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Well,

this is definitely an interesting Monday.

One for the record books in so many

different ways.

William,

did I see a power glitch on your

end?

I was wondering if you could see that.

Yeah,

the power just shut off for like half

a second on this end.

So if you see me drop off,

it's because the power randomly went out.

We have rain,

but we don't have storms going on.

We don't have any tornadoes or anything

like that.

So we'll see.

Well,

it might be something to do with the

malevolent forces that we prayed against

before we started this podcast, y'all.

Won't go into a whole lot of detail

as of late, but...

Weird things have definitely been

happening, and William,

I forgot to tell you about a couple

of others,

but I'll come to that privately.

But folks,

if you're praying people out there,

please put down your prayers for us or

send them up for us,

because there are powers that shouldn't be

that don't want us necessarily doing this,

okay?

And they do all kinds of crazy stuff,

but we'll come down to that here in

a little bit.

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And yeah,

folks in the world in which we're living

right now.

I mean,

you've got to be G'd up from the

feet up, and I don't just mean grounded.

You've got to have your stuff, folks.

You would not even believe the things that

we're doing right now to try to undo

the things that they are doing.

So there's a lot going on,

and I'm going to unfold a lot of

this as this program unfolds.

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Michelle is absolutely positively hugged

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And it makes, you know what,

I probably should have brought it up into

this studio,

maybe to kind of ease what's going on

around here.

Because very seldom do I come in here

with a wave watch while I'm broadcasting,

but there's a reason for that.

All right, y'all,

so I want to let you know about

a little summer celebration that's going

to be going on.

It's going to be the First Baptist Church

of Marshall.

That's going to be this weekend,

June twenty-fifth, from ten a.m.

to one p.m.

We'll talk about it.

I'm going to try to make it out

there, see what this is all about,

and see what's up.

Maybe it'll help chase the demons out of

this place.

I mean, around this whole region.

Plus,

I'm sure there's going to be a lot

of giveaways and stuff like that going on

out there.

So if anybody's looking for something to

do on the twentieth,

go out there to First Baptist Church of

Marshall, North Carolina.

Think you're going to be glad you did.

How you doing, son?

Pretty good.

Is that going to be some sort of

like revival or something like that?

Or is it just like a homesteading get

together or what?

No, I don't believe so.

I think it's Stephanie Mormino.

I can't remember the name of her new

YouTube channel.

She texted me the other day,

and I'm glad she reminded me.

Because with all the squirrels I'm trying

to juggle these days, I didn't remember.

So she didn't let me know that, hey,

you know, you said you'd talk about this.

So that's exactly what I'm doing.

That's why I'm doing it.

Stephanie, folks, if you don't remember...

Um, she's the red haired lady, selfless,

unbelievably selfish, selfless less.

I want to make sure I get that

out there.

And she was in here building these tiny

homes for all these folks with no thought

of reward, no thought of anything,

but how to help out her neighbors and,

And she does some pretty solid work out

there.

I'll have to find out what her new

YouTube channel is and let everybody know

about that.

But, yes, Stephanie,

she let me know about it.

I think she attends that church.

So, yeah,

go out there and offer some support.

If I can get loose from that time,

believe me,

I'll be out there because it's not that

far away from me.

So I'll go check it out and see

what's going on.

Yeah.

So, yeah, son,

you got some weird glitches going on on

your end.

What else is going on around there?

Yeah, that's what I'm hearing.

Bren Z was saying,

I think his power is out again.

And then she also just said,

does YouTube hate you guys?

Yes.

The channel just dropped off my feed and

sent me to the channel I left for

this podcast.

I had to bring myself back here.

So...

Who even knows what's going on?

I mean, folks, I mean,

there was something that happened right

before this show and on my end and

Williams as well.

It seems, tell you what, son,

it seems to have kicked off when I

had Flatter or actually, yeah,

when Flatter Dave was on here,

they came out of nowhere, man.

I mean,

we were having all kinds of technical

issues and

My brain couldn't work right.

There was all kinds of crazy things going

on.

But that seems to be the demarcation point

of when this latest round of attacks has

happened.

But, you know,

that's why I stay on my knees.

You all stay prayed up from the feet

up.

And I'm recommending,

especially in these times,

everybody else do the same.

All right.

So I'm just kicking it off.

We'll take it off with a farm news.

But I got to talk about the elephant

in the room.

And it had to do with last night.

And I don't know about anybody else.

If y'all watched any of that stuff,

I tuned out because Michelle and I go

to bed religiously, you know,

somewhere between nine and ten.

And she doesn't care what's on that TV,

man.

When she's tired,

she's going to bed and I'm coming right

behind her.

So, yeah, UFC propaganda, son.

I can't recall the last time I've ever

seen anything like this where.

Well, tell them what it was, dad.

Tell them what last night was just in

case people didn't know.

Oh, for the people that didn't know,

there was UFC.

I forget the title of the event.

Maybe UFC two fifty is what they called

it.

Yeah.

And basically it was a Roman triumph,

if you ask me.

And it was a one giant commercial on

why your kids ought to join the military,

because all they did was focus on the

people that were in the audience and most

of which were Joes and sailors out there.

So, yeah.

So what was your observations of it?

A couple of things.

Hokit was funny in saying he yelled during

his post-fight interview and everything.

He yelled, what was it?

Michelle Obama is a man.

Just randomly during his speech,

he yelled that, which was funny.

And people were cracking up.

But another thing that I noticed was that,

okay, at a typical UFC fight,

they would zoom in on the crowd and

like show famous people that are attempt

or attending that that ufc fight they

didn't and if you didn't know they had

two different people watching two

different groups watching the ufc they had

the people around the ring which is very

very limited numbers um and i think just

government officials and

As Sean Strickland said it,

pedophiles were around the ring.

And then the large group of people had

like a separate viewing party,

which was basically just watching it like

an uncomfortable way to watch the fight on

TV.

That's what it seemed like.

But in a typical UFC fight,

the area around the ring,

they'll zoom in on the famous people and

show you like, oh, look,

Kevin James is here or Theo Vaughn is

here, things like that.

This time, they did not do that.

They did not show any of the people

that were around the ring,

which I thought was...

It just seemed odd that they didn't.

And it could be for some serious malicious

reasons,

or it could just be petty political

reasons.

I'm not entirely sure,

but that did stand out to me that

they didn't show any of the famous people

around the ring yesterday.

Yeah.

Brenzi says,

I say Mike is a man too.

Hey, you ain't going to catch me arguing.

No doubt about that.

But yeah, that was, I mean, this is,

I did a front porch talk talking about

the overlays with us in Rome and boy,

they're impossible to miss at this point.

Anyway, I'll jump into the, you know,

in the farm news right now.

So right now on my docket,

it seems every single day,

and it's going to be that way for

a while,

is getting caught up on some weed eating.

Now that's going to be for me.

Now you might think, okay, well, you know,

what's that got to do with me?

Well, folks, we got a very, very,

I'm reluctant to use the word,

but I'll say it,

invasive Chinese silvergrass.

And son, who brought that in here?

The government put it alongside the

interstates thinking, OK, well, you know,

we'll use this to kind of hold everything

in place.

What they didn't account for is this stuff

is everywhere now and it's destroying

farming in so many places out here in

western North Carolina.

Now there's a way to beat it.

And the way to beat it is to

constantly beat it up.

Nothing's going to eat this stuff except

for water buffalo.

And last I looked,

there ain't none running around these

mountains.

So yeah, it's nonstop weed eating,

but here's a little trick I do.

If you got to deal with something like

this.

So I see whatever, now this stuff,

depending on how, you know,

it could be up to eight,

nine feet tall in some places.

Some of this stuff I got here isn't

quite that mature, but it's pretty bad.

Um,

So what you can do is seed ahead

of time,

like I'm doing with buckwheat and sunhemp

and a little bit of Korean lespedeza.

I put that out there.

Now,

if I get a chance to run the

sheep before they get through there, okay,

I'll let them hit it first because their

hoof traffic is going to help trample some

of this stuff in.

Well, I'm a little behind on that,

so I didn't get a chance to do

it, but otherwise...

You know,

all you do now is go through with

your weed and knock that stuff over.

Now you got yourself a mulch layer so

everything else can grow up through it.

And, you know,

hopefully if you can catch things before

rain.

But buckwheat this time of year is exactly

what I want to be putting in.

Here's other things you might want to

think about, folks.

In light of everything going on,

you might want to think about if you

need hay, even a little bit of it,

I would think about getting it now.

Get some of that first cutting.

Because when the oil prices and the price

of gas and everything else goes up,

what do you think is going to happen

to that hay?

So if you've got an opportunity to store

that stuff away and put it in the

barn or wherever you may put it,

you might want to think about getting that

done.

So here's another thing.

we talked a little while ago we had

dr richard presser on the show a little

while ago talking about that dpe ag x

dpe stands for defense of planet earth ag

x it's a little device that we have

out here it ain't little it's not little

but you bury it in the ground and

we talked about the effects i was seeing

well one of the latest seems to be

trees that we've never seen fruit on

before that you know

usually have kind of remained dormant with

all the weather weather you know games

they're playing these days all of them

seem to have fruit on them right now

it's pretty crazy so can i attribute that

to the i mean that's the only thing

differently i'm doing around here so okay

i wonder if that's part of it folks

i'm and by the way i'm not being

paid to say any of this stuff so

i'm just giving you my experience for the

people that are thinking about okay do i

want to spend

You know,

the kind of money it takes to get

one of these.

Well,

I'm just telling you what I'm noticing.

Now,

it doesn't always punch a hole in the

clouds depending on how much they spray.

But he does guarantee that by the time

it hits the ground,

this stuff is neutralized.

And it seems to have been confirmed.

I'm going to wait.

I'm waiting for other tests as well.

Um, here's another one.

It's a big one.

And folks,

I got to say this a little discreetly.

Okay.

So we're,

everybody's worried about these ticks and

you probably have reason to be.

I mean,

it was probably the U S government that

brought Lyme disease almost certainly did

came out of Lyme, Connecticut,

and it was a tick that,

that was probably rearranged by former

Nazi scientists that we brought over in

Operation Paperclip.

There's a lot of those things that went

on.

A lot of Japanese scientists we took, too.

And anyway,

I'm going to tell you a little trick

that I learned in the Army,

but you can adapt it differently these

days.

Now,

back when I was in jungle school in

Fort Sherman in Panama years ago,

they used to tell us,

and to my knowledge, man,

I think I was one of the only

few that actually did it.

They told us to eat the heads of

the matches they gave us and that the

sulfur in there would basically ward off

any blood sucking creatures.

There may have been other guys that did

it, but to my knowledge,

I'm the only one I remember doing it.

And I never had any problems,

not with anything.

And we're talking some deep, nasty jungle.

Now, would I do that today?

No, I don't.

what i do now is folks in the

course of a day i might eat up

to a bulb of garlic a day what's

in garlic sulfur lots of it now you

can do it and you can do it

raw you can do it you can cook

it and do whatever you're going to get

more of the allison in there if you

can go ahead and leave it raw i

don't mind raw garlic garlic um there have

been times in the past where i'd just

eat a clove straight up

It's better to go ahead,

if you want the full effect of it,

it's better to go ahead and process it,

mash it, whatever it is you do,

and then let it sit for about fifteen

minutes before you consume it.

That way it's at full strength.

Another way of doing this,

and my wife does it,

she doesn't do the garlic thing,

although she does part of it in the

day,

because every morning we drink bone broth,

and I always put a ton of garlic

in there as well.

Another thing you could use,

and I'd appreciate it if somebody could

put this in the chat,

is Delta Mike Sierra Oscar.

We've talked about it before.

Now, if I say it here,

they're probably going to pull the feed.

But she's been taking a teaspoon or no,

I'm sorry,

a half a teaspoon of that every day.

And she's found them like crawling on her,

but none of them have actually, you know,

taken root.

She's taking it orally?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, she's taking it orally.

I'm glad you pointed that out.

She's doing that.

She's not had any bites at all.

And on my end,

the only time I have, which was yesterday,

as a matter of fact,

was the day where I neglected to take

in garlic.

So, you know,

what can you do with that information?

Folks, I don't know.

I mean, it's...

it's yeah somebody's asking delta what

delta mike i'm speaking phonetically delta

mike sierra oscar

Okay, you can get it at, you know,

any farm store.

Anyway, that's what she's taken.

And, you know, yeah, thank you very much,

Bren Z. It's actually S-O-D-M.

Yeah.

I can't say it.

Otherwise,

they're probably going to pull this feed,

folks.

You have no idea the kind of nonsense

they're pulling these days.

But anyway,

that's been pretty darn effective.

And like I said,

the only day I can recall having any

problems.

Thank you very much, Bren Z. Thank you.

Yeah,

the only times I've had any problems is

when I haven't taken a bunch of garlic.

So I'm using garlic,

she's using the other thing.

And both of them seem to work,

but you got to use them.

So yeah,

there's a little trick out there for the

folks that, you know,

might

want to think about ways in which you

can keep them off of you.

And like I said,

it was a trick I learned way back

in Panama,

but I'm not telling what's in these match

heads these days.

Probably not even back then,

but I don't recall having any issues with

bugs at all.

And then finally,

for all the people out there that are

asking me about bone sauce,

I'm hoping to have some online tomorrow.

So I'm out there.

I got a batch going, but folks,

you never know for sure until I open

the lid on that stuff.

You never know that it turned out good.

So anyway, that's out there.

Hopefully we got it on the website soon.

What's going on in your world, son?

Ketchup just still playing ketchup,

playing ketchup with computer work,

trying to play ketchup with outdoor work.

But I mean,

it's the weather app like the channel.

The app is all useless for where I

live pretty much.

I mean,

it's not even recording rain accurately

like the town right next to us,

which is getting less rain than we are.

is being recorded as getting more rain

than we are.

And it's not even like close.

It's like the town next to us will

get like an inch and a half of

rain and it'll record our rain as like

point one five of an inch.

And it's just yeah.

So it's frustrating with that because

you're playing out a day thinking, OK,

this is a day that's not going to

have rain.

I can get a bunch of outside work

done today and then it starts pouring.

And then it lasts all day.

And then they go and retroactively change

the weather forecast for that particular

day.

And that's what we're dealing with.

Something interesting that's been

happening is that the past two rainstorms

that we've gotten have come from the

north, which is not where we... Yes,

and that's exactly what we're noticing

here.

Storms generally go from southwest to

northeast.

And we've seen exactly the same phenomenon

here.

Yeah, it we got one day.

Yeah, it came from the north.

We got to the past the past two

rainstorms we got from the north,

which I was just like looking at my

phone laughing at because I was like this.

This doesn't happen,

but it all looks like it's being if

when you look at the radar,

I think you can kind of find out

the.

like the NEXRAD radio tower frequency,

the pattern based on what the radar is

doing sometimes.

I think you can find out sometimes.

Because it all looks like it was this

past rain event,

not the one that we're going through right

now, but the past one,

it looked like it was being centrally

pushed from like...

central ish Oklahoma.

So that was,

that was interesting to see on just the

weather channel, uh, radar app.

So that was interesting.

Um, other than that, yeah,

just playing catch up like the,

the garden,

especially at the demonstration site,

I got to go get that back into

shape just because it's been abandoned for

forever.

Um, so yeah, there's that.

I recently, Oh,

here's another thing you were talking

about the ticks and bites and stuff like

that.

I recently did a consultation, um,

Last year,

they got a huge batch of guineas to

wipe out all the ticks on the property.

And then, as guineas do,

all the guineas died off.

And typically,

that means you're good on ticks for about

five years.

They've had more ticks this year after the

guineas than they did before they got the

guineas.

And that's that's insane.

So I would guess that they're probably

dropping them from the sky at that point

because it's not like ticks travel quickly

and it's not like their property had high

animal traffic.

Like there aren't a ton of deer or

herd of deer running through their their

piece of property,

at least not directly through their piece

of property.

So.

some weird things are going on.

I'm not,

I wouldn't be surprised if they are

dropping ticks from the sky at this point,

but we did just recently confirmed from a

friend, uh,

and I'm gonna have to be careful how

I say this, but, um,

Lyme's disease does not have to be

permanent.

And you can use something that we've

discussed a lot here on this podcast that

we've lost episodes over on this podcast.

Uh, if you want to go to, um,

what's Dr. Lee Merrick's website,

rogue

Yeah, the rebel medical or medical rebel.

I think that's what it is.

Medical rebel.

medical rebel if you go there you can

find out some uh amounts to take and

things like that and now keep in mind

we also tested on accident the safety of

this compound that we've been talking

about uh because he was taking far more

than he should have been and he was

still just fine and no more lyme symptoms

or anything like that so um i don't

even know how to say that one discreetly

Delta Sierra.

Somebody could put that in the chat.

Yeah.

So that would be, you know,

some people call it pool cleaner.

Some people call it miracle minerals.

No, no, no, no.

You can't say that either now.

No, you definitely can't say that one.

Oh my goodness.

Hey, by the way, folks,

I guess we should have told everybody why

we started an hour early.

I should have probably led with that.

Yeah,

we're linking up with Bobby and the group

over at Midwest Preparedness,

and we're going to do a little game

at seven o'clock my time.

That'd be Eastern.

My time.

Yeah, six o'clock my time, Eastern.

Eight o'clock your time, Dad.

What?

Yeah.

Man, okay, then I got it all backwards,

man.

Maybe we should just call Bobby.

Okay,

it's going to be six o'clock my time.

I'm pretty sure I'm ahead of you guys.

Oh, shoot.

I don't know what, man, whatever it is.

Eight o'clock.

Eight o'clock your time.

If it's seven my time,

it's eight your time.

Man, I got it all backwards.

Man, you figure, man.

I mean,

I can do some pretty intense calculations

on things, but these time zones,

I don't know why,

but they always mess me up.

Well, sorry, folks.

I guess we'll be there when we're there.

Thanks, Mom.

Mom posted it in the chat,

by the way.

Oh, did she?

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Thanks a lot, Mom.

Honey.

All right, y'all.

So with that said, Wave Watch.

I got it on right now.

Um, you know,

Williams got his over there and folks,

I'm here to tell you,

this thing absolutely does a trick.

So there's a reason why I got it

on just as I led from the top

of the show.

Anyway, if you want one, Billy,

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And, uh,

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all right so let's get into the good

news right off the bat oh my goodness

yeah so i guess this is a bittersweet

kind of victory i guess i guess trump

really meant to say make

I ran great again because boy,

they made out like a bandit on this.

They didn't really get the charge at all

for the Straits of Hormuz.

Now they do.

So in a nutshell,

Trump's peace plan basically hands Iran a

decisive victory,

depending on how you go about this.

Look,

I'm just glad that people aren't being

killed.

At the end of the day,

that's my bigger concern.

Now here's the real question.

Son, let me ask you,

do you think this is gonna last?

I was thinking that same doggone thing.

I mean,

of the groups who can't abide by a

treaty, two of them are on one team.

So I don't know.

I don't think it's going to last very

long.

I would say it's,

and this is where I think your point

earlier of Iran being in on it applies.

I think it's going to be peaceful until

the right timing,

and then they're going to bring all this

stuff back up again.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I got a feeling.

Look, I mean, you know,

people like Mike Adams are saying, hey,

man,

I don't think we're going to get through

the week.

Well, let's pray that pray for peace.

Like Ben Franklin said,

there's never been a good war or a

bad peace.

So I guess for now,

I'm going to even though the guys

promised, you know, a victory sixty times,

I think so far.

Even though he's promised at sixty five,

man,

let's just pray we don't get to sixty

one or sixty.

However,

the number is I'm going to call that

one good news so far.

All right.

So the next one,

one month of speed training improves nerd

nerve conduction speed.

Meaning, folks,

you don't want to be sedentary.

You want to get out there.

You want to do something.

You want to walk.

If you can do it,

maybe you might want to sprint.

I mean,

there's a number of ways in which you

can go about doing this stuff.

But yeah,

everything improves with mobility.

So if you have an office job, man,

get out there, walk around.

I mean, they're finding out that

It doesn't matter the age group.

If you get out there and you do

something,

preferably you get even more out of it

if you're barefoot and the whole nine

yards.

If you can do that barefoot and with

your shirt off or, you know,

as little as you can wear to be

socially acceptable.

Yeah,

it's going to make all the difference for

you.

So that's good news, too.

Well, hey, dad, on that note,

like some people don't automatically view

this as something that they could do

because they have some physical ailment or

something like that.

But jujitsu is a valid option for a

lot of people.

I mean,

if you get the right like training partner

that can like, all right, dad,

you have a bad shoulder.

You have two bad shoulders.

If I'm a good training partner,

I'm going to take that into account

whenever we're rolling.

And my goal is to keep my training

partner safe.

His goal is to keep me safe,

his training partner safe.

But if you can find someone that's good

to roll with,

then jiu-jitsu is not a bad option.

I mean, you're on mats.

It's not like you're getting slammed.

I mean,

people see jiu-jitsu highlights and they

think, oh man, that sport is...

like rough, but jujitsu is very,

very gentle.

If you have good training partners,

if you have good teachers, um,

and avoid the, like, if I,

If I had to recommend somebody,

I would go to somebody who teaches Gi

Jiu-Jitsu, something with a Gi.

Because no Gi is where you get the

roided out, ego-driven, Joe Rogan types.

Not saying Joe Rogan is that,

but that's where you get that.

But once you get into Gi,

then you get the more technical,

let's focus on good technique type

Jiu-Jitsu.

Because no Gi,

you can get away with a lot of

bad technique.

because there's no gi to grab onto,

and it's going to be more gentle.

So, yeah,

jiu-jitsu is definitely an option.

It's a really good cardiovascular workout.

I highly recommend it.

Yeah, man, I think it's a great idea.

Somebody put in the chat here,

any martial arts, if you can do it,

yeah.

But that's one that's definitely

applicable.

It's not going to be some guy,

you know,

master so-and-so teaching something that's

not necessarily applicable on the street.

Rex Kwon Do.

Yeah, yeah,

some of that stuff from – what was

that movie?

I can't remember.

Napoleon Dynamite.

Yeah, yeah, Rex Kwan Go.

All right, and then finally, flaxseed,

nature's blood pressure solution that Big

Pharma doesn't want you to know about.

Folks,

anything that has omega-threes in it is

probably going to be good for you.

It's going to be fighting chronic

inflammation.

And, you know,

some would say that's the root cause of

heart disease.

There's a number of others that have other

opinions,

but –

Yeah.

I mean,

that's just one of many tricks of all

the other things we've talked about on

here too.

You know, I take some,

put it in my salad every day.

Chia seeds,

I put them in there as well.

Anyway, you know,

that's another little hack that you can

add.

Just one little thing that you can almost

look as a, you know,

like a garnish or whatever that you can

add to make your stuff much, much better.

All right.

With that said,

we're going to go to my man,

Eric Sider.

Hey,

Eric Sider here with your PimpCast tip of

the day.

Today's tip, there is no away.

A friend made a comment that has got

me thinking.

It is not a new thought,

but it is particularly valid right now.

Basically,

if all the good people leave the US,

who will be left to fight?

I don't think there is truly an away.

The demons will come for us all in

the end.

They want total control of the planet and

probably the universe.

So we all must stand our ground and

build something counter to what is coming.

But where you decide to do that is

entirely up to you.

I have zero allegiance to any nation

except the permaculture nation,

and that can be found wherever people

subscribe to the ethic.

If where you currently live is not worth

fighting for,

then it's time to get somewhere that is.

Not everyone can just up and leave,

and not everyone you care about can or

will want to come with you.

we are all going to have to make

some hard decisions about where and with

who we want to get stuck in,

with the caveat that we might be

constantly on the move,

or at least seasonally.

Most of the things that stop us from

living the life we truly want are not

that important.

We all can have nicer versions of what

we have or more of it,

but if you are not living how you

want to,

at least in some small way right now,

then what is the point?

Figure out how you want to live,

where you want to live,

and with who you want to live with

and get to it.

Nothing is permanent in this life and

nothing is guaranteed.

All we have is what we do each

day.

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That's my dog right there, y'all.

Man, he laid it down once again.

I mean, Eric, you know,

he's privy to more about what's going on

in our world than, you know,

most people out there.

And, you know, he's a wonderful friend,

wonderful family, family friend,

incredible morals.

And, you know,

one of the few people in this world

that I absolutely trust.

I mean,

you could you could have him sit on

a pile of a thirty million bucks and

I guarantee you wouldn't even take a

twenty out of it.

That's just how he's set.

I mean, you'll come back to more.

Yeah, you probably have more abundance.

Yeah, no kidding.

But man,

he's bringing up a good point there.

Like Eric said,

it's just like in the UFC,

people don't necessarily root for the guy

that's the American.

they root for the fighter they like.

I mean, you see that absolutely in MMA.

It's not uncommon to go to a fight

or be around a bunch of other people

and people in that room that are Americans

rooting for a guy from Brazil or England

or wherever that fighter may be from.

They just may like that fighter and it's

not frowned upon.

Well,

it's kind of the way I'm seeing the

United States of amnesia these days.

Now,

I am doing a lot of soul searching

and thinking and asking the Lord to guide

us

Because, you know,

the world's in turmoil and there's a whole

lot of things to consider before you get

on the first thing smoking out there.

So I'm just trying to be still and

wait on the Lord as far as what

we ought to do.

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All right, so let's get down to it.

You know, this is one that's long overdue.

And I think it's especially since we've

officially gone into hurricane season,

I think it's official that we ought to

talk, you know,

we've talked about it before,

but talk about the lessons that were

learned after hurricane Helene about

preparedness in particular, because folks,

I'm telling you,

this is not the time to be sitting

back, you know,

waiting on the powers that shouldn't be.

So, you know, we're,

that one of the biggest frustrations and

aggravations i have folks is um anybody

that knows me will know that one of

the biggest the worst thing you could ever

say to me in terms of preparedness if

i'm at an event or whatever the case

i will not respond wonderfully if you

respond to me by saying well i'm just

going to come to your house i got

friends and family that say that nonsense

you

And believe me,

they get dealt with every single time.

Like, okay,

I can constantly live on vacation.

I can constantly do this or that,

do all the things that don't necessarily

serve me,

go to the lake every single weekend,

do this, do that,

put zero effort into preparedness.

And you think you're going to come over

here and use up my stuff?

I got news for you.

That ain't happening.

And even if that is OK,

let's say that's the agreed upon plan of

like that.

I mean, there's a bunch of consultations.

Part of whenever I do a consultation,

I incorporate preparedness into the

consultation because that is permaculture.

You prepare for the worst case scenarios.

But even if that is the plan of

like, OK,

kids and their spouses are coming to the

house and, you know, that's the plan.

Yeah.

You got to dry fit those scenarios or

just do... You know what I'm saying?

You got to run those scenarios and

practice those scenarios before you're in

an actual disaster scenario and then...

nobody like you you're trying to figure

out how to work together you're trying to

figure out whose roles or whose things

like that like that will that will break

things up and that will tear things apart

if you guys don't practice that beforehand

um and really i mean it could be

the issue could be one of the people

coming up or coming down to you know

join up or it could be one of

the people that that person is married to

that ruins that whole the whole situation

um

Um, or, I mean,

it could be one of the, uh,

people's like kids.

It could be any number of things,

but these are all things you got to

figure out before the disaster happens.

There's a lot of consultations I do where

the person that I'm doing the consultation

for is going to be the relocation site.

Um, Oh, David Zimmerman.

Uh,

He just got into the chat.

He said he's still coming to your house,

Dad.

But I did a consultation for him.

His game plan is for the kids and

their spouses to show up to their place.

Everybody who's going to show up is going

to show up to their place.

You got to practice these things and run

some scenarios just to see how everybody's

going to work together.

See what works, doesn't work,

things like that.

See who's good at what, who's not.

If you have somebody who...

gets very,

very emotionally attached to the animals,

maybe their job isn't

processing animals.

Maybe their job isn't to smoke the animal

once it comes time to put that animal

in the freezer or to eat that animal.

These are all things you've got to think

about.

Even if you've openly discussed

everything,

you've got to find out who's going to

be the leader in that situation.

You've got to come up with all kinds

of things.

These are just things you have to practice

before the event happens.

Even the people who did practice that

after Helene,

there were mutual assistance groups that

still fell apart after that.

I was going to bring up that very

same thing, son, is that, okay,

if your goal is to go to some

neighbor or somebody else you know,

let's say five to ten miles away,

you may not physically be able to get

there because we couldn't get to

Burnsville for a couple of weeks,

and that's one of the towns over.

You couldn't get to Hot Springs for

probably a month.

So you better have some of your stuff,

and if your idea is to go somewhere

else,

Okay,

that's all well and good for those so

inclined.

But you might have to stay put because

there was no going anywhere else.

I mean,

we had three of the major arteries coming

into Asheville that were absolutely down.

The only way you could get in and

out of here was coming up from the

south on I- Twenty-six.

Everything east and west,

absolutely destroyed.

Everything coming out of the north,

I-twenty-six north, nope.

Wasn't going that way.

Everything washed out.

In fact,

I'm looking back with the benefit of

hindsight.

I'm one hundred percent convinced this

wasn't no accident.

But that's beside the point.

The thing is,

you might have to shelter in place.

You might have to be there.

So you better have some stuff that

maintain you and your family.

And it may not be like Helene,

where it happened at a time of year

where things were relatively pleasant.

And then remember, I've talked about it,

and I wish I spent more time videoing

it,

but for a good solid thirty days following

Helene, it was the bluest blue.

There were no chemtrails.

It was the bluest blue I've ever seen

in my life, bar none,

for thirty solid days.

But that's beside the point once again.

So anyway, think about the stuff.

Here's some of the lessons that I think

were big because this is what I personally

saw during this disaster.

Look, right out of the gates,

I'm going to kick it off with cash

still matters.

Folks,

when I finally got a chance to go

into Morris Hill,

which is the town nearest to me,

what did I see?

They were rationing gas,

and there might have been a hundred,

maybe two hundred people deep on one ATM

machine because nobody had cash.

And then Ingalls,

the local grocery store that we have here,

you know, the ATM was right outside there.

They were taking in people one at a

time because there was no power.

Well, you've had to pay cash.

And it floored me how many people do

not carry cash.

And I'm thinking, you know,

when the internet and the internet and the

payment systems fail, well,

cash may be the only way to purchase

your necessities.

You should have a lot of that stuff

on hand,

but let's just say you are about when

the power is down,

you're not processing any credit cards.

You might,

I'm not going to tell everybody what they

ought to have on hand,

but you would be shocked at how much

money I have on hand every time I'm

walking around.

Um,

And I would highly advise that in so

many different ways.

It may not just be the store.

The old boy down the road that has

something you need, he may not.

There's a lot of people that are ignorant

about gold and silver.

Let's say you got silver.

There's a lot of people that don't know

what that represents in terms of money.

And they're thinking they may be in the

mindset that, well, you know,

I can't spend that.

You know,

things are down for a little while.

You better have that cash on hand.

I'm not saying don't have silver.

Believe me, I got that too.

But that's, I mean,

that's like Mad Max kind of stuff,

what I'm using that for.

Okay.

With the silver,

the biggest hindrance with the silver is

that if I hand silver,

like if I go to Smiley's,

the farm store near dad,

if I go there and I hand them

silver,

their first thought is going to be,

I don't know how to tell if this

is real or fake.

That's going to be their first thought.

That's a really good point.

And they don't have the ability to give

you change.

So, you know, I mean,

what's that going to look like?

You can say, well,

the going rate of silver is this.

It may look,

but most people don't know what they're

looking at.

So you better still have that cash on

hand.

Yeah.

My next one is you do not have

enough fuel.

You're never going to have enough fuel,

especially if you're in a disaster

scenario where you're having to run

equipment just to get things cleared,

to get people from A to B,

whatever it may be.

I mean,

there were people lined up at the ATMs,

like Dad was saying.

There were people lined up at the gas

stations, too,

waiting for those gas trucks to come in

because the gas trucks could not...

I mean...

It took me almost two hours,

what would have been like a thirty minute

drive on roads that was difficult for an

F three fifty, let alone a semi truck.

But you don't have enough fuel.

So you got to come up with plans

outside of that,

either like solar powered electricity or I

mean,

whatever alternatives you can come up with

that work well for you.

Yeah, you're not going to have like a.

You're just not going to have enough fuel.

So whenever that disaster does happen,

be very,

very wise with the fuel that you did

put back or have a plan for the

fuel that you did put back for specific

uses and things like that.

But just keep in mind,

I don't care if you get if you

stored five hundred gallons of fuel,

it ain't enough fuel.

No matter what,

because not only do you need the fuel,

but your neighbors and or your community

needs the fuel.

And yeah, so keep that in mind.

You need fuel alternatives,

fuel like alternatives to petrol,

I should say, or petroleum.

That's what you keep in mind.

Also, folks,

I'm not necessarily we're not putting

these in order.

I don't know what William came up with.

He doesn't know what I came up with.

And we do it that way intentionally.

All right.

Here's one that I probably should have led

with.

But like I said,

it's in no particular order.

But water is more important than food.

I know that everybody knows that.

Right.

Let me tell you what happened at Helene.

In Asheville,

now where I am in these mountains,

there's always a stream, a creek, a seep.

There's always some water flowing.

Despite that,

you still need to have some backup.

I don't care if you live in a

situation like me.

I can just walk right across the street,

fill up some buckets,

and I'm good to go.

But like I said,

water is more important than food.

Many people discovered quickly that clean

drinking water becomes a top priority,

and that's exactly what they learned in

Asheville.

And let me tell you what else.

Even non-potable water.

There was a whole lot of old folks

that are living in apartment complexes

that couldn't flush their toilets.

Folks, it was like that for a long,

long, long time.

So a lot of folks don't know this,

but I'm sure a lot of this audience

does.

More people died in the Civil War.

Now, what was it?

Close to almost seven hundred thousand

that died in the Civil War.

But most of those guys died as a

result of disease.

It was dysentery.

It was things like that.

Same thing with World War One.

There was a whole lot more people that

succumbed to disease than they ever did.

being shot.

A lot of folks don't know that.

Well, here it is.

You have all of these old folks that

are living in these apartments and all of

a sudden everything they relied on didn't

work.

Toilets didn't work.

You could flush it one time,

but unless you were getting buckets and

putting it down on top of that toilet,

you were in a bind.

And most people in Asheville aren't

situated like me.

It got to the point where they were

absolutely doing bucket brigades of

volunteers that were going to old folks'

houses

And you got to figure this.

Folks, all the food in the freezers,

refrigerators, all that stuff was rotten.

And you got that problem.

You got to do something with it.

And now you have toilet.

You got excrement that is not being dealt

with.

Yeah, that's how you get disease.

That's how you get it in a bad

way.

So think about that water,

not just the stuff you drink,

but the stuff you use for sanitary

reasons.

So my next point is going to kind

of include the water part,

but it's like a bigger umbrella of just

infrastructure, like very small scale,

your property or your community type

infrastructure.

So with the water like that,

that's that's an issue,

especially if you're living in an

apartment, you don't have any backups,

you don't have any rainwater set up,

you don't have a well built.

Or just alternative means to water.

Or let's say your alternative means got

wiped out.

Just alternative infrastructure in

general.

Another one,

you were mentioning bucket brigade.

What happens if there's a fire?

Do you have a plan?

Do you have fire extinguishers?

Do you have backup fire extinguishers in a

different location?

Do you have another place you can go

if something does catch fire and that

building is rendered useless?

Because not long after Helene,

there were wildfires that were occurring

over in North Carolina.

Do you have the means?

So let's say that flood comes through,

the infrastructure and the roads get wiped

out.

Do you have the means to go back

and rebuild those roads?

If not,

do you have alternative roads that you can

take?

Now, if you have a hurricane in Florida,

access is less of an issue than it

is in North Carolina,

where you have mountains that are in the

way.

So you might be able to walk up

it, but you ain't bringing...

like a vehicle up there and you're not

carrying anything heavy up there.

Um, another one would be like, uh,

you mentioned the trash.

So sanitation,

do you have any plan for sanitation on

your property?

Let's say this is like the event,

the big event that everybody's thinking is

going to happen.

It's like the event, everything shut down,

mad max.

What are you going to do with trash?

What are you going to do with, uh,

do you have a compost pile for food

waste?

Um,

Food waste doesn't mean you're wasting

food.

It just means the part you're throwing

away, the part that can't be eaten,

that can get turned into compost if you

wanted to.

So yeah,

just think of like these small scale,

like all the infrastructure that you rely

on right now,

try to replicate that on a smaller scale.

uh,

scale for your property or your community.

Um,

like you might not have access to a,

like, let's say a spring,

but your neighbor has access to a spring

and you guys could probably team up on

in the event that, you know,

water was cut off and,

and things like that.

And then also, uh,

a quick note to your point with the,

the water dad, um,

there were people

who were prepared there were people who

had all their preps inside their house and

all that got washed downstream so let's

say all of your water purification means

got washed downstream in that flood do you

have another location that you can go to

to get those water purification things it

could be like a life straw or it

could be whatever you had planned um so

yeah think think about that like do you

have things in other locations that can

replace what was lost in that previous

location

Yeah,

that's a very good thing because there

were people that were prepared and they

were dealt with in a very,

like I said,

this was more than I suspect an act

of God.

Here's another one I got here.

Food stored at home buys you time.

Okay.

In so many different ways.

I mean, even if you have weeks,

a few weeks of shelf stable food,

I mean,

that dramatically reduces any stress of

disruptions.

And like William said,

it wouldn't hurt to have it in multiple

locations.

So, yeah, I mean, there were people,

most people don't have enough food for

more than a couple of days or a

few days, you know,

a couple of weeks tops.

So you got to be thinking about that.

Like I said,

what if you can't get out?

What if it was a situation where you

can't get out?

And you have limited means.

I mean,

you got to be thinking about how that

food is going to matter.

I know that seems self-evident for so many

people, but I'm telling you what,

when you have like a solar,

what do you call that thing?

Cooks food, a solar.

Solar oven.

Solar oven, yeah.

If you have one of those and some

water,

and like when I do my freeze drying

around here, I put entire meals in there.

I don't know why more people don't do

that.

So my freeze dryer, it's not just, well,

I do have things where let's say it's

just eggs.

I put entire meals in there after a

while because I got to thinking, man,

if the worst should happen, man,

you don't want to be thinking about, oh,

I got to put this together.

I got to put that together.

You want to have it all put together.

So think about that food and that

long-term storable food.

If you're on a budget,

think about beans and rice.

You can put that stuff in a Mylar

bag.

Put an oxygen absorber in there.

I mean,

I think it'll keep for thirty years.

So you can cycle that kind of stuff

out too.

So you can go a long time with

that.

And then think about your fat.

Hardest thing to find in nature,

especially up here, is fat.

So be thinking about some shelf-stable

fat.

You can go get organic olive oil over

at Sam's, I think,

for a song and dance.

You want to be careful about some of

the seed oils out there.

But there's a whole lot of different ways

you can go about this.

And by the way,

Sam's right now has a sale on five-gallon

buckets.

I just saw it yesterday.

So if anybody is looking or trying to

get buckets to do those Mylar bag prep

buckets or whatever,

Sam's has a sale on them right now.

I think you can buy two of their

– they're like half off or something like

that.

They're two for five bucks,

which is a pretty good price.

And you don't have to pay extra for

the lid.

The lid just comes with the bucket,

which has always been annoying for me

because –

Like, why wouldn't I,

why is the lid separate?

But anyway, um, uh, my next one is,

uh, and I'm more telling myself this than,

cause I'm the last person to try to

do any of this, uh,

is you gotta go find out your,

you gotta go find your community or you

gotta go talk to your community.

And what I mean by that are the

people that are the closest to you that

you're going to be,

even if you're not planning on interacting

with these people after bad times, uh,

you inherently are because they're just in

close proximity to you so try to suss

out your community beforehand and i'm not

saying you got to team up with them

or anything like that but some things you

should pay attention to is like oh is

this house going to be a problem when

things go bad do i have like a

potential marauder next door when things

go bad or do i have an old

couple on the other side of those people

that i for sure need to check on

after i've

you know make sure everything's squared

away here are there old people in your

community that you need to check on are

there like single moms with babies or

single dads with babies that could

probably use the extra help um like if

you guys believe in scripture at all it's

it's if we're able to it's our duty

to take care of the the widow the

orphans and things like that and i mean

especially whenever things go bad, bad.

It's one thing to be able to take

care of them whenever things are good,

but plan on taking care of them or

at least supplementing at least a little

bit,

or at least talking to them and try

to get them of the mindset to,

to prepare as well.

But yeah, you got to find out,

or you got to go suss out your

community.

You got to figure out who's going to

be problems.

Who's going to be,

who's going to need help,

whose assets and who's an asset and things

like that.

So.

Yeah.

That's something that I,

I don't inherently do.

I'm not going to inherently just go to

the next door neighbor.

Like if we move today and we moved

to a new spot, um,

I'm not going to typically go check out

the next door neighbor and introduce

myself.

I'm just going to, you know,

do the little wave or head nod as

I've seen him in passing going in and

out of the house.

Um, so yeah,

if you haven't checked out your,

your neighbors,

go check out your neighbors.

Cause that was the only thing that got

the people through in Helene was the

communities that they already had set up

and the community that came in once

everybody found out, Oh,

it's not being reported on the news,

but things are pretty doggone bad over

here.

So,

Yeah, community.

Multiple times it was stated in the

aftermath,

multiple times it was stated by other

people from across the country,

had this happened at my place or in

my location or in my town or my

city...

things would,

people would be dead all over the place.

Like there was one guy who moved there

from Philly.

He's like, had this happened in Philly,

there'd be all kinds of crime,

all kinds of stealing, looting,

things like that.

But yeah, community.

It's the only thing that got those people

through the aftermath of Helene.

Well, yeah,

look at what happened in New Orleans, man.

I mean, it was Mad Max down there.

And knowing what we know now,

when you listen to people like General

Honore and a number of others,

it sure looks like it was done

intentionally just to see a bunch of folks

down there lose their freaking minds.

And you had that portion of the population

that did.

So, yeah, definitely right on the money.

I'm going to talk about redundancy and how

essential that is.

I mean, you need,

we say in the preparedness world,

Two is one and one is none.

So you need multiple redundancies for all

kinds of things.

Even, for example, like on my generators.

You know,

I got a number of generators out there.

I won't say how many,

but I got a number of them.

And they don't all necessarily use the

same fuel source.

But,

When you think about that,

you got to make sure that, okay,

what do you have as your backup?

For example,

I got a well here that requires two

hundred forty volts.

A lot of these solar charger or solar,

you know, arrays or whatever.

If you're not careful,

it's only one hundred and twenty.

well i don't care how you do it

you ain't getting water up out of that

well unless you put two forty on it

because that pump ain't gonna work and

then you got to consider a hundred and

twenty five percent on startup for pumps

like that and other things that you may

have around you got to consider that stuff

so you're going to need a couple of

ways to cook i mentioned that sun oven

obviously you want to have some way to

you know multiple ways to cook um you

know heat do you have that do you

have a way to stay warm

Communication,

that was a massive one here,

and everybody dropped the ball on that,

and I mean everybody.

It was strange because the storm had

already come and gone,

and we still had internet service.

We still had fiber optics out here.

I think it was another thirty minutes to

an hour later that all of a sudden

that dropped off, which seemed suspicious.

Anyway,

it sure would have been helpful to have

a satellite phone out here and be able

to check on people we know.

That would have been cool.

You're going to want redundant water.

I mean, generate power is a big one.

And honestly, that's in my wheelhouse.

But cook, being able to cook,

to heat things, communicate,

all kinds of things out there, folks.

You've got to have redundancy on all of

it.

On that communication point,

even satellite phones weren't working.

The only thing that was working

consistently was ham radio operators.

And there was one town, Little Germany.

The only reason anybody even knew this

little town existed,

because it was kind of secluded and cut

off by a river.

The only reason anybody even knew they

needed help or there were people still

there was because of one ham radio

operator that was able to call out and

let people know

And it ended up being like a community

of like eighty some people or something

like that.

So, yeah,

definitely figure out communications.

And that's something I'm still definitely

lacking.

OK,

so your bug out plan and then plan

B and then plan C.

So a lot of people's bug out plan

consists of I'm at work.

Something happened and now I got to get

home.

How do I get home in that scenario?

But what if that something that happened

wiped out your home?

So now you need a backup for your

bug out plan.

You need another plan of like, all right.

So the home where ninety percent of our

preps were just got wiped out by this

flood.

Where do we go now?

And or like that.

Were there people at your house whenever

the flood happened?

Or were there other people planning to go

to your house if the flood happened?

You just need backup plans for whatever it

is you're planning to do in the case

of an emergency.

Or...

tailor-made plans for different types of

disasters.

Because there are a lot of people in

North Carolina that moved to that specific

part of North Carolina because of that

strategic relocation book because natural

disasters typically weren't things that

things that people had to deal with there.

So a lot of people know,

I don't know if anybody really planned for

a flood out in Western North Carolina,

unless you were just like right on the

river or something like that, but, um,

not like large scale, uh,

flooding that occurred.

So you need backups for your backups and

you have to practice them.

You have to practice them with everybody

involved.

Uh,

cause there were a lot of people who

had, I mean,

their plan was to get back to the

house in case of an emergency,

they get back to their house and their

house is gone.

Because it flooded like crazy.

So you need a backup for that.

Yeah, somebody's asking in the chat,

Billy, what are you drinking?

Yeah,

I was in a rush to get in

here.

This is a combination in this glass.

I go back and forth between my water,

which is, you know,

it's been distilled and then

reconstituted.

It's been structured the whole nine yards,

put the minerals back in it.

And then it graduates into this glass that

I have a couple of times a day.

It's basically got salt and some

diatomaceous earth.

Yeah,

so I'm taking in about two teaspoons of

that.

I'm doing another experiment on that sort

of thing.

And, you know, if it works,

I'm going to let you guys know about

it, but I'm trying it out right now.

But, yeah,

that's what's in that glass right there,

just basically salt and some DE.

Yeah,

so my last one here is going to

be – and this is so big in

the preparedness thing.

Man,

skills outperform gadgets any day of the

week, y'all.

Knowing how to cook from scratch, I mean,

how to preserve food –

you know, how to process an animal,

repair equipment.

I mean,

the improvised solutions in situations

like that prove invaluable.

You know, if it came down to it,

if I was, you know, if nothing else,

I could have went up here and got

some varmints out of the woods if I

wanted, or maybe some deer.

I mean,

it could be any number of things,

but if you don't have that skill,

if you haven't honed that skill a little

bit, you might find yourself in a bind.

Or maybe it's just wild foraging.

Do you have any idea how many people

have died in the wilderness not knowing

that they were surrounded by food?

So maybe that's something you want to look

at.

I mean,

there's so many different ways you can do

it out there, but I've seen,

especially in the preparedness movement,

man,

I can't even tell you how many times

I've seen this,

where you go to a prep or camp

out,

And, you know,

the idea is you're only going to live

on what's in your bag.

So you go hiking down the way,

you know,

we used to do this all the time

in Kansas.

And there was one guy who fancied himself

as some real survivalist, man.

Yeah,

he was up here marching with bear traps.

I'm like, in Kansas?

I'm like, dude,

what do you intend to catch out here

with that?

I mean,

he had another one that was some

highfalutin fish trap.

I mean,

it was a whole array of things that

were just what he thought were neat

gadgets that he had never actually used

before.

So here it is.

You know, we always said in the Army,

pack light and freeze at night.

Because whatever you pack in there, man,

you got to bear the weight of it.

So you don't want a bunch of nonsense

that you've never used before.

Definitely not walking around with bear

traps.

But yeah,

keep your skills on point and maybe not

think about those gadgets.

And if you do get a gadget...

do it like Alton Brown used to do

in good eats.

One of the things I loved about that

show so much,

which blows my mind is that he never,

I'm not going to say never,

but nine times out of ten,

he would use items that were already in

the kitchen.

That was, I think,

one of the best shows out there.

And of course,

they had to take that off.

I'm not even sure Food Network,

I haven't watched it in so long.

I'm not even sure they teach people how

to cook anymore.

Last time we looked at it,

your mom and I were in a hotel

and the only show that we could watch

without throwing up was stuff on Food

Network.

And all it had was a bunch of

reality shows, but there was a time.

There was a time they taught you how

to cook.

Or, I mean, we were, I was like,

man,

this is the best thing since sliced bread.

And then it got rid of all that

kind of programming.

Or, I don't know,

I haven't watched it long enough,

but I know the last time I looked

at it, all I saw was reality TV.

But think about it, folks.

All those skills that you gain in the

kitchen, all those things matter.

They really matter in a big, big way.

And knowing how to cook, I mean,

you think about it,

let's say things are really rough and you

know how to cook pretty good on a

fire.

You know,

morale means a whole lot in this stuff,

okay?

In the survival handbook,

your morale means an awful lot.

So knowing how to have those little

niceties when ordinarily you wouldn't is

big help.

And having those skills makes it happen.

hey just okay a little quick tip for

anybody who's trying to think of like

those niceties to have uh wet wipes that's

a huge morale booster are wet wipes uh

specifically those dude wipes that have

they're like slightly scented especially

if you're going on like day fourteen or

so without a shower uh because the water's

contaminated uh yeah those dude wipes help

out quite a bit

um uh my next one is gonna be

uh have an off-site uh secondary off-site

uh secure location um just because you

don't know what's gonna happen let's say

you have okay in the example of helene

your house got flooded and washed

downstream.

You need a separate location.

Um, and it doesn't have to be fancy.

It doesn't have to be super expensive or

anything like that.

It could literally be just like, okay,

I have a tent stored in this one

location where I can go live until

something else gets figured out.

Um,

uh another thing is like okay let's say

you are living in a cul-de-sac for example

you're the only one in that cul-de-sac

that that's prepared and word gets out

that you're prepared at this particular

house and then now you got a mob

that's coming to get all of your goods

or you got a group or whatever however

big it is it could be two people

that are trying to come in there and

get your goods you either need a a

way to defend what you have

Or B,

you got to go to a different location.

You might be in a position where like

fighting back just isn't an option or it's

not feasible or there aren't high

likelihoods of like surviving.

So maybe going to a separate location is

the best route.

But yeah,

having there's a lot of people whose preps

just washed away.

I keep saying that, but it's like

I think people mentally think like, oh,

I prepared it.

I put it back and I haven't told

anybody about it.

So that way it's safe.

They automatically think that what they

put back is safe because nobody knows

about it and it's put away.

Well,

the flood didn't care that you said this

was safe and it washed it all downstream.

So having a second location doesn't even

need to be off your property, but maybe...

uh in a location that's different than

where your house is uh maybe further up

the mountain or maybe on the other side

of the property whatever it may be um

yeah you got to have a backup location

with backup preps uh just because you

don't know what scenario is going to

happen and that scenario could wipe out

your house if you're not careful so

keep that in mind.

I mean, there's, there,

there's a lot that stood out during

Helene.

And, uh, I remember at the Midwest,

we're going to be talking to Bobby here

in a few hours, but, um,

at Midwest preparedness, uh, the prepared,

I think it was the spring festival after

Helene.

They had me sit there and talk about

like some of the stuff, uh,

the like the lessons learned from Helene

and it was just the more I talked

the more I thought about it the more

lessons came from that specific event so

uh another thing you could do to prepare

for these uh events and get a kind

of better idea of what it actually is

like after a disaster

go volunteer go volunteer with grindstone

or any of these other uh groups and

see what it actually looks like right

after disaster and then you'll get a

better idea of and that could go into

the training aspect that dad was talking

about before but uh that'll give you a

better idea of what you're actually going

to be dealing with uh after an event

or after a natural disaster or just a

disaster in general um yeah go volunteer

get that hands-on experience and go see

what it's actually like

Yeah, Brenzee put vodka,

especially Everclear, can be bartered,

but it's also a disinfectant.

Yeah, but I would be really,

really cautious about that.

And here's a couple of reasons why.

Believe it or not,

coffee is a better barter item than

alcohol for most cases because it's more

universally needed.

Now, I get the multiple uses for alcohol.

But if people know that you have booze,

once they get topped off,

they may be back for more just for

the booze because you never know who you

may be dealing with.

And then also in this era where...

You know,

there may be a whole lot of people

self-medicating with a bunch of I mean,

you never know what maybe they can't get

the thing that they're used to.

And now all of a sudden, you know,

they can get bombed on some alcohol.

That might be an option.

So I would be I would use that

type of bartering sparingly.

And if they lead with, hey,

you got any alcohol,

you might want to keep that one to

yourself because it could definitely get

spicy up in there.

All right, y'all.

I want to thank everybody that came in

the chat.

I want to thank everybody that came out

to check us out.

Look, this is a crazy world, y'all.

Like I said, hurricane season has begun.

So until next time, stay alert.

Stay alive.

Listen to the earth,

they've got us through.

Watch the world spin,

from the smallest sprout,

till the harmony begins.

In the cycle of life,

where the magic's alive.

Turn it to the beat,

feel the fire and thrive.

So much wisdom in the song.