And we are alive and today hopefully we'll actually have a full episode.

We had technical difficulties beyond repair yesterday with our guests over in Ireland.

I'm pretty sure the geographic location had something to do with that.

It's just me today.

That's really important if you're watching the live feed that you follow the instructions.

And that is that if you're going to have a question for me that you want handled toward the end of the show today,

to make sure the first couple words in the question are not caps.

If you do that, I'll be more likely to see it out of my one good eye.

So it happens that the stuff on the screen is on the same side of my good eye.

So give me a shot at it anyway.

And I'll do my best to get your questions answered today.

Today we're talking about lacto fermentation is a food preservation technique as a flavor enhancement technique and as a health benefit technique.

And we're going to be talking about it from a standpoint of how it applies to us as preppers,

permacultureists, homesteaders, gardeners, etc.

And I will say when it comes to asking questions, if you ask a question that has absolutely nothing to do with what I just said,

then you probably won't, not definitely won't, probably won't get an answer to it in today's show.

When I go into these topics, these shows tend to be quite long.

And if I start segueing into things about tropical fish or guns or something like that, it kind of derails things.

I try to ask you to stick to the topic today.

At least looks like it's associated with the topic.

We're going to talk about a ton of stuff today.

I wanted to do this show for a couple of reasons.

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