Growing your own food isn't always an option for everyone, and that can be pretty scary given the fragility of our supply chain. That's why we were excited to hear about a new farm not too far from us where we can buy pastured egg, poultry, pork & organic produce. I invited Christian Schwartz of PB Farms in Livingston, Texas to talk about what they…

Can you believe I went 47 years without reading 1984? I was a bit incredulous about that myself. And when I mused about it on social media, former guest, Suzanne Gose was also flabbergasted. She wanted to chat with me about it after I finished to see what I thought about it, and, ever the opportunist, I suggested we turn it into a podcast episode. …

In late August my son & I embarked on a cross country trip from Texas to VA then home again via a fairly circuitous route. Along the way we visited 7 different Civil War battlefields and stayed with multiple liberty friends. Since I finally slayed the October 15th filing deadline I decided it was high time I put out an episode recapping our eastwar…

Bob Smilie, Texas state representative for the Fully Informed Jury Association, joined me today to discuss jury nullification. My conservative friends will likely recoil at the thought of not following the law & setting guilty people free. But as more legislation comes is introduced that infringes on our natural rights to bear arms or how & where w…

We've all known that Big Tech uses our phones to spy on us for a long while, and we normally laugh it off. But the lack of phone privacy quit being a joke & turned into something a bit more dystopian when government started using it to track people & trace their contacts under the excuse of "public health". I asked Kevin with PrivatePhoneShop.com t…

Imagine living in a Galt's Gulch style community surrounded by like minded people as. As our world around us continues to descend into the Dark Ages, wouldn't it be nice to get away from the madness and live among people who value liberty & just want to be left alone? More and more these days I find myself wishing for just a place, and with a littl…

Monica Perez joins me for a discussion on Event 201 - a pandemic planning simulation hosted by Johns Hopkins in October 2019. The 2019 event featured an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak. Gee. Does that sound eerily familiar? Well, you aren't alone in thinking so. My fast talking, yet highly informed guest & I cover a slew of CV-19 related topics i…

After just a few minutes of speaking to Rebecca Vaughan you can tell she's head over heels in love with honeybees. As the manager of *only* 100 hives she is considered a hobbyist beekeeper. In addition to managing all those bees & working fulltime she also serves as a director & event coordinator for the Texas Beekeepers Association. Beekeeping is …

Wanna know what advice I share with clients who are setting out to blaze an entrepreneurial trail? Tune in today to learn about the tax consequences of being self-employed, and some strategies you can employ to reduce your tax bill. I discuss the IRS definition of a home office & the types of business expenses the IRS considers deductible. I also m…

Independent journalist & author Jeremy R Hammond joins me for a discussion on the 'rona jabs & the government response to the virus. (And, yes, I'm using euphamisms here to hopefully avoid censorship.) Jeremy first began researching vaccines when his son was born. Shortly after reading multiple studies related to vaccine safety, he began writing on…

In 2020 Covid-19 exposed the rigidity & fragility of the American food supply chain. For the first time in their lives many Americans found themselves facing food shortages & scarcity. As a result more resourceful folks turned to alternative grocery sources rather than just relying on the grocery store. Pastured poultry is one such alternate that A…

As a public school Spanish & public speaking teacher, Suzanne Gose had never considered homeschooling as an option to educate her children. So when her first child was born her plan was to stay home with him until he was 5 and then return to her career in education. After a little while at home with her infant she became a bit bored caring for only…

I invited Rebecca Dillingham - founder, blogger & podcaster over at DissidentMama.net - on to chat about her journey from an atheist feminist to a stay-at-home mom, home educator, & defender of the Southern tradition/history. We also talk about her progression from Catholic to atheist & back to a Christianity as an Orthodox Christian. Full show not…

Kirk Martin founder of Celebrate Calm & host of both Calm Parenting Podcast & Calm Christian Parenting Podcast joins me today to talk about his journey to become a calm parent. He didn't start out his parenting journey being calm. He was kind of a jerk, but he found that if he would control his own reaction to his son's behavior their relationship …

Functional medicine practitioner Dr. Justin Marchegiani joins me to discuss his field and how it contrasts with traditional medicine. We cover a host of health related topics including the importance of diet & nutrition, ways to proactively boost our immune system, gut health, germ theory vs terrain theory, and much more. Full show notes can be fou…

Picture this. A privately owned city with no government. It sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? But today’s guest Joyce Brand is joining me to discuss a new private city being built in Honduras as a ZEDE (Economic Development and Employment Zones). Joyce has been hired to chronicle the life of the ZEDE from construction to operation. As a lover …

Today I'm recapping my family's experience with the Texas sized cold weather event. I discuss what we did to get ready for the freezing temps, what we got right & what we could have done better.By Rachel Kennerly

Filmmaker & photographer Gus Cantavero joined me this week for a discussion about his path to entrepreneurship. We chat about a couple of his film projects including his documentary, A Drop of Water, & his most recent YouTube series with Scott Horton about the history of the war on terrorism. Gus also makes some recommendations for those who are in…

Podcast host & entrepreneur John Odermatt started a path to better health a few years ago. During his quest to improve his well being he began researching how gut health can affect the whole body. I invited John on to share some of the knowledge he's gathered over the past few years with me. Full show notes www.justaddliberty.com/15…

When Glenn Holland grew his medical cannabis he did so with his invention - Ganjagrid. The Ganjagrid is a plant vibrator that can be programmed with sound files from the grower. In Glenn's case he recorded his heartbeat, and had some interesting results when he used it to grow his own medical cannabis. This invention promises to have several intere…

PG rated for a few four letter words Prepper & podcaster extraordinaire Jack Spirko joins me today to share some down-to-earth tips for increasing your self resiliency & self sufficiency which can greatly add to your individual liberty. We also discuss some of the causes of the brittleness in the US supply chain. Discover a couple of looming shorta…

A couple years ago seemingly healthy Glenn Holland coughed up some blood tinged sputum that concerned him. After trips to a couple of doctors his diagnosis came back with that dreaded word - cancer. His doctor told him he had non-small cell adenocarcinoma that had spread to his lymph nodes and was at the fairly critical stage three A, so he didn't …

Nurse researcher Linda Benskin, PhD, RN joins me for a discussion of Vitamin D's impact on immune health & specifically the impact of Vitamin D deficiencies on the severity of Covid-19 symptoms/outcomes. Show notes with links to the many studies referenced in today's episode & the guest's website can be found at www.justaddliberty.com/12…

Self reliance is a key component of living a free life. If you're dependent on others you're not really free. A lot of people around the world learned in 2020 that many of the luxuries (like open grocery stores) we take for granted are not inevitable. You may not always be able to run down the road to the store. A lot of coulda/shoulda's were comin…

The United States is a global leader in food waste. I was recently listening an episode of my friend Dann's Culinary Libertarian podcast, and he mentioned that restaurants can be either winners or losers depending on what gets thrown away vs repurposed. Given our current economic landscape with projected food shortages across the globe, his comment…

Access to reasonably priced health insurance is a big reason a lot of people stay in their unfulfilling jobs. It's one of the reasons I stayed at my old employer as long as I did, because I knew how expensive health insurance was on the open market, and I didn't want to go without. And if you're an uninsured adult you're looked upon as though you a…

Karen Quinones aka Mrs. Q joins me to talk more about her historical walking tours of New York City circa the late 1700's/early 1800's. We discuss how she stumbled into her second career as a historian & tour guide. We also examine how she has had to shift gears a bit during her state's & city's lockdowns. Check out the full show notes over at www.…

Andrew Pudewa, founder of the Institute for Excellence in Writing, joins me today for a wonderful conversation about a variety of topics. We start by briefly reviewing his 7 children's integral role in helping him start his business. A discussion about John Taylor Gatto then followed. And finally we explored our role as parents in helping kids lear…

One step toward living a free life is in my opinion becoming a critical thinker. If we are able to look at the information we are consuming or beliefs we currently hold and evaluate them honestly while applying reason, we can truly free our mind. Kerry Baldwin, host of the Mere Liberty podcast & writer over at MereLiberty.com, joins me today to dis…

I know a lot of people eschew politics, and think we should completely opt out of the system. But with so many of our neighbors seemingly bent on their own destruction (and dragging us along with them to their damnation), I believe it behooves us to pay attention to what's going on in our city, county, and to a lesser extent state. I was thrilled t…

We've already mentioned the documentary Unprescribed on a couple of podcasts, so I was ecstatic when writer/producer Steve Ellmore accepted my invite to the show. In today's episode we discuss the documentary and the great need for legal access to cannabis for our veterans. Steve also shares some exciting upcoming news related to the film & his med…

Like so many other veterans Christian Ryan really struggled with PTSD & physical ailments after coming back from tours overseas. After moving to the boondocks to try to get his life together a friend suggested he try cannabis medicinally. His first foray into plant medicine wasn't a good one, but he continued to try to find relief through the plant…

Choosing a math curriculum was a struggle for us, y'all. A struggle! Not because there aren't plenty of programs out there, but because my child thinks he doesn't like math. At least he thought that until we discovered a program that revolutionized our homeschool math experience - Shiller Learning. So I was giddy when the founder & CEO of Shiller L…

Sue Taylor started out as an unlikely advocate for cannabis. The former Catholic school principal left her home in Georgia to have an emergency intervention with her son who wanted to sell medical cannabis. When she arrived instead of finding a desperate drug addict, she found a plant that possessed many healing capabilities. A plant that she had b…

James Bovard's first Op Ed was published by the New York Times in 1979. His satire piece was a response to Congress's complaints about the all volunteer military as they mulled over a return to conscription. Jim extolled the (lack of) virtues of the current Congress & pointed out how unqualified & ineffective many of those in Congress were as he re…

Deirdra Martinez suffered with anxiety and chronic back pain for years. She had no idea the two could be connected until she was referred to a psychiatrist. After the mental health professional prescribed her Prozac her back pain disappeared, and life was good for a year or two. When the prescription meds started making her feel numb she succumbed …

The artist formerly known as Mance Rayder & Pete Raymond, Peter Quinones joins me on episode 2. Pete is the managing editor of the Libertarian Institute, host of Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast, an Executive Producer on the documentary The Monopoly on Violence, & in all his spare time he writes books like Freedom through Memedom & The Kids are Not…

Another podcast? Yep. Join host Rachel Kennerly as she explain the impetus behind creating this podcast and the topics we'll be exploring in future episodes. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!By Rachel Kennerly

*ADULT LANGUAGE WARNING* After leaving the military Fabian Henry struggled to re-adapt to life at home & reconnect with his family. He was constantly on high alert & found his thoughts drawn back to the battlefield - reliving mistakes & past regrets. Despite choking down a handful of prescription meds daily he still could not sleep or relax. He tur…

After Sharon Letts was diagnosed with breast cancer Pearl Moon showed up on her doorstep with a jar of cannabis oil. Sharon was a documentarian and research writer by trade, so she was incredulous that cannabis could help her. If cannabis had healing properties she would know. Right? Wrong! Cannabis not only helped her sleep & eased her pain; it ob…

Nina Simmons & Osiris Stephen's son was diagnosed with epilepsy at the tender age of 2. Sadly traditional medications seemed to exacerbate his seizures, so in desperation they tried plant medicine. At the time CBD oil was still illegal in their home state of New York, so they had to break the law to buy it for their son. After months of trial and e…

Jessie Gill didn’t believe in plant medicine. Like most of us she had bought into the lies about cannabis peddled by the American education system & her nursing school. While searching for pain relief for an on the job injury as a hospice nurse she tried every pharmaceutical under the sun. After spinal surgery exacerbated her pain Jessie reluctantl…

A few weeks ago I joined Robert & Daniel over at ActualAnarchy.com for a review of the Guy Ritchie cannabis themed action flick The Gentlemen. As penance for my many absences of late, I'm posting our discussion as a bonus episode for this week. Enjoy! Be sure to check out the ActualAnarchy podcast & YouTube channel! PS I do have an episode planned …

While living in California Robert Cartee & his wife discovered different varieties of cannabis worked better to treat their ailments than any prescription drugs they'd tried. Tired of living on top of other people in Cali Robert & Tracey moved to rural Georgia and built their dream home. Cannabis was & is still illegal in Georgia so Robert had a ro…

Julie Mejia was only in her 20's when she was attacked by a cognitively impaired client at her place of employment. She was injured on her right side from her neck to her ankle. Days, weeks, and months went by and her body did not heal as it should. Even worse the pain began to spread along the entirety of the right side of her body. She was finall…

Economist & author Dr. Mark Thornton joins me to discuss his PhD dissertation on the economics of prohibition. This dissertation would lead to the coining of the phrase of The Iron Law of Prohibition. He joins us for a fascinating discussion on the failed policy of drug prohibition and maybe a couple other topics related to the State's & its ever i…

Katie King had a difficult childhood, and she struggles with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) & anxiety. She was also diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few years ago. She has been using cannabis to treat these conditions for some time now, but recently when she was able to find a reliable source of quality cannabis she's experienced treme…

Three years ago Rodney Bowers was given 6 months to live after being diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer. Fortunately a friend in Michigan reached out to him after learning of his diagnosis. He invited him up & cooked him up a batch of Rick Simpson oil. Six months came and went, and Rodney was still alive and kicking. His pain had eased. His abd…

Scott Horton returns for a discussion on SWAT raids which have become a staple of the local law enforcement in the United States' War on Drugs. It's estimated that 50,000 SWAT raids take place each year across America - a stat that is unrealized by and unfathomable to most Americans. We also discuss the overall militarization of police, qualified i…

After a couple of suicide attempts in college because of mismanaged pharmaceuticals, a friend suggested Marlies Fitch-Ledbetter try cannabis edibles to help with her scoliosis & peripheral neuropathy. When she and her husband moved back to Texas Marlies had to revert back to prescription meds. After a drug induced seizure put her in the hospital, M…