Medical Monday: Herbal Medicine for Preppers - Growing Antibiotic, and Antiseptic Herbs

Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. Well, really, I should say take two of this week's show, because, as I think I've mentioned before, I live in a very rural area. I mean, my town is like I think, seventy people. It's not really a town, of course, and the county seat is like four hundred people. And I live bus side. I live pretty far deep in the woods, and so I have really lousy internet service, very few options for internet service, and almost no cell coverage. I mean a lot of times I actually have to drive to the next county to make a phone call. It's really that bad. And sometimes for like two three counties, I can't get a call in or out, you know. So I pre record my shows, and yesterday's we had some technical problems. After doing a good hour long, very informative show on today's subject, which is growing herbs that are antibodic and any septic, very important topic and several gardening tips, and you know how I tend to go off in various directions. I replayed the show and it sounded like Ben Stein sitting in a massage chair. It was like sped up. My voice was weird and high. I'm not sorry, Ben Stein Ben Shapira. That makes a whole lot more sense. Not you know, buel Or, I'm talking Ben Shapiro, who talks like a chipmunk. And it's not a true conservative, by the way. Don't let him fool you. He's a real fake. Anyway, it sounded like that, And of course I don't talk that fast, and I don't talk that high pitched. I actually have a little bit of testosteron in my system, something else Benstein lacks as well as conservatism and ethics. The shaky, choppy part I can't explain at all. So I had to just trash the whole show and start over. So getting started on take two of my presentation, I guess should say five antibiotic and antiseptic herbs and one tree. Remember this all comes from my book Growing Your Survival Herb Garden. We got to start with garlic. I mean, garlic is just you know, if I could only choose one or two herbs to have, garlic would be top of the list. Garlic is so good for you in so many ways. It helps with blood pressure, it helps with circulation, It is antiseptic, it's antibiotic, it can be used on wounds, it can be used internally, and it tastes wonderful and you can actually help you not catch a cold. It can be part of your whatevery, fireside or whatever you make. It's good for the lungs and properties. Garlic is just, you know, really one of the best herbs there is. All the alioms have these properties. Onions, shallots, leaks, et cetera. Ramps are very very nice and strong ramps usually grow wild, though garlic is generally considered the strongest of the aliens. Now, when you use garlic, generally you want to crush the garlic bulb to release the oils and let them kind of oxidize a little bit. Yes, that makes the garlic hotter, but it makes it more potent Medicinally. When it comes to growing garlic, it's really really neat because all right, first of all, don't try to grow store bog garlic. It's it's like it's a crap shoot. You know, you could plant one hundred little bulbs of garlic and maybe one or two of them are gonna work, and that's because it's cured. You really want to get your garlic from a seed company and it doesn't have to be terribly expensive. In fact of seedsnow dot com, which sells really inexpensive seeds and offers I think usually discounts on shipping, and like every month they'll send out a twenty percent off coupon if you order on this day. I've ordered a lot of seeds from seeds Now. They don't give you big packs of seeds, but every year, I think it's like once a year they put their garlic on sale and it's maybe five bucks, and that's like the most expensive thing they have in their entire catalog. You only get a few clothes, but they're good quality garlic clothes that are going to grow when garlic forms. When it grows, it forms a head. That head, which is often called a clove, is actually ahead of garlic, and it's comprised of what maybe thirty little clothes of garlic. Those are bulbs. Each one of those will sprout into a separate plant. So if you only had three or five garlic clothes that were good to grow, you could grow out five garlic plants, eat you know, three or four of them, and have enough garlic left over to grow thirty or sixty or one hundred plants the next season. So it's a really good investment. Garlic has other really good attributes in the garden. It can help prepare pests. There are some bugs that really don't like garlic. But really what garlic is great at is helping to keep moles out of your garden. Moles love to eat roots, right, they will tunnel under your garden and they're real pests. I mean, you can use mole traps. You know, my great grandfather was constantly trapping moles. Those are really well, it's really some of the first trapping I was exposed to. And there's a lot of strategy involved in the traps themselves are spring loaded with these like blades that come down or like some even kind of fascinating to a little kid. You know. Moles and bowles are different. Moles go underground. Voles which are really more like mice anyway, they both rodents. Anyway, they go kind of under mulch, they go under pine straw. So actually, if you kind of rake stuff back from your garden and put in a little layer of pea gravel around the edges, if you have a problem with voles, that are really helped because when they hit that pea gravel or it could be larger gravel, but they really don't want to go through rocks and that they won't find your garden that way. Moles will just tunnel under. Well. One thing moles really hate is garlic. So when you plant your garlic, I like to think of it as a border crop. I plant it around my beds to keep the moles out. There's actually several plants that are really good at keeping the quitters out of your garden. Some of them help even repel insects. A lot of there are more ara or bugs just don't like them. But you know, rabbits can be a problem for folks. Rabbits do not like wormwood, and they don't like lemon grass. Neither do deer. Now, deer are a little trickier because the deer actually has to be down and like browsing and grazing in the ground to encounter the wormwood or the lemon grass. So sometimes they just kind of jump over it and they don't even notice it's there. But rabbits usually will not go through a barrier of those plants. Deer really they'll hate sorghum and they hate lima beans. If you do a border around your vegetable garden, or if it's you know, landscaping of say maybe three staggered rows of sorghum, which is a very useful crop. You can do a lot of stuff with sorghum. It's a really great sugar substitute. You can make beer out of sorghum, you can make sorghum molasses. I mean, you know, you can eat it as a grain. It's a really good plant, easy, super easy to grow. I mean, sorghum compared to corn is like a no brainer. And then plant your lima beans right there with them. The lima beans will grow up the sorghum, they will make a natural fence to fence out deer. Now, of course, you can also see that your garden attracting critters can be a benefit. For instance, I kind of arrange things so that the rabbits come to a certain point and I catch them in rabbit boxes, and it becomes a food source to the extent that I can in the season. I like to take deer the same way. I don't have a need to go set up a tree stand and you know, go full camo rambo in the woods to get my deer meat. I just set up and take the ones that come to my yard. Yeah, I shoot the yard deer. You know, it makes sense to me, and it helps protect my garden, and that makes the pest an asset. Same would bear. You know, we got a lot of bears in my area. I just keep an eye on the ones coming through the yard, daring they do. They really like to browse around, and so the old sow I'm looking for, wait tool, cold, perfect day to take that bear. You could do the same with raccoons. But if raccoon cook the right way is actually very good meat. We're not talking garbage can raiders. We're talking the ones that live in the woods and eat natural, clean stuff. Same with possums actually, and in my book The Omnivorous Guide to Home Cooking, I really get into how to trap coons and possums, give them a nice clean diet for a while, and then prepare them in a way that you're going to find remarkably tasty if you've never tried it before. And yes, I know possums can be kind of nasty, but again there's an apple ash in tradition of keeping them and raising them almost like chickens, giving them a clean diet and harvesting when the time comes. It's true of many animals, especially where I live groundhogs. We have huge groundhogs. I mean it is nothing to take a fifteen pound groundhog. I mean they're big. They're not those little groundhogs that you get in other areas. And they are super clean, vegetarian animals, very actually, very wary and quite a challenged hunt. I have a friend who lives in upstate New York and his groundhogs are pretty darn big too. And his father taught him to well, he's a big bow hunter. And it's I mean, you want a challenge, try to hunt groundhogs with a bow and arrow. I mean it's tough. They will smell you coming like two hundred yards away. Okay, they have bad vision, but they have incredible noses and ears. But what his father taught him to do is take a little transis to radio and you know, wait till the groundhogs and it's burrow come up and put it just you know, a few yards away and turn it on to a normal volume and then run away real quick and wait that curious groundhog has to come up and see what that noise is. Can they cannot help himself, and that's how he hunts a groundhog. But they're actually very easy to trap if it's legal where you are a body grip trap over the entry to their burrow or den, take them every time, and you may have to put a box over that to exclude other animals you know, may not even be legal in your area, Like in North Carolina, snaring is illegal. Snaring works very well for groundhogs, but we can only do it for water sets for beaver. It's pretty stupid really. Meanwhile, just across the line in Tennessee, it's a constitutional right to hunt fish and trap. The regulations are night and day. South Carolina has better fishing regulations, better seafood regulations, but in some instance it's tough for hunting regulations. You're just gonna have to see what the deal is in your area. I think is it Virginia you can take more deer than you can in North Carolina? Or is it Georgia. I think both of them may be. It just you know, it totally varies. So I'm not telling you go do this. I'm telling you check your riggs. But actually, if rabbits are your concern, what a wonderful food source what a great concern to have. Check my old friend Tim the Meat Trapper on YouTube. His video is still up of this rabbit box trap he designed that had just an ingenious trigger system. That's what we would call an elegant system. Elegant doesn't mean fancy, it means perfectly simple and working without any waste. Okay, And it's a brilliant trap. That's the meat trapper, Tim Roper, and his videos are still up on YouTube. It just kind of like, you know, the father of perma culture was Bill Mollison and a real you know, scoundrel of a guy and real brilliant but you know, on the liberal side and all that. But he had a great mind for solving problems. And someone said to him one time they had this horrible problem with slugs in the garden. He looked at him, said, you don't have a slug problem, you have a duck problem. If you got ducks, the ducks would eat the slugs. You could then eat the ducks and your garden would be you know, protected from slugs, and your your freezer would be full of delicious duck meat. So that's kind of the way I think about gardens, you know, chickens are they'll destroy your garden. Guinea fowl are the best little pest control system you can get if you can put up with them. They're very annoying creatures, but they're very tasty creatures as well, so it's sort of a trade off. You know. The only thing with ducks and geese is the well. Now, some geese will actually pull up plants for no apparent reasons. Sometimes ducks can trample small plants. So but for the most part, if your garden is you know, mature ducks do great, and guineas always do great. If you had to, you could probably even get like quail, you know, maybe pigeons just you know, keep them in a little coop and just kind of let them help with the bugs. I think pigeons are more seed eaters, so you'd have to be careful with that obviously, but hey, that could prevent a lot of weed spreading, you know. So there's so many things you can do, you know. The only animal I really don't have a good solution for is squirrels. Squirrels are the bane of my existence when it comes to carden me. They will go dig up the seeds you planted for no apparent reason, just to see what you put in the ground. They'll just go dig it up and leave it out. I will go plant my garden. I come back the next morning, all my seeds are scattered all over the ground. The plants come up about an inch inch or too tall. The squirrels just go dig them up or cut them off. And one time I thought cutworms had destroyed my my corn that year. No, it turns out there were three or four squirrels that just went around and cut all the little corn plants off at the base. They're just they would drive me nuts. So here's my solution for squirrels. Squirrel meets really good. It's actually one of the tastiest wild game meets. And no matter where you live, unless you are in an apartment or something, Okay, you may live where you can't fire a rifle, obviously, if you live in town or whatever. Most even in tight neighborhoods, don't have regulations against air rifles. You know, the regulations are still written for like the old daisy red rid bb gun. They still think of it as for kids. Well, there have been huge innovations over the past couple of decades in air rifles a few years ago, I got a hat Sand that's h A s A N twenty two Cali break barrel air rifles, just single shot. You know, they come either break barrel or they kind of compressed air. They now have very large calibers. I mean you can get a fifty caliber that you could actually people hunt wild hogs with them. I mean these things are serious power and really for up to say fifty yards and maybe even like sixty or seventy. That air rifle has replaced my standard twenty two rifle. The AMMO is so cheap. I mean well, I mean twenty two is not generally expensive caliber. You know, you can get a bunch of them for just plinking. But think about this. You can get like a hat Sand, or you can spend more on a Benjamin or you know, some of these air rifles. It just depends on what your needs are and your budget. I bought mine for seventy five bucks refurbished. You can get a thing of pellets, like was it two hundred and five hundred pellets to a ten for five bucks. I mean, if things were really to you know, get bad. And I was looking at not so much firearms for self defense, but looking at my options for hunting for survival, which would include a lot of small game. All I would definitely buy a few of these high powered air rifles, and I would definitely stock up on pellets. Bullets. You know, they kind of have an expiration date. Pellets don't get you know, a couple of extra parts. Learn to take them apart and fix them when something breaks. And you know, honestly, in a self defense situation, some of those larger calibers wouldn't be a bad thing to have on hand. You know, it's not going to replace my shotgun. It's not going to replace my you know, two seventy my favorite deer rifle, old Winchester Pomp. I don't mean I love that thing, but in many, many circumstances, that is not a practical rifle to shoot. I mean that does bullets go a long way. I mean two seventies around that's going to pack a wallop way beyond what you can see with your eyes. And so yeah, I mean for close range, you know, your backyard, keeping the pass out of the garden and putting a little extra meat on the table or in the freezer. I think, yeah, go to airgun deep or a similar site and look around you kind of options that will really really below your mind. Actually, uh, if you're if you're still you know, remembering a Christmas story and the Daisy read writer. I actually have one of those. Old I found a Daisy read writer at an antique store when I was like ten years old. I had to have it after seeing a Christmas story and well, you know, it's super fun. You know, you just load up with bebies and just start, you know, clinking away. And but you know you're not going to take anything very large with that. I mean, if you hit a pigeon in the head maybe, you know, but h with that hat's in, it'll punch through two by fours. I mean, I'm not kidding. I mean I would take some scrap wood and set it up with like fifty yards and go back and just start fooling around island in the scope. They have such a kick that the scope gets you know, you always have to keep readjusting it. And I mean it would just punch right through a two by four. I mean, if it'll punch through a two by four, it'll punch through you know, most critics skulls, you know. Really Yeah, anyway, let me get back to the subject, which is garlic. Okay, so let's see, I've already talked about how to make a fence out of sorghum and lime of beans. It's a really good tip, by the way, really really helps with deer. I mean, deer will jump fences you know where I live, because they are hills. They will jump over a very tall fence and then not be able to get back out of your garden because they can get up on the hill on the outside right, and then they just kind of rampage and destroy everything. For anyway, So I've said how garlic grows from bulbs. Okay, there two types of garlic. There's hard neck and soft neck. The let's see in the cold climate it does better. Let's see, all right, I'm losing my place here. In warm climates, garlic should be playing in early spring and as early as possible. In cold climates it does better. Plan in the fall and well covered with mulch. Plant The closes about two inches de four to six inches apart. Garlic prefers a light, moist soil with some mulch on top. It does not like weeds. You know, you may have to weed this one a little bit. But you know the benefit of using mulch is that you can kind of cover the weeds up and keep weeds from germinating, and it really helps. And garlic does like full sun. And as I said, it's a great border plant. The hard neck garlic does better in cold climates. The soft neck garlic does better in warm climates. I usually grow the hard neck, of course, because I live in a cold area, and it works much better for me. Now, just as I said, all the aliums are good, well, all the artemisias are good, and I've already mentioned the most famous of the artemisias, which is wormwood. Really, all the artemesias are among my favorite herbs. These are probably some of the oldest herbs known to man because primitive man figured out if he stuck them in water, it would make the water safe to drink. They are antimicrobial, they kill the stuff that is in there. And that's probably the first tea people came up with was probably a wormwood or a sage tea, which has similar properties. The well, I could go on and on about wormwood. You know, it's it's the main herb used in abscentth and all that. It's a great liver stimulant. It's also a very very good antiseptic, and so one you definitely want your garden. It's a pretty plant. The foliage is gonna look really good. For flowers aren't much, but this is a good one. You could put maybe some you know, it's sort of almost a silvery green kind of shiny leaf, and you could put maybe some red flowers in front of it, or some violets, or maybe some little blue flowers. Something will kind of make it pop. So you could work this in if you have to have an ornamental garden. Wormwood is weedy all the absence are we They can do pretty well in poor soils. They don't like a lot of water. They do like full sun. These seeds need to be stratified, so either plants three seeds in the winter or fall, or pop them in the freezer for a couple of weeks. It doesn't need long stratification. It's period at all. Like I said, just moderate water, fairly drought resistant. But you know, if it can, it can profit from a little bit of mulch and water if the soil is really bad or if it is really dry that year. I'm not saying you can just totally neglect it. But really, once it's established its perennial and it's going to take care of its own, take care of itself on its own. The only thing about wormwood is it does not play well with others. You know, I've talked before about how oak I mean walnut trees. The jugman's family puts out oxidates from its roots that will prevent other plants from erminating around it. It's called juggling. Actually, wormwood similar a lot of plants. Most plants don't grow well near wormwood. It hinders their growth. So you want to consider you don't want to put your wormwood right up next to your tomato plants or something. Sit them back, you know, a row, and grow things in front of them basically, or use it as a border plant. Like I said, it's going to help keep rabbits and deer out of your garden. Be really nice to do, you know, a row of wormwood, go back a foot and do maybe a row of garlic. It may even take a little bit more than that, but you put to up two barriers against you know, moles, and then the deer and the rabbits and all that. And yeah, probably leave your garden alone a lot better, or you can kind of use that to direct them toward your traps or the best spot in your yard to take a shot at something. Think of it that way anyway. Easy plant to grow hardy from some four A to eight B. So that's like much of Canada down to South Georgia and Alabama. So easy, easy, easy. You're berberon containing herbs. This golden silk barberry Oregon grape coptis. I've mentioned this so many times. I love Oregon grape. The berberin is the yellow pigment in the root, one of the best antiseptics for wines, for instance, very good taken internally, good for colds and flus, good for food poisoning. These are great to have around. I use Orgon grape mostly because it's been used as a landscaping crop so much in my region that the birds have carried the seeds everywhere, and I rarely go out without seeing a little Oregon grape bush that I can pull up if I need it. I grow it in my yard. It's very prickly. The leaves are sort of like holly, but holly on steroids with like really scary thorns. A lot of people use it as a hedge plant. Put it under the windows to keep people from breaking in your house or peeping in your windows. Berries can make a very nice wine or jam. Excellent plant. Now, if you couldn't do a hedge, look at coptis or gold thread, pretty little flour. You definitely grow it in your garden. But Oregon grape is my go to, and it's so easy to grow. I mean it's on five A to nine B. Very very hardy, very very hardy. I mean my friends in Canada have as much Oregon grape as I have. I mean it's just everywhere, and it's so tough. I mean a lot of times. Well, I'll need to grow a lot of Oregon grape. So when I find one of the woods, I might cut off half the root and use it medicinally and then just stick the rest of the plant in the ground. It will grow right back, super tough. I mean like a bulletproof. You can grow this one, no problem. A Ragnon tyme are culinary herbs, but both of them contain the compound time all that's the essential oil that is strongly antibiotic, strongly antibiotic. Definitely worth growing these herbs in your garden. Both of them can be a little tricky. Both of them are Mediterranean herbs. You might want to grow them in pots, you know, but if you cook with a lot of aragno and thyme, and you use a lot of garlic and onions in your soup, in your in your tomato sauce and you know whatever, you're probably going to be overall healthier. So definitely worth trying to grow. Do both perennial. You can start them from seed, but germination isn't great on either of them. They can be very tender and they actually take a long time to germinate. I mean you can put the seeds in the ground and like a month later they still don't come up, and then suddenly they'll pop up, and you know, you're like, what is that? I don't even remember what I planted? But they are actually attractive plants if you can get them going. And once they do get going, they did pretty hardy. They take care of themselves. They're just kind of hard to get established. And it's all often much easier to plant them from cuttings and seed, and you can just root the cuttings and propagate them out and in fact, once you get one or two growing, it's easy to spread the plant that way hardy from zone five eight to nine B actually once they get going. But just remember that it is a Mediterranean plant, and when it comes up, it's very tender. It's expecting that, you know, warm Mediterranean sun and not too much water at all. But yeah, they do well, and you might actually this time of year go down to your garden center, your grocery store, your hardware store or whatever and just buy a couple of plants and get them established and then just take cuttings from that. It's probably probably going to be a lot easier. Just remember neither of them likes being overwatered like wormwood. They don't like wet feet. As we say, Dandelion, the hated weed and the if of every golfer and lawn fanatic, is such a wonderful plant. I mean, that would be another of my top five herbs in this case. Now, I mean I can go on about the benefits of dandelion, just like I could about wormwood or garlic. Even dandelion is specifically antibiotic against urinary tract, bladder infections and cystitis. So if that's an issue. Let's just say if you have a lady in your life, it's going to be an issue at some point. Grow some dandelion and you, of course you can go out and gather the seeds when they form those little, you know, puffball heads in the wild, or you can get some seeds from like Baker Creek. I think they have these French dandelions that are growing for the greens. They're less bitter, and the usually have a little purple tint to them and a very attractive plant. You can work them into your landscaping and you'd really be surprised how pretty dandelions can be if they're planted intentionally. And you know, if you've got this idea that dandelion is some noxious weed that you need to spray down with chemicals that are going to give you cancer just so you have a perfectly green yard, you're probably not gonna light my book very much because I have like the opposite idea. But even if you do, and you need to put your little garden plot behind your house where the people in the hoa don't see it, or the poa, plant a row of garden dandeline in your garden and just think of it as a medicinal herb and delicious tasty greens, wonderful, wonderful green vegetables. Take those leaves, cook them down a little fat, put some hot pepper vinegar on there. Just delicious. Now, of course, dandelion is synonymous with weeds. I mean it is hardy from zone three A to ten B. That's like Alaska to South Texas to the Keys. I mean that is, you know, a huge range. It will grow in very poor soil and it puts out so many seeds that one puff of wind will spread it. Now, the seeds do have to be stratified to germinate. They do to actually take a little bit of work. I guess you should could say nature does that for the plant. Of course, the more care you give the plant, the more the better the soil is, the mulch, good watering, The taste to your dandelion greens are going to be. And you may want to pick the flowers and make dandelion wine or dandyline syrup. I call it sunshine in a bottle, Absolutely fantastic. And if you cut the flowers in the bud form, you could pickle those and make like capers, you know. But the dandelion leaves will stay less bitter if you don't let it flower. If you don't let it flower, it's not going to form seed heads. If it doesn't form seed heads, it doesn't and become weedy. So I gather plenty from the mountains all around me. They grow wild everywhere. But if you have that perfect lawn, put them in your garden, take care of them as you would you know, crop of turnip greens or mustard greens, lettuce, whatever, and you're gonna probably kind of get the same attitude as I have of like what is wrong with people who keep trying to get this plant off their property. It is medicinal, like ten times more than most plants, it's delicious, and it has more uses than just about anything. Another one. We'll get to the tree. Now. You can obviously grow trees, hopefully you have one on your property, but you're probably gonna be able to find this in the woods around you, in a park, in a neighbor's yard. It's juniper. You can definitely harvest juniper berries in places that aren't on your property, because nobody really EATSI berries anymore. For some reason, juniper berries are what we use to flavor gin. Juniper berries are e strongly medicinal. They have antibiotic and antiseptic properties. They have anti viral properties. They are so good for you. They are packed with vitamin C. You pick them when they're nice and blue. The wild juniper in my area is actually called eastern red cedar, even though it's a juniper, not a cedar. It's Juniperus virginiana. I believe jenniperous. I guess it's right pronounce that. But the low groundcovered junipers or the bush formed junipers that people using landscaping are equally useful as long as they grow berries. Some of them have been bread not to grow berries, which are actually not berries. They're actually cones. But they're sweet and crunchy and really tasty. I snack on them often. Really juniper his well. Juniper would also be in the top five herbs. I can't think I could do without if I had to pick some. And the only thing is too much over too long a period of time can irritate the kidneys. So other than that, absolutely fantastic. I love juniper well. I make my own gin just steeping in vodka. It's wonderful with gen and tonic, but use it in cooking with game meats, with fatty fattier meats. A few juniper berries in there, perfect wonderful compliment with like pork chops, little rosemary and juniper, a little bit of garlic. Fantastic. Seriously, if you haven't tried it, you really need to give that a try. All right. So other herbs that are good along these lines, antibiotic and aseptic all campaign really good, weedy flour you could plant. It's covered in another chapter. That's the reason all these are covered in another chapter. As far as growing winter green horse radish. Yeah, the spicy condiment, very good, spikenard German caramel horsemant Now I'm gonna say tansy. But tansy can be very dangerous. It can be toxic. It can cause miscarriages, it can actually cause death. I mean it's whereas you know, I give a few caveats with wormwood. You know, don't use this when pregnant, it can be dangerous. Don't use it in large amounts or one period of time, or you know, never use the essential oil of warm boyd. That'll kill you dead, or than a door nail. Whatever. And all that's in my book. You know, I'm just kind of going everything's here in a general way. Tansy is like probably ten times stronger and can actually be quite dangerous. Now in small amounts. It is a very useful or spearmint very good. And hops, yes, the hops, the flavored beer, which all these are covered in other chapters. Now that's about it, y'all have a a wonderful week. Please buy my books if you're so inclined. You're all on Amazon, or you can go to Judsoncarrol dot com. Sign up for my free subsec newsletter and I'll talk to you next time. Let's hope this one works out. That was a little odd yesterday, and I'm serious, sounded like Ben Shapiro in one of those vibrating massage chairs. It's really weird. So let's hope this one sounds a bit better. Have a going