Matthew Kubick – Sovereign Sustainability

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Seth Horst and Dave Faller sit down with Matthew Kubick from the YouTube channel, Sovereign Sustainability, a North Idaho-based channel that brings a unique approach to the prepping world. According to Matthew, there are 4 main categories of Sovereign Sustainability:

• Food (Farming, Hunting/Fishing, Wild Foraging, etc.)
• Form/Fix (Textiles, Medical, Trades, etc.)
• Movement (Martial Arts, Parkour, Gymnastics, etc.)
• Community (Commerce, Tactics, etc.)

Join us on this informative and entertaining podcast on prepping, homesteading, foraging, coffee, martial arts, and all aspects of surviving in a world filled with unknowns.

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In today’s episode, we sit down with Matthew from sovereign sustainability to get his take on prepping and the number one thing he recommends might surprise you. Stick around North Idaho is a north Idaho experience. Well, you just missed Dave mocking me. I didn’t I didn’t hit record fast enough. So there you go. Guys, Hey, welcome to the north Idaho experience. We have a special guest There it is. Really, I say that every time it’s not that you’re not special. We’ve got Matthew cubic. That’s the right cubic. You got it? You got it? Okay? Like Rubik’s cubic. Like Rubik’s Cube? So Matthew reached out to us recently because we did the podcast called prepping for the apocalypse with Alyssa from the prep down downtown. He sent me an email. He’s like, hey dude, like, I’m in this world too. And I was like, well, these are, these are fun conversations and we’re rolling. Yeah, let’s go. Oh, and Dave’s here too. Third wheel, moral sport. No, this is good. We actually just got done watching that new movie, the Civil War 25 I haven’t seen it yet. No, I heard Okay, so I’ll just, I mean, not spoiler alert, but But also, I think it was really, there’s a lot of unrealistic stuff in there. I think it’s meant to create fear and everything else. Like, everybody expects these drastic wars and all this stuff. And always some subtle undertone on any of those things that that’s meant to provoke you one way or the other. And it’s just, I don’t think as much of it is as realistic as it would be, sure, apocalyptic, podcast. I think it’s gonna be a cool conversation. Just the premise of his book is basically the US starts up the draft again, and they try to draft his kids. And he’s like, No, my kids aren’t gonna Oh, you brought us coffee today. Thank you. By the way, we gotta give a shout out to defiant coffee. He’s local. Heck, yeah. Post Falls. This is a certified organic ingredients in this coffee. It’s, right now in the CPG space. CPG is consumer packaged goods, so what you see in your grocery stores, and this is the best of the best right here. So, uh, two, Yeah, cheers, you guys. Cheers, that’s liver is so solid, right now I’m able to consume so much more, right, right? So you’re in such good shape, right here. Yeah, that’s, well, that’s, that’s a theory. I was gonna say one more thing too, Find them on birch trees. Amazing. Mushrooms, super good, high in antioxidants, things like that. Reishi. Can you find it up here? Possibly I find one similar called Red bene poly pore. It’s typical. I’ll find it on I’ll find there’s other ones, like Turkey Tail, shiitake, maitake, a Gary con, a lot of different medicinal mushrooms you can find out in the woods. I know, can find out in the woods. I can’t even repeat, I like, do I take this? Because do I have to say that, like, I smoke mushrooms? Is this like, you know, I come from a law enforcement world where it’s like, oh, like people smoke mushrooms. Just sidebar, top story, I had a case a bunch of stolen cars on a property service. Search warrant. Arrested this dude. Let him out, right? He’s old guy. He while I was writing the report, he ended up eating, and he’s a mountain man, like dude was telling me about eating mountain lion all the time, whatever, he ended It’s one paragraph, one paragraph. So I thought that was very odd, but that ties into my deep fear that my parents instilled in me at a young age of like, don’t eat any don’t unless they’ll kill you, morale Morales, yeah, and they’re freaking good. Yeah, Morales are awesome. So typically, mushrooms like I don’t mess around with floor mushrooms too much like Merl is the only one that I’ll pick off diarrhea and start throwing up, and you might see God, but yeah, typically, like, if I’m picking mushrooms out in the wild, I’m not going to pick the ones off the ground unless they’re more else. mushrooms. So if it’s a guild mushroom, Be super careful. Don’t mess with it. Do your research. I’m not a mushroom expert, but I do pick a lot of mushrooms wild, including like Turkey Tail and some of Yes, this show is for entertainment purposes only anyway. So, all right, how do, how do you know about all this? Is this tie into the prepping, homesteading world that you’re in 100% so, so first was what I got into earlier on my, you know, career, when I was early 20s. And so I was learning about sustainability and all that kind of stuff. And then I started learning a lot more about just questionable things to promote being greener. And so I wanted to dive into that further. And then, of course, as I was learning about that kind of stuff, covid hit. And so when scrub, scrub the word, A C word hit. And what happened is it actually tanked my business, because most of our business, we were doing sampling events and stuff like that, and so we weren’t essential. So that put me in a space where I going out in the woods and getting more in tune with nature. You know, hunting, fishing, trapping, foraging, gardening, animal husbandry, that kind of stuff, just getting more in tune with that kind I started learning more about, like, food in our growing and all that kind of stuff. So we were talking about this in the previous podcast that got censored, and that time in history changed a lot Yeah? So okay, you’ve got a homestead. Yes, sir. Okay, what do you like laid out for me? What’s it look like? What do you got? Yeah. So our homestead is we’ve got we’ve got animals, we’ve got chickens, ducks, we’re gonna talk. We’ve had a little bit of everything. We’ve got dogs, cats, you know, we even got bunnies running around. I had a massive rabbit hutch, and a predator broke into video at your property sometime. Let’s go. Think that would be awesome, dude. I love alpacas. That’s something we looked at. Do you have the mini Highland cows? Or, like, the full size? They’re full And we brought the mail over. He was mainly like laying down and kind of pulling a little bit on the rope. And it was me and my father in law, who’s kind of older. So it was me, you know. And then we minis just for esthetics. Like, do you have them for meat, yeah. So our farm homestead is a little different. So we typically, we don’t butcher at our farm. We’re mainly just trying to grow the all right, it seems like Highland cows, too. I wrote about these, and they were squelched. Yes, William, the whole thing to my wife and his squad sacks. And I Yeah, we went to go see him. So the the cows. It seems like Highland cows are really desirable because of pop culture. Like they’re Hardy, is what I understand, for the winter and stuff like that, right? Very hardy. So. And I actually heard, if you guys listen to Mike Glover, you know, and his podcast and all kind of stuff, Don’t have any shelter. It’s just not common in America. And he got in trouble because somebody was saying that his cattle didn’t have shelter. All Cows are pretty darn Hardy, but Highlanders are particularly Hardy for sure, yeah, especially for the winter time up here, huh? Yeah. So in the it’s a question I asked last time on one of our scene is anyways. What is the difference to you? I see a lot of people say they’re preppers, but really they’re hoarders. What? What do you see a difference between those and what’s like your your frame hit, you know, bleep it out. Scrub that. Yeah. And so when that happened to me, I realized that I believe God has been training me since I was a child to be a sustainable, sovereign some chaos that goes down. Supply chain shuts down. EMP hits. You know, whatever it is, something happens military on our soil, something like that. I think the most important thing is that you need ourself. We need to be able to protect ourselves. And then we need a tribe or a greater community that we can cooperate with. Those are the main four things, in my opinion, and there are little You know, some of us are going to be better, militant people, good martial artists that can protect people, right? So that’s gonna be pointed at me when he said that, just for the record, yeah, as the carry. So, yeah, so just you gotta, I think those are the four categories that are most important to look at and then figure out, like, how can you be better in all those? And then how can you leverage supposed to be individuals like that, right? It’s, it’s not just me and my family versus everybody else. I think there has to be, and there’s a risk in it, right, to trust other people. But I think the concert in the dirt the other day, I was telling how cool, like the people I’m looking around, I’m like, Man, these, these are my people. Like, this is such a cool group of people, and I think we know the guy that shadow banned us on on our channel. I don’t know how much he’s gonna bring to the table, just being honest, yeah, and I think up here, it’s important. So the community thing, I in in spreading out the workload and each person having a specialty. You know, maybe you got a doctor friend or a dentist friend. I know a guy, by the way, and that’s their thing, and they can The former military guys or former cops or even a firefighter. Dave, like, what if you have to put a fire out? Oh, my goodness, I wouldn’t even know what to do. So we got you. But like, having that, that that is it, that’s the key. Having the community. 100% community is everything. So I think we all have, like, our own internal tribe. First, you know, have your outer community. So for me, I’m in Sandpoint. That’s going to be my outer community, right there. You guys are, you know, we’re all blessed to be here in North Idaho. There’s a lot of really hey, talking to your neighbors, you know, should you have some kind of ops plan? You know, for lack of a better word, I think so. So I’ve got so my best friend lives in, well, he used to live in Los a lot of bad stuff going on in the world. We need to have a plan. So it’s not an odd thing to bring that up to people here, especially in North Idaho. So how much should you have a plan? Should you book. Great book. You should read it. Love it. And one of the things that I love about his book is, it’s not, it’s not as much of a prepping book in that, like he’s prepping for the apocalypse. It’s kids. I’ve got a five year old who’s gonna be six, I’ve got a three and then, basically a newborn. And I was not the newborn. I was teaching them how to use, like, a fire extinguisher. That’s he needs to go and get that fire extinguisher and put it out. And that’s just a basic prepared thing that you should know, you know. And then there’s other categories of that, like how to use a firearm, what to do if somebody knocks on the door that you don’t know about. You know, just different things like that. YouTube and I can go in there, if you have There’s so much available to us, but it’s now too easy, right? We’re dependent. If you’re talking about being dependent, like if you’re into prepping, you you don’t have those skills, and you have a bunch of supplies, and you have no knowledge and nothing that no resources, nobody that teach you. How are you going to do that? Yeah, how do I purify water? ingrain in your memory better too. So yeah, and then teaching your kids, right? That’s the next level of learning yourself, is teaching it to someone else, and then it really ingrains it. Well, necessarily seen as, like, a positive thing, right? It’s like, we got to be ready, and it’s got to have this dark undertone, when the truth is, is that you can make it fun. You can make prepping fun. When you get, you know, we just got one of these survival books. I’m like, there’s a lot of cool shit in here that I haven’t seen turn it into something fun. Where you go out with your kid and say, been around? You know what? I mean, yeah, not much. How has natural gas been around? Honestly, people lived here when Coeur d’Alene was being built back in the 1800s man, you barely had steam, You know, I have always, I’ve been nerding out on tourniquets and, like, trauma care for a long time. And, you know, my kids know how to put a tourniquet on. I just thought last night, and it’s tourniquet. I’m like, they might not know where, right? So I was like, I need to have a a medical bag, a small kit in the house, always in the same place that I can just be like, it’s in that spot. of everything, like, Yeah, we were messing around with tourniquets with my kids. I had my oldest son put one on just to know. And I think the cool thing about teaching your kids about this early on, is happens. It’s more just like, you know, this is you have the opportunity to help other people out. If something goes down, you’re gonna be prepared, and, you know, they’re gonna love you for it, you an AR, which is going to be your hunting rifle, I guarantee it okay, and you’re going to have everybody go down there and kill a bunch of deer in one day. There’s not going to be anything left, and dropping that off at the store, it comes from somewhere. There’s a way to do it. And I think it’s a responsibility for people to learn those things. Oh, 100% Yeah. And like, back to the medical what’s happening when you apply a tourniquet on your way to the trauma center that doesn’t exist, but, but, yeah, damn. It’s a lot easier to buy, you know, a cat tourniquet, but get a real one. that’s gonna the win list is gonna snap the first time you use it. So it’s important to spend a little bit of money on on getting the good stuff, sure, and don’t make the first time you use it, was actually bringing my best friend. His name is Wolf. He gives me a lot of wisdom. He studies the Stoics and that kind of stuff. Kind of stuff. I read the Bible more, but hey, he gives me some Movement in general. And so like, if you if something were to happen and you had to go and provide your food for your family, and you are low on gasoline or don’t have gasoline, you’re not gonna be want to stack up their ammo and their guns and all this kind of stuff. And they’re, they’re, you know, freeze dried food, and it’s like, okay, well, what happens when somebody comes and tries to move moose. Same thing, a moose, like, it has a line of path that it goes on, and if you’re on that line of path, that’s where it’s going. So you need to get off that line of path. And if you get off know, we take very, very small steps. You think, like, oh, okay, well, I have freeze dried food. Well, how are you gonna cook it? Well, you know, I have a tourniquet. Well, yeah, like you said, you out of service for a week, right? Like you sprain an ankle, that’s a big deal in a post post apocalyptic world, because you have to work every day to get food. So, you know that camp and we veins and everything else, you could probably figure out who’s on testosterone, right? But no, but the truth is, is, like, I’ve heard a ton of people tell me, like, Oh, my God, it’s changed my life. all of you. Yeah, I’ve got a three month supply on hand. I’ve got three months to establish dominance after that exactly, and my 320 testosterone is gonna rule the roost, right? So this is but I know has some sort of effect like that, right? So I bet you there’s some natural things that might, might be able to solve that problem. You’re right down my lane right now, because I’ve been of like, what’s the natural way? What are the B vitamins? What is the sleep regimen? What is the water? What is the hydration? What? What are these things that I can do naturally, changing my diet? no, you know, any way to tell people, yeah, how do you survive? So please, Like and Subscribe, by the way, yeah, like and subscribe, please. But that’s a that’s a huge thing, that there’s a lot of people that are on medications. And I think if you’re on medications and you’re into prepping, that’s something you have to consider some scary thyroid, Medic, whatever it is, right? And you reliant on that and not that could go away. So you need to at least have a stockpile and a double, double edged sword here. And maybe you can, you We’re dependent on these medications, high blood pressure medications, you know cholesterol medications, you know lipids, all these different things. I think that an apocalyptic world where more of what sovereign sustainability essay was called. TEDx Spokane. Oh, so yeah, I was, I did two auditions there. I’m hoping to get on. We’ll see. The first one I did it more about, like, those was like, kind of stressing out about the topic. I was like, do I really want to talk about this? And I kind of rehashed my idea to something along the lines of how modern day society does not benefit our health because we’re too reliant on technology. And I think that if we can reconvene with the nature that God built for us, it will solve a lot of our health dramatically, and it’s helped me a lot, like, you know, so I think it would, I think it would actually benefit people if SHTF, I guess the question the pushback you might get is like, what do people living in the cities do? Right? You get 20 million people packed into freaking New York. Whatever you better think about that. How do I don’t care. Do 50 half push ups. Do whatever you can. There’s lots of things that you can do in New York, you can still ground. So one of the things you can do, and I learned this from liver King. like him, but he’ll throw his hands on a tree to ground. I’m like, cool. That’s awesome. You can do that in a city because that tree is still in the ground. So you can ground with that tree. I’m a big in city water, just saying. And you can still get out of the city, Go, get out of the city for even an hour once a week or something. I bet you, it’ll change your life. So it’s all about those baby and complain about grounding, as opposed to just going out and trying it for 30 seconds a day, right? Right? Like, because they don’t see an immediate effect, or they, you know, it’s not electricity. So you’re gonna drive one tank of gas, and then you’re gonna end up in the middle of Nevada, where you don’t know shit around you. You’re unfamiliar with the area, the environment, the prepping in the city, that’s tough. I think we’ve probably both seen FEMA in action, and they can do some great stuff, but it can be a bit of a shit show. And, you know, I wouldn’t want to rely on a don’t care if you like Trump or camala or whatever the heck, they’re not looking to Seth, and be like, how do I make your life better? Right? Mm. Right? Yeah. One’s an economist who I think would be great for the economy and everything else. The other one, well, I mean, you saw the Joe Rogan podcast today, I guess, to say that, but yeah, I any of that stuff, just because you’re so unhealthy. So I think our society has pushed really hard to accept that as a healthy way of living, but it’s not true. Yeah? And so when Matthew reached out lie that you can over train, which you can but I was training basically every day at the time, and I felt the best I ever had. Then I fell into that lie a little bit. And then after covid hit, I was think that’s number one is the most important thing you can practice. I think every single person on the planet should do martial arts. It’s your own duty to protect yourself. I love our first about twice a week, and then I roll jiu jitsu about twice a week. So that’s what I do there. I live some weights. I do some parkour and gymnastics. I coach at saga gymnastics up in ponderay. So I do, is program your brain to do something new. And when your adrenaline’s running and you’re doing something you’re not familiar with, whether it’s running from a bear, which I’ve happened, you know, doing since covid. So when covid hit, my business crashed for about six months. And so one of the things I did to feed my family is I sold all my gym equipment. I’ve got a home gym with Olympic boulders and climbing trees and running through the woods and flipping over trees and stuff like that. So that’s been a huge thing for me. And I think we’re so used to going into a gym and lifting probably not as strong as I think I am, because I used to lift heavy weights, like I could, you know, I’m not super, super strong. I’m 160 pounds. I can back squat about 325, I can deadlift 425, I And so you get really strong, really fast. I think it helps you with your MMA and all that kind of stuff. And then on top of that, too, one of the things I did during covid as well is I try to build giant cedar tree out of my woods just using my own body. So I started dropping posts and stuff like that, and built a lot of my alpaca roofs with trees out of nature. So it’s useful that I had this Isolated muscle exercises anymore. I used to do that a lot, but almost everything I do is from the functional side. And I noticed your a few years ago, I was moving a couch with a buddy of mine, and he’s jacked like he is, you know, he can deadlift 600 pounds, whatever, like Jack dude, but he was really struggling big muscles. So the teenage boy is, like, drawn to that, but I’m like, and he thinks I do old man workouts because I work out with kettlebells. But I’m like, Man, I’m trying to get his mind switched is one of the best things for jujitsu if you’re doing, like, a, I call it a domestic weight now, because I got my natural weights out in nature. But, yeah, I think kettlebells are, like, literally, abs. Oh, yeah, if you’ve done them before. Body Yeah, yeah, your abs the next morning, and your shoulder. I don’t, I don’t back squat anymore. I’ll do front squats with a heavy kettlebell, things much of it, but you’re kind of developing those when you’re young. And I think one of the things mindset wise people have trouble with, especially young men, is, you know, they want to do the stuff issues over, over the years of doing martial arts, you know, flipping people and lifting heavy weights, and, you know, I cut out alcohol and some other things that help with that. But it never then he also developed stuff for, like, the low back. And so one of the things I’ve only taken one exercise from his domain of stuff, and that’s Nordics, which is essentially, you’ve got your ankles get to the younger kids, is it’s not about the pain. You look at some of the most, the you know, the best basketball players or martial artists, or, you know, whoever it is, a lot of them are doing than anybody else. And so it’s not only is it really good for alleviating pain, but it’s also great for performance itself. So, so next time I’m in the gym and I see some dude doing a deadlift in his what, well, you know, what mushroom. You’re gonna see a lot of this stuff. But, I mean, if you really want to get a workout and you want to get into that stuff, I would say, and this is something I was like, well, where would we go if we didn’t, like, do your place or, you know, my, my in laws or something else, where’d we go? And I started bringing something up, and thought about, I go, We got to be near water. Do you know how heavy water is? Oh, yeah. I mean, you need it every day. Who the hell is going to walk eight miles to Lake? Ponder a to get water and bring it back to their That’s a that’s a great I have a sandbag at home too that I use. I have a weight vest. Sometimes I’ll just walk with the weight vest on, and that, that kind of stuff just builds up, like the they’re, you know, scared of getting injured, or don’t, you know, I don’t want to be violent or whatever, but it’s not about that. It’s about learning about yourself. It’s about building next thing you know, you’re like, well, that worked out really well. Well, that’s about being comfortable. You know, I always fear the guy that if I come over to you and I grab you and you go to let’s go, yeah. So I think, you know, seeking out, and I think jiu jitsu is probably the best martial art I’ve done a bunch. Sounds like you have to, and you might agree with me on that, as far We’ll get you in shape exactly. And you’ll meet a great community of people, and you’ll learn a lot about yourself one day. He’ll invite me 100% Hey, you guys should come up train with us up at saga gymnastics. Bryce is the coach for the MMA school there. Game changer, man. He’s the best coach I’ve ever trained with. I’ve trained with a lot you know, they just want to destroy people. That’s not what it’s about. Most of the gyms are not that way. It’s all about getting better. But, yeah, definitely martial arts 100% and you should down, those guys. So now there are people that can Bryce, Bryce. Bryce, the guy that’s there, he can take me down because he’s He’s a beast, but you definitely need to know striking too, because you’ll Oh, sweet. I’ve been doing MMA for a while. Like, this is fine, but to see the kids, or the young people that had never been in that experience, the emotion and the fear and the panic, I was like, emotions, that’s the hugest part. I mean, that you’re going to be, I don’t care who it is you’re going to be, you’re going to win that outcome if you can control your emotions. Agreed, agreed. protect yourself and your family, but you got to think like, okay, in business too, if my body language is more relaxed when I’m trying to do business or trying to do whatever I’m trying to do in Pretty damn calm because, because they have that inner confidence of, like, well, because they’ve got their they’ve gotten their ass kicked quite a few times, too. They have a respect for it, right? I don’t have that fear anymore, right? I know it doesn’t really hurt. I’m not gonna feel it at the time. Like, let’s go. Kind of like, it a little bit, yeah, right after you hit enough times, you’re think that kind of touches on that is just like, you know, if, if you roll with somebody who’s got experience, they’re going to give you more because they don’t care. They don’t need to win the time by, you know, even white belts sometimes just, I’ll put myself in more vulnerable positions. But my goal when I’m rolling with them is not to it’s not to win. I don’t care about that, right? It does. I know he’s doing Bare Knuckle fighting in Florida and stuff like that, but he’s, he had a boxing gym right here in Post Falls. Actually, I don’t know where he’s training out of he trains in in that and the more I’ve put myself, I get hit more. I get hit more when I put myself in more vulnerable experiences. But what it’s done is it’s helped me become way more confident in my prepping and we slid into this world, but I think they do go hand in hand. Oh, yeah. And I think, you know, to make yourself my goal in life, like when I’m 90, I want to be just, I just want to yourself out there so that you can grow. And that is for all aspects. I think that you know that it really is the general concept of prepping. It’s just being ready, your body, physically, what you to sit on my nice deck overlooking my 20 acres and drink my tea every morning while Rude Awakening coming if you’re not prepped, if you’re not ready, if you don’t stay physically fit, if you don’t stuff like that, yeah, be tough. Well, let’s wrap it up. Cool. Matthew friggin Thank you. You’re cool, dude, man, I I’m serious, Dave and I are gonna come up and make a video about homesteading. We can do a workout while we’re there. Let’s go. I got the jam. I could even throw down a little jiu jitsu game too. this podcast is brought to you by your North Idaho agent. We are a full service Real Estate Team serving all of North Idaho. Our team is comprised of former first responders and veterans, and we learn more. More about North Idaho. So if you’re looking to move right now or 12 months from now, give us a call, text or email. We don’t just sell homes, we sell the North Idaho experience. Thank you for