Gubba Homestead Podcast

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Once you start hearing what former GATE students actually remember, the official explanation stops making sense.

The official story about the GATE program is that it identified academically gifted kids and gave them harder work. The accounts I'm hearing from people who actually went through it tell a different story.

Across decades and unrelated school districts, former GATE students keep describing the same details: Pattern recognition cards, headphones in closets, an older woman called "Grandma", and memory gaps where the lessons should be.

I walk through what the program looked like on paper, what people actually remember experiencing, and how those memories line up with documented research into human consciousness, like MKUltra and the Stargate Project. I also share my own account of being pulled out of a first grade classroom near a military base and asked to read the collective mind of the class.

The question I keep coming back to is one worth sitting with. If a system was secretly screening children for unusual cognitive traits, what happened to the ones who passed?

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[00:23] Why thousands of former GATE students are comparing notes now
[02:45] The official explanation versus what people actually remember
[06:06] Pattern recognition tests, headphone sessions, and the hallway closet
[09:58] How MKUltra and Stargate change the way you read this program
[15:52] The personal story of "Grandma" and the mind-reading test
[21:37] Why parents were never told what was actually happening
[23:30] What the missing memories and shared details add up to

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Garlic is more powerful than most people think.

I use garlic across my homestead in ways that go against almost everything mainstream pet care, gardening advice, and livestock guidance recommend. I feed it to my dogs in measured amounts during tick season, spray it on my berries, ferment it in raw honey, and recently cleared mastitis in one of my goats in three days without antibiotics.

This episode covers the dog dosage chart by weight, the garlic spray ratio for gardens, the honey ferment process step by step, a goat recovery story, the Amish homesteading family who surprised me by recommending harsh chemical fertilizer, and how to plant, cure, and replant garlic year after year.

There is a reason this knowledge faded out of common use, and it has less to do with safety than with what can and cannot be patented and sold back to you. One example: the warning that garlic is toxic to dogs traces back to one study most pet owners have never actually opened.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[02:58] Why garlic knowledge faded from homesteads and kitchens
[06:44] The dog garlic study most people misquote
[09:33] Garlic dosage for dogs by weight and tick season timing
[12:32] How garlic cleared mastitis in my goat in three days
[18:05] Homemade garlic spray recipe for gardens and chicken coops
[22:46] How to make honey-fermented garlic at home
[25:24] Using garlic steam for respiratory support indoors
[29:50] How to plant, harvest, and cure your own garlic

Related Gubba Homestead Episodes:

The Truth About Pet Food: Why (And How) I Feed My Pets Raw
Natural Flea and Tick Prevention for Dogs: The Terrain Approach Without Toxic Pesticides

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Some historical events have been hiding dark secrets.

Between 1854 and 1929, more than 200,000 children were loaded onto trains and shipped across the United States. The deeper I went into the records, the less the official story held up. Many of these children were not orphans. Some had living parents; Some were taken because of poverty; Some just vanished into a system with almost no oversight at all.

Once I started looking at what else was happening in that same time period, I couldn't unsee it. Cities were burning down one after another. Insane asylums were being built in places that didn't have the population to fill them. World fairs were putting up massive Roman-style buildings in empty fields and tearing them back down a year later. Baby incubators were a paid public attraction with real infants on display.

I walk you through the orphan trains, the fires, the fairs, the asylums, the Cabbage Patch Kids, and a passage from the Book of Jasher that I genuinely could not stop thinking about. If a reset of history was happening, this is what it would look like.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[02:03] Over 200,000 children were relocated with no real oversight, and many weren't even orphans
[04:42] The orphan trains weren't just an American phenomenon; it was happening worldwide
[07:02] The great city fires of the 1800s and the dynamite theory nobody talks about
[09:16] The world fair buildings that appeared overnight and were never supposed to exist
[13:12] Why live infants were displayed alongside machinery at world fairs
[19:17] Who were the insane asylums actually built for, and what happened to the people inside
[22:16] The Cabbage Patch Kids origin story might not be as innocent as it seems
[23:15] The ancient text that was left out of the Bible and what it says about children in fields
[28:05] What a global reset would actually look like, and whether we already lived through one

Related Gubba Homestead Episodes:

The World Fairs, Aether, and the Great Reset

Resources Mentioned:

World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair) | Wikipedia
1984 by George Orwell | Book or Audiobook
Ancient Book Of Jasher | Book or Audiobook

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Women trust pap smears, mammograms, skincare labels, and feminine hygiene products without question. The full risk and ingredient information rarely makes it into the conversation.

I uncover five areas of women's health where transparency is seriously lacking. Gynecological tools are sterilized with a known carcinogen. Cumulative mammogram radiation is seldom mentioned by doctors. Skincare routines layer over a hundred synthetic compounds onto your skin before breakfast. Chlorine-bleached fibers sit against permeable tissue for days each month during menstruation. And the word "fragrance" legally conceals dozens of undisclosed toxic ingredients on a single label.

This is not about fear. It's about giving women the information to make real decisions. Understanding false positive rates, reading ingredient labels, and reducing chemical burden are practical steps anyone can take today.

Whether you're rethinking your skincare shelf, questioning a screening recommendation, or learning what "fragrance" actually means, this episode fills in what the system leaves out.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[04:32] Ethylene oxide on pap smear instruments and what consent forms leave out
[07:24] How abnormal pap results can trigger a cascade of follow-up procedures
[12:13] Mammogram compression, cumulative radiation, and the overdiagnosis problem
[19:58] Why screening campaigns emphasize urgency over diagnostic nuance
[23:14] Endocrine-disrupting chemicals hiding in everyday skincare products
[29:20] Chlorine bleaching and the case for cleaner feminine hygiene products
[35:45] What the word "fragrance" legally conceals on ingredient labels

Resources Mentioned:

Arvoti All Natural Skincare
Evaluation of the Inhalation Carcinogenicity of Ethylene Oxide by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Article
IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans Volume 60 by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer | Website

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What if the plant you’ve been taught to destroy is actually one of the most useful things growing in your yard?

I’ve started looking at dandelions in a completely different way since living closer to the land, and that shift has changed how I think about natural medicine and self-sufficiency. When something grows this abundantly without intervention, it raises a real question about whether the issue is the plant or how we’ve been taught to see it.

Reconnecting with homesteading practices has a way of challenging modern norms around lawns, food, and what we consider useful. Every part of the dandelion serves a purpose, from leaves that support digestion to roots and flowers that have been used traditionally in everyday life.

The deeper you dig, the harder it is to ignore how much we’ve been pulled away from our bodies, our food, and the natural systems around us. Simple practices like grounding, spending time outside, and paying attention to what naturally grows start to bring that connection back and reshape how you think about natural medicine.

Something as simple as a plant in your yard can change the way you see food, health, and the systems around you.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[01:02] Who benefits from teaching us to hate dandelions
[07:26] Dandelions as essential bee forage, and the link to colony collapse
[10:24] Leaves, root, and flowers: what every part of the dandelion actually does for your body
[22:39] How the dandelion was rebranded as a weed, glyphosate's health concerns, and the delay-and-replace playbook
[29:05] The systemic pattern behind it all, and why questioning the dandelion leads to questioning everything

Related Gubba Homestead Episodes:

Natural Flea and Tick Prevention for Dogs: The Terrain Approach Without Toxic Pesticides
Why I Don’t Wear Sunscreen
How & Why I Stopped Depending on Conventional Systems – My Homesteading Journey

Recipes From This Episode:
Dandelion Jelly and Dandelion Root Tea

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