Are You Prepared If The Lights Went Out?

The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast Episode # 441: Are You Prepared If The Lights Went Out?

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[00:00.000 --> 00:27.240] Well, today, as the title suggests, we're going to talk about being prepared if the [00:27.240 --> 00:34.800] power went out, maybe for good or for a long time, something like that. And if you guys remember [00:34.800 --> 00:39.900] back a little while ago, we did an episode where, all right, the world just ended right [00:39.900 --> 00:45.760] now, you know, an EMP or something. And how do you get home? You're get home bag, you know, [00:45.760 --> 00:51.280] you ran out of gas, whatever. This is kind of the same approach. But I really want to focus [00:51.280 --> 01:00.280] on your house. How prepared are you if all your resources went away today? And by that, [01:00.280 --> 01:06.000] I mean like external, right? You can't go to the grocery store. You probably don't have [01:06.000 --> 01:12.000] long term electricity. Maybe you have electricity for short, till people stop showing up to work [01:12.000 --> 01:18.960] at the power plant. And then things kind of slowly die away. It doesn't have to be an EMP [01:18.960 --> 01:25.680] or whatever. Just, you know, we'll say the bottom drops out of the dollar and grocery stores [01:25.680 --> 01:31.520] are closing down because nobody has money to buy anything. They can't restock things. Whatever [01:31.520 --> 01:41.560] it is, whatever world presents where the grocery stores and your normal supply of everything [01:41.560 --> 01:48.880] goes away. How prepared are you? And how can you get prepared? That's really the focus [01:48.880 --> 01:54.280] of what I want to talk about today. Now, Kevin, I mean, like what kind of things could even [01:54.280 --> 02:00.360] cause this kind of disaster? I mean, hell, China could invade tomorrow, right? I don't [02:00.360 --> 02:06.040] know. Yeah, well, I mean, there's been a lot of talk about cyber terrorism. Yeah, and there's [02:06.040 --> 02:10.880] a lot of rumors and I don't know how how true they are, but there's a lot of rumors that China's [02:10.880 --> 02:18.040] been working on back doors to power systems. We all know that there's a major couple years [02:18.040 --> 02:23.600] ago, there was a major shutdown shortage of fuel, right? Because cyber terrorism, they [02:23.600 --> 02:31.120] wanted a they wanted a certain amount of millions of dollars in Bitcoin from some sort some company [02:31.120 --> 02:38.200] about, you know, to turn their their oil back on. There's been some major drone attacks [02:38.200 --> 02:44.880] on Russian oil fields and Russian refineries. You know, there's a million in one reasons [02:44.960 --> 02:52.400] why the power can go out solar flares, you know, all sorts of nasty stuff out there. And, you [02:52.400 --> 03:00.200] know, we have a pretty robust electrical grid in the United States, but that doesn't mean [03:00.200 --> 03:06.320] that, you know, there are there haven't been there have been major power outages on the [03:06.320 --> 03:11.800] past 10 or 15 years in different locations in the United States. There's the big one on [03:11.800 --> 03:17.360] the East Coast for about three days, everybody was out of power. There's a big one in Texas, [03:17.360 --> 03:24.640] a couple of them in Texas, right? And then, you know, there's the day to day stuff, you [03:24.640 --> 03:29.680] know, thunderstorms knocking out power to like isolated areas, you know, I lose power [03:29.680 --> 03:34.760] probably at my house two to three times a year. And it's usually, you know, it's usually [03:34.760 --> 03:39.520] a couple hours, but, you know, sometimes it goes a day and a half. And, you know, day [03:39.520 --> 03:44.760] and a half isn't that bad of a, that big of a deal, you know, unless it's five degrees [03:44.760 --> 03:50.120] outside, then, you know, you could really be in a dangerous situation. Nobody wants to spend [03:50.120 --> 03:55.200] spend two days sitting in their car, you know, with the heat on trying to, trying to survive. [03:55.200 --> 03:59.360] That's, you know, terrible, you know, you have to hang out with your family and like talk [03:59.360 --> 04:05.360] to them. Oh, that does sound horrible. Well, remember a couple of years back when Puerto [04:05.400 --> 04:11.240] Rico got kind of almost wiped off the map there, if it wasn't for everybody stepping in, [04:11.240 --> 04:19.680] you know, that that was devastating. Civil War, right? Civil War, I wouldn't mention that [04:19.680 --> 04:26.360] except apparently YouTube was like plastered last night with a civil war starting right [04:26.360 --> 04:34.000] now in Texas, right? You know, it's a nonstop Biden on the hunt there. Yeah, yeah, it's [04:34.000 --> 04:39.160] been, it's been a little bit, I think it's a little overblown. Everybody likes to get [04:39.160 --> 04:44.600] amped up back. Definitely that's what we're all the time, but yeah, kind of stuff, new [04:44.600 --> 04:50.840] doubt. And that's not where I would focus. I don't really think that's gonna, but man, [04:50.840 --> 04:57.360] I will say the balls of some politicians to want to jump in and, you know, assert their [04:57.440 --> 05:04.240] authority. Right. I think a lot of that is pride, you know, it's pride that how dare you cross [05:04.240 --> 05:11.520] me, you know, it's kind of like we keep seeing the politicians, they'll, they'll come in and [05:11.520 --> 05:16.720] they'll completely undo what the last president did just like even if it was a good idea, [05:16.720 --> 05:22.640] but you did it. So I'm going to overturn that. Yeah, exactly, exactly. It's just stupid how [05:23.280 --> 05:28.320] we do things. We're so childish. You know, oh, you built a wall. Well, I'm going to pay money [05:28.320 --> 05:33.840] to take that wall down with stupid. Like I can understand, hey, we're not going to keep spending [05:33.840 --> 05:40.800] money on that. I have a better approach. But not, let me undo it because that was just, [05:40.800 --> 05:47.440] ah, you know, it's just stupid. And Republicans do the same thing, you know, I just, it's so [05:47.440 --> 05:51.520] dumb. Yeah, I mean, you might talk about a Democrat right now, but I mean, the truth is, [05:52.000 --> 05:57.280] it goes both ways. There's idiocy on, on all sides. So I mean, you know, [05:58.880 --> 06:03.520] yeah, I agree with you 100%. This whole thing, I'm countries run by a bunch of fools. [06:05.120 --> 06:11.600] Dude, you're here now. You're preaching to the choir. So all right, let's jump into some of the [06:11.600 --> 06:18.400] meat within the nut and see what we could talk about here. So I think let's start off with kind [06:18.480 --> 06:26.240] of the obvious. All right. Um, I mean, there's, there's the, the, the hierarchy of, of survival, [06:26.240 --> 06:31.280] they say, you know, there's the different things. You need food, you need water, you need shelter. [06:31.280 --> 06:36.240] Now shelter is also heat and cooling and whatever is going to protect you properly. [06:37.280 --> 06:42.640] You know, whatever, we're going to talk about security and I'm going to expand security to [06:42.640 --> 06:47.600] talk about like the perimeter of our house and how we'd kind of work on that as well. [06:48.240 --> 06:54.560] So let's, well, how let's jump in with food, right? That, that seems like a big one water. [06:54.560 --> 06:59.520] We're going to get to too. Obviously water is probably number one in importance, but let's talk [06:59.520 --> 07:04.800] about, uh, let's talk about food. Well, yeah, first off, I'd say that you should have [07:05.600 --> 07:09.760] a couple of months worth of food in your house ready to go. That's, I mean, this is a [07:09.760 --> 07:15.280] prepper show being prepared. That's number one. Get some, get some rice, get some beans, you know, [07:15.920 --> 07:19.680] I'm going to be eating beans and if the power goes out, I'll be eating beans and rice for months. [07:20.160 --> 07:25.280] Um, it's going to be terrible, but I've got plenty of hot sauce stored up. You can change things up. [07:25.280 --> 07:29.840] You're good for hot sauce. Yeah. Well, that's it. I mean, we're all with hot sauce. It's wrapped [07:29.840 --> 07:38.960] with hot sauce, pasta, hot sauce, and shrimp. And then you can have fried shrimp. You know, [07:38.960 --> 07:44.480] you get the idea, right? Right. Right. You know, another good thing, uh, as far as food storage [07:44.480 --> 07:51.360] goes that we haven't talked about in a little while is root sellers. Yes. Now, root seller can [07:51.360 --> 07:57.520] be just about anything. Um, it, it really, you want it to be surrounded on three sides with, [07:57.520 --> 08:02.880] with earth. You know what I mean? It keeps that temperature. The right, the right area, you know, [08:02.880 --> 08:07.840] I, and during the winter, my basement actually is an excellent, excellent root seller. I keep a [08:07.920 --> 08:12.960] lot of vegetables down here. And, um, you know, they last just as long as they would last in the [08:12.960 --> 08:17.200] refrigerator, especially things like potatoes and onions, you can stick them down here and they're, [08:17.200 --> 08:22.640] you know, they're good for a long time cabbage, other, other hearty, uh, vegetables, uh, carrots, [08:22.640 --> 08:29.920] things like that. Um, uh, root seller is pretty easy to put together. And I think, uh, I think, [08:29.920 --> 08:35.040] you know, you can go on YouTube or look at one of our previous episodes on root sellers. Yeah. [08:35.520 --> 08:42.720] Um, but another big thing, uh, a side of storing your food is growing your food, right? Uh, vegetable [08:42.720 --> 08:48.080] gardens got a pretty significant vegetable garden. Everybody should have a little vegetable garden. [08:48.080 --> 08:51.600] It doesn't have to be huge, but a little something or other. So you know what you're doing. [08:53.200 --> 08:58.640] Yeah. Well, one of the things I think people don't consider is like, like, so in my situation, [08:58.640 --> 09:05.440] I have rabbits and chickens. And at this point, a lot of the feed for my rabbits and chickens [09:05.440 --> 09:10.800] comes from the, the tractor supply or whatever, right? Right. With the local feed store, you know, [09:10.800 --> 09:16.160] but I actually do use the local feed store for, you know, a big percentage of what I feed them as well. [09:16.720 --> 09:22.880] And you need to come up with an alternative for that. If you can't go buy a 50 pound sack. Now, [09:23.600 --> 09:32.240] at a minimum, right, I have 20 rabbits out back that that's 20 meals for my family right there, [09:32.240 --> 09:38.240] right? That one, I don't need to keep refrigerated. And I have enough feed at any given time, we'll say [09:38.240 --> 09:44.800] to go 20 days, right? Or I could smoke that meat or do something else to preserve it. Where, [09:44.800 --> 09:50.320] right away, even if I didn't have a constant source of feed, obviously the goal is to keep feeding [09:50.400 --> 09:56.880] them and to keep them reproducing and going on indefinitely, right? That makes sense. But even [09:56.880 --> 10:03.200] at a minimum, if that didn't work out, I have 50 meals, I don't have to keep refrigerated. Right. [10:03.200 --> 10:09.440] So that that's huge right there. Same thing for the chickens, right? I have 35 meals right there. [10:10.160 --> 10:15.920] That and yes, I have enough stuff to keep them alive for 35 days on hand. That's not, I mean, [10:15.920 --> 10:21.840] honestly, just eating off the ground, you know, or putting the rabbits in a chicken, a chicken [10:22.400 --> 10:29.120] tractor or a rabbit tractor, whatever you'd call it, right? You'd be able to keep that going and [10:29.120 --> 10:35.040] sustain that. But all right. So you have that. So you have those animals, but you want to think [10:35.040 --> 10:40.560] about things you could be growing. And I know like with the rabbits, one of the big things is kind of [10:40.560 --> 10:45.840] like these micro greens, I think it's barley that they do for the rabbits. We've been, we bought [10:45.840 --> 10:49.920] a bunch of seed and whatever, we're starting to implement that. But where you're actually [10:50.560 --> 10:58.480] turning over trays of food that you can go, I have books on harvesting, you know, feeding your [10:58.480 --> 11:03.920] rabbits naturally that, you know, all the different things I can go out and grab and throw in the cages [11:03.920 --> 11:09.760] and keep them going. These are things you want to consider for whatever livestock you have, right? [11:10.720 --> 11:16.400] And you know, hey, all right, how can I fence the chickens and move them around and get them to [11:16.400 --> 11:22.400] places if they're not free range, right? If they're free range, obviously, it's a lot easier to [11:22.400 --> 11:27.840] figure out a feed source for them. Right. Right. And you know, that is a big, a big [11:27.840 --> 11:32.400] difference between like a factory farm and you, you know, raising your own chickens, [11:33.200 --> 11:38.880] you know, you can free range them and save quite a bit of money on feed. And maybe you can't [11:39.520 --> 11:44.960] do it entirely with your property and where you're at. But you can supplement quite a bit of, [11:44.960 --> 11:49.200] of food just by letting them free range, you know, they love bugs and, you know, every time I go [11:49.200 --> 11:52.240] over to the compost bin, they all come running over there because they know I'm going to throw a [11:52.240 --> 11:56.880] couple of worms out for them, you know, walk around, turn over rocks, they'll just follow you around [11:56.880 --> 12:01.280] picking everything out of there. And that's another thing, if you're doing it right, [12:01.280 --> 12:07.360] can you harvest worms for your, you know, for your chickens, right? You know, people do those [12:07.360 --> 12:13.440] worm bins, you can really turn over some volume. Now, obviously, you're not going to feed 35 [12:13.440 --> 12:18.880] chickens with a worm bin, you know, on that alone, right? You have to have another plan. But that's [12:18.880 --> 12:24.400] another protein supplement that you can work in there and really, you know, help things out. [12:24.960 --> 12:31.920] Um, so with that, now, I also, you know, I got heavy in animals right there, you know, Kevin [12:31.920 --> 12:37.920] mentioned a big garden and having a set up like that. Now, there is the long term survival food. [12:37.920 --> 12:42.640] Um, I'm sure I can probably find an affiliate link to throw in the bottom, maybe a good deal for you. [12:42.640 --> 12:48.560] I don't know. I, I think I, I used to work with my Patriots apply a lot. I don't know, I don't know [12:48.560 --> 12:53.360] who's good. I like wise food seems interesting to me. I know they had trouble, you can put in the [12:53.360 --> 12:58.800] comments that you hate somebody and whatever that's fine too. Even if you have an affiliate link, [12:58.880 --> 13:04.000] you want to throw in the comments for somebody. I'm good with that. Um, but the bottom line is [13:05.280 --> 13:12.080] stuff like that ends up being rather expensive, especially now, where when you buy that survival [13:12.080 --> 13:18.000] food from one of these companies, um, stuff's good. When you see a good sale, I would buy some because [13:18.000 --> 13:23.920] it's something you can set aside and forget it, which is awesome. Um, I know the, uh, the Amish have [13:23.920 --> 13:28.720] that store or sorry, the Latter Day Saints have that store online that you can buy a lot of their [13:28.720 --> 13:34.320] proper food that was a, I guess it in farms or whatever. Maybe that's, I don't know. There's a [13:34.320 --> 13:38.400] bunch of different things I know you're talking about. Right. But you can search it out, right? [13:38.960 --> 13:46.480] I know there's that Azure standard. They're pretty cool. Um, they basically sell stuff in bulk. Um, [13:47.040 --> 13:51.600] I'll try and get some links to throw in the, uh, in the comments or notes for you guys for that [13:51.600 --> 13:59.040] stuff. But that's one way, but also just having a bulky beefy pantry where you're cycling [13:59.840 --> 14:06.320] through your food, you know, you're rotating your stores. Um, a lot of stuff. Uh, one of the big ones, [14:06.320 --> 14:12.080] Walmart sells that giant bags are like pancake mix. Well, that's huge calorie that you can add. [14:12.080 --> 14:16.880] Right. Um, buying and if you have chickens, you can throw the eggs in with the pancakes and you, [14:16.960 --> 14:21.120] you're set. I mean, you can get, you can get instant pancake mix as well. Right. It doesn't [14:21.120 --> 14:26.320] require anything, but you can also beef up the protein with something like that. Uh, if you're [14:26.320 --> 14:32.320] down for corn syrup, crappy syrup, you can buy that in bulk really pretty cheap and tractor, [14:32.320 --> 14:38.880] and I'm sorry, like Sam's Club or Costco or whatever. Right. That stuff works really well. Um, [14:39.440 --> 14:47.120] but you can also, uh, rice, right? Think of bulk rice. I used to be big on bulk beans. Uh, [14:47.120 --> 14:53.120] that stuff isn't as cheap anymore. Bulk beans, you're kind of paying anymore for those dried beans [14:53.120 --> 14:58.560] and stuff. So I don't know. You got to look around and find the things that your family likes that [14:58.560 --> 15:04.400] what are you going to actually not eating everything? Right. Yeah. That's going to last. Uh, [15:05.360 --> 15:10.960] one of the big things, uh, that work, I mean, uh, cornmeal. Uh, one of my kids is, uh, [15:11.680 --> 15:18.400] gluten, you know, has to be gluten free, right? So because of that, we do a lot of the, the corn, [15:18.960 --> 15:24.640] you know, God, what it, it is cornmeal, I guess. Yeah, cornmeal. And so buying large bags of that, [15:24.640 --> 15:30.960] being able to stockpile. But I also, um, one of the things I got from mayhem country living was [15:31.600 --> 15:36.480] if you freeze the rice or you freeze the flour, that kind of stuff, [15:36.480 --> 15:41.840] it kills any of the bugs and stuff that might be in the package. I know we all like to think, oh, [15:41.840 --> 15:47.040] there's no bugs or eggs and any of the stuff we buy. But we'll just say it might be better if [15:47.040 --> 15:51.760] you freeze it first. Now, the idea was freeze it and then get ready, let it freeze and then take it [15:51.760 --> 15:55.520] out and store it like you normally store it. If you give it two or three days, you know, [15:55.520 --> 16:00.160] whatever you feel makes it frozen all the way through where that temperature is there. [16:00.240 --> 16:06.400] And then store it in five gallon buckets and, you know, close it up. Now I have room in my freezer [16:06.400 --> 16:13.040] unless it's deer season or whatever where I'll just put the stuff in there. And I'll just leave [16:13.040 --> 16:18.480] the flour or the rice in there. It's a secure space. I don't have to worry about rodents. And I know [16:18.480 --> 16:25.200] it's going to last. Yeah. And when I post it, yeah, post it and, um, like ramen stuff, that's the same [16:25.200 --> 16:32.080] thing. You know, right. So anyway, bottom line is we did an episode if you really want to dig [16:32.080 --> 16:38.000] into what specific foods are great for storage. Um, you can head back to that one. I'll see if [16:38.000 --> 16:43.520] actually I put that at the end of this video as the, you know, hey, go back and check that out. [16:43.520 --> 16:49.120] I don't know if we did a video on it. It might just be a podcast. I'll see if I can throw the link [16:49.120 --> 16:54.640] in the in the show notes to the episode. And you guys will be able to check that out. But [16:54.720 --> 17:01.760] that's another thing to consider. But, uh, so let's keep moving right along. Uh, water. What [17:01.760 --> 17:07.120] could we do with water, Kevin, that you're going to need water, right? That's foundational life, [17:07.120 --> 17:12.640] right? So what do we do to have water in our house when the power goes out? What are some [17:12.640 --> 17:19.360] things we need right now? Well, I mean, one, if you have a water source on your property, that is [17:19.360 --> 17:25.200] a big deal. You know, if you've got a stream upon something like that, um, but, you know, not everybody [17:25.200 --> 17:30.160] has that. I'm in a pretty good location here that I've got, you know, a little stream in the back and [17:30.160 --> 17:35.840] I've got, uh, um, you know, a low water table, meaning that I could really dig down about four or five [17:35.840 --> 17:43.520] feet and start getting some water out of that. But that water isn't going to be necessarily safe, right? [17:43.680 --> 17:49.440] Um, so you're going to have to think about ways that you can, uh, purify your water. Um, [17:50.320 --> 17:56.080] uh, another way to, uh, get water if you don't have it on your property necessarily is, is, uh, [17:56.080 --> 18:02.640] rainwater catch basins, um, collecting your rainwater. Um, you know, you can just set up, you know, I, [18:02.640 --> 18:08.400] I have 55 gallon drums, but you can set up even a five gallon bucket on your rain spout, uh, out [18:08.400 --> 18:13.520] your, your drain spout on your, from your gutters from your roof and collect some of that water. Um, [18:15.280 --> 18:21.440] but, uh, cleaning that water might be a little bit difficult. So, uh, would I, would I, uh, would [18:21.440 --> 18:28.880] recommend is basic set up would be set up a teepee with three shirts hanging down in a tier, you [18:28.880 --> 18:34.560] know, first one is gravel, gets all the sticks and, and gunk out of there. Next one is sand and the [18:34.560 --> 18:40.880] bottom one is charcoal from your fire, your fireplace from Woodstove, whatever it is. Uh, the [18:40.880 --> 18:46.720] first few, uh, runs through with the water. It's going to come out black from that charcoal. So, [18:46.720 --> 18:52.240] you just discard that water or run it back through. And, uh, but after that, it's going to really [18:52.240 --> 18:57.520] clean out that water. It's not necessarily going to be perfectly safe, but it's going to be a lot [18:57.520 --> 19:03.440] better than just grabbing some of something out of a pond, you know. Right. Um, another way is, uh, [19:03.520 --> 19:08.960] iodine. Um, you can use a small amount of iodine for, for that, uh, small amount of bleach, [19:08.960 --> 19:12.480] but both those things are going to take some time. You're going to want to let that set and do [19:12.480 --> 19:18.800] its thing for, for 30 minutes or so. Believe it or not, war rocks on their website actually tells [19:18.800 --> 19:24.800] you how to treat your water with their bleach. And they tell you amounts per gallon and how much to do [19:24.800 --> 19:29.840] and based on where you get the water from, you know, that kind of thing. Right. Obviously, [19:29.840 --> 19:36.960] Clorox kills bad things in there, but it does not remove toxins. Right. So that's where that [19:36.960 --> 19:45.360] filtering comes in. Um, that that's a big thing. One of the ways I prepare for that is, I have [19:45.360 --> 19:51.840] wells on my property. So it's kind of irrelevant. One is a, uh, a shallow well where I can just like [19:51.840 --> 19:57.760] lift the lid and drop down a bucket and pull out water. So I'm kind of good there. But in addition to [19:57.760 --> 20:04.080] that, believe it or not, I still have, uh, I went to Sam's club and they have like six things of, uh, [20:04.080 --> 20:10.800] Clorox, but it's like 30 times concentrated or something like that. Right. So I threw those, [20:10.800 --> 20:16.400] I left them in the cardboard box and I have them in like a dark closet that just sit there. Now, [20:16.400 --> 20:21.920] obviously that plastic is going to deteriorate over time. You know, obviously, we know that bleach [20:21.920 --> 20:26.160] exposed to some might deteriorates quickly. That's why I was saying I keep it in a really [20:26.160 --> 20:32.720] dark place. It still was going to have a shelf life. Right. But it's going to be better than, [20:32.720 --> 20:35.280] you know, something else. So that's something to consider. [20:36.560 --> 20:42.880] Yeah. Basically bleaches is going to be good if you store it in a dark place for six months plus [20:42.880 --> 20:49.200] and then it's going to start to be less and less, uh, effective. But obviously it's going to last [20:49.200 --> 20:52.640] for a long time. It's going to last for a year where you can still use it. You might just have to [20:52.720 --> 21:00.640] use a little bit more. Right. Um, let's see. Other stuff is like, uh, there's a lot of, uh, [21:00.640 --> 21:06.800] water filters you can get. You can buy, uh, life straws and multiple different water filters that [21:06.800 --> 21:12.160] you can get just to scoop water up and immediately be able to drink it. Those things are great. Um, [21:12.160 --> 21:17.840] but on a large scale, they might be a little less, uh, less effective. Um, and they get more and [21:17.840 --> 21:22.160] more expensive as you go up to something that you're going to be able to use over and over and over [21:22.160 --> 21:27.040] right. Exactly. I can't have died and there's a bunch of companies that do it. And that's a thing, [21:27.040 --> 21:32.880] those things. I mean, even if, all right, I got one that's going to last me maybe six months and [21:32.880 --> 21:37.760] then all of a sudden, Hey, you got a good water supply or all your neighbors hitting you up, you [21:37.760 --> 21:44.320] know, whatever you need to think bigger on how you're going to get good water. Um, there is a lot of [21:44.320 --> 21:51.120] videos on YouTube on doing a hand pump well and how to work that out, how to, you know, dig your [21:51.120 --> 21:56.880] own and dowsing rods and the whole thing. And you know, look around your community. You know, [21:56.880 --> 22:03.040] sometimes people have water sources available that they don't even realize. Um, that's something to [22:03.040 --> 22:10.240] consider, you know, um, it's funny. The old standard of boiling water. I never, we never really [22:10.240 --> 22:15.040] mentioned that because it should be common sense, but, you know, it's always common. And if we see [22:16.000 --> 22:20.720] not so common, right? Yeah. If you want to, if you want to boil water, that's, that's great. [22:20.720 --> 22:24.640] It's a little bit, you know, if you have a heat source, then, you know, it's not a big problem. [22:25.200 --> 22:30.320] Um, and you want it to just do a rolling boil for about five minutes and then it's safe to drink. [22:33.280 --> 22:37.360] Yeah. Now that that's all stuff to consider. You know, it's funny. My, uh, [22:38.160 --> 22:44.080] my brother has a, uh, had a restaurant in the middle of town and it actually had a well right in the [22:44.160 --> 22:49.760] basement. And it's weird because you wouldn't think in the middle of a city that you got a well [22:49.760 --> 22:54.000] right there, you know, and it was like a big open well, you could just drop a bucket in and, [22:54.000 --> 22:58.960] and pull out water. So that's the kind of thing, you know, there might be some sources that you [22:58.960 --> 23:04.400] don't even realize. And you might want to look into what's available in your area, talk to people, [23:04.400 --> 23:09.440] you know, usually the old timers know some stuff that, you know, I thought that old people didn't [23:09.440 --> 23:16.240] have any purpose anymore, you know, whatever, but sometimes they know things. All right. So [23:16.240 --> 23:23.360] moving right along. Now security. How do you, uh, protect your family? Oh, and food. There was, uh, [23:24.720 --> 23:32.160] I was going to mention, you know, you might want to add your like, uh, um, prescriptions, [23:32.160 --> 23:38.720] things like that. Don't forget about, you know, stuff you need food, stuff like that for as far as, [23:38.800 --> 23:44.240] you know, you're, I don't know, you get heartburned, you have diabetes, you have whatever, make sure [23:44.240 --> 23:50.080] you have the appropriate things as best you can. Obviously, insulin has to be kept cold, [23:50.080 --> 23:54.800] maybe another reason to think about a root cell or whatever, because I understand it's not as [23:54.800 --> 23:59.840] cold as your refrigerator, and it's not going to be as great, but it's going to buy you more time [23:59.840 --> 24:06.800] than keeping insulin warm. That's all I tell you. Right. Right. Uh, you know, multivitamins, [24:06.800 --> 24:11.120] all that sort of stuff is always, uh, great to have on hand, especially if your, your food [24:11.120 --> 24:17.120] is limited to a specific, you know, I only have rice. I only have potatoes, something like that. [24:17.680 --> 24:23.200] Having multivitamins around is, uh, can be a big help real quick before we get, get on into the next [24:23.200 --> 24:30.000] thing. Um, having a power outage bag, um, a lot of people lose power and they can't do anything. [24:30.000 --> 24:34.560] It's middle of the night and they can't do anything until they find a flashlight, you know, if you have [24:34.560 --> 24:40.400] your stuff in one spot, it's easy to do. So have your, have a power outage bag, batteries, [24:40.400 --> 24:47.920] lighters, matches, flashlights, rechargeable flashlights, batter, uh, headlamps, um, candles. [24:47.920 --> 24:52.480] These wax candles burn longer and they're, they're better. They're a little bit more expensive though. [24:52.880 --> 24:59.680] Um, hand crank radio, I have a hand crank radio. I've never used it. Right. You know, go ahead, [24:59.760 --> 25:05.760] get one. They're cheap. They're not a big deal. But, uh, first aid kit should be right there and you're [25:05.760 --> 25:10.640] in your, um, bag two. You know what I mean? Uh, just, just bandage is something, you know, [25:11.680 --> 25:16.080] everybody stubs their toe in the, in the dark and you're hopping around crying about it. And [25:16.080 --> 25:19.760] now you can put a little split on your pinky toe and you'll be all right. Exactly. The big thing [25:19.760 --> 25:26.880] is knowing where the stuff is and keeping it in working order. How often, you know, if your [25:26.880 --> 25:32.080] flashlights right next to the door and you're using it all the time or I actually have, um, [25:32.080 --> 25:38.640] you know, we're kind of homestead farm lifestyle. Right. So at the back of my door, I have like [25:38.640 --> 25:45.520] four headlamps just hanging that are grabbed probably at a minimum once a week somebody's throwing [25:45.520 --> 25:50.320] one on those. It's not as big of a thing. But if you're the guy who's got them, well, we have [25:50.320 --> 25:54.880] these right here, but I keep them in the drawer because we never go outside at night and it's [25:54.880 --> 26:02.320] never an issue. And with those, make sure you're checking the batteries, make sure you're opening [26:02.320 --> 26:08.400] them up and, and replacing them every four months, six months at least looking at them and, and see [26:08.400 --> 26:15.040] if they're still good. Um, they definitely, you know, uh, you know, have that power out bag [26:15.040 --> 26:20.800] where it's small, it's got everything and you're just ready to go. I know with my kids, I actually [26:20.880 --> 26:25.440] gave them all a flashlight and was like, here, you know, one year for Christmas, they all hated [26:25.440 --> 26:30.640] me or whatever. Cause that's the crap we gift or whatever. But hey, in your stocking, you all got, [26:30.640 --> 26:36.080] now it's funny because they were like LED or, uh, mag lights, right? Which are like outdated [26:36.080 --> 26:41.520] and crap compared to what you get now. You know, all the lights now like light up a room and you [26:41.520 --> 26:47.360] put a mag light next to it. You're like, I can't even see it's horrible. You know, but that's, [26:47.360 --> 26:52.160] that's what I did. And the same thing, like everybody's got those like energizer, you know, [26:52.160 --> 26:57.440] that you get it, the Lowe's checkout or whatever. I think I bought them from Amazon in like a pack [26:57.440 --> 27:03.200] of three or whatever. And I bought a couple, but having those lights and that kind of stuff [27:03.200 --> 27:09.280] available is awesome. Think of the other things you need day to day in your house, right? Like, [27:09.280 --> 27:14.320] so Kevin just mentioned flashlights and a power out bag. Do you have matches? Do you have the normal [27:14.320 --> 27:20.000] stuff that you need? Now what about washing and doing laundry? Do you watch on YouTube, [27:20.000 --> 27:25.920] you can figure out something with a five gallon bucket and how to kind of work out washing clothes [27:25.920 --> 27:32.560] and things come up with an alternative. Now maybe that awesome alternative is setting up a solar system [27:32.560 --> 27:38.880] and having chargers that are, you know, sorry, having a charge controller and stuff that you [27:38.880 --> 27:44.160] keep in EMP stuff. And you know, it's going to last forever. Maybe that's, that's your answer. [27:44.160 --> 27:49.280] But maybe it's as simple as going on YouTube and figuring out with a five gallon bucket [27:49.280 --> 27:54.080] and a cutout lid that has holes drilled in it that you can kind of work out something [27:54.080 --> 27:59.680] to wash your clothes. You know, even buying an old washboard and having running water, [27:59.680 --> 28:05.760] just realize how much water that takes. If you're kind of trying to have running water to do something, [28:05.840 --> 28:09.440] you know, what you're doing for laundry, make sure that it's worth it for you. [28:09.440 --> 28:15.120] That's all. Right, right. Another thing that we should talk about real quick that's, you know, [28:15.120 --> 28:23.600] short term is keeping your phone charged. Now you can get solar chargers, about 30 bucks, [28:23.600 --> 28:27.680] you just stick it in the sun, you can, you know, charge up the battery and then you can charge [28:27.680 --> 28:35.520] up your phone with it. You can charge your battery packs. Those are great to have. I've got [28:35.600 --> 28:41.120] a couple of those things. Switch your phone to low power mode. It'll reduce the brightness [28:41.120 --> 28:49.360] light, but it'll last a lot longer. And you could even plug in, plug in your phone to your TV [28:49.360 --> 28:54.000] or your laptop. If the power goes at, that TV's still got some battery power. You used the USB [28:54.000 --> 28:58.320] cord. Your computer is not going to be really great because there's not going to be any [28:58.320 --> 29:02.880] internet service, but you can charge your phone up and use the cell signal for your, [29:02.880 --> 29:07.040] for your internet access and keep, uh, keep on top of what's going on around you. [29:07.040 --> 29:12.480] That, that's smart. Cause a lot of people don't realize, you know, they'll die with resources [29:12.480 --> 29:17.600] right there available to them. You know, people dying of thirst, but they don't look at the, [29:17.600 --> 29:22.560] the water in the toilet tank right behind them that's still clean and talking about the tank [29:22.560 --> 29:28.000] behind it, not the bowl on the bottom. That's for the dogs to drink, not for people. You, [29:28.000 --> 29:33.840] you stick to the back, but the same thing, like a water heater, right? It's got 50 gallons of water [29:33.840 --> 29:38.560] 30 year or whatever. I know in New York, you guys are probably down to like 10 gallon water [29:38.560 --> 29:44.080] heaters over there where I don't know. I know you got some kind of ridiculous rule, but [29:45.280 --> 29:51.600] that's the thing. There's stuff stored and that's, you know, I know one of our listeners sent me [29:51.600 --> 29:57.680] pictures a long time ago that of a storage system that he set up in his house. And what he [29:57.680 --> 30:05.440] did was he had 55 gallon drums, I think at least two of them, where he had his main water supply [30:05.440 --> 30:11.680] flow into a drum, into another drum. And then, you know, and, and I think, you know, like it fed in [30:11.680 --> 30:18.240] at the top and drew out at the bottom, something like that into the next one. And likewise, but [30:18.240 --> 30:25.440] that way he's cycling through his water all the time, but he always has 110 fresh gallons of water [30:25.440 --> 30:30.000] that are stored right there. I mean, that's the kind of thing you can, you know, start to implement [30:30.720 --> 30:37.600] to cover the downside. You know, these are the things you need to think about what you do every [30:37.600 --> 30:44.160] day. You know, how are you going to cook? Having a cooking plan for your house when the power is out, [30:44.160 --> 30:48.800] you know, all right, you got a propane tank and you have a gas stove and gas burners. [30:48.800 --> 30:54.560] That's a big part of a plan. And if you had that propane tank for your heat as well, [30:54.640 --> 31:00.400] that's probably going to last a really long time. Maybe it's using your grill out back. [31:00.400 --> 31:05.600] How long is that burner going to last you? And most of the time, I mean, I know Kevin stores a [31:05.600 --> 31:13.120] couple extra propane cans. And it's going to last. I have two at my house at any given time. [31:13.120 --> 31:17.440] I know Kevin's got a little better supply than that. But, you know, that thing you [31:18.000 --> 31:22.640] I've got a problem. I've got a problem with too many propane tanks. [31:22.640 --> 31:27.120] Right. But Kevin's like, probably not filled them in five years because they're still working [31:27.120 --> 31:32.240] through. I was still working through them. Yeah. You know, that's how it is. But you plan ahead [31:32.240 --> 31:35.920] and you come up with a solution. You need to decide what's important to you. Now, [31:36.720 --> 31:42.480] I live in the middle of the woods and I have unlimited lumber. I can throw I have oak trees [31:42.480 --> 31:48.000] all over my yard. And I don't even have to try and get oak wood. I can just walk out in my yard [31:48.000 --> 31:54.720] any given day and find some giant branch of, you know, oak that I cut up. Now, I did buy some [31:54.720 --> 32:01.760] things to split it into small pieces and make, you know, excellent, excellent, you know, fire [32:01.760 --> 32:07.120] starting stuff and and great size wood. I have an axe. I have, you know, chainsaws and things like [32:07.120 --> 32:13.040] that. No, obviously chainsaws don't last forever. You run out of gas, you whatever. But I have a bunch [32:13.040 --> 32:19.920] of extra blades. And I got to say, a gallon of gas goes along far in a chainsaw. That's the thing. [32:19.920 --> 32:24.720] People are like, Oh, I want to run my four wheeler. I want to run my truck. Man, if you kept that [32:24.720 --> 32:30.960] two gallons for your chainsaw, the unlimited work you could do, especially if you knew how to sharpen [32:30.960 --> 32:38.800] your chains is. And yeah, and that when you mix that that chainsaw, when you mix that gas with the oil, [32:39.680 --> 32:45.760] it'll last a lot longer than regular gas will, especially if you buy the synthetic for the [32:45.760 --> 32:52.080] chainsaw oil, you know, for the mix. You know, I always kind of have a gallon in the bar and chain. [32:52.080 --> 32:57.680] And I buy like the six pack of the synthetic, you know, oil fuel mix, whatever. But that, [32:57.680 --> 33:02.720] these are the things to think about. I'm not trying to cover every possible thing. I mean, [33:02.720 --> 33:08.400] I am trying to, but I'm not going to, I'm not going to be able to. But what I'm trying to do is [33:08.480 --> 33:14.400] inspire you to think of what issues come up and what kind of preparing you can do for the [33:14.400 --> 33:20.400] immediate, you know, what can I have on hand? And so many people get overwhelmed. They're like, [33:20.400 --> 33:25.920] Oh, I can't do all this. No, but hopefully when we have a discussion like this, you're going to [33:25.920 --> 33:30.960] realize, Hey, I fall short in this area. You know what? That's one thing I didn't consider. [33:31.520 --> 33:37.760] How am I going to make my coffee? Right? Well, I have the old kettle, but I have beans and no [33:37.760 --> 33:43.280] grinder. Well, yeah, you can chop them up and whatever. But you need to think about where [33:43.280 --> 33:48.400] are you going to fall short? How much coffee do you have? Can you live without coffee? I mean, [33:48.400 --> 33:53.840] some of you can, maybe I don't know. How about beer, right? Are you going to run out of beer? I [33:53.840 --> 34:00.080] mean, what kind of world do you live in? Do stockpile alcohol? Maybe you don't need alcohol [34:00.080 --> 34:05.840] because you live a better life than that. And you're not beholden to chemicals and whatever. I [34:05.840 --> 34:12.240] don't know if we call alcohol, chemical, but you know what I mean? How about vices? Yeah. Yeah. [34:12.240 --> 34:17.120] Well, I mean, I mean, maybe, you know, it is worth a small crack. You need to store that [34:17.120 --> 34:20.800] whatever that I have some crack. You have to have, you know, sometimes it's better to store [34:20.800 --> 34:26.240] the baking soda and the cocaine, you know, next to each other that way, I have to whip up a batch. [34:26.240 --> 34:32.320] I have to point out that was a joke that I was not like, really, I Kevin, we weren't serious about [34:33.120 --> 34:40.080] selling but I just wanted people to think outside the box of what's important to them. Yeah. No, [34:40.080 --> 34:46.240] but somebody did mention 15 year old scotch. The thing is, with whiskey and scotch, you can put [34:46.240 --> 34:51.280] it on a shelf that'll last forever. It goes forever. You know what I mean? And even if you open up and [34:51.280 --> 34:54.960] take a couple of steps here and there, it's still going to be good the next time you go over there. [34:54.960 --> 35:01.360] And the beauty is it's an excellent barter item. It is. It is everybody loves a little bit of whiskey, [35:01.360 --> 35:07.840] especially, especially when the TV is not working. You know, let's talk about home heating real quick. [35:07.840 --> 35:15.200] Oh, I like that one. That's important. I mean, it gets cold. Most a lot of people live up north [35:15.200 --> 35:21.680] here and the cold can really, you know, really be nasty if if you don't have a way to keep your [35:21.680 --> 35:25.840] yourself warm. So let's go through some basic stuff. A lot of people have electric heat, [35:25.920 --> 35:30.800] baseboard heating. You know, it's fine. It's a little bit expensive, but obviously, [35:30.800 --> 35:37.200] electricity stops work and you're out of luck. A lot of people have an oil burning furnace. [35:38.320 --> 35:43.840] That's good, but a lot of the time it takes electric to get started. So let's talk about a [35:43.840 --> 35:51.200] couple of other options on kerosene heater. One of the most fuel efficient heaters to have. [35:52.160 --> 36:00.880] It's 135,000 BTUs per gallon, which is the most efficient way to heat. It's easy to start. [36:01.760 --> 36:07.760] Kerosene is non-explosive and it's clean burning. So that's a pretty good option. [36:07.760 --> 36:13.360] Here's the thing. You go to the store and they sell that K1 kerosene, right? It's nice and clean. [36:13.360 --> 36:17.440] It's good. That stuff is expensive as hell if you're going the lowest or whatever. [36:17.520 --> 36:22.720] I saw $49.99 for a five gallon bucket, which is ridiculous. So you can go to the, [36:23.280 --> 36:29.200] you can find a gas station, not every gas station sells kerosene. Now you can go to a gas station [36:29.200 --> 36:35.120] and buy kerosene. Guess what? If you read the label almost every time, that is K1 kerosene. [36:35.120 --> 36:40.080] And it's the same stuff you're buying at Lowe's on the shelf. Now, people will tell you, oh, [36:40.080 --> 36:46.720] you can buy diesel and it's the same thing. It's not the same thing. Diesel will burn and work in your [36:46.720 --> 36:52.480] heater, but it will also give off a little black smoke and a few white ceilings in your living room. [36:52.480 --> 36:58.560] They will not be white anymore. That's right. And you'll kind of mess up how it lights, how it [36:58.560 --> 37:05.040] burns, how everything. So bottom line, if say the end of the world, right, and you're trying to [37:05.040 --> 37:11.680] prepare, you buy that awesome kerosene heater, you have that 250 gallon oil tank that you've [37:11.680 --> 37:17.840] been running your furnace with every bit of that you can use in your kerosene heater. It will work. [37:17.840 --> 37:24.560] However, it will put off some smoke. So if you're planning on not having dinghy black ceilings, [37:25.360 --> 37:30.320] don't do that. But when the end of the world happens and you're like, Hey, I got to stay warm. [37:31.200 --> 37:37.600] That's your answer right there. Right. Right. But you can buy the K1 kerosene and and you're supposed [37:37.600 --> 37:45.360] to put that in a I want to say blue is kerosene. Yeah, right. You got it. Right. [37:46.080 --> 37:52.800] Say secret to the pros right there. Now there's a propane heaters to affordable, safe, [37:53.440 --> 38:01.520] more efficient than electric. As as we all know, Hank Hill says I provide the people of this [38:01.520 --> 38:06.720] community with propane and propane accessories. Oh, what I think about all my hard earned tax [38:06.720 --> 38:12.160] dollars going to pay a bunch of little twig boy bureaucrats like you. It just makes me want to. [38:12.160 --> 38:18.000] Oh, God, that's the quote. That's the quote. I like Hank Hill always knows. He always knows best. [38:18.000 --> 38:25.360] But number one heat in your house and keeping things good is a wood stove. Yes. Hot ballot [38:25.360 --> 38:31.760] wood stove. Any kind of wood stove. Great. Great for heating your home. You can access that fuel [38:31.840 --> 38:38.000] yourself. You don't have to go get anything. You can just go out into the woods and take some [38:38.000 --> 38:44.320] branches like you were talking about Chuck. You can split wood. You can get it yourself, [38:44.320 --> 38:48.400] make it yourself, dry it yourself. You don't have to rely on anybody else, supply you anything. [38:48.880 --> 38:58.080] And it's versatile because you can cook on top of it. You can use it to do a lot of stuff there. [38:58.160 --> 39:02.960] I know a lot of people that are I know one lady that actually makes beef jerky [39:02.960 --> 39:05.760] on top of her wood stove. Yeah. I thought that was pretty interesting. [39:05.760 --> 39:11.600] So I'd like to learn a lot of them. There's the Franklin stove that like Ben Franklin came up with [39:11.600 --> 39:16.640] that's pretty awesome. Shapes kind of like your pot belly tanning and the pot belly stove. [39:16.640 --> 39:21.520] But I can picture it in my mind. I don't know. Anyway, you also have the ones with the burners [39:21.520 --> 39:26.800] on top and for cooking and and they even sell ones with bread ovens. It's really how much money [39:26.800 --> 39:34.080] you're willing to commit. Now, I have several options at my house. I have this like old falling [39:34.080 --> 39:39.440] down farmhouse right next to me that, you know, the roof's still good. So I'm hanging onto it, [39:39.440 --> 39:44.000] trying to fight the termites and keep it going. It doesn't even have like real plumbing or [39:44.000 --> 39:48.960] anything going on. But I probably would set up a wood stove there. I have chimneys and it actually [39:48.960 --> 39:55.040] has fireplaces and things I can do there. But one, making sure your chimneys clean enough that [39:55.040 --> 39:59.680] it's going to work and not, you know, kill everybody's probably a smart idea. [39:59.680 --> 40:05.120] And don't burn the pine in there. Right. But yeah, the crease on the lining. Anyway, [40:05.120 --> 40:12.560] so another thing though, on the flip side, in my regular house, the plan I have is and I still [40:12.560 --> 40:17.280] haven't done it because it's one of the many things. Again, I have a house with fireplaces and stuff [40:17.280 --> 40:22.320] that I can move the family over for all freezing to death in the winter, right? We can we can stay [40:22.400 --> 40:29.040] in one room over there and stay warm every night. But the plan is I need to buy a wood stove and [40:29.680 --> 40:35.680] I'm gonna just throw it in my I'm gonna keep it in the farmhouse. But if I need to bring it [40:35.680 --> 40:42.960] into my house, I can just rig up with plywood and vent pipe and actually run the vent right [40:42.960 --> 40:49.680] out the window. So something I could move in and make my living room have a nice hot stove. [40:49.680 --> 40:56.320] Now the cool thing is, I was thinking about this a lot is I could take the vent pipe and [40:56.880 --> 41:05.840] if I ran like a six foot or eight foot eight foot horizontal pipe and then put it out the window, [41:06.800 --> 41:11.840] then what I could do is you'd have that whole eight foot of extra heat coming into your house. [41:12.880 --> 41:19.360] And that's something to consider. That's why a wood stove always kind of wins out over a fireplace [41:19.360 --> 41:25.120] is you usually have exposed pipe running through the house. Like some of it do it even through two [41:25.120 --> 41:30.320] floors, you know, and you'll have that pipe go up through and up to the second floor where it [41:30.320 --> 41:39.200] dissipates the heat. And that's something to look at. I also think we need to move into security. [41:39.200 --> 41:44.640] Now I know this episode's going a little bit long, but you need to have some way to protect your [41:44.640 --> 41:51.120] family. Do you have like one, do you carry every day, right? Do you have a handgun on your hip? [41:51.120 --> 41:55.360] Does your wife have a handgun on her hip? You know, maybe you need to get around board with [41:55.360 --> 42:01.360] carrying every day and being prepared. Because the thing is you never know when bad things are [42:01.360 --> 42:08.800] going to happen. I would say do you have like a shotgun or something that somebody who's not [42:08.800 --> 42:14.080] trained with a weapon can use a little bit easier. Now obviously you need some kind of training [42:14.080 --> 42:18.720] before you should be picking up a shotgun. But I mean somebody who's going out with you [42:19.520 --> 42:25.920] for an hour twice before can work a shotgun. Somebody who's trained with you for three weeks [42:25.920 --> 42:35.360] should be maybe grabbing an AR and something more tactical. There are other things, even just [42:35.360 --> 42:41.040] having pepper spray or you know, something like that, mace, whatever, something that, [42:41.040 --> 42:45.600] you know, you can keep on hand. They have those bear spray ones. If you kept that handy, [42:45.600 --> 42:52.480] that's one more option. You know, obviously a firearm is serious. The other stuff, you know, [42:52.480 --> 42:57.760] people say, Oh, that just pisses them off. Well, yeah, but you know, you have to go with what [42:57.760 --> 43:02.480] you're allowed to have in your area of living. Do you have things that can be a weapon? You know, [43:02.480 --> 43:07.200] people always the baseball bat. Well, you know what, a bat's going to be a pretty effective weapon. [43:07.200 --> 43:10.640] I mean, honestly, if somebody's holding a gun, you have a shot when you have a bat. [43:10.720 --> 43:17.520] You know, and you're too close to each other, right? There are a bunch of things like that. [43:19.360 --> 43:24.240] Just keep in mind, you know, what's available and how you're going to protect. Obviously, [43:24.880 --> 43:31.760] we have episodes on securing your home and, you know, home security and really preparing it all [43:31.760 --> 43:38.560] around. That's something you need to dig into. We're not getting on that, but just keep in mind. One [43:38.640 --> 43:46.160] of the things, you know, that came to mind and somebody mentioned is that with a wood stove, [43:46.160 --> 43:51.200] you could wrap the pipe with, you know, do your hot water heating through that. I actually had a [43:51.200 --> 43:59.040] friend do that and rigged up in his house. Now what he did, he actually had a fireplace and he ended [43:59.040 --> 44:06.720] up making it look like a, we'll say like a radiator that he ran through and put in the top level of [44:06.720 --> 44:14.240] his fireplace and it would heat his water and he, it went in addition with his hot water heater. [44:14.240 --> 44:21.280] So he was actually saving money all year long, well, all winter long while he's running his fireplace [44:21.280 --> 44:26.960] by adding that extra heat. I'm sure he worked out bypasses to not, you know, go through there and [44:26.960 --> 44:32.560] cool it down in the summer. But, you know, you can figure out that kind of thing. If you put a little [44:32.560 --> 44:36.640] effort, you can really come up with some awesome creative ideas. And I guess that's the point [44:36.640 --> 44:44.080] of this episode is to get you thinking about where you might be coming short, where things fall [44:44.080 --> 44:52.640] apart in your home plan and how ready you are. And if so often we dig into, you know, the deep [44:52.640 --> 44:58.960] things like we'll do an episode just on home security or an episode just on food storage and [44:58.960 --> 45:04.160] whatever. But I think the little things, the little thoughts and the extra things get lost. [45:04.800 --> 45:11.200] And it's important that, you know, you kind of think of your overall preparedness as a bigger [45:11.200 --> 45:17.440] picture. You know, they always say, try shutting your power off for a day. See where it falls apart. [45:17.440 --> 45:23.360] You know, see where things start to come up short. And then you can, you know, go through and come up [45:23.360 --> 45:28.320] with a plan there. That's, that's something you guys need to do. And hopefully that's what this [45:28.320 --> 45:33.040] episode did is makes you think of where the weak links in your prepping might be. [45:33.760 --> 45:39.760] And hopefully, you know, it steps up your game. And I would say more and more these days, [45:39.760 --> 45:45.760] it seems like we need to have a little extra preparation. We need to be prepared for bad things [45:45.760 --> 45:50.240] because bad things might be coming. Although I heard the economy completely turned around, [45:50.880 --> 45:56.320] the GDP is way up and we're killing it. So you know, who knows? Maybe I misread the whole thing. [45:57.120 --> 45:59.280] Kevin, I see him turn in your eye. [46:00.240 --> 46:04.720] Any last thoughts? I don't know if, I don't know if my eye roll was loud enough that [46:04.720 --> 46:09.840] everybody could hear it. But yeah. Yep. Sounds fantastic. Everything's going great. Love it. Perfect. [46:11.840 --> 46:18.480] Yeah. No, that's all I got, man. Questions, concerns. You guys want prepping badass gear? [46:18.480 --> 46:23.600] I've been saying prepping badass.com. The website seems to work on my cell phone, [46:23.600 --> 46:28.960] but when I go there from a computer, it's kind of iffy, I just been so busy having time to sort it [46:28.960 --> 46:34.160] out. Maybe I need to actually start paying for better hosting than I pay for, but we won't talk [46:34.160 --> 46:41.840] about that. But anyway, I will put a link if you want to get sweatshirts, t-shirts, coffee mugs, [46:41.840 --> 46:49.840] whatever. I will put a link in the comments here and in the show notes on the podcast episode. [46:49.840 --> 46:54.240] Yeah, I got the sweatshirt. I got a couple of sweatshirts. They're really good. They're [46:55.040 --> 47:00.720] pretty good quality. Kevin looks pretty handsome. So yeah, you're asking about the hoodie. So we [47:00.720 --> 47:05.360] looked, we tried to dig into it. Kevin, you said you came up with a name. Do you have it? Yeah, [47:05.360 --> 47:10.560] it's independent trading company is the brand. Okay. And you said, though, really soft and [47:10.560 --> 47:15.840] comfortable because yeah, it's not something we recognized. Yeah, it's warm. It's comfortable. [47:15.840 --> 47:22.880] It's pretty damn good. So yeah, no, it definitely held up a lot better. Early on, [47:22.880 --> 47:28.160] the same company we were using for the t-shirts, they were a little, the logos would kind of wear [47:28.160 --> 47:33.440] off. They were a little iffy. And I kind of warned you guys, I tried to, you know, be on top of that. [47:33.440 --> 47:38.720] But, you know, hey, they seem like they're pretty great right now. I have a bunch of friends. It was [47:38.720 --> 47:48.640] funny. One of my buddies just put in a, just put in a, an order and got a t-shirt. And he was like, [47:49.040 --> 47:53.680] that's one that I keep on a hanger in the closet. And it's one that I wear when I'm going out with [47:53.680 --> 47:59.440] the wife or whatever. And, you know, things are, he's like, it's all right, you know, stepping up my [47:59.440 --> 48:04.800] game. So they are pretty great shirts. And honestly, they are soft and comfortable. They're a little [48:04.800 --> 48:10.160] thin, lightweight t-shirts, but that's why they're so soft and comfortable. But if you're looking for [48:10.160 --> 48:15.600] the thicker shirt or whatever, like I always do, you know, maybe it's not that. But I wear them all [48:15.600 --> 48:20.240] the time and I love them. So I don't know, just something to think about. Like I said, [48:20.240 --> 48:25.520] I will put it in the comments, be a little patient with me. We are going to do an after-show and [48:26.880 --> 48:32.640] do that. So if you guys stick around, we might have that for you. Questions, concerns, show topics, [48:32.640 --> 48:38.560] things you want to hear about, email us at preppingbadass at gmail.com. Otherwise, [48:38.560 --> 48:43.600] I would say stay safe and we will talk to you guys next week. Transcription results written to '/home/forge/transcribe3.sonicengage.com/releases/20240205231104' directory

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