess we don't have anything from

Eric.

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Before we get into the main topic here,

one more question here from Daniel or

Danielle.

I can't tell what these glasses on.

What do y'all do about Japanese Beatles?

All right.

You got any kind of problems out there

you think are problems?

You got a soil problem.

Read One Straw Revolution by Masanobu

Fukuoka, Japanese genius.

I tell everybody just getting into this

game,

read that book and you're going to find

out.

that you don't have a Japanese beetle

problem.

You've got a lack of life in your

soil problem.

It's not even a genetic problem nine times

out of ten.

It's a soil problem.

So you can go do what my oldest

brother would do and go out there and

put seven dust on everything,

and all you're going to do is exacerbate

the problem for next year.

Or you can go out there and say,

okay, you know what?

I lost out on this one.

And if you grow a garden like the

one I'm talking about,

you will do what Jeff Lautenhoff calls as

confusing the pest or the insects,

where you don't just grow one thing out

there.

You are going to have,

like Stefan Subkoviak,

when I was up there in Canada,

he had Japanese beetles up there.

And it's not uncommon to see a few.

It's just when they're taking over

everything,

that means there's something out there not

keeping them in check.

So that's why you want to have a

diversity out there.

Son, you want to add to that?

Yeah,

keep in mind your garden is an ecosystem.

So it's not like there's nothing wrong

with having Japanese beetles out there.

I got potato bugs out there.

I got Japanese beetles out there.

I got all kinds of stuff out there,

but none of it is disrupting the harvest

because it's a healthy ecosystem out

there.

So, yeah,

just keep in mind and also calculate a

ten percent loss to nature.

There's nothing wrong with calculating a

ten percent loss to nature.

And if you're only losing ten percent of

your crop to whatever pest it may be,

whatever kind of natural event it may be,

you're still doing very, very good.

For example,

that Zed Zed farm in South Africa that

Dr. Elaine Ingham went and saved,

they were what, keeping plants?

Ten percent of the crop like they were

losing ninety percent to just, you know,

pests and disease and things like that.

And they were only benefiting from ten

percent and they were still a functioning

business at the time.

So, yeah,

calculate ten percent nature or loss of

nature and you're still doing very,

very good.

You know,

we just had all the Japanese beetles come

flying in on us too.

And since I got that comfrey from you,

Billy,

and planted that all around these trees

and all,

I've even got around a lot of my

plants.

I've got these in particular Georgia candy

roaster squash out here.

They're just growing like weeds,

looking phenomenal.

All of a sudden,

the Japanese beetles come in,

start chewing on them,

and then they just quit.

I've been doing the chop and drop with

the comfrey all the way around all these

plants.

Everywhere I've got comfrey, you chop it,

and then within two weeks,

you're ready to drop more down.

All of a sudden,

they just quit eating on it.

I don't know if it's something to it

or not,

but it appears that whatever that comfrey

is doing in that soil and using it

as compost, they don't care for it much.

Or you may have birds that are rolling

in and keeping them in balance.

It's not uncommon to see a lot of

these things.

I mean, like right now,

ever since I installed that DPE

Agriculture X,

and I've talked about it in that little

video that I got coming up, man,

we're seeing pollinators like we've never

seen before.

But when you bring in all the good

stuff,

You're going to find out that nature will

find a way if you just create,

like William said,

a great ecosystem out there.

An ecosystem isn't just one thing.

It isn't a monocrop.

That's why I don't plant a garden with

just one thing out there.

There's a whole lot going on there.

And, you know,

are you going to get the largest harvest

ever?

No, but I'm not a trophy hunter either.

So I just need a respectable harvest.

And I also got to look at putting

things back for nature as well.

All right, with that said,

we're going to jump right into it.

So folks,

In this time where everybody's seeing

stagflation, well, not stagflation yet,

but shrinkflation, everybody sees it.

Wheat, everything organic around here.

So every once in a while,

I want a bag of chips or something.

So I go buy these ones from,

oh man, it's a Mexican brand.

I can't think of the name.

Siete.

Yeah.

So I get them,

they cook them in avocado oil and they

don't have any junk in it.

It's just potatoes and salt and oil.

That's it.

And it's avocado oil.

And, man,

I've been buying these for a while now.

Get back home,

you got half in the bag.

Okay, and then it costs twice as much.

You're seeing this all the way around,

folks.

And I got news for you.

I got bad news for you.

Depending on how you take it,

it's going to get worse.

It's going to get way worse.

And like T was talking about in the

beginning of having this whole basket of

skills that he has up there where he's

got to turn people away.

Folks, I'm in the same position.

I am literally,

when they find out you're an electrician,

oh, can you do this?

Can you do that?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

But...

I'm telling you,

it's nice to know that if I wanted

to, or if I had to,

or worst case scenario,

I can go out there with the tools

on my back and go get a job

and get myself squared away.

Well,

that's exactly the way we got to be

in our skills.

That's why we're going to be talking about

where you can acquire some of these

survival skills that everyone should know

before the next crisis hits.

And there's a whole lot of us that

found out right here in Western North

Carolina that

that these things can be planned by the

government.

They can come in in ways you never

imagined.

Nobody ever thought about being flooded

out in the fricking mountains.

So all these things are important,

but we are at a time in the

United States of amnesia where people have

fewer and fewer and fewer of these skills.

Well, you know,

when you want to talk about where you

can acquire these things,

we go to the main source and that's

T for mountain readiness because you

Hands down, the best,

the best homestead preparedness,

whatever festival you've ever had in your

life.

I mean, classes you're going to see there,

you will not see anywhere else.

And folks,

I've been to a lot of these things.

And it's all under one roof,

but he's out to a new location.

It's going to be out in Montana.

T,

why don't you tell us about what you

got going on?

Oh, absolutely.

And that means a lot, man.

I really appreciate that, Billy.

When you say that we've worked hard for

four years to try to build this.

And, you know, the biggest thing is,

is vetting our instructors and educators.

You know,

there's tons of events and I'm not going

to knock them.

They all got their place.

But at the same time,

it's like they're all battling to see who

can have the most instructors.

Oh,

we have one hundred and fifty instructors.

Well, one hundred and forty nine of them.

haven't never done it for, for,

they don't do it as a job.

They haven't done it as a career and

they're not still doing it.

You know, our,

our instructors are all doing it.

They've either done it, you know,

they're either ex military,

they're homesteaders,

whatever it is that they're working in.

Um,

They live that life.

And that's super important to what we're

doing.

So, you know, Montana is our next event.

We've got a, it's in Swan Lake.

We have an eighty acre veteran owned

lodge.

Most of the proceeds we're going to be

punching into this lodge because it's a

nonprofit.

It's for a good cause,

and it's one of those two-edged sword

places because it's out in the middle of

nowhere, so it's harder to find them.

So we're trying to get them that exposure.

But also, you get this serene,

eighty acres.

They've got a dining hall.

We've got campsites.

We've got dry dock RV.

We've got two live fire ranges.

I mean, this place is hooked up,

and on top of it,

it's one hour from Glacier National Park.

So we're going to all load up in

the trucks come Monday,

head up there and check that out before

it melts off and disappears off the face

of the earth and check that off the

bucket list.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

Well, okay.

Uh, real quick,

there was a question earlier in the chat

that was asking,

and I already know the answer to this,

but they were asking,

could you please as got a field,

could you please come to Texas?

Now you got a Texas event coming up.

Do you want to give more details on

that?

It's already scheduled.

I wanted to, yeah.

Uh, look,

jump on mountain readiness.com and you'll

scroll over there.

We got mountain readiness, long lone star.

That's going to be in March right there

in Graveland, Texas.

Uh,

we're going to be off of the lake

salmon we've got a big huge uh rv

park it's got a lake i think there's

a sixty foot water slide out into it

can't wait to see what the insurance

company hits me for that uh but it's

gonna be a good time we've got a

a bunch of instructors that that roll with

us rock for the love that'll be going

to montana as well as the texas event

And, of course,

we're going to try to rope William into

it along with a bunch of the instructors

that we know that are already in that

vicinity.

Yeah, T, you know,

we'll come back to the event here in

a minute.

And, folks,

you're going to want to stick around

because, like I said,

they got classes you're not going to find

anywhere else.

You know, in these times,

if someone only had, like, you know,

a short amount of time to prepare for,

let's say, the next crisis,

what are some of the key survival things

they ought to be shooting for right off?

Well, I mean,

let me touch what you were talking about,

you know, with the prices and, you know,

how you're only getting a half a bag

of chips and things like that.

I believe we even spoke about this here

not too long ago,

but I was walking through the grocery

store, you know,

and eggs are five bucks and it just

inflated and you're paying more for less

and all this.

And I'm strolling around and lo and

behold, my cart is half full.

And it's like three hundred plus dollars

worth of stuff laying in this thing.

I'm like, good night, man.

How can I would hate to see what

it looks like for a family that has,

you know, two, three, four kids,

what this looks like if they're relying on

everything thing from these big,

big box stores.

and i i turned the corner into the

electronics department and lo and behold

seventy two inch flat screen smart

television three hundred and forty eight

ninety nine because that's how wally world

does their prices and i'm like this thing

is coming it's traveling across the oceans

All the tariffs, all these things,

and this little half of a cart is

just about the same price as this

humongous flat screen TV.

And so what I really try to drive

into people when we're talking about

preparedness and survival and

self-reliance, for lack of a better term,

is have you noticed that things that are

necessities

are becoming insane priced,

but things of technology and these

tracking devices are dirt cheap.

There's a reason for it, y'all.

You know, there's a reason for that.

I actually had to redo my,

I had to go get me another rectangle

of death here, uh,

because I'll run my phones until they,

they just fall apart.

And I've got a,

I've got a good friend, uh, that, uh,

works there.

And he always gives me the legit lowdown.

And, you know, I'm like, hey,

I need another phone.

He's like, look,

I can put you into this Samsung Galaxy

X. It's got the best camera, audio, blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's like a thousand dollar phone.

I'm like, man, like,

what's that going to cost me?

It was free.

I'm like, what do you mean it's free?

He's like, yeah,

you just got to sign up and pay

your bill.

And not only that,

we're going to knock a few bucks off

your bill.

I said,

so you're telling me I get a thousand

dollar phone?

And it's free.

And I don't even have to do anything.

He's like, well, yeah,

because this is the new five G and

they want all the old phones off the

market.

And so that's the whole gig.

You know how this works.

Think about that, guys.

So, you know what?

Some of the classes are going to be

doing digital sovereignty.

You know how to keep under the radar

on this stuff that there is a huge

gap.

part of the world we live in.

We're on it right now.

We have to do it.

You know, your cars or computers,

everything is smart.

This,

your robot vacuum that China spying on you

through when you wrote, you know,

cruise it around the house.

All this stuff is invasive and it's

tracking everything that we do every

second of the day.

So digital, digital sovereignty,

trying to stay out of that.

We're going to be hands-on chicken

processing.

Man, know your food.

And if you can't know your food,

at least know where it's coming from

because you can't walk down that aisle

without seeing a whole bunch of

bioengineered this.

I can't find anything that doesn't say

bioengineered on it walking through the

grocery stores.

Can you guys?

At least they're saying it now.

Yeah, I haven't looked.

I mean, I don't we make I mean,

I try to be a complete Nazi these

days as to what I'm going to eat.

And I'm right there with you.

I mean, if it says it,

if there's anything even closer,

I don't understand what that is.

I just don't buy it.

But I'll tell you what I am doing.

I am I'm getting really good at making

what

There was a guy named Michael Pollan,

I believe.

Yeah, he wrote Omnivore's Dilemma.

He says, you know what?

I think you should be allowed to eat

anything you want as long as you make

it.

So got a bunch of peaches coming off

these trees.

Michelle's going to make a pie.

Okay, it ain't me making it,

but I'll be picking the fruit.

I'm sure she's down there shaking her head

right now.

Just let me know when it comes out

the oven, man.

I need to stop by because we're on

the peaches.

I'm telling you what, man,

she is a phenomenal cook.

But yeah,

that's what a lot of people better get

better at doing is if you don't want

this bioengineered stuff, man,

you better get kind of good at making

it at home or finding some way.

I know you've taken a big step in

that way in your own life, T,

as far as trying to source everything you

can because you're worried about getting

mixed up in this junk.

Every single day.

It's, uh, and it, you know,

doing the traveling thing.

I know William understands this.

He's always on the road.

You know,

he came down to mountain readiness here in

harmony last May and, you know,

staying in his,

staying in the van and he's packing all

kinds of food and treats with him and

stuff like that, man,

it is a hard life to try to

keep eating good when you're on the road,

traveling and doing the stuff that we have

to do.

Um, and, and so, uh,

figuring out, you know, we,

we're a hundred,

we're a hundred mile an hour full bore

on freeze drying.

You know, uh, you,

you look at these freeze dried foods and

they are so packed with sodium and not

the good type and preservatives and stuff

that the last time I ate one of

these name brand little meals,

I about stroked out like ears turn red,

start shaking, getting dizzy.

I'm like, wow.

wow, what just happened?

You know, so our freeze dryer,

we run that thing and you can watch

the meter back here,

just spinning around like a top,

but that's okay because being able to take

food that we have on the homestead and

put it into, um, you know, we'll take,

uh, uh,

a rack of cheese,

a rack of our eggs,

a rack of our chicken sausage,

potatoes all the way down and freeze dry

that all up.

And then I'll,

I'll throw it into a little MREs.

I make my own MREs.

And the great part is,

is not only is there no preservatives,

no garbage in it.

Most of it we sourced here from the

homestead.

You can actually hit the toilet, you know,

after using it instead of two weeks of,

I don't know if any of y'all's ate

MREs,

but it ain't something you want to eat

for a long time.

You got to chew that gum.

Yeah, I'm here to tell you that, no,

we do it exactly the same way.

I make my own, you know,

whereas when I first got this freeze

dryer,

what we would do is uh take individual

things and maybe this but like you i

make complete meals complete meals because

when i gotta get into it i'm not

looking to try to say okay i need

to put this together man you're in a

crisis situation half the time if you

gotta feel like you gotta get into it

so they're already made and it it's made

exactly the way i like it and perfectly

but it's also a good way to put

up that harvest but yeah i'm right there

with you bro that's that's about the only

way

Um,

we're rolling and rolling around these

days,

unless it's some really good high end

restaurant.

Like we ate at that one time,

that one place you brought us to.

Um,

I'm really careful about where we're going

these days, but real quick,

I got to ask,

cause I know y'all did some barbecue when

we were over there once.

Y'all ever try a freeze drying any

barbecue?

I have never done that.

You know, I haven't.

I haven't.

I did just because I think I can

get it to where it needs to be.

But I took bananas and I sliced them

long ways into little strips.

And then I think where I messed up

is I took some natural peanut butter.

I mixed some honey into it and I

put it on top of the bananas and

I freeze dried these bananas with peanut

butter and honey on top of them.

They tasted phenomenal.

I just got to get more moisture out

of them.

I got to figure out how to make

that work.

I'm actually thinking about maybe that

living nectar,

like sprinkling on top of stuff when I

throw it in.

So, you know, apples, you know,

if you take apples and you freeze dry

them,

you throw a little cinnamon on there.

They taste amazing.

But I'm like,

what would that living nectar on top of

apples freeze dried taste, taste like?

So that's my next venture just to kind

of see what that, that looks like.

But yeah,

You know, it's also a great treat.

And, you know,

how can you beat thirty plus year shelf

life at no weight?

And you're getting ninety eight plus

percent of the the the flavor and the

nutrients out of it.

I mean, there is a place for canning,

but if you can afford that freeze dry,

all that's a game changer right there.

But no, I haven't tried barbecue,

but I'm not against it.

david zimmerman just said uh i have uh

freeze-dried pulled pork and barbecue beef

the only concern that i would have with

either one is uh a maybe like some

of the fat content like if you're doing

burn ends or something like that i don't

know how well that would freeze dry but

also potentially if you smoke the meat the

way dad does giving up the dog on

location as soon as you open up that

package and now everybody smells every

especially if everybody's hungry

everybody's gonna smell that smoke and

then

It's all done with there.

That's a very good point, son.

On the preservatives part, though,

that lets you know that it has to

be an intentional poisoning because you

just freaking preserved it

freeze drying it.

So why would you need further

preservatives in the food or in the drinks

or whatever it may be?

It doesn't make any,

it doesn't make any sense.

And it's way safer too.

I mean, think about this, you know,

canning,

you already know after three plus years,

are you good?

You don't get something just right.

Maybe there is a little mark, you know,

a little piece up on the lid where

it didn't seal quite right.

You can't see that botulism and stuff in

there.

It doesn't even have smell.

So, you know, I like that safe.

If you pop that freeze-dried bag open,

it's going to be all molded up and

nasty.

In fact,

I've seen them where they get a hole

and they'll swell up.

You know, we were over on it.

It just swelled up because it's

decomposing in there and it's, you know,

making all those gases.

And you know right off the bat if

it's good or not.

If you open it up and it looks

good and it smells good, it's good.

Yeah.

Yeah, a lot of times.

Son, go ahead.

Now, okay, so let's say –

Let's say somebody is listening to this

podcast and they woke up literally in this

moment.

They just started realizing what's going

on.

They just realized that they needed to

prepare.

Where would you like?

What are the top three things that you

suggest they either purchase or skills

that they should learn?

Or where would they begin right now if

they just woke up literally watching this

podcast?

Man, there's always the main five, fire,

water, food, shelter, security.

That's always the number one, water.

You got to have good, clean water.

It doesn't matter what you do.

If you're in the city,

you got to figure out how to make

that water clean.

You got to figure out how to store

that water.

You got to figure out how to make

that water clean.

As you know, growing up off grid,

like it was twenty to thirty gallons of

water a day for a family of five

that I packed mule in with like a

like a ox, you know,

got the yolk and everything to five gallon

jerry cans.

And so, you know,

water in itself is a whole lot of

of work.

And it's calories in, calories out.

The same thing applies to water.

If you're sweating more water out than

you're taking in because you're trying to

boil it or do this or you're packing

it right, you're going to expire.

So number one,

how are you going to have good clean

water depending on where you live?

I have a spring, I have a pond,

I have a well that's an artesian spring

that was capped.

So water is not an issue for me,

but there's a lot of people that don't

have that.

So what are you doing?

Water catchment systems off of the eaves

of the house, which that's great.

We still do that even with the well

and the pond and everything else.

Having a good filtration system,

that's something you know we use like um

everything i've got an h to go which

uh produces chlorine nobody wants to drink

chlorine but if you're talking about

killing giardia and all this stuff that's

super bad um you know that's a great

piece of equipment it also makes

sanitizing solution which in the medical

world so that would be my second number

one water number two medical you know

How many people did we see get sick

and hurt over here in Hurricane Helene?

And so when you're talking about a flood

and all that toxic waste and stuff that

washed up in there, I mean,

I remember Samaritan's Purse,

all the people were getting sick as a

dog out there doing muck outs and stuff

like that.

right?

So we had upper respiratory problems.

We had, uh,

people getting cuts with bad infections

because if you expose your, you know,

a cut to that kind of filth, then,

um, you know, you're, you're gonna,

you're gonna be in a bad,

bad place and a little bit cut.

I actually know someone,

his father got a little bit cut on

his inner thigh,

didn't do anything about it.

It got infected a week and a half

later,

they were going to cut his leg off.

All right.

Because it spread into his bloodstream and

started, you know,

A little cut.

Think about having thirty years of food on

the shelves,

all the pew-pews in the world.

You're set up like a top,

and all of a sudden a little cut

takes you out of the game.

Man, what a sad day, right?

So medical would be my second.

Get some solid medical training,

which we'll be doing a lot of that

at Mountain Readiness in Montana,

as well as here in October coming up

here in North Carolina.

And then third, I would guess, would be,

you know, your food.

You know,

where are you setting out with your food?

Knowing your food.

If you got the area, man, grow something.

Raise some chickens, something.

Man, I just did a post,

just a little short video of all the

eggs we're pulling in.

I hear everybody else,

because of the heat, they're like, oh,

our chickens are stressed.

They're not laying any eggs.

Man, we're catching...

Literally,

thirty plus eggs a day out of these

thirty five chickens are layers and they

ain't slowing down.

But we put the time in,

we're moving them every few days to fresh

water every single day.

So know your food,

make sure you got stuff.

And then there's that other one I'll end

it on is your budget.

What does your budget look like?

You know, people are like, oh,

you need this piece of gear and you

need that and you need spend all this

money on this.

Do what your budget allows.

If your budget is rice and beans and

peanut butter, look, dog,

that's better than dying, right?

So go to the stores.

Get you those free buckets from Wally

World and all these places that have

food-grade buckets.

They'll give them to you for free.

Wash them out.

Go buy you a bunch of rice and

beans and stuff like that and slam it

up on the shelf.

So that's where I'm at with it.

yeah um folks amber from rustic roots

heritage homestead and by the way you

ought to go over there and subscribe she

put on something here that honestly i

haven't put enough effort into now i

guarantee michelle has because her and

amber are kind of twins when it comes

to this but amber says we went through

a hundred gallons today with the animals

that's that's you know what if you rely

on those animals

as we do,

as all of us do sitting here right

in this chat,

if you're relying on those animals, man,

I wonder how many people have even thought

how much they need to put back for

them.

Cause you got your livestock dogs.

They got to look after things and they

got to be able to work.

You can make them live on just eggs.

Ask me how I know,

but I don't know how many people have

really thought about, you know what?

If something goes dry for,

I'm not getting it.

That water ain't coming through those

pipes from the city.

How am I going to look after these

cows?

How am I going to look after whatever

it is I have out here?

Pigs, sheep, chickens, it don't matter.

So that's one of the big ones out

there.

So I'm glad you brought that up, Amber.

Also, T,

I want to ask you because I heard

a Delta Force operator.

Can't remember what interview it was.

I was sitting there like doom scrolling or

something a weekend.

It may have been one of these Saturdays

a while back.

And he brought up something that I'm glad

you kind of hit on,

but I want to kind of put an

emphasis on it.

know every when you look at delta force

or seal team six the only real tier

one operators out there that we know of

and now we're finding out there's actually

somebody above them nobody really knows

the name of them but anyway they were

talking about the very thing that we've

known forever in a day more people died

in the civil war because of infections

than they ever did being shot by bullets

More people died in World War I for

the same reason.

Sanitation got a whole lot better in World

War II and all the subsequent battles that

we've had since.

But how much emphasis do you think people

really ought to be putting into?

Because it ain't one of the sexy items.

When you go to a lot of these

homestead gatherings,

you'll have the guy with the bug out

truck.

You'll have the guy with this thing over

here,

all the fancy guns and all this and

that.

How neglected do you think it is?

In terms of people looking after,

like you mentioned ago, you know, cuts,

scrapes, sicknesses, all that stuff.

I'm just wondering how neglected you think

that is in the preparedness community.

That would be huge.

I mean,

look at New York during the Reagan

administration, when, uh,

all the guys at the waste management went

on strike, you know, in three days,

New York was short,

shut down with garbage, you know,

part of sanitation.

You couldn't even get down the street.

Reagan had to come in and, and threaten,

you know, the, uh,

the trash companies to start doing their

job, or he was gonna, he was gonna,

you know, put them,

put them to the test.

Um,

And the same thing is with toilets and

things like that.

Growing up, we had a five-gallon bucket,

I kid you not,

with a toilet seat on it.

That was our sanitation.

And every day,

one of my other jobs that was not

so glamorous was to carry that bucket out

into the woods and in the hole that

we had dug that we covered up with

a sheet of metal, pour it in there.

Once it gets full,

we'd fill it back in.

Dad was always using it for compost.

Yes, you can do that.

Same thing what we were just talking

about, urine, all right?

Make it useful.

It does just as well as far as

fertilizer that I've seen with plants

growing up.

But how many people died of dysentery

because of throwing their stuff out in

their backyards back on the prairies next

to their well and their cisterns and their

drinking areas?

So, yeah, that's a huge thing.

That's a huge thing.

Think about a world, too,

that we've already seen with the with the

big C word back a few years ago

with toilet paper.

Hey, what you going to use for that?

There's more sanitation.

Now,

Rustic Roots Home Heritage Homestead just

said even the TV show made a really

good point talking about what you guys

just talked about.

Even the TV show alone,

most people who end up having to leave

is because of medical issues.

Most avoidable.

In fact,

I think the number one reason that I've

noticed that people leave that TV show

alone is because they haven't like.

Pooped in like a month or something like

that.

And that's where people screw up.

Fat intake.

Fat intake.

You know,

our friend Alan Kay that you met there

at Mountain Readiness won the first season

of Alone.

He made it fifty six days.

He was all beat up.

Jack's Jack's Janega.

She's she's on season thirteen.

I don't know if you remember her from

she was doing the wild edible stuff and

navigation.

Yeah.

These guys get pulled medically because

they lose so much weight.

The body starts going into that ketosis

because you're not getting enough carbs.

And the next thing you know,

they've lost all of their muscle and body

weight and they're on the verge of

starting to have organ damage,

which that's a possibility too.

If the shelves go empty in the grocery

stores, fat and carbs,

that's super important to stay alive and

stay in the game.

Now,

one of the things that as you get

more and more into preparedness, at first,

whenever somebody first gets into it,

they're like, all right,

I'm going to prepare as best as I

can.

And then as you prepare more and more,

you realize like, oh,

I can't learn all of the skills.

I can't do all of the things.

I need community.

that is one of the more difficult things

to create is community,

but you've done it very,

very successfully.

In fact,

you've done it in a couple of different

locations,

just with the Swan Lake Mountain

Readiness,

you're creating community there.

You're gonna create community at the

Salmon Lake one in Texas.

Just short of coming up or building a

new festival,

how would you suggest people create that

community or build a local community that

can be like a mutual assistance group or

just like some friends that can help along

with certain tasks?

How do you recommend people do that?

Well, I mean, hundreds of years ago,

there was no lone wolf communities, right?

If you were by yourself,

you usually didn't make it.

So it required you to be a viable

asset to that community.

You had to have skills that were

beneficial to the group you know and i

know billy all the time talks and i'm

the same way you know people coming up

that drive you better watch it you know

everybody's all coming to your house if

something goes sideways what you got to

offer you know that's why these skills are

so important because when people when

things go sideways uh people become very

self-centered and that's just this that's

just human nature you're going to take

care of you and your own and your

children

before anybody else it's just the way it

is we are naturally made to survive our

body wants to live and so uh you

know something to think about be a viable

asset to your community as far as building

community uh there's not too many people

that live in an area where they don't

have a neighbor at least pretty close go

talk to them right if you can't make

it to the events

And, uh,

I'm going to keep putting dots on the

map.

So, you know,

coming to a state near you before it's

all said and done, but, um,

Go talk to your neighbors.

And I've said it many times before, too.

Isn't it better to know if your neighbor

is not a good person before things go

sideways than after?

I would rather know if my neighbor sucks

now than if something went really bad.

And then I have to find out because,

you know, that looks a whole lot worse.

People are going to be way more.

Well, here's the other point.

People are not they don't want to be

your friend when the world ends.

All right.

So go see your neighbors and make those

bonds.

If they are, if,

if you guys are compatible, you know, uh,

but I also say be very, uh,

very leery and, uh,

and vet your neighbors as well,

because you guys know as well as I

do, we seen it in hurricane Alene.

You see it in all these other countries,

third world countries,

when stuff goes bad, man,

people will do some extreme bad things

when it comes to being hungry and staying

alive.

Yeah, true enough.

Donna Ray has a really good comment here.

Yeah, learn about wild edibles,

eating the weeds.

Now, check this out, y'all.

Here's one stat.

I can't remember where I got it from.

It's from years back,

but most people that die in the wilderness

were surrounded by things they could have

eaten.

So yeah,

finding fat and a lot of those things

in a lot of those cases is going

to be unusual.

Unless some Bigfoot or Chupacabra runs off

with you,

there's usually something out there you

can possibly do.

So you want to learn all that stuff.

Well, T,

now we're getting down to the shady end

of this show.

You got an event that's going to be

right out there in Montana.

How can people,

what are some of the skills that they

can acquire while being there?

What are some of the big classes and

what are some of the training events that

you're going to be having out there for

all the people that might be in the

area?

Or ones, you know, we're in the summer,

y'all.

You might want to take a little road

trip out there.

So, you know,

go say hi to T and Amber out

there.

So, you know,

what are you going to be able to

get?

Oh, it's gorgeous.

You know,

we're going to have dinners in the

evening.

We'll have live music.

And of course, that community thing,

that's huge.

You'd be surprised how many people you

meet at these events that you didn't even

know was your neighbor.

You know,

and this is the place people that come

to our events,

they're seeking other people to grow with.

And so that's what makes it awesome.

But we're going to be doing I've got

a I've got a Delta operator with Gorilla

Medical.

He's one of the three that are coming.

We're going to be doing medical classes.

All three days, I've got comms.

Comms were the big problem with Helene,

especially all the repeaters were knocked

out except for that one.

I think it was down at Batcave,

wasn't it?

I think there was only one repeater that

didn't get knocked out.

And there was people that were cut off

from everything for weeks on end.

So we're teaching comms.

We've got a bunch of tactical training.

We've got homesteading.

We've got Pat Miletic out there teaching

hand-to-hand combat.

We've got Mariah Prussia that's going to

be teaching combatives for women.

And if you think that combatives is not

something that you should learn, man,

check out Dearborn, Michigan right now.

end i don't even know how else to

say it y'all like i thought i was

watching a video from afghanistan and it

was dearborn michigan i say no more you

know uh it's better it's better to be

prepared and that's what it's about so

we've got all those classes we've got uh

sourdough bread making we've got chicken

processing of course uh doc will is out

there with pat talking about soil soil

health cellular health microbiology all

the stuff that those guys are doing as

well as you guys um

It's going to be a star-studded event as

well,

and it's in an eighty-acre awesome place,

and we're benefiting veterans all at the

same time.

Will there be an opportunity for the

people that are looking for lodging?

What do you have in terms of that

out there?

Is it going to be camping?

Are there amenities nearby?

Well, so this is, it's remote, guys,

but we have dry dock RV.

There is hot showers on site.

Water, we'll have food,

all that kind of stuff.

And then, of course, tent camping.

So it's like a little community.

I mean,

this place literally has its own water

purification plant, fire truck.

I mean,

it's like its own little city out there

in the middle of nowhere.

So we've got all the amenities.

We're going to have vendors on site.

We're going to be doing giveaways and

prizes.

And, of course,

at the end of the day,

you're sitting there breaking bread.

And what's really awesome is that you're

breaking bread with these people that you

only have seen on, I mean,

take Pat Miletic, the guy, what was it,

UFC XVI, first welterweight champion,

trained more champion UFC fighters than

anyone else.

You're going to be hanging out there with

them at a campfire.

chatting and that's the best part about

this event is you get some great hands-on

classes and skills because we're all about

hands-on but after the fact you get to

sit there and and talk and pull that

knowledge from these people that usually

you would only be watching on a television

You know what's so cool about that is

the guys, the people that I know,

like Pat Miletic, y'all,

do you have any idea?

He was one of the most sought-after

trainers on the planet when it came to

mixed martial arts.

And there was a time where his fighters

pretty much owned the UFC.

And then also Mariah is going to be

out there, folks.

And Pat is one of the most approachable

people you're ever going to meet.

No ego, no dumb stuff, no nonsense.

Yeah.

um just having the opportunity to know and

just go up to pat and say hey

pat look hey i'm a little old lady

i want to know how to strangle somebody

and pat will show you we'll go up

to mariah absolutely yeah they will show

you right there on the spot how you

can choke somebody down you know let's say

you're in the middle of a walmart and

somebody got that last carton of milk you

may want to choke them down

I've seen some of them days we had

to power loss for two weeks and it

was in the dead of minute winter.

And I went in to the local hardware

store to get some heat tape,

try to get the generator.

And I got into about a fist fight

with a guy that grabbed it out of

my hand, you know,

over a last heat tape.

You never know.

Yeah.

I picked it up and he grabbed,

I said, Hey, look, bro, this is mine.

He's like, I need it.

I say, you need your teeth too.

You better come off that heat tape.

You never can tell what life's going to

throw your way.

Man,

you might want to show that dude some.

Oh, go ahead.

And you never know when you might have

to choke somebody down in the checkout

line.

So you never know.

Go ahead.

You might want to show that dude some

grace because clearly if he picked on you

in North Carolina,

there's easier targets in North Carolina

than T. He was desperate.

He was desperate.

He was desperate.

I was desperate too, man.

You know, it was,

it come down once again,

that's what survival looks like.

Y'all ain't nobody offering nothing up and

I wouldn't expect them to, you know,

everybody is worried about them and theirs

and that's how survival works.

So, uh, get your stuff in order.

Oh, go ahead, son.

Real quick.

All right.

So everybody that's going out to the

Montana event,

how many people do you think are just

going to permanently,

once they see the place,

once they go out to Swan Lake,

how many people do you think are going

to just permanently live out there?

Man, I love Montana.

until I see the five feet of snow

things.

And then I'm like, now, right now,

the five feet of snow don't look too

bad.

It just don't, uh,

with this heat that we're getting, but,

um, they just got,

they just got like four foot on the

pass right next to, uh, uh,

one of the authors that's going to be

teaching a class out there.

She just sent me a picture and there's

like four foot of snow where they're

plowing through it up there.

You know,

they've got good equipment and I sent her

a picture of, you know,

off the mountainside here and the sun

shining and all that.

And she's like, I'm jealous.

I was like, it's a hundred degrees.

Don't be jealous.

We're burning, we're burning death,

but no, it's gorgeous guys.

Like this place is like stuff that,

that dreams are made of.

So, uh,

and we're going to be eating elk.

We've got some elk there that's hanging,

uh,

I mean,

this is going to be a righteous time.

I want to say one thing.

I was reading earlier,

and I come across a quote of Robert

Green Ingersoll.

You ever heard of that guy?

No.

Robert Green Ingersoll,

he was a lawyer and writer.

He was also agnostic,

pretty much so an atheist.

But he had this great quote,

and I thought it applied to so much.

And he said, in nature,

there are neither rewards nor punishments.

There are consequences.

And that is, in a nutshell,

can be applied to everything when you're

talking about preparedness, homesteading,

everything else.

You cannot fight Mother Nature.

You have to learn to work with her.

And if you don't get your ducks in

a row, you're going to pay for it.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more.

Is he the forty-eight laws of power guy?

I don't think so,

but I could be wrong.

I could be wrong.

T,

what I love about your events more than

anything is that one thing that drives me

crazy about some of the other events is

that they get speakers or people in there

that are teaching something and they're

just not accessible beyond the stage.

That's never the case at your events, man.

I'm over here hanging out, folks.

I mean, at T's event recently,

it's just something else to be able to

be in the room with people

When I say legends in the Green Beret

community, y'all,

I'm talking living legends in the

community.

And you're sitting there having like down

to earth conversations.

You're joking with these guys.

You're having a good time.

You're laughing, having fun.

All of it with all these instructors right

there.

Like I said,

Pat Miletic and all the rest of them,

they're going to be right there, folks.

You can reach out and touch them.

And if you're one of these introverted

people that thinks, you know,

there's nothing wrong with that.

But if you're like,

I don't want to ask a question in

front of everybody, they will be around.

A lot of them will be.

So I guess I'm guessing all the

instructors are going to be on site as

well.

everybody's there for the duration so you

know uh well i mean just this last

may uh if you guys came to last

may in harmony north carolina william and

billy were both there so you guys all

there in the chats if you never met

these dudes other than watching them on on

the screen here

They were doing a hands-on sheet

processing, man.

We did this from start to finish.

These guys were rocking it out.

And then William does a compost and

William stayed on site.

You know, we're all hanging out.

Everybody's, you know,

eating and breaking bread and having a

good time.

And that's what we're about.

That is that community that we're talking

about.

I know everybody, you know,

wants to lock their self away and,

you know,

I don't need the world and all that

kind of stuff.

I promise you, you do need other people.

And if you don't yet know,

let,

let a couple of years get on that

body.

You're going to change your tune.

Yeah.

I couldn't agree more.

Uh, T one more time,

tell everybody where and when for this

thing and how can they get tickets?

Absolutely.

So this would be Mountain Readiness West,

Swan Lake, Montana at Camp Ponderosa.

It's July twenty fourth through the twenty

six.

We've got classes stacked in front of it

for we got some CQB stuff with live

fire sims.

If you really want to get into the

weeds and pistol class afterwards,

three day event,

your ticket covers everything except for

your camping, which is super cheap.

And that goes directly to the the veteran

camp camp.

and their nonprofit uh and uh you can

get us at www.mountainreadiness.com all of

our events are right up there including

that texas event coming up for twenty

twenty seven

Folks,

you're going to want to definitely check

this out.

You know, T's a good buddy of mine.

He's a good friend.

He and his wife, I mean, we, look,

we're teamed up for this event that we're

going to have in October as well,

Sovereign Health Summit,

you know when that's going to be.

Folks, I'm telling you,

they don't put on junk and they don't

have junkie instructors.

I'm telling you, you get the very,

very best of everything out of these guys,

and I feel lucky to know them.

Thanks so much for coming on, T, man.

It's been a joy to have you.

all right y'all it's a crazy world but

you got to get that training and you

need it yesterday until next time stay

alert stay alive is

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Black seeds of shame,

watch the world spin.

From the smallest sprout,

the harmony begins.

In the cycle of life,

where the magic's alive.

To the, to the beat,

till the fire can thrive.

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