Are We On Borrowed Time? Canadian Prepper & Brian Keating (#386)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Remastered from our interview in June 2023. Have you ever wondered why people become preppers? Well, you're in luck because today you're going to find out from one of the most famous preppers in the world, Nate Polson, also known as the Canadian Prepper! Canadian Prepper is an educational YouTuber who talks about self-defense, survival, and all things preparedness. He analyzes current events, reviews innovative equipment, and theorizes about the demise of civilization as we know it. In this interview, we talk about preparedness and living in a post-apocalyptic world. Tune in! Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Balancing preparedness, perspicacity, and cheerfulness 00:04:14 Why Canadian Prepper stays prepared 00:15:03 Is it worth living in a post-apocalyptic world? 00:20:19 Appreciation of what we have Additional resources: ➡️ Check out Canadian Prepper: 💻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CanadianPrepper ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I believe it's selfish to think as Elon does or as many other people think that because there's no God and because they're ultimately in the universe with no God, you have to construct your own meaning.
0:11.4	It may be just as real as my meaning, and I'm not denigrating agnosticism,
0:14.9	I actually think a true scientist should be an agnostic. Not only could it be a sole simulation, which smacks of divine inspiration and intervention.
0:23.0	But it could also be that, you know, God has started the universe
0:26.0	and then he's gone or she's gone or it's gone and that's unfalsifiable. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:37.0	Open the pod bay doors, now.
0:42.0	Open the pod bay doors now.
0:45.0	I've always wanted to ask you, Nate, you know, what keeps you going?
0:48.0	Like what, what is your, like you face doom and gloom, like've been counting you started going daily you know in in 20
0:56.3	in January 20 when it was like the Iran they killed some guy in Iran I remember you going basically live, this is it.
1:03.7	You have a family.
1:04.7	What do you do?
1:06.3	What do you do?
1:06.9	Like what is your coping mechanism?
1:09.0	How do you maintain the cheerfulness
1:12.1	along with the perspicacity that you have and knowing what you know
1:15.5	how do you maintain a cheerful disposition and and get through life essentially can I ask you that
1:21.6	Absolutely you use the word persipicacity, which I think was Andrew Tate.
1:28.2	My unmatched perspicacity.
1:30.5	He has popularized that term.
1:32.4	Anyways, um... No, I think it's just a matter of, you know, making sure that my kids are obviously a big role in that and just, you know, we kind of goof around and bring some levity to my day to kind of
1:45.9	balance things out exercise is a vital importance but I've always been
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