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[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_01]: coming at you from the frozen tundra that is east central elberta canada streaming live
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[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_01]: we create community find freedom promote preparedness and share success i am tool man tim
[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_01]: today is february the eighth twenty twenty four this is episode four hundred and twenty three
[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_01]: of workshop radio how are all of my fellow delinquents out there down under and down over good to see
[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_01]: all of you we're going to open up with a rule to live by we put it into the old spinning machine
[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_01]: to see which random one would come out this week and we've got rule number nine and that is
[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_01]: problems always seem the worst the first time you handle them this has been something i've tried
[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_01]: to share with my girls over the years it's something that becky and i learned way too
[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_01]: difficultly back when we were first married and it was simple when you're young or when
[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_01]: you're learning something new problems always seem the most overwhelming now that doesn't mean
[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_01]: by knowing that it's going to make it easier but what it does is hopefully it sits in the back
[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_01]: of your brain and you think okay this is the first time i've ever dealt with something like this use
[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_01]: home maintenance for instance how about the very first time you've ever had to unplug a stop toilet
[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_01]: that would really be bad yes i absolutely know it would be but it is what it is now if you
[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_01]: approach that and you think okay this is a really shitty situation i've never dealt with it before
[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_01]: where do i go with it well you end up just dealing with it the problem is is that the newness of it
[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_01]: brings on this incredible anxiety and if you can embrace that and i find as you get older when you
[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_01]: know about that anxiety it's still going to hurt but it's not quite as bad you can tell yourself
[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_01]: hey i've been here before so for my kids you know the first time that they get
[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_01]: say a behind they're behind on their bills say they're behind on their phone bill
[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_01]: and they get something in the mail well that might feel like the end of the world to them at that exact
[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_01]: moment because it does you're scared to death you're like i don't know how to fix it and guess what
[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_01]: the cool thing about life is eventually you figure out as you go along number one how not to create
[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_01]: those problems but when those problems come up you're still going to be the person who can
[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_01]: figure it out so problems always seem the worst the first time you have to deal with them
[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_01]: but the sooner you know that the sooner you implant that into the back of the old brain stem
[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_01]: the better off you're going to be figuring out how to solve problems in the future
[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_01]: all right so i hope everybody's been good we've got a good crowd in here already this evening
[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_01]: we got a great show great lineup for you we got uh this week in prepping once again
[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_01]: we got a ton of good stuff we're gonna jump in with the precious metals report
[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_01]: i haven't come up with a better name if anybody out there can come up with
[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_01]: actually let's do this whoever can come up with the most ingenious name for the precious metal
[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_01]: segment each week i will send you a pre-1964 canadian dime in the mail so you'll get some
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_01]: silver out of it it's you know it'd be something fun so whoever can come up with it you can
[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_01]: send it to me anywhere you want in the comments whatever but i would love for it to uh you
[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_01]: know fill in with fit in with some of the other names sorry so let's bring up our give me one
[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: moment here folks and we will share okay so very first one this it seems like each week i do
[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_01]: something about precious metals whatever i touch on ends up getting inspired for the next week
[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_01]: so last week we talked about precious metals how will they survive in a fire and that spurred
[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_01]: me on to think well how do we choose a proper safe for home precious metal storage so i did some
[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_01]: digging and i found this article by gold so gold survival guide and it's out of new zealand so it's
[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_01]: uh very very close to our good friend ellen kerr from down under good to see in here again
[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_01]: tonight ellen and we got byron we got digger we got john palmer and quite a few others in here
[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_01]: so it's good to see you so buying a home safe for gold and silver storage i like this they
[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_01]: give you eight questions you can ask not all of them are pertinent to us as
[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: preparedness minded folk but the first one is why can't i just use a small safe to store my gold
[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_01]: and silver and um if you were to look down in the basement here there'd be a safe that isn't
[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_01]: much bigger than that and uh i guess i get a little verbal slap here because i'm probably
[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_01]: not following what i should but right here says a small safe will have thin walls made a low
[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_01]: grade steel and will offer very little protection from attack often referred to as a tin box here's
[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: the deal beyond that you ever see those crack heads that back into convenience stores in the middle
[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_01]: of the night and they hook chain up to an atm and they pull it off and just drag it down the road
[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_01]: well some rather ingenious crack heads wouldn't even need to do that to one of these safes
[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_01]: these are even if you had it full of silver never be in tim let's back up here a little bit
[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_01]: the ingenuity of crack heads will blow you out of the water and i'm going to bet that most of them
[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_01]: are going to just pick one of those up and run right out with it they're not even going to bother
[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_01]: trying to cut it open you could with a little chisel or um you know a $35 harbour freight
[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_01]: cordless grinder any of that would work but honestly one of these tiny ones you're just
[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_01]: gonna somebody's just going to pick it up and run out the door all right so what do we need
[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_01]: well we need a big heavy safe we know that or in theory especially if you're getting into any
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_01]: amount of precious metals all right how about number three right here how can i discreetly
[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_01]: install my safe while installing a safe into an existing wall may not be possible there's
[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_01]: very other methods various other methods of keeping it safe now if you go back further they talk about
[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_01]: how you know those hidden safes in the wall aren't real safe again man we're going to use
[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_01]: the word safe a lot because they're just too tiny knock them out run away with them this one
[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_01]: here is pretty good disguise you're safe perhaps some furniture will go over it or cover it with a blanket
[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_01]: that reminds me of an old seinfeld intro many years ago he used to talk about the safety and
[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: security of covering something with a jacket he was talking about a uh he called a big screen
[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_01]: television it's probably 27 inch at the time and he parked of course in downtown new york
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_01]: and he's like i just threw a jacket over the tv nobody could see it so i'm just saying you
[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_01]: know a great big safe cover it with a blanket i don't think it's honestly that great of an idea
[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_01]: oh to say i don't mind don't advertise that you have a safe i like that better again we'll go back to
[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_01]: one of those things that i learned from steven harris many years ago security by obscurity
[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_01]: one of those things if you want to keep things the best way to keep things secure
[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_01]: is the ne'er to well is not knowing about them whatsoever i like that that's even better
[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_01]: now this is a really good tip i highlighted this i wanted to share it with you and if you guys have
[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_01]: heard it or done something throw in the comments i'd love to see it underneath the stairwell can be a
[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_01]: great place take the door and the surrounding trim off install the safe and replace the surrounding
[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_01]: trim and the door this will take some serious time to remove as well as being difficult to locate
[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_01]: again when we go back to our favorite crack heads anytime you make things more difficult for
[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_01]: they're more likely to go somewhere else again if you've got a big generator in the backyard and
[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_01]: you use big ass chain well they're way less likely to run off with them right they're just gonna
[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_01]: they're gonna take the path of least resistance the law of physics and the law of methods
[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_01]: they're about the same right but i like that tear off all the trim or even better yet how about
[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_01]: you build a wall around the safe i like that a lot too how about this we talked about this
[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_01]: last week number four do i need to attack do i need an attack resistant or fire rating to protect my
[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_01]: golden silver well just like everywhere this is a good rule of thumb and we're probably going to repeat
[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_01]: it a bunch over time but for storage of golden silver consider attack resistance first and
[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_01]: fire rating second secondary but it's a bonus if you can get it so don't worry so much about fire
[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_01]: worry more about the ne'er to wells right there you go we're gonna talk a little bit more
[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_01]: about this we got some comments from last week's episode we'll deal with down the road
[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_01]: that safe right there that little century safe i've got an old style dial one and uh yeah
[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_01]: number six what is the cash rating on a safe i learned something new you folks are gonna learn
[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_01]: something new some of you are anyway tonight didn't know this existed now again op sec
[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_01]: operational security this may or may not be something you're worried about i kind of like
[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_01]: the idea because i'm a big believer in having insurance for as many things as i can as long
[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_01]: as it makes financial sense i'm okay with an insurance company knowing i have precious metals
[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_01]: if it's going to cover my ass if something happens simple as that so what's a cash rating
[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_01]: it's for insurance purposes it refers to the level of cover that a particular safe is rated for
[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_01]: in terms of cash contents when buying a home safe for gold or silver genuinely this value
[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_01]: is the same as for cash to achieve this the insurer will require a certified safe for example a c en
[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_01]: standard or an as n z s standard the harder it is to break into the longer it takes the higher the
[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_01]: rating so i don't know what all's involved in this process but i'm sure it involves it's involving
[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_01]: contacting your insurance company but also take a minute look at your safe rating and find out hey
[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_01]: if this is something i'm going to be worried about it might be worth talking to insurance just
[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_01]: have the conversation you can have a hypothetical conversation you can be like hey if i possibly
[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_01]: had three dollars worth of silver in a safe downstairs is it possible to ensure it simple
[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_01]: as that right there you go all right number eight can i just buy a secondhand safe online
[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_01]: to store some gold and silver this is an area that i kind of disagree with this article
[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_01]: i'm a big fan of buying secondhand stuff especially things like safes if they're still
[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_01]: kicking around and they've been around a long time they were probably built like a brickshithouse
[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_01]: and the older ones tended to be heavier we had a floor model safe at home hardware
[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_01]: that basically took eight guys to get it out of the building when we finally swapped out for a
[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_01]: new one and the new one was piddly compared to it but here's what gold silver gold survival
[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_01]: guide says with a secondhand safe you don't know its life and its history how has it been treated
[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_01]: has it ever been breached has it been serviced regularly or at all i get that totally uh now
[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_01]: have there also been instances they said there's been instances where people have bought a
[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_01]: secondhand safe online ended up not getting the combination and having to pay 1500 to get
[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_01]: a technician to access it well here's a story i got the safe that i have right now for free
[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_01]: from a local organization it's like we lost the combination if you want it you can have it
[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Becky she's really good at saying hey jump on that hun go get it so what'd i do i went and got it
[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_01]: i contacted the company it cost me somewhere in the 60 to 70 range ended up getting keys
[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_01]: and the combination for it so i get a you know a three or four hundred dollars safe for a little
[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_01]: bit of time and a little bit of money so yeah i i like this i would love to hear people's
[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_01]: theoretical experiences with safes in the past to see what you guys think but this kind of segment
[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01]: just keeps building on to the next one by doing this uh this article today i was already inspired
[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_01]: to come up with something for next week so we'll deal with it but anyway let's take a look at
[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_01]: what the delinquents had to say in the community feedback here because everybody had some some
[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_01]: good thoughts while we were going on and i want to show it out to cold war prepper he's been
[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: a former guest and a friend of the workshop he's in here this evening good to have you
[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_01]: john palmer says the solution is to not have anything valuable ellen says i keep my precious
[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_01]: metals in my gun safe good luck picking 200 kilograms up and getting it out the door
[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and for my fellow americans fellow america wait no anyway in freedom units that's 440 pounds
[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_01]: john palmer says to build a room as a safe i like that a lot and we're going to show it
[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_01]: to ed silio good to see you and he said hey tim after uh he says i can say oh i'm not quite sure what
[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_01]: that i'm a miss oh sorry after a misspent youth i can say your property only needs to be more secure
[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_01]: than your neighbors thank you ed i appreciate that and you're right just do more than you know
[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_01]: my own fault the time i left my garage door open and again a crack head i know i love that word
[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_01]: ran off with my generator that's almost my fault i literally left the garage door open so there you
[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_01]: go ellen kerr says um or if your house looks like a hell's angels clubhouse people would stay away
[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_01]: from that too it's like the old story of you know if there's a single lady living in a house go
[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_01]: get the biggest baddest pair of work boots you can get get them all muddy and leave them just
[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_01]: outside the door sometimes that deterrent is all you need so that wraps up precious metals for
[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_01]: this week let's move on to our friend of the workshop and our roving reporter that is all smiles all the
[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_01]: time that is willow sunshine prepper the first thing i want to tell you is she's gone from zero
[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_01]: to 21 subscribers in three weeks she's doing awesome but what i really want is hello to give her some
[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_01]: support and go over there and subscribe her video all the links of every article we talk
[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_01]: about tonight is in the description so give her some love so tonight she's going to talk about
[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_01]: the horse manure protest now the farmer's getting pissed off over in europe so let's give her a listen
[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_01]: it's a great i would say this is her best submission yet and her first three were awesome so with that
[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_00]: let's see what willow has to say oh and welcome to today's sunshine prepper news i'm willow the
[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: sunshine prepper here to spread a bit of positivity on the unavoidable doom and gloom take a nice big
[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_00]: deep breath in sigh with me real quick before we hop into today into today's topic bonus points if you
[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: straighten your spine while you do it okay let's get into today's topic it's going to be farmer
[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_00]: protests ramping up and spreading in europe i remember when it was just the netherlands they
[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: started protesting in 2019 and then their last major protest was in march right before their
[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_00]: elections and their work has finally resulted in some political change perhaps this has helped
[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_00]: inspire farmers in other countries to rise up against policy changes that cripple farmers in
[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_00]: pursuit of arbitrary goals to fix climate change policies that arguably really uh are just going
[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_00]: to impoverish people and consolidate control of the food supply into the hands of our wannabe
[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: overlords so while the netherlands might be done protesting the torch has been passed to
[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_00]: germany france idly and spain between them all i think i've got to give a round of applause to
[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_00]: the french farmers for their effective use of manure on government buildings and possibly also
[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: politicians homes i think it's just public buildings though um they're also blocking roads
[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_00]: with piles of tires and piles of dirt and really making sure that the government knows how they
[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_00]: feel about this green agenda but don't count out the italians who seem to have started the
[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: new trend of blockading airports with tractors in germany the farmers have inspired other
[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_00]: blue collar workers to unite with them to block major roads and in spain impressive numbers often
[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_00]: in the hundreds of tractors are blocking ports and roads and burning piles of tires but why
[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: why are all these hardworking farmers spending their valuable time fuel and equipment
[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_00]: making a royal ruckus for their governments well as i've really mentioned it all comes down to
[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_00]: the green deal or slash green agenda in the e u where they have goals to reduce greenhouse
[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_00]: gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030 from the 1990 levels kind of wild and they want to become
[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_00]: climate neutral by 2050 which arguably is impossible but will not go there different countries in the
[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: e u are approaching this in slightly different ways like focusing specifically on reducing carbon
[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_00]: or making their fight deal with nitrogen and using germany as an example they botched their
[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: budget around the pandemic stuff and are trying to fix said budget by dropping funding that supports
[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: agriculture farmers are particularly frustrated about germany trying to remove agricultural
[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: use diesel subsidies the idea behind the subsidies that taxes on fuel are supposed to maintain roads
[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_00]: but farmers are driving on their property not on the road so they get a tax break on their fuel
[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: but no so in general i mean i don't think government subsidies are great they often
[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: incentivize monocropping and other not great results in food production but i don't think
[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_00]: it's a bad idea to support the people busting their buns doing actual hard work to grow food
[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: so what can you and i do about any of this drum roll i say get your giggity garden going for 2024
[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_00]: for those of us outside of the e u we can really only vigilantly watch our fellow average people
[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: in their struggle against tyranny however growing any amount of your own food is a
[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: seditious act within your circle of influence while it may seem too early you'd be surprised how
[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_00]: many seeds are happy to get started indoors in february if you have not had awesome success starting
[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: seeds like me then now is the time to start planning out the space you have to buy plants
[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: together we can resist the overlords agenda with victory gardens i hope you enjoy today's
[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: segment wishing you and your family long life prosperity and success willow the sunshine prefer
[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_01]: well you guys i gotta say it's pretty interesting so i put a lot of this show this show kind of
[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_01]: comes together throughout the week and whenever i see an interesting article i kind of bookmark it
[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_01]: and i add it to where i think we're gonna go this week and this is the second time now that
[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_01]: willow has come in with something that is kind of a lead into another topic that i want to
[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_01]: talk about and that is simply some of these arduous or draconian measures that governments are passing
[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_01]: in the guise of climate change protection whatever you want to call it and i love that she took the
[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_01]: time to share this because i'm always i'm i always crack up at the europeans i guess insatiable
[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: lust for protesting and of course also their interesting methods that they love the fact that
[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_01]: they're you know spraying cow shit everywhere and oh man it's just it's hilarious now here's the thing
[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: guys you know i seen an interview with jordan peterson the other day and he goes you know what
[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_01]: you know the easiest way that i had people to stop protesting at my events i just started
[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: holding them in the morning and the folks that we're gonna protest just didn't bother showing up
[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_01]: now this is kind of the opposite of that how bad have you had to screw up as a government
[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_01]: to cause farmers to spend one penny more than they need to to come out and protest against you
[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_01]: how but i mean farmers are typically busy as all get out dealing with crops and animals and the
[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_01]: whole works also i've never met a farmer in my life who isn't cheap who basically has to be held
[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_01]: to the fire to be to spend an extra penny can you imagine the fuel it takes to bring those massive
[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: tractors to the city and to protest the way they are when you are pissing off the folks that make
[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: your food for you haven't helped you i mean shouldn't you have learned years ago that if
[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_01]: you piss off a worker at mcdonald's there's a good chance they're gonna spit in your food
[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_01]: and if you piss off a farmer and they decide to stop growing heaven help all of us anyway
[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_01]: let's move on to stranger than fiction folks and this is a good one we got um
[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah so first story i got for you this week leads right in from the one that willow just talked about
[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and this was 100 request from christix and last week i was talking about i i try to pick three
[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_01]: stories and i'm gonna try to be a little more solutions based as i do this i realized that
[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_01]: the first few weeks i just kind of talked about the story and didn't really delve into
[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_01]: how does it affect us as preppers and what can we do to make our lives better in spite of this
[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_01]: bullshit that goes on in the world right so here's the one this is the university of michigan's study
[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_01]: finds most urban farms have greater carbon footprints than conventional agriculture so we're
[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: gonna dive into this a little bit i i have the study i may do a deeper dive into it later on but
[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_01]: i want to talk about this this is from the michigan daily and this was one that um i guess jack
[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: spirco took a big dive into last week as well i haven't heard it yet but this is one of those
[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_01]: articles that when you read it the title jumps out at you and this is one of those that
[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_01]: the news loves to push because it is well it's scary i don't know if that's the right word but
[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_01]: it's it's attention grabbing and it's one of those that really catches your eye when you start
[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_01]: reading but you're like that can't be right and let's dig in because this isn't nearly as cut
[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_01]: and dry as we might think and once again it's the idea of climate change action under the guys
[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_01]: of let's make the world better blah blah blah all right a recent study analyzed the carbon footprint
[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_01]: of urban agricultural sites in comparison to their more conventional agricultural counterparts now
[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_01]: here's the deal most folks they read the headline they share the article and they move on right here
[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_01]: very first paragraph second sentence the study found that while 43 percent of urban farms
[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_01]: have a smaller carbon footprint than conventional farms so right there half of all the farms or
[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_01]: 43 percent you could basically call that half half of all urban farms have a smaller footprint to
[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_01]: carbon footprint than the big industrial ag okay right there that already takes a huge deflation
[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_01]: in the wind on the sales of this article so right there you've already eliminated half of it
[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_01]: okay keep going tim food from the remaining 57 percent of urban farms and gardens leaves a significant
[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_01]: significantly greater carbon footprint up to six times greater than conventional farms
[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_01]: okay there has to be more to this story here we go the researchers studied this is only
[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_01]: paragraph two folks this isn't like bottom of the barrel you know how they love to leave things
[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_01]: to the end environmental the researchers studied environmental impacts of three kinds of urban farms
[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_01]: high production urban farms volunteer led community gardens and individual gardens
[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_01]: okay so they looked at those three cool there's some things missing there and if anybody else
[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_01]: can catch what they're not talking about throw it in the comments but we're going to keep going
[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_01]: the primary contributor to environmental impact was here okay so first off 43 percent
[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_01]: had a lower carbon footprint all right now here's the next kicker this is where those 57 percent come in
[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_01]: the primary contributor to environmental impact was infrastructure on the sites it was not the growing
[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_01]: of the vegetables it was the infrastructure and if anybody didn't catch that i'm going to say
[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_01]: at a third time infrastructure here it is the things that people build in order to enable
[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_01]: food growing so that could be raised that could be raised beds pathways or garden sheds so again
[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_01]: we are dealing with an urban setting and we're dealing with folks who want a pretty backyard
[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_01]: we're dealing with folks who would probably already have a gorgeous backyard to begin with
[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_01]: and so they are looking at all of these other inputs like hey i like that really nice polyshed
[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_01]: that i bought from cosco so we're going to include that in the carbon footprint of how you
[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_01]: grow your vegetables are you seeing it here all right pathways so stones you got to have pathways
[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_01]: to walk to the garden well you're going to have a pathway in the backyard either way you're going
[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_01]: to have a garden shed either way raised beds six or one half a dozen of another we got some
[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_01]: solutions here but i want folks to realize that these scary headlines aren't always as true as they
[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_01]: like to lead them to be a couple of years ago when there was that big story about how
[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_01]: half of the grid was on the verge of collapse because of certain shutdowns and it was a scary
[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_01]: looking report well it turned out they put that report out every single year and guess what
[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_01]: it wasn't any different it just caught traction that year so the person who put the survey together
[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_01]: said they also said there are lesser but still still substantial negative environmental impacts
[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_01]: from certain supplies such as compost and water irrigation i'd have to dig into that more
[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_01]: but i'm not really sure how you take compost and water irrigation is negative environmental
[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_01]: effects but let's move on from that if you look for examples of food products that are
[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_01]: grown in relatively carbon intensive ways in conventional settings and you can actually
[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_01]: grow these things in cities then your net carbon impact is less okay so what they're
[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_01]: saying look at things like tomatoes and asparagus which they talk about because those
[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_01]: are things that either need to be grown in greenhouses or need to be flown in because
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_01]: they're highly perishable according to the study the findings of this research ready here we go
[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_01]: we go to the member gotta go all the way to the bottom to find out that it's not nearly as scary
[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_01]: as we think the findings of this research do not mean that the benefits of urban agricultural
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_01]: should be downplay haas said urban farms can sometimes outperform conventional farms
[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_01]: and positively impact the community all right let's leave it at that positively impact the
[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_01]: community sure great that to me neither here nor there but i got a few thoughts on this the first one guys is
[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_01]: how in the world did carbon footprint become the benchmark by which all decisions need to be made
[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_01]: literally almost everything we talk about or we hear in the news now is
[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_01]: how is the carbon footprint where's the carbon footprint it is the moral benchmark
[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_01]: of all decisions but here's the thing it's also the moral benchmark that is the most
[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_01]: flexible about anybody you read comments on instagram facebook wherever it happens to be
[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_01]: again it's simply i'm going to judge other people based on their carbon footprint but
[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_01]: mine is personally justified it really really bothers me okay but here's the thing this
[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_01]: entire study here's some things that i looked at that it doesn't take into account this doesn't
[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_01]: take into account how much healthier it is to grow your own food again remember that that's a
[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_01]: solution growing our own food is almost always healthier than buying shit from the industrial
[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_01]: complex that i'm guilty of all the time simple as that it also doesn't take into account
[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_01]: the independence of having your own food we all remember 2020 when a whole bunch of things
[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_01]: just completely disappeared from the grocery store shelves and all the sudden they had the limit
[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and ration in the whole works guess what having a more independent society is good for society
[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_01]: as a whole and it doesn't take into effect the cost savings of growing your own food
[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_01]: maybe not right away but down the road those are three things right there that and i know
[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_01]: it's a study based on the carbon footprint alone the problem is is that folks take this as the
[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_01]: gospel and say okay well i guess i shouldn't grow vegetables then because you know the
[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_01]: michigan herald or whatever this newspaper is told me i shouldn't how about this here's a thought
[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_01]: this is something that homesteaders and poor folk have been doing for years but use recycled
[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_01]: or upcycled materials i wanted to build a chicken pen so guess what i did i went down i
[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_01]: walked the beach and i found a whole bunch of driftwood that i could drive into the ground
[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_01]: i'm not seeing wherever you stand on the idea of you know using materials or not using materials
[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_01]: using recycled materials is better in so many ways again what a great solution now here's
[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_01]: the next thing this is urban gardening this study again people don't see that they just see
[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_01]: the headline in their mind people interpret this as growing your own vegetables is bad for the
[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_01]: environment big corporate growing your vegetables is good for the environment this does not take
[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_01]: into account suburban gardening it doesn't take in rural gardening it doesn't take in homesteading
[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_01]: gardening so what what can we do well screw them don't worry about it grow your own garden
[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_01]: save your own seeds use local and recycled materials and finally here's something that
[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_01]: we joke about all the time but this article this study really did make me think how about
[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_01]: our input cost everybody's heard the story from some homesteader who said hey look at this tomato
[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_01]: this is my beautiful very first tomato and it only cost me a hundred and fifty dollars in input
[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_01]: supplies right we joke about that but you know what that's something to think about maybe we could go
[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_01]: get seeds from our local neighbors maybe we could learn how to start our own seedlings
[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_01]: maybe we don't need that fancy ass raised bed garden it cost me five hundred dollars including
[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_01]: pond liner and drainage no anyway maybe we don't i'm just saying instead of throwing the baby
[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_01]: out with the bath water maybe we can learn something from this article maybe we can say
[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_01]: maybe i shouldn't spend just as much maybe i could reuse materials anyway it's a thought
[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_01]: these type of articles they sell clicks they you know they they get eyeballs and i just
[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_01]: don't want folks to read it and say not that this is going to affect our community that much
[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_01]: but i wanted to come at it from a solutions based premise here so all right what do we got next
[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_01]: the next article of the week comes from the cbc the canadian corporate news anyway it's funded
[00:31:21] [SPEAKER_01]: by our government will deal with it but this was close to home or at least close to where i used to
[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_01]: call home and this was the massive storm the massive snow storm in cape breton mainly and for
[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_01]: those who don't know novus kosher is on the east coast of canada i call it the main of canada
[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's mostly a peninsula except the very top which is a big island and that's called
[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_01]: cape breton and they had a historic snowfall i will try to convert as we go along here but here's
[00:31:52] [SPEAKER_01]: the story and this is what four days afterwards novus kosher still digging out after historic
[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_01]: snowfall drops 60 inches in some areas crazy people in novus kosher were digging out monday
[00:32:05] [SPEAKER_01]: after historic multi-day snowstorm slammed much of the province with some residents of the hard
[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_01]: hit cape breton being told to shelter in place as crews struggled to clear snow covered streets
[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_01]: anytime we deal with a big weather phenomenon like that shelter in place is used quite often
[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_01]: now the largest snowstorm i ever saw was in 2004 it was called white one what a funny name because
[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_01]: we had a hurricane early in the year called one but it was a nasty storm that was four foot of
[00:32:36] [SPEAKER_01]: snow with some drifts that were 10 or 12 feet high at times but this one was even bigger than that
[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_01]: but it wasn't the entire province at least not that bad here's another thought or another thing
[00:32:48] [SPEAKER_01]: that the government saying it could be days before some rural roads are cleared report the chief
[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_01]: engineer novus kosher chief engineer told reporters the top priority is making sure the major
[00:32:59] [SPEAKER_01]: series highways are cleared followed by trunk highways roads and then local roads and then
[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_01]: gravel roads i wanted to talk about that just a little bit the thought the the process of course
[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_01]: the further rural we live the more self-sufficient we need to be and the longer we need to expect
[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_01]: to not have our roads cleared i get it not the end of the world right uh it was said that a
[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_01]: state of emergency doesn't mean snow clearing will happen faster um this government official said
[00:33:26] [SPEAKER_01]: it means people can be fined for being outside unnecessarily again something i didn't know
[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_01]: i didn't know in canada that if they declared a state of emergency and you're outside
[00:33:36] [SPEAKER_01]: for a non-emergency reason they can find you and i'm sure put you in jail if they really want to
[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_01]: they said some equipment was having such a hard time getting through the heavy snow some
[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_01]: of the plows were actually getting stuck i saw our grader here in town the other day
[00:33:50] [SPEAKER_01]: it tends to break down quite often it wasn't stuck but it wasn't working
[00:33:54] [SPEAKER_01]: and transit cape retin will not be operating still a couple of days after the storm
[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_01]: son um there was some requests sent to the federal government for heavy equipment to
[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_01]: assist with snow removal possible fuel storage to help replenish equipment faster and air transport
[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_01]: to help with the delivery of supplies and possible evacuations again all of these things sound scary
[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_01]: don't they they reported up to 30 car accidents and many many every single time many many many
[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_01]: stranded motorists and abandoned vehicles what is wrong with folks i don't know and
[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_01]: note for those of you on the audio you won't be able to see this picture but there is a dude
[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_01]: literally shoveling off the roof of his one-story house and the drift is up to somewhere between
[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_01]: his waist and his shoulder so we're talking four feet of snow on the roof of that house
[00:34:46] [SPEAKER_01]: good thing snow load is an issue when building houses in Nova Scotia but
[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_01]: that's heart attack snow folks so be careful out there so what do we do you look at this and
[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_01]: you think what would happen if it happened to me well it did happen to me in the past and it could
[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_01]: happen to most of us probably not Ellen down in Australia i'm thinking she probably won't
[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_01]: be dealing with six feet or five feet of snow but here we are anyway have lots of food on
[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_01]: hands folks we know this this is one of those things that we preach but this is something
[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_01]: that i hope gets out to the you know the general public if you live in a rural area you should have
[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_01]: a bunch of food on hand anyway but if you live somewhere where you can get shut down for a metric
[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_01]: shit ton of time simply because mother nature decided to go a little cold well there you go
[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_01]: what do we do we have food on hand obviously have prescriptions and have baby supplies
[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_01]: our girls were on formula we always made sure we had an extra couple of cans of formula
[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_01]: because you just didn't know if wal-mart or wherever you picked it up would be out of it but
[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_01]: more than that what happens if you get four feet five feet of snow dumped on you and you can't get
[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_01]: to the store for a week you got to figure out a way to feed your babies you got to figure out a way
[00:35:55] [SPEAKER_01]: to make sure your blood pressure stays down and you got to eat if you can't eat you're in trouble
[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and if you're out there shoveling snow like a bugger you're going to need more calories too right
[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_01]: have a plan i saw some articles or some pictures on reddit actually
[00:36:10] [SPEAKER_01]: the folks that actually had to climb out of second story windows to get out of their house
[00:36:13] [SPEAKER_01]: i saw a picture of a guy who rolled up his garage door and there was about three inches
[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_01]: of light at the very top that is so overwhelming it's scary so have a plan how can i get out of my
[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_01]: home if the snow is you know up to the eaves right what are you going to do here's another one
[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_01]: and i just did a review on the dwalt battery powered snowblower but a tip that i actually
[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_01]: have a really good story one of one of kind of my adopted grandfather's his name was po he's long
[00:36:46] [SPEAKER_01]: since passed away many years ago i one of my good friends alex it was his grandfather and we went
[00:36:51] [SPEAKER_01]: over to his house to play risk during white one and i get over there and it is a blizzard out
[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_01]: and po is out with the snowblower and i looked at him and i said what is wrong with you
[00:37:02] [SPEAKER_01]: and he goes if i don't do it now by the time it totally gets dumped on i ain't going to be
[00:37:07] [SPEAKER_01]: able to do it so in other words stay on top the snow it sucks but if you have a path or
[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_01]: you know think of it this way even if you can just keep a three foot wide path open from you to the
[00:37:19] [SPEAKER_01]: street that could mean the difference between life and death so if it's going to if it's given five
[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_01]: feet of snow and you got to go out every hour to clear a foot of snow with a snowblower or whatever
[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_01]: all the better for it so stay on top the snow if you can keep an eye on your vents and
[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_01]: your chimneys folks this is one of those bad ones but you can see there his chimney in the background
[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_01]: is okay but i've seen lots of chimneys that get frosted or iced over and that can cause a number
[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_01]: one it can shut your furnace off and if it doesn't have proper safeguards in place
[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_01]: it could end up poisoning you so you don't want that and then of course stay the hell home
[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_01]: we did that episode a few months back on the LA riots and every single person just
[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_01]: about who died as a result of the riots would not have died if they'd have just done those four words
[00:38:08] [SPEAKER_01]: stay the hell home simple as that all right on to the next this is the stranger than fiction this one
[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_01]: is literally stranger than fiction and if you haven't heard this this might be one i haven't seen
[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_01]: do the round yet but here you go this is an article from newsweek and it says map shows
[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_01]: NATO territory losing gps amid russia electronic warfare drill didn't even know this existed
[00:38:30] [SPEAKER_01]: folks but it's kind of interesting and again we're going to come at this from a solutions-based
[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_01]: perspective gps disturbances were detected across nato member poland on tuesday they've sparked speculation
[00:38:42] [SPEAKER_01]: of russian involvement following a similar incident in the region last month over northern and central
[00:38:48] [SPEAKER_01]: poland the gps signal was again jammed with war saw and a few other cities affected and the
[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_01]: swedish military intelligence agency is investigating at the moment here's an
[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_01]: this is kind of cool for those again on the on the video feed audio we got a map here that shows
[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_01]: where gps was completely jammed i didn't even know you could jam gps but here you go
[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_01]: russians tested this electronic weapon in kolingrad so almost half of poland and the
[00:39:17] [SPEAKER_01]: swalki corridor were left without gps gps jamming was detected in eastern and southeastern
[00:39:24] [SPEAKER_01]: parts of nato's newest member finland and here's the thing they say we don't know whether it was
[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_01]: intentionally caused or a byproduct of the russian activities there you go simple as that
[00:39:37] [SPEAKER_01]: here's the deal it doesn't matter if it was intentional or it was a byproduct either way
[00:39:42] [SPEAKER_01]: gps was jammed so here's my thoughts this reminded me again of about a year and a half
[00:39:49] [SPEAKER_01]: ago coming back from the us and bell canada shutting off my data because apparently i'd use too much
[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_01]: or they didn't have the proper plan on there and guess what like a good prepper that was my only
[00:40:01] [SPEAKER_01]: source of navigation yeah i know right i felt like i was standing up in you know 10th grade
[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_01]: getting ready to do a presentation and i'd forgot to put clothes on that's how naked i felt i'm
[00:40:13] [SPEAKER_01]: telling you it was a horrible feeling so number one know your routes travel them on occasion without
[00:40:21] [SPEAKER_01]: gps most folks will travel within their own city and never once look at landmarks or anything because
[00:40:26] [SPEAKER_01]: they just listen to google maps or gps it's a really good becky and i do this now now that we've
[00:40:32] [SPEAKER_01]: gone to the city we go to edmonton quite regularly we will travel and try to use our brain
[00:40:36] [SPEAKER_01]: sometimes it screws us up but you know what when you screw up you get stressed out that's
[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_01]: when you make those new mental synapse connections and you realize that's how i get there so don't
[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_01]: only be reliant on electronics for that kind of stuff right also if you do have working gps
[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_01]: take a picture or a screenshot of your directions so that if you do lose data you still have it
[00:40:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and of course keep a paper atlas on hand i was uh we stopped at a gas station in towfield the
[00:41:05] [SPEAKER_01]: other day which is about two hours away from here they had a ton of maps and there was a
[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_01]: guy picking one up and i was like yeah that's kind of cool so i do i now have a spiral bound
[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_01]: a really nice spiral bound atlas down in i kind of have this third layer of hidden compartments
[00:41:21] [SPEAKER_01]: it's it's not intentional it was just put there in a ram and it's underneath the center console
[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_01]: perfect space for a spiral bound north american road atlas so simple as that apparently so yeah um
[00:41:34] [SPEAKER_01]: ellen kerr says so it's easy to jam gps low cost and causes havoc and they're illegal though
[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_01]: totally get it but that's the crazy thing just because something's illegal doesn't mean people
[00:41:44] [SPEAKER_01]: don't have it but this is a massive electronic weapon that rushes using and apparently they've
[00:41:51] [SPEAKER_01]: been using it to try to jam you know gps guided missiles and that sort of thing so of course we're
[00:41:58] [SPEAKER_01]: always going to be the dealing with the after effects of other countries war efforts so this is
[00:42:07] [SPEAKER_01]: just one of them things that could be very simple it could be a solar flare could be a ton of things
[00:42:11] [SPEAKER_01]: that end up putting the gps out permanently or more than likely or more likely temporarily so
[00:42:19] [SPEAKER_01]: again just think about it what are the things we can do to have redundancies two is one one is
[00:42:25] [SPEAKER_01]: none and three is a guarantee right so three ways to get home there you go simple as that so that's
[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_01]: the end of stranger than fiction for this week i hope i hope i come at it with some more solutions
[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_01]: for you and some interesting articles maybe you hadn't quite heard yet all right next what do we
[00:42:41] [SPEAKER_01]: got well we got to talk about our first sponsor the evening and that is my good buddy joel riles
[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_01]: we're actually talking today had some generator problems poor guy and he has the protection
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[00:43:21] [SPEAKER_01]: don't forget my good buddy joel riles at the protection dog podcast all right next we have
[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_01]: the side hustle spotlight this is a good one this is a little bit different but i wanted to share it
[00:43:31] [SPEAKER_01]: with you because i liked it yet another alberta story this one came out this week from global
[00:43:36] [SPEAKER_01]: news and it was the eminem eminem junk removal company launches a free cycle furniture
[00:43:42] [SPEAKER_01]: program now here's the deal this in and of itself isn't necessarily a side hustle or an
[00:43:48] [SPEAKER_01]: entrepreneurial venture but there's some lessons we can pull out of it and i i really like this one
[00:43:52] [SPEAKER_01]: so eminem junk removal company launches free cycle furniture program during business hours
[00:44:00] [SPEAKER_01]: just junk is a full service item removal company but on monday nights it recycles some of those
[00:44:05] [SPEAKER_01]: furniture pieces and offers them to people in need so this reminds me back in my college days
[00:44:12] [SPEAKER_01]: i think it was nb tell at the time new brunswick telecom they used to have this place where all
[00:44:18] [SPEAKER_01]: these nerdy old dudes would get together and they would take all of these donated computers
[00:44:23] [SPEAKER_01]: and they would put them back together and make workable computers for low-income families
[00:44:27] [SPEAKER_01]: this is similar but there's some like i said entrepreneurial lessons to be learned in the
[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_01]: past the company had donated the selvic is a salvage furniture to organizations like habitat
[00:44:37] [SPEAKER_01]: for humanity but with inflation going up and people having a hard time we just figured we
[00:44:43] [SPEAKER_01]: donate our furniture and we receive from our customers on a weekly basis so every monday
[00:44:47] [SPEAKER_01]: night from 6 30 to 8 30 they open the doors folks can take as much or as little as they want
[00:44:54] [SPEAKER_01]: he said the program also saves household items from the landfill so what do i like about this
[00:45:00] [SPEAKER_01]: well there's a few thoughts here but the big one is number one some of these things
[00:45:05] [SPEAKER_01]: might be slightly broken so if you take them you might need to know how to fix them what a great
[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_01]: skill being a handyman is a prepper i love that okay but we're talking about entrepreneurial
[00:45:14] [SPEAKER_01]: things and here's the thing a skill of entrepreneurs is to see the need and to find a way to make
[00:45:21] [SPEAKER_01]: money but there's a second one that we don't always talk about so much and that is to also
[00:45:27] [SPEAKER_01]: figure out ways to not spend as much money so if you're spending less money or you're making
[00:45:33] [SPEAKER_01]: more money they're both improving the bottom line right now what do i like about this they look at
[00:45:38] [SPEAKER_01]: this and they say hey we have this junk we're already getting paid to haul it away and we probably have
[00:45:45] [SPEAKER_01]: to pay massive amounts of money to take it to the landfill and there's people who could probably
[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_01]: use it so guess what we can divert it from the landfill we can save the disposal fees and we
[00:45:56] [SPEAKER_01]: can give it to other folks who could use it there's lots of places that are doing this but
[00:46:01] [SPEAKER_01]: this is the same concept that i think about every time i go to my local landfill
[00:46:06] [SPEAKER_01]: and i think all right here's the deal i look they have this great big massive burn pile
[00:46:11] [SPEAKER_01]: that if somebody wanted to go through it and pick out all the firewood in there
[00:46:14] [SPEAKER_01]: they could sell it or heat their house for a month of sundays it would be awesome
[00:46:19] [SPEAKER_01]: tons of redeemable bottles go to the landfill if they wanted to let some you know poor folk
[00:46:24] [SPEAKER_01]: or a kid maybe not a kid but a teenager go through and collect them why not you're
[00:46:29] [SPEAKER_01]: going to divert them right the copper that goes into the scrap all these things so there's always
[00:46:34] [SPEAKER_01]: ways to look at what you're doing and say how can i make more money or how can i save more money
[00:46:40] [SPEAKER_01]: and they're both really important and cold war preppers is timing in that is also critical
[00:46:46] [SPEAKER_01]: and i'm thinking i'm gonna guess he's talking about giving away this kind of stuff because
[00:46:50] [SPEAKER_01]: this is a problem and this is what i ran into when we used to tear apart or clean up abandoned
[00:46:57] [SPEAKER_01]: bank properties i used to save everything and then i would put it in a storage container
[00:47:02] [SPEAKER_01]: and i would say you know what i'm going to give that to somebody and guess what would happen
[00:47:06] [SPEAKER_01]: i'd never find somebody to give it to so what i would probably say is i'm guessing that come
[00:47:13] [SPEAKER_01]: tuesday after they've done the giveaway whatever's left probably still goes to the landfill
[00:47:17] [SPEAKER_01]: but it's one more step to get rid of a bunch of shit that you don't have to pay
[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_01]: to do it i like that all right next thing we have is workshop wasteland and this is where we
[00:47:27] [SPEAKER_01]: take a look at post apocalyptic and dystopian popular culture movies music books whatever
[00:47:37] [SPEAKER_01]: so this one's a real quick one we're not going to spend any time on it at all if you've played
[00:47:41] [SPEAKER_01]: the last of us which i really enjoyed haven't played the last of us too but neil druckman teases
[00:47:45] [SPEAKER_01]: a concept for last of us part three all it was a documentary on the making of last of us part two
[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_01]: and he said there's probably one more chapter to this story he has a concept and that's all there is
[00:47:56] [SPEAKER_01]: to it there's no more i can tell you about it but if anybody's out there and they are a last of us
[00:48:01] [SPEAKER_01]: fan it sounds like there's a good chance they might get a part three eventually now this one i ran
[00:48:07] [SPEAKER_01]: across this is just a new video game we're not going to talk about it long because i'm not
[00:48:11] [SPEAKER_01]: a huge video gamer but there are folks out there that are and this is a game on steam called new
[00:48:18] [SPEAKER_01]: cycle not news cycle but new cycle and here is the the blurb new cycle is a city building game with
[00:48:26] [SPEAKER_01]: focus on survival after an apocalyptic series of solar flares human society has been thrown into
[00:48:32] [SPEAKER_01]: disarray establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial
[00:48:37] [SPEAKER_01]: metropolis all i wanted to share was if folks are into like the age of empire's world building game
[00:48:43] [SPEAKER_01]: this is a kind of steam punk post apocalyptic version of that so if there's folks out there that are
[00:48:49] [SPEAKER_01]: like hey i'd like to test my world building skills this might be something to check out
[00:48:53] [SPEAKER_01]: all right now the big part of this week in workshop wasteland is the mist how many of you
[00:49:01] [SPEAKER_01]: or if anybody out there has ever seen it it is definitely one of my favorites it definitely
[00:49:05] [SPEAKER_01]: falls under the apocalyptic movie framework and becky and i sat down and rewatched a little while
[00:49:12] [SPEAKER_01]: ago and so what i'm going to do in this segment is if i watch new movies i'm going to give you a
[00:49:17] [SPEAKER_01]: two or three minute review of them but if i watch classics i'm going to do the exact same thing
[00:49:21] [SPEAKER_01]: because this is one of the best apocalyptic films ever made if you haven't seen it
[00:49:27] [SPEAKER_01]: do yourself a favor when you have a time a time when you have a time i sound like an italian
[00:49:33] [SPEAKER_01]: it's a mario when you have a time then you should probably well anyway give yourself some
[00:49:39] [SPEAKER_01]: enjoyment and sit down and watch it sometime but all right so my thoughts on the mist and why it is
[00:49:46] [SPEAKER_01]: literally a classic apocalyptic film number one this thing gets going fast there's maybe three
[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_01]: minutes of build up of an early storm and then boom you get right into the action you might not
[00:49:58] [SPEAKER_01]: know what the action is but it happens real quick no power no radio no cell phone no pay phone what
[00:50:06] [SPEAKER_01]: everything gets blown almost like an emp it's not an emp but real quick you realize
[00:50:10] [SPEAKER_01]: shit's gone sideways and i like that you got power trucks going you got the military you
[00:50:15] [SPEAKER_01]: got fire and police you find out that leave for the military base has all been canceled and there's
[00:50:21] [SPEAKER_01]: really creepy silent hill type siren you know things aren't good this film has probably
[00:50:28] [SPEAKER_01]: one of the most perfect scripts there's very few words that are wasted and the way it's set up
[00:50:35] [SPEAKER_01]: through three acts and we're going to talk a bit more about it it just has one of the tightest
[00:50:40] [SPEAKER_01]: most enjoyable scripts i love seeing classics done like this i'm a huge fan of confined space
[00:50:48] [SPEAKER_01]: films if you haven't watched if you haven't heard me talk about this in the past i love movies like
[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_01]: pony pool where the entire thing takes place within a radio studio and you're hearing about
[00:50:58] [SPEAKER_01]: the apocalypse happening in the background there's something claustrophobic and intimidating and
[00:51:04] [SPEAKER_01]: anxious anxiety inducing in these closed kind of confines so for some reason we now have
[00:51:12] [SPEAKER_01]: a completely different movie playing up there that's great so all right the ending i'm not
[00:51:17] [SPEAKER_01]: going to spoil the ending but the ending is as bleak as any movie i've ever seen frank darabond who
[00:51:23] [SPEAKER_01]: also did a couple other steven king classics and wrote the first season of the walking dead actually
[00:51:30] [SPEAKER_01]: rewrote the ending to the mist and steven king patted him on the back and said man i wish i'd
[00:51:35] [SPEAKER_01]: have thought of that sound design or lack of sound is incredibly creepy in the mist they
[00:51:42] [SPEAKER_01]: they do the old you know hearing things instead of seeing things and it's super impactful
[00:51:49] [SPEAKER_01]: also the tempo of the film is great you get these long quiet sections and then all of a
[00:51:55] [SPEAKER_01]: sudden all hell breaks loose with action and it must be similar to being a police officer driving
[00:52:01] [SPEAKER_01]: around you know eight hours of the day nothing happens and all of a sudden there's a high speed
[00:52:05] [SPEAKER_01]: police chase it's that kind of thing it's got a 1950s monster movie vibe to it and i love it
[00:52:12] [SPEAKER_01]: the acting is over the top on purpose because it is dealing with or trying to pay homage to
[00:52:21] [SPEAKER_01]: the old 1950s monster films there's actually a black and white version that was released
[00:52:26] [SPEAKER_01]: i believe in theaters on the 10th anniversary i haven't seen it but i think this movie would
[00:52:31] [SPEAKER_01]: really really be done well in black and white what i really like more than anything is the
[00:52:37] [SPEAKER_01]: psychological and the sociological themes of this movie they really quickly the folks in
[00:52:44] [SPEAKER_01]: there kind of devolve into three groups you've got your realists your rationalists and your
[00:52:49] [SPEAKER_01]: religious and it doesn't take any time at all to see how quick society would collapse and
[00:52:55] [SPEAKER_01]: how quick they would reform into these little cadres of folks i love it there's a great quote
[00:53:00] [SPEAKER_01]: in the movie that sums up the entire theme of the film and it says sure as long as the
[00:53:06] [SPEAKER_01]: machines are working and you can doll 9-1-1 but you take those things away you throw people
[00:53:10] [SPEAKER_01]: into the dark you scare the shit out of them no more rules and you'll quickly see how primitive
[00:53:15] [SPEAKER_01]: people can become yep i'm a big fan of the unknown and in my limited experience with films
[00:53:25] [SPEAKER_01]: when you don't see the monster it's more scary than when you do now the downside i'm gonna say
[00:53:31] [SPEAKER_01]: the CGI looks terrible on purpose it looked dated when it came out but that is one notch down for sure
[00:53:39] [SPEAKER_01]: and where the film falters a bit is in the showing of the thing so you will see all of these crazy
[00:53:46] [SPEAKER_01]: creatures and stuff i don't think it was necessarily needed i think the film could have
[00:53:50] [SPEAKER_01]: been done really well with almost never showing any of the monsters but there you go
[00:53:59] [SPEAKER_01]: i'm gonna actually i had a note here i'm gonna leave that out because i don't want to spoil the ending
[00:54:04] [SPEAKER_01]: but hitchcock here's two quotes from hitchcock that i love he says suspense is like a woman
[00:54:08] [SPEAKER_01]: the more left in the imagination the more the excitement and then he said there is no terror
[00:54:13] [SPEAKER_01]: in the bang only in the anticipation of it that is one of my favorite quotes of all time
[00:54:20] [SPEAKER_01]: in other words the monster you don't see is scarier than the monster you do i give it four and a half
[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_01]: out of five stars it would be a perfect film if it showed the monsters less and the CGI didn't suck
[00:54:34] [SPEAKER_01]: donkey balls other than that it's a perfect apocalyptic film if you've never seen it do
[00:54:39] [SPEAKER_01]: yourself a favor make yourself an old-fashioned sit down on the snowy saturday night and watch
[00:54:44] [SPEAKER_01]: the mist just be prepared to be slightly broken in your spirit because that ending is a gut punch
[00:54:50] [SPEAKER_01]: folks all right moving right along to one of my most favorite titled segments of the week and
[00:54:58] [SPEAKER_01]: that is i read it on the internet so this is where i go to our preppers on reddit.com and if you
[00:55:05] [SPEAKER_01]: haven't been there we've talked about it and i pick the most interesting article or the highest
[00:55:10] [SPEAKER_01]: trending post of the week this is a good one this is by user simple witch and the question
[00:55:17] [SPEAKER_01]: was posed why do you guys have kids i have so many friends trying to have kids or kids on the way
[00:55:23] [SPEAKER_01]: with everything that is going on i don't understand why anyone would want to have kids right now
[00:55:27] [SPEAKER_01]: i know it's not reasonable to live in fear my heart tells me it's okay to have kids maybe
[00:55:32] [SPEAKER_01]: nothing will happen but my brain tells me it's the worst idea ever there's this lingering
[00:55:36] [SPEAKER_01]: threat of war terrible climate change and so on with a lot of luck maybe we won't be affected by
[00:55:41] [SPEAKER_01]: anything major in our lifetime but our kids will be 100 won't they i feel like it's so irresponsible
[00:55:46] [SPEAKER_01]: to make kids just so they'll suffer in a few years maybe i'm wrong i just can't imagine
[00:55:52] [SPEAKER_01]: actively trying to have kids and never think about the future and what scientists and
[00:55:56] [SPEAKER_01]: experts say well there's anyway my mom told me i'm selfish for not having kids anyway so
[00:56:02] [SPEAKER_01]: we'll get into that but i just wanted to share that is a common thread amongst preppers and non-preppers
[00:56:09] [SPEAKER_01]: alike and especially the the older gen z generation as they get older there a lot of them don't want
[00:56:15] [SPEAKER_01]: to have kids because they have been spoon fed an entire diet of fear since the day they were
[00:56:22] [SPEAKER_01]: born and damn it it's sad it makes me sad a couple of edits here they said i'm not from the
[00:56:28] [SPEAKER_01]: us i live near ukraine where there's special operation going on right now we've had bombing
[00:56:32] [SPEAKER_01]: last year just 200 kilometers away from my home so many of you anyway that sucks this breaks my
[00:56:42] [SPEAKER_01]: heart because i love my kids we've got five kids as i was putting this article together
[00:56:49] [SPEAKER_01]: alice actually messaged me and i seen it and she's like dad and i'm like oh she needs me to
[00:56:54] [SPEAKER_01]: run or something she wanted me to run her water bottles over to basketball and as much as for an
[00:56:59] [SPEAKER_01]: instant i'm like oh shit i don't want to do that i think now that's why i had kids and i friggin love
[00:57:04] [SPEAKER_01]: them and they crack me up and there's so many reasons but this is an interesting kind of so
[00:57:10] [SPEAKER_01]: i wanted to share three or four comments from the reddit community on their thoughts of why
[00:57:14] [SPEAKER_01]: they have kids and then i'll share my thoughts on why becky and i had kids
[00:57:20] [SPEAKER_01]: we're preppers not doomers if you haven't heard the term doomer that is a late 80s early 90s where
[00:57:26] [SPEAKER_01]: folks went around you know chicken little the world's gonna end right so they said we're preppers
[00:57:30] [SPEAKER_01]: not doomers what are you even trying to survive for good point how about this one the shit has hit
[00:57:37] [SPEAKER_01]: the fan numerous times throughout our history empires rise empires fall plagues kill millions
[00:57:43] [SPEAKER_01]: natural disasters and destroy entire cities whole civilizations have come and gone most of what we
[00:57:49] [SPEAKER_01]: call preparedness now is simply a base way humans have survived after every disaster people crawl
[00:57:56] [SPEAKER_01]: from the rubble and life goes on we live in a unique time where the norm doesn't partake
[00:58:03] [SPEAKER_01]: in subsistence farming hunting or anything like that it's uh finally this one here we prep
[00:58:10] [SPEAKER_01]: because of things like this i couldn't give a shit about myself i mostly prep for my family
[00:58:16] [SPEAKER_01]: having kids and giving them a good life why do we prep why do we have kids as preppers not
[00:58:23] [SPEAKER_01]: everybody does and if you don't want to have kids i'm not going to judge you i'm an anarchist do
[00:58:28] [SPEAKER_01]: whatever you want as long as you don't steal my shit or hurt me i'm cool but it made me think
[00:58:34] [SPEAKER_01]: why did i have kids why did becky and i have kids well one is because i want a legacy and
[00:58:39] [SPEAKER_01]: i don't mean that in a bad way but uh you know there is an innate darwinian instinct within
[00:58:46] [SPEAKER_01]: i think most folks that part of the reason we're on this planet is to further our dna and simple as
[00:58:55] [SPEAKER_01]: that it's not here nor there because i believe this world is worth inhabiting we live in an
[00:59:01] [SPEAKER_01]: incredible world that is worth taking care of and i think by choosing not to have kids
[00:59:06] [SPEAKER_01]: we're choosing not to inhabit this planet and for me i want my kids to have the future
[00:59:13] [SPEAKER_01]: because there will be a future no matter what people think there will always be a future
[00:59:18] [SPEAKER_01]: and i hate when people think there isn't and i don't and i don't want people to think that because
[00:59:24] [SPEAKER_01]: good shit bad shit there was that quote that i love from c.s lewis that everybody was quoting
[00:59:29] [SPEAKER_01]: during covet and he was asked by a student how can i do anything i'm paralyzed with fear
[00:59:36] [SPEAKER_01]: with the fact that we could be annihilated tomorrow from a nuclear weapon how could i do anything
[00:59:41] [SPEAKER_01]: and he looked at them and he said listen don't you think that folks who live near the vikings
[00:59:47] [SPEAKER_01]: were constantly in fear of being annihilated by a viking ship showing up or by the black
[00:59:52] [SPEAKER_01]: plague or the black death but folks still had babies because that's what we do the this is
[00:59:57] [SPEAKER_01]: our legacy we the one of the biggest reasons we prep is so that these skills can be handed on to
[01:00:04] [SPEAKER_01]: the next generation and if we don't procreate and don't have a next generation why prep right
[01:00:13] [SPEAKER_01]: because why did i have kids because i have the desire to love and you don't have to have
[01:00:18] [SPEAKER_01]: kids to love i get it but there is something incredibly special about having kids and about
[01:00:24] [SPEAKER_01]: seeing them succeed and about getting to live life a second time because first you go through
[01:00:29] [SPEAKER_01]: high school and then you get to help your kids go through high school you get to watch
[01:00:33] [SPEAKER_01]: movies with your kids for the first time that you get it's like watching them again for the first
[01:00:37] [SPEAKER_01]: time and there is nothing anyway the desire to love your kids is innate and it is something that
[01:00:45] [SPEAKER_01]: until you experience it is indescribable and because i want to have i want to have my kids
[01:00:53] [SPEAKER_01]: around and hopefully grandkids if they decide to when i'm old because i don't want to be lonely
[01:00:57] [SPEAKER_01]: i want to have you know i want my kids to come by once a week and take me out for coffee
[01:01:01] [SPEAKER_01]: and push me in the wheelchair maybe that's selfish i don't know but i want my kids to inherit this
[01:01:07] [SPEAKER_01]: world i want my kids to be happy i want to impart in them all the skills that i have spent all these
[01:01:13] [SPEAKER_01]: years learning and i want them to impart those skills in their kids oh hop down off the soapbox
[01:01:19] [SPEAKER_01]: tim so there you go i love my kids i think they're incredible i may not be a perfect father
[01:01:24] [SPEAKER_01]: some days but you know what i damn well try the best i can and i want their generation to
[01:01:30] [SPEAKER_01]: know that it's okay to have kids too because that is simply where this world exists and there
[01:01:36] [SPEAKER_01]: will always be bad shit and i don't want that entire generation to sit around and be scared
[01:01:41] [SPEAKER_01]: shitless because they've been spoon-fed a diet of climate hysteria and it frustrates me to no end
[01:01:49] [SPEAKER_01]: next sponsor anyway my good friend john willis sent me this shirt the other day do not comply
[01:01:56] [SPEAKER_01]: special operations equipment the dude is incredible he makes incredible gear but i simply
[01:02:02] [SPEAKER_01]: want to thank him every time i get a shirt i'm going to give him a shout out because i don't
[01:02:06] [SPEAKER_01]: deserve it he sends them to me the dude is an inspiration he has helped me along the way
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[01:02:15] [SPEAKER_01]: what's next we have the cookbook of the collapse so again number one i want to
[01:02:21] [SPEAKER_01]: reach out to you guys and say hey if you have simple family recipes or whatever that would
[01:02:28] [SPEAKER_01]: allow you to use your preps send them to me i want to make a workshop cookbook called the cookbook
[01:02:35] [SPEAKER_01]: of the collapse we get to 100 we're gonna put them together that today's episode today's episode
[01:02:40] [SPEAKER_01]: what what are you tim what is this like saturday morning cartoons anyway today's recipe comes
[01:02:46] [SPEAKER_01]: again from jim tubs he sent one last week and this one goes along with it he had he comes from
[01:02:52] [SPEAKER_01]: saw horse stables woodcraft and this one is a simple recipe for sausage gravy oh the bane of my
[01:02:59] [SPEAKER_01]: existence i do love it though one pound ground breakfast sausage four cups hold milk you can
[01:03:04] [SPEAKER_01]: use two percent if you want a third a cup all-purpose flour salt and pepper to taste oh man
[01:03:10] [SPEAKER_01]: brown the sausage in a large skillet he prefers to use cast iron until cooked do not drain leave
[01:03:17] [SPEAKER_01]: the good fat in there lower heat to low sprinkle flour over cooked sausage mix the flour into the
[01:03:22] [SPEAKER_01]: sausage heat on low until flour is cooked add half the milk increase the heat stirring consistently
[01:03:27] [SPEAKER_01]: add the remainder of the milk stir until your desired thickness add salt and pepper to taste
[01:03:33] [SPEAKER_01]: and then serve over biscuits or hash browns that almost sounds sad to put them on hash browns they
[01:03:38] [SPEAKER_01]: got to go on biscuits right but what a great what a great simple recipe i had never had biscuits and
[01:03:45] [SPEAKER_01]: gravy before i went to the us and i friggin love them they're not available in canada for anybody who's
[01:03:50] [SPEAKER_01]: wondering it's just not a canadian thing so if you're looking for it there's the recipe
[01:03:54] [SPEAKER_01]: i'm not sure if it made it into the show notes tonight but i will make sure it gets into the
[01:03:59] [SPEAKER_01]: show notes all the articles are but i don't think i put the recipe in there for you
[01:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: all right what's next this week in the workshop
[01:04:08] [SPEAKER_01]: this is something i used to do on my saturday shows and we've moved it into this this week
[01:04:12] [SPEAKER_01]: in prepping and it's again where i share with you the things that i've gotten done so that you
[01:04:17] [SPEAKER_01]: guys keep me accountable and hopefully maybe i inspire you to try some new things as well but
[01:04:23] [SPEAKER_01]: i uh first thing i did last week early this week was demolish the bathroom and the
[01:04:28] [SPEAKER_01]: rental that i'm renovating and what a stench folks remember to wear gloves because also don't use
[01:04:35] [SPEAKER_01]: particle board around a toilet yeah enough said it was disgusting we had a furnace motor sees on a
[01:04:41] [SPEAKER_01]: rental this week got that fixed that turns out to be what caused the frozen pipes heat was on
[01:04:47] [SPEAKER_01]: but it wasn't circulating so the house wasn't getting really cold but in that cold snap it
[01:04:52] [SPEAKER_01]: wasn't pushing it around because the blower couldn't engage isn't that something yeah
[01:04:57] [SPEAKER_01]: went away last weekend for the badminton badminton nope that was you tim when you were a kid
[01:05:02] [SPEAKER_01]: stopped living vicariously through your kids volleyball charlotte did a volleyball tournament
[01:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: 60 teams they tied for i can't remember if it was 17th or 23rd doesn't matter but it was above
[01:05:13] [SPEAKER_01]: they were in the top half had a hell of a time it was just yeah that's where the kids make their
[01:05:20] [SPEAKER_01]: memories so um if your kids want to do sports and you can afford it and you can make it happen
[01:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: it's a hell of a good time every so often but it was a nasty drive home we had a nasty snowstorm
[01:05:31] [SPEAKER_01]: and ice everywhere made it home fine just drive like you know not like a maniac i got to do my
[01:05:38] [SPEAKER_01]: first real test of the dwalt snow blower and if you caught it i did a review video this week
[01:05:42] [SPEAKER_01]: i liked it it's a steep price tag but for the folks it's made for it really works i spent a
[01:05:52] [SPEAKER_01]: daycare furniture and um one tool in there that's been indispensable to me is a small package of impact
[01:06:00] [SPEAKER_01]: driver allen keys they fit into my impact driver and they have all the different allen key sizes
[01:06:07] [SPEAKER_01]: that has been a lifesaver for me we're still dealing with the electricians at the new daycare
[01:06:12] [SPEAKER_01]: in case anybody wants an update on that we should have been open by now but they just don't care
[01:06:17] [SPEAKER_01]: it doesn't matter how much you hauler or carry on quick little anecdote but they need to run
[01:06:26] [SPEAKER_01]: wiring through the entire building there is a piano teacher in the basement who has a grand piano that
[01:06:31] [SPEAKER_01]: costs more than most people's houses they told the electricians three times make sure you cover
[01:06:38] [SPEAKER_01]: it you keep it clean yep yep yep yep no problem but if you've ever seen the old meme and i'm
[01:06:43] [SPEAKER_01]: not slamming electricians but every electrician i've ever met has been filthy they're scared of
[01:06:49] [SPEAKER_01]: brooms and this was no different they got dirt and stuff all i don't know whatever possess them to do
[01:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: it but this is what we're dealing with the sooner they can get this fire system installed the happier
[01:07:01] [SPEAKER_01]: we will all be had a situation with a tenant this week they were new and the owners didn't get
[01:07:09] [SPEAKER_01]: the rent when they were supposed to and a whole bunch of things happened and i want to tell you guys
[01:07:14] [SPEAKER_01]: something even when you ever get into property management two things be prompt when you're going
[01:07:21] [SPEAKER_01]: after somebody like that don't let them get behind and number two make sure you put out your
[01:07:26] [SPEAKER_01]: expectations where they're supposed to be it turned out that it was an electronic transfer
[01:07:30] [SPEAKER_01]: error they sent it to the wrong email address and it got lost in limbo and they brought me cash
[01:07:37] [SPEAKER_01]: and i deposited and transferred it for them but don't let shit don't let things faster deal with it
[01:07:43] [SPEAKER_01]: right away because if you don't problems can happen uh just before uh well no but lunchtime today the
[01:07:50] [SPEAKER_01]: amazon driver got stuck in my driveway and we got to use that folding shovel i got at costco last
[01:07:54] [SPEAKER_01]: year for the very first time we got him out guys if you're driving in winter conditions have
[01:08:01] [SPEAKER_01]: good tires on your vehicle he had this great big van and those tires were they looked like
[01:08:06] [SPEAKER_01]: summer tires they were awful i've if you happen to notice this week we uh thank you to letty lue who
[01:08:13] [SPEAKER_01]: revamped the logos in the names in the toolman tim's workshop telegram groups i think there's five
[01:08:20] [SPEAKER_01]: at least we have and folks were constantly posting in the wrong group because they clicked on it quick
[01:08:24] [SPEAKER_01]: so hopefully this makes it a little more streamlined i heard so many complaints from
[01:08:30] [SPEAKER_01]: the community that we had i had to act anyway i really appreciate when folks from
[01:08:34] [SPEAKER_01]: the community volunteer their time because some of this little stuff is the things that i don't
[01:08:38] [SPEAKER_01]: always have time to do right away so thank you letty lue for that it was great uh yeah what we
[01:08:44] [SPEAKER_01]: have this week for a video well we had um the seventh edition of delinquent's gully chronicles
[01:08:50] [SPEAKER_01]: and of course we had the new review video for the dwalt snowblower which i loved and next
[01:08:56] [SPEAKER_01]: friday will be the next edition of the post apocalyptic book club i believe this will be
[01:09:02] [SPEAKER_01]: the the fourth segment of three chapters in uh iron rand's oh anyway sorry atlas shrugged
[01:09:12] [SPEAKER_01]: we've been reading through that for those who don't know and uh oh it's been a good time
[01:09:16] [SPEAKER_01]: so join us if you want to be part of it you can chat along through the telegram group you can
[01:09:21] [SPEAKER_01]: chat along through the youtube channel or i will give you the link and you can come on and talk
[01:09:26] [SPEAKER_01]: with us live all right what do we got next let's move on to the creator spotlight this is a good
[01:09:34] [SPEAKER_01]: one i like this one and right here so each week i share with you guys somebody or some creator
[01:09:42] [SPEAKER_01]: that i've been digging recently and i think would be a good um asset to the prepping community
[01:09:49] [SPEAKER_01]: so i've been doing some actually in the last segment i forgot to mention i tried my melting
[01:09:55] [SPEAKER_01]: furnace for the first time the other night failed miserably but it's a learning experience so i've
[01:10:00] [SPEAKER_01]: been doing a lot of precious metals watching on youtube and this dude here silver dragons i don't
[01:10:05] [SPEAKER_01]: know why he only has 196 000 subs because his stuff is awesome but what do i really like are his
[01:10:12] [SPEAKER_01]: channels his videos right here so this one for instance bullion dealer reveals worst silver to
[01:10:18] [SPEAKER_01]: his videos aren't clickbait but what he does is he has a local coin shop bullion dealer
[01:10:26] [SPEAKER_01]: where he goes in and he interviews them they're about 20 minute videos at a time
[01:10:29] [SPEAKER_01]: and they do deep dives into silver and gold and precious all of it's awesome i have learned
[01:10:36] [SPEAKER_01]: more from these videos in the last week or two than i've learned in my entire life about
[01:10:41] [SPEAKER_01]: precious metals so check him out it's um silver dragons on youtube the his video link is in the
[01:10:49] [SPEAKER_01]: description tonight and awesome i love it been one of the best all right next is must be nice and
[01:10:58] [SPEAKER_01]: this this is a one i don't always have on here but the idea behind it for those who are new
[01:11:04] [SPEAKER_01]: to the community must be nice came out of my presentation last year and it is one of
[01:11:11] [SPEAKER_01]: it's one of our favorite sayings around here and the idea is it's a good it's a way to pat each other
[01:11:18] [SPEAKER_01]: on the back when you're building the life you want to live and so i found this article that the title
[01:11:24] [SPEAKER_01]: is doesn't do it justice but this young guy on tiktok he bought a 24 000 home on amazon i didn't
[01:11:32] [SPEAKER_01]: realize you could buy houses on amazon but i wanted to share a couple of thoughts with you here
[01:11:35] [SPEAKER_01]: so basically it's a fold up it comes in a container it folds out it's beautiful it's way
[01:11:41] [SPEAKER_01]: better than tiny houses way better than mobile homes took five guys 25 minutes to assemble it
[01:11:47] [SPEAKER_01]: and he said here opening up about his questionable purchase the 23 year old begged his followers to
[01:11:53] [SPEAKER_01]: take his card away after dropping a staggering 24 000 on the home i don't think there's anything
[01:11:58] [SPEAKER_01]: staggering about this so this article took this story and tried to turn it into a negative
[01:12:03] [SPEAKER_01]: whereas i watched this entire three or four minute tiktok of this kid and he was pretty happy with his
[01:12:09] [SPEAKER_01]: purchase he said uh but he has to keep his house in storage for a bit because he bought the house
[01:12:14] [SPEAKER_01]: without having land to put it on and i got to say a 23 year old who is able to buy a 20 what was it
[01:12:21] [SPEAKER_01]: 24 000 modular home i think it's great so here's my thoughts guys another thing so two things
[01:12:29] [SPEAKER_01]: you've got this younger generation who's saying we why why are you having kids and the other one is
[01:12:33] [SPEAKER_01]: will never be able to afford to buy a house well guess what you gotta get freaking creative
[01:12:37] [SPEAKER_01]: so this guy got creative there was a family back in my hometown i worked with their daughter at
[01:12:43] [SPEAKER_01]: dairy queen many years ago they told the story that they didn't have the money to build an
[01:12:49] [SPEAKER_01]: entire house so they built the basement and put a floor on top of it they lived in their
[01:12:53] [SPEAKER_01]: basement for like eight years before they could afford to build an entire house
[01:12:57] [SPEAKER_01]: they figured it out and then the first thing people say is well guess what you can't build a
[01:13:02] [SPEAKER_01]: basement and live in it anymore well you might be true but you know what you can do you might be
[01:13:06] [SPEAKER_01]: able to save up and buy yourself a 24 000 modular home keep it in storage until you can figure
[01:13:11] [SPEAKER_01]: things out and then you can put it on land i know what a novel concept right but i love it
[01:13:18] [SPEAKER_01]: thinking outside the ball i love seeing this gen z buy house and he's like hey i don't have land
[01:13:24] [SPEAKER_01]: to put it on yet that doesn't matter i'm buying it and i'm gonna figure it out right now he's paying
[01:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: 150 a month for storage fees big friggin deal but here's the thing these houses are kind of cool
[01:13:36] [SPEAKER_01]: they let you be mobile you can set them up in hey you can just put them wherever you want
[01:13:42] [SPEAKER_01]: and then if you're tired of where you are fold it down take off and you're all good
[01:13:47] [SPEAKER_01]: i love it absolutely love it it's making home ownership affordable for the young people who
[01:13:53] [SPEAKER_01]: are having trouble thinking they could ever even buy a house crazy isn't it i love it i love seeing
[01:13:59] [SPEAKER_01]: these kids i have this huge optimism for generation z and i'm just going to leave it there i know they've
[01:14:05] [SPEAKER_01]: like i said they've been given a whole bunch of bullshit over their lives but they're doing it
[01:14:09] [SPEAKER_01]: this kid's doing it and then i also think these foldable houses from amazon could be really cool
[01:14:14] [SPEAKER_01]: second uh second property options or say you've got people that are going to be
[01:14:22] [SPEAKER_01]: staying on your property long term it would be a really good bug out slash cabin for your family
[01:14:29] [SPEAKER_01]: so yeah love it all right i want to pop back into the delinquents community
[01:14:36] [SPEAKER_01]: what we got here we got a couple different comments and then we're going to dump into the
[01:14:40] [SPEAKER_01]: community nail bag i see chase people's in here that's chuck son good to see you and he
[01:14:44] [SPEAKER_01]: said hey tim just found out you're coming to the kentucky sustainable living festival
[01:14:49] [SPEAKER_01]: it's still a secret but yes i'm absolutely going to be at the kentucky sustainable living festival
[01:14:54] [SPEAKER_01]: and i can't wait to see everybody there it's going to be great that's coming up quick
[01:14:58] [SPEAKER_01]: it's toward the end of march but we'll have more details here right away in bonnie blue
[01:15:03] [SPEAKER_01]: 2a always love seeing you in here said great show tonight thanks tim anytime that's what
[01:15:08] [SPEAKER_01]: i'm here for all right and the final segment of the evening and it's a big one it's a full
[01:15:14] [SPEAKER_01]: the community nail bag it's got about 50 pounds of nails in it now we got a lot of good mail this week
[01:15:20] [SPEAKER_01]: so we got um i've been getting comments even over on the rumble feed now which is awesome
[01:15:24] [SPEAKER_01]: this one come from iced tea for last week's episode and they said hey the dealer that the
[01:15:29] [SPEAKER_01]: commenter was talking about is manfred tordella and brooks they're in the new york city new
[01:15:35] [SPEAKER_01]: jersey area they're the only dealer in the united states for pamp swiss and we talked about
[01:15:41] [SPEAKER_01]: pamp swiss last week and they're the ones that have the certified silver from their uh boolean
[01:15:47] [SPEAKER_01]: dealer anyway it's really really neat and they said there's a substantial minimum in tax involved
[01:15:51] [SPEAKER_01]: but the the only option for new gold bars from pamp swiss which is the most reputable for bars
[01:15:58] [SPEAKER_01]: if you buy coins make sure you buy them directly from the mint there are horror stories about
[01:16:02] [SPEAKER_01]: people putting tungsten and other such materials into bars but coins can be counterfitted as
[01:16:07] [SPEAKER_01]: well also remember that people selling counterfeit may not even know their counterfeit 100% there i
[01:16:13] [SPEAKER_01]: liked hearing that another thing to consider is that you're not going to have to pay for
[01:16:17] [SPEAKER_01]: groceries with a bar of gold it's too valuable junk silver is probably the way to go junk
[01:16:23] [SPEAKER_01]: silver or silver coins that were minted before 1965 64 in their quarters dimes etc that have
[01:16:30] [SPEAKER_01]: been taking out a circulation of actual silver in them 100% i'm actually bringing some
[01:16:35] [SPEAKER_01]: canadian junk silver to all the events to trade and sell because i need to have more stuff to
[01:16:41] [SPEAKER_01]: physically sell at the event so i'm quite excited about that but i agree completely junk silver is
[01:16:45] [SPEAKER_01]: a great one and optimum three this was also over on rumble said this was talking about again last
[01:16:52] [SPEAKER_01]: week fire safe or um tamper resistant safe this one here said why don't you take a fireproof
[01:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: storage box and put it inside of a tamper resistant or a break in resistant safe like that idea
[01:17:08] [SPEAKER_01]: all right what do we got next here this one was a good one there's going to be some spoilers in here
[01:17:13] [SPEAKER_01]: but if you guys know we do the post apocalyptic book club this one was for William Forstian's
[01:17:19] [SPEAKER_01]: book five years later and this was from a Jeremiah who watched the live stream from four
[01:17:26] [SPEAKER_01]: five months ago and i wanted to share this they said thanks for the review i just read this one
[01:17:31] [SPEAKER_01]: month or so back and i really did enjoy it but i also felt it was a bit uneven but it didn't ruin
[01:17:37] [SPEAKER_01]: the story all right spoilers ahead if you haven't watched it or if you're worried about spoilers
[01:17:41] [SPEAKER_01]: you can turn it off now because we're almost done for the evening but they said i didn't feel
[01:17:46] [SPEAKER_01]: it ruined the story regarding the end with the bombs i don't think that it takes away from
[01:17:50] [SPEAKER_01]: john as a hero he made the hard decisions take out the true villains though it meant collateral
[01:17:57] [SPEAKER_01]: damage he was concerned about the damage but it was unavoidable to rid the world of the unhinged
[01:18:02] [SPEAKER_01]: villain i'm fair with that and i think you're right about the reality that john doesn't hide
[01:18:07] [SPEAKER_01]: that he had something to do with it he's willing to own the decision and have his name attached
[01:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: to it i really really like that i'm just going to show it out to yosik he just popped in for
[01:18:16] [SPEAKER_01]: a second he is an indispensable member of the workshop delinquent community and uh he's well
[01:18:22] [SPEAKER_01]: past his bedtime but he stopped in to say hello good to see you brother all right next comes from
[01:18:28] [SPEAKER_01]: no one but two four not sure what that is that was on youtube and i like hearing these stories this
[01:18:34] [SPEAKER_01]: is a prepper a moment for someone who is prepared to pat themselves on the back they said hey
[01:18:42] [SPEAKER_01]: after a four-day power outage last year i set my house up to back feed and this was all one of
[01:18:46] [SPEAKER_01]: my back feeding videos four days in the middle of winter was the last straw for me i have my inlet
[01:18:51] [SPEAKER_01]: box in my garage separate building from the house i like it in the garage because it's out of the
[01:18:56] [SPEAKER_01]: weather and it's chained to my harley only problem with the setup is i cannot use an interlock
[01:19:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and for those who don't know it's one of those things that only allow you to turn on one
[01:19:04] [SPEAKER_01]: breaker or the other they said if i wanted to i'd have to dig another trench and put in
[01:19:10] [SPEAKER_01]: another line but i have reminders on the inlet box that says make sure main breaker is off and one
[01:19:15] [SPEAKER_01]: right next to the generator i also put a battery backup on my generator door sorry on my garage
[01:19:20] [SPEAKER_01]: door this this is the big part i really liked and i wanted to share this because this is a great
[01:19:24] [SPEAKER_01]: tip that most of us don't think about i also put a battery backup on my garage door because
[01:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: i don't have an entry door just a big door and this way i can get access to my garage
[01:19:35] [SPEAKER_01]: door even when the power is out and the lights will come on so i can see what i'm doing in the dark
[01:19:40] [SPEAKER_01]: and he also installed a power return alarm i love it i also want to say thanks i've gotten a bunch
[01:19:46] [SPEAKER_01]: emails this week so anytime you want to send me feedback whether it's through you know cookbook
[01:19:53] [SPEAKER_01]: of the claps or you got interesting articles that folks send me all the time you can send
[01:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: at the real tim cook at gmail.com or if you go to toolman tim.co and right there on the front page
[01:20:06] [SPEAKER_01]: there should be a communication form that seems to be the way most people like sending me things
[01:20:09] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's great because my spam filter doesn't delete it so there you go so this this is cool
[01:20:15] [SPEAKER_01]: i wanted to show i haven't actually responded to this email yet but i wanted to show it out
[01:20:19] [SPEAKER_01]: to them because i just got it i think today then um this says hey tim my husband joker
[01:20:25] [SPEAKER_01]: leaves and if you guys have seen joker leaves in here before and i have enjoyed several of your
[01:20:29] [SPEAKER_01]: live streams we found your content to be thought provoking and informative and i thank you for
[01:20:33] [SPEAKER_01]: taking the time to read this in advance said my brother um their their instagram is at crazy rv
[01:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: has a business that i feel might be something your viewers would be interested in
[01:20:45] [SPEAKER_01]: said i think a lot of people are worrying about physical security but they don't pay
[01:20:50] [SPEAKER_01]: attention much or out of touch on how the new thieves are breaching through technology
[01:20:54] [SPEAKER_01]: said i encourage you to check out his website so the dude's website and i wouldn't just plug
[01:20:59] [SPEAKER_01]: this randomly but i went onto his website and he has some really cool courses on there
[01:21:03] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's called learn online security dot com what a great website domain that they own i
[01:21:11] [SPEAKER_01]: loved it anyway check them out there's a there's some free stuff he has a blog on there talking
[01:21:15] [SPEAKER_01]: about a whole bunch of online security issues definitely worth checking out so i wanted to
[01:21:19] [SPEAKER_01]: say thanks to mrs joker leaves for taking the time to send me an email also got some great emails
[01:21:25] [SPEAKER_01]: from a locksmith today still conversing with him but i'm going to share what he shared with me
[01:21:30] [SPEAKER_01]: in next week's episode all right this one came from tick tock this was from halloween blood
[01:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: bath and if you remember back to last week we had the article on a senator in the us
[01:21:41] [SPEAKER_01]: proposing that anytime their honor was impinged they would do a duel i challenge you sir to a duel
[01:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: anyway halloween blood bath agrees and they said i think all world leaders should have to do this
[01:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: it would prevent wars and no stand-ins love it and i wanted to close with this you guys know
[01:22:02] [SPEAKER_01]: a good buddy of the community a good buddy of mine shon mills from formerly hacked my
[01:22:06] [SPEAKER_01]: hacked my solar and it's now hacked my homestead well he stitched one of my videos and it meant
[01:22:11] [SPEAKER_01]: a lot to me this week and i wanted to share it so if you're on tick tock make sure you well tick
[01:22:16] [SPEAKER_01]: tock or youtube or any of the places make sure you follow him because for those who don't know as
[01:22:23] [SPEAKER_01]: soon as the show is over i put this show into a program called opus dot pro and it's an ai program
[01:22:29] [SPEAKER_01]: that will help pull out the best 60 second shorts for sharing across social media and it's a great
[01:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: way to get this week in prepping workshop radio out to the masses and shon got this one little
[01:22:43] [SPEAKER_01]: click from me and he it was a good reminder for me this week to be solutions based so check
[01:22:49] [SPEAKER_01]: this video out and uh yeah i'll be right back with you here fbi director warns chinese hackers
[01:22:55] [SPEAKER_01]: are aimed to wreak havoc on us critical infrastructure all the more reason to not be
[01:23:00] [SPEAKER_02]: plugged into the u.s critical infrastructure have some solar panels how about collect some rainwater
[01:23:18] [SPEAKER_02]: process your own firewood long-term food storage short-term food storage alternative
[01:23:25] [SPEAKER_02]: methods of food preparation and guess what if nothing bad happens you'll end up more resilient
[01:23:31] [SPEAKER_01]: and you'll have more freedom in your life fbi director warns chinese hackers how great is that
[01:23:38] [SPEAKER_01]: folks what a great reminder from a member of our community and a fellow content creator that
[01:23:43] [SPEAKER_01]: no matter how scary some of this stranger than fiction news stories can be we need to focus on
[01:23:49] [SPEAKER_01]: the solutions and i wanted to close with that because what a great reminder you know i loved
[01:23:54] [SPEAKER_01]: when he was chopping firewood they say you know firewood is the only heating source that
[01:23:59] [SPEAKER_01]: that will warm you twice once when you chop it and the second time when you burn it how great is
[01:24:05] [SPEAKER_01]: it he had a little rocket mast stove or rocket heater there all of that store and the beauty of
[01:24:11] [SPEAKER_01]: all of these solutions storing rainwater long-term short-term food storage is this
[01:24:17] [SPEAKER_01]: it makes our life better it makes us more resilient whether an environmental crisis happens
[01:24:25] [SPEAKER_01]: a storm of epic proportions the gods decide it's going to be the coldest winter ever
[01:24:33] [SPEAKER_01]: any of these things we do makes our life better whether it happens or it doesn't
[01:24:37] [SPEAKER_01]: so remember that take it out into the world remember that this week look at things through
[01:24:44] [SPEAKER_01]: a solutions mindset and remember if a problem comes up did i say the first time you have
[01:24:49] [SPEAKER_01]: to deal with the problem is always the hardest but remind yourself i've been there
[01:24:52] [SPEAKER_01]: i've done this i can do it again now go out make the world your bitch build your empire
[01:24:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and as always stay happy stay healthy and have a great week