Stay in good shape, mentally, physically, financially. Prepare and train for what you can. Be friendly, love your community. Keep moving the needle forward.
@ live your life in a way that the spirit of God may dwell with you, and then fast and pray for the gift of discernment that you may see through the lies and deceptions and holes that others would dig for you. I’m no saint, need to live up to this myself. But if you are honestly asking, that’s my honest answer. Only you can prevent forest fires. 😊
everything you said is so true!!! my dad went thru the depression & it changed everyone that went thru it.. my dad taught me A LOT growing up & im very fortunate for it!! most will perish in the first 6 months of a true SHTF IF they make it that long!! i hope this opens peoples eyes as to what they should be learning before anything happens where they are going to need it!!!
Uncle, you speak the truth. My Dad grew up during the Depression, he taught me many things and I have expanded my knowledge even more so. I can build or fix most anything, grow my own food, etc. The neighbors come to me to repair their crap, or get advise as most don't know a wrench from a tablespoon. I have a fancy "new" vehicle, but I also have one I can repair myself with a set of points in an engine compartment you can actually fit your body into, just in case.
Born in 72, there are so many things that I'd done/experienced growing up that even millenials wouldn't know. Learning gardening and canning from my grandmother who'd lived through the last depression. Helping my stepdad rebuild the engine of the family Monte Carlo, with parts from Summit Racing in Ohio. Installing a coal furnace in the basement because the oil furnace kept breaking down, and we spent most of a winter using kerosene heaters, and, at that time, coal was much cheaper than oil. Growing up in a poor area, with parents who don't make good financial decisions, you learn a lot of things that others would never expect.
I'm 59, my dad was born in the early 20's and my mom in 1940, my siblings and I were raised to be self-sufficient in a small community where everyone seemed to have a few acres. My 2 kids are in their early to mid 30's and I raised them in the outdoors and to be self-sufficient. I was a dad who very much enjoyed teaching and watching my sons grow and have always felt that hard times would come and they'd probably need the skill sets. My wife and I live on acreage in the mountains, I'm now retired and like doing bushcraft/camping type stuff, we garden, get our own wood and hunt some. Too be honest all of it is hard, but rewarding work if everything shuts down and we go into Depression mode life is going to get extremely difficult even for those of us who have a half decent clue. Survival is a constant w/ none to very little comfort and the simplest of mistakes, which are easy if sleep, water or nutrition deprived can kill you. Rock on and God Bless
It all rings so true. I'm 51 now, but in 2006, I received a Chuck Berry 45 for a white elephant gift exchange. (Johnny B. Goode on one side and Maybelline on the flip side). The young helpdesk techs had no idea what it was I had received LOL.
Wow, that is a body shot of a video. Excellent job and well layed out. I'd like to add unpolished skills: 30yrs ago as a young framer, I could run a hand saw and hammer all day long. Recently, I had to create a 50' bed and plant a row of hedges. Digging, shoveling, and raking blistered my hands pretty bad and my back and shoulders were destroyed. I couldn't do heavy manual labor for about a week. It's not that I didn't know how to work, it was that I had become soft.
I'm with you on that. My grandma lived in Leningrad during German Blockade and stories were crazy what people did for food and to survive. Our society is to dependent on just going to the store and getting what they want. Fortunately/unfortunately most people don't know how harsh reality can get, and how quick it gets there. Scary to think what hard times will do to people.
I love the fact that right after the point was made about phone has replaced our thinking skills..... He then goes in to dead air looking for the name of who to shout out while staring at phone.
Btw Heirloom : breeds true repeatedly for generations. From a strain that is like 120 years old. G.m.o. : is genetically modified on its originating seed. Some times it can be grown again .... A few crops have a rebirth limiting features. Hybrid : is a non GMO modified variety. This is done through cross pollination. There are long running strains that breed true. There are others that don't. Often the produce in the store is hybrid. Often the less nutritional food is a result of hybridization. Dolly the cloned sheep was g.m.o. That wolf or coyote prowling your yard is heirloom. You dog is hybrid. To be honest as long as you stay away from papayas and artic apples your not getting GMO food from store The reason you see UA-cam videos where ingredients say GMO is big processed food that uses sugar , soy, and corn in it ... Those are gmo. And those artic apples are mostly used in presliced packages not sold direct in bins. You can check out USDA website for more info
Totally agree. We should be teaching this stuff in schools again. How to change a tire, balance a check book, survival, etc etc. I’m not sure what good trigonometry and all this other crap they do instead is doing for anyone.
rotary dial phones were the shit! also party lines. where I grew up you could listen to conversation on the party line. just had to be careful not to get caught.
Yepper was a whiskey watch, but worth every second. I remember when changing the fuel pump on a vehicle was 2 bolts, 2 fittings, a little gasket goop, and you were back on the road...been there done that..not this drop the damn gas tank nonsense. So many skills have been lost or are in serious danger of being lost, and like you said, daily survival skills. This sure ain't gonna end well. Thank you!
I Fixed my neighbor(Mrs. Ruby 88yr old) gutter after the last storm. Some of us still have good community relations. Growing up & living in SE TN, I love knowing all my neighbors, buying/trading fruit & vegetables with local farmer market. My town only has a population 500. I rarely talk politics with anyone. I hope people take your advice of being neighborly. I baked a homemade Coca-Cola cake & took pieces to each neighbor. It doesn't cost anything to be nice. 🇺🇸🙏🏽
@8:10. You would be surprised how many people do not know that they don’t have a spare tire!… so many damn cars don’t have a spare tire or hardly a place to put one now days
Ik right. Whats really funny is i have a 2017 fiesta st and it came with a full size spare tire. Thts right no donut lol. So happy with my 6 speed turbo.
I'm a rare breed, my grandparents taught me a lot of skills that are lost now day and yet I cannot agree more with you and yes there is still a lot of things I haven't done but I do live in a rural area and I do know my neighbors within 10mi of me...
Sorry I missed the live feed. Was putting out a fire. (Literally!) (Edit). Ok, now I’ve watched the entire vid, I agree society as a whole is screwed should it all fall apart. I’ve ranted on every point you made here for YEARS! That said, there are some of us (a precious few)who can do the things, have the skills and see the shit on the wall… It’s up to us to pass these values along so the few once again become the many. Here’s the million dollar question though; why/how did we (as an American society) lose the skills and become so dependent? There’s a video for ya! Thanks for another great vid Uncle! God bless!
Excellent list! That list is one of the many reasons we moved to the country. We know our neighbors, we help each other out when they need it and we all have strengths that offset some of our weaknesses. Plus being out here in the country, we have learned how to be more self sufficient, cooking from scratch (my wife's forte btw) or building from scratch (mine). To even working on plumbing, electrical, etc. We both wanted to get back to the lives we had with our grandparents. We definitely failed our kids, but we are trying to make up for it. They aren't listening, but we keep talking... LOL.
Hard truth. Many need to hear this and take it to heart. As a boomer i got all those lost skills my parents and grandparents showed me...tried to pass them on to my kids and grandkids, nah uh, they'd have none of it...lord knows ive tried. You make some very valid points. Good video.
I grew up we had some bad times. Never went hungry. But there were winters we didn't run heat. You dressed warm and went tobed under so much cover you didn't move. Had a glass of water get ice in it. And thats Florida weather.
I just to a place where I can start testing some of my equipment, and i learned my setups only looked practical until I actually tried them to find out they actually suck, so after a week of testing I figured out where atleast some of weak points are, testing skills and equipment is absolutely invaluable and I feel like a barely tipped a toe into what I should know
I look at the next gredat depression as the culling of the herd. My parents lived through the great depression and we live with the things that they had to do, not because we have to be because we can. Countless recipes, construction, building, etc. And auto repair. I would prefer older vehicles, only because you can work on them as I can with my Harley's. Look how many people can not cook a turkey or fry an egg for that matter. It is not premade on the shelf where you heat and eat with a microwave, they would eat out or go hungry
What if this doesn't google anymore? 😂 one of the last things they say in lights out or one second after....we are back to living in the 1800s...no we aren't. In the 1800s, we knew how to live in the 1800s. You are spot on. I try to learn knew things constantly, but the reality is I don't consistently practice the things I learn. Just hope for the best if things go south. Another great video.
Suburban assimilation happened primarily after WW2. I’m GenX and literally have experienced where my dad’s generation - Boomers- didn’t feel like it was necessary to pass down some skills. My great grandparents had land & my great grandfather used to take my great uncles and my dad hunting (when my dad was a kid). I remember my great grandmother used to have rabbit and deer cleaning it in the kitchen. We lived in the city. For clarification, I am female. My husband said his Vietnam vet uncle took him hunting a couple of times and his people were more rural. He learned to butcher hogs. Past that, we are done. When my dad came back from Vietnam, I know he never went hunting with his grandfather after that. That was never taught to me or my brother. My grandmother canned food (not a lot but had skill) I never saw her clean rabbit or deer but she had been longed divorced from my grandfather and was working. She was also a very talented seamstress but declined to teach me or my cousin even when we asked. My cousin and I were discussing the other day how she always knew someone that knew how to fix something- whether it was her brother or a church member. My great uncle used to work on my cars. But after I start having cars made after 2001, manufacturers didn’t make it easy for anyone to be as resourceful in the community anymore. In all, we have been driven to consumerism and spending money on anything for a matter of convenience. Our time is spent trying to make a living and not get caught up in every one else’s drama. My generation was pushed for higher education but incurred debt for it. Making money for big banks etc. anyway, all of us have been routed to assimilate.
How true it is. The children after us "boomers" hated how they were disciplined and said they wouldn't be like that. So today's kids act like little monsters without respect for others and think everyone owes them something. My great-niece knows EVERYTHING but knows NOTHING and has no experience with any of it. I try to teach my G niece to work on her own car after she got taking at stealership.
Hey man, this video is awesome. I'm thinking we are very close in age. and this totally feels like conversations I've had with my siblings. Like you're looking out for us and you care, and you know alot of us aren't gonna listen, but you gotta say it anyway lol. I really appreciate your videos man. Keep em coming.
There’s a reason they project 90% would die without the power grid! We don’t know how to do anything anymore! Most aren’t prepared to last 3 weeks let alone 3 months or more!!!
I was lucky I actually asked the people who lived through that how to do it and took the time to listen and learn I'm teaching my nephews and I'm teaching their children
4:57 Again, the internet exists. All of these things are logged somewhere, even in books, if you dont have internet access. Google won't google anymore if we enter SHTF. Another Great Depression is not SHTF...
Uncle, right on! I'm a Gen Xer, at the 1/2 century mark. I grew up driving "muscle cars" and working on 'em with my Dad. Friends & I played Cops & Robbers with cap guns, went "exploring," etc. Over Summers+, went to my grandpa's 175 acre farm. Neighbors knew neighbors and watched over us kids. Politicians got into everything, here we are!
I'm 55. My missus is 48. We were talking this morning, as I took her to work. She seems nice I might have to try that again. We are likely the last people that could afford to buy our own homes and live from a single income. We did just that before we met. Because mine is the nicest place, we live in mine. She rents hers out. Sad but today's working kids in the UK struggle to buy and insure a car. Many wanting to leave home have to buddy up 3 or 4 people so they can afford to rent, so they can move out. The others just live with mum and dad. It's very sad.
OMG, Bro. This was one of the best bitch slaps of reality that people need to see. Our society is litteraly being held together by a dental floss thin thread. I have so many friends who have money and bought preps, but have never tried out or used any of their gear. I have one friend who bought a $2200 rifle and has barely used it. I used to run a prepper channel, and sadly the large majority of people on it never went into the woods to start a fire or collect water and purify it. Almost none have ever stayed outside in a tent. Or went without electricity/computer/cell phones for more than two or three days. If the grid went down, the average person would die from a lack of clean water in the first week. Water borne disease can kill as fast as a bullet can. The next factor would be violence. Too many people competing for the same resources.
Yeah we nearly froze to death and starved to death when I was young I grew up in Appalachia so yeah, my only goal as an adult was to never be hungry again and live in a house with heat and insulation
Sadly, most of those cars that you could work on have met the shredder. That was part of the "Cash for Clunkers" program. Vehicles of certain age, or older go directly to be destroyed when traded in.
My father used to stop off from work before he came home. He'd bring home squirrels and rabbits for dinner. We would eat them with lima beans and dumplings. This was in Baltimore City! I'm now 60 and more than comfortable with whatever is thrown at me. I'm now in Southeast Florida.
I remember hearing all of the stories from my grandparents about surviving the great depression, and yeah you are right we probably wouldn't survive. One of the biggest problems I see is that we don't have either the skills or the tools in this country to build the tools that allowed them to survive. Nobody has horse drawn farm equipment anymore and there aren't the draft animals to pull them anyway because the only horses that are left are not work animals. The maybe 5% of the population that would survive would probably settle somewhere around the 1800's tech level not the 1930's level.
Enjoyed this video a lot. 👏🏽 My mamaw lived through the Great Depression. She handed down a book full of info that she wrote. If new tariffs are implemented, especially new ones on Mexico & Canada (since we get over half of our fruit & veggies from them), we'll see another Great Depression. China just opened a new port in South America for soy beans. A farmer near me almost lost his farm over soy bean tariffs & cutting crop insurance. I hope people are preparing.😅
You are wrong. What we can not afford is to let these countries keep taking advantage of us. You seem to forget we already had 4 years of this and it was good!
All the tough guys got so bent out of shape during the brief pandemic shutdowns of restaurants. These fools couldn’t make a decent meal hence they were so angry.
You are 100 percent correct. I spent 20 years in the USAF and there are more panzies then warriors is the ranks. The educated idiot is more dangerous then most people realise. Keep the faith Warrior.
Wow… got a shout out! Love the content, though I think we disagree on the distinction between a Great Depression and the kinds of things you’re describing, which I may not have a perfect word for but is more akin to a supply chain crisis and breakdown of our economy, rather than a breakdown in demand & financial assets. I know the great depression also coincided with the dust bowl, and considering few have enough savings to afford a long stint of unemployment, these might all swirl pretty well together. But my background is more in accounting and economics… not trades & any useful survival skills, so I can see how someone would view the depression through that lense rather than mine.
Flat out in a real shtf permanent type. My goal not to live. Its to live long enough to be able to teach the youngest generation of our family what little i know from the old floks just to maybe make it easier on them. And give them the foundation to build on.
I’m not much older than you and I grew up with an outhouse and no air conditioning till I was 8? I will be fine I grow my own food and critters we recently had to do without water and that was a wake up call.
well during the last depression 85 percent lived in the country 15 percent lived in the cities... reversed now ... grow food? where? balconies? roof tops? the modern society can't take failure doesn't know how to recover from failures... today you can not eat your boot leather it's toxic ... great video brother
I’m pretty sure all of Aldi produce is heirloom. I grow red yellow and orange peppers in my garden each year from seeds in the Aldi peppers and they do better than any other peppers I’ve grown!
I have worked in the transportation industry my entire life in multiple areas, quick explanation of just in time. Everything has a lead time which is the amount of time once an order is placed the amount of time that product shows up. To be just in time a company orders the product it arrives and use it all within a week or two and the fresh batch of components arrive just as the old stuff is being used up. The benefit of why many companies are going to this method is less room and racking needed to store all of the subcomponents and there is less stuff that goes bad just sitting somewhere. This is the same as people going down to the local small corner store to buy their meals for the day or order 9mm and having it deliver a day or two before going to the range so they don't need to have the ammo cans in storage. The flaw of the system and we saw this with covid is the absolute reliance on stuff showing up when you need it to and it not being that late. So if you where expecting something in a week but all of a sudden you needed a subcomponent to make whatever it is and it shows up 3 months late, finally build and ship but can't make as much as needed because the previous company was short and could not send everything. Now the end consumer sees a scarcity and 6 months or more till they finally get it. With this system in place the only fix is when things finally seasonally slow down catch up begins but this is a very long path; we are still seeing some aftershocks from the covid shipping disruption issues...
I reject your assertion. I'm a highly talented network engineer - when the apocalypse comes, who do you want in your foxhole protecting your firewall? Making sure your printers print? Doing packet traces? WHO? The carpenter can't do that. They think a router is something to carve wood with. A nurse? Pfft - they'll probably setup an unsegmented network for all services like a newb. Think of how valuable a trained network engineer will be once the EMPs go off! ;-)
lol, wrong. Trades skills/knowledge is by far more important. Good luck working on that network that's down because the electricity isn't working and there isn't an electrician to fix it....
Anyone that’s honest with themselves should not be hurt by these assessments. I’m guilty of #3, but I’m okay with that, having the knowledge without experience is still better than being oblivious. Plus, if you grew up in the 80’s you would know, “knowing is half the battle”
OFF SUBJECT - When you pull someone over, do you know if they have a CWP? What is the best way to communicate to a LEO that you are carrying and have a license/permit?
Just tell them, Hey I'm carry a firearm then follow whatever directive. If it's me I tell you Great! done play with yours and I won't play with mine. After whatever is done I ask what you carry and talk guns. I've gotten to see some seriously cool stuff met a gent the other day with a trapdoor Springfield with original Bayonet. I ended up giving him some vintage ammo to put with it on his wall.
Very much true for most….though there are some country folk that would fare relatively well. Biggest concern is the lack of community. We are an atomized society that is bound to fight one another for limited resources.
Nothing but truth bombs. Im 32yrs old. I grew up playing outside and just being a kid. I never learned to work on cars or to be a carpenter. Wasn't that my Dad wouldn't teach me, just was me being a kid and rather wanting to play. Nowadays I'm using the Google box lol and teaching myself! I'm getting there, but I still got a ways to go. You are absolutely right though. The older generation took some valuable secrets to the grave. It'll be a hard hard hard life for us when this eventually happens..
You are 100% correct. We as a people are in for a very hard time. And it was all by design.
Stay in good shape, mentally, physically, financially. Prepare and train for what you can. Be friendly, love your community. Keep moving the needle forward.
Shaking phone in anger - “what if this thing doesn’t google anymore.” 😂
Should be a motivational speech at every school in the country. 😄
How do you know what you google is correct and truthful?
@ live your life in a way that the spirit of God may dwell with you, and then fast and pray for the gift of discernment that you may see through the lies and deceptions and holes that others would dig for you.
I’m no saint, need to live up to this myself. But if you are honestly asking, that’s my honest answer.
Only you can prevent forest fires. 😊
everything you said is so true!!! my dad went thru the depression & it changed everyone that went thru it.. my dad taught me A LOT growing up & im very fortunate for it!! most will perish in the first 6 months of a true SHTF IF they make it that long!! i hope this opens peoples eyes as to what they should be learning before anything happens where they are going to need it!!!
Really appreciated this video. Stay safe out there.
Uncle, you speak the truth. My Dad grew up during the Depression, he taught me many things and I have expanded my knowledge even more so. I can build or fix most anything, grow my own food, etc. The neighbors come to me to repair their crap, or get advise as most don't know a wrench from a tablespoon. I have a fancy "new" vehicle, but I also have one I can repair myself with a set of points in an engine compartment you can actually fit your body into, just in case.
The BIGGEST addiction are these phones.. 💯📱
Absolutely that's why life was way better iam GENX 73
Born in 72, there are so many things that I'd done/experienced growing up that even millenials wouldn't know. Learning gardening and canning from my grandmother who'd lived through the last depression. Helping my stepdad rebuild the engine of the family Monte Carlo, with parts from Summit Racing in Ohio. Installing a coal furnace in the basement because the oil furnace kept breaking down, and we spent most of a winter using kerosene heaters, and, at that time, coal was much cheaper than oil. Growing up in a poor area, with parents who don't make good financial decisions, you learn a lot of things that others would never expect.
Same here but from 1958
I'm 59, my dad was born in the early 20's and my mom in 1940, my siblings and I were raised to be self-sufficient in a small community where everyone seemed to have a few acres. My 2 kids are in their early to mid 30's and I raised them in the outdoors and to be self-sufficient.
I was a dad who very much enjoyed teaching and watching my sons grow and have always felt that hard times would come and they'd probably need the skill sets. My wife and I live on acreage in the mountains, I'm now retired and like doing bushcraft/camping type stuff, we garden, get our own wood and hunt some.
Too be honest all of it is hard, but rewarding work if everything shuts down and we go into Depression mode life is going to get extremely difficult even for those of us who have a half decent clue. Survival is a constant w/ none to very little comfort and the simplest of mistakes, which are easy if sleep, water or nutrition deprived can kill you.
Rock on and God Bless
Great video! Love the Caddy Northstar reference-scary to think-that was 30+ years ago! 🤣
Foxfire book series. And for the algorithms.
It all rings so true. I'm 51 now, but in 2006, I received a Chuck Berry 45 for a white elephant gift exchange. (Johnny B. Goode on one side and Maybelline on the flip side). The young helpdesk techs had no idea what it was I had received LOL.
Wow, that is a body shot of a video. Excellent job and well layed out.
I'd like to add unpolished skills: 30yrs ago as a young framer, I could run a hand saw and hammer all day long. Recently, I had to create a 50' bed and plant a row of hedges. Digging, shoveling, and raking blistered my hands pretty bad and my back and shoulders were destroyed. I couldn't do heavy manual labor for about a week. It's not that I didn't know how to work, it was that I had become soft.
Half of my neighbors are tenants that dont stick around long. I don't even know their names.
I'm with you on that. My grandma lived in Leningrad during German Blockade and stories were crazy what people did for food and to survive. Our society is to dependent on just going to the store and getting what they want. Fortunately/unfortunately most people don't know how harsh reality can get, and how quick it gets there. Scary to think what hard times will do to people.
And some dependent on stealing from others, especially stealing from older people
Thank you for the knowledge and timely advice. You are 110% spot on. Take care and Godspeed.
Good, Thx
I love the fact that right after the point was made about phone has replaced our thinking skills..... He then goes in to dead air looking for the name of who to shout out while staring at phone.
Btw
Heirloom : breeds true repeatedly for generations. From a strain that is like 120 years old.
G.m.o. : is genetically modified on its originating seed. Some times it can be grown again .... A few crops have a rebirth limiting features.
Hybrid : is a non GMO modified variety. This is done through cross pollination. There are long running strains that breed true. There are others that don't. Often the produce in the store is hybrid.
Often the less nutritional food is a result of hybridization.
Dolly the cloned sheep was g.m.o.
That wolf or coyote prowling your yard is heirloom.
You dog is hybrid.
To be honest as long as you stay away from papayas and artic apples your not getting GMO food from store
The reason you see UA-cam videos where ingredients say GMO is big processed food that uses sugar , soy, and corn in it ... Those are gmo.
And those artic apples are mostly used in presliced packages not sold direct in bins.
You can check out USDA website for more info
Totally agree. We should be teaching this stuff in schools again. How to change a tire, balance a check book, survival, etc etc. I’m not sure what good trigonometry and all this other crap they do instead is doing for anyone.
Homeschooling is the answer.
rotary dial phones were the shit! also party lines. where I grew up you could listen to conversation on the party line. just had to be careful not to get caught.
😂 Yeah, those old women would talk about everyone 😅😂
No, party lines get abused by lonely, gossipy old useless biddies.
Yepper was a whiskey watch, but worth every second. I remember when changing the fuel pump on a vehicle was 2 bolts, 2 fittings, a little gasket goop, and you were back on the road...been there done that..not this drop the damn gas tank nonsense. So many skills have been lost or are in serious danger of being lost, and like you said, daily survival skills. This sure ain't gonna end well. Thank you!
I Fixed my neighbor(Mrs. Ruby 88yr old) gutter after the last storm.
Some of us still have good community relations. Growing up & living in SE TN, I love knowing all my neighbors, buying/trading fruit & vegetables with local farmer market. My town only has a population 500. I rarely talk politics with anyone. I hope people take your advice of being neighborly. I baked a homemade Coca-Cola cake & took pieces to each neighbor. It doesn't cost anything to be nice. 🇺🇸🙏🏽
Doubled up 550 cord with a square knot will replace a belt that snapped for at least 120 miles, never tested it past that lol
@8:10. You would be surprised how many people do not know that they don’t have a spare tire!… so many damn cars don’t have a spare tire or hardly a place to put one now days
Ik right. Whats really funny is i have a 2017 fiesta st and it came with a full size spare tire. Thts right no donut lol. So happy with my 6 speed turbo.
I'm a rare breed, my grandparents taught me a lot of skills that are lost now day and yet I cannot agree more with you and yes there is still a lot of things I haven't done but I do live in a rural area and I do know my neighbors within 10mi of me...
Sorry I missed the live feed. Was putting out a fire. (Literally!)
(Edit). Ok, now I’ve watched the entire vid, I agree society as a whole is screwed should it all fall apart. I’ve ranted on every point you made here for YEARS! That said, there are some of us (a precious few)who can do the things, have the skills and see the shit on the wall…
It’s up to us to pass these values along so the few once again become the many.
Here’s the million dollar question though; why/how did we (as an American society) lose the skills and become so dependent?
There’s a video for ya!
Thanks for another great vid Uncle! God bless!
Excellent list! That list is one of the many reasons we moved to the country. We know our neighbors, we help each other out when they need it and we all have strengths that offset some of our weaknesses. Plus being out here in the country, we have learned how to be more self sufficient, cooking from scratch (my wife's forte btw) or building from scratch (mine). To even working on plumbing, electrical, etc. We both wanted to get back to the lives we had with our grandparents. We definitely failed our kids, but we are trying to make up for it. They aren't listening, but we keep talking... LOL.
And for those of us who pive in the country will be the biggest targets
Hard truth. Many need to hear this and take it to heart. As a boomer i got all those lost skills my parents and grandparents showed me...tried to pass them on to my kids and grandkids, nah uh, they'd have none of it...lord knows ive tried. You make some very valid points. Good video.
The neighbor issue is real
I grew up we had some bad times. Never went hungry.
But there were winters we didn't run heat. You dressed warm and went tobed under so much cover you didn't move.
Had a glass of water get ice in it. And thats Florida weather.
Everything you are saying is so true
I just to a place where I can start testing some of my equipment, and i learned my setups only looked practical until I actually tried them to find out they actually suck, so after a week of testing I figured out where atleast some of weak points are, testing skills and equipment is absolutely invaluable and I feel like a barely tipped a toe into what I should know
I look at the next gredat depression as the culling of the herd. My parents lived through the great depression and we live with the things that they had to do, not because we have to be because we can. Countless recipes, construction, building, etc. And auto repair. I would prefer older vehicles, only because you can work on them as I can with my Harley's. Look how many people can not cook a turkey or fry an egg for that matter. It is not premade on the shelf where you heat and eat with a microwave, they would eat out or go hungry
What if this doesn't google anymore? 😂 one of the last things they say in lights out or one second after....we are back to living in the 1800s...no we aren't. In the 1800s, we knew how to live in the 1800s. You are spot on. I try to learn knew things constantly, but the reality is I don't consistently practice the things I learn. Just hope for the best if things go south. Another great video.
BOOM! I had a 98 Eldorado and I had that very problem. The starter itself was fine, the nut on the lead was loose. $400 in labor to tighten it.
$400 to disgnose.
Hey unck
Want a bit of good news?
My 7 yo nephew got his first deer last sat. And wanted to help clean it a process it.
Suburban assimilation happened primarily after WW2. I’m GenX and literally have experienced where my dad’s generation - Boomers- didn’t feel like it was necessary to pass down some skills. My great grandparents had land & my great grandfather used to take my great uncles and my dad hunting (when my dad was a kid). I remember my great grandmother used to have rabbit and deer cleaning it in the kitchen. We lived in the city. For clarification, I am female. My husband said his Vietnam vet uncle took him hunting a couple of times and his people were more rural. He learned to butcher hogs. Past that, we are done. When my dad came back from Vietnam, I know he never went hunting with his grandfather after that. That was never taught to me or my brother. My grandmother canned food (not a lot but had skill) I never saw her clean rabbit or deer but she had been longed divorced from my grandfather and was working. She was also a very talented seamstress but declined to teach me or my cousin even when we asked. My cousin and I were discussing the other day how she always knew someone that knew how to fix something- whether it was her brother or a church member. My great uncle used to work on my cars. But after I start having cars made after 2001, manufacturers didn’t make it easy for anyone to be as resourceful in the community anymore. In all, we have been driven to consumerism and spending money on anything for a matter of convenience. Our time is spent trying to make a living and not get caught up in every one else’s drama. My generation was pushed for higher education but incurred debt for it. Making money for big banks etc. anyway, all of us have been routed to assimilate.
How true it is. The children after us "boomers" hated how they were disciplined and said they wouldn't be like that. So today's kids act like little monsters without respect for others and think everyone owes them something. My great-niece knows EVERYTHING but knows NOTHING and has no experience with any of it. I try to teach my G niece to work on her own car after she got taking at stealership.
thx for making these statements...miss forcing the rotary phone to dial to go back faster with my finger
To be fair on mechanical fixes.
You cant use bailing wire and tape to fix the new tractor, turcks
Hey man, this video is awesome. I'm thinking we are very close in age. and this totally feels like conversations I've had with my siblings. Like you're looking out for us and you care, and you know alot of us aren't gonna listen, but you gotta say it anyway lol. I really appreciate your videos man. Keep em coming.
Dads old bell south still on the wall. The ugly burnt orange one from the 60s
There’s a reason they project 90% would die without the power grid! We don’t know how to do anything anymore! Most aren’t prepared to last 3 weeks let alone 3 months or more!!!
Because they dont want you to have seeds. You wouldnt need to buy stuff anymore
I was lucky I actually asked the people who lived through that how to do it and took the time to listen and learn I'm teaching my nephews and I'm teaching their children
4:57 Again, the internet exists. All of these things are logged somewhere, even in books, if you dont have internet access. Google won't google anymore if we enter SHTF. Another Great Depression is not SHTF...
Uncle, right on! I'm a Gen Xer, at the 1/2 century mark. I grew up driving "muscle cars" and working on 'em with my Dad. Friends & I played Cops & Robbers with cap guns, went "exploring," etc. Over Summers+, went to my grandpa's 175 acre farm. Neighbors knew neighbors and watched over us kids. Politicians got into everything, here we are!
I am 71 and know how to and have done all of these things however getting younger to stop and learn hasn’t happened
@@gregorydamms608 I hear ya. I, definitely, hear ya! Have as good a weekend as possible!✌
Shout out to “More for Less.”I’ve gotta work on putting my google box down. I’ve also gotta work on #10. Great and brutally honest video.
I'm 55.
My missus is 48.
We were talking this morning, as I took her to work.
She seems nice I might have to try that again.
We are likely the last people that could afford to buy our own homes and live from a single income. We did just that before we met.
Because mine is the nicest place, we live in mine. She rents hers out.
Sad but today's working kids in the UK struggle to buy and insure a car. Many wanting to leave home have to buddy up 3 or 4 people so they can afford to rent, so they can move out.
The others just live with mum and dad.
It's very sad.
i started a 500 sq ft garden... in n.e. texas... but it would be fruitless without power for irrigation
OMG, Bro. This was one of the best bitch slaps of reality that people need to see. Our society is litteraly being held together by a dental floss thin thread.
I have so many friends who have money and bought preps, but have never tried out or used any of their gear. I have one friend who bought a $2200 rifle and has barely used it. I used to run a prepper channel, and sadly the large majority of people on it never went into the woods to start a fire or collect water and purify it. Almost none have ever stayed outside in a tent. Or went without electricity/computer/cell phones for more than two or three days.
If the grid went down, the average person would die from a lack of clean water in the first week. Water borne disease can kill as fast as a bullet can. The next factor would be violence. Too many people competing for the same resources.
I am the one that can basic sew in my house.
As far as making clothes. Once what gets past patches.
Toga
Yeah we nearly froze to death and starved to death when I was young I grew up in Appalachia so yeah, my only goal as an adult was to never be hungry again and live in a house with heat and insulation
Great Job!
Sadly, most of those cars that you could work on have met the shredder. That was part of the "Cash for Clunkers" program. Vehicles of certain age, or older go directly to be destroyed when traded in.
My father used to stop off from work before he came home. He'd bring home squirrels and rabbits for dinner. We would eat them with lima beans and dumplings. This was in Baltimore City! I'm now 60 and more than comfortable with whatever is thrown at me. I'm now in Southeast Florida.
Nice.
Great job uncle freedom
It doesn’t have to happen We The People can change it
Nice work !
I remember hearing all of the stories from my grandparents about surviving the great depression, and yeah you are right we probably wouldn't survive. One of the biggest problems I see is that we don't have either the skills or the tools in this country to build the tools that allowed them to survive. Nobody has horse drawn farm equipment anymore and there aren't the draft animals to pull them anyway because the only horses that are left are not work animals. The maybe 5% of the population that would survive would probably settle somewhere around the 1800's tech level not the 1930's level.
No lies detected. Good times create soft men........
Yeah we're somewhere on that soft men make hard times swing
Enjoyed this video a lot. 👏🏽
My mamaw lived through the Great Depression. She handed down a book full of info that she wrote.
If new tariffs are implemented, especially new ones on Mexico & Canada (since we get over half of our fruit & veggies from them), we'll see another Great Depression. China just opened a new port in South America for soy beans. A farmer near me almost lost his farm over soy bean tariffs & cutting crop insurance. I hope people are preparing.😅
You are wrong. What we can not afford is to let these countries keep taking advantage of us. You seem to forget we already had 4 years of this and it was good!
Doesn't hurt my feelings at all. Knowledge gained is +1 to me. Regardless of how harsh the reality is.
As a tech at a GM dealership, I absolutely agree; these new cars are bullshit and need to go back to being user serviceable…. UGH; I hate my job…..
and it would be so great to see it all unfold, but it's not going to happen.
All the tough guys got so bent out of shape during the brief pandemic shutdowns of restaurants. These fools couldn’t make a decent meal hence they were so angry.
You are 100 percent correct. I spent 20 years in the USAF and there are more panzies then warriors is the ranks. The educated idiot is more dangerous then most people realise. Keep the faith Warrior.
Wow… got a shout out! Love the content, though I think we disagree on the distinction between a Great Depression and the kinds of things you’re describing, which I may not have a perfect word for but is more akin to a supply chain crisis and breakdown of our economy, rather than a breakdown in demand & financial assets.
I know the great depression also coincided with the dust bowl, and considering few have enough savings to afford a long stint of unemployment, these might all swirl pretty well together.
But my background is more in accounting and economics… not trades & any useful survival skills, so I can see how someone would view the depression through that lense rather than mine.
@@mohr4less thanks for the video my dude 🥇🏆💎. These videos always sting a bit but well worth it.
Flat out in a real shtf permanent type.
My goal not to live. Its to live long enough to be able to teach the youngest generation of our family what little i know from the old floks just to maybe make it easier on them.
And give them the foundation to build on.
Huh, first time I've been called a myth. Of course I was lucky enough to grow up on a farm to older parents and raised traditional.
Great movie as always
I’m not much older than you and I grew up with an outhouse and no air conditioning till I was 8? I will be fine I grow my own food and critters we recently had to do without water and that was a wake up call.
Hello friends, Pa here. Bsafe
well during the last depression 85 percent lived in the country 15 percent lived in the cities... reversed now ... grow food? where? balconies? roof tops? the modern society can't take failure doesn't know how to recover from failures... today you can not eat your boot leather it's toxic ... great video brother
Came here to get my ass chapped with some truth. Unc don’t disappoint 😂
Love it. And yup!
I’m pretty sure all of Aldi produce is heirloom. I grow red yellow and orange peppers in my garden each year from seeds in the Aldi peppers and they do better than any other peppers I’ve grown!
They're hybrids.
Sad truth
I have worked in the transportation industry my entire life in multiple areas, quick explanation of just in time. Everything has a lead time which is the amount of time once an order is placed the amount of time that product shows up. To be just in time a company orders the product it arrives and use it all within a week or two and the fresh batch of components arrive just as the old stuff is being used up. The benefit of why many companies are going to this method is less room and racking needed to store all of the subcomponents and there is less stuff that goes bad just sitting somewhere. This is the same as people going down to the local small corner store to buy their meals for the day or order 9mm and having it deliver a day or two before going to the range so they don't need to have the ammo cans in storage.
The flaw of the system and we saw this with covid is the absolute reliance on stuff showing up when you need it to and it not being that late. So if you where expecting something in a week but all of a sudden you needed a subcomponent to make whatever it is and it shows up 3 months late, finally build and ship but can't make as much as needed because the previous company was short and could not send everything. Now the end consumer sees a scarcity and 6 months or more till they finally get it. With this system in place the only fix is when things finally seasonally slow down catch up begins but this is a very long path; we are still seeing some aftershocks from the covid shipping disruption issues...
Big cities are condemned to failure. Too many people would be stuck there.
We went from Americans to Americants
Not one lie told. Bravo
This video is spot on!! Love it!
You can do it!!
LMAO when you were doing the rotary and said shit and started over😂
You know what really grind's Uncle's gears?
Can't fix your car with a belt when it's remotely deactivated over it's cellular modem.
Why would you do that!?!
I miss the grandiose phone hang up… The good ole days
The last point hits hard. We have out-engineered common sense.
I reject your assertion. I'm a highly talented network engineer - when the apocalypse comes, who do you want in your foxhole protecting your firewall? Making sure your printers print? Doing packet traces? WHO? The carpenter can't do that. They think a router is something to carve wood with. A nurse? Pfft - they'll probably setup an unsegmented network for all services like a newb. Think of how valuable a trained network engineer will be once the EMPs go off! ;-)
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lol, wrong. Trades skills/knowledge is by far more important. Good luck working on that network that's down because the electricity isn't working and there isn't an electrician to fix it....
@@gabrielduell5226learn sarcasm in the trades, much?
@@gabrielduell5226whooooosh
I understand where you are coming from. But depending on the severity of the scenario playing out you are either right or laughably wrong
Anyone that’s honest with themselves should not be hurt by these assessments. I’m guilty of #3, but I’m okay with that, having the knowledge without experience is still better than being oblivious. Plus, if you grew up in the 80’s you would know, “knowing is half the battle”
Amen Unc, all of it, more true words never spoken.
OFF SUBJECT - When you pull someone over, do you know if they have a CWP? What is the best way to communicate to a LEO that you are carrying and have a license/permit?
Just tell them, Hey I'm carry a firearm then follow whatever directive. If it's me I tell you Great! done play with yours and I won't play with mine. After whatever is done I ask what you carry and talk guns. I've gotten to see some seriously cool stuff met a gent the other day with a trapdoor Springfield with original Bayonet. I ended up giving him some vintage ammo to put with it on his wall.
UNCLE. Loved this vid. 100 % truth. BROTHER
There are a lot more two-legged Wildlife to eat this time around. Just looking on the bright side
That stuff is about to change. Let Trump do his job. We need to start making our stuff here again. Plus people adapt.
Very much true for most….though there are some country folk that would fare relatively well. Biggest concern is the lack of community. We are an atomized society that is bound to fight one another for limited resources.
Nothing but truth bombs. Im 32yrs old. I grew up playing outside and just being a kid. I never learned to work on cars or to be a carpenter. Wasn't that my Dad wouldn't teach me, just was me being a kid and rather wanting to play. Nowadays I'm using the Google box lol and teaching myself! I'm getting there, but I still got a ways to go. You are absolutely right though. The older generation took some valuable secrets to the grave. It'll be a hard hard hard life for us when this eventually happens..
Hi all stay the course it’s a weird time right now I have really honed in on stuff and sold stuff off and tried to really get it all together
superb video