The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Women's Wednesday: Sara Hathaway on Food Storage & War Shortage

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

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Welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co-host Chen Gibson, blending survival, fiction, and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello, and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. A little bit of a delayed intro there as I fumbled with my skunker. in the way. Because we were chatting up too much before the show. I know.

I was like, oh, oh, it's time to go on. All of a sudden, stare away, quiet on me. All right, this is episode number 339. Hey, Chin, what's up? Hey, chin's up. Oh, man. We've been having some busy days. So, yeah, I know you're just working your little tail off over there.

So thanks for lending some of your time this evening to us. to be here. This is like the best part of my day. Right? You get to just chill, have a nice conversation. Yeah. Good stuff.

So changing Earth today. Obviously, Russia invaded Ukraine. So everybody's talking about that. I've been trying to limit my news exposure to, you know, because it's like a dang TV show on the news, it seems like, when it's serious stuff and it's just frustrating, frustrating the way they make a show out of everything.

Just so to fill you up with smoke and mirrors so you really don't know what's happening in the background. Reality TV is reality TV now. Right? That's what it. It just kind of seconds me, honestly. Yeah. Yeah. It's legit.

And it's really affecting people's lives. And I don't know, it just seems like it's a big, big show. But so we're going to talk a little bit about that tonight. But before we get started, we have been throwing it back and forth, what book we want to talk about and where we want to go with that. So we've chosen to do Little House in the Big Woods. And I want to hear no crap from the guys in the audience. Yeah. I'm reading a book.

Yeah. Now, I know it's like Little House in the Big Woods. So if you're older, you know the book and maybe you haven't read it because you're like, oh my gosh, it's a little house on the prairie stuff and that's lame. Or if you're younger, you might not have heard it at all. But these books are just full of survival information and food storage information and how to survive without everything we have now. It's like, kind of sitting down and listening to Grandma about how they used to live.

It's literally like preper fiction before pre preper fiction was the category. Exactly. Because that's what it feels like. It's so is. Yeah. And personally, I love to learn as I read. Those are the books I'm going to gravitate towards. And these are great, great books.

So a couple of ways you can get a hold of the book and follow along with us. There's actually some free stuff online. but be wary because it is still copyrighted material, even though it was published so long ago. The copyright is still active in the United States. So I say watch out for free downloads because they might be targeted towards other countries or stuff. You just never know what you're going to get there.

So personally, I just bought the e-book, but Chin has a cool little program that we don't mind talking about, even though I kind of took the wind out of your sales on it a little bit. You told me you don't get any realties or anything. Yeah. I thought it was at least the author was getting some kind of stuff. So anyway, it's called Hoopla, H-O-O-P-L-A.

It's an app. It works on a computer too. And it hooks up with your libraries system. And so I had a library card to my local library. I used that membership number to log in to the Hoopla and set up an account. And then I just go, I could borrow books just like, I went at the library. So when Sarah was, yeah, Sarah was talking about a little house of the

purvey. So I typed that in a search. It came up and it actually had the audio book. So I downloaded. I get to keep it or, you know, use it for 27 days. Just like a library. Right. 27 days.

Turn it back in. Can you just run it again after that? Yeah, yeah. Because we'll be talking about it a little bit. Or if I get done with it early, I can return it early, you know. Right. Because they usually they only have. like three copies or something is what I've kind of felt like they had.

So, um, like, you can get on a waiting list just like the library and they'll send you an email when it's available to, to rent again. You could do a favorites list. Like as you're going through the searching through stuff, you could just put a little ding on there so you know, you can just go back to a list. Works great. I've had it for years now, uh, probably. Yeah, a long time.

Five, six years. Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to check it out. Yeah. It works great. And for like road trips and stuff, we download audiobooks,

we listen to them all the time. Because we used to use Audible. Yeah. But the members just got so expensive. I just, I was like, no,

we got to save some money somewhere. So this worked great. And I mean, there's all kinds of libraries, school libraries and stuff that. Yeah, my audiobooks are audible exclusive. Unless you're changing

our series member. and then yeah you can go to the numbers going on yeah and I do a book of the month there so I actually have to change up the book that's there note to self yeah so we're doing little house in the big woods the little house on the prairie series is actually a five book series and we're doing little house in the big woods first and in this chapter it's just kind of the introduction obviously you know you find out who Laura is She's living in a log cabin amongst the trees. There's no other houses or people or roads. She's never seen a town. Right. She's never seen more than two houses together. Yeah.

And you know what? What really was like made me really, this was like a hundred years ago. This is how different our world is just a century later. It's so interesting to me. Rachel growing up, your family, that's all you've ever known was your three sisters. Yeah. Those people. that's it that's crazy

well I guess they have relatives come visit yeah like cousins and right they have family the grandparents are near but you know like dad goes into town but it's a it's an ordeal and they so far and he's gone for like a while right so they have the

stories too with him traveling into town they have the dog too Jack's a big part of her life there yep the Brindle Bull dog yep and you know I'm dealing with that puppy still. Puppie training, puppy trade it. You got to put the time in at the beginning. Yeah, to get the dog.

Mm-hmm. It's all the time. So she talks about how dad would go out and harvest deer in the fall because they were nice and fat. If you harvest them in the wintertime, they're just not as fat as they are in the fall. You know, you get more meat that way, which totally makes sense.

And then they would hang it up in the tree so that the wolves couldn't get it. Yep. I was thinking about the bear, though. Bears can climb, man. So that would still be. But you could shoot the bear. Now you got more meat.

He did. Well, he didn't. Well, shoot at the bear, yeah. Their meat would all be salted and then packed. And I've done shows on how to make this happen in the past. So obviously I've been interested in these books for a while, so I've taken some of the concepts from them before. And so you can look.

look for that how to preserve meat podcast. Also, the skins were salted and stretched to make leather. Yep. Great way to do it. I've actually done that before as well. And then they were making like buckskins. So we have chemicals

now we can treat the leather with. But it's really an ordeal to learn to do that skill. That's fun. I would suggest anybody hasn't done it, try it. It was like the circle of life because he made the pouch that held his bullets out of deer skid right?

Yep. Right. Yeah. And he used that to go hunt deer. So it was kind of like a circle there. Making use of everything. Yeah. And then just like how the meats were all stripped and salted.

So they soaked in the, while they laid out in the salt for a while. And then he made the cool log smoker. Yeah. Yeah. From the hollow tree. So that was a great idea. I was like, how ingenious is that? I've done a blog on that too.

Say it from having to like build it. Yeah. You have to just hollow it out. You put a door in the bottom. He put a little roof on top. And then all the nails. He put nails where he could reach up from the door. And he put nails where he could reach down with a ladder out from the top.

And yeah, such a, such an incredible idea. Nowadays we're like, Hmm, how can I make a smoker? Yeah. Nowadays, it's like how do we preserve anything unless it's frozen in the freezer? Exactly. Even canning's, you know, people are trying to get back into that. But that's a pretty lost.

But canning requires jars. It requires lids. It requires, you know, for meat, you got to have a pressure canter. What happens when the seal on your pressure canter goes? You're going to have to have other ways. So my biggest takeaway was salt. Yeah. How important is the salt, you know, at that point?

Yeah. I mean, even if things went down, you emptied out your whole freezer. Now you need enough salt to preserve all that stuff. And you need to know how to do it too. So this is a great, easy little way to do it. I was telling Jim before the show, whenever I think of a smoker, you think of like the fire being in one place and then it feeds the smoke into the smoker.

But he put the fire right inside of the tree tree, and then use fresh green chips to smoke them because that way it sits in the fight. Yeah, it smolders more exactly. And they would feed it for days. You know, it's a long process. And then each piece is wrapped in paper. The girls had to maintain the fire while they had without the woods. Yeah.

Yeah. And the paper too. I'm like, where's all this paper coming from? So, you know, dad must have brought that back from the town. Mm-hmm. And then just rolls of it. So that's something else to think about. Like we wouldn't have paper for wrapping things up, really,

unless you're going to rip your books apart, you know. Or like if you give, I don't know if copy paper would work. You know, you need like the butcher paper, I'm thinking, right? Yeah. So that's something else to just kind of think about. The fish being salted and stored in barrels. I mean, how often do we think of like eating salted fish anymore? It just

The other thing I took away from this was They were always doing something Right Yeah he was either working, you know In the forest to get logs or wood Or hunting or fish He'd go off for a day and come back with a load of fish Yep

It wasn't just like Sitting around having a vacation Yeah playing some video games They were working all the time Yeah Because he had to put up the food To make it through the world to make it through the winter.

Yes. Yeah, I mean, that's why I always cautioned. Like, when we go, if we go into a survival situation, where it's like a long-term supply shortages and whatnot, how different, I mean, how drastically different our lives would have to be pretty instantly, you know? And the other thing is that I thought about. So the man at a house is off in the woods like constantly, like almost every day, right? He's almost every day off in the woods.

So the girls and mom better know how to take care of themselves because stuff happened. That's why. They can't like call anybody. There's no neighbors. The father's off. That's why Carol Eagles, like when I did my top 10 survival stars, she made my list of top 10 because that woman was like hearty. She had.

She had one experience where like she was. was cut all bad and everything like fevering she was all by herself and had to like take cauterize it and like survive till he got back home it was it was an insane story I was like after the first couple stories that did going off into the woods I'm like man these women got to be tough yeah yeah and they didn't really shoot and stuff back then so so the pig it was allowed to roam free in the woods until fall yeah that blew my mind yeah and then they would catch you call them back Yeah. And the pen's like, okay, you know. Yeah. So, and then they, the garden too.

Because I was always like, how did people grow gardens before we could buy like all this fencing to put around it? Like keep the deer away, right? Jack. Mm-hmm. Jack, the dog. The girl said that they wake up in the morning and see fresh, fresh deer tracks, but then they'd see fresh jack tracks. And the jack at control of it. Chase them out of the vegetable garden. So the root vegetables, the potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips, cabbages, things like that,

were all stored in a cellar. We've actually done that many times. Been able to store up our root vegetables and last through like most of the winter when we have really good producing gardens. So definitely still doable. Don't need a big space to make it happen, honestly. Braiding the onions together by their tops is the most spectacular. I picked it up from this book. We had piled them together one year.

And it's the worst for onions. It just turns into like this mash of rotted onion that you have to clean out of whatever you put it in. That's so disgusting. But when you braid them together that way, they have the greens to help keep them fresh and it just keeps them all organized. So if you do have like one or two that rot on the way,

it doesn't affect every single one of them. So that really does work. The pumpkins and squashes, those stay good for a long time. You don't really have to worry about, you know. We had bought pumpkins for canning, and I didn't can them, and they almost lasted a whole year in the garage. Wow. Yeah.

Where? In the garage. Like, it was mid-summer by the time they were like. Yeah, exactly. And it gets hot here in the summer, you know? Yeah. So it was like mid-summer by the time I was like, oh, those pumpkins. We got to get, you know.

Kind of squishy. Yeah. Yeah, well, I guess because the jackalanders, it's because you carve them up because they go bad. Yeah. Yeah. Once you cut them if they get, you know, if they get marred or anything. But if you just store them whole, your pumpkins, your squash will last a long time. That's why they're winter, why they call them winter vegetables or whatever.

The fish was stored in the pantry along with cheeses and stuff like that on the shelves. Your cheeses, if it has like that. cheese. Yeah. Yeah. I always got thrown off by that head cheese. And it's not really cheese. It's just.

No, it's not. No. It's, brain food. Boiled. So you take the head of the pig, you boil it until all the meat falls off. Then she chopped up the meat and seasoned it with pepper, salt, and spices. Mixed it all in a pot with some, or mixed it all with pot liquor.

Yeah. And set that to cool. And then that's what they ate. The soft. Sausage was awesome, too. She just took, like, all the leftovers and chopped it all up and mixed it with spices, and then they'd roll it in a big balls and just leave that out in the shed to freeze for the winner. There is nothing better than first sausage.

Right? Oh, I know. It's true. I've been still spoiled by having, like, first sausage. It is true. So good. Fry some of that up. Love that stuff.

Yeah, the pork sausage is so yummy. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And if you can mix it with some venison sausage, oh, good day. Okay, the hams and the shoulders They were put in a pickle to brine So they were actually, you know, more pickled off the bat And then they were salted first and then brine

So that I've always been curious about that Like how do you get those big honks of meat? Like yeah, you're going to smoke them and everything You're going to have to keep them in the smoker a lot longer But like how do those big hunks of meat stay good all winter? And I'm going to say it's a lot due to that pickling solution. And then the bladder,

dad takes the bladder, he blows it up and now the kids have a balloon to play with. So I'm listening along and they're like, and Dan stayed the bladder and the pigtail for Laura and Mary.

Yeah. I'm like, oh, they're going to eat the bladder. It's just like a membrane kind of, you know. Yeah. You can use them as a water pouch to you. Yeah. But But no, they were using it as a toy, basically. Right. And it like bounces around.

I thought that was so funny. I was like, oh, thank God they're not eating it. Yeah, it carries air and everything. Like, that's just insane. Yeah, my balloon was like a bladder when we were, you know. How far have we come? How far will we come away from that kind of stuff? Yeah, exactly.

The tail, they actually like toasted it. It was like a treat. They would fry it and fry it and then eat it and give the. The girls, yeah, the girls, they put, put it out of stick and the girls took turns like roasting it i don't know i know what comes out right below that tail i like yeah but it's inside the thing yeah um and then they took the the spine basically that part of the spine the tail they gave it to the dog yeah so they use like everything and that's the other thing like what are you feeding your dogs in a long-term survival situation luckily both

my dogs like to eat a lot of bugs you know oh i know my dog my dog eats fried worms yeah She eats fried earthworms. Like there's no tomorrow. Like stop it. I know. I told Rhonda we have to start an earthworm farm just to feed the dog if things go to hell. But it's legit. I don't want to just have to like kill my dogs or something like that.

That'd be horrible, you know. So if they can hunt, if they can feed themselves, that kind of thing. Well, my dog will not have any problems. Right. Let's see. And then the lard. So obviously the lard was just savered. and used and

Mama would take the lard and temper it, you know, so you have to cook it so it doesn't burn, but she can get all those yucky pieces out that's going to make it go bad faster. And talking with Nicole Appellian, I was like, you know, most of the recipes for

any kind of salves and stuff that we use have olive oil in it. Like, what do we do? How do we make olive oil in a survival situation? She's like, you don't. And I'm like, well, what do we use? You use the lard. That's what they would use for everything. You can use it as waterproofing on your clothes, stuff like that.

So it was very, very important stuff. Also on that. Use it for a cook and bacon, right? For, I mean, like baking. Yes. Yep. Pie crust and stuff. And then on that show colony, they also used it to make biofuel.

Yeah. It was pretty interesting as well. I was like, that's a cool idea. And then we talked about the sausage. So that takes us through, I know, I'm hungry now. We shouldn't be doing this right before dinner. So that takes us through chapter one of Little House in the Big Woods. Guys, get the book and follow along.

We're going to have some fun ripping it apart. And I know it's like Little House on the Big Wood. I guarantee you're going to learn from this book. So I wouldn't story on. Yeah, I was. So, Sarah, it's kind of like listen to a little girl tell about her day, right? That's basically what you're doing, right? So the action of the story isn't all that much, except for what dad tells his little stories.

Yeah. Get the girls and make a point with the girls. But the subject matter is outstanding. Right. Yeah, you're going to learn. Yeah, for sure. So talking about the war with Ukraine and talking about how they used to store their food.

Potential upcoming food shortages is where my brain always goes to. We've talked a lot recently about, you know, crops that are getting devastated in Brazil and Argentina, things like that. So my brain automatically went to, you know, how is this going to further affect the supply chain? How is this going to further affect agricultural prices, things like that?

So I found out that during World War II, there was things like cars, cars, tires, bicycles, stoves, rubber footwear, shoes, and typewriters were rationed, actually, during World War II. And it's because we were just starting to produce synthetic rubber at that point. Rubber came from rubber trees before we had synthetic rubber. So with the rubber shortages, that's why they started limiting those things.

And then factories that made cars and bicycles and typewriters, things like that, were now being used for the war. Right. The war effort. Yeah, yeah, the war effort. So then things like gasoline was obviously rationed, fuel oil and kerosene. So these are like heating oils and solid fuels were also rationed. So this is, this plays into what we're looking at for this event. as well.

And then the food products that were rationed were sugar, coffee, processed foods, and the processed foods, again, because the canning companies were shipping for the war, right? So you couldn't get, like, canned goods in the store anymore. Meats, canned fish, cheese, canned milk, and fats. And that's because they need those calories, right? So they were shipping a lot of the high fat foods and whatnot. over the soldiers. So that's what we kind of looked like there.

And so I wanted to look at for the last two years, 2019, 2020, or no, 2020, 2021, we saw less food production coming in overall, right? So it's kind of a good idea to like get the beat of what's going on food commodity-wise before we start applying what could happen because of this potential war. So for the most part, honestly, things look pretty stable. Like wheat supplies, they expected smaller supplies, reduced domestic use, lower exports, and higher ending stocks for the USA. Production in Argentina and Uruguay went up, but it was offset by decreases in Brazil and Paraguay.

Russia's beginning stocks were lower, and their exports were expected to reduce even further. and then for the end of the year they were forecasting like increased stock for the USA, Russia, Kazakhstan. I don't know why they came in. They must be like good producers in Argentina. But global stocks were still forecasted at the lowest level since 2016 and 17. So even though they're kind of like holding things stable, we really haven't rebounded since the really hard floods in 2019. right? We've been talking about it for so many years now. It just seems like, when did it really go bad? And it was way before COVID. Coarse grains, the USA, we had some higher production, but they're expecting lower exports going out, lower ending stocks of that.

The foreign outlook, they were also producing less. And it was kind of holding stable, the market. consumption was pretty stable because we've had a decline in production in Brazil, Argentina, Kenya, Mexico, the EU and Paraguay, with larger yields in Ukraine. So Ukraine's been really stepping up their corn production and bolstering some of the shortages that were happening. Now remember, this is all pre anything happening with Ukraine. This is what the global forecast was before any of this started, right? I heard, I saw one of those little post-its, I forget the source, but it was, Ukraine was 30% of the world's wheat? Yes.

Like, holy crow. Ukraine and Russia, we'll get there. Because then I started researching like, okay, how is that specifically going to affect us? So that's your wheat, your coarse grains, you know, rice. They were expecting smaller supplies again, lower demand. use, decreased exports, reduced ending stocks. So globally, there's been smaller supplies. There's been reduced consumption because of these smaller supplies.

And oil seeds, like your soybean oil, your canola, your sunflower oil, peanut crops, things like that, were lower production or were higher production, but there was a lower cottonseed production. So it's really kind of offsetting itself. and then globally these lower productions made for just you know we have reduced crops from Brazil reduced crops from argentina reduced crops from paraguay so we're going to have to keep our eyes on that USA did pretty good this last year with the soybean harvest but you know we can't like suck it up for everybody and then sugar because sugar was one of the rationing things on the list production in the U.S. has been increased big time actually on Louisiana. Louisiana. So they're thinking that we'll have to import less because we're picking it up with producing our own and getting the sugar from beets as well. So that's kind of, you would think you would only wish that a sugar wasn't so much in use. Right. Everybody's health would be so much better.

As far as coffee goes, we know what the outlook like that on it. You know, Brazil got hit really hard already. So we kind of already understood that coffee is going to go up. And this will probably just make it even worse. Yeah, we got the inside track with disaster coffee. Exactly. Exactly. What's the price is looking like over there, Intrepid Commander?

Right. Yeah. Let's see. So livestock, poultry and dairy. So red meat and poultry production increased. Beef production estimates increased. There was higher, there was bigger carcass weights. coming in because people were holding off butchering during the pandemic, right?

Because there wasn't as many workers to work the factories. The butcher, yeah, the butcher, it's hard to get butchers. So people were holding their beef longer. So that made for bigger carcass weights coming in. That's good news as far as the prices go. Pork production's been reduced. It was just the slow slaughter rates in 2021 really took a toll on the pork production. So I'm getting up.

I told Brackham, like, we're getting a pig, like right now. And then egg production is also down. Same kind of reasons. They didn't have as much people to work the factories and whatnot. So good time to get your chickens going if you've been putting it off. And you can do that. Really good time to do that.

The cattle, the broiler, the turkey, and eggs, their prices are forecasted to increase across the board. Just more increases coming. And then for milk and cheese specifically, we're expected to see higher import numbers with lower export numbers. So it's going to drive the price up whenever you're getting it from overseas and whatnot. So that's all from the U.S. DA. They do a world agricultural supply and demand estimate. And they talk about what we did for 2021, what 22 is kind of looking like. And so that gave us a pulse on kind of where we were before.

this event really took off. So how will this war with Russia affect us? One of the biggest ways it's going to affect us is with energy. And we all know what happened with the pipeline situations. So hopefully we can just turn ours back on and kind of offset some of the things. But many of the European nations rely heavily upon Russia for energy. and mainly it's through gas through vital pipelines. Also, they're huge natural gas suppliers Russia and the Ukraine are.

So natural gas is used to heat a lot of buildings, and they've already seen prices just skyrocketing in 2021, which caused the UK fertilizer plants to shut down. So this has a ripple effect, right? because as soon as their power costs increase and made it so they couldn't make a profit off making their fertilizers in that kind of situation when the price of fertilizer goes up

that goes directly to your farm which goes directly to your table and so all of this affects what our food prices look like what inflation looks like the one interesting thing that I found out was this led to carbon dioxide shortages.

So they produced carbon dioxide as byproducts, right, of making the fertilizers. And carbon dioxide is actually essential for everything from medical practices to keeping our food fresh as it travels. So how about that? Right? It's just like ripples across the whole system. It's like, remember when we used to play that game

with the parachute and the ball? Yeah. And if one person wasn't like doing their job, it was like, voop, you know, yeah. Between our book of this. We'll have to bury now parachute games. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. We're going back to our youth.

You'll play duck, duck, duck, goose at the end of the show? Yes. Yeah, yeah. Musical cheers. That'd be kind of tough. I don't know about that one. I think you're just taking it a little too far now, Chad. Oh, yeah, that's me.

So for food prices overall, they're going to be affected by this event. We've already had crazy catastrophic weather throughout most of the year affecting crops in all these different countries. The prices have already rose sharply in 2021. As you were saying before, Chin, Russia and Ukraine account for one-fourth of the total global wheat export. Yeah. So, and if they're not producing, then the countries that, you know, produce on the side, they kind of got to step up. Well, we know what Brazil's been looking like.

They've had flooding and droughting. Argentina's on fire. We're going to talk more about that, you know, as the news comes up. So countries like Turkey and Egypt that rely on the Ukraine and Russia for almost 70% of all of their wheat imports. They're going to see a big, drastic increase. And it's going to have some. They'll be going to go into other. sources which will

increase the demand and increase the prices for everybody else. You got it. Ukraine also produces one half of the global sunflower oil exports. They're also the number one supplier of corn to China.

And then Russia is the main supplier of some of the key ingredients to make any kind of fertilizer. So again, this is going to just hit the bottom line because even on the USDA, they're like, yeah, we've had some crazy weather. But we have really good growing techniques now and we have really good seeds and stuff, right? Good chemicals.

Yeah, we have good chemicals. So we can harvest larger yields on the stuff that does do well. And it's like, well, what if you don't have fertilizers to make that happen? You know, or what if they cost a crumb load of money? your gardens have to go in this year people they have to go in and they have to grow good and I'm telling myself that as much as anybody because I've been really struggling to get things to grow really big here so it needs to happen this year it just absolutely has to happen yeah um transportation as far as shipping and rail freight so we're going to see another impact on our supply chain which is already struggling right now because of the increase of the increase of and oil prices and because of the potential for cyber attacks on those things. So that's going to be interesting. Metals, Russia and Ukraine lead in the production of nickel, copper, and iron.

These are all essential metals for so many of the things that we do that we produce for the microchips and all that. other raw materials like neon, palladium, and platinum also come out of Russia and the Ukraine. So prices are already increasing there. Palladium's used for like automotive exhaust, mobile phones, and dental fillings. And neon, they actually use neon for writing the microchial. But yeah, the lights, but we have the LED now. but they use it for the lithography of for writing microchips. So we're like, we told Russia we're like, oh, we're going to cut you off from microchips.

Russia's like, yeah, we're going to cut you off from neon, you know? Like, come on. Russia also supplies the most amount of titanium in the world as well. So that's essential for all the aerospace industries and stuff like that. so Elon Musk I'm sure is up in arms so basically on the horizon we're looking at more inflation and slower growth due to all of this turmoil that's happening

there's definitely cereal grain concerns the prices are already skyrocketing because of the weather because of the labor shortages so there's going to be a big impact on wheat and bread prices that's from the World Trade Organization themselves and then it's going to be shifting markets as far as like where people are getting their product. But hopefully we're able to shift things around enough to make sure that, you know, we're feeding a world here. What are you going to do to overcome that?

It's like who's got enough property to grow wheat? To step up. Yeah. Yeah. France is stepping up into some of those markets. Like you can't grow that in your garden. No. I mean, maybe you can't make a lot.

a muffin. No, you have to have like a wheat farm. Yeah. To get a good harvest. You have to find alternative flower making products. And you know, I just did the article last week about how much they're cutting down the Amazon and everything like that. Well, that's where these things are happening.

You know, they plan them over to grow food and stuff. So we have to keep a balance at the same time as we're feeding the world, right? it gets really, really tricky to figure out what is that balance. But I'm quite sure it's not drinking roach milk. That's been...

Right? That's what everybody suggests. Like, oh, we need to eat bugs. Oh, come on. I'm going to buy you some chocolate Roach milk. At least you're getting me chocolate. Yeah. I'm going to get you chocolate roach milk for a prepper camp.

I'm like here. We'll have to have t-shirt. Got roach milk. They have it in California. I could get some shipped out here. Oh my goodness. Now it hasn't hit any kind of Texas shelves from what I've seen, but I saw it in California. Nasty roach milk.

Yeah. Who in their right mind? I don't know. And why would you ever name it that? Modern day, why would you ever think about drinking that? And they're not milking roaches. It's actually like roaches. Like almond milk is not actually like.

like a milk. It's just ground up almonds and water. Well, that's, ew. Okay, anyway, let's not talk about it. I did my Oreos. Let's go. Oh, come on.

That's disgusting. So if you guys, you know, you have more input on what, you know, how this is going to affect us. We have to just watch this kind of evolve, see what's going to happen with so many of the players. My biggest caution to everybody would be

understand that everything today in our world is about smoke and mirrors and greed. So be careful of jumping on to any bandwagons that want you to just spew hatred forward, you know, try to walk in the light and see that bigger picture so that we can understand what's really going on right now. What's really going on is when everything started with the virus and whatnot, I was like, hey everybody eyes on your freedom and that's one of the reasons why I'm not on Facebook to this day

because Oh me either Yeah you know because I was thrown off there For my views But in the meantime Eyes on your freedom You know This could be the emergency declaration

They need to go the step further So Big picture I just dropped an Easter egg into the live chat room for anybody Oh there you go back to Check it out. Don't say what it is.

I'm not, I'm not. They got to log in and check it up. Keep it quiet. Yeah. Oh, mm-hmm, num-nam-nam-nam. All right, let's go ahead and jump into some change in Earth news, get off the serious stuff into some natural disasters. All right. Changing Earth News.

Did you like my segue there? Love it. So the sun has been relatively quiet as far as, like, active CME, sun. sunspots, low, classy stuff, just really, really minor events. We do have a pretty large corona hole that's intensifying. It's going to create low-lying geomagnetic storms tonight and end of tomorrow. Yeah. You're magnetized?

Yeah, I got magnetized to the top of my mouth. And really, the sun's been quiet for a week. So it's interesting to see how. much like the volcanic activity kind of slows, the earthquakes kind of slow when the sun is quiet. So it's interesting stuff. February 20th, we had 390 earthquakes that were 2.0 or higher, the biggest of which was a 5.6 in the Philippine Sea. The UK just got hit with Storm Franklin on the 20th, heavy wind and rain, severe flooding in northern Ireland. Iroval. It just comes days after Eunice, remember, came through.

It killed three. And then they had, oh, what was the other one right before that? It began with the D. And you were making fun of how lame the word was. It was like Storm Dougie or something. Dudley. Dudley. Dudley.

Yeah. So they had Dudley. They have Eunice. And then now they got hit with Franklin right after that. Eunice actually killed three and left 1.4 million people without power. So they've been getting hit with storm after storm up there. The fires in Argentina are still burning 9% of the entire province has burned. It's a total of 1,976,000 acres.

That is extreme. It was like as bad as California got left. summer pretty much. In Indonesia there was more flooding. Four villages were completely flooded out from heavy rainfall and then in Paraguay there was a severe storm that left 80,000 people without power. On the 21st we had 402 earthquakes that were six point or the biggest of which was a 6.3 in the South Pacific Ocean up by or down by Antarctica. In Italy Aetna produced this really cool eruption. It shut down the second largest airport in Sicily.

And you can like see people skiing down the mountain with like the volcanic smoke rising in the background. It was kind of cool. Yeah. That ash went 6.2 miles in the air. Brazil got hit with a heavy storm, roofs torn off, communities flooded. Russia got hit with a severe blizzard on the island just above Japan. Indonesia got more flooding on the 21st and some seriously large hail damage. That's probably the story of the week is major hail damage across the world.

On the 22nd, there was 423 earthquakes that were 2.0 or larger, the biggest of which was a 6.0 in Bolivia, but Tonga also had a 5.5. So we still have eyes on that volcano, even though things looked at, calm down. Australia, Queensland got hit with 19.5 inches of rain, one dead and 10 missing. How long?

Oh, how long did it? That was in the one day on the 22nd. One day. Yeah. And it's supposed to rain into this weekend. It didn't stop after the 22nd. Oh, it was two feet of rain. Holy.

Yeah. Major, major flooding going on there. They're like maxing out their flood precaution stuff right now. In the USA on the 22nd, we had a heavy thunderstorm hit northern Texas. There was hail up in Wise County that was the size of tennis balls. So you know that's breaking your windows. That's doing some damage right there. Japan, in northern Japan, it got hit with a blizzard.

Sapporo got 12 inches of snow, and they had one dead in a highway pile up. But Sapporo, I mean, the beer and everything. In the UK, they're still doing cleanup from Dudley, those three storms that came through. they had to evacuate some of Manchester. In Brazil, there was intense flooding there again on the 22nd. And in Bolivia, these landslides and mud flows just came down into this community

and killed four people. 20 people were missing in that event. Man, the mud and everything just came in and destroyed this town. Sarah, I just googled rain on an acre. The volume of one inch of rain falling on one acre of ground equals 27,000 gallons. Right. And weighs 113 tons for one acre. For one inch, one acre. And you said it was 19 inches.

Holy crow. Right? These are unprecedented events. That's like, holy crow. I know, I don't like, you look at it and talk about it so much that you're like, yeah, yeah, more flooding here, more flooding there. This is like seriously. That's a lot of water. Yeah.

And the areas that are getting it are just getting like severe flooding and then other areas are just completely droughted out. It's definitely the changing earth at work. Like, yeah. Okay, so on the 23rd, there was 402 earthquakes, biggest of which was a 5.5 in Columbia. 84 mile an hour winds came out of a cyclone emanati. It hit Madagascar. That's the fourth major storm cyclone to hit them in one month. And the last one that came through killed 124 people just three weeks ago.

So they've been getting battered down there to say the least. In Spain, they had a major wildfire in their National Park, Cap de Cruz National Park, 1,072 acres burned. And then there was more flooding in Indonesia because they had two of their major rivers overflow. That left one person dead, destroyed just tons of homes in two different areas of the country there. On the 24th, there was 419 earthquakes 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.5.5. five in South Sandwich Islands chin

Australia on the 24th so that was the 22nd we were talking about the 19 inches come down right so by the 24th they had 27 inches in the past three days and it still wasn't showing signs

of slowly there was three people killed already and this is it's just south of where Ellen's at. In Japan, there was 97 earthquakes in four hours at Mount Antake volcano. Guatemala, Vulcan de Fuego had a minor explosion. And in Argentina, violent storms hit, heavy rain flooding.

There was hospitals that were flooded. And a large hail came down breaking all kinds of glass. I would say it was like in between golf ball and tennis ball size. Like I say, hail is kind of, it was big this week. On the 25th, there was 470 earthquakes, biggest of which was a 5.8 in, South Island. Yeah, they got it for two days in a row.

The biggest, actually, of the day, though, was in Indonesia. There was a 6.2 earthquake that was seven miles deep. It left seven dead and injured 85 people in that event. Indonesia. That is the natural disaster, like capital of the world, I think. Malaysia got unusual February flooding after heavy rain, so they don't usually have this kind of weather happening in February, but who does? We just had a big freezing storm, so not normal. In Turkey, there was severe storm Hatai, H-A-T-A-Y. Major damage, it would just rip these roofs square off. It was pretty crazy to watch, pretty severe winds.

And then in the USA on the 25th, the northeastern end of the United States had severe winter storm that came in, caused dangerous travel conditions. There was nine states affected, and the snow was anywhere. from 2.5 inches in New Jersey to 7.5 inches of Maine. So just an interesting little side note. In Brazil, they have this coastline that's just north of Rio de Janeiro. And it's among 4% of the world's coastlines that shrink by 16 feet or more each year. 16 feet. It's crazy.

The erosion has destroyed more than 500 buildings in that community and that's flooded 14 blocks. And they say like it's partially due, of course the earth is changing. The earth is going to change, right? But they say it's partially due to like changing river patterns and stuff like that for mining and that kind of activity that it's caused the erosion to happen even faster on this beach. So it's like the beach is just moving into suburbia. It's kind of interesting.

All right. Overall earthquake activity is down in the past 24 hours, the past week. The past 24 hours, we just saw 124 of them, the biggest of which was a 5.1 in Russia. And it's also down the past week with only 922. So it's bringing our monthly numbers down as well. The volcanoes are still sitting at 25 actively erupting volcanoes, for the fifth week in a row.

I was like, did they just fall asleep? And they're not actually recording. They're sitting back watching the people be stupid. Yeah, exactly. Minor activity is down one to 16 volcanoes showing minor activity, but unrest rose to 41 volcanoes showing unrest. And that's one of the biggest numbers that I've ever seen watching the volcanic activity. So that was pretty interesting as well to see.

that number pop back up. Yeah, so we got some crazy stuff going on. It is not over yet. Winter has not let gone yet. I also found it amusing that we did last week's show on spring cleaning, and then like two days later we got hit with a huge winter storm. I was like, karma. Dang it.

Do you guys have an ice storm this year in Texas? We did. We just had one. Yeah. We just didn't get like. like the amount of snow that we did before, but it got cold. And it was cold for, you know, three or four days where it was frozen on the trees and everything was just froze up. I was at it with the chicken water again, trying to figure out, you know, how to get it thawed so I could get them fresh water and stuff.

Yeah, I had my share of snow this year, so. Yeah. Yeah, South Carolina doesn't usually get a bunch too, right? So that's kind of unusual. Yeah. Up in the northern part of the state and up in North Carolina, the western part of the state, they got tons of snow. Gotcha.

For them, I mean, it's all relevant, but for them, they got a lot of snow. California actually got a little bit more rain, but they got that one system that came through, and like, that's it. It doesn't really, I don't know that it's going to help as much as they would have hoped. Yeah. So we'll have to see. But, I mean, they got a serious amount of snow when they got snow this year.

But that's really like all they got. Oh, I saw another thing. So where is that? That same calculator for inch of rain. Yeah. So an inch of rain on an acre is 27 and change, right? Yeah. It's 27,000 gallons.

And inch of snow on an acre is 2,700. because it's fluffier. Yes. It's fluffy. Less gallons, yeah, for an inch of snow versus an inch of rain. Interesting. It was interesting. The things I learned, just listen to you talk.

So counting on the snow to bring your water, you're not. It's not as productive. Not as productive as the rain, right? And sometimes when they get just too much rain, it just runs off anyway because the ground's not capable of holding it yet because it's so. you know, drought ridden. It has to, like, come down gently, not just in a mad dash.

And that's really all they've gotten. So that's interesting across there. South Dakota, North Dakota did pretty good this year, as far as their farming numbers. Louisiana did really good. So it looks like they pulled it out towards the end of the year, which is good news for us going into, you know, kind of this time of unres.

rest. But yeah, when you watch global demand spike for things, you're going to watch at home demand spike too. Yep. Yeah, I would definitely recommend making sure that you have enough canned goods. If you can buy the long-term food supply, you have the money to do so. Right now might be a bad time, not be a bad time to invest. You know, you're getting money back at tax time or anything like that. If you've got any kind of extras, buy the food now because anything you can store away now, you'll thank yourself for later.

I can pretty much guarantee that from looking at the weather patterns for the year, the crop outputs, the supply chain BS, and now this. Crazy people. Crazy people to be happening. Right. Yeah. I just don't know where they think they're going to go with everything. So it's interesting. But I have been reminding people that if you want to clean house,

usually you have to start at home first. So be careful to wag your finger at other people when, you know, the home is kind of stinky, you know, as far as the leadership of our country goes. So that's really all I want to say about that because that's a whole other thing. show and one we enjoy having a podcast yeah we enjoy having the podcast that just talks to each other over the phone exactly exactly so but yep it always helps to start at home first all righty well that's what i got for today i was i was happy to do this show actually because um not only did it get me back to read little house in the big woods which is an epic learning experience

of a book. But it really encouraged me to do the numbers on what our yields looked like for last year I hadn't done that yet.

That was good. It was good to see. And it was also frustrating because you've seen how much the prices have gone up but the yields are still there. So it kind of begs

to question why. You know? Yeah, I've had that a couple. I've had that conversation a couple times locally. I just... Yeah. and it has to be, you know.

Go go go out and buy like a two by four. Yeah. And look at the price to that stupid stick of wood and tell me like two years ago why it was like a fraction, like a fraction. Yes. Of the cost. Yeah. Go buy, go build your chicken coop now and just you're going to have to take out a mortgage. Yeah.

And you know it's not the people who are cutting the wood that are getting paid that. No. You know. So where is... Not the landowner that's selling it. Mm-hmm. Exactly. Where is the problem?

And that's why I kind of made the comment about you got to start at home and clean your own house before you can waggle your finger at your neighbor, you know. So. All righty, guys. I want to leave on a positive note that things are going to be great because we're all going to pray really hard. and carry lots of positive energy into our world. We've got to be the little lights at the end of the tunnel who keep your head straight, stay focused, stay calm, think big picture. I want to go out of my front porch and waggle my finger.

Yeah, you're going to waggle. Darn you. Get off my lawn, kids. Get out of here. All right. On that note, we're out of here if you want to check out more about me and Chin and our awesome show head on over to change it earth series.com you'll find everything about

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