Barrina LED Grow Light 6 Packs – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is Barrina LED Grow Light 6 Packs. I have been recommending the Kingbo Grow Lights for a few years now. I recommended them for starting seeds not growing out plants. They are great for that, thousands of them have been purchased for that purpose, I have not had any complaints.

They do have their limits though. Chiefly they need to be VERY close to the plants, if you do that they can even do a decent job growing plants to a decent size. Again though they are limited, as I have always said. I have been looking for a new light to start recommending for the same purpose (seed starting) yet with more power so you can fully grow with them as well.

It simply stands to reason that after three years time now tech should have gotten better and we should be able to get something better for about the same price. It looks like we can get something a LOT better for a LOT less which is frankly awesome.  I have been trialing these new lights for a few weeks now and I am blown away.  The bang for the buck is amazing.  I used them to build an indoor seed starting system based on Kratky Style Hydroponics (as seen in the videos below)  For that I used 2 six packs of the 2 foot lights.  These lights come in two options for length, they are…

 

Compare that to the old Kingbo’s which are a single 45 watt light for 27.99 or (62 cents a watt), but it gets better. First the Kingbo’s are square, at about 1 foot square it takes 2 to light a 2 foot shelf and 4 to light a four foot shelf. The Barina’s are shaped like a T8 fixture, so you can use two of them to light a shelf of the same length. Meaning the 6 pack of either would fully light three shelves of equivalent length. (At two per shelf, keep in mind I am using three to a shelf in my system.) Next up they Barnia’s daisy chain link so you can have all 6 of them running on one timed outlet with out a bazillion cords to manage.  This is the timer I recommend for that.

While the Kingbo’s are a fine light for what they are I can’t recommend them as a new purchase any longer.  I also do not believe Kingbo’s actually put out 45 watts of light.  Even running three lights to a shelf the way I am, the Barina’s cost 30-40 dollars per two foot shelf, vs. 56 for the Kingbo lights.  The growth I am getting with three to a shelf is amazing.  Some of my starts are damn well big enough to just eat at this point.

I coupled them with this great little mini greenhouse indoor shelf system and whether you want to do hydro or conventional starting for 30 bucks it is hard to beat the price on it.  But any shelf system will do.  I have a large 4 foot shelf in my outbuilding and I am thinking about getting a set of 4 foot lights and setting it up as well.  I will say if you get the mini green house and run 3 lights to a shelf like I am, you likely won’t want to close it up, it gets pretty warm in there running a total of 12 lights.

One hack on my system I want to do when the current run of starts is over is to get a big concrete mixing tray like this one here.  The shelf in my system fits perfectly into one, that way any leaks or condensation drip is caught and stays off the rug.

Here is my view on what these lights represent.  For the past 5 years LED lights have been getting better and better, especially high end commercial ones used for things like vertical farming.  That market is now globally a multi billion dollar market.  While these lights are not as good as those used in commercial operations, I feel like they are just about one tier below them, and likely as good as the best thing you could buy 2-3 years ago, for a fraction of the cost.  My seed starting system could be improved or modified to be a food production system, tune in to todays show (episode 2573) and I will discuss some ideas about that in the TspAz segment at the end of the show.

Anyway if you have Kingbo’s don’t get rid of them, use them for what they are good for, but if you are looking to expand, grow indoors, start seeds, etc. I say give the Barrina Lights a chance, they will save a ton of money and my results so far are exceptional.

P.S. – Again, people keep saying you can’t get these lights.

  1.  You can, you can order the 2 and 4 foot options right now.  The stated delivery is May 14th if you don’t have prime.  But when you log in with Prime you see delivery as of May 6th.  That is not bad.
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  2. Really don’t take longer delivery times on Amazon at face value especially if you live in a major US Market.  See this post for some examples of actual stated delivery times and when I am actually getting things.  I can’t say this is true in all markets but I have yet to wait more than 5 days for anything on Amazon since this all started as long as the item was in stock.
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  3. If they actually do sell out at some point, I am 99.9% convinced these 4 foot lights by Byingo are the exact same lights.  The Barrina lights are the best deal I have found and I love them.  But this is not patented tech, the same lights are being marketed from different brands.  This seems like one of them, but they have 4 foot ones only.  Note stated delivery times are not any better than Barrina, again I refer you to point two.
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  4. I believe these lights are the same as the ones in this color from Barrina.  No they are not the cool space age pink color but they are full spectrum and if I needed 2 footers and could not get Barrina’s I would not hesitate to buy them.  I mean Barrina makes them in this color too.  They are actually not available at this time.  I like the pink ones as a first choice only because all the light is “what plants crave” but the other lights still have everything you need.  They may not be quite as efficient but they are certainly not deficient in anything.
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  5. Again I would use any light that is a price I am okay with that appears to be the same lights.  You can just search Amazon for 2 Foot LED Grow Lights or 4 Foot LED Grow Lights and look at the form factor.  All this stuff comes from China.  The factory making them will sell them to anyone who wants to market them.  The odds two independent products have the exact same form factor, exact same wattage, exact same accessories, etc. are very low.  So don’t fear substituting here.  Just look for the same form factor, 4 or 6 count, same specs and it is 99% in this day and age the same light.  But again, don’t think a two week delivery time is really a two week delivery time for any in stock item on Amazon right now, again see this post to learn more.  Just order the Barrina’s in my opinion unless they actually say “out of stock” or “in stock on” you are pretty likely to see them within 5 days time.  I will talk more about identifying “clone products” in general in today’s TSPAZ segment, it is good thing to be aware of for a lot of stuff.
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  6. Last I think a source of confusion is Barrina seems to have removed the 4 pack option from their line up, they have also upped the price of the 6 packs.  That price is still stupid cheap!  Consider one light meeting these specs two years ago would have been about 40-60 dollars.  That is per individual light.  Getting 6 two footers for 70 bucks or 6 four footers for 115 is still a heck of a deal.  I removed the links to the four packs to prevent further confusion.  I also adjusted the pricing to reflect the current cost.

 

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Here are the two playlists showing to of my set ups, check the growth in these systems…

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Huauzontle – The Most Useful Plant You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

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Huauzontle is often referred to as lambsquarters and that is a generic name for a family of plants that huauzontle is part of. The scientific name for huauzontle is Chenopodium nuttalliae while the common variety of lambsquarters known to most people in the US is Chenopodium album.

Think of them as cousins, rather than sisters. Huauzontle grows lower and more spreading, it puts on a great deal more seed and does so earlier. Native peoples of Mexico where this plant originated used the dried seed as a grain, one reason it is also commonly called “hairy amaranth” the the seed is much smaller than amaranth.

Lots of places claim to sell Huauzontle Seed but often it is regular lambsquarters, here is one place I know where if you order seed you will get the real deal. https://bit.ly/huauzontle-seed As you can see in the video at the end of this article, while the seed is sort of expensive one plant saved to seed will give you enough for years of replanting.

As a food this is one of the most versatile plants you can grow there are three primary harvests that can be taken.

1. Early and Young – Much like its cousin lambsquarters when young the leaves are delicious and similar to spinach. Huauzontle is a bit better in my opinion then common lambsquarters when used this way. The leaves have a bit more substance to them and taste naturally salty.

2. Mid Growth Seed Heads – When they first form they are delicious and sort of like a combination in flavor between broccoli and mild mint. A favorite traditional way to make them is battered and fried but they are also good sauteed and served as a side veggie.

3. As a Grain – When the seed is fully formed it represents one of the most complete proteins available from a plant source. It is easily harvested and you really don’t need to get all the chaff out of it since it is all editable. The best way to harvest both lambsquarters and huauzontle in my experience it just cut the seed heads off, and run your hands over the heads and hold them over a clean bucket.

On top of all this, huauzontle is really a wild plant, it has never really been domesticated, it is essentially what we often call a weed. It is largely untouched by pests and disease and will naturalize on almost any property with a long enough growing season for it to produce and drop seed.

Humans love it, rabbits love it, chickens and ducks love it. You really should plan on growing this pant next spring and you can likely even be successful with it in much of the country if you plant is now for your fall garden.

 

 

 

Episode-2710- Carla Gericke on Strategic Relocation to New Hampshire

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Carla Gericke (JD, MFA) is an advocate of liberty specializing in localized voluntarism, self-determination, and how responsible human action can lead to peace and prosperity. She is president emeritus of the Free State Project, and lives in New Hampshire with thousands of fellow freedom fighters. In 2014, Carla won a landmark case affirming the 1st Amendment right to film police encounters.

She has appeared on WMUR, CNN, and Fox News, been featured in GQ and Playboy, been quoted in The Economist, and has discussed libertarianism on the BBC. She has visited more than 40 countries, hiked to the base camp of the 10th highest mountain in the world, lost a shoe in a taxi more than once, had her passport stolen in Goa, got kidnapped in Vietnam, and has noshed on more “mystery meat” street food than she cares to admit.

Carla once spent an entire summer while working as in-house counsel at Logitech eating tuna fish sandwiches with Doug Engelbart (the Mother Of All Demos dude), she worked on Apple’s acquisition of Steve Job’s NeXT, and bought her first Bitcoin for $6. Carla co-hosts the Told You So podcast, and co-chairs Manch Talk TV. She serves on several non-profit boards, follows a Keto lifestyle, practices yoga and shooting, and plays a mean game of Scrabble.

Carla enjoys cooking, gardening, painting, reading, and watching documentary films. She has twice run for New Hampshire Senate, garnering 42% of the vote in 2018 against an 11-term incumbent, and believes in 2020, third time will be the charm! DONATE to her race TODAY!

Carla’s first book, a collection of award-winning short stories, essays, and speeches, The Ecstatic Pessimist is now available on Amazon. Says Nick Gillespie, Editor-at-Large of Reason Magazine: “It is a fantastic package of writings that veer from fiction, to autobiography and memoir, to political polemics. It’s great, mixes stories about substance abuse, lack of focus, historical wrongs and utopian attempts to remake the world as a better place in a very pragmatic way. I highly recommend The Ecstatic Pessimist: Stories of Hope (Mostly).”

 

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Turkish Made Folding Harvesting and Pruning Knife – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is a Turkish Made Folding Harvesting and Pruning Knife, honestly I do not know what they are really called, but that is what it is.  The description on Amazon is officially a “Folding Scythe Weed Garden – Scythe Grass Saw 12” and I think some things were lost in translation from Turkish to English.  Anyway this is not a scythe, a scythe is for mowing and it has a non serrated blade.  This tool has a serrated blade, it is for cutting, not chopping and not mowing.

I found out about it one of my favorite ways to find out about things, from the audience.  I recently did a post on Rice Knives and a commenter named Joel said this in response to that post…

“I have tried a variety of these rice knives as well as a number of alternatives when I inevitably lost them. I finally settled on an alternative that I like better: a folding Turkish grape harvesting knife also on Amazon. It is of similar light duty build and I use it exactly like a rice knife. Its trump card is that it folds and can safely be placed in a hip pocket so I don’t lose it. I’ve used it daily for months and have no complaints. I’m thinking of buying one for backup because I only know of this one source.”

Well I asked him for a link and he provided it, I ordered one and I love the damn thing.  It does everything a rice knife does and it is a little beefier in build though this is not a over built tool.  Gonna bet in Turkey these are really common and likely sell for about 5-10 bucks vs. the 20 they cost on Amazon.  You know what though, I think they are totally worth 20 bucks.  Just like Joel said the weakness of a rice knife is you do not want to put it in your pocket, you will ruin your pocket and or cut yourself.  Hence you end up setting them down and misplacing them.

This guy folds up like a big pocket knife and fits pretty damn comfortably into a cargo shorts pocket and even into jean pockets.  That equals not put down, not lost, not rusted, etc.

Okay but how does it work?  In a word perfectly.  It does all the light duty stuff a rice knife does it also handled wild sunflower stalks the size of my thumb and simply stalks on a huge lambsquarter plant, no issues.  Like a rice knife you must use a sawing motion.

There are some real advantages here though. The first is you are a lot less likely to cut yourself then with a chopping sickle. You hold the material, lay your blade on it and saw though. I do hope if you feel it on your skin you won’t pull it across it. Also if you do get yourself as soon as you start moving it you should feel pain and unless you are a moron stop doing that. When you chop something you are holding and miss you either cut yourself or cut yourself bad, like say hitting a joint or a tendon and fucking your hand up for good.

This is great for precision like trimming grasses out from in between vegetables. A missed chop and there goes that eggplant or swiss chard when all you wanted was to get rid of some stubborn grass that can’t be pulled up because it will bring your veggies with it. Oh and it is the best tool for cutting comfrey you will ever and I mean ever find. Harvesting mint and other herbs in mass for drying, amazing for that too.

While much like a rice knife this is best on material about thumb size and down that is still mostly green it will cut though some tougher stuff.  I did some research on these things and they are used mostly for harvesting grapes and berries and for pruning said same like Joel mentioned.  They seem to have been around in this form a very long time.  In trying to get more info which is very limited I ran into some that claimed to be antiques over 200 years old, they look exactly like this one other than being very aged and not having the same markings on them.

When something is used by a society for over 100 years or more you know one thing, it works as designed.  I plan to stain and seal the handle.  The blade is carbon steel so I will likely patina it with vinegar, if you are not familiar with that process tune in today (episod 2709) and I will explain how and why to do it with tools like this.

In any event like Joel said there is only one source of this thing I can find so I am going to order a few more.  I plan to gussy them up a bit and give them as gifts this year.  Heck I may even give one to a couple instructors and raffle one off to a student this year at TSP20.  You don’t have to wait for that though.  Pick up one of these Turkish Made Folding Harvesting and Pruning Knives today and I don’t think you will ever regret it.  I have to say as much as I like rice knives I don’t think I will ever buy one again.  I mean summing it up, I now consider this tool on of my essential gardening and homestead tools.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

PS – The Stock Images from the maker do give dimensions but it doesn’t really convey scale well so here are a few pics of mine in hand and next to a rice knife to convey how well scaled this tool really is.  Like I said when a culture uses a tool for centries there is usually a very good reason for it.

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Episode-2709- Eggs the Back Yard Protein that Fed Americans for Generations

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Bantam Hens are Well Mannered and Underrated in My Opinion

Yesterday I had to be in my car for a bit and so I listened to part of one of Nicole Sauce’s recent podcasts on meat chicken raising.  She covered it all from getting new chicks to butchering them.  It made me realize I have not talked about poultry recently and that hey I wanted to.

Function Stacking at Work, Our Free Range Ducks and Chickens Cleaning up Spilled Song Bird Feeder Over Flow

Not wanting to redo the great work Nicole just did I thought, well lets talk about the other side of bird keeping, eggs.  I grew up at what I kind of like to think of as the end of the great era of back yard eggs in America.  Happily it seems to be coming back strong, and we will talk about the why behind that today as well.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • The method that my grandparents and almost everyone used in the 70-80s
  • What really killed the back yard flock, yes regulations but not the ones you think did it
  • Just like our grand parents to make chickens/ducks pay off we need to function stack them
  • Don’t over look quail they are the most productive dual purpose poultry in the world
  • Thoughts on procuring birds true local, local stores or by mail
  • My brutal ass brooding method and why it works so well, yea some die, I am okay with it
  • Strategy is a good idea as to weather and timing here is why I like brooding right now and in early fall too
  • Balancing free range, coop and run and tractoring with needs of birds and needs of humans
  • Different Birds to Consider
    • Production Chickens
    • Heritage Chickens
    • Bantam Chickens
    • Mallard Breed Conventional Ducks
    • Runner Ducks
    • Muscovy Ducks
  • Working with neighbors
  • Culling, don’t do this if you are not willing to cull or don’t know someone to take them 100%
  • Some good ways to cook roosters and stew birds
    • Believe it or not young roosters are often good fried old school style
    • Coq a Vin
    • Stew
    • Soup
    • Ground (many options)
  • Feed the best, the good and the good enough

 

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Four Things Parler Needs to do to Blow Up Big Time

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Come Join Me on Parler

I want to start out with what this post isn’t.  This is not a post saying “hey Parler, you suck”.  Rather so far I am enjoying Parler and I want it to succeed.  So these are things I think they can and should do better.  I am also doing this post because yesterday I criticized something they are doing, in response one of their people gave me a great answer.

Also Parlers official account is following me and does respond to me at times.  I know some of you may be like, well of course they do, you are a well known podcaster.  Yea, but not to Parler I am not, I am just one of many on the platform.  Since lightly promoting it a bit to you guys I have grown to just under 900 followers in about a month.  That may seem like a lot but it isn’t.  There are accounts on Parler with hundreds of thousands of followers, 900 is not a big deal.  The fact that they even respond to me is huge in my opinion.  It shows they want to serve their users better.

Let me start out with what I really love about Parler so far.

  1. 1000 Character Limit – this is great you can put our honest to God short blogs this way.  I have never felt one time posting that I could not get all of my critical thoughts into a post.  The limit of 1000 is really good though it does keep you from writing full on articles.
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  2. They Have Actually Gotten Some Really Big Names – Like Senators and Congress Clowns Big Names.  – Yes it is true I have almost no use for any politician other than to mock them, but such people have large followings.   I have tried to support a lot of would be competitors to facebook and Twitter such as MeWe but you have to have big time folks to attract a crowd.  In addition to the typical politicians and media types Parler also has big name alternative folks as well.
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  3. Slick App Interface – The app just looks good and works great.  Better in my opinion than competitors.
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  4. I Actually See the People I Follow – I fing hate that FB decides that well Jack does not really want to see Bill’s posts.  Well facebook and twitter and most platforms, really then why the F did I follow them?  I see everything everyone I follow posts on Parler.  If I change my mind I can simply stop following them.
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  5. Unique Content – There are two reasons for this.  One is I follow some people who have been banished from other platforms.  The other is simply that Parler is really growing and people and content creators are putting effort into making the content great.
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  6. I Can Read Comments in the Feed – Twitter sucks at this!  You can’t see a posts comments with out drilling down into the post itself.  If you click to comment on a post on Parler you see the other comments.  It also trees the comments in a much more organized way then Twitter does.

 

Things They Can and Should Do Better

  1. Make Content and Profiles Public – I know Parler says they value privacy.  Great but content creators do not want PRIVACY for the content we create we want reach.  1000 characters is enough space that I am willing to put totally original content on Parler, not just share links for content.  I will do this though IF and only IF that content can get into search engines and be shared outside the Parler universe.  I am sure some marketing genius decided that making people have to join to really get a a look around was a good way to get more members.  That genius is no genius, this is a fool’s errand.  Open things up, make posts easy to share on other platforms, make them findable by google, etc.  Sure you want to comment or share you have to join but to read, no this is a bad plan and this is the number one complaint people have about the platform.  You want more members?  Let people read and think shit I want to say something about that and you will have more members.  You want content creators to invest in your platform, well give us a stage to work on, not a back door room to hide in.  For those that want private profiles give them the option.  I think you’ll find that a small portion of average users like it that way but content creators will never chose private.  Content creators DRIVE social media, serve us better and we will help you.
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  2. Add Live Streaming Video – Man I would love a live platform to talk to my audience with that won’t censor me!  But unless you do item one, I will never use it.  A Parler insider said live video is coming.  Welp you are wasting your time if I can’t broadcast to the world.  From what I see I think options will be there for like subscribers only and some sort of premium subscriber option where I can earn money with paid content.  Great I love that but give us the option.  If I am going to do a Beer with Jack stream right now I am gonna do it on Facebook where anyone can see it, not in some back door room.  Again though if I start doing that many of my people are going to end up joining.  If I want to make partner revenue I need to build my following first.  Given I have a membership revenue model already I likely won’t use it but others will and again if Parler wants us to put real effort there, we must be able to reach everyone.
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  3. Give Us the Option to Follow Hash Tags – Hash tags are great, they help you find things and people to follow you’d never find otherwise.  But not being able to follow a hash tag means they don’t get used as much as they could.  Yes, I can look one up but we are busy people.  Just add a button, follow this tag.  In time that will let me make my feed bad ass.  There is no reason not to do this.
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  4. Fix Your Dang Suggested People to Follow Feature – This is not a big deal but it is hurting the growth of community and networks and it is so easy to fix.  Right now my list of suggested people to follow is 19 accounts.  I am following EVERY ONE OF THEM.  Stop suggesting that I follow people I am already following.  Suggest stuff that fits my profile so I can find new content.  Also when you do that, add a option to remove the suggestion.  IE I don’t like this suggestion give me new ones.  The fact that I have to say this makes me question some decision making over there.

 

Unfair Criticism of Parler – It seems only right I include this, as some of this stuff is bullshit.

  1. Parler Does Not Support Free Speech – First no one does online, but Parler is about as close as it gets from what I have seen so far.  I have had dozens of posts removed form FB and TW this year, zero from Parler.  And you guys know me I am a big scary anarchist, I trounce on Trumptards all the time and equally on the Left.  No one censors me. I looked into the claims of censorship.  There were two kinds.  First fake accounts claiming to be a brand or a person they were not and not as a parody.  If you want to parody me, go ahead but don’t claim to be me, that is fraud so good for Parler on squashing this.  The second was “SJW woke” morons attempting to get banned and doing so.  These morons set up accounts and then trolled the Parler team hurling insults and needless vulgarities until they got what they wanted then ran and shrieked they banned me.  Scew such people.
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  2. Parler is a Grand Conspiracy to “Wall Off” Conservatives on Social Media Right before an Election – Oh and remember it is once again the “most important election of our lifetime”.  The stupid here burns!  To be clear people do not change who they vote for because you posted a story and some comments on facebook.  Wake up boomers!  Your brother in law that loved Obama is going to vote for Creepy Joe, he is, you will never change his opinion by sharing posts about him sniffing people.  It does not work that way.
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  3. Parler is a Right Wing Echo Chamber – Oh so I am right wing?  Me the anarcho libertarian agorist?  I am right wing, really?  I have been posting my usual stuff I have not be reported banned or censored.  Are most users of Parler right wing, probably.  Is this surprising since Twiter/facebook/YouTube/etc area all run by die hard liberals and are only censoring the right?  If you think Parler is too full of one side of the discussion get your ass on Parler and bring your view, follow me there.  As always I will talk to you and answer you.  And as always if you talk like a man with a paper asshole, I will tell you that as well.  And if you cry about it Parler’s team will tell you to pull up your panties and stop following me.  It is only an “echo chamber” if you choose to only follow those who agree with you.  It’s your problem not theirs.

 

Anyway this post is not a great piece of literature, I am sure it is rife with typos and bluntly I don’t have time to proof read today.  However it is hopefully going to be considered by the team at Parler.  I know you guys don’t know me but before I was a podcaster I was a marketer for about a decade and helped some of the largest brands in the world, including Trump.  Yes really.  And you want to know how I got Trump as a client all the way back in 2006, I wrote and article saying his blog sucked.  His team fired back, I countered and two days later they hired me as a consultant, true story.  I can show you the internet archive of the exchange if you want.

What I am saying makes sense and it will absolutely accelerate Parler’s growth if they give it a shot.  Anyone from Parler’s team, please consider it if you made it this far.  Oh and Parler, if you don’t take a single of my suggestions, I won’t hate on you for it or anything.  You have no reason to listen to me, save one, I’m right.  Arrogant?  Nope just confident, like I said I have been in this game a very long time now.

Everyone else if you are not on Parler consider joining me there, give it a shot.  It is easy to criticize but as I have said for 12 years now, focus on solutions not problems.  The chief criticism of Parler is there is not enough diversity of thought, well that is something you can either bitch about or do something about.

P.S. – If you don’t use social media, why’d you even read this?  Don’t go bitching about social media as a thing in and of itself to me.  I respect anyone who says, social media isn’t for me but this article was not for you.  Don’t feel called out in the end where I said, ” The chief criticism of Parler is there is not enough diversity of thought, well that is something you can either bitch about or do something about.”  This applies to those using social media in some way already, not you.  It makes me sad that I know I need to say this.

Episode-2708- Listener Feedback for 8-10-20

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Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on chop and drop, covid, home school, working from home, property taxes, dehydrating, real estate, UBI and more.

Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process.

Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air.

I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming.

Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

  • Quote of the day – “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” ~ Albert Einstein
  • A call out for new expert council members
  • The right tool for various forms of chop and drop
  • A new claimed CoVid treatment worth looking into and a warning about anything like this
  • More news on the home school front, the death of public education and more
  • Working from home is about to go into hyper drive, the “competition effect” has just begun
  • State jujitsu 101 disputing you property tax assessment
  • Would I worry about polycarbonate in an Excalibur dehydrator
  • How might the coming real estate crash effect the cost of building a new home
  • Follow up on UBI, the coming political shit storm, etc. from last week

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Sponsors of the Day

 

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Lifegard Aquatics Threaded Bulkheads – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is Lifegard Aquatics Threaded Bulkheads.  In my estimation they are one of the best deals on bulkheads in the market and they are very reliable.  You can get them in sizes…

 

You should also check out the versions that are “slip” on both sides which eliminate the need for a threaded adapter all together.

Those you can also get in the following sizes.  These are my new go to form factor on these.

 

Until now I have recommend Banjo Bulkheads and I still do, they are far more heavy duty but they also cost more than twice as much on equivalent sizes.  The Lifegard Aquatics product is very high quality, just not as heavy duty as the Banjo version, so assess your project and total cost and do you really gain sufficiently to pay the premium for the application.

Here is my standard, if it is an outdoor four season application I go with Banjo, if it is an indoor application or an outdoor application that is shut down in winter (as many aquatic systems are) I go with Lifegard.  Consider in a large system with say 10 bulkheads, you are talking over 50 dollars in savings just on the bulkheads.  That is why I wanted to bring these to your attention.

I actually learned about them in an aquarium group I am part of and everyone loves them, zero reported failures with them.  So I gave them a shot on my Hydro Systems this year and they have worked flawlessly.  So give them a shot and have a look at the video in the PS for more info on them.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

P.S. – You might be thinking those one inch ones are less then the 3/4ths, you may also be thinking the 1.5 inch ones are stupid cheap at that size.  Well you are correct and I have always said no one ever says, “gee I wish my return lines were smaller”.

Yet over kill is a thing and cost of pipe and fittings is a thing.  You may find for instance that a savings by going from 3/4 to 1 inch is totally consumed and becomes far more expensive due to the cost differential between 3/4th and 1 inch Schedule 40 pipes and fittings.  In fact, it is inevitable in a system of any size.

The take away?  These bulkheads are the best value of quality and cost I can find.  Use the size right for your application.  The cost between sizes should be far less a factor in your choice then the volume of water you need to deal with.

P.S.S. – For more on these and why I love them see the video below.  And for one thing that can go wrong with them I would never have considered and how to prevent it, tune into today’s TSP episode.  Episode 2708.

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Episode-2707- Expert Council for 8-7-20

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Episode-2707- Expert Council for 8-7-20 [ 1:24:42 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line.

Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on diverticulitis, canning tomatoes, generators, inverters, ham radio, nutrition, UBI and more.

In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the best chance of getting on the air.

I do what I can to get as many of your questions as possible on the air but can’t always get to all of them. Our council is made of a wide variety of experts in everything from the tactical to the practical and everything in between.

To get more information on our Expert Council visit our “Meet the Expert Council Page” to learn more about them and their specific areas of expertise.

Join Me Today As Our Experts Discuss…

  • Quote of the day – ““There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”  ~ Baron de Montesquieu
  • The keto diet and dealing with diverticulitis – Ken Berry
  • Canning tomatoes – Keith Snow
  • Getting a decent generator for hurricane season – Derek Bonpietro
  • Running appliances with an inverter and your car – Shawn Mills
  • Building a BOB for a HAM radio operator – John Pugliano
  • A few things I want to add to our recent discussions about D3 – Jack
  • The real potential to see UBI in the next 3-6 years and why its bad for liberty – Jack

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Books I mentioned about Vitamin D

 

Websites of the Expert Council Members

 

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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