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Which is the official game that follows the TV series The Walking Dead
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Hey guys welcome back. I'm Nate
Thanks for joining us today on The King of Random in the past
We've had several videos showing you a bunch of different life hacks.
Well today, we've got 10 different survival hacks
we’re gonna show you. These are all little ideas
you might be able to use in an emergency situation to help yourself out.
Whether you're camping, hiking exploring,
or it's the end of the world.
These are some tips you might find useful, how to make a compass using a cup of water, a pocketknife, and a needle
It doesn't need to be a needle any piece of straight metal that sticks to a magnet should work
Just fine the first step is to take your pocketknife and line it up on the edge of your needle
They're then going to run the blade of the knife along the needle in the same direction 50 to 100 times
After about a hundred passes the needle should have picked up a slight magnetic charge
Next we want to cut out a small circle of paper that easily fits within the cup
But is large enough that it's almost the size of the needle if you don't have regular paper
You can also use toilet paper paper towel or even a smooth leaf if your needles properly magnetized it will orient itself
facing north and south
Because the orientation of the needle depends on which tool you use to magnetize it
Check your surroundings for context clues to figure out which direction is north and south
That's a quick and easy way to make yourself a compass
If you're lost and need to signal for help one of the easiest ways to do that is with a whistle and there's an extremely
Easy way you can make a whistle with a hard candy in fact. We don't need the candy at all rather
We need the wrapper that it comes in
Simply take an edge of the wrapper and pull it tight between your fingers and then blow on the tight edge
If your pocket had a pocket you could fit this whistle in that pocket this type of whistle takes up virtually no space
Whatsoever so it's great for emergency packs
one of the most important things to do if you're in a survival situation is to make sure you have enough water
Let's take a look at how you can use a regular soda bottle to efficiently collect rainwater
Obviously if you just leave a soda bottle open
It's not gonna catch much rainwater, and even if you cut off the top your area is gonna
Be pretty limited
So this hack is to show you how to get the most out of your soda bottle in collecting rainwater
the first step is to cut off either the top or the bottom of your soda bottle if
How you want to let it sit if you just want it to sit on a flat surface
Remove the top if you have some sand or loose dirt
And you want to be able to push your bottle down into that remove the bottom since I'm doing this demonstration on a tabletop
I'm going to remove the top of my soda bottle
With the top removed let's cut strips into the side of the bottle starting about two inches up
Now what we want to do is take each of these pieces. We've just cut and bends them out
You can see that if you just bend them the plastic doesn't like to stay in place an easy fix is to take a lighter
And apply a little bit of heat right at the curve
It will only take a second, and then the plastic will hold itself folded down
If any of the little pieces need adjusting just apply a little bit more heat and bend it either up or down
Now as rain falls on your bottle. It will be collected by the branches extending outward
Someday you may find yourself wanting to fish for food, but not having any bait
here's a quick way to make yourself an easy fishing lure to try and catch yourself to dinner all we need is some paracord a
Fish hook a lighter and a knife to start off
We want to cut off a piece of our paracord about an inch and a half long
Pull the inside strands of your paracord, so they extend about half an inch beyond the regular body of the cord
We then want to cut off some of the excess back of the cord
So we only have three quarters to one inch of our paracord left
You should be able to see the inside
Cord lined up with the top where you just cut it we now want to feed our paracord onto the fish hook from the end
That doesn't have the strands sticking out the fish hook will stick out through the side of the paracord
Smooth the top of the cut end together and fuse it all using your lighter
With the paracord attached we now want to fray out the main body of the cord and the ends of the inner strands
At this point your fishing lure is complete so it's time to attach it to a line and catch yourself some dinner
If you're out hiking or camping
And you don't have dry usable toilet paper it can certainly feel like the end of the world. Here's a little hack
You can use to keep your toilet paper dry and usable while you're camping
first step is to yourself an empty plastic coffee container with a lid that comes on and off now there are three different things we
Need to cut out of our container the first is a slit the same width as a toilet paper in the main body and then
We need to cut two holes one in either end
With your people's cut out remove the lid and put your toilet paper roll
inside the container
You should be able to feed the toilet paper through the slot you cut and now you have a nice toilet paper dispenser
Now to take our dispenser one step further
I'm going to take a length of rope and pass it through the container and the toilet paper roll inside
We can now hang our toilet paper roll next to whatever we're using out in the wilderness
they have it an EZ toilet paper dispenser that keeps your teepee nice and dry and hey guys grant here for a second in the
spirit of apocalyptic camping hacks
I've put a link at the top of the description to a free game with a special offer available only right now
It's called the walking dead
And it's AMC's official mobile game that follows the Walking Dead series on TV the game uses characters
You know from the TV show The Walking Dead in the actual Walking Dead locations now if you download the game before December 19th
You'll have access to unlock
negan for free and there's weekly content being put out to follow every episode in season 8 the updates come out each Monday after the
Episodes post and these missions follow the survivors of The Walking Dead and offer another glimpse and angle into the events of that week's episode
Of the show so not only do you get to hang out with your favorite characters like Daryl Rick can be shown and negan?
But you get to relive and replay the highlights from the episode you saw the day before so about the game you basically take turns
Moving people around and then the walkers take turns moving as well
It does help to use a bit of strategy and some tactical maneuvers if you can line up enough walkers in a row you might
Get three of them with one shot
That's always helpful, and the better you position your team the better chance you have of winning
And there's some back-end strategy as well because not only are you playing the game?
But you have an encampment that you can develop add to and build out and fortify
That'll give you some benefits to help move you through the game
It works on iOS Android and pretty much any other device, and it's a really fun way to develop strategy and spend your time
So if you like zombies want to help rescue humanity and hang out with characters
You know and love
Go down to the first link in the description and download the game for free and now that we've talked about that
Let's get back to the hacks
Let's Sierra on the wilderness
And you need to cut a piece of rope but for some reason you don't have a knife with you. Well don't worry
There's a way you can actually cut the rope with the rope itself. First is to measure off the length that you need to use
Let's say I need exactly that much rope now. I'm going to tie two knots on either
End of where I want the rope cut this will help prevent fraying later now
You'll want to put your rope on the ground and step on it on both sides of your knots
Run the other end of your rope between the first part and begin sawing back and forth
For the friction and the heat from the sawing motion will eventually cut its way through the rope
Like I said the knots help prevent the rope from fraying too much after it splits
Cold wind and rain can really exacerbate any bad situation
And if you've got leaky clothing or shoes it can make it even worse
One way to temporarily relieve those symptoms is to use a lip balm as a sealant against water and wind one of the most common
Places for hiking boots to start leaking is right around the scenes if you take a little bit of lip balm and spread it along
The stitching and then heat it with a lighter the oils from the lip balm can penetrate the material and really help stop the water
from getting in
Similarly cold air in water can sometimes leak in through the zipper of a coat so you can use your chapstick on the zipper to
Try and help form a little bit more of a barrier
It's not a great permanent fix
But it should work in a pinch if you desperately need your chapstick to keep your lips from splitting in bad weather
I wouldn't recommend you use it on your shoes in your jacket
If water getting into your clothing is a bigger problem
It might be worth it to you lip balm is made mostly of oil which means in an emergency
we can use it to burn for light or heat using any sort of container that will hold it we can add a wick and
Light it on fire. I have here a piece of cotton cloth that I cut off of an old backpack this should work
Well as a wick for our makeshift oil lamp you can use just about anything as a container while this burns a pot a metal
Cup our rock with a little concave divot in it
I'm just gonna use a piece of foil with the edges folded up
Extend your lip balm all the way out and remove it from the plastic container entirely
At this point what you have is basically a stick of thick oil
As
The fire starts heating and melting lip-balm it will begin to burn the oil as fuel instead of the cotton cloth
You can see that the lip balm has melted and started puddling down at the bottom the conditions
We have outside right now is a little windy, but that actually helps to illustrate
how useful it can be if you have a match that won't stay lit you can light your piece of cotton on fire in the
oil And it will keep burning for quite a while
You can use this as light or a source of heat to start a bigger fire oh
Now it's spread oil everywhere well
I tried to pick it up
And I dropped it and it's spread oil all over the sides of containers so now all of its on fire
There's enough oil in one tube of lip balm to burn for up to 20 minutes
I'm a firm believer that you should always bring the equipment that you're going to need with you when you go out into the wilderness
But it doesn't hurt to provide yourself with a backup this little fire starter kit is available at most camping stores
It has a ferrocerium rod on a block of magnesium. You can use this to start fires pretty easily
we're going to try to remove the striker rod and
Embed it in the shoelaces of our boots so that we always have a backup fire starter in case we lose everything else
First thing we need to do is remove the rod from the magnesium block. It's attached to that
Popped off pretty easily there's still a little bit of epoxy attached to our stick
So I'm going to try and clean it off with a knife
Now let's grab a hacksaw and cut this in half
Cut it fast enough it sparkles that
Is the most entertaining thing to cut in half I have ever cut in half that is great
If everything sparked like that when you cut it
I would just saw things in half probably all day long we now have our two different halves of our striker rod
Shoelaces are often a little bit too thin, so we're going to replace the shoelaces on this boot with paracord
Cut a length of paracord to the same length as the shoelace on your boot, and then fuse one end with a lighter
Pull back the end of the paracord and pull out the center strands a couple of inches
We want to cut off some of the center strands a little bit longer than the length of our striker rod
Pull the outside of the paracord back into place so that you can feel that part of its hollow
And part of it still has the center strands when you compress the paracord down together it loosens up and expands in width
Press it down a little bit and fit your striker rod down inside the hollow portion of the paracord
Once your entire striker is inside the paracord use your lighter to seal off the end
You can decide if you want both halves of your striker rod in one boot
Or if you want to split it up
So one is in each shoelace if you're in an emergency situation where you need the striker odd to make fire
Simply cut open the paracord and remove the rod a good place to store the striker for your rod is underneath the sole of your
Boot I'm going to use a small piece of this tape to hold the striker in place on the sole of the boot
Now in an emergency situation
I have a flint rod and a striker always attached to my boots
You may someday find yourself in a situation where your cell phone has a dead battery
And you have no good way to charge it
But here's how you can take a car phone charger a 9-volt battery and a key to charge your cell phone
simply plug your charger into your phone touch the protruding end of your charger to the smaller terminal of a 9-volt battery now using a
House key a paperclip or any other conductive piece of metal connect the other two terminals together?
If you don't want to constantly be holding the charger battery and key together of course it can use some tape to secure it all
Into position there you have it ten different life hacks that can help you in camping hiking emergency and survival situations
Hopefully you'll never find yourself in a situation where your life depends on one of these survival hacks
But knowing them ahead of time
Could be important to you in the future from gathering water to making tools to finding help all of these have a useful purpose in
the wilderness
If you know of a good survival hack do you think might be able to help other people let us know down in the comments
And we might include it in a future video
Thank you for joining us for this project today, and we'll see you in the next one. Talk to you then
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WARNING- Unless proffesionally trained, do not try these experiments at home. By doing so, you assume the responsibility for the results.