September 9, 2024 • 53 mins
In this episode we pause for a minute to talk about some practical matters. Let’s travel back in time to 2019, and ponder the lessons learned during the Pandemic lockdowns and just how much the world has changed in just a short period of time. We’ll also consider the changes coming soon.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
In the dark shadows in the white cold. Fearlessly, we
search for knowledge new and old. We drink the strong
spirits and read the ancient tongs. The order of the Abercast.
We are the brave and the bold. The Abercast a
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cult history, conspiracy and violence.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Welcome to the Abercast. I'm your host, John Towers. I
thought I thought we would just take a pause here
for this episode and talk about a little bit more
practical of an issue or issues than we normally do
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or have been doing. So we're gonna be just talking
about one article this evening that was published by zero Hedge.
We've actually included articles from zero Hedge before. I can't
remember when or why, but I remember the Byeline Byeline
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Tyler Dirdin. So I have been vocal with you guys
about my preparedness and my quest for preparedness and where
it started. Right, So you know what's wild. Just do
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this little thought exercise with me is like close your
eyes and just think back to twenty nineteen. Think about
what the world was like in twenty nineteen, and then
look around right now, look around you right now. Shit's changed,
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Our world has changed, our lives have changed, and I
believe Uh there someone is just stepping on the gas
pedal like it's come in. And so a lot of
my I joke and say like I was a proto,
but I was not serious about it at all. And uh,
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this is something that COVID taught me. I learned a
harsh lesson from not COVID. I learned a harsh lesson
from our government's reaction to COVID. Let's get that straight.
And the people in my community taught me a lesson
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during those dark times. And I vowed, you know, I'm responsible.
I have a wife that I take care of, you know,
So I kind of made a deal with myself, like, hey, bro,
never again, this is never gonna happen again. You're never
gonna get caught your pants down again, You're never gonna
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run out of booze again. So so I really started
taking this shit, you know, uh serious seriously, I would
say very seriously at this point. So you know, we're
back in our mind. We've time traveled, you know, back
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to twenty nineteen, and we've seen the fucking glory days
compared to you know, what's going on in our world
right now. And you know, not only so, not only
am I more. I don't know, like physically prepared. Not
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only do I just you know, I'm responsible, and I
take care of my wife and we have a couple
of cats, and we gotta we have a little house
here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But you know, I have been
pretty open in the past that my wife has some
mental health issues. So that adds like another dimension, another
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dimension to you know, my situation. So anyhow, I'm saying
all of that just to say that we're gonna go
through this article and we're going to talk about what
zero head says, fifty things that everyone should be stockpiling
to prepare for election chaos. I do have my little
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bape and I do have my vessel of the art
filled to the brim with my uh gihad. So we're
gonna get going. We're gonna get rolling on this. Oh God,
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zero Hedge dot com Fifty things that everyone should be
stockpiling to prepare for election chaos by Tyler Dirton. This
is actually authored by a guy named Michael Snyder via
the Economic Collapse blog. And so while we're going through this,
let's not think of this in terms of or let's
not just think of this in terms of election chaos. Right,
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we can also think about this in terms of what's
actually going on. I believe is I believe we're in
the middle of a slow collapse right now, manufactured. I
believe we're in a manufactured slow collapse. So what's a
slow collapse? It's like you know Mad Max in I
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don't know, I don't watch them new Mad Max movies,
but the old ones. Like in the first one, everyone
thinks there was a nuclear war, right, And I don't
know if they've changed that, I don't know, but like
the first Mad Max movie, there wasn't a nuclear war.
What had happened is there was this slow collapse. Just
shit just stopped working and next thing you know, you're
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have a fucking sweet car and some guns and you're
driving through the wasteland. So you know, this in this
idea of this engineered slow collapse, like these items that
we're gonna be talking about, these things that we're gonna
be talking about, they're just good to have. Kind of
what I was gonna say when I was talking about,
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you know, kind of like my preparedness journey after the
COVID lockdowns is you know, when you are prepared and
you have stuff like set aside to help you. It's
like it's an amazing feeling, like, hey man, I got
my shit together. So this case in point. You know,
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we didn't have a slow collapse, but what it happened
is my wife was unemployed for a really long time.
This was about two years ago. You can probably I
don't think I talked much about it anyhow. And you know,
if we didn't have a freezer full of food and
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like this stuff set aside, we would have been in
an enormous trouble. So you know, this isn't just about
election chaos. It's just good. You know, responsible adults in
this day and age should be worried about this. They
should be very fucking concerned. All right, are you getting
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prepared right now? Millions of Americans are stockpiling food and
supplies and anticipation of what they believe is coming. People
are on the edge due to approaching election, the rapidly
escalating war in the Middle East. I don't know why
he omitted the billions of dollars Ukraine seems to be
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a problem to me as well. The alarming natural disasters
we've been witnessing all around the world, and the potential
for another global pandemic. In all my years, I have
never seen more concern about the next twelve months as
I'm seeing at this moment. There's a growing consensus that
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major history changing events are about to happen, and there
are lots and lots of people that want to be
well prepared. In fact, Newsweek has reported that quote doomsday
prepping unquote has become a two point forty six billion
dollar industry. The once fringe act of doomsday prepping evolved
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into a booming two point four to six billion dollar industry,
tapping into the societal pulse of self reliance amid amidst
a world of un certainties, whether driven by the aftershock
of a path of a post COVID nineteen environment, supply
chain disruptions, natural calamities, or geopolitical tensions. The narrative of
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disaster preparedness is shifting from the outskirts of society to
mainstream household. When I was growing up, I never once
heard the words prepper or prepping. I think that I
became aware of preppers maybe when the first Tremor's movie
came out and I was like, why is Michael Keaton's
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dad have a room full of shotguns. Maybe I'm just
showing my aid, but now a very large portion of
the population is actively preparing for the collapse of society.
According to the numbers that come from FEMA, approximately twenty
million Americans have prepared well enough to be able to
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be on their own for at least a month amateurs.
According to analysis of Federal Emergency Management Agency data, some
twenty million Americans can withstand a full month of self reliance.
Within that number, there are those who identify as part
of the preppers community online, which include enthusiasts stocking up
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on year's worth of supplies or building bunkers. Of course,
being prepared to survive for one month is not going
to be nearly good enough to survive what is eventually coming,
but at least it is something. These days, even Costco
is marketing to preppers. Amidst Costcos already stocked shelves of
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oversized jars of peanut butter and twelve packs of macaroni
and cheeses. There is a hardcore new edition that is
lighting up social media, the ready Wise one P fifty
serving emergency food bucket for one hundred bucks. These buckets
include eighty dinners, thirty breakfasts and forty energy drinks with
a shelf life of Prepare yourself for this twenty five
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long years in a world where unpredictability has become constant.
Reads the description our assortment takes on a vital role
in emergency preparedness. Imagine the sudden onset of severe weather,
the challenges of unexpected job transitions, or the unsettling thought
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of food shortages. In addition to selling emergency food buckets,
Costco has also become a huge seller of gold and
silver bars and coins Wholesale Club. The Wholesale Club is
also a huge seller of gold and silver bars coins,
which are extremely popular among those who are concerned about
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breakdown of the financial system. When out silver coin is
currently worth about thirty bucks. Needless to say, it isn't
just Costco that has embraced this trend these days. Many
local supermarkets carry to see food right on their store shelves.
And I think this is a great thing, but for
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what we are eventually going to be going through, you're
gonna need a whole hell of a lot more than
just food. If you are really want if you really
want to be prepared, you should consider everything that you
will need if there is no power and you can
no longer get anything from the store because chain supply
chains have completely broken down. I have shared a list
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of fifty basic things that I think everyone should be
stockpiling in a couple of my books. Not my books.
This is the author of the article, and today I
would like to share that list with all of you.
So we're going to go through this list and we'll
try to expound on it. Number one, A conventional generator
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and a solar generator. So conventional generator and a solar
generator are all good thing. I would just mention there
are at least two different kinds of generators beside the
solar generator, and that's a gas generator which I have
a gas generator, and a propane generator which I have
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a propeine generator. I actually have a gas generator, and
I have a dual fuel that only gets propane put
in into it. I'm not mechanically inclined, so I can't
take a part in dgum like the carburetor. I don't
know how to do that kind of stuff. So I
have a generator for gas and then a generator that
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just uses the propane, and then also I have some
solar panels and a couple like power packs. I guess
they count as solar generators. So the other thing that
we're maybe talking about now that I'm babbling about this
is lines of redundancy. So you know, when I first started,
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I started with the solar panels and the little handheld
Westinghouse battery packs, and then I graduated to my gas generator,
which is slightly cheaper than my dual fuel generator. So
over time you just bloop blop boop, just upscale it
and then you still have everything, like you don't. I
didn't get rid of my gas generator, you know, because
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I have a far superior Now. I just have multiplied,
you know, my ability. You know. I don't know if
this is in here or not, but you know, if
you're talking about generators, you also have to talk about fuel.
As a matter of fact, we're gonna wind up having
to talk about fuel anyway. It's like the big thing.
Gasoline is great, but you know, unless you treat it,
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it loses its combustibility pretty quickly, you know, and even
if you do treat it, it only extends its life
to like a So like all my gas can't opsecc
is gonna go right out of the window. All my
all of like my stockpile of gasoline has duct tape
dates on them, so I know when to cycle them
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out and when to use them and and all of
that stuff. And then also with that, I have many
propane bottles for my propane heaters and propane stoves, you know,
along with the fuel, I also have, you know, a
box of fucking Sterno somewhere and like a little Sterno stove.
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I feel like I'm getting ahead of myself. What am
I talking about? Fuel? Talking about fuel? So with the
dual fuel generator, like I just have those giant fucking
things of propane, like in with my my fuel storage
kind of area. A Burkie water filter. Berkis are pretty expensive.
There's other ways or around it. That's another thing that
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we're probably gonna discuss is like I'm not a Gucci guy.
My budget is pretty limited, so we have I have
all kinds of water filters. Actually I just got a
gravity filter the other day. So we have gravity filters.
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We have life straws, we have sawyers. We have like this,
it looks kind of like a plastic kind of gin
still looking thing. I haven't used it. It's got a
couple more moving parts that I'm comfortable with, but it's
in my water. I have a whole box just full
of like water stuff, and I have zero water. I
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have zero water filters, and it's zero water thing in there.
So you know, you want to be able to, you know,
filter water in numerous ways. We also have I have
long term water storage, so I have like big stackable
blocks of water, also a bathtub, water bladder, rain rain
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catchment systems, which is number three, a rainwater collection system
if you don't have a natural supply of water near you.
So I mentioned already that I live in Pittsburgh, which
is very hilly. It's a very mountainous kind of area,
and I live on the top of a hill. I
live on the top of a like a mountain, so
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I don't have natural water near me. However, this year
I did experiment and play around with water catchment systems,
which worked swimmingly pun intended it actually had I actually
collected so much water I couldn't I didn't. I couldn't
even use it all for my garden from my gardens,
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so that worked out very well. I have kind of
retired them for the year already. I got the power
washer out and power washed them and patched them up.
I weed whacked a hole in one of them. I
patched them up, and I got them, you know, put away,
uh till till I need them right, But the gutters
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are gimmicked already, so all you gotta do is just
flap the thing down. And while I'm gonna have I'm
gonna have water. So something very I mean, it's more
important than food. You're gonna start looking for water. Before
you start looking for food. You're gonna die of dehydration,
before you die of starvation. It's for sure number four
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a large emergency medical kit. So I think that I
might have gone a little out of control with THEMG
with my medical situation. When I got out of the army,
I was a combat life saver. It's one of the
little schools that I did. Basically, it's like extended first
aid training and then they teach you how to use IVS.
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And I have mentioned this in the show before because
I remember lamenting about how I can't find I can't
find IVS or like the needles system that you need
to put a hole in someone with. I think I
was gonna try to get him off of a veterinary website.
At one point, I don't know anyhow, so I stole
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my combat lifesaver bag. It's this enormous pack. It folds up,
it's got three folds, it's got all these pockets, and
I have the thing stocked filled to the brim. I
have splints in Israeli bandages and bleed stop and gauze
and all everything. So it's like it's not a boo
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boo kit, right, and it's more built out than a
blowout kit. I do have blowout kits for all my
tactical stuff, my war box and whatever, but any this
combat lifesaver bag is got like a ton of stuff.
And I went and I got first aid for soldiers
that just stays in that bag, and that is just stashed.
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And then in my bigger kind of storage capacity areas,
I have a bucket with a big red cross on it.
When you open that bucket, you'll find a secondary first
aid kit, like basic just trauma first aid stuff. There's
a do it yourself like dental real like stainless steel
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dental kit in there. There's a I also have a
surgical kit in there. I have a clinical kind of bag.
It's got like a manual blood pressure pump, a stephoscope,
trauma shears that that sort of stuff. I think that
there is there's a battery operated blood pressure pump in
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there too, maybe. And then I have uh a book
that talks about uh clinical I don't know, procedure like
it explains you know, boiling like you know. Obviously I
don't have an autoclave, so you know, I have tons
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of medical stuff. I'm actually I have my eyes on
uh a stapler and a staple uh suture stapler and
a staple remover. I have my eyes on it. It's
it's gonna happen probably sooner and later. Oh gosh, hold on,
we got to do one of these. So we'll finish up.
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We'll continue to tackle this list right after this message
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putting up with those ads they make me put in.
Where are we at large medical kit? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Number five is rice, Number six is pasta. Those are
all good. They will if you mile our bag then
with oxygen oxygen absorbers, they will last theoretically forever at
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least twenty five years. I heard that's what I heard,
canned soup, canned vegetables, canned fruit, canned chicken, jars of
peanut butter. If you're aiming for long term food storage,
the jars of peanut butter is a not a good idea,
but you can rotate them if you have a rotating pantry,
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you can rotate them through high in calories. Like when
you start looking at this stuff, you know, or if
you've already if you were already prepping, like all these
people in this article are already prepping, I would just
suggest you to look at the calorie count, especially they
canned vegetables. Sometimes it's not worth this storage real estate
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that you're giving up to have them specifically, like you know,
like green beans or something like that, like very low
in calorie counts. Jars of peanut butter, however, are very
high and calorie counts, So you know, you might want
to just look at that stuff. And also, you know,
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we'll talk about like spam. They say can chicken, but
there's like can't spam is if you go for the
like the luncheon meat, like the off brand at like
Aldi or Walmart or something like that high calorie count
and it's not nearly as expensive as like the name
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brand spam is. So you want to pay attention to that. Salt.
We need salt, We need a lot of salt. I
have a lot of salt. I have tons of a
seemingly amount of salt. Sugar sugar is differ different. I
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do have sugar in long term storage. And if you're
my learned bagging these things, don't put an oxygen absorber
in your show, it'll be just fine. And also any
kind of pasta and rice that you have, just throw
in your deep freezer for a couple for like a day,
day and a half, two days, something like that. This
just to make sure there's any bugs in there or
any kind of parasites or whatever like that will take
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care of them. And then, like redundancy, also oxygen absorber
will also do that job. Sugar sugar is in rotation.
Because my wife drinks a lot of tea powdered milk,
I skip that one, even though powdered milk is also
very high in calories. She'd probably get some. I don't
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have bags of flour again, flour milar bag oxygen absorber.
Throw them in the deep freezer for a day or
two same deal. But like I do, I build my
own long term fruit stores buckets. Theoretically they last they
will last me and my wife like a week. So
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I have the number I have inventories, and then I
have like a little recipe book of like stuff that
you can do with the things that are in the buckets.
And I always make sure I have stuff to make,
like a loaf of bread in there, because you know,
bread is like the yardstick of civilization. It's like bread
and soap, right like, So if you don't know how
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to make your own whoa, if you don't know how
to make your own bread, you should probably try to
sort that out. Speaking of bread, they want you to
keep yeast on hand. Yeast is another one of those
yeast I think has a shorter shelf life. If I
use yeast that's been sitting around for a while, I
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don't get nearly a big enough kind of like expansion
of the bread that I'm making. And I, you know,
so what I wind up doing is I make bread
like every week. I make a loaf of bread like
every week or every other week, so I could keep
that my yeast rotating through lots of extra coffee. If
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you drink it. I would say lots of extra coffee. Period.
Coffee is one of those things that's going to be
a morale booster, and if not, it's going to be
a barter item. People are gonna break their necks for
some coffee. People try to break your neck for some coffee.
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Buckets a long term storable food. So again, I make
my own long term storable food buckets. However, I do
have commercially commercial versions of them as well, because it's
this idea of redundancy. Right, it's what's in the fridge,
what's in the pantry. Then it's what's in the deep freezer.
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Then it's what's in you know, my canned food items.
Then it's the commercial food storage buckets. And then last
line of defense are the ones that I'm that I build,
you know myself, so you know you want to have
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those tiers of redundancy. Lots of extra vitamins. Check lighters
or matches. I would say lighters and matches, candles, check
that one's easy. Flashlights or lanterns. Everyone should have flashlights
and lanterns. I have flashlights up to my armpits in
this headlamps, lanterns, I have them packaged up in like
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these little kits so I could just run down stairs
and grab them if we need them. I have some,
I don't want to say staged through the house, but
I have some in the in the drawer in the
living room. I got some in the drawer in the kitchen.
I have a whole lighter kit with fire starters, and
I got fat wood in there now. And I did
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this thing where I sanded or I grated some old
wood and mixed it up with that with vasaline, and
I put it in a fucking such a dork. I
put it in a tooth paste tube and so you
just squeeze it out and then that's like you're you
just light a fire right off of that, nice and easy,
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plenty of wood to burn. I do have some wood
set aside, however, I live next to a wooded area
that and I have multiple So funny, if you told me,
like eight years ten years ago, if you told me
that I would have multiple chainsaws in solar panels and
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a fire starter squeezed into a toothpaste tube, I would
have laughed at you. Extra blankets you want that, I
would also say, get some cold weather sleeping bags, you know,
just to squirrel away in case you in case you
need it. That would be redundancy. With the propane heat
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I was talking about earlier, I even have I went
out and I bought these giant terra cotta pots that
would work in unison with a candle or sterno to
like heat up an area of your house. I have
plug in little mini plugin heaters for that kind of stuff.
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For a while, every time it stormed around my house,
we would lose power. We lost power for like five
days one time. So I'm always, you know, worried about
worried about that number. Twenty six. Of course you want AMMO.
They skipped guns. You'd think that guns were up here
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you but they recommend AMMO. I would recommend as much
extra AMMO as you can swing on your budget. And
even if you don't have one, I think that I
would recommend getting a box of twenty two AMMO. It's
the most ubiquitous kind of round in the country, and
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you can always use them as barterer items, you know,
I'll I'll buy a bullet off you have anything gonna
turn around shoot you with it. So I mean there
is stuff. But yeah, even if you don't have a
twenty two. I would recommend having some twenty two Ammo.
We have AMMO for we have copious AMMO for everything
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that we have. I'll just say it that way. And
you know when I say copious, it's not enough. It's never.
It's never enough. That's the that's the flip side of
trying to stockpile AMMO. It's never. It's never enough. Extra
fans if you live in a hot climate. So I've also, uh,
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while I'm eyeing it up, I haven't pulled the trigger
on him yet, but I found some battery operated rechargeable
fans at Harbor Freight. So that's on my list. That's
on my list. Hand sanitizer check. Toilet paper. Jesus, everyone's
learned that lesson, haven't they? Fucking toilet paper, extra soap
and shampoo check. Those are all smart things to have.
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Extra toothpaste, right, razors. You want enough razors to get
you through a tight spot. And a lot of these
things is like a dollar store, fine, right, Like you
could buy like some cheap disposable plastic razors for book
twenty five. You could buy extra soap in extra shampoo
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right there for book twenty five. So you know, every
week or every two weeks, well, I should say every
two weeks or every month. I zip through the Dollar
store and I buy a bunch of this crap just
to put away bottles of bleach. You want to do that,
but that needs to be on a rotating basis. To bleach,
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from what I understand, doesn't last forever. Long time battery
operated radio you can find them, Solar powered ones amazing.
Make sure they have the Noah bands. Make sure you
also have used it so you're not trying to figure
it out on the day, right. That probably goes with
a lot of this stuff. Extra batteries at Harbor Frey.
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I can't remember where I got mine. The battery caddy
or the battery daddy. You know, keep it stocked at
all times. It comes with a little charger, so if
I'm bored just sitting there watching TV or something like,
I'll just bust them out. Make sure my batteries are
all good and all of that stuff. Solar chargers. You
want a little bank to charge your phone up if
you need it again, we have that all covered. Trash bags.
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This is another Dollar store thing. You know you want
trash bag. You want trash bags in your emergency toilet kit.
You want trash bags in your kitchen box. You want
trash bags, you know, everywhere, just everywhere you can have them,
you want them. Same thing with tarps. This is another
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harbor freight thing. Every time I swing by, I just
pick up a tarp or two pocket knife. I would
expand that and say, you want multiple various sorts of
knives in my battle box, you know with my gear
you know, I gotta it can only be called like
a fighting knife. This is a knife that's designed to
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kill people. And my camping stuff. I got a little
camp being, a little camp knife in all of my
gear kits. You know, uh, folding tactical folding tactical knife,
not necessarily you know, to kill people with, just to
do things. We haven't run into it yet. But I
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would also say to have a leatherman or a multi tool,
multiple multiple multi tools. A hammer number forty one is
an axe, shovel. Work gloves. You want some work gloves.
I would suggest all kinds of gloves, like the mechanics
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gloves I got, hatch operator gloves, you know, just you know,
gardening glove, like you know, you just want to have
enough of that kind of stuff. Lots of warm socks
check and then seeds for a garden. And this is
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like one of I have seeds and I try to
garden every year and with a varying degree. I have
to say that starting in twenty twenty COVID lockdown time,
we started gardening in earnest and that first year was
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the best year. And then I've just I just suck
at it, like I'm just I could add it. I
don't know, I don't know what it is, but I
do have seeds. I have a whole seed kit. Heirloom
seeds are they are important. You know, word around the
campfire is, you know, when you stop and get seeds
at wal Mart or something, they're like gmo, and the
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seeds that they produce. When you're a vegetable plant starts
you know, yielding or whatever, those seeds turn out to
be inert. In some cases, you want to get the
heirloom seeds and they're pretty affordable, like you can snatch
them up. They come in like a cool you know box,
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and you know, figure out what you're gonna what you're
gonna do with them. Unfortunately, i'mna have to do another
one of these breaks. I gotta break it like ray gun.
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Yeah yeah, m m all right, we'll pick this list
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up here. Uh, we're talking about garden seeds for the garden.
So I have them. I don't know what I'm gonna
I can't use them. I can't use them right, Uh, canning.
So I do have a ton of canning jars. A
couple of years ago, probably like the second year of
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the garden, when I thought that it was gonna be good,
I bought like an ob seeing them out of jars
and lids and callers and all that stuff, and I
would say, to go along with it. You want to
pick up a pressure canner in a pinch, you can
water bave them the can them. Uh, the pressure canner
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takes a long time and it's more technical, like you
have to know your elevation, you have to know you
know how to use the weight on the little steam nipple.
I don't know what else to call it a fucking
steam nipple, you know. And you know that would be
part of that redundancy plan, you know. A third tier
to that would be like to have a digital pressure canner,
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which is something on my own as well. I'm not
there yet. I'm only to the press the pressure cannon.
I'm always fucking shit scared. I'm gonna fucking explode my house,
like the fucking Boston with the thing. Yeah, so jars,
you want jars also, you know you can mix up
a drink in them. Extra supplies for your pets. You know,
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if you're stockpiling canned food for you, it's a good
idea to have canned food stockpile for your pets as well.
Like I said, I got a couple of cats. I
got three cats, So give up a little bit of
real estate to make sure my little kiddies are taken
care of. If there's a kind of problem in a
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number forty eight here lists it's very specific a substantial
emergency supply of cash. So this is one of those
things that's difficult because my budget and stuff. But I
got it taken care of. I got some cash squirreled away,
and then also for redundancy sake, you know, I have
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this guy that sells these I don't even remember what
they're called. They're sweets Kamba combay bar combi bars of
gold and silver, and they're called Kombi bars because they're
like perforated. So it's like a card, right, but like
these out these squares are like perforated in it in ounces,
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so you can just snap one off if you if
you happen and need it. So there's that. So this
would be the redundancy. You have the cash, then you
have like these combi bars gold and silver, and then
you know, barter items would also like fit into there.
So every time I go to the booze store, I
buy a couple uh airplance bottles, like the little airplane bottles.
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This would be you know, Barterer items, Barterer items. I'm
not gonna drink fucking watermelon vodka that I got for
ninety nights. So I'm not drinking that shit unless we're
unless stuff's going real wrong. But other people might need it.
Other people, you know, might need a I imagine if
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you're fighting with draws, you would drink the chitty watermelon
vodka or whatever it is. That's another thing that's on here,
or it's not on here. Another thing that's not on
this list is a booze stock pile. Ever since twenty twenty,
I am never under like a at least a case
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of gin or whisky, gin and whiskey stashed here someplace,
like I'm never running out to the store because I'm
in need. I'm always just going to the pan. I
would say the same thing with my vape pen. Uh,
you know, do what you can to squirrel some of
that away as well. My wife uses the jewel e
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cigarette thing and they're very expensive. I'm trying to wrap
my head around how to squirrel some of those away
without breaking you know, the bank. Yeah, so that cash, obviously,
I think it probably goes without saying. However, I'll say it.
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You probably want you know, mid to small bills and
an assortment if you have any you know, silver dollars
or anything like that, you want to keep all that
stuff kind of in a nice and safe place. And
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this one seems weird. Forty nine seems weird, right, But
this is something that we've talked about for a long time,
and I'm starting to really sign on to this idea
that you know, this isn't left and right. I guess
you could say it's like normal people versus globalists, Like
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whatever the fuck is going on right now, whatever war
is being waged. I believe that there is a spiritual
component to it, and we've been talking for years about
you know, spiritual combat basically. So Number forty nine on
this list is Bibles for every member of your family.
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I'm never very far away from my Bible. I don't know,
I you know, I call it my trustee red letter
when we do episodes and I use it, you know,
I would almost and I am going to I'm I'm
I'm going to get some just to have here, maybe
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to give away. That's another thing I'm thinking. I'm starting
to think of, like I could start putting stuff together
for you know, neighbors and stuff that might not be
able to get as prepped as I am. I mean,
this is just shit, like you just it's like a
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it's like, ah, the slippery slope to prepare itness. And
then number fifty is one that everyone starts with. I
feel like it's the bug out bag for every member
of your family. I have. Mine's a little bit more
built out. It's not really a bug out bag per
se anymore. It's more of just like my gear, you know,
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I keep it in the car, we go out for
a hike, I pull it whatever. Uh, you know, I
pulled it when we went camping last weekend, so I
can like switch stuff out, actually change bag. Had this
and that and the other thing, and I didn't take
that and this and whatever. You know, So it's good
to have. It's versatile if you have the time to
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switch it out. I have a much more basic compact
one in my wife's ride, so you know, I feel
like everyone probably starts there, if not with the can food,
I would think, So you want to have a bug
out bag. A couple of years ago I did a
dump gear dump with my bugget with my bug out bag,
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and that was like the first or second iteration of it.
Like it's not nearly as built out as it is now.
But I mean, just Google search bug out bag, you'll
find a list. I don't want to go through the
whole fucking thing. You know, you guess I'll probably have
them already anyways, so you know, I don't want to
spend too much more time talking about them. What's on
the list that or what's not on the list besides
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booze and pot that I feel like we need to
talk about. Let me see here, let me just reread
this real quick. Well, I would say, you know, it
calls out AMMO, doesn't call out guns. You know, if
this is not the time to invest in some protection,
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I don't know what you're waiting for. And then you
could take that to the next logical step. You know.
I spent you know, some time and some energy and
some money into like a plate carrier with like good
plates like battle belts and extra ammo and all that
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shit too, so you know, you'll know when the ship
hits the fan because I'll be wandering around my neighborhood
with my with my all this fucking gear. I'll be
flexing my gear. Bro. That's LARPing, that's what they call it.
So yeah, all right, let's wrap this article up. There
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are some important points that I want to make about
this list. First of all, this is not a comprehensive list.
It's simply a starting point. I think we kind of
nailed that home when we were talking about the different
redundancies and stuff. Theoretically you want to have like three
kind of lines of redundancy. I think that's the way
that I built my kind of plan, as you know,
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as an example, the generator, the generator system, my collection
of generators. Secondly, preparation is going to look different for everyone.
Your unique circumstances will dictate what quote getting prepared unquote
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looks like for you. Thirdly, you will not need emergency
food and supplies yet. You will not need them tomorrow,
you will not need them next week, you will not
need them next month. But the day is most certainly
coming when you will need them. If you wait until
then to get prepared, you will be out of luck.
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Getting sufficiently prepared for what is approaching takes an enormous
amount of time, effort, energy, and I would say money,
but it will be well worth it. We are moving
into times of immense societal chaos. The election is going
to tear our country apart. Vast numbers of people will die.
The wars and the famine that are ahead of us.
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It is just a matter of time before our next
global pandemic strikes. And if you live long enough, you
are going to get to witness cataclysmic natural disasters that
are beyond anything that Hollywood has ever dreamed up. Right now,
we are still only in the very early stages of
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this perfect storm, but I fully expect global events to
start moving very, very rapidly in the coming months. So
this guy's got a book called Chaos, I might try
to find that. It seems like a good idea to
read that. And he's got a Substack newsletter Michael Snyder
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dot substack dot com. The only this one of my
challenges that I have because of my wife's kind of psychmeds.
You know, we can't get those, and you know, I
don't know if you know this or not. I got
I have blood pressure problems. So you know, we're looking
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at uh jase dot com. Uh Ja's case sells like prepackaged.
I think it's like five different kind of antibio biotics
that you can just buy just it's like and just
have on hand, you know. And I really need to
get that right because I'm like, I have surgical kits
(50:59):
and stapler and I need to get some antibiotics. But
they also have they just rolled out this thing where
you can buy like maintenance medical your supply of maintenance medications.
So that's also on my list there. So you know,
I'm not complete. I fear that I will never be.
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I will never be complete, but I feel like I
do have a handle on it, you know, So let
me know what you think. Am I overreacting? Am I
being paranoid? You know, I don't know what do you think?
Uh So, like just remind you to go back and
listen to some of those Spiritual Warfare episodes. We talked
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an awful lot about the political chaos coming up, about
the economical problems that are coming. I just like, you know,
we did that whole series on the Creature from Jekyll Island,
(52:06):
which perfectly kind of predicted the inflation situation that we're
finding ourselves in. And I think that that shoe is
still dropping. I don't we haven't seen the worst part
of what they've done to the to the economy. So
I hope that you guys might have taken something away
from this. If not, then just thanks for hanging out
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with me. You know, I'm fearful. I'm fearful forever everybody.
And you know, if you're not looking at these situations,
you're not doing anything to prepare. I hope you reconsider.
And that's it. I just I don't want to keep babbling.
You know. I got got through the article, we got
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our points, I editorialized a little bit, and now my friends,
it's time to part ways. See you next week.
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Welcome to the Abercast. I'm your host, John Towers. I
thought I thought we would just take a pause here
for this episode and talk about a little bit more
practical of an issue or issues than we normally do
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or have been doing. So we're gonna be just talking
about one article this evening that was published by zero Hedge.
We've actually included articles from zero Hedge before. I can't
remember when or why, but I remember the Byeline Byeline
(02:11):
Tyler Dirdin. So I have been vocal with you guys
about my preparedness and my quest for preparedness and where
it started. Right, So you know what's wild. Just do
(02:32):
this little thought exercise with me is like close your
eyes and just think back to twenty nineteen. Think about
what the world was like in twenty nineteen, and then
look around right now, look around you right now. Shit's changed,
(02:53):
Our world has changed, our lives have changed, and I
believe Uh there someone is just stepping on the gas
pedal like it's come in. And so a lot of
my I joke and say like I was a proto,
but I was not serious about it at all. And uh,
(03:18):
this is something that COVID taught me. I learned a
harsh lesson from not COVID. I learned a harsh lesson
from our government's reaction to COVID. Let's get that straight.
And the people in my community taught me a lesson
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during those dark times. And I vowed, you know, I'm responsible.
I have a wife that I take care of, you know,
So I kind of made a deal with myself, like, hey, bro,
never again, this is never gonna happen again. You're never
gonna get caught your pants down again, You're never gonna
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run out of booze again. So so I really started
taking this shit, you know, uh serious seriously, I would
say very seriously at this point. So you know, we're
back in our mind. We've time traveled, you know, back
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to twenty nineteen, and we've seen the fucking glory days
compared to you know, what's going on in our world
right now. And you know, not only so, not only
am I more. I don't know, like physically prepared. Not
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only do I just you know, I'm responsible, and I
take care of my wife and we have a couple
of cats, and we gotta we have a little house
here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But you know, I have been
pretty open in the past that my wife has some
mental health issues. So that adds like another dimension, another
(05:12):
dimension to you know, my situation. So anyhow, I'm saying
all of that just to say that we're gonna go
through this article and we're going to talk about what
zero head says, fifty things that everyone should be stockpiling
to prepare for election chaos. I do have my little
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bape and I do have my vessel of the art
filled to the brim with my uh gihad. So we're
gonna get going. We're gonna get rolling on this. Oh God,
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zero Hedge dot com Fifty things that everyone should be
stockpiling to prepare for election chaos by Tyler Dirton. This
is actually authored by a guy named Michael Snyder via
the Economic Collapse blog. And so while we're going through this,
let's not think of this in terms of or let's
not just think of this in terms of election chaos. Right,
(06:27):
we can also think about this in terms of what's
actually going on. I believe is I believe we're in
the middle of a slow collapse right now, manufactured. I
believe we're in a manufactured slow collapse. So what's a
slow collapse? It's like you know Mad Max in I
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don't know, I don't watch them new Mad Max movies,
but the old ones. Like in the first one, everyone
thinks there was a nuclear war, right, And I don't
know if they've changed that, I don't know, but like
the first Mad Max movie, there wasn't a nuclear war.
What had happened is there was this slow collapse. Just
shit just stopped working and next thing you know, you're
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have a fucking sweet car and some guns and you're
driving through the wasteland. So you know, this in this
idea of this engineered slow collapse, like these items that
we're gonna be talking about, these things that we're gonna
be talking about, they're just good to have. Kind of
what I was gonna say when I was talking about,
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you know, kind of like my preparedness journey after the
COVID lockdowns is you know, when you are prepared and
you have stuff like set aside to help you. It's
like it's an amazing feeling, like, hey man, I got
my shit together. So this case in point. You know,
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we didn't have a slow collapse, but what it happened
is my wife was unemployed for a really long time.
This was about two years ago. You can probably I
don't think I talked much about it anyhow. And you know,
if we didn't have a freezer full of food and
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like this stuff set aside, we would have been in
an enormous trouble. So you know, this isn't just about
election chaos. It's just good. You know, responsible adults in
this day and age should be worried about this. They
should be very fucking concerned. All right, are you getting
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prepared right now? Millions of Americans are stockpiling food and
supplies and anticipation of what they believe is coming. People
are on the edge due to approaching election, the rapidly
escalating war in the Middle East. I don't know why
he omitted the billions of dollars Ukraine seems to be
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a problem to me as well. The alarming natural disasters
we've been witnessing all around the world, and the potential
for another global pandemic. In all my years, I have
never seen more concern about the next twelve months as
I'm seeing at this moment. There's a growing consensus that
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major history changing events are about to happen, and there
are lots and lots of people that want to be
well prepared. In fact, Newsweek has reported that quote doomsday
prepping unquote has become a two point forty six billion
dollar industry. The once fringe act of doomsday prepping evolved
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into a booming two point four to six billion dollar industry,
tapping into the societal pulse of self reliance amid amidst
a world of un certainties, whether driven by the aftershock
of a path of a post COVID nineteen environment, supply
chain disruptions, natural calamities, or geopolitical tensions. The narrative of
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disaster preparedness is shifting from the outskirts of society to
mainstream household. When I was growing up, I never once
heard the words prepper or prepping. I think that I
became aware of preppers maybe when the first Tremor's movie
came out and I was like, why is Michael Keaton's
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dad have a room full of shotguns. Maybe I'm just
showing my aid, but now a very large portion of
the population is actively preparing for the collapse of society.
According to the numbers that come from FEMA, approximately twenty
million Americans have prepared well enough to be able to
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be on their own for at least a month amateurs.
According to analysis of Federal Emergency Management Agency data, some
twenty million Americans can withstand a full month of self reliance.
Within that number, there are those who identify as part
of the preppers community online, which include enthusiasts stocking up
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on year's worth of supplies or building bunkers. Of course,
being prepared to survive for one month is not going
to be nearly good enough to survive what is eventually coming,
but at least it is something. These days, even Costco
is marketing to preppers. Amidst Costcos already stocked shelves of
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oversized jars of peanut butter and twelve packs of macaroni
and cheeses. There is a hardcore new edition that is
lighting up social media, the ready Wise one P fifty
serving emergency food bucket for one hundred bucks. These buckets
include eighty dinners, thirty breakfasts and forty energy drinks with
a shelf life of Prepare yourself for this twenty five
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long years in a world where unpredictability has become constant.
Reads the description our assortment takes on a vital role
in emergency preparedness. Imagine the sudden onset of severe weather,
the challenges of unexpected job transitions, or the unsettling thought
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of food shortages. In addition to selling emergency food buckets,
Costco has also become a huge seller of gold and
silver bars and coins Wholesale Club. The Wholesale Club is
also a huge seller of gold and silver bars coins,
which are extremely popular among those who are concerned about
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breakdown of the financial system. When out silver coin is
currently worth about thirty bucks. Needless to say, it isn't
just Costco that has embraced this trend these days. Many
local supermarkets carry to see food right on their store shelves.
And I think this is a great thing, but for
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what we are eventually going to be going through, you're
gonna need a whole hell of a lot more than
just food. If you are really want if you really
want to be prepared, you should consider everything that you
will need if there is no power and you can
no longer get anything from the store because chain supply
chains have completely broken down. I have shared a list
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of fifty basic things that I think everyone should be
stockpiling in a couple of my books. Not my books.
This is the author of the article, and today I
would like to share that list with all of you.
So we're going to go through this list and we'll
try to expound on it. Number one, A conventional generator
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and a solar generator. So conventional generator and a solar
generator are all good thing. I would just mention there
are at least two different kinds of generators beside the
solar generator, and that's a gas generator which I have
a gas generator, and a propane generator which I have
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a propeine generator. I actually have a gas generator, and
I have a dual fuel that only gets propane put
in into it. I'm not mechanically inclined, so I can't
take a part in dgum like the carburetor. I don't
know how to do that kind of stuff. So I
have a generator for gas and then a generator that
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just uses the propane, and then also I have some
solar panels and a couple like power packs. I guess
they count as solar generators. So the other thing that
we're maybe talking about now that I'm babbling about this
is lines of redundancy. So you know, when I first started,
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I started with the solar panels and the little handheld
Westinghouse battery packs, and then I graduated to my gas generator,
which is slightly cheaper than my dual fuel generator. So
over time you just bloop blop boop, just upscale it
and then you still have everything, like you don't. I
didn't get rid of my gas generator, you know, because
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I have a far superior Now. I just have multiplied,
you know, my ability. You know. I don't know if
this is in here or not, but you know, if
you're talking about generators, you also have to talk about fuel.
As a matter of fact, we're gonna wind up having
to talk about fuel anyway. It's like the big thing.
Gasoline is great, but you know, unless you treat it,
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it loses its combustibility pretty quickly, you know, and even
if you do treat it, it only extends its life
to like a So like all my gas can't opsecc
is gonna go right out of the window. All my
all of like my stockpile of gasoline has duct tape
dates on them, so I know when to cycle them
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out and when to use them and and all of
that stuff. And then also with that, I have many
propane bottles for my propane heaters and propane stoves, you know,
along with the fuel, I also have, you know, a
box of fucking Sterno somewhere and like a little Sterno stove.
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I feel like I'm getting ahead of myself. What am
I talking about? Fuel? Talking about fuel? So with the
dual fuel generator, like I just have those giant fucking
things of propane, like in with my my fuel storage
kind of area. A Burkie water filter. Berkis are pretty expensive.
There's other ways or around it. That's another thing that
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we're probably gonna discuss is like I'm not a Gucci guy.
My budget is pretty limited, so we have I have
all kinds of water filters. Actually I just got a
gravity filter the other day. So we have gravity filters.
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We have life straws, we have sawyers. We have like this,
it looks kind of like a plastic kind of gin
still looking thing. I haven't used it. It's got a
couple more moving parts that I'm comfortable with, but it's
in my water. I have a whole box just full
of like water stuff, and I have zero water. I
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have zero water filters, and it's zero water thing in there.
So you know, you want to be able to, you know,
filter water in numerous ways. We also have I have
long term water storage, so I have like big stackable
blocks of water, also a bathtub, water bladder, rain rain
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catchment systems, which is number three, a rainwater collection system
if you don't have a natural supply of water near you.
So I mentioned already that I live in Pittsburgh, which
is very hilly. It's a very mountainous kind of area,
and I live on the top of a hill. I
live on the top of a like a mountain, so
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I don't have natural water near me. However, this year
I did experiment and play around with water catchment systems,
which worked swimmingly pun intended it actually had I actually
collected so much water I couldn't I didn't. I couldn't
even use it all for my garden from my gardens,
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so that worked out very well. I have kind of
retired them for the year already. I got the power
washer out and power washed them and patched them up.
I weed whacked a hole in one of them. I
patched them up, and I got them, you know, put away,
uh till till I need them right, But the gutters
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are gimmicked already, so all you gotta do is just
flap the thing down. And while I'm gonna have I'm
gonna have water. So something very I mean, it's more
important than food. You're gonna start looking for water. Before
you start looking for food. You're gonna die of dehydration,
before you die of starvation. It's for sure number four
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a large emergency medical kit. So I think that I
might have gone a little out of control with THEMG
with my medical situation. When I got out of the army,
I was a combat life saver. It's one of the
little schools that I did. Basically, it's like extended first
aid training and then they teach you how to use IVS.
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And I have mentioned this in the show before because
I remember lamenting about how I can't find I can't
find IVS or like the needles system that you need
to put a hole in someone with. I think I
was gonna try to get him off of a veterinary website.
At one point, I don't know anyhow, so I stole
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my combat lifesaver bag. It's this enormous pack. It folds up,
it's got three folds, it's got all these pockets, and
I have the thing stocked filled to the brim. I
have splints in Israeli bandages and bleed stop and gauze
and all everything. So it's like it's not a boo
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boo kit, right, and it's more built out than a
blowout kit. I do have blowout kits for all my
tactical stuff, my war box and whatever, but any this
combat lifesaver bag is got like a ton of stuff.
And I went and I got first aid for soldiers
that just stays in that bag, and that is just stashed.
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And then in my bigger kind of storage capacity areas,
I have a bucket with a big red cross on it.
When you open that bucket, you'll find a secondary first
aid kit, like basic just trauma first aid stuff. There's
a do it yourself like dental real like stainless steel
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dental kit in there. There's a I also have a
surgical kit in there. I have a clinical kind of bag.
It's got like a manual blood pressure pump, a stephoscope,
trauma shears that that sort of stuff. I think that
there is there's a battery operated blood pressure pump in
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there too, maybe. And then I have uh a book
that talks about uh clinical I don't know, procedure like
it explains you know, boiling like you know. Obviously I
don't have an autoclave, so you know, I have tons
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of medical stuff. I'm actually I have my eyes on
uh a stapler and a staple uh suture stapler and
a staple remover. I have my eyes on it. It's
it's gonna happen probably sooner and later. Oh gosh, hold on,
we got to do one of these. So we'll finish up.
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Where are we at large medical kit? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Number five is rice, Number six is pasta. Those are
all good. They will if you mile our bag then
with oxygen oxygen absorbers, they will last theoretically forever at
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least twenty five years. I heard that's what I heard,
canned soup, canned vegetables, canned fruit, canned chicken, jars of
peanut butter. If you're aiming for long term food storage,
the jars of peanut butter is a not a good idea,
but you can rotate them if you have a rotating pantry,
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you can rotate them through high in calories. Like when
you start looking at this stuff, you know, or if
you've already if you were already prepping, like all these
people in this article are already prepping, I would just
suggest you to look at the calorie count, especially they
canned vegetables. Sometimes it's not worth this storage real estate
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that you're giving up to have them specifically, like you know,
like green beans or something like that, like very low
in calorie counts. Jars of peanut butter, however, are very
high and calorie counts, So you know, you might want
to just look at that stuff. And also, you know,
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we'll talk about like spam. They say can chicken, but
there's like can't spam is if you go for the
like the luncheon meat, like the off brand at like
Aldi or Walmart or something like that high calorie count
and it's not nearly as expensive as like the name
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brand spam is. So you want to pay attention to that. Salt.
We need salt, We need a lot of salt. I
have a lot of salt. I have tons of a
seemingly amount of salt. Sugar sugar is differ different. I
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do have sugar in long term storage. And if you're
my learned bagging these things, don't put an oxygen absorber
in your show, it'll be just fine. And also any
kind of pasta and rice that you have, just throw
in your deep freezer for a couple for like a day,
day and a half, two days, something like that. This
just to make sure there's any bugs in there or
any kind of parasites or whatever like that will take
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care of them. And then, like redundancy, also oxygen absorber
will also do that job. Sugar sugar is in rotation.
Because my wife drinks a lot of tea powdered milk,
I skip that one, even though powdered milk is also
very high in calories. She'd probably get some. I don't
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have bags of flour again, flour milar bag oxygen absorber.
Throw them in the deep freezer for a day or
two same deal. But like I do, I build my
own long term fruit stores buckets. Theoretically they last they
will last me and my wife like a week. So
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I have the number I have inventories, and then I
have like a little recipe book of like stuff that
you can do with the things that are in the buckets.
And I always make sure I have stuff to make,
like a loaf of bread in there, because you know,
bread is like the yardstick of civilization. It's like bread
and soap, right like, So if you don't know how
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to make your own whoa, if you don't know how
to make your own bread, you should probably try to
sort that out. Speaking of bread, they want you to
keep yeast on hand. Yeast is another one of those
yeast I think has a shorter shelf life. If I
use yeast that's been sitting around for a while, I
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don't get nearly a big enough kind of like expansion
of the bread that I'm making. And I, you know,
so what I wind up doing is I make bread
like every week. I make a loaf of bread like
every week or every other week, so I could keep
that my yeast rotating through lots of extra coffee. If
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you drink it. I would say lots of extra coffee. Period.
Coffee is one of those things that's going to be
a morale booster, and if not, it's going to be
a barter item. People are gonna break their necks for
some coffee. People try to break your neck for some coffee.
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Buckets a long term storable food. So again, I make
my own long term storable food buckets. However, I do
have commercially commercial versions of them as well, because it's
this idea of redundancy. Right, it's what's in the fridge,
what's in the pantry. Then it's what's in the deep freezer.
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Then it's what's in you know, my canned food items.
Then it's the commercial food storage buckets. And then last
line of defense are the ones that I'm that I build,
you know myself, so you know you want to have
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those tiers of redundancy. Lots of extra vitamins. Check lighters
or matches. I would say lighters and matches, candles, check
that one's easy. Flashlights or lanterns. Everyone should have flashlights
and lanterns. I have flashlights up to my armpits in
this headlamps, lanterns, I have them packaged up in like
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these little kits so I could just run down stairs
and grab them if we need them. I have some,
I don't want to say staged through the house, but
I have some in the in the drawer in the
living room. I got some in the drawer in the kitchen.
I have a whole lighter kit with fire starters, and
I got fat wood in there now. And I did
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this thing where I sanded or I grated some old
wood and mixed it up with that with vasaline, and
I put it in a fucking such a dork. I
put it in a tooth paste tube and so you
just squeeze it out and then that's like you're you
just light a fire right off of that, nice and easy,
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plenty of wood to burn. I do have some wood
set aside, however, I live next to a wooded area
that and I have multiple So funny, if you told me,
like eight years ten years ago, if you told me
that I would have multiple chainsaws in solar panels and
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a fire starter squeezed into a toothpaste tube, I would
have laughed at you. Extra blankets you want that, I
would also say, get some cold weather sleeping bags, you know,
just to squirrel away in case you in case you
need it. That would be redundancy. With the propane heat
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I was talking about earlier, I even have I went
out and I bought these giant terra cotta pots that
would work in unison with a candle or sterno to
like heat up an area of your house. I have
plug in little mini plugin heaters for that kind of stuff.
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For a while, every time it stormed around my house,
we would lose power. We lost power for like five
days one time. So I'm always, you know, worried about
worried about that number. Twenty six. Of course you want AMMO.
They skipped guns. You'd think that guns were up here
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you but they recommend AMMO. I would recommend as much
extra AMMO as you can swing on your budget. And
even if you don't have one, I think that I
would recommend getting a box of twenty two AMMO. It's
the most ubiquitous kind of round in the country, and
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you can always use them as barterer items, you know,
I'll I'll buy a bullet off you have anything gonna
turn around shoot you with it. So I mean there
is stuff. But yeah, even if you don't have a
twenty two. I would recommend having some twenty two Ammo.
We have AMMO for we have copious AMMO for everything
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that we have. I'll just say it that way. And
you know when I say copious, it's not enough. It's never.
It's never enough. That's the that's the flip side of
trying to stockpile AMMO. It's never. It's never enough. Extra
fans if you live in a hot climate. So I've also, uh,
(32:51):
while I'm eyeing it up, I haven't pulled the trigger
on him yet, but I found some battery operated rechargeable
fans at Harbor Freight. So that's on my list. That's
on my list. Hand sanitizer check. Toilet paper. Jesus, everyone's
learned that lesson, haven't they? Fucking toilet paper, extra soap
and shampoo check. Those are all smart things to have.
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Extra toothpaste, right, razors. You want enough razors to get
you through a tight spot. And a lot of these
things is like a dollar store, fine, right, Like you
could buy like some cheap disposable plastic razors for book
twenty five. You could buy extra soap in extra shampoo
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right there for book twenty five. So you know, every
week or every two weeks, well, I should say every
two weeks or every month. I zip through the Dollar
store and I buy a bunch of this crap just
to put away bottles of bleach. You want to do that,
but that needs to be on a rotating basis. To bleach,
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from what I understand, doesn't last forever. Long time battery
operated radio you can find them, Solar powered ones amazing.
Make sure they have the Noah bands. Make sure you
also have used it so you're not trying to figure
it out on the day, right. That probably goes with
a lot of this stuff. Extra batteries at Harbor Frey.
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I can't remember where I got mine. The battery caddy
or the battery daddy. You know, keep it stocked at
all times. It comes with a little charger, so if
I'm bored just sitting there watching TV or something like,
I'll just bust them out. Make sure my batteries are
all good and all of that stuff. Solar chargers. You
want a little bank to charge your phone up if
you need it again, we have that all covered. Trash bags.
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This is another Dollar store thing. You know you want
trash bag. You want trash bags in your emergency toilet kit.
You want trash bags in your kitchen box. You want
trash bags, you know, everywhere, just everywhere you can have them,
you want them. Same thing with tarps. This is another
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harbor freight thing. Every time I swing by, I just
pick up a tarp or two pocket knife. I would
expand that and say, you want multiple various sorts of
knives in my battle box, you know with my gear
you know, I gotta it can only be called like
a fighting knife. This is a knife that's designed to
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kill people. And my camping stuff. I got a little
camp being, a little camp knife in all of my
gear kits. You know, uh, folding tactical folding tactical knife,
not necessarily you know, to kill people with, just to
do things. We haven't run into it yet. But I
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would also say to have a leatherman or a multi tool,
multiple multiple multi tools. A hammer number forty one is
an axe, shovel. Work gloves. You want some work gloves.
I would suggest all kinds of gloves, like the mechanics
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gloves I got, hatch operator gloves, you know, just you know,
gardening glove, like you know, you just want to have
enough of that kind of stuff. Lots of warm socks
check and then seeds for a garden. And this is
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like one of I have seeds and I try to
garden every year and with a varying degree. I have
to say that starting in twenty twenty COVID lockdown time,
we started gardening in earnest and that first year was
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the best year. And then I've just I just suck
at it, like I'm just I could add it. I
don't know, I don't know what it is, but I
do have seeds. I have a whole seed kit. Heirloom
seeds are they are important. You know, word around the
campfire is, you know, when you stop and get seeds
at wal Mart or something, they're like gmo, and the
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seeds that they produce. When you're a vegetable plant starts
you know, yielding or whatever, those seeds turn out to
be inert. In some cases, you want to get the
heirloom seeds and they're pretty affordable, like you can snatch
them up. They come in like a cool you know box,
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and you know, figure out what you're gonna what you're
gonna do with them. Unfortunately, i'mna have to do another
one of these breaks. I gotta break it like ray gun.
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Yeah yeah, m m all right, we'll pick this list
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up here. Uh, we're talking about garden seeds for the garden.
So I have them. I don't know what I'm gonna
I can't use them. I can't use them right, Uh, canning.
So I do have a ton of canning jars. A
couple of years ago, probably like the second year of
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the garden, when I thought that it was gonna be good,
I bought like an ob seeing them out of jars
and lids and callers and all that stuff, and I
would say, to go along with it. You want to
pick up a pressure canner in a pinch, you can
water bave them the can them. Uh, the pressure canner
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takes a long time and it's more technical, like you
have to know your elevation, you have to know you
know how to use the weight on the little steam nipple.
I don't know what else to call it a fucking
steam nipple, you know. And you know that would be
part of that redundancy plan, you know. A third tier
to that would be like to have a digital pressure canner,
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which is something on my own as well. I'm not
there yet. I'm only to the press the pressure cannon.
I'm always fucking shit scared. I'm gonna fucking explode my house,
like the fucking Boston with the thing. Yeah, so jars,
you want jars also, you know you can mix up
a drink in them. Extra supplies for your pets. You know,
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if you're stockpiling canned food for you, it's a good
idea to have canned food stockpile for your pets as well.
Like I said, I got a couple of cats. I
got three cats, So give up a little bit of
real estate to make sure my little kiddies are taken
care of. If there's a kind of problem in a
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number forty eight here lists it's very specific a substantial
emergency supply of cash. So this is one of those
things that's difficult because my budget and stuff. But I
got it taken care of. I got some cash squirreled away,
and then also for redundancy sake, you know, I have
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this guy that sells these I don't even remember what
they're called. They're sweets Kamba combay bar combi bars of
gold and silver, and they're called Kombi bars because they're
like perforated. So it's like a card, right, but like
these out these squares are like perforated in it in ounces,
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so you can just snap one off if you if
you happen and need it. So there's that. So this
would be the redundancy. You have the cash, then you
have like these combi bars gold and silver, and then
you know, barter items would also like fit into there.
So every time I go to the booze store, I
buy a couple uh airplance bottles, like the little airplane bottles.
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This would be you know, Barterer items, Barterer items. I'm
not gonna drink fucking watermelon vodka that I got for
ninety nights. So I'm not drinking that shit unless we're
unless stuff's going real wrong. But other people might need it.
Other people, you know, might need a I imagine if
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you're fighting with draws, you would drink the chitty watermelon
vodka or whatever it is. That's another thing that's on here,
or it's not on here. Another thing that's not on
this list is a booze stock pile. Ever since twenty twenty,
I am never under like a at least a case
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of gin or whisky, gin and whiskey stashed here someplace,
like I'm never running out to the store because I'm
in need. I'm always just going to the pan. I
would say the same thing with my vape pen. Uh,
you know, do what you can to squirrel some of
that away as well. My wife uses the jewel e
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cigarette thing and they're very expensive. I'm trying to wrap
my head around how to squirrel some of those away
without breaking you know, the bank. Yeah, so that cash, obviously,
I think it probably goes without saying. However, I'll say it.
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You probably want you know, mid to small bills and
an assortment if you have any you know, silver dollars
or anything like that, you want to keep all that
stuff kind of in a nice and safe place. And
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this one seems weird. Forty nine seems weird, right, But
this is something that we've talked about for a long time,
and I'm starting to really sign on to this idea
that you know, this isn't left and right. I guess
you could say it's like normal people versus globalists, Like
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whatever the fuck is going on right now, whatever war
is being waged. I believe that there is a spiritual
component to it, and we've been talking for years about
you know, spiritual combat basically. So Number forty nine on
this list is Bibles for every member of your family.
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I'm never very far away from my Bible. I don't know,
I you know, I call it my trustee red letter
when we do episodes and I use it, you know,
I would almost and I am going to I'm I'm
I'm going to get some just to have here, maybe
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to give away. That's another thing I'm thinking. I'm starting
to think of, like I could start putting stuff together
for you know, neighbors and stuff that might not be
able to get as prepped as I am. I mean,
this is just shit, like you just it's like a
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it's like, ah, the slippery slope to prepare itness. And
then number fifty is one that everyone starts with. I
feel like it's the bug out bag for every member
of your family. I have. Mine's a little bit more
built out. It's not really a bug out bag per
se anymore. It's more of just like my gear, you know,
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I keep it in the car, we go out for
a hike, I pull it whatever. Uh, you know, I
pulled it when we went camping last weekend, so I
can like switch stuff out, actually change bag. Had this
and that and the other thing, and I didn't take
that and this and whatever. You know, So it's good
to have. It's versatile if you have the time to
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switch it out. I have a much more basic compact
one in my wife's ride, so you know, I feel
like everyone probably starts there, if not with the can food,
I would think, So you want to have a bug
out bag. A couple of years ago I did a
dump gear dump with my bugget with my bug out bag,
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and that was like the first or second iteration of it.
Like it's not nearly as built out as it is now.
But I mean, just Google search bug out bag, you'll
find a list. I don't want to go through the
whole fucking thing. You know, you guess I'll probably have
them already anyways, so you know, I don't want to
spend too much more time talking about them. What's on
the list that or what's not on the list besides
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booze and pot that I feel like we need to
talk about. Let me see here, let me just reread
this real quick. Well, I would say, you know, it
calls out AMMO, doesn't call out guns. You know, if
this is not the time to invest in some protection,
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I don't know what you're waiting for. And then you
could take that to the next logical step. You know.
I spent you know, some time and some energy and
some money into like a plate carrier with like good
plates like battle belts and extra ammo and all that
(47:42):
shit too, so you know, you'll know when the ship
hits the fan because I'll be wandering around my neighborhood
with my with my all this fucking gear. I'll be
flexing my gear. Bro. That's LARPing, that's what they call it.
So yeah, all right, let's wrap this article up. There
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are some important points that I want to make about
this list. First of all, this is not a comprehensive list.
It's simply a starting point. I think we kind of
nailed that home when we were talking about the different
redundancies and stuff. Theoretically you want to have like three
kind of lines of redundancy. I think that's the way
that I built my kind of plan, as you know,
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as an example, the generator, the generator system, my collection
of generators. Secondly, preparation is going to look different for everyone.
Your unique circumstances will dictate what quote getting prepared unquote
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looks like for you. Thirdly, you will not need emergency
food and supplies yet. You will not need them tomorrow,
you will not need them next week, you will not
need them next month. But the day is most certainly
coming when you will need them. If you wait until
then to get prepared, you will be out of luck.
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Getting sufficiently prepared for what is approaching takes an enormous
amount of time, effort, energy, and I would say money,
but it will be well worth it. We are moving
into times of immense societal chaos. The election is going
to tear our country apart. Vast numbers of people will die.
The wars and the famine that are ahead of us.
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It is just a matter of time before our next
global pandemic strikes. And if you live long enough, you
are going to get to witness cataclysmic natural disasters that
are beyond anything that Hollywood has ever dreamed up. Right now,
we are still only in the very early stages of
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this perfect storm, but I fully expect global events to
start moving very, very rapidly in the coming months. So
this guy's got a book called Chaos, I might try
to find that. It seems like a good idea to
read that. And he's got a Substack newsletter Michael Snyder
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dot substack dot com. The only this one of my
challenges that I have because of my wife's kind of psychmeds.
You know, we can't get those, and you know, I
don't know if you know this or not. I got
I have blood pressure problems. So you know, we're looking
(50:38):
at uh jase dot com. Uh Ja's case sells like prepackaged.
I think it's like five different kind of antibio biotics
that you can just buy just it's like and just
have on hand, you know. And I really need to
get that right because I'm like, I have surgical kits
(50:59):
and stapler and I need to get some antibiotics. But
they also have they just rolled out this thing where
you can buy like maintenance medical your supply of maintenance medications.
So that's also on my list there. So you know,
I'm not complete. I fear that I will never be.
(51:21):
I will never be complete, but I feel like I
do have a handle on it, you know, So let
me know what you think. Am I overreacting? Am I
being paranoid? You know, I don't know what do you think?
Uh So, like just remind you to go back and
listen to some of those Spiritual Warfare episodes. We talked
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an awful lot about the political chaos coming up, about
the economical problems that are coming. I just like, you know,
we did that whole series on the Creature from Jekyll Island,
(52:06):
which perfectly kind of predicted the inflation situation that we're
finding ourselves in. And I think that that shoe is
still dropping. I don't we haven't seen the worst part
of what they've done to the to the economy. So
I hope that you guys might have taken something away
from this. If not, then just thanks for hanging out
(52:28):
with me. You know, I'm fearful. I'm fearful forever everybody.
And you know, if you're not looking at these situations,
you're not doing anything to prepare. I hope you reconsider.
And that's it. I just I don't want to keep babbling.
You know. I got got through the article, we got
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our points, I editorialized a little bit, and now my friends,
it's time to part ways. See you next week.
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