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What's Fueling the Homesteading Movement · Life TV now

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Speaker 1: People's reliance on grocery stores for food, utilities for heat,
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Speaker 1: and fuel for transportation has created an entire generation largely
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Speaker 1: unable to take care of itself if the grid were
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Speaker 1: to go down. But something is shifting. More and more
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Speaker 1: families are walking away from modern conveniences, rethinking what they consume,
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Speaker 1: and learning skills that many of us were never taught,
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Speaker 1: like growing food, preserving it, and raising animals. But why now?
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Speaker 1: Is it a realization that we've become disconnected from what
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Speaker 1: truly sustains us? Or is it a deeper unease, a
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Speaker 1: realization that the structures we've trusted to provide for us
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Speaker 1: may not be as stable as we once believed that
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Speaker 1: they were. Today's guest is here to talk about all
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Speaker 1: of this and more right now, Hello everybody, and welcome
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Speaker 1: back to Life TV Now, where we unpack all matters
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Speaker 1: of truth, faith and freedom. I'm your host, Joe artist Horn.
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Speaker 1: Today is going to be enlightening and probably put many
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Speaker 1: of you on a brand new way of thinking in
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Speaker 1: terms of the future and your willingness to step up
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Speaker 1: for you and your families to be prepared for what
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Speaker 1: is coming. But before we dive in, let me introduce
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Speaker 1: who's here My best friend and beautiful wife, Catherine Horn.
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Speaker 1: And she's lived the homesteading lifestyle for over four decades,
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Speaker 1: long before it became a movement, building a life of
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Speaker 1: self reliance through raising livestock, growing food, and practical skills.
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Speaker 1: She's also dedicated herself to education and mentorship, equipping the
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Speaker 1: next generation with skills that truly matter today. She's the
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Speaker 1: founder of the Ozarks Homesteading Expo and Ladies Homesteading Camp.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome Cheryl Franklin, Ladies and gentlemen. This is set
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Speaker 1: My oldest daughter and my mother met you at a
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Speaker 1: homesteading camp and they came back and they said, Dad, son,
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Speaker 1: This woman knows everything about homesteading and living off grid.
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Speaker 1: And they were so impressed with your wealth of knowledge.
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Speaker 1: And I said, you know, that is a priority because
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Speaker 1: as we move into the day's ahead. We have talked
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Speaker 1: as a family for many years covering Bible prophecy. You
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Speaker 1: can just see the trends. People live what is less
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Speaker 1: than a week of resources in their own pantries based
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Speaker 1: on what is available at the grocery stores. And this
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Speaker 1: is something we've seen from personal experience. Over a decade ago,
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Speaker 1: we had an online store called survivor mall dot com.
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Speaker 1: One of the reasons since I got out of that
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Speaker 1: industry was because of the stress of having basically feast
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Speaker 1: or famine constantly. When it came to survival and preparedness supplies.
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Speaker 1: You would see there's not much interest when things seem okay,
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Speaker 1: you're struggling financially, and then the minute that Fukushima or
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Speaker 1: a news something breaks in the news, something alarms people.
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Speaker 1: Now they rush, you know, for potassium iodide, or they
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Speaker 1: rush for long term storage food, and we're back logged
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Speaker 1: into oblivion. We've got three months worth of back orders
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Speaker 1: that we can't fulfill. And I'm saying, man, I could
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Speaker 1: have made a lot of money right now, but instead
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Speaker 1: I'm just making a lot of people very mad, and
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Speaker 1: I'm doing a lot of refunding this place. Man, especially
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Speaker 1: in Western civilization, is not ready to see the grocery
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Speaker 1: stores go down. Before we get into that. How did
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Speaker 1: you start your journey as a homesteader. How did it begin?
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Speaker 1: What has your lifestyle kind of resembled over the last
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Speaker 1: several years.
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Speaker 2: Well, I kind of started over food.
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Speaker 3: I grew up in the Northeast, where there was a
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Speaker 3: lot of ethnic food and just scratch food. I tell people,
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Speaker 3: I never eat a hot dog out of a package
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Speaker 3: until I moved to those arks, so, you know, because
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Speaker 3: there was just a lot of you know, deli's and
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Speaker 3: just homemade food. And when I moved here, there wasn't
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Speaker 3: things that I was used to. But I just kind
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Speaker 3: of got intrigued, like, Okay, where do you you know?
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Speaker 3: I grew up in Buffalo, New York. Were Buffalo Wings now,
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Speaker 3: but they hadn't arrived here yet, okay at that time.
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Speaker 3: And so anyway, it was just a quest more to
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Speaker 3: create scratch food because everything was packaged when I moved here,
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Speaker 3: except for fried chicken maybe, which we never really ate
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Speaker 3: growing up. We never ate fried foods like you do
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Speaker 3: in the South. So I just kind of got on
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Speaker 3: a quest to figure out how to make those things.
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Speaker 3: And I found like the Organic Gardening magazine and Rodale's
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Speaker 3: Stocking Up, which Rodale is like a pioneer in some
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Speaker 3: of the organic food scratch movement. And I had one
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Speaker 3: Rodale book, you know, but it was everything I needed.
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Speaker 3: It was like my food bible, and it taught you
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Speaker 3: how to make hot dogs and sausage and how to
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Speaker 3: butcher chickens.
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Speaker 2: For YouTube, so you.
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Speaker 3: Just innovative organic gardening things. So I kind of went
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Speaker 3: down that rabbit hole with was just trying to make
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Speaker 3: my own bread and you know, meats and healthy things
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Speaker 3: for my family, even before we had children. And then
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Speaker 3: it just kind of got to wow.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: Then you start reading labels and you start finding out, oh, well,
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Speaker 3: I can make this, and I can make this, and
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Speaker 3: so then we had to get the animals to have
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Speaker 3: the meat to make this, and then we had to
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Speaker 3: build the gardens too. And we were kind of the
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Speaker 3: strange people because we were doing things a little bit differently.
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Speaker 3: Then we became, you know, kind of obsessed with the
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Speaker 3: information that was there. You know, we just lived like
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Speaker 3: that for years and years. But I would, you know,
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Speaker 3: get as more information came about, get more books, and
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Speaker 3: go to conferences where there were experts, where I tried
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Speaker 3: to get to know the people who knew about this stuff,
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Speaker 3: you know, because I wanted to know more. So that's
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Speaker 3: pretty much how we lived. But you know, we both
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Speaker 3: worked full time jobs, and I was in the media business,
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Speaker 3: and so you know, we would be milking goats at
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Speaker 3: four am and just In for success at seven and
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Speaker 3: you know, just in the kids would milk goats or
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Speaker 3: make cheese before we headed to school, and that was
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Speaker 3: their life. And we didn't get involved in sports and
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Speaker 3: a lot of things. That was our life, you know,
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Speaker 3: gardening and doing the animals, and the kids were in
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Speaker 3: four h and showed and things like that. But that
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Speaker 3: was pretty much our normal life. And like you said,
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Speaker 3: there weren't a lot of resources for that, you know,
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Speaker 3: and kind of where I lived, there were a lot
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Speaker 3: of generations that were still still doing those things.
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Speaker 1: What era are you referring to for those watching the
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Speaker 1: program that might be trying to place that, are you talking.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so late late seventies, early eighties, okay, and then
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Speaker 3: as we were having children eighties nineties.
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Speaker 1: Well you know, so that's when you first started developing
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Speaker 1: interest in this, right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, more like seventy eight seventy nine. And my husband
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Speaker 3: went to school at that time for alternative energy, you know,
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Speaker 3: solar and wind and all that stuff at Crowder College,
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Speaker 3: which is a local college here, which was the only
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Speaker 3: college offered a degree in alternative energy.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that that there were fewer resources then?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there very much that's.
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Speaker 1: A head scratcher, because I would have thought the opposite.
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Speaker 1: I would have thought back then, you know, grandma.
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Speaker 3: And well that's the thing though, we skipped a generation.
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Speaker 3: So as you talk, you said, I remember my grandma
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Speaker 3: such and such. I remember, you know, and I hear
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Speaker 3: that all the time. And I remember my grandma doing that,
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Speaker 3: butchering chickens and you know, raising chickens, going out in
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Speaker 3: the yard.
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Speaker 1: And my grandpa made his own jermoke house.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exact things like that.
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Speaker 3: But it's always the grandparents. And so so we skipped
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Speaker 3: a generation. And you know, and I feel like it's
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Speaker 3: convenience and fast foods and household incomes you.
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Speaker 2: Know, yeah, women working outside the home and dispensable income.
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Speaker 3: You know, people didn't have to have a garden, you know,
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Speaker 3: go to the store and get things. And as more
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Speaker 3: and more products became available. Used to we had a
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Speaker 3: general store and you had your basics. Now we have
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Speaker 3: you know, Walmart, which is why we have to have
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Speaker 3: recycle now because everything comes in the package right.
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Speaker 2: Right, right right.
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Speaker 3: And so yeah, so that was what I started. And
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Speaker 3: then as I did that, I taught kids how to
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Speaker 3: do this. I did camps how to do the you know,
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Speaker 3: teaching people how to do that from kids to grown ups.
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Speaker 1: So when you're talking about teaching people how to do
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Speaker 1: this or that, or showing the young people this or that,
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Speaker 1: you're talking about homesteady, living off grid, jarring food stuff like.
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Speaker 3: That, correct, and mostly how to you know, raise animals
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Speaker 3: humanely and responsibly, sure and grow a garden without pesticides.
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Speaker 3: And because that's was pretty common practice you know in
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Speaker 3: these parts, it has been for many years by that time,
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Speaker 3: and so we were, you know, determined to do those
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Speaker 3: things without pesticides and trying to grow organically and.
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Speaker 2: Things like that.
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Speaker 3: So there weren't a lot of mentors of that persuasion
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Speaker 3: at the time.
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Speaker 2: Just throw some seven dust on that, and you know.
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Speaker 1: What fueling If there is a I don't know if
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Speaker 1: renaissance is the right word, but if there is a
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Speaker 1: resurgence now an interest in living off grid and being
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Speaker 1: ready for self sustainability, is that something that you see
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Speaker 1: is broadening now? And is that a side effect of
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Speaker 1: a whole generation kind of worried about the fact that
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Speaker 1: they don't have a clue. Is that what you're saying, Well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there are several factors that kind of influence.
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Speaker 3: That one is people's health. You know, began to see
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Speaker 3: the effects of the way we eat and not trusting
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Speaker 3: the government. They told you to eat margarine. They had
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Speaker 3: a food.
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Speaker 2: Pyramid that.
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Speaker 3: Crystal or you know those things seed oils that are
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Speaker 3: and we're you know, we're suffering because of that. So
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Speaker 3: people have done research, you know, when people take responsibility
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Speaker 3: with their own health and go, well, that's not right.
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Speaker 3: And then of course we had something like the pandemic
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Speaker 3: era twenty twenty and people if they didn't even care,
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Speaker 3: now they do because now they can't get their food
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Speaker 3: and they can't even get basics, eggs, milk, butter, chickens.
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Speaker 1: So you think twenty twenty maybe also awakened something that
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Speaker 1: was well, you know, pure dependency on the system.
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Speaker 3: And people decided, oh, what will I do if I
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Speaker 3: can't get this in the grocery store, because.
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Speaker 2: This is what I'm dependent on.
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Speaker 3: And they realized, of course they were stuck in home
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Speaker 3: watching YouTube videos, you know, but they realized that they
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Speaker 3: could if they had flour, make their own bread, if
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Speaker 3: they had some chicks, they could have some chickens in
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Speaker 3: their backyard, or you know, start a firm and chicken ownership.
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Speaker 3: Backyard chicken ownership in twenty In twenty eighteen was about
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Speaker 3: five pointy eight million people had backyard chickens, and it
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Speaker 3: went to eleven fifteen million. Oh wow by twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 3: you know, over and so yeah.
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Speaker 2: And tripled.
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Speaker 3: And even so now that's kind of weighed back a
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Speaker 3: little bit because again, like you said, when there's something
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Speaker 3: going on and people have an urgency and then the
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Speaker 3: people get lax or lacks of days all about it.
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Speaker 4: Where it's too much work, and then their life is busy.
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Speaker 3: And correct and they well, people forget. We forget, just
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Speaker 3: like the Israelites they forgotten. You know, it's the same thing.
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Speaker 3: I always respect, I always liking it to that, you know,
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Speaker 3: how soon we forget and you just have to have
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Speaker 3: some kind of unfortunately tragic thing happen in the world
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Speaker 3: event for people to wake up. But still as a
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Speaker 3: result that it's never gone back to the pre twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty numbers. People are raising chickens now and baking bread
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Speaker 3: and making their own food and canning and learning because
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Speaker 3: because they can, and because there's a lot of satisfaction
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Speaker 3: in it making your own food. There's a lot of
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Speaker 3: satisfaction and they have found and people are becoming more aware. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: people are reading labels, yeah, and finding out you can't
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Speaker 3: even buy a jar pickles without high fructose corn syrup
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Speaker 3: in it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think why pickles need to dive from toast corns?
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Speaker 4: That's a great question to addict you to them, but
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Speaker 4: go ahead, right, But I think sometimes too, because like
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Speaker 4: when Kate had her garden last year and everything in
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Speaker 4: the family was eating all of her fresh veggies, they
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Speaker 4: could literally taste the difference from what you grow in
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Speaker 4: your own garden versus what you buy at the store,
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Speaker 4: and even how big it is in everything. I mean,
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Speaker 4: she was doing everything as organically as possible, and everything
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Speaker 4: not using any kind of weed killers or anything like that,
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Speaker 4: so it was all very natural. But the size of it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And for context, when she says Kate's growing a
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Speaker 1: thing and we're eating it, what she's talking about is
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Speaker 1: my oldest daughter, who is already like way ahead of
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Speaker 1: us even in terms of aggressively growing food and mainly
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Speaker 1: raising animals. In fact, a lot of the food we
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Speaker 1: ate last year and I would love to take credit
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Speaker 1: for this, I guess raising the daughter that's doing But
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Speaker 1: that's what she's talking about. Her oldest daughter actually fed
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Speaker 1: us a lot last year, and you can literally taste
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Speaker 1: the difference between food from a grocery store that's probably
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Speaker 1: thirty days beyond when you should have eaten it in
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Speaker 1: the first place. It's all propped full of gighs to
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Speaker 1: make it look like it's still alive. And then the
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Speaker 1: shapes and the colors that she's pulling out of the earth.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I didn't know radishes came in this dark
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Speaker 1: purple s color. Yeah, and then you'd bite into it
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Speaker 1: and it just explodes with flavor.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes me talk like this. I don't know
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Speaker 1: why I'm doing that, but that's what she's talking about.
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Speaker 3: It's so satisfying too, And especially if you get kids involved.
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Speaker 3: Kids don't know that carrots, you know, you pull them
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Speaker 3: out of the ground. There's nothing more satisfying than digging
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Speaker 3: up potatoes or pulling the hard for a kid.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we had actually our youngest son helped Kate and
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Speaker 4: I pull up all the potatoes. He actually was having
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Speaker 4: a lot of fun with it. So it's an educational thing,
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Speaker 4: but you can turn it into a fun thing too,
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Speaker 4: And I think just the other day they actually planted
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Speaker 4: all the potatoes for this year.
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Speaker 3: Well, I had a time when I was doing a
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Speaker 3: teaching thing with some children and we were grinding wheat
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Speaker 3: and I had a parent say, oh, flower comes from wheat.
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Speaker 2: It just made me more determined. So there it.
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Speaker 1: Comes from a white bag that says flower.
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Speaker 3: Right, So this generation and there are more of those
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Speaker 3: people out there than you realize.
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Speaker 2: Sure we're not.
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Speaker 1: Mocking or disparaging, We're just no.
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Speaker 3: But I'm just saying that the you know, ignorance, educational ignorance,
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Speaker 3: not ignorance, but you know, just knowing where your food
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Speaker 3: comes from and what.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm thankful for that time during the twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: where people were stuck inside watching YouTube videos whatever, you know,
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Speaker 3: learning how to do things and.
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Speaker 1: So to be self sufficient and to watch the system
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Speaker 1: that they depend on like really not taking care of them.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, in person though no, there's not learning.
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Speaker 1: Kind of to bring this all around full circle to me,
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Speaker 1: it's a spiritual thing because I believe this program exists.
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Speaker 1: If you remember the pilot, I talked about the Babylonian system.
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Speaker 1: I talked about this program existing so that people could
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Speaker 1: be reintroduced to the laws of God, the literal laws
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Speaker 1: of God, which don't resemble standing behind a podium and
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Speaker 1: preaching at you and then driving right to the buffet
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Speaker 1: and then poisoning yourself with all kinds of excitotoxins and
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Speaker 1: artificial fats and glucose overloads which raises insulin. And then
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Speaker 1: you're trying, I'm not mocking, but then you're praying through
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Speaker 1: areas of discernment, Father, what would you have me do
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Speaker 1: with this ministry? Where would you lead us next? And
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Speaker 1: you have no idea that your brain is just beaming
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Speaker 1: under the load of toxicity and artificial influences that you're
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Speaker 1: putting into your body. And so I often say with
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Speaker 1: a straight face when people meet me at a conference,
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Speaker 1: how you doing, Joe? And I'm not kidding, And I
17:05
Speaker 1: do it on purpose to get the reaction and open
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Speaker 1: a conversation about natural healing and herbs, the medicine that
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Speaker 1: God has given us in his soil before we've patented
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Speaker 1: it and changed the construct of it so we can
17:17
Speaker 1: lawfully work with insurance companies to poison you for profit.
17:20
Speaker 1: But I'll look right at them and I'll say I'm
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Speaker 1: doing as well as I can for a guy that's
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Speaker 1: living outside the laws of God, and like that's the
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Speaker 1: last thing that they expect me to say, what is
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Speaker 1: this a confessionary? And then I'll framework that, Look, I'm
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Speaker 1: doing the best that I can to live on a
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Speaker 1: fallen planet that has completely abandoned how we're supposed to
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Speaker 1: nourish our body, and none of us are getting away
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Speaker 1: with this. I can do the absolute best that I
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Speaker 1: can with herbs and cleanses and purified water or distilled water,
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Speaker 1: and then remineralize and do all the things. But until
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Speaker 1: we as a people get back to living under the
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Speaker 1: laws of God, which is growing our own food, making
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Speaker 1: sure that our children are being raised and nourished properly,
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Speaker 1: until we make a space for Him in our homes
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Speaker 1: as fathers, put God back at the forefront of our homes.
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Speaker 1: Like we're living outside of the laws of God. Does
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Speaker 1: that make sense? And so like none of us are
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Speaker 1: going to get away with that toxic burden. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a miracle to me that we're here at all,
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Speaker 1: with what we've done to God's earth, to his soil,
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Speaker 1: to the way that he intended for food to be
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Speaker 1: developed in the first place, pry on contamination, what we're
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Speaker 1: doing to vaccine our animals into oblivion so that the
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Speaker 1: meats we have are completely like it goes on and
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Speaker 1: on with it. Just a few minutes left. I want
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Speaker 1: to make sure we dive into some of what people
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Speaker 1: can do, Cheryl if they're watching this program, and we
18:40
Speaker 1: were never going to get it all in one program,
18:42
Speaker 1: so we're going to have to have Cheryl backman absolutely
18:47
Speaker 1: if you're watching this show, no, I know, right, what
18:53
Speaker 1: are some things that our viewers could take away today
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Speaker 1: and maybe some first baby steps? Because I love your
18:58
Speaker 1: story you're saying, nobody spelled this out for me. It
19:00
Speaker 1: was under more difficult times because we skipped a generation.
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Speaker 1: You were part of that generation between Grandma and I
19:06
Speaker 1: remember those days and then today where people have no
19:09
Speaker 1: concept of this. You know, where does a person start?
19:13
Speaker 2: You know, eat good foods, but eat seasonally.
19:16
Speaker 3: You can grow things. You don't have to live on
19:17
Speaker 3: a farm. You enough to go buy forty acres. You know,
19:19
Speaker 3: you can grow some tomatoes in a pot and get started.
19:23
Speaker 3: But if you want to do something more so you
19:26
Speaker 3: have more in your pantry, you can go to a
19:29
Speaker 3: farmer's market and buy organic tomatoes or cucumbers or whatever,
19:34
Speaker 3: lot of things and learned can you know, learn to
19:38
Speaker 3: pressure can buy meats from your local farmers as well,
19:41
Speaker 3: because then.
19:42
Speaker 2: You know what you're eating, You know your farmer.
19:45
Speaker 3: You know you're not getting hamburger from you know, fifty
19:49
Speaker 3: different cows that came from twenty different countries, you know,
19:52
Speaker 3: and God knows what else is in them exactly. It's
19:57
Speaker 3: kind of creepy. Now when you learn these things, it
20:00
Speaker 3: is to get a hamburger from somewhere and going, I
20:02
Speaker 3: don't know where this came from or what's in it.
20:05
Speaker 3: And so you know, they could start small and start by,
20:08
Speaker 3: you know, learning small things, learn how to can learn
20:11
Speaker 3: how to preserve your food because you don't know. Grocery
20:15
Speaker 3: stores have three days of groceries in them and if
20:19
Speaker 3: they would not be restocked, they have three days. And
20:22
Speaker 3: so what do you have? You know, and your gift
20:24
Speaker 3: will find out what you like, your family likes to eat,
20:28
Speaker 3: what's nutrition, what things are seasonal right, and then things
20:33
Speaker 3: you can just have on hand for think about what
20:36
Speaker 3: you're what you're going to run to the grocery store for.
20:39
Speaker 3: If there was a crisis going on, when the wheels
20:43
Speaker 3: fall off?
20:43
Speaker 2: What are you going to run? Go get exactly? You
20:46
Speaker 2: need to have those things already.
20:47
Speaker 1: You're the founder of the Ozarks Homesteading Expo. You know
20:51
Speaker 1: where can people learn more about that? Because I know
20:53
Speaker 1: we're going to have viewers at this point, like you've
20:55
Speaker 1: completely compelled me. I recognize this is an existential threat
20:58
Speaker 1: to our existence, but there was no way in a
21:01
Speaker 1: thirty minute program you're going to teach me how to garden.
21:03
Speaker 1: So how do people learn more about self sufficiency? Tell
21:06
Speaker 1: us about the website, tell us about events that.
21:08
Speaker 3: You're in sure, So we started that in twenty nineteen,
21:11
Speaker 3: and so it's held in September this year on Labor
21:14
Speaker 3: Day weekend. We'll have over forty speakers teaching on all
21:19
Speaker 3: of these things that we're talking about, and then thousands
21:22
Speaker 3: of people who are like minded wanting to learn those
21:26
Speaker 3: types of things.
21:27
Speaker 2: So people that you can.
21:29
Speaker 3: Create community with and become friends with and exchange phone numbers,
21:33
Speaker 3: and you're sitting next to people that they want to
21:36
Speaker 3: learn these things too. But we have experts from all
21:39
Speaker 3: over the country, nationally internationally known experts and speakers, authors
21:45
Speaker 3: at that event.
21:46
Speaker 1: And I can tell you from personal experience that our
21:48
Speaker 1: family has attended i think two different versions of these
21:51
Speaker 1: events that you guys have hosted, and they've both come
21:53
Speaker 1: back inspired and it was a lot of information, but
21:56
Speaker 1: not overwhelming. They took notes, they learned so much and
22:00
Speaker 1: a tremendous help to my oldest daughter Kate, who's in
22:02
Speaker 1: the live audience today.
22:05
Speaker 3: She was at our ladies homesteading camp and that's a
22:09
Speaker 3: week long intensive thing.
22:11
Speaker 2: So yeah, she's.
22:13
Speaker 1: Hungry for it. She did a whole week. She came,
22:15
Speaker 1: she came and spent the entire week with you guys.
22:18
Speaker 1: With rising food costs, you know, people will say things
22:20
Speaker 1: Sheryl like, yeah, but it's so expensive, man, you know,
22:23
Speaker 1: why would I do this when I can get you know,
22:25
Speaker 1: twelve microwavable burritos for eight bucks right from the frozen
22:30
Speaker 1: department at whatever grocery store. But obviously we've kind of
22:34
Speaker 1: talked about the need to be self sufficient again, what
22:37
Speaker 1: about the cost, well.
22:40
Speaker 2: The cost of your health.
22:41
Speaker 3: You know, you can pay now or pay later, you know,
22:45
Speaker 3: because it's not just because it's cheap doesn't mean it's
22:48
Speaker 3: cheap exactly. And you know, you think your health is important.
22:53
Speaker 3: You need to do it because you deserve to do
22:54
Speaker 3: that for yourself and for your family. Be responsible for
23:00
Speaker 3: health in your family, or you can pay the medical
23:01
Speaker 3: bills later.
23:03
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, in today's world, there's a lot of
23:06
Speaker 1: stuff that we don't have any control over, but we can.
23:09
Speaker 1: We can control the choices that we make in response
23:12
Speaker 1: to what we're seeing. How do you think, as we're
23:14
Speaker 1: getting pretty close to the end of today's program, how
23:17
Speaker 1: do you think homesteading gives agency back to people and
23:21
Speaker 1: replaces fear with more optimism about the steps they're taking.
23:25
Speaker 3: Well, there's nothing like knowing, and you know people, everybody
23:28
Speaker 3: doesn't have to do all those things, but you should
23:31
Speaker 3: learn how to do those things because everybody's not in
23:34
Speaker 3: the position to go buy a farm and to raise
23:37
Speaker 3: all their own animals. But I think you need to
23:40
Speaker 3: know how to do it. Need to know how to
23:42
Speaker 3: least make bread and can and preserve and maybe raise
23:45
Speaker 3: some chickens or processed chickens or animals, because there may
23:50
Speaker 3: be a time when that's all you Well, yeah.
23:53
Speaker 1: Now, what about the guy that's in an apartment and
23:55
Speaker 1: he's living in New York and he's watching this, He's like,
23:58
Speaker 1: I love the show. I follow you with the supplements
24:00
Speaker 1: in the herbs and things. But man, for me, man
24:03
Speaker 1: if the grid goes down, I won't even make it
24:05
Speaker 1: out of Manhattan, Like what about that guy? Because you
24:08
Speaker 1: might be surprised. There's a lot you can do even
24:10
Speaker 1: in those limited living spaces to get started, right.
24:13
Speaker 3: Well, I mean food is essential food and water is essential, right,
24:16
Speaker 3: so everybody can can can things. There's a farmer's market
24:20
Speaker 3: on every corner now, nice, and so you can go
24:23
Speaker 3: to farmer's market, you know, and stock up, and you
24:26
Speaker 3: can go to places like Azure or whatever and get
24:29
Speaker 3: your I love that rains and stock up grains store well,
24:34
Speaker 3: so you can get your grain so you can make
24:36
Speaker 3: flour and things like that, or just buy flower.
24:39
Speaker 1: And you're also supporting the very people that are trying
24:42
Speaker 1: to make good food available to you. So I love
24:45
Speaker 1: that concept. If you've never thought about that angle, is
24:48
Speaker 1: that new for any of you? The idea of buying
24:50
Speaker 1: good food from a farmer's market but learning how to
24:53
Speaker 1: jar it and preserve it. Have you guys thought about
24:55
Speaker 1: that before? That's kind of a new one for me.
24:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you can put it, you know.
25:00
Speaker 3: I mean if you live an apartment, I know people
25:02
Speaker 3: who have it under their bed or in their closets
25:04
Speaker 3: or every little corner just so.
25:07
Speaker 4: And you can even do small container gardens too. I
25:10
Speaker 4: know a lot of people do small container garden. You
25:12
Speaker 4: have a.
25:13
Speaker 3: Balcony, yes exactly, you know, make them, but for long
25:16
Speaker 3: term storage, you know, for it's obvious, say when the
25:19
Speaker 3: wheels fall off, you know, you people need to have
25:22
Speaker 3: a good stash of you know, food to get by.
25:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And so it's a great way.
25:29
Speaker 3: We don't run to the grocery store when it's when
25:31
Speaker 3: we hear there's going to be something going on, or
25:33
Speaker 3: even even a natural disaster. You know, people need to
25:36
Speaker 3: be prepared for that as well. Yeah, most people don't
25:39
Speaker 3: have anything in the refrigerator for you know, three days either.
25:43
Speaker 1: No, ladies and gentlemen. Take it from my family. We
25:45
Speaker 1: have a mini yeared very colorful history with survival products,
25:50
Speaker 1: and there's a reason we got out of that industry.
25:52
Speaker 1: It's the most bipolar, hard to sustain. Hard. There are
25:56
Speaker 1: companies out there that I won't mention by name, that
25:58
Speaker 1: do a pretty good job. I don't know how they're
26:00
Speaker 1: sustaining it, because it's the time when you should see
26:03
Speaker 1: that up swell. You cannot get your hands on anything
26:06
Speaker 1: right they're out.
26:07
Speaker 2: You can't wait until it all happens.
26:10
Speaker 1: And they're going to prioritize the big giant box stores
26:14
Speaker 1: that have the big movers and shakers as a small family,
26:17
Speaker 1: as a regional store, or as an individual forget about it.
26:21
Speaker 3: Well, grain mills right now, you cannot get them there
26:23
Speaker 3: of stock.
26:25
Speaker 1: Grain mills.
26:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, mills.
26:26
Speaker 3: I mean they are just way out of stock because
26:29
Speaker 3: people are becoming more aware and want to be able
26:33
Speaker 3: to buy them so they can stockpile grains.
26:36
Speaker 4: Yeah.
26:37
Speaker 1: I hate to do this, but we are literally out
26:40
Speaker 1: of time. Got started, no, I know, but that's why
26:46
Speaker 1: we'll have to dive in a little bit for next week. Okay,
26:48
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Cheryl Bath. It's not a program that
26:55
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to miss. We're going to follow up
26:56
Speaker 1: with Cheryl. We're going to do this again next week
26:58
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