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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Well, well, well, welcome everybody to another episode of Prepper
Talk Radio with Scott Shanna Paris, and today storms are coming.
We're gonna talk in winter preps, but not just not
just seasonal the way you think we're gonna We're gonna delve,
We're gonna dive. We're gonna jump headlog into the snow
bank of different types of things, including the bitcoin, winter coming,
(00:28):
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm excited. Are you excited?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh yeah? Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Every time I do a new every time I edit
one out of our videos. I'm like, oh dude, this
is four ninety three. We're getting there.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
If for some reason we black out after five hundred,
the apocalypse is hit. But that's a huge momb marker, huge,
huge five hundred episodes. Thank you everyone that has made
this worth while for us to share and to keep
promoting preparedness and help you to take actual, usable means
(01:43):
to get yourself better prepared, actional items and steps to
get yourself in a position where you're gonna be able
to be more resilient through anything. So, without further ado,
let's dive into this, this hornets nest of winter's coming.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well, you know I will the storm would hit, and
and particularly right now, you know we're in in Utah.
It's been extremely dry. We haven't had a summer storm yet,
no measurable precipitation at least where I'm at, and it
would be really nice to get a storm. But you know,
I'm also thinking is in Utah, winter is when we
(02:21):
get the most snow, is when we get the most precipitation.
So our winter storms, you know, fill up our reservoirs,
and and that's really what we look for. So so
the summer being excessively dry, we do have some hope
for a nice, bleak winter, right, So there's a little
(02:41):
bit of positive spin on the the cool, dark winter
that I'm looking forward to, well, not looking forward to
it so much as I used to. When I was younger,
I liked winter a lot more than I do now.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Sorry, no, I was gonna say last year's winter wasn't
that bad. I was kind of expecting to have a
pretty you know. Well, the first year I moved to
Utah was like record breaking snow, Like thanks a lot,
you know, my first time in the snow, living in
the snow, It's like record breaking. And then that was
the next year, and then the third year, I was like,
I got to buy better tires, and then it was
(03:20):
like nothing, and then last year was like nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Again.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I was like, I spent thousands of dollars on new tires,
and well.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Which is bad for which is bad for our water.
I mean, we're the second driest state in the nation
and we need to have good winters. And yeah, last
couple were not great. So obviously winter can be good,
it should be good, But for today we'll call winter, uh,
something we need to prepare for, which I mean, our
(03:49):
ancestors did for hundreds and hundreds of years, right all
year long, they were preparing for winter. So you know,
we talk about the signs all the time, signs of
the time in particular. But you know, just as the
Bible says, you know, if you see the signs of
the seasons changing, you know what to expect, right, And
(04:13):
I see the signs of winter physical actual winter coming,
temperatures dropping at night. I've been down in the thirties
already up on my drive out to my place, and
just even here at home, chilly mornings below sixty is
chilly in the summer, which the signs of winter. Yeah,
(04:35):
it feels great, I love it. But the signs of
winter are here and more than just the actual physical
signs of the coming season. And if you're not aware,
you can't be prepared. And when you have a homestead,
when you've got animals, when you've got responsibilities like that,
(04:58):
it's probably more apparent you that, oh, I need to
I need to get ready for this. I've got to
stock up the feed, right, I got to get the
hay in the barn for the for the animals, and
so on and so forth. So that's you know, I
think our primary discussion today is is what do we
need to get ready for for for winter? But also
what are the signs we're seeing for you know, signs
(05:21):
at the times of this coming cold season called a
deep freeze or a slowing of.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Of everything economic winters, Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, well then there's that thought.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You guys remember the John Hopkins scenario that ran in
twenty twenty two twenty twenty three called the Dark Winter Exercise.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
H long dark Winters all like that. Yeah, yeah, long
dark Vidon kept talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Which would be a smallpox epidemic across the United States
aka the world right scenario hypothetical. All the other hypothetical
experiences have never really turned into real things, right, we
know that where's my tinfoil hot when I need it?
But yeah, I think that as well, Like, okay, you
started talking about when our ancestors would prepare for winter,
(06:11):
like you would as soon as the frost wine drops
and you can start planting your plant and you're prepping,
you're planting, and then as long as you can grow
for you finish your growing season and then you stockpile
and then you survive the winter. You outlive the cold
season when you can't grow anything. We've been blessed right
(06:32):
because we don't have to live that way. We've got
international shipping. Now you can get kum quots from all
over the world, oranges from all over the world. You
want beef, you'll get cleaner, healthier beef from Australia anymore
than you will from America unless you're getting it from
a local rancher. Right, but you can get all this
stuff anytime you want on demand. And we're so used
to that that we don't think about winter the way
(06:54):
our ancestors do. We don't respect winter the way our
ancestors do. All we think about is, okay, I've got
to winterize the pipes. And we learned from our episode
a few weeks ago with Sarah Thresh like one little
thing going wrong. Her whole basement was flooded. Pipe wasn't
winterized right, and it wasn't a freeze that she was expecting,
but it was just a little gap that wasn't didn't
(07:16):
have insulation. So in addition to going through winterizing your house,
prepping for things for the winter, having tools on hand,
knowing where the water shut off is, where everything is,
how to turn off the electrical the standard run of
the mill. I own a home or I live in
a home, right, things you need to know, Like I
think of that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay, what happens?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
A few years ago, we had an episode where we
talked about how the snow just dumped in a pass
and everyone gets was stranded. I can't remember if that
was California or but it was just like absurdly a
ton amount of snow and it just shut everybody down.
And we're like, when you see storms like that coming,
don't travel right.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well, I think, uh, if we've should learn anything from
the events of the past several months about weather, most
weather lately has been extreme, right, I mean, obviously we're
just hearing about the extreme events. I'm you know, maybe
over exaggerating a little bit, but many more extreme weather
events have been happening, And of course lately earthquakes everywhere,
(08:23):
big ones. Yeah, more so than than I've ever seen
in my life. You know, of course I haven't been
paying attention for my entire life, but.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, how many record breaking earthquakes have we had in
the last five years compared to the rest.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Of our lives.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, absolutely, So there's no reason not to expect maybe
not necessarily in generally a harsh winter, but events that
will take us off off guard, right.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And that's one that one that just hit hit in
Russia was eight point eight and they said that it's
arted a parade of earthquakes, so it wasn't just like
a couple aftershocks. They were like a parade of earthquakes.
And throw on top of that a volcano erupting similar
you know, right in this similar areas like and then
(09:14):
a tsunami come. It's like we had a triple threat
just not too long ago. And then you see all
the different flooding that's been happening all over right now,
it's just been kind of wild's to watch and I
you know, it's there's not just the not just that,
but we see some of the you know, you justly
shared with us this week chain some some posts about
some folks that are happen what's happened in Washington, d C.
(09:36):
With some of the clean up there, and you know
that's kind of a you know, in a way, that's
kind of a you know, the winter time, so there's
obviously the seasons are spring, summer, fall, and then winter.
So we're technically going to be hitting fall here pretty
soon before winter. But fall is a great time to
prepare for winter, Like that's the time to really make
(09:58):
sure you're up and running. And so in life, life
has life. There's cycles of life too, you know. Know
there's like the summer of your life, and then there's
the fall of your life, and the.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Winter of your life, the autumn of life.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
The autumn of life. You know, So there's you know,
I'm fifty and Chain's fifty plus and Scott you're almost head.
You're so we're more towards the winter, and you're more
towards this, you're still in the summer fall.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I just season feel that way.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Right, So I'm starting to get more of what gray hair,
so my white, my white winter is coming in anyways,
So I was just thinking that, you know, there's a
lot of even some interesting seasons of where we're going economically, politically,
and some potential winter things that are you know, relatable
that way.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Anyways, piggybacking off that winter events, right, I thought the smallpox.
I thought regular winter seasonal stuff. But like the other
half of the world, it's it's going into summer coming
out of winter, right, We're we're about to go in winter,
but like I'm really like more focused on winter events,
meaning cold darkout events. Do you guys know what percentage
(11:08):
of cyber attacks increase or decrease this year has been.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's been significant. I know that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So the Center, let me pull this back up, the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, which tracks cybersecurity threats.
It's up forty seven percent in total incidents over last
year and we're only in July. Right, there are massive,
(11:38):
massive attacks going on on data leaks. You're probably noticing
in your email and your mailbox more and more notification
of data leak. Here are your options, Here are your
legal rights?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's happening more and more, and so then I think
about that. I think about what happened a few years
ago with for example, the Canadian truckers and how they
were trying to it's right and get their rights and
keep preserved some things, and all their bank accounts were frozen.
And that came into mind because last week my bank
account was frozen for a day or two, Like I
(12:11):
could not get anything to change online or via mobile.
I had to go in to get access back into
my account. What so we're experiencing more and more hiccups
in life. The system that we've built that we thought, oh,
this is so cool. Tech is amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It's extremely fragile, and so small events stacking up can
can turn into a huge domino or parade right of
events that can cause some major, major problems for all
of us.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I've noticed that in my world as well, a lot
of small issues, whether it's phone or our company software
we're just online, or the internet, those types of things
which seem more than usual. And again, trying to watch
the signs of the times, the signs of the season,
the next season that's coming, and when a lot of
(13:10):
people would say, oh, this happens all the time, this
is normal. Okay, maybe you can argue that, but I
would think critically, that's uh, you know, And I am
definitely like you, sure's gotten an apocaloptimist, right, That's where
my mind goes first.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
So I think you're I think you're right, Shane, that
there's a lot of things happening, and people will say
these things happen all the time. So let me just
share with you my perspective of that. Every day, more
and more people are dying of cancer and heart disease,
So that's normal. But wait, what No, Actually, if you
(13:55):
look at the historical health of like one hundred years ago,
people aren't dying of cant didn't dive in cancer and
heart disease like they do today. And so what we
think is normal is actually not healthy because before we
had all these other things happening. So to me, it's
the volume. Yes, these things happen all the time, but
(14:15):
what's the volume of them? Like, Yes, earthquakes happened all
the time, Yes, tsunamis happened all the time all over
the world. Yes, cyber attacks happened all the time. But
as Scott just shared it with us earlier, it's up
forty six percent from last year, which means, if you
do the math, it's one hundred and forty six percent.
We're already this far into the year one hundred and
(14:36):
forty six percent more than we were last year, which
is like that volume is where I'm paying attention. So
if you're if you're thinking to yourself, wow, these these
things happen all the time. Sure, yeah, yeah they do,
but at this volume, at this rate, I mean, the
clip of what we're seeing is like the you know,
(14:57):
the frequency as well, like there's a bigger volume and
they're happening more in more and more quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah. Another thing that stood out to me the other
day is learning that our government, the US government spends
twenty two billion a day over the budget over what
it brings in over what it's in. Twenty two billion
a day. And yeah, we just broke through thirty seven trillion,
(15:27):
and the project by the end of the year being
at thirty nine somewhere around thirty eight something thirty nine
trillion by the end of the year. That's only one
thing I've learned about the financial markets is that and
US dollars currency in particular, especially with interest. It's there's
(15:49):
not enough money currency in the system to support the system,
and unless it increases every single day, the system immediately collapses. Yeah,
and so that's I mean, that would be more than winter, right,
I mean, but that's that's the financial like you say,
(16:09):
the the economic winter that that we need to prepare for. Uh,
And our government's not gonna do it, nobody else is
gonna do it. We have to do it ourselves. And
so on our next episode we're gonna talk about some
solutions and such too. But so be sure to join
us on our our live that has already already happened
after you watch this, right, so go back and go
(16:31):
check out the lives. But and we talk about that
all the time, being your own bank and so forth.
But you know, we have to see open our eyes
and see the signs of the times. And once your
eyes are opened and the the it's impossible to close them. Again,
sorry for my stuttering there. It uh, you can't close them.
(16:52):
I can't close them. My eyes just get more and
more open. And I can share some stuff with you
personallyater on that I've just experienced here early today. And
I'm not going to share online here, not going to share.
But my eyes continue to get more more wide, more
more open, and it's uh, it's depressing, honestly. It's it's dark,
(17:17):
it's cold, it's it's and that's why I think winter
is the ideal topic. We've got to start this now,
in the middle of summer, before even if fall gets here,
preparing for winter, whether that's an economic winter or just
actual winter, like you said, like we said, our ancestors
as soon as as soon as the frost broke, they're
preparing for winter. I mean, that's the way it is,
(17:39):
as soon as you're out of winter, you're preparing for
the next winter. And so we haven't many of us
haven't experienced actual financial winter. I mean, two thousand and
eight that was pretty difficult for a lot of people.
I honestly didn't realize what was going on during that
Great Financial Crisis, the GFC is as is called. I
didn't really recognize that winter.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I felt it.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I felt it, I felt it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I just didn'tel like it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, I don't feel like that winter has fully gotten
over for me. But it's funny because like, yeah, two
thousand and eight, that was bad. What's interesting is is,
you know, twenty twelve I moved back to Utah. Whole
life changed. Twenty fifteen for me went completely right. Right,
(18:27):
we have our own life winters too. You've got to
think about that as well.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Part of the biggest part of why I prep is
my own personal winters, meaning.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The job loss. Right.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I've had that a number of times as a self
employed guy. Most of the time, if I don't do
as well as I want to be doing, guess what
I'm in a winter, right, yea, If I'm spending savings
to survive I'm in winter, and for each of us
it's the same. If I get disabled or you get disabled,
if you have a death the family, like, all those
(19:01):
things are why I prep first and foremost, and I
use those as the catalyst to get better prepared so
that when the everybody winter, right, macro winter, These are
all micro winters. When the macro winter, it hits it
and affects everybody hits like, I will be living a
lot better than I am now because then I won't
(19:23):
have any bills. Right, But the same stuff you're doing
to prepare for those things work for this, And I
think the biggest gap people have right now are food storage,
medical gear and like first aid kit stuff and skills,
skills that you can use to create an income or
(19:45):
a barter system so that you can survive the like
not theoretical coming economic collapse, but the guaranteed becoming economic collapse.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Well that is, of course, unless we consider, Okay, if
we lived in the matrix and had to combat digitally, right,
these gamers, they would survive. They do pretty well, right, Yeah,
you know where we're headed, right if we know exactly
what's funny is those those kids don't listen to this podcast.
We've looked at the demographics. We know who's listening.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It's it's the elder millennial groups, the gen xers and
the baby boomers. Like I don't know if there's anybody
else that really listens, right, but we're the ones that
are like, dude, we gotta do something. We see the
writing on the wall. We're like, we took off one
of the goggles, the three D goggles. We took those off,
and we're looking around the world going, oh, this is bad.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
What happened? Right?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, yeah, again, referring back to the matrix, when Morpheus
shows uh Neo the real right, wakes up from his
dream and he shows him the real remember that when
he goes back into the matrix or plugs him in
for the first time after they rescue, and it's just
a wasteland, right, And that is what I'm seeing is
(21:07):
really the beginnings of a wasteland, and even more more
than beginnings of a wasteland. Anyway. Yeah, I could go on,
but I'm just depressing if I just continue to go
on on that thread.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Let's get depressed, all right.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
All right, right, Well, before we get depressed, I wanted
to share something that I saw this week, and it
kind of relates is that there was a there was
a guy who wanted to be a homestead or self sufficient,
totally off grid and take his family out into the world.
That they bought some land and they did the whole
They really started the whole process. And one of the
(21:46):
things that the guy realized was that he couldn't do
everything on his own by himself with his family. He
was like, I can grow food, but there's still things
that I need that I can't grow that I need.
There's medical like if my kid gets sick, I don't
(22:06):
know how to fix that, so I need to have
somebody that knows how to do that. He was he
just started to realize. He actually said self suffic like
his when it was a real I was watching and
he says, self sufficiency is a scam. And I was like,
all right, I'll bite you know, And he went into
saying how the reality is that you really do. If
you're going to go off grid and you're going to
(22:27):
chop wood and all day long and you're going to
grow your garden all day long, and you're gonna have
your animals all day long, it's like that's four full
time jobs. Right there, like you when you get a sleep,
you know when you're you gonna do anything. So he's
like he realized the reality is that we do need
a community. And if you don't have if you think
you're going to go out and you know, yeah, you
(22:49):
could probably Rambo lone Wolf survive in the wilderness just you.
But if you have a family of any kind, you
have to have community. Otherwise you're going to drive yourself
into it a winter of depression because you're not going
to be There's no way you can do it all
yourself and maintain a family. And that's something that I
(23:10):
think was a huge I didn't see it from that
perspective until I watched this Guy's real and I was like,
that is really good. That was a really good eye
opener for me.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah, I go back.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know if you remember this episode. We had
a conversation. I've probably done it a couple of times, Shane.
I think this is back in the original airtime days.
We talked about the size of community, like what is
your ideal bug out location to a smaller community?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
What is your ideal?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
And I think I remember, didn't you say you wanted
to be something in the hundreds or less, like very.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Small where I know you were considably your your situation
was considerably larger than what I Yeah, because right now
the town I'm in is about three hundred, but with
a nearby community of about five thousand, three to five
four thousand, and.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I was like, I was like, I want three to
five thousand minimum, right, and now further down the road,
I think I align better with you. Right, But the
diversity of that community has to be good. Right where
you are, there's a lot of self reliant individuals and
(24:18):
to sleep in their Yeah, they've lived there.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Their entire lives. They're used to it. Right.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
When we went back east and we checked out some
Amish towns once, and we went and saw some old
homestead communities and just small old frontierland stuff. And it
was interesting because as we looked at it, it's like
everybody had a garden and then they had their barley
field or wheat field or cornfield or something else, right,
and they're like, our garden produces about sixty percent of
(24:47):
what we need food wise, and then our harvest, our
crop is to sell to get the rest of the
stuff we need. Because we may not be as good
at growing certain things, and so stop trying to do
the things you can't do well, focus really well on
the things you can, and make it easier on yourself
with the things that work well. And I'm like, oh
(25:09):
my goodness, I'm tuning it all wrong because I was
thinking I can grow everything until I went back. That
was two summers ago, and I was like, life change.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I'm thinking, Okay, I need I've got fruit trees. I
need more fruit trees because there's less to take care
of with those, and they're more resilient, and because they
grow every year or every season should be, I have
less I have to do every year to maintain them
as long as I'm giving them the basic nutrients. A garden,
(25:39):
on the other hand, is going to be a lot
of work, but it produces food.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But cut back.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I was trying to grow like twenty different things in
my garden, and as I was thinking about how these
people do it, They're like they're growing like ten things
fifteen things right that they're really good at, and then
they'll trade and barter for other stuff. And I'm like,
oh my gosh, Like we've really got to get back
to smaller communities, less reliant on having stores having that
(26:09):
three day on demand distribution system, because if you go
to your grocery store, they don't even have anymore. They
used to have a seventy two hour supply of food
in the building. Now it's a twenty four hour recycling cycle.
I was talking to my produce guy just the other
day and I was like, Okay, you guys are out
of lettuce, Like when is it coming. He's like, oh,
comes in the morning every day. I'm like every day
(26:30):
and he goes, yeah, every day.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Wow, you don't have any in the back.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Oh no, there is no back anymore. It's a loading
dock and a staging area and it comes in the
morning in a cool truck and we roll it out,
drop it where it needs to go, restock, and we're
done before three in the morning.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And I'm like, holy crap.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
We're screwed. Yeah, especially produce, that's the only real food.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And one thing that's good about the fall and especially
is that a lot of farmers markets where they open
up for the last three months right before winter. So
my recommendation is go get to know some of these
people that are local to you or more local, and
see if you can create a relationship where you can say, hey,
look you got corn, I got wheat. Let's make a deal.
You got corn, I got tomatoes, or you know what
(27:17):
I mean. Like, there's some things that you can do
to really establish a good relationship, I think. And that's
something I've been thinking about because I've got some notifications
about how farmers markets are kicking off again in my area,
and I'm excited to go and meet some of those folks.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, you talk, corn is ready, and we have the
best best corn in the world, and we have the
best watermelon.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
We have some of the most some fantastic peaches up
in Brigham City.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Peaches, absolutely, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Run up to Brigham City, get a couple of cases
of peaches, go home, and can them run down south
to the watermelon patches.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Well, they they bring them up here, They bring them
up here. Just got a of the fruit stands, the
farmer's markets, like you say, you know, And of course
I keep thinking that we've got to be in order
to take shelter, to be ready for the storm, you
have to have a shelter place to take shelter in, right,
So you can't just build that shelter last minute, right,
(28:21):
if you see the storm's coming. And I've I've shared
a few experiences where I've seen an actual physical storm coming.
I've worn my family and we were able to get
in inside out of the storm in the nick of time.
And we you know, that's cutting it a little close.
That was a little too close for comfort sometimes, so
sometimes you have to be overly concerned. Right, You've got
(28:44):
to expect the unexpected. You've got you know, And I'm
speaking for myself right here, I'm I'm definitely on the pessimistics.
I want to see a storm. I'm like, okay, get
off the water, get off the lake, right, it's gonna blow. Yeah,
batten down the hatch, just you know, move the things
that are going to blow away and put those things away.
And if the storm passes, is by okay. I spent
(29:06):
some extra time that that I probably could have avoided
and done something, done something else. But that's I think
the mindset that is required in order to be a
survivor a prepper, to really prepare for winter, because especially
here in you know, I want to say especially here
in Utah, it's probably really everywhere the weather can change
(29:28):
on a dime. Yeah, it really can't. And I've heard
the saying in Utah, if you don't like the weather,
wait fifteen minutes, five minutes, And then I hear that everywhere.
Everybody else says the same thing. Oh, if you're in Georgia,
you don't like the weather, wait five minutes. It's kind
of the same everywhere. Right, So with that mindset of
(29:49):
being prepared early, and like you, like you shared many times, Scott,
I can sleep during a storm.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, Yeah, What's interesting because like, as we're talking about this,
my mind just rushed over to gourds, squashes, particularly because
it's like I can grow those really well, but they
also store really well just in the gourd, right, they
can store for nine months to a year in the
(30:17):
gourd in a cool dry place. And it's like, how
many of us have a cool dry place in their
modern home anymore?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Most of us don't.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
How many of us have a cellar?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Most of us don't right here where we live, Like
I have a concrete it in cold storage.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
But when it's ninety.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Degrees outside, it's seventy five and eighty degrees in the
cold storage.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
So does it stay that cold anymore? Right?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
It's like.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I've played around with it. I'm like, I can't store
things in here like I thought I could. So you've
got to know what spaces you have and how to
use those spaces. But like, dude, that's one of the things.
I'm like, Okay, the next home, I'm putting a cold
storage in the middle of the house underground, right, so
then it's not having any sun exposure, any exposure outside
(31:10):
of the corehouse. And that's where the root sellers used
to be. Like I grew up originally from Idaho, and
all my neighbors we had a basement because we were
one of the later houses in the neighborhood. But none
of my neighbors had basements. They had root sellers in
their kitchen and trapdoor and you'd smell the potatoes and
(31:33):
squash and you're like what.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And it'd be a dirt floor and not concrete, right, Yeah,
so you could actually use it for storing your food
in there.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
They have this, you can actually I don't know what
you have to do with your city for permits or anything, unfortunately,
but I was watching recently there's this guy there's there
was a it looks like a tube. It's kind of
a tube that you can dig a big old pit
in your backyard and you have it has stairs going
down and it opens up into this little bulb at
(32:03):
the end that becomes a room that you can put
stuff in there, so you can actually install your own
cellar of sorts. And I was like, that is the
coolest things.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Kind of like a miniature bunker.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, a little, but.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
It's only for it's like a it says that they
can hold the same stuff they were talking about how
it's cooler under the earth, how it's not as required.
You know, that's a way to have you know, refrigeration
without electricity or you know, so you can stalk things
in a cooler place.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
And that's easy to do in winter, right, but not
so much as summer. Right. And so that's another thing
on my list, is preparing for winter power outages, right,
because that's another thing that I hear all the time
is our infrastructures has has problems or we're going to
see power outages. And and of course what would be
the worst time to see a power outage. Some of
(32:54):
us would say summer, you know, if you're in like
Arizona or something. No matter, we love our air conditioning
but winter, how do you heat the house?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I'd still say summer, and I'm in the winter climate.
I'm such a pansy when it comes to.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Ac Yeah, it's awfully nice, right.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
But definitely like here, the problem is is with winter,
your food still can spoil because the temperature gets warm
enough during the day where you gonna put your food.
If you can't put it underground, right, your perishable foods
are going to be gone. But then you also have
to fight. We're going to freeze to death, right, and
so you have to have a plan and you have
to have those things in place now and know where
(33:33):
they are, right, because that's another problem we have. How
many people know where all their stuff is and rotate
it out into a usable place for the season that
they're coming into.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
We rotate our prep bags.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Right, a bug out bag if you want to call
it that, our go bags, our ninety six hour kits.
We rotate in the spring and in the fall. So
we're coming up on a rotation time where we need
to make sure we have thicker coats, boots, gloves, all
the different things we need for winter, more fire starting,
more fuel. Oh and this is something I want to
(34:06):
bring up too, how long has it been since you've
tested your stored fuel. I just found a five gallon
tank that I'd forgotten about that had gotten buried behind
my propane tanks, and I was like, oh, crap, that's
probably old and it's at least a few years old.
I'm like, that's probably not even useful. You want to
(34:29):
hear how bad that was. They tried to put it
in my lawn mower.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Mm hm, oh dang, it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Actually works better than new fuel. What I was like,
what because the fuel that I have for this last season,
like the amount of additives that are in it. I
was surprised the old fuel. I just swished it around.
I'm like, please, just work, poured it in. It started
up easier, less black smoke, like when I use old fuel,
(34:58):
there's usually like a little p a lot of black
smoke for a second. No, none of that. I was like,
And I don't think I put a stabilizer in this one,
because I'd forgotten about it. But it worked better than
my new fuel. And I'm like, ah, crap, don't count
on it though, don't don't count on it. But I
was surprised because I know that they put added as
(35:20):
in the fuel to make it last longer anyways. But
I was surprised because I do not think I put
an additive stabilizer in this at all, and it was
better than the current fuel that I'm getting, And I'm like,
that just goes to show like how poor quality of
the fuel is here in Utah.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Well, they typically add ethanol to it that shortens its life.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Right, Oh, that's right, And that's just for.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, because ethanol is bad for if you let it
sit right in your motors and you don't use it
up quickly. If it sits in your motorcycles or your lawnmowers,
it can build up and I want to call it
a plaque, that's not the right term. But it won't
damage the inside of you your motor and you'll have
to rebuild it after a certain amount of time. So
(36:02):
probably the cycle free by ethanol free, Yeah, it could, Yeah,
you could have very well had ethnol.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Where do they even have ethanol free?
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Most? I would say most about fifty percent of the
ones I see nowadays actually have ethanol free. It's that
blue it's the blue button, right, the blue hose and
right it's just like five or eighty seven or something
ethanol free, and so I try and treat my truck
to that every once in a while, right, and but
(36:33):
I only store ethanol free. And then you know, for
the especially for the smaller uh you know, lawnmowers and
chainsaws and motorcycle and so forth. Plus it lasts longer
than you add your stable to it or other other
additive and get gets you a couple of years out
of it.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, I was surprised. I'm like, oh crap, this is
going to be all useless. And it started writing up
cleaner better, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
I'll be right.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
That is cool.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
That was That was a blessing.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
That was probably God's like, dude, I'm gonna keep this
good for you because you're too dumb.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I'll take the blessing. Well.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Another thing, just you know, physical winter. Make sure you
winterize your home and winterize your car. Get new. You know,
sometimes people live in rainy seasons, so make sure your
winshield wipers are good. You know. One of the things
that happens to me every year is my tire pressure
fluctuates day to day. So you know, you might need
a tire pressure gauge or some kind of pump that
(37:32):
keeps that happen good for you because the colder it gets,
the actually the air in your tire expands or compresses
based on how cold it is outside, and then winter
rising your home, especially what we learned from Peele's and
Pedals Sarah Thrush. A couple of weeks ago, I have
an unfortunate feeling that one of my pipes broke in
(37:54):
my sprinkler that I realized a couple of weeks ago,
and I'm like, well, I'm going to be turning it
off here in a month or two, and I'll just
leave it alone because it's kind of a little squishy
over that part of the lawn, and I'm like, dang it.
So I'm probably gonna have to save up and get
a whole thing done for my backyard, but part of
the area I want to I want to cement over
(38:16):
it anyway. So I'm kind of like frustrated that it's
broken already, like I want to. I was hoping to
give myself some more time to be able to do that,
but you definitely want to make sure that all of
your that's all winter rised as well.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, Well, in our last few minutes here, a few
things that I just wanted to mention is winter can
be a good time to take advantage of certain things,
like like we're talking about the crypto winter, how prices
go down and there's weak activity, So take advantage of
(38:51):
the I'm not saying by crypto because I don't support
that at all, but prices can go down. Things can
tend to be more into and in the summer then
in the winter, so making purchases off season can be
something that might be helpful in saving some money. But also,
you know what I really see a winter in now
(39:11):
and coming even more so, is a spiritual winter. Yes,
it's more and more and more godless world. Of course,
we talked a little bit about unemployment and jobs that
just seems to be getting worse and worse, especially with
the last couple of reports we've had, you know, em
plumbing reports. Not that I trust government numbers whatsoever, but
(39:32):
really a winter of truth and wisdom, especially with AI
coming around, right, everybody's just putting there already, and it's
already happening in mass adoption of people putting their trust
in AI for all their answers. Right, that is going
to be a dark, dark winter, if you ask me
(39:54):
so personally, for me, that's something I can stay out
of that.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
I'm going they just come out with GBT five, like
they just upgraded to.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's got happening faster and faster, and
then all of a sudden that store will be here
and you won't be prepared.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
So I was talking to somebody who's in the she's
in the tech world, and she sells and works with AI,
and she says there's still a lot of companies that
are going into a loss or spending money to get adoption,
to get more and more people to accept it so
that they can then charge and make more money. So
there's still a lot of these AI companies are operating
(40:29):
at a loss just to get people, just to buy
up market share, buy up. I mean, what's crazy is
that I get ads all the time on my on
my reels about how chat GPT is no longer. I mean,
if you're still using chat GBT, you're a loser. Like
the newest, latest, greatest AI. There's twenty eight different AI.
You know, you got Galaxy AI. I'm like, bro, Like,
(40:51):
I barely even know how to spell chat GPT and
you're telling me it's already outdated. Like, what is that
all about? Like my brain is like, forget it.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
I'm you knowing warp speed. Yeah, I get that word intentionally.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
So as we wrap things up, you and I, you
the listener, and then us. Right, we've got to be
emotionally and spiritually and mentally fortifying ourselves better than ever.
Paying attention to what feels real and genuine. Right, having
physical contact with people, staying connected with your friends and family,
(41:26):
staying connected with God. Because as the world gets more
and more synthetic, right, what listening to the news, if
they talk about it more, trust it less. If they
gloss over it, that's a warning sign. But pay attention
to the things that really matter. Why are they're not
talking about the jobs, They're not talking about the report
(41:48):
how bad it was, So that tells us it's probably
pretty accurate or worse than they're.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Actually describing it.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
And so you need to get more resilient now before
time runs out. You need to get used to living
on less and enjoying a higher quality of life by
making things real and longer lasting with your friends, family,
and whoever else you can and guys to do that.
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Speaker 2 (42:42):
We'll catch you later.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh yeah? Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Every time I do a new every time I edit
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Speaker 2 (01:19):
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Speaker 1 (01:20):
If for some reason we black out after five hundred,
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(01:43):
to get yourself better prepared, actional items and steps to
get yourself in a position where you're gonna be able
to be more resilient through anything. So, without further ado,
let's dive into this, this hornets nest of winter's coming.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well, you know I will the storm would hit, and
and particularly right now, you know we're in in Utah.
It's been extremely dry. We haven't had a summer storm yet,
no measurable precipitation at least where I'm at, and it
would be really nice to get a storm. But you know,
I'm also thinking is in Utah, winter is when we
(02:21):
get the most snow, is when we get the most precipitation.
So our winter storms, you know, fill up our reservoirs,
and and that's really what we look for. So so
the summer being excessively dry, we do have some hope
for a nice, bleak winter, right, So there's a little
(02:41):
bit of positive spin on the the cool, dark winter
that I'm looking forward to, well, not looking forward to
it so much as I used to. When I was younger,
I liked winter a lot more than I do now.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Sorry, no, I was gonna say last year's winter wasn't
that bad. I was kind of expecting to have a
pretty you know. Well, the first year I moved to
Utah was like record breaking snow, Like thanks a lot,
you know, my first time in the snow, living in
the snow, It's like record breaking. And then that was
the next year, and then the third year, I was like,
I got to buy better tires, and then it was
(03:20):
like nothing, and then last year was like nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Again.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I was like, I spent thousands of dollars on new tires,
and well.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Which is bad for which is bad for our water.
I mean, we're the second driest state in the nation
and we need to have good winters. And yeah, last
couple were not great. So obviously winter can be good,
it should be good, But for today we'll call winter, uh,
something we need to prepare for, which I mean, our
(03:49):
ancestors did for hundreds and hundreds of years, right all
year long, they were preparing for winter. So you know,
we talk about the signs all the time, signs of
the time in particular. But you know, just as the
Bible says, you know, if you see the signs of
the seasons changing, you know what to expect, right, And
(04:13):
I see the signs of winter physical actual winter coming,
temperatures dropping at night. I've been down in the thirties
already up on my drive out to my place, and
just even here at home, chilly mornings below sixty is
chilly in the summer, which the signs of winter. Yeah,
(04:35):
it feels great, I love it. But the signs of
winter are here and more than just the actual physical
signs of the coming season. And if you're not aware,
you can't be prepared. And when you have a homestead,
when you've got animals, when you've got responsibilities like that,
(04:58):
it's probably more apparent you that, oh, I need to
I need to get ready for this. I've got to
stock up the feed, right, I got to get the
hay in the barn for the for the animals, and
so on and so forth. So that's you know, I
think our primary discussion today is is what do we
need to get ready for for for winter? But also
what are the signs we're seeing for you know, signs
(05:21):
at the times of this coming cold season called a
deep freeze or a slowing of.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Of everything economic winters, Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, well then there's that thought.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You guys remember the John Hopkins scenario that ran in
twenty twenty two twenty twenty three called the Dark Winter Exercise.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
H long dark Winters all like that. Yeah, yeah, long
dark Vidon kept talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Which would be a smallpox epidemic across the United States
aka the world right scenario hypothetical. All the other hypothetical
experiences have never really turned into real things, right, we
know that where's my tinfoil hot when I need it?
But yeah, I think that as well, Like, okay, you
started talking about when our ancestors would prepare for winter,
(06:11):
like you would as soon as the frost wine drops
and you can start planting your plant and you're prepping,
you're planting, and then as long as you can grow
for you finish your growing season and then you stockpile
and then you survive the winter. You outlive the cold
season when you can't grow anything. We've been blessed right
(06:32):
because we don't have to live that way. We've got
international shipping. Now you can get kum quots from all
over the world, oranges from all over the world. You
want beef, you'll get cleaner, healthier beef from Australia anymore
than you will from America unless you're getting it from
a local rancher. Right, but you can get all this
stuff anytime you want on demand. And we're so used
to that that we don't think about winter the way
(06:54):
our ancestors do. We don't respect winter the way our
ancestors do. All we think about is, okay, I've got
to winterize the pipes. And we learned from our episode
a few weeks ago with Sarah Thresh like one little
thing going wrong. Her whole basement was flooded. Pipe wasn't
winterized right, and it wasn't a freeze that she was expecting,
but it was just a little gap that wasn't didn't
(07:16):
have insulation. So in addition to going through winterizing your house,
prepping for things for the winter, having tools on hand,
knowing where the water shut off is, where everything is,
how to turn off the electrical the standard run of
the mill. I own a home or I live in
a home, right, things you need to know, Like I
think of that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay, what happens?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
A few years ago, we had an episode where we
talked about how the snow just dumped in a pass
and everyone gets was stranded. I can't remember if that
was California or but it was just like absurdly a
ton amount of snow and it just shut everybody down.
And we're like, when you see storms like that coming,
don't travel right.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well, I think, uh, if we've should learn anything from
the events of the past several months about weather, most
weather lately has been extreme, right, I mean, obviously we're
just hearing about the extreme events. I'm you know, maybe
over exaggerating a little bit, but many more extreme weather
events have been happening, And of course lately earthquakes everywhere,
(08:23):
big ones. Yeah, more so than than I've ever seen
in my life. You know, of course I haven't been
paying attention for my entire life, but.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, how many record breaking earthquakes have we had in
the last five years compared to the rest.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Of our lives.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, absolutely, So there's no reason not to expect maybe
not necessarily in generally a harsh winter, but events that
will take us off off guard, right.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And that's one that one that just hit hit in
Russia was eight point eight and they said that it's
arted a parade of earthquakes, so it wasn't just like
a couple aftershocks. They were like a parade of earthquakes.
And throw on top of that a volcano erupting similar
you know, right in this similar areas like and then
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a tsunami come. It's like we had a triple threat
just not too long ago. And then you see all
the different flooding that's been happening all over right now,
it's just been kind of wild's to watch and I
you know, it's there's not just the not just that,
but we see some of the you know, you justly
shared with us this week chain some some posts about
some folks that are happen what's happened in Washington, d C.
(09:36):
With some of the clean up there, and you know
that's kind of a you know, in a way, that's
kind of a you know, the winter time, so there's
obviously the seasons are spring, summer, fall, and then winter.
So we're technically going to be hitting fall here pretty
soon before winter. But fall is a great time to
prepare for winter, Like that's the time to really make
(09:58):
sure you're up and running. And so in life, life
has life. There's cycles of life too, you know. Know
there's like the summer of your life, and then there's
the fall of your life, and the.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Winter of your life, the autumn of life.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
The autumn of life. You know, So there's you know,
I'm fifty and Chain's fifty plus and Scott you're almost head.
You're so we're more towards the winter, and you're more
towards this, you're still in the summer fall.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I just season feel that way.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Right, So I'm starting to get more of what gray hair,
so my white, my white winter is coming in anyways,
So I was just thinking that, you know, there's a
lot of even some interesting seasons of where we're going economically, politically,
and some potential winter things that are you know, relatable
that way.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Anyways, piggybacking off that winter events, right, I thought the smallpox.
I thought regular winter seasonal stuff. But like the other
half of the world, it's it's going into summer coming
out of winter, right, We're we're about to go in winter,
but like I'm really like more focused on winter events,
meaning cold darkout events. Do you guys know what percentage
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of cyber attacks increase or decrease this year has been.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's been significant. I know that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So the Center, let me pull this back up, the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, which tracks cybersecurity threats.
It's up forty seven percent in total incidents over last
year and we're only in July. Right, there are massive,
(11:38):
massive attacks going on on data leaks. You're probably noticing
in your email and your mailbox more and more notification
of data leak. Here are your options, Here are your
legal rights?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's happening more and more, and so then I think
about that. I think about what happened a few years
ago with for example, the Canadian truckers and how they
were trying to it's right and get their rights and
keep preserved some things, and all their bank accounts were frozen.
And that came into mind because last week my bank
account was frozen for a day or two, Like I
(12:11):
could not get anything to change online or via mobile.
I had to go in to get access back into
my account. What so we're experiencing more and more hiccups
in life. The system that we've built that we thought, oh,
this is so cool. Tech is amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It's extremely fragile, and so small events stacking up can
can turn into a huge domino or parade right of
events that can cause some major, major problems for all
of us.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I've noticed that in my world as well, a lot
of small issues, whether it's phone or our company software
we're just online, or the internet, those types of things
which seem more than usual. And again, trying to watch
the signs of the times, the signs of the season,
the next season that's coming, and when a lot of
(13:10):
people would say, oh, this happens all the time, this
is normal. Okay, maybe you can argue that, but I
would think critically, that's uh, you know, And I am
definitely like you, sure's gotten an apocaloptimist, right, That's where
my mind goes first.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
So I think you're I think you're right, Shane, that
there's a lot of things happening, and people will say
these things happen all the time. So let me just
share with you my perspective of that. Every day, more
and more people are dying of cancer and heart disease,
So that's normal. But wait, what No, Actually, if you
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look at the historical health of like one hundred years ago,
people aren't dying of cant didn't dive in cancer and
heart disease like they do today. And so what we
think is normal is actually not healthy because before we
had all these other things happening. So to me, it's
the volume. Yes, these things happen all the time, but
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what's the volume of them? Like, Yes, earthquakes happened all
the time, Yes, tsunamis happened all the time all over
the world. Yes, cyber attacks happened all the time. But
as Scott just shared it with us earlier, it's up
forty six percent from last year, which means, if you
do the math, it's one hundred and forty six percent.
We're already this far into the year one hundred and
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forty six percent more than we were last year, which
is like that volume is where I'm paying attention. So
if you're if you're thinking to yourself, wow, these these
things happen all the time. Sure, yeah, yeah they do,
but at this volume, at this rate, I mean, the
clip of what we're seeing is like the you know,
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the frequency as well, like there's a bigger volume and
they're happening more in more and more quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah. Another thing that stood out to me the other
day is learning that our government, the US government spends
twenty two billion a day over the budget over what
it brings in over what it's in. Twenty two billion
a day. And yeah, we just broke through thirty seven trillion,
(15:27):
and the project by the end of the year being
at thirty nine somewhere around thirty eight something thirty nine
trillion by the end of the year. That's only one
thing I've learned about the financial markets is that and
US dollars currency in particular, especially with interest. It's there's
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not enough money currency in the system to support the system,
and unless it increases every single day, the system immediately collapses. Yeah,
and so that's I mean, that would be more than winter, right,
I mean, but that's that's the financial like you say,
(16:09):
the the economic winter that that we need to prepare for. Uh,
And our government's not gonna do it, nobody else is
gonna do it. We have to do it ourselves. And
so on our next episode we're gonna talk about some
solutions and such too. But so be sure to join
us on our our live that has already already happened
after you watch this, right, so go back and go
(16:31):
check out the lives. But and we talk about that
all the time, being your own bank and so forth.
But you know, we have to see open our eyes
and see the signs of the times. And once your
eyes are opened and the the it's impossible to close them. Again,
sorry for my stuttering there. It uh, you can't close them.
(16:52):
I can't close them. My eyes just get more and
more open. And I can share some stuff with you
personallyater on that I've just experienced here early today. And
I'm not going to share online here, not going to share.
But my eyes continue to get more more wide, more
more open, and it's uh, it's depressing, honestly. It's it's dark,
(17:17):
it's cold, it's it's and that's why I think winter
is the ideal topic. We've got to start this now,
in the middle of summer, before even if fall gets here,
preparing for winter, whether that's an economic winter or just
actual winter, like you said, like we said, our ancestors
as soon as as soon as the frost broke, they're
preparing for winter. I mean, that's the way it is,
(17:39):
as soon as you're out of winter, you're preparing for
the next winter. And so we haven't many of us
haven't experienced actual financial winter. I mean, two thousand and
eight that was pretty difficult for a lot of people.
I honestly didn't realize what was going on during that
Great Financial Crisis, the GFC is as is called. I
didn't really recognize that winter.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I felt it.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I felt it, I felt it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I just didn'tel like it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, I don't feel like that winter has fully gotten
over for me. But it's funny because like, yeah, two
thousand and eight, that was bad. What's interesting is is,
you know, twenty twelve I moved back to Utah. Whole
life changed. Twenty fifteen for me went completely right. Right,
(18:27):
we have our own life winters too. You've got to
think about that as well.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Part of the biggest part of why I prep is
my own personal winters, meaning.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The job loss. Right.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I've had that a number of times as a self
employed guy. Most of the time, if I don't do
as well as I want to be doing, guess what
I'm in a winter, right, yea, If I'm spending savings
to survive I'm in winter, and for each of us
it's the same. If I get disabled or you get disabled,
if you have a death the family, like, all those
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things are why I prep first and foremost, and I
use those as the catalyst to get better prepared so
that when the everybody winter, right, macro winter, These are
all micro winters. When the macro winter, it hits it
and affects everybody hits like, I will be living a
lot better than I am now because then I won't
(19:23):
have any bills. Right, But the same stuff you're doing
to prepare for those things work for this, And I
think the biggest gap people have right now are food storage,
medical gear and like first aid kit stuff and skills,
skills that you can use to create an income or
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a barter system so that you can survive the like
not theoretical coming economic collapse, but the guaranteed becoming economic collapse.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Well that is, of course, unless we consider, Okay, if
we lived in the matrix and had to combat digitally, right,
these gamers, they would survive. They do pretty well, right, Yeah,
you know where we're headed, right if we know exactly
what's funny is those those kids don't listen to this podcast.
We've looked at the demographics. We know who's listening.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It's it's the elder millennial groups, the gen xers and
the baby boomers. Like I don't know if there's anybody
else that really listens, right, but we're the ones that
are like, dude, we gotta do something. We see the
writing on the wall. We're like, we took off one
of the goggles, the three D goggles. We took those off,
and we're looking around the world going, oh, this is bad.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
What happened? Right?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, yeah, again, referring back to the matrix, when Morpheus
shows uh Neo the real right, wakes up from his
dream and he shows him the real remember that when
he goes back into the matrix or plugs him in
for the first time after they rescue, and it's just
a wasteland, right, And that is what I'm seeing is
(21:07):
really the beginnings of a wasteland, and even more more
than beginnings of a wasteland. Anyway. Yeah, I could go on,
but I'm just depressing if I just continue to go
on on that thread.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Let's get depressed, all right.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
All right, right, Well, before we get depressed, I wanted
to share something that I saw this week, and it
kind of relates is that there was a there was
a guy who wanted to be a homestead or self sufficient,
totally off grid and take his family out into the world.
That they bought some land and they did the whole
They really started the whole process. And one of the
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things that the guy realized was that he couldn't do
everything on his own by himself with his family. He
was like, I can grow food, but there's still things
that I need that I can't grow that I need.
There's medical like if my kid gets sick, I don't
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know how to fix that, so I need to have
somebody that knows how to do that. He was he
just started to realize. He actually said self suffic like
his when it was a real I was watching and
he says, self sufficiency is a scam. And I was like,
all right, I'll bite you know, And he went into
saying how the reality is that you really do. If
you're going to go off grid and you're going to
(22:27):
chop wood and all day long and you're going to
grow your garden all day long, and you're gonna have
your animals all day long, it's like that's four full
time jobs. Right there, like you when you get a sleep,
you know when you're you gonna do anything. So he's
like he realized the reality is that we do need
a community. And if you don't have if you think
you're going to go out and you know, yeah, you
(22:49):
could probably Rambo lone Wolf survive in the wilderness just you.
But if you have a family of any kind, you
have to have community. Otherwise you're going to drive yourself
into it a winter of depression because you're not going
to be There's no way you can do it all
yourself and maintain a family. And that's something that I
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think was a huge I didn't see it from that
perspective until I watched this Guy's real and I was like,
that is really good. That was a really good eye
opener for me.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah, I go back.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know if you remember this episode. We had
a conversation. I've probably done it a couple of times, Shane.
I think this is back in the original airtime days.
We talked about the size of community, like what is
your ideal bug out location to a smaller community?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
What is your ideal?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
And I think I remember, didn't you say you wanted
to be something in the hundreds or less, like very.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Small where I know you were considably your your situation
was considerably larger than what I Yeah, because right now
the town I'm in is about three hundred, but with
a nearby community of about five thousand, three to five
four thousand, and.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I was like, I was like, I want three to
five thousand minimum, right, and now further down the road,
I think I align better with you. Right, But the
diversity of that community has to be good. Right where
you are, there's a lot of self reliant individuals and
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to sleep in their Yeah, they've lived there.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Their entire lives. They're used to it. Right.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
When we went back east and we checked out some
Amish towns once, and we went and saw some old
homestead communities and just small old frontierland stuff. And it
was interesting because as we looked at it, it's like
everybody had a garden and then they had their barley
field or wheat field or cornfield or something else, right,
and they're like, our garden produces about sixty percent of
(24:47):
what we need food wise, and then our harvest, our
crop is to sell to get the rest of the
stuff we need. Because we may not be as good
at growing certain things, and so stop trying to do
the things you can't do well, focus really well on
the things you can, and make it easier on yourself
with the things that work well. And I'm like, oh
(25:09):
my goodness, I'm tuning it all wrong because I was
thinking I can grow everything until I went back. That
was two summers ago, and I was like, life change.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I'm thinking, Okay, I need I've got fruit trees. I
need more fruit trees because there's less to take care
of with those, and they're more resilient, and because they
grow every year or every season should be, I have
less I have to do every year to maintain them
as long as I'm giving them the basic nutrients. A garden,
(25:39):
on the other hand, is going to be a lot
of work, but it produces food.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But cut back.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I was trying to grow like twenty different things in
my garden, and as I was thinking about how these
people do it, They're like they're growing like ten things
fifteen things right that they're really good at, and then
they'll trade and barter for other stuff. And I'm like,
oh my gosh, Like we've really got to get back
to smaller communities, less reliant on having stores having that
(26:09):
three day on demand distribution system, because if you go
to your grocery store, they don't even have anymore. They
used to have a seventy two hour supply of food
in the building. Now it's a twenty four hour recycling cycle.
I was talking to my produce guy just the other
day and I was like, Okay, you guys are out
of lettuce, Like when is it coming. He's like, oh,
comes in the morning every day. I'm like every day
(26:30):
and he goes, yeah, every day.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Wow, you don't have any in the back.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Oh no, there is no back anymore. It's a loading
dock and a staging area and it comes in the
morning in a cool truck and we roll it out,
drop it where it needs to go, restock, and we're
done before three in the morning.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And I'm like, holy crap.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
We're screwed. Yeah, especially produce, that's the only real food.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And one thing that's good about the fall and especially
is that a lot of farmers markets where they open
up for the last three months right before winter. So
my recommendation is go get to know some of these
people that are local to you or more local, and
see if you can create a relationship where you can say, hey,
look you got corn, I got wheat. Let's make a deal.
You got corn, I got tomatoes, or you know what
(27:17):
I mean. Like, there's some things that you can do
to really establish a good relationship, I think. And that's
something I've been thinking about because I've got some notifications
about how farmers markets are kicking off again in my area,
and I'm excited to go and meet some of those folks.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, you talk, corn is ready, and we have the
best best corn in the world, and we have the
best watermelon.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
We have some of the most some fantastic peaches up
in Brigham City.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Peaches, absolutely, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Run up to Brigham City, get a couple of cases
of peaches, go home, and can them run down south
to the watermelon patches.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Well, they they bring them up here, They bring them
up here. Just got a of the fruit stands, the
farmer's markets, like you say, you know, And of course
I keep thinking that we've got to be in order
to take shelter, to be ready for the storm, you
have to have a shelter place to take shelter in, right,
So you can't just build that shelter last minute, right,
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if you see the storm's coming. And I've I've shared
a few experiences where I've seen an actual physical storm coming.
I've worn my family and we were able to get
in inside out of the storm in the nick of time.
And we you know, that's cutting it a little close.
That was a little too close for comfort sometimes, so
sometimes you have to be overly concerned. Right, You've got
(28:44):
to expect the unexpected. You've got you know, And I'm
speaking for myself right here, I'm I'm definitely on the pessimistics.
I want to see a storm. I'm like, okay, get
off the water, get off the lake, right, it's gonna blow. Yeah,
batten down the hatch, just you know, move the things
that are going to blow away and put those things away.
And if the storm passes, is by okay. I spent
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some extra time that that I probably could have avoided
and done something, done something else. But that's I think
the mindset that is required in order to be a
survivor a prepper, to really prepare for winter, because especially
here in you know, I want to say especially here
in Utah, it's probably really everywhere the weather can change
(29:28):
on a dime. Yeah, it really can't. And I've heard
the saying in Utah, if you don't like the weather,
wait fifteen minutes, five minutes, And then I hear that everywhere.
Everybody else says the same thing. Oh, if you're in Georgia,
you don't like the weather, wait five minutes. It's kind
of the same everywhere. Right, So with that mindset of
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being prepared early, and like you, like you shared many times, Scott,
I can sleep during a storm.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, Yeah, What's interesting because like, as we're talking about this,
my mind just rushed over to gourds, squashes, particularly because
it's like I can grow those really well, but they
also store really well just in the gourd, right, they
can store for nine months to a year in the
(30:17):
gourd in a cool dry place. And it's like, how
many of us have a cool dry place in their
modern home anymore?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Most of us don't.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
How many of us have a cellar?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Most of us don't right here where we live, Like
I have a concrete it in cold storage.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
But when it's ninety.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Degrees outside, it's seventy five and eighty degrees in the
cold storage.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
So does it stay that cold anymore? Right?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
It's like.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I've played around with it. I'm like, I can't store
things in here like I thought I could. So you've
got to know what spaces you have and how to
use those spaces. But like, dude, that's one of the things.
I'm like, Okay, the next home, I'm putting a cold
storage in the middle of the house underground, right, so
then it's not having any sun exposure, any exposure outside
(31:10):
of the corehouse. And that's where the root sellers used
to be. Like I grew up originally from Idaho, and
all my neighbors we had a basement because we were
one of the later houses in the neighborhood. But none
of my neighbors had basements. They had root sellers in
their kitchen and trapdoor and you'd smell the potatoes and
(31:33):
squash and you're like what.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And it'd be a dirt floor and not concrete, right, Yeah,
so you could actually use it for storing your food
in there.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
They have this, you can actually I don't know what
you have to do with your city for permits or anything, unfortunately,
but I was watching recently there's this guy there's there
was a it looks like a tube. It's kind of
a tube that you can dig a big old pit
in your backyard and you have it has stairs going
down and it opens up into this little bulb at
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the end that becomes a room that you can put
stuff in there, so you can actually install your own
cellar of sorts. And I was like, that is the
coolest things.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Kind of like a miniature bunker.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, a little, but.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
It's only for it's like a it says that they
can hold the same stuff they were talking about how
it's cooler under the earth, how it's not as required.
You know, that's a way to have you know, refrigeration
without electricity or you know, so you can stalk things
in a cooler place.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
And that's easy to do in winter, right, but not
so much as summer. Right. And so that's another thing
on my list, is preparing for winter power outages, right,
because that's another thing that I hear all the time
is our infrastructures has has problems or we're going to
see power outages. And and of course what would be
the worst time to see a power outage. Some of
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us would say summer, you know, if you're in like
Arizona or something. No matter, we love our air conditioning
but winter, how do you heat the house?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I'd still say summer, and I'm in the winter climate.
I'm such a pansy when it comes to.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Ac Yeah, it's awfully nice, right.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
But definitely like here, the problem is is with winter,
your food still can spoil because the temperature gets warm
enough during the day where you gonna put your food.
If you can't put it underground, right, your perishable foods
are going to be gone. But then you also have
to fight. We're going to freeze to death, right, and
so you have to have a plan and you have
to have those things in place now and know where
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they are, right, because that's another problem we have. How
many people know where all their stuff is and rotate
it out into a usable place for the season that
they're coming into.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
We rotate our prep bags.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Right, a bug out bag if you want to call
it that, our go bags, our ninety six hour kits.
We rotate in the spring and in the fall. So
we're coming up on a rotation time where we need
to make sure we have thicker coats, boots, gloves, all
the different things we need for winter, more fire starting,
more fuel. Oh and this is something I want to
(34:06):
bring up too, how long has it been since you've
tested your stored fuel. I just found a five gallon
tank that I'd forgotten about that had gotten buried behind
my propane tanks, and I was like, oh, crap, that's
probably old and it's at least a few years old.
I'm like, that's probably not even useful. You want to
(34:29):
hear how bad that was. They tried to put it
in my lawn mower.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Mm hm, oh dang, it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Actually works better than new fuel. What I was like,
what because the fuel that I have for this last season,
like the amount of additives that are in it. I
was surprised the old fuel. I just swished it around.
I'm like, please, just work, poured it in. It started
up easier, less black smoke, like when I use old fuel,
(34:58):
there's usually like a little p a lot of black
smoke for a second. No, none of that. I was like,
And I don't think I put a stabilizer in this one,
because I'd forgotten about it. But it worked better than
my new fuel. And I'm like, ah, crap, don't count
on it though, don't don't count on it. But I
was surprised because I know that they put added as
(35:20):
in the fuel to make it last longer anyways. But
I was surprised because I do not think I put
an additive stabilizer in this at all, and it was
better than the current fuel that I'm getting, And I'm like,
that just goes to show like how poor quality of
the fuel is here in Utah.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Well, they typically add ethanol to it that shortens its life.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Right, Oh, that's right, And that's just for.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, because ethanol is bad for if you let it
sit right in your motors and you don't use it
up quickly. If it sits in your motorcycles or your lawnmowers,
it can build up and I want to call it
a plaque, that's not the right term. But it won't
damage the inside of you your motor and you'll have
to rebuild it after a certain amount of time. So
(36:02):
probably the cycle free by ethanol free, Yeah, it could, Yeah,
you could have very well had ethnol.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Where do they even have ethanol free?
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Most? I would say most about fifty percent of the
ones I see nowadays actually have ethanol free. It's that
blue it's the blue button, right, the blue hose and
right it's just like five or eighty seven or something
ethanol free, and so I try and treat my truck
to that every once in a while, right, and but
(36:33):
I only store ethanol free. And then you know, for
the especially for the smaller uh you know, lawnmowers and
chainsaws and motorcycle and so forth. Plus it lasts longer
than you add your stable to it or other other
additive and get gets you a couple of years out
of it.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, I was surprised. I'm like, oh crap, this is
going to be all useless. And it started writing up
cleaner better, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
I'll be right.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
That is cool.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
That was That was a blessing.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
That was probably God's like, dude, I'm gonna keep this
good for you because you're too dumb.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I'll take the blessing. Well.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Another thing, just you know, physical winter. Make sure you
winterize your home and winterize your car. Get new. You know,
sometimes people live in rainy seasons, so make sure your
winshield wipers are good. You know. One of the things
that happens to me every year is my tire pressure
fluctuates day to day. So you know, you might need
a tire pressure gauge or some kind of pump that
(37:32):
keeps that happen good for you because the colder it gets,
the actually the air in your tire expands or compresses
based on how cold it is outside, and then winter
rising your home, especially what we learned from Peele's and
Pedals Sarah Thrush. A couple of weeks ago, I have
an unfortunate feeling that one of my pipes broke in
(37:54):
my sprinkler that I realized a couple of weeks ago,
and I'm like, well, I'm going to be turning it
off here in a month or two, and I'll just
leave it alone because it's kind of a little squishy
over that part of the lawn, and I'm like, dang it.
So I'm probably gonna have to save up and get
a whole thing done for my backyard, but part of
the area I want to I want to cement over
(38:16):
it anyway. So I'm kind of like frustrated that it's
broken already, like I want to. I was hoping to
give myself some more time to be able to do that,
but you definitely want to make sure that all of
your that's all winter rised as well.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, Well, in our last few minutes here, a few
things that I just wanted to mention is winter can
be a good time to take advantage of certain things,
like like we're talking about the crypto winter, how prices
go down and there's weak activity, So take advantage of
(38:51):
the I'm not saying by crypto because I don't support
that at all, but prices can go down. Things can
tend to be more into and in the summer then
in the winter, so making purchases off season can be
something that might be helpful in saving some money. But also,
you know what I really see a winter in now
(39:11):
and coming even more so, is a spiritual winter. Yes,
it's more and more and more godless world. Of course,
we talked a little bit about unemployment and jobs that
just seems to be getting worse and worse, especially with
the last couple of reports we've had, you know, em
plumbing reports. Not that I trust government numbers whatsoever, but
(39:32):
really a winter of truth and wisdom, especially with AI
coming around, right, everybody's just putting there already, and it's
already happening in mass adoption of people putting their trust
in AI for all their answers. Right, that is going
to be a dark, dark winter, if you ask me
(39:54):
so personally, for me, that's something I can stay out
of that.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
I'm going they just come out with GBT five, like
they just upgraded to.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's got happening faster and faster, and
then all of a sudden that store will be here
and you won't be prepared.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
So I was talking to somebody who's in the she's
in the tech world, and she sells and works with AI,
and she says there's still a lot of companies that
are going into a loss or spending money to get adoption,
to get more and more people to accept it so
that they can then charge and make more money. So
there's still a lot of these AI companies are operating
(40:29):
at a loss just to get people, just to buy
up market share, buy up. I mean, what's crazy is
that I get ads all the time on my on
my reels about how chat GPT is no longer. I mean,
if you're still using chat GBT, you're a loser. Like
the newest, latest, greatest AI. There's twenty eight different AI.
You know, you got Galaxy AI. I'm like, bro, Like,
(40:51):
I barely even know how to spell chat GPT and
you're telling me it's already outdated. Like, what is that
all about? Like my brain is like, forget it.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
I'm you knowing warp speed. Yeah, I get that word intentionally.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
So as we wrap things up, you and I, you
the listener, and then us. Right, we've got to be
emotionally and spiritually and mentally fortifying ourselves better than ever.
Paying attention to what feels real and genuine. Right, having
physical contact with people, staying connected with your friends and family,
(41:26):
staying connected with God. Because as the world gets more
and more synthetic, right, what listening to the news, if
they talk about it more, trust it less. If they
gloss over it, that's a warning sign. But pay attention
to the things that really matter. Why are they're not
talking about the jobs, They're not talking about the report
(41:48):
how bad it was, So that tells us it's probably
pretty accurate or worse than they're.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Actually describing it.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
And so you need to get more resilient now before
time runs out. You need to get used to living
on less and enjoying a higher quality of life by
making things real and longer lasting with your friends, family,
and whoever else you can and guys to do that.
We want to help you, and the best way we
can do that is to provide resources for you. Go
(42:16):
over to Prepper Talk Radio. We have downloads, we have resources,
We even have a side hustle you can check out.
But go to preppertalkradio dot com. Make sure you're part
of the community. Join our Facebook group and let us
help you get better prepared, and stay in contact because
you can teach us as much as we can teach
you until the next episode. Keep that head on a swivel,
(42:39):
keep that mind out of the gutter, and stay ready minded.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
We'll catch you later.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Take it
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