The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Survival Gardening - Yaupon Holly, Mormon Tea and Wintergreen

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey y'all, welcome to this week's show. Sorry it's a day late. For some reason, I thought all day yesterday, I thought it was Tuesday and not Wednesday. I lost track of the days. Well, I know the reason. This has been an incredibly busy week for me. On Monday, I released a new book, my 12th book. I know this one's not going to be of interest to much of the audience. my 12th book. I know this one's not going to be of interest to much of the audience, but, you know, I'm Catholic, and in the Catholic Church, we have daily mass readings. The entire Bible is read aloud in church to the congregation in about a three-year cycle. So every day, we have readings for the day. We have a gospel, a couple verses from the Old Testament, a psalm, and on Sunday we get an extra verse from the New Testament. Well, I decided to write an entire book, like a devotional of reflections or whatever you want to call them. Yeah, I call them reflections

Starting point is 00:00:59 of the daily gospel for next year. And I did the first six months. It was a very tough book to write. Took a long time. I did it six months at a time. So the title of this one is A Daily Catholic Devotional Reflections on the Daily Mass Readings, January through June of 2024. So I released that one on Monday.

Starting point is 00:01:29 I was really glad to get it out there basically by the 1st of December. So people have it in January when they're ready for it. And so anyway, if you're Catholic or you have a Catholic in your life, this book would make a great Christmas gift. You can buy the paperback from Amazon. Right now, it's the only way to get a hard copy. You can get the e-book directly from me if you want to. And what I decided to do, and I'm doing this with all my books.

Starting point is 00:01:55 You know, I've written, I guess, nine books on herbal medicine, one cookbook, and two books specifically on religion. So I've written 12 books by now, and I have two subsect newsletters. I have Judson Carroll Master Herbalist, which is the big one. That's the one I put out the Southern Appalachian Herbs podcast on every week, and I send out articles on herbs every week. Lots of content, and my other one is called The Uncensored Catholic, which is where I get into politics and religion. The kind of stuff I try to leave off of everything else, you know. Y'all know I get a little political on this show sometimes.

Starting point is 00:02:31 But, no, I really rip into people like Biden and Pelosi and such on that one. But then, you know, also a lot of discussion of religious topics. For anyone who subscribes to either of those newsletters as a paid subscriber for at least one month one month subscription is eight dollars so that's i mean that's as for so for as low as eight dollars from now until january 1 i'm going to give you two free ebooks of your choice you tell me which ones you want if you want herb, if you want my book on herb gardening, if you want a Catholic book, if you want my cookbook. I sell my e-books. They come in PDF form, so they work on any device for $9.99. So for $8, you can get essentially $20 worth of books free. get essentially $20 worth of books free. If you subscribe for longer than a month, you get more books. If you subscribe for a year, you get 12 books. That would be one book a month, right? You get all my books, okay? The reason I'm telling you this, I'm doing it as a Christmas special. Of

Starting point is 00:03:39 course, you can get it for yourself, but I think it would make a really good Christmas present. If you know someone who's interested in herbal medicine, everybody loves my cookbook. That's for anybody. Or if you have a Catholic in your life and you want to give them a really unique gift that you won't have to pay shipping on. And man, I've been paying a fortune on shipping lately. You know, I carve spoons and such and people have been buying those for Christmas gifts. In fact, that's the other reason I'm so out of sorts this week. I just finished a large gift set for a lady who wanted to give several sets of wild cherry cooking spoons away to her family members. Took a lot of work.

Starting point is 00:04:22 I've been carving. My hands are just exhausted because I do everything with just an ax and a couple of work. I mean, I've been carving, my hands are just exhausted, you know, because I do everything, you know, with just an axe and a couple of knives, you know, I don't use power tools or anything. This is a real old-fashioned way, heirloom quality pieces. And in fact, if you want to buy some of my woodwork for a family member or a friend for Christmas, go to judsoncarrollwoodcraft.substack.com anything that's on there that isn't listed sold I mean I mark each piece when it sells anything that's available I'll put in the mail to you right away and you should have it by you know you'll have it in three four days no problem

Starting point is 00:04:56 if you want to order a set that I need to carve like if you see something that's sold you say can you carve something like that for me to give us a gift, please let me know right away. Because, I mean, it does take several days to carve a piece, let it dry, oil it and everything. And as we get closer to Christmas, you know, the post office gets kind of backed up and they say it takes longer to get things to people. And I don't want anybody to be disappointed. I'm not going to take more orders than I can fill. At this point, I could take a couple more orders. That's about it. But if there's something on there right now you would like, and actually next week I've already got several pieces that are drying and are going to be oiled and put on the site for sale. Another cooking set that seemed to be very popular. A salad set, maybe a bread board or a charcuterie board, I think.

Starting point is 00:05:47 Kind of depends. Anyway, I'll have several pieces there on sale next week. So if you want to give somebody a nice handmade heirloom quality spoon or salad set or whatever. I do all kinds of stuff, really. Baskets, there are baskets on there. Go to judsoncarrollwood at sub stack calm, but even up to the last minute, and I'm actually extending this through January 1 You can give someone a subscription to my newsletter and with that comes two free ebooks of their choice or your choice And if you want to keep the books for yourself, that's cool Or take you take one and give them one you know just tell me what you want in the email

Starting point is 00:06:24 For as little as eight dollars no shipping and i mean up to the last minute so if it's christmas morning and you realize you forgot to get something somebody go ahead and order a subscription i'll check my my email christmas morning and make sure you get it on time if it's two or three days after christmas and you realize you forgot somebody you know know, up until January 1, I'm going to leave this special out there. I just, you know, it's Christmas and I want to be generous. I want people to have, you know, the economy's tough. And I mean, for eight bucks, you can give somebody a subscription to my newsletter and two eBooks. That's a big value. And last minute gift. I think, you know, what better, in my opinion.

Starting point is 00:07:09 And yeah, I mean, I'm not making any money off of it. But a few bucks, you know, after expenses and everything. A few bucks. That's it. So it works out well for everybody. But I just want to do this to be generous. I mean, the Biden economy sucks. I just want to do this to be generous. I mean, the Biden economy sucks. I mean,

Starting point is 00:07:32 just to put gas in our vehicles is costing a fortune, and the price of everything is just doubled year to year, it seems. I mean, even just fixing Christmas dinner, much less buying gifts for a large family, it's pretty tough on everybody's budgets. A lot of people are just putting that on the credit card. So I just want to give you an option. You can give a really meaningful gift to someone that's going to really enrich their lives and be beneficial. And it's not going to cost you more than, you know, unless you choose to do a longer term subscription, eight bucks. So that's less than a movie ticket. Does anybody even go to the movies anymore? I haven't been to a movie since, I don't know, The Matrix came out? Bowfinger. I think Bowfinger was the last film I saw in a movie theater, and I absolutely loved it. I know that

Starting point is 00:08:18 movie is not to everyone's taste, but it was Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy doing a movie essentially about Ed Wood, the kind of famous B-movie kooky director, and I thought it was absolutely hilarious. For some reason, a lot of people don't get that movie. I laughed. I have seen it probably 15 times. To me, that and Joe Dirt and the Waterboy are like, all right, maybe Happy Gilmore. Dirt and The Waterboy are like, all right, maybe Happy Gilmore. I'll throw that. They're some of the best comedies of the, what, late 90s, early 2000s.

Starting point is 00:08:51 Oh, and Old Brother Where Art Thou. Nothing beats Old Brother Where Art Thou. That is the best movie of the decade of the 90s or 2000s put together, and 2000s put together. But anyway, it came out right around 2000, right? So, yeah, I'll give it two decades, that was fantastic, Old Brother were out there, where Art Thou is a pure classic, I was so pleased to actually be playing country music and bluegrass, old time music at the time, when that movie came out, and going to the festivals, and getting to hang out with the people that were on the soundtrack,

Starting point is 00:09:23 like, you know, John Hartford. I got to meet John Hartford. Yeah, Amy Lou Harris and Gillian Welch. Yeah, she was great. I was actually hanging out with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings a couple years earlier when they got discovered. They won a songwriting contest at Merlefest, and we're just like hanging out together, you know. Ralph Stanley.

Starting point is 00:09:42 Oh, yeah, man, I got to see Ralph Stanley a few times. He was great. Oh, yeah, man. I got to see Ralph Stanley a few times. He was great. Man, that voice. Alison Krauss and Union Station. What a fantastic soundtrack. That was truly the best. Anyway, let's get on to our real topic. Growing Your Survival Herb Garden. This is from my topic, Growing Your Survival Herb Garden.

Starting point is 00:10:05 This is from my book, Growing Your Survival Herb Garden for Preppers, Homestayers, Permaculture People, and Everybody Else. And yes, for an $8 subscription to either of my newsletters, either Justin Carroll Master Herbalist or The Uncensored Catholic, that can be one of the books you get for free. Keep it, give it to a friend, give it to your family member, whatever. You can get that one and Herbal Medicine for preppers if you don't have that one yet. Any of them. I mean, seriously, Omnivore's Guide to Home Cooking, which is by far my most popular book. The people tell me just constantly how much they love that cookbook. And, you know, I'm just, to me, it feels really good to do this for people.

Starting point is 00:10:46 And I'm really pleased to be able to do it. I'm very thankful to God for enabling me to write these books. And giving me this, you know, Substack didn't even exist a couple years ago. I couldn't afford, like MailChimp or one of those programs, just sending out a newsletter to people. I mean, those are really expensive. Substack gives me like a free website and a free newsletter, and they host it for free. So I get to provide to you, my listeners, and to people all over the world, this content that just a couple years ago, I

Starting point is 00:11:19 could not afford to share. You know, I mean, I used to have websites with GoDaddy. They started out super cheap. It was $1.99 for a website and like five bucks a month for hosting and a nice email program that you could set up and send out your own newsletter. Over like a 10 year period, the price of everything went up. They switched you over to Microsoft Mail, Outlook Mail, which would not let you send out a newsletter. And then they started offering the email marketing programs. And I mean, it priced me out of the market. I mean, seriously, back when I used to publish newspapers and magazines, I mean, I thought GoDaddy was great.

Starting point is 00:11:59 I had, I don't even know, at one point, probably 30 or 40 domains. I mean, you could pick them up for 99 cents when they had an annual sale or $1.99. And I sold some of those domains over time. You know, I certainly made more money than I spent. But as they kept upping their prices, I said, that's it. I'm out of the market. I don't have a website.

Starting point is 00:12:19 I don't have a newsletter. And then Substack comes around. My friend Frank Salvato told me about it. By the way, he has the Underground USA radio program. If you want to hear a really good conservative political talk radio program, really good. Frank Salvato, Underground USA. I've been on there a couple times. He interviewed me. Great guy. Fantastic guy. fantastic guy. His wife, CJ, is an herbalist, and that's how we got connected. And it turned out we had a lot of old friends from when I used to work in politics and talk radio and such. So check him out. But yeah, he told me about Substack, and thanks to that, and thanks to programs like

Starting point is 00:12:59 Prepper Broadcasting Network that will take my podcast to you. You know, I have an audience, thank God, and I can offer the newsletter, the articles I do every week, the podcasts, the books to people in a way that, you know, I earn enough to put food on the table. I make a modest living and you get to have something that I think is really a value and a gift you can give to somebody you care about that I think is really a value. But, you know, I'm happy, you know, I love the holidays and I love when I can give away more than I get. And that's what I'm trying to do. So anyway, let's talk about these plants. This is, these are a couple you probably really want to grow. You really want to grow. Now, if in a grid down situation, in an economic collapse, in a major hurricane or whatever,

Starting point is 00:13:57 and you couldn't go to the store, the thing you're going to miss most first thing in the morning is a hot cup of coffee, assuming you've got a decent warm place to sleep. There is just something about a hot cup of coffee or a hot cup of tea that is comforting. I mean, look at our past wars. I mean, the thing the soldiers wanted most. Well, they wanted two things most. Okay, three things most in the Civil War, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol. That was what was considered necessary just to survive life in those horrible conditions on the battlefield.

Starting point is 00:14:38 And both the Union and the South really prioritized getting coffee and tea to the troops. Well, that's true in any situation. really prioritize getting coffee and tea to the troops. Well, that's true in any situation. You know, you go to a, you see people at a shelter in a hurricane or a tornado, give people cups of coffee. It's just there's something about it that really makes life a lot easier to get through. When we have two plants that will grow in North America in just about any climate zone. Well, one needs warmer weather, and that's the first one. It's Yopon holly.

Starting point is 00:15:11 Yopon holly is a member of the holly family, like, you know, the spiky little bushes with berries on them. It actually contains caffeine. It is the only native plant in North America that contains caffeine. It likes a hotter climate. I cannot grow it up in the mountains. It's hardy to about 7a. So much of North Carolina it will grow. It grows very well in Texas, for instance.

Starting point is 00:15:38 I told you about Frank Salvato's wife, CJ. She's an herbalist. She has a Yopan Holly tea company. She grows Yopan Holly, bottles tea, and ships it all over the country. It's fantastic stuff. And if you live where you can grow Yopan Holly, I absolutely do so. If you live in a cold climate like me, you can grow it in pots and bring it indoors. Put it in a greenhouse or just bring it inside over the winter. It's very hardy. It's a bush. It's considered a weedy bush in many areas. People try to tear it up and eradicate it. It's fantastic. It has medicinal benefits. I'll get into it in just a second.

Starting point is 00:16:17 But the other one is called Mormon tea. It's called Mormon tea because it's the stimulating beverage that is allowed in the Mormon religion. It doesn't contain caffeine. It actually contains ephedra. If you're an herbalist, you may know it by its Chinese name, ma huang. Now ephedra is isolated and synthesized in the chemical form is what we know as ephedrine and that could be very dangerous. You take too much of that and you can have a heart attack, you know, it'll raise your blood pressure and all that. In its natural form, a tea made from Mormon tea or Chinese ephedra, Mahuang, is really no more potent than caffeine. A cup of coffee, and I particularly like it. I used to

Starting point is 00:17:04 have it before I'd take a test when I was in college, you know, just get the brain going, a cup of coffee and some Ma Long tea. You know, with anything that raises the blood pressure, increases the heart rate, you know, even a cup of coffee or a Coke, a Pepsi, you know, you've got to be careful with it. So if you have heart issues, if you have high blood pressure,

Starting point is 00:17:24 stay away from it. If you don't, these two stimulant teas and Mormon tea or Ma Huang will grow in even really cold climates, desert climates. I mean, it's really, you know, one of these should work for you wherever you live. You know, while many plants have traditionally been utilized as herbal teas, and there are several substitutes for imported tea that were used during the American Revolution and the Civil War, tons of them, from sweet fern to Kentucky coffee tree to, you know, dandelion and chicory roots roasted. They didn't contain caffeine.

Starting point is 00:18:02 These two actually are stimulative. Yopan Holly contains caffeine, a pretty large amount actually. It's pretty potent. In fact, it was used by Native Americans, you know, Indians ceremonially. They drink it, they get all worked up, and they drink it till they puked. I don't know why they wanted to puke, but that gives it its Latin name, which is actually vomitoria. But that gives it its Latin name, which is actually vomitoria. You know, if you drink enough, something caffeinated. Or if you use enough tobacco, especially if you're not used to it. Remember that first cigarette you ever had and how nauseous it made you?

Starting point is 00:18:35 It's that kind of thing. But a cup of it, a glass of iced tea, it makes a wonderful iced tea. I actually prefer Yopan Holly to real tea that comes from the camellia family. Very, very good. So it contains caffeine. Native Americans used it both medicinally and ceremonially. European settlers found it, you know, a nice hot beverage, an eye-opener in the morning, and drank it not strong enough to make them puke. But, you know, everything that coffee is good for. It helps break up congestion. It can help with diarrhea.

Starting point is 00:19:10 It can help with constipation. It can just, you know, it's good. And it also can help with allergic-type reactions. But anyway, Mormon tea contains ephedrine, which is a stimulating alkaloid. As I said, it can be very dangerous in large concentrations. As a tea, it's pretty innocuous. It's pleasant. It's invigorating.

Starting point is 00:19:35 It has a really floral smell. I mean, well, I would say almost an incense-type smell. Medicinally, these herbs help open the lungs and ease asthma. They're diuretics, and they're invigorating. They can help break a fever. They can ease symptoms of depression. Another reason you know you want to have these around. You don't want to be depressed in a bad situation. Yaupon holly like I said is a southern plant. It likes hot weather and mild winters. Hardy to about zone 7a. Mormon tea can grow in cold climates and dry high places. And its cousin Ma Mahuang, is even more hardy.

Starting point is 00:20:06 That's the Chinese version of the same plant. You may not think of such herbs in terms of survival, but they can save an asthmatic's life. And, you know, they make life a lot more pleasant. I have my morning cup of coffee. I'm not a tea drinker, except it is iced tea. I'm like the one herbalist around who does not like herbal teas. I like my cup of coffee. I don't want a substitute for coffee, but if in a bad situation, I would be more than happy with Yopan Holly and Mormon tea.

Starting point is 00:20:40 It's really good stuff. I used to drink a lot more of it than I do now. Another one that I want to mention as a beverage is wintergreen. Wintergreen was one of America's first great exports. The oil of wintergreen is like aspirin in its pain-reducing and fever-lowering properties. Absolutely essential to have on hand. It grows wild all around me, so I just pick it in the wild. But you would really want, it's a pretty plant too it would look good in your garden apply it externally it's good for arthritis and muscle aches eventually birch and oil from birch was substituted for wintergreen because it takes a lot of wintergreen to make a batch it's it's small and it some it's somewhat rare in some places The twigs of birch have the same, I am blanking on the name of that oil that

Starting point is 00:21:31 comes from wintergreen. But anyway, birch has the same thing and can be used interchangeably. So spot the birch trees out in the woods, plant one in your yard, and you can use these to substitute for aspirin, for liniments. You can add them to your for aspirin for liniments you can add to your bath they're fantastic for arthritis strain muscles really really good but you know wintergreen is an excellent addition to the garden both as food and medicine the berries are nice you can eat them out of hand and they'll be around all winter it's just just one of those things, one of the few wild edibles you can find in the wintertime. The leaves, especially combined with mint, make a great flavoring for candies and teas. They're extremely tasteful while having all these wonderful medicinal

Starting point is 00:22:23 properties. The seeds pop up regularly in major seed catalogs. This is one you can probably find Burpee, Park, Vessi, any of the major seed catalogs. And you can also find the herb wild and gather seeds or transplant a plant to your garden. They're small. They have deep, glossy, shiny leaves and bright red berries. That's what you see in the snow. You'll see those bright red berries. That's what you see in the snow. You'll see those bright red berries peeking out under a blanket of snow. It really makes a hike in the wintertime much nicer. They're just a real treat.

Starting point is 00:22:55 When everything's white and frigid cold, you pick up that berry. It's got a kind of minty wintergreen, like wintergreen gum type flavor. Plant has an aromatic warming property when eaten taken as a hot tea or included in a bath it can help break a fever good for sore joints and muscles etc it's evergreen nature makes it a welcome addition to a garden and really just kind of makes life a little nicer to have around i mean a cold day nice hot beverage that's a go-to in the wintertime where I live because it grows right in my front yard. So if I'm sitting there and it's,

Starting point is 00:23:31 you know, minus 20 outside and we got about four feet of snow on the ground covered in ice and I go out to the wood pile and I go over there to where I know the wintergreen is under the snow and I kind of break it up and dig up, Oh, there's a big fresh handful of wintergreen. I can go in and put the kettle on the wood stove and have a nice hot cup of tea by the, you know. That's a really nice way to spend a winter day, actually. I got a, well, you probably know. I mean, you know I love music. I was a musician for a long time.

Starting point is 00:24:00 A huge record collection. My uncle was a DJ. I inherited all his records. I've got tons of vinyl. And I got one of those modern turntables that also has like a cassette and CD and a little port where you can convert everything to digital. So you can back up your whole collection, you know. You can put everything as an MP3 and save it.

Starting point is 00:24:20 It'll burn CDs or, you know, you can just hook it up to your phone and load your music up on there if you want just to rip straight off of vinyl. And on those cold, snowy winter days where you're not going anywhere, I love to dig through the old record collection, find something I haven't heard. I know exactly what it was. Otis Redding's Blue Album. Fantastic soul music album. I mean, if you haven't heard that one, man, it was good. I mean, it's got try a little tenderness on there. Wow. So many of his great hits.

Starting point is 00:24:57 So many of his great hits. I've been loving you too long to stop now. So, I mean, there I am, mountains of North Carolina, and pop on some an old crackly record of uh otis redding sitting there by the i think it was fire in the fireplace at that time big hot cup of winter green tea and just yeah that's living that's just good peaceful mountain living and uh yeah that's that's good stuff right, y'all. So remember me when you're shopping for Christmas presents. I can be your last-minute go-to if you need or if you want a nice treat for yourself.

Starting point is 00:25:32 And don't forget my spoons. If you have a special order, please get it in right away. JudsonCarrollWoodcraft.substack.com. And go listen to some Otis Redding. That's good music. Or the Old Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack. That's more your style. Get some Ralph Staley singing. Oh,

Starting point is 00:25:51 Dad, won't you spare me over for another year? That was so cool. I cannot tell you. I was at a little bluegrass festival in Ohio. I think it was Ohio at that time. It could have been Tennessee.

Starting point is 00:26:07 And it was just a little place. And there's Ralph Stanley. He was only about four and a half feet tall. And he was about 90 years old at the time. And he gets up there and he opened with Old Death. And, I mean, you could have heard a pin drop. Everybody was just, I mean, here was a legend of bluegrass and country music. The man who invented that sound, singing Old Death.

Starting point is 00:26:29 And I mean, it was just one of those magic, it sent chills up your spine. It just, it absolutely sent chills up your spine. That was the last time I got to see Boomerow too, or that same festival. That was something. Yeah. Anyway, anyway y'all have a good one um we'll have a couple more shows between now and Christmas so uh but I will go ahead and wish you a Merry Christmas I think we ought to wish everyone a Merry Christmas heck if they're Jewish wish them a Happy Hanukkah too um Hanukkah celebrates the Maccabees which were incredible heroes if you have a bible that containskah celebrates the Maccabees, which were incredible heroes. If you have a Bible that contains the book of Maccabees, be sure to read their, their

Starting point is 00:27:09 heroes and their bravery as warriors. Their, um, uh, they, they were under the oppression of the Greeks at the time who just slaughtered, uh, masses of people and, and used them as examples. So like their story of like a whole family, the mother and all her sons, where they were like, you know, burned alive and their skin flayed off of them, their tongues cut out and all that, and they would not give up their faith. This should be in every Bible. It's a real shame that it was stripped out of many Bibles.

Starting point is 00:27:38 It's the book of Maccabees, first and second books. Wonderful story. Everyone should know it. And it will really strengthen your faith and second books. Wonderful story. Everyone should know it, and it will really strengthen your faith and your resolve. You know, they were Jewish, but this should be part of the Christian religion. I think anyone could take a great deal of courage and fortitude from the Maccabians. Fantastic. And the other thing I want to get started, I posted last night on all my social media pages, be anti-woke, anti-woke, wear fur. I think we really need to get people back into wearing fur and wear it as a protest against the woke mobs, against the liberal, leftist, vegan and all that.

Starting point is 00:28:22 Be proud and wear fur. Because why is this? Why is this important? As preppers, we know that there's going to be a time when we have to rely on ourselves for food. And the most reliable way to put meat on the table is trapping. And you look at states like Colorado, where they've essentially outlawed trapping.

Starting point is 00:28:41 They started by saying, oh, how dare you wear fur? Some animal suffered for that. Well, you know, meanwhile, they're wearing leather shoes, so let's not even get into that. Then they take away our rights to trap. And then they start restricting our hunting and fishing rights. I know they have in North Carolina, big time.

Starting point is 00:28:57 We need to counter that message. And I'm going to encourage, I want to challenge everyone. Post on your social media, Twitter, Facebook, whatever you do. Truth, social, gab, me-we, getter, I'm on all the good stuff. I don't mess with Facebook. But if you're on Facebook, post this message. Be anti-woke, A-N-T-I-W-O-K-E, anti-woke, wear fur. I would love to see thousands of people boldly walking into restaurants and bars and

Starting point is 00:29:26 theaters and shopping malls or wherever the heck you go, Walmart. That's where everybody seems to hang out these days. Don't ask me why. Wearing a fur coat, fur for men, fur for women especially, and be ready to stand up boldly for your principles. Modern leg hold traps are very humane. Modern trapping is very humane. You have offset laminated jaws. The animal does not get hurt. I mean, you can stick your own hand into one of the traps. There used to be a whole fad of people on YouTube. All the trappers would set up their traps and they'd stick their hands in them and show, look, no broken fingers, you know, they may get a little bruise. That's about it. Modern snares are very humane. Connabare's, you know, body grip traps like you use with beavers and such. It's essentially a big mousetrap. It's an instant kill trap. The myths that these leftist morons have spread against trapping

Starting point is 00:30:27 that has essentially killed the fur industry, that's a tradition where I live, fur trapping, and it's dead. I mean, you could have the most beautiful pelts, and you're not going to get anything for them. There used to be a way a man put food on his table in the wintertime, you know, and the meat, the meat is really good. I mean, as an omnivore, as a sportsman, and as a prepper, I want to make sure I have access to, you know, small game throughout the, I mean, yeah, you can go out

Starting point is 00:31:00 and hunt a deer, but you know, if the things get bad, everybody's going out to hunt a deer. How many people do you think are going out beaver trapping? And beaver is excellent meat. Good red meat. It's like grass-fed beef. Plus you get a very valuable, useful pelt that can be used to make clothing, blankets. I mean, come on. We have to really take back our God-given rights. This country was founded on fur trapping. So I'm going to challenge you today, and I'm going to spread this to your friends. I want everyone to begin posting the statement, be anti-woke, wear fur, and wear fur boldly. And if you go out with a fur coat and a MAGA cap, send me a picture of it, because I want to a picture of it because I want to see that.

Starting point is 00:31:46 Absolutely. I want to see that. Let's make America great again by making America a nation of sportsmen again, of outdoorsmen. I don't even like the term sportsman. I don't hunt for sport. I hunt for meat. So let's get away from this idea of sportsmen. Let's get back to this idea of self-sufficiency and resiliency.

Starting point is 00:32:08 And, you know, being a man in the woods. You know, cut a tree, build a fire, carve something, kill an animal, eat it. That's what men do. It's a much more healthy pastime than, I don't know, sitting around playing computer games and taking fentanyl, which is what men seem to be doing these days. So So y'all, let's stand up and be bold. Be anti-woke, wear fur. I want to see that everywhere. If you agree with me. If you don't, yeah, whatever. You have the right to your opinion as well. But I think that fur trapping needs to be reinvigorated and celebrated. It also helps keep populations of predators in check

Starting point is 00:32:49 so things work a little bit better. We've taken up a whole lot of the critter's environment by house building and urban sprawl and all that. Man is steward. Man has to regulate the populations of animals, both wild and domestic. A very good example is raccoons when a big rabies epidemic just spreads through their whole population. If you're out trapping, well, one, you're going to identify that there's rabies in the raccoon population sooner,

Starting point is 00:33:21 but you're also reducing that population and the healthier, stronger animals are the ones that usually will survive. It's survival of the fittest and diseases don't spread quite as badly. So anyway, people think of now as a raccoon as a nuisance. Raccoon used to be a valuable pelt and actually, as long as they're eating clean, very nice meal. Barbecued raccoon is actually really good, so long as they haven't been raiding dumpsters and trash cans. Same is true with possums.

Starting point is 00:33:58 I mean, yeah, possum's good meat if it's been eaten clean. Believe it or not, if you like pork, you like possum. It's, you know. Anyway, y'all have a good one. I'll talk to you next week and hopefully I'll remember what day of the week to do it next time. The information in this podcast is not intended to diagnose

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