# America First Stories Ep. 17: Kurt and Cristin Ludlow

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661)
Published: 2026-09-14T05:11:41+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/america-first-stories-ep-17-kurt-and-cristin-ludlow/
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Duration seconds: 1410

## Resource

The first repeat guests in the series are back. Kurt and Cristin of Pet Club 24/7 return to talk mushrooms, immune systems, and why a company with "Pet" in its name spends a lot of time talking about people too. They open with the origin story: a partner's mother, sent home from Sloan Kettering with a grim outlook, who credits a proprietary mushroom extract with turning things around and sparking the first U.S. clinical study on it. From there Kurt and Cristin explain their guiding idea, that the mushroom does not cure, mitigate, or prevent anything but instead helps the immune system work optimally, for pets and humans alike. Expect stories of aging animals well past their expected years and a pitch built around one simple mantra: every person, every pet, every single day. Take the health claims as enthusiasm rather than medical advice. Jon clearly believes in what they do, and there is a Vegas meetup and a Badlands link waiting at the end.

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