SURVIVAL: THE REALITY ABOUT PREPPING YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW! PT.1 EARNEST MANN'S- IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU PC.10
Why Prepping Might Be a Losing Survival Strategy – A Wake-Up Call for Preppers
Hey folks, Earnest Mann here, and today I’m bringing a heavy but necessary message for anyone involved in prepping, survivalism, or off-grid living. This isn’t your typical survival podcast. This episode challenges the core assumptions behind many prepping strategies and calls out some hard truths you're not going to hear anywhere else.
The Harsh Reality of Long-Term Survival: Attrition Always Wins
Even if you've got a fortress stocked with 10,000 gallons of water, years of food, and millions of rounds of ammunition, you're likely playing a losing game. Why? Because attrition always wins. Over time, whether it’s government forces, the military, or just desperate roving gangs, someone will eventually break your defenses. Prepping as it's marketed today is part of an industry, one that often pushes false hope and poor strategies under the guise of safety.
Government Intervention: The Real Threat to Preppers
If the government sees you as hoarding valuable resources during a crisis, they're not going to leave you alone. They’ll come for your supplies, and history has shown us what happens when the government gets serious—Waco, Texas (Branch Davidian) is a prime example. They made an example out of David Koresh and his followers. And if you think you're going to stand up to Big Brother and win? Think again.
Desperate Civilians: The Other Enemy You’re Not Ready For
Even if you manage to survive initial attacks, others will keep coming. Desperate civilians—whether they’re lone wolves or groups of armed survivors—won’t stop. You may win the first few rounds, but eventually, attrition, exhaustion, and lack of resources will bring you down. The sobering truth? You don’t have enough bullets.
This strategy is broken, and if you really care about protecting yourself and your family, it’s time to rethink the game plan. Better solutions exist—and I’ll cover those in upcoming episodes. But the takeaway for today: if your current plan is to hunker down and defend your stockpile indefinitely, you will lose.
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Transcript
00:01 hello folks and thank you for being here if you are a prepper or survivalist or know someone who is this message and this information that I have in roughly the next 10 minutes could be an absolute GameChanger for your entire strategy on this subject and this is something you're simply not going to hear anywhere else so without further ado let's talk about the very serious subject of you and or your family's Survival Let's Jump On [Music] In oh [Music] Nelly it's the earnest man show baby
01:06 with your host Earnest [Music] man the very first thing that I want to make abundantly clear on this okay please I'm just a piano player so don't shoot the messenger okay okay now the one thing I want to make clear is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with anyone prepping or doing survival you know doing survival stuff nothing in other words your intention is good but having said that the road to hell as we all know was paved with good intentions and what I'm trying to say is that although it's very laudable and
02:00 what you want to do it is a very poor strategy for survival whether that be you your family friends what have you I'm going to explain the reasons why it's a bad strategy and as far as better strategies that's going to be in a future episode when I hear more specifically from you as far as you know what you want to know but I can tell you it's a bad strategy and here's why it simply comes down to ultimately in the final analysis of everything all things considered I don't care how well fortified you may
02:50 be you can have I don't know, 10,000 gallons of fresh water stowed away you've got everything you could possibly want to eat for a family of seven let's say for two or three years you've got a million rounds of ammunition to protect yourself you you've done the training with Firearms the list can just go on and on and on but here's a few things in this industry and you guys know it you guys listening to this you know it's an industry that's the sad truth I mean you want to survive and uh but it's an
03:37 industry they're they're selling you this okay and here's the deal they're being a bit to put it mildly [ __ ] disingenuous on the deal okay okay here's why ultimately to go back with what I was saying with the original it doesn't matter how well you know stocked up and and as they say locked cocked and ready to rock you may be sooner or later if the you know social breakdown and Civil War zombie Apocalypse occurs whatever whatever the hell you want to call it you will ultimately lose from one
04:29 single back alone and just this is just one of them it's called attrition now for you out there who know this word and understand it especially if you're you know current or previous military people you are in a position of being sieged and the thing is depending on the people that are attacking your position and how determined they are it is only a matter of time before your compound if you want to [ __ ] call it that will fall you in Practical terms you don't have enough you don't have enough
05:18 bullets if you get if you get what I'm saying you don't have enough bullets so let me start by breaking this down into um you know basic basically uh who the hell is going to be coming to get your goodies and again whether this you call it your home or [ __ ] compound or whatever it is you call it it all comes down to this you can subdivide this into two major groups it's either going to be some form of the military and that of course could mean the police National Guard or or the Army for example or just desperate gangs of you
06:07 know roving marauding desperate individuals and the strategies and defenses and and and so many other things at least initially can be very different on this but first I just want to comment when it comes to the military as I said and that ultimately is the government so let's say for example the you know whether it be Civil War uh uh complete social breakdown the you know [ __ ] zombie apocalypse whatever you whatever you want to call it okay and there may be a situation under the government where somehow let's say you and many others
06:53 just say somehow that they have a pretty good notion because they get information from Neighbors and it always leaks you are you really are in most cases you might think you are but you're not that much of an island okay get first of all get that notion um out of your head just just go with this and believe me and anyway uh but yeah Big Brother the government uh knows that you know we they've got all this social Fallout and there there's Mass hunger Mass thirst Mass starvation so what they're going to
07:33 want to do um or at least let's say that's their claim but it doesn't matter ultimately it doesn't matter what they're saying is citizen we know you got a bunch of [ __ ] and we want to you know we want your [ __ ] and we're going to divide it up and you get to keep a little of your [ __ ] but we're going to you know we're going to take it we don't want to have to use Force but if you don't give up your [ __ ] we will use Force now again and whatever branch that takes the police or what have you to do
th of:08:56 the cult whatever you want to call him Rel quasi religion just guy I mean he was a [ __ ] nut job did pure and simple that this guy was yeah he was a flake there's no doubt about that whether or not he deserve to die I'm not going there I'm going that far on this and quite frankly uh without going into any kind of length on this I simply would say my personal opinion then as now um is that really uh going in the way they eventually did even though it was okay a 51 day standoff quote unquote but uh they really didn't
09:39 have it didn't have to end up the way it did um but ultimately what it was about in real terms was the government that wanted to very publicly uh do this thing to let all these people people know all these years down the road which means you dear survivalist prepper person that if you [ __ ] with us this is what will happen to you they did it then and they can and will do it again so you want to go out there on your compound and hunker down and think you're going to challenge that I guarantee you you
10:31 will lose that's a bad strategy okay okay now since we got government and all their thugs out of the way that only leaves bands of desperate citizens you know and they could be just a few people in a pickup truck or it could be a busload of desperate people but just like you although it's true that you were able or willing to do the right thing for you and your family to store and all this stuff and you just want to be you know you just want to [ __ ] survive and be left alone I get it I I'm not against you I I got
11:12 that unfortunately reality though um Isn't So sympathetic and here's the deal plain and simple um you will lose by attrition because let's say I don't know in a van six or eight uh you know military guys maybe they have starving families and da da okay and they attack your compound and after a few hours or maybe two or three days or what have you you kill all those guys well guess what they're not in a vacuum they have buddies and this will go on and on and on and eventually you know it might be a few weeks it might be
12:01 a few months depending all depending and the government is going to have their hands full so don't think you're going to be able to call them up and they're going to be the [ __ ] Calvary coming over the hill because that ain't going to happen so this you know that's why I say eventually and I'm not don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say all is hopeless that you should do nothing I'm not saying that there's other strategies but that is my point is that this strategy is a bad strategy for that
12:40 reason you will lose every time through attrition pure and simple I don't know how to make it any simpler than that now speaking of running out of things unfortunately we have run out of time in this episode but if you want to pick up where we left off and you want to you know talk about discuss some more viable uh options to this scenario then you know how to reach me drop a line and leave a comment please don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification Bell please other than that until next Monday or Friday this is
13:30 earnest and I usually always am
