Education
Topic-wide preparedness strategy: where to start, how to prioritize, how to keep going. Multi-topic Q&As, foundational planning frameworks, and ‘mindset content’ that helps everything come together.
Showing 195 videos · runtime 15–30 min
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Why Nobody Becomes a Prepper Until This Happens
Fifteen-minute discussion on the triggering events that catalyze people into preparedness, and how mindset shifts from gear collection to practical readiness and stress reduction.
5 Survival Concepts
27-minute breakdown of five foundational survival concepts applicable to emergency preparedness and tactical scenarios.
Bushcraft vs Camping vs Survival: The Truth
Seventeen minutes clarifying the distinctions between bushcraft, camping, and survival disciplines, their overlapping skills, and how each fits into self-reliance practice.
Probability-Based Preparedness: Prioritizing Where Your Time and Money Matter Most
Discussion of how to prioritize prepping efforts based on realistic risk assessment rather than unlikely scenarios, covering budgeting, health, financial preparedness, and practical skill-building.
Wartime Russia Mosquito Trap and Why They Make Fake Videos
Learn a traditional Russian mosquito trap design and understand how survival content creators produce misleading videos.
A Day Alone in the Alaskan Wilderness: Foraging, Water, and Shelter
Solo bushcraft in remote Alaska: wild mushroom foraging, water collection from natural sources, campfire cooking, and wilderness shelter setup over 16 minutes.
The First 24 Hours of SHTF: What Actually Happens
21-minute walkthrough of realistic decision-making and community behavior in the first day of a grid-down or major infrastructure failure.
3 Days Solo Survival Camping: Primitive Fish Cooking, Bushcraft Skills, Tent Shelter
19-minute walkthrough of wilderness survival: catching and cooking fish, building shelter in rain, primitive fireplace construction, and camp management in Australian backcountry.
The Deadfall Trap: Design and Construction
Twenty-two minutes on building and tuning a deadfall trap for small game and larger animals, with scalability principles for different prey sizes.
After 15 Years Prepping, Here's What Doesn't Matter
Experienced prepper reflects on which fears drove early preparations and which practical foundations matter most for household resilience after 15 years in the space.
How Much Longer Can the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Be Drained?
Data-driven analysis of US Strategic Petroleum Reserve depletion timelines and implications for energy security and household fuel preparedness.
Minuteman Field Challenge AAR
After-action review of the first Modern Minuteman Challenge competition, covering practical preparedness skills tested in a field scenario.
Everyone Starts Prepping Too Late | Stop Being Unprepared
Why panic-buying during crises leads to wasted money and untested gear; how to build and maintain a preparedness plan that survives complacency.
Survival On The Water's Edge: What Kit Do You Need?
Twenty-minute gear and skills walkthrough for water-edge survival instruction, covering knife, compass, cordage, trapping, and fire-building essentials.
Surviving an Avalanche in my Bushcraft Truck | Fireside Chat Ep. 14
Greg Ovens recounts two avalanche encounters and an overnight winter survival situation, with practical takeaways on emergency shelter and cold-weather decision-making.
Infantryman's Field Craft EDC Pocket Dump
Former infantryman walks through essential everyday-carry gear and field craft techniques: knife, canteen, fire-starting, water procurement, navigation, and survival kit assembly.
10 Things You're Throwing Away That Could Save Your Life in a Crisis
Learn to repurpose 10 common household discards—bottles, containers, and scraps—into emergency supplies and survival tools.
Nations Begin Nationalizing Food
Indonesia nationalizing palm oil and metals, India canceling soybean contracts on 41% price surge, copper and diesel price forecasts, and the shift toward sovereign resource control.
Why the Media is Finally Admitting the Food Crisis
Seventeen minutes on global wheat harvest declines, fertilizer shortages, and why official UN data is only now entering mainstream reporting.
10 Everyday Skills Your Grandparents Had That Most People Lost
Sixteen minutes on ten practical skills previous generations used for resilience—food preservation, sewing, repair, cooking from basics, waste reduction, heating, manual tools, and community support.
Stealth Camping with Steve Wallis in Rambo Town
27-minute bushcraft camping demonstration featuring shelter setup and outdoor survival techniques in Hope, British Columbia.
I Built You A Tool To Make Solar Design Simple (And Free)
Complete walkthrough of a free off-grid solar design tool: energy audits, array sizing, battery configuration, component selection, and NEC-compliant wiring.
The Waiting May Be Over
Examines how Iran conflict, de-dollarization, and Ukraine war signal reduced system margins requiring new prep mindsets.
Bug Out Bag Loadout Summer 2026
Editor's note
“Audited 2026-05-30: tightened from a junk-drawer category to a deliberate one. If a video has a clear single-topic home (shelter, water, geopolitics, etc.) it goes there — not here. Education is reserved for genuinely strategic multi-topic guidance like "16 steps to get prepared in 2026" or a year-end Q&A.”
— Cockroach editorial
Distractions Ramping Up Indicate Proximity to SHTF
Examines how increasing media distractions may signal proximity to systemic collapse and what preppers should watch for.
Feeling Numb, Anxious & Overwhelmed? You Might Have Crisis Exhaustion
Kylene and Jonathan identify crisis exhaustion symptoms and share nine practical strategies to recover resilience.
What You Learn In Military Survival School — Survival Kit
Twenty-minute walkthrough of military personal survival kit contents and field craft principles, with practical breakdown of essential gear and survival priorities.
These PREPPER MISTAKES Will Get You KILLED
Solo Camping in Brutal Storm Conditions with My Dog
18-minute walkthrough of hot tent setup, storm camping, and outdoor cooking in heavy rain and wind—practical shelter and thermal management techniques.
China Watches America Pawn The Furniture?
Martenson and Seyker examine collapsing U.S. oil inventories, strategic reserve drawdowns, rising natural gas demand from data centers, and China's advantage
UK Knife & Self Defence Laws Every Prepper Must Know in 2026
17-minute breakdown of UK legal requirements for knives, multitools, self-defence, home defence, air rifles, and bushcraft gear — covering context, intent, transport rules, and common legal mistakes.
Iconic Hunting Knife Face Off - TOPS vs Old Hickory
Field testing and detailed comparison of the TOPS Ontario Hunter XL and Old Hickory Hunter through batoning, carving feather sticks, scraping fatwood, and ferro rod striking.
Survival Bikepacking
15-minute walkthrough of bikepacking for survival: selecting a pedal-powered bicycle, gear considerations, and reaching remote locations without motorized transport.
We Unplug and Reconnect at our Off Grid Log Cabin, Wood Stove Cooking & Campfire Steak
How I got rid of ME/CFS
Lilly describes her multi-year struggle with chronic fatigue syndrome, how stool testing revealed candida overgrowth, and her recovery using fluconazole combined with cyclical ketogenic diet.
Planting 178 More Trees & Bushes - Adding Growth for Food, Wildlife, Bees & Birds
21-minute walkthrough of establishing perennial food sources (fruit and nut trees, berry bushes) on a mountain homestead, including site selection, planting technique, and long-term food security strategy.
Markets Running On Presidential Fan Fiction
Martenson and Kerr analyze extreme vertical moves in global equity markets as blowoff-top behavior driven by belief Trump will prevent downside.
Maxpedition Double Decker Pouch Review
Detailed walkthrough of Maxpedition's two-compartment organizer pouches, showing exactly what fits in each elastic loop and pocket across both sizes.
Alpha Foxtrot Romulus DS 1911 9mm Compensated Gun Review
Single Parent Prepping: The Emergency Plan Every Mum & Dad Needs
20-minute practical emergency-preparedness plan for single parents covering food storage, water, blackouts, home safety, emergency kits, and preparing children without inducing fear.
7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Buying a Freeze Dryer
48 Hours in My Primitive Forest Shelter With My Dog | Wild Boars Came at Night
Two-day wilderness shelter stay demonstrating primitive deadwood construction, campfire cooking, weather management, and animal behavior in a forest setting.
DMR- Dedicated Marksman Rifle Series - Part 2: The Scope- Gunnr Thor 2-12
Bug Out Bag Lost? 4 On Person Survival Kit Set Ups
5 Hard Truths About SHTF Prepping You Need To Know
The Shortages Are Coming Next
