The End Of The World As We Know It: How It Plays Out

[00:00:11] Hello, Bri. Welcome back to the Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, Kevin and Chuck. Today, well, we're going to talk about the end of the world as you know it. And I think basically there's a lot of things as preppers that, you know, we all prepare for different things. We have a different vision of the world and how it's going to play out and whatever.

[00:00:37] But there's a lot of catastrophes that can happen and happen over and over, you know, in different places. That might be wildfires. It might be, you know, a big hurricane that comes in and hits Puerto Rico and tries to, you know, cripple that territory there. And just different things that could happen. But also it could be financial collapse. It could be, you know, governments that are oppressive and take over people. Could be you live in Ukraine and

[00:01:07] Russia decides to try and roll over you one day. And, you know, the world can change and it has throughout history. There's been big upheavals and stuff. And the longer we seem to go without anything bad happening, we tend to get like a complacency or, you know, well, that never happens. You know, America, we've never seen bad things happen here. Right. You know, you can say, well, in Hawaii, something bad happened once, but you know what I mean? It's just, we haven't,

[00:01:37] and we haven't seen it in our lifetime, our generation, you know, the younger kids, you know, obviously there's some of you guys who maybe have been around since World War II. You're sitting there going, well, I remember. Okay. I don't know if they're listening to podcasts though. They're not listening to podcasts. You might have turned it up. I don't know. But Kevin, you're a horrible person. But you know, that's the thing. There's a lot of different things that,

[00:02:02] that could happen out there. Kevin, you had a list of some of the causes that, you know, that might kind of cripple our nation. Yeah. Yeah. Let's, let's run through some of them. So the first one I got on the list is, is cultural decay. Now that doesn't, that doesn't necessarily like mean, you know, people, everyone being dirty perverts and. Oh, because that's what I was

[00:02:26] thinking. Yeah. No, it's, it's basically shared values and shared like narratives weaken. I think a lot of people view the United States as a culturally, like a Judeo Christian values, you know? Yeah. Um, and, uh, maybe some people view it that way. And some people don't. Some people are less, you know, I think the United States is getting less and less religious, you know, maybe just

[00:02:56] working hard to undermine. That's, that's exactly what I was getting at. Yep. The devil is out there. He's real. And he's, he's coming for your kids. He's coming for your babies. It was the music. It started with Ozzy, didn't it? It was Ozzy. You know, all that, all that evil metal that, that you and I used to listen to as youngsters. We were the cause of it buying those albums, you know, it was us. We supported it. The decline of America. Twisted Sister,

[00:03:24] I think is the one the government was always afraid of. Yeah. That's the one to be probably the smartest, the smartest person alive in the United States right now. Listen, go, go back on YouTube and find his, uh, his interview with the Congress. Like, yeah, he outsmarted all of them and made them all look foolish. I know. It's funny when D's the smart guy

[00:03:47] in the room, you know? Yeah. Uh, next one I got on the list, uh, social decay. Uh, um, like a, um, mutual sense of, of collective meaning. We all kind of have that in the United States, uh, democracy and, and Republic and, uh, you know, the, the bill of rights, free speech, all that sort of shit. Um, we love it here, you know, but you know, I, and maybe this is just me

[00:04:16] and where I am in, in the internet, but, um, I see a lot of people like memes and stuff that are kind of like anti-democracy now. Yes. I don't, I don't know where those are. Those are Russian bots that are putting those out there, but I've seen, I've seen a lot, I've seen a lot like on, on libertarian pages about how, how socialism is cool. No, how democracy isn't great. Like authoritarianism is

[00:04:43] not a libertarian value, but it seems like on their pages, it seems to be pushed a little bit more often now. That's how they got Hitler. Is that what, oh, we're not allowed to say that on YouTube. Don't say Hitler. Nope. Uh, political decay. Now this one is, is definitely going on in the United States. It's basically a, uh, polarizing political factions, you know, um, you get a bunch of

[00:05:11] Republicans and a bunch of Democrats in the same room and there's going to end up being a fistfight over, like over dumb stuff. You know what I mean? But people are really adamant about, you know, like you're destroying the country and they're both yelling at each other. Yeah. People do get very passionate and they're very sure that their way is the only way. Right. And we, I, I just, you know, I know you and me cutting a butt heads on, on things a little bit politically. And I think

[00:05:39] that's what makes the show interesting is, you know, we have a different perspective, but the point is it's cool when we can all be civil with each other and have a discussion, right? Hey, this is what I think. And this is why. And then you start to see, well, there's a little different perspective that maybe I didn't catch. Yeah. There's a little gray here. I mean, there's always, you know, but people see things more and more in black and white.

[00:06:01] I was listening to this, me and my buddy who, again, were different politically and we were going on a road trip and, and we're talking, we went to the gathering, the Palmetto State Armory thing. And, and we're driving and, and he's like, well, you know, I listened to one type of music and you listen to another, let's, let's, I'll put on Fox news that whatever. And I'm like, I don't know why you'd go there. Cause I wouldn't put on Fox news in my truck, but whatever, but okay. So that was the

[00:06:31] compromise and we're listening and they're talking about healthcare and you have one side, like they actually had like a hardcore left person debating with like a hardcore right person. And they're just talking back and forth about it. And just like, it's all like snarky comments and none of it is like productive discussion. Right. But the funny thing was, was the guy on the left

[00:06:56] goes, well, the problem is you can't have some clown in Washington telling the people in Wisconsin what they need to do with their schools. He can't know. We need to get Trump to leave the department of education alone so they can make the decisions for Wisconsin. Yeah. And I'm like, do you see what you did there? Like they didn't even say Trump was the problem. They said people in

[00:07:25] Washington and then they said Trump. Right. And I'm like, but the department of education, that's kind of his whole thing is people in Washington. I mean, I understand you're saying, well, he's going to cut funds and that's a whole other debate. But the idea was he kind of said, well, I don't like the remote thing. Let's let the States do their thing. Right. Kind of. I mean, that's the bigger picture, right? We can get into the semantics. That isn't my point. I just thought it

[00:07:54] was funny that they're like, Washington's bad. We need Washington to run it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. But you know, I, I, as stupid as this sounds like, if you go to like a left leaning website or a left leaning news show, TV show, they always have a stupid conservative on there making stupid points. If you go to the opposite side, like the right wing thing, they always got an idiot liberal making

[00:08:20] stupid, stupid comments. But you know, it is what it is. See, they're all idiots. And that's how we get divided. And maybe exactly. It's just that everybody on the news or in Washington are all idiots. And maybe that's the problem. I think that's the biggest issue we have. Right. That's why we keep thinking, well, the other side's full of idiots. Well, maybe it's, and maybe if we're leaving these people in charge, maybe we're the idiots. Yeah. I think we're the fools.

[00:08:49] Uh, all right. Next one on the list is commercial decay. Um, you know, you don't see this too much in the United States. This is, uh, basically like commercial networks are fragmenting. You know, we have pretty good, uh, um, infrastructure in the United States as far as shipping trains, you know, cars, all that sort of stuff, trucks. Um, you know, so far that's all going good, but you

[00:09:14] know, rich people want to keep being rich. So that's important to them, you know, that's gonna, that's not going to change until things really start getting bad. The other one is, is financial crisis or financial decay. So that's like financial crisis is looming, you know, financial collapses, the stock stock market dropping out people losing their homes, losing their jobs, you know, that sort of stuff. Yeah. And there's definitely potential for that. I think with, with AI is

[00:09:44] actually taking a lot of jobs and we're going to see jobs disappearing, but not being replaced with other, you know, Kevin, remember AI is going to create all kinds of products and awesomeness. And then that way there's just going to be more abundance. Like you're going to just walk down the street and find iPhones laying there. AI is just going to be, we can just live in a state of paradise and, and iPhones will grow on trees and you know, apples maybe, maybe actually fruit growing

[00:10:14] on the street. I don't know. I don't know how that works out. AI is just making technology. It's not, not making food to fill my belly yet. No. And it turns out maybe it's just the rich, smart guys and they're just like using AI for their own. Yeah. And they're just getting ready. Mind you, AI is open source and you can go use it for you. I keep seeing posts on my Facebook that I can use it to win the stock market. I just have to apply myself. Right. I haven't done this,

[00:10:43] but I've heard. You heard about it. It definitely, it says I can. So. Well, don't buy Tesla right now. No, that's, that's a no go. Not a, not a wise investment at this point, but, um, population collapse. Uh, so that's, that's, uh, not really an issue in the United States. Um, obviously countries like Japan, uh, China, Russia are having issues with this where

[00:11:12] their, their birth rates are falling. Um, a lot of the time you fix this by bringing in, you know, immigrants. Yeah. But that just leads to more social and cultural decay. You know what I mean? And, and decay, like you said, it doesn't mean it's necessarily bad by world standards, but you don't stay true to what the foundation of something was. Like, honestly, we could bring in a bunch of great people who are better than better values than where we are. And, but it changes,

[00:11:41] it shapes into something else. And that's right. Right. And it, you know, causes instability, um, loss of social complexity. This one is, um, it's basically, I'm basically talking about, uh, government systems breaking down, um, you know, uh, social security, um, Medicaid, um, social safety nets, you know, unemployment, you go, okay, lose your job. You go to unemployment.

[00:12:10] Sorry. We don't have any money, you know, that's not happening. You saw, but, oh, you thought you were going to retire, but you're, uh, their 401k collapsed last week and, uh, social security stopped sending out checks. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that was the latest big scandal. I, my wife saw it on the news. I didn't see anything that social security checks were like a day later or something, or that's what she heard. I don't know. We don't get a social security check, so I don't really know.

[00:12:37] So I don't have some bad knowledge, but it was just like getting there. Oh, the world's ending. And then they're like, is somebody just trying to make more chaos? You know, is that the world and instability? Cause it just, man, we can't catch a break. It's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's definitely one of those things. It's a little bit disappointing because we've all been seeing huge chunks of our paycheck going into social security every, you know, forever,

[00:13:03] forever. Right. Forever. And then, uh, when you get old, it might not be around anymore. No. Cause we were going to put it in a lock box. I think is what they used to say in Congress. That's what they did. And then they had to take a little bit out, you know, to help cover some of this room anymore. We have to take a little bit out. And then they took a little bit more out and then they took a little bit more out. And now the money I pay in social security is going to somebody

[00:13:32] collecting social security right now, instead of the money that they actually put in. So, you know, blame it on your politicians, vote them all out. Kevin. Yeah. Um, rise of violence. Oh, that's the next, uh, next, next sign. Um, that, that seemed very concerning. We were getting the whole, like all the different groups that were angry and protesting and destroying Portland. And

[00:13:57] we were like really heading that way with all these like crazy. And then that's kind of backed off or do they just not report on it? Cause it's old news now. What are we? No, no. Well, I mean, it's, I guess we're burning Teslas. I mean, there is that. I would 100% say that there's like, you know, uh, been a drop off in violence, you know, in the past two or three years. Okay. But

[00:14:22] you know, in the last five months we've had a, uh, CEO assassinated, right? Somebody went on a rampage, driving their truck through, through new Orleans streets, a car bomb outside of a casino in Las Vegas. Um, and then, you know, obviously we've seen a few Tesla dealerships firebombed, you know, summer's coming. It's getting, getting hotter every day. They don't go out in the cold. Is that what it is? No, I mean, I'm back in. It might. Yeah. No,

[00:14:50] that's an actual thing is that as the weather warms up, people get more violent, the hotter, the hottest summers always have the most violence. And, and, uh, and they say, I'm just sick of this heat. Yeah. And they lose their shit. I mean, if it's, if it's 10 degrees out, you're not fucking going out. You're going to stay in your house, you know, but when it's 80, get out there. You got to rip that t-shirt off. Yeah. You know, pull the sleeves off. I'll show them who's boss. Show them what's, what's what. Yeah. Got to show everybody what's what.

[00:15:21] Kevin, this crazy world we live in. Well, I mean, I'm, I'm, I am serious though. I think that this summer is going to be, uh, there's going to be a lot of violence this summer and we're going to see what happens, what shakes out. But, uh, I don't like your attitude, Kevin. A little, little, we'll see. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm making a, uh, uh, uh,

[00:15:43] that stupid prediction, but there you go. I see it. I see it. So what do you got here? So, yeah. So then the thing is, right. So you, you out outlined a big list of, uh, why the world might collapse, but what actually happens after it collapses? Like, so things get

[00:16:09] bad. And I obviously, you know, what is collapse, you know, who knows, right? Like, like obviously all these different things are different. Usually in my mind, you know, collapses when there's no electricity, no, you know, whatever. And all of a sudden thing, no, no, basically government services, right? That's what I think of as collapse. But what if it's just things get really crappy,

[00:16:39] like you just can't afford anything. Like you're every family is kind of like rationing food and some families don't have any food to ration and they start breaking into houses to get theirs or, you know, mugging people a little bit more or whatever they do to get theirs. Right. Cause you know, when you have hungry babies at home, you're, you're willing to do a little bit more than you were willing to do before. Right. Papers are expensive, man. Those diapers aren't

[00:17:08] going to buy themselves. So that that's fair. So I think that's, that's it. And there's just different levels. So what, what happens first? So I think it's just that it's all of a sudden crime starts to go up and cause people are getting desperate and they feel pressure. And I think people start to feel like a hopelessness. Um, you know, that kind of thing where if you're working,

[00:17:35] if you're working 60 hours a week and you still can't afford your rent, you know, people get a little bit desperate when, when things like that happen. Right. So you get, you know, what is it? They say like rising tension. Um, then all of a sudden you start getting like supply chain disruptions. And I think these are signs to it coming kind of thing, but they're, they're warning signs, right?

[00:17:58] The precursors. And so you have supply chain disruptions. Like you go to the store and eggs are super expensive. And there's a sign that says only one dozen a person like that might happen in a future crazy world. Yeah. Some sort of crazy world. Right. In crazy world. And, you know, all of a sudden then governments like, Hey, people are starting to get out of control. We might need to implement a

[00:18:24] little bit more stricter laws and certain things. And we need to, you know, maybe we'll put a curfew where we don't want people out after nine o'clock at night, or we don't want, you know, different things. And people just kind of are like, yeah, yeah, but you know, life will go on. That's okay. I'm willing to give up a little bit of freedom because that's a 200 year old law centuries old. Right. So

[00:18:51] why would we even care about that one? We don't need to worry about this is the modern world, Kevin. All right. Then you have all of a sudden, like something might happen, right? Like a catastrophic event and that sets things off, you know, and this is when you start getting like widespread panic and confusion and, you know, banking failures, the power grids goes down, you know, something like that,

[00:19:18] or the internet goes down. I mean, imagine that world. I mean, how much would it shut down if we just lost the internet for shoot, even, you know, I mean a day, I don't think the world would end. I mean, we would definitely feel it, but I don't think the world would end. But imagine if the internet went down for like five days. Yeah. What kind of chaos, you know, that would bring it's, it gets bad.

[00:19:44] You'd have riots, looting breakdown. And obviously, you know, if the power went out, these same things would be happening. If, if water shut off, could you imagine water shutting off at the municipal services for whatever reason? That's a big deal, right? Government. I just have to drink, drink beer and whiskey for, for a week. Okay. You know what I mean? We all make sacrifices, Kevin. And that's, you know, that's where you, you thrive, right? People would start to go out of

[00:20:12] the cities and, you know, go to the country. Oh, everything's better on the farm, right? That's so first it's like, I'm going to go to grandma's farm and stay with grandma and whatever. Cause she's got those chickens and we'll get the eggs there. I don't even need the eggs from the store. Cause grandma's always got a couple in the basket and, and that works at first, but not everybody has a grandma in the country anymore, especially, you know, nowadays it's getting more and more

[00:20:41] where people, you know, so I think you have that, you have that, you know, escape from the city, the mass exodus, and then that kind of thing. Then I think people start going into like survival mode. And this would be, you know, when there really is shortages of food, water, medicine. So people kind of hunker down, like you said, and just kind of, I got to take care of their own.

[00:21:08] At this point, people are probably not maybe going to work. A lot of people or just some people, you know, the essential workers, right? Essential workers, right. And, and, you know, companies are starting to lay off and this is, this is not interesting. How all the essential workers that we have are all like minimum wage people, you know what I mean? They're not, they're not paid so high. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the thing. It's like, well, where are they getting gas? You know, where are they, but you know, you gotta, you gotta have the

[00:21:37] waitress. That was the thing. Like they had like coffee shops as essential workers, I think during COVID liquor stores were essential. You know, it's weird what our priorities are. Um, so yeah. And believe it or not, once this, if this is like a prolonged event, you start to have disease, you know, stuff going up struggles, you know, as people aren't getting the, you know,

[00:22:05] they're not making their doctor visits. They can't get there. They don't have the gas money. They can't afford to pay the doctor. I mean, doctors are not cheap. You probably haven't noticed this, any of you, but you go to the doctor, it might be kind of expensive. I think you might've noticed. I just think that, you know, yeah. I think one of the interesting ways about the way our healthcare system is set up is it's tied to your work. So if you get, if you get sick and can't work anymore, you lose your health, health insurance and you're just fucking, you're just

[00:22:35] fucked all the way around. Right. And then all of a sudden, if everybody's applying like, Hey, we need the government healthcare. And they're all like, yeah, yeah, we can't. Cause the government's cutting back at this point. Cause they're starting to have problems and tax revenues, not coming in and things start revenues down, man. Things, everybody lose their jobs, stop paying taxes. So all of a sudden the government starts to cut out people. I've never heard of that happening. Shrinking government. Wait, is that happening right now?

[00:23:05] It, well, all right. So then all of a sudden, as the government starts to feel like they're losing a grip, you start to get that authoritarian, like, you know what? We got to take charge. We need police, we need to start, you know, stepping up our game and we got to really, once you let one or two of them get out of line, we're going to devolve into complete chaos. So they, they switch it and they

[00:23:32] start, but also then in the rural areas, you're going to have like more barter, that kind of thing going on, barter economy, uh, you know, stuff like that. People are going to start to be armed more often. People might start setting up like a militia to kind of guard their neighborhood, right? Neighborhood, it's a community watch. It doesn't mean anything. It's, I mean, it's supposed to be, we're watching and we've got, you know, automatic weapons now. Right. And maybe you park on

[00:24:02] a car at the end of your cul-de-sac and there's maybe a shotgun on the front seat and maybe a gun in your belt and you have a guy, two guys stand there every night for the week and they just kind of rotate and keep an eye on the neighborhood. Maybe that kind of thing starts to happen. Maybe gangs start to get together and they look for the neighborhoods that don't have a watch and they start to like, Hey, let's break into those houses. Let's go get ours. Hey, you know,

[00:24:31] police are so busy and overwhelmed. I can kind of go do what I want and go have my way with people. Well, I mean, honestly, brutality. Yeah. A lot of those, a lot of those neighborhood watches kind of become gangs. You know what I mean? A lot of the gangs that you see in the United States, MS-13, uh, the Crips. That was a neighborhood watch. They were, well, they all started as people that were protecting their community and then they had to get a little

[00:24:57] bit of revenue. You know, you get a, get some income. The price is right. You know, you got to take care of your people. Yeah. Shit, shit starts happening. You know? Um, I mean, this, this kind of brings me to, uh, one of the points I wanted to talk about was, uh, the idea of a mafia state. Oh, you know, Syria was kind of like that. It's basically when,

[00:25:18] you know, yeah, it's kind of when, uh, um, this, the, the government is tied to organized crime, you know, and there's one guy up there that's getting all the income and kind of redistributing to, to the people that need it. You know, somebody has got to take care of the old ladies, the, the widows, the, the orphans, you know, somebody's got to take care of those people, but you've got to have the income coming in, you know? And, uh, yeah. And Sloborn just mentioned

[00:25:47] that black Panthers started a breakfast program. They were feeding like tens of thousands of kids every day. They were absolutely trying to take care of their neighborhood. Yeah. You could really, you know, talk a lot of shit about the black Panthers, but there's a lot of good they did that nobody ever brings up, you know? Yeah. And, uh, you know, that sort of stuff though, um, it can be good for the people that are in that community, but can it also be bad for the people that

[00:26:13] are outside of those groups, you know? And, and that polarization, you know, that's, that's kind of, uh, I mean, that's kind of what led up to the, to the civil war in the United States, you know, the South and the North had very different ideals, you know, different, different ideas on how the government should run. And, uh, you know, it, it wasn't great. It wasn't great for the United States. A lot of people got killed over that. That's one of the things though, too, I hate to say it. And,

[00:26:41] and we're seeing it a lot with the, the whole right and left leaning people now is people feel that their voices aren't being heard. And, and that was, you know, you mentioned with the civil war, that was the thing. The South was like, we voted as a block one way and our opinion didn't matter in any way. Right. And that really, I mean, obviously slavery, these things were a big part of it,

[00:27:07] but the people were so frustrated that they're like, we're here and desperate and nobody's addressing our situation and what's going on. And, and that made for a big, you know, a big issue, right? Cause this was still their livelihood and they didn't have the industrial North. They were, you know, we need people working and yeah. So it just, they really felt unheard.

[00:27:35] And as much as it's a completely different culture and world now people still, and I think media amplifies it. They feel like they're not represented or heard. They're like, we don't understand everybody I talked to agrees with me and hates Elon. And therefore we don't understand why this guy's making all these decisions. And then you have people on the other side of the aisle who are like, Elon is

[00:28:03] our savior. Look at them saving all this money and putting it back in the coffers. And, and it's just, and you have the push and pull, but you're both being filled a different narrative of what's actually happening, you know? And, and I, it's so hard to sort through and decide what's true and what's real. And every news story I hear is this person said this, but you never hear that

[00:28:28] person say it. And, and maybe they are, but it's always like, and it's, well, they said it, but I rephrased it because I know what they really meant. What they meant was yeah. What they meant was this. And you know what, to be honest, they may be right. You know, when you say that, that may be true, but it just, it creates a narrative and it creates fear and it creates, you know, a lot of

[00:28:52] stuff going on that, you know, can be kind of bad. So just take that into a grain of salt with a grain of salt as we all start to get divided and, you know, turn against each other, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If I could make a recommendation to everybody to admit for a happier life, I would kill your TV and, uh, you know, find your own playlist of music. Don't listen to the news stations,

[00:29:17] man. They're, Oh, they're trash. My wife gets read a fucking newspaper that I've been listening to the same songs for 20 years. She's like, you know, new music has come out and I'm like, has it, has it really? Cause I've turned on the radio and that ain't what I want. That's a no go. So maybe that's, that's wrong. Um, I think in the country, another thing I was going to touch on is,

[00:29:44] you know, the knowledge of skills of hunting and farming and treating your own medical needs, these things all of a sudden start to come valuable commodities, right? Yeah. Like one, you know, farming, right? Me having eggs, me having produce that shows up and is fresh and not rotten and whatever. All of a sudden that's kind of pretty cool. When I go to the grocery store and it

[00:30:07] costs me a couple hundred bucks, having the backyard grocery store is pretty cool. Um, bagging a deer, having, you know, deer in the backyard, that's not a bad way to be. Um, these things become more valuable and the same thing, medical skills, right? You know, how often have we talked about, you know, if you can do those stitches at home, instead of going to the doctor or things like

[00:30:32] that, solve your own problems, recognize when some kind of sickness is really a big deal or not. You know, I understand there's great testing equipment and all this stuff at the doctor's office, but, and you know, maybe that's the right answer. You know, you just, you don't know what's right, but the bottom line is the more things that you can accurately handle and diagnose on your own level, the local level, it's going to be so much better. And to be honest, if your neighbor's a doctor or a

[00:31:01] nurse practitioner or something like that, and you can be like, Hey, you know, I got eggs and I can, I can give you a ham if you come over and you know, the doctor might be like, you know what, my family could use some food and some let's, let's make a deal. You know, I have a little black bag that I can carry in my, my, the lady down the street. I have allergies during the,

[00:31:28] during the spring and the lady down the street, you know, told me that she had some like a holistic all natural stuff. So I got the rest of the neighborhood together when we burned her at the stake, you know, you don't want those witches out there trying to treat you. Yeah. You're smart, Kevin. You got to nip that in the bud. Now I talked to my doctor and he's like, Oh, I mean, you guys probably hear like sometimes in the podcast, me and Kevin are like sniffling or

[00:31:55] whatever. I feel like that's the whole world, you know, we're like, yep, yep. And you know, that's how it is. But so I go to the doctor and he's like, and I'm like, yeah, it takes Zyrtec or whatever, you know, I don't know, fight the little, he's like, you know, you can buy these whole bunch and stack them all together and take all these drugs. And he's like, that might be what's right for you. And I'm like, Oh, that's the world I want to live in. Just take all the chemicals.

[00:32:23] Or we could not burn the witch at the end of the street. And just hear her out. I mean, that's the other way to go. Right. You know, Hey, you do you right. Right. Um, but that's all of a sudden where you start to become pretty cool at the prepper stuff and the self-reliance and, you know, and that's the thing, like we talked about, you know, how many times have we talked about having water storage or having a way to get water, right? If that shuts

[00:32:51] down, that security that you get from that is, is so great. Um, having the tools to protect yourself. If somebody home invasion, um, you know, robberies, that kind of thing, as people get more desperate, being able to protect your home, having your yard set up where you kind of want where your house doesn't look like a victim house, right? You know, when

[00:33:19] they go through and they see there's nowhere to really hide as I sneak up to that house and they have lights on kind of around the yard, that's going to be less likely of a target than the house that looks completely dark. And there's, you know, there are shrubs and things I can hide and I can sneak up on them. And, you know, that guy's going to be way more of the victim than somebody who looks like they have it together. Now, mind you, if they

[00:33:45] can't see your house at all, then maybe that's better, but you know, you have to find that balance. But the more, all these skills that we've learned as preppers really start to come into play as these things play out. And basically as money dries up and people get more desperate, these prepper skills are going to make you more and more valuable. And honestly, having a freezer full of meat because you bagged a couple of deer this year, that's going to put you ahead of the

[00:34:15] game. Or if you had a freezer full of rabbits, I'm just saying they fill up quick, the rabbits, putting that out there. You know, when meat gets tight, you know, that was always one of the things was they were like, yeah, we're going to get everybody to stop eating meat because they won't be able to afford it. I mean, I don't hear people talking like that now as much anti-meat, but that was what they were saying 10, 15 years ago. And remember, we want them to all eat bugs

[00:34:43] and whatever. And the way to get people off meat, we're just going to collapse it. Well, has it happened? Has it happened where meat is way more expensive than what people want to pay? Yeah. I mean, it's getting there. You know, I just, even though nobody's talking about it now. Um, yeah, I bought a brisket yesterday. It was 11.99 a pound. Like dude, all the time. It's crazy. Yeah. I'm like, Oh, here's like two nights worth of steak,

[00:35:11] $35. And I mean, I'm not talking like nice cuts. I'm just saying like, you know, whatever, just, you know, the minimum and yeah, no, it's not. And yeah, you're in the burger neighborhood burgers, like six bucks a pound or seven bucks a pound. It's not a pretty good up. It ain't going down, you know? No, but then you start to really get that barter culture. Um, we start to like,

[00:35:38] come back after, you know, and things start to get established into a new way of living, but I got to say, it's kind of going back to the older ways. I mean, you think of like depression era and things like that, where communities tended to rely on each other and network and find out who's the, you know, the guy who knows and who can, you know, help me out. That really comes into play.

[00:36:04] And we start to get back to that world. So hopefully, uh, the whole feudal Lord and, you know, isolating like ourselves, you know, into groups and, and it doesn't turn that way, but I got to say society over and over again, these things play out. So that's all. So anyway, it'd be awesome if you guys like subscribe, if you appreciated this content and, you know,

[00:36:29] enjoyed it. If you have show ideas, things you want to tell us prepping bad-ass at gmail.com. Kevin, you have something you look like you wanted to tell me something. Now you're good. All right. Then I would say, stay safe and we will talk to you guys next week.