➡ The era of cheap products is ending, leading to a time of change and uncertainty. However, this isn’t necessarily bad if you’re prepared. The speaker, a prepper, is working on building systems for the future and shares his wisdom on prepping. He’s also working on a project to show how to become self-sufficient in a small space, like a suburban backyard, and plans to teach others how to do the same.
➡ The text discusses the importance of learning self-sufficiency skills like gardening and raising chickens, especially in the face of potential economic instability. It emphasizes the value of these skills as a form of insurance and a way to maintain a decent standard of living. The author also shares their journey of setting up a small-scale homestead, focusing on efficient use of space and working with the environment. They highlight the growing trend of people seeking to homestead and the challenges of finding suitable land.
➡ The speaker discusses his experience with purchasing and maintaining land, highlighting the challenges and benefits. He mentions finding a 40-acre lot with a well, which is valuable as digging a well can be costly. However, the area had high crime rates and was previously used for illegal activities. He also emphasizes the importance of community, sharing how neighbors are more willing to help in rural areas compared to suburbia. He shares his experiences with security issues and the importance of being vigilant and establishing good relationships with neighbors for mutual aid and protection.
➡ The speaker discusses his efforts to secure his property, which includes adopting Great Pyrenees dogs from a shelter and installing security systems. He plans to expand his security measures over time, including adding more cameras and solar projects. He also talks about the wildlife on his property, including coyotes and cougars, and his plans to raise chickens. The property features a creek and a well, and he has ideas for future projects like building a dam for hydropower.
➡ The speaker discusses their experiences with raising chickens and building custom chicken coops. They also talk about using solar power for their homes and the benefits of it. They mention the possibility of using shipping containers as chicken coops and discuss the idea of using electric vehicles as a source of stored energy. Lastly, they discuss different brands of solar power systems and their preferences.
➡ Jackery and Anchor are two companies that have significantly improved their products, particularly in the home unit sector. However, potential tariffs could increase the prices of these products. The speaker suggests that if these products are within your budget, it might be wise to purchase them now before prices potentially rise. The speaker also discusses the broader implications of these tariffs, suggesting that they could mark the end of an era of cheap products and the beginning of a period of economic transition.
➡ The speaker discusses the current state of the world, predicting a time of change and uncertainty due to nations pulling back their structures. He emphasizes the importance of preparation, including healthy living and investing in self-sustaining infrastructures. He also shares his experiences with investments, including cryptocurrencies and precious metals, but advises caution and only investing what one can afford to lose. He concludes by stressing the value of tangible preparations like food and system building over speculative investments.
➡ The speaker discusses the value of gold as a form of investment and survival tool, emphasizing its worth during times of economic instability. They also highlight the importance of self-sufficiency, such as growing your own food and building your own systems. The speaker also shares their experiences with property maintenance and the unexpected challenges it can bring, stressing the importance of time management. They conclude by advising people to consider the time and effort required when planning to live off-grid.
➡ The speaker encourages people to start preparing for potential future crises, even if they can’t do everything at once. He suggests starting small, like planting a garden or learning new skills, and not to be overwhelmed by the big picture. He also mentions a shift in people’s mindset, with more people realizing the importance of being prepared due to recent global events. Lastly, he talks about making his content more accessible to a wider audience by using less jargon and focusing on practical advice.
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The era of cheap products is over. People are going to feel the pinch, protectionism, isolationism. It’s going to come at a cost. And I don’t think it really takes much of a crystal ball to understand where things are heading. I feel like the next few years will be a transitional time frame and the world order that has been structured and built those days are coming to an end. People don’t realize what’s about to come. We’ve all gotten so conditioned to living in such good times. Start where you are, work with what you have, work with your limitations.

All these systems that I’m going to be building and documenting, it’s an investment for the future. The storm coming ahead of us, a lot of people just don’t really fully understand. It’s going to be a time of uncertainty, it’s going to be a time of change. That’s not necessarily a bad thing if you’re prepared. World War three is already happening. This is a house of cars 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. Today we have a very special guest, an old friend of the channel, my son, my long lost son.

City Prepping Chris from City Prepping is here to share his wisdom about prepping and to tell us all about his projects that he’s working on. And just shoot the breeze about prepping. We got no script, it’s open ended podcast. But I have to do a hard stop at 2:15 because I got stuff coming out of the freeze dryer and we got to shoot a freeze dryer video. So how’s it going in City Prepping land and long time no see on the channel. Yeah, it’s been a while. I was thinking about that before I get on this call.

It’s been like, I remember we did a couple of clubs, collaborative videos, almost want to say seven years ago where I did a video for your channel and you did one for mine. We were both just starting out. I don’t even think we had maybe 50, 60,000 subscribers at that time. Back in the good old days. That was a lot of fun and. But yeah, man, things are great and I appreciate you having me on. It’s just been really fun to see the trajectory of your channel with everything that’s going on. And you know, it’s, it’s been fun to watch as we kind of, you know, somewhat started around the same kind of general time frame.

I kind of feel like, like we’re some of the OGs, you know, just getting there. Yeah, there wasn’t, say the word old, but there was a group that came before us, but they never really. I mean, there was the nut and fancies and. Yeah, yeah, the guys like that. But there was also this. There was also this small group of people who ruminated about SHTF stuff. And then I think we kind of came in and you know, amped up the production a little bit. And you know, you remind that one you’re like a main prepper that would ruminate.

He’d do those videos. Do you remember him? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was one of the guys. One of the real OGs. Yeah. And I remember the video that you’re referencing. I’ll post links to those. I think I did one on. I think you did one on California for my channel. Like what, you know, hits the fan would look like in California. And then I did the same for you for Canada as a whole. So, you know, now that we’re going to be the 51st state, I guess, you know, there’s going to be one and the same.

So we’re already going there, huh? Yeah, well, yeah, we don’t have to go there. But I kind of just want to know, like, what you’re working on these days because I know you’re. You’re building out a new homestead, like kind of a microstead, if you will, and maybe tell us a little bit about. About what you’re up to nowadays. Yeah, no, and again, thank you for bringing me on and thanks for, you know, asking that question. Just kind of a quick update. You know, I’ve been obviously doing this for we. Oh, gosh, I was checking the other day about nine and a half years, and there’s kind of, you know, it goes.

There’s a natural progression as you move along. You kind of get stage one, so to speak, squared away. I’ve been trying to help just teach the basics of, you know, what you can do in a suburban home over the years. And so I kind of view this as like a, you know, 201 or 301. Where I’m at right now, where we’ve brought, bought property and we’ve sectioned off 3,000 square feet, which is smaller than the average American backyard, which ranged between 5 and 10,000 square feet. And so what we’re doing is we’re building it out, you know, showing rain harvesting, chickens, gardening.

We’re building all these systems right now. We haven’t really released a lot on the channel, kind of showing a Little behind the scenes over the last month, but, but even yesterday we were out planting a bunch of fruit trees. And so what we’re trying to do is show what you can do in a small space and you know, again, a typical kind of suburban backyard staying true to city prepping. I know you and I both have tractors that show up on our channel and I’ve had a few people ask me, well, are you still city prepping if you have a tractor? So I had to address that recently.

But I’ll just say it’s nice to have something that moves the process along a lot faster instead of having to dig all the time manually, which I did for years. But yeah, so I mean we’re just, you know, working on these projects. And so the goal is to build courses to teach people, you know, how to become self sufficient and as much as they can in their own limited space. So that’s kind of the direction where things are heading right now with the channel. I think that’s pretty cool because you know, a lot of people are not going to be in a position, at least not anytime soon.

I think it’s a lofty goal for the long term for a lot of people to want to go completely off grid and to have, you know, the, the full acreage and you know, the ability to, to have enough redundancy built into weather any kind of storm. But I think what you’re doing is great because this is going to allow people to, anybody really to get into this. And I think it’s gonna, we’re gonna reach a point where it’s not just a hobby, where it’s a necessity. I mean already we’re seeing the price of food, the price of chicken, sure, the price of eggs is pulled back a little bit with the help of some government subsidies and whatnot.

But that’s going to spike with the next H5N1 scare. So you know, we’re reaching a point where it’s going to become economical even for I would say mid to high income earners to start growing their own food. Not only for the nutritional value but also for the, the financial value. Because I mean I’m going to the store lately and I’m going to these self checkouts and I’m like 30 bucks and I got you know, a couple bags of like protein chips and you know, and a fancy drink and it’s like what the hell? Like yeah, yeah.

That’s what we’re trying to figure out here is, you know, this is going to be what I’m calling a Five year, kind of a five year project. What we did recently on the channel is announced what we’re calling our 2030 initiative where we’re trying to train 10,000 people to become prepared, whether what, you know, whatever that means to individuals. And we’ll leave it up to them to kind of define that timeline, whether that’s a month, three months, a year, self sufficient, etc. But what we’re trying to do is train people, you know, that amount of people by 2030.

And like you said, where I see things heading and as you and I both watch these world events playing out even, you know, today with tariffs being announced, we’re watching that really closely as a team. We’ll do a new segment on that on that here coming up on Friday. I’m sure you will as well. And what that means to us as preppers and just individuals in general. And to your point, things, it’s no longer just like, hey, this is something that’s, you know, to a degree a hobby where it’s like, hey, I want to learn self sufficiency skills and all these things.

But it’s becoming more of a necessity. And where I see things heading and again, you know, one of the things I’ve learned over the years, building businesses, it’s if you can just try to peak a little over the horizon, it allows you to, to a degree get ahead of things and begin to prepare and position yourself in your business. And you know, I have a team that we work together like you and we try to create high end content. And what we’re trying to do is look a little as much as we can over the horizon.

And I don’t think it really takes much of a crystal ball to understand where things are heading. You know, again, even with these tariffs that will roll out what that’s going to mean to the average consumer with price spikes. Of course the argument is a long term, we’re trying to reshore manufacturing, which I have no problem with de globalization. But in the immediate short term people are going to feel the pinch and there is an initial investment to begin to learn these skills, gardening and everything like that, of course. But again, I try to look at it from an ROI perspective of what is the return on investment if I can learn these skills now, if I can get ahead of this a little and begin to learn how to produce my own food, raise chickens, a lot of these things can be done in a small area.

And like you said, I mean it would be nice if we all had acreage. I did buy acreage But I’m limiting what we’re teaching to a small area to keep it, again, within kind of the city parameters. But I, you know, that’s my hope is I can. I just hope I can encourage and show people a path that, yes, it is doable. All right, guys. So, as some of you know, Canadian Prepper is a fully independent channel. We don’t have sponsors, and we’re beholden to. Nobody can help support us by supporting yourself by gearing up@canadianpreparedness.com I know that in an emergency, having the right gear can make all the difference.

This is why I’ve tested and curated the best preparedness products on the market, so that you can be confident and ready for whatever comes your way. Now, back to the video. It’s not only that, it’s. It’s financially, like the financial feasibility, I guess, at one point you could say that it was a hobby. And even people are treating it as insurance, like, prepping has always been insurance. But as we approach the austerity, then it becomes a necessity, and it’s no longer about insurance. It’s about just being able to have a. An existence where you, you know, you have a decent standard of living.

Yeah. So what can you really do with. What have you discovered so far in terms of what you can do with that small amount of land? Yeah, and before I jump to that answer, I think it’s interesting. A mutual friend of ours, Roman, over at Mirror Safety, one of the things I remember, I had a talk with him a few years ago, and he told me the story of growing up in Soviet, you know, the Soviet Union, and being there when he watched it collapse as a kid and seeing how things quickly went from, you know, they were able to provide for themselves to those that had gardens, had, you know, maybe a little land out in the country to develop the difference that it made for those types of individuals that they could still produce their own food and take care of themselves.

I used to have an old apartment manager years ago that lived through the Great Depression. And he’s like, well, we lived on a farm, so we were okay. It was tough, but it was okay. And so those are kind of the thoughts that roll to the back of my head is, you know, if we see something like that in the not so distant future, which I don’t think is, you know, based on everything we’re both seeing, I don’t think that’s too far off. And so to get back to your question, you know, what can we do with this amount of square footage what we’re doing is primarily focusing right now, you know, on the basics of understanding how to harvest rain, to have a water container where you can at least store if the municipalities go down or at least use it to, you know, irrigate your gardens.

We’re starting there. We’re going to start setting up the garden beds here shortly. Our grow season is kind of already kind of kicking off. We’re in Zone 9B, so we’re almost year round here, but the next one’s coming up so we’ll set up these garden beds and you know, we already just finished the chicken coop. It’s a, it’s more of a custom coop than I’ve done in the past, but it’s going to be a long term setup. So I just want to show people, you know, something a little nicer looking than the one that you get at the local hardware store.

And again, but we’ll show all the different options, whether that’s at a low price point, mid or custom. And then the other things that we’re going to be working on here shortly is continuing to expand out garden beds, getting into vertical hydroponics and these other systems to. And this is going to be admittedly a bit of a learning curve for me and the team is I’ve seen other people do what we’re doing to a degree, but I’ve never seen things quite from the angle of a prepper’s view with, you know, affordability in mind and being able to maximize the space you have.

So a lot of it’s going to come down to just being creative and it’s going to be, like I mentioned earlier, kind of a five year journey. We’re just now beginning to lay the framework. We’ve got the irrigation lines and you know, but to answer your question, it’s going to come down to, and this is what we’re working on a lot behind the scenes is figuring out how do we make for an extremely efficient environment. I don’t have all the answers right now, but this is really why I bought this property, to focus on that over the next five years.

And it’s what I’m dedicated to. So you must be researching a lot of permacultural aspects for this if you want to make somewhat of a closed system to a certain extent where. Yeah, I mean permaculture is going to be a big part of it. It’s the. Obviously permaculture is ideal in the sense that you work with the environment that you have versus, you know, trying to bring in things that aren’t natively designed for that environment. But one of the things is, you know, again, what we are focusing on at the beginning is trying to help educate people to understand their zones, what can grow seasonal, the succession plannings to be able to optimize and go very quickly and efficiently.

And that’s, again, kind of where my head’s at right now is this whole learning experience. I’ve got neighbors across the street. It’s interesting. This neighborhood that we bought a property in, we’re seeing a lot of people move in, young families that actually want to homestead that are on an acre or two. And so it’s a trend that I’m not seeing just from a popularity like it was during COVID where people are, you know, watching these homesteading channels. But I’m beginning to see more and more people actually do this because they realize it’s. It’s how important it is.

I’m not sure what you’re seeing up there, but it is fascinating to see this is becoming more common. Yeah, I mean, I think there’s. Right now we’re having a housing crisis of sorts because we’ve had so much immigration in the last two years, record amounts, that people are just buying up property left and right. So the data is a little bit skewed at this point in time, but it’s very hard to find good land. I mean, you can get land up here. You can get, you know, land in terms of, you know, scale, size, no problem.

You can go buy 160 acres. But what’s it going to be? It’s in zone zero. You know, get zone sub zero up here. So you can’t really, you know, you can grow if you, if you got passive solar greenhouse. If you got a greenhouse, you still get a good six months to kind of work with if you do use it. Right. But yeah, up here I would say that they’re. There definitely is a noticeable shortage of land considering how much land there is. So usable land? Yeah, I mean, we got arable land. That’s not the problem.

We got the good soil. We got lots of abundant water sources, depending on where you go. I mean, Canada is a vast place, but where I’m at, particularly in the prairie boreal transition zone, as they call it, kind of where the forest meets the plains. You know, there’s. It’s kind of lightly treed in certain places, so you get kind of the. Those biomes, the best of those biomes. And, you know, there’s. There’s a lot of challenges, but we don’t have the population density issue, obviously that you guys have, but it’s incredible the amount you can do with an acre of land.

I mean, I have 160 acre property and that might seem like a lot to people. It is, it is a lot, but it’s not a lot up here, you know, I mean, it’s. And you find that you end up only using maybe really 10 acres of that in the rest could be pasture or just recreational land or land for, you know, cattle grazing or hunting or whatever. So. And you guys have that too. You know, like in Montana, there’s lots of amazing properties out there. Oh yeah, of course, it’s a little close to the nuclear missile silos.

Other than that. Yeah, other than that. You know. Yeah, we actually, we do have land out here, even in Southern California. I was looking about an hour east in my original search and you know, I was finding like 40 acre lots over and over and over that had wells already set up on them. Just to dig a well out here is around $50,000. And so I was like, oh shoot, they already have a well on 40 acres. And so I started driving out and it’s an area, unfortunately, that is a high crime, high drug. It turns out all These properties, these 40 acre lots, they were former grow areas where they were growing weed.

And so they built out the infrastructure. But once it became legal in California, it collapsed. And so it, you know, I was really lucky to find this land. It’s. I’m just literally right around from suburbia. I can drive around the corner and I’m back in a neighborhood. So it’s, you know, when I started looking at the land, it. 160 acres, I can’t even imagine. Two and a half is a lot of work, but yeah, 160. I’m not sure how you pull it off. It’s a lot when there’s not a lot of biodiversity. But, you know, we’re talking maybe the majority is maybe half a dozen tree species and grassland, you know, you can grow, it’s used for growing the staple crops.

You know, primarily half of its treed, half of it’s, you know, so it’s that transition zone. But I think, you know, there’s something to be said. I was talking to a guest yesterday who was talking about the importance of community and there’s an advantage in terms of what you’re doing finding a relatively, you know, small parcel, a couple acres or whatever. And as long as that’s situated in the right spot. Yeah. And you know, your neighbors. Is that going to be a component of this, the community aspect for you. Yeah, the. One of the things I’m again reminded of because I used to have a land several years ago and it’s a different mindset with your neighbors.

People are much more willing to help. In suburbia where we currently live, I mean people, they drive into the garage and they close it, they don’t want to talk to you. It’s, you know, it’s kind of a, I have to, I’m a very sociable person so I go out of my way to meet neighbors and you know, but it’s interesting here in this neighborhood. What I’m finding very quickly is that everybody’s willing to help at whatever it is. Hey, you need this, you need this piece of equipment. I have a neighbor next to us, he’s a, he’s a, he’s a current Marine, he’s in the Marine Corps and they’re building a homestead with his family.

And you know, I’ve got a garage, you know, full of solar generators and that I do for reviews and when the power went out here in the neighborhood and it unfortunately does it a lot because we’re in a high fire risk area. So they constantly shut off the power. Whenever there’s winds, I go out, I distribute these to neighbors. I try to build, I try to help. And it’s the old saying, if you want a good neighbor, be a good neighbor. And I’m just finding that, you know, people are reciprocating back. Whenever there’s something I need help with, they’re glad to step in anyway.

So community, I know here in our community, well, using the phrase community within the preparedness community, there’s often a kind of a lone wolf mindset, a lot of mistrust, which is, I understand, but the more I work with people around me and just build that relationship, just trying to help them, it’s just, you know, splaining that, that foundation, sowing those seeds, it comes back and that’s one of the things I’ve tried to strive on. I’ll try to, you know, one of the things we’re going to try to teach our own community and our, we have a private online community and we’re going to do a whole series of courses on this very concept because it definitely comes up a lot.

Yeah, I mean especially you know, in grid down situation, you know, security is going to be something that one person or one family, even an extended family is not going to be capable of policing their surroundings. And it wouldn’t take much for, for you Know, something to go wrong in that respect. So if you have each other’s back, like a old neighborhood watch of sorts, you know, like even that was something that I think needs to be brought back, you know, I remember that used to be a thing in the 70s and 80s. Yeah, yeah, I remember those signs, like the.

Had the big eyeball. I don’t know what y’all had in Canada, I’m sure. Yeah, same thing. Yeah. Oh, you had those, right? Yeah. Oh, I didn’t know y’all had signs up there. I just. Oh, yeah, there was even people who walked around and people took turns in the community, you know. Yeah, yeah. No, you make a great point. When I first moved in here, the house said vacant for about a month while I was working on getting everything squared away. And unfortunately there’s a homeless community not too far away from here, probably about, I don’t know, about five or ten miles.

And somehow, I guess word got out and they figured out this house was vacant and so had someone show up on the property. Security cameras caught it. And it was the one day, the one day I forgot to arm my alarm. And so since then I’ve said automation, but I literally left at like a certain time. And 30 minutes later, this guy starts, I see him on the camera. He was clearly on the forest watching me, which is, you know, pretty upsetting in and of itself. But the point is, is, you know, when that event happened, I ended up letting all the neighbors know around me.

And so everybody got on alert and, you know, it. I found very quickly that everybody started communicating. I have a neighbor that lives right behind the lot. He sees the back, so anytime he hears a noise or anything, he’s quickly, you know, willing to help. So to your point, yeah. Building those relationships, it has been so amazing here. People are. They’re willing to help and they’re willing to watch out for each other. And, you know, that’s interesting because everybody thinks that criminality is going to be very one dimensional and confrontational. And typically it’s going to be asymmetric.

It’s going to be a situation where a person is surveilling, Surveilling you for extended periods of time. And when you’re a criminal, you have a lot of patience when you’re engaged in criminality. And so most people, not that they’re necessarily naive or not vigilant, you’re just preoccupied with other things and you’re completely oblivious to the fact that somebody is observing you from the forest. And so this is where general principles of security Layout come to play. Now, I don’t want to get into security right away. I’d like to keep the conversation centered more around, you know, building the self sustaining systems.

But as preppers, you know, we can’t help but go there in our minds. And one advantage that we have to a certain extent is a line of sight in that, you know, those same barriers that you erect can be used against you by an invading force. So in terms of your, your whole setup, is there going to be a security component to it or is it going to primarily focus on just building the systems and. Yeah, well, that after that incident. Okay, so there was one night, someone came, looked in the windows and ironically I just had put in security bars in the main studio where we had all the equipment.

So he passed. And it’s interesting because he looked in the windows, saw that he passed, and he went to the other house, we have a residential house where I had not done a security audit and gone through and done a bunch of stuff. And it has an old window on the back. He popped it, came in, got a few things and left. And at first I didn’t realize until I reviewed the security footage and I was like, oh my gosh, this guy is in the house. And so, you know, like I said, no one was here.

Fortunately, the next night another person came and started looking in the windows. Security camera, he saw it, it was blinking, ran off. So to answer your question, it was a wake up call because I thought, you know, this area, whatever people look out for. And it was a very quick realization that, okay, this place had been, someone had been casing it and they were, you know, and like you said, that someone watching, impatient. So what did I do? Had to go down the next day. Got a couple of, went down to the dog, the animal shelter nearby, got a couple of Great Pyrenees, which are amazing animals.

So sweet. They’re, but they’re guardian dogs. They’re big, but they’re, you know, they are, they can get aggressive if you push onto their territory. And so they roam around at night and bark. So I went through, I did, you know, put in security systems, monitor security system, but you know, bars or you know, different dowel rods. And when it went through and did all the things, I’m like, okay, here’s a low hanging fruit. The things that I missed. And so what we’ll begin to do over time is expand out other, you know, more security cameras on the perimeter.

Since I’ve got a lot of, you know, solar projects I love to do, I’ll be Able to build, you know, setups where we can charge these and put them at different locations, expand out WI fi and do other things so we have a bigger coverage and we can monitor the property. And so that is something that is on my list. I’ve got it to a point where I’m like, okay, at least we’ve got a good stable baseline. But in time we’re going to grow the system and expand it out so I can monitor. And to your point, by the time they get to your house, it’s too late.

You want to be able to catch something very early on. And so we’re going to be expanding. Yeah, that’s. And you know how it is when you get property. You have all these ideas of projects and it just starts stacking up and you’re like, okay, especially. Which can I get to in the time that I have? Yeah, especially when you see the, the bills start to add up. Those Great Pyrenees. Do you have any problems with them barking too much? Well, it depends. I’ve talked to the neighbors and asked them, you know, how the dogs doing? And they’re the.

They were like, yeah, at the beginning they were barking a lot at night and. But they’re like, it’s okay, it’s okay. You know, we don’t mind. And we have a lot of coyotes around here. So I had a whole family of them that lived on the back lot. We have a creek that runs to the back of the property, so they live there. Nice. So fortunately, the dogs just barking non stop, push them away. I think they’ve relocated. So you got, you got a creek running through that property then. Yeah, that was a weird thing. I started shopping land out here in this area and everything I saw was just a dirt lot.

You know, we’re out in the middle of what’s called the inland Empire. It’s just mostly sun and dirt and it’s. It’s basically a desert area. So my wife, lo and behold, found this property on, I think Zip Realty, 10 minutes from my main home. I can just get here in 10 minutes every day. And it has this thick oak forest in the back like nothing I’ve ever seen. And it has a creek, it’s spring fed. And so it’s on a well and the spring comes down and it feeds the well. And so when I saw that, I was like, sold.

You know, I was like, yeah, this is, this is the property for me. That’s perfect. Yeah. So you have numerous options. You have your rain catchment, you have your well, and then you have the creek in the back as well, which is, yeah, I presume, coming. It’s Spring Fed creek. You said it’s Spring Fed. I have it traced it all the way up. I’ve talked to the neighbors and they don’t know where it exactly starts. But one of the projects on my list of many things to do is build, you know, some kind of a. Like a dam to be able to do, you know, water, you know, to be able to use it for hydropower and stuff like that.

So it’s down the road, kind of phase three, four, five out or something like that. But yeah, definitely plan on doing that. Is there a lot of restrictions? I mean you’re in California obviously probably similar to what we have here. Is there a lot of restrictions on what you can do with respect to the natural resources like damming and you know, making rain catchment and I’ve got a lot of questions about that. I’m like building a beaver dam. Yeah, no, the dam I got to figure out. Yeah, I’ll definitely have to research that because I don’t want to get any fines because I know if you restrict it, you can’t get in trouble for that.

So I’ll have to study that one before I do it or just build a really good fence where no one can see what I’m doing. But again, I don’t want to cause problems where there’s not. But fortunately, rain harvesting, they actually encourage it out here. They every year they have rebates to get rain harvesting tanks. So on that, on that side it’s good. Well, it sounds like a pretty sweet property. How’s the wildlife around there? You guys have grizzly bears where you’re at? Eh, no grizzly bears, that’s I think northern Cal. There’s some bears still up there.

We out here. What do we have? We’ve got obviously coyotes everywhere. You practically trip over them. They’re walking around during the day. They’re pretty old. We’ve got cougars from time to time. Well, there’s one mountain lion or I might be a cougar mountain lion. I forget the exact which species it is, but they have one. They track periodically out here and then we’ve got bobcats you’ll see in those from time to time. But it’s, it’s mostly pretty low key. It’s such a dry area that, you know, hunting, for example, practically, you know, other than pigeons or something like that, you know, you can’t really do much of deer hunting, a little hog hunting.

But yeah, it’s, it’s A pretty barren area out here. So water is our biggest commodity and you have to make sure that you can harvest it. Well, I think it’s good that you got the Great Pyrenees because they’ll be great pest deterrence also, as much as they can be somewhat of a nuisance. I know my dogs can be a nuisance sometimes if they’re barking, but keeping the coyotes at bay, especially if. Oh yeah, plan on getting chickens. So you’re going to be putting a chicken coop in. And so the coop is up. We just finished it last week.

I debated, like I said earlier, just going down to like a tractor supplier, just a local hardware store and picking up, you know, the easy to assemble. You know, I’ve used those before and they’re great. But I wanted something a little sturdier since we’re kind of, you know, out here in the country and, well, you know, relatively speaking for the area. But we built a. We found a YouTube video and I was going to do a video on it, but I was. With every other project, I was like, I just don’t have time to document this.

So there’s a YouTube video this guy did a few years ago. It’s really well done. It’s if you Google how to build a modern chicken coop. And so we just followed his plans, built it, it’s designed for six. And the chickens, I got those eight weeks ago. So they’re now at the age where they’re ready to transfer. They’ve got the feathers. We’ll switch over their feed to a more of a grow feed here shortly. And so I’ve got a few finishing touches I’ll do on the coop this week. But after you and I finish this interview, I’m going to go back home and finish filming up a video on how to raise chickens from, you know, baby chicks.

We get them at three days old. And so we’ll kind of start the transfer process hopefully next week. Well, that’s perfect because this is going to be my first foray into chicken breeding here right away. Oh, really? So, because we got so much space, I mean, you know, I could go. I’d like to not only have egg laying chickens, but also meat chickens as well. Meat chickens? Yeah. So I’m thinking, you know, getting a. A reasonably sizable flock. Now, I probably will just build a pen that is, you know, nothing that’s prefab, just chicken wire and okay, two by fours and stuff like that.

But in terms of the chicken coop, that’s where I might need to, you know, because I don’t Know if I’m gonna have the time to build something out. Like, do you have any recommendations for something that’s prefab but sturdy, that’s wind resistant? Because you get a lot of these things nowadays. They’re. They’re basically like cardboard. Okay. So, yeah, I did a lot of research prior to building this one, and again, you can go down to your local hardware store. I don’t know in Canada, what they have. I’m sure it’s accustomed to your environment down here in Southern Cal.

It’s. The weather’s just obviously nowhere as extreme as yours. So they’re pretty thin. The ones I’ve used out here, they’re not. Definitely not sturdy for what you’re trying to do. I went on, you know, I don’t know what your area is like around here. We have, you know, Facebook marketplace where you can find, you know, people that have or sell things, you know, or like a Craigslist. And I was able to find people that built custom chicken coops. The time frame was a problem. They were several months out there booked. With the price of eggs going up.

Everybody’s trying to get chickens now, and so those are definitely sturdier. I did see at Costco, I don’t know if they have anymore, but they had a coupe that was. It wasn’t cheap. It was supposedly built by the Amish. It’s just a coupe. It’s not the run where you could, you know, build a run like you’re explaining and then put the coop inside of it. But for your particular situation, unless you can find somebody that could build a custom for that type of condition, you might have to go the custom route. And it’s not that hard.

The one we have is a little more fancier. We just want it to look aesthetically appealing. But yeah, for you. And by the way, raising chickens, if you haven’t gotten into that yet, it’s. This is our third batch that we’ve raised, and they were so easy. Just give them food and water and they pretty much take care of themselves. So. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking, have you ever considered using, like, a shipping container? Like, just ventilating it and for that application? No, but I could definitely see for your situation, as long as. I mean, in our area, they don’t allow.

That’s. I mean, it’s a very kind of unpermitted area. I’m in. But the previous owners, when we bought this, prior to us buying it, they had a couple of shipping containers, and I guess during the open house, someone saw it and they called it into the city so they, they would take it off the property. I was kind of excited. I was like, oh, leave those behind. I can actually use those. But that would not be a bad idea, especially given your condition, you know, your weather up there. Yeah. The more insulated, more of a shelter that would probably work for your situation.

Cool. And what are you doing for power generation? Are you going to put solar panels on the roof on that thing? Well, you know, I love solar. That’s, that’s. I’ve done enough videos on the channel. I’ve had a, I’ve had to pull it back here in the last three months. I got to the point where I was, I had a, I did a deal with ecoflow last year and we had eight videos that we agreed to last year. And toward the end I was, I was like, I can’t do any more solar. Please God, let this end.

You know, so saturated market to say the least. It is absolutely. I love it. It’s. I live in an area, it’s kind of like the mecca for solar, to be honest. Where I’m at right here where, you know, we have cities around us like Sun City, it’s just, it’s just kind of year round. We get it. And so for power production, solar is a no brainer for us. We, it’s just perfect. So I have two houses on the property. The house that I work at, the studio where I have my studio and then my office. It looks like a barn, but it’s a house.

And I’ve got 2400 watts of panels and then I’ve got batteries in the garage, you know, and run the whole house off that with 240 and it’s pretty capable. And then this house that I’m in here, we’re currently setting up a professional custom build. We’re just going through the permitting with the city, but we’ll have this set up on, you know, batteries and solar here pretty soon. And then we have a well house down the hill and I just recently set that up on solar and batteries and I’ll do a video we’ll release in a couple of days showing that setup.

But yeah, it’s, I’ll look at wind and I’m going to try to figure that out. But solar is just. With the price of panels right now, it is just. Yeah, it’s, it’s a no brainer. How about you? What are you doing up there for that? Well, I did put in a 20 kilowatt system last year, so it’s a big Big ass system. It’s got the dual sided solar panels. Yeah, yeah. Bifacials. Yeah. And I still have to up the storage. Like we have 50 kilowatts of storage, which sounds like a lot, but when you’re running a heat pump in the winter, anything electrical that requires, you know, or a heater that requires electricity, it drains it super fast.

Yeah, like the, we have in ground, like in floor heat and you know, it’s really just the, the energy to run the pump is what it is. That requires an immense amount of energy. And then if you have a few days of cloud cover, you know, so this 50kW might only last us a day in some cases if it’s minus 30 up here. So we have to, we’re doubling actually we’re tripling that. So it’s going to be 150 kilowatts which is. It sounds like a lot but when you think about it, that’s like near what’s in a cyber truck, you know.

Oh yeah, it’s a lot. But in terms of like, you know, this is why I encourage evs and this is why I really wish. I know Ford’s done it, but I really wish there would be like a prepping ev. And a company contacted me not too long ago, they wanted to create a jailbroken evidence and it sounded like they had, you know, it wasn’t just a pipe dream. It sounded like they were kind of further along in the planning. But you know, something that can be dual purpose like that or just make an EV that is going to be able to double as your whole home battery pack and you know, because having an EV is a great way to store energy if you can, if it’s bi directional and you can take exactly out.

So that’s what I’m doing is just, you know, getting that system all dialed in. It’s, you know, we’ve considered wind, there’s a few interesting options coming on the market. Batteries and solar I think will be probably changing substantially in the next few years. Like the chemistry of it all. Yeah. I was just reading an article today that by the end of the year Chinese company is going to be putting nuclear batteries onto the market. They’ve already, already in the production and these are supposed to be like, you know, way more efficient. They’re smaller and they last for like 50 years.

So that’s what’s going to power the hunter killing terminators in the future. Our overlords at will. Isn’t it, isn’t it just a coincidence that right around the time that these killer robots, these humanoids start taking over, all of a sudden we got batteries that can power them. Yeah, right. So that’s what I’m doing on the solar front, in your opinion, your honest opinion. I. I know you have a deal with ecoflow and whatnot, but it was just last year I did work with them, but. Yeah, you’ve reviewed a lot of these. I mean, me and you are back in the energy days when the first Kodiak came out.

Yeah. You know, that was the only, you know, kid on the block at that point in time, Remember? Isn’t it? They were using. Yeah, Go zero. They had them, but they were like old battery chemistry and then. Yeah, it’s garbage, huh? Yeah. And they used to be the top dogs, and they just. So. So what, in your opinion, is the best bad? Because I’ve been solicited by these companies all the time. Blue Eddie just contacted me. They’re like, hey, you want to test this thing out? I’m like, here we go again. Do I want to do it? Should I do it? What do you think? What is the best brand? Well, trying to think, make sure I don’t offend anybody.

So, honestly, they’re all the same. Maybe they’re all comfortable. I don’t know. Yeah, so I’ve had a good, long, long standing relationship with ecoflow, and they have really led the charge, no pun intended, in, you know, this whole market space. You know, Jackery used to have dominance. I don’t know. I don’t know. You know, I’m not privy to their information, their financials, but I’ve got to believe that ecoflow’s pushing up there, you know, one or two, but. And it’s well deserved. I really like their products. I love the technology. You know, they’ve really been ahead on app features in those.

You know, I know within our community, some people are like, an app’s not important. I’ve just tested so many of these units, and having the ability to control things remotely and stuff like that is coming handy a lot. Monitor and stuff like that. But ecoflow, I have zero issue recommending them. They’ve just, like I said, they’ve done a phenomenal job. Jackery is really, you know, they’ve really upped their game a lot. I’m really impressed with the direction they’re going, especially with their new home unit. It’s a good introduction level. If you don’t want to have to build a big custom setup, you know, go through permitting and stuff like that.

And anchor. Anchor is the other one that you got to keep an eye on. They’re really making a big push into the market. I’m going to release a video here in the next few days on their new F3800. Funny story, they were like, okay, we’ll send you one. And then there’s a mistake in the shipping information and they ended up sending me three of them. So they’re just making it rain generators, eh? I’m seriously tripping over them here. And so these Chinese companies. But what are you going to do if the tariffs come in? That’s the thing.

So everybody. Yeah, you know, I, I would encourage people. I. It seems like they’re everywhere and you’re tripping over them in your house. But there may come a point when the price goes up substantially. Well, soon. And that’s what we’re going to talk about in the video. We’re still doing the research to try to understand. We’re just waiting for all the tariff information to come out today with, what’s it being called? Liberation Day or you know, by administration. So it’s. Yeah, absolutely. Let’s just put it this way, the era of cheap products is over and as you know, the world begins to deglobalize and reshore.

And then this protection, you know, protectionism, isolationism, it’s going to come at a cost. And of course the counter argument is, well, the long term goal is to bring jobs back to America, manufacturing, all these things. I mean, I get it. I think that’s awesome and I’m not against that. It’s. The problem is the short term. It’s going to be, you know, I don’t know if you. By the way, do you follow Peter Zion? Any or watch any of his videos? I follow pretty much everybody. He is one of the people I follow critically. But yeah, what is he, what do you reference? I thought he did a good video.

It came out a couple of days ago and he just, you know, kind of broke it down from a high level of like, okay, yes, the globalization is over or you know, you know, reshoring is a good thing. But. And again, I’m not an economist and I’m not trying to pretend to be one on YouTube, but every, at least economists, whether conservative, liberal, across a gamut, there seems to be a unanimous view of the rate at which we’re trying to do it is very quick and this is probably something that should have taken years versus tariffs are on you today.

And so again, I don’t know, we’ll see. But my concern is the rate at which it’s going to, the time frame that’s going to take to get up to production, to bring manufacturing back. It’s just there’s going to be a lag and there’s going to be a cost. And so to your point with the tariffs, and that’s what we’ll talk about in the video this Friday is what do we recommend if it’s within your range of affordability to get. Now you probably should. I bought a tractor last November because I could see where things were heading with the, you know, the tariffs with steel and other stuff.

You know, we have a, a family minivan. I’m not embarrassed to admit that I’ve got a minivan. Is it four wheel drive? No, that’s why I have a Jeep. So I can, I at least can keep. You can pull the minivan? That’s right. Oh man. At least it’s a Jeep. So it’ll probably be pulled by the minivan at some point. Yeah, yeah. No, no, I have a Jeep, so I’m still cool. No, I, you know, but our minivan, the point is it’s got a lot of miles and we’re debating like, oh, we can get a few more years out of it, but I have no idea what that’s going to cost in a couple of years.

So even this morning I’m looking online at local dealerships because it might be time to replace it sooner than later. So anyway, to answer your question, yeah, I envision some of these products that we’ve gotten used to over the years being so cheap that’s going to go away. Well, this liberation date, I think is being underestimated in terms of its delineation of unipolarity and multipolarity because there really hasn’t been a clear cut demarcation between those two things. And I think this will go down in history as being the day when the United States finally broke off from the rest of the world and attempted to, to go it alone.

And like you say, it’s going to take a long time to re. Industrialize. People just think, oh, we got all this stuff in the ground, we got all these minerals and these things in the Arctic. I mean, that takes decades in some cases to build infrastructure to harvest. I mean, even in Greenland of all places. I mean, having to, you know, drill and, you know, do all these industrial projects in cold conditions like that, it’s going to take years to bring that stuff online. Now the logic, I think, with the current Trump administration is, look, if we can crash this sucker fast.

And then maybe towards the end of the term when people start seeing growth, they can, we can say, well see, it was all worth it. I think they’re hoping that there’ll be an expeditious economic boom that happens and it’ll be fast enough that, you know, whatever sort of pain is brought will be somewhat remedied towards the end of his term. But there’s no guarantees that if something pops off here, if oil goes to 300, if China says, you know what, we’re not going to send you all of the components that you’re going to need to re industrialize because we know this is where you get all that stuff.

Right. Like there’s so many things that could come of this trade war. And if you do have a trade war and you’re trying to re industrialize, it’s going to cost you money, more money to bring in the components to re industrialize. So unless there’s a lot of exemptions, like you say this, I, I agree that on shoring things is a good idea. I mean that’s, that’s like the prepping mindset but for nations is to not be isolationists per se, but to have self sufficiency. And because we’ve sanctioned our adversaries for so long, like Russia, China, Iran, they’ve all had been forced to develop those systems over the years while living in immiserating austere circumstances.

And now they are going to have the upper hand because all of their systems are already just coming online. So sorry to go on a rant there about that, but you know, there’s a comparative advantage that we’re losing with the d. Globalization and all of this prepping stuff, just the fat and people. It hasn’t occurred to people here yet for some reason. I’m like, you guys do realize that I just got a bill the other day to import stuff from the United States that had a 25 tariff on it. Oh, so you’re already seeing that. Yeah.

Oh yeah. Imagine a, you buy $15,000 worth of product and you get a $20,000 bill and that doesn’t include all the other associated costs like shipping and stuff like that. So, you know, eventually at some point we have to transfer that over to the consumer. Yeah, I mean, this is possibly just the start. I’m hoping it’s going to be bluster. What are your thoughts on, you know, you got to give me some sound bites for the supercut here. Tell me how the world’s going to end. Yeah, tell you how the world is Going to end well, if you want sound bites again, I’m not, you know, I don’t want to be that guy, but I feel like the next few years will be a transitional timeframe for the na, for our nation and for the world, for that matter.

And the world order that has been, you know, structured and built, you know, Post World War II with a Marshall Plan and so many other systems that were implemented where the United States came out on top. And we’re like, this is how it’s going to be. But we’re going to build these relationships to transact with each other. Those days are coming to an end. And, you know, one of the things that I do enjoy, again, like you mentioned earlier, is looking at different voices out there. I follow. Gosh, what’s his name? On Totally Ray Dalio. In one of, you know, his book on the changing world order, he does a phenomenal job of explaining how empires rise and fall and what that looks like.

And one of the telltale signs of an empire on its kind of last legs is its national debt. It’s overextension militarily. We saw that with the British Empire. The world, you know, the sun never set on the British Empire, etc, and we’ve seen this time and time again. And so it’s just a cycle that the world is going through in this way, I look at it, you and I, you know, not that terribly different in age. I’m only, what, about a year older than you, right, or something like that? Well, you look like you’re aging backwards, that you have the sweater on, but, you know, you’ve been really jacked.

I’m sorry, I should have taken that out. No, you’ve been really jacked in a lot of your recent videos. I’m like, man, this guy’s aging backwards here. Yeah, well, losing the benefit of having a bald head is they can’t see the gray hair. Oh, my gosh. When I looked at the videos, even from a year and a half ago with the receding hairline, I was fighting it, but it was like, oh, give it up, Chris. No. Yeah, just good diet, eating healthy and clean whole foods and working out every day has made a phenomenal difference. But it’s, I, you know, I, I think where we’re at right now, and this is the way I view things.

And again, to your point, and I think you hit the nail on the head a second ago where people don’t realize what’s about to come. And I think we’ve all gotten so conditioned to living in such good Times, and it’s like, well, this will never end. And I remember at the beginning of COVID when I was standing in line at a grocery store for some things I need to get. And, you know, this daughter was talking to her mom, and the daughter was like, well, you know, you’re overreacting, mom. You know, things are okay. It’s not a big deal.

And we’ve lived in, especially here in North America, in such peace and calm that what I. Again, this is where I view it, is the storm coming ahead of us. A lot of people just don’t really fully understand. And again, I’m not trying to say this is. Everything’s going to crash in the world. I’m not saying that. But it’s going to be a time of the world order switching where, like you said a second ago, nations are beginning to pull back the structures that we had in place. And I don’t know how extensive this is going to be.

And that’s what I think scares me the most. And what, to a degree, kind of has accelerated my timeline to prepare is as I look out with these tariffs, with these decoupling from the nations, from our allies, people are going to have to fend for themselves to a degree on these nations. And it’s opening up a lot of questions. And I guess the best way I look at these next five years, and this is why I did the 2030 initiative, it’s going to be a time of uncertainty, and it’s going to be a time of change.

And that’s not necessarily a bad thing if you’re prepared. And that’s why I’m doing what I’m doing. I know what you do as well is we’re trying to prepare our audience. Yeah. Did I give you a sound bite in there, Nate? I think there’s a few in there. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I was trying to get on again. We’re gonna. We’re gonna make you say something you didn’t say. No, just kidding. Please. Yeah. You mentioned Ray Dalio. Now, I know Ray Dalio dabbles in. In precious metals and things like that. That’s not something you frequently talk about on your channel.

I know you’ve been more of a crypto guy over the years, or maybe not more of, but, you know, I know he has recently is suspected as making some rather large precious metal purchases because he’s been, of course, talking about this transition for a long time. And you can only imagine a guy like that is sure hedging his bets. Has that ever been a. A part of your, your plan. Okay, so I guess we kind of go into a discussion about investments. What do we do with our money? How do we, what do we do to prepare? We’re just dabbling all over with prepping.

Yeah. No. One of the things that you used to say on your channel a lot, I, it always took it to heart is, you know, you know, this time that we’re in, right. It’s the, the good times and it’s like the, you know, for example, you can go down and buy a, a bag of rice and how many calories is that? You know, and it’s at what price point and what would that take to actually produce it on your own? I mean, it’s such a huge difference. It just makes sense to invest in these things now.

And the point I’m making is that where I see my money right now is like, what can I invest in that will prepare me on a real physical level, like building the garden beds, setting up the chickens, the rain, harvesting the solar, all these systems that I’m going to be building and documenting. To me, it’s an investment for the future of where I believe. And this is what keeps me up at night is what I believe is playing out over the next five years. And it’s not that I’m scared, but I do realize, and I hate to use the word phrase keep me up, I get, I stay up at night because I’m so excited for these projects that I’m working on.

Honestly, I’m always thinking, what are we doing next? But to the point about precious metals and investments. Yeah, I dabbled in crypto some, learned some hard lessons on that and I still have held a good chunk of mine. I’ll probably hold it for years and I see it as a long term investment. But precious metals is one of those things where again, why don’t bring it up on my channel is because I don’t want to get into, you know, speculation because I would hate to tell people, hey, go buy X, Y and Z. That may or may not pan out and they buy it and then it crashes.

And I’ve had, I’m sure you’ve had this as well, but I had companies reaching out around this time last year and they were like, hey, we’ll offer you six figure, you know, deals if you’ll, you know, promote our precious metals, our website on your channel. And I turned them all down because I don’t want to lead my audience into hey, here’s a sure deal. Because I don’t know, you know, and I would hate to advise somebody to go invest in this. I, I think they’re, and most of those by the way, were like gold Roth IRAs and stuff like that where you, you know, IRAs where you tie gold into.

And I’ll probably do a video on that pretty soon because it’s a massive scam. It’s a huge scam. But holding precious metal by itself, I think that’s a good idea. It’s just, I really don’t know. I just don’t know how it’s going to play out. But I do know getting my food in place, getting these systems built, to me that is more valuable. Yeah, at least, yeah, that makes sense. I mean I’ve had many companies solicit me for wanting to promote gold or become an affiliate. And yeah, that’s something I’ve been reluctant to do. I think I had done it for a while.

But you know, I have certainly been referencing gold in the very least as a barometer of social chaos I call it for the last 18 months, you know, back when it was in the, you know, 1500-1800 range and it seemed quite clear that, that it was going to be something that would continue to rise as instability increased. Now, yeah, I would never, you know, you have to always put that disclaimer in there. Hey, this is not financial advice and you probably shouldn’t do this and never telling anybody anything definitive in that respect. But you know, it seems as though that’s where a lot of the money is moving.

And you know, take from that, whether or not that that’s going to be a trend that continues, I think silver is still lacking in, in a lot of respects lagging gold. So you know, it’s a, it’s a part of it. But you know, at the same time I would say that if you don’t have those self sustaining infrastructures in place like you’re saying, that would be where I would be investing. Absolutely. Because you can’t, I mean if you want to get into, yeah, if somebody wants to get into precious metals, I would say, hey, go for it.

Just know that, you know, like my uncle used to always tell me, he did a lot of investments for years and he said only invest what you can lose. And I thought that was sound advice and it’s played out a few times that way over the years. But unfortunately long term I’ve done pretty well with investments. But yeah, gold. When I went to Afghanistan in 03, I did NGO work. I was there for three months with a team of physicians and they Told us, hey, before you come buy a 1 oz gold piece and put it on a necklace, have a bracket.

You can get a little necklace with a. What am I trying to say? A little thing you put over it so you can hang it on your neck. Right. The point is they were like just carry it. In case you ever get in a situation where you have to negotiate your way out, maybe gold would be, you know, to your advantage. And I bought a 1 ounce gold piece. It was 350 back in 03. I haven’t even checked recently. What is it now? 331. What is it at now? It’s about approaching 10 times that amount. Yeah, it’s beat the S&P 500.

Oh wow. Yeah, see that’s. I kind of got turned off by gold when I was watching a few years ago. It didn’t seem like it was moving much, but now it is. So I agree 100%. I would encourage people start with the basics. Get your food, get your water, get these systems built. If you can go toward a self sufficient model like what we’re trying to do on both of our properties, if that’s within your range or your capability. To me, I would be much happier looking back five years from now if things are really tough and being able to say, hey, I can put food on my table for my family.

Well, when you think about it, that’s what gold is supposed to buy, right? I mean, gold is just a monetary medium that is used to exchange for commodities that you can use to survive. So yeah, you know, if you can, if you got to get that stuff anyways, you might as well get it now while the getting is good and the supply chain is functional. Because what are you going to buy with your gold? What’s your gold going to buy you if there’s nothing to buy? Yeah, it’s. It’s something that I probably honestly should look at more closely.

I’ve just been. And I mean, you know my story. I did get burned pretty heavily on some investments a few years ago. So I’m always a little like when it comes to money now, I’m like, okay, what can I buy that I know will serve me and you know, will help better my future? And that’s kind of where my mindset is right now. But I’m not opposed to people buying precious metals. Generally speaking, historically, it’s the safest investment because it’s not really an investment. It’s. It’s a, it’s. It’s a medium of foundation of the financial system really.

Right yeah, there’s going to be those long stretches like I think it was like from 2011 to 2020, it just barely moved. Didn’t even move. Yeah. At all, really. Just moved sideways or down. Yeah. And I guess the argument is that during those periods of times the currency is going to be stronger. So like that one ounce of gold, you may think that that numeric value doesn’t buy what it used to, but it actually bought more, perhaps. So it’s like the whole idea of 1 ounce. So if gold is 3100 right now, that means that it buys pretty much more or less the same as what it would buy back in the year 2000 when it was 500.

So in terms of like the property prices, you’re seeing that just the general cost of everything but inflation has been so heavily suppressed. And I made a video about this probably a few months ago about the true inflation that’s occurring. And there’s so many deflationary factors that people are oblivious to right now that like, you know, whether it’s cheap labor, the supply chain, you know, relatively cheap energy, immigration even actually works to drive prices down in some ways. Not for housing so much, but in terms of providing cheap labor, automation, you know, all of these things work towards suppressing prices.

So what happens when one of those things is removed, you know, which is they’re going to start seeing them removed. We’re going to see prices skyrocket. And I think that’s really gold. You’re not. People look at, may look at their portfolios if you have paper gold or if you have physical. And they might think to themselves, oh, I’m this much richer, but what is that dollar value actually buy a lot less if you’re a millionaire five, ten years from now, what does that mean? You know, if everything. What does it mean now in a lot of places? Really? Absolutely.

I mean being a millionaire now, it might buy you a little time, but unfortunately, you know something in America, for example, you have a car wreck or you get injured, I mean, you could get wiped out immediately. So. And just the cost of everything rising, it just doesn’t go as far. And so having money in the bank in my mind and has it, you know, given me a high sense of security. What I’m looking at is what can I do, what can I buy, what can I build that whatever happens next, you know, I’ve invested, I’ve built these systems in advance to weather those, you know, those, those storms, whatever comes if things continue to rise in cost.

And look at the five year Time frame. You know, this is what I did a video last year after my first six months of building out this homestead. And one of the things that never gets factored in or talked about is the time of the build. So you look at the property price tag and you just think to yourself, okay, you’re looking at what it has to offer, what are all the amenities? But you don’t. And people seldom will talk about the time. So you’re, you’re really trading time for money. Because like, if when I built this orchard last year, you know, it cost a lot more because I wanted trees that would start bearing fruit in the next couple years.

Right. So, you know, if you don’t put them seeds in the ground, if you don’t plant those trees right away or do what you’re doing over this five year process and think about it in terms of like, the time is money, literally. Oh, yeah. Then, you know, there’s something to be said about that that I think is forgotten. We live in such a turnkey society where, sure, we just presume, well, if I got the money, I can just do it. But even if you do have the money, and even if you can just do it, do you want, you know, 50 delivery drivers coming to your place every day and snooping around and, you know, so there’s all the OPSEC stuff and then.

Yeah, yeah. Have you. Yeah, no, you bring up a good point. I’ve been, I’ve had to deal with the same thing. I bought this property in July of last year. It was like, oh, yeah, we’re gonna hit the ground running. We’re gonna do all these projects. And what I quickly ran into was like, okay. A lot of deferred maintenance I’ve had to go through and fix a lot of things. The studio, that barn, started looking at certain things inside. Notice we pulled a shelf off and there’s a big, you know, like, mildew stain behind. And we kind of tracked it up and we’re like, okay, we got a.

A bad roof. So I had to get that replaced. We’ve got eucalyptus trees all over the property. They call them candlesticks out here. They’re these oily trees that whenever they catch fire, they just go right up. So had a fire inspector come by and look at the property, and he’s like, I would pull those back because if they catch, they’re gonna, you know, they’re gonna be a massive flamethrower to your houses. So had to spend a lot of time, money with arborists because I’m not climbing up in trees and cutting them. You know, it’s just not what.

It’s just, it’s not something I should be doing. The property wasn’t graded properly so I had to bring in a professional grade. And it’s just, I was even filming in the well house, that solar video on the anchor product last week and I started looking around the floor and I was like, what the heck is this? And there’s termite droppings, you know, little, little brown dots everywhere. Fortunately, I have a contractor that came in and was able to fix it. But the point I’m making is just it’s been one thing after the other that, that you know, I originally was planning on just buying raw land and building it.

I’m so glad I didn’t because even with this developed and it’s, I’ve got about seven months into of just fixing it up to get it usable. That’s taken a lot of time. But had I gone through permits and all these things, that would have just eaten my time. You feel like you become a general contractor, you have to run all these projects, run the crews. And in saying that anybody that’s wanting to go off grid and begin to do this, just going down this path, it takes a lot of time. It’s the thing that, you know, a lot of, you know, your time is valuable.

And like I always tell people, you can lose things in life, but you can’t lose. Once you lose time, it’s gone, you can never get it back. And yeah, you have to factor that in. Yeah, no, that’s great point. So I always try to encourage people, like just start now. And yeah, I think a lot of people, one of the mental barriers, because a lot of people are panic preppers, they’re impulsive preppers and just, just the majestic human nature, you know, most people don’t have that inherent wisdom like a lot of our viewers do, who are, who understand that even if we get a period of relative peace and stability that, you know, like, it doesn’t take a lot to, to have a high level, level analysis right now and understand that things could go bad really fast and that we need to continue down this path regardless of who’s in power or what.

So, you know, I encourage people to not get hung up on the fact that, okay, I can’t, I can’t afford everything now. Well, the fact is you’re not going to be able to do everything now. You know, just start with one thing, do it piecemeal. I mean, I have these ambitions to build an orchard, to Fence the property, to put cows in, to do chickens, to do, you know, a pond and all of these things. Right. But. And if I was to look at the dollar amount that it’s going to cost me right now, I’d be like, well, that’s impossible.

Sure. But if I look at these projects one of a time as I can do them, because I can only do one or two of those things a season. So, you know, just starting, starting now on something. And you made a good point about raw land, you know, oh, jeez. Yeah. If you take how hard it is to do this stuff now while this, with infrastructure in place, imagine how hard it’s going to be to do when, you know, the cities are burning. Yeah, it’s, you know, there’s a Navy SEAL philosophy that, you know, under extreme duress, the goal is to look at the next five minutes, just figure out how to survive the next five minutes and what you have to do.

And, you know, that philosophy has been helpful because when you look at the big picture of everything that has to be done, the price, the time, you know, I’m going to be 50 this November and, you know, I begin to look at time much, much differently than I was, you know, even a few years ago. And I’ve realized that, you know, it’s moving and it’s faster and, you know, I may not be able to do what I can do in the next 15 years. Maybe I have physical limitations, I don’t know. So all I do know is what I have in front of me and I’m going to take advantage of it, it and you know, it’s what I encourage my audience to do, what I’m always trying to do.

At the end of most of my videos when we have, you know, for example, our news segment, it’s heavy a lot of times when you look at the world events, but I always try to end with a word of encouragement. It’s just do what you can today. If you can’t start a garden, put a windowsill garden, you know, just plant a few herbs. I don’t know, something, something to get you in that movement. And I’ll finish by saying, I had an old neighbor in my first neighborhood years back. He used to live in the Philippines. He was a, a missionary there.

And, you know, is fascinating. When he moved back to the States, he learned so much in the Filipino culture of learning to do so much with so little. And when you would walk into his backyard, it was kind of like a prepper setup. He had these rain harvesting system, these Gardens. But everything looked real. It just didn’t look polished. I’ll say it that way. It just looked like he got scrapped from places and just built stuff. Stuff. Yeah. And the point is, is he was an older gentleman, but it took him time and he learned those skills.

And that’s the key is start where you are. Work with what you have, work with your limitations. You know, if you’re limited by certain things, find a way to work with that. And again, if you focus on that end point, it can be overwhelming. And so that’s my hope is just let’s take one step at a time. And that’s what we’re doing with our course that we’re going to release. We’re moving in three phases. Phase one is, okay, let’s understand the basics. Let’s teach you the basic of gardening. Set up a container garden. You can go get a bucket at Home Depot for five bucks, you can fill it with dirt.

You can plant something that gets you started. You know how to plant a basic tree? Yeah. And it’s, it’s that starting. It’s just. And it’s. That thing is, once you know how it is, once you put one foot down, it’s like, all right, put the next. And that’s my encouragement to the, you know, to people that watch is just do something. Even if it seems pointless. Yes. Even if it seems like, wow, there’s never going to be enough food to feed me. Well, maybe you’re going to learn something in the process. Maybe you’ll start expanding. It might be, you know, you’re planting a seed, but you’re also planting an even bigger seed of embarking on a new activity.

I just have one last question for you before we let you go here, and that’s that have you noticed a shift in the mindset of people? I mean, we were talking about COVID earlier and, and you know, people’s perception of that. Have you noticed that people have become complacent? Or are you seeing like an increase in interest in preparedness? Like, is there an increase in interest in the self sufficiency component more or is it, is there still a bug out bag culture out there? Like, I mean, I know from looking as a YouTuber, but sometimes, you know, our vision gets skewed because we’re viewing it from one perspective.

I’m just curious to know what you’re seeing on your channel and in your neck of the woods there. Yeah, it’s a great question. I mean, you and I, obviously, you know, we had our channels going pre Covid, you know, if we got 5 or 10,000 views on a typical video, right, you know, we reach our audience, and that was kind of average. And then Covid hit and then everything, you know, people woke up to the reality that the world is changing and being prepared is maybe not crazy. And then, of course, Covet died down, and then the war with Russia or Russia with Ukraine, and then here comes the next spike.

And then kind of, you know, felt like things died down then with this new administration, whether you love it or hate it, there’s a degree of uncertainty for some people, depending on which side of the political spectrum you’re on. So I’ve kind of seen a resurgence here as of late where with the tariffs, with so much that’s changing very quickly, people are realizing, oh, maybe I should prepare. And it’s. I, I can’t. I don’t know. I haven’t gone out and done a poll, but I feel like I’m seeing more of a centrist positioning in, at least from a political perspective on my channel, where I’m seeing more of an audience that typically would have been very far right at one point.

I’m now seeing, you know, based on the comments, I’m seeing that people are like, oh, they’re not necessarily political, or maybe they’re even left leaning. But I’m just finding that in general, people realize the value of this, that they’re so it’s. I feel like there’s a bit of a change for sure, and it’s kind of a new audience. And that’s where we’re trying to change a channel to make it a little more, for lack of better word, seeker friendly, where it’s like, hey, we’re just trying to kind of purposefully have changed even the verbiage on the channel lately where I’m not using maybe SHTF or Into the world, you know, those kind of terms that are.

We’re so used to within our community. I’m trying to normalize at a. At a bigger. What I’m trying to do is go to a broader audience because I’ve got to believe Europe and other places, they’re trying to figure this out. And so I’m trying to reduce the entry in the terms that maybe would be off, you know, put people off. I’m trying to make it a little more usable in the sense of like, oh, okay, I understand what this guy’s saying without, you know, sounding too hardcore. And again, there’s nothing wrong with people doing it. It’s just we’re trying to Change and make it a little broader for people, I guess, is where we’re at right now.

Well, you know, you want to make it shareable, I think is the thing. And one thing I’ve always struggled with is like, do you cater to the average prepper who’s perfectly fine with the verbiage, understands the true gruesome nature of SHTF and all that it entails, and is willing to, you know, prep from that point of view, or do you tailor it to the average person who is perhaps slightly more conformist, a little bit more unsure as to whether or not they’re. How they’re going to be judged as a result of doing this? And it really comes down to are they willing to share your content in a way that they don’t feel embarrassed? That’s really what it comes down to.

Yeah. You know, somebody might want. Not want to share alerts. You know, World War III is starting. Right. But they might, they might be more inclined to. Even though I, you know, I stand by it most of the time. Right. Like, sure, you know, in hindsight, maybe I was off the market occasionally, but for the most part, I think we’re, you know, we’re pretty accurate on our prognosticating. But, you know, I think it’s easier for someone to share like some of our Blue Strip videos where they’re, they’re just, you know, more generally universally applicable, innocuous titles, you know, things that aren’t screaming and, and associated with all kinds of negative stigmas that have accumulated over the years.

Right. So I, I think your approach is a good one. It’s a long term, evergreen approach. And, you know, I wish you the best of luck at it, man. Oh, I know. I appreciate it. I’m, I’ll finish by saying I feel like to a degree, I feel like I’m just beginning at a whole new level. It’s, it’s been really exciting these last even year or so and I don’t know, I’ve kind of got a new fire lit under my seat and. Nice. Yeah, I’m, I’m excited. I, again, I just feel like we’re only getting going here and I’m, I’m excited to see your arc where you’re going now.

You’re, you’re, you know, you’re still getting those PRs every day, I should say. Well, it’s the joints that are getting me now, so you’ll, you’ll see soon enough. It’s my body wants to do more or my mind wants to do more, but I’m starting to learn to enjoy Advil a little more. So. Hey, well. But I’m not giving up. No. I mean, it’s good to change it up every once in a while, and I think you’re in the right vein of things. So I’d encourage you guys to go and check out city prepping’s channel. Sign up to the course.

Especially if this is something you’re wanting to, you know, look into, it’s never too late and just start, you know where you’re at. I think that’s the best advice, you know, a person, even if it seems pointless. And, you know, this ain’t gonna amount to nothing. Just. Yeah, you know, just give it a chance. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Thanks for coming out, man. Hopefully we’ll see you this year. We’re gonna go shoot some hogs, apparently. Yeah, we’ll talk about that in just a second. All right, Take care. You too. Take care. The best way to support this channel is to support yourself by gearing up at canadianpreparedness.

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