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How are you doing, son?

Pretty good.

You were talking about lightning earlier.

Weird thing happened earlier today when I

was at the I got a new phone.

So hopefully the phone issues go away here

after today.

But while I was at the phone store,

it's clear sky.

I think I mean, well,

their version of clear sky.

I think there may have been like a

handful of clouds.

By no means was there a storm anywhere

near us.

And we were here in Thunder inside the

Verizon store.

while they were trying or inside the phone

store while they were trying to like do

the adjustments and all that stuff to the

phones to the point like we kept hearing

it like i went outside to go look

to see what was happening but we kept

hearing thunder it wasn't like there was

any kind of heavy equipment construction

going on there was nothing going on it's

right next to walmart it's not like

anything was going on at walmart and it

wasn't like anybody was blowing tannerite

up uh in the distance because i mean

it was in the middle of town um

Yeah, it was weird.

We kept hearing thunder and I wasn't the

only one.

Everybody else in the store heard it and

it was just bizarre.

But unlike everybody else, I mean,

everybody else just kind of heard it and

then didn't really think twice of it and

probably won't make much of it, you know,

as their day goes on.

But it was weird.

It was really weird.

I mean, no rain clouds in sight,

nothing like that.

Not a single one.

No.

At best,

it had the clouds that come after

everything dissipates a little bit.

It's like a hazy blanket, really.

But you can still see blue past it

and everything.

No solid rain clouds, nothing.

It was weird.

Yeah, I'm not at all surprised, man.

We had some weird stuff going on here

today.

I might as well just cover that since

we're going to delve into the weird stuff.

Son,

you can ask your mom if I'm lying.

I was on the front porch trying to

prep this show, I think.

And your mom was in the house doing

something in the kitchen.

And then in the distance,

we could hear this loud propeller noise of

a very large plane that was going

overhead.

I mean, you could tell it was coming.

And it was like,

I remember when I was at Fort Bragg,

A lot of the pilots out there would

be the ones dumping us out of those

planes where we'd jump out.

So at times they would do nap of

the earth,

meaning that they would fly relatively

low.

We've had C one thirties fly over this

thing before, but never, I mean,

you can ask your mom,

I could look up and I could literally

tell that was a C one thirties and

we're not at the top of the mountain,

but I've never seen a plane this low

anywhere.

And I haven't seen a helicopter.

I don't think this low.

I was flying around here.

Yeah, flew directly over the house.

You could hear it buzz.

And I'm like,

I'm waiting for this thing to crash

because it was really that low.

And so went out there and looked, okay,

that was very, very weird.

Folks, when I say low,

we live in the flipping mountains.

There's another thousand feet above me on

this mountain.

So you wouldn't think that they'd be down

in the valley part where the mountains

meet.

So that's exactly where they are.

How this thing didn't crash.

I do not know.

Um,

why is there so much like military plane

activity near you?

Like there's,

I remember I've seen jets out there.

I've seen helicopters out there.

I've seen a bunch of helicopters out

there.

I've seen C one thirties out there,

but there's all kinds.

Is it because you're so close to brag?

Yeah.

I guess.

Well, that's part of it.

And then also Robin Sage is where you,

everybody says special forces, meaning,

you know, no matter the branch,

there's only one special forces y'all.

And that's the green berets.

Everybody else is not special forces,

even though they kind of use it as

a generic term.

The Special Forces are the Green Berets in

the Army,

and they train at a place called Robin

Sage.

For all the guys that are breaking out

about to become full-fledged Green Berets,

they do their training missions over

there.

It's a pretty large area.

And also, you got Fort Bragg,

and you have a lot of the drop

zones on Fort Bragg.

You have drop zones there that are named

after...

major drop zones in World War II.

You got Sisley, Salerno.

I mean, shoot,

all the drop zones that were used in

World War II where paratroopers jumped

out, that's what they got at Fort Bragg.

And so before they actually,

when you load up on the plane on

Pope Air Force Base,

you get in there and it's agonizing

because you go up and then when they

come down, everybody has to pee.

Your number one motive for jumping out of

that plane is Boyle's Law, right?

Because when they were up high,

it didn't bother you so much.

But when they come down, now your bladder,

you're feeling the effects of it.

So anyway,

they do all this stuff because these

pilots want to get in their hours.

Remember,

Colonel told me this once when I was

at Bragg.

They want to get in their hours.

So they're flying nap of the earth.

They're doing all this kind of crazy

stuff.

So that may be part of it,

but I've never,

ever seen a plane this low in the

mountains.

They usually don't play that kind of game.

I mean, not here.

It's usually,

you can tell when they're low,

but it's never this low.

And I was looking and seeing, okay, well,

they drop any junk out of the sky.

Who even knows?

But anyway, yeah,

that was our strange deal for today.

So you have weird thunder out there,

and we got planes,

C- first

Just flying nap of the earth.

Yeah,

a lot of it I think has to

do with Fort Bragg,

but the direction of travel is nowhere

near coming from Bragg.

Well, in this case it was,

but in a lot of places we're seeing

it go north and south.

Bragg is to the east of us.

So it may be part of a larger

scheme.

These days you don't even know.

You don't even know.

I mean, I put in that new device,

and I'm wondering if we weren't going to

get some helicopter activity because I had

another person reach out to me.

Yeah,

I stuck that other device in the ground.

And for those that don't know,

it's the Agriculture X. Now,

you know about the first one,

the Agriculture X.

that we stuck in the ground and then

i went ahead and got the agriculture

shield which is considerably larger we

stuck that in the ground and i'm like

okay i've gotten reports from other people

telling me that they had some weird you

know black helicopter kind of stuff flying

over

Um,

maybe that stuff has happened when we

weren't here,

but so far we haven't seen any of

that.

Only weird air activity has come from C

one thirties flying over way, way,

way too low.

So, um, yeah,

you punched a hole in the roof and

they're like trying to figure out how to

patch this.

Yeah.

That's what's going on.

I wasn't going to say a whole lot

about it.

I wasn't going to say a whole lot

about it.

And by the way,

I haven't talked to William about this,

but I think we're going to have to

start putting the pimp cast on the pimp

cast channel on YouTube and also on, uh,

on rumble instead of doing it on a

regular youtube channel so folks subscribe

over there check it out because that's

where i think we're going to have to

start doing it because now youtube is

playing games every single time we put up

one of these videos mysteriously right at

a hundred people just jump off unsubscribe

how about that son are you experiencing

any of that

I mean, well,

it would be one thing if you did

it out of the normal topic of your

channel.

Like it's one thing if like,

let's say you have a channel talking about

like,

three D printing or something like that.

And then you do like a front porch

talk similar to what dad is.

Dad's been doing.

and that's like a one-off,

and then you have a bunch of people

dropping off.

But at this point, your followers,

your subscribers,

have to understand at least what this

channel's about.

You know what I mean?

So it's not like they would have signed

off thinking it was about something else

and then signed back off because then they

saw one of your front porch talks.

It would make sense if it happened at

first and it was a one-off thing,

but the fact that you do these every

Sunday and still people are dropping off

every Sunday, that doesn't make any sense.

Other than...

It's not Sunday, son.

It's whenever we go live,

whenever we do these podcasts is the only

time.

I don't have any problem otherwise.

It's whenever we do this right at about

a hundred people.

And folks,

I don't care about subscriptions.

I never have.

I mean,

that's really not my motive for any of

this stuff.

But there may be people out there that

legitimately want this information.

I'm afraid we're just going to have to

do it on the PimpCast channel and on

Rumble.

And then we can give you reminders,

I think, through here,

through the community notes.

I'm not sure exactly how to do that.

And we're always like, keep in mind,

we're always on every audio platform

available, anything,

anywhere you could listen to podcasts.

You can, you can always listen to the,

to the pimp cast and stuff.

And I think there's a way to do

video podcasting on Spotify as well.

I'm not entirely sure if you just link

in this YouTube live stream or from

whether it's from here or the pimp cast

channel or whatever.

Um,

I don't know if you just link that

and,

or if you have to

upload it separately,

but you can always find us on every

audio platform.

So there's that.

So go check us out there.

So some other things going on every single

day, son, I know it's crazy.

Everybody in the Western States are being,

you know, really,

really beat up by a drought,

which I fully believe is one hundred

percent engineered and

talking to Dane Wigington, you know,

it's kind of, man, it's pretty cool, man,

to be able,

that's one thing I love about this

podcast.

It has opened the door in so many

ways to people that ordinarily I would not

be able to approach.

So Dane and I have become pretty good

friends.

And anyway,

everything out West is still in drought.

I mean,

we got Europe just burning down left and

right, looking like Rome and, you know,

ancient Rome just walked all over it.

like Scipio in North Africa.

And, um, out here,

some we're getting rain just about,

honestly,

it seems like every single day we're

getting a rainstorm.

Now I know we live in a,

in a, you know,

temperate rainforest and stuff like this,

but this seems, I mean,

let yesterday it was coming down like cats

and dogs.

And I will say that device, I mean,

despite it being a thunderstorm,

it wasn't over us.

I mean, it wasn't anywhere around us,

but you could hear it in the distance.

Um,

Yeah, so rain every single day.

Other things we got going on around here.

Well, you know,

we're eating the food we grow.

That's exactly what I'm trying to get

everybody else to do out here.

And I know a lot of you are

doing it.

But yeah, we got spinach.

You know,

we're pulling that up out of there.

Cucumbers.

I finally got my first pear off a

tree today.

So we'll be getting a pretty good bumper

crop, I think,

of Asian pears and then some Anjou pears.

And then a number of others.

So pairs, you know, I love those.

So no complaints in that department.

And then also started,

I can't wait to show everybody what I

got going here.

I got, you know, beds full of beats.

And I'm eating for performance these days,

folks.

I really am.

Maybe a little bit too much because I'm

looking at my weight.

I mean, the last time I weighed myself,

I was about one eighty.

Today I weighed myself.

I was one sixty three.

I was last time I was one sixty

three, man.

I had to go get your mom scale

because I'm like, man,

what is going on here?

Yeah, dad,

you got to put on more weight.

Yeah.

I mean,

there was a time I was walking around

at two forty.

So, I mean, yeah,

not in the best shape ever,

but here I am at one sixty three

and I'm like, man,

what is going on here?

So I told your mom, OK, man,

I'm just going to have to start working

out,

putting on some muscle and stuff like this

because I'm becoming a little bit frail

around here,

a little bit too bony for my frame,

I think.

Yeah, your friend,

you need to be bigger for your frame.

Your frame is too big to be one

sixty right now.

Yeah, I'm like one sixty three.

And I'm like, man,

but this thing tells you your visceral

fat, your subcutaneous fat.

I mean,

my visceral fat last time I checked,

it was I mean, it was for me,

it was it was like nineteen something

today.

It was like six, which is really,

really good.

Yeah.

Most people are not even close to that.

But I'm going to be doing some experiments

to see how low I can actually get

that,

but at the same time put on some

real muscle at the same time.

So I'm going to be a hurting unit

tomorrow when – yeah, I started today,

but I'm also going to – I'm struggling

a little bit because ever since I started

discovering fasting –

One of the problems I've been having is

that I really don't eat much anymore.

Anybody that knew me from back in the

day knew I could clear a table.

And once I really, you know,

really understood the whole thing of

fasting,

I might eat once or twice a day,

not even really think about it.

So what I'm going to do,

this is experiment I'm going to do.

And I got it from Tom DeLauer,

I think.

So you basically fast once a week,

thirty six hours,

and then you eat anything you want any

every other day that week for the within

reason.

I mean,

you're not going to go on an all

ice cream diet or you shouldn't.

Or let's say you don't do a thirty

six hour fast.

Maybe you do two twenty four hour fast.

And what this is supposed to do over

a six week time,

just doing this for six weeks,

is that it should reset everything in your

body.

So I'm going to look to do that

and then really try to get in a

number of other calories.

But me walking around at one sixty three,

man, that I asked your mom, I said,

maybe the scale of mine is busted.

I said, where's yours?

And it's at one sixty two.

So I'm like, OK,

it's got to be one of these guys

got to be right.

Yeah,

you're getting close to the victim weight

category.

You got to get that weight.

Yeah,

I just got to get some muscle on

because I haven't done any weight training

in a long, long time.

But I started today,

and I'm going to be hopping and popping

on that.

So some other things we got going.

Yeah, soil saviors, man.

One day I'll put it in the high

tunnel,

and then the other day I'll put it

up here.

And then switching back and forth.

One week I'll do soil saviors.

The other week it's going to be a

biocomplete compost sun.

I will say, though,

I had a lamb that I had to

put down, or no, it died.

Um, it was his bottle baby that died.

I don't know,

maybe a month and a half ago,

maybe not that long,

but I stuck him in the compost pile,

man.

That pile is so doggone active, man.

There ain't nothing but a pile of bones

left in there.

I mean, that's, that's pretty good.

Yeah, I mean,

this pile is uber active in a big,

big way.

So, yeah, be using that stuff.

I need to look at it under the

microscope or better still have your mom

do it if she can.

Do any other things around here?

You know, folks,

for the ones that are thinking about, hey,

do I want this lifestyle?

Remember, repetitive things.

You know, you see these videos out there,

people doing really cool things in the

farm space.

Sadly,

a lot of it is fake or not

legit.

But the things they never talk about are

the tasks that you do every single day.

And for me right now,

this time of year is cutting down that

wheat, that, you know,

breaking out the weed eater and cutting

down silver grass in the places where it

isn't supposed to be.

In fact,

anywhere on this proper property is where

it isn't supposed to be.

Had I had time to really stay on

top of it,

I would have been using the soil savers

and the biocomplete compost back to back

to back to back because the areas where

I've done that, guess what?

It ain't coming back.

So I need to really get hot on

that.

And then other things that we're doing is

we're planting fall stuff out here.

Got beets in the ground.

Remember,

we all we're at three thousand feet so

we can get away with some of that

stuff.

So we got we got beets from seed.

I got them going out there.

And of course, also,

what else do I have?

Oh,

your mom planted some bush beans like two

rows.

And so in between, what am I doing?

planting microgreens.

I don't know why more people aren't doing

this.

I guess I'm the one to come up

with the idea.

I mean,

I haven't seen anybody else do it.

But in the rows, in between the rows,

folks, okay,

I don't know what they're charging for one

of those little plastic containers of

microgreens at the farmer's market.

I want to say, doggone it,

I want to say it's close to ten

bucks.

Ten bucks.

I want to say it's somewhere around,

maybe it might even be twelve.

Anyway,

Why would you go out there and buy

that from an inert medium when you could

go ahead and plant your own microgreens

and they're going to be astonishingly

awesome,

better than anything you could find even

at a place like that because you're

growing it in a sterile medium.

Why not grow microgreens in between your

rows?

And then while you're waiting on the

beans,

which are going to take sixty days to

come up.

Okay, while I'm waiting on that,

I'll be eating up these microgreens in

between the rows, which, by the way,

it's a living, I mean,

it is working beautifully as a living

mulch down there where you can do like

Eric Sider did where he's taking half of

his worm bin, growing microgreens in it,

and then letting the worms have the other

side.

So, you know,

I think it's the best of both worlds.

I can't believe nobody's ever done that

before,

but I'll keep everybody abreast of what's

going on there.

Sorry to go along so long, son,

but what's going on in your world?

No, you're fine.

Well,

I think the reason most people don't do

that is because it requires daily

maintenance and harvest every single day.

Most people just aren't used to going out

there and harvesting what they're going to

eat for the day from the garden.

And I think that's why most people don't

go the microgreens route.

And now, as far as my place goes,

it is impossible to do microgreens right

now because this sun...

is so doggone intense.

The garden is in limbo right now.

We still have plenty of tomatoes and

peppers and we have sweet potatoes and

watermelons and cantaloupes and all kinds

of stuff growing.

It's just the beds that I cleared out

before are kind of in,

they just have a cover crop

growing right now like whatever popped up

after i cleared out the bed is staying

there until we get past this really hot

phase for a minute so probably end of

august going into september once we start

getting shorter days so it's still going

to be as hot it's just going to

be shorter so the plants are having to

deal with as long of a hot day

um less evaporation less heat stress and

stuff like that

That's when I'll put in like stuff for

the fall garden.

But yeah, for right now,

we just got tomatoes, peppers,

sweet potato.

I have some I have a bunch of

potatoes and need to go harvest.

I'm just kind of in a debate right

now of like some of the potatoes that

I have in forty foot rows out at

the demonstration site.

What I'm thinking is if I go through

there and harvest the potatoes,

then I have a bunch of exposed soil

in this very, very intense heat right now.

It's not even that it's super hot.

It's just the sun is very,

very intense right now.

You can even see it on plants like

moringa.

My moringa has been slightly wilting in

the full sun here lately.

Speaking of moringa,

that thing has been blowing up lately.

Last time I was out of town...

I shut off the water,

the automatic watering system out there,

because it was basically raining every

single day.

And earlier this year,

I made the mistake of leaving it on

while it was raining,

and then I had some anaerobic side effects

and stuff like that.

So I turned it off while I was

out of town because it was raining pretty

consistently.

And then since I came back,

it hasn't really rained at all since

coming back,

and I haven't turned the watering system

back on.

And you can see that everything is...

it's pretty it's getting abused out there

the garden the plants the grass all that

type of stuff is getting abused right now

even one of the elm trees that i

have in the back granted they drop leaves

first but they shouldn't be trying to drop

leaves right now and i got leaves falling

off that elm tree in the back so

yeah there's some

And I haven't remediated the soil around

the elm tree.

So there's that aspect, too.

But there's some crazy things going on

with the very, very intense sun right now.

So there's that.

Dane Wigington talks a lot about that.

And even Eric Sider was talking about it,

that it feels so many people are

complaining that it feels like it's

cooking you on the inside.

And the reason why is because of this

lensing effect.

from the garbage they're dropping from the

sky.

Now I will say that here on this

property,

I'm not experiencing any of that like we

did before,

because these devices seem to be actually

working.

So we don't have any of that lensing

effect so far anyway,

maybe I shouldn't have said that out loud.

But if you go to other places,

you feel it,

and that's exactly what's happening.

This particulate matter that they're

dropping

takes the the focal point of the sun

and then acts like a magnifying glass to

so many different people hey thanks for

that thanks for that kind word uh nancy

and she also says my family is finally

realizing they need to call me before

produce shopping and like she said hit

that thumbs up no nancy i think that's

a beautiful place to be

And you're going to be an inspiration,

I think, to everybody else out there.

Okay, you like what I'm giving you here?

Hey, it ain't that difficult, man.

You can do it at your house.

I mean, it's little things like this.

And I think big things.

Because we are definitely heading towards

crisis in terms of our diesel fuel.

There are people talking about it.

You're just never going to hear it on

Fix News or MSNBC.

You're never going to hear it in any

of these places.

But...

everybody needs to encourage everybody

else, um,

to do victory gardens in every possible

way imaginable.

Um,

And I mean, at this point,

it's almost instead of victory gardens,

they're going to label them criminal

gardens.

Speaking of that,

you said at the beginning of the podcast,

my partner in crime, dad,

we're about to for real be partners in

crime this November.

Once they start practicing the Noahide

laws of the same month that they're doing

the draft,

we're going to have some problems.

Yeah.

Well, I'm not going to have any problems.

You're not going to have any problems.

I mean, you're outside the age range.

I'm not talking about the draft part.

I'm talking about the things we've said on

this podcast and them starting to get into

the Noahide.

We've had the Noahide laws for,

what was it, since the, like,

the eighties or nineties or something like

that?

Well, passively.

Yeah.

Passively.

Yeah.

Now they're... Go ahead.

No, no.

Go ahead, son.

All I was saying was, like,

now they're going to be...

What seems to be maybe implementing,

they're going to be looking at it,

maybe implementing some of the Noahide

laws this November, something like that.

But that's not going to be good for

anybody.

No,

that's exactly where we are right now in

the continuum.

But I'll tell you what I've done,

and I kind of alluded to it in

my front porch talk,

is I'll tell you what I've really done.

And folks, I mean, if you know me,

you know how big a deal this is

for me to not do it.

I have sequestered myself away from any

kind of social media outside of answering

questions from YouTube videos or something

like that.

Or maybe I'm watching the YouTube.

Believe me,

if I'm watching any YouTube videos,

it's not political of nature.

It's not any of that in nature.

All it is.

All I'm watching are things that,

you know, like, you know, Tom DeLauer,

like I was saying a moment ago,

things having to do with health and how

to improve your health and, you know,

tips and tricks and whatever,

stuff like that.

Because I think it honestly goes hand in

hand because you just can't grow a simple

garden anymore.

That's just not enough.

You got to know how to chelate this

junk out of you.

We got your mom working with one doctor,

and then we got me doing Morley's,

Morley Robbins, folks,

if you haven't heard him.

You need to go on here and check

it out.

And William,

I'm going to give you some suggestions

after the show regarding a couple of

things that I've discovered.

If you haven't checked out Morley Robbins,

y'all,

you're not going to see it on YouTube.

Go check it out on.

What is it?

Rumble?

Yeah, we got it on Rumble.

Go check out Rumble.

And he even left his phone number at

the end of it.

And he is encouraging people.

to call him up.

There's been a number of people that have

reached out already and said, man,

I can't believe this guy actually answers

the phone.

I mean,

he is world renowned and he's a regular

schmo just like the rest of us out

there.

He just had a problem he wanted fixed.

And anyway,

On that,

if the number if anybody wants his number,

I still got it written down here.

It's a eight, four, seven, nine, two, two,

eight, zero, six, one.

If somebody could type that in the chat,

I'm not signed in on anything on YouTube

just yet.

But eight, four, seven, nine, two, two,

eight, zero, six, one.

And it sounds like we're doxing the dude.

That's not it at all.

He wants people to have his number and

he wants people to reach out so he

can help you with whatever issues you got

going on.

Like my wife has talked to him.

three times so far just in just related

to like the,

her being pregnant and everything.

And he's more than happy to help and

direct you where,

where to go and what to do and

where to get stuff from.

Yeah.

He's, he's really extraordinary at that,

but I'm doing, I'm doing his protocol.

Your mom's doing this other doctor who I'm

going to have on later this month.

And like I said, y'all,

I'm trying to come up with a unified

field theory of the things that are going

to chelate the junk out of us,

number one, keep us healthy,

and a protocol that isn't so convoluted

that nobody can follow it.

That's what I'm trying to come up with.

It's exactly what we did, Sam,

when we came up with our model for

a food forest.

We cut and pasted all the very best

of all the best out there.

How nobody has ever done that before was

astonishing to me.

And we've done it with every other system

that we have out here and it has

worked extraordinarily.

And that's exactly what I'm trying to come

up with because there's a little more

I was a little more involved here.

I feel like I got the good framework,

but that's exactly why we're doing the

experiments that we are to find out

exactly what we can do to keep us,

I mean, in this world of toxicity,

whether it's the EMFs,

whether it's the stuff they're dropping

from the sky,

that things are putting in the food and

the water, all that stuff.

All of this means nothing.

Believe me,

there is nothing I'd rather talk about in

every single show than permaculture.

There's nothing I'd rather talk about

more.

But you'll notice that we've taken more of

a preparedness slant in a lot of what's

going on because I know a lot of

other people aren't paying attention.

And that's where, and, you know,

put bookends on that thing,

is I am in the news these days

maybe thirty minutes out of a day.

Thirty minutes.

I can find out what it is I

need to know,

and then I go back to putting positive

things in me.

And I'm telling you,

it has made a big, big difference.

Staying on my knees.

Every time I drink water, y'all,

every single time I get on my knees

and I thank the Lord.

It's a way to increase.

I came up with that one a while

ago.

It was stacking functions.

Okay, I got to drink water anyway,

but why not take every single time I

drink water to get on my knees and

pray?

So it's it's therapy and it's stacking

functions.

It's doing a whole lot of things all

at the same time.

But I'm finding out things work a whole

lot better when I don't hear five versions

of the same story.

Look, I'm ready.

I'm ready to rock and roll no matter

which way this thing goes.

So I don't need to be inundated with

it all the time.

But

Got to have one foot in there to

know what's going on and know exactly how

to zig when they're zagging.

All right.

So real quick, dad, real quick.

I keep getting or some people keep

commenting like issues with the chat bar.

Like who's your pioneer said it.

There was another person up here that said

it as well.

We have no control over the chat bar,

like whether it's present for the live

stream or whether it's not present for the

live stream.

So if.

If it's not available for you whenever you

get into the live stream,

then it's something on YouTube's end.

It's definitely not us.

People were saying that the chat bar

sometimes isn't there.

A,

they don't get notifications for the live

stream.

But B,

the chat bar isn't available sometimes

when they get into the live stream.

So I don't know.

We don't have control over whether or not

it's available or not.

And if we do have control over that,

it's not anything that we're aware of.

That's for sure.

I don't know how I hit that.

Anyway, one way to get around that,

or at least if you're listening on your

phone, it may not show up,

so you may have to left or right

slide your finger across that thing to get

it to pop up.

I've had that happen a time or two.

Yeah, Glenna says,

almost ten inches of rain,

not counting all the horizontal rain,

two days in north central Florida.

Yeah, so like us,

you guys are getting hit with all kinds

of rain.

And, you know, everybody else isn't.

So this is exactly what the powers that

shouldn't be.

They can call it La Nina, El Nino,

whatever.

They can call it whatever, y'all.

This is weather modification,

and it's being done on a massive scale.

I mean,

I can't even tell you how much of

Europe is burning down right now.

Canadian wildfire, son,

I'd like to know if somebody explained to

me how prevailing winds are taking Canada

away.

fires and sending that south when the

prevailing winds are from the southwest

and to the northeast nobody's explained

that one but um hey yeah well no

the only time anybody ever explains it is

that they say that this upper atmosphere

wind currents is what's causing it to

But you look at those maps and they

ain't pointing that direction either.

Because I remember we did it.

It was years ago when we were talking

about it.

Canada was having fires again.

The smoke was hitting North Carolina.

We did a video on it.

And some of the, I guess,

chat or the comment section,

people were saying like, oh, yeah,

it's upper atmosphere.

Like calling us crazy conspiracy

theorists.

I looked at the map.

It ain't pointing that direction for this

time of year.

I think it was Donna said that the

National Guard got called in before the

wildfire started over in Washington this

time.

Kind of like how FEMA got called in

the day before nine eleven happened.

How that happened.

Yeah,

this is exactly this is exactly how they

do it, y'all.

And they know we live in the United

States of Amnesia.

And most people look,

I'm trying to be polite here.

Look, I'll say something very, very nice.

They're very nice.

There are a lot of nice,

stupid people in this country, okay?

There is no other way I can put

it.

I mean,

we're being poisoned at every level,

but I'm just not going to allow myself

to be consumed with it.

I'm ready,

and I hope this audience is ready.

I mean,

we're doing everything we possibly can,

but it's always going to be the things

you don't see coming.

But, yeah,

just make sure you get all this.

This is part of why we're taking more

of a slant to preparedness because,

frankly,

a lot of farm shows are absolutely –

afraid to cover the things we're talking

about on here.

They won't cover it.

They just simply will not cover it in

any of their farm podcasts.

And then some of the biggest people out

there just, I mean, astonishing to me,

just refuse to even see it.

But that's exactly what happened to Rome

right before the fall, too,

because nobody in Rome wanted to see what

was happening.

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so we'll go with some of the good

news right quick.

Check this out.

One weekly walk matched a three-day

routine for cutting belly fat study finds.

Okay, what people are realizing,

and this is another little trick I got

from Tom DeLauer, is that just...

Just walking for ten minutes after you eat

a meal makes all the difference in the

world with what your body does with it.

And so what they're finding out in this

study is that if you just do a

walk, it doesn't even have to be brisk.

If you're out there in the sun and

if you can ground,

it's even going to be even better.

Maybe you're walking with your bare feet

in the park or whatever the case may

be.

It matched a three-day routine.

So naturally,

some people are going to say, okay,

I'm sure there's more

You're probably getting more out of that

three-day routine depending on how this

study was conducted.

But anyway,

it cuts about the same amount of belly

fat just doing it once a week.

So all of you that are thinking, oh,

well,

I'm not going to get a routine because

I can't maintain it.

Well,

I'm sure you can manage one day a

week.

Or let's say you're at work.

Say they give you thirty minutes for

lunch.

Eat while you're walking.

Why can't you?

Yeah.

It's not like you're running.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That is always my entire life.

Eaton standing up.

You can do it.

Yeah, I mean, that's a double-edged sword,

actually, because I would, I mean,

you learn habits like that in the

military, and then you're not careful.

You don't sit down and eat with the

family because you got work you're trying

to get done.

So I'm actually eating standing half the

time.

And in fact, to this day, I mean,

I'm trying to slow down a little bit

more.

And the reason why is that you tend

to inhale your food when you're walking,

you don't chew it properly.

And that's where your digestion begins

right there in your mouth.

In fact,

I got one of my samples back from

this company that Dr. Artis recommended.

And one of my problems is that based

on the test they did is that I'm

not chewing my food enough.

I mean,

and part of that I think is not

slowing myself down long enough to eat a

meal, like sit down, chew every bite,

Because honestly,

I just inhale it half the time thinking,

okay, now I can get back to work.

Just got to slow down a little bit.

But anyway,

that's one thing I don't even know how

I got into that.

But here we are.

All right,

next one here is CDC data warns of

nutrient crisis as ninety-eight percent of

Americans lack optimal omega-three levels.

Okay.

That ain't it.

That ain't it.

What do you mean?

That's not all we're missing.

That's not all.

Ninety-eight percent of the world is

missing.

Yeah, but I mean, that's crazy.

Ninety eight percent of us don't have

enough omega three.

I'm willing to bet mine's on point because

I use some of the best fish oil

money can buy.

And I use like a teaspoon of that

every day.

But also, man,

I'm eating a small fish like three times

a week.

I'm eating fish.

I mean, it's either salmon or.

You know,

my little trick for salmon is I make

sure I get the ocean-caught stuff,

I buy the whole slab,

and then I'll cut it down and then

freeze it and then cook it, you know,

as I go.

So you're actually saving a pile of money

by doing that.

It's actually cheaper than sardines when

you do it that way,

when you buy the whole slab and then

just cook it yourself.

So...

You know,

three times a week I'm eating at least

sardines.

Man, I hate sardines, but I'll eat them.

Herring.

I hate sardines,

but I can eat herring all day long,

along with salmon or trout.

So that's one good way to get some

of those omega threes.

But yeah,

ninety eight percent of Americans lack.

Oh, man, that's that's crazy.

So that's one good way to get it.

At least that's how I'm getting it.

I mean,

how often do you think people are even

eating fish anymore?

like actual real fish probably not at all

i mean by and large if i go

to a restaurant and it's a decent

restaurant

And these days, believe me,

if we spend money to go out and

eat, believe me,

it ain't going to be at no restaurant

where I got to look up to order.

It's going to be at a place where

you look down to order at a menu.

So at least in those meals,

I get to sit down.

But honestly,

if I go to those places and they

have decent fish on the menu,

you can ask your mom.

I'll get it every single time.

I will get fish every single time.

In fact, man,

there's a place down the road, man,

got me jonesing for some of that.

I mean,

it's the best fish and chips I've ever

had.

And yeah, the problem is,

is that they're cooking it in the bad

oil.

It's not like they're cooking it in beef

tallow.

They're cooking it in omega six or nines.

So that's the double edged sword there.

But that's why I buy my fish,

bring it home and either pull it out

of the tin or just cook it right

there on the stove.

Hey,

for those of you guys that hate the

sardines or the herring or just canned

fish in general,

there's a couple of tips because my wife,

she didn't like them.

She learned from Logan over at Sewing

Prosperity that, hey,

you should treat this as a supplement,

not necessarily a

like food.

Um,

but she wasn't a big fan of them

until she tried the smoked herring.

And then that was more tolerable smoked

trout.

Even that, that was really good.

That's just hard to find around here.

You could probably find it pretty easily

where you are dead.

But if you're,

let's say you have like a can of

sardines and you're like, all right,

I know this is good for me.

I just got to stomach it.

A couple of things you can do is

put some you can put a ton of

hot sauce on there if you want to.

You can also put a ton of a

what's it called?

Mustard on there.

Any kind of mustard you like.

It all tastes good on that fish.

You could also put it on crackers if

you wanted to.

You could mix it up and make like

a almost like a tuna salad if you

wanted to as well.

Or you can put some one thing that's

really good is that everything bagel

seasoning on top adds a little bit of

texture as well for you.

But yeah, you can dress it up.

However you want to.

And I saw a comment.

Hey, Alabama,

definitely be careful with what you're

buying.

Like, be careful what it's packed with.

Sometimes it's packed with like sunflower

oil.

Sometimes it's just whatever oil they

could scrape up off the ground.

Try to get it in water if you

can.

Sometimes you can find it in olive oil,

but then you have to be careful where

they're getting the olive oil from.

So just be careful of what it's packed

with and pay attention.

A lot of the times it's packed in

like soybean oil.

So keep that in mind.

Very good point.

I'm glad you pointed that out because it

kind of ruins all the opportunity to get

something really good in you.

So, I mean, man.

But I'm finding out that if you buy

one of those really highfalutin tins of

kippers or herring,

it's actually cheaper to buy a whole slab

of salmon.

If you break it down per pound,

I mean,

you're better off buying the whole doggone

salmon.

I can get wild caught stuff here and

I'll break that sucker down and then I'll

just cook it.

And then, you know, and I don't know,

maybe three ounce portions or whatever the

case may be.

But yeah,

that's one cool way to get it there.

Plus you're getting DHA,

you're getting all these wonderful things

that you're not going to be able to

get otherwise,

especially if you're living, you know,

if you're not,

if you don't have access to a whole

lot of seafood.

All right.

So the final good news story here is,

um,

study links workout variety lowers workout

variety man i don't know who makes these

headlines i swear man they just make it

yeah anyway they're realizing that

The study links workout variety intensity

to lower depression odds,

meaning that if you're like me,

you tend to do the same kind of

exercise and then you got to really,

really consciously push yourself out of

doing that exercise to do something new.

I mean,

let's say it's kettlebells or let's say

you're going to ride a bike or maybe

go for a jog or whatever the case

may be.

They're finding out that when you have

workout variety,

it lowers depression even more than just

the person that goes out for a simple

walk.

If you can go out for a walk,

maybe you want to go out for a

bike ride.

Um, you know, maybe,

maybe walk with some kettlebells, uh, for,

or maybe do a little bit of hit

training, stuff like that.

So they're finding out that people that

add variety to their routine are

historically and provably so much better

than those that don't.

So, uh, you know,

or maybe they want to go for a

swim at the YMCA or,

or whatever the case may be.

If you can switch that up a little

bit.

If you have any depression or anything

like that,

plus it's making your brain work in ways

that are not typical.

I mean, I get walking's easy, man.

You can just walk out the front door

and just keep going.

But there's a place over by us,

by the college, where, yeah,

you can go walk.

But, man,

it is a nightmare because every senior

citizen wants to have a conversation when

I'm working out.

I mean,

you just can't walk up and down that

trail and do a workout,

and it's extremely frustrating for your

mom because, you know,

she's over here trying.

You're trying to be polite,

and at the same time, like, hey,

I'm running here, man.

I'm trying to do something,

and I can't even tell you how many

times along the way.

I mean,

it's one thing to tip your hat or

wave or something, but good night, man.

There's a couple of these guys, man,

that will absolutely.

I mean,

it made it to the point where you

don't even want to go anymore.

Especially,

I know that's frustrating to mom because

mom, I don't think she's ever taken a,

she's never done a casual workout or

anything like that.

It's like she's trying to beat her

previous record every time she goes and

does it.

Like with the ruck or with the walk

or whatever it is, working out,

lifting weights.

It's like she's trying to,

and she definitely doesn't want to be

bothered by anybody while working out.

So yeah,

I imagine mom is very frustrated with

being talked to while she's trying to work

out.

Or that last time she just did recently

another twenty six mile ruck march with

forty pounds on her back.

And, you know,

she was walking up and down that trail.

Man, that in the mountains.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She's doing, you know,

she's doing twenty six miles in one,

you know, eight hours or whatever it was,

maybe seven hours.

You know,

that's stepping it out pretty good.

And you just don't have time for that.

But anyway,

that's that's one of the downsides here

is.

is, hey, for all the seniors out there,

man, look,

I know this is a social thing for

you,

but there are people out there trying to

work out and they can't have a

conversation.

I'm not the only one complaining about

that.

So hopefully there is an etiquette.

There is an etiquette when you're on the

trail.

You see somebody running,

don't stop them to have a conversation.

That's just the bottom line.

I know some shirts you could wear in

order for nobody to talk to you while

you're on that trail from those old senior

citizens.

There's some shirts and there's some hats

you can wear.

It'll stop them all from talking to you.

Oh, yeah.

That's a good way of going about it.

But, yeah, man,

they just – and it'll be the same

guy.

You're like, hey, man,

I'm trying to go for a run here.

And he'll hit you up every single time.

You feel bad for him,

but at the same time,

you're like –

Okay,

maybe I need to find another place to

do this.

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All right,

so let's get down to brass tacks.

So we're getting back to more to the

preparedness stuff in this permaculture.

Like I said, folks,

I wish I lived in a world where

all we needed to talk about is

permaculture.

I mean,

PIMP stands for permaculture is my

passion.

And it's true.

I love it.

And I think it's raining again.

Yeah.

As I'm in the studio and I'm like,

I hear this pitter patter, pitter patter.

Sure enough,

it's raining again and there was like no

chance.

So here we go again.

I was going to actually go out and

weed eat after this podcast and go, man,

I've been trying to do this same spot

for a week and I just can't do

it every single time it starts raining.

Anyway,

simple tools I would never be without

because like I said,

we're covering a lot of the preparedness

aspects without going to doom and gloom.

But right off the bat, son,

I'll kick this off.

I know this seems to go without question,

but folks, you are hard-pressed.

Unless I'm flying,

you will never catch me without a knife

and my Leatherman.

And I got them right here in my

pouches.

I mean, it's an ammo pouch.

Everybody thinks I'm, you know,

I got ammo pouches here, and, you know,

I might.

You took two categories.

You took two categories, dad.

All right.

I guess on my end,

I'll give you options, but go ahead.

Okay.

Well, I'm saying at all times,

even like when we flew to El Salvador,

I checked my pocket knife and my, um,

My pouch,

I checked all that stuff in a bag

so I could bring whatever contraband I

wanted in there.

And it was my Leatherman and my knife.

I won't go anywhere without it.

So I'll check that stuff.

And when I got down there, you know,

I put it right back on.

So, I mean,

you just never know where you're going to

wind up.

You never know what you're going to need

it for.

That Leatherman,

I don't think there is a single day

that I don't use that.

And folks,

I got Leatherman when it first came out

back when I was a private in the

Army.

Back in the day,

we were able to go to a couple

of pawn shops outside of Fort Bragg and

get, you know,

in the nature of the work I did

back in the Army, I wanted,

they actually had a Leatherman that had

blasting cap crimpers on it.

Now,

some fool stole that from me and then

they quit making it all of a sudden,

but they did have it once upon a

time.

And yeah,

blasting cap crimpers right there on a

Leatherman.

And believe me,

it got a lot of use back in

those days.

But you just never know what you're going

to need that thing for.

I mean,

you may be in a position where you

need to get out of a vehicle.

You need to bust a window,

and all you've got is that Leatherman that

you can use as some kind of whatever

to break a window out.

That's just as a blunt force instrument.

But you've got your knife.

You've got whatever.

And then I've got a dedicated knife,

which is more like a razor blade for

every other thing.

I never will be caught without those

things.

So, son, there you go.

All right.

So I had multi-tool and I had knives

as categories because those are the two

things that I carry every single day.

But those kind of vary depending on where

I'm going or what I'm doing and things

like that.

So let's talk about knives real quick.

There's a bunch of different options on

knives.

Knives are cool because this is something

that...

Everybody in the world,

no matter what it is you do for

a living,

no matter almost how old you are or

where you live, everybody uses knives.

Not everybody uses hammers.

Not everybody uses saws.

Not everybody uses all these other tools,

but everybody uses knives.

And there's always going to be a knife

that fits your situation perfectly.

I got a couple of examples here.

This is kind of like what dad was

talking about like a utility blade They

make them much better than those long

skinny Stanley like silver Stanley's that

you used to have to carry you can

get just folding Folding utility blades

and stuff like this.

This is from Kaiser.

It's called the drop bear utility but in

this as like a little serrated razor blade

on here as well and

hold longer if it's serrated uh because

the edge effect you just increase the

amount of edge like cutting edge you have

using a serrated knife um and as soon

as it's dull you can just swap it

out and this is a pretty small knife

as as far as you know knives go

here's another smaller knife that's not um

you know, it's pretty small.

It can fit in your fifth pocket.

If you have small pockets or women,

you guys get robbed on pockets.

This is a Civivi Yonder.

If you want to go with that.

And then there's like fixed blade options.

Like this is a,

this is something that I would use.

Like if I'm going to the demonstration

site or I'm going to be outside doing

a lot of like heavier duty tasks and

things like that,

but it's a full blown fixed blade.

Um, this one's from Dawson knives.

Mom and dad got this for me a

couple of years back, but this is a,

Awesome.

Heavier duty knife.

And they have like a knife for whatever

application you need.

So no matter what it is you do

for a living,

no matter what it is you do on

a day-to-day basis,

there is a knife and a price range

and a material range that fits your task.

Now, as far as multi-tools go,

there's just as many options.

Well, not as many options,

but there's options with

Multi tools as well.

It can be as simple as like a,

you know,

little Victorinox just like this.

I think this is a Huntsman.

I think that's what the model number is.

They all kind of look alike to me.

Here's the Leatherman that I carry.

Dad talks about Leatherman.

I love Leatherman.

But before too long,

I think they're going to get taken out

by other companies similar to like Roxxon

right here.

where you can literally pick what tools...

Now,

they're kind of big and clunky right now,

but you can literally pick what tools you

want to put in these multi-tools.

So you can customize it to whatever it

is you specifically do.

And one thing that I wanted to point

out is that these guys, Roxxon,

has the literal best scissors you can ever

find on a multi-tool.

These things actually work.

You can cut the Bible paper with it

if you wanted to.

Yeah, it just works fantastically.

So yeah, there's multi-tools, knives,

and multi-tool options depending on what

you're doing.

Like here's a lighter weight version

multi-tool,

and then here's like a heavier weight

multi-tool.

And the cool thing about Roxxon is that

you can build the exact multi-tool with

the tools that you need.

So pretty interesting.

I need to check them out.

That was something you pointed out a while

back to me.

I'm just so darn busy.

I haven't done it.

I would love to be able to get

one.

The only thing,

and I wonder if I could reach out

to him and find this out.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

I'm hearing some feedback on mine.

Here's one thing I would love to reach

out and find out is if the one

complaint,

because

I'm a butcher, and so are you.

I want something.

I want a bone saw that they put

on a doggone Leatherman.

I tried to reach out to Leatherman once

upon a time.

I don't think it's a bone saw, son.

You can use it as a bone saw.

Um, it's a little bit more aggressive,

but, uh, well, no, actually they do.

Uh, they have those, uh,

like if you have a, they have a,

uh, sawzall attachment, uh,

option whenever you're building it,

they have like a sawzall attachment option

and you can put in your own, uh,

sawzall or even they have a smaller one

for jig saws and stuff like that.

But you could find like a boning saws

size,

like a metal blade or something like that

and use that.

I mean, I,

I butchered a whole pig with a Leatherman.

And I can't believe that video never got

watched.

I mean,

I was trying to show people the

versatility of a device,

of something like that.

But if they could somehow get some kind

of bone saw,

because if they can get somehow get a

bone saw, I mean, I probably,

when you get a chance,

send me a link to them because I

want to reach out to them.

I'll do the best promotion video they ever

seen because I'll do a whole animal.

And this is exactly why I did that

video to show you the value of a

multi-tool.

things didn't exist before the nineties

y'all,

at least not outside of Swiss army and

Leatherman came along and I think they

just put them under in so many different

ways.

So man,

I didn't expect to talk about a lot

of this stuff, but man,

I'm telling y'all you can,

I wouldn't be caught without either one.

Okay.

So let me jump out into the next

one.

Cause I know we're running out of time

here and it doesn't even have to be

the things that are on you.

But for me, a shovel,

You know,

not only could it be a one long

handled tool that can do a whole lot

of things, you can plant trees,

obviously dig swales if you had to.

I've done it with a shovel before in

Texas.

Move compost, bury fence posts,

harvest root crops, even fight fires.

And you know what?

Worst case scenario,

you can use it as a weapon.

There were Joes in Vietnam that killed

Viet Cong with E-tools, entrenching tools.

I mean,

obviously not the best use for it,

but what I'm saying is all of the

above, a shovel is something.

And the reason why I'm bringing up a

shovel is I just threw one to the

dump.

And I was talking to Spirko about this,

Jack Spirko.

It's supposed to have a hickory handle,

and we've been through two of these

hickory shovels.

You ain't telling me I broke a hickory

handle shovel.

Ain't happened.

And the reason why I like a wooden

handle shovel is that when you got your

bare hands on it,

you're grounding with everything you do.

Even though you may have boots on,

every time your hands touch that wooden

shovel, that wooden blade,

you're being grounded every single time.

But when you have a fiberglass blade or

handle, it ain't happening.

But so yeah,

that's our planned obsolescence at work.

But anyway, a shovel, that's my next one.

Well, on the note with the hickory handle,

at least with the hickory handle,

that's something that you can replace if

you want to and keep the same shovel

head with a fiberglass handle.

You ain't doing that.

Not without either getting potential

splinters or having to heat stuff up and

all that crap.

So that's another.

Yeah, but that is odd.

They must be putting balsa wood in there

or something like that.

If you keep breaking hickory handles,

especially if they're brand new.

Um, my next tool is, uh,

going to be like a notebook and pen.

Um, I carry,

I have this around with me everywhere.

Now dad mentioned the shovel.

I focused more on stuff that I could

fit in this backpack right here.

This is my general, wherever I'm going,

I typically have this backpack not too far

from me.

Um, and I don't treat like a, uh,

a particular vehicle as an EDC carrier or

anything like that,

because I'm in all kinds of different

vehicles all the time.

Sometimes I'm in my truck,

sometimes I'm in my wife's car,

sometimes a lot of times I'm in rental

cars.

And instead of moving everything from one

vehicle to the next,

I kind of keep everything that I'm going

to need in an emergency in the backpack.

And one of those things is a notebook

because I always I'm always constantly

writing stuff down, taking down notes,

writing down my plan for the day,

whatever it may be.

This notebook isn't too far from me.

And I have I keep two different or

two pens just in case one goes out.

I have another one that I can use.

And then I have some in the backpack,

like backup pencils and pens and Sharpies

and markers and stuff like that in the

backpack.

in case I need any of those,

but a notebook.

Some people use the notes on their phone.

That has never stuck with me.

That's never,

I don't like being on my phone anyway.

So for me to have to access my

phone just to get to my notes,

I don't want to do that.

So,

and also I remember it a lot better

if I write it down in a notebook

versus typing it into the phone.

So

I don't use the notes on my phone.

I know it has all these different

abilities and things like that and

reminders that automatically set.

There's a bunch of gadgets and gizmos when

it comes to the notes on your phone.

But for me,

it does not beat just having a regular

notepad and pen or pencil,

whatever it may be.

So this this is one of the things

that I guess this is my like external

brain right now.

I write out write out everything I need

to know in the notebook for the day.

Yeah, good stuff.

I'm with you in a hundred percent

agreement right there.

I've been, in fact, your mom's like,

did you leave your phone here?

Yeah, because I'm trying, you know,

little things like when you go into a

store,

do you really need to bring your phone

with you?

I mean, it's little things like that.

That's where you can start.

Say, okay,

I'm going to go in this grocery store.

I got the list I snatched off the

fridge and that's exactly how we roll.

So yeah.

Hey, hey, Alabama Sam, repost that video,

Billy.

You know what?

I think I might just go ahead and

have to do that.

I have to dig it up.

I think you're talking about the one with

the Leatherman.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'll have to dig that thing up,

but I, man,

that's the one thing I need to get

on there is a bone saw.

All right.

So my next one is going to be

a reliable cordless drill slash.

Now they've come out, you know,

when I first got in the trade,

there were no cordless drills and the ones

that they did have were not wonderful.

They're mostly DeWalt.

I mean,

they got the job done a little bit,

but the batteries were not good.

Now,

If you ask me,

Milwaukee makes the best stuff.

There ain't even a close second.

And I like how they do the batteries.

They don't play games like DeWalt and some

of the others.

Back in the day, DeWalt's what I used.

But when I discovered Milwaukee, I'm like,

okay, that's the only way I roll.

The reason why I'm saying that,

you can do so much.

I can drive, for example,

the gear that's on my worm compost bin.

It drives a ram up and down,

and it basically serrates everything

the compost the the worm juice at the

bottom and drops it out for me okay

well you do all that with the battery

drill i mean think about all the other

things you can do out there building a

fence raised bed uh hanging gates

constructions i mean but look if you think

you're gonna buy one of these little

cheapos from walmart i got news for your

nephew you're gonna you're gonna you're

gonna pray for the mercy of death dealing

with those things because they are awful

The battery technology is awful.

Everything about it is awful.

That's why I use nothing but it.

I mean,

they get another better brand out there

than Milwaukee.

I'll go with it.

But I love how Milwaukee has decent

batteries.

You can even get the jumbo batteries.

But that is a game changer.

You may want to go Amish style.

I get it.

But the cool thing about those cordless

batteries is that you can charge them up

from a very meager solar system.

That is a combat multiplier for the

purists out there to say, oh,

I'm just going to do everything by hand.

Okay, that's fine if you're so inclined,

but if you can accelerate,

this guy I know in the permaculture space

that wanted to do everything off-grid,

I think you know him too, William,

wanted to do everything off-grid.

I'm like,

why wouldn't you use commercial power to

do the heavy lifting for you than if

you want to be off-grid because it was

available to him?

but you just have people that just see

short-sighted that way.

I'm not one of them, but anyway,

battery drill.

Right.

I think that was,

that's an awesome addition.

Cause that just, I mean, yeah,

I can drill a hole with a whole

auger and bit, you know, hand crank setup,

but how many holes can I drill with

a battery drill?

And the amount of time it takes me

and the skill and the amount of time

it takes to learn the skill to do

it by hand.

Yeah.

I think that's,

I think that's a fantastic idea.

Now remember guys,

I focus on more things that I carry

on my person or within my backpack.

Uh,

Things like that.

But the next one is my...

Rarely do you ever catch me in public.

In legal states where I can do this

legally, guys,

rarely do you ever see me with...

And I'm not armed to some extent.

Every single time,

especially if I'm with my family,

even if I'm by myself,

no matter where I go,

if you see me outside,

even if I'm in my backyard,

I'm armed in my backyard.

I'm armed in the front yard.

Wherever I go, I'm armed all the time.

And that's kind of...

I mean, I hope I never,

ever have to use this outside of like

pests and stuff like that.

But it's kind of the, you know,

nation that we're in right now,

the state of things that we're in right

now.

Dad, what are you laughing about?

You laughing about the Homestead Twins?

Yeah.

And I know I'm already going to be

embarrassed when I tell the answer,

but go ahead.

Yeah, that was it.

I just wherever you can,

wherever possible.

And also, here's another thing.

As far as the locations where it's illegal

to carry a gun.

I just don't go.

I just don't go to those places.

Um, so yeah,

a lot of people talk about trying to

sneak in your,

your gun to these illegal spots or how

to get away with it, stuff like that.

Just stop supporting them.

Like, uh,

I'm talking about specifically like stores

where they have the no gun sign on

their window.

Stop going there.

I think the B place in Weaverville, uh,

had that no gun sign on their,

on their door or something like that too.

So,

Just keep that in mind.

I remember accidentally driving into

Illinois, not realizing, man,

I got a whole freaking arsenal up in

here, man.

And I'm like, oh, shoot.

And I couldn't get out of there quick

enough.

But like you said, I will.

I'll drive around a whole state if I

have to.

No, Homestead Twins,

these guys crack me up.

He says, Pip,

I know you didn't use that Swiss tool

I sent you.

Here's the problem I have.

I'm just,

I criticize my dad about this all the

time, but I'm the same exact way.

When somebody gives me something that I

know is absolutely awesome,

I don't want to use it.

I got it sitting there.

It's right there in the nightstand.

Well, down in the room,

it's in the nightstand down there.

And I'm like, man,

this thing is so doggone sweet.

I don't even want to take it.

I don't even want to take it out

of the pouch because,

but I know that's the whole reason why

you sent me that thing.

I use this cheapo.

I got it right here with me right

now.

I keep using this cheapo

Yeah.

Leatherman that I got in here because I

don't care if I mess this thing up,

but that's exactly why you sent it to

me.

But my dad,

it used to drive me crazy.

Every time you give him something,

he'd never use it.

It was like a museum back in his

room.

So I just got him stuff.

I knew he would eat.

So I get him a Pepperidge farm box

or something like that,

that I knew he would absolutely eat.

And here it is.

I just turned into my own dad in

that way, in that.

You know,

when somebody gives me something, man,

it's like a keepsake to me.

I don't want to use it, but man,

I'm really going to have to knock the

dust off that thing.

I did use it a couple of times.

And then I was like, man,

this thing is too doggone sweet to be

messing up, man.

I'm going to put it over here.

And that's exactly what I did.

Homestead twins.

Don't feel bad.

I got dad a Leatherman art,

which is still the platform he uses.

He doesn't even use that one.

So yeah, dad is stuck with his,

what is the Leatherman rebar or something

like that?

It's a cheapo, but it's got,

but I'm like, man,

I really need to get out here.

And, uh, the one they sent me, boy,

that thing is the cat's meow, son.

I ain't lying.

I mean,

this thing would make breakfast for you

easily.

Uh,

I need to go ahead and break the

dust off that thing because that's why

they gave it to me.

I'm just,

I'm too much like my dad in that

way.

So I got to, man, yeah,

I'll definitely get it done.

All right,

my next one on the list is,

this isn't even, it isn't that important,

but it is.

And I'm going to say a tape measure

and a level.

And for me, my eyeball is, I mean,

I know you think I'm joking when I

say this, but my eyeball,

having done the work I've done for so

many years,

is calibrated where I can tell plumb and

level just by looking at it.

And I mean, pretty darn close.

I'm going to be in that bubble every

single time just by looking at it.

And when you do the kind of work,

you know,

where you're dealing with those kinds of

things on a daily basis,

you don't necessarily need that.

But there's a whole lot of people out

there buying these lousy tape measures

they get from Walmart.

Do not do that, man.

Go get yourself a really,

really decent tape measure and be sure to

have more than one because it's one of

those things.

Back in the day when I got in

the electrical trade,

they didn't even let you use a metal

measuring tape.

You had to use a wooden rule.

To this, I'm talking to Con,

you got to fold up and it's six

feet long.

There was a reason they did it that

way back in the day as an electrician

because you're messing with electricity.

You don't want things that are going to

conduct and get you Kentucky fried.

So we use wooden rules a lot of

ways.

And like I said, to this day,

there are wiremen electricians that I know

that still use those things.

And for a time, I did too.

If nothing else,

I'd get a wooden rule because it has

so many other uses that you could use,

but also a level.

whether it's a line level,

whether it's a torpedo level,

whether it's a forefoot level,

whatever the case may be,

those are fundamental tools that you need

to be able to put up a structure

that's going to stand up where it looks

level and plumb and it should be all

those things to be adequate.

All right, son, go ahead.

I mean, on the level part,

you can even learn how to make a

water level with some clear hose if you

want to.

Yeah, those are important.

The next thing on my list is one

thing that I carry around with me

everywhere are these Knifex vice grips.

And I know that seems like overkill.

And I know that seems like it's too

much pocket space to dedicate to one tool

that has one job.

I'm breaking the...

Who's the good eats guy again?

The...

Alton Brown rule.

I'm breaking the Alton Brown rule.

But these things are one of the handiest

things I have in my pockets.

I use them for all I use them

all the time,

especially in combination with like a

Leatherman.

I have two.

I have the needle nose pliers with these.

And then I have the channel locks with

the Knifex channel locks.

And then I don't know what kind of

metal that they use in the teeth.

but it's harder than anything else you're

going to, uh, bite down on.

Um,

which is the downside of it is that

it'll mar anything that you're going to

bite down on it with,

but it has really,

really good grip and it has directional

teeth.

So as long as you know,

which direction you use channel locks,

you're always going to get a good grip.

Even if the head is completely stripped

out, even if you're ground,

even if you're grabbing like, um,

just a rod, you still get really,

really good grip with this.

In fact, I did the video,

it was years ago,

but I was saying like,

it has such good grip and it's so

handy and ergonomic and bites down well

that, you know,

if my truck wasn't so doggone heavy,

I could pull my truck with it.

I later put it in neutral and I

did pull it a little bit, um,

or not heavy,

but if it was on a level surface,

I could pull the truck with it.

And I grabbed the whole of the,

hold of the ball on the back.

And then I was able to move it

a little bit, uh,

just with using these.

So yeah, these seems like overkill.

I would recommend just, yeah.

Nancy said,

are they harder than woodpecker lips?

Yup.

They're harder than woodpecker lips.

I would recommend just getting a small

pair of channel locks.

These are not the smallest ones that they

make.

I think these are the,

seven and a quarter inch ones.

Um,

I would recommend getting a pair and then

just keeping it in your pocket for a

week and see how often you use it.

I found out I use it pretty doggone

often.

A lot of the times.

In fact, I think the ply,

these are a better option than the needle

nose pliers on a, on a, um, uh,

Leatherman most of the time.

Um, these just grip better.

They they're more ergonomic.

Uh,

they're faster for me to reach half the

time and yeah,

they're just a better option in my

opinion.

Yeah, I like the baby locks too.

I know Jack likes somebody in the chat.

Yeah, hey, hey,

Alabama was talking about the one Jack

Spierko promotes.

I just don't like that curved head on

those.

I like old-fashioned channel locks.

What brand is it?

Channel lock brand is the one I use.

No, the one that Jack is talking about.

I'm not sure.

It might be the very same brand.

I'm not sure.

My last one's going to be,

and this is going to sound crazy,

but think about it, a five-gallon bucket.

Lots of them.

That's something I'll never be caught.

I mean, what do you use it for?

Harvest basket?

Tool carrier?

In fact, when I was in the trade,

that's exactly what I used was a

five-gallon bucket.

It could be a feed bucket.

It could be a stool.

compost hauler.

I mean,

these are things I've just done in the

last couple of days.

I mean,

there's a bucket of compost on the porch

for your mom to finish up those beds

out back.

Compost toilet.

Composting toilet.

Well, I wouldn't, I don't,

I'm using it for multi purposes.

So I don't necessarily,

I wouldn't necessarily use it for that.

If this is something I'm using for up,

it could be a mixing container.

I mean, a seat, you know,

turn it upside down,

but do not ever buy them from Lowe's.

The Lowe's buckets are made with planned

obsolescence in mind.

Get them from Tractor Supply.

Get them from somewhere else,

but do not get them from Lowe's.

In fact,

I need to do a nasty video and

call them out because I know that is

just planned obsolescence.

If you can get a metal one,

it probably wouldn't be a bad idea.

I mean,

it could be an emergency water carrier.

It's probably the most versatile item on

the farm.

It really is.

A five-gallon bucket.

I was sitting here making up some compost

extract, and I was like, man,

think about all the different things you

do with these buckets.

And this is exactly why I'm so irritated

with Lowe's for making those buckets.

They just fall apart.

They chip apart.

And who even knows about the microplastics

in them?

So yeah, definitely,

definitely a five-gallon bucket.

Yeah, I got to agree with that.

My next one is going to be,

this is going to be pretty much tailored

to the individual,

but it's like set up little EDC pouch

kits that you can throw it in a

bag of like,

you can do this with first aid stuff.

You can do this with,

you can tailor it to whatever it is

you do.

Like if there's things that you might need

that are too big or too bulky or

it's too much to fit in your pockets,

throw it in like a little EDC bag

or something like that and then throw it

in a plastic

like a backpack, something like that.

It's not things that you use every single

or a bunch of times throughout the day,

but it's enough use or it's an extreme

of an emergency to have it on you

just in case you need it and stuff.

Like one of these,

I got a band-aids and stuff like that

in them.

I've got some rescue shears.

There's chapstick in here.

There's markers in here.

There's band-aids,

there's an extra notepad with an extra pen

and pencil if I want it.

I have an extra backup knife in here,

flashlight, another Swiss Army knife,

knife sharpening tool, a file,

all kinds of random stuff.

Anything that you might need occasionally

or let's say you have some extreme

allergies and you need like an EpiPen.

You can set up one of these bags

with an EpiPen with any additional things

that you might need in case of an

emergency and things like that.

The point of this isn't to carry it

directly on your person.

You don't want to be one of those

guys.

You don't want to be one of those

people that has like a Batman utility belt

and you're not a cop.

But it's something that you can throw in

like a backpack, something like that.

Or if you have a purse,

you can carry around a purse and throw

this little EDC kit bag in your purse

if you want to.

Whatever it may be,

set up like a little kit that is

tailor made for you.

And then you'll have whatever it is you

need.

at any point and there's a bunch of

youtube videos on it talking about how to

set up or things you should think about

when setting up like a little edc bag

or whatever it may be um here's something

that i keep in there five fifty cord

rolled up five fifty cord and then i

have like a zip tie wrapping around it

so it doesn't unspool on me i have

things like a lighter in there as well

um just because like

Five fifty cord in a lighter goes hand

in hand.

As soon as you cut that five fifty

cord,

you need to melt it to an extent.

You can even put things like flashlights

in there if you want to.

This one's interesting because it has a UV

effect.

I don't know how well you guys are

seeing that.

I can't really see much with my

red glasses,

but it has a UV light on there.

That's cool.

Especially whenever you,

if you're on the road a lot and

you have to rent a hotel room for

the night,

you can kind of get an idea of

where you should and shouldn't be in that

room using the little UV light if you

want to.

Also,

there's like a little laser pointer on

there as well.

You guys can see it on the chalkboard

in the back.

Dad would have loved that when I was

a kid or every time we go to

a zoo because dad likes messing with the

animals and getting them to dance for him

and everything.

But

Yeah,

set up like a little EDC pouch for

yourself.

Something that's tailor made to you if you

have kids,

things that your kids might need.

Or if you have a spouse,

something that your spouse might need or

things that you use occasionally,

but not often enough to keep it in

your pocket.

Yeah, a couple of other – yeah,

Juby Joe, I'm glad you pointed that up.

You know, Uline,

they probably get some pretty good buckets

over there.

That's where all the bone sauce that we

ship out.

You know, we use Uline.

They're reliable.

I just wish they would ship stuff a

little more ergonomically.

And then Nancy points out also no Harbor

Freight either in addition to Lowe's.

So, yeah,

I'm glad you mentioned that because there

are some things I get from Harbor Freight

like –

Hey, man, you want a really,

really good deal on Sawzall blades?

I'm going to go through them anyway, man.

That's a really good,

especially pruning blades.

You go to Lowe's and buy pruning blades

for your Sawzall.

They are going, man,

they are going to mop the floor with

you.

But you can go over there at Harbor

Freight for something like that.

Man, I'll just get the whole dog.

I'll get everything they have there.

And that's what I'm talking about.

Yeah.

Bakeries and stuff like that.

And restaurants learning to grow,

learning to grow guy.

That's a really good place because nine

times out of ten,

they're going to be food grade and food

grade are not the ones that are breaking

down.

So that's exactly the exact kind of places

you want to go.

Where's that one place to sell subs and

the giveaway buckets?

Firehouse.

Firehouse.

That's a good place.

I don't think you get lids with them,

but.

That's a good place to – because all

the firehouse buckets I got, just fine.

All the ones I got from Panera,

just fine.

Now, the handle,

they got those plastic handles on there.

They don't really hold up very well.

But anyway, yeah,

we went a lot longer than I intended

to, folks.

But this is – we're going to try

to cover a little more preparedness than

we have in the past,

and we'll try to slink back and talk

more about permaculture as well because

the problem that we're having –

Oh, my goodness, man.

The problem that we're having in a big,

big way is things are going sideways in

so many different ways.

And we got to be ready.

You got to stay alert,

stay alive in so many different ways.

And, oh, yeah, Homestead Twins,

I will tell you that that bag you

guys made,

Michelle uses that thing.

She uses it like a purse.

It is her favorite bag without a doubt.

So they made this bag.

I don't know what they made it, man.

It was like the stuff on Wolverine

skeleton.

You could put anything in this bag.

We go to the grocery store.

She got the bag.

We go to the farmer's market.

She got the bag.

I mean, this bag is like,

like I said, she'll carry that bag.

So, yeah,

that makes up for me not carrying that

letterman.

But I'm going to make it an absolute

effort.

I'm going to get down here,

and I'm going to put that thing on

my hip right next to my whip.

Guaranteed, y'all.

I'm going to get that thing worn,

and I'm going to wear it out.

And I know it's just going to absolutely

kill me just scuffing that thing up

because it's so doggone cool.

It's got so many cool things on it.

Anyway, I'm going to get that done.

All right, y'all.

Hopefully that was a blessing to you.

Crazy,

crazy world that we got going on right

now, y'all.

And it's getting crazier.

So be thinking about all these different

preparedness trips.

tricks.

Until next time, stay alert.

Stay alive.

Listen to the earth, they got us.

Black seeds of change.

Watch the world spin.

From the smallest sprout to the harmony

begin.

In the cycle of life,

where the magic's alive.

Turn it to the beat.

Feel the fire inside.

Go baby, do, do, do.

Do, do, do, do.

So much wisdom.