I asked Jack sometime around 2012 on his advice about starting a podcast. He has never changed his opinion about this. He said. Do it and do it often. Quit waiting and don’t worry about being perfect. Just do it! That’s not an exact quote but its close. Also Jack is right. Levelator works great! I use it on interviews because the quality of each guest varies depending on what they have and what they use. If I have a podcaster on, they usually have good equipment with great sound. But I’ve done phone interviews with low sound but good quality and Levelator helps a lot. Listen to Jack. He knows what he’s talking about.

Not on today’s topic but just in general… According to this New Yorker article, a lot of the uber wealthy are preppers. Interesting read.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

I don’t believe anything about anything. Only developing my opinions based on the data I have seen/experienced. And of course it doesn’t change anything. But if I kept my opinions to myself then I wouldn’t be able fix them when needed. The crux of my point is that I think it is immoral for our soldiers to have been ordered into Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place, not to mention the rest of the middle east. There is more evidence in regards to 9/11 that points to Israel, Saudi Arabia, CIA and others in our own government.

Ironically 2 days after reading in the history segment “Mary Tyler Moore (Living)…” she died.

History segments – my dad was born in 1931 and I’ve been reading his history of his early life growing up in rural NM. And it is interesting to take these years and go back and see what my dad was doing then. His childhood was not easy, born into a 10 x 12 log home, later a 8 x 12 addition added on. Often stuffing old pillows and trash into windows to keep out the wind and snow. There were rafters in his home they would use to hang stuff on, chin ups until they were used for firewood. I think he was hungry most of his childhood, learned to fish and hunt at an early age so he could have more to eat.

A traveling nurse would visited occasionally and give the school age kids shots. He hated those shots, turns out that he was so underfed that the needle would hit bone and bend, then tear up tissue as the bent needle came out.

How venison fed much of their town until deer became scare and hunting laws prohibited year around hunting and how people were starving as venison was their source of meat, esp in the winter.

He often didn’t own a pair of shoes, or even a shirt until it was his turn to make one out of a flour sack. Neighbors often stole from each other’s gardens. He had a couple dogs eaten by hungry people in the community. He remembers going to his grandfather’s and sneaking some of the “cottage cheese” they fed to the turkeys. How he caught his youngest brother nursing off the family cat, trying to get a little milk.

His dad wasn’t around much as he grew up, often working places out of town to see what money he could make. His 3 older brothers fought in WWII. One of his older sisters was an observer for the first nuclear bomb testing. They had a small radio but only used it occasionally to hear the news as batteries were expensive and they often didn’t have enough money to buy replacements.

How the government started to pay people not to grow stuff, and how the same farm stuff was passed around and resold to various people in the community so they could that kind of farmer and then paid not to grow it anymore.

When he was 10 his dad left an old model A Ford which wouldn’t work and said anyone of his sons who could get it running could keep it. My dad fixed it and got it running and was excited to have a car, but the adults were you aren’t old enough to drive nor have a license and gave it to an older brother. And when it broke that brother still expected my dad to fix it for him. The brother was using it for an out of town job to help bring in some money.

In the mid 40’s things got better as he was able to do more and his siblings were able to find employment/businesses. The whole community seemed to be doing somewhat better then.

His town did not get electricity until 1948, water and plumbing until the 50’s.

My dad has always had a large garden, he and mom have always canned and stored food. I can understand more now seeing his background. He is in his 80’s, has a room in his basement full of bottles of canned food which they raised on their quarter acre yard. I know just grape juice alone they bottled a couple hundred quarts this past year.