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LIVE Q&A: Fuel Rationing, Food Shortages & How to BE PREPARED | Sunday w/ Seth · Man in America Podcast

• 8:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Man in America, voice of reason in a world gone mad. I'm your host, Seth Holehouse. Apologize for the little bit of a late start today. We had a little bit of a techie glitch, but here I am. I'm live, and it's gonna be a great show tonight.
• 8:16
  Honestly, I'm really excited for the show. We're gonna be touching on just a really quick overview of what's happening specifically with the Iran war, not digging into whose fault it is or who's lying or any kind of stuff. Just looking at some basic facts that we have, and then really just looking into what can we control? What can we do about this? How can we be prepared?
• 8:40
  And the core of this show is just gonna be a live q and a. Gonna be an opportunity for you to ask me questions, specifically, we focusing on preparedness, kinda every aspect of preparedness. So any questions that you have, and I have a bunch already from social media before the show, which I'll be getting into. But any question you have or comment or concern, drop it into the live chat. Specifically, we're mostly monitoring Rumble and YouTube.
• 9:08
  So if you wanna get your your question answered, those will be the locations for that. Now, just a few quick notes before we jump into tonight's show. First off, looking at censorship, which is a big thing, I wanna just put a big thanks to Rumble, Rumble platform. So if you're watching on Rumble supporting a free speech platform, thank you so very much. And also something Rumble has done is so Rumble has created something called the Rumble Wallet.
• 9:36
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• 10:02
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• 10:18
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• 10:33
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• 11:00
  So getting into tonight's show. I first just as I mentioned, just wanna do a little bit of an overview of what I'm seeing with this Ron Moore. So I'm just gonna pull up I've got a couple things I prepared, and also wanna highlight that if you're live in the chat tonight, we pull up the chat a lot. So, yeah, just make sure you're active. I'll be kinda going back and forth throughout the show.
• 11:27
  This is the Rumble Chat, which typically is very active. YouTube is just starting to wake up a little bit. Unfortunately, I'm so, so censored on YouTube. It's crazy. I think that we're gonna start, like, a a secondary channel, and maybe if I create a new channel on YouTube, it's not gonna have the same level of censorship as the current channel.
• 11:46
  So I'll keep you in the, loop as we're doing that. But anyway, getting into what's going on. There's a and a couple of different things with this war. And I don't wanna get into whose fault it is. I don't wanna get into any of the the the you know, Tucker versus Laura Loomer versus Mark Levin.
• 12:06
  That's not the time for us. I just wanna look at the cold, hard facts. The reality is our country is actively decimating another country. Right? We are at war with another country.
• 12:20
  We are working together with Israel or at the behest of or you know, it's a complicated relationship, but anyway. So the reality is is that we are at war, and this war is causing a lot of shock specifically specifically to energy around the world. Right? Oil flows, straight to Hormuz, not just oil moving. Okay?
• 12:42
  We're seeing that, natural gas is being hit, you even things like helium, but also a lot of core materials, fertilizers, and different things are moving or quick key components of making fertilizers are moving through the state straight of Hormuz, which is currently mostly shut down. And so we're seeing a massive choke of supply chain. Now, when these things happen, it's not like you see this choke in this this straight, and then, you know, a week later, there's no groceries. It's not how it works. Right?
• 13:13
  These are cascading effects that sometimes take, you know, months and months to really hit the reality here in America. But it is unrolling. It is unfolding. It is happening. So the but what I wanna focus on here is that it is intensifying.
• 13:31
  Right? And what I'm seeing, without getting too heavy into the analysis, is that it seems like there's a lot of instances where Trump is trying to put forth some sort of ceasefire. He's trying to create some sort of terms for ending, and either Iran rejects it and just kinda gives them middle finger and says we're not gonna stop. Or before that happens, Israel, who is supposedly our ally in this war, will go bomb Iran, sometimes without Trump even knowing, it seems, from what we're being told. And the whole thing is just pretty chaotic.
• 14:01
  But this chaos, what it's doing is it's destroying a lot of energy systems. It's destroying a lot of power facilities over in The Middle East, and a lot of these facilities affect a lot of other people in those regions and much further. And so it's kind of why it's it's I guess you could say it's spiraling a little bit out of control, but there's a few indicators, though, that make me think this could get much worse. Okay? So let's see.
• 14:28
  One okay. So just in the past couple of days, the US Army, they basically up they basically changed their, recruitment requirements. Okay? So starting 2020 sorry, starting 04/20/2026, they have raised the enlistment age from 34 to 42, and they are no longer going to make it so that marijuana possession will disqualify you. So say someone is, you know, of the right age and everything, but say they got arrested for carrying they say they had a quarter ounce of marijuana five years ago, They're now saying, that's not gonna stop you from getting in.
• 15:08
  Right? So this is a post from, Hustle, b I t c h, over on X. And what he's saying is, yeah, okay, that's expansion of who can join. It's happening while tensions and military activity overseas are ramping up. This is what it looks like when you're preparing for something bigger, something longer, and something they're not saying out loud yet.
• 15:29
  Now, it could be that, yes, there is some sort of bigger action that they're planning, but it could also just be that they're just being responsible and saying, hey, this could get much worse, so we wanna make sure that we have people that can fight. Either way, it makes the case that there is a real possibility of this extending into a much larger war with a lot of troops on the ground, which we already have troops. I'm I'm not sure if they're on the ground at this exact moment, or they're on their way, but we've already confirmed there are troops kinda going over to be on the ground. So in addition to that, there is a letter that went out. Okay.
• 16:05
  This is the letter right there. I've read through it. That is the I think he is a actually, I'll tell you who he is above who sent it out. And so this was okay. The US Marines warn this is not a theoretical exercise.
• 16:17
  So a senior Marine Corps, reserve commander has issued a stark message saying, get your gear ready, prepare your family, be ready to deploy at any moment. So the letter confirms that US forces are are already engaged in operations connected to an Iran to Iran, and it warns that a large scale mobilization could become reality. Right? So it's not a mobilization order. There's a lot of people that take this stuff, and they kinda blow it out of proportion.
• 16:42
  However, as he says here, it's a clear shift in the tone. Right? This is what happens before escalation becomes visible. So it's preparation first, then decisions later. So just watch this closely, because this is a letter going out to let me open it real quick, right, to okay, here we go.
• 17:02
  So I'm not gonna read the whole thing. Okay, so these are I believe it I believe it was for the reserve duty Marines, So people that are kind of marines, but they also hold you know, they've got jobs, but they could do training. Right? They're not full time. Right?
• 17:16
  So, he basically highlights in here. He says a few things. He's asking, are you ready to deploy, fight, and win? Are your skills sharp? Are your standards high?
• 17:24
  Is your gear ready? So is your desert setup readily available? Is your gear packed, ready to move? He says, this is not a theoretical exercise. Our forces are currently engaged in operations in a run, in our position to preserve stability, etcetera.
• 17:40
  Now he says that, check your readiness, tighten your standards, prepare your family. Our nation expects discipline, capable force ready for immediate action. This is this is Marine Forces Reserve. Okay. That's what is Marine Forces Reserve.
• 17:53
  So okay. Again, this is he's not calling him in. They haven't issued a draft, so they haven't done those things. But you can see there's a lot of indicators that this could become a much more large scale conflict. Now if you look back in history and you look at just the past wars, I think the only war that in recent memory that we've fought that was somewhat in the right timeline, I think, was operation desert storm, which was a relatively quick operation.
• 18:23
  We got in, we did what we needed to do, and we left. But if you look at almost every single war since World War two, whether you're looking at Vietnam, the Korea war, the war on terror, if you look at any of these wars, what you see is pretty consistent. Right? The language at the very beginning is they don't call it a war. Right?
• 18:42
  So it's always something different. Okay. This is a, you know, a special military operation or something. So they don't call it a war because war can re then requires congressional oversight. So it always starts with something that is not what it is actually really is.
• 18:56
  And then there's oftentimes a lot of language at the very beginning. Actually, I went and looked before the show and went and did a bunch of research and looked at what did the various presidents and leaders say before as we're getting into these wars, it's almost always the same thing. This is gonna be, you know, very fast. Troops will be home by Christmas, maybe a couple of months. And sometimes these wars have extended for many, many, many years, and we've had tens of thousands of people killed in action during these wars.
• 19:22
  And so it's just it's a very real possibility that this could turn into something with a large ground force in The Middle East fighting a war, and it could potentially go for a couple of years. Iran has showed us that they're not backing down. They have support from in various ways from China and Russia and and other partners in the region. The US has not had a lot of support from our supposed allies, the typical NATO allies. We haven't had much support from them.
• 19:54
  Even Israel, as we're sending our troops to go on the ground, they're not sending their troops on the ground. Right? So our sons and daughters are the ones that are gonna be going over and shedding blood on this in the sand. Okay? So it's the American families, which is, again, that's just how the war always seems to act.
• 20:13
  So the truth is the war could stop. This thing could end next week. It could. Right? You you could see something an announcement that says, okay, we've agreed to a ceasefire.
• 20:26
  The whole thing could scale back and end. That's a possibility. I'm not here coming out and saying, World War three is here. You know? Like, we're all screwed.
• 20:35
  That's not my intention. It could end in a week, but it could also take another two years. That's just that's just how it that's how war works. Okay? Like, if you look at the history, you can see that's the pattern over and over again.
• 20:48
  So I think it's responsible for us not to freak out about it and say, oh, there's gonna be famine in in two weeks, and we're all screwed. There's gonna be no gasoline in America. I mean, luckily, here in America, we're pretty energy independent, so we can produce a lot of the things that we need from our own country. But if you look at places like Australia, you look at what's happening in The UK, you look at what's happening in a lot of the Asian countries, you know, Thailand, I think Vietnam, various countries in that region, they're having real a real crisis. Right?
• 21:22
  They're having gas stations that are just out. Like I saw a map earlier of France. There's a lot of gas stations in France that just don't have any fuel. Australia, same thing happening in Australia. Now in Australia, as I covered last week, they're already talking about kinda COVID style energy lockdowns.
• 21:42
  Right? They're talking about limiting transport. They're talking about, a lot of things that really could change your fundamental way of life. And so, again, if you look at COVID, you look at the bigger picture, right, there are global forces that want to do a COVID style lockdown to the whole world permanently. It's it's part of their agenda.
• 22:06
  They want us to be in these fifteen minute cities. They wanna limit travel. That's part of the globalist agenda. Now whether you believe that Trump is fighting against that globalist agenda and he's working strategically through some five d chest to collapse that globalist agenda, whether you believe that he's part of it and that he's just just as in on it as any other corrupt leader that the world sees these days, or whether you think that he's maybe just being used, whether it's by Israel, whether it's by, you know, the banking families, who knows, it doesn't really matter actually because this is what's happening. Okay?
• 22:42
  So we should just be sober that this we could be entering into this kind of a situation. Now, that's one aspect of it. Okay? So there's one part of it which is like, okay, hey, we should be relatively prepared and sober about what's happening because we could see there's a very likely chance that we could see gas get much more expensive here in The States and disappear in a lot of regions, which we're already seeing. We could see that there's gonna be increased supply chain issues.
• 23:10
  Right? Because a lot of the food that we have in our grocery stores is coming not from America. Right? That food has to be put onto a giant container ship or various ways they transport this food, which requires fuel. When that fuel gets more expensive, it gets harder to get.
• 23:26
  These prices get more expensive. Right? The food's more expensive or just not available. So those are very real situations. But there's also the reality is that war is fought very differently now.
• 23:39
  Right? This isn't like fighting a war, say, sixty years ago, where the concern is whether the enemy is going to bomb America or something of that sort. The war has become much more just intricate and difficult. It's cyber. It is through infiltration.
• 23:56
  It is through attacking, energy systems and energy grids through attacking the banking system. But it's also you know, the reality is is that, especially under Biden, we had a pretty wide open border, and a lot of, say, even people it could have been, you know, potentially Iranian or terrorist organizations, or it could have been the CCP. I mean, who knows what? But a lot of bad people came into our country. That's just this the sober reality is that you caught a fifth column.
• 24:25
  Right? So Iran could have seen the writing on the wall for this. Of course, they would have seen the writing on the wall because we've been talking about going to war with Iran since, like, since the sun first came up in the very beginning of time. Okay? It's just been this long standing thing.
• 24:39
  And so they could have even ten years ago been planning for this, and they could have been slowly building up a series of terrorist cells here in America. Now those terrorist cells could also be CIA and Mossad terror cells. I mean, you just don't know. But the globalists, they love war. They love bloodshed.
• 24:57
  They love reasons for locking things down, and they they love these kind of resets that happen through war. And so part of this, I think it's worth looking at, is that we could see, even if it's just the Iranians themselves or say it's, you know, the Iranians, the CCP, whatever, we could see more more kind of targeted attacks here in American soil. We've already seen there is the the big oil refinery explosion in Texas. Now was that actually, I think it was a heat exchanger or something that blew up, or was it sabotage? We don't know.
• 25:31
  Okay? We're seeing a lot of mysterious drones flying around military bases that we can't jam the signal signals of. Okay? We can't we can't overtake them. We're seeing massive fires out, out west.
• 25:45
  So there's a lot of indicators that there could be something much bigger happening, but our country has a very vulnerable power grid for one. And so let's just say that the Iranian hackers who just successfully hacked Kash Patel's stuff and dumped all his private information on the Internet. Right? Could they also attack part of our power grid, part of our banking system? That's a reality.
• 26:06
  And so I think that, you know, again, not getting all freaked out and all scared about this, I think it's just it's responsible for us to say, okay. Our nation right now is at a place where we have a lot of threats coming at us and from a lot of different angles, and we should be talking about how can we be more prepared. Right? I'm not focused on how can we make sure that Republicans keep control during the midterms. I'm not even looking at that right now.
• 26:33
  Okay? I'm looking at making sure that our families are secure. Right? Do what you can that's within your control. Right?
• 26:42
  DC is not in our control, but there's actually a lot that's in our own control. And in my personal experience, the more you take action, and you get your own house in order, you get your own family prepared, you start thinking like this, a lot of that stress goes away. Right? Because you realize at a certain point, you you know, we can't control if some CCP, you know, special forces unit that came in as college green card applications or whatever, we can't control if they take out power substations somewhere and cause a thirty day blackout in a large part of America. We can't control that, but you can control what you can do to be prepared for that.
• 27:22
  And so that really is the that's the kind of the purpose of tonight's show, is we're gonna be talking about just the practical things. I've got a lot of questions, that, you know, you've been asking. I put some posts on social media, I got a bunch of questions I'm be getting to. Also, again, if you're live in the chat, okay, here we go. There's our Rumble chat real quick, we see.
• 27:46
  You know, yeah, if you're live in the chat Okay, well, one Okay, sorry, if there's people that are spamming this, you're getting kicked out, okay? So I'm gonna deport anybody forever who is spamming this chat, which I'm not sure why people are doing this. I don't love snico, sorry. Anyway, apologize for that. So again, if there are people in the chat, if you have questions, just drop them in, okay?
• 28:15
  Yeah, there you go. Okay, the world is watching. No, America is not at war, it got dragged into a war. Well, we are at war, whether we did it ourselves or got dragged into it, we are at war. Okay?
• 28:27
  I agree. We got dragged into this war. So, anyway, I'm take a quick sip. We'll keep going. Alrighty.
• 28:39
  Okay. So, I first just wanna start before I jump into some of the quite the specific questions that had come up. I want to start just with with just some basics. Okay? Believer two thousand, thank you.
• 28:57
  If you're watching this channel, you should be getting ready as fast as you can. Time for complaints are over, it's time for action. Absolutely. Okay. So just getting into, before I jump into questions, just some of the fundamentals, okay?
• 29:15
  For one, I highly recommend that you have your food and your water secured for at least thirty days. This is just a fundamental, right? Do an audit of your food supply, look at how many calories, you can say you've got five people in your family. Now, you don't necessarily need to have, say, 2,000 calories per person, you can survive on less. So if you can just get to a point where you've got enough calories for your family for thirty days, it's it's actually pretty achievable, especially if you're buying things in bulk, like, you know, Azure, Azure Market.
• 29:50
  I use them a lot. You can get fifty fifty pound bags of beans and such. But that's one of the key things. Okay? Looking at setting a goal, because that's also part of this is that you you don't wanna be thinking that look, when you get into being more prepared, and and I've had this conversation sometimes with my wife where she'll say, how much of x should we have?
• 30:12
  And oftentimes, she'll say, well, how long is a piece of string? And that's that's kind of the appropriate response. It's yeah. How long is a piece of string? I don't know.
• 30:20
  Should you have one month worth of food? Should you have ten years worth of food? It's I don't know. Okay? That it's easy to get trapped into that, and then you get this paralysis.
• 30:30
  So as a baseline, aim for that thirty day mark. Because say something really, really nasty happens, whatever it is, grid down scenario, thirty days. Thirty days gets you through. If you if if in a crazy scenario, say a bomb goes off somewhere, there's crazy lockdowns or the the power gets knocked out in a region, If you can just hunker down in your home for thirty days and not have to leave, you're not rushing to the grocery store to to to buy everything, you have what you need for thirty days, You are already better prepared than most Americans. Like, honestly, you're you're way more prepared than most Americans just with thirty days.
• 31:10
  Now whether you wanna get you know, you can do survival food, you can get, you know, freeze dried food, you can get canned food, whatever it is, do an audit. Make sure you've got at least thirty days worth of food. Now water is also a critical one, and water is easy to overlook. So for water, again, you should aim to have a few of a few things. One is that you should make sure that you've got you should aim for at least two or three gallons per person in your family per day.
• 31:39
  And so let's just say that you're a family. So we're a family of four. Okay. My wife and I, we have two, you know, two little girls. Now they're ages two and five, so their water consumption is not gonna be the same as us.
• 31:49
  So let's just say that we're aiming to have five gallons of water per person per day. We should have a 150 gallons stored of water. Right? Because it's not just for drinking. You need water for sanitation.
• 32:00
  You need water for hygiene. You need water for you know, if you have animals. Like, we've got dogs that watch our properties. We've got chickens, so I have to count account for that. So stored water is one thing.
• 32:11
  You know, you wanna have that storage of water. But it's also really important that you have renewable ways of getting more water, and this is really the key. And with all this, whether it's food, or water, or energy, one of the keys is do you have a way to keep accumulating this resource when you don't have access to the normal easy way to get it? So say you live in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, right, kind of where I I grew up, and you just have you're on city water, but that's it. So if you say you live in the suburbs, you're on a, you know, an eighth of an acre in the suburbs, you just have city water, you have to ask yourself, what happens if the power goes down and that water stops coming?
• 32:55
  Right? You go turn your faucet on, and no more water is coming to you. Like, that's a very real situation you should be prepared for. You shouldn't just think, oh, well, I'll fill the bathtub the bathtub up beforehand. That's not really a good solution.
• 33:09
  So in terms of that renewable way of getting water, one is you can do rainwater harvesting. So you can get a, you know, relatively inexpensive setup where you can get do a rain barrel that you hook into your gutter system, so you can get rain, you know, rainwater that comes in. Now granted, it's gonna be kind of chemtrail y rain, which has who knows what's in it, but it's still gonna keep you alive if you need that water for yourself or for your animals. You can do rainwater harvesting. We we can get into wells.
• 33:37
  You know, there's all kinds of things you've been doing, but it it's a key, though, that you have a way of getting more water. Now if you're in an area where you don't have access to those kinds of things, one of the most important things is being able to purify water. Because let's just say hypothetically that you live in an apartment building and you can't do you can't harvest rainwater. That's a serious thing. And say you don't have power to boil water.
• 34:05
  Right? So sterilization of water and being able to purify your water is also really, really important. You can boil it, but there's you can get little tablets, you can use bleach. There's a lot of different ways of purifying your water, but you want to make sure that you have a way of if you needed to access and say go to a local pond for drinking water, don't don't drink water out of any given just public body of water. Unless you're dying of thirst, and it's it's the absolute last resort, of course, you you you'll drink from a a muddy boot if you have to, But waterborne illnesses is one of the number one killers in disaster scenarios.
• 34:43
  There's people that don't think through this, they get thirsty, they go get a bucket of water from the river. And any river these days is just full of just garbage. They'll probably make you sick anyway. But, you know, in in these kinds of scenarios, what if there's a a dead body upriver upstream from you? That river that whole river system could be contaminated.
• 35:03
  So you could get any number, you know, cholera or any number of actually bad diseases that those are the things that will actually kill you. So having ways of purifying water is really important. You can get and the thing is it's really inexpensive. You can get a little LifeStraw. Just go to Amazon search for LifeStraw.
• 35:20
  Just a little straw you can use. You just kind of stick it in the water you're drinking and suck it through the straw and it filters it. You can get a Berkey filter set up. There's a lot of different ways you can purify your water. But it's really, really, really important to take your water seriously.
• 35:33
  So we got food, we've got water. If you're someone that's on medication, say you're on some sort of medication that you really need to stay alive, try to make sure you get you're kind of getting your extra supply in. Even if you go tell your doctor, say, Hey, might be doing some traveling, can I get a few extra refills for my prescription of X, whatever the drug that is? That's really, really key. So make sure that you can do that.
• 35:59
  Thankfully, my family, we're not on any kind of pharmaceutical drugs. There's no prescription for us. All of our medicine cabinet are things that come from nature, and we've got a pretty robust medicine cabinet. I do have a backup supply of antibiotics I ordered. I ordered them from, I can't really say where I ordered them from.
• 36:17
  But anyway, I have a big supply of antibiotics I ordered, just in case. But make sure you're taking your medication seriously, because that's also a big thing. Because, you know, even if you're on a antidepressant or something, or even Ambien for sleeping or whatever, you know, sometimes the withdrawal process of these drugs can wreck you seriously. So just take that, take that seriously. That's a big one.
• 36:40
  Let's go I'm gonna pop back into the, the chat and just see, what's going on. Yeah. So, Opossum King, you know, I've got two two seventy five, tote rain collectors. Okay. Good idea right there.
• 36:52
  Okay. So let me see if I can I can pull up a picture of that real quick? So there are these totes. I think they're called IBC totes. Let's see.
• 37:00
  Yep. Okay. These right here. These are called IBC totes. If now if if you order these online, they're expensive.
• 37:10
  But if you go to if you go to Facebook Marketplace, and you search for IBC tote, right, this is what a lot of large any kind of large industrial liquids are transported in these. Make sure you get some that have had food in them. So back when I was living in rural Ohio, I found there's a factory it's like a food factory close to me, and I could get these totes that were used for, like, olive oil or, different kinds of foods. Don't get totes like this if they've had chemicals in them. Like, very conscious of what was in these totes.
• 37:40
  Make sure that they're food grade. But you can get these totes for sometimes $50 a pop, on Facebook. So these are you know, most of are about 275 gallons. So right there is almost 300 gallons. You can get a $50 container that will hold 300 gallons of water on Facebook Marketplace.
• 38:00
  They're not that heavy. I mean, I I'm able to move them on my own. You kinda drag them around, but, you know, if you're a woman, you might wanna have someone help you. Or if you're a guy, honestly, if you're smart, you'll have someone help you too because I probably threw my back out moving these things. But that's a really, really easy solution.
• 38:15
  You can take one of those and set up a rainwater harvesting system. You can do it DIY, but you can also go on Amazon and order these little kits. They're a little thing that kinda taps into your gutter, and you can then you can redirect some of your gutter flow down into this tote. The thing with these totes, is if you do get them, you wanna cover them or spray paint them black. You don't want sunlight going in there because the sunlight goes in there, it's gonna start growing a lot of algae much quicker.
• 38:38
  But anyway, these are a great solution for for water storage. Let me hop back over to the, yeah, live chat there. Okay. Solar, distillation. Okay.
• 38:51
  This is also another big thing. Actually, had a question. I forget who had asked it. There's someone that was asking me about, what happens if they have to drink saltwater. So salt water is obviously, you can't just go drink salt water straight.
• 39:07
  I mean, it actually it'll really kind of wreck your kidneys if you're trying to rely on it. There are some people that actually drink drink ocean water as a as medicinal medicinal thing, which is, I won't be getting into that, but you don't wanna rely on drinking saltwater. Actually, there's a the world is watching said, found two of those in my area for free. Those IBC totes. Yeah.
• 39:27
  I'm serious. Like, you can get for for next to nothing. Just look on Facebook Marketplace, search for IBC tote. You're gonna find them on there. And also, yes, thank you w s 84.
• 39:37
  If the water sits for a while, you still need to sanitize it. Yes. So there is, I I don't have the top my head, but there's a a very basic ratio of how much bleach. So even just kind of plain, unscented household beet bleach, which you can go get that at the dollar store for next to nothing. You can, you can use bleach to purify your water.
• 39:58
  You can get, you know, chlorine dioxide tablets. There's lot of different ways you can purify your water. You can also make homemade gravity fed filters. There's different ways of using gravity filters. You can use it with, you know, charcoal.
• 40:10
  So there's I'm not gonna get into the details next, I'm gonna make this kind more of a broader discussion. But there are a lot of things that you can do, to create your own filtration systems, for that. Also, Juro Weiss or Juro Weiss says, Seth, wineries sell IBC totes for half the price, and they make really good baths too. Yeah. There you go.
• 40:30
  They do make really good baths. So, yeah, that's a good big thing. Now back to saltwater, though. So saltwater, one of the most okay. A, you can boil saltwater.
• 40:41
  So this is one thing is there's a way that you can set up so that if you if so say you live in Florida, and you don't have a way of accessing clean, fresh groundwater, you know, non saltwater, which is, you know, quite common to not have access to it. If you have access to beach water, there's a few things you can do. One, there's a product because I was actually looking because someone had asked me about that. So I was looking, there's one product here that is actually, just coming out in April this year. It's actually a portable, desalination device.
• 41:13
  So I think they're like $400. So, you know, it's not cheap, but it's also not expensive, comparing you know, what it does. And this is actually something that they're kind of marketing it to people that are boating out on the ocean. But again, if you live near the ocean, again, this is not out yet. The website is, it's Quench Sea.
• 41:36
  It's like Quench Your Thirst Sea as in s e s e a. So quenchc.world is their URL. But just do a search for it, you'll find it, just search for quench saltwater device. This is again, $100. This thing right here, you can just pump water straight through it.
• 41:51
  These are amazing. But if you don't have one of those, you can set up various types of what we call a solar still. So whether you're boiling so you can boil, as I mentioned. So boiling, say you have a pot of water, and you put it over a fire, you can use aluminum foil, or there's various things you can use to actually create a little cone that comes off of it into a bottle. And so basically, what you're trying to do is as that water boils, the salt and all the minerals stay into the boiling, drink or boiling water, and then the air as it as it turns into steam, it goes up, and it goes into a little tube, and it goes into a bottle.
• 42:25
  So that's one thing you can do if you're boiling to get clean drinking water from salt water. The other thing is what's called a solar still. And so a solar still, there's various ways you can do it. You can do it with a bowl, or you can also do it where you kinda dig a hole in the ground, or you kind of have Basically, have a, a bowl or something that's holding water, and you have a cup sitting in the middle of that. And then above that hole or whatever it is, you have a big plastic tarp with a rock in the middle right over the cup.
• 42:54
  And so basically, it's kind of a slow process of boiling that water if you think about it. Because as the water that had the salt water, as it starts to heat up and evaporate, it condenses onto this piece of plastic over top, and it slowly runs down into the middle, and it drops into your cup. Now, you can also do that even if you're, say, out in the woods, and you're looking for a way of getting, drinking water, not not talking about salt water here, but say you're out in the woods, and it hasn't rained, or you don't have access to a river, what you can do is you can you can actually basically, imagine the same thing as I described the salt water, but you dig a hole, and you have a cup sitting in the middle of it, and then you have that piece of plastic over top where you kind of put dirt around the edge, so it seals it. You put a little rock in the middle, which then creates this kind of funnel for everything that condenses on the inside of it. And if you're in the right season, you can fill that hole with green material, grass, leaves, etcetera.
• 43:50
  It's kinda like if you imagine if you left a bag of grass in a Ziploc bag in the sun for a couple of hours, if you went and looked at that Ziploc bag, it'd be full of, water condensation. Right? Because as the water evaporates off of that grass, so you can dig a hole and you can actually fill it with green material, grass clippings, etcetera. And then as the water evaporates out of those plants, those those dead plants, it will then evaporate up, it hits that plastic kind of tarp on top, and it runs down into your cup. And so that's a way that, again, you can easily, it's a no tech, requires no electricity, it's a way of harvesting water for drinking.
• 44:30
  So anyway, there's more I can get into for that, but I think that those are just kind of couple of things I wanted to kinda hit on water. So, okay, w S 84, I live in Florida, water table is 12 feet deep where I am. So, here is also a good point, okay, is that, so as as that as that person said, those dead, w s 84, the water table is 12 feet deep. The other thing that you can do is if you know that you have a relatively shallow water table, this is really cool. And I've got one of these, but I haven't installed it yet.
• 45:05
  Let me see I'm gonna pull it up for you real quickly. It's called a drive point well. Okay? And let me show you this real quick. Let me find some pictures of this I can show you.
• 45:15
  So okay. So this is what's called a drive point well. Now, it's actually really, really simple, okay. You get these kits. Right here, this is an Amazon kit right here for a drive point well kit.
• 45:27
  And basically, what it is, is here's a picture of it, okay. So a drive point well is you have these pipes, I don't want that add, the bottom pipe, as you can see in this picture, the bottom pipe has this point on it, and then right above that point, it has like a like a screen, so that water can flow into it. And these are, I think, they're about three feet kind of metal pipes. And so what you do is you literally depending again, depends on what kind of area you're in. If you're, say, up in a really rocky area of the hills of Pennsylvania, this is not gonna work well for you.
• 46:02
  But especially if you're in an area like Florida, where you've got a lot of sand, and you've got a pretty high water table, close to, you know, in terms of close to the surface of the, the ground, these are really good solution, because how it works is you take this metal pipe, and you I'll go back, and I'll show you the, picture again. So you take the metal pipe, okay, right here, you drive the first one three feet in the ground, then you screw the next pipe on, okay? And then you drive it further down, you screw the next pipe on, you drive it further down, you keep driving it, and so say, I think for a lot of people, maybe it's only gonna be twelve, fifteen, 20 feet or so, but you keep doing that, and eventually, you you actually hit water with that bottom piece of the of the, pipe, and then the water can seep in. And then what you all you have to do is you get one of those old school cast iron well pumps. Right?
• 46:52
  The ones that you'd see, like, at the old, farms and whatnot. Actually, here's a great let me kinda clicking on this right here. Not gonna play but this let me see, let me find a picture of this guy's drive point well. So once it's set up, and you put your final piece on it, this is what it kinda looks like. Now he's got a motor hooked up to his, but that's what it is right here.
• 47:16
  It is this is it's just one of those old school cast iron things that once your once your pipes go deep enough and you're hitting water, you screw on one of those cast iron hand pumps that you can then use to pump that water up. And so this is something that, honestly, I should mine should already be set up. It's it's in my storage. I never got it back out and put it up here because we've got a we've got a pretty good well system here. We've got, water access and a big pool as well if we need water.
• 47:42
  Anyway, that's a really, really fantastic way of getting, grid proof, completely off grid water access, where you can hook a pump up to it like that guy did in his, or you just have the manual pump. And once you pump it up and get that suction on it, you go out there and you've just got water. You've got fresh groundwater. Now, if you live in an area where you're say, like, where I grew up in rural Ohio, which was just complete farm fields everywhere, that water table that high has probably got a lot of pesticides in it. So you'd still wanna try to figure out a way to filtering that water, whether it's through a homemade gravity filter with some five gallon buckets and some charcoal and whatnot, or whether you have a Berkey.
• 48:20
  You know, you still don't wanna be drinking those things. But again, if it is an emergency or if you need to use it to water your plants or feed your animals, it's it's a decent solution for that. So that's the, again, that's the DrivePoint well. So let me jump back over to the, chat. Okay.
• 48:39
  Okay, so, Gerald Y is saying, Seth, if you're next to Creek, the Moringa Alephia tree, the crushed seeds have proteins that bind to, I can, to village pollutants. That's interesting, okay. Interesting to know. Okay, here's actually, here's a point from this, this is from, Mark over on Rumble, Buy many extra couplings in a hand driver for running the pipe. Invest in three points and apply two at a separate location from main buildings on your property.
• 49:08
  Yeah, there you go. Good point as well. Okay. Gosh, this lead We love snico stuff. Sorry for this.
• 49:20
  I I hate these, people. Is this They come in here to direct these live chats, these stupid spam. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I see a few people me, mentioning, divining rods, or, you know, dowsing.
• 49:37
  Look, if you've got that ability, if you can dowse and you can find water, great, right? Good for you. Lily Creek says, figure I can purify water with it and make medicine and booze to trade. So yeah, if you have a way of just, you know, distiller where you can distill your water, that's good. Also, Mandingo says, wonder how it works to separate the salt.
• 49:58
  Not sure if you're to the pump I showed you, the, the quench, sea quench thing, or the if you're referring to the other ways. But yeah, the the way that you separate the salt from the water easiest is basically you just evaporate the water. And when the water evaporates, eventually you look down, you'll see your original bowl of salt water. It it's just a bunch of salt crystals down below. Right?
• 50:23
  So that is how you would do that. You can also put it over a fire. There you go. Okay, yeah, troll. Yeah, deported the troll.
• 50:32
  You see, I'm all about deportation, right? If there's trolls in my live chat, they're getting deported, right? Okay. Alrighty. Remember, if you have any questions, just drop them in the chat, and I'm gonna be getting to as many as I can.
• 50:47
  Let's see if, how Rumble's doing. Sorry, this is over on YouTube, let me zoom in a little bit for that. Let's see, chicken coop. Oh, okay, should see, Sprink mentioning heirloom tomatoes. Actually, today, my little kind of fun thing with my daughter June, who's five, we planted, we, did our tomato seeds.
• 51:06
  So we're gonna be doing our starts inside. And I think I planted way too many as okay. I was talking to Kate. She's like, how many how many tomato plants do you guys plant together? And I said because we had a little seed tray.
• 51:16
  I like, I think I did 72. She's like, you did 72 tomato plants? And I was like, yeah. I guess I didn't think about it. 70 two's a lot of tomato plants.
• 51:24
  But what we'll do though, we have a really cool homeschool group. And so I'm like, look, it's okay. Well, you know, if we have whatever we don't need, we'll get them started. We'll have these nice little cute little pant plant pots, and and one of our homeschool groups was pass them out to the moms, and they'll love it. So, anyway, yes.
• 51:42
  Chicken coops. Maybe we can hit on chicken coops real quick. I'm a big chicken guy. Yeah, I'm a big chicken guy. So let's just talk a little bit about chickens.
• 51:55
  So, I highly, highly recommend you get chickens. Now, it depends on where you're at. Some if you're living in the if you're living in a high rise or an apartment, you can't have chickens, it's not gonna go very well. They're disgusting creatures. They poop everywhere.
• 52:13
  So trust me, like, don't want chickens living in your area with you. There's also a lot of neighborhoods if you've got HOAs or there's restrictions. And even if it's not an HOA, you might even have a restriction in your your town, your local zoning. You can't have backyard chickens. If that's the case, if you're in a region, say you wanna have chickens, but you're not allowed to have chickens in your area because of various reasons, what you can do is you can raise quail.
• 52:42
  So you can raise quail in your garage. Right? So it's interesting, but quail, they produce and this is very similar to chickens. They're much smaller, but you can you can eat them. They can be good meat birds if you want to eat them.
• 52:55
  But they also have little quail eggs. Right? So can give it the grocery store. We gave them sometimes. They're they're fun to kind of for my little kids.
• 53:01
  Like these little mini eggs to make little little mini omelettes. Right? That's always fun. But you can if you can, if you can't have backyard chickens, you can all you can just raise quail in your garage. Now you have be pretty serious about doing this, but the thing is with chickens or quail, and also you can get into ducks and turkeys, and you know, there's a few other, you know, kind of birds you can raise.
• 53:25
  But they are an amazing source of food. So not only can you eat the birds, which is an an obvious thing, especially if you get the roosters coming out, make some bone broth out of them. Right? You know, you don't wanna have I think the roughly the ratio, you don't wanna have more than, say, one rooster per 10 or 12 hens because otherwise, the roosters start fighting. They're very, very territorial, and they'll end up killing each other, which is not good.
• 53:51
  Or they'll start you'll lose, like and I hate to kinda talk about it like this, but roosters are, like, little rape artists. Like, if, like, we've got we've got a big rooster. His name's Cocky. And okay. That makes sense.
• 54:03
  And if if you look at roosters, it's kinda funny because these poor hens are kinda walking around. There's being hens. And this rooster, he just goes from hen to hen. He pins them down. He does his business, and he kinda hops off of him, and he kinda pronounces around and kinda crows.
• 54:16
  And the hen kinda fluffs her feathers up, and she keeps going. But he this guy does nonstop. He's just going and is just going at it with whatever hens he wants. And so if you've got too many roosters, these poor hens, it's like they get abused. Right?
• 54:31
  So just be mindful of that. But the beautiful thing about chickens and quail and these these animals is that it's in their nature to keep reproducing. And so what happens with chickens is they'll they'll get clucky. That's what we call it. Maybe it's an Australian term.
• 54:45
  Not sure, but they'll get clucky or broody, where all of a sudden, the hen, she just wants to stay on the eggs. She that's it. She and she'll she'll sit. And so what you do is you then, okay. Hey.
• 54:54
  Well, you put, you know, 10 eggs under her, you put her in a little kind of nesting box specific for her, and she'll then hatch the baby chicks, and she'll take care of them until they're independent. And that's how you can you can expand your flock. Now, the thing is, is you have to have a rooster in your flock if you wanna have fertilized eggs. So that's just one of the key points here is that, the eggs you buy at the grocery store, those aren't fertilized eggs. You can't take those eggs and hatch them and have baby chicks.
• 55:21
  You have to have a rooster that's consistently fertilizing all of your hens. Therefore, all your your eggs become fertile. So that's what it takes. You make sure if you so that's why if you have a rooster, then you can keep expanding your your flock. Now, the beautiful things with with chickens, for instance, it depends on what kind of breed you are.
• 55:40
  Make sure that you're getting a breed that matches your region, because there are breeds that are cold weather birds or hot weather birds. There's ones that are better foragers. There's ones that are better meat birds. The main actually, the one that I'll see I'll show you what we have. We have one that that my wife does.
• 55:56
  Let me pull it up here. It's kind of a weird spelling. I always misspell it, but then Google Google then corrects it. So we have a what we have, so we're in Upstate New York, is we have a breed called a a Beelfelder, And it is a really, really good chicken for our region. I'll show what they look like.
• 56:13
  They're actually they're beautiful birds. Like, that's what that's what the roosters look like. That's what the hens look like right there. So anyway, they're they're really, really good birds for our region. Yeah.
• 56:24
  That that's what our rooster looks like. This is a big, magnificent bird. They're big birds too. Right? If you look at there's someone holding a that's a little girl holding a rooster, but they're big birds.
• 56:33
  Now and the region that we live in, so we've got we're on about seven acres. We have about two and a half acres that is cut down. There's not not many trees. That's where our house is. We have decent light for gardening, but we're surrounded by forests on all areas, and we let our chickens free range.
• 56:52
  And so it it's amazing to see because these chickens, you'll see them all day long just on the forest floor scratching through leaves and everything. So even if feed is limited, say, you you're you're in a situation you can't restock your chicken feed, the chickens are really efficient at feeding themselves. Now it's good if you can supplement their feed, with scratch and grains and everything, and you can get a back stock of that. There's also you can grow. There's things like barley, or there's different plants that you can grow, which you can actually grow your own chicken food, which is also really good.
• 57:24
  You can also get into doing, like, you have a pond, you can do duckweed, and, you know, various things like that to feed the chickens. But, chickens are they'll eat just about anything that in terms of bug, food scraps, etcetera. And they will just keep producing eggs. And our eggs are beautiful. They're like they are vibrant orange.
• 57:43
  Like, you go to a supermarket, you're lucky if your if your eggs are, like, barely the color of that sign right there. Right? But our eggs, because these chickens are they're they're mostly it's not foraging. The eggs they produce are orange eggs. They're so healthy.
• 57:57
  So I would highly recommend looking into getting chickens. At some point, I'll do a whole show just on chickens, or maybe over on the ARC community, we'll have, like, a whole chicken one zero one section over there because chickens are one of the great, just, companions. I mean, honestly, it's crazy that there's so many areas in America that that you have banned chickens. Like, I think every household in America should have a couple chickens, honestly. It should be just one of the most basic foundations of just self reliance.
• 58:23
  A couple of backyard chickens are the easiest things to take care of. You gotta make sure you build a coop that can withstand whatever your your region is. Just like an hour ago, we had a huge pack of coyotes in my back in the back property. It was just in the woods right behind our house. My dogs are going crazy.
• 58:39
  We've got two, labs. They're silver labs. And they were going crazy. I was like, what's going on? I stepped out and you can hear I grew up in rural Ohio where you know what the coyotes sound like when they're hunting.
• 58:51
  It's you're hearing barking and yipping and howling, and there's probably 30 of them back there. So you have to make sure that whatever coop you're putting your chickens in is secure. So, like, we've got we built, like, a fortress. We have, a chicken fortress. We've got we poured cement.
• 59:07
  We've got multiple layers because we've got bears in our region too. So it depends. You have be basically, to make sure you're matching your region in terms of giving your your birds the ability to protect themselves. The one thing about chickens is actually they're really good at coming back to their coop. So at night, you get these automatic doors that open when the sun comes up, and they close at night.
• 59:26
  So they'll open, the chickens come out in the morning, they'll go do all their eating and grazing, and before nighttime falls, they will all come back to the coop to go to sleep, and the door closes automatically. So it makes it really easy. So anyway, okay, getting into some of the other, questions, because I could talk chickens all night long. I'm not gonna do that. So okay.
• 59:47
  Getting back into some of the questions. See, tomahawk says, I only keep a rooster protect to protect my hens from hawks. Yeah, try Yeah, hawks are That's a big one. Yeah, hawks are one of the You know, they're birds of prey. So, hawks will take out your chickens.
• 1:00:06
  So just be aware of that. Yeah, Lily Creek says, My chickens are free range, I feed them bananas and payment for their eggs. They love bananas. Yeah, there you go. Yeah.
• 1:00:18
  Exactly. Unexpected gurgle, banning chickens equals more government control. Absolutely. I agree. So there's also a handful of questions I've got over we're kinda coming in before the show, that I wanna get to as well.
• 1:00:32
  So I put a post out. This is one over on Twitter that I put out, and, so asking people about topics for tonight's show. So Mike Adams responded, I wanna actually read his comment here, because it's worth, know, kind of highlighting. He says, Hey, you're glad you're covering this. People are far more effed than they realize.
• 1:00:51
  I think you should especially cover the normalcy bias that convinces people that everything will always be the same and that nothing ever happens. And he's saying, yes, some bad stuff has just happened, and effects are on the way. Yeah. That's a big one. Yeah.
• 1:01:06
  That's a big one. It's just the normalcy bias. I think that honestly, if you're here and you're watching this show and you're kinda showing this kind of interest towards preparedness, you probably don't have that normalcy bias, and you're thinking, okay. Hey. Things could get pretty sketchy.
• 1:01:20
  But there's a lot of Americans that just they think, oh, we live in America. We're invincible. Right? No one's ever invaded America. No one's ever come on our soil.
• 1:01:29
  I've got a shotgun, so I'm okay. There's a lot of people that think like that, and that's it's very dangerous, though, this whole idea of the normalcy bias because it causes a lot of people to not take preparedness seriously. And it's also I mean, it's not about just being prepared like a prepper. It's a way of life. Right?
• 1:01:47
  It's like, you know, our our great grandparents, they didn't call it prepping. Like, for them, was just living. That's just how they lived. I remember growing up and my my grandma Joy, who lived in Southern Ohio, who lived through the Great Depression as a a little girl. I remember growing up and seeing she had a a a seller under her house, the old school ones, and she always had this it stocked with canned goods.
• 1:02:09
  That's just part of what she did because she knew that these things could happen. So she wasn't a prepper. She was just a responsible person. And so she just took care of these things. And so I think that people, especially nowadays, we become so used just to ordering apps, ordering things, instant grocery delivery, go to the grocery store.
• 1:02:27
  These are all modern conveniences that could very quickly disappear in a time of crisis. So just keep that, yeah, keep aware of that. So here's another question. This is from, Michael Puskar or Puskar. Sorry, Michael, if I mispronounce your last name.
• 1:02:42
  Says, question. Looking at what happened in Venezuela, once hunger set in, local police groups went house to house to take people's preps and livestock for redistribution. You might be able to defend your property from bandits, but you're not stopping the government. Thoughts on how to handle that situation, when it arises, bury preps? Yeah.
• 1:03:02
  So that's a very important point. So, it's happened over and over again. If you look at areas that actually do have disaster, whether it's the local police, whether it is local bandits, they might come and try to take some of your supplies. So especially if you're public about it. So one thing that's also really important is op sec, right, your operational security.
• 1:03:24
  Don't go telling everyone that you've got all this stuff. Now, I'm kind of a stupid person because I'm like telling, hey, Internet. I'm a prepper. I've got lots of food and ammo and everything. But it's a certain risk I take because it allows me to have these conversations with you, and so it is what it is.
• 1:03:44
  But you don't wanna go around talking about what you have. That's important. You really don't want to. Now in what Michael brought up there, okay, like, how do you how do you handle that? Bury your things, etcetera.
• 1:03:57
  So if that is something you're concerned about, which is a very reasonable concern, my top recommendation, and this is for a lot of things, whether it's for food, whether it's for gold and silver, money, is have a have two stashes or multiple stashes. But you wanna have your stash, which is the stash that the bad people will find, and you wanna do it intentionally. So let's just say for instance, that you've got two years worth of food. Don't keep that two years of food in the pantry at the base of your stairs, like the first place people are gonna look. What I would recommend, now whether it's food, whether it's guns and ammo, whether it's your silver and and whatever your assets are you're setting aside, have a dummy stash.
• 1:04:50
  Right? So say you've got two years of food, find a way, depends on where you're living, you can find ways of burying it. Just keep in mind that water always seems to find a way in. So burying things is really risky unless you absolutely know how to seal what you're burying. The worst thing in the world would be burying all this food and coming out three years later to find that actually got groundwater into it, and the whole thing is rotten and ruined.
• 1:05:15
  That'd be a disaster. But say you build a false wall, Like, say you have a a closet and you you kind of build a false wall in that closet, you have a way of having a hidden door. You know, find some creative ways of hiding your main stash. But then what you do is you take all your stuff that's, like, gone bad already, whatever, and say you have a month worth of just kind of your fake stash, and go kinda hide that somewhere, but it's kind of easy to find. And so let's just say, hypothetically, someone comes and they're like, hey, you know, look, we wanna take your food.
• 1:05:48
  You say, I don't have much. I've only got, like, a month worth of food. I you can't take my food. And they say, sorry. Of course, they're not gonna walk away.
• 1:05:55
  They're gonna say, sorry. This is gonna be redistributed. Of course, it's not going to be. You know, communism one zero one. And you kind of resist it, and you're like, okay, alright.
• 1:06:03
  And you walk down there, and you open it, and you say, is all I've got. And they they see, you know, they see a month worth of food there. They think, okay, great. They take that food, and they leave. But they don't go looking for your two years of food that you've got hidden behind a false wall somewhere in some weird corner of your basement.
• 1:06:22
  Right? Same thing with, precious metals, gold and silver, etcetera. Right? So say you've got you're you're storing your assets in precious metals, which I is really important. You know, get a little cheap safe, put it in your master bedroom closet, you know, put in there a couple ounces of gold or not gold.
• 1:06:38
  Sorry. A couple ounces of silver. Put in there maybe a couple $100, maybe a few fake watches or some inexpensive watches. Make that look like that's your secure area. And so when someone goes and say they're looking for your stuff and say they're trying to confiscate it, you say, okay, well, I'll take you out to my closet, master bedroom, you open it up, there you go, empty it out.
• 1:06:59
  That's it. Now silver, like, you can get really creative in how you hide silver. You there's a lot of things. Say you've got a deep freezer, one thing you can do so take you know, say you have an old box, like a let know, Eggo waffle box or something. Take it, like, an old box of food like that, empty it out, fill the box up with your silver, and stick it in the bottom of your walk the bottom of your freezer, your chest freezer, even the back of your main freezer, wrap it in aluminum foil, make it look like it's some food, just store it in the freezer.
• 1:07:32
  Right? Store you know, the so the best place to hide these things are literally hide it in plain sight. So you can also if you're a little bit handy, and you're just kind of tucking things away, cut out a piece of drywall. Right? You've got your studs, whatever your distance is for your studs, cut out a piece of drywall, stack all your silver behind the drywall, put the drywall back up, paint over it again, make it disappear.
• 1:07:57
  Like, no one's gonna come into your house with a metal detector and look at all your walls to find your stash. It's also good because it keeps you from spending it. Alright. It's a kind of good savings technique, but there's a lot of ways to do it. But the fundamental though, say with guns and ammo, etcetera, create a fake stash.
• 1:08:12
  Create the one that you want them to find first, and act like they've found everything. It's like, you're taking all my food. This is all I've got. It's a month worth of food. Like, I'm screwed.
• 1:08:21
  I'm not gonna make it. Like, really overdramat you know, be dramatic about it. Like, they're taking away your livelihood, but you know that you've got the real thing hidden. So that's a yeah. That's a a kind of the best I can do for kind of more of a fundamental overview on that.
• 1:08:38
  So, jumping back into the, comments, we've got a lot going on here. Yeah, so, socialized misery says, Bring out your AR and kill them all. Yeah, but they will probably kill you too. Right? So, it's yeah.
• 1:08:55
  That's just the reality of it. Like, whatever look, unless you absolutely have to, don't go shooting people, because you will get shot back at, and you'll probably get shot. And if you're in a situation where you don't have access to emergency medicine, then even a twenty two shot in your leg, that could be the end for you. Okay, so kind of getting into getting into some of the other, comments here in questions. So, Aspen four eighty, says, Please touch on being an active conservative prepper in a deep blue state area and expanding a like minded and functional prepper network while retaining opsec?
• 1:09:34
  There is a, there's a good question, okay? So, so I live in Upstate New York. It's not where I would would have liked to be. It just for, you know, whatever circumstances. So, yeah, I live in Upstate New York.
• 1:09:49
  I'm not happy living in New York, but I've got a really good community around here. So that's one of the keys, is building that community. I've, I've, we've got the, I'll touch on the ARC, which I'll give you an ARC update, you know, shortly here, which is that's another thing about building community. So, I'll touch on that, which that's gonna kinda, kinda tap into the, community thing. Okay.
• 1:10:14
  So, Garden Guy on YouTube says, should we get firewood for next winter? Well, it depends on what region you're in. Absolutely. What so we we bought our house right now that we're in about two years ago. And over the summer of the first year, I built a big firewood shed, because there wasn't any firewood storage.
• 1:10:35
  We have a a pretty good wood wood burning stove in our house. It's kind of kind of like a it's like a built in wood burning stove, but it will heat our entire home. We've had we've had some as I ran out of heating oil one time, and it kept our entire in the dead of winter, it kept our home at mid sixties, just from the fireplace. It's not a giant home. It's maybe, you know, two and a half thousand square feet, your typical, you know, kind of standard, I guess, four or five person family home.
• 1:11:02
  And that did it. But again, one of the first things we did though, that the first summer was I built a big firewood shed, and I stocked, I think I got five cords of wood. Now we use heating oil, so I that's not my main heat source. So I've used maybe one and a half of those cords in the past, you know, two winters. But, yeah, firewood, if that's a big thing.
• 1:11:24
  If you're in an area where you have cold winters, stock up on firewood. If you don't have a fireplace, even a small little wood stove or a rocket stove, if you can look into these things, there are really good solutions. But yeah, firewood, absolutely firewood. Okay. Let me get into some of the other, questions really quickly here.
• 1:11:46
  Okay. Now, is just okay. Sorry about that. Now okay. Well, I guess I'll give you a quick update on the ARC.
• 1:11:57
  Okay? So that that's all I'll just do, because you're asking about community and getting into an update on the ARC. So if you're not familiar with The Arc, I'll I'll give you an overview. So The Arc, the website, which you can you can get on the wait list for it, I'll pull it up for you real quick, is just buildthearc.com. So The Arc community, this is this is my the big thing that we're doing, right?
• 1:12:21
  This is, aside from Man in America, this is the biggest thing that we're working on, is this ARC community. And so, it's we're we're aiming it open at launching it probably towards the end of this week. The I'll give you some people that are familiar with. I'll give you a quick update. So, basically, the reason we got slowed down with it is that we were building it's an online community.
• 1:12:41
  So it's an online community that's kind of centered around, preparedness. So meaning like minded people. And I'll go I'll go into an overview of what we got going on in there. But a couple of it was really only about a week and a half ago or so, two weeks ago. So initially, I was using a third party service to build this community.
• 1:12:59
  There's different companies, and we're using a company that actually, they have this really, really solid company to kind of build out an online community. And it was really easy to get started. Obviously, it took a lot of thinking, but what we realized is that what happens if that company turns us off? And that was a very real threat. It's like, Oh, gosh.
• 1:13:19
  Like, yeah, what happens if this company says, Hey, you know, your community's kind of anti government, so we don't like that policy. What happens if that company gets acquired by Amazon? Whatever. It doesn't matter. And so not to mention, the other thing is that that community only used Stripe for payment processing.
• 1:13:41
  That was it. And so Stripe has been known to debank people, like they've got a history of it. And so as this thing started to really grow, which like the interest has been just through the roof, I think we're now approaching 13,000 people on our waitlist to get into this community. And so it's growing into something very large. We thought, okay, we can't rely on that.
• 1:13:59
  So actually, we're we're literally actually almost done, but we we're building the entire system ourselves. So that's my wife, Kate, poor wife, Kate, she's been working around the clock. We've got it. We've also got a full time developer. But we're literally building out we're gonna own the entire code.
• 1:14:17
  We own everything about it. So we're building this entire community ourselves. So no one else is gonna own it. No one can turn it off. We're gonna be hosting it on private servers with multiple backup options.
• 1:14:30
  So we're we're making this this community absolutely bulletproof to make sure that nothing can shut it down. And so that's part of what caused this delay is that we decided that, look, we can't launch this thing and have it be something even though it's a private this what we're gonna be using is very private and everything, and that they don't do any kind of censorship. It was still, we can't rely on that. So we can't let them you know, we're not gonna do it. So that's what's a little bit of what slowed us down is that we're literally building this entire thing, our own, but it's gonna be absolutely amazing.
• 1:15:04
  I'm gonna give you okay, so real quickly, if you want to, if you want to join the waitlist for this, just go to buildthearc.com. So it's arcwithark. So buildthearcwithark.com. That's where you put you drop your name in. But I'll give you I wanna give you just a quick overview, just an update on all that we're building, because it'll make sense to you why this is such a big project.
• 1:15:27
  Let me see. Okay, right here, I put together this to share with you. Okay. So, here we go. So for one, actually, is our new our new branding, which we haven't updated on the other site yet.
• 1:15:38
  I'm gonna fly through this, but this just kind of shows you, this is everything that's gonna be part of the art community, and we've even got way more. Kate's building out a knowledge base. I think we've already we've already got I think we're over 800 articles now. We're building an actually a searchable knowledge base on this community where you can ask chicken how to raise chickens, how to do wells. It's gonna be huge knowledge base.
• 1:16:00
  But here's just a quick overview, okay, part of the art community. Okay, it's a private members only preparedness community. It's a trusted values aligned space outside big tech, right, where you can learn, connect, prepare, and watch out for each other. Okay. So for one, I just talked to it's a private platform outside big tech.
• 1:16:16
  So host on private servers, independent, no algorithm, no censorship, no data harvesting, everything is owned and controlled by us. And so by joining, I'm asking you to trust me, but I'm also trusting you because I've obviously put myself out there in the public, and I this is something I believe in. So, owned by us. Okay. We're gonna have the Arc Alerts.
• 1:16:37
  So Arc Alerts can be I'm be have a curated feed of any kind of threats coming up, whether it's a storm coming, potential food shortages. We're gonna have in there where you're notified. We're, like, we're staying on top of this, which is why I'm monitoring this stuff all the time. And we're saying, okay. Hey.
• 1:16:50
  We're gonna have ranking systems for, like, red alert. This is kinda immediate, or even, a green, say, we're kinda monitoring situation. We're gonna have the Arc Academy. I can't wait to show you the Arc Academy. So we're building out an entire online academy about everything to do with being prepared.
• 1:17:06
  Right? So we're gonna have I think right now, we've got at launch, I think we'll probably have between 60 and a 100 individual lessons, but we're gonna have eventually hundreds, if not thousands of lessons lessons. So lessons about teaching you things like drive point wells. Here's how you build a drive point well. Here's the lesson for it.
• 1:17:22
  Checklists, quizzes, everything about this. We're gonna have it's comprehensive hitting on different various areas, from, you know, water, food, security, health, hygiene, shelter, communication, everything. Okay, we're gonna have essentials and advanced tracks for each pillar. That's the ARC Academy is gonna be huge. Okay.
• 1:17:44
  So the ARC score, we're gonna be, integrating the ReadyScore into the ARC community. So you have a self assessment tool, so you know exactly where your prep levels are. Resource library. So we're gonna have hundreds of ebooks. We're gonna have the, article database I told you about.
• 1:17:58
  We're basically gonna make it so that you have access to just everything you could possibly need to know about preparedness. Okay? Weekly roundtables. So we're gonna be doing exclusive ARC weekly roundtables with myself and other, guests coming in, where we're just analyzing what's happening in the world. We'll say there's a big situation that happens, we're hitting on it.
• 1:18:16
  We're gonna have guest speakers, expert presentations. We're gonna have regular live presentations and webinars of experts, whether it's someone coming in and teaching you about permaculture, someone teaching you about, you know, chlorine dioxide, any number of things. We're gonna have those happening. We're gonna have community forums and chats. So you can go in there, and you can ask questions in the off grid energy area, for instance.
• 1:18:38
  You can ask someone. You're gonna find someone who is who is an expert. So we're gonna have those. We're gonna have forums, chats. You can build it's almost like it's a mini social media site is what it really is.
• 1:18:46
  You have your own page. You can DM other members. You can kinda create your friend list. You can, it's really cool stuff there. Local chapters and meetups.
• 1:18:56
  It's another amazing thing about it. So we're gonna have we have eight different regions across The United States, and then every 50 state every state will also have its own chapter. So we're gonna have chapter heads that are gonna be in charge of each of the eight regions, and every state will also have a chapter head. And so the whole idea is that we're using this online platform to build offline relationships. And so if you're looking now you can you can make your location as visible or invisible as you want to.
• 1:19:23
  Maybe you put in your ZIP code, maybe put this your whatever city you're in, maybe just your state. But for people to say, put their city and their state in there, we're we're building an interactive map where let's just say that you're that person that that said, hey, I'm in a blue state. I can't find people, where you can literally join the community, and you're gonna be able to go to a map, and you're gonna be able to see all the members that are in your area. Now, you can choose whether you want to show how much you want to show. But again, it's private community, so it's up to you.
• 1:19:51
  But where you can literally go in there, and you can see holy smokes, there's actually 40 people within a 50 mile radius of me. Right? That's my goal is I want to help you meet the people that are like me and like you in your area. Okay? So we're gonna have that.
• 1:20:06
  We're also gonna do meetups. So you're gonna have your state level meetups, you're gonna have your regional meetups, We're gonna have annual ARC meetups, which I'll be hosting. So maybe we're gonna be going to, you know, a campground or say we're going to whatever it is, we're gonna be doing annual meetups. We're all we all get together. We come together.
• 1:20:24
  We break bread together. We get to meet, get to know each other. It's gonna be really cool. There's the member maps I was telling you about. The emergency communication network.
• 1:20:33
  So basically, let's just say that, you know, you're in an area, we're gonna have this three layer communication network with the platform, Okay? We're gonna build out local radio networks with ham radio, CB, etcetera, for regional outages. And we're also working with a company to build out actually a satellite phone level, platform. So that even if you can't access, say, the whole Internet system is down, for those of you that have satellite access, you'll still be able to access your community through satellite. So even if, like, even if there's a grid down scenario, if you got a sat phone and a Faraday bag, you can still get onto your network.
• 1:21:07
  We're gonna have build a crisis reaction. So say there's a hurricane that hits Florida, right? Imagine if there's a hurricane in Florida, and you've got members all over the place saying, Hey, here's how we can help. Here's how we can help. Say there's disaster, disaster cleanup.
• 1:21:22
  We might have a whole community of people that will come help you with that, right? This is exactly what we're gonna be focusing on. We're gonna have, okay, the ARC signal, that's the dedicated ARC space on a satellite phone network. Okay, talk about that. An ARC market, Right?
• 1:21:37
  So say we're it's gonna be members only marketplace for preparedness goods, services, and skills. So kind of Facebook marketplace. So if you if you're selling something or buying something or if you're looking for a skill, say you're say you're an accountant, you wanna put wanna kinda find other people to connect with, or you can do that. We're kinda business directory, so you can list businesses. Because the whole idea is that we you know, you and I, most people that are watching this show or that wanna join the community, we have a a very there's a core set of shared values that we have.
• 1:22:02
  It's like, I wanna do business with people that share those values. I wanna get to know people that share my values. And so if if you're in a say you're an attorney, or say you are a permaculture design consultant, whatever it is, you're gonna be able to list your business in the ARC business directory. Right? We're gonna have discounts.
• 1:22:20
  We're gonna have also member trainings. So say you're an expert, you can do your own member training. There's a whole lot more to that. We're also building out an affiliate program. Right?
• 1:22:30
  So okay. So the the ARC is gonna cost it's $17.76 a month. Right? That's it's just a flat fee, $17 and 76 a month. You can also buy an annual.
• 1:22:40
  I think an annual is $1.76, which you you save money on that. But the yeah. That's the idea is that, okay. It's there's a cost to it. The cost creates a barrier because we only want people coming in that really wanna be there.
• 1:22:53
  But also, if you see all the things that we're building into it, I mean, people have looked at this list and said, look, you should be charging 50 or $100 a month. It's like, no, that's not the purpose. Right? But I also don't wanna make it free, because then what it is is you're gonna have a 100,000 people on there, a Facebook group. No one knows everybody.
• 1:23:09
  No one really cares. So you wanna have a certain barrier that it's enough that you're like, do I really wanna pay $17 a month for this? And if if you're on the edge, and you're like, not really, then actually, it's better that you don't join. Because we really want people that are gonna be there, that wanna be part of that community. But we're also gonna have sponsored memberships.
• 1:23:25
  So if you're someone if you're a family, and you're literally struggling to put food on the table, and you are, you know, like, say you're on fixed income, you're a single mom, you're a you're disabled, whatever it is. And if you're someone that literally, like, $17 a month is, like, kinda break the bank for you, we're gonna have a form. It's not live yet, but on the site, you'll be able to apply for a sponsored membership. So if you email us and you explain your situation, I'll be looking at this specifically myself. I'll look at it and say, oh gosh, I've already had some a woman to email me.
• 1:23:57
  She's a retired nurse on a fixed income. She's a widow. She's really struggling, but she really wants to be part of the community. Then it's like, oh, look at that. Like, okay.
• 1:24:05
  Yeah. You're welcome. Like, I don't want price to be a barrier for people that truly can't afford it. So, like, yeah. Okay.
• 1:24:09
  I'll sponsor your membership. I want you to be part of this. But I expect you to be active. Right? Which, of course.
• 1:24:15
  So that's part of it. And, again, there's there's more. We're gonna have affiliate programs. So say you wanna start referring some of your friends that you can actually earn every month off of them being members of it, so that way you can actually turn it into something, rewards and giveaways. So anyway, there's a lot more to it.
• 1:24:32
  But if you wanna get onto the list, if you wanna be notified as soon as it opens, which we're expecting late this week, it's been kinda crazy getting it all ready. Again, just go to buildthearc.com. So build the build this is the old branding update that. Buildthearc.com. Just drop in your name and your email, and we will add you to the waitlist.
• 1:24:52
  Like I said, we've already got, I think, over 12,000 people on the waitlist. So it's really a lot of people are interested. Not saying 12,000 are sign up, because being on a waitlist versus signing up is a is a big step, but there's been a lot of interest. So, okay. There's a little ARC community kind of introduction, and, you know, why we're why we're taking some time to do this.
• 1:25:13
  I hope that you look at that and you're like, Okay, yeah, it makes sense why Seth's poor wife is not sleeping because she's building out this platform with one full time developer. And so, that just is the reality of it. So we're really, really excited. And I can't wait to meet all of you that wanna join that. To do our weekly roundtables, do meetups, I'm just, I'm so excited for it.
• 1:25:37
  As you can probably see in my body language and my excitement. Okay. So it's 11:25, but there's still a lot of questions, so let's just keep going, okay? Let's keep going, let's go check out what's happening in the chats over there. Okay.
• 1:25:57
  Alright. Good evening. Road dog, good evening Seth, good evening. Yeah, Bivy Stick. Rachel Holmes has So Bivy Stick is basically, it's a little I've got one of them.
• 1:26:10
  It's like a little it's kind the size of this. Oops. I hit hit the wrong button there. Yeah. That's the reality of it.
• 1:26:18
  That's why I'm building my new set. You know what? We're gonna go all black now. There we go. It's got black Seth for the rest of the evening.
• 1:26:23
  Anyway, yeah, my set I'm actually building I'm in the process of actually building a new set. So I have a a digital set right now until my new set's built. Anyway, BiviStick is the size of a little remote control, basically, and it allows you to connect connect your phone to it to access satellite, so you can do still do satellite texting. That's also something for the art community. I'm gonna be working with, Satellite Phone Store to work out some sort of discount for people, so they have access, to satellite phones for more expensive or sorry, less money.
• 1:26:56
  Okay. So okay, actually, good question. Vivacious13, I live on a lake. Could I use the lake water if I boil it and then run it through a Berkey? You know, I'm pretty sure that you can just run it through a Berkey.
• 1:27:09
  You don't have to you don't have to boil it. I'm pretty sure that the Berkey will remove, stuff. If you do boil it first, or you do some sort of pre filter, it's gonna help, and you're gonna be able to preserve your Berkey filters for longer. But yeah, again, double check, I'm almost positive that you can, you can take mud water and pour it into your Berkey filter and drink what comes out on the other side. So we've got to because we're on well water, it's actually pretty good well water, but we still run everything that we drink through our Berkey filter.
• 1:27:42
  Seek Truth Social, gonna share this gonna share this show for you, Seth, on my channel. Thank you, Seek Truth Social. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, actually, you know, so, Jen La, Jen L L L A A, really good point.
• 1:28:02
  I'm going to melt without AC. Florida had almost no population until air conditioning, for a reason. This is actually a this is a really serious, point, because people if you live in an area like Florida, if you can't air condition your house, you will get sick from mold. This is the thing. Okay?
• 1:28:26
  Look at any look at any population that lives in an area like Florida. Right? Like, I've been to Bali, I've been to, you know, you know, Taiwan. If you look at how the locals live, they always live in open air. They don't build these these boxes, these closed boxes of drywall and and and wood.
• 1:28:45
  Because these houses that the average house in America, average house in Florida, if you cannot run air conditioning in that house, that house will will rot and turn into a honestly, turn into a a festering cancer. You'll have black mold everywhere in your house. If you go a summer without being able to run your AC, and if you if you have especially one of the newer houses. Right? So that's just something to consider, right?
• 1:29:08
  So, you know, just think about that, that a lot of houses, depending on what kind of house you have, that in the summer, again in Florida, if you don't have a way to cool or dehumidify your air, then you will probably run into mold issues, and mold is a silent killer. It'll make you sick, It'll it'll wreck your body. So just be just be aware of that. There's a lot of people that live in Florida as a freedom state, but, and I haven't I'm not gonna go into it in in terms I'm not gonna go into it today, but, there's different ways that you can mitigate that. But just know that you should take it seriously that if you live in a region like Florida, that if you can't run your AC, there could be some pretty serious risks.
• 1:29:59
  Okay. So okay. So one question, this is from ladybug1947 on YouTube, says, Being 80 and partly disabled, I could never fight anyone breaking into my house to steal my prepped stuff. I do not own a gun. I have just my trust in Jesus Christ.
• 1:30:17
  Well, you know what? I mean, you've got something more powerful than all the elites that want to kill you, so good on you for that. But, yeah, I mean, there are people in different situations. You know, Ladybug, my recommendation for you, is try to build a good community around you. That's the thing.
• 1:30:35
  If you've got a couple of neighbors that are close to you that you can build a relationship with, and you can explain your situation, and you can say, Hey, look, if I have to call you in middle of the night, if I'm scared, will you come help me? You know, really kind of reach out to your community, right? That's really, really important. Okay, continuing. Wakefield, Rumble cheering you on from Perth, Australia.
• 1:30:59
  Yeah. Yeah, good old Aussie's. I've been I've got a lot of family in Australia, I've been kinda keeping in touch with them, and, yeah, they're they're Australia's at I'm glad I'm not in Australia, tell you that. Australia's a it's a tricky place. A lot going on there.
• 1:31:19
  Yeah, Sleuth Dog, Rumble, grocery prices are up again today. Yep. That's gonna I think we're gonna see it more and more. Oh, okay. Great.
• 1:31:28
  Actually, so tinylovesbostens over on YouTube says, for optimal nutrition, instead of rice, get wheat berries and a hand wheat grinder. Yes. So this is actually a really important point, is that I'm just gonna blackout Seth. Okay? A really important point is if you want to store flour, okay, which obviously is is a is a critical, critical food for us here in America.
• 1:31:53
  It's it's, you know, it's we grow it here. Once you once you have flour that's already flour, the shelf life is a lot less than if you just have wheat berries. So you can get wheat berries. You can I've got, I don't know, probably a lot. Not gonna tell you how many.
• 1:32:09
  I've got a lot of five gallon buckets of just wheat berries because they last a really long time if you store them properly with, auction packets in a sealed five gallon bucket. But what you do then is you you get a hand grinder. So I Let me see if I can find the one that I have. It's a loom. I think it's, air Let's see.
• 1:32:30
  Let me see I can find it real quick. So you can get I think this is the one that I have. Yes. This is kind of this is one of those kind of buy it want buy once, cry want cry once things. I'm pretty sure this is the one I have.
• 1:32:50
  So this website, Lehman's, they're out of Ohio. Great, great resource for Amish stuff. Like, get this is lifetime generational stuff. So this is a I bought this back during kind of COVID era. I think it's now $810 for this hand handmill.
• 1:33:08
  You can get hand mills for $50, so don't think you have to go this crazy. But for these kinds of like, if I'm buying something that is, like, if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I need this to survive, I will save up, and I will buy it. I'll buy the one that I know will last a long time. This thing will probably last a hundred years. Like, I mean, it's it's this air force aluminum.
• 1:33:34
  It's like air yeah. It's aircraft aluminum, and then, you know, machined carbon steel burs. Anyway, made in The USA. So you can get a hand mill like this, that you use this to grind your own flour. And so if you instead of buying flour and stocking up on flour, which you should anyway, because it still has a pretty long shelf life, you can get wheat berries.
• 1:33:57
  And those wheat berries, I think they can last, I think, close to twenty years. Like, if you have them sealed properly, and and you you you know, do do it the right way, they can last forever. Not real forever, but realistically. And then what you're doing is this whenever you wanna bake some bread, you just grind your own flour. So, this is the one that we have.
• 1:34:19
  There's there's way less expensive versions of it, so don't think you need to go spend that much. But anyway, this website in general, it's called Lehman's, I'm not sure if you're familiar with them, they're actually based out of Ohio. They were kind of close to where we used to live, but it's an amazing place for prepping. You go in, they've got a whole, USA made section. Like, say, you wanna go look at, water pumps.
• 1:34:41
  Right? Here you go. That you you can get amazing shallow well pumps, deep well pumps. These are old school systems, right? These are stuff that's like they're Amish.
• 1:34:51
  This is owned by the Amish. They're making products, they're sourcing products that are built to last a very long time, and that you don't have worry about it. So coming into even looking at say Amish made, they've got a whole section of here of Amish made materials. And you find these Amish are they're really, really they know what they're doing. They they know how to they know how to live.
• 1:35:14
  We've got one of these, actually, we have we like this exact same model, or no, a similar one of this, but you know, for clothes drying. Anyway, there's, you know, there's a wood splitting fro. Anyway, lots of really good stuff on here. Anything that the Amish are using, typically, it's made to last a long time. It's not some cheap, made in China stuff.
• 1:35:36
  So, anyway, that's a good place to look. Okay, continuing. Let's see if I have any other, questions. Okay, actually, this is comment actually, this is from, on, an X. This is from, SPK CP11-one11.
• 1:35:53
  Says, Learn to can food. Yes. Yeah. Learn to can food. That's a that's a big point is, so if you're growing food, right, which once you get into growing your own food, which you which I really recommend you you do that, learning how to grow your own food, how to store seeds, how to save seeds.
• 1:36:12
  Like, I I was with my little daughter June today, and I picked up a little tomato seed. Tomato seeds are tiny. It's like the size of a like the like a pinhead almost. And I said, June, you know that this seed will turn into a plant this big that gives us, like, 20 tomatoes. And and she thought it was, like, magic.
• 1:36:28
  Like, she it's like her little brain, was seeing her, she was kinda processing it, and she was just thinking, what do you mean? Yeah. This little seed will turn into all these these big tomatoes, and all those tomatoes are full of those seeds. It's amazing. This is just God is you can see God when you're nature like that.
• 1:36:46
  But, canning, right? So learning how to garden, learning what grows in your region, learning that whole process. It's a trial and error, whether you're building raised beds, or you're doing like a high tunnel or low tunnel or a greenhouse or whatever it is you're doing, or just kind of digging into the the ground. Learning garden is is really important for gardening, learning how, but also canning. Right?
• 1:37:09
  So when that way, when you have your all your tomatoes are ripe remember when you're back in Ohio, I mean, there's a time I I was literally going and collecting five gallon buckets of tomatoes and peppers. And then but then canning it. Right? So that's the thing is you can this is my grandmother lived, my great grandmother, you have a big harvest. When it's harvest season, you're then processing and you're preserving.
• 1:37:30
  And so learning how to can, getting a good canner, I talked about that, I think it was last week's show, Really important. You can get, you know, get I think it was All American, I think was the company that I was using before. Let me see, I'll pull it up again. Here we go. Yep, this is it.
• 1:37:45
  So this is the, the canner that we have. So this is again, I always try to find made in America, simple materials. This is what I'm looking for for these kinds of products. Because again, if if you're gonna buy something for canning, and you wanna rely on this every year, so say it to live a couple of years where you you have, you know, poor access to power or whatever it is, you don't want a canner that's gonna have a busted seal that's not gonna work. So, again, if it's anything you have to kind of save up for, you know, now again, you can still you can find decent onesies on Amazon.
• 1:38:17
  They're sort of gonna last relatively well. Just our philosophy is that, especially this kind of stuff, I wanna buy it once and know that it's gonna last me almost like a generational thing. Like, I can pass my canner, you know, down to my children. So anyway, so they've got they make really, really good, canners here. Oops.
• 1:38:38
  Let me go back. So that's one company, it's All American, made in America. They make beautiful, beautiful pressure cookers, right? So for canning. But yeah, learn how to can.
• 1:38:51
  If you want to get into freeze drying or dehydrating, you can get dehydrating is really easy. It's not gonna last as long as canning in certain instances, depends on how you seal it and what you're actually dehydrating. Dehydrator is really good. If you get a freeze dryer so we've also got a we have a Harvest Right freeze dryer. I'll pull that up.
• 1:39:12
  Let me see. We've got one of these harvest rite freeze dryers. Again, like, when COVID hit, we we were just we kinda went crazy. And I just put everything into preparedness. Right?
• 1:39:24
  Like, I, you know, wasn't getting a new car, whatever. I wasn't, you know, just so focused on preparedness. So, yeah, we got a freeze dryer. The prices have gone up a lot on these things, I think. But I think we have one of the, I think we have one of these ones, the large.
• 1:39:39
  So again, if you if you have a freeze dryer, this is like freeze dryers, and I could do a whole actually, the ARC, I'll I'll probably do some training stuff on freeze dryers because freeze dryer is like the pinnacle of food preservation. Absolutely amazing. It's like, back when we were living in Ohio, we had I think we got up to like 50 or 60 chickens. Right? And that time we had a family of three, right?
• 1:40:03
  So we had my wife and I and a little two year old girl. And we were getting, like, 30 or 40 eggs a day. Right? And so, like, oh my gosh, what do we do with all these eggs? We have so many eggs.
• 1:40:15
  We first, was doing doing, what do you call it? It's like pickling. I forget not pickling. I forget you call it water glassing. You can store eggs in in pickling line with water, but then that sort of filling up.
• 1:40:28
  Right? So we had so many eggs. Like, literally, we were having hundreds of eggs all the time. And so what I found is actually the freeze dryer, I could freeze dry my eggs. It was amazing.
• 1:40:39
  I could fit a 100 eggs into one batch in the freeze dryer. So you'd take I made a video of it at one point. Could dig it up. So you'd take a 100 eggs, you crack them into a a big, you know, bowl, and you stir them, you scramble them all. You don't cook them.
• 1:40:54
  That's the beautiful part. You don't cook them. You scramble them. So imagine you scramble a 100 eggs, and then these freeze dryers, they have these trays. Right?
• 1:41:01
  Let me show how it works. You have these trays. As you can see, there's four trays in there, or five, depends on what size you have. This is what we have, which is the, I think it's the medium. I think we have the larger.
• 1:41:13
  Anyway, it doesn't matter. Okay. So but anyway and so, literally, you just pour those 100 eggs out into those trays. So you take these wet, raw eggs, you pour them into the trays, you stick them in the freeze dryer, and it takes about twenty four hour cycle for the eggs, because a lot of liquid in them. But after you run the twenty four hour cycle, you pull them out and you have these bricks.
• 1:41:36
  It's like this brick of egg that you then you put it into a bowl, you crush it up, it turns into a powder. And then you take that powder, the egg powder, you take that, and you get Mylar bags, which is what we were using, you a special sealer, like a heat sealer for Mylar bag, and you get auction packets, which pull the auction out. So you take that egg powder, and you put it into your mylar bag, and then you throw it in an oxygen packet, and you seal it, and now those eggs will they've got like a ten to fifteen year shelf life. Like, it's it's amazing. You take raw eggs, you freeze dry them, and you can store them on yourself.
• 1:42:11
  So I've literally got, like, big plastic totes of Mylar bags of freeze dried eggs. And all you do, if you wanna eat these eggs, is you open them up, and you add water. So you put them in a pan with water and butter, and you've got scrambled eggs. So ten year shelf life, and you're not refrigerating. That's a beautiful thing.
• 1:42:31
  Right? Is you don't have to refrigerate this stuff. Obviously, you can't have it in a it can't be like 90 degrees or 80 degrees, like a hot attic. So we you we you store it in special places. But you've got eggs that will last you for a decade.
• 1:42:45
  So anyways, we took advantage of that, and we probably freeze dried, you know, 5,000 eggs or something in the course of that summer. It was a pretty wild summer. So, anyway. I I could keep going, but it's almost midnight, and, yeah. I could keep going, but I think that, I want to highlight, so Cam on Telegram said, just want to thank you, Sam, much you're appreciated.
• 1:43:12
  Thank you, Seth. I appreciate that as well. Thank you. Let's jump back over to the Rumble chat. I think I'm gonna start saying my goodnights to everybody.
• 1:43:21
  I've still got energy. I'm just really loving this. I'm gonna get a drink of water real quick. Thank you for that. Just, you know, this is, electrolyte water.
• 1:43:38
  That's what I'm drinking in here. My my ball jar, it's my favorite way to drink anything with my electrolytes in there. So salt and potassium and that kind of good stuff. Okay. Opossums King says, my garage is taken over with hydroponics and Beto buckets.
• 1:43:55
  Yeah. I feel like that's kind of me. Also, yeah, builder bait. My kitchen has been taken over by a hydro hydroponic tower gardens, tomatoes mostly, and I started growing mushrooms in the bathroom. Hashtag, you're my people.
• 1:44:10
  Right? You are absolutely my people. Opossum, I have huge garden outside and several beehives, but need backup. Yeah. Beehives, maybe not this year, maybe.
• 1:44:23
  That's on our list. We we definitely wanna get, yeah, we wanna we wanna get some beehives going. That's for sure. I'll be I'm I'm looking forward to that. But right now, we we got we got to pick and choose.
• 1:44:36
  We we've had we have just too many things. Okay. So now I'm gonna start closing out. So if you have any last minute thoughts, whether you are on Rumble or YouTube, please, yeah, let me know. Please let me know.
• 1:44:53
  You know, the funny thing is, actually, I'll see if I can find it, real quick. Let me see if can find it. Is that let me see. So, when I was so back when I was living in Ohio, and we were building, we were building, all this chicken coop and everything. So I I I'm convinced, actually, almost positive, that there is a person at the Babylon Bee that was watching my show.
• 1:45:22
  Because I I'm pretty sure that Babylon Bee did an article making fun of me. Right? This is kind of funny, but this came out, like, right this is okay. This is in February 2022. This is at the exact time I was building my chicken coop.
• 1:45:35
  This says, dad builds $3,000 chicken coop to get 16¢ eggs for free. It's kind of funny, but if you look this is, like, according to to sources, local dad, Dave Manhart. Right? So I'm Seth Holehouse, Man in America. They named him Dave Manhart.
• 1:45:51
  I almost I'm positive they're that whoever wrote this was kind of making fun of me. He was probably watching the show because I was always talking about my chicken coop, and there is funny article about this guy who builds this $3,000 chicken coop to get free eggs, but then, like, listen to this, the guy says, look, okay, this is so funny. After much much research and ten weekends of hard labor, Dave has succeeded in constructing a backyard chicken coop. With the small investment of just $3,000 on lumber and supplies, he can now get 16¢ eggs for free. Quote, with the supply chain issues and inflation, it's important to be independent, said Manhart, plus this new chicken coop will look really great on my wife's Instagram feed, which is what the whole thing's really about.
• 1:46:37
  Anyway, but the funny thing is, it is that, it it says that after leveling a spot in the backyard with a backhoe, Dave rented for just $500, putting together the tube was fair the the coupe was fairly easy and only resulted in two trips to the emergency room with accidental inner injuries. Quote, Dave says his back will be fine now that he's no longer lifting lumber, and the doctors had no problem reattaching his finger. So this is the funny thing, is that in the process of building my chicken coop, I knocked out a tooth. So this right here is a fake tooth. I literally, I was out fixing the roof of my chicken coop, and I was like an idiot, I left my drill on top my eight foot ladder, step ladder, and as I was looking, I was moving my ladder, and the drill fell off my ladder, knocked me the tooth and knocked my tooth out.
• 1:47:27
  So that was one thing. But then I also, I broke a bunch of toes. Such an idiot, I know. I was working, it was like late night, I was in the garage, like, you know, the weekends were chicken coop time, and I was building this chicken coop, it was raining outside, and I was wearing Birkenstocks, which I think, yeah, which I've always got that's my, that's my that's my shoe. Right?
• 1:47:52
  My Birkenstocks. Right? So I was wearing a pair of Birkenstocks, and like an idiot, it was raining. I had to go get a piece of plywood, for the siding. It was a four by eight sheet of plywood, a three quarter inch plywood, four by eight sheet of plywood.
• 1:48:10
  If if you're if you know wood, that's a heavy board. And so I picked it up kind of like this, and it was wet, and I was wearing Birkenstocks, and I dropped the whole thing vertically right across my toes. And so I smashed my big toe, smashed my neck toe next to it, it like dislodged my toenail, my toenail is still really gnarly looking because of it, and it like bled like crazy. I was limping. I mean, was it was terrible.
• 1:48:38
  So anyway, that was one of my this is one of the fun stories about preparedness. This is the thing is like, this is what it is. Right? It's a fun journey, but when you're making these changes in your life, and you're saying, you know what? I'm going to get I'm gonna take more control.
• 1:48:56
  I'm gonna be more self reliant. I'm gonna be less reliant on the government. I'm gonna be harder to control. It's it's a process, and it's a really it's a really fun and just freeing process to take back control. And, you know, I've had people I've meet at conferences, and they're like, hey, Seth.
• 1:49:15
  You know what? Because of you, you know, a year ago, we sold up our house in a in a small suburb. We're now on five acres in the country, and we're homeschooling our kids, and we're so happy. Right? And that's it.
• 1:49:26
  Like, look, in in the beginning of twenty twenty, I was living in a high rise in New York City. Okay? I was on, like, the 42nd Floor, I think. I was literally living in a high rise in New York City. Okay?
• 1:49:39
  I went from there to the exact opposite. So I was in the worst place to live, and I wouldn't say I'm in the best place to live, but, you know, now we're out we're out in in very rural area on a small country road, surrounded by forests, you know, just wonderful. And so it's a process. It's a process, but you gotta start somewhere. And the more you do it, the more you feel like you're taking control.
• 1:50:07
  You start meeting fun people around you. That's a big part why we're building the community, the ARC community, is because when you can do it with other people, it's a million times easier. Right? When you have someone that is an expert in beekeeping, and you know someone who's an expert in solar, and they're happy to help, because maybe you're an expert in emergency medicine, and you're helping others too. Like, it's it's a whole exchange of everything, which is that's how communities work.
• 1:50:31
  You find these people with you, and you walk that journey together, and it's just it's really wonderful. It's really, really wonderful. So, anyway, I think that that's it. I think that we're gonna call it a night. Let's see.
• 1:50:48
  Yeah, so, Rocha Holmes saying, Don't forget to like the podcast. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. Please, if you're still here, yeah, please, yeah, please make sure you hit that like button. Builder Babe, oh Seth, my other half had a heart attack building my chicken coop.
• 1:51:05
  Oh, no. Did he really have a heart attack? Like, that's crazy, I guess I'm lucky. Yeah. Yeah, wow.
• 1:51:17
  Yeah, that's good. Yeah, so, Builder Babe, yeah, Builder Babe, you're pretty great. You're doing some awesome You're learning how to make cheese and rent it. Yeah, that's a good question. All I want to know is who and how they figured out the fourth stomach of a calf was the key for to rent it for cheese.
• 1:51:38
  That's good. Yeah, Diane Jim, I grew a lot of garlic. Sell it at the Connecticut Garlic Festival. Good for you. Gutta Yeah.
• 1:51:50
  Girl, Do you think rainwater from Cincinnati is worth collecting? All rainwater is worth collecting. Right? It's water. Water can be purified.
• 1:51:59
  Sewage water is worth collecting if that's the only water you have access to, and you have the ability to purify it. Right? So, yeah, all water rainwater is worth collecting. If anything, you use it for, just watering your your plants. Yeah.
• 1:52:15
  15, Tony b Tony Ba, what about THC lemonade in the ball mug? If this was THC lemonade in this mug, you would know it. You I I would not be acting like this. You would know that he'd be like, something's going on with Seth. See, got these nice whites in my eyes, and so trust me, this is just electrolytes.
• 1:52:40
  Yeah, cream cheese and crumpets. Thank you so much, Seth. I'm so excited for the ARC. I am, too. Culling of the herds.
• 1:52:47
  Seth, you're the man. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah. I'm I'm I'm so grateful that I I get to know all of you.
• 1:52:56
  And honestly, this is part of the reason why I'm so excited for the arc is because, like, I wanna meet people. Like, I'm I'm sitting in a studio staring at a teleprompter. Right? I'm staring I I'm actually looking at myself this whole time. So, I love meeting people.
• 1:53:14
  Like, I'm really an introvert, but I'm also very much so an extrovert. And so, yeah, like, I can't wait to just to start meeting people. Like, I can't wait to do our first ARC annual meetup and just, you know, have people coming from all over the country. And actually, we're gonna we're gonna have ARC chapters in around the world too. Right?
• 1:53:36
  I know that we're gonna have an Australia chapter of the ARC community. So we're starting off, obviously, with the chapters here. But if you will join and say, hey, Seth, I'm in Australia. Can I be the the chapter head of Australia? I'm gonna say, awesome.
• 1:53:48
  Great. Let's build out an ARC Australia. So, yeah, we're gonna have them from everywhere. So I I can't I can't wait, though. Like, imagine that, like and who knows when it'll be maybe it'll be at this fall or this summer where we have our first ARC annual meeting, and we get to just all hang out together and have a campfire and just laugh and share stories and help each other.
• 1:54:13
  I, yeah, I would, I'm very excited for that. So I'll drop again, the link to The Arc is just buildthearc.com. That's how you get there. Make sure you just get there. Just drop in your drop in your, your name and your email, and we'll let you know as soon as it comes out.
• 1:54:32
  And, yeah, I think that's it. Let me say goodbye to the to the YouTube people. Sorry, YouTube. I don't give you as much attention. I I I just because I I hate YouTube.
• 1:54:41
  YouTube has been so unfair to me. Tiny loves Boston's, you're killing me, Seth. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Don't make me show you my toenail.
• 1:54:55
  I will do it if I have to. Don't make me, though. Yeah. I saw Ladybug, Do solar ovens work in places like Phoenix with six months of 100 degree ten ten degree weather? Yes.
• 1:55:08
  If you build them right, solar ovens will work well. You can build or you can bake bread in those. So Let's see. Okay. Yeah.
• 1:55:21
  Alrighty. I think Yeah, think that's it. I think that Oh, yeah. Thank you. Connie Klein says, You and Kate sound like an awesome team.
• 1:55:29
  Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. There we are. Yeah, I appreciate that we are.
• 1:55:41
  Also, David, yeah, David, over on YouTube says, Indeed, a small and symbolic fee such as $17.76 seems to be the best option. Too much sounds like a rip off, but no fee increases perceived value. Yeah, that's the thing. That was the thing is that I, I went from like, I want to make it a dollar a month to people saying it should be $50 a month. And, you know, it's like, I actually, I put I overthought it.
• 1:56:06
  Kate Kate told me, like, Seth, you're thinking it was way too much. But we settled on $17.76, right? Because that's, those are the founding values that we're trying to protect and trying to kind of get, you know, get back in this country, the values of 1776. But I also want it to be that, you know, if there's someone that, you know, doesn't want they don't want to join because they'd rather pay for Netflix, then that's okay. But, you know, it's like, want people to come in because it needs to be a real community.
• 1:56:35
  And you have have a little bit of skin in the game, right? That's just the reality of it. You know, handouts don't work very well. If I made it free, you'd have a bunch of people coming in there that weren't committed. Like, look what happens in these chats.
• 1:56:46
  Look how many trolls you come that you get coming in these chats. Like, if this Rumble channel was a paid chat, you wouldn't have any trolls. Right? It's just how it works. So, I mean, I'm not going to because I want my my content to be free, but, you know, the the community, it's it's close.
• 1:57:02
  Like, you're coming into my inner world, and you're sharing your inner world in there too. So it needs to be protected. And you need feel like that anybody who's in there really wants to be in there. But it also helps helps weed out a lot of the AI and the bots, because these days, you know, AI, there there's a lot of fake accounts everywhere. And so, you know, we'll do our best, but most ARs are not gonna be putting in a credit card to sign up.
• 1:57:25
  You're gonna have a lot of those AI spam accounts coming into free platforms. So, there's a lot of reasoning behind it. So yeah, just buildthearc.com. Okay. Oh, so David, I see you're asking, does anybody know where the live chat feed on the screen is based out of what platform?
• 1:57:44
  So that's Rumble. I think you're referring to this. Yeah. So this is Rumble. This is the live chat.
• 1:57:51
  So if you're not familiar with Rumble, let me pull it up for you real quick. Let's see. Let me see. Yeah. So for those of you that are on YouTube, and that aren't this is Rumble.
• 1:58:08
  So actually, this is really cool. So I'm I'm actually the featured video on the Rumble homepage right now. Right? This is the again, this is like they they love me over there because I love them. And I think it's an amazing platform.
• 1:58:21
  So it's just rumble.com, and it's it's like a YouTube platform. It it's just not censored. There's no kind of, like, corrupt algorithms. It's just good content. So that this is so Rumble is is the main place that I put my content.
• 1:58:38
  So this is my Rumble channel right here. And, yeah, this is the main spot that I put my content. I have so I've got a 179,000 followers on Rumble, I've got a 135,000 or so on YouTube, my average view on YouTube is about 3,000 views, My average view on Rumble is about 200,000 views. So that this is the difference. If I wasn't censored on censored on YouTube, I mean, honestly, I'd probably have a channel with millions of subscribers.
• 1:59:08
  It's just but I'm just censored because from the very beginning, I I questioned the government, and I you know, I'm not owned by anybody. I'm independent. So I'm a threat. So they don't they don't they don't want people like me, getting very big. If you see these, you know, kinda alt right conservative channels on Rumble with, you know, 5,000,000 followers, and there's they're not well, drawing conclusions.
• 1:59:33
  There's a reason why Rumble recommends them and why Rumble allows them to grow as big as they are. It's like, you know, who owns these systems? So anyway, okay. There we go. We're gonna say goodnight.
• 1:59:46
  And make sure you hit up buildtheark.com. And yeah, I'll get I'll see you again next Sunday. I'm I'm loving this Sunday, show with you. I just it's great. We get to hang out.
• 1:59:58
  Tonight and actually, tonight was a really fun show. It wasn't some, like, heavy news show, and we're arguing about Trump and Netanyahu or, you know, whatever. This was a just a great show of just hanging out. And I'm gonna try to I'm gonna try to make the Sunday shows a lot more just like this, where now, obviously, tonight, we're talking about preparedness, and it's it's obviously, it's it's a subject that I'm really excited about. But, I like this back and forth, and eventually, we're gonna be doing call ins so that we haven't figured it out yet, or we'll just take some infrastructure and and people to help with it.
• 2:00:32
  But I do wanna start doing call ins, you can call into the show and talk. Let me know what think about that idea. But I love being able just to be myself, and I'm usually interviewing guests, and it's really serious, and all that. And, yeah. Also, if you haven't watched it, I just put out this is on YouTube and Rumble.
• 2:00:51
  I just put out these, part two of my interview with JR Sweet on the on my survivor series. And I think this week, I think I'm interviewing Kathy O'Brien this week. So she'll be my next, guest for that series. So make sure you check that out as well. And I think I'm actually gonna go now.
• 2:01:08
  So thank you. Have a great night. Thank you for being here. Make sure you like the show. Make sure you follow the channel, leave a comment, join the arc, all that fun stuff.
• 2:01:18
  And I'll see you at a later time. Thank you. Take care and God bless.