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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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We also got an online version for those
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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
up in that blanket every night.
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.
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.