Hey, everybody. My guest today for return engagement is Christian Westbrook, who is an agricultural

researcher, author, and he is the founder of the Ice Age Farmer broadcast Ice Age Farmer.com,

which looks deeply at the future of our food supply from the agenda to centralize control of

food and to file our diets with insects, chemicals, and lab-grown meat. To those challenges,

that most inform our response, a rapid move to emerge in decentralized and regenerative food

systems, which he has been advocating for many years. Christian is permaculturist, homes

veteran, a father with background in artificial intelligence, and I would say a deep love for

humanity. Thank you for returning to the show. It's my pleasure to be back, Bobby. Thanks very

much. So tell us right now it's kind of common knowledge that we're headed for a food crisis,

even President Biden announced it, tell it right after what is the, what are the cause of the

food shortage crisis? That's a big question, Bobby, and you know, we can go back. It's hard to

even know where to start with that because certainly we can go back to even under George W. Bush

right before Obama, liquidating the U.S. strategic grain reserves. Of course, you know, even going

back further than that, the whole Rockefeller take over a agriculture and this gradual destruction

of the way that humans have grown food since the dawn of time and replacing it with what we now

call modern but highly toxic petrochemical agriculture. And so I would really say that this is a

generation's long plan, but I'm probably you're asking more about this acute situation. And so

that's one where I think governments have been, in fact, it's now bearing out that governments

have been overstating, particularly the USDA, have been overstating their stocks for some time.

And so we've been sort of cruising for a day of reckoning at any rate. And of course within the

last few years we've had supply chain challenges because of corona, a series of weather challenges,

diesel shortages now, parts shortages, sort of a confluence of things, even just the inflation

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