Expert Council Q&A for 1-27-23- Epi-3236

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Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on politics, vax lies, community, dam wall management, solo hiking, investing, land management and more.

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  • In the Ron Paul Liberty Highlights
    • What if we actually followed the constitution – Dr. Ron Paul
    • Why does the CDC continue to say CoVid vax side effects are rare – Dan McAdams
    • Government has always been nothing but a pipe dream – Chris Rossini
  • How a sense of community effects your survival odds – Doc Bones
  • Planting for a damn wall to stabilize it and provide for ducks – Nick Ferguson
  • Solo vs. hiking with a partner – Jessica Mills
  • Major purchase timing, ETF Decay, buy and hold vs. sell now and more – John Pugliano
  • What the time preference view of bitcoin investing teaches us about farm land management – Jack

 

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Oregon Self Sharpening Electric Chain Saws – Item of the Day

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Special Note – I am running this today because the 18 inch plug in saw is on sale for 90 dollars this is a beyond stupid cheap price.  For the average back yard this saw will do anything you need and has a lot of safety built into it.
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That said please understand these tools have limits, they can’t run with a commercial quality gas saw like say a Shihl or Husqvarna Farm Boss, they serve a totally different purpose.  Hell they can’t even run with cheap gas saws.
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However when you watch the video at the end please understand how hard a piece of seasoned live oak is.  It is akin to cutting something just below stone on the hardness scale.  Which is why I chose it.  For trimming trees and felling smaller trees and such these saws cut like butter within their size limits.  I  have taken down a lot of trees on my property with both saws.
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Even oak if not seasoned they tear through it very easily.

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 three fer.

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In the video below I use both saws to cut seasoned live oak.  I can’t emphasize how hard this wood is, it will plumb smoke a drill bit.  I decided to do a seasoned hardwood log rather than a live cordedsawpiece of wood for the video to demonstrate a worst case scenario rather than a best case one.

You will note the plug in saw has a 18 inch vs. 16 inch bar compared to the cordless.  It also has considerably more power as you would expect.  The beauty of the plug in saw is cost, for only 135 dollars you get a self sharpening saw, that simple always works.  The down side is working with an extension cord attached to your saw.  I see this saw as best for bucking in one location or for the small property owner, say and acre or less that just needs a saw they can count on.

cordlesssawThe cordless saw has plenty of power, I really should have cut some green lumber with it to show the difference.  I have dropped, slashed and bucked quite large live oaks with it, say with trunk sizes of 10-12 inches.  It is very light weight compared to a gas saw and even if I am using my gas Husqvarna I still tend to have this with me for limbing, bucking and slashing.

The common attributes these saws have that make them wonderful are as follows.

  • Noise – they are much quieter than a gas saw, and they only run while cutting, no constant idle.
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  • Self Sharpening – pull a lever and run the saw a few seconds you are back to a seriously sharp chain.
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  • Self Breaking Chain – while the plug in is better at this (it is instant see the video) the cordless only lets the chain run for about 1-2 seconds after you let the throttle go.  This signifigantly reduces injuries.  Most not all but most chainsaw injuries happen after the throttle is released.
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  • No Tool Chain Adjustment – the number one reason your saw will start cutting poorly is the chain gets loose.  With most saws you loosen the cover with a wrench, tension the chain with a flat screw driver, then re-tighten the cover.  With these saws you have two dials, both can be turned by hand and proper chain tension can be restored in a few seconds.

 

Again while these saws have many advantages over a gas saw, they are not equal to one.  If I had to drop several trees I would reach for my gas saw.  However my little three acre homestead has been very well served by these saws.

They are ideal for small property owners, people that use a saw say a dozen times a year of less, etc.   Franky they are a pleasure to use, the self sharpening feature makes up for having less power then a gas saw.   Sure I can sharpen a chain, but that takes time, and like many time is one of my greatest assets, anything that saves time is valuable to me.

These saws do use special chains, which are sold with the sharpening stone.  I get a lot of use out of one chain though, I cut up a lot of dead stuff, prune a lot of trees and go though about one chain a year.  That isn’t much.

  • Here is the chain/stone set for the plug in 18 inch saw the cost is 36 bucks.  Get it Here.
  • Here it the chain/stone set for the 16 inch cordless saw the cost is 36 bucks.  Get it Here.
  • If you have the first generation of the cordless saw, it has a 14 inch bar.  Get it Here.

 

Please note that if you have the first generation saw with the 14 inch bar and want to upgrade to the new saw with the tool free chain adjustment (like I did) you can buy the bare tool and use your existing battery and chargers.

In any event if you are in need of a chain saw that will just work, all the time, be easy to maintain and won’t beak the bank or your ear drums, check out either the Oregon Cordless Self Sharpening Chain Saw or the Oregon 18 inch Plug In Electric Self Sharpening Chainsaw or the Oregon 16 inch Plug in Electric Self Sharpening Chainsaw today.

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

P.S. –  Chainsaws are dangerous tools, even modern saws like these with great safety enhancements.  I think anyone using a saw for the first time should take a class or get an experienced person to teach them safe use. 

I have some personal rules I follow.  One is I don’t let anyone near me when I am cutting, if I can touch you with my saw without taking a step you are too close.  I also always make sure to clear two avenues of escape when felling a tree, in case it falls other than were planned.  There is a LOT more, again if you are not experienced do not use these or any such saw without getting some instruction.

I have seen several chain saw injuries and they are really awful injuries!

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Listener Questions & Feedback – Epi-3235

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Today I answer a variety of recent questions and feedback that you guys have sent me by email, social media, YouTube comments, etc. Including an epic rant because some of you are offended by a plant! Don’t miss this one.

If you want to submit content or questions for a show like today’s the best thing to do is send an email about your topic or question to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with TSPC in the subject line.  Ask your question up front in one sentence or do the same with your point.  Then provide any additional details, references, links, etc. after that.  This is the best way to get though my show screening process.

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  • Now eating eggs can cause “sudden blood clots”, really?
  • Cooking a steak like a pro in a small apartment with limited equipment – not even hard
  • Using wood chips as deep litter and then composting with my modified Johnson-Su method
  • Yes I use cannabis, it has been public knowledge for over a decade, some of you need to chill TFO
  • When doctors say the “quiet part out loud”
  • The rich people go to the gym, they don’t go to Sonic for fast food though
  • Positive actions are like flying, negative thought is like falling, it takes no effort once you start
  • Let me break down what I call the dual trivium of education
    • Grammar – The ability to learn
    • Rhetoric – The ability to convey ideas/teach
    • Logic – The ability to desern what you don’t know from what you do know
    • Context – History
    • Current Knowledge – Science
    • Universal Language – Math

 

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Akira Botanicals Added to the MSB – 20% off Everything

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Yesterday I did a fantastic interview with Rand Gifford (Episode-3234 – The State of the Cannabis Industry).  We had a ton of great feedback on this episode already.  Rand’s Company Akira Botanicals has a large array of options derived from the cannabis plant.  All are Federally Legal do to the US Farm Bill.

What I like is while there are some items that could be used “recreationally” it is mostly geared to medicinal use, lifestyle enhancement and pain relief.  I also love that with the exception of a very few items like Delta8 Edibles all of the products on Rand’s website are the result of cannabis grown right on their own farm.

I met Rand this fall at the TSP Fall Workshop and he was an awesome guy to hang out with.  Right before he left he handed me a box of his various products, there was attention to quality evident from the packaging alone.  I used a variety of his products to determine if the quality went deeper and it most certainly did.  So I was happy to have him on air and even happier to add him to the MSB.

Effective immediately all items for sale on the Akira Botanicals website are 20% off for all MSB Members.  The code is already in the MSB on your benefits page.

Special Note – Please note that we have several vendors that offer products in the Cannabis family.  Most notably Brave Botanicals, Solistic CBD and Angies Garden.   We have now added Akira Botanicals.  I find them all to be outstanding providers and each offers different unique value along with some things the others do not offer.
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I don’t add everyone who asks (I say more no then yes to prospective partners) and do so that the value each partner offers is not diluted.  I feel at this point we have a very diverse and high value group of partners and do not plan to add any more in this niche any time soon.  If you use products in this space you know good products with high quality are expensive for a reason.
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The discounts on these 4 vendors alone will easily cover the cost of MSB for anyone who uses such products regularly.  So if you are not an MSB Member yet, this is a great additional reason to join the club and gain access to 70 additional partner vendors selling everything from silver to seeds to coffee and more.
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To make this point I put in an order myself with Akira and the discount saved me 60 bucks on a single order on a membership that is 50 bucks a year.

P.S. – Gasp!  Yes Jack Spirko uses cannabis!  I really have never been a true stoner, I don’t use it with high frequency and I tend more to using it for sleep, dream enhancement and opening up creativity when working on new projects.

But I won’t apologize for it and the war on this plant as gone on long enough. It is a plant folks, fricken chill out.

I got a few outraged emails yesterday saying “I DiDnT kNoW yOU weRE a DoPeHeAD” and other such things.  It made me laugh with no bud required.  This is nothing new and has always been public.  I invite you to check out some of the other shows we have done on the topic.  And if you don’t want to use cannabis by all means don’t but if you get uptight that others occasionally do so, may be you should. ;>)

Barrina LED Grow Light 6 Packs – Item of the Day

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Note – These are marked down a bit today so the value is even better than it always is!

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.

Given the supply shortages that keep pulsing though our system, especially on imported goods you may want to get these now.  I am not advocating “buy anything you can get your hands on” like some.  I am saying though if you can get a deal right now on something you plan to use in the next 3-12 months, you really may want to take it while it is here.

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 five 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 today (10-29-20) 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.

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

P.S. – Some have asked about the white light versions.  I have not used them but several members of the audience I trust have and noticed no real difference in growth.   Barrina currently has them marked down quite a bit as well but they do cost a bit more per watt.
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There is a good reason to consider them though.  If you have nosy neighbors they tend to attract less attention when being run in the early morning or late evening.  Again while I have not used them several members told me they ran them and the pink ones side by side with no real difference in growth.  Due to the smaller quantity they will cost a small bit more per watt but they are in stock and on sale, find them here.

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

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The State of the Cannabis Industry – Epi-3232

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Today we discuss the cannabis industry and emerging trends in it with Rand Gifford of Akira Botanicals.  We cover industrial, medicinal and recreational elements.  The current trends in legislation and economic opportunities and more.

Rand started his farm in 2016 out of his grandma’s backyard. Using the Curtis Stone model, he grew microgreens and salad greens for chefs in the Chicagoland area. With one season of gardening under his belt, he decided he was ready to be a full-time farmer. The following season, he moved his family to North Carolina and started a farm from scratch. (see Greenshine Farmers YouTube Channel)

Using the same model, he found a niche selling mixed greens and other veggies to grocery stores, food hubs, and restaurants. He invested all of his profits into high tunnels, packing shed, and a travel trailer to live in. He would go on to have 2 more children (3 total, all 18 months apart) and pulled 100+ hr weeks to make ends meet.

In 2019 he applied for his hemp permit and began growing hemp flower for CBD production. Greenshine Farms just didn’t sound very marketable when it came to CBD products and so he began a subsidiary known as Akira Botanicals. The market was flooded that year with everyone and their mother trying to cash in on the ‘green wave’ and having put everything into that year’s crop, the future of the farm depended on his ability to move product.

Luckily that year, Akira Botanicals won a Cannabis Cup for their Cherry Cobbler flower and that helped them move the majority of their harvest. They didn’t make very much that first year, but it was enough to get them into next season.

Since then they’ve improved their growing practices, sales strategy, packaging, and website every year. What started as an idea was beginning to take on a life of it’s own. Akira Botanicals won two more Cannabis Cup awards in 2021 and has since begun to gain a reputation in the CBD community as having high quality products.

In 2022, Rand finally was able to build a house on farm. With the help of some truly awesome friends, the house was completed just in time for winter.

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Monoprice Releasable Cable Ties – Item of the Day

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Special Note –  These are a top ten useful item on my homestead and today the 8-inch & 12 inch versions are on sale in the 6 dollar range.  At this price they are cheaper than the shitty ones that are not re-useable. If you don’t have some of these, bluntly you are wrong. Get em while they are cheap.

I can’t directly link to the 12 inch option, because Amazon is being stupid about it, you can just change the option from the main page for them if you want those.

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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 something I feel no one should be without.  They just do too much, for too little cost to not have some.  They are Monoprice Releasable Cable Ties and at only six bucks and some change for 100 pieces they are a steal.

Get a few bags and do the following.  Make up bundles of about 20-30 a bundle.  Just use one tie to hold the rest together.  Put a bundle in your BOBs, put one in every glove box of your vehicles, put some in your garage where you can see them and just grab them, etc.  Heck I keep half a dozen as part of my EDC, you don’t even notice them in a cargo pocket until you need them.

The key is the releasable part!  We even use these for keeping gates closed on our low fences for our ducks.  I keep a few tied on top of various fences all over the property, so if you need one there is always one close by.   They are very strong and stay flexible a long time.  They tend to last about 1.5-2 years if in direct sun before becoming brittle.  Otherwise they seem to last forever.

I use them for many other things as well.  I use them to tie up new seedling trees for say a month until they stiffen up.  Since you can remove and reuse them it is cheaper than plant tape.  I use them to tie 4 large hog panels into a square and make an on the fly animal pen.  There is no limit to how useful these things are.

Since I first started recommending these they have added a lot of different sizes.  They now have them in 6, 8, 10 and 12 inch lengths.  So the choice is yours.  But the 8 inchers and 12 inchers are on sale today; keep in mind they are reusable and releasable and two 8s make one 16 easy enough.

So just how versatile are cable ties in general, okay I am going to tell you a story, I am NOT SUGGESTING THAT you do it, it is just what happened.  Many years ago when I was in the Army I had two friends, Brad and Dean.  Dean was the one that owned a truck and he was a “character” to say the least.

Dean would just toss Brad or I the keys anytime we needed his truck.  One day we wanted to run to the PX, so Dean tosses Brad the keys.  In we jump and to the PX and back we go, beer run of course.  Brad is a typical guy from Southern Louisiana so he bends speed limits till they break.  We get back an Dean says, “oh yea, I should of told y’all to take it easy until the new tie rod gets here”.

Brad and I get down and look and see that fricken Dean had used 4 tie wraps to hold a broken tie rod together.  As in it had broken in two and he tie wrapped it back together.   For those that don’t know, the tie rod holds the front searing brackets to the frame so you can turn.   Kind of an important function!  So Brad almost kills Dean but later we laughed about it, because when you are 20 you are stupid!

That has always stuck with me and while I would not replicate it as a “temporary repair”, I would replicate it with great care and driving very slowly to get a vehicle to safety in a similar situation.   Trust me and if you don’t keep cable ties in your preps, start doing so and the best ones for flexibility and usefulness are Monoprice Releasable Cable Ties.

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

P.S. – I have brought this item back a many times, the reason is simple, if I made a list of the top 5 most useful things on my homestead, I am sure it would change over time, but these would never fail to make the list.

Azolla a Plant for Food, Fertility & Energy – Epi-3233

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Today I am joined by Moses Sahontatoken to discuss a plant that I have talked about many times.  Azolla a floating aquatic fern that can fix nitrogen from the air eliminating the need for nitrogen fertilizers, feed livestock and be grown rapidly enough to be a valid energy source when converted into dry pellets. A true miracle plant.

Moses Sahontatoken is a Métis Bitcoin advocate and anarchist from Turtle Island (colonial Canada). Moses is a visionary and economic strategist; developing concepts and ecosystems in the realm of indigenous self governance, circular ecologically based modular biospheres, and parallel economic architecture.

“All people are indigenous, the natural state of the human organism is consensus within the tribal group. The emergence of “The State” parasite imposed compliance under threat of violence, disrupting the organism’s natural state of consensus.
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Bitcoin opens up the possibility of post-governance consensus by transcending the limits of Dunbar’s number to maintain objective truth across the entire human population; achieving world peace. Integration of Bitcoin in novel ways into the public consciousness is the highest calling of the 21st century.”

– M.S. Chief Poundmaker

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Anker Soundcore Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker – Item of the Day

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Note – I am brining this little amazing speaker around again today because it is awesome as heck and on a daily deal right now for 25% off while inventory lasts.

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 Anker Soundcore 2 Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker.  This is the one has IPX7 Waterproof and wireless stereo paring with a second speaker.

The Soundcore 2 Is on sale today and gives you 12 watts of sound and an honest to God 24 hour play time on a single charge.  I personally own a pair of these and love them.  At 40 dollars each they are solid deal and pair of them produce awesome sound.  Yet at 28 bucks a piece in my view they are a steal.

I use these in my workshop since it is not wired with AV like my garage is.  So you are looking at 40 bucks for one or 80 bucks for a pair.  To me at that price a pair is the way to go.  And today they are on sale making a pair only 56 bucks.

Don’t over look that 2X paring!  Again for just 56 bucks you can get two and create a true stereo environment with any bluetooth device.  Think cheap surround sound with say a laptop playing movies.  Or any TV with bluetooth ability.  Or think one on each corner of a deck or patio.

Anyone will love this as a gift, and it is the kind of speaker you don’t freak out about taking to public places.  I own a 300 dollar Bose speaker, it is fricken awesome, but it is also 300 fricken dollars and is not water proof.  I am not sitting it on a table at a camp ground!  Hell I don’t even trust myself not to forget it and leave it out in the rain when working on the back end of my property.

So how good are the dang things after all that?  In short, they are very good.  Now they are not shake windows loud but I’ll put it this way.  If you are hanging out in a group and chatting with music on, you won’t want it all the way up, it will be too loud.  But if you are listening by yourself and do turn it all the way up it can handle the power and still sounds great.  The over all sound quality is excellent and one even survived Dorothy driving our Subaru Outback over it.  I don’t advise doing that but it does say something that it survived the abuse doesn’t it?

The biggest complaint I have personally had with various bluetooth speakers and other bluetooth devices is syncing.  Some sync easily, some are buggy as crap.  Every Anker bluetooth device I have used works flawlessly.   My biggest skepticism when I first tested an earlier model of these in late 2018 was the stereo paring.  It also works flawlessly and every single time.  Once a set “know each other” you don’t even need to do anything but turn them on.  And yes they still will work solo, two is one and one is none anyone?

Every time I bring you Anker items I finish with this, but in a world of cheap electronic crap there is a reason.  I have sold literally 10s of thousands of Anker items over the years.  I have never had one complaint of a failed or damaged item that Anker did not make right.  It is why you guys keep hearing me recommend them.  So if you want to up your audio game in 2022, check out the Anker Soundcore 2 Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker while its on sale.

P.S. – I love Anker so much I have created this link, it always pulls up any and all Anker Products that are on special deals at any given time.  Do BE AWARE it also has sponsored non Anker products in it, because that is how Amazon rolls.  But it is worth checking this out from time to time.  Anker really is the best value electronics brand on the market.

How F’d is Our Food System – Epi-3232

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So the title of this episode should be “How F’d is Our Food System and what can we do about it, but that is too long.  You guys know me though I don’t poke problems without corresponding solutions.  Today though you likely think we are going to dig into supply chains and droughts, not really.  I am talking food quality today.

I ran a poll on Twitter today asking simply, how much uranium (yes URANIUM) do you think is annually spread onto our fields via contaminated phosphorus globally.  The answer will be on today’s show but not given in the text notes to keep the poll honest.

What I could not it into the tweet though due to limits is three really horrifying facts.

Fact One – Uranium is added by the ton to our fields annually.  This has been going on for decades.  Bill Mollison covered it in these PDC lectures from the 1980s!  So that is at least 40 years.

Fact Two – The government, big ag, etc. are all aware of this, they know full well they are doing this.  Once that uranium is in that field you are never getting rid of it, ever. The half life is measured in the billions of years.

Fact Three – Absolutely nothing is being done to stop this or even slow it down.  The precent of contaminated phosphorus is fairly constant and we use more of it for the same effect every year.  Basically the powers that be have concluded that the risk of radio active food is worse than the risk of not enough food to their power base.

As bad as this is, it is only one part of the problem.  We will dig into it today along with how a solution that is thousands of years old may be a huge part of fixing or at least mitigating our problems with a system that is honestly on its’ last legs.

Today we Discuss…

  • Shocking facts about our food supply
    • 12 million tons of uranium is dumped on our farm fields annually (has been for decades)
    • Glyphosate has been found in the vast majority of urine samples of people in the US – link
    • The US Midwest alone has lost 57 billion metric tons of top soil in the past 160 years – link
    • Farms tend to loose top soil at about 1cm a year, natural soil is created at about 1cm per 100 years – link
    • The world is on plant based diet already, so is the US (5 primary crops)
  • Thoughts on solutions
    • My soil fertility philosophy can be summed up simply as build, hold, increase
    • We need back yard gardens, small producers doing it right, etc. but we need mass change as well
    • Unfortunately we do not control the mass system so we must do what we can with what we have
  • The lessons of tera pretta and biochar
    • A word about biased studies and FUD
    • Our time preferences today are far to short (think in centuries)
    • How native cultures made terra preta (we think, may be, we may not really know shit)
      • Dig a pit
      • Add carbon and set on fire
      • Cover pit to control 02 flow
      • Spread on fields
    • What we find in terra pretta
      • Pottery shards – image from todays stream is here
      • Fish, shells and animal bones
      • Beneficial bacteria and fungi that we don’t find together anywhere else
    • How we can use biochar
      • We don’t really need to charge it up, we need to make it ideal for inhabitation by microbes, the easy methods
        • Compost tea
        • Composting
        • Cycle though animals
        • Yes we can and likely should add minerals (like rock dust, kelp, etc.)
      • Biochar does many things
        • Locks up toxins – soil remediation
        • Hold 7X its weight in water
        • Provides homes for microbes
        • Reduces nutrient loss
        • In some places is still fertile after centuries with almost no soil “management”
    • Biochar Outputs Include
      • Biochar
      • Wood Vinegar
      • Syn Gas
      • Heat
    • Biochar is not “the solution” it is a solution and function stacks perfectly with
      • Rotational grazing
      • Fodder systems
      • Composting
      • Garden and market garden scale systems
      • Dealing with existing waste streams (For example shitty wood chips from commercial pruners)
    • Getting the main steam on board is where biochar shines
      • They now have to meet their own carbon offset BS
      • They know their sheep (you) will starve if they don’t fix the problem
      • It plays to modern virtue signaling
      • It makes allies of adversies
    • What else can we all do in our own back yards, what are your ideas

 

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