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So I'm not gonna lie, I had an entire episode already done, but this is me going back and deleting it,

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because to be honest, the episode previously, this has happened on occasion, but never have I ever

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gone back and genuinely thought, what the hell is wrong with me? I've been, you know, I've been

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busy this week, but I listened to the episode prior to this one, right? I was only eight minutes in,

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and I just stopped, like, wow. What the hell's wrong with me? It was not my best work. Having said

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that, I got a sinking feeling recently, and I think I should talk about it. I think that's really

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bothering me, to be honest. The main reason being is, normally whenever you have a sinking feeling,

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you know, it bothers you. You have stuff in the back of your mind, and you think, okay, I'm never

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gonna actually say this, or you know, it's gonna eat away at you. You should not do that. Always

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speak your feelings, okay? Whether it's towards someone or towards yourself. To be honest, in this

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case, it's something that I need to talk about with all of you. We can't just ignore what happened in

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Texas in 2021. The freeze, you know, like all the snow hitting, it was bad. It was really bad.

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No one was prepared, so I thought, why don't we go over some things, you know, just to be on the

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safe side. Wherever you're from, wherever you're living, this is gonna be, think of it as a little

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unofficial safety guide. Anyway.

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Before I finish what I was about to say earlier, I want to address something that some people saw

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on my Twitter, and I gotta be the bigger man and admit it. I was planning on getting a billboard,

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one of those $40, 15 second billboards in Times Square, but things did not go as planned

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whatsoever. So we just canceled it, period. I don't know what it was about my logo, the logo itself,

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right? I was just gonna put the logo up there in Times Square for 15 seconds for 40 bucks.

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I don't know what it was. The app deemed it illegal, which I don't know about that, but,

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you know, I'm not gonna question it. I tried it a few times. It didn't work. They didn't let me email

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them. They didn't let me do anything. Fuck that app. So we're just gonna go traditionally and just

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let the podcast be discovered by people, all right? Cool, great. Anyway, let's talk about what

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happened in, in Texas during the blizzard. Because how often do you hear the words Texas and Blizzard

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in the same sentence? Listen, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. I'm usually the guy that does

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the opposite, right? But we gotta be realistic about things. This winter is gonna be cold.

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I have a sinking feeling, you know what I mean? I'm normally, unfortunately, I'm normally good

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at these things, okay? I've predicted a few things in the past and I don't wanna say that I am,

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but, you know, there's a chance. And also, you know, it's just a general good rule of thumb to

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know things. Like, the people in Texas didn't know that their fireplaces had to be cleaned.

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That's the problem. They had a lot of soot buildup and a lot of stuff living in chimneys,

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or that was just stuck in the chimney that wasn't cleaned out properly. Soot does build up over time.

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You gotta wash it out. You know, you gotta clean it out. What do you think chimney sweepers were

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for? You know, back in the day, back in the old Victorian times, they used a lot of indoor heating

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with a fireplace, but they had a chimney sweep specifically designed to go in and like every day

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clean it out. We don't have that anymore. We don't have that luxury. There are these special logs

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that if you're living in the state of Texas, anywhere really, if you're living anywhere,

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there should be these logs that if I remember correctly, I think they're still on the market,

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you would burn them and they would actually clean the soot instead of you having to go in and clean

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it out yourself. However, I haven't heard of them in a while. Let me make sure they're still around.

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Here it is. I'm not sponsored by this product in any way, shape, or form, but if you do have a

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fireplace, for the love of God, use these at least once. It's called a creosote sweeping log, the

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it's called a creosote sweeping log, the CSL. If you have a fireplace, get a CSL. Okay.

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Let's see here. There's actually quite a few options and they range from anywhere from $20 to

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$50. That's actually quite a bit. There's a lot of stuff. Jesus, that's a lot.

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Enjoy your fireplace while cleaning the, um, I don't know. It's funny seeing all the, all the

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commercials, right? Anyway, let's skip forward. Okay. I want to go back a bit. Sorry. Um, these

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logs are good for cleaning it out in a rush, but there are no replacement for the actual cleaning.

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So by all means, get it done. Let's skip forward a bit and let's talk about things that I know.

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One thing that I do know about preparations for things, you know, natural disasters is kind of a

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strong suit. What do I mean by this? I mean, I've been in plenty because I used to travel. Okay.

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There's a thing that I, there's a thing that I haven't done in a while. Okay. There's a certain

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muscle that I need to flex because it's been too long and I don't want to lose it. You know what

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I mean? What do I mean by this? I mean preparation. I used to be not a prepper, but I used to be a guy

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who would over-prepare when I was doing OTR. I would be prepared for rain, sleet, snow. I had a

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fire starter on board. I had a, I, the only thing I didn't have was a gun. I wasn't allowed to carry

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one, but I had a knife, a lot of stuff. Okay. Dry goods, things that wouldn't expire for a long time.

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All of these are important to have. If not immediately on you, just somewhere nearby,

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but this is different. Winter. Okay. Of all the times that I could tell you that I've survived

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things that I really shouldn't have, I got to tell you right now, the cold is something to not joke

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about. Humans are not built to, they're not built to live in the cold. They're not built to withstand

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the freezing temperatures that might come with a new winter. What I'm saying is I'm very concerned

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about climate change. I'm almost certain that it's going to happen because here in the fucking

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place that I live, it's already taken effect. So I'm just thinking, all right, might as well prepare.

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Okay. You want to know how serious I am? I have a stash of firewood. How often do you hear that in

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California? No, not often. Okay. It's actually just old refuse, like wooden, wooden furniture.

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That's like gone bad. And we just like take it, tear it to pieces. I think every Mexican family

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has that actually. We all have the burn pile, I guess, whenever we have a lumbre, you know what

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I mean? That's just the thing. That's the thing that happens. But what if you don't have that?

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See, a lot of the things that I noticed that happened during the Texas, the Texas freeze,

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along with some other stuff that could potentially happen this year, I think of power outages,

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because a lot of people rely on indoor heating and that's fine. Okay. If you're, if you have

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electricity, you got solar, perfect. Good for you. You're going to have some sort of electrical

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source. You know what I mean? But what if that goes down? You need a plan B is what I'm saying.

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And a lot of what I've, a lot of the research that I initially did is from things that I learned

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myself. But at the same time, I also learned things from the FEMA website. I learned things

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from survivor, man, the guy himself, not the show. Uh, he has a YouTube channel, by the way.

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There's a thing that people did during the, during the blizzard that I think about often.

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And it is the most terrifying thing for me when it comes to that situation, you know, aside from

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the freezing cold and that is makeshift fires. If you guys are going to start a fire, do it with

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clear ventilation. Okay. I cannot stress this enough. You will absolutely, you know, choke

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yourself out. There's no oxygen in the room and there's, um, carbon monoxide carbon monoxide is

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what I was thinking about. Monoxide has no odor. Okay. It's a really silent killer, but there are

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symptoms of it. Okay. Carbon monoxide can cause headaches, dizziness, weakness, upset stomach,

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vomiting, chest pain, and confusion. The last one is very important to remember confusion. Okay.

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Cause a lot of people will have the first things and think, okay, I'm getting sick because it's

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getting cold and we made this fire. That's fine. You need to understand within the first two hours

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of contact, the headache, the nausea may occur. Life threatening symptoms will occur after three

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hours, three hours. That's not a long time. Okay. And this could be mitigated in one way.

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The way is open a window, open a door. I, if you can move the fire outside, okay. In fact,

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start the fire outside to begin with worst case scenario. Okay. Yeah. You're going to have,

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you're going to have it really cold inside, but that's better than, you know, suffocating. You do

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not want that. Man, why am I even making this episode? You know what? Just cause. Okay. I like

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being informative. Okay. I don't know about you guys, but I like knowing shit and I like having

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an archive of something. And so that's what I'm going to do here. This is the most basic thing.

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I could tell you, right? Start a fire, most likely gas lines in the case of a natural disaster or a

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really horrific event, most likely they'll be down. You're going to need a match. You're going to

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need a match. And here's the thing I noticed too. Some people don't know how to light fires. A very

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basic one too. Okay. You need a source of fuel. And by fuel, I mean like pieces of wood, like hefty

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wooden furniture, preferably something not lacquered. Okay. Something not painted, just bare wood.

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Okay. Also I'm talking like logs and stuff. Okay. Really big chunks of wood. That's going to be your

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fuel. The thing is it doesn't start up with a single match. That's where people get it wrong.

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You need to start a smaller fire. The way you do that is to get the match and you need tinder,

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tinder kindling. Okay. Some sort of kindling, dry grass works perfectly. You can also get a bird's

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nest, which we actually have a lot of these out here. So we're, we're good. Or, and this is

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something I actually learned thanks to the modern rogue, by the way, thank you modern rogue for this

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one. If you get a knife, a decently sharp one, you get a pair of jeans and you start scraping very

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carefully. Don't cut yourself, scrape the jeans themselves. You'll get a very, very fine, very

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fine fiber that, and that thing burns almost instantly. That stuff works pretty well. And

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again, thank you modern rogue for that. I actually had no idea. I learned that from Brian Brushwood.

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Thank you, man. That's awesome. I love learning that, but yeah, these things are important to

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learn. So tinder, you know, kindling, tinder, I'm using those words interchangeably. I would just

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use kindling from now on. Kindling, a match, like that stuff. And you need a small source of fire,

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you know, make it, make it small and then keep it going. Keep, make, make it slightly bigger,

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sticks, you know, small pieces of wood. Or in many cases, you can also get, I'm looking around the

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room actually. Like, let's say this is a scenario where I need to make a fire right now, right?

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Let's say I've got some spare clothing. I'm looking at my old socks specifically. Okay.

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Something that will be of no use to you in the cold. And I'm looking at fiber socks that are like

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frayed and torn apart. Socks you were going to throw away to begin with or socks without a pair.

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Hold one above the fire. It'll start burning, drop it in and there you go. Don't use too many.

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You're going to, you're going to want the, the string from those, from those socks. But if you

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could spare one or two, go ahead and throw that in. That'll be a decent fire right there.

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So you've got your basics down. You've got a fire going and now you're in a house with dry goods.

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And the problem is you go to turn on the sink and there's dirty water or no water at all comes out.

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What do you do? Well, again, we're talking in, in terms of the cold. Okay. Let's say it's

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snowing outside. In that case, bring in a lot of snow in a pot and melt it down. Don't drink it

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right away. You can't drink water. That's, you know, still dirty. I mean, it may have been snow,

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but that doesn't mean it's purified. It's still dirty. Still got contaminants in there. Try to

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get as much leaves and stuff out of it. You know what I mean? A water purifier in this case would

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work perfectly. But if you don't have one, well, first off PG&E actually sells them online. They're

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actually very cheap. They sell them at a loss actually. In fact, they're, they have gallons of

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like, like they'll purify gallons of water with a tiny pack. If you've never seen them online,

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you'd be surprised. They're really good to keep in an emergency situation. That way you can purify

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water. So even if it comes out of the sink, filthy, you can wash it out. You know what I mean? And it'll

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be perfectly potable drinking water because water is incredibly important. Okay. But let's see,

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you don't have that. Okay. You've melted down snow. Now I've got some dirty water. Boil it,

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you know, just boil it. Ideally, you could also use a Brita filter at this point.

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I would do it after boiling just cause I feel like Brita filters are good, but they're not,

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you know, they're not a life or death situation kind of thing. There's also a form of distilling

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water, which is difficult, but you could do it. If you have a small pot that the water is boiling

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and you need a much bigger pot, put it over it. But again, this is, it sounded very simple, right?

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The thing is it's going to start dripping off the sides and you need some bigger vessel underneath

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the fire that's not burning. You see, it's very difficult. So in this case, just, just keep some,

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just keep some sort of purification. Water purification tablets are also very cheap. You

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can find them online and in big five, you can find them anywhere. You know, I go to camping sections

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and sporting goods stores a lot. And I noticed that there are an abundance of things there. In

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fact, when I mentioned water, we can also mention food, right? Dry goods are very easy to come by.

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You get beef jerky. In fact, when I was doing OTR, there's a lot of people that had the habit of

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buying like $50 or a hundred dollars worth of beef jerky and they were good for weeks. Like they

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were good for, I mean them specifically, they were okay with for weeks eating that stuff or honestly,

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the beef jerky, if it goes untouched, it can go for months. They don't really expire. They're

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dried meat. You know what I mean? Preferably if you can make it yourself, that's fine too,

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but get the most natural thing you could find. There's a lot of stuff that's got,

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well, I don't know. It's a lot of sweeteners. I'm going to diet. Okay. I got to find what I eat.

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In order to lighten the news, sometimes I have to say some stuff that makes no sense. So I'm

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going to lighten it right now because I feel like I've been really serious the whole episode.

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Daily dose of internet just uploaded a video that made me fucking cackle. Okay. It made me cackle.

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Some lady or some guy, I actually don't know. It doesn't matter. Some person got a piece of an

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apple and put it under their dog's nose. And when the dog smelled the apple, it started humping the

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air. Like what the fuck? That was their, their habit. You know, they smell apples and they start

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humping the air. I used to have a dog that did something similar where if you try to scratch

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his head for too long, he would just jump up, grab your hand, put his penis in your fingers.

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It was disgusting. I kind of miss Max. He's not the current Max. We have Max like the fifth,

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Max, the fifth generation, Max of second. That's the one I'm talking about. I was a kid when it

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happened. I was so disgusted too, cause I was like, eww, little me was a little shit.

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Anyway, that's, that's your moment of lightness back to seriousness. I hate to be that guy. In

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fact, I know a lot of you people don't know this and I don't want to break the illusion by any

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chance, but if you watch Bear Grylls, you know, survive, Bear Grylls specifically, okay. Man

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versus wild. That show is a sadly a decent amount of it is bullshit. Okay. I'm talking like real

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bullshit. Survivor Man on the other hand, I don't know if you've ever heard of it, but it's a

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show that is actually based on a man who survived a lot. And the best part is the actual person,

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I forget his name, Lee Strout, I believe. Yeah, I was right. I was less Strout. He's like an

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actual survivor guy. Okay. He'll actually go out and record his own thing. He doesn't have a camera

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crew or anything. It's all him. And he teaches you valuable things. In fact, I watched him a lot

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growing up and now I still watch him as an adult because he makes YouTube content. And it's

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refreshing because he got all of the episodes of surviving winter, surviving summer, different

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places of the world. And he put them on YouTube for free. You could just watch them. Okay.

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Which is normally a much better scenario in this case, you know, cause I saw two of his episodes

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on surviving the cold winters. The difference is he didn't, he didn't have access to a house. This

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was out in the snow. Admittedly a much more realistic thing too, because if you're in a

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house and there's no electricity or heat and you're miles away from the nearest town, you're going

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to have to go into the wilderness and do something at some point. I'm not going to go too deep into

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it. There was, um, there was an event that I had when I was a young truck driver. And a lot of you

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people do know about this. Okay. The early listeners of the podcast know this story,

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but there was a story where I had to sleep in the middle of a desert, no civilization around,

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and I had half a bottle of water. I was okay because the thing is there's a thing that some

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people are self conscious about, right? Body fat. The thing is I was a chubby guy, so I had no

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problems looking for food. What do I mean by that? I mean, I didn't need to. My body just burned off

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some fat and I was fine. The problem is the half bottle of water. That's where I learned the hard

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way that your body really, really needs water, even when you're freezing cold. Okay. I was

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I mean, it's very important to it. The thing is I was unaware that hypothermia actually works

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quicker if you're dehydrated. I did not know that. So yes, it is important to melt snow and drink it,

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but you got to make sure it's melted. There's a thing that people did wrong and that's eating

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the snow and that would just chap your lips and dehydrate you further. Don't do that. Seriously,

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that stuff is dirty water. You got to clean the stuff. Okay. Good. Now let's talk about sources

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of food because there's not many in a cold, cold environment. Let's say, you know what? I honestly,

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the best thing for you to do right now is to have just cans of food. Okay. They don't even have to

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be there for like, you don't have, you have, well, what was that? What was that? You don't have to get

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something every year. You know what I mean? A lot of people will stock up and then restock.

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And the thing is in my family, if we looked at the pantry, we saw all the things that we had in cans,

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we would be fine for about a month just on canned food alone and dry goods. We make it a habit of

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buying beans and rice in immense bulk. Okay. 40 pound bags each. And you know what? That's

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going to last a hell of a lot longer than a can. You know what I mean? Well, not a hell of a lot

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longer. It depends on how you utilize it. The way we did it is we'd make beans, a lot of it, right?

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We'd put it in bags. We put it in the freezer. That's how we did it. And if we were hungry,

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we would just thaw it out and it tasted like new. You ever had a bag of frozen beans that were

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already cooked? When you reheat it, it doesn't taste frozen and tastes fresh. And it's actually

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really, it's a really helpful tip. Even if you're not surviving, just make some beans or make them

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in immense bulk, put them in a bag and just freeze them. It's actually pretty good. Like they, they

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cook, they're already cooked. You just got to thaw them out and heat them up again. We're going

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to reach the elephant in the room in just a moment. But before we do, I want to take a moment to thank

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every single one of you who, um, who's listening to the podcast or supporting me, even if you're

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subscribed to the Patreon or not. Some of you have been subscribed to the YouTube channel. Views have

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been going up. I thank you all immensely. Okay. You have no idea. Okay. I know I've been doing this

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for what? Two years, a little more now. And I feel grateful that you people have even bothered to

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listen. Seriously. A lot of you have been quiet. A lot of you have been silently listening and,

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and I noticed because I look at the analytics and I think there's so many people, I never get emails,

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but there's so many people. And you know what? Just the fact that you listened or gave it a shot.

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I appreciate that. I appreciate that more than you could ever know. I just want to take a moment to

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thank you all. Okay. Now the elephant in the room, Bear Grylls, you cannot drink your own urine.

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Don't do that shit. If you're dehydrated enough to the point where you feel like you need to drink

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your own urine, you're too dehydrated to do it. You have to be very well hydrated to drink your own

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urine. And you can only do it once. And it's a bad idea because there's ammonia in your piss. Okay.

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It's just not a good idea. You're better off using your urine to clean your clothes. And I am not

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joking. The ancient Romans did that. Okay. They would actually collect urine. There was a P tax

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at some point. Okay. I'm not kidding. Look at this. Look at this up. There was a P tax because

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urine was a valuable commodity in ancient Rome because instead of using any sort of bleach or

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anything else, they would clean their clothes with urine, which really begs the question as to what

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the hell they smelled like back then. Ew. Just use fucking bleach. Nevermind. Speaking of cleaning

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agents, there's something that I know how to do that you guys already know because I'm always

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fucking bragging about it. The soaps that I made. I think hypothetically you could still make that

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in a, you know, in a world where electricity and the heating system no longer works, but you have

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access to fire. You could still do it. The thing is back then the way they would make it, right?

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And listen closely, you'd get some clean water, as clean as you can get it. Unfortunately,

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you will have to use drinking water for this. You mix in ashes. Okay. You're going to stir it in until

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it's a very cloudy solution. And that's going to be essentially lye water. Or it's going to be water.

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I forget. It's like it's lime or something. I forget what it is, but this is important.

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You mix it in and then you get some fat, but you know, animal fat, very basic stuff. You mix a

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certain ratio of it. I forget which one, the kind that I have. It's very hard to explain.

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Let me look up that ratio actually. I have it right here on me at all times on my phone

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and I never have to explain it out loud. The difference is this is lye that I'm talking about.

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Okay. Here it is. You're going to want 80 milligrams of that material and 600. It's 80 to 600.

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So 80 milligrams of sodium hydroxide in this case to 600 grams of fat. The difference is in this case,

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the sodium hydroxide is mixed with 200 milliliters of distilled water. This is a chemically, you know,

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this isn't a regular kitchen. That's how I make it. The thing is it would be very different. I

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don't have a measuring for this soap making. Unfortunately, there are a lot of recipes online

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though, right? Where you just get regular animal fat soap and it's a thing that people have been

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doing for years. It shouldn't be too hard to make it on your own, but I'm saying that it would take

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a month to cure. That's the problem with this soap making is that if you already have soap at home,

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just use that. Okay. Disinfectant is very important in, you know, in this scenario as well. So it

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keeps some of that at hand. Again, prevention, you know, a plan ahead is what I'm trying to say.

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Okay. What the fuck was that prevention? I don't know what I'm talking about. Look,

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why would I even mention any of this? Okay. Again, I have a sinking feeling if I'm wrong,

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thank the bank, whatever heaven above. Okay. Because I don't want to be right in this scenario.

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Imagine just imagine a bad winter coming and it's so fucking freezing that it just,

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it just stopped everything. You know what I mean? We already had a flood. Fuck. I mean,

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is it not reasonable to think something cold is coming in winter? Yeah, probably not too bad.

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And it's just, it sucks. You know, it makes you think, um, it makes you think what if, you know,

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anyway, I still need to use the kayak in an actual body of water. Yeah, we're back to this. I know.

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But here's the thing that I'm thinking of, right? I have a fishing pole and I don't have a fishing

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and I don't have a fishing license. So I'm not going to go fishing, but I want to. So I'm

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thinking of getting a month pass and then going kayaking. The problem is the kayak that I have

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inflates with a pump that can easily burst with a fucking, you know, with a fishing rod,

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with the hook specifically, it just goes right in there. It pops that shit. That'd be embarrassing.

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You imagine having to swim back to shore because you popped your damn kayak. Yeah, that's embarrassing.

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I've got some damn good fish though. Probably funny enough. I have stories about me catching fish

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and never knowing what to do with them, but I'm glad that I learned because at some point I did

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catch a rainbow trout and I had someone who taught me how to open it, gut it, and then scale it.

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You're supposed to scale it first, but that's how I was taught. You know, you scale it by,

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you know, the scales are going to go, think of how the fish swims through the water, right?

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The scales are going to be aiming towards his tail. So you're going to go tail first,

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carve towards the head. Why am I saying this? I guess in a scenario, like I was mentioning earlier,

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you could still have a body of water nearby to fish. If you don't, you're going to have to know

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what local animals are nearby to hunt. But in my case, I have a lot of bodies of water to go fishing.

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Good for me. So, you know, tail to head first, start dragging a knife across it or a very sharp

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stone and whatever you have on hand and just keep doing that until no scales fly off. Those scales

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are not edible. The rest of the fish is. So, you know, I guess except for the bones, don't eat the

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bones or when you're done eating the fish, save the bones and boil them and make a fish stock,

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which you want to use within a day or two. Honestly, it's not, you don't have refrigeration.

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God damn. Okay. So that's how I learned, right? And after you scale it, you cut it open,

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watch the intestine. You don't want to cut too deep and cut open the, uh, the bile and all the

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dirty shit inside. And if you do, you got to wash it out. Or at the very least, if you have more fish,

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throw that one out or give it to a dog or whatever nearby, right? I often forget that too. Whenever,

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whenever there's a scenario where it's like, shit hits the fan and you don't have electricity or

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gas or running water, what are you going to do with your pets? You know, that's my biggest fear. I

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have a lot of dogs and I love each and every one of them. I'd never hurt them. In fact,

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if it's a end of the world scenario and I have to feed my dogs, I'm going to feed them first.

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They're my little babies. Okay. Damn. Especially Max. I've had him since he was a puppy. There's

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videos of me running on him at the beach. Like, what the fuck am I trying to say? Okay. There's

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videos of me at Pismo beach running alongside my dog. Why? Because he was small and didn't know how

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to run. He was stammering everywhere. It was so cute. I love him. He's only a year old, but he's

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already the father of seven babies. And there he is crying. Actually. I'm glad you can't hear that

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in the mic. Um, also the previous recording that I had, right? The reason I had to get rid of it,

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first off a number of things. One, I was exhausted after work and I could, I just came home and I was

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like, welcome back to the mood podcast. Come kill me Russia. You know, shit like that. That's what

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I was saying. Genuinely, unironically that I should have been a blooper reel, but I deleted it

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already. I don't think I want to go into that detail, but basically what I saw was that Russia

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wants to try and take Alaska back. And I basically yelled, come and take it. But like, I'm not

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patriotic. You know what I mean? Do I love this country? It's all right. It's got its problems.

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I'll admit that when it comes to patriotism, I'm not the biggest guy. You know what I mean?

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I see it the same as nationalism, which kind of think of it. You could, they're interchangeable

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words, but still. And the episode previous, I don't know why. I think at some point I was crying into

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the microphone. Again, don't record when you're not in the right mindset. I'm laughing at myself

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now because I'm looking back thinking, what the fuck was I on? You know? And then I remembered

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that I am on this new, I'm on this new supplement, but it doesn't do that. So I'm wondering what the

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fuck that came from. It's also the diet. I'm putting my body through a lot of stress. The only

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difference is I feel fucking good. I'll be honest. I've reached ketosis last week and I've had the

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keto fever for a bit. You guys know what that is, right? Keto fever, cold sweats. You're not

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actually sick, but your body thinks it is. It's acting that way. It's a bitch. Okay. My head hurt

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for three days straight. And now I have this cough, which occasionally just comes up at random. My

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occasionally just comes up at random. My body's just trying to act like it's sick, but it's not.

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It's so annoying. My voice even changed mid-sentence. Anyway, that's going to do it

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for this episode of the Meatweed Podcast. Thank you all for listening. The YouTube video came out

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and honestly, the reception has been astronomical. Thank you all so much for that. I made a short

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with one of the clips in the YouTube video and it got like a thousand views. So I do appreciate

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that you guys have been spreading the word. If you haven't, please share this podcast, share the video,

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bug your parents, bug your family, do everything. Okay. I still have the merch in the merch store,

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but I also have a book that I'm selling and currently I'm working on another one.

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I have two books actually that I've been selling for years and I've made,

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I think I've sold six, which is still amazing to me, right? Because the thing is my name is on a

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book and it's in someone's shelf. That feels incredible to me. Even if you don't read the damn

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book. Okay. It's there. That's what matters to me. I'm a published author. I feel fucking great

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about that. I can brag about it and it feels nice, but I got to make another book. Otherwise,

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it's not really, it doesn't really count. You know what I mean? Anyway, that's going to do it

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for this episode of Meatweed Podcast. I'll see you all next week. Hopefully I'm not too busy this

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weekend, but I am trying to get some more people to listen and I'm thinking of another ad campaign.

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I don't know if the one that I have in mind is really ethical or going to work, but I know I'd

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make a hell of a YouTube video. The problem is again, I, you know, I'm spit balling ideas.

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They're not the best. I say unethical, like I'm going to kill something. No, dude. I was going to,

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I was going to get some meat wheat stickers and tie them to a helium balloon and set them off.

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That was it. But that's all I could think about right now. Anyway, I'll see you guys next week.

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Thanks.