And we are live. Welcome to episode 3,284 of the Survival Podcast. We are going to be

continuing our series on Biochar today. As many of you know, I really started getting into Biochar

right about the first of the year and have become sort of obsessed and consumed with it. Some of the

earlier episodes we did this year got somehow out into exposed to Mark and Laurie Mann of American

Biochar. And so they're going to be on today to talk about Biochar and we can kind of continue

this journey together learning more about it because I think it is one of the things that truly

unlocks a tremendous potential that's being underutilized in America today, which is our ability to

grow and our own food and support ourselves and our local communities. We'll get into that deep

and just a moment. Before we do, let me remind you while you're on today, if you're on the live

feed and you're asking a question or giving us a talking point, please put the first few letters

in all caps, just like John did here. If you do that, I'll be likely to see it out of my one good eye

and I'll start it and we will handle it at the end during the Q&A section. Also remember just my

kind of go-to PSA here. I will never contact you for any private information in the video comments

or anywhere else in social media or anything like that. Best way to get in touch with me,

always email, check out the survivalpodcast.com. I promise you, if you email that address,

you'll be talking to me and no one else because people have been scammed out of all kinds of things

online with people doing impersonations and I have more than a few of them myself. Anyway,

with that, what we dig deep into it, let's go ahead and hear from our sponsors of the day.

Sponsored today, number one today is butcher box. I've been a butcher box customer and they've been

a sponsor at the same time now for what? About five years and I just really love butcher box. I

love having these giant boxes of meat shipped right to my door every month. They do a discount for

my members in the MSB. That would be $10 off every box every month for as long as you keep your

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