The Strange Truth- The Dangers of Microplastics and How to Protect Yourself.

[00:00:40] Welcome to another episode of The Strange Truth. I'm your host Carl B.

[00:00:46] Hopefully everybody's been having a good week. You know, I've had an interesting couple of days.

[00:00:53] I got into an accident. You know, we were at a merge. The person in front of me was going to merge with traffic.

[00:01:05] They pulled out and then they hesitated. I wasn't paying as close attention to them hesitating as I should.

[00:01:13] Let's put it that way. And I thought that they had actually gone and they hadn't and I just and I ran right into their bumper.

[00:01:21] It really did suck. If I must say so, right? It went heck of a way to spoil a Saturday morning.

[00:01:30] You know, so yeah, of course because I hit the person from behind, right? You know, the liability was mine and end up paying for their car repairs to their car repairs to my car

[00:01:48] and end up getting a ticket to boot. You know, one of the things about the whole ticket thing, right? Is you know, I mean if there's no destruction to any public property

[00:01:59] and if I am covering all the costs of, you know, what you call it of all the repairs to both the person's car and mine.

[00:02:12] And if the cops really didn't have, you know, if there was nothing to clean up like they didn't have to come and pull vehicles out of the road or to do this or that or whatever.

[00:02:22] You know, there was no ambulances. The only thing is that we needed a cop to fill out the paperwork. Right? Why? Why do I have to get a ticket?

[00:02:31] You know, it was one of those things, you know. And then you realize that that, you know, $200 that they're going to charge me right is to pay all the bureaucracy that's there.

[00:02:42] You know, that's built up. And then all the paperwork that ensued because of that. I've been buried in, you know, you chase this thing.

[00:02:52] You got to report the, you got to report the, you know, the accident to Albany.

[00:03:02] And so you had to do the paperwork for that, you know, and it's just on and on. And then you got to respond to the ticket.

[00:03:11] You know, at first I'm like, I'm going to fight this. And then, you know, after looking, researching it right for a couple of hours,

[00:03:18] you realize that it's going to cost, it's not really worth the cost of the ticket. You're going to have paying more to the lawyers than actually pay for the ticket.

[00:03:29] And, you know, and folks were saying, well, the only time you really fight a ticket is when, you know, you're in danger of losing your license.

[00:03:38] And that's when you get the lawyer to help you out. I've never gotten a ticket before. And it's been 14 years since I've had any kind of accidents.

[00:03:50] So, you know, but yes, so had to deal with that. No one was hurt. Thank God, you know, I had my son in the car with me.

[00:04:00] I, you know, it had taken him to a basketball, you know, a basketball practice. And we were on our way to a dentist appointment early Saturday morning when all of this happened.

[00:04:15] So, you know, everyone was okay. My son and myself, we were fine. And the person in the other car, they were fine.

[00:04:25] But it just goes to show you, I mean, it happened so suddenly. You know, and it's like I've been getting all these little red flags lately, you know, like, and it just goes, you know, it makes me realize just how tenuous life really is.

[00:04:40] And you got to make sure that you take care of, you know, you tie up our loose ends because you never know when something serious is coming on the pipe.

[00:04:49] Sometimes, you know, sometimes you just won't see it coming. Never didn't see that coming, right? And I'm a careful driver and everything else.

[00:04:58] Yeah, it just goes to show you their blind spots, right? Their spots, you know, blind spots in the story of your life that you're just never going to see.

[00:05:09] You know, you're just going to have to experience them and deal with them the best way that you can, right?

[00:05:15] Anyway, enough about me. I have you been listening to PBM this week, right? Great, great shows on, right?

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[00:05:36] And it's all about, you know, saving lives and getting people prepared, getting people more resilient.

[00:05:44] And unfortunately that's not the way the rest of the world is wired.

[00:05:49] You know, when you look at how the mainstream folks, how they go about their lives, it's the whole collectivism kind of thing, right?

[00:06:02] You know, where, you know, the idealism where, you know, we're all supposed to just kind of get along with no issues.

[00:06:12] And we need a trust in the state, in the government, in our elected officials to run things for us.

[00:06:22] And that we can kind of talk it out with our adversaries, you know, or enemies overseas.

[00:06:30] And it's this world, this fairy tale idealistic world, right?

[00:06:35] And we know that the real world does not work that way.

[00:06:40] That, you know, Mr. A will always sometimes want what Mr. B has and sometimes Mr. A will resort to, you know, nefarious means to get what Mr. B has, right?

[00:06:56] That's just the nature of, it's just human nature.

[00:07:00] With all of these like systems, whether it be, you know, socialism or, you know, communism or whatever is in liberalism, whatever other isms, they always forget human nature.

[00:07:15] And they hate when people remind them of human nature.

[00:07:19] When you say, okay, you know, there are people who don't have the best interests of their neighbor at heart.

[00:07:26] There are some people who don't, you know, and it's just human nature that some people are evil.

[00:07:32] And then, and some people are narcissistic.

[00:07:35] And some people are just bad people.

[00:07:39] And they don't want to hear that, you know, they want to, you know, they, and they come after you when you remind them of these little things, quirks of human nature.

[00:07:52] Anyway, before I get into it, we're going to talk about, you know, one danger that's under the radar.

[00:08:00] And we're going to talk about microplastics today.

[00:08:04] We're going to, I'm going to read an article, we're going to discuss the dangers of microplastics and why it is really important for you to have clean water and clean food.

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[00:11:12] Okay, so I'm going to segue right now into this article on microplastics.

[00:11:18] There are a lot of different articles online.

[00:11:21] I pulled this one because it really has some really good facts and some good discussion points.

[00:11:28] And it's one of the things where here, in the prepping world, we...

[00:11:32] It's never really mentioned.

[00:11:34] We never really talk about this hidden danger and how it might affect us, not only now but in the future.

[00:11:44] So I just wanted to bring it up because we've talked about everything on the strange truth.

[00:11:51] That's why they call us the strange truth, right?

[00:11:53] We've talked about chemtrails and weather modification and UFOs.

[00:12:05] Everything that you can imagine we've covered here.

[00:12:07] We don't shy away from any topic.

[00:12:11] But one of the things that we've never really looked at is this huge problem of microplastics

[00:12:17] and what they're doing to our environment and what they're doing to us.

[00:12:20] And what are the implications for us in a few years?

[00:12:25] While reading these articles, one of the things that really stood out to me was that

[00:12:33] you can really see I think that the world as we know it is dying, right?

[00:12:41] It's like everything is coming to...

[00:12:46] The cup is almost full, right?

[00:12:50] That's the best metaphor I can use for this concept is that the cup is almost full.

[00:13:02] And when you look at just our human relationships across the globe,

[00:13:10] all these wars that we're almost going to fight or have to get ourselves involved in,

[00:13:17] we're just a mistake away from a major, major, major world war erupting.

[00:13:27] Either in the Middle East starting there or starting in China, in the Taiwan Strait there,

[00:13:38] or it could be on the European continent.

[00:13:42] We're not that far away from something major going off there.

[00:13:46] And then when you look at what we're doing to the environment between

[00:13:49] what happened with Fukushima and dumping all that radiation into the water

[00:13:52] that no one talks about, it's amazing.

[00:13:56] Gallons and gallons and gallons and gallons of radiation being just pumped into the sea

[00:14:00] and everybody saying that that's okay.

[00:14:05] And then all these little disasters that's been happening.

[00:14:12] The earth itself seems to be crying out with the earthquakes and everything else that's been going on.

[00:14:20] And then we have this big problem of these microplastics.

[00:14:23] And of course in prepping circles, this is never really discussed

[00:14:27] and that's why I wanted to bring it up here because it is something that we need to start paying attention to.

[00:14:34] So let me just read the article and then we can discuss it.

[00:14:39] And it says, microplastics are in our bodies.

[00:14:42] Here's why we don't know the health risks.

[00:14:45] There are big open scientific questions about levels of exposure and toxicity

[00:14:49] and this is from Science News and it was published March 24th, 2023 by Anne Pinto Rodriguez.

[00:15:03] Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere from the deepest place on the planet,

[00:15:10] the Mariana trench to the top of Mount Everest.

[00:15:14] Have you guys ever really noticed how dirty Mount Everest is? Oh my goodness.

[00:15:17] And now more and more studies are finding that microplastics defined as plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters across are also in our bodies.

[00:15:28] What we're looking at is the biggest oil spill ever.

[00:15:32] Maria Westerbos, founder of the Plastic Soup Foundation and Amsterdam based nonprofit,

[00:15:38] Advocacy organization that works to reduce plastic pollution around the world.

[00:15:43] Nearly all plastics are made from fossil fuel sources and microplastics are everywhere she adds, even in our bodies.

[00:15:52] In recent years, microplastics have been documented in all parts of the human lung,

[00:15:57] in maternal and fetal placental tissues, in human breast milk and in human blood.

[00:16:05] Microplastics scientists Heather Leslie, formerly of Vergey University, Amsterdam and colleagues found

[00:16:13] microplastics in blood samples from 17 of 22 healthy adult volunteers in the Netherlands.

[00:16:21] The finding published last year in Environmental International confirms what many scientists have long suspected.

[00:16:28] These tiny bits can get absorbed into the human bloodstream.

[00:16:31] We went from expecting plastic particles to be absorbable and present in the human bloodstream to knowing that they are, Leslie says.

[00:16:41] And it says here, the findings aren't entirely surprising.

[00:16:45] Plastics are all around us, durable, versatile and cheap to manufacture.

[00:16:50] They're in our clothes, cosmetics, electronics, tires, packaging and so many more items of daily use.

[00:16:57] And the types of plastic materials on the market continues to increase.

[00:17:02] There were around 3,000 plastic materials when I started researching microplastics over a decade ago, Leslie says.

[00:17:08] Now there are over 9,600. That's a huge number, each with its own chemical makeup and potential toxicity.

[00:17:18] Though durable, plastics do degrade by weathering from water, wind, sunlight or heat,

[00:17:23] as in ocean environments or in landfills or by friction, in the case of car tires,

[00:17:31] which increases plastic particles along roadways during motion and braking.

[00:17:35] In addition to studying microplastic particles, researchers are also trying to get a handle on nanoplastics,

[00:17:44] particles which are less than one micrometer in length.

[00:17:48] The large plastic objects in the environment will break down into micro and nanoplastics,

[00:17:54] constantly rising particle numbers, says toxicologist Derek Vethach of the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences

[00:18:03] in Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who collaborated with Leslie on the study of finding microplastics in human blood.

[00:18:11] Nearly two decades ago, marine biologists began drawing attention to the accumulation of microplastics in the ocean

[00:18:18] and their potential to interfere with our organism and ecosystem health.

[00:18:24] But only in recent years have scientists started focusing on microplastics in people's food and drinking water as well as in indoor air.

[00:18:34] Plastic particles are also intentionally added to cosmetics like lipstick, lipgloss and eye makeup

[00:18:41] to improve their feel and finish and to personal care products such as face scrubs, toothpaste and shower gels

[00:18:48] for the cleansing and exfoliating properties.

[00:18:52] When washed off, these microplastics enter the sewage system.

[00:18:56] They can end up in the sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants which is used to fertilize agricultural lands

[00:19:03] or even in treated water released into waterways.

[00:19:08] What if any damaged microplastics may do when they get into a bodies is not clear

[00:19:13] but a growing community of researchers investigating these questions thinks there is reason for concern.

[00:19:19] Inhaled particles might irritate and damage the lungs akin to damage caused by other particulate matter

[00:19:25] and although the composition of plastic particles varies, some contain chemicals that are known to interfere with the body's hormones.

[00:19:33] Currently there are huge knowledge gaps in our understanding of how these particles are processed in the human body.

[00:19:41] How do microplastics get into our bodies?

[00:19:43] Research points to two main entry routes into the human body.

[00:19:49] We swallow them and we breathe them in.

[00:19:52] Evidences growing that our food and water is contaminated with microplastics

[00:19:55] a study in Italy reported in 2020 found microplastics in everyday fruit and vegetables,

[00:20:01] wheat and lettuce plants have been observed taking up micro particles in the lab.

[00:20:09] Uptake from soil containing the particles is probably how they get into our produce in the first place.

[00:20:17] Suede sludge can contain microplastics not only from personal care products but also from washing machines.

[00:20:24] One study looking at sludge from a wastewater treatment plant in south with England

[00:20:28] found that if all the treated sludge produced there were used to fertilize soils,

[00:20:33] a volume of microplastic particles equivalent to what is found in more than 20,000 plastic credit cards

[00:20:41] could potentially be released into the environment each month.

[00:20:45] On top of that fertilizers are coated with plastic for control release.

[00:20:50] Plastic mulch film is used as a protective layer for crops

[00:20:55] and water containing microplastics is used for irrigation says Sophie Vanck,

[00:21:00] a researcher at the Plastic Soup Foundation.

[00:21:05] Agricultural fields in Europe and North America are estimated to receive far, far higher quantities of microplastics

[00:21:13] than global oceans, Vanck says.

[00:21:17] Let's see.

[00:21:19] A recent pilot study commissioned by the Plastic Soup Foundation found microplastics

[00:21:24] in all blood samples collected from pigs and cows on Dutch farms

[00:21:29] showing livestock are capable of absorbing some of the plastic particles from their feed, water or air.

[00:21:35] Of the beef and pork samples collected from farms and supermarkets as part of the same study

[00:21:41] 75% showed the presence of microplastics.

[00:21:46] Multiple studies document that microplastic particles are also found in fish muscle

[00:21:51] not just the gut and so are likely to be consumed when people eat seafood.

[00:21:56] There was this study that was done recently that they tested the fish

[00:22:01] and I think they what six or seven fish that they tested, right?

[00:22:06] Six out of ten contained microplastics which alarmed me.

[00:22:12] That got my attention.

[00:22:15] And the whole study that was released a couple weeks ago

[00:22:19] that said pretty much every single bottle water releases microplastics into the water.

[00:22:28] So when people believe that they're drinking healthy, you know, the bottle water is healthy

[00:22:36] No, it's not.

[00:22:38] They're drinking microplastics and it's going to be interesting to see how the water

[00:22:44] the bottle water industry deals with that.

[00:22:48] You know, that news I think that's going to get buried really quickly

[00:22:53] because these are really powerful corporations and people are going to still want their bottle water.

[00:22:58] If you've got a drink bottled water then I would suggest that what you go with

[00:23:03] you know something that's bottled within glass really

[00:23:09] or something that's bottled in a can versus you know something, you know plastic

[00:23:15] because they really thought that you know they had all these plastics that doesn't really leech into the water

[00:23:22] but that that that is found out to be the case.

[00:23:25] And a lot of the water I guess from the water sources, you know, they're finding that maybe they have these nano plastics in them.

[00:23:35] So be careful folks, you know, or there's a lot of things that we were led to believe that we're safe

[00:23:43] and we're finding out that that's not the case really.

[00:23:47] And there is supposed to be a cause for concern but let me just go on and finish this up.

[00:23:52] It says microplastics are in our drinking water whether it's from the from the tap or bottled

[00:23:57] the particles may enter the water at the source during treatment and distribution

[00:24:02] or in the case of bottled water from its packaging.

[00:24:07] Results from studies attempting to quantify levels of human ingestion very dramatically

[00:24:13] but they suggest people might be consuming in the order of tens of thousands of micro plastic particles per person per year.

[00:24:22] These estimates may change as more data come in and they will likely vary depending on people's diets where they live

[00:24:29] plus it is not yet clear how these particles are absorbed, distributed, metabolized

[00:24:35] and excreted by the human body and if not excreted immediately how long they might stick around.

[00:24:41] Babies might face particular high exposures.

[00:24:44] A small study of six infants and ten adults found that the infants had more micro plastic particles in their feces than the adults did.

[00:24:54] Research suggests microplastics can enter the fetus via the placenta

[00:24:58] and babies also could ingest the particles via breast milk.

[00:25:03] The use of plastic feeding bottles and teething toys adds to children's microplastics exposure.

[00:25:10] Let me read that again.

[00:25:13] Microplastics can enter the fetus via the placenta and babies could also ingest the particles via breast milk.

[00:25:20] The use of plastic feeding bottles and teething toys adds to children's microplastics exposure.

[00:25:29] Microplastic particles are also floating in the air.

[00:25:32] Research conducted in Paris to document microplastic levels in indoor air

[00:25:37] found concentrations ranging from 3 to 15 particles per cubic meter of air.

[00:25:42] Indoor concentrations were much lower.

[00:25:44] Airborne particles may turn out to be more of a concern than those in food.

[00:25:51] One study reported in 2018 compared the amount of microplastics present within muscles harvested off Scotland coast

[00:25:59] with the amount of microplastics present in indoor air.

[00:26:03] Exposure to microplastic fibers from the air during the meal was far higher than the risk of ingesting microplastics from the muscles themselves.

[00:26:12] Extropellating from this research, immunologist Ninh Kei Verscope of the University Medical Center, Utrecht says

[00:26:21] if I keep a piece of fish on the table for an hour it has probably gathered more microplastics from the ambient air than it has from the ocean.

[00:26:31] Wow.

[00:26:33] What's more, a study of human lung tissue reported last year offers solid evidence that we are breathing in plastic particles.

[00:26:42] Microplastics showed up in 11 to 13 samples including those from the upper middle and lower lobes.

[00:26:48] Researchers in England reported perhaps good news.

[00:26:51] To reduce microplastics seen unable to penetrate the skin, the epidermis holds off quite a lot of stuff from the outside world including nanoparticles, Leslie says.

[00:27:01] Particles can go deep into your skin but so far we haven't observed them passing the barrier unless the skin is damaged.

[00:27:08] What do we know about the potential health risk?

[00:27:11] Studies in mice suggest microplastics are not benign.

[00:27:14] Research in these test animals shows that lab exposure to microplastics can disrupt the gut microbiome leading to inflammation, lower sperm quality and test us their own levels and negatively affect the learning and memory.

[00:27:32] But some of these studies used concentrations that may not be relevant to real world scenarios.

[00:27:39] Studies on the health effects of exposure in humans are just getting underway.

[00:27:47] So it could be years before scientists understand the actual impact in people.

[00:27:54] Immunologist Barbero Melgert of the University of Grogan in the Netherlands studied the effects of nylon microfibers on human tissue growth to resemble lungs.

[00:28:05] Exposure to nylon fibers reduced both the number and size of airways that formed in these tissues by 67% and 50% respectively.

[00:28:16] We found that the cause was not the microfibers themselves but rather the chemicals released from them, Melgert says.

[00:28:24] Microplastics could be considered a form of air pollution, she says.

[00:28:28] We know air pollution particles tend to induce stress in our lungs and will probably be the same for microplastics.

[00:28:37] VirScoop is studying how the human immune system responds to microplastics.

[00:28:42] Her unpublished lab experiments suggest immune cells don't recognize microplastic particles unless they have blood proteins, viruses, bacteria or other contaminants attached.

[00:28:54] But it is likely that such bits will attach to microplastic particles out in the environment and inside the body.

[00:29:02] If the microplastics are not clean, the immune cells engulf the particle and die faster because of it, VirScoop says.

[00:29:10] More immune cells then rush in.

[00:29:12] This marks the start of an immune response to the particle which could potentially trigger a strong inflammatory reaction or possibly aggravate existing inflammatory diseases of the body.

[00:29:24] This is a result of the lungs or a gastronomical tract.

[00:29:29] While some of the chemicals added to make plastics suitable for particle uses are also known to cause problems for humans, this phenol A or BPA is used to harden plastic and is known endocrine disruptor that has been linked to development effects in children

[00:29:49] and problems with reproductive systems and metabolisms.

[00:29:54] Wow, phytolates used to make plastic soft and flexible are associated with adverse effects on fetal development and reproductive problems in adults along with insulin resistance and obesity

[00:30:09] and inflamed retardants that make electronics less flammable are associated with endocrine reproductive and behavioral effects.

[00:30:18] Some of these chemical products that I worked on in the past like the polybrominated diphenylethyl ethers used as flame retardants have been phased out or are prohibited to use in new products now.

[00:30:33] In the European Union and the United States because of their neurotoxic or disrupting effects, Leslie says.

[00:30:41] Wow, just guess worse the more you read this stuff.

[00:30:46] And it says here,

[00:30:49] Melgert wants to know how much microplastics is in our houses, what the particle sizes are and how much we breathe in.

[00:30:56] They are very few studies looking at indoor levels, lots of microplastics he says.

[00:31:00] We all have stuff in our houses, carpets, insulation made of plastic materials, curtains, clothes that all give off fibers.

[00:31:08] Some of the think about here.

[00:31:13] Some of the think about.

[00:31:16] Let's see.

[00:31:21] It says for people who want to follow Peter's lead, how to reduce exposure, ventilate, ventilate, ventilate.

[00:31:30] Melgert says she recommends not only using proper ventilation including opening your windows at home but also regular vacuum cleaning and air purification.

[00:31:39] That can remove dust which often contains microplastic from surfaces in the air.

[00:31:44] Consumers can also choose to avoid cosmetics and personal care products containing microbeads.

[00:31:50] Buying clothes made from natural fabrics like cotton, linen and hemp instead of from synthetic materials like acrylic and polyester helps reduce the shedding of microplastics during wear and during the washing process.

[00:32:02] Specialized microplastics removal devices including laundry bags and filters that attach to washing machines are designed to reduce the number of micro fibers making it into waterways.

[00:32:19] Vidhawk recommends not heating plastic containers in the microwave even if they claim to be food grade and not leaving plastic water bottles in the sun.

[00:32:29] Perhaps the biggest thing people can do is to rely on plastics less.

[00:32:34] Reducing overall consumption will reduce plastic pollution and so reduce microplastics slowing into the air and water.

[00:32:44] This is like a call to action at the end of the article here.

[00:32:50] Leslie recommends functional substitution before you purchase something think if you really need it and if it needs to be plastic.

[00:33:00] And if it's that bad in Europe I'm sure is probably worse here in the United States especially in the big cities.

[00:33:07] New York City, Baltimore, all the really seriously big cities right?

[00:33:12] I'm sure that the situation there is way worse.

[00:33:17] It's being found everywhere folks in our fish, in our cattle, in the chicken and everything.

[00:33:26] Every animal that you're eating now probably contains microplastics right?

[00:33:30] So what I would suggest is that we need to start keeping a track of keeping close eye on our food.

[00:33:44] What we're storing it in, how we're storing it.

[00:33:47] I know that a lot of preppers we tend to, we buy a lot of the long term storage foods that are stored in plastic containers and different things.

[00:33:58] And you know what? I am not going to say yay or nay to that right?

[00:34:06] I do know because you need long term food storage so that if there is a real emergency then it gives you a buffer between you and starvation.

[00:34:19] Fine.

[00:34:20] But there are other ways that we can cut back on the use of plastics and what really alarms me is the plastic in the food and of course our bodies.

[00:34:32] You know there's been this explosion of cancer right?

[00:34:37] And like me most of you are probably thinking yeah it's directly related to the shot.

[00:34:43] You see all these people that are dropping dead right? All these really young people, all these stars that are dropping dead at like 40 and 50.

[00:34:50] And no one is talking about it. A lot of times they're like yeah I don't know an illness or this or that right?

[00:34:55] And no one really saying they really really fit athletes right?

[00:34:59] You know in all the years that I've been watching professional football and soccer and different athletics for 40, 50 plus years right?

[00:35:13] And I've never seen the situation as bad as it is now.

[00:35:18] You can't pick up a newspaper or go online to any of the major newspapers without somebody young dropping dead.

[00:35:28] And that never used to happen but you know hey so I think that we're living in a toxic environment.

[00:35:35] We're living in a toxic environment.

[00:35:38] It is a problem that no one is doing anything really about it.

[00:35:44] Is either the environmental crazies or you know the people who are going around you know like climate change, climate change or you know all these crazies right?

[00:35:55] That are really taking up the cause.

[00:35:57] It is not really a mainstream thing right now.

[00:36:00] And I think as people in the survival community right we need to be aware of this.

[00:36:08] And yeah alright I want to keep this podcast to 40 minutes so the other topics that I was going to discuss right?

[00:36:19] I'll discuss them in another podcast.

[00:36:22] We'll just dedicate this one to you know the discussion of microplastics.

[00:36:26] But know where your food is coming from.

[00:36:29] This is important.

[00:36:31] Know what you're growing in your garden and how you're growing it.

[00:36:34] Know who's around you in your town okay?

[00:36:39] Know where you know for example if you have a well okay?

[00:36:43] Who shares your water table okay?

[00:36:47] You know there could be that factory you know two or three miles away.

[00:36:54] Who is leaching stuff.

[00:36:56] You never know if they're leaching stuff into the waterways and into the water table.

[00:37:03] You have to be really careful.

[00:37:06] Here in the southern tier there's a place called Endicott.

[00:37:10] And I'm sure you I don't know if you heard about what happened when IBM used to be.

[00:37:18] They used to that was their central hub there.

[00:37:23] IBM used to be it was a big part of the town of Endicott here in the southern tier in New York.

[00:37:31] And what people didn't know it was that for years IBM was dumping all these chemicals into the water.

[00:37:41] You know into the environment because of course their industry right lots are really like bad chemicals.

[00:37:50] And it got to the point where people couldn't you couldn't trust the water you couldn't really drink the water.

[00:37:59] And if you buy a house and this was years ago I think this all happened about 20 something years ago 30 something years ago.

[00:38:06] They've pretty much pulled out of Endicott now.

[00:38:10] But if you buy a house there you know you have to get like a radar and testing thing because all the radar and all this other stuff.

[00:38:22] And you have to have your water tested regularly if you have a well.

[00:38:31] We actually had looked at our house in Endicott when we found out about the history of IBM and the pollution and what it did to the water table in that town.

[00:38:39] We said no and we went to live somewhere else. That's how bad it was.

[00:38:45] So you know we live in a really toxic environment apart from you know well here we're talking about micro plastics but there's so many other things going on in our environment that's bad for us.

[00:39:00] And I think that we need to make sure we keep we are keeping our families healthy we're keeping ourselves healthy.

[00:39:06] Healthy mind means you are you're more you know you live a more just a better quality of life.

[00:39:18] You know you're not getting sick you know you're not getting cancer you know and getting any of those really serious diseases.

[00:39:24] And when you're healthy of course you know it means that you are you know you can you you're off more help to the folks around you if you're sick you're you know you're there's not much that you can do right it hinders a lot of all you can do so.

[00:39:43] You know sticking with our motto here about you know being self-reliant about you know solving problems about like you know positioning yourself so you can deal with future problems.

[00:40:01] Let's start looking at this problem and let's start minimizing try to minimize the impact of this on ourselves and our families because if you're not going to the doctor then that's one less thing if you're not sick this one less thing.

[00:40:17] If you're eating healthy food and you're giving your children healthy food that don't have these micro plastics in it or if you're minimizing the effects then you know and then that's that's more power to you.

[00:40:30] As I said I know that we use a lot of plastics and rubber and different things that break down in our environment as purpose and we have to be really conscious of that.

[00:40:39] You don't want to be poisoning yourself right so.

[00:40:44] That being said right hopefully this is something that I will definitely do another show on and dig up dig around a bit.

[00:40:53] It's not something that gets mentioned in the prepping community at all right we talk about economic collapses and we talk about you know we talk about you know.

[00:41:04] Security and homesteading and different things but yeah you know people in the survival community we are the biggest environmental.

[00:41:16] You know let's write because there's a we're in the environment all the time you know whether it be hunting or fishing or gardening you know or animal husbandry right we are we are the people of the earth.

[00:41:31] We're the we are the people of the earth we're most connected to it.

[00:41:34] Most purpose are more connected to their food supplies and and what's going on in their environment than you know Joe Schmo from from from the city.

[00:41:43] You know or Joe Schmo from the college university because we are living you know we're living that healthy lifestyle.

[00:41:53] You know all right so this is where I'm going to end it OK if you found this valuable please pass us around let people know what we offer here right on PBN.

[00:42:06] All right next week you know I have a lot more interesting things to talk about right there's a never ending stream I never run out of topics and never run out of things because there's always something that just pops up and it's like yeah I got it.

[00:42:21] I got to share this with folks because I you know it's all about getting you to think right here we don't tell you what we don't tell you what to think we just give you information and then we let you take that information and run with it right.

[00:42:35] And you can decide how you want how does this information you know how valuable it is to me and how you know and what I need to do with the information right.

[00:42:47] OK so enjoy the rest of your weekend folks it was my pleasure as usual. Thank you for taking the time I really want to tell you that I really appreciate the audience here on the strings through the audience on PBN we really appreciate the audience.

[00:43:05] We don't take you for granted at all. You know for letting us into your lives and it really does motivate us to give you the best of ourselves whether it be for research or the quality of the shows that we put together.

[00:43:22] And every time you know we make we make something a podcast or you know or write an article gets written or something gets posted. It's all about you know what what is the value of this to someone who is trying to be more self sufficient.

[00:43:39] You know what is the value of this. OK so we have a lot of really great shows coming up this weekend right. You know the the change your podcast is coming up on Sunday.

[00:43:51] I know that I believe Phoenix Phoenix Rising right is will will will probably be on this weekend as well. And we have Dave who's going to be probably doing his D.A.C.'s.

[00:44:16] on different little aspects everything connected to prepping and survival and politics of the day right. So check us out on PBN insurance and pass us around. OK so that's it for me.

[00:44:29] All right you know these are serious times folks and serious times require serious people so until next time good night and take care.

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