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  • Today, we are going to have a look at the prepper lifestyle.

  • We're going to head to central Texas, where a good friend of mine,

  • John Stokes, a former technology writer, lives. He started a tech Web site

  • called ARS Technica. He now helps run a Web site called theprepared.com.

  • Obviously, this virus has kind of turned all of us into preppers hoarding our food and toilet paper

  • and everything else. And so we're going to get some tips from a pro on how to live like a prepper

  • and how to deal with this virus head on. So off we go see John Stokes.

  • Hello. Hello, can you guys hear me?

  • Yeah, man, I can hear you, but I can't see your beautiful face.

  • Started the video. There you are

  • Got some Texas on the wall back there.

  • Coming in hot man coming in strong I like it.

  • And also there's this wall which has like axes and other tools on it.

  • You guys going to be doing like video tutorials and stuff right? And so you're gearing up to do some of that.

  • Yeah, That's the plan. We're gonna do some, um, some lessons.

  • That is quality.

  • So, yeah. I'm John Stokes. I'm deputy editor at theprepared.com. And I was originally

  • more of like a classic Boy Scout. I was a life scout. I grew up in hurricane country,

  • Gulf Coast, Louisiana. Knew what it was to bug out for a hurricane.

  • Evacuate that kind of stuff. So I was more along that vein. We sold ARS Technica in 2008,

  • in May of 2008. And then so I was kind of a newly minted investor, a member of the investing class.

  • And then boom, Lehman happens in September, the kind of one-two punch of the financial crisis

  • and becoming a father. Those both tipped me over into a serious prepper territory.

  • And we see that a lot at the prepared. The first kid is a period when a lot of parents get into this.

  • I kind of became aware that, you know, hey, man, the world sort of runs on short term credit.

  • And this is a weird vulnerability that I didn't know existed. I didn't know that if you couldn't get short term credit,

  • then there may not be groceries, there may not be clean municipal water, stuff like this.

  • And so then you start thinking, what are the other vulnerabilities? Just like with the Great Depression,

  • there was a generation there that hoarded things. And that was, you know, it was thrifty.

  • It's going to leave its mark.

  • How did you approach getting into this whole world?

  • You know, I had started a outdoor Web site called all outdoor.com for a friend of mine

  • who had a company and an ad network. And they're like, we want to make our own content site. So I started this site for them.

  • Mostly it was outdoor gear hunting, shooting, fishing, that kind of stuff.

  • And so I started rolling in the preparedness stuff. And the audience liked it. And I just started writing about it

  • and researching as I wrote about it, I was fortunate in that the same people that owned that site

  • also own survival survivalist boards.com. And so I had a connection to the more traditional side

  • of the survival community. There's a little difference between survivalists and preppers.

  • So I was a little more plugged into the survivalist side, but also some of the prepping stuff that started too.

  • Have you seen a ton of people, a lot more new people coming to the site?

  • Yeah, there's been a lot of interest. We've had a lot of new people sign up

  • and join and there's still maybe some residual stigma around the word prepper.

  • But in terms of the number of people that are engaging in, what we would recognize as now as prepper activities,

  • that's going to go through the roof and it's going to stay elevated.

  • This is the kind of medium term food supply. There's some short term stop that's that's in the refrigerators

  • downstairs. We bought an extra fridge. We got a lot of canned food.

  • That's a barrel of rice. I got a cheese wheel, actually got two cheese wheels and

  • What kinds did you get

  • Dutch Gouda cheese wheel like a 20 pound wheel. And then I got like

  • a sheep's milk slash, goat's milk blend, cheese wheel.

  • It's protein and fat in there. And it keeps for like 25, 30 years. We've got batteries

  • and a charging station. So I do a lot of rechargeable batteries here.

  • That's kind of a little mini attic storage space that with air condition.

  • So that's where there's a lot of long term food. And so this was a playroom

  • that we turned into like a little mini classrooms for the kids because now they have to go from home.

  • Bunch of games behind me. I've gotten into board games for this,

  • you know. Can you prepare for a virus the same way as like a natural disaster or something like that?

  • We tried to start with a baseline of. You don't make any assumptions.

  • So when we look at the bug out bag, there'll be a lot of stuff in there. That's of the nature of, OK, I'm stuck out and there's no services.

  • I've got a clean canteen here. This is a single walled, clean canteen. It's not the double walled because

  • you can boil water in it. A tarp, toilet paper, headlamp, sleeping pad de trucks ration block. This is a titanium pot.

  • There's a tinder strand in here so you can light a fire with the stuff. Contractor bags, ranger bands of fasteners, I've got a folding saw.

  • You want to start with a baseline of super core stuff. Having some lighting having ability to make a fire

  • or having water, having some food, and then you tweak up from there and prepare for certain

  • other kinds of emergencies.

  • I think the thing to do is, is to not get complacent and to be ready to take the next step.

  • I really have actually spent a lot of time the past two weeks repacking these bags and making sure that we're actually ready to go.

  • I'm looking into our home insurance. Are we insured? If I have to leave this property and come back and it's trashed

  • Do I have everything documented? What What about documents? I'm getting those together.

  • A will. So I am hoping for things to get better in the spring.

  • I'm hoping for us to turn the corner and for us to go back to. To reopen society.

  • But I don't know what's next. And so I'm spending my time as best I can. Preparing for an even worst case scenario.

  • And they'd be my general recommendation is if you've got time. Whatever you can do, you don't have to do all the things.

  • Maybe you're just exercising. Maybe you're going around your apartment, your house, and you're looking for.

  • OK. If I got up in the middle of the night and I had to leave because it was unsafe or for whatever reason,

  • what am I going to take? Put that stuff together. Do it Now. You got a minute? You can do it now.

  • The important thing is not to get too attached to any one thing.

  • Not to get too attached to a piece of property, to a piece of stuff.

  • You don't want to have that cloud your judgment about what's the safest for you.

  • Hope for the best. Keep prepared for the worst.

  • Well, man, I appreciate you spending the time and giving us this advice. I'm sorry. It sort of took this thing

  • for us to like see each other face to face again. We gotta do this under happier circumstances?

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah

  • Thank you so much.

  • All right. Thank you, guys.

Today, we are going to have a look at the prepper lifestyle.

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