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Preppers panic before the shit hits the fan.

Most people panic afterwards.

I'd rather panic before, and then my panic can be nicely spread out,

and then I can make more calculated, cool-headed decisions

as opposed to heading down to the grocery store when there's riots going on.

Hello, everyone. Dr. Chris Martinson here of Peak Prosperity, very, very special, long

overdue show today with the Canadian prepper. Nate and I, we're going to discuss, well, what's going on in the world geopolitically, what's going on domestically, Canada, U.S., where we're going economically, and why you would prepare, but we're going to have to ask the deeper question, which is, which scenario are you preparing for? Mine is shifted, maybe his is shifted, maybe all of ours are shifting as life goes on and we

learn more and more. Nate, so good to have you on the program finally. Thanks for having me.

So let's start here. How long have you been pairing and what got you started? You know, it was

probably about 15 years ago. I was an academic, you know, I was a student of psychology and I think at one point I had

realized in my studies that there's so many pitfalls and vulnerabilities to the human psyche.

We're so susceptible to various forms of persuasion and conformity and normalcy bias and, you know,

group think that the various predicaments that were starting to arise around that time post-2008

would likely not be reconciled in a way that was, at least not without some kind of calamity.

So I decided to look at my own situation, and I realized that, man, I am a urbanized person who is very vulnerable if anything could,

anything arose, you know, whether it was some kind of disruption of services, that I didn't

have any skills. I didn't have any wherewithal and resources to write out any sort of emergency, be it short or long term.

And so there was this like aha moment, this epiphany that, okay, I realize that there's these

problems that are culminating, coming to a head, I'm not prepared to deal with it.

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