VIDEO “Prepping” is becoming more mainstream. Glenn Beck's step-by-step guide to SURVIVE global chaos:

[jward]

Glenn Beck
@glennbeck
“Prepping” is becoming more mainstream. With war overseas, threats of cyberattacks, & food sources diminishing, now is the time for YOU to do what the government has failed to do. Tonight, I show you the step-by-step guide to SURVIVE global chaos.



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Prepping 101: The Step-by-Step Guide to Surviving Global Chaos No one is laughing at preppers any more. The movement that used to be considered fringe is becoming more mainstream. But why? Glenn speculates that people all over the world are witnessing the assault on their basic needs to sustain human life … by their own governments! Food production is being altered, water is being fought over, and energy is getting flipped completely upside down. The threat of World War 3 has never been closer, and many Americans are worried about political divide fallout over the November 2024 election. After 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the COVID-19 pandemic, we learned we can’t rely on Big Government to save us. Because not only is the government creating much of the chaos, Glenn reveals how totally unprepared our officials are for the next major disaster. No one is coming to save you, so Glenn heads to the chalkboard to outline step by step how you can get your family prepared for a catastrophe. But don’t be overcome by your fear; react to it with resilience. Preparing is not as daunting as it seems, and it can be done inexpensively in stages. Disaster preparedness specialist Chris Ellis has served in a variety of disaster and homeland defense positions. He joins Glenn to discuss his findings on the history and growth of preparedness in America and why the prepper movement is growing here and in other countries like Taiwan, Israel, Japan, and Sweden. His simple advice to get started? Go camping and touch nature.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duf06SGYO1o

 

[Donghe Surfer]

So, this must be the peak of it, you know.....like when the show polisher was giving stock tips before the Crash of 1929

 

[Hfcomms]

Until I see Beck’s homestead with a few goats and chickens running around he’s doing what he does best…running his mouth.

 

[DustyOpal]

Until I see Beck’s homestead with a few goats and chickens running around he’s doing what he does best…running his mouth.

I'm pretty sure he has an off grid compound in Idaho with at least cattle, but maybe you already know that.

 

[Warthog]

He's just going over things that we the Timebomber's have been doing, or known how to do for years!

 

[shane]

I’m not a fan of GB, but anything from anybody that might motivate some more folks to start prepping is always good, as it converts more fellow citizens, maybe even neighbors of mine, into potentially useful allies instead of only remaining future roaming threats.

Panic Early, Beat the Rush!
- Shane

 

[WalknTrot]

Until I see Beck’s homestead with a few goats and chickens running around he’s doing what he does best…running his mouth.

Yup. He's got a ranch, raises cattle, and it sounds like the place is pretty well "set-up" in the sense we may think of....
Spends time there regularly from what he says on the air. He's no newcomer to the prep world.

 

[Marseydoats]

Unfortunately, most of the newbies consider prepping to be having a freezer crammed full microwave dinners, that they have no way to cook or keep cold if the grid goes down. And a pantry full of kid's cereal and pop tarts.
Not to mention all the millennials who have chickens because it's trendy, and still buy eggs at the store because they don't want to wash them.

 

[mudlogger]

I've been telling folks about Azure for a few years...to no avail, but NOW I'm emailing customers the retail link and they can order through me. Because I'm getting wholesale prices, they get better food and I get a little money.

Last order was the first time, but it's catching on.

 

[Hfcomms]

Yup. He's got a ranch, raises cattle, and it sounds like the place is pretty well "set-up" in the sense we may think of....
Spends time there regularly from what he says on the air. He's no newcomer to the prep world.

Good then. At least he isn’t all hat and no cattle as he has come off in the past.

 

[mikeabn]

Good! The more people prepared the fewer looters-and the more people ready to RESIST the looters.

 

[CaryC]

As we have learned here at TB2K. Think 1800's living, as worst case. And have roughly a year pantry. Rotate.

 

[Bad Hand]

My Mother, Great Aunts and Grand Mother started teaching me survival and prepping as soon as I could walk and talk. Even my step great grandmother who was Native American. The one thing she told me was never drink water down steam from a White Man.

 

[desertvet2]

I've been all around the world.
Don't drink down stream from ANYONE.

 

[CaryC]

One may wonder why I say a years worth in the pantry.

Because it may be a year from a crash to the next harvest of crops.

For more info check out the prepping forum. The Ladies in there are scrambling realizing a years worth is a lot more than they thought. It's a lot of food.

BTW you'll never store a years worth of water. That rule of thumb: a gallon a day per person, while a good rule for survival, doesn't include making coffee, brushing your teeth, washing your hair, even taking a sink bath, flushing the toilet. It's for survival, you're going to look like something the cat drug up, but you will be alive.

So the alternative is to have a water source. Have some stored sure. But have a lake, stream, well, rainwater, as a source to take water from. And a way to move it from the source to the house. Because water is heavy.

BTW: That is what they did in the 1800's. Had a garden, stored all they could until the next garden, well, pigs, chickens etc....

 

[rob0126]

BTW you'll never store a years worth of water. That rule of thumb: a gallon a day per person, while a good rule for survival, doesn't include making coffee, brushing your teeth, washing your hair, even taking a sink bath, flushing the toilet. It's for survival, you're going to look like something the cat drug up, but you will be alive.

It rains quite a bit where we live. We collect rain water for the garden, and its dual purpose.

But you will have to think of plan b,c for water.
We do know someone with a pond, so a berkey + dirty water = no thirsting to death.

As for conserving water, we know how to clean up with soap, a rag, a big bowl, and a little bit of water. (Learned from Trucking)

 

[desert_fox]

Yup. He's got a ranch, raises cattle, and it sounds like the place is pretty well "set-up" in the sense we may think of....
Spends time there regularly from what he says on the air. He's no newcomer to the prep world.

I have been by it a few times for work. It is in a area I would love to live in but alas, my wallet would not allow that to ever happen. He also does fund raisers for the local school and community events.

 

[JMG91]

One may wonder why I say a years worth in the pantry.

Because it may be a year from a crash to the next harvest of crops.

For more info check out the prepping forum. The Ladies in there are scrambling realizing a years worth is a lot more than they thought. It's a lot of food.

BTW you'll never store a years worth of water. That rule of thumb: a gallon a day per person, while a good rule for survival, doesn't include making coffee, brushing your teeth, washing your hair, even taking a sink bath, flushing the toilet. It's for survival, you're going to look like something the cat drug up, but you will be alive.

So the alternative is to have a water source. Have some stored sure. But have a lake, stream, well, rainwater, as a source to take water from. And a way to move it from the source to the house. Because water is heavy.

BTW: That is what they did in the 1800's. Had a garden, stored all they could until the next garden, well, pigs, chickens etc....

This is so true. Once I did the actual calculations on how much food was needed for a year, it boggled the mind. It’s A LOT.

 

[Toosh]

Most Americans have no idea how fragile our utility, production and distribution systems are.

Occassionally, my family takes our individual and average "prepping pulse" - that is, "how likely is it that we will have to use our prepping supplies/knowledge in the next year and in the next three years." We consider each likely natural disaster and all (however unlikely) man-made events. This helps us to stay in-tune with each other and dictates our time/money resources for prepping. After OBummer was elected our likelihood began to creep up. Everyone in my inner circle is presently between 60 and 90% in believing that we will need to use our prepping supplies/knowledge in the next 12 months. We all agree that even if we're wrong, it doesn't hurt to be more self-sufficient.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Unfortunately, most of the newbies consider prepping to be having a freezer crammed full microwave dinners, that they have no way to cook or keep cold if the grid goes down. And a pantry full of kid's cereal and pop tarts.
Not to mention all the millennials who have chickens because it's trendy, and still buy eggs at the store because they don't want to wash them.

Wow, I must be following an entirely different crowd of young homesteaders. The one's I follow not only wash and eat their own eggs, but they also butcher and eat their own chickens.

 

[nomifyle]

We have several ICB totes full of water. DH said he can hook one up to the house if need be. I keep several cases of bottled water in the she shed and rotate them. He has a couple of the ICB totes hooked up to catch run off from the roof and when they get full he transfers the water to the other totes to keep them full. I guess we have 3 or 4 thousand gallons of water in them. I have a berkey and other ways to fill water.

Some one mentioned stored fish, I have quite a bit of that too, in addition to other meats. I have regular tuna from commodities and get an 8 pac of my favorite tuna in olive oil every month. I use to love eating just tuna and then it got crappy, but this tuna is wonderful just from the can. And I have a good stash of sardines.

I'd venture to say most people around me have no clue what a full pantry is.

 

[CaryC]

Most Americans have no idea how fragile our utility, production and distribution systems are.

Every month or so, my family takes our individual and average "prepping pulse" - that is, "how likely is it that we will have to use our prepping supplies/knowledge in the next year and in the next three years." We consider each likely natural disaster and all (however unlikely) man-made events. This helps us to stay in-tune with each other and dictates our time/money resources for prepping. After OBummer was elected our likelihood began to creep up. Everyone in my inner circle is presently between 60 and 90% in believing that we will need to use our prepping supplies/knowledge in the next 12 months. We all agree that even if we're wrong, it doesn't hurt to be more self-sufficient.

That's a good thing, but just wanted to mention though it doesn't have to be a national catastrophe.

An individual can have some financial difficulty, in some form or fashion (and there are a lot of those, thank you Uncle Joe) and any preps they have can sustain them over it. Ask me how I know.

 

[CaryC]

This is so true. Once I did the actual calculations on how much food was needed for a year, it boggled the mind. It’s A LOT.

And preps while having meat stored among all that, should think if it comes to it. Not for every meal.

Back in the day corn bread, peas and milk, from a cow, was a staple for like 3-4 days of a week.

But if you did want to have meat at every meal. Sausage, bacon, bologna, hot dogs for breakfast and biscuits (which was also a staple back in the day). You would have to have 365 days worth of breakfast meat plus milk, and flour to cover a year.

They made enough at breakfast to cover lunch, on a plate, under a towel to keep the flies off. If you ate all the meat at breakfast, then it was jelly and/or peanut butter with your biscuit.

And then another 365 days worth of servings for supper. If you had 52 cans of tuna that would only be one meal a week for a year.

Not to mention all the veggies and rice and noodles. Potatoes would be a condiment, grown in the garden and only last a couple of months.

So we need to come up with another word besides A LOT, cuz that does even come close.

 

[WalknTrot]

I slogged through it. First half was a wake-up call for neophytes/deniers/skeptics about EMP ( ) natural disasters, hacked grid, etc. People need to be convinced the possibility is out there I guess.

Other half was a cursory list of what to do and what to have. Same info basically that the gov't puts out that nobody reads. The young fellow he interviewed at the end seemed to have a grasp of interesting info. A Colonel in the military, and explained to be a newly minted PhD in the field of disaster preparedness(?). Anyway, his estimate is that about 8% of the U.S. preps to the extent of 30 days. If you consider that most are a household of at least two, that's about 16% of the population. Gotta say - way better than I'd expect - though I do know quite a few households that could make it thirty days with an abundant pantry, off-grid heat - just prompted by the weather we get up north here - plus they are gardeners, hunters, campers and such.

His other advice was good - to just go camping to create the mindset. Gets you out of your element, setting up shelter, building fires, using less light, cooking without electricity, etc. Gives a quick wake-up to what little we actually need (especially in friendly weather) but also how downright essential those things are to life itself.

***This is as good a place as any to mention that I was scouring through the minutes of my township board meetings the other day, and along-side the topic I was looking for, learned that the VFD was buying a new-to-them, awesome-sauce firetruck that had on board a generator that could run everything in the fire hall and town hall should the need arise. The thought was that the halls could be used for emergency shelters - kitchen facilities, heat and AC will run on the genny, plenty of space. Also learned that outside the fire-hall is a publicly accessible well/potable water station that everyone is free to use, with the pump wired to easily be powered by genny if necessary. Somebody is thinking.

 

[nomifyle]

And preps while having meat stored among all that, should think if it comes to it. Not for every meal.

Back in the day corn bread, peas and milk, from a cow, was a staple for like 3-4 days of a week.

But if you did want to have meat at every meal. Sausage, bacon, bologna, hot dogs for breakfast and biscuits (which was also a staple back in the day). You would have to have 365 days worth of breakfast meat plus milk, and flour to cover a year.

They made enough at breakfast to cover lunch, on a plate, under a towel to keep the flies off. If you ate all the meat at breakfast, then it was jelly and/or peanut butter with your biscuit.

And then another 365 days worth of servings for supper. If you had 52 cans of tuna that would only be one meal a week for a year.

Not to mention all the veggies and rice and noodles. Potatoes would be a condiment, grown in the garden and only last a couple of months.

So we need to come up with another word besides A LOT, cuz that does even come close.

I counted cans of certain things to make sure I had enough of those foods for a year. Two cans a week equals 104 cans. I have enough of my favorite tuna to have a can a week and a little more. Many other things to fill in. Some chef boradee stuff I would only want to eat a can a week of, DH would probably starve before he'd eat them. Although he hates chicken and dumplings I saw he had some on his plate at a church pot luck. So He would probably eat some things he says he doesn't like.

Last time I was living by myself I'd kinda use meat as a condiment. I ate a lot of stir frys. so that was ten years ago and I think I spent about $50 a month on food and I had little to no freezer space.

 

[Marseydoats]

Wow, I must be following an entirely different crowd of young homesteaders. The one's I follow not only wash and eat their own eggs, but they also butcher and eat their own chickens.

I didn't say anything about young homesteaders --- I know a few of them, and they are great.
Unfortunately, idiot millennials are the norm around here, and most of them don't have two brain cells in their heads.

 

[Signwatcher]

Unfortunately, most of the newbies consider prepping to be having a freezer crammed full microwave dinners, that they have no way to cook or keep cold if the grid goes down. And a pantry full of kid's cereal and pop tarts.
Not to mention all the millennials who have chickens because it's trendy, and still buy eggs at the store because they don't want to wash them.

You have to wash them?!

 

[changed]

At his ranch, Glenn has an extensive solar setup and older vehicles that don't have modern computer chips in them.

 

[nomifyle]

I visited a church last night that I use to go to. There are several young families with a lot of children and they are homesteading to some extent. Gardens, raising animals, canning, etc.

 

[Voortrekker]

Until I see Beck’s ranchstead in Deep Texas with a few herds of cattle and chickens running around he’s doing what he does best…running his mouth.

Fixed it fer ya'.

 

[SurvivalRing]

Until I see Beck’s homestead with a few goats and chickens running around he’s doing what he does best…running his mouth.

Back in late 2017, while my crew was updating Apple Maps 2018 data set, I was tasked with collecting every street within our assigned grid, which on this particular day, included the industrial park where his studios were located.



I did not notice any small pens, hay bales, or various and assorted farmyard animal noises around their studios…

Seems kinda hinky…

 

[SurvivalRing]

I've been all around the world.
Don't drink down stream from ANYONE.

That’s why I live 156 feet lower than the nearest continental divide 30 miles west. The north Platte River is just east of town, and drains north. Our water here in town comes from a spring 32 miles away, and MAYBE has been through three chipmunks, a couple of trout, and maybe one porcupine…

Sure beats years ago, when folks in the south were drinking water that had been through seven people, 15,000 cows, and I don’t now how many non-citizens.

Elevation has certain perks…

 

[WalknTrot]

Back in late 2017, while my crew was updating Apple Maps 2018 data set, I was tasked with collecting every street within our assigned grid, which on this particular day, included the industrial park where his studios were located.

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I did not notice any small pens, hay bales, or various and assorted farmyard animal noises around their studios…

Seems kinda hinky…

I think his ranch is in Idaho.

 

[SurvivalRing]

I think his ranch is in Idaho.

I’m in Wyoming, and have been to Idaho several times. I prefer Wyoming.

 

[nomifyle]

I visited a church last night that I use to go to. There are several young families with a lot of children and they are homesteading to some extent. Gardens, raising animals, canning, etc.

ETA: I'm not sure too sure how they are on keeping a full pantry though. Maybe its hard to do when you have 7 to 9 mouths to feed every day.

 

[John Deere Girl]

ETA: I'm not sure too sure how they are on keeping a full pantry though. Maybe its hard to do when you have 7 to 9 mouths to feed every day.

If they are raising animals and gardens, that is awesome. Self sustainably is key in tough times. Need eggs? Go get them from the coop. Need milk or butter? A cow, goat, or sheep can provide that. I think living a homesteading life is a really good idea if one has a big family.

 

[school marm]

ETA: I'm not sure too sure how they are on keeping a full pantry though. Maybe its hard to do when you have 7 to 9 mouths to feed every day.

It may be hard, but it's definitely doable. I did it for 25 years for all the kids. Now three are married and have their own food storage. Their wedding gifts were a year's supply--with all the upgrades-- for two. Yeah, it takes a lot of space, but the trade-off is peace of mind. And we're going to eat the food, anyway, so it's not like money's going to waste.

 

[John Green]

I don’t understand why these kind of posts always turn into attack the messenger, in this case Glenn Beck. He offered some good info for people who are not preppers and from what I’ve seen in posts on this site over the years it’s clear many here are not real preppers.

 

[rob0126]

It may be hard, but it's definitely doable. I did it for 25 years for all the kids. Now three are married and have their own food storage. Their wedding gifts were a year's supply--with all the upgrades-- for two. Yeah, it takes a lot of space, but the trade-off is peace of mind. And we're going to eat the food, anyway, so it's not like money's going to waste.

Your article on the MN starvation experiment is a good quick reminder of how serious eating lite can be in a grid down situation.

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Is it no wonder that people eat other people in a famine? The Bible talks about those times and even describes it.

I believe the Lord God will keep us from starving in a grid down situation(Psalm 37:25, 1 Kings 17:4-6), but it does not take away from the horrible reality of what will occur around us.

Let me emphasize, Fear God.

 

[nomifyle]

I don’t understand why these kind of posts always turn into attack the messenger, in this case Glenn Beck. He offered some good info for people who are not preppers and from what I’ve seen in posts on this site over the years it’s clear many here are not real preppers.

In this case I think its because some don't like Glenn Beck.