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Seth Holehouse is a TV personality, YouTuber, podcaster, and patriot who became a household name in 2020 after his video exposing election fraud was tweeted, shared, uploaded, and pinned by President Donald Trump — reaching hundreds of millions worldwide.
Titled The Plot to Steal America, the video was created with a mission to warn Americans about the communist threat to our nation—a mission that’s been at the forefront of Seth’s life for nearly two decades.
After 10 years behind the scenes at The Epoch Times, launching his own show was the logical next step. Since its debut, Seth’s show “Man in America” has garnered 1M+ viewers on a monthly basis as his commitment to bring hope to patriots and to fight communism and socialism grows daily. His guests have included Peter Navarro, Kash Patel, Senator Wendy Rogers, General Michael Flynn, and General Robert Spalding.
He is also a regular speaker at the “ReAwaken America Tour” alongside Eric Trump, Mike Lindell, Gen. Flynn.
Whether it's more lockdowns, pandemic two point o, World War three, or maybe just the collapse of our food supply chain. Thanks, Biden. How long could your family survive? Two weeks, two months, a year? And look, while prepping may seem overwhelming and expensive, there's actually some basic principles everyone should know and act on that could save your family's lives in a disastrous scenario.
Speaker 1:Today, that's what we're gonna focus on. So welcome to Man in America. I am your host, Seth Holehouse. Before we jump in, two quick messages for you. First off, if you're not following me on social media, head over to Telegram right now.
Speaker 1:Search for Man in America. That's the place I'm most active. And in case big tech loses its tolerance for me and boots me off, Telegram is where I'll be at. Until Truth Social comes out, then I'll be on there really heavily as well. But right now, Telegram is the main place I'm at.
Speaker 1:And lastly, look, with inflation and a lot of instability in the markets, as we're gonna talk about today, folks are looking for ways to protect their wealth, and I've always been one to recommend physical gold and silver. In the past year, a lot of you have asked me if I had any recommendations where to get it. Honestly, I was hesitant to recommend anyone because I used to work in this industry and there's a lot of shady dealers out there. However, after doing extensive research, I'm confident in recommending Noble Gold. I read through pages of reviews and I also called them as a customer to see how they handled the sale process and if their prices were fair, and to make sure they don't use any kind of high pressure sales tactics, and they don't.
Speaker 1:So look, you're never gonna get a good deal on gold. If you do, it's probably fake or stolen or it's fake and then stolen. And I wouldn't trust it. It's a commodity. So if it's cheap, there's something wrong with it.
Speaker 1:What you're looking for though, is a fair transaction with someone you can trust. And honestly, I do recommend Noble Gold. They also specialize in IRA transfers, which allow you to take your IRA and move it into physical gold or silver and not have any taxes or penalties. If you're unsure where the market's heading, which I certainly am, it could be a good idea. So if you wanna learn more, open a new tab right now and go to goldwithseth.com.
Speaker 1:If you're watching live, open it, go back to it. Again, it's goldwithseth.com. As I mentioned, I used to be in the industry, so I know a little bit about it. If you have any questions and you just want my opinion on something, I'm not an expert, but I'll do my best. You can email me at gold@maninAmerica.com.
Speaker 1:I'll personally respond to you. Again, it's gold@maninamerica.com. Alright. Today's show so I'm not sure if you watched my live show with Jeff Nyquist earlier this week, which was a little bit a little bit of a downer, I might say. But I think that it's while I don't necessarily agree with everything that Jeff was talking about, I think that a lot of things are very real scenarios.
Speaker 1:And honestly, just about most of what I've researched on China, Russia, their in, you know, endgame, even going back to some of the military speeches that you looked at at China, their goal is to overtake The United States. And that's not some conspiracy. It's not some psyop. And you can go back to the literature that was, you know, snuck out that was supposed not supposed to be snuck out, or it's been, you know, been scrubbed from the internet. And you can find that they're very, very blatant about the fact that they want to take over American land, actually, and primarily because they need our farmland.
Speaker 1:They can afford they cannot produce enough food from their own land to feed their own citizens. Not to mention America has always been the superpower that's kept communism in check around the world. So if you look at is there an old pact between the Soviet, the KGB, the CCP to bring us down? There may very well be. But even not let's not even look at that kind of scenario.
Speaker 1:Even if we're just looking at what's happening in our country, we're already seeing just from the lockdowns, from the store closures, you know, now we've got these these truckers, which are doing amazing things. Hong Kong, good job truckers. But these are all gonna affect our food supply and our supply chain. So maybe you've gone to your local grocery store, and you realize that a steak is now 20 or 30% more expensive, or B, they don't have any steak. They don't have any eggs.
Speaker 1:They don't have any cheese. Right? So that's one other thing about this is that, you know, what we we used to think that, okay, you just walk into local Kroger or Meijer or Whole Foods and buy your groceries, but that might change really quickly. Now, if you're talking about prepping, and the overall idea about prepping, I really want frame this in the right light. I'm not a doomsday kind of person.
Speaker 1:If you know me, you know, I'm not. Right? I always have hope. And even after the interview with Jeff, honestly, I still have a lot of hope. Because I believe that there is a spiritual revival happening around the world.
Speaker 1:And the best laid plans, I think, it doesn't matter. Yeah. Because whether they're man's plans, because I think ultimately, God is in control. But that doesn't mean that we're not going to have some difficult times ahead of us. So could there be another round of a bioweapon that's released?
Speaker 1:Could what we have seen, could it have been version one, you know, one point o, and maybe there's a two point o coming? Maybe. Could the jabs finally catch up and with a lot of the experts they're talking about, like Doctor. Sherry Tenpini, etc. Can we start to see more of a fallout from those, which was certainly if we had a lot of mass death happening, would certainly disrupt our society, potentially.
Speaker 1:Could we see some sort of civil war breakout as we approach, say 2024? Potentially, there's a lot of things that that could happen. So my idea with prepping is that I don't think that you should just run off and go and spend all this money and start building a bunker somewhere. For me, a lot of it is about returning to a traditional lifestyle. If you watch Little House on the Prairie, or if you talk to your grandparents, or my great grandparents lived through the Depression.
Speaker 1:And my grandma always had a root cellar. She always had a huge garden. And it was just how she lived. She knew how to fish, she knew where the rivers were. She knew where she could get, you know, fruit and nuts in the forest surrounding her home.
Speaker 1:And that was just how she lived. And so while there are certain things I'm doing to focus on prepping and preparing my family for what could be a difficult time ahead of us. At the same time, I'm also trying to return to tradition. Right? Like every every other day, my wife and I are baking a big loaf of beautiful bread with nice flour.
Speaker 1:Every day, I'm gathering eggs from my chickens. You know, we've got greens growing indoors that we can use for, you know, beautiful salads. So to me, lot of this is about a way of life because I'm not sure about you, for me, I've become really sick of the modern world. I have become really, yeah, I guess sick is the best word with what the modern world has become and what they're pushing us towards. And I want to return to tradition.
Speaker 1:I want to return to living off the land, raising my children on my on the land, you know, getting back, you know, really, really tuned into what nature's telling me and everything. So that's what a lot of this is about for me. So I'll talk about that. So one thing I want to start with is a resource, there's one so I've read a lot of books on prepping. And just to give you a little bit of background, I probably started looking into prepping seriously, maybe around six or seven years ago.
Speaker 1:It was when I was living in New York City, which was probably one of the worst places to live, if you're concerned about what could be happening. Right? But there's one book I'll show you. And this the link for this book is in the description. This book is called Survival Theory, a preparedness guide.
Speaker 1:And it was written by a guy named Jonathan Hollerman. And so Jonathan Hollerman, what one of his roles he was in, I think he was in the army or Marine Corps, one of one of the different branches, but he would actually train Navy seals on survival. So he would literally go into Alaska in these areas with these seals and teach them how to live. So he wrote this book, Survival Theory. He also has a series of fiction books, are very good.
Speaker 1:But this is more of his how to book. And again, this link is in the description. I do recommend you get it because this book walks you through the absolute worst case scenario. So aside, you know, save from a nuclear bomb being dropped and just killing us all or us, you know, having fallout, really, the worst case scenario is an EMP. Right?
Speaker 1:So an EMP is its electromagnetic pulse. So so what an EMP does, and there's there's variety of ways that a an enemy can use an EMP. You can actually detonate a nuke above a country in the fallout. It doesn't necessarily kill us from the fallout, but it fries all of our electronics. And that's the purpose of an EMP.
Speaker 1:An EMP destroys all of your electronics, your cell phone, your computer. If you have a car that was built after I think the late seventies, that car will no longer work. Because anything that has a computer and microchip, etcetera, in it gets fried and stops working. And a lot of experts believe that if an EMP were to go off and cover the entirety of our country, they believe that within a year, that there'd be I think the number is between seventy and ninety percent of people would perish in our entire country. So it's really serious.
Speaker 1:I hope this doesn't happen in our country, obviously. But if you hear people talking about threats, an EMP, electromagnetic pulse is probably one of the biggest threats that we have. So Josh wrote this in or sorry, Jonathan wrote his entire book around the scenario of an EMP. Now, in his prepping, he he goes very serious into having, like a basically a small base built in the woods somewhere to escape to. Now, I've I haven't done that.
Speaker 1:Right? But the thing that he does really good job at doing though is really walking through the scenario. And in this book, he gives you a list at every point, what kind of supplies he recommends, if you know, what kind of guns, what kind of ammunitions, backpacks, just he walks you through all the things that you could need. And so I think that's really important because, again, what is it? Hope for the best, repair for the worst.
Speaker 1:So if you wanna get a good guide on everything, I would recommend that. And one thing in general is that if so if there is some sort of disaster situation, right, say we we do enter into some sort of, you know, kinetic war with China or Russia, or say there's an EMP or say, you know, the there's a collapse of the dollar, we might see the Internet go down. And so one important thing is anything that you're relying on the Internet for, you should think of ways to not be relying on it. And so today in today's show, I brought a lot of stuff to show you. So one thing I'm gonna show you is that books, books and I there's this is a book I have called How to Survive Off the Grid.
Speaker 1:Here's a book. Is a good one I recommend called Country Wisdom and Know How. These are just books I bought on Amazon. Again, I don't like supporting Jeff Bezos, but it's convenient and easy. And right now, I'm just trying to focus on convenience and easy.
Speaker 1:Here's another big book. This is a massive book, right, called survival wisdom and know how. Right? So these are like, I bought these books. I haven't referenced them very much.
Speaker 1:But I bought these books just in case if something goes wrong, if the Internet goes down, if you need to know how to process a rabbit, right, if you need to know how to set a trap for a rabbit, you can't Google these things. And so like, you know, my experience, I can Google this about anything and learn how to do something. But if there's no internet, you don't want to be without that knowledge. So I don't have a list anywhere, perhaps it'd probably be good for me to do that for you. But if you I highly recommend just going on to Amazon or Barnes and Noble or your local book store and buy a handful of books, buy books on treatment, buy books on natural, I've got books on natural and herbal remedies, right?
Speaker 1:So say my daughter has a fever, this book will tell me which herbs I can find on my property to go help with that. So knowledge is so important. And again, you don't have if you're relying on Google, even if you're reading your Bible on Google that are online, that's it. Get a physical copy. You don't want to, know, don't want to have it disappear.
Speaker 1:So, again, looking just look through whatever bookstore you have, find a handful of books, you know, you can go to a used bookstore and get them, because these books could literally save your life. I've got books on how to build a house, how to build a small cabin. So if I have to do plumbing or anything, I have all those resources there. I've got an extensive library, which is also a passion of mine because I enjoy reading. And I enjoy collecting books probably more than I enjoy reading.
Speaker 1:So I think I buy about 10 books for every half book I read. But that's something I recommend. Even something like this. Alright. This is just this little book called the SAS Survival Guide.
Speaker 1:It's a tiny little book. And let's just say that you had to flee and you toss this in your backpack. Well, it has all kinds of stuff in here, even how to, you know, build a shelter, how to build a lean to, how to process a deer, how to smoke meat, how to fish. Right? These little books could be invaluable.
Speaker 1:The other thing which we'll get into this a little bit later in terms of, you know, currency, there's a lot of questions about currency, but bartering might become a big part of society. Right? If there is a scenario like an EMP that goes off, your cash in a lot of ways becomes useless. You know, gold and silver, which I'm gonna talk about gold and silver a little bit later today, they might have some use. And as economy stabilizes after disaster, they'll have even more use.
Speaker 1:So I'd recommend that. But you might find that, you know, you could trade a book for a thousand rounds of ammo, or you could trade 50 pounds of rice for, you know, a, you know, a knife that you need. So we'll get into bartering a little bit here. So, yeah, so I've I've my first kind of topic was just covering books and just the importance of that. So the next thing is that is on my list here.
Speaker 1:So you see me looking up there and look at my list is where you're living. Okay, so in 2019, I was living in New York City in an apartment on the 30 First Floor of a building. Right? I moved out, you know, that year, but I if you look, I know that people can't just up and move. It's not easy.
Speaker 1:But if you are living in an apartment, basically, the closer you are to the city center, the higher risk you are in a disaster disaster scenario. It's just the reality. I'm not saying that you have to go change everything. Right? But you should think about it.
Speaker 1:If you want to protect your family. I know it's convenient to live inside of a city. Well, maybe you can move thirty minutes out and you have to drive. Right? I know that you might have certain circumstances.
Speaker 1:But that's the best advice. The biggest piece of advice I have is try to get far away from the big cities. And again, you may not be able to understand that, but I'm still gonna give you my advice because three years ago, I was living four years ago, I was living in New York City. You know, I'm now living out in the country on five acres of land, And I'm living in a home that would probably be a quarter of the cost of a small apartment in New York City. Actually, I'll show you really quick because I have have some visual aids for you, some fun things.
Speaker 1:So my view went from being the 30 First Floor of apartment building to this. So this is now my I'm gonna show you more of my personal life. And this is my backyard. That's my chicken coop that I built. And I'm gonna talk about I'm gonna talk about chickens in this definitely, as you probably guess.
Speaker 1:But this is my life now. I moved from the city into a suburban area, and was renting for about a year until we found the right place. And it was weird in the Columbus area. It was very expensive. This kind of an average family home for my size, my family was $3.04 or $500,000 And so we moved to the country, I've got five acres of land, much less expensive, my taxes are a couple $1,000 a year.
Speaker 1:And I've had to make some lifestyle changes. Now, thankfully, as you see, you know, I don't not going into an office to work somewhere. So that's I'm thankful for that. But if you can make any kind of arrangements, I highly recommend it. Now, if you are in a city, though, and I've had people to ask me about this, we're gonna get into indoor growing and a few things like that.
Speaker 1:But the one thing is that space can become a limitation. And I will tell you that if you're say you're living in an apartment in a big city, the one thing I would recommend for you is that if there is any kind of disaster scenario, do not plan on surviving in your apartment, you should already be talking to friends or family, they might think you're a little kooky, right? But if you say, hey, you say your mom lives thirty minutes outside the city, or your aunt or your good friend or your sister, talk to them and say, Hey, look, if things really get bad, do you think I could come stay with you until things settle? And I'm sure that in most scenarios, family would say, Yeah, of course, you do not want to be in the big city for a lot of different reasons. And actually, he goes in the book, he talks about that.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure if it's in his survival guide or the fiction series, but he talks about what happens in the cities because, again, if there's a disaster scenario, what is going to happen is eventually you're going to have the gangs that are roaming, and they're going to be starving because most people are not preparing. And that's something you have to be really, really cognizant about. Most people in America are not preparing, maybe they have a week's worth of food. And even your neighbor who you get along with great. If your neighbor after two weeks is seeing his little daughter starving, he's going to break into your home, he's going to break into your apartment to get your food.
Speaker 1:It's just it really does become the survival of the fittest at that point. So you have to be prepared for that. It's a very real reality. I'm not saying we turn on turn into animals against each other. But you just have to accept that once people hit the level of starvation, a father will always prioritize his children over you and your family.
Speaker 1:And so you can take that to whatever extent you want to think about it. But also an important point with that is that if you are preparing, say you live in a suburban area in a neighborhood or you don't want to talk about you're preparing. Now, thankfully, you don't know where I live. I'm here being very open. I'm talking about, you know, how I'm preparing, I'm showing you pictures of my land.
Speaker 1:But you don't want to be telling your, you know, too many people, of course, your immediate family, you can tell them, and you can say, Hey, look, I'm just I'm doing this, but you don't want a lot of people to know, because let's just say that things do get difficult. Well, that neighbor is gonna be like, Hey, you know what, Seth told me he's got a couple hundred pounds of rice, he can share with my family. And before you know it, if you talk about that too much, if things get hairy, you're gonna have five families showing up for your food. And not to say we shouldn't help our neighbors out. But you may not have an option to replenish that that your your food store.
Speaker 1:So you might have had six months worth of food set aside. And now you're down to one and a half months, because your neighbors didn't prepare on their own. And now they're they're going to be taking advantage of you preparing, but you just lost four and a half months worth of feeding your own family. So that's just just a word of caution. I would try to approach it in that manner.
Speaker 1:So the number one thing so getting into the you know, the actual kind of nuts and bolts of this, the number one thing you have to consider is your water. Okay, you can survive for around three weeks without eating food. You don't last more than a couple of days without water. So the general rule of thumb for preparing for water is if it's for drinking only you want about one gallon per adult per day. Now in terms of how long are you trying to prepare for?
Speaker 1:Should you prepare for a month? Should you prepare for you know, three weeks or three months? Me personally, I'm making it my goal to be I think right now I'm probably prepared for about six months I can I can feed my family? My goal is to be a year. But my goal really is to become self sufficient enough that through what I can harvest from my own land, that if I had to, I can really buckle down and hopefully live off of my own land for to, you know, longer than that.
Speaker 1:So let's just say that I would honestly, though, I would make it your goal at if if right now you're not prepared at all, I would make it your goal to get to at least ninety days. Because let's just say there is a major issue that happens, say there is an EMP of some sort, and say it's only regional, say it only hits a part of the country, but it might turn the entire country into a disaster zone. If you can usually if you can get through that first month, the second month, the third month, and you're you hunker down, then you might be able to by that point, there's more stability, and you can maybe the military stabilize things and you have a better chance. So I would aim for at least ninety days. So if you've got four people in your family, right, say, you you, your wife and your two children or two teenage children, if you have four people, and you want to prepare for ninety days, you're looking at four gallons per day.
Speaker 1:So that's about 360 gallons of water. You know, one thing with water is that water can go bad, so you can get little droplets to help your water from going bad and how you store it. The other thing I would recommend is if you can set up some sort of rainwater catching system, even online, you can go to various places you can buy a 50 gallon rain barrel that with that has a little fitment that can it fits into your downspout off of your house. So that way you can collect rainwater. So because that gallon I'm talking about per day is only for drinking.
Speaker 1:If you're using water for drinking and hygiene and flushing toilets, it's about three gallons per day. So if you have a rainwater collection system, that can go a long way with helping, you know, giving you bathwater, etc. The other thing I would highly recommend is there's a few different variations of what they call like a life straw. This is one by Sawyer. And so this is a little straw that you can I'm not sure you see a picture there, but the straw goes you can attach it to a water bottle.
Speaker 1:And so you can filter around a hundred thousand gallons of water from this. Because if you look at say Haiti, Haiti is still having issues with cholera and different diseases, because their waters their water system was so filthy. And bad water, dirty water is is the fastest way to kill your whole family is if you're going to some creek to drink and that creek has, you know, say someone died in up creek and whatever killed them is infecting the water sources. So, you know, boiling water, obviously, but these different these life straws. So actually, is a life straw.
Speaker 1:This is another brand. You can get these online if you search for you know, water straw, etc. You can get those online. This one does I think 1,000 gallons and this mini one does 100,000 gallons. So that's a really important thing because such as say that you're collecting rainwater, you don't want to go drink that rainwater like we have bacteria and stuff in it.
Speaker 1:And our human beings, our gut flora and our bodies are not made to handle water. You know, a thousand years ago, you could drink from the river directly. It was also a lot less polluted, but some of these could be lifesavers. Absolutely. So water is is a really big deal.
Speaker 1:Even if you go to Costco, and you're buying just the one gallon, you know, bottles, which is that's why I've got a whole shelf in my garage with bottles of water and one gallon, you know, waters and everything that in addition, once the snow finishes melting, I'm setting up a rain catchment system, Because that way, I've always got water from the rain, but I can use that water to feed my know, get to my chickens. I can use the water for my garden, etcetera. So, you know, water collection is important. If your state like California, certain areas where they've banned water collection, I I have a hard time obeying those rules. So I'm not gonna say, yeah, just obey the rules of your corrupt state.
Speaker 1:But maybe you have to do it in a little more sneaky of a way. So water. Now let's get into food. So one thing let's say I've got a handful of things. So okay.
Speaker 1:The most basic so with with food, this is a much more complicated thing. I could spend an entire hour talking about food storage. So I'm not I'm gonna try to summarize a few of the basic points of it. Again, you want to look at being able to feed your family for say ninety days. That's our goal.
Speaker 1:Right? So you're working out 2,000 calories per person, you can do your calculations. They've got tons of online calculators, you can download spreadsheets that help you do your food planning. But the one thing you also find is that as you start preparing, and you start buying bulk, you end up saving a lot of money. So again, as I mentioned before, like, I'm trying to change my lifestyle.
Speaker 1:So the modern lifestyle, it's really set up. So you go to the local grocery store, and you might buy a can of beans, or you might buy a box of cereal, but you're buying small quantities, and you're paying the highest price possible because you're buying it in the smallest quantity possible. So for a lot of things, I try to buy bulk, it takes a little more money upfront, because you're buying a bigger amount, but you'll save so much more money. So actually, I'll show you. Let's see, I have a picture of my pantry.
Speaker 1:So this is this is literally my pantry. I've got other areas where I'm storing food. But, you know, you can't really see here very well, but I've got, you know, gallons and gallons of maple syrup, lots of flour, seaweed, healthy things like that, and greens, lots of canned food. So and this is all stuff that we regularly eat, but I've just stored it. And so I buy very large quantities.
Speaker 1:I've also got a different area set up where I'm storing more of the bulk things. You know, rice, for instance, in terms of, you know, pound for pound, you you can buy 50 pounds of rice for for nothing. Not nothing. It's it ends up costing money. But, again, like maybe I've got 304 pounds of rice just sitting.
Speaker 1:And so as I mentioned before with bartering, let's just say that I need a lighter I can maybe you know give someone two cups of rice for a lighter. So and again, as we get into currency discussion, we'll talk about that. But a lot of what you're saving now in that kind of scenario where you can't just, you know, use your credit card to buy something, you know, the things that you're setting aside now could become currency. There's a very, very real possibility of that. Even ammunition, which will be getting into ammunition and guns today, but even ammunition will become a currency in that kind of situation.
Speaker 1:In 50 rounds of nine millimeter, you'll be surprised how much you could trade and get for that. So, but looking at food, there's all kinds of different types of food, know, I'm sure you've heard of my Patriot Supply or, you know, there's a mount I forget the name of the mountain something. I personally don't, I haven't bought any of those kinds of big prepared meals. I've bought I've got MREs. So MREs are meal ready to eat.
Speaker 1:This is just literally just military food that lasts a long time. You've got everything that you need in here. You don't have to have water to cook it. It activates a little packet and heats itself up. So MREs are really good.
Speaker 1:You can buy all kinds of other preserved food. If you are really taking this seriously, which I would recommend it, get into preserving your own food. If you can learn how like I bought a vacuum sealer and I bought a food dehydrator. So if it's like so say in the fall, when you when apples are really inexpensive, there's there's local orchards I go to, you know, buy a few bushels of apples and dehydrate them into fruit leather. So you can actually preserve apples or we've got fruit trees on our property, which I plan on planting more of them.
Speaker 1:But, you know, I've got fruit trees that are dropping, you know, probably had a couple hundred pairs that dropped from one pear tree. So I'm dehydrating those types of things because you can dehydrate and dehydrated fruit will last years. So this is not about there are budget ways to prep. That's the thing is that one really important point overall is it can be overwhelming. And like, my gosh, I have buy all this stuff.
Speaker 1:Like I've been slowly chipping away at it. Right? So even as next time you go to the grocery store, so you know what, I'm gonna go to Costco instead. And I'm gonna I'm gonna buy bulk this first time or I'm gonna you know, say you're buying, you know, canned food, buy extra canned food, right? You can slowly you can slowly ration things away.
Speaker 1:And honestly, even if you put $50 a month into into prepping and buying food and water extra right now and you're buying these things in bulk. After a couple of months, you're already going to have way more food supply than the average family in America. So don't let it get too overwhelming. My goal here is just to give you like the big picture. And you can look and see what you want to do with that.
Speaker 1:So again, I'm not going go into food. Like I said, there's food calculators, you can see what you need. If you wanna go the route, it's expensive, but if you have the money to say, sync $5 into a, you know, say, six months supply of prepackaged food from one of the, you know, my Patriot supplier, one of those kinds of companies, great. But if you can't, well, look, they're not like I'm not doing that. To me, I'd rather buy a couple hundred pounds of rice and a couple hundred cans of beans, and, you know, freezer full of meat.
Speaker 1:And that's the other thing is that so I've got I've got one fridge in my main house, I've got one extra fridge in my garage and two deep freezers. So when I buy my meat, for instance, I buy my meat half cow at a time. So you save money. But you've also got a great supply of meat. So my chickens, I buy my chickens in bulk, and I and I free I keep them all frozen.
Speaker 1:So I've been I've been going to the freezer for steak for months now. I walk in the freezer, I pull out a steak, even nice filet mignon that comes from the nice cow. And that's where I get my meat from. And so that's a big thing too is that again, if you buy things in bulk like that, you're going to be better off. Now obviously, freezer needs needs to be supplied with power, which we're going to talk about power, but it's just again, it's just it's a shift in your attitude.
Speaker 1:It's a shift in your mentality. And you'll find that once you start making that change, it's incredible. Okay, so now I want to talk a little bit about chickens. And I will be brief because I have a lot of stuff to get to get through. But I this past year, I built my own chicken coop.
Speaker 1:And so let's see, I have some some pictures to show you, just to give you an idea. So this is the chicken coop I built. This was it. I built it first in my garage to get all the framing together. And then I took it break broke it down in a couple different pieces.
Speaker 1:And then I carried it out to the land. So this was look, I'm just a hobby carpenter. This is something that you could probably do yourself. I bought this chicken coop plan on Etsy. And then I modified it a little bit.
Speaker 1:I made it bigger. So that's the chicken coop. And here's once it went outside once I put outside. So off the back of it, it's what you call a run. That's an eight foot wide by 20 foot, 24 foot long cage.
Speaker 1:So during the winter, for instance, the chickens stay only in their run. They don't go out. They're not messing around with the snow. But it also what it does is it keeps the predators out. So during the night, some of my chickens like I have barred rocks, which I'll show you some chickens.
Speaker 1:So the barred rocks, which are the striped ones, they like sleeping outside, for instance. So again, I'm not going to go deep into detail about a chicken, the chicken coop and the chicken run. I could do an entire episode on that. But this has been very, very fulfilling. And with I've got 14 hens, I don't have any roosters.
Speaker 1:And I'm getting about 10 beautiful eggs every day. And so I've greatly increased the eggs that we're eating as a family. And I've got so many eggs coming in, they're faster than what I can eat, then I'm actually going to be looking into freeze drying or seeing how I can preserve eggs. But again, if you're looking at a barter system, but if you have chickens that are laying and you can barter eggs, you know, one egg, a dozen eggs could get you a gallon of gasoline. And that gallon of gasoline could fuel your car to, you know, for x task, or it could fuel a tractor that you're using.
Speaker 1:So the beautiful things with this is, there's an upfront cost. I think that the chicken coop I bought is more premium, and I really built it to last. But you can probably buy a bit you can build a basic chicken coop for a couple hundred bucks. And if if you're really on a budget, you can go to places like Habitat for Humanity, or even use pallets or scrap wood, and you can build it for little to nothing. Mine ended up costing probably closer to $1,500 to $2,000 because I've got, you know, heavy duty wire on it.
Speaker 1:And I've I've painted it. It's all treated wood, treated lumber, and wood prices have gone up since COVID. So that's also part of it. I've got a shingled roof and everything. But, you know, the chickens, they eat all of our scraps.
Speaker 1:My daughter's one and a half years old. She wastes a lot of food. And so we have a little bin. And after she's done eating, say, okay, June, like time to feed the chickens. You done.
Speaker 1:Don't feed the floor. She used to throw it on the floor. But now we say, okay, feed the chickens. She puts her excess food in their little chicken bin, and then we take the chicken bin out. If food goes bad, etcetera, we can feed the chickens.
Speaker 1:So there is some cost with chicken feed. You have to consider that this is part of it. But for us, we free range our chickens. Like I said, we have about five acres. And so when there's not snow on the ground, they're getting the majority of their food from our grass, and they're going into the woods and everything.
Speaker 1:And again, to have 10 eggs show up every day, that could be a lifesaver. And that's why I didn't want to spend that kind of money on a chicken coop. I thought about it. It's like, know what, if the grocery store doesn't have eggs anymore, how much are these eggs worth? Right?
Speaker 1:One egg could be worth 2 or $3 in the future. So I'm just kind of that's how I'm looking at those things. Okay, so moving on from chicken. So gardening. I'm not gonna go heavy into gardening.
Speaker 1:This is just an an hour long overview, but there's a few things. One is seeds. Stock up on seeds. You can get something like this. Right?
Speaker 1:This is just something I bought a couple years ago. It's just this is a set of backup seeds, right? They call it a survival garden. So just in case you can get this online, I bought it from Amazon a couple years back. And it's just you know, I probably never use it.
Speaker 1:But as a backup, it's good to have. That's the thing is a lot of these things. You can buy them now, maybe that cost me $15 in the future, how much are heirloom seeds going to be worth if there's a difficult situation, you may not be able to get them at that time. Right? So you have to think a lot of things that you could get very easily now.
Speaker 1:And see might it's very easy to overlook these things in the future, they may not be available. So stock up now on these. For my my gardening though, I use a company called Fedco. It's f e d c o. So if you search for Fedco seeds, that's where I order all of our seeds.
Speaker 1:We only plant organic. That's on the big stickler about not having anything overly processed. And I never do GMO. And I try to do organic as much as possible. Because the more you look into, again, what are we what are we seeing now in our society, it's big pharma, they're not really the good guys.
Speaker 1:Well, if you go into Monsanto, you go into all the poisoning that's actually in our food system, especially in The United States. You know, chemtrails are bad enough. I'll do an episode of chemtrails at one of these points. But so I really try to eat as much as possible with organic, but I buy my seeds organic in terms of gardening them. Outside, we've got raised beds.
Speaker 1:So I just moved about six months ago, I haven't planted them yet. But I just bought we had a big concrete cement pad that was a basketball court. And so I lined the edges of it with cinder blocks, and I made raised beds. Next winter, I'm going to have little greenhouse contraptions I'm going to build so I can plant through the winter. But in my house I was renting, I built raised bed gardens, and you can get an incredible amount of food from those.
Speaker 1:So if you're not, if you're just new to gardening, it's a lot easier than you think. There's a book, just look up the square foot gardening method, the square foot gardening, it's a really easy way to understand how to garden and you basically make a grid and you you section off, okay, how many tomato plants per square foot, how many peppers, how many beans, so I would really recommend that. I'm also been I've been really experimenting more so my wife is behind a lot of work with indoor gardening. So I'll show you just a little setup that we have. Let me see here.
Speaker 1:Okay. So this is our one of our front rooms that just kind of faces this is a lot of natural light. Obviously, you can see it's covered in snow. But this is our setup that we're using for indoor gardening. So you can see on the left, we've got arugula, we have scallions, cilantro.
Speaker 1:On the right, we have kale and tomato plants growing. It's a little mini greenhouse that I built there. And then in the middle, there's two big trees. It looks small from the picture, but one of those is a lemon tree, and one of those is a lime tree. So we can we'll have citrus growing, which, you know, vitamin C, really important.
Speaker 1:I've got a lattice in the window there. Now, if you want to learn more about indoor gardening, and I'll share this in my telegram, but there is a telegram group. There's a guy named he goes by William Welker, by William Wallace Welker. Let me show you. This is his telegram page.
Speaker 1:And this is I highly would recommend following him. He it's it's a fantastic resource. And so this is his indoor setup, and he teaches you. He goes, okay. The topic for this channel is self responsible food production, education, health, energy, culture, and technology.
Speaker 1:This is a it's a wealth of information. Even looking at how to raise chickens, he's, you know, raising quail, how to even to raise mealworms to feed your chickens, which that's what we're also experimenting with. So he's really all about self sufficiency and learning how to be self sufficient. So again, this is William Wallace Welker. And so I will share this on my telegram after I finished the show, but I would recommend giving that channel a follow.
Speaker 1:There's also a chicken channel. I think it's called make chickens great again, which I'll share after the show as well for you. Okay, so now we're past gardening. I got a lot to cover quickly here still because I want this episode to be a big picture overview for you. So beyond gardening, heating and energy.
Speaker 1:This is really important. If you can, I highly recommend trying to get a wood stove? This make sure that you find a good contractor to install it because if it's done improperly, it can lead to fire or, you know, your insurance won't pay for your house if it's done improperly. But having a wood burning stove is really important. We're in the process of getting one set up.
Speaker 1:Well, this winter, for next winter, I'll have a wood wood stove installed. But for it's if there is any kind of power outage long term, especially in the colder months, a wood stove allows you to cook, and it allows you to heat your home, which are obviously very, very important. And if you live near woods, you've got unlimited resources of fuel. If you don't, then you can buy a couple cords of firewood, keep it in your garage, keep it in the shed. That's important.
Speaker 1:The other thing that I've done personally is I've bought a bunch of you like the five, their five gallon, the propane tanks that you get for your grill. So I've bought maybe 10 of those that are full, I keep them stored. And I also bought a little attachment that you can use for heating. You can also get they have these little propane tanks here, which you can use for cooking as a fuel source, a little single burner can attach to those. Those are really helpful.
Speaker 1:But the bigger propane tanks, I have a heater that I could use for heating my home. I also bought a single burner attachment. So you can basically attach like a single propane burner to these. So just look in in case things get really hairy, I've still got a good propane source to cook off of, obviously, or to heat. The other thing is fuel.
Speaker 1:So gasoline, I've got a about 100 gallon gas tank, fuel tank that I've got. It's I had it in my garage. Don't do that. It's not safe. Actually, had a fire warden who reached out to me.
Speaker 1:He's like, don't store your gasoline in your garage. I was like, okay. So if you're storing gas, store it outside, find a place for it. So again, to save up because, you know, if again, if there's if one of the situations happens, a gallon of gas could be the equivalent value of $30.40, $50, right because it's scarcity that makes something valuable. And in these situations we no longer have gas trucks that the gas stations run out of gas.
Speaker 1:Right, your your 100 gallons of gas could be a gold mine not that you'd sell it, but that again, it's about survival in that scenario. Okay, so also, if you look at solar is something you can look into. I'm looking into getting they have these solar kits where you can buy these little fold out solar panels and a little charging station and battery pack, we can charge electronics or say like a power tool, etc. That's one thing. The other thing is really the power is generator.
Speaker 1:The first thing I did when moved into my new house was I installed a Generac a whole house generator. We're on natural gas. So basically, like, let's say the power goes down right now, which right now we're having an ice storm in Ohio. This is ice storms that usually have the power go out because the power lines get heavier from the ice. They fall, power goes out.
Speaker 1:The generator is powered by natural gas hooked up directly to utility. And the generator kicks on within a minute, and the entire house has power again. So if you they're expensive, though. But if you can get a whole house generator. If you can't, I've also got a little craftsman generator.
Speaker 1:I think it was maybe 4 or $500 I bought at the beginning of COVID so that you can also run just using again using your gasoline or you can also get one that hooks up to a propane tank. So you can run your generator to keep your freezers going or because look, if you've got a half a cow or a whole cow in your freezers, it could be a couple thousand dollars worth of meat. You don't want that to go bad. So if you have a backup generator, you'd rather go through, you know, you know, ten, twenty gallons of gasoline to keep that meat okay, because you're powering the fridge. So generators are really important.
Speaker 1:A quick note just in terms of, you know, overall purchasing is if you have pets, if you have a dog, if you have a cat, buy their their dog food and cat food ahead of time. Don't wait for their food to run out. It's not going to be a good situation. So just think about them right now. You know, stick it in your basement, go buy, you know, 20 bags of dog food and just set it aside or cat food, etc.
Speaker 1:We don't have any cats. I've got chickens. I got a lot of chicken food on prepping and, know, storing chicken food, but that's not for me. But if you do have dogs or cats, etc, highly recommend that. So now I want to talk about medical and hygiene.
Speaker 1:I forgot to bring down. I have a kit, which I didn't bring it down with me. But I have a a medical kit. And it's I think it maybe like $100 online. And it's basically all the kind of medicine that you would need for your typical emergency.
Speaker 1:The closer you can get to the kind of a kit that say an EMT would carry, the better. If you're buying your your medicine kit, don't just get band aids and some gauze and some stuff like that, you know, ideally look for a kit that has trauma, you know, trauma treatment in it. So, you know, look, maybe you have a gunshot wound, you have to treat sure how bad things are gonna get. Or say you're cutting wood, and you your axe, you slip all the way down, you put an axe into your foot, and you have to stitch it up. Right?
Speaker 1:So I would really recommend because, again, what you're what you're preparing for is a situation where the normal things that you rely on aren't available. So you might have to stitch up your own foot, right? So it could get it could get pretty bad. So I have it's really, really important that you have a really good first aid kit. And again, try to find a first aid kit that has some of the trauma supplies in it, tourniquets, etc.
Speaker 1:Because that can be very, very important. And in addition to that, as I mentioned before, with the book discussion, if you can find a book on basic, you know, basic kind of EMT first responder type medicine, or, you know, the training for how to do that, or if you can take some local training at your fire department on the basic stuff, I highly, highly recommend it. But even a book, like if you look if you if your daughter's running, and she falls and she cuts her arm open, and she's bleeding really bad, you can't Google what to do. So if you have a book you can look at and say okay, how to how to stitch something up, how to prepare a wound, how to dress a wound could be really important. So don't overlook the importance of medical supplies.
Speaker 1:The other thing is that if you are on medication, really consider that if you're on insulin, if you're on some sort of heart medication, any kind of medication that you require, you should again we're preparing for ninety days for medication I recommend doing at least double that. So if you got three months, try to get to six months. Right. So because this is really important if you're on a medication that you need to sustain your life, I highly recommend that you prep and you set aside some of that medication. Some of the medications that I'm not allowed to talk about on here that you use for the horses and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:If you can get that great, you can set that aside, it'll help you with. So jab injury type stuff, there's different new ZStack from Zelenko. Any of these medications that you can get, would highly recommend that set those aside. Other thing for preparing is just overall hygiene. If you're not able to wash your hands properly, if you're not able to clean your dishes properly, all of these things will lead to you getting sick.
Speaker 1:So make sure you have a large supply, I guess as large as you can, of hand soap, bleach, peroxide cleaning materials, apple cider vinegar, which is very useful. You know, lot of the kind of things like that that you need sanitizer, toilet paper, you know, feminine products, deodorant, toothbrushes, these are all things you should consider. Even for my daughter, I've already got probably three months worth of diapers, the next size or two sort of way because it but also I went I bought a bunch of cloth diapers because if I can't be using the disposable diapers, and we'll use cloth diapers. So it's really about this look at and if you want to if you want a good lesson or a good exercise for how to prepare properly, write down all the things that you use in a week, toilet paper, you know, shampoo, toothpaste, you know, dishwasher detergent, all the things that you use in a week, and then that's going to show you it's like, could you do without those things? It's like, Oh, I better get some supplies on those things.
Speaker 1:Even if you have glasses, I recommend getting a couple pairs of backup glasses. Because if, if you're working and your glasses break, you can't go to the eye doctor anymore. If again, if there's a situation where things are really shut down. So even a cheap pair of eyeglasses could go a long way. Other thing is a watch.
Speaker 1:Right? This is a little Citizen Eco Drive watch. It was maybe like a hundred bucks, but it charges from the the sun. But, again, you're telling time is gonna be really important. So if if you're if you're having a rendezvous with somebody or you're trying to meet somebody somewhere that, you know, family or something, again, you may not have a cell phone to tell you the time.
Speaker 1:You may not have a digital clock. So having a a watch is a very good idea. Okay, so hygiene, we got that. So protection. Now this is an important one.
Speaker 1:Because let's just say that you're in your neighborhood, and you've got all this food, but your neighbor doesn't. You have to really think about protection. Now, again, if you watch the interview with Jeff Nyquist, you're thinking, okay, I gotta fend off communist soldiers maybe. Well, maybe. So protection is good.
Speaker 1:So I would recommend so this is a Glock. This is a Glock nineteen x. This is my kind of handgun of choice. So I would recommend you get a gun. Now, check your rules.
Speaker 1:Okay? If you live in New York City, you can't have a gun. That's for one thing. Don't don't get in trouble. Make know, check on what you can buy in your area, but prioritize gun safety.
Speaker 1:That's the really important thing is go and take some classes on how to use your gun. They can be very dangerous. But if you're in a situation where someone's trying to come into your house to steal your food that you're using to feed your family or they're coming in, you know, violently, having a a handgun that that that's sitting in your holster or that's know, again, if there's a disaster scenario, I'm carrying this thing everywhere. I'm carrying it while I'm sleeping. Right?
Speaker 1:If there's any kind of scenario like that. So there's a few basics, though. I would recommend a basic handgun, nine millimeter Glock, Smith and Wesson, MMP. There's a handful of guns that are quite affordable. Even a couple hundred bucks, you can get a a used nine millimeter at your local pawn shop.
Speaker 1:Not a bad idea if if you're budgeting, but a gun again, I'm not a person that pushes for violence. I'm a very peaceful person, I would never want to harm somebody. But if I'm in a situation where, say you're even driving to the store, like you have to go say there's a place where there's a food bank, and you're driving your truck, you might be carjacked. So being able to protect yourself is is so critical. With along with that is ammunition.
Speaker 1:Right? These are just little 50 round or, yeah, 50 round packages of nine millimeter. I bought these recently. These were $22. So $22 for 50 rounds of nine millimeter.
Speaker 1:So if you can, again, ammunition in a lot of ways I look at it as a currency. And if there's a difficult situation, honestly, 50 rounds of nine millimeter, you could you could trade this for enough food to feed your family for two weeks. Like, that's how valuable ammunition could be. I see someone in the comments and guns are illegal in New York City. Guns are illegal in a New York City, not New York State.
Speaker 1:You cannot you can't even have a BB gun in New York City. Trust me, I looked. In New York State, you can, but there's also very strict rules. They have limits for your your magazines, everything like that. So it's very strict, but you can own guns.
Speaker 1:My recommendation is I won't go into detail on this, but there's there's three main guns I would recommend. If you're gonna if you really wanna equip yourself, there's a handgun, like what showed you, I recommend Glock, but you can find one that you like. A nine millimeter, you wanna find a gun that has a common ammunition. Don't get some interesting, you know, black more or whatever, you know, kind of blackout or any kind of special ammunition because it sounds cool. I'd go with the very, very basic nine millimeter two to three is a handful of basic, you know, 12 gauge shotgun.
Speaker 1:So I'd recommend a handgun, like like the Glock, a shotgun, right? Shotguns are excellent for home defense, they're longer barreled ones are easier to aim, right? So if you have a someone that's not as good of a marksman, it's actually quite difficult to hit a moving target with a handgun. With with a barrel that you're aiming like this, it's a lot easier to hit. And then some kind of rifle.
Speaker 1:If you can, you know, get a basic AR 15. They're not that expensive. They've got a lot of stopping power. They're very accurate long range. So again, but if say you can only get one or two guns, I'd recommend at the basic, a handgun and a shotgun.
Speaker 1:So I would recommend that. One thing also in terms of self defense is a good knife. I like knives. So this is more of a survival knife right here. There's a brand called Tops that makes knives.
Speaker 1:This is more of a survival knife that if I was actually if I had to go forage in the woods, or if I even cut firewood, etc. I can do that. But a good pocket knife, a good knife you can carry on your person while you're out and about. Again, if you have to go somewhere where it's a little bit dangerous, having that knife could make a really big a really big difference for you. So that's it for your guns and ammunition.
Speaker 1:The other thing to again with safety is storage, store it properly, keep it away from your children. Keep it locked up, keep it accessible, though. Right? So there's a variety of ways of doing that. You can get little safes that have biometric, you open it up next to your bed, etc.
Speaker 1:So that there's that. The other thing so actually I forgot to mention with energy. Actually, now we're going to get into kind of more gear. So one thing I would recommend is some sort of radio. This is a just like a little hand crank radio.
Speaker 1:So it also serves as a flashlight so you can turn on the flashlight and crank it. I've got a bunch of little hand crank flashlights as well. I would recommend that you really, really do well with with stocking up flashlights and lighting. I also I see someone mentioning archery. Yes, archery is also a very good idea.
Speaker 1:I'd recommend a crossbow with an easy pull on it over a bow and arrow because they're a lot more close to being a gun, and they're easier to just pulling a trigger instead of drawing back. But especially if you're hunting, there's it's silent. So you're not telling everybody I just killed a deer. You can if you can train with it, you can then hunt quietly with it. And to a certain degree, it's unlimited ammo.
Speaker 1:If you if you take care of your arrows, you retrieve your arrows, etcetera. So a crossbow is also a very good thing. So back into lighting, make sure you have flashlights. Flashlights are really, really important. I've like I said, I've got a bunch of hand crank flashlights, you can get solar powered flashlights, hand crank flashlights.
Speaker 1:But with that with your supplies is going to be batteries. Make sure you have a lot of batteries. I've got probably like, I've got hundreds and hundreds of batteries. Because again, batteries that could be something you're bartering in the future. They're going to power your flashlight.
Speaker 1:In addition, lighters, not just for starting, you know, a fire to cook with, but lighters are, you know, for lighting candles at night, etc. I wouldn't bought, I think I bought maybe like a 50 or 100 pack of BICS. My wife was like, why do you need so many lighters? Like this is a currency one day. So make sure lighters are good thing to have.
Speaker 1:I recommend this the BIC lighters that the same BIC lighters you see at the gas stations that most of you are familiar with. That's important. Let's see I've got. Okay, emergency radio, walkie talkies for communication. If you can get a basic ham radio, which you can use for communication during a crisis, or you can hear some nice, you know, ham radios are gonna be good for the typical radio may not be broadcasting at that time.
Speaker 1:So the other thing too, there's lots of other gear I can get into, but I'm running out of time here. So communication is important, as I mentioned, radio, walkie talkies, ham radio. The other thing is tools. Okay? Power tools, obviously, they require electricity to charge them, but good hammer, good axe, good set of screwdrivers, stock up on screws, Because what happens then if you have to board up some windows or you have to build a small enclosure for something.
Speaker 1:I even collect wood. I've got a my wife doesn't like it necessarily, but I've got wood that I'm collecting. That I might find some scrap wood somewhere because you never know what you might need to do with it. So tools are very, very important. And again, you may not go to go get a drill in the future.
Speaker 1:So having a drill could be life saving. So last thing, I think I've hit everything on my list here. So last thing is looking at oh, yeah. I see someone actually saying that liquor is a good bartering bartering item. Yes.
Speaker 1:Mary sing along. Yes. Liquor. Of course, I don't drink alcohol, so I don't really have much liquor. But yes, if you have liquor, if you've got a store of liquor, you could trade a bottle of vodka for probably, you know, 10 pounds of rice, especially if it's an alcoholic and he needs it, he'll probably give you like his tractor for some vodka.
Speaker 1:So that's good. The other thing I see someone else that you're mentioning, what else is mentioning is cold weather. So that's really important. Good blankets, good jackets, good boots, good gloves. If you know, again, if you don't have heat and your family has to huddle up, ideally in your basement because of the thermal mass, ideally, you're you're doing it that way.
Speaker 1:But Carhartt, that's why where I'm outside, I wear mostly Carhartt stuff, then they're now actually pushing the vaxx. So I'm not really happy with them. But in general, you know, cold weather gear is really, really important. You might have to be outside for a while, you might be in the winter, maybe your daughter is sick, and you have to walk your daughter to your doctor neighbor five miles away. That could be a scenario.
Speaker 1:So that's another one. So lastly, getting into the finance. So gold and silver and crypto. I'll tell you, and this might change. I'm not a crypto person.
Speaker 1:Look, if if if there's a situation like this and the Internet goes down, how are you gonna use, like, crypto? Right? You can't use your phone to pay somebody. So, you know, again, I'm looking at maybe crypto is a good hedge against things, and some people have made a lot of money in crypto. I'm more of an old school person.
Speaker 1:I want something that I can feel, something that's tangible. So that's not me. The one thing is that make sure you have cash on hand. Look, if things really go south and if the market crashes, or if we lose power, you can't go withdraw money from the ATM. And so for a certain period of time, you will have a cash society.
Speaker 1:So if you write and say you've got $20,000 in your checking, go pull out $5,000 cash and hide it somewhere. Right? There's a lot of places you can hide money. Don't hide money under your mattress. Don't hide money in your closet.
Speaker 1:Don't hide it in your underwear drawer. Right? Put it in a sandwich bag and go stick it up under on top of your AC duct in your basement. Right? Like really, if you're gonna hide money or hide gold or precious metals, don't put it in the obvious places.
Speaker 1:Don't put a safe in your closet. Unless you have a I used to work in the jewelry industry, and I had safes that were, you know, heavy duty safes that weighed 4,000 pounds. Yes, if you have one of those, good for you. Otherwise, hide. You can even hide things in your freezer.
Speaker 1:You can hide gold and empty out a thing of fish sticks, stick your gold in there, put it in the bottom of your freezer, but beneath everything else, no one's gonna find it. Right? Unless they're watching my show, then they're gonna dig into your freezer. Right? So now again, some people have asked me about putting money into gold versus the stock market.
Speaker 1:Me personally, and look, if I give you advice on something, I'm giving you the genuine advice that I live by. Like, I'm not trying I'm not telling you anything I wouldn't do. So I pulled all my money out of the stock market. It wasn't that much. And I had a little bit of money in Bitcoin.
Speaker 1:And this is a couple years ago, I pulled it out as well. If any kind of saving that I have, well, for one, I'm trying to buy things I can barter with, you know, 50 pound bags of rice, right? But I do believe that gold and silver as precious metals, it's something I really believe in. So, again, if things get really bad, you might have to be bartering with gold. If things get really bad, you're not even bartering with gold, you're just bartering with items.
Speaker 1:There's no currency at first. It's just I'll trade you my, you know, a gallon of gas for, you know, 10 pounds of rice. That's the kind of trading. But I think though that if we do see a market collapse, with inflation, you know, happening, the dollar could collapse. In all these scenarios, I feel the safest in gold.
Speaker 1:And so in silver, and they're both also very undervalued. So you can buy, you know, last I checked silvers, what $25 an ounce or something like that. So again, if you want to do that, I would recommend it, especially with I mean, honestly, we could see I genuinely believe that we're entering a period where we're going to see a lot of our financial systems collapse. If you listen to x 22, I know a lot of you do, he talks a lot about this, that I definitely agree with. I think that we're entering a time period where our fiat currency is gonna collapse, the fake stock market is gonna collapse.
Speaker 1:And at that time, now he pushes Bitcoin again, it's like if that stuff's all happening, I don't want my money sitting in some digital wallet somewhere. Sorry. I'd rather have it sitting in silver and gold. So if you can, if you can do that, I would recommend it. That's my genuine advice for you.
Speaker 1:So alright. So those are I've run through my whole list. I hope that was helpful. I hope that it was, you know, not too much rambling, but actually, you know, just kind of talking. And again, I'm genuinely trying to give you the advice just of what I've learned.
Speaker 1:I've been doing this for, like I said, five years, six years. And I've really tried to understand because for me, you know, protecting my family is really important. And I don't like to be a doomsday kind of person. But I genuinely believe that we're going to be entering some difficult times, much more difficult than what we have right now. And so I want to be prepared for that to protect my family.
Speaker 1:And I hope that this video has been helpful for you. I hope that it's, you know, I hope it's not overwhelming. Take a few things I've talked about. And if you don't own a gun, okay, start looking into that. Right?
Speaker 1:Go buy a basic handgun, you know, go get some lessons at the range and do that or you know what, start with an axe. If you don't have an axe, get an axe set in your closet, right, your first level of self protection there, or a good knife. Again, maybe you're going to get it maybe you go to Costco this weekend, and you buy 50 pounds of flour 50 pounds of rice and 50 cans of black beans. And that's what you've done. You've already done a lot to protect your family in the future.
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