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June 27, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
01:03:55
The Texas Boys show how to ESCAPE the city, HOMESTEAD in Texas and live off the land
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
And as you know, a lot of people who watch this channel either live in the country right now or are interested in homesteading or moving to the country, getting out of the cities, being more self-reliant.
And our guest today, very special guest, I met them at an expo in Central Texas, invited them back to the studio.
I'm joined today by the Texas Boys.
And the dad here is TD, and one of his sons, Matt, joins us.
Welcome to the show, guys.
Thanks for having us, Mike.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
Welcome.
I mean, thanks for coming out.
And you brought your whole family there hanging out in the green room watching this.
But you have a really impressive family.
Well, thank you.
I mean, practical, hands-on.
You've got six kids.
Yeah, six kids.
Okay, and they're awesome.
I mean, different ages, but very practical.
So tell our audience a little bit about who you are and what you're doing and where you're from, because you're not actually from Texas originally.
Yes, so we strategically relocated from the Northeast almost 10 years ago now, and My wife and I, we met in college, and we both grew up in neighborhoods, and we got married, we started having children, and we just started noticing a societal shift.
And what's very interesting...
Is we just had a weather event here in Texas that it was straight line winds or ultra gigantic tornado or some machination of something or other and it knocked out an enormous amount of power for a very long time.
Well, a very similar event happened 12 years ago and it was a derecho and what it did is it knocked out the power in our area In the Northeast.
Yeah, in the Northeast.
And when these gas stations didn't have power, people started losing their mind.
Nobody was prepared for anything.
But not only was nobody prepared for anything, the cultural and societal construct immediately evaporated.
There was no Southern hospitality, so to speak.
Not in the Northeast.
No.
It was actually that event 12 years ago that when I came home from work, I said, Babe, we really should think about moving.
No kidding.
That was the wake-up call.
Yeah, because what happened is I had to get some gas from one of my guys.
I was working a job.
I own a construction company.
And I drove up the street.
It was a two-lane highway.
I drove up the street to the first gas station that had gas.
Well, and it was, the lines were backed up, and it was kind of like bedlam, and people were cursing.
Now, thankfully, in the Northeast, you can't own a firearm, so you didn't have to worry about anybody, like, you know, pointing a gun at you.
Well, but the criminals.
Yeah, well, yeah.
Gun laws never stop the bad guys, right?
Right.
So I got the gas, and I had to pull out.
Well, there was a concrete median, so I had to go north.
So I get northbound.
Well, I go to the next gas station, and it's like business as usual.
Everything is normal.
Because nobody thought to, like, oh, well, this gas station has power, so everybody went there, you know?
And that was really like, wow, people didn't even realize...
That if they just continued up the road like five more miles, like everything was much more normal and everybody there was losing their mind.
Wow, okay, so was your wife on board then with this idea of let's leave home and venture out into rural Texas and start over?
Yeah, it was definitely a mutual decision that we came to collectively, you know, and just with a lot of prayer and study, we really felt that the Lord was telling us to move, for a magnitude of reasons, because having three young children, We would talk about like, well, how will our children ever be able to afford property here?
How will they be able to just afford basic living and even let alone any kind of legacy or future or property?
And this was before we ever even thought about farming.
Now, we did always have like animals and we had goats and chickens and different things like that.
But we never really ever thought about like we're going to farm and we're going to have cows and we're going to Grow all our own food and we're going to be like 80 to 90% self-sufficient.
We never even considered that that was a possibility when the whole thing started.
Yeah.
But it seems like you're way ahead of the curve when you made that decision.
You came here.
How old were you, Matt, at that time?
I just turned 11 when we got down here to Texas.
Oh, okay.
Were you okay with the move?
Yeah, we were all on it.
All of us little kids, yeah, we were ready to go, ready to leave.
Were you surprised how much work it takes to live in the country?
Definitely.
Now, up there, we did have some chickens and goats and different things like that.
And when we moved down here, it was kind of funny.
Since we were little and we thought about Texas, we thought it was going to be like the Wild West.
Tumbleweeds and everything.
And we get here and we're like, well, it's Northeast Texas, too.
And we're like, it's just the pine current.
It's all pine trees, you know?
We're like, this is Texas?
You know?
So anyway, no, but yeah, we...
I mean, it was absolutely incredible just being able to run out every side.
We were able to run out as little kids outside in the backyard, go play in the woods, in the mud, and just explore.
And we were able to build with our own hands and We built our first chicken coop down here out of pallets and all types of stuff and just learning all types of new skills every day.
And since we're all homeschooled and everything, we had all the time in the world.
So it was a lot of fun.
And you now, I mean both of you, you have videos on your channel, The Texas Boys.
I think you're on YouTube and other places as well.
And so you're kind of helping to evangelize this lifestyle, right?
Correct.
And what kind of feedback do you get from people?
I mean, have you influenced other people to make that same move?
Yeah, we hope so.
You know, we have about almost 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.
We have a couple different channels.
Then we are on Rumble and Odyssey.
And, yeah, we get a lot of feedback.
We meet people in real life that say, oh, hey, you motivated me to do this or to make this change.
And, you know, the biggest thing that I tell people is do it now.
Just do it.
You have to do it, regardless of whatever...
I mean, our decision that we made was very...
We made it very rapidly, and we just did it.
We didn't know anybody in Texas.
We had never been to Texas.
Really?
Had no contacts.
We found two rental properties on Craigslist.
You didn't have a job lined out.
Nothing.
Why did you choose Texas then?
Well, we were hard school homeschoolers, and then I very much appreciated the Second Amendment.
So we said we're going to base our decision majorly around, one, Southern culture, so we knew it was going to be the South.
We knew we wanted a longer growing season.
We wanted it to be warm because it's...
In my opinion, it's easier to exist and survive if it's warmer versus if it's colder.
You get a little more autonomy in Alaska and whatnot, but it's incredibly difficult to survive there.
Yeah, plus you get two growing seasons.
Yeah, yeah.
You get spring and fall, but then, of course, intense heat right now, which is not a growing season.
No, it is not.
Okay, cool.
So you chose Texas on purpose.
You moved out with, at that time, your three sons.
Yes.
And are all three of your sons also part of your channel now?
Yeah.
Yeah, us three brothers actually started the YouTube channel.
So it actually, we saved up one summer back when I was 11, and it was like The year we moved on to the homestead.
And so it was about seven, eight years ago now.
And we went ahead and we bought like a little, not super, super knockoff GoPro for $20.
And we just started filming from there.
Just every little, you know, our chores and different things like that.
And then somehow we were able to con our mom into starting a YouTube channel.
Don't know how that all happened, but she was...
I'm gracious enough for us to do that.
And it's been the biggest blessing in the world because now we can go back after 1,200, 1,300 videos that we posted up there, and we're able to go back and see what it was like eight years ago.
And it's incredible what we've been able to accomplish.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because you learn something every day with this lifestyle.
And I'm sure you realize this, but a lot of people around the country look at the life you're living and they really, really admire it.
And they almost feel maybe a sense of jealousy.
A lot of people are stuck in a sitting situation, either with a job or a family member, or they're just...
It's just too much to try to start over somewhere else, right?
So they're probably looking at you and thinking, wow, you really made a good call and you're figuring it out.
But...
There's also, like, nothing's easy, right?
No.
Either.
Absolutely not.
Talk to us about that, man.
Yeah, the thing is, is that, you know, it's a lot of hard work.
You know, I think not enough people cover that on YouTube with their homesteading thing.
They kind of gloss over the super hard work part of it.
You know, you get those Pinterest homestead people.
Right.
Here's my chicken coop, and it's all clean and beautiful.
Oh, really?
With twinkle lights.
I've never seen one like that before.
Twinkle lights and no chicken poop on the floor.
Right, right.
Where do you find that?
So, no, it's hard work, but it's very gratifying work.
That's the beautiful thing.
It's not just hard work.
It's very gratifying work.
At the end of the day, you can sit back and look at what you've done that day And it just is very, very gratifying.
And yeah, from a young age, us brothers just started working and going around the homestead learning different skills like cutting down trees and mowing the grass and different things like that and just learning the skills.
Yeah, for people out there, you know, you just got to get out there and do it.
And, you know, we came down here to Texas with nothing.
We let our house foreclose up there.
Really?
In the north.
Yep.
Let her foreclose.
It was all remodeled and fancy and everything like that.
Let it foreclose.
We brought down two beds.
Two mattresses.
Two mattresses.
And our food storage in five-gallon buckets.
And some clothes and different things like that.
In an 8x12 one-way U-Haul.
One-way U-Haul.
Wow.
You weren't going back.
Nope.
It was a one-way shot.
No turning back.
All brand new appliances.
They stayed in the house.
And we found two rentals on Craigslist.
And it's really funny because, you know, you drive 2,000 miles or whatever, right?
Yeah.
And then you're like, oh, the rental's got to go back, right?
So you go to the first rental, and it was kind of scary.
It was scary.
Oh, man, we just rode 2,000 miles, and this is kind of scary, you know?
Was it like a little house?
Yeah, it was like a little kind of farmhouse, but it wasn't well-maintained.
And it was right next to a really, like, creepy RV park thing.
Oh, yeah, it wasn't enough.
It wasn't in the best area.
It wasn't in a bad area, though.
No, no.
So we hit that one, and we're like, uh-oh, that one ain't going to work.
So then we went to the next one, and the next one was a...
Well, it was funny.
As soon as we pulled up to it and started going down a decently long driveway, we're like, this is it.
We didn't see any houses.
And there was Longhorn out there.
Longhorns and cows.
This is what we're looking for.
This is it.
This is awesome.
We love Longhorns here.
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you escaped the Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the first night.
You know, when you get to Texas, you're supposed to bring a gun.
Right, that's exactly right.
Otherwise, you don't really qualify.
Yeah, that's right.
Or one of these battle axes that I'm showing you right here.
All right, so let me ask you a question then, TD. I hope you don't mind this, Matt, but let me just say, you know, I observe your boys and your family, they appear to be of sound mind.
They're polite, which is very unusual in society today.
It seems like boys that you brought up, right?
You and your wife.
Wife's got to get credit, too, right?
And yet, we live in a society today where teenagers, especially, indoctrinated in the school system, They completely disrespect their parents.
They think their parents don't know anything.
They think that they're totally brainwashed on all the things, culture, trans, whatever.
And then they come home and their parents don't even know them.
And that's not a family anymore.
But what you have is actually a family, a traditional American family that's a treasure beyond measure.
What are your thoughts on all that?
Well, that was the hope and the goal.
And it's one of the reasons why me and my wife and I both went to government school.
We both detested it.
We both hated it.
And we made the commitment.
Well, if God's going to bless us with children, we're going to teach them.
And we don't want...
And this was 30...
Years ago, 40 years ago, when we were in government schools, and it was detestable back then.
I know some people try to paint it like it was cooler in the 80s and 90s, but public school was never cool.
At least not for me.
And so we made the sacrifice.
The two sacrifices we made is we said we're going to homeschool our children and my wife is going to stay home and do that.
And she's going to keep the home and she's going to perform their traditional role that American women performed for a century or so.
And because...
For any country, society, to continue to exist, the next generation must be raised and reared and forged properly in order for society to continue on a normal level.
Now, you forsake that, you'll get purple-haired things that are unfamiliar with what their pronouns are.
And, you know, what do you get?
You get mass confusion, you know?
Oh, yeah.
And it's the same thing with moving to the country and choosing an agrarian, more simplified lifestyle.
It's amazing how all of it kind of goes hand in hand.
Yes, isn't it?
And that's what's really interesting is when you start to take the step and make the decisions, you're like...
Different things in your life start to align.
Just like as a Christian, you know, different things as you're doing agrarian type, like husbandry, whether it's with fruit trees or grafting or whatever, you'll see these illustrations in Scripture, and then as you're participating in it, you're like...
Wow, I understand that even more now.
And it's the same thing when God created man and woman.
He created man and then he took woman from his rib to be a helpmeet.
So there is that order.
And that God-created order...
it to be maintained is to continue.
And the problem with postmodern, post-truth society, it's not just America, is that order has been categorically rejected.
Oh, yeah.
And you know how it's been done?
It's been through satanic sacrifice, and that's the sacrifice of our children on the altar of propaganda.
Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure.
And here we are in, quote, Pride Month right now, which is a state-sponsored celebration of pedophilia and satanism with all the symbolism that goes with it.
But, you know, I know you're a big-picture thinker, so you're thinking about the sustainability of the human race and of your family.
So what about you, Matt?
I mean, how old are you, can I ask?
18.
You're 18, okay.
So at some point, you know, you're going to want to have a family.
Correct.
How do you find someone who has the values that you have?
And not just that, but, you know, Pardon me for bringing up biology, but can actually reproduce.
Because so many women today, they've taken the spike protein jabs, they've been indoctrinated into the chemicals, they are not fertile.
And a lot of men are not fertile because of the same reasons.
So the future of the human race depends on young men like you finding young women...
Other pure bloods.
Other pure bloods, exactly.
So what are your thoughts on that, if you don't mind me asking?
My thoughts on it are...
On trying to find a spouse in 2023 and on, it's definitely going to be a tricky thing to do.
100%.
Because there's not a lot of them left out there that haven't been brainwashed into all this new think and woke stuff that they're spreading around.
I've met several young people over the past years and It's sad to see what's been going on, and it's really sad for being a young adult slash, I guess, teenager or whatever, to see our generation, my generation, I'm fading away, falling away, and it's really sad and rebelling against God.
But I don't know.
We're going to see here.
I'm kind of going to be living proof of it here.
So I don't know how to do it just yet.
So I don't have the answer to that.
Well, that's an honest answer.
But I'll add, I think that what we're living through right now is also very temporary.
Because any time society turns against God, that doesn't last.
There's a fall.
And then people often, at least in the Bible stories, people return to God.
They beg God.
And then God blesses them with abundance and life yet again.
And that lesson keeps being repeated.
Over and over again.
But what we're living through right now, it can't last.
It's not sustainable.
Absolutely not.
Your comment, TD? You want to chime in on the next generation?
Yep.
Well, you know, we...
I'm sorry if I'm asking super sensitive questions.
No, it's fine.
People are concerned about this.
I mean, this is why we do...
This is why we homeschool.
This is why we started and felt the need to homestead, to live a more simple agrarian lifestyle.
So, for one, to raise the men.
To then find the women.
And here's the other thing.
Real men, too.
Yeah, real men, right?
That are going to curl up in a ball and cry.
Right, exactly.
Yeah, literally.
Because you use the wrong pronoun?
Yeah.
I'm very old school, and I'm probably way too old school for some people.
As patriarchal, we're not...
You're never too old school.
...complementarian or egalitarian.
And so I'm looking for other patriarchal men that have raised girls.
And so that's what we're looking for to, in a very traditional way, hope to find families that can come together so that – Uh-huh.
Men that we raise can find biblical godly women that want to fulfill their design role.
God-given role.
It's strange we have to talk about gender roles.
It's very sad.
Because that used to be assumed.
It used to be biological.
It used to be scientific.
Oh, yeah.
Now it's subjective, I guess.
Man.
But yeah, I mean, you're definitely going to get some pushback just from even using the term.
Oh my goodness.
Right?
I'm sure you get that already.
And there's going to be a lot of women watching also who are saying, well, wait a minute.
I don't want to be the home mom.
I do.
I understand.
What about dad homeschooling?
Well, I mean, I know dads that do that, and that is an option.
But here's the thing.
If we do not return to a real traditional order, look at how we got here and how we had the freedoms that we had.
There's no way that, well, with technology, we'll be able to Live on the frontier and create freedom and create abundance, right?
But deny and reject gender roles.
And like I said, I know for most people, when they first hear that, maybe if you listen to it a couple times, it may or may not start making sense to you, but it is very...
It's cognitive dissonance.
It's jarring for them.
Because of feminism and what feminism has done with, you know, government indoctrination, with Hollyweird, and all these different things, I mean, you're just getting, like, crushed with it, you know, in college, and you need to get a good education so you can get a good job, and dual income, no kids, and...
You know, there's no gold standards.
We need more buying power.
Oh, we need to tax the husband and the wife.
So she's got to get out there.
Okay, Sally Steinfitter, you're doing it so we can win the war.
We're going to beat the Nazis, you know?
Right.
And now here we are.
Well, and now the culture wars, actually, they despise women and motherhood.
Exactly.
So now even the feminists are finding themselves attacked by the culture cultists, the left-wing cultists.
But let me ask you, does your wife ever go on camera?
Yeah.
Oh, she would love to go on camera.
She has her own channel.
Well, bring her in here.
Let's get her in here right now.
Can she just come in and join you?
Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, Faith, are you back there?
You want to come join us?
There's too much testosterone here.
She's more intelligent than I am.
So here we go.
We're going.
Okay.
All right, so welcome, Faith.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We've been talking about, I don't know if you could hear.
Yeah, I could hear a little bit.
Okay, okay.
So what we've been talking about is gender roles in the family and sustainability of families and homeschooling and everything.
And I felt like we should invite you on here to talk about what's your experience with the family and raising your six kids and all of this.
What are your thoughts?
Yeah, so my thoughts are I just feel totally blessed, 100%, that I'm able to stay home.
I don't feel like it's been a burden or, I don't know, I just feel very blessed.
I don't want to say privileged these days because that kind of thing.
It carries connotation, right?
But yeah, super blessed.
Is it easy?
No.
I mean, I did work.
We both went to college.
We both worked.
We did the career thing.
We did the dual income thing.
We did the high five as one passes out the door and whoever gets home first gets to make dinner.
And, you know, we did all of that.
And so...
So we just made a decision that, okay, we did that for a period of time, but we don't want to do that.
We don't want to continue to do that.
So it's going to require sacrifice.
But I just kind of took on the challenge of being home, of being a stay-at-home mom, as a career.
I looked at it as a challenge.
Like, okay, how can I do this thing?
How can I do it really, really well?
Do you feel like being able to be with your sons and daughter is worth more than a career paycheck?
So much more, so much more.
And you know, I think as you get older, It's different in your 20s and maybe even early 30s.
But as you get older, you just realize how precious time is and how fast those years go by.
And you just want to slow it down.
And you know you can't.
That's the saddest thing.
You see your little ones growing up and your big ones are grown.
And you're like, I wish I could slow this down, but I can't.
So it's like you just enjoy it.
More?
Not that the days or the moments might not be challenging or difficult.
You know, I mean, sure, it's easier to have an empty house and, you know, put them on the school bus and say, see you at four o'clock.
But, you know, the blessings that come with being there all during the day.
Oh, yeah.
Right.
Well, because then it's your family.
Right.
I mean, rather than government school propaganda.
Now, do you watch any TV in your household?
They watch a lot of Western movies.
Western movies?
Yes.
Lots.
Like, I think...
Like really old stuff.
Really old stuff.
The new stuff's garbage, but old stuff's good.
What, like classic Clint Eastwood or old stuff?
No, like old stuff.
John Wayne stuff?
Lots of...
Pre-Bonanza.
Yeah, like Bonanza and before that.
So anything like Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers.
It's going to be known as hate speech real soon.
Oh, is that right?
So we're going to have to start downloading this stuff and hoarding it.
Yeah, they'll edit it.
Yeah.
But they love watching that.
And then anything else is like tech stuff.
But we don't have any cable TV in the house.
No.
No propaganda like that.
But we do watch YouTube and things like that for educational purposes and stuff like that.
And like current events stuff.
Current events.
They were all up on the submarine.
What's your household rule about mobile devices?
So, Matt has a phone.
When he turned 16 and he was able to drive, he got a phone.
But it's a...
True Me phone.
True Me.
So it's not a smartphone.
It's got GPS and he can text and talk.
That's it.
And he can take pictures.
But other than that, my take on any type of mobile device...
It has no internet on it whatsoever.
Until you become your own man with your own house, that's when...
And in my opinion, this is going to sound super ancient, but like my daughter, when her husband, when she gets married and if her husband says she can get a smartphone, she won't have one either.
She might have a True Me phone.
Yeah, she'll have a True Me phone.
It's fascinating to hear you say that because today's kids grow up so much on their phones.
Yeah.
Even if they're sitting physically and having dinner with their own parents, they're just here.
They're not even present.
And their whole world is consumed through that phone because it's very socially driven.
And yeah, it's a total distraction.
Even in schools.
Yeah, and if it's not the smartphones, it's the video games.
And they're probably worse.
You know, now we have generational.
Now we have fathers.
You know, I work with men.
I use that term loosely.
I work with men that have children, right?
And they go home after work, and that's their quality time, is World of Warcraft.
Really?
Yeah, Call of Duty.
And this is not the exception to the rule.
This is inordinately commonplace.
No kidding.
And playing, like, Call of Duty with their little kids.
Yeah, five and six-year-olds.
Isn't that kind of a violent video game for such young kids?
I think so, yeah.
And it's very commonplace, unfortunately.
Wow.
Okay, so...
So, what would you say to somebody watching who says that you're anti-technology, let's say?
Oh, wow.
Have you ever heard that?
We are not anti-technology.
Yeah, we're definitely not.
Speak up, Matt.
We very much love technology, but it's a double-edged sword, 100%.
The internet is a double-edged sword.
It is one of the most beautiful things that has ever been created is the internet, and we have learned...
99% of our skills from YouTube and the internet and different things that we found on there that I've seen other people that they've tried to not use the internet and we've went over to their farms or their homesteads and we're like...
And, you know, we're like, oh, did you know how, you know, you could do this this way or this way or that way or using swales on contour and different things like that?
And they were like, oh, I didn't know any of this.
I'm like, oh, my goodness.
Like, there's like a plethora of knowledge on there.
Right.
But, you know, it can be to your downfall, too.
So you use videos for learning.
I do, too.
Yeah.
I'm a visual learner.
I got to see it.
Like, I can't read it in a book necessarily.
I need to see it.
Show it to me.
Yeah.
I didn't grow up in the country either.
The first time when I had goats and I needed to build a fence, I was like, how do I build a goat-proof fence?
Which is a special skill.
Because they're going to test this.
And I was like, how do I build an H-brace?
And how do I create tension with an H-brace?
I looked it up online and built it.
And then you're hands-on.
Then you know how to do it yourself.
But what you all are doing also is using the internet then to teach and inspire others.
So I think you're using the internet in the way that it was...
Like the positive way that it should be.
Definitely.
Instead of an addictive...
Correct.
Right.
Absolutely.
Yeah, the only reason I really have a phone is for business and safety.
If I got in a car accident...
Right.
And have to call mom or if I get kidnapped or something like that.
Or for your GPS, getting around.
Yeah, that's the other big one, is GPS. But other than that, I really wish I didn't need one.
Are you afraid of getting kidnapped?
No, but normally I'm always there with my three other brothers.
I'm kind of like waiting for the day, like try me.
Yeah, I think a kidnapper would choose somebody who's a little more vulnerable.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Aren't you wearing a knife, too?
No, but he's got this.
And James always has spurs on, so you just hear the spurs walking into the grocery store.
I don't think anybody's going to mess with him.
If anybody asks you, just tell them you park your horse out.
Okay, but talk about now your business, too, because you produce products.
Correct.
And you sell them on your website.
Is it thetexasboys.com?
The Texas Boys.
Thetexasboys.com.
I just want to give you a chance to do that, too, because you've got to have revenue to support your lifestyle.
You put a lot of work in.
So you brought a couple of items.
Yeah, we produce our own.
We have our own coffee line, and it is called the Native Brew.
And we have several different...
We have several different types of coffee flavors on there, and we actually have another roaster that we partnered up with too, and he's very, very local to us, and he makes our organic CBD-infused coffee and our Lion's Mane coffee.
That's a good combo.
They're absolutely incredible.
And then we have our locally grown and harvested honey, and it's unvaccinated, and it's not pasteurized.
What do you mean it's unvaccinated?
What do you mean?
Yeah, so it doesn't have any of the mist or not stuff in there.
So no COVID-19 joint.
Yeah.
In there.
Okay, and you source that from Texas?
Correct.
You add anything to the honey?
No, there's no additives to it.
No additives.
It's 100% raw.
And then we have all types of other stuff on our shop and of...
Recently, we're actually getting very much into the cattle operation and business aspect, and we're going to be starting to, well, we already are, selling our own beef, actually.
Locally.
Locally.
Right, right.
And eventually, possibly actually shipping out our own beef box.
And pork.
And pork box.
And pork, yeah.
You know what's doing really well right now, I've talked to some other partners and people I've interviewed, is freeze-dried beef cubes.
Really?
Okay.
Of non-mRNA vaccinated cattle.
I mean, that's actually going gangbusters.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
You might want to look at a freeze dryer somewhere in Texas and go in and get it diced up, freeze dry it, and you put it in number 10 cans.
And as you know, we know a few things about how to do that.
Just a little bit.
And then you can have long-term storable freeze-dried beef cubes, non-vaccinated cattle.
That would be awesome.
Yeah, because our cattle is non-vaccinated and they're out on grass.
The whole time.
Right now, they're pasture-raised.
And we don't spray our fields with anything, any nasty herbicides or government-free fertilizer.
Oh, bio-sludge?
No bio-sludge, human waste.
No, no.
Nope.
It's already bad enough that there's chemtrails out there.
All right, so right now you focus on coffee and honey.
Coffee, honey, and then we have our own bulk tea on there.
We sell t-shirts.
Oh, make Orwell fiction?
Yeah, several.
Awesome.
Yeah, and you have bulk tea.
Bulk tea.
You have candles.
Candles.
That they do right there.
Yeah, and they're organic coconut wax candles too, so it's none of the junk getting into the air.
And then we just rolled out a video course on parents.
We rolled out a parenting course and a young men's course.
Really?
Yes.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, we're really excited about that.
It's like a how-to course?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's got a workbook and some videos with it.
Just kind of sharing our experience and helping people, just general ideas, just grace and learning parenting skills and stuff like that.
Well, you're in the right place because with Brighttown here, our network, we now have Brighttown University.
And we run, every Saturday, we start running a new documentary series.
Okay.
And so we should talk about, see if maybe we could run your parenting series on the network.
That would be super great, yeah.
And then the boys have their own course.
They're launching, both of our courses are going at the end of the month.
We're going to run them for like five to six weeks and then close them up and then, you know, take a break and then reopen.
What's that course about?
But yours is a young men's course.
Young men's course.
So we just talk about everything.
Yeah.
Just being a young man in the world that we live in and acquiring skills and different things like that.
And then also that comes along with the course is a live sit-down talk.
And they get the sit-down with us.
We can answer any of their questions and different things like that.
Consulting almost.
And like a private telegram group.
Some of these kids coming out of the schools, they do need to learn how to be a man.
Yeah.
Actually.
Legitly.
Sure.
And so what we like to do is sell them some real red meat.
Yeah.
So they can start.
That's how they start.
You eat that first.
Yeah.
And then you start watching the videos and doing curls.
Watch some old westerns.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got it.
I got it.
No, it's funny because a lot of today's youth, they've lost touch with basic skills like how to change a car tire, for example.
And it's funny, I've said on my podcast several times to people like, Everybody in your car, you should have a foot bicycle pump in case you need to pump up your tire.
You just pop it on there and pump it up.
And the first time I said that, I had people react.
They're like, you can't pump up a car with a bicycle pump.
I'm like, yeah, how much pressure do you think is going to charge?
It's only like 35 pounds.
I mean, hopefully you have feet that work.
But I can't believe that people don't have basic real-world skills.
Absolutely.
And I like to say a lot of times that Texas raised our boys because all we did was bring them down here and then just kind of let them go.
And I mean, yeah, we were there.
In a controlled way.
In a controlled way.
There were boundaries.
But just, you know, the neighbors, the community.
Correct.
The older men.
Older generation.
I mean, that's who really took you under their wing and said, like, okay, this is what you do with the cattle.
Okay, this is how you run fencing.
Okay, this is how you steer calves.
And just all of the things, they've just...
A lot of our skills also that when we started meeting our neighbors and stuff, we actually just started turning to them.
So instead of rushing to the internet for ideas or solutions, we would just call them up.
Now, that's normally what we do.
Call them up.
Like, oh, I wonder how you wire this certain part up.
Normally we'll call them up.
Or, you know, since we're out in the country, we actually had a fuse go out on one of our pickup trucks once.
We were like, oh, I guess we're going to have to run into town and get a fuse.
And we're like, you know what?
We got a neighbor right up the road.
We can call him and he probably has a fuse.
We called him up.
He had a fuse, you know?
Yeah.
And different things like that.
Just having a community and providing a service to them also.
Yeah.
So we have tools like a tractor and a sawmill and different things and just hard work.
Just us being there on the farm.
Our YouTube channel and our businesses that we run on the farm keep us kids on the farm.
So us kids didn't have to go out.
I didn't have to go out and get some meaningless job at Walmart or McDonald's and work a 9-to-5 little...
You know, cog in the machine type of job and then, you know, make $20,000 a year or whatever and then, you know, work on my college education in between then, you know?
That will make people mad.
You know what he just said?
Oh, are you belittling people that work at Walmart?
No, absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
But, you know, that's what we instilled into our children.
You know what I mean?
And you know what?
You can do better.
I had all the menial jobs.
I mean, that's how I started.
Yeah, I've done it too when I was a kid.
Yeah, so, you know, and part of...
Really, part of what's wrong with America is legacy in this sense.
We changed our paradigm on absolutely everything, even when it comes to finances.
And we're doing something that's called private family banking.
And, you know...
Capturing our family dollars as a family for the legacy.
So when we went about to, we're going to purchase dirt, right?
So we bought our homestead on five and a half acres.
And then three to four years later, we bought our, we call it a ranch.
It's 25 acres.
Ranch.
Yeah, in Texas.
That's a joke, you know?
But for us Northerners, that's a ranch.
We bought our ranch.
And then when more property came available, this was the legacy.
This is the inheritance that you give to your children in real time to experience with them.
Not later down the road.
Yeah, and help them build the future with them.
Right.
Are you teaching your family about honest money and how the dollar keeps losing value?
If you had bought gold back in 1971, instead of holding dollars, it would have held its value.
Do you have conversations about that?
Yeah, we're very familiar with the devil from Jekyll Island.
Yeah, well, that's critical because to actually have assets that last from generation to generation, it can't be in fiat currency.
Correct, yeah.
I mean, it can be in land, it can be in gold, maybe some other assets as well, but not in fiat currency.
Fiat currency is just to use temporarily, just to get what you need.
There were storms that swept through Austin and Central Texas last night, and so we lost electricity in our area.
And I've talked about this publicly, but you'll appreciate this.
So I just pull around my tractor that has like a 110-horsepower PTO, and I have a PTO generator.
Oh, wow.
It's a 50-kilowatt PTO generator.
Oh, that is substantial.
Yeah.
But these generators don't cost that much because they don't have their own engines, right?
It's just the coils.
And so, you know, you have to crank up the PTO RPMs to the right speed.
It's like 4200 or whatever it is.
And then I have a transfer switch, and I throw the transfer switch, and all the lights come back on.
And then my neighbors are like, how are your lights on?
I'm like, we thought the whole neighborhood was down.
Well, the neighborhood is down now.
But if you need to charge something, come on over.
I'm burning diesel and making electricity.
You're welcome to come over.
But this idea of being able to actually make your own electricity, it seems to be so foreign to everybody.
I mean, some people have solar, but those are all grid ties.
They don't work off grid.
And they don't work off-grid at night when it's raining.
Right.
Anyway.
Exactly.
There's no sun.
Exactly.
You've got to burn diesel.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's true.
But, I mean, living in the country has taught me a lot.
I know it's taught you a lot.
And now you're teaching a lot of other people the exact same skills.
Yeah.
And, you know, God bless you for what you're doing.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Yeah.
It has been a blessing to us.
We are realizing and living a dream.
And you know, if we weren't as plugged into the news and everything that was going on, we would be living, we could very much live a fairy tale.
In the sense that we go to our property, we're there, we tend to our animals.
I have what I affectionately refer to as my food 401k.
I have about 400 fruit trees and a greenhouse.
That's what he invested in.
That makes sense, yeah.
I do all that stuff, you know?
And I can get so...
Just focused on that and focused on what the kids are doing.
And we just have such a great time.
And if we wanted to cloister and just push everybody out and ignore everything, we could absolutely do that.
But you're not trying to.
You're talking to people.
Yeah, we're not called to do that.
And I think that's really important.
Because there are people that are...
As a matter of fact, I'll tell you an anecdotal story.
When we first moved here, we met a single fella, an older fella, on some kind of prepper website.
And he invited us out to Sunset, Texas, right?
He invited us out to Sunset, Texas.
And this was during the Ebola...
Well, so we went out once and visited.
And then we had the Ebola scare.
Yes.
And he called me and he said...
Y'all have to come out here and bring everything, and we're closing the gate, and we're staying.
Oh, yeah.
And this guy had multiple hospital generators, and it was just one guy.
And he was ready for whatever.
But, you know, if we would have done that, you know, I think about all that we would have missed out on.
Because he wanted to give us land.
He saw a young family, so he wanted to, like, oh, this would be great.
This young family can raise up these boys and they could do things here on the farm.
I'll just give them some land and this will be, you know, an incentive for him, you know.
But, yeah.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, so, you know, I'm very thankful we didn't take that opportunity because we would have missed many more opportunities.
I mean, we think of all these different crises we've had in American culture since the 70s, and what if every single time, well, we're getting in the bunker, we're welding the door shut, you know what I mean?
And it just doesn't work like that.
I mean, I know people have done it, but what have they missed out on?
Right.
Well, like you said, you were saying to your neighbors, sure, I do have power.
Come on over if you need anything.
I mean, that's what it's all about.
Right.
If you need to charge your satellite phone or your flashlights or whatever, if you need...
Because I have satellite internet, and with the power, satellite internet's working so people can get on...
But let me ask you a question, Matt.
How do you balance this?
Because on one hand, you may have an increasingly thriving business.
You have an increasingly thriving YouTube channel.
And there's a revenue model tied to that.
But at the same time, The reason that that channel works is because you are living this genuine lifestyle, which means you've got to go clean out the chicken house.
You've got to go pick the fruit, weed the garden, weed the trees.
Right.
All the things that are necessary.
And it can become...
There's a spectrum where you might one day say to yourself, well, I don't need to prune those trees.
I just need to make more videos.
I'll hire somebody to prune those trees.
You see what I mean?
How do you make sure that you continue to lead an authentic lifestyle?
Well, he has three younger siblings, so he has a little bit.
He can buy himself some time there.
I think that they can go and they can be the ones to clean the chicken coop and they can be the ones to, you know, gather the eggs and learn from daddy how to prune the trees and everything like that.
But I don't know.
I don't want to steal your answer, but go ahead.
Yeah, and, you know, fortunately and unfortunately, the revenue's not there.
No, it's not.
It's not.
Well, here's the deal.
Here's the real thing.
It was there.
Mm-hmm.
It was there about...
It was there.
For two months.
Three months.
Three months.
And we were grabbing 30,000 subscribers a month or more.
Mm-hmm.
And, you know, selling all of our products like gangbusters.
And it was absolutely incredible.
And then YouTube put a kink in everything.
Mm-hmm.
And it went, boom, first strike.
Shadowband.
Yep, first strike.
We went ahead and we had a one-week break.
Well, no, first strike was just the first strike.
And then they're like, this is a warning.
Then another week goes by or so.
We're like, dude, we went from daily videos to I'm like, I'm going to make two videos a day.
So we're making two videos a day.
And anyway, so then we were like, I just had it...
So that the boys, the other boys, would go out and do all the chores and everything, and I was just like, head of the content, right?
Dad would get home, we would eat something real quick, we would sit down, make two videos, I'd be like editing, flat out.
And then we started doing that, and then we got hit for like medical misinformation, and voter...
Yeah, voter deniers.
Deniers or whatever.
So we've gotten five strikes now on YouTube.
Oh, really?
I didn't know you could get five strikes.
Well, they fall off and then you get more.
They won't let me on for years.
We just got another strike.
We just got off yesterday.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
For what?
Medical misinformation.
I think it had something to do with home remedies and prayer.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, you don't invoke prayer on YouTube.
That would be terrible.
So, what I was trying to say is, the revenue was coming in, and I was thinking about, well, you know, my real thing was, I'm an outside type of guy.
I like the tech and stuff, but I'll pay for somebody to do that.
I love the hard work and sweating and working hard.
I want to do mostly all of that stuff.
Certain things I might have hired out if I had the money to do so, so that's what I was planning on doing, and then YouTube shut that all down and stuff.
Well, see, this is why I started Brighteon.
And this is why you can get all your channel going on Brighteon and all your videos posted there.
You'll never be censored.
You'll never be shadow banned.
And this is what's happening.
People are finding out YouTube's not a reliable place.
Absolutely not.
But there's Bitchute, there's Rumble, there's Brighteon and Odyssey and a bunch of others and other social media sites.
But you know where it's all going is Web 3.0, which is a decentralized structure where there are no central hosting companies that can even determine anymore.
Like, five, ten years down the road, if Web 3.0 really takes off and we're helping to build it, we're a big part of it.
Yeah, I'm launching a new show on that whole topic.
Is that IPFS or?
Well, IPFS is one example of a Web3 technology, but it's all about peer-to-peer decentralization, including content publishing.
So your content would go out across peer-to-peer networks.
Quartal is one of those, right?
And there's nobody that can censor it, not even the builders of the system.
They can't censor.
The future is uncensorable content.
And the shift is underway to that right now.
It's going to take a few years.
But as long as you keep doing content, you stay authentic in what you're doing, the technology world is changing and people are tired of having YouTube or Twitter.
Self-censoring too.
It's so hard to make content because we'll try to do a live stream and you're like, okay, well...
Can't say that.
Can you say that we were sick last week?
I don't know.
Can you say that the kids...
So then you have to spell it out, use code language like Mr.
Na is M-R-N-A. It's really sad.
It's really sad.
And you try to learn to self-censor all the different words, but then they tell you more stuff like...
But it will never end.
And they just added on to YouTube, you can't use certain Bible verses now.
You can't post certain Bible verses on the screen.
Oh, that's going to expand.
It's going to be, at some point, every Bible verse.
Or even to use the word woman.
Or motherhood.
You're supposed to be a birthing person.
Did you know you were a birthing person?
They should feel special.
And you could be a birthing person.
I don't think he wants to.
But anyway, the world is changing rapidly, but what I love about what you're doing is that you're adapting to it, but you're You're holding the line on your values, what you believe in, which, again, may be different from what other people choose in their lives.
But you're holding your line and saying, this is what we believe family means.
And that's honorable.
There used to be a time in our country where we could disagree.
This is our values.
This is what we hold to.
I see great abundance and fruit from that, and I am greatly blessed by that.
And maybe the person that I'm talking to holds a different set of values.
In my opinion, I think they see the blessing that I'm experiencing too.
And that's part of the influence of like, well, you know, well, maybe he's right.
You know, maybe, maybe I am off kilter or out of center.
Maybe my values, maybe I have lost my way, you know, and maybe I should consider what he's saying.
So that's why I think it's really important for us to press forward.
And as I've hated, I've hated, you can ask me, I've hated YouTube from the beginning.
Both of us hate YouTube.
We hate YouTube.
We say it on our videos.
We absolutely despise it.
But I refuse to leave.
To me, it's...
And maybe eventually they'll vaporize us.
They probably will.
They probably will.
And you have a channel too?
Yes, I have a channel too.
Your own channel?
Yes.
What's it called?
The Texas Girls.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Makes sense.
So I started that for me and my daughter, and then we can cover all the girl stuff from the woman's perspective of the homestead.
And she has some little silky chickens that are like real highfalutin silky chickens.
So that's going to be her little business maybe when she gets a little older.
She's six.
So she has time to grow.
But, you know, for us, we want the kids to be very entrepreneurial-minded, and we just think that it just builds such self-esteem and character.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, so...
For her too.
We want her to, you know, actually the family that we're coming down to visit, they have a daughter and she runs cattle and she has a flower business and sells cut flowers to all different stores in Austin and very entrepreneurial minded young lady.
These are great skills for young folks to pick up.
How to do business basics.
How to do fulfillment or some simple manufacturing.
How to understand accounting.
A customer service.
These are skill sets that can lead to a lifetime of self-reliance.
You don't have to go work at Walmart.
That's right, yeah.
And if she becomes a mother or wife, this one young lady, you know, like she's going to have all those organizational skills that she used to run her family's business, and they have a beef business too and everything, and then she'll be able to take all them and say, okay, now I can manage my pantry really well, and I can run all the meals for the house, and I can homeschool the children and do, I mean, it takes a lot of juggling.
Yeah, no kidding.
Yeah.
Well, first of all, I greatly appreciate you all coming in and sharing this and allowing me to ask kind of intimate questions about your family and your goals.
And I'd like to send you back home with a pretty good assortment of some of our products.
Great.
You can enjoy those different tinctures and different food and things like that.
You can play with those.
And just tell you, you're welcome here anytime.
So if you come back into this neighborhood.
Oh, and you brought me a tree.
Yeah, I brought you a world's best.
So I have about 140 or 50 different variety of fig trees.
And then I started collecting all berry trees.
Really?
I didn't know there were that many types of figs.
There's about 2,000.
I don't think I'll get there.
Wow.
I have fig trees that produce, and I love them.
But it's all the same kind.
Oh, okay.
That's boring.
That's okay.
Yeah, so I brought you a world's best.
So that's a dwarf.
It's an ever-bearing.
It's excellent.
Very large fruit.
Great animal fodder.
Really?
The reason I got into the mulberry was for tree hay, for animal fodder.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So if I can find something that's more bushy and prolific, and you just grow on a food hedge for the cows.
Right.
Well, I have a lot of chickens, and I'm sure they'll enjoy the mulberries.
Oh, yeah.
And there's been a scientific study on mulberry leaves that they're incredibly high in quercetin, and you can eat them.
Is that right?
No kidding.
I didn't know that.
Okay.
Well, very cool.
So we'll go trade stuff out there, I guess.
It's like a Texas barter.
Yeah, sure.
And I've got some good stuff for you, and we'll just keep in touch and maybe keep bartering.
But I just want to say thank all of you for watching.
I hope you enjoyed this.
I mean, if this is something that you're interested in doing, I mean, this kind of lifestyle, you can make it work.
Again, you are living proof.
From the Northeast, came to Texas with nothing and started homesteading, raising kids, raising a healthy family and learning skills and growing your own food.
How much of your own food are you growing right now, if you could estimate percentage-wise?
Well, quite a bit now.
Well, now we've relatively went carnivore.
Full-on carnivore.
So, since we have a...
All meat?
Pretty much.
Almost exclusively.
Now, we do have a gardener.
Yes, we do.
We do have a garden.
We're using the mitt lighter method, and the garden's going well.
But as far as our main base of our meals is...
Meat.
Beef and pork and eggs.
Yeah, a lot of eggs.
Wow.
And it's incredibly sustainable and we can get an inordinate amount of our calories that way.
So if we stay This path that we're on, we're about 90% sustainable.
90%, yeah.
You're kidding.
Well, yeah, because what really happened, too, is only three weeks ago, we found out that our local grocery store, Brookshire's, went woke.
And that was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back.
Yeah, they're full DEI. Because we stopped buying from Walmart, and then we're like, well, at least we got Brookshire's.
We're supporting this family company, Preppers, or whatever.
And then we learned that they got this DEI policy, too.
And then we're like, we love Brookshire's.
We love all the people there.
Carnivore slash eat whatever we grow.
I started looking them up and all the different ones.
Now, as your standard, we could get fruit from and stuff.
But we have fruit orchards.
We eat figs, obviously.
We love, whether you want to call it a Nutrivore, but our goal is to To eat meat, and when the fruit's in season, to eat it.
And when there's an excess of fruit, we'll can it and preserve it.
But that's kind of our strategy.
And when there's vegetables in the garden, we'll eat them.
And then when there's not, that's fine.
You've got to have onions with your meat.
You've got to have onions.
Yeah, we have lots of onions planted.
And you've got to have potatoes.
Yeah, we have lots of...
Well, that's not carnivore, but...
It's not carnivore, but we do have lots of potatoes planted.
Meat and potatoes and onions and potatoes.
We have a field of sweet potatoes planted.
Oh, yeah.
Which is kind of funny.
Yeah, we're in sweet potato country, so...
Yeah, right.
Okay, well, we don't sell any meat products here, so you're going to get all, like, high-nutrition fruits and veggies and superfoods.
Oh, that's cool.
That's very cool.
All right.
Super cool.
All right, awesome.
Well...
Let me just say thank you to all of you who have been watching.
I hope you found this intriguing.
If you want to check out their channel on YouTube, if it's not banned yet, it's called The Texas Boys.
And that's also their website, thetexasboys.com.
And The Texas Girls now is yours.
And we're on Rumble too.
And you're on Rumble.
Okay, got it.
And are you on Brighteon yet?
Not yet.
He set up the account.
I set up the account.
Start uploading.
And I'll tell my admins to ban you every time you mention Bible verses.
No, that's a YouTube policy.
All right.
We'll give you extra stars when you mention it.
How about that?
All right.
But thank you all for watching.
I'm Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighttown.com, also in Central Texas, living on a ranch, and sharing a lot of the same things that you share in terms of self-reliance.
But I don't eat as much meat, but that's okay.
To each his own.
But thank you for watching.
Again, God bless you all.
God bless America.
Take care, everybody.
See y'all.
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