Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 571 | That Would Not Be Fun | Guest: Kris Bordessa

Episode Date: March 4, 2021

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And this lady said she saw it on the sidewalk. She called 911. And, you know, they rescued it. They called the fish and wildlife people in Canada. You know, whatever they're called in Canada. They, you know, they got a blanket and they took care of it. And the people from the federal department of fisheries and oceans said that, you know, hey, we just need to return it back into its natural habitat.

It's just a wonderful thing that happened. When really what happened is this out-of-control police department arrested what appeared to be a disoriented high seal walking down the street. And how do we know that? It was proven by an interview, man on the street interview, which we love here on Chewing the Fat, a man on the street interview who said he witnessed the arrest. Yeah, Ted Beer, reporting live from the neighborhood, saying exactly what he saw. Police arresting a seal.

This world is out of control. Out of control. Welcome to Chewing the Fet. that. I mean, you know it's been reported that it's because of climate change and global warming. We already believe that it's the lack of sea ice in the maritime waters during the winter that is screwing up the seals, and that's why they come on shore. Oh, okay.

It was one seal who decided to, I don't know, coming to town do a little drinking. Some illegal drug and just hang out, try to get away from the other seals for a while. And we thought better of it than arrested him and returned them to the other seals. If I was that seal, I would be really upset. Oh, man. And did you see, I tell you, I'll tell you what, I'd like to know how this actually happens. They're flying an airplane in the Sudan. Dan to guitar or guitar or gutter.

And they were forced to return to its departure point after a loose cat was in the cockpit. So they take off and then all of a sudden this cat starts jumping around scratching the pilot and they're all freaked out. Ah, yeah. And so why is this cat in the cockpit? Why is the cat on the plane to begin? with. That's what I want to know. So the pilot just, they tried to contain them and the cat was having none of it.

And so they returned. We're sorry, we're going to have to return. This would never happen on Fisher Air. We're not going to, we're going to have to return to our airport. We've got a mad cat in here. I mean, you hear the cat jumping. But around. That is amazing.

And in the story, it talks about how there have been other times. And I thought, really? Because I was trying to remember if other animals, now, obviously we have the, you know, the animals that you can take with you that are your, you know, service animals. And there's been, you know, a couple of stories where, you know, maybe one has bitten another passenger or something like that. but wild animals, you know, snakes on a plane. I think we all saw the movie.

But there are stories out there where a passenger was stung by a scorpion while in the air, and other flights have had scorpions on them. And I was, um, no, no. I mean, you've got to have, especially in today's world, right, with their new cleaning initiative. that is going on during COVID at every airline and airport in America. So this airline in the Sudan heading to Qatar, don't they have heightened cleaning services, activities? I mean, you're talking about electrostatic spraying to disinfect the planes,

you're disinfecting touch area bases on the plan prior to boarding. You're using new, you know, hepa filters and all that. But it's the cleaning disinfecting plan that you'd think would catch, I don't know, a scorpion or a cat in the cockpit. You'd think that would be, you think that would have happened, wouldn't you? But apparently not. Apparently not. I mean the airlines are in trouble, right? They better find a way to turn some things around.

I know we're supposed to bail them out and they're supposed to get a bunch of money. But when you're looking at last year at this time, and it's almost over, we're going to start getting comparable numbers from the lockdown to how many people are flying now. But in 2020, at this time, the airlines had one million, 736,393 through the turnstile. And this year, they had 782,727 through the turnstile yesterday. Just incredible, right?

And we still have people arguing and fighting on airlines. They're claiming racial slurs and they're doing everything that they possibly can to turn flights around. they have people being banned from flying. You know, I know they just banned the New Jersey gym owner who defied the lockdown. I quoted him yesterday talking about the masks from Ian Smith, right? And he did his thing and not wearing a mask and showed him, you know, he was, he's now banned from the carrier of American Airlines. That because you, it's regarding our face mask coverings plan.

Oh, okay. So he received an email from American Airlines saying that, you know, yes, you're banned. And that's it. So he, you know, people, they're banning people all the time. He's on their list. I know. And they've all got their lists going on now. It's incredible.

And they have their internal refuse list that they all go by. Just incredible. And they're also getting sued by people. One guy is suing them because you get the text messages to make a catch your flight on time. And so now there's a class action lawsuit against United Airlines in the state of Hawaii that the flight update text messages. that are meant to keep customers informed and prevent them from missing a flight

had drained his cell phone battery and invaded his privacy. Yeah, right, right. How dare they? So he accuses United of flagrant breaches of telephone consumer protection act. And okay. So he claims that, you know,

it also implies, applies to automated text messages, which he signed up for and then said, no, I don't want them anymore. But they continued to send them. And because they continued to send them, that caused his cell phone to drain and not have any power and damn them. So good luck.

Good luck. I mean, we've got pictures of people getting thrown off the plane according to the video that they were. were getting kicked out the plane because they were Hussiting Jews. Now, of course, Frontier, the Frontier has denied this and said, no, that's not the reason. Really? Because it sure looked like it. According to Frontier, members of the large group, including adults, refused to wear masks as flight 2878 was preparing for departure. A repeated request to comply with federal law, necessitated their removal from the flight.

The issue did not stem from a child under two. Really? Because it sure looked that way. I mean, I'm pretty sure you've seen the video now. You know, the coverage of the family and their two-year-old baby that wasn't wearing a mask. And that's what everyone on the plane was saying. There were plenty of people on the plane happy about getting the Jews kicked off. And I believe that the flight ended up just being canceled, right? Because everybody was all wound up about it.

So I know you think that, you know, it's Neanderthal thinking, President Biden, of the Texas and Mississippi governors for getting rid of the state mandate mask wearing, but people are still making people wear masks. And there's still plenty of Karens out there. Heaven forbid that the president of the United States of America say that he believes, in personal responsibility, and that people should make their own choices, and that businesses and individuals should make their own choices. No, no, we can't have that.

Not anymore. Not in today's world. So Google said that they're going to stop tracking users across the internet, their searches, and they do that to sell you targeted ads. They said that people shouldn't have to accept being tracked across the web in order to get the benefits of relevant advertising. Huh. And that comes from the director of product management.

We'll see how long he has a job, although that may be something coming from the top because it makes him look good. Now, they also seem to think in the story that, yeah, We're going to stop doing that. But we've got a new algorithm that is going to just track groups of people. So we're not going to just track specific people. We're not going to do that anymore.

Wow, are you dumb? We're not going to just track specific people. We promise we won't do that anymore. But we make a lot of money with those targeted ads. So we're just going to track groups of people. That's okay. Just not specific. people right okay all right that's why i feel so much better when i use express vpn i know i know

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125 bucks a month, get you unlimited swaps, and complimentary shipping both ways. Wow, that's really worth it. I mean, the shipping is one of the most expensive things. So it includes Loren, Loren Women, and Lauren Petit, with sizes ranging from zero Petit to 24W. One thing about Ralph Lauren is that they don't have really special fat guy clothing.

I've learned that over the years. I love a lot of Ralph Lauren products, but they don't necessarily fit. The extra extra X, like that double X from Ralph Lauren is not fat guy double X. And so that's an issue for me with Ralph Lauren. And I love a lot of the products that Ralphie creates. Anyway, it's going to feature 600 pieces including day wear, special occasion, denim and loungeware for spring, thin, crisp navy suiting, tie front, broadcloth dresses, and floaty floral skirts. And you can explore an entirely new model.

Yes, you can. That's great. Here's how it works. A subscriber browses the site. You place 10 or more pieces in a virtual fashion closet, and you highlight your favorites. The company sends you four of the picks in a ship. as soon as the entire return is in transit, a new order will leave for a $7 upcharge. This means they're going to charge you $7 more.

A member can rent four specific items with expedited shipping. And they're going to be dry cleaned using non-toski products between rentals and keepers are available for purchase at a discount, usually about a third lower than retail. when the items reach their rental cap, and it doesn't say what their rental cap is, the company will donate them to delivering good, a nonprofit benefiting at-risk families and children, which is cool.

I mean, that's a good thing, right? But I don't know what's the rental cap? How many times that thing is going to get worn before it goes to delivering good? That's a good question that I want to answer. But it's kind of a cool thing. I mean, you know, whatever. It's a good way for you to rent Ralph Lauren clothes that you wouldn't normally have.

I mean, you already have rent the runway, right? Rent the runway. I can't even say it. Rent the runway. And you can get your gowns and, you know, I love renting my gowns from rent the runway. It looks so darn nice. So I want to know what the cap is. somebody from Ralphie

Give me a call Here at Chewing the Fat And I want to know what the rental cap is Alright let's go to the break room I need something desperately to drink Oh yeah it's cold Oh my gosh So good

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Yeah, I know. But amazing. When I saw the footage, originally, I thought it's not real. I thought it was a deep fake. And I watched it a couple times yesterday, if you're listening to this show live, the 4th of March, 2021. yesterday is the day that the spaceship exploded on the pad.

It landed perfectly this time, coming down like it's supposed to, sat there for about eight minutes and then just exploded. I don't think that's what was supposed to have happened. I could almost bet that wasn't supposed to happen. But the incredible thing to me was that I didn't think it was real. It's just amazing And I don't know what's going to go on I know that

You know I know Elon You know wants to start his own city now Down in Texas called Starbase And good for him You know Texas is not going to tell him no You go ahead Come up with your own city Starbase, it's fine

Don't worry about it And you know He already has his You know it's down there in Cameron County, Texas Where the you know Where their site is So just let him do what he wants He can come up with his own little town

His own little SpaceX town That's fine Don't worry about it But it was just amazing To see this prototype explode On the landing I mean it was just amazing

It was the Starship rocket serial number 10 Or SN10 It went up about 32,800 feet Before returning to land On the concrete pad A few minutes later It landed perfectly and then it exploded.

It was just incredible. And I don't want that to happen to any rocket ship, especially with people in it. All right, I know they've got the big, the rich guy now is, oh, what's his name from Japan, the billionaire, Yasaku Mazawa. He said that he's going to choose eight members of the public, to join him on a trip around the moon called Dear Moon,

and it's scheduled to fly on a SpaceX Starship rocket in 2023. He's going to pay for the entire thing. You get to fly for free, and you think to yourself, well, that's cool. I'd like to do that. And you look at the flight plan and you fly around the Earth and you fly around the Moon, you come back. It's really cool.

It's further than any human has ever gone from planet Earth. I mean, it's going to be a great, really cool flight. light. All right. So he's going to, it's three days, fly to the moon, loop behind it in orbit, spend three days returning. And then it's the first private lunar mission. All right? So it's good and it goes farther than any of the Apollo missions or any of that. And it's really, it looks like it would be fun. However, when I see the rocket ship explode after landing, it makes me think maybe I don't want to take him up on that because it'd be really cool to do no question even I mean I don't know if they're going to have fat guy seating but I would love to do it

it would be fun and incredible but let's say you spend you know six days and you're flying your three days flight around the moon and around the earth and you're coming back and you're It's just this incredible flight and then you land and you're sitting on the landing concrete slab and you think, wow, that was incredible. I can't wait to tell people about that would not be good. You can quote me on that. That would not be good. Plus, what happens if you go on the trip and you fly up? there and you have to go through a hurricane.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, thank you. A scientist, the team of researchers, unveiled the results of a study that highlights the first ever observation of a space hurricane in our planet's upper atmosphere. Oh, unlike the cyclones that wreak havoc closer to the surface, the space hurricane was made up of swirling plasma and rained electrons. That sounds like fun. Let's go through that. I want to fly through swirling plasma and rained electrons.

Yeah, oh man, do I want to do that? Man, do I want to know that? We didn't even know they existed. First of all. First of all, first of all, first of all, we didn't even know they existed, let alone we have them now that we have to worry about. So, I mean, are they going to come down to the earth? Because of climate change.

We're now going to be inundated with space hurricanes. Oh, no. Oh, no. Plasma is a hot area of study. And NASA has investigated space tornadoes. Those are charged particles with space plasma, with electrons and ions. So we know, I guess, about space tornadoes, but we didn't know about space hurricanes.

Oh, okay. No problem. Yeah, it's a, oh, look at that. Look at that. That's an unusually large rapid transfer of solar and wind energy and charged particles. Yeah, into the upper atmosphere. Oh, my gosh, that must be a space hurricane.

Ha! I guess we're going to, do we get to name them? I see where they have done a story about naming of the new 2021 hurricane. hurricanes. And we'll go down the list. But the story is, hey, frozen characters are now named hurricanes.

And they mentioned in the story, Elsa, Olaf, Anna. So I said, oh, that's cool. And then I look, and I don't see Olaf.

I don't see Olaf in the Atlantic season. So I know it's in the Northern Pacific Ocean season is Olaf, but that doesn't count. We don't care, but we don't live over there. It doesn't count. So we have Anna, Bill, Claudette, Danny, Elsa, Fred, Grace, Henry, Ida, Julian, Kate, Larry, Nicholas, Odette, not Olaf, Peter, Rose, Sam, Teresa, Victor, Oanda. Of course, we have a Wanda. Wanda Vision is this huge new show, and of course we have a Wanda for 2021 too.

So, for the Atlantic named storms for 2021, you only have Elsa and Hannah. Olaf isn't good enough for the Atlantic season. And in the Pacific you have Andres Blanca, Carlos, Delores, Enrique, Felicia, Gilermont, GILERMOL, G.U-I-L-E-R-M-O. Hilda, Ignacio, Jimena, Kevin, Linda, Mardi Nova, Olaf, Pammala, Rick, Sandy, Terry, Vivian, Waldo. Zina, York, and the Zelda for the Pacific names for 2021. So good luck and we'll be happy to hear those names as they progress in storm coverage and storms over the season, right? Right.

And don't forget that Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1st. June 1st is the beginning of hurricane season. So just when you're coming out of the pandemic and, You're thinking that things are going to get better. And it's hurricane season. So it's nice to the Disney CEO to come on board. I might have to send him a copy of Chewing the Fat. He'd said, well, you know, we're probably not going to go back to the old way of doing things.

The pandemic has likely permanently narrowed the window for movies to play only in theaters. Oh, you think? Pre-pandemic cinemas depended on exclusive 90-day window to screen films before they were made available to home distribution, which we hated to begin with. So now

studios are tinkering with that time frame, either shortening it or doing away with it all together. The consumer is probably more impatient than they've ever been before, particularly since now they've had the luxury of an entire year of getting titles at home pretty much when they want them. Uh, yeah, duh.

And he said, I am not sure there's going back. No, no there is not. But he also, in his little virtual speech, said we certainly don't want to do anything like cut the legs off of the actrical exhibition. Why? Why?

I mean, you already have. You already have. But he, you know, he's talking about customers don't have the tolerance for months in the theater and not being able to watch it at home. Yeah, no kidding. So I already worked out the deal with you. Okay, I know that you shrunk down the window to 74 days and maybe 30 or 45. No.

No. I'm sorry, no. I'll write the deal out for you. Call me, Disney CEO. Bob. Can I call you, Bob? Give me a call. You can, or just, you know what, email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

and we'll figure it out because I've got a plan that will make you money and you can still send the movies to the theater so the theaters can stay open and charge $8 billion for their Twizzlers but they don't get them

they don't get them for 90 days they don't get them for 70 days they don't get them for 30 days we work it out. If it's a top movie they get it a little bit longer they can stretch it out If you aren't in the top, after a week, you're gone.

Have a nice day. I may even, we may even negotiate two weeks, 14 days, 14 days tops. And then if it's in the top five, you get to have it for another seven days. So 21 days. That's the longest. The longest you get it before it hits the streaming. Sorry, it's just the way it goes. We wanted that before the pandemic, and now during the pandemic when you couldn't be open.

and even with hosing down the seats and everything, that's it. So, Bob, you said I could call you, Bob. I know you're the CEO of Disney, and you got a lot on your plate. So email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. We can do a live interview if you'd like, and we can let the world know, or you and I could just talk privately and, you know, I'll have the contract written up and you can work it out

and you can lay it in front of the movie theaters, and they can take it or leave it. And if they leave it, so be it. You'll get a movie when we get it to you. And after that, tough, then you can play Gone with the Wind 80,000 days in a row and hope that somebody stops in to buy your $8. A quart popcorn and $25 bag of Twizzlers. Okay?

All right, then. That ticks me off a little bit. Bob hasn't called me. Should have already emailed me. Let me look. So I talked a little bit yesterday about giving Kevin Costner some love. But I was looking at Yellowstone and being the number one show and they love it. And now they're spinning off all these new shows because of Yellowstone.

And one is mayor of Kingston, which this follows the McCluskey family, power brokers in Kingsdown, Michigan. Which, you know, I kind of like the idea, Landman, proverbial boomtown of West Texas Landman. one of them is called 666 6666 4-6s another West Texas West Texas early and early show and one called 1883 where it follows the Dutton family as they journey through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America and, you know, gets them to the beginning of, you know, the beginning of the beginning of Yellowstone. I like that.

That might be good. And the early Texas and Boomtown, Texas, that's what's his face is show. That's what, what's his face his show was. You know, Pierce Bronson with the sun. That was here in Texas, and it was the early days of building land, and he was brazed by Indians and all that stuff. Remember we talked about it because the timeline. didn't work. I love the show, and I love the premise behind it,

but the way they built it up age-wise for him to have done what they said he had done and then reached into the future as the time passed, the age, the timeline didn't really work. He would have been, you know, a lot older than what they said he was. And they said he was pretty old, and he still would have had to been a lot older

than what they said. Anyway, those sounds like interesting shows. But really what I wanted to talk about is that I read this article about Kevin Costner. And they started talking about what a great illustrious career he had. And they weren't really bad-mouthing him, but they were talking about movies that he had done. And what, you know, they mentioned a bunch of movies that he had done. And really what it was was a promo for Netflix. And they were talking about his movie Dances with Wolves showing up on Netflix.

I love dances with wolves. I mean, it's a really cool movie. But I like a lot of Kevin Costner movies. And I like a lot of his work. No question. But they never mentioned, I mean, they mentioned all his, all of these movies that he was in. And you can start going down the list.

I mean, the guy has been in some huge movies, right? He's done a lot of work. And, you know, the Untouchables and Silverado, no way out. Waterwood, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. and on and on and on. But they never mentioned one of my favorites, Mr. Brooks. He's a serial killer in that movie.

It is with Demi Moore and Dane Cook and William Hurt is in it. William Hurt plays his alter ego in the show. Oh, no, that's a movie. Yeah, Mr. Brooks is a movie. And anyway, they never mentioned Mr. Brooks, and it ticks me off because that's a really good piece of work. And so is, you know, the other movie that I really loved by him. You know, that one.

You know, never mind all the stuff that he's produced and directed, but when you start going down the list of movies that he's done, you'll think, wow, what a career. Now, the movie that I was thinking of with Kevin Costner was, was I can't think of the name of that stupid movie right now I'm looking at the list of movies on here so I could tell you the name of that stupid movie

because they're all they're all really good the ones and the postman that's another really long one you know Waterworld, the postman dancing with wolves are all monster long movies but I love the postman post-apocalyptic but tin cup funny really good Wyatt Earp he plays a great Wyatt Earp

but you look down and you start getting up closer to today Mr. Brooks. Field of Dreams 2, but Field of Dreams 1 was great. Man of Steel he's in. Jack Ryan, the Shadow Recruit, it was really good. Right? I know.

I know. Molly's game, that was really good. That was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. He plays your dad. That was really good. The high women love that movie. and Yellowstone, of course, going on right now. I mean, he's been in some big stuff.

So anyway, don't start bad mouth than Kevin Costner when you start talking about Kevin. He's the man. Okay? I know. I know you're looking at me like, no, Jeff, he's not the man. Yes, he is. It's Kevin freaking Costa.

I had an opportunity to interview Chris Cordessa, and she is a, well, I don't want to call her a survivalist. But her latest book, Attainable, Sustainable, goes through what you have to do to create things in your life to stay alive. And it's so important. I know that everybody wants to be some kind of prepper in today's world because of things that are going on around the world and close to home.

And I thought the book was really fascinating. And I had an opportunity to talk to her about it. And if you, I wanted you to listen to the interview and hear from Chris, you can also watch the interview on my YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher, and subscribe there as well. But I wanted to get an opportunity to hear from Chris as well. So if you listen to the interview and you think, man, I'd like to, I'd like to hear more. You can watch the, you can watch the YouTube video as well.

Okay? All right. Thank you. attainable, sustainable. Many of you probably already know my next guest, Chris Bordessa, Chris, welcome to chewing the fat. How are you? I'm good.

Thank you. Thank you. Good to talk to you today. We're talking about, oh my gosh, the title of the book, Attainable, Sustainable. Oh, and you have it right there. Amazing. That's a great name. I don't know how you came up with it, though.

many of us are you know find it difficult in today's world to attain sustainability uh outside of you know running to the walmart grocery store and the kroger grocery store but uh some that are past the age of you know my age uh remember their folks and their grandparents canning and gardening and growing things. And really, in today's world, like your book says, it's the lost art of self-reliant living. And I mean, you know, as well as anyone, the struggles that people have.

We just had the problem here in Texas where I broadcast from this past week. And I'm fortunate to have my wife, who is a sustainability human being. So I felt pretty good. No problem. With no problem, we were good. I knew we were good.

But a lot of people really struggled, and people are still struggling because they weren't really prepared. And this book, incredible, I was going through it this morning, looking at it, like, this is stuff that, I mean, it is a lost art, isn't it? Yeah, it really is. You know, I think that we've done the past couple of generations a disservice by not passing some of that knowledge down. You know, like you, I had parents who, you know, my mom was canned all the time. So I grew up and I had that base and I knew a little bit, you know, how to, how to move into that. I wish I would have paid more attention. I'll tell you that.

Yeah, yeah. But there's, you know, a whole generation or two who haven't ever seen that. So it's, they're having to learn something just brand new, you know, rather than having at least that base knowledge. Right. Now, so as we go through the book and I can. It's been, you know, hours with you and I know that, how much would fun would that be, you and me for hours? But I know you're backed up today.

So let's just, we'll just break down the book real quick. I see that there's, you know, there's six chapters. So we'll go through each chapter and give, you know, when we start at chapter one, which is, well, I think my favorite, eat. That's everybody's favorite. Right. What's, let's do like the top thing that comes to your mind in each chapter that's most important. eat.

Who eat? I know. The most important thing in the eat chapter to me would be the, ooh, that's a hard one. The DIY pantry. Learning how to make our own pantry goods

ourselves, rather than buying that salad dressing in a plastic bottle, what have you. That's going to help, it's going to, you know, be good for your budget and it's going to help you eliminate some of the plastics. you're bringing into the house and the yucky ingredients too. Right.

So most importantly, the pantry. Yeah. Learn how to take that pantry. Yeah. All right. Make. That goes back to your pantry, right? I mean, really it kind of ties together.

Amazing how it all ties together. Everything is connected. The make section, gosh, I got to go with quilting. I got to go with quilting. Oh, yeah, okay. Because it's a way to turn something that is, No longer have used a torn shirt, what have you, into something functional and beautiful. Clean.

Yeah. Number three. Clean under the part one indoors of attainable, sustainable. And clean is funny because it covers a lot of ground. It covers both household cleaning kind of stuff and personal care product. And, you know, the one thing, and this is going to maybe make people question. you know, raise their eyebrows a little bit. The one thing in there that I absolutely love,

and I use it every day, is the tallow bomb. It's a moisturizer, and it is actually made with beef tallow, which, you know, if somebody had told me 10 years ago, I'd be using that. I would have lacked, but it is the best moisturizer.

It's wonderful. Now, is that coming from your herd out back? No. Do I have to have a herd? No, actually, not at all. I don't keep cows. I don't have space here to keep cows. I picked up the tallow at my local butcher shop that they bring in all local

beef and they prepare the tallow there. Right. Just as a side note now, and maybe we get to that as we go to part two of the book, attainable, sustainable, we will. But how many animals do you have? have any animals or do you just go to the local butcher store and say hey uh you know go take that chicken there no no actually we raised chickens um and i do butcher chickens here um and i have i a flock of close to 20 hens right now that are egg laying um wow so yeah i have

those what does that get for you 20 hens laying eggs what are you how many what are you producing a day from that close to a dozen a day wow okay it's not bad Close to a dozen eggs a day. Are they, and here we go. Again, I could go for another. Are they specific secret chickens mailed in from Brazil? Are they just regular chickens from the U.S.? They're just, they're regular chickens.

And as soon as you ask that question, the breed just completely left my brain. Okay. But I mean, the eggs are not special colors or anything. I mean, they're just regular, you know. They're brown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

brown eggs. I don't have, I really, I would like to have some of the green and blue eggs. Right. Yeah. Just because it's fun, but I have this breed, uh, Delaware breed is what they are. Sorry. Um, they are specifically, they're good for meat and egg production. So I like to keep them. I could remember, so I, you know, I can remember as a really little kid, uh, watching the, uh, the chopping off of the chicken heads. the farm when I was a real little kid butchering the chickens and thinking you know, I don't know. I don't know.

You know what? I struggled with it. It was a hard thing to shift into, but I feel very strongly that if I'm going to eat chickens or meat, it really is good for me. I've had people say,

how in the world can you possibly eat a chicken like that? And I'm not sure what they, Where they think their chickens came from. Right. But that is, right. It's different when it's in the grocery store, right? Yeah.

Yeah. There's a disconnect. It's a mindset. And I don't, you know, it's not my favorite chore. But my, my, my, my boys here, my boys help me. We all have our own parts that we do. Sure. We get through it.

And, but I know where the food came from. Right. And I mean, that's what's important about, you know, the book. And, you know, even a lifestyle. not necessarily a prepper lifestyle, but being prepared, right, as being realizing that you're attaining sustainability. You might not get it, but it's important. I spent years in Florida.

We had hurricanes that we had to worry about. Now I'm in Texas. I'm worried about snowstorms and ice storms. I mean, that's the same kind of thing, right? So when you talk about part two is farm. So what do you guys? Do you have the, you know, the acre garden on the corner of the field? Or are you doing more than that?

Um, we have here. So I'm in Hawaii. Um, I don't, okay. So, so what we grow here looks a little bit different maybe than what, what you'd be growing. Okay. Things that grow well there like zucchini. I cannot grow.

Well, I mean, that's part of knowing where you live too, right? And, and that's it is, is I've had to learn and took me a while because I used to have just an amazing garden in California where I grew up and to come here and have to, change and realize, oh, I cannot. You know, you grow zucchini because it's prolific, right? And it's not prolific here. And there's just no sense of doing that. So I cannot do that.

So, yeah, I've got a number of really large raised beds, and I also have a number of tarot patches where we grow, what is the, a starchy root crop that grows well here. it's what they make coy out of that a lot of people may be familiar with. So most importantly, I mean, if you're going to farm, we need to, you know, concern ourselves with where you live and what grows in your area, right? Absolutely, absolutely. I always say talk to your cooperative extension office, talk to your neighbor,

and find out what's doing well and plant that. And the last chapter is Trek. What do you mean by that? I mean, get outside. No. I mean, that's exactly it, right? It is get outside, go hiking, find out if you've got a regional park where you can go explore and see the trees that are growing. But, you know, we've gotten so, and here I am on my computer talking to you.

Of course. We've gotten so intent on working, and we've got the computer, and we're indoors, and we've got the TV. You know, take a sketchbook outside and go see what's happening out there and pay attention. Well, I know we're up against the clock here, but there's a couple little things here. is the tools every homesteader should have. Most important tool. Oh, gosh. You're going to be a remember what's on the list.

An axe. A blow torch. I think that list has canning jars on it. And, you know, canning jars, I mean, you can hardly go wrong with those. You're going to use them for food preservation. You can use them to store dry goods. You know, they're pretty handy. I use them for keeping.

everything in. And they look so darn nice in that pantry that we started off with, doesn't it? Yeah. Attainable, sustainable. Chris Bordessa, Chris, you can obviously follow her on her blog and her website, attainable, sustainable, but the book is a must-have,

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