The Rustic Spirits Podcast

Petrol's up, the grocery bill's climbing, the mortgage repayments have crept higher, and yet the news keeps telling us everything's under control. This episode is about living in that disconnect, the gap between what we're told is happening and what we actually feel every time we go into town. Are we crazy, or are we just frogs in slowly heating water, quietly getting used to the pressure?We talk through the cost of living crunch here in Australia, what a shift into El Nino could mean for rainfall and food production on our off grid homestead, the looming fuel price changes, and why we've started buying extra at every shop. Not panic buying, not prepping for the apocalypse, just taking more responsibility before the system gets squeezed.This isn't doom and gloom. It's an honest, practical conversation about staying informed without drowning in it, knowing when you're being marketed to, and the simple grounding question we keep coming back to: what's the truth, and what's the lie?Check out the BLUETTI Elite 300 Here: https://bit.ly/RSH_Elite300CONNECT WITH US Rustic Spirits Email List:https://bit.ly/rustic_spirits_email_list Check out our Patreon and join the Rustic Spirits Community:https://patreon.com/c/rusticspiritsco

So continuing on in the theme of the world is going crazy right now, in this episode we dive into the latest virus outbreak (is it pandemic-able?), the new Budget announcements, what's really going on with the oil supply lines and why a little by-election upset may just be the hope signal that many Australians have been watching for. Check out the BLUETTI Elite 300 Here: https://bit.ly/RSH_Elite300Substack Article Mentioned:EIGHT WEEKS TO EMPTY SHELVES. SIXTY DAYS TO FAMINE.https://markashryock.substack.com/p/eight-weeks-to-empty-shelves-sixty

In this week's episode of The Rustic Spirits Podcast we talk about the unusual coincidence of world-wide major events and how if it were just one thing - we (and our governments) may be able to weather the storm, but the costs keep rising, the tensions keep escalating and the possible scenarios don't leave us with a lot of confidence in our government(s) to see us through. So we're making sure we're doing what we can, with what we have - NOW - to be ready for anything.

If you've been paying close attention to the news lately it feels eerily like the eye of the storm this last week or so. Perhaps we've just built up a "crisis media tolerance" to the point now where unless there's bombs dropping or robots marching into factories to steal human jobs, we're not affected. But that's actually highlighted something really important to us here on our Homestead - we didn't start to develop a resilience and self-sufficiency mindset ad way of life in response to all that drama - we were doing it anyway because it just makes good sense. And so this week - that's exactly what we're doing.Roman Yampolskiy on Triggernomotry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I60uZEqXr0

We've definitely all been here before - when the news cycle feels like a constant punch in the head. So while the situation in Iran and the impending worsening fuel and food crisis feels like it's taken a back-seat, we take a breather. Sometimes it's important to stay informed, keep up to date, formulate your opinions and responses - but then shut the screen off, go outside and make sure you're putting first things first.In this episode we cover a lot of ground. We talk honestly about audience fatigue - ours included - and why we've been covering geopolitical topics on a homesteading channel. We get into the $20 million government fuel economy ad campaign and why a farmer on X said it better in a single post than any bureaucrat has managed in months. We talk about the Ben Roberts-Smith case, subjudice law, and why we won't be commenting on it - and why mainstream media probably should have taken the same approach. We discuss the under-16 social media ban, the $82 million spent on it, and the 70% of kids who still have their accounts anyway. We touch on hate speech laws, free speech absolutism, and the uncomfortable tension between protecting people and controlling them. And we talk about the creeping pattern of government energy going into managing public perception rather than solving actual problems.But we also talk about what to do with all of that. Because the goal of most news media is to leave you anxious and clicking, not informed and empowered. So we finish where we always want to finish - with a redirect. Preppers panic early, but then they get to work. Identify what's out of your control, then turn your energy toward what isn't. Grow something. Build Something. Take your shoes off and go outside.The situation hasn't gone away. But you're still here, and so are we.