SURPRISE TOPIC – WHAT ARE YOU PREPPING FOR?

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Welcome everybody to It's Doom's Day 5 cast.

Today is April 6th, 2026, and joining me is always his local crepper what's going on now.

It's just another day. Actually it's the day after Easter, he is a result.

Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. It was hard to get out of there, but okay, I left my shroud behind.

Did you move the rock by yourself? I got to know, inquiring eyes to one of them.

If I tell you that, I'll have to kill you.

We'll leave the tomb closed on that topic for now.

Anyway, so yeah, I hope everybody out there had a great Easter weekend.

I hope you did all the traditional things.

We do the traditional egg hunt every year for the kids and they absolutely love it.

Every year I try to make it easier and every year I swear to God they just glance over where the eggs are.

If they're not a challenge, they don't find them, which is bizarre. I've never found the happy medium.

Anyway, so the topic of today's show local crepper doesn't know.

It's a total surprise. I was thinking about this all day today.

What I wanted to talk about on today's show is what are you prepping for?

What do you think the most likely Doomsday-esque scenario is that we will see?

What keeps you up at night? What is that one thing that you're like, shit, this is coming and I got to get rid of?

Well, it used to be an economic crash. That used to be my go-to.

That covers all preps.

I'm saying just short of a meteor landing on my head, that kind of thing.

They at that point who cares, right? That's what it used to be.

I tell you what, 2025 and 2026 has brought some very interesting things into the proper sphere.

There's another guy out there that says, I think it's everything all of the time,

or something like that, all of the things all of the time, where there's no real way to lock in on it.

Preppers like to be prepared for certain things.

I hate to say it, but I think the economic collapse is probably still the number one thing right now for me,

because that's the one thing that they're not really talking about.

I think it was either yesterday or the day before they came in with the employment numbers.

They were through the roof. Everybody's like, how is this happening? We're at war.

That's great. That's great, but gas is still over. It just went over $4 a gallon nationally.

The stock market is still like, we're making money.

Normally, when those kind of things happen, that means that the economy eventually tanks,

and we have some kind of economic crisis. Now, the question is, how bad will it be?

That's the real question, so that's what I'm prepared for.

I know over the years, mine has flipped flopped as well.

But I think that regardless of Prepper circumstance, my giant concern,

like the elephant in the room with any scenario, is always civil unrest.

It's always what it boils down to for me. I don't care if it's the economic collapse.

I don't care if it's some sort of weird medical disease outbreak,

some kind of biological thing. What it boils down for me is always the civil unrest.

I'm not worried about the event as much as I am the people after the event.

Oh, yeah. I mean, people are completely main thing.

You can almost not even plan for. People are completely, what's the word I'm looking for here there?

You can't figure out what they're going to do at any time whatsoever.

Unpredictable. That's the word I'm looking for.

So, you know, for, all right, I'd like to say a couple things.

As far as the people goes. So when we had COVID hit, we had people that kind of went in different directions.

You had people that were like, fuck it, every man for themselves.

I'm staying the hell away from everybody and I'm not following what you want to do or whatever and I'm done.

But then you had other people that kind of gained like the humanitarian aspect and like, you know what?

I'm going to go work the lines at the food banks. Everybody forgot we were doing drive-through food banks in every city.

Everybody forgot.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And then the ones that were like, I'm an essential worker. I have to keep going to work because that's what we need to do.

And we're going to turn this thing around.

So you did have the people that kind of rose up and said, you know, I'm jumping on board the humanitarian train

and I'm going to do what's best for, you know, my community or the nation and I'm going to help and do what I need to do.

And I saw that, I saw that with Hurricane Helene.

I saw that with Hurricane Irma, I believe it was.

And, you know, I saw different kinds of people. Some people were like, fuck it, you're on your own.

And then a lot of people were like, you know, we're going to come together and we're going to beat this thing.

The two things, I would say that all these events had in common though, which is why I don't think things got severely bad is the government was still online.

So there were still consequences to actions.

If you did something wrong, regardless if it was a hurricane or a pandemic, you were going to prison or jail.

Depending on which.

So there was still law and order.

And that may have kept some people from doing really horrible things.

Right. The other thing that these events both have in common is nobody was starving to death.

We were not dealing with famine yet.

Yeah.

And I think that when I talk about my main concern being the, you know, just the idea of the people, it's whenever we're in a lawless society,

dealing with famine is where I think things are going to get really, really, really bad.

Oh, 100%.

And at that point, it's, you know, you have, you can't call 911 anymore and say, hey, there's some guy break it into my house.

And that guy that's breaking into your house doesn't care because you can't call anybody.

No one's going to take him away.

And if he's hungry enough, he might risk a bullet for a sandwich.

So that's my concern.

Mm hmm.

Anyway.

So with your fear of being the economic collapse, I would like to, I would like to poke and prod at that a little bit.

Okay.

So the last big economic collapse that we saw was the 0809 collapse of the housing market.

Yes.

Okay.

And in that, we saw, well, there's kind of, there's a little bit to unpack with that because we saw a shift in the, in the job market.

Right.

So at that time, a lot of your specifically, anything that focused around fossil fuel industries was getting shut down.

So as those were getting shut down, you had a lot of, I don't know what you'd call them.

A lot of office jobs and a lot of different like intellectual degrees and stuff that those were kind of peaky.

Mm hmm.

You know, as the blue collar jobs were going away.

Yeah.

And so there wasn't just this, the, the idea that the housing market just crashed.

There was the idea that an industry also crashed with it.

And then there was a shift in the job market of what was popular.

And so that's, that's one thing I wanted to pick apart with that is what could be some precursors to this economic collapse.

Because like that's, in my lifetime, that's what I think about is 0809, the fossil fuel industry taking a shit houses getting four closed on.

Like that's what I remember from the last economic collapse.

Mm hmm.

Well, I think it's important to remember that the last economic collapse, the 2008 collapse wasn't true, true collapse because the government propped everybody up.

Remember, too big to fail.

Mm hmm.

They, they propped everybody up.

And the only, it's ironic too because the industry that paid them back was actually was GM.

I think they took like $4.2 billion and they paid them back in like, I want to say it was like a year and a half and they're basically shut up.

We paid you back.

But the government propped everybody up.

So there weren't really, the damage wasn't really, really there.

When you talk about the factors that would be applied to the type of economic crash, crash that I concern myself with, it has everything to do with a combination.

It's not going to be this one little thing.

It's going to be, how do we eat an elephant?

One bite at a time.

And right now, inflation is going to be the big thing.

Now, you know, the captain red tie will stand upon his platform and say there's no inflation.

But that is a, that is a technical economic term that he's referring to.

If gas is a dollar 50 more or dollar between a dollar and a dollar 50 more expensive right now than it was a year ago, then there is an inflationary effort.

And when you, when, when you're still making, you know, the same amount of money as junior firefighter level one,

then gas goes through the roof.

You still have to pay for that gas because you've got to get the work.

And, you know, you got to, you got to pay for your food.

You got to pay for everything.

The cost of everything is going up.

And what that does is that raises, that's right, I'm still talking.

And that raises all of the, the trigger points necessary to cause an economic crash.

Because all it would take is like one bad day on the markets.

And the price of everything will go absolutely insane.

Kind of like, oh, a hurricane's coming.

Let's raise the price of gas by 30 cents, which is what the gas companies do every single time.

In case they lose something, they can compensate their loss for their stockholders.

Has nothing to do with the amount of gas that's put out.

But go ahead, you were going to say something.

Well, you brought up the idea of pay in this economy.

So check this shit out.

I'm barely working.

I'm sorry.

My voice is still like screwed up.

My throat's still screwed up.

Stay away from the young voice.

I'm trying.

It's hard.

Gigdy.

So I'm barely working currently.

Like I'm getting a few shifts here and there.

Right at work.

Yeah.

So I have a million irons in the fire to compensate with income wise.

But, you know, everything's a work in progress.

And not everything's working out all the time.

So I figured I'd try my hand at door dashing.

All right.

Okay.

Do you know our for our profit wise?

I make more doing that than being a certified EMT working at my department.

I believe it.

How about that shit?

So like just you were talking, you know, the jobs aren't going up and everything else is

kind of was what you were getting at.

And it just it blows my mind when I think that I could literally go drive around in my vehicle.

And it doesn't matter if I have a high school education.

It doesn't matter if I have a degree.

It doesn't matter the things I've earned or worked for.

That is paying more money.

Excuse me.

Then, then the diploma and certifications that I have that are that are sitting there, you

know, on the shelf.

Yeah.

Isn't that wild?

It is.

But you also have to remember too that there is going to be it's already starting to happen.

And I don't want to get off subject.

But there is a new.

Have you noticed the commercials where they're talking that it's like this crumpled up?

You know, what do they call it?

The paper ceiling.

Yeah.

Where you've got like these guys that are applying for jobs and you're like, hey, we,

we happen to notice during your job interview that, you know, you don't have a degree on your resume.

Well, that's because I've been actually doing the job for 15 years.

I went another path, you know.

And so there's a lot of push for that right now.

And what you're also finding out like right now is statistically.

And it's just statistics right now because it's, there's not enough data to really say,

it's completely true.

But my gut believes that's true because the, the idea behind it is, is pretty straightforward.

Right now an experienced plumber makes more than somebody working in business with a master's degree.

And so that tells me that everything is moving to the skills and services industry.

We're, we're going to start, we're going to start moving away.

And people should really be taking this for granted.

We're going to start seeing our economy move away from higher education because let's face it.

It's, unless you go to a specific college, it's, it's, it's worthless.

I'll put it out there.

I'll tell you right now, the people that won't like me saying that, it's worthless.

Unless you have like, unless you get like a master's or a PhD in astrophysics.

And, and NASA happens to need you.

And you're still probably only make 75 grand a year because it's the government anyway, right?

You're, you're, there's, there's no, there's going to be jobs.

There's going to be, we'll just say there'll be very few jobs available.

So it used to be the running joke. Hey, I got my, I got my degree in, you know, in underwater basket weaving.

You know what I'm saying?

But now that underwater basket weaving might actually be a skill that could pay.

And so I can completely understand that, you know, with all of your certifications that you actually make more money run indoor dash.

Yeah, in industry.

Well, and it kind of makes you, all right, I think this is what it is.

I think that's one of those things.

It's a goods and services that's kind of giving.

I think that's kind of giving like maybe like a prelude or a pre, a precursor to what's coming with the economic collapse.

Because think about it this way.

If you're somebody that's sitting at home and you're like, man, I really want a fucking big Mac.

But gas is $5 a gallon right now.

I'm not driving for that big Mac.

But there's this guy that happens to be out running around anyway doing this shit all day.

You know what?

I'll give him the $5 and then I don't have to do it.

I don't have to burn my own gas even though they're essentially probably paying the same money anyway.

But with this, it's like in order for these to get completed in order for this to stay competitive.

The companies like DoorDash or UberEats or whatever are going to have to increase these prices to compete with the gas.

Or they have no business.

Whenever people realize they automatically start going into the negative trying to run these things, they're not going to do it.

Well, that industry has some pretty large pitfalls for the workers.

They don't take, we're getting off subject, but I used to be an Uber driver and I used to drive for both Uber and Lyft.

No way.

I cannot see you doing that.

Oh, yeah. They could give two squats about it.

They could give two squats about it.

You know what I'm saying about their people.

Because they aren't their people.

They're contracted.

You know, you're not an employee of the company.

You know what I'm saying?

I don't have to provide you with anything.

And if your car breaks, that's your problem, bro.

Right.

But you assume that risk.

Yeah, yeah.

No, I'm tracking with you.

Like I said, I did the job.

But you know, the flip side of this is what happens when people don't have the money to even do Uber Eats.

Because obviously Uber Eats, you know, if I get a Big Mac meal, that's what, almost $10 now.

And then it's going to cost me, I don't know, another $5, $10 to get you to bring it to me.

Right.

You know what I'm saying?

So they're going to take their piece, which will probably be like 60, 70% and then you'll get what's left over.

But what happens when people don't even have the money for that?

We're back to the kitchen.

I can goods, man.

Right.

I guess that's one thing.

I mean, I guess not to throw a wrench in those gears, but there are people that use this service just because they can't go anywhere.

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Yeah, completely.

So there are people that it's like, hey, I don't have any option.

If I want this, I have to do this, right?

Yeah.

Excuse me.

Anyway, I just, I just think that it's kind of, it may be that industry going up or down, maybe a sign of what's coming down the road as far as the economic collapse.

So that was the only point I wanted to make is that, you know, I'm making more doing that than I am at my day job.

All right.

And that's, and what's wild is like, I work at emergency services.

I'm not working in a factory where it's like, you know, oh, we're producing goods and, oh, goods aren't selling this month.

Therefore, you know, there's layoffs, there's less hours, there's no overtime.

It's like, no, we're tax payer funded.

Taxes are going up.

They're not going down.

We're getting a bigger budget than we ever have before.

So therefore, there should be ample hours.

There should be extra people on.

There's more emergencies happening every day than the previous day.

You know, call numbers, run numbers go up.

They don't go down.

So one would think, you know, when you're looking at the situation of, you know, this job should pay more and it's not.

That's telling me a couple of different things, either A, our company that I work for, you know, in the higher ups within that company are seeing the increase in price and they're like, hey, or they're seeing the right it on the wall.

Say, look, we still have to fuel trucks.

We still have to do maintenance.

We're seeing the cost of all these things periodically going up.

They're trending.

We can't pay our guys more because if we do, we're going to be out of money completely.

Yeah.

Well, they'll just raise the prices of the service, you know, because, you know, I mean, I don't know what it is now.

The last time I got in an ambulance, it was $125.

I'm sure it's probably three times that now.

Oh, it's more than that.

Yeah.

I want to say those rides are, well, depending on where you're at and your municipality and, you know, it's, you know, in the neighborhood of $1,000 for a ride.

Yeah, that's insane.

Yeah.

Excuse me.

A lot of times it's covered.

Right.

You know, it is.

And a lot of the times it's covered by your insurance if you have good insurance.

Yeah.

But typically the people that are calling for, you know, like the person that's calling for toe pain at 4 a.m.

That has had a broken toe or a hang nail for, you know, three weeks and they just decided at 4 a.m.

It's time to go to the hospital and they need a ride.

Those are the people that typically don't have the greatest of insurance.

You know what I mean?

So it's, I don't know, it's just really interesting.

But something, you know, and I'd love to get your, your thoughts on this with the, the economy side of things.

How does medical stuff fall into your economic collapse?

From, from what perspective, what do you mean?

Well, I mean, people get buried under medical bills, the cost of medications keep going up.

People's insurance gets canceled if they, if they don't have work, you know, not everybody's covered under Medicare or Medicaid.

Do you think that there could be some sort of connections?

You know, I honestly, I don't, I don't know, I don't, I don't ever, I don't see a, I don't see the medical industry as being any part of an economic collapse.

Got it.

Because, I mean, they're an, they're insurance, basically, they're, they're an insurance company.

So the medical industry is supported by an insurance company.

And the insurance company actually has insurance for their insurance company.

You know what I'm saying?

They're all of their underwriters.

And so I don't, I don't see it.

I mean, at the end of the year of the hospital, does any losses?

They just write them off.

The insurance company's just going to write off those losses as well.

So I don't really see them playing a part in any type of, any kind of triggering event for the economic collapse.

Gotcha.

Okay.

I just, you know, I was just kind of curious, you know, if people don't have the money to pay their bills,

will they still go to the hospital?

If it's a life or death thing and they don't care about the debt, obviously they're going to go.

Yeah.

Right.

Oh yeah.

Would you start seeing other places suffer, you know, as far as like, you know, you've got like

your Walgreens and your CVS is that, you know, make a lot of money off pharmaceuticals.

Will you see them start to kind of fade out, you know?

To, to an extent, yeah, you, you definitely would.

I mean, everybody needs medicine and the only people that would be covered by them that would

they'd be able to afford the medicine or people that are covered by insurance.

You know, at a certain point, like right now, you can still walk in.

You can pay for your own prescriptions.

They are, there are some that are just crazy and sane, but there's also a lot of them right now.

The right now, the pharmaceutical industry is extremely stable.

You know, the, there, there are some medications that used to be hundreds of dollars and now they're only like $20 for 60 pills.

You know, so it's, it's, it's difficult to, to even see, you know, the medical industry and suffering at all during a collapse.

People, you know, like I said, they're all just going to write this stuff off.

Right. So what is, if you had to say, hey, this is the biggest sign, what are like the precursors?

Like since this is your, this, this is like your ultimate Doomsday, the thing you, you were prepping for.

What's that like one hair trigger thing where you're like, shit, it's happening.

Like what is the sign?

Okay. Well, I mean, like I said, it's, it's going to be a lot of different things, but if we had to like prioritize things.

Basically, you're, you would be looking at some kind of asset bubble bursting, any kind of rapid inflation, prices and stocks, like housing tech, an assets collapse.

You know, normally caused by like an over evaluation, but we're getting way too deep in the words on that one.

The high or rising interest rates, like right now they're starting to go down if they were too automatically, if they were start to go, if something happened to the world to start making them go back up again, that would be, that would be pushing us closer to the,

the edge of the cliff, right?

Any kind of supply shocks, like sudden disruptions of, of oil prices, you know, oars, pandemic.

Oh, all these things, right?

Right, right, all the things.

Yeah, and then you've got any kind of financial market dysfunction.

Once again, we're just getting edged closer and closer to the edge of the cliff, right?

And then, you know, maybe some kind of, some policy mistakes or like, you know, external shocks, you know.

But that would still not trigger it.

Now what we have to look at is what they call amplifying factors.

So let's say all of those things or a combination of those things, push us right to the edge of the cliff.

One of the biggest things is going to be loss of confidence and some psychological factors, all right?

So the dollar, the dollar is worth the amount that it is worth because people, and you're going to love this, believe in it.

That's it.

It's in the dollar, all right?

If you're investors or your consumers panic, this is going to lead to mass selling.

And this is going to also cause reduced spending, you know, and it's kind of like a doom and gloom behavior that, you know, it kind of depends on the client.

And, you know, this is the herd mentality is going to amplify real problems.

So that could push us over the edge.

You know, the other thing could be a high level of debt overload.

Maybe self-explanatory, maybe some credit tightening, unemployment or a falling demand for employment, AI.

You know, and there's other things, structural issues, you know, maybe a global contagion and some kind of interconnectness.

But there's a lot of things that could push us over the edge.

And I mean, I can't say that I sit here and watch out for those things, but those are the things that make the most sense.

Because if we don't have those amplifying factors, what we end up with is 24-7 throat punches that are the financial market, supplies, you know, interest rates, policy mistakes.

You know, we hear this every day, right?

But we never get those amplifying factors that push us over the edge of the cliff.

All right. So I got to tell you something. Somebody told me this is a long time ago, maybe like, I don't know, five years ago or more.

All right. This is what they're telling me. They said that whenever shit hits the fan, this was this is what they theorized based off information that they gathered based off the research that they did, which there's nothing has happened to have like definitive proof or research on.

But this is what they claim. They claim that Friday, whatever's going down will go down on a Friday.

And the first thing that you're going to see is your money is going to be stuck in the bank on Friday.

For whatever reason, all the ATMs are going to be down. For whatever reason, online banking is going to be non-accessible.

For whatever reason, transfers are not going to work for whatever reason.

Your paycheck is not being verified and cashed. Your mobile banking app won't work.

So their theory is that when this financial collapse is happening or when shit is hitting the fan, the first thing the government's going to do, regardless of what should hit the fan situation it is, is they're going to lock the banks down first.

Right. Now, and this is going to happen on a Friday night because banks are closed for half the weekend. Right.

Most banks are open to like noon on Saturdays and then they're done. Right. If they're open on Saturdays at all.

Yeah. Now, you know that your your tech support for most of these banks is overseas anyway.

But when it comes to US help, you know there is none on the weekend. Okay.

So their theory was that the people who are upset will have a cooling off period of essentially 48 hours before Monday morning. Right.

Thus giving the government and local jurisdictions time to put things in place or to create a situation that is bigger than you access in your money in the bank. Right.

So and I'm wondering as you're as we're talking about the financial collapse, you know that's that's what I was told years ago.

What do you think the banks are going to do in you know immediate financial collapse? Like it's you know if you have money and savings and it's earning interest.

Will they put a stop on that? Will you be able to access anything like what do you think the banks are going to do?

Well, there's actually been some some things that have happened in the banks in the last I want to say two weeks.

Some something weird just happened that nobody is reporting on. So in it's in reference to your theory, one absolutely correct.

I call it bad news Friday whenever something's going to go down no matter what it is.

They always tell you like you know it's like the end of the work day that they almost treat it like they're getting ready to fire somebody.

You know what I'm saying? They don't want them coming back. They want the empty access got on Friday and give them a weekend to cool off right.

But that's exact that's exactly how they do it.

And so a perfect example this was it was late 2009.

Greece collapsed economically because of their government and they were they were like retiring government employees like 55 years old and and paying these guys were living for another 50 years of pension.

You know, but anyway, so it actually happened right and it they didn't get their first bailout from like the EU IMF until the next year in 2010.

You know the impact of this was they they're their actual GDP shrink in three months by about 25% it's insane.

But what basically happened was they did exactly that now the theory holds true.

That's exactly what they did. They shut the banks on a Friday morning and that was it.

And then they that's what they did they're like we're going to figure this out over the weekend and then come Monday.

They had already told everybody on Sunday that we're going to open the banks. It's going to be for certain hours.

You can only take out so much money. We've got to figure this stuff out.

All that did was piss people off. All people are just lined up at the ATMs. They were barring the doors.

They tried to do it like only five people at a time in the bank. They weren't having it.

So they actually ended up having to close everything down before even knew.

And then the government got involved and said hey listen, you can only go on this day at this time.

ATMs only when the ATMs are empty. That's it. So that kind of that kind of pittered things out.

But absolutely man. Absolutely. That's exactly that's exactly how would I would anticipate they would do it.

As far as if they're going to be like doing interest on money.

I don't know. The important thing to remember here in the United States is we've got that that whole FDIC insurance right.

Right. And it was it's it's supposed to be like guarantees that they'll pay you at least $250,000.

And the general idea was I mean if you had $8,000 in the bank then they would pay you $8,000.

But here's the thing. I think they have like it's either one or several years before they have to pay you.

It's not like you can just like FDIC this bank collapsed. I need my money.

And they're like we'll get it to you when we get it to you because they don't have any money right.

Right. The big thing that happened the last two weeks was they lowered it.

They lowered the amount. I want to say it to like oh jeez. So I want to say it's like $50,000.

So it's no longer $250,000. So if you've got a large amount of money stashed away in a bank.

Yeah. You're you're kind of hosed. Put it under your mattress protected by Glock. That kind of thing.

Right. Well, that wasn't advertised. They just had like a meeting of the minds and said, yeah, that's what we're going to do.

Man, I'll tell you what we're in our time limit. I'd love to keep this going. Maybe we'll have to pick this back up for next week's episode.

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The sixth. Guess what? Is today the sixth? Yeah. Oh, well, then get your asses over there. Guess what?

Check them out. Follower. Oh, did I? Oh, yeah, you did. Don't forget once. You know, it's like, I've got one channel that's got 8,000 followers.

And I got another channel. It's got 250,000 followers. I don't care about any of that stuff anymore. I just want people to have strictly preparedness stuff.

I just got tired of all the doom and gloom crap. So and no, by the way, I'm going to be giving a pretty good pretty big giveaway when I reach one just 100 followers.

So well, you don't need too many more to go. I guess. I guess. Well, okay. So that's it. We're going to get out of here. We'll see you guys back here on

a student's day podcast for another excited episode in the next fun day.

New York City, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, Seattle, Detroit. This is an extremely deadly situation.

Stay tuned. The next emergency message will be a presidential address.