This Week In PREPPING News - Droughts_ Keeping Cool_ Gold Backed Currency & More

[00:00:02] This is the Colonel Rad alert. Civil defense information will be broadcast at 6 40.

[00:00:11] West of the Rockies, you're on the air. Hello.

[00:00:13] Y2K, how can we prepare?

[00:00:15] Stop a few of their machines and radios, throw them into darkness for a few hours.

[00:00:19] We are fighting for our lives. My family must survive.

[00:00:22] Over five years, thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration.

[00:00:33] Coming at you from the frozen tundra that is east central Alberta, Canada, streaming live on YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, Instagram, Rumble and Odyssey.

[00:00:43] Welcome back to the workshop where we create community, find freedom, promote preparedness and share success.

[00:00:49] I'm Toolman Tim. Today is May 30th, 2024.

[00:00:55] And this is episode 452 of Workshop Radio.

[00:00:59] How is everyone out there this evening? What a great day.

[00:01:03] A little bit on the drizzly and cold side here, but it is Canada and that is what we have to deal with.

[00:01:09] So let's open up with a rule to live by because this week in prepping is this Thursday, which is today.

[00:01:17] So spun the big wheel. We got a random number generator this week of rule number 27.

[00:01:23] And this is one that I have inadvertently or I don't know, maybe it's the old man in me.

[00:01:29] I think I was born an old man, but be efficient, not fast.

[00:01:32] Now, this is something that becomes more and more important the older you get.

[00:01:36] But it is a rule I have lived by my entire life instead of trying to rush through something.

[00:01:42] I always try to find the ways to make things more efficient and therefore faster.

[00:01:49] Doesn't mean I have to work faster. I don't have to work harder.

[00:01:52] I was always the type of guy when I would say carry laminate floor into a job.

[00:01:58] I would try to find the exact most ideal, most efficient path to get it in there.

[00:02:03] Because if I can shave two steps off every trip, that is way better than trying to run fast with it.

[00:02:10] And that's exactly where this I learned the Bruce Lee motto later on down the road.

[00:02:16] But it is slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

[00:02:20] And yes, the more efficient you become at something, of course, the faster you're going to become.

[00:02:25] And many, many, many times over the last few years when I was doing a project in the backyard or especially over at the daycare,

[00:02:34] folks would come in and they would ask how in the hell did you get that entire deck built in the day?

[00:02:39] And it's not about rushing. It's not about being fast.

[00:02:41] It's about figuring out the most efficient and easiest way to do a project.

[00:02:47] And when you figure that out, when you nail that down again, being efficient is way better than being fast.

[00:02:54] And by being efficient, you are going to be faster.

[00:02:58] So I hope everybody enjoyed that rule.

[00:03:02] I've been working through the 30 some rules to live by randomly each week for you.

[00:03:07] It's a good way to open up the show.

[00:03:09] It's some clippable content for everyone out there.

[00:03:11] And if anybody out there has any rules they want to live by or that sorry,

[00:03:15] rules out there that you do live by, send them on my way.

[00:03:18] I would gladly share them for you.

[00:03:20] All right. Let's take a look at the comments in the community this evening.

[00:03:24] So far, I see Jeremy one step closer.

[00:03:27] I don't know if I mentioned it yet, but we tried Jeremy's Mexican candies he sent us.

[00:03:32] We did record it and they were candy.

[00:03:34] That's for sure. But no, thanks, Jeremy.

[00:03:36] Good to see you.

[00:03:37] Digger, we got you in here. Great to see you.

[00:03:39] Wired Edge Workshop and Mr. Sam Russell.

[00:03:42] Good to see you in here, brother.

[00:03:43] Good, good, good. All right.

[00:03:45] So Thursday, we're knee deep in this week and prepping going to be a little couple little changes.

[00:03:51] I think I could be incorrect about this,

[00:03:55] but it looks like Willow is moving on from doing sunshine news at least a little bit.

[00:04:00] She's going to be moving into doing an audio only version,

[00:04:04] maybe a longer form podcast, I do believe.

[00:04:07] So for the foreseeable future, we won't have the sunshine news segments,

[00:04:11] which is sad because I really enjoy Willow.

[00:04:13] She's great. She's a hard worker at it.

[00:04:15] But what we will have is a monthly segment going forward with Thesea on the cookbook of the collapse.

[00:04:20] And if anybody else has a segment that they would be interested in submitting on a weekly or monthly basis for the show,

[00:04:27] I'm down for kind of entertaining just about any different concept that you might have that fits within

[00:04:34] this growing gamut of topics we cover here, guys.

[00:04:38] So all right. With that, let's jump on over.

[00:04:42] If anyone dies while you are kept in your fallout room, move the body to another room in the house.

[00:04:51] The time has come for stranger than fiction.

[00:04:55] All right, guys, let's dive into stranger than fiction and what this is for those who are new here.

[00:05:02] And there's always seems to be somebody new every so often.

[00:05:05] Those who are new here.

[00:05:06] This is where we take a look at those things that are stranger than fiction.

[00:05:10] The world of fact almost sounds like the Twilight Zone now, doesn't it?

[00:05:13] And this is where we take a look at prepper related news within reason around the world,

[00:05:19] things that we can learn from lessons we can pull from and in this case an article written all about preppers.

[00:05:26] So let's dive in.

[00:05:27] First off, this one here is something I hadn't heard of.

[00:05:30] And actually a couple of the articles this evening, guys, are things that I had not even not even they weren't even on my radar.

[00:05:36] And this is one of them.

[00:05:38] I had no idea that Mexico was in such a hard shape with their water situation at the moment.

[00:05:43] But let's check it out.

[00:05:45] Mexico. This one comes from ABC news dot com.

[00:05:48] Mexico's drought heat wave and water shortages are so bad, even the police are protesting.

[00:05:54] Imagine that. That's not good.

[00:05:55] And I'm just going to shout out as well, guys.

[00:05:57] So, you know, we are also in the vertical feed over on in the shorts feed on YouTube and I see Byron was over there.

[00:06:04] Now he's jumping back and forth.

[00:06:06] I see Gunfighter Concealment and Hardway Alaska.

[00:06:08] Good to see you guys.

[00:06:09] And I hope you enjoy seeing the show up and down vertically as opposed to horizontally.

[00:06:14] We'll give it a shot either way and see what works.

[00:06:16] But trying to bring in some more eyeballs and get people definitely interested.

[00:06:22] All right.

[00:06:23] Mexico City.

[00:06:24] In recent months, residents of some Mexican Mexico City neighborhoods have taken regularly taken to form in human chains to block block boulevards to demand water in April.

[00:06:36] Get the in April complaints about contaminated water sparked a week long crisis in one upscale neighborhood.

[00:06:43] Now, no offense whatsoever.

[00:06:45] But if folks in Mexico are complaining about the water quality, things have got to be really, really bad.

[00:06:52] I mean, that has been an ongoing issue that we've all known about for many, many years.

[00:06:56] And if it's that bad, who boy, I tell you, not a good thing.

[00:07:00] The officers these were so normally police seek to redirect traffic, as they say.

[00:07:06] But on Wednesday, some of them decided they were going to block traffic, too, because they were so fed up with what's going on down there.

[00:07:12] The officer stood blocking six lanes of traffic saying their barracks hadn't had water for a week.

[00:07:18] So the people who are supposed to be empowered by the state to look after the law are not being taken care of by the state.

[00:07:26] Imagine that. I know hard to believe. Right.

[00:07:28] So the officers, they said, we don't have water in our bathrooms.

[00:07:32] One female officer said she wouldn't give her name because of fear of reprisals.

[00:07:36] Makes sense. But adding the conditions in the barracks were intolerable.

[00:07:39] They make us sleep on the floor, she said.

[00:07:42] So sleep on the floor. No water to flush the toilets.

[00:07:45] The bosses. This is the best. If you guys if you guys know the old quote, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

[00:07:53] Well, the bosses have water in their offices, but we're not allowed to go in there, said the female officer.

[00:08:00] They give us they don't give us solutions today.

[00:08:02] They brought in a water truck after they saw the news media show up.

[00:08:06] Huh? Imagine that. So they started talking to the news and boom.

[00:08:10] Problem solved a little bit anyway.

[00:08:12] The bosses have water in their offices, but we're not allowed to go in there, said one female.

[00:08:17] They don't give us solutions, but they brought in a water truck after the news showed up in the midst of record temperatures and the severe drought.

[00:08:24] Many buildings in the capital have to get water brought in by tanker trucks, but they have been in short supply and are expensive.

[00:08:31] No shit. Imagine that having to bring in water being more expensive than being able to capture it locally.

[00:08:37] Now, I mean, like I said there listen to this and it gets worse.

[00:08:41] I didn't you know, I didn't know this is very similar to what South Africa went through three or four years ago now.

[00:08:46] 40% of the country's dams are below 20% capacity and another 40% are below 50% full.

[00:08:54] Mexico City has been forced to reduce water supplies because the reservoirs that feed the city are drying up.

[00:08:59] Some stores are running out of mineral water.

[00:09:01] Nationwide authorities have had to truck in water for everything from hospitals to firefighting teams.

[00:09:06] I never caught that when I was prepping the show guys, but firefighting teams have to truck in water for firefighters.

[00:09:12] That ain't good.

[00:09:13] Low levels of the hydroelectric dams have contributed to power blackouts in some part of the country.

[00:09:18] Even the largest convenience store in Mexico says it's limiting purchases of ice to just two or three bags per customer in some places.

[00:09:27] It's a little scary. This is not that far from home.

[00:09:33] I mean, yes, I know it's south and you know south of south of me of course, but it's a bad situation.

[00:09:40] So what does one do in a bad drought like this?

[00:09:43] I mean rain catchment, I suppose is a good thing.

[00:09:47] Water storage is another thing.

[00:09:49] But the biggest problem with water is that you can't dehydrate it.

[00:09:52] I mean you can, but you know how it is.

[00:09:54] There's no there's no compacting water for long term storage.

[00:09:57] It is what it is.

[00:09:58] It's the one true resource that you know you can't shrink in any way and get any value out of it.

[00:10:04] Anytime you attempt to shrink it, well you all know what's going to happen.

[00:10:07] So I mean this is getting to the point where they're limiting ice at the stores.

[00:10:12] They're running out of bottled water.

[00:10:14] They're trucking in water for important situations such as firefighting.

[00:10:18] I mean how crazy is that?

[00:10:20] And the hydroelectric dams.

[00:10:21] So what is that 60% or below 50% capacity and 40% or below 20%.

[00:10:27] It's horrible.

[00:10:29] I it's sad.

[00:10:31] There's not a ton of solutions, but I mean the worst part of it is just what would you do in the middle of something like that?

[00:10:38] That's what I was thinking reading this article was simply what would I do?

[00:10:42] How desperate would you be not being able to get water like that?

[00:10:49] I mean you know this lady the lady cop there said you know her bosses have water.

[00:10:52] I mean that makes it even worse.

[00:10:53] That's like a slap to the face.

[00:10:54] You know that's like saying I can't feed my kids, but you know what?

[00:10:57] I go to work and I get to watch my boss eat a foot long subway sub like it's just it's awful.

[00:11:02] So as much as we can store water and you know underground storage would be great.

[00:11:09] Rain storage, IBC totes, cisterns, whatever you could do plan you know and it might get to the point where a person just has to leave

[00:11:17] because I don't know how much further you could go with a situation like this.

[00:11:20] It sounds dire.

[00:11:22] You know we've got a pretty bad situation down in Chris Dixon's area of the land.

[00:11:27] You know reading between the lines with the news stories and the ongoing rain we've had.

[00:11:32] They're not quite as dire as they were even a month ago, but it doesn't mean it can't take a turn for the worse really quick.

[00:11:38] So anyway just just an article to be aware of guys that maybe hadn't hadn't heard about either because I haven't.

[00:11:44] I don't know how we can live so close to Mexico and I didn't know there was a massive joke going on there.

[00:11:49] So anyway story to share with you.

[00:11:52] Let's show back over into the comments here.

[00:11:55] Hey, a few more people in Ryan Pippen.

[00:11:57] Great to see you.

[00:11:58] Happy Friday Eves humans he says a gunfighter concealment says can't thumbs up on the other live.

[00:12:04] I'm not sure how that works with the the shorts feed.

[00:12:07] I don't know, but I haven't looked too close into it.

[00:12:10] We got Bud Conkle in here again.

[00:12:12] Good evening.

[00:12:13] All he says great to see a Byron Roberts says he hates rehydrating water.

[00:12:17] It's so it's so time consuming and energy consuming.

[00:12:21] I mean the amount of power it takes to rehydrate water is is I mean somebody has to come up with something better than that.

[00:12:27] Somebody can bend the laws of physics to be able to rehydrate water in a more efficient manner.

[00:12:31] I think and Josh see glad to make it.

[00:12:33] Glad you did make it good to see you.

[00:12:35] All right, so next story folks.

[00:12:38] This was a cool one.

[00:12:39] This is from CTV News in Canada.

[00:12:42] Canadian television network something along those lines and yeah it they've been around forever.

[00:12:48] I grew up on the East Coast East because Atlantic television out there but they got bought out conglomerated into what the media mass media is in Canada today.

[00:12:56] But this is a good practical article that is prepping advice for basically everybody out there and it's how to cool down without air conditioning.

[00:13:05] And the reason I wanted to share this was this is something that Becky and I went through in Tennessee.

[00:13:11] I mean it really was a struggle for us because we were especially her just coming down there was acclimating it to it.

[00:13:18] But it'd been a long time since we had slept somewhere with air conditioning in hot humid weather.

[00:13:25] And so it was it was fun trying to come up with some solutions for us.

[00:13:28] The big one was taking some ice out of the cooler putting it in a ziplock bag wrapping into the towel and putting it kind of on her chest and letting the wind blow across us.

[00:13:36] That was the way to really cool ourselves down as quickly as possible felt a lot better than just sitting there stewing in the heat that's for sure.

[00:13:44] So I picked some of the top tips they had and I mean the first one stay hydrated everybody's heard that but when you're hot and flushed hydrating yourself is first and foremost and there's something in here.

[00:13:55] This is something I always I'm a goof but I prefer water at room temperature always have just easier to drink for some weird reason.

[00:14:03] But this expert here said the temperature of the water doesn't matter since your body will heat it.

[00:14:08] He added if your body body is suffering from heat it needs to cool itself.

[00:14:12] It can't do that without enough moisture since the body cools itself via sweating makes sense.

[00:14:18] But if you don't think about it.

[00:14:20] Yep, if you're getting hot and you're not adding water you're just going to get any even hotter because you're going to be like a dog who can't pant you're not going to get the temperature out of your system.

[00:14:30] Take a cold shower bath taking a cold shower bath helps cool your body by lowering your cold temperature core temperature.

[00:14:35] And again that was kind of similar to what Becky and I did with the ice packs you get it up here around your chest and that's you guys ever took swimming lessons and they had to help position where they would tell you to huddle up and keep all the areas that would lose heat.

[00:14:48] The fastest warm in the water.

[00:14:50] Well you can always reverse that and try to do things to cool those areas down quicker because that's the fastest way to lower your cool your core temperature.

[00:14:59] Use cold wash rags on your neck or wrists.

[00:15:02] I also like to put them on my forehead but that's just me.

[00:15:05] Cold wash rag or ice packs on your wrists or drape it around your neck to cool your body.

[00:15:10] These pulse points are areas where blood vessels are close to the skin so you'll cool down more quickly.

[00:15:15] Kind of the equivalent of you know stirring a drink with ice in it to cool it down faster.

[00:15:21] When I make my old fashions you know around 50 rotations because you're you're exposing as much surface area as you can to the temperature.

[00:15:29] Use box fans place box fans facing outside the windows or rooms you're spending time in to blow out hot air and replace it with the cool air inside.

[00:15:38] So again you're turning a box fan into an exhaust fan.

[00:15:42] I like that quite a bit.

[00:15:44] Okay if the weather in your area tends to fall between 50 and 70 in the mornings and evenings opening the windows on both sides of the house during those times can facilitate a cross flow ventilation system.

[00:15:57] That was something that was done a ton back in the day and there was you know a lot of the old apartment buildings and a lot of houses would have one of those vent windows above the door so you didn't have to leave the door open.

[00:16:07] But it's all about being strategic in when you open windows how you open windows how you get air flowing through in the in the works all of that.

[00:16:16] Close your curtains or blinds yeah no shit.

[00:16:20] Right here if you have windows that face the sun's direction in the morning through afternoon close the curtains or blinds over them to keep the sun from coming directly into the house and heating it up.

[00:16:30] Now that also goes for in the evening because for us we get quite a bit of sun on our picture window late in the day.

[00:16:36] So be cognizant of where the sun is throughout the day and try to eliminate I mean treat your house like a battery you know so try to keep the cold energy in try to keep the hot energy out or vice versa depending on the time of year.

[00:16:49] I mean it's just as important in the summer as it is in the winter.

[00:16:52] Sleep in breathable linens this is something I hadn't really heard thrown around a lot but cotton is one of the most breathable materials so cotton sheets or blankets could help you keep cool.

[00:17:02] Somebody in the comments here said to lower the thread count on the cotton the more breathable it is I like that quite a bit.

[00:17:08] Sleep in the basement this is something that was very common in my kind of hometown a little bit further back than when I grew up but it was very common to hear people say they'd go to the basement and sleep.

[00:17:18] A lot of times kids like to have in the basement rooms because it stayed cool in the summertime but if you can't sleep through the night because you're hot try sleeping somewhere beside your bedroom.

[00:17:26] If that's an option heat rises so if you have a lower or a basement level in your home set up a temporary sleeping area there I like it simple just think outside the box you know the day that Becky and I were absolutely the hottest we were in Tennessee.

[00:17:38] I had you know we sat and thought about it for a minute and I'm like you know what I have ice I have ziplock bags I have towels and I have a small fan with very little power.

[00:17:47] How are we going to kind of make that exponentially cooler for ourselves and that's what we came up with so it's all about coming up with a solution.

[00:17:55] You know thinking a little outside the box at least and then here's one that again you know this was also something that was very common back in the day we just don't think about it now cook in the morning with a small fan.

[00:18:06] Or outside oven heat can spread throughout your home I keep the central I keep the heat centralized in one area such as a slow cooker or cook outdoors on a grill to keep the heat outside.

[00:18:17] Yeah it was very common again growing up for my dad to barbecue in the summer just to keep the heat outside and you know anything a lot of the old timers used to cook on a wood stove.

[00:18:26] And they would do it in the summer and I thought oh my gosh so some of them would have an outdoor cook stove for that exact reason just anything you can do to keep the heat.

[00:18:35] Out of the home I'm going to jump over to the verticals I want to take a look in the comments here we got somebody sis k sis over on the vertical feed says.

[00:18:44] By summer I've usually put up my cotton clothes and switch over to a polyester or merino wool also a polyester blanket cooling blanket has a lot of heat.

[00:18:53] Merino wool also a polyester blanket cooling blanket has been a game changer for me who sleeps hot.

[00:18:59] Dude thank you very much I that is all I never heard of a polyester cooling blanket so if anybody else has tried that I would I got to give that a shot but great to have you here appreciate you and I see Mitch over in the comments on the shorts.

[00:19:12] The vertical feed as well hey and we got some more names over here on the horizontal feed we got.

[00:19:19] What do we got oh one step closer sis misting fans and swamp coolers help a lot as well as wet towels on the back of the neck absolutely I mean in humid humid weather.

[00:19:29] Any kind of air motion helps in dry weather air conditioning helps simple as that I just I find fans work way better in a humid area than.

[00:19:39] Then you're going to find in a dry arid environment that's all Pippen says make a redneck swamp cooler fan wouldn't be the first time love them always a great idea.

[00:19:49] And then Anthony hurt great to see a new name that I don't think I've seen in here before oh man he says I live in Louisiana sorry about that buddy no i'm just kidding it's okay beautiful place just yeah said I wish we had basements but we can't because of the water table it will flood.

[00:20:05] Even coffins rise out of the ground down here from the water.

[00:20:08] Dude that is the makings of a zombie film if I've ever heard it but yes I man you know it's funny we all kind of get really really stuck in our ways and it's for again for me it was great to spend two months in Tennessee because.

[00:20:24] It reminded me that you know the old Alberta weather patterns that i'm used to up here on the prairies in Canada are not where the rest of the world is and it was good to be down there.

[00:20:33] I mean i'm thankful that we didn't have to experience a tornado but it was good to be down there during a tornado watch tornado warning just simply to be reminded of some of the stuff that other folks go through and again the old lack of basements thing that's it's crazy you know up here in the prairies.

[00:20:49] Most people have them where I grew up on the east coast most folks have them but we moved out here and a lot of them this blew my mind not a lot but a significant portion of basements on the prairies were built out of wood or pressure treated lumber and their absolute junk.

[00:21:05] I looked after one bank property a few years back where the water literally ran in one end of the basement and out the other and the man anyway so pressure treated but yes basements would be nice Anthony.

[00:21:19] I mean for you know to gain a couple extra feet just lay on the floor I suppose but yeah and one step closer says no basements in most of Texas since the ground shifts too much yeah it's so crazy you just yeah.

[00:21:31] I wonder I don't know about in Louisiana where there's so much water but some sort of geothermal system and not just for heating of course you know most people talk about using geothermal to heat but I wonder if a person could make some sort of rudimentary geothermal system.

[00:21:42] To cool as well so you know there's two ways to do geothermal if you haven't seen but there's the traditional well one of the really there's two but the deep well drilling system where you go way down and tap into the you know the steady kind of what is it 60 degree temperature of the earth I can't remember what it is.

[00:21:52] So you know back and forth and back and forth and back and forth so that might be something you could do just a thought and I mean if you had I wouldn't want to use I'm just thinking out loud but if you could do geothermal you could do geothermal.

[00:22:03] So I think that's a good question.

[00:22:04] So I think that's a good question.

[00:22:05] So I think that's a good question.

[00:22:35] I don't know always had an interest in that for sure so anyway that's our look at a few ideas for cooling during you know a warm spell when we really don't have any other options and these would be great options for folks you know hopefully we never have to deal with a long term collapse but if we ever did this is the type of shit we're going to have to deal with or say you're living off grid and you're you know deciding that you need to live off solar and so the best option is to do geothermal.

[00:23:03] And so the best you can do is a fan for four hours a day.

[00:23:06] I mean that's basically what we had at the camp for a little while at delinquents Gully so yeah back over to the let's check out on the vertical feed Mitch says not a lot of basements in Washington state didn't realize it till I moved to was till I moved to Wisconsin is just wasted space to make your house larger.

[00:23:23] I get it.

[00:23:24] I.

[00:23:25] I.

[00:23:27] I love my basement I really do I I use now we okay back up a little we are closeted hoarders were not really hoarders but ma'am we do store things quite a bit but we have worked really really really hard to make every inch of our basement work for us.

[00:23:45] We have a very small bedroom bathroom down here that has a ton of storage supplies in it.

[00:23:51] Every inch you can go in you can use the bathroom and that's about it, other than storage supplies. We had an old sister that was down here that they used to deliver water similar to they talked about at the Mexican drought area right now.

[00:24:04] And so it was basically an eight by eight room that was just foreign closed walls of cement that you couldn't get into and they would just the truck would come once a week fill it full of water and then you'd have a pump in the home.

[00:24:16] So it was sitting completely empty catching cobwebs and spiders and whatever else and they had busted a hole through about two feet by two feet to get in there for electrical access.

[00:24:27] So a few years ago three or four now I decided to rent an air jackhammer and jackhammered a wall kind of a two and a half foot door so maybe about a 30 inch door through and I turned it into what I call the prepper pantry.

[00:24:40] I made a nice door frame framed it up washed it scrubbed it down painted all the walls white put shelves in there and now we keep a ton of our pantry goods in there.

[00:24:50] And then another back storage room we cleaned it out and instead of using as a storage room.

[00:24:55] It is now my freeze drying room so we do the best we can but yes basements totally can very quickly become a wasted space where because there's another rule that I don't have written down in my rules to live by, but it's a guy used to work with at the

[00:25:09] church many years ago and he always said that your belongings grow to the storage space that you have and that's really what ends up happening.

[00:25:18] The more space you have the more you fill it with junk so it's the only way to get rid of junk is to also eliminate space to put aforementioned junk into and Anthony Hertz says basements are the best thing ever and one step closer says I really want a basement.

[00:25:33] Basements are awesome. You know they you can make an impromptu storm shelter or bomb shelter in them as well but yeah they also do stay significantly cooler and easier to heat so there's always that I mean that's one of our long term plans for sure here is that if we ever lost power and the ability to heat at least upstairs you know if our natural gas ever got shut off in the middle of winter for any long term you know we would do our best to bleed our pipes off and then we would set something up in the basement because we're going to be able to do that.

[00:26:02] In the basement because we're going to have a heck of a lot easier time keeping ourselves warm in this basement than we are on the first or second floor so there you are all right here's a cool story cool interesting mind blowing I had no idea this was going on and if you guys did you're a better man than I am Charlie Brown but this is this is interesting here we go.

[00:26:22] 13th conservative Oregon County approves measure to secede and join greater Idaho I mean I like Idaho I don't I didn't know anything was greater about it but that's neither here nor there but if anybody knew about this hey it's kind of interesting so let's read in a little bit here guys.

[00:26:40] So here it is and story goes this comes from msn.com another right leaning county in eastern Oregon has voted to secede from the Democrat run state and joining neighboring Idaho had no idea this was going on if I lived in Oregon I'd want to secede too but anyway that's another story.

[00:26:56] Crook County residents passed the measure by a 53% majority making it get this guys I hadn't heard this the 13th county in the entire state to sign on to the movement known as greater Ohio I kind of like it I didn't know this was a thing going on the voters of eastern Oregon have spoken loudly and clearly about their desire to see border talks move forward with this latest result in Crook County.

[00:27:22] There's no excuse left for the legislator and governor to continue to ignore the people's wishes I think the thing that speaks the loudest in this entire article is this image right here and for those who are listening to this on the audio only version it is a picture of the eastern two-thirds of Oregon.

[00:27:41] And it is painted red almost entirely there is one two three four small counties that have not joined up with this at this point so they have an entire now you need to understand that this is the more sparsely populated area of Oregon.

[00:27:54] So you know to get a majority isn't quite as much work to say it would be in Portland something like that anyway don't even get me wrong.

[00:28:01] But it must say something that people want to leave Oregon and join Idaho I mean for many years and I don't mean this in a bad way but Idaho is almost like a bit of the butt end of some jokes and I love Idaho I think it's great and I would love to live there as an American prepper if I was into cold weather.

[00:28:15] But the fact that folks are trying to leave Oregon secede Oregon and turn their little geographical haven into part of Idaho is crazy so check this out greater Idaho would see more than half of Oregon's territory leave the beaver state and join the Republican party.

[00:28:24] The move would shift Idaho's border 200 miles west past the heart of Oregon imagine that great

[00:28:31] I'd hope began in earnest in 2020 and quickly began gaining traction with 11 of the state's 36 counties in the state of Oregon.

[00:28:39] The move would shift the state of Oregon to the east and the move would shift the state of Oregon to the west.

[00:28:47] The move would shift Idaho's border 200 miles west past the heart of Oregon imagine that greater Idaho began in earnest in 2020 and quickly began gaining traction with 11 of the state's 36 counties voting to endorse the idea by 2022.

[00:29:04] That's pretty insane had no idea driving the force is a sharp political divide between the more sparsely populated rural and conservative interior of Oregon.

[00:29:12] No shit imagine that in the liberal coastal cities with population hubs like Portland and the state capitol Salem.

[00:29:18] If greater Idaho were achieved Oregon would lose two thirds of its land but only 10% of its population a disparity which has left the conservative interior of the state feeling like their laws are being passed by people with no connection to the lifestyle and beliefs.

[00:29:33] And their folks is what we are dealing with across this great continent is the divide between the rural and the urban and it happens more and more and more where you are finding the urban population is becoming more and more concentrated.

[00:29:50] They are voting left of center for most folks I really don't vote don't care to vote I consider myself an anarchist who is outside of the system.

[00:30:00] But when it comes down to it if a person believes a certain way and your beliefs are being twisted around on you based on a large concentration of people in a very small area.

[00:30:11] Anyway there you go.

[00:30:14] So I just this map alone greater Idaho blew my mind I had no idea this was a movement let alone such a strong movement at this the Oregon Idaho line was established 163 years ago and it's now outdated the movements website said.

[00:30:29] Greater Idaho seeks to include 17 counties in the movement made up of 14 full counties in three partial counties even if movement gets all the votes needs the process would be far from over interesting in order to succeed and this was the part I like learning this kind of stuff from guys.

[00:30:46] In order to succeed the state legislatures of both Oregon and Idaho would need to approve the measure.

[00:30:52] Then the US Congress would also need to approve state borders have been redrawn in the past including the territory of Maine becoming a state independent of Massachusetts in 1820 but never before such a large swath of land and citizens had no idea guys I didn't realize that it had been since 1820 since any of the state's land borders had been redrawn.

[00:31:13] So we're talking two full centuries ago and it's a movement there's a lot of these little movements springing up around the country.

[00:31:20] So yeah thought you guys would like to hear that story. Let's take a look at the comments from the audience again here we get the community out tonight.

[00:31:29] One step closer said that in the best Virginia movement several Western counties in Maryland want to leave that state too. I had heard that yes interesting going to go back up to Anthony hurt he said basements are the best thing ever did a lot of partying as a

[00:31:42] kid in Indianapolis in a basement. If you're a Gen Xer or even a late millennial basements were the place that you went to hang out. I went to my buddy Danny's place we hung out in the basement came to my place we hung out in the basement and we shot a mini basketball into a mini Los Angeles Lakers

[00:32:00] basketball hoop. You know my friend Alex lived in his basement so we hung out there all the time and when we got tired of hanging out in his basement we went and hung out in his garage which was a half finished apartment complex.

[00:32:14] So it was awesome but yes you know if you guys think back to that 70s show again basements were the greatest lots of dope smoking in there wasn't there. I mean not necessarily but in that show for sure.

[00:32:25] Pippen says what was the old saying join or die or something. L2 says the left will not give up their slaves in Eastern Oregon and Josh C says urban is more manipulated largely because they're more dependent and yeah that's a big portion of it and it becomes more and more that way when I mean

[00:32:44] that comes down to many. Yeah Anthony I'm 40 I'm 43 so you had to stop and think about it for a minute. So yes where is Gen X or millennial whatever I grew up as a Gen Xer so you know if you partied in basements there's a good chance you would probably say that too.

[00:33:00] And Pippen says I don't think I've ever been in the basement says Florida dude. No but I've never had to you know sweep up sand in my yard either so there's trade offs right.

[00:33:11] But yeah the whole urban thing manipulated largely because they're more dependent well anytime you can be more dependent on the government teat they have way more sway over what you do because all of a sudden you got to think do I really want to change something you know.

[00:33:27] And that's why the less dependent you are on the entire system and that's right wing left wing center wing whatever you want to call it. The less dependent you are on any and all of that system the better off you are.

[00:33:40] And just a true story guys because as much as you know there is no such thing as a no strings attached hand out. There always comes conditions the government is just like the mafia we know this and they never give you a deal you can't refuse I mean they want to but if you don't refuse you're going to be in trouble so.

[00:34:01] So all right final article of stranger than fiction for this week and so I want to share something with you. I don't know if you can see this on the screen but if you ever run into articles that are behind a paywall and you don't subscribe to them there is a website called archive.ph

[00:34:22] A R C H I V E dot P H Papa Hotel and you can throw the article in there and they will show you cashed versions of the article. I don't know how or why that works this is not an illegal site at all it's a web page a web page capture just like the way back machine and I will tell you right now that I am not going to subscribe to almost any new services I have a couple that I do to support but for the most part I'm not going to subscribe to any of the services that I do.

[00:34:52] I'm not going to subscribe to any of the services that I do but there is a ton of articles that come up on my Google News feed on a regular basis and more and more and more are getting behind paywall. It's getting to the point where I'm not really sure but if you're looking to just look at a website read the article check out archive.ph it's a pretty neat little site anyway so Preppers Rejoice this one comes from FT.com Preppers Rejoice your time has come this is a British source and it's kind of interesting stockpiling is no longer the

[00:35:22] preserve of the conspiracy minded here we go. I do love reading mainstream articles when they're talking about the concept in minds of Preppers so let's see what they have to say about us and give you a little bit of background on this just recently the UK government came out with suggestions for their people to start prepping. They don't call it prepping they call it buying things before something bad happens. I don't know what else you call it you know they call it making

[00:35:52] preparations for an event they want you to do that and that's important doing that kind of stuff being you know cognizant of the fact that something can come in. I don't care what you call it I just want everyone out there to be a little more prepared so we don't have to look out for all these other folks that we can't take care of if something bad happens simple as that. So here we go this is written by a Harriet Fitch Little what a great name I love it that's a very British name Harriet Fitch Little during the slack part of the pandemic a friend

[00:36:22] served me dinner made almost entirely of quail eggs and I just I can't let this go without going by it here guys but right here during a slack part of the pandemic some people four years five years later still feel the need to justify why they got together with somebody and had a meal over the pandemic and right here during the slack part of the pandemic in other words at some point during the pandemic when I justified to myself that it was

[00:36:52] safe enough to break the government rules that they were handing down on me I decided to get together with a friend and do exactly what I do all the time anyhow. Yeah no don't worry about it you don't need to justify anything in that and I'm not reading too much into that I just know exactly what that is that was written simply to not have any backlash come against you well yeah anyway just leave it be right during the slack part of the pandemic a friend served me a dinner made almost entirely of quails eggs. I want to tell you quail was a topic

[00:37:22] of much much interest during the pandemic through and through she explained that a sophisticated acquaintance driven half mad by the atmosphere of doom had made that she kissed panic by possible and acquired a flock of quails yes hey look at this oh my goodness what a great name so we have a user over on over on the vertical feed called shitter throat slitter what a name and they just come up with hashtag free Joe exotic

[00:37:52] yep there you go so nothing wrong with that yeah that that takes me back to the pandemic days pretty quick there was a lot I it'll be interesting at what point we can look back slight with a slight nostalgic glasses I mean I'm not going to be nostalgic for all the government overreach but there were certain times

[00:38:08] that were rather interesting those few nights where we sat around and played a lot more board games as a family just weird things you know so anyway

[00:38:16] this person her rather bougie friend acquired a flock of quails they ended up interbreeding and pumping up more tired tiny eggs than they had salt to handle she's this author says I thought finally of the quail queen this week when Oliver Dowden that's a British

[00:38:33] politician launched prepare not prepper I almost said it prepare prepper sounds very similar now doesn't it a government website that provides citizens with information on how to

[00:38:44] prepare I mean prep for an emergency advice for this hypothetical few days of catastrophe include you ready for this prepping sorry no I'm just kidding advanced purchasing of essentials such as bottled water and non-perishable foods many things that we were all slammed on for many many days

[00:39:02] advanced purchasing of essentials such as bottled water non-perishable foods although Dowden did not use the term news outlet surely did he wants they wrote for us to become preppers there's not that there's anything wrong with that you know the old saying right but it's true I mean the concept of prepping for many many years was you were looked at as a bit of a pariah a bit of an outcast maybe even a political dissident or worse and now it's called being a prudent civilian

[00:39:32] imagine that for a long time prepping here we are was the preserve of the conspiracy minded people with the distinctly male pastimes of digging big holes in their gardens and anticipating the total breakdown of law and order with disconcerting relish and I don't mean the kind you put on a hot dog

[00:39:51] now here's the deal guys I would love to be able to dig a great big hole in my garden out back and build myself a storm slash bomb shelter slash root cellar slash water storage I don't care I would love to do that

[00:40:05] now the article goes on as someone with quite different hobbies of growing my own vegetables and entry level foraging I know the characteristic to be increasingly untrue in other words it's not just a bunch of crazy people who are prepping yeah I'm glad you finally learned that thank you

[00:40:21] in my quest for answers to questions such as why does my nettle soup taste funny that being nettles I have discovered that preppers now pepper say that five times fast preppers now pepper all of online communities and they represent a diverse demographic yes very true

[00:40:43] there's nothing wrong not that there's anything wrong with that you know I was at the hockey game last night we went to the Edmonton Oilers playoff game and we had a hell of a time and at one time and I'm just I'm going to be honest or transparent I guess when hockey you know traditionally hockey was a very white bread sport and I don't know how else to put it but it truly was and I got I got kind of excited when I started seeing new Canadians

[00:41:16] getting interested in hockey you know you would see guys of Sikh background and of Islamic background and of many different countries starting and you know we went last night and it was really cool to see a really diverse group of people there and I know that sometimes that word is thrown around in a I don't know just in a weird sense that it doesn't matter but it was really really neat and that's what I love about going to say events like

[00:41:46] self reliance festival now it's not super culturally diverse there but it is most definitely politically diverse and that's how I I enjoy that I love and take however you want but this line right here growing interest among those minority groups and left of center

[00:42:05] and preppers represent a diverse demographic and I think that's great because again I don't care who you are I don't care what you look like I don't care what you do as long as you don't hurt me and steal my shit I'm happy and if I don't have to feed you in a collapse scenario all the better so why not encourage all walks of life all demographics to become preppers I love the idea and I think we all should so it's kind of cool I hope I tiptoed and didn't cowtow

[00:42:35] around that cow tail around that subject too too much but it was just something was on my mind from last night it was really cool to hadn't been to a hockey game in a few years and yeah it was really neat to see an eclectic group of fan base which I kind of like so anyway here we go climate change and a fear of pandemic are among the things motivating the new wave of preppers that sounds like a music genre the new wave of preppers or maybe a new type of new Pepsi or something I don't know in

[00:44:05] the first place to learn was that almost everyone agrees on the genuine usefulness of keeping quails I just had to chuckle quails were such a first year pandemic thing but yes almost everybody agrees that quails are great there's almost no work in cleaning them if you want to eat them the eggs I mean you can grow you can raise quail anywhere you can raise them on you know a New York City apartment building rooftop you could raise them clandestinely in a suburban garage

[00:44:35] you could have them in a closet somewhere as long as they were vented properly and fed properly but yeah it's just they're really cool so and here's a great paragraph to end out this article and I thought it was kind of cool so as election season messages go tapping into a sense of panic is actually a safer move than one might think cutting across demographics that it certainly could have 10 years ago I don't know what that has to say about popular culture or the mass media or anything along those lines

[00:45:05] but the simple fact that a topic of panic cuts across all demographics and all party lines is maybe a little bit on the scary side it makes me sad I see the gen Z's and the gen alphas coming out of school being scared to death at the world's going to end and saying hey I'm just going to spend my money I'm going to eat my food I'm going to live at home with mom and dad until climate change causes the entire world to destroy well you know what

[00:45:35] that isn't going to happen the entire world's not going to come to ruin bad shit might happen over the next few years absolutely but the worst thing I can say is sitting on your haunches and doing absolutely nothing that makes me sad I hate to see people scared to death like that and I really really hope that the next generation comes up with a bit of sense of optimism and I think that's a bit on us two folks is to encourage that next generation to be a little more optimistic a little more entrepreneurial minded to hey

[00:46:05] all right so that is the end of stranger than fiction for this week guys had some interesting articles that the news seemed a little a little thin on proper relating content this week but nonetheless I guess that's a good thing when it comes right down to it and just before I went live I did read that Donald Trump was found guilty so it'll be interesting to see where that pans out hey so all right what a good show this evening's good to see I like seeing some of the new names in here guys anytime you're around I should give you a shameless plug to join the

[00:46:35] telegram group you're not on telegram the link is in all the show notes every video ever make it's where all the cool kids hang out it's what we call delinquents the delinquents for the workshop hang out there and it's a really good place to get your questions answered and answer other people's questions and just become part of the community all right here we go

[00:46:55] he's dead they're all dead everyone you and I are in a dead world and I'm glad it's dead keep honky tonk of a world coming up next is workshop wasteland

[00:47:06] all right so this one is workshop wasteland where we take a look at pop culture dystopian post-apocalyptic end of the world whatever it happens to be something a little more fun because even preppers need to entertain themselves on occasion and if that means you know with a binder full of DVDs and an underground bomb shelter someday well there you go but anyway I decided again I told you this was a bit of a slow news week and I've been wanting to incorporate some classic

[00:47:36] movie reviews into this segment and so like I said stranger workshop wasteland is all about popular culture dealing with the end of the world and prepping lessons and all kinds of cool things so tonight I wanted to share with you a film from 1951 this is the very first

[00:47:57] it's the very first apocalyptic film that deals with nuclear annihilation I watched it maybe about a year ago now laying in bed I think I saw it on like Dailymotion or Vimeo or someone of that one of those you know am YouTube clones that have been around for 150 years somebody had it on there for free in like 15 minute bite-sized segments and I liked it enough that I rented it on YouTube a few months later for like $3.99 and if you're wondering that is where you find this movie to watch

[00:48:27] you can rent it on YouTube Apple TV or Amazon Prime I believe so the movie is called five and I will here's the poster I'll bring it up for you it is definitely melodramatic it was written by one of the top radio writers of the time so it definitely feels a bit like some of the old radio melodramas but it nonetheless is rather entertaining and has a pretty cool story behind it like I said it's the very first nuclear post apocalyptic film you can rent it for $3.99 on YouTube

[00:48:57] it was written by the guy's name was Arch Obler and he was a famous radio script writer the tagline for the film was four men and one women are the last five people on earth this is their story dun dun sorry that would have been great to have the sound effects to law and order come in after that but yes this is their story synopsis if you're wondering this is an interesting one film storyline involves five survivors one woman four men of an atomic bomb disaster it appears to have wiped out the rest of the human race while leaving all

[00:49:27] infrastructure intact the five come together at remote isolated hillside home where they try to figure out how to survive and come to terms with the loss in their own personal worlds this is way more of a relationship movie than most this is one where you have a bunch of people it's one of my favorite kind of genres it's a small low budget film that takes place mainly in one location with just a few people so it's a walking and it's the good type of

[00:49:57] walking and talking type movies it's the claustrophobic interrelational type movies that really jump up and grab you the tension gets ramped up each time a new person shows up in the interfere with their social structure see you know you started with a couple of people and they kinda the connect and then somebody else comes along and it puts on edge cuz you like how many more survivors are there in this world and it really is just this dilapidated burnt out nuclear wasteland so the five main characters

[00:50:27] and you know you'll almost say the sound like a joke you know these five people walk into a bar and have a drink but

[00:50:35] you know their archetypes are you know character archetypes for a reason five characters a frail pregnant lady named rosanne

[00:50:41] elderly bank clerk named mr barn staple his younger caretaker a black man named charles a poet and philosopher michael

[00:50:49] the end of the world i know and then eric a rich bougie mountain climber so as you can imagine lot attention and some mental breakdowns happen

[00:51:00] the old banker gradually get sicker from radiation poisoning eric turns out to be a nasty racist

[00:51:07] their garden is mysteriously destroyed in rosanne goes into labor none of this ruins the movie because they're all plot points that just further the tension

[00:51:16] it's definitely worth seeing it's 100% in black and white if you didn't guess i mean it is from 1951

[00:51:23] the script is over the top but the acting really isn't that bad it's a really old film the sound is not perfect but it builds tension and atmosphere

[00:51:33] worth enough for giving it a shot considering how low budget the film was it's not a perfect film by any means

[00:51:40] but i would say it's definitely worth seeing some of those tropes being developed in the early movies you know some of those post apocalyptic tropes that we have seen through a million storylines going forward

[00:51:51] this is where they really birthed at least in the nuclear genre i would give it a rating of three civil defense survival biscuits out of five

[00:52:02] it's definitely it is the very first of what i would call prepper porn going forward it's worth checking out if you're ever you know indoor on a rainy night and you want to turn something on to check it out

[00:52:14] it's definitely worth it but expect a 75 year old black and white film expect over-the-top melodramatic acting don't expect top notch you know

[00:52:27] set dressings and you know no expense spared to to background sets because that's not going to happen but if you're into you know frank lloyd wright as an architect this most of this thing is filmed inside or outside of one of his very

[00:52:43] well known buildings so anyway if you're looking for something totally different i like to try to pull something out of a rabbit hole for you this is one so there you go all right let's move on to

[00:52:57] now you stay on the back roads and you keep your gun handy our country is still full of thieving murdering patriots get ready for i read it on the internet

[00:53:09] before we jump into that i just want to shout out to mr sean mills of hack my homestead he is over on the vertical feed in the shorts right now so it's good to see him over there and uh so this next segment is i read it on the internet and that is reddit

[00:53:24] intentionally misspelled but no it's where we go to our preppers on reddit if you don't know what that is well that is used to be called the front page of the internet i don't know if that would still be as appropriate as it is today but

[00:53:38] this is where he picked the top story from the our preppers subreddit over there for the week give it a look down give it some conversation some commentary and we go from there this one is from just some guy 606

[00:53:51] and it says this was posted on 4chan back in 2013 so it's 11 years old in my opinion it's pretty spot on the collapse with quotation marks has already happened and this guy seems to have foretold it i must admit when i read this and then the date i was flabbergasted what do you think of the of this below so here it is

[00:54:11] says there'll be no collapse the way some of the people think of it it's not going to be like the movie dawn of the dead or whatever when one day suddenly shit hits the fan and prices skyrocket and everyone begins to riot and the ss comes marching down the street to kill everybody

[00:54:25] there'll be no happening it's far more insidious than that read the poem the hollow man by t.s. elliot and you will understand elliot is not one that i've ever gotten into reading but at some point i probably should pretty sure he was a postmodern poet and some of his stuff is pretty esoteric but

[00:54:43] he definitely has a bent toward the end of the world and i'd love to dig into it sometime you'll just notice that every day simple things will become a little more expensive you'll see family and friends less you'll find that in time you care less about them every day you'll find yourself

[00:54:57] lowering your standards for everything work food relationships etc job security will no longer exist as a concept you'll notice houses and apartments shrinking people will start hanging on to clothing longer and longer less people will get married even less will have children people engross themselves in distractions technological distractions and fantasy while never truly experiencing the real world this was written 12 years ago 11 years ago definitely something that happens more and more today oh anyway whatever dream

[00:55:27] people used to have about what their lives were going to be will become that a distant memory the only thing left for them will be the reality of their debt and their poverty and every minute of every day they will be told you're stupid ugly and weak but together we are free prosperous and safe that is the collapse the reduction of the american man into a feudal surf incapable of feeling love or hate incapable of seeing the pitiful nature of the situation for what it is recognizing his own self-worth that is sad that is bleak

[00:55:57] that is the description of modern civilization that is almost orwellian in nature it reads like a page from 1984 it said it doesn't have to be the way it's why we like to step outside the system it's why we like to grow our own you know either grow our own food or make relationships with locals who do grow their own food it's why we like to have off-grid properties it's like why we want to store water it's why we want to be entrepreneurs all of the above because we

[00:56:27] do not want to be part of the pitiful nature of the situation that he is describing here and do i think it has to happen i do not i do not think it has to happen i think that we can change a lot of what happens but uh it's an interesting insight responding to that was icy medicine 495 a lot of serious major shtf preppers don't account for shit hits the fan might not be an on off light switch that happens instantly instead it might be a gradual

[00:56:57] decline or a dimmer switch where things slowly get darker worse kind of like driving home last night we drove we left the city at 9 30 and we drove for three hours and it never really got completely dark the whole way home the sun just kept setting and setting and setting and setting behind us and by the time i was pulling into provost at 12 30 you could still see a sliver of light behind us on the horizon and before too long that sliver of light was going to come around

[00:57:27] and be in front of us on the horizon as well but it's so it got dark so so gradually that dusk just seemed to hold on forever and that's the idea is that a collapse scenario like this would be very very it's the old stupid analogy of the frog in the boiling pot that really isn't true at all or something but that's what it is it would be very very very slow almost to the point where you don't notice it until all of a sudden you got to turn your high beams on and then might just be too late a lot of people this this was the best

[00:57:59] line of all of this and this is the main reason i shared this was for this one right here a lot of people say they'll do project x when shit hits the fan but i asked them why not do it now i i love that what a great i don't know who icy medicine is but what a great insight install your solar panels today plant your garden this spring saw firewood for the winter practice your skills now not just for the future but for practical usefulness of now build resilience to your everyday life that way if shit does ever hit the fan it's not a

[00:58:29] mountain of a disturbance to your everyday life but a speed bump of adjustment i couldn't put that better even if i tried if i sat down and rewrote that 10 times it wouldn't be as good as that but in other words if there's something you can do now to make your life better down the road and better now do it don't put it off don't say i'm waiting for the day to to do this don't know do it now prepping is one of those things that's supposed to make your life better whether shit ever does hit the fan or it doesn't you know

[00:58:59] who wouldn't want to be an entrepreneur and make more money who wouldn't want to have extra water stored up in case something bad happens who wouldn't want to learn the skills of how to garden any of those can be transferred into money making opportunities for you if it ever comes to that so definitely something to consider folks i love it i i you know i don't always agree with everybody over on the subreddit of preppers but i do certainly enjoy sitting down and reading some of the stuff they have to share

[00:59:29] that is for sure all right let's dive in to the next segment nothing like eating under an open sky even if it is radioactive dropping the dime on precious metals

[00:59:45] all right this segment is dropping the dime on precious metals so aptly named by byron roberts what a great name and this is where for the most part we take a look at

[00:59:55] silver gold i never really talk about any of the other ones but uh precious metals is one of my passions it's definitely not something i would say to go and

[01:00:03] invest all your money in but i think it's great to have a small percentage of it for certain but this is where i try to pick an interesting article to maybe inform you a little bit about the goings on in the

[01:00:15] silver and gold world and if you didn't hear about this i think this is something that appeals to us quite a bit as preppers

[01:00:21] kenya kenya's route to laud zimbabwe zig as boost to economic prospects so if you didn't hear about this about a month ago maybe a month and a half now zimbabwe launched their own gold back currency now i need to fill you in a little bit because before you get really excited i believe this is their sixth currency in 15 years and five of them failed miserably so it just because it's gold back does not mean that it will 100% be a gold back currency

[01:00:51] but i think starting off on a proper foundation is not a bad thing at all they've had hyperinflation for a lot of time so kenyan president william rutu hailed zimbabwe's gold back currency as a potential driver of economic recovery in the south african nation

[01:01:07] the zig short for zimbabwe gold was launched earlier this month and the sixth attempt to create a functioning local currency hacked by homestead said two streams on youtube hey all again yes so there's a vertical stream going out to the shorts feed and the traditional horizontal feed for all the regular viewers here it's something we've been trying it seems it's having modest success so far

[01:01:32] we're kind of casting out some bait and pulling in some new viewers i enjoy it it's fun it's something that youtube has been pushing pretty hard and uh yeah kind of interesting all right so the zig short for zimbabwe gold was launched earlier this month and is the sixth attempt to create a functioning local currency

[01:01:48] zimbabwe has been battling exchange rate instability and surging inflation for years the zig is backed by two and a half tons of gold and 100 million in reserves held by the central bank zimbabwe's untapped substantial reserves of copper and lithium as well as gold platinum silver and other precious metals represent tremendous wealth the president said if it is appropriate that they should be it is appropriate that they should be deployed back to the national currency so i love that

[01:02:18] they've tried everything else they're like hey what do we have we have all kinds of gold why don't we back it with gold the one thing that most currencies that have succeeded in the long term have been backed by right earlier this week zimbabwe's vice president said that the zig is a step toward abandoning the use of us dollars in their economy they use a lot of us dollars in their economy the previous local unit the zimbabwe dollar had lost value every single trading day of the year it's still

[01:02:48] the slide prompted a widespread preference for us dollars which are used for more than 80 percent of all transactions in zimbabwe the zig bank notes will be released next tuesday according to the central bank which is on an awareness drive to promote the new currency so if you hadn't heard zimbabwe launched a gold backed currency what an interesting concept let's slide over just a little further and here it is another one this one's from bloomberg and again zimbabwe's new currency the zig has brought with it deflation well i guess that's

[01:03:18] kind of what you want when you've had hyperinflation the only way to adjust that is to go back the other way i suppose zimbabwe has become synonymous with runaway inflation is now contending with deflation in its first inflation reading compound using zig launched on april 5th consumer prices fell two and a half 2.4 percent in may from a month earlier the zimbabwe dollar had lost 80 percent anyway it is basically i believe if i read correctly it gained two and a half percent

[01:03:48] on the u.s dollar over its first month in active trading nothing too crazy but it is seems to be something that's a little bit stable something to keep an eye on for sure you know it's every bit as exciting as

[01:04:01] you know a country deciding they want to try bitcoin for the first time but in this instance you're backing it by something tangible tangible like

[01:04:08] you know precious metal of gold and we'll see where it goes guys but if you guys see anything interesting like this in the precious metals market feel free to send me emails as we go along i mean the real tim cook at gmail.com that's t h e r e a l t i m c o o k at gmail.com any interesting articles you get i love getting them so so much of what i share with you guys comes from other folks throughout the week for sure so all right so that is diving into precious metals

[01:04:38] right there dropping the dime on precious metals so next this is just a small one and this is something i don't do every week but it's called must be nice and it's where i share an inspirational meme no a meme of some sort that i found or you know again a rule to live by and this one was really simple it comes from motivational life and it says failure is not opposite of success it is part of success and when i saw that that slapped me right across the face because if there's anything i've

[01:05:08] struggled with over the years it's when i think i failed i hate sucking at things i hate not being good at something but i've had to embrace over the years that if you want to become great at something you have to fail many many times and i don't mean fail is impermanent i mean trying something and not being real successful at first the most successful people in the world have sucked donkey balls for a long time before they got good and this is something that we all need to embrace and this is something that we are really really

[01:05:38] struggling with our current staff at the new daycare because folks of a certain age are not used to failing or failure or criticism or coaching any of that and it's okay i just i want to do my best to get them to the point where they embrace constructive criticism and embrace screwing up and failing and being like you know no we're not going to fire you because you failed i just want you to learn from

[01:06:10] it so failure is not opposite of success it is part of success they're inextricably linked they cannot be separated they are as much a part of one another as peanut butter and jelly but yes in order to be successful folks you got to go out there and fail over and over again

[01:06:28] and you know i'm not a big fan of failure because my the title of my presentation at

[01:06:33] srf this year was failure is not an option so real quick i forgot to cover in dropping the dime

[01:06:39] but you have two days left to pre-order the latest silver round from the workshop this one is the y2k it's the first in our modern apocalypse series

[01:06:49] at the moment and it's actually looking like a pretty good price with the run up on silver a bit but we bought it just before well actually in the midst of the run up but uh 70 dollars for the one ounce coin with the y2k logo on the front the the t

[01:07:02] t benchmark on the back and you're also going to get free shipping and a commemorative patch that's only available in there as well so we do these we've been doing silver orders once a year

[01:07:12] this is going to be limited there's only going to be 50 of them struck and i believe we've sold 20 already so once the once the pre-sale is over the price is going to go up to 80 dollars i'm not going to actively promote it at that point

[01:07:26] because it's going to be um

[01:07:28] i'm going to start promoting it again once i have the physical silver in my hand so the people who pre-ordered and saved 10 bucks you'll get your shipment as soon as they show up and then what's left will be what's left but if you want to get it at the 70 dollar price as opposed to the 80 dollar price afterwards make sure you sign up using the shopify link in the description because

[01:07:48] it's all we have people love the silver runs we've this is the third one we've done we're going to do another one toward the end of this year so there you go

[01:07:56] all right what do we got next we have this week in the workshop and it's been a busy week folks it's been a good week

[01:08:05] it's been a week of building the life we want to live i want to tell you that so here we go let's uh again why do i do this week in the workshop

[01:08:15] for motivation inspiration and accountability hopefully some of the things i do will inspire other people to say hey i could try that too

[01:08:22] hopefully what i do some people will be like well shit i need to get off my ass and do that and then also i want to be able to share with you guys what i've done so that you know i'm actually doing shit and not just talking about doing shit you know

[01:08:34] as i talk about doing shit so here we are so um right after the show last week becky and i proceeded to crack scramble and freeze 30

[01:08:43] 33 dozen eggs my brother-in-law's father i don't know what that makes him to me nothing really

[01:08:51] has an immense pile stockpile of farm fresh eggs and so we bought 33 dozen because that was kind of

[01:09:00] i don't even know how i got to that number it came to an even price so i picked that many up

[01:09:04] getting ready to run them through the freeze dryer as soon as i finished the liver treats for the dogs

[01:09:09] next me and my son-in-law my son-in-law and i cleaned up and started rehabbing an apartment unit that was um a little bit

[01:09:16] under the weather let's put it this way it was an eviction the dude broke two two closet doors put his

[01:09:24] fist through another gouges in a bunch of hole in a bunch of the bat a bunch of the drywall

[01:09:30] and then stains all across the carpet oh also i believe he smoked in the bathroom and put a few

[01:09:35] cigarette burns in the linoleum completely against his lease but anyway there we are we're

[01:09:42] dealing with it we're fixing it up uh replaced two two doors decided to try my hand at patching the

[01:09:48] fist size hole in the bathroom door with spray foam and spackle and a couple other things we're

[01:09:54] going to see how it turns out but so far i've been pretty happy with it my son-in-law did an

[01:09:59] incredible job cleaning up the the kitchen but it was an absolute mess uh it sucks it's been

[01:10:03] a while since i've had an eviction been a while since i've had to do anything like that

[01:10:07] also we installed a new dishwasher and by we i say um my son-in-law and i i've been teaching him

[01:10:13] the ropes of the property management business and what did i end up doing i uh i laid on the

[01:10:19] well i laid next to him on the floor as he uninstalled the dishwasher it was a hell of

[01:10:24] a time he did great never did one before i talked him through it i only i only did the dad

[01:10:29] thing for a minute where i'm like here give me the tool let me show you how to do it but

[01:10:32] he did 99 percent of it and i was really proud of him he did great so definitely something i'll

[01:10:37] probably do one more with him before i let him do the next one by himself but he did great

[01:10:43] last weekend i assembled a vinyl shed from cosco for mama i've talked about that a bit

[01:10:47] but it's definitely something that needed to be done we're making some changes in the

[01:10:51] backyard took me two hours i filmed it we'll turn it into some content at some point but

[01:10:56] i do love those cosco vinyl shells we went yard sailing actually we as in me and mama mrs

[01:11:04] tool man went yard sailing last weekend and picked up a shit ton of cool prepping gear

[01:11:09] well not all of it was cool prepping gear some of it was just cool stuff i wanted but i

[01:11:12] picked up some vintage cameras then i picked up one of those walk behind disc cedars that

[01:11:17] was a great piece of gear a cast iron frying pan a colman stove a mr buddy heater an old

[01:11:22] meat grinder hurricane lamp a bit and brace if you don't know what those are the old hand drive

[01:11:27] drills and drill bits and a whole bunch more had a hell of a time we really enjoyed ourselves

[01:11:32] and uh we're going again saturday i might even put some of this some of these items up for

[01:11:39] sale on the shopify if there's interest in some rehabbed prepper gear for a decent price

[01:11:45] they'll be shipping involved but overall i still think it'll get to you for a better

[01:11:49] price than if you were to buy it brand new and a better quality because these are mostly antiques

[01:11:54] let me know because i'm thinking about putting some of it up on the shopify and of course i can

[01:11:57] ship it from my u.s post office box which will save you and i a bunch of money i did four

[01:12:03] batches of liver treats in the freeze dryer this week it would have been five except i

[01:12:07] forgot to hit start on one of them and so they just sat there continuously freezing so

[01:12:11] that was a pain but the dogs love them you just can't give them too many because the

[01:12:16] little dogs get the you know what's when they eat too many but there you go i did a review video

[01:12:21] this week on the fire maple stove if you haven't checked that out and i love that little product

[01:12:25] and then i did one on the big blue solar panel and if you haven't checked that out

[01:12:28] man i like that product sounds like an echo in here but excuse me if you've ever asked yourself

[01:12:35] why doesn't tim review more shitty products it's because i do a shit ton of research before

[01:12:40] products and so very few products do i buy that are going to absolutely disappoint me beforehand

[01:12:47] when companies send me some things then yeah you might get some shitty reviews but overall

[01:12:51] the stuff that i buy tend to be really well researched before that i got two new shirts from

[01:12:57] john willis at soe the first one said less 1984 and more 1776 love that one but my

[01:13:05] favorite is that early 90s neon splatter pattern with the soe logo on it i got a ton of good

[01:13:12] comments at the oilers game last night it was a lot of fun took charlotte to attract me she

[01:13:17] did great i'm proud of her i got to show her out for that she qualified for two out of

[01:13:20] her three events and so next week we are going for another full day track beat for her

[01:13:26] regional finals this is where she'll get medals or ribbons so i'm really proud of her

[01:13:30] in the 400 meter and the four by 100 meter relay so she did great and she jumped here's the other

[01:13:36] thing about needing to suck to get better she jumped her personal best seven meters

[01:13:42] in the triple jump so proud of you charlie have anybody of your listening this evening

[01:13:46] and i took my son-in-law to his very first oilers playoff game my very first

[01:13:50] playoff game period last night we had a ton of fun met a lot of cool people and yeah

[01:13:56] was a really good time to be out with family for sure all right let's take a quick look here

[01:14:00] and uh back to the community pippen says if at first you do not succeed keep on sucking till

[01:14:06] you do succeed that sounds like the little vacuum that could and then lone canadian good

[01:14:12] to see your brother says it's been a week of success failure success and more failure

[01:14:16] sometimes you just got to embrace the suck yes you do because it's the only way um the

[01:14:22] only other way is to wallow in the suck and never come out of it and that's no good for

[01:14:26] anybody so yes embrace the suck move on and go from there so yeah that is this week in

[01:14:33] the workshop and we'll move on to it's the apocalypse end of days the judgment day the end

[01:14:43] of the world my friend let's dig into the community mailbag this is the community mailbag

[01:14:52] where we take a look at some feedback that i get from the crazy workshop community that is

[01:14:58] the delinquents and uh here we go so couple of things first off one little announcement

[01:15:04] i am going to brian and i have been talking about it and it looks like we are going to do

[01:15:09] a couple of work days this year pre srf now the reason we're doing it is to just give

[01:15:15] people more flexibility in their schedule i know what it ends up meaning is that maybe

[01:15:20] not everybody will get together all on the same day but what we're planning i believe and

[01:15:25] i will announce 100 percent all the details down the road but the main thing we're thinking

[01:15:30] about is um a wednesday work day a thursday work day and then a friday kind of social

[01:15:36] barbecue type thing so the work days will be more like come work you know stay on site if

[01:15:42] you want we'll feed you it'll probably be like sandwiches and things like that more cold food

[01:15:46] and then um the the social day will just be you know we could finish up little projects if

[01:15:51] we want but it's more about socializing and um having a barbecue so that looks like what

[01:15:56] we're going to do because a few things i realize i don't need to be at srf for the

[01:16:01] friday before i just don't need to be i'd rather be at delinquent's gully hanging out

[01:16:05] with you know our folks i think it would be a lot of fun so that's what we're going to do

[01:16:10] i'll give you the exact details pretty soon but there it is all right i got four pieces

[01:16:15] of feedback this week first one comes from ryan clauser ryan it was great to get the email from

[01:16:20] you he come over and joined the book club the other day but he said hey listening to atlas

[01:16:24] shrug book club and i've been inspired to join in we are leaving on vacation tomorrow and i'm

[01:16:29] planning to listen to it on the 15 hour drive to myrtle beach south south carolina i should

[01:16:34] be able to catch up to you by the end of the week and listen along with you through the

[01:16:38] end of the book it's been like five years since i've listened to a book on tape and i'm

[01:16:42] excited to listen to one again thanks for the motivation well thanks for the nice words ryan

[01:16:47] i'm absolutely excited i'm glad you've become you became part of the book club community and

[01:16:52] starting in june we're going to be bringing back the post-apocalyptic book club as we finish

[01:16:56] up atlas shrugged or at least continue atlas shrugged it was just something we didn't do

[01:17:01] while i was south you know stateside in tennessee and now now that we're back june will

[01:17:07] be the first first iteration of it and we're going to keep going on so it'd be good to have

[01:17:12] you ryan if anybody doesn't know what that is we do it on a friday night and um you can join

[01:17:17] the live chat or you can join the live video stream if you want i love having folks there

[01:17:21] it's always a lot of fun so if you're looking to join come by and be part of it

[01:17:26] next uh chris dixon posted a uh a poster for an upcoming event in calgary so for all of you

[01:17:33] western canadians this is pretty cool but my buddy brad a five times august is going to be

[01:17:38] doing a stay free concert in calgary on september 12th i got to be there i told him if he ever did

[01:17:44] an event in canada that i would want to come on stage and introduce him i don't know if

[01:17:49] i would ever be able to have that honor but i would absolutely love to do that so if i get

[01:17:54] a chance um i mean i'm gonna meet up with him i'd love to get there and do an interview

[01:17:58] with him or do something anyway i just want to see the dude but he's going to be putting

[01:18:01] together a stay free concert in calgary so if you're interested check it out now something

[01:18:06] else chris dixon shared and uh this was the one thing you know every week there's something

[01:18:12] that comes out of our telegram group and this was the thing that absolutely stuck with me all

[01:18:16] week and i just couldn't shake it and i thought it was such a i don't know such an

[01:18:20] insightful little piece of uh lore from his grandparents but it said uh so chris says i've

[01:18:26] been looking for some land and i remember my grandmother who is a cre teaching elder once said

[01:18:30] to me pick a spot and stand there for 100 breaths and the land will tell you if it wants

[01:18:36] you there or not i've been to 10 spots over the past three weeks and i returned to the

[01:18:41] third place today because of what she said i think i found it i'd never heard that before

[01:18:47] you know uh but i love the thought of it just the fact that you stand there

[01:18:52] you don't do anything you don't say anything you just let your mind do what it needs to do

[01:18:57] and see what the land says to you and uh no matter where you stand on that kind of stuff

[01:19:02] there's something powerful in doing that exact thing so take that piece of advice use it um

[01:19:08] effectively in your life for sure that's got to pop back over here for a minute pipe

[01:19:12] pippen says are there camping spots available for at delinquent's gully there will be as many

[01:19:18] camping sites as you need we have oh i don't know five or six maybe clear there there'd

[01:19:26] be five or six spots for sure there there'd be no shortage of spots for you to hang um you know

[01:19:32] hang a um a tent anywhere you want or you know i'm just trying to think if we could get a

[01:19:38] small camper in there probably not yet maybe i don't know but you know you can put hammocks

[01:19:42] between trees definitely lots of areas for tents i believe becky and i and the girls will be

[01:19:47] staying in the cabin so it'll be yeah they'll definitely be camping spots available and

[01:19:52] is always a good time absolutely uh worm from telegram said hey question what happens to water

[01:20:01] pressure when going from say three quarter inch spigot to one inch or inch and a half then back

[01:20:07] down to a three quarter inch hydrant does it just even out and i wasn't exactly sure even

[01:20:12] how to explain this but before i even had the chance brian young good buddy of mine

[01:20:17] decided to answer the question and this is the beauty of our community that's what i love

[01:20:21] he said static pressure is the same the one inch will have less friction loss than the three quarter

[01:20:26] so you'll get better pressure when the spigot is open that is if you if your one inch section

[01:20:31] is very long says i got a three quarter inch meter connected two inch line neck down to

[01:20:35] inch and a quarter for about a quarter mile and then back down to three quarter inch

[01:20:40] so yeah it basically static pressure stays the same you'll have some friction loss but there

[01:20:45] you go i hope that helps it's uh clear as mud for you and finally this was an email i got

[01:20:50] from daniel a couple of weeks ago and i forgot to share it but i really meant to but if i did

[01:20:55] remind me but i don't think i did so here we go said hey tim i've been listening to the

[01:20:58] hurricane center podcast which has been interesting in itself but in one they mentioned

[01:21:03] an awful lot of deaths and injuries happen after the storm has come through after the

[01:21:10] storm has come through and people are cleaning up and running generators carbon monoxide

[01:21:16] poisoning was a big cause and i imagine chainsaws and spring-loaded trees are another

[01:21:21] food for thought and possible podcasts i'm in colorado but i find old disaster lessons very

[01:21:26] interesting thanks daniel yes so i really um i was just a thought i needed to share with you

[01:21:34] guys was again you know the disaster after the disaster remember that right when you're

[01:21:39] cleaning up you're not always safe when you're performing cpr on sorry first aid on somebody

[01:21:44] remember look out for yourself too pay attention even when you think the coast is clear but

[01:21:49] yeah carbon monoxide chainsaws and spring-loaded trees something to think about

[01:21:53] during the cleanup for sure pippen says may mount the roof tent on the nissan truck for

[01:21:58] camping at the gully i would love that it'd probably be just as nice as the uh comfort in

[01:22:04] because i know you stayed there last time and i stayed there for about 10 days uh the same

[01:22:09] roughly the same time and yeah you might as well come down stay in the gully with us so

[01:22:13] we'd love to have folks out there it's going to be a lot of fun looking forward to it myself

[01:22:17] becky and i becky myself and the girls will be there brian and corey will be there and we don't

[01:22:23] know exactly what all we're going to work on i know i have a couple of projects in mind

[01:22:27] i've been uh really wanting to get the cabin insulated and put up wall boards in

[01:22:34] the interior and i really want to build a dam for the stream running through so we can do

[01:22:41] some um some sort of water lift of some sort but what i really want is stored capacity within the

[01:22:48] the stream itself so we're going to look at building a field expedient dam and depending on

[01:22:53] how many folks show up maybe we'll pick up some more lumber and we could build another eight by

[01:22:57] eight cabin because brian and i have got that down to a science now so there's no end to

[01:23:02] the work we could do out there brian's going to be working his ass off all summer he carried

[01:23:07] something like 70 cinder blocks up the hill to his his permanent campsite here soon and uh yeah

[01:23:13] can't wait to see everybody for sure so i hope you guys enjoyed this episode this evening i love

[01:23:19] these this week in prepper this week in prepping news they're always a lot of fun they're really

[01:23:24] well received on the back end they do really good not just in audience interaction when i get

[01:23:30] to sit here and chat with you guys because these are some of the most laid back you know

[01:23:34] these are the uh the more preparation intensive episodes you know this takes me about twice as

[01:23:39] long to put together as say an interview show for the most part but once it's together it's

[01:23:44] it's a lot of fun i enjoy doing them i know a lot of folks i get a lot of good feedback from

[01:23:48] it and uh definitely get good numbers from the episodes too on top of that and if you ever

[01:23:54] wonder how the youtube channel is going it's it's going really well guys uh you know i'm

[01:23:59] we just hit 15 000 subscribers but um everybody's concept of what success is is slightly different

[01:24:06] and the fact that i'm able to help as many people as i am and also make a pretty damn good

[01:24:12] living people are pretty surprised that um we could live off of what i make from the youtube

[01:24:17] channel now so there's that so thank you guys i appreciate you turning this from a hobby

[01:24:23] into a passion into um you know an income that actually could support the family so thanks guys

[01:24:31] i love it and if it wasn't for you guys i wouldn't be here doing it and i was doing

[01:24:35] because i knew everybody would be here eventually and you showed up and thank you for that so

[01:24:39] i hope you enjoyed this evening's show guys um it is still plenty light out here i'm going

[01:24:44] to get the the audio ripped and uploaded for you we'll get the evening for another

[01:24:51] inspirational interview and i can actually take a look i believe i know who we have coming up

[01:24:57] we've got a bunch booked for everyone let's see if we can find it and let you know right quick

[01:25:01] but yeah so sunday evening uh we got a a new video coming out tomorrow with uh john willis

[01:25:09] and it's the first half of the uh oh so sunday is going to be a little early sunday

[01:25:14] is going to be two hours earlier than the normal time and we got jake from ravenwood

[01:25:18] acres and i made a oh man i made a uh a change in the schedule for him because he is

[01:25:26] very overseas at the moment and away from home and i really wanted to bring him on the show

[01:25:31] and his time zone is so off from ours that we needed to so sunday evening is going to be

[01:25:36] a couple hours earlier and it's going to be hell of a time jake i he is i consider him

[01:25:41] a close friend somebody that i've uh sat down and shared bourbon with but we've had a lot

[01:25:45] of good conversations with so look out for him coming up tomorrow is a video with john willis

[01:25:51] it's the first half of the patreon interview there's a ton of great clips in there that he

[01:25:56] talks about how to build a content creation business so yeah hang in there some great

[01:26:01] videos some great reviews coming up for you next week and uh yeah as always stay happy

[01:26:07] stay healthy and have a great week