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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
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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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