[00:00:00] You're listening to PBN.
[00:00:07] Your path back to stability here. America is only as crooked and as lost as we allow her to be.
[00:00:37] Yes.
[00:00:38] I want you to live by that principle for the remainder of 2024.
[00:00:42] Even if you can't live by it, at least keep it
[00:00:45] close by. Put it on a post-it note. Hang it in a mirror or whatever. America's only as
[00:00:50] crooked and lost as we allow her to be. That, my friends, is the real truth. You know? The
[00:00:59] Fox News headline, the MSN headline, the Prepper Broadcasting Network headline even, what it never takes
[00:01:06] into account is you, the people, the failings, the collective failures of the people. And
[00:01:15] the further I get along this path that I am on, the more I look to the people around me
[00:01:19] and say, you know, we know what we know about the highest levels of government, but how
[00:01:24] many people are they? We know what we know about the highest levels of government, but how many people
[00:01:25] are they?
[00:01:26] We know what we know about the richest and most influential people in the world, but
[00:01:29] how many people are they?
[00:01:33] What I am most interested in is you, me, the people around me close to me.
[00:01:42] Not close to me in the sense even that their family
[00:01:45] though I am interested in them too but I'm talking about
[00:01:49] you know a lot of assumptions are made when you listen to a guy who
[00:01:54] who calls himself the intrepid commander with the proper broadcasting a lot of
[00:01:58] assumptions are made
[00:01:59] you get to the point where you say to yourself who is this guy anyway
[00:02:03] I guess he's some guy who lives out in the middle of nowhere. He's got a homestead.
[00:02:07] He's always talking about his chickens and his gardens and stuff.
[00:02:10] And you know, great as it would be, it's just not me.
[00:02:12] Well, my diehard fans really know who I am.
[00:02:16] They know where I live. They know. I'm awash in humanity.
[00:02:20] I'm awash in humanity.
[00:02:23] My kids are spread out between two.
[00:02:25] I don't want to go into it for upset reasons, but my lifestyle puts me in front of a broad
[00:02:31] range of people.
[00:02:32] Now, I don't sit down and talk to them all, but I watch them and I listen and I wonder
[00:02:36] and some of them I do talk to.
[00:02:43] And I always will. I enjoy stepping through the American experience. I enjoy
[00:02:52] the good and the bad. I enjoy the sorrow and the joys, the whole thing. You know
[00:02:57] what I mean? I like to watch the American experience go round. In fact it's one of my joys, it's one of my great joys to sort of walk almost unseen
[00:03:12] in the world, particularly through neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia where I see kids playing,
[00:03:19] families walking, whatever that situation, it doesn't have to be picturesque, doesn't have
[00:03:23] to be perfect, could be a dad yelling at his son, could be a group of siblings fighting,
[00:03:28] you know what I mean? But when you see that sort of picturesque America, not in the perfect
[00:03:34] sense, but in the familial sense, and you see, and in that whole mix, you also see people
[00:03:41] who are frustrated and suffering and working
[00:03:45] their way through whatever kind of problems they're working their way
[00:03:48] through this is the whole this is America like this is what it is you are
[00:03:56] what it is I have to tell you that the things that we suffer in this nation are us. They are us. You know
[00:04:09] what I mean? And if we could only look to ourselves for the answers, we'd be much
[00:04:16] better. You know, we could look to God and we could look to ourselves long before
[00:04:21] we ever looked to a political leader, we ever looked to a political leader we ever looked to a you know some famous person whatever I was listening to Tim Kennedy on modern
[00:04:34] wisdom which is one of my favorite podcasts right now and if you want to
[00:04:39] help me out I actually sent a guest request I'm not anywhere near big enough or popular
[00:04:46] enough to wind up on that show right now because it's exploding. But I, you know,
[00:04:52] that's me. I'll take a crack anyway. And so, you know, go over to Modern Wisdom
[00:04:59] website, send them a thing, say you want James from the Prepper Broadcasting
[00:05:02] Network to come on, it might help help might nudge him a little bit
[00:05:06] but anyway
[00:05:07] Tim Kennedy was talking about how Americans are
[00:05:12] Entering trying the Americans who are entering the military are too dumb and too fat to join
[00:05:18] you know like they're the ASVAB scores have been dropping for 25 years plus and
[00:05:23] They're too out of shape and
[00:05:25] too feeble to endure what's required.
[00:05:29] A lot of them.
[00:05:30] A large percentage.
[00:05:32] And I thought about that for a while, you know, and thought and thought and thought
[00:05:37] and I said to myself, you know, this is not a...
[00:05:41] The problems that we face are not legislatable. I think you know that already, right? They're not things we can
[00:05:48] legislate our way. You can't say, stop being fat!
[00:05:52] To the kids. I also
[00:05:56] started thinking, you know, one of the major problems with the military
[00:06:00] right now is, if you were to join the military,
[00:06:04] what would you be
[00:06:05] doing? You know the major conflicts that most people see most people don't want
[00:06:11] to be involved in so that's a part of the deal too and it all kind of it all
[00:06:17] kind of comes back to this idea of who are these American people? What are we creating? What are we?
[00:06:27] And better to look inward and ask yourself each and every morning what can I do to be better than to ask what can the country do to be better?
[00:06:37] What can the leaders do to be better? Do you know what I mean?
[00:06:40] I posted something. I don't know if it's there anymore somebody reposted it to me though so I can see who who liked it oh you know it was it
[00:06:49] was our wonderful sponsor say grace protein thank you say grace for throwing
[00:06:54] that up because now I can go back and read it because I operate this big
[00:07:00] Instagram channel and sometimes I post things up there that have nothing to do
[00:07:07] with nothing and everything to do with me. Everyone thinks of changing the world
[00:07:13] but no one thinks of changing themselves and then I added to that this is why you
[00:07:17] struggle with prepping. That was the post because I see that a lot you know I see
[00:07:24] that that's the whole purpose behind the
[00:07:26] routines here at PBN. The preparedness routines, the monthly routines. It's just because it's
[00:07:31] a good metric. Again, what I want to hear from someone who doesn't participate in the
[00:07:37] PBN routines is, well, one of two things. One, I'm not a member and I'm sorry, so I'm signing up now. And number two, I have my own routine
[00:07:48] and it's better than yours.
[00:07:50] Those are the things I wanna hear.
[00:07:52] Do you know what I mean?
[00:07:54] But I don't hear a lot of that.
[00:07:55] I hear a lot of nothing in terms of routines,
[00:07:57] unless people are doing them.
[00:08:01] But that's the quickest way to fix this country you it's you
[00:08:08] That's a lot I know it's a lot of pressure I don't have time I can't I'm not making any money
[00:08:12] I'm struggling I can't do it. I can't figure it out. I don't know. I mean you
[00:08:17] Yeah, maybe I don't know maybe not though
[00:08:22] You know stop reserving
[00:08:24] One of the things I learned working out years
[00:08:27] ago was to stop reserving your muster for some time in the future where that you
[00:08:34] think might be coming. Do you know what I mean? Like you hear it from Americans all
[00:08:39] the time. You hear it from preppers all the time. You hear it from people a lot.
[00:08:43] Like there's another gear and when things things get real, I go to that. I'm going to that gear.
[00:08:50] Like, I learned and I realized,
[00:08:53] if you want to work out and you really want to get strong and really get your endurance up,
[00:08:59] you got to go for it all. Like, you got to go for it all.
[00:09:04] Forget about like, let me hold back,
[00:09:06] cause I got a long day.
[00:09:07] Let me hold back.
[00:09:08] No, no, no.
[00:09:09] Your body will adapt.
[00:09:12] And it's the same thing with life.
[00:09:16] You know, we have to be the best version of Americans
[00:09:19] you've ever seen.
[00:09:21] That's what we have to strive to be.
[00:09:24] We have to raise kids who can be that.
[00:09:25] I don't know guys, you know?
[00:09:29] America's only as crooked and lost as we allow her to be. It's that simple.
[00:09:32] You can't sit here and tell me that these retards in Congress
[00:09:36] are the reason America's ruined. Because what you're saying then is this.
[00:09:40] I got beat by Ocasio-Cortez.
[00:09:44] I can't live with it. First of all, I can't live with
[00:09:50] the American people being beat by Rashida Tlaib, and I certainly can't live with the
[00:09:56] fact that I'm gonna sit here and concede defeat to somebody who's that much of an idiot. It's
[00:10:02] not gonna happen. And the way that we stand
[00:10:06] up and the way that we do this thing the right way is... Well, let's get to One
[00:10:14] Threat One Solution and we'll talk about it in detail. How about that? I don't know.
[00:10:19] I was planting this morning listening to too much patriotic conversation, listening
[00:10:27] to all those terrible, horrible, doing all those terrible, horrible things that should
[00:10:33] be outlawed, right?
[00:10:35] All those terrible, you know, thinking about the future and planning for America and, you
[00:10:41] know, I don't know, pre know prepping survival self-reliance
[00:10:45] independence all those terrible words that should be banned and outlawed you
[00:10:50] know how it goes right I was all awash in those feelings today and as you can
[00:10:56] see it's translating to you so let's get into it threat, one solution.
[00:11:15] Look, it's a dark story, PBM family, and this one is much less a solution and much more
[00:11:20] a lesson, I guess, but it is what it is.
[00:11:23] In DC on February 25th the eve of the
[00:11:25] commander's birthday a man who identified himself as an active duty
[00:11:29] Air Force serviceman a member while wearing what appeared to be a OCP
[00:11:33] utility uniform set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy. This is in
[00:11:40] Washington DC February 25th. This guy has no respect for my birthday by the way.
[00:11:47] I'm just kidding.
[00:11:49] This is happening in America.
[00:11:51] This is from our partners the Gray Man Brief by the way.
[00:11:54] This is happening in America, the United States.
[00:11:56] It's wild.
[00:11:58] This is not Iraq, it's not Afghanistan, this isn't some nightmare in Africa.
[00:12:08] He set himself on fire in front of the Israel embassy.
[00:12:13] He reportedly said, I will no longer be complicit in genocide and free Palestine.
[00:12:16] Wow.
[00:12:19] I need you to sit with this for a moment.
[00:12:20] Just sit with this for a moment.
[00:12:24] The US air force spokesperson later confirmed the man was an active duty airman. The man died from his injuries. Pro-palestinians are holding multiple vigils in his honor.
[00:12:29] They're honoring him now. The man was in contact. Now here's the interesting part.
[00:12:35] The man was in contact with crime ethnic, crime, crime thenic, I don't know what this is,
[00:12:42] crime thenic Antifa prior to the self-immolating, according to the anarchist site.
[00:12:49] The man also identified as Lilianar Kitty, but it is unsure if he considered himself a female.
[00:12:56] He was also active in the ACAB and socialist forums.
[00:13:01] Now, a lot of people are doing this these days. Not setting themselves on fire,
[00:13:08] I mean. Hold on. I gotta look up Crime-a-theenic Antifa, because as you know, this is not a
[00:13:17] terrorist organization, so don't you worry about it. Oh, Crime, Crime- crimeth Inc is what it is squaring off against fascism it's a
[00:13:30] it's a beautiful they got a podcast to hmm maybe we should start a war don't
[00:13:34] stop continue fighting continue the fight against cop city okay so what we
[00:13:39] have going on here no wall they can build the hot wire dude you guys got to
[00:13:44] listen to this I'm gotta listen to this.
[00:13:45] I'm gonna listen to this. This should be fun. I wanna be a guest. Let's be a guest. About.
[00:13:54] Crime think. That's what it is. Crime think. Crime think is every- this is so fucking unbelievable, PBN Family. I cannot believe the world I live in sometimes.
[00:14:08] It's not Crimeth Inc.
[00:14:10] I'm stupid.
[00:14:11] It's Crimethink.
[00:14:14] There's an Antifa website association with podcasts, books, libraries, tools, and a store!
[00:14:22] Justice Department, wake up crime think calm justice
[00:14:32] department if you're worried about it costing anybody but me and taking my
[00:14:35] guns and taxing me into oblivion if you'd really like to stop a group of
[00:14:39] people who are absolute domestic terrorists, go to Crimethink.com and check out a podcast.
[00:14:46] Crimethink is everything that evades control. This is their website.
[00:14:51] The daydream in the classroom, the renegade breaking ranks, the spray-painted walls that continue to speak, even under martial law.
[00:14:59] It is the persistent sense that things could be otherwise, that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the prevailing social order.
[00:15:07] In a world optimized for administration, everything that cannot be classified or displayed on
[00:15:11] a screen is crime think.
[00:15:14] It is the spirit of rebellion without which freedom is literally unthinkable.
[00:15:20] Crime think is a rebel alliance, a secret society pledged to the propagation of crime
[00:15:24] think. It is a think tank producing ideas and actions of Sphinx posing questions fatal to the superstitions of our age
[00:15:33] It is a now here's where they get away with everything right crime think is a banner for anonymous collective action
[00:15:40] So they don't exist really don't worry. That's what we need to say. We're all anonymous
[00:15:45] So they don't exist really. Don't worry. That's what we need to say. We're all anonymous. That's the way to do it. These guys got it figured out. They've got a mailing address. They've got a PO box.
[00:15:52] They've got all kinds of stuff. Let's have a look at their tools. Let's see what their tools are. I'm very interested.
[00:15:58] Zines, journals, posters, stickers, videos, music, logos. Can we read one? Okay. I'll
[00:16:08] do this on my own time and we'll talk about it a little later or I'll see if
[00:16:11] another host wants to get into it because it's phenomenal. Remember they
[00:16:17] told you antifa was nothing to worry about? Ah, it's nothing to worry about, man.
[00:16:21] It's fine. They're just... they've uh uh we the people and a limousine
[00:16:28] on fire with the windows bashed out of it don't worry about it that's fine take james walton's
[00:16:34] guns he's the problem if a majority voted for you to jump off a bridge would you maybe if it was a
[00:16:40] fair vote theory and critique from democracy to freedom.
[00:16:46] The thin blue line is a burning fuse.
[00:16:48] Why every struggle is now a struggle against the police.
[00:16:53] Yeah.
[00:16:54] This is no small site, PBN family.
[00:16:56] There's a lot going on here.
[00:16:58] And they've got it in three, four, five different languages.
[00:17:01] No, about 40 different languages.
[00:17:10] Contradictionary, work, expect resistance, days of war, nights of love, recipes for disaster, the anarchist cookbook. Listen, guys, this is the deal. Now I got on here
[00:17:20] to talk about the man who set himself on fire.
[00:17:25] I didn't realize I was going to wade into the nightmare of crime think, the new secret
[00:17:29] social upheaval, secret society that is hell-bent on anarchy across the United States, but will
[00:17:36] never see a single phone call from the FBI, right? All I can tell you, it goes back to my point, right? It goes back
[00:17:49] to my point. If I saw people in these, because some things, there are parallels in their
[00:17:56] motivations of rebellion and freedom, right? The trouble with these organizations is they have no spokesperson
[00:18:11] Not that they necessarily need a spokesperson, but also the collective never seems to look
[00:18:16] ideal or desirable by any stretch in other words
[00:18:25] Freedom-loving Americans who are working hard and striving for a better nation.
[00:18:33] They have a life that is of deep appeal, family fulfillment, oftentimes business, physical fitness, right?
[00:18:35] These, these sort of attributes you look at and you go like,
[00:18:38] I'll take a cup of that.
[00:18:41] Again, I said it last week.
[00:18:43] If you, if you so believe in your cause, take your mask off.
[00:18:49] Right?
[00:18:50] If you so...
[00:18:51] Nobody's coming for you.
[00:18:52] They're only coming for me.
[00:18:54] They're only coming for people like me.
[00:18:55] They don't care about you.
[00:18:57] The current Justice Department is not gonna go, let's go figure out what this crime thing
[00:19:01] people are who are selling the...
[00:19:04] The uh...
[00:19:05] Antic...
[00:19:06] Ant...
[00:19:07] What is it?
[00:19:08] The Anarchist Cookbook.
[00:19:13] America harder.
[00:19:16] That's your mission.
[00:19:18] All right?
[00:19:20] That's your one solution today.
[00:19:22] Your one threat. There are anarcho-lunatics who are just spreading like wildfire all over the country.
[00:19:34] Maybe, maybe not. That might be not true. That might be me saying something fantastic to get you excited.
[00:19:48] But there is no doubt that this group, Crime Think, was in contact with the man who decided, Kitty, who decided he'd set himself on fire, and he died from his injuries, by the way,
[00:19:52] in order to stop the genocide in Gaza.
[00:19:57] Do you know how many wrong turns you have to take to get to that point?
[00:20:01] Do you know what I mean? America harder. To my man Chin Gibson out there,
[00:20:10] don't worry. This concept of America harder is already in a t-shirt design. So don't worry.
[00:20:22] Yeah, you know what I'm talking about you what do I mean by that
[00:20:28] I mean life I mean liberty I mean the pursuit of happiness the pursuit of
[00:20:36] happiness that's what it means to America harder First Amendment Second
[00:20:42] Amendment rights that's what it means to America harder, First Amendment, Second Amendment rights. That's what it means to America harder.
[00:20:47] These are the things.
[00:20:48] This is the morality.
[00:20:49] This is, you know, these are the principles,
[00:20:53] the founding principles of the United States.
[00:20:56] You know what I mean?
[00:20:57] Lean into this stuff.
[00:20:59] Lean into the Christian doctrine.
[00:21:02] Why?
[00:21:03] These are the founding principles. This is the very base
[00:21:08] of what this nation was built on and what made it great. Period. That's it. And what
[00:21:15] we need is for people to get out of distraction and America harder. Because we need to show people like Crimethink and their
[00:21:28] followers, their desperate and destitute followers, that these things are
[00:21:35] inherently... to America harder is the most desirable thing you can do, right? Entrepreneurial endeavors, i.e., whatever,
[00:21:49] the pursuit of happiness, whatever that looks like for you.
[00:21:55] The protection and preservation of life.
[00:21:57] Now if you convince a man, if you convince a man
[00:22:01] that what he should probably do is set himself on fire
[00:22:03] out front of a building in Washington, D.C DC to stop a genocide that's not really a genocide.
[00:22:12] Is that life?
[00:22:13] Is that liberty?
[00:22:15] Are you doing your best to help this guy who's clearly a mess named himself Kitty and desires
[00:22:21] to commit suicide? You know love thy thy neighbor a bit, man. Don't
[00:22:27] propagandize thy neighbor. Don't turn thy neighbor into a pyre. So, you know, the
[00:22:36] one threat, the one solution of the day. It's dark. It is what it is. But, you know,
[00:22:40] I don't know what to tell you. You got to America harder. You got to lean into these
[00:22:45] principles. You have to become your best self. You have to stand. Each and every one of us has
[00:22:51] to stand as a shining example of what it is to be American. You know, people like Crime Think come
[00:22:57] to power because they are fed up with the American system because they don't understand that the
[00:23:02] American system is different than the American founding principles right they think that the
[00:23:09] military-industrial complex is America they think that these idiot politicians
[00:23:15] are America groups like this are exactly what I am talking about. They're made up of people who, if they
[00:23:27] spent more time making themselves better and worrying less about the world, have
[00:23:32] the drive to make the nation better itself. It's just what it is.
[00:23:39] Crimethink. Check them out. I'm gonna listen to their podcasts. No doubt about it.
[00:23:43] Let's hear what they're all about
[00:23:45] Maybe we'll get them on the network or I'll go on their podcast. That would be fun. It would be a fun conversation
[00:23:55] Let's get into shtf chef I got a little I got a funny little something for you as we get into
[00:24:01] shtf chef pay very close attention, PBN Family.
[00:24:07] Now that is a delicious cut of long pork.
[00:24:26] All right, PBN Family SHTF Chef. We do not condone the cooking of the long pork, nor the consumption.
[00:24:32] It's a...I don't know.
[00:24:34] I was thinking we need some intros to these little segments on PBN Daily News.
[00:24:39] I don't know.
[00:24:40] That's a good one.
[00:24:41] I'll take it.
[00:24:42] I have a lot of fun creating these man I
[00:24:45] could spend all day doing this stuff if I had nothing else to do so shtf chef
[00:24:51] let's get into it what do we want to talk about today I don't I have my
[00:24:57] mindset on a few things I have been invigorated as of late by the spring season and what's coming, you know,
[00:25:07] what is all that is coming.
[00:25:10] And I think that maybe what would be worth talking about is mushroom cookery.
[00:25:17] Yeah, foragers delight.
[00:25:19] Sure.
[00:25:20] Now foraging for mushrooms is incredibly dangerous and can ruin your entire life, if
[00:25:25] not a few days of your life, should you eat the wrong things.
[00:25:31] And I will caution you that eating the right mushrooms can also induce a nightmare.
[00:25:39] About five, six years ago, I found sulfur shelf for the first time.
[00:25:46] What's that hen or chicken of the woods?
[00:25:47] I always forget.
[00:25:49] I call it sulfur shelf just because it looks that way
[00:25:51] and it's easier for me to remember.
[00:25:54] But I'm pretty sure that's chicken of the woods mushrooms.
[00:25:58] And I identified it, I found it running.
[00:26:01] 90% of the foraged foods I find, I find running in the woods. Which is why I always tell you run in the woods, right? So I found these on an
[00:26:11] oak tree after a big rain was massive. And I saw it and then it died back as
[00:26:16] the summer heat you know drew in and and then another big rain came in and more
[00:26:22] blooms showed up, more.
[00:26:29] And this was before I'd ever eaten a wild mushroom at all, except for wild morels that I I've eaten wild mushrooms for many, many years as a chef.
[00:26:33] But this was the first time I ever plucked one out of the wild and said,
[00:26:37] let me eat it.
[00:26:38] And what happened is I convinced myself that I ate the wrong kind of mushroom.
[00:26:47] It was very interesting.
[00:26:48] That evening we were at the mall,
[00:26:49] I think we were getting the kids shoes or something like that.
[00:26:51] We might even, I might've only had one kid at the time.
[00:26:53] I can't remember.
[00:26:56] But I suffered a near panic attack
[00:26:58] because I couldn't get my mind off the what if.
[00:27:01] I couldn't get my mind off the what if.
[00:27:04] It wasn't sulfur shelf
[00:27:05] even though I was almost a hundred percent sure. I brought the book, I looked
[00:27:10] at the pictures, I looked at the mushroom, I watched it die, it came back the same
[00:27:13] thing. I took and I ate just a tiny tiny little piece you know what I mean? But my
[00:27:20] heart was racing, I was having stomach pains, very, you know, nothing big. And it was
[00:27:25] literally like anxiety. It was the anxiety of the mushroom eating itself. And the idea that I might
[00:27:32] have killed myself or made myself sick. So that's an important piece of mushroom foraging you don't
[00:27:38] often hear, right? You hear like, don't eat the wrong mushrooms. You can eat the right mushrooms
[00:27:42] and literally drive yourself insane worrying about whether or not you ate the wrong ones. But for the longest time, PBN found the mushrooms
[00:27:50] in general had been one of my favorite foods. I don't eat them as much anymore. I need to
[00:27:53] get back to eating them. I would lose my mind over morels and lobster mushrooms and black
[00:27:59] trumpet mushrooms. And I would just lose my mind over mushrooms. I was obsessed
[00:28:06] with fungus, truffles, not a mushroom but I was obsessed with truffles too. And
[00:28:11] they are a unique thing you know. When you look at fungus and mushrooms I often
[00:28:18] wonder if they're not alien themselves. But they're an amazing thing. I've never talked with the mushrooms before and I
[00:28:27] kind of want to do that. I kind of want to do that because I've always loved
[00:28:32] them. I've always eaten them. I've sought them out. I felt that weird like just
[00:28:37] total driving passion but I've never done psilocybin and really sat down and convened with the mushrooms before. I may
[00:28:48] do that one day. That might be worth. We've got a lot to talk about. I like
[00:28:52] their cousins a lot. You know what I mean? Everybody's like, what the hell is he talking about?
[00:28:58] Anyway, mushrooms are amazing, man. They're incredibly nutritious. What are some
[00:29:04] things that people get wrong, I guess guess with mushrooms? I see people soak them
[00:29:08] from time to time. You know they will suck up a lot of water. Mushrooms can burn
[00:29:14] when you saute them. For me you know if you have earthy delicious wild mushrooms they can't exist without fresh time in my
[00:29:28] opinion you know della more delicate mushrooms I don't know I honestly I
[00:29:33] think they butter and fresh time you know I worked for a chef who said where
[00:29:39] there is mozzarella they should be tomatoes and basil I think that's what he said or where there's tomatoes there should be mozzarella, they should be tomatoes and basil. I think that's what he said.
[00:29:46] Or where there's tomatoes, there should be mozzarella
[00:29:48] and basil, something along those lines.
[00:29:49] Big Italian chef, great, really, really good chef.
[00:29:55] I feel that way about mushrooms, where there are mushrooms,
[00:29:57] particularly wild mushrooms, but even standard,
[00:30:02] what do they call, what are regular mushrooms even called?
[00:30:03] Button mushrooms. white buttons even are
[00:30:07] turned into something very special sauteed in butter with, um, fresh thyme.
[00:30:13] Now, the other beautiful thing about mushrooms, it's important to know is
[00:30:17] the flavor can be concentrated.
[00:30:22] You can take, well, let's just talk about the truffle mushroom ravioli let's talk about that that's worth talking about and maybe you can do that because it is
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[00:31:18] anyway let's talk about the mushroom ravioli from a restaurant called Roo3
[00:31:24] Tremendous
[00:31:25] restaurant. One of my proudest moments as a young chef was getting
[00:31:30] hired over at Rue 3. I don't even think the restaurant exists anymore. But I was
[00:31:38] blown away. You know I wrote a book when I was 19 called The Diary of a Young
[00:31:43] Cook and it was never really published or
[00:31:47] anything like that. I mean I did publish it and my family and friends bought it. You know
[00:31:50] what I mean? It was the book I published where I thought like I'm gonna be famous. I wrote
[00:31:55] a book. I'm gonna be a rich author. I can't believe it. I've done it. I wrote a book.
[00:31:59] And then you publish it and you're like nobody buys this shit. I didn't know that. I thought if you wrote a book, everybody bought it.
[00:32:06] 19 years old.
[00:32:10] But I documented that getting hired and I was really blown away by it and excited and
[00:32:15] it was great for a short time.
[00:32:18] I didn't work there very long.
[00:32:20] You know, the facade of things drip off quickly when you're young.
[00:32:24] You're always looking for an idol. Anyway what they did over at Route 3 is they would take five pounds of white button mushrooms.
[00:32:35] You could do the same thing in a large pot. They took one pound of butter. We use butter like insanely over there. Or maybe it was half
[00:32:46] it might have been half a pound of butter. And put the mushrooms right in to
[00:32:51] the pot. Stems everything. Put the butter right into the pot. Put it on low. And
[00:32:59] would cook this for like three hours. Stir it you know a little bit from time
[00:33:04] to time. But over low heat the butter would melt, the mushrooms would slowly start to
[00:33:08] wilt and release their delicious essence. And what this restaurant was notorious for
[00:33:14] was they would take things that were delicious and puree them and do nothing to them. And
[00:33:23] it was, it always blew me away.
[00:33:26] You know, there was very little by way of recipe on certain items.
[00:33:31] Certain items could be created in such a way
[00:33:35] and the ingredients themselves were so powerful and flavorful
[00:33:38] that it didn't even matter, right?
[00:33:40] So, we would do just that with this mushroom ravioli.
[00:33:44] We would roast these mushrooms down for about three hours.
[00:33:48] They would go from being big fat white button mushrooms down to like a brown, dark caramel
[00:33:52] brown sort of knob of a mushroom.
[00:33:56] And we dump it all into a blender, a high-powered professional blender, and blend that into
[00:34:02] a puree, like a delicious thick mushroom puree and
[00:34:07] then we would stuff ravioli with it and what made the dish what took the dish to
[00:34:14] the next level was of course the ravioli the mushroom flavor the pasta was
[00:34:18] homemade you know and we would just create us a little sauce a little butter
[00:34:24] sauce and finish that sauce.
[00:34:27] It would be broth, it would be butter, it would be peas and baby carrots, that kind
[00:34:30] of thing.
[00:34:31] I think we put some kind of green in it, arugula maybe at the end.
[00:34:36] And then we'd hit it with a little truffle oil and then toss the ravioli in.
[00:34:42] And this dish was simple. This dish was astounding. And it was
[00:34:45] astounding because we used... we didn't use a fancy wild mushroom. We didn't use
[00:34:50] something magical. You know what? There were shiitake mushrooms in that sauteed
[00:34:54] mix of vegetables now. I remember it. But we didn't use a bunch of wild crazy
[00:34:59] mushrooms. We used the most regular mushroom of them all. The white button
[00:35:02] mushroom. We cooked it. We enhanced its flavor just by reducing it and then
[00:35:08] Yeah, it was phenomenal
[00:35:13] Get into mushrooms man get into mushrooms they are medicine they are incredible flavor and
[00:35:21] Maybe even vest in learning how to forge I
[00:35:24] and maybe even invest in learning how to forage.
[00:35:27] I would really recommend going to a class to forage mushrooms.
[00:35:28] The only reason I forage mushrooms,
[00:35:30] you have to understand, without,
[00:35:32] I've never been professionally trained
[00:35:34] how to forage mushrooms, but I do eat wild mushrooms.
[00:35:37] The only reason I do that is because
[00:35:38] I spent years around mushrooms, you know what I mean?
[00:35:42] Like years upon years.
[00:35:43] I had a passion for seeking
[00:35:45] out these wild mushrooms like I was talking about and buying them. So I bought them, I
[00:35:49] owned them, I cooked them, you know, oyster mushrooms I bought. Morels, chanterelles,
[00:35:55] these are things that I would spend my last pennies on as a young chef to cook at home
[00:36:00] because I was just so in love with this stuff. So I've got a big background.
[00:36:05] Like when I pick a mushroom up and say,
[00:36:06] is that a chanterelle mushroom?
[00:36:09] Hell yeah or hell no.
[00:36:11] It's not that hard for me to look at it and figure out
[00:36:14] because of the fact that I spent so many years with it.
[00:36:16] And now I read foraging books on top of it, right?
[00:36:18] So now I've learned sort of the ins and outs
[00:36:22] of the lookalikes too, all right?
[00:36:24] So that's it
[00:36:26] SHTF Chef. Our final segment, brief segment I'm not gonna run any kinda sound
[00:36:31] we're just gonna get right to it. I think it's a good
[00:36:35] it's a good short bit of reading
[00:36:39] it's by yours truly it's from darker trails
[00:36:43] fun book check it out by James Walton It's by yours truly. It's from Darker Trails. Fun book.
[00:36:45] You should check it out.
[00:36:46] By James Walton.
[00:36:49] It's just a three-liner.
[00:36:52] It's a three-liner, but I think it explains a lot.
[00:36:55] And this is how we'll end today's 40-minute podcast.
[00:36:57] Oh my God, I gotta get to work.
[00:37:03] This is work.
[00:37:04] What am I... Why do I say that? This is work. This is what I do. I oftentimes do that.
[00:37:09] Like there are things outside of this that I need to be doing. No, this is what I need to be doing.
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