Episode-2600- The Expert Council Show for 2-14-20

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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 liberty, permaculture, cbd, guns, thermal scopes, lifestyle design, cars, investing, optimism 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 – “By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments”. ~ Thomas Aquinas
  • Dealing with native vines while establishing a food forest – Geoff Lawton
  • Of CBD and your pets – Doc Kelly
  • The ins and outs of entry level thermal rifle scopes – J.R. Haley
  • Using straw vs. wood chips for food forest establishment – Nick Ferguson
  • The legs of the stool of happiness – Gary Collins
  • Does octane have any effect on engine over heating – Derek Bonpietro
  • A lighting round of 401Ks, retirement planing and income preservation – John Pugliano
  • Why 12 years of TSP has turned me into a perennial optimist – Jack

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Websites of the Expert Council Members

 

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Come See Me at the Mother Earth News Fair in Belton Texas

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Hey guys and gals it has been quite a while since I have done any public appearances.  This year we have at least two planned.  I will be at PorcFest in New Hampshire this summer, but you don’t have to wait that long nor travel to the Northeast if you live in the south like I do.  On Feb. 15 and 16 I will be at the Mother Earth News Fair in Belton Texas, just north of the Austin area.

I will be speaking both days…

  • On the 15th I will be speaking on growing indoors with hydroponics, starting seeds with hydro and more
  • On the 16th I will be speaking about container gardens and wicking beds

 

Of course I won’t just be showing you how to build systems, I will be providing specific plant variety recommendations, techniques, tactics and more.  Like using layer based planting in even relatively small container gardens or scheduled succession planting in the new indoor home scale vertical farm I am building.

Hey and since Belton is only a couple hours south of me, I am bringing my new vertical farm to Belton with me!  Yes in addition to speaking I will have a booth and my new farm will be in the booth so you can see it, touch it and fully understand how it works.  This system will produce a continuous flow of food in your home, year round.  It will do with with a combination of some cut and come again harvest along with the ability to fully harvest 14 mature plants a week, and never run out, all with a work load of 5 minutes a day and 15 minutes one day a week.

No pests, no weather concerns, no nasty chemicals, just a system that pays for itself in 6 months and then gives you over 100 dollars in produce a month for about an 2 hours of effort.  Most of that effort is harvesting the food you want to eat that day, by the way.

Want more?  Okay it won’t just be me of course, Mother Earth News Fairs are amazing.  There are dozens of vendors and speakers and tons of things to learn about.   Here are some other speakers you can hear and meet….

  • Gary Collins – Well known member of our expert council.
  • Howard Garrett – You know the guy I am always talking about who is behind the awesome “Garrett Juice” in my fertility program.
  • Nick Burtner – Good friend of the TSP community and recurrent guest on TSP, graduate of Geoff Lawton’s Internship program.
  • Tradd Cotter – Prior TSP Guest who knows more about mushrooms than you can imagine.
  • John Moody – Been on our show many times, huge advocate for the Rogue Food Movement and Freedom in Farming
  • Jereme Zimmerman – Amazing brewer and two time TSP guest
  • Tons More!

 

I mean where else can you meet this many cool people, hang out with members of the TSP audience and community and learn about so many awesome topics?  So come on out to Belton and meet me and some other amazing folks.  Of course we will figure out some sort of TSP Get Together there as well.  Tickets start at only 20 bucks with lots of options, so sign up today and lets have a great weekend together in Belton!

Episode-127- TSP Rewind – Billy Joel’s Allentown – History Lesson, Prophecy or Both

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-819- Billy Joel’s Allentown – History Lesson, Prophecy or Both and was originally published on Jan 12, 2012.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

Today we are going to do something completely different and look at the old Billy Joel hit from 1982, “Allentown”. My hope is after you hear today’s show you will fully understand what I mean when I say, “history, prophecy or both” in regard to the song.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • What “closing the factories down” was actually like
  • Why unemployment was a national problem but worse in the coal and steel regions
  • What the song means when talks about “weekends at the Jersey shore”
  • The “restlessness” that was handed down
  • “Graduations hang on the wall” today they are college degrees vs. high school diplomas
  • The multiple broken promises that generation experienced
  • What “filling out forms, standing in lines” means to us today
  • What “hard to stay” is really all about
  • The true nature of the WWII generation post war prosperity
  • How “one word plastics” from the movie “The Graduate” relates to this song
  • What “the threw and American flag in our face” was all about
  • How the “flag in the face” relates to today
  • How this song is really about one of the massive shifts in the world
  • How this generation got caught in this shift
  • Some of the other massive shifts on the past 200 years
  • The real nature of the current shift

 

Lyrics of the Song Allentown

Well we’re living here in Allentown
And they’re closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they’re killing time
Filling out forms, standing in line

Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers at the USO
Asked them to dance, danced with them slow
And we’re living here in Allentown
But the restlessness was handed down
And it’s getting very hard to stay

Well we’re waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard, if we behaved

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke, chromium steel
And we’re waiting here in Allentown
But they’ve taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
Something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face

Well, I’m living here in Allentown
And it’s hard to keep a good man down
But I won’t be getting up today

And it’s getting very hard to stay
And we’re living here in Allentown

Resources for Today’s Show

 

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Winchester 51 Piece Gunsmith Screwdriver Set – 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 the Winchester 51 Piece Gunsmith Screwdriver Set.  Look strait out of the gate this is not really “the kit” for the big time gun enthusiast that tinkers often with many projects.  It won’t do everything  you will even need in drivers for guns, but it will do most, like 95%.

No what this kit is for is your range bag.  I can’t tell you how many times I have been at a range and a fellow shooter had some maintenance issue and no tools to fix the situation.  With this kit and a basic cleaning kit, a shell extractor and some lube if you can’t fix it at the range, you likely need a gun smith or to use your warranty if it is yet to expire.

driverkitbackThis is more than just a gun smith kit though.  Come on, 16 bucks for a good quality kit that has 48 different driver bits in it.  You know what I am going to say right.  Put one in the glove box of your vehicles.  Perhaps one in your Go Bag or BOB as well.

Does it have every torx bit, no but it has 7 and the one you are looking at pissed off because you expected it to be a Phillips bit likely will be one of those.  This is also a great gift to a young person who has finally be trusted to maintain his/her own firearms and frankly a good gift for anyone you need to get something for, not something spectacular just something.  You know what I mean.

Pick up one or a few of these and the first time you need it, you will feel like it just paid for itself.  Again this isn’t top quality on the level of say Forester or Grace USA (which I keep in my smithing box) but for 16 bucks it is extremely versatile and I have never had one fail me yet.  So give the Winchester 51 Piece Gunsmith Screwdriver Set a look and determine if it might be the right product for your range bag or other needs.

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

P.S. – Even if you don’t own a single firearm you should pick up one or two of these.  The ones in my boat and in my truck have both saved my butt a time or two.  Looking at a screw that needs turning and not having a simple tool with which to turn it suck.  Especially when it is either really hot or really cold outside and said screw is the one that can get you home.

Episode-2599- Kurt Dugger on Paraglider Adventures and the Dark Horse Lodge

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Kurt Dugger is a Former Infantry Marine turned paramotor pilot who decided to fly across the state of Tn to raise awareness and funds for The Darkhorse Lodge near Paris Tn.  Gretchen and Kirk Catherwood decided to start a retreat for combat veterans after losing their son (also a Marine) in Afghanistan.  To raise funds Kurt embarked on what he named, The Darkhorse450 an attempt by a low time pilot to cross TN using only a paramotor.

His paramotor is a roughly a lawn chair with a propeller suspended under a fabric paraglider wing. He didn’t make it all the way on his first attempt but it was a hell of an adventure. Kurt’s effort raised a little over $3000 during the attempt.  He did this because he feels the Darkhorse Lodge might be one of the best tools to prevent veteran suicide he’s ever seen.

It’s a group of 6 room cabins set back in the woods of TN. Guys can stay for free, build relationships with others and learn how to come home home again.   Kurt joins us today to discuss this worthy cause.

Resources for today’s show…

 

Sponsors of the Day

 

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Episode-126- TSP Rewind – Using Logical Methods and Function Stacking for Decision Making

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1707- Using Logical Methods and Function Stacking for Decision Making and was originally published on Jan 12, 2016.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

Yesterday’s show ran a theme of a penny saved is a tax free penny earned and how that compounds when invested outside the systems of taxation. I love this sort of individual liberation thinking. Then today I answered a question about a stove I mentioned last week. You can read about that here on the Nine Mile Farm Blog.

The Most Powerful Computer in the World, but Only if Used.

The Most Powerful Computer in the World, but Only if Used.

The basic take away is often you can acquire multiple items instead of an “all in one item” in doing so you will reduce or keep your cost the same while gettting greater functionality, flexibility, performance and redundancy.

While some of this is common sense, it benefits us to look deeper than that. The reason is common sense is the application of knowledge. Most of us know it is common sense to use a Phillips screw driver on a Phillips screw, but if you didn’t know it existed, you would likely make best use of the most usable strait screw driver.

To apply common sense the knowledge in that situation must be sufficient for the question or problem. And at times we can ask ourselves questions to remind us of what we know or help us to see what we do not know, so we know how to research the additional required knowledge.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • Why common sense isn’t so common
  • How common sense is applied
    • Evaluate the situation
    • Consider the things you know
    • Extrapolate what you don’t know based on knowledge and experience
    • Proceed accordingly
  • The question of a stove top vs. a stove top and oven and where it leads
  • My new quail aviary and how it stacks functions but uses multiple components
  • How to apply this thinking in your life
    • Think before you act
    • Do an elements analysis for most decisions
    • Find ways that one thing or action can be multiplied
  • How this leads to liberty
    • Small actions alone are not enough to win the fight
    • Properly assembled several small actions multiply their effect
    • Waiting for a law to change may result in being old and dead first
    • There is always a solution to almost any problem, people just get mentally lazy
    • The fact that most are mentally lazy is an advantage for those who are not
  • Every person is smart, but that is not enough
    • Give three people a tool kit, compare the results
    • It is about motivation, desire and application
    • What you don’t design and control will be provided for you
  • Final Thoughts

 

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Streamlight MicroStream – 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 the Streamlight MicroStream light. I have been recommending the larger version of this light, the Streamlight Stylus Pro for almost ten years. The reason I didn’t really recommend this one until now is simply because the Streamlight Stylus Pro is within a dollar or two of the MicroStream. Two batteries vs. one battery, hence double the life of the batteries with the same level of power draw. Or double the power of the light and the same amount of time of operation, your choice really.  Given the Streamlight Stylus Pro fits in a front pocket to the point of almost disappearing and forgetting you have it until you need it, I never saw a reason to go to the smaller light.

This is where a man must admit he doesn’t know what it is like to be a woman, even in some very simple ways. I featured the larger light just last month and expert council member Nicole Sauce made the follow comment on it…

I like the one that takes only the (CR123) battery because it is shorter and clips inside the lame assed non pockets they put in girl jeans without risk of falling out.

Well if you go look at those comments you will see I didn’t let that target go by with out taking a shot at it, BUT, she had a point. Folks I didn’t know that “girl jeans” came with “lame assed non pockets”. Now lets chat about those CR123 batteries though. I figure Nicole meant something like the Olight S2. Now Olight actually sent me one when they came out, good light, also over priced and flatly I despise CR123 batteries.

I prefer AA and AAA because I have about a cagillion of them in storage. I also have tons of them in rechargeable form and charger full of fresh ones at all times. Is a CR123 better from a power standpoint? Yea but the best batteries are the ones you always have, can always get and can always scavenge. If AA and AAA batteries were shotgun shells they would be 12 and 20 gauge, CR123s would be at best 410s and more like 28 gauge. Really good for what is does best but largely unneeded, hard to find and frankly over priced.

I told Olight as much, they told me I was wrong and funny enough though they now have a AAA version of their own. Funny that?

My philosophy though is standardization as much as you can and as much as makes sense. Take my property and plumbing for instance. We have PVC everywhere, it is a big property and water is life. Well other than some legacy 3/4ths everything is either 1/2″ or 1 inch. That way I always have any fitting, valve or pipe I could ever need on hand if something needs work. Yea sure some of the return lines are 2 inch on the aquatic systems, but only because that is necessary for a specific application.

Specialized is used where necessary, standard is used everywhere else.

So if you want to standardize on CR123s good luck finding a TV remote that uses them, or lawn lights, etc. Yet I bet right now if you are in your home, you are no more than 10-15 yards from some AAs and AAAs. Including some you could “loot” from other devices if you needed to.  So given I have been using and gifting Streamlight Lights for over a decade, when it comes to a compact model I am going to stick with them. To be fair I do think the AAA Olight is a good light too, for about the same price.  Either is honestly fine.

That said the Streamlight MicroStream is bright and powerful it uses C4 LED tech and is shockproof with a 30,000 hour lifetime.  The MicroStream provides 28 lumens, and a beam distance of 52 meters. Powered by one AAA alkaline battery the MicroStream LED pen light has a run time of 2.25 hours. It is super light at just a hair over an ounce in weight and it will fit those “lame assed non pockets they put in girl jeans“.

And to be fair I can see where many folks would like a more compact light and 2.25 hours (at max power) is plenty of run time for an EDC light.  One last thing, they do make a rechargable version.  It is 30 vs. 19 bucks and I want you to think about something.  Say you are a good prepper and you have a charger and a bunch of rechargable AAs and AAAs in your black out kit.  Okay, so why do you need a rechargable light then?

The world of the day is standardize!  If you plug in the light and charge a Lithium ION “pack” that is simply a Lithium ION AAA battery in a wrapper, how is it different then simply dropping in one of your own fully charged Lithium ION batteries?  Here is the answer, you have to open the light, that is the only difference.

So if you want to spend 12 bucks more for a plug in light go ahead but as my recaragable batteries are only a few feet from my desk I will stick to “rolling my own”, all because of what?  Standardization.

So if you have to deal with those “lame assed non pockets they put in girl jeans” or just want a more compact EDC light, give the Streamlight MicroStream a try and I don’t think you will be disappointed.

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

P.S. – I did want to say something about the Olight AAA version.  It has one major advantage, it can be extremely bright, but you’ll pay or it in run time.  As it will drop to 21 minutes.  This is why light makers have gone to special batteries to eek out a bit more at top brightness.  The Olight does have two settings, it will run for a whopping 16 hours on low, but you are only going to get 5 lumens at that setting, in other words your cell phone is brighter.  I would personally recommend the Streamlight, cuz well I just did.  But if you want uber compact and super bight and to still stick with a standardized battery, check out the Olight AAA.

 

Episode-125- TSP Rewind – 21 Unique Things I will be Growing this Year

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2142- 21 Unique Things I will be Growing this Year and was originally published on Jan 9, 2018.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

Time for a fun show looking ahead to when all the ice and danger of heavy frost is gone. Last year I found some new gems and this year I am planning major grow bed expansion so I have found some new ideas and some old favorites to add to the 2018 planting list.

Basically if you are a Gardner or grower or plant geek, today is a bit of plant porn for the winter cabin fever blues. I will be providing a link for all seeds, some will be to companies that are MSB partners, some to companies that offer things our partners do not and some even to Amazon or eBay because you just can’t get them any other way.

My view with growing plants for food has always followed this guidelines in no particular order…

    • Grow what you like to eat
    • Grow what is expensive to buy
    • Grow what you can’t buy or is hard to find
    • Grow things that store well with little to no effort
    • Grow things that are perennial or that self seed
    • Grow things with more than one use
    • Grow things that have little disease/pest pressure
    • Grow honey badger plants (plants that just don’t give a shit)
    • Grow things that allow you to interplant in layers
    • Try a few new/weird things each year
    • Grow things that are “super foods”

      Japanese Purple Sweet Potato and Cubanelle Peppers in my Aviary.

Look any one of those is enough reason for me to grow something, frankly “because I effing feel like it”, is enough reason but the more check marks something gets, the more interested in growing it I become.

Join Me Today As I Discuss…

  • Why grow more than just the usual suspects
  • My plant starting set up for this year
  • Things I plant to grow this year and why
    • Cubanelle Peppers – link
    • Datil Peppers – link
    • Lemon Drop Peppers – link
    • Habnada Pepper – link
    • Corbaci Pepper – link
    • Hairy Gourd – link
    • White Flowered Gourd – link
    • Bitter Mellon – link
    • Mouse Mellon – link
    • Scarlet Runner Beans – link
    • Red Noodle Beans – link
    • Japanese Purple Sweet Potato – link
    • Daikon Radish – link
    • Tomatillo Verde – link
    • Achocha – link
    • Beets – (Baby recycled) – Just get them in a grocery store
    • Zucchino Rampicante Squash (trombone zucchini) – link
    • Orach – Mixed – link
    • Bloody Dock – link
    • New Zealand Spinach – link
    • Hopi Red Amaranth – link

 

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Utopia Kitchen Flour Sack Towels – 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 Utopia Kitchen Flour Sack Towels.  I am going to tell you that really any quality flour sack towel I have used has been fine, these are just the best price per towel I can find and they are on prime.  The key word there though is quality.  Can you find them for less than about $2.20 a towel?  Yes, but when you do read the reviews.  The common theme will be “very thin” and “gets holes after a few uses”.  These don’t do that, they last a very long time and due to that, they pay for themselves.

Utopia Kitchen Flour Sack Towels have over 5600 reviews and 4.5 stars.  In other words they are top quality.  Remember a key tenet of my philosophy is “always be frugal, never be cheap”.  To be blunt, something is only a “good deal” if it both works and lasts.

Lot’s of people like these because they are lint free and dry dishes nicely, etc.  Some people use them for embroidery.   Also some see them as the perfect cloth diaper.   That is all great but what I use them for is as an alternative to cheesecloth.  In that use they make a much better alternative when making yogurt cheese or separating say buttermilk from fresh made butter.

Cheese cloth wears out fast and doesn’t really offer any advantages for this use, where as flour sack towels last a very long time, you just wash and dry them and use them over and over again.  I am a huge fan of getting good bacteria like lactobacillus into your diet in many different ways and none are more awesome than yogurt cheese.  In fact it may be the easiest and most delicious way to up  your probiotic game.

All you need to do to make basic yogurt cheese is take one of these towels and dump plain yogurt with “live and active cultures” into it, stir in a bit of salt, put it in a metal strainer over a bowl and wait 12 to 24 hours.  You will than have something akin to tangy cream cheese.  But I have never made it so bland.

While your yogurt is still very soft is the time to stir in herbs and seasonings.  Here are a few of my favorite things to add to it.

  • Fresh Basil and Fresh Garlic – this is the universal one everyone likes
  • Chopped Jalapenos and Garlic
  • Cracked Black Pepper, Rosemary and Thyme
  • Cracked Black Pepper and Almond Slivers – Add the Almonds at Serving, See Video below for why.
  • Lemon Zest and Chopped Walnuts

 

Honestly if you think it might taste good with cheese it will likely work.  How much, well as in most things I do it by eye, just remember you can always add more but can never take it out.  Here is a save if you ever over do anything, make a plane batch and blend it.

Also if you want your yogurt cheese a bit firmer, try this, take a large heavy can of something, put it on top of the towel and it will help expel a bit more of the whey.  Oh the whey that stuff is probiotic gold.  You can drink it and you will also find that your animals will like it too.

So if getting more probiotics into your diet is in your plans, and it should be, give Utopia Kitchen Flour Sack Towels a shot.

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

P.S. – I realize that some times just being told it is okay to do something like let yogurt hang in a bag refrigerated overnight can be a bit intimidating to people.  We have been so brainwashed by the almighty dot gov alphabet departments.  ie, never let dairy get over 45 degrees and if it does throw it away.

In the words of Steven Harris, “what fricken temperature do you think it was when it came out of the cow”?!!!

Foods like yogurt, cheese, butter and lebneh (essentially thickened yogurt we call yogurt cheese) were invented before man ever conceived of the idea of refrigeration.  Specifically they were invented to extend the life of milk, which they are all made from.  If making lebneh, yogurt cheese etc. were dangerous, every Lebanese and Greek Grandmother would have poisoned their families long ago.  Hence here is a quick video of me whipping up some of my favorite yogurt cheese, jalapeno, garlic and black pepper.

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Episode-2598- The Expert Council Show for 2-7-20

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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 business, science, corona virus, root cellars, repetitive motion injury, stocks, guns, keto diet 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.

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Join Me Today As Our Experts Discuss…

  • Quote of the day – “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”  ~ Carl Sagan
  • Vetting online marketing coaches, success coaches, etc. – Nicole Sauce
  • Keeping sane during the Corona Virus hysteria – Doc Bones
  • The odd conundrum of a flooded desert – Geoff Lawton
  • Lessons from building a root cellar – Ben Falk
  • Dealing with stand repetitive motion issues – Gary Collins
  • The explosion of Tesla Stock and the economic impact of Corona Virus – John Pugliano
  • The ins and outs of the 21 Foot Rule – Officer Steve Wise
  • An update on my Keto Diet and why you should at least consider it – Jack

 

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