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Actor Josh Duhamel is spilling details<\/a> about his \u201cdoomsday\u201d cabin, which he uses to escape the busyness of Hollywood life. Duhamel shared that the cabin is up a dirt road in the woods and that \u201cIt\u2019s an exhale whenever we get here.\u201d Duhamel makes his home deep in the Minnesota woods \u201c40 minutes from civilization\u201d with his wife, Audra Mari, their one-year-old son Sheperd, and his 11-year-old son Axl, whom he shares with ex-wife Fergie. \u201cHere my kids get to be kids, catching frogs, collecting sticks. They come home and they\u2019re filthy, and I think that\u2019s so good for them,\u201d he reflected. \u201cThese days there\u2019s so much anger in the world, and I think it\u2019s because people are on their phones, getting caught up in whatever they\u2019re being fed through their devices as opposed to being outside connecting with the world. Nature helps ground you to what\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n

The homestead has been a labor of love for Duhamel, who has been expanding the property over 15 years. \u201cWe were basically homesteading the first 12 years. For the longest time, we didn\u2019t have plumbing. We were using outhouses and washing dishes in the lake,\u201d shared Duhamel. The actor initially bought an empty parcel where he built a cabin, then added another parcel with a hunting shack before taking on a third parcel with a home. \u201cI feel so connected to it\u2014I didn\u2019t just buy the place, I shaped<\/em>\u00a0this place. While we\u2019ve made a lot of improvements, you still feel like you\u2019re roughing it, and I love that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The lifestyle was the perfect fit to shape him for his Ransom Canyon <\/em>character, Staten Kirkland, a widowed rancher trying to hold onto his property from conflicting ranch dynasties. \u201cI\u2019ve spent 15 years cultivating our lakeside property\u2014building on it, popping stumps, putting in wells, planting food plots\u2014and Staten has a similar connection to his land as I do with mine,\u201d said Duhamel. \u201cHe\u2019s a simple guy. There\u2019s not a lot of fluff, but he has taste, and if Staten\u2019s gonna build it, he\u2019s gonna build it right the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the accessibility that a life in LA can offer, Duhamel previously told People<\/em><\/a> he enjoys seeing the impact of his Minnesota home on his older boy, Axl. \u201cAxl is really starting to love it,\u201d he said. \u201cHe’s got some buddies who are out there. I’m able to teach him some of the things that I’ve learned, and I didn’t know much when I got the place, so it’s been good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The home has also helped him to expand his own skills. \u201cI’ve become much more handy than I was before I started, and you have to be just out of necessity. You have to be able to fix stuff. And so all that, all around, it’s been great. Making a lot of great memories out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Duhamel, the cabin offers a \u201crespite\u201d from what he calls \u201cthis world of massive technology,\u201d admitting that the rise of artificial intelligence \u201cscares\u201d him. Still, he clarified that his cabin isn\u2019t solely about doomsday prepping. \u201cThe truth is, yes, people want to call it a doomsday prepper thing, but it\u2019s really not that,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m really more of a guy who wants to stay true to my roots, get back to the basics, hone whatever basic skills I need.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that we\u2019re in any dire situation that we have to worry about prepping for doomsday, but it is good to have some of those skills,\u201d Duhamel added. \u201cI was getting so far away from it for so long, that I felt like I wanted to get back to some of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor also reflected on whether his family was ready to weather an apocalypse in their Minnesota retreat. \u201cWell, I have enough,\u201d Duhamel admitted. \u201cNot 100%. Probably 70%.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duhamel said that while his family\u2019s cabin is well-suited for survival, he personally still needs to sharpen some of his skills. \u201cI could be a better hunter, I could be a better fisherman. I could stockpile a little more food supply,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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