WEBVTT 00:00:00.999 --> 00:00:05.179 You'd think, after the end of the world, things 00:00:05.179 --> 00:00:10.660 would be simpler. No bills, no taxes, no cubicle 00:00:10.660 --> 00:00:13.019 jobs where you spend eight hours pretending to 00:00:13.019 --> 00:00:16.600 look busy and pretending and acting like you 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.179 actually want to be there. No arguing over whether 00:00:20.179 --> 00:00:23.739 pineapple belongs on pizza, because unfortunately, 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:27.579 pizza is a distant memory. Along with common 00:00:27.579 --> 00:00:30.300 sense, but I'm pretty sure that common sense 00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:35.159 has been gone for a lot longer but nope turns 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:40.000 out when civilization collapsed people didn't 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:43.380 suddenly get better at making decisions if anything 00:00:43.380 --> 00:00:47.439 they got worse the only thing that truly changed 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:51.200 was the stakes before when you made a bad decision 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:54.780 it could mean a awkward holiday dinner empty 00:00:54.780 --> 00:00:59.740 savings account now I mean A single dumb decision 00:00:59.740 --> 00:01:02.859 means scavenging rations from a crater and hoping 00:01:02.859 --> 00:01:05.019 that the local warlord doesn't have a grudge 00:01:05.019 --> 00:01:10.640 against you. And trust me, most of them do. And 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.219 me? I'm kicking cans down an empty road talking 00:01:14.219 --> 00:01:17.340 to you like somehow I can make sense of this 00:01:17.340 --> 00:01:21.760 mess. Trying to untangle the million dollar question. 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:27.140 Who or what ruined everything? Was it greed? 00:01:27.579 --> 00:01:30.989 Power? Some idiot pressing the wrong button setting 00:01:30.989 --> 00:01:34.129 off a chain reaction Or maybe it's just simpler 00:01:34.129 --> 00:01:37.870 than that Maybe some executive or politician 00:01:37.870 --> 00:01:40.170 just woke up on the strong side of the bed one 00:01:40.170 --> 00:01:43.030 morning and thought you know What today feels 00:01:43.030 --> 00:01:46.409 like an awesome day? To hit the reset button 00:01:46.409 --> 00:01:52.150 on civilization Whatever the reason here we are 00:01:52.150 --> 00:01:57.319 the end of days great aftermath the grand unraveling 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:01.900 of civilization. Or, as I like to call it, Monday. 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:05.060 At least, I think it's Monday. We don't really 00:02:05.060 --> 00:02:10.159 have calendars anymore. Anyway, you're probably 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:15.120 wondering who the hell I am. Fair. My name's 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:18.599 Jace Holloway, and I'm one of the lucky or unlucky, 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:22.020 depending on your perspective, few who survived 00:02:22.020 --> 00:02:25.740 the great nuclear catastrophe 15 years ago. You 00:02:25.740 --> 00:02:27.740 know the one where some idiot pressed a button 00:02:27.740 --> 00:02:30.080 which made some other idiots panic and press 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:33.199 their buttons and then boom Suddenly half the 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:35.580 world was glowing and the other half was digging 00:02:35.580 --> 00:02:37.300 through the rubble wondering where the hell their 00:02:37.300 --> 00:02:42.120 morning coffee with And now here we are huddled 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:45.719 in the ruins Pretending any of this makes any 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:50.360 sense Before the sky turned red I wanted to be 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.000 a writer Nothing groundbreaking just stories 00:02:54.349 --> 00:02:57.150 Things that made sense, things that had structure. 00:02:59.030 --> 00:03:00.969 Turns out, the end of the world doesn't care 00:03:00.969 --> 00:03:04.409 much for structure. Now I'm just another survivor, 00:03:04.729 --> 00:03:07.509 dragging my boots across the wasteland, trying 00:03:07.509 --> 00:03:10.789 to avoid trouble. But somehow, trouble keeps 00:03:10.789 --> 00:03:14.969 finding me. And when civilization crumbles, the 00:03:14.969 --> 00:03:21.689 definition of trouble gets... weird. So, I started 00:03:21.689 --> 00:03:24.780 writing again. It's definitely not the kind of 00:03:24.780 --> 00:03:26.979 book I planned to write before the bombs fell, 00:03:27.419 --> 00:03:30.460 but something else. Something born from experience. 00:03:31.099 --> 00:03:34.360 A guide, if you will. Surviving out here isn't 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:37.180 all about scavenging for supplies or dodging 00:03:37.180 --> 00:03:40.060 bullets. It's about learning how to read a situation 00:03:40.060 --> 00:03:43.500 before it turns into a disaster. It's knowing 00:03:43.500 --> 00:03:46.020 when to keep your mouth shut, when to lie through 00:03:46.020 --> 00:03:48.879 your teeth, and when to accept that yep, you 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:51.180 just accidentally joined a cult because saying 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:54.599 no wasn't an option. It's about figuring out 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:57.520 if the guy offering you a can of food is being 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.460 generous or luring you into a barter scheme that 00:04:00.460 --> 00:04:05.120 ends with you owing him half your ammo. Because 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.699 out here, the world may be dead, but the absurdity? 00:04:09.340 --> 00:04:12.379 It's alive and thriving. And if you don't learn 00:04:12.379 --> 00:04:16.050 the unspoken rules, you won't just die. you'll 00:04:16.050 --> 00:04:19.589 die stupid. And if you don't die, the best case 00:04:19.589 --> 00:04:22.170 scenario is you'll be embarrassed and left out 00:04:22.170 --> 00:04:26.790 of the bunker complex. So here I am, wondering, 00:04:27.470 --> 00:04:31.250 watching, writing, for research of course. Not 00:04:31.250 --> 00:04:34.610 that I expect anyone to actually read it. And 00:04:34.610 --> 00:04:39.389 trust me, this wasteland world, it doesn't disappoint. 00:04:40.370 --> 00:04:42.750 I've stared down things that should have killed 00:04:42.750 --> 00:04:46.920 me, I've outrun things that probably wanted to 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.100 eat me, and I've sat through conversations that 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:54.259 made me wish I was dead. There was that time 00:04:54.259 --> 00:04:56.920 a group of raiders tried to recruit me into their 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.319 makeshift government by offering me a half -melted 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:04.680 tin badge and a leadership title with no actual 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.699 power. And then there's the week I spent thinking 00:05:08.699 --> 00:05:11.959 I'd found an untouched bunker. It was perfect. 00:05:12.930 --> 00:05:18.129 secluded, no holes. But then I came to realize 00:05:18.129 --> 00:05:20.850 I'd accidentally moved in with a pack of mutant 00:05:20.850 --> 00:05:25.629 possums. And now? I did find another bunker. 00:05:26.730 --> 00:05:30.370 It's in a HOA controlled wasteland community 00:05:30.370 --> 00:05:35.290 because apparently some things from the old world 00:05:35.290 --> 00:05:40.829 just will not die. You'd think post -apocalypse 00:05:41.180 --> 00:05:45.620 would mean total freedom. But nope! Turns out, 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.480 even in a world without laws, there's still some 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:51.600 self -important committee enforcing proper bunker 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:54.339 aesthetics and debating the ethics of decorative 00:05:54.339 --> 00:05:58.040 skull placement. Honestly, I think I preferred 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:04.339 the mutant possums. Anyway, the universe keeps 00:06:04.339 --> 00:06:06.600 handing me chaos, and for some reason I just 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.240 keep writing it down. So if you want to know 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:11.930 what it's really like out here, the good, the 00:06:11.930 --> 00:06:15.170 bad, and the painfully stupid? Stick around. 00:06:16.329 --> 00:06:18.670 Each week, I'll bring you the latest discoveries, 00:06:18.889 --> 00:06:21.550 disasters, and lessons learned the hard way, 00:06:21.709 --> 00:06:26.629 as I wander, survive, and occasionally regret 00:06:26.629 --> 00:06:31.209 everything. Welcome to the Wasteland. Try not 00:06:31.209 --> 00:06:36.149 to trip over the debris. And remember, survival 00:06:36.149 --> 00:06:41.910 is 50 % luck, 40 % bad decisions, And 10 % hoping 00:06:41.910 --> 00:06:44.910 that thing chasing you gets tired before you 00:06:44.910 --> 00:06:45.529 do, oh boy.