Prepping For Doomsday With Paster Joe
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Prepping for Doomsday With Pastor Joe | Should You Be Afraid?
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Jul 8, 2021
Prepping For Doomsday With Paster Joe
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FULL VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
00:01
-Give me your money. -Oh, my gosh.
00:02
-Blah, blah.
00:06
-Hey, it’s Zeke, I’m riding in the back of a pickup truck
00:08
through a prepper community, and I’m trying to figure out
00:10
if we should be afraid at the end of the world so.
00:15
-I have been to one degree or another,
00:18
preparing for my entire life.
00:20
The father God is calling his people to the Ozarks.
00:24
-Demons and angels were real and Jesus wasn’t a pussy.
00:29
-People in the year 1,000 thought the world was ending.
00:31
People who saw the plague thought the world was ending.
00:36
I think it’s more relevant to your life to look
00:38
at what could be a natural disaster for you, personally.
00:41
-In New York City, nobody knows how to do anything.
00:43
You don’t have to use a lot of survival skills.
00:45
-Tourniquet, left arm. Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up.
00:47
Hurry up! Hurry up! Hurry up!
00:51
You’re dying, hurry up!
00:52
-We have a phrase we use, I can be your best friend
00:55
or your worst enemy you get to pick.
00:57
-Ah, ah.
00:59
[ Squeals, gunshot ]
01:00
-Clearly, we are gun positive,
01:02
but I like to say we’re not gun crazy.
01:05
[ Gun cocks ]
01:07
[ Gunshots ]
01:12
-Are doomsday preppers right on the brink…
01:16
…mysterious monoliths have been appearing…
01:20
-As clickbait headlines warp our view of the world,
01:23
we’re going down the rabbit hole to ask
01:24
how afraid should we really be?
01:28
On this episode — Doomsday.
01:33
-Store shelves nationwide are dwindling or totally empty.
01:37
-FEMA admits failures occurred in its disaster response
01:40
to Hurricane Maria.
01:42
-A ransomware attack forced a vital U.S. pipeline
01:45
offline over the weekend.
01:47
-There’s a lot of fear on the news these days.
01:49
With global pandemic, raging natural disasters,
01:52
and a fragmenting republic,
01:53
we’ve been forced to think about a possible scenario
01:55
where our institutions collapse.
01:57
I started hanging around the corners of the Internet
01:59
where doomsday preppers congregate,
02:01
and I stumbled upon the Viking Preparedness
02:02
YouTube and Patreon channels.
02:04
-The world is going crazy.
02:06
-What intrigued me about the former
02:08
Green Beret turned pastor Joe Fox
02:10
was his caffeine-fueled sense of urgency.
02:12
-Preparedness is a biblical concept.
02:15
You have to take steps now.
02:17
If you’re not ready, you’re in trouble.
02:20
-He also scared the shit out of me
02:21
when I told him I lived in New York City.
02:31
Feeling rather unsafe in my own home,
02:33
I went to meet Pastor Joe to learn more
02:34
about his lifestyle,
02:36
which did seem a little extreme to me.
02:37
But I also wanted to see what I could do in my own life
02:40
to be more prepared.
02:44
-Welcome to the Shofar Mountain. -Hey, good to meet you, man.
02:46
-You, too. You, too.
02:48
-I brought you some coffee from New York because I know —
02:50
I see you drinking coffee every morning,
02:52
big sips of coffee. -I do. So thank you very much.
02:54
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -This is Shofar Mountain.
02:57
-Okay.
02:58
-It started out as an intentional community.
03:00
We wanted to live in a way
03:02
that would allow us to get closer to God
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and it has become what was known in the vernacular
03:07
as a prepper retreat.
03:09
-And so everybody lives on here are Shofarians.
03:11
-All people who live here are Shofarians,
03:14
but not all Shofarians live here.
03:16
-Okay, right. -Does that make sense?
03:18
-Right. Yes, absolutely. -We call ourselves Shofarians.
03:19
It’s just a whimsical term we came up with.
03:21
-Well, it’s a great term. I love it. I love it.
03:23
So how many people live with you up here
03:25
on Shofar Mountain? -That’s classified.
03:27
-Okay, all right. -But a few.
03:29
-A few. Let me see — -A few families.
03:31
-More than a — a few families.
03:33
More than a dozen families? -A few families.
03:35
-Okay, all right. All right.
03:37
As a security measure, Pastor Joe was repeatedly vague
03:39
with some of my more specific questions.
03:42
-We call it operational security.
03:43
Those are classified. I won’t tell you.
03:45
-Okay, okay.
03:46
What happens if somebody came in here,
03:48
would you just kind of stop them here and say, hey.
03:50
-We have — we have stopped people in the past.
03:53
And honestly, I think I’m a pretty nice guy.
03:55
I mean, as things go,
03:57
I’m an asshole with trespassers.
03:59
-Yeah, this is a good time.
04:01
Let me ask you what you have on your — on your hip here.
04:03
-I mean, I’m just carrying a handgun, it’s a glock.
04:05
-Where you’re carrying a glock? Okay.
04:07
-Yeah, everybody carries glocks. -Are you always armed?
04:10
-Yeah. -You never leave house.
04:12
-I never go anywhere without a gun.
04:14
-Okay. -There you go.
04:15
Just don’t point the muzzle anywhere.
04:16
-Okay.
04:18
I asked Pastor Joe to show me some of these firearms.
04:20
-I’ll have to come back. -Okay, let’s do this load.
04:22
-I have too many guns to carry in one trip
04:25
that makes me a survivalist.
04:26
-And it’s always he was elusive in his answers.
04:29
I can ask you how many guns you have?
04:31
-Enough. I’ll be back. -Okay.
04:35
-But he was willing to show me a basic
04:37
preppers firearm kit.
04:40
Wow, okay.
04:43
This is an assortment of… -Prepper firearms.
04:46
-Okay, and it’s not your full inventory,
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this is enough of — enough — this is enough.
04:50
-It’s enough to get the point across.
04:52
-Okay, okay.
04:53
-These are the types of firearms
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that someone who’s relatively serious about preparedness
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would probably have.
04:59
-I think with a lot of folks today,
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they might just say, oh, I’ve got a glock
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and I’m good to go or I’ve got an AR-15,
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I’m good to go. Why do you have such —
05:07
-Well, they’re all tools and they all have a purpose.
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And while you can drive a screw
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into a piece of wood with a hammer,
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it’s not the best tool to do that.
05:14
-Sure. You could do everything with an AR-15, right?
05:17
You could be whole defense, you could be hunting.
05:20
-I mean, technically
05:21
you could kill any animal in North America
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with a .22, I mean, honestly.
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But when it comes to a fight,
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if you have to shoot a lot of bullets and reload,
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you need the ability to have a magazine fed weapon
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that you can reload fast and so
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that’s why I have it.
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-Pastor Joe invited me to join some other Shofarians
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at their shooting range
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to learn more about why they train.
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-Cody is our range officer.
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I’m going to be the safety officer.
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-So we’re just going to start with pistols.
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Focus on the fundamentals.
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Give me one shot and we’ll do that a couple of times.
05:51
-We’re good guys. I think you’re probably a good guy.
05:54
We don’t get to pick when bad things happen.
05:57
Bad guys get the pick, right.
05:59
You and I aren’t going to walk around
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starting stuff with anybody,
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but we don’t control the bad guy.
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And we train everybody.
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-Take your time. Look at the sights.
06:10
-As I watch some impressive shooting skills
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and even got a brief lesson on how to aim and unloaded AR-15…
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-You want to lean into the rifle
06:20
almost like, you ever played football?
06:21
-Yeah, yeah, well, no, I didn’t. Sorry.
06:23
-Okay.
06:25
-I’ve seen it done before. -Correct. Very similar to that.
06:26
-I still couldn’t quite understand
06:28
what exactly they were preparing for.
06:30
What scenarios create these so-called bad guys?
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What do you think about when you go,
06:35
oh, I got my eye on that. -Well, we’re biblically focused.
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And so, in the Bible we can read about the end times.
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And I believe, we believe, we could be on the cusp of that.
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And if that happens, it’s chaos. Society will break down.
06:50
There’s at least two places in the United States
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that are going to be nuked, it’s biblical.
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And New York City’s one of them.
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And it’ll happen like that.
06:58
Somebody maliciously takes down our power grid.
07:01
Some really smart computer guys are like…
07:02
[ imitates keyboard clacking ]
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Well, what do you do in America with no electricity?
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Think about it, America would go into chaos.
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And our response to COVID, I’m not real impressed with.
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I was raised with just
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that whole we need to be ready for things we can’t control.
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And then I went in the military on some special forces.
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I’ve been all over the world.
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I’ve seen things that fall apart
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and I see how people who are prepared for it
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and roll with the changes and do okay
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and people who are just like, oh, my God,
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I can’t believe this happened, they they just get dealt with.
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And I don’t want to be dealt with.
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[ Rooster crows ]
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-As part of not being dealt with Shofar Mountain
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is based on homestead model,
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which stresses the importance of self-sufficiency.
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The property includes multiple bug out cabins
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that serve as modest shelters when shit hits the fan.
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-This will probably end up being like a bedroom of some kind.
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It’ll get finished. -Okay.
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They’re small, but it beats a tent.
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-Some more permanent residences for Joe’s family.
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So the six people who sleep in here.
07:58
-Uh-huh. There’s some kind of big bed theory or something.
08:00
I don’t think they’re doing that anymore.
08:02
But like, they’re a very tight family.
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-An active garden.
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-And this little thing here is fennel.
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It’s really sweet and kind of, you know what it tastes like.
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-Oh, that’s perfect. That’s perfect. Oh, my gosh.
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And lots of stockpiled goods,
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including these buckets and barrels of food.
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-Beans, rice, corn, stuff like that.
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And we’ve done the math so you could think of two of these
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is basically a year’s supply of food for one person.
08:27
-You know, before you said on the porch,
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you said you’re I think you said a hardcore prepper, I think,
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is that the term you used? -Okay.
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-What does that mean exactly?
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-Well, I guess there’s a spectrum, right?
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I think a prepper
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would probably have a couple of months worth.
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So, you know, they’ve got a little bit of food.
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They’ve got some gadgets. They have a bug out bag.
08:41
Okay, that’s a prepper.
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We’re at the other end of the spectrum.
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We’re trying to be self-sufficient.
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I call us neopioneers, kind of like the Amish with guns.
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-The Amish with guns. Okay, okay.
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Finally, Pastor Joe, showed me the newly added longhouse,
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which serves as a meeting place for the congregation he leads.
08:59
I’ve seen this building in your videos.
09:01
Right, we have our services in here,
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but we also have like community classes in here.
09:05
-I knew the Shofarians believed in Jesus,
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who they call Yeshua,
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but there were several instances of Judaism
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I couldn’t quite wrap my head around.
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We’ve got Hebrew writing here. -Yep, Israel.
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-And the Shofar here. -Yeah.
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-But you still talk about the Bible.
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So what exactly is it —
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-You want to know about my religion?
09:22
-Yeah, I guess, yes. -There you go.
09:24
Okay, so we firmly believe in, when I say believe,
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it’s too small of a word that we know.
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God, the father, laid down the rules
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that he wants everybody to live by,
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and that’s called Torah, right?
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So 613 rules, you got to live by these rules.
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And he sent his son, Jesus Christ, who said,
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follow me, dun, dun, dun, dun, and the whole Christian schtick,
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if you will, there we put the two together,
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-Okay.
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-Because we don’t think there’s any difference.
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We’re getting to heaven, if you will,
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by the grace of God, through the blood of Yeshua.
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That’s what we believe.
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-What makes it so much more advantageous for you
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to be here in this community? -First of all, is the Ozarks.
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Many people, not just me, have the same feeling.
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The father God is calling his people to the Ozarks
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as a place of safety for what’s coming.
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And here’s the thing about the Ozarks.
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We have everything we need,
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but we don’t have anything in abundance
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that anybody strategically wants to control.
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-Wanting to get a better sense
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of how big the Shofaran community was,
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I drove a few hours south to meet a second group.
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We’re about to go meet up with T.J.,
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who also goes by Bear Independent,
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where what’s in his bear camp around here.
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And he’s another kind of satellite campus, if you will,
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of the Shofarians.
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One tribe, but multiple camps.
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I can’t say what town we’re in.
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But it’s tiny and it’s not a lot going on.
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♪♪
10:57
Hey, man, how are you? Good to see you.
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Hey, how’s it going? -Hey, how’s it going?
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-Good morning. -Hello.
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-Hello, hello, I’m Zeke. Nice to meet you guys.
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-How you doing?
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-My name’s T.J. Morris. Bear of Bear Independent.
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-So what’s your connection to Shofar Mountain?
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-There are multiple camps.
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If you’re near to us, then you’re in bear camp.
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If you’re near to Pastor Jones then you’re in mountain camp,
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so forth and so on.
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-You’ve got the tattoos, you play the drums,
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you like whiskey.
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And you don’t strike me as the stereotype
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of a Bible thumper. -Bible thumper?
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-Of a holy man.
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-Well, point blank, Jesus wasn’t a pussy.
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Straight up, everybody in this group
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would first and foremost acknowledge
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that she was Yeshua Mashiach, that Jesus is the Christ,
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but there’s something deeper here
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with what we’re doing, other than the fact
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that we’ve all agreed to mutually assist one another.
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If the shit hits the fan, bro, like, that’s great.
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But I’m not living for doomsday. I’m living for Tuesday.
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-Across town, T.J. showed me his first aid company
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that he runs with other members of bear camp.
12:00
-Well, this is Refuge Medical.
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We are a first day supply company
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and training organization.
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-There are many okay first aid kits.
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There’s a handful of great ones.
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And ours is one of the great ones.
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-We do, in fact, to have it with me.
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-Oh, you do? -Yeah.
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-Oh, where is it? -Yeah, bring it.
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Yeah, bring it.
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-It’s very little. I’m going to have them look at it.
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I hope they don’t judge me, judge us too hard.
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-Whoa, oh!
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-Wow. You knew exactly just by looking at that.
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You knew what that is.
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-Do you know how to put a tourniquet on?
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-You want me to put a tourniquet on me?
12:56
-Tourniquet, left arm! Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up.
12:57
-Uhh…okay.
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You want me put a tourniquet on myself? Okay.
13:03
-You’re dying! Hurry up! -You’re bleeding to death.
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-You’re dying. Hurry up! Hurry up! Hurry up!
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Hurry up! Hurry up!
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-You really have to know your supply.
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-Bet you feel his pulse.
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-See, I got a pulse. I’m still alive, right?
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-You are all the way dead. -[ Laughs ]
13:23
-You’re going to love this feeling.
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-Actually constrict that. Feel the difference?
13:26
-Yeah. -Okay.
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And then this is how tight it should be.
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-Watch his face. -See that face? Here it is.
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-Ow. -See that?
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-Then that goes through
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and then this goes across there.
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-Feel the difference?
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-What do you feel in my pulse? -Nothing.
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-Really is my arm, like, uh… -That’s the point.
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-It’s supposed to restrict
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the flow of blood from here down.
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-Yeah. Yeah. Can we take it off now?
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-If it doesn’t stop the flow, you haven’t saved your life.
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-And look, you see all the veins.
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-Yeah. Yeah. -That’s how it should be.
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-See that? That’s how you know it’s working.
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-Real quick, yes or no.
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Are you guys afraid of the end of the world?
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-I’m not afraid. -Anybody?
14:12
Anybody here afraid? Okay.
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-This is not a fear.
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-It’s not from fear. It’s common sense.
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When you know something is going to happen,
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where you have a reasonable suspicion,
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why would you not prepare for it?
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-Anybody who thinks that the government is capable
14:27
of managing a crisis, Hurricane Katrina,
14:31
it is not physically possible for the government
14:34
to take care of everybody on a large scale crisis.
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Because of those experiences, we’ve been able to figure out
14:41
how to address those needs for ourselves
14:44
that should something happen,
14:45
we’re not at the mercy of the government.
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♪♪
14:51
-Now that I had a better understanding
14:52
as to why the Shofarians valued self-sufficiency,
14:55
I asked the Foxes to show me some basic survival tricks.
14:58
Sister Kate showed me a day in the life
15:00
of running a homestead.
15:01
-So we’re going to take this big brush pile
15:03
down to our chicken run.
15:04
-Back boys. Oh, sorry. Oh, no.
15:07
And taught me how to milk a goat.
15:09
-Think of it like a water balloon
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and you’re squeezing the water out the bottom.
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There you go. You did it. -Oh!
15:15
-Look at you. There you go. Perfect.
15:18
Oh, wow. That’s just amazing.
15:20
With that, you could feed yourself.
15:21
You can have goat’s milk, you can have goat cheese.
15:23
-Right.
15:24
[ Bleats ] -That was lovely.
15:26
And considering I don’t own a firearm,
15:27
Pastor Joe showed me how to defend myself
15:29
against bad guys with some rather unsuspecting objects.
15:32
-And there’s all kinds of things you can do with this.
15:35
Of course, you can use teeth.
15:36
Picture scraping my eyes with it.
15:37
I can come up here and hit you in the neck
15:39
like this and rip the face. -Yeah.
15:40
-Use this like a hook and hook them here.
15:41
-Yeah.
15:43
-Or somebody’s got you like this and you just reach back.
15:45
Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta.
15:46
-Ahh, ah. -See?
15:48
See? And it’s nothing, right? -Yeah.
15:50
-But it’s like get off me. -Yeah.
15:52
-Boom.
15:53
-Like that, like step in there.
15:55
You’ve got a table full weapons here
15:57
but for self-defense you don’t even need all this.
15:59
I mean, you’re — you’re more lethal with a comb
16:03
that I am with an AR —
16:05
-They’re called environmental weapons.
16:08
-The more time I spend with the Shofarians,
16:09
the more I realize how this type of lifestyle
16:11
was not as extreme as it was prudent.
16:14
You know, I’m surprised by how normal everything is here.
16:18
You and your husband watch Netflix.
16:19
You both have a really good sense of humor.
16:21
You’re both — you’re both —
16:23
you’re both very charming individuals.
16:24
-Oh, thank you. -I don’t know.
16:26
-I’ve just you know,
16:28
I think it’s really easy to to be able to — on paper,
16:30
to be like these people must be some sort of cult,
16:33
out of your minds.
16:35
I don’t know. The Waco people or something.
16:36
-[ Humming ]
16:38
-Sure, exactly.
16:39
What is the perception that you get from other people
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and what’s the reality?
16:44
-Okay, so we’ve been called Amish mercenaries.
16:48
We’ve been — we’ve been called gun toting Bible zealots.
16:52
But yeah, I consider us more kind of ’50s style
16:56
mom and dad, kind of “normal.”
16:58
-Who’s to blame for this kind of for —
17:00
for troping you out, if you will?
17:02
-There are movies that would portray people like this
17:05
as very extreme
17:06
or just add dimension to what we actually are.
17:10
I mean, all we’d have to do is, you know, be more gun-friendly
17:14
or a little more extreme in our political views.
17:16
And then you could kind of have an argument for extremism there.
17:20
-As my time with the Shofarians came to a close,
17:22
I was ready to return to New York
17:24
motivated to ensure my own safety should chaos ensue.
17:27
I was, however, still having difficulty
17:29
imagining a life that balances preparedness with paranoia.
17:32
You know, for certain folks, it’s really easy to sit around
17:36
and watch the news all day
17:37
and get really into the survivalist mindset
17:39
and just say, okay, I’m not going to interact with
17:41
this world because it’s going to end any day now.
17:42
-Right.
17:44
-And then just essentially waiting around for…
17:45
-Chaos. -For chaos.
17:47
-When I will rise and be — right.
17:49
But we should prepare as humans on at least two axis.
17:53
Chaos could be around the corner.
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And the other one is you’re going to get old
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in a relatively normal society,
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despite the fact that you don’t like the government.
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It’s going to pretty much go along as it has.
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And so, you ought to have a plan for that besides,
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you know, buckets of beans and rice
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and an arsenal of firearms or something.
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And so, you do have to play on two axis,
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which means if I have $30 of disposable income,
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do I buy mutual funds or do I buy rice and beans?
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Yes. -Yes.
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-Yes. You should do both.
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