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Dec. 1, 2021 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
10:25
The COUNTRY skills you need to survive in the CITY
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The topic of this podcast is the country skills you need to survive in the city.
So this is for people who've decided to stay in the city or who need to, for whatever reason, sometimes to take care of a family member, sometimes due to a job or your children in school or whatever.
So, I mean, everybody knows something big, crazy and chaotic is coming.
I mean, we're kind of already in a lot of it right now.
Everybody can see the increasing lawlessness In the cities, people can see what's going on.
You know, the flash mobs are doing the organized looting, which you're not allowed to call looting.
You notice that?
But some people decide to stay in the city, which I understand.
Everybody's situation is different.
And I've heard from a few people who say, oh, I'm going to stay in the city.
And I say, well, that's great, but do you have the country skills you need to survive in the city?
And they're like, what do you mean?
So that's what this is about.
Country skills means...
You need to be resilient, adaptive.
You need to be able to source things.
You need to be able to fix things and so on.
So I thought I'd go through a little bit of this.
Now, you've heard the phrase like a country boy, the old song, a country boy can survive.
And what they mean by that is that a country boy is a hands-on person who knows how to fix things, probably knows how to weld things, probably knows how to skin a deer or run a trout line, prep fish, whatever, do all kinds of things, clean a rifle, reload ammo, these kinds of things.
But that just scratches the surface.
A country boy mindset or skill set is about being...
Resilient, finding alternatives.
If you can't get the parts, what do you do?
And as someone who lives in the country myself, I can tell you that you can do a lot with bailing wire and duct tape.
Yeah, you've got to have duct tape, of course, but the bailing wire is the key.
And you've got to have some tools in order to handle all the different situations.
But if you're living in the city, you might think, well, gosh, what am I going to do with tools?
I've got to build a deck?
No.
You might need to repair things because as the system collapses, you can't get repair people to show up at your house.
You can't get a plumber.
So do you know how to fix PEX pipes?
Do you know how to put together a union or add an elbow or run a PEX line or even test a PEX line or fix PVC? Have you ever even put together PVC? Do you have the basic skills?
Do you know how to store food?
Do you know how to can food or dry food or maybe salt-processed food, like smoked meats or anything like that?
Do you know how to start a fire?
Occasionally on holidays and such, like on Thanksgiving, I actually barbecued some chicken on this big smoker that I bought before the summer.
I didn't know it was a smoker at the time.
It was just a giant, big barbecue steel contraption.
I was like, I want that!
And so I bought it.
And then I looked up online, like, what is this thing?
And it turns out it's a smoker.
And it has a grill area on it as well.
So I've just been using the grill.
But as a rule, I never use propane and I never use charcoal briquettes.
I only use wood from my ranch and I only start fires in ways that are off-grid.
You know, like matches or lighters, you know, Bic lighters or whatever.
And yeah, I stockpile matches and lighters as everybody should.
But I intentionally do not use anything that relies on the grid, like propane gas or charcoal.
So I barbecue with, you know, just wood off the land.
And that's a country boy kind of thing to do.
Well, if you're in the city and maybe you don't have a bunch of trees, so what can you burn In order to boil a pot of water on, let's say, a rocket stove, even in your backyard.
Or even on, if you don't have a yard, even on your porch or your back patio or something.
You can boil water.
You can make a meal.
But what do you have that burns?
And even if you don't have fuel, I mean, look around your house.
You probably have some old books or magazines that would burn quite well.
Or maybe some old furniture, and if you have a saw, a little hand saw, you can make wood out of it, and you can boil water?
You see, that's a country boy kind of mindset.
It's just using the things around you to survive, even in the city.
And there's nothing wrong with, in an emergency, like sawing apart a You know, a dining table chair or whatever if you need it.
Or burning some old books that you're never going to read.
I'm not talking about obviously burning important books.
It's not a book burning exercise.
It's a fuel water heating exercise.
I'm talking about, I don't know, some old useless cartoon books or whatever you might have that you don't need.
Or other forms of fuel.
Maybe you have leaves.
Maybe you have pine cones.
Maybe you have pine needles.
Maybe you have twigs and branches.
Maybe you live next to a park and you can go get some fuel.
But you see the point.
How do you do this?
Or maybe you need to dry food.
You have a front garden, a front yard garden, and you're growing tomatoes and you need to sun dry them so then you might need a saw and a hammer and some nails or screws or whatever in order to make a little sun drying platform so you can have sun dried tomatoes.
So it's good to know how to make that kind of thing, right?
Or how about just washing your clothes without a clothes washing machine?
Do you know how to do that?
It takes some work.
But it can be done.
You just need a vessel, like a giant bucket.
Actually, something bigger than a bucket would be nice.
Something big that can hold maybe 10 gallons of water.
And you throw your clothes in there and you have a plunger.
You just plunge it up and down.
You can buy clothes washing plungers.
And, of course, you put some soap in there and then you do a rinse cycle and everything else.
And it would be nice to have a ringer to ring out those clothes.
And then you dry them in the sun.
So it would be nice to have a clothesline.
This is just basic skills.
If you're going to survive in the city, you're going to need some country skills.
Well, also in the country, people are responsible for their own self-defense because in the country, you can't call 911 and just expect men with guns to show up in mere minutes.
So you become your own self-defense force, which is, of course, I mean, every person should have a sense of self-defense, in my opinion.
So that means that every person who wants to be safe, especially in a violent, chaotic collapse, needs to have a sense of self-defense.
So you need to know, in my opinion, how to handle a pistol and a rifle, how to clean it, how to reload it, how to clear jams, all these things, how to sight it in, how to lubricate it.
It's just basic skills.
And I wouldn't even call these country boy skills.
I would just call them human survival skills.
Everybody should know, in my opinion, how to shoot a Glock, how to run an AR, how to change a spare tire, how to sharpen a knife.
You know, kind of basic things.
How to start a fire.
Basic things.
And speaking of sharpening knives, where's your knife sharpener?
Even for kitchen knives, do you have a knife sharpener?
And where's the knife that's supposed to be on your person, your everyday carry knife, the EDC knife, huh?
Do you have that?
What about a flashlight?
Do you have a flashlight?
Do you have batteries for the flashlight?
1-8-6-5-0 batteries are the best platform for flashlights with batteries, and my new favorite flashlight is the Phoenix LD30, LD, as in Lima David 3-0, Phoenix, F-E-N-I-X. And by the way, Phoenix has the best 1-8-6-5-0 batteries that actually are honest about their capacity.
When they have a battery that says 3,500 milliamp hours, it actually is 3,500.
Unlike a lot of batteries that lie about that.
So do you have a way to charge those batteries?
Do you have a solar generator and maybe a 100 watt solar panel or something even bigger so that you can gather some sunlight energy, put it into your lithium, you know, energy storage device there, and then you can plug in USB chargers to charge up your cell phone, your laptop, your tablet, your flashlight, your satellite phone or whatever.
Batteries, all kinds of things.
So really think about living off-grid.
And it's often hard for city people to think about living off-grid because the grid works so well in the city.
You turn on the tap water and magically water appears.
You flush the toilet, magically it all just vanishes into a vortex.
You plug something into the wall, turn it on, there's electricity all the time.
Anybody who lives in the country knows that's not the case in the country.
Not everything works all the time.
So you learn to be more hands-on, more resilient.
So city people can get a little lazy.
I'm not saying you are, if you're a city person, but you can.
You can get complacent.
So try throwing off the breaker.
I don't know, camping in the woods for a day or two and see how that goes.
Seriously, try to live without the conveniences of a city because it's important practice for surviving what's coming.
So keep that in mind.
You can also buy some books online about country living skills.
Very handy, even in the city.
You can grow food in containers.
You can grow food on the balcony.
You can do a lot of things in the city that are, quote, country skills, but will help keep you alive no matter where you live, in a city, suburbs, or somewhere in between.
If you want more preparedness skills, check out my website, prepwithmike.com.
And thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
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God bless you for your safety.
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