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Season 4 - Episode 315 - Lessons from history · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a.
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  Podcast. To teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the.
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  World. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  I'm out here with the girls getting them all settled and
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  it's very chilly here and we have just been, you know,
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  inundated with frost and ice this morning.
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  Not pleasant. Sun's coming up later, so I'm
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  recording in the afternoon for you for tomorrow morning.
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  So I, I saw this really cool little post.
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  I follow a lot of history things on social media because I just
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  am fascinated by how it used to be.
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  And I saw this poster that somebody had a handwritten
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  poster that someone had put up. And it's called wartime ration
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  11 per one person a week. And this was from in Britain and
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  it was during World War 2. And it the list of listen to
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  what the list was 2 ounces of tea, 2 ounces of jam, 8 ounces
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  of sugar, 4 ounces of butter, 4 ounces of margarine, 2 ounces of
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  lard, one ounce of cheese, which is is this shape.
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  It's and it's got like a square. So it looks like like a chunk of
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  cheddar cheese, 4 ounces of bacon or approximately 3 slices
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  of ham, 1 egg a fortnight, 114th worth of meat, lamb or beef.
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  And then it goes. If you if you really go in, it's
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  like 8-9 pence per pound, 11 pence per pound.
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  And then one onion every three weeks.
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  Tin meat, spam, corned beef on points from ration and I think
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  it says boom. It was kind of hard to read the
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  writing and as I was going through this and I was looking
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  at it, I was like, Oh my gosh, can you even imagine?
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  Like in the time we live in right now, food ration isn't
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  something that we really think about.
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  I mean, during COVID, we all had these moments where we couldn't
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  find something and we were struggling to get certain things
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  like, you know, toilet paper, what not.
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  But we that was the closest we ever came in, at least in my
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  lifetime, to any kind of rationing of any sort or any
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  kind of not being able to locate something.
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  You know, I decide I need something, I go to the store.
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  I get it. Just before I walked out here,
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  my husband's making shepherd's pie for dinner and I had sweet
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  potato. And he was like, doesn't take
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  sweet potato, it takes regular potato.
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  And I said, well, why can't it take sweet potato?
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  And we got into this whole discussion about he said, 'cause
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  it's too moist, need regular potato.
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  And he had to go to the store to get it.
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  And he was like, oh, I got to go to the store to get regular
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  potato. And off to the store he goes and
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  I, I just thought to myself, wow, how fortunate are we that
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  that's how it works. Even more fortunate, my
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  daughter, who's very busy with a new baby is, you know, she will
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  say, oh, I just ordered my groceries online and then I'll
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  just pull in and pick them up. Now that's a huge convenience to
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  be able to do that when you're a young mother and you have so
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  many things going on. But think back to that time that
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  we no longer live in, when you didn't have that convenience,
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  when you didn't have any of these things, and how, you know,
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  we have forgotten how great we have it.
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  And I mean, I really mean that in the and I am just as guilty
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  as everybody else. I am very grateful for what I
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  have, but I regularly forget how really, really great we have it.
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  What we have is like nothing that anyone else has ever
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  encountered. In time we are, you know, so we
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  can get what we want easy. I mean, we have drones dropping
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  things off. I don't where I live, but people
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  do have drones dropping things off.
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  You can get next day Amazon deliveries pretty much wherever
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  you live. Not here, but pretty much where
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  everybody else lives you can get them and it's just so fast and
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  furious. I could decide I want Indian
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  food tonight and I could go get it, or Vietnamese food or Thai
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  food, it doesn't matter. Mexican food, I can have food
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  from around the world and within a 20 minute drive of where I am.
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  And to me, I did not grow up with that.
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  That was not how it worked. We did not have that luxury.
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  So today is really just one of those moments where you have to
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  think back to what people used to live with and how they had a
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  much simpler life, a much simpler in the way of less
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  confusion, less electronics and all that.
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  But how they also suffered from the fact that they didn't have
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  the conveniences and all the things that we have.
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  And we have to say, wow, I live in a very abundant time.
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  I live in a very blessed time. And pause and catch your breath
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  and really recognize that there is no question, no question at
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  all about the fact that when you stop and pause and think about
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  it, it really makes you go wow. I am grateful.
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  I am so blessed, I am so abundant, and it makes you feel
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  good just to know that when you walk into your cabinets to pull
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  out food tonight or your refrigerator to pull out food,
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  they didn't even have them for refrigerators.
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  They had ice boxes for some of them.
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  So I think they all need to take a collective.
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  I'm grateful and pause because I know when I eat my food tonight,
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  I'm going to really feel that way.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.