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Joining me today is Mike Adams to discuss how to prepare for the difficult times ahead. We’ll be discussing food security, water, energy, self protection, medicine, money, and much more.
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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.
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All signs are pointing to one thing. The world is entering into a very difficult period of history. Food shortages, soaring energy costs, governments collapsing, a looming economic crisis, war, pandemics. I mean, the list just keeps on growing. And somehow, most of the people around us just carry on as if life was back to normal.
Speaker 1:But we know it's not. And that's why we must prepare. And that's why I'll be sitting down with Mike Adams today. Mike is the founder of naturalnews.com and brighteon.com, and has been teaching people about the importance of preparedness for well over a decade. And on today's show, we're gonna be discussing food security, water, energy, self protection, medicine, money, and so much more.
Speaker 1:So ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Man in America. But before we get started, today's show is brought to you by Rise TV, a Patriot owned streaming platform. With all the big tech censorship and demonetization going on right now, the subscribers at Rise TV are literally the reason I can bring you this critical information today. Over at Rise, our mission is to uncover the truth no matter how dark and difficult while always holding on to hope and even having a few laughs along the way. So we've got a massive content library, an amazing community of patriots, and you get to hang out with me and my guests for the second half of every show and ask your questions and share your thoughts and ideas.
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Speaker 1:The links for the podcast and my social media are in the description below. And folks, by now, we all sense that we're in for a bumpy ride for the foreseeable future. We're already starting to see governments and currencies collapse around the world. And simultaneously, the BRICS nations and dozens of other countries led by Russia and China are moving away from the US dollar as a dominant global currency. So what's this mean for Americans?
Speaker 1:I mean, the US dollar is all we know. Right? All of our hard earned money is completely tied to it, whether it's through the stock market, our bank accounts, pensions, four zero one k's, etcetera. You see the rest of the world is fed up with The US printing money out of thin air and demanding to trade it for things of real value. So this is why Russia's already backed its currency with gold, and many other nations are expected to follow.
Speaker 1:But what happens if the dollar loses its global reserve status? Well, the value of our dollars, our life savings could literally be wiped out overnight. And look, I'm not a financial adviser, so please do your own research. But I believe that now more than ever, it's a good time to consider transferring at least some of your wealth into physical gold and silver. Real world assets have stood the test of time.
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Speaker 1:I wanna be really, really clear with you, though. You don't buy gold and silver to get rich. You do it to protect your wealth. But if things get really tough, history has left us many stories of folks scooping up land and other valuable assets for a few gold coins. So now's the time, folks.
Speaker 1:If you wanna learn more about this, open up a new tab right now and go to goldwithSeth.com, or you can call (877) 646-5347 to speak to someone right now. Again, (877) 646-5347. Alright, folks. So today, I am being joined by Mike Adams, who is a hero on the front lines of getting the truth out about what's happening in this country. He's actually someone that I listen to quite quite frequently.
Speaker 1:And not only is he really great with geopolitics and what's happening with that, medical freedom. He's done fantastic research. He has a full lab where he's been doing amazing research, but he's also shown that for a very long time now has been talking a lot about the importance of preparedness. And a lot of what I've learned about prepping and being prepared has actually come through Mike and his audiobooks and his podcasts and his websites. Also, I'll give you a quick warning ahead of time.
Speaker 1:We've had a few technical difficulties. We're running a new technology setup, so I will apologize in advance if there's any jumping in the video or if this audio comes out of sync with the video because it's a new setup, and we're kind of ironing a few things out. So without further ado, I'm to bring on my guest, Mike Adams. Mike, thank you so very much for joining me today.
Speaker 2:Well, absolutely, Seth. It's an honor to be able to join you. I know I was going to apologize to your audience because I think the glitchiness is on my side. I I think there's some bandwidth issues that happen in Texas. So folks, if there's anything out of sync, just roll with it.
Speaker 2:Content's gonna be awesome. I'm looking forward to this, Seth. Happy to go anywhere you wanna go today.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well, let's go ahead and start with something, Mike. I mean, you've been sounding the alarm bells for quite some time, and also it's something I focus on quite a bit. I had Michael Yon on recently talking about the collapse of Europe, and I've oftentimes met with folks that have said, come on, Seth, you're being a fearmonger. You know, you're trying to sell us gold or, you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:And I wanna see, you know, how do you respond to that? Because when I look around right now, everything that I've seen you talking about over the past couple of years seems to be coming true. So what's your response when you say, Mike, this content you're talking about is just fear mongering?
Speaker 2:Well, understand that each individual is at a different point in their journey to awakening to history as it's unfolding. So it's very easy to dismiss history as it's unfolding in real time. You know, it's convenient to look in the past and say, Oh, well, yeah, there were 200 different currency collapses over the last five hundred years, and there were wars, there was devastation, economic collapse, World War II, all these things. Yeah, they look in the past, but then they tell themselves, but that will never happen again. Right?
Speaker 2:And that's where I say, come on. History repeats itself. These are cycles. Human psychology has not changed in thousands of years. In in fact, if anything, the world is more dangerous, more fragile right now, more vulnerable because complex societies are inherently more vulnerable.
Speaker 2:We've never had more complex societies than we have today with more interdependencies, which create these devastating vulnerabilities, and COVID exposed some of those, and we're starting to see the collapse unfold in real time. But look, Seth, I'm okay if people aren't ready to hear that yet. There will be a day when they are, and then they'll catch up if they can, if they still have time. It's up to them.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And so with what's happening right now, mean, before, because I, you know, I wanna spend a lot of this episode really getting into just the nuts and bolts of being prepared. Because it's one of the most requested topics that I get people saying, look, can you please talk about water security or food security or self protection or money, etcetera. But before we dump, know, we can kinda jump into that topic, let's just can you just give us a brief overview of where you see the world at right now in terms of, you know, famine, food shortages, energy crisis, whether it's Europe, you know, America, most of our audiences here in America, but a of them are all over the world. I mean, where do you see that we're at right now, and where do you see things going over the course of the next year?
Speaker 2:Okay. So yeah, I'm happy to offer that. But let me offer some background that brought me to what I'm going to say because it might be a little shocking to a lot of people. But, you know, I've interviewed people like you do, Seth. I've interviewed, I don't know, 150 people in the last year, experts, food experts, but I also have a research staff.
Speaker 2:I run a food science laboratory and I'm in the food business. So, we actually have commercial contracts with farmers and farmer co ops on an international basis. And we see the food shortages in real time on the commercial level. When we would previously try to order, let's say, 25,000 pounds of organic kidney beans or something, they used to be able to fill that order, and we would get, you know, here comes 25 pallets of kidney beans off the truck. Today, it's different.
Speaker 2:Today, the the commercial sellers and we do all organic, by the way, so we're in the organic space. But the commercial sellers say, well, we don't have 25,000 pounds. We have 900 pounds. Do you want it? And, Oh, the freight cost is 300% higher than what you paid last time.
Speaker 2:That's what we're seeing in our own operations. So, a lot of the information I have is firsthand. Then we have a research team. So, we have researchers that go out and research, for example, the shutdowns of steel foundries and aluminum smelting operations, copper smelting, ammonia production, which has been devastated across Western Europe, 70 Percent reduction in ammonia production, which of course, that's where you get fertilizers. And the natural gas being shut off to Europe now due to Nord Stream one and the whole Russia situation, you don't have the raw materials, the hydrocarbons that you need to make ammonia through the Haber process.
Speaker 2:So just with that background, let me be clear. The world is in for a devastating collapse, a multilayered collapse of food, energy, money, and even shelter and housing because it's all intertwined. And and other things too, like medicine, for example. But if you don't have food, water, shelter, communication systems, if you don't have these things functioning, fertilizer, farming, agriculture, then you're done for. So we are looking in my opinion, my conclusion is we're looking at a let me use the careful words here.
Speaker 2:We're at a dramatic reduction in the number of, human beings that will be living on this planet five years from now. That's it.
Speaker 1:And it's a pretty harsh reality to get to. Now in your opinion, is there any way to reverse this? Because I know there's a lot of people that are focused on, you know, say, the midterms, which I think are important, and I encourage people to to get out and vote. Right? There's a lot of things that are really broken about this country that are coming from, you know, the White House house and DC in general.
Speaker 1:But aside from that, like, how how can we fix this? How can we reverse some of what's happened?
Speaker 2:It's all reversible, and my prediction is based on if we maintain the current trajectory, but it could be changed. Now the key to understand in all of this is that energy is what provides affordable fertilizer, affordable water, affordable food, affordable logistics and transportation, all these things. There's plenty of energy in the world. It's in the ground. It's in America.
Speaker 2:It's in Europe. It's in Norway. It's all over. But there's not the political will to tap into that energy because of the agendas surrounding, you know, energy and climate and all of that. So Western Europe decided many years ago that they did not want to really develop their own domestic energy sources.
Speaker 2:They wanted to shut down that infrastructure and essentially just import energy from other countries, primarily Russia. And with the economic sanctions against Russia then and the shutdown of Nord Stream one, Western Europe now has been completely shut off from, Russian energy sources. And Russia is is now, in the last days, threatening to shut off all, oil, coal, and natural gas to all essentially NATO countries or Western countries. But the same is true in The United States. Much the same is true in Australia as well and Canada.
Speaker 2:Canada is also an energy rich nation. So the issue is not it's if there's a political will to get the energy and and to do so in a manner that makes it affordable, then all these problems go away. Inflation can come crashing down. Food prices can come crashing back down. Housing prices can come everything can come down.
Speaker 2:But right now, our current path doesn't put us into that scenario. It puts us on a far, worsening trajectory that's going to become catastrophic by the first quarter of next year.
Speaker 1:And so in terms of timeline, you know, I I mentioned I had Michael Jan reporting over from Europe, and he you know, I asked him, you know, when when does this kinda hit? What does this collapse look like? And he's basically saying, look. The next couple of months, which are nice in Europe, are the last good months they're gonna have in a generation. And that was a very chilling statement from him.
Speaker 1:And you can see how Europe, especially with the gas crisis and with Russia, is entering into a very, very cold winter, and they haven't really prepared for it because they've been very reliant on Russian gas. And as Trump warned them, you know, some years ago, they they mocked him. They laughed at him, and here they are. So, you know, you talk about first quarter of next year. So is that when in America you expect to see a lot of this?
Speaker 1:Because right now, I mean, look. You you know, you go to local grocery store, there's still food. Maybe you're you're the one bread you like isn't there, but, you know, no one's starving. You know, eggs are more expensive, but there's still eggs. So what where do you see when in America do you think we'll get to a point where people, you know, the mainstream people that are currently just kind of going on life as usual really are shocked and say, wow, something has really changed.
Speaker 2:America will lag in in my analysis three to four months behind Europe in all of this. So Europe is going to face the most devastating circumstances first. It it's already beginning. And part of the issue in Europe is that in order to drastically reduce energy consumption, the governments of European nations, such as Switzerland, for example, or The Netherlands, are in effect waging a kind of coercive tyrannical war against their own citizens to force them to use less energy. So, for example, in Switzerland, it is now a law that if you heat your house above 19 degrees Celsius, which is about 66 degrees Fahrenheit, you can be arrested and imprisoned for three years.
Speaker 2:So imagine, I mean, we're talking people, even if they heat their homes with wood, they can be arrested and thrown in prison for heating with wood. And part of that, by the way, part I'm still trying to understand what they mean by this, but part of the law is that you're not allowed to heat water above 60 degrees Celsius, which is not even boiling, obviously. And if that includes, stovetop water, and it's not clear to me yet if that does. It means that they're banning cooking. They're banning boiling water.
Speaker 2:Now I I I still need to confirm if that's what they mean or if they're talking about saunas or pools or something, but, you know, 60 degrees Celsius is very hot for a swimming pool. You know, you don't wanna swim in that. But, you know, Europe in The Netherlands, you know, they're trying to cull the cattle. They're saying nitrogen is now the element that is the enemy of humankind, and thus you have to stop producing meat. And a similar thing in The UK, similar thing in Germany, Ireland, Scotland as well.
Speaker 2:So the situation is going to be very, combative between the people of Europe, who obviously don't want to die from starvation exposure and freezing cold and all of that, and their governments that seem to be incredibly disconnected from the people, where the governments are saying, we're gonna do this whether you like it or not. And if you try to heat your house and not die from hypothermia, you're gonna go to jail. And then the question is, well, hey. What's the temperature in the jails? Because maybe some people would say, please take me there if it's warmer than 19 degrees Celsius.
Speaker 1:That's a good point. That's a good point. So getting into, you know, prepping and and the the foundations of prepping, I mean, you know, you wrote actually, I'll pull the website up, but you wrote an actual an audiobook, And I've just you know, folks, I've listened to this. I learned so much from this. It's it's called it's resilientprepping, and it's the website is just resilientprepping.com.
Speaker 1:And this is a free audiobook. It's printed. You can get a PDF or an audiobook that Mike put together, which is extremely comprehensive. And and this is what? Is it nine hours or so?
Speaker 2:It's Somewhere around nine hours. Yeah. Free download.
Speaker 1:Yep. And so we're gonna talk about as much as we can in this hour, hour and a half show that we have, but I really encourage people that this is a great resource, and I listened to it just on my as a podcast while I was, you know, actually rebuilding a kitchen. It was great video background stuff. So I highly recommend this because we're gonna be able to cover a lot of the foundational stuff here. But if you wanna get into very specifics, just recommend downloading the audiobook or or the PDF of that and and going through that.
Speaker 1:But so, you know, as so you're talking about the fundamentals of prepping, and I think that, you know, I'd like to present this, you know, today's show in a way that for people that aren't super experienced, like, they've already got five years of food set aside, and they've got a bunker, and they're fully off grid. For a lot of people that are asking, you know, there are questions that are very serious, like, if I live in an apartment, what can I do? You know, how much food should I have? How long should my food supply last me? Where should I how should I secure my water?
Speaker 1:So how about we start just with the the core of food and water? So, you know, Mike, in your opinion, right now with where we're at in history, how much of a food supply should people be aiming to set aside?
Speaker 2:The the key strategy for food is to understand that no matter how much you store, it will never be enough if you don't also learn how to grow food. So, no matter what your window of preparedness, some people prepare for six months of food, some ninety days, some a year or more. At some point, that's going to run out and you're going to need to grow food, save seeds, and have a productive agricultural system on a small scale. And it depends on how bad you believe the situation is going to get also. So, for example, in Western Europe, your guest yesterday said that it might take them a generation to recover.
Speaker 2:And I think that's an accurate assessment, by the way. I think that Europe is going to suffer a kind of collapse that they haven't seen since World War II, Just a wipeout of the industrial base, a wipeout of the economic base. Well, in that scenario, if you want to survive next year, you you need to start planting food no matter how much you have stored. So, I mean, yes, I'm in the storable food business, but the first thing I tell people is learn to grow, which is sprouting. You can start with sprouting.
Speaker 2:Remember, you don't need soil or sunlight to sprout. And sprouting gives you living food. It's dirt cheap. You just need jars and some water, and you can sprout in a closet. It costs you almost nothing to produce food.
Speaker 2:Now maybe you don't wanna live on sprouts all day long every day, so obviously, you're you're gonna need some other things. But storing food is just one element of the overall strategy. Referring to my free audiobook, and thanks for bringing it up, Resilient Prepping, as you know, I talk about high-tech prepping, low tech prepping, and no tech prepping. And so I talk about how you need these three layers in every area that's important to stay alive. You know, people tease me sometimes for buying old sewing machines that you can hand crank the sewing machine.
Speaker 2:So I get it. Like, I'm on eBay buying old, computing machines, even like little hand crank computers and adding machines and and old Singer sewing machines built in the nineteen fifties. Then the reason I buy those is because I can fix them. They don't have circuit boards. They're not subject to EMP attacks or solar flares or any kind of power surges.
Speaker 2:You can you can have one person cranking the the the wheel, or you can hook up a foot pedal on it, and you can repair clothing. And, yes, repair then is key because you're not gonna be able to just go out and replace everything and throw everything into the landfill. So you need to learn repair skills. How how do I fix broken PVC pipe? How do I fix a pair of broken jeans or broken boots or straps on a purse or a bag?
Speaker 2:And by the way, you're gonna need to have fitness too, because you're gonna spend a lot of time walking, walking to a place to buy, sell, and trade, or doing your own gardening operations, or maybe even hauling water from a pond or a stream because the municipal water system isn't working. So I'm just touching on some of the key elements here, but low tech or no tech prepping, I think, is the key to surviving what's coming.
Speaker 1:I I learned a lot from that perspective that you talked about low tech and no tech. And so something I've done, for instance, is, you know, I've got a small solar charger, a little Jackery, you know, 1,500, but I've I've got a lot of battery powered hand tools, right, saws, etcetera. But I also went out and bought I'm I'm working on building out a set of Japanese wood saws. Right? The Japanese make beautiful wood saws.
Speaker 1:So that way, if I have to repair a my chicken coop, for instance, then I've got, you know, hand tools, even a hand powered drill, a crank drill, know, that we're not relying on those. That's that's very important. So with food, you know, obviously, if somebody has, you know, like, my wife and I, we intentionally chose to buy a home that was, you know, outside of the the big blue cities, run about five acres, and we've got, you know, enough land to grow a lot of food. Even within a quarter acre, you can produce an incredible amount of food. But with somebody that is, say, living in suburbia, which a lot of the audience watching is or listening, you know, they're they're they might be on an eighth of an acre, or they might be in, like, a townhouse, and they just have a little backyard patio for so for someone like that, how would you approach food security?
Speaker 2:Well, you can grow a lot of food in a small amount of space if practice things like square foot gardening. And by the way, I'm the author of another free audiobook called Survival Nutrition. People can get that at survivalfnutrition.com. Again, it's free. Just download the m p threes.
Speaker 2:In that, I teach some of these principles. So even Marjorie Wildcraft, for example, teaches really tight, small space gardening. In the space of about two parking spaces, like, literally just space for two cars, you can grow a significant portion of your diet, but that kind of system does involve some animals. She talks about, rabbits in rabbit hutches. I don't have rabbits because, I don't know, I can't handle wringing their necks.
Speaker 2:I I have chickens, and I I have chicken eggs, and, that's that's my animal protein source. But I also have goats, and the goats, their entire job is just to produce goat poop pellets to go into, as a source of nitrogen, to go into all the other plants in order to have massive productivity. Animals have to be part of the system. And let me interrupt myself here, Seth, for a second and say the the chemical process that Fritz Haber invented in Germany to combine atmospheric nitrogen with hydrogen from hydrocarbons to create ammonia, which is n h three, and that's the precursor chemical for, you know, fertilizers. Well, animals do that automatically for free.
Speaker 2:They all animals do it. So whatever's coming out of the backside of a horse or a donkey or goats goats are especially nice and rabbits because it's pelletized. It's kind of clean poop, if you don't mind me using that term. It's the cleanest poop you're ever going to find. So that is high-tech, but translated into a simple animal that doesn't need circuit boards or replacement parts.
Speaker 2:And then you can scoop that up, and you put it into the dirt mounds where you're growing, high density foods like potatoes, for example. You know, potatoes will keep you alive. Maybe occasionally, like I live in Texas, I could barter some cow meat because there's longhorn cattle all over the place. Lots of cattle, men, and women. There's also wild hogs everywhere.
Speaker 2:I mean, I see them all the time when I'm walking. I'm not a hunter, so I don't shoot them. But if I were starving, I'd probably reconsider that. You know? Just take one or two because there's 50 or so at a time.
Speaker 2:But, see, can supplement your food with a little bit of that, but primarily, you need to have a system where you can produce it and then to store it because winter is coming. You gotta think like the American pioneers that you you gotta start canning, salting, drying, all these things that you do to preserve food because you've gotta survive the winter and make it to the next spring harvest.
Speaker 1:And that's a that's a very important point. And so in my lifetime, we've looked at really almost all angles of food production from the very low tech, which I'd say is really canning. Canning, salting is probably your super low tech, but canning, you know, we recently bought a pretty big all American canner. And so we've been right now is harvest period for us. So we're canning, making marinara sauces, canning peppers, soups, But we've also we got a we have a dehydrator, which we use for certain things.
Speaker 1:But then we also this year just got a freeze dryer. And the freeze dryer has been incredible because we've got around 35 chickens, and that means that they're making way way too many eggs for us to eat. So about once a week, we'll put on a batch of maybe 80 eggs in the freeze dryer, which gives us scrambled eggs in a Mylar bag that will last us for fifteen, twenty years. So
Speaker 2:That's awesome.
Speaker 1:Which has been which is great, and I'm really happy with that. But for a lot of people, though, that are asking, you know, I think that approaching, again, this is a low tech high-tech, low tech, and no tech, canning is probably one of the most basic things that you can learn how to do. And even if you just have a wood burning stove, you can still can using the heat off of your stove, and a can of, you know, properly canned beef even will last years and years with no refrigeration, because that becomes an issue too is, and we'll get into power in a little bit here, but say you've got, you know, a giant freezer in your basement with, you know, two and a half cows in it. Well, if you lose your access to electricity, then that's gonna be wasted meat very quickly. Now in terms of of preserving, so, you know, canning is a big one.
Speaker 1:What else would you recommend? So say, like, you know, a lot of people are talking about Mylar bags, for instance. If someone's buying right now bulk, right? So obviously you can buy canned food at Costco, etcetera. But how would you recommend, say, storing rice or dry food?
Speaker 1:Because that's what I recommend for a lot people as well is, look, it's really inexpensive. You can really get a lot of calories on a low budget. But how do you recommend going about, you know, preserving flour, rice, beans, etcetera?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm so glad you asked me that question because I I did an experiment recently that I think would be very valuable for people to hear. So you're gonna take your grains, it could be oats, rice, millet, quinoa, whatever, and you're gonna put them in a, like, five gallon bucket where you can seal the lid. That's an airtight seal. But then you need to absorb the oxygen. You gotta take the oxygen out of that.
Speaker 2:And the so called oxygen absorbers that you buy at retail are very, very expensive. And, of course, if you leave them open, then you've ruined them. I found out, and I'm not the one who figured this out, but I did confirm it. I I I validated this. It's absolutely true that the hand warmers that you buy, the little hand warmers that are dirt cheap, and you open them up, and you put them in your pockets, and they get warm.
Speaker 2:The way they get warm is through the oxidation of small pieces of iron filings. What they're doing is they're combining oxygen from the air around them into the iron filings, releasing heat in an exothermic reaction. That's how they function as heat, but they're also binding the o two into the iron, permanently creating rust. So if you actually drop a few hand warmers into a bucket of grain and then seal it up and obviously open the hand warmers package so that it it's working, They will suck up or soak up all the oxygen in that bucket, and they will get a little bit warm. So, you know, you you wanna pay attention.
Speaker 2:Don't overdo it and be mindful of fire hazards, although they don't get that hot. But you know what I'm saying. Just just use common sense on this. And what's really cool about that is if your bucket has a really small air leak, a little bit of air comes in. If you have excess hand warmers in the bucket, then there will there will be a a reactivation of the rusting or the oxidation chemical process using available oxygen, and that oxygen will be tied up into the rust.
Speaker 2:So the the dirt cheap way to get oxygen out of your food in buckets is hand warmers.
Speaker 1:Interesting. Interesting. And what about so something that I do is I put in I mix in diatomaceous earth, which I so if I'm if I'm setting aside flour or beans, is that something that you use as well?
Speaker 2:Well, I I think the primary purpose of diatomaceous earth is to kill the bugs that might be running around in that. But if you suck out all the oxygen, those bugs will die. And I do have some stored items, for example, some damaged items from my own warehouse, or sometimes we get shipped something that is infested. And so I'll have, for example, hundreds of pounds of rice that's got some kind of weird bugs in it. And using the hand warmer technique, and I've tested this, you can kill all the bugs just by depriving them of oxygen.
Speaker 2:And then later on, now I I don't I wouldn't sell this to anybody, but in a survival scenario, I would just scoop that out. I would wash the rice, take those dead bugs out of it, cook the rice. You're good. And, you know, if anybody's squeamish about that, you're just not hungry enough yet.
Speaker 1:Just wait. Well, it's Bob Schwab's favorite form of protein. Right?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Right. Well, no, would probably say eat the bugs, but I would say remove the bugs and eat the rice.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So let's talk a little bit about water because this is you know, look, we we can survive a few weeks without any food, but you can't really go long without water. And if you look at and you study what happens during famines or during, you know, periods of disaster, war, etcetera, one of the biggest threats is actually unclean water. That's where you're gonna have spreading of diseases, all kinds of things. So having clean water source is incredibly important.
Speaker 1:So what would you recommend, I'd say, on two ends of the spectrum? If someone's living in an apartment and, you know, they can't drill a well, what would your recommendation be to them versus what would your recommendation be to somebody that actually has a little bit of land in their own home?
Speaker 2:Every person needs some kind of water filter, whether it's a gravity filter or a little hand pump camping filter. And, you know, you can spend anywhere from $20 to $400 on different water filters. And to some extent, they all work. Some work better than others, obviously, and some have much more capacity than others. So it just depends on what you wanna buy.
Speaker 2:But this point was driven home recently by the water failure in Jackson, Mississippi, where you had a 80,000 people, although the water has apparently been turned back on because the US Army Corps of Engineers showed up and magically made it work. I I guess they really are engineers. They they made that thing work. But for a while, 80,000 people had no water, which means no water for showering, flushing toilets, dishes, anything. So as you're saying, Seth, everybody also needs to store a little bit of water or a lot if you can.
Speaker 2:Now, of course, water is heavy. So if you're in an apartment, your options are quite limited. You can store them in old milk jugs or soda bottles if you drink soda or or whatever, but the the best vessels are polyethylene barrels, PE, because it's not gonna leach plastics into your water. Not at all. And polyethylene barrels, you can get them anywhere from 15 gallons to a 55 gallon drum, typically.
Speaker 2:And if you have the space, if you're living in a rural environment, you you should, in my opinion, start collecting polyethylene 55 gallon drums. You can call around. Some places might sell them dirt cheap, $20. If you have to buy them retail, you could pay a hundred and 50 to $200 each, which is crazy. But a lot of people, even like our operation, we go through, I don't know, hundreds of these a month, Different kind of like, we'll have, like, raw materials for shampoo shipped in a 55 gallon drum, trying to get rid of them, actually, sometimes.
Speaker 2:So if you get your hands on that, just wash it out multiple times. You can use it to store water. And then you don't wanna drink the water right out of that if you need it one day. You wanna still take it through your water filter, but the 55 gallon drum gives you a way to store it. Just understand, folks, at minimum, each person in your family or community that wants to not die is gonna need at least 10 gallons a day.
Speaker 2:That and that's minimum. It's more like 20, but you could still get by on 10 gallons a day, but that means one fifty five gallon drum won't even carry one person for one week unless you just skip all bathing and dishwashing and toilet flushing and all of that, which makes life quite miserable. So you need supplies of water. One more thing, Seth, and by the way, interrupt me at any time if I'm going on too long, but rainwater collection is the simplest way to do it. So you go out and get yourself 500 gallon, rainwater barrel or 2,000 gallon, whatever you can afford, set it up, collect the rainwater, you can filter it later, but you've got water when you need it.
Speaker 1:That's a great point, actually. So what we've done here, I haven't set it up yet, is I found a guy through Facebook. You can find these. They're these I think it's called an ICB tote. They're these 275 gallon totes.
Speaker 1:They're like a cube with a cage on it, And I bought five or six of those or maybe a hundred bucks apiece. They came from a local bakery. So this one, you know, may have had molasses in it. One had, you know, vanilla flavoring in it. And so that you know, you can find these things actually for really inexpensive amounts of money.
Speaker 2:Just just make sure, and and you make a great point. I think those hold about 275 gallons or or something in that range. Just make sure that it hasn't previously carried toxic chemicals or petroleum products because those those totes are also used for engine oil and things like that. Just make sure it was a food based
Speaker 1:Yeah. And and that that's a really good point. And I was really specific with that. And, actually, I looked at the the labels of them because, look, because they're from a bakery. See, because, look, these these are used for bringing in our you know, it's a commercial bakery.
Speaker 1:That's an important thing.
Speaker 2:It's probably like vegetable oil was in that
Speaker 1:that Exactly. I think one was olive oil, one was, you know, sweetener, etcetera. So if somebody has, say, you know, like myself, if someone lives in the country, you know, say they're on city water, what what would you recommend? Obviously, you know, setting up rainwater caps capturing, which you can't do in an apartment, or maybe it's difficult to to set some sort of window based thing would be tough. But for for folks that are in in the country, what do you recommend?
Speaker 2:Well, for for city water, just to answer that part first, yes, you can store city water. That's fine. Just remember, you're going to have to filter it later. In in the country, remember surface water. So in the country, perhaps you can build a pond, or maybe you already have a pond or access to a pond.
Speaker 2:Now surface water is, of course, heavily teeming with life, you know, all kinds of giardia and amoeba and all kinds of things. So you you need to have a very good filtration system. Otherwise, you're gonna end up with waterborne illness, not a vacation. No. Or it's a vacation to the toilet every fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2:Cholera. It's not fun. No. So surface water can be used, but in that environment see, I I like to teach people to double up on preparedness supplies. So for example, there are lots of ways to sanitize surface water.
Speaker 2:There's chlorine. You can actually use chlorine. You can use even chlorine dioxide as a water treatment chemical to sanitize the water. I mean, some people stock up on pool shock type of stuff just to sanitize water. But remember folks, you gotta take that chlorine out, so you're gonna need a carbon block filtration system no matter what you do.
Speaker 2:Even when cities use surface water to deliver municipal water to the people, they do the same thing. They'll bring in, you know, millions of gallons of water off of a lake or something. They'll hammer it with chlorine hard to kill everything, and then they'll run it through carbon block filters to remove the chlorine, and then they'll add fluoride and whatever else they want and push it out to the people. So you just have to do that on a smaller scale. This is why rainwater is really the cleanest water, by the way, and well water is great if you have a hand well pump because if you've got water that close to the surface, good for you.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. But still filter it because well water is contaminated, and we've done a lot of lab testing on this. Well water is contaminated with all the agricultural chemicals, all the pesticides, herbicides, the runoff, industrial chemicals, rocket fuel, everything you can imagine, that's in your well water, by the way.
Speaker 1:And one filter I I would recommend, I you've talked a lot about this before, is just Berkey. You know, they make what what what they're they're called, you know, gravity filters, but it's you know, you can get them different sizes, two gallons, five gallons, etcetera. They're a little more pricey, a couple hundred bucks, but they sit on your countertop. You can just you you could literally go out to a lake. Mean, I've seen YouTube videos of people take nasty green sludge water off of a lake, and they'll pour it in, and it this beautiful clean drinking water will come out.
Speaker 1:So and and the the filters last for thousands of gallons. So those are
Speaker 2:They they do unless you pour green sludgy water in it, then it'll last maybe 50 gallons. But, yeah, folks, I mean I mean, pre filter your water. You can just use T shirts or something, or you can make a little sand trap filter with a bucket and some sand. You can even make your own, activated charcoal. There's a lot of YouTube videos on how to do that.
Speaker 2:Just take some wood and start it on fire and then deprive it of oxygen, and it makes activated charcoal. Throw that in with the sand, pour water through that. What you get out of that, then you finalize it in some commercial water filter that's certified. And that way your commercial water filter, the life of that will last much, much longer. And yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, you mentioned the Berkey. Definitely, the Berkey works, but there are lots of brands that work. The the filters that I tell people that I would avoid are the cheap retail pitcher filters.
Speaker 1:Like a Brita filter. I
Speaker 2:don't I don't even wanna name any brand names, frankly, but I've done a lot of lab tests. My my primary observation is that when a lot of those cheap low end filters that you buy at Walmart, the water pours through them too quickly to be any kind of an effective filter because the filters work based on time of surface contact. So you have to have surface area but also time of contact because it takes actual time to absorb the chemicals and the heavy metals, the lead, and everything else that's going through there. If you if you go buy a cheap filter and you pour water in it and then the water just comes right out, it's not filtering much, folks. It's just it's straight physics.
Speaker 1:That's that's a good point. Let's talk a little bit about energy. This is the one that this is, I would say, is a difficult thing to really tackle, because it can get really, really expensive. And so, you know, we've you know, when we bought our house about a year ago, one of first things that I did was I put in a Generac whole house generator, and it was a you know, it's an investment to, you know, make it. Now granted, you know, I work from home, and so if there is a power outage because of these crazy storms, which, you know, what they're gonna know, geoengineering is a different topic.
Speaker 1:I appreciate your your recent interview on that. We've had insane storms, which would have knocked the power out for our house, you know, once a week for the past, you know, three months. So that was one thing. It's a whole house generator that runs off of natural gas and propane if I choose to hook it up. But, you know, for most people looking into getting into how to just have energy in general, You know, I'm concerned because the natural you know, even the natural gas that I get is coming from the main grid of energy delivery.
Speaker 1:And so if there's a big crisis, that could be cut off, or the price could go up tenfold like what we're seeing in Europe. So, you know, in terms of energy and this might get into heat as well, which is an important one, getting into wood, etcetera. What are your recommendations on for people how to approach energy?
Speaker 2:Well, thank you for that question, Seth. I I've I've done extensive research into this and hands on. You've probably heard me talk about this quite a bit in my podcast and such. So I've tried every system of energy that you could think of, and I do own little solar power generators or energy storage devices. I own solar panels and so on.
Speaker 2:They're great. They have a purpose because like you, I also want to be able to charge power tools or charge a mobile phone or charge a laptop or flashlight batteries or my night vision batteries or what you know, whatever you have. So that's great, but that's not gonna power, you know, your whole home and your air conditioners and freezers and everything if you wanna keep all that on. So the best solution that I've come up with is, frankly, and and I wanna ask your audience, just hear me out on this. It's it's diesel.
Speaker 2:It's diesel because diesel is it's very safe to store. It's much safer than gasoline. It's very difficult to ignite diesel. And although I do not recommend anybody try this, I've tried it with fire extinguishers around, but if you take diesel and pour it into a cup and throw a match at it, it does not light, does not combust. It's very hard to get it to burn.
Speaker 2:So it's much safer than gasoline. It has a very long storage life. And here's how we convert diesel into everything, everything that we need in terms of energy or mechanical, power, and that's through a small tractor. So you can go out right now and you can buy tractors. You know, all kinds of brands, John Deere, Coyote, Massey Ferguson, Case, whatever.
Speaker 2:Get yourself a tractor. Kubota makes good tractors too. Make sure the tractor has, of course, a PTO, which all proper tractors do. PTO means power takeoff. You can then connect to that PTO anything that might rotate.
Speaker 2:So you can connect a small PTO powered generator. And there's a company called Winco, w I n c o, that makes these generators, and I own several of them. So a Winco generator is surprisingly affordable because it doesn't have a diesel engine. So you don't have to maintain the generator's engine, but it runs on your tractor's power, and the tractor has a million other uses. You'll have a little bucket on the front, and you can do this with small tractors too.
Speaker 2:I mean, tractors, you might only pay I say only, but new, you $1,010,000 dollars. You don't spend a hundred grand.
Speaker 1:I'll jump in and say and my I think my wife would probably blame you wholeheartedly for this is that I had to go get a tractor after listening to your podcast. So Yeah. But actually, so Kubota so I I bought a small Kubota. Great. Good choice.
Speaker 1:It's 23 horsepower. There's they're twenty three eighty. It has a bucket on it. It's got a PTO that spits off, like, 16 or so horsepower, but they offer 0% financing. So you can get seventy two months with 0% financing.
Speaker 1:And so my I pay a couple hundred bucks a month, and it a, it it's transformed our ability to work the land. But what I also did is I went and I found a 300 gallon dual wall fuel tank on Facebook Marketplace used from some farmer, brought that back to my property, got 300 gallons of diesel. And so now I've got 300 gallons of diesel and a tractor, but I haven't bought a generator for it yet, which is that this is really interesting for me to hear that actually because we've been looking at go ahead.
Speaker 2:Well, you're you're nailing it, Seth. I love it.
Speaker 1:Because I listen because I listened to you for nine hours listening to your podcast.
Speaker 2:I've been through all this myself. I've wasted so much money on stuff that didn't work, but it allows me to bring the thing that does work. But listen. What's so cool about the PTO generators is, number one, for every horsepower well, for every two horsepower of your PTO, you can generate about a kilowatt of power. So your tractor, you said, is what, 23 horsepower?
Speaker 1:It's 23 horsepower. I think the PTO is around 16 or 19.
Speaker 2:Okay. So let's say it's 16 at the PTO. You can generate eight kilowatts of power off that tractor running, I think the smallest WinCo generator is a 15 kilowatt PTO generator, but you can you can use that. You don't have to have a 30 horsepower tractor. See, what's cool about this is the load on the generator, in other words, the resistance on the generator depends on how many lights you turn on.
Speaker 2:So if you don't have any electricity draw off that system so you're running your tractor, you got your WinCo generator connected to it. And I'm not paid by WinCo, by the way. Just you know, I'm not it's not a sponsorship. I just their stuff just works. But you put that together, you start turning on lights and your freezer and your air conditioning, it creates more resistance at the generator because that's how physics works.
Speaker 2:More resistance in the copper coils as it's spinning. That means your tractor has to work harder to spin it. Your tractor is designed to maintain RPMs of usually 540 RPM at the PTO, and it will use whatever fuel is necessary to maintain that exact RPM. So your tractor is gonna use more diesel when you use more electricity, but you could use less electricity and use a lot less diesel. So how much diesel you use is up to you, and that tractor can sit there and just sip diesel for days or weeks or months because those diesel engines are designed to run on and on and on.
Speaker 2:And that and and then, by the way, folks, you can get something if you wanna move water without using electricity. There's something out there called the Gator pump. I think that's their website, just Gatorpump.com. Attach it to the PTO. You you drive it back into your little pond or your lake or your stream.
Speaker 2:It's got a centrifugal pump on the end of it, and you you run your tractor. Boom. It starts pushing water through 10 inch pipes or whatever size you get. Now you've got water movement. You can move water around to irrigate your crops.
Speaker 2:You're using the same tractor that you use for generating electricity and the same tractor you use to move dirt. It's Incredible. I mean, it's the ultimate tool, and diesel is what powers it. That's the best setup I've found.
Speaker 1:Wow. Well, I I feel I feel like I'm in the right place with that. That's great. So you know, looking at and again, as I mentioned at the beginning here, you you and I could and maybe we have to have, like, a monthly touch base where we just talk about prepping because this could be I I feel like you and I could talk for about fifteen hours straight and still only scratch I'm so sorry. This stuff.
Speaker 1:But, you know, as so we we are looking at, you know, food, energy, water. What about medicine? What about people that are diabetic, hypothetically, or they're on some sort of heart medicine? You know, there's lot of people that, thankfully, I've, you know, I've really tried to, you know, take care of my health, and I'm not I'm not on any kind of medicine that I need to survive. I see you, you know, before the show started, you're drinking your avocado shake.
Speaker 1:You're really taking care of your health. But
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. Here here here.
Speaker 1:There you go. Much melty. Yeah. Got the ball jar, of course. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Of
Speaker 1:course. But what do you recommend for folks, though, that are that require medicine to keep to maintain their health?
Speaker 2:So I if you don't mind me mentioning, I do cover this in my survival nutrition book, but I'll I'll give you the as best I can right here. There's two important things to understand. So when I say medicine, understand my background is in natural health and nutrition and food and superfoods. So I do stockpile and I learn to grow a lot of natural medicines that I know how to use and the herbalist would know how to use. You know, herbalism is not some woo woo nonsense.
Speaker 2:It's the real deal. There are chemicals that the plants synthesize that have powerful medicinal value. For example, if if you look at, resveratrol, one of the most potent cardiovascular supporting supplements. Where does resveratrol, come from? Well, most supplement companies get it from Japanese knotweed, by the way.
Speaker 2:That's that's the highest source. But it grows naturally on grape leaves and in the skins of grapes. And there's more resveratrol in grapes that you don't spray with antifungal sprays because the grape plants are producing resveratrol in response to the presence of fungi. So if you don't use the chemical pesticides and herbicides and fungicides and all that stuff, you get potent medicine in grapes. And you can actually use grape leaves in certain ways and grape skins, and then there's proanthocyanidins that are in the grape seeds.
Speaker 2:The grape seeds themselves are powerful antioxidants, and so on and so forth. And we even did some research in our lab about pine needles. And I'm not going go into all detail here, but pine needles do contain and we verified this with what's called the loblolly pines that grow in Central Texas. They're called the lost pines. But these are present in lots of different types of pine trees.
Speaker 2:They contain a chemical called shakimic acid. Shakimic acid, it turns out, is the chemical that's used by the drug company Roche to make the antiviral pharmaceutical known as Tamiflu. It's basically just prescription shakemic acid, folks. And they actually use pine needles as one of the sources to get the chemical to make the drug. Well, it turns out these pine trees grow all over the place, at least where I am in Texas and many parts of the country.
Speaker 2:So in our lab, we're actually confirming the quantitation or quantity, the the percentage of the mass of pine needles that is shakimic acid. And it's a very, very high percentage. I would just I would just warn your audience, by the way. I'm just talking here. If you wanna play around with pine needles and shakumic acid, you know, go talk to a qualified herbalist first.
Speaker 2:Don't don't try to self dose or self medicate or any of that. Know what you're doing because the the the amount of shakumic acid is crazy high in these needles, and you could overdose on it. Just wanna say that for clarity.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And legal protections in the field. Well, my cat has told my told my mom to go, and she's OD'd on pine needles. We can't have that happen.
Speaker 2:You know, American Indians used to use pine needles for vitamin c. It was one of their vitamin c sources. And they took pine needle tea.
Speaker 1:I remember earlier on in the pandemic and everything, there was a discussion about how to treat yourself and protect yourself, whether it was from vaccine detox or shedding, etcetera, using pine needles. And so we we found there was a particular pine that grows in our area that accomplished that. So what we did is for for Christmas last year, we bought a pine tree that was already in a burlap sack so we could plant it, and we planted that exact pine tree in the backyard. So now we've got that as a resource if we ever have to use that for, you know.
Speaker 2:That's that's really cool. And we were able to confirm that the shakimic acid survives even the pine needles turning brown. Interesting. And yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, that was a really important question that I had is like, do you have to use it fresh? Turns out, nope. And, you know, a lot of these chemicals persist. Phytochemicals, know, plant based chemicals, they really persist for a long time. It's it's been surprising to me.
Speaker 2:In our lab, for example, we've taken, glyphosate, which is a synthetic, herbicide. We've tried to destroy it. We've been nuking it with microwaves and putting it under the sun for UV radiation and cooking it and everything. We can't destroy this thing. It persists, which is why they're finding it in women's breast milk, by the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I mean, this chemical, A lot of these chemicals do not go away until, frankly, glyphosate goes away when the soil microbes get it, and then they break it down into AMPA and some other things. But it's actually a microbial breakdown process.
Speaker 1:So let's talk a little bit more about or let's just just gonna touch on the subject of money. Right? Because and this is something that I've I've you know, look. I've had Andy Shekron on my show multiple times. John Perez.
Speaker 1:You know, a
Speaker 2:lot a lot
Speaker 1:the guests I and I've discovered through you, which is which is fantastic. And so something we've talked a lot about, and and not just through them, just through other research and just looking at what's happening in the world, is looking at how nations are moving away from the US dollar. They've kind of used and abused the fiat currency of the US dollar to the nth degree. And there's a lot of indicators that show that the US dollar will lose its global reserve status, which would really decimate the value of the dollar and the demand of the dollar globally. That's one side of things.
Speaker 1:But the other side is, you know, in Europe, for instance, if you look at what's happening there, if there's a collapse of these systems, you know, their their industrial base, their farming base, if people can't heat their homes, that is gonna drastically affect their currency as well, because the demand's gonna change everything. So there's multiple different angles that from my own research show me that the US dollar in of itself is not a very safe place to store wealth. But I wanna hear your thoughts on that. I know you recently did a video on silver, which I I love that video. And actually, my other kind of previous background was actually I was a scrap jewelry buyer.
Speaker 1:I still have bags and bags of scrap silver jewelry I never melted down. And so I laughed when I saw that video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you saw I went on eBay. I bought some
Speaker 1:scrap jewelry just
Speaker 2:to make that video. Like, what is this stuff? I have no idea. Yeah. Yes.
Speaker 1:So let let's talk about that. Let's talk about money and and how to protect people's wealth.
Speaker 2:So the the overall theme of what I teach for survival is really to have, as I say, off grid everything. And by off grid, what I mean is something outside of the centralized control systems. So when I say off grid food, that could mean stored food or growing some food. When I say off grid energy, it's what we just talked about, has a lot of stored diesel and a way to turn diesel into electricity or kinetic energy or what have you. When we talk about off grid money, to me, off grid money is physical gold and silver in your hands, and it is universal.
Speaker 2:It's been recognized throughout all of human history that we know of. Gold and silver are stores of value. They're not representations of value, like a dollar bill because, you know, you can have a $10 bill or a hundred dollar bill. Just add another zero. Supposed to have 10 times more value?
Speaker 2:No. I mean, if you take a silver coin because it's intrinsic value and you just write another zero on it, it doesn't make it
Speaker 1:10 times more keep on my desk.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 1:Exactly. Doesn't change. This is you know, that does not disappear.
Speaker 2:%. You know, I I talk about this too because, you know, I'm I'm a scientist. We we do elemental analysis in our lab, and you've probably heard me talk about gold and silver are on the table of elements, which means they have existed since nearly the beginning of the cosmos, not the very, very beginning. That was hydrogen. But, you know, hydrogen became helium and then heavier and heavier until eventually you get gold and silver and everything else, and and eventually lead too for that matter.
Speaker 2:But the point is, if you have silver stored in your house and your whole house burns down, Did you lose your silver? No. The silver did not burn. The silver perhaps melted. If if it was hot enough, you just have now a lump of silver, but it's still silver.
Speaker 2:It doesn't vanish, and it has intrinsic value unlike everything else. I mean, the dollar is just a representation of value. The euro is the same thing. Even crypto is just representations of value, whereas physical metals are off grid money. And the other thing is since I believe that the power grid is going to become less and less reliable, we're seeing this now in California, of course, and, you know, we already talked about Western Europe.
Speaker 2:What's gonna happen there? You know, how how do you buy and sell crypto without electricity? And the answer is you don't. Yeah. You don't.
Speaker 2:So off grid money works when the grid is down. Off grid food works when the grid is down, and so on and so forth. Off grid energy works when the energy grid is down. So and I strongly recommend to your your listeners here, check out I think you mentioned a sponsor earlier. Was it Noble?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Was the work with Noble.
Speaker 2:Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I strongly urge your viewers to talk to Noble. Find out how this can help you get squared away.
Speaker 2:I mean, do your research, and and get the forms of metal that are right for you. But in my opinion, people who have silver are going to avoid starvation and other extreme circumstances because you'll be able to buy the things that keep you alive. That's my take.
Speaker 1:And one interesting point with that is that, you know, it was a significant move when Russia backed the ruble with gold, which I think it was you know, 30 grams of gold was I forget what the exact ratio was there. But, you know, that's one thing to look at is we look at, say, the value of a precious metal, and we think, oh, well, it's worth this much in US dollars. Well, if the US dollar collapses or disappears, it doesn't mean that it's also that it takes down that value with it because, you know, you could still hypothetically trade that for a ruble. Right? And the more countries that back their currency with gold, what it does is it it really solidifies the actual value of that.
Speaker 1:Because even if one currency collapses, it doesn't mean that all the other currencies collapse as well. In fact, they might actually go up, and you could even see an increase in the prices of precious metals amidst that.
Speaker 2:Well, right now, people are investors are fleeing the euro, and I think the euro will not survive 2023, by the way. But they're fleeing the euro euro, and they're jumping into the dollar. So the dollar looks relatively strong, but that's only temporary in my view. The yen is in deep, deep trouble. And in China, their financial system is on the verge of a real implosion due to the debt fiasco, the Ponzi schemes of the property developers.
Speaker 2:The dollar, we know the dollar is going to collapse. We just don't know when or exactly what that's going to look like. But the massive money printing trillions in bailout money, no end in sight, we know how this ends. We've seen this chapter before in history. You know, Weimar, Germany, for example.
Speaker 2:And the the the problem with Western countries, America and and, you know, Western Europe and so on, is they think they can print their way out of everything. But you can't print food, and you can't print electricity or hydrocarbons. You can't print fertilizer. So when the shortage of those things is very real, that scarcity makes people desperate. That that's that's in the real world.
Speaker 2:You you've gotta have food and heat and so on in order to survive and water. You can't print those things. But all these Western governments, they just wanna throw more money at everything, which is only going to destroy their currencies eventually. And when that happens, I absolutely see a scenario, Seth, where people are buying ranches with gold coins or buying hotels. Maybe shut down hotels, you know, to to open them up later with gold coins, or people will go in and buy, a factory that's been shut down for, I don't know, maybe a few gold coins.
Speaker 2:When there's blood in the streets, you know, financially speaking, believe me, the world's wealthy like, people like Jim Rogers, knows about metals or or David Morgan, who I just interviewed, they're gonna be buying up assets for pennies on the dollar, but they they're not gonna use pennies. They're gonna use gold and silver.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I I couldn't agree more. And it's also something that is not that expensive. Even something on a budget, you could you put away a few ounces of silver every month. Right?
Speaker 1:It's it's not doesn't have to be a a huge, huge purchase where you think you have to have a hundred thousand dollars in precious metals to actually mean something. Because if you know, right now, I think it's roughly less than 1% of the American people that actually own physical gold and silver. With that being said, if you're the one guy that has even a hundred ounces of silver, which might cost you, you know, x amount of money, you might be in a very, very good situation at that time. Oh, yeah. Mike, we're not gonna do the we we always end our shows with a q and a from the audience.
Speaker 1:I apologize to the folks that we started a little bit late today because we're trying to fix some of these tech issues that we've you know, we're we're kinda trying to keep working on. But so, Mike, we're gonna hop over and over just to Rise TV, which is our platform that's a a Patreon streaming platform. We've got a lot of really good content. It's completely uncensored, and that's a fun place to have the conversations where, you know, we we can really dig into what what we really think about things. But do you before we hop off the public streams, do you have anything to say to people where they can find you, where they can follow you?
Speaker 2:Well, no. First of all, just thanks for having me on. I look forward to the next session here, q and a. But, I mean, I'm the founder of Brighteon.com also. That's where my podcasts are.
Speaker 2:And, you know, it's a video platform. It's free. It's not not membership driven. It's free. They can find my work at naturalnews.com.
Speaker 2:And and look, I give away everything that I do for free in terms of information. So there's more coming out. My job is just trying to help people stay alive during this crisis. That's it.
Speaker 1:And and I wanna recommend people, really encourage people to go download this audiobook or the PDF for Resilient Prepping. It's ResilientPrepping.com. It's one of the best and I've read a lot of literature on prepping. It's one of the best resources that I found on prepping, and you can also listen to it as an audiobook. So if you're driving or whatever it is you're doing, or say you're out gardening, which would be a great thing to be doing anyway, put it on your earphones and listen to it.
Speaker 1:So I highly recommend folks visit resilientprepping.com as well. Alright. So we're now gonna hop over to Rise TV. So if you wanna come join us, there is a link for a free trial in the description below. So come.
Speaker 1:You can go ask your questions. We're gonna carry on this conversation, and we're gonna have some fun over there. So Dom, you can go ahead and cut the public feeds.