The Sean Morgan Report
Food Prepping Tips For 2024
In this episode Sean Morgan interviews Kevin Finn about the historical examples of starvation during world wars and how Americans can prepare now as an insurance policy. Get Your 3 Month Food Supply Here: https://trk.rebootmarketing.com/SHLW
In this episode Sean Morgan interviews Kevin Finn about the historical examples of starvation during world wars and how Americans can prepare now as an insurance policy. Get Your 3 Month Food Supply Here: https://trk.rebootmarketing.com/SHLW
Welcome to another episode of the Sean Morgan Report. I'm here with my friend, kevin Finn, and I've known Kevin for a while here and we've talked a lot about different ways to protect ourselves and our families in case things go wrong. And, kevin, you've been doing this for a long time. How long have you been researching prepping?
Speaker 2:Thanks, Sean, for having me on the show. And gosh, it's such a pleasure to know you and I'm so excited to be talking with you today on your show. I've been prepping for 25 years, since probably two years before Y2K and yeah Wow.
Speaker 1:Y2K didn't go the way. We didn't know what was going to happen there. Luckily, you survived Y2K and you lived to tell about it. You told me about a book that you read about World War II and there were some kind of disturbing facts that I didn't know about World War II that specific countries had their food supply cut off. Millions of people died. In fact, more people died of starvation in World War II than of actually battles in the war. So can you tell me about this book, tell me what you learned and how it impacted you?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes for sure, and I'm married with a couple of kids, and so I often think, as a provider, about food on the table for my kids and I often think about how heartbreaking it would be if ever I was in a situation where I couldn't give my wife and kids the calories and the food they need and I just was watching them shrivel away. Because many times you and I have read in history of different, you know different times when when whole populations starved to death, and it's just so, it's so tragic. But one of the things that really caught my attention was this book I'll show you. It's called the Taste of War by Lizzie Cullingham, and it's all about World War II and the battle for food, and in this book there's lots of different interesting stories and facts and details. One thing a lot of people might not remember is there were actual strategic access plans by Germany to starve, you know not millions, tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people as part of their strategy to take over the world. So it was actually called Sean the Hunger Plan, and what's interesting about it is I wanted to drill in on this brief call with you today Greece, and so so I highlighted a few sections of the book.
Speaker 2:But there was about, there was about 18 months when before, before the war, greece was importing it was like four million tons of food from outside of Greece, mainly from the US, and during about an 18-month period, churchill from the UK turned off and told the? U, the US, no more shipments to Greece. And it sounds horrific at first, but when you understand that the Nazis were patrolling the Atlantic and the Gibraltar Strait and the Mediterranean and they were confiscating those ships of food, and when they confiscate the ships of food that they would use it for their troops and it wouldn't get to Greece. And during during about a 24 month period 18 to 24 month period 500 million Greeks starved to death. Ok, 500,000, right, 500,000. Yes, sorry, 500,000, 500 million, no, 500,000,. Yeah, sorry, 500,000, 500 million, no, 500,000,.
Speaker 2:Half a million poor Greeks just shriveled up and died in Athens and all over the place People were just dropping like flies and just people stepping over dead bodies all over the capital of Greece and Athens and just it was horrific. And out in the countryside it was bad, because some of the enemies of Germany were out in this hiding in the area, so even the villages that were out in the countryside that had their farms and had food. They had their food taken away and food wasn't getting into those areas as well. So it was just really really sad and tragic. But overall, during World War II, 20 million humans died of starvation. When you compare that with the battle and the people dying in battle was 19 million, it was more people from starvation. So it really hits home when you think about well, it'll never happen here.
Speaker 2:It'll never happen to me and it may never happen. It could be a black swan event here in the United States where I am. It might be a black swan event where you live, but it's happened to bread baskets. It happened. I think we all know. It happened in Ukraine in 1930, when Stalin came into Ukraine, and this is really interesting.
Speaker 2:Stalin knew that if he came into Ukraine and pulled out all of the food that the Ukrainians would be fleeing to all the countries around the outside of Ukraine. This is 1930. And what Stalin did is he sent 10,000 Russian troops to shut down every border and every escape because he didn't want the rest of the world and the media and the rest of the world finding out that he was starving them to death. Okay, his goal was not to starve them to death, if you, you know historically, he was hurting for money. He wanted to get that food from them, to sell it so that Moscow had more money, but the by byproduct was starvation and he didn't care. Okay, and so that's so I like to think about and learn from history, and we all hear that those who learn from history, the those who don't learn from history, are destined to repeat it. I don't want me and my loved ones to repeat starving to death, so I'm looking into it, and so one of the things that I'm going to be doing in the coming months that I'll share with you whenever you have time is what does a World War III scenario look like?
Speaker 2:What countries are getting what percentage of their food from what other countries? And we know China gets 100% of its food mainly from the US and Brazil, and so all the countries around the world. Where do they get their food? What are they dependent on? Who's dependent on the Suez Canal? Who's dependent on the Panama Canal? Who's dependent on what? Because a lot of countries in this day and age, with free market and shipping, they have cash props. They can't grow their own food anymore. They've turned to cash props and they're exporting food for money and hopefully, in a World War III scenario, people will start shipping them the food they need for their population. But the final point is a World War III scenario, unlike World War II that only had 20 million starvation, which is just catastrophic, a World War III scenario is going to be 200 million to 600 million humans starving to death all over the planet, and it's just horrific thinking about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, even in World War II in the US they had victory gardens. They wanted each family in the US to start growing their own food, to have that kind of resilience, because all the industry and all the efforts were going a wartime scenario, doesn't it? It really does? They import all their food. I mean, those countries become really, really vulnerable in a wartime scenario where they can't import that food that they were always easily able to during peacetime.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly One bizarre little scenario or analogy that I want to share with you is I was on a hike and I was walking down inside of a dry creek bed and it was just fun to. It's fun to explore, and sometimes, when the creek bed's dry, you get to see all sorts of things you never see when it's rushing with water. And down on the bottom of the dry creek bed was this massive little ant village, okay, and there was I don't know 10,000 little ants and it looks like they had been there for a few months and they built up this amazing whole world, this whole ant world. That was just so fascinating. And those ants didn't realize that in a few short months they were going to be washed completely, every one of them dead, washed down.
Speaker 2:So you know, it's like what's the carrying capacity of an ant farm in the bottom of a creek, you know? So you got to think in terms of the carrying capacity of a country, of a city, of a region, of a. You know. And when you think about the carrying capacity, then you start to understand. You know how ill prepared your geographic region might be and what kind of food you might need to prepare for you know.
Speaker 1:Do you mean? If someone lives in a really dry climate that doesn't have a lot of agriculture, then they are more vulnerable, for example, than an area where they grow a lot of food?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, and remember that a carrying capacity in today's 21st century has a lot to do with economics and fuel and computers and distribution channels, and all of that works together beautifully to have all sorts of items and food just in time delivered to everyone that wants it. But if you have a disruption of fuel or disruption in the economy or disruption in the distribution, whether it's trains or planes or ships or trucks, you know you're going to have a serious problem. And if it's, if we're occupied in a, you know, national I mean international war, you might not have. Your grocery stores might be empty for six months, you know, hopefully only three months, hopefully only a month, hopefully only a week. But you really should have three to six months worth of food stored at home for such an event, you know. And what, what?
Speaker 2:What's really funny is I often get so busy at work I don't have time to take a lunch break and I don't have 10 minutes to go find something and fix something. And I will grab. It's funny, I'll grab a meal. Let me really show you, I'll grab a meal from my. You know, it's freeze-dried food, so it's just totally dry. Cut it open, pour it into a cup, you know, push the little button on the Keurig machine without any K-cups in there, and hot water comes into your cup and within 15 minutes you're eating a meal. I never even have to leave my desk. Sometimes I do that for my desk. But that's what you want. Lights out, distribution shut. Grocery store shut chaos. You don't want to be going to the stores when there's chaos, but you and your family are eating these delicious meals and they're not disgusting. In fact, they are really, really tasty, almost gourmet tasting meals that I've enjoyed from these freeze-dried food sources.
Speaker 1:Interesting. I guess the technology has come a long way. The last time I tried a freeze-dried meal it wasn't so tasty, so they've been working on that to make it. Because I remember doing a prepping episode and the guest said if you don't have a good tasting food, your kids could starve to death, because kids will refuse to eat food that doesn't taste good. Yeah, so that's actually an important aspect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and I have noticed I don't know if this was your mistake, but I have noticed that if you eat it without putting salt on it, it can be really plain, but salting it generously it can be really plain, but but salting it generously and it's it can make, can make night or day difference between it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go, and that's an easy, cheap thing to stock up on is salt, uh, but when you don't have it, it's, it's, it's a crisis. So so there there's a good tip for people prepping Make sure you have some pounds of salt for an emergency, yeah so go ahead.
Speaker 2:I was just going to say so, you know. So we've got a year's worth of food. We've got a gallon per person per day of water to last us six months. We've got plenty of guns and ammo we put on our front door instead of having a normal front door. It's a high security gate, high security door, but it doesn't look high security. They can't kick through it. So there's, there's other, there's other, there's little other prep, little prepping things that I can share with you and your audience on, on, on other calls. But it but it's all. It's all pretty basic and logical.
Speaker 1:Right, you've gone through quite a few steps to prep your family, and I do want to learn more about that, but it seems like today the focus is food, and so you're saying minimum three months or six months. What's your opinion?
Speaker 2:your audience. You know some of them may have never stored anything. So, you know, get them. You know, get them to do three months worth, you know that's. You know. Start with three months and over time, see if you can work your way up to six months or 12 months worth, you know. But a good place to start is, you know, water, which we can talk about on another episode. But the food start with three months worth of food and that's pretty nice. A lot, of, a lot of serious events can blow over by a month and during that month you don't know what peace of mind it is to not have to go. Try to fight the lines at these stores where people are angry and shouting and beating each up.
Speaker 1:And you just. People were freaking out over toilet paper during COVID, imagine something serious.
Speaker 2:So you just sit tight at home, sit tight at home and have these gourmet meals three squares a day, for week after week after week, up to three months and, and, if you want, I can screen, share and show, show a page of a food, that that that that your audience will really benefit from. Sure, yeah, go ahead, okay, okay. And so here is a 4Patriot Deluxe 3-Month Survival Food Kit, and it's let me just scroll to the very bottom. You know they give you a lot of details. So if you have time to go through that, that's great. If you don't, you know, don't waste time, just go to the very bottom, you know, add it to your cart. It's only $697 for three months worth. If you want to make five payments, it's $139 each.
Speaker 2:But they throw in a bunch of free stuff. They throw in a couple hundred dollars worth of free stuff free seeds, free coffee, free cocoa, free meals, two free 72 hour packs of food, um, free recipe books, uh, you know. And, and it's just, it's, it's really, it's, you know, it's really, uh, you know, good stuff. And if you'll put a link below the video, they can click on that link and they'll get those free. I think it's seven or nine free items for that extra $200 off and anything else. Sean, you would like me to show you on the screen.
Speaker 1:No, I get the idea. They give you a lot so that you can educate yourself on that page. Uh, this is just such a no-brainer. Like of all the things you could possibly buy, you know, a new iphone or whatever, it might be just food in case there's an emergency, it's the ultimate insurance. I mean really, how much are you spending per year for earthquake insurance where you live?
Speaker 2:Gosh, I spend a thousand a year to protect my $500,000 house. So you know, yeah, so you're right. So it's like, think of it like insurance, it's. It's. It's a type of thing Don't don't fall into the trap of a lot of preppers of getting all stressed out and sky is falling and end of the world and chicken little you know and you're always worried about what next, what next? That's just a toxic way to live. What you want to do is you want to think about what do you want to solve? What do you want to take care of? Just like earthquake insurance. You got a house. It's worth $500,000. You live in California, where I live. You don't want to lose your house. You spend $1,000 a year. I've been spending $1,000 a year for 15 years in a row and no earthquake destroyed it. But I get to have such peace of mind. I would be really nervous if I didn't have that, thinking about having half a million dollar asset wiped out by one earthquake.
Speaker 1:And so this is like having a luxury car with no insurance and someone could crash into it at any moment, and yet that's how we're all walking around, with no type of preparation for the future for our families, so it really is a no-brainer. There's some other no-brainers water, energy, all these different ways to be resilient. Can you tease us a little fact about water for the next episode that you can teach us about water prepping?
Speaker 2:uh sure, um, beyond that, you really need a gallon a day per family member and that, uh, you know. So a family of four is 120 gallons a month. So that's roughly 700 gallons for six months thereabouts. But there's a lot of misnomers, a lot of misunderstanding.
Speaker 2:People make assumptions and a lot of times in these prepping situations, assumptions can kill you and a lot of people are like well, my neighbor has a pool, I can drink that pool water, and of course, course they don't mean drinking straight pool water. They're planning on filtering it with their Berkey. Okay, and you can't filter pool water with a Berkey, okay, it destroys your Berkey, you know, and. But what you can do is you can take a one gallon glass jug. I think I might have one here on my shelf. You can take a one gallon glass jug. I think I might have one here on my shelf.
Speaker 2:You can see a one gallon glass jug. Get 20 of those, the water you're needing water. Fill 20 of those, set them out in the sun, put some, put a little cloth over the top of them and one or two days later all the chlorine and chemicals are gone out of the water. But there's one little, there's one little thing that a lot of people don't realize is 90% of pools today. They don't just add the chemicals, they're also adding these acids that don't dissolve, and so on the next episode, I'll explain to your audience what exactly you can do to get rid of that, get rid of those other things like the acid, so that that water is actually drinkable, because you start drinking it. Without these steps, you're you and your family are going to be, you know you're going to be dead.
Speaker 1:Wow, I had no idea. Thank you for that fact, and we're going to dig into that next time, because resilience is so important. Oh my gosh, we all should have learned that in 2020 and the plandemic just how unprepared we all were for something like that to go down Talk about a black swan event and yet we're in an election year and it seems like during election years, crazy shit happens. So this is why I'm doing these prepping episodes with you, kevin, and I'm looking forward to learning more. Thanks for your time, kevin. We're going to put all those