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All right.

Well, episode four sixty one.

Jimmy Joe's in the house.

So I think I saw you just a

little bit of a little while ago when

I went live with my man with Hakeem

from above phone.

Everybody was asking.

There were so many people that hit me

up because it kind of teased it for

a while there.

That we were going to talk about data

centers and I would have somebody that,

you know, was a consummate expert.

Man, we just kept losing, losing, losing,

losing.

I mean,

he's busy or I'm busy or he's traveling

or I'm traveling or whatever the case may

be.

And then he hit me up like,

I mean, like, shoot,

a couple of days ago said, hey, man,

let's do this thing.

So anyway.

We got that one done.

If you're wondering why I'm doing two

podcasts in one day.

Anyway, if you haven't heard it, folks,

you probably ought to go back and check

it out because we're both insiders in our

own way.

Me from a construction standpoint and he

from a intellectual data standpoint,

because that's what the guy does.

I mean,

you talk about above phone that well,

that's that's totally in his wheelhouse.

Anyway, how you doing, son?

Yeah.

Pretty good.

Well, we'll get into it on Farm News,

but it's been a very interesting day,

and I think I developed a game that

everybody else can play next time they're

on a road trip or next time they're

very, very frustrated in traffic.

So I'm excited to introduce this game to

everybody.

yeah i think i'm gonna need to hear

that myself uh i don't i try to

i mean i haven't been anywhere all week

and i kind of like it that way

but i'm gonna have to go somewhere either

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All right.

I want to thank everybody for coming in

the house right now.

Hit that thumbs up.

Tell everybody we're live.

And, wow, like you said,

it was a little bit of a weird

thing.

Not weird,

but I typically have a very structured

kind of day.

I get up.

If people knew just my personal routine

for wellness,

they would probably lose their minds.

As soon as I open my eyes,

pray immediately.

As soon as I get out of the

bed, come back in.

And, you know, wake your mom up.

Eventually go back out,

go drink some salt water, come back in,

do my breathing,

which I'm doing a lot of these days,

even throughout the day.

It's not Wim Hof breathing.

I'm doing the stuff by Irwin LaCour.

And absolutely fantastic.

And it works like nothing I think I've

ever done before.

It makes me wonder why I ever stopped.

So anyway, go do that.

And then, you know,

so I got this routine.

And then when I break it,

it seems to disjoint the rest of the

day.

Doing a podcast midday or morning,

actually,

it kind of threw me off a little

bit, but I was aware of it.

That's one thing I'm getting better at all

the way around is my awareness.

Other things that you're trying to do may

take you off your point,

take you off your game,

and then you just find your way right

back to it.

It's important also,

what I find very important when you

travel,

it's important that as soon as you get

back home,

if you have a wellness routine or any

kind of routine that helps you,

Look, no matter what, when I get back,

it is full steam ahead right back to

it because it gets you back into the

swing.

Don't go halfway in any of it.

All right.

So I got a little experiment I'm going

to put together out here.

We got some tomatoes that are in those

flats.

They didn't get planted.

And man,

there's nothing that drives me crazier

than seeing things that we started as

seeds and they don't get planted.

So I usually find some guerrilla gardening

way of doing that.

I said the other day that I went

and picked all these beets out here.

Okay, that's cool.

And we were going to kind of leave

it fallow, I think.

Not fallow.

We never leave anything fallow,

but just kind of let the cover crop

take over.

But I think I'm going to take those

little tomatoes that are really looking

awful right now.

I'm going to put them in there and

hit them with some soil saver and see

what happens.

I know it's a little late to start

planting tomato starts,

but I'm just going to do it and

see if they get off and running.

For the people that are asking,

Yeah, man,

we got bone sauce back in stock.

You better get on it, y'all,

because I don't know when we're going to

get rain again.

And sooner or later,

we'll be in a no burn posture.

So we got that at the website if

anybody's needing it,

along with some comfrey.

And today marks day twenty one of doing

the routine with a human garage.

And folks,

if you're wondering what that is,

it's basically a self fascia workout

routine.

There's nothing difficult really about it

or most of it anyway.

And it's just a matter of these very

unusual stretches that I feel like are

starting to make a difference in me.

I'll let you know.

It's a twenty eight day program.

This one is.

And your mom and I have been doing

it.

She missed a couple of days when she

was traveling to New York.

But yeah.

So anyway, we're back on it.

And let's see here.

The last thing I think I'll talk about

is I'm thinking for Sunday morning,

you know,

doing that routine and talking about Irwin

LaCour and all the other programs that

I've done.

I think I want to do a front

porch talk this Sunday about the

importance of real education,

not indoctrination.

And the most important education is the

ongoing education that I give myself

either through books or it's through

e-courses.

Folks, it's nonstop.

I'm always learning something.

And if you were to ask me where

we spend most of our money around here,

without a doubt, it's on education,

at least from my point.

I mean,

now I did spend a few bucks.

I'm trying to change out my wardrobe

today.

based on what Dr. Ruby taught me.

I'm changing out my wardrobe.

I mean, it wasn't just her.

She was like the straw that broke his

camel's back.

And I'm getting rid of any – this

is going to take a little bit of

adjusting,

but I'm getting rid – or I'm going

to try to wear as little as possible

anything that isn't natural fiber.

And so I'm out here.

I got me some shorts and a shirt.

I got two pairs of shorts and a

T-shirt.

all made out of uh linen and boy

you want to talk about expensive man that

stuff is not cheap so anyway i got

i got that so far made out of

linen just because of the frequency that

it provides

Now, cotton, it's good too,

but there's not even a close second to

linen.

I'd like to know where silk lines up

on that because I did have some silk

shirts way back when.

And man,

it was like you didn't have anything on.

It was like you were wearing nothing at

all.

So anyway,

that's a lot of what I'm doing right

now.

And then honestly,

there's also education all day long when

I'm listening to certain podcasts as well.

I'm learning something every single day.

So I think I'm going to talk about

the importance of...

being an autodidact.

For those that don't know what that is,

son,

you want to tell them what an autodidact

is?

It's somebody who has the ability to teach

themselves,

which I think everybody has the ability to

teach themselves.

You just got to figure out how you

best learn and how to teach yourself,

I think.

I think everybody's capable of it.

You just got to figure out what works

best for you.

And it also works better if you had

a classical education, which, by the way,

I had to teach myself,

and that was learning the trivium and the

quadrivium.

The trivium is basically Latin for three

roads.

It was, in a nutshell, folks,

I probably ought to do an entire show

on that.

It was what was intentionally extracted

from the one-room schoolhouse about a

hundred and fifty years ago.

There was something else that happened

almost exactly at the same time,

but I'll leave that for another time.

But anyway, it was a methodology

where it stood for grammar, logic,

and rhetoric.

And what it was designed to do was

to make autodidacts out of everybody.

That's what all the founding fathers were.

Like them or hate them,

they were all autodidacts.

Everybody up until about a hundred and

fifty years ago were autodidacts because

under a classic education of learning

grammar, logic, and rhetoric,

grammar is asking, let's say you're told,

okay, terrorists did nine eleven.

Well, here's how your brain should work.

A lot of you in the sound of

my voice right now already do it.

You just don't know that you do it.

And it's grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

So grammar is asking the who in this

order, who, what, where, when.

And then the logic is why,

and then the how is the rhetoric.

So who, what, where, when, why, and how,

and you don't get past any of that

if you have any contradictions.

If we were still,

there was a reason why it was

intentionally extracted,

and the one who does, I think,

one of the best jobs about it is

the late John Taylor Gatto,

one of the heroes in my space,

in this space.

And it was intentionally brought out of

schools.

He was teaching it back.

And what does it do?

It produced some of the best people you

could possibly imagine in a culture when

they know how to think for themselves.

So when you put your, think about this,

when you ask who, what, where, when, why,

and how, they're giving you,

if you go watch the news,

go put on Fox News,

Fix News right now, tell me,

tell me something.

Do they ever provide you the who, what,

where, and when?

No,

they always provide you the why and how.

You cannot get there in a classic

education by asking the who, what, where.

Until you get through the who, what,

where, and when,

you don't ask the why and how.

They start with the why.

Right.

They lead.

Yes, son.

That's exactly right.

They start with the why and how.

and um because we're not classically

educated we don't know this stuff but

anyway folks this is also another portion

of education that i had to teach myself

that william had to learn that i had

to teach him and of course once they

get it they're off and running so what

does that create in the society creates a

bunch of thinkers the person wants to work

in a factory that's fine if they don't

well they have the wherewithal to go out

there educate themselves

And they become, in many ways, I think,

lifelong learners.

We got people like Thomas Jefferson

learning Greek just to read one book.

I mean, find that today.

Back then,

they would send people off to a university

to learn advanced Latin and Greek.

Now we send them off to college to

learn remedial English.

This is crazy.

But anyway, son,

I didn't mean to get on my high

horse.

What's up on your day to day?

You could.

Today,

I spent a lot of time driving today.

And anybody who lives in East Texas right

now knows that Texarkana is a complete

mess.

It's like they're doing a bunch of

construction on I-Thirty still,

which they have been since I've known the

existence of Texarkana.

They've been working on I-Thirty.

But now they're actually shutting down

sections of I-Thirty.

And they're trying to make it as

complicated as possible to get around.

Like, you've got to solve...

like puzzle pieces while you're driving

now and also the gps hasn't updated so

it's not like the up the gps is

telling you hey you gotta uh you know

take this detour or whatever um so i

got frustrated with that and then added on

top of the just absolute intentionally

stupid drivers

In this part of Texas,

the absolute dumb drivers.

And also,

I just want to give a PSA because

some people don't think about this.

Some people don't view this as a bad

thing or whatnot.

But you absolutely screw up all of traffic

when you're on an interstate that has,

let's say, a four lane interstate.

So there's two lanes going your direction,

two lanes going the opposite direction.

You completely screw up traffic whenever

you see like up ahead,

there's a semi that's in the passing lane

trying to pass another semi.

Be patient and allow that semi passing the

other semi to actually get back into the

right lane.

As soon as they pass that semi,

you got all these dummies getting into the

right lane,

speeding past this semi in front of us

or just chilling out right next to that

semi.

Just to be right in front of us

instead of like they're not going any

faster because there's a bunch of people

on the interstate.

They ain't going any faster.

They're just one car length ahead of where

they were beforehand.

But you completely screw up that semi

driver by by getting in that right lane

and not allowing him to pass back over.

Believe me,

he wants to get back over as soon

as possible unless he's one of the Indian

semi drivers that absolutely cares not at

all about road rules or anything like

that.

And yeah, so let them pass.

Be patient for just half a second.

Let them pass back into the right lane

and then you can continue on in the

left hand lane.

So there's that.

But instead of getting frustrated today,

just too frustrated,

I noticed myself getting frustrated with

the just the absolute dumb drivers.

I was like, you know what?

I'm going to play a game.

And dad,

I think you're going to be pretty good

at this game.

And what I did was try to guess

the race of the vehicle as I passed

them.

So based on the vehicle,

I tried to guess the race of the

person and gender of who is driving.

Now, dad,

I'm going to throw out a couple of

vehicle making models and you tell me

who's driving.

All right.

So first vehicle,

any colored Nissan Altima.

Who's driving?

Asian.

Nope.

Black people every single time,

every single time.

And they always have a bedazzled license

plate too.

If it's a woman.

All right.

Here's another one.

Any Chevy truck.

Mexico.

Yup.

Every single time.

Okay.

Here's, here's the, here's the last one.

And this one might throw you for a

loop.

Um, any newer model minivan.

Young mom.

You would think, no, around here,

and this might be region specific,

but any young mom around here is driving

every single time a white SUV,

some sort of big SUV.

Even if they got one kid,

they're driving around some Ford Explorer

or Expedition or whatever.

Any...

every minivan, Honda, Toyota,

whatever it is, any newer minivan,

every single time was an Indian woman,

like India, Indian woman.

Yeah.

So it turns out I'm actually pretty good

at this game.

There was only one Chevy truck that, that,

messed me up.

And it was an old, old white,

white dude.

And he was,

it was like an old Chevy truck too.

So yeah.

You can ask your mom, son.

I kind of do a variation of that

game myself.

Maybe I need to look at it as

a game because up until now, I mean,

when you see a, you see an old,

you see a vehicle that's clean and it's

white and it's long and

And you know it's some senior citizen in

there, and they're just creeping along.

But universally,

it seems like everybody has forgotten what

a passing lane is for.

And I'm just floored by some... You know,

it's funny,

you bring up the Mexicans and the...

And the Chevys, because I was joking.

I was kind of kidding around today when

I was talking to Hakeem,

talking about the data centers and how

they're talking about biometric controls

of your vehicles, your bank accounts,

your phones, everything.

And I was talking about how they got

the pilot program for all of that going

on down in Mexico right now.

And I'm like, you know what?

This is perfect.

Mexico could be responsible for the

freedom of all of us.

Because I'm telling you right now,

you ain't going up to some bato named

Little Frog and telling him that he needs

biometric scans to get his shivvy started.

You do that, I'm telling you,

he's going to come out blasting.

I don't care who thinks, look,

New World Order, it could be Delta Force,

man.

You will have that whole country turn

upside down if these vatos can't turn that

Chevy over.

So, look, hey, I'm just keeping it real,

y'all.

There's always going to be somebody that

comes out with a loophole or a way

around it, like Glock, for example.

Glock came out,

like California banned the sale of Glocks

for a period of time or something like

that because people were able to make it

automatic, illegally automatic,

too easily.

So they came out with a new model

called like Glock V or something like

that.

And it was supposed to be difficult.

Like they fixed the problem that allowed

people to make it automatic.

Within fifteen minutes of it coming out,

people already made it automatic.

And they're like posting it on YouTube and

stuff like that.

Yeah.

Within fifteen minutes.

That's what I'm talking about.

Fire Drake brings up something.

I'm sure it was in response to what

I was talking about with the trivium.

Good point.

He says,

lots to learn from the ancient Greek.

Now, check this out.

Here's how important the trivium was,

and I'll just leave it here,

but I do have to point this out,

that if you were a Roman slave,

and it may have applied to the Greeks

as well, I would imagine that it did.

Slavery back then isn't what everybody

thinks it is.

You could purchase your way out of slavery

as you could also in the United States

of amnesia.

Anyway,

The first thing you were required to do

when you purchased your freedom as a slave

was to purchase an education in the

trivium.

That's how important it was.

It's the whole reason why slaves in the

South,

and Gatto also talked about this or wrote

about it, that slaves in the South,

of course,

it was illegal to teach any slave how

to read.

why because they might develop ideas they

might start thinking they might wind up

like frederick douglas who jumped on the

first thing smoking then escaped yeah

that's what might happen all because um

you know the the mistress of the slave

owner with frederick douglas you know in

his autobiography he describes how she

thought it was cute to have him read

and of course the master boy he wasn't

digging that but anyway she did it on

the sly

Well,

it enabled him to be able to say,

okay, I am a slave.

And speaking of which, you know,

Harriet Tubman said,

I freed a thousand slaves and I could

have freed a thousand more if only they

knew they were slaves.

Sound like the United States of Amnesia,

son?

Exactly.

I think it applies more now than it

did then.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more.

Here we are, you know,

teetering on the Fourth of July,

and we've forgotten what actually,

you know, being autodidacts,

it was autodidacts that actually created

this country.

But thank you, Fire Drake,

for pointing that out because the bottom

line is there is a reason why they

don't teach any of us.

And, folks,

if you want an education on it,

I mean,

maybe I'll have to do a show on

it.

Probably ought to.

It might be a little bit heady and

boring for some folks, but...

You know,

we really ought to do that and really

need to,

I'm kind of mowing over my head, honestly.

I'm thinking about all the interests I

have and I'm thinking about, okay,

do I do a history podcast in addition

to what we do now?

Do we do one, you know,

that's all encompassing?

I don't know.

I love what we do here on the

PimpCast and I love talking about

permaculture, but there's so many more,

there's so many things that are going on

right now that are equally as important.

And knowing our history and why you aren't

taught it,

Occulted history, folks.

Occulted just simply means hidden, okay?

Revisionist history is real history.

There's not one thing that you've ever

been taught in your high school about

American history that's true.

I think that's the name of the podcast,

Ed.

Occulted history.

I think that's the name of the podcast.

Also,

people are under the assumption that

slavery was made illegal or abolished.

It was, in fact, the opposite.

They made it absolutely legal with the

Thirteenth Amendment.

They gave parameters on how you can have

slaves, how you can own slaves and stuff.

So that's why a lot of people don't,

I think,

part of the reason why a lot of

people don't realize that they're slaves

now is because they think that was

abolished way back when,

when in fact it wasn't.

It was made completely legal.

Well, now they have a whole different...

This is why I wear that shirt, folks.

I mean,

sorry for those that are going to get

offended by it,

but I'm just telling the truth.

This is why Jack Cruz,

we dropped off a couple of shirts down

there,

and he thought it was the funniest and

cleverest thing ever on that shirt that

says, we all niggas now.

And I'm not saying that to be crass.

It's not another...

version of crass vulgarity i'll save that

for another day but really what it is

is i'm telling the truth because we are

all in digital prisons and just like um

you know that guy who ran for president

uh native american sue indian i believe or

maybe it was navajo he said you know

what america's just one giant indian

reservation we all think we're free and we

live in prisons with bars we can't see

and um honestly part of and and everybody

thinks okay well i can read

Yeah.

Having the ability to read only enables

you to be a higher functioning slave

unless you know whether or not what you

are being taught is,

unless you went through the who, what,

where, when, why, and how.

Like I said, there's a lot of you,

probably most of you in this audience that

naturally do this.

So I probably need to cover this again.

I think we did cover it in one

of the earlier episodes, but we really,

really, really,

to go ahead and cover some of this

stuff because I think it might get a

lot of you guys off and running and

then asking critical questions because

your BS detector is going off,

but you don't know why.

It's good that it's going off and you

know that this politician is lying to you.

But if I see, for example, William,

if I see a guy on a billboard

sign and he's dressed like a doctor with

a stethoscope telling you to take a pill,

what logical fallacy is that?

An appeal to authority.

He never said he was a doctor.

They never told you he was a doctor.

And even if he was a doctor,

it doesn't make his information correct.

The dumbest people I know are doctors.

I should say,

the most indoctrinated people I know are

doctors.

Yeah, but it's an appeal to authority.

Right.

And if you can look at that,

with a little bit of training,

you can look at that.

Or if you hear some politicians say, well,

that's the way we've always done it.

That's appeal to tradition.

Anybody with a classical education would

call them out and know that it was

BS.

Go back to the Lincoln-Douglas debate

between Lincoln and Douglas.

And they're calling each other out on the

logical fallacies and everybody in the

audience knew it.

That's what I'm talking about.

So, yeah,

I'll have to think about putting some time

together and getting that off and running.

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Go ahead.

Real quick, on that note,

I've been meaning to say this,

but my computer is actually propped up on

two boxes of Soil Saviors right now.

You know what?

And speaking of which,

we probably ought to – you know what?

We'll think about doing a giveaway here

before too long.

Yeah,

we need to give some of that stuff

out.

All right.

So good news here.

Four foods with more healthy fat than

avocados data shows.

Now,

we can take some of this maybe with

a grain of salt depending on the source.

So they're telling you sunflower seeds.

um that can be touch and go depending

on i mean i don't know that anybody's

really spraying sunflower seeds but

they're also a bioaccumulator so it might

be helpful to know where those sunflowers

are one of the things you put out

there if you want to get rid of

toxins so i don't know if the bio

accumulates in the seed but i would think

that it might so consider that as well

It depends on your pH.

Depending on your pH is going to determine

whether or not it's going to be available

to your plant.

Maybe do like a simple pH test real

quick just to see kind of where you're

at and then definitely take one.

Like, yeah,

if you're close to four point five,

four point four point five is whenever

it's going to be bioavailable to your

plants.

So that's very, very acidic soil,

but pretty common lately, pretty common,

especially with everything they're

dropping from the sky.

Yeah, here's another one they say here,

and this one you definitely need to take

with a grain of salt because, frankly,

I haven't found a brand that actually

isn't covered in freaking peanut oil,

which I'm allergic to.

I'm not allergic to it.

I'm allergic to the poison, okay?

So Mixed Nuts,

that's one of the ones in there.

You know what I do?

Folks, I kid you not.

I go to some of these,

as far as my mixed nuts go,

if I want to do it that way,

I'll buy Brazil nuts over here,

this over here, that over there.

I'll get all the nuts and I'll put

them in myself or I'll just eat them

individually.

Or the way I do a lot of

it is I put it all in salads.

So I'll buy the nuts individually.

Of course, when they come that way,

nine times out of ten,

there's no salt on them.

But it really doesn't matter when I got

it in a salad anyway.

So to make sure I get the adequate

amount of selenium every day,

I eat at least three Brazil nuts.

And that's how I get it.

Here's one I totally disagree with.

They're saying peanut butter.

Folks, if you knew what's going on,

I just said I was allergic to it.

Finding clean peanuts out there might be a

task.

I don't think I would trust it unless

it was coming from somewhere else.

I would source them from Azure.

I would.

I would as best I can when it

comes to anything like that.

Azure or somebody else that you think is

reliable.

Mike Adams,

you know that he's tested this stuff.

Athlotoxins are going to be a big one

right there.

So especially when it comes to nuts and

legumes or anything like that.

And peanuts are, in fact, a legume.

So you got to be careful of that.

It's a shame, man, because I love peanuts.

And then finally, olive oil.

That's another one, folks.

We've talked before about the honey

industry and how most of the honey,

I don't care what the packaging says

there, y'all.

There is an awesome documentary that was

on Netflix.

I bet it's still there.

I don't recall the name of it,

where they're talking about the honey

industry.

It was one of the things they talked

about.

And, son,

the fake honey that they're sending over

from China is so...

good in terms of being able to replicate

real honey as far as its texture and

all that stuff they have to put it

under a microscope to find out just how

fake it is so anyway olive oil in

so many ways is exactly the same way

years ago michael savage kind of blew the

whistle on the olive oil industry and

believe it or not one of the best

ones out there is the kirkland brand from

uh

From Costco.

Yeah,

it was actually one of the better ones

out there.

So, yeah,

be absolutely sure because a lot of this

oil, it goes rancid,

especially your avocado oil.

You better make sure you're getting that

from a really good source.

Folks,

you can't be too careful these days.

Even a lot of these farmers markets,

like the one in Kansas City at the

River Market,

go there early and see what you find

out.

Half of these people are dressing like

they're Amish and they're not.

And they're pulling stuff out of dole

boxes that you know they didn't grow.

You ain't growing bananas in Kansas City,

okay?

so there's a lot of that going on

so you got to be real careful about

everything you get even from a farmer's

market all right so the next one we

got here simple morning habits that may

reduce reduce chronic inflammation okay

they're going to tell you to eat a

balanced breakfast but the way i do it

i don't eat anything until i see morning

light that's for sure drink plenty of good

filtered water do not drink that stuff

from the tap

Even if it's coming out of a well,

look, I structure that water.

I magnetize it.

I do all of that stuff before we

ever consume it around here.

And I'm on a well.

So just be mindful of that.

Be mindful of the sugar.

Well, they say be mindful of sugar.

If you can, avoid it altogether.

Sugar.

Like my chiropractor says, I mean,

he just calls it what it is, man.

He says it's a poison.

And I tend to agree with him.

I haven't had sugar in some time now,

and I can definitely feel the difference

when I do.

Sometimes you're like, okay, man,

you know what?

I'm going to eat this ice cream,

and I don't care about the consequences,

especially this time of year.

When you're saying sugar,

you're talking about like white table

sugar, right?

You're not talking about like the other

varieties of sugar.

Like, I mean,

the sugar you would find in honey,

for example,

maple syrup or things like that.

Yeah,

it's typically the sugar you're going to

find in the white sugar.

And honestly,

all those sugar fields that we saw down

in El Salvador, folks,

they spray them things like nobody's

business in that little country.

So if they're doing it there,

you better believe they're doing it

everywhere.

And then, of course, the obvious,

reduce stress, move your body.

And then, honestly, they got to hear it,

you know, take in the morning light.

If you can, take in both.

If you can get morning and evening,

that's even better.

And with as little clothes on as possible,

preferably none if you can swing it.

All right,

here's eight natural foods to keep you

cool amid rising temperatures.

It even felt hot here today and yesterday.

I mean, nothing I can't take.

But, you know,

as I'm doing this podcast right now,

I'm upstairs.

We don't have the air conditioner on and

everything.

you know,

by morning it ought to be plenty cool.

So, um, and then if we do the,

you use the air conditioner,

it'll be at night when we sleep,

but during the day we just deal with

it.

And honestly,

you find yourself being accustomed to it.

It,

Gary Brekka has a saying,

and I'm not going to be able to

say it right,

but it's like aging is basically that we

embrace comfort a little too much.

So that's what we want to do.

We want to make things uncomfortable,

and that's part of it.

So anyway, these elections, obviously,

hydration is the body's first defense,

and they're going to talk about some

things here that you might or might not

want to take in.

Another good one is watermelon.

Now, yeah.

I tend to avoid watermelon because of

stereotypical reasons.

I tell you, I like watermelon,

but you ain't going to catch me eating

it out in public.

There's this video of this black dude

who's eating slices.

It's going viral right now,

but he's eating slices of watermelon,

but he's eating, he couldn't be,

it couldn't be like a worse picture to

put on the internet.

If you're trying to convince people he's

eating it, like he'll take,

he's eating a whole slice in one bite.

And he's like sliding the rind across his

face and eating a whole slice in one

bite.

Yeah.

Yeah, let's not try to, you know, cover.

Yeah,

let's not fill every stereotype all in one

video.

You know what I mean?

Anyway, that's number one.

And there's a lot of good stuff in

watermelon as well.

Cucumber, the country,

the crunchy hydration hero is what they

call it.

Um,

also you better be sure about where you're

getting this stuff.

I saw videos not long ago of these

spongy watermelons folks.

I mean, they,

you have got to know what time it

is when it comes to this stuff.

Um, strawberries.

Okay.

Well, I don't know where you're getting,

if you're getting strawberries this time

of year,

I'd like to know where they're getting

them from.

Um,

Because number one,

I guarantee they're not from any

electromagnetic barcode unless you're way

up north.

I don't even know where you're getting

strawberries.

Ours are.

Our June bearing ones are still bearing.

They're still bearing.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, well that,

but I'm talking like store-bought ones.

They're not going to give you June bearing

because they don't ship well and they're

not going to stick around for a while.

I'm meaning if you're buying them off the

shelf somewhere.

You know, coconut water,

but you got to be careful about that

because it's high in deuterium.

And unless you live where coconuts grow,

I would probably avoid it,

but knock yourself out.

Here's what I didn't consider was Greek

yogurt, protein and hydration all in one.

Obviously, lettuce, tomatoes,

anything that's growing in your garden out

there might be a good – you've got

to be careful of the source, bottom line.

And then finally, broth.

Every single day,

Michelle and I drink broth that I make,

and that's a non-negotiable.

That's one of those things that we do

every single day, obviously,

for the collagen.

But I didn't understand that.

I didn't realize, well, you know,

I guess when you look at all the

salt I put in there too, you know,

it's probably going to help in terms of

hydration as well.

So that is definitely a list that

everybody might find helpful this time of

year.

All right.

With that said,

we're going to go to my man,

Eric Sider.

Hey,

Eric Sider here with your PimpCast tip of

the day.

Today's tip, can't stop, won't stop.

I think I'm still recovering from the Dr.

Jane Ruby interview from last week.

It was actually the first time I've ever

listened to her,

which is a perfect example that you never

stop learning.

Stay humble, stay curious,

because you ain't never going to figure it

all out,

and I don't think we're actually supposed

to.

I pretty much agree with her assessment of

our probable future,

especially the fact that most people are

not mentally prepared.

I'd say Americans as a whole are probably

the least mentally prepared of anyone on

the planet.

I might often joke that I can't wait

for collapse so I can stop wasting time

and all this nonsense to stay in society.

But I know the reality is going to

be dark and demonic.

Imagine your loved one being raped and

murdered right in front of you because

that's the reality that comes with

collapse.

I'd recommend watching the movie The Road

with Viggo Mortensen for a bit of a

reality check on that probable future.

But that is all it is,

a probable future.

Nothing is guaranteed,

no one has a crystal ball,

and we always have the chance to change

course.

For me, the solution is simple.

Continue creating a permaculture world for

myself and my community.

No matter what future arrives,

it's the best way to be prepared and

the healthiest and happiest life I can

imagine.

And keep pushing back on those bastards

out there.

As Bill Mollison said,

freedom is only the right to choose your

own chains, not the right to do nothing.

You can find me on YouTube and Instagram

at Eric Sider.

If you're in need of permaculture

t-shirts,

the official pimp gear of this pimp cast,

or remote permaculture consultation and

design, head over to ericsider.com.

And for more information on my

permaculture community group in the

Sacramento area,

head over to permaculturefairoaks.org.

Wow.

How does he do that?

We just got finished talking about the

importance of education.

Every single time it turns out is like

Eric already knew what we were going to

say and he came up with something that

compliments it.

Man, I couldn't agree more.

It's the pattern recognition.

He's able to predict what we're going to

talk about based on past episodes.

That movie, The Road, by the way,

just a disclaimer.

Make sure no kids are in the room

or anything like that because it's a rough

movie and it's definitely a movie you only

watch once.

It's not like you're like, man,

I have a hankering to watch The Road

again.

Let's go watch that again.

Also, the Vigo guy,

his name is always Aragorn.

I don't care what his real name is.

His name is always Aragorn from The Lord

of the Rings.

Yeah, he'll always be that.

I hated that movie, man,

because when you get to the end,

they're like, you know, dude's dead.

Oh, yeah, we've been following y'all.

Well,

why didn't y'all come up here before now?

I mean,

it was like that whole thing ruined the

entire movie for me.

But I, you know,

I do get the point anyway.

Hopefully,

we don't get to that point anytime soon,

although the Roman Empire did.

And guess who's acting like Rome?

Actually, a worse version of it.

Yeah, Mary Jane says,

I planted dual-purpose sorghum for the

first time.

I'm going to try my hand at making

sorghum syrup.

I think that is a fantastic idea.

I've done that before one time.

It is a lot of work.

Well,

it was a one day worth of work

and it did produce a lot.

It really did produce a lot.

So, you know,

we ran it through this little thing that

would squeeze all the juice out.

And then basically you cook it down.

We cooked it down over fire and it

was really,

really a cool process to observe.

So I was glad to have been a

part of it.

It's neat,

but it's definitely something that I would

go maybe buy.

If somebody's locally producing it,

try to buy it or try to get

a sample of it somewhere before you go

into all that work.

Because it's definitely like an acquired

taste.

Some people love it.

I wasn't necessarily the biggest fan of

it.

But yeah,

I would definitely try it before.

Because it is a lot of work and

you get very little...

compared to what you start with like what

the ratio with like maple syrup is like

what fifty to one or something like that

forty to one so if you have forty

gallons you'll get one gallon of finished

product it's it's similar with sorghum

syrup and it is it's technically more than

one day of work because there's a lot

in the processing ahead of time before you

even get to the cook um it sounds

like we're talking about meth but it's

just sorghum syrup

Yeah, that's exactly why.

Because of what you said there, son,

that's why I prefer to do bees out

here.

It's so much less work,

more bang for the buck.

I don't have to boil anything.

Just got to spin it and filter it

and let them go back to work.

And then plus,

we love systems in permaculture that have

multiple functions.

And boy,

you talk about pollinators and a half.

So those bees are getting it done.

And also,

we're one of those rare people around here

that don't give them any sugar water.

You either get loose or get lost around

here, man.

You're either going to make it on your

own supply or you ain't.

Now,

we don't take every single thing away from

them.

We get them through the winter,

and the ones that make it, make it.

The ones that don't, don't.

And also, shelf life with the honey.

Yeah, I'm glad you pointed that out, man.

That is one thing, son.

I'm glad... You know what?

They found honey.

It's the one food on the earth that

does not spoil.

They found it in King Tut's tomb and

they were able to reconstitute it.

I mean, it's still... You know,

it's incredible what...

When you really think about honey in and

of itself, man,

it is truly something else.

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All right.

So reasons every homesteader needs.

What I think is a hidden food forest.

Let me back up for a little bit

and explain it to everybody exactly what

inspired this one.

Years ago,

I used to work at the VA Medical

Center in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Years ago.

And one of the things I did while

I was there was I planted a food

forest back up in the woods where there

was a clearing out there.

And it's probably there to this day.

It was on VA ground.

And I was like, okay, man,

this would be a kind of a neat

clandestine.

And it was also like a plan B

if things ever went sideways.

But I was also kind of learning and

teaching myself at the same time.

Put in a number of apple trees.

I didn't know...

than what I know now about orcharding and

stuff.

So I did probably a lot of things

wrong,

but almost certainly that thing is still

there.

Nobody knows where it is,

or maybe some guys have happened upon it,

but by and large,

most people will walk right past a fruit

tree and not even give a second thought

about it.

So there was plenty of apples out there.

There was a number of other things I

planted out there.

And like I said,

if I'm ever by that way again,

I would like to stop by swing by

and see how it's holding up these days.

Um,

And honestly,

the guys that were doing the mowing and

stuff out there,

I had them working with me to not

mow those trees down.

They just thought it was a cool idea

as well.

Well, we were just talking about the road,

the movie.

We were talking about things going

sideways, talking about all these things.

But folks, I just did a video,

and hopefully it's out tomorrow,

of how to do things in a clandestine

manner,

how you can grow food in plain sight,

and most people are never going to know

it.

So William's come up with a list,

and I've come up with my own,

but right off the bat,

It's insurance against crop failure.

Okay.

Especially if you planted that orchard,

right.

Or that food forest, right.

Um,

I'm talking about a tactical food force

that people can look dead at and nine

times out of ten,

they're not even going to know what it

is.

Um, if you planted this thing, right,

you're not just going to have one cultivar

or cultivated variety of apple.

You're going to have a number of them,

at the very least, early, mid,

and late of everything.

Early apples, mid apples, late apples.

Why?

Because early or late frosts are not going

to wipe you out completely.

Let's say you don't have any of it.

Well,

then you get three different harvests of

apples.

But let's say you get an early and

a late.

Well, at least you got the mid harvest.

That's why, you know,

from a clandestine point of view,

you want to have something that's always

coming up, no matter what it is.

I don't care what, pick the fruit.

If you can get early, mid,

and late of everything,

it's always going to help you out because

annual gardens can fail because of

droughts, floods, pests,

or just downright neglect.

Maybe you had to take on a second

job.

But a mature food forest,

once it's off and running, man,

it's doing most of the work like every

single morning.

Y'all can't even tell you how many I

had to leave so many blueberries this

morning because I have more than enough

that we could eat in a day.

I'm picking blueberries.

I'm picking currants, blackberries,

peaches.

All of it I'm getting right now.

And then, of course,

I told you we drink bone broth every

day.

Well, I'm getting rosemary, thyme,

and oregano every single day fresh,

every single day that I'm getting out

there.

And then as we drive up,

there's other peach trees that need to be

picked.

So, yeah, right off the bat,

it's insurance against crop failure.

Yeah, real quick,

just just in case anybody's new and they

don't really know the difference between a

forest and a orchard,

an orchard is going to be it's basically

based on planting pattern and diversity of

layers, basically.

So an orchard is gonna be planted

basically in rows.

I mean,

most people are familiar with orchards.

Food forest is gonna be mimicking the

planting pattern of a forest where it's

gonna be closer together.

They're not in straight lines and rows or

anything like that.

They're planted according to their layer.

And there's gonna be a bunch of like,

if you look up seven layers of a

forest,

you'll get a pretty good example of what

a,

you'll get a pretty good idea of what

a food forest is.

There's a combination of fruit bearing

trees, support species, medicinal,

all kinds of stuff.

But my number one,

my first one that I'm going to start

off with is that you can actually use

your food forest and screen your

like other things behind the food force.

So you can use it as a visual

barrier for whatever's on the other side

of the food force.

And believe it or not,

you don't need as big of a force

as you think in order to screen what's

on the other side of that food force.

So let's say you had, um, for example,

some,

let's say up against the road between the

road and your house,

you had a food forest there.

And then on your side of the food

force, you had, for example,

maybe some temporary solar panels to

charge a solar generator, um,

Um,

so you can bring it up to the

house and, and power,

whatever you need to,

but nobody's going to be able to see

and keeping in mind that this might be

in like times of discontent or like issues

or anything like that or something like

that.

And you want to,

if you put solar panels out in the

open, people are going to steal it.

Or maybe you just live in Kansas city

and you put solar panels out in the

yard and somebody is going to steal it.

It doesn't even have to be in bad

times or anything like that,

but you can use your food force to

screen, especially once in,

once it's in like a,

when it has leaves on and it's vegetated

and things like that,

you can use it to protect and screen

what's on the other side of that food

forest.

Because most people are not going to take

a second look.

They're going to see green leaves, trees.

They're not going to notice any pattern.

And you can kind of protect them what's

on the other side.

So the actual pattern of the forest is

going to protect the

any from any theft of fruit or food

or anything like that and then a added

bonus you can protect on the other side

as well you could even protect in the

middle of the forest if you wanted to

it could be with what whatever you could

have like a cache box in the middle

of your forest if you wanted to um

and it'd be protected protected visually

on all four sides because it's in the

middle of your food forest all right my

next one here is going to be um

less work every year

I mean,

I talked a minute ago about everybody

struggling.

There's so many people with second and

third jobs just to try to put bread

on the table.

So, you know, of course,

they can drop more bombs.

But unlike an annual garden where you're

going to have to get out there,

you're going to have to put in some

work, some tilling, planting, you know,

weeding, if you do that sort of thing.

You know, perennial,

these systems become more self-sustaining

as they mature, right?

That's the beauty of them.

So let's say you are in the middle

of, you know, okay,

I'm only getting older, okay?

I'm only getting older and so is everybody

else out there.

This is a gift you're giving your future

self.

That's exactly what you're doing when you

think about it.

So if you put it in now,

you put in a little work,

let's say that first five years,

and then when it gets on autopilot,

excuse me,

you can kind of write yourself out of

the script, right?

Now,

your yields are not going to be enormous

like it is in a orchard,

but it could be.

Because like in a case like mine,

with a little bit of snip snip here

and there,

I could turn that food forest into an

orchard.

As it develops, I'm thinking, okay,

you know what?

I really want these blueberries more than

let's say I want those peaches because I

got plenty of those.

So I'm going to favor more sunlight to

let those blueberries get what I think

they ought to get.

But on the edge of everything, believe me,

it's surrounded by nitrogen fixtures or

some silver grass that's on the other side

of the fence.

so you can definitely make this stuff work

but yeah less time as you get older

you can also use your uh food force

this is my point uh you can use

your food force to control like avenues of

approach so let's say you're i mean in

any kind of terrain really but you can

build the forest and then line the edges

give access allow openings wherever

make sense for your property.

But you can also line the edges of

your food forest.

So to inhibit people from just going

through the forest,

you can line the edges with things that

are not pleasant to interact with.

For example, stinging nettle.

That's a pretty quick response.

As soon as you touch stinging nettle,

you know you got into something because it

starts stinging pretty quickly.

You could also do blackberries if you just

want to do

And that's also blackberries are something

in most of the United States is not

going to raise up any eyebrows.

Most people are going to see blackberries

and automatically assume that they're like

wild blackberries because they occurred in

nature pretty frequently.

If you go to any like if you

let a pasture go fallow here in this

part of Texas,

it's

blackberries will be in that succession.

Somewhere along the edge,

somewhere in like a west spot,

blackberries will be in that succession.

So nobody's going to think twice when they

see a patch of blackberries,

but they also know that they ain't going

through that patch of blackberries either.

You could also do things like a...

It's going to be slow growing,

so you'd need enough time ahead of time.

But you could do like a ironwood or

bodark hedge if you wanted to,

in case there might be something like with

vehicles trying to drive through your

forest.

They ain't driving through...

a mature boat archery.

And then another one could be like a

hedge of a honey locust,

if you want it.

Like not the improved versions that are

thornless, but the thorny ones.

Go into the edge of a forest somewhere,

propagate some of the thorniest honey

locust you can find,

and then put those along the edge.

Keep in mind,

there is going to be some maintenance

required with that

Otherwise,

the honey locust will start spreading on

you and then you'll get it in places

that you don't necessarily want it.

And if you're in a more of a

tropical area,

you could also use some clumping bamboo if

you wanted to as well.

Because once that becomes mature,

depending on the size of it,

once it becomes mature and thick,

there's nothing really getting through

that bamboo without you definitely

noticing beforehand.

Yeah, good stuff there, son.

I'm going to say a wildlife habitat.

Now, think about this.

Now,

You're thinking, okay, well,

I got trees and stuff out there,

a food forest that's hidden.

You know what?

Jack Spierko,

he may have been the one that coined

the term,

but let's say you get critters up in

there.

You may have things that you want to

have attract the deer.

Now you got yourself a protein source

that's rolling up in there.

Let's say you got squirrels that are going

to be running up in those nitrogen fixers

or they're trying to steal your fruit.

Hey, whatever the case may be,

I'll eat a squirrel.

I mean, why not?

Eat him,

eat every other thing that rolls up in

there.

and it might be a wildlife corridor that

you want to have i mean also it's

also going to be a place when i'm

talking about that wildlife i'm not just

talking about the stuff you can eat but

the stuff well i guess to a certain

extent you also have the bees will find

that place okay so that's also another

place if it's a hidden off the beaten

path kind of food forest might be a

good place to put your bees as well

depending you know on location it depends

on a number of things

but it might be an ideal location for

your bees because now they don't have as

far to go to get what they need,

and they're going to be centrally located

along with the food that you have out

there.

So one thing could definitely benefit the

other,

and it should in a permaculture system.

Now,

my next point is the food forest does

something that most gardens don't do,

most orchards don't do,

and that's the efficient use of vertical

spaces.

Most people,

whenever they're planting like an orchard

or a garden,

they measure how much space they have

horizontally.

They don't measure it vertically as well.

They don't measure the vertical spaces.

Food forests do use those vertical spaces

super efficiently.

Just within the seven layers of a forest,

you're automatically taking in that

vertical space in mind because your

overstory is gonna occupy up here.

Your understory is gonna occupy like right

here.

Trunk doesn't take up much space.

It's the branching parts that take up the

space.

And that's what you're accounting for in a

food forest.

And that's what you're calculating in.

when you integrate those seven layers of a

forest, eight layers of a forest,

if you want to count fungi.

But it efficiently,

it does something that really few other

growing systems do.

And that's efficiently uses those vertical

spaces.

Yeah, that's, you know, sadly,

I didn't think about that.

So that's a very good point.

I'm going to tell you right here.

I mean, I know this seems obvious,

but I'm going to kind of spell it

out a little bit differently here.

Bottom line, y'all,

it's freedom from the grocery store for a

lot of different things.

Okay, what do you think I would spend?

Okay, let's say the farmer's market.

Because if I go out there, believe me,

that's who I'm trying to support.

I don't want to support big whatever

that's going to be in those grocery

stores.

They don't have the best of everything

anyway.

So anyway,

if you have a reliable farmer's market or

a reliable farmer you can use, okay,

that's always going to be the best way.

If I've got to spend money,

I'm going to spend it with them.

But that's freedom from the grocery store

in so many ways.

Now think of the things I just talked

about.

Do you have any idea what they're charging

for a pint of blueberries?

y'all i i mean this morning alone i

could at least picked up maybe a gallon

or half gallon of blueberries you have any

idea what that costs peaches i'm growing

peaches i guarantee at the farmer's market

this week there's going to be that same

lady out there she's going to have all

of this perfect fruit out there and she's

going to be selling it like hot cakes

sadly when i look at that fruit because

i know what it's supposed to look like

if i don't see blemishes

If I don't see a little bit of

bug damage, if I don't see anything,

I know what they've been doing.

And if they all look the same,

because depending on those trees,

that fruit is going to have a different

shape.

Even though it's all on the same tree,

it's not all going to look exactly the

same.

If it does,

your suspicions ought to go up in any

way.

When I'm talking about freedom from a

grocery store,

even if it's just a little bit, folks,

if you're growing micro greens in your

kitchen, okay,

that's helping a little bit.

If you're growing things out there that

you can forage and eat,

like I'm doing every single morning out

here, like I said,

you can't even buy the stuff of the

quality that I have out here.

The only things being sprayed on them is

what they're dumping out of these planes

from the sky and based on

Based on some of the tech I got

around here, it's probably falling inert.

But if you just calculate every single

morning what I would have paid for those

fresh blueberries that, by the way,

have an electromagnetic barcode

specifically made for me when it's this

local,

I'm eating those blueberries.

I'm eating those currants.

I'm eating those blackberries.

I'm eating those peaches.

And I put everything in a salad along

with all the other things.

That is an electromagnetic barcode that is

specifically designed to me because there

is nothing more local than that.

But anyway,

the big thing is you're saving piles of

money not going to the store.

A little pro tip real quick.

If anybody's looking,

let's say they're going through an orchard

or a food forest or just any kind

of perennial plants, and they're like,

hmm, I wonder which one tastes the best.

Go for the one that the bugs have

either eaten or the rabbit has eaten.

Any fruit that has some bug holes in

it is always going to taste better than

the fruit that doesn't have bug holes.

uh every like strawberries for example i

will always eat the strawberry that the

rabbit took a bite of because it's always

going to be sweeter it's always going to

taste better i don't know if it's because

the rabbit took a bite of it or

the rabbit just knew which one was going

to be the tastiest uh but they just

a little pro tip test it out yourself

if you want to like with pears

Get one that has no bug holes at

all.

And then get one that has a couple

of bug holes.

And you will notice a like the one

with the bug holes is so much sweeter.

It's far better.

But my next point is more yield per

square foot.

You have a higher yield per square foot.

And keep in mind,

yield is think of it as profit.

Right.

You have to take your calories in.

and subtract it from the calories out of

a system.

So if you have to, the more,

and it can be simplified like this.

If you have to maintain a system more,

you're cutting into your yield.

If you have to walk around more to

harvest a variety of things,

then it cuts into your yield.

The more calories you have to put into

a system,

um the lower your yield is and you

don't actually get a yield until you

produce more calories in that system than

what you put into that system so keep

that in mind you have a higher yield

per square foot you have more production

per square foot as well because let's say

you have just like you're going with the

standard uh orchard model you have one

apple tree and you're only getting your

only yield is that one apple tree in

the same footprint in a food forest model

you could put blueberries there you could

do depending on your climate you could do

climbing yams you could do uh

beans.

You could do climbing beans if you're in

a cooler climate or more temperate

climate.

You could do sweet potatoes just three or

four feet away from it.

Let those vines climb up the tree if

you want to,

which is to harvest the tuber and the

leaves.

You could do blueberries.

You could do a ground cover of

strawberries.

You could also put some rosemary to season

the food with.

Anyway, it's higher yield per square foot,

less calories burned in the harvest as

well.

Glad you pointed that out, son,

because it comes down to dollars and cents

in a different way,

but that's something I think a lot of

folks would neglect.

My last one's gonna be,

it's a living legacy in so many different

ways.

It can be a monument,

not necessarily for a living legacy to me,

but I'm saying a monument

of what people could replicate.

Future generations.

You know,

you go down to places like El Salvador,

there's food forests everywhere and nobody

really cares.

You take ten feet into any woods or

jungle down there, trust me,

you're going to walk out in twenty minutes

with about two hundred dollars worth of

food.

I mean, just in avocados alone,

you can do that.

Mangoes, you name it.

It comes easy in a place like that.

Fat, I always tell everybody,

fat is the hardest thing to find in

nature.

And that's true unless you live in the

tropics.

And that's one of the easiest things to

find in nature,

which could be so beneficial in so many

different ways.

But here,

when you think about a living legacy

system,

I could put in a chestnut tree that

my great, great, great grandchildren grew.

could benefit from.

There's a lot of fruit trees out there.

There's a lot of fruit trees that will

last that are long-lived.

Maybe not peaches so much,

but a lot of apple varieties around there

that have been around a long, long time.

And then you'll find that when one tree

dies,

once you set these systems in there to

become mature, well,

it becomes a self-licking ice cream cone

after a while.

And then sooner or later,

that fruit drops.

Like they always say, it's a cliche,

but it's true that a new forest rises

on an old one.

And it can be the same.

That's why it's called a food forest.

Because sooner or later,

let's say it's neglected and you had to

walk away.

Well, it's on autopilot for a long,

long time after that.

And depending on the trees you choose,

it could be many,

many generations down the road.

But honestly,

after you're dead and gone and you moved

on, it could also be, gee.

It's a way of speaking to your progeny,

to your kids and grandkids,

great-grandkids, long after you're gone.

It's a way of saying, hey,

I loved you so much that I put

this in here so you could benefit from

it.

All right, so what's your last one?

Now, on that note, I mean,

just to prove the point that I mean,

that it is that it does work that

way.

I mean,

everybody in Central and South America and

any kind of forests are still benefiting

from the forest that the original

indigenous people are.

They put in place like the ratio of

fruit production to support species is

way, way off.

The fruit production is way higher than

what it typically should be.

Um, just, I mean,

like those fruits are now part of the

seed bank everywhere.

So you literally have mangoes.

Like if you let, if they let those,

uh, uh, sweet potato or not sweet potato,

uh, uh, sugar cane fields,

if they let them go follow,

there will be fruit producing trees that

pop up in a higher ratio than really

anywhere else in the world,

as far as I know.

Um, but my last one, um,

is going to be that it's harder to

mess up than a garden.

If you follow two rules,

plant in the dormant season,

don't plant them too deep,

don't plant the trees too deep.

If you follow those three rules,

add mulch,

which the tree will eventually mulch

itself anyway.

If you follow those two rules,

it's hard to fail,

as opposed to the multiple rules that

people think they have to apply to a

traditional annual garden.

It's really hard.

People are

I think people are more nervous about it

because it looks like it's a higher

investment at first because of the cost of

the trees they're digging holes.

It's more of a permanent thing than an

annual garden.

So people are a little bit put off,

not off,

but they're a little bit more nervous

about it at first.

But I mean, it's, it's,

harder to mess up than a garden.

I can go outside right now,

plant five trees very poorly.

If I planted five trees right now outside,

I bet, and I did nothing else.

I didn't mulch them.

All I did was put them in the

ground.

I bet at least one of those trees

survives not even doing it correctly.

Plant in the dormant season, mulch a tree,

don't plant it too deeply,

and you're going to be good to go.

Yeah,

I can't wait till we can do something

of a call-in show, man.

Some of the comments here, I mean,

just fantastic stuff, man.

Man, I love this crowd.

Cloves, very good as well.

Mustard, too.

Mulberries, the giving plant.

Man,

I can't even believe I didn't even think

of that one to put in here.

That's a good one.

Chestnuts and walnuts.

I mean,

there are so many other things out there.

But, man,

it's kind of cool that we're here in

the company.

I just wish that, man,

I just wish I had twenty more hours

in every day.

Like Five Dragonfly says,

I would love for you to do a

podcast per week about occulted history.

I'll tell you what,

I think I'll have to do another podcast.

Maybe I can do a piece of that

right now to kind of test drive it,

but that's one podcast.

I've been really, you know,

everybody asks, well,

what do you do in your spare time?

Folks, that's what I do.

I don't, first of all,

have any spare time.

Maybe out of every day,

there may be one hour of a day

where I'm actually kind of chilling out,

Michelle, too.

This time of year, y'all,

we are up at dawn,

and we're still a lot of times kicking

right after.

It's all hands on deck this time of

year just to try to stay ahead or

just keep your head above water.

But that's one thing I would really love

to do is to do, like William said,

I didn't realize that would be the name

of it,

or maybe a Culted History podcast where we

bring on people and talk about all these

things that they thought were true that

aren't.

And that's one of the things I like

to study and find out because I hate

feeling like a chump.

You know,

there were some things that happened in my

biological family growing up.

And when I did find out what the

truth was,

I felt like a complete freaking idiot.

when I found out what should have been

obvious to me,

and I think that's why I hate so

much being lied to from the people that

tell us our history,

because a lot of it,

most of it is a lie.

But I don't know if that makes sense

for a Permaculture Pimpcast.

Maybe I do another podcast.

Just don't know where I'm going to find

the time because it's just all hands on

deck.

It's almost something because I got so

much of it right up here that I

could probably pick a topic.

and go full steam ahead on it.

Maybe it's something I kick off in the

winter where maybe I have a little more

time,

but that would definitely be- You don't

have more time in the winter, Dad.

Okay, this is the cycle of Dad.

He always thinks he's going to have more

time in the winter.

He has never not once ever had more

time in the winter.

That's true.

That is true.

I mean, yeah,

I don't rest like a lot of people

do, and maybe I should.

But and Joel has often talked about why

some of the best ideas come out of

the north because they of the extreme

north,

because they are forced to slow down.

You know,

there's no way you're working in those

conditions.

So, yeah,

I might have to I might have to

give that some serious thought because

there's interest out there that I would

love to really exploit.

I don't think it's going to take as

much time as maybe you're thinking it is.

Because of the nature of the podcast,

you could do a series.

Come up with a time limit for each

episode, whether it be an hour,

hour and a half,

half an hour or whatever you want to

do come up with that and then do

like a topic and break it up into

those time segments as needed and and like

you can kind of go throughout history as

well you don't have to do like current

events either during this podcast I think

it's a I think I think yeah you

should definitely do that dad that's

probably the most requested topic on this

podcast is you getting into some of the

history

You know,

I cover a lot of this stuff off

the top of my head and I'm trying

to think about how to make that coherent.

I know I could get it done because

that would truly be a labor of love.

Everybody has their hobbies.

That's one of mine.

And folks, if I was thinking, son,

I'm telling you, man,

I was really thinking about peeing in

everybody's post toasties and giving them

an alternative history of Fourth of July,

at least the way John Adams saw it.

And

I don't know if that's something I'll do

Sunday morning or not.

It's something I really need to think

about it.

Do it.

All right.

Well, I got a meeting.

I have to be at,

at seven o'clock y'all.

But Hey,

I want to thank everybody in the chat

today.

Thank you for so much for having our

backs and being in on this thing.

It's a,

It's a real joy to be able to

do this and to have the opportunity to

do it.

And it breaks up the day a little

bit before I go back out here and

go water these worms and everything else I

got to get done.

I know everybody else is busy as well.

Yeah,

so sorry if I don't get any of

your questions right now.

I got somewhere I gots to be.

Look, y'all,

thank you so much for your word and

your blessing.

We pray for y'all.

Till next time, stay alert.

Stay alive.

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