Hi folks, Jack Spirko here. Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial free versions of past episodes podcast blast from the past.

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds,

but will be titled TSP Rewind episodes and numbered accordingly.

Well, hi folks. Today we are rewinding back to episode 1552. The original episode was called

The Long Slow Socioeconomic Emergency. It originally aired April the 8th, 2015.

I looked at this week and all the things I need to get done by Thursday when people, sorry,

Wednesday when people start showing up for the anarcho-pocal watch party. And it's a lot.

And I decided that it would be one of these weeks where I would just do rewinds for the week.

And I wanted to try to find some unique rewinds with a lot of variety for you this week.

And I was thinking a lot on animal husbandry stuff and things like that because I think it's

such an important time that we do that. But I actually found an episode here that is

more impetus to do that and more impetus to do all of the things that we talk about.

And it was an interesting one for me. You guys probably figured any episode that I've done,

if you ask me about it, if you give me enough clues, I'll be like, oh yeah, I remember that one.

This one, I know I've talked about subjects like we're going to talk about today, but I didn't

remember doing this episode at all. And when I read it and I thought about the current time we're

in and realized that this episode is about seven years old now, not quite, but close to seven

years of age, right? It'd be middle aged if it was a dog, it'd be 49 years old. I thought,

you know what I'm going to do this morning while I'm getting all of the rewinds ready. I'm going to

listen to this one completely from beginning to end and I did. And I was kind of blown away at

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