Build A Life That Is Hard To Disrupt

[00:00:16] Let's talk about building a life that's hard to disrupt. Now, there's a lot with that. Let's unpack it. Basically, what if the power didn't come back on, right? When we lose electricity, it's like you lose everything. There are so many things that modern life just depends on, right?

[00:00:40] It's water that comes from pump stations. It's fuel from the gas station. It's got to be pumped out of the ground. It's medical. It's the hospital, the ambulance, all that support structure that we have. Obviously, manufacturing, new products coming in, being able to go to Walmart and have the shelves be stocked. All that stuff matters, right?

[00:01:07] Communications, being able to check on loved ones. Oh, where are you? When are you coming home? That kind of stuff. It matters. Transportation, right?

[00:01:17] Now, if we have a car and it has gas in it, probably still work without electricity from an outside source. An EMP might change that. That gets into the semantics of how old is it or how close to the EMP you are. But there's a lot of things that could disrupt it. The grocery stores, right? The supply chain, the food.

[00:01:42] Banking. Banking. Can't go to the ATM anymore. All these things matter. So what would even cause it? Like why the fear? Why would people be so afraid that the power might go out? Well, one, you saw how critical it is. And to be honest, it's easy to take down that system.

[00:02:06] It's easy enough. It's easy enough. And I don't mean easy for a guy like me. I mean, easy for a foreign power, somebody that, you know, is a little more nefarious. So you also have hurricanes. You have ice storms, EMPs, cyber attack, transformers, right?

[00:02:28] You know, like we had in the Northeast. Just grid, just cascades. Because turns out it's not really as well built as we all like to think. What about just even little things like job loss? Something like that. And we can't afford our electric bill. We've all seen electric bills are going up. Economic collapse, right?

[00:02:52] If people aren't paying the electric bill, then even as a whole, they can't keep that system running. And that's a big thing. That's something to think about. You know, if inflation got out of control, those support services that we have start to go away. Because if inflation's out of control, the electric company can't pay the electric man, then nobody's out there fixing it. And it'll start to degrade.

[00:03:21] You have floods, economic collapse. All these things are a real possibility. And the probability of one of them happening at some point is actually pretty high. And that's really what I want to talk about.

[00:03:38] Basically, I want to talk about building a life that's hard to disrupt. And what I mean by that is, if everything went away, if you have some kind of efficient homestead, how much would really change?

[00:03:58] You know, when you're the guy who has solar panels, you know, off-grid water supply, you have all the different stuff. That's the dream, right? Is so that we don't need outside sources. That's the idea of being a prepper, right?

[00:04:17] If we're prepared, we can, you know, build a life that I don't need the grocery store, right? I don't need the electric man. I don't need gas coming in, you know, natural gas. I don't need my car to run, you know, off regular gas where I have a stockpile of regular gas that'll last and I kind of have a way to preserve it.

[00:04:45] That kind of thing. That's what I mean by build a life that's hard to disrupt. If you make it, the more that you produce everything on your homestead, on your farm, then you don't need from the outside. And I think there's a lot of things we don't think about, right? You know, the gas, the grocery, the water, the food, everything comes from, you know, the man, right? Because a lot of us, you know, we're like, well, I have a well, right?

[00:05:14] So that's cool. But when the electricity shuts off, do you still have water? You know, that's the kind of things that we need to think about and then we can prepare for. And that's a big thing.

[00:05:28] Another thing that I think is super important if you're trying to live a life that is going to be hard to disrupt, what you need to think about is what are the things I'm going to want and how can I lay them out on my property so that they make sense, right?

[00:05:46] Because you want to have maybe your livestock close enough that they're not smelling and making noises and things that disrupt your life so much, but also that when they are making noises, you can hear the predator, the things that are out there and you can react and you can get to them. You know, you don't want your animals a half mile away where you don't have control, right?

[00:06:12] You can't see what's going on. So you just need to think about these things. You know, when you go to pick things from the garden, do you want to go a million miles away or do you want them right outside the door? But, you know, obviously everything can't be right outside the door. You have to strategically build your property. So I just want to kind of lay out the things that you need to build this life.

[00:06:40] And I'm going to go into detail about kind of each section. And then when you have a clear picture of what you want on your property, then you can start to lay it out and organize it in a way that makes sense for you and your family. So the first thing I really want to talk about is water, right? How do we get water on a homestead? Because that's kind of the key to everything.

[00:07:09] And basically we're talking about you could do gutters, right? And we have all that roof space that collects water and it can, you know, put it in rain barrels. Setting up that system now, not that hard. Setting up that system after things go bad, that could be a problem. Gutters aren't that big of a deal, especially if you're doing it yourself.

[00:07:37] Having proper rain catchment barrels, that's another story. Keeping them clean. You know, we all see like on Craigslist or Marketplace or whatever, everybody's selling barrels and things like that. You do have to kind of think about, well, what was in those barrels, right? You want to get something that's clean. Obviously we can spend a lot of money. We can clean things. You know, these are the things to think about when you go that way.

[00:08:05] Another great way and something that I've done on my property, I've done that I'm setting up the rain catchment. That's actually coming this spring. But the, you could also do is a solar well pump and that I do have in place already. And so if the electricity goes off, I can just connect the battery or use the solar panels and run the water.

[00:08:34] And I actually have it so that I can screw a hose into a spigot on my property. And then it back feeds to the rest of my house and everywhere on my property. So even though I maybe don't have the same exact water pressure that I have with my 120 volt well, I still can run water to every faucet on my property and even run a reasonable shower, right? I can do that kind of thing. So that gives me options.

[00:09:04] A lot of people get excited about the hand pumps. Hand pumps are great. They can be very expensive if you have a deep well. If your well is 200 feet, something like that, to find a hand pump that will work at that kind of level is a little trickier and a little bit pricier. So it's just something to plan for. Another thing like with any of these is if we have big storage containers,

[00:09:31] you can have them pumping full and building up pressure and then gravity feed, things like that. You can do it while the sun is bright and that kind of stuff. Another thing that's awesome is the hand pump with well points. I don't know if you guys have looked into that, but they're pretty cool. You basically, people, it's especially useful, people who have like sandy soil usually end up having very good success with this.

[00:09:58] That's something you might want to dig into and look at. But basically, you need to find a way that you're going to replace clean water. So many people think that, oh, if I just use the stream, if I use, you know, I have access to water, you know, or they think, oh, I have a well, I'm good. But just make sure you have a way to get it out of the well. So they also have those like where you can kind of drop a bucket.

[00:10:25] They'll make out a PVC with a coupling and a check valve. That's what I wanted to say. And basically, they can drop it down the well tube. You find PVC that's smaller. You have it weighted, drop it down, fill it up with water and bring it up. That's fine, but that's a lot of work. And basically, the idea is to make it so that your life doesn't get disrupted. So that's something to consider.

[00:10:53] You know, can you do that where you drop it down and things don't necessarily, you know, end bad? But a well point is a great option. It can absolutely, you know, make things go a lot smoother. Next, let's talk about food, right? They kind of go in order and food is a big one. So there's a lot of things you could do. One of the big ones is livestock.

[00:11:22] Obviously, one of the entry animals that a lot of people get into is chickens. Chickens are very easy. Also, you know, we want to take care of animals and things that we have, but chickens aren't that expensive if it goes wrong, right? If something gets in and gets to it, a predator, it's not the end of the world if you lose a chicken. If illness comes and you can't figure it out, it's not the end of the world.

[00:11:52] Obviously, like I said, we want to take care of these guys, but you do what you can do. So chickens, definitely a great entry-level animal to get into. Butchering chickens is kind of work. Again, you know, I watch these people on YouTube who can do it in two minutes. I'm not quite that guy. It's more like a 10 to 15 minute project for me. So I'm not always excited about butchering chickens,

[00:12:23] but I can tell you having eggs every morning is a great benefit and it's a way to bring protein to your property. Another great entry-level animal is rabbits. I have rabbits, I have chickens, but rabbits reproduce so quickly. Basically, they can have a litter. It's like every 30 days. It's really insane how fast you can be reusing and they can basically get pregnant again

[00:12:52] as soon as they give birth. I mean, they say like a week. Like it's really insane how fast that turnover can be. And rabbits, pretty low maintenance. There are tons of ways to feed them without going to the grocery store. I do go to the feed store, right? To Tractor Supply or wherever. I go buy feed for my animals, but you know, you find a way to do it. And there are tons of things that I can supplement

[00:13:21] on my way back when I'm going to feed them. I'm grabbing some branches of sweet gum or, you know, different things, dock off the ground or clover. They eat tons of stuff. It's not really a problem to find food for your rabbits. And there's something you can maintain. And, you know, I do New Zealand rabbits. Basically, I end up getting about five pounds a rabbit, which is pretty awesome. You could think about that.

[00:13:51] Also, think about building a garden. Now, one of the things about gardens is a lot of people think in their mind, oh, I'll just plant some seeds when things go bad. It's not usually that easy. Not for most people. Usually, you want to set up a fence. You want to kind of learn what kind of predators that you have. So if you have an established garden, you know what things come. You know about where am I going to get my water from?

[00:14:20] Where am I going to bring it in? What kind of fences do I need to keep the deer out? Is that really going to stop the rabbits, you know, from getting in there? Things like that. Groundhogs used to plague me in New York. I haven't had that problem since I moved to North Carolina. But I can tell you, they can be a real disruption inside your garden. And that's the thing is, everybody has unique situations with their garden. And different things that will come in

[00:14:49] and, you know, be an issue. Maybe it's bugs. Maybe it's, you know, deer. It's whatever. You know, planting garlic around your fruit trees. Things like that. Little tricks that you learn over time that can make the big difference that can, you know, change everything in your outcome or your food supply. Another thing to consider is a greenhouse. Being able to extend your season

[00:15:15] and basically create a way that you can start those seeds early and keep those plants a little longer. Another thing is finding the right seeds that will grow that are native to your area. They don't need to be native to your area, but a lot of times you'll have better success if you go that way of what's going to actually thrive and remain there. Because if it's natural, then, you know,

[00:15:44] it's meant to be there and it's used to that environment. That's really helpful. Obviously, you know, we all talk about heirloom seeds and how those seeds are replantable and we're able to use those over and over. So that's another thing you might want to consider in learning how to save those seeds, how to collect them so they'll last and it'll, you know, carry through. Think of a plan to create the food, right? To have a way to,

[00:16:14] you know, produce on your property without bringing in from the outside. Now, obviously, we all, you know, a lot of people, they think, oh, well, if the world collapsed, I'm a great hunter. I can go out and get deer and rabbits and squirrels and, you know, and honestly, things like squirrels I think will last a little bit longer. People don't think about that but I don't know. I imagine it's all going to get depleted and pretty thin in a world where people didn't have grocery stores. Turns out,

[00:16:44] I know around me, there's a lot of people who know how to hunt. So that's something that, you know, you need to consider and be aware of that that's going to change the dynamic of how many deer are out there and, you know, they talk about how they, you know, they go into hiding and that kind of stuff and have a different plan. So, you may want to look into that but the next thing is preserving that food. So,

[00:17:13] maybe look into a smokehouse, look into building a smokehouse. They're really not that complicated. You basically need a solid firebox and, you know, some good vent pipe that's going to put it into the bottom of the smokehouse. You need a way to vent it out the top so that you can control how hot or, you know, how it gets inside the smokehouse. So, having a good thermometer on the outside would make a difference understanding how to regulate

[00:17:43] that temperature. And the thing is, while we have YouTube, while we have all these access to different books, while you have access to go to tractor supply, start setting these things up so that you can figure it out before it's a problem. You know, this is how you do it. This is how you build the game where you're ready. And nobody's going to be able to tackle all these projects all at once.

[00:18:12] But if you make a plan that this month we're going to tackle this one, maybe it's this summer we're going to tackle water and we're going to do everything. But you should be able to move through these steps. And there's a lot of ways to do it by being scrappy. I mean, right now when you have access to the internet you can solve most of these problems for very little to no money. You just got to be creative. It's just

[00:18:42] how willing you are to let, you know, how junky you're willing to let your property look and your budget should dictate that, right? And then sometimes we can build really nice things and that's, you know, it's all on your budget. Another way to go is root cellaring, right? So to bury into the earth to, you know, dig down to keep that temperature, maintain the temperature from the ground to preserve your stuff

[00:19:11] longer. Now you might not be able to recreate refrigerator temperatures, but by keeping things cool you can make them last, right? You can make them last, I don't know, extend the life for years. A lot of things, you know, potatoes, things like that. You keep them cool and dark, they'll last. Canning, learning how to can and preserve food. There's all kinds of different ways to do it.

[00:19:42] You just got to kind of dig into it. You know, that's beyond the scope of what I can tell you right now, but it's a skill you can learn. And there are books and videos and ways to learn all these things, but they're things that we need to learn now while we have the time and the ability. And you need to find a way to set up your world that it lasts, that it's going to hold.

[00:20:11] The next thing is, I got to say, it's about keeping your house efficient. Keeping it warm. Keeping it cool. It's tough. And comfort, you want to make sure your life is worth living, right? Some people are like, yeah, but do I even want to go on? If things get so bad, you don't want to be living in a dirt cave. That's the whole thing. So

[00:20:41] think about a wood stove. Think about running pipes through the back of a wood stove so you could heat a water heater off your wood stove. I had a buddy of mine who ran basically a radiator in the back of his fireplace so that he supplemented his heat. He had baseboard heat where it runs the water around his house. That's not too common here in the south, but he basically,

[00:21:11] his fireplace would heat those pipes, heat that water, and carry it throughout the home. So it wouldn't just be the heat from the fireplace. I mean, that same heat, but it would transfer to other rooms and work that way. That's something to think about. Learning how to cook and use a wood stove, how to cook with it by using crock pots and different pans and griddles and ways to set it up so that it

[00:21:40] can actually work for you and your family. That's something you guys might want to think about and put into place. The sooner you implement those things, the more you get familiar and you learn how to use them and how to create a world, like I said, that is able to work. There's another cool thing called an earth tube. This is kind of crazy and this will help you with the whole air conditioning

[00:22:10] thing or the heat thing on both ends. Now, from a totally off-grid kind of lifestyle, basically what it is is the ground stays cold all the time, right? You know, that's why when the water comes out of your well, it's cold. When the water comes out of the pipes from the town, it's cold. There's a reason it's cold. It's because it's underground and the ground stays cold. So usually if you're four feet

[00:22:39] deep or deeper, it's going to stay about 55 degrees all year long. It's going to be warmer because basically the earth maintains that temperature. So it's going to be warmer in the winter than outside around it and it's going to be cooler in the summer because it's going to maintain and stay at that 55, whatever the world outside is doing. So what they do is basically people dig a trench between

[00:23:09] four and five feet deep and you'll bury about 40 feet of tube and run it up into the house and you have to have a vent at the other end, a dry in air obviously, and you buy like a solar fan that they put in line. I saw them on Amazon, they're about 150 bucks, you probably need a solar panel to keep that going and you basically can kind of air condition your house

[00:23:39] for forever. Usually I see a lot of kits and people doing it basically about 400 bucks, you're implementing this, presuming you're digging that 40 foot trench yourself. A lot of us have cool equipment that you could do that kind of thing. I don't have a backhoe, I have a trencher. Thinking about tackling this project, I haven't gotten to it, but it really is a neat idea and that's the thing is I just want to expose you to

[00:24:08] the different things you could be doing. Now, you're like, well, I don't want my house to be 55 degrees, but obviously it's going to even out the temperature, right? That's the whole point. What people do do if they want to implement this in the modern world, which actually turns out 30% of your electric bill is heating and cooling. So, what a lot of people who use an earth tube will do is if you have a forced air system in

[00:24:38] your house, they'll basically run this pipe into the air intake. So, that way it's already ducted to your whole house and the air it's drawing in is either starting out cooler in the summer or it's starting out warmer in the winter than 30 degrees or whatever like that. So, it needs less energy to heat that air or less energy to cool that air and you're already in place. So, that's, and then obviously if the power went out, you would

[00:25:08] still have that connected to your vent and you could turn on this solar fan that we talked about and you could run it through your house. So, it's a pretty neat idea and pretty awesome way to, you know, basically bring it, bring the outside temperature to a more reasonable level. So, something to think about. Another thing with basically making your life go is what do you do with your garbage? People don't think about that

[00:25:38] when they think of the apocalypse. They don't think, oh, gee, rats. Oh, you know, all kinds of things, bears coming around and things coming around. And, again, when you build your life in this way, you already learn how to deal with these things. Sometimes attracting critters is a good thing, but not when they're rats. Well, let's talk about composting. So, learning how to properly compost. I have an example of,

[00:26:07] I know, actually in New York, I had pallets set up so that I could section everything off to go from the, you know, change the thing. So, it would be the fresh food, the medium, you know, composted food and, you know, the active compost and then finished compost. And I could section it from one to the next. And now, I basically have several compost piles. And so, I'll just kind

[00:26:37] of rotate of which one I'm adding fresh to. So, I'll have one in one section and it's because I use a tractor and it's a lot easier to just move it around. But, basically, learning the compost and then having a plan in general for your waste, right? Whether that's going in and composting everything, you know, people bury stuff. Burying garbage all over your property is not really a cool plan.

[00:27:07] You really can destroy the land at least if you're doing it pick one place. Don't just randomly bury it all over the place. But anything that's toxic or bad, you don't want to bury it on your property. It's not a good play. You know, sometimes I buried wood because wood will rot and disappear and go back to the earth. We'll think who good culture, right? That's how you say it, I think. So, anyway, have a plan for your

[00:27:37] garbage. Burning garbage is still better poison things. Probably not such a good idea. You need to, you know, use a little judgment. I'm not here to, you know, tell you how to do it. I just, that's the play. The next thing, human waste. Now, the cool thing with human waste is, well, the cool thing with the way we've set up our world is if you have your septic

[00:28:06] tank pumped out pretty regularly where you're on top of things, then if you have a good your flush toilets will keep working. You can have those forever, five years, however long a septic tank lasts, you know, without being pumped out. I think my experience, you can get away with about 10 on occasion where if things are going properly, right? You're in theory not adding bleach, you're not

[00:28:36] adding bad things to your septic, therefore the microorganisms are all in there eating and doing the bug thing that they do and breaking down the poos. So it could work out where you get a decent amount of time out of your septic. However, presuming the world ends for forever, highly unlikely in my mind, but you know, if that world happens, then there are cool things like compost toilets or outhouses.

[00:29:05] I've seen people set up their outhouse basically like a compost toilet. Now I'm not talking about something fancy that you use electricity for and things like that. I'm talking about like where you have a five-gallon bucket under the toilet seat and you can set this up fancy and box it in, really helps with keeping smells down. But basically you have a bucket of fresh wood chips and you end up dumping them on top of the poos

[00:29:35] and helping breaking it down. It keeps the smell from coming back and it helps it break down. Usually stuff like urine and stuff like that, you want to have a separate way. Like what I know one of my kids had built a tiny house in the past and what they did was urine in one toilet. They basically had two toilet seats right next to each other and they had a bucket for urine and a bucket for solid waste. That's something to think about

[00:30:04] and plan for. You do need a way to do that. If you're doing it with the buckets like this, it doesn't have to be too far away because you're removing the waste. It won't be a big problem. However, if you're just doing the traditional outhouse where you dig a hole and you're going to bury that hole, you need to have it away from your water supply. You need to think about these things. You'll notice when you get a building permit and you're like,

[00:30:34] hey, I want to put my well, they don't put it right next to your poo tank. The idea on that too, your well is buried. It's really deep down versus your outhouse is not very deep down. Just keep that in mind. There are however, certain electronics that you are going to want. There are things we need and we want to have in life. That would

[00:31:04] be things like radios and communication. That's a big one for me. Lighting, having flashlights, spotlights, things like that, things for just reading, sometimes things for entertainment. Some people will keep like an old iPad, right? Because you can buy those fire tablets from Amazon for like 40 bucks or I don't know, I haven't bought one in years. But bottom line,

[00:31:34] everybody's got old tablets laying around and little things, the cheap things, or they have access to it. Putting videos and things on there, storing up information, projects, might be a cool idea. Maybe storing up some entertainment, you know, something your kids absolutely love and need, putting a copy of that movie on that tablet might be really cool to have when you need to keep things calm in a stressful time if you didn't have electricity.

[00:32:04] Another thing I like to store would be like night vision, things like that. Optics for guns, thermal scopes, thermal binoculars. These are things you might want to consider, ham radios. When I said communications earlier, also I'm thinking I have a bunch of Motorola talkabouts, basically walkie-talkie type things that you can use to communicate. Turns out having communication is such

[00:32:34] a force multiplier for being able to have somebody at the end of the road or up the street and just say, hey, there's bad guys coming and things might get bad, you might want to look out. So, just let's keep that in mind that having access to that would be a great way to go. Now, most traditional ways that electricity would go out, we can just have these things set aside in our storage. However,

[00:33:03] a lot of people are preparing and worried about an EMP, which is a very real possibility, an electromagnetic pulse. So, you want to think about Faraday cages. Think of a way to do it. Basically, the cheap, simple way is people take the metal trash cans and what they'll do is they'll put all the electronics, a lot of people will do inside those static enamel bags, but you can put it in anything

[00:33:33] that's going to be insulated. So, I know with mine, I have it in static bags, but then I put it in a paper grocery bag and I folded it up. Then I put it in the metal can and then close it. I've also seen people line these with cardboard and that'll work to insulate it from the sides, basically as long as it's not touching the metal side any of the electronic things. So, you put them in there, you close

[00:34:03] it up, seal it up, and then we usually seal them with foil tape is kind of the industry standard. You want to make sure if there's any seams that seem questionable that you're covering it. If it's working properly, you should be able to put a cell phone in it and call that cell phone and it not see that call come in because then you know you have a pretty good break from it. All this stuff does matter how close you are to the EMP, whether it's going to be a real issue or not,

[00:34:33] but that's up to you. Another thing to consider is security. You need to think about how to prepare your property to be protected from evil. You know, right? So having a fence around your property, right? You're limiting access and control. Are there ways for vehicles to approach and approach where you're not in control? Something to think about.

[00:35:02] Maybe you put a big log in front of the main drive there and something that you can pull away. I assume you're not getting too many visitors in the apocalypse. And if you have a big enough crew that you're running in and out, then, you know, it's less of a problem, right? We just, you know, weigh all these things. Having a dog. Turns out dogs are pretty good listeners. They're pretty good at recognizing things that are out of the norm.

[00:35:32] So that's something to, you know, consider. Uh, just being aware, paying attention is a big thing. Um, limiting who knows, who has access to your property, who knows about your layout. You know, everyone always is hounding me, uh, do, do a, uh, a tour of the homestead, do a tour of the property so I can see everything. And I'm like, man, I just don't want to get robbed. You know, that's the,

[00:36:01] you don't want to just show everyone in the world what's going on. Uh, having cameras. Now, obviously cameras are something that can go away in electricity, uh, without electricity, but also there are solar trail cameras all over the place and you could have a reader and you could kind of see if somebody is sneaking onto your property or who it might be. Trail camera might be a cool thing that you could put inside your Faraday cage, right? Something you could save and have

[00:36:30] and be ready. Uh, also, when you do your landscaping, you can do it with some forethought. You can do it where, hey, are there lots of places that people could hide and sneak up on me by the way, you know, I've laid out my property or do I have a good view from, you know, from my house that I can see out and see things in. Um, having some cover areas are nice, but you need to make sure that they're tools

[00:37:00] for you and not tools for somebody who's coming to take what you have. Just something to think about. Another great thing is solar lighting, right? Now, that can be good and bad because one of the big things when the world turns to hell, you don't want to look like you're the guy who has what everybody wants. So you having lights all over your property, people are going to go, hey, that guy looks like he was prepared. So that's something to think about. Um,

[00:37:30] but again, we have to be able to live and if you can't find a way to function, then, you know, it's going to be bad anyway. So you need to figure that out. Same thing like with the smoke house, right? When everybody's starving, you advertising your smoked meats by sending the smell all around is something you want to be aware of. That's where it becomes cool to incorporate your neighbors, right? To incorporate your friends and your community

[00:38:00] into your plans. That way things are going to work. Things are going to work together. That's the dream right there. Take all these ideas that I just gave you and then to kind of build them into a property and to lay out like this is what I want. Now, it could be overwhelming. Nobody's going to be like, yeah, I'm going to go home and tackle all these projects. That kind of gets to the impossible level, right?

[00:38:29] But what you need to do is, all right, what's a priority for my family and what can I do reasonably quick, right? What can I build or put into place and get started and check it off the list? And also, when you know what you want to do, you can kind of have that layout of, oh, I can leave a section here for putting pigs or I can leave a section here for the chicken coop when we get those

[00:38:59] or, you know, this is where we can grow the corn. We can do, you know, whatever it is you have a plan for if you make a plan in the beginning before you start spending money. So many people just go out and buy all the prepper gear. They're like, yeah, I want to be, you know, cool prepper guy. So I have this water filter and I have this little portable tent that I can carry when I go hiking in the woods, when things, you know, go bad

[00:39:29] and I have to escape. Hopefully we don't have to go disappear into the woods. And if you do, maybe staging that area with a lot of the things is going to be more the way to go. Even if it's buried caches, you know, there are things you could think about that could do that kind of stuff. But having a plan and then just whenever you have the budget, whenever you have the time, start putting these things into place. The redundant

[00:39:58] water supplies, the redundant food systems, the redundant sanitation, you know, have a way to do it, have a way to get out of things, have, you know, a way to heat your home, have that backup furnace, have the things in place. And all of a sudden when the world goes to hell and you're not hard to disrupt, right? That's the thing is your life didn't change that much because you still have running water.

[00:40:27] You still have access to a little bit of electricity. I mean, the more solar you can put on your property, the better, right? Just make sure you have the backup charge controller that can kind of get in there and support that. But build a life that's hard to disrupt and you will be able to, you know, withstand just about anything because we all prepare for different things and you just need to, you know, have a plan

[00:40:57] that's going to take care of your needs and then it doesn't look what comes. Like I said, it could be as simple as losing your job, but now you have electricity, you have food, you have water, your family's not going to be so hungry and you can cut your bills down to, you know, near nothing. So something to think about. I don't know. I just wanted to lay it out for you. What I'm going to do is I'm putting together a course that's going

[00:41:27] to go through each one of these steps and I'm going to lay it out so that we can go into detail. How do I do my water? And it'll have the big water system section and, you know, an hour of that. How do I prepare my food, my garden and my food system? How do I take care of rabbits? How do I take care of chickens? And we'll break it down. But for now, join our email list. I'm going to have a free checklist

[00:41:56] of things you might want to do to make your life a little more, you know, a little harder to disrupt. So with that, I'd say stay safe and I will talk to you guys next week.