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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode of the Sean Morgan
Report.
I'm here with my friend, kevinFinn, and I've known Kevin for a
while here and we've talked alot about different ways to
protect ourselves and ourfamilies in case things go wrong
.
And, kevin, you've been doingthis for a long time.
How long have you beenresearching prepping?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Thanks, Sean, for having me on the show.
And gosh, it's such a pleasureto know you and I'm so excited
to be talking with you today onyour show.
I've been prepping for 25 years, since probably two years
before Y2K and yeah Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Y2K didn't go the way .
We didn't know what was goingto happen there.
Luckily, you survived Y2K andyou lived to tell about it.
You told me about a book thatyou read about World War II and
there were some kind ofdisturbing facts that I didn't
know about World War II thatspecific countries had their
food supply cut off.
(00:55):
Millions of people died.
In fact, more people died ofstarvation in World War II than
of actually battles in the war.
So can you tell me about thisbook, tell me what you learned
and how it impacted you?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yes, yes for sure, and I'm married with a couple of
kids, and so I often think, asa provider, about food on the
table for my kids and I oftenthink about how heartbreaking it
would be if ever I was in asituation where I couldn't give
my wife and kids the caloriesand the food they need and I
(01:31):
just was watching them shrivelaway.
Because many times you and Ihave read in history of
different, you know differenttimes when when whole
populations starved to death,and it's just so, it's so tragic
.
But one of the things thatreally caught my attention was
this book I'll show you.
It's called the Taste of War byLizzie Cullingham, and it's all
(01:54):
about World War II and thebattle for food, and in this
book there's lots of differentinteresting stories and facts
and details.
One thing a lot of people mightnot remember is there were
actual strategic access plans byGermany to starve, you know not
(02:18):
millions, tens of millions, ifnot hundreds of millions of
people as part of their strategyto take over the world.
So it was actually called Seanthe Hunger Plan, and what's
interesting about it is I wantedto drill in on this brief call
with you today Greece, and so soI highlighted a few sections of
(02:38):
the book.
But there was about, there wasabout 18 months when before,
before the war, greece wasimporting it was like four
million tons of food fromoutside of Greece, mainly from
the US, and during about an18-month period, churchill from
(03:01):
the UK turned off and told the?
U, the US, no more shipments toGreece.
And it sounds horrific at first, but when you understand that
the Nazis were patrolling theAtlantic and the Gibraltar
Strait and the Mediterranean andthey were confiscating those
ships of food, and when theyconfiscate the ships of food
(03:23):
that they would use it for theirtroops and it wouldn't get to
Greece.
And during during about a 24month period 18 to 24 month
period 500 million Greeksstarved to death.
Ok, 500,000, right, 500,000.
Yes, sorry, 500,000, 500million, no, 500,000,.
(03:44):
Yeah, sorry, 500,000, 500million, no, 500,000,.
Half a million poor Greeks justshriveled up and died in Athens
and all over the place Peoplewere just dropping like flies
and just people stepping overdead bodies all over the capital
of Greece and Athens and justit was horrific.
And out in the countryside itwas bad, because some of the
(04:04):
enemies of Germany were out inthis hiding in the area, so even
the villages that were out inthe countryside that had their
farms and had food.
They had their food taken awayand food wasn't getting into
those areas as well.
So it was just really reallysad and tragic.
But overall, during World WarII, 20 million humans died of
(04:28):
starvation.
When you compare that with thebattle and the people dying in
battle was 19 million, it wasmore people from starvation.
So it really hits home when youthink about well, it'll never
happen here.
It'll never happen to me and itmay never happen.
(04:49):
It could be a black swan eventhere in the United States where
I am.
It might be a black swan eventwhere you live, but it's
happened to bread baskets.
It happened.
I think we all know.
It happened in Ukraine in 1930,when Stalin came into Ukraine,
and this is really interesting.
Stalin knew that if he came intoUkraine and pulled out all of
(05:10):
the food that the Ukrainianswould be fleeing to all the
countries around the outside ofUkraine.
This is 1930.
And what Stalin did is he sent10,000 Russian troops to shut
down every border and everyescape because he didn't want
the rest of the world and themedia and the rest of the world
finding out that he was starvingthem to death.
(05:32):
Okay, his goal was not tostarve them to death, if you,
you know historically, he washurting for money.
He wanted to get that food fromthem, to sell it so that Moscow
had more money, but the bybyproduct was starvation and he
didn't care.
Okay, and so that's so I liketo think about and learn from
history, and we all hear thatthose who learn from history,
(05:55):
the those who don't learn fromhistory, are destined to repeat
it.
I don't want me and my lovedones to repeat starving to death
, so I'm looking into it, and soone of the things that I'm
going to be doing in the comingmonths that I'll share with you
whenever you have time is whatdoes a World War III scenario
look like?
What countries are getting whatpercentage of their food from
(06:19):
what other countries?
And we know China gets 100% ofits food mainly from the US and
Brazil, and so all the countriesaround the world.
Where do they get their food?
What are they dependent on?
Who's dependent on the SuezCanal?
Who's dependent on the PanamaCanal?
Who's dependent on what?
Because a lot of countries inthis day and age, with free
(06:41):
market and shipping, they havecash props.
They can't grow their own foodanymore.
They've turned to cash propsand they're exporting food for
money and hopefully, in a WorldWar III scenario, people will
start shipping them the foodthey need for their population.
But the final point is a WorldWar III scenario, unlike World
(07:03):
War II that only had 20 millionstarvation, which is just
catastrophic, a World War IIIscenario is going to be 200
million to 600 million humansstarving to death all over the
planet, and it's just horrificthinking about it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, even in World War II in the US they had
victory gardens.
They wanted each family in theUS to start growing their own
food, to have that kind ofresilience, because all the
industry and all the effortswere going a wartime scenario,
doesn't it?
It really does?
(07:59):
They import all their food.
I mean, those countries becomereally, really vulnerable in a
wartime scenario where theycan't import that food that they
were always easily able toduring peacetime.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yes, exactly One bizarre little scenario or
analogy that I want to sharewith you is I was on a hike and
I was walking down inside of adry creek bed and it was just
fun to.
It's fun to explore, andsometimes, when the creek bed's
dry, you get to see all sorts ofthings you never see when it's
rushing with water.
And down on the bottom of thedry creek bed was this massive
(08:36):
little ant village, okay, andthere was I don't know 10,000
little ants and it looks likethey had been there for a few
months and they built up thisamazing whole world, this whole
ant world.
That was just so fascinating.
And those ants didn't realizethat in a few short months they
were going to be washedcompletely, every one of them
(08:59):
dead, washed down.
So you know, it's like what'sthe carrying capacity of an ant
farm in the bottom of a creek,you know?
So you got to think in terms ofthe carrying capacity of a
country, of a city, of a region,of a.
You know.
And when you think about thecarrying capacity, then you
start to understand.
(09:20):
You know how ill prepared yourgeographic region might be and
what kind of food you might needto prepare for you know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Do you mean?
If someone lives in a reallydry climate that doesn't have a
lot of agriculture, then theyare more vulnerable, for example
, than an area where they grow alot of food?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yes, yes, and remember that a carrying
capacity in today's 21st centuryhas a lot to do with economics
and fuel and computers anddistribution channels, and all
of that works togetherbeautifully to have all sorts of
items and food just in timedelivered to everyone that wants
(10:04):
it.
But if you have a disruption offuel or disruption in the
economy or disruption in thedistribution, whether it's
trains or planes or ships ortrucks, you know you're going to
have a serious problem.
And if it's, if we're occupiedin a, you know, national I mean
(10:27):
international war, you might nothave.
Your grocery stores might beempty for six months, you know,
hopefully only three months,hopefully only a month,
hopefully only a week.
But you really should havethree to six months worth of
food stored at home for such anevent, you know.
And what, what?
What's really funny is I oftenget so busy at work I don't have
(10:49):
time to take a lunch break andI don't have 10 minutes to go
find something and fix something.
And I will grab.
It's funny, I'll grab a meal.
Let me really show you, I'llgrab a meal from my.
You know, it's freeze-driedfood, so it's just totally dry.
Cut it open, pour it into a cup, you know, push the little
(11:10):
button on the Keurig machinewithout any K-cups in there, and
hot water comes into your cupand within 15 minutes you're
eating a meal.
I never even have to leave mydesk.
Sometimes I do that for my desk.
But that's what you want.
Lights out, distribution shut.
Grocery store shut chaos.
You don't want to be going tothe stores when there's chaos,
(11:32):
but you and your family areeating these delicious meals and
they're not disgusting.
In fact, they are really,really tasty, almost gourmet
tasting meals that I've enjoyedfrom these freeze-dried food
sources.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Interesting.
I guess the technology has comea long way.
The last time I tried afreeze-dried meal it wasn't so
tasty, so they've been workingon that to make it.
Because I remember doing aprepping episode and the guest
said if you don't have a goodtasting food, your kids could
starve to death, because kidswill refuse to eat food that
(12:08):
doesn't taste good.
Yeah, so that's actually animportant aspect.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, and I have noticed I don't know if
this was your mistake, but Ihave noticed that if you eat it
without putting salt on it, itcan be really plain, but salting
it generously it can be reallyplain, but but salting it
generously and it's it can make,can make night or day
difference between it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, there you go, and that's an easy, cheap thing
to stock up on is salt, uh, butwhen you don't have it, it's,
it's, it's a crisis.
So so there there's a good tipfor people prepping Make sure
you have some pounds of salt foran emergency, yeah so go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I was just going to say so, you know.
So we've got a year's worth offood.
We've got a gallon per personper day of water to last us six
months.
We've got plenty of guns andammo we put on our front door
instead of having a normal frontdoor.
It's a high security gate, highsecurity door, but it doesn't
look high security.
They can't kick through it.
(13:10):
So there's, there's other,there's other, there's little
other prep, little preppingthings that I can share with you
and your audience on, on, onother calls.
But it but it's all.
It's all pretty basic andlogical.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Right, you've gone through quite a few steps to
prep your family, and I do wantto learn more about that, but it
seems like today the focus isfood, and so you're saying
minimum three months or sixmonths.
What's your opinion?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
your audience.
You know some of them may havenever stored anything.
So, you know, get them.
You know, get them to do threemonths worth, you know that's.
You know.
Start with three months andover time, see if you can work
your way up to six months or 12months worth, you know.
But a good place to start is,you know, water, which we can
(14:04):
talk about on another episode.
But the food start with threemonths worth of food and that's
pretty nice.
A lot, of, a lot of seriousevents can blow over by a month
and during that month you don'tknow what peace of mind it is to
not have to go.
Try to fight the lines at thesestores where people are angry
and shouting and beating each up.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And you just.
People were freaking out overtoilet paper during COVID,
imagine something serious.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So you just sit tight at home, sit tight at home and
have these gourmet meals threesquares a day, for week after
week after week, up to threemonths and, and, if you want, I
can screen, share and show, showa page of a food, that that
that that your audience willreally benefit from.
Sure, yeah, go ahead, okay,okay.
And so here is a 4PatriotDeluxe 3-Month Survival Food Kit
(14:59):
, and it's let me just scroll tothe very bottom.
You know they give you a lot ofdetails.
So if you have time to gothrough that, that's great.
If you don't, you know, don'twaste time, just go to the very
bottom, you know, add it to yourcart.
It's only $697 for three monthsworth.
(15:22):
If you want to make fivepayments, it's $139 each.
But they throw in a bunch offree stuff.
They throw in a couple hundreddollars worth of free stuff free
seeds, free coffee, free cocoa,free meals, two free 72 hour
packs of food, um, free recipebooks, uh, you know.
And, and it's just, it's, it'sreally, it's, you know, it's
(15:44):
really, uh, you know, good stuff.
And if you'll put a link belowthe video, they can click on
that link and they'll get thosefree.
I think it's seven or nine freeitems for that extra $200 off
and anything else.
Sean, you would like me to showyou on the screen.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
No, I get the idea.
They give you a lot so that youcan educate yourself on that
page.
Uh, this is just such ano-brainer.
Like of all the things youcould possibly buy, you know, a
new iphone or whatever, it mightbe just food in case there's an
emergency, it's the ultimateinsurance.
I mean really, how much are youspending per year for
(16:27):
earthquake insurance where youlive?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Gosh, I spend a thousand a year to protect my
$500,000 house.
So you know, yeah, so you'reright.
So it's like, think of it likeinsurance, it's.
It's.
It's a type of thing Don'tdon't fall into the trap of a
lot of preppers of getting allstressed out and sky is falling
and end of the world and chickenlittle you know and you're
(16:50):
always worried about what next,what next?
That's just a toxic way to live.
What you want to do is you wantto think about what do you want
to solve?
What do you want to take careof?
Just like earthquake insurance.
You got a house.
It's worth $500,000.
You live in California, where Ilive.
You don't want to lose yourhouse.
You spend $1,000 a year.
(17:11):
I've been spending $1,000 ayear for 15 years in a row and
no earthquake destroyed it.
But I get to have such peace ofmind.
I would be really nervous if Ididn't have that, thinking about
having half a million dollarasset wiped out by one
earthquake.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And so this is like having a luxury car with no
insurance and someone couldcrash into it at any moment, and
yet that's how we're allwalking around, with no type of
preparation for the future forour families, so it really is a
no-brainer.
There's some other no-brainerswater, energy, all these
(17:47):
different ways to be resilient.
Can you tease us a little factabout water for the next episode
that you can teach us aboutwater prepping?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
uh sure, um, beyond that, you really need a gallon a
day per family member and that,uh, you know.
So a family of four is 120gallons a month.
So that's roughly 700 gallonsfor six months thereabouts.
But there's a lot of misnomers,a lot of misunderstanding.
(18:19):
People make assumptions and alot of times in these prepping
situations, assumptions can killyou and a lot of people are
like well, my neighbor has apool, I can drink that pool
water, and of course, coursethey don't mean drinking
straight pool water.
They're planning on filteringit with their Berkey.
Okay, and you can't filter poolwater with a Berkey, okay, it
(18:41):
destroys your Berkey, you know,and.
But what you can do is you cantake a one gallon glass jug.
I think I might have one hereon my shelf.
You can take a one gallon glassjug.
I think I might have one hereon my shelf.
You can see a one gallon glassjug.
Get 20 of those, the wateryou're needing water.
Fill 20 of those, set them outin the sun, put some, put a
little cloth over the top ofthem and one or two days later
(19:02):
all the chlorine and chemicalsare gone out of the water.
But there's one little, there'sone little thing that a lot of
people don't realize is 90% ofpools today.
They don't just add thechemicals, they're also adding
these acids that don't dissolve,and so on the next episode,
I'll explain to your audiencewhat exactly you can do to get
(19:22):
rid of that, get rid of thoseother things like the acid, so
that that water is actuallydrinkable, because you start
drinking it.
Without these steps, you're youand your family are going to be
, you know you're going to bedead.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Wow, I had no idea.
Thank you for that fact, andwe're going to dig into that
next time, because resilience isso important.
Oh my gosh, we all should havelearned that in 2020 and the
plandemic just how unprepared weall were for something like
that to go down Talk about ablack swan event and yet we're
(19:58):
in an election year and it seemslike during election years,
crazy shit happens.
So this is why I'm doing theseprepping episodes with you,
kevin, and I'm looking forwardto learning more.
Thanks for your time, kevin.
We're going to put all those
Welcome to another episode of the Sean Morgan
Report.
I'm here with my friend, kevinFinn, and I've known Kevin for a
while here and we've talked alot about different ways to
protect ourselves and ourfamilies in case things go wrong
.
And, kevin, you've been doingthis for a long time.
How long have you beenresearching prepping?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Thanks, Sean, for having me on the show.
And gosh, it's such a pleasureto know you and I'm so excited
to be talking with you today onyour show.
I've been prepping for 25 years, since probably two years
before Y2K and yeah Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Y2K didn't go the way .
We didn't know what was goingto happen there.
Luckily, you survived Y2K andyou lived to tell about it.
You told me about a book thatyou read about World War II and
there were some kind ofdisturbing facts that I didn't
know about World War II thatspecific countries had their
food supply cut off.
(00:55):
Millions of people died.
In fact, more people died ofstarvation in World War II than
of actually battles in the war.
So can you tell me about thisbook, tell me what you learned
and how it impacted you?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yes, yes for sure, and I'm married with a couple of
kids, and so I often think, asa provider, about food on the
table for my kids and I oftenthink about how heartbreaking it
would be if ever I was in asituation where I couldn't give
my wife and kids the caloriesand the food they need and I
(01:31):
just was watching them shrivelaway.
Because many times you and Ihave read in history of
different, you know differenttimes when when whole
populations starved to death,and it's just so, it's so tragic
.
But one of the things thatreally caught my attention was
this book I'll show you.
It's called the Taste of War byLizzie Cullingham, and it's all
(01:54):
about World War II and thebattle for food, and in this
book there's lots of differentinteresting stories and facts
and details.
One thing a lot of people mightnot remember is there were
actual strategic access plans byGermany to starve, you know not
(02:18):
millions, tens of millions, ifnot hundreds of millions of
people as part of their strategyto take over the world.
So it was actually called Seanthe Hunger Plan, and what's
interesting about it is I wantedto drill in on this brief call
with you today Greece, and so soI highlighted a few sections of
(02:38):
the book.
But there was about, there wasabout 18 months when before,
before the war, greece wasimporting it was like four
million tons of food fromoutside of Greece, mainly from
the US, and during about an18-month period, churchill from
(03:01):
the UK turned off and told the?
U, the US, no more shipments toGreece.
And it sounds horrific at first, but when you understand that
the Nazis were patrolling theAtlantic and the Gibraltar
Strait and the Mediterranean andthey were confiscating those
ships of food, and when theyconfiscate the ships of food
(03:23):
that they would use it for theirtroops and it wouldn't get to
Greece.
And during during about a 24month period 18 to 24 month
period 500 million Greeksstarved to death.
Ok, 500,000, right, 500,000.
Yes, sorry, 500,000, 500million, no, 500,000,.
(03:44):
Yeah, sorry, 500,000, 500million, no, 500,000,.
Half a million poor Greeks justshriveled up and died in Athens
and all over the place Peoplewere just dropping like flies
and just people stepping overdead bodies all over the capital
of Greece and Athens and justit was horrific.
And out in the countryside itwas bad, because some of the
(04:04):
enemies of Germany were out inthis hiding in the area, so even
the villages that were out inthe countryside that had their
farms and had food.
They had their food taken awayand food wasn't getting into
those areas as well.
So it was just really reallysad and tragic.
But overall, during World WarII, 20 million humans died of
(04:28):
starvation.
When you compare that with thebattle and the people dying in
battle was 19 million, it wasmore people from starvation.
So it really hits home when youthink about well, it'll never
happen here.
It'll never happen to me and itmay never happen.
(04:49):
It could be a black swan eventhere in the United States where
I am.
It might be a black swan eventwhere you live, but it's
happened to bread baskets.
It happened.
I think we all know.
It happened in Ukraine in 1930,when Stalin came into Ukraine,
and this is really interesting.
Stalin knew that if he came intoUkraine and pulled out all of
(05:10):
the food that the Ukrainianswould be fleeing to all the
countries around the outside ofUkraine.
This is 1930.
And what Stalin did is he sent10,000 Russian troops to shut
down every border and everyescape because he didn't want
the rest of the world and themedia and the rest of the world
finding out that he was starvingthem to death.
(05:32):
Okay, his goal was not tostarve them to death, if you,
you know historically, he washurting for money.
He wanted to get that food fromthem, to sell it so that Moscow
had more money, but the bybyproduct was starvation and he
didn't care.
Okay, and so that's so I liketo think about and learn from
history, and we all hear thatthose who learn from history,
(05:55):
the those who don't learn fromhistory, are destined to repeat
it.
I don't want me and my lovedones to repeat starving to death
, so I'm looking into it, and soone of the things that I'm
going to be doing in the comingmonths that I'll share with you
whenever you have time is whatdoes a World War III scenario
look like?
What countries are getting whatpercentage of their food from
(06:19):
what other countries?
And we know China gets 100% ofits food mainly from the US and
Brazil, and so all the countriesaround the world.
Where do they get their food?
What are they dependent on?
Who's dependent on the SuezCanal?
Who's dependent on the PanamaCanal?
Who's dependent on what?
Because a lot of countries inthis day and age, with free
(06:41):
market and shipping, they havecash props.
They can't grow their own foodanymore.
They've turned to cash propsand they're exporting food for
money and hopefully, in a WorldWar III scenario, people will
start shipping them the foodthey need for their population.
But the final point is a WorldWar III scenario, unlike World
(07:03):
War II that only had 20 millionstarvation, which is just
catastrophic, a World War IIIscenario is going to be 200
million to 600 million humansstarving to death all over the
planet, and it's just horrificthinking about it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, even in World War II in the US they had
victory gardens.
They wanted each family in theUS to start growing their own
food, to have that kind ofresilience, because all the
industry and all the effortswere going a wartime scenario,
doesn't it?
It really does?
(07:59):
They import all their food.
I mean, those countries becomereally, really vulnerable in a
wartime scenario where theycan't import that food that they
were always easily able toduring peacetime.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yes, exactly One bizarre little scenario or
analogy that I want to sharewith you is I was on a hike and
I was walking down inside of adry creek bed and it was just
fun to.
It's fun to explore, andsometimes, when the creek bed's
dry, you get to see all sorts ofthings you never see when it's
rushing with water.
And down on the bottom of thedry creek bed was this massive
(08:36):
little ant village, okay, andthere was I don't know 10,000
little ants and it looks likethey had been there for a few
months and they built up thisamazing whole world, this whole
ant world.
That was just so fascinating.
And those ants didn't realizethat in a few short months they
were going to be washedcompletely, every one of them
(08:59):
dead, washed down.
So you know, it's like what'sthe carrying capacity of an ant
farm in the bottom of a creek,you know?
So you got to think in terms ofthe carrying capacity of a
country, of a city, of a region,of a.
You know.
And when you think about thecarrying capacity, then you
start to understand.
(09:20):
You know how ill prepared yourgeographic region might be and
what kind of food you might needto prepare for you know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Do you mean?
If someone lives in a reallydry climate that doesn't have a
lot of agriculture, then theyare more vulnerable, for example
, than an area where they grow alot of food?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yes, yes, and remember that a carrying
capacity in today's 21st centuryhas a lot to do with economics
and fuel and computers anddistribution channels, and all
of that works togetherbeautifully to have all sorts of
items and food just in timedelivered to everyone that wants
(10:04):
it.
But if you have a disruption offuel or disruption in the
economy or disruption in thedistribution, whether it's
trains or planes or ships ortrucks, you know you're going to
have a serious problem.
And if it's, if we're occupiedin a, you know, national I mean
(10:27):
international war, you might nothave.
Your grocery stores might beempty for six months, you know,
hopefully only three months,hopefully only a month,
hopefully only a week.
But you really should havethree to six months worth of
food stored at home for such anevent, you know.
And what, what?
What's really funny is I oftenget so busy at work I don't have
(10:49):
time to take a lunch break andI don't have 10 minutes to go
find something and fix something.
And I will grab.
It's funny, I'll grab a meal.
Let me really show you, I'llgrab a meal from my.
You know, it's freeze-driedfood, so it's just totally dry.
Cut it open, pour it into a cup, you know, push the little
(11:10):
button on the Keurig machinewithout any K-cups in there, and
hot water comes into your cupand within 15 minutes you're
eating a meal.
I never even have to leave mydesk.
Sometimes I do that for my desk.
But that's what you want.
Lights out, distribution shut.
Grocery store shut chaos.
You don't want to be going tothe stores when there's chaos,
(11:32):
but you and your family areeating these delicious meals and
they're not disgusting.
In fact, they are really,really tasty, almost gourmet
tasting meals that I've enjoyedfrom these freeze-dried food
sources.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Interesting.
I guess the technology has comea long way.
The last time I tried afreeze-dried meal it wasn't so
tasty, so they've been workingon that to make it.
Because I remember doing aprepping episode and the guest
said if you don't have a goodtasting food, your kids could
starve to death, because kidswill refuse to eat food that
(12:08):
doesn't taste good.
Yeah, so that's actually animportant aspect.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, and I have noticed I don't know if
this was your mistake, but Ihave noticed that if you eat it
without putting salt on it, itcan be really plain, but salting
it generously it can be reallyplain, but but salting it
generously and it's it can make,can make night or day
difference between it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, there you go, and that's an easy, cheap thing
to stock up on is salt, uh, butwhen you don't have it, it's,
it's, it's a crisis.
So so there there's a good tipfor people prepping Make sure
you have some pounds of salt foran emergency, yeah so go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I was just going to say so, you know.
So we've got a year's worth offood.
We've got a gallon per personper day of water to last us six
months.
We've got plenty of guns andammo we put on our front door
instead of having a normal frontdoor.
It's a high security gate, highsecurity door, but it doesn't
look high security.
They can't kick through it.
(13:10):
So there's, there's other,there's other, there's little
other prep, little preppingthings that I can share with you
and your audience on, on, onother calls.
But it but it's all.
It's all pretty basic andlogical.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Right, you've gone through quite a few steps to
prep your family, and I do wantto learn more about that, but it
seems like today the focus isfood, and so you're saying
minimum three months or sixmonths.
What's your opinion?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
your audience.
You know some of them may havenever stored anything.
So, you know, get them.
You know, get them to do threemonths worth, you know that's.
You know.
Start with three months andover time, see if you can work
your way up to six months or 12months worth, you know.
But a good place to start is,you know, water, which we can
(14:04):
talk about on another episode.
But the food start with threemonths worth of food and that's
pretty nice.
A lot, of, a lot of seriousevents can blow over by a month
and during that month you don'tknow what peace of mind it is to
not have to go.
Try to fight the lines at thesestores where people are angry
and shouting and beating each up.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And you just.
People were freaking out overtoilet paper during COVID,
imagine something serious.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So you just sit tight at home, sit tight at home and
have these gourmet meals threesquares a day, for week after
week after week, up to threemonths and, and, if you want, I
can screen, share and show, showa page of a food, that that
that that your audience willreally benefit from.
Sure, yeah, go ahead, okay,okay.
And so here is a 4PatriotDeluxe 3-Month Survival Food Kit
(14:59):
, and it's let me just scroll tothe very bottom.
You know they give you a lot ofdetails.
So if you have time to gothrough that, that's great.
If you don't, you know, don'twaste time, just go to the very
bottom, you know, add it to yourcart.
It's only $697 for three monthsworth.
(15:22):
If you want to make fivepayments, it's $139 each.
But they throw in a bunch offree stuff.
They throw in a couple hundreddollars worth of free stuff free
seeds, free coffee, free cocoa,free meals, two free 72 hour
packs of food, um, free recipebooks, uh, you know.
And, and it's just, it's, it'sreally, it's, you know, it's
(15:44):
really, uh, you know, good stuff.
And if you'll put a link belowthe video, they can click on
that link and they'll get thosefree.
I think it's seven or nine freeitems for that extra $200 off
and anything else.
Sean, you would like me to showyou on the screen.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
No, I get the idea.
They give you a lot so that youcan educate yourself on that
page.
Uh, this is just such ano-brainer.
Like of all the things youcould possibly buy, you know, a
new iphone or whatever, it mightbe just food in case there's an
emergency, it's the ultimateinsurance.
I mean really, how much are youspending per year for
(16:27):
earthquake insurance where youlive?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Gosh, I spend a thousand a year to protect my
$500,000 house.
So you know, yeah, so you'reright.
So it's like, think of it likeinsurance, it's.
It's.
It's a type of thing Don'tdon't fall into the trap of a
lot of preppers of getting allstressed out and sky is falling
and end of the world and chickenlittle you know and you're
(16:50):
always worried about what next,what next?
That's just a toxic way to live.
What you want to do is you wantto think about what do you want
to solve?
What do you want to take careof?
Just like earthquake insurance.
You got a house.
It's worth $500,000.
You live in California, where Ilive.
You don't want to lose yourhouse.
You spend $1,000 a year.
(17:11):
I've been spending $1,000 ayear for 15 years in a row and
no earthquake destroyed it.
But I get to have such peace ofmind.
I would be really nervous if Ididn't have that, thinking about
having half a million dollarasset wiped out by one
earthquake.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And so this is like having a luxury car with no
insurance and someone couldcrash into it at any moment, and
yet that's how we're allwalking around, with no type of
preparation for the future forour families, so it really is a
no-brainer.
There's some other no-brainerswater, energy, all these
(17:47):
different ways to be resilient.
Can you tease us a little factabout water for the next episode
that you can teach us aboutwater prepping?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
uh sure, um, beyond that, you really need a gallon a
day per family member and that,uh, you know.
So a family of four is 120gallons a month.
So that's roughly 700 gallonsfor six months thereabouts.
But there's a lot of misnomers,a lot of misunderstanding.
(18:19):
People make assumptions and alot of times in these prepping
situations, assumptions can killyou and a lot of people are
like well, my neighbor has apool, I can drink that pool
water, and of course, coursethey don't mean drinking
straight pool water.
They're planning on filteringit with their Berkey.
Okay, and you can't filter poolwater with a Berkey, okay, it
(18:41):
destroys your Berkey, you know,and.
But what you can do is you cantake a one gallon glass jug.
I think I might have one hereon my shelf.
You can take a one gallon glassjug.
I think I might have one hereon my shelf.
You can see a one gallon glassjug.
Get 20 of those, the wateryou're needing water.
Fill 20 of those, set them outin the sun, put some, put a
little cloth over the top ofthem and one or two days later
(19:02):
all the chlorine and chemicalsare gone out of the water.
But there's one little, there'sone little thing that a lot of
people don't realize is 90% ofpools today.
They don't just add thechemicals, they're also adding
these acids that don't dissolve,and so on the next episode,
I'll explain to your audiencewhat exactly you can do to get
(19:22):
rid of that, get rid of thoseother things like the acid, so
that that water is actuallydrinkable, because you start
drinking it.
Without these steps, you're youand your family are going to be
, you know you're going to bedead.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Wow, I had no idea.
Thank you for that fact, andwe're going to dig into that
next time, because resilience isso important.
Oh my gosh, we all should havelearned that in 2020 and the
plandemic just how unprepared weall were for something like
that to go down Talk about ablack swan event and yet we're
(19:58):
in an election year and it seemslike during election years,
crazy shit happens.
So this is why I'm doing theseprepping episodes with you,
kevin, and I'm looking forwardto learning more.
Thanks for your time, kevin.
We're going to put all those
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