SCURVY IS MAKING A COMBACK - This Week IN Prepping

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[00:00:41] Welcome back to the workshop where we create community, find freedom, promote preparedness,

[00:00:46] and share success. I am Toolman Tim. Today is November the 29th, 2024, and this is episode

[00:00:55] 477 of Workshop Radio. How in the world is everyone out there this fine evening? I can

[00:01:02] almost guarantee that it is colder here than anywhere else that anyone else is watching from,

[00:01:07] except if Mr. Chris Dixon's on, then we're probably pretty even, but it's good to see you, good to have

[00:01:12] you. We took American Thanksgiving off, moved it one night, and here we are on Brown Friday. So

[00:01:19] yes, I said Brown Friday. So I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I hope you ate all the

[00:01:24] food you could. I know it's kind of a fake Thanksgiving compared to that real Canadian

[00:01:27] Thanksgiving that was a month ago, but either way, it is great to be back. So without further ado,

[00:01:33] the first thing I want to start with is our rule to live by. And I ended up winding up the great big

[00:01:40] random number generator and ended up hitting number 15 this week. And it is rule number 15. The second

[00:01:49] best time is now. You've probably heard this before that the second best time to plant a tree is today.

[00:01:56] You know, the first best time obviously would be 30 years ago, but either way, something that I have

[00:02:02] came around to in my own understanding is you can't cry over the acorns you didn't plant 20 years ago.

[00:02:11] You can't cry over the fruit trees that you didn't plant 10 years ago. All you can do is say, well,

[00:02:17] shit, I guess things went sideways. I didn't do what I should have done, or I could have done something.

[00:02:22] I could have, would have, should have. But guess what? Don't let that get in your way of doing

[00:02:26] something great today. And just because you might not live long enough to see the tree grow does not

[00:02:32] mean you shouldn't start right now because you just never know. I see it a lot, folks. You know,

[00:02:37] people who are elderly in their 60s, 70s, and further on who say, you know, it's just too late

[00:02:44] for me to start a business. And well, guess what? You're right. You know why you're right? Because

[00:02:49] you've made up your mind. But the only way to know for sure is to get off your ass and do it,

[00:02:54] no matter how old, no matter how young. And like I said, it does not matter how long you've been

[00:03:00] living this life, how many turns around the sun you've made. When it comes down to it, the second

[00:03:06] best time to do something is now. And truth be told, maybe I should reword that to the best time to do

[00:03:11] something is now because second best implies you can do something about what came before. And you can't.

[00:03:17] Simple as that. All right. So let's see who, what we, who do we have for fellow delinquents

[00:03:23] in the group this evening? Hey, Byron Roberts. I just have to show him out all the time. I am

[00:03:29] drinking an old fashioned from my Frankfurt, Kentucky bourbon society glass. This is one of my most

[00:03:34] treasured possessions, you know, for what it's worth, guys, I, you know, I occasionally get gifts

[00:03:40] in the mail from listeners and fellow delinquents, and there is nothing that makes me smile more than that.

[00:03:45] I just love it. I got this here. And if you can see that civil defense poster over my shoulder,

[00:03:51] right there, that came from Jake at Ravenwood acres. Thank you for that brother. And we've got

[00:03:55] Pippin. He said, yeah, getting close to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, for those of you who don't know,

[00:04:01] Pippin is a 100% certified Florida man. And that means that it should not get down to 50 degrees

[00:04:07] Fahrenheit where he lives. So that is rather chilly. And speaking of certified Florida men, Ian,

[00:04:12] good to see you. Says, I'll have to rewatch later. Took the wife to the Casey Musgrave concert tonight.

[00:04:17] I'm actually rather jealous. Now I'm going to toot my own horn though. I did happen to book tickets

[00:04:26] for Becky and I to a Post Malone concert in Vegas in May. Jelly Rolls opening up for him. And that's

[00:04:34] been on, you know, one of Becky's concert bucket lists for the last couple of years. And especially

[00:04:39] since Posty put out his country album, I'm rather excited to go and see him live. So that'll be good.

[00:04:45] AJ Harrison, the bone broth man himself. Good to see you brother. And Jeff Stark, the real,

[00:04:50] real Canadian Thanksgiving. Yes. Just like us real Canadian men, right, sir?

[00:04:56] So anyway, I hope you guys had a good time. The holiday season is now fully upon us, no matter

[00:05:02] which side of the border, south or north, I guess, depending on where you're at. South of the

[00:05:07] border could mean something totally different, couldn't it? Chris Dixon said, country face

[00:05:13] tattoos. Who'd have thunk it? I know I wouldn't have. I'm certainly not going to be one of those.

[00:05:18] I mean, even Mike Tyson had his face tattoo removed. So that says something, but you know,

[00:05:23] when you're as filthy rich as Post Malone, I suppose you can do whatever the hell you want

[00:05:26] now, can't you? So, all right. Where are we going into? Let's move right along. We've got,

[00:05:32] I got quite a bit to cover this evening and I'm pretty excited as always to cover it all for you.

[00:05:39] If anyone dies while you are kept in your format room, move the body to another house in the house.

[00:05:47] The time has come for Stranger Than Fiction.

[00:05:52] I've got some good articles tonight, so let's dive in. Anybody who's new here, which I don't see any

[00:05:57] new faces, so we won't rehash the old, but if you're listening on a replay down the road,

[00:06:02] this is where we take a look at some of the Stranger Than Fiction. Yeah, these are fact stories

[00:06:08] that absolutely are true. And beyond that, I should note, I should mention this evening

[00:06:14] that I've started streaming back over to Rumble again. My, I don't know what happened, but YouTube

[00:06:20] has stopped the automatic uploading over to Rumble and there's enough traction on Rumble that the

[00:06:25] channel will be streaming over there for the next little while. And it appears that the broken tool that

[00:06:30] was Facebook streaming is no longer broken. So we are back over there for the moment, but either way,

[00:06:36] you guys will know. And of course, if you haven't followed the new Workshop Radio YouTube channel,

[00:06:41] do that too, because once we hit episode 500, we are going to be streaming there 100%.

[00:06:47] So Jeff Stark says, curious, I'm watching on in TV on the Toolman channel and typing on my phone at

[00:06:53] Workshop Radio. Do you see both? I see that one and I saw the real, let's see, they both show up as the

[00:07:01] same username and the same blue moose. I like that. All right. So here we are. First story,

[00:07:07] World War III alert. No, not really, but here we are. It comes from WCBM, as in mike.com,

[00:07:13] World War III watch. Yeah. If that's not a clickbaity headline, I haven't seen one. That

[00:07:17] sounds like the start, the starting title of just about every Canadian prepper video out there.

[00:07:22] However, Sweden goes full prepper. Don't ever go full prepper because you know what happens.

[00:07:26] As 5 million residents get pamphlets on how to stock food and prepare for nuclear war. Yep. Maybe I

[00:07:33] should have started with something a little lighter, but this just happened to be the first story in the

[00:07:37] order that I saved them on my phone. So not since the darkest days of the Cold War have we been so

[00:07:42] close to a nuclear conflagration as now. You know, I want to back that off. They love to,

[00:07:50] you know, throw out crazy ideas and concepts that we're in a bad situation or whatever, but truth be

[00:07:56] told, we're always just as close to a nuclear war as any other time. All it takes is one crazy person

[00:08:01] to hit a button and you're all set. So we just live with it. And yeah, you know, in the words of

[00:08:07] CS Lewis way back when, when he was asked, you know, how can you do anything during this crazy nuclear age?

[00:08:13] And he said, you know, humanity has always been the individual or the community has always been

[00:08:19] at death's door. You know, the, the, the middle aged communities, the villages were completely at the

[00:08:28] mercy of say Vikings showing up tomorrow and decimating them. You don't know what's coming around the

[00:08:32] corner. So don't live your life in fear. However, this is an interesting story. So let's dive in.

[00:08:37] In Europe, the sense of impending doom is not recent, but it's a little more acute. The formerly

[00:08:42] neutral and Pacific, and Pacific. I don't think that's all passive. Oh my goodness, guys, this will

[00:08:49] be a great word. I think that's supposed to be pacifist Sweden, but they have Pacific instead. I think

[00:08:55] it's supposed to be pacific, but we're just going to leave that alone. They've put the preparedness

[00:08:59] into overdrive as they anticipate the arrival of crisis and war daily mail reported. Sweden is

[00:09:04] sending out 5 million pamphlets to residents, urging them to prepare for the possibility of war.

[00:09:09] Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Stockholm has repeatedly urged Swedes to prepare both mentally

[00:09:14] and logistically for possible conflict, setting the worst worsening situation in its vicinity. Yeah,

[00:09:21] no shit, right? So the booklet, which is in Swedish, of course, which will make it hard for us to read

[00:09:28] if crisis or war comes has been sent out by the Swedish civil contingencies agency. And on and on

[00:09:35] it goes, but it said in a defiant bit, it can be read if Sweden is attacked by another country,

[00:09:39] we will never give up. All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false.

[00:09:46] Citizens must locate the nearest shelter to their work, school, or home. That's not some civil defense

[00:09:57] prepared for it. And I would say, or I'd venture to say that this sort of thing should not instill fear.

[00:10:04] It should truly, I guess, inspire us or hopefully make us feel a little bit better that some countries

[00:10:10] are willing to be prepared. I love the fact. I mean, you wouldn't say to somebody, Hey, it looks

[00:10:15] like it's going to rain or Hey, you know, there's a really good chance that there's a hurricane coming

[00:10:20] up. Maybe you should evacuate. You wouldn't call somebody fear mongering who does that. So I would

[00:10:24] say dealing with things as opposed to burying your head in a metaphorical sand is a much better idea.

[00:10:29] All right, here's the next one. This one is truly strange. And I don't know if you've seen this or not,

[00:10:33] but this comes from zero hedge. Actually, one of my more favorite news sources as of late written by

[00:10:40] Tyler Durden. And if you don't get the fight club reference, I'm, uh, you know, sorry about that. But to

[00:10:45] just jump back over here real quick, Byron Roberts says, sounds like it's out of a 1950s home magazine.

[00:10:50] Yes, it does. Here we go. So anybody ever heard of TDS Trump derangement syndrome? Now, again,

[00:11:00] I gave up voting a few years ago. However, when it comes down to it, it is certainly entertaining to

[00:11:07] watch and I won't begrudge anyone who decides they want to vote. No problem whatsoever. But here it is.

[00:11:13] Florida based cruise line has unveiled a new four year cruise package called skip forward. Yep.

[00:11:20] But seriously cannot handle the reality of it. Skip forward is offered to anyone suffering from

[00:11:26] Trump derangement syndrome. True story. The skip forward package is part of the tour la vie program

[00:11:32] starting at 40 grand a year and is a continuous global adventure for up to count them four years.

[00:11:38] What just happens to be four years long? Could it happen to be Trump's presidency? I think it might be.

[00:11:43] Yeah, I know. Pippin says skip forward. Could you imagine being so distraught over how one person or

[00:11:51] another vote that you're basically willing to throw away four years of your life to go live on a boat?

[00:11:55] Now, I'm not saying no, if that's what you want to do and that makes you happy. Great. So skip forward

[00:12:00] in an interview, CEO told the AP news, the cruise liner is offering voters who would not,

[00:12:06] who are not pleased with the election results. Not one, not two, not three, but four exclusive deals.

[00:12:12] This one's good. One year escape from reality. Two year midterm selection. Three year everywhere

[00:12:19] but home. And four year skip forward. Yep. Peterson said the excursion to 425 ports across 140 countries

[00:12:29] allows voters to escape chaotic American politics and show up just in time to have their heart broken

[00:12:36] four years later. Pippin says, just surprised it's out of Florida, but we like money. That is very true.

[00:12:41] I've never been to Miami, but I've heard about it. And Byron Roberts says, I know a couple of people,

[00:12:46] I donate funds for their trip. Yeah, I have no doubt. I don't know if anybody saw that Ellen and her wife

[00:12:53] moved to Britain. I I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the PR nightmare that has been

[00:12:59] her life the last three years. And it's completely to do with Donald Trump, but she decided to,

[00:13:05] to exercise herself from the United States and live a very lowly, I say lowly, a very pampered

[00:13:13] existence in one of the most posh neighborhoods in London, I do believe. And Pippin says, well,

[00:13:18] I'll buy Ellen. Yes, I agree. All right, let's go back to the cruise ship here for a moment.

[00:13:23] I don't know if anybody Oh, man, I don't know if I could. I'm not sure if I can play this video or not

[00:13:29] here. Where is it? No, it's not going to play sound anyway. But this one lady is, you know,

[00:13:34] screaming her head off and somebody remixed it to a very famous 90s rap beat. So yeah, it's not going

[00:13:42] to play but anyway. So if anybody is, you know, deciding they want to move out for four years,

[00:13:47] simply because somebody got elected, you can live the dream for 40 grand a year on a cruise ship.

[00:13:54] And to be honest, I'm going to say I thought 40,000 sounds rather cheap to be able to live on

[00:13:59] a cruise ship for 40 years for 40. Oh my God, 40 for a year over four years. Pippin says I don't

[00:14:05] she gave up her passport. I'm sure she didn't because she'll want to come back and work.

[00:14:09] All right, let's move on to the next story. This is a good one. Man, I've got some really,

[00:14:14] these are some fun ones this week. All right, this comes from newyorkpost.com. And good old

[00:14:20] scrambling would appreciate this story quite a bit, I do believe. This one comes out of Seattle,

[00:14:24] our West Coast neighbors. Seattle finally starts throwing shoplifters and other petty criminals

[00:14:30] in jail for the first time in four years. I just assumed that most places threw criminals in jail,

[00:14:36] but apparently they don't or they didn't. This is Seattle, of course. Here it is. Seattle has

[00:14:43] finally started tossing folks in jail for low-level crimes again after four years of letting shoplifters,

[00:14:49] vandals, and other petty criminals walk free. I love when they throw that word in, petty.

[00:14:54] Still a criminal, just saying. The change, which went into effect earlier this month,

[00:14:59] reverses pandemic error restrictions. So who wants to guess how long some of these draconian

[00:15:04] pandemic error restrictions will stick around? I mean, when Trump came into office the last

[00:15:09] time around, he did away with some of the Y2K status reports that were continued for

[00:15:15] 15 plus years post-Y2K. So there is that. You know, the government, once the law is enacted,

[00:15:21] it's really hard to get rid of now, isn't it? Here it is. The change, which went into effect earlier

[00:15:26] this month, reverses pandemic error restrictions that kept Seattle police from booking all but the most

[00:15:33] serious misdemeanors in the slammer. Officials in the Emerald City argued the policy hamstrung

[00:15:39] prosecutors and cops. No shit, Sherlock. So you said you could not put criminals in jail

[00:15:46] and you are saying that it hamstrung prosecutors and cops. Cool. All right. I guess that's enough.

[00:15:53] That's all we needed to hear there. I mean, I probably could have told you that before we started,

[00:15:58] that if you decided to not put criminals in jail, that it would make it more difficult for both

[00:16:03] prosecutors and police to do their job. But either way, I haven't been to Seattle before,

[00:16:09] so I don't want to judge, but there you go. Yeah. So they have decided to start putting criminals

[00:16:13] in jail again. It's almost like a lot of these policies just haven't worked out the way they

[00:16:19] thought they would. Anyway, now the title of this week's episode, if you happen to see it,

[00:16:24] and this was a crazy story that I had no idea. And this should, this is why, just for the record,

[00:16:31] this is why I'm drinking two Old Fashioned this evening so I can get my vitamin C because I put

[00:16:35] an orange peel in each one, which definitely gives me all the vitamin C that I need. This one comes from

[00:16:42] globalnews.ca. It's a Canadian story. And it says, Laurent Saskatchewan doctors diagnosed 27 cases

[00:16:49] of scurvy. The last time I heard about scurvy was in elementary school and not because it existed

[00:16:56] then. I mean, it always exists, but because it was something we learned about in social studies.

[00:17:02] It was the type of thing that you heard about the early Canadian explorers in the 16 and 1700s would

[00:17:06] get when they lived off crackers and whiskey. They got it simply by not eating things like vitamin C

[00:17:14] rich foods. And unfortunately it's making a comeback scurvy of all things, guys. This is like,

[00:17:20] this is right up there with leprosy. I mean, maybe not, I don't know. I think it's just as deadly,

[00:17:25] but doctors in Saskatchewan have treated 27 cases of scurvy within the last six months,

[00:17:32] bringing to light the severe impact of food insecurity in the provinces North.

[00:17:37] So this is something that is unfortunate. It's in the, uh, it's in the native reservations up North.

[00:17:44] That tends to be a higher population up there and they tend to be in a more impoverished people group.

[00:17:50] So none of all of this is against them to begin with, but Holy shit scurvy. Right. And I laughed

[00:17:56] out loud while I was saying that because I read Chris Dixon's comment. This is what's wrong with

[00:17:59] crackers and whiskey. Nothing really. I'll eat crackers and whiskey all day. Just leave the

[00:18:05] crackers out of it and finish it off with whiskey. I'm good with that. All right. Irvin confirmed to

[00:18:11] global news that 50 vitamin C blood tests were taken in 27 were confirmed to be deficient. All

[00:18:19] patients were over 20 years old and 79% were indigenous. Scurvy symptoms vary from fatigue, joint

[00:18:25] pain to hair changes, wounds, not healing and loss of teeth. I know lots of people out East who

[00:18:32] maybe have a scurvy of their hairs falling out and they're losing their teeth. And when hearing

[00:18:37] about this uptick in cases, this is Saskatoon food bank says it's unfortunate. We're still talking

[00:18:42] about scurvy in 2024. We're always trying to provide the most nutritious, the nutritious food

[00:18:48] possible, of course, but I think we have a much bigger issue in our province. Yeah, you do. Oh,

[00:18:53] Jeff. Oh yes. I forgot about that. Jeff Stark said Saskatchewan boil your spruce needles.

[00:18:59] Yes. You can actually get vitamin C out of your spruce needles, make a spruce nettle tea as the

[00:19:04] old timers called it. And yeah, there you go. Byron Roberts says he likes his whiskey with a side

[00:19:09] of whiskey. Yeah. There is a country song right now called whiskey whiskey. I figured one whiskey

[00:19:14] wasn't enough. So they had to double it to make it a real country. So, so yes, if you're ever lacking

[00:19:21] vitamin C, boil your spruce needles and make yourself a wonderful tea. But beyond that, what

[00:19:28] more are you going to do? Stay safe, stay safe, stay, stay, and sanitized. Let's go back in time

[00:19:34] with the Prepper Files. Here we go, folks. This is a deep dive into the Prepper Files. This is a

[00:19:41] brand new segment. Well, semi new, but the transition clip is new. I hope you guys enjoy that one. We'll,

[00:19:48] we'll get it spruced up. Pardon the dad joke there for a minute before too long, but it's coming.

[00:19:52] So this one, this happened actually yesterday. I prepared my notes for a November 28th episode.

[00:19:58] So this was back in 1942. The Coconut Grove fire was a nightclub fire that took place in Boston,

[00:20:06] Massachusetts on November 28th, 42. Resulted in the deaths of 492 people. You want to research more

[00:20:15] about this? You can, it's on Wikipedia, but it said during the first Thanksgiving weekend,

[00:20:19] since the U S had entered world war two, the Grove was filled to more than twice its legal capacity.

[00:20:24] Fire was initiated by an electrical short and fueled by methyl chloride in the air conditioning unit.

[00:20:30] Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Flames and smoke spread rapidly through all areas of the

[00:20:35] club and people were unable to escape efficiently because of the locked exit doors. Blame was directed

[00:20:41] at Wolanski. I guess that's the, the drug, the owner for violation of standards. He served nearly

[00:20:47] four years in jail before being released just weeks before his death. And I guess the reason I picked

[00:20:52] this story was it's just, that's a shitty, that's a really bad thing to happen, you know, on Thanksgiving

[00:21:00] day, number one, not that that matters when it happened, but it just really sucks. But it made me

[00:21:05] think of the Rhode Island nightclub fire. And I ended up doing a fair, fairly deep dive,

[00:21:09] reading some articles on that, that I hadn't learned about before. And it, I guess this story,

[00:21:14] more than a lot of what I've read recently, I get reiterated the idea to me that a person should

[00:21:23] always know where your emergency exits are. And I guess more than that, I mean, what are you going

[00:21:27] to do if one of them's locked? But it made me think recently, a couple of the hockey games I went to

[00:21:33] last year in the playoffs and how very quickly the, the escalators to get out of the upper bowl,

[00:21:42] get gridlocked. They get, I mean, you're to the point where you just cannot get out.

[00:21:47] And I got thinking, I need to find some alternative routes to get out of there just in case something

[00:21:52] like that, you know, not hopefully shit, hopefully something like that never, ever happens. But

[00:21:56] I realized going to a lot of these hockey games this year that I haven't paid as much attention

[00:22:00] to the emergency exits there. You know, I go into a restaurant, I look around, I find the exits,

[00:22:05] I go into a hotel, I look at the little map on the wall next to the, the elevator, and I know where

[00:22:11] they are. You know, I quite often I'll even look for the fire extinguisher, but never thought to look

[00:22:15] at the Rogers Center. So that's one of those things that kind of reminded me of that. But

[00:22:20] if you ever have read up on the Rhode Island nightclub, it was a horrible disaster as well that

[00:22:27] implemented some pretty interesting changes coming out of that. But one of the biggest code changes,

[00:22:32] and again, you know, love it or hate it, sometimes building code, well, anyway, they're a pain in the

[00:22:37] ass. But one of the things that came out of it was the fact that any event with 200 people or more

[00:22:43] had to have basically a crowd control manager on staff at the event, one per every 200 people. And I

[00:22:52] thought, isn't that cool? So it's basically an emergency management officer on staff that has

[00:22:57] been trained in how to get crowds out of a place very quickly. And they said at that Rhode Island

[00:23:03] nightclub, for instance, one little three foot wall probably caused the deaths of half or more of the

[00:23:10] people. They said that the one extra wall making, making it more difficult to egress through the main

[00:23:18] exit was enough to bottleneck all of the people trying to get out. And that that's sad, man,

[00:23:24] that shouldn't happen to anybody. Not not a bit. So anyway, coconut. If you've never heard about it,

[00:23:32] look it up. It was the was it the largest night or the largest nightclub disaster in US history,

[00:23:39] heartbreaking. And unfortunately, most rules and codes end up happening because of a massive loss of life.

[00:23:48] He's dead. They're all dead. Everyone, you and I are dead. Everyone, you and I are dead. I'm glad

[00:23:53] it's dead. I'm glad it's dead. Talk of a world. Talk of a world. Coming up next is Workshop Wasteland.

[00:24:00] Well, this is normally the segment where I take a minute and I look at the post-apocalyptic news

[00:24:06] this week, dealing with books and movies and all of that stuff. And guess what? It was a really slow

[00:24:14] news week for movies and TV shows and that sort of thing. So I ended up coming across this article

[00:24:19] from Yahoo Entertainment. Yeah, I know. I was more surprised, more shocked to know that Yahoo was still

[00:24:23] in business. But this article here, we'll just go over it quick and see if we can find a couple of

[00:24:29] recommendations on it. But the 12 best post-apocalyptic movies we've ever seen.

[00:24:34] And it wasn't post-apocalyptic, but the wife and I watched Terrifier 3 last night. You can groan or

[00:24:41] think of it as you will. I'm quite the proponent of practical effects in movies, and they did a

[00:24:49] wonderful job, let's just say in that. So before we go any further, Chris Dixon says,

[00:24:54] humans love their squares and walls. Yes, we do. It's somewhat unnatural in nature,

[00:25:01] I do believe, at least squares for the most part. But we do them anyway. So let's take a look at this.

[00:25:07] Movie Maker from Yahoo Entertainment. But first, what makes a post-apocalyptic movie?

[00:25:13] A post-apocalyptic movie is a movie that takes place after the fall. I thought they were going to say

[00:25:18] after the apocalypse, but they basically do. After the fall of civilization due to nuclear war,

[00:25:23] another event that wipes out humanity, anything like that. So here's some movies. Anybody thumbs up

[00:25:28] or thumbs down there if you like them, but this is one of my all-time favorites. The Matrix 99,

[00:25:32] great film. I guess I never, I mean, it is totally post-apocalyptic. It exists in, it's almost like

[00:25:40] the inverse of the Terminator films. The world itself is very similar to the Terminator future,

[00:25:47] but at least everybody lives in harmony, you know, or at least oblivion. They don't know what's going on,

[00:25:54] right? How about 12 Monkeys? I got to say, guys, I don't believe I've watched this movie

[00:26:00] at least in 20 years, and it may be going on almost 30 now. I don't know if I've actually watched it

[00:26:06] since it originally came out. I remember sitting on my good friend's couch watching it on the floor

[00:26:12] model color television, the 27-inch floor model color TV they had. We used to go down and rent VHSs

[00:26:17] watching 12 Monkeys and thinking, that's a pretty good movie, even though I probably didn't understand

[00:26:22] any of it. So it might be worth going back and watching again. How about A Quiet Place, 2018?

[00:26:28] Yep, that was good. Loved it. Saw it in theaters. Loved it so much. They made three movies of it and

[00:26:33] more coming. Children of Men, one of my all-time favorites. Absolutely cannot disagree with this.

[00:26:39] This was one of those films that bombed at the box office for the most part,

[00:26:44] but got a really big boost on physical media after the fact. And if you've never seen this,

[00:26:51] so far out of all the films on this list, give Children of Men a watch. It's hard to believe that

[00:26:56] that's almost 20 years ago. How about Night of the Comet? This is one on this list that I have not seen.

[00:27:02] And, you know, I brag about my twins all the time, but we've turned them into some movie lovers.

[00:27:08] And so what we do now is we get them to make their own list of movies and come at us with it.

[00:27:14] And so each night one of us gets to pick a movie when we're sitting down.

[00:27:17] So, you know, Charlotte wants Alice, once Becky, once me, once and Charlotte, Alice actually put this

[00:27:22] movie on her list. Never saw it before. Still haven't seen it, but I was on one of my favorite

[00:27:28] Blu-ray sites the other day. They had a really good deal and it took a chance and I bought this one.

[00:27:35] Site unseen. So we're going to watch it. We'll have it on physical media to watch.

[00:27:38] So sitting in our bunkers, underground, post-apocalyptic, we can watch a post-apocalyptic

[00:27:43] movie. Pippin says, wasn't Night of the Comet a pre-dawn of the dead? Maybe it was. Let's see.

[00:27:50] We figured a cult classic should be in the mix and Night of the Comet is our choice.

[00:27:53] It's the kind of movie that has Mary Winoa Roth in a supporting role, if that sentence means

[00:27:58] anything to you. You've probably already seen Night of the Comet or at the very least are running out

[00:28:02] to watch it. It's kind of a comedic in the way it winks at a sci-fi disaster.

[00:28:06] All right. Well, I'll watch it at some point. Here's another one. Actually, I have not seen

[00:28:11] Wall E. Anybody seen that out there? I know it looks good and it's, you know, one of the big

[00:28:18] animated films, but yeah, haven't seen it. The Omega Man. This is the original version of Will

[00:28:25] Smith's movie. If you haven't seen, you know, one of my greatest films of all time, I Am Legend,

[00:28:30] give it a chance. But yeah, go back and watch this. Richard Matheson's novel, I Am Legend,

[00:28:37] has been turned into a movie three times and even parodied in a Simpsons episode. This was one of

[00:28:42] the originals. Terminator, Terminator 2. Yeah, I remember Terminator 2 watching it at my buddy Jason's

[00:28:48] house in 91, 92 on VHS. That movie changed my life just a little bit. Incredible. Beyond that,

[00:28:56] let's go down. AI, Artificial Intelligence, 2001. That was Stanley Kubrick's last movie. He actually

[00:29:03] passed away before it was finished and I believe Spielberg came in and finished it. I don't know if

[00:29:08] it says this here. Yeah. Anyway, not a bad movie. Okay. Night of the Living Dead. If you haven't seen

[00:29:14] it, go watch it. Do yourself a favor. That is the original zombie movie. It's just so good. Mad Max,

[00:29:22] Fury Road. It is a fever dream from start to finish. It's a movie that hits the gas,

[00:29:28] running and never stops. Planet of the Apes, 1968. I remember watching that in college,

[00:29:33] late at night in the college, I don't even, what did we call it? Basically the TV room. The lounge

[00:29:39] is where we could hang out on Friday nights as late as we wanted. And I remember falling asleep watching

[00:29:43] that movie. It was okay. It was okay. Yeah. So that's the list. If there's anything that, well,

[00:29:49] you've, you've seen me do lists before like this, but I always like finding other folks lists and see

[00:29:54] what they, they list on it. But yeah, so that is as far as this week for post-apocalyptic news and

[00:30:03] that sort of thing, that that's the one. All right. So we don't have a segment transition for this next

[00:30:09] one, but we are graced with Thesea, grandma's homestead. She came back to us this week with

[00:30:15] another cookbook of the collapse. She has a recipe tonight called Texas trash pie.

[00:30:22] And if you're not following Thesea, she's doing really well. She's up to 600 subscribers

[00:30:25] and she has a heart of gold. So give her a subscribe. Her link is in the description.

[00:30:30] So let's give it a listen and see what she has to say. Hi, I'm Thesea Ellis and welcome to grandma's

[00:30:36] homestead. In this video, we're going to do another in the series of cooking for the pantry.

[00:30:40] And you know, especially if you have kids, you know, they're getting tired of beans and

[00:30:45] rice and rice and beans. And I have come across a recipe that is almost completely from the

[00:30:50] pantry. And honestly, if you think about it, the butter could be pantry safe. I know I

[00:30:56] keep it on my counter quite a bit, just like that. And I don't have any trouble with it.

[00:31:02] Even well, if I have air conditioner running in the summertime, this is a recipe that your

[00:31:07] kids will love. It's called for that. I don't know what I think I heard of a different name

[00:31:10] for it too. But when I'm with when I came across, it was called Texas trash pie and it's

[00:31:18] tastes a lot better than it sounds. Now I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. When

[00:31:22] I make a pie, I go and I get one of those Pillsbury pie crust from the refrigerator section

[00:31:28] of the store. But I promised you cooking for the pantry. So we're going to make our own

[00:31:32] crust today with flour and salt and lard and a little bit of water. And we'll make our pie

[00:31:39] crust from scratch. You do what you do, but I promise that I do my very best to make everything

[00:31:44] for the pantry. So let's make some pie crust first. For the crust, we're going to start

[00:31:48] with one and a quarter cups of flour, quarter teaspoon of salt. And this is just for one crust.

[00:32:01] This is not a double crust. And this is one third of a cup of lard. I love this thing.

[00:32:14] All right. I do not have a pastry cutter. So we're just going to do it with our fingers after I got

[00:32:18] to get my water out first. It says to use cold water. And so I put some of the refrigerator.

[00:32:30] I'm just working it lightly between my fingers. We don't want to work it too hard. We're working

[00:32:36] it lightly. We're going to make it where it's not big pieces like that, but more like coarse cornmeal.

[00:32:42] So that the lard is worked all the way through the flour and salt mixture.

[00:32:49] I had an Aunt Diane that, no joke, she made the best pie crust. Like when we were at Pamela

[00:32:55] and her pie crust were so beautiful and tasted so good. You can tell by looking that those

[00:33:01] were hers. Now we're going to get our water. And it says five to seven tablespoons at a time.

[00:33:09] So we're going to take it and sprinkle a little bit. And it says to mix it a little bit.

[00:33:21] And as it's mixed and you just kind of push it off to the side and work for the next part of it.

[00:33:30] All right. That's looking pretty good. It's coming together well. I am no expert at pie crust,

[00:33:38] but we're going to try this anyway. See if we can get this to roll out.

[00:33:47] Probably should have balled it up a little bit more. It's not too bad though.

[00:33:50] I think it'll work. Okay. See how well it holds together.

[00:34:02] I've got my oven set at 350 preheating. Oh yeah. That's not bad at all, is it?

[00:34:08] So then we get it in here, pinch it off. Let's pull it over and then pinch it off.

[00:34:21] It may not be pretty, but we're not here for looks. We're not going to the state fair.

[00:34:27] We're going straight to our kids' tummies. And then what we do is we do some poking with it

[00:34:33] so it doesn't bubble up. All right. Our pie crust is done. Let's get started on the pie itself.

[00:34:39] In a larger bowl, let's take one cup of chocolate chips. We've got one cup of pretzels.

[00:34:48] We're going to crunch them up. And the best way I know to do that is just get my rolling pin.

[00:34:53] It's not way too crunched up, but it's pretty good. Same thing with graham crackers.

[00:35:03] It says one cup of graham crackers. This is four full graham crackers broken down.

[00:35:07] It should be close enough. Let's break this. Let's crunch these up now.

[00:35:13] We'll add this to the mixture.

[00:35:17] Now we're doing one cup of shredded coconut. A cup of pecans. I scored some English walnuts.

[00:35:26] These are not black walnuts. Black walnuts are a darker, stronger flavored nut.

[00:35:31] We're doing English walnuts. These are cracked caramel bits.

[00:35:38] And yes, one cup. Looks like somebody's been snacking on my caramel bits.

[00:35:51] Let's mix that together.

[00:35:54] Let's stir this all together. This is all just the dry ingredients.

[00:35:57] This is a coconut. Graham crackers, chocolate chips, caramel bits, nuts.

[00:36:05] Definitely all shelf-stable stuff.

[00:36:07] We melted our butter.

[00:36:09] So we're going to drizzle that on it.

[00:36:16] Well, let's do this first.

[00:36:17] And this is a can of sweetened condensed milk.

[00:36:20] We want to get all of that out.

[00:36:23] And mix this all together.

[00:36:25] Make sure everything is coated with both the butter and the sweetened condensed milk.

[00:36:31] There we go.

[00:36:32] Texas trash pie.

[00:36:34] We're going to dump this in our pie crust.

[00:36:37] Making sure I haven't forgotten anything.

[00:36:38] Nope, haven't forgotten anything.

[00:36:40] So we're going to dump this all into our pie crust.

[00:36:46] Smooth it all out.

[00:36:49] Looks like a mist, isn't it?

[00:36:51] And we're going to stick it in the oven at 350 for 40 to 45 minutes.

[00:36:57] All right.

[00:36:58] This cooked for about 40 minutes.

[00:36:59] The instruction said 40 to 45 minutes.

[00:37:02] And then it tells you to let it sit for 15 minutes.

[00:37:04] That's what I've done.

[00:37:04] And you can see the chocolate chips.

[00:37:06] You can see the caramels in here, the nuts and everything.

[00:37:10] Guys, my mouth is starting to water because this really is wonderful pie.

[00:37:15] So let's cut into it.

[00:37:29] And look how gooey that is.

[00:37:32] Oh my goodness, guys.

[00:37:33] Oh, I got to get the rest of the crust too.

[00:37:36] That is so good.

[00:37:37] Now, I'm not going to lie.

[00:37:39] This screams fresh whipped cream or ice cream.

[00:37:43] But I'm not going to have any.

[00:37:45] I don't have any of that.

[00:37:48] But isn't that beautiful?

[00:37:54] Definitely good.

[00:37:55] Your kids are going to love this.

[00:37:58] Well, what did you think, guys?

[00:38:00] That, oh my goodness.

[00:38:01] You know what that reminded me of?

[00:38:03] It reminded me, my mother-in-law makes dessert bars, I guess you'd call it.

[00:38:10] She basically takes, I don't know if you guys do the same thing we do.

[00:38:13] But if you eat dry cereal, which I'm guessing a lot of you out there don't.

[00:38:16] But if you do, you end up just kind of throwing your boxes on top of the fridge.

[00:38:19] And then eventually, invariably, you end up getting three or four boxes of like this much left.

[00:38:25] You know how the kids, they love something and then they hate it?

[00:38:27] So you get a whole bunch of boxes of like little bits of cereal left.

[00:38:30] And she basically mixes them with butter and peanut butter and makes squares out of them.

[00:38:33] This is kind of like the Texas version of that, except it's more of a dessert pie.

[00:38:37] And I am sure the possibilities would be infinite with what you could absolutely turn that into.

[00:38:43] That was cool.

[00:38:44] That was really neat.

[00:38:44] And I loved how it's all shelf stable and it's practical real world stuff that you are legitimately going to have sitting on a shelf somewhere.

[00:38:51] So thank you, Thesea.

[00:38:53] If you guys haven't followed her yet, please do me a favor and follow her because she is, that is what she does.

[00:38:59] I mean, this is her channel.

[00:39:00] She's been doing it for years.

[00:39:02] I remember first watching her when she started tearing apart the inherited mobile home that she's in.

[00:39:07] And she just continues to do it, guys.

[00:39:09] So give her some love.

[00:39:10] Let's get her up to a thousand eventually.

[00:39:12] But I appreciate it, Thesea.

[00:39:14] Just if you're listening also for the content that you send our way, I love it.

[00:39:18] So thank you very, very much.

[00:39:20] So beyond that, let's go into...

[00:39:23] You stay on the back roads.

[00:39:25] And you keep your gun hammered.

[00:39:27] Our country is still for the thieving, murdering, murdering.

[00:39:30] Get ready for Reddit on the Internet.

[00:39:36] All right.

[00:39:36] So this is, again, our look at the front page of the Internet.

[00:39:39] This is where we go to R Preppers and take a look at the most liked story of the week.

[00:39:44] This was a good one.

[00:39:45] It was a no-brainer because it's right up my alley.

[00:39:48] So let's share it here for you.

[00:39:50] This is from R Preppers and it's from I'm Probably Drunk.

[00:39:54] That's the username.

[00:39:55] I love it.

[00:39:55] It says, don't sleep on ethnic grocery stores.

[00:39:58] Don't sleep in front of them either because you might get stepped on when they open up in the morning.

[00:40:03] I know when trying to stock up, the price can add up quickly, especially when buying from mainstream stores.

[00:40:09] I had to go to a Chinese grocery store today for the first time for a specialty ingredient.

[00:40:14] I was blown away.

[00:40:15] Eight pounds of rice, ten bucks.

[00:40:16] Three pound cans of beans, eight bucks.

[00:40:19] I just spent under $100 Canadian and ended up with 95,000 calories.

[00:40:23] So if you're looking to stock up, head to your local Chinese, Indian, small, independent grocery store.

[00:40:28] Agree, agree, agree.

[00:40:30] My daughter Alice loves Oriental food and we go to the TNT market in Edmonton all the time.

[00:40:37] It's like a super grocery store for Asian food.

[00:40:40] And you've seen some of the videos we've done in the past.

[00:40:43] We have a hell of a time with it.

[00:40:44] But there's a ton of good prepping supplies you could pick up there.

[00:40:48] And some really cool shelf-stable proteins because protein seems to be, as you know, the hardest thing to find to store long term.

[00:40:55] But there's a ton of those at those Oriental grocery stores.

[00:40:59] I've been meaning to take her up and check out some of the Indian stores every so often, some of the Filipino stores.

[00:41:04] But yeah, the big Asian grocery stores are chock full of prepping supplies.

[00:41:11] A couple of comments to follow up from Shadow Nose.

[00:41:14] Not a prepping thing, but the Asian grocery stores in particular have much better vegetable variety.

[00:41:19] It's embarrassing how bad classic American grocery is with respect to quality and variety of vegetables.

[00:41:24] I agree.

[00:41:25] They do have a ton of really cool veggies there for sure.

[00:41:28] See if we've got anything else.

[00:41:29] This is obviously not intended as provocative.

[00:41:31] So take it merely for what it's worth.

[00:41:33] This is from On the Edge of Freedom.

[00:41:35] I went shopping with a Taiwanese family in an Asian market in Boston.

[00:41:38] It was eye-opening.

[00:41:39] They examined every label and refused to buy anything from mainland China.

[00:41:42] It wasn't political.

[00:41:43] They had genuine concerns about food safety.

[00:41:45] The prices are definitely right, but look up brands and distributors.

[00:41:48] Sure.

[00:41:49] And then some person here said,

[00:41:52] To reinforce this point and to highlight something I've encountered personally, you can do a simple test.

[00:41:57] Buy four bags of rice, two from your regular grocery store, and two from whatever ethnic market is nearest.

[00:42:01] Put two bags, one of each on the shelf, and set aside.

[00:42:04] Do the long-term thing and seal the other two, each in their own mylar with O2 absorbers.

[00:42:09] When you check on them, the shelf bag from the ethnic store will have weevils in one month.

[00:42:13] Your regular one may take up to a year.

[00:42:16] The mylar sealed bags, the ethnic one, will still develop some weevils because the O2 absorbers don't fully deploy.

[00:42:23] I mean, anyway, so this is one of those things.

[00:42:25] It's based on personal experience.

[00:42:27] Could it be true?

[00:42:28] It absolutely could be true.

[00:42:30] I'm not going to say it isn't.

[00:42:31] Maybe put it in the freezer for a while.

[00:42:33] I don't know.

[00:42:34] But either way, I have had really good luck at the ethnic grocery store stocking up on things.

[00:42:39] And also, we have a hell of a time picking out food there, trying new things.

[00:42:43] Alice and I love going to the hot food ready kind of market end of the supermarket there.

[00:42:49] We've got some pretty cool things, some things maybe.

[00:42:52] I think we tried squid one night that I hadn't tried before.

[00:42:55] And, you know, so give it a shot if you want to, because to me, it's totally worth it.

[00:43:00] And you might just open your eyes to some other.

[00:43:02] And, you know, we found some, I guess you would almost call them MREs.

[00:43:06] They were hot pot meals with their own little chemical heater in them, which was really cool.

[00:43:10] I still have some sitting upstairs that I plan on doing a video on at some point in the future.

[00:43:17] Nothing like eating under an open sky if it is radioactive.

[00:43:20] Dropping the dime on precious metals.

[00:43:25] Got a new one for you this week.

[00:43:26] And actually, just before I went live, I was reading a couple of news stories.

[00:43:31] And China claims to have found the world's largest vein of gold just this week.

[00:43:36] So I don't know what that's going to do to the gold market.

[00:43:38] It still has to be pulled out of the ground and that sort of thing.

[00:43:41] But I did quite a long dive into the history of gold production and how it's tied in with the GDP.

[00:43:51] Basically, they said that gold production and the GDP had grown on average by 3% for the last multiple, multiple centuries.

[00:44:00] I thought that was rather interesting.

[00:44:02] And I couldn't tell if they correlated.

[00:44:06] I couldn't tell how strong the correlation was, if it was why that was.

[00:44:10] And I'm going to dive a little bit deeper into it.

[00:44:13] But I really enjoyed that.

[00:44:13] So anyway, but I did have this one.

[00:44:16] This came this week from JM Bullion.

[00:44:18] And if you guys ever heard me talk about those Zombox, the one ounce silver coins that are basically famous silver ounces that have been turned into zombie currency.

[00:44:29] Well, they decided to come out with yet another zombie end of the world currency.

[00:44:33] These are really cool.

[00:44:35] Don't buy them for an investment.

[00:44:37] These are a novelty.

[00:44:37] But I wanted to show you guys because I'll probably pick one of each up eventually.

[00:44:41] This is the Zombox World Killaround Silver Note.

[00:44:46] Based on the South African Cougar Inn.

[00:44:50] But this is the dead version of that.

[00:44:53] But this is like a gold back, but it is made out of silver instead.

[00:44:57] Now, this is one ten thousandth of an ounce of silver.

[00:45:01] And this bill is $8.99.

[00:45:03] So you're not buying it for its silver content.

[00:45:06] You're totally buying it for its novelty.

[00:45:07] But I did not know that they had released Zombox.

[00:45:12] Legitimate Zombox.

[00:45:13] Not the coins, but the bills in a silver back this time around.

[00:45:17] So kind of interesting.

[00:45:19] If you're looking at them, the link's in the description.

[00:45:21] No affiliate or anything like that.

[00:45:23] But it's from jmbullion.com.

[00:45:26] All right.

[00:45:27] What do we got now?

[00:45:28] Money, money selling the end of it.

[00:45:30] Well, I'm sure there's a lot of money and a lot of money and a political ideology that ends in breadline.

[00:45:34] Let's reach into the Faraday cage.

[00:45:40] All right.

[00:45:41] Here we are.

[00:45:42] And the first article was there just a moment ago.

[00:45:45] And oh, I see what just happened.

[00:45:47] We just froze.

[00:45:48] What is going on?

[00:45:49] Can you guys hear me out there?

[00:45:50] We're going to close this.

[00:45:51] Oh, boy.

[00:45:52] Hang in there.

[00:45:53] If you guys can hear me, let me know.

[00:45:55] All of a sudden, we just lost.

[00:45:57] Oh, there we are.

[00:45:58] Are we coming back yet?

[00:45:59] I see it.

[00:46:03] Well, I'm going to keep talking in case it records.

[00:46:05] So if you guys are out there, yep, somebody's telling me right now that I just froze.

[00:46:09] Because somebody upstairs probably just unplugged the internet or something.

[00:46:12] And I don't know what happened.

[00:46:14] Here we are.

[00:46:15] Everybody's telling me now.

[00:46:16] I apologize.

[00:46:17] Bear with me for a second, folks.

[00:46:19] We just lost our internet here.

[00:46:22] And I don't know why that happened.

[00:46:24] And I'll go on here and I can at least tell you what happened on my end.

[00:46:28] I can see the comments coming up.

[00:46:29] But oh, my goodness.

[00:46:30] My browser just froze.

[00:46:34] There we go.

[00:46:35] There we are.

[00:46:35] Oh, audio is fine.

[00:46:36] Okay, good.

[00:46:37] Hey, guys.

[00:46:37] There.

[00:46:38] I'm back.

[00:46:39] Sorry for the rambling for a moment.

[00:46:41] But oh, there we go.

[00:46:43] All right.

[00:46:43] We're back.

[00:46:44] Something just froze completely on my end.

[00:46:46] Can you see?

[00:46:47] We're good.

[00:46:48] All right.

[00:46:48] So anybody listening in the audio afterwards?

[00:46:50] It was the gremlins.

[00:46:51] I think some alphabet agency decided that they didn't like what I was about to talk about.

[00:46:55] And the story that just crashed on me, I'll give you the gist of it, was all about Starlink this week.

[00:47:01] And this one is the Faraday Cage.

[00:47:02] I love the name.

[00:47:03] It was sent to us from a fellow delinquent.

[00:47:05] And this is where we take a look at some of the tech stories of the last week.

[00:47:09] And this one, the first story I have, I'm not going to try to reload it because it froze on me.

[00:47:14] And it was all about Starlink finally having enough satellites in space to be able to do space to ground cell service.

[00:47:25] So that is going to be a game changer.

[00:47:27] I don't know how far they're willing to push big tech in going after the telecom companies to say, hey, we're going to do this.

[00:47:35] So far, they swear all they want to do is supplement in areas where it's not available.

[00:47:41] But, I mean, iPhone is doing that right now with the satellite messaging.

[00:47:45] I started tinkering with that the other day just a little bit.

[00:47:48] But beyond that, I'm pretty excited.

[00:47:50] You know, Elon Musk, take him or leave him.

[00:47:52] I think he's a pretty interesting dude.

[00:47:53] But I'm rather excited for Starlink getting enough satellites up there that they're going to be able to offer some form of cell service for us all.

[00:48:01] So beyond that, this story right here.

[00:48:03] And if you didn't catch it, John Willis and I did a live this week on Monday.

[00:48:07] And this is one of the stories I shared with him.

[00:48:09] And I haven't done a deep enough dive.

[00:48:11] I really should pick Sean Mills brain about this because it's kind of interesting.

[00:48:15] But if you haven't heard about it, it is a SolArc in DAI or DAI-E inverter dispute.

[00:48:21] And instead of reading the whole thing to you because it gets kind of technical, I'm going to fill you in on the gist of this story.

[00:48:27] But I will read a little bit here.

[00:48:28] It says, a significant dispute has arisen between SolArc and DAI, two companies involved in the solar energy industry.

[00:48:35] November 15, 2024, DAI remotely disabled a large number of its branded inverters sold in the U.S.

[00:48:43] This action has left many homeowners with inoperable solar systems.

[00:48:48] This affected inverters displayed a message indicating they were not authorized for use in the U.S., Pakistan, or the U.K.

[00:48:56] The message also provided contact information.

[00:48:58] So this story has bigger implications.

[00:49:03] And this is that goes back to the old IOE Internet of or IoT Internet of Things.

[00:49:07] And basically what happened was either one company was copying the other's technology or they were releasing it within a country they weren't supposed to.

[00:49:17] And these were things that have live, you know, active connections to the Internet.

[00:49:23] And so the company is like, well, screw you.

[00:49:26] I know the consumer isn't at fault, but we're going to screw them over anyway.

[00:49:31] And they sent out a kill code.

[00:49:32] So this is something, you know, people are at home using their inverters for their solar systems, just doing their thing.

[00:49:39] And all of a sudden this company says, wait a minute, we don't like what you're doing.

[00:49:44] We're shutting it off.

[00:49:45] So they send software out, they brick the hardware, and now they basically have a useless piece of technology simply because a piece of code was sent.

[00:49:53] And I mean, that could have been inadvertent.

[00:49:55] If it happened accidentally, that could have been bad enough.

[00:49:58] This was done maliciously or at least with intent.

[00:50:01] I mean, what happens if a company goes at a business that supposedly supports the, you know, the back end of your, you know, the software behind your technology?

[00:50:09] I don't know.

[00:50:10] There's a thousand things that could happen here.

[00:50:11] But if this isn't a, an example of why you should own what you own and not be beholden to updates and firmware upgrades and all the rest.

[00:50:21] But this story started on Reddit.

[00:50:23] I saw it a couple of weeks ago and I kind of followed it down and a rabbit hole crazy.

[00:50:28] Yes.

[00:50:28] Bonnie Blue said I was considering a soul arc.

[00:50:30] I'm not, I don't know enough about this situation to tell you whether to buy something or not buy something.

[00:50:37] But what I do know enough of is how this played out and I wanted you guys to hear about it.

[00:50:42] So if you guys see any more about this, send it my way and I will cover it in a, an upcoming episode.

[00:50:47] I'm actually, I won't be here next week.

[00:50:49] I will be in Tennessee.

[00:50:50] I just realized that sitting here that we fly out Tuesday evening.

[00:50:55] We fly into Atlanta.

[00:50:56] We're gone for seven days and then we'll be back.

[00:50:58] So the next two weeks will be prerecorded shows, but I'll be recording a couple episodes while I'm down in Tennessee for you as well.

[00:51:05] I got lots of tons of interviews in the bank that we'll be able to deal with.

[00:51:09] But either way, this is a scary situation that I wasn't super keen on.

[00:51:13] And I'm sure most of you aren't either.

[00:51:15] Another reason why I've been getting back into physical media is so you can own what you own.

[00:51:19] Because I realized we were watching some of these new releases like, well, for instance, Terrifier the other night.

[00:51:25] We paid $25 for that to purchase it digitally, which is great.

[00:51:30] We now own it.

[00:51:31] But what do we own?

[00:51:32] A bunch of ones and zeros that if Apple TV shuts down or decides that they're no longer going to have the license to it, whether I bought it or didn't buy it, I don't own something electronic like that.

[00:51:43] So anyway, there's something to be said about owning physical pieces of equipment that can't necessarily or don't necessarily need to be updated.

[00:51:52] That's for sure.

[00:51:53] And if you haven't seen this one, guys, just go and watch this trailer video.

[00:51:57] I can't play it because I'm sure I'll get a copyright strike if I do.

[00:52:00] But it's called Skynet on Wheels.

[00:52:02] And this story comes from Zero Hedge again.

[00:52:04] And this is one of Tesla's competitors in robotics.

[00:52:07] It's the Chinese company Unitree, which is already selling its humanoid G1 robot.

[00:52:12] So if you haven't seen this yet, check this out.

[00:52:14] I'm just going to show it in a small screen here for a second.

[00:52:16] And if that doesn't look like something straight out of Terminator, I don't know what does.

[00:52:23] But it's a four-wheeled robot that can go downhill at 50 degrees, can climb all kinds of crazy things.

[00:52:31] It can stand up.

[00:52:32] There it is right there and use its legs like arms.

[00:52:35] Kind of cool.

[00:52:37] Scary as shit.

[00:52:38] But I had to show this a little bit.

[00:52:40] This is, you know, right up there with the Boston Dynamics MIT spinoff company that makes robotic animal type things.

[00:52:48] And here's yet another one.

[00:52:49] But this one comes out of China.

[00:52:50] So I thought you might enjoy that one.

[00:52:53] At least maybe just a little bit or something worth taking a look at.

[00:52:57] But all right.

[00:52:58] So let's dive into the weekly workshop next.

[00:53:02] And this is basically a recap on what I have been up to over the last week.

[00:53:07] And actually two weeks in this instance.

[00:53:09] And the main reason I do this is two things.

[00:53:12] For motivation, for me and for you.

[00:53:16] And accountability.

[00:53:16] So that I can share with you what I'm doing.

[00:53:18] So that you know I'm actually doing shit.

[00:53:20] Not just sitting at home doing absolutely nothing.

[00:53:23] So first point of this last two weeks.

[00:53:27] We had a pretty massive, well I say massive.

[00:53:30] We had a pretty big snowstorm as far as the prairies go.

[00:53:32] We tend to get one in November.

[00:53:34] And it tends to be the start of the storm season.

[00:53:37] But we ended up getting somewhere between 10 and 11 inches of snow.

[00:53:41] But the best part about it was that it got cold enough.

[00:53:43] That we didn't get that wet, packy, heavy snow.

[00:53:46] So that made a huge, it made it, it was kind of nice.

[00:53:49] You could drive around town and everybody was smiling.

[00:53:51] Everybody was having fun blowing their snow.

[00:53:53] Because nobody was breaking their back.

[00:53:55] Having heart attacks trying to get rid of the snow.

[00:53:57] It was just a light snow that machinery cleared up pretty quick.

[00:54:01] And of course because I'm a big fan of, you know, two is one.

[00:54:05] So I basically tied together a review for the DeWalt snowblower.

[00:54:09] My one year later review out of that.

[00:54:11] So if you haven't caught that, check that out.

[00:54:13] And a week ago, just over a week ago, I did a video on long-term fuel storage.

[00:54:18] It was a semi hit.

[00:54:20] It did okay.

[00:54:20] I think it's 600 or 700 views at this point.

[00:54:23] Not nearly as good as some of the other ones, but better than others.

[00:54:25] I did some stripping.

[00:54:28] I mean, sorry, striping.

[00:54:29] Yeah, no, did some striping on the walls at the daycare.

[00:54:33] So Becky came up with a great idea that saved us a lot of work, money and frustration.

[00:54:38] And we decided instead of painting all the walls upstairs at the daycare,

[00:54:43] we were just going to put an 18 inch stripe of paint all the way around the hallway.

[00:54:49] So it's basically a cube, sorry, a square all the way around.

[00:54:53] So you've got classrooms on the outside, classrooms on the inside,

[00:54:56] and you have, you know, four hallways that all converge in a square.

[00:54:59] And so what we wanted was we wanted color-coded hallways.

[00:55:03] And what we decided on was two 18 inch stripes that meet in the middle.

[00:55:07] So when parents come in, they can either go the mint green way or the strawberry milkshake way.

[00:55:13] So you can tell parents, hey, take the green hallway to the blue classroom,

[00:55:17] take the red hallway to the purple classroom.

[00:55:19] That was the idea we were going for.

[00:55:21] And I learned quite a bit about proper taping, about making jigs,

[00:55:25] about taking your time and painting over tape.

[00:55:28] And really, I really increased my skill set on that.

[00:55:31] So do your best to look at a job like that as a way to improve a skill set.

[00:55:38] That's what I did.

[00:55:39] And I had a lot of fun.

[00:55:40] My son-in-law, Curtis, he got all the classrooms floored and the carpet pieced in.

[00:55:45] So each classroom has some extra vinyl flooring in it where we took up one third of the carpet.

[00:55:50] And then where the old walls were, of course, there was a four and a half inch gap of where

[00:55:55] the carpet was missing.

[00:55:56] So he pieced that in using his expertise.

[00:55:58] He also got all the bathrooms floored, which is great.

[00:56:01] We installed a new industrial stove, a new dishwasher.

[00:56:05] All the wall hangings have shown up for the upstairs.

[00:56:08] So when I get back from Tennessee, Curtis and I will be hanging all of the bulletin boards,

[00:56:15] whiteboards, coat racks, everything.

[00:56:18] And that will legitimately just leave decorations, decor, and some furniture assembly for upstairs.

[00:56:26] So we're kicking ass and taking names.

[00:56:29] I originally thought maybe March for the renovations to be done.

[00:56:32] And now it's going to be done by the end of December.

[00:56:34] So at least two months ahead of schedule, maybe more.

[00:56:37] We're flying out next Tuesday to Atlanta.

[00:56:39] Had a great live stream with John Willis.

[00:56:41] If you haven't watched it yet, it was the second round of shooting the shit.

[00:56:44] I love that name.

[00:56:46] And that'll be every, we're going to be doing that the last Monday of every month.

[00:56:50] We were both surprised that that Monday came around as fast as it did.

[00:56:55] Four years ago today, I hit 500 subscribers.

[00:56:59] So we're not very far off from 25,000.

[00:57:02] We're just about to hit 22,500, which is the halfway point between 20,000 and 25,000.

[00:57:08] So crazy how far you can come.

[00:57:10] I remember how excited I was to hit 500 subscribers and how excited I am to be quickly approaching 25,000 subscribers as well.

[00:57:19] And then one more thing.

[00:57:21] It's a tease again because I can't share with you yet.

[00:57:24] But we've had some pretty, there's been quite the dichotomy around here.

[00:57:28] We've been really excited about, we're working on purchasing an acreage.

[00:57:35] I've said that.

[00:57:36] And beyond that, that's as far as I can go with it yet.

[00:57:38] But we've had some pretty stressful times and some pretty exciting times all at once.

[00:57:43] Things look much more positive than they did even a week ago.

[00:57:45] So I'm really excited about that.

[00:57:47] As soon as I can share with you for sure what's going to happen one way or the other, I will.

[00:57:51] But until then, just know, you know, pleasant thoughts with everybody out there for me.

[00:57:56] And it's coming.

[00:57:58] So yeah, I'll share with you as quick as I can when I can.

[00:58:00] And yeah, there you go.

[00:58:04] And what do we got next for you?

[00:58:10] Let's take a look at what's left while we empty the cash.

[00:58:14] So if you haven't heard this before, this is a term I heard thrown around quite a bit this year.

[00:58:19] I had heard it a couple of years back, but it was definitely used in the media a lot this year.

[00:58:24] And it is the term Brown Friday.

[00:58:27] And empty in the cash is probably the newest, the newest name to a segment we have on the show.

[00:58:32] And that is simply where I bring in an idea or a concept or a story that I wanted to share about,

[00:58:40] but it just didn't fit in anywhere else.

[00:58:42] And this is Brown Friday.

[00:58:44] Yeah, no, no, sorry.

[00:58:46] Today is Black Friday, but it's also known as Brown Friday.

[00:58:49] And the reason for that is, ha, let's read this story from New York Post.

[00:58:53] How to avoid the worst of Brown Friday.

[00:58:56] The busiest day of the year for plumbers.

[00:58:58] Yep, plumbers.

[00:58:59] And if you're wondering why, well, everybody probably knows because I'm going to guess that Thanksgiving in the U.S.

[00:59:06] is the largest collective family gathering events nationwide.

[00:59:11] And so people scrape fat and clippings and all kinds of shit down the drain.

[00:59:17] They tend to clog up while toilets are used more.

[00:59:20] And plumbing fixtures just tend to break or can't handle the excess flow rate going through them.

[00:59:26] So plumbers make a shit ton, pardon the pun, that was intentional, of money.

[00:59:31] While throngs of shoppers descend on stores everywhere in pursuit of the best sales this Black Friday,

[00:59:36] hordes of plumbers will be dispatched across the nation to deal with the ugly aftermath of those gut-busting Thanksgiving feasts.

[00:59:45] Clogged disposals, pipes, and toilets.

[00:59:48] Now, I'm going to say, I think garbage disposals are a bigger thing in the U.S. than Canada.

[00:59:56] I maybe sold a half dozen of them over the years when I worked at Home Hardware.

[01:00:00] I don't know anybody around here who has one.

[01:00:03] But either way, man, could you imagine?

[01:00:07] You don't want to be calling a plumber on Thanksgiving because you're going to be paying through the nose if you can even get away with it, right?

[01:00:13] But with everybody having guests and family in town, the plumbing system is under more demand.

[01:00:17] It can become overloaded.

[01:00:19] It's no wonder the day after Thanksgiving is twice as busy as any other day of the year, even more so than Hanukkah and Christmas.

[01:00:28] Pippin says, Thanksgiving or Super Bowl, worst time for plumbing problems.

[01:00:31] Yep, I agree.

[01:00:34] So either way, I guess what I'm saying is think ahead.

[01:00:37] If you're having family over, if you live on a septic, you know, and you haven't had your septic pumped out in a long time, maybe do that.

[01:00:45] Have some extra drain cleaner on hand.

[01:00:47] Know how to snake your lines.

[01:00:48] And just don't be stupid.

[01:00:50] Don't pour bacon grease down a drain.

[01:00:52] Don't pour way too many vegetable clippings down there.

[01:00:55] Whatever.

[01:00:56] Just don't do the stupid things.

[01:00:57] Be a little bit more cautious when these big events happen.

[01:01:01] Simple as that.

[01:01:03] All right.

[01:01:04] Next, we have...

[01:01:07] It's the apocalypse.

[01:01:08] It's the apocalypse.

[01:01:09] End of days.

[01:01:10] End of days.

[01:01:11] The judgment day.

[01:01:12] The end of the world, my friend.

[01:01:15] Let's dig into the community mailbag.

[01:01:17] The community mailbag.

[01:01:21] All right.

[01:01:22] We are back to the community mailbag.

[01:01:24] This is where we take a look at all the interactions.

[01:01:27] Well, not all, of course, but some of the things that end up coming my way.

[01:01:30] So this one came from a booster gram over on the...

[01:01:36] Man, I'm having a blank tonight.

[01:01:38] But it is over on fountain.fm.

[01:01:40] If you guys use fountain at all, you get some really cool booster grams over there.

[01:01:44] This one came from the Bitcoin Viking.

[01:01:46] He sent me 1,000 Satoshis.

[01:01:48] It came on November 18th.

[01:01:50] And this was in regards to the last This Week in Prepping we did.

[01:01:54] And he said, hey, I totally agree.

[01:01:56] Go down to your local hardware store.

[01:01:57] Go to the back counter with a box of donuts or a bucket of coffee from Tim Hortons.

[01:02:01] Yak with them about the weather or the hockey game for a while.

[01:02:05] And then get talking about who's a reliable contractor.

[01:02:09] They'll know who to use and the best way to contact him.

[01:02:12] I used to say that a lot.

[01:02:14] If you wanted to get into property management, go to your local real estate office and take

[01:02:19] them some Timbit, some donuts, some cookies, whatever it happens to be, and shoot the shit.

[01:02:25] But if you want to know the most reliable and also the people who aren't reliable, the

[01:02:29] people who will show up and do a day's work, take your deposit, and never come back,

[01:02:32] go down to the hardware store, pick their brain, because that's the place to go to find out

[01:02:36] who is the most reliable.

[01:02:38] All right, next, this comes from YouTube.

[01:02:39] This is Non-Legit Nation 2.

[01:02:42] Said, hey, I just bought a DeWalt quarter inch impact without looking at battery prices.

[01:02:46] I was shocked to say the least.

[01:02:48] I'm going to go with the Scener batteries, though, coming in at around 35 for a 6 amp hour

[01:02:53] battery.

[01:02:54] Scener also makes a universal battery using a single row of 21,700 batteries.

[01:03:00] And all you do is buy the flat battery, which locks into an adapter for 10 different major

[01:03:05] tool brands.

[01:03:06] And then you can use it with that tool.

[01:03:08] There's an adapter for each brand, not one adapter that works with all 10 brands, LOL.

[01:03:12] I'm going with the replacement DeWalt battery, though, not the universal.

[01:03:16] And the reason I brought this up is if you haven't seen this system, it's kind of ingenious.

[01:03:21] The reviews are mixed on it, and I'm pretty sure the company's sending me out some of this.

[01:03:26] It was kind of cool to see this in my comments about the same day that I heard.

[01:03:30] I'm rather excited to try it out, but it's one of those concepts that's basically one

[01:03:35] battery and then adapters to fit everything else.

[01:03:37] Now, we'll see.

[01:03:39] I'm looking forward to trying it out.

[01:03:41] I'm going to keep an open mind.

[01:03:43] I can see problems with it.

[01:03:44] I can also say, hey, it'd be really cool to just keep using the adapters on existing

[01:03:48] DeWalt batteries.

[01:03:49] But I like this system.

[01:03:51] So if you haven't heard of it, look it up.

[01:03:52] And it's CENER, but that is C-E-E-N-R.

[01:03:57] Charlie, Echo, Echo, November, Romeo, in case you're wondering.

[01:04:01] Next, nothing to no one in particular.

[01:04:04] And this is from a couple of weeks ago when I did the surviving a cold weather power outage

[01:04:11] video.

[01:04:11] This said denatured alcohol, burners, sand, copper TEG fan, CO2 detector, fire extinguisher.

[01:04:19] Boom, you have a sand battery.

[01:04:21] Interesting.

[01:04:22] Low-cost fuel, easy to do.

[01:04:24] I mean, okay, I guess so.

[01:04:27] I haven't tried it.

[01:04:28] I might look into it.

[01:04:29] But the one I wanted to say was after this, their comment was, get that neck knife on your

[01:04:35] belt buckle horizontally, more discreet, and it won't take your life if you fall on it.

[01:04:39] All right, well, a couple of things.

[01:04:42] First off, I don't wear my neck knife outside, like outside of my clothing, except when I'm

[01:04:47] filming a video for two reasons.

[01:04:49] Number one, it gets people talking and asking about it.

[01:04:51] And number two, it's easy to access.

[01:04:53] I don't want to have to be reaching up under my shirt while I'm filming videos.

[01:04:56] So normally it fits underneath my shirt.

[01:04:59] So if you're going to slip and fall, the shirt keeps it up against your chest and it's not

[01:05:03] going to jab you.

[01:05:04] Now, of course, it has a plastic.

[01:05:05] It ain't going to kill you, but it might hurt your neck a little bit if you fall.

[01:05:09] I got to ask Patrick Rohrman at some point if he's ever fallen while wearing that neck

[01:05:12] knife.

[01:05:13] And I know the answer is yes.

[01:05:14] So and I know tons of you guys out there who wear neck knives as well.

[01:05:18] Anybody else have that concern?

[01:05:19] Because I know I don't.

[01:05:20] And also, I need to show you.

[01:05:21] Recently, I've switched over to using a multi-tool around my neck.

[01:05:25] And I'll show you my setup one of these weeks.

[01:05:27] I'm pretty excited about it.

[01:05:28] It's turned out way better than I expected.

[01:05:31] All right.

[01:05:31] This one comes from Gibbles.

[01:05:36] Gibbles Pass Crack.

[01:05:37] I don't know.

[01:05:37] 14, 18.

[01:05:39] And this is another winter tip.

[01:05:41] Don't throw out your snow shovel at the end of the winter season.

[01:05:43] Winter will come again.

[01:05:44] So keep that shovel.

[01:05:46] You don't need to go to the hardware store to buy a shovel after the event has started.

[01:05:50] Great idea.

[01:05:51] I love that.

[01:05:52] I hope you guys out there aren't throwing away your snow shovel every year.

[01:05:55] Maybe that's a, you know, an American thing where they live way down where it gets really

[01:05:59] cold, really hot and you only have a snow shovel.

[01:06:01] You need it like twice a year or something.

[01:06:02] I don't know.

[01:06:03] But yeah, don't throw out your snow shovel.

[01:06:04] Man, I have some snow shovels that are old, old, old.

[01:06:07] But yeah, keep them.

[01:06:09] Or if yours is wearing out, wait till the end of the season and buy it in the spring

[01:06:14] on a 90% discount and then save it for next year.

[01:06:18] So yeah.

[01:06:18] So that's what I ended up getting this week from the mailbag.

[01:06:22] It was a, yeah, kind of a quiet week.

[01:06:25] Things have slowed down a little bit.

[01:06:26] I was having exponential growth.

[01:06:28] And that's kind of the cool thing about YouTube is it goes like this, you know, but as long

[01:06:34] as you're working your way up, you're going to get it.

[01:06:36] This time of the year toward the holidays, you always seem to see a decline in viewership.

[01:06:41] Once January comes around, it picks up again.

[01:06:45] But yeah, that's what I have for you guys this week.

[01:06:48] It's a great episode.

[01:06:49] I love coming on and sharing with you.

[01:06:53] The show's here.

[01:06:54] We're going to be doing more episodes coming forward.

[01:06:57] Like I said, pinned in the YouTube comments tonight is the YouTube channel link to the

[01:07:02] Workshop Radio channel.

[01:07:03] Once we hit episode 500, this show will be moving strictly to that channel.

[01:07:08] So you can already watch it over there now.

[01:07:10] All of the back episodes are linked there.

[01:07:12] The design was to clean up this main channel and focus.

[01:07:16] And I decided after about three years of toying with the idea, I'm going to pull the bandaid

[01:07:22] off and finally move the live stream show to its own channel.

[01:07:25] Now upcoming this week, like I said, I'm going to be traveling a bunch over the next little

[01:07:32] while.

[01:07:32] We've got a couple of one week trips.

[01:07:35] We got a trip to Tennessee for John Willis's, the SOE Christmas party.

[01:07:40] We leave next Tuesday.

[01:07:42] Then we're back.

[01:07:42] We'll be back on the 11th going away Christmas shopping for a couple of nights.

[01:07:47] And then I believe it's January 4th.

[01:07:50] We are going south of the border, south of your border.

[01:07:53] We're going down to Mexico for Christmas this year, post Christmas, of course, but the

[01:07:57] whole family's going.

[01:07:58] It's going to be fun.

[01:07:59] So we're going to be gone for seven days.

[01:08:00] There'll be no show that week other than a prerecord as well.

[01:08:02] So the holidays are coming up really quick, guys, and I'm excited to get here with them.

[01:08:07] But I also got a lot of shit I want to get done.

[01:08:09] And we've got some big happenings at the Casay Day Cook, our house here.

[01:08:15] And yeah, I'll keep you in the loop as things go along.

[01:08:18] I hope you guys have a glorious week this week.

[01:08:21] I know I'm going to continue to get lots of shit done and relax a little bit too if you

[01:08:25] need to, folks.

[01:08:27] So as always, what do we say?

[01:08:30] Stay happy.

[01:08:31] Stay healthy.

[01:08:32] Stay healthy.

[01:08:32] And have a great week.