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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,
we can solve all the questions right now
on that part right there.
Just order it from Safrax, S-A-F-F-R-A-X.
Order from Safrax and then email them and
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They'll give you a full... In fact,
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they'll already give you a sheet of how
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uh, whatever it is you're trying to do.
But if you email them,
somebody will get back to you and they'll
tell you exactly what to do.
We in fact did it in this house
and all the mildew in the bathroom is
gone.
The mold and mildew in the bathroom is
completely gone.
So, yeah.
So this stuff definitely gets the job
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but the powers that shouldn't be don't
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All right.
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.
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.
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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