PTR Ep 504 What Can You Do Without?

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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So what can you do without? Scott Shane Paris here today,
here tonight, We've got a bunch of people in the
chat talking to us. We're excited to have a conversation.
Let's talk about what we can do without?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Loaded question.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yes, especially this last week, there's a few people that
I've been a few ideologies that I can do without.
Let's put it that way. That may not be where
we were originally going with this, and probably we.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
We It's interesting because as we've been thinking about this, Yeah,
we didn't go live last week because went on last Wednesday.
It's been crazy. But in the last few weeks leading
up to this episode, like thinking about what can I
what can I do without? It's been the thought of
when things go sideways in the future, like how happy

(03:14):
I'll be to do without the current society, current administrations
across the world, and not so much the administrations as
the shadow governments behind everything. Right all it's like you
can't be a Christian and not see the deception in
the world, right because if you don't see the deception

(03:37):
in the world, then you haven't been paying attention to
what Jesus Christ taught. Like, there are dens of thieves everywhere,
there's serpents all over the world, and it's it's bad, right,
it's bad. It's horrible. I will not miss that at all. Yeah,
but leading up to that, there's a lot of crap

(03:58):
that's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, I think that's obviously what I'm I'm I'm not
going to be shy and saying that I'm looking forward
to the collapse, right, I mean I've always kind of
been open that way, saying hey, I'm looking forward this
to come. People would say, you know, why would you
why would you want that? You know, life is going
to be difficult, Yes, it is going to be difficult.
Am I looking forward to that? No? But I am

(04:22):
looking forward to exactly what you said there, Scott, people
getting people, these evil individuals who want to control our lives,
getting what they have coming to them. You know, I
can definitely do without people interfering with my in my life.
Leave me alone. That's that's come pretty much all I

(04:44):
ask leave me alone, and it's not happening. So that
same line.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
That's one of the things I you know, a lot
of times people are reminded of that quote, you know,
mind your own business, And sometimes that can be taken
as a negative, but I actually prefer to think of
it as a positive. I need to be mindful of
my own my own business, and not be worried about
what other people are doing and whatever whatever else is

(05:10):
going on. Like, give me my life, liberty and my
pursuit of happiness. Fringe on your life, liberty and your
pursuit of happiness. If you don't in fringe on mine,
We're good, Like I can do without. You know, all
these people trying to tell me what to do and
control my life. And you know, all these rules and regulations,
and it's like you have the right to travel, but

(05:30):
we're going to make you pay for a license and
do all these fees and do this course and you know,
two seconds over the speed limit, we're going to arrest you.
And you have all these fines. It's like, bro, come on,
I appreciate law enforcement one hundred percent, like all day long,
I'm grateful for them. Unfortunately they have that you know
system and requirement. As you know, bureaccuracy is as well,

(05:53):
so it's like not only that, but it's like, you know,
sometimes I'm like I have health and sharrance, but it
doesn't cover this, it doesn't cover that, it doesn't cover this, Like,
well then why do I have? Why do I even
have this? Like what you know? What do you what
do you cover? How about we start with that?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
You know?

Speaker 1 (06:10):
So there's just some crazy stuff like that that I'm
I'm definitely looking forward to being doing without. I don't
I don't appreciate some of this red tape and bureaucracy
and and some of the people that just do weird
things to me. And I'm sure I do weird things
with other people. And hopefully I'm not on somebody as
I could do without Paris list, but maybe i am.
Maybe I'm not. Who knows, We'll see. I should be

(06:31):
a little merciful, maybe.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Be honest, like I can do without a lot of people.
You know, we talk a lot about community and how
important it is, uh, but I think there's also something
to be said about again being left alone. We are,
I'm so jam packed into where we live. There's so
many people, it's so dense. And we talk about getting

(06:55):
on the freeway in the last episode, so many people
to deal with, so many variables, and you having to
be aware and really drive for everyone else that's around you.
You're not just driving for yourself, You're being aware of everyone,
and it can be absolutely exhausting, if you know, if
you're not just sitting back and you know, honestly, I

(07:15):
do love to just get over in the HOV lane
and and just cruise and not have to worry about
anyone else. That's I pay for that. I'm happy to
pay for that. That kind of lets me get away
with the not dealing with everybody else around me. So
so really population density in particular, and being able to

(07:36):
choose more easily who I want around me right right now,
I don't really have a whole.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Lot of that choice, That's true.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's funny because you guys are focusing more on the people.
I'm focusing more on like technology, banking systems.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
I got my list too.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I will miss the Internet and the memes, right, yeah, memes.
I will miss memes, but I will not I will
not miss like our banking cabal. I will not miss
all these different things that are happening right now that
just completely control every aspect of our lives. Right, I won't.

(08:15):
I won't miss cell phones. I don't think, like, honestly,
it would be so nice to write a letter and
not have it go anywhere and be like, I don't know,
to worry about it, right, just write a journal I can.
Maybe that's what I just need to do. Is I
think maybe we need to start living without now so

(08:38):
that we can actually have higher quality of life now
leading up to when because it's no longer if it
is when.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
You know, it's you know, it's funny. Is I didn't
plan this, but it's kind of just happening because I
I mentioned in our last episode, and I was reading
in the Stoic my books of My and the Obstacles
The Way is the one I'm reading. And one of
the things that the Stoics will do is they will
actually a lot of them with Stoics, actually they will
their contrarians in many ways. They would they would just

(09:07):
they would be contrarian to practice being contrary to what
society was doing, so that they could have the feeling
of either embarrassment or feeling of really is that really
important for us to do and have? Is that? Is
that really a tradition in society that that's worthy of continuing.
So they would go against traditions and go against the flow.
And one of the things that I know several of

(09:28):
I think Zeno did it. He was kind of known
as a wild man. There's a couple others that would
they would pick a day of the month and they
would either you know, some of these stoics were wealthy,
like they had a lot of money, they had a
lot of nice homes, they had a lot of nice stuff,
and they would pick a day or two of the
month and they would just go out and live on
the street. They would be they would make themselves homeless
for the day just to experience it so they could

(09:50):
be prepared for it in case it actually happened to them.
And that is really eye opening to me because I'm
so comfortable in my air condition in the house that
I'm like, you know what, maybe I should turn the
air Maybe I should turn the power off on my
house for a day or two a month or every
quarter practice, or maybe I should pull out my food
storage and eat from the cans and see what I

(10:12):
you know, how I do instead of just being always
cushy with my you know, air fryer and my stakes
you know, whatever I do, you know, so like and
then you know, walk walk what if my car breaks?
Like my car did break down actually last Monday. It
was kind of funny because we did. We talked a
little bit about on last episode. We talked a little
bit about not having the ability to do things and

(10:33):
so you have to hire people. Well, my my Honda
pilot alternator went out Monday morning. It's like, you know,
welcome to the week, right first first, like six seven
thirty in the morning, I'm I'm stranded at a light
and I thankfully I had one of my own power bank,
you know, the portable power bank, so I could get myself.
I jumped myself and got myself home, thankfully, But I

(10:55):
had to hire somebody to come out. A mobile mechanic
came out. My son in law, my daughters, and my
my daughter called me or my son law. I said, hey,
I can't come to dinner because our alternator went out
on our pilot. And he thankfully knows he knows how
to fix those, but it took him all day and
he had to go get parts at the Junkyard for
some things that broke. And I was just like he
is my a little bit my you know, examplar and

(11:17):
that he knows how to fix it. And I I
told him, I said, you know what, amen to you,
brother for knowing how to fix it. Because I don't
know how to. I have to hire people. So what
some of the things that I can do without is
I need to figure out how to. I don't think
I can do without somebody who knows how to do
something I don't, so I can hire them.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Well again, I'm going to say it again. You got
all three of you said it this. So that's funny
because my daughter's alternator went out last week as well.
What yeah, so so anyway, but not a pilot. No,
it's a toy to wrap four.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Oh dang, it's.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Sixteen years old. Sixteen, it's about time. It's about time,
so no complaints.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
But force what year is it? Oh?

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Nine?

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (12:03):
So I mean, yeah, good rig But yeah, the things
that I can do without is brightly lit rooms. Right.
We don't need big screen TVs. Right, I grew up
on these small tube TVs. Right. I grew up up
in my my quans and my property. I've got one
of my dad's old VHS players. The screen is literally

(12:25):
probably ten inches and that's what I watch. I put
in a VHS because said so, and and and I
realize I really don't need anything more than that, you know,
above it. I do have a sixty five inch TV,
but I can do that. I don't use it that often, right,
But anyway, I thought i'd just throw that out there

(12:48):
because I'm trying to be real, right, But you know,
right now you've got a few lights out of the room.
It's really all the light I need. I don't need
to be a powerhog, and I have all the right
to do it, you know. And the this is not
a green agenda thing, right, This is not me preaching, oh,
we're wasteful. I like to personally like to do, not

(13:12):
like to be wasteful. So there's a lot that I
practice doing without. Like you're saying, is we should live
right now in certain ways that we can that we
expect to live in the future. And if that's you know,
without the internet, without every light on in the house
or TV running all the time and just sucking up

(13:34):
a lot of energy, which sure, I can afford that
right now, and it's available and it doesn't hurt the
community for me to and those types of things I
can absolutely, and I'd love to do without that. You know,
I would love to get the TV out of my bedroom.
Talk to my wife, police, get that TV out of
our bedroom. You know, those types of things that I
can do without technicality.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
There's other more fun things you can be doing in
the bedroom than watching TV.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
So I got a whole library of books that I
should be reading.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
There you go there, Yeah, yeah, that's what. Yeah. Well,
what's funny is I don't know if you saw the
nick Nick Fredis. He's a he's a legislature or state legislature,
I think in Wisconsin, Minnesota. Anyways, he put out a
meme he says, my wife left me. And it was
kind of provocative of course when you say something like

(14:23):
your wife left you, especially when your public figure, and
you're like, oh no, what happened. So I look at
the I watched the video and he's like, my wife
left me for four weeks to go on vacation to
deal with something that her mom, you know, to help
her parents with something. And he's like, I probably should
have held Virginia. He thinks, why did so he's he
goes on and on about yeah, Virginia housidela gets good.

(14:45):
He's like, I follow Nick Fradus. I think he's awesome.
It's the stuff he puts out, especially lately like this.
If you watch, if you haven't watched Nick Fradus this week,
go follow read what he's posted and put out. But
it was kind of funny that he put out my
wife left me. And then he's like, you know for
four weeks, and I'm He was funny because he said,
I vacillate between the dad that's the that's Santa Claus

(15:07):
and give my kids, you know, let's eat pizza and
ice cream for breakfast to I'm throwing my kids. I'm
throwing my kid's shoe at him for leaving the shoe.
And I'm the NAZIEO guy. So it was kind of
funny that he said I can't do without my wife.
He's like, babe, I need you back. And so that
was a huge reminder to me of how important it is.

(15:27):
And Scott, you just had your wife gone for a couple.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Of weeks, two full weeks.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
It was it was horrible. Yeah, like and and for
those who know my situation, like I'm the stay at
home dad right now, like I am the homemaker. I'm
not that good at it. But it's not those things
that I missed about her. It's the companionship, it's the comfort,
it's the person to bounce ideas off of the resilience

(15:56):
that I have in my life just by having her around,
Like it's it. She recharges my battery even when she
like my wife's amazing. But like all women get moody
a certain time of the month, right, it's different for everybody. Guys,
we get moody because our shoe fell off the wrong way,
Like it's different. Yeah, and the whole men are from Mars,

(16:19):
women are from Venus, I get it right. I miss
that too, because even when that's happening, there's like this
void if it's gone and my recharge button to be
able to be kinder, softer, more gentle, right, more thoughtful.
I am all of those better when my wife's around.

(16:42):
And it's like I like the version of me best
when I don't have that empty vacuum in my life,
Like I will be destroyed if my wife were taken
away from me, like it would it would be it
would be bad. I would go understand now why Punisher
is the way Punisher became in the comics right, you

(17:05):
need a good woman in your life. It is not
good for men to be alone. I totally agree with
Scripture on that, yep, yep.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
And that goes back to a little bit of John
Wick too, like he he was willing to leave his
whole thing for a woman, and then when she died,
his you know, he the dog kept him safe. But
there's a meme right now by the way out there too.
It's like there's a meme of the dog and it
says the dog was Charlie Kirk and the America Conservatives
are the John Wick, you know, like it was just

(17:33):
a dog. It was not just a dog. He was
the whole. It's a whole nother level. So I thought
that was kind of fair. So in our effort to
talk about things that you can do without, I think
it's important to realize, like, wait a minute, what can't
we do without? What really do we need? What are
the most important things? In two thousand and eight, during
the economic downturn of two thousand and eight, I literally

(17:54):
lost everything. I lost my house, I lost my car.
I could write a country music song and it's no fun.
And what I realized, though, was I kept I had
I had my wife, I had my kids, I had
my I had my skill sets, I had my knowledge,
I had my skill So one of the things that
I think it's important to remember is that and this

(18:14):
is something that I I'm scared to death to lose
it all again because I've lost it all once. However,
on the flip side of that fear that I have,
there's faith because I know that if I lost it
all once and I was able to come back out
of it, I think that if I if it happens again,
I don't know what I'll do, but I think I'll
figure it out.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
And it happens again.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, if and well, I hope it doesn't happen again
the same way it happened before. I hope it happens.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
It will be worse, yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
But it will lead to better, which which is what
we're trying to prepare for and get our minds wrapped
around and realize that. Hey, another another one of our
church leaders said something it was really neat years ago
and in a lesson about letting go, and one of
the things that he said that he felt like, you know,

(19:08):
his wife and his family, they had goals and dreams
and a career and their dream home and all of
these amazing things that they wanted to do and buy
and vacations and things they wanted to go on. And
then he had this feeling like God told him that
he needed him to do something different. And he said,
I could have said, no, God, I want to do
what I want to do. I have my house, I

(19:30):
have my family, I have all these goals and dreams
that I want to pursue. And he said that he
let those things go and did without them so that
he could pursue what God asked him to do and
ended up being all the better, was way better for
him in doing that. And I think that's something too
like it reminds me the rich man in the New
Testament who came to Christ and said, you know, I've

(19:51):
obeyed the commandments my whole life. What black guy?

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yet?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
You know what else can I do? Basically? And the
Savior said, sell all that thou hast and come follow me.
And he went away sorrowing because he had many possessions.
And so sometimes I think we need to look at
wait a minute, what is what am I addicted to? What?
In reality is we're addicted to our phones, We're addicted
to comfort. We're addicted to in many ways, success, we're
addicted to, you know, a nice air conditioning, you know.

(20:18):
You know, honestly, I'm addicted to. It was funny because
in the last episode I talked about how I'm trying
to help my daughter kind of wean her off of
so much phone time, and it's crazy. In the process,
She's like, well, why are you on your phone? Dad?
I'm like, you know what, maybe I need to be
an example and do this, you know, do it with her,
you know. And so I'm I was like, can I

(20:39):
do that? Like I was even like feeling a little
bit like I haven't done it yet. I was already
starting to feel some withdraw So it's important for I
think it's important for all of us to take a
look at say what can we do with that? What
can we let go? What are the most important things
in life that are bringing us value? And what can
we get rid of? And I think that's important.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, And this is honestly I feel tech.
This is something I asked myself. Ay, every day or
almost every day, is what I'm really trying to minimize.
And I'm cleaning up and I'm cleaning out and I'm
throwing things away, and I'm trying to be ready in
a moment's notice to pack up and to know where

(21:17):
everything is and be able to minimally take what I
need and and have it ready and go. And and
that's something I ask myself all the time. What can
I do without uh? And how can I minimize without
still feeling without feeling unprepared and feel like I don't have?
You know, two is one, one is one is none?

(21:38):
You know three is even better? And so then forward
be better than that? And I think that's there's definitely
a point when it's it's all too much, and it's
I don't want to be attached to my possessions, right
I do. I do have that kind of inner. I
call it a yearning where I want to be more

(22:00):
a survivalist. I guess you would say, who can do
more with your talents and skills and a few tools
than being a prepper and having a stockpile of tools
and which you know I'm not going that way, because
I you know that's important and so I appreciate the
question there, phil teg is that do I have too

(22:23):
much of some things?

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Am I considering minimizing getting rid of those things. Yes,
I am, And it's a hard question. It can be
a very hard question.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
My right off the top of my head, I was
just like the same thought of minimalists, Like, I'm just like,
I want to get rid of so many things. And
it's not just me my stuff, it's the whole family stuff, right,
It's the stuff that requires more time and maintenance on
than is beneficial to have a lot of technology stuff. Right,
I'm just like, why do we even have this stuff,

(22:58):
things that create more of a distraction. But honestly, I
could give up my job right that fast. I would
love to downsize everything. That's the next phase is to
downsize everything. That's going to be a really hard transition

(23:18):
for the family as we downsize everything. But I see
more benefit out of it then, I see more pros
and cons m h. And what's funny is my wife
does too. She's like, I agree, And it's the challenge
is going to be the kids, because they're spoiled and
we're trying to spoil them les and less. Right, It's

(23:40):
just they've got all these wonderful tech toys. They've got
all these wonderful things, and it's hard because everyone around
them is getting more and more stuff all the time
and they're not, And so that there's that feel like, oh,
we got to get a more staff. No we don't, No,
we don't. We've got to get them away from more
stuff so they can actually use the skills that they're learning.
They can develop, they can get resourceful and be creative,

(24:04):
and I think as a society we're destroying that with
our kids, like saying, yeah, one of the things I
hate is our entire educational system. It is so backwards
for where we are in the world today. We're not
learning any good skills in the educational system. We're not
learning critical thinking, we're not learning how to solve problems.

(24:27):
We're learning rote memorization. It's the stuff that got us
through the Industrial Revolution's that's what they teach now. But
now it's even more dumbed down. The standards are lower
than they've ever been, and it's hurting our future generations.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
I think for me, one of the sim of things
that I've actually been what's funny is there's this video
game on my phone that I spend way too much
time and money on, and I've been doing it for
so long now that it's almost like, oh my gosh,
if I quit now, I'm going to lose all that progress.
I had this false sense of accomplishment with it, and

(25:06):
it's it's you know, it's similar to kids these days,
like they I think a lot of the attribution to
what happened last Wednesday was, you know, first person shooters
and all these video games that people are desensitized to.
Like frankly, we see so much blood and guts and
gore in movies and video games that when we see

(25:27):
it in real life, it's almost like, especially if we
watch it on a screen, we're like, oh, that's just
another movie scene or that's just another game scene from
my game, and like, no, that's a real that was
actually real life. And so that's I feel like that
has attributed to some of the absolute desensititation and the
evil that we have. And so my what like, honestly,

(25:49):
you know, I need a car to travel more, you know,
honest in today's society. So that's the thing is is
the caveat is in today's society, these are things I
do need. So what can I do without? Even though
even with that today's society kind of qualification, I could
probably do without that video game on my phone. You know,

(26:09):
the hours that I spend I could probably do without.
I actually have stopped watching movies even in TV shows
over recently. But I pick and choose. I really like
the fact that we can stream them now because you
can watch them when you when you want, versus oh, no,
I have to arrange my schedule so that I catch
it at the at the time that they're broadcasting it,
you know. And so and I can pick and choose

(26:32):
what shows I want to watch, and if I want
to watch them or not. Like there's some good shows
out there that are that are actually are productive and
can teach us lessons and give us some interest. And
it's good to be entertained every once in a while.
But I just feel like the last little while, I'm like,
you know what I probably need to do without the
ability to have thirty five tabs open on four different

(26:52):
browsers each on my on my on my computer screens,
and so I need to those are there's just things
that I'm and those aren't really like prepper things minnes
to speak about what can you do without? But I
feel like my wife was telling me the other day,
maybe you have so much anxiety because you have too
many tabs open all the time, fourteen browsers and thirty

(27:13):
five tabs on each browser. I'm like, you know what,
that's a good point.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Well, you know my points at this here. You know
it's entertainment and movies and TV, and you know that's
something I've given up for the most part, so I
can do. I know I can do without those. But
I think that, you know, I'm looking at my immediate family, brothers,
brothers and law of sisters in law and so forth

(27:38):
and so on and so forth. I know they spend
a lot of time because in our conversations like, hey,
have you watched this show? Have you caught up on
this series? I'm binge watching this and that. I'm like,
to me, that doesn't make any sense anymore, Right, I
have given that up. I can do without that, And
that just tells me that others are going to have

(27:59):
a hard time or potentially have a hard time, giving
up those things.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
I'm just shocked at, Like I think about my current situation,
my current life, what I do, and I'm just thinking
to myself, I don't have time for that anymore. Exactly
how did I have time for it? Before crazy.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
That's where I was about to go. I'm like, ain't
nobody got time for that? Like, what do you mean
watching a series on TV? I'm like, what, I haven't
done that since we started having kids. Like the only
things that I see are like the periphery shows that
the kids might be watching at a certain time. Like
there was a time Blue was on the TV in
the background, like for a couple hours every day. It

(28:37):
seemed like I was just like, turn this thing off, right,
And that's one of the funner kids shows. But my shows,
I don't even know what those would be. If movies,
SpongeBob movies.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
It's something we talk about with the kids all the time,
is quoting SpongeBob shows. That's really right.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I've watched maybe two episodes of SpongeBob anything, and it
was it was painful for me. And yet I've watched
way dumber things and were enamored with them. So I yeah,
we I could do without all that stuff, like the
television programming, the manipulation of of all the media. Like

(29:22):
I could easily do with all that without all that
mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Like, oh man, I just love I love to read,
and that's mostly where I spend my time now in
entertainment is reading. My wife does as well. She reads
more fiction, she read, she reads nonfiction. What's it? What's
it called nonfiction? I read nonfiction? She reads fiction. Okay,
what's funny is my my? My kids always ask me, like, Dad,
have you ever have you ever read a book that's

(29:46):
actually fun? Not all your business books and your stoic
books and your motivational books and your bus I'm like,
those are fun for me. I like to learn. I
like to read, and it was I actually need to
step up my game because Charlie Kirk said he read
one hundred books a year. I'm like, dang, bro I

(30:08):
I thought it was awesome because last year I wrote,
I wrote, I read like forty or something books, and
I thought I was cranking it. And apparently I'm halfway
going that way.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
There. You know another thing that I'll admit that I
need to try harder at giving up right that I
can do without is you know, prepared meals. I would say,
junk food. I'm not confessing anything here. It's not like
it's a big deal, but it's more than I would like. Right,

(30:40):
It's just so easy and so quick to be able
to turn to those commercial foods and packaged foods for
both us and the and the family and the kids
with a busy life, and and and and okay, hey,
you know what it's it's getting late. Let's whip something
up for dinner instead of taking a little more time,
a little more thought and to say, okay, let's make
this from scratch. Let's find a good recipe and make

(31:01):
this one scratch instead of just opening up a box
and doing something. It's just it's that is I think
would say one of my weaknesses is because time is
so important to me, is that Okay, let's do this
quick and move on to the next thing. Right, And
so I would like to say, I I would need

(31:22):
to do without more of that, right, I need to
spend more time on baking, on cooking from scratch because
it ends up being so much better and I mean
in all, in all aspects. And just having my daughter
make dinner with me, you know, she loves doing that. Hey,
let's cook this. And she's always in with that.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
And so we just bought an ice cream maker and
it's pretty fun.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
I want you to make do my hand.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I'm not that I put all the ingredients together and
I and I freeze it and then I put it
in a thing and it makes.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
It great, right, okay, yeah, and the blender and your eyes.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
We we we can do that in a bat like.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's true. Yep.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
We've got a bees wax bag and another bees wax bag.
You can do it in plastic inside of plastic. We
did this for a family family home evening type of
event a while ago. The plastic bag ones, but then
we got a beeswax bag, so then you can just
clean it out and do everything. But it's it's not
hard to do on your own. You don't need like
you could do this without the power and the kids

(32:23):
will make their own ice cream and so you're not
hand cranking it for the whole time. Right, there's ways
to do it without. But yeah, having a good hand
crank one. The cool thing about a good hand crank
one is guess what, you can pull the handle off
on most of them, and you can put your drill
on top too, and then you can recharge your battery
if need be right, if you want to be I'll

(32:46):
tech you. But yeah, I think one of the most
underrated over like missed out on opportunities. You tell Mike
just said it sit down and eat dinner as a family.
Those That is one thing we as a society are
pulling further and further away from. Yeah, Shane, you talked

(33:07):
about like the prepared meals, like getting away from processed, prepackaged,
prepared meals and actually making our meals ourselves. Like I'm
trying to make more meals more and more often, and
yet I'm I feel so pulled in so many different directions.
It's so hard to do.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Right, there's just there's too much we feel like we
have to be doing all the time. And that's part
of the reason why I've got to really minimalize things
so I'm not constantly busy doing something else because we're
not present as a people, Like we're not in the moment.
We're not like I I was at a family dinner

(33:46):
a few weeks ago, and I looked around the room
and almost every adult was on their phone. Wow, it
was it was all, h what right, No one's paying
attention to each other and everyone's on their front. And
I'm guilty of that too sometimes. Right, It's funny because

(34:08):
like I was trying to read a book the other
day and I have this problem with no matter what
I'm doing, and all of a sudden, this little cute
eight year old daughter of mine comes walking in the room.
Dad watch this, Dad, watch that. I'm trying to read, okay,
but dad, watch this. That went on for another forty
five minutes and I finally gave up on my book.
But I'm like, yeah, right, that's just how do we
combat that in a way that this protictively, Hey, let

(34:31):
me read to you. Maybe that's what I need to
try next. But there are so much that we're doing
that's just keeping us busy for busyness sake? Right, How
many hobbies do we have that are extremely expensive, time
consuming that pull us away from things that would give
us more peace in life.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
And just because everybody else is doing it, we have
to do it.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, you want to talk about the sports game that
was just on, so you can get along with your
work buddies or your your brothers or whatever. But you know,
along the same lines as food, Uh, one thing I
know is very popular is is eating out, you know,
getting your grub hub and just getting going out to

(35:16):
eat rather than staying home and and and uh, you know,
making something from scratch, you know, and even even not
just making from scratch. People aren't even making from scratch.
They aren't there, they aren't even making things from boxes.
They're ordering out right. They're going out to eat more
than they ever have. And so I've perfect purposely stopped

(35:36):
eating out. I drive a lot. I'm out where I
could very easily, and I used to a lot would
stop them pull over and you know, and get lunch
here and there. I have I have purposely stopped doing that.
I have. I have given that up unless it's you know,
unless it's I'm out for an entire day or something
like that. And I but but regardless, you know, I
I try to plan. I take trying to take good

(35:57):
food with me instead of stopping and eating at a
fast food restaurant because I know it's it's deftinally terrible.
So I think that's something that that I'm not going
to miss because I've already given it up. But that's
something I can actually do without. I've learned and I
figured it out. I can do without eating on the road.
I figured that out for myself. Another thing, it's going

(36:20):
to be a bigger deal as people can't afford to
eat out so much.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
And another thing that I've kind of thought about recently
is decision fatigue is real for me, and I think
it's real for a lot of people. And it's like,
what does that mean? And there's a lot of things
you can apply that to. But one thing that I
have gone to is I have I almost every day
of the week, I have a shirt in my closet

(36:46):
that I wear that day of the week. And so
when I record my videos for my YouTube channel or
when I record for the show, it's either my Wednesday
is my ready minded shirt, or it's my other shirt.
It's like, so I can do with out a ton
a closet full of seventy five shirts, thirty five pair
of pants. I don't need all that, Like I just need,

(37:07):
you know, ten shirts, you know, I need maybe some
ten shirts for winter, ten shirts for summer, you know,
something like that, and same. I wear the same pair
of shorts all week, and then I wear the same
pair of pants all week, and then the next week
I wash them and then I have a different pair.
I have a second pair that I wear that so
I swap my pants every other week and whatever that

(37:29):
I can just do without having to constantly make decisions
of like what should I wear today? Just to me,
it's like figure it out and just wear that. And
so there's so many decisions we have to make every
day already. To me, I can just do without every
everything that I can think of to make decisions over
and over and over. I want to do without that.

(37:50):
I want to make one decision. This is what I
do every Monday, every Tuesday, Wednesday, every three whatever, And
this is what I do every time whatever comes up.
This is what I do every time, and make sure
it's serving me, make sure it's going to not put
me in a worse place. But just make the decision
once and then just let it. Let that guide your
life instead of having to make a decision every single day.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Doing without having to impress anyone right up to their standards. Say,
you know what, why you wear the same prayer of
pants all week long? You know I do that too,
maybe not five six, seven days, but three or four days.
And then the wife's of course, she comes, are you
ever going to watch those? Like? Why would I didn't?
You know? You know, I'm not I'm not mowing the

(38:33):
lawn and I'm you know, and you know, maybe that's
just the guy thing too, because you know, I fold
the laundry in our house for the most part, right,
and when I'm folding the laundry, there's like one or
two items of mine and a stack of the wife.
So the stack, you know, of the daughters. And you're
absolutely right. I'm totally on board with that as well.

(38:53):
Is that is it's it's there's way too much thought
and power that goes into to trying to impress other people.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
So it's funny because field tex is strapped. How Steve
Jobs always wore a black turtleneck, right box turtle neck,
black jeans, simple and easy to match, right. I never
paid attention to that, but like I just I have
like seven T shirts. I have a few other shirts,
and like I just, oh, that one's clean. Oh that

(39:27):
was like whatever's clean, I grab whatever's clean. I don't
really care. But I kind of fell into this because
of Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein had seven of the same suit,
three of the same pairs of shoes, I think, eight
pairs of socks, like eight ties, all the same. So

(39:49):
he had all these things that were exactly the same,
and he would just swap in and out and he
never had to think about it. I never had to
know about it, Like and He's he said it was
too much. It took too much time to decide what
to wear. So I just bought everything in duplicates, exactly, genius.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
You know.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
It's funny is it was always a purple suit. We
don't really see that. There was a purple hue in
almost every one of his suits. That's where the inspiration
came for the Incredible Hulks. Purple clothes. Isn't that interesting?
And he always wears purple in the comics too, So

(40:27):
we are superheroes, you guys, because we're wearing the same
outfit all the time. That's your uniform. Yeah, with that interesting?

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Is that one of those causation? Isn't correlation? Or correlation
isn't causation things?

Speaker 2 (40:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
I wear purple like green, like the Incredible Hulk, So
I must be the Credible Hulk.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Oh no, Joseph and Andrew, you just did it. Okay,
have you guys heard that there's a movie. Oh it's Guilty,
Big Hero six or whatever.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
You first, where you're in you're underwear inside the anywhere
you're you flip your underwear, your insides outside, the outsides inside.
Then you flip the front to the back and the
back of the front, so you get four days out
of renderwear. And I'm like, yeah, like it's in the
And he just pulled that line in the comments. That
is hilarious. Yeah, no, thank you, no, thank you. That's
changed every day, my goodness. But I yeah, I could

(41:26):
definitely do without the amounts of laundry that we have
because just like you, Shane, I I'm the folder, right
I I do most laundry. I fold it all. But yeah,
Mike went into that. I don't know if it did
or not. Thanks Mike. But yeah, there's so much, so

(41:47):
much that we can do without. And I look forward
to the forced slower pace. And by that I mean
like elimination of distractions. We need to get back at
that on our own now, but the elimination of all
the distractions and the folks on okay, what do we
need to survive today, tomorrow and for the next five months,

(42:08):
right through the next two seasons, the next six months.
We're I think a lot faster more quickly approaching that
than ever before.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Yeah, I think another big thing to do without is
busyness and there are there are. Work is an eternal principle.
We need to be working. We need to be anxiously
engaged in good causes, but we don't need to be busy.
I find myself and I'm talking to myself right now,
one hundred percent. I'm talking to myself. I'm looking in

(42:41):
the mirror. I'm not really, but you know what I mean.
I find myself like shuffling the pins and thinking I'm
being productive, or you know, I'm checking my emails because
I don't want so, I'm just because I'm distracted. And
with this the busyness of my job or my business
or my life, and I can we can get caught

(43:02):
up in that business. Like sometimes you know, you're asked
to do something by a friend or a neighbor, like
do I really need to do it? You know? Is
that really important? Is it really going to bring me value?
And we you know you have an idea, Oh, this
is something I want to do it. One of the
things that I do all the time is if I
have something that I want to buy, as a practice,

(43:22):
I will put it on a list and then I
will make sure I want to buy it because I
give myself time to kind of cool off, and so
that helps me in that what can I do without?
Like if I can Another thing too is as I
look at through my closet and my storage what have
I not used in the last six months? If I
haven't used it in the last six months or a year,

(43:43):
I could probably do without it. And so that's something
that you know, spring cleaning is a real thing. So
maybe that's something that you know we're headed into spring
or maybe it's already spring. No, it's the fall. Sorry,
a spring is after after winter, so maybe after this,
after this winter, you go through your your closets, go
through your storage units, go through your garage. Do you

(44:05):
really need to have a storage unit at another location
filled to the rim with stuff that you've never even got?
You like, what's it doing over there? How long have
you had it? And why do you still have it
if you haven't even used it in like three years
or four years. Stage I understand completely, like heirlooms and
you know, memorabilia from your grandparents or something like that,
Like that's something that's potentially worth keeping. But why do

(44:27):
we have so much stuff? And you know, one of
the reasons why we pick some of these topics, guys,
is because it helps us reflect and make our own
changes for ourselves. It's not because we think anybody else
needs to do this. Oftentimes it's because, wait a minute,
we need to figure out what we have too much stuff?
What can we do without? So we're like, let's have

(44:49):
a conversation about that, because maybe somebody else needs to
hear it too, you know, like it's really for ourselves,
but you know, we hope everybody gets along. And here's
it too.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Yeah, yeah, I guess kind of my final and you know,
and you've heard me say this is I can do
without AI. You know I've mentioned before I'm not touching
that I haven't touched and I'm not going to touch it.
Like you said, parish work is very important, and that's
AI is taking that away from people. Even if it

(45:20):
can be done better, more efficiently, cheaper, it doesn't matter. Sorry,
it doesn't matter. We need to work regardless of Sometimes
it is just busy time, right Sometimes you know, its
sometimes meant just to keep people busy and defeed their families.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, right, So I can
do without AI, and I will probably very be very

(45:44):
handicapped in the future without it. But I'm gonna keep
sticking to that as long as i can.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Hey, man, it's funny because there are studies that are
coming out that are proving how incorrect AI is very often.
So guys, just just use this real eye, right, use
real intelligence, use your brain. I think we have such

(46:12):
an opportunity right now to really just hone in on
our skills, improve our mind, improve our function that as
we've heard in the comments almost the entire episode, it's
it comes down to putting better food in our bodies,
comes down to getting better sleep. It comes down to

(46:32):
putting away the digital devices and the distractions and focusing
on living in the present. And I think that will
help us get better, right, think plan plan for the
future by looking to the past, but live in today
and enjoy it more.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Man, there's so many things that we can do without.
In reality, we get so caught up in our and
our society today. We think that we've got to have this,
We've got to have that, we got to have the
new phone. My, you know, how often do we upgrade
the phone or upgrade the next technology because we have

(47:12):
one glitch? Or what's funny is my I have a
laptop that I've had for probably seven or eight years,
probably nine years or longer, and I'm just now thinking
about changing it out because it Windows. I got the
notification the Windows eleven wasn't won't work on it, and
my desktop as well. My desktop is probably six or
seven years old and it works just fine for all

(47:35):
my needs, but apparently I got to upgrade it or
up do some kind of change to be able to
have Windows eleven. And it just keeps popping at that
at me, and I'm like, do I really need to though?
Do I really you know? And so those are some
things like think about it, Like whenever somebody says, oh
you got.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
To do this, you got to see this, you got
to get this.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Think about it. Just take a minute and say, do
I really do I really need that? There's what's that
old saying, don't you worry you little want? By and
by you'll be a necessity. You'll be in necessity by
and by, And you know it's so important, how it's
so important to just not get caught up in how
we can have our things that we want turn into

(48:14):
Oh my gosh, now I have to have it. I
got to have it. I need it just remember that
most of the stuff we think we need is actually
stuff that we want, and it's not stuff that we
absolutely need to have anymore. And I I'm actually going
to be considering, you know, taking a day every month
and doing something, just getting rid of something in my

(48:35):
life and seeing if I can survive, you know, my
see if I get withdraws or something that that would
be a good practice. I think that's a that's a
really good idea. So what can you do without? I
would say, make a list, take time every day, make
a list what what what did I do without today
that I thought I needed to have? Or maybe just
make a list at the end of the day what

(48:55):
could I have done without today as I was going
through my day, and see if there's other things that
you can build on that and really kind of figure
out if there's some minimal in minimalization you can make
in your life to help. Because less is more, I
I've my whole life. I felt like every time I
minimize and minimalize and I go less is more, it

(49:16):
really works and I do feel better. And I don't
know why I keep I don't know why I keep
going back to more. I was like, why do I
keep I find myself in that cycle again. I'm shoot,
I gotta I gotta clean it out again.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
So start my list their parents to start my list.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
I got rid of all the paper in my house,
so I can't do that. So I've already what can
I do without it? I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm like, what, Yeah,
I got rid of all the paper in my house.
I'm going digital AI all the way. No, not at all,
not even close.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
I can do without digital. I'm an analog hopeful. I
want to be all analog.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
I miss the old analog phones, everything analog. I miss.
It was so much better. Everything was. So it's funny
because now we're like, oh, I've got all these computing
power in my hand, and you look back twenty years
ago and you're like, man, everything worked so much better.
Everything was simpler.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
The city is the problem.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Yeah, how did we survive twenty thirty years ago with
I remember lessons? I remember thirty years ago, I had
a beeper, a pager. You know who remembers those? Holy
smokes man, we don't. That technology has gone. And the
other thing too, is that's crazy. Is not even thirty
years ago. I don't know, it's probably been the last

(50:39):
twenty maybe twenty. It was years ago. There was one
phone for the house. Yeah, you know, the parents maybe
had a phone, and then if you needed to get
ahold of the kids, somebody had to call the parents
and the parents would hand the phone to the kid.
Now everybody's got a phone, everybody's got their own line.
You know. I get a call from somebody, Hey, kid there,

(51:00):
I'm like, call their number. What are you calling me for?
You know what I mean? Like, it's just crazy how
we've gotten so used to these things and now we
need them, We have to have them. I can't imagine
not having being able to call my Like I took
my daughter the school district. Actually, our school district said
that they're not going to have kids on the phone.

(51:20):
They're not going to allow kids to have their phones
in class and on their in their backpacks and turned on.
And at first I was like, well, that's not fair.
We need what if we need to go ahold of them?
Blah blah blah. And then we had this teacher come
out and say that for the first time in my
whole teaching career, the kids actually paid attention. They were
not on their phones and doing stuff, and I was like, Okay,

(51:41):
maybe it's a good thing. But today I had to
take my kid to the orthodonist and I was supposed
to pick her up right after school, and I sent
her a text message and I remember she doesn't have
her phone, so I just went down to the school
and I got her out of school a little bit
early so that she wouldn't so she'd know. And it
worked out and it was fine. But I was like,

(52:03):
oh my gosh, I got to get a hold of
my kid and tell them and text him. No, just
go down to the school and pick up your kid
like you're supposed to. It's so funny how I worked
and I worked up all this, you know, all this scenario,
and it was it worked out even better to doing
it the way we did it. So you could probably
do without more than you think you can. And anyways,

(52:24):
any last minute thoughts guys as we wrap.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Up, I think that's good.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Yeah, awesome. Well you've been listening to Prepper Talk Radio
Radio for the ready minded, the podcast for the prepared.
We're excited for those who were here with us on
the live. We had a great crowd and great conversation
and take time to figure out what you can do without.
And more importantly, I would say focus on the things
that are most important in your life. Especially after this

(52:50):
last week, we realized that life can in an instant,
life can be taken and our loved ones can be gone,
and we have no troll over the actions of crazy
people in this world. And so please hug your kids,
hug your spouses, you know, do good to those that
even do good to those that treat you poorly, and

(53:12):
just be kind in the world. And let's spread that
message to the world, and not just things that we
can do without, but focus on the things that really
are important to our lives and get rid of the
distractions and get rid of that. And let's go. Let's
go save our families. Let's go save ourselves. Well, Jesus
is the only one that can save but let's go
save ourselves, save our families, save our communities, save our country,

(53:35):
and figure out what we can do to be the solution.
And I'll say that as my closing remarks, and we'll
see you guys on the next show.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Take care, see your better

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