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The Sovereign Homestead PodcastTater Biggums Is HEREIf you're seeing this in your podcast feed it means our first child has either arrived or is very nearly earthside! Sammy and I greatly appreciate your thoughts, prayers, and good vibes in this time. The podcast will be on an indefinite (though hopefully relatively short) break, while we welcome our first child into the world and find our feet as new parents. Thank you all for listening and keep shining your light. -Casey & Sammy (and Tater) ____________________________________________________________________________ WHAT I DO: Create Resilient Habitats Where People...
2024-05-0640 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastFloating Wetland Gardens In Pantry Ponds For Resilience, Function and Yield Stacking ~Epi-079Floating wetlands are a "new" old technology that is well worth looking into if you are doing aquaculture at just about any scale - from small backyard tanks a few hundred gallons in size, on up to multi-acre ponds and lakes. Floating wetlands take the essential functions provided by wetlands and concentrated them into a smaller and more mobile footprint. Wetlands are the kidneys of the landscape, and floating wetlands amplify many of those beneficial functions, such as: Integrated wetland (edge) functionality into an open water body = excess nutrient removal and water clarification Increased biomass production...
2024-04-291h 01
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastOpt In To Nature To Opt Out Of The System(s) ~Epi-078What do we mean when we say we want to "opt out" of the system? Firstly, it's the system(s) - the means of production, transport, communication, value transmission etc that we have to interface with to acquire the things we need to live in the modern world. In general, the further the distance a product or service must travel and the more technology involved means you will have less control over how to source it, how much you pay for it, when (and if) it is available etc. If it is produced or provided closer to...
2024-04-151h 01
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastDesigning For LIGHT At Every Level - Patterns For Incorporating Natural Light Into The Built Environment ~Epi-077Light is an essential human nutrient. So much of our modern built environment is built without regard to orienting and integrating natural light, and our health - physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and communal - suffers for it. The good news is that you can design your structures (or retrofit them) to bring natural light back into them and create buildings and places within them that support human thriving because they are well integrated with natural light. Join me for a dive into the patterns of human habitation design that enhance our relationship with l...
2024-04-0853 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastZone 0 Pattern Language Fundamentals - Designing Your Permaculture Kitchen ~Epi-076Join me today as we discuss designing functional kitchen spaces that people want to be in. Lots of people are inheriting kitchens designed more for magazine covers than for function - and where there is a lack of function there is a concommitant increase in friction, which means more stress and less joy. Kitchens are the Zone 1 of Zone 0 - Zone 0 referring to the space inside the home. Kitchens are the heart of human life - communion over shared food, shared work, a space for being together, conversing, and generally connecting over the daily activities t...
2024-04-0154 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastBuilding Freedom And Community In The REAL Private Sector - Real World Applications For Private Membership Associations with Joshua Longbrook ~Epi-075Today I interview Joshua Longbrook on real world applications of Private Membership Associations for creating systems of support - i.e. the parallel society - outside the jurisdiction of the public (State dominated) sphere. We'll cover what PMAs are, what protections they do and do not offer, how they are best utilized as extensions of a larger unincorporated Church, and the types of voluntary interactions they enable within and between local communities. We'll also get into Josh's personal experience with running the Agora Food Club and how the structure has enabled many home-scale producers to...
2024-03-251h 14
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastSovereign Water - Spring Development Basics ~Epi-074Today's show is for those of you lucky enough to have a spring on your property. We will cover the basics of spring morphology and function - including the way I really think they work vs. what the textbooks say - and then we'll go over basic spring assessment criteria, and the main components of spring water collection and distribution systems. Show Resources Past Spring Projects Rivera Family Ranch Spring Forestville Spring Retrofit Wilson Family Ranch Spring Retrofit Big Sur Spring Black Mountain, NC Spring YouTube - Spring Development Playlist Technical Manuals Springs - Th...
2024-03-1851 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastDebt, Wealth & Counter-Economics As A Means To Create A World Worth Inheriting ~Epi-073How do we create a regenerative economy and all that entails when that work is arbitrarily outlawed, suppressed or actively disincentivized by the value systems that dominate our current culture? HINT: We have to step outside of the current imposed power structure - no permission required. My presupposition for this episode is this: Mainstream, state sponsored and enforced economic theory and practice has herded humanity as a whole onto a degenerative trajectory with respect to environmental integrity, social cohesion and individual well-being. We are living in a debt-driven world - stealing from future...
2024-03-1148 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastGrow Food, Fodder, Fences And Forts For Cheap With Livestaking ~Epi-072Today's episode is a short primer on live staking - what it is, how it works, what its good for, what types of species you can use to do it, and how to harvest, prepare and plant your live stakes. If you have perennially moist soils in need of stabilization, or are able to irrigate certain areas to ensure adequate soil moisture for establishment, you can plant hundreds of trees for pennies per stem and create living structures that provide many layers of function while getting stronger over time! Livestaking is a great way to...
2024-02-2637 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastAs Within So Without ~Epi-071As within so without. If we want to see changes in our external world (i.e. regenerating landscapes and ecosystems), we have to first address our internal state. The older I get and the more I learn, the less I can say I know for sure. This, though, is one of those things that I've arrived at as being one of those "indivisible kernels of truth" - something solid and constant upon which I can build a foundation for regeneration. The external state of our landscapes is a direct reflection of...
2024-02-1934 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastAdaptive vs. Prescriptive Management For Homesteads And Lifestyle Design ~Epi-070Adaptive Management: Observation-driven management for constantly increasing resilience and ecosystem function by employing planned, purposeful disruption. Prescriptive Management: Labeling your observations so that you can look up a prescription that fits that label. This is a much more myopic way of managing a landscape, as you're automatically confining yourself to pre-existing solutions for truly unique problems or challenges. Adaptation is Nature's way. Nature is always changing - things may rhyme but they are never exactly the same. Therefore our management needs to change with this constantly changing landscape. 3 Rules of Adapative Management Co...
2024-02-1239 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWhy We Use Functions-First Design To Create Holistic Ecosystems ~Epi-069When we design holistic ecosystems, we start with mapping out desired and required functions THEN search for, select and/or design elements/systems that provide those functions in a way that aligns with the site-specific context. This is contrasted with how most people "design" systems - they see an ad or read an article and like the thing or the method/technique they see, and then say "I want thing A" or "I'm going to do technique B" on my land. And then systems start being built around these sexy, cool things that are out...
2024-02-0547 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastOff-Grid Soil Fertility For Sovereign Food Systems ~Epi-068If you are serious about food sovereignty, you're serious about building soil. In this episode I detail 4 methods for creating your own soil fertility inputs from what you are already growing, can source on your property or very close to home, or are already in the course of putting food on your table. They are: Vermicomposting ------------------> good biology Compost Tea Brewing --------------> amplify biology Biochar ----------------------------> retain biology Plant-based Liquid Fertilizer --------> feed biology It is in the SYNERGY between these methods that the real exponential gains are to be found. I chose vermicomposting...
2024-01-2958 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastBiosolids: America's Dirty Secret ~Epi-067Today is an expose about one of America's dirty secrets - we're talking about the nation wide biosolids program. Supposedly its a great way to beneficially cycle a "renewable resource" to help fertilize crop fields, protect water sheds and keep people healthy. In reality, its anything but - and we know from first hand knowledge because we lived with it right across the street from us for months. For any would-be homesteader looking to re-locate to the country, be aware of the potential for biosolids in your watershed and potentially right across the f...
2024-01-211h 12
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastMaking Landfall - Your First 60 Days On The Land ~Epi-066Today's show is all about the things you have to do to get yourself onto your land quickly without shooting yourself in the foot withe improperly located or oriented structures and roads. Vehicle access is basically an absolute necessity in today's world. By their very nature, roads are a break from the inherent landform, and thus ALL ROADS CAPTURE AND MOVE WATER. This is just part of what a road does. If you put in a road, or are inheriting a road without understanding that fact, you will pay for it later - all it...
2024-01-1552 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastA Strong WHY Can Bear Almost Any HOW ~ Epi-065New Year's Evolution. This show is about doing the most important work first - your own internal visioning - an rooting that vision in your heart to create a WHY strong enough to bear any HOW. If you haven't done it yet, give yourself the gift of creating your Minimum Holistic Goal. It is the ONE THING that will make everything else that comes after easier, more fun and more effective. Creating a legacy worth inheriting starts in you. Let your life be a love letter to future generations and leave beauty in your wake. Th...
2024-01-0730 min
Millennial Pioneers PodcastReverse engineering your goals with Dr. Nick ArazaIn this episode, we have one of our favorite chiropractors back, Dr. Nick Araza, to discuss achieving meaningful goals. Dr. Nick has helps thousands of clients reach a new level of wellness through figuring out what matters most to them: the goal that will help them achieve that vision of their life, and then reverse engineering that goal to make it achievable as a part of their life. In this episode we discuss: Why Dr. Nick is someone we can learn on this topic from The process Dr. Nick uses to first assess whether a goal is valuable to the pe...
2024-01-041h 14
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastUsing Duckweed To Grow More Calories Per Square Foot ~ Epi-064Duckweed is an amazingly productive floating aquatic plant that is highly palatable to a wide variety of small and large livestock (ruminants, pigs, poultry, fish etc). Duckweed is a tremendous ally for those of us looking to create independence from centralized commodity food systems. You may not want to eat duckweed (though you can) but what you eat is very likely to benefit from having duckweed in its diet (and your wallet will thank you for it!). Show Resources Feedipedia Page for Duckweed Duckweed Cultivation YouTube Playlist ____________________________________________________________________________ WHAT I DO:
2023-12-2942 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastThe 7th Generation Principle - Designing For Continuity Across Generations ~ Epi-063In this episode I am sharing what I have come to call the 7th Generation Principle - a principle guide post of sorts that I've been refining for nearly 10 years now to help guide my design work (for my own life and for others) in the direction of inter-generational regeneration. Basically, it seems like throughout human history we've actually lived in a truly sustainable fasion - i.e. regeneratively. Some of those examples even persisted for quite some time, but now we are left with very few intact cultures that can successfully transmit the cultural values of...
2023-12-221h 18
The Sovereign Homestead Podcast5 Tenets Of Carnivore Homesteading ~ Epi-062In today's show we discuss the idea of the Carnivore Homestead. For those of us that eat a mostly animal-based diet, we want to produce mostly animal-based calories from our homestead production systems. I got news - just because we like to eat steak doesn't mean we aren't going to grow plants - in fact, we've got to grow them in greater quantity and quality in order to feed the animals that become our food. Carnivore homesteads have to be regenerative by their very nature if they are to be sustainable. Join me as we d...
2023-12-151h 07
The Roundtable with Robert BannonThe Creators & Star of "Trich" Are Here! New Play Coming To Luna Stage In NJ!TRICHWritten and Performed by Becca SchneiderCreated by Jenn Haltman, Casey Pfeifer, and Becca SchneiderThis is a solo show about living with Trich. You might not know what that is, but don’t worry, you’ll find out when you see the play. You’ll meet a teenage girl with an undeniable secret that no one seems to notice, so she hides in her basement cubicle wondering if anyone will come downstairs. Whoa, did that get too dark too fast? Let’s try this again: TRICH is a depressing super fun show abo...
2023-11-1633 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastUp-Leveling Calorie Production Per Square Foot With Azolla ~Epi-061Today's episode came out of a Permies.com thread on Carnivore Homesteading. The seed questions for the thread was, for those of us enjoying the benefits of a carnivore lifestyle, how can we produce more high-quality animal-based calories for our own consumption from well designed and integrated systems at the homestead scale. Basically, there are three main focal points that need attention here: First and foremost we need to maximize is the number of calories grown per unit area (per acre, per square foot, per roof, whatever space one has) if we are to be eating p...
2023-11-0647 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastAutumn Equinox Break ~ Epi-60Just a quick update on recent events here and announcement for taking a break until Novemeber 1st to visit family and dive into some design projects here in Tennessee and North Carolina. You can also follow Sovereign Homestead Design on YouTube. We've been having massive technical issues with our webhosting and emails this past month - basically incommunicado as far as our ability to reach out to the world, BUT, our Instagram account @honeybadgernursery is still up, detailing some of what's going on at the homestead. The Honey Badger Nursery website is still down, but...
2023-09-1808 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastSovereign Food Systems - Pantry Ponds ~ Epi-59Today we look at another Sovereign Food System - what I'm calling the Pantry Pond. Basically a homestead-scale aquaculture system designed to maximize your food sovereignty via independence from the centralized systems of supply and distribution for any of the inputs required to grow what you want to grow - fish, aquatic vegetables, crawfish, shrimp, water fowl etc. Well-designed homestead-scale aquaculture systems aren't that common here in the modern U.S., and yet they have a tremendously long and productive history in many cultures the world round. Because aquaculture is so context and...
2023-09-041h 07
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastSovereign Food Systems - Perennial Protein From Silvopasture Meat Forests ~Epi-58In today's show we are talking about creating Sovereign Food Systems. I think this will be a series, or at least a collection of episodes, each one focused on a different type of sovereign food system that can be applied at a variety of scales across a broad range of contexts. Basically, a sovereign food system is one that has eliminated any dependence on inputs from centralized production and distribution systems for its continued operation. I believe these systems are increasingly important in light of the war on independent food that we are s...
2023-08-2858 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #12 - Collaborate With Succession ~ Epi-057Today we discuss permaculture design principle #12 - Collaborate With Succession. The more that we can align our designs, systems and management styles with the inherent successional trends already present in our landscapes, the greater our yields will be with fewer resource inputs required. This is all about energy efficiency, and it starts with OBSERVING AND INTERACTING (Principle #1) with your landscape to identify the patterns that are already present. Your land is telling you what it wants to become, you just have to have the eyes to see it! Show Resources YouTube Playlist - Chinampas
2023-08-2228 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #11 - Make The Least Change For The Greatest Effect ~ Epi-56Today we take a deeper look at the 11th permaculture design principle: Make The Least Change For The Greatest Effect. This principle is about economy of effort. When designing a sovereign homestead, we need to make sure that our systems are providing us with not only the right types of yields, but also in sufficient quantity and at a reasonable return to make our continued tending of the system worthwhile. Living systems that provide for generation after generation exhibit a high degree of economy of effort. We'll look at how you can analyze...
2023-08-1425 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #10 - Optimize The Edge ~ Epi-055In today's episode we take a deep dive into Permaculture Design Principle #10 - Optimize The Edge. We will discuss: Edge: What is it exactly? The real-world effects of edges in your homestead landscape with regards to energy translation, species diversity and overall productivity. How to manage edge for physical environments/elements to get more of what you want and less of what you don't (HINT: It's really about surface area!) Lots of examples of edge Optimizing edge is really about optimizing relationships between elements Why greater harmony is the ultimate aim of making adjustments to the edges between...
2023-08-0736 min
Drum HistoryThe History of Simmons Drums with Daren Pfeifer, Steve Graham, Patrick Casey, Steve Watts and Ed RoseThis is a 5 person mega episode all about the history of Simmons Drums, the iconic hexagonal electronic drums that changed the face of music in the 1980's. The sound, look and spirit of Simmons drums can be heard on most every recording of the 1980's across all genres including rock, pop, rap, metal, and everything in between!My guests include two of the original employees of the company: Steve Watts and Pat Casey, The author of "The Complete Simmons Drum Guide": Steve Graham, a master restorer of high level Simmons Drums: The Simmons Guy aka Ed Rose...
2023-08-011h 21
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #9: Choose Small-Scale, Intensive Solutions ~ Epi-054This week we look at Permaculture Design Principle #9: Choose Small-Scale, Intensive Solutions. This is all about managing intensively in a small footprint at the start - and expanding what works and changing or eliminating what does not. We'll talk about the importance of testing your systems before expanding them by conducting Safe To Fail experiments. We also talk about PROFIT - that most important of words - that little bit of surplus energy above and beyond what the system requires to maintain and sustain itself that you can use to conduct safe-to-fail trials that will lead you...
2023-07-3129 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #8 - Integrate, Don't Segregate ~ Epi-053Today we take a deeper look at Permaculture Design Principle #8 - Integrate, Don't Segregate. This principle is fundamentally about 'stacking functions' - a common term we hear a lot in perma-speak - but what does that really mean and HOW do you go about doing it? We'll talk nuts and bolts of creating functionally redundant systems, including: Segregation vs. integration, and the energetic costs of going down one path vs. the other in the design of your homestead How building functional redundancy into your systems leads to resiliency in the face of disruptive events...
2023-07-2431 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Principle Deep Dive #7: Design From Patterns To Details ~Epi-52Design from pattern to details. Anyone who has read a permaculture book has heard this - but how to actually DO IT? Today we talk about Natural Constants and the Yeomans Scale of Permanence as tools you can use to help you design from big, broad, largely immutable patterns down to small, granular, actionable details. This is how you can ground the small actions you take in any given moment to a 7th generation vision - each action is informed by the many layers of contextual foundation that underlay it.
2023-07-1723 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #6 - Make No Waste ~ Epi-51Today we're talking about the 6th permaculture design principle: Make No Waste. In Nature, "waste" = food. How can we design our homesteads and the various life support systems on them such that the "waste" from one becomes the food for another? How many energetic loops and connection can we create between elements, systems and organisms? We'll discuss one of the simple tools for enacting the Waste = Food principle - called Input/Output/Intrinsic Analysis. We'll also talk about the switch that flips once you change the way you view what most of our society calls "...
2023-07-1031 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #5 - Use And Value Nature's Gifts ~ Epi-50Today we continue our Deep Dive series on the 12 foundational principles of permaculture. In this episode we take a deeper look at Principle #5: Use And Value Nature's Gifts / Collaborate With Succession / Work With Nature, Not Against It. There are numerous different ways this principle is written, and we'll explore the nuance of all three of the most common versions, as well as what you can specifically look for in your landscape and within your unique context to better align your design and management of your homestead with natural pattern, and how you can both increase your harvestable...
2023-07-0343 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #4 - Self Regulate And Accept Feedback ~ Epi-049In today's episode we continue with our Permaculture Design Principle Deep Dive Series with Principle #4 - Self Regulate And Accept Feedback. We talk about why those two terms - 'self regulate' and 'accept feedback' come packaged together, and how each is important to create an environment that promotes rapid iteration and 'safe to fail' testing of systems followed by planned amplification or dampening based on the results. We'll go through the Cynefin Sense-Making Framework as a tool for understanding the context in which you are in and adjusting your Decision Model to suite it appropriately...
2023-06-2650 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #3 - Obtain A Yield ~ Epi-048Today is the third episode in our Permaculture Design Principle Deep Dive series - Obtain A Yield. This is all about intentionally designing living systems on our homesteads that provide for our needs to live a great life. Join me as we discuss... The different types of yields you can design for: product, energy and intangible/impalpable The Definition of a system yield - and the 5 ways you can go about obtaining it True-Cost Yield Accounting to accurately account for all costs involved in obtaining the yield. Strategies for creating yields Physical/Environmental Biological S...
2023-06-1953 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #2 - Catch & Store Energy ~ Epi-047Today we take a deeper look at the second of the core permaculture design principles - Catch And Store Energy. This is what designing a functional and resilient ecosystem is all about - energy in vs. energy out. Everything that is alive needs to bring in more energy than it expends in order to 1) sustain its own existence and 2) to reproduce. If we design our homesteads and homes to catch and store useful forms of energy, we can create a holistic system that works for us even when we aren't around. In this episode we wi...
2023-06-1242 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastPermaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #1: Observe & Interact - Epi-046This is the first in a series of episodes that will go into depth on how to apply and leverage each of the 12 foundational design principles used in permaculture. The first design principle is Observe and Interact. It is the keystone design principle, from which all others are held together and applied toward a functional end. Join me as we discuss: The context for applying the permaculture design principles - i.e. the oft-forgot Prime Directive and the oft-misinterpreted 3 Ethics. Why Observe & Interact is NOT about being a neutral observer, or being separate from wha...
2023-06-0552 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastThe 4 D's of Homestead Security ~Epi-45Today we are talking about homestead security. It's a topic that is left out of a lot of "mainstream" permaculture design books - and really its hardly mentioned at all as a design consideration. We live in a weird time, when for just a few short generations, and then only for a select few people, we've been able to delegate our security to "the authorities" (911, the cops etc). We are quickly heading into disruptive, turbulent and hard economic times - with that comes an increase in crime - we are already seeing it, and have...
2023-05-2940 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastGreg Judy's Grazing School ~Epi-44In today's episode we re-cap the takeaways from the 2-day grazing school I attended at Greg Judy's Green Pastures Farm in Clark, Missouri. The school was awesome, with great instruction from Greg and his co-instructor Abram Bowerman of Still Waters Farm in Spickard, MO. Intensively managed ruminant livestock are the tool for building soil rapidly, at scale over broad acre landscapes. The benefits are too numerous to enumerate here, but suffice to say if you have even a couple of acres, you need to get livestock on them and you need to move them. Anything l...
2023-05-2243 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastDo The Next Thing ~Epi-43Today's episode is a short one about just doing the next thing. You don't have to have everything mapped out ahead of time. If you have a set of principles (permaculture) and a long-term, BIG vision (your Minimum Holistic Goal - aka your "10 Year Vision"), it becomes very easy to prioritize and act on the next most impactful thing, without having a master plan. It's the SAPA framework - Survey, Assess, Prioritize, and Act - a short acronum for a decision-making loop based on permaculture principles. Survey (Observe And Interact), Assess (Integrate Feedback), the...
2023-05-1525 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWhat Makes A Sovereign Homestead? SAPA Framework ~Epi-42Today's show is all about getting clear on what makes a homestead sovereign vs. a modern homestead vs. just a homestead. SPOILER ALERT: It's all about CHOICE. A well-designed homestead gives you more choice - more freedom to say NO to those things that are not in alignment with your highest quality of life, so that you can say yes to the things that are. We then go into the SAPA Framework for conducting your own sovereignty self-assessment for your life and landscape, applying it to all the basic survival needs: Water, Nutrition & Calories, Shelter...
2023-05-0849 min
The Resilient LearnerResilient Learner Spotlight #1 (Interview with Casey Pfeifer, The Sovereign Homestead)Welcome to The Resilient Learner Podcast! We help learners of all ages cultivate the adaptable mindsets and skills necessary to carve their own path in their education and careers. Here comes our first interview episode in the Resilient Learner Spotlight series! Last week, I featured an episode from The Sovereign Homestead Podcast hosted by Casey Pfeifer, and today I will be interviewing Casey on this show as the first RL Spotlight. The idea behind the RL Spotlight series is highlighting someone who I feel embodies some of the key principles of The...
2023-05-0357 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWhat Is Permaculture? [The Millennial Pioneers Podcast] ~Epi-41Today's show is the interview I just did with Jen and Sammy of the Millennial Pioneers Podcast on What Is Permaculture? We talk about the basics of what permaculture is about, and tangible, simple ways to get started integrating permaculture design and mindset into designing our own lives. We are living in a time when the bills racked up over the past centuries and decades of over-taxing our ecological support base, looting our economy and profligately expending energy are coming due. Permaculture design can solve a lot of the problems, or at the very least help us n...
2023-05-011h 08Millennial Pioneers PodcastPermaculture for the People (Interview with Casey Pfeifer)In this episode of the Millennial Pioneers Podcast, we are so excited to be interviewing Casey Pfeifer about permaculture. As I discussed this upcoming interview with my husband one morning and what exactly I would ask Casey about permaculture, my sweet 8-year-old son Bennett innocently asked from across the room... "What is permaculture?" Yes... let's start there. What is permaculture, and why is it so incredibly important for us to learn about it and start implementing now. Why it is important for us to take responsibility for our own lives, and to be able to...
2023-05-011h 06
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastAll About Amazing Vetiver Grass ~Epi-40Homestead Super Plant Showcase - All About Amazing Vetiver Grass If you haven't heard of vetiver grass and are homesteading in USDA zone 7b or higher, this is a must listen! Vetiver Grass - Chrysopogon zizanioides - is a perennail, tufted, clump-forming grass that grows up to 9' tall in the tropics, and typically 6' tall in Mediterranean and humid temperate climates. It is known worldwide for its incredibly dense and fibrous root system that grows 15'+ deep, and is utilized around the world for erosion repair and prevention, slope stabilization, water clarification, sewage effluent t...
2023-04-2453 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastDesign Your Life And Homestead To Yield Freedom In Time, Health, Wealth and Spirit ~Epi-039How can we design our lives and our homesteads to maximize our freedom in Time, Health, Wealth and Spirit? This is a primary lifestyle design aim for anyone interested in living as a sovereign human being today. Join me today as we discuss the 4 freedoms - all of which are aspects of FREEDOM - the ability to choose / say "no" to things. Freedom in time is by nature a state of abundance. Abundance is a state of living off the interest, or surplus, of natural systems without consuming the principal. Abundance comes about when...
2023-04-1736 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWhy We Are Leaving California And Moving To Tennessee ~Epi-038The day has finally arrived! We are leaving California and moving to Tennessee! In today's show I go into all the things that are pushing us out of California and pulling us towards the Volunteer State! We'll cover the economic and regulatory reasons why California just isn't an option for us to build a life here, and why the economic and regulatory landscape of Tennessee is a much better fit for the things we want to do and the kind of life that we want to live. We'll also talk about taxes, business regulations, general...
2023-04-1059 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastDeGoogling Round 1 - The Phone ~Epi-037In today's show I detail my journey into what will be a multi-year endeavor - completely de-Googling my life. For us to live as sovereign human beings this day in age, we have to consciously design our digital lives to maintain appropriate levels of privacy and security amidst the ever-rising tide of surveillance and tracking. De-Googling my phone was one process I began a year ago in order to start to take back some control over my data and my reliance upon centralized tech cloud services. Despite the many pitfalls we face daily with smartphones in our...
2023-04-0352 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastLiving With Fire (Part 4): Integrating Fire Into Daily Life (Again) ~Epi-036What if we chose to view nature's gift of annually-replenishing fixed carbon sources (i.e. brush, forests etc) in high-fire danger areas as an opportunity to harmonize with the annual carbon cycle instead of as a nuisance to be combated? Could we improve home safety in the urban-wildland edge and take steps towards living within our annual solar energy budget, while saving money and improving habitat and ecology? We absolutely can. Join me for a journey into what could be if we chose to integrate fire into daily life again. In today's show we cover...
2023-03-2735 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastLiving With Fire (Part 3): Home Construction & Retrofitting For Fire Survivability ~Epi-035 In today's show we continued with the Living With Fire series in Part 3 - all about fire-proof or at least fire-wise home construction and home refit suggestions to increase fire survivability. Its all simple - some steps are easy and cheap, some are not. We will cover... Fire Proof Building Materials - stone, compressed/rammed earth (super adobe), earthbag construction, straw bale construction, earth-bermed structures. Dealing with apertures - apertures (openings) into the home are primary ignition pathways - the radiant heat from an approaching fire can ignite materials within the home without any embers or s...
2023-03-2032 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastLiving With Fire (Part 2): Regenerative Firescaping - Protect Your Home With Fire-Resistant Landscape Design ~Epi-034Today we dive into the nitty gritty of regenerative firescaping following Living With Fire - Part 1 in Episode 33. We will cover: Using Zones & Sectors to plan out the landscape around your house with regards to fire resilience. Regenerative Fire Resistant Landscaping Principles - the basic do's an don'ts to apply when designing a fire resilient landscape and homestead. Fire Safety Buffers - two different buffers around you built structures and other valuable property. 0-30' - the intensive zone 30-100' - the moderate zone Post-Fire Remediation - why you've got to get on it quickly...
2023-03-1341 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastLiving With Fire (Part 1): Basic Fire Science, Home Site Selection and Personal Responsibility ~Epi-033Today's show is the first episode in a series of shows that I'll be putting out on designing, building and managing a homestead in a high-fire risk climate. So much energy in the form of human labor, tax dollars, and lost ecological integrity is expended each and every year for the purpose of reducing fire risk - and yet many of these interventions don't actually reduce the risk of home damage or loss that much, AND they create a treadmill that requires mowing, chipping and spraying toxic chemicals year after year after year - with no end...
2023-03-0644 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastThe Consequences Of Ignoring Reality ~Epi-032Today's show is inspired by the Ayn Rand quote "We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." We (the larger collective of society, government etc) have been living in ignorance of reality for quite a while. Right now, a multitude of the consequences of this multi-generational ignorance are coming home to roost. Our financial system and the debt-backed fiat currency at its center is crumbling and headed for a crack-up reset. The broader, planet-wide ecology upon which we depend for everything that sustains our existence is fractured, diminished and producing a...
2023-02-2749 min
The Sovereign Homestead Podcast5 Rules For Happy Homesteading ~Epi-031Join me for a discussion of 5 Rules For Happy Homesteading from my own lived experience. Be crystal clear on your BIG Why - why are you doing your life the way you are doing it? Finish What You Start - obtain a yield and liberate your time BEFORE adding more projects, systems or things to take care of! Build in Management for every system you add - when you are designing, growing, building make sure that you account for the ongoing maintenance and management of systems on your homestead. A stitch in time saves nine! Show, don't tell...
2023-02-2040 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastHomesteading As A Tool For Creating Freedom Outside The Scope, Reach And Will Of The State ~Epi-030Today's show is about homesteading being one of the best tools we have as sovereign individuals for creating freedom for ourselves and our families outside the Scope, Reach and Will of the state. The State, which I'll refer to as the Matrix here, has 3 aspects to it's control structure: Scope: "laws on the books" This is practically limitless. There have been approximately ~90,000 laws and regulations passed since 1995 at Congressional level alone. However, these claims of control are only impactful if the Reach and Will are there to back it up. Reach: "boots on the ground" Is...
2023-02-1352 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastGet Comfortable Going First And Being Weird ~Epi-029To build and live a sovereign life in a time when the majority of society is not interested in, and even vehemently opposed to, the ideas of personal responsibility and self-ownership, you will have to get comfortable going first and being weird. In today's show I am joined by Sammy as we discuss the ways in which we as sovereign humans must "go first and be weird" in order to be healthy, to grow true wealth, to locate ourselves in a place that allows us to thrive, to navigate technology's impact on our lives, and to build a...
2023-02-061h 02
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastBasic Principles Of Resilient Whole-Site Access Design ~Epi-028Today's show is about the second layer of designing resilient homestead properties. Last week we started with the basic principles of holistic whole-site water system design. This week, we build on that with the basic principles that guide holistic access design and implementation across broadacre landscapes. Paradigm Access can be an asset or liability - depends on design and maintenance Every linear foot of access has a maintenance bill attached to it - design with this in mind! Access should ideally improve hydrological function, at the very least be neutra Access Patterning Questions Where do you / your animals...
2023-01-3053 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastThe Basics Of Whole-Site Water Systems Design ~Epi-027Today we go over the four basic questions that guide all holistic water patterning design. Whether you're an experienced designer or homesteader, or a complete novice that is just getting introduced to optimizing water patterning on your land, this show is for you. That's because, no matter what level you're at, the process is always the same! Every good whole-site water design follows this same progression: How much water do you have? Quantify and qualify the resource you are working with! Where is the water currently going / how is it currently behaving? Assess the current function o...
2023-01-2340 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastIs Your Paradigm Serving You? ~Epi-026We're just two weeks into 2023 but I'm still treating it like the turning of a new year, and this one calls us to take another introspective look at our own personal paradigms regarding our homesteads, businesses, landscapes and lives and really ask ourselves if the foundation of our perception and decision making - our paradigm - is aligned with our highest quality of life? Our paradigm needs to be if we want to stand a chance of living free, healthy and sovereign lives in 2023 and beyond. Does your paradigm see problems as burdens or opportunities? Does...
2023-01-1629 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastDiscernment: How To Find And Create REAL Value In The Age Of Information ~Epi-025If you are a homesteader you know there are LOTS of decisions that you need to make, almost constantly, and without end. How can you be sure that your decisions are maximally aligned with your true values and highest quality of life goals in the Age of Information? Today we are subjected to ever increasing streams of information, accessible at light seed and generally only seconds away, 24/7/365. How do you stay focused on what is worthy of your attention? How do you know what is worth your time and what is not? How...
2023-01-0942 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWater Storage Elements for Broadacre Water Patterning ~Epi-024Join me this week as we look at the basic types of water storage elements used in designing a functional broadacre water system. Nearly all broadacre water systems include some form of water storage, either as groundwater (aquifer storage), retained soil moisture (accessible by living plant roots), or bulk water (ponds, lakes, tanks, cisterns). Water storage elements function to: cover peaks in demand (production from the water source cannot meet peak demand) smooth out variations in supply (seasonal changes in availability and ease of obtaining water) provide water security in case of supply interruption or disaster...
2023-01-011h 14
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWater Infiltration Elements For Broadacre Water Patterning ~Epi-023This show is a broad overview of common water infiltration elements used in holistic ecosystem design to create a water retentive landscape - i.e. a watershed that slows, spreads, sinks and retains water that then grows a ton of biomass! We'll discuss what makes each element what it is, it's primary and secondary design functions, when and when not to employ them, and some basic implementation common sense guidelines. We will cover: Swales Infiltrations Basins Boomerang Berms Terraces Keyline Subsoil Riplines ____________________________________________________________________________ WHAT I DO: Design: On-Site Con...
2022-12-271h 17
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWater Drainage Elements For Broadacre Water Systems Design ~Epi-022Any time water encounters anything but a perfectly level surface, it will move. This movement is called drainage. Water will always move at right angle to contour in response to gravity on a non-level surface – i.e it will move straight down slope. Water will continue to move straight down slope until its course is somehow altered by something in its path. In this way water movement is predictable at the macro scale. This is drainage. Anytime water is being drained (moving) from one area to another, you have an opportunity to design those patterns of water mo...
2022-12-191h 20
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastHomesteading Is Carbon Positive...And That's A Good Thing ~Epi-021I'm kind of tired of the term "carbon negative" being used to greenwash products, companies and habits of consumption. Carbon, and I'm really talking about CO2 here, is not the boogeyman it has been made out to be. There is a thing called the carbon cycle on planet Earth. It IS the foundation for all life on this planet. All forms of life on this planet are carbon-based life forms. All forms of aerobic life EMIT carbon as part of being alive. Let's do away with "carbon-negative" - as a sovereign homesteader, I...
2022-12-1244 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWe Are Their Rats In A Cage...If We Allow It ~Epi-020We are rats in a cage...if we allow it. Today's episode is about learning to recognize and step back from narratives that pit us against an "other". I will go over how to identify them, what the real purpose of such a narrative is (HINT - it ain't in your best interest!), and, most importantly, how to take right action amidst the engineered conflict that would have you spend your life energy on things that don't better your life. We're going to start by talking about "shock-induced aggression" in rats - and some of...
2022-12-0544 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastFinding Place Together - Searching For Land With Family ~Epi-019In this week's episode I walk through the process we've used to guide our family conversations about finding that "family land" for the long haul. Finding land with family can be a dicey endeavor - it requires honesty, real listening and everyone coming with the goal of understanding one another. If you come to a family land search with the idea of convincing everyone to see things your way, it's going to cause lots of drama and potentially damage some of the most valuable relationships in your life. I'll take you through the three main parts of...
2022-11-2849 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastTo Swale Or Not To Swale ~Epi-018Join me today for a critical-thinking dive into swales - we cover what they are, the functions they perform and how they perform them, and then go into all of the context-specific factors that inform the decision of "To Swale Or Not To Swale". More than being a referendum on swales, today's show is meant to serve as an example for how to think through selecting, designing and installing elements within your landscape so that they actually perform their intended design function (i.e. rehydrate your landscape so you can grow more food, more animals, more beauty...
2022-11-2157 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastNutrient Cycling For Homesteads ~Epi-017Today's episode is all about cycling nutrients on your homestead to build rich, healthy, fertile soils that can't help but be productive. Soil fertility IS the number one asset a sovereign homestead can have. Indeed it's just about impossible to sovereign without it! Join me today for a high level overview of the different methods of cycling nutrients and generating your own fertility inputs to boost the productivity of your landscape and keep money in your pocket! We'll also look at how these different systems can play well together to capture and cycle nearly ALL of the "waste"streams...
2022-11-141h 24
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastThe 4 R's of Regenerative Hydrology ~Epi-016In today's show we discuss the 4 R's of Regenerative Hydrology - Receive, Retain, Recharge, and Release - a simple mental framework for evaluating how your landscape is functioning with regards to the water element, AND how you can make changes in your management and design to optimize it for the benefit of your land, family, business and quality of life. The 4 R's have parallels in managing a bank account. Receive is equivalent to Income - how much water does your landscape receive annually in precipitation? There isn't a lot we can do to change this number...
2022-11-0734 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastLessons From 3 Years Of Tent Life ~Epi-015Today we are discussing lessons learned from living in a canvas wall tent for 3 years on a permaculture farm. I am joined by my partner in love and life, Samantha Davis, for a trip down memory lane as we share the pros, cons and lessons learned from three years of tent-life and living pretty close to the elements. Today's episode is for anyone considering moving into a tent or yurt as a way to get on land quickly and cheaply - lots of things to consider to make sure it works for you and your partner! Show...
2022-10-3154 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastCreating A Regenerative Livelihood - An Emerging Framework ~Epi-014In today's episode I share with you all my emerging framework for creating a regenerative (i.e. resilient, sovereign, anti-fragile) livelihood. Show Resources ARTICLE: Creating A Regenerative Livelihood - An Emerging Framework - blog post with all of the guiding questions and linked resources in it. ARTICLE: Creating Resilient Wealth - The 8 Forms Of Capital VIDEO: Greg Judy - Generating Cash Flow On Your Farm VIDEO: Sepp Holzer's Krameterhof Farm - a beautiful example of context-specific design and regenerative enterprise ____________________________________________________________________________ WHAT I DO: Design: On-Site C...
2022-10-2459 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastDIY Charcoal And Biochar For Homestead Use ~Epi-013Today's show is a great primer for those of you new to the concept and practice of making charcoal and biochar. We will cover: What is charcoal vs. what is biochar? The MANY things you can do to increase your homestead productivity with charcoal AND biochar HOW to make your own charcoal - we'll cover the theory, and then a bunch of practical methods and the characteristics, pros and cons of each. 4 Ways to make biochar from charcoal - there are more, but these are a great way to start If you are a grower or a...
2022-10-1753 min
The Sovereign Homestead Podcast9 Characteristics Of A Sovereign Homestead ~Epi-012Today's show covers 9 different characteristics of a sovereign homestead. What are the things that make a homestead more sovereign? It all comes down to choice. A sovereign homestead is one that gives you more choice about how you live your life. The more sovereign your homestead is the more free you are from external control. These are helpful qualities to keep in mind, no matter if you're just starting out or if you're making changes to an already existing homestead and landscape. A Sovereign Homestead Produces Something A Sovereign Homestead Is Self-Reliant A Sovereign...
2022-10-1044 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastDesign Your Sovereign Homestead Using The SADIMEA Framework ~Epi-011This week we take a look at the actual process of designing your homestead. The framework we use to guide our design process is called SADIMEA, and it consists of the following 7 phases: Survey - This phase is all about gathering data - developing intimate knowledge of the environment and context within which your life is lived. Analysis - Sifting, sorting, list making, relationship mapping and number crunching to organize & MAKE MEANING from the data. Design - Many pieces begin to knit together into a cohesive, functional and beautiful whole - where you design a system of systems t...
2022-10-031h 10
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastAir Pruning 101 - How To Grow Better Trees Than You Can Buy And Save Money Doing It ~Epi-010Today's show is all about the science and application of air pruning to grow hundreds or thousands of trees with incredibly healthy root structures in a small area. Air pruning is what happens when a tap root or growing root tip gets exposed to air - it essentially dehydrates and goes dormant. This creates a hormonal stimulus that back-propagates up the root towards the stem-root junction of the tree at least 4 inches, and all along that length of root it induces lateral branching. Air pruning is a way to grow non-circling, non-girdling, high-density root systems that increase...
2022-09-261h 05
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastGreen Is The New Grey For Thriving In The Dim Age ~Epi-009Today I make the case why Green is the new Gray when it comes to surviving and thriving in an era of rising totalitarianism - a.k.a the Dim Age. Living with more connection and interdependence with Nature is the way to live healthy and free when the powers that be and the greater societal mood would you have be dependent, conforming and compliant. Join me in today's episode as we explore... What the Dim Age is The concept of being a Gray Man (and how we can expand upon that for the...
2022-09-1948 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWhy You Should Start Planting Trees On Your Homestead Yesterday ~Epi-008In today's show we cover some of the amazing gifts and benefits that trees can provide to your homestead and larger landscape, including: Trees are the ultimate alchemists - creating stored sunlight Trees are energy translators - between the surface world and the subsurface world Trees are hydraulic engineers - they bank water for hard times Trees as screens for different sector energies - water, wind, sun Trees are free air conditioners! Trees are rain-bringers Tree provide us with shelter and infinitely renewable fuel Trees provide us with food AND medicine Trees improve pasture health Trees are a...
2022-09-1243 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastHigh Value Livestock Fodder Trees For Temperate Climates ~Epi-007Today we are talking about livestock fodder trees and why, if you're raising livestock and want to continue eating high-quality meat and animal products in a time when livestock are being demonized as the cause of all things bad...you'd be wise to start growing and diversifying your feed inputs for your animals. Fodder trees produce highly palatable and nutritious feed for livestock in the form of leaf vegetation, small twigs and branches, fruit and nuts. Planting livestock fodder trees enable grazing managers to dramatically increase the number of calories produced per acre by stacking yields vertically...
2022-09-0554 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastGenesis of TSH & Where We're Headed ~Epi-006This show is a free-form ramble through the history that led to the creation of TSH and the podcast. No outline today, more story instead. From my slow awakening after a zombified college experience, to starting my own fitness training business at the age of 22, paying off the student loan debt and then making the leap into doing permaculture full time and having it literally end in flames and the road to recovery since. Learn where the inspiration from TSH came from, and where we're going with it. Resource Links Will Hooker...
2022-08-2957 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastLight, Water, Soil & Life - Universal Leverage Points For Maximizing Production On Your Homestead ~Epi-005Today's show is about optimizing the things that are universal to all homesteads, no matter where you are on this planet. These 4 universal homestead productivity leverage points are Light, Water, Soil and Life. Light = Energy Flow - How Much Sunlight Your Landscape Captures And Turns Into Usable Biomass Water = Water Cycle - The Circulation of Earth's Lifeblood Soil = Mineral Cycle - The Circulation of Life-Sustaining Nutrients Life = Community Dynamics - The Living Organisms That Leverage Your Light, Water And Soil to Produce Value No matter where you are, or what scale you are working at, you can...
2022-08-221h 06
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastThe Minimum Holistic Goal: Essential Homestead Design Tool -Epi-004In today's show we cover... What a Minimum Holistic Goal is and WHY its important to create one The three distinct parts of the MHG, their functions and how to create them, HOW to actually USE and LEVERAGE your MHG with the 7 Decision Tests for applying your MHG in real-life and in real-time to make better decisions consistently. Creating your Minimum Holistic Goal at the outset of your homesteading journey is THE ONE THING that will make everything else easier or unnecessary - it will help you guard and focus your energy on the things the move...
2022-08-1544 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastHow To Identify & Avoid Making Type 1 Errors In Homestead Design ~Epi-003In this week's show we dive into the ugly world of Type 1 Errors - those fundamental errors in design or implementation of a homestead that will cost you time, money and energy for as long as they exist - the things that if done wrong at the outset, make it nigh impossible to get anything right afterwards! Learn how to spot Type 1 Errors - on paper and in real life, how to avoid committing them in the first place, why they often persist for SO LONG and how to fix them. Resources Mentioned FEMA's...
2022-08-0847 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastThe Prime Directive, 3 Ethics and 12 Foundational Principles of Permaculture As Sovereign Homestead Design Tools ~Epi-002Permaculture is a design system based on natural systems and how they function. The Permaculture Prime Directive - on page 1 in the Designer's Manual, is as follows: "The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. Make it now." The Prime Directive is often forgotten but is fundamentally important to what permaculture really is. Join us as we explore the Prime Directive, how it protects and preserves the 3 Ethics and informs the 12 Foundational Principles to create a design system that you can use to create maximum freedom...
2022-08-0235 min
The Sovereign Homestead PodcastWhat The Sovereign Homestead Podcast Is About ~Epi-001Introduction to me and why this show exists. ____________________________________________________________________________ WHAT I DO: Design: On-Site Consultation Online Site/Project Consultation Holistic Ecosystem Design Implementation: Water Harvesting Earthworks High-function, Low-Maintenance Access Living Systems Spring Development Courses: Minimum Holistic Goal Media: The Sovereign Homestead Podcast YouTube Instagram
2022-07-3121 min
Run The Damn BallRTDB Ep. 19: Casey Thompson and Trey Palmer to Nebraska!Andrew Pfeifer, Sam Alessandro and I did a zoom podcast to kick off 2022. We talked about Nebraska's latest additions in the transfer portal, wrapping up bowl season and other transfer news surrounding college football. Thanks for tuning in and I am looking forward to making more content this year!
2022-01-1145 min
The KickSuperstore Servitude (feat. Casey Welsch) | Episode 33Pop on your vest or polo and try not to lose your mind as we head inside the fluorescent maze of movies set in big box stores. This week, Chance and Noah are joined by an old colleague to discuss the experience of working in a haven of "sad commerce." Former Walmart baker and current editor/radio host Casey Welsch starts the show with some personal insights. Then at 11:20, Chance and Noah talk the odd, inward plot weave of 2002's "One Hour Photo." At 29:30, it's onto "Employee of the Month" (2006), which stars Dane Cook and cannot be good. Then they...
2016-05-1756 min
11 O'Clock Comics Podcast11 O'Clock Comics Episode 296Ant Man, Daniel Karhunen and Snow Manilas, Julian Lytle’s Ants, Will Pfeifer and Red Hood and the Outlaws, the awesome Dick Picasso Presents Avant Garde anthology and 1 2 Space from Timothy O’Briant, Harry Moyer, John Dudley, Dave Frank, Jon O’Briant, John Karnes, and Robert Hafferman, David Lapham and Stray Bullets at Image (Cerebus, Queen and Country, Age of Apocalypse, Deadpool MAX, Young Liars, Valiant, Dark Dominion and Defiant, Warriors of Plasm, and much more), John Holmstrom and Cometbus #53 by Aaron Cometbus (The Ramones, Blondie, Sex Pistols, High Times, Screw, The Mutant Monster Beach Party, The Legend of Nick D...
2013-12-192h 31
11 O'Clock Comics Podcast11 O'Clock Comics Episode 166Much doom and gloom and all-around depressing stuff the first hour as we wade hip-deep into The Walking Dead volume 14 from Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (NOTE: If you want to skip ahead, you'll be fine if you jump to the 47:20 minute mark!), after which we elevate with elaboration on Falling Skies, Will Pfeifer and Jill Thompson's excellent Finals under the Vertigo Resurrected banner, Baltimore: The Plague Ships by Mignola and Ben Stenbeck from Dark Horse, the I...Vampire! serial by J. M. DeMatteis and Tom Sutton from the pages of House of Mystery, Wolverine and Jubilee, R...
2011-06-232h 10
Issues Today RadioIssues Today 10-33(#10-33-Aug. 9-Aug. 15) Janet Pfeifer will discuss how to deal with anger in the workplace. Dr. Simon Casey will detail new addiction treatment options, and Dr. Susanne Cohen on cures for chronic bad breath.
2010-08-0928 min