There's a better way to do this.

Let me show you a better way.

And we are live, welcome folks, episode 3,837 of the survival podcast on a short week this week because I wasn't here Monday.

I was on my way back from Tennessee with the Living Free in Tennessee conference up there.

So we are already into an interview for the week.

And I have Allie Knickling Riddle about to come on in a bit.

We won't be telling riddles.

We'll be decrypting the riddle of, why does everything explode on your homestead?

It doesn't work out the way that you want.

Why do you put systems in and you think they're systems and they

really weren't systems? They were tactics and techniques that are designed to fail from the

beginning. Why do we all have this beautiful vision of this homestead that looks just like the

heart hand people make on Instagram and then reality sets in and a lot of things don't work?

We start pulling our head out, her out of our head, whatever hair we got left, and say,

why isn't this working for me?

This actually dovetails nicely into the show two weeks ago I did with Ryan,

Steve of the Homestead Consultant.

We're basically covering the same concept from a different person's viewpoint, and that's what I try to do is bring you guys a diversity of opinion and knowledge so that you can make the best decisions for yourself.

So I'll have Allie on in just a moment to talk about all of that and more.

Before we do that, let's go ahead and hear from our sponsors of the day.

And sponsor of the day number one today is Bill Tong, USA. That is Anton Van Vuren's company. Anton has been a good friend of this show so long ago that it actually started right about the time everybody was locking down for COVID. So believe it or not, that's like five years ago now, a little bit more actually.

And actually, COVID is what kind of blew up his business. He had just opened a small,

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