We really DIG INTO some MEAT this week with an expert homesteader to talk all things raising chickens, rabbits, goats, ducks, and other good caloric crops besides potatoes. If the modern world has you feeling like revolting, one of the best ways to do so is to get more self-sufficient in your food supply. Follow our wonderful guest Rory's homesteading channel here: https://t.me/FolkStead Break: "Good ol' Boy" by Waylon Jennings Close: "Rooster" by Alice in Chains Get your chicks from Tractor Supply or direct from Hoover's Hatchery (minimum 15 chicks now!) Rory recommends New Zealands for rabbits, Nigerian dwarves for goats, and Cayugas for ducks. Sam's wife's St. Joseph's recipe: https://bluefieldkitchen.com/pasta-di-san-giuseppe-st-josephs-day-pasta-aka-pasta-con-le-sarde-pasta-with-sardines/ Please consider supporting Full Haus here or at givesendgo.com/FullHaus Censorship-free Telegram commentary: https://t.me/prowhitefam2 Telegram channel with ALL shows available for easy download: https://t.me/fullhausshows Gab.com/Fullhaus DLive and Odysee for special occasion livestreams. Navigating the Collapse segments on Archive RSS: https://fullhaus.libsyn.com/rss All shows since deplatforming: https://fullhaus.libsyn.com/ And of course, feel free to drop us a line with anything on your mind at fullhausshow@protonmail.com. We love ya fam, and we'll talk to you next week... ...and check out Sam's family's reverent St. Joseph's offering!
What would you do if you couldn't make it to the grocery store for an extended period of time?
Or if the grocery stores were all closed?
Or even if they were open, their shelves were mostly bare.
How would you feed your family?
Emergency food supplies, your full house Mitt Gartner potato harvest, and pot shots at increasingly skittish and hunted deer will hold you over for a while, but not forever.
How would you keep those kids healthy and growing, your wife fertile and glowing, and yourselves, dear fathers, not hangry and despairing?
Despite the increasing geopolitical instability, inflation, and random supply shocks and supply chain interruptions, I personally still don't think the food apocalypse is imminent.
The system is fairly resilient.
The profit motive is still there.
And of course, there's tons of system motivation to keep us all fat and supposedly happy for as long as possible.
But dear white fathers and mothers, if you're not at least thinking about the prospect of widespread food shortages and making at least baby steps towards getting more resilient, I'd posit that you're shirking responsibility.
This week, we have a sharp, serious, and competent homesteader with us to take us on a journey into chickens, beyond potatoes, and up the food chain.
So, Mr. Producer, let's go.
Relevant show for white fathers, aspiring ones, and the whole biofam.
I am your admittedly baby steps towards self-sufficiency host, Coach Finstock, back with another show dedicated to giving you new ideas to chew on, or at least a useful review of what you might already know.
Before we meet the birth panel, though, big thanks to Jack and Vasco de Goyam for their kind support of the show this week, as well as one or two kind folks that I'm not sure if they use their real name or not.
Sometimes those names look a little jewy, and I don't know if it's a sock or if it's their real name.
So we'll play it safe with them.
If you want your name read on the air and you helped us out, just let us know, drop us an email.
We, of course, will be happy to do that.
And we salute all of you gentlemen.
And before we get cracking here, I am just now uncorking and going to have my first sip of the finest botanical hooch from Scandinavia, courtesy of a certain seven-foot Viking warrior who made the foolhardy bet that Russia would not invade Ukraine.
And the foolhardy gambit to bet against me.
So don't do that when presidential votes, high-profile trials, or war is on the line.
But thank you, brother, for living up to your promise.
And let's see how this is.
It smells like mouthwash.
Oh, it tastes a little like brandy.
I told him to just send vodka, but he had to get fancy.
Anyway, thanks, buddy.
That was my little victory lap, final victory lap on Ukraine Russia.
But we'll skip that this week.
All right, enough of me.
Let's get cracking and see who's rolling with us in the pickup truck over the homestead this week.
First up, he knows how to put a sprocket into a widget and turn it into a gearbox, but I'm not sure if he knows the difference between chicken's feet or a pig's ass.
But after this episode, surely he will.
Sam, welcome back, big guy.
Wow.
Yeah.
Good.
Oh, I'm looking to learn some stuff here.
It sounds like a great guest and a great show ahead.
First of all, happy St. Patrick's Day.
Since last Thursday there, we didn't touch base with everybody.
I spent the evening with some of our comrades and celebrating a birthday, actually, too, on St. Patrick's Day.
But it was a beautiful day and a great day for our people.
But we're recording here on Saturday night, if you don't mind me mentioning it.
And today is St. Joseph's Day.
This is St. Joseph's feast day.
And there's a similar great festival held today.
I sent you a couple of pictures.
I hope you might pick the best one and put it in the show notes.
Yeah, you know, if you Google St. Joseph's Altar Day or St. Joseph's Altar, you'll see spectacular pictures of people that are setting up a St. Joseph's altar in their home.
And the origin is sort of like a legendary thing where there was difficult times and prayers were lifted up to St. Joseph and the people were relieved of their, I think it was like a famine type of a situation.
But being that the feast day falls within Lent, there is an anchovy-based pasta dish that is in the picture there that I sent you.
And it is delicious.
My wife spent the better part of the day preparing it.
It's pasta dish.
We used vermicelli and it's a tomato-based dish, but it has like pine nuts and raisins and it's just wonderful.
I told her to send you the recipe.
Maybe we could put that in the show notes too.
But if you look at the St. Joseph's Day altars, they will be overflowing with fruits and cookies and pastries and things.
If you look at our altar there, you'll see that there's a couple dishes of cookies and we made some bread twists.
People will make some take bread and twist it into crosses or other forms.
And of course, red wine.
There's a bottle of wine there on the altar and some fresh flowers and things.
So it's yeah, it's a wonderful day to remember our hero St. Joseph and to enjoy a feast together.
We had some people over today and of course our own family to enjoy it all.
So happy St. Joseph's Day to everybody.
Amen, Sam.
I don't want to be heretical here, but do you eat the stuff that you have on the altar there or do you leave a little bit, you know, like pouring some out for St. Joe?
Well, yeah, we kind of leave it.
We kind of leave it there all night because people will come back and kind of nibble on it, you know?
Okay.
And but we do kind of set it up and we leave it a good day there, you know, just to kind of enjoy it.
You see the candles are lit on the altar there.
Yeah.
You know, and for the listeners, if you haven't thought about this or if you haven't celebrated it, look into it.
You know, look at the pictures and read a little bit about it.
Maybe think about incorporating this into a little family tradition.
You know, we talk about that.
We talk about this on the show, like having little things that are touchstones to do as a family.
You know, we all kind of helped prepare this thing.
And then we all enjoyed it together.
Amen.
Yep.
And yeah, you don't want to be dad taxing St. Joe.
That was my concern.
If you ate from the altar, stealing from the saints.
You know, well, I read about St. Joseph actually a little bit more.
And probably a lot of people know this, but I'll just mention.
So he was the date that is considered is that he was born in 90 BC.
So he was at the at the time of our Lord's birth, he was like an old man already.
And the tradition is that he took on this young virgin who is something like a teenager, whatever her age was, was it 16 or 17, 18, something like that?
She had made a vow of celibacy and to devote herself to the Lord.
And he had taken on this virgin as a wife, kind of like to help her because she was not going to get married.
So he was already an old man and maybe even had a couple of children himself.
And he took her on.
And so, you know, she, our tradition is she remained a virgin, therefore, because he was already an old man.
And we know that he passed away like when our Lord was a teenager.
And so it's just a little detail there.
I thought I would throw in.
Well, maybe we lost coach there.
Sorry, sorry.
I've muted myself like a total, like a total rookie.
I was talking to myself.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I was just saying that I have to be honest, recovering from a stomach bug, which is why we're late this week.
The prospect of anchovies, raisins, and pine nuts is two Gabby guts here.
Yeah, we're a couple of days late with the show and got to hang out with your, I believe that's your youngest son.
Yes.
And with Smasher and lots of other people.
Oh my gosh.
I don't want to go on too long.
Let's save it for the second half.
Sure.
Yeah.
Let's come back to that for sure.
Good deal.
Thanks.
Thanks, Sam.
All right.
Smasher is actually out, possibly homestead hunting at the moment and really wanted to be on the show.
Texted him and he said, yeah, big surprise.
There's no service out here.
Barely got a text message out.
So no Smasher this week.
Totally valid excuse and actually a very relevant excuse given our content this week.
So that means reluctantly and regrettably then we have to move over to our next regular.
And in the new Full House sitcom premiering next year, he will play my son.
He will play Sam's grandson and Smasher's nephew.
This is true.
The always ready and Full House number one eligible bachelor, the great Rolo.
What's up, my friend?
You know, honestly, just go back to Sam again because he's way more interesting than me.
All right.
Well, anyway, so I can keep talking about all that.
I do have Joseph.
Rolo's got a bad lag.
So unfortunately, I was about to pay him the nicest compliment.
And my wife said this completely sincerely out of the blue, unprompted the other day.
She said, I want to hear more Rolo.
I want more Rolo takes.
I don't know if I ever said that on the air, but she's a discerning character, Rolo.
So you get a wifey pass for free content at your will.
First fan.
Whenever Rolo says something good, I say, you should have a chance.
She got to start somewhere.
She's got to start somewhere.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah, there's like a five-second gap.
So just cut out those spaces and we'll make it work.
All right.
Finally, our very special, hyper-competent and patient guest.
He is a longtime homesteader, long enough, at least, unapologetic member of our cause.
He's a white father.
And I hear he maybe even created a little bit of content for our people back in the day.
Rory Reddington, you dusted off the old microphone just for us.
We are honored.
Thank you.
And welcome to Full House, brother.
Oh, that's so good to be here.
A lot of people are going to be sad to hear that I came out of retirement and didn't go to their show.
So our pal Laritz came out of retirement.
He's back on uh Third RAIL.
They've been putting out excellent shows, but uh is, is it?
Do you want to talk about what you were on or do?
Are you thinking about getting?
You know did?
Did you leave the game because you got tired, are you?
Are you itching to get back into it and uh doing the bit?
Um well, maybe making some homestead type content and uh, you know that type of thing, but i'm i'm done with the uh kind of the news and politics.
I'm completely out of that game, fully retired, I know.
Yeah.
That's, hey, man, like, you know, we do, we do both of it because, of course, it pays to know what's going on in the world and have at least reasonable analysis of it, which increasingly is just impossible to get in the West literally because everything else is censored.
But yeah, at the same, like we're trying to walk and chew gum here to give people the Mad Max Glory Road, you know, options here while also knowing what's going on out in the world too.
So we're going to do both.
And we're so, you know, we've been trading emails for a long time.
We finally made it happen.
Thank you for volunteering to come on.
And let's do the bit.
Ethnicity, religion, and fatherhood status, please, Rory.
Very, very white, a Western European from like Germany up through the UK.
I'm religion.
I'm, I'm not an atheist.
I don't know.
That's kind of a, I'm in that journey at the moment.
I don't know where I'd peg myself, but I'm not, I'm not an atheist.
I'm not some weird wicket or anything.
I'm just, I don't know.
I don't know where to peg myself at the moment on that.
And fatherhood, I'm, uh, I have five children.
Oh, man.
All with the same, you know, same woman.
Yeah, and we're still married and happy and the great big family.
Yeah, bless you.
That's awesome.
And I have to say, you sound like if Johnny Monoxide and Jack the Intern had a son, you have the like the intonation of Johnny, maybe and the gravel of Jack the Intern.
It's, it's uncanny, but maybe I'm like just being a Spurg about like hearing other content creators' voices and our and our wonderful guests.
I have actually heard that before, though.
I've actually heard that for a long time, the Johnny Monoxide.
Everybody's, especially I had Johnny on my show at one time and people couldn't tell he was talking.
It was really funny.
And the audience, people are like, who said that?
Yeah.
No, now that I'm listening, I'm like, holy cow, it's really uncanny.
Yeah, good stuff.
All right.
Well, Rory, how did you, were you raised on a farm and this stuff is in your blood and in your ancestral homeland?
Or is this something that you grew into?
Let the audience know a little bit about your chops before we start adding tips and value for you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I come from kind of deep-rooted farmer stock.
My, I would say like my grandparents kind of slowly started getting out of the country and my folks, whenever I was younger, they both grew up in the country and then kind of moved to the burbs kind of city.
And then by time I was an early teen, we moved back into the country and I lived that and we raised cattle and stuff like that.
Nothing huge.
You know, we weren't, we weren't made of money by any means, you know.
Ted Turner.
Yeah.
So we, you know, we just got by and it was a lot of surviving because my parents didn't make a lot of money.
So it was a lot of hunting for dinner type things.
And so yeah.
So then I got to a point where I started making enough money and doing things where I could get a piece of property and land and provide for my family.
So that sounded like the best idea.
Amazing.
Yeah.
God bless you for having five kids, sticking to it and being willing to share your expertise and knowledge with the audience.
We do have a tough task here.
We talked before the show.
We're assuming that our audience is largely suburban, maybe even some filthy urbanites in the audience, but they're not going to have a ton of ability.
I would guess a majority aren't going to be able to have cattle on their property, probably not, you know, even medium-sized livestock.
But, you know, chickens increasingly, thanks, like one of the few blessings of hipsters and like local ordinances is that chickens are increasingly, maybe even the Puerto Rican and Mexican invasion, you know, they sort of just raise chickens wherever they live.
So chickens, we're going to start with here because we did the potato deep dive with our pal Mitt Gartner two weeks ago.
I missed that.
I'm going to have to go back and listen to it because it sounds like an epic time of potatoes.
Yeah, we really did.
I mean, I literally asked every question I could I could think of intentionally, you know, spacing, et cetera.
So, you know, if potatoes are the king, you know, king calorie, yeah, a spud deep dive.
Didn't do too many smasher jokes about that one.
But if potatoes are king calorie to keep you alive, and I certainly won't make the joke about, you know, never ask a man his salary, never ask a woman her age, never ask an Irishman who survived the potato famine why he didn't just go fishing all the time.
That would be exciting, especially so soon after St. Patrick's Day.
But let's do, let's do all about chickens here because I think a vast or a good number of our audience could get into it if they're not already into it.
And that includes myself.
I haven't actually gone to tractor supply.
I think I've got a good setup here.
I don't want to be selfish and ask my own specific questions.
So Rory, we'll turn it over to you for, I guess, chickens 101.
Let's go with egg laying first instead of for meat.
The things that people need to know, spur gout for as long as you need, and then we'll fill in with questions or specifics, if you don't mind.
Okay.
Yeah.
No worries.
Chickens are a great starter animal.
At some point, I would like to jump back over to rabbits, though, because I think that people are missing out.
We're not going with rabbits.
But yeah, chickens are great.
We got, I think we have 30 going right now in our layer flock.
And then we get about 20 eggs a day.
And then, you know, if one gets a little slow on the egg laying, stuff like that, you just harvest her and put her in the freezer and you got for meat for later.
But for starting out, like, like you said, most of the audience is probably suburban, that type of thing.
You can get a couple chickens to produce you eggs.
Three or four will really do you if you're a small family because you're not going to eat eggs every single day for the most part.
At least most people don't.
So yeah, we know guys who are like, please take my eggs or look at these overflowing baskets and they don't, they don't have 30, right?
I mean, they really do turn out, turn out the eggs.
Yeah, we, yeah, I give away 70 eggs.
It's insane, but I don't mind.
You know, I probably right now we keep 10 dozen on rotation for the family.
And then I probably have an extra 10 dozen right now.
And I'm constantly giving away eggs to all my friends.
So and we eat at least a dozen a day.
So with seven people.
So yeah, the chicken thing.
So I would say that it depends on where you live, depending on the breed you want.
Obviously, it's very well documented which chickens are better at egg laying.
And it depends on what kind of eggs you want.
I would say for suburbans, I would choose like an Americana, like an Easter egger, because they don't really make a lot of noise.
And, you know, they're next to your neighbors and they're super docile chickens and they won't cause you any trouble.
If you've got more space.
American or Easter egger is the best bet for people who need to do it on the sly or not piss off their neighbors.
Yes, absolutely.
And because they really don't make any noise barely at all.
And as long as you don't have a rooster, no one shouldn't even know that you have them.
And then what you can do is, like I said, you can always rotate out and get and harvest the ones as they get older, bring some new ones into the flock.
And they're relatively cheap.
Like you're saying, tractor supply, they're about $3 a piece.
So it's not really bad.
Do you recommend?
Yeah, I'll, sorry, I'll interrupt here.
Just as we go along, for sourcing, obviously, it's sort of like with gardening, like worst case scenario, you can just go to Walmart and buy some tomato plants and get started there.
What's worse than that?
Not doing anything.
So is there any problem with just going into tractor supply or similar and just getting some getting some chicks there as long as you do your homework about what breed you're getting?
Not really.
I would say if you have the option, you can go to some better breederies and get them sent out to you.
But the problem is, is that they usually have a minimum order of 10.
Right.
So if you don't have that kind of space, you can't, you know, and that's the thing as if you go to tractor supply online.
They're going to give you the same bit where you have to order 10.
So if you only need, you know, four or five, you know, you kind of run into a problem with that.
So really going in the store and picking out the ones you want.
I would just kind of look at them and look for health issues, make sure they're not kind of dragging.
You want the ones, especially at that age, they want to be super active.
Tractor supply tends to cram them in there.
And they don't do too well if they're in there too long.
So just kind of keep an eye out for the ones that are sluggish.
Stay away from those.
And that'll be fine.
That's where we started with our chickens.
We went to tractor supply.
And a lot of these have actually been born here, which is really fun.
We've only been on this property just under two years or yeah, just under two years.
And we've already had multiple generations of chickens born here that the chickens will sit on and brood them and then they hatch.
And then I harvest the older ones, like the tractor supply one.
So now most of the birds in my flock, actually all of them were born here or they were for someone else.
Like I rescued a few batches of chickens from some other people.
But yeah, so I've rooted out the tractor supply chickens out of the out of the flock.
You don't need that anymore.
Yeah.
And I guess Hoover's hatchery seems to be like the swinging dick in the online chick delivery.
I think people that delivered a tractor supply, by the way.
Okay.
So if you, if you order through tractor supply online, you know, it's the exact same chickens from the same hatchery.
So.
And how about the infant mortality?
I mean, even if you're getting them from tractor supply, sometimes they don't make it.
Should you, if you want four, should you get six?
If you want 10, should you get 20 in terms of surviving?
If they survive, if they survive the first week, they're going to be pretty good.
And so I wouldn't do that because they're pretty resilient animals.
And so you buy six and then now you have six and you only need four.
So I would say get the four.
If one dies that first week, well, then they're only spaced out.
Hell, they're probably the same age as the chicks that are still at the tractor supply.
You know what I mean?
So you're not really, as long as the age gap's not too large, they won't mess with them.
Yep.
And another great thing about them, I've heard hard, certainly I've regaled the audience ad nauseum with guinea fowl or stories, just the noise and the crap everywhere and the lack of eggs.
Yes, they eat ticks, but I've very rarely heard anyone say they regretted getting chickens from the prodigious eggs to the fun family aspect to the free compost to the table scraps that they clean up.
I guess they're pretty good at eating ticks too and cleaning stuff up.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And the other thing too is if you're if you're living in the suburban area, people think that, oh, you have to have them in this small little coop in a little run.
And then obviously that starts to stink, you know, if you're, if you're not really staying on top of the cleaning, what you can do is, is with a pair of kitchen scissors, you just cut the very ends of their wings off the very far end of it.
It doesn't hurt them at all.
And then they can't fly over a foot.
And then you can just have them in your backyard with your wooden fences like most suburbans have, right?
And then what they'll do is they'll clean out all your landscaping and all that stuff.
And they'll till it.
And everything in your yard will grow better.
Probably not really welcome in early spring, though.
Imagine they're pretty menacing well to seedlings and in your where you're growing well if, if you have well, it depends on yeah, there's a time where you want to get them out and then, once the plant gets to certain age, then you can reintroduce them and they won't be messed with it to actually help you with pest control.
Yeah, and that's early stages.
You do want a run and a coop in an area.
You can divide them off, but for the most part they can free range around that that property you have and their eggs will will benefit, you'll benefit from it, their health will benefit.
So I think uh, aside from like municipal regulations or neighbor complaints uh well, at least at least for myself, the I I certainly don't want to be the Babylon bee meme where man spends like one thousand dollars on lumber or like a boutique.
You know chicken run, you know for for five cent eggs that you can get from the, from the grocery store.
But let's, let's talk about what you know.
Okay, so you can get them.
Get them at Tractor Supply, wherever chicks are found Hoover's hatchery, etc.
Get them delivered.
Uh, but what do you?
Let's, let's dig in here.
This is, in my mind, probably the toughest thing.
What do you actually have to have for chickens?
And i'll give you an example here.
I have a uh, basically an enclosed and vacant, decent sized, uh dilapidated shit.
It's enclosed, I don't think predators can get in there, but it's not like this cute little thing with a little ladder and perches and stuff.
So what would chickens absolutely what's the bare minimum they need to to to live well and and put out a lot of eggs?
We'll talk about feed and practices later, but just the hen house itself, I guess.
Well, what you could easily do is just put you some um, put you a couple shelves in there, get you some milk crates, or build you some simple boxes, give them somewhere to nest, put some hay so they can actually they like somewhere quiet and and kind of out of the way darker, to lay their eggs, you know.
And then in there you can just throw up a few uh, uh closet rods that you can get at HOME Depot for some purchase and then make sure that at night it's closed so the predators can't get in.
That's all they really need.
And then you know a water source and then they're gonna need um, they really if you've, if it depends on how much free range area they have, depending on how much food you need to give them.
So it's not really a one-for-one like.
Mine eat mostly forage off the land.
So for 30 birds, I give them like two cups of feed a day.
Okay, maybe you know.
So it's just you just throw it on the ground or they have to be fed in their house.
Yeah, they just come.
No, I just throw it on mine, actually fully free range.
I built them this nice coop, right?
I built them this really nice coop with a little run off of it so that I could you know the newer birds that were coming in.
I can train them and I still do this.
Newer birds like that are hatched.
I'll move them out there once they get a little bit bigger and then they stay there until they're big enough to fully free range and then I just let them out.
So at night they all they, none of them go to the chicken coop.
They all go to my barn and get up in the rafters and that's where they roost.
So I have a barn covered with chicken poo.
I have to like I the luckily they lay the eggs in like three or four spots, so it's not like an easter egg hunt every day right, you know it's really easy to find their eggs, but they could just go lay eggs wherever they wanted to, because they're just, they do what they want.
There you go awesome.
And you mentioned hay.
There is hay better than you know every.
I see pine tree shavings as a very common thing too, in terms of what they really like or or what's good for mess control.
Yeah, whatever you have available, that's totally fine, pine shavings and or, you know, pine needles or any of that type of stuff they tend to.
If you gave them the option themselves, they would probably use like pine needles and and and like hay to build their nest, just because it's longer and stringier and they can build they they'll, they'll build nests really quickly um, and and then the nest just stays there.
And then what's funny is this, what you'll find is say, you have four chickens, you'll have like four boxes.
They'll all go lay in one egg box, like 90, 90% of real estate, they just sit in a line and wait for that one to hop off or they'll go kick her out, you know, and they get in a fight with each other and they kick her out.
And no, it's my turn.
Get out of there.
It's the funniest thing to watch.
Shitter's full.
Sorry, sorry.
That's crewed.
Yes.
Awesome.
How about now?
It's funny.
I mean, so many people, so many of our people are doing the bit.
Like it's like every other day, somebody's sending chicken pictures or the alternative, the feathers on the ground and where's that damn cat or whatever that got them.
Predator control.
I mean, I assume that, I mean, this is this is not something for the lazy or the irresponsible, right?
You have to let them out in the morning and make sure that they are secured at night.
I guess unless you have a barn set up like yours where they can go in and out as they please.
Yeah, and my barn's actually wide open.
I'm surprised that I don't have a ton of probation going on.
I just, I don't know.
I just lucky that way.
I know there's lots of raccoons.
There's lots of predators around here.
We have foxes, things of that nature.
And I've seen them and they try to mess with them.
But I have a couple giant roosters, though.
So I think that's a little different as if you're in the suburbs, you don't have a rooster.
The chickens cannot protect themselves, period.
So roosters will scare off the most common predators, right?
Or at least good ones.
Oh, yeah.
And they'll fight them and they'll fight them too.
Excuse me.
I caught an amazing scene the other day.
I walk around the corner.
I start hearing chicken noises, like there's a rooster fight going on.
And I look and then the birds hit the ground.
And all of a sudden, I look over and it's like a three foot tall hawk that was trying to attack one of my chickens.
And my rooster just messed him up and shredded him.
There's blood everywhere.
And my rooster's just walking away.
He's fine.
That hawk had to sit there for like a minute and kind of collect himself.
And finally, he could fly away.
Awesome.
Yeah, Rola says the roosters will fight you too.
Yes, I've seen somebody says their little kids will like, you know, like if they're not careful, these roosters can be really nasty.
My youngest son has two scars on his face from roosters that are currently, you know, have been digested because as soon as that happens, they go in the pot.
You know, that happens once and they go into a crock pot instantly.
I call my oldest daughter because she's like the chicken whisperer.
And I'm like, hey, go catch that.
Go catch that rooster.
And then it's, it's over.
He's done.
The chicken run for our rural gang.
I assume that's nice to have, but not necessary.
Like I get anxiety just thinking about having to build something with my hands, you know, this big run with fencing and stuff like that.
Is that mostly for more suburban areas?
Or I mean, I'm sure it's good for everything.
It's to have them have a protected space, but not cooped up in the barn or in the coop all day.
Yeah, I think that there's certain times, like say you have an injured chicken, you know, who did get in a fight with another chicken or another predator and needs to nurse.
Or say, like I said, your chickens sit on a clutch of eggs and now you got a bunch of chicks running around.
They can't be running around free willy-nilly, you know, right?
So you got to have a time to kind of grow them out.
So having that space that you can lock off that's caged and fully protected definitely comes in handy.
Your main chicken flock isn't going to use it once they have the access to go out.
Sure.
You know, they're going to just go out where they can.
But again, say, even if you're doing more of a kind of suburban free-ranging type thing, you'll want to run because say, hey, I've got to go out of town for a day or two, or I've got to, you know, I'm going to be gone all day long.
You can let them out to get sunshine and grass and dirt, but you know, they're protected.
They're not just roaming around your yard where, you know, neighbor's cat could come over and cause drama type thing.
Yeah.
Here in West Virginia, it's so awesome.
I mean, you could, you drive down one mile anywhere and you just see roosters or, you know, chickens on the side of the road just hanging out.
They're usually smart enough to stay out of the road.
And yeah, they, you know, they sort of just live it live in the dream, wandering where they will.
And then they got their cozy home back at back at nighttime.
And my father, I was talking to my father-in-law about getting them and he said, Mr. Finstock, whatever, Matt, he said, you know, one of the happiest times of my life was having bantams, which I guess are smaller and gentler chickens too.
And they would just follow them around in the garden all day, doing their thing, and then go back tonight.
It was like having kids again, I guess, for them.
So look up bantams.
But I was, you know, for a fairly tough guy, not sentimental, he was like, I love those little bantams following me around out in the gardens.
Just a little emotional, the softer side of having chickens.
We're not just harvesting for their eggs.
They're little friends, I guess, to a certain extent.
Oh, they really are.
You do, you know, the whole like, don't grow attached to animals you're going to eat or this and that.
It just doesn't happen.
You know, you can get away with not, you know, naming them like pets.
You know, you don't have to name all your chickens or, but you do want to have some compassion for them because you want them.
If they're happy and content, then they're producing good product for you.
The way I look at it is, you know, my animals have amazing lives and then they just have one bad day, you know, and that's, yep, that's better than they're going to get in industrial farming.
You know, amen.
So it works out better for me, my family, our health, the animals all the way around.
Yep.
I want Sam and Rolo to hop in.
We've got to get some chickens in Sam's backyard, if not this year, next year for sure.
Another gauntlet thrown down, Sam.
I'm going to get them in the next couple of weeks.
But Rory, one of the big, one of my biggest concerns is, oh, you know, like people, people who are serious homesteaders, they don't go on nice week-long vacations unless they have family nearby or extremely kind and friendly neighbors.
So talk about just with chickens themselves.
My father-in-law said that one winter he was able to, he had to go away somewhere for a week and nobody was able to come by.
So he just stocked them with food and water and they stayed in their little coop and they were fine for a week in the winter, which I guess it's easier in the winter.
But what are we talking about in terms of flexibility and available?
How long they can be left alone?
Well, if as long as you get, this is where your systems, everything that I do on my homestead, I put in like systems, concentric circles that kind of protect everything.
So, you know, the first system would be, hey, I want to put chickens in place.
Well, now it's like, hey, I need to automate some of this.
So I'm not fully, they're not fully dependent on me.
There's tons of stuff that you can set up relatively cheap, you know, some simple PVC piping, some simple things like that that you could set up where you could have automatic water and food that would stay dry, you know.
Right.
And they wouldn't just have a big pile of food sitting in the middle of the coup, you know, something that would, that would dispense food and keep it dry and keep it separated from them.
And just, and without machinery, really simple PVC piping, stuff like that, that you could set up.
You could leave them alone for weeks if you had enough supply in there.
Right.
They would be perfectly fine.
Like I said, I know I, my birds, especially with mine being fully free-ranged out here, I feed them as kind of a, it's like a treat for them, you know, just to make sure they have the right nutrients to lay me the right kind of eggs, really, you know, but they could live out here completely unattended by me for forever until they just died off, you know?
They're very, very resilient animals for sure.
How about, how about dog?
My dog has already mauled one guinea fowl to death.
And do dogs tend to, they like make friends with the chickens or they come to peace?
Well, I'll say it depends on your dog breed.
It depends on how you raise the dogs, the way that you're, you know, that you've done your job with that.
I'll say that my dogs are super playful.
They're really big.
They're Anatolian shepherds and Great Pyrenees.
And so they're, they're very large, but they're still puppies.
They're only about a year old.
And so my main chicken flock, my 30 chickens, you know, every once in a while they'll kind of pounce at them just to kind of play and the chicken runs away.
And that's about it.
You know, they don't do any more than that.
But if I introduce new birds, it takes a while.
There's this period where like those chickens, I guess it's the way those birds react.
And the dog is just like, okay, well, now we're in a, we're in a race, you know, and they just, they kind of just run them to harm, to death, where the bird's just freaking out and passes out from exhaustion.
They just, they're not really trying to harm them.
But once the bird dies, the dog will eat them for sure.
You know, they don't think twice about that.
So it's just, it really depends on the breed, the kind of animal and the amount of time and attention you want to pay to it.
You know, that's really it.
Sam, you think this is in the ballpark?
I'm sure there's at least a Puerto Rican or two somewhere in your zip code that has chickens in the backyard.
But is this too much just with the with the infrastructure required?
Just curious.
No, no, it certainly isn't.
I know a couple of guys who have a similar setup.
They have a certain amount of chickens and they get the eggs every day and all that.
I love it.
I'm in an urban environment and my exact situation is such I probably could have something like that.
It's like there's just enough room, even though it's in an urban setting to maybe put something in there.
But no, it's it's I applaud it.
It's a great thing, especially when you have the children like you have.
And I have children as well, you know, to get the children involved with collecting the eggs and tending to the animals and all that.
That's that's great lessons in life there.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
And the other thing too is I'm always worried about failing or like having them die on me.
And then I have to realize like that's part of learning, you know, like you just, you make mistakes and then you move on.
Otherwise, you're just never going to do anything.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
And like you say, with the dogs, sometimes the dogs are just too doggy for the animals, so to speak, you know, and a dear friend of mine, he had a couple of goats, you know, that were little and the goat or the dog there that he had a kind of a farm dog kind of played with the, with one of them too much, you know, to death, you might say.
And you know, just the dog doesn't know.
The dog, as far as he knows, he's just playing and the animal just gets to exhaustion and dies, you know, and but the children, they understood like that, well, you know, the goats are not like dogs.
The, you know, goats are not meant to live a long time, but the dog, you know, the dog is meant to live a long time.
So there's those important life lessons along the way.
Sure.
I don't want to beat chickens to death here unless they're roosters.
Go ahead.
Yeah, a couple, a couple more and then we'll move on.
Like I want to spur even more, but there's so much more we could talk about too.
But please go ahead, Rory.
Oh, yes, there's mountains we could talk about.
Well, we only really touched on egg birds, really, for what we were talking about.
So I wanted to touch on meatbirds real quickly too.
Let's do it.
But the other thing before then was that I was going to say with the life lessons with your kids, teach them, like my kids learn the life process all the way through now, which has been really awesome to watch this last year for them to be able to see eggs hatch, you know, and grow.
Actually, we did incubation for the first time the other day and actually incubated eggs and watched them hatch fully.
It was really awesome.
But then also at the end where we're butchering the chickens and they're there helping.
They're plucking the feathers.
They're pulling the guts.
They're doing, you know, the whole process.
They're fully involved with it.
So they know where their food comes from.
Yeah, we recently participated in that.
A friend of ours had some ducks.
And so I had a couple of my sons out there and I wanted them to do it, you know, so they had the axe, you know, and they chopped the head off, you know, and then plucked all the feathers and gutted the animal and everything, you know, all the way through.
It's an important life lessons for sure.
Hell yeah.
It was actually Johnny Minoxide who said that ducks are real a-holes.
I don't think he had a very good thing.
The hardest part of it was catching the damn things, really.
I mean, they're, you know, they're hard to catch.
They're, they're wily.
They're smart too.
But duck eggs are absolutely delicious for you guys.
Every chance to eat some duck eggs.
Do that.
Don't ever pass up on that.
We have a neighbor that has ducks and they bring us duck eggs on the regular.
And man, there's nothing better than like a sandwich.
You know, you make you a nice ham and cheese with some lettuce and a little bit and then you like fry up a duck egg and put it on there.
Oh, out of this world.
I can take that on a rough stomach for sure.
All right, let's talk.
Let's talk meat birds then too.
Yeah, I imagine you have to catch it and then you just have to chop off its head carefully with a cleaver, remove the guts, pull the well, I'll let you do it.
I don't have to.
Well, the process, like the process of raising the meatbirds, too.
If you're raising birds specifically for meat, you can go at this a completely different angle.
So say you have a decent sized suburban yard, not anything huge, just kind of typical size, maybe a little larger.
What you can do is you do like a meat tractor, a chicken tractor.
So you build them a little square or triangle that you can put, you know, 10, 15, 20 birds into, however big you want to make that.
And then every day or so, you just pull that thing across the yard and they're eating the grass or eating the bugs.
You give them a little food, a little water.
And in about nine to 10 weeks, you can harvest all those birds and then you can fill up your freezer and you're done.
Treat them like Pierce Brosnan's wife.
Yeah.
Endless ice cream trucks for the chicken.
Sorry.
You know that meme, right?
Oh, yeah.
Just fatten them right up.
Yeah, absolutely.
And there's specific breeds for that that aren't necessarily good for egg laying.
They grow faster.
And yeah.
There was a Puerto Rican joke in there somewhere, but I missed it.
You're still rusty.
You're still brushing off the old jobs.
Yeah.
All right.
So you're raising meat birds and then take us through harvesting briefly if you could.
Oh, so harvesting, you know, it's how crazy do you want to get with it is it's according to how many birds you're going to harvest.
They have these really cool things called these kill cones, upside down, metal cone.
Yes.
You could stick them in there and then their head sticks out the bottom.
Quick slice to the throat.
You do it fast at the side of their neck and they're not feeling anything after that.
And then they bleed out a couple seconds.
And the key, this is, you want to talk about life lessons, the key, 142 degree weather or water you need.
142 degrees.
Pour me some water up to 142 degrees, dunk the chicken in there for one minute and the feathers will come out like they're not even attached.
That's that's the secret inside.
I just gave you guys some top level stuff there.
And then you can somehow, yeah, if yeah, I get, well, I guess you just boil water and stick a thermometer in there.
I'm like, how does one get it to 142 anyway?
We'll figure it out.
You put a thermometer in there.
Yeah, come on.
I just hang a candy thermometer off the side of the pot.
Okay.
See, I'm just a talk show host, Rory, here.
You know, I got to ask the stupid question so none of the audience, yeah, they'll be like, all right, yeah, coach is stumber than me.
So, so yeah, so then you, you know, you make a little V at the bottom, you, uh, and then you pull out the guts.
You want to save the, you know, the heart and the livers.
Uh, they make delicious food.
Eat those, you can put them in stocks, all that kind of stuff.
And then cut the feet off and you're done.
Then you can vacuum seal it up, put it in the freezer, or you can take it directly to the crock pot and put some vegetables in there and some broth and call it a day.
Hell yeah.
How about chicken eggs getting stuck in their plumbing?
I've seen or heard that that's a problem occasionally.
I've never had that happen.
Okay, good to know.
In my entire life.
I'm sure it does happen.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure that actually happened to one of my birds and she died like years and years ago, but I cannot, you know, I can't confirm that.
Rural life.
I'm sure it is a thing that has that has happened and it does happen, but it's not common.
It's not a common thing.
And if they're roosting on top of the eggs, that's how you know they're fertilized.
Otherwise, you know, just have at it.
You're not going to be like cracking open an egg into your frying pan and a little embroidery.
Well, the thing is, is that they're, if you have an active rooster on your farm, they're probably all fertilized.
The thing is, is that unless they sit on them, they're not actually going to, you know, evolve into they're going to progress.
So they get cold rather quickly and you can't tell the difference.
They look exactly the same.
You crack them open.
They look exactly the same.
No difference.
And so you just assume they're all fertilized because I have like three roosters around here.
So I assume they are all fertilized.
All right.
That's good to know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Unless they actually sit on them and they're broody, which is what they call it.
The hens get into a broody mode and they just want to sit on their eggs.
An interesting thing that happens with that is she has to get up to get some water and food every once in a while.
Well, when she does that, other birds will go lay under in the same spot and then they get out of the way.
So now the hen is sitting on like 20 eggs of which, you know, one is hers and like 12 will hatch and there's how you have a new lineup in your egg layers.
Genetic nightmare there.
Yeah.
When I was a kid, I was, when I was a snotty kid who had just learned about female plumbing, I said, no, I don't eat eggs.
Those are, those are hens periods, which is really dumb and crude.
But anyway, not entirely wrong.
Did the roosters crow in the morning?
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
And all throughout the day.
It's a pretty regular occurrence, especially the more, well, the more roosters you have, the more they'll crow.
So your rooster will traditionally crow in the morning when the sun comes up and he's telling the hens, like, hey, let's get out of here.
Let's go do stuff.
Right.
If there's other roosters around, they'll crow back and forth at each other.
And I've had roosters like a mile away crow and mine will respond to them and they'll go back and forth for like two or three hours.
I'm hoping a distant flock of guinea fowl will like put out the call and our Charles will go join some friends.
He's pretty lonely around here.
Rolo says roosters are really annoying.
Go ahead, Rory.
I was just going to say, you're lucky it'll be the other way around.
You'll have like 30.
Yeah, yeah, they're going to come here.
Oh, good God.
One's enough.
Go ahead, Sam.
I think I stomped on you there.
Well, that's part of the thing that I think is interesting.
It's how the animals kind of communicate with each other.
Like I said, I knew this guy, he had some goats and they would call to each other.
It was kind of cute, really.
Yeah, I actually just added goats to the homestead.
I want to ask about goats for sure later.
We will do that in a second.
You know what?
They kind of act like cats almost.
But they're way more hilarious than cats.
They're so hilarious than cats.
They crack me up.
Our pal Victor said he was like, no, I got rid of my goats.
They totaled my car and were just way more hassle than I was billy goats grossly.
They can't be.
That's why I got the really small ones.
I got the dwarfs and they're because they're really good for milk.
I just want a little bit of goat milk to make some goat cheese.
That's all I'm really.
Yeah.
There you go.
One more, one more question on chickens for you, Rory.
How the hell do you find out whether you're getting hens or roosters?
Do they only have hens at tractor supply?
Can you only order hens or is it a crap shooter?
Well, there's a couple options.
If you're going to tractor supply in the store, all of those are hens.
If you go to, if you order online, they'll give you the option.
They'll say all females.
They'll say a straight run, unsexed.
So you don't know.
So it's just a crapshoot.
That type of thing.
So you can choose.
And it's more expensive if it's just hens because then they have to do work, you know, and actually look at the chicken.
So they charge you a few more bucks versus getting just a straight run.
Good deal.
Rolo, hop in here, pal.
I know you're out in Rio Rhineland or internet land this week, but any questions or commentary on chickens?
Before, I think we can move on to rabbits here in the first half and then take a quick break.
No, I'm good.
I got chickens.
I know what they're about.
He's like, I could do this show.
We don't need Rory.
What the hell are you inviting guests up for, coach?
Yeah.
I got chickens.
I got goats.
I know what's up, but I don't have ducks.
I don't have.
I'm actually thinking about getting ducks here soon, actually, too.
Are you basically?
I want alpacas.
Rory, I'm guessing you don't do a lot of travel around away from the homestead when you got many systems of animals living there.
Actually, we went like we went up to the mountains last week for a week straight, me and the entire family.
And I have such a good, you know, local manner bun.
I was able to just, you know, call my guys and be like, hey, here's the, you know, they're over here all the time anyway.
They know all the animals that, you know, but just like, hey, here's a routine.
Come do this twice a day.
Bada boom, bada.
You know, that's the reason you set up those systems so that everything is, it's literally 15, 20 minutes twice a day.
Nice.
Good.
Look at you.
You're all you're all networked.
You're self-sufficient and you're still taking trips with your large family too.
I wish we were friends for longer.
Anyway, going forward, we will be.
All right.
Rory, lay it on us with rabbits.
Oh, they're so, they're so cute and they're kept in those tiny little cages.
And then you're going to eat these things that'll make you starve if you're only eating on rabbits.
Go ahead.
Sperg on rabbits for us for a little bit.
Okay.
Well, firstly, I have to completely dispel the rabbit starvation myth.
I swear to God.
When I used to do my show on homesteading and I talk about raising rabbits for food, you'd always have some guy in the chat that would be like, whoa, rabbit starvation.
And it's like, yes, if you're eating wild jackrabbits out in the wild who are constantly running from predators and who have no fat on them, yes, you will starve to death if that's all you're eating.
Okay.
If I'm raising a rabbit in a colony or in a hutch at my house, that thing has more, you know, has plenty of fat on it, tons and tons of fat on it.
They're beautiful, gorgeous pieces of meat, and you will definitely not starve.
But on the rabbits, I think for the suburban guy, especially if you have a smaller area, even the urban people, you know, I've like when I was a little kid and we still lived in apartments before we moved back out to the country, my parents had rabbits out on the patio on our apartment patio and we raised them for meat.
So you can do this in any setting.
And I've always, you know, said they're like the ultimate stealth meat because they make zero noise, none, and they don't smell at all.
You could have a colony of 30 or 40 rabbits.
And as long as you're keeping up with what you need to do, no one would know that you had any animals.
And they'll produce you so much meat.
You're talking about, you know, two, two, two females and a male could produce you six, seven, eight hundred pounds of meat a year.
Just based on their procreation on their offspring.
Yeah, on their offspring.
And that's, and that's, you know, with you kind of controlling breeding and kind of being lazy and not doing it exactly on the times and this and that.
I've actually shifted my rabbits over to a colony setup now to where they're just in a big, gigantic cage with a big mound of dirt.
And they, they're very natural and they just breed whenever they want to.
And they've been producing so many offspring, so many rabbits.
It's been so much better than the Hutch setup.
Absolutely.
Okay.
And I know nothing about rabbits, but that sounds good.
I mean, you could make it as big as you want if you're worried.
Like, I just have this image of sad.
I think I've seen happy chickens and like sad rabbits that look like they're in jail.
Just get it.
I don't do the rabbits in the hutch thing.
I did it for a short time, but my hutches were actually huge.
I didn't have these like small hutches.
It's just because like I was the same way where it's like, I don't want this thing that's kept in a jail cell.
This is like, I'm doing this to get away from industrial farming.
I don't want to raise an animal in a similar setup.
So even when I did hutches, just because I didn't have the space at the time, because we were kind of moving, transitioning into larger property and we were in like suburban settings.
I always had them in these big, you know, massive hutches where they could hop around and had plenty of space.
And, you know, they got special alfalfa grass.
You know, they got treated very well, but they love it now.
I've put like four cubic yards of dirt in there and I pounded it and piled it up really high.
And they've got burrows all through it.
And it's a big, big happy thing.
So you just need to fence them off for protection.
They don't have to be elevated boxes, I guess, if you do a proper fencing job.
Just pile dirt in there, put rabbits in, and then put lettuce and alfalfa sprouts in there, and then they have a happy life.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Just make sure they're water.
Really, with them, it's really easy.
Just check their food dispensers, which they don't eat a lot of food, which is a great thing about rabbits.
You have to go down in size to get more efficient than them for converting food energy into meat.
Rabbits are the best, unless you want to go down to like guinea pigs or something.
They would be better, right?
But as far as like what you can produce and actually produce a decent amount of meat for yourself, rabbits are the most efficient animal you can possibly raise.
So the least amount of costs.
All right.
Well, Rolo says he has a bunny too.
Jesus, Rolo, and that bunny plays with his chickens.
Rolo, do you actually have the stones to kill any of these fluffy friends of yours or you're just letting them live on your property?
Now, the thing is, if you're talking about fluffy, I'm assuming you're meaning the rabbit.
Now, this rabbit, it really does play with my chickens, but it's not a wild rabbit.
It's someone's pet bunny.
It's clearly a domestic rabbit that escaped and it found its way onto my place.
And then it just befriended my chickens and it waits outside the coop every morning and it just like grazes with them and like hops around them.
It's it's it's very funny, but it's clearly I get and I feel bad for it because it's it's blind in one eye.
It had like a big screen.
It got in a fight with some scary animal.
So it's just ran away and then it's only friends that could have been just like water ship down.
Yeah.
Or it's like it's like the last white child, you know, forced to go play with an alien tribe.
Yeah.
It is a white rabbit.
There you go.
See?
Just the just the other day, I had a friend of mine around the corner, one of my local guys, he had, he's doing a similar setup with the colony.
Well, he didn't fence underneath it properly the way I told him to, like I did mine, because they're rabbits and they burrow, obviously, right?
So he has his first batch of nine little bunnies come out and they get a little bit bigger, a little bit bigger where they're kind of independent.
Next thing you know, he has nine little rabbits running around his yard around his property because they just dug out.
Well, he's able to secure it and he got like seven of them back in there.
So there's two of them that are living under the shed next to his rabbit colony.
Well, there's two wild rabbit babies living in there too.
There's been no sign of a mother.
So there's just four baby rabbits, too wild and too domesticated just that they're playing with each other in his yard.
He can't catch them.
They just will not.
They will not allow it.
So they're just, he's just added to the wild rabbit population out there.
There you go.
Yeah.
Sam mentioned Watership Down, and uh, we mentioned Alast Babylon last week.
Pat Frank may be a Jew.
I somebody was saying, Coach, what was that book you recommended about uh Apocalypse in the Cold War?
Watership, or not Watership Down, uh, Alast Babylon, great book.
But then I looked up the author because Frank, obviously, and Frank, I was like, son of a gun, he does look like a Jew, but I couldn't find any evidence to that point.
And I don't remember any degeneracy, just a heartwarming tale.
But Watership Down is even more appropriate for your younger kids, uh, middle school for sure.
They can handle it.
One, about rabbits.
Well, and and there's a uh, it was made into a movie, which I, uh, when my children got a little bit older, I bought the movie actually, VHS movie on uh Watership Down.
That's a great movie, great book.
Great movie, yes, amazing, amen.
And where can where should one, of course, uh, you could do the corporate thing and just go, I don't know if Tractor Supply sells rabbits, but where does one go about procuring rabbits other than just crossing fingers and having them shovel off on your property?
Yeah, there are um breeders everywhere.
So you can go to Craigslist, you can go to your Facebook marketplaces.
Um, there are, but if you're looking for specific breeds, um, there's a website for uh, I forget, I cannot remember off the top of my head.
If you just look up like uh rabbit breeder registry, something like that, it will do the work for you.
And it you can look up your state and you can start calling people.
Some of the numbers may not work, the information may be out of date, but you'll find somebody close enough that's breeding the exact breed that you want to get and for whatever purpose you may want it for.
Because some, if you just want them for meat, just go with New Zealand's, they're the cheapest, they're the easiest, they grow faster.
If you actually want to do something with the pelts as well, you know, there's other rabbits like your New Zealand stuff like that, where the pelts are gorgeous, you can make clothes out of them, stuff like that.
And how about harvesting them?
A little bit more grisly or sad work than just dispatching a chicken.
Um, yeah, it is definitely it.
Um, it's one of those things, even me, I've done it so many times.
It's still it gets that little get you spot, you know.
But uh, the best way to do it is don't listen to anybody else unless they tell you to do it this way because any other way they're going to make noise and it sounds like a child being killed.
So, don't do that.
Okay, all you do is you have ever heard.
It will cinch, especially as a father, it will cinch.
Wait, is that Rolo or Sam?
Oh, it's Rolo doing that.
I thought that was a rabbit big kill.
It's a rabbit.
I don't want to hear lambs then.
Go ahead.
Yeah, no.
So, the easiest way to do it, get you a little piece of rebar about five, you know, four or five inches down, bend it into a kind of a U-shape, attach that to something, and then you just get their neck, put it between the V and pull their two back legs real fast.
It pops their neck, severs the brainstem, they die instantly.
No noises, they're dead, no problem.
Wow, all right, so you're just propping their neck in there in the V of the rebar and tugging on their legs.
You tug their back one quick snatch, they're dead, game over.
And you could do that yourself, or you need two people to do that.
I guess you can do it yourself, yeah, of course.
Yeah, yeah, you can do it by yourself.
Yeah, you just grab their ears, stick it in there, and then grab their two back legs, and boom.
That's not like a giraffe, giraffe neck.
Yeah, yeah, well, and that's the thing is, you want to make the U or the V shaped where it's going to actually hold their neck and that type of thing, you know.
So, good stuff.
Um, all right, Rory.
Uh, any gaps that we may have missed on chickens or rabbits there in the top?
Anything off the top of your head?
Uh, I'm sure we missed a shit ton, but the uh, just with the chicken tractors, you can do the same thing with rabbits as well.
So, that's a great way in a suburban yard to and uh, you can do that where you're rotating the rabbits around on the grass.
And rabbit manure is, they call it black gold.
It's one of the only manures you could put directly onto your garden, onto your plants, because it won't burn it because it doesn't have the high phosphorus like chicken manure.
And so the rabbit droppings in your yard, all of a sudden your grass is growing better.
And that's awesome because it's feeding them more.
And then you can scoop off some of those rabbit droppings and put them in your garden beds and those type of things and your crops will thank you.
Good stuff.
Yeah, a little color commentary here before we go to the break.
There is a rabbit warren actually in the beautiful garden where we put our beloved Mako down to rest off on a sunny field in our property.
And I'm not sure if that makes me happy to see such innocent light life abounding around our pooch's grave site or if it like disturbs me that they're like causing a racket and a ruckus down there in her eternal resting place.
But these are just little joys of having a little bit of land.
You don't need a ton and you're going to be a lot safer and you're going to be in a wider area and you're going to have lots of joy and sorrow too to go through with your kids more than the things that you're going to, you're going to miss stuff from the suburbs too, the paved roads and riding bikes over to a friend's house.
But in my opinion, you get a lot more than you lose and being able to raise food for your family ethically, responsibly, humanely, and just from a budget perspective too, and getting elbow grease into your pantry, essentially.
Mixed metaphor or a stretched analogy there, perhaps, but it's a beautiful, wonderful thing.
And I can't wait.
Can't wait.
I'll keep you guys posted.
If you thought I wouldn't shut up about guinea fowl, good God, if I have if I have chickens and rabbits, you'll never hear the end of it.
And I'll have to shut up about it.
You guys just wait.
I'm going to get coached buying pigs in the next month and then you're never going to hear the end of it.
Oh, boy.
We might talk about pigs a little bit in the second half.
I'm not sure I'm ready for that.
Next year, next year, maybe.
We're just going to turn Full House into a prepping podcast.
And then I'm going to turn it over to Rory and he can resume where he left off.
Whatever.
You've been a great guest so far.
I'll definitely come and be a regular guest if you turn fully to homesteading.
All right.
Maybe we'll, maybe we'll talk some dad stuff in the second half.
Oh, Rory, I've forgotten to do this with so many guests, putting you on the spot.
What's your favorite childhood memory?
Don't give it too much thought.
It doesn't have to be profound.
Just something that comes to mind from growing up, especially a country boy like yourself.
Probably just sitting around, like watching the cornfields and watching the animals do the weird things.
Like one of my favorite stories is how bears pick corn.
If you watch a bear pick corn, they will stand up on their hind legs, walk out into the field a ways, and then they grab ears of corn and they stack them across, lay in across their arm in a straight line across their arm.
And then they try to walk out of the cornfield standing on their hind legs.
And if one falls off, they throw them all down and they go back and start over.
So you'll sit and watch one bear try to pick an armful of corn for an hour.
And it was just hours and hours of endless entertainment as a child.
Good stuff.
Thank you, Rory.
All right, let's take a quick break, fam.
I was thinking about one song for the break, but in keeping with the good spirits and bono me of the first half, we'll go with Rory's suggestion here for the break.
And this is, of course, the theme song to the Dukes of Hazard.
Don't go anywhere.
We'll be right back.
Just a good old voice.
Never meaning no harm.
Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born.
Smitting in the curves, clapping the hills.
Someday the mountain might get them, but the law never will.
Making their way, the only way they know how.
Let's just a little bit more than the noble allowance.
Just a good old voice.
Wouldn't change if they could.
Fighting the system black with two modern day Robin Hood.
And welcome back to Full House 1, 2, 3, part 2, second half.
I don't know if we're going to surpass that first half.
We're certainly going to try.
And the really good news is that apparently I'm going to be stone cold sober this show because this Aqua Vit from North of the Border is it's like a floral bouquet in my nose.
I love Aqua Veet.
I don't know.
It's really effervescent and botanical as it literally says on the label.
Damn.
See, that's my wife was like, see, he lost the bet, but he's trolling you by sending you something you didn't really want.
So anyway, can't get Russian vodka anymore.
I guess I'm stuck with my AquaVeet here.
Welcome to have Rory back for the second half.
I was thinking to myself, you know, we have all these great guests on Full House all the time, and they're so knowledgeable about so many things in various areas that it makes me feel a little bit like sad Charlie Brown, you know, walking away without the football.
Like, oh, I'm never going to have a setup like Rory.
Not with that attitude, coach.
We're going to take baby steps seriously.
Yeah.
And if you, yeah, if you, dear listener too, yeah, yeah, don't get intimidated, right?
Take it as an inspiration.
Don't be, don't be a pussy.
Don't be a shirker.
Take the challenge.
I'm in a, like a very elite homesteader group.
I guess they gave me some charity for my, for my clout or whatever.
And I'm like looking at these guys with their setups, with their hogs, and they're like thousands of seeds growing.
I'm like, oh man, that looks like a lot of work.
I don't know if I'll ever get there.
It all starts with the little things, though, man.
It really does.
We haven't even been on this property for two years yet.
And I've already, and I started with a few rabbits and a few chickens I brought with me, just a couple of each.
And now I've got rabbits and chickens and pigs and sheep and goats.
And we're producing our food and we've got the crops in the ground, springtime coming.
All these things happen and they just, they just, it just grows over time because every time you get one system kind of perfected to where you can do it really quickly, well, now you've got this extra time that you can spread out over, you know, multiple things.
Well, thanks.
You did all that in less than two years.
You made me feel even worse, Rory.
Last time on Full House.
Now I'm dangerously probing here, but with all that stuff, I mean, do you have a desk job that takes you away from the homestead?
Or are you able to dedicate most of your days to this stuff?
I can dedicate most of my day because I've set up my business for myself.
So I work for myself and it's limited actual hours.
I never have to actually leave the house.
I could stay at home forever and never have to leave, which is nice.
And so we do homeschooling with the kids at home and we do that and we go out when we want to.
We never really have to.
Look at you.
All right.
Well, I'm bumping Sam down the inheritance list.
You can have the reins of Full House.
You got it all figured out.
Sorry, Sam.
That's a joke.
Maybe we'll bump Smasher down the inheritance list.
How about that?
I'm just happy to be on the list at this point.
There you go.
All right.
You're a great guy.
When we talk, I was like, oh, all right.
You got a good voice.
That's, that's step one.
Good stuff.
And all right.
So, and you told us during the break that you delivered all five of your children at home.
I presume didn't have to go to the hospital for any of them, but you know, we'll do new white life after this.
But yeah, give us a little color commentary on doing all five yourself, obviously, with your wife.
Yes, yes.
Well, I will be, you know, full disclosure, the last two, we did get midwives to help out.
We could afford it and it was fun, you know?
But the first three we did at home, unassisted, just her and I. Obviously, the first one was completely terrifying, but it was amazing.
But it's one of those things where if you've got the right woman and she's got the right mindset to where, you know, she has it.
I think that a lot of the misconceptions that women and the pain and those type of things is kind of this built-up social anxiety that they can kind of get over.
Obviously, my wife would be better to speak on that than me on that end, Evan.
But from the father's perspective, it was amazing.
And there's nothing better than the very first thing your child sees and touches is you and then your wife.
And you could just sit there and bond.
You don't have nurses running around acting crazy and then interrupting everything and all these strangers around and these bright lights and all that type of stuff.
And, you know, it's no, it's great to hear.
We've had a couple guests on recently, McNabb, the Borzois, where things did go south and they wished that they had been in a hospital.
Well, for McNabb I guess, with the last one, they basically baby came and they had to rush to the hospital.
But it's good to hear your take, too, that it can go perfectly and more or less, you know, as nature intended without big, big hospital homo losing.
Yeah, you should always have backup plans.
You should always have those contingencies.
It's not like you should just free willy-nill it, especially when we made the decision to do that with my first daughter.
We, you know, went over every precaution.
We had, we went to a ton of different birthing classes and read all kinds of books.
And we were friends with a few midwives at the time.
So we got a lot of, you know, inside baseball type of conversations with them on that.
So, you know, we didn't go into it just hoping for the best.
We did, you know, we had a backup contingency plan.
We were closing up in the hospital, all that type of stuff.
So, but everything worked out.
All five came out beautifully and healthy.
And yeah, my oldest can drive now.
So that's, I've been in this for a while.
Good stuff.
And just out of curiosity, do you talk to them about our issues too?
Are they aware of the hostile world?
Fully.
I absolutely, absolutely.
We've never spoken to our children.
Like we never did the baby talk when they were little.
We always just talked to them like people.
Obviously, the conversations are simpler, you know, but you don't, you speak to them as an actual person and they just grow with a better sense of what's going on.
And honestly, they picked up.
We, you know, we tried to be a little bit softer about it, but just them kind of overhearing us talk or a couple of times I'd find my kids tuning into my podcast back when they see my show.
Sure.
And so they just kind of, you know, they figure it out and then they have questions.
And I'm not going to lie to them.
I tell them how the cow eats the grass, tell them how the world is and they get it.
And they're, and it's, it's amazing to hear the way that they've developed.
So then when something happens, something comes up and to hear their response to it.
And you're like, I didn't teach you that.
You know, that's just you making these logical conclusions and bringing together, filling in the gaps that you weren't taught directly and doing it correctly, making really good logical sense.
I'm just like, man, it really is amazing making little people.
Nothing gets better than that.
Amen.
Yeah, I know.
I was, we've been doing the show for almost three years.
We're coming up on our third anniversary next month, April 2019.
We started.
And early on in the show, we did a great show with Whaler.
God knows where Whaler is.
He was a prodigious propagandist back in the day.
You remember Whaler?
I think the heat maybe got too hot.
And he was like, let me get out while it gets good.
But I don't love that decision, but I certainly understand it.
And I was very hesitant in my phrasing about how you talk about this stuff with your kids because, you know, it's a sincere concern about robbing them of innocence, not having them be afraid of things, but of course, the blood obligation to start arming them from an early age with the information about the world as it is, not as we wish it would be.
And now I'm thinking three years later, I'm like, yeah, so far, so good.
Knock on wood.
Of course, there's always the chance of revolt or something changing, but no regrets on that front either.
Of course, at least as regards our oldest son, he's got a good head on his shoulders and doesn't seem to resent it or rebel against it yet.
But occasionally, just a trip into the hood.
Really, it's kind of refresh them of like, no, I'm not, I'm serious.
You want to see how the world really is.
You know, I know that we live in this area I've provided for you and these nice things, but here's the world out there.
You know, bro, after living in West Virginia for a year, and then we were driving to the beach on the eastern seaboard and we had to stop in Richmond for Chick-fil-A.
We're like, oh, there's a big shopping mall and there's a Chick-fil-A in there.
And it was like, oh my God, you know, out of the, I mean, out of an idyllic place and into hell.
I mean, we, all of us, we were looking around like, holy cow, like, there's barely 10% white people in here.
And it wasn't, it might have been a nice, glitzy mall, but these were like thug, fat, borderline, dangerous people just swarming everywhere.
And it made us, it was a good reminder of the world out there.
And also, you know, yep, peace of mind and to be grateful for what you get.
And, you know, I know we can't run away from our problems forever, but I'm certainly not interested in subjecting my kids to growing up in diversity if they don't have to.
My experience with my children has been that you don't have to worry about them getting it.
You have to worry about them maybe not being circumspect enough, if you know what I mean.
Having the judgment.
Yeah.
You have to, are they going to blurt something out?
Yeah.
You know, you got to, you got to get some subtlety and nuance here.
You know, like, it's like, go ahead, babe.
I was just going to say, you're not living life as a father until like your two-year-old drops an end bomb in the public.
That's that's never happened in my house, Rory.
Curse your undisciplined household.
You're going to need like, you know, like the live, laugh, love, like woman signs in the kitchen and stuff.
Like in this household, we do not drop hard R's.
Well, inside this household, we can.
Outside this household, we do not drop hard R's.
Live, laugh, nigger, Rolo says.
We can keep that one in.
You see, that's an appropriate hard R that we can the kids in the minivan will survive that one.
Uh, yeah, speaking of families, potato has, oh man, I don't, I think it's, it's a combination of uh us getting a little bit less disciplined with our language as we're getting older and plus having more time with the kids.
But potato has been hoovering up bad language from somewhere.
Nothing, nothing too bad, but he's the dog, bless her heart, she's wonderful.
She stays on the property, she chases the deer away, etc.
She's good with the kids until they push her too far when she growls.
And I'm like, there's her tail or whatever.
But the dog, you know, jumped up and put her paws and scratched his face the other day.
And out of nowhere, he goes, get the F out of here to the doggest year old.
I was like, oh my God, that's hilarious and horrifying.
I don't know.
You have to watch how you react, though, because if you react, they're going to feed off of that.
And they're going to be like, oh, that was just a reaction.
Okay.
I'm going to start saying that more often.
Exactly.
And he's a little comedian, too.
So yeah, not worried about hard R's with him, but F-bombs.
Good lord.
Oh, yeah.
I shouldn't have shared that on.
Rolo, keep it in, whatever.
It's the truth.
Keep it in.
Let the truth stand.
I know.
I can stand on that.
It happened.
And speaking of families, oh, God, this is probably a good little break.
I don't want to overdo it with the prepping too much for the audience, but we did have the Finstock family pukathon.
I won't share any gory details.
Rolo says there's no way that story is getting cut.
Get the hell out of here.
He said it like a real man, too.
You know, no baby talk.
But we, yeah, we had pizza the other night and Potato will still wake up.
He's getting better.
Once or twice a night, he'll still wake up crying if he doesn't have a warm body next to him or things aren't exactly perfect.
So I can go in to check on him.
And he had, of course, yakk all over the bed.
So I'm like, all right, that's not a big deal.
Yeah, I mean, it sucks.
It happens.
GI bugs, schools, kids, whatever.
And we've been blessed to not be a family of pukers and have that happen.
So I was like, all right, you know, write a passage.
I wasn't happy about it, but it was almost like, okay, cool.
Dad challenge.
So got them all, got them all cleaned up.
I didn't want to take a bath.
So just used the wet wipes on them and cleaned them up.
And then, of course, I was like, all right, well, let's, let's, we had to get those sheets into the wash on sanitize.
And then I put new sheets on the bed like a dumbass.
So then two hours later, Groundhog Day, all over the place.
He handled it better.
He wasn't crying.
He was just like, yeah, I guess I'm puking here now and kept it in mostly one spot.
So what did I do?
I took those sheets and put them out on the back deck.
Put on the third set of sheets on the bed like a dumbass.
I think I gave him maybe a towel this time.
He woke up and made it to the pot.
You know, this is just, I won't totally kill the audience here, but basically it happened three or four more times until we were down to the last sheet.
And then I took the duty that night and gave my wife the gory play-by-play the next day.
And she's like, and she was like, you've already been exposed to it.
Like, I really don't want to catch this norovirus.
No offense.
You know, you're in for a dime and for a dozen, you got this duty.
So I was doing it.
And she was like, dummy, you peel the sheets off and then you just use towels.
So you're not running through the strategic sheet thing.
But anyway, lesson learned.
Okay.
I was too overeager and changing the sheets.
Funny.
And then two days passed.
It was just Potato who had it.
Everybody's feeling fine.
And then right around six o'clock or seven o'clock dinner time, I was like, oh no, is it happy?
You know, you just have like that creeping sensation up your spinal column.
Like, am I possibly thinking about maybe puking at some point down the road in a couple hours?
And then daughter looks at me a little bit pale and she's like, Dad, I'm a little tired.
I'm going back to the house.
So I was like, okay.
Junior was fine.
And then boom, one, two, three.
We fell like dominoes that same night, like within the same hour.
Amazing.
I guess we got exposed to it that night from Potato.
And then we all went down.
My wife is still standing.
She put on, she actually did the like COVID N95 mask around the house, sanitized everything.
So she spared herself, but it was absolutely that's long story short, that's why the show was late is because Thursday morning, it was like a Mariopole hospital basement around here.
We were all just laid out, the pale.
And we did watch War Games with Matthew Broderick.
I wanted Junior to get a little bit of Cold War flavor.
Soviet Union in the U.S. Only thing I can remember is like the iconic scene of the movie screen.
It's like a video game or whatever.
That's all I can remember.
I need to go back and watch that again.
It wasn't bad.
It was critically acclaimed at the time.
It made a ton of money.
Over $100 million in 1983.
Of course, it's almost entirely white.
They have some token blacks like doing the hidden secrets or hidden mysteries, whatever stuff, like at NORAD, you know, like doing it.
And that never happened at that time.
I'm sure.
I know that was, yep, they were just, they were starting to sprinkle it there, the idea of big, strong, competent black woman, man in the ICBMs.
But it's totally worth it.
It was free on either Amazon Prime or the Netflix that we don't pay for.
I guess Netflix is starting to clamp down.
And if you got free access through a buddy or a family member, they're going to start putting the screws to you.
No more free Netflix and you shouldn't be paying for it anyway.
Yeah, most of it's trash, of course.
All right.
I got that off my chest.
Rolo shared his story at the break.
And it wasn't a bad story.
It was interesting, but it was a little bit just sad and reflective of our current existence.
But wanted to go to Sam.
I don't want to keep you off the mic too much for our prepping Spurging.
You got anything from the Family Hopper?
I mean, it was so lovely to have.
Yeah, let's talk about the thing real quick that we were at.
I think the name and where it was, but wonderful.
Patty's party with a ton of people.
Oh, man.
Oh, well, I'll just say to the to the audience, Coach is 10 times as charming as he is on air and genuine and wonderful to hang out with.
And it was it was a treat to be all in the same place with Smasher, Coach, myself, and a whole bunch of other great people.
I got to meet many people.
Yeah, I got to meet a lot of people that I didn't know, as well as people make acquaintance with that I did know.
And wow, it was great.
Great, great music and great food and great camaraderie.
And it was just so uplifting.
I had a couple of my sons there with me, as well as my wife and some local comrades.
It was a fantastic event.
And I can only say the bottom line is there's nothing like being around our people and being uplifted by the message we have to give.
Amen.
Yeah.
Smasher and Emily Yucas and others were playing some tunes.
Smasher gave a little, gave a little speech.
Yeah.
I guess the kids were, I wasn't there for it at that time, but the kids apparently were like sitting there wrapped in attention listening to this gigantic Irish alpha leprechaun expound.
I mean, Smasher is like Yukon Cornelius these days.
He really looks like an Irish lumberjack.
Lord Wolfshield was there and he was asking me, Coach, what other tracks are you going to play from those CDs?
He's really pushing that hard.
I said, relax, buddy.
I liked a lot of them.
We'll get to them.
We're not going anywhere.
Yeah.
I got that.
Somebody gave us that double CD of all those tracks.
Really interesting, very diverse.
Everything from like electronica to some folky stuff to some heavier type tracks.
Very interesting.
And a lot of great vendors at that event, too.
I mean, wow, it was it was tremendous.
Yep.
And the other thing that struck me too is that I used to get so excited for these things, right?
You know, like, oh, going to meet Edgelords and be with other pro whites.
And this, this time, it was honestly like just going to a party to hang out with friends.
I mean, I'm not like jaded or whatever.
It's still special, but you lose the butterflies or a particular sense of excitement.
And it's just become sort of like reality.
I mean, it's too rare, of course.
I wish it were every weekend.
Yes.
And that we all lived in the same zip code, but we're working on that.
That's it.
That's it.
The hardest part or the only downside of the whole thing is saying goodbye to everybody and to see you next time.
But yeah, just to be all together is a beautiful time.
There's hardly words to capture it.
Yep.
And I don't know who Rory is.
We hadn't interacted before this.
I wasn't aware of his show, but he's like, oh, yeah, of course I got a network of bros where I'm at.
And I'm thinking about moving to another area with a network of bros.
So that's the other thing.
Like we always, we always think that, oh, you know, whatever it is, whether it's pool parties or Manor Bund or like Patriot Front, like this is, this is our existence, but like there's a whole ecosystem of other people who get it too.
I mean, I guess we've been banging the banging the network drum for long enough that, and it's just common sense too.
Like I also roll my eyes too when guys are like, you know what, we need to do we need to network and we need to start our own businesses and we need to get more self-reliant.
I'm like, yes, yes, we know it's wonderful.
You're about five years behind, bud.
Like, exactly.
Yeah, actually, this, this last weekend, I had an amazing time myself meeting up with a bunch of like-minded bros and in this new community I'm looking at moving to.
And it was just the most amazing thing.
A bunch of families, a bunch of kids running around, you know, and nobody's like this super spurg.
It was all like very reasonable, well-dressed, well-behaved, you know, people.
And they were all on our like mind and doing action, not just talking about it, but taking action.
And I was just, oh, and then coming back, I had the same thing, like where you said you went into the Chick-fil-A area or whatever, driving back.
And I'd, you know, stop at a gas station or something.
And I'm like, I'm the only white person here.
And there's like 50 people.
And I'm like, oh, I need to, I need to get away from this.
Yeah, exactly.
It's not natural.
I mean, it's not healthy and it's not about being necessarily afraid, although in many situations, you'd absolutely damn sure better be at least hyper vigilant.
It's just, it's just an offense to man and God and nature.
It doesn't have to be this way.
I don't know about the status of our progress.
I mean, we won't go into Russia, Ukraine.
We're going to focus on the meat and potatoes here.
Ha ha.
But just realizing that real competition that the system is worried about is still coming at the massive nuclear arm nation state level, right?
And we are still scrapping and putting together bare bones stuff.
Oh, I, yeah, on that note, our old Mr. Producer sent a wonderful article.
I'll put it in the show notes from the American Conservative, which actually has been putting out some decent stuff here.
Don't stick it in the standard bucket of GOP Incorporated.
And it may have even been from David Hines, who I think is an ethnic Jew, but has been on the anti-left beat for a long time.
And he was just detailing how much the, not the SPLC, but the ADL, not even the ADL, but the ACLU.
The ACLU has these hordes of legions of quote unquote legal advisors that sort of embed and help of the rampaging leftist mobs that go to burn down cities.
And just in case they get pinched, they happen to have all these people running around town with observers and documenting and they can get access to lawyers right away.
And a little bit of a black pill that the enemy has that much infrastructure and money and licensed professionals, quote unquote, I guess Gage Rosenkreutz was supposedly a legal advisor too.
And he was just like an antifa thug who couldn't even keep a concealed carry permit and got his arm shot off for the had a gun, was armed.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
What's interesting is if you, if you occasionally, they will actually Back someone on our side, you know, legally, but it's in these very rare cases and kind of keep the keep the clout that they actually, you know, care about free speech and actual civil rights.
But they will jump.
You know, you go to, if you've ever been to any one of these really big protests where there's a really big antifa presence, there are tons of them out there, just legal observers, and they're just waiting for you to mess up so that they can charge you or protect this person's rights, even though they were sitting there beating you with a club, but they won't come to fend you.
Yep, exactly.
So I'll put that link in the show notes.
Definitely worth a read.
Our old, no good, useless, infertile Mr. Producer.
Highly recommended that one.
And also, gotta do it.
Gotta do it.
Just like, just like good old times.
Leaving us in the lurch with the lowly road.
I think Rolo's better than old Mr. Producer now.
We're gonna have to have like a producer off.
See who's got better chops.
Giving him a good run for his money for sure.
Yeah.
Wow, he's certainly.
You better watch out.
I'm somewhat of a producer myself here.
Oh, there you go.
And Rolo, yeah, Rolo's the only one who ever got drops set up.
So, Rolo, you got you got the soundboard ready?
Come on, give us a good one.
Totally out of context drops.
Have some fun here.
So here's a fact.
Okay.
It was a little text.
I gave you the most out-of-context one I could use.
All right.
Thanks, Rolo.
We love you.
You're doing a great job.
Just calling the nuggets.
I don't have that one.
All right.
Okay.
We covered the pukurama, and I don't know where my dad joke book is.
It's probably in the drawer here.
I think my wife may have hit it to prevent more cringe from breaking out.
Anyway, I'm going to have some more Aqua V. All right, Rory, where do we want to go?
Do we, you know, corn was our suggestion.
And I told the listener that he has to pay us $5 for us to talk about corn.
But we'll talk about corn for free if you think that makes the most sense.
If you're getting paid to talk about corn, we can talk about corn, but corn is actually a terrible crop to grow.
So, all right, let's call it, let's talk about it.
Let's talk about the crop one step up from potatoes.
All right.
So we're not just living off potatoes and chicken eggs and maybe poor innocent bunny meat.
Where else are we going from there?
So with corn, corn can be fine.
I would definitely not count on it as a staple because to grow the amount of corn, the space you need to grow that amount of corn is just not efficient.
Corn, most corn varieties only give you one year per stock.
Sometimes if you get good, you can get three or four off some, but that's that's really lucky.
So they really take up a lot of space.
If you wanted to do something more efficient, you can use corn.
You do something like the three sisters method.
So you put like a ground crop, like a squash or a pumpkin, something like that, that's going to crawl across the ground.
And you grow corn, you grow the corn right next to it, and then you grow something like a bean, like a pea or something.
And the bean will climb up the corn stock and use that as a lattice.
And all three of them work together and in a kind of symbiotically, and they, they, uh, because the ground crop keeps the ground nice and moist for the corn, keeps it protected from pests.
And so they all work together and they all benefit.
And then you're maximizing your space.
Wild.
So corn beans, and what was the third?
I would say like a pumpkin or a squash, you know, something that's like a ground crop, something like that.
Some kind of gourd, you know, that'll produce you something to eat.
Watermelon.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dangerous, dangerous growing watermelon on your property.
The kids love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Watermelons are great, especially if you grow some smaller varieties.
They grow a lot better.
They're easy too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But honestly, I would go, you know, you've got, obviously, tomatoes are super easy.
This goes back to if you have size constraints, apartments, suburbia, one of the easiest plants you can grow that produces a ton of delicious fruit from it is going to be tomatoes.
You'll learn a thousand different ways to use them and different sauces and all that kind of stuff.
You'll love it.
It's a really good thing to kind of get that bug to bite you to grow things.
And then, you know, some peppers and stuff like that for your flavors.
We generally stick to like leafy greens and then our root vegetables.
So we got our potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn.
I mean, not corn, carrots, those type of things are our root veg.
And then we stick to like our leafy greens, stuff like that.
And then a little bit of variety.
I'll throw in some squashes and some peppers and things like that.
But on the veggie front, it's mostly root veg and leaf vegetables for us.
That's the majority of our diet.
Sure, how best to grow.
And on the survival crop calorie, what would be better than, or what's second best to potatoes in terms of just keeping the family from starving?
Caloric density.
Sweet potatoes, of course, are.
Sweet potatoes are honestly so much better than regular potatoes.
They're a little bit tougher to grow just because it's a few more steps added to the process to really kind of to clone them to get them to keep growing.
But it's not really that big a deal and they're way more calorically dense.
Return on investment, it's kind of really hard to beat a potato just because you yield so many from a single plant.
You know, obviously for long term, your fruit trees are going to be the big things.
A lot of people don't want to bite the bullet and pay the little bit of money up front, which really you can get fruit trees for 20, 25 bucks a piece.
So it's really not at Home Depot, but you can get them from that.
You know, I did the bit last year and this year we have a local, it's not a wildlife conservancy, nature conservancy, I guess.
It's run by the county or the state where you can get these, get these little seedlings for like 10 bucks a pop.
And they're not that little.
Actually, the fruit trees are big.
I don't know what it's like across America, but yeah, do a little bit of research before you just go spend like 50 or 70 bucks at Home Depot.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
You should definitely not spend more than $25 on a fruit tree.
Unless you're buying one that's two or three years old, that's about to render you fruit right now, like the big size, full-grown ones.
Obviously, you can spend more money on that.
But one that you can put in your vehicle and drive home easily.
Don't pay more than $20, $25 and get a good job.
Where are you getting them from?
Honestly, there's one local grower or I honestly, I get the ones at Tractor Supply.
Okay.
Tractor Supply is like my go-to.
All the clothing I have on right now came from Tractor Supply.
I'm not joking.
I love Tractor Supply.
Especially, I don't know if they do this at all tractor supplies, but mine does price match.
Okay.
So everything, and I'm pretty sure that's across the borders tractor supply.
I haven't been to a lot of them, so I can't confirm that, but I know mine for sure does price match.
And a lot of times they don't even ask you to prove it.
You could just be like, oh, yeah, you're down at the other store.
They got this amount.
And they'll just like, they'll just do it, you know, which I don't take advantage of that.
I'm just like, hey, the other feed store over here that's closed today because it's Sunday and they close, you're open.
Well, they're giving me this for, you know, $12 and you're trying to charge $15 and they'll ring it up at $12 all day.
No problem.
They have the cheapest propane in town too.
For a while, I was being lazy and doing the stupid propane exchanges from like sheets or whatever.
And then I realized, oh, just take the extra time.
Yep.
Yep.
Go, just go.
Even if it's a little, yeah, the five gallon.
No, are they 20 gallon or five gallon?
The small ones, you know, the ones that go under your grill.
Just get them there.
Was $3.79 a gallon there, way cheaper than just doing the exchange.
And you know, the valves work.
That's the problem with the exchanges.
It's like when I used to get a bump, half of them come home and the valve wouldn't work on them.
And I'm like, I'm ready to grill.
I've got people over.
And now I'm like in this awkward situation where now I got to go run up and try to get another gas tank.
You know, yep.
Usually nice salt of the earth.
White people working there.
They've got, they don't have a big plant or crop selection, at least not near me.
You know, they got mulch and stuff and they got the standard supply inside.
But they this time of year, they're going to have plenty.
And if you get the tractor supply card, yeah, all right.
Yeah, maybe, maybe it's where I am, but uh, and no tractor supply is tragically not sponsoring full house.
But if you do get their stored credit card, you get like five points per dollar.
So every like a month or two, or depending on how much you're spending, you get a nice little email.
It says, hey, here's your 10-four bonus books.
Or another nice little bonus of doing tractor supply is if you had the tractor supply credit card, if you're going to make like a big purchase, you can do like six months, sometimes it's even 12 months with no interest.
That's right.
Yeah, that's how we got our rider mower.
Yeah, me too, because it was only Cub Cadet Nationalism.
There you go.
I love it.
The yeah, because my bank was like, oh, you've spent too much money today.
That was, and I was like, well, and they were like, well, we have a credit card.
And I'm like, okay, sure.
And they signed me up and it was enough to cover my lawnmower.
And I'm like, all right, here, throw in a trailer too because I got to get it home.
You know, yeah, seriously.
And they'll rent you the trailer for free, too.
I got that email like, oh, it's your birthday.
Here you go.
Have a free trailer rental.
Uh, because I have not shelled out the money for the for the trailer yet.
Uh, and you're good, and you're good to go.
What a wonderful company.
Stock's been great too.
I recommended that one a long time ago.
And what's really cool is that the truck rent or the trailer rental is if you say you can't use it, but you got uh, you know, your dad or somebody you trust needs a trailer, you can just give them your phone number and they can go up and rent it.
Yeah, so you can like hand out a free trailer rental to your brother, whoever, you know.
I got to ask you, what, what blade size did you get on your Cub Cadet?
Oh, uh, I think I got the widest one that they had.
It was the Enduro 50, 50.
Yeah, that's maybe 48.
Probably 50.
I think it's 54.
It's behind me.
I'm in the shed.
I wanted to go out to the gazebo tonight because it's nice and warm, but the setup was already ready.
I think it's 54.
I forget.
You got the zero turn, right?
No, no, I got the rider.
I was advised not to get the zero turn because you can't put a trailer on there.
And you have to have two hands with the steering wheel.
You can have a cold one or be sticking around changing podcasts while you're mowing.
Firstly, whoever gave you that advice, you should go kick them in the knee.
Because never told me not to get a zero turn.
And it wasn't.
I drive a zero turn and I drive it with one hand most of the time.
And I can pull the trailer behind it because I pull my trailer behind mine all the time.
So, well, whatever.
Durandal can do no wrong.
He is a saint among men.
Bromance with Rory ended.
He just insulted Full House fan, number one, forgetting.
So, so well, it really depends on your laying.
I know that mine, I got sketchy getting a ride on without the zero turn because I got some serious slopes on my property and the zero turn, you're way more stable.
I like it.
Yeah, I just drive carefully, Rory.
I'm just a responsible lawnmower, you know, so I don't have to.
Oh, no.
If that hammer is not to the freaking ground, if you're not just flying at full speed doing, you know, donuts in the yard, what are you doing?
No, yeah, you're right.
Yeah, when I'm going around the ponds, I'm like, oh boy, if I space out here for a second, I'm going in the drink.
Oh, man, it's almost that season.
I can't wait.
The onion grasses are starting to sprout, which are edible, by the way.
If you're really feeling spicy, you can go cut those off and throw them in a salad, put them in a stew.
But the grass isn't quite growing.
Do you have the good ones or you can pull out the bulbs?
They're great.
Eat the bulbs.
They're little onions.
They're delicious.
Ooh, I, you know, I think I did that before, but that was like in more blue-pilled years.
And I was like, ooh, when I was a kid, we used to always do that.
And I was so great.
It was so great buying this property because property's covered in them.
And now I get to see my kids do that.
They'll go and they'll pull out a handful of them.
They're like, oh, look, I've got some onions.
And I'm like, here, and they'll just gnaw on them.
Like, we'll be out doing woodworking or we'll be out running fence and the kids will just be pulling up wild onions and wiping them off and just gnawing on them.
I'm like, you know, I'll do a quick plug for chives.
Chives are an awesome perennial herb that you can just snack on in the garden and you walk past your wife and she instantly knows that you were snacking on chives out in the garden again.
Way we use them or I eat them way more than like the rosemary usually just sits there.
Like nobody really likes rosemary.
What I'll say is it's interesting.
So you've got this property and you've got the garden going pretty good, right?
Sounds like decent, decently.
Yeah.
What's interesting to me is a lot of people always find it weird that I tackled animals before I really tackled the garden.
I did it completely the opposite of everyone else.
But I find that like animals are so easy.
And then once those systems are in place, you know, they're producing me millions of calories a year.
And now I can go over here and worry about the garden.
And I feel like that's don't put your vegetables before the livestock.
Yeah.
Well, because now I've got the fertilizer for my crops year round, you know, and it just works out because now, like I said, all the animal systems are in place unless, you know, a one-off crazy thing.
Like the other day, we had to help one of the pigs give birth.
But other than that, it's, you know, less than an hour a day.
It's like a half an hour a day.
And I've got kids.
So most of the time, I don't even do it.
Honestly, I go out there and enjoy them.
My kids get out and do the feeding and stuff.
So it's like, it's, but even if I did it all, it's less than an hour a day.
And right now we're even, we're bottle feeding goats and it's still less than an hour a day.
Yeah.
See, I got a little spooked.
We have dear friends who got a nice big property with plenty of stuff, horses, cows, et cetera.
But they, it seems like they're a little less reluctant to travel, just the amount of work.
I guess horses are horses.
Well, horses and cows are pretty easy, but horses are definitely a labor thing.
And I think that that's why we've kind of stayed away from the larger animals.
Like the largest animal I got now is our sheep.
And I think that's where I'm kind of going to stay at for quite a while.
And it's because all the animals are manageable by my children.
They're all, you know, and it gets the hands on.
That way, it's not just me doing all the work and it's producing way more food than we need.
So that's where I want to be.
And what are you doing with the surplus?
You freezing it, gifting it?
Are you selling any of it?
I don't want to probe it.
That's your business, but no, no, we're well, we gift a lot away, obviously, because we've got, you know, a great manor bun of guys that come out and help me with the fences.
And they do, you know, they put in the labor.
And so, hey, here's, you know, three dozen eggs.
Take this with you.
Hey, come over.
Let's eat some lamb.
Let's, you know, here's some chicken.
Here's some rabbit, whatever.
But also, yeah, we're working, we're moving into having enough surplus and getting kind of the scheduling together to where we can start selling it.
We've been doing eggs, stuff like that, but to get into, you know, more than I've actually got someone coming tomorrow to buy pigs.
So, you know, we're getting into that.
Good stuff.
Yeah, I think it's, yeah, it's just, it's intimidating when you don't, you know, you grew up with it, and it's a little bit like Green Acres, you know, for me, the city slicker turned country boy.
I don't, I like, I'm, I'm, I'm very conservative, actually, in nature, like incremental steps and like don't go all overboard and like make big mistakes, which is kind of a one good thing about conservatism is a little bit of a uh reluctance to do these drastic societal experiments.
Although, God knows we need some course correction.
Um, but yeah, yeah, I think once you get once you get comfortable with one animal, the other ones don't seem because like there's a lot of stuff here that I've never done.
It's not like you know, I'm drawing on this super wealth of experience.
It's you know, you read up on it, you do some research, and you just pull the trigger and you do it.
And sink or fail, you learn no matter how much you read, you're gonna learn most of it from uh you know, hands-on, regardless of how much information you get from other people or how much you read.
Even if you fail and the animals die, yeah, they're still they still had better lives almost surely than uh than they would have in the in the big factory farms.
I still remember my daughter walking up the hill with the dead guinea fowl in her hands, like she was in a Vietnam movie, like the horror, the horror.
They just I don't think I had the heat lamp low enough on them, or they were uh sick to begin with.
Um, all right, Rory, where do you want to go with our limited time remaining?
We've got you got sheep, you got hogs, you got goats.
I got all right, we got I got to ask about having goats because goddamn, excuse me, uh, maybe I have had some Aqua Vitam.
Uh, the baby goats are the cutest, most playful little things, and I guess they don't always total your car and destroy your property and dig up all your crops.
But what's what's been your experience with goats?
Well, so far, uh, we've we've just gotten into goats.
I've had experiences with them, similar, really crappy experiences with them like growing up, but these were like the much larger breeds of goats.
And you get a bunch of males around, and that's how they are.
Uh, that's how they act.
Um, that's why I went with a smaller, docile, you know, docile breed that's going to produce the dairy that I want.
Um, I, and they've been obviously the rambunctious, they're the funniest things to watch in the world because they jump all over everything and they do backflips, and they're just the cutest things in the entire world.
I was always 100% anti-goat, and then the other day I took my children to uh, I took my, you know, the wife and the kids that we all went out to this like uh petting zoo type thing and and you got to like get in the pens with them and you know all this.
And I just like I got hooked on the goats and my wife saw the way I was acting with the goats.
And then she's like, the next day, she's like, Yeah, the next day, she's like looking up goats and like, you know, and I'm just like losing it because they're super freaking cute, man, especially these Nigerian dwarfs and they've got these blue eyes.
It's they're just precious, man.
Is that the good one to go for for a manageable breed?
Yeah, they're super manageable.
They only get maybe two foot tall tops and they produce a good amount of milk for you.
Um, and yeah, they're they're super, super manageable.
They're not bad at all.
You know, you could, you could pick them up if they start really being a jerk, you know.
And what do you, what do you, what do you need to do to uh house them or contain them properly, ideally?
Uh, well, ideally, they need a lot of space to roam, you know, that's why they challenge a lot of fences, they mess with a lot of people, a lot of especially a lot of people you'll see in the homesteading community on a lot of smaller properties, like say they're like on half an acre, and then they're like trying to cram in a million vegetables and chickens.
And then it's all, oh, yeah, we've also got these three dairy goats, and it's like they're living in a closet, you know what I mean?
Like, that's not, that's not cool.
Um, so you do need some space.
Someone like yourself, you could run tons of goats over there and you'd love it because you move them around.
You can use total shout out to my favorite product producer, Premiere One, produce the best netting, electric netting fences.
And you can just move these animals through whatever you want them to destroy.
And they're amazing.
And you can't free-range goats, I assume.
They just, they're a problem.
As long as you have an external fence.
Yeah, if you have an external fence, as long as your property is fully fenced on the outside, yeah, you can just let them roam.
Yeah.
But not like chickens where they're just like keep their distance.
Like my chickens, it's so funny.
They, they never leave my property, right?
Even though they could, they could easily just hop over the, it's only a two and a half foot tall, you know, white picket fence out front.
They could easily just pop right over it, you know?
And they never do.
And I'm like, all right.
That's been the coolest thing about our dog.
She just seems to know.
I mean, maybe it's because we, you know, we literally walk her around the property and she just got the sense of it, but she never runs away, just patrols it almost literally to the freaking borderline, you know, as marked out by the county or whatever.
It's, it's awesome.
Rolo, please, please share some color commentary from your goats and their trampoline.
Well, so I got them trampoline.
Initially, they were very scared of it.
Like walking on it, it was, you know, it was, it was extremely stressing for them.
But I, you know, I just pick them up and I put them on it.
And after a while, they sleep on cots because, you know, it gets a little cold.
So the trampoline is like the same material as the cot.
So they've gone to like it.
But I am a middle-aged man at this point, but I have no problems jumping on the trampoline with goats.
Well, you know, whatever.
You're my new dad.
And they're going, they love jumping on the trampoline with me.
Like most of the time, they'll just like lay on it.
It's their favorite spot to just lay, get a lot of sun.
But I'll just start running and then they'll just run with me.
And they do these like side hops.
It's very strange.
And then I'll just run on the trampoline and then they try to tackle me there.
Goats are fun.
Ghost running is the goats running.
Probably the only thing that gets close is watching chickens run like Naruto everywhere.
But they do run like Naruto.
Yes, they all do.
It cracks me.
And then when they start running in like a flock together, because one will have something in their mouth and they all start running and they all got the wings back like Naruto running up.
I start cracking up every time.
But on the goat front, I can't wait.
My friend brought me a bunch of pallets and stuff like that.
I'm going to build them a goat playground.
It's going to be awesome.
I just finished running fence.
I just squared them off like three acres for my goats and my sheep to, I just finished earlier today.
I'm extremely sunburned from running fence for the last three or four days.
And what do you, well, you just, I mean, I got trees all over the place.
I could use tree stumps, but God, man.
All right.
That's, that's, all right.
You just have to, you just have to do fencing.
All right.
Suck it up, coach.
Rolo, what are you running them for?
For milk or just friends?
Uh, to actually, well, I'll always friends with animals, but to actually clean up the greens and like eat the weeds and keep the grass down.
They better not be cutting into my lawnmowing time when the goats come around.
All right.
And how about I goat is delicious, but dispatching a goat is a little bit different than a chicken or a rabbit.
And how's that work out, Rory?
It's it's pretty similar to most like, say your sheep or your goats, your different herd animals like that.
You just slice their throat.
It's pretty, pretty easy.
Just stand over the top of them, grab their chin, and you know, bleed them out real fast.
Um, probably one of the hardest animals I've done has been the pigs, just because they're kind of with most mammals, their skin just kind of peels off real fast, and it's really easy.
Pigs, pigs, not so much getting the skin off of them and everything has been fun.
It's a it's a process, but uh, especially, I usually have to do five or six at a time, you know, in a day, and uh, it'll wear you out.
Are you shooting them in the head or you're cutting their throats too?
Yeah, with well, the pigs, you definitely shoot, shoot in the head.
Um, what's interesting is you know, you can people get large gallopers, which I used to do, but you can do it with a 22 as long as you know where to hit them and they drop instantly top top of the skull, back of the neck.
You hit them right in the top.
What you do is you take their two eyes and their two ears and draw an X between you know, diagonally and right in the center of that X, shoot them straight down because their brain is like the size of a walnut.
So, so to hit their brain, you have to be pretty precise.
And I thought pigs were like the smartest animal on the farm.
All right, and hey, ducks came up.
Let's not shortchange the ducks and their delicious eggs.
Um, I assume it's a similar setup to well, I, yeah, they like you to make you know, we have a big pond, they want like this little like island in the middle of the pond to be their little sanctuary.
But what's it's a common duck setup?
Uh, at least with ducks, you have to be a little bit more um precautious with their making sure that their roost is has low, low-laying places for them to roost.
They just do nest boxing, they don't like roost on a, on a pole like a chicken, and they don't really fly if you're doing like meat ducks, they don't fly, so um, they just run, so you have to really make sure that your doors are secure and all that because they cannot avoid predators at all because they've been genetically altered, you know, and bred over time to uh to not be able to fly.
Watching them run is hilarious, too.
Um, there's some really great breeds.
The Peking is the most common breed that uh the U.S. breeds for meat ducks, but um, there's another one called the Keyuga, beautiful black duck with these like green effero, you know, fluorescent feathers that come through, and they lay black eggs and they're delicious.
And that's probably the ones I'm gonna get.
And it sounds like Kelly Yuga, so that's the one that we should officially.
Well, they were the primary uh meatbird for the U.S. before they switched over the Peking.
So, for the long time, they were the backbone of American duck, which we used to use a lot of in this country, you know, with the fat and everything like that.
It was a big process here, awesome.
Not so much.
I forgot to do new white life.
We just had one this week, and uh, Hard R Respecter, that is his legal name, had it had it changed, uh, shared a pic of a healthy and very smart-looking baby boy.
Sometimes they look a little oblivious, yep.
Sometimes they look like they come out ready to read, and he was one of them, and uh, it was not uh his and his wife's first either.
So, hard R respector, we salute you.
Congratulations on that beautiful baby boy.
Congratulations, good news, Sammy baby.
Any uh drama in your household?
Any dad tales, ryeball tails?
Uh, we've never we've never milked you for sex stories because I still, you know, I'm a prude and the whole keeping it safe for the kids thing, but uh, anything you got on your mind?
No, no, all pretty quiet here right now.
All right, yeah, good deal.
Uh, Rory, anything uh, on your home front before we start to bring this puppy home?
Um, oh man, every day here is interesting.
I don't know if I could pick just one.
Um, yeah, I don't know.
We went to be beekeeping class recently.
Me and my oldest daughter were getting bees in May.
So I'm going to have be taking videos.
I'll send you some videos of my daughter covered in bees so you can check that out.
Awesome.
Beekeeping class.
Yeah, I know.
That's another.
There's so many damn things to do.
It can be overwhelming.
So just pick one, fam.
Whatever you heard today from, well, we didn't do, we didn't really go into depth on pigs, but that's okay.
That's a little bit more of a challenge.
But just pick something.
And I'm starting with, I already got some potatoes in the ground, even though we're still early season.
I checked with the experts and Mitt Cartner.
He's like, no, you can get them in there if you're going to have a really cold night, you know, well below freezing.
Put a tarp over them and they'll do okay.
You can put some dirt over the if they've sprouted already.
But I literally just took the old potatoes that were in the pantry, cut them up.
I didn't do the thing where he said to wait a little bit and let them toughen up and season.
They do need to try them, Brad.
Yeah, I know.
But they, but I've done that before and they have not just rotted and turned into garbage.
So, you know, it was a beautiful day.
And our youngest was willing to go for it.
So we got that started and going to take his advice to keep rolling with that.
I will officially quit the show if we don't do chickens this year.
So you can look forward to that.
That's that's on my word.
And reach out to me for tips and tricks.
I'll help you build out all your stuff.
You'll love it.
That'd be awesome.
Amen.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Thank you for that offer.
And yeah, I think that's good enough for this week, fam.
I think we put in an honest, almost two hours.
It'll be probably be two hours with the tunes.
And we'll go around the horn and start with our special guest.
Rory, you were a delight to have a wealth of information.
And it certainly sounds like you got almost everything figured out in life.
I'm sure it's actually a house of horrors in your household.
You have multiple felonies and you're on your fourth wife.
Let's be honest.
You are good on the air at least.
I wish my life was that interesting.
No, I really appreciate you guys having me.
It's been a load of fun.
If you don't mind me doing like a little plug, please do.
Please do.
I do have just a little Telegram channel.
It's just a little homestead.
It's called The Folkstead.
You can just look that up.
I'll get a link over to coaching and throw it out there.
But yeah, we just talked about homesteading, self-reliance for our folk.
There's a discussion connected to that.
And we have a lot of knowledgeable people that you can ask questions to and grow it.
And we want to help our people be as self-reliant as possible.
So any of you guys out there need help from the literally growing the tomato inside your apartment to raising cattle, anywhere in between, just let us know.
And amazing.
Yeah.
And yeah, I think that's it.
If somebody, if somebody wants to email into the show, I guess they can and I can forward it on to you.
I assume your name is not Rory Reddington.
So that's okay.
And yeah, I was just going to say, whether it's Jesus Christ, Odin, or Mystery Sky God, whenever you figure it out, Rory, whatever it is, you're doing his good work.
Well, I feel that way.
That's the reason, like, for me, you know, I respect all our Christian brothers and all that stuff.
And I'm definitely not anti-Christian.
And I probably fall into the Christian category to a lot of people.
But for me, like, it's when I got my hands in the soil growing things and raising my kids and like connected to my ancestors, my God.
And that's enough for me.
That's where I'm at.
Yep.
Somebody asked me the, somebody busted my chops for being an atheist.
I said, no, I'm not, I'm not an atheist anymore.
I used to be a fedora tipper.
And he was like, well, what the hell happened?
I was like, I don't know.
I got, I got a little bit older, wiser, and a little bit more humble.
That's absolutely the way it is.
And Sam's, and Sam makes a damn good case for Christianity, too.
That's that's God's honest truth, no pun intended.
Wow.
Good.
Keep working at it.
I mean, well, whatever.
We don't have to do a religious bit at the end of this.
Live healthy, clean, and whatever you end up settling on for what you think is out there for you in the great thereafter.
Be respectful to others who may feel very passionately one way or the other, and you might get the respect back.
Sammy baby, thank you so much.
Yep.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
What a great show.
What an interesting thing is for an urbanite like me.
I'm trying to do my little thing.
Like I said, it's really because of this show in these last couple of years.
We've been having these raised bed couple of couple of planters outside and we've raised lettuce and a few different things, basil.
And, you know, it's whatever you can do, you know, it's important to do it.
I'm having my wife send the recipe for this wonderful anchovy-based pasta dish we had tonight, you know, for St. Joseph's Day.
And I hope we can get it into the show notes and for everybody.
Absolutely.
Just send it to me.
Happy to put it in.
I already got here in my chicken scratch, haha, to post the best photo of your St. Joseph's altar throne shrine, you know, offering.
Beautiful stuff.
And Rolo, I'm so like, I feel guilty and sad.
He's like, Coach, I have, I have chickens.
I have goats.
Like, I'm, but thanks, buddy.
I think the lag, I think the lag went away in the second half.
I realized far too late.
But thank you, my friend, as always.
And you have to keep doing this show until you get wiped up.
I'm not even joking.
Rolo is handsome and he's got a wonderful setup out there.
And he's looking to breed.
He's looking to breed children, more baby goats and rabbits and all the rest of it.
You got to upsell yourself, Rolo.
Come on.
Don't say you're middle-aged.
You're not middle-aged.
I have abs, ladies, that's all you need to know.
He can play the guitar to you at night.
Rolo's a good looking guy.
No homo.
Yeah.
I also was a comedian.
I'm actually funny.
Like, I didn't stop doing it because I sucked.
I stopped doing it because I didn't want a Jew to grab me.
Hey, hey, hey.
Say something.
Dance like a money.
I was going to say something funny, but this guy stepped on my joke.
So now you don't get to.
There you go.
Keeping waiting.
Made you laugh.
Subscribe to Rolo's.
I don't know, subscribe stack.
You can do comedy through substack.
That's what it's called.
Anyway, I'm losing it.
Good stuff, buddy.
And yeah, I have never met Rolo IRL.
It's a damn shame.
That's his fault for living too far away.
All right, everybody.
Full house episode one, two, three.
It was recorded on a gloriously warm March 19th.
It is now March 20th.
I don't know if the equinox is today.
It's usually on the 21st, but we are almost officially out of that God forsaken winter and into the greatest of all days and ages of the year, springtime into summer.
Be good, fam.
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So to all of our family of listeners all over the world, and there are thousands of them every week.
It fluctuates depending on the guest.
We'll see how the data looks on this one to determine whether Rory's invited back or not.
We hope that our dear guest added value for you.
If so, all credit to him.
If not, I'll blame on him.
And whatever you do, increase your food resilience, even if it means just stacking damn canned foods in the pantry.
You won't regret it.
And your life and those of your family, friends, and neighbors might even depend on it one day.
So to take us out this week, I'm going with it.
The first, you know, the first time I heard this song, I think was in high school, early high school, maybe freshman year, 95, 96.
And I didn't like Alice in Chains at first because I was a natural contrarian.
I was like, oh, if everybody loves Nirvana, I don't like Nirvana.
Everybody's listening to Alice in Chains.
I don't like Alice in Chains, but this one has got the ghost of Lane Staley all throughout it and liked it then, still love it now.
And it's a little bit of an homage to our wonderful homesteader who shared so much with us this week.
So enjoy The Rooster by Alice and Chains.
And we do love you, fam.
We'll talk to you next week.
No idea if we're going to stick with prepping.
I think we'll mix it up next week and do something else.
So if you've been in the hopper and want to get on the show, drop us a line and we'll figure out what we're going to do next week for episode 124.
No smasher.
So we love you and we'll see you.
I've burned with sting and swear.
Seems every path leads me to were wife and kids outside.
Army green was not safe.
The bullets screamed to me from Southwark.
It ain't come to snuff the rooster.
Yeah.
You know we ain't gonna die.
No, no.
You know, he ain't gonna die.
Yeah, they come to snuff the rooster.
Yeah, here come the rooster.
Yeah, you know he ain't gonna die.
No, no, no.
You know.
They spit on me and my homeland Laurier send me pictures of my heart.
Got my pills gets kids out.
My body's breathing, it's dying breath.
Oh, God, please, won't you help me make it through?