Post Collapse Businesses – a big list of them!

➡ Marjorie discusses potential jobs and businesses that could be useful in a post-collapse scenario. She suggests that due to the destruction of fossil fuel infrastructure and the potential for a major economic crash, we should prepare for a future where energy and travel are expensive, and unemployment is high. Some of her suggestions include bicycle repair, solar panel installation and removal, gold and silver dealing, teaching, and setting up communication networks. She also mentions the potential for defense and commercial kitchen businesses.
➡ The text discusses various business opportunities and skills that can be useful in times of economic downturn. These include renting out commercial kitchens, repairing clothes, making jewelry, web development, shoe making and repair, welding, farming, machining, and organizing barter and trade circles. The author also mentions the importance of being open to new opportunities that may arise, and the value of skills like storytelling, butchering, and even organizing contests.
➡ The speaker discusses various business ideas and opportunities, such as becoming an auctioneer, starting a water filtration business, manufacturing rocket stoves, setting up rainwater collection systems, and practicing herbal medicine. They also mention the potential for doctors to return to making house calls and the possibility of opening pawn shops or becoming micro lenders. The speaker encourages listeners to consider these opportunities, especially in places like Puerto Rico, and emphasizes the importance of learning new skills and repurposing resources.
➡ The speaker discusses various topics including their interest in food production and caring for their horse, the potential of zero point energy, the importance of understanding grasses for farming, and their thoughts on the value of AI and data. They also share their ideas about the potential resurgence of dance halls and interactive parties for genuine human interaction, the importance of recycling automobiles, and their concerns about the control associated with electric vehicles.
➡ The speaker shares their experiences in Vietnam, where they observed the value of recycling and resourcefulness. They also discuss their plans to breed guinea pigs, known as cavies, for meat, highlighting the challenges and potential benefits of this venture. They encourage listeners to pursue their passions and consider starting small businesses, especially in areas that are practical, useful, and needed.

Hey, hey, hey. This is Marjorie and I have got a whole list of possible jobs or businesses or whatever that you can create post collapse or I’d recommend you get started right now pre collapse, however you want to do it. I’m gonna do a walk and talk because I really enjoy moving a little bit. I do set the context for what things are going to look like. So they just blew up some major, major gas things somewhere in the Middle east. So. And they’re destroying the infrastructure for fossil fuels. And I believe that’s intentional. My model, my understanding is they own it.

There’s a small group that owns everything. Everything. Right. So you think China’s this or Russia. No, they all ultimately report up. The last public place that we know that they report to is the bis, the bank for International Settlements. But it goes than that. And so all this stuff that’s going on is absolutely orchestrated and they want whatever they’re bombing destroyed. It’s not like oh I’m gonna do that. Like no, they, that they want it destroyed. They want to take us. What are you guys doing down here? This is so cute. I gotta show you this.

What are you guys doing out here on the road? You don’t belong out here. You need to get up. Oh boy. I’ll take care of that when I get back. I really gotta get a bigger place with more, more space. We are definitely looking at a future where energy is very, very, very expensive and oh, I have the whole thing written down and I don’t have that page. Maybe I do. Hold on a sec. No. Oh well, I can make it up. I did it. And everything’s going to be more expensive. You’re not going to be traveling.

You know, it’s gonna be hard times. Real, real hard times. Unemployment is going to skyrocket. You know, there’s not going to be anybody employed because a whole bunch of businesses are going to collapse. I’m recording this now. I think it’s March 20th and yeah, we are on the precipice that that whole, you know, 1929 style stock market crash is like that could happen tomorrow but it’s certainly going to happen very, very, very soon. Here we’re having the private credit banks are basically, there’s been a run on them and they’ve shut down withdrawals and it’s, it’s going to be a whole cascading series and they’re not going to like all the other times protection team bailed everything out.

They’re not going to do that this time. They want it down anyway. Let’s get on with things that you can do rather than talking about the. Again, no, in no particular order. I’m just. Was rambling and thinking and. Somebody’s smoking weed somewhere, and I mean, that’ll be a whole nother business, growing weed. I’m not a big advocate of that, but. And I’ll have some in here of things that are activities that I am not at all a big advocate of, but it’s gonna happen. And. Yeah. So first of all, bicycle repair. Good old bicycles, right. People often talk to me when they want to.

Want to get a survival retreat. They’re like, I got this beautiful property and it’s like only 20 minutes outside of town. I said, well, how many miles is that? You know, is that 20 miles? And like, yeah, super close. I’m like, when was the last time you walked 20 miles? When was the last time you rode a bike 20 miles? You can’t think of this cheap gas anymore, Right. That is going to go away. And talking about things that have changed, I’ll intersperse stories of different things I’ve seen over the years or talked to. It was actually the dad of one of my boyfriends a really long time ago, and he used to be a moonshiner.

This is North Florida. We were all living in North Florida. Yeah. And he used to make alcohol and sell it. And it was funny. He used to say, hey, how you doing? Used to sell alcohol and. And. And he said, you know how you can tell a moonshine? I’m like, no. He says, well, the back end of the trunk is almost down to the ground because they got them full of moonshine and they’re so heavy. And that was actually, I believe, the inception of nascar, because you. Those guys, you know, the cops, of course, it’s illegal or was illegal, and the cops would, you know, try to get them, but if they had faster cars and knew the roads better, then they could get away.

And they did. And then what Dolph was, his name was this elderly gentleman and he said, you know, it all ended when they got radios. When they got radios. We couldn’t. We couldn’t outdo that. So anyway, onto my list, it’s a bicycle repair. Yep. And making bicycle things, making a small car parts and trailers, you know, those kind of things gonna become a big deal. And so as you’re watching this, if you’re like, hey, you know, There’s. I saw 20 bicycles. Somebody was selling like a dollar a piece or something, you know, whatever, you know, pick it up.

Those things are going to be super, super, super valuable right now, nobody’s thinking about it. You probably need a bunch of them for, for almost nothing, right? So if you look around solar install and uninstall. So as times get hard, somebody had that massive 30 kilowatt solar system on their house. We live just fine with 10. So there’ll be a whole business of like uninstalling the extra panels and batteries and reconfiguring things or whatever and then selling off those parts and conversely, you know, reinstalling that somewhere else. You know, solar energy, all kinds of hydroelectric, all that kind of stuff.

So if you’ve got skills in that, you’re gonna be in good shape. Got a family member who is, you know, this is an idea for them to get ahead of and start thinking about and being prepared for. I don’t know what that would involve maybe buying some extra 10 AWG wire or whatever, you know, some of the MC4 connector. Just getting a few things together. Gold and silver dealers. Now I saw this in 2008 and then when I was much younger I wasn’t super aware of it. But in the 70s, you know, in 2008 especially, all kinds of small mom and pop business people often say what am I going to do with my silver? There were a zillion little mom and pop businesses that popped up.

I mean the next thing you knew, there were signs everywhere of we buy gold, we buy silver. And so you know, people figured out like it’s not that hard to figure out like what is the silver. You know, there’s little tests you can learn how to do or the gold, you don’t know what it carrot is. And then you know, figure out the price of what you buy it for and what you can sell it for. And you know, that will, that will surface pretty quickly. And if that’s something you’re interested in, that’s something, something you can do.

School if you’re a school teacher, this also goes for hairdressers and all that kind of stuff. People are going to want their hair cut, right? Maybe not as frequently. You might not have the volume of business, but that’s going to be a pretty stable occupation. But school teachers like this was especially from the experience during the collapse of the Soviet Union, you know, they would just like my living room, I’m going to have school here now. Or lots of people I’ve known, you know, have had a little daycare or something like that in their home homes.

And this was all in the private, right? Not, not anything that ever needed, you Know, you don’t need to worry about licensing and all that. So. Defense. Yeah, I don’t, you know, I. Maybe, maybe you guys with more military and, and law enforcement and all that type experience, I believe the defense will be an interesting business, you know, and a possibility. Setting up communication networks. So this may be a little more niche, but, you know, families or communities, you know, mesh networks. Setting up mesh networks or setting up ways for them to use their existing cell phones.

Direct, Direct. I believe there’s some apps that’ll do that. But figuring out how people and communities can stay connected, Communications, that’s going to be real important. If you’re an amateur operator, radio operator, if that’s been your passion, that may become, you know, a really important communication channel. And there may be, you know, some opportunities in there. Yeah. Especially for news. Right. You know, even if you find a broadcast that’s coming in. I don’t know, you know, will our cell phones work or whatever? I don’t. I bet, I bet it will. A lot of the time it may get super unreliable anyway.

A commercial kitchen. So when I lived in Colorado, there was a lovely couple that bought a warehouse out on the edge of town. They turned it into a commercial kitchen. And that particular town had a lot of producers. And, you know, if you’re a producer, even here in this community, there’s a lot of people who do produce stuff. They’re doing it in their own kitchens and they’re like, you know, your kitchen, most people’s kitchen is really not big enough to be doing larger volumes of stuff. So renting out a commercial kitchen for two to four hours or something like that, that’s possibly a good business alternative.

You know, we’re going to have a lot of restaurants going under, pick up all that stainless steel shelving in pots and all that kind of stuff. Hola. Sewing. Right. So repairing clothing, making clothing. Yeah, I know. Tracy, by the way. 2008. I was really interested in the 2008, 2010 time frame of what businesses did well in that period. And one of the ones that really amazed me was this woman who made small. Like she made jewelry, she liked brooches and maybe just a little bit of stuff, and she was crushing it. Really nice looking, but reasonably inexpensive.

And the thing was, was everybody was like, you know, they didn’t have the money to upgrade a whole outfit, but if you could get a nice piece of jewelry or something like that, you could totally upgrade something. Right. And make it look a lot better. And so people were a lot of women. We’re Doing that really, I’ll just buy something nice to, you know, so that. That was good. There’ll be a lot of opportunity for a whole bunch of new stuff, which I’m not even sure I can imagine right now. Another thing that interested me in the 2008 time period, a friend of mine, Hermes.

Yo, Hermes. He was a web developer and like business was booming. I was just shocked. Right. But Everybody back in 2008, 2010, wanted a website. I don’t think anybody’s gonna want that. There’s not that need anymore like that. But again, there may be some kind of technology or coding or I don’t know what, but be having that open. Hey. Hola. They the Aquilar Ultra Gente. No meal. Yeah, they already rented it to someone else. No, the. The. For this house. But they rent for leave or Airbnb? No, no, I think for living for a year. Yeah.

They got there before I did, so I wanted the. I couldn’t have. He was asking way too much, you know. Yes. He was asking too much for rent, but I don’t know what they did it for. But anyway, we were almost neighbors. Talk to you later. So. Yeah, so, I mean, there is going to be a lot of stuff, right, that. That we can’t even imagine right now that are going to be new things that open up. So definitely keep your. Your mind open with that. Making and repairing shoes. No kidding, right? You know, cobblers. I’m gonna put up a video for you that my friend Doug Simons did on how to make sandals out of tires.

I gotta say, they’re super comfortable. I wear those sandals all the time. And there’s some other commercial version. I’m wearing a pair of a commercial version right now. I think I could show you these guys. And they’re super comfortable. They even adapt them to winter stuff like, you know, put socks on and stuff like that. But making shoe or resoling shoes, I’ve resold in my shoes, like sometimes a really comfortable pair of sandals one time. And it was just got down to the nubbins and I just, you know, some glue and some of this stuff, which would be something to stock up on now is some of the glue and.

And whatever that, you know, rubber stuff is that you cut out and put on the bottom. So it’s very small upfront cost. You know, it’s an extremely useful item. Right. So even if you don’t end up becoming somebody who uses that, it’s extremely useful. That’s something that you could sell or trade for. So. Okay. Welding, my God. If you’re a welder, if you’re a welder, you also need to make sure that you have a source for power for that. But man making stuff like that. Farming depends on all kinds of really interesting implements which we no longer really have for the small scale farming that needs to come back and that will come back.

And some people who can weld, super, super important. And then of course, you know, machinists and you know, if you’ve got a 3D printer, stock up on extra filament now, you know, you know, if you go one of the CNC machines or laser cutters or stuff like that or you know, all the different tools, you know, that’s extremely, extremely valuable. Do your best to make sure that you have the solar or the whatever energy it is that you need in order to be able to operate it. But that’s going to be incredibly valuable as we recreate and rebuild and redesign and innovate this whole thing of what we’re living in.

So machinists are going to be very important gunsmiths, what can I say, you know, prostitution again, this is not one that I’m a big advocate of. It’s going to happen, it always does. Making alcohol again, another, another thing I’m not a big fan of. But having an alcohol still and knowing how to do it again, if you’re looking for an investment, investing in an alcohol still for a piece of equipment that you might sell later or a piece of equipment that you know will become incredibly valuable. By the way, that doesn’t necessarily mean just for drinking.

I knew a Mormon couple, I think I’ve told you this story before. I knew a Mormon couple one time that bought an alcohol still. And I was just, oh, I just giving them so much. And I felt so bad because Kat was the woman, she’s an incredible herbalist. She’s like, no, Marjorie, this is cuz we’re making tinctures. I’m like, see what a dumbass I was. Oh well, gambling houses, that’s gonna happen. That’s probably not you, but you know, that’s gonna be a business. You know, I think comedians and storytellers, musicians, I think there’ll be a place for them.

They never make much money ever, but people will, I think more and more people will appreciate, especially with the whole proliferation of AI bullshit, really be appreciative of people that genuinely are human, that have an incredible skill. Yeah. You know, and it’ll be the hat on the side of the road or whatever or pass the hat and Try and get the sing for your supper. They never made a lot of money. But you will be able to do something I think, I think that’ll become more important. Butchering. There is a dearth of butchers and butchering facilities everywhere.

Used to be, there used to be a small butcher shop, every butcher shop. And then there also used to be a little processing plant everywhere. Like all they dotted the countryside. Right. There are hardly any. Any now again, that doesn’t take a lot of infrastructure. The hooks and the knives and the whatever. Right. And the skill. You pick that skill up pretty fast. Also you want to be near somebody who’s actually going to be in an area where they’re actually producing me. Five G towers. I still haven’t found this out. Remember I was talking like how much silver is in a 5G tower.

I was trying to get the guys who hang out at the Texaco that they’ll, they’ll do anything for a dollar. I was trying to like figure out how much silver is in a 5G tower and tell them it’s a really well known business in the countryside now already to steal copper. So especially these power lines. There’s a lot of copper in those power lines. I’m not a big advocate of stealing stuff, but you know, getting that, processing it, burning off the rubber, selling the copper. It’s a thing. I saw some YouTube videos where somebody was getting all these old, old cell phones and they had this whole thing, they crush it up and they do this and they do that and then they end up with like a little bit of gold or something.

Looked like an awful lot, lot of work to me. But gold is getting more expensive. Organizing barter and trade circles. I’ve done this quite a lot in my community. Not for money, but yeah, you know, have an area, invite people to come. They’ve got to give you a small fee in order to put their items up. Same thing with flea markets. You know, have an area and then you may need to pay for security. Some of the classic, kind of like Walmart’s in some ways, some of the classic survival texts, they talk about going to the, the flea market thing and you were safe when you were in the flea market and you had to be careful once you left.

But anyway, organizing that and having a space where people can sell stuff and buy and sell and trade and that’s considered safe, that’ll be good. My mom, she was born in 1920 and I used to ask her a lot of questions about the Great Depression and she said contests were a big Thing in the Great Depression, like, and the whole idea of dance contest or whatever. Contest, you know. Hey, Cal. Oh, you look gorgeous. You know, there’s. It was hope, right? People could get. There was something they could hope for and strive for and maybe win something big.

So we’re a lot of contests and a lot of sweepstakes and a lot of stuff in the Great Depression. So, yeah, maybe so. We’re. I mean, most sweepstakes or contests or whatever you take a percentage for for doing all that. So, anyway, auctioneers. My mom. I remember when I was a lot younger, the subdivision we were in, we weren’t near the railroad tracks, but right by the railroad tracks. There was slight industry and small warehouses and stuff. And one day my mom says, hey, you want to go with me to the auction? I’m like, what? So we go to this business, this building.

There’s, like, no. Nothing on it. Like, no sign. Nothing. I’m like, how do you know to go here? You go inside, and there was just all. All this stuff. And then there was an auction, and, you know, the guy was the auctioneer, and then he got a percentage of whatever he sold it for. And it wasn’t anything spectacular, like, literally like a kitchen sink or two cases of light bulbs or, you know, it’s crazy what it was, so. But yeah, I was at an auction recently in Mexico and for one of the events at Anarchapulco, and I was like, that guy really sucks as an auctioneer.

And he wasn’t doing that. You need to do that. You can get people riled up anyway. Being an auctioneer. Yeah. Let’s see. Mortuary. I don’t know. You know, and like. Like, think about it. Not exactly something I want to go into, but, you know, water treatment and water filtration. So I just did two weeks ago, that workshop I was telling you about here in Puerto Rico, and we had Josh Kearns here. This guy is an expert in making your own water filters out of sand and rocks and biochar. And it’s like everything. It’s a little bit trickier than you might imagine.

And how you make the biochar is key. But we were talking to him about, you could make a. Build a better Berkey. You can make one that’s better than Berkey and way less expensive and way better. Like, the volume of throughput is much higher. And, you know, basically we were talking about input costs. You know, you. It’s $5,000 for the machine to do the water testing, because you want to test all Your, your biochar to make sure that you’re actually producing stuff that really does filter. But then after that, I mean, figuring out how you’re going to do the biochar, that’s mostly going to typically be 55 gallon steel drums.

You’ll want to optimize that and figure it out and figure out your feed stocks and your process. And you can take, you know, like a, any business takes a bit of time to develop. We’re gonna, we’re really working to get Josh here again. He very rarely does workshops. If he does, I really recommend, if you’re interested in this business, come. If you want to live in Puerto Rico, we want these businesses started here. We could probably have a dozen of them on the island and that would vary. We only support that many of them. So if you’re looking for a reason to move to Puerto Rico in a business to start, you know, please consider it.

At the last one, there was a woman that came all the way from New York, upstate New York, I think she was an expert in biochar. 20 years, some more. She said, Josh is the only one with this knowledge. She’s all, all the other biochar, which makes sense. All the other biochar stuff is ultimately like funded by the UN and the WEF and all that. And they really don’t have your best interest at heart. And Johnson’s just a guy. He’s got a doctorate degree in water or something like that, but he really knows his stuff. And she said he’s the only guy that really knows this that well.

Yeah, he’s been working on his own homestead and prepping and stuff like that. So that’s why he hasn’t been doing workshops. But water filtration is going to be. Right. How long are your Berkey filters going to last? You know, Fernando Aguirre, I did an interview with him. Oh my God. More than a decade ago. So he was involved with the collapse in Argentina, I think that was the 1990s. And he said, yeah. One story he told was how his brother came to visit him. His brother was from Spain. And the first thing that happened was his brother got sick.

And what it is is that when the municipalities don’t have money, they cut the, they cut the maintenance and the water supply was, you know, like they were seeing stuff there that you wouldn’t expect, you know, that you would only expect to see in like some of the dirtiest, worst parts of India or Africa or something like that. Right. So because the water was so terrible. So that will Be like, I mean, that’s a. I wish I didn’t have 10 other businesses I’m starting. I would start that one. I’m actually looking to like, maybe help fund somebody if they were going to do it here locally.

That’s going to be a really, really, really important business. Okay. Rocket stoves, you know, men are manufacturing rocket stoves. Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of rocket stoves. I’ve built some, I’ve used them. They are fantastic. You talk about using just a small amount of fuel, like in some just twigs. Paul Wheaton over in Montana visited his and he laughs. He says, shred your government documents, sh. Tax returns and burn them in your rocket stove. He’s funny. But building them is not that hard. Again, you know, gather, start, learn, figure it out. Build a couple, you know, start gathering a lot of the resources for a lot of this stuff, like number 10 cans.

People are throwing them out. Right. Anyway, there’s a lot of resources right now that people consider garbage that you can use to get you started as the basis of a business and, you know, figure out where you can get more later. But getting started is often, often the key. Good, I got some light here. This is good. Rainwater collection. Oh, my gosh. You know, building a rainwater collection system. I’ve built quite a few of them. You know, build one on your own house first. Build one on a neighbor’s, build one on a friend’s. After you’ve built three or four of them.

Read a few books, you’re good. Right. Then you’ll know, oh my God. You know, this piece of PVC pipe here is the most important part. This valve is what’s, you know, and start gathering those supplies. Right. Having that skill, you know, figure out how to reuse tanks, find tanks, old hot water heaters, all kinds of stuff. Right. But yeah, rainwater collection going to be super, super important. Along with that also is small scale drilling, well drilling, drilling wells with small scale rigs. Quite a bit of illegal well drilling that goes on here in Puerto Rico. Yeah.

Anyway, there’s that water is super important. Okay. I think I’ve gone over herbal medicine a lot. If you didn’t catch it, there was the wonderful thing that Nicole Telks did on from Wildflower Botanical School on the reality of starting a herbal business and what aspect do you want to be a grower? Do you want to be a manufacturer? Do you want to be a clinician? You know, she goes through the realities of it. Yeah. You know, I mean, medicine is going to be A big. Even if you’re like, a friend of mine’s a medical doctor and she’s kind of in this whole, like, I don’t know what to do, I don’t know where to go.

And I’m like, well, look, you’ve got freaking skills. Like, you know, I mean, if nothing else, people break bones, they, they get lacerations. I mean, those are basic things that you can clean up and sew up, right? You know, I mean, just gather the supplies for that, you know, some basic scalpels and, and stitches. Like that stuff lasts forever. That doesn’t, you know. You know, you’re a freaking doctor. You got plenty of skills, right? You know, she was like, oh. So. And those of you that are in the existing medical system, yeah, that thing absolutely sucks.

You’re in, you’re in a cult of death. The death cult, right. But you probably have real valuable skills. I actually envision that what will happen is doctors will go back to doing house calls. Like, it will come to you, right? So anyway, pawn shops or even micro lenders. So hopefully you have some silver. Hopefully you got nickels. You’ve been saving your change. Hopefully you’re a little bit ahead. You’re gonna catch up on this and you’ll have a little bit of resource. So, you know, I believe that a big part of having money. Oh, hey, White Horse, how are you? Oh, white horse.

Let’s see if he could see it. Hey, White Horse, how are you? I should go get White Horse. I’m gonna go get you some grass. I’ll be right back. Yeah, so all kinds of things related to medicine and healthcare and all of that. And then of course, all aspects of food production. Right. And I’m on the food production thing all the time. Oh, horse is now following me. Let me go get some feed for this horse. I gotta look at the next thing though. Oh. So there’s gonna be a lot of new stuff that we can’t envision.

And one I think is zero point energy. So if you are an experimenter in that way, there’s a lot of breakthroughs in that. And it’s, you know, it’s the kind of thing you no longer get killed for. You can do it, you know, you aren’t gonna get killed for it anymore. And I think that there will be some incredible innovations with that and building that. So, yeah, in all my spare time, I’m hoping I can. You remember, I have that. Oh, shoot. This is not good grass. Let’s see if we get some better grass for Horse.

It’s Getting pretty late out here. Yeah. Here we go. Horses. I’ve been getting a lot of fresh green for my livestock. I’ve got a system where they’re stationary and normally I have it where they move. And with them being stationary means I’m the one out doing the moving and collecting grasses for them. So I’ve been getting really good at learning a little bit about the grasses, which is very important. There’s a saying that all flesh is grass. And you, if you want to be a farmer, you really need to know your grasses. Okay, sweetie, how you doing? Look at you, you’re gorgeous.

Here, Here you go. What you think? There you go. Beautiful, gorgeous horse. Yeah. Okay. We’re not that friendly yet. All right. Good horse. Poor thing. I don’t know if I showed you in the. When the daylight’s better off. So if it’s living in this paddock here that looks like they’re slowly, slowly building the house, they got the, they got the foundation and some of the verticals going with it. No horse like is in the living room all the time. AI and Data and information. Being an information center that could be really big and having a big AI, big honking computer that can run big AI models.

I’m not totally sure for what yet, but I got my guts telling me that’s really a good thing. So, you know, I’m actually thinking of next time I get a little bit ahead of buying a big honking computer, you know, like one of those $5,000 or $10,000 ones and loading some AI models on it and starting to figure that stuff out. I think that that could be really, really valuable, especially if it’s private. And then you’re running stuff like that disk, that, that legacy drive that I have, you know, your own data, real legitimate data on it.

The Internet is deteriorating so, so, so fast it’s deteriorating. Yeah. So being an information source, which. A friend of mine, Tony, has a bookstore, more like, man, that guy’s sitting on a gold mine. That’s all the information he has with all the books. A dance hall. Anybody remember when dance halls were a thing? Like, I remember being a teenager and on Saturday night you went where the whole family went. You know, it was mostly in rural Florida. Rural North Florida. Yeah. You go to the dance hall on Saturday. It was everybody and the kids and the grandparents and everybody.

And you dance a little bit and you have a table and you’d have your different beverages or whatever, snacks and you know, meet up with people. And it was just a big old hall that you Know, they would have. And paid a little admission to get in and there’d be a little snack bar or something. So anyway, dance halls used to be a real big thing. I think there is going to be a trend for more and more people who just really want genuine human interactions that are kind of light and fun. Which leads me to another thing that I think is going to be amazing.

I actually wanted to create this business. Almost all these businesses I’ve wanted to create. And that is so years ago when I lived in Texas, a lovely couple next door to us, Hermes, and Maureen. Maureen every year for Hermes, who would give him for a birthday present, she would throw a big party. And this party was really special. She’d get one of these kits, and so everybody she invited would get a role. So. And there would be a theme. Like one year we were all Greek gods and goddesses, and then another year it was like a speakeasy in the 1920s or 30s or something like that.

So we were all wearing flapper dresses and, you know, and it was funny because we were in the community center which did not allow alcohol. So it totally fit the same. You had to bring your own. If you were doing that, you had to bring your own alcohol. They had a few sets. Yeah, it was so fun. I mean, you totally have this whole other personality that you were. And you were given, like you had to meet with somebody or a couple of people. You had to get an object or something. And so you had to go in and interact with other people.

And then, of course, things happen. Somebody always gets killed. And then we have to try and figure that out. But it was a really, really super fun event. It went on for about three hours. And I think things like that, that are genuine human interaction that’s light and fun and, you know, just gets you outside of the fact that you’re living in the greater. The depression we’re going into is going to be worse than the Great Depression because frankly, a lot of people had skills back in the Great Depression. And there’s a lot of people and.

And they weren’t vaccinated, right. So, you know, it’s gonna be really bad. So I think parties like, what would you pay to enter that? I don’t know what. But, you know, and, you know, you have to set it up. I think that would be a wonderful business. Again, you have a little. Have a little cafe there. You’re making a little extra money selling drinks and popcorn or whatever, and. And then, you know, people come and here’s the theme. And. Yeah, so I think that’d be a wonderful business to get into. And hey, run one of those things.

Heck, you could set one of those up now and just get a feel for it and figure out by the way, when you restart any business, the first times usually is a flop. Things break or things fail or you lose money. You know, I mean like that’s just the nature of starting a new venture. You know, just do it again and figure, well figure out what didn’t work. And, and that’s why we’re doing it now is a good thing because we have still have a lot of slack in the system now, even though it is collapsing more and more rapidly.

We still do have, you know, there still is room here. So. Yeah, recycling automobiles. This is another one, man. This was a while ago I wanted to make a dvd, you can tell it was a while ago of everything you could do to recycle an automobile. Like the vinyl seats you could turn into jackets and you know, what could you do with all the belts on the motors and you know, the alternator could be turned into like a little, you know, an alternator like a wind powered thing or you know, all the tires turned into shoes and the actual thing itself with glass turned into a little greenhouse or a drying, you know, food drying thing.

Or you know, we were gonna. And all the wire and all this stuff, right? And now we’re gonna make this. And it was like that would have been so time consuming and so expensive to make that dvd. Nobody would have bought it. Maybe better not do that project. But we are going to have a lot. The big theme that we’re in here is that they’re trying to stop all the gasoline powered and diesel powered automobiles. And basically it’s because you can’t control them. Right? That’s why Elon Musk has been, well, he’s an actor, why he’s been positioned and all that Tesla stuff has been positioned with the batteries and the Starlink thing is they want like if you get in the robo taxi and you said something they don’t, they just automatically just drive you to the detention center.

Right. You know, you might have punched in that you wanted to go to your sister’s house. That ain’t happening. And they can’t do that with gasoline vehicles. They want everything electric because they want control. So where did I go with that? So there’s gonna be a lot of, there’s gonna be a lot of automobiles, let’s just say that. So. And automobiles now are different from what they were 15 years ago when I was looking at this, but there’s still a lot of stuff that you could be recycling out of an automobile. And if you’re that kind of person that’s handy and stuff like that, there’s gonna be a lot to Actually recycling of everything is gonna become a big deal.

I mean, everything. One really big wake up call to me was when I was much, much younger, I was in Vietnam, like, almost right after they lifted the embargo. So for a long time, Americans couldn’t go there. And so I was there like it was still Vietnam the way Vietnam was. Now it’s a big, glitzy tourist, whatever, modern, whatever. But this was Vietnam. And basically there were no automobiles. Everybody was riding around on scooters. You go to a stoplight and there’d be hundreds of scooters because it’s the most efficient form of travel, right. And people were.

They had been living in the Great Depression in Vietnam, right? And. And I’ll never forget, I had. I was on a street corner, and I forget what I was waiting for. And I had a bottle of water, and I found it. Finished drinking the bottle of water, and I put it. The garbage can was kind of overflowing, so I just put it right next to the empty bottle, right next to the garbage can. And, you know, I stepped away a little bit because I was looking at, you know, for the. I forget what it was I was waiting for.

Maybe. I don’t know what. There are no taxis. Anyway, this Vietnamese woman comes by very quietly, and she just picks up the water bottle and walks out. And she looks at me and I’m like, yeah, you can, you know, and she walks off. And I realized there’s tremendous value in that water bottle. And she sees it and she knows it, and her life is in a situation where a water bottle like that is extremely valuable. Wow. You know, just. Wow. Right? They made some incredible stuff. They make stuff out of Coke cans. They use the aluminum that make all kinds of artwork out of it.

But they’ve made all kinds of stuff out of Coke. You know, aluminum and Coke. They. They were unbelievably resourceful. So, yeah. All right, now I’ll tell you what I’m getting into. I think I’ve mentioned it to you before, but I’m gonna become a guinea pig farmer. No, actually, they’re called caving. They’re not. The guinea pigs are the cute little ones in the. In the store that little girls all pick up. Again, these cavies are actually the same guinea pigs, but they’re bigger and I really would like the really big ones called the cuy. Everybody tells me the cuy are actually really mean, so you might not want to raise them.

And I can’t find nobody has cuy, so. And I, I got some here on. There’s one guy on the island that has, they’re big enough, but they’re still kind of small. And they’re all bred, interrelated, like, I mean, many, many generations. Everybody’s brother and sister, right? Which is a sad situation. And I said, well, what I’ll do is I’ll raise them for. I’ve had them about six to nine months now. And you know, see how easy it is, how resilient they are. What’s, you know, what’s breeding like, what’s harvesting like, you know, and ultimately what do they taste like? And I did that taste test, I guess what was about two months ago, I think I told you about that.

They were delicious. Okay, well, that gives me like, I want to go forward with this and oh my God. It has been unbelievably difficult finding stock for these cavies. But I’ve been doing all the research and I’m actually going to Longview, Texas and I will be there if you’re in Texas, near Dallas or Houston or. I’m going to be in Longview, Texas, just kind of northeast Texas on April 11th. I’m only going to be one day. I’m picking up this livestock I’m going to pick up. I found a breeder who was willing to work with me.

I said, look, I’m breeding these to eat them, right? And actually you talk to a lot of these breeders and they’re pets to them and they will hang up on you. They hung up on or they banned me from their Facebook group or whatever. So, you know, anyway, I was like in heaven. She’s got eight, you know, two month old half grown cavies. They’re all different colors. They’re all her largest ones from her largest, you know, parents and they’re all different lines. So I’m going to be able to have an incredible amount of genetic diversity which will be a huge boon to the island here.

So what I want to do is breed them and develop a larger one. And these things are so much better than rabbit for here, right? For the tropics, right? And they just, they eat, they grow well and they are very healthy on way less quality forage. Right? So rabbits do great here and you can grow the forage for them and it’s not that hard. These guys are a whole Other level of easy. And although not everybody here is, has eaten them, almost everybody here knows about them to one extent. But it’s Latin America, right? And everybody knows about in Peru or Ecuador.

So I don’t know. I have a huge marketing hurdle to overcome. So. Yeah, so I’m just talking to my sister and I said, what do you think mom would say if told her I was going to become a guinea pig farmer? We both laughed. You know, my mom, she said, well, she’d be shocked for a minute. But my mom was always like, you know, do what you love, do what you’re really interested in. If you do a job that, you know, it’s maybe not the best job ever, do it because you’re learning something important. Do it for a reason or a passion, you know.

You know, don’t ever just do anything for money. That’s complete waste of your energy. And so she’d be totally supportive. She was always supportive of everything we did. Anyway, I found this little niche, right? And it’s gonna cost a bit to travel to Texas, get these things, getting all the documentation from the Puerto Rican government and then transporting guinea pigs. I won’t go into all the, these things are going to probably at the end of the day cost about 500 a piece, but, and which is in the long run, that’s not that much money. And then of course I got to build more, you know, facilities for them.

But you know, in the long run, I’m only talking about a ten thousand dollar investment for a backyard food production business, right? To go into business with a small amount of money like that is quite incredible. Right? So, you know, initially I, I just bought a small freezer. It’s a couple hundred dollars. You know what, I don’t, if I don’t sell anything, I just put the meat in the freezer. I don’t have to wait long. The beef herd in America is down to like what it was 70 years ago. The price of everything’s going up. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to sell the meat or I’ll eat it myself.

The cats are looking at me like, yeah, can we have some of those Katies? Anyway, I do, I do want to end with that. And also, you know, this is an opportunity for you to do something different in your life. You know, you’ve probably already been laid off or you’re thinking about it or we know big changes are coming. Do something you love. Do something you’re interested in. Do something you’re passionate about, right? Do something once, something all these things I’ve listed are of tremendous service and they’re practical and useful and needed. It’s great to have a business for something that’s really needed, that people really want, you know, but really make sure it’s something that you love doing and it’s something that you, you want to do or that you enjoy.

And again, you know, if you don’t know and you start it and you get all the supplies for it, well, those things are going to be valuable. You’ll be able to sell them or trade them later. Right. And then you can reinvent yourself again. Alright, Well, I really hope this is helpful for you. Got a lot more. I’ll keep posting different things that comes up because you, you are going to need to. I mean, we got to rebuild. I mean, small business is going to be the way to go. Especially since you don’t want those CBDCs.

Right? We gotta, we gotta build our parallel economy. All right. This is Marjorie Wildcraft. I’ll talk to you later.
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