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  • Food Storage and Radiation

    Food Storage and Radiation
    Sep 14 2023
    Today on this episode we cover: Food storage and radiation preparedness as well as talk about quite a few other side quests. I will forgo most of the intro and summary to instead post the write-up I had about the crazy scary dream I had that I discussed a bit in the podcast. I had a bit of a scary dream A Russian-sponsored group loaded a small 7kt improvised HEU nuclear device with a shit load of Cobalt 60 in it into a small panel van and parked it parallel to the CIA/Drone control building in San Antonio. Using a directional blast pattern they sprayed the whole area in a fan pattern out and away from southeast to northwest. The initial blast killed 1,930 people with the fallout reaching Kerrville at 1 rad per hour 10 rads per hour was up past Pipe Creek And 100+ Rads per hour out to Galm Road Tens of thousands of people would be affected shortly. We were out and about doing some shopping when the explosion went off, we were far enough that the trees and terrain blocked the brightest of the flash. We turned away and covered our faces anyhow. For some reason, I was wearing a dosimeter and it said we were in an area that had 14 millisieverts. We immediately left and worked our way south, to and then around back to the farm. All while freaking out a bit, naturally. I had to wake up and Google Cobalt 60 and millisieverts. Up until the dream I had no clue what either was, I even googled them in my dream, and dream google didn’t come up with any clear answer just bullshit. “a radioactive metal’ and ‘a measurement of radiation’ without giving me any useful information. Cobalt 60 it turns out is a highly radioactive material that’s relatively common and has been used to make what are called ‘salted’ radiation bombs, bombs specifically designed to make a ridiculous amount of radiation and deny the use of an area for an extended period of time while inflicting huge levels of casualties and overwhelm a medical system. It lasts a long time, and is very persistent. To convert a millisievert to a rad, you basically move a decimal place. Where we were shopping we got 1.4 rads per hour. A 400 rads dose kills 30-40% of the adult people exposed to it within 30 days. 10 rads can make you sick 100 rads will make you quite ill but you will recover fine… just get cancer in 20 or so years. Radiation is accumulative, if you are in an area that has 100 rads/hour showing up on a Geiger counter, you can stay there for 4 hours before you have a 30-40% chance of death. But within that first hour, you have basically guaranteed you will get cancer in some decades. If you are in an area with the background being one rad, you can stay there 400 hours before having a 30-40% chance of death. The average background radiation you are exposed to each year is 2.4 millisieverts or .24 rads. Potassium iodide is not a cure-all, but what it does do is it has a very strong affinity for the thyroid. It fills up the thyroid so that your thyroid cannot absorb any radiation. The majority of sub-lethal doses of radiation strongly affect the thyroid causing a great deal of issues. By blocking the radiation's ability to enter the thyroid you solve the biggest problem with the most vulnerable system in the body. Immediately shut down all air handling, air conditioning, and air in a home or vehicle as it will just bring in radioactive dust. Air and water does not become radioactive. Impurities, such as dust in the air and minerals in the water can though. Anything in a truck bed that is not in an air-tight container is to be considered exposed and must be processed prior to use. A mattress cannot be made safe after exposure to radioactive fallout. Once you have determined the area to be safe. Before turning back on air conditioning or air handling you must clean the vents with a damp cloth to get all the dust and consider the cloth as contaminated. Then you need to change the filters and consider them to be contaminated. Do not burn contaminated materials as you are just putting fallout back into the air to settle back on you and your equipment. Bury all contaminated materials in a safe place away from water sources. When a person has been exposed it is necessary to decontaminate them. Step one would be a loading dose of potassium iodide. After that they need to strip and wash themselves in a safe location with good drainage using ample water. They should triple-wash their hair with soap to remove any and all dust/oils that could hold onto dust. The contaminated person needs to start from the top of their head and work their way down. Quickly rinse your body off first to remove any surface contamination then wash your hair three times then wash your face, behind your ears, neck, and so forth down your body to your toes. Be very thorough and do not miss any places, it's your life in the balance. Radiation is accumulative. The water used to wash contaminated people should not be used to water animals or plants or be dumped ...
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  • TFL Basic Preparedness

    TFL Basic Preparedness
    Aug 31 2023

    On this episode:

    We talk about basic preparedness, things to think about, and the basics and reasons behind a grab-and-go bag. a simple 72-hour kit and what you might want to keep in it and in your vehicle.

    We also cover:

    The dust bowl

    Precious metals suck

    Kerosene heaters

    staying warm

    lots of craziness in the news

    The Wafflehouse Index

    GTFO if you have a hurricane coming

    how to build a poor mans Berkey filter that works just as good for cheap

    Wood burning stoves

    keep your refrigerator closed

    don't eat snow

    The tree of the day is the Franklin cider apple, we also talk about growing basically any apple you want anywhere you want and just turn it all into alcohol.

    The plant of the day is the Sequoia Strawberry, a great berry with crazy runners that can kind of take over everything if you aren't careful.

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    1 h y 29 m
  • How to monetize the equipment on your farm/extra income

    How to monetize the equipment on your farm/extra income
    Aug 24 2023

    In this episode, we talk about how to turn all that neat farm equipment you own into cold hard cash and make it pay for itself. We give you a ton of ideas on how to make money, from planting trees to grading roads, dirt work, and land clearing and we tell you how to charge for it. We talk a bit about charging per job vs charging by the hour and in what situations charging by the hour will work out in your favor. We cover a lot of ground starting with the most expensive equipment and going all the way down to the shovel.

    We cover: Tractors and implements

    Trailers and hauling

    digging fence holes and planting trees

    Freeze drying for profit

    using your dehydrator

    canning for profit and trade, teaching lessons

    Why John Deere are kinda douches when it comes to Right To Repair and implements... but they are still good tractors and combines just expensive.

    Kioti tractors, TYM/Branson tractors, Mahindra get a shout out.

    sewing, and other small house hold things to make a profit at and how we have done it in the past and will in the future.

    The Tree of the day: Catalina Avocado

    Plant of the day: Texas Super Sweet Onion

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    1 h y 36 m
  • How To Monetize The Animals On Your Homestead/Farm

    How To Monetize The Animals On Your Homestead/Farm
    Aug 15 2023

    Welcome listeners, sorry it's been a couple weeks we got busy with life, the construction of the house and the land clearing and whatnot. It's been CRAZY hot in Texas! Today's episode is a continuation of making money from your homestead or farm. We are gonna talk about animals! So grab a pad and paper, fire up the Google machine and let's jump right in!

    In this episode:

    Making money with cattle: meat sales, soup bones, milk, cheese, breed selection and the likes.

    Making money with goats: pack goats, goat yoga, renting goats to clear land, breed selections, goat milk, soap, cheese meat and the likes.

    making money with pigs: You can use everything but the oink, how to boomerang pigs. A introduction to getting free food for your animals.

    making money with turkeys: High dollar turkeys and how to add value to their sales.

    making money with ducks: Easter boomerang duckies, eggs, meat, feathers and the likes.

    making money with chickens: Eggs, meat, feathers, easter boomerang chicks.

    making money with quail: Eggs, meat, selling live quail, selling baby quail.

    making money with rabbits: Boomerang bunnies are super profitable, meat, furs, feeding them for free.

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    1 h y 59 m
  • Monetizing your farm

    Monetizing your farm
    Jul 27 2023

    This episode is a bit of an information dump, we cover a lot of topics on how to monetize your farm. We give you lots of ideas on how to make your farm pay for itself as well. NOT included in this episode are animals and equipment or bees. Those three things require their own episodes, there's just too much to cover with those topics.

    Included in this episode!

    Value added products

    Soap

    Flowers

    spices

    jams/jellies

    concrete planters

    oils, compound butters and the likes

    backdrops and venues

    parties and events

    selling to restaurants and getting your foot in the door

    Things to avoid... don't do what everyone else is doing

    Adult lemonade

    How to get around selling your wine and cider/beer.. its worth going legit

    field trips.. schools have grant money for things like farm trips and local food experiences. You can help them find it too.

    Teaching Classes

    Breads, we will be putting out our tried and true recipes for breads that sold gangbusters for us, and will for you.

    The Kimchi As F*ck cook book is out and on amazon for digital download! https://a.co/d/11h9XJO

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    1 h y 29 m
  • Bread making episode!

    Bread making episode!
    Jul 13 2023

    In today's episode, we talk about bread making and the history of bread, we also give away one of our most beloved recipes for Biscuits AF. We cover a lot of ground in a short period of time in this episode, it's a bit of a shorter one but we are quite busy. How was everyone's Merika day? Ours... SeaWorld tried to kill us, fun story there.... worst zoo ever.

    In this episode:

    This history of bread back to about 30,000 years ago (15 Jesus's)

    flatbread

    quick breads

    the biscuits AF recipe

    yeast breads

    sourdough breads

    bagels and pretzels how they get chewy

    the middle ages sucked

    The tree of the day is The Dancy Tangerine

    The plant of the day is Rosemary

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    1 h y 11 m
  • Seed Saving

    Seed Saving
    Jun 29 2023

    In today's episode, we go over seed saving, how to ferment your seeds, and how to acquire seeds from the store... basically pirating them. We cover a bunch of history of corn and of Anasazi beans. We also give you a recipe for pesto, so be sure to write that one down. It's a good episode with a lot of cool information, and a fun easy listen.

    Fermenting seeds

    Saving seeds year to year

    Adapting seeds to your land

    Plant of the day is Lemon Grass

    Charleston Grey is the melon of the day, a awesome watermelon

    Tree of the day is the Loquat

    A HUGE Shoutout to Big Blue who threw some support for the show this way! We love you Blue!

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    1 h y 22 m
  • Emergency Preparedness Episode

    Emergency Preparedness Episode
    Jun 22 2023

    Welcome! In today's episode, we talk about supplies you might need in the event of an emergency. we are primarily focusing on family preparedness and personal preparedness and not so much on bugging out. Short-term supplies you might need in the event of a localized disaster like a power outage, storm, or earthquake. These are all items that are good to have on hand even if nothing bad happens on a big scale they will just add to the buffer between you and the world at large.

    In this episode:

    Dental kits

    Hygiene

    Freeze drying stuff

    Storing water and filtering it

    Medications to store and where to find some of them

    And much more!

    Thank you for listening!

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    1 h y 32 m