➡ The speaker is considering moving out of Canada due to increasing government regulations and perceived loss of freedoms. They are exploring potential places to move to in the U.S., such as Montana, Tennessee, and Florida, but are also considering other countries. They express concern about the future of freedom, the impact of AI, and the urban-rural divide. The speaker believes that people living in rural areas are more self-reliant and less dependent on government services, and they worry about the increasing urbanization and the potential loss of this self-reliant lifestyle.

➡ Being self-reliant is beneficial as it reduces burden on society and allows you to help others. Living in the city often leads to dependency on the system and conflicts over resources. Despite the challenges, choosing a life closer to nature over urban conveniences can lead to better mental and physical health. However, achieving this lifestyle requires hard work, determination, and sometimes, financial sacrifice.

➡ The text discusses the experiences of a person who built a cabin and relocated to a larger property. They used resources like fence posts and logs from their property to construct their home, emphasizing the importance of being resourceful and cost-effective. They also highlighted the importance of having water and privacy on the property. The person also shared their attempts at self-reliance through growing their own food and hunting, although they faced challenges like poor soil quality and weather conditions. They expressed a desire to be less reliant on others for their food supply.

➡ Jace Medical offers a service that makes getting prescription medications, like antibiotics, easy and hassle-free, which is crucial for survival in emergencies. The text also discusses the importance of self-reliance and the dangers of becoming too dependent on the government or taking the path of least resistance. It highlights the potential crisis of meaning and happiness in society, the impact of AI and automation on jobs, and the potential mental and physical health issues that could arise from a lack of purpose and an over-reliance on virtual worlds. The text encourages finding satisfaction in setting and achieving goals, and taking responsibility for oneself.

➡ The speaker discusses the challenges faced by modern women and men, attributing some of these to a departure from traditional gender roles. They express concern about the discouragement of family life and the impact of AI and automation on job security. The speaker also mentions their responsibility to financially support their daughters in this changing world. Lastly, they express worry about the potential for a financial crisis and the negative impact of AI, while noting a resurgence of traditional skills among some young women.

➡ The speaker believes that the current liberal government has led the country down a damaging path that may take generations to recover from. They argue that the government’s focus on carbon and lack of resource extraction has hindered prosperity.They also express concern over the country’s relationship with the US, suggesting that the government is intentionally neglecting to improve relations. The speaker advises people to acquire assets due to impending inflation and expresses worry over increasing civil unrest, crime, and the erosion of the middle class.

➡ The speaker discusses the importance of hard work, leading by example, and maintaining a low profile. He emphasizes the value of self-reliance, teaching his family to defend themselves, and using early warning systems for security. He also shares his concerns about potential restrictions on activities like hunting and using fossil fuels in Canada, and his plans to focus more on food production and storage in the future.

➡ The speaker discusses their self-sufficient lifestyle, storing food and meat for long periods, and using solar-powered freezers. They mention the challenges of maintaining an off-grid life, including the need for constant care of animals and plants. Despite enjoying a healthy lifestyle, they express a desire for adventure and travel, rather than being tied to one place. They also mention their preference for carrying their own food, avoiding fast food, and their interest in a meat-based diet for health reasons.

Everything that we love to do is going to be illegal in Canada in the next 10 years. Cutting wood, using fossil fuels to run your equipment in your vehicles, carrying a gun, hunting. You know, I need the right to bear arms. I need the right to speak freely. I need to travel when I want to travel or where I want to travel. Those rights are being eroded globally and Canada is like a leader to going down this path of losing our freedom. I don’t believe that’s going to be the case in the U.S. i think there’s enough people that will fight for their constitutional rights and we just don’t have that in Canada.

We don’t have a resilient populace that actually craves freedom or actually even wants freedom. I’m actually in the process right now. I would say by the end of next week, I’ll have my online company move to the US Like I’m that serious about not supporting Canada’s future. World War three is already happening. This is a house of cards and it is in the process of collapsing right now. You’re going to see an economic crash the likes of which we’ve never seen. Hi, folks. Canadian prepper here back once again with a man who needs no introduction on the channel.

Sean James from myself Reliance, a outdoor enthusiast, has built, I think a few log cabins now. Isn’t. Has been. Yeah. So, you know, always sharing his expertise and his picturesque lifestyle that makes all of us want to escape into the wilderness. But I’m sure it’s not without a share of challenges. How are you doing, Sean? Very good. How you doing? I’m doing all right. I’m still recovering from an illness and as we talked about before the video, I had a sleepless night because I didn’t close on a property that I really wanted and it was an off grid sort of retreat.

So I figure, you know, hey, this is a great time to be talking to Sean James about this kind of stuff. So. So there’s a lot going on here in Canada and we can talk about our thoughts on the situation and where we think this is all going. But, you know, what have you been up to over at my self Reliance? What kind of projects are you working on right now? Well, first of all, thanks for having me on again. It’s been a while, like over a year. I think since we talked last probably. I think it was early 2024.

Yeah, yeah. The price of gold was around 2000. So it’s doubled now. Yeah, that’s how I measure it now. When the last time I spoke to somebody oh, yeah, I spoke to him at 2500, that guy at 3000. Moving fast, too. Hey, like 2, 2% up just yesterday, I think. Another one today. It’s going crazy. Yeah, well, that. That tells you the problems that we’ve got, especially in. In our western countries. But we’ll get into that a little bit on the channel, though, around me in my life, basically, I’ve been still developing my two properties, working on a master bedroom addition on the main cabin.

Right now, everything’s still bloody slow when you’re working alone and when you’re trying to use what materials you have and dealing with weather. And this year, actually, the. The heat has been an issue for us. Like, I don’t know what it’s been like in Saskatchewan, but here in Ontario, it’s been just 40 degrees Celsius over 30, even. All this week it’s been the high 20s, 30, 30 degrees Celsius with A. But the humidity is insane, so that impacts my ability to. To work. And the. The result of that, that hot weather is the bugs. That’s. That’s probably the worst bug year I’ve ever experienced, really.

I would have thought that the heat kind of kept some of the mosquitoes down. Maybe the black flies kept some of the mosquitoes down because it was dry. But the. They were bad enough. But the deer flies, I’ve never seen deer flies like this before, and I’ve been hearing that from everybody across the province. So they like the heat. Yeah. And so, you know, we’ve experienced a lot of forest fires here in Saskatchewan. I mean, it’s been a crazy year. It’s actually been, you know, it was a really hot record hot September, but, you know, it was very cool throughout the summer for the most part, but, you know, still above average, but not like what we’ve seen in previous years.

Are you at all concerned about forest fires where you’re at? Not particularly. Like, right around the cabin itself. I’ve got a lot of conifers, but the general area, first of all, I’m not so remote that. That they let fires go or that they can balloon, you know, into major fires. It’s a lot of deciduous, so I’m in a little pocket of, like, boreal forest, but I’m surrounded by deciduous so that the fires don’t tend to spread. Like, you see, like, five hectare fires that, like, that they could put out fairly easily. So I’m not too concerned about.

If anybody. If a fire starts near me, it’s probably me starting it. That’s a good point. Like that deciduous trees like the aspen and the maples and stuff, they almost mitigate the fire risk. Yeah. It’s very rare to see a fire carry very far into deciduous forests. In fact, like, I do a lot of habitat improvement for wildlife, and burning the underbrush is common practice. And it just doesn’t carry. It burns up the duff, but it doesn’t carry into the canopy where you see like an arboreal sac area like you. You live in, with vast spruce forest, for example.

That fire just gets so hot it carries through the canopy. That’s why it travels so far. Yeah. All the SAP and the pitch and all that stuff in there really just rips. So what was your reasoning for laying anchor in Ontario? I mean, it’s a huge place up there in the north. I think a lot of people, you know, they think Ontario, they think Toronto and the great megalopolis, the Golden Horseshoe and all that. But North Ontario is like its own planet. So what made you lay anchor there as opposed to out west here, really? Just because I grew up here and families here.

Yeah. We raised our two daughters that are adults now, 27 and 26 or 26 and 25, and we just raised them in a town north of the great, north of the Greater Toronto area. So it made sense for us to stay within striking distance of the. Although we’re starting to question our future here for political reasons as well as, you know, population. Population has changed. The demographics have changed in this area. So we’re starting to think differently, especially now that our kids are adults and they’re out on their own. And we’re also finding that the community is not very hard to form community in modern life or modern society anyway.

People don’t tend to cooperate very well together. And we’re. You even get that in the area that I’m in. So we’re not as anchored, other than the fact that I’m building these homesteads and putting in the infrastructure for the future. I feel like I can pick up and do that anywhere at this point in Canada in general. To me, I wouldn’t choose Canada if I could choose again. Interesting. Is there any country you might look into? I’m actually in the process right now. I would say by the end of next week, I’ll have my online company move to the US Like, I’m not serious about not supporting Canada’s future.

Yeah. So I’m making moves to at least have that flexibility so that I can choose to live in the US or live here. There’s other countries that would be fine. To move to, but you know, starting over as well as an expat, but trying to do that in the, in a, let’s say Mexico or Costa Rica or something. To move there and start over where you’re a clearly a visible minority in a sort of an unstable global situation. Yeah, I don’t know if I want to start off where I’m so obviously not from that area. You know, that’s what makes that difficult.

I feel like Canada has always been American culture. That’s the way I’m 55 years old. I grew up basically thinking I’m essentially American. We consumed American television media products. Well, we say it’s one of the few two countries where you used to be able to put quarters in each other’s vending machines. Yeah, exactly. It’s a good, good analogy. But here we are in a country that’s decided we’re going to go in a different route with their political system. So to, to try to separate from the US is the most foolish thing we could possibly do. And the, the, the wedge that our politicians and our people are driving between Americans and ourselves.

It’s just, it’s not healthy, it’s not right and it’s, it’s a bad path. It’s the wrong path to go down. If I had to choose one of the. Over the, the other. Absolutely choose America. You know, it’s interesting you say that because part of the reason why I didn’t close on this recent property, which was picturesque in my opinion, I mean, I’ve been developing this thing called the preparedness resilience rating scale. And this scored very high. It scored high on every dimension. But one of the things in the back of my mind was what you’re referring to, which is this increased regulation, really the lack of rights, privileges, whatever you want to call them, and just the government breathing down our necks at every turn.

And I’m seriously giving consideration to moving out of the country at this point because, you know, I, I don’t see a bright future if we continue on this trajectory for freedom. I mean, we have 90% of the country that’s crown land, you know, that’s you can’t even own. They’re taking away all the guns. The, the future doesn’t look too bright for people who are of an independent self reliance mindset. Now that said, I’m also, I also caution people, and perhaps this is a note to self that I think that the American form of authoritarianism is very, is almost like complementary to the Canadian form whereby eventually the other shoe will drop and who knows what the opposing party will leverage those new bureaucratic mechanisms that are now in place to coerce the population with in the same way they’re doing in Canada.

What I’m trying to say is that I think it’s moving towards the same end in both countries. It’s just one’s the blue haired version and one’s the red hat version. And ultimately you’re seeing a consolidation of power. But if I could, you know, at this point, Montana is looking pretty good right now, if I’m being honest. Where would you move if you moved to the States? I’m looking, we’re still research in fact this winter we’re going to do some more traveling around to figure that out from a freedom constitutional perspective. Tennessee stands out. Florida stands out though for homesteading.

It’s not quite as attractive. Yeah, Wyoming, although the weather, weather is a bit of an issue. But you know, I need the right to bear arms. I need the right to speak freely. I need to be able to eat what I want to eat, need to travel when I want to travel or where I want to travel. Those rights are being eroded globally and including the US as you say. But Canada is like, we’re like a leader to going down this path of losing our freedom and becoming just digital citizens, global citizens, not national citizens. Like our government’s made it very clear that we don’t have a national identity.

I mean our prime minister said that just last year, like we don’t have a national identity, we’re going to be global citizens, we’re going to be ruled by the global governance system. So I don’t believe that’s going to be the case in the U.S. i think there’s enough people at the state level and community level that will protect their or fight for their constitutional rights. And we just don’t have that in Canada. Not only do we not have the laws and rules to support that kind of thinking, our people don’t think that way. And that’s been made very clear over the last few years.

I think that’s what I’ve learned more than anything in the last year, that we don’t have a resilient populace that actually craves freedom or actually even wants freedom. We want things to be handed to us. I don’t know if that’s a function were a result of our climate, you know, the fact that we can only be productive for maybe half the year or what it is. But we’re very dependent, very non independent. I don’t see that changing. Like we’re going in the wrong direction. And I don’t. And I think the US is going in that direction as well.

But I think if anybody’s going to have a hope, any country is going to have a hope of, of extending the last bastion of freedom. Yeah, essentially. I mean, you can go to Argentina or somewhere like that, but I don’t know. That’s so unstable. I don’t know if there’s any future there. A lot of people are talking about Uruguay. Yeah, there’s options. But you know, we do have family. Like whatever we do, we’re forging a path for our children too, because I don’t believe they have a future here like we. There’s all the issues around the digitization of the world, but I know you’re well aware of AI and what that’s going to do to not just the job market, but potentially to humanity, the future of humanity.

I’m quite concerned about that. How much of this do you think is urban versus rural? Because I think when we really boil everything down, a lot of this is the divide between the people who are heavily, increasingly more dependent on the cities and the more elaborate supply chain, like you say, and people like yourself who are kind of, you know, way out there on the periphery of all of this, trying to maintain whatever sort of agency they can over their, their lifestyle. Everybody is kind of being sucked into the gravity of the, the big cities. And I’m sure if you looked on a graph, you’d see that urbanization is increasing with all of these problems.

You know, how much of do you, do you think is that and is it inescapable at this point? Like are we just archaic relic of the past? Yeah, well, it’s pretty well there now. It’s very true that there is a political divide. Urban versus rural is essentially the lines between red and blue. And if you live in a city, you really need to be taken care of. You don’t have the means to be self sufficient. People that choose to live in the country are more self sufficient. We’re more self reliant. We take responsibility for ourselves and for our families and our communities.

Even if you have that mindset. But you live in a city, you’re just dependent on the people around you, the government to provide you the services, the transportation, food. Basically you’re three days away from starvation in the city. It’s a very different way of living and we really don’t understand each other. The urbanites don’t really understand the people in the country and that’s why they you know, in our case, our government passes laws like the EV mandate. It forces people into cities or. Because you can’t use a combustion engine to go long distances is what you’re saying.

Well, yeah, if we have to use electric vehicles, they’re just, they don’t sell in the north because they’re too inefficient from the cold. The batteries don’t last and they don’t charge fully. We use trucks to move things around because we’re carrying animals in the back of our trucks or building materials or food. They’re discouraging the use of that type of vehicle, combustion engine vehicle in the country. And electric is so far away from being feasible for rural living in a cold Canadian climate. And they know that there’s no way that by 2030 or 2035, whatever, it’s been extended to that, that technology is going to catch up to the demands of a rural lifestyle.

Yeah, and you know, the thing about the urban rural divide, it could actually bridge a lot of these. I view them as more artificial cultural divides. You know, where you have black versus white, you know, the sexes, you know, the gender, whatever. A lot of that stuff doesn’t matter when you’re out in the country. It’s just like, you know, you are who you are. You know, there’s a scene in the. Was that show called 1870 something or. It was one of those, you know, it’s the Yellowstone Prelude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there’s a scene in there where like the, one of the native guys, you know, he’s looking for a job and you know, they’re like, I can’t get a job in the city.

And he’s like, people are like, well, go up, you know, the cowboys will hire you. They don’t care, you know, so it’s kind of like a. There’s a rural mentality of A lot of these divisions have almost been like artificially imposed on the city. And they’re leveraged by the powers that be to kind of, you know, bring about whatever sort of regulation and coercion that they, that they see fit. So escaping to country life can be liberating not only from the clutches of supply chain dependency, but also from a lot of these, you know, divisions. Well, I think you find your neighbors less threatening when you’re prepared yourself.

I have one neighbor by the cabin, like on the whole road. We don’t have electricity on that road. He’s lived there with his wife. The two, the couple have lived there for 26 or 27 years. I guess it’ll be this year with just propane, lights and a generator, essentially 135 acres. I think he says to me, if you ever need anything, like anything ever, just feel free to reach out and it’ll drop everything for you. I said the same to him. He said, well, thanks, but I’ve been here for 26 years, I’m not going to need you for anything.

But the community, the idea is there that we would help one another out. They’re old, like 77, 78 years old. I’ve always said that’s the one of the least selfish thing you can do is be self reliant because you’re taking care of yourself. You not only in a position to help others, you’re not going to be a burden on society or a burden on your community. You’re not going to need their help or their resources when there’s tough times, whatever those times are, whatever the cause of that is. So you don’t get that as much in the city.

Right. So you’d get a lot more tribalism, you get a lot more conflict and you’re much more aware of the lack of resources that you have. If you’re say in an enclave, in a city, you’re completely dependent on the system, but everybody there is. So you’re aware of that. And if there’s a fight for resources like you see it in the grocery stores when there is some kind of delay in deliveries, you see how people are fighting for the resources, that, that just happens less so in the, in the country. Yeah. I mean, what would you say to people who would say well, I don’t have the resources to kind of get out and live that lifestyle? Or maybe the argument that, you know, human population is too large now to accommodate and have the, the carrying capacity of the land support such a large amount of people.

What, what would you say to those? Because I, I could see, you know, this lifestyle not being amendable to, you know, maybe a small family who’s, you know, starting out and they need to be nearby various services or activities or you know, what would your advice be? You use the word need instead of want. Like basically we want to be near those things. We want that. It’s more than we need to. It’s really this is the path of most resistance and that’s not natural. Like any animal is going to choose the path of least resistance given the choice.

And it’s much easier to get a job and live in the city and just go to the grocery store and buy your groceries. But our withdrawal from nature and our urbanization is causing more mental health issues and also then physical health issues for the very reason that we’re choosing those conveniences over a life of a little bit more hardship but more natural living. We choose, we choose to take the path of least resistance. And that’s the majority of people. And yeah, I couldn’t afford this either. Like, it’s just an excuse that people give that they don’t have the resources, they can’t get out to the country.

That’s always a choice. Like these assets going up right now and the printing of money by all the governments, especially US government. And all you hear in the news is how US is printing so much money that they’re devaluing your currency. We’re at like a 1.4 exchange rate from US to Canadian dollars. As fast as the US is devaluing their dollar, Canada is doing it faster. So that’s putting people in a position where they can’t afford living, can’t afford life, and they don’t have money to buy assets. The things that go up when there’s massive money printing are assets.

And right now you’re seeing, and we’ve seen since COVID you’ve seen real estate prices go crazy. Gold, silver, bitcoin and things like that. Harder assets. Real assets. Yeah. It almost seems like the prices of property in rural compared to urban are probably more attractive or going down. Yeah, they are here too especially. But here there’s a lot of second homes and that’s what. What mainly what’s going down. If it’s a productive property, people are still buying them. Right. But my point is that if you can’t buy assets to benefit from the appreciation of those assets as the governments continue to print money and will continue, it’s.

You probably aren’t working to your full capacity in order to have extra money to buy those things. And I know there’s lots of exceptions and I know that’s an offensive comment. I grew up like lower middle class. My father was laid off half the time from his construction job. The construction and the the 70s and 80s wasn’t like what it is today. You didn’t make a lot of money doing physical trades. So I did not grow up well off. I struggled and worked hard for everything that I’ve ever had. I lost everything. As anybody who follows my story and has followed my channel knows I was $750,000 in debt and had to climb back out of that.

And then once I got to even to keep going and keep building until I built A life of resilience, that’s hard work. That’s like non stop work. Never letting your guard down and putting that extra effort in over and above what somebody does who works 40 hours a week. And that’s just the reality. If you want to get ahead in life, you have to either get really lucky or. But most likely you’re gonna have to work your ass off. Yeah. And if you’re not, if you think you’re working hard because you work at 40 or even a 50 hour week, that’s great.

But then don’t expect to have the same thing that somebody who works 80 hours a week has. And that’s what I’ve worked like. You’ve asked me about my channel, how it’s doing right now. I’m just putting less effort into the channel, but still the equal amount of effort into building out my infrastructure. But the reality is I worked at this channel probably 80, 80 hours a week for the first 10 years. Yeah. That’s why I was successful. That’s why the channel was success successful. Not because I got lucky. No. I mean it takes so much. All those camera angles, you setting that camera up and I, I could only imagine.

I mean I did it for a while where I was doing more wilderness stuff and it is difficult to shoot outside, you know, just for a variety of reasons. You know, lighting or the camera gets cold or you know, the hot cold, this, that bugs. You know, it’s, it’s not a, it looks glamorous, but it isn’t. Well, in that part. I love in that. But then I also edit all my own videos. Right. I do all of my own social media. Like I tried for months to hire somebody to do the editing of the last 12 years of.

Total of 3 months I had somebody working on my videos and it didn’t work out. Like it takes a long time to train someone. Yeah, I had to really train the communist cameraman and a couple other, you know, another editor and a graphics artist I have because it’s one of those things. I’d say it almost takes a couple years to kind of bring them up to your standard of. But one thing I wanted to say though, you know, a lot of people will say, well, it costs a lot of money to go off grid and it does, depending on how you do it.

Like if you want to, you know, get the prime real estate, get all the toys and do all this stuff. Yeah. But what you’re doing is actually you’re going out to a bare plot of land, you know, you have to have your starter tools, I think you have a tractor, you have some other bigger implements. But by and large you can get land that, like the land that you have, you know, for relatively low price in a lot of places compared to what it would cost you in the city for equivalent amount of acreage. Obviously, you know, you could do that if you wanted to put in the work is the thing.

So, you know, for some people, like my arc, I’m still kind of getting my feet wet in this off grid stuff. So I’ve, I’ve taken a few shortcuts, you know, I’ve, I’ve leveraged, you know, my, my resourcefulness in order to, you know, accelerate the process a little bit. And not everybody’s going to have the means to do so, but your path was one where you went out and you carved out this place in the woods which is, you know, bare raw land like that. Maybe you can correct me if I’m wrong, but it really isn’t that expensive relative to what you would get elsewhere.

Well, the people have a hard, it’s really hard to buy land because you can’t get a mortgage on it typically. Right, right. So coming up with either the cash, which I always say just work harder. Like my first property I bought when I was 17 for $16,000 working. I just remembered recently actually part of that was my grandmother died and I got I think $5,000 or something as an inheritance. But the rest of it I worked just as a summer job roofing and making good money, but working really hard and bought that property. That was cheap.

But I mean, prices have gone up substantially since then. That I could buy cash now. I tried. You can’t get a mortgage on anything on, on bare land, so that’s challenging. But there’s usually a private investor you can get to, to help you out with that maybe at a higher, higher interest rate. But if you’re doing all the work like I did, I mean it’s the place itself. Like somebody bought that cabin that you’ve got shown in the background. Somebody bought that off of me when I had those neighbor issues. And I relocate, relocate to where I am now.

But somebody bought that and they had a young child and they’re living in it. Yeah, they built an addition on it, but it’s fine for a family even. And they’re roughing it. And you, you harvested all this wood from the surrounding regions? Well, that or this, that cabin. I did not actually part of it I did. But those logs are actually fence posts because that was the cheapest Thing I could find of that dimension. So I built the cabin based on those fence posts. They’re cedar. Okay. But they were cheap because they’re sold for fence posts.

You bought like log cabin logs. That would be 10,000, $20,000 worth of logs. Yeah. Probably cost me a thousand. So just being resourceful in terms of like cost effectiveness and time, is it feasible to build a log cabin out of the wood from the surrounding regions or is that a little romanticized as well? No. So what you don’t have shown there is my less that bottom picture is. But the cabin that I’m in now, I did build it from the logs from the property. Okay. So. So when we’re relocating, when I needed to get out of that property, we found a bigger parcel that was 20 acres.

We found a 100 acre parcel cheaper than what we were able to sell that property for. And it had a lot more conifer sections, like a lot more boreal type of woodland and massive 85 year old spruce trees and pine trees. So I was able to harvest not only enough to make the or to use for logs for the walls, but to also mill lumber. And I’m still doing that. That’s an important consideration for people, I think. Hey, like if you’re buying land, is that like a big kind of a deal breaker for you if it doesn’t have wood on it, doesn’t have trees on it? Before I built that first cabin, a viewer of the channel, when I was really just doing outdoor content, offered logs off of his property.

Like if you show that you have initiative, be surprised how many people come out of the woodwork willing to help you. My audience has been just incredible. The things I’ve been sent over the years and the help I’ve been offered, I mean that keeps me going in a lot of cases. It just changes my view of the world that people are so generous. There’s somebody, it looks like somebody else has moved on to my road. I haven’t run into them yet, but when I drive in or out in the morning, I’ll see their car there. And I’ve seen a young woman, she’s probably 22 years old, with a baby on her hip coming out of the woods there.

I know there was nothing there when they bought the property. So I think they’re either living a little camper or they’ve built themselves a little, little cabin of some sort. So people are doing it. Tiny home is another good example. Like there, there are ways to live cheaply and to live this lifestyle. If you put Your effort in. But just to go back to the type of land, water is more important than the trees that are on the property. So if you can get trees from somebody else, maybe you can barter for that or maybe they’re.

They’ll donate them or maybe you have to buy them. But you really need water in order to grow your own food. And obviously for your own water for cooking, eating, drinking and cleaning and so on. So water would come first. For me, privacy was a big issue. So we looked for acreage. We found that’s extremely rare. 1 acre, 100 acre parcel completely surrounded literally on all four sides by Crown land. Extremely rare. And so you have to access across crown land. No, it’s the road. Like we have a dirt road that abuts the front of the 100 acre parcel on three.

So on three sides we have crown land, but across the road is crown land as well. And then we have a. We have a spring, a natural spring that there actually was some development on this in this area 150 years ago. Basically because this spring existed to provide drinking water for people. Yeah. So we have that. We have surface water, can easily dig a well. Like I said, the remoteness, the. The wildlife, because I hunt most of our meat and we mostly eat meat. And then the fruit trees and all the permaculture, permanent planting, perennial planting that we’ve done over the last five years of starting to pay off now.

But all through hard work, like none of it was there. Like convert. I heard you say on Chris Martenson’s podcast. You’re talking about the air ability of your land. Like how good the soil is in Saskatchewan. Yeah. Here it’s horrible. Like to improve this soil to the point where you can grow food. It’s taking me the last five years. Right. Yeah. And that’s the. There’s so many like pros and cons. Right. Like here we get plow winds, we get hail. Like hail destroyed my orchard this year. Not destroyed it, but you know, basically, you know, set it back.

Ruined it for this season anyways. And yeah, I mean there’s, you know, having. If you don’t want to get some stuff trucked in, which costs a pretty penny, you know, you have to build it up yourself. Right. Plus you need redundancy. We had failures this year in all of our fruit trees. They did not produce, I think partially because we over prune them this past winter for. For shape. Okay. And I wasn’t counting on getting a large harvest anyway from those fruit trees. But we’ve set them back A year. So next year they’re probably going to produce heavily.

But because we had squash, we had our annuals, we have lots of berries. So blueberries, grapes, Saskatoon berries. Failed to actually like yours didn’t do well. Has caps. Yes. Blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, gooseberries. So many things did produce well for us. Okay. Shrubs. So we went to an organic apple orchard thinking we’re going to fill our pantry or fill our root cellar with apples. They had the same failure on a commercial scale. Was it the heat? I think it was a. Partially. It was a late spring was odd. We got some cold weather right when plants were.

Or the trees were flowering. And we noticed here that we had far fewer pollinators than we did other springs. So I think most of the plants just didn’t pollinate. And then because we had hot, humid weather, we had disease. So we had peach leaf curl, for example, on our nectarines and our peaches. And so you’re trying to grow peaches out there? Yeah, they’re like the, the trees are doing great. Well, I did, I did get some peaches last year and some nectarines. Because you’re in zone what like 3a, 2b. Oh, you’re in zone four. Okay. So you’re down there in the.

Yeah, a little lower. Okay. Well, we have lake effect too. Right. So we get a little bit higher zone. Oh, nice. Yeah. So four is a good kind of all around zone because you build a greenhouse, you know, you can pretty much do anything. Yeah, it’s challenging with the four is not great for a lot of fruit trees, but you can always find hardier. Well, I get them from the prairies, most of our fruit trees. So they’re. Yeah, there’s some peaches that are down. Well, you’re talking to a guy who’s in like 3A, 3B. So for me, 4 is like up there.

Yeah, that’s like the tropics. Yeah. So based, you know, as far as self reliance concerned, I did not grow potatoes this year. Last year was it two or two and three years ago my goal was to grow a million calories. Grow and harvest and grow and harvest, let’s say million calories. And we did that took two years in a row, but primarily with. Well, hunting and fishing was included in that as well. But primarily from potatoes, squash and things like that. I didn’t grow them this year. Now we had this fruit failure and I did get a bear this spring, but I didn’t get a moose tag this year.

So we’re actually reliant on contacts that we’ve made. Luckily, we still don’t rely on the grocery store. So we’re able to buy our meat, for example, and our fruits and vegetables from other sources directly and our milk. But I don’t like being in that position. I don’t want to be in a position where I, I’ve failed and then am reliant on other people to provide our calories. So I’d rather grow more calories, grow enough calories for family of four, so for our daughters as well. And then if we prefer to eat other things because our diet has changed over the last three or four years as well, then we, at least we have that food as a backup, but also to barter with or to give away.

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And now back to the video. Well, I like what you said about the, you know, the path of least resistance and you know, maybe this is where a lot of the problems in our society stem from is the fact that it’s so easy to kind of go to the path of least resistance. Right? And as preppers and survivalists, I don’t know what you consider yourself, but you know, the goal is to realize that, well, if you go to the path of least resistance, you’re going to get soft, you’re going to get weak, your natural skills are going to atrophy and then when it hits the fan, you’re basically going to be totally dependent on the government.

So there is a, there’s a consequence to everybody, whether it works itself out in mental illness or whatnot, of people, you know, trying to just go the easy route all the time. So it’s laudable that, you know, people like yourself are going to such an extent. I say people like yourself, I mean, I’m on that trajectory, but I’m not quite there yet. You know, path of least resistance is energy conservation. And if you want to survive, the more energy you can conserve, typically the better. So it’s not like there’s easier ways to live for sure. You like? I enjoy this.

To me, the further you get up on the hierarchy of needs, the more of the foundation of the hierarchy of needs is provided by others, I think the less satisfying it is. I think that is one of the major causes of mental illness and anxiety. Just unhappiness, lost that sense of meaning and purpose. I think starting at the bottom and working your way up is the proper way to live. So you have to have that. I think naturally I have that. But you also have to love, I don’t know, love nature. I think like I said earlier, you need to love the challenge of providing for yourself.

You need to get satisfaction out of doing something meaningful, but also taking responsibility and achieving, always achieving something, setting a goal and achieving that. And you know, it’s not attainable for everybody, but. Well, I say it’s not. I always come back to there. Obviously there’s people that have handicaps of some sort, mental or, or physical, but barring that, I don’t know too many people that are living to their full potential. Yeah. And I, so I hate to give people that benefit of the doubt or let them opt out or like, I just feel like, like I said, people are putting in their full effort.

I think if they did, they, they wouldn’t find that it’s too hard as too burdensome. I think they would find more satisfaction and a more meaningful and happy life. Yeah. It’s almost as if people are being conditioned to, to be against people like yourself. You know, as you know, you’re like an outsider, you’re a liability, you know, doing whatever they can to kind of demonize people who want to be self reliant. Oh, why do you want to defend yourself if a violent criminal breaks into your house in the middle of the night? You know why? It’s like this vilified vilification of self preservation and obviously it’s, it’s diabolical when you really look into it.

It’s like why are you trying to demonize people who want to take responsibility for themselves? Clearly, even if it’s not a part of a concerted effort or an agenda, it. That’s kind of where it’s moving to increase government centralization and control and taking autonomy away from the individual. Do you what, what are some things that you’re concerned about right now in terms of what the future holds in terms of like potential crisis or flashpoints or. I mean, we know the biggest concern is probably government, but what beyond that, other things that you’re looking at first of all, like immediately and, and already it’s the crisis of meaning.

So the crisis of, of meaning, lack of meaning, lack of, of happiness, I think is, is having a real impact on society. Now I see that as a problem. As I watch my own kids try to make their way in the world, I see them unfortunately not being passionate about the path that I’ve taken, that my wife and I have taken. Yeah. And I, and I see that they’re suffering mentally because of that. And I can see the allure that modern society, as well as our government is, is enticing people with. So I see this path that people are going to be drawn down and inevitably the majority of people are going to end up there.

So to me that’s a crisis. The job crisis is the same as the meaning crisis. What’s going to happen with AI taking jobs? And it already has. I’m surprised how many people will argue about this with me. They don’t think that’s a problem in the future and they don’t even recognize that it’s already a problem. It’s already happening. If you look at the singularity or if you look at AGI that they’re predicting as early as 2027 the number of jobs and the ability to surveil citizens and make them comply and put them into a little bucket in 15 minute cities.

A good example of that, put them in a 15 minute city on UBI. What the hell are they going to do with their time? What’s their purpose going to be like? You can only get so much satisfaction from living in a virtual world. That obviously is their solution. That is what people are going to be doing. But there’s no question that that’s going to lead to an extreme crisis in mental health and physical health. That is not a healthy lifestyle. It’s inhumane and it’s, it’s unnatural. And there’s no way that can turn out well. But the merging of humans with, with AI and robots is, that’s in our lifetime.

I always thought this was something for the future. I wouldn’t have to worry about or very, very close to that reality. And I just don’t see how people like us fit into that. Well, on the one hand you have, like you say, automation, robotics, human resource obsolescence, and then on the other hand you have, like you said, the AI, which is the aggregator, analyzer and probably the decider of the data, because it’s one thing to have data, but now if they can kind of automate the process of analyzing all our data I mean these two things are nightmare scenarios because you’re being rendered obsolete by the machines and then they know everything about you and they can control your entire existence based on this data.

So these two things like converging towards a very dangerous point in the future where, you know, this lack of purpose is a problem. Like when I’m out there, you know, doing something simple, you know, I’m sitting in a tractor tending to the garden or the orchard, it’s like I’m doing something, you know, I’m working on something. Now you could maybe make the argument that, well, maybe we’re just going to just build, you know, in Roblox or Minecraft or you know, whatever, virtual world all day. Maybe that will be the fixation of people. But I think that a lot of this going into this self reliance lifestyle is trying to find that, that purpose again.

And without that, like you say, people are lost. You talked about your, your children and how they’re struggling with this. Do you think that they’re eventually going to come to see, you know, your lifestyle and perhaps more of an intriguing light. I started a channel last year, another, a third channel called our self reliance. So my sister bought 100 acres nearby and all of the kids were basically, since COVID her kids were back in with her and our kids moving in with us and we were kind of working on a few things together. I was teaching them gardening and so on and she was teaching her kids and then we, you know, started fencing her property to add cattle and basically all the kids just flew like through the nest.

Yeah. Like I said before, I think the appeal of an easy life is more attractive, more magnetic than, than this life of heart. Essentially what they consider hardship. I think it’s. First of all it’s more appeals more to mental, to work outside in nature. Work outside doing physical things and dealing with bugs. Like that’s, that’s a serious issue in Canada or anywhere remote. Like the bugs are not enjoyable. No. The bugs in heat and cold essentially, like that’s very challenging and most women aren’t up for that. So I have two daughters, no, no sons. I don’t blame them for being attracted to an easier life.

I, I have to say they just don’t understand that. Well, first of all, they don’t understand that that’s less meaningful and they’re gonna, it’s going to make their mental health journey more challenging. But if you’ve put that on top of the. I would actually call it discouragement of family. Yep. People don’t want to have Kids, they’re just, they want it kids. It’s, I think it’s being discouraged for political reasons, which you can get into the whole climate change and overpopulation discussion. But I think they actually are being discouraged. But there’s also so much toxicity in this world that they’re, they’re unable to have kids.

So that for a woman not being able to have a kid by like 22 years old or 20 years old in the past, you know what, or younger than that even, I think that that creates a lot of anxiety for, for women especially, there’s definitely some kind of schism that would happen at some point. You know, if you have, if half the people are spinsters who probably ought not to be in days gone by, you know, you got to think that that’s, that energy goes somewhere and you know that there’s a, there’s a composite with men as well.

You know, like we were supposed to be warriors, we were supposed to be responsible, we were supposed to, you know, be doing certain things and, or not. And so, you know, that creates all kinds of potential psychological issues, which is not to say that, you know, everybody’s got it neatly conform to these pre established gender roles, but these traditional gender roles. But by and large, I think if you, if you trace things back, you would find that this is where a lot of those issues began. And even if you look at the urban rural split, like that’s where it really kind of starts because you know, when you’re in the rural environment, there’s just roles, there’s pink jobs, there’s blue jobs.

It’s just, you know, you know, my wife doesn’t want to go out and do the things that I want to do and I don’t want to do what she wants to do. Like works. It works. I think both parties were happy in that scenario. Obviously there was abuse in that system in the past, but that’s just human nature. I don’t think it’s the solution just to throw it all out, throw the baby out with the bathwater. And that’s what’s happening. It’s, it is encouraging in the country to see some of the old values returning. Like you starting to see some of the younger women that my wife is in contact with that are relearning the old traditional skills and she’s actually helping them out.

She’s making applesauce today and making cheese and then teaching other women how to make kimchi or sauerkraut and preserve other things, like starting to see an uptick. But I Don’t think it’s ever going to be enough. I don’t think it’s ever going to be mainstream again. And that includes for my own daughters, unfortunately. So I take it on as a responsibility to try to forge another path that. A compromise between the old ways and the new ways, like how are they going to function? And part of that for me is taking on the financial responsibility for them as their jobs get eradicated with AI and automation.

So what’s their future going to be like? They can’t buy a house. They just don’t really have the opportunity. So I’m going to have to keep working until I see which path they want to take and be there for them if they do want to go down this road, or like I said, starting over in another country if necessary. And do you think they would follow you if you pursue that course of action? Yeah. Their interest, they see the problems that are. They realize they’re not naive. They realize that the problems are everywhere. But the path that we’re on here is irreversible as far as I’m concerned.

We saw that in the last election cycle. I saw a survey yesterday that 78% of Canadians believe that critical industries should be nationalized, which they don’t understand. That actually is communism. That’s the only difference between socialism that Canada is now and communism, is that in communism, the state owns all of the enterprises. That’s very concerning to hear that. Well, it sounds like if they’re cognizant of that much, then, you know, clearly what you’ve done has rubbed off on them to a significant degree, because I think, you know, the majority probably don’t even consider things of that nature.

So, you know, you should give yourself a pat on the back because you. You did a good job in light of the circumstances. I mean, it’s. It’s difficult. But I think in setting an example as you have, and I think eventually, you know, everything kind of balances out in the long run. Like you say, these things are coming back because people are recoiling at the egregious imposition of. Of all of these, you know, just artificial values that are being, you know, brought in and promoted in pop culture and things of that. And people are starting to see the drawbacks of it all.

So I don’t long for an sht. HTF situation, but I do think it would set some things right, you know. Yeah, like, I do think there’s a certain yearning for it because I think we all know, you know, that’s. That’s where the reset starts with a lot of this. It’s nothing I would glorify and glamorize as being something I want to happen. But then I also know maybe it’s the cure for a lot of what ails modern man, you know. Yeah, but you’ve never, you mentioned the Yellowstone series. If you look back in those days, just like that’s just one example.

There’s lots of examples in, in media or in history of how difficult things actually were prior to modern times. Yeah. Especially for women. Oh yeah. Like returning to that is absolute chaos. Like it’s, there’s a lot of suffering in anything less than what we have today and majority of people are not prepared for it. On the other side, I don’t know how many people would be left and what those people would be like. Is it just going to be, you know, a Mad Max scenario? But as far as the crises, I think the financial crisis comes first.

Yeah. You ask that. What I see hitting the. I’m not, I don’t worry too much about world war because if we get to that point, I don’t think I even want to be a survivor. It’s not going to be much to want to stick around for. I do worry about AI. Like, I am not very optimistic about that. To me, I don’t know. I think 20% chance that it goes well is probably generous. I think there’s an 80% chance it goes very, very badly for us. And I think that’s a lot closer than I ever hoped it would be.

Like, are you talking Skynet or are you just talking big data? Skynet. Okay. Yeah. Like I don’t see it. I don’t see how we avoid it. I don’t, I do pay attention, a lot of attention to the, the developments in the AI space. I don’t know what the mainstream media tells me that’s the thing about finances, economics, about politics, all of I see what my parents, I hear a little bit about what my parents watch and they’re on a. Like they’re literally living in a different world than I live in. So I don’t know what people actually are aware of.

And I’m pretty sure the majority don’t understand how bad our financial system, how close we are to financial collapse, but how far advanced AI is in robotics and how quickly that’s going to change our worlds. Like we have no understanding. So are you talking like your parents are like, you know, six o’ clock news type mainstream news people? Yeah, they’re impressed by my work ethic. They like they call me after every video I put out and talk about it like, how’d you do this? Why’d you do that? But then when they get off the phone, they’re talk, they’re watching three hours of mainstream media news and they’re, whatever we’ve said, this goes in one ear and out the other.

In that case, they just aren’t on the same page at all as us. They, they don’t understand the challenges of their, that their grand, well, their kids and their grandchildren are facing. And that’s the majority of people. I know that, I know that by my own audience. Like I said. I wonder if that’s dying though, you know, Gen X millennials, we’re talking here, and they’re the ones who kind of still wield the most power in the world, you know, financially and otherwise. Do you think that that is, you know, we’re moving into a whole new social media dominated space that they’re just, you know, that that perspective is being phased out? Is there, is there a silver lining there? I don’t think so.

I think it’s too late. Like we’ll never, first of all, whether you, whether you’re left wing or right wing, there’s no question, you can’t deny that our liberal government for the last 10 years has destroyed this country and they’ve taken us irreversible path. I don’t think it’s possible to come back from that because as, as the boomers start dying off, I mean, it’s pretty morbid to talk, I guess, this way, but as they start dying off, the new immigrants, the new Canadians that have come in to replace them are also voting that way. So this obsession with carbon, for example, by our government and not extracting resources, not we should be the richest, one of the richest countries in the world, we’re not.

That’s not going to change without a change in government. It might not even change with a change in government, but that path is, it’s, it’s the wrong path for prosperity if that’s how you measure things. So I don’t think it’s possible in this country at least to, to recover. I think it’s 50 years, I think it’s two, three generations, four generations before we get to the other side in this country, back to an era of more prosperity and liberty. I don’t think we’ll ever have liberty, but let’s hope that there’s enough abundance at that point that we have autonomy again and a pursuit of happiness.

Well, I really got to ask myself sometimes and this is where things get a little conspiratorial because we are the second largest country in the world. We have next to Russia, probably the most abundant resources available in the world. And we’re next to a country which is, you know, no disrespect to my American viewers and brothers and sisters, but there’s a government right now that’s slightly hostile towards us in certain respects. And now you could say that that’s all just a facade or whatever. Maybe it is. Regardless, that should be grounds itself for promoting self reliance in individuals.

I mean, if there was ever a country that you think they would encourage firearms ownership. Not that I think we stand a hope in hell of fighting off the Americans if they storm over the border, mind you, but in Switzerland, it’s a part of the culture. Why isn’t a part of the culture here? You know, why did they sell off all our gold, you know, back in 2016? Why is 90% of the land in the crown’s hands? You know, why are they trying to throttle people’s Internet freezing bank accounts? Like, you know, it’s almost like they’re just putting us there on a silver platter to either be taken over by countries overseas or the United States.

Like, doesn’t it seem weird that they’re completely neutering us whereas our neighbors to the south are, you know, one of the freest places on the planet. Isn’t that it almost starts to seem like it’s being done intentionally. I hate to be that guy, but you know, I wonder. I don’t think, I think it’s foolish to avoid that, that conspiracy. It just seems so obvious. Like there’s no way that you can have this level of incompetence at that level. Like at, at the highest levels of, of government here. It has to be orchestrated. And really you just look at the 2030 agenda.

There’s nothing in there that we’re not doing. We are definitely on that path. It’s a globalization path. And you mentioned us having the most resources or second most resources in the world. We also have the largest consumer base in the US right below us. That is our customer. That’s who we should be sharing resources and culture with, not Europe. I mean, that’s Carney’s answer, right? We’re going to sell our goods to Europe, who’s across the ocean and currently buys about 10% of our goods. No, we have really good allies just south of us. We’re basically in my mind, one large continent of the same culture that we should be embracing.

Not and unfortunately, like we spent half the winter down there last year. I didn’t see a single Canadian license plate because it was right during the elbows during the election cycle here. Election, election process. I didn’t see any Canadian plates anywhere in the US but we were treated so wonderfully there. The only place we weren’t treated well is when we came back to Canada and people heard we were in the States. The people between the two countries are fine with each other. The US Government is asking our Canadian government to do in order to improve relations is not unreasonable.

There’s a reason we’re choosing not to comply or to clean up our own country and our own borders. So it’s definitely intentional. There’s no way around that. That’s why I think there’s no future for me or my kids. Maybe there is for their, for their kids. Maybe there is for my grandkids. And so you have the AI, you have the financial crisis. What do you foresee unfolding with that? Is it like a dollar collapse? Is it stock market crash? Is it just disruption? Practical advice for somebody would be to, to acquire as many assets as possible, even if that’s things like a tractor or food, some food and storage or something.

Because inflation is going to be an issue. And I saw that coming. I’ve owned businesses in the past and the, the minute Covid hit and they shut us down, they said businesses shut down for two weeks or whatever it was to flatten the curve. I knew that my business contracting business would suffer for at least a year just by losing two months at the prime time for construction. And then when that extended, like this is unsustainable, like there’s no way businesses, most business businesses can recover from this. But what I saw was that the, the inflation it was going to cause.

So I went out and bought a tractor. I bought a whole bunch of implements, anything physical that I could get my hands on that I knew would be worth a lot more in the future. Not that I was planning on selling those things, but I didn’t want to have to buy them in the future. That’s where we’re at right now. There’s no way that we can move forward without printing dollars like crazy to offset the poor economy. The loss of jobs is going to be massive. My biggest fear from all of that is just more civil unrest.

I’m seeing more violence in our area. These tent cities that are popping up in every small town, even not just cities now. The drug problems, the home invasions, and then no ability to defend yourself in this country. All of those things are what concern me immediately. We’re continually improving our security and it seems as though the government, it’s doubly beneficial because with this crime they can at the same time erode our ability to, to defend ourselves. But they can also then justify bigger, more militant police budgets. And you know, even if you’re of that political persuasion, seeing guys in the streets with full automatics, you know, that could backfire someday.

I always caution people, you may like it now, but when the other shoe drops, be careful because I don’t think the other side, when they get in control, they’re going to relinquish such a power, you know. Yeah, it’s anarcho tyranny, man. It’s like, you know, lawlessness and it’s incriminating the, the law abiding people who are trying to do right and you know, laissez faire with the, with the criminals and that justifies more police, more bureaucracy and then it’s just a self perpetuating cycle where you’re, you’re wholly dependent. And it’s the Hunger Games basically. Well, we’re creating a split society of haves and have nots.

Like we’re eroding the middle class, creating more divide politically and financially. Just what I’ve built people are envious of. I get as much jealousy as I get admiration. And that concerns me. That’s why we’re upping our security. It’s why we’re more concerned than ever to show anything that shows our resilience. As people get weaker and especially as the job market starts deteriorating for deteriorating further inflation hits. The have nots are coming after the haves. And my answer is just work harder. But that’s not the path that most people are going to take. They’d rather take than work for it or keep voting or encouraging governments to take for them.

That’s the political system here in Canada. It’s a bottom up problem. It’s not a governance problem. We want in this country in a lot of countries want government governors or you know, basically governors to control and distribute wealth more evenly. They don’t understand that that means everybody’s poor, not that they’re wealthy or more prosperous. Like the people they see online that look like they have more than them. Yeah. And it’s funny because you know they’re, they’re looking at you like you, you got stuff. They’re not looking at the, you know, the downside of the life. Right.

Maybe they’re seeing the tract, but they’re not seeing the you know, the blood, sweat and tears that kind of go into that. It’s a problem with romanticizing. Right. I get criticized for that. And it, to some extent, it’s true. I mean, I show a lot, but I don’t talk about the hardships. I just do the work. And first of all, to me, it’s just. That’s what a man does. You just do the work. Like, you know, complain about it. Yeah. Or. Or brag about it. Like it’s just work. That’s just what a man’s supposed to do.

But it looks romantic to a lot of people, and they think that I’m not showing the hardships or that I’m not teaching anything. And I’ve put myself then in that bucket because they have that. I’m not going to have a channel to teach them to do things. I’m just going to lead by example. Here’s the way I think the best way to live life is hopefully you enjoy following along, and hopefully I inspire people to do. Some people to do that do the same thing. Well, I think the gray man strategy is. Is the way to go.

You know, it’s funny, the guy who owns this building that we. We have our warehouse in here. I mean, loaded, right. Like probably a cent a millionaire and drives the shittiest old minivan, looks like he just, you know, worked in the bush all day. Every time you see him, you know, it’s incredible. You know, people know this, that you’re. What you’re talking about, you know, like people with. I think there’s certain people, maybe when they’re not the entrepreneurial class, though, you know, like, they. They seem to get. Get that. And, you know, it’s important to. To not flaunt it.

Yeah. Because, yeah, we’re entering a period where, you know, people are going to be very envious, like you say, and not, you know, having any consideration for all the hard work that went in. Into that. It’s unfortunate that we’re gonna have to be so guarded. So have you, you know, is there any other security tips that you would perhaps, you know, offer up to people in terms of just maintaining a low profile and. Or different. Obviously you don’t want to disclose a lot about your own specific situation, but any general advice for people in that respect that you found useful over the years? Well, I think the gray man, like you said, is.

I would say that’s the primary strategy also, like you said, displaying some confidence in your ability to defend yourself. Yeah. But also training. And not just training yourself, but your family. Like you’re in my case, my wife and my kids teaching them how to defend themselves. Early warning systems, wherever you can have them. Deterrence. Something as simple as this property is under video surveillance tends to. To just the. Just the idea that there’s trail cameras everywhere tends to make people a little bit more honest. I found in the country keeping things of value not on your body or on your property even to avoid a wrench attack.

Yeah. Just don’t attract attention. Don’t attract and don’t have vulnerabilities. Reduce your vulnerabilities as much as possible and also have some neighbors or friends or community that will assist in the case of some intrusion from. From outside. So my self reliance is gonna. We’re gonna see an American ARC soon by the sounds of things. And you’re thinking, you’re thinking it sounds like east. I would recommend west. Man. Are you a mountain man or are you not? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’d choose a mountain for sure if it wasn’t for our kids being in the east. So it depends where they’re willing to relocate if we’re forging that path for them.

Yeah. I’m also open to being a little bit nomadic at first or maybe having a winter and summer place like that’s okay. That seems to make sense. When you’re in the U.S. you have these wonderful choices of what climate you want to live in. In Canada it’s like colder. Colder basically and unlivable for half the year. Have you spent much time on the West Coast? Spent enough time in the west coast to be very impressed with it, but concerned about the politics depending on what far west you go. Alberta actually just tells our government where to go and says no, we’re not letting you confiscate our or residents guns, for example.

Yeah, that might be enough for me to move to Alberta if we don’t move to the US as an example. Yeah, no, I’m considering it too. You know, the west coast has a lot of trappings, you know, like there’s a lot of good things in terms of climate, in terms of flora, but not without its share of potential risks as well. So everything that we love to do is going to be illegal in Canada in the next 10 years. Cutting wood, burning wood, using fossil fuels to run your equipment and your vehicles, carrying a gun, hunting.

So it’s going to be hard to escape in Canada unless you are living in a province that says we’re doing it our own way and be more autonomous. A lot more of the US will at a state level Maintain more of your freedoms or protect more of your freedoms. Yeah, I mean in Saskatchewan and Alberta I think will be really the last holdouts for this gun thing if it, if it does fully go through which unfortunately it’s definitely on that pathway. Any other big visions for what you would like to do do when you get there with your current place? Like what are you working on now in the Channel and what can people expect from my self reliance in the next few months over winter here.

I mean really just like next year I’ll show a lot more of the food production. We’ve become mostly carnivore animal base, if you were to call it a. A diet. We eat a lot more protein and fruit and a far less seeds of any kind. So we don’t eat, you know, wheat bread, well beans, basically any. Anything that’s made from a seed we don’t. We no longer eat. So we have to somehow besides my hunting and fishing, find a way to have at least part ownership in a herd of cattle. So that’s going to be something I’m working on.

I have a few more buildings I need just for housing my equipment. So you know, garage for the tractor and the SnowMobile and the ATV. A sauna. Even though we have a bathroom in, in this cabin which is nice to have with a, with a shower, bathtub. We’ll build a bath house I guess on a bath house outside as well. And then a mill house for my lumber. I think, I think ideally like my future. What I’d like to do if I can stay here. And this all depends on which path we end up taking here.

What? Because you have to decide whether you just shelter in place, right. It’s always, always a question for prepper. Do you shelter in place if you have everything you need to survive? I look at life a little bit differently at 55 now. I don’t just want to survive. I want to actually thrive and, and enjoy my life. And to me that means a little bit more than just staying on my property in the bush and not being able to leave for multitude of reasons. Yeah. And it’s hard to do that when you have animals and you got all these responsibilities.

That’s the problem. That’s why I’ve always said I’m a hunter and a fisherman and in years where I get a moose tag legally, legally I can actually provide enough calories through hunting, fishing and what I can rate grow. And then we do have chickens and things like that. So I can live that way. And that’s not anchoring me I really can just plant some things in the spring and come back in the fall and harvest everything. That’s interesting. You know, I never really thought about it that way, but you’re right. The agrarian lifestyle really does, you know, lock you in and you have to be at a place, you got to tend to the greenhouse, you got to water, you got to, you know, do all this stuff.

But I, I think you, you make an interesting point about that. That’s part of why we got rid of the greenhouse. We found out there’s more pest control. You have to irrigate. It’s either too hot or too cold. So you either have to heat it in the winter if you actually want to extend your season. And it’s too hot in the summer, so it’s wide open to everything, pests, but, but without the benefit of getting rainfall. So we decided, okay, that’s just an anchor. We’re getting rid of that, the cattle. We’re actually better off outsourcing that if we can do other things to provide while hunting, fishing.

Like I said, I can provide most of my calories that way, so. And fruit trees, all the perennials, once they’re in place, once they’re established, that they just keep producing with some minor work. But that’s not the same as planting and tending an annual garden. That’s a really interesting way of looking. I never thought about that before. Thanks for that. So food storage is actually more important to us now than the food production systems. I have two root cellars. I can put all. I’ve discovered that I could put a year’s worth of potatoes in that root cellar and still eat them in May of the following year.

Squash, same thing. I ate my last squash from last year, I think in June or July of this year. Then we have freezers that are hooked up to solar panels. When I’m not shooting enough animals, we buy. We bought a full buffalo last year as well as a full cow steer. You throw those in the freezers. There’s a year’s worth of meat. We always have at least a year in. Well, we have five gallon pails that all the food that we’ve dehydrated, freeze dried and stored over the years. So I’ve got probably a year and a half or four people stored that way.

Not that I want to eat that crap, but we could if we had to survive. And then freezers full of meat like that, we can leave for six months at a time and come back and everything still self sufficient. You know, that’s really interesting because that that’s one of the downsides of the off grid life that people never talk about. And you have all these ruminant animals and chickens and you know, even if you have dogs or you know, whatever it is you got, those are all dependents. You know, your greenhouse is a dependent in a way.

And you have to have somebody on the property looking after it, you know, so, you know, you really, you gave me a new way of looking at this because, you know, I always knew that was a problem but because they never talk about that and that could be a good video in and of itself. Just, you know, talking about the drawbacks of agriculture, really. Horticulture, well, we’ve become unhealthier in the last 10,000 years since we became agriculturists. We’re not meant actually to live that way. That’s kind of a, kind of a peasantry lifestyle. Yeah. Serving the king.

Like I said, I’m 55. I with Life Extension now. Maybe I could live to 100. I might be just halfway through my life. In the past, I thought for sure 65 was it for me. I’ve cleaned up my diet. I’ve been living this healthy outdoor lifestyle. I’m like literally got blood work like I’m 20 years old. Like I might live a long time, but I’m not satisfied to be a Dick Prenecke living in a cabin by myself and you know, not just doing the same thing every day. That’s not the way I am. I’m an adventurer.

I want to see the world. I want to experience new lives. I’m willing to move to Tennessee for a year or two, then move to Wyoming for a year or two, then Arizona for a year. Like I’m willing to do all of those things because we. I have one life to live and I’m going to live it to the fullest. I’m not interested in just surviving. Yeah. And just having this homestead. Hopefully I could always keep this. I can always return to it. And maybe it’s like every year I’m, I’m still here half the year, but I want to have nothing tying me down so we can go do what we want and still be self sufficient.

Like I’ve got my truck set up to have a freezer in the back. We’ve got a freeze dryer. We freeze dry all the fruit. Like we can go on the road for six months and live out of the back of the truck because we don’t, because we’ve changed our diet. We don’t go to fast food. Restaurants ever. We don’t. We literally carry our food with us everywhere we go now. Yeah, movement is life as the saying goes. You know, I know another person who’s prominent public figure who recently had a bout of of cancer and they were able to cure it.

Now this is a just one example. I can’t say the same is going to work for everybody but by eating just a meat like a wild game meat diet. So there’s definitely something to it, you know. So I think you’re on the right path there. Well, thank you for coming out today and sharing your your insights with us because it’s been very, very helpful for me in trying to figure out what my next moves are going to be in light of the circumstances that are going on above and beyond my self reliance. Are you still posting on the Sean James channel? I noticed you’re not posting as much.

I have not. I’ve decided just to consolidate like I said because I’m going to start well, just streamlining a little bit. Just becoming a little bit more efficient with my time. I do literally film every day still, but I don’t necessarily post at all. I tend to work on the project. I capture one segment of what I’m doing and then turn the camera off. For one thing. I’m usually like shirtless and shorts and like moccasins and that’s not what I show on camera. So just just becoming more efficient, showing a little bit less. Still trying to provide entertainment and hopefully some inspiration, maybe some education.

But I think that it can all be done on one channel and we’ll see how, you know, hopefully I do this forever. I enjoy doing it and I might just show more of that nomadic part of my life and that. That’s fine on one channel. That’ll be cool, man. I’m looking forward. I’m also looking forward to like the angry old man arc when you, you know, you just go off the rails. I can’t wait for that. That’s going to be awesome. I’m, I’m close. I’m already there. So my video I released yesterday, I don’t know what I was smoking in that video but.

Well, if you’re anything like me, your friends and family become fewer and fewer every year as you become an older, grumpier old man. So it’s my audience, my online audience is my closest friend group par for the course. Well, we’re slowly curating our audiences and the one that’s stick with us, I guess those are the ones that count. Well, thanks a lot for coming out, man. I appreciate it. And you know, I hope to return the favor. Stop by your channel someday. Yeah. I’d like to pay you a visit out there and see your food forest and see your homestead as well at some point.

Yeah, it won’t be much for the next eight months. It’ll be minus 40, so. But maybe after that. Yeah. All right, take care. All right, nice talking. The best way to support this channel is to support yourself by gearing up@canadianpreparedness.com where you’ll find high quality survival gear at the best prices. No junk and no gimmicks. Use discount code. Prepping gear for 10% off. Don’t forget the strong survive, but the prepared thrive. Stay safe.
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