THIS WEEK IN PREPPING - WILDFIRES, DISTILLING, STARLINK AND MORE

[00:00:10] This is the follow-up. Hello, everyone. We're here to report you. West of the world. Why'd you care? How can we prepare? We've been doing this for a few hours. We've been fighting for a lot of problems. We've been fighting for five years. A thousand years. Water completion.

[00:00:40] Coming at you from the frozen tundra that is east central Alberta, Canada. Streaming live on YouTube? Well, not Twitter anymore, guys. Twitch, Odyssey, usually Rumble, but we've had all kinds of fun things today. We'll fill you in in a minute.

[00:00:56] Welcome back to the workshop where we create community, find freedom, promote preparedness, and share success. I am Toolman Tim. Today is August the first. Wow! 2020, 24. And this is episode 462 of Workshop Radio. How is everyone out there? We'll get back to it in just a minute.

[00:01:16] But I am back. I had one hell of a vacation. I needed it. I wasn't originally planning on it being a vacation from the podcast, but holy hell that I need it. And I'm glad I took it. So thanks for being here when I came back, guys.

[00:01:29] So real quick, Facebook's still been giving me issues on streaming over there. I've been doing it for a couple of times. It works most of the time. It doesn't. So there's no stream yard and I went to go live this evening.

[00:01:42] And now Twitter says you can only go live if you have a premium account. And for the one or two views I get over there, ain't going to happen. So unfortunately it looks like we are quickly coming down to YouTube for streaming, which is we're going to,

[00:01:57] there's going to be a whole thing at the end of this. And I think we're going to get through this in a good way and kind of where the plans are heading with the podcast, the channel, nothing bad at all folks.

[00:02:06] But let's see who we got in here this evening so far. We got Jeff Stark, Byron Roberts, Mr. Pippin himself, Beth Emily, but good to see you guys. It's great to see it. Let's start off this evening with a rule to live by.

[00:02:19] So I put it through the old randomizer spinning wheel earlier today. I ended up getting rule number 16. I think I'm about halfway through my rules to live by at this point.

[00:02:28] And number 16, and you guys have heard this one before I'm sure and some of you probably lived by it rule number 16 under promise and over deliver. Guys that works in business. It works in personal relationships.

[00:02:43] It works in if I've yet to find a spot and I'm sure somebody will be like, all right Tim, here's the example where this is the exception that proves the rule.

[00:02:51] But I will tell you every time over when it comes to property management, I had somebody call me the other day and they said, hey, when's my dishwasher going to be in?

[00:03:00] And I said next Tuesday or Wednesday knowing damn well that I'm probably going to get there on Friday to install it. But if I said Friday and then an emergency came up, I look like the dick. So over promise, sorry, under promise over deliver.

[00:03:16] It's the way you will always have happy customers. And to be honest, it will and it doesn't mean giving yourself super low expectations or setting the bar so low that you can step over instead of jump over in it.

[00:03:29] But it also knows that life happens and that at times you need to because I am perpetually a yes man, at least I used to be. I was one of those followers who would absolutely say yes to everything even if I didn't have time to do it.

[00:03:44] And I realized one of the easiest ways to get around that was to under promise and over deliver. So I hope you guys enjoyed that. I wonder if you guys, anybody out there lives along those lines as well. But it's great to be back.

[00:03:56] Hey Kevin Rodriguez, great to see you. Well, it's been three weeks, I guess. Well, I missed three shows, three week routine.

[00:04:05] So I have a ton of stories that I could pick from but I kept it down to the normal for just so we could, you know, just have a normal kind of every day this week in prepping. Let's dive in here folks.

[00:04:18] And yeah, so right now here we go. If anyone dies while you are captain, you're captain, you're a full out room. Move the body to another room in the house. The time has come for stranger. There we are.

[00:04:37] I love these intros and if you guys know Rebecca from Red Flyer Media, she's the one who spruced up a lot of these for me. I started some of these stingers in between transition clips and she just made them look all the better.

[00:04:50] At some point this fall, we will have even more. I'm looking forward to introducing one for every one of these segments because if you've noticed I've expanded to some new segments. So let's dive in. Here we go.

[00:05:01] If you guys haven't heard this, this comes from WVTM13.com and you probably heard it absolutely everywhere. But if there wasn't a vending machine for anything or everything at this point, there definitely is now. Do you guys see this?

[00:05:15] You can now get gun ammo in a vending machine at an Alabama grocery store. Who doesn't love the Second Amendment? Who doesn't love freedom? There you are. As for how the vending machine style dispenser works, the article says customers choose their ammo and scan their ID.

[00:05:31] Now it gets a little big brotherish in here. But here's the thing, you get to choose whether you want to do this or not. But either way, so when I first heard this article, I just saw the title and I'm like, you know what?

[00:05:43] I pictured gumball machines with loose 5.56 in them and you just put a quarter in. Well nowadays you wouldn't put a quarter in. Nowadays I don't know what you'd put in but up in Canada at least two need to get a round or two.

[00:05:55] Put it in, turn it and then just fill your pockets and walk out. It's not quite that simple. So how does the dispenser work? Customer chooses their ammo, they scan their ID. Next customers will use artificial intelligence, facial recognition.

[00:06:09] Notice how it used to be called facial recognition but because AI is a buzzword, we now have to include artificial intelligence in everything. To verify that the person they claim to be is the person they are.

[00:06:21] Legally we're required to make sure that someone's of legal age in order to use the machine or purchase the ammunition. I mean that's the law in most places. You have to make sure somebody's of age to purchase ammo.

[00:06:31] This way they're actually just removing the intermediary, the middle person. Legally required to make sure someone's of age to use the machine or purchase ammo said the chief operating officer at American Rounds. And past that we want to make sure they have a valid ID.

[00:06:48] Songer believes this AI technology is more secure than a person checking a real person checking an ID. Also interesting. However, just like the time that Elon Musk said look my windows are bulletproof and he breaks them.

[00:07:03] The system isn't perfect because as the CEO was showing off the new technology demonstrating the checkout process, the verification failed and unable to confirm he was the same person on the license. Oops! So there is that. There are some bugs to work out for sure.

[00:07:21] And then of course they do the people on the street thing and I'm not going to get into that too much, but they found some people that are like yes praise the Lord you can get free ammo.

[00:07:30] And then other people are like oh I don't like that idea. I think you should have to go. You know I'm pro second amendment, but you really need to have the inconvenience of dealing with the folk. A real person in real life right?

[00:07:40] So in case you're wondering here's where the company has a gun ball machine. I mean ammo machines at the moment. Says the company has one machine in Alabama, four in Oklahoma and one in Texas.

[00:07:50] All freedom loving states with plans for another in Texas and one in Colorado in the coming weeks. Imagine that you can go next door get your free weed and then get your ammo in the gun ball machines. What a great time we live in.

[00:08:03] Hey folks anyway I thought this was fun. I thought this would be a great fun story to come back. What are my thoughts on it? I mean I'm pro freedom of anything you know that.

[00:08:14] And so if a company wants to open up gun ball machines that sell ammo. I mean sure I want to keep it out of the hands of kids so I like the idea that it requires an idea I suppose. But I love it. I think it's great.

[00:08:26] I think it's the way of the future. I mean you could theoretically pick up ammo at two in the morning if it's a 24 hour grocery store. So there's that and let's see. Let's see.

[00:08:36] Let's pop back into the comments here from our fellow delinquents and Rachel Brown says 13 watching in only six likes show the love guys. Who always says slap it like it owes you money I can't remember anyway.

[00:08:49] Ryan Pippin says I actually do have a gun ball machine with nine millimeter inside it. I want to say I wish I had enough that I could fill a gun ball machine but you know leave it at that.

[00:09:00] All right let's slide on to the next article here guys. You want to show it out to L2 survive. Good to see you.

[00:09:06] Great to see you actually next is for those who don't know that while this comes from everything GP as in Grand Prairie Alberta dot com and for those who don't know the RCMP is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and mounted as in not like stuffed or you know up over fireplace mounted as in on horses something like that.

[00:09:29] They wear this red outfit. They don't wear this on a regular basis but tradition was that they rode horses so they are now called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They're the closest thing we have to a national police force.

[00:09:40] They are a national police force, but not every city has them so believe it at that. I really like this article I came across this one about three weeks ago but it was worth sharing.

[00:09:50] It's something really simple that we can all maybe incorporate into our bedtime routine and I'm not talking about you know a rumtady with you know an early bedtime.

[00:10:00] No it says Alberta RCMP or the we'll just call them the popo the police remind people of the 9pm routine and what is that you might ask.

[00:10:08] Well late summer nights with the sun still shining bright in Alberta means people are out in a boat later but the Alberta RCMP wants to remind residents to still do their nightly routines now some folks it might be getting a little bit darker earlier already.

[00:10:22] But it is still well past 10 o'clock before the sun goes down here before it's dark enough that the near do well crack heads may or may not do an you know an intrepid inspection of your backyard and so yeah anyway.

[00:10:37] Property crimes tend to rise during the summer months and in July 2023 there were almost 2800 reports of theft under 5000 in Alberta RCMP jurisdictions.

[00:10:48] We're going to get into this because you guys have heard my story about somebody wanting my generator more than I did and the reason for that was simply because I didn't follow a proper 9pm routine.

[00:10:58] The 9pm routine is a movement by police services worldwide to encourage people to follow a nightly checklist to make sure their property is secure before going to bed.

[00:11:08] I have a similar kind of checklist that I go through and one of the last things Becky and I do whoever locks the back door we put eyes on the garage door because there's been many times where I have looked out and thought shit I didn't close it.

[00:11:23] Now I do have an app on my phone that when it's working I can check if it's open or closed but I still like the you know.

[00:11:30] I still like that feeling of being physically putting eyes on it to know and so that's the big one for me because that's where somebody is going to pop in pop out and run away with something.

[00:11:39] Do I have cameras all around sure I do but cameras don't prevent anything they just help you with an insurance claim down the road or maybe prosecution if need be.

[00:11:48] All right, here we are what is this checklist what does it consist of and it's pretty simple locking your doors at night even even if you live in a small town now question for my American folks because.

[00:12:00] I don't know if you guys remember what I'm sure you do pulling for Columbine and I was quite blown away when I saw that movie for the first time and learned that Americans locked their doors during the day.

[00:12:11] I don't know anybody anywhere who locks their doors during the day in Canada. I'm sure there are people in Edmonton and you know the big cities but I've yet to meet somebody.

[00:12:21] As a matter of fact, it's common common practice in Nova Scotia where I grew up to leave your doors unlocked when you go away on vacation.

[00:12:30] I'm not really sure why but it is anyhow so locking your doors at night even if you live in a small town now that's where I want to get at this because we totally lock our doors at night and so does everybody else.

[00:12:41] I don't know anybody who sleeps with an unlocked door but during the day now doors are locked so throw it in the comments there guys if you lock your doors when you're home during the day or do you leave them unlocked or you don't have to put it up there.

[00:12:52] You don't want to lock in your garage or shed. Yep, that's me.

[00:12:57] I was really bad at that and the way I have my garage set up is the garage door opens right into the back alley and then you come in and go through a door into my backyard.

[00:13:07] There's no actual entrance into the backyard from my fence so it's something that yeah I always try to remember to do.

[00:13:17] Why you may ask well if you're new here you might not have heard the story about the beautiful Honda Generator, the little EU 2000 I used to have beautiful little thing.

[00:13:27] And when we first moved in to the house we were in before this one the last house we read it before we bought this one.

[00:13:33] We had a garage door in there that had a messed up garage door spring and we had to it took two people to lift it and get it up into place.

[00:13:41] And then once it got up into place I would have to put clamps on it to make sure it didn't fall down to capitate a small child. Yeah, not safe. I get it.

[00:13:48] And so it was a real pain in the ass to open and close so I would leave it open all day and then close it at night.

[00:13:53] Well one evening I never even thought I left it open left the light on in the garage just like you know what it was like a lit up garage.

[00:14:02] With an open door in the middle of the night is to a crackhead what a pie sitting on a window ledge to bugs bunny was that's absolutely what it was. Simple as that I was stupid.

[00:14:13] I left it unlocked I went out in the morning and there were four perfect little rubber footprints in the dust on my shelf where that beautiful generator used to be. There you go. So don't do it. Lock your garage lock your shed, you know booby trip.

[00:14:28] No I didn't say booby I'm just kidding. I remove all keys from vehicles and locking the door securely store any off highway vehicles. Another great idea. You know in the country folks leave things out. I get it.

[00:14:39] I know it is what it is but we don't do that in the town here. Consider installing a home alarm if you already have one set your alarm before going to sleep.

[00:14:46] Ensure all yard tools, recreation equipment is safely stored preferably in a locked garage shed or something else. So there you go. That is what it is. It's just simple things and to be absolutely honest it's not really anything you have to run around and do.

[00:15:02] It's just something that you have to be cognizant of and you can say did I do this to do that to do this.

[00:15:06] Okay, I use Google Calendar now I've become a huge addict on Google Calendar for things like put your garbage bins out Tuesday night so that they're out there for Wednesday morning.

[00:15:17] So you could easily put something like that a lock the garage door on there whatever it happens to be. So yeah, just a simple 9pm routine and your mileage may vary adjust for time zones folks but either way have a good nighttime kind of routine for you.

[00:15:33] All right let's go back over to the comments here and I'm going to say the state you guys live in I hope that's okay just to kind of give us all some ideas.

[00:15:44] The folks that I know sorry but anyway this comment I'm just not going to put it in the audio Florida locked always. Next Kentucky unlocked when home during day locked at night.

[00:15:58] I know the general vicinity of where you live and I'm not going to say it out loud. Our doors auto lock there are cameras everywhere and my pistol is always within an arms reach.

[00:16:06] And this one here I don't lock my door all day I do at night but I leave my car keys in the car during the day and night and don't lock it at all in Texas.

[00:16:14] I'm going to say that I'm pretty bad with that to during the day around here.

[00:16:18] I know I shouldn't do that but it is just a country thing that I've never been able to get out of the habit of and you guys will be able to slap me with my nice.

[00:16:26] The army green truck runs off on itself but it's pretty common to leave our keys in the truck during the day here. At night is when crime happens it doesn't mean that it won't happen I'm just saying anyway.

[00:16:37] And outdoor cameras are my next purchase I love having them. I can sit here right now actually I have one camera out that I need to investigate to see what happened I think it's behind here. But I chose hardwired cameras at first because I love them.

[00:16:51] I bought them on Amazon we're talking four and a half years ago now. And I bought four and then I bought a fifth one to upgrade so that I kind of have the perimeter of the house all decked out and it works really really well.

[00:17:03] And so I have one for the backyard one for the back door one for the driveway heading out one for the driveway heading in and then one for the front of the house.

[00:17:11] I have a blind spot in my backyard well my fenced in area but that has six foot fence all the way around with no access from outside.

[00:17:20] And nobody there's nothing steelable and nobody can get into the house without having to come into range with one of the cameras.

[00:17:26] Now one of the blind spots I did have was on the back of my garage like my garage looking down the alleyway so if anybody broke in there, I wouldn't have footage of it.

[00:17:35] So I picked up another one of those Wi-Fi cameras and I got to tell you folks. I love those Wi-Fi cameras I got another review coming up on one of companies sent me recently.

[00:17:45] It's been great I have two on our daycare down the road and one on my workshop and it's held up really really good so anyway, those are my thoughts.

[00:17:55] I do like cameras I kind of I really wanted to say that I was still a fan of the hardwired cameras but I got to tell you those Wi-Fi cameras have been a godsend.

[00:18:06] I've run them for a I would say it's been a full year at the daycare without any issues they're just a solar panel about I don't know eight by eight inches maybe and Wi-Fi connection literally no holes, no wires to drill anything.

[00:18:19] I enjoy it so one step closer says I locked doors all the time and Byron says keys stay in work truck all day outside in town. I know I know I know small town versus city.

[00:18:32] If I have time later on will chat a little bit about some serious time I spent in the city recently and a couple of interactions I had that one was my fault and one was my nephew who was the country most who first you know what let's talk about it right now.

[00:18:47] Instead of just teasing to just do so two things guys, we just spent better part of five days in Edmonton and the West Edmonton mall is gorgeous. It's beautiful as the world's largest indoor wave pool. It's the second biggest mall in North America.

[00:19:02] A lot of fun stuff there. We couldn't get a place to stay in the mall adjacent hotel this time so we stayed at the mall across the street hotel.

[00:19:12] It's also called the West Edmonton mall but it's called the in I did some research ahead of time and they said park underground if you can because the outdoor parking tends to get broken into and it's not a great neighborhood but all you have to do is cross the road.

[00:19:26] So across walk just a very busy intersection as long as you wait you're good.

[00:19:30] So anyway I get parking underground we had some real issues with that hotel the bed was nice, the room was nice but the elevator broke on our last day there and we had no hot water for 14 hours in our room.

[00:19:42] Anyway, I was polite about it we didn't didn't get in a fight or anything we got a small refund. We won't stay there again but that's neither here to the there.

[00:19:51] So the next day or the day before that I'm in the West Edmonton mall and I have my girls with me and I'm always kind of on edge you know I'm always doing the situational awareness and watching people and I see this crackhead lady coming at me and she's kind of on a mission and she says excuse me.

[00:20:09] And I was like okay that's kind of rude and then she says, get the fuck out of my way. And of course, actually she didn't say it that loud she said it just loud enough where she's like there won't be any consequences for what I say.

[00:20:22] And before I knew what I was doing, I said well that's a nice attitude to have around us. Why did I do that I don't know what's happened to me over the years but sometimes I just won't let people slide by.

[00:20:35] And she gets about 10 feet past us and it clicks in that hey somebody just confronted me on my assholeishness.

[00:20:41] And she comes around and she comes right back and she's within two feet of me and she's cussing and swearing and hollering at me and I'm thinking, why did you do that Tim why did you say that I shouldn't have done it so stupid.

[00:20:52] And Becky was telling me afterwards she's like she was prepared to jump the lady if she tried to hit me but anyway I shouldn't have done it folks. So sometimes preparedness about keeping your damn mouth shut even when somebody says something you don't like so anyway.

[00:21:05] That evening, my awesome little nephew, Nick he came out so we just had my sister my mom and Nicholas out here mom was out two years ago. Nick and my sister had never been outside of Nova Scotia in their life.

[00:21:17] He came out he was doing really good I said dude, you've never been in a city and this is a serious city. Stay with me all the time. Yep. Okay no problem. And one thing you don't do in Edmonton is J walk.

[00:21:29] I mean you will get hit so frigging fast it won't you won't even know what hit you and we're at this busy intersection. And it just so happens that there's no cars within like ear distance or eye distance.

[00:21:40] We all stop because it's a red light for the crosswalk and he just keeps on a trucking. And he gets about three quarters of the way across before we realize what the hell had happened and we hollered at him and he froze right there.

[00:21:52] Because we saw a car just barreling down on him and they weren't going to stop. And so he had to pick up his ass and start running anyway. So if you ever bring a country most to the city keep a keep a short leash on him.

[00:22:04] He didn't mean anything by it I didn't get mad at him but he scared to live and shit out of me guys so keep your head up be aware. And if you bring somebody there your responsibility so there's my crack head story for this week.

[00:22:17] Doors locked if I'm not home wife's disabled never leave keys in the car. Good and I really should get better at not leaving keys in the car but I'm just being honest here this evening so there you go.

[00:22:27] All right what do we get next this is a great story folks I love this one I hope you guys all cracked up when you heard it. Federal judge rules ban on home distilling is unconstitutional tonight we're going to party like it's 1868.

[00:22:40] This comes from distillery trail dot com and a couple of weeks ago you would have saw this story across all the news platforms because it was quite the story.

[00:22:49] And July 20th 1868 I'm going to try to do it in my mid Atlantic accent at the US Congress passed a law declare it now I'm done.

[00:22:57] All right no person shall use any still boiler or other vessel for the purpose of distilling in any dwelling house nor in any shed yard or enclosed connected with blah blah blah.

[00:23:07] So in other words you can't make your own liquor that was the rule since 1868 in 1978 the joy of home brewing was published no I'm not kidding around that time anyway this kid but the federal government finally changed its tune when President Jimmy Carter signed HR 1337 which allowed any adult to produce wine and beer at home for personal use without federal taxation.

[00:23:27] However, distillation or distilling or making home fuel folks was left out of that law. Now, recently in December of 2023 the hobby distillers Association went up against the court they're kind of a special interest group and they're like hey we need to challenge this law.

[00:23:48] And it's been a challenge before it's never been overturned. And surprise surprise on July 10 the federal court in Texas decided the federal ban on at home distillation of beverage spirits is unconstitutional.

[00:23:59] Imagine that hasn't happened with marijuana yet. It's been the opposite case in this way where states have gone, oh wait we can legally sell marijuana but in this case it's the federal that saying it's unconstitutional.

[00:24:11] Now, wondering why it's unconstitutional and how it could stay on the books since 1868. The court found that the federal ban on home distilling exceeds the scope of the federal government's limited powers.

[00:24:23] Hmm, kind of nice when the Supreme Court does that the constant or while the federal, the Texas federal court sorry, Constitution's tax power does not allow the federal government to ban home distilling largely because the band does not add money into the federal treasury or protect federal tax revenue.

[00:24:40] The Constitution's power to regulate interstate commerce does not allow the federal government to ban home distilling largely because the band either regulates interstate commerce directly, nor it is related to any large regulatory scheme. There you go.

[00:24:55] But just so you know, the group is quick to point out that in addition to federal laws there are tons of state laws governing the weight making of spirits at home and the decision does not affect the states regulatory powers whatsoever.

[00:25:08] Brown says you can make anything you want. You just can't get caught right. Everything's legal until you get caught anyway. Yeah, so that brings me before I forget to show you the shirt. This is one of my new favorites.

[00:25:19] I still haven't decided if it's more of a favorite than killdozer. But John sent me like seven shirts in the last four weeks. So you're going to see some videos but here's my favorite recently.

[00:25:28] It's only treason. Then you got George Washington with sunglasses on. If you lose. There you go. That's almost like history is written by the victors now isn't it?

[00:25:37] So everybody go out there and have a stiff glass of homemade fuel just to celebrate this news. Hey, Rachel Brown says you can make anything you want. Just don't get caught one step closer says some kinfolk have been making their own forever.

[00:25:53] Just some good old boys. Yeah, I'm not saying that. There you go. So and the next story is a little dystopian. I hope it's not too dark. No, I'm just anyway. This comes from the Atlantic or the Atlantic dot com.

[00:26:07] And I had to use archive dot pH. If you want to check out that site, it's great. If you aren't interested in subscribing to certain news outlets, things are behind a paywall. You want to read a story where you just want to see an old version of the story.

[00:26:23] You can check out archive our ar c h i ve dot pH. So the Atlantic says the golden age of the supermarket is ending. I would say something that started in the late 50s, I guess, and really hit it big in the 80s with the malls and that sort of thing.

[00:26:42] This is an interesting thought experiment or an interesting conversation piece in here. There's, you know, it's going to be a lot about climate, a lot about changing weather. And no matter how you want to look at it, the weather has been bad recently for certain things and you're going to have localized ecological disasters, lots of different things that have been affecting the supply chain as we know, wherever you stand on your belief of it.

[00:27:09] I leave that up to you. But here we go. Grocery stores defy seasons and geography to assure shoppers that they can have anything they want anytime when they say that I picture those 1950s diner lunchtime diners that have all these doors that you can just open up and pick out whatever food you want.

[00:27:28] That's kind of what I'm picturing here for whatever reason. For a moment last year, those promises no longer seem to hold up the eggcase at my local supermarket in New York City with strict bear bird fluid decimation.

[00:27:38] I would say to chickens across the country, while I would actually say that killing birds that had been exposed to bird flu actually decimated the population. Americans hoarded whatever eggs they could find sometimes paying up to $18 a carton.

[00:27:52] Well, another reason I've been freeze drying a ton of scrambled eggs recently but not the only reason just a reason that will help you smooth over these peaks and valleys that's known as inflation or price.

[00:28:04] Gouging jumping sorry. Yeah, now olive oil is more than double in the cost in the past two years because of drought and bad weather and a Mediterranean have shriveled all of Groves so many orange trees in Brazil are diseased and weakened by heat and droat that producers have considered making juice from other fruit.

[00:28:22] Hmm. Peanut, sugar, vanilla and beef among other foods have also been in short supply at points over the past few years. Oh, speaking of which, Apple Pie Moonshine.

[00:28:35] Speaking of distillation, Americans may no longer be able to count on supermarkets that are perpetually stocked with cheap food. The era of grocery abundance is ending and a more somber one is taking its place.

[00:28:48] So this is an article. It is definitely comes from a pessimistic worldview, but I think it's worth looking at simply for the fact that there are going to be some shortages.

[00:28:59] We're going to be dealing with a bunch of shortages that you know we've dealt with some in the past. We're going to deal with some in the future.

[00:29:07] And I think you know somebody much smarter than me said that prepping supposed to make your life better whether times get tougher it doesn't right.

[00:29:15] And that's what I look at prepping as today is it you know okay if you look at a graph where prices spike or supplies dip. Well what prepping can do is shave off those sharp edges at the top of the bottom.

[00:29:32] It helps you get by for instance back in March of 2020 for no reason whatsoever everyone bought toilet paper. I don't know why there was no reason whatsoever why that happened.

[00:29:47] But so there was a shortage and we had a year's worth of toilet paper on hand at that time. So guess what we didn't feel the little spike come up under us and hit us in the butt cheeks not at all.

[00:29:58] And that's what prepping does is it it dolls those sharp points on graphs and allows you to go much much longer than the average Joe when dealing with these shortages.

[00:30:10] You know when the idealistic view of the grocery store from the 1950s through the 80s has finally you know gasped its last dying breath I think we'll still be okay.

[00:30:22] So let's keep sliding on here cargo ships stuck in massive seaside traffic jam some due to low water levels caused by climate change they say are holding up food deliveries events such as the war in Ukraine may not have any obvious connection to the climate but they're keeping on top of a baseline.

[00:30:40] All this means higher prices and patchy supply it's already happening but you might not have noticed and one of the reasons you didn't notice was this big word right here.

[00:30:49] An I word that Joe Biden loves to use and it's not idiot its inflation has masked some of the price hikes.

[00:30:57] So because of that high you know once again that big peak in inflation people haven't noticed some of these regular price increases that would have been noticed if we were on that steady 2% a year.

[00:31:09] And now here is a thought that I have heard many times before and we don't always talk about it but wealthy nations are generally shielded from the worst effects of crop shortfalls.

[00:31:20] Lowball says the food sold in these countries is usually more processed though so the cost of raw ingredients is just one component of the overall price.

[00:31:31] So that means that poorer countries that rely on you know basic you know the few basic ingredients to make everything are going to feel the pinch even more.

[00:31:42] And one step closer says the West's war on farming hasn't hurt anything either slash sarcasm you are correct my friend very very correct.

[00:31:52] So this is where the new age of grocery shopping begins most likely it'll be more of the same of what's happening now the expert says the produce you're looking for maybe more expensive or it might be occasionally out of stock or more frequently out of stock.

[00:32:06] The prices of basic food such as sugar and flour won't be reliably low. Maybe guacamole will become too costly to be a Super Bowl staple or burger prices will start to resemble those of steak.

[00:32:18] I mean just looking at standard old inflation when Becky and I got married less than 20 years ago on our honeymoon we ended up picking up ground beef for 99 cents a pound.

[00:32:31] That's Canadian of course I haven't seen it for less than $3 a pound and typically quite a bit more than that for the last few years. But it is what it is now isn't it so just a story to think about something to talk about there guys.

[00:32:44] L2 survive says the price of wood is starting to come down because builders have stopped mid build because the finished toast will not be worth what was put into it.

[00:32:53] Yep I've heard that a lot I've definitely seen a decrease in building supplies we're never going to see it go back to pre 2020 levels of course but that's the way it always goes with pricing increases isn't it so so that's the end of stranger than fiction this week.

[00:33:09] Next we're going to go on to the prepper files and that is a look at what happened on this date or this week in history and hopefully mostly from a prepper bent.

[00:33:22] So this week actually today in history August 1 was the Harlem riots of 1943 they began on this day and it's something I've heard of a little bit in the past but the reason I shared this one is because you know there have been race riots recently.

[00:33:39] You know within the last four years of course and once again they started from a single match strike you know from one bad event that spiraled out of control and people were hurt people were killed buildings were damaged.

[00:33:54] And I just ran a poll on the channel on the community page that asked if you lived in the city the town or the country and I'm not going to judge you for living in the city I get it but I wouldn't live in the city if I had my choice I suppose now I get it some people don't some people want to stay in your family some people like the lifestyle whatever but here you go simmering racial tensions and economic frustrations boiled over in New York City.

[00:34:22] On a I'm going to say hot night but sorry on the night of August 1 1943 culminating is what known now as the Harlem riot of 43 during an altercation in the lobby of the Braddock Hotel, a white police officer shot a black soldier, Robert Bandy triggering a massive uprising.

[00:34:39] Now, a few things happen really quick. There was huge racial tensions in Harlem because in the last 30 years they went from a predominantly white area to a predominantly black area.

[00:34:51] There were tons of rules and laws and just overall bad treatment of African Americans which caused, of course, lots of tension.

[00:34:59] And then there was a lack of reliable information because as soon as the shooting happened story went around that the black soldier was killed. He was not he was not even mortally wounded or even, you know, seriously injured.

[00:35:13] He went to the hospital and he was fine a couple of days later. However, as stories go this is what happened in either way they were just looking for some a match to light the tinderbox that was Harlem in 1943.

[00:35:25] As a here it is as a rumor spread that Collins had killed Bandy crowds assembled near the Braddock and soon began to riot.

[00:35:32] They turned the rage on local white owned businesses leading black owned businesses to hurriedly post signs announcing their stores were black owned six black residents were killed nearly 500 injured as the end the NYPD at the behest of the mayor, and the army moved into the streets of Harlem.

[00:35:50] What an awful situation folks that would have been you imagine a hot August night in 1943 and dealing with riots like that. Anyway, there you go. And this was in the middle of World War two.

[00:36:04] So not fun, not good, an awful kind of blight on history but something that should not be forgotten whatsoever.

[00:36:13] All right, so our next segment and I don't have any cool transition, you know, scenes for this one yet is paranormal prepping. And that was, I don't remember who come up with that name but thank you.

[00:36:25] The names have settled in now and I'm quite happy with where they've turned out paranormal prepping stories from the parent paranormal side, just because I like odd strange paranormal stories once in a while.

[00:36:35] And this one is grandpa on ice and you may have heard the story before I don't know if you have I had one other time but it came back around. Because I believe it was the 30th anniversary of this incident recently. This comes from popular mechanics calm.

[00:36:50] This body was found preserved on a block of ice in a Colorado shed. It had been there for 30 years. This is a story about do it yourself cryonics. Hang in there and it's not about Walt Disney or Ted Williams. Here we go.

[00:37:07] Effectively known as grandpa Brado, this dude named Morstal spent most much of the last three decades packed in dry ice inside a tough shed in the small town in a small town in Colorado some 4700 miles away from his home.

[00:37:23] Imagine that dry ice tough shed doesn't sound like the best way to be preserved does it. So grandpa Brado's indefinite suspension serves as what is surely both a lesson and a milestone, the longest endeavor at amateur human cryo preservation.

[00:37:41] If you guys haven't heard this before it's a pretty interesting story. The story begins in 1980 so I guess it's been longer than 30 years. I guess it has now been. Well anyway here we go. Grandpa Brado's free willing grandson, Tri, who left Norway for Netherland, Colorado.

[00:37:58] Now here was kind of a funny part that I missed the first time I prepped this story. He was a devotee of survivalism cloning ice bathing and cryonics with a touch of libertarian anarchy. Sounds like he'd fit right in with our community.

[00:38:11] He stayed in the United States refusing to apply for a visa. Bad idea dude. When his grandfather died nine years later he reportedly had him moved to a cryonics facility in California called Tran's time. Just going to let that sit there.

[00:38:27] Grandpa Brado would wind up spending about four years in liquid nitrogen there but because he had plans to build his own homemade cryo facility. This story gets better and better by the minute.

[00:38:40] He relocated his late grandfather to his small town in Colorado in 1993 packing him inside a huge box filled with hundreds of pounds of dry ice inside a tough shed for the time being. So this dude was an amateur cryonics. I don't know what you cryo engineer.

[00:38:57] I don't know anyway. So he basically said hey send me grandpa's body. I'm going to put him in a box. I'm going to put him in an old freezer. He was in a box that didn't even pump his veins or anything full of liquid nitrogen.

[00:39:07] There's no way the dude's body is in any good shape at this point but he's like screw it. I'm going to do it. So he stuffed him in a tough shed and eventually guess what happens.

[00:39:16] The dude gets evicted or deported sorry after a strange chain of events that would lead to his deportation in the U.S. in 1994. Grandpa Brado's fate was in limbo.

[00:39:26] The town in Colorado ordered that his body be removed and added a new provision to its municipal code that outlawed the keeping of frozen human bodies.

[00:39:35] However they had to admit that since he was a grandfather sorry about this the grandfather was grandfathered in simply because he existed in the town before they passed the law. So what did they do? They did.

[00:39:49] In great capitalist fashion in 2002 the town of Netherland was thinking of ways to boost tourism so it decided to capitalize on its most famous resident and launched a festival called for lack of a better day or lack of a better term frozen dead guy days.

[00:40:06] The festival included coffin races, a blue ball, I don't know what the blue ball is anyway, champagne tours of the tough shed, polar plunges, a parade and more. But 20 years later they had outgrown the facility.

[00:40:19] So the owner of the Stanley Hotel in nearby Estes Park, so if you don't know what the Stanley Hotel is it is the movie The Shining was either based on or filmed at. Considering it's inspired Stephen King's horror movie.

[00:40:36] Yeah, so anyway, so this dude is still frozen in I believe it's basically a freezer and they continuously pack him. I don't know where the money has come from over these 30 plus years. They keep packing him with dry ice.

[00:40:52] The dude has been frozen for over 30 years and it is definitely the longest DIY cryonics project in North American history. So I hope you enjoyed. Oh jeez what a fun story that was. I'm just going to be playing a stroll down paranormal prepping lane.

[00:41:10] Beth Emily says cool I've been to Netherlands Colorado and totally believe it. I haven't and I also totally believe it. So anyway, if you guys have any good stories about paranormal prepping or that sort of thing send them my way. He's dead. Everyone, everyone, everyone.

[00:41:29] I'm glad it's and I'm glad he's. He talk. Coming up next coming up next shop. Wee Shots. This is where we take a look at dystopian apocalyptic and all things pop culture. And I got a few for you tonight that the news itself has been kind of quiet.

[00:41:48] I got to go back here for a second. Byron Roberts says got to move grandpa to get a frozen pizza. Yep, ain't that the truth?

[00:41:55] We just watched a movie last night called The Gentleman, a guy richly film and it was awesome dude goes in to get some wagyu steaks and there's a dead body in this reason if you haven't seen that movie. It's like seven years. It's great.

[00:42:08] Anyway, so two quick stories. Number one, Silo if you haven't watched it on Apple TV, I think Apple TV maybe. No, I don't know. It's either Apple TV or Amazon Prime. Either way, it's worth watching. They just announced that season two is coming up in November. Great.

[00:42:25] 28 years later. Yep, they're making it. It's supposed to be a trilogy. It has wrapped filming already the first film. Danny Boyle directed and the original writer came back, but there you go. It's been wrapped. It's supposed to be released in June of 2025. I'm excited.

[00:42:43] I'm cautiously optimistic because a lot of these legacy sequels. Well, you know where they go. So anyway, however, during my time away during my sojourn to the East Coast and back, my wife and I got quite a bit of quiet time together. We rented two different airbnbs.

[00:43:00] The first Airbnb are girls. I stayed with us in the second one. They stayed with my grand or with their grandparents. And so we got to watch a lot of movies, which well, a few movies on the trip.

[00:43:09] First one I watched this one on the plane heading out was called Arcadian. And it is a post collapse movie with Nicholas Cage. He does a great job in it. It has a 78 on Rotten Tomatoes.

[00:43:23] I would I'm just going to give you like a one line review of each of these movies I watched and then I'm going to give you a breakdown in future episodes of one movie at a time. I'd say it was similar to Into the Forest.

[00:43:33] If you haven't seen that it has boy, I can't even remember who they are fairly well known female actresses. It's a good movie where two sisters are living in a house post collapse.

[00:43:45] Their dad has since long past and the host is falling apart and they're trying to keep it together. Good movie. And then it's also very similar to it comes at night. That came out a few years ago. That had Joel Edgerton in it.

[00:43:57] So I give it seven out of 10. It was definitely something to watch to pass the time during a plane ride. Number two, a quiet place day one. Becky and I went to the theater to see that it's got an 87 on Rotten Tomatoes.

[00:44:09] I give it an eight out of 10. I would say it's my second favorite out of my second favorite out of the three quiet place films. And I would say it's an optimistic version of the road.

[00:44:22] If you've seen the road, you know, it's basically just a couple of people walking down the street or down the road in a post apocalyptic wasteland. Very similar in the quiet place, except that also involves pizza and a few other things.

[00:44:34] But in a cat that is just so cute. Love the film. I really, really liked it. I think I liked it quite a bit more than Becky actually. It's a small film that takes place in New York City if that makes sense.

[00:44:44] One step closer says all parents long for a quiet place. Yes, they do. Yeah. Mom. Now the next one actually, you know what? Yeah. The next one I saw was the end we start from a British film.

[00:45:01] So already that's one check in the right direction for me because I love Brit films. It is an 80 per 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. I give it an eight and a half out of 10. It is one of the few fully. It's an environmental apocalypse without giving too much away.

[00:45:17] I won't but a rain starts in Great Britain and it doesn't stop for a long time. Not quite know a biblical flooding levels, but pretty damn bad. The lady's pregnant and it turns into an apocalyptic. I want to call it a road trip film.

[00:45:35] It's more of a walking along the road, but it is one of the first apocalyptic films told from a female point of view and a really good female point of view. I really, really like the movie a lot actually.

[00:45:49] Not everybody might if you've ever seen the film cargo with Martin Freeman in it. It's an Australian zombie film. The father is basically trying to find someone to look after his child as he slowly turning into a zombie and it's very similar to that. I loved it.

[00:46:07] This was just a great movie. It would have been probably a nine and a half. If it weren't for the ending, I'm not going to ruin it. It's bad. I didn't like the ending. Simple as that. There you go.

[00:46:22] And the husband is useless, but not in a I'm female, hear me roar kind of way. Just an absolute useless twat. That's what I thought. He just couldn't be a man in it and through no fault of her own, it was just who he was.

[00:46:33] But the movie was great. If you're looking for a slow burn, now it was right up my alley. It may not be up your alley, but I love to eat in half out of 10. It's a boy meets world. Not boy meets world, but boy kills world.

[00:46:45] 58% on rotten tomatoes. It is a dystopian hard are similar to Hunger Games with a bit of kill bill. And if you've seen the movie upgrade and other kung fu revenge films, I give it a six and a half out of 10.

[00:46:59] It has the dude in it that plays Pennywise. He's mute. He can't speak. So his internal voice is done by the guy who does archer. Have you seen that cartoon anyway? Okay, movie. Cliche and new and fresh and all of, I don't know.

[00:47:16] Anyway, takes place in a dystopian future. Fun movie if you're looking for a ton of violence and some real mind twists at the end. There you go. All right. Moving right along. So next we have coming up cookbook of the collapse.

[00:47:31] Now I actually have two segments from the EC. I'm not going to play on both tonight, but she's been great at bringing segments along. She promised once a month and she's been delivering once a month. So thank you, the EC up.

[00:47:41] And yeah, so you'll, this will be an enjoyment. I just going to check back real quick to the comments here and I see Chuck people's Tim. How are things? Great to see you brother. I am back from three weeks.

[00:47:55] Sojourn to the East coast and it's good to be back. I'm glad to see everybody in here. So with that, let's bring up. Oh, this is a good one. Let's bring her up here full screen for you guys and we'll have some fun with it.

[00:48:06] I'm the Cielis and welcome to grandma's homestead. When, as soon as I get ready to play it and add starts, even though I pre-played the video and I don't think poor the Cielis channel is even monetized yet yet there is an ad.

[00:48:21] So in just a second we are going to play cookbook from the collapse and I see what I'm going to have you in here now, Nathan Howard. Good to see you buddy. Really good to see you. I hope you enjoyed the toolman Tim had.

[00:48:34] I sent out to you. So the cookbook of the collapse is where we cook out of our pantry. This one is spam mac and cheese, which if I were hungry would make me salivate at the moment. So here we go with these. Grandma's homestead.

[00:48:48] All right, today we're going to do something that I almost never do. We are going to cook from a box, but my whole series is about cooking from your pantry and my theory on it.

[00:49:00] If you're cooking from your pantry, you're basically cooking with things that are shelf stable. All right, our water is going. Let's get a macaroni in here. Give it a good stir. We got a timer set for 10 minutes and we're going to let that go.

[00:49:24] All right, the timer is off. It's time to strain it or drain it. Okay, now we're going to drain it. I'm going to show you a little bit of a trick I've learned. We've got this pan here. It's not been heated.

[00:49:39] We're just going to throw it in the bottom of the pan. The heat is off. I guess you can put it on low if you want it. Now we're going to take the noodles and pour them back onto it. This will heat up the meat.

[00:50:01] There we're going to squeeze this gooey stuff in here. Now I'm going to stir it all in. Like I said, this is strictly from the pantry. The cheese is already done up for you. The macaroni, you've got to heat up a stuff.

[00:50:28] And why do I worry about that? What if you get into a prolonged time where you can't use electricity and you don't have a refrigerator to put cheese in or just any way to keep anything cold or whatever. Now we've got a stove that runs on propane.

[00:50:46] So I can cook on it. I guess I'd have to figure out how to start it because it does have a pilot light and stuff, the electronic stuff. But that's it guys. Dinner's ready. It's not great yummy but that's not half bad either.

[00:51:02] This was a quick one this evening but that's good too. But like I was saying, my whole focus of these videos is to teach you how to come up with some ideas on how to cook with things from just your pantry.

[00:51:15] Like I said, we'd like to do spam here and I like to make homemade macaroni cheese. I don't do any box stuff with that either but we got that from the box.

[00:51:23] In fact, Kinsey's already come through and already scooped her up a big old bowl full of it and eating it so obviously your kids will like it. And like I said, that one with the chicken, you know, you can use canned chicken

[00:51:33] and buffalo sauce, some sort of hot sauce and stuff and mix that in. That would be good. Of course obviously this is not from the pantry but if you have hamburger meat or bacon or anything like that you can add to it. That's good too.

[00:51:48] But I was just going to show you something from the pantry. So I am looking for some more recipes. Tim Cook has started with some of you guys have sent some nice recipes to him. For the book, Cookbook of the Collapse, I've been using those together.

[00:52:05] It's going to be a while but send them to either Tim at his email address or to myself at fisialellis at gmail.com, T-H-E-C-I-A-E-L-L-I-S at gmail.com and what I'm looking for is stuff strictly for the pantry.

[00:52:23] Also somewhere down the road I would like to learn how to cook with food that you've already freeze dried and how to reconstitute and make those into a wonderful meal also to the best of our ability without fresh eggs, without fresh cheese, without fresh milk and meat

[00:52:40] and all that other stuff. So like we said there's a Cookbook of the Collapse and what I'm going to do is we're going to get these cookbooks together and get these recipes together and get a cookbook put together somewhere down the road. So send it to us.

[00:52:55] Give me some ideas. Thank you very much. God bless. So I hope you guys enjoyed that. I love Thesea. She has an infectious energy that is second to nine. She is so great. So I will T-H-E-C-I-A-E-L-L-I-S. Uh oh, I didn't catch it the what.com.

[00:53:13] So if you want to send it to me guys, I can post it for you as well. I can probably look it up for you real quick here. Let's, I'll grab it so that I can read it on the show just so you guys have it.

[00:53:23] So Thesea is awesome. I wanted you to hear that because keep sending the stuff my way for her. Or if you have any, there it is. So Thesea Ellis at gmail.com. Give me one sec. We will get it.

[00:53:37] I'll copy and paste it into the comments here for you. So there it is. So if you want to send her directly, that would be great. She's doing a great job and you can tell she just loves doing this. Just loves it. She does everything.

[00:53:50] She is an independent lady like you wouldn't believe. You would see her in the media. Of course she's been going through this. She's been going through this for a long time. She's been doing this for a while now. And then she's been working on it.

[00:54:01] And so this is really good news. So, we're going to be seeing this across Thesea a few years back when she was starting to renovate that trailer of hers. So if you've got something you want to send send it in.

[00:54:11] And yeah, I've passed along the ones you've sent to me so far. So she's doing great. I really appreciate her doing this and her enthusiasm behind it. Because it's not something that I had the time or the desire to do.

[00:54:19] is still a company is still for thieving murderings. Get ready for ready for it on the internet. And this is the segment where we take the top posts from our preppers or one of the top posts this week from Reddit. And we take a look at, you know,

[00:54:35] sometimes it's a real life story. Sometimes it's prepping tips who knows? But I pull out the most interesting one and this one's pretty bland. I'm pardon the pun but no, it's it's not it's just something simple that we don't always

[00:54:46] talk about. And here it is this comes from user GSH er 62 quick prep for small family new prepper question join the sub ages ago, but of avoiding thinking about it feel free to judge me I live in a country that has been fighting a war for

[00:55:03] the last while and recently had a baby. Huh? That's I feel bad but anyway, there are concerns that tensions might escalate soon like very, very soon. off the top of your head. What does a family of two adults and a baby in an

[00:55:18] apartment need? Preferably things I can pull together in the next week. Any advice and guidance would be greatly appreciated. Please be kind. Absolutely be kind anybody who shits on them doesn't deserve to call themselves a prepper because you know, we always one of my favorite cheesy

[00:55:35] cliches is the second best time to plant a tree is today because it's true. If you need to start you start now you figure it out you do what you need to do and you move on. So there's some really great simple suggestions from

[00:55:47] folks. Baby food you can eat less but your baby can't that's a really good point that I hadn't thought of and of course the further I get removed from having babies in the house the less I remember of this stuff because you know, the good lord

[00:56:00] puts a blinder in your head so that you don't remember how painful you know the child years were no anyway, baby meds as well, Tylol and saline things like that. A water and purifier baby wipes are good for a million things. Guys

[00:56:13] we haven't had babies in the house in you know, the better part of 13 years and we still buy baby wipes by the case. They are great. Well, we also have 10 furry little babies that are idiots but they're great for cleaning up messes. They're

[00:56:24] great for wiping off tables. Great for wiping your face for makeup removal 1000 things are good for and they're just great to have around. This person also says I like cans of soup and veggies and things that I can eat with or without

[00:56:36] cooking and it counts toward your water intake. Fair enough. Soap and disinfectants. Yep, also good. This next user says if I was worried about a war zone, I'd be worried about moving. You should put together a pair of what we call commonly

[00:56:49] called bug out bags, preferably grated ones. Not sure what the grated part means there. Somebody wants to chime in but that may just be term from a different country. I'm not sure. So each you would have a small satchel something you

[00:57:02] can run with that carries the bare essentials. Great advice for a new prepper. And I like this one the best this came from Yam man. No red Yam on the go. Your diaper bag is basically your baby's bug out bag include changing mat

[00:57:18] blanket diapers diaper wipes powdered formula just in case three changes of clothes, drool wipes. If baby is primarily best breastfeeding high calorie snacks for the mother if the baby is weaned jars of baby food extra baby supplies two days worth of cloth diapers soap for washing

[00:57:32] diapers, water purifier way to boil water maybe a little bit of camp stove three changes of clothes that are a size bigger. That is a great somebody here's had babies I promise you that baby wash plastic hangers for drying

[00:57:44] diapers and clothes. Awesome. Hey, I loved it. What a great little story or a great little share from the red community something you know I remember thinking about this exact thing when we went to the hospital and when the babies were born. We were powdered formula through

[00:58:00] and through my sister was also and so we told her ahead of time or like hey take your own formula, take your own water. It will save your your babies you know it definitely save you from having diarrhea that's

[00:58:12] for sure so you think about it then but you don't necessarily think about it a few years removed from that but yeah I enjoyed the story quite a bit some real practical tips in there. Alright, so what do we

[00:58:23] got next food for thought no sorry this week in the workshop and so that is a weekly recap now I could have went I mean I've been gone three weeks at this point roughly I think and I could have

[00:58:37] you know I could have made a list a mile long about this but I just hit the high points for you just kind of fill you in on where I've been but three weeks gone we flew to Nova Scotia we flew back it

[00:58:46] was a good time my wife and I we really had a great time however the trip was if you didn't I if you're not on telegram you want to join telegram the link's in the description tonight but if you're not in telegram you might not

[00:58:58] have known but I got sick while I was in Nova Scotia I have grown up eating all kinds of seafood my entire life raw seafood didn't matter I had never bothered me we had clams from a little well sorry I was the only one that had the

[00:59:13] clams from a little roadside seafood place and about let me see the next morning I woke up not feeling very well and by mid-morning I was yep making it was not good throwing up everywhere so my first experience in my

[00:59:30] life with food poisoning the first time I had vomited in 17 years imagine that it was miserable on a vacation what did I do I slept and drank lots of fluids and took gas x pills that's about all I did took me about four days to

[00:59:44] feel normal it was miserable nobody else got sick nobody else ate the clams it was the only thing that I ate that was different from everybody else we threw in through classic food poisoning for what we had so anyway

[00:59:59] I got a couple of days to eat regularly on the other end definitely lost some weight during that time anyway I got to see my grandmother's grave Marguerite she passed away about a year and a half ago at 100 if you've heard me

[01:00:13] mentioning her before she was just an awesome lady and I also got to hang out with my best friend Danny now here's the thing I've talked about him before he's actually going to come on the show he said at some point now but this is

[01:00:25] the thing about lifelong friends we really hadn't talked in the better part of two years we sat down on his deck he drank beer I drank Diet Coke because well I was still not feeling great and we talked for like four hours just like we'd never

[01:00:39] skipped a beat and that's how it is that it's worth having if you have somebody in that in your life like that cherish him you know I don't get to see him very often but every trip I get home I make

[01:00:48] one evening for us to sit down and have a chat I took Becky to the Titanic graveyard museum that was uh it's always um well the museum is a really fun time that the graveyard is yeah it's neat to see let's put it that way

[01:01:03] uh we went to Banff for a day during just before the wildfire went through Jasper which is a few hours north I've discovered that uh walking into lakes in fresh water nowadays on all those rocks I just don't enjoy it anymore so

[01:01:18] ordered myself a pair of little thin water shoes we're gonna try them out I you know when I was a kid I would run in over those rocks and gravel like there was no tomorrow and now I'm just like oh it hurts it hurts us so

[01:01:29] bad while I was there though it was pretty cool I saw a dude sitting on the side of the beach uh painting the back the backdrop that was behind us it was really nice I chat it with him a bit I shared his stuff on social media I

[01:01:41] also saw an inflatable canoe if you haven't seen one of those it's a breakdown frame with an inflatable skin weighs about 20 pounds and fits into a really big backpack if you haven't seen one might be interested in looking into it we had extreme

[01:01:55] heat for the entire week my family was out here it sucked especially for them definitely the hottest days I've ever experienced in their life but again no humidity I did some property management stuff I got a full day booked tomorrow but tub faucet broken switches bathroom

[01:02:11] fan all the 12 unit then we stayed at that hotel like I told you no hot water elevator broke down so the first night we get there my sister's bed in the other room we got two adjacent beds hers was dirty they needed to

[01:02:24] clean it change it before they could go into the room yeah we shouldn't have stayed there and then a broke down elevator I felt awfully bad for some old couples I saw and I couldn't imagine if you were on the third floor with a

[01:02:34] wheelchair it just was and they just didn't care and then no hot water for 14 hours so yeah it was not very fun then I went to the daycare this week and I got a ton of coat hooks and shelves hung over the last couple of

[01:02:47] days so that's done and then I did two review videos this week one that came out yesterday which is a dwalt the dwalt battery powered coffee maker from Malif and tomorrow is a really cool foldable solar panel that you'll get to check out so that's coming tomorrow

[01:03:02] next what do we got food for thought this is a new article a new segment that I guess was kind of inspired by Chris Dixon and this is just where I bring up a random topic to discuss something in the way of preparedness

[01:03:16] so here we are again this one is food for thought it's a random topic to cover and tonight we're going to talk a bit about the wildfires in general and if you guys hadn't followed we had a really bad wildfire here in Jasper

[01:03:29] one of the national parks one of the two really pretty communities that are in the in the mountains it's not good anyway so we were in BAMP and then if you go just a little bit further in the Rockies north you come to Jasper I've never been there

[01:03:44] but that's where my daughter in Sun and Log got engaged a week and a half ago a couple of days later wildfire comes through ravages the place and destroys about 30 percent of the community a real massive job so anyway somebody mentioned in the

[01:04:00] telegram group a couple of days ago about their thoughts and they thought it had been mentioned in our group about how hazardous materials couldn't be traveled through a wildfire at risk area and it made sense and so we shared some thoughts and I took some

[01:04:13] notes and I mean so number one during an active wildfire there's a really good chance that you're going to lose your ingress or egress to somewhere so your main highways are going to get cut off which means even if they wanted to deliver you fuel

[01:04:30] you ain't getting none number one number two hazardous material companies quite often won't deliver even if there's a risk of wildfire in a lot of cases which means again no fuel also during wildfires if the roads are clear the power can go out

[01:04:49] which also means no fuel are you starting to see the you know the domino effect here so you lose power your gas station is full of gas but they can't get it there to the ground because again no power all three of

[01:05:02] those lead to the need to have extra fuel on hand to take extra fuel with you when you bug out and to keep your vehicle at least half full at all times there was a story that came out of this they were told you

[01:05:17] need to go to British Columbia I'm not exactly sure why they sent them that way they would have been better off to send them east into edson or somewhere like that but they sent them into bc and when they got to bc bc's

[01:05:29] like uh sorry no room in the end you got to leave and so everybody who evacuated ended up having to spend 14 to 16 hours on the road so yeah can you imagine hopping your vehicle and having an eighth of a tank of gas

[01:05:43] because your husband or wife just came home and thought meh we don't need to fill it up today not a good thing so people had to go a long way to evacuate uh tip I saw in another post I was on

[01:05:56] said if you have gas storage so that could be fuel tanks diesel tanks propane tanks clear back all brush and combustibles from there about a 10 meter 30 foot radius so beat down all the dry grass don't let any dry grass be growing up around it you know do

[01:06:12] everything you can to beat back the combustibles before you have to leave when you're traveling visibility can be really bad it can be just so so you know it can kind of look like dusk although some of the stuff I saw from

[01:06:26] Fort McMurray a few years back it looked like hell on earth breathing is really bad solar panel um output goes down to almost zero however if you're not near the fires one good benefit is that it tends to be a fair bit cooler because the smoke

[01:06:42] blocks out a lot of the uv rays not good just one of those things so I brought up this from technical safety bc and they just said a few things if you're on evacuation alert and I thought this was kind of cool to hear said if you're

[01:06:54] on evacuation alert unplugged non essential electrical appliances move portable propane cylinders away from house or structure to an area where fire impact will be minimal I want to throw something out there because I stored 12 five gallon cans of gasoline in my workshop I'm probably

[01:07:10] going to take four or five of them with me if I go I don't know what I would do I guess I would just leave them in there um maybe leave I don't know I don't know what I would do maybe give them to

[01:07:19] neighbors I guess other people who are bugging out yeah that's probably what I would do because I wouldn't want to leave that behind because that could become a really big hazard for you know emergency workers so just a thought anyway and if you guys have

[01:07:32] thoughts on that I'd like to hear it too says turn off valves and power knobs on appliances and systems shut off the water leading to hot water pipes if you have propane storage cutback vegetation but they said if your natural gas supplied don't shut it off

[01:07:46] uh if you receive an evacuation order they'll turn it off at the main valve okay rather interesting just a few little thoughts there there was a couple more but we're going to brush by them for lack of time but so anyway that that's my thoughts on

[01:08:01] wildfires it's been a scary time here for a lot of folks you know the mayor of jasper lost his family home of 70 years they kept all the main infrastructure but beyond that it was a mass guys through government mismanagement through forests not being

[01:08:17] dealt with properly through you know I believe 90 percent of the woods being decimated by some beetle and then no selective burning or cutting you know there were so many things they could have done and now all the sudden they're like hey let's fund a fire

[01:08:33] suppression system around the entire city so they want to put in a sprinkler system around the the town and i'm like too little too late now isn't it it's kind of sad but uh it's a shitty situation I feel bad for the folks

[01:08:44] there I don't know where they're going to go from that but yeah so that's my thoughts on the wildfire this week guys and hopefully we don't have to see any more of those this year it's been a up until this point it had been a pretty good

[01:08:58] wildfire season all right so next and the final segment of the day it's the apocalypse in of day the judge the judge in the world my friend let's dig into the community mail bag all right and if you wonder what the community mail bag is well that's

[01:09:24] where I normally will reach into the mail bag of what I've received from the community over the last few weeks share a lot of it share the polls I've run on the youtube community page and I have had a metric shit ton of it guys

[01:09:38] I could share a lot with you but tonight I'm going to change it up just a little bit uh you know normally this segment is where I share all the feedback that I get from the community but I'm gonna um share a few things some things with my

[01:09:52] incredible community and I'm excited about it uh so yeah let's dive into it I guess and I'm going to need some feedback on a couple things from you folks and it doesn't mean you have to give it to me now but down the road

[01:10:04] I'd like to hear from you but if you've ever heard me talk on entrepreneurship over the years there are three things that I really have espoused as principles to build on and the first is when you're first getting started I talk about the spaghetti method and

[01:10:23] that is where you try all kinds of things you throw a bunch of things at the wall and you see what sticks the thing that sticks you do more of it the thing that doesn't you don't do any of it so that's important and then

[01:10:43] number two as businesses grow we start doing the things that make us the most money and take the least amount of time and that's important as well you guys saw me do that earlier this year earlier last year when I sold all seasons maintenance and then

[01:11:02] third you invest your time and energy into the things that make you the money and give you the biggest reward and that has been how Becky and I have grown our businesses to the point that we have that's why I sold all seasons

[01:11:16] maintenance last year and it's an absolute blessing to sit down with those guys last night and have a chat with them and have a really good relationship and to see they brought me some new hats with their new logo they're still calling it all

[01:11:28] seasons maintenance is a great logo they're making money hand over fist i'm proud as hell at them but i just couldn't do it all right so i just gave up one more property that i manage at the end of july and i give it to the

[01:11:42] guys who are running all seasons maintenance but i realize in some instances i haven't been taking my own advice so this is not a bad announcement or anything but i just want to share with you guys so number one i said you need to invest the

[01:11:56] most time and the most energy into the thing that makes you the most money and gives you the biggest reward as you guys know the absolute biggest investment for us right now is the day care it is making more money than all three

[01:12:10] other well i'll share something with you here not numbers but just to let you know so my four priorities on the run of a week is property management content creation daycare and family time those are the four and recently i have been doing one day of property management

[01:12:32] three days of content creation one day of daycare in two days of family time and until somebody can figure out a way to find more days in the run of a week that's what i'm stuck with seven days the family time is two days of uh non

[01:12:46] negotiables so here's the thing uh the daycare is making us the most money by a mile we have a plan of being retired i guess by uh 2029 by the time Becky turns 50 i guess is i guess i can say that i hope i can say that

[01:13:02] that's our plan is to and when i say retired it doesn't mean we're not going to be doing things it just means that we're going to be physically removed from the businesses and have enough money to live off for the rest of our lives that's our goal

[01:13:14] so i've looked at my content creation and i'm spending a ton of time on a few things that aren't bringing in the return that doesn't mean that i'm ending anything but i want to be upfront with you guys about what i'm

[01:13:27] doing and what i'm going to do so number one my review videos are by far my biggest subscriber my biggest subscriber grower my biggest ad revenue generator and my biggest view count increase or that you're ever gonna find i just got a notification tonight

[01:13:45] that i just hit 2.7 million views on my channel and i just hit 17 000 subscribers which is great so here's the thing i gotta take my own advice just a little bit so i'm moving from three days of content creation to two days of content creation

[01:14:01] and i'm moving from one day at the daycare to two days at the daycare so what does that mean well not a whole hell of a lot in the grand scheme of things but first off i have to take my own

[01:14:12] advice and i have to do more of what's making me money more of things i love too of course and that means i'm doubling down on review videos so going forward i'm going to be doing twice weekly wednesday and friday reviews simple as

[01:14:25] that and they're going to be good reviews i have seen a market increase in amazon affiliate amazon influencer blew up this month big time i'm doing really good with direct affiliate marketing and so i love that so i'm going to do so you're going to start

[01:14:41] seeing two review videos a week but in order to do that workshop radio isn't going anywhere thursday this weekend prepping has become a huge hit and i love it and it's going to continue as normal but i'm going to eliminate the sunday show

[01:14:55] going forward at least until the late fall we'll see where things go because if you haven't heard we're also expanding the brand new daycare so i'm just going to share kind of from the hip about this but we are doubling the size we're at full capacity

[01:15:10] in the downstairs daycare that we just launched in march we're taking over the second floor which means tons more rena's a bunch of really cool things happening there a double double the amount of kids double our income it's frigging amazing guys it's unbelievable what you can do when

[01:15:26] you put work into a business so that means i'm going to move to two review videos a week instead of one that means thursday livestream is staying there and i'm going to do everything i can to make sure every thursday i do it live

[01:15:40] from this bunker i mean studio but that means no sunday show for a while and the sunday show has been hit and missed for a bit you know i've been gradually pairing things back but thursday show staying here the book club is going on permanent

[01:15:53] hiatus for the time being again if you want to know the breakdown if anybody does i mean this is how you know this is insider baseball but this is exactly what i have preached for many many years to all of you folks out there is

[01:16:08] do more of what makes you money and so i have to do that so the breakdown really is that review videos bring in 95 percent of views subs and revenue the podcast is a total labor of love which i love doing but if you include the ad revenue

[01:16:25] subscribers views listens patch of the month in patreon in person events it might bring in 10 percent of the revenue but it was taking up it is taking up more than half of my time so i had to make a decision and so that's where i'm at

[01:16:42] it's not a bad thing this three weeks of vacation time has really given me clarity as you know i've cut back on speaking engagements for the next year or so because my girls i only have four years left with them i mean this they're starting their

[01:16:56] grade nine year when i get when they get back this year and i want to be able to take them to all their volleyball and basketball events i love it i want to be there for them like my dad was for me

[01:17:06] so that means those two days on the weekend are non-negotiables going forward patreon's going to continue but when i'm going to start doing and you're going to see a bit of an overhaul of the youtube channel it's going to become very very specific toward generators backup power and

[01:17:21] review videos because if you want to grow something to be massive it really has to be specific you have to niche on something and that's okay so that means some of the stuff is going to end up moving over to my alternative channel

[01:17:34] and some of the new stuff going forward will either be patreon only exclusives or they'll go to the alternative channel and it means that i'm not gonna you know when i get inspired to make something that doesn't fit this channel it's going to go to the alternative

[01:17:47] channel if that makes sense so things like delinquents galley things like the mre videos i do with alice that kind of stuff is going to go over to the alternative channel as time permits and uh finally the last thing is i'm a bit on the fence about the

[01:18:03] patch of the month club and this is where i want your feedback it hasn't turned into the thing that i wanted it to turn into i have around 50 subscribers i love it i could continue it forever it's not something that i have ever

[01:18:17] come to hate or despise or anything i love doing it but it's just barely breaking even and for the amount of time that goes into it and the travel and that sort of thing it's just one of those things i'm starting to wonder if folks out there

[01:18:31] would rather i just move it to say a patreon or an exclusive content kind of thing i don't know we'll figure it out i want some feedback from you guys on a few of these things and i know i'm throwing

[01:18:41] a shit ton of stuff out there at you and i apologize for that but this is all stuff that has been coming for a while i've been running it past some of my good friends not as many as i should i definitely i took a 14-hour road trip

[01:18:54] to montana and back from ebbmenton the other day and i did a ton of talking into my microphone with recording thoughts and i kept pairing them down and pairing them down and i came back to this and i talked to becky about it so

[01:19:09] that's where we're at right now you're going to get more review videos you're going to get one hell of a thursday livestream which i love doing i know there's tons of people that love the interview shows i love the interview shows and down

[01:19:20] the road when we step away from the daycare more i will do a shit ton of interview shows and i'm not giving up on it but i have to be realistic there's only seven days in the week and i need to do what i have told everybody else

[01:19:35] out there do more of what brings the money in and we have built an incredible community here and i'm not going anywhere but if i want to make sure that i keep building the way i've stated that i want to build that's what i have to do so

[01:19:50] hope you guys dig it i hope you guys are cool with it if you have any suggestions for me i'd love to hear them if you're like hey i know a way that you can find an extra day in the week send that to me as well i'll

[01:20:00] make it work but no anyway it's great i love it the youtube channel if you didn't see this last month and that has a lot to do with some of the focus on the videos i put out we actually i actually had the very first thousand plus ik

[01:20:13] um thousand plus subscriber increase in one month ever almost double uh revenue was up subscribers were up it's it's what i love i love doing review videos it's my favorite thing and so you're going to see more of them and exclusive interviews would be

[01:20:28] great on patreon barn i have a whole as you guys know there is a whole herd of exclusive interviews backed up on this computer and on my phone that are coming out in patreon i love doing them it's a great place to put them so

[01:20:41] just let me know what you think it doesn't mean i'm doing away with patch the month club or anything like that but i just want to know because i've had a few people have reached out and they're like you know i subscribe to the patch of the

[01:20:50] month because i want to support you but really it's just something to have or something that comes in the mail that i really have no use for and if that's kind of how some people are feeling then i'm cool with that i don't mind

[01:21:03] of the dollar we could move it to just a you know an exclusive content i don't know what it is and i don't know where it ends up i'm going to keep pushing this forward we i mean the busy bees daycare has become huge

[01:21:17] i now have my son-in-law here who's helping me with property management that has become huge courteous you're awesome i love you he is going to probably be taking over more and more and more of the property management which will free up a little bit more time for me

[01:21:30] so there it is folks that's what i want to let you know so going forward you're going to see the book clubs on permanent hiatus for now sunday night live streams not happening for the foreseeable future thursday is locked in stone this weekend prepping i love it

[01:21:44] two review videos a week and we'll go from there so i hope you appreciate that guys it's been great chatting with you tonight uh we are before i forget number one uh tonight is the deadline for very inexpensive srf tickets if you haven't got them yet they're under 50

[01:22:01] bucks i've never seen them this cheap i hate that so get over there and pick some up i probably should have put my affiliate link in the description tonight but i did not so it doesn't matter but i'd love to see you there

[01:22:11] because that's the only event i'm going to this fall is srf and to throw that out there we're going to be doing um so we're going to be down the week before srf it's going to be great i can't wait to um sit and

[01:22:27] anyway yeah i'm excited to see everybody we're going to do some work days at the linklin's galley i can't wait to have you're open to come anytime or no time whatsoever but it's going to be a good time and uh brian robert says

[01:22:41] patch the month could be limited to quarterly i really like that and maybe i could do a bigger patches i don't know and ed silio says my honest take how much of this as you already know the answers but you want your

[01:22:50] listeners to validate before you act by the way everything you said makes sense appreciate it and it's not even that i'm looking for validation because it's all done but i definitely like feedback i i want to hear that the main one is the

[01:23:01] patch of the month because that's one that i haven't decided on everything else i already told you was set in stone and i just wanted to be polite about how i shared it but i love you guys it's great it's great to be back i

[01:23:10] can't wait to see every thursday i love it you know this show here alone and it's no slam at all you know five or six hours of prep time which is great i love it it's so much fun it's one of my favorite things to do i can

[01:23:24] do two review videos in that time and so that's why sunday is you know is what it is and there'll be some random spur of the moment anyway so that's where it's at and i appreciate you give me the feedback wherever you want and yeah

[01:23:36] we'll see you right away so as always stay happy stay healthy and have a great week