The Prepper Broadcasting Network - BEST OF 2023 Preppers LIVE: Pigs & Tales

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

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We have to hit the reset button and create a true culture of preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. Oh my goodness, PBN family, 12 minutes late on a show. I can barely keep my eyes open already. Drinking black coffee at 9.15. Good grief. Dave Jones is with us us but he's controlling his own mute because if i do i'll blow the whole show up we'll be 20 minutes into him talking before i realize what the hell's going on so before we get the ball rolling on pigs and tails okay we're going to talk pigs and we're gonna talk tails

i want to talk about a couple things i haven't been too like excited about politics lately you know what i mean not not even not remotely excited just kind of like it's dead you know know what I mean? But some things happened. Some things happened that are worth talking about. As we brought on whatever the hell his name is. Murphy? Murray? What's his name? I don't know. There's a couple standout things.

I had the articles up in front of me. And I got this new computer, right? And it is not prepared to deal with me. It needs about, I'd say, about 16 more gigabytes of RAM to really deal with what I'm putting into it. And what I require of it. So, it is's what it is two things i wanted to talk about okay because you're probably like me and that you checked out on this republican democrat business and you're like yeah whatever you know but there's there's two things worth noting the second one is the most important and we need to watch this and we need

to participate in this because it's one of the few things that can actually change something there's a few things dave jones probably knows better than me i had it all in front of me but whatever is what it is we got a show to do here the first thing is in this package, in this sort of deal that they put together, they put in something that's pretty interesting. And I'm surprised that it's even a part of the conversation. And it's the requirement that a bill be reviewed for a minimum of 72 hours before being voted on. be reviewed for a minimum of 72 hours before being voted on okay so in other words minimum 72 hours you get to look at a bill and that's pretty amazing because my whole life has been about literally my whole life since i've been paying attention to politics about 18 till now

so 18 years. I've watched all these things pass under the dark of night, signed, you know, 4,000, 5,000 page bills hit the tables. People vote. Yep, it's a law. It's a law. Don't worry. It's only a couple trillion dollars, but it's a law. Nobody read it. Nobody knows what's in it. You know, it's only a couple trillion dollars, but it's a law. Nobody read it. Nobody knows what's in it. And you know what's funny?

You know, you get so used to that dumb, that level of idiotic behavior from your politicians, you get so used to it that you're like, when something like this comes around, you go, you have like an aha moment. Oh, no wonder the country's a wreck. So that's number one, okay, that's part of the deal. That put the man over the finish line, whatever his name is.

Murphy, Murray, I don't know why I can't think of it. But anyhow. The new house speaker. The big one, and this is the one that we got to pay attention to. This is the one that we got to pay attention to. This is the one that we got to get involved with, involved in. We got to send the emails and do the phone calls and all that kind of business because I don't know how many chances we'll ever get this working. But there's going to be a congressional vote on term limits as well. And I think if we had a congressional term limit that it would change the country forever for the better. I mean, I think it would I think it would be one of the biggest change. And it's also one of these things that everybody in the country wants.

So it's not this thing where the right is like Yeah, we want term limits on these corrupt politicians People on the left are like Yeah, we also want term limits on these corrupt politicians And many people have, at least for 10 years, have said Put it on the ballot Make it a ballot initiative Why do we want to get the congressmen to vote On whether or not they want to lose their job or not?

However Things are happening in the American political system that, frankly, no one ever thought would happen, right? What happened with Roe v. Wade was a thing that nobody ever thought would happen. And I think with enough pressure, we could make this vote go the way we want it to go. So I'll keep an eye on it i'll ask some of the hosts to keep their heads in it and uh when the time comes we want to call our representatives and we want to say yo i don't care about your salary and your future plans

we want we want term limits on all of you pricks you hear me so that's something we got to look at there's some other stuff in there too but we're not here to talk about politics i just wanted to put those two things out front because when i heard about them today i was pretty happy okay and it's been a it's since i was on vacation in the outer banks when roe v wade came through and the second amendment rulings came through. That was the last time I've been happy with anything having to do with American politics. Okay, so that's kind of a big deal. So Dave Jones is with us. How you doing, my man? I'm doing great. This is the best Dave Jones has ever sounded on PBN in history, I think. What is limited gameplay?

Oh, you mean... Ha ha ha ha ha. I gotcha, I gotcha. That's a good night. Tell me. Yeah, baby, that's it it that's the deal yeah once it started getting like well first of all i wasn't really that interested in to begin with but then when it started to get all like high school girly i was like yeah what these guys are such bums it's unbelievable and i just stopped paying attention.

And then I was reading it today and I said, whoa, this could be something. Maybe. McCarthy is his name. Hang on one second, Dave. I think we're having some audio issues. It's not my fault. It's not your fault either. You sound great. It's the godforsaken skype and the

what see what skype does and i don't know why it does it but i bet you're okay there he is okay what skype does ready skype is a terrorist i i do a show with somebody on Skype. I change the settings to VB Audio Cable, which allows me to have a guest. Right. I close Skype. I open it up again, and it's default settings. Dang. What the hell is that? But we're good.

We got you. So what was his name again? Well, Murphy— You wanted to talk about some things before we started, and I wanted to talk about some things. First of all, I want to bring people back to your daily audio cache today. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what got into me this morning. It was early, too.

Six o'clock or something. No, no, no. You were absolutely right, and I've learned not to question the intuition of the Intrepid Commander. They're our first-time listeners tonight. All right. Welcome in, PBN family. Welcome in. We are growing by leaps and bounds.

The Intrepid Commander can tell you exactly how much but i'm telling you what you're going to get tonight is about pigs and so much more okay because no doubt about it uh well sarah hathaway has started her third season of oh did you really yes didn't you get an email dude you gotta have lines did you die off yeah well I didn't die off but I left with my wife and kid remember

well yeah I know that but I mean shit you were a main character yeah well hey my character's moved on I don't know maybe she just didn't get to me, or I don't know. Doesn't matter. You guys will do great even if I'm not in it. No, no, no, no.

You gotta be in it. I mean, I can't believe Verge's path and yours doesn't cross again. Well, that's true. Maybe it doesn't. Exactly. Exactly. Because he laid it all on the line for you. I know.

Yeah. I know that was ugly at first. Yeah. He really set me up. I didn't see that coming. Well, I mean, what are you going to do? Yeah, it's true. What are you going to do?

It's true. I was sneaking out. It was my fault. Now, okay. So everybody that don't know what the hell we're talking about. Okay. Most people by now. There are two seasons of the Changing Earth podcast.

And you need to Google this up and check it out. Because Sarah Hathaway does an audio drama. It will teach you about prepping, and it is so darn interesting. You won't be able to stop listening. Yeah. Yeah, and Dave Jones, there's a game inside of the audio drama, and it's called Find Dave Jones and Find Ryan Buford. Okay?

Yeah. That's my challenge to you yeah well ryan is harder to find but he has less parts i'm like all over the freaking place it's it's funny she gave me a new one this this season i'm a bounty hunter. And she says, he's only in this for a short time, so have fun with it. So I'm not so sure. You know, I could do Pepe Le Pew. Crocodile Dundee. Do a French accent. What about Crocodile Dundee, Australian?

Yeah, Australian. Good day, mate. Yeah, they make a good bounty hunter. Yeah, but, you know, he's a bounty bounty hunter so it's got to be gravelly i got to do it first thing in the morning when i get up there you go i don't even have a drink of water and uh yeah i gotta do it like that i can't wait to hear it we love your character oh my god and of course she gave me the other two parts that I have, Ryan and Alex. And I think Ryan I did with my own voice because she told me straight up that's going to be a long-term character. So I'm like, holy shit, I can't.

Oh, shit. I said, shit, you got to click explicit. Click explicit. I said, man, I can't do that for a long time. So, you know, like I'm Malik. I'm a whole bunch of characters. But I wanted to tell everybody that's listening tonight who may have tuned in for pigs and never listened to the Changing Earth podcast that this audio drama is out there. And, dude, I don't know if you know, she's getting on Apple iTunes.

She's like, what do they call it, charting? Is she charting? Oh, really? Yeah, she's on iTunes. She's big time, man. Let's check that out. People are finding her all on their own. Well, it's an awesome series.

I mean, I don't know. You know, I listen to a fair bit of audio drama. And they're usually superhero based. Right. I don't know that I've ever heard an audio drama with as many characters and voices as hers has oh my god yes usually the audio drama has like five six yeah you know she has like 20 freaking characters it's it's amazing. And how she weaves it all together with the sound effects

and the radio and all that. She's magic, man. Yeah, you gotta listen because my daughter's gonna be in there and also my 27-year-old son is gonna be in there. He's gonna be Vlad. Nice. Yeah, yeah. going to be in there. He's going to be Vlad. Nice.

Yeah, yeah. My kid's in there. He's in season two. If you listen real close, you can hear him. No, I heard it. Dude, I listened to the audio drama when she played. First of all, I listened to it when it was on one episode a week. And then I listened to it to the two binge cycles

so i've heard this thing three times yeah i still remember when i heard the first episode and i we were testing out a tent with a wood stove in it me and my two sons oh yeah we were tucked away in sleeping bags and it was pretty cold out and i put that on while we were falling asleep the first episode oh that's wild but anyhow hey will the what okay we're talking pigs okay do you want to set this up because the warden is in the house yeah i could set it up that's fine i mean unless you guys want to together without she'll tell you how it all came about no you guys no you searched on craigslist oh so you guys found sam through craigslist yeah craigslist

okay here's the thing. Talk about the tradition. The Romanian tradition of killing the pig at Christmas. Ah, yeah. Okay, well, so in Romania, every Christmas, we sacrifice a pig. One week before Christmas, which is one week before 25th of December. Now, many people will grow that pig with the best foods they can. Nowadays, they go and buy from somewhere else.

What I did, I searched a lot. As a matter of fact... Boo-Boo grew his own pig. Yeah. So my father always grew his own pigs, but I noticed today that I started this search to find a pork for us from September.

And I was deleting today messages. And they were like, Tony Sam, I send messages to a lot of people. And I wanted to try to find grass-fed pork you know as much as possible to be you know healthy so I finally find this guy which you meet yeah and okay their pork I don't know if you probably didn't butcher before I told him we want to compare the amount of lard we got. Well, yeah, but... Size matters. A usual pork will grow in

six months, okay? Do you hear me? I hear you, loud and clear. Okay. This thing which you got, they are called guinea pigs or something like that, so they grow very slowly, okay? So the pork which we got on uh

their hair loom saturday was like two yeah it was two years and a half old the ones which you got the small one was like four months old okay difference in the meat i noticed yes we did too yeah i wanted to ask you but you know what i did i grind i make you know like burgers mixed with beef uh uh yeah i did that stuff we'll compare what you did and what i did yeah but oh we smoked probably 40 pounds of it today no no no not 40 but we have some bones we smoked a lot today i should send your picture anyway i smoked yesterday i was talking with a guy you didn't hear me so uh the guy has their property with the acorns okay his idea was to let them you know just foraging on the grass and everything okay but the fence was

so expensive still they they are there on the grass okay so it's very hard to find healthy pigs you call it and if you go to the store yes if you go to the store you'll never be able to buy anything like that i know it was a little little bit tougher, but there is ways to change and fix it. Yes, but this one was tougher than the piglets. Oh, the piglets just melted. Oh, they melted your mouth. Yeah. Now, should we tell everybody we paid $150 for this pig,

and it was about 250 pounds yes now i don't know if you weighed if you weighed your meat because we didn't weigh much here uh you know to get an exact but i i i say that's that's really about it anyway as we were driving back home with David, I was trying to explain $75 for you, $75 for us, okay? So if you go to the store, for example, at Costco, or you go, let's say, Martin's and you get this pig thingy. Yeah, loin. Yeah, it's $18. A loin. It's $18. A loin. So just the lion, you know, around the rib, what is called the spine, it will cost around

$75. And then it's not the same quality, okay? Sure. You don't know what that pig is. And not to say that probably they stayed there in the store for how many months or weeks? Definitely as fresh as ours that's for sure yeah right ours was uh oinking i hate that it's moving so uh i don't know how much lard you got but i already got six quarts and i have another yeah what did you do with yours i'll tell you what i did with mine so i arrived home and uh

we start you know i we we skin the the pork okay and then we skin it and in the in the skin fat and i say here david get this knife and you get as much as of this you know you can from this fat and you're gonna make soap out of it so he sat down on a chair and start to skin it and then when i saw him he was getting too tired i said why don't you go and get a nap i'll finish it so what i did when he was getting his nap i got all the fat from the pig okay so i got absolutely all the fat and then i skin more from the skin which is gonna be soap now she's gonna make soap from some of the fat oh so you took all the fat off of every piece of meat yes wow i know i did the bacon from the piglet I wanted just to

you know to get the lard so I got from all the body and I put everything in a bucket in a stainless steel bucket and I render and I still have to render it's in the freezer because when you put it in the freezer you can cut it easier

the smaller you cut it the the freezer, you can cut it easier. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The smaller you cut it, the better it is. Yeah, exactly. And then the stuff that's crackling, the leftovers, we're going to feed that to the dog little by little. No, but you can also do stuff with it. Like you just throw like a tablespoon in your omelet in the morning. What? You're allowed to do that? She controls everything I eat.

You have to understand that David doesn't know anything I'm doing. They just eat yum, delicious. And then I used to do this kind of, so you mix cheese, you know, salt cheese with those cracklings. And you put them in a bread figure and they were fantastic. As a matter of fact, if you decide to get the next one, I'm going to bring breakfast out of this kind of stuff. Make it out. That's this weekend. Well, if the weather allows us.

Yeah, it seems to be warming up. So I don't know if this weekend's going to work, but we'll keep you posted. Cool. Are you in? Are you in? Are you out? Let's check the weather and see.

Well, the weather, you know, the weather, your father-in-law all of that is super dependent so we'll take the whole thing if you can't make it it's no big deal yeah but anyway what i did i grind most of it and I mix with stuff. And just today we smoked some of it. So I cut them as thick as, let's say, your hand, okay? And we marinate them for two days and then smoke those things and the rest I just grind it. And now I have the bones

to smoke or just put them away for soups because i noticed first thing as we went home on the evening i tried to cook something and i noticed was a little bit chewy so i said this is you know this way we should cook it because you know it's different but it's still very good and very healthy but i got i don't know how much lard you got but i'm probably i'm gonna get around 15 quarts well that makes sense if you defatted the entire animal yeah That makes sense. See, I skinned it in a lot of places. I kept all the belly to make more bacon. So I didn't render any of that. I skinned that.

That's curing right now. Well, we have plenty of bacon, and I just didn't want from the piglet. I kept mostly everything, and I just didn't want from the piglet. I kept mostly everything and I, you know, make bacon. So I say this one we just render and, you know, keep for cooking and to do soap. Yeah, I kept all the shoulder fat on the shoulder roast. And then I cooked that thing for like eight hours in the oven. Braised it for like eight hours. And it is outrageously good.

And the ham, I kept most of the fat on the ham too. And I smoked that sort of like barbecue style. You know what I mean? Just lightly seasoned, smoked for probably six hours. But you say it was a little bit chewy. Well, because when I first got home, well, I broke the whole thing down when I first got home. I hung it in my shed and broke it all down. And once I got all the meat back in the house, I threw a piece of the loin in just because I wanted to eat some of it so bad, you know.

So did we. This is what we did as well, okay? Right, and a piece of that loin was like, I thought that I butchered it wrong. I said, oh, I must have got some. Yeah, we did too. Yeah, I got some shoulder in here or something because this ain't right.

But, you know, I don't care. I could care less about that kind of stuff you know the tender loin i haven't eaten yet did you guys eat your tender loins yet they might be kind of tasty no that's what we smoked yeah we smoked and then from the back leg i cut stripes and also we smoke from that as well but she grind a lot today to make what's called meat. No, no. What I did was, you know, I mix beef and pork together. Yeah. And I didn't do any recipe for the meat. So they like it.

They eat it. Oh, yeah. And tomorrow I'm going to add a little bit more beef because I put too much salt and just freeze them ready to go to a grill or whatever. Now tell us how much lard you got and how'd you do it? Yeah so I took all right so the pieces like I said there were pieces of meat that I skinned. I didn't skin the entire thing. Okay. And then there were cuts of like side meat that didn't have any meat in them. And I just skinned those, diced the fat down crock pot, all the fat that I pulled out of the, you know, the ribs and the carcass. I threw all that in the crock pot also and then i ran that thing with like a

quarter cup of water um i think i did it on on low or something like that and just let it rock overnight and i got so lucky i got as lucky as a man could get because it was at the very rim when I woke up the next day. Had I put any more in there, man, it would have been a problem. Now, I still have some in the freezer that I can skin and render again, but I think I only got like six quarts or something like that. I definitely didn't get no 15 quarts or something like that i definitely didn't get no 15 quarts well i i got all the fat from the my half so that's why i'm getting this but i decided 15 i am going to get like 15 you can get a picture okay i decided not to do it the water because uh if you have any water left if you don't cook it you know the right way it's gonna not keep forever you know oh yeah so what i do i put it on two on the stove top stove glass

stove and i'm doing a little batch at a time and I let it cook slowly and just get it out and then stir it. And you have to put like cheesecloth. You need to stir everything out of the thing, you know. You don't let any kind of things go inside. Yeah. So I did that, and I still have some to do tomorrow. Well, yeah. Now, she, okay.

You have figures on what pasture-raised pork is going for and how much money we saved or made. Oh, yeah, it's crazy. It's absolutely outrageous. So I took these. I started with the fat because this whole idea started with the fat. Because as I was putting these, you know, mason jars in the fridge, I was getting gleeful because, you know, I got big plans with the fat.

I'm actually going to, well, yeah. I've got a whole thing for the members on salt and sugar and fat and smoke and preservation. And one of the things I want to do is make, I forget what Maria calls it, but you know what it is, Maria. It's where you mix the fat and the pork together, put the pork fat on top, let it harden. And I'm actually going to bury some of those in the winter just to see how they do so i'm really that one of the things i was really excited about um so the fat got me thinking the fat got me thinking and i looked at uh the price of pasture raised pork fat rendered rendered and they're 16 ounce jars for 14 bucks a piece so you got you guys can look at your courts and see right off the bat if you've got how many got eight so you're probably almost to 75 bucks

just off the fat you rendered off of that pig you know what i mean yeah but we got eight so far. Yeah, you're going to get. No, I got six and I'm sure I'm going to get quite a bit more. Well, that thing what you said in Romania, we call tokitura. If any Romanian pepper is there, they will know what is it. But what is it? You get the meat, okay? So in Romania, when we have a pork, we divide everything from that pork. Okay, we put aside for sausages. We put aside for this tokitura thing, which I'm talking. And don't forget the drob.

Oh, the drob, it's the liver and stuff, as a matter of fact. All the organs. I put something on the freezer. When we meet, I'm going to bring you some, guys. Okay, you grind it up. It's fantastic with mustard on it. So everything from the pork, it's, you know, divided. Now, this tokitura, what is it?

It's just meat cut in sizes, you know, like two inches, you know, not very big. And then in my part of the from where I come we cut a onion okay and we saute that anyone and then you add the meat and the meat has to be like you know fat and meat and it cooks slowly and then you add the fat on top of it and everything seals perfectly. And believe me. The fat seals everything underneath it. So that's kind of like your canning jar. Yeah. So you pour the fat on top and everything.

And what they do in Romania, you will take, you know, like a few tablespoons out of that. And you use the fat to cook your eggs, for example, and then you have the meat on the side Okay, and it keeps with no refrigeration war. I Yeah Like a root cellar ground. No my mom. She did not have any underground. She had a back Room that they used for like an underground root cell. Then the bones, I have a big you know, all the bones, we're going to

smoke them. You can keep them just like that smoked. And you don't have to put them in the freezer or anything. And we're going to put them in the bunker. Oh. I'm going to put them in my dog's mouth. So they're not going to be around too long. They're going to tear those in my dog's mouth. So they're not going to be around too long.

They're going to tear those things apart. Man, ears, snout, tail, everything goes to the dogs. I mean, the pig is probably the most usable. Oh, it's the best animal, pardon me. Yeah. It's the best animal. pardon me. Yeah. It's the best animal. And chin. Yeah, for all around everything. That chin is raising. Just the sheer amount of fat that you get off of that thing.

Because people don't think, preppers, one of the prepper blind spots is always cooking oil. Right. And cooking medium. You know what I'm saying? Some kind of cooking fat. And the sheer amount of fat that you get off of those pigs is just crazy. Well, you have to know that this pig we got has the most amount of fat. It's called a self-basting pig.

If you get a different pig, it's not going to be the same. And we have got here in Virginia, where we are we kind of got but you need also to understand that I push David and then he pushes me all the time and then we buy these things and then I got like tired and sick and I say oh my gosh we have to go to to get a pig or oh my gosh we have to go to get get the lamb because at Easter it's lamb thingy. And I was ready. On Saturday, I stood outside and I got sick again with the cold. And I said, oh, my gosh, I feel so sorry.

I put you to call the... No, wait, wait, wait. I got to tell you, she wanted to snatch that knife out of your hand a bunch of times. Oh, I know she did. I know she did. When I was trying to snatch that knife out of your hand a bunch of times. Oh, I know she did. I know she did. When I was trying to get that. Anyway, I was feeling sorry already that I make David to call the guy. I just feel pity for him.

I mean, I understand him. Do you realize this poor guy, he doesn't make any money. He does not make any money. I know he don't at $75 or $150 a pig. He can't. He probably spends double that on food. What did he do? No, this guy, he's trying to cut down his herd or whatever.

What are pigs? A flock? I don't think so. Get the flock out. I don't know what pigs are. That's Thursday night. Pigs are a herd. Is it a herd? Yes. A herd of pigs? Yes. Okay, well, a slop. I'll say it's a slop. Anyway, he's trying to cut down

the amount of mouths he had to feed. So he cut the price on Craigslist. And I'm telling you, $25 a piglet. And they were like, when they were dressed out, 40 pounds. We gave some away for Christmas presents. Yeah, they were the best. That was the best pork I ever had in my life. And that's saying something.

I've had wild boar in some of the best restaurants in the world. And Iberico pork from Spain, which is basically the most expensive and best pork you can get. It's raised on acorns. I think those piglets were better than both. I'm not going to lie. Those piglets were unbelievable. I mean, I cooked those shoulder roasts the same way that I cooked the shoulder roasts like I told you.

It was like the next level. I saw the pictures. Oh, my God. They were so good. I ate that for Christmas. Unbelievable. Yeah. Oh, my God. They were so good. I ate that for Christmas. Unbelievable. Yeah. But, yeah.

My point to everybody out there listening to this is there's farmers out there. You just got to search them out. That's it. You're helping them. They're helping you. That guy even shot the pig for us. Yeah, and it was hilarious. I mean, I brought the. for us yeah and that was hilarious i mean i brought the 22 yeah it was funny you're gonna have to click explicit on this one okay so you you wanna

you want to get the medulla the back part of the brain and he shot that pig and that pig just flopped over and rolled. Yeah, its feet straightened out completely and it rolled over downhill. It was hilarious. The vegans are going crazy right now. It almost came back up on its feet again. Yeah.

Talking about researching, that's not easy. Talk about some methods, some methods you don't know tell us your methods tell us the methods of research you have to look and I have to tell you I look for two months and I send messages for quite a few people and ask

how do you grow your pigs what do you feed them and after like 20 some people, I decided I would prefer to get dessert from this farmer. So it's not that easy of researching. But, you know, if you put like 30 minutes per day, you might end up with a very good score. Score of searching. So once I zelled him the money, he knew we were serious. Because he had some other people on Craigslist reply and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they never showed up. And that's how come we have an extra pig right now.

Yeah, ma'am. Yeah, man. Well, not really. This weekend. Yeah, we're going to do, but. Because the other guy bailed. If we get a deer, that's just going to make the nice. Now I got to get a deer. I have to go get.

Yeah, I mean, it's tied up out back. I have to go get it. Like it's tied up out back. It's important to mention, though, that the conclusion that I came to with this pig and this operation that you guys have come up with is that you don't necessarily have to have your flock of animals. If. You create the connections. And the you know. The network now. You don't necessarily have to have.

Acreage with your own. You know sort of like Chin's doing with his own. Oh. I can tell you what a group of pigs are called by the way. A group of older hogs is called a sounder of swine or a team. That's what a group of pigs is called. So you don't need a whole sounder of swine on your property if you know two things. Number one, where can I get my hogs?

And number two, what can I do with them to extend the shelf life of the meat when I get them, right? So that was kind of a a takeaway for me was this idea of uh yeah if you if you set up those connections now that we've been talking about for probably two years then you can make these kinds of things happen and it ain't easy right maria no it's not easy but maria has a story to tell you about a neighbor that we had been getting eggs from in the past. Okay, connections, okay? So we have few connections, but you have to understand when the things go bad, people forget about connection. So let's say everything goes to crap, okay?

This is at the beginning of COVID, right at the very beginning. Yeah, but before I say that, I want to tell something else. We noticed we have those people which we got the beef, the Amish guys, and then they have the pigs which they feed them milk. And they were fantastic. But then they found another customer, which probably they pay more. And do you notice this year they did not call us. This is why I start my researching. But when it comes to catastrophe and all this kind of stuff,

when the COVID started, i have a neighbor here which has chickens i hope she doesn't listen no she won't listen uh so i say laura on the other side of andrew if you know what i'm talking about would you give me some eggs to start you know to to incubate and And she kind of refused. She said, I have got to see. She has to see what the situation is. Yes. And I was shocked.

What the situation? We had been buying eggs off of her for a while. You know, off and on. And when COVID hit, we wanted to incubate our own chickens and have some chickens here. And she said, we'll see how the situation goes. So do not relay that. OK, we get connection and that's fantastic. And we might meet fantastic people like Sam, which you get our piglets from it.

And they he might keep us as customers oh but if something bad comes two hours away yeah we're gonna do the beef because he has he has one cow that is unspoken for uh i i learned this from few from from few farmers uh as a matter of fact from where we got the ducks if you remember uh she changed her methods so now she butchered them and sell them with a lot of money for a per pound you know yeah we were getting ten dollars a drake a male duck ten bucks so now she she changed so she she don't sell them anymore. When she saw us, we got like 10 of them or 20. I don't remember exactly.

She changed the method. So imagine if a situation comes in, the people with the more money, they're going to win. They're going to say, hey, don't give that cow to anybody. I will get it. I'll pay double. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. They're going to say, hey, don't give that cow to anybody. I will give you a double for it. You know what I mean? Yeah, I'll give you a double. Yeah, exactly. So do not.

Well, you got to get backups. You got to get backups for everything. So even though you got a relationship and you got to go on, you might want to have something else in your pocket. Yeah, so this is not long term because the manual has the last word. And I have seen it right now in a few of the situations. I called the farmers back to get more ducks and they say, no, we are selling now ourselves. The Amish guy, we wanted, you know, again know again a cow and you know piglets and whatever they they found a different kind of route so uh you cannot really relay on that supply and demand

i mean yeah yeah well that's the benefit of um the of the CSA. If you can get into I've talked about CSAs before and the CSA, you pay for your shares ahead of time with the farm. So it's like I'm either getting food or you're giving me money back, you know, one or the other. So the CSA can be a big benefit with that if you're concerned about that, too. of fit with that um if you're concerned about that too like i said like i always say do everything every avenue you can take to get food into the house that's where i play the game you know what i mean i want every avenue open possible because then when things start shutting down and you know seasons change and animals go away whatever the situation, you have options on top of options on top of options. And we got 53 chickens. We're going to start with the roosters.

Okay, well, let me tell him. He said the shares and things, okay? Yeah, shares. So when I have the kids here in the mountain, we got shares on the milk. And then you have to pay for the food in order to get a milk okay right yeah and it's not worth it it's not when you say the food you pay like exactly so those things what you just said you know to do shares and stuff they are not worth it and you gotta do a dollar cost analysis you know how much work do you want to go out milk those goats twice a day

to get goat milk well i think it's important for people who can't even have goats too you know or don't have goats or won't have goats you know right but now about the chickens if you want to know a word we have you remember our white ones? Sure. Those, we keep them for six weeks and recalculate everything. And it costed us like $5.70 per chicken. Yeah. But we kept them for six weeks because if you keep them more, they will have a heart attack and die. They are genetic engineer stuff.

Yeah. So I say this time I want to get the red ones. You saw them, yeah? Yeah, the Rhode Island reds. So those guys, they don't going to die. They don't going to have a heart attack. But we have them from 27 October. Really?

I saw today when I was deleting the messages. Oh, my gosh. So we have them like four months now. And I have got to tell you, I lost track of calculating how much they eat. They eat like… They eat like… Oh, I'm sure they crush. Yes.

What they are called. Piranha. Yeah. So they are not worth it, but they're going to be, I assume, good eat and more healthier and whatever. Well, I'll tell you what's really worth it. I'll tell you what's really worth it right now and just got to be really worth it is laying hens.

Oh, my God. I don't think I made any money on laying hens until maybe three months ago. And now they're like, you know, thank God. Thank God. until maybe three months ago and now they're like you know thank god thank god because the cost of eggs around here is unbelievable did you see the price of eggs yeah no oh look the chickens stopped laying for like a month like a good month they stopped laying and I had to go buy eggs and I was like, what on earth? I used to get the 18. Yeah, I did. I put the heat lamp in and after Christmas they started laying again, thank God.

And the new ones started laying too. They just came into eggs. We're good. We're back to it now. Yeah. But that was earth shattering. Yeah. to it now yeah but that was earth shattering yeah every so often i'd grab that 18 that dozen and a half or you know like if we were doing baking for the holidays or if i wanted to make

something with a bunch of eggs and uh it would be like a dollar 97 for 18 eggs. I went to grab that thing. It was seven some dollars. I was like, what? Crazy. Oh, yeah. I saw a video of a guy taking a video of a grocery store in New York and eggs were $9.99. That's so crazy. So what's that?

That's almost a dollar per. Yeah. That's almost a dollar per. Yeah. That's almost a dollar an egg. That's madness. You said about having your neighbors over for like a pork pool or something like that. And I thought, wow, that's a great way to get them introduced to hey if you want this you know i'm going in on a whole pig you can have half of it oh well i'm working my neighbors into that already that's where we're at right now because i i took some over to my next door neighbors

i borrowed their plastic wrap i don't even have plastic wrap in my house but i borrowed their plastic wrap and i said hey i'll bring you back some loin and some uh something you can braise and i brought them back a couple of the shanks and said cook these things low and slow but this loin you probably can get away with cooking grilling you know and uh yeah they were happy as hell man you know yeah now there's a way to bring people into your fold expand your group you know i yeah i want to do a whole episode on division of duties oh that's because i know Maria constantly, you know, I'm I am the there's a competition here. I don't think I need to tell the listeners this. They've heard it. There's a competition between Maria and me. And any time I take a nap, I hear about it for at least a day and a half.

I take a nap, I hear about it for at least a day and a half. Yeah. You tapped out. Yeah. But there is a division. It has nothing to do with sex. Okay. It has everything to do with work. Competence.

Exactly. There's a division of duty and what you know, you do. And what you don't know, you back off and help. And it's like, yeah, it's huge. It's huge. And preppers, a lot of times think they have to do everything. They have to do it all. Bad plan. No, you have to find someone that you can divide these duties up exactly exactly bad plan you get sick right as the apocalypse kicks off and guess what your family's going dead yeah what do we do yeah just give me some more better do you want to talk anything about that spray-on radiation detection? Do you want to talk anything about that? No, I didn't even talk to that guy yet.

Okay. I just told him to call me, and he didn't even get back to me or nothing. But I'm sure tomorrow I'll talk to him. Yeah, I think he's in Salt Lake City. PBN Family, there's a brand new product that's coming. I think it's going to be launched on PBN, and it's a spray-on detection for radiation. You spray it on, you squirt it on,

and you can determine if there's radiation on that object or around it. It changes color. It's like a litmus paper for radiation. And it's common. So just stay tuned for that. That's big. It's awesome. And these people reached out to us.

It's happening a lot lately. Yeah. It's not like we're looking for these things. They're coming to us. Yeah. Right before Christmas was the first time I had to talk to a potential sponsor and be like, you probably don't fit here. And I don't think that I'm going to go with it.

And that's a first, man. Two years ago? No, three years ago? What was it? Yeah, about three years ago? Four years ago. Okay. Damn, time flies. Time does fly. I created Disaster Coffee because I was fully convinced that the Prepper Broadcasting Network was never going to get a sponsor.

I was like, the way Facebook works with, because Facebook was dominating ads. You could go to Facebook and you could say, I want my product to go to Preppers that are male, that are this demographic, that like backpacks and this kind of gear, and hit enter and pay for that ad, and that ad would hit everybody who had that kind of like system, you know? Those likes and those things and, you know, all that in their information. And it was just too damn good.

And I was like, well, we can't compete with that. We just get on the microphone and go, hey, buy some shit. You know what I mean? And then Facebook fell apart. Facebook fell apart and all that went away and everybody's back to terrestrial marketing or whatever. So look, let me

real quick just go over these rough calculations. Go ahead. Maria said the loin at 70, so I'm going to bump it up to 70 i calculated it at 40 for three pounds so she's probably right because i know my loin was bigger than three pounds my loin is way bigger than three so we got 45 dollars um just in fat that's what I calculated for me. Off of that, $14 for one quart of pastured pork fat at retail price. Right.

$70 for the loin. The bacon for pastured pork, finished now. So this is not pork belly. This is finished bacon. Three pounds is what I'm guessing I got. Forty-five more dollars. The butt, I got about a five-pound butt, and that was going for $12 a pound. So that's $60.

That's almost the cost of the pig right there. Again, the hocks are $8 a pound. I said they were probably a pound each. Obviously, half the pig, each leg, you get a hock on each leg if you know how to take it apart at the hoof. So that's another $16. The tenderloins are $19 a pound, which is pretty impressive. So I just said $20, whatever. Ham, the back leg, $ 40 a pound, bone in.

No, no, not 40 a pound. I'm sorry. Five a pound. I said $40. Um, no, they're not five a pound. What the hell were they? I didn't write that down. Ham, $8 or $8 per pound. That's it. I said five pounds. So $40. Uh, and that's not, you know, the ribs, I didn't even calculate. They were 12 bucks a pound for the ribs. So that's it i said five pounds so forty dollars uh and that's not you know the ribs i didn't even calculate they were 12 bucks a pound for the ribs so that's another 24 bucks easy we probably got what how much pounds of ribs do you think you got close to four or five pounds something like that so it's this calculation here before i bumped the loin up to 70, was right under 300. So that puts us over 300 pounds worth of meat. Now, you guys calculating the bones as a pound item would get even more.

You guys having defatted and larded the entire pig, which is impressive, are going to get probably double. So you're going to probably get $ 90 worth of fat off of that animal don't forget the head oh yeah the head too the head has a lot of meat a lot of fat a lot of fat tongue brain the ears the tongue yeah absolutely um hey garden girls in the chat and she says are you going to demonstrate that and i'm like i got video already don't worry about that wait i'll demonstrate most anything what is it you want me to do oh boy you be careful now dave's got some skills i got some skills and and she said the spray-on radiation detection thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And, yeah, I told them, if you want someone to do a video, you know, YouTube, whatever, I'm your guy. Yeah, my goal tomorrow, when I get up this dude on the phone, is to try to get Dave Jones to become the spokesmouth for this product. Because if this guy is going to move any of this stuff, that's what he needs to do. He needs to have Dave Jones do the circuit, fund him on the circuit, get him out there at the prepper shows handing these things out. And, you know, Dave is a guy. I forgot who I was dealing with today on the cell phone because, you know, I talk to Dave a lot. Sometimes it's a busy day and I forget who I'm dealing with. And I said, Dave, we could probably like spray this stuff and maybe buy something that's moderately radioactive and use it to demonstrate it.

And Dave says, come on, dude, I'm the NBC guy. I got plutonium sushi wrapped up in the fridge right now. That is not exactly what I said. I did say I have a radioactive source. Yeah, there you go. No, I think everybody does, don't they? I don't know if I have a radioactive source. Yeah, there you go. No, I think everybody does, don't they? I don't know if I have a radioactive source. Is there something hiding in regular?

Probably not. Oh, okay. I got you. No. Yeah, so as far as... But I... Go ahead. No, no, no.

When this thing launches, I am 99, 44, 100% sure it's going to launch on PBN. Yeah, I think so. I think we'll pop off the big thing. So stay tuned. Yeah. Maybe we'll put together a launch podcast for him or something. Yeah. Bring him on, have him talk about how he came up with the idea, all that kind of stuff. That's fun.

Well, it's kind of one of those companies that find products and then try and market it. Oh, okay. So, yeah, this thing was out there. It was detecting like plutonium or uranium. I'm not sure which. It seems like something you'd have in a work, in industrial, like in industry. Yeah. Like for safety.

Industry and safety. But they're expanding to strontium, which is huge, huge. This is the thing that you need if you live downwind of a nuclear power plant. You need this. So, yeah, this is really great. And you could spray it on anything, and it will detect change colors. So stay tuned,bn family there's a far out chance that very far out that lake anna maybe could be a threat to us but the wind would have to be going nuts yeah in order i know where lake an is. I've been there. Yeah. And no.

It's far, right? Yeah. It's pretty damn far. All right. So final thing that's probably worth mentioning, I guess, the pig and the breakdown. Well, let's go back. The bacon curing process was the first, no, the ham curing process was the first pig members video activity in this whole sort of piggy vein that we've fallen into kind of by accident. So you could go back, you can start, well, if you're going to cure something now and hang it big, like we see we started this as a as a members group and you kind of have to start it at a certain time if you want to do something big but you can do something smaller you can do a smaller ham like i'm gonna hang a small piglet leg for

three months rather than six months and we'll see how that i don't even know if that's gonna work we'll see how that goes but anyway we got know if that's going to work. We'll see how that goes. But anyway, we got that video that's available on the members side. I have my cure recipe, which is super simple, but it worked really great. Um, and it does include sodium nitrate. So if you're, if you're against that, you don't have to use it. I use it. Okay. It's it, first of all, it kills everything that could ever exist including you over time but your food is never gonna go bad um we got the bacon cure recipe on the member's side so you can make your own bacon all you gotta do is buy pork belly you know it's a three-day cure smoke cold smoke cold smoking is a lot easier than you think. You could probably do it on your grill

if you have a charcoal grill that's big enough. That's what I do. Then we have the piglet video and the piglet harvest and the gutting of the piglet and the scorching of the hair and all that.

That video is already up. The second video I'm editing now, which is, okay, I got the piglet home. Now, what the hell did I do with it? Right, so that's all the breaking down of the different parts. So that's the roast, that's the ham, that's all the stuff. Now, we have the next level video, which I didn't even start to edit yet, we have the next level video, which I didn't even start to edit yet, which is James carcass hanging in the shed,

and I broke that carcass down hanging. And I haven't seen the footage. I'm sure a lot of it will be really helpful. Some of it I'll probably have to edit out because, you know, camera angles and stuff like that. But you will know basically how to take a half pig and turn it into edible parts with a knife um so all that stuff you know if you're listening to this show and you're going i want to do what they're doing i got most of it on video so you can check it out some of it already is out there you know what i mean if you want to learn how to how to scorch the pig maria style i just filmed her process she pointed

and said do this i clicked play and i went and did it and said whatever i'll just keep scrubbing and scraping and you just tell me what else i need to do and yeah but it made it nice oh it was great i'm dude like i said i'll do that every Christmas. You want to create a PBN or a Jones-Walton tradition, I'm there. Christmas special. Exactly. I'm there for picklets. I got a funny story to end this show with. Let's do it.

Okay, if you haven't heard the Daily Audio Cash, so we got done gutting the pigs, you know, and I took the sawzall. I have a reciprocal saw that it's battery operated. So you just get out there and you start cutting. And I only use it for this kind of stuff. And I cut that baby right down the spine. Dude, I don't even know how you did that. I don't know either.

It was perfect. Yeah. And it looked like you weren't even trying. So PBN family, what I thought Dave was going to do, and what I was saying to him was, because I didn't know how strong the saw was and all that kind of stuff. I never cut a pig in half lengthwise. I was thinking, all right, find the spine and go down one side of the ribs next to the spine. Then one of us takes the spine side. One of us takes the other.

Who cares? Or the other. Yeah. And Dave just put that blade on the middle of that pig and cut the spinal column in half. Just perfect. Right down the middle. It was, yeah the spine no column in half just perfect right down the middle it was yeah that thing was phenomenal yeah but in the process i got blood all over me okay which you might imagine would happen if you do this and i'm wearing the the worst clothes i I mean, I'm wearing my normal farmer work clothes that I wear around the house that I don't mind getting blood on or anything like that. And we're going home and I had to go

to the bathroom. I just had to go. You know, sometimes you got to go and it's emergency. to go and it's emergency. This was emergency. Okay. So I, I go into this gas station and I said, where's your bathroom? The guy says over there. And I, after I was all done, I hung my coat up on the stall. Okay. And I saw the blood on my sleeves and i said oh my god this guy probably thought i was some homeless expert or awesome that is so awesome you like patrick bateman with the bloody sheets from american psycho there's something going on here yeah no that's right that's so phenomenal. I didn't even cross my – I got it all over my coat, obviously, because we butchered that thing upside down.

Oh, yeah. And the blood just pooled in the rib cage. That was a – the burrito method I prefer. Yeah, head up or head down. Definitely head up. Yeah, head up for sure. I agree. I agree.

Maria agrees. Those ribs head up for sure. I agree. I agree. Maria agrees. Those ribs were just a bowl. Yeah, exactly. I guess you know what we could have done that would have – this is what we should have – and it just popped into my head just now. We could have either – now the salsa wouldn't have worked,

but we might have been able to use your cutters and split the rib cage completely in half. And then it maybe would have been better. Oh, yeah. But who the hell wants to go through all that when you just hang it up, head up, and then everything just falls out anyway? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but I did feel, I felt, Dave Jones, your wife's eyes burning a hole in the back of my head while i was taking my sweet time to butcher that

animal i felt that well and that's why i told you guys that story and it was funny she jumped out of the car and told you that the exact same story man you guys better hurry up she's gonna jump in here with both hands and feet i knew it i knew it yeah i think the kids had a ball they looked like they they were a lot less um affected by all that than i thought they'd be i mean they haven't seen a ton of gore in their day that was pretty gory well from my perspective they seem to be like into it they said they were take a picture of this you know it was like for the next halloween postcard or something i don't know why little jake wanted to take a picture of the decapitated head the back side of it not the like the face of the pig no not the face just the meat

he wanted to see the meat and the blood. Okay. Might need to send him off to psychiatric isolation. He may be military potential. Maybe, maybe. Yeah. All right, then. I think we beat these pigs and tails half to death. Yeah, but it was so much more than pigs and tails.

PBN family, all you new listeners out there, all you got to do is take the first step. Okay? Hallelujah. And you found PBN for a reason. And I believe that there are so many PBN hosts in Virginia for a reason. I'm not sure what that reason is, but we can get together on a regular basis and do things like this. But take the first step. Don't be afraid. Close your eyes. Jump in. It is a big big wide world of preppers out there and the more you research this the more you'll find out we're not the crazy ones

yeah now it's starting to look like everybody else is crazy for believing this would all just work out the way that it is yep Yep. All right, Dave Jones. Hey, thanks so much for inviting me in on this thing, man. It was a blast. Oh. And it's been a blast. Prepper's luck. Yep.

All right, PBN family. Onward and upward to Double Barrel Tuesday. We'll see you. Oh, my gosh. I can't wait for Patriot Power Hour. Patriot Power Hour returns. Yes. You better hold on tight.

They'll be talking all about what happened in Congress. You can better bet your ass on that one. Absolutely. Ben was flying solo last week. He did a good job, but you could tell one of his wheels was off. Yeah, it's a different show. And that was Future Dan. No doubt.

All right, PBN family, we'll talk to you soon. You know the deal. Prep on, in the words of the great Dave Jones. See ya. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self-reliance and independence. Tune in tomorrow for another great show and visit us at PrepperBroadcasting.com. you