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Oh, well, here we are.

Happy Thursday for most of you out there.

Well,

we're going to make it happy either way.

This is a day the Lord has made,

and I will be glad and rejoice in

it.

How you doing, son?

Oh, pretty good.

It's been a bit of a frustrating day,

but yeah, we're pretty good now.

How about you?

Yeah,

it's been something of a frustrating few

days for us.

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just jump right into it man i guess

i'll kick it off son

Yeah, go ahead.

Oh, man.

Well, I'll tell you what.

You and I didn't talk really for but

a minute maybe before we went live here.

And I'm going to tell you my experience,

and we'll just overlay it with you.

Anybody in the audience,

holler if you hear me, man.

That's what the chat is for.

And hopefully if we can change people that

host our podcast,

maybe in the future we can do a

call-in show.

Ever since I brought that up,

other people have gotten the idea.

So some folks are actually doing it.

But I'm not in competition with anybody.

All right.

So right off the bat,

we got the sheep.

I put a whole sheep into the compost.

We had a little bit of an accident

and I had to take one down.

And this little sheep,

I put him in the compost, son.

I kid you not.

In about a week,

there ain't nothing but bones.

I believe it.

Yeah, I believe it.

In a week.

On a whole sheep, I mean,

I'm talking skulls, spine.

It's like somebody just dug up something

in the Arctic somewhere, man,

and found like a mastodon bones or

something.

And that's how punchy this compost is

right now.

I mean, I've dissolved...

man i kid you not i want to

say in just this one pile right here

i've probably dissolved three different

animals and each time they're gone in a

week it's not called dissolving that you

know that that whole thing about david the

good man compost your enemies well folks

don't start no sh and there won't be

no it you know what time it is

i mean i got a compost pile

And, you know,

all I'd have to do is do it.

I don't have to throw you to wooze

pigs.

I mean, son, I ain't kidding you, man.

It's like somebody cleaned off these bones

and it happened in a week.

So folks make some fantastic compost.

I mean, make that compost.

So, yeah,

I wanted to tell everybody about that.

I meant to say before I did this

actually last week,

went out there and checked them.

And I'm telling you, it is down.

Yeah, it sounds like a crime scene.

Yeah, Jenny,

I think you may be on to something

right there.

I'm not committing any crimes,

but the way the world's getting right now,

you never know.

You never know.

So this is not the place you want

to just show up.

All right.

So I'm going to kick it off.

And, son,

just tell me how much of this overlays

with what you're experiencing.

Yeah.

Your mom and I had to go to

Asheville both Saturday and Sunday.

And...

I'm telling you,

it's like everybody is in a flipping daze.

It's like they don't know either on the

road, they're just not paying attention,

or it's like everybody is an automaton

when you had to go to Whole Foods

for something or another that we can't

produce.

And it's like everybody in the parking

lot,

it is like they are seriously non-player

characters.

It's been getting worse and worse and

worse.

And I'll tell you another thing.

Asheville in and of itself,

I've been talking to a lot of business

owners as of late.

And I'm telling you,

the place is a frickin' ghost town.

It is absolutely insane.

All these restaurants,

Ben and Denise over at Renewed Homestead

did a video.

It actually got quite a few legs out

there.

It's about time, man.

Yeah, they went to town over there,

went out to eat someplace, you know,

a rare thing for them,

as for all of us.

And they go over there and they're

wondering,

why is everybody shutting down at five

o'clock on a Saturday?

They're like, dude,

ain't nobody coming in.

We got to shut the doors.

And I'm talking,

your mom and I went to Taco Billy.

We stopped by there.

We had to go take her truck in

to go get service yesterday.

So we spent, you know,

three days in Asheville,

which is highly unusual for us.

So we had to go to the Toyota

place, go get, you know,

get the tires and everything looked at.

And...

We stop at Taco Billy on the way

home thinking, okay, well,

we can go there.

I know they use good ingredients.

I can get stuff that doesn't have any

junk in it or glyphosate.

Man, it's midday, son.

Now,

this is the most popular taco place in

all of Asheville, bar none.

In a spot, well,

keep in mind that it's important to know

it's in a spot where it's like surrounded

by a bunch of neighborhoods too.

So not only do people just drive up

there, but they also walk up there too.

So it's like a,

it's a very good location for a taco

spot.

If you stop there lunchtime any other day

of the week,

which is about the time we were there,

it was so dead, son.

Your mom and I thought they were closed.

There was not.

I mean, usually you can't find a vehicle.

You can't find a parking spot in front

of that place,

especially on a Wednesday at around

lunchtime.

Nobody was there.

It was like nobody.

In fact, I pulled up there.

I said, look,

let's check and see if this thing's open.

I mean,

maybe they changed their hours again.

Sure enough, nobody was there.

Talked to some other business owners.

They said, man,

if it weren't for the locals,

if there weren't locals,

pitching in,

they weren't at all going to be able

to do anything.

It's that bad out there right now.

And that's before the latest stuff has

happened.

And we'll get to that in a minute.

So yeah, business is dropping like flies.

I mean, this place is in Asheville.

And folks, I'm talking,

this ain't Texarkana.

I mean, this is Asheville.

This is a highly desirable place,

especially when it gets into the fall of

the year.

that people want to go.

And I know what it's like.

I've been here, what, almost a decade.

And I know what it's like all times

of the year,

but it is absolutely positively crazy to

see everything just dying off.

And then I'll tell you another little

phenomenon.

And son, when I'll say this,

I'll hand it over to you here in

a second and just tell me what you're

experiencing as well.

Now, if you're paying attention at all,

you are aware of what's going on with

the diesel prices.

It ain't like we didn't talk about it.

Ain't like we didn't predict this a long

time ago.

I've talked to,

I don't even know how many people who

are wide awake,

people that have been on this show as

of late.

And all of them, it's actually shocking.

I brought this up to your mom,

I think, two days now.

I told her yesterday, man,

there's something strange going on.

I didn't know how to really lay it

out, but today I do.

i'm talking to people who are very very

awake that have been on this show and

it's like and folks i want you to

holler in the chat if this has been

your experience as well um

It's like they have a normalcy bias

regarding what is almost certainly going

to happen if these diesel prices stay the

way they are.

And they're not going to stay the way

they are.

They're going to escalate.

It's going to get much worse, much, much,

much worse.

Every artery in the Middle East that

provides this diesel, yeah,

there are things they can do like...

The president can say, okay,

no more selling the oil overseas.

That'll put a Band-Aid on it for a

little while.

But you got truckers talking about doing a

strike in October.

And gas is, I mean,

it is ridiculous right now.

Shortages are reported already in places

like North Texas and a number of others.

It may be temporary.

I'm sure it is.

But everybody I spoke to had this,

I'll call it a normalcy bias.

An optimism bias, which, you know,

that optimism bias is basically when it

happens to other people.

It ain't going to happen to me.

Or a bystander effect where, you know,

people just assume other folks are just

going to pitch in.

Folks, I got news for you.

This ain't Japan right after Fukushima.

We do not have a society that's built

that way.

I mean, just look around you.

it is cutthroat cutthroat this is not

japan during fukushima where everybody was

orderly waiting in line and helping people

as i mean that's not the country we

live in you can sit here and pretend

it is but it is not and what's

blowing my mind is that people that should

know better i brought this up to

specifically two of them yesterday alone

And it was like it didn't even register.

It was like,

and I won't say their names publicly,

but I'll tell you privately,

it was astonishing to me how I'm bringing

this up,

and they are either oblivious to it or

just won't even,

it's not even in the wheelhouse.

So anyway, with that said, son,

I'll kick it on over to you.

Yeah, I agree with the whole diesel part.

It's like this is one of those.

It seems like it's way easier for people

to get fired up about way more minor

topics than it is about this diesel topic

that's happening like right now.

But it might be some extreme level of

like cope of just some.

It might not even be intentional.

It might be like a unintentional just

mechanism of their brain, just like a.

overstimulated by everything going on

right now too.

I don't know what it is, but yeah,

there's, there's a,

especially here where there's a huge,

like big diesel truck culture here in this

part of Texas,

where that's like the most important thing

in most people's lives around here is

their truck.

It's like, they want to,

they'll complain about how much diesel

costs.

just because it's their daily driver and

stuff like that,

but they're not doing anything to plan or

prepare or anything like that for it.

That's kind of the extent of it around

here.

And absolutely nobody around me or near me

is preparing.

If there were to be a Fukushima-type event

going on,

we would be an island, basically.

There's nobody else even kind of preparing

or even wanting to even kind of prepare.

But as far as here,

frustrating thing that's been going on

here,

I got signed out of everything today.

I got logged out of everything.

Anything that requires an account or

anything like that,

I got logged out of all at once,

all at the same time on my computer

and my phones, all at the same time.

I don't even know how.

It's not like anything updated or anything

like that.

But yeah, that took...

That was a very frustrating moment because

I'm like, all right,

I'm sitting down at the computer.

I'm about to get a bunch of work

done.

I'm about to get a bunch of planning

done and stuff like that.

And then, bam,

I have to go through and try to

re-log in and re-remember all my freaking

passwords.

Because I, yeah, that was super annoying.

And that took way more time than I

was wanting to take.

And it just burned like maybe an hour

and a half of my day.

Yeah, so there's that.

And then also with some of these things

that you have to log back into or

that I have to log back into,

you only get a certain amount of attempts

before it's banned or you're banned or you

got to wait twenty four hours or something

like that.

So, yeah, it was a high stress,

high stress moment.

Also,

something that happened to me earlier

today that I don't think has ever really

happened to me before is I almost had

like a panic attack.

And I wasn't even sure what was causing

it.

I was just super,

super anxious as if I was on the

verge of something about to happen.

And then like internally,

I'm thinking like my first thought was

like, well, man, I should pray.

And then almost as if it wasn't my

voice.

Something responded.

Maybe it was my own.

It was in my own head.

It was my own thoughts.

I'm assuming I don't know what it was,

but the thought of like,

what good is that going to do?

uh,

happened right after I thought maybe I

should pray.

And then as soon as that happened,

I got like hot and was immediately like,

Oh, now I'm definitely have to pray.

Now I definitely have to pray.

And then as soon as I prayed,

I got on my face and prayed and,

you know,

repented for anything that I needed to

repent for and all that stuff.

And then bam, the anxiety, the,

the being on the verge of like a

panic attack, all that stuff went away.

it and it just kind of slowly crept

in today like it wasn't like all of

a sudden i'm anxious it was like a

slow build-up of anxiety today and yeah so

there was that so if anybody is on

the verge of a panic attack or extremely

anxious uh get on your face pray and

repent and uh yeah and also ask you

know if i open any doors inadvertently um

a sin out of ignorance please you know

please forgive me for it and let me

know what it is and stuff like that

so

Yeah, there's that.

And then this morning,

I was out there getting the garden ready

for filming and then also fall garden at

the same time.

And collectively,

everything is out there is struggling.

And it caused me to start looking around

in the forest across the street,

some of the trees that I planted on

this property, things like that.

Everything collectively is struggling.

We haven't had rain in...

I don't even know how long,

but that's also not unusual for this part

of Texas.

It's not unusual for things to be able

to make it through this heat.

If you focused on your soil and stuff

like that,

to be able to make it through this

heat,

will they be wilting throughout the day?

Yes,

but this was first thing in the morning

when things should have still had that

cool break through the winter,

or not through the winter,

but through the night,

without the direct sunlight or anything

like that, and everything is struggling,

except...

The only thing that is not struggling,

that is thriving and acts as if the

sun and the heat doesn't even bother it

are the Moringa trees.

The Moringa trees just flat out don't care

about this.

They are growing and they are thriving.

Most of them,

if they're not as tall as me,

they're taller.

And then there's one that's to the point

where it's like a couple of feet past

like where I can reach above my head

and stuff like that.

So that's pretty cool.

Moringa will be going back on the market

here before too long.

But even sweet potatoes,

even my sweet potatoes are struggling,

which I've done sweet potatoes with way

less attention here in this part of Texas,

way less water, way less attention,

all that type of stuff.

And they've done better than what they're

doing right now.

Right now,

like the leaves and the vines seem to

be just barely hanging in there,

even in the garden that I have like

on an automatic water in the back.

Um, so there's that.

I don't,

I don't know what's going on other than

potentially the, just the lensing effect.

Now I will say that the things that

are underneath this Elm tree are doing

better than the things that,

or the things that are getting earlier

shade from the Elm tree are doing better

than the things that get it later in

the day, the shade from the Elm tree.

So

Yeah,

even I have a California cypress that I

got from the NRCS agency for free.

I got that out there.

I think this is the second year it's

been planted.

It's struggling.

And California cypress is supposed to do

very, very well in the heat.

I got oaks out there that are native

to Texas that are suffering.

I got...

pecans out there which are like known for

doing well in the south those out there

are suffering again the only thing that's

not suffering right now are my moringa

trees everything else the grass the trees

the forest all that stuff is just seems

to be barely hanging in there so yeah

that's what's going on there that's what's

going on here

Regarding a couple of those things, well,

that lensing effect is legit.

I mean,

even Eric was telling me about it.

It was like you go outside and you

feel like you're being cooked from the

inside out.

And that's exactly the process of what

they're doing right now.

Plus, your mom has been telling me,

because she keeps up with that sort of

thing,

that

they had been going full tilt boogie on

these NEXRAD radar towers.

That's why, folks,

when you see those moguls in the sky,

that's where it's coming from.

It's these microwaves that they're doing

out there.

They say we're under a heat dome.

Well,

they use those NEXRAD radar towers as a

force multiplier to make that so.

And, yeah,

it's getting crazier and crazier,

and we are –

I don't even understand why anybody would

want to pay taxes to this country.

I mean, first of all,

why do you need tax money anyway when

you're printing the money?

I mean,

why do you need it in the first

place from any of us?

It's a slave system.

That's exactly what they got going right

now.

And regarding that anxiety, son, yeah,

you know,

that is also one of the things,

a lot of the things people are reporting

right now is high anxiety because of these

towers.

Also,

you know, inability to sleep.

Your mom and I,

had that problem night before last and it

was it was just bizarre and they're going

full tilt if you look at some of

the people i trust on x they're putting

out information on how they are absolutely

cooking everything when the lights go down

i mean i'm talking about when the sun

goes down they are running these next rad

towers i mean full tilt boogie um yeah

uh juby joe saying bp earth watch yeah

that's a pretty good channel right there

um

Yeah, so Moringa, yeah,

it's going to do well in a situation

like that because it's completely adapted

for it.

But like you said,

you got old growth trees out here that

are falling by the wayside.

And Dane Wigington,

he covers a whole lot of that out

there.

In fact, if you go to his place,

my goodness, man.

I mean,

you got Douglas firs just falling down for

no reason whatsoever.

And folks,

they are honestly trying to kill every

last one of us.

No, that is not hyperbole.

It isn't.

And I think I can make the case

for it probably before this shows.

Well, if I haven't already,

I don't know what to tell you.

So it's I mean,

if we honestly at this point,

I don't know what else to tell everybody.

I can't believe how much of my day

I have to spend me and your mom

doing people care to try to beat back

with these fools in this government.

this,

this diabolical elite that we have is

trying to do to every last one of

us out there.

So, uh, yeah, there's a whole lot of,

there's a whole lot of sick stuff going

on right now.

All right, y'all.

So, um,

I'll just jump on into the good news

because that's probably only good news.

You're going to get this day on the

program.

So I'm just going to look y'all.

I'm I, I get it from people.

Oh,

you ought to do a feel good show.

Yeah.

Yeah, okay, you want to feel good?

Jesus died for your sins.

That's the only positive thing I can say

right now because the fact of it is

these fools are trying to make you have

a meeting with them sooner than maybe you

intended,

and they're going to succeed if you aren't

on your game.

That's why I'm just floored that so few

people even care about what's happening

right now and what that's going to mean.

Folks are already struggling.

They were struggling a year ago,

and now it's getting to the point where

they're like,

Man, I mean,

I can't work any more jobs.

I mean,

there's people out there working two and

three jobs just trying to make ends meet.

And meanwhile,

that fool in the White House and folks,

I'm not left, I'm not right.

I'm not with any of these idiots,

not the Democrats, not the Republicans.

And it sure is funny.

Nobody had any criticism for me when I

called everything stupid.

I called Joe Biden and Obama everything

but a child of God.

Nobody had any criticism for me then.

But all of a sudden,

when I start putting the shoe on the

other foot and comparing Trump and saying

that he might be the absolute worst of

all, now all of a sudden the haters,

the Trump nut-huggers come walking out of

the woodwork.

And I mean, honestly, son,

I'm to the point right now,

I seriously believe that if Trump were to

walk in the house of most of these

Trump-tards,

and he were to lay his junk on

the table, they wouldn't call the cops.

They'd call a waiter and ask for steak

sauce.

I ain't never seen nothing like it, man.

I have never seen more sycophants out

there that no matter how bad,

how bad this guy intentionally does what

he's doing, they're like, please, sir,

may I have another?

I've never seen anything like it.

and um yeah i'm blaming my generation for

it i'm blaming the boomers not you know

excluding the people listening to this

right now the boomers

Can't see it.

Generation X sees it and they don't care.

But everybody comes down on the boomers.

I've shifted my speech on that.

So, yeah, it's yeah.

James, right.

Let's start Victory Gardens.

Twenty twenty seven.

Yeah,

you better be starting in twenty twenty

six.

You might want to consider some gorilla

gardening on top of it, too,

because it's about to get written.

No, it's already gotten real.

For some reason, most of the people,

even that are wide awake to so many

things,

just still won't see the consequences of

what's about to unfold.

All right,

so let's go to the first good news

article.

Strength training may slow brain aging by

up to two point three years.

Study finds.

Now,

I talked about when Morley Robbins was on

here.

I don't remember what the numbers were,

but I can't remember how many years you

gain if you can give blood once a

quarter.

And you live longer than those that don't.

So that's something to consider.

But also the strength training says it

slows down brain aging.

Look, just being active, doing anything.

If you doubt me,

go check out a guy named Erwin LaCour.

I've talked about him.

I do his breathing program.

But he also has another program.

It's called Move Nat,

meaning move naturally.

And he's showing you workouts that you

ought to be doing

In nature,

that's where you ought to be doing most

of your exercise,

not in an antiseptic gym.

And that's something you can slice into

wherever you are.

In fact,

if you look at the work of Dr.

Jack Cruz,

you'll find out that most gyms are the

worst place you could be because you're

surrounded by blue light with no access to

outside air, with outside light,

which could offset the blue light that

they have in those gyms.

So you could be creating more harm than

good just by being in those environments.

So if you do,

you might want to take necessary

precautions or limit the time that you are

in those places.

All right, so the next one here.

Study links phytochemical-rich diet to

fifty-two percent lower colorectal cancer

odds.

So what does that mean to everybody out

there?

I eat a salad every single day.

And at the end,

I'm going to distill this down to anybody

that needs to know what I'm talking about

here.

What you're basically finding out in this

article,

you want to eat as many colors as

possible.

You want to be throwing nuts in there.

If you can get good, reliable ones,

I mean like almonds that aren't sprayed

with a bunch of poison, walnuts, pecans,

like William was talking about those pecan

trees down there.

I'm still eating some of the one my

daughter-in-law brought out.

Put just a few of those in my

salad.

That's my vehicle for getting a lot of

this stuff in there.

And the salad down there,

it's got broccoli.

It's got, I mean, blueberries, black.

Well,

I don't have blackberries in this one,

but I used to put blackberries in there

back when they were in season.

spinach i mean endive every single thing

you can think is in this salad and

that's my vehicle for getting a lot of

this stuff and i eat at least one

salad every day today is going to be

one of those days where i have two

so um that is a good way especially

in light of everything they are doing to

us right now like for dinner tonight i'll

i'll eat a salad and a t-bone that's

what i'm having and that's probably gonna

Yeah, we got potatoes down there,

but I'm not.

I try to stay away from any starches

at the end of the day because it

might mess with my sleep a little bit.

So anyway,

that's what it's going to be for me

at the end of the day.

So eat as many colors as you can

and eat them as locally as you can.

It shouldn't be too hard to find this

time of year.

All right.

So the last good news story,

morning coffee's hidden power.

The scent alone may reduce stress and

improve mood.

Okay.

They tell you about all the benefits of

coffee, which I won't rehash on here.

But I want you to,

if you're going to drink it,

do it with the understanding that,

and this is one cool thing I got

from Andrew Huberman and Gary Brekka.

Don't drink your coffee as soon as you

get up, folks.

That is the best way to have a

massive cortisol spike in the middle of

the day.

You want to wait at least forty-five

minutes to an hour before you ever drink

any coffee after you get up.

You want to make sure you see the

sunrise.

That's what ought to be.

I mean,

that's when you're getting the stuff to

make your melatonin later on that night.

So you want to get up.

You want to let that wake you up.

Don't drink any coffee.

In fact,

your mom doesn't even drink it until we

get back in from the chore.

So it's at least two hours after we

would have already woken up.

So keep that in mind, folks.

But, yeah,

they're talking about the scent.

I mean, yeah,

the scent alone does kind of put a

little pep in their step.

I totally get that,

but I'm wondering if it can't be a

Pavlovian effect.

I mean, like, yeah,

with maybe like changing it out with

something else.

Yeah, potentially.

But I grew up, you know,

I grew up in an environment where there

was coffee being brewed every morning.

But like whenever Emily,

when she was first pregnant with this with

the new baby,

she stopped drinking coffee just because

she wasn't tolerating it very well.

And recently she started making coffee

again in the morning.

I wake up or I come out in

the kitchen and enjoy.

It does wake you up a little bit

just smelling the coffee being made.

But yeah, you're probably right.

It is probably just a Pavlovian response.

And not because it's coffee.

It's just you're used to.

You associate that smell with time to wake

up and energy and stuff like that.

Yeah, but I'll tell you,

I don't usually have the best reaction to

coffee.

There's one coffee place in town where

they make coffee I can actually drink that

doesn't make me psychotic.

Outside of that,

I got some of this Yerba Mate from

the farmer's market last Sunday.

And I'll tell you what,

it's nowhere near as powerful as coffee.

But if you feel like you need a

boost...

I had that with zero effect,

zero side effect,

at least nothing I could detect.

So that's another solution out there for

folks.

I mean,

what I do is make an iced tea

out of it.

I just, you know,

I put it in the,

take the leaves or whatever,

put them in the French press,

put some hot water in there,

let it sit for a while,

put it in a quart jar, and then,

you know,

just work on that whenever I want

something.

But yeah,

that stuff definitely works pretty well.

You can make it stronger.

Um,

but it has nowhere near the wild side

effects that I've been experiencing from

coffee.

Like I said,

there's only one place in town.

I know I can get coffee.

I mean,

I I'm drinking a double shot from that

place and I still have no problem.

Could be that they're blunting it with

some of the, um, cream out there too.

I usually don't like cream in the coffee,

but.

They put that in there or the milk

or whatever and how they make it.

It's one of them highfalutin types.

I only get it like maybe once a

week.

And yeah,

I don't seem to have much of effect.

I mean,

maybe if I did put some cream in

there, but I don't know.

I'm just not big on that sort of

thing.

But I think it may blunt some of

the effect.

All right,

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He's out there in California,

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definitely high gas prices.

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I like their immune stuff,

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All right.

So we're going to hit something today

that's very pressing into what's going on

right now.

I mean, unless you're hiding under a rock,

I don't care who you are.

Gas prices are something that everybody's

going to know for the most part,

unless you live in a place like New

York City where you get around on public

transportation or you ride the city bus

every day.

All those prices have pretty much gone up,

but America has plenty of food.

until the truck stop and speaking of which

there's rumors out there and they're

nothing more than rumors at this point

that the truckers are basically going to

have a little strike on october first how

many times have i said on this show

son we're all truckitarians quoting the

great max egan most episodes most episodes

you say that i've been saying it forever

in a day

Because nobody in the mainstream

prostitute media is talking about how bad

this thing is going to get.

Just with the Strait of Hormuz,

it was going to get bad.

Because that Professor Zhang from China,

he's actually a Canadian guy,

but he lives in China.

The guy has been calling balls and strikes

forever today,

and his record is probably as good as

Michael Yan's.

And he was on diary of a CEO

the other day,

and he is dropping manhole covers of

information of where he thinks things are

going to go.

And you might want to pay attention to

him because he's called everything,

everything with unbelievable precision.

He didn't really talk about the diesel

prices so much,

but he did talk about the interdependence

and how when the bronze, the last time,

he's predicting a collapse so bad that it

rivals what happened during the Bronze

Age.

The Bronze Age collapse killed millions,

and almost nobody knows about that.

Yeah, anyway, in a long story short,

everything fell apart,

and because they were so interdependent

with all these countries,

because everything fell apart,

a lot of people died.

Okay, just in the Strait of Hormuz.

We don't have hydrogen, not hydrogen,

helium coming out of there,

which we need to make,

we absolutely positively need that stuff

to make

Computer chips.

You know what else we need?

And it's made just down the road from

me here in North Carolina.

We need crystals coming out of that mine,

and it's the highest quality crystals in

the world.

They got to get them from this mine

over in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

There ain't another place.

That's why when that manufactured

hurricane hit here,

it was especially devastating.

I'll tell you what.

They had a whole army of folks over

there trying to dig that place out because

that mine, if it shuts down,

But anyway,

you got the helium coming out of the

Persian Gulf.

You got Taiwan making the semiconductors.

You got us providing,

and I'm just talking one small thing.

There was a level of interdependence that

people really don't think about much.

They really don't.

And it all relies on diesel.

Every bit of it.

We don't have a food system,

we have a transportation system with food

riding on it, you dig?

Most Americans experience agriculture at

the grocery store, on that shelf.

But they have no idea the food chain

of supplies that have to enroll just for

that,

that have to happen just for that to

even make it so for them to shop.

Okay, all those tires that you have,

I've worked in, in my electrical career,

I bet I've worked in four different tire

plants in four different states.

I've worked in Goodyear.

I mean, you name it.

I've worked in tire plants in Oklahoma,

Kansas, Texas, and, well,

a couple of them in Kansas and in

Oklahoma, yeah.

Do you have any idea where all those,

just to make those tires,

do you have any idea how much they

rely on things from throughout the world?

Nobody ever thinks about that.

Nobody ever thinks about it.

So we got a lot of supply chains

that have now come to the dusty death,

as Shakespeare called it.

And nobody cares, nobody knows,

but I'm telling you,

these chickens are coming home to roost.

Son,

let me kick it on over to you.

Yeah, the first thing you could do is,

I mean, obviously,

if you haven't started storing food,

start storing food.

But one of the mistakes that I see

a lot of people making when it comes

to storing food is that they store either

snacks,

something that's not really super calorie

dense or nutritionally dense,

or they're storing individual by

themselves ingredients.

without really a way to combine them with

anything else.

So next time you go to the store

with the intent of putting food back,

don't just buy individual ingredients.

Buy complete meals that can be cooked

relatively easily at home

And also come up with a solution for

how to cook it.

If you have an electric stove or electric

oven or whatever it may be,

maybe come up with some alternatives to

use wood to cook with or gas to

cook with or whatever it may be.

Just look for some alternative ways to

cook your food if need be.

Even those sun ovens.

You know what I mean?

Those are fuel free ways to cook your

food.

They take a while.

And then they also have some smaller

portable ones that are in the shape of

like tubes and everything,

which you could utilize as well.

But the biggest issue is that people are

storing individual ingredients with not

really a plan on how to utilize them

or they're not thinking about utilizing

them in times of need.

So start thinking of it that way.

Look at the ingredients that you already

have put back.

And because I mean,

it's going to help a lot with morale

if the rice is flavored like something.

If it ain't just plain rice and hopefully

salt, uh,

hopefully it's flavored like something

where it's in combination with another

meal, things like that.

And also whenever you're doing that,

another thing to keep in mind is that

can't depend on your freezers necessarily

working as well either.

So you either need a freeze dry,

which is an easy way to rehydrate and

cook, uh,

to consume if need be or can or

whatever it may be.

But think of a alternative ways to store

back food and meals without having to

utilize the freezer, if at all possible.

Well, to that point, folks,

I'm just going to be straight with you.

We got that freeze dryer running day and

night.

And to William's point, right now,

everything we have in that freeze dryer,

I don't know why people do this,

but in the preparedness space,

But they'll just take eggs and freeze dry

them, put them away.

Or they'll take potatoes, freeze dry them,

put them away.

Forget a bunch of that, man.

If you find yourself having to get into

your stores,

I don't want any thought having to put

in on how am I going to have

to go about cooking this.

Because let's be honest here.

It may be a tactical situation.

And I got news for you.

In the military, in a tactical situation,

you don't have fires at night.

That's the fastest way to get yourself

killed.

Fires and those headlamps and everybody

that drive me crazy,

those are going to be the first people

to get smoked when things go Mad Max,

if they go Mad Max,

and I think they almost certainly will at

some point, at least in some places.

The number one thing that's going to kill

everybody is light and sound discipline.

The lack of either.

I guarantee it.

You're going to have Mad Max going on,

but people out there with flashlights,

you better learn how to use that night

vision.

But I also want to say,

to your point,

the freeze dryer and what we have in

there right now,

I'm glad you brought that up.

Because right now, in that freeze dryer,

your mom made something of a hash out

of pork that we've had sitting in that

freezer for probably four years now.

Also,

potatoes that we harvested here on this

farm.

And

A winter squash that she just harvested

the other day made something of a hash

out of it.

And as we speak right now,

it's in that freeze-dried.

Now,

why would I do that as opposed to

buying any?

That's why I don't talk about any

freeze-dried companies anymore because,

well, yeah, Harvest, right?

We got that as a sponsor,

but I'm talking about buying it already

freeze-dried.

Number one,

they never put any meat in it.

And if they do,

it is a lazy amount that they put

in there.

Freeze dry your own, put back the money,

do your own because you can make it

exactly the way you like.

Plus, you would probably,

to get the nutrient density that we have

in the stuff that we're putting back,

you would have to probably get a dozen

or more of that stuff because they're not

buying the best ingredients.

They're not using the best stuff.

We are.

There's adequate salt already in there.

And everything else has a...

electromagnetic barcode for us because it

was everything that's going to go in that

freeze dryer right now is all coming from

this farm, all produced here,

all raised here, all processed here.

So put entire meals out there.

It wasn't something I intended to talk

about, but when you brought that up,

that was something I definitely wanted to

hit on.

If you're going to freeze by something,

forget individual items.

Think as if you find yourself in a

crisis situation and all you have is water

to put in there.

You don't want to cook anything.

You don't want to waste the brain energy.

Spend that energy right now,

but good night, man.

I don't understand this whole putting all

these separate things.

I used to do it that way,

and I've talked before about how you

probably ought not to be doing it that

way.

I think the only time you ever do

that anymore is whenever you're

making stuff for my daughter really like

strawberries or, or something that can be,

that is a complete snack or meal in

and of itself,

like fruit and things like that.

So like apples,

strawberries and stuff like that,

those are all perfectly fine and really

kind of fun snacks to have that might

help boost morale at the same time during

those times.

But another thing you can be doing like

right now before everything collapse,

if you haven't already is try to source

as much locally as you possibly can

because

Go ahead and make those make those deals.

I'm saying this with the caveat.

If if the local farmers that you have

around you are very, very petroleum based,

meaning like if there's no diesel coming

in, they can't run their farm,

then probably not the best ones to team

up with because their farm is going to

be successful until the diesel runs out.

They're kind of in the same boat with

you just on a larger scale.

try to find those regenerative farms that

are closer to you because they,

if they are regenerative to an extent,

they're going to be aware of, you know,

the importance of not being dependent upon

petroleum to an extent,

and they're still going to be able to

survive without the constant access to

diesel.

So try to make those relationships.

Now, the closer they are to you,

the better, even if they're using some,

you know, I mean like, uh, Logan, uh,

Logan from, uh,

Oh, man.

Sowing Prosperity,

he makes a good argument.

The stuff that he sells at his market,

he doesn't necessarily look for the

absolute cleanness.

He looks for what's closest and what he

can support with the intent of eventually

convincing them, hey,

you have a good enough market here.

Here's what people want is a cleaner

version of what you're already growing.

Start working on that.

We're going to keep buying your produce in

the meantime.

We're going to fund you transitioning over

to a cleaner process and everything.

You can do the same thing on your

own town and area, but start that now.

You want to do that now before it's

kind of too late.

Build these relationships now.

Make yourself an asset to these other

places as well,

especially if you have any trades under

your belt.

I would say most of the people at

the farmer's market,

if you go to the Asheville farmer's

market,

most of the people there

do not have their trades squared away.

I would say most of them probably are

decently good at growing what they're

growing,

and everything else is kind of like a

hobbled together mess.

I've visited enough farms to realize most

people getting into the food space right

now,

and most of the people that are selling

in the food space right now,

don't know how to necessarily fix stuff.

They don't really know how to build stuff

that's lightweight and efficient on

materials and stuff.

So if you know how to do those

things,

or if you know how to fix those

systems,

or if you know how to come up

with and make some freaking biodiesel,

do that and make yourself an asset to

these other farms.

So that way, whenever they think of like,

wow, we can only produce so much,

who are we going to sell to?

You're one of the first names that comes

to their mind whenever it comes to that

point.

Yeah.

The next one here is, well,

You know,

I got my list of talking points of

things I was going to discuss, but man,

you guys are putting out so many good

things and it's making me riff on it.

So I'm kind of going off script a

little bit here, but that's what we do.

Colleen says a freeze dryer is not in

our budget.

Hey, I totally get it.

I totally get it.

If it's possible, I would go for it.

If not,

let's talk about some other options

because that's what we used to have to

do back in the day.

Remember,

Folks,

don't compare your beginning or where you

are with where we are.

I've been at this a long time,

over two decades,

and I made a lot of mistakes along

the way,

and we didn't just acquire a lot of

this stuff overnight.

I saw this coming a long time off.

It was going to happen.

But yeah, Colleen, let me address that.

If you don't have a freeze dryer and

you're not sufficiently growing things or

you don't have enough putback, good night.

Everybody can go out there and still get

rice at a bargain right now.

Beans at a bargain.

Son,

do you remember that place where we got

them beans on those hundred pound bags?

Hayes Food Products in,

I think it's Greenville, South Carolina.

Hayes Food Products, H-A-Y-E apostrophe S.

You can get the best grade beans from

a place like that, you know,

that sells to big distributors right

there.

Grade A beans.

I didn't even know they graded beans up

until that time.

You can go there.

And at the time,

I don't know what they are right now,

but back then it was like thirty two

cents a pound.

And that was insanely cheap.

I don't care what they're charging right

now.

You can take that stuff,

put it in mylar buckets, oxygen absorbers,

the whole nine yards.

And we don't even know what the shelf

life is on a lot of this stuff.

Same thing with wheat berries.

You're good until you break that berry.

So you want to have a way to

grind that stuff if that's what you eat.

Rice.

If you can,

stay away from any fortified stuff.

But man, if you're in a bind,

anything is going to fill your belly.

We did a video a while back,

and I'm sure it's not relevant now,

but how to feed yourself for seventy two

days on one hundred bucks.

And that consisted of rice,

fat and beans as a protein.

That's what we had a bucket of several

buckets.

In a mylar bag.

A lid, of course.

The fat, I think, was avocado oil,

which you can still get.

I mean, I'm not sure.

Coconut oil.

Yeah, thanks, son.

Yeah, it was coconut oil.

And you got proteins coming from the

beans.

You got starch, obviously,

coming from the rice.

And that's just that.

If that's all you can do right now,

You were light years ahead of everybody

else out there.

I mean,

you could still buy a fifty pound bags.

I don't know what they're going for right

now.

But last time I looked at Sam's Club,

I'm have to roll back in there because

I remember and the inflation on rice was

through the doggone roof.

You could probably, last I looked,

you can get a fifty pound bag of

rice for about twenty five bucks and it

was ten bucks higher than it was the

year prior.

So I don't know where it's going right

now,

but I got to believe that it's still

at a bargain.

So consider going to a place where you

can get some bulk beans,

get some bulk rice.

The one thing everybody forgets about in

preparedness.

Now, if you live in the tropics,

disregard what I'm about to say.

Because it comes easy there.

Son,

what is the hardest thing to find in

North America in the wild?

Fat.

Fat.

Fat, yeah.

Everybody forgets about that.

All your wild game out there is going

to be very lean.

If you live in the tropics,

you got fat falling from the doggone trees

all year long and different cultivars of

fat in the form of avocados and coconuts

and everything else out there.

But...

in the regular world up here in North

America and maybe in Europe,

you don't have that option.

So unless you're living in the tropics or

the subtropics, you know,

that's not an option for you.

So you got to be thinking about that

fat and nobody in the preparedness space,

nobody ever talked about it until I

started doing it.

So now I'm glad everybody's catching up.

So son,

let me kick it on back to you.

Now, Colleen,

I know I'm pretty familiar with your

situation just because we've communicated

before and stuff like that.

Keep in mind,

you can still achieve quite a bit with

the combination of dehydrating food,

vacuum sealing food,

and then also canning food as well.

Like your fats,

a lot of your fats can be canned

and kept for a very long time.

It's not like you guys are bugging out

anywhere.

You guys are pretty much staying,

from my assumption,

you guys are pretty much staying in one

spot if things were to hit the fan.

Um, so like canned goods,

the downside of canned goods is that

they're heavy, they're brittle,

they take up a lot of space,

stuff like that.

But if you're not leaving,

if you're not going anywhere,

then you can set aside and dedicate space

and racks and stuff like that to those

heavier products and stuff.

And then that way you can, I mean...

can some chicken legs there's quite a bit

of fat in there can can meat can

do whatever you can even can butter if

you want to and uh go that way

if you want but yeah so you have

quite a few uh things that you can

still do even without a freeze dryer the

main benefit of the freeze dryer part is

a the shelf life on things but also

the convenience aspect of being able to

put back an entire meal all at once

and yeah colleen was saying we ain't going

anywhere yeah i hope not

Uh, but yeah.

Um, yeah.

And then also keep in mind in North

America and, uh, even yeah.

In North America, for the most part,

the fact that's going to fall from the

trees is going to be very,

very seasonal in the form of nuts.

So your timing has to be on point.

Like right now I've got pecans dropping

from this tree here pretty soon.

Um, you gotta like,

You got to time that well and then

also get everything squared away all at

once.

Like right now, like here pretty soon,

we're going to be going out there shaking

that tree and capturing as many pecans as

we possibly can.

A,

because they're the best freaking pecans

you could even get.

But also B,

it's a form of like fat that stores

very,

very well that we can put in our

cabinets and put away just in case we

ever need it.

Yeah.

And also another thing that you can do

in order to prepare for these things is

to go bulk with like other families by

like very,

very large bulk amounts with other

families,

just to a increase or decrease the amount

of, uh,

the cost that it's going to require,

but also like, uh,

you can get a whole lot for pretty

easy.

You know what I'm saying?

And then also something that you might not

be able to afford before if you team

up with another family,

you might now be able to afford it.

An awesome place to buy bulk stuff is

like Hayes Food Products,

also Azure Standard.

That's another place that's awesome to get

good quality, clean things from.

There's a reason,

like Dad was saying before in other

podcasts,

there's a reason that Azure Standard never

really sold avocado oil.

And it's because they knew if they,

like dad had said before, they knew if,

uh,

they started pushing these avocado oil

producers and stuff,

that they're going to start, you know,

cutting it with some canola oil and some

less desirable oils,

the stuff that we don't want.

So, yeah.

Um, man, I think the main consensus,

what I just realized with a lot of

my points is

is that team up with community is the

main concern or the main factor between

all of it is like,

try to get teamed up with the community

because you're not going to do well by

yourself.

Uh,

I think Helene pretty well put a stamp

on that for me,

at least is that you're not going to

do very well by yourself.

Not for very long either.

Um,

you really need to develop some sort of

community if at all possible, uh,

in order to like kind of thrive in

these times.

What do you think, Dan?

yeah i mean that's actually on my list

because uh and son you might want to

look in the chat uh somebody says get

with them about it already passed up but

get with them about a consultation and

jeff lee was in there saying he got

you lined up so yeah yeah yeah folks

i mean if you're ever going to get

a consultation boy you better get on board

right now because yeah i mean this is

you know the best time to get a

consultation is twenty years ago the next

best time is right now so

Um, and honestly, you need,

you need professional eyes to look on what

you got going out there.

So you're not making any foolish mistakes.

Um, yeah, to that point,

I was going to say local farmers are

actually a sort of infrastructure.

They really are.

And it doesn't, and when I say farmers,

folks, I mean,

forget about the quintessential notion of

what everybody thinks a farmer ought to

look like.

When I say I'm a farmer,

people bat their eye a couple of times,

and they're like, well,

they expect a farmer to look and be

a certain way,

and I don't fit that for most people.

But they are a point of infrastructure.

So knowing nearby growers,

livestock producers, I mean,

processors and markets, I mean, right now,

these guys are taking it in the short

term.

when it comes to beef.

And it's going to be that way for

a lot of other things,

and they're going to go through the roof.

Well,

what if you're knocking on the back door,

and let's say you know,

even if you don't,

when you go to a local farmer's market,

excuse me,

that's also a good place for you to

network to find things that you may need.

For example,

my buddy Steve was needing pigs,

and he was asking me if I knew

anybody.

Just so happens,

I know a guy at this Asheville farmer's

market who's got a bunch of pigs he's

trying to get rid of.

Now, the guy I know has got a,

oh, shoot,

what's that thing that's growing out there

that everybody seems to hate?

I can't remember the name of it.

There's kudzu.

There's multi-flora rose.

Yeah, kudzu.

Yeah, he's got a kudzu problem.

Well, you don't have a kudzu problem.

You got a lack of pig problem where

you got a lack of, you know,

ruminants that will eat it.

So anyway,

he's wanting to get pigs over there.

But just because I knew this guy at

the farmer's market,

I'm not in the market for it.

Like I said,

I'm still eating meat that's four years

old.

I am not in the market for it,

but I know a guy that is.

So that's where your local farmer's market

can be a really good source.

All the hipsters are out there showing off

whatever they're buying right now.

You could be out there making connections

because a lot of these people,

they may not have everything they need

there and say, look, hey,

I need a good source for beef.

Do you know anybody?

While you're buying whatever from them,

or maybe you're not buying anything.

And I'll guarantee you,

if you just go out there and network,

that's why I'm saying local farmers are a

sort of infrastructure.

There's a whole lot of people out there

that are going to get absolutely robbed

You're going to pay a lot more for

it now.

I'm not even going to kid you.

You're going to pay a lot for beef.

You're going to pay a lot for everything.

But it's worth it to me to be

able to support these people and at the

same time get a product that I know

isn't full of garbage.

Because like Joel talks about all the

time,

go to any McDonald's and I think there's

a thousand animals in that burger,

probably some human DNA in there too.

In fact, I've heard that before,

but I can't confirm it.

But the fact of it is, yeah,

that's my next one there, son.

To your point,

it's kind of tag teaming on what you

have there.

Yeah,

local farmers as a sort of infrastructure.

You need to be looking at that.

Yeah, well,

that's a pretty good idea to view them

as an infrastructure.

I never really thought of it that way.

But if you do have a farm or

you have a homestead or whatever it may

be, try to,

just like you're looking for farmers that

aren't doing it the traditional way,

make sure you're not growing food the

traditional way as well.

Like...

Try to, for example,

dad mentioned that he's about to get into

the chicken tractor on steroids.

I'm about to get into the chicken tractor

on steroids now that I have enough

chickens and everything.

Try to limit the amount of outside inputs

you're utilizing on your farm.

Like if you're going to the store to

buy livestock,

feed that comes in on a truck,

all those grains and stuff like that.

Those all come in on trucks, your warmers,

those coming on trucks or planes or

whatever it may be, um, or ships,

whatever it may be.

But if you're out,

if you're dependent on these outside

inputs, it's not just petroleum directly.

It's all,

everything that petroleum brings to your

farm is,

that's what you've gotta be trying to

replace.

One really cool system that most people

can fit on their property is the

combination of a garden plus chicken

tractor on steroids.

Both of them are fairly low maintenance

considering how many calories you get out

of it.

Your yield, I should say,

your yield is pretty high on both if

you do it correctly.

But those two in combination is a closed

loop system.

Like every consultation I try to, I do,

I try to incorporate the chicken tractor

on steroids in combination with the garden

so that we have a staple of food,

a closed loop system of food that doesn't

require any outside inputs that you can

have on your property where it doesn't

matter what's going on on the outside

world.

If you have enough chickens,

if you have a good enough size garden,

and you're producing compost,

you're going to be pretty good to go.

So yeah, try to,

try to reduce the amount of outside inputs

that you're using on your property.

And also things that are petroleum that

are necessary,

things like hoses and stuff like that

might not be a bad idea to,

you know, stock up on or, uh,

those hose gaskets,

those little black gaskets that you put in

where the hose connects stock up on those.

I've got,

I don't even know how many of those,

and I don't even know how many different,

uh,

you know,

locations because those things always go

out.

And if water is a, you know,

if we treat it as a valuable resource,

we don't want any of it leaking where

we don't want water to be or where

we want,

we want it all going to where we're

trying to direct it.

So yeah, yeah.

Try to reduce your dependency on the

outside grid as much as possible.

Now being more important than kind of

ever.

I see a number of questions in there.

We'll get to those in a minute.

In fact, I'll tell you what,

in lieu of me going on,

I was basically going to say,

use your neighborhoods the very same way.

Maybe if you have the ability to do

so, call a neighborhood meeting and say,

hey,

if you live in a place and kind

of take stock of what everybody's willing

to do.

Maybe you got a person over here that

has gardens.

Maybe another person over here can grow or

likes to grow fruit trees.

Maybe another person has chickens.

This was the guy that wrote the

Permaculture Design Manual with Bill

Mollison, David Holmgren.

I can never seem to say his name

right.

That was his last book basically saying if

we could take neighborhoods and everybody

just grew a little.

then you would be shocked at how much

abundance you could actually produce.

Like, for example,

on like that peach tree I had,

or let's say it's an apple tree right

now.

Let's say it produces five hundred pounds

of apples.

OK,

you're not going to eat five hundred

pounds,

but could you make a trade throughout

other folks in there?

Let's say they're growing things that you

don't have or it's a cultivar of apple

you don't have.

You might be able to be able to

make deals within these neighborhoods.

I mean,

we're going to have to get to this

point.

That's exactly how bad,

barring some miracle,

barring some massive,

because the truth of it is, folks,

I'll say,

I said everything tongue in cheek in the

fact that I don't know how much of

anything I can believe.

I mean,

they're telling us this Bob Elmondani

Strait is shut down,

but I haven't seen it.

They're telling me the Strait of Hormuz is

shut down.

Folks, they lied to that extent.

They're telling us, you know,

things in Saudi Arabia are blown up.

I haven't seen any of it.

I don't know how much they could say,

oh, my bad.

Everything's back online tomorrow.

I really think that's how crazy it is

right now.

Everything is a lie.

And if you believe the opposite,

I think you're going to serve yourself

well.

So, yeah,

working in those neighborhoods and just be

ready for the worst.

I know it's coming,

and I think it's coming sooner rather than

later.

The whole COVID thing,

everything else was designed to snip away,

to prune away the fat as they see

it from society,

and they're doing it with everything they

can possibly think of out there.

So let's see here.

Apparently, Michael,

I saw Juby Joe mentioned in here that

Michael Yan and Masako are

That's his wife.

Oh, gotcha.

Are buying property out here or something

like that.

So that'll be that'll be interesting.

Hopefully they get to, you know,

growing food.

Do you have any idea where they might

be buying property?

Do you know, dad?

I don't know.

I thought she said last week or last

show that they were doing it in Japan,

which I think that would be one of

the worst places.

I mean,

I love and respect Michael Young in a

big way, but if I remember right,

I think he has a place in Texas,

so they would be very wise.

I would not want to be caught in

an island nation with what's about to

unfold right now.

Uh, yes.

And, uh,

we've got one person saying they're trying

to reach you.

So, um, let's see here.

There was another one here.

Okay.

Yes.

We're being asked,

how many chickens do you need for the

chicken tractor on steroids?

Well, uh, the magic number,

depending on you can scale this up or

down,

you can do it with any number for

the most part,

but if you're going to do it on

a regular homestead level,

the minimum number number that you need to

work that.

So it takes more work out of your

hand.

If you're using regular laying birds, uh,

you're going to need about twenty eight.

If you're using meat birds or dual purpose

birds, you can get away with about.

Well, if you're using meat birds,

you can get away with about seventeen.

If you're using dual purpose,

about twenty one,

you can play around with those numbers.

But generally,

of all the times we've done it,

those are the numbers I came up with

where it's ideal to

to be able to where the birds have

plenty to eat,

you're going to add way more to it

because they can't possibly eat all the

food scraps I'm putting out there.

So a lot of those food scraps will

wind up being compost.

And that's completely fine.

And as it's composting,

the biota out there is feeding those

chickens.

A lot of people are going to wish

they got on that.

In fact,

that's why I'm going to revisit that thing

as soon as I get two minutes to

rub together.

And we're going to kick that thing back

off again.

Like I said, I...

Now with the chicken tractor on steroids,

you can do less chickens.

Like when I had eleven chickens,

I was doing the chicken tractor on

steroids to an extent.

It's just not going to run as efficiently

as if you had like the other minimum

numbers that dad was talking about.

You can transition to a system because I

think more people are going to have less

than twenty one chickens than there are.

you know,

that have more than twenty one chickens.

But check out the urban chicken tractor on

steroids that Nick or Eric, Nick,

Eric Sider did over on YouTube.

And he only had a handful of chickens.

But instead of doing the four compost

piles within the run,

he had two compost piles that he

alternated back and forth.

And then also keep in mind that there's

going to be a little bit more labor

on your end if you don't have the

adequate number of chickens, too.

So keep that in mind.

That's the happy number I was talking

about.

Deborah brings up something here, yeah,

that I've been seeing all over the place

on X.

I'm trying to limit the amount of time

I'm around electronics and specifically

social media and stuff like that.

But in the nature of the work we

do,

I have to spend a little time on

there.

And she's confirming what I've been

seeing.

There was Irvin saying,

a few truckers that follow me are saying

that they're getting ready for a strike.

Billy, stock up now.

Yeah,

this is exactly what I've been telling

everybody for months and months and

months.

Because I do follow people like Michael

Yan and that one Chinese professor I was

talking about.

Yeah, Zhang.

Yeah,

because I follow these guys and looking at

their track record and not being a Debbie

Doubter.

I mean,

and then just honestly my own experience.

I knew this thing was coming this way.

In fact,

I knew it long before I even followed

those guys.

I just didn't know when the timing was

going to happen.

But as we can see,

it's all falling apart right now.

And I'm telling you, folks,

you have got a giant window of opportunity

right now because by and large,

nobody is going to make any preparations.

Got a whole lot of family members that

way.

Nobody is going to make any preparations.

Until this thing comes down when people

are rating the stores,

because if they do have a trucker strike,

hold on to your hat.

In fact, a lot of these owner operators,

man, they're not going to eat the cost.

They can't operate that way.

They can't roll that way.

So, I mean,

if something now the only real thing I

can see happening is

that may stay this calamity a little

longer, is Trump saying, look,

we're not going to sell any more diesel.

The federal government gets involved and

says, look,

we're not selling any of our diesel to

any other countries right now.

It's got to be all for domestic stuff.

Yeah,

that would put a little Band-Aid on it

for a while,

but why hasn't that moron already done it?

Right,

that's the obvious easy solution is, oh,

we're not producing our own needs right

now.

Let's get that squared away and sell the

excess.

That's exactly what you do in

permaculture.

If you're starving,

you don't sell everything to grow.

You feed your family first and then sell

the excess.

That seems like a very, it's again,

this is also the same group of people

who came up with the idea of raising

the pigs here,

shipping them to China for processing and

then shipping them back as like value

added products.

It's the same group of people that came

up with that system.

So yeah.

And also if anybody knows like any kind

of like alternative fuel,

it like can implement it so many,

any kind of, uh, alternative fuels,

then like,

now's the time to speak up and create

like some social media and a channel and

stuff like that.

Um, uh,

Don't fall for any traps as far as

going out into public buildings and group

gatherings or speaking publicly or

anything like that.

But you can still advertise and stuff like

that on social media and show people that

it is possible or teach people how to

do it.

Those are all things.

Or sell locally.

Maybe avoid the social media in general.

Go over there,

get on the corner and just show people.

Show your neighbors first.

Show your greater community that way how

to use these alternative fuels to...

get around and and things like that like

there's biofuel there's like those

hydrogen cells that you can add to your

vehicles um like with just a mason jar

in the back there's i mean yeah there's

a bunch of different alternatives we just

need like somebody who can actually

implement these things or stack functions

like your mom was talking to me about

this morning anytime we got to go to

town or go anywhere

believe me,

we're going to stack a whole lot in

there that we may have to do.

Or if something like usually when people

buy comfrey or bone sauce from us,

you know,

we mail everything out the next day.

It may be every other day.

Because of this sort of thing.

I mean, you just,

everybody's down to their last inch of

skin.

And we'll probably have some more

announcements, you know,

maybe next week regarding some other

things.

But yeah, like Debra says here,

a lot of truckers are parking their

trucks.

Yeah, I've seen it on X. I mean,

these people are absolutely, they're like,

man, I can't move it.

I can't do anything when gas is like

this.

And then she says also, I wish,

and I can relate to this one in

a big way,

wish my family would wake up.

Folks, I'm saying the very same thing.

I got, you know,

on my side of the family,

we got a bunch of them that think

having guns is sufficient.

And that's about it.

They think that having guns is sufficient.

Which is about the dumbest thing you could

do.

And then we got the other side who,

if they anything put back, it's a tiny,

tiny bit.

And they don't really worry about the

consequences of it.

It goes right back to, like I said,

the conversations I was having at the top

of the show with people that I thought

would almost certainly be awake to all

this.

It's like everybody has this normalcy

bias.

And it's not the people killed.

or the ones that view lead as a

form of currency, you know,

far down the road,

you gotta be before lead is ever like

ammunition is ever a form of currency.

You know how bad things to have had

to have gotten for, uh,

and how far along down the road that

for that to actually take effect,

like silver and gold and things like that

will become a currency.

I think before lead necessarily becomes a

currency, like alternative, uh,

currencies legitimate currencies will

become a currency before that food

obviously being the number one like

hygiene pro that's another thing women any

feminine hygiene products you need might

want to stock up on stuff like that

anybody who has any kind of medications or

anything like that you might want to stock

up on that and then also start researching

like um

alternatives that you can use instead of

whatever you know mainstream medication

you can use um that being said one

of the things that really stuck out from

the healing from the ages conference last

year was a doctor artist going through and

mentioning like all these mainstream

pharmaceuticals and during the studies and

the research of these pharmaceuticals

there was a plant or natural version in

their own words that was far superior to

the pharmaceutical thing that they're

selling you so

What he said was like,

look up your symptoms or look up whatever

the issue is.

Look up for natural plants, minerals,

vitamins, things like that,

that work well or that combat this thing.

And then start using those things and then

learn how to do muscle testing and stuff

like that.

But yeah.

Yeah,

there's so many different options out

there.

Well, folks, we've kind of gone.

We shot over what we intended to go

for as far as time today.

But look, man,

I'm not trying to freak everybody out,

but I'm not going to get on here

and lie to you.

I'm not going to sit here and paint

this rosy picture of where things are

going.

Everything we've predicted on this show is

coming to pass right now.

And most people are pretending as if it's

not happening.

Even people that I just, I mean,

people I would have thought were

completely tuned into what's going on.

They're acting as if it's not happening.

So it's going to bite a whole lot

of people in the butt.

Anything you need stock,

like William said,

whether it's medical stuff or whatever the

case may be,

any disposable income you have right now,

you need to be thinking about where that

can be best spent because things are not

going to improve anytime soon, y'all.

All right, y'all.

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