The S.H.T.F. Is Hard

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[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, welcome back to the Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, Kevin and Chuck.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, today, we're going to talk about when the shit hits the fan, it's probably going to suck.

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was going to put that on the title, but I was afraid YouTube would be like, oh, suck.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone has these visions of it playing out like Little House on the Prairie.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, one, there were some crappy episodes that weren't as fun and happy as you might think.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But two, people back then had a long time of learning and building up skills and getting used to a way of life and mentally preparing for things.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: They weren't people who were typically addicted to their cell phone and staring at Netflix all day for seven hours.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even think people watch Netflix anymore because they're all watching 30-second shorts.

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_00]: We have the attention span of nothing.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, I think that there are some hard realities that people aren't going to be prepared for.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I wanted to talk about.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I think if we mentally put ourselves in a place where we're expecting what might happen,

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and also what steps we could maybe take to prevent those things from overwhelming us.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Kevin, thoughts?

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think – I mean, I do hear a lot of people like, oh, I've got food saved up for 15 years.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_01]: If the nuclear apocalypse comes and it's a nuclear winner, I'm ready.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_01]: But I don't know about that.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Starving to death isn't the only issue that you might have to worry about.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_01]: And you can't fight off cholera, for example, with a heavily armed militia.

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, that's it.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I have lots of bullets, so I'll just take everybody else's food.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Because you assume that everybody around you has lots of food that's going to –

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And they don't have lots of bullets?

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I know where I live there's a lot of bullets.

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things, I think the version of – what is it?

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Tia Tiwaki or whatever, the end of the world as we know it, however you say it.

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I should probably have all these slogans memorized and whatever.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_00]: But being King Prepper, that's I think my new title is King Prepper.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not proclaimed.

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a song called King of Turd Mountain.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: That's my favorite and makes me want to be King Prepper.

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of the same thing.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: You know how it is.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So the way I see it playing out is I think that things are going to be just crappy and hard.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Think like the Depression.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I think having something like the Depression or shit.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you remember like when – like even in Red Dawn, right?

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about the cool happy guys outside of town.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying the guys in town.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: That's probably not a good scenario or a good way to be.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But I think we're more likely to like have that kind of halfway there apocalypse, right?

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Where, oh, there's no toilet paper.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there's no – where you're setting up the home bidet.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying you have options.

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just you need to plan for those options.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_00]: There's no more bananas at the grocery store.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_00]: What if there was a coffee shortage or it had to be rationed?

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Like imagine a world where you had to live on one cup of coffee a day.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Jesus.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm talking about like literally a cup, not like a cup.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Not like a cup cup.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine that world, Kevin.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody wants that.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's it.

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean even on Little House in the Prairie, he got his coffee in the morning.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, his wife's like, hey, I got you.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: We got this coffee.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they found a way to distribute things, you know, locally and whatever to some extent.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: We had trains and cool things.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And even, you know, when they packed out, they go for the big moving west journey.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: They loaded that wagon up with sugar and flour and, you know, these things, these staples were there.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Salt, right?

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine no salt, Kevin.

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_00]: These are the things you got to prepare for.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So what are some of the bad things that kind of can come up unexpected and what might we maybe do?

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you mentioned cholera.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't sound good.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's a lot of illnesses like that.

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And I think Westerners like us get comfortable with the idea that you turn on the tap and clean water that's not going to make you sick comes out.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And you flush the toilet and all the poos and everything just leave.

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's gone.

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Don't even have to think about it anymore.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_01]: You know?

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the United States does have a really good infrastructure.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: You know?

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Relative.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Cell phone towers and power lines and, you know, even like telephone lines.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_01]: You can still have one of those phones that hook into the wall and everything.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: You know?

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_01]: And it gets really comfortable.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: It's really nice having those things and having them available.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think people were starting to realize that after Hurricane Helene and this other stuff going on in Florida.

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_00]: What's the other one?

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Asheville.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't remember what that was called.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_00]: One of those names, right?

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm told I'm too dismissive.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_00]: We got a comment about how I talked about having a good time at prepper camp while people were suffering under Helene.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And how dare I have a good time when people suffer?

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Who said that?

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_00]: It was in the comments on YouTube.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, fuck that guy.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I have to have like a sullen attitude and shame.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_00]: No, it does though.

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's the reality is that's why we prepare is to be ready for these things because it turns out Helene, horrible, bad, really shitty for some people.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And we're working with people to actually get that straight.

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So, I mean, you know, we're into it.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_00]: My family, we've actually sent quite a bit and put a lot of supplies together to help out.

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And because it's something very close to us and we were there, right?

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: It's relative to me.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying everybody in the world needs to feel guilt.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_00]: We can only take on so much.

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't take on every problem in the world.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_00]: That one is personal to me.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It's close to me and it's relevant to me.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, I, you know, took action and, you know, steps to help people out.

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, you need to fight the world that you can fight and the thing that's, you know, relevant to you.

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, with that, we still need to learn because these things keep happening.

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, remember when Puerto Rico got completely devastated and we're like, oh, that's so horrible.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Or Katrina, right?

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: New Orleans, completely devastated.

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And we're like, oh, but that was the worst thing and that's never going to happen again.

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, after Katrina, Puerto Rico got wiped out.

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And after Puerto Rico got wiped out, now, you know, Western North Carolina gets wiped out.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It's...

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_01]: And massive earthquakes in Haiti happened right in there, too.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's, you know, I mean, these things are going to happen.

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And just the same, governments collapse, like in Venezuela.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: People don't remember.

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Venezuela was a great, thriving country.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I believe Obama used the words, if I could, what, make the perfect country, it would be, if I had a country, it would be Venezuela or something, even though he had a country.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: There was something.

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember hearing it, but...

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: It was...

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the big thing was because they were thriving because of oil.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Because they had a lot of natural resources and they were using them.

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And they were kicking ass.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the government's like, we should be in charge of all that shit.

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And then that didn't work out so well.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it went downhill fast.

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, bottom line is things can turn on a dime.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And it turns out, what is it they say?

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: History repeats itself.

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And bad shitty things happen.

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, when like the depression happened.

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's kind of dig in on that.

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, first, cholera, before we get too far away from it.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_00]: But the wife and I were digging through on her phone, mostly her.

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was sitting there making rude comments or something.

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But there is a vaccine.

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like school, huh?

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, right.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a vaccine for cholera.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It's good for about six months.

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_00]: You get that from poos in the water.

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And it turns out, once you get it, you're good for about three years.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: You're kind of immune to getting it again.

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Catch color.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, hey, things are looking up, right?

[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_00]: You just have to get through that horrible.

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And they say if you're, you know, really the only treatment is getting fluids.

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, they say orally getting fluids into the body.

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's something ridiculous.

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Like they say like 10% of your body weight in the first two hours.

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's about a gallon of water an hour.

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the biggest failure in treatment with cholera is not giving enough, you know, fluids.

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's something to think about.

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_00]: But these are the things you need to be aware of.

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, hey, things could get really shitty and badly.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's something, you know, hey, we need to prepare for as, you know, as the individual.

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's as preppers what we do.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_01]: One of those things about cholera, though, is you get it from drinking tainted water, which would imply that you don't have a whole lot of access to clean water.

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_01]: So having access to a gallon of water an hour of clean water is not very likely if you get cholera.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_00]: If you've already got a problem, right.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_00]: That was, I was listening to a big thing on that one of our listeners recommended a podcast on nuclear disasters and that kind of thing.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_00]: There was an episode.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll see if I can get it in the show notes because it really was informative.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things that that FEMA was saying was if you're going to be anywhere near the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, having Pedialyte on shore because radiation poisoning.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of one of the same things.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_00]: You just go like that.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's bad there.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They actually had that movie because they let out.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's that fat man and little boy movie or whatever.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The one with where the guy actually is handling the in the Manhattan Project, the the radiation, whatever that plutonium, whatever the heck it was, whatever that sphere is, you know, the big light ball that isn't lead.

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, he ends up getting the radiation poisoning and how horrible basically they were talking about.

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was just brutal.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_00]: It was like the you're the lining in your organs just disintegrates.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So you kind of get sepsis because everything inside is just decomposing together.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, oh, it just the most brutal things.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, oh, yeah, you just don't even want to be near any kind of nuclear.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody who looks into it is like, oh, that's something I don't want any part of in any way.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, and that's that's one of the things.

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if we had war with Russia and stuff, I mean, we kind of have to hope for an EMP over some of the alternatives because.

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if they just start dropping nukes, it's not going to end well for anybody.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, you know how we have that.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we have missiles to shoot down any nukes coming in.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out Russia has like one thousand two hundred and sixty nukes or something.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It's what we think.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And we have 44 missiles to shoot them down.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was just reading out of our 44.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_00]: They have a 50 to 55 percent success rate.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_01]: So we only have to like worry about like fourteen hundred and eighty nukes actually hitting, you know.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I was just actually watching a video about that.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And they they were saying that they estimate about twenty five percent of the the nukes that Russia has wouldn't wouldn't even launch like like somebody's been stealing the plutonium out of them selling parts.

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And remember, we had that story from China where they're taking all the fuel out of the rockets.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, so, you know, whatever.

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see what happens.

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, that's not really one that you got to rely on, because if you're you know, if you're actually launching the nukes, then, you know, you're not going to get in trouble afterwards.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, oh, that guy sold, you know, that's that's old news now.

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's what they always say about like EMP shield.

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, well, if they tell it to me, whatever.

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you ain't going to get your money back.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I do some research, but I'm just saying that is one of those things, you know, or if you open your twenty five year shelf life food storage and it's twenty five years later and you're there like, who is that company?

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Who are you calling?

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the problem.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Kevin's sphere is always dysentery, which is very similar to cholera.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a different virus.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But basically, you get it the same way.

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_01]: It happens.

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_00]: They say tainted food and.

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, one that I always got when I was a kid, like, oh, you can't eat that.

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to get a salmonella.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to you're going to make.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Potulism, too.

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Potulism.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Salmonella, though, not as big of a threat as I thought it was.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, you get a 90 percent chance of making it.

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_01]: And as long as the world isn't going to shit and you can go to a hospital, you got 100 percent chance of making it.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_01]: This is, you know, this is the United States.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Like you can really be reckless as long as everything else is going nice around you.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_01]: As long as everything else is going.

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Eat those raw eggs.

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't matter.

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_01]: You'll be fine.

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you got a can of vegetables that's all like bloated.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And and been out.

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you'd be all right.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_00]: That's like we saw Rocky.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we're pounding those raw eggs.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Come on.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Mm hmm.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They say that, like, you're pretty safe from a lot of the salmonella and stuff.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_00]: If like you have chickens and that kind of stuff, they say you're kind of exposed to everything.

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know.

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like, well, my chickens probably don't have it because.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because they look fine.

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you have a bunch of sick chickens that are, you know, you're trying to treat some

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_01]: eggs.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, who knows?

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Just cook your eggs.

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_00]: You'll be all right.

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I just know that they say that when you're handling it and whatever all the time, it's

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of like whatever.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, who doesn't have a little chicken poo on their eggs every morning?

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Come on.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, really?

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_01]: What are you supposed to flavor it with salt and pepper?

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Get out of here.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the grit, Kevin.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: The grit.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the other thing.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So, I mean, we did want to talk about cholera and some of the disease.

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_00]: People don't realize how quick that kind of stuff can wipe, you know, wipe things out,

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: things that we go to the doctor for and whatever.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And that actually did happen in Haiti.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_01]: There was an outbreak after their, you know, after their big earthquakes, there was a big

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_01]: outbreak of cholera there because there was no, you know, there's no infrastructure.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_01]: There was no access to clean water.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And a couple of guys from, I think it was Tibet, were there as aid workers and they brought

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_01]: the cholera with them and just started giving it out to everybody.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: They said that with cholera, humans are the only known carriers.

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you just get rid of all the people, you're good.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, nice.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, that's simple.

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: That and don't have the people just squirting in the river upstream from where you are is

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_00]: also, you know, a good way to be.

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I see that in India a lot.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_01]: They'll just go and hang their butt over a river and take a dump.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, you see 20 feet down, there's somebody taking a bath and, you know,

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_01]: 30 feet down from that, somebody's scooping a bucket out to go drink.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Go drink.

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Boil the water.

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me help you there.

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_01]: If somebody's pooping in your water, boil it for sure.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, it must be the poop in the water episode.

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Kevin.

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_01]: No, we're going to move on to something else now.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we'll come back.

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll start coming back.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_01]: So there's this thing that I hadn't heard of until recently, but I know that I, you know,

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I was aware of its existence, but it's called accelerationism.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever heard that?

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_01]: No, I have not.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Tell me.

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So technically it's a range of revolutionary and reactionary ideas in left-wing and right-wing

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_01]: ideologies.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, basically it, it's a call for drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_01]: change, and infrastructure, uh, sabotage.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And so this was like a Charlie Marks game.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you didn't invent it, but it's like a Charlie Marks game.

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, um, a lot of billionaires are playing this game now.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And basically what they're trying to do is, is saying that we're like on the verge of collapse.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_01]: So let's push it, you know, let's speed it up so that when it happens, we can get things

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_01]: back on track again.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, smart, which really works out well for billionaires.

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_01]: If you have like massive amounts of capital, that's great.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_01]: But if you're just like a regular dude, it goes to work every day.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Not so well.

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't, no, it's not great for you.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, a lot of starvation, a lot of that sort of stuff.

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and you see it a lot in the like far right wing groups and the far left wing groups.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, like, uh, um, anarchists and, and, uh, socialists and, and that sort of gang

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_01]: there, you know, the far ends on either, either side, you know what they say?

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they say, if you go far enough, right, you end up on the left.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you go far enough left, you end up on the right.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of like along those lines, it's those people right on the edge on both sides

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_01]: that are, uh, into this sort of thing.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's basically just ramping things up.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: How do they do that?

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have examples or?

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the idea is, is basically, yeah.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the idea is basically that you're, you're ramping everything up.

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_01]: You're accelerating everything.

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And right now, uh, like, I think the biggest threat of this is, is, um, the use of

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_01]: AI.

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_01]: However, I got this definition from AI.

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_01]: So maybe it's all a game that is played some sort of head game.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_01]: It's playing with me.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what this AI is up to, but I think it's nefarious.

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't trust it one bit, man.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: That's smart.

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Once they, once they hooked AI up to, uh, the, you know, the quantum computers, that's

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_01]: it.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_01]: We're all fucked.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Whoever, whoever does that first wins and everybody else is fucked.

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I think, I don't know.

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, back to the, the original topic, it's kind of like, I think the fantasy is always,

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: oh, I'm going to have bacon, eggs and potatoes and everything's going to be wonderful for

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: the apocalypse.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but they're nasty people out there.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_00]: There's, it turns out it's hard to grow things.

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It turns out all of a sudden you end up with like wild pigs that come and, you know, eat

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_00]: everything, you know, all your stuff.

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's different things out there that make it, it takes a turn and people don't

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: prepare for that.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Or, you know, you have a set plan, but you know, what, what is it?

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Mike Tyson with is everybody's got a plan till you get punched in the face.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's what happens when somebody comes in and steals your solar generator or somebody

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: comes in and sabotages, you're, you're getting your water from a Creek that's on a mountain

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and somebody goes and throws a dead animal in the Creek upstream to chase you out.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's, these are things that actually happen, you know, um, things can go wrong.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's that, that's why we plan for redundancy.

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_00]: That's why we plan for, and that's the thing, like as a prepper, it's still going to suck

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_00]: if things go bad and, you know, some people are like, Oh, I'd just rather check out early.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I don't even want to deal with the hard stuff.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So why would I prepare?

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But that's the thing when you prepare, it gives you options and it gives you, you know,

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: you can make the choices and you're in control.

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And the more you understand what possibilities are out there and what things might, you know,

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: go wrong. You understand how you can prepare for it. Um, one of the big things, you know,

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_00]: everyone's like, Oh, everybody was fine a hundred years ago. You know, they got by without electricity

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: to every house, no big deal. Well, these people also learned skills that your average person has

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: not learned. And that's where the whole like prepper mindset kind of comes in is, you know,

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: what new tools do we have that we can take into a crazy future that we can take care of ourselves.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: But two, you know, what, what skills can we learn from the past and let's start implementing instead

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_00]: of having a bunch of knowledge that we've never really applied. And then in reality, we realize

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_00]: we're missing a few steps or things go wrong, or you realize, you know, this would have been

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: so much easier had I had this one item with me and I didn't have to think about that. You know,

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: if I had a bunch of lighters and I didn't have to worry about making my fire from a freaking bow drill

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_00]: or a, you know, Flint and steel every day, you know, these things kind of, you could make life easier.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the things they just kind of keep a fire going for forever. Right. Right.

[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That's once you get things, you know, moving, but to maintain a fire with firewood,

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_01]: that takes effort too. Yeah. That's quite a fuel just to keep a fire going, you know?

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, these are things that you need to think about and that, Hey, if I'd had the chainsaw

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: and I had planned for that, I could have, you know, like think of how much two gallons of,

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_00]: of gas can take you with a chainsaw, you know, that you go a long way and could make a big difference.

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'd rather have that than to be able to drive a couple of miles. I'd rather be at my homestead

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and have a chainsaw, you know, or maybe your four wheeler that hardly burns gas,

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: these kinds of things, you know? Um, but you got to decide what's right. But the more we're outside

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and doing things, the more we can prepare for the unexpected. Right. And the more we can be able to

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: adapt to, you know, I guess training your brain to adapt to different environments and things.

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And the thing is by seeing more options and considering different possibilities,

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_00]: it's going to make you a lot more adaptable. You had some other scenarios, didn't you, Kevin?

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Did you? Yeah. Well, I mean, I wanted to touch on something you were talking about is, is,

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_01]: is, uh, you know, people getting, uh, people just giving up, you know, when that sort of stuff

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_01]: happens. Um, so that's not mentally prepared. Yeah. Let's call it doomers. And there are already

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_01]: people out there like that, you know, uh, there's like a bunch of angsty 20 something year olds right

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_01]: now that are like, well, you know, uh, global warming is going to kill us all anyway. So why bother

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_01]: doing anything, you know? Um, good attitude. There is like a lot of that going on. And I mean,

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_01]: whatever, like angsty 20 somethings aren't, aren't new. You know what I mean? They've been around

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_01]: forever, but, um, uh, there's a Russian doomers and, uh, that's a big one right now because there's

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_01]: no, Russia really doesn't have any spirituality going up and that kind of, uh, devolves into nihilism.

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's a belief in nothing, you know, nothing matters because, you know, why do anything

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_01]: because nothing matters and ain't going to make any difference and fuck everything anyway.

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And that is a, a shitty attitude for surviving things, you know,

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to help you survive.

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to help out at all.

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_00]: People can spiral down that road. I mean, that's, that's one of the things about like faith

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and believing in God and that kind of stuff. If you're like, well, I'm just going through

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: the motions and I have no purpose and no, you know, higher something, then it's hard.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And why do I keep going? You know, people spiral down this bad road of, you know, you need something

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_00]: to believe in something to, even if it's just, well, I'm going to make the world a better place

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_00]: for everybody else and make everybody's life easier. That works. You know, you need some purpose.

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_00]: We all need some kind of, or it gets very defeated, you know, very, oh, this is it.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And it kind of is hard that that's, you can go down an ugly road.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. Now let's, let's talk real quick about, have you ever heard that phrase?

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_01]: It's, um, strong man make easy times, easy times make weak men, weak men make bad times,

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_01]: bad times make strong men.

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_01]: It's basically it's, it's comes from, uh, uh, an old philosophy of the four turnings.

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And basically it's, uh, uh, stages of society. So, um, you've get the high. So that's, that's

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_01]: basically each one of these supposedly last 20 years. It's not, you know, it's not a real

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_01]: accurate thing, but the high would be, uh, the time right after world war two say, um, 50s,

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_01]: 60s, then the awakening. That was the 70s.

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_00]: 50s, 60s. They had like short skirts and ticker tape parades. There was all that fun stuff.

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody was, you know, working 40 hours a week and they all had a car and wife stayed

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_01]: at home and you know, everybody had owned their own house to that. I want to choose that one.

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. Nope. So, uh, then the awakening happens. That's, I mean, obviously that you could see

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_01]: that in, uh, um, the United States with, uh, you know, psychedelics and, and the hippie

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_01]: movement and free love and all that sort of stuff. Um, then the unraveling. So that would be,

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_01]: uh, 90s, 2010, 2000, 2010, a little further. Okay. Then the crisis would be right where we'd be at

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_00]: right now. I did not choose that life. I, I didn't want. Yeah. I mean, can you think of any like

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_01]: crises or something you would describe as a crisis happening now? I mean, I can't think anything

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_01]: that seems like it's out of control or, or, you know, going crazy. Um, but I mean, basically,

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, according to this theory, we're on the downswing and things aren't looking great.

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I would, um, I would not say that that's like a, uh, definite, you know, guaranteed thing.

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's not like we can't do anything to stop that, but, um, I don't know. It doesn't

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_00]: seem great. Is all I'm saying. No, I could, could be bad, but that's, that's the thing,

[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_00]: right? I mean, so you can definitely get like a depressed kind of defeated attitude and be like,

[00:30:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's too hard. You know, I can't do it. Or, you know, I have no control anyway. They're just

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_00]: going to tax me or take it away from me. It doesn't matter. You know, they could have what it was the,

[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_00]: the fear I even, you know, repeated it cause it was, it was going around, but you know, where

[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala was, was talking about taxing unearned gains, right? Yeah. Kamala Harris, if you will.

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, and, and that was really for like higher income people. It was like,

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_00]: if you made over 400, but when you start having, yeah. When you start having these ideas and mindsets,

[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_00]: then it's like, Oh, it's okay. I can just steal from anybody. And that's where people let it get

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_00]: away from. And they're like, Oh, that's it. They're just going to take my stuff. It doesn't

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_01]: matter what I do. Yeah. Well, I remember, uh, right. Uh, after the great depression, FDR started

[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_01]: up that, um, uh, the, uh, income tax and people were against it. And everyone's like, stop being so

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_01]: stupid. It's only for really rich people. It's not like they're going to take your money from you.

[00:31:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Right. And here we are 60 years later and it doesn't matter how little money you make.

[00:31:41] [SPEAKER_01]: You're always going to be paying taxes. You can make nine grand a year and you're still paying

[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_00]: income tax. Exactly. Right. I mean, you're, yeah, you're always going to pay. Now mind you,

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_00]: if you're making nine grand a year, you're getting some benefits back and you're, you know,

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_00]: things are going to work out for you as far as the tax program and, and different benefits.

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_01]: But if you're making nine grand a year and you ain't living a nice life though,

[00:32:05] [SPEAKER_01]: you ain't driving a car, you know, you're not living in your own house. That's for sure.

[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_00]: You just got to have a girlfriend with a nice car. Don't you know the tricks?

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_00]: You, you have to kind of see what's coming in the world and you need to, you know, prepare for the

[00:32:24] [SPEAKER_00]: different things. And there is a lot of ugly out there and there are, I hate to say it. There are

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_00]: forces that are working against freedom and America's success as we know it, you know,

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_00]: that they're trying to build it into something else. And I'm not saying, you know, Oh, well,

[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_00]: if you vote Republican, everything will work out. I'm not saying that at all. Um, it's just,

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_00]: we need to be aware, but you need to learn how to take care of yours. That's really what our whole

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_00]: channel, the whole podcast, everything is all about is finding out how to take care of yours

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and then help out other people along the way. You know, I mean, we wouldn't do this show if it was

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_00]: just about being selfish, right? If it was really just about, Hey, you know, I want to make sure I get

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_00]: mine. Well, then why would I put all my information out there and share it with everybody? That wouldn't

[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_00]: make any sense. You know, I could just stockpile my money. We're not exactly making money hand over

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_00]: fist with the podcast. That's not exactly how that works, but you need to, you know, you need to take

[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_00]: care of yours. And then if we encourage and motivate other people around us, we can all survive, you know,

[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_00]: a rising tide raises all ships, you know, that kind of thing or lifts all boats, something,

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_00]: but you get the idea. It's, it's like that we need to work together and build something better.

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And it can be awesome. You know, we can have great things, but we got to choose that and we

[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_00]: got to focus and build towards that. And I think that's really what it comes down to Kevin.

[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. Well, I think, yeah, I think a lot of this, this, um, uh, prepping talk, a lot of that sort of

[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_01]: stuff. Um, a lot of people talk about like doing it for themselves, taking care of themselves and

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_01]: their family and making sure they stay safe. And that's great. That is important, but it's also

[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_01]: important that you can help out other people. You know, I remember, uh, during the first early days of

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_01]: the pandemic, um, you know, talking to neighbors and stuff and, and being able to trade with them,

[00:34:37] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what I mean? Because you have a good relationship with them. Oh, you showed up short

[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_01]: on toilet paper. Oh, you need a box of pasta. You know, we can, we can make that happen. If everybody

[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_01]: around you is, you know, in a shithole from the situation and you've got a bunch of stuff,

[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_01]: well, it's not really helpful for anybody. You know what I mean? It's helpful for you,

[00:34:58] [SPEAKER_01]: but, uh, you know, they're going to be pissed off when they see your, your, hear your generator

[00:35:02] [SPEAKER_01]: running and the lights on your house and your refrigerator works. And, uh, you know, it'll

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_01]: create animosity. That's not going to be helpful for anybody. If everybody's working together

[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_01]: and you can help them out, that's a different story. That's a different story. When you're

[00:35:18] [SPEAKER_00]: the municipal water supply for your community of five houses or whatever, that's kind of cool.

[00:35:24] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Hey, we can work together and get a hose, you know, over to your house and,

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, different things, whatever. That's, that's pretty awesome. You know? Right. And that's

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_00]: what we should all be working towards is just making life better. And I got to say,

[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can't tell me you don't feel better when you can help people out.

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I don't know. I don't know anybody who doesn't right. Who you're not like, Oh,

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, I'm able to, you know, Hey, you know what? You're really struggling this week.

[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Something bad just happened. Let me help you out. You feel good about yourself. Right. And that's,

[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_00]: that's kind of cool. You know, that's a good thing and a good way to be. And I'm just saying

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_00]: when things always think, you know, it's back to the title is, you know, things are going to be

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_00]: great and they aren't always, but we need to take the steps and prepare, but we need to think about

[00:36:18] [SPEAKER_00]: the realities of what's coming in the world. And, you know, you see the future, you know,

[00:36:24] [SPEAKER_00]: we see that inflation is out of control, no matter what, you know, people want to say,

[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I understand that technically there may be less inflation happening right now than there was a

[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_00]: couple of months ago or a year ago. But the idea is it's still going up. It's still getting worse

[00:36:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and it's never let off. Right. Right. It didn't ease up and get better. It didn't go back down.

[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just not getting as crappy as fast. That's still crappy. You know, when your paycheck buys

[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_00]: half what it did five years ago, I think we're at something like that. That's pretty crappy.

[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you can buy half your house, the groceries you could get twice as much before

[00:37:07] [SPEAKER_00]: that stuff matters, you know, right. It affects your budget and, you know, nobody's getting the

[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_00]: double paycheck from what they were five years ago, unless you changed, you know, your skills or

[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_00]: your lifestyle. You're not getting it because your employer's like, oh, well, you're doing the same

[00:37:22] [SPEAKER_01]: job. Yeah. We'd give you a raise because you've been here for five years. Yeah. No, that doesn't

[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_00]: happen. You know, we, we haven't had, you know, where I am and I'm a major, you know, fortune,

[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess, 200 company you'd call it, but that, that I work for and they're not like, oh, you know,

[00:37:41] [SPEAKER_00]: we're making money hand over fist. We're going to just give you some extra. It's not really like

[00:37:46] [SPEAKER_01]: that. They're like, oh, you don't like your job somewhere else. You know, a guy working for me

[00:37:51] [SPEAKER_01]: that was making a $20 an hour or he's making $19 an hour, uh, started out that, that, you know,

[00:37:59] [SPEAKER_01]: uh, worked there for about a year was, you know, hadn't gotten a raise yet. And he saw his job

[00:38:05] [SPEAKER_01]: listed a job for the same company, same position starting at $21 an hour. It's like, wait a minute.

[00:38:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. What the fuck? So somebody coming in that doesn't have a year experience is going to make

[00:38:18] [SPEAKER_01]: more than me. Yeah. And you know, he made a big stink out of it and they gave him a raise, but

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_01]: they didn't give him a raise just because, you know, they didn't give him a raise just, but, you

[00:38:28] [SPEAKER_01]: know, if he had said nothing and just sat there, he'd still be making $19 an hour. Well, the new guy

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_00]: that he's training is making 21. No, we have new guys coming in and they're, they're getting pretty

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_00]: good deals because we can't find anybody, but they're not offering anybody there, you know,

[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_00]: the big money. And you're like, wait a minute, that's not how that works. But I don't know.

[00:38:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying, you know, you need to learn how to prepare for what is coming. And by that,

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_00]: we need to be paying attention to what's going on in the world around us. And there's a lot

[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_00]: going on with inflation. There is a lot going on looking like world war three kind of things are

[00:39:09] [SPEAKER_00]: happening out there too, but it's like, I can't even focus on that. Cause it feels like inflation

[00:39:14] [SPEAKER_00]: is such a crushing, you know, thing in our country. And you know, when we have out of control inflation

[00:39:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and then the solution is we should have price controls. Countries have done this before.

[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Look it up in history, just see what people have done and what happens when you start doing these

[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_00]: things. It like spirals with bad decisions. And for whatever reason, nobody seems to know history

[00:39:43] [SPEAKER_00]: or understand what happens, but these happen over and over again. I don't know if you guys remember,

[00:39:49] [SPEAKER_00]: but like six years ago, there were economists from Harvard and Yale, both all going out saying

[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_00]: that we can print as much money as we want. And there won't be any inflation and that that's a

[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_00]: myth and that it doesn't have to happen. You know, nobody sees those guys out at like apologizing right

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_00]: now. Right. Nobody's like, uh, sorry, drop the ball on that one. Cause they were like, Oh, if we try

[00:40:14] [SPEAKER_00]: it like this, it'll be fine. It'll be different. Yeah. It's going to be different when we did before.

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure. And so now they're like, Oh, now I don't know if these same guys are talking about price

[00:40:25] [SPEAKER_00]: controls, but I know the politicians are, Oh, well it's because of the greedy people. That's

[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_00]: why you got screwed. Now, technically it is because of the greedy people that you got screwed,

[00:40:36] [SPEAKER_00]: but it's not the greedy people. You think it's the greedy people in Washington that you got screwed

[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_00]: that were taking care of their friends. I'm just saying, no, and I see, I see that stuff.

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_01]: You see that stuff a lot. And it's like the same game. And if you don't print more money,

[00:40:52] [SPEAKER_01]: but just spend more money deficit spending. See, that's the trick because you don't have to pay

[00:40:59] [SPEAKER_01]: that back. You get the benefit of it and it's your kids problems and you know, fuck them really

[00:41:04] [SPEAKER_01]: seriously. You know what I mean? It's do the work. So you don't have to, that's right. That's right.

[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Like somebody is going to have to pay that deficit bet down, but it ain't going to be me.

[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, you guys have ideas, thoughts, concerns, email us at prepping bad-ass at gmail.com.

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_01]: If you have stories about cholera or dysentery, let us know.

[00:41:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, those should be in the comments because people would love to know about your explosive diarrhea.

[00:41:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. Make sure that you like, and subscribe. I'm told, you know, that it's cholera. If your

[00:41:37] [SPEAKER_00]: diarrhea has a fishy smell, I'm just saying. Yeah, that makes it gross.

[00:41:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So just saying now, anyway, make sure you like, and subscribe. I do appreciate it. Appreciate you

[00:41:51] [SPEAKER_00]: guys sticking around and you know, Hey, you know, make sure you're downloading the podcast and checking

[00:41:57] [SPEAKER_00]: it out. We'd love to be with you wherever you go. So with that, stay safe and we will talk to you guys

[00:42:03] [SPEAKER_00]: next week.

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