James Corbett, thank you so much for taking the time of your busy schedule to sit down and have a chat with me.

Thank you for having me on. I appreciate it. The invitation.

So to start off the conversation, James, I thought I would tell just a quick anecdote that will help frame the conversation about why, you know, why did I

invite a quote unquote permaculture, or a conspiracy theorist onto a podcast about building your

permaculture property, you know, homesteading and stuff like that. What does this have to do with it?

And so this is actually a story about Bill

Molson, who's one of the founders of permaculture, and it's from his autobiography. So Bill was a guy

who was incredibly resourceful. He was probably one of the best, like, you know, homesteaders,

preppers in the world.

And he saw kind of how broken the world was and he just said, you know what, to hell with it.

And he basically got some tools together, went off in the bush, bought a piece of land.

He built himself his own house.

He had, you know, he had paradise.

He was, he was off grid. He was done. And, and, and apparently on the day that he kind of finished everything, his gardens were planted, you know, he was, he was self-sufficient in terms of food, energy, you know, water, all that stuff. He was, he was done. And that night he had a dream that the forest around him burned to the ground and his

house with him. And the next day he got up, went back to the cities and started educating people

because he realized that there was nowhere he could go where the fire of the problems in the world couldn't reach him.

And so my hope for this conversation that we're going to be having over the next hour is,

I'd like to just introduce briefly what that fire is and how severe it is.

And from my experience working within the space of kind of permaculture and homesteading

and regenerative agriculture is that most people don't realize how bad this fire is.

But before we get into that conversation, I was curious,

do you have a kind of personal story yourself about when you kind of, you know, realized how

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