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doing son pretty good uh how are you

doing dad it looks like you just got

a haircut huh

If that's what you want to call this

thing,

I might as well go ahead and address

that, man,

because this is like my forehead's twice

as long.

Yeah, Deb.

When in my life have I ever noticed

that you had a haircut,

that you've gotten a haircut?

It's just something I don't notice.

That's the first thing I noticed when you

walked into the studio.

Yeah,

let me tell you how this went down.

I ended up going to this Great Clips,

the one I usually go to,

and

I've hit them all around here and there's

only one of them right now where it

has a bunch of ladies in there that

really know how to cut hair and varying

degrees depending on which one you wind up

getting.

But

All of a sudden,

I walked in there this time with your

mom the other day,

and this is one of those times where

I had to go to Asheville like three

times this last week.

I go in there.

I said, hey,

let me swing by and get a haircut.

As soon as I walk in,

there's a new guy there, black dude,

tall guy.

Looks like he just stepped straight out of

prison.

I mean,

there was something about his swagger.

Yo, what up, boss, man?

How you want me to cut this?

I'm like, it's on the paper, man.

So he says, all right.

So he did good on the fade on

the side,

even though I didn't ask for a high

and tight.

I'm asking a low taper,

just get it off my ears and stuff

like that.

I walk out looking with a high and

tight, and I had my eyes closed.

And before I could even notice,

he's boxing up the front end of my

hair.

I mean, and there was no stopping him.

He had already taken a big chunk of

it.

So it looks like this is one thing

black barbers do that I absolutely detest.

You make yourself look like a freaking

comic book hero when you sit here and

box off the front of somebody's head.

And now you got this stubble sticking out

there.

I don't even know.

I got in there.

And of course,

your mom might have been laughing as hard

as you were because this happened to me

once before.

And it was the same deal.

So I guess every time I'm in the

presence of a black barber,

I got to tell him, look, man,

don't try to do whatever it is you

guys do on the front.

It looks absolutely ridiculous.

And I have never in my life wanted

my hair to grow back faster.

It looks absolutely stupid, man.

That's why when I did that front porch

talk on Sunday, I'm like, man,

maybe I better just do an audio version

of this, man.

But nobody mentioned anything in there.

Clearly, they had to be thinking.

And the thing is,

as I'm looking at it, it looks lopsided.

Yeah.

It's lopsided.

He cut off one side.

So it's like I got a receding hairline

on part of the front of my head.

I'm like, you got to be lopsided.

It's lopsided.

It's like somebody was emulating – like my

dad always had that peninsula look, man.

He was going bald,

which was the most ridiculous look he ever

had.

He grew his hair out long,

and he had that little peninsula where the

front of it's still there,

but the rest of it's going back.

And it's like somebody tried to emulate

that and cut this one part of it,

man.

I'm sitting here thinking –

Yeah, I got in there, and your mom,

she was like, oh,

they did a good job,

and I looked at her, and she's like,

oh, yeah,

let me go ahead and take that back.

Yeah, GB Joe says, yeah,

put a hat on.

I think I might just have to do

that very thing.

Yeah,

so that might be the first time you've

ever noticed I had a haircut.

I was like,

how are you even seeing it, man?

Usually it's from the side,

somebody can tell, but.

But I didn't realize, I didn't, yeah,

it's for sure lopsided.

It's lopsided.

Hold on,

where did you find a black barber in

Asheville?

Exactly.

Well, this guy,

I get over to his little station there,

and you could just tell, I mean,

his eyes were bloodshot.

The guy was,

there was a vibe in there that was

very, very tense.

Very, very tense.

And they were playing music in there that

was like R&B,

and it wasn't what they typically play in

there.

It's like Top Forty,

whatever they usually play.

And I noticed in there,

as soon as I walk in there,

I'm like, what?

What is this?

And then I'm thinking,

because I've seen it before in the job

sites,

where if there's somebody with a radio,

that's why whenever I run jobs,

nobody has a radio.

Because I've seen black people actually

fight

on a job site because they weren't playing

the music they liked i never seen nothing

like it

Instead of just, yeah, I mean,

I've seen some ridiculous stuff out there.

So I think there must have been,

I came out and I told your mom,

I said,

there must have been some kind of conflict

in there because everybody in there knows

me.

And I go there all the time and

all of them, man,

it was cold as ice.

And I think he had something to do

with it.

So anyway,

won't be going back to that guy.

And yeah, anybody that cuts my hair,

I'll be looking at, I won't be,

my eyes won't be shut next time around.

I can tell you that.

Yeah, it's totally ridiculous.

Anyway,

so I'll stop with the comic relief here,

and I'll just jump right into the farm

news.

Well, there's some helpful information,

Dad.

Fire Drake's red light might help grow

back faster.

Yeah, well, I'm using the sun right now,

so I'm hoping, man.

I might just... I think, yeah,

now that I kind of...

I'm sitting here looking at myself before

we got on here, and I'm like, dude,

because I don't really look at a whole

lot of myself in the mirror, man.

I mean...

Why would I?

I ain't got no reason.

I mean, except when I'm brushing my teeth,

but I'm not even really looking in the

mirror.

It's all done by feel.

This is the first time I've really looked

at myself in two days, and I'm like,

the left side of my head is lopsided.

I mean, yeah.

Oh, my goodness, man.

I mean,

I felt okay when I was younger.

Growing up,

me and your uncle Dion and everybody,

you know,

in the summer when we were swimming and

whatnot, somebody,

nobody ever fell asleep after a while.

Why?

Because somebody was going to grab a razor

and cut off half your eyebrow.

So nobody ever just kind of went to

sleep, you know?

And I got caught slipping a time or

two, so I was walking home.

Mom's wondering why I ain't got but one

eyebrow.

And yeah, try to explain in that one.

Anyway, this feels worse.

All right,

so I'll just jump right into the farm

news.

Well, son, check this out.

There is definitely something going on,

and I'm wondering if anybody in the sound

of my voice is having this happen too.

Right now,

we got our sheep and chickens on what

I call a fifty-day rotation.

Meaning that they don't come around to the

first spot until fifty days have

transpired.

It's just the rotation I'm doing right

now.

Much,

much longer than I need for any area

around here.

I could graze this place typically once

every thirty days if I wanted,

but I'm doing it every fifty.

I could even push it out at certain

times of the year because we really we

didn't really have a dry spell,

so we moved them every day all through

the summer.

But

Son,

I'm going to grass right now that has

almost no regrowth at all in fifty days.

And something is definitely fishy out

there.

And your mom is even saying, like,

we've had rain.

We've had, in fact, too much rain.

And still we we are struggling.

She's struggling trying to dig up comfrey.

She's struggling, like,

putting in the fence posts.

And this is ridiculous.

I mean,

something is definitely going on now.

She thinks...

Your mom is starting to think,

and usually...

I mean,

this is a side of her genius that

she doesn't make known to everybody else

out there.

I am usually the one that is the

recipient of it.

She says,

I'm starting to wonder if they're putting

glyphosate or something like it in the

chemtrails or whatever else they're

dropping because this makes no sense.

We even got rain last night.

And the night before.

And it's still nearly impossible.

This ground is hard as woodpecker lips and

it doesn't make sense.

And the regrowth on everything I have out

here,

there is no way in fifty days when

we've had more than enough rain,

no way I should be looking at grass

that is like half grown back.

doesn't make sense at all.

So there's definitely something that I

haven't heard anybody else talk about it,

but if anybody else has experienced that,

uh, yeah, let me know.

Um,

cause that is definitely something going

on.

I actually had something similar to that

on my, uh, farm news, uh, section today.

Yeah.

I it's definitely happening.

Like this water is not soaking in and

softening up the ground at all.

Like I was brought for, well,

I'll wait till I'll wait till you're done.

But yeah, I agree with you.

Well,

Dane was also saying that all the rain

events and everything that we had,

that none of it soaked in because it's

essentially sublimating,

meaning that it's going from a solid to

a gas right off.

It's not even going in the liquid.

So the snow's out there and it's just

being evaporated and it's not even soaking

in because of the garbage you're doing.

Well,

I got a feeling they're doing some other

stuff.

So keep an eye out, folks.

If you see anything like this or you

haven't experienced, email me.

Let me know.

Or just sound off in the chat.

Hopefully, William can catch it.

All right.

So that brings me to another thing also,

man.

Denise from Renewed Homestead, she said,

do you guys get any rain?

Because they were forecasting rain every

single day.

And it was looking like we were going

to get it left and right,

left and right.

And, of course, we got some sprinkles.

And that's about it.

But I think –

My suspicion is that I don't think you

have to be Nostradamus to figure out that

everything they tell us right now is a

lie.

And I mean everything.

Going all the way down to the forecast,

I think I know that it's the strategy

of tension.

That they don't want you to be able

to trust in anything.

So, folks,

I'm just going to tell you right now

because people ask, you know,

what can I trust in?

Well, Jesus,

that's the only explanation I got because

that's how crazy things are getting right

now because everything is a lie.

I mean, this idiotic story.

William, don't bring up his name.

He asked that I don't say his name

or who he works for,

but you and I both know a pilot.

He used to fly in the military.

He used to fly jets in the military.

And now he flies for one of the

big airlines.

And I asked him about this whole thing

going on in that plane that flew into

Israel.

And basically, it's an impossibility.

The the the official story is an

impossibility in a nutshell.

And so

everything they tell us is a manufactured

lie.

And I think it's honestly a national and

even a world IQ test.

I think the people that are buying this

stuff.

Yeah.

I think it's like, here's your sign.

You know,

I don't know what else to say,

but anyway,

they're playing games with a forecast.

Anyway, some good news tomorrow.

I'm I'm going to be picking up some

breast birds and well, not the birds.

I'm actually going to be picking up the

eggs and I'm going to hatch them out.

So it was kind of cool.

how the Lord puts the right people in

front of me right when I need them,

because there's a lot of people that

produce these birds,

and they're not doing it right,

and they're all messed up.

So hopefully I got a good batch here.

I'll be picking those up.

I'm going to incubate them out,

and hopefully I don't have any mongoloids

coming out of here.

But then again,

we do live in the mountains,

so anything can happen.

Anyway,

I said me and your mom had to

go to Asheville several times this last

week.

Kind of an annoyance, but man,

I'm telling you what, son,

the homeless problems are off the chain.

It's like it was always an issue.

But it has gotten to the point where

I think before long we're going to wind

up being San Francisco if this keeps up.

I've never seen so many bums in my

life.

I mean, people strung out on whatever,

yelling.

One dude walking down the sidewalk holding

a two-by-four, swinging stuff around.

Another guy – I mean –

I can't even go through it all,

but I'm wondering if everybody else is

seeing a lot of this stuff too,

because it is absolutely getting crazier.

One last thing I want to point out,

folks,

and maybe we can circle back and hit

some of these questions here or

statements.

Thank you, Andrea,

for putting them in big letters.

We'll come back to you.

I'm sleeping a whole lot.

I'm sleeping even better now.

I want to tell you what I think

is responsible for it.

Turning off the power to my bedroom.

Which I've done before.

Well,

it was done for me back when that

manufactured hurricane came through.

But...

I, it's kind of cool.

I complained about the wiring that they

did in this place,

but this is one area where I don't,

where they put the receptacles on one

circuit and they put the lights on another

circuit.

So where your head is,

typically those wires are going to be

running anywhere.

It all depends,

but it could be anywhere between sixteen

to thirty six inches,

which is about where your head is when

they're running this stuff through the

wall.

Well,

we have in the electric trade what we

call the right hand rule.

In a nutshell,

without boring you with all the nerdy

stuff,

essentially the magnetism and whatever's

coming off those wires is basically going

to you.

I've done an experiment where I killed the

power and it seems like both of us

are sleeping a whole lot better.

So I want to make sure I point

that out as well.

And then finally,

the last thing I'm going to say here,

folks, even Drudge Report, okay,

they're as sold out as anybody else.

But when you see big letters on Drudge

Report in red letters saying,

probable food shortages resulting from

this whole thing in the Strait of Hormuz,

you might want to take that seriously.

Because these are people that run these

news outlets that really don't care about

you.

They do what their masters tell them.

But when they're openly telling you in big

red letters, food shortages on the way,

you might want to get your house in

order.

And that's part of what I want to

talk about in this main event or the

main topic today.

But with that,

we'll kick it on over to you, son.

Did you want to look at some of

these comments real quick?

Sure, we can do that.

Andrea,

I don't know how to say the rest

of your name, but they were saying, weird,

whatever they're spraying overnight stinks

too, smells horrible.

Yeah, I usually smell something funky.

It's hard to even describe,

but it's like funky first thing in the

morning is whenever I usually smell it.

And then there have been a couple of

days where it's been definitely more

intense than others.

laurel cordell is saying uh our hot

peppers didn't do spit this summer we're

between weaverville and mars hill and they

were saying that about when you were

talking about the uh soil being hard and

stuff like that and then well let me

address that one real quick i mean ours

the only peppers that did good were the

ones in the high tunnel really yeah wow

um there was another one i was trying

to

They're not far from you.

Ken and Amy, I thought it was,

but I can't find their posts anymore.

Ken and Amy were saying that they're

bending those spikes in the ground right

now for the fences and whatnot because

their ground is hard as well.

Yeah, and it makes no sense.

It makes zero sense.

And it's not like we graze our stuff

plumb down to the ground.

That shouldn't be happening here.

Yeah,

our ground is hard as rock right now.

Yeah,

she's absolutely convinced that there's

something that they're putting in there.

And then Stephen Jones, yeah,

says our ground too.

He's in southwest Georgia.

So, yeah,

I got a feeling that there is something

–

Very,

very diabolical going on with the latest

of what they're doing right now.

Because in ground...

And now we're seeing weeds pop up that

we didn't have before.

And that's been happening now for a

couple... I'm like, hold on.

Our soil is improving.

We went from all goldenrod to a beautiful

stand of grass out here.

And how are we going backwards when our

management strategies have only gotten

better?

So...

There is definitely something scary going

on.

I don't know what it is.

I'm not even going to pretend to.

What I do know is the powers that

shouldn't be want to murder every last one

of us.

And so you better make yourself hard to

kill, folks.

So I'm just putting this out there.

I'm hoping other folks will chime in.

Go ahead, son.

um but yeah as far as my soil

in this recent rain event that we've had

i mean obviously the soil was hard before

we got the rain and it didn't really

change much after this rain they were

forecasting you know flooding potential

flooding events stuff like that and i've

never seen more gentle rain in texas in

my life usually the the rain here is

like literally bigger raindrops and it to

the point where it's difficult to drive

anywhere while you're i mean outside of

the

local drivers and stuff like that the rain

itself makes it difficult to drive

anywhere if it is raining but this was

like nice even gentle which is unlike any

other rain event in texas and none of

it soaked in the first wave of rain

that we got they were forecasting a lot

and barely any even hit the ground and

then the second wave that came in they

were forecasting like

know there was it was barely going to

be anything and then it ended up being

like a couple of inches but they only

recorded like a tenth of an inch for

that period of time so they're lying

they're lying on the forecast but they're

also lying on the records as well because

i know we got it was the hardest

rain of the two waves we got quite

a bit more rain just because of what

that rain actually filled up and stuff but

none of that soaked in because after that

first wave of rain i went out there

and i brought fork the beds at the

demonstration site

and it was like the rain didn't penetrate

at all.

You could see the line.

After you broadfork, you lift up the soil,

and you can see the line that's wet,

and then you can see how dry it

is underneath.

None of it even soaked in.

I broadforked after the second heavier

rain event, still the same thing,

and that was just a couple of days

ago when it was raining.

Today's our first sunny day since then,

and it's like as if the rain never

was even out there.

I was out there today, and it's already...

pretty dry already.

So none of it's even soaking in and

none of it even soaked in onto the

beds that I've already broad forked

either.

So I wonder if, you know, probably,

but Dane Wiginton,

I think is probably right with the whole

sublimation thing, because with the,

like some of the water, uh,

it couldn't have evaporated naturally that

quickly because some of the water with the

broad fork beds would have fallen into the

cracks and the creases and,

and been contained there and would have

been able to stay there longer, uh,

because they're being protected by the

soil and it's the soil down in the

cracks and the creases were all,

were all dry.

So yeah,

they're definitely doing something with

it.

I, yeah, it's frustrating.

It's definitely frustrating, but yeah,

I mean,

I wonder what people's gardens are that

are doing it like the very conventional

way.

I wonder how those are going.

Now, as far as my peppers and everything,

I did fairly well with peppers.

It was unusual growth,

but they did all right.

Like my habaneros did really well.

And then a couple of those small Thai

chili peppers and stuff,

they were really good too.

They did really well.

But the ones that honestly did the best

were the ones that were growing underneath

weeds out at the demonstration site.

By far,

out of all the plants that I planted

this year,

the ones that have done the best were

the ones that I completely neglected

underneath weeds at the demonstration site

to the point where I had to lift

up the weeds and the plants to harvest.

And they did by far better than anything

else.

Um,

So, yeah, that's a that's weird.

And then also getting ready.

Another thing I'm doing is getting the

gardens ready for the fall garden.

Now that we have like lower temperatures,

we can actually plant out seedlings

without them instantly dying.

I'll be doing like cabbage beets.

carrots, onions, radishes,

things like that.

Good like root crops.

I'm going to do carrots here because

they're just so difficult for me to,

to germinate.

I'm going to do them here at the

house,

but some of those other crops like

cabbage,

I'll probably do at a larger scale and

beets.

I'll probably do at a larger scale and

onions.

I'll probably all, all three of those.

I'll probably do at a larger scale on

the, uh, at the demonstration site.

Cause I can also set those up

typically in a way where they don't

require much maintenance and I can build

soil at the same time.

The carrots,

because they're difficult to germinate,

I'm going to do them here at the

house and I can,

I'll probably do the board method with

germinating the carrots.

And then also before I hand it over

to dad,

I'll be in New Hampshire here soon.

So if you're between Texas and New

Hampshire and you want a consultation,

now's definitely the time because I don't

plan on going back to New Hampshire for

quite a while.

So there's that.

I knew a guy over in New Hampshire.

That's how he said it.

New Hampshire.

Anyway, yeah.

Yeah,

I'm sorry if I don't know how to

pronounce your name right,

but it's Gail Ismay.

It says, yeah,

I'm a little late regarding hair because I

don't let anyone cut my hair too much.

Who do witchcraft?

You know what?

Man, I thought about that a while ago,

like a while back,

and then somehow it escaped my mind

because I'm wondering, especially being,

you know,

in the which capital of the world,

which Asheville is, it is now.

Yeah,

strange how I've lived in two of those.

Actually, once in Manitou Springs,

Colorado.

That was the witch capital of the world

when I was stationed at Fort Carson.

And then now here.

So, yeah,

there ain't no telling what these

freakazoids might be doing with that

stuff.

So, yeah,

that might actually be a pretty good idea.

I may just run a razor down it

myself.

Yeah.

You want me to read this?

This one's from Megan.

She's saying,

I'm in North Dallas and I actually had

to water my garden today after three days

of rain.

And that's a couple hours for me.

And they probably got considerably more

rain than we did.

Oklahoma, like Idabel,

which isn't far from me,

as well as like on the other side

of the mountains,

like up in Poto and stuff,

they got a lot more rain.

And that's really not, as a crow flies,

far from me at all.

And they got a ton of rain.

Well,

Dallas supposedly got a fair amount of

rain.

So that's that's absolutely.

Look,

I think Dane may be on to something.

You know, this rain, it's falling.

But like he said,

he's been saying it for months now.

It's fallen, but it's not soaking in.

And we're seeing the evidence of the

problem with that because there is no way.

Absolutely no way that it should not be

retained right here in this soil,

but we're seeing nothing.

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All right,

so some of the good news here.

Most of it's going to deal with health,

if not all of it.

Dietary diversity.

New study shows any healthy eating plan

slows aging.

So I'm just going to give you the

nuts and bolts of it.

They tried the Mediterranean, the Nordic.

the DASH diet, all of them.

And there was ten different diets

altogether,

but those are the ones that are more

popular.

And what they're finding is that every one

of these diets that incorporate fruits,

vegetables, whole grains, yeah,

you better be careful about that,

and the legumes,

the ones that incorporated basically a lot

of variety colors, essentially,

in the diet are

Those are the ones that seem to turn

your telomeres backwards.

So that's something to consider for all of

us that are, you know, trying to,

you know,

we're all going up against father time,

but, you know, you want to try to,

you know,

stay it off as much as possible.

All right, so the next one here,

breakfast staple may shield aging brains.

New study challenges decades of dietary

dogma.

Okay, through the time of my life,

we were told eggs were good,

then they were bad,

and then you were to only eat the

whites when, knowing what we know now,

that's absolutely absurd.

But anyway, what they're finding out

is that the Alzheimer's risk is about

twenty percent,

twenty seven percent actually lower for

those that eat eggs on a regular basis.

I remember Dr. Joel Wallach,

he's a veterinarian and a naturopath.

That was one of the big things he

would tell everybody to do.

Now,

I'd be a little more cautious these days,

depending on where you get your eggs.

But he would have people eating a dozen

eggs a day.

And don't cook them very much either.

And we're just seeing a lot of this

stuff confirmed.

Look,

if you believe in anything from the

mainstream, y'all,

you need to be wrapped in the head

with a tack hammer so you stop doing

it.

Because it's really, I mean,

there is nothing they're telling you that

is worthwhile.

In fact, you're better off,

going back to that front porch talk I

did,

You know, when you speak extemporaneously,

it may not always come out the way

you should.

But honestly, looking back at it,

you're probably almost always going to be

better if you believe one hundred and

eighty degrees and what they officially

tell you.

All right.

So the last one here,

five morning habits for a longer,

healthier life, life,

the conservative approach to wellness.

All right.

Some of these you may disagree with.

And right off the first one,

the power of a nutritious breakfast.

Well, that's if you eat breakfast.

Um, depending on what, you know,

diet you're doing, like for example,

tomorrow, um,

last week I fasted for about forty hours.

This week I'm going to do the very

same thing again.

So it'll be anywhere between thirty six to

forty hours that I'm going to fast.

So I'm not going to have a whole

lot of breakfast in there.

And when I do, usually I don't eat.

I've been trying to kick it back a

little bit because your mom says I'm not

eating enough.

So usually, I mean,

I usually don't even eat until about noon,

but I'm trying to push that back a

little bit.

So anyway,

power of a nutritious breakfast.

And you might want to consider eggs in

that breakfast.

Hydration as a weapon against toxins.

I heard this from Dr.

Brian Artis that I can't even begin to

tell you how many people that have been

admitted into the hospital were there

primarily because they were dehydrated.

Yeah, so you might want to consider that,

folks.

Honestly,

I drink a gallon and a half every

single day,

and I take in plenty of salt.

Believe me or not, that's good for you.

Yeah, and speaking of which, son,

your grandma finally started eating salt.

Seriously?

Yeah, and she feels good doing it.

Good.

Because she's in her seventies,

so everybody around that age,

including my parents, even growing up,

they would tell us, don't eat salt.

Salt's going to hurt you.

Well,

they're believing old dogma and nonsense,

really.

There's entire cultures that live entirely

on salt, don't have any problems.

It's not the salt.

So, yeah,

she started eating salt and told your mom

all of a sudden she feels great.

How about that?

Too bad the chiropractor didn't tell her

that years ago.

Okay,

exercise of trajectory of sedentary

compliance.

Gary Brekka talks about this all the time.

Even if you just get up, I mean,

you don't have to go out there and

rebound and do whatever.

I mean,

it is helpful in a big way.

But in order for your lymphatic system to

work, because there are no pumps,

you got to get out there and get

moving.

You got to be doing something.

And rebounding is a pretty good way to

get that part of it squared away or

even just jogging on the tips of your

toes or on your balls of your feet.

That's a good one there.

Here's another one I've talked about.

Morning sunlight.

You want to see it as soon as

it comes up.

That's resetting your body clock.

That is the most important thing of all

these different hacks that you can do

every single day.

If you want to get a PhD understanding

on it, check out the work of Dr.

Jack Cruz, and he will explain,

and we do it religiously every single day.

Plus,

you're going to find out that going to

sleep is a whole lot easier if you

do that.

So there ain't no sleeping in for us

ever.

Stress management.

That has been a big one for me

over time.

And I've really,

really tried to examine it as of late.

So I'm out here doing the stress reset

at least once every single day,

maybe twice.

And that's from the human garage.

So stress management.

In fact,

they've proven just by doing their fifteen

minute stress reset that it lowers your

stress about eighty percent no matter

where you start.

So, you know, everything else,

if you're in if you're in that fight

or flight state,

it's kind of hard for everything else to

work right.

So you want to make sure you stay

on top of that.

And then, you know, historical context,

obviously,

they say return to natural living.

Easier said than done these days,

but folks,

it just means spending as much time in

nature as you possibly can.

If you have an office job,

try to eat your lunch outside even when

it's freezing.

Do whatever you can to get at least

as much exposure to the outside as you

possibly can because I know it's really,

really tough these days.

All right,

so we don't have anything from Eric.

He is out there and he is suffering

right now in ninety five degree weather at

a time of year where he shouldn't.

And it's all part of what they're doing,

y'all.

Everything, this El Nino, La Nina,

I don't even sure if you can believe

any of that, y'all.

I mean,

it's weather manipulation in every way you

can possibly imagine.

The AMOC current isn't moving,

so things are going to get really, really,

really stupid in terms of weather.

So stay alert, stay alive.

You know the deal.

All right.

EMF rocks.

Ten percent off with promo code PERMA.

So go check them out, son.

You want to read that one?

Yeah, this is from Goyhart Guardian Stein.

Do you guys find it weird that we

live in an age where we can get

the weather through government regulated

apps while also the government controls

the weather?

Let that sink in.

Yeah.

Love the name, by the way.

Yeah.

Yeah,

that's exactly what we all are right now.

Yeah, I mean,

we live in an upside-down world,

and I'm just getting better at

understanding this is the world I live in.

I'm also understanding the fact that

instead of beating my head against the

wall about how to change it, I'm really,

really trying hard to improve myself.

I'm trying to be a better version every

single day of myself.

I mean, don't always hit the mark,

but I'm trying.

And, you know,

I'm seeking divine guidance to, you know,

to lead me all through this and to

not trust in my own intuition or judgment

and do what the Lord tells me.

So that's number one.

And number two,

I realize Plato's allegory of the cave was

true.

Thirty five hundred years ago.

OK, it was true then.

It's true now.

For those that don't know,

it's basically humanity lives inside this

cage, this existence, this cave.

And everything they see,

I'm just going to tell this real quick.

Everything they see,

they're chained to the bottom of this

cave,

and everything in the world that they know

around them is basically like a screen on

the front of them.

There's a giant hearth the way Plato

described it, and there's animals,

there's people.

Everything they see is only the reflection

on that cave wall.

Okay.

So one day you break your bonds.

Let's say you're the person that decides

you're going to escape this cave.

You realize, okay,

it wasn't too hard to do.

I got out of these chains.

You look around you,

you see that there's a fire and you

see people walking across them.

But now instead of two dimensionally,

like you saw them on the cave,

you now see them three dimensionally.

So now you're really curious.

So you start exploring around that cave.

Eventually,

you find an area that leads to sunlight.

You don't even know what that is yet.

But you follow it.

And the closer you get to it,

it gets brighter and brighter and

brighter.

And finally,

when you reach the edge of that cave,

you look out from that cave.

And for the first time in your life,

you're seeing color.

You're seeing a blue sky.

Now, obviously, this is before chemtrails.

You see green grass.

You see three-dimensional creatures.

You see birds flying.

You see all these things that to your

eyes are nothing short of a wonder.

So what do you do?

You go back down into that cave and

you tell everybody else who's chained to

that cave wall,

looking at those fake images on the wall,

thinking that they're real,

and you do everything you can to try

to tell them, hey, this isn't real.

Follow me outside this cage.

And then depending on which version of

Plato's allegory of the cave,

they either kill him or they would wish

to kill him.

Okay.

That happened.

He penned that, what,

thirty five hundred years ago.

It was true then.

And it was basically.

It was an indictment on humanity.

Most people are going to be content.

to be chained at the bottom of Plato's

cave.

So when I say that,

you know what I'm talking about now.

Or they're content to be in that matrix.

They don't even want to know that the

images they see on that cave wall are

not real.

So instead of beating myself up about it

anymore,

I'm just going to be the best version

I can.

And I'm finding out that the Lord keeps

putting me in the presence of people

that are not comfortable being at the

bottom of Plato's cave.

So I'm coming in the contact more and

more with people that are seeing it for

what it is and are asking critical

questions about the world around them.

So hopefully that was a blessing to those

of you out there that may never have

heard of Plato's allegory of the cave.

I'm giving you a very condensed version,

but that's essentially it.

All right.

So I want to jump right into this

one.

And, um,

Here's why I'm doing it.

Okay,

I brought up Denise from Renewed Homestead

a little while ago,

and she actually inspired what we were

going to talk about the last program,

but I kind of went sideways and we

never got talking about it.

But it also is an inspiration for what

we're doing here.

We were hanging out with Ben and Denise,

and we went, you know,

got something to eat.

And they were telling me,

check out this thing on Amazon Prime,

and it's called Clarkson's Farm.

Son,

I know you're a big fan of Jeremy

Clarkson, right?

Have you ever seen the show?

Yeah.

I've seen like bits and pieces of his

farm show.

I've heard that it's hilarious though,

but we don't have Amazon or prime or

anything like that.

So I've never watched it.

Well, we don't either,

but I'm getting it through somebody else.

So yeah.

So good for me.

So anyway, I said, you know what?

There was one night,

I think it was Saturday or whatever.

Your mom and I said,

let's go ahead and check this out.

William used to always love that.

What was that show called?

Top gear.

and i don't even like cars yeah top

gear and i grew to like it because

it was just hilarious to me um some

of those episodes were just usually

british humor is and all that wonderful to

me but man what those guys were doing

i thought it was fantastic it was it

was very well done and um anyway he's

got this show jeremy clarkson who was

basically the star of the show

and um i would love to get him

on the podcast but anyway he basically has

a thousand acre farm and he was having

it managed anyway he decided to take it

over and he's doing it and when you

watch this show you applaud at certain

things now if you're an old hand at

this anybody watching

going to be thinking okay that's a mistake

that's a mistake most of what they're

doing from from a holistic standpoint is

honestly a mistake but there are nuggets

out there where you can tell that he

is at least open to high density grazing

where he's open to some of these other

things

But the one thing standing in his way

every single time the guy is trying to

make money is the government.

Every single time.

And, son,

it's over the most idiotic things.

It's on his property,

and they're telling him whether or not he

can have a farm shop on his property.

And it's got to sell produce within that

community.

And then it's got to have this,

all these idiotic restrictions tries to

open a restaurant.

They shut that down and he's hemorrhaging

money left him.

Right.

And like I said, be watching that show.

It inspired me,

the last show that we didn't do,

and of course this one,

and that's why I wanted to call it

Your Farm Should Get Cheaper Every Single

Year.

But if you watch that show,

you'll find out that they're hemorrhaging

more and more money every year.

In all honesty,

I can't believe we haven't ever talked

about this before.

We have in certain parts and pieces,

but we really haven't.

And look,

the central idea of a mature permaculture

system is that

you should be replacing a lot of the

things that you purchase.

You really should.

So if your farm needs more money,

more fertilizer,

more feed and fuel every single year to

stay alive, you don't own a farm.

You basically own a subscription.

That's what you got because you're on the

tip for everybody else in every single

thing you're wanting to do.

And like I said,

I can't believe we haven't talked about

this before.

So I'm going to say right off the

bat,

my number one thing is the goal isn't

necessarily higher production.

Now, that may sound crazy.

It's not necessarily higher production.

It's lower dependence.

Meaning, for example,

these breast birds that I'm getting

tomorrow, I'm trading honey for it.

I got more honey than I know what

to do with.

Now, she was willing to trade honey.

I'm going to have to actually give her

cash because I was going to go out

there and get the honey today.

It didn't work out.

Your mom had to go pick up the

Azure order.

And by the time she got back,

put everything away.

It was just too late in the day.

And plus, we had to do this podcast.

But like I said,

the goal isn't necessarily higher

production,

although you want to try to get better

and better.

It's lower dependence.

So I'll kick mine off with that.

yeah first thing i'm i'm gonna say is

don't just view it as like a uh

monetary decrease don't just view it in

the form of money view it in the

form of energy as time goes on your

farm should become more and more efficient

like causing or costing less calories per

unit of yield you need a measurement of

yield uh as time goes on so you

should be coming which translates to your

farm should be becoming more and more

efficient as time goes on not less and

less efficient

Each square foot of your property should

be growing more and more food as time

goes on,

which is the exact opposite of what

mainstream commercial farming is right

now.

The corn crops, for example,

get worse and worse each year using the

conventional method because the soil gets

worse and worse each year.

If you do things correctly, you should...

have better and better corn crops each

year because you're building soil you're

you're increasing the capacity of the soil

you're increasing the what the soil can do

on demand for the plants and everything

it's going to hold on water better it's

going to provide nutrients on demand

better all those different things so you

should you and you should be building

organic matter every year

So those things are all gonna make each

square foot produce a higher yield per,

or create a higher yield per square foot

and making it more and more and more

efficient.

Same thing with like your animal systems.

You might start off,

let's say with four sheep and you're

moving those four sheep and you get to

a point where those four sheep have

babies.

Now you're producing with the same amount

of effort, putting up the same fence,

moving them the same schedule you did last

year.

You're producing more meat

utilizing the same amount of calories.

It doesn't cost you any more calories to

move the fence.

It's not like you have to move each

animal individually on their own different

system.

They're all moving at the same time.

But keep in mind,

you get to a point where your stocking

density is to a point where your land

can't handle the stocking density that you

have.

So then you should titrate back because

that's another form of energy that you're

going to have to hire

for the farm in the form of purchasing

hay or grain or whatever it may be,

that's what you want to avoid.

So you want to find that sweet spot

where, and,

and build up to that sweet spot where

you're not having to, your,

your stocking density is high enough and

the land can manage it.

And you're not having to buy any, uh,

outside energy inputs basically.

Yeah, good stuff, son.

This next one here is,

it was inspired from what we did this

weekend.

Michelle, for a birthday,

wanted to go to the orchard.

So that's exactly what we did.

And by the way,

for anybody that's living up here in North

Cackalacky,

especially in the western side, man,

they got those ludicrous baffles.

I know Ken and Amy are in here,

man.

Granddad's Orchard.

Look,

I said before the Evercrisp was the best

thing out there,

but I think these Ludicrisp actually taste

even better.

And we got a whole gang of them.

I'm going to freeze dry some for my

grandbaby.

So, yeah, son,

you guys are going to be – hopefully

we got some by the time you get

here.

But, yeah, so anyway,

we got these Ludicrisp apples,

and I recorded a short video while we

were there.

And I was looking around because this is

the same orchard that I went over there

back when we had pigs and everything else.

You could fill, I could,

at granddad's orchard,

I could fill my truck up at least

a hundred times and still not even come

close to all the apples that are on

the ground and they will let you do

it.

in, well,

notwithstanding some idiotic Marchie

walking around,

not minding their own business,

wondering why, you know,

you're doing what you're doing.

Um, that's,

that's a whole nother story on together,

but stop buying animal field, animal food,

when you can create relationships that

could feed those animals.

And that's another thing I'm talking

about.

So let's say you're new to this place

or you're new to the methods that we

talk about.

Well,

You got omnivores, even if you're sheep.

I mean,

they will put a herd on them apples

if they can get a hold of them

as well.

You know, pigs, chickens,

whatever the case may be.

You can mash those things up.

You can put them in your compost.

There's a whole lot of different stuff you

can do with them.

And people are going out there spending

the money at Tractor Supply when you could

go down there and say, okay,

I'm going to pick up some of these

ludicrous apples Billy's talking about,

and I'm going to fill up the whole

back of my truck with these apples to

feed these chickens and pigs.

There's a whole gang of food out there.

And check this out.

You're being a blessing to them because

that's one less person that they got to

hire at a time where things are really,

really tight.

You got to figure in most orchards like

this,

they're making all their wages in two to

three months.

They have to.

So any way that they can cut those

costs,

because it's not an organic orchard,

but it's another way where you can be

a blessing to them.

And it's a self-licking ice cream.

They can be a massive blessing to you

as well.

You can take those apples,

because if you pick the ones that are

freshly fallen,

you can store them for quite a while.

You can feed them,

depending on the apples.

Even if they're a little bit sour,

it doesn't even matter.

You can take them out to your animal

all winter long.

So that's another good one right there.

Yeah, when we're back there,

if any are open,

we should definitely stop by because the

baby is going to want another apple

slushie and stuff like that.

Yeah.

Yeah,

but I'm in control of how much she

gets this time.

Dad had my daughter over here on a

sugar high from the apple slushies and the

apple cider.

Yeah.

I don't know what you're talking about,

son.

I did not participate.

I didn't give her anything you guys didn't

approve.

Oh, no.

Yeah, we approved it.

Yeah.

Dad,

I'm not I'm not suggesting we didn't

approve it.

It was just.

Yeah.

And also she's also a baby that doesn't

get sugar very often.

So when she gets sugar like that,

it really hits my next point.

What was that?

She'll sleep on the way home.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She definitely will.

The next one I was going to say,

and this is going to be another obvious

one.

But you got to do the math.

That's probably the thing that like most

homesteaders and farmers and I'm talking

about myself as well is like keeping

records and doing the math.

If you don't keep records and if you

don't do the math.

Now,

most people will do it if they get

into like a breeding program or something

like that.

They'll they'll start keeping records and

making sure.

that the math maths and everything.

Um, but typically outside of that,

people don't actually do the math and do

the figuring to see if they're actually

getting more efficient or if they're not.

Um, like for example,

that the only time like we've ever

calculated the math on a

meat and like the actual cost per pound

and everything was just for YouTube,

just to show other people.

And now in those systems,

we obviously know there's a pretty high

yield or in the form of profit,

there's a pretty high margin on what we're

doing,

but we'd never really figured the math

before that release.

I haven't.

And if you had,

I wasn't aware of it.

I did on gas, you know,

going to town and getting stuff,

but I was also laying overlaying it with

other things I was doing anyway,

but go ahead.

Gotcha.

Yeah.

You have to,

you have to actually take records and do

the math maybe.

And it's a pain because like,

if you're in the garden and you go

harvest a bunch of cucumbers,

you just harvested a bunch of cucumbers.

The season that you did it in,

it was probably, if you live around here,

it was probably pretty,

pretty miserable outside.

Then you got to process the harvest before

it goes bad.

And you got to do all these things.

just to make sure you can actually utilize

your harvest.

And now you're adding another thing,

keeping records.

But with that little addition of time,

I know it's a pain.

We did it at Jeff Lawton's when I

was there.

It was a pain,

but we knew exactly how much we were

producing and if we were doing better or

if we were doing worse.

So yeah,

you have to actually sit down and actually

do the math.

Yeah,

the next one I'm going to say is

perennials beat annual dependency any day

of the week.

And if you're new to that concept,

maybe seriously consider it because

orchards, berries, nuts, fodder trees,

perennial shrubs, herbs,

all those things are a gift that keep

on giving.

And for years, I was complaining.

I was like,

I don't understand why all these

homesteaders just concentrate completely.

I know everybody for years was doing a

lot of copying from whatever Justin Rhodes

was doing.

And I was like, man,

you guys are missing perennials big time.

I mean, annuals are great.

Yeah,

I like my tomatoes just like everybody

else.

But there's also a perennial tomato that

we got up here called Tommy Toes.

There's all these perennial things.

that if you ever found yourself infirmed

or in a bad way, or, you know,

the world's falling apart,

like it seems to be doing right now,

well,

That's why I love apples so much.

Because if you pick the right,

for example,

let's say you got an Arkansas black apple

out there.

You pick that bad boy.

It ain't wonderful when you first eat it.

But eat it about three to six months

later,

and it's going to have a different flavor

profile altogether.

There are apples that store extremely

well.

In fact, there was an old book.

In fact, we got it downstairs.

It's called Old Southern Apples by Lee

Calhoun.

He's passed on now,

but his orchard lives beyond it.

And he describes in that book that back

in the day, in the South,

The slaves would take these apples and

they would put them on the tin roof

of wherever they were living.

They would slice them up,

put them on top of that tin roof,

and they could eat those things forever in

a day.

And they were choosing apples based on

flavor, longevity, how well it dried,

all those kinds of things,

things that we don't even consider these

days.

But honestly,

perennials beat annuals any day of the

week if you got them,

especially in terms of fruit.

It is like getting money from home without

writing.

And honestly,

if you can set that up where they

work with your animal systems, yeah,

you want to be careful about what access

you give to them,

but it could also provide shade.

It could provide fodder,

depending on how you set that thing up.

It can be providing a whole lot for

your animals out there,

but it goes back to design.

So like William said earlier,

but in another way,

make sure you put pen to paper.

Now,

because there's a couple of comments in

the chat, I think Colleen was saying,

I'd love to grow some ludicrous apples.

I wonder if they'd grow up here in

North Idaho.

And then Lydia said, I just checked.

They need four hundred chill hours.

So, Colleen, knowing where you live,

like in on a mountain in Idaho,

keep in mind,

you can utilize the microclimates on your

property to accommodate weather.

to an extent,

accommodate what that particular tree is

going to need.

Also,

everybody check out Flominton Famous.

If you saw that four hundred chill hours

or heard that four hundred chill hours,

you probably just immediately was like,

oh, I'm definitely not growing that.

But if you check out Flominton Famous,

he did a video on a guy who

was forcing dormancy on apple trees in

Florida, which I think is really neat.

And you probably don't want to do it

at scale, but it's definitely worth it.

the tree's worth it those apples are

delicious but keep in mind that those uh

ludicrous apples do not have much of a

shelf life they definitely go bad faster

than uh the other apples like the ones

we got last year the ever chris do

last a while though so that's that you

still got to go with the ever chris

but as far as flavor mandem ludicrous

tough to beat

Yeah.

Uh, my next point is, um,

since we're talking about trees, uh,

so whenever you first building your farm,

putting in perennials, uh,

like dad was saying,

like the initial work is all up front

and then you harvest and keep harvesting

after that.

Um,

Instead of like,

let's say you're wanting to expand,

like you get on the property first,

you put in a couple of trees and

now you're wanting to expand those trees.

Maybe you have a couple of favorites from

those trees or some of them maybe just

not doing too well or producing as much

as you thought and you need to increase

production or something like that.

Instead of buying trees,

you now have stock on your property.

Worst case scenario,

you might need to buy some root stock

if you don't have that,

unless the tree is like, you know,

true to seed and it's not grafted to

anything or anything like that.

Um,

but you might just be out of the

price of roost stock as opposed to a

whole new tree to expand your orchard.

So learn skill,

the skill of like grafting or propagation,

depending on the plants you have and, uh,

utilize what you've already purchased that

first year or that first purchase,

utilize that to expand afterwards.

And if you wanted to, uh,

you could graph for other people and then

make your money back from the initial

purchase by selling trees if you wanted

to.

So piggybacking off what dad was saying

with the perennials, you,

Planting perennials for one is definitely

going to make your farm cheaper or,

you know, running your farm cheaper,

but also propagating from your own

property is going to make your farm run

cheaper as well.

So on to you, Dan.

Yeah,

I'm going to say measure your success by

what you don't have to buy anymore.

I mean, I mean that in a big,

big way.

I mean,

stop buying animal feed if you can sit

here and source it from other places.

Look at all the things that you may.

OK, for example, compost.

Okay,

that could absolutely replace the

Miracle-Gro.

It should replace it that you're currently

spending money on right now.

And it's going to be light years better

than anything you would hope to buy.

So learning that skill to make compost is

an awesome,

awesome way to get rid of a whole

lot of inputs depending on how you farm.

So like I said, the ultimate...

I would say you measure your success by

how many inputs you no longer need to

buy.

And then my last one's going to actually

cover inputs.

Um, mine is, uh,

bad versus good infrastructure.

So cool thing about bad infrastructure is

that it's pretty cheap.

You can put it in pretty quickly and

it'll do the job in the moment.

The bad thing about bad infrastructure is

that you're going to have to keep on

fixing it,

keep on repairing it where it'll get to

a point eventually where it would have

been just cheaper to stop.

Don't build the infrastructure yet,

save up the money and then build good

infrastructure.

For example, like when I do consultations,

if you're not in a position to,

let's say you

your property based on what you want to

do, based on your location,

probably a good idea to have a barn.

Let's say if you fit those requirements

and you need the barn,

but you don't have the money to buy

it outright,

then we're going to hold off on systems

that are going to require you to have

that barn or for either processing or just

animal management.

For whatever reason,

we're going to hold off on those systems,

prep for those systems until you have the

money to buy the barn and build the

barn.

And then once you get that barn built,

then we can proceed from there.

I'd rather you go with

Without, if possible, at first...

and save up for the good thing like

good infrastructure later than to do it

poorly at first and then also waste a

bunch of money on it it's going to

be harder for you to save that money

for it and uh it might even cause

uh issues for building the good

infrastructure later what i have in mind

is also earthworks as well like bad

earthworks is going to cost you more money

to get it fixed and then to do

the uh the correct earthworks afterwards

so keep those things in mind hold off

With the bad infrastructure,

if at all possible.

I understand we have like emergency

snowstorms and random things like that

that require cheap infrastructure quick.

But the goal should be good,

solid infrastructure that we can utilize

for a very, very long time.

Like those tobacco barns.

How old are those tobacco barns around

you, Dad?

Yeah.

Quite old.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're really,

really good infrastructure.

Old growth forest wood, um,

built really well and they're still

around.

So, yep.

And there are some pretty weird places.

Some of them.

All right.

So my last one is going to be

the every way stream is somebody else's

input.

I mean,

it doesn't matter if it's food scraps,

leaves, manure, um,

um wood chips spent grain damaged damaged

uh produce like i was talking about those

apples because once they hit the ground

they can't do anything else with them they

can't sell them and usually you know what

they're going to do with a lot of

those are just going to go in a

dumpster somewhere what a what a tragedy

So just like Greg Judy always talks about,

he doesn't hay his own property.

He says,

why would I ever consider doing that?

I'm going to get hay from somebody else

that wants to sell it.

I'm going to take their input,

their fertility,

and I'm going to add it to mine.

And it's only going to improve.

Right now,

leaves are falling here in Western North

Carolina.

I will, next time I go to town,

I guarantee I'll drive down these

residential neighborhoods.

They're going to do all the work for

me.

I'm going to fill up the entire back

of that truck with a bunch of leaves

that somebody else gathered for me,

and I'm going to put them in the

compost pile over and over and over again.

There's so many different ways you can go

about this.

Wood chips.

There's a source next to me where there's

probably a thousand cubic yards.

I don't even know how much is over

there.

They've been doing it for years.

And I'll use that fertility and dress my

trees with that.

That's about, I mean,

those are all things.

And considering the price of gas right

now, folks,

I'm not making any special trips.

These are things I'm going to do when

I'm already out.

And while I'm out, I'm like, okay, well,

I'll fill up a bunch of buckets and

I'll take this home with me.

So, you know,

you want to make sure you stack functions,

especially now.

Go ahead, son.

Yeah.

you know something interesting that has

been going on this whole podcast and i'm

i'm just now bringing it up but my

microphone keeps getting kicked off um it

keeps getting which i think is if this

was the only thing that they did to

us digitally then it probably wouldn't

stand out but the fact that i'm not

touching any cord bumping the computer at

all not touching any of that but my

microphone keeps getting switched off

or over to a different microphone is a

bit odd.

But my last one is,

so as you progress on your farm,

at first you're going to be pretty clumsy

and, you know,

bumbling around and trying to find a

rhythm,

trying to find a groove and trying to

find an efficient way to do everything and

to manage everything.

As you, as time goes on,

you'll get better and better at it and

more efficient at it as well.

Those things that you use in that process

are,

You should probably learn how to repair.

Like, for example,

if you use like a four wheeler,

let's say you're in pretty rough terrain.

You need a four wheeler to get from

point A to point B efficiently.

You should probably learn how to work on

that four wheeler.

Same thing with like any kind of tractors

or implements that you use on the tractor.

I know a ton of people have side

by sides right now.

Those things for sure will break.

It's not if it's just when it's going

to break those things.

You think they'd make them a little bit

more durable,

but it seems like people's

Every time I know somebody who has a

side-by-side other than one, John and Amy,

they are always either in the shop or

just got repaired or being fixed or

something like that.

Learning how to repair what you use or

what you have is going to make it...

you know,

cost less and less on your property.

So instead of having to like,

let's say something broke,

instead of having to, you know,

go and buy a new one,

you just know how to fix it yourself.

Even if it's something like a local shop

won't handle or deal with.

Also learning those abilities is,

makes any new equipment you need to buy

cheaper because you can buy the broken,

disassembled,

or there might be something simple that's

wrong with it.

You can buy that at a discount,

fix it, and then utilize it yourself,

which is going to be far cheaper than

buying anything brand new.

And yeah,

and let's say you also did the math

on renting versus purchasing and you found

out, okay,

purchasing for me is going to be cheaper

in the long run.

Then you should definitely learn how to

repair or find somebody around you that

knows how to repair these things.

Well, at the same time, son,

I remember long before side-by-sides came

out.

Now, where we live here in the mountains,

yeah, that's probably pretty darn handy.

But there's a whole lot of people that

are buying those things for status

symbols.

It is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

And people are spending more money on

these things than I've spent on any of

my vehicles.

And I'm like, are you kidding me?

And...

These are people that could farm,

you know, for years and years and years.

We got by just on a two-wheel drive

truck,

especially if you're living in Kansas,

Oklahoma, Texas.

But they got to have a side-by-side.

And Greg Judy talked about that as well,

that people would go out there and spend

a pile of money on a bunch of

garbage they don't need.

I know some people that bought two

side-by-sides, and you could get by,

you could do everything right there on a

truck.

So, okay,

we're talking about expenses here.

and stupid expenses like i said here in

the mountains yeah this it would

absolutely serve us very very well where

we live but i ain't going in debt

for one if i don't have the cash

which i don't if i don't have the

cash to get one i ain't getting one

there are certain things in this world i

just will not go i mean we've been

doing it with my bmws and those are

boots made for walking been doing that for

a little while so i'm just going to

keep on doing it until um

We can afford to get one.

On that note, Dad, with the tractor,

with your guys' land,

a tractor still doesn't make sense for

you.

What makes more sense would be a

four-wheeler or a side-by-side or even

maybe, like you've said in the past,

a golf cart.

If it's a four-wheeler or a side-by-side,

then you could pull stuff behind it and

utilize any implements and stuff like that

for that.

There are a ton of people who buy

tractors

where the tractor is barely used on a

farm, used well on a farm.

They'll use it from, at that point,

at the point they get a tractor,

they're probably going to use that solely

for transportation and no longer walk on

the farm.

That's another thing that happens.

But there's a lot of people who have

tractors where the tractor doesn't even

apply.

They would have been far better off with

a different implement.

But there's so many people who have it

in their mind that if they're going to

be a farmer, in quotes,

then they have to have a tractor,

that they have to have these certain

things.

Otherwise, they're not a real farmer.

Yeah, and a lot of times,

especially in the South, man,

it is all through Oklahoma, Texas,

and even Kansas to a certain extent.

Everybody's trying to one-up everybody

else when it comes to the boat,

the side-by-side.

And these are people buying this stuff.

You're going in debt over some nonsense.

And it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

But there are YouTube channels of guys,

I don't like either one of them,

that are in Oklahoma and Texas.

I won't even say who they are,

but I can't stand them because every time

you turn around, it's a consumptive thing.

Like, oh,

look at this new thing I got here.

I ain't jealous.

I don't dislike it.

I'm just saying it's a stupid thing to

teach people because you don't need it in

a lot of cases.

Or you can get by just finding your

truck, which we did forever and a day.

Especially in this category of...

of YouTube.

For this topic, this genre of YouTube,

we shouldn't be stuck in this heavily

consumerism type idea.

We're all trying to become,

to some extent, regenerative.

Sustainable slash regenerative.

That's what we're all mostly working for.

You don't hit that point if you're

constantly in this consumer mindset where

you're having to get the new...

get the newest thing,

buy the newest gadget, things like that.

That's what I'm noticing with a lot of

these homestead farming,

whatever kind of channels,

is that it's constantly some promotion

with some...

I have no issues with promoting.

I have no issues at all with doing

the affiliate deals or

promoting a company or something like

that.

But a lot of these,

you can tell that they're just doing it

and they're open about it.

They're just doing it for the money.

It's not actually something that they

utilize.

It's not something helpful in this journey

or anything like that.

It's just, Hey, advertise this.

You'll get this check.

I've been hit up about it.

I've been hit up about Red Bull.

Red Bull's hit me up lately about doing

they're paying me.

They want to pay me five thousand dollars

for two inserted ads into into YouTube

videos.

But I don't drink Red Bull.

And I wouldn't tell anybody to drink Red

Bull.

And it has nothing to do with my

channel's content or anything like that.

So there's just a lot of that type

of crap going on.

I probably went harder on it than I

needed to, but it's been annoying.

No,

I get a lot of those things too.

And a lot of people don't realize that

there's a stuff that never even hits the

light of day until I go through a

whole lot of scrutiny and testing it out.

I'm like, yeah,

go ahead and send it to me.

But if it's jacked up,

I'm going to tell everybody it's messed

up.

It ain't working.

But anyway,

back to this whole side-by-side.

And by the way,

if there's any side-by-side dealers out

there that want me to take one for

a test drive, believe me,

I will put it through the paces.

But no, I mean,

if it's an implement that I could

absolutely use, but like you said,

a tractor makes zero sense here.

You just couldn't.

It makes zero, zero sense.

But there are a lot of people out

there with these implements.

And in going back to the topic of

what we talked about,

if you are in this consumer mindset where

you got to constantly keep up.

And like I said,

I grew up in this environment in Oklahoma

and it's always a one up thing.

Somebody buys a fifth wheel.

Somebody's got to buy a bigger one.

And somebody buys a pontoon,

somebody's got to buy a bigger one.

Somebody has a house at the lake,

somebody's got to buy a bigger one.

It is a cancer in a lot of

communities around this country.

But if you're doing that in terms of

your farm, and even Greg Judy,

I think in his second book even talks

about that very thing,

you ain't going to be farming long.

If that's what you feel like you need

to do, like he even said,

whenever he needs a tractor,

he'll go rent one.

Why spend thousands and thousands of

dollars to use it just a handful of

times through the year when he can sit

here and put it on the back of

his truck like we've been doing forever in

a day?

Yeah,

I guess we beat that horse pretty big.

But I wanted to make sure that there's

a whole lot of people going into idiotic

debt just to keep up with the Joneses.

But even on that note, with the Greg,

Judy and the tractor,

you still got to do the math because

it might make sense for you to purchase

that thing instead of renting it

constantly.

It might make sense for you to purchase

it if you need it that often and

stuff like that.

Or another thing you could justify the

purchase if you then went into business

utilizing that piece of equipment

afterwards.

Like I've tried to convince a few people

to buy a forestry mulcher.

So that way they could, you know,

clear what they needed to on their

property, do it very well.

Unlike most of these forestry mulchers.

And then you could either rent out the

machinery or sell the service afterwards

and then make the money back on the

machine.

Well, yeah, good stuff.

Yeah, Diamond Dave says, Lindsay Williams,

former Baptist pastor.

Look,

there's a lot of videos going out right

now of Lindsay Williams talking about gas

going to the way they basically saying

that we don't have a gas shortage problem,

which we don't.

Oil is abiotic,

comes from the earth naturally.

Everything you see right now,

and I know this is a bit off

topic,

but I wanted to go ahead and hit

this.

Yeah,

they were going to bring it up to

five bucks a gallon,

and they're going to put a few Band-Aids

on it for right now.

But by and large, y'all,

This is why we're doing a lot of

preparedness kind of shows because the

powers that shouldn't be, believe me,

they want to trim the fat and they

don't consider themselves part of that

fat.

Even ones like these idiots behind the

microphones on TV and radio,

they have no idea that they didn't get

the memo.

If nobody warns you not to get that

COVID jab,

guess what you ain't in the big club

that uh what's his name that george carlin

talked about so uh folks look not to

make it all gloom and doom here but

you gotta stay alert to all this dumb

stuff that's going on i'm spending very

little time i just go out there put

my toe in the water find out what

they're lying to us about and then i

go back in i you know i'm just

in and out these days i'm not spending

a whole lot of time looking at this

stuff anything else to add son

No.

Now, another.

Well, yeah, I guess so.

Like Colleen was saying in the chat.

Now,

if you got a hookup on a tractor,

by all means, get the truck.

They got it.

They got a hookup.

Their son works for John Deere.

So, yeah, if you have a hookup,

by all means, go ahead and get it.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

I mean, if it makes sense for you,

it's the ones where it doesn't make sense.

And we got a lot of people buying

a bunch of nonsense and they're going

broke and can't figure out why the farm

can't make it.

Well,

it can't make it if you're out there

faking it.

Yeah, not the best rhyme in the world.

But anyway,

I want to thank everybody for checking us

out.

You know, it's a crazy world.

Until next time, stay alert.

Stay alive.

Let the seasons change,

watch the world spin.

From the smallest sprout,

to the harmonies again.

In the cycle of life,

where the magic's alive.

Turn it to the beat,

feel the vibe and thrive.

Don't you think it's true, true, true?

Groovin' with the earth, so good.

So much wisdom in life.